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NEW LIFE INTHE DAYLIGHTA wingless fairy makesnew friends in ImaginationStage’s production of“The Night Fairy.”
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ENTERTAINMENT
Nearly two dozen residents gath-ered at the Starbucks in theKentlands on Tuesday morn-
ing to participate in Coffee with a Cop,which was hosted by the GaithersburgPolice Department.
Topics discussed include pedestriansafety, parking issues, bicycle safety,
neighborhood watch, theft from ve-hicles, what to do if stopped by policefor a traffic infraction and general crimeconcerns, according topoliceofficerandspokesmanDanLane.
Coffee with a Cop is a national ini-tiative supported by the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice, Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services, accordingto a city press release.
The program gives residents theopportunity to ask questions, bring for-ward concerns and meet the city’s of-ficers, PoliceChiefMarkP. Sroka said inthe release.
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Gaithersburg residents, police chat over coffee
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Montgomery County Police Lt. David McBain (right) answers questions from Camille Bohannon of Montgomery Village (left) about pedestriancrossing and traffic laws at the “Coffee with a Cop” event at Starbucks in the Kentlands on Tuesday.
Cuppa with a cop
n Fear and angerrise about center forpsychiatric patients
BY TERRIHOGAN
STAFFWRITER
Tempers flared at a commu-nitymeeting lastweek, as neigh-bors raised concerns over a newresidential group home for psy-chiatric patients in Derwood,citing their safety and question-ing the home’s legality.
In June, the treatment cen-ter, ownedandoperatedbynon-profitCornerstoneMontgomeryof Bethesda, opened at 6112Granby Road. Residents claim
it has dramatically changed thecharacter of their quiet neigh-borhood.
Granby Road is a small en-clave of fewer than 30 single-family homes that ends in acul-de-sac.
Residents at the Sept. 23meeting at the Olney Librarycited frequent rescue vehicles,more traffic and patients wan-dering throughout the neigh-borhood and approachingresidents, asking for rides.Manysaid they feared for their family’ssafety.
Cari Guthrie-Cho, Corner-stone’s president and CEO, said
Neighbors firedup about grouphome inDerwood
n Residents had lodgedcomplaints about possible
drug activity in area
BY JENNDAVIS
STAFFWRITER
Gaithersburg police arrestedthree men Sept. 22 after it wasdiscovered that theywere in pos-sessionof Phencyclidine, or PCP.
Kittrell Andre Budd, 23, ofGaithersburg, Colenester Ber-nard Jones III, 23, of German-town and Marcus AnthonyPlummer, 26, ofDamascusweretaken into custody as a result ofthe possession, according to acity news release.
Detectives from the Gaith-
ersburg Police Street CrimesUnit previously received com-plaints from residents aboutpossible drug activity in the 400block of Girard Street in the city,the release stated.
Officers conducted surveil-lance operations in the area, andonSept. 22, theywitnessedadrugtransaction, according to the re-lease.Police stoppedPlummeronfoot and also conducted a trafficstop on a vehicle that Budd andJoneswereoccupying.
Police said that Plummertried to flee on foot, but wasquickly apprehended.
During the traffic stop, “dis-tribution amounts” of PCP and$31,000 were discovered. Dan
Gaithersburg policecharge 3men withpossession of PCP
n Gaithersburg Highamong schools that have
experienced cases
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
The total count of pertussis, orwhoop-ing cough, cases in Montgomery County
schools has risen to 26, afigure that countyhealth officials said represents a better un-derstanding of how many students andadults have caught the disease since thestart of the school year.
As of Thursday, 24 students andtwo adults in county public and privateschools had come down with the respi-ratory disease since last August, accord-ing to Mary Anderson, a MontgomeryCounty Health and Human Services
spokeswoman. She said that counts shepreviously providedwere incomplete.
The total number has also grown re-cently due to new cases. College GardensElementary School in Rockville sent aletter home on Sept. 23 to notify familiesabout the appearance of pertussis in theschool community,Andersonsaid.BriggsChaney Middle School in Silver Spring
Whooping cough count reaches 26
n Event to be held at SenecaCreek State Park in Gaithersburg
BY JENNDAVIS
STAFFWRITER
Stepby step, area runners andwalk-ers will work to help others in need byhitting the pavement when the thirdannual Building Block 5K Race for aCause event returns to Gaithersburg onSaturday.
Several years ago, Nehemiah Tabb,one of the race organizers and found-ers, wasmotivated tomake a difference
in society by his church, Seneca CreekCommunity Church in Germantown.
“It started off because my churchchallenged all of the members to helpout in the community and to come upwith ideas to better the community,”he said.
Around that time, Tabb, of Ger-mantown, said he noticed that a lot ofpeople he knew were being affected bycancer and even heard about one per-sonwhodiedbecause theyweren’t ableto afford the cost of continuing withmedical treatments.
It was then that Tabb determinedhe wanted to do something to help
struggling cancer patients.Looking to plan a charity event,
Tabb enlisted the help of friend andco-worker Sarah Paxton. Once the twoironed out the race details, the next de-cision to be made was where to donatethe proceeds.
Tabb visited several local cancer fa-cilities and asked staff at each locationhow they handle situations in whichpatients do not have enough money topay fornecessary treatment.Not feelingsatisfied with the first few places, Tabbreached out to onemore.
“Something told me to call HolyCross [Hospital],” he said. “They were
just so, so helpful. It was a confirmationthat this waswhere themoney needs togo.”
The event, which is sponsored bySeneca Creek Community Church,will be from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday atSenecaCreek State Park, 11950ClopperRoad, Gaithersburg.
Registration will take place on theday of the event beginning at 7:30 a.m.The cost will be $30 per person, and in-cludes entrance into the park, the racefee and a t-shirt.
All proceeds will be given to the
Race to raise money for Holy Cross oncology unit
PHOTO BY MARK AND BRANDON KOBER
Runners race for a cause during last year’sBuilding Block 5K event at Seneca CreekState Park in Gaithersburg.
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THURSDAY, OCT. 2Public Hearing: Ovid Hazen Wells Rec
Park Master Plan Update, 4:45 p.m.,M-NCPPCMain Regional Office Auditorium,8787 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. Parksstaff will answer questions about the [email protected].
Teen Writing Club, 6:15-7:45 p.m.,Kensington Park Library, 4201 KnowlesAve., Kensington. Learn how to revise,discover writing techniques and receiveconstructive feedback. Ages 11-18. Free.240-773-9515.
FRIDAY, OCT. 3The Hometown Get Down VII, 3 p.m.-2
a.m., 11820Hawkes Road, Clarksburg. Agrassrootsmusic and arts benefit event tohelp families in crisis through promotingthe arts. $15-$25. www.hometownget-down.org.
Open Mic at the Mansion, 8-11 p.m.,KentlandsMansion, 320 Kent SquareRoad, Gaithersburg. All styles ofmusic,poetry, performance, and comedy are wel-come. $10. 301-258-6394.
SATURDAY, OCT. 4Germantown Community Flea Market,
8 a.m.-1 p.m., GermantownMARC Park-ing Lot, Md. 118 and BowmanMill Drive,Germantown. More than 100 vendorswith everything from household goodsto jewelry and electronics. Sponsoredby the Germantown Historical Society,The Menare Foundation and Boy ScoutTroop 1325. Free admission. 301-972-2707.
Coffee in Italy, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Neels-ville Presbyterian Church, 20701 FrederickRoad, Germantown. Sample Italian foodsand pastries like cannolis and tiramisu.There will also be devotion, entertainmentand door prizes. Free; RSVP requested,especially for use of free child care. www.neelsville.org.
Kensington Summer Concert, 10-11a.m., Howard Avenue Park, Kensington.Featuring rhythm and blues by Rita Clarkeand theNaturals. Presented by the Kens-ingtonHistorical Society. Free. www.kens-ingtonhistory.org.
St. Luke’s 54th Annual Fall Festival, 10a.m.-2 p.m., St Luke’s Episcopal Church,1001 BrightonDamRoad, Brookeville.Treats, yard sale, hand-sewn quilt raffle,children’s activities, music and crafts.
[email protected] Spanish/English Storytime,
10:30-11 a.m.,Wheaton Library, 11701Georgia Ave., Wheaton. Stories, rhymes,songs andmore. Ages 3-6, with an adult.Free. 240-777-0678.
Knights of Columbus Soccer Shootout2014, 1-4 p.m., Damascus Regional Park,Kings Valley Drive, Damascus. A soccerevent consisting of three skill events, withcertificates given to all participants. Spon-sored by St. Paul’s Knights of Columbus.Ages 5-14. Free. 301-363-5678.
SUNDAY, OCT. 5JCADA 5K Event: A Run, A Walk,
AWARE, 8:30 a.m.,Melvin J. BermanHebrew Academy, 13300 Arctic Ave.,Rockville. Run or walk to promote healthyrelationships and help end domestic anddating abuse. $30. [email protected].
Every Moment a Song, 11 a.m. and7:30 p.m.,Wesley GroveUnitedMethodistChurch, 23640Woodfield Road, Gaithers-burg. The Chancel Choir and Players willpresent a tribute to CharlesWesley, co-founder ofMethodism. Free admission.301-253-2894.
King Farm Fall Festival, noon-4 p.m.,Saddle Ridge Community Center, 300Saddle Ridge Circle, Rockville. Hayrides,moon bounces, inflatables, face painting,scarecrowmaking, pumpkin painting,food vendors, business vendors andmu-sic. Free. www.kingfarmfallfestival.com.
Germantown Oktoberfest, noon-7:30p.m., High Point Farm, 23730 FrederickRoad, Clarksburg. A fun-filled day of livemusic and performances, delicious food,children’s games and inflatables. Freeadmission. [email protected].
Cabin John Fall Festival, 1-4 p.m.,Cabin JohnMall and Shopping Center,7825 Tuckerman Lane, Potomac. Trick-or-Treating, scarecrowmaking, keepsakeboxmaking,moon bounce, face painters,balloon sculptors, a haymaze and storecoupons. Free admission. 301-481-3503.
Poetry and Prose Open Mic, 2 p.m.,TheWriter’s Center, 4508Walsh St.,Bethesda. The reading will be followed bya reception. Free. 301-654-8664.
Say “I Do” Bridal and New HomeBuyers Open House, 2-5 p.m., RockCreekMansion, 5417West Cedar Lane,Bethesda.Meet wedding planners, beautyexperts, view table décor, taste food &wedding cakes, view bridal gowns, wed-
ding invitations and tips on buying ahome together. Free admission. 301-922-7888.
Whiffenpoofs of Yale University inConcert, 4 p.m., Landon School, MondzacAuditorium, 6101Wilson Lane, Bethesda.$10-$20. 425-208-9903.
Andrew McKnight, Folksinger andStoryteller, 4:30-6:30 p.m., St. Anne’s Epis-copal Church, 25100 Ridge Road, Damas-cus. A performance vibrant with shadesof Appalachia, slide and jazzy blues, feistyanthems and rustic folk. A receptionwillfollow. Free-will offering. [email protected].
Fall Campfire and Walk, 6:30-8 p.m.,Brookside Nature Center, 1400 GlenallanAve., Wheaton. Bring the hotdogs androlls; marshmallows are provided. $6. Reg-ister at www.parkpass.org.
TUESDAY, OCT. 7Downsizing and Space Planning Work-
shop, 1-3 p.m., Ingleside at King Farm,701 King FarmBlvd., Rockville. Join SusieDanick of Transitional Assistance andDesign for an interactive session on down-sizing possessions and space planningfor a futuremove. Free, RSVP requested.240-499-9019.
Civil War Program, 7-8:30 p.m., Rock-villeMemorial Library, 21Maryland Ave.,Rockville. Author and entertainer JudyCookwill share excerpts from the letters ofher great-great-grandparents, songs andtunes of the time, and projected imagesfrom the past. Free. 301-452-0593.
Greater Olney Toastmasters Meeting,7:30 p.m.,MedstarMontgomery, DenitBoardroom, 18101 Prince Philip Drive,Olney, every first and third Tuesday. Im-prove presentation and speechwritingskills while growing leadership skills. Freefor first-time guests. [email protected].
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GaithersburgAntique and Collect-ible Show, 10 a.m.-5p.m.,MontgomeryCounty Fairgrounds,16 Chestnut St.,
Gaithersburg, also 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Oct. 5. Furniture, porcelains, silver,books, linens, advertising, jewelry,movie/TVmemorabilia, coins, toys,paintings, autographs, dolls, civilwar, sportsmemorabilia, decorativeaccessories andmore. $6. 301-649-1915.
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leste S. Belton recently com-pleted U.S. Navy basic trainingat Recruit Training Commandin Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week pro-gram, Belton completed a va-riety of training componentsincluding classroom study andpractical instruction on navalcustoms, first aid, firefighting,water safety and survival, andshipboard and aircraft safety.An emphasis was also placed onphysical fitness.
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The following is a summary of inci-dents in the Germantown area towhich Montgomery County policeresponded recently. The words “ar-rested” and “charged” do not implyguilt. This information was providedby the county.
Aggravated assault• On Sept. 16 at 5:15 p.m. in
the 19800 block of Century Boule-vard, Germantown. The subject isknown to the victim.
Commercial burglary• On Sept. 8 between 9:45 p.m.
and midnight at Little Far East IIRestaurant, 26043 Ridge Road,Damascus. Forced entry, tookproperty.
Residential burglary• 19300 block of Circle Gate
Drive, Germantown, at 2:30 a.m.Sept. 15. The subject is known tothe victim.
• 19500 block of Crystal RockDrive, Germantown, at 12:30 a.m.Sept. 16. The subject is known tothe victim.
Vehicle larceny• Four incidents in German-
town between Sept. 8 and 16. Tooka spare tire, starter cables, a deadbattery, iPods and change. Affectedstreets includeWaring StationRoad,WymanWay, Alderleaf Ter-race andWaterside Drive.
• Seven incidents in German-town between Sept. 8 and 16. Tookcoins, cash, wallet and purses. Af-fected streets include Climbing IvyDrive, Lullaby Road, Mateny Road,PorterfieldWay and HarmonyWoods.
• QuailWoods Drive, German-town, on Sept. 10 or 11.
n Gaithersburg programsset to begin using field
on Oct. 11
BY JENNDAVIS
STAFFWRITER
The new synthetic turf fieldat Lakelands Park in Gaithers-burg is almost ready to beginwelcoming users.
Contractor Hellas Con-struction Inc. of Austin, Texas,and subcontractor AlpineServices Inc. of Gaithersburgturned over the field to the cityon Sept. 24, according to SeanStevens, project manager forthe city’s Department of PublicWorks.
City programs will beginto use the field on Oct. 11, andnearby Lakelands Park MiddleSchool can start using the fieldon Oct. 13 as part of a joint-use agreement with the city,Stevens said. A grand openingcelebration that originally wasscheduled for last Saturday hasnow been pushed back to Oct.25.
“We want to delay use ofthe field for a couple weeks toallow the sod and seeded areas
outsideof thefield some time toestablish,” Stevens said. “In ad-dition, our internal crews needtodo somegeneral landscaping
and cleanup before the grandopening.”
Construction on the fieldinitially began in late June and
was supposed to wrap up byAug. 15, but trenching and sub-base issues held up the workprocess at the city park, at 1368
Main St.Aunique element about the
project is the use of CoolFill, anorganic fill product that keepsthe turf from heating up duringwarm weather. It contains 100percent organic coconut fibers,rice husk and cork.
Requests to reserve thefieldfor use by sports teams andother groups have streamedsteadily in to the city, accordingto Jim McGuire, the recreationand park services division chieffor the city’s Department ofParks, Recreation and Culture.
On Oct. 22, those requestswill begin to be processed, Mc-Guire added.
A fee schedule already hasbeen set up for otherswhowantto rent out the field, McGuiresaid.
Residents will be charged$100perhour andnonresidentswill be charged $120 per hour.Commercial vendorswithin thecity will have to pay $160 perhour and vendors outside thecity will pay $185 per hour.
Lakelands Park turf field almost ready for play
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From left, William Garcia of New York, Roberto Ramos of New York and Javon Jenkins of Takoma Park pull a stripof artificial turf into place. POLICE BLOTTER
PEOPLET H E G A Z E T T EWednesday, October 1, 2014 z Page A-3
n Montgomery groupsjoin in efforts, discussion
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
Several MontgomeryCounty groups have joined orare interested in the efforts of astatewide coalition that standsopposed to cell towers beingplaced on school grounds.
The recently formedMary-land State Coalition AgainstCell Towers on Schools, witha mission to stop the towers’construction at schools, tiestogether a variety of groupsthat also include those fromPrince George’s and AnneArundel counties and the Bal-timore area.
The group published alist of concerns related to celltowers on the Safe Schools forPrince George’s County web-site. The list includes exposureto microwave radiation anddiesel exhaust, injury fromdebris or ice that falls off thetower, a lack of transparencyabout the leasing contract pro-cess and a lack of communityinvolvement.
The Parents’ Coalition ofMontgomery County, Mary-land — one Montgomerymember of the state coalition— has covered the issue of cell
towers numerous times on itsblog.
Janis Sartucci, amember ofthe Parents’ Coalition, said shethinks the Montgomery groupwill be able to offer their expe-rience researching and inves-tigating cell towers, which shesaid “take away public schoolland and resources.”
“These are commercialstructures that have no busi-ness being easily accessible tochildren,” Sartucci said.
Montgomery is not cur-rently facing the same amountof cell tower activity thatPrince George’s and AnneArundel counties are, Sar-tucci said. She said she thinksMontgomery parents havebeen highly aware of the issueand opposed tower proposalswhen they’ve been made.
“The big picture is we’dlike to see each county andthe state take a stand so theparents are not continuallydistracted by commercial en-tities trying to take over schoolland,” she said.
The Gazette reported inearly September that RobertRoss, president of the PrinceGeorge’s County Chapterof the NAACP, said that theNAACP branches from PrinceGeorge’s, Anne Arundel andMontgomery wanted to studythe issue of cell towers and
were asking for a temporaryhalt to the towers while theydo so.
The Montgomery Countybranch of the NAACP is nota member of the coalition somuch as a participant in the“healthy discussion” about celltowers, said Anita Powell, thebranch’s president.
Powell said her chapteris still gathering informationabout the issue in general andin Montgomery County.
She said she thinks com-munity members outside aschool body must be engagedbefore a cell tower is placed ata school because they mightalso be affected by the struc-ture.
Citizens Against a CellTower at Julius West MiddleSchool has also become a statecoalition member. The Rock-ville group wants to end anypossibility of a cell tower be-ing constructed on the localmiddle school property, andits online petition has gatheredabout 650 signatures.
David Keaton, a memberof the Julius West group, saidhe thinks Montgomery is fac-ing a different situation thanthe ones Prince George’s andAnne Arundel counties areexperiencing. While the twoother counties are lookingat more centralized leasing
agreements for cell towers, hesaid, Montgomery residentsmust keep an eye out for towerproposals at each school.
If a dozen schools are con-sidering cell towers — “that’sa dozen different fights,” hesaid.
The Montgomery schoolsystem has 12 cell towers ondifferent sites, including 11schools and one property setaside for a future school, saidPete Geiling, real estate teamleader in the school system’sDepartment of Facilities Man-agement.
He estimated that eachtower brings in between$26,000 and $34,000 a year,which is split between the hostschool, the cluster and theschool system.
After a wireless companyshows interest in a school site,one step is holding a meetingfor community members fromthe school and the surround-ing neighborhood, Geilingsaid.
It is ultimately the choiceof the school and the com-munity whether the cell towerbecomes a reality in Mont-gomery, he said.
While considering a tower,Geiling said, school officialsmake sure a tower won’t pre-vent a school from expand-ing in the future or affect how
it uses the property, amongother factors.
The school system, he said,is not the only entity to reviewa cell tower proposal.
“They have to make it pastus and then, before we evensign a lease, they have to makeit through the other layers ofreview,” he said.
Len Forkas, president andCEO of Milestone Commu-nications, said his companydoesn’t have any sites inMont-gomery but has sites eitherbuilt or in the works in PrinceGeorge’s and Anne Arundelcounties. School properties aresometimes the best places forwireless companies to placea tower to fill a service gap inthe surrounding community,he said.
Forkas said the cell tow-ers his company builds andowns more than meet FederalCommunications Commis-sion safety standards for thestructures. They emit the samekind of radio energy that a cellphone or Wi-Fi router givesoff, he said.
“If these folks are reallytruly, intrinsically concernedabout radio energy they needto be focusing on all the thingsthat generate radio energy,” hesaid.
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Oktoberfest to returnto the Kentlands
The 23rd annual celebra-tion of Oktoberfest at theKentlands is scheduled to takeplace from noon to 5 p.m. onOct. 12.
Festival activities will bestationed at the KentlandsVillage Green, the grounds ofthe Kentlands Mansion, MainStreet and Market Square. Thelocations will all be connectedbymarked walking paths and atrolley route.
Attractions include winetastings, a traditional beergarden, horse-drawn wagonrides, apple cider pressing,children’s crafts, artisans anda business expo. There will beperformances by a cappella
groups, the Alte KameradenGerman Band and Alt-Wash-ingtonia Bavarian Dancers.
Oktoberfest at the Kent-lands is hosted in partnershipwith Dogfish Head Ale House,the Kentlands CommunityFoundation, K25, and Pinkyand Pepe’s Grape Escape. Itis sponsored by KentlandsSquare by Saul and the Mary-land State Arts Council. Ad-mission and parking are free.
For more information, call301-258-6350 or visit gaithers-burgmd.gov.
Liquor control departmentsays compliance rate
went upMontgomery County’s De-
partment of Liquor Control
has reported that compliancewith the law on alcohol saleswas 81 percent in fiscal 2014,up from 72 percent the prioryear.
The department tests busi-nesses onwhether theywill sellalcohol to someone youngerthan 21, which is illegal.
Volunteers who help thedepartment on the tests tryto make purchases using avertical Maryland driver’s li-cense, which is issued only topeople younger than 21. Vol-unteers are not permitted tohave facial hair, wear exces-sive makeup or hats, or talkon the phone while making apurchase, the department saidin a news release announcingthe latest compliance results.
The compliance checkreport will be posted atmont-gomerycountymd.gov/dlcwhen it is released.
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n Republican candidatewants to lower corporate
tax, repeal rain tax
BY JENNDAVIS
STAFFWRITER
Al Phillips isn’t satisfied withthe directionMaryland is movingand the decisions being made bycurrent state lawmakers, so he’stakingmatters intohisownhands.
The Gaithersburg Repub-lican is running for a state del-egate seat in District 39, whichincludes Clarksburg, German-town, Montgomery Village andparts of Gaithersburg.
“I have a laundry list of is-sues where I disagree with thesepeople,” Phillips said. “I believethat sometimes you need to bethe change you want to see or atleastmake an attempt to be it.”
Sincefiling to run, Phillips, 49,said he has participated in severalregional events, suchas theGaith-ersburgLaborDayParadeandMontgomeryVillageFourth of July Parade, to meet voters. He plans toattend future community events, and host meet-and-greets toget toknowvotersbetter.
“I’ve been doing things here and there but Ibelieve now I’m in full campaignmode,” Phillipssaid, adding thathealsohadflyers andyard signscreated to give out to citizens.
Although there are many issues Phillipshopes to tackle in office, the largest one is chang-ing various tax rates.
Lowering the corporate income tax rate tomake it more competitive with Virginia’s is a ma-jor priority for Phillips. By having a higher corpo-
rate income tax rate than Virginia,Marylandis losingbusinessestoitssouthernneighbor,Phillips said.
Other necessary changes in-clude reducing the tax rates ongasoline, alcohol and tobacco,Phillips said. Climbing tax rateson these items are pushing con-sumers to spend their moneyoutside of the state where taxesare lower, he added.
“If gas, alcohol and tobaccotaxes are more competitive withVirginia’s taxes, then peoplewon’t have an excuse or reasonto leave the state and buy thingsand then the revenue would stayhere,” he said.
Phillips is also in favor of re-pealing the rain tax, calling it a“nuisance”tax that just takesmoremoneyoutof citizens’pockets.
“Maryland is the only state inthe United States that taxes therain,” he said. “I’ve been told bypeople that in Texas people prayfor it and inMaryland, they tax it.”
Phillips has served on theMontgomery County Republican Central Com-mittee representing District 39 since beingelected in 2010. He is married and works as aplumber.
In 2010, Phillips unsuccessfully ran for thesamedelegateseat, losing tocurrentDels.CharlesBarkley (D) of Germantown, Kirill Reznik (D) ofGermantown and Shane Robinson (D) of Mont-gomery Village. All are running for re-election.
Republican challengers include XiangfeiCheng of Montgomery Village and Gloria Changof Germantown.
The general election is Nov. 4.
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n Former prosecutor also focusingon economy, traffic
BY PEGGYMCEWANSTAFFWRITER
If he’s electedMontgomery County executive,Republican JimShalleck sayshismain focuswouldbe public safety, particularly school safety.
“I really believeweneed apolice presence anda police car at every one of our 202 schools,” saidShalleck, who lives in Montgomery Village. “Nowthey are only at the high schools.”
He alsowould like the county to get rid of por-table classrooms now used at many schools, say-ing they are vulnerable to attack, uncomfortableand not safe.
Shalleck, 68, moved to the county in 1989 totake a jobwith theU.S. JusticeDepartment. Beforethat heworked inNewYorkCity andwas assistantdistrict attorney in the Bronx. During that time, hesaid, he prosecuted David Berkowitz, the notori-ous “Son of Sam,” for twomurders in the Bronx.
“Mostofmyprofessional casesdealtwithmur-der and I first sawwhat evil can do,” he said.
That iswhyhe is adamant about school safety,he said, so that no parents will have to go to aschool wondering if their child was alive or not.
“It’s my first priority by a wide stretch,” Shal-leck said. “[It] has to be the main concern of thecounty executive.”
To fund the extrapoliceofficers—“at least 200more police,” he said—and equipment, hewouldlook for a 3 percent across-the-board spendingcut, except in the public safety budget.
Callinghimself a fiscal conservative, he saidhewould look at eliminating nonessential spendingfrom the county’s $5 billion budget.
For one thing, the county should get out of theliquor business, he said.
“We are the only county in the United Statesthat has its own liquor stores, warehouses and
trucks,” he said. “We canmake about $50 million fromthe sale of the initial assetsandmore after that in taxes.”
He also has a moral ob-jection to the county’s liquorbusiness.
“The governmentshouldn’t be selling liquor,”he said.
Shalleck said he also would recruit businessesto the county to expand its economy. Although hewould offer tax breaks and other incentives, hesaid, the economy would benefit from the newemployees who would spend money and paytaxes.
“This expands the revenue base,” he said. “Myview is that the private sector is the engine foreconomic growth. I think if you had a Republicancounty executive, itwould send the signal that thisis a business-friendly county.”
Shalleck alsowould like the county to establisha four-year college and attract an Arena FootballLeague team orminor league baseball club.
Traffic congestioncontinues as aproblem,onehewants to address by looking atwhat he calls the“car problem.”
“My view is that Montgomery County is cardriven,” he said. “Iwant to see the roadswider andsmarter use of the roads.”
One such “smarter use” is to reverse somelanes of Interstate 270 during rush hours, therebyaddingextra lanes for themain trafficflow.Healsosaidhe thinks buses are the cheapest andbestwayto alleviate congestion.
“It doesn’t take 10 years to build a bus line,”he said.
Shalleck is running against Democrat IsiahLeggett, who is seeking a third term.
GOP county executive hopefulwants police officers in all schools
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n Wage begins climbingOct. 1
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County lead-ers will gather in Silver SpringWednesday to highlight thecounty’s increasing minimumwage, which jumps to $8.40Oct. 1.
Montgomery Countypassed legislation last fall togradually increase its localminimum wage from the cur-rent $7.25 per hour to $11.50per hour by 2017. The first offour gradual increases in thewage startsWednesday.
The event will highlight thechange and feature minimumwage workers as well as ad-vocates from Raise Maryland,Casa of Maryland, SEIU 32BJ,Jews United for Justice and Ac-tion inMontgomery.
Montgomery’s wage in-crease was made in concert
with Prince George’s Countyand Washington, D.C., whichwill also gradually raise theirminimum wages by $11.50 perhour
CouncilmanMarc B. Elrichwho led the effort to raise thewage said the push was partof a county effort to addressthe problems facing low-wageworkers.
“I felt the more we do tomove in this direction the bet-ter off we are,” he said. “We’recompleting the first step in amultiyear process to addressone of themost glaring dispari-ties that we have in society.”
For workers making thecurrent federal minimumwage, the pay raiseWednesdaywill result in about $2,400morein gross pay each year.
Whilemany of the county’slower-wage workers alreadymake more than $8.40 perhour, Elrich said that as thewage continues to go up, moreandmore workers will benefit.
“When we hit $11.50, thoselast few jumps are really goingto bring more people into the
self-sufficiency range,” he said.“We’re doing good and it is go-ing to get better.”
However, once the mini-mum wage reaches $11.50 perhour, the new law does notinclude a provision to keep itmoving up, something Elrichhopes the council will pursuein the future.
“It does not make sense toget caught up then turn aroundand let them fall behindagain,”he said.
The new higher wage ap-plies to all work performed inthe county and to all privatesector employers with two ormore employees working inthe county.
Lawmakers justified thehigher wage based on thecounty’s high cost of livingcompared to the rest of thestate.
Starting in January, Mary-land’s minimum wage will be-gin a similar climb to $10.10per hour, which it will reach by2018.
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n Fani-Gonzalez: ‘It’s agreat surprise to me’
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Numerous organizationsare backing Natali Fani-Gonza-lez’s bid toserve on theMontgom-ery CountyP l a n n i n gBoard.
F a n i -Gon z a l e zwas one offour can-d i d a t e sshort-listed for a vacancy onthe board who interviewedSept. 23 with the County Coun-cil.
She is the owner of a publicrelations firm in Rockville andalso ran in the June primaryfor the House of Delegates inDistrict 18. She lives near Kens-ington.
As of Thursday, at least fiveorganizations and two citizenswrote to the council in supportof Fani-Gonzalez.
“It’s great to feel that peo-ple really trust you,” Fani-Gon-zalez said. “It’s a great surpriseto me.”
Montgomery CountyChamber of Commerce, theMaryland Building IndustryAssociation, ProgressiveNeigh-bors, Upcounty Action andSEIU 32BJ were among thosewho expressed their supportfor her candidacy.
“We believe [Fani-Gonza-lez] would give an open ear topositive actions designed toserve our county well and doesnot come to the board with apre-determined agenda,”wroteSharon Dooley, legislative di-rector of Upcounty Action.
“We have been impressedwith her work in the immigrantcommunity; her commitmentto transparency, inclusion andsocial justice; and her ability tobuild consensus among diversegroups,” Wally Malakoff, co-chair of Progressive Neighborswrote.
Fani-Gonzalez said shemetwith many people and groupsaround the county to under-stand their perspectives onplanning issues and share hersboth before and after she ap-plied for the job.
“My background is not usu-ally the background you see ona planning board,” she said.“And I think that is actually agreat thing.”
Dennis Kamber and VictorWeissberg also each received aletter of support for their candi-dacy on the board.
Norman Dreyfuss, a cur-rent member of the planningboard described Kamber as a“thoughtful and objective can-didate.”
“I can’t say enough abouthis positive qualifications forthis job and our good fortunein having him willing to serveon the board,” Dreyfuss wrote.“We are so lucky to have himapply after having just retiredform an unbelievably produc-tive career solving major issuessuch as flood control, wastewater systemmanagement andwater supply solutions of great
complexity.”While the Montgomery
County Chamber of Commerceand the Maryland Building In-dustry Association both highlyrecommended Fani-Gonzalezfor the post, they also recom-mended Kamber.
Tony Hausner of Safe Sil-
ver Spring wrote in supportof Weissberg, who previouslyserved on the Silver Spring Citi-zens Advisory Board.
MontgomeryCountyCoun-cil also interviewed CharlesKauffman for the position.
The position opened whenboardmember Casey Anderson
was named board chairman inJuly.
Anderson was selected toreplace former chairwomanFrancoise Carrier who resignedearlier this year.
Groups back Fani-Gonzalez for planning board
n County would matchcontributions from county
residents
BYKATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
The Montgomery CountyCouncil unanimously passed abill Tuesday establishing the firstlocal public campaign financingsystem inMaryland.
Backed by all nine membersof the council and drafted byCouncilman Philip M. Andrews,the bill sets up a voluntary sys-tem of matching small dona-tions from county residents withcounty funds.
County spokesman PatrickLacefield said County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D) planned to signthemeasure.
Despite their broad supportof the bill, councilmembers tookhoursTuesdaydebatingthe legis-lation, refining it to clearly reflectan overall intent to limit outsidedonations,prohibitcontributionsfromspecial interestsandengagecounty residents in the electoral
process.“Today Montgomery puts
itself in the spotlight yet again,”CouncilmanGeorge L. Leventhalsaid.
Exactly what donationsshould be matched consumedmuch of the council’s morningdebate.
Under the bill, candidates forcounty executive must raise atleast $40,000 through at least 500qualifyingcontributions toqualifyfor public match. Candidates forcouncil at-largemust raise at least$20,000 throughat least250quali-fying contributions while can-didates for district council mustraise at least $10,000 from at least125qualifyingcontributions.
Once a candidate choosespublic financing, he or she can-not spend the fund in its regularaccount.
The Government Operationsand Fiscal Policy Committee rec-ommended the system matchdollarsdonatedby thosewho liveoutside the county, but not allowthose dollars to count toward thethreshold candidates must meetto qualify for public financing.
Thecouncil votedTuesday to
match only donations made bycounty residents. However, theyalso voted to make it clear in thebill that candidates can acceptdonations up to $150 from non-residents, but that those dona-tionswouldnot bematched.
Council President Craig L.Rice argued that it is a gener-ally accepted practice to turn tofamily and friends for donationsand Councilman Hans Riemer(D-At large) of Takoma Park at-tempted to allow at least somedonations from nonresidents tobematched,byproposingto limitit to 10percent of the total raised.
But the majority of councilmembers favored the position ofCouncilwoman Cherri Bransonwho argued that MontgomeryCounty taxpayers should nothave to pay to match out-of-county donors.
“When I thinkof all theneedsnot met in this county, I don’tbelieve we can actually considermoving resources from some ofthose needs into campaigns, es-pecially if the money is from outof state,” Branson (D-Dist. 5) ofSilver Spring said.
The public system would
matchmoney raised for a countyexecutive candidate to a maxi-mumof$1.5million, $750,000 foreach the primary and the generalelection. For council at-large,the bill limits a candidate’s totalmatch to$500,000and fordistrictcouncil, $125,000.
According to the county Of-fice of Management and Budget,if all the candidates who ran forcounty office in 2010 had par-ticipated in the public financingsystem proposed, it would havecost the county more than $9.6million.
Leventhal (D-At large) ofTakoma Park praised Andrewsfor his work to bring the bill tobear, calling it “an extraordinarytribute” toAndrews.Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg workedon the bill for years, includingthe push to obtain enabling leg-islation, which the state passedin 2013.
But some lawmakers ex-pressed reservations. Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said hewas troubledby the bill pumpingmoremoney into elections.
Councilwoman Nancy Flo-reen (D-At large) of Garrett Park
said she is not as sanguine as hercolleagues that a voluntary publiccampaign financing system willbringaboutintendedchange,par-ticularly engaging theelectorate.
Among changes made earlyby the council were to extend thetime candidates have to file theirintent to participate in the publicsystem and raise funds from oneyear to four years.
As they headed into their af-ternoon session, the council stillhad a flurry of amendments toconsider and grappled with thefact that the bill does not stopcandidates from banking fundsunder the traditional system be-fore filing for thepublic one.
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Montgomery County PublicSchools made several changesto two retirement savings plansfor its employees so in the fu-ture the plans will involvea single provider, indepen-dent investment advice anda smaller investment menu,among other elements.
The county school boardvoted Sept. 22 to approve thechanges to the school system’s
403(b) and 457(b) defined con-tribution plans. Those changeswill go into effect Jan. 1, 2016.
One change will involvea move from nine plan pro-viders to one provider, whichschool officials said will saveemployee participants money.About 12,000 employees cur-rently participate in plans fromthe nine vendors.
The current providers offersome of the same services, andeach vendor is spreading thecost of their service over onlya subset of school employeeswho have chosen their plans,said Susanne DeGraba, chieffinancial officer for the countyschool system. With a singleprovider, she said, a service will
come from one source and thecosts will be spread out overmore people.
The school system will putout a request for proposals tostart the search for the pro-vider, DeGraba said.
Another change will re-sult in a smaller menu of in-vestment options. DeGrabasaid school officials estimatethat employees are now ableto choose between 3,500 and4,000 mutual fund options.The new menu is expected toinclude about 15 to 30 choices,though employees will be ableto select other options througha brokerage window. With asmaller menu, it will be easierfor employees to understand
and be aware of the optionsand the associated fees, shesaid.
DeGraba, who will be onemember on a committee thatwill select those investment op-tions, said she thinks the newmenu — as well as the singleprovider — will help increaseparticipation.
“People sometimes don’tget into this because they’reconfused,” she said. “There aretoo many options.”
Under the current plans,it is possible that employeesseeking investment advicecould be getting it from a per-son who would benefit fromthe sale, DeGraba said. A thirdchange will ensure employeesmeet with advisers who don’thave a sales role.
The Montgomery schoolsystem was spurred to makethese changes, DeGraba said,because it’s doing “the rightthing for employees” and re-flects changes to best practiceswithin the industry.
School board member Shir-ley Brandman — who said shesaw benefits in the cost savings,independent advice and range
of options available — askedthe finance officials at the Sept.22 meeting if any employeesmight face penalties because ofthe changes.
DeGraba said the hope isthat employees won’t face anyexpenses and officials will look“carefully” at what the shiftmight mean for participants,she said. Employees will not beforced to move assets they havealready invested if the movewould result in a loss or a cost,she said.
Board Vice President Patri-cia O’Neill said she thinks “themost important piece” is thefact that employees will receiveinvestment education withoutsales mixed in.
In his testimony at theboard meeting, Tom Israel,executive director of the Mont-gomery County Education As-sociation, said the changeswould result in reduced fees,more transparent fees and in-dependent investment advice— goals that all three unionsrepresenting county schoolsystem employees supported.
Several speakers, includ-ing leaders of two providers the
school system currently uses,testified against the changesbefore the board’s vote.
One such leader, Ed Forst,president and chief executiveofficer of Lincoln Investment,said that using a single pro-vider for a 403(b) plan is notcommon.
“You’re basically ready tomove into uncharted territory,”he said.
DeGraba said that movingto a single provider 403(b) planis new among kindergartenthrough 12th grade educationsystems, but “very common” inhigher education.
Forst also said that mov-ing from multiple providers toa single provider could lowerplan participation amongschool employees.
Tom Hendershot, presidentand CEO of the Hendershot Fi-nancial Group — one of thecurrent nine vendors — alsoopposed the move to a singleprovider.
The change will sever“long-term financial relation-ships,” he said.
County school employee retirement plans undergo changes
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meeting set for Oct. 1In anticipation of the cre-
ation of a Montgomery Villagemaster plan, the MontgomeryCounty Planning Departmenthas scheduled a community
kick-offmeeting forWednesday.The meeting is open to the
public and will be from 7 to 9p.m. at the Watkins Mill HighSchool cafeteria, 10301 AppleRidge Road in Gaithersburg.
Attendees will have thechance to learn about existingconditions, opportunities, chal-lenges and theplanningprocess,according toanews release from
the planning department. Thecommunity is invited to providefeedback on the strengths andweaknesses of the plan area.
For more information, visitmontgomeryplanning.org/montgomeryvillage or call plan-nerReneeM.Kamenat 301-495-4723.
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n But at new store inMontgomery County, sales
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BY DANIEL LEADERMAN
STAFFWRITER
When Cory Brown openedUnited Gun Shop in Rockvillein August 2013, Maryland’ssweeping gun-control law wasabout to go into effect, placingmajor restrictions on what hecould sell andwho could buy it.
But business has beengrowing steadily, Brown said inan interview. “It’s been on anupward trend since we began,”he said.
The law, which took effectOct. 1, 2013, requires thosepurchasing handguns to have alicense and bans certain semi-automatic rifles deemed to be“assault weapons” as well asmagazines that holdmore than10 rounds of ammunition.
Brown said he opened hisstore because he felt he couldcompete on prices. But hedidn’t have all of the necessarypermits to sell handguns untilJanuary.
Sales of handguns — in-cludingmodelsmade byGlock,and Smith andWesson— shot-guns and rifles are steady, hesaid.
There’s also a growingmar-ket for pistol-caliber carbines,essentially short rifles that usepistol ammunition, for use inhome defense.
The owners of other gunshops in the county say busi-ness has definitely taken a hitsince the law took effect.
“We’re selling very fewhandguns due to the licens-ing requirements,” said AndyRaymond, owner of EngageArmament in Rockville, whichmanufactures guns as well assells them.
After a surge in sales be-fore the law took effect in 2013,sales have dropped about 20percent compared to 2012,Raymond said.
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License, issued by the Mary-land State Police, requires ap-plicants to submit fingerprintsand get safety training that in-cludes both classroom instruc-tion and live-fire practice witha gun.
But the license is “just an-other hoop to jump through”that will discourage peoplefrom legally buying guns, Ray-mond said.
Handgun sales at Atlan-tic Guns — with locations inRockville and Silver Spring —also are down, both from 2013and from previous years, saidowner Steve Schneider, whocited the inconvenience of get-ting the license.
Most courses cost upwardof $100. With the cost of finger-printing and the license itself,buyers can find themselvesspending $200 just to qualifyfor ownership, Schneider said.
It’s also not always easy forpeople to find time to completethe training, and some oldercustomers have had troublenavigating the state policewebsite, he said.
“All [the law has] done isslow the sale of handguns inthe state. It won’t impact themisuse of guns,” Schneidersaid.
But Brown said anothereffect of the law is that peoplemaking their first handgunpurchase tend to be better edu-cated about their first firearmsthan in the past.
And a substantial backlogof paperwork at the MarylandState Police that once facedthose wanting to purchase aregulated firearm — such asa handgun or a now-bannedassault weapon — no longerexists, Brown said. When thestore submits paperwork to the
state police regarding a hand-gun purchase, it usually gets anacknowledgement within 24hours, he said.
From the day the law tookeffect until early September,state police receivedmore than16,500 applications for Hand-gun Qualification Licenses andapproved 15,965 of them, saidSgt. Marc Black, a state policespokesman.
The average time betweenthe submission of an applica-tion and its verification overthe course of the first year is 14days, Black said.
Brown said there’s stillroom for improved efficiencyin the amount of paperworkhandgunpurchasers need to fillout, which runs to five pages.And both Brown and Raymondsaid state police haven’t alwaysbeen clear whether some fire-arms are banned according tothe new law.
Marylanders to PreventGun Violence, which advo-cated for the law’s passage in2013, acknowledges that it’stoo early to directly measurethe law’s effect on gun crime,but said in a statement thatfingerprint licensing measureshave helped reduce gun vio-lence in other states where theyhave been adopted.
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n Turner still hopefulthat children are alive;seeks Amber Alert
BY DANIEL LEADERMANSTAFF WRITER
As the search for twomissing Clarksburg toddlersenters its fourth week, theirfather said he was still confi-dent the two are alive.
Troy Turner told report-ers at a news conferenceMonday that he was reas-sured by the fact that po-lice have not found bodiesbelonging to his son JacobHoggle, 2, and daughterSarah Hoggle, 3, who havebeen missing since Sept. 7and 8.
“If they were out there,[police] would have foundthem by now,” Turner said.
He added that he be-lieved the children’s mother— who also was missing forseveral days, but was foundby police — could haveplaced the two youngstersin the care of an acquain-tance.
Catherine Hoggle, 27,who suffers from paranoidschizophrenia, is chargedwith child neglect, parentalabduction and obstructionand hindering. She is beingheld at a state mental facil-ity in Jessup, Turner said.
A bail hearing for Cath-erine Hoggle was initiallyscheduled for Tuesday, buthas been postponed.
Montgomery Countypolice have said they sus-pect the children may bedead.
Both Turner and Cath-erine Hoggle’s mother,Lindsey, said they hopeCatherine will provide de-tails of the children’s where-abouts, but were continuingto search in the meantime.
Video of the news con-ference was posted onlineby News Channel 8.
Turner also told re-porters he was asking stateofficials, including Gov.Martin O’Malley (D), to is-sue an Amber Alert to helppublicize his children’s dis-appearance. Turner and vol-unteers helping him searchare continuing to encounterMontgomery County resi-dents who haven’t heardabout the case.
Amber Alerts offer wide-spread notifications aboutmissing persons via email,
text mes-s a g e s ,r a d i oand TVstations,e l e c -t r o n i chighwaysigns ando t h e rdev ices .T u r n e rsaid suchan alertw o u l dh e l pr e a c hp e o p l emuch likeh imse l f ,
who don’t usually watchor listen to the news butuse their smartphones fre-quently.
But Maryland State Po-lice say there are very spe-cific criteria for issuing anAmber Alert, and the dis-appearance of the Hogglechildren did not meet thosecriteria.
For example, the disap-pearance of the childrenwasn’t initially confirmed asan abduction because theirmother was with them, andCatherine Hoggle’s vehicleswere accounted for whenshe went missing. Withoutinformation about a suspectvehicle, alerts on an over-head highway sign are ofno use, Greg Shipley, a statepolice spokesman, said in astatement.
Other steps were im-mediately taken to find thechildren, such as the pro-duction and distributionof flyers with the children’spictures by the state police’smissing persons unit andthe notification of regionallaw enforcement agencies,as well as the news media,Shipley said.
Turner said it couldn’thurt to put his children’sname on the highway sign.
“We needmore eyes andears on this to bringmy chil-dren home,” he said.
A reward for the chil-dren’s return has grown toat least $25,000, Turner said.
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District 1During an interviewwithThe
Gazette’s editorial board, RepublicanJimKirkland framed the race like this:A vote for him is a call formore funinMontgomeryCounty’s nightlife. Avote for theDemocratic incumbent,RogerBerliner, is acceptance of a bor-ingbedroomcommunity.
Kirkland’smajor platformpoint isrestructuring the county governmentworkforce—andprivate employ-ment, if companieswill go for it— tocreate a family shift during thedayanda “partiers” shift that starts late inthemorning and ends in the evening.He says itwill rejuvenate the “coma-tose” social scene and lessen trafficcongestion.
Kirklanddoesn’t havemuchgravi-tas ormanydeep thoughts on sub-stantive issues.
On theother hand, Berliner hasaccomplishments and goals.Hehasideas forworkforce training.He is awatchdogonenergy issues andutil-ity regulation,which isn’t surprising,consideringhis background in energylaw.He is pushing to add reliabilityandperformance as conditions for thePepco-Exelonmerger.
Berliner should remain theDistrict1 councilman.
District 2RepublicanDick Jurgenawas one
of themorepleasant candidateswetalkedwith, but amiable shouldn’t beconfusedwith qualified.
Hewasdriven to run for publicofficebecause of howhe thought theschool system is failing—which thecouncil has little power to change.
Inmaking a standardpitch to cuttaxes and spending, Jurgena addedthat he’s against having aminimumwage.
He suggested funnelingmoney for
roadsprojects into ahigh-speed Inter-net infrastructure likeChattanooga,Tenn., has. Thenumber of peoplelured intoworking inMontgomeryCounty insteadof passing through toD.C. jobswould ease the transporta-tionproblems, he said.
Jurgenafloated anunusual anduntenable idea for campaignfinance:only let people living in adistrict do-nate to candidates running in thatdistrict.
Democratic incumbentCraig L.Rice speaks smartly andpassionatelyon a variety of issues.Hewas the onlycouncil candidatewho talked aboutkeeping agriculture a sustainable busi-ness,which is an economic and land-protection issue.
Rice’s campaignfinance idea ismore sensible— fundraising andspending caps in local races.
He’sworking on, amongotherthings, legislation to giveMontgomeryCounty businesses preferencewhenawarding contracts.
WebelieveRice, a former statedelegate, has good sensibilities andinitiative, andmerits another term.
District 4Democratic incumbentNancy
Navarrohas establishedherself as anadvocate onbusiness andminorityissues.
Shewasbehind the LatinoCivicProject that helps get Latino residentsmore connected to and informedabout their local government. She saidit has prompted residents to speakabout broader issues, not justminor-ity-focused concerns, like English as asecondary language instruction.
Navarrohas been involved inmany community projects and servedon the school board. She seems to
have a goodgraspof a broad survey ofissues.
Her opposition is not substantial.Republican JohnO’Malley describeshimself as a libertarian, concernedabout government abuses in a surveil-lance state. This is a healthy skepti-cism tohave, butO’Malley doesn’tmakemuchof a case that a county of-ficial canbe a significant safety valve.
His platform is equally general—cut unnecessary “nuisance” taxes,restrict government services to onlywhat’s necessary.He, too, says thegovernment shouldnot set amini-mumwage.
Navarrowoulddisagree, and sodowe.
Navarro is a sound choice for con-tinuing to representDistrict 4.
Districts 3 and 5GaithersburgMayor SidneyA.
Katz, aDemocrat running inDistrict3, andDel. TomHucker, aDemocratrunning inDistrict 5,won their prima-ries and are unopposed in the generalelection.
At largeWhenweaskedDemocratic
CouncilwomanNancyM. Floreenif a Republican could get elected tothe council, she didn’t hesitate longbefore replying “No.” The challengersare goodpeople, she said, butGOPcandidates showupevery four yearsanddo little in between.
We’re loath to only endorseDem-ocrats—even inMontgomery,whereDemocrats have a 3-to-1 advantageover Republicans. But Floreen’swordsring true.
We respect anyonewhocaresenough to run for public office. But,over andover,weheard this electionseason fromchallengers in county,state and federal raceswhoknow
littlemore thanhow to sayno.Manyweren’t versed inbudget issues anddidn’t have specific ideas ofwhat tochange.
In the council race, Republicansput up amixedbagof challengers forthe four at-large seats.
RobertDyer is against thebus-rapid transit plan and supports hav-ing aprivate companybuild anewcrossing over thePotomacRiver tojump-start economicdevelopment byreachingDulles International Airport.He said the incumbents have apoortrack recordonbringing inmajor in-dustry.
Adol T.Owen-Williams II is brash;his frustrationquickly reaches acrescendo.He is outraged about thehigh cost of housingpermits.He saysthe reasoningbehind thebag tax isbogus.Heblasts government leaderswho support services andbenefits forillegal immigrants.He is longon criti-cism, short on solutions.
Chris P. Fiotes Jr. canceled ascheduledmeetingwith our edito-rial board.Hehas ignored severalsubsequent invitations tomeetwiththeboardor speakwith a reporter fora candidate profile. Candidateswhodon’tmake themost basic attempt totalk to voters through their local news-paper can’t be seriously considered.
TheRepublicanwe likedbestwasShelly Skolnick.Whatever you think ofhis ideas, hehas plenty of them; somehavemerit.Whynot build centersfor bus riders atMetro stations,withseats, restroomsand food courts?Howabout offeringmore savings forMetroriders outside of thepeakperiods?FreeMontgomeryCollege tuition forfirst responders andpublic-school tu-tors? A “penny round-up” tax at storesto replace thebag tax? (OK, someofhis ideas are clunkers.)
GreenParty candidate TimWillardis concentrating on cutting depen-denceon fossil fuels andpromoting
renewable energy.His ideas on rentcontrol and retrofitting buildings tocreate affordable housing seemrea-sonable, butwe can’t support himover the incumbents.
That leaves the fourDemocratsseekingnewat-large terms. Eachof-fers particular accomplishments andexpertise.
Floreen, a formermayor ofGarrettPark, is a plain-talking skepticwhoun-derstands local government. She saidsheworked to create theMontgomeryBusinessDevelopmentCorp. to cutthroughbureaucracy andpolitics thatcanhamper business growth.
MarcElrich, a formerTakomaPark councilman, spearheadedoneofthemost significant updates inMont-gomeryCounty in years: a regional in-crease in theminimumwage, pushingthe county aheadof the state and thecountry on a crucial economic issue.He’s not afraid to be the lone voice ofdissent and is a leader on transporta-tion issues.
HansRiemerhas helped thecounty governmentmake good stridesonopenness, particularly in gettingpublic information anddata onto theweb.He toldus that thenext step isgetting allMarylandPublic Informa-tionAct requests to the county and theresults online, too, a transparency andinformationmeasurewe fully support.Riemerhasworkedon ideas to im-prove the county’s nightlife and saidhewants to ease the county out of theliquor business.
Finally, there’sGeorge L. Leven-thal, whohas been strongonhealth is-sues andaffordable housing.Heplansto introducebills on goodgovernanceinhomeowners associations andban-ning lawnchemicals andpesticides,except for agricultural land, andhasideas for streamlining government.
We recommend fourmore yearsfor the four at-large incumbents.
For County Council, keep the incumbents
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Today, The Gazette continues itsendorsements for contested races inthe Nov. 4 general election.
Twomenare asking for yourvote asMontgomeryCounty ex-ecutive, and they offer two starklydifferent pictures of the county.
County Executive Isiah Leggett,theDemocrat, believes hehasnavigated the county throughdif-ficult fiscal times over the last eightyears.Hewants a third term lead-ingMontgomerywhen times aren’tso tough.
JimShalleck, theRepublican,emphasizes public safety,wantingapolice presence in eachMont-gomeryCounty school and theeliminationof portable classroomsoutside county schools. ShallecktoldGazette editors the countycouldprivatize its liquor sales toraisemillions that could go toschool construction.Heoffers boldideas like a four-year university inthe county or a professional sportsteam.
Someof Shalleck’s ideas arerefreshing, even if they are abit un-realistic.We like his idea of privatiz-ing county liquor sales, an issuewe’ve supported.His other ideasare less excitingupon reflection.With the growth at theUniversi-ties at ShadyGrove, a newcollegecouldbeunnecessary. AAAAbase-ball teamcouldbe anice frill, butwewonder if voterswouldpreferan executivewhowould exert hisenergy onbasic issues like trans-portation andnot onbold ideasfor newamenities. Andwewonderwhether parentswould stomachanincreasedpolice presence at everyschool.
For theprimary, TheGazettechosenot to endorse Leggett.Webelieved, and still do, that hemustbeheld accountable for thedebacleof the Silver SpringTransit Center.
Itwas supposed to open in 2010 ata cost of $95million. Still not open,theprice taghas reached $120mil-lion. Theproject stains Leggett’srecord.
Inhismeetingwith our editors,Leggett said he couldhave ac-ceptedquickfixes thatwouldhaveallowed the center to open, leavingthebulk of the issues for his succes-sor.Wepraise Leggett for taking alonger viewandaccepting respon-sibility for theproblems.
Leggett offers fewer bold ideas,but his goals are realistic andhe’sin touchwith the county’s needs.Hewants to help growcertain sec-tors of thework force, focusingon the importance of training infields—such asplumbing—oftenoverlooked in thepursuit of col-lege degrees, even though they areimportant careers that canprovidegood incomes.He alsopoints to hissuccesses at streamlining countygovernment; a fire code inspectionthat once took six to eightweeksnowcanbe completed in threedays.He rightfully showspride indescribing foreign companies thathave located inMontgomery.
He also seemed to softenonone issue: the energy tax. In June,hepointedout theCountyCouncilreduced the energy tax, not him. Inourmore recentmeeting, Leggettsaid hebelieved the energy taxcouldhave “challenged” certainbusinesses and said it’sworth ex-aminingways tomake sure it’s notunfairly impacting sectors.He alsocalled for “lower costs,” a signalthat he couldbewilling to reduceMontgomery taxes further.
Althoughwedidn’t endorseLeggett in June’s primary election,webelieve Leggett’s executive ex-periencemakes himabetter choiceto lead the county andhedeservesa third term.
Leggett has earnedanother term
Just before Maryland’s June 24 pri-mary election, gubernatorial candidateAnthony Brown said he considered theprimary as “thebigger objective”and that the gen-eral election wasa “little bit of amolehill to takein November.”Yet, after cruis-ing to victory inJune, Brown ishaving difficultyconquering thatmolehill. Or, asMeet The Press’sChuck Todd putsit, “Brown is acting like a candidate whocan’t put (RepublicanLarry)Hoganaway,and inablue state likeMaryland, that tellsyouBrown is struggling.”
Can Larry Hogan win in the nation’sfourthmost liberal statewhichonly electsRepublicangovernorsevery36years?Fiveweeks before election day, here’s howthings stand:
The CampaignsIf Hogan gets every Republican and
every independent vote he still loses in astate where Dems are 55 percent of theregistered voters. That’s why Hogan iscampaigning against Maryland’s hightaxes and stagnant economy, a messagewith crossover appeal. Brown doesn’twant to fight on that battlefield, so he’spainting Hogan as a “right-wing extrem-ist” on social issues. Brown wants theelection to be a referendum on abor-tion, gun control and civil rights, not theO’Malley/Brown taxhikes.
Meanwhile, Brown is laying low let-ting his campaignmanager, Justin Schall,domost of the talking.Will it be BrownorSchall who shows up to debateHogan onTV?
MoneyIn the last four gubernatorial elec-
tions theDemnominees ranuncontestedin the primary allowing them to build biggeneral electionwar chests. This primary,Brown spent $11 million defeating a pairof contenders so now he’s forced to re-build his finances.
Meanwhile, Hogan took $2.6 millioninpublic campaignfinancing freeing himof fundraising but capping his spending.
The GOP can pitch in an additional $3.7million but, by election day, Brown willstill outspend Hogan 4 to 1. Advantage,Brown.
Lt. Governor CurseThanks to “administration fatigue”,
no lieutenant governor has ever suc-ceeded an incumbent Maryland gover-nor. But Brownwould also beMaryland’sfirst African-American governor, whichmayoffset thehex.
Voter TurnoutHogan is helped because it’s a mid-
term(non-presidential)electionwhentheturnout is traditionally older and whiter(nationally, black turnout slipped from61percent in2008 to44percent in2010) andbecause it’saRepublicanyear (it looks liketheGOPwillwin theU.S. senate).
Maryland’s primary turnoutwas a re-cord lowandNov. 4’smaybeasbadsincethere’s no U.S. Senate race here this yearand because most seats were decided inthe primary. The three remaining com-petitive county executive races (Freder-ick, Howard and Anne Arundel) are notin Brown’s strongest counties andno oneknowshowchangingMaryland’sprimaryfromSeptember to Junewill effect theNo-vember turnout.
Nationally, Republicans aremore en-ergized thanDems (79 percent of Repub-licans are “certain to vote” compared to66percent ofDems).Until he gothis “warbounce,” President Obama was pollingworse (41 percent favorable) thanGeorgeW.Bush at the samepoint in their secondterms.
What hurts Hogan is his lack of anelection base (he’s never held office) andMaryland’s enormous African-Americanvote, up to 25 percent of the electorate.Hogan has a black runningmate but thatdoesn’t offset the allure of electing Mary-land’s first black governor.
PollingBecause the newspapers are broke,
there’s a dearth of public polling so far.Post-primary polls showed Brown aheadby18to20points.Amid-AugustGOPpoll,discounted by most observers, showedHogan trailing by only 3 points. Then,a flawed CBS/New York Times poll putBrown 12 points ahead. But this poll’smethodology is suspect and it weighted
blacks as 28 percent of turnout, a highlyunlikely prospect.
So, lacking good polling data, we’resifting through tea leaves for clues. Ru-mors of a tightening race appear substan-tiated by some unusual Brown campaignmoves. Is goingwildlynegativeonHoganbefore LaborDay a tell?
Brown’s harsh TV attack ads takeextreme liberties with the truth. For in-stance, Brown is holding Hogan respon-sible for the high university tuition rateswhich occurred during the Ehrlich ad-ministration. Hogan is responsible, saysBrown, because he was Ehrlich’s patron-age chief at the time.
Likewise,Brown’sproof thatHogan isanti-abortion rests on a statementHoganmade 30 years ago when he was 28 yearsold. Are theDems using these wild smeartactics because they’re afraid of Hogan orsimply because the’ve always worked inthepast thanks toacomplicitpresscorps?
Also, the Democratic Governor’s As-sociation is now airing $750,000 of anti-Hogan attack ads, a real eyebrow-raisersince the DGA normally spends only inbattleground states, not in one-partyMaryland. And Gov. O’Malley, this week,announced he’s interrupting his presi-dential campaign to help Brown inMary-land.
Other tea leaves include a tighten-ing U.S. Senate race next door in Virginiawhere Republican Ed Gillespie closed a22-point gap to only nine points againstDemU.S. Sen. Mark Warner (Quinnipiacpoll). Is something going onout there?
But, forBrown,perhapsthemostwor-risome tea leafwas theprimary turnout inhis home county, Prince George’s, whichhe represented in the state legislature. InJunehewon77percentof theDemocraticvote there but turnout was only 19.5 per-cent,worst among thebigcounties. Whatdoes it mean when so few come out for afavorite son in ahotly contestedprimary?
The black vote is Brown’s ace-in-the-hole, a low black turnout could cost himthe election. So look for a repeat of 1998whenParrisGlendeningbeatEllenSauer-braywithhis last-minuterace-basedscareads that droveblacks to thepolls. Itwan’tpretty but itworked.
Blair Lee is chairman of the board ofLee Development Group in Silver Springand a regular commentator for WBALradio. His past columns are available atwww.gazette.net/blairlee. His email ad-dress is [email protected].
Can Larry Hogan win?
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oncologyunit atHolyCrossGer-mantownHospital. Thepast twoyears, the proceeds have beendonated to Holy Cross Hospitalin Silver Spring.
While Tabb and Paxtondidn’t know offhand how manypeople had already signed upfor this year’s race, they said lastyear sawbetween 60 and70par-ticipants.
“Every year we are just hop-ing this continues to grow,”Tabb said.
The Building Block 5K eventserves as a great opportunity toget the community together,involved and more aware ofimportant issues, according toTabb.
Paxton, a Frederick Countyresident, added that the race letspeople who are struggling knowthat help is available. She hopessomemight seek neededhelp asa result of the event.
“This is one way to get theword out that there is help foreveryone,” she said.
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Lane, a city police officer andspokesman, said he did notknow the exact amount of PCPthat was found.
Budd was being held at theMontgomery County DetentionCenter, Lane said, but Jones andPlummer were released afterposting bail. Lane had no addi-tional bail information.
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the facility has a voluntary pro-gram for patients, where up tosix patients can reside with twostaff members always present.
The center houses mentalhealth patients who are in crisis,who go there instead of a hospi-tal, or if they have been releasedfrom a hospital and need addi-tional support. She specificallymentioned patients sufferingfrom bipolar disorder, schizo-phrenia andmanic depression.
Patients leaveduring thedayfor medical appointments, dayprograms, jobs or school. Theaverage length of stay is threeto 10 days. Services are fundedthrough the state as a Medicaidfee-for-service program.
Guthrie-Cho said a similarfacility, Fenton House in Rock-ville’s Twinbrook neighbor-hood, has been in operation formore than 20 years.
Kathy Martin lives aroundthe corner from Fenton House,
which is near an elementaryschool. Although she nowworksfor Cornerstone, she said shewas unaware of any problemscaused by Fenton House pa-tients.
Guthrie-Cho acknowledgedthat the frequency of police andother emergency calls toGranbyHouse has been excessive, andsaid she hopes they decrease.
Records indicate six policecalls, one of which was trig-gered by a neighbor’s interfer-ence with emergency medicaltechnicians, and eight calls tofire and rescue, three of whichwere attributed to fire alarmactivation.
Cmdr. Willie Parker-Loan ofthe county’s 6th Police Districtsaid at the meeting that policedid not consider any of the re-sponses to thehomedangerous.
Neighbors said they werenot convinced that the grouphome followed proper licens-ing channels, saying the county“rubber stamped” its applica-tion.
In fact, they questioned theterm “group home,” as no onereally lives there — the homewill likely accommodate morethan 400 patients a year.
They also questioned why aresidential street, with no accessto public transportation, wasselected, especially because theneighborhood already has twogroup homes for elderly resi-dents.
Guthrie-Cho responded thatthe county needs more crisisbeds, and thehomewas selectedfor its size. While she was awareof the other group homes onthe street, she said that had nobearing on her group’s decisionto purchase the house.
Patricia Brennan, legisla-tive officer for the county’sDepartment of Health and Hu-man Services, confirmed thatzoning law permits licensedgroup homes with three toeight individuals to be locatedin residential zones.
Group homes with threeto 16 residents require both a
Montgomery County and statelicense. GranbyHouse obtainedboth, she said.
The home was initially li-censed to serve up to eight in-dividuals receiving residentialcrisis services, but the capac-ity was reduced to six, pendingapproval of needed septic up-grades.
While the residents said theythink Cornerstone intentionallymisrepresented the fact that thehouse was on a septic system inits application, Brennan called itan oversight.
A neighbor, Anita Willis-Boyland, sent a letter to thedirector of the Department ofHealth and Human Services onSept. 4, signed by most of theresidents of Granby Road. Thesix-page letter spelled out theirconcerns, including what theycalled a disregard of the licens-ing criteria listed in Chapter23A of the Montgomery CountyCode.
She also requested twodocuments under the Maryland
Public Information Act. She hasreceived a response to one, andcounty officials say the other isbeing processed.
Raymond Crowel, chief ofbehavioral health and crisis ser-vices for the health and humanservices department, presidedover themeeting.
He said the issues broughtup in the letter and the freedomof information documents weretoo complex to discuss at themeeting, but maintained thatcounty officials are confidentthe program is legal.
He suggested the residentsgo through the county’s BoardofAppeals if theywant topursuethe issue.
One neighbor, Craig Ber-rington, said he was disap-pointed by themeeting.
“The county didn’t comeprepared to respond to the letterand theconcernsweexpressed,”he said. “It was irresponsible tocome without legal counsel.They can’t even tell us if theirresponse would reflect the legal
views of the county attorney,which is absolutely unaccept-able and astounding.”
Berrington, who has livedin his house since 1980, said hebelieves very strongly in helpingthosewhoneed it, especially theelderly.
However, he questionedwhy one small street shouldhave three group homes.
“The elderly homes arewonderful neighbors, but thisis a very different situation,”Berrington said. “I suggestedthey rewind this process byselling the house and move toa more appropriate place bygoing through the proper pro-cedures.”
Willis-Boyland said themeeting missed its mark, be-cause the legal concerns thatwere brought up in the letterwere not addressed.
“Ournext step is a legal chal-lenge,” she said.
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sent a letter home on Sept. 19.
Twelve public schools have
had cases appear in peoplelearning or working in theirbuildings.
Of the 24 sick students, 14 ofthe cases are tied to a summercamp that about 200 county
children attended this summer,Anderson said. County healthofficials believe the studentswere exposed to the disease,which is highly contagious, atCapital Camps in Pennsylvania.
“We’ve had other instances[in schools] that have had noth-ing todowith the camp,”Ander-son said. The disease typicallyshows up in school buildingseach year.
The schools that have expe-
rienced cases are Gaithersburg,Northwest, Sherwood, WalterJohnson and Thomas S. Woot-ton high schools; Julius West,Cabin John, Robert Frost, RockyHill and Briggs Chaney middleschools; and Cold Spring andCollege Gardens elementaryschools. All public schools havesent a letter home to alert fami-lies.
Health officials do not haveinformation about the cases in
private schools. The county hasseena total of 35 cases of pertus-sis so far in 2014.
Anderson said that the stu-dents who fell ill had all beenvaccinated.
“Nobody knows for sure ex-actly what happens, but thereare instances with vaccine-pre-ventablediseaseswhere individ-uals who’ve been vaccinated doget sick even if they’ve had thevaccination,” she said.
If a student is diagnosedwithwhoopingcough, theyneed
to take antibiotics for five daysbefore heading back to class,Anderson said. The disease cancause those infected to developa cough involving bark-like or“whoop” noises.
With new state immuniza-tion requirements in place, stu-dents entering seventh gradethis school year had to receivea vaccination to prevent againstpertussis as well as tetanus anddiphtheria.
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John D. (“Jay”) JoyceOn September 21, 2014, John David Joyce ofLocust Grove, Virginia, passed away suddenlyat home. He was a 1968 graduate of RichardMontgomery High School, Rockville, MD.Devoted husband of Luraner Little Joyce;father of two sons, John Kevin and SeanMichael; grandfather of four, Madeline, Jane,Alaina and Jack; brother of Jacqueline JoyceCrum; and son of the late John W. and Jane M.Joyce. He will be missed dearly by everyonewho loved and knew him. Following theprivate burial, the family will host a receptionat the Knights of Columbus Hall, 17001Overhill Road, Derwood, MD on Saturday,November 15, 2014 from 4:30-7:30 pm.
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ObituaryJennifer Grey Eden, aged 62 andborn on September 16, 1952, aresident of Damascus, Maryland,passed away on September 21,2014. Jennifer was preceded indeath by her parents, Nita Grey andJennings Marshall Crider. She issurvived by her husband of 44years, Jan Erik Eden, her siblings,Angela Norton and ChristopherCrider, her children, Matthew Todd
Eden, Lisa Grey Eden, Adam Louis Eden, Jan Erik Eden, andAndrew Curtis Eden, and also by 6 grandchildren, 1 greatgrandchild, and a host of other dearly beloved familymembers and friends. Jennifer shared a passion and a gift formusic with her children. She was a music teacher and amusician herself. Jennifer held an AA degree in music, aswell as being a certified massage therapist. She maintained anindependent massage practice, providing multiple services inthe healing arts. Jennifer also found time for yoga instruction,knitting, sewing, journaling, piloting planes, and she was anavid reader as well as a natural philosopher. Her strength andcompassion were an inspiration to many. The family willreceive friends on Wednesday, October 1st at the DamascusUnited Methodist Church from 7 to 9 PM. A memorialservice will be held on Thursday, October 2nd at theDamascus United Methodist Church at 11 AM with reverendCindy Dyer officiating. In lieu of flowers a donation may bemade to http://www.midwife.org/ACNM-Foundation.
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n “The Night Fairy” delves intothe world of wingless fairy Flory
BY KIRSTY GROFF
STAFFWRITER
Imagination Stage celebrates themagic of the unknown in their season-opening production of “The NightFairy.”
Based on a book of the same nameby Baltimore author Laura Amy Schlitz,the tale follows Flory — a night fairy —as shefindsherself in theunfamiliar ter-ritoryof daytimeafter abatmistakesherfor a moth and eats her wings, leavingher flightless.
Though her survival instincts kick
in almost immediately, over time sheopens herself up, grows accustomed toher new life and learns to recognize theneeds of others around her in this newworld.
“It’s totally a growing up story, andthere are plenty of those out there,”said Tia Shearer, who plays Flory, “butit’s done in such a graceful way whereyou watch this little person be hugelyimperfect, and you watch her becomemore and more aware of other peopleexisting around her. That’s such a gor-geous thing to give to children—and tothe adults as well.”
While making her way through theworld of daylight, she meets and be-friends Skuggle, a squirrel with a bit ofan ego at first, but like Flory, matures
over the course of the play.The animals are all played by actors
—no puppet stand-ins—and since theintended audience ranges from ages 4
Fairy in the daylightPHOTO BY MARGOT SCHULMAN
Flory the Fairy, played by Tia Shearer, discovers an unlikely friend in Peregrine, a bat, played by Ryan Sellers, in the Imagination Stage produc-tion of “The Night Fairy.”
n Tasty food at reasonableprices can be yours in Olney
There is a quaint, little house inOlney that has been serving a varietyof food since the 1920s. Although ithas changed a bit since it was theCorner Cupboard, the Francis LattieInn and The Anchorage, the OlneyAle House has established itself asone of the best little restaurants inMontgomery County.
Pulling into the parking lot on aSaturday night, the sheer number ofcars tells you all you need to knowabout how good the food is here.Once inside, all of your senses cometo life. The space looks verymuchlike someone turned their grand-mother’s home into a pub. Tables,chairs and stools are packed in alittle too close formy liking, but thehouse only seats 100 people inside.Although it was a busy Saturdaynight, we didn’t have to wait for atable.
One of the first things you’llnotice is the amount of decorationsadorning the walls. Bottles, signs,andmore are hanging around thebar area. Some restaurants put updecorations and forget about them,leaving them covered in dust anddirt. It is obvious the folks at theOlney Ale House take great care tomake sure everything is clean. Eventhe restrooms are spotless.
We started with an appetizerof loaded potato skins.What wedidn’t realize was we’d be gettingfull, Idaho-sized potatoes cut in half.These things were quite large andcoveredwith cheese and bacon.Which, of course, is never a badthing. They could use a littlemoreseasoning and the bacon could havebeen a little crispier, but other thanthat, it wasn’t a bad appetizer.
The Olney Ale House claims tohave the best burger in town. Con-sidering they use fresh ground chuck
and hand-form the burgers everyday, there’s validity in their state-ment.While I haven’t tried all of theburgers in Olney, I can say this is onefine burger. A good char on the out-side and cooked perfectlymediumwell inside, the cheddar burger withbaconwas succulent, but not greasy.The 8 oz. patty gives you plenty to befilling, yet still allows for the possibil-ity of some dessert later. At $11.50, itruns typical of what you’d pay for abacon cheeseburger if youwere go-ing out somewhere.
The special on Saturdays, how-ever, is the rack of St. Louis-style ribs.For $18, you get a full rack, fries anda sweet slaw. During the week, youcan get the same thing, but it’s $22.
I liked the fries, whichwerecrispy and hot. The slawwas tasty,although I needed to add a little salt.The belle of the ball here, though,was the ribs. I’m not sure exactlywhere they found the dinosaur to getthese ribs, but they weremassive.They’re also smoked in-house forfour to six hours, according to ourserver.
Come for the ribs, stay forthe pie at Olney Ale House
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DINING REVIEWB Y W I L L C . F R A N K L I N
See FAIRY, Page A-12 See ALE HOUSE, Page A-12
THE NIGHT FAIRYn When: Through Oct. 26;
check Web site for times
n Where: Imagination Stage’s AnnetteM. and Theodore N. Lerner FamilyTheatre, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda
n Tickets: $10+
n More information:ImaginationStage.org; 301-280-1660
OLNEY ALE HOUSEn Where: 2000 Olney Sandy Spring
Road, Olney
n Environment: 3 out of 5
n Service: 4 out of 5
n Taste: 4 out of 5
n Worth the cost: 4 out of 5
n Family friendly: 3 out of 5
n TOTAL: 18 out of 25
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DANCESWest Coast Swing Dancing
with Dance Jam Productions, 9p.m. with drop-in lessons from7:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 3, $15; SocialBallroom,mambo lesson, 8 p.m.,dance from9 to 12:30 a.m., lightrefreshments, Oct. 4, $16; SocialBallroomDance, 8 p.m., freewaltz lesson at 7 p.m. Oct. 5, $16;Social BallroomDance, 8:30 p.m.,‘step of the evening’ rumbamini-lesson at 8:15 p.m. Oct. 8, $16;TeaDance, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Oct.9, $6; 2126 Industrial Highway,Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, hol-lywoodballroomdc.com.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8 to10 p.m.Mondays, steps and for-mations taught. No experience,partner necessary, T-39 BuildingonNIH campus,Wisconsin Av-enue and SouthDrive, Bethesda,240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300MacArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9to 11:30 p.m. dancing toDJs, GlenEcho Park’s Spanish BallroomAn-nex, $8, capitalblues.org.
Contra, Oct. 3.WillMentorcalls toNor’easter with CedarStanistreet on fiddle,MaxNew-man on guitar/mandolin and Ju-lie Valimont on piano/accordion/jaw harp, Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, 7:30 p.m., $10, friday-nightdance.org.
English Country, Oct. 1, DanGillespie caller, 8 p.m., Glen EchoTownHall (upstairs), fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, Oct. 17,Swing&Blues Crossover withJosh Fialkoff & the Fried Bananas,evening starts with beginningswing lesson from8 to 9 p.m., fol-lowed by dancing from9 p.m. tomidnight. $18, $12 17 and under.Glen Echo Park Spanish Ball-room, flyingfeet.org.
Waltz, Oct. 5, Valse Impres-sionswith Katie Davis Henderson(fiddle), Carrie Rose (flute), LizDonaldson (piano), and RalphGordon (bass); Oct. 19, RhapsodywithMarty Taylor (winds, concer-
tina), AlexanderMitchell (fiddle,mandolin), DaveWiesler (piano,guitar), RalphGordon (bass),waltztimedances.org.
Irish Dancing, “Ring of KerryIrishDance class winter sessionbegan on Sept. 9. Dancersmeeton Tuesday’s fromSeptemberuntilmid-December at RidgeviewMiddle School. Beginning classstarts at 7 p.m., followed by themore experienced class at 8:05p.m. Cost is $40.We do ceili andset dances and no partner is re-quired to enjoy the lessons. Formore information, email Jean [email protected] visitringofkerrydancers.org. Danc-ersmust be at least 8 years old tosenior. Anyone under 16must beaccompanied by an adult.
MUSICBethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-
per Club, ParthenonHuxley &Friends, Oct. 2, The Celtic Tenors,Oct. 3, call for prices, 7719Wis-consin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts,Salsa and BachataDance Party,Oct. 3; The Spencers’ Theatre ofIllusion, Oct. 4 and 5; An EveningwithGrouchoMarx, Oct. 17,12901 TownCommonsDrive,Germantown. 301-528-2260,blackrockcenter.org.
Fillmore Silver Spring, TheBYTBentzen Ball Comedy Festi-val, Oct. 2; Concert for Ebola Re-lief, Oct. 3; Baby LovesDisco, Oct.4; Rival SonswithMonster Truck,Oct. 4; Ab-Soul, Oct. 5, 8656Colesville Road, Silver Spring. fill-moresilverspring.com.
Strathmore, International Tea,1 p.m. Oct. 1; Bill Cosby, 8 p.m.Oct. 2, call for venue. Locations:Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike,North Bethesda;Music Centerat Strathmore, 5301 TuckermanLane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.
ON STAGEAdventure Theatre-MTC, “Stu-
art Little,” throughOct. 26, call forprices, times, Adventure TheatreMTC, 7300MacArthur Blvd., GlenEcho, 301-634-2270, adventure-theatre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “TheNightFairy,” throughOct. 26, call forprices, times, Imagination Stage,4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda,imaginationstage.org.
Olney Theatre Center, “Colos-sal,” throughOct. 5, call for prices,times, 2001Olney-Sandy SpringRoad, Olney, 301-924-3400, ol-
neytheatre.org.The Puppet Co., “Rapunzel,”
throughOct. 12; Tiny Tots@ 10,selectWednesdays, Saturdaysand Sundays, call for shows andshow times, Puppet Co. Play-house, Glen Echo Park’s NorthArcade Building, 7300MacArthurBlvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepup-petco.org.
Round House Theatre,Bethesda, “Fetch Clay,MakeMan,” OpeningOct. 10, call forshow times, 4545 East-West High-way, Bethesda. $15 for generaladmission, $10 for subscribers,patrons 30 and younger and se-niors. 240-644-1100, roundhous-etheatre.org.
Silver Spring Black Box The-atre, 8641 Colesville Road, SilverSpring, 301-588-8277, [email protected].
Silver Spring Stage, “God ofCarnage,” throughOct. 11,Wood-moor Shopping Center, 10145Colesville Road, Silver Spring, seewebsite for show times, ssstage.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, Thework
of Alan Steele, Oct. 2 throughNov.9, 3766Howard Ave., Kensington,301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com
Glenview Mansion, SusanaGarten, Elaine Cafritz,Meryl Sil-ver, Oct. 5 through 24, RockvilleCivic Center Park, 503 Edmon-stonDrive, Rockville. rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, JosephHolston, throughOct. 15, 10:30a.m. to 7 p.m.Monday throughSaturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday,7022Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160Viers Hill Road,Wheaton,mont-gomeryart.org.
VisArts, IntimateWaterscapes- TheWork of Julius Kassovic, toOct. 5; Fire from the Forge—ATribute to KomeliaHongjaOkim,toOct. 5, Gibbs Street Gallery, 155Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200,visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gal-lery, RememberingNuong, Pyra-mid Atlantic Art Center, secondfloor, 8230Georgia Ave., SilverSpring, washingtonprintmakers.com.
ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508
Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.
IN THE ARTSto 10, it can be difficult to get theright balance of animal and hu-man on stage.
“One of the things that canbe tricky about playing an ani-mal is knowing how much tobring in animal behavior,” saidErinWeaver, who plays Skuggle.“You don’t want one person onall fours and everyone else isn’t.It’s been a really interesting pro-cess of finding the correct mid-dle ground.”
Despite being a mostly fe-male cast ofmostly animal char-acters, young childrenof all agesand genders — and the adultsaccompanying them — shouldbe able to relate to Flory’s expe-rience surviving on her own andlearning to forge a new path forherself.
“They represent a kaleido-scopic range of human expe-rience,” said director JeremySkidmore. “There’s threadsin each of them where if youtwined them together theywouldmake up you.”
“The Night Fairy” also aimsto shatter preconceived notionsof what a fairy should be. Com-pared to the typical depictionsof the tiny winged creatures,the play’s portrayal of Flory isempowering and inspiring toyoung girls.
“There are all of these ideasof what a fairy is supposed tolook like,” said Weaver. “Youhave Tinker Bell images, andyoung girls get to see this char-acter come to life who is notabout pretty in pink and tutusand things like that, but moreabout an actual young womanhaving to toughen up and let-ting down her guard and lettingothers help her.”
“Fairies are usually beauti-ful, feminine, stylish, and I’min combat boots with very shortblue hair,” Shearer added. “Ilove that celebration of whoyou are and how you go aboutbeing the thing you are. It’s em-powering as a person, it’s a nicereminder that you can wear thepants and sweatshirt and notbe into make-up and still be awoman in the world.”
While the play is likely most
appreciated by younger chil-dren, viewers of all ages are sureto be amazed by the stunningscenery — raved about by sev-eralmembers of the cast.
“If you walked into the the-ater right now you would neverguess it was for a children’splay,” said Weaver, “there’s anelegance to it that’s breathtak-ing. It honors everyone, and Ithink will invite everyone in.”
Young or old, girl or boy,manywho see “TheNight Fairy”are likely to leave the theater re-flecting on the new experiencesthey’ve had in life, and appre-ciating the surrounding area,much like Flory begins to em-brace the daytime.
“I think it’s a charming re-minder of what it’s like to ex-perience something for the firsttime, and the wonder of all thethings that are around you,”Skidmore said. “Even in D.C.,how beautiful the architectureis, you become immune. A lot ofthis piece is about being gratefuland taking in all the wonderfulcrazy things around you.”
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They give you a knife to useon the ribs, and you do need it.Themeat is delicious and thesmoky goodness comes throughwith each bite, even though theribs are covered in barbecuesauce. I was able to bring halfa rack homewithme because Ijust couldn’t eat it all.
Finally, a treat for the eve-ning. The Olney Ale Housemakes fresh, homemade keylime pie. Although the $6 pricetag seems a littlemuch for theslice we got, the tastemade ittotally worth it. The pie was righton the cusp of being too tart, butin a goodway. The icing drizzledon top helped to sweeten theexperience. The graham crackercrust was delectable as well.
The servers were extremelynice, however, with it being abusy night, there were times wehad to wait for refills. Also, withit being a busy Saturday night,it was incredibly noisy— to thepoint where I felt like I had toyell for people to hearme.
I’m not really sure if I’d say
the Olney Ale House is fam-ily friendly, though.With thecramped quarters and loud,pub-style atmosphere, it mightbe tough if you have little ones.Plus, I was discouraged to see asticker on themen’s bathroomdoor with a word on it you prob-ably don’t want your childrenasking you about.
The only other thing thatshould be addressed is the park-
ing lot. There are no lights in theparking lot and it goes back alittle ways. I’m sure somemorelighting wouldmake everyonefeel safer.
Overall, the Olney Ale Houseshould come highly recom-mended. It’s definitely worth adrive to the little house with thebig flavors.
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The St. Louis style ribs are smoked for four to six hours in house.
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Coming soon to the Fill-more Silver Spring near youis BettyWho, who is nomorethan 22.
OK, that’s all the Dr. Seussrhyming I’ll do, I promise.
Still, the talented singerfrom Australia is set to per-formwith Joywave and GreatGood Fine OK on Tuesday.
After releasing two EPs,Whowill unleash her firstfull-length studio album,“TakeMeWhen You Go,” onOct. 7 ... the same day she’sperforming at the FillmoreSilver Spring. How’s that forconvenient!
The pop star’s “SomebodyLoves You” single, hit No. 1on the Billboard Dance/ClubPlay Songs chart this pastMarch. Expect more songs tofollow.
Tickets for the show are$22.50. Formore information,visit fillmoresilverspring.comor call 301-960-9999.
Who goes there
PHOTO BY JOEL THERESE
Musician Betty Who will bring her High Society Tourto the Fillmore Silver Spring Tuesday.
Bill Cosbyhas spentmost of his life as a co-median, but since the 1980s, he’s also beenoneof America’s favorite TV fathers—sweater andall.
ThemanbehindFat Albert, CliffHuxtable,the “Jell-ooooopudding,” andmore,will be per-forming at theMusicCenter at Starthmore onThursday.
The 77-year-old got his start in standup inthe early 1960s, after spending time in theNavyas ahospital corpsman.Duringhis stint in theNavy, heworked at theBethesdaNavalHospital.
After years of successful standup, hemoved
onto television andfilm,wherehe starred in theTV show“I Spy,” andfilms such as “UptownSaturdayNight,” “Mother, Jugs&Speed,” and“LeonardPart 6.”
In 1984, Cosby starred in “TheCosby Show,”where theHuxtable family becameapart of ev-eryone’s family once aweek. Since then,Cosbyhas hadnumerous speaking engagements, tele-vision appearances and,whenhe can, standupspotlights.
Tickets for the showare $49.50 to $89.50. Formore information, visit strathmore.org or call301-581-5100.
Everyone’s favorite dad
ELITE ENTERTAINMENT
Legendary comedian Bill Cosby will entertain at the Music Center at Strath-more on Oct. 2.
Being small presents itsown challenges ... but greatimaginations come from folksbig and small alike.
Take the story of StuartLittle, which is now playing atAdventure TheatreMTC in GlenEcho, for example. Sure, Stuartmay just be amouse, but he hasa loving family and the entireworld is right there in front ofhim, ready to be explored.
Stuart’s adventure beginswhen his bird friend,Margalo,disappears. Stuart goes out intothe great, big world to try to findher. Though Stuart’s size hin-ders his path, he is determinedto succeed.
Tickets for the show are$19. Formore information, visitadventuretheatre-mtc.org orcall 301-634-2270.
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Chris Dinolfo as Stuart Little andAndrew Ferlo as Dr. Carey, owner ofthe Wasp sailboat, meet at the Cen-tral Park pond to beat a competitorin the Adventure Theatre MusicalTheater Center production of “StuartLittle.”
Magic! Oooooo! Illusion! Ahhhhh!Look over there!Where did it go?!?Who cares? It’smagic! Oooooo!
Hey, every once in awhile, it’s niceto give your brain a break and remem-ber what it was like to be a youngsterwho had fallen in love withmagic.Heck, you still read “Harry Potter”novels todayHOPINGmagic was real!Don’t deny it!
If you believe hard enough,magicwill be real this Saturday and Sundayat the BlackRock Center for the Artswhen the Spencers bring their Theatreof Illusion to Germantown.
The Spencers will also host twoworkshops Saturday, one at 9:30 a.m.and the other at 11 a.m., that will in-corporatemagic tricks into the learn-ing process.
Kevin and Cindy Spencer havebeen described asmodern dayHoudi-nis, with high-energymusic andBroadway-style production brought toeach of their shows.
Kevin Spencer also works withspecial needs youth and adults as partof theHocus Focus program, and is asassistant professor at the University ofAlabama Birmingham in the Occupa-
tional TherapyDepartment.Tickets are $26 for Saturday, $22
for Sunday. Formore information, visitblackrockcenter.org or call 301-528-2260.
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Kevin Spencer prepares to work with twoswords during the Spencers’ illusion show.The Spencers will perform Saturday and Sun-day at the BlackRock Center for the Arts.
Now in its 32nd year, the Germantown Oktoberfest hasattracting thousands for a fun-filled day of live musicand performances, delicious food, children’s games
and inflatables. Also featuring exhibits by localcrafters, artists and businesses, roaming
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FOOTBALL: DeMatha at G. Counsel, 7 p.m. Friday.
The two rivals have won past 11 WCAC footballtitles. The Stags ended the Falcons’ four-year reignlast year. DeMatha won six straight before that.
FOOTBALL: C’burg at Damascus, 6:30 p.m. Friday.
FOOTBALL: Sherwood at Seneca, 6:30 p.m. Friday.
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CHAMPIONS COLLIDEDeMatha at Good Counsel
n When: 7 p.m. Friday
n Where: Olney
n DeMatha has won 7 of thepast 11 Washington CatholicAthletic Conference footballchampionships and 21 overall.
n Good Counsel has won 4 ofthe past 5 and 4 overall.
n Last school other thanDeMatha or Good Counselto win the WCAC: Gonzaga,2002.
n Cougars’ midfielderhas moves that gets
crowds up and cheering
BY ERIC GOLDWEINSTAFF WRITER
Kevin Hwang plays on two teams,trains with several coaches andspends hours studying his favoriteplayers on television and YouTube.
But the best source of soccer wis-dom available to the Quince OrchardHigh School senior receives may beright from his Gaithersburg home.
Hwang, a central midfielder, is theson of a former amateur soccer player,Tim Hwang, who in the 1980s playedfor Gangwon FC in South Korea. Thetwo of them — along with youngerbrother Jack Hwang, 13 — have beentraining at the Maryland Soccerplexin Germantown since 2012, and that’shelped the Cougars star become oneof Montgomery County’s most tech-nically sound players.
Unlike his father, who played cen-ter back and relied on his strength,Kevin Hwang is a speedy playmakerthat uses his quickness and technicalskills to maneuver through opposingdefenses.
“He reads the game ahead of ev-eryone,” Tim Hwang said. “He knowswhere everyone is in the field.”
First-year Quince Orchard coachKevin Gnatiko has only trained withKevin Hwang for a few months, butsaid that his talent — particularly hisdribbling prowess — was evident im-mediately.
“Very good touch on the ball, verygood vision, very good passer,” Gna-tiko said. “... His technique is very,very sharp ... I can’t think of one timehe’s had a bad touch.”
Kevin Hwang made a move in ascrimmage that “made a kid fromWalter Johnson fall to the ground ...he completely changed the game,”Gnatiko said. “... The whole crowdwent crazy. You can tell he’s a veryhigh-level player.”
Kevin Hwang, 5-foot-8, has twogoals and three assists for the Trojans(4-2-1 as of Monday). He’s more of apasser than a scorer, but both of thisyear’s goals were game-winners, Gna-tiko said.
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n Field hockey goalkeeperleads up-and-coming Trojans
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
Gaithersburg High School’s AnnaVergelli had never played field hockeyprior to her first scrimmage in 2011.By this point, she hadn’t even seen agame before; the closest thing to fieldhockey experience was the streethockey she played with her olderbrother, Nick Vergelli.
But it didn’t take long for the Tro-jans goalkeeper to catch on. Thoughnervous at first, the then-freshmanquickly became comfortable in net,and three years later, has become thebackbone of a young Gaithersburgteam (3-3 as of Monday) that’s al-ready matched its regular season wintotals from the last three years.
“She works hard, she works wellunder pressure. It’s been great tohave her on the team,” Trojans coachAllison Kimball said. “... It’s amazinghow far she’s come.”
Vergelli has been put to the testthis season, and Friday’s game againstJames H. Blake was no exception. Butthe senior captain was unfazed by thepressure; she steered away shot aftershot and recorded about 20 savesagainst the Silver Spring school. Theend result — thanks to two goals fromsophomore Emilee Wooten — was a2-1 Trojans overtime victory.
“We have a pretty young team,”said Vergelli, who plays for theTazmaniacs field hockey club. “I’mone of the oldest. So I had to step up.”
That was a typical performance
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n Senior goes forward to score the goldengoal for Colonel’s fourth straight win
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
The Col. ZadokMagruder High School boys soccerteam controlled the ball deep in James H. BlaketerritoryMonday and had one final chance at de-
feating the 4A state runner-ups.That’s when right back Carlos Patiño received a
message from his coach Juan Gomez, relayed by team-mate Steven Snyder.
“He was like ‘coach is telling you to go forward,’”Patiño said.
So he did. Patiño ran toward the goal, throughBlake’s 18-yard box, unmarked, then received a crossfromMagruder sophomore Allan FloresMejia. With 32seconds remaining in double-overtime, the 5-foot-9senior gave the Colonels a 2-1 victory against the hostBengals (5-3) in Silver Spring.
“I’m very happy,” said Patiño, whose golden goal
extended Magruder’s (7-1) winning streak to four. “...I’m speechless.”
It was the second varsity goal, and second game-winner for Patiño, who plays defense and forward. OnSept. 20, he had the Colonels’ second goal in a 3-1 vic-tory against Leonardtown (St. Mary’s County).
“He always seems to be there when we need it,” ju-nior Bryan Argueta said. “... He never gives up. Alwaysrunning. Coach has him play defense, goalie, he doesit. And that’s what’s good about him. He can play anyposition.”
Magruder, a state semifinalist and West Regionchampion in 2013, fell behind 1-0 late in the first halfafter Josue Velasquez notched his first varsity goal,according to Blake coach David Edlow. The red cardforced the Bengals to play a man down for most of thesecond half and overtime, and the Colonels took ad-vantage. Flores Mejia (52nd minute) scored off a passfrom Argueta to tie the game, and the Derwood schoolused a short passing game to pressure Blake’s defense,and eventually break it in the final minute.
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Col. Zadok Magruder High School’s Allan Flores Mejia (9) collides with James H. Blake’s Carlos Valdez (7) during Monday’s boys soc-cer match in Silver Spring.
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n Junior more than doublesseason total with 161 rushing
yards against Gonzaga
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFF WRITER
On a play early in the fourth quar-ter of the Our Lady of Good Coun-sel High School football team’s 17-7victory against Gonzaga Saturday atCoolidge in Washington, D.C., Falconsjunior running back Jonathan Lee washit hard before he even got back to theline of scrimmage. One of his cleats waslost — it went flying into the backfield— but Lee was barely fazed. Instead,he quickly changed directions and with
just one shoe, produced a 9-yard runout of seemingly nothing.
“[Lee] never goes down on the firsthit, it seems,” Good Counsel juniorquarterback Andres Castillo said. “He’sso strong and resilient. He’s a powerfulrunner and of course has the speed.”
Against the No. 9-ranked team inthe country (MaxPreps), Lee more thandoubled his season total with 161 yardsrushing and scored his third touchdownof the year.
“[Lee] looked like a major back [Sat-urday],” Good Counsel coach Bob Mil-loy said.
The Falcons (4-1) relied more heav-ily on Lee and their ground game Satur-day, Milloy said, as Castillo only beganthrowing on Thursday for the first timein a week after straining his shoul-
der. But Lee’s production did open upseveral opportunities for Castillo toshowcase his arm and connect withhis receivers. He completed 10 of 13pass attempts for 115 yards; Keon Payecaught seven of them for 89 yards and atouchdown.
Milloy, Castillo and Lee werequick to credit the improved play of ayoung offensive line, led by 6-foot-0,245-pound junior Ike Schurman andsophomore Branden Johnson (6-0, 300),with Saturday’s scoring numbers. Andthat is just what the Falcons needed af-ter a 20-0 shutout loss to Gilman Sept.19, during which Good Counsel nevermade it across midfield.
“Last week we went up to Baltimoreand we got embarrassed, [Gilman] beatthe living tar out of us,” Milloy said. “We
really pushed the kids this week andthey responded. I told them before thegame, ‘Regardless of the outcome, I justwant to see if you guys are going to quitor you’re still with us.’ I got my answer.”
It was the Eagles who scored firstSaturday, less than six minutes into thegame, on Nick Johns’ 17-yard pass toReggie Corbin. Castillo’s 3-yard pass toPaye in the fifth minute of the secondquarter tied the contest and the youngFalcons’ offense seemed to glean muchconfidence from the score — knowingthe defense, led by Virginia Tech recruitDarius Fullwood, has been tough allseason.
“As an offensive group, we got ev-eryone on the sideline and said it was
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“I’m basically like thequarterback of the team. Iget the ball from the defense,move it to the forward. I try todo everything,” Kevin Hwangsaid.
Senior Greg Burnham,who has known Kevin Hwangsince third grade, said he’snever seen a MontgomeryCounty high school playerwith dribbling skills as goodas his teammate’s.
In practices, he’ll rou-tinely “flip a switch,” and gofrom messing around, to tak-ing on three or four defend-ers, Burnham said.
“That’s always been what
sets him apart,” Burnham said.“He’s always had that upperedge in that category.”
When Kevin Hwang isn’ttraining with his father, or withGnatiko at Quince Orchard, orby himself in the backyard — orwatching videos and live feedsof FC Barcelona’s Xavi — he’swith his club team, the Arling-ton Strikers.
The non-stop soccer is atime-consuming — and per-haps,necessary—partof reach-ing his goal of playing soccer incollege, and down the line, pro-fessionally.
“His technical ability andhis vision [are] ahead of every-one,” Tim Hwang said. “The skyis the limit for Kevin.”
QUINCE ORCHARDContinued from Page B-1
for Vergelli, whose agilityand quick reflexes make herone of the top goalkeepers inMontgomery County. She hasrecorded 69 saves throughsix games after stopping 102shots in 2013.
“She has these saves that,I don’t even know how shedoes it,” Kimball said. “She
makes some saves that are re-ally just jaw-droppers.”
Vergelli’s most impressiveperformance came againstRichard Montgomery ofRockville, Wooten said. Evenin a 5-1 loss, she impressedwith the number of saves shemade.
“She had like, a millionsaves. It was amazing,” Woo-ten said. “... It’s easy to trusther.”
Added Kimball: “She’s
used to playing with somehigh-level players. She kindof rises to that level, whichis nice. She’s able to save usfrom some sticky situations.”
Offensively, the Trojansare led by Wooten. The cen-ter forward has four goals andthree assists, and is one ofseveral talented upperclass-men on the up-and-comingGaithersburg team, Kimballsaid.
“They have a lot of heart
and passion, that’s definitelysomething that I’ve tried toinstill in them,” the third-yearcoach said.
Vergelli, a fourth-yearstarter, said she is looking for-ward to having a strong finishin her final season.
“[My goal] is to help myteammates get better andhelp us get far in the playoffs,”she said.
GAITHERSBURGContinued from Page B-1
“They deserve this becausethey play soccer. They don’tkick the ball. They [play] pos-session,” Gomez said.
Blake, the defending NorthRegion champions, had wonits previous three games andis scheduled to play hostSherwood on Oct. 7 in SandySpring.
“If we can continue to getbetter every day, the rest of theway, I think we’ll be dangerouscome playoff time,”
Edlow said. “We’ve donesome good things but we canstill improve.”
The Colonels, two yearsremoved from a three-wincampaign, have state cham-pionship aspirations, Patiñosaid.
Their next game is sched-uled for Wednesday againsthost Northwest in German-town.
“It’s just seeing what we’vedeveloped over the years,”Patiño said. “We’re veryhappy.”
MAGRUDERContinued from Page B-1
DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Col. Zadok Magruder High School’s Chiheb Aouachria (No. 11) heads the ballagainst James H. Blake’s Carlos Valdez (No. 7) during Monday’s boys soccermatch in Silver Spring.
going to be the line that winsthe game for us,” Lee said.“We said if we want to win thegame we were going to have toturn it up right now and that’swhat we did. ... Everyone saidthat our offense and our linecouldn’t move the ball, but we
did [Saturday] and we got thewin because of it. I’m just soproud of my guys for gettingafter it and getting this win.”
Good Counsel scored onthe opening series of the sec-ond half on Lee’s 33-yard run.With a 14-7 lead, the Falconshad the ball on the 2-yard lineminutes later, but a fumblepushed the ball back and GoodCounsel went for a field goal
instead — James Evans con-verted the 21-yard attempt.
In on his third game asGood Counsel’s No. 1 runningoption, Lee proved he can workunder big-game pressure.
Things won’t get easieragainst Washington CatholicAthletic Conference rival De-Matha Catholic Friday, but Sat-urday was a big step in the rightdirection for a young team,
Milloy said.“Last year I ran behind
three great running backsand they taught me a lot,” Leesaid. “I’m just grateful to bein the position I am now. ... Iworked really hard this sum-mer to make sure no one per-son can tackle me.”
GOOD COUNSELContinued from Page B-1
DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Kevin Hwang practices with the Quince Orchard High School soccer team atRidgeview Middle School in Gaithersburg on Monday.
n After winning districttitle, Bulldogs shift focus
BY ADAM GUTEKUNST
STAFF WRITER
As Winston ChurchillHigh School golf coach Mi-chael Fisher drove up the finalstretch of cart path of the 18thhole at Poolesville Golf CourseMonday, something familiarcaught his eye. It was a gath-
ering of three blue and whitestriped polo shirts, donned byhis Bulldog golfers. Since theMontgomery County districttournament had teed off at 9a.m., Fisher had been score-keeping for a four-golfer groupthat didn’t include any of hisown players, so, he had no ideahow they had scored.
Suddenly, as Fisher’s cartbegan to drift towards thegathering of players just off thepractice green, he jerked the
wheel back to the left towardsthe 18th flag.
“I don’t want to know yet,”Fisher said. “I’ll find out at theclubhouse.”
When Fisher finallyreached the clubhouse andthe scores had been posted,Thomas S. Wootton coachPaul Williams was the firstperson over to congratulatethe Churchill coach. The Bull-dogs had clinched their firstdistrict title in his seven-year
tenure with a total score of 291strokes.
“I knew you had it in you,”he said, throwing his armaround the closest Churchillgolfer, freshman Lena Capoc-cia, who posted a team-low71. “Did you know you had itin you?
Two of their top four golf-ers, Capoccia and Dylan Rotter(73), are freshmen.
Move aside state champs, Churchill’s top golf dog
“They deserve thisbecause they playsoccer. They don’tkick the ball. They[play] possession.”
— Juan Gomez,Magruder boys soccer coach
QuinceOrchardHigh Schoolbounced back from its first loss ofthe season in dominant fashion.
TheGaithersburg schooldefeatedDerwood’s Col. ZadokMagruder 49-0 last Friday to claimtheir largestmargin of victory thisseason.
KyleGreen led theway for arushing attack that totaledmorethan 250 yards.He ran for 106 yardson seven carries, which is an aver-age ofmore than 15 yards per carry.He also scored four touchdowns.
QuinceOrchard coach JohnKelley couldn’t give one player orunitmore credit than the other.
“It was a teameffort,” Kelleysaid. “Each guy didwhat theyweresupposed to do for four [quarters].”
B-CC bringsawareness to povertyBethesda-ChevyChaseHigh
School’s home football gameagainst Germantown’s Seneca Val-ley last Fridaywas aboutmore thanjust two football teamsplaying agame.
It also turned out to be an op-portunity for people to help thecause of community organization‘AWider Circle.’
AWider Circle is a groupbasedout of Silver Springwith a goal ofending poverty. It provides a bevyof services for people in need,including home furnishing andeducational programming in jobpreparedness.
Throughout last week, B-CCaccepted donations onbehalf of AWider Circle, and at the gameonFriday, the organization had a tableset-upwhere they shared informa-tion and accepted volunteers.
“Last spring, theCEO/founderof the organization,Mark Bergel,talked to the teamand they de-cided theywanted to partnerwiththe organization as a charitablegroup thatweworkwith through-out the year,” B-CC coach Josh
Singer said. “Over the summer, theboyswent and spent about sevenhours in their warehousemovingfurniture around, helping themout. Andwe’re going towork to dosomethingwith themeach seasonof the year.”
Northwood is takinga 1-0 approach
NorthwoodHigh School’sfootball teamwon its first gameofthe season last Friday, 25-15, overKensington’s Albert Einstein.
In addition to being the SilverSpring school’s first win, the gameproved to be redemption for theGladiatorswho lost 41-0 to Einsteina year ago.
Northwood coachDennisHar-ris said thewin put the teambackon track.
“We kind of figured that thiswould be one thatwe could getback on track and try to do somethings the rightway,”Harris said.“The guys cameout fired up, readyto play, and they did a good jobearly—and theywere able to hangon.Wishwe could’ve finished alittle bit better butwe’ll take thewin for sure.”
Northwood faces Rockville next,a teamHarris said has areas thatcan be exploited.He saidNorth-wood is taking a 1-0 approach tothe remainder of the season.
“We kind of changed ourmind-set to, ‘Let’s just go 1-0 everyweek,’Harris said. “We think thiswill be abig game for us to kind of really getour foot in there andmove forward,starting onThursday night, withour second 1-0week in a row.”
Clarksburg, Damascusmeet in big match-upClarksburgHigh School (3-1)
faces its toughest challenge sincethe opening game againstQuinceOrchardwhen they travel toDa-mascus (4-0) onThursday.
Ever since a 22-19 loss toQO,Clarksburghas goneon to outscoreits opponents by a combined 103-6in three games, including two shut-outs.Damascus edgedQuinceOr-chard 19-11 twoweeks ago, but hasonly allowed14points combinedin their other three games.Damas-cus defeatedClarksburg 13-12 lastseason.
Quince Orchard runs away with win
THE GAZETTEWednesday, October 1, 2014 z Page B-3
AdamGutekunst
114-3862-12
LandonSeneca Valley
DamascusGaithersburg
MagruderNorthwestQ. Orchard
BlairWhitman
Paint BranchRockville
SpringbrookKennedy
PoolesvilleGood Counsel
BullisGeo. Prep
KenSain
125-2660-14
EpiscopalSherwoodDamascusWootton
W. JohnsonNorthwestQ. Orchard
BlairWhitman
Paint BranchRockville
SpringbrookKennedy
PoolesvilleDeMatha
BullisGeo. Prep
EricGoldwein
116-3658-16
LandonSherwoodDamascus
GaithersburgW. JohnsonNorthwestQ. Orchard
BlairWhitman
Paint BranchRockville
SpringbrookKennedy
PoolesvilleGood Counsel
BullisGeo. Prep
JenniferBeekman
115-3758-16
LandonSherwoodDamascus
GaithersburgMagruderNorthwestQ. Orchard
BlairWhitman
Paint BranchRockville
SpringbrookWheaton
PoolesvilleDeMatha
BullisGeo. Prep
PrinceGrimes
116-3659-15
LandonSherwoodDamascusWootton
W. JohnsonNorthwestQ. Orchard
BlairWhitman
Paint BranchRockville
SpringbrookWheaton
PoolesvilleDeMatha
BullisGeo. Prep
KentZakour
122-2964-10
LandonSherwoodDamascus
GaithersburgMagruderNorthwestQ. Orchard
BlairWhitman
Paint BranchRockville
Watkins MillWheaton
PoolesvilleDeMatha
BullisGeo. Prep
FEARLESS FORECASTSThe Gazette sports staff picks the
winners of this week’s football gamesinvolving Montgomery County teams.All games record includes picks madein Prince George’s County. Here arethis week’s selections:
All gamesMontgomery County record
Landon at EpiscopalSherwood at Seneca ValleyClarksburg at DamascusGaithersburg at WoottonMagruder at Walter JohnsonNorthwest at BlakeQuince Orchard at ChurchillBethesda-Chevy Chase at BlairWhitman at Richard MontgomeryEinstein at Paint BranchNorthwood at RockvilleWatkins Mill at SpringbrookWheaton at KennedyCatoctin at PoolesvilleDeMatha at Good CounselAvalon at BullisGeorgetown Prep at St. Albans
HOW THEY RANK
Also receiving votes: Winston Churchill, 2.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school footballteams in Montgomery County each week during the season.
Rank School Record Points
1. Northwest 4-0 59
2. Good Counsel 4-1 55
3. Damascus 4-0 48
4. Bullis 3-1 39
4. Quince Orchard 3-1 39
6. Sherwood 4-0 29
7. Clarksburg 3-1 23
8. Paint Branch 4-0 20
9. Montgomery Blair 3-1 11
10. Landon 3-1-1 5
STANDINGSMontgomery 3ADivision
Division OverallW-L GB W-L PF PA Strk
Damascus 3-0 — 4-0 159 17 W4Seneca Valley 2-0 .5 3-1 117 66 W1Rockville 2-1 1.0 3-1 139 82 W2WatkinsMill 1-1 1.5 1-3 40 113 L1Northwood 1-1 1.5 1-3 37 169 W1Einstein 0-3 3.0 0-4 28 115 L7Wheaton 0-3 3.0 0-4 31 131 L12
Montgomery 4AWestDivisionDivision OverallW-L GB W-L PF PA Strk
Northwest 2-0 — 4-0 187 6 W10QuinceOrchard 2-0 — 3-1 127 52 W1Clarksburg 1-1 1.0 3-1 122 28 W3Gaithersburg 0-2 2.0 1-3 52 108 L2Magruder 0-2 2.0 1-3 19 129 L2
Montgomery 4A SouthDivisionDivision OverallW-L GB W-L PF PA Strk
Churchill 3-0 — 3-1 144 53 L1Wootton 3-1 .5 3-1 75 65 W1Whitman 1-1 1.5 2-2 69 62 L1R.Montgomery 1-0 1.5 1-3 105 145 L1B.-Chevy Chase 0-3 3.0 0-4 19 130 L4Walter Johnson 0-3 3.0 0-4 21 133 L13
Montgomery 4AEastDivisionDivision OverallW-L GB W-L PF PA Strk
Paint Branch 3-0 — 4-0 123 50 W4Sherwood 2-0 1.0 4-0 146 46 W4Montgomery Blair 2-1 1.5 3-1 140 32 W2JamesH. Blake 0-1 2.0 1-3 50 93 L1John F. Kennedy 0-2 2.5 0-3 7 115 L5Springbrook 0-3 2.5 0-4 30 149 L5
Independent 2A schoolOverall
W-L PF PA StrkPoolesville 3-1 114 40 W1
Private schoolsOverallW-L-T PF PA Strk
GoodCounsel 4-1-0 98 46 W1Avalon 4-1-0 171 32 W3Landon 3-1-1 169 92 T1Bullis 3-1-0 115 89 W2Georgetown Prep 1-3-1 81 125 L3
LAST WEEK’S SCORESFriday’s gamesLandon 35, St. Paul’s 35 (darkness)Clarksburg 44, Blake 0Paint Branch 39, Churchill 29Blair 40, Springbrook 18Northwest 49, Gaithersburg 0QuinceOrchard 49,Magruder 0Sherwood 43, RichardMontgomery 27Poolesville 21,Walter Johnson 0Wootton 7,Whitman 6Damascus 42,WatkinsMill 0Northwood 25, Einstein 15Seneca Valley 42, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 6Rockville 44,Wheaton 7Avalon 35, St. John’s Catholic Prep 6Bullis 42, Friendship Collegiate 21
Saturday’s gameGoodCounsel 17, Gonzaga 7
RushingPlayer, school Rushes Yards Avg. TDsDevonteWilliams, Bullis 90 699 7.8 7JoshuaHunter, Landon 81 680 8.4 7Dominyck Sims,Wheaton 97 568 5.9 3E.J. Lee, Northwest 43 560 13.0 7Alex Fehlinger, R.Montgomery 80 525 6.6 4Kyle Green, QuinceOrchard 56 488 8.7 8GunnarMorton,Whitman 65 482 7.4 2Colton Rupp, Landon 67 455 6.8 5Darryl Hill Jr., Paint Branch 54 415 7.7 7Johari Johnson, Landon 30 366 12.2 6
PassingPlayer, school Att.-Cmp. Yards Int. TDsChuck Reese, Rockville 84-142 1,110 2 14SamEllis,Wootton 83-139 911 2 4Neven Sussman, Sherwood 53-71 852 0 10DwayneHaskins Jr., Bullis 74-120 746 2 9DanonDavis-Cray,P.Branch 48-83 705 1 4Mark Pierce, Northwest 44-74 643 0 9StevenMorningstar, P’ville 45-69 602 2 3Andres Castillo, G. Counsel 43-71 594 2 6DesmondColby, Blair 35-58 513 3 4Evan Smith,Whitman 42-78 498 3 5
ReceivingPlayer, school Catches Yards Avg. TDsMarcus Simms, Sherwood 21 518 24.7 5Keon Paye, GoodCounsel 17 401 23.6 5Ryan Stango, Paint Branch 23 358 15.6 2Anthony Albert, Rockville 21 320 15.2 2JamarWilson, Northwest 18 303 16.8 7Louison Biama, Rockville 12 287 23.9 3DamaniNeal, Bullis 32 278 8.7 4Spencer Brigman, Rockville 23 277 12.0 6Sean Parker Jr., Poolesville 18 260 14.4 5DaymonAnderson, Blair 19 250 13.2 4
Coaches and team statisticians may emailseason team statistics to [email protected] noon on Mondays to be included.
LEADERSHold on for the ride
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Paint Branch High School quarterback Danon Davis-Cray carriesthe ball in Friday’s football game against host Winston Churchillin Potomac. Paint Branch won to improve to 4-0 this year.
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
B Y P R I N C E J . G R I M E S
GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
Landon School running back Joshua Hunter breaks free to set the Bears’ sec-ond touchdown Friday against visiting St. Paul’s in Bethesda.
Sitting at 5-1 and headinginto a tough stretch of schedule,the Poolesville High School girlsvolleyball team got just what itneeded in a 3-2 victory againstWatkins Mill on Sept. 19, Falconscoach Fran DuVall said. Aftertaking the first two games fromthe Wolverines, Poolesville “letdown [their] guard”, according toDuVall.
Watkins Mill jumped at the op-portunity, rallying to win the nexttwo games before falling to thevisiting team. “It’s always in themiddle of the season that’s tough,”DuVall said. “If we have any kindof chance in the postseason, weneed to be pushed around some.Watkins Mill did that to us.”
Magruder gets aweekend off
With homecoming last week,Col. Zadok Magruder High Schoolcoach Scott Zanni took a look athis team and decided a weekendoff was in order. The three days of
rest could do wonders for a teamthat has battled injuries since thestart of the season. Senior liberoCaitlyn Trickey is recovering from anumber of various nicks, while out-side hitter Hannah Barr, sidelinedfor the past few weeks after kneesurgery, is working her way backtowards being match ready. Thesenior has begun practicing andis eyeing a return this week after alengthy and irritating absence.
“She was pretty frustrated,”Zanni said of Barr. “But she’sstayed pretty positive throughoutthis. She’s been at practice helpingout and on the bench at games.She’ll give us some balance at thefront of the net when she returns.”
Holy Cross on the mendAfter two weeks without junior
opposite hitter Megan McTigue
(ankle) and senior outside hitterCassie Lapcevich, Academy of theHoly Cross coach Dave Geiser’sundefeated Tartans look like they’llbe at full strength by next week.Both players practiced this weekand Geiser is optimistic that they’llbe able to return early next weekagainst Bishop O’Connell. Thereturn of McTigue and Lapcevichshould allow the Tartans to returnto their original lineup just in timefor perhaps their biggest scheduledremaining regular season match,Thursday at Good Counsel.
“I think we always look forwardto playing these top teams,” Geisersaid.
Sylvie Rosenwald, a juniorfor Good Counsel, spent her firsttwo seasons at Holy Cross beforetransferring to the Olney-areaschool this summer. “It will bedifferent seeing Sylvie in a GoodCounsel uniform,” Geiser said witha laugh. “There’s absolutely nobad feelings there at all, it just addsanother twist to the matchup.”
WatkinsMill gives Poolesville a scareBY GAZETTE STAFF
STAFF WRITERS
In its ninth year of existence,the Clarksburg High School golfteam won the program’s firstever division title by defeatingNorthwest in a tiebreak to clinchthe Kyle Division. The Coyotes,who finished the season 17-1,were lead by senior Nick Infanti,who finished 10th in the countywith 37.67 stroke average.
“At the beginning of the sea-
son we had two goals,” coachCliff Elgin said. “We wanted towin our division and qualify forstates as a team. We’ve doneone of those things. It was a neatthing for the kids to experience.”
— ADAM GUTEKUNST
B-CC senior runs fastBethesda-Chevy Chase High
School senior Nora McUmberwon the Varsity A Senior Girlsevent at Saturday’s DC XC In-vite by nearly a minute — shefinished in 17 minutes, 58 sec-onds. The meet featured someof the Washington, D.C. area’sstrongest teams and McUmberset herself apart as MontgomeryCounty athletes head into thefinal stretch of the regular seasonbefore the county championship.Winston Churchill’s Lucy Srour’sfourth-place finish (18:50) was
the county’s next best perfor-mance. McUmber’s teammate,Kat McNeill (19:35) finished 10th.
In the Varsity A Senior boysrace, Walt Whitman’s EvanWoods placed third, his time of15:20 was just .09 seconds out offirst place. Classmate Alex Roede-rer finished eighth.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Poolesville field hockeyundefeated in countyIt can’t get much better for
the Poolesville High School fieldhockey team, coach ReginaGrubb said. The Falcons are 7-1-1after Monday’s 4-1 win over Wal-ter Johnson of Bethesda, whichextended their undefeated streakto six games.
“I didn’t really know what toexpect at the beginning,” Grubbsaid. “They’re really comingtogether as a team and workingwell.”
— ERIC GOLDWEIN
Clarksburg wins first golf division title
The Watkins Mill High School boys soccer teamhas had injuries to just about every position, whichcontributed to a slow start to the 2014 season.
But seven games in, the once decimated Wol-verines (4-3-1) are returning to form — and gettinghealthy — winning three of their past four games.
Center back Edem Yevoo, midfielder AlecVan Bronkhorst and defender Ross Campbellhave stepped up in the absence of injured players
Gianfranco Castillo (back) and Jojo Cann (ACL),while midfielder Daniel Juresic (concussion) andgoalkeeper Jorge Galvez (hand) are back in the lineup.Juresic and Eli Kouemi scored in Monday’s 2-1 victoryover Rockville.
“We’re improving every day,” coach Jeff Heckertsaid “… We’re finally turning it around.”
Freshman leads DamascusHe’s 5-foot-4, and had never played a varsity game
before this season. But lack of height and experiencehaven’t stopped freshman Carlos Guevara from mak-ing an immediate impact on the Damascus HighSchool boys soccer team. The outside midfielder hasfive goals — including two in Monday’s 3-1 victoryover Poolesville — to lead the Swarmin’ Hornets inscoring.
“Carlos just knows the game. He plays at a veryhigh level,” sixth-year coach Andre Wise said. “... As
much as I’m teaching him, he’s teaching me.”Guevara, who plays for the Pachuca FC, has led
Damascus to a 3-4-1 start. The team is on pace to sur-pass its five-win total from 2013.
“We’re playing good soccer at this point and we’rejust looking to get better each week,” Wise said.
Churchill rights the shipOne game was enough to convince Winston
Churchill High School boys soccer coach ArnoldTarzy that the lineup wasn’t working. So after theseason opener — a 5-2 loss to Georgetown Prep —he had the center forward and center defensive mid-fielder swap positions. The result: four wins, two ties,one loss, and a lot of defense.
With junior Sepehr Hoghooghi moving to for-ward, and 6-foot-2 senior Joey Strawn now play-ing defensive midfield, the Bulldogs (4-2-2) have“righted the ship,” Tarzy said. The Potomac schoolhas four shut outs and allowed four goals in theseven games since shaking up the lineup.
“I feel very good about winning any game weplay in now,” Tarzy said.
Whitman gets hotWhitman High School boys soccer coach Dave
Greene was concerned about his team after an un-impressive preseason, he said. But a fast start (5-1-1as of Monday) has the 36th-year coach feeling goodabout the Vikings half way through the 2014 season.
The Bethesda school has fared well against a dif-ficult schedule and defeated competitive Montgom-
ery County schools including Gaithersburg, QuinceOrchard, Watkins Mill and Northwest. Their 4-1 lossto Albert Einstein (Kensington) on Saturday wastheir first of the season.
“They have a very good demeanor to them.They’re not too up, too down, one way or another,”Greene said. “[They] play hard and they play a veryattractive brand of soccer.”
WatkinsMill getting healthy, and starting to win again
Senior forward Claire Couturier andsophomore midfielder Olivia Bronsonhave scored 12 goals apiece in just eightgames for the Covenant Life girls soccerteam. That has helped the Cougars to a7-1 start, outscoring their opponents, 46-11. Bronson is also tied with Anne Jekelfor a team-high eight assists.
A total of 12 players have contributedat least one goal for the Gaithersburg pri-vate school, which is 5-0 in Potomac Val-ley Athletic Conference play, early this falland six of them have three goals or more.Francheska Risos and Abigail Rashfordare second on the team in scoring withfour goals each.
Stone Ridge freshman scoresfive goals in one game
Locked in a scoreless tie with Indepen-dent School League upper division powerGeorgetown Day School in its third gameof the season, the Stone Ridge School ofthe Sacred Heart (4-1-1) girls soccer teamwas awarded a penalty kick.
“Everyone was just standing aroundand I’m like, ‘Great, we’re not going to scorebecause no one is going to take this penaltykick,’” Gators coach Kati Jo Spisak said.
Then an unassuming freshman strikernamed Tatiana Ortega picked the ball upand placed it on the designated spot. Herfirst high school varsity goal was the gamewinner. Her skill has added a new dimen-sion in the Bethesda school’s offensivethird; six games into the season Ortegapaces the team with seven goals. Five ofthem came in last week’s 6-2 win over ISL“A” Division foe St. Andrew’s — Ortega alsoforced the Gators’ sixth goal, Spisak said.
“She has the capability of taking overa game, of taking over the league,” Spisaksaid. “She’s just one of those players whois natural. She really knows how to readthe game and how to set herself up in posi-tions to get the ball and obviously to finish.But she’s also very humble and quiet.”
Clarksburg gears upfor division play
The Coyotes are off to a 4-1 start andwhile those wins have come against me-diocre teams, a slightly easier scheduleearly could have been just what Clarksburgneeded to transition to a new systemunder first-year coach Christina Mann.The team seems to be finding its identity
as it heads into the division portion of itsschedule.
“I think we’ve taken care of businessand done what we need to do so far,”Mann said. “[Upcoming] challenges willshow us what we’re made of.”
While sticking to Clarksburg’s traditionof playing out of the back, Mann said theCoyotes are also employing a slightly moreaggressive approach than recent historythanks to a strong midfield. Leah Brown,Vanessa Taffo, who is currently sidelinedwith an injury, Stephanie Kim and HollyWilson, in the middle have helped Clarks-burg dominate possession in most of itsgames so far, Mann said. Gillian Donovanleads the team with three goals.
Paint Branch defender makesreturn from ACL injury
After a promising freshman campaign,current Paint Branch junior defenderGrace Padgett sat out most of her sopho-more season a year ago with a torn ante-rior cruciate ligament. Cleared to play thissummer, the central defender has workedhard to get herself back into game shape.And she has immediately made knownher presence on a backline that oftenfinds itself under pressure.
“[Padgett] has really been holding ourback line,” first-year Panthers coach Car-los Montalvan said. “She has a lot of soc-cer minutes under her belt. When it lookslike its about to break down, she steps inand distributes well.”
Though Paint Branch (2-5) has onlywon two games, the young backline has
only given up an average of two goalsper game. Scoring, however, has beenan issue as the Panthers have only net-ted six goals. Padgett accounts for oneof them out of the back.
Sherwood’s sisterhoodSherwood junior Ariella Amaguana
has been an integral part of the War-riors midfield for three years now butthe reserved athlete has found an en-tirely new level this fall. And Rosanovasaid she believes it has a lot to do withthe arrival of her younger sister Mi-chella, who has played a vital role onSherwood’s backline. The elder Ama-guana is tied with classmate DanielleRohrman as the team’s leading scorerwith three goals. Michella Amaguanahas also contributed a goal.
“Ariella has played almost everysingle minute of every game and shestarted every single game last year,”Rosanova said. “I think it’s helpedhaving her sister, it’s helped build herconfidence and comfort level on theteam. She’s really matured as a player,especially her decision making.”
The Amaguana’s are one of two setsof sisters on the team. The speed andathleticism of senior twin sisters Laurenand Tiffany Woods has been the cor-nerstone of the program for four years.Sherwood is currently 4-4 but in goodposition to compete for the Montgom-ery 4A North Division.
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KEEPING IT BRIEF HOW THEY RANKGirls soccer1. Good Counsel2. Winston Churchill3. Walt Whitman4. B-Chevy Chase5. Walter Johnson
n Best bet: WaltWhitman at Bethesda-Chevy Chase, 5 p.m.Thursday: Postseasonaccolades aside,it’s bound to be aninteresting outingwhen two of thecounty’s stingiestdefenses face off.
Boys soccer
1. Georgetown Prep2. Magruder3. Whitman4. Walter Johnson5. Blair
n Best bet: Whitmanat Walter Johnson, 7p.m. Monday. Wildcatshost Vikings inBethesda showdown.
Girls volleyball
1. Holy Cross2. Sherwood3. Gaithersburg4. Good Counsel5. Northwest
n Best bet: Holy Crossat Good Counsel,Thursday 6 p.m. TheFalcons are just oneof two teams to takea game from theTartans this season.Thursday GoodCounsel tries to ridethe momentum ofwhat’s sure to be alarge crowd.
Field hockey
1. Wootton2. Good Counsel3. Holy Cross4. Poolesville5. Bullis
n Best bet: Bethesda-Chevy Chase atQuince Orchard, 3:30p.m. Thursday
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Quince Orchard High School’s Beth Ellinport (right) goes up to head the ball with Walt Whit-man’s Clare Severe during a Sept. 17 girls soccer game.
Northwest football the new No. 1For the third time this fall, the Maryland High
School Football State Poll, voted on by members ofvarious media outlets, has a new top-ranked team.This week, defending 4A state champion NorthwestHigh School received 10 of 12 first-place votes tomove into the top spot following a loss by McDonogh.
Gemantown’s Jaguars are attempting to becomethe first Class 4A team to win back-to-back state titlessince Seneca Valley did in the 1997-98 seasons.
Gazette editors Ken Sain and Kent Zakour andfootball reporter Prince J. Grimes are voting membersin the poll.
— KENT ZAKOUR
Sherwood football spices up entranceEver since Sherwood High School football coach
Chris Grier arrived at the Sandy Spring school, hesaid, he wanted to do something special for the War-riors pre-game entrance, but he wasn’t sure exactlywhat. That is until he came across the inflatable Sher-wood helmet/tunnel the team is scheduled to run outof prior to its Oct. 31 homecoming game against PaintBranch.
“We gave it to the kids as an incentive to do theirfundraising and to keep working out hard,” Grier said.“They earned it.” Grier also noted that the tunnel por-tion of the inflatable detaches from the helmet, andcan potentially be used for other Sherwood athleticevents in the future.
— ADAM GUTEKUNST
Bethesda resident winscanoe world championship
With his gold medal in the men’s single canoeat the 2014 International Canoe Federation CanoeSlalom World Championships last week in McHenry,Bethesda resident Fabien Lefevre became a worldchampion for the seventh time in his career. TheFrench native’s first world title since joining the U.S.National Team in 2013 marked the first world cham-pionship for Team USA in 12 years.
Lefevre, who also finished 10th in the men’s singlekayak, has won two Olympic medals — silver in 2008,bronze in 2004 — under the French flag and has hissights set on gold in the upcoming 2016 Olympics inRio.
Last week’s competition at Deep Creek markedthe 25th Anniversary of the last world championshipheld in the U.S.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Kennedy running back out for seasonJohn F. Kennedy High School’s starting tailback,
Tavon Sanders, has officially been ruled out for theseason due to a broken bone in his foot, Kennedycoach Carlos Smith said. The senior injured the footin the team’s last scrimmage prior to the begining ofthe regular season, Smith said. The injury was initiallythought to be a high-ankle sprain, but has turned outto be much worse.
“He could have been a game-changer and hasbeen missed,” Smith said.
— PRINCE J. GRIMES
Silver Spring native debutswith German soccer club
Three weeks after debuting for the United Statesmen’s national soccer team, Joe Gyau of Silver Springplayed his first game for German club Borussia Dort-mund Bundesliga. The 5-foot-9 winger came off thebench in a 2-2 tie against VfB Stuttgart on Sept. 24.and while he didn’t score, he did get a shoutout onTwitter from USMNT coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Gyau,22, played for the Bethesda Roadrunners youth soccerclub.
— ERIC GOLDWEIN
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Northwest High School receiver Jamar Wilson and histeammates are the new No. 1-ranked team in Marylandin the state media poll. The defending Class 4A statechampions are 4-0.
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James H. Blake High School boys soccer players cel-ebrate a first period goal Monday against Magruder.
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n Senior’s ability to runand pass makes Falcons
difficult to defend
BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFF WRITER
This fall, the PoolesvilleHigh School football team —as has been the case in recentseasons — is off to a strongstart.
The Falcons (3-1) defeatedWalter Johnson (0-4) 21-0 onFriday to bounce back fromtheir first loss of the season toSouth Hagerstown.
That loss aside, Poolesvillehas outscored its opponents100-6.
While the defense is un-doubtedly doing its part, sois the offense behind seniorquarterback Steven Morning-star.
Poolesville coachWill Gantsaid Morningstar’s personalityis what makes him special. Onthe football field, his ability torun and pass has allowed theFalcons offense to flourish.
“He’s just a good hard-nosed kid — comes from areal good family. He’s a hardworker. He’s a good student inthe classroom,” Gant said. “Heplays three sports for us, whichI really like. He’s been in mul-tiple situations — played dif-ferent roles on different teams.I think just overall, he’s just agood, high-character kid.”
Simply put, Morningstar isan athlete. He also plays on thebasketball and baseball teamsfor Poolesville, but he saidfootball is his top sport.
As a sophomore, he startedat safety for the Falcons, andhe took over as the startingquarterback last year.
At quarterback, the6-fooot-2 Morningstar is adual-threat with the speed notonly avoid pass rushers but tomake an entire defense pay ifit doesn’t contain him within
the pocket. In addition, he hasa strong arm and said he likesto go through his reads prior torunning because he has goodwide receivers to throw theball to.
“I like to look over thewhole field pre-snap and dur-ing the play, and if everythingbreaks down I’ll take off be-cause I can get a few yards run-ning,” Morningstar said. “I liketo look at everything first be-cause we do have good receiv-ers and they get open a lot.”
Like many other Class2A schools, Poolesville has arelatively smaller roster withjust 28 players, but Gant saida smaller team makes it even
more important to have a se-nior leader at quarterback.
“They all know he’s one ofour main guys, and he’s goingto kind of lead the charge onhow things go,” Gant said.
Morningstar, who is con-sistently a top 10 passer in thecounty from week-to-week,said a smaller team makesthem a tighter group.
Poolesville is set to playa pivotal game on Thursdayagainst Frederick County’sCatoctin.
Catoctin (0-4) defeated theFalcons 28-0 last year. A dif-ferent outcome may set thisPoolesville team apart fromlast year’s.
Morningstar said the firstfew games were about show-ing everyone that Poolesvillebelonged. But this week, theteam is thinking about pay-back.
“Everyone’s super excitedabout this game,” Morningstarsaid. “I think we owe them alittle something because wejust did not play good last yearagainst them. ... This year, weknow it’s going to be a reallyphysical game. It’s going to beback-and-forth and we’re go-ing to get prepared for it thisweek and hopefully come outand get the win.”
Dual-threat quarterback leads Poolesville
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Poolesville High School senior Steven Morningstar is one of the better quarterbacks in the county.
n Montgomery Collegesophomore overcomes latestart, becomes top goalie
BYKENTZAKOURSTAFFWRITER
Four years ago, BogdanSvitin said he had never reallyconsidered taking soccer seri-ously. Sure, the Ukrainian na-tive had kicked the ball aroundwith friends, but he was morefocusedon tennis andkarate.
But when he turned 15, Svi-tin became enamored with theworld’smostpopularsport.Andnowat 19, the sophomore is theNo. 1 goalkeeper for the Mont-gomery College men’s soccerteam.
“When I was a kid, I didn’treally care and it was just some-thing to do,” Svitin said with aheavy Eastern European accentduringaninterviewFridayafter-noon.“But, Idon’tknow,whenIturned15or16, takingsoccerforreal reallybecameagoal.”
When Svitin was 16, he,along with his parents, decidedto pursue better academic andsoccer-playing opportunities.So, Svitin and his family movedfrom the Ukraine to Rockvilleand he enrolled as a junior atWalter JohnsonHighSchool.
But for the next year and ahalf, Svitin, who briefly playedlow-level club soccer in theUkraine, did not play orga-nized soccer. He was able totrain, however, he said, with theBethesdaSoccerClub.
“Starting at 15-years old iskind of late,” Svitin said. “It wasvery difficult getting the skillsbecause you have to catch upwith players your age that havefarmoreadvancedskills.”
After graduating from WJ,Svitin was determined to playcollege soccer. Following a little
research and discussions withfriends, he connected withMontgomery College coachPedro Braz, who offered him atryout.
“I told him nothing wasguaranteed, but we recognizedvery quickly his natural talentandattributes,”Brazsaid.“...Weknew we could work with himand he’s a pretty good goalienow.It isnightanddayfromthisyear to last.”
Added Svitin: “I learnedabout MC and figured thiswould be a good place to de-velopbefore I go—hopefully—toa four-year school.”
The sixth-ranked Raptors,whowon theRegionXX tourna-mentlast fallandfinishedfourthat the National Junior CollegeAthletic Association Division IIInational tournament, are in themidst of a strong season (9-2-1) once again. And the 6-foot-2sophomore isakeycomponent.After splitting the goalkeep-ing duties in 2013, Svitin hasexcelled this fall (6-2-1 record,1.75 goals-against average, .833savepercentage) in462minutesplayed.
Svitin is quick to deflect thecredit for his success, opting topoint to the play of the defend-ers in front of him, including5-foot-9 sophomore BrandonMcKoy.
“Like 50 percent of my suc-cess is due to playing a teamgame,” said Svitin, who playedin the field before finding hisniche ingoal.
Svitin, who is planning tostudy physical therapy, hopesto transfer to a four-year collegenext summer.
“All that matters is winningandplayingourbest in thepost-season,” Svitin said. “We haveto work hard and don’t do any-thing stupid tomess itup.”
Ukrainian soccerplayer takes fast track
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGPiney Meetinghouse Road Bridge Project
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Pursuant to Section 49-53 of the Montgomery County Code (2004) as amended, a pub-lic hearing will be held before the Director of Transportation (or his designee) at 3:00p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2014, in the first floor auditorium of the Executive Of-fice Building at 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, Maryland 20850 to consider a proposal toreplace Piney Meetinghouse Road Bridge No. M-021 over Watts Branch, a public high-way bridge located in Potomac, Maryland in the 10th Election District.
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. The phone number is 240-777-7220. Written comments forconsideration by the Public Hearing Officer may be submitted to Bruce E. Johnston,Chief, Division of Transportation Engineering, 100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg,Maryland 20878. Interpreter services will be provided for the deaf or hearing impairedand Spanish-speaking citizens upon request. DEPT: DOT/Division of Transportation En-gineering FULL MAIL ADDRESS: 100 Edison Park Drive, 4th Floor, Gaithersburg,Maryland 20878; PHONE NUMBER: 240-777-7223.
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Assistant CustomerService Manager
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ALTERNATE POLLING PLACES AVAILABLE
If you vote in the State of Maryland, you are assigned to a specificpolling place. This is important because there are different localcontests on the ballot. However, in some situations, you can re-quest a different polling place. You may request a change in poll-ing place for two reasons - accessibility concerns or religious prin-ciples.
Accessibility Concerns: For the 2014 Gubernatorial Elections, allMontgomery County polling places are compliant with MarylandState Board of Elections accessibility guidelines. Contact theBoard of Elections if you have concerns about a specific disability.
Religious Principles: If your assigned polling place is a religiousinstitution, and entering that site conflicts with your religious be-liefs and practices, you may request a nearby polling place. CallChristine Rzeszut at 240-777-8585, or by e-mail [email protected]. Deadline is 9 p.m.October 14, 2014, for the General Election.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGWapakoneta Road Improvements
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Pursuant to Section 49-53 of the Montgomery County Code (2004) as amended, a pub-lic hearing will be held before the Director of the Department of Transportation (or hisdesignee) at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22, 2014, in Room A of Bethesda- Che-vy Chase Service Center at 4805 Edgemoore Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814 to consider aproposal to improve Wapakoneta Road located in Bethesda, Maryland. Specific Im-provements include partial partial reconstruction and resurfacing of the roadways, curband gutter, driveway aprons, storm drain inlets and pipes, bio-swales and environmental-ly sensitive parking pads.
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. The phone number is 240-777-7220. Written comments forconsideration by the Public Hearing Officer may be submitted to Bruce E. Johnston,Chief, Division of Transportation Engineering, 100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg,Maryland 20878. Interpreter services will be provided for the deaf or hearing impairedand Spanish-speaking citizens upon request. DEPT: DOT/Division of Transportation En-gineering FULL MAIL ADDRESS: 100 Edison Park Drive, 4th Floor, Gaithersburg,Maryland 20878; PHONE NUMBER: 240-777-7223.
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MEDICAL RECEPTIONISTWe are looking for a medical receptionist who has more than 2years experience in a large medical practice. The ideal candidatemust have knowledge of Electronic Medical Record and must haveexcellent communication as well as customer service skill. Pleasesend your resume to [email protected]
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MEDICAL BILLING POSITIONSLarge GI medical practice in Silver Spring is seeking full timecandidates for the following positions:
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Emeritus at Potomac, a premier Assisted Living & Memory Care community, is proud tonow be a part of the Brookdale Senior Living family. We are actively seeking dedicated,compassionate & reliable Team Members who share our vision & expectations ofproviding exceptional quality of life & quality care for all of our wonderful residents.
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• Resident Care Associates (FT CNA/GNA-qualified all shifts)• LPNs (FT, per diem, all shifts)• Lead Housekeeper (Temp to FT)
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