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n Middle and high schooldays to shift 20 minutes
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
Montgomery County middle and highschool students can sleep in another 20 min-utes starting next school year.
Following another roundof heateddebateon the issue, the school board voted 5-3 Tues-day to shift bell times. High schools and mid-dle schoolswill start and end 20minutes later.
Elementary schools will start 10 minuteslater and end 20minutes later. School officials
said the extra 10minutes of the day will be forlonger lunches and recesses.
High schools currently start at 7:25 a.m.Middle schools start at 7:55 a.m. and elemen-tary schools,whichare split into two tiers, startat 8:50 and 9:15 a.m.
At the board’s request, SuperintendentJoshua P. Starr presented a range of optionsfor a possible change— some that would costa fewmillion dollars, some that wouldn’t costanything.
Board President Patricia O’Neill said afterTuesday’s vote that Starr’s proposal made in2013 would have been the best solution, butits $21millionprice tagwasn’t possible for thedistrict to take on. O’Neill said the 20-minute
shift is “a step in the right direction.”“You just have to do what you think is
right and I became convinced, and some ofmy other colleagues did, that we need to giveourhigh school andmiddle school kids abit ofrelief and this is as goodaswecandogiven thefiscal climate,” she said.
Board members Christopher Barclay, Ju-dith Docca and Michael Durso voted againstthe change.
Docca said she didn’t support any of theoptions. She pointed to several concerns, say-ing some families can’t afford child care ifaltered bell times were to change when their
Split board agrees to change school bell times
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Lisa Silverberg (left) and son Jesse, 12, chant with other MontgomeryCounty Public Schools students and their parents during a protest.
n Measure targets dealers behind fatalities;protects those who try to help
BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County’s chief prosecutor and law-makers from the county are targeting the dealers behindoverdoses of heroin and another dangerous drug calledfentanyl.
A new bill, written by State’s Attorney JohnMcCarthyand Del. Kathleen M. Dumais (D-Dist. 15) of Bethesda,who is the proposal’s lead sponsor, wouldmake it a sepa-rate felony to distribute either of the two drugs if they area “contributing cause” of someone’s death. Distributingthese drugs or possessing them with intent to distributethem is already a felony.
Overdose deaths fromheroin and fentanyl have beenincreasing across the state in recent years, and the prob-lem has struckMontgomery County as well, Dumais toldTheGazette. Thedrugs responsible for overdosedeaths inthe county toward the end of 2014 are suspected to havecome from a common source, she said.
Overall, there were 25 deaths from heroin-relatedoverdoses in 2014, and many of the victims were mixing
County lawmakersback overdose bill
n Basic training mandatedfor new board members
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
Members of the governing boards of the county’s1,000-plus condo associations and HOAs will soon be re-quired to watch a free, two-hour, online video about thebasics of running a common ownership community.
The Montgomery County Council approved the neweducation requirement with a 6-3 vote on Feb. 2. The lawtakes effect on Jan. 1, 2016.
The goal of Bill 45-14 is to require board members toreadabout thebasics of runninganassociation, includingtheneed for soundfinancialmanagement and for observ-ing the openmeeting laws atmeetings with residents.
New condo,HOA law hitsthousands
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n Clarksburg Highraises almost $20,000in honor of classmate
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
Students at Clarksburg Highhave created a new game calledHuman Bowling.
To play, a student pushesanother student down a hall in achair with wheels toward a wallof empty cardboard boxes piledon top of each other.
“You starfish it — you openup your legs and arms,” said se-nior lead organizer Sydney Lufseabout the winning strategy toknock down as many boxes aspossible.
Human Bowling, along withManhunt — a giant schoolwidegame of tag — were only twoof the activities enjoyed by 80participating students duringthe school’s annual overnight
Dance Marathon fundraiser inmemoryof SamMoore, aClarks-burgHigh freshmanwho died ofa brain tumor in 2012.
The proceeds totaling$19,238.25 from this year’s 12-hour event and other relatedfundraising projects go to theChildhood Brain Tumor Foun-dation in Germantown, whichraises money to find a cure forpediatric brain cancer.
Earlier in the year, studentsbroke into groups and held fun-draisers at restaurants, Lufse said.
Eleven students also vol-unteered to have their headsshaved, accepting pledges fromcontributors. Two students tiedfor bringing in the most moneyand each won a $50 gift card toHair Cuttery, she said.
Organizers also initiated anew letter drive, drafting a let-ter for student volunteers andasking them to send it to friends
Dancingthe night away
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PHOTOS BY CATIE IADAS, SAYIAM KUMAR AND ALEXIS EAUCLAIRE
More than 70 Clarksburg High School students participated in the school’sthird annual overnight dance marathon on Friday in honor of schoolmate SamMoore, who died from a brain tumor in 2012. For complete caption information,visit Gazette.net.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11Loss of a Child Support Group, 6:30-8
p.m.,MontgomeryHospice, 1355 PiccardDrive, Rockville. For parents grieving thedeath of a child of any age. Free, registra-tion required. 301-921-4400.
Demystifying Medicare, 7-9 p.m.,Quince Orchard Library, 15831 Quince Or-chard Road, Gaithersburg. Leta Blank, theprogram coordinator of theMontgomeryCounty State Health Insurance AssistanceProgram, will explain howMedicareaffects recipients. Free, registration re-quested. 240-777-0200.
THURSDAY, FEB. 12Valentine’s Day Luncheon and Senorita
Sunshine, noon, Damascus Senior Center,9410Main St., Damascus. A lunch at noon,followed by entertainer Senorita Sunshineat 1 p.m. $7 formeal for ages 55-59, dona-tions requested for ages 60 and up. Freefor Senorita Sunshine performance. 240-777-6995.
“The Yankees” Showing, 12:15 p.m.,B’nai Israel Hazak Group, 6301MontroseRoad, Rockville. An award-winning com-edy about anOrthodox Yeshiva baseballteam. Bring a brown bag dairy lunch;drinks and cookies will be provided. Free.www.bnaiisraelcong.org.
American Red Cross Blood Drive,12:30-6 p.m., SalemUnitedMethodistChurch, 12 High St., Brookeville. Hostedby the Sandy Spring Lions Club. Free. [email protected].
MC Live! A Special Evening of Com-edy, 6-9 p.m., Jewish Community Centerof GreaterWashington, 6125MontroseRoad, Rockville. An event collaborationhosted by six organizations within theJewish community whose passion is pro-viding a quality of life to individuals withdisabilities. All proceeds from the eventwill benefit: Friendship Circle, JewishCommunity Center of GreaterWashing-ton, Jewish Foundation for GroupHomes,Jewish Social Service Agency,Matan, andSulam. $36. 240-283-6053.
Screen Issues: Taming the ElectronicMonster in Your Home, 7-8:30 p.m., EarleB.WoodMiddle School, 14615BauerDrive,Rockville. Hosted by the Parent Encourage-ment ProgramandMontgomeryCountyPublic Schools. Free. 301-929-8824.
NAMI MC General Education Meeting,7-8:30 p.m., 11718 ParklawnDrive, Rock-ville. Veronica E. Cruz will discuss her roleas a forensic social worker specializing incriminal defense, the intersection between
criminal justice and themental health sys-tem, as well as the changes that need to bemade. Free. 301-949-5852.
Gaithersburg Fine Arts AssociationMeeting, 7-9 p.m.,Whetstone CommunityCenter, 19140 Brooke Grove Court, Mont-gomery Village. An informative presenta-tion onworking with pastels by NobleAdler. Free. [email protected].
FRIDAY, FEB. 13Montgomery Hospice Bereavement
Workshop: Forever Yours, 1-2:30 p.m.,1355 PiccardDrive, Rockville. A specialworkshop for widows, widowers and lifepartners whowant to honor and remem-ber their loved ones on Valentine’s Day.Free, registration required. 301-921-4400.
3rd Music Marathon, 3 p.m.-5:10 p.m.Feb. 14, TheMusic Cafe, 26528 RidgeRoad, Damascus. Fundraiser through thenight hosted by the DHSMusic Boosters.$5. [email protected].
SATURDAY, FEB. 14American Red Cross Blood Drive, 8
a.m.-1:30 p.m., American Legion Post 171,10201 Lewis Drive, Damascus. Free. [email protected].
PAWS to Read, 11 a.m.-noon, AspenHill Library, 4407 AspenHill Road, Rock-ville. Pets onWheels stops by one Saturdayamonth to help promote children readingand to relieve anxietywhen learning toread.Natty, Reco, andKirbywill listen askids read to them. Free. 240-773-9410.
Storyteller Diane Macklin, 3-4 p.m.,Quince Orchard Library, 15831 QuinceOrchard Road, Gaithersburg. DianeMack-lin will present tales involving rhythm,music, songs, chants andmovement incelebration of BlackHistoryMonth. Free.240-777-0200.
Owl-n-tine’s Day, 5 p.m., CroydonCreek Nature Center, 852 Avery Road,Rockville. While other birds are away onmigration, owls stay near home for theirwintermating season. Learn about thesebirds, hear a story, dissect an owl pelletand take a peek at the resident owl. Ages 6and up. $7-$9. 240-314-8770.
NIH Community Chorus Presents“A Winter Valentine,” 7:30 p.m., SaintMark Presbyterian Church, 10701 OldGeorgetown Road, North Bethesda. Thisperformancewill feature Rodgers andHart’s “My Funny Valentine,” Sondheim’s“Send In The Clowns,” Billy Joel’s “AndSo It Goes,” LaBarr’s “NowTouch the Air
Softly,” Gawthrop’s “Bright Journeys” andmore. There will be a buffet of chocolatecreations post-concert. Free, donationswelcome. www.nihco.org.
SUNDAY, FEB. 15Family Ramble: Winter Adaptations,
1:30-2:30 p.m., Croydon Creek NatureCenter, 852 Avery Road, Rockville. Joina naturalist on a hike through theHayesForest Preserve. Children under 12mustbe accompanied by an adult. $4-$6. 240-314-8770.
TUESDAY, FEB. 17Teen Poetry Club, 4-5:30 p.m., Quince
Orchard Library, 15831 Quince OrchardRoad, Gaithersburg. Listen to, share andcreate poetry and play word games. Free.240-777-0200.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner,5:30-7:30 p.m.,Mill Creek Parish UnitedMethodist Church, 7101Horizon Terrace,Derwood. Hosted by the Youth Group. Allmoney raised will support the teenagers asthey serve on their summermission tripsto Virginia, Delaware andMaryland. Do-nations [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18Marketing on a Shoestring Budget, 10
a.m.-noon,MarylandWomen’s BusinessCenter, 51Monroe St., Plaza East-20, Rock-ville. Discoverways tomarket a business,increase brand awareness and connectwith potential clients evenwith a smallbudget. $10. [email protected].
Wine, Women and Heart Health, 5:30-8p.m.,MedstarMontgomeryMedicalCenter, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney.Learn about signs and symptoms of heart-disease andways to reduce risk with Dr.Estelle Jean, a cardiologist fromMedStarHealth Cardiology Associates. Includesa complimentary wine tasting and lightdinner. Free, registration required. 301-774-8881.
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Lindsay Ann Hubbard andMichael Edward Yare weremarried October 4, 2014 atThe Lodge at Little SenecaCreek, Boyds, MD. Rev.Gerard Green officiated.
Lindsay, the daughter of Dr.Heddy Hubbard of Rockville,MD and Mr. James Hubbardof Stevensville, MD is agraduate of Winston ChurchillHigh School and theUniversity of Maryland,Baltimore County. She isAssistant to the Director,Macklin Business Institute,Montgomery College.
Michael, son of Mr. Brian andMrs. Jane Yare of Columbia,MD., is a graduate of AtholtonHigh School and owner ofWashingtonian Dog Walkers,LLC in Gaithersburg MD.
Samantha Yare, the groom’ssister, and Jamie Hubbard thebride’s sister served asbridesmaids. The bride’sbrothers, Kenny, Stephen andJeffrey Hubbard served asgroomsmen.
The couple reside inGaithersburg, MD with theirtwo beloved dogs, Monty andJunior.
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Mr. and Mrs. Mark C.Brady of Olney announcethe engagement of theirdaughter, Kelley, toMatthew J. Novakovich,son of Mr. and Mrs.Matthew S. Novakovichof Damascus. Kelleygraduated FairfieldUniversity magma cumlaude and is now agraduate studentpursuing a Master’s ofBusiness Administration.
She works as an ExportDevelopment Managerat Reed Exhibitions inNorwalk, CT. Matthewgraduated from the U.S.Merchant MarineAcademy with a marineengineering degree andworks for Electric Boatin Groton, CT.A September wedding isplanned.
Faith leaders invited toexpress concerns
Issues of concern to thecounty’s religious leaders topthe agenda of a communitymeeting hosted by the CountyCouncil on Feb. 26 in its officebuilding in Rockville.
“There are few groups ofpeople who know the pulseof their respective communi-ties than leaders of the faithcommunity,” Council Presi-dent George L. Leventhal (D-AtLarge) of Takoma Park said in anews release.
“Religious organizationshave issues that pertain particu-larly to their needs, but they alsosee what is of most importanceto their members,” Leventhalsaid. “This meeting will give usan opportunity to hear abouta broad range of issues from aspecial group of people in ourcounty.”
The gathering will start witha reception at 7:30 p.m. followedby the meeting at 8 p.m. Thebuilding is at 100 Maryland Ave.
Topics for discussion arelikely to include land-relatedissues such as where houses ofworship can be located and thezoning that can limit expansionor renovation of existing placesof worship.
Also on the agenda are theofficial designation and ob-servance of religious holidays,religious curricula in schools,regulations restricting prop-erty tax exemption for religioususe, programs for low-incomepeople and senior citizens, andpolice and community relations.
The county’s interfaith com-munity liaison, Mansfield Kase-man of Boyds, is working withreligious leaders to organize themeeting. Religious leaders areasked to RSVP by calling 240-777-7931.
The meeting will be shown
live on County Cable Montgom-ery and rerun at various times inthe following weeks.
Holy Cross appoints newboard members
Holy Cross Health based inSilver Spring, which recentlyopened a second hospital inGermantown, has appointedTheresa Brown and William La-Fond to its board of directors.
Brown is the owner of En-core Properties, a commercialreal estate investment company.LaFond heads the WilmingtonTrust regional office in Washing-ton, D.C. Both of the new mem-bers previously served on theHoly Cross Health Foundation.
Board member HerculesPinkney has been elected aschairman of the board, SisterRuth Marie Nickerson as vicechair, Dr. Lynne D. Diggs as sec-retary and Paul Kaplun as trea-surer.
In addition, Holy CrossHealth has appointed EdwardBersoff, past chair of Holy CrossHealth, as chair of the HolyCross Health Foundation.
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n IT firm nowcalled MainSpring
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
A multimillion-dollar ITcompany based in Poolesvillestill has nearly 60 employeesin four states, but now theenterprise has a new brandname — MainSpring Inc.
The new moniker encom-passes what used to be knownas Corporate Network Ser-vices and its division, AnvilDataworks.
“People have seen us asthree disparate companies …[a] government contractor,an IT partner and applica-tion development shop,” saidMainSpring founder and CEOMarshall Micheals in a newsrelease. “With growth comes
change, so we’ve restructuredour business approach into atrue IT strategy and consult-ing firm.”
“We realized we couldmake it simpler for our cli-ents and partners if we tooka more blended, firmwideapproach to helping organi-zations grow and meet theirmission,” Micheals said in anemail.
The name MainSpringwas inspired by a pocketwatch that has been passedalong from father to son inMicheals’ Ohio family, creat-ing a legacy that the companyalso has created, according toMicheals.
“The watch that my familyhanded down to me throughgenerations reminds me ofwhy we do what we do,” hesaid in the email.
Micheals and two oth-
ers started the company in1993 out of the basement ofa Montgomery Village town-house. At first, the companyprovided cabling services tosmall businesses; but overtime, Corporate Network Ser-vices grew to also offer a vari-ety of IT services.
Eventually CNS divesteditself of the cabling equip-ment and continued to ex-pand, successfully landingcontracts with the NationalInstitutes of Health, the De-partment of Justice and theDepartment of Defense.
In 2009, CNS launched anew division called Anvil Da-taworks using FileMaker, atype of Apple software.
MainSpring also has of-fices in Florida, Ohio, Wash-ington and Wisconsin, andserves a range of clients thatincludes businesses, nonprof-
its and government agencies,according to the release.
In January, the companyand its partner, L-3 Commu-nications, won a contract re-newal with the Army’s MedicalCommunications for CombatCasualty Care program, whichsupplies medical data in thefield that helps save lives.
“We’re very excited forthe opportunity to continuesupporting the warfighterthrough innovative health-care IT,” Micheals said in theemail. “MC4 is the most com-prehensive medical IT systemdeployed to date. Their legacyhas been to improve the livesof service members throughthe power of technology, andI’m thrilled we’re part of theteam to help advance thatmission.”
Brand new name, same old Poolesville company
FROM HOLY CROSS HEALTH
Board member Hercules Pinckney,left, has been elected Chairmanof the Board of Holy Cross Health,which recently opened a second hos-pital in Germantown. Standing withhim is Kevin J. Sexton, president andCEO of Holy Cross Health based inSilver Spring.
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n Germantown,Gaithersburg residents
among soldiers affected
BY PEGGY MCEWANSTAFF WRITER
Plans for members of anArmy Reserve unit in Rockvilleto fight the Ebola outbreak inWest Africa have been shelved.
The 398th Combat Sus-tainment Support Battalion ofRockville learned Jan. 29 thatit was “down ramped off theplanned deployment that wassupposed to take place in sup-port of Operation United Assis-tance,” according to an emailfrom Capt. Sean Delpech, apublic affairs officer for the 310Sustainment Command, which
includes the 398th.The local unit of about 68
soldiers was told in mid-No-vember that it would deploy toSenegal or Liberia to supportOperation United Assistancelate this spring.
Operation United Assis-tance was designed to pro-vide “logistics, training andengineering support to theU.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment to assist in ... ef-forts to contain and spread theEbola Virus/Disease as part ofthe international assistanceeffort supporting the govern-ments of Liberia, Sierra Leoneand Guinea,” according to in-formation from the U.S. AfricaCommand.
President Barack Obamapromised U.S. logistical help
to the disease-stricken Africancountries in September.
Staff Sgt. E6 Bedelle Mc-Queen of Gaithersburg saidthat when she heard of thechange of plans her firstthought was “more familytime.” McQueen is the singlemother of a 9-year-old son whowould stay with his godparentshad the unit deployed. The twokeep in touch with each otherusing Skype when McQueen isaway, something she loves, shesaid, because she can actuallysee him.
Another MontgomeryCounty soldier in the unit is1st Lt. David Lloyd of German-town, a Seneca Valley HighSchool graduate.
In December, Lloyd saidhe was excited about going to
help.“He feels very confident
in what he’s doing and I tryto support that,” his mother,Sheila Lloyd of Germantown,said at the time.
Now she’s glad he’s not go-ing.
“I [am] very happy that theywould not have to leave thecountry at this time,” she said.
Delpech said the change ofplans is the result of improv-ing Ebola conditions in WestAfrica.
The Pentagon “is reduc-ing forces in the area and as aresult the 398th CSSB is beingoff ramped from the ... missionuntil further notice,” he said.
Local reserve unit not going to fight Ebola
n Proposal to expandstudent member votingadvances to committee
BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
A push to give MontgomeryCounty’s student school boardmember more power inchedcloser to success Friday when thecounty’sHousedelegationbackeda bill expanding voting rights.
The bill was one of three billsthe delegation discussed Fridaythat affected the county’s boardof education.
Last introduced in 2012,the idea of granting additionalvoting rights to the student
member was strongly opposedby then-Sen. Brian E. Frosh (D-Dist. 16) of Somerset and ulti-mately defeated.
Montgomery lawmakerssaid in December they hope thatwith Frosh now attorney gen-eral, there is a greater chance abill will make it through.
If the bill passes, the county’sstudent board member wouldget an official say on previouslyrestricted matters, including thecapital and operating budgets,collective bargaining, schoolclosures and school boundaries.
The student still could notvote on certain personnel issues,such as suspensions or dismiss-als.
With full House delegationsupport, the bill is headed to the
Ways and Means Committee,chaired by Del. Shelia Hixson(D-Dist. 20) of Silver Spring.
While the delegation unani-mously supported expandingthe voting rights of the studentschool board member, the ma-jority did not agree with a sec-ond bill, which would put thenames of candidates running inuncontested school board raceson the primary ballot.
Del. Charles E. Barkley (D-Dist. 39) of Germantown arguedin favor of putting all schoolboard candidates’ names on pri-mary ballots. All names wouldbe on the primary ballot if thenumber of candidates seekingelection is no more than thenumber of nominations avail-able in that primary.
Currently, for all countieswith an elected board of educa-tion, school board candidatesonly are on the primary ballot ifthere are more than double thenumber of candidates as thereare open seats.
Barkley said that for all otherraces for elected office, thenames of those running in un-contested primaries are on theballot. Board of education racesare nonpartisan.
Putting all school board can-didates on the primary ballot,Barkley said, would call moreattention to school board races.
Other delegates feared thechange could overburden candi-dates and affect outcomes. Del.David Moon (D-Dist. 20) of Sil-ver Spring said the change would
“ratchet up” costs for candidates.Del. Marc Korman (D-Dist. 16) ofBethesda said the change couldfavor better known candidates,potentially ending the generalrace before it has begun.
The delegation chose to notback the bill. However, anotherbill that would affect schoolboard elections is pending.
Currently, vacancies on theboard of education are filled byappointment. Proposed legisla-tion would put that decision inthe hands of voters.
The delegation is consid-ering if it will back a bill thissession that would mandate aspecial election for filling schoolboard vacancies.
As written, the bill would re-quire the special election to be
held in the next regularly sched-uled general election. It wouldnot require a primary.
Del. Eric Luedtke (D-Dist.14) of Burtonsville questioned ifthere should be some process inthe bill for winnowing the fieldshould several candidates vie forthe opening. The board of edu-cation expressed concern thatwithout a process to narrow thefield — such as rank-choice orinstant run-off voting, in whichvoters rank candidates in orderof preference rather than select-ing just one — the winner couldpotentially be elected by lessthan a majority of votes.
The delegation hasn’t takena position on the bill.
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n Board seeks changeto utility model
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
The future of electricity dis-tribution in most of Montgom-ery County took center stageMonday at the Upcounty Citi-zens Advisory Board meeting inGermantown.
Visiting were two speakerswho talked about the proposed$7 billion acquisition of PepcoHoldings by Chicago-based Ex-elon to create themid-Atlantic’slargest electricity distributor.
Based in Washington,D.C., Pepco Holdings servesthe southern three-quarters ofMontgomery County, includingareas south of Germantown.
Upcounty areas, includingparts of Germantown, Clarks-burg and Damascus, are servedby Potomac Edison, which isnot involved in the transactioncurrently being debated beforethe state’s Public Service Com-mission, which regulates publicutilities.
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Monday were County Council-manRogerBerliner (D-Dist. 5) ofBethesda and Pepco Vice Presi-dent Jerry Pasternak.
Several upcounty boardmembers asked if residentialbills would go up if the PSC inBaltimore approved the pur-chase by its April 1 decisiondeadline.
Pasternak said rates wouldnot go up immediately.
Unchanged,however,wouldbePepco’spracticeofborrowingmoney to invest in upgrades andthen asking the PSC for rate in-creases to recoup its money, hesaid. The hope is that becom-ing part of Exelon would meanlower rate increases than if thepurchase never took place, Pas-ternak said.
The Exelon purchase mustbe endorsed by similar commis-sions in theDistrict ofColumbia,Virginia, Delaware and New Jer-sey before it can take effect, ac-cording to Pasternak.
Seeking support for the pur-chase, Exelon has said it wouldgive Maryland a one-time $40million to be administered bythe PSC for the benefit of cus-tomers, he said.
Other board memberswanted to know how supportiveExelon is of renewable energysources, such as solar andwind.
Alternatives tocoalandotherdirty fuels are needed to mod-ernize public utilities, and thetechnology is available, saidBer-liner, founder of a group calledCoalition forUtility Reform.
“[The current system ofpower plants and distributionlines] is a creation of the lastcentury,” said Berliner, addingthat public utilities tend to resistinnovation because it disruptstheir businessmodels.
Changes need to happen tounleash thepowerof innovation,so that public utilities can evolvein ways similar to the develop-ment of telephones to smart-phones, Berliner said.
Also needed is the reworkingof the current grid distributionsystem, which currently leavesthe region “extraordinarily vul-nerable” to cyber and terroristattacks, he said.
Berliner said one solution istocreate smaller,more self-suffi-cient systemsusing, for example,solar panels for residences, butPasternak said solar cannot beused on “a massive scale.” Healso said a distribution system isnot like a cellphone.
Pasternak said Pepco is ex-perimenting with smaller sys-tems by doing a study of onesquare mile in Olney that in-cludes the Medstar hospital andnearby shopping centers to seeif amini-distribution systemcancoexist with the current grid.
If the Exelon-Pepco deal isapproved, the PSC can imposeconditions, one of which wouldinvolve replacing utility pri-orities with customer priorities,Berliner said.
Goals could be set for Exelonto help customers save energyinstead of use it; to use clean en-ergy instead of dirty energy; andto work to minimize costs forcustomers, he said.
“[The conditions] would al-low the customers to controltheir destiny instead of the utili-ties [doing it],” Berliner said.
Electricity deal sparks talk upcountyn Planning board toreview March 5
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
TheMontgomeryParksde-partment could lower its $1.1million yearly electric bill by25 percent, according to a planto install money-saving solarpanels in two county parks.
Theproposal is expected togo before the county PlanningBoard on March 5 in SilverSpring.
If approved, the arrayscould be installed at the SouthGermantown RecreationalPark and the Rock Creek Re-gional Park in Derwood by theend of the year, said JimPoore,Montgomery Parks facilitiesmanager.
“A federal tax credit [forsolar companies] expires inDecember, and the goal is to
have the [solar panels] up andoperational before that creditexpires,” he said.
Following a 10-monthstudy of park facilities, officialsrecommend locating arrays ofpanels on two sites. One is onfive acres in the South Ger-mantown Recreational Parknear the archery range, golfdriving range and communitygarden.
The solar panels in theRock Creek Regional parkwould be located on a dredgespoils site near the intersectionof Needwood Road and the In-terCounty Connector, Pooresaid.
Both sites were recom-mended because of theirminimal negative effect on theenvironment, park activitiesand bordering communities,officials said.
“They’re not near resi-dences or other uses,” saidBrooke Farquhar, parks and
trails supervisor.Assuming Planning Board
approval, the plan would beput out to bid for a solar com-pany that would likely spend$2million to $3million tobuildeach array, and then generateelectricity that it would sell toMontgomery Parks at below-market cost for 20 years, saidPoore.
“The electricity would goback into the grid, and we’dbuy it back at a discountedrate,” thereby lowering Mont-gomery Parks’ electricity bill,Poore said.
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BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
Gov. Larry Hogan’s firstState of the State address leftmembers of the all-DemocraticMontgomery County leadershipwishing for a more positive toneto start the year.
Hogan’s speech was not wellreceived, said Council PresidentGeorge L. Leventhal.
“The speech was somethingof a rupture in the effort to bebipartisan,” said Leventhal (D-At Large) of Takoma Park.
Del.MarcKorman(D-Dist.16)of Bethesda called the tone of thespeecha“missedopportunity.”
“He didn’t even start withany unifying statements,” Kor-man said.
Hogan spent several minutes
detailingMaryland’sshortcomingduring his Feb. 4 address.
Del. Anne R. Kaiser, theHouse majority leader, said heignored its many strengths.
Rather than noting thestate’s top-rated school systemor its growing biotech and cy-bersecurity industries, she said,Hogan spoke in campaign rhet-oric, saying: “High taxes, over-regulation and an anti-businessattitude are clearly the cause ofour economic problems.”
“Our economy is flounder-ing and too many Marylandershave been struggling just to getby,” Hogan continued, listinghis frequent talking points of taxincreases, lost businesses andtaxpayers “fleeing” the state.
Still, Montgomery lawmakershopetheycanstillmeet thegover-nor in the middle this session.
“I felt that while he steppedout of the gate awkwardly in hisState of the State, there is still along time in front of us to forge
those alliances, find commonground and find compromisesthat improve our state,” saidKaiser (D-Dist. 14) of Calverton.
Sen. Susan C. Lee (D-Dist.16) of Bethesda said despite herhope for a more positive State ofthe State, she wants to find com-mon ground with Hogan.
“I know that everybodywants to get back on track,”Leventhal said. “We want Mary-land to succeed. We want thegovernor to succeed. And if thegovernor succeeds, Marylandsucceeds and vice versa.”
In his State of the State, Ho-gan laid out several key policiesfor the remainder of the session,including:
• Repealing the so-calledrain tax.
• Repealing scheduled gas-tax increases.
• Providing a tax break forretired military, police officers,firefighters and first responders.
• Creating a personal prop-
erty tax exemption for smallbusinesses.
• Restoring lost highway userrevenues to localities.
• Providing charter schoolswith more autonomy.
• Creating a tax credit forbusinesses that voluntarily do-nate to private or parochialschools.
• Allowing contribution topublic campaign financing onincome tax forms.
Some of Hogan’s proposalsare “oxymoronic” policies, Kor-man said.
Korman noted that the gastax that Hogan proposed cuttingdirectly funds the Transporta-tion Trust Fund, which providesthe highway user revenues thegovernor proposes to increase.
Leventhal said he’s heardthat trying to touch the gas tax is“dead on arrival.”
But changes could come tothe so-called “rain tax,” Kaisersaid.
The rain tax is a stormwaterfee the 10 largest jurisdictions inthe state must charge residents,organizations and businessesto fund stormwater manage-ment projects designed to meetfederal requirements for Chesa-peake Bay restoration.
Republicans have de-nounced it as an unnecessarymandate.
“If the ultimate goal is tomeet those federal require-ments, does it really matterhow the jurisdictions get thatmoney?,” Kaiser said.
Montgomery had a fee formanaging stormwater for yearsbefore the state mandated therain tax in 2012. It’s unlikely astate action will change that,Leventhal said.
But Leventhal said he’s inter-estedinensuringthatthecounty’sstormwater fee — known as theWater Quality Protection Charge— is accurate and fair.
“The need to raise revenue
to capture runoff and to makesure that harmful chemicals,substances and pollutants don’tmake their way into the water-sheds and into the ChesapeakeBay remains,” Leventhal said.“And it’s a federal mandate, soI don’t see repeal of the WaterQuality Protection fee.”
“We’re not taxing the rain,”Leventhal added. Rather, hesaid, the county is imposing a feeto pay for necessary improve-ments that ensure the qualityof drinking water, the PotomacRiver and the Chesapeake Bay.
“It’s one of the most pro-busi-ness things we can do to maintainahealthyandthrivingChesapeakeBay,” he said. “People want tocome to Maryland for many rea-sons, but one of those reasons iswe have delicious seafood. We’refamous for our blue crabs androckfish and we’re trying to re-store our oyster industry.”
Montgomery lawmakers turned off by tone of Hogan address
“Most people are not famil-iar with even the fundamentals,”said Rand Fishbein, at the Feb. 2council meeting. “They comewith anecdotal information,knowledge [that’s] incompleteor dated. New laws are passedall the time.”
Fishbein chairs the county’svolunteer Commission on Com-mon Ownership Communities,which hears disputes as part ofthe county’s Office of ConsumerAffairs.
“The purpose of a commonownership community is to pro-tect or enhance the value of theproperty in those communities,”he said.
Approximately 5,000 peoplecurrently serve on the coun-ty’s 1,034 common ownershipboards, according to Fishbein.
The boards represent about40 percent of the residentialhousing units in the county,which in turn are homes to about340,000 people, he said.
Any decrease in propertyvalues because of problems onboards affects not only individualowners and the local neighbor-hood but also affects the county’stax base.
“[It’s about] tens of billions ofdollars, perhaps hundreds of bil-lions of dollars, which translatesinto taxablevalue,”Fishbeinsaid.
Once in effect, the law willrequire new board memberselected for the first time to watchthe video, or a certified equiva-lent, within 90 days of being
elected.The bill also requires cur-
rent board members to watchthe video within 90 days of be-ing elected for a new term in of-fice if the new term begins afterthe law takes effect in January.
Sound financial manage-ment has become particularlyimportant as a result of theGreat Recession, said CouncilChairman George Leventhal,(D-At Large) of Takoma Park,who introduced the bill.
“The HOA situation is a ris-ing problem with the ramifica-tions of an increasing number
of foreclosures and main-tenance foregone,” he said.“I’ve gotten complaints aboutlarge HOAs and condominiumdevelopments with trash un-collected, facilities broken,playgrounds broken and swim-ming pools not functioning.”
Also an issue are boardmembers who are not fully upto speed on the rights of resi-dents, which can result in con-flicts, Fishbein said.
“We want boards to knowthe rights of residents at thelowest stage of the conflict ...so education is really very key,”
he said.Leventhal also said he was
aware that some sitting boardmembers felt that requiringtraining implied that sittingmembers were “uninformed orignorant.”
But the bill’s intent is verymuch the opposite, because itrecognizes a board’s fiduciaryresponsibility to in some casesto manage millions of dollars,engage in capital projects andrepair facilities, Leventhal said.
Failure to watch the videowill not result in the removalof a board member for the gov-
erning body or invalidate anyof his or her votes; however,the CCOC retains authority toenforce compliance in otherways.
Voting in favor of the billwhere Leventhal, Marc Elrich(D-At Large) of Takoma Park,Tom Hucker (D-Dist. 5) of Sil-ver Spring, Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring andCraig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Ger-mantown.
Voting against were councilVice Chair Nancy Floreen (D-AtLarge) of Garrett Park, SidneyKatz (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg,
and Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) ofBethesda.
Floreen said it was prema-ture because the CCOC pres-ently has only one staff memberto manage the program.
Katz said he couldn’t sup-port it because the training wasrequired instead of voluntary.
At a hearing on Oct. 21,other opponents said the re-quired training might discour-age residents from volunteeringto serve.
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asking them to send it to friendsand relatives urging them to con-tribute.
A classmate of Moore’s, Luf-sey said she believes the DanceMarathoneventwillcontinuenextyear and continue to grow.
Thefirstyear,15studentspar-ticipated; the second year, 41, andthis year there were double thatnumber, with the largest contin-gent being freshmen, Lufse said.
“Sam inspired this, and I be-lieve it will continue,” said Lufse,who graduates this year and hasalready been charged with writinga handbook about how to orga-nize the event.
She is also working withClarksburg High teacher DavidDouglass and wife Jessica Dou-glass, who initiated the idea tohonor Moore, to help choose thestudent organizers for next year.
“You have to write an essaysaying why you think you’d be thebest at it,” Lufse said.
Both Jessica and David Dou-glass attended Penn State, whichhosts an annual dance marathonthat raises millions of dollars tofight pediatric cancer.
“They showed me a video onYouTube,andIknew, ‘Ihavetodothis,’” said Lufse, who has been soinspired by her Clarksburg Highmarathon experiences that shewants to continue organizing fun-draisers in college.
Giving speeches at the eventbreakfast every year on Satur-day morning has developed herconfidence and also triggered adesire to maybe minor in publicrelations in addition to majoringin biology.
“It helped me find my nicheat school, and it’s my passion now... the idea of helping others,” shesaid.
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n Group expected to meetthis month to discuss
desired qualities
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
A week before Superinten-dent Joshua P. Starr leaves hispost, the Montgomery Countyschool board picked a firmTuesday to help find the nextleader.The board unanimously
approved a contract with Haz-ard, Young, Attea & Associatesof Rosemont, Ill., the firm thathelped Montgomery CountyPublic Schools discover Starrand former SuperintendentJerry D.Weast.For $35,000 “plus expenses
as appropriate,” the firm willhelp Montgomery search forand select Starr’s successor, ac-cording to a boardmemo.Starr will step down on
Monday. Larry Bowers, the dis-trict’s chief operating officer,will take over as interim super-intendent.School boardmemberswill
meet with the search firm thismonth to talk about what theywant in the next superinten-dent, said board President Pa-tricia O’Neill.Board members remain
tightlipped about why Starr isleaving the system after aboutthree-and-a-half years, just afewweeks after he told TheGa-zette he was seeking a secondterm. Some won’t even talkabout specific qualities theywant in the next superinten-dent.
The board, which met pri-vately to decide Starr’s future,approved a clause in a sepa-ration agreement prohibitingeither side from “making dis-paraging remarks regardingthe other.”School board member Jill
Ortman-Fouse said she wantsthe next leader to look at a vari-ety of ideas, including reducingstudent testing and analyzingwhere the district is gettingresults in closing achievementgaps.She said the superinten-
dent should strike a balancebetween flexibility and guid-ance to the district’s staff.Addressing speculation
around Starr’s departure, shesaid board members “deliber-ated very thoughtfully” whenconsidering the school sys-tem’s future and took theirdecision about Starr “very seri-ously.”“Personally, I feel like I had
a good relationship with him,”she said. “I think he was work-ing really hard and doing thebest job he could.”O’Neill said she will think
about the three superinten-dents she has worked for —Starr, Weast and Paul Vance— as she considers qualities ofthe next leader.She said, however, she
couldn’t comment on whatthose specific qualities shouldbe, since the board hasn’t dis-cussed that yet.During a Feb. 3 press con-
ference, O’Neill said boardmembers and Starr agreed thatsomeone else was needed to“carry forward the board’s vi-
sion.”Asked about the “disparag-
ing comments” clause, O’Neillsaid it limits board membersfrom speaking publicly aboutwhy Starr is leaving the district.Board Vice President Mi-
chael Durso also declined tocomment on the ideal nextleader until board memberstalk with each other and thesearchfirm, sayinghis personalviewcouldmakemuddywaters“muddied a bitmore.”The board is on “a pretty
fast track” to pick a leader byJune, he said.Board member Judith
Docca declined to comment.The board’s four other mem-bers could not be reached forcomment onMonday.Several board members,
including O’Neill and studentboard member Dahlia Huh,thanked Starr for his serviceduring Tuesday’smeeting.Starr “put social-emotional
learning on the map” for thedistrict and his communityengagement is “a model” forsuperintendents, said boardmember Philip Kauffman.Under Starr’s leadership,
the district has rolled out Com-mon Core state standards bet-ter than other school systemshave, Kauffman said.During an interview, Fred
Stichnoth, a leader of OneMontgomery, a group workingto support and improve countyschools, said the group wantsa superintendent with experi-ence leading a large, diversejurisdiction “that is split intohaves and have-nots.”Theperson should increase
staff diversity and direct moreresources to schools that needthemmost, he said.Richie Yarrow, president
of the Montgomery CountyRegional Student GovernmentAssociation, which representshigh school students, said Starrtried to engage students andrecognized the achievementgap is tied to “a broad mix ofissues.”“I really do hope that most
of what Dr. Starr has been do-ing over the past three or fouryears is continued and contin-ued strongly, accelerating thosechanges, strengthening thosechanges,ratherthanlettingthemfall by thewayside,”he said.Arthur Williams, chair
of the 1977-II Action Group,which focuses on educatingblack students, said the groupsoon will discuss its wishes fora new superintendent.Generally, he said, the
group wants someone to focuson eliminating the achieve-ment gap, a focal point of thegroup’s mission, and to ensurethe district’s Curriculum 2.0helps all students succeed.Councilman Craig L. Rice,
chairman of the council’s Ed-ucation Committee, said theschool system must keep em-bracing career-readiness pro-grams, he said.He said the new leader
shouldpushtoclosetheachieve-ment gap and keep the schoolsystemaglobal competitor.
Staff Writer Kate S. Alexan-der contributed to this report.
Board picks firm to find next superintendent
n Will receive $100,000in salary, can keep healthplan for rest of 2015
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
Under a resignation agree-ment with the MontgomeryCounty school board, Super-intendent Joshua P. Starr willreceive about $100,000 in owedsalary, can keepdriving aboard-issued vehicle through Marchand can stay on his health planthroughout the year.School officials have not
elaborated on the reasoning forStarr’s departure. A clause in theagreement says both sides can’tdisparage each other.Starr’s resignation was an-
nounced Feb. 3 after a series ofreports and speculation aroundthe board’s consideration of hisfuture, several months beforehis termwould have ended.During a press conference
Feb. 3, school board presidentPatricia O’Neill said boardmembers andStarr agreed that anew leaderwas needed to “carryforward the board’s vision.”The school board on Feb.
3 unanimously approved anagreement that defined theterms under which Starr wouldmakehis exit. He is scheduled toworkuntilMonday.His contract
was scheduled to expire June 30.The resignation agree-
ment, which is an amendmentto Starr’s contract, said he willreceive compensation and ben-efits through June 30.From Tuesday to June 30,
Starr will receive about $97,100in owed salary, according toDana Tofig, a spokesman forMontgomery County PublicSchools.Starr’s full salary is about
$264,000.He will receive $35,000 in
deferred compensation, whichwas provided annually in thecontract.Hewill be allowed to stay on
his health plan through Decem-ber, or until he starts a new planthrough his next job.The district also will pay
Starr about $46,600 tied to vaca-tion, sick andpersonal leave thathe didn’t use.Starr’s attorney’s fees — up
to $2,000 — related to the con-tract amendment also will becovered.Starr will need to give back
his laptop computer, iPad andiPhone when he resigns, unlesshe buys them from the district.He can use a board-providedvehicle until March 31 if he pro-vides insurance coverage; hewill need to foot the gas bill afterFeb. 16.Another part of the contract
amendment addresses how thedistrict’s eight school boardmembers and Starr can talkabout each other.“Board members and the
Superintendent shall refrainfrom making disparaging re-marks regarding the other,” theamendment said.One part of the agreement
said that, in the interim beforehe leaves, Starr will not “un-dertake travel at the Board’s ex-pense or represent the Board atmeetings, conferences, conven-tions, seminars.”Starr told The Gazette in
January that hewanteda secondterm.His deadline to ask for onewas Feb. 1.On Feb. 3, he presented a
similar message, saying he hadhoped to continue leading thedistrict.“While I’m not happy cer-
tainly at the way things haveturned out, at the same time it isabsolutely the board’s authorityto move in a direction that theysee fit,” he said at the press con-ference.Starr replaced JerryD.Weast
as superintendent inMontgom-ery County in 2011 after lead-ing the public school system inStamford, Conn.The Gazette interviewed six
of eight school board membersin January about a potentialsecond term for Starr. Severalmembers said they would needto consider various issues asthey thought about his future.Two were committed to givingStarr another term.Days before Starr’s depar-
ture was announced, a Wash-ington Post editorial and a storyquoting unnamed MontgomeryCounty officials reported thatStarr apparently didn’t haveenough support from the boardto continue.The Post’s story, citing the
officials, said there were multi-ple reasons several boardmem-bers wanted to replace Starr,including his approach to clos-ing the district’s achievementgap and his relationships withsomemembers.Larry Bowers, the district’s
chief operating officer,will serveas interim superintendent afterStarr leaves.The board hopes to have a
new permanent superintendentin place by July 1.
Starr resignationagreement outlinescompensation
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n Higher fees createssteadier funding for pipeupgrades, utility says
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
After years of larger rate in-creases, the Washington Subur-ban Sanitary Commission hasproposed raising customer wa-ter and sewer rates a combined1 percent for fiscal 2016, whichstarts July1.
However, the utility also hasproposed raising fees, whichWSSC says allows it to lessen rateincreases and have a steadier rev-enuestream.
In total, the proposed budgetwouldprovide theagencywitha6percent bump in revenue, addingabout $4.20 more per month tothe average customerbill throughfeesand rates.
Rather than drawing the full6 percent from rates, WSSC isproposing only a 1 percent rateincrease.Theremaining5percentwill bepaid through fee increases,said spokesman Jerry Irvine.
During the last decade,WSSCrates have nearly doubled, Irvinesaid. On average, rates have in-creased about 7.5 percent annu-ally, with some years reaching 8.5percent.
“We’re fullyawarethat isnotasustainable solution,” Irvine said.“That iswhywe’re putting in fees,so we can start to level off thoserate increases.”
While rates have nearly dou-bled, water usage has been flator declining. The agency, with agrowing number of customers,said it was facing significant fiscalchallenges.
Among the fees is a new In-frastructure Investment Fee tocreate a dedicated, predictable,transparent funding source fortheagency’swaterandsewerpipereconstructionprogram,abudgetdocument says. The fee will bephased in over two years, startingat 50percent infiscal 2016.
According to WSSC’s pro-posed capital budget, the agencyplans to spendabout$101millionin fiscal 2016 fixing water pipesandabout$34millionfixingsewerpipes.
Irvine said the goal is to rehababout 55 miles of water pipe thisyear.
Montgomery County Execu-tive Isiah Leggett openly opposedthe idea of WSSC restructuringits fees, arguing that the changecould hit some customers harderthan others. In October, Leggett(D)warnedthat itcouldgivesomepeople “sticker shock.”
Leggett was not available forcomment on the proposed bud-get.
But the County Council issupportive of the move to gen-erate more revenue from fees,said Councilman Roger Berliner(D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, chair-man of the council’s Transporta-tion Infrastructure Energy andEnvironment Committee. BothMontgomeryandPrinceGeorge’scounties recommended phasingin thenewfee.
To balance increasing costswith what customers can afford,the agency’s budget—95percentof which is funded by ratepayers— includes $1.7 million to estab-lish a program that provides fi-nancial assistance to low-incomecustomers.
However, the agency is stillwaiting on approval from theGeneral Assembly to establish theprogram.Abill ispendingthisses-sion inAnnapolis.
On the capital side, WSSCplans to spend about $9.6milliononwater projects inMontgomeryCounty and about $9.4million onsewerprojects.
The lion’s share of its capi-tal work will happen in PrinceGeorge’s County, where theagency is working tomeet the re-quirements of a settlement withenvironmentalgroups,Irvinesaid.
WSSC proposes increase
n Billionaire’s foundationbenefits from lower
impact charge
BY BILL TURQUETHEWASHINGTON POST
The foundation that op-erates Potomac billionaireMitchell Rales’ private art mu-seum near his home is getting a$372,993 tax refund fromMont-gomery County.
The refund reflects a changeapprovedby theCountyCouncillast week after officials decidedit was unfair to tax a buildingthat will house much of Rales’art collection at the same rateas some commercial establish-ments.
“We have to ask ourselveswhat we want in this county,”Councilman Hans Riemer (D-At Large) of Takoma Park askedjust before the vote. “Does thecounty want to levy heavy taxeson a museum as though it werethe same thing as housing orcommercial construction? Thisis a social benefit we don’t wantto create barriers to.”
The unanimous passage ofBill 62-14 — “Development Im-pactTaxes—Exemptions—An-cillary Facilities” — reduced thetax due on the new exhibitionspace from $445,419 to $72,426.
The change illustrates thechallenges inherent in decidinghow much those who want tobuild in the county should payto help address the impact ofnew construction on traffic androads. And the quiet manner inwhich the change was made —without a separate public hear-ing or debate — drew criticismfrom one council member anda key member of the council’sstaff.
Rales, througha spokesman,did not respond to multiple in-terview requests.
Montgomery’s transporta-tion impact tax is a one-timepayment assessed on new proj-ects to help pay the costs ofincreased traffic on congestedroads. The county collectedabout $14 million in impacttaxes in the last fiscal year.
The tax rate varies. An of-fice building in most parts ofthe county would be assessed at$12.30 per square foot, or $1.23million for 100,000 square feet ofspace. Other buildings — such
as houses of worship — paymuch less because of their valueto the larger community. Hospi-tals, social service agencies andaffordable housing units areexempt.
But county officials hadseen nothing quite like the150,000-square-foot additionRales is building at Glenstone,thewhitemodernist building onhis Potomac estate that housesone of the world’s leading pri-vate collections ofmodern art.
When the project was an-nounced, it was described ascomparable in size and scope totheNational Gallery of Art’s EastBuilding in Washington. It willallow Rales and his wife to per-manently exhibit much more oftheir extensive collection, whichincludes works by AlexanderCalder, Henri Matisse andMarkRothko.
There was no specific “mu-seum” category in the county’stax charts. So officials placedGlenstone under “Other Non-Residential,” a grab bag of landuses that includes funeral par-lors, dog kennels and sewagetreatment plants.
They levied a tax of $6.15 persquare foot for the new build-ing. The Glenstone Foundationappealed the $445,419 tax billin October, arguing that themuseum should be categorizedas a “social service provider” —exempting it from the impacttax — because it hosted smallgroups of Montgomery CountyPublic Schools students duringthe school year. The appeal wasdenied, and the foundationpaidthe tax bill late last year.
That’swhere the storymighthave ended.ButDianeSchwartzJones, director of the countyDe-partment of Permitting Services,which collects impact taxes,thought Glenstone’s paymentseemed “hefty,” especially fora nonprofit that would ben-efit county schoolchildren andwould not draw heavy traffic.
She suggested that CountyExecutive Isiah Leggett (D)create an impact tax category— “cultural institution” — par-alleling a category that had beenincluded in thecounty’s recentlyrewritten zoning code. She setthe rate at $1 per square foot,the same as for private schools.It cut Glenstone’s impact pay-ment bymore than 80 percent.
The council approved thechange as an amendment to an-
other bill related to the impacttax — this one eliminating thelevy for ancillary buildings atexisting institutions if they arenot expected to draw additionaltraffic.
Because the “cultural in-stitution” category was not in-troduced as a separate bill, itdid not receive its own publichearing, which concerned Mi-chael Faden, then the council’ssenior legislative attorney. “It’s anew concept, and it hasn’t had apublic vetting at all,” Faden saidat a Government OperationsCommittee hearing Jan. 29.
In a separatememo tocoun-cil members, Faden—who wasdays away from his Feb. 1 re-tirement — said such changesin tax policy are “appropriateonlywhen those changes are ur-gently needed, and we have notbeen given any reason why thatis the case here.”
Councilwoman Nancy Na-varro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring,chairwomanof theGovernmentOperations Committee, also fa-vored a separate hearing “to ex-amine the cost and what othertypes of categories this wouldaffect.”
But she was voted down bycommittee members Riemerand Sidney Katz (D-Dist. 3) ofGaithersburg. Riemer said theamendmentwas consistentwiththe intent of the ancillary build-ings bill and did not require itsown airing.
Some activists said theywere disappointed by the lack oftransparency, which they attrib-uted to Rales’ wealth and influ-ence. Rales won a controversialbattle to install a sewer line atGlenstone several years ago.
State records show thatRales and his family and cor-porations donated a total ofmore than $40,000 during the2014 election cycle to Leggett,Riemer, Councilman Roger Ber-
liner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda andothers.
“They give [Rales] whateverhe wants,” said Ginny Barnesof the Western MontgomeryCounty Citizens Association.“Butmychief concern is the lackof transparency in granting thisexception to the transportationimpact tax. We knew nothingabout this issue, and we are nothiding under a rock.”
Asked whether the dona-
tions might have influenced thecounty’s action, Leggett scoffed.He called the $24,000 he had re-ceived from the Rales family “avery small pittance” comparedwith the nearly $1 million hespent in his election campaign.
“They’rewealthypeople, butthat’s not the standard,” Leggettsaid Thursday. Glenstone, hesaid, “is clearly a very valuableasset to the county.”
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In Memoriam
In loving memory of my dear friend,Aissatou Dia (Ida Sow)11/21/1966 - 2/16/2014
Ida, words cannot express how muchyou are missed my dear friend.There is hardly a day that passeswithout my thinking of you.
You were a very dedicated mother,loving wife and trusted friend andcommitted teacher. Madame Sow, asyou were fondly addressed, by bothyour students and colleagues atRoberto Clemente Middle School,you are greatly missed. And I willforever cherish your loving memoryin my heart, my dear friend.
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On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Todd E. Pendleton,artist, sculptor, and print maker, of Frederick, MD, passedaway.Todd is survived by his loving wife and companion ofthirty-seven years, Donna Walker-Pendleton, whom hemarried on December 10, 1988; his daughter, Denise AnnPendleton-De La Rosa of Laguna Beach, California; hisgrandson, Andres De La Rosa; his step-daughter, MichelleS. Walker-Rice of Byram, Mississippi; ; step-son, Kevin J.Walker of Dover, Pennsylvania; and his five step-grandchildren; and seven step great-grandchildren, whomhe loved dearly. He is also survived by his brother, John“Jack” Edward Pendleton and wife, Patricia, of Kensington,Maryland; and his niece, Lorraine M. Pendleton of Pacifica,California. In addition, he was lovingly cared for by hisnurse, Christa; and aide, Amelia. A Celebration of Life willbe held in Todd’s memory at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday,February 14, 2015, at Stauffer Funeral Homes, P.A., 1621Opossumtown Pike, Frederick, MD 21702. Final resting-place ceremonies will be held at a later date at Cedar HillCemetery, Suitland, MD. Expressions of sympathy may beoffered to the family at www.StaufferFuneralHome.com
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children needed supervisionoutside school. Some studentshelp pay for food and rent byworking an after-school job thatcould be affected, she said.
“I think that we need theextra money for doing this theright way,” she said.
The approved bell timeshifts won’t cost the school sys-tem, according to officials. Theextra 10 minutes at elementaryschools will require the schoolsystem to add lunch hour aides.That expense, however, will becovered by savings from theshift in elementary start timesand how it narrows the windowfor bus operations.
Dahlia Huh, the board’sstudent member, said sleep de-
privation is an issue and affectsstudent’s health and grades.Huh, a senior atClarksburgHighSchool, said a 20-minute changeisn’t ideal, but will help teenag-ers.
Boardmember Philip Kauff-man suggested starting elemen-tary schools ahead of middleand high schools, but not mak-ing the changes until 2016-17.The proposal was rejected, withfiveopposingvotes. That changewould have cost about $5 mil-lion, according to Larry Bowers,the district’s chief operating of-ficer.
“I think there is fairly com-pelling evidence that we shouldbe doing something,” Kauffmansaid.
Arguing against Kauffman’splan, board member RebeccaSmondrowski said she wasconcerned that if elementary
schools started first, that wouldmean their first lunch periodwould shift to an even earliermorning slot.
Regarding the 20-minuteshift, she said that “somethingis better than nothing” and thesystem needs to be fiscally re-sponsible.
Durso saidheopposed start-ing elementary schools first be-cause some families rely on theirolder children to be home firstand take care of their youngersiblings after school. He alsowas concerned that some teach-ers would not be able to workin county schools if the systemmakes a change to bell times.
At two public hearings onpossible changes, many speak-ers supported a later start forschools, citing improved healthfor studentswhowouldgetmoresleep, fewercaraccidents caused
by sleepy teens and better aca-demic performance.
Some who opposed movingbell times said a change wouldmake it difficult for parents, par-ticularly those with elementaryschool students, to get to workon time or would force them touse child care.
From Jan. 1 through Feb.2, the district got 2,354 emailsabout the issue, about 64 per-cent of which voiced supportfor a change. Many wanted starttimes after 8:30 for middle andhigh school students, accordingto a Feb. 6 district summary.
Twoschoolemployeeassoci-ations surveyed their members.About 70 percent of principalsdidn’t want a change, accordingto a survey by the MontgomeryCounty Association of Adminis-trators and Principals.
Based on a Montgomery
County Education Associationsurvey, larger percentages ofteachersopposedoptionsbeforethe board than supported them.
Asked if a later high schoolstart time would improve aca-demic achievement, 45 percentsaid the shift “won’t make a dif-ference,” while 32 percent said itwould.
Sixty-five percent thoughta later high school time would“create problems” for studentsin sports and with other after-school activities and responsi-bilities.
The day before the vote, theorganizationSaveOurSleeppro-tested outside theCarver Educa-tional ServicesCenter,where theschool board meets. Protesterswho wanted later start times in-cludedstudents inpajamas, slip-pers and sleeping bags.
“I’m tired nowwhen I get up
and go to school, but I know inhigh school, I’m going to haveto wake up between 5:15 and5:30 and walk to the bus stopin the freezing cold and dark,”said protester Sophie Bresnicky,a seventh-grader at WestlandMiddle School in Bethesda.
At the board’s Tuesdaymeeting, several people spokein support of a change to let stu-dents getmore sleep.
Diego Uriburu, executive di-rector of Identity Inc., said anychanges to bell times would be“extremelyharmful” to thecoun-ty’s Latino community. Somestudents work after school toprovide critical support for theirfamilies, he said, and changingthe school schedule could causethem to lose their jobs.
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heroin with other drugs such asfentanyl, according to countypolice.
Statewide, Maryland saw464 heroin overdose deaths in2013, and 428 in the first ninemonths of 2014; there were 58fentanyl-related deaths in 2013and 141 in the first ninemonthsof 2014, according to the stateDepartment ofHealth andMen-talHygiene.Heroinand fentanylareoften taken together, accord-
ing state health officials.According to the bill, the
proposed penalty for fatal dis-tribution, whether the dealerdirectly distributed the heroinor fentanyl to the victim or not,is up to 30 years in prison.
The bill ismodeled on a fed-eral statutewhich calls for toughsentences fordrugdealers linkedtooverdosedeaths, but doesnotinclude a mandatory minimumsentence,McCarthy said.
Mandatory minimum sen-tenceshavedrawnfire fromcrit-ics of the “War on Drugs,” whoargue that such policies are dis-
criminatory againstminorities.The Baltimore Student
Harm Reduction Coalition, astudent-run advocacy group,opposed the bill, explaining ina statement that “heavy-handedpolicies such as those in this bill,which attempt to further crimi-nalize drug use” were not as ef-fective as policies that focusedmore on treatment and therapyfor drug users.
Dumais said the proposedlawwasnot intended to recreatethe “War on Drugs,” but was in-tended to give law enforcementofficials an additional tool to
prosecute drug dealers contrib-uting to the epidemic.
County police say fatal over-doses — once treated like otherunattended deaths — are nowbeing investigated more likehomicides, which means detec-tives aremore focused on tryingto link thedeaths todistributors.
The bill is not solely focusedon punishment; it differs fromthe federal statute because italso includes a provision to pro-tect those who try to help over-dose victims by calling for help,McCarthy said.
The bill protects such a
person from prosecution if theevidence is obtained “solely asresult of the person’s seeking,providing or assisting with theprovision ofmedical assistance”— meaning it could even pro-tect the dealer if the dealer triesto help.
McCarthy said he was notinterested in “incarcerating ourway out of this problem” andthat a dealer who sees someonestart to overdose shouldn’t beworried about whether or not tocall 911.
“We’ll give you immunitybecause we will value that hu-
man being’s life more than aconviction fordistribution,”Mc-Carthy said.
At a public hearing on thebill before the House JudiciaryCommittee in Annapolis Tues-day, the proposal drew criticismfrom some Baltimore City law-makers. Del. Jill Carter (D-Dist.41) told McCarthy, Dumais andother supporters that she didn’tsee how creating a new criminaloffense would really enable theprosecutions of higher-level,rather than street-level, drugdealers.
Calvert County State’s At-torney Laura L. Martin (R), asupporter of the measure, re-sponded that there was a pro-vision in the bill stating that aperson doesn’t need to havedirectly distributed the drug tothe victim in order to face pros-ecution.
The committee also heardfrom the mothers of severalheroin addicts, some of whomurged lawmakers to pass thebill so the dealers could be heldaccountable. Other opponentsargued that thepenalties for dis-tributing the drugs were steepenough, and that there were al-readyadequate legalmethods toprosecute thehigh-level dealers.
TimWeber, a former heroinaddict from Carroll County alsospoke in favor of the bill, whichhe said would strike a blowagainst dealers who don’t usedrugs themselves and thereforedon’t need treatment the waydrug users do.
Dumais’s bill is co-spon-sored by 15 other membersof the Montgomery County’sHouse delegation; the Senateversion of the bill is sponsoredby Sen. SusanC. Lee (D-Dist. 16)of Bethesda. Its co-sponsors in-clude three other senators fromthe county.
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BY GAZETTE STAFF
Many county and munici-pal offices and facilities will beclosed Monday for PresidentsDay.
County• Closed: public schools and
school offices; county offices; li-braries;countyliquorstores;seniorcenters; stateofficesandcourts.
• Recreation: aquatic facilitiesand community centers open;aquaticsprogramsmeetassched-uled; other classes and programscanceled; administrative officesclosed; Senior Active Adult Pro-grams that meet in communitycenters arecanceled.
• Montgomery Parks: all fa-cilities open. Schedules are atMontgomeryParks.org.
• Ride On buses: modifiedholiday schedule.
• Metrobus: Saturday sup-plemental service.
•Metrorail: Saturdayholidayschedule.
• TRiPS commuter storesin Silver Spring and FriendshipHeights: closed.
• Trash and recycling: nocollection; all pickups shiftedone day later all week.
• Transfer station: open.• Free parking at public ga-
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n Comings, goings amongTakoma Park businesses
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
A new dog grooming shophas opened in the Woodmoorneighborhood of Silver Springon Colesville Road, just north ofthe Beltway.
Sarah Watkins, owner of theStudioGroomingSalon, grewupin the Colesville area of north-ern Silver Spring where she hada tiny grooming shop that wasmore like a home business. Sev-eral years ago, she opened a sa-lon inMiddleburg, Va.
“Wewere lookingaround fora place to open another salon,”Watkins said. “We like how thisis close to the Beltway. It’s theperfect location.”
Some customers drove to
Middleburg from Montgom-ery and Frederick counties andnow have a closer location, shenoted.
The shop, which has beenopen about amonth, will have agrandopeningMarch 14 and15.It does a wide range of services,from haircuts for geriatric andrescue dogs to hand strippingand plucking.
“De-shedding is a big rea-son many dogs are brought in,”Watkins said. “A regular de-sheddingmakes a big differencein limiting hair on furniture andcarpets.”
Businesses opening andclosing in Takoma ParkAfter some 38 years work-
ing at Takoma Park hair salonShampoo on Carroll Avenue,Sharon Waldvogel is closing the
shop and joining nearby SalonJam.
Waldvogel switched fromemployee to owner of Shampooabout two decades ago. Sham-poo is one of the oldest OldTown businesses, well knownfor itswindowdisplays celebrat-ing holidays and city history.
Councilman Terry Seamenssaid he plans to introduce a CityCouncil resolution recognizingthe business at an upcomingmeeting.
Scissor & Comb, a high-endsalon created by Ian Palmiero,is expected to open in the spacebyMay, according to theOldTa-koma Business Association.
The Busboys and Poets cof-feehouse at Takoma Centralin Washington, D.C., just overthe Takoma Park border, isexpected to open this month.The 7,000-square-foot locationwill have a bookstore, a meet-
ing room and an area for poetryreadings and book signings.
Tabletop, a store sellinghome accessories, gifts and jew-elry, is planned for the LaurelAvenue space vacated by giftshop Now and Then by April,according to the business asso-ciation.
“After 32 years in business,dozens of amazing employees,three generations of customersand providing countless gifts forothers to enjoy, I have decidedto give myself the gift of retire-ment,” Now and Then ownerJudeGarrett said in a statement.“My decision to close the storeis bittersweet. After a great dealof thought and consultation, Irealized it was time to finish thischapter of my life and move onto the next.”
Woodmoor gets new dog grooming salon
RadioShack plans to shut11 stores in countyRadioShack of Fort Worth,
Texas, which reported a netloss of $161.1 million in itsmost recent quarter, plans toclose 11 stores inMontgomeryCounty as part of its Chapter11 bankruptcy reorganizationplan.
The stores are on NewHampshire (two) and Georgiaavenues, all in Silver Spring; onOld Columbia Pike, Burtons-ville; in Lakeforestmall and onNorth Frederick Avenue, bothinGaithersburg; onMuncasterMill Road, Derwood; on Rock-ville Pike, Rockville; on VeirsMill Road, Wheaton; on Wis-consin Avenue, Bethesda; andin the Aspen Hill ShoppingCenter.
All told, the electronicschain plans to shutter about1,700 stores. Its plan, filed inthe last week, also calls forabout 1,700 stores to be incor-porated into Sprint stores.
Silver Spring LA Fitnesssite sells for $13.1MWashington Property
of Bethesda has sold the48,000-square-foot LA Fit-ness gym site in downtownSilver Spring for $13.1 mil-lion, according to Greysteel ofBethesda, which arranged thesale.
The two-story facility on ahalf-acre at 8616 Cameron St.was renovated in 2007 and in-cludes a spa, basketball courtand swimming pool, accord-ing to aGreysteel news release.
The buyer was ExcaliburDevelopment of Pikesville.
CohnReznick promotestwo to partner
Accoun t i n g f i rmCohnReznick promoted Jer-emy Colville and Richard Da-vies to partner in its Bethesdaoffice.
Colville holds a bachelor’sdegree in accounting fromFrostburg State University.
Davies, a member of thefirm’s commercial real es-tate industry practice for nineyears, holds a bachelor’s inaccounting and a master ofbusiness administrationwith aconcentration in finance fromthe University of Maryland,College Park.
Freeman Cos. namesoperations directorCarl M. Freeman Cos. of
Rockville namedNeil D. Burkaof Gaithersburg director of op-erations.
Previously, was director ofasset management with Fed-eral Realty Investment Trustand CFO of PMMCos.
Liquor businesses getID calendars
Montgomery County’sDepartment of Liquor Con-trol is giving calendars to 1,010county businesses that sell al-cohol to help them avoid sell-ing tominors.
The county worked withthe Maryland Motor VehicleAdministration’s HighwaySafety Office to develop andprint the 2015 identificationchecking calendars, accordingto a county news release.
The calendar is part ofthe county’s “Keeping It Safe”public education campaigndesigned to educate busi-nesses and the community onalcohol laws and social hostresponsibility. The calendarsfeature monthly regulatorytips, important licensing datesand training schedules. Thestate agency funded the proj-ect.
The calendars also are atmontgomerycountymd.gov/dlc under “Licensing Regu-lation and Education, Re-sources.”
— GAZETTE STAFF
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OUROPINION LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
As the parent of a MontgomeryCounty public school sixth-graderand an active advocate for schools,teachers, and students, I’m deeplydisturbed by the school board’s ac-tions resulting in the resignation ofSuperintendent Joshua Starr.
In a county that places the high-est priority on quality education, fewtasks facing the board are as impor-tant as choosing and evaluating asuperintendent. Residents expect arespectful, transparent, fair, andsub-stantive process.
However, there was no transpar-ency, and nothing to reassure thepublic that the board’s review of Dr.Starr’s tenure was respectful, fair orsubstantive. Numerous press stories,fed by multiple leaks, created an ad-versarial, hostile and inappropriatelypersonal tone.
In assessing Dr. Starr’s leader-ship, the board owed him and thecounty a fair, comprehensive evalu-ation of the accomplishments of thepast 3½ years. Instead, all reviewoc-curred behind closed doors, leavingthe impression that therewasno realprocess and that personal conflicts,not the best interests of students andschools, ruled the day. Leaving ourschool system without a superinten-dent during a very difficult time is
disrespectful of everyone.I worked with Dr. Starr on many
issues. In the fall of 2013, I was a par-ent representative inMCPSoperatingbudgetmeetings.Dr.Starr impressedme with his knowledge, concern,and deep engagement. His budgetdecisions were not predetermined;thoughtful input from every depart-ment and active parent participation
were the rule.I was grateful for Dr. Starr’s data-
driven approach. Making good deci-sions about 150,000+ students whilebeing told the money isn’t there re-quires investment in things thatwork— not what someone somewherethinks is good.Dr. Starr analyzedanddeveloped an evidence base for edu-cational programming, and insisted
on meaningful program evaluationto ensure that taxpayers’ money andthe time and talents of teachers, stu-dents and staff were spentwisely.
Dr. Starr’s pragmatic budgetperspective was refreshing and reas-suring. He insisted on a strongly fo-cused, multiyear budget approach,acknowledging that some thingsneed fixing but can’t be fixed now.He didn’t just tell people what theywanted to hear, but answered ques-tions honestly.
Dr. Starr was accessible, an-sweredhardquestions, tookcriticismandacknowledgedproblems.Hewasthe public face of 20,000+ employeesand answerable for all of them.
MCPS has many challenges. Ina system this large, there’s no way tofixor focusoneverythingquickly.Butduring Dr. Starr’s tenure, I’ve seenreal, positive,measurable changes inour schools.
While some judged Dr. Starrbased on pet issues, the only validmeasure is the overall progress andsuccess of our schools and students.From that perspective, he has servedour schools well. The board, with itsactions leading toDr. Starr’s resigna-tion, has served our schools poorly.
Lynne Harris, Silver Spring
Starr’s performance was sound, data-driven
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Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr is scheduled toleave his position Monday, more than four months before his four-year contract wouldhave expired.
This letter is in response to thestory “Starr steps down as head ofcounty schools” on Feb. 4.
In theRepublicofMontgomeryCounty, it is always the approachto find out what others have donewrong rather than focus on innerreflection. The history of Mont-gomery County Public Schools hasbeen a decades-old spiral down-ward in educational performancedue to its failure to let our educa-tors do their jobs.
We have been plagued withbean-counting social engineerswho have suffered us with super-intendents who either reveled innepotism and cronyism, had theireyes set on a higher federal gov-ernment position, or just plainlydidn’t have the experience, back-ground and qualifications to stepinto a position 10 times more ex-acting than the one from which
they came.Fault should not be placed on
Mr. Starr for doing what each of uswould have done— that is, to takea high profile $200,000 job pre-sented tome on a silver platter.
The board of education, for allof its self aggrandizement andbackslapping, has providedour citizenswith a school system that appearsto be either day care centers orholding cells. The board speaks ofracial and educational equality,yet all we get is a dumbed-downcurriculum; AP and honors classesthat are mere shells of what theyused to be; teachers and educa-tors who are more paper-shufflingdrones, for county office bureau-crats, than experienced and moti-vated teachers.
If you desire racial and educa-tional equality, then the standardsmust behigher for all, not lower for
all. Get the special interest groupsout of the equation.
Personally, I would take lessthan $200,000 to do a better jobthan the three previous super-intendents of public education.Of course, we would have higherstandards, far fewer Marxist beancounters and special interest hang-ers on, more power and control toour in-class educators and admin-istrators, anda grading system thatwould challenge students and par-ents to either put up or shut up.
No student has the right tograduate if he or she does notmeet standards of attendance andsubject proficiency. MCPS needsa house cleaning from top to bot-tom.MCPS needs to finally under-stand that their only job is publiceducationandnotpublic relations.
Wilson Faris, Gaithersburg
Time for a housecleaning atMCPS
I must express my alarm at theunexpected resignation of Mont-gomery Schools SuperintendentJoshua Starr on Feb. 3.
Mr. Starr is leaving his postbefore finishing his contract afterhis hiring in 2011. Surely, if thecontracts of the past two superin-tendents merited renewal, some-thing must have seriously gonewrong under his administration.Yet, I have searched in vain for anexplanationofwhyMr. Starr “lackssupport from a majority of theeight-member board,” accordingto a Jan. 27 editorial in The Wash-ington Post, which apparentlyprompted him to resign.
Hiring a schools superinten-dent is a paramount duty of theboard and great care and consid-
eration must be taken in makingthis decision. If an error in judg-ment has been made and thesuperintendent is released fromhis position, the board must beforthcoming to the public for thereasons why. The board is elected— not appointed — and is there-fore directly accountable to thepublic.
Not one candidate in lastyear’s election, however,made theretention ofMr. Starr an issue dur-ing their campaign. Not one of theeight candidates — incumbentsand challengers — mentionedhis leadership as a pressing issueor “priority” in any of the state-ments printed in the MontgomeryCounty League of Women Voters’Guide.
Was there an emergency issuethat occurred between ElectionDay 2014 and Feb. 3? If so, whydidn’twe, thepublic, hear about it?
A reviewof recent news report-ing on the board’s activities alsoraises questions over its transpar-ency and how it might be a stum-bling block for the board.
Recently, there have been sev-eral moves in the right direction atthe county level. I hope this newculture of openness filters downinto the current board’s conduct.
I urge you to improve uponyour record of transparency andaccountability, starting with a de-tailed explanation of why a plural-ity of the board refused to offer anew contract toMr. Starr.
Kendall Watson, Kensington
Board can’t stay silent on departure
One of the elements of the dis-missalcontractofSuperintendentStarris that he and the board of educationwill not speakbadly of eachother.
Since when should taxpayermoneybeused—I’mtalkingabout the$100,000pay fornowork,whichthesu-perintendentwillget—topreventcriti-cismof elected public officials, namelythe school boardmembers.Why is thiseven legal?
Zachary Levine, Rockville
Pay agreement isquestionable
I don’t yet have school-age chil-dren, so I haven’t followed JoshuaStarr’s career closely enough to havean opinion on whether he should stayor go.
But I find the school board’s lackof transparency about Starr’s abruptdismissal tobequitedisturbing. Schoolboard members are our elected rep-resentatives, and the school superin-tendent is one of the highest-rankingofficials in the county.
We the voters and taxpayers havetheright toknowwhat theschoolboardfound problematic about Starr’s ten-ure. Thatwould tell us, farmore clearlythan campaign boilerplate, what theirpositions andpriorities are.
Yet based on the statements by Pa-triciaO’Neill andMichaelDurso, as re-ported inyourFeb.4edition, theschoolboard seems intent on papering overconflicts and avoiding accountabilityfor thedecision.
I urge The Gazette to follow up onthis issue.
Marc Goldstein, Kensington
Wedeserveanswers, notboilerplate
Not too long ago, I read that my superinten-dent, Joshua Starr, called for a three-year morato-riumon standardized testing.
When I learned of Dr. Starr’s proposal, I hadwished itwere inplacealready.By the time Igradu-ate thisMay fromThomasS.WoottonHighSchool,I will have sat through seven Maryland State As-sessments, six MAP-R Reading Tests, three Mary-landHigh School Assessments, two SATReasoningTests, three SAT II Subject Tests, one ACT, and 13AdvancedPlacement exams.
Montgomery Countymay rank among the na-tion’s highest-performing school systems, but Dr.
Starr clearly understands that such rankings areaggregations, often based on flawedmeasures likestandardized tests.
Dr. Starr’s willingness to speak out against ourcultural and institutional deification of standard-ized tests clearly reflects an understanding thatforcing teachers to teach to standardized tests willdo nothing to narrow any achievement gap, eth-nic or economic (Maryland has one of the largestwealth-based achievement gaps in thenation).
The board of education has criticized Dr. Starrfor failing to articulate a vision to narrow Mont-gomery County’s achievement gap (even as under
his tenure,Montgomery County hasmade notableprogress in narrowing that). But his courage tospeak truth to power on matters such as these re-flectsacomprehensivevision,onethat isapplicabletoMontgomeryCounty,Maryland and thenation.
Dr. Starr has stoodup to the lunacyofNoChildLeft Behind, to Common Core’s failure in Partner-ship for Assessment of Readiness for College andCareers assessments, to bring anything better, andtothosewhoprioritizepoliticalexpediencyoverdo-ing the right thing.Hewill be sorelymissed.
Ben Feshbach, North Potomac
Starr spoke up for the right educational causes
Superintendent’s resignation
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr ispreparing to leaveMontgomery CountyPublic Schools onMonday.
As he goes, the school boardmustexplain the reasons for his departure interms that don’t violate its separationagreement with him, but give the publicthe answers it needs.
Nearing the end of a four-year term incharge ofMaryland’s largest school sys-tem, Starr told Gazette reporter Lindsay
A. Powers inmid-January that he wasready and willingfor a second term,declaring himself“in it for the longhaul.”
Starr had untilFeb. 1 to formallyrequest a new con-tract. The boardhad until March 1
to say yes or no.In a Jan. 21 Gazette story polling the
board for its thoughts on another termfor Starr, two boardmembers were firmlyin favor of keeping him; he needed fiveout of eight board votes. Othermembersspoke in hazy terms of their concerns andconsiderations.
Then, the grapevine lit up. In severalstories and an editorial in late Januaryand early February, TheWashington Postanonymously quoted “county officials”who purported to know the thinking ofunnamed dissatisfied school boardmem-bers, concluding that a second Starr termwas unlikely. Othermedia joined in, andthe speculation becamewidely acceptedas truth.
When the Feb. 1 contract deadlinepassed, school officials wouldn’t say ifStarr made an official request to con-tinue. On Feb. 3, the board and Starrannounced that his time inMontgomeryCounty was ending. Not only would henot serve a second term, he wasn’t fin-ishing the first. Starr plans to stay untilMonday, more than fourmonths beforehis contract ends.
The separation agreement includes awealth of pay and benefit arrangements.He’ll get nearly $100,000 in salary hewould have earned if he worked throughJune 30, as originally planned. The schoolsystemwill provide health insurancecoverage until Dec. 31 or until he getsanother job.
The agreement also says this: “Boardmembers and the Superintendent shallrefrain frommaking disparaging remarksregarding the other. This provision shallnot be construed to prohibit the Board orthe Superintendent from discussing theschool systems (sic) objectives, policies,practices, programs, operations and thelike.”
When Starr and the board announcedtheir separation, Starr said he’d haveliked to have continued in his job. Presi-dent Patricia O’Neill, speaking for theboard on Feb. 3, is on record saying thesame thing.
Other boardmembers gathered forthe announcement, but none com-mented—notably, opponents who, pre-sumably, expressed grievances throughoff-the-record channels.
A puzzled public is left to ponder,“Why?” There have been few clues. Can-didates elected to new terms in Novem-ber didn’t campaign on getting a newsuperintendent.
Webster’s NewWorld College Dic-tionary says “disparage” is “1. to lower inesteem; discredit. 2. to speak slightinglyof; show disrespect for; belittle.”
These definitions and the rest of theseparation clause leave a wide berth fordiscussion and explanation. Boardmem-bers who didn’t want Starr to stay shouldtell students, parents and others whathappened and why, as best as they can.We’re confident that can be done without“disparaging.”
We gladly offer space on these pagesfor those answers and for Starr to re-spond, if he chooses. Silence will notsuffice.
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Montgomery Countyschools are banning plas-tic foam. I do agree that theyshould ban plastic foam andothermaterials like that.
The article that we readsaid that they do not recycleplastic foam and that is notgood for the environment be-cause if there is always trashand plastic around, thatwouldbe bad for the Earth and if thetrash gets into the ocean, thatwould affect the sea animals.
The article also says thatgetting plastic foam is ex-pensive and I already know
that most parents do not likespending too much money onsomething that they probablydon’t really need while theycan spend it on something thatthey do need.
Since the plastic foamcan-not be recycled, the CountyCouncil wanted food servicecompanies to use composta-ble trays that you can recycle.
Alexis Thornton, 10,Germantown
Thewriter is a Girl ScoutJunior in Troop 4045 in Ger-mantown.
Foam is bad for environment
I think that it is great thatyou are banning plastic foamfrom Montgomery County.Since you are banning plas-tic foam from MontgomeryCounty, people will probablystop the habit of biting thestyrofoam.
I think lots more peoplebesides me think that is agreat idea to ban styrofoam.
A reason why I think it is agreat idea tobanplastic foamis because styrofoam cannotbe reused. Often, glass andplastic can be reused.
Riya Malhotra, 10,Germantown
Thewriter is a Girl ScoutJunior in Troop 4045 in Ger-mantown.
Banning foam is a great idea
Montgomery County isgoing to stop the use of plas-tic foam. The Montgomeryschools have started to re-place their foam trays withcardboardones.
[Montgomery CountyPublic Schools Food andNutrition Services Direc-tor] Marla Caplon says thechange did not come with-out a cost. The district paysabout $150,000 more a yearfor nonfoam trays. But it’s thecost thathaspreventedMCPSfromcompletelymovingaway[to] nonfoam trays.
The first phase of the billrequires food service busi-nesses to eliminate use ofplastic foam products. Thebill also requires county gov-ernment and its contractorstomove tocompostableor re-cyclable containers [and bansthe] sale of products, includ-ing foam packing peanuts,starting in January 2016.
Madeline Moore, 10,Germantown
Thewriter is aGirl ScoutJunior inTroop 4045 inGer-mantown.
County will move awayfrom foam products
I have read your articleabout Montgomery banningplastic foam. I think that this isa problem that you have takenverywell.
As a kid, I have realized thatIhavebeenseeingtheseactionsaround me. For example, myschool has stopped using plas-tic foam trays and startedusingcardboard ones. I do agree thatthis is a topic that should bediscussed and I also agree thatthey should banplastic foam.
As a Girl Scout, our troopis always trying to make theworld a better place and be apartof society.And I thinkban-ningplastic foamwill helpwiththis matter. Thank for your co-operation and listening to myletter.
Brenna Pagliarulo, 11,Germantown
Thewriter is aGirl ScoutJunior in Troop 4045 inGer-mantown.
Girl Scouts support actiontomake the world better
Montgomery County, Iagree with you that styrofoamcups should be banned.
One of the reasons is kidscan choke on it. Another isthat styrofoam can harm theanimals. Another is that styro-foam factories use chemicalstomake styrofoam.
Some other reasons arethat the styrofoam can break
easily. Some ofmy reasons arethat the styrofoamcanbecomeall over the ground becausepeople litter.
Pariss Whitehead, 10,Germantown
Thewriter is aGirl ScoutJunior inTroop 4045 inGer-mantown.
There aremany reasonsfor outlawing foam
I read your article aboutwhy Montgomery County isgoing to ban plastic foam. Itotally agree with your infor-mation provided. I think thatMontgomery County shouldban plastic foam. It makessense that the little pieces ofstyrofoam are hard to detect.
I live in Germantown andlitter is a huge problem in myneighborhood. I see styrofoama lot and I think that banning itwould help litter a lot.
Also, if you didn’t hear, inmy neighborhood, the play-ground got burnt and the newone got put up! So if you knowanyone who helped with that,tell them I said thank you!Thank you for reading my let-ter!
Lauren Seib, 10,Germantown
Thewriter is a Girl ScoutJunior in Troop 4045 in Ger-mantown.
Foam pieces add to the litter
LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
Scouts weigh in on plastic foam ban
It is hard to keep up with themounting evidence that electroniccigarettes pose more risks than theirmarketerswould like us to believe, es-pecially for children and teens.
Although electronic cigarettes donot produce tobacco smoke, they docontain nicotine and other dangerouschemicals. That’s why I introduced abill in theMontgomeryCountyCoun-cil to prohibit the use of electroniccigarettes in public spaces where tra-ditional cigarette smoking is banned,including in public buildings and res-taurants. The bill also would prohibituse of electronic cigarettes by minorsand would require child-resistantpackaging for them.
The use of electronic cigarettes,commonlycalled“vaping,”hasgrowndramatically since the product’s in-troduction in 2007. The practice hasbecome so commonplace that theOxford Dictionary selected the word“vape” as its 2014 “Wordof the Year.”
Perhaps swayed by the belief thatelectronic cigarettes are safe, or em-boldened by the fact that e-cigs havelittle odor that parents could detect,teenswhohave never tried traditionalcigarettes are using e-cigs. In fact,the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention report that e-cig use hastripled among teens in just two years.These young people are unwittinglyputting themselves at risk for nicotine
addiction and nicotine poisoning, aswellaspotentiallygraduatingtoharm-ful tobaccoproducts.
What exactly is in an electroniccigarette? It is hard to say. In addi-tion to themost common ingredients— propylene glycol, nicotine and fla-vorings — studies have revealed a lotof unsavory things, like carcinogens,heavy metals and even silicon fibersin some e-cigs. But with 90 percentof electronic cigarettes being manu-factured in China, where productionlacks even the most basic of regula-tions, they could contain just aboutanything.
Many states, including Maryland,prohibit the sale of electronic ciga-
rettes to minors. Municipalities in-cluding New York City, Los Angeles,Boston and Chicago, also have en-acted restrictions on their use.
While the Food and Drug Ad-ministration is currently consideringregulations to address electronic ciga-rettes, it isnotclearwhenthoseregula-tionswould be finalized or take effect.In the meantime, I’m not willing togamble with the health of our currentgeneration of young people. Wemustput someprotections inplace, andwemust do it now.
Nancy Floreen, Garrett ParkThewriter is vice president of the
MontgomeryCountyCouncil.
Use of electronic cigarettes must be restrictedThis is a recommendation letter for Nev-
ille Levi as a candidate forMontgomeryVillageBoard of Directors.
Mr. Levi has experience as a formerMont-gomery Village Foundation Board member,serving two terms, andparticipated on severalsubcommittees over the years. As a resident ofMontgomery Village for 16 years, he has beenengaged with the community and is enthu-siastic to work with the board to continue tohelp improve the quality of life for the com-munity.
Craig L. Rice, GermantownThewriter is aMontgomery County coun-
cilman.
Levi is good forMontgomery Village
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WRESTLING: Damascus, led by senior Mikey Macklin(top), tries to defend its wrestling duals state title thisweek, beginning with regionals on Wednesday.
GIRLS BASKETBALL: QO at Watkins Mill, 7 pm Friday.
TRACK: State championships, Monday & Tuesday.
n Coyotes, Jaguars dominateto claim 4A West Region
championships in indoor track
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
Northwest High School senior Di-ego Zarate had about 18 minutes afterseemingly dipping into the last of hisenergy reserves for a sprint finish in acome-from-behind victory in the 800meters in Thursday’s Class 4A WestRegion track championship before hehad to reappear at the starting line forthe meet-finale 1,600 relay that fol-lowed. The relay was his fourth eventof the night but Zarate showed nosigns of weakness during his leg andthe Jaguars finished second, barely.
“[The meet] was way too fast,it was a joke, it hurts the athletes,”Northwest coach Robert Youngbloodsaid. “You need to slow it down....[The rest of the team] was there tomake sure Diego was able to recover.
I got it in his head that he is mentallystronger [than anyone out there].”
Thursday’s competition held atthe Prince George’s Sports and Learn-ing Complex, which was won by thisyear’s Montgomery County cham-pion Northwest boys and Clarksburggirls, moved at an extremely rapidclip. Most championship track meetslast upwards of six hours but Thurs-day’s was finished in just over three,due in large part to the limited field.
Each team was permitted threeentries per event in Thursday’s all-Montgomery County competitionbut only the top 24 times, heights anddistances were accepted. Despite thefewer number of heats needed perevent, Youngblood said it would doathletes better to provide more restbetween events.
“You train for it but no matter howhard you train, running four eventsin two hours [is a lot],” Blake coachBrandon Tynes said.
But runners are used to pushing
Clarksburg girls, Northwest boys win region titles
I’m goingto date myselfhere: On Sat-urday, I cov-ered my 11thWashingtonMetropolitanInterscholasticSwimming andDiving Cham-pionships. Need-less to say, I’mno stranger tohow the meet works, I’ve even pickedout my favorite viewing spot. But Sat-urday, after I flashed my press passin return for one of those “official”orange vests and was told multipletimes in a rather stern manner not todare try and speak to Stone Ridge se-nior and 2012 Olympic gold medalistKatie Ledecky while on the pool deck— a formal press conference was tofollow the conclusion of the meet— I was denied access to “my spot.”There were barricades everywhereand, to go along with the biggestcrowd I’ve ever seen at a high schoolswimming competition, security wasthe tightest it’s ever been at Metros.
I’ll admit I was annoyed by theinconvenience at first but quicklyrealized how completely necessary itwas. At last winter’s championship,it seemed Ledecky couldn’t go any-where on deck without being askedfor an autograph or picture — I’mtalking about during the competition.As in, she was minutes away fromgetting up on the starting blocks toswim a race and go for an Americanrecord and young kids, understand-ably, were holding out pieces ofpaper for her to sign and snappingpictures with their phones. And ofcourse, Ledecky, a sweet and incred-ibly grounded person, was lettingthem. I’m half convinced she mighthave stayed there and missed herevent had her coach not come over toregulate.
I can’t imagine Ledecky deny-ing anyone an autograph or photo,no matter how bright her star shines— and it’s already pretty bright. I’veseen her hang around meets long af-ter everyone else has left to make sureshe’s talked to every little kid, to fansof all ages who approach her, no mat-ter how tired she might be.
“It’s always good to give back,I felt great support from this com-munity during the Olympics and atworlds and swimming at the inter-national level, I’ve definitely reallyappreciated all the support,” Ledeckysaid. “It’s fun to see and meet some ofthe younger swimmers and the littlekids that are aspiring to be really goodswimmers when they grow up. ...
“I remember being a 6-year-oldand watching my brother swim. Hewas 9 and I would look up to all thekids who were juniors and seniors inhigh school and be in awe of them.And from there to getting autographsfrom Olympians when I was little. Iknow how much that impacted me soit’s something that it’s a good feelingwhen you can give back like that.”
We have all been extremely privi-leged to be a part of this Ledecky highschool era. While this area has pro-duced its share of Olympians — whenI first started working at The Gazette,Kate Ziegler was a junior at BishopO’Connell, breaking American records— these last three-plus years havebeen something truly special, a once-
Ledecky stillgiving backto the fans
SPORTSWRITERJENNIFER BEEKMAN
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Northwest’s Diego Zarate won the 1,600 meters during Thursday’s Class 4A West Regionindoor track meet at Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex in Landover.See LEDECKY, Page B-2
n Eagles control the offensive boards in thesecond half of blowout
BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFF WRITER
The Seneca Valley High School boys basketball teamhit a gear in the second half of Friday night’s game againsthost Wheaton that the Knights couldn’t match.
Seneca forced turnovers, dominated the offensiveboards, and scored in the paint at will to erase a three-point halftime deficit and win 72-56 at Wheaton.
Eagles sophomore Brandon Simpson and junior WillCraig, in particular, gave Wheaton the most trouble inthe paint. Simpson finished the game with 20 points and16 rebounds and Craig had 20 points — all in the secondhalf — and 13 rebounds. Junior Quentin Twyman addedanother eight boards.
“We would force them to take some shots on the pe-rimeter but we couldn’t grab the rebound and they got theoffensive board and they scored,” Wheaton coach MarcoBasso-Luca said. “It’s really demoralizing when you playdefense for a while, and you think you’re hustling, andthey miss the shot and you can’t get the rebound.”
The first half didn’t start particularly well for Wheaton,but the inconsistent Knights — as Basso-Luca describedthem — fought back early. Seneca got ahead of Wheaton
in the first quarter, but a late run by the Knights tight-ened the lead to just two points by the end of the period.That momentum carried over into the second quarter asWheaton’s top scorers, Stephon Moore and Jacob Payne,combined to score 15 of 16 points in the quarter, mostlyon layups. Moore scored a game-high 25 points.
In the third quarter however, Seneca looked likea completely different team. The Eagles pressured
Seneca toomuch forWheaton
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Seneca Valley High School’s Brandon Simpson drives against Wheaton’s Adelin Nguimfack Beton during Friday’s boys basketball gamein Wheaton.
“It’s really demoralizing when youplay defense for a while, and you
think you’re hustling, and theymiss the shot and you can’t get the
rebound.”Marco Basso-Luca,Wheaton coach
See EAGLES, Page B-2
See TRACK, Page B-2
n Top high school athleteschange their minds, sign with
another school
BY ERIC GOLDWEINSTAFF WRITER
Last week’s national signing daywas a formality for many high schoolathletes who’d already reached non-binding verbal commitments to playfootball with their respective schools.
But with a perceived increase offlipped recruits — athletes who makea verbal commitment to one school,and then end up signing with another— means highly-touted prospects aresurrounded by skepticism until theyput pen to paper.
It’s unclear whether players aredecommitting more now than theydid five or 10 years ago. But if flippingisn’t more prevalent, it’s certainlymore visible. With media expand-ing its recruiting coverage and socialmedia usage becoming more wide-spread, the top high school talentis being tracked closely well beforesigning day.
Tom Luginbill, ESPN’s nationalrecruiting director, said that athleteshave started using that attention totheir advantage by creating an en-vironment where they’re in higherdemand. Whereas before some re-cruiting was done with, athletes nowhave an outlet to market themselves.
“Kids are savvy ... They under-stand that throughout the process,they hold all the cards. By and large,they have all the leverage,” Luginbillsaid.
Though decommitting remainsthe exception to the rule, there wereseveral instances in MontgomeryCounty and Prince George’s County.Tyler Green, a senior from DeMathain Hyattsville, verbally committedto Ohio State in June — calling it his“dream school” — before decommit-ting in December and landing withIndiana (Big Ten) five days later.
Bullis senior Devonte Williamshad committed to Marshall (Confer-ence USA) in November but backed
Top recruitsflip a lot onsigning day
See VERBAL, Page B-2
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themselves through pain andfatigue, especially in a cham-pionship atmosphere such asThursday’s. And that is exactlywhat Montgomery County’sbest did and the resultwas somefantastic races.
The region meets set thetone for the state meet sched-uled for Feb. 17 at the PrinceGeorge’s Sports and LearningComplex. The top 4 finishers
in each event automaticallyadvance to the season-endingchampionship. Other athletescan reach the state competitionby achieving certain pre-deter-mined standards that can befound on the Maryland PublicSecondary Schools Athletic As-sociation website.
“Honestly, I didn’t evenhave time to think of how shortthe breaks were,” said Clarks-burg senior Lucie Noall, whoran the 800, 1,600 and 3,200events in two hour’s time. “Ourgoal was to just win the region,
wewon it last year so it’s specialto us to be able to do it twice ina row. And we just wanted toget as many people to statesas we could. Clarksburg hasn’talways been the strongest girlsteam so [Thursday] was a goodday for us.”
The defending state run-ner-up Coyote girls finishedwith 84 points Thursday,ahead of Northwest in secondplace with 65. Paint Branch (55points), Walter Johnson (47)and Blake (44) rounded out thetop 5. Northwest’s boys col-
lected 116 points for the winwhile Paint Branch (74), QuinceOrchard (38), Clarksburg (31.5)and Richard Montgomery (31)finished second through fifth.
Thursday featured fourdouble individual event win-ners: Zarate (800, 1,600), North-west junior Shyheim Wright(high jump, hurdles), Blake se-niorMartha Sam (300, 500) andClarksburg junior Alexus Pyles(hurdles, high jump).
Other individual event win-ners included, Wootton’s JaronWoodyard (55 meters), North-
west’s JalenWalker (300), PaintBranch’s Oliver Lloyd (500),Whitman’s Amir Khaghani(3,200) and Clare Severe (800),Quince Orchard’s Noah Ver-nick (shotput), Clarksburg’sChris Spiess (pole vault) andJustina Ababio (shot put),Magruder’s Stephanie Davis(55 dash), Paint Branch’s Beth-lehem Taye (3,200) and Wal-ter Johnson’s Kiernan Keller(1,600) and Victoria Holton(pole vault).
“The idea is to put ev-erything in place for states,”
Youngblood said. “We’ve gotnine boys and nine girls go-ing to states. The boys are ona mission, last year everyonesaid it was a fluke that we won.The girls, they might not beatClarksburg, and they mightnot beat Bowie, but if you putenough pieces there, you seewhat happens.”
Note: For complete resultscheck the Maryland PublicSecondary Schools Athletic As-sociation website.
TRACKContinued from Page B-1
ball-handlers in a half court de-fense, prevented drives into thelane and forced turnovers. Whenthe Knights did get into the lane,theEaglesmade it toughfor them
to finish. Seneca burned Whea-ton’s press defense to add moreeasy hoops and essentially wonthe gamewith a 30-12 advantagein the third quarter. Eagles coachBrian Humphrey said the team’syouth — they only have two se-niors—mayhaveplayed into theslow start.
“A lot of stuff [Wheaton]got in the first half was on fastbreaks,” Humphrey said. “So [inthe second half] we send two orthree guys back on our shots tomake sure they couldn’t get theirtransition stuff. And we just toldthemcontinue to attack.”
“We knew we had the size,”
Simpson said. “We were justplaying flat [in the first half]. Wehad towakeup.Weweremadwewere losing ... at halftime.”
Point guard Dejaun Smithonly scored five points for Sen-eca, but dished out a numberof assists — particularly on fastbreaks following Wheaton turn-
overs. He’s usually the player toget things going for Seneca’s of-fense, but it was Simpson’s ag-gression that opened things upfor the team on Friday, Hum-phrey said.
“Whether hewas in the paintor he was on the perimeter, hejustcontinuedtodrive.Andwhen
they started worrying about him,then all of a sudden every thingjust openedup,”Humphrey said.
“When we are playing teambasketball and actually do sharethe ball [this is what we looklike].”
EAGLESContinued from Page B-1
lifetimeopportunity for swim-mers to get to train and competeagainst anOlympic championandmultipleworld recordholder and for young children towatchone. Thenext great Ameri-can swimmer couldbeoneof
these 11-year-oldswhobeggedtheir parents to drive 2 1/2hoursto see Ledecky swim inperson—I talked to oneof themSaturday.Ledecky’s success— four-timeworld champion, five-timePanPacific goldmedalist, a plethoraof other awards andaccolades—has also brought consistentattention to a sport the generalpublic typically only cares about
once every four years.Oneofmybest friends,who I’mpretty surehasnever seen a swimmeet butlives down the street fromStoneRidge, called afterworlds in thesummerof 2013 to ask if I’d everheardof Katie Ledecky and thenproceeded to list her accom-plishments.
Whenever I hint to Ledeckyat howeasily shewins her high
school races, her response isalways kindwords about her fel-lowcompetitors.
When I’ve askedwhat it’s liketo be 16, now17,with 25,000-plus Twitter followers and fansfromall over theworld callingher their idol, she smiles butdownplays her fame. And shehas a tonof charitable involve-ments.
These are the admirablequalities I thinkmakehermostworthy of her rolemodel status,possibly evenmore thanher ac-complishments.
This is a personwhohasrewritten swimminghistorybefore she’s graduatedhighschool. Shehas every right to bearrogant and expect preferentialtreatment, but as StoneRidge
coachBobWalker toldmeearlierthis season, she’s still just Katie,a regular teenage girl and thefriendher cronies have grownupwith.
Here’s to hoping I get towrite a similar column in 10years.
LEDECKYContinued from Page B-1
out at the last second to signwith Indiana.
Adam McLean, a seniorfromQuince Orchard, accepteda verbal offer from Penn Statein April, only to decommit inNovember and then committo Maryland in December. Thestar defensive lineman, whohad offers from both schools in2013, said he had a change ofheart after suffering a right kneeinjury this past season. He an-nounced his decision on Twit-ter after notifying Penn State,and was greeted by a harsh on-line response.
“I thought some peoplewould have a little bit more re-spect ... a lot of people thoughtI was kind of a traitor,” McLeansaid.
Coaches and recruitingexperts said the acceleratedrecruiting process can resultin athletes making decisionsbefore they’re ready. Some aregiven ultimatums, and toldtheir scholarship spots will betaken if they don’t accept theverbal offers.
Isaiah Prince, a heavily re-cruited lineman from EleanorRoosevelt (Greenbelt), verballycommitted to Alabama on Jan.22 before committing to OhioState on signing day. Raiderscoach Tom Green said that
Prince had accepted the origi-nal offer to Alabama after hewas pressured by the SEC pow-erhouse.
“In so many words they tellyou if you don’t take it [they]don’t have a spot for you,”Green said.
The accelerated recruitinghas presented challenges to thecollege teams too. Occasionally,in their quest to lock down thetop talent, some schools haveended up offering scholarshipsthey couldn’t provide. That wasthe case at Louisville, whereone of the recruits, Matt Col-burn, had his scholarship offerpulled two days before sign-ing day and was suggested to
greyshirt — come to school inJanuary.
But while both sides areplaying cat and mouse, eyes re-main on the athletes. The moretalented they are, the harderthey’re being recruited. And theharder they’re being recruited,the softer their commitmentsmay get.
“What’s happening is thateverything is such a rat race,that kids jump on somethingand they have 18 months leftin the process,” Luginbill said.“They’re young people and theycan be easily influenced.”
VERBALContinued from Page B-1
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Bullis High School senior Devonte Williams verbally committed to Marshallbefore changing to Indiana.
BASEBALLn Matt Ainesworth, Wootton, Gettysburg College
Sam Goldberg, Wootton, McAllister
FIELD HOCKEYn Jessica Zhang, Quince Orchard, St. Mary’s College
FOOTBALLn Adam McLean, Quince Orchard, University of
MarylandDorian Jones, Quince Orchard, Gannon UniversityJonathan Holland, Bullis, Pennsylvania StateUniversityDevonte Williams, Bullis, Indiana UniversityDamola Orimolade, Bullis, Marist CollegeJalen Christian, Damascus, South CarolinaUniversityJesse Locke, Churchill, Gannon UniversityNeven Sussman, Sherwood High School, Univeristyof AlbanyKamonte Carter, Gaithersburg High School,Pennsylvania State UniversityCalvin Bacon, Sherwood High School, CheyneyUniversityTyler Jones, Sherwood High School, Notre DameCollege (Ohio)Barrington Davis, Clarksburg High School, NassauCommunity CollegeBrendan Thompson, Northwest, MillersvilleUniversityBrandon Williams, Northwest, Georgetown University
GOLFn Justin Feldman, Wootton, University of Maryland
BOYS LACROSSEn Jake Christensen, Quince Orchard, Colgate
UniversityJared Feuer, Quince Orchard, Delaware ValleyCollegeTyler Milwit, Quince Orchard, Rhodes CollegeCole Abid, Wootton, Washington CollegePatrick Cornelius, Wootton, Lynchburg
GIRLS LACROSSEn Delaney Muldoon, Holy Cross, Penn State University
Jackie Branthover, Holy Cross, Central ConnecticutState UniversityLogan Smet, Holy Cross, Monmouth UniversityBethany Scott, Gaithersburg High School, LongwoodUniversity
BOYS SOCCERn Greg Burnham, Quince Orchard, Coast Guard
AcademyPhillip Grossman, Northwest, Old DominionUniversityKevin Hwang, Quince Orchard, George WashingtonWielfried Zouantcha, Northwest, Loyola UniversityDevin Weiner, Wootton, York College
GIRLS SOCCERn Annabelle Phillips, Churchill, University of Hartford
Clare Severe, Whitman, Lehigh UniversityCourtney Kwaloff, Damascus, Goucher CollegeEmma Anderson, Whitman, Columbia UniversityGabby Kase, Quince Orchard, Gettysburg CollegeJamie Montgomery, Gaithersburg High School,Palm Beach Atlantic UniversityKali Amoah, Good Counsel, Old Dominion UniversityKate Reese, Churchill, Loyola University (MD)Keaira Clark, Churchill, University of RichmondLexy Andrews, Good Counsel, Loyola University(MD)Maddie Pack, Good Counsel, Syracuse UniversitySam Sullenger, Quince Orchard, West PointSarah Gutch, Quince Orchard, Bates CollegeStephi Shin, Quince Orchard, Columbia UniversityAlyssa Kopsidas, Wootton, Lynchburg
SOFTBALLn Lindsey Kelly, Damascus, Marion Military Institute
Nicole Stockinger, Sherwood High School, Towson
SWIMMINGn Ali Holm, Whitman, Towson University
Kevin Johnson, Whitman, Washington UniversityMatt Giroux, Damascus, Susquehanna UniversityStephen Pastoriza, Whitman, Bowdoin CollegeMichael Sullivan, Whitman, University of WisconsinEmily Zhang, Wootton, George WashingtonUniversity
CROSS COUNTRYn Diego Zarate, Northwest, Virginia Tech
TRACK AND FIELDn Evan Woods, Whitman, William & Mary
Lela Walter, Whitman, Amherst
VOLLEYBALLn Ellie Goodwin, Holy Cross, Towson University
Jessica Wang, Wootton, University of ChicagoLauren Martin, Wootton, St. Louis University
WRESTLINGn Garrett Ruderman, Wootton, Case Western
SIGNING DAY
BEST BETn Quince Orchard at Watkins Mill, 7 p.m. Friday:Up-and-coming QO take on a senior-led WatkinsMill team in matchup of two top teams whohappen to be neighbors.
BEST BETn Georgetown Prep at Bullis, 7:30 p.m. Friday:IAC foes clash in the regular season finale asteams try to lock down their seeds for theupcoming tournament.
BASKETBALL HOW THEY RANK
Also receiving votes: Georgetown Prep(15-8), 1.
The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school basketball teams inMontgomery County.
Boys
Rank School Record Points
1. Montrose Christian 16-3 602. Springbrook 15-2 543. Magruder 14-4 453. Richard Montgomery 16-1 455. St. Andrew’s Episcopal 17-3 336. Takoma Academy 22-5 307. Gaithersburg 13-4 258. Bullis 17-6 189. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 12-5 1310. Charles E. Smith Jewish Day 14-1 6
Girls
Rank School Record Points
1. Whitman 15-0 602. Paint Branch 17-1 543. Holy Child 17-3 484. Wootton 15-3 395. Good Counsel 14-9 386. Churchill 13-4 317. Walter Johnson 13-4 248. Damascus 11-6 169. Covenant Life 14-2 1010. Poolesville 11-6 5
Also receiving votes: Jewish Day (13-1), 3;Sherwood (11-6), 2.
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.Anthony Tarke, Gaithersburg 17 437 25.7Walter English,McLean 14 330 23.6Aaron Byrd, Landon 20 435 21.8JonathanMustamu, Kennedy 13 274 21.1Jauvenel Leveill Jr., Northwood 15 300 20.0David Levieddin, Hebrew 14 260 18.6Bryan Knapp, JewishDay 15 278 18.5AlaniMoore,Montrose Christian 19 332 17.5XavierMcCants, Sherwood 15 257 17.1Bobby Arthur-Williams, Covenant Life 14 238 17.0
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.DominiqueWalker,WatkinsMill 15 330 22.0Danielle Durjan,WatkinsMill 15 316 21.1DaisaHarris, Paint Branch 18 363 20.2Hope Randolph,Magruder 16 286 17.9Sheri Addison,Wootton 18 314 17.4Daphne Lerner, JewishDay 14 239 17.1Khadijah Pearson, Kennedy 14 232 16.6AbbyMeyers,Whitman 15 247 16.5Japria Karim-DuVall, Churchill 17 270 15.9Dalina Julien, Einstein 120 190 15.8
Coaches and team statisticiansmay email season team statistics to [email protected] beforenoon onMondays to be included.
Kennedy hires ex-Damascuscoach to lead football program
KennedyHigh School hiredDanMakosy as itsnew football coach, the school’s Principal Joe Rubenssaid Tuesday.Makosy, who coachedDamascus for10 seasons from 1998-2007, returns toMontgomeryCounty after last coaching at Howard County’s Ham-mond in 2012.Makosy is known as one of the state’smost successful coaches, winning three state titleswith the Swarmin’ Hornets in 2003, 2005, and 2007.The 2005 teamwent 14-0. Hewas replaced at Damas-cus because of personal finance issues, according tonews reports.
“I’m really big on ensuring all of our adults are rolemodels andwe did talk about things that transpired atDamascus and hewas able to demonstrate and satisfythat had been resolved some years ago,” Rubens said.
In his four season’s at Hammond,Makosy helpedturn a struggling program around. He led the Bearsto their first playoff appearance in 2010 with a 10-2record. He’ll be facedwith a similar situation at Ken-nedy, which hasn’t had awinning record since 2007.The Cavaliers were 1-8 last season under CarlosSmith, who resigned inNovember. Kennedy plans ameet the coach event for players and parents at 5:30p.m.Wednesday.
—PRINCE J. GRIMES
Churchill hires football coachChurchill High School has hired Albert Song as
its next football coach, the school’s Athletic DirectorScott Rivinius said.
Song is a 1996 graduate of the Potomac school andwas a Bulldogs assistant from 2006 to 2008. Riviniussaid Song’s ties to the school played a factor in himbeing a strong candidate.
“The strongest [factor] is his passion for Churchilland the Churchill program,” Rivinius said. “[He] hasa lot of passion for the program as a former player,former coach, and that really got us excited. He hasstrong experience too.”
Song spent the past six years as an assistant coachat Seneca Valley where he also teaches English. Hewas the offensive coordinator the past two years. Ri-vinius said Churchill will try to get Song in the build-ing as a teacher as well. Song replaces Joe Allen whostepped down in January and recently accepted thecoaching position at Northwood.
—PRINCE J. GRIMES
County football starscompete for Team USA
Several county football players weremembersof the United States Under-18 national team, whichplayed Canada on Jan. 30 at AT&T Stadium in Arling-ton, Texas. TeamUSA lost to TeamCanada 25-9, butAvalon School’s TrevonDiggs helped to set up theU.S.’ only touchdown of the game. Diggs took a shortpass 75 yards to the Canada 3 before RobertWashing-ton of Charlotte, N.C. capped the drive with a 1-yardrun. Diggs’ Avalon teammate, linebacker Izayah Tay-lor, was also on the team. Bullis quarterback DwayneHaskins was named a team captain.
—PRINCE J. GRIMES
Former Montrose starsidelined with injury
Montrose Christian graduate Justin Anderson,a junior guard for the University of Virginia’smenbasketball team, will miss four to six weeks with afractured finger on his left (shooting) hand, accordingto an ESPN report. The school announced Saturdaythat Anderson, who leads the Cavaliers in scoring,would be undergoing surgery. Anderson ledMontroseChristian to the 2011 ESPNHigh School National Invi-tational title andwas the Gazette Player of the Year in2012. “Thanks for the concerns and [prayers],” Ander-sonwrote in a tweet on Sunday. “All went well. I’ll beback soon #GoHoos.”
—ADAM GUTEKUNST
Burtonsville native representingU.S. in speed skating
BenjaminOh, of Burtonsville, is representing theUnited States in short track speed skating at the 2015Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain. Oh, a fresh-man at the University of Pennsylvania, trains withtheUnited Capital Blades Speedskating Club at theWheaton and Rockville ice arenas. Hewas the 2014National Champion in short track speed skating forhis age group.
Thewinter games are running from Feb. 4 throughSaturday, with short track speed skating scheduledWednesday through Friday.
—ERIC GOLDWEIN
KEEPING IT BRIEF
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n First non-medical workby doctor turns cathartic
Thedoctor is in, andhe isdoingwhat hewants.
Lifewasnot always thatway forDavid J. Sherer,M.D.His story is oneof thosenot-uncommon situations inwhichabidingby thedictates of familyand culture eventually facilitatethe freedom topursueone’s owndreams.
Although youngDavid as-piredfirst to be aprofessionalfootball player—andafter givingthat up, an actor, comedianormusician (hemajored inmusicwith a concentration inpianoat EmoryUniversity), he aban-doned thosedreams after real-izing “along theway…that all ofthose careers bore little chanceof real success.”
Sherer’s parents expectedtheir son, an alumnusofWaltWhitmanHigh School inBethesda, to follow their leaddespite his interest in sportsand the arts. “My fatherwas agreat doctor: compassionate,knowledgeable, scientific inhisthinking andapproach.He cameto theNIH in 1953 todohisendocrinology fellowship…,”said thenow57-year-old clini-cal anesthesiologist. “Mymomusedher nursingdegree—no lie—so she couldmarry a doctor.Not as uncommonas you think.Shedidplay thepiano sinceherchildhoodandbecame, as anadult, an almost concert levelperformer.”
And so, he recalled, “beingafirstborn Jewishmale, itwas
Calvinistic-ally predeterminedforme to go tomed school.”After graduating from theBostonUniversity School ofMedicine,and an internalmedicine in-ternship inBaltimore, Shererearned a residency certificate inanesthesiology at theUniversityofMiami/JacksonMemorialHospital program.A specialty inanesthesiology “was the ‘it girl’ ofthe time, a very popular choice:noofficeneeded, portable, [and]intellectually challenging.” Thedecisionhadmixed long-termresults in the sense that theBethesda-basedphysicianhas“found it, at times, satisfying,but on thewhole, notworth thestress and frustrationof caringformanywhodon’t take care ofthemselves.”
In late 2011, “during amidlife crisis of sorts,” Sherer didsomething for himself.He set outto findLouise JohnsonMorris,theAfricanAmericanmaidwhoworked for his family in theirtownof Somerset,MontgomeryCounty home.He considered“Weezy,” asMorriswas affec-tionately known, amajor influ-ence onwhohebecame.Hismemoir, “TheHouse of Black&White,” is the story of their timetogether andhis search for her,some three decades after she lefthis family.
Sherer hadmultiple pur-poses inwriting thebook.Henot only sought to honorMorris
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Audiences will be trans-ported back to school and fearsofgettingcalledon inclasswhenentering Kensington Arts The-atre’s production of “The 25thAnnual PutnamCountySpellingBee,”whichopens Friday.
The musical focuses on sixadolescents participating in aspelling bee, with the help offour volunteers pulled from theaudience as additional competi-tors.Themixof scriptedcomedyand improvisation make for anentertaining show that changesevery night.
Becauseof theneed tocomeup with dialogue and reactionson the spot, director BobbyLibby looked for actors with afunnyboneduring the audition-ingprocess.
“There’s going to be an ele-mentof improvnomatterwhat,”hesaid, “so Iwantedpeoplewhocould reacton thefly towhat theaudiencewasdoing.That’swhatI was sniffing out during audi-tions, getting people with thecomedic chops to handle thematerial.”
The production was alreadyplanned for the season beforeLibby came on board; this is hisfirst directing gig with Kensing-ton Arts Theatre as well as hisfirst in charge of amusical.
Ultimately, he thought theKensington Armory where KATholds its productions wouldlend itself to a spelling bee feel,
andthestyleof theshowseemeduphis alley.
“It’s consistently veryclever,” he said, “and also I justcan’t sayenoughabout theemo-tional journeys thecharactersgoon. It surprisesyouhowmuchofan emotional wallop it can packout of nowhere. I think peoplewill remember it for a long time
after seeing it.”Dylan Echter plays one of
the contestants, Chip, return-ing champion of the PutnamCounty Spelling Bee. He’s seenas an all-American boy with abit of an ego who gets knockeddownapegdue toeventsduringthe competition.
“His need to do well in this
competition comes more fromthe pressure he puts on himselfrather thanother people puttingpressure on him,” Echter said.“That especially is something Irelate to with him, piling on thepressure to make everything in-credibly perfect.”
Each of the contestants hasa different story sure to reso-nate with at least one person,on-stage or in the audience. Nomatter the age or backgroundof someone watching the musi-cal, someone on stage will feelfamiliar.
“These characters, eventhough theyarechildrenandareall very weird, they’re also justvery relatable,” saidEmmaLord,
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The cast of Kensington Arts Theatre’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” gathers inrehearsal before opening night Feb. 13.
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Scottish Country Dancing, 8 to 10 p.m.Mondays, steps and formations taught. Noexperience, partner necessary, T-39 Build-ing onNIH campus,Wisconsin Avenue andSouthDrive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthurBlvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays, 8:15 p.m.beginner lesson, 9 to 11:30 p.m. dancing toDJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish BallroomAn-nex, $8, capitalblues.org.
Contra, Feb. 13, RachelMcCandliss calls tothe fabulous Glen EchoOpenBand, 7:30 p.m.,$10, fridaynightdance.org.
English Country, Feb. 11, Susan Taylorcaller, 8 p.m., Glen Echo TownHall (upstairs),fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, Feb. 14, RedDress Ballwith the Eric Felten JazzOrchestra, $18, $12,17 and younger. Glen Echo Park Spanish Ball-room, flyingfeet.org.
Waltz, Feb. 15, Audacious with Larry Un-ger (guitar & banjo), Audrey Knuth (fiddle),Paul Oorts (mandolin & accordion) &more;waltztimedances.org.
Ring of Kerry Irish Dance class, groupmeets on Tuesday’s until lateMay at Rid-geviewMiddle School. Beginning class startsat 7 p.m., followed by the experienced class at8:05 p.m. The cost is $50. Ceili and set dancesare performed, and no partner is requiredfor the lessons. For information, email Jeanat [email protected] or visit ringofkerry-dancers.org. Dancersmust be at least 8 yearsold to senior. Anyone younger than 16mustbe accompanied by an adult.
Silver Spring Contradance, Civic Building,Great Hall, Feb. 12, 7 to 10 p.m., One VeteransPlaza at Fenton & Ellsworth, Free parking at801 Ellsworth. Paul Oorts, guitar, mandolin,banjos, cittern,musette accordion.
Alexander Mitchell, fiddle, Ralph Gordon,bass. Caller: Janine Smith, Refreshmentsduring social break 7 to 7:30 p.m. BeginnerDanceWorkshop, 7:30 to 10 p.m. Free tofirst-timers; $5 students; $8 FSGW, BFMSmembers/revels; $10 general admission.
MUSICArts Barn, Caitlin Canty, workshop and
concert, Feb. 19, $45 for both, $25 concertonly; 311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394.
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club,Duke EllingtonOrchestra, Feb. 14; Duke El-lingtonOrchestra, Feb. 15; Billy Ocean, Feb.17; Bethesda Blues & JazzOrchestra, Feb. 18;SoundConnection, Feb. 20; call for prices,times, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts, SwingDance Party, Feb. 13; District Comedy, Feb.14; 12901 TownCommonsDrive, German-town. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org.
Fillmore Silver Spring, 50 Cent w/GUnit,Feb. 12; Periphery, Feb. 13; BiancaDel Rio,Feb. 19; Jencarlos Canela, Feb. 20; The Ex-pendables, Feb. 21; JoeNichols, Feb. 26; RaTheMC, Feb. 27; 8656 Colesville Road, SilverSpring. fillmoresilverspring.com.
Strathmore, Cristian Perez, Feb. 11; Spe-ktral Quartet, Feb. 12; BSO: All-Bach, Feb.12; BSOOff the Cuff: The Bach Family, Feb.13; John Pizzarelli and JaneMonheit, Feb.14; ChineseNewYear Gala, Feb. 16; AIRWorkshopwith Cristian Perez, Feb. 18; IrvinMayfield and theNewOrleans JazzOrchestra,Feb. 18; call for venue, times. Locations:Man-sion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda;Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 TuckermanLane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strath-more.org.
Latvian Center, RIX PianoQuartet andDita Krenberga, flute, Feb. 13, free.Mail Hallof the Latvian Center, 400Hurley Ave., Rock-ville. 301-814-1080.
ON STAGEArts Barn, “Boeing, Boeing,” Feb. 13
throughMarch 1, $20; “Honest Abe: TheWit&Wisdomof AbrahamLincoln,” Feb. 18, $20;311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394
Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Petite Rouge—ACajun Red RidingHood,” throughMarch 8,call for prices, times, Adventure TheatreMTC,7300MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “Wiley and theHairyMan,” Feb. 11 throughMarch 15, call forprices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 AuburnAve., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org.
Highwood Theatre, “OtherDesert Cities,”through Feb. 15, 914 Silver Spring Ave., the-highwoodtheatre.org, 301-587-0697.
Olney Theatre Center, “Godspell,” throughMarch 1, call for prices, times, 2001Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400,olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Circus!,” through Feb.15; Tiny Tots@ 10, selectWednesdays, Sat-urdays and Sundays, call for shows and showtimes, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen EchoPark’s North Arcade Building, 7300MacAr-thur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.
Round House Theatre, “Rapture, Blister,Burn,” through Feb. 22, call for show times,4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Tickets
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Randolph Road Theater, “SnowMaiden,”Feb. 13 and 15, 4010 Randolph Road, SilverSpring, belcantanti.com.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, “YourMemories, Your
Sentiments, YourWishes, Your Secrets,” JimCondron andKristen Liu, through Feb. 28,3766Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162,adahrosegallery.com
Glenview Mansion, F/1.4 PhotographyGroup exhibit, “Richly Black andWhite,” fea-turing JareeDonnelly, CraigHiggins, TimothyLynch, andMargeWasson. Rockville CivicCenter Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville.rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, Gallery Exhibit,through Feb. 28, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.Mondaythrough Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday,7022Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association, GalleryShow, throughMarch 2,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160 ViersMill Road,Wheaton,mont-gomeryart.org.
VisArts, Suspension, throughMarch 1;NancyDaly, through Feb. 22; Laini Nemett,throughMarch 1; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visart-satrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gallery, PyramidAtlantic Art Center, second floor, 8230Geor-gia Ave., Silver Spring, washingtonprintmak-ers.com.
Kentlands Mansion, Bridal GownRet-rospective, through Feb. 26; Artwork of theArt League of Germantown, Feb. 6 throughMarch 27, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithers-burg, 301-258-6425.
Arts Barn, Howard Cohen – Seventy Yearsan Artist, throughMarch 8, 311 Kent SquareRoad, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6394
Rough Around the Edges: Inspirations inPaper by Ronni Jolles, throughMarch 15;reception 2 to 4 p.m.March 8; GoldmanArtGallery, 6125Montrose Road, Rockville. 301-348-3770; jccgw.org. Openwhen JCCGW isopen; free admission.
Village of Friendship Heights Gallery, “TheInfluence of Our Elders,” the exhibit includesculpture, collages, paintings, watercolors,and photography. On exhibit untilMarch 1.FriendshipHeights Village Center, 4433 SouthPark Ave., Chevy Chase. 301-656-2797
Gallery B, “Coaxing the Elements,” featur-ing sculptor Lynda Smith-Bügge and jewelryartist Katja Toporski, through Feb. 28. 7700Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda.org.
ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508Walsh Street,
Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.
who plays Olive. “I think every au-diencememberwillbeable to lookat one of these characters and seesomething very true to themselvesin them.”
“You have six coming-of-agestories happening on stage at thesame time, so there’s someonefor everyone to root for,” Echteradded. “They’re going throughchallenging points in life, andthere are parts of every character Idefinitely seemyself in. I’ve alwaysheld onto the show as one of myfavorites for that reason.”
Libbyhasworkedwith thecastto make sure everyone has theirroles down pat; that way, when itcomes time to improvise with theaudience, the characters can havegenuine interactions in keepingwith their back story and person-ality. Hismethods of workingwitheveryone involved in the crew andhis choices inputtingon themusi-cal havebeenwell-receivedwithintheproduction.
“He really knows just what tosay to you so you understand ex-actly what he means,” Lord said.“I’ve never been confused about anote, and he has these really goodout-of-the-box, fun ideas. I get
the impression that some of thestaging choices are kind of uncon-ventional, but hemakes it work inthese fun andunexpectedways.”
Libby and the rest of the casthave created a fun environmentthat doesn’t feel like work leadinginto the opening days of themusi-cal.
“I come from D.C. so it’s a bitof a way to get there,” Echter said,“but I always look forward to it.When we have snow preventingrehearsal, I actually hate that Idon’tget tospendmyeveningwiththesepeople.”
Theothersseemtoagree,hop-ing that the fun they share duringrehearsal rings true on stage.
“I thinkeverysinglepersonhasat least one moment in the showthat’s so gut-bustingly funny I stillhaven’t gotten control of myself,”said Lord. “I’ve never been in acastwithpeoplewhoare so funny,everybody does this great job ofembodying their characters.”
“I couldn’t be happier withthe talent that we’ve got togetherhere, and I just have the best timewatchingthematrehearsal,”Libbyadded. “At this point it’s mostlyjust fun forme, so I hope the audi-encehas fun, aswell.”
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“andpeople like her,” but also sawtheproject as “a challenge andagift tomyself… [anopportunity]to exploremyself andmymotiva-tions. Plain and simple. Itwas acatharsis.”
Theprocesswas lengthy. “Thebookhadbeen kicking [around]inmyhead for over five years, butI finally started to jot somenotes,and fromsoup tonuts, it tookmeabout 2¾years towrite,” he said.A gooddeal of persistencewas es-sential to fitting intohis schedule.“Since Iwork full-time, I had towrite onweekends, earlymornings,nights and evenonvacation. I gotdiscouragedmany times, but sworeIwould see it through.”
“Searching for Louise”wastheworking title, “but in a sort ofepiphany, thepresent title cametomeandmost people, includ-
ingmyself, seem to like it. It is notonly a reference toblack andwhitepeople, but also an allegory forcontrasts: doctor or nodoctor, free-domorno freedom (art versus aprofession thatmakesmoney) andalsohowmymother saw theworld—mostly in extremes.”
Sherer is not new towriting.Among thepublications that haveprintedhis letters andop-edpiecesare theWashingtonPost, Esquire,andAnesthesiologyNews.
A sense of accomplishmentfuels Sherer’s desire to continuewriting in various formats.He isworking on somebook ideas—“somewithCivilWar themes,othersmoremodernones, but allof themfiction. I amhoping topro-duce anovel in thenext year.”
David Sherer’s “TheHouseof Black&White” is available atsbprabooks.comaswell as onlineat amazon.comandbarnesand-noble.com.
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Family drama is in the airat the Highwood Theatre asYour Theatre, a division of theproduction company, presentsJon Robin Baitz’s “Other DesertCities.”
The show, which closesthis weekend, was nominatedin 2012 for five Tony Awardsincluding Best Play and a 2012finalist for the Pulitzer Prize forDrama. “Other Desert Cities” isa gripping story about a familywith differing political views,emotional baggage and a darksecret.
When theWyeth familygather for their first Christmastogether in six years, theirdaughter Brooke announcesshe is writing amemoir, open-ing deepwounds that are noteasily healed. The familymustsuffer through uncomfortable
conversations, heated politicalarguments, and painfulmemo-ries to come out on the otherside, while Brooke has to decidewhether to stay loyal to her
family or true to herself.Tickets for the show are $20
to $25. Formore information,visit thehighwoodtheatre.org orcall 301-587-0697.
Digging up skeletons
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Things begin to heat up for the cast of “Other Desert Cities,” now playing atthe Highland Theatre in Silver Spring.
Suddenly, life has newmeaning for Billy Ocean,the award-winning singer/songwriter from the 1970sand 1980s who brought ussuch songs as “Get Out ofMyDreams (And IntoMyCar),” “CaribbeanQueen,”and “There’ll Be Sad Song(ToMake You Cry).”
The Britain, by way ofTrinidad and Tobago, willbemaking a stop at theBethesda Blues and JazzSupper Club on Tuesday,just in time forMardi Gras.
Ocean took somemuchneeded time off to be with
his family. He decided in2007, after his children hadall grown up, that it was timeto hit the road again. Thistime, he’d have some famil-iar company lending theirbackup vocals—his daugh-ter, Cherie. Since then,Ocean has been performingand recording newmusic,which hewill bring with himto Bethesda.
Tickets for the shows—one at 7 p.m., the otherat 10 p.m.— are $50 to $90.Formore information, visitbethesdabluesjazz.com orcall 240-330-4500.
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Billy Ocean is set to perform at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. Defying all labels, Argentineguitarist/composer CristianPerez brings together SouthAmericanmusic, classical, jazzand folk styles from around theworld.
The talentedmusician ispart of Strathmore’s 2014-2015Artists in Residence seriesandwill perform two shows,oneWednesday and the otheron Feb. 25, at theMansionat Strathmore. In between,on Feb. 18, he will conduct a“Beyond Tango” workshop,where people can learn aboutChacarera folkmusic, the afro-indigenous rhythms of Zamba,themelodies ofMilonga, andthe beat of Candombe.
Tickets for the two per-formances are $17, while theworkshop is free. Tickets for theworkshopmust be reserved inadvance, however.
Formore information, visitstrathmore.org or call 301-581-5100.
The AIRwe breathe
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Strathmore AIR alum Cristian Perezwill perform at the Mansion atStrathmore on Wednesday.
Eastern andWestern tra-ditions aremerged and newdirections in Asian brush art areexplored in “Transformations ofBrush and Paper,” currently ondisplay at BlackRock Center forthe Arts in Germantown.
In the exhibit, Kit-KeungKan animates suspended scrollswith large-scale calligraphybased on ancient Chinesescripts, Freda Lee-McCannapplies layers of rice paper totransformbrushwork influ-enced by traditional Chineselandscape painting, and In-soonShin usesHanjimulberry paperpulp to cast sculptural formsand impressions of ancient Ko-rean tomb reliefs.
The exhibitionwill be onview in theMainGallery nowthrough Feb. 28. BlackRockwillalso host a Free Family Fun: Lu-narNewYear Celebration from10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 21whichwill feature child-friendly toursof the exhibition, drop-in artmaking activities with a LunarNewYear theme, and perfor-mances of traditional Asianmu-sic and folk dance to celebrate2015, the Year of theGoat. Theartist demonstrations, recep-tion, exhibition and Family Lu-narNewYear Celebration are allfree and open to the public.
Formore information, visitblackrockcenter.org or call 301-528-2260.
Mutual transformations
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Kit-Keung Kanís ìEver Flowing,î iscurrently on display at the Black-Rock Center for the Arts.
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GAITH:FIRESIDECONDOS 3Br, 2fullba, balc. $1800 utilsincl. HOC Welc. Avail03/01 call 301-535-3017
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
Where: Council Office Building (COB)100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
When: February 19, 2015 - 3:00 p.m.
Subject: Public Hearings for Proposed Sidewalk Construction
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation will hold two (2) public hear-ings for the proposed construction of a sidewalk. The hearings will be held in the firstfloor auditorium of the Council Office Building (COB) located at 100 Maryland Avenue, inRockville, Maryland on Thursday, February 19, 2015. The hearings will begin at 3:00p.m. and continue consecutively until both hearings are concluded:
1. Central Avenue/Oakmont Avenue (Paradise Court to Railroad Street)2. Capitol View Avenue/Stoneybrook Drive (10100 Stoneybrook Drive to Lee Street)
If you have any questions regarding this notification or would like to obtain specific in-formation concerning one of the above mentioned hearings, please contact the AnnualSidewalk Program at 240-777-7270. Your attendance is appreciated.
Sincerely,Bruce E. Johnston, ChiefDivision of Transportation EngineeringDepartment of Transportation
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NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC HEARINGMontgomery County Government hereby notifies the general pub-lic and other interested parties that a three-week period has beenestablished during which they may request a public hearing onthe FY2016 Annual Transportation Plan grant application. The ap-plication requests up to $14,000,000 for buses, up to $5,000,000for preventative maintenance, $309,958 to fund Ride On routes76 and 90 peak-hour service, $379,107 to continue the Call-N-Ride program under the Statewide Special Transportation Assis-tance Program and $582,948 to fund the Large Urban OperatingAssistance project from the Maryland Transit Administration andFederal Transit Administration.
This three-week period will commence on February 11, 2015 andend March 4, 2015 at 5 PM. If requested, the public hearing onthe above mentioned programs will be held on March 10, 2015 at2:00 p.m. in the Auditorium, Executive Office Building, 101 Mon-roe Street, Rockville, Maryland 20850.
The request for a public hearing must be submitted in writing andreceived by the Division of Transit Services no later than 5 PMWednesday March 4, 2015. Request received after March 4,2015 will be returned to sender.
Request for this public hearing must include your name and ad-dress, and if any, organization or business name, reason(s) or is-sues of your request, and send to:
Carolyn G. Biggins, ChiefDivision of Transit Services101 Monroe Street, 5th FloorRockville, Maryland 20850 (2-11-15)
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Notice of Public SaleA & M Repair and Towing Inc.8061 Snouffer School Rd.Gaithersburg, MD 20879Sale Date: February 26th, 2015, 10:00 AMCash Sale, As Is NO WARRANTY1FMDU73EX5UB903572005 Ford Explorer Wht3VWRK69M84M089722004 VW Jetta 4dr Slv2HGEJ6676VH5201981997 Honda Civic 4dr Blk
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REAL ESTATE EXPRESSION OF INTERESTFOR
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Maryland, Department of GeneralServices is actively seeking proposals from parties which may beinterested in tenant farming COUNTY properties in Dickerson,Maryland.
PROPOSALS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR:
Tenant farming on the properties formerly known as "Chi-ChinHuang Farm"on Wasche Road; the "Shafer Farm"on WascheRoad and the-"Finnegan Farm"on Martinsburg Road.
The County is interested in parties who are qualified proposers foragricultural tenant farming in Dickerson, Maryland. The availableproperties are comprised of three (3) parcels, totaling 623 acres,more or less, of farm land in Dickerson, Maryland. The long termlease is 10 years and it will include farming and property mainte-nance responsibilities of the three parcels. The Real Estate Ex-pression of Interest detailing requirements and instructions maybe obtained from www.montgomerycountymd.gov, Department ofGeneral Services, Office of Real Estate website or picked up fromthe address below.
An optional site tour will take place on Tuesday, February 18. In-structions for attending are found in the solicitation document.
An optional pre submission meeting will take place on February20, 2015 at the below listed address.
There is no commitment expressed or implied by MontgomeryCounty, Maryland in soliciting proposals. Montgomery Countymay, in its sole discretion, accept or reject any and all proposalsreceived. The proposal deadline is Friday, February 27, 2015.
Montgomery County GovernmentDepartment of General ServicesOffice of Real Estate101 Monroe St., 9th floorRockville, Maryland 20850
Please contact Steve Batterden on 240-777-6063 with any ques-tions.
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Bid No. 15-MVFRP-200 Concession Standand Restroom Buildings Construction
The Montgomery Village Foundation, Inc.(MVF) invites bids from interested partiesfor performing all work in conjunction withBid No. 15-MVFRP-200, for the construc-tion of two facilities in South Valley Park.The first facility is a combination restroomand concession stand building and the sec-ond facility is a small restroom building.South Valley Park is located at 19003 Wat-kins Mill Road, Montgomery Village, MD20886 . Work includes the construction ofthe buildings as well as the associated siteand utility work. To request the bid docu-ments by email or to obtain a printed copyplease contact Scott Gole, Assistant Direc-tor of Recreation, Parks and Culture, at301-948-0110, ext. 2336 or [email protected]. The cost per set of printedbid documents is $100 (payable to MVF)and is non-refundable. Bids will be due nolater than 10:00 am on Monday, March 9,2015. MVF reserves the right to reject anyand all bids received, and to waive irregu-larities. MVF encourages the participationof minority, female, and disabled ownedbusinesses in the solicitation process.
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5+ years office experienceSend resume to [email protected]
Web EditorThe Gazette, a chain of weekly community newspapers inMaryland, is seeking an Web Editor to build our digital audience andoversee our digital content and presentation.
Responsibilities include editing stories and related items for optimalweb display, determining how information is displayed, formulatingstrategies for niche publications and special online features,promoting a web-first mentality in the newsroom, andtroubleshooting problems on the website and with our contentmanagement system.
Candidates must have solid print and digital media skills, and strongknowledge of SEO, social media and other digital tools. Dutiesinclude supervising a small staff, working with multiple departmentson digital projects, tracking analytics, and some editing for theprinted publications. Experience dealing with vendors and workingwith our content management system, Saxotech, is a plus. Thisposition requires working at both our Laurel and Gaithersburglocations.
We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefitspackage including medical, dental, tuition reimbursement and401(k).
Send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to VanessaHarrington: [email protected]. No phone calls. EOE
ManufacturingWabtec Railway Electronics in Germantown has the following openings:µ Wiring& Mechanical Assemblers µ Stockroom µ Truck Driver
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Maryland Judiciary
Procurement AssociateThe District Court for Montgomery County is seeking aProcurement Associate to maintain the materials, supplies andequipment for District 6. Responsibilities include, but are not limitedto: overseeing and coordinating the procurement, stocking, andordering of materials, supplies, and equipment; record keeping of allinventory functions; distributing materials, supplies and equipment;responding to inquiries from court personnel; working with vendorsfor quotes and bids for projects; troubleshooting basic computerissues and movement of electronic equipment; serving as backup tomail clerk and performing all other duties as assigned. Req: HSdip/GED. 2 years of general clerical exp., to include one year ofexp. performing work involving the preparation, assembly andprocessing of procurement related documents necessary indeveloping procurement contracts. Note: Applicants may substituteeducation at an accredited college or university for the requiredexperience at a rate of 30 credits hours for each year of experience.For full details and instructions on how to apply, please visit thecourt’s website http://mdcourts.gov/jobs/pdfs/0000833.pdf. EOE
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If you have a good driving record, know your way around, enjoytalking to people and making people happy then we want to talk toyou. Wednesday, February 18, 2015 from 11am to 5pm. 401K,benefits package, and bonuses provided! Chauffeur applicantsmust be at least 25.
RMA WORLDWIDE CHAUFFEURED TRANSPORTATIONHilton Rockville (Democracy Room)
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
Maintenance EngineerArc Developers is offering an excellent career
opportunity for a enthusiastic Maintenance Engineerto join our Maintenance Team in Gaithersburg,MD. Full-time work all year. Candidate should haveprior exp working as a maintenance engineer in aapt community. Must possess knowledge in HVAC,electrical, plumbing, gas furnace and boilers, must bea HVAC certified. Live on position avail. Position
also req 24 hours Emergency On Call, rotating basis.Call: 301-948-1908 OR
Email: [email protected]
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]
PRN/On Call, GNA’s, LPN’s, RN’sNational Lutheran Communities & Services (NLCS) has beenblessed with a long tradition of service to people of all faiths. Since1890, we’ve helped people find wonderful choices for retirementliving, new options for financial security and expert services for healthcare and wellness. While staying rooted in our heritage, we havecontinued to plan for the needs of future generations we will serve.
The Village at Rockville is hiring for PRN/On-Call Staff forGNA’s, LPN’s, and RN’s (day and night shift). If you are looking for achange with competitive salary, and excellent benefits, please submityour resume at: http://www.nationallutheran.org/careers.National Lutheran Communities & Services is an EEO Employer.
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HOA, Condo, Resort , Hotel EXPERIENCED ONLY APPLYBudget RFP’s Vendor financial background preparing &
presenting budgets CMCA AMS PCAM preferred. Great pay& full time benefits Send resumes to jobs@
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Research AssociateIntegrated Biotherapeutics, Inc. seeking researcherfor its Gaithersburg, MD location to plan andconduct projects aimed at detection of bacterialpathogens, explore LAMP for virus detection;isolate and maintain cultures; identify and classifymicroorganisms, prepare reports; presentfindings. Resume to: 21 Firstfield Rd, Suite 100,Gaithersburg, MD 20878
MEDICAL RECEPTIONISTFT, Exp. Preferred. Rockville/Gaithersburg.
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RESIDENTIAL HVACINSTALLATION TECHSImmediate openings, 5+ years experience
Send resume to [email protected]
Fleet MechanicWe are looking for a mechanic that has 2 plusyrs. experience working with heavy dieselequipment including experience in repairing manlifts, cranes, tractors trailers & light/heavy dumptrucks. We operate 5/6 days a week. Theposition would require a flexible schedule. Weoffer competitive pay, based on experience, withbenefits & a good working environment. Pleaseemail resumes to [email protected]
Orndorff & Spaid Inc.301-937-5911
EEO
BOOKKEEPERNeeded for a busy commercial real estatecompany. Part-Time, 25 hours a wk. Musthave experience with processing payroll,accounts payable and good excel skills.
Pay $18-$20 an hour.Email resume to
RECEPTIONISTFT permanent.
Stephen Anthony Salonon Rockville Pike.For interview call301-468-0777
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English. Shift availableThursday-Friday 12pm - 4pm ;Saturday 7am-1pm. Tennis &fitness benefits included.
Call Jeff at: 301-983-1450between 7am - 2pm
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