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(From left) Gregory Frazier, facilities work leaderfor the Montgomery County Agricultural Center,and volunteers Daniel Herrera and Minh Le, bothof Germantown, roll a 500-pound wheel of cheeseinto cool storage at the Montgomery CountyFairgounds.
BY PEGGYMCEWANSTAFFWRITER
hoose the thrill of the Tilt-a-Whirl, enjoy the beauty of a ripe redtomato or watch themiracle of a calf being born.Those are just a fewof themany activities, exhibits and expe-
riences that make up theMontgomery County Agricultural Fair,which opens its 65th annual run at 3 p.m. Friday.The fair, which is open from 10 a.m. to midnight through
Aug. 17, offers something for everyone and a lot for most, saidMartin Svrcek, executive director.“Weare rated internationally as oneof the top fairs in the country,” Svrcek said. “It’s
clean, well organized and diverse, with foods and attractions for kids of all ages.”The whole operation — which expects to host 200,000 visitors, depending on the
weather — is organized and run with fewer than a dozen full-time employees becauseof the dedication of about 1,000 volunteers, Svrcek said.“Our volunteer cohort is huge,” he said. “During the fair, a thousand peoplewill log
volunteer hours.”
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Vince Scuderi of Latonsville helps get thigns ready for the 4H Sheep and Swine Club on Saturday at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair grounds.
n Purple Line to receive $680M;Corridor Cities Transitway
slated for $100M
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERAND TERRIHOGANSTAFFWRITERS
After getting approval last month fromthe state Board of Public Works, a Brookevillebypass project now is scheduled to get $25million as part of a $1 billion transportationpackage forMontgomery County.Last month, the board decided that even
though the Brookeville project is not in a Pri-ority Funding, or SmartGrowth, Area, extraor-dinary circumstances merit making it eligiblefor statemoney.Standing above the Bethesda Metro sta-
tion on Monday, Gov. Martin O’Malley an-nounced the transportation investments forMontgomery County, saying they will bringneeded jobs and traffic relief.The list includes a plan to build and relo-
cate a sectionofMd. 97, orGeorgia Avenue, tobypass the center of Brookeville.The 0.7-mile bypass is intended to reduce
Md. 97 traffic passing through town and helppreserve its historic character.Overall, the state committed money to
eight county road, rail and bus priorities.The lion’s share of funding — $680 mil-
Brookevillebypass gets$25M boostfrom state
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BY AGNES BLUMSTAFFWRITER
Readers of TheGazette can expect to con-tinuehearing the familiar thumpof theweeklynewspaper hitting their driveways after theplanned sale of parts of the Washington PostCo. to Amazon.com founder and CEO JeffreyP. Bezos.“This is exciting news. We won’t see any
immediate change,” said AnnMcDaniel, a se-nior vicepresident at theWashingtonPostCo.who startedher career as a journalist. “There’salways a future for compelling, accurate jour-nalism at the community level.”The sale, announced Monday and ex-
pected to be completed in 60 days, ends theGraham family’s four-generation ownershipof the flagship Post newspaper.In addition to The Gazette and the Post,
the $250 million deal includes the Expressnewspaper; Southern Maryland Newspa-
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7Tyke Hikes: Avian Wonders,
10:30-11:30 a.m.,MeadowsideNature Center, 5100MeadowsideLane, Rockville. Hear a story, takea nature hike andmake a craft totake home. $5. Register at www.
parkpass.org.Kid’s Craft Wednesday, 11 a.m.,
Seneca Creek State Park, 11950Clopper Road, Gaithersburg.Makeleaf rubbing trees, wind socks andother fun craft projects. Free. [email protected].
Beach Art, 5-6 p.m., Brookside
Nature Center, 1400 GlenallanAve., Wheaton. Scour a sand barand gather pieces of nature tomake a three-dimensional workof art. Free. Register at www.park-pass.org.
Breast Cancer and Lymph-edema Support Group, 5:30-6:30p.m., Adventist RehabilitationHospital ofMarylandOutpatientClinic, 831 E. University Blvd.,Silver Spring. Free. [email protected].
Sciencetellers: The Bugs ofBlackwood, 6:30-7:15 p.m., Da-mascus Library, 9701Main St.The science ofmatter. Ages 5 andolder, siblings welcome. Free, tick-ets required. 240-773-9444.
Rockville Lions Club Meeting,7-9 p.m., RockvilleMethodistChurch, 122W.Montgomery Ave.Learn about the community’sneeds and how tomeet them. 301-257-5180.
Family Support Group Meet-ing, 7:30-9 p.m., ParishHall of St.Raphael’s Catholic Church, 1513Dunster Road, Rockville. For thefamilies and friends of people withdepression or bipolar illness. Free.301-299-4255.
THURSDAY, AUG. 8Discovery Hike: Smooth and
Scaly, 10:30-11:30 a.m., BrooksideNature Center, 1400 GlenallanAve., Wheaton. Get an up-closelook at how the smooth and scalygrow and live. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Reptile and Amphibian Camp-fire, 6:30-8 p.m.,MeadowsideNature Center, 5100MeadowsideLane, Rockville. Bring hot dogs,buns, drinks and sides. $5. Registerat www.parkpass.org.
FRIDAY, AUG. 9The Mary Shaver Band Blues
Concert, 6:30 p.m.-2 a.m., Rock-ville Rooftop Live, 155 Gibbs St.,Rockville. $10. [email protected].
Park in the Dark Hayride, 8:30p.m., Seneca Creek State Park,11950 Clopper Road, Gaithers-burg. Explore themysteriousworld of the park after dark. $2 perperson. 301-924-2127.
SATURDAY, AUG. 10Tot Time: Cool It!, 3-3:30 p.m.,
Brookside Nature Center, 1400Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Learnnewways of staying cool. Free.
Register at www.parkpass.org.
SUNDAY, AUG. 11Stream Adventures, 10-11:30
a.m., Little Bennett Regional Park,23701 Frederick Road, Clarksburg.Use nets to find insects, fish, frogsand other animals. $6. Register atwww.parkpass.org.
5th Annual Pachuca Day,noon-4p.m., RockvilleHighSchool,2100BaltimoreAve., Rockville. Avariety of soccer events throughouttheday. Free. 240-683-0680.
MONDAY, AUG. 12Flower Buds, 10:30 a.m.-noon,
Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenal-lan Ave., Wheaton. Gardening ac-tivities, stories, crafts and gardenwalks for ages 3-5 with a parent.$5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
AAHP Mt. Calvary Dining Club,6-9 p.m.,Mt. Calvary BaptistChurch, 608 N. Horners Lane,Rockville. Enjoy healthy food,physical activity and learningmore about diabetes prevention.$8. 301-421-5767.
Beyond Words: Grief Expres-sion through Art Making, 6:30-8p.m.,MontgomeryHospice, 1355PiccardDrive, Rockville. A two-sessionworkshop for anyonegrieving the death of a loved one.Free, registration required. 301-921-4400.
TUESDAY, AUG. 13Start Drawing and Painting, 10
a.m.-1 p.m., Brookside Gardens,1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Athree-class workshop. $174. Regis-ter at www.parkpass.org.
Food Addicts Anonymous, 7-8p.m., Unitarian andUniversalistChurch of Rockville, 100WelshPark Drive, Rockville. Meets thesecond and fourth Tuesdays of themonth. Free. [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14Tyke Hikes: Our Finned
Friends, 10:30-11:15 a.m.,Mead-owside Nature Center, 5100Mead-owside Lane, Rockville. Hear astory, take a nature hike, andmakea craft to take home. $5. Register atwww.parkpass.org.
Vintage Flicks: Adventures ofRobin Hood, 6:30 p.m., DamascusUnitedMethodist Church, 9700NewChurch St., Damascus. Free.301-253-0022.
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T H E G A Z E T T EWednesday, August 7, 2013 o Page A-3
Virginia Curran, a residentof Brooke Grove RetirementVillage in Sandy Spring, recentlyexperienced a special event thatmost people will never see: a104th birthday celebration.
She donned her favoriteskirt to attend her birthdayparty, joined by relatives andfellow residents of the village’sMeadows Assisted Living home.
Curran and her guestsenjoyed a chocolate cake withfudge icing, while a singer en-tertainedwith popular songsfrom the ’30s and ’40s, andother tunes.
She was born July 24, 1909,inWashington, D.C.—whenWilliamHoward Taft was presi-dent. She describes herself asa “trueWashingtonian,” hav-ing lived theremost of her life,except for a brief time in SanFrancisco duringWorldWar II,when shewas in theWomen’sArmy Corps. She worked as asecretary, achieving the rank ofsergeant and earning aWorldWar II VictoryMedal.
Her husband of 43 years,Louis Curran, died in 1995 andis buried at ArlingtonNationalCemetery.
Curran had no children,but her sister Sandy Jones, wholived to be 100, had four. Sheenjoys visits fromher extendedfamilymembers.
She was an accomplishedartist, andwas best known formaking beads out of Egyptianpaste, a self-glazingmodel-ingmaterial. According to hergrandniece Lori Jones, she wasconsidered an expert at hercraft, and her work was once ondisplay in a Smithsonian Insti-tutionmuseum. She operated ashop in Georgetown, where shesold her jewelry.
She lived on her own untilshe was 99, when shemoved toBrooke Grove.
Curran told Brooke Grovestaff members that “doing yogafor 40 years and keeping herteeth clean” helped her live along life. Thought to be the old-est resident at Brooke Grove,she is still alert andmobile, andwalks to the dining room for hermeals every day.
“I never toldmy age until Iturned 100,” she said.
Jones said Curran has never
dwelled on the past.“She really lives in the pres-
ent, and I think that is one ofthe thing that keeps her going,”Jones said.
Curran has always beeninterested in government, andwalked to the polls at age 99to cast her vote. She is quiteproud of a letter she receivedfromPresident Barack Obamacongratulating her on her100th birthday andwishing her“manymore.”
She loves gadgets, and en-joys scrolling through familyphotos on an iPad.
Several treasured familyphotos and othermemorabiliadepicting her storied life are ondisplay in her room, which sheshares with the resident cat.Some call himDaisy, but sheaffectionately refers to him asKitty. Her room also includesmementos of her recent birth-day celebration, including flow-ers and balloons.
Museum plans ExtremeExhibit Makeover
A popular television showmeetsmuseumhistory at theExtreme ExhibitMakeover, aninnovative way of creating newexhibits at the Sandy SpringMuseum through the collabora-tion of professionals and com-munitymembers.
Two teams comprising ex-perts in various fields will comeupwith an idea for an exhibitthat focuses on an aspect of lo-cal culture and its historic roots.
The teamswill have threemonths to conduct the back-ground research, select artifactsand photos, create graphics anddesign the exhibit. The teamsthenwill be brought together toinstall their exhibits. The exhibitinstallationwill be open to thepublic, whowill vote on theirfavorite.
Executive Director AllisonWeiss said the purpose is to re-invigorate the exhibit hall withnew exhibits; to get new peopleinvolved in themuseum; toget new perspectives on localhistory; tomake the exhibitprocessmore contemporary byincorporating popular cultureand social media, by postingfrequent behind-the-scenesupdates; and to incorporate aperformance art aspect by al-lowing the public to watch theinstallation.
“The challenge of historymuseums is tomake the con-tent engaging to lots of differentpeople,”Weiss said. “We hope
that by infusing some pop cul-ture into the exhibit process,wewill make history less ‘dusty’andmore contemporary. Thetraditionalmodel is to only al-low historians to interpret his-tory. Wewant to invite otherpeople, too— artists, membersof the public— somore peoplehave a voice at the table.”
The programwill launchin September and exhibits areexpected to be ready for instal-lation by January.
To learnmore about the Ex-treme ExhibitMakeover, or toapply to be on one of the teams,visit www.sandyspringmu-seum.org or call 301-774-0022.
Children’s Day atthe farmers marketSunday is Children’s Day at
theOlney Farmers and ArtistsMarket. Events will include achildren’s chef demonstration,entertainment, and somethingnew this year: Kids in Biz.
Children’s craft projects, in-cluding beaded necklaces andother artistic creations, will beoffered from 9 to 10 a.m.
From 10 to 11 a.m., childrenare invited to “go into business”to sell their wares. Children alsocan set up a lemonade stand orsell other items, with parentalsupervision. Children should
bring a small table and chair,along with a cash box. Tentswill be provided.
Themarket is held on theold hospital grounds atMd. 108and Prince Philip Drive. Formore information go to www.olneyfarmersmarket.org.
Blood drive isAug. 14 at hospitalThe Olney Lions Club,
MedStar Blood Donor Servicesand MedStar MontgomeryMedical Center will host ablood drive from noon to 5p.m. Aug. 14.
To schedule an appoint-ment or for more informationgo to www.donatebloodmed-star.org or call 866-493-6607.The hospital is at 18101 PrincePhilip Drive in Olney.
Writers groupmeets Thursday
TheNorthernMontgomeryCountyWriters Group seekswriters of all genres and levels.
The groupmeets the sec-ond Thursday of themonth at 7p.m. and the fourth Saturday at1 p.m. at theHarris Teeter cafeinOlney. The nextmeeting is 7p.m. Thursday.
Themeetings are structured
to provide new and establishedwriters of creative fiction, non-fiction and poetry a supportiveset of like-mindedmembers towhom they can present currentworks, and receive critiques ofefforts in progress. There is nocharge to join and newmem-bers are welcome.
Formore informationcontact Jerri Reger at [email protected].
Cafe helps hospitalemergency fund
In recognition of NationalHealth CenterWeek, diners atCafé Rio on Aug. 14 will be sup-portingMedStarMontgomery’sSocial Services EmergencyFund.
The fund helps patientswho are not able to afford nec-essary equipment for their careand recovery after they returnhome.
The restaurant will donateto the fund 20 percent of itslunch, dinner and carryoutsales from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.A voucher, available on theMedStarMontgomeryHealthFoundation’s website, www.montgomerygeneral.org/body.cfm?id=127,must be presentedfor the donation to bemade.
Café Rio is at 3140 OlneySandy Spring Road inOlney.
Two softball programshold tryouts
The 14UMaryland Cy-clones are moving up to ClassA next season, and are seekingadditional players who are se-rious about softball.
The Cyclones, two-timestate champions, are com-ing off a season with twosecond-place finishes and fourthird-place finishes. They arelooking for several elite play-ers to help them win at thenext level.
Tryouts are Aug. 15, 18 and20. For more information go towww.leaguelineup.com/mary-landcyclones or contact coachPerry Berkley at [email protected] or 703-409-3419.
Also, the Olney Boys andGirls Community Sports As-sociation Cougars have hadrecent success, with its 18UAteam winning the state FastPitch Championship, the 10Uteam placing second in theU.S. Specialty Sports Asso-ciation World Series and the16U team taking first placeat the U.S. Specialty Sports
Association\OBGC FreemanMemorial Queen of DiamondsTournament.
OBGC Olney Cougarsgirls’ fast-pitch tryouts for allage groups run through Aug.18. Registration is availableat www.olneyfastpitch.com.For more information, contactsoftball commissioner SeanKolb at 301-873-0438 or [email protected].
Skate park jamson Friday nights
The Friday Summer Nightslive music skate jams continuefrom 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Fridaysthrough Aug. 23 at the OlneyManor Skatepark, 16601 Geor-gia Ave.
The county’s parks de-partment has partnered withlocal Olney businesses RollSkate Shop and Rocketeria forthe second season of the freesummer music series.
The event includes skating,prizes and live music by localbands. This week features aperformance by League.
The concerts are free; itcosts $5 to skate. Food truckswill be on hand. Events arecanceled if it rains.
For more informationcheck www.montgomeryp-arks.org/parks_facilities_di-rectory/olneymanorrp_skate.shtm.
Sandy Spring woman marks her 104th with cake and music
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Virginia Curran of Brooke Grove Retirement Village reads a card made byfamily members at her 104th birthday party.
ElizabethBonifant Hyde
Elizabeth BonifantHyde, 84, ofOlneydiedAug.2, 2013. A Mass of ChristianBurial will take place at 11a.m. Thursday at Our Ladyof Grace Catholic Church,15661 Norbeck Blvd., SilverSpring. Roy W. Barber Fu-neral Home in Laytonsvillehandled the arrangements.
Ethel Read WhiteEthel Read White, 91,
of Rockville died Aug. 3,2013. A service will takeplace at 10 a.m. Thursdayat Christ Episcopal Church,107 South Washington St.,Rockville. Pumphrey Fu-neral Home handled ar-rangements.
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CCOOMMMMUUNNIITTY NY NEEWWSSCOMMUNITY NEWSThe Gazette
n Despite legalproceedings, projectstill on schedule
BY TERRIHOGANSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools has initiatedthe process of condemn-ing the property adjacent toWilliam H. Farquhar MiddleSchool as part of an effort toswap land and build a newschool.
Farquhar, at 16915Batchellors Forest Road inOlney, was built in 1968. Itis scheduled to be upgradedbeginning next summer andexpected to reopen for the2016-17 school year.
The initial plan wouldhave sent students to theTilden Holding Center inBethesda while the schoolwas razed and rebuilt. Par-ents who did not want theirchildren to be bused acrossthe county lobbied for a landswap involving a 17.9-acreproperty just north of the ex-isting school. The school sys-tem approved the plan.
The adjacent property,which currently has noth-ing on it, is owned by PulteHomes and was designatedas Rural Open Space as partof the approval for the Batch-ellors Forest developmentunder construction on theother side of Batchellors For-est Road. It is recommendedfor use as a local park in theOlney Master Plan, whichwas updated in 2005 andserves as a guide for futuredevelopment.
Once the new school isbuilt, the 20-acre site of theexisting school would beused for the park.
Judith Bresler, generalcounsel for the school sys-tem, said the zoning does notrequire that the property beconveyed to the Maryland-National Capital Park andPlanning Commission. It justrequires that it is reserved foruse as an active park.
The commission recentlyapproved a process on thepotential transfer and devel-opment of property currentlydesignated as Rural OpenSpace, such as this land.
It has to meet severalconditions. The purposemust balance another publicinterest. Also, the substituteproperty must be acceptableas Rural Open Space prop-erty in the original develop-ment application.
“We think this meets allthe requirements,” Breslersaid. “We now need to getthe ownership in the school’sfavor.”
This essentially wouldexpand the Farquhar siteto include both the currentsite and the adjacent prop-erty. The school system thenwould put a restrictive cov-enant on the original site tobe used as a park and imple-ment a joint-use agreementwith the commission, whichwould be the primary user,Bresler said.
Some neighbors haveobjected to the plan, saying
since it is a new school site, adifferent process should havebeen followed.
“We think this answersthat question,” she said.“The school system has prec-edents about keeping theexisting school on site whilea new school is built on an-other portion of the prop-erty, such as was done withRichard Montgomery HighSchool. This is more in linewith that.”
Bresler said the Board ofEducation also has the rightof eminent domain — takingof land, with fair compensa-tion, for a public purpose —and could file for it in court,if needed. However, she saidshe expects the process to gosmoothly.
She said there also mightbe an agreement with theHyde family, who owns prop-erty on Batchellors ForestRoad, including a home ad-jacent to the property slatedfor the swap.
TheHydes have appealedthe feasibility study to theMaryland Court of SpecialAppeals and want a decisionin that case before the boardauthorizes the condemna-tion.
“We believe that the con-demnation is outside thescope of the initial approval,”Hyde family members wrotein a letter to the schoolboard. “Language was specif-ically added to the resolutionoutlining secondary optionsshould a swap not be obtain-able and this action ... shouldnot supersede the months ofpublic discourse that werepart of the initial study.”
The next step will be toput together a document ask-ing the planning board for itsapproval, Bresler said.
Despite the legal is-sues, the project remains onschedule.
James Song, director offacilities management forthe school system, said theproject hasn’t changedmuchdue to the legal proceedingsunderway.
Since the last publicmeeting, held about a yearago, he said, a different siteplan has been consider tobetter fit the master plan.The proposal would involvemore open space at the frontof the property.
The master plan statesthat there cannot be ad-ditional road entrances toBatchellors Forest Road, thecounty’s “Rustic Road” des-ignation must be designated,and green space along theroad must be encouraged.
“It’s just a conceptualidea at this point,” Songsaid. “Because of the legalproceedings, I can’t disclosemuchmore, but our goal is tominimize the impact to theneighborhood, and maintainthe rural characteristics ofBatchellors Forest Road.”
School system:Condemn landfor Farquhar swap
n ‘Lip Gloss and a Sander’airing on county station
BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFFWRITER
Every girl has her go-to tool; for some,it’s a flat iron or a trendy pair of heels. ForBridget Edell, it’s her favorite tube of lipstickand a great sander.
Edell is the host of “Lip Gloss and aSander,” which first aired on MontgomeryCounty’s public access television station inJune. The show follows Gaithersburg’s Edellas she takes on refinishing, painting andsanding projects step by step.
The title comes from two tools that havebecomeessential for herhandymanhobbiesand everyday life.
“In my garage, I can do anything with asander,” she said.
Growing up, Edell would spend timewith her father in his workshop. She didn’t
share her siblings’ interests in sports at thetime. She learned how to strip furniture ofits polish and refinish pieces to make themlook new.
Edell hosted Montgomery County Me-dia’s production staff at her homeon July 27to film the fifth episode of “Lip Gloss and aSander.”
In that episode, she showedviewershowto create a pub table out of a whiskey barrel.Edell, an executive assistant at Shady GroveHospital, said the idea came from a friendwho wanted to update the wet bar in hisbasement.
Edell often takes her guests on the showto garage sales and flea markets to find af-fordable furniture that can be updated orrefinished.
The new host said she hopes the showwill encourage more women to take onhome improvement projects.
“It doesn’t necessarily have to be a manin the garage,” she said.
Edell’s husband,Gary Edell, encouraged
her to take the leap into show business andput her Pennsylvania State University com-munications degree to good use.
“Back when I was in college and gradu-ating ... there weren’t a whole lot of jobopportunities forwomen” inbroadcast jour-nalism, she said.
Edell pitched her idea for a televisionshow toMontgomery County Media, whichapproved her for a series.
Merlyn Reineke, executive director ofMontgomery County Media, said the sta-tion helps county residents and producersget time on the small screen. The number ofepisodes Edell will film is up to her, he said.
Reineke said Edell’s show is “a verycreative concept” and might inspire othercounty residents to start shows of their own.
“Lip Gloss and a Sander” airs on Mont-gomery Channel 21 at 10 p.m. Wednesdaysand 5:30 p.m. Sundays.
Do-it-yourself pro breaks into TV
Bridget Edell ofGaithersburg,while taping hercounty cable TVshow, “Lip Glossand a Sander,”helps select atable top on July27 at ThomasMarble & Granitein Gaithersburg.BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
The Olney Library Kiosk at LongwoodCommunity Center will close for two weeksforbuildingmaintenanceandcleaning.
All Montgomery County Express@Olneylibrary services, which include the book-lend-ing library kiosk, the DVD media box kiosk,book return and hold lockers, will be unavail-able from Sunday through Aug. 25. The kiosk
will reopenAug.26.Librarypatronsmaybringanybooks,DVDsorothermaterials duewhenthekiosk is closed to anotherbranch.
Patrons will not be able to place holds onitems at the Olney kiosk from now throughAug. 25. County library staff will contact thosewith processed holds who have not yet re-ceived a locker with the option of transferring
theirhold toanotherbranch in themeantime;otherwise, they will become available begin-ningAug. 27.
LongwoodCommunityCenter is at 19300Georgia Ave., Olney. For more information,call 240-777-0016.
— KIRSTY GROFF
Olney Library Kiosk services placed on hold
n Local frustration centerson delays, design concerns
BY TERRIHOGANSTAFFWRITER
Sandy Spring residents wereelatedwhensafety improvementsbegan last year near the intersec-tion ofDoctor Bird andNorwoodroads, but joy has turned to frus-tration as the project has sat stag-nant.
The $1.25 million project in-cludes the installation of a fulltraffic signal at the intersection.It also has a left-turn lane fromeastboundDoctorBirdRoadontoNorwood Road, a right-turn lanefrom westbound Norwood Roadonto Doctor Bird Road, and pe-destriansignals that featureaudioandvisual countdowns.
Other parts of the project arestraightening the curve along a150-foot portion of Doctor BirdRoadjustnorthofNorwoodRoad;adding 15 feet of pavement to ei-ther sideof the road for shouldersand a bike lane; road resurfacing;curb and gutter work; sidewalks;and landscaping.
In September 2012, State
Highway Administration spokes-man Christopher Bishop saidthe project was expected to becompletedby late fall of that year.Now, it won’t be completed untilthe end of 2013, or it could spillover intonext spring,Bishopsaid.
Bishop said there have beendelays — some scheduled asplanned shutdowns, and othersunanticipated, suchaswaiting forfire hydrants and utility poles tobe relocated.
In May, the project hit an-other snag.
“After a rainy spring, it wasdiscovered that a design changewas needed due to pooling waterand potential flooding issues,”Bishop said. “They also deter-mined that an additional guard-rail needs tobeaddressed.”
Now, he said, the contrac-tor — Concrete General, Inc. ofGaithersburg — is in a holdingpatternwhile itwaits on approvalfor thedesignof theguardrail anddrainageditches.
“Once approval is given,progress will resume and there isasmall laundry listof things left todo, such as driveway tie-in work,resurfacing, andpavementmark-ings,”Bishop said.
He said the project’s comple-tion is based on approval for de-sign change.
“We are looking to get the re-maining work done as quickly aspossible,” he said. “Our goal is tohave it completed by the end ofthe calendar year, weather per-mitting. However, dependingon the weather, the final pavingmight not take place until thespring.”
The design changes are ex-pected to increase the cost. Thefinal amount will not be knownuntil the pending design changesarefinalizedandapproved.
Sandy Spring Civic Associa-tion President John Salzberg saidresidentsof theareaarefrustratedby thedelays.
“They have done nothing forat least the past twomonths,” hesaid. “It is frustrating, because Ihave seen at least one serious ac-cident there over the past coupleof months. It is appalling thatthere have been so many delaysin this project.”
Gil Willson, a resident ofnearby Hennessey Terrace, hashad concerns about the proj-ect from the beginning, namelythe “lake” and “canal” drainage
ditches built on each side of Nor-wood Road. He has had numer-ous meetings with state highwayofficials.
“From day one, this projectwas not designed correctly, andwith no afterthought,” he said.“They tell me that this is the newstandard, but I guarantee thattheywouldnotbuild this in [Gov-ernor Martin] O’Malley’s frontyard.”
Willson said he has concernsaboutthedepthoftheswales,andalso themosquitoes,which couldbeattractedtothestandingwater.
“Construction projects arenot without their challenges,”Bishop said in response to Will-son’s comments. “Once they be-came aware of drainage issues,SHA project officials workedquickly to address those issues byredesigning portions of the proj-ect. When approved, the designchanges, including culvert, drain,ditchandelevationmodificationswithin the project limits, will ad-dress thedrainage issues.”
Road safety improvements stall in Olney
n At issue is how farhome coops should be
from lot lines
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Some residents are opposedtoMontgomeryCounty’splan torelax zoning regulations, lettingmore people keep chickens intheir backyards.
Montgomery is comprehen-sively rewriting its zoning codeandusing the revision to changecertain policies, among whichare the rules regulating the rais-ing of chickens.
As far back as the county’sfirst zoning code in 1928, resi-dents could have chickens intheir yards, because farmingwaspermitted in every zone, Legisla-tive Attorney Jeff Zyontz said.
But by the mid-1950s, thecode did not expressly allow forchickens, he said.
Sometime after 1955, thecounty adopted its current reg-ulations, which allow chickensin residential zones, so long asthe coop is 25 feet froma lot lineand 100 feet from a neighboringhouse, Zyontz said.
Those rules, he said, werecrafted to keep fowloff small lots.
Planners and council mem-bers want to let those who liveon small lots raise chickens, too.
Within the current rewrite,county planners have proposedto relax the rules for backyardchicken farming, suggesting acoop be at least 5 feet from thelot line. They also proposed al-lowing one hen for every 1,000square feet of a lot, up to eight.No roosters would be allowedand yardsmust be fenced.
Goats also would be permit-ted, but no more than one goatfor every 2,000 square feet of lotspace.
The council’s PlanningHousing and Economic Devel-opment Committee went for acompromise between currentrules and the planners’ pro-posal, recommending coops beat least 15 feet from the lot line.The committee the planningboard’s other limits.
Councilwoman Nancy Flo-reen, who chairs the committee,said some people did not realizeuntil the rewrite that the countyhas longallowedchicken in resi-dential zones.
“Residents always couldhave chickens. The only ques-tion was the location of thecoop,” Floreen (D-At large) ofGarrett Park said.
Some have cried foul at re-laxing the regulations, even sug-gesting that it would precipitatea major spike in the number ofhens in animal shelters, as resi-dents give up on raising chick-ens in their backyards.
Others have said a 15-footsetback would force many whowant to raise chickens to put thecoop in the center of their yard— in direct sunlight.
Objections to smell andhealth concerns about animalwaste also have been raised,but animal advocates and ag-riculture experts say most areunfounded.
Paul Shapiro, vice presi-dent of farm animal protectionfor The Humane Society of theUnited States, said chickensare intelligent, social, interest-ing animals that canmake goodcompanions.
But when chickens are al-lowed in residential areas orrules are relaxed, there can be aspike inunwantedbirds going toshelters, he said.
Shapiro suggested that thoseinterested in keeping chickensfirst learn what they are gettinginto. If they decide to go for it,they should rescue a shelteredchicken rather than orderingchicks through themail, he said.
University of MarylandExtension Educator ChuckSchuster agreed that those con-sidering raising chickens dotheir homework.
Poultry sitters are absolutelynecessary if owners plan to goon vacation, as the birds shouldnot be left to fend for them-selves, Schuster said.
Movable coops that provideadequate shelter and room forthe birds to roost at night andlay eggs are also essential. Amovable coop prevents chick-
ens from ranging in only onearea and will help cut down onsmell and degradation to yards,Schuster said.
Unfortunately, thoseexpect-ing to raise chickens toget cheapeggs aremistaken, he said.
The cost of buying a propercoop, feeding and caring forchickens breaks down to about$4 to $6 for every dozen eggs thechickens will produce, he said.
Those hoping to get fresheggs, though, can produce foodfor themselves.
Both Schuster and Shapirodoubted that chickens wouldproduce more waste than dogsor cats.
“When we properly managepoultry flocks in the backyardsetting, including moving thestructure, there is not a manureconcentration and once it rains,it is incorporated into the turf,”Schuster said. “I’m less con-cerned about that than I’d beabout some pet waste.”
When questioned by thecouncil, Dr. Ulder Tillman, thecounty’s health officer, said thegreater health risk would behandling the bird, not thewaste.She suggested frequent hand-washing.
The full council has yet todiscuss the zoning rewrite, sothe rules for raising chickenscould continue to evolve.
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“Residents alwayscould have
chickens. The onlyquestion wasthe locationof the coop.”Montgomery County
Councilwoman Nancy Floreen(D-At large) of Garrett Park
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n ‘Vital tax credit is one ofthe single most effectivetools to fight poverty’
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
A bill to increase income as-sistance forworking families hasnot only divided the Montgom-eryCountyCouncil, it has foundits way into county executivecampaign rhetoric.
In a recent email solicitingcampaign donations, DouglasM. Duncan (D) reminded sup-porters that during his time asexecutive, he created the sub-sidy, known as the WorkingFamilies Income Supplement,a tax credit provided workingfamilies living at ornearpoverty.And that if re-elected in 2014, hewould restore it to pre-recessionlevels.
“I have always believed thatthis vital tax credit is one of thesingle most effective tools tofightpoverty and that’swhy fullyrestoring it will be one ofmy toppriorities, because in Mont-gomery County we care aboutprotecting our neighbors,” hewrote in the solicitation, a copyof which was provided to TheGazette.
Duncan said in an interviewTuesday he created the supple-
mentwith the support ofCountyCouncil members in the late1990s, including his two oppo-nents in the 2014 race, currentCounty Executive Isiah Leggettand Councilman Philip M. An-drews.
“We were the first local gov-ernment to institute it in thecountry,” Duncan said. “It getsmoney directly into the handsof working people.”
Montgomery passed a bill in2010 giving it leeway to cut thesupplement during the reces-sion from a 100 percent matchof the state’s income tax credit.
But a bill introduced inMarch by Councilman HansRiemerwould restore andmain-tain it to a 100 percent matchunless a super majority decidedit should be lower.
Leggett (D) saidhis adminis-tration reduced the supplementas an austeritymeasure during adifficult economy.
“We suffered an immenserecession, we had to do things
differently and do it more ef-ficiently,” he said Tuesday. “Idetermined that we needed tomake some changes, and wemade some changes in virtuallyevery program you can name.”
But while the county re-duced the supplement — ac-cording to county documentsit reached a low of 68.9 percentstate match in fiscal 2012 —Montgomery enhanced pro-grams for affordable housing,health insurance and grants tononprofits, he said.
The county found other cre-ative ways to provide support toits working poor, Leggett said.
Riemer (D-At large) of Ta-koma Park said he expectedgrumbling when he introducedthe bill. What he did not antici-pate was such strong opinions.
Councilwoman Valerie Er-vin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Springhas openly opposed the bill,comparing it to the hand-tyingof the state’s education fundingrequirement, known as mainte-
nance of effort. Council Presi-dent Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4)of Silver Spring asked Riemer towithdraw his bill and submit aresolution in its place.
The longer the council keepshis bill in limbo, the more inter-est it is going to attract politi-cally, Riemer said.
“It’s a real issue and it’snot surprising that it could besomething that comes up in thecampaign because this is one ofthemost important anti-povertypolicies that we have; it’s beenone of Montgomery County’ssignature achievements on pov-erty,” Riemer said.
Leggett’s signature is re-quired for the bill to becomelaw. Riemer’s bill wouldnot pre-vent Leggett fromproposing lessthan 100 percent. However, thebill does require the council tofund the full amount.
“It is laudable; I commendhim for his intent and his desireto help those who can be as-sisted by this,” Leggett said.
What the council chooses todo with the supplement will bea “strong statementaboutwhereMontgomeryCounty’s prioritiesare,” Duncan said.
Andrews (D-Dist. 3) ofGaithersburg could not bereached for comment.
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Duncan touts income assistance“We were the first local government toinstitute it in the country. It gets money
directly into the hands of working people.”Douglas M. Duncan (D)
n Robocall soundslike real person
BY ST. JOHN
BARNED-SMITH
STAFFWRITER
Montgomery County resi-dents have been targeted bya slick robocalling scam, thecounty’s Office of ConsumerProtectionwarned Friday.
In the scam, a prerecordedvoice tells the person answering
the phone that someone theyknow has purchased a “MedicalAlert” device for them and thecompany is trying to schedule adelivery, according toEric Fried-man, director of MontgomeryCounty’s Office of ConsumerProtection.
But the calls are a scam op-eration to try to get personalidentity information or creditcard information from resi-dents, Friedman said.
People getting ripped offby the scam receive monthlycharges of $35 and up, saidJohn D. Breyault, a vice presi-dent at the National Consum-ers League. The scam is similarto one that was investigated bythe Federal Trade CommissioninMarch, he said.
The call alone is illegal, hesaid.
“If you’ve not given permis-sion for a company to contactyou, they cannot use an autodialer,” he said, explaining thatit was a violation of consumerprotection law.
In that case, a Brooklyn-based company would contactseniors with a similar pitchabout a free medical alert ser-vice, then bill them between$817 and $1,602 with bogus in-voices, he said. If the person re-ceiving the bogus bill refused topay, the company often threat-ened them, he said.
“The FTC put a halt to thatscam, but there are copycats outthere,” he said.
As for who’s behind it?“Really, it could be practi-
cally anyone. If you have accessto right technology, it’s a fairlysimple scam to run,” he said.Many originate outside of theU.S., he said.
The calls come from a localnumber, but could actually becoming from anywhere in thecountry using a process called“spoofing,” Friedman said.
Keith Watkins, an investiga-tor with Montgomery County’sOffice of Cable and BroadbandServices, said that he receivedone of the calls last week.
“It did not sound like a pre-dictive dialer,” he said. “Thisfella just started talking. I trulythought it was a live caller,” saidWatkins, 56, of Silver Spring.
Then, on the recording, thecaller asked to schedule a deliv-ery by pressing “1,” or to declinea delivery by pressing “5.”
“I’mawareof scams like this,but this sounded so lifelike thatI thought I was talking to a realperson,”Watkins said.
Once he realized it was a ro-bocall, he listened to the rest ofthe recording, then hung up, hesaid.
Friedman advised Mont-gomery County residents tolimit the amount of time on thephone,not to talk to a liveopera-tor, and not to give any personalinformation to operators.
Medical alert scam reported
The following is a summaryof incidents in the Olney areato whichMontgomery Countypolice responded recently. Thewords “arrested” and “charged”do not imply guilt. This infor-mationwas provided by thecounty.
Aggravated assault• On July 14 at 11:12 a.m. in
the3300blockofHewitt Avenue,AspenHill. The subject is knownto the victim.
• On July 20 at 2:52 a.m. inthe parking lot of Intepequeno,11300 Grandview Ave., SilverSpring. No further informationprovided.
• On July 20 at 3:03 a.m. nearthe intersection of Veirs MillRoad and Ferrara Drive, Whea-ton.
• On July 21 at 2:25 a.m.in the 2500 block of McVearyCourt, Aspen Hill. The subject isknown to the victim.
Bank robbery• On July 23 at 2:55 p.m. at
Sandy Spring Bank, 1 AshtonRoad, Ashton-Sandy Spring. Nofurther information provided.
Commercial burglary• On July 16 or July 17 at As-
penHill Library, 4407AspenHill
Road, Rockville. Forced entry,took nothing.
Indecent exposure• On July 22 at 4 p.m. in the
11400 block of Georgia Avenue,Silver Spring. The subject ex-posed himself andwas arrested.
Residential burglary• 3600 block of Bel Pre Road,
Aspen Hill, between July 13 and20. No forced entry, took noth-ing.
• 3000 block of Appomat-tox Avenue, Olney, between7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. July 16.Forced entry, took property.
• 12600 block of FarnellDrive, Silver Spring, on July 19.Unknown entry, took property.
• 10800 block of GeorgiaAvenue, Silver Spring, between7:30 and 10:30 p.m. July 19. Noforced entry, took property.
• 3100 block of FairweatherCourt, Olney, at 11:30 p.m. July19. No forced entry, took prop-erty.
• 3000 block of Dawson Av-enue, Silver Spring, between7:30 a.m. July 20 and 1:10 a.m.July 21. No forced entry, tookproperty.
• 18100 block of Ivy Lane,Olney, between 10 a.m. and 4p.m. July 21. Took items fromanopen garage.
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n Concession standcelebrates 60 years
BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFFWRITER
At the Montgomery CountyFairgrounds, a man called “TheBig Cheese” is chasing a recordthat could give the WisconsinState Fair a run for itsmoney.
Ed Hogan, who runs thecheese stand at the county’sagricultural fair, wants to makea record-breaking 10,000 grilledcheese sandwiches — morethan the fair has ever seen.
The volunteers who run thestand have come close to theirgoal in past years, but havefallen a few thousand sand-wiches short. About 8,400 weresold at the fair last year.
The Montgomery CountyAgricultural Fair, which kicksoff Friday in Gaithersburg, is
celebrating 60 years of The BigCheese, also the name of Ho-gan’s stand. Blocks of cheesewere first sold there in 1953.
“We started the first yearwith just one wheel of cheese,and just grew from there,” Ho-gan said.
The bread, butter and ched-dar sandwiches made their de-but at the fair in 1986, after fourof the stand’s volunteers sug-gested them.
“When they first started tomakegrilled cheese sandwiches,they had a grill that wouldmaketwo at a time,” Hogan said.“Now,wehave a grill thatmakes20 sandwiches at a time.”
Lines still form in front ofthe stand during the fair, buttheymove quickly. Noonewaitsmore than four minutes for asandwich, he said.
The butter and bread comefrom local producers in Fred-erick and West Virginia. But
the mild, melty cheddar cheesein the heart of the sandwich ispurchased from a factory, Hen-ning’s Wisconsin Cheese, inKiel, Wis.
Company representativeKay Schmitz said the factoryalso sells hundreds of poundsof cheese curds to the Wiscon-sin State Fair, and producescheddar wheels that weigh in at12,000 pounds apiece.
“Those are as wide and ashigh as a semi,” she said.
It took five volunteers to rollone of the six 500-poundwheelsinto The Big Cheese’s walk-inrefrigerator when they arrivedfromWisconsin on July 31.
“We do use some Marylandcheddar cheese, but there’s nocreamery in Maryland that canproduce the amount that weneed,” Hogan said.
The500-poundwheels, agedat least six months, are about2 feet high and 2 feet wide,
Schmitz said.Volunteers at the Mont-
gomery County AgriculturalFair used 1,000-pound wheelsof Wisconsin cheddar in pastyears, buthad todownsizewhenthewalk-in refrigeratorwasbuiltwith a narrow doorway.
Six volunteers were neededto lift one of the 500-poundwheels, which will be on displayina refrigerated shednext toTheBig Cheese.
The sandwiches, which sellfor $3.50, helped the concessionstand bring in a $64,000 profit atlast year’s fair.
Alicia Clugh of Rockville,whoheads theMarylandCheeseGuild, said the sandwiches are astaple of the fair experience.
“I would hope anybody whohas grown up in MontgomeryCounty has had them,” she said.
Hogan said the amount ofcheddar used at The Big Cheeserivals the Wisconsin State Fair’s
total.A representative for theWis-
consin State Fair said its grilledcheese stand bought 4,800pounds of cheddar for sand-wiches last year. Hogan’s standbought 3,000 pounds of cheesethis year.
Hoganhasruntheconcessionstand for 13 years and embracesthenicknameTheBigCheese.
“I’m a vegetarian,” he said.“I don’t eat meat, but I do likecheese.”
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Workers and volunteers hoist a 500-pound wheel of cheese onto a table tobe displayed in a small cooled building next to The Big Cheese concessionstand at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center.
County fair grills up cheesy record
n New building has beenin the works for years
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
For visitors to the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fair, OldMacDon-ald’s Barn is hard tomiss.
“It’s the newest, biggest, reddestbarn on the property,” said MartySvrcek, executive director of the fair.
ThenewOldMacDonald’sBarnhasbeen a long time coming. The old ver-sion of the barn — two buildings thatwere among the earliest structures builtat the fair when it started in 1949—hasbeenafixture fordecades, but thewoodwas old and had started to decay.
Svrcek said volunteers started talk-ing about building a new barn morethan a decade ago, but before raisingthe barn they had to raise the money.That took about eight years. Svrcek de-clined to say how much the barn cost,but said it did come in under budget.
“Two years ago we started gettingreally serious,” he said. “... We savedenough money, and [now] the barn isjust about done.”
Now, one updated structure has re-placed the two old barns. The newbarn— still red, but now made of durablemetal instead of all wood — is almostready to make its debut to the publicwhen the 65th annual MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fair kicks off Fri-day.
Jack Heller of Frederick said he andhis wife, Grace, oversaw the barn for11 years as Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald.While they gave up the job about eightyears ago, they still try tomake it out tothe fair for adayor twoeachyear.Hellersaid the new barn is a great improve-ment over the old one.
“It was like a step into heaven,” hesaid after seeing the new barn for thefirst time. “That place is gorgeous.”
The newbarn ismuchmore animalfriendly, he said, with brighter lightingand better air circulation.
“That building there is the show-place of the fair,” Heller said. “Every-body comes to the Old MacDonaldbarn— everybody.”
Old MacDonald’s Barn got its startwhen a group of Future Farmers ofAmerica volunteers wanted to build a
child-friendly barn so mothers couldbring their children to see the animalsat the fair, Svrcek said. Now,more peo-ple go through that barn than any otherat the fair.
ThenewOldMacDonald’sBarnwillhouse many of the same exhibits thatpeople have enjoyed at the fair in yearspast, including several different animalspecies, a birthing center where orga-nizers anticipate about six calves willbe born and a milking parlor to dem-onstrate commercialmilkingprocesses.
“[Visitors] get to learn milk doesn’treally come from Safeway — it comesfrom a cow,” Svrcek said with a laugh.
Beth Smith, who serves as the su-
perintendent of OldMacDonald’s Barnwith her husband, Tom, said the barnwill house about 14 animals for fami-lies to view, plus seven pregnant cowsin the birthing center. Although muchwill be the same, the better lighting andviewer-friendly setup is an improve-ment on the old barn, she said.
“Therewill be a lot of the same stuffthat people have become comfortablewith, and it’s in a new environment,”she said.
The fair runsFriday throughAug. 17in Gaithersburg. Visit mcagfair.com formore information.
This year, a new Old MacDonald’s Barn
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Nic Schultze of Dickerson puts some finishing touches on the new Old MacDonald’s Barn as it nears completion Friday at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair.
Jack Heller ofFrederick,who was “OldMacDonald”at theMontgomeryCountyAgriculturalFair for 11years, stopsin to seethe new OldMacDonald’sBarn.
SETTING UP SHOP
Ryan Benton greases parts on the Swing Buggy ride Tuesday as workers begin to set up rides for the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fair.
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Gabino Gonzalez Garcia works to set up the fence around the Ships Ahoy ride Tuesday under the watchful eyes ofthe Pharaoh’s Fury ride.
From left, Shaun Birchardand Brian Cotham carefullyfold an American flag thatwill be retired and replacedwith a new flag on thefireball ride as they setup for the fair.
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Most of those same vol-unteers helped prepare thebuildings and grounds byworking on the four Saturdayspreceding the fair, he said.
Sue Cook of Laytonsvilleworked three Saturdays. Thispast Saturday, she helped pre-pare the 4-H Beef Club barn,where her children will showtheir animals. She spreadmulch in the cattle stalls andprepared empty stalls so vol-unteers have a place to sit.
She said she, her husbandand two children stay in thebarn during fair hours to keepan eye on the animals and an-swer questions from fairgoers.
In the nearby Dairy Baron Saturday, Lions Club vol-unteers were busy scrubbingrefrigerated cases, ice creamscoops, floors and freezers.They were preparing for thedelivery of enough ice creamto scoop more than 50,000servings.
Volunteers from each ofthe county’s eight Lions Clubchapters works during the fairscooping ice cream cones,mixing milk shakes, servingup sundaes and sharing prof-its at the end of the fair, saidGerda and Doug Sherwood ofLaytonsville, superintendentsof the Dairy Bar.
At the Home Arts build-ing, members of the WildWest Wranglers Club, a 4-HWestern horseback ridingclub, were repainting the out-side wall mural, touching upthe 4-H symbol, motto andpledge.
“It needed to be done.We were finished at the horsebarn so we came up here,”said Jennifer Cloutier of Gaith-ersburg, the club’s founder.
Elsewhere, volunteers setbenches in pavilions, plantedflowers, moved mulch, rakedand swept.
Lindsey Carlin of NorthPotomac stood by a box ofcleaning supplies looking overthe tables in the Home ArtsBuilding ready to hold bakedgoods, needlework and furni-ture made by county residents.
“Today is the final setup,”she said.
The fair provides the op-portunity for 4-H and FutureFarmers of America membersto display their work, for resi-dents to show off their hob-bies and learn more aboutagriculture in MontgomeryCounty.
“There is just so much funto be had here,” Svrcek said.
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The 65th Montgomery County Agricultural Fairopens at 3 p.m. Friday at 16 Chestnut St., Gaithersburg.
Starting Saturday, it runs from 10 a.m. to midnightthrough Aug. 17. Animal exhibits open Sunday. Car-nival rides and games are open daily from noon tomidnight.
The theme of this year’s fair is “Plenty to See fromA to Z.”
Admission is $10; children under 11 are free.On-site parking is $10, cash only. Free parking is
available at Lakeforest mall, Lost Knife Road and Oden-hal Avenue in Gaithersburg, with shuttle buses operat-
ing Friday from 11:30 a.m. to midnight, and thereafterdaily from 8 a.m. to midnight.
The fair offers a number of special days such asFamily Day, Senior Citizen Day and Military Day withfree or discounted admission and rides discounts. Visitwww.mcagfair.com for more information.
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pers; the Fairfax County Timesin Northern Virginia; the Span-ish-language El Tiempo La-tino newspaper; the RobinsonTerminal Warehouse and thePost’s adjoining printing plantin Springfield, Va.; the Comprintprinting plant in Laurel; and sev-eral military-base publications.
Bezos, whose tech-savvybusiness sense made him oneof the world’s richest men — hehas a reported net worth of $25billion — has said he is com-mitted to quality journalism,McDaniel said. He has givenhis assurances that he will carryon the traditions and values theGraham family have fostered atthe Post.
McDaniel told employeesTuesday at The Gazette that thesale did not mean any majorchanges, such as layoffs.
Keeping the smaller, sub-urban papers that ring Wash-ington makes sense, said JohnMorton, who runs a newspaperconsulting firm, Morton Re-search Inc., in Silver Spring.
“To some extent, the Ga-zettes, and collectively the sub-urban weeklies, are the mostsuccessful part of the company,”Morton said. “It’s more thanlikely Bezos will recognize thatand allow things to continue onas they have.”
The most successful news-papers in the country have a ringof suburban weeklies surround-ing them, Morton said, andthose weeklies pack in the ads.
“For example the Orange
County Register has a numberof smaller papers whose ad-vertising is 50 to 60 percent ofthe paper, compared to 30 to40 percent in the ... Register,”Morton said, adding that TheGazettes had an equally impres-sive number of ads. “I’m alwaysimpressed how stuffed with ad-vertising it is, and not just mom-and-pop retailers, but the bigPost accounts as well.”
The most important factorabout the acquisition is that thePost, and smaller papers, will nolonger be owned publicly, Mor-ton said. That will free up Bezosto make investments in new anddifferent ventures, especially re-lated to the Internet, his metier.
“When you are marchingto Wall Street’s drum, you havegreat restraints on your abilityto invest in anything,” Morton
said. “One of the problems withbeing a publicly owned com-pany is that it is pervades almosteverything you do. It keeps youfrom improving systems and de-veloping new products. You’relucky if you can hang on to whatyou’ve got.”
Bezos, who has a full-timejob running Amazon.com in Se-attle, will become the sole owneronce the sale is completed. Theremaining parts of the Washing-ton Post Co. that Bezos did notpurchase, which include KaplanInc., Cable ONE and Post-News-week television stations, will geta new, still undecided name. Itwill carry on as a publicly tradedcompany without the newspa-pers.
SALEContinued from Page A-1
lion — will go to the Purple Line,a 16-mile light rail line plannedto connect Bethesda and NewCarrollton through Silver Spring.
Other projects, such as theCorridor Cities Transitway,Ride On Bus system and roadimprovements, will see smallerfunding commitments from thestate.
Led by County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D), Montgom-ery pushed for an increase inthe statewide gasoline tax inthe 2013 legislative session. Itsought a cash commitment fromthe state to the $2.2 billion Pur-
ple Line, as well as the CorridorsCities Transitway — a 15-milebus rapid transit line connectingClarksburg to the Shady GroveMetro Station, estimated to cost$545 million.
Over the “last few decades,”Maryland stopped making nec-essary investments to build andmaintain its transportation in-frastructure, O’Malley (D) saidMonday.
“The failure to act, the fail-ure to make those better deci-sions, had a huge cost,” he said.
Time, jobs and the environ-ment were sacrificed, he said.
Maryland lawmakers thisspring passed the Transporta-tion Infrastructure InvestmentAct — which raises taxes on gas-
oline and diesel — to bring $4.4billion in new investment and57,000 jobs in the next six years.
Flanked by dozens of statelawmakers, local leaders andmembers of the building trade,O’Malley said Montgomery’sshare of that money — besidesthe Brookeville funding — willinclude the following:
• $400 million for construc-tion of the Purple Line, whichcomes on top of $280 million an-nounced previously to buy landand finish the project’s design.
• $125 million to construct anew interchange along I-270 atWatkins Mill Road.
• $100 million to buy landand design the Corridor CitiesTransitway.
• $85 million for Montgom-ery’s Ride On Bus system.
• $7 million to build inter-changes at U.S. 29 and Mus-grove Road and at U.S. 29 andFairland Road.
• $3 million to design thewidening of Md. 124 (WoodfieldRoad) from Midcounty Highwayto south of Airpark Road.
• $3 million for planning toevaluate possible improvementsin the Md. 28/Md. 198 corridorbetween Md. 97 and I-95.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brownshepherded a bill through theGeneral Assembly this year thatbecame the state’s new public-private partnership law. He saidthe state will deliver the PurpleLine as its first and largest transit
partnership with private indus-try. The state will seek a privatecompany to build and operatethe line.
“It’s a project that is going toconnect our communities andgrow our economy,” said Brown(D), who is running for governorin 2014, when O’Malley can’trun again because of term lim-its. “With the additional $400million the governor just an-nounced, we are showing howserious we are to delivering thePurple Line now.”
Montgomery looks to add100,000 jobs through its effortsin the Great Seneca ScienceCorridor, Shady Grove, WhiteFlint and White Oak, Leggettsaid.
“However, all of that de-pends on improvement in ourtransportation infrastructure,”Leggett (D) said. “Without that[investment], those jobs maycome to a screeching halt.”
Montgomery leaderswarned last December thatwithout dedicated funding andclear state commitment to theproject, the Purple Line, whichis almost completely designed,would stall in its tracks.
“All of this is about betterchoices,” O’Malley said.
Staff Writer Sylvia Carignancontributed to this report.
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Employees of The Gazette and Fairfax County Times question Ann McDaniel,a senior vice president at the Washington Post Co., about the newspapers’sale to Jeffrey Bezos.
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Montgomery County Public Schoolsevery year touts that they have efforts toclose the gap between the well-performingschools, mostly wealthy, and the other areasof the county. Every year the gappersists andno matter how they talk, the gap will neverbe narrowed given the current ways staff areallocated and allowed to transfer.Several years ago, I did a study of spend-
ing per student from “Schools at a Glance,”a consistent message was clear. When sala-ries of staff were included in the review, youcould predict by spending per studentwhichschoolwas in the red zoneversus green zone,an accuracy point of over 90 percent.
What was MCPS’ response? They sim-ply pulled salaries from the report so thepublic could not see what was really hap-pening.So what does that tell us? We need to
initiate a salary cap to assure that the areaswith lower performance have a fair share atseasoned staff. We need seasoned staff inthe more challenging schools and shouldprovide financial incentive for those sea-soned staff that choose to be in thoseschools.Only when we put more experience in
the lower-performing schools will the gapbe narrowed. We have great staff, they just
aren’t all where they need to be to improvethe performance across the county.So a request to Superintendent Joshua
Starr, Larry Bowers, and the Board of Edu-cation: It is time to end the way we staff ourschools — place energetic seasoned staff toour low-performing schools if you want toclose the performance gap.The model being used today is old and
is a major reason the gap does not improveseriously.
Robert Monsheimer, Silver SpringThewriter is the education chair of the
Montgomery County Taxpayers League.
Schools need to change the way staff is paid
While walking on the Crescent Trail withmy lab-rador, Tim, I meet many other walkers, joggers, run-ners, dogs and bicyclists. The nature trail is enjoyedby all. But the possible loss of this natural forestedpath by five years of Purple Line construction andside-by-side light rail operation is of concern.Trail enthusiasts are trying to prevent the loss of
this valuable community resource by shortening theproposed Purple Line from 16 to 14 stations, endingin Silver Spring’s Transit Center. The transit centerbrings together theMetro Red Line, buses and trains,a logical terminal while continuation to Bethesdadoes not offer the same.The 14-station Purple Line has substantial cost
savings for the state,U.S. government andMontgom-ery County. Besides, the two-station continuationfails to address increasing traffic congestion causedby the National Institutes of Health and the NavyMedical Center, Walter Reed complex. The Navy isexpanding and adding 900 additional parking spacesto the already large number on-site.Wisconsin Avenue, Rockville Pike and Old
Georgetown Road are a mass of slow moving cars inmornings and afternoons.
Robert Posner, Bethesda
End thePurple Line inSilver Spring
Isn’t it timeTheGazettepulled theplugonBlair Lee andhispuerile, reac-tionary, Johnny-One-Note drivel? Hiscolumn of July 31 ends thusly:“Last Friday, the half-black presi-
dent was all black, engaging in a ‘raceconversation’ exclusively with blacksabout a white, racist America. Then, afew days later, he was off on another‘soak the rich’ speaking tour ...”
As a 50-year journalism veteran Icanassureyouhiscolumnneverwouldhave gotten past me into the paper.Successful op-ed pieces are instructive,informative, well-conceived, well-writ-ten fair commentary. Lee’s screeds failmiserablyonall these levels.Precious trees are cut down for
this? Really?
Ronald E. Cohen, Potomac
Pull the plug on Blair Lee
I’ve just read Carol Lundquist’sletter regarding her problems withComcast [“Rebooting Comcast,” July31.] I don’t think sheknows thatMont-gomery County has anOffice of Cableand Communication Services. Theywill “run interference” with a residentwith Comcast, Verizon or any othercable or communication services.
[TheMontgomery County Officeof Cable and Communication Serviceshas an office at 100Maryland Ave.,Rockville. It can be reached at 311 or240-773-8111.]For a few months several years
ago I couldnot get any sort of satisfac-tion fromComcast. I originally signedup for a special $29.99 permonth ratebut they kept billing me $60. Even af-ter reminding them of my special, Ikept getting bills for $60 and if I didn’tpay Iwouldget several letters insistingI pay $60.One telephone call to an investi-
gator and I got a call from a supervi-sor fromComcast and everythingwasstraightenedout. I also got an apologyfromComcast!
Karoline Dunne, Silver Spring
Office can resolve disputes
A July 22 tour byMontgomery County’s PlanningBoard of the TenMile CreekWatershed serves as a re-minder about open government.The board, alongwith planning staff and the
board’s attorney, rode together in a van for its tour.There was no room in the van for anyone else whowanted to hear the discussion, including a Gazette re-porter, let alone an interested resident.A reporter was told she could follow in her own car
andwas free to talk to boardmembers and planners atstops along the way or to call them later.That’s not the best way to exemplify “open.”Maryland’s OpenMeetings Act prohibits public
bodies fromholdingmeetings in private, unless theyare discussing topics that fit certain exemptions, suchas the performance of a specific employee or a pend-ing lawsuit.Carol Rubin, an attorney who advises the board,
said boardmembers understood that limitation anddid not discuss public business as they traveled.It’s good to hear the boardwas trying, but the pub-
lic shouldn’t have to take public officials at their wordonmatters like that.There didn’t seem to be any exclusionary intent
behind this van tour.More likely, the vanpool was amatter of convenience—why takes several vehicles tothe site when you can take one.This field trip also doesn’t seem to violate the letter
of the OpenMeetings Act, which says it is “essential tothemaintenance of a democratic society that, exceptin special and appropriate circumstances: (1) publicbusiness be peformed in an open and publicmanner;and (2) citizens be allowed to observe.” Having ama-jority of a public body in one place doesn’t necessarilyconstitute ameeting.Still, government bodies should look beyond the
minimal requirements of the law and consider theother extreme:What is themost they can do to beopen and transparent?If a public body is going to ride together, let anyone
who’s interested come along.If that doesn’t work,move to plan B— think cre-
atively about how to remain open.Maybe take pic-tures and video of public places and play them in ameeting room as part of a group discussion. Any boardmember whowants to seemore can do so on his orher own— in anyway that doesn’t involve having aboardmajority gathered together in a confined place.The less the public hears government officials say
“trust us” after talking privately, the better.
No room?Ditch the van
We’ve all heard the stories of howAmerican com-munities once had safe, cheap, reliable public trans-portation, often operated by private companies. Asthe suburbs grew— the story goes—gasoline and tirecompanies banded together to put the trolleys out ofbusiness in favor of the automobile, transforming thecountryside into a car culture.Maybewhenwe’re stuckin a jammedEast-West Highway or a cloggedWiscon-sin Avenue, we thinkwistfully to that time gone by.Gov.Martin O’Malleymight have been thinking
about that eraMonday as he called for a public-privatepartnership to build and operate the Purple Line, the16-mile east-west light rail line planned to connectBethesda with NewCarrollton. The line is expected tocost something on the order of $2.2 billion, and let’sface it, those kinds of samoleons can’t be collectedfrom the pockets ofMaryland taxpayers nomatterhow high the state’s gas tax rises.OnMonday, O’Malley (D) ponied up $400million
toward the project. The rest, he said, would come fromfederal grants, local contributions,more from the state— and private investment.State officials say they envision private companies
bidding to operate the trains at a price low enough towin the contract but a high enough to turn a profit.The contract will include a set of performance stan-dards; don’tmeet the standards and the companyisn’t paid. (Fares would be set by theMaryland TransitAdministration.)The systemmotivates the company to operate as
efficiently as possible. Greater efficienciesmean thecompany ismore profitable. But a question aboutfares looms large, as public transit is heavily subsi-dized.Future Purple Line riders—many of whomwill be
Montgomery County residents—have a right to cockan eyebrow at the set-up. TheMaryland governmentdoes not have a great track record at regulatingmo-nopolies.For the time being, riders can give the state the
benefit of the doubt and dream about an efficient pub-lic transit system that connects the jobs of Bethesdawith the transit hub inNewCarrollton.Whether thedreambecomes a reality will need time.
Purple Linedreams
As a director of clinical ser-vices for dialysis patients in theMaryland, Washington, D.C.,and Northern Virginia region,I oversee care to over 5,000 pa-tients weekly. These patients re-quire four-hour dialysis sessionsthree times a week to rid theirbodies of deadly toxins and toenable them to live full and ac-tive lives.I am writing because I am
disturbed and angered over arecent proposal by the Cen-ters for Medicare and MedicaidServices (CMS) that would cutMedicare reimbursement fordialysis care by close to 12 per-
cent. Considering that Medicarereimbursement fails to cover thecost of dialysis currently, furthercuts will be devastating to thehundreds of thousands of pa-tients ondialysiswhodependonMedicare — and the caregiverswho treat them.The effects of these pro-
posed cuts to dialysis care mayforce reductions in staffing lev-els, reduced access to additionalservices such as social workers,nurses or dietitians and, po-tentially, dramatically reducedaccess to dialysis care in theMaryland, Washington, D.C.,and Northern Virginia regions
altogether. Clinicsmaybe forcedto close or consolidate, requir-ing patients to travel greater dis-tances for their life-sustainingcare.Worse, this may force us to
return to a time in our historywhere community boards wereforced to decide who is worthyof receiving this life-sustainingtreatment.Many dialysis patients are
active, contributing members ofthe community and renal failureknows no boundary — it affectsall age groups, ethnicities andcommunities.It’s important for lawmakers
tounderstand thatwithout readyaccess to dialysis care and ancil-lary services, patients with kid-ney failure will die. I hope yourreaders will contact our mem-bers of Congress and ask themto ensure that CMS maintainsappropriate funding to continueproviding life-saving care for ourvulnerable residents.I strongly encourage each
community member to speakup to these cuts. There are betterways to reduce cost as throughaccountable care organizationsand not compromise the carecurrently being provided.
Deidre Fisher, Olney
Ask Congress to protect life-sustaining care
& The Gazette’s Guide toArts & Entertainment
www.gazette.net | Wednesday, August 7, 2013 | Page A-11
In anticipation ofhis new albumout next month,Wayne Brady willperform Saturdayat the BethesdaBlues and JazzSupper Club.BRIDGE ANDTUNNEL ENTERTAINMENT
erhaps best known forhis off-the-cuff musicalstylings on ABC’s improvcomedy show, “WhoseLine is it Anyway?” per-former Wayne Brady is a
man of many talents. Brady will bein Bethesda on Saturday night to pro-mote his new, yet-to-be-named album,out nextmonth. A&E caught upwith himabout his love ofMotown, his passion forlive music and this summer’s return of“Whose Line.”
A&E: When people hear the nameWayneBrady, theyprobably thinkof yourcomedyoryouracting.Butwouldyousay
music is your first love? Itseems to have infiltratedeverything else you do.Brady: Absolutely,
music ismy first love. If itweren’t formusic, I don’tknow if I would be on“Whose Line,” becausebefore “Whose Line,” asa musician being able todo as much touring asI did and be in as manymusicals ... that’s whereI picked up the skills tobe able to hold my ownon “Whose Line” and beable to create those songs
on the spot. It’s definitely a part of me; Ilove music. I could easily give up doingimprov or comedy on stage, but I couldnever give up doing music in any shapeor form.
A&E: In 2008 youwere nominated fora Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vo-cal Performance for your single, a cover
RenaissanceBRADY:Wayne
P
n Sweet sounding instrument risingin popularity
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
How is the sound of a four-string Ha-waiian ukulele different than the sound of abanjo or guitar?“It’s got amuch sweeter quality to it,” said
musician Lil’ Rev (Marc Revenson) fromMil-waukee. “It’s happyand enchanting at thesame time.”Revenson and
other musicians willplay their ukuleles ata free outdoor con-cert on Aug. 14 at thegazebo at the Man-sion at Strathmore inNorth Bethesda.Visitors are in-
vited to bring used in-struments to donateto Hungry for Music,a nonprofit based inWashington, D.C.,that helps bring mu-sic to underprivilegedchildren.The Aug. 14 con-
cert caps an annualfour-day Uke andGuitar Summit orga-nized by musiciansCathy Fink andMarcyMarxer of Kensingtonto teach people howto learn and developtheirmusical skills.Also performing
and teaching morethan a dozen classeswill be Stuart Fuchs,whowill teachBeatlestunes, and GeraldRoss, who also playssteel guitar. The HulaHoneys — Robyn
Kneubuhl and Ginger Johnson — will hosta class about Hawaiian recorded music andhistory.
Ukesno flukes
MOVIE REVIEW
UNDER THE GUN Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg providethe firepower in ‘2 Guns’. Page A-15
MUSIC
PHOTO FROM MARCY MARXER
Gerald Ross, who plays the Hawaiian steel guitar,joins other performers at a free concert at theMansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda on Aug. 14.
UKE ANDGUITARSUMMITn When: Aug. 10-14
n Where: Mansionat Strathmore,10701 RockvillePike, NorthBethesda
n Tuition: $320
UKEFEST 2013n When: 7 p.m.
Aug. 14; 6-7 p.m.pre-show strum
n Where: GudelskyGazebo, Mansionat Strathmore,10701 RockvillePike, NorthBethesda.
n Bring blankets,low beachchairs; no pets.
n Tickets: Free
n For information:301-581-5100,strathmore.org
Africa sings South African singerLorraine Klaasen will
sing songs madefamous by MiriamMakebe as well as
some of her own onSunday evening at thefree FestAfrica event
this weekend inVeterans Plaza in
Silver Spring.PHOTO BY PIERRE ARSENAULT
WAYNE BRADYn When: 8 p.m. Saturday
n Where: Bethesda Blues andJazz Supper Club, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda
n Tickets: $80-$100
n For information: 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com
B E T H E S D A B L U E S AND J A Z Z S U P P E R C L U B
n Bradyproves he’s
a music manat heart
BY CARAHEDGEPETHSTAFFWRITER
man
n Festival celebrates music,dance, food and fashion
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE | STAFFWRITER
LorraineKlaasen recentlywon theCanadian equivalent of aGrammy for her album tribute to singer and social activist Mir-iamMakeba, who brought South Africanmusic to Americain the 1960s.But todayKlaasen putsher ownspinonMakeba’s
songs — a triumphant spin — because in 1994 theblack people of South Africa won their politicalfreedom.“She used to sing songs about the struggle
against apartheid, but now the songs are more incelebration, because we prevailed,” said Klaasen,
See UKES, Page A-15See BRADY, Page A-15
See AFRICA, Page A-15
1890466
WHERE:JCA
12320 Parklawn DriveRockville, MD 20852
WHEN:Tuesday, September 10th
Drop by anytime from10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
1906600
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“Neena Birch: Life,Science and Imagination”opens today at VisArts atRockville’s Kaplan Gallery.An opening reception andartist’s talk is scheduledfor 7-9 p.m. Friday at thegallery. The exhibit runs toSept. 8. The retrospectiveexplores Birch’s botanicaldrawings and imaginativeanthropomorphic imagesculled from 30 years ofcreative work. A skilleddraftswoman, printmaker,painter and sculptor, herartwork reflects sensitiveconnections between thenatural world and humanexperience. Formoreinformation, visit www.visartsatrockville.org.
Birch remembered
VISARTS
Neena Birch, “Peony Remains,” 1980,Mixed media.
“A Chorus Line,” the largest endeavor ever undertaken by theOlney Theatre Center, continues to kick things up a notch at thevenue through Sept. 1. FeaturingMarvinHamlish and EdwardKleban’s Broadway hits “What I Did for Love,” “I Hope I CanGetIt” and “One (Singular Sensation),” and directed by StephenNa-chamie, the production follows 17 dancers competing for eightcoveted spots in the chorus of amusical on the GreatWhiteWay.Formore information, visit www.olneytheatrecenter.org.
Kicking it upThe cast ofOlney Theatre
Center’sproduction
of “A ChorusLine,” runningto Sept. 1 atthe theater.
PHOTO BYHEATHER LATIRI
“Medieval Story Land” will bring swords, sorcery and satireto theGaithersburg Arts Barn thisweekend. Presented byRedKnight Productions, the action-packed, improvisation-fueledparody of the fantasy genrewas originallywritten for theUp-right Citizen’s Brigade Theater. The story follows Todd, a simpleelf, towhom is bestowed amagic sword and a dangerous quest.“Medieval Story Land” casts its spell at 8 p.m. Fridays andSat-urdays and2 p.m. Sundays, Aug. 9-25 at the theater, 311 KentSquare Road,Gaithersburg. Tickets are $16 for general admis-sion, $14 for residents and $9 for students through grade 12. Formore information, visit www.gaithersburgmd.gov/theater.
Once upon a time
RED KNIGHT PRODUCTIONS
“Medieval Story Land” is set to slay them in the aisles at the Gaithers-burg Arts Barn from Aug. 9-25.
Animated fantasy favorite “The Last Unicorn”willscreen at 7:15 p.m.Monday and again at 11:05 a.m.Aug. 17 at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center,featuring an in-person appearance by author andscreenwriter Peter S. Beagle. Produced by animationinnovators Rankin Bass (“Rudolph The Red-NosedReindeer”), the sophisticated fairy tale follows theunicorn Amalthea (Mia Farrow) who, fearing she’s thelast of her kind, travels to the realm of KingHaggard(Christopher Lee) in hopes of finding her lost breth-ren. The film features a voice cast that includes AlanArkin and Jeff Bridges, andmusic by soft-rock legendsAmerica. Formore information, visit www.afi.com/silver.
Childhood Fantasy
AFI
Childhood favorite “The Last Unicorn” is set to screen at the AFI Silver Theatre andCultural Center beginning Monday, with special guest, screenwriter author Peter S. Beagle.
‘Traveler’s’TALESCountry and bluegrass legend Ricky
Skaggs will perform during a specialevent from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Ros-borough Cultural Arts Center at AsburyMethodist Village, 301 Odenhal Ave.,Gaithersburg. Presented by the Gaithers-burg Book Festival, Politics & Prose andAsbury Methodist Village, the musicianwill debut his newmemoir, “KentuckyTraveler: My Life in Music.” Skaggs willshare stories from his memoir detailinghis more than 40 years in show business,treat audience members to a few tunesand sign books following his presenta-tion. Tickets to the event are $30 for oneadmission and one copy of “KentuckyTraveler” or $40 for two admissions andone copy of “Kentucky Traveler.” Formore information, visit www.brownpap-ertickets.com/event/428974.
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The exhibition currently atthe Strathmore Mansion, “Pup-pets take Strathmore:NoStringsAttached,” captures the funda-mentally strange and fascinat-ing aspect of puppets. With it,curator Harriet Lesser intendsto provoke thinking about ourreaction to puppets, as well as
their artistic value. Wanderingthrough the galleries you can’thelp but be struck by the verythin line between puppets andSurrealist artmadeevidenthere.This observation is, however,not new. Art historians havelong been intrigued by the ac-tual use of puppets and dolls bybothDada and Surrealist artists,especially women, in the 1920sand 30s. The connection is ac-tually not surprising when werecall that Surrealists were con-cerned with primal feelings andideas, with fantasy and dreams,and the art of children. PaulKlee made 50 handpuppets thathe never exhibited, but HannahHoch not only made puppetdolls, but also had herself pho-tographed with them. Such toyswere attractive because of theirambiguity. Puppets and dollscan have semiotic ambivalence,as figures of delight or of horror,and often simultaneously.
The exhibit combines pup-pets of various kinds, includingsome historical pieces borrowedfrom the Ballard Institute andMuseum of Puppetry at the Uni-versity of Connecticut. Amongthese are two leather and ink In-dian shadow puppets on sticks(c. 1900), and threepuppets fromthe 1930s by Rufus and MargoRose, the famed puppet makerswho created Howdy Doody. Anabstract paper and wire maskand puppet is by Heather Hen-son, daughter ofMuppets inven-tor Jim Henson, and founder ofIBEXPuppetry,anentertainmentcompany dedicated to promot-ing the art of puppetry in all of itsvarious aspects. There arephoto-graphs of puppet performances— probably the least interestingelements in the exhibit — and anumber of very loud videos, defi-nitely the most annoying part ofthe show.
On the second floor Gallery2 is completely occupied with aninstallation by Michael Cotter,founder of the Blue Sky PuppetTheatre. This is also accompa-nied by a much-too-loud soundcomponent, perhaps intended
to suggest a circus or carnival at-mosphere. Cotter’s soft puppets,much like large stuffed animals,are arranged on stage-like struc-tures on two sides of the gal-lery. High up, they leer down atthe viewer with large eyes. Thestrangeness of this installationwould confirm the notion thatat the heart of puppet theater is asurreal premise that reaches intoand out from the realm of chil-dren’s imagination and dreams.Also in this gallery is a panel sup-porting 20 paintings by Cotterof hands. “Handscapes” has astrong — and one assumes in-tentional — Surrealist aesthetic.Each painting shows a hand,some with strings, one behindbars, and one with an open doorin its middle. The allusion to thehand that manipulates the pup-pet, creating various narratives,is evident, but the paintings, andtheir juxtaposition to the puppetinstallation, serve to underlinetheuncanny effect of thewhole.
Artist Elyse Harrison’s instal-lation occupies a room on thefirst floor. In a series of woodencrates, somevery small andsomeabout the size of fruit boxes,Har-rison has created a series of nar-rative dioramas inhabited bypainted plastic figures that areneither puppets nor dolls, butbecause of their fictionalizedaction, and the story they playout, resemble a puppet showin three-dimensional stills. The
story is printed out on an easel inthe center of the room, and eachbox represents another scene inthis little tale about the trials ofJack Inthebox and Marion Ette,lovers and actors, with a happyending owing to their dog Mack.Each diorama functions as an in-dependent work, although theyare connected by storyline. Bothcharming and a little strange,
this work epitomizes that deli-cate edginess of this aestheticthat once so engaged the likesof Klee and Hoch. Harrison hasbeen working on this edge forsome time and, not surprisingly,teaches art to children on a regu-lar basis.
Painter Ariel J. Klein gradu-ated from Maryland InstituteCollege of Art last year. He hasreceived quite a lot of press re-cently because of his clever land-ing of an improvised studio andgallery space on the last block ofGeorgia Avenue in Montgom-ery County. Dubbed the “PurpleCoconut Gallery” because of thepurple walls in the storefrontspace, Klein is exhibiting workfrom the past three years. Thepaintings are all figurative, but todifferent degrees. Having spent
15 months at the University ofMadrid School of Fine Arts in2010-11, Klein has been par-ticularly influenced by Spanishpainting, in addition to gener-ally modernist sources. Many oftheworks in this early solo bear acleardebt toPicasso,with echoesof Goya and other Spanish mas-ters as well. The chief interesthere is seeing the developmentof a young artist who has hadthe opportunity to expand hishorizons and who is still findinghis own voice. That trajectoryis moving increasingly towardgreater realismanddramaticnar-rative. Klein’s most recent paint-ing, “ThePark,” painted just daysbefore the opening, is withoutdoubt thestrongest in theexhibit.In it, two figures are confrontingeach other in what looks like the
prelude to a fight. The work isenhanced by alterations to theperspective in the backgroundthat convey that senseof removalfrom reality during very tensesituations; that bending of spacethat comes with fear. That thispicture signals potential is a goodindication of Klein’s eventual as-similation of his sources and cre-ationof his ownaesthetic.
“Puppets Take Strathmore:No Strings Attached,” to Aug. 17,Mansion at Strathmore, 10701Rockville Pike, N. Bethesda,301-581-5200, www.strathmore.org. Ariel J. Klein: Following theThinWoman, to Aug. 18, ThePurple Coconut, 7910 GeorgiaAve., Silver Spring, 301-273-5628. www.arieljklein.com.
The surreal world of puppetry; a young painter in Silver Spring
ON VIEWB Y C L A U D I A R O U S S E A U
ARIEL J. KLEIN
Ariel J. Klein’s “The Park,” 2013.
ElyseHarrison’s“Jackreceivesnews fromhis agentabout aHollywooddeal.”ELYSEHARRISON
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English Country, Aug. 7, Caller:Bob Farall; Aug. 14, Caller: MichaelBarraclough, 8 p.m., Glen EchoTownHall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.
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BYMICHAEL PHILLIPSCHICAGO TRIBUNE
Uber-raunchy but pretty interest-ing as sex comedies go, writer-directorMaggie Carey’s “The To Do List,” setin 1993, stars Aubrey Plaza of “Parksand Recreation” as a Boise, Idaho, highschool graduate of sterling academiccredentials and a firmly maintainedimage among her peers as a math whizand a social zero.
With Type A organizational skills,Brandy goes about a crash course in ac-quiring some sexual experienceprior tocollege. In her notebook, she compilesa clinical checklist of hurdles to be ...hurdled. Urged on by her pals, playedby Alia Shawkat and Sarah Steele, theheroine hopes that all her intermediatesecond- and third-base scrimmagingwith various boys (Johnny Simmons isthe doting longtime friend and obvi-ous boyfriend material, only Brandydoesn’t know it yet) will culminate inan official deflowering courtesy of thelocal lifeguard stud (Scott Porter), herhotsy co-worker at the pool managedby a hard-partying schlub portrayed byBill Hader.
Brandy’s home life is cut from stan-
dard-issue cloth previously used in allsorts of teen sexcoms, dating back tothe days and the likes of “Secret Ad-mirer” in the golden C. Thomas How-ell era. Clark Gregg is the right-wingdad who reads Rush Limbaugh in bed;Connie Britton is the polar-oppositemom, a nurse, freely dispensing adviceregarding lubrication and stories of herown sexual awakening to Brandy andher insanely snarky older sister (RachelBilson).
As in the “American Pie” films,much of the humor in “The ToDo List”depends on humiliation. The movie’sdesigned alternately to heighten and/or soothe sexual anxiety and insecu-rity among teens. As with “Superbad,”though — and this is why Carey’s filmworks, despite a monomaniacal comicquality — the sexual banter amongBrandy and her peers feels and soundshonest and off-formula. This is a wel-come female-centric variation on a fa-miliar theme, not the first to deal witha teenage girl’s de-virginizationproject,but certainly aminority report in a field
crowded with boys trying to Get Some,be the films good (“Superbad”) or stu-pid and openly cruel toward women(toomany to count).
Carey, strictly a newbie behind thecamera but a talented writer, takes thesting out of themost painfully awkwardsequences through the casting. Plaza,who recently turned 29, is nobody’sidea of a teen, but her deadpan, slightlyfoggy way of plowing through a scenekeeps the timing of the jokes unpre-dictable. Carey’s constant ’90s refer-ences (“Someone’s been using theirAb Roller!”) number in the millions. Iwish “The To Do List” had a little moreconfidence in itself, so that Brandy’sadventures allowed formore in thewayof genuine pathos. But then it’d be an
entirely different movie. This one re-quires Plaza’s character to eat humanwaste floating in apool (she thinks it’s a“Caddyshack” Baby Ruth gag) and, ac-
cording to the website parentpreviews.com, contains “approximately 250 in-stances of sexual language.” But who’scounting?
What a girl wants in ‘The To Do List’THE TO DO LISTn 2 1/2 stars
n R; 103 minutes
n Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, AdamSandberg, Clark Gregg, ConnieBritton
n Directed by Maggie Carey
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Aubrey Plaza (as Brandy Klark) stars in CBS Films’ “The To Do List.”
AT THE MOVIES
Club, DianeDaly & Friends, 7:30p.m. Aug. 7, $10;MarkMosley w/Cheney Thomas and Percy Smith,7:30 p.m. Aug. 8, $10; Chick Corea& The Vigil, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.Aug. 9, $60;Wayne Brady, 8 p.m.Aug. 10, $80-$100; Nick Colionneand Steve Cole, 7:30 p.m. Aug.11, $35; 7719Wisconsin Ave.,Bethesda, 301-634-2222, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com
The Fillmore Silver Spring,Panteon Rococo, 8 p.m. Aug. 10,8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring,301-960-9999, FillmoreSilver-Spring.com, www.livenation.com.
Institute of Musical Traditions— Takoma Park, TBA, TakomaPark Community Center, call forprices, times, Takoma Park Com-munity Center, 7500Maple Ave.,Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions— Rockville, TBA, SaintMarkPresbyterian Church, 10701 OldGeorgetown Road, Rockville, call
for prices, www.imtfolk.org.Strathmore, Free Summer
Outdoor Concert: Carlos Núñez,7 p.m. Aug. 7; UkeFest 2013: UkeandGuitar Summit, 9 a.m. Aug.10; Uke Summit OpenMic withTheHula Honeys, Cathy Fink &MarcyMarxer, 7 p.m. Aug. 10; UkeSummit OpenMic with Lil’ Rev &Stuart Fuchs, 7 p.m. Aug. 11; UkeSummit OpenMic withMaureenAndary &Gerald Ross, 7 p.m. Aug.12; Free Summer Outdoor Con-cert: UkeFest 2013, 7 p.m. Aug. 14,call for venue, Locations:Man-sion, 10701 Rockville Pike, NorthBethesda;Music Center at Strath-more, 5301 Tuckerman Lane,North Bethesda, 301-581-5100,www.strathmore.org.
ON STAGEAdventure Theatre, “Dr. Se-
uss’s Cat in theHat,” to Sept. 2,call for prices, times, AdventureTheatreMTC, 7300MacArthurBlvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270,www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Do or Die Mysteries, “ArtofMurder,” Saturdays, to Aug.
26, 6:30 p.m. buffet, 7:30 p.m.show, $47.50 buffet and show,Flanagan’s Harp and Fiddle, 4844Cordell Ave., Bethesda, 443-422-3810, www.flanagansharpand-fiddle.com
Imagination Stage, “Peter PanandWendy,” to Aug. 11, call forprices, times, Imagination Stage,4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www.imaginationstage.org
Olney Theatre Center, “A Cho-rus Line,” to Sept. 1, call for prices,times, 2001 Olney-Sandy SpringRoad, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Circus!” toSept. 1; Tiny Tots @ 10, selectWednesdays, Saturdays andSundays, call for shows and showtimes, Puppet Co. Playhouse, GlenEcho Park’s North Arcade Build-ing, 7300MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org.
Round House Theatre,Bethesda, “The Beauty Queen ofLeenane,” Aug. 21 to Sept. 15; 4545East-West Highway, Bethesda.240-644-1100, www.roundhous-etheatre.org.
Round House Theatre, Silver
Spring, TBA; 8641 Colesville Road,Silver Spring, $15 for general ad-mission, $10 for subscribers, pa-trons 30 and younger and seniors,
244-644-1100, www.roundhous-etheatre.org.
Silver Spring Stage, One-ActFestival, Aug. 9-25, 8 p.m. Thurs-days through Saturday, 2 p.m.Sunday,Woodmoor ShoppingCenter, 10145 Colesville Road, Sil-ver Spring. www.ssstage.org.
The Writer’s Center, MariposaReadings, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 11; PoetsBateman, Riegel, and Sukrungru-ang, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 18, 4508WalshStreet, Bethesda, 301-654-8664,www.writer.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, Randall
Lear and EllynWeiss, Aug. 30 toOct. 6, vernissage on Sept. 21, 3766Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, www.adahrosegallery.com
The Dennis and Phillip RatnerMuseum, TBA, hours are 10 a.m. to4:30 p.m. Sundays, noon to 4 p.m.Monday through Thursday, 10001Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.301-897-1518.
Gallery B, TBA; gallery hoursare noon to 6 p.m.Wednesdaythrough Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3p.m. Sunday, 7700Wisconsin Ave.,Suite E. www.bethesda.org.
Glenview Mansion, Women’sCaucus for the Arts, Greater
Washington, to Sept. 30, RockvilleCivic Center Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. www.rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, “Ab-straction,” Aug. 10 to Sept. 10,10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.Mondaythrough Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.Sunday, 7022Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622.
VisArts, Neena Birch: Retro-spective Response and Reception,Aug. 7 to Sept. 8, opening recep-tion from7-9 p.m. Aug. 9, KaplanGallery;MartyWeishaar, Aug. 7 toSept. 8, opening reception from7-9p.m. Aug. 9, CommonGroundGal-lery; “Ching Ching Cheng,” Aug. 7to Sept. 8, opening reception from7-9 p.m. Aug. 9, Gibbs Street Gal-lery, 155Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www.visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gal-lery, 16th Annual National SmallWorks Exhibition, to Aug. 25, Pyra-mid Atlantic Art Center, secondFloor, 8230 Georgia Ave., SilverSpring, www.washingtonprint-makers.com.
Waverly Street, “TheUnfold-ing,” Paintings of the people ofBhutan, India andNepal byMaryEggers, to Aug. 4, 4600 East-WestHighway, Bethesda, 301-951-9441,www.waverlystreetgallery.com.
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This year’s summer winerecommendations begin with avisit to northeastern Italy alongits border with Switzerland andAustria. In the Italian Alpine re-gion of Alto Adige visitors canenjoy views of snow-cappedmountains as well as lush vine-yards which produce ideal winesfor warm weather enjoyment.The climate is surprisingly mildwith more than 300 sunny daysannually and the vineyards areprotected from most of the chillynorthern winds by the Alps, yetremain open to the warmersouthern Mediterranean mari-time breezes. The resultingtemperature variations ensurethat their grapes characteristicflavors are well balanced withbright acidity.
Nearly 60 percent of the AltoAdige vineyards produce whitewines and their principle varietalsinclude the familiar Pinot Grigio,Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blancand Gewürztraminer along withsome less well-known, but quiteinteresting grapes such as Müller-Thurgau, Sylvaner, and Kerner.There are more than 60 Alto Adigeproducerscurrentlyimportedintothe US and the number is likely togrow since these wines are flavor-ful, food-friendly and well-pricedfor their inherent quality.
At an Alto Adige wine tastingheld earlier this year the numberof delicious wines offered werealmost overwhelming. Nearlyevery winery had several excel-lent examples with distinguish-ing characteristics that make itproblematic to write about all ofthe deserving producers in thespace available. Some stand-outs include Cantina Terlano,Elena Walch, Cantina Andrianoand Tiefenbrunner but it wouldbe difficult to find an Alto AdigePinot Grigio or Pinot Blanc thatdidn’t work as an aperitif or asan accompaniment to lightlygrilled summer fare.
The Gewürztraminers werealso distinctive with a remarkabledepth of fruit nicely intermingledwithin the spicy frame while theearly-ripening Müller-Thurgauwould be terrific with Asian noo-
dlesormarinated,grilledchicken.Other paring suggestions includea glass of Sylvaner with shellfishand a bottle of Kerner with somespicy Thai cuisine.
And it wouldn’t be sum-mer without Sauvignon Blanc.Among our favorites this yearare from the Dry Creek Vine-yards including their delightfulstone fruit and citrus tasting2012 Sauvignon Blanc and theirsleek, apple and grapefruit fla-vored DCV3 Sauvignon Blanc2012. The Bonterra SauvignonBlanc 2011 is made from or-ganically grown grapes and isbursting with tropical fruit fla-vors with a hint of grassiness atthe end. Napa’s oldest winery,Charles Krug, continues to pro-duce first-rate wines includingtheir 2012 version of SauvignonBlanc that exhibits perfectly bal-anced melon, grassy and citrusnotes. Another California pro-ducer worth seeking out is HessCollection whose 2011 version ofSauvignon Blanc displays entic-ing citrus and spice flavors.
Gruner Veltliner is anotherappropriate summer wine.Gruner has a characteristicfruitiness and signature pep-per accent with enough acidityto make it very food-friendly.Among the better producersfrom their Austrian homelandare Kurt Angerer, Berger, Fami-lie Brandl and Buchegger butalso look elsewhere around theglobe since the varietal is gain-ing popularity. Consider theHess Collection Mount VeederSmall Block Series Gruner Velt-liner 2012 that has loads ofapple, lemon and pear flavorsand the Dr. Konstantin FrankGruner Veltliner 2011 producedin New York’s Finger Lake re-gion which shows more citrusand exotic spices along with theclassic pepper bite at the end.Also from the same region is aslightly sweet version, the ThreeBrothers Stony Lonesome EstateReserve Gruner Veltliner 2011that has a bit of honey mingledwith citrus at the finish. Oregonis also a good source for “Gru-Vee” including the ChehalemRidgecrest Vineyards GrunerVeltliner 2012 and Illahe EstateGruner Veltliner 2012 from aproducer who has been grow-ing this grape in Oregon’s Willa-mette Valley for almost 30 years.
Still time for summer wine
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who will be performing someof that music at FestAfrica thisweekend in Silver Spring.
“[Klaasen] is phenomenal— she’s got a great stage pres-ence,” said Tolu Olumide Ye-boah, director of entertainmentfor the event in Veterans Plaza.
The free outdoor festival onSaturday and Sunday featuresmusic, dance, fashion and foodfrom a diverse mix of Africancountries.
Vendors will be returningthis year selling clothes, jewelryand food, including “suya,” thespicy kebabs of beef, chickenand fish that are so popular inWest Africa, Yeboah said.
“The meat is cut very thin,and it’s grilled with choppedonions,” she said. “It’s like a bitof Africa here in the U.S.”
A health fair is planned andinformation will also be avail-able about traveling to Africa.
“[And] this year we’ll have abit more children’s activities,”said Yeboah.
Headlining at 7 p.m. Satur-day will be Emmerson, SierraLeone’s king of Afro Pop, whosefusion mix of party and politicalmusic has challenged politi-cians to improve conditions forordinary people.
Saturday’s festivities willbe followed by an after-partyat the Society Restaurant andLounge in Silver Spring. Ticketsare available in advance or atthe door.
On Sunday, Klaasen willtake the stage at 6:30 p.m. forthe final performance of thetwo-day festival, which featuresmore than a dozen singers,bands and dance troupes fromthe Washington, D.C., region.
A complete list of perform-ers, DJs and schedules is postedat the website (www.festafri-
causa.com).Emmerson, 36, whose full
name is Emerson Amidu Bock-arie, is a superstar in his homecountry of Sierra Leone.
He has fan bases in otherAfrican countries and is alsobuilding bases in Europe andthe United States.
“I might have Congolesesounds fused with some fromthe U.K. or R&B,” he said.“We’re trying to sell music tothe rest of the world.”
He started out studyingcomputer electronics in collegein Sierra Leone, while some ofhis friends studied law and gov-ernment.
He also had friends in themusic business and after hisschooling was done, he beganto perform, including songsabout government corruption.
“We thought that this isour responsibility and that weshould start speaking on behalfof our people,” he said.
Emmerson sings in krio, acreole language influenced byEnglish, that is widely spokenin Sierra Leone.
His early albums, “BorborBele” in 2003, “2 Fut Arata” in2007, and “Yesterday BettehPass Tiday” in 2010 featuredboth dance tunes and politicaland social commentary.
“I wanted to find a way toexpress [these ideas] and en-courage young people [to getinvolved],” he said.
His most recent CD, “Rise,”released in 2012, is described as“an upbeat collection of AfricanBeat songs of love and call forpositive action from all.”
“I’ve always wanted to in-volve people in making deci-sions, and I’m still doing it,” hesaid.
But he also has a new focus,hoping to build a network ofAfrican musicians that extendsbeyond neighboring countries
like Guinea and Liberia.Connecting lesser-known
performers from smaller coun-tries in other parts of Africawith established stars and ma-jor music events (like the Saint-Louis Jazz Festival in Senegal)would help boost their visibil-ity.
“It would be an opportunityto be seen by the rest of Africa,”he said. “I want to get us all asone family.”
Klaasen, who lives in Mon-treal, won a 2013 Juno award— the Canadian equivalent ofa Grammy — for World MusicAlbum of the Year for her CD,“A Tribute to Miriam Makeba.”
Klassen said she will proba-bly sing Makeba’s famous song,“Pata Pata” (Touch Touch), andalso her “click” song, which in-corporates the clicking conso-nants that are part of the Xhosalanguage.
“White people couldn’t doit, and black people couldn’t doit either, depending on wherethey were from,” laughed
Klaasen.Klaasen also expects to sing
“Lakushonilanga,” one of Nel-son Mandela’s favorite ballads,about people not being able torest until they know that thosethey love are home and safe.
“Where I’m in prison or injail, or dead or alive, I need toknow where my loved onesare,” said Klaasen about themeaning of the song.
The daughter of SouthAfrican jazz singer ThandieKlaasen, Klaasen also writesand sings her own songs basedon her childhood in Soweto andthe endurance of her people.
“The tone of my songs isnot to throw everything out butto remove some of the dark col-ors and brighten them up,” shesaid about looking to the future.
“It’s time to put on yourdancing shoes,” she said.
“The world shares the joyswith us — this is a festive sea-son.”
AFRICAContinued from Page A-11
Portuguese immigrants in-troduced the ukulele to the Ha-waiian islands in the 1880s. Oneof the most famous songs playedon the instrument is “Aloha ‘Oe”(“Farewell to Thee”), written byLili`uokalani, the last queen ofthe Kingdom of Hawaii, whichwas taken over by the UnitedStates in the late 1800s.
Revenson, who plays tenoruke, banjo uke, soprano uke andthe harmonica, among other in-struments, describes himself as“a cross between Theodore Bi-jkel and Woody Guthrie.”
He said his American rootsmusic has been influenced by theblues,old-timemusic,earlycoun-try and folk and Tin Pan Alley.
“I also do a lot of my own ma-terialatconcerts,” saidRevenson,who likes to draw the audienceinto his performances. “I weavestories in and out of my songs.”
Revenson said he startedplaying the ukulele in the early1990s, “long before it was evencool and became popular.”
“I think this is the third timeit’s [risen in popularity],” hesaid. “It was popular in the teensand ’20s, in the ’50s and ’60s andin the last 10 or 15 years.”
Television host Arthur God-frey, who learned to play the ukefrom a Hawaiian shipmate inthe Navy, “nearly single-hand-edly created the huge wave ofukulele popularity that occurredaround the early 1950s,” accord-
ing to the Ukelele Hall of Famebased in West Orange, N.J.
Fueling interest in playing ittoday are teachers like Jumpin’Jim Beloff and performers likeukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabu-kuro; Eddie Vedder, vocalist forPearl Jam, who released a uke al-bum in 2011; groups like Mum-ford & Sons and Dave Matthews;and actors Bette Midler, WilliamH. Macy and Steve Martin.
“Tons of people play theukulele,” Revenson said. “It’s asprevalent as the stars in the skyright now.”
“It’s also all over the CartoonNetwork and in commercials,”he said. “It has a refreshing,happy and lively quality to it. It’sdefinitely in vogue.”
One reason is because theukulele is easy to learn.
“Anyone can pick it up andstrum a few chords,” he said. “Itattracts a lot of people who maynotpickupaguitar,banjoorafid-dle … It’s easy to get started with.”
It’s also a way for people tomake their own music insteadof paying to watch other peopleperform in movies and concerts.
“I think Americans havea real hunger for being par-ticipants,” Revenson about theuke clubs that have sprung uparound the country. “It’s a grass-roots movement — high schoolkids, retirees at senior centers— it runs the multi-generationaland multi-cultural spectrum.”
“It’s becoming a cool andhip instrument to play,” he said.
UKESContinued from Page A-11
of Sam Cooke’s “A Change isGonna Come” off your first al-bum, “A Long Time Coming.”Then in 2011 you released a chil-dren’s album, “Radio Wayne.”What’s the name of this albumyou’re releasing next month?
Brady: I don’t know thename of the record right now,to be completely honest withyou, because I’m still comingup with new material everyother day. So it kind of changeson the fly. I thought I had it fig-ured out at one point and thenI went, “Oh, I’m feeling this” ...it’s unknown at the second.
A&E: But it’s fair to say thenew album has an R&B/soul-feel, right?
Brady: Of course it has anR&B/soul-feel because it’s notgoing to be country and I’mcertainly not doing technodance. I think it’s more specificto say ... it’s definitely in thewheelhouse of like, Sam Cooke,Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding.
A&E: What is it about the
artists you just mentioned thatspeaks to you?
Brady: Nothing travels likemelodies. That’s why we’restill singing Motown songs thatwere written in the late 1950sand early 1960s in 2013 andthey’re just as relevant. It’s themelody. The only thing thatreally changes is the subjectmatter, and even the subjectmatter, love is love and break-ing up is breaking up.
A&E: You’ve already men-tioned some of them, but whoor what would you consideryour musical influences?
Brady: Sam Cooke, AlGreen. Musically, just like I doas an actor or as a comedian ... Idraw from so many sources be-cause of the household I grewup in. My grandparents, theyencouraged me to listen to ev-erything I could ... because themore influences you have, thebigger the palette you have todraw from when you decide tomake your own sound.
A&E: One of the thingsmany people in the countyhope the Bethesda Blues andJazz Supper Club does for the
area is encourage people to goout and hear live music. What’sspecial about the live music ex-perience?
Brady: Live music is justlike when you go out to see livetheater; there’s nothing like it ...The reason people see live mu-sic is it will never be the same.There may be something goingon with the percussion that youdidn’t feel on the record if youdon’t have the right sound sys-tem. There may be a little thinggoing on on the Hi-hat that youmay not realize ... You’re cheat-ing yourself if you don’t go seelive music.
A&E: After a five-year hia-tus, “Whose Line” is back. Whatwas it like to reunite with fellowcast mates Colin Mochrie andRyan Stiles?
Brady: It was like we hadnever missed a step. The coolthing was, it wasn’t like goingback in the past and feeling like,“Oh, I’ve done this already.” Itwas having fun doing that butthen also having the knowledgethat I’ve accumulated since Idid the show; I’m 10 times bet-ter now than when I was whenI first did the show.
A&E: For you personally,what’s been the biggest differ-ence the second time around?
Brady: [“Whose Line”] wasthe first time I’d done comedyon TV in that way ... Now, be-cause that’s so much of whatI do, I’m a heavyweight as op-posed to the up-and-comingwelterweight that I was whenthe show started. Every time Istep up on stage to do an im-prov show, there’s a confidenceI have because I’ve been doingthis [a while].
A&E: What would you say tothose people who know you foryour comedy or you’re actingbut are hesitant to see you sing?
Brady: ... To the skeptic whowill read this article and go,“Why should I go see WayneBrady sing?” Go to iTunes, putin Wayne Brady, “A Long TimeComing,” and check that out.I think in this day and age, ifyou’re a music fan, go check outmy music and go put all of thebiasesandallof thecomedystuffbehind. Just go see some reallygood music from someone thatappreciates good music.
BRADYContinued from Page A-11
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Taken from a graphic novel,“2 Guns” has this much in com-mon with Woody Allen’s “BlueJasmine”: They’re both aboutcharacters hung out to dry.Also, the stars in both films lendpanache and a sense of pur-pose to familiar-seeming mate-rial. Beyond that the differencesare significant. “Blue Jasmine”is the movie with the old-timejazz on the soundtrack; “2Guns” is the one with peoplegetting shot in the leg, the arm,the head, the chest or some-where else, and with Paula Pat-ton in a nude scene that bringsa hush of prayerlike gratitudefrom a mostly male audience.
Denzel Washington andMark Wahlberg provide thestardom. They’re two of themost reliable, relatable actionheroes in American movies to-day. In “2 Guns” the companythey keep on screen is solid,thanks to Bill Paxton as a vi-cious CIA operative after themillions stolen from a NewMexico bank; Edward JamesOlmos as a drug lord, after thesame; James Marsden, as a U.S.Naval Intelligence officer, afterthe same. Paxton in particu-lar registers strongly; with histwitty little mustache, tiny littlehats and blood-curdling inter-
rogation methods, he appearsto be channeling a villainouspassel of character actors (alittle John Hillerman, a lottaWarren Oates) from films past.
The setup: Washington’scharacter, who goes by BobbyBeans (what is this, “Rango”?)may look and act like a garden-variety bank robber, but he’sreally an undercover Drug En-forcement Agency op, trying tobring down the Mexican drugcartel ruled by Olmos’ PapiGreco. He doesn’t realize (andvice versa) that his partner, StigStigman (Wahlberg), is like-wise no common thief. He’s aU.S. Naval Intelligence officerundercover and gunning forGreco.
Already this is gettingtwisty. “2 Guns” comes from aBOOM! Studios series of com-ics written by Steven Grant and
drawn by Mateus Santolouco.In its original form, the story isdiverting, facile stuff. The samecan be said of the film version,adapted freely by Blake Mas-ters and directed by BaltasarKormakur, whose career spansIcelandic-language dramasand English-language thrillers,among them “Contraband,”starring Wahlberg.
He has talent, this direc-tor: “2 Guns” isn’t necessarilymy thing (the jokey sadism is adrag), but Kormakur lays out anaction sequence with a swift-ness and a coherence missingfrom many other pictures. Themovie’s a demonstration of twooverlapping brands of narrativecynicism: Its depiction of a vast,CIA-fueled and drug-fundedconspiracy is pure early 21stcentury, but in many of the par-ticulars, “2 Guns” harks back tothe smaller-scale amoral thrill-
ers of the post-Watergate 1970sstudio era. The 1973 Don Siegelfilm “Charley Varrick” is a ma-jor reference point, with thebank robberies in both filmstaking place in fictional TresCruces, N.M. CinematographerOliver Wood goes for brightlylit compositions, steering clearof faux-documentary realismin his lighting. The banteringstars remain front and centerthroughout. The psychology,if you can call it that, regard-ing the characters’ motivationsand entanglements is paperthin, the Achilles’ heel of thetypical graphic novel-derivedaction film. The actors — in-cluding Patton as Bobby’s DEAcolleague and sometime fling— cannot act what is not there.But with Washington, Wahl-berg, Olmos and Paxton aroundjockeying for dominance, thestandoffs have their moments.
‘Guns’ in sure hands
PHOTO FROM SUGAR ENTERTAINMENT
Emmerson, the king of Afro Popmusic in Sierra Leone, will performSaturday evening at the freeFestAfrica event this weekend inVeterans Plaza in Silver Spring.
PHOTO BY PATTI PERRET
Bill Paxton as Earl in “2 Guns.”
PHOTO FROM MARCY MARXER
The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda is again hosting a sum-mer ukulele and guitar camp from Aug. 10-14. Run by Marcy Marxer andCathy Fink of Kensington, the camp will end with a free outdoor concert onAug. 14.
FESTAFRICA 2013n When: 1-8 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday (rain or shine)
n Where: Veterans’ Plaza, 1Veterans Place, (corner ofFenton Street and EllsworthDrive), Silver Spring
n Tickets: Free
n For information: 410-608-0420, festafricausa.com
FEST-AFRICA AFTER-PARTY
n When: 10 p.m. Saturday
n Where: Society Restaurantand Lounge, 8229 GeorgiaAve., Silver Spring
n Tickets: $15 through Aug. 9
n For information: 301-565-8864, festafricausa.com
2 GUNSn 2 1/2 stars
n R; 108 minutes
n Cast: Denzel Washington,Mark Wahlberg
n Directed by BaltasarKormakur
AT THE MOVIES
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SENIOR RUNNING BACK STEPS UP TO ATTEMPT TO FILL AVALON’S BIG SHOES, B-2
n Most college basketball recruitersnow seek players off high school courts
BY TRAVISMEWHIRTERSTAFFWRITER
Most of America was sound asleep lastweekend when 30 or so college basketballcoaches yawned their way through McCar-ran International Airport in Las Vegas and
crammed onto a red-eye flight bound for Or-lando. As George Washington University’scoach, Mike Lonergan, skimmed the glassy-eyed scene, he said he saw all of the familiarfaces: John Beilein from Michigan, Bob Hug-gins of West Virginia, Purdue’s Matt Painter,Navy’s EdDeChellis.
Unlike the rest of the passengers on theflight, it wasn’t so much a trip from the neonof Vegas to thebeaches of Florida, rather an ex-hausting recruiting voyage from one Amateur
Athletic Union basketball tournament to thenext.
“It was unbelievable,” said Lonergan, whosigned Col. Zadok Magruder High School’sNick Griffin last year. “… I’d say about 90 per-cent of our recruiting is based on AAUbecauseof the time of year and the recruiting is so ac-celerated.”
Hyperdrivemight be themore apt descrip-tor of recruiting when AAU hums into fullswing. Within two weeks last summer with thelocal AAU teamD.C. Assault, Suitland’s RoddyPeters had gathered offers from schools withprestigious basketball pedigrees such as Kan-sas, UCLA, Georgetown, Illinois, Maryland,Cincinnati and scores of others. He said it tookthree years of headlining the Rams for Petersto scrape up one, lonely offer fromSt. Joseph’s.
“I didn’t think that I would have been re-cruited that much,” said Peters, who opted toplay for Mark Turgeon and the University ofMaryland. “I thought I was going to be kind ofsmall time.”
With theAssault, andmanyother elite AAUteams in the area and around the nation, thenotionof small-time recruiting is near comical.SaidAssault generalmanagerDamonHandon,“A high school teammay have one,maybe twoDivision I kids, but every kid in our program isa [Division I] prospect.”
To be on an elite high school team is one
FILE PHOTO
Georgetown Prep’s Michael Wolfe competes during a 2012 summer basketball league game at High Point High School in Beltsville.
n Coach believes no-kicking strategy isGladiators’ best chance for success
BYDAN FELDMANSTAFFWRITER
As the reopenedNorthwoodHighSchool phasedin students annually by class, the school launched itsvarsity football program in 2006without any seniors.
Though that put the team at a significant disad-vantage across the board, the effect was arguably felthardest on the offensive and defensive lines. Unableto successfullyblock theopponent,Northwoodhadacouple of kicks blocked in its first two games.
“Oh, no,” coachDennisHarris said he thought tohimself. “We can’t. Nah. If they’re just going to comethrough here and block it anyway, we might as welltry to get points by doing some other stuff.”
Harris began to experiment with more fake fieldgoals that season. Since, Harris—Northwood’s onlycoach since its reopening — has increasingly es-chewed kicking and punting all together,more oftenfaking or just leaving his offense on the field.
“Just little stuff like that to try to tip the scales ourway a little bit,” Harris said. “All that stuff helps, be-cause typically in the last eight years,we’vebeenkindof undermanned every year. So, we just try to get outthere and have fun, take chances and try to give our-selves a little bit better chance of being successful.”
Northwood has gone just 21-49 in Harris’ sevenyears at the helm, but he is convinced his aggressivestrategy has helped his team.
While tinkering to find the ideal play-calling split,Harris read about Pulaski Academy in Arkansas. Pu-laski, coachedbyKevinKelley,practicallyneverpuntsand almost always onside kicks. Kelley developedthe approach after reading a mathematical study offootball outcomes, which showed coaches hurt theirteams by too easily relinquishing possession.
Northwood’sfootball teamrarely punts
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Northwood High School football coach Dennis Harris oftenleaves his offense on the field in lieu of punting or kicking.
n Bethesda teen named top womanscorer at World Championships after
winning four gold medals
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
Bethesda teenagerKatieLedecky ismiss-ing one staple in the lives of many 16-year-olds, her driver’s license.
But the 2012 Olympic gold medalist inthe 800-meter freestyle can take comfort ina growing list of accomplishments thatmostpeople will nevermatch.
OnSunday theStoneRidgeSchool of theSacred Heart rising junior earned the high-est honor at the 15th FINA World Champi-onships in Barcelona, Spain, when she wasnamed the top woman scorer in a field ofcompetition that included four-time Olym-pic goldmedalistMissy Franklin.
Ledecky won gold in all four events shecontested— 400-meter freestyle, 800-meterfreestyle, 1,500-meter freestyle, 800-meterfreestyle relay— and set twoworld records.
After setting anewAmericanmark in the400-meter freestyle en route toher first gold,Ledecky’s time of 15minutes, 36.53 secondsin the 1,500-meter freestyle July 30 smashedthe previousworld record by 6 seconds held
by Bishop O’Connell (Va.) graduate KateZiegler since 2007.
Ledecky set her second world mark in acome-from-behind win against Denmark’sLotte Friis in Saturday’s 800-meter freestyle—despite trailing by asmuch as one secondthrough the first 600 meters, Ledecky wonthe event by nearly 3 seconds.
Franklinwon a record six goldmedals inSpain but Ledecky surpassed her in scoringdue to a point system that doesn’t includerelay results and awards bonus points forworld records.
Humility, Ledecky’smotherMary Gen
What’s next for Katie Ledecky? Learning to drive
FILE PHOTO
Bethesda teen Katie Ledecky won four gold medals and set two worldand one American records at last week’s FINA World Championships inBarcelona, Spain.
AAUAAUit’s all about
FOR RECRUITING,
n Spirit has one win,but draws the league’s
fourth-largest home crowds
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
If attendancenumberswere theonlyfactor that determined the inauguralNationalWomen’s SoccerLeague stand-ings, the Germantown-based Washing-ton Spirit would be in good position toqualify for the four-team playoff field atthe end of themonth.
Despitemanaging just onewin in 16weeks, the team has spent the majorityof its first season of existence bounc-ing between third and fourth place on
the eight-team league’s list of averagehome-crowd size.
Twoof the three teams aboveWash-ington boast some of the more recog-nizable names in women’s soccer: No.1 Portland (Alex Morgan and TobinHeath) and No. 3 Western New YorkFlash (all-time international scoringleader AbbyWambach).
Montgomery County and theWash-ington,D.C., area, in general, are soccer-rich communities with a tradition ofsuccess inwomen’s soccer— ledbyMiaHamm, the Washington Freedom wonthe 2003 Founder’s Cup in theWomen’sUnitedSoccerAssociation’s third andfi-nal season.And theSpirit havebeenabletodraw fromthat, ownerBill Lynch said.
Washington draws an average at-tendance of 3,626, which is above the
projected number (3,000) Lynch saidprior to the season as the one necessaryfor the organization to be sustainable.In addition, an average of 3,000 havechecked out each game online, SpiritGeneralManager Chris Hummer said.
“We are thrilled with our atten-dance. Certainly we have a great soccercommunity [aroundus] andpeoplewhoare fansofwomen’s soccer, they supportthe gameand theplayers and the idea ofcomingout andbeingentertained.Morethan winning a championship, this isthe third try of a professional women’sleague, everyone is happy there’s wom-en’s soccer at all. I think the fans aresmart enough about the game to knowgood soccer when they see it,” Hummer
Fans keep the Spirit high through struggles
PHOTO FROM THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT
Washington Spirit fans watch their favorite team play against New York on April 20.
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See NORTHWOOD, Page B-3
See AAU, Page B-3
See SPIRIT, Page B-3
n Senior running backready to lead followinggraduation of Ibrahim,
Veii
BY TRAVISMEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
It was when the big col-leges came calling for JacquilleVeii and Rachid Ibrahim at thebeginning of last year’s break-out season for Avalon Schoolthat Isaac Boyd said the real-ization hit him: In less thana year, he would have somemighty big shoes to fill.
As the two Avalon starssucceeded on the field, com-bining for nearly 2,500 rushingyards and 29 touchdowns (62percent of the Black Knights’scoring) on just 292 carries,and waffled through the Divi-sion I suitors, Boyd became astudent of their work.
Now, after a 7-4 seasonof sponging as much footballwisdom as he could from Ava-lon’s first two Football Bowl
Subdivision recruits in theyoung school’s history (Veiicommitted to the Universityof Maryland, Ibrahim to Pitts-burg), Boyd said he is as pre-pared as he’ll ever be to takeover the backfield.
“I knew last year, whenall those schools were talkingto Rachid and Jacquille, thatI was going to have to do it,”Boyd said. “My coaches cameup and told me, too. I was like‘OK. Yes sir.’”
Boyd, a senior, said he’sgoing to be used in a similarmanner that Ibrahim was —loads of carries, less demandon catching passes out of thebackfield. The promotion willbe a significant step up fromhis 24 carries and 141 yards (a5.88 average) from last year,and it’s a role he has been pre-paring his body for this offsea-son. His 6-foot frame has beenbeefed up to 190 pounds fromthe 175 he was listed at lastseason and, he said, “physi-cally, I’ve been working outa lot, working on my speed,working on my cuts. It’s goingto be fun.”
Added coach Tad Shields,“I think he’s embracing it. Ithink a lot of kids going fromjunior to senior year know ‘It’smy team now’ and they kind oftake a ‘it’s now-or-never’ typeapproach.”
The running back did saythat Avalon has designs onthrowing the ball a bit more —the Black Knights attemptedjust 80 passes last year com-pared to 402 carries and bringback starting quarterback Wy-
att Karem — but still expectsto be “getting the ball nearlyevery play,” he said. “It’s goingto be a challenge being behinda really talented player so I’mgoing to have to step up.”
Barring any last minutetransfers, injuries or academicissues, Boyd will be spelled inpart by several others return-ing in the backfield, includingsenior James Chase and juniorfullback AdamMcLean.
“We have some pretty goodathletes coming along, skillposition players that we’revery excited about,” Shieldssaid. “It’s nice when your bestplayers [Veii and Ibrahim]are your hardest workers andthat’s what I’m hoping for outof this year’s crop. We’re kindof feeling our way out for whatthe leadership is going to bethis season.”
From a college desir-ability standpoint — whichoftentimes translates intoleadership on and off thefield — Boyd and senior line-man Bert Mayo seem to haveattracted the highest stock.Though no official offers are
on the table, Boyd has citedinterest from Maryland, Vir-ginia, Penn State, Missouri,James Madison and Indiana,where his father, John, playedreceiver. Mayo, meanwhilehas reported interest fromMaryland, Syracuse and OldDominion.
Veii and Ibrahim’s seniorseasons “brought some atten-tion from college coaches,”Shields said. “It put us on themap from that point of view.Whenever a student accom-plishes something like thatit’s going to bring some atten-tion.”
For now, Boyd’s atten-tion is focused on the sea-son-opener against Potomac(Va.), whom the Black Knightsspoiled homecoming for lastyear in a 30-19 win.
“Every team wants to goundefeated but the first thingis to win the first game,” Boydsaid. “So after we beat Po-tomac, it’s going to be fun. I’mexcited.”
Senior back steps into Avalon’s big shoes
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Avalon School running back Isaac Boyd works out Monday in Gaithersburg.Boyd is expected to be the focus of the Black Knights’ offense.
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Our Lady of Good Counsel HighSchool senior running back LeoEkwoge practices with his team.
n Western Michiganrecruit has prepared asreserve in prior seasons
BYDAN FELDMAN
STAFFWRITER
Leo Ekwoge, according toOur Lady of Good Counsel HighSchool football coach Bob Mil-loy, has worked incredibly hardin the weight room the last cou-ple years.
Of course, with DorianO’Daniel (Clemson University)and Wes Brown (University ofMaryland, College Park) aheadof him on the depth chart,
Ekwoge didn’t have many op-portunities to carry the ball.
Not that he looked at it thatway.
“I don’t take it for granted,”Ekwoge, a senior, said. “Justbecause I’m behind those twodoesn’t mean that I don’t haveto work hard.”
And that’s why Milloy hasscheduled Ekwoge, who re-cently committed to WesternMichigan University over offersfrom Old Dominion University,Miami University (Ohio), OhioUniversity and the University ofToledo, to start at running backfor Good Counsel this season.
Ekwoge ran for 496 yardson 91 carries (5.5 yards per at-
tempt) and 13 touchdowns lastseason, over 200 yards morethan any other returning GoodCounsel player.
“It’s not like he wasn’tready,” Milloy said. “It wasn’this turn yet.”
While biding his time,Ekwoge studied Brown andO’Daniel.
“Like a little brother, Ilearned all this stuff that theydo andhow they excel,” Ekwogesaid.
Ekwoge said he was too se-rious earlier in his high schoolcareer, and he sometimestuned out criticism because hecouldn’t take it constructively.But Brown talked with him
about easing up, and Ekwoge’sattitude turned for the better.
At times, Brown forced theissue, pushing Ekwoge into fin-ishing drills in his place. In theprocess, Ekwoge learnedwhat ittook to be the team’s first-teamrunning back.
Despite his coach’s previousconfidence in him, the 5-foot-11, 200-pound Ekwoge said hehas really blossomed in prepa-ration for a bigger workload thisseason.
“Last year, I don’t think Iwas ready,” Ekwoge said. “Thisyear, I think I’m ready to takethe workload and the hits, andI’ve been working really hardafter the season.”
Ekwoge caught just threepasses last season, but Milloyapparently plans tomake up forlost time, also using Ekwoge atreceiver.
“He’s a terrific pass receiver.Terrific,” Milloy said. “You justcan’t take him off the field.”
Though Ekwoge looks for-ward to following in Brown andO’Daniel’s footsteps at runningback, he just wants to contrib-ute in asmanyways as possible.
“I like the fact that I canmove around and be versatile,”Ekwoge said. “I know I can runtheball, but I canbe amismatchto the linebacker or safety. Itdoesn’t really matter whichone.”
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n Falcons look for newstars after five graduate
BY JORDAN COYNESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Our Lady of GoodCounsel High School girls bas-ketball team has developed areputation of being one of thestrongest in the region, maybeeven the nation.
So it was rare to see the Fal-cons lose by 14 points duringthe Best of Maryland girls bas-ketball tournament at Damas-cus High School last month.
Illinois’s Marian Catholicdefeated Good Counsel 53-36in the opening game of thetournament.
“This is a building pro-cess,” Good Counsel coachTom Splaine said. “We’re try-ing to rebuild our team again.”
The Falcons lost five se-niors off last year’s team, in-cluding University of Virginiarecruit Amanda Fioravanti,who led the team in scoring.
“[This weekend] challengesus and shows us where we are.We’ve come a long way, butwe’re not where we want tobe,” Splaine said.
Marian Catholic advancedto the title game of the tourna-ment, finishing second.
Sophomore Kendall Breeseled the Falcons as the pointguard, filling the role Fiora-vanti played last year.
“I think she’s going to playa big role. She’s a tough playerand a great competitor,” hesaid. “She is now in a moreprominent role than she waslast year … now she’s trying tofigure out where can I contrib-ute.”
Breese said she began
playing at 5 with her father ascoach.
Her father continued tocoach her teams until shereached high school.
In middle school, she alsobegan playing for an AmateurAthletic Union team that shestill plays for outside of school.
She said the team is look-ing to improve its 27-6 recordfrom last year and return to the
Washington Catholic AthleticConference championshipgame.
Personally, she said sheis figuring out her role on thesquad.
“Just cause I’m young Istill think I still contribute alot,” she said. “We all come to-gether on the court.”
Even though she is justentering her sophomore year,
college basketball is certainlyon the radar, according toSplaine.
Also expected to lead theFalcons this season is risingjunior Nicole Enabosi and re-turning seniors Sara Woods,who is committed to Drexel,and Stacey Koutris, who hasreceived several looks fromcolleges, Splaine said.
During the final minutes ofthe game, the team was downby 15 and Splaine challengedhis girls to rise to the occasionand push through to the end,noting the more than 130 col-lege recruiters in attendance.
“They’re going to want tosee how you react,” he said.“Play tough.”
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thing; to be on an elite AAUteam represents a whole newworld of exposure and op-portunity, where teams playin front of “basically every bigschool,” Peters said, and offersare extended by the handful.Before Potomac’s Dion Wi-ley could get recruited by thebig time schools, accordingto Wolverines coach RenardJohnson, he had to be recruitedby the big time AAU programs.Now, after a few seasons withTeam Takeover, Wiley is themost heralded rising seniorin the state, bound for Mary-land over his chopped downlist of Georgetown, Cincin-nati and Florida State. FormerMagruder standout GarlandOwens, headed for Boston Col-lege this year after a prep sea-son with Massanutten MilitaryAcademy, had created a littlebuzz during his successful stintas a Colonel, but it wasn’t untilhe joined the Mid-Atlantic Se-lect that the high-level offersbegan pouring in.
“It’s pretty much a com-mon thing,” Select coachJames Lee said. “A lot of[college] coaches know the[Washington Catholic AthleticConference] and the [Inter-state Athletic Conference] butthey’re not familiar with kidsfrom Oakdale and some of thepublic schools, so once he getson the AAU circuit his expo-sure, his recruiting stock sky-
rockets.”The first true star to
graduate from the Select wasSpringbrook’s Jamal Olasew-ere, who picked Long Islandover Georgetown, Xavier andseveral others. As Olasewere’sname grew, so did the Select’s.Since the summer of 2010, Leeestimates he has sent “at least”30 to 40 players onto schools,scholarship in hand, with“seven or eight” from last sea-son’s crop alone.
“I think it’s a great oppor-tunity for kids to get exposure,to showcase what they can doand it’s a great avenue for col-lege coaches to see athletesplay,” Lee said. “These tourna-ments have 32, 64 teams youcan see play on a few courts.”
Added Lonergan, “You cango to one event and see 100 Di-vision I players.”
National championshiptournaments hosted in Mil-waukee, Atlantic City, LasVegas and Orlando are the ob-vious hotbeds for scholarshipoffers, but Peters said that evenin the smaller tournamentshe saw dozens of coaches inthe stands. When exactly it isthat AAU became the primerecruiting grounds for basket-ball players is near impossibleto pinpoint — Springbrookcoach Tom Crowell estimatesit to be about 14 to 15 yearsago — but it’s easy to see why.College coaches’ schedules arefreed up for traveling — bothTurgeon and Dalonte Hill, theTerps’ top recruiter, were alsoin attendance in Vegas for the
Adidas Super 64 tournamentlast weekend — they get to seewhat the players can do notonly playing alongside some ofthe best players in the country,but against the best players inthe country.
“That’s huge,” Lonergansaid. “It’s a good level of AAU,it’s not like they’re scoring 18points in a summer leaguegame and the two best playerson the other team are away onvacation. Nearly every playeron the court is a Division Iplayer.”
Not that high schooldoesn’t matter, or that collegecoaches don’t frequent the lo-cal matchups during the winter— Otto Porter, the WashingtonWizards’ recent No. 3 lotterypick in the NBA draft, nevertook a single shot in AAU bas-ketball — but it has becomewhat some coaches are callinga “necessary evil.”
“It’s funny, because allthese guys go around throughAAU ball, but the final deci-sion — they almost alwayscall the high school coaches,”Crowell said. “They want toknow ‘What kind of kid is he?’ Ithink the AAU and high schoolcoaches can go hand in hand.”
In the end, Crowell said,there are ultimately three fac-tors in deciding an athlete’sfuture at the next level: talent,character, and the ability toexpose the two. All it takes, hesaid, “is just one guy to look atthem.”
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Harris isn’t quite ready to goas far as Kelley, but the North-wood coach has bought in to thebasic tenets.
Harris said even good highschoolpuntersandkickers—andhe believes he has one in Chris-tian Reyes — tend to be erratic.Toomanypuntsare shanked, toomany pooch attempts roll intothe end zone and too many fieldgoals have something go wrongintherelativelycomplexsnap-to-hold-to-kick system to justify giv-ing up the ball or going for fewerpoints than possible.
The equation changes basedon distance to a first down andfield position. Fourth-and-short,even deep in Northwood’s ownterritory, Harris sometimes callsfor a run up the middle. Once histeam nears, and especially onceit has crossed, midfield, Harris ismuch more prone to go for it —
no matter how many yards histeam needs to get a first down.
The better a team’s offense,the more effective the strategybecomes for two reasons. 1. Abetter offense is more likely toconvert the fourth-down at-tempt. 2. A better offense ismore likely to score if it convertsthe fourth-down attempt.
Plus, Harris said his frequentfakes and straight attempts keepdefenses off-guard when North-wood actually kicks or punts.He said he recalled a time hispunter picked up the ball aftera bad snap and still got the puntoff, because the opponent didn’trush due to fear of a fake.
Overarching all this is theidea that Northwood’s oppo-nent must dedicate a portion oftheir practice time to preparingfor Harris’ uncommon play-call-ing. Harris hopes that means theopponent is spending less timeon another aspects of the gameand giving Northwood someother advantage.
As logical as Harris’ strategyis, a lot of his choices are basedon feel.
“It’s more of a mentality,”said Harris, who first becamea varsity coach at age 25 in Vir-ginia. “I’ve never been very con-servative as a coach.”
If Northwood scores atouchdown on a big play, Har-ris sees the opponent as par-ticularly vulnerable, becausesometimes, opposing coachesare talking to the players thatjust allowed a touchdown ratherthan setting up special-teamsplayers. That’s when Harris isparticularly likely to go for two.
“When something bad hap-pens to the other team, theytend to be looking around, look-ing for answers, trying to figureout what just happened,” Harrissaid. “And while they’re figuringout what just happened, some-thing else just happened.”
A frequent argument againstHarris’ strategy, at least by thosewho understand the math be-
hind it, is Northwood’s defen-sive players would feel as ifHarris didn’t trust them.
But Harris said, because thestrategy is so ingrained in hisprogram — his twitter handleis @H82puntNhs — that hasn’tbeen an issue. In fact, Har-ris said, sometimes, defensiveplayers get extra fired up whentaking the field after a failedfourth-down attempt, pledging
to get that one back.Of course, the offensive play-
ers love the strategy. Quarter-back Charles Hennessey, as partof his responsibilities, must lineup on punt plays everywherefrom personal protector to long-snapper in order to facilitateNorthwood’s wide array of fakes.
“If it works perfectly, youget the other coaches on thesideline to yell at their players,”
Hennessey said. “There’s noth-ing you can do about it. We justgot you that time.”
Though Harris said he’llstill punt and kick a fair amountthis season, he can imagine hisstrategy evolving to the point henever does either.
“We’ll try a lot of things thatmostpeoplewon’tdo,”Harrissaid.
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said, has always been one ofher strongest qualities; Ledeckymade sure to praise her team-mate while expressing her ownexcitement.
“Missy deserves [beingnamed top scorer] more than Ido probably. She had an incred-ible week and we’re all so proudof her and she is an amazingperson. It’s so great to be a partof a team with her and all theother swimmers on the U.S.team,” Ledecky said. “I just hadan incredible week and had a lotof fun doing it. I’m really thrilledright now, [this meet] exceededall my expectations and goalsgoing into it.”
In the 12 months since shecame out of relative obscurityto win in London Ledecky, whosaid she plans to continue swim-ming for Stone Ridge this winter,has established herself as one ofthe world’s best distance swim-mers of all time — she isn’t lim-ited to distance events but saidthey will be her focus for theforeseeable future.
Though her recent rise to thetop of international swimmingseems to have happened ratherquickly, it is the result of day-by-day progress over the past365 days, Ledecky said. She wasdriven not to have a letdown fol-lowing her Olympic debut but tobuild on her remarkable break-
through, she added.Ledecky swims 8,000 me-
ters or yards per day, accordingto her USA Swimming bio, andtrains nine times per week. Anintensified dry land regimen hasincreased her physical strength.That coupled with better pa-tience to stick to any game plansshe and coach Bruce Gemmelldiscuss before each race hastaken her to new heights. Shesaid patience early in Saturday’s800-meter freestyle win allowedher to take off in the last 200.
Ledecky said her results lastweek far exceeded her expeca-tions and now she and Gemmellwill have to lift the bar — morerecords are surely on the horizon.
Ledecky has certainly be-come a more recognizablefigure and her fame will likelyonly continue to grow. But shedoesn’t put much thought intohow many times she rewriteshistory, or the number of peoplewho stop her on the street, justthat her performance each dayis better than the previous one.
“I’m just excited to get homeand enjoy the rest of my sum-mer. I’m planning on getting my[learner’s] permit [for driving] inthe next week, maybe next twoweeks. Definitely by the end ofsummer,” Ledecky said.
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said.The Spirit have certainly produced
good soccer. Of their league-high 14losses — it has also tied four times —only four have been by more than twogoals.
Injuries and lack of scoring havebeen major issues. In the initial alloca-tion — the top seven players on eachteam’s roster were allocated by the
three soccer federations backing theNWSL, the U.S., which officially runsthe league, Canada and Mexico —Washington was not dealt a true scor-ing entity.
The team boasts world-class tal-ent, including U.S. Women’s NationalTeam veterans Ali Krieger on defenseand Lori Lindsay in the midfield.
Spirit midfielder Diana Mathesonis the Mia Hamm of Canada, Hummersaid. But Washington has only posted13 goals in 19 games.
In the same sentence in which
Hummer admitted the first thingWashington will go after following itsseason finale against playoff contenderSky Blue FC of New York/New Jerseyare more offensive-minded players,he praised the team’s personnel withbeing just the type of professional ath-letes an organization needs to build astrong fan base.
“You talk about not getting allo-cated certain types of players, but wegot certain types of people. They getit. If not for the fan support, we’re nothere. Literally. How many professional
leagues get a third chance?” Hummersaid.
The Spirit have worked to earntheir loyal fan base, Hummer andLynch said. Every single player hasmade herself available for appear-ances, to run camps — the Spirit hasconnected with Montgomery SoccerInc. among other local youth soccerorganizations — to host pizza partiesfor raffle winners, among other inter-action with fans, Hummer said.
These athletes, women soccerplayers in general, Lynch said, are
uniquely engaged with their fans.They hang around after games and
are honored to be seen as role models,which isn’t always the case in athletics.
Hummer said the team’s prioritynow is to reward its fans with a win-ning 2014 campaign.
“We’re thankful for our fans. Butwe know they’re not going to waitaround for multiple seasons. We ex-pect to be a contender next year,”Hummer said.
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FILE PHOTO
Bethesda teen Katie Ledecky said she plans to swim for her high schoolteam at Stone Ridge School for the Sacred Heart this winter after settingtwo world records last week. She is a junior.
FILE PHOTO
Col. Zadok Magruder High School’s Garland Owens (center) said he had a lot more scholarship offers after playingAmateur Athletic Union basketball than he did just playing for his high school.
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n For fifth straight year,Bethesda and Redbirds play for
tournament title
BY NICK CAMMAROTA
STAFFWRITER
For as unpredictable as the CalRipken Collegiate Baseball League’sregular season was during this 2013summer campaign, the League Cham-pionship Series final featured the sametwo clubs for the fifth season in a row:the Bethesda Big Train and the Balti-more Redbirds.
Despite having a remarkable nineof the league’s 12 teamsfinishwith a re-cord above .500, the Big Train won theregular season title for the sixth time innine seasons and the Redbirds cappedback-to-back championshipswith a4-1win against Bethesda on Sunday. Thusendedanother seasonof summerbase-ball — an especially successful one forMontgomery County teams.
“Our goal every year is to win theregular-season championship,” BigTrain manager Sal Colangelo said.“That’s what’s important to us and ourclub and we did it again. And if we canwin the tournament, then we can. Butin the tournament, any timea teamgetshot anything can happen.”
The Redbirds didn’t lose a gameen route to their championship whileBethesda fought through the loser’s
bracket to reach the final. Bolstered bydynamic pitching — fronted by BubbyDerby, who led the league in wins,earned run average and strikeouts —and a balanced offense, the Big Trainfinished the regular seasonwith a 30-14record.
After congratulating his players on
a good season following Sunday’s loss,Colangelopromptly stated, “now it’s re-cruiting season again.” Indeed, the BigTrain have developed a reputation forattracting premiere talent from acrossthe nation— this year’s roster featuredplayers from Washington state to Flor-ida andmany states in between.
While not featuring as geographi-cally diverse a roster, the GaithersburgGiants did quite well for themselves intheir first year in the league. Transition-ing from theMaryland Collegiate Base-ball League to the CRCBL, the Giantsfinished in third place with a record of26-18. Even though they were bouncedin the first round of the LCS, Jeff Rab-berman’s club made quite the initialimpression.
“I felt we could definitely com-pete,” Rabberman said. “Everybody inthe league has talent. It’s those otherthings, those intangibles, that reallymake the difference throughout thesummer. The guys, though, were a joytoworkwith everynight. They really gotalong well and I think we have a greatfoundation for the future.”
Rabberman cited the Giants’ sea-son-opener against the Big Train, thefirst time they beat the Big Train anda 12-inning walk-off win against theVienna River Dogs as his three endur-ing memories from the season. JoshIngham was a force at the plate, whileRobin Mowatt headlined a deep pitch-ing staff.
AnotherMontgomery County teamthat enjoyed success was the RockvilleExpress. Managed by Rick Price in hissecond year at the helm, the Expressfinished 25-19 and secured a play-offs spot with a win on the season’sfinal day. Rockville was eliminated byBethesda in the LCS, but still managedto record its second consecutive win-
ning season with Will Kengor finishingsecond in the league in batting average.
“We had a big turnover from lastyear and we were up against it a lot,”Price said. “These teams were verygood. Itwas a very balanced league, butthe last two years, the Express has wonmore games than anyone else in thisleague.”
A team that’s hoping to soon postthe win totals of the three aforemen-tioned Montgomery County clubs isthe Silver Spring-Takoma Thunder-bolts, who were managed by first-yearcoach Doug Remer. The Thunderboltsranked third in the league in atten-dance (among teams who reportedtheir statistics) and Remer said he wasencouragedbyhis youngballclub’sper-formances en route to a 13-31 record.
“I think there was effort for everygame this season,” Remer said. “Theeffort was there, I just think there weresome key situations where experiencemight have benefitted usmore.”
Overall, local CRCBL coachessounded pleased not only with the per-formance of their own teams, but withthe competitiveness of the league as awhole.
“Every year it’s going to continueto get better,” Rabberman said. “It’snot going to be long before the CapeCod League and the Ripken League arementioned in the same breath.”
Big Train wins regular season for sixth time in nine seasons
n Hawvermale’s versatilityhas been valuable to theUniversity of Maryland
softball team
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
Sometimes a talented highschool athlete makes the dif-ficult decision to opt out of in-tercollegiate athletics to meetthe demands of a rigorous aca-demic course load because onlya select few athletes have a fu-ture in professional sports.
Mechanical engineeringwould certainly be one of thosecollege majors that might re-quire too much time to balancewith an NCAADivision I sport.
But former James H. BlakeHigh School softball third
baseman Bridget Hawvermaledoesn’t know how to do thingshalfway. The junior has alreadytaken enough credits in twoyears to be considered a seniorin program that takesmany fiveyears to finish.
The remarkable diligenceand determination whichHawvermale applies to all as-pects of her life sets her apartfrom the typical student-ath-lete, University of Maryland,College Park coach Laura Wat-ten said.
Fundamentally Hawver-male, who led Blake to its onlystate tournament appearance in2010, is a skilled softball player,Watten said. But most athletesvying for a spot in a Division Isoftball program can throw,catch, hit and run the bases bet-ter than the average player.
Hawvermale, who said she
was the Terrapins’ No. 1 fangrowing up, had something inaddition to her softball prowessthat caught Watten’s attention.
“Bridget is someone we ac-tually knew because she cameto our camps so we got to seeher. You want kids who wantto be part of your programand will do anything they cando to be a part of the program.Bridget always wanted to go toMaryland. She came in with alot of pride and a lot of passionfor helping the team and help-ing the team grow. She has oneof the best work ethics of anykid I’ve coached. She’s just akid that absolutely came in andhad a desire to make an impactin whatever role she’s asked tobe in and those were the thingsthat really [stood out],” Wattensaid.
Breaking into the starting
lineup of an NCAA Division Isoftball team is no easy task, es-pecially for a freshman or soph-omore. When an opportunitypresents itself, it’s imperative totake advantage. Hawvermale,who received the “Terp Award”for having the highest grade-point average on the softballteam, did just that in the latterpart of the 2012-13 season andput herself in position to con-tend for a starting spot again inthe fall.
When injuries forced Wat-ten to shift things around,Hawvermale, whose versatilityhas made her a valuable utilityplayer, presented herself as thebest choice to fill in a vacancythat opened up in the outfield,Watten said.
Hawvermale, who batted.286 with 13 runs scored in 14starts, said she intentionally
focuses on strengthening allaspects of her game in order tothe type of player who can fillin wherever needed. Her workethic and team-first attitudeis contagious and made her aleader even as a freshman,Wat-ten said.
“[Hawvermale] was veryaware of the fact that all sheneeded to do was make it im-possible to take her out of thelineup and that’s pretty muchwhat she did. She’s an athleteand she can step in and fill anyrole we’ve asked and she’ll doit with a big smile on her faceand not question anything orworry about anything.We couldprobably put her in anypositionother than pitching,” Wattensaid.
Hawvermale, who returnedon July 20 froma three-week so-lar engineering class in China,
might have a little more freetime if she stepped away fromsoftball, but juggling the twodemanding entities keep herbalanced, she said. Plus, howmany people realize a child-hood dream?
“Hardwork pays off, I guess.Sometimes I have to take a stepback, this is what I’ve alwayswanted. I feel like my softballcareer has come full circle, frombeing a 6-year-old fan to see-ing young girls and talking tothem,” Hawvermale said. “En-gineering and a Division I sportis like a life commitment. InD-I sports they talk a lot aboutsports psychology and havingan outlet. When I’m tired ofsoftball I have school and whenI’m tired of school I have soft-ball.”
Blake grad uses Terps softball to balance out heavy academic load
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n While most teamsparticipate in county summerleague, others go elsewhere
BYTRAVISMEWHIRTERSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery Blair HighSchoolboys’basketball coachDa-mon Pigrom said he could prob-ably reciteClarksburg’s rosterandcould spit out a scouting reportwithout reviewing game film. Heknows the matchups, what de-fense his Blazers will likely see,what offense they should run. It’sinformation learned through thefour month-long basketball sea-son.
To avoid the monotony ofdoing it all over again duringthe summer, Pigrom, and otherMontgomery County coaches,said they take their teams outsidethe county, where they will betested against unfamiliar oppo-nents, schemesandstylesofplay.
This year’s MontgomeryCounty summer league featuredtheusualsuspects,amixofprivateand public schools and even one,River Hill, from outside Mont-gomery’sborders.
The Blazers suited up inWashington, D.C. this summer,takingpart intwosummerleaguesin the district where they playedteams theyknewvery little.
“We want to face differentpeople,”Pigromsaid. “Toplay thesame people over summer andover season, it’s just toomuch.
“The teams that we’re play-ing, they’re more athletic thanwe’re seeing in MontgomeryCounty. It’s summer league so Idon’t know howmany teams areslowingdownandrunningthings,andtherefereesarelettingthekidsplay and they’re getting tougher,which is good.”
Whether it be shaking upthe Xs and Os or taking his teamelsewhere during the off-season,everythingPigromhasdoneso farseems tobeworking.
In following up one of themost successful seasons in nearlya decade (15-9), Pigrom took his
team down to Woodrow Wilsonfor a summer league along withNorthwood, Wheaton, TheodoreRoosevelt, Princeton Day Acad-emy and a handful of others. TheBlazers made it to the title game,beating Princeton Day in thesemifinals.
“The kids, they bought in,”Pigrom said. “I think they lookedat the things they accomplishedthis past year and want to keepthat going. Fifteen wins is morethan we’ve had in almost a de-cade.They’reallhungrytoexpanduponwhatwedid last year.”
The vast majority of localteams play in either The Rock atHighPointorDeMatha’sBSNasaside to thecounty league.
Some even do all three, es-sentially seeing the same schoolsover and over. That’s why ShariefHashimtookhisWheatonteamtoWilsonaswell.
“It’s great, I’m a huge pro-ponent of that,” he said. “It’s justimportant. A lot of my kids don’tplay [Amateur Athletic Union] sogetting out of the county is big,getting out of our comfort zone isbig.”
Hashim and the Knights split
their time between the comfortzone of Montgomery County’s‘B’ division and Wilson, playingenough games where “it kind ofhad an AAU type feel,” he said.“My kids just got to play a lot ofbasketball. It was definitely a pro-ductivesummer.I feelgood, itwasanice summer forus.”
And still other teams, John F.
Kennedy for example, opt to notplayasaunitover summerat all.
With unavoidable absencesdue to vacations, jobs, AAU tour-naments and various other sum-mer commitments, the groupput on the floor during a summerleague game is barely representa-tive of the team that will be suit-ing up over winter for the regular
season.“I thought it was a waste of
time with kids out of town with
AAU every weekend,” said Ken-nedy coach Diallo Nelson, whohadtheCavaliersplayatTheRockthe past three years but chose notto participate in an official leaguethis summer. “Theywere gone al-most every Thursday, Friday, Sat-urday or Wednesday, Thursday,Friday. As far as getting better as ateam, Ididn’t see thebenefit.”
So, rather than put togethera haphazardly assembled groupof junior varsity players and AAUstragglers, Nelson scheduled cir-cuit training and shoot-arounds,keeping the workouts concen-trated on his players honing indi-vidual skills.
“As an ex-player and col-legiate coach, I understand theimportance of the off-season,”Nelson said. “And fromMarch toNovember, you work on your in-dividual skills. And fromNovem-ber toMarch, youworkongettingbetter asa team.”
Area basketball teams leave their comfort zone
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Montgomery Blair High School boys basketball coach Damon Pigrom said he took his team to Washington, D.C.’s summer league so that they would beexposed to teams they don’t normally see.
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n In its first summer, USA-JAhas 67 athletes turn out for
offseason training
BYTRAVISMEWHIRTER
STAFFWRITER
Over the past few years, Des-salyn Dillard was accustomedto 10, maybe 15 kids meander-ing out to James H. Blake HighSchool during summer for someindependentoff-seasonworkouts.Though not a coach for any offi-cial summer track club, Dillard, acoachatPaintBranchHigh,wouldstill hostworkoutsalongsidea fewother coaches, keeping the hand-ful of athletes not affiliated with asummerteaminshapefor theup-coming fall season.
So imagine her surprisewhen, on her first day as the offi-cial coach of the fledglingUSA-JATrack and Field club, based out
of Northwood High, 67 poppedin, ready to be a part of the SilverSpring-dominated team.
“I was expecting 20, 25 ath-letes,” said Dillard, a 1999 gradu-ate of the University ofMaryland,CollegeParkwhere shecompetedinthe400hurdlesandheptathlon.“In a week it was a rush of appli-cants and I was like ‘Oh, wow.’ Itwas very unexpected but a wel-comesurprise.”
The sheer number of athleteswas only the beginning of themore-than-welcome surprisesheaded Dillard’s way. At the sea-son’s bookend event, the JuniorOlympics hosted by North Caro-lina A&T, USA-JA boasted twoindividualAll-Americans(BinyamTadesseof JohnF.Kennedy,3,000meters;Martha Samof Blake, 400meters) and one All-Americanrelay team (the boys’ 17-18 agegroup 3,200 relay) for finishing inthe topeight.
“I didn’t really have any ex-
pectations,” said Sam, a juniorandreigningcountychampin the100 meters. “It was something Idid just because. I wasn’t expect-ing it tohappen, it just kindofdid.Itwasalittleoverwhelmingatfirst.Itwasthefirst timeIdidn’tgetfirstandwas still happy.”
Dillard and her team ofcoaches — Shawn Shannon,Darryl Spruill, and Giovanni Re-umante — had long recognizedthe need for a summer track clubfor Silver Spring-area athletes, butnothing official began until thisyear, when the quartet decidedto apply for certification to get theball rolling on a traveling teamthat could eventually end up inGreensboro for the Junior Olym-pics.By thebeginningof summer,theUSA-JAhadbeen founded.
As for thename,“USA-JA,” it’sa mix between United States andJamaica, a moniker that Dillardfailed to suppress a fit of giggleswhenaskedabout it.
“We kicked a few namesaround and that’s whatwe endedup on,” she said. Dillard, a na-tive of Trenton, N.J., is the team’sstrength and endurance coach.Shannon, a former competitor forJamaica College High, representsthe Caribbean half of the nameand takes care of the sprints andcoaches alongsideDillard at PaintBranch. Spruill, also a New Jer-sey native, heads the jumps andReumante, a former Northwoodgraduate who won a state title inthe 800, setting a school record intheprocess, is themiddledistancecoach.
“Realistically, we knew itwould be competitive, but seeingthat the summer track scene wasnew for us all, we weren’t surehow the kidswould rise to the oc-casion,”Dillard said.”
With the first summer underits belt, USA-JA expects the num-bers tonearlydoublenext season,as word spreads and more andmore athletes seek competition.Shannon said the aim is to addtwo more coaches for next sum-mer and to start the middle andelementary-school students inthe winter while the high school-ershave indoor trackasanoutlet.
“We’re very excited and readyfor theclubtogrowandseewherewecangonext year,”Dillard said.
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BY JORDANCOYNE
SPECIALTOTHEGAZETTE
Transitioning to collegefrom high school can be a diffi-cultprocess.So, inordertomakenext year’s transition to the Col-gate University men’s soccerteameasier,AlbertEinsteinHighSchool student Karl Brown saidhehasoptedtonotreturnforhissenior high school season. In-stead, he has decided to play fornewly-foundedOlney-BethesdaBoys Academy in order to com-pete against the nation’s topplayers.
“In the long run, I know thattheacademy is going tohelpmeas a player a lot more,” Brownsaid during a phone interviewon July 24 from Kansas City,where his current U-17 team,the OBGC Rangers, was com-peting at the 2013 U.S. YouthSoccerNationalChampionship.“Going into college, I’mgoing into awholenewenvironment, so
this last year I really want to getsomegoodpractice in.”
Startinglastseason,student-athletes are only permitted toplay for an academy team or ahigh school team. They can nolongerplay forboth.
The Olney-Bethesda BoysAcademy was created in an ef-fort to merge the strugglingMcLean and Potomac acad-emies, according to Brown. Hisclub coach, Matt Pilkington,was sought after to coach thenew academy team, and therest of the U-17 Rangers squadcame along. While Brown is ex-pected to thrive as amember ofthe academy team, Einstein willmiss him, coach Adrian Baezsaid.
“He is an awesome player,I can’t replace him,” Baez said.“I still have a pretty good, solidteam, but my gosh that is acrushingblow.”
Without Brown, who hasserved as captain of the Titanssince his sophomore year, Baezis expecting seniors John MarcCharpentier and Erik Maradi-aga to step up as leaders of thesquad.
Brown said he will miss theopportunity to serve as a leaderonhis team.
“Playing high school soccerisalotoffun.You’replayingwithyour friends and in front of yourfriends, and itmakes you realizewhy you love soccer so much,”he said.
When Brown first startedplaying recreational soccerat the age of 4, his father, JimBrown, was his coach. WhenBrownwas first asked to try outforaclubteamat theageof8,hewas unsure if he wanted to playfor a team that wasn’t coachedbyhis father.
“I didn’t know if I wanted todo it, but my dad really pushedforme,”he said. “Heknew Iwasa good player, so he’d alwayschallengeme.”
Brown said his father hassupported him at every game,andespecially inhis recentdeci-sion toplay forColgate.
In preparing for his colle-giatecareer,Brownplans to takethe next year to train consis-tentlyhard.
“When you get there, you’replaying guys who are bigger,faster and stronger,” he said.“There’s alwaysmore I cando.”
Einstein star toskip senior season
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BY JORDAN COYNE
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Our Lady of GoodCounsel High School girls bas-ketball team has developed areputation of being one of thestrongest in the region, maybeeven the nation.
So it was rare to see theFalcons, an annual WCACchampionship contender, loseby 14 points during the Bestof Maryland girls basketballtournament at Damascus HighSchool last month.
Illinois’s Marian Catholicdefeated Good Counsel 53-36in the opening game of thetournament.
“This is a building pro-cess,” Good Counsel coachTom Splaine said. “We’re try-ing to rebuild our team again.”
The Falcons lost five se-niors off last year’s team, in-cluding University of Virginiarecruit Amanda Fioravanti,who led the team in scoring.
Sophomore Kendall Breeseled the Falcons as the pointguard, filling the role Fiora-vanti played last year.
“Just cause I’m young Istill think I still contribute alot,” she said. “We all come to-gether on the court.”
Also expected to lead theFalcons this season are juniorNicole Enabosi and returningseniors SaraWoods and StaceyKoutris.
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Phillip and Molly Feliciano of Silver Spring announce the mar-riage of their daughter, Erin Inez Feliciano, to William AlexanderOtwell, son of Billy and Becky Otwell of Alexandria, Va., formerly ofMadison, Conn., and Roswell, Ga.
Their childrenweremarried onMay 4, 2013, at St. AndrewApos-tle Catholic Church in Silver Spring with a reception following atManor Country Club in Rockville.
Erin is a graduate of St. John’s College High School in Washing-ton, D.C. She received her bachelor’s degree in studio art from theUniversity of Richmond inRichmond,Va., and certificate inGraphicandWebDesign fromBostonUniversity’sCenter forDigital ImagingArts in Washington, D.C. She is currently employed as assistant artdirector for Science Newsmagazine inWashington, D.C.
Alex is a graduateofDanielHandHighSchool inMadison,Conn.He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration fromThe George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is cur-rently employed as a director of sales, small business, with Vocus inHerndon, Va.
The couple honeymooned in St. Lucia and reside inArlington, Va.
Feliciano, Otwell
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CELECELEBBRATRATIIONSONSCELEBRATIONSThe Gazette
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On June 29, Elvira and Jerry Hroblak, whomet as teenagers, cel-ebrated 50 years ofmarriage.
They celebrated withmore than 50 familymembers and friendsduring a party held at Norbeck Country Club. Elvira and Jerry havethree children, Kimberly McDanald, Kevin Hroblak and KristineHodge, and nine grandchildren,Megan andAshleyMcDanald; Ben,Zack and SarahHroblak ;and Emilia, Ellie, Erin and EvanHodge.
Before the guests were served dinner, the best man, EugeneDoria of Pennsylvania, made a speech as he did 50 years ago. Themaid of honor, BernadineWhalen, also flew in fromTexas.
After dinner, Ben performed the anniversarywaltz on the piano.Following,Megan andAshley, the twooldest grandchildrenwho aretwins, played “You’re Still the One” by Shania Twain on the guitar.Elvira and Jerry loved the performances by their grandchildren.
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Craig andDenise Plunkett of Burtonsville announce the engage-mentof their daughter, ErinMariePlunkett, to JamesAndrewCamp-bell, son of Charles and Jeanne Campbell ofWoodlawn.
The bride-to-be is a 2005 graduate of Blake High School andgraduated from Towson University in 2009, where she was a mem-ber of KappaDelta sorority. She is currentlyworking as the adminis-trator of a localMontessori school.
Theprospective groomgraduated fromWesternSchool of Tech-nology and Environmental Science in 2002. He is a carpenter, bytrade.
A Nov. 23, 2013, wedding will take place at St. Joseph’s Monas-tery Parish in Baltimore.
Plunkett, Campbell
WandaMarie Thomas and Cornell ClaytonHouston Sr. of Adel-phi will wed in holymatrimony on Aug. 17, 2013, at St. Mark’s Epis-copal Church in Silver Spring.
The couple will also celebrate theirmarriage at Secrets The VineCancun Resort on Sept. 12, 2013, in Cancun, Mexico. Celebratingwith the couple will be their children, Felicia, Stayce, and QuentinThomas II, andMelodyHouston and Cornell Houston Jr.
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THURSDAY, AUG. 8Gut Happy, from 1:15-2:15
p.m. at theHoliday Park Com-munity Center, 3950 FerraraDrive,Wheaton. A healthydigestive system begins witha good diet. WendyWeisblatt,registered dietitian at Subur-banHospital, will highlightwhich foods promote healthydigestion andwhich should beavoided. She will also discusswhat probiotics are and howthey can help with digestion.www.suburbanhospital.org.
CPR and AED, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. atMedStarMont-gomeryMedical Center, 18101Prince Philip Drive, Olney.TheHeartsaver class teachesbasic CPR, rescue breathing,and relief of choking for adults,infants and children and Au-tomated External Defibrillatoruse. After successful comple-tion, the student will receive aHeartsaver AED card from theAmericanHeart Association.Note: This class is for the laycommunity and is not ade-quate for individuals who haveor will have patient care re-sponsibilities. This class is notdesigned for healthcare pro-viders. If you are a health careprovider, please register underBLS and CPR for Healthcare
Professionals. $80; Registrationrequired. 301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.
MONDAY, AUG. 12Simplify Your Life, from
7-9 p.m. at SuburbanHospital,8600OldGeorgetownRoad,Bethesda. De-clutter for sum-mer. Discussionwill includemore than just cleaning outyour closet. Learn techniquesand skills for decluttering anddestressing your everyday life.$20. www.suburbanhospital.org.
ONGOINGNew Mothers Postpartum
Support Group, 10-11:30 a.m.Mondays atMedStarMont-gomeryMedicalCenter, 18101PrincePhilipDrive,Olney. Everwonder if youare theonlyonefeeling stressedandalonenowthat ababyhas joinedyourfamily?Wasn’t it supposed tobeeasier? If youarefindingyourself feeling sad, anxious,angryor irritable, group sup-port canhelp.Group ledby twotherapistswho specialize in thepostpartumperiod.Babies arewelcome. Free; Registrationrequired. 301-774-8881,www.montgomerygeneral.org.
ONGOINGDamascus United Method-
ist Church, 9700 NewChurchSt., Damascus, offers tradi-tional Sundaymorning wor-ship services at 8:15 a.m., ayouth contemporary worshipservice at 9:30 a.m. and a ser-vice of liturgy and the word at11 a.m. with Sunday school at9:30 a.m. for all ages during theschool year.
Liberty Grove UnitedMethodist Church, 15225 OldColumbia Pike, Burtonsville,conducts Sundaymorningworship services at 8:30, 9:30and 11 a.m. Sunday school,nursery through adult, is at9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For aschedule of events, visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.
Providence United Method-ist Church, 3716 KemptownChurch Road,Monrovia, con-ducts a contemporary serviceat 8 a.m. followed by a tradi-tional service at 9:30 a.m. Sun-daymornings, with Children’sSunday School at 9:30 a.m.and adult’s Sunday school at11 a.m. Formore information,call 301-253-1768. Visit www.kemptownumc.org.
Trinity Lutheran Church,11200 Old Georgetown Road,North Bethesda, conducts
services every Sunday, withchild care from 8 a.m. to noonand fellowship and a coffeehour following each service.301-881-7275. For a scheduleof events, visit www.Trinity-ELCA.org.
Chancel choir auditionsand rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.Thursdays at Liberty GroveMethodist Church, 15225 OldColumbia Pike, Burtonsville.Call 301-421-9166 or visitwww.libertygrovechurch.org.
“Healing for the Nations,” 7p.m. every first and third Sat-urday of themonth at SouthLake Elementary School, 18201Contour Road, Gaithersburg.Sponsored by King of the Na-tions Christian Fellowship,the outreach church service isopen to all who are looking forhope in this uncertain world.Prayer for healing available.Translation into Spanish andFrench. Call 301-251-3719.Visit www.kncf.org.
Geneva PresbyterianChurch, potluck lunches at11:30 a.m. the second Sundayof eachmonth at 11931 SevenLocks Road, Potomac. Thereis no fee to attend. All are wel-come to bring a dish to share;those not bringing dishes arealso welcome. Call 301-424-4346.
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Maintenance
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K-12 TransportationManager
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2012 Jetta TDI...............#149435A, Coffee, 22,328 mi.........$20,5912013 Golf.......................#P7616, Red, 4,329 mi...................$20,5972012 GTI PZEV....................#520705A, Gray, 18,514 mi............$20,9912013 Passat SE..................#PR6025, White, 3,677 mi..............$22,5912013 Passat SE..................#PR6024, Silver, 3,912 mi...............$23,3912013 Passat SE..................#PR6027, Black, 3,195 mi..............$23,4912011 Tiguan SE..................#P6004 Gray, 20,118 mi.................$24,6912012 Golf R Nav.................#819675A, Black, 21,246 mi..........$27,794
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2004 Dodge Dakota Quad CAB SLT............10,945#KP81097, PAMPERED 53K!! ALLOYS, TLT, P/OPTIONS, CD
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2006 Subaru Legacy Outbk 2.5XT....11,988#KP09074, MNRF, LTHR, AT, CD-6, WELL KEPT
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1998 SAAB 900 SE......................................3,498#KP02717, CONVERTIBLE, FUN! AT, AC, P/OPTIONS, LITTLENEEDED! “HANDYMAN”
2004 Subaru Forester X.............................4,988#KP38727, 5 SPD, GAS SAVER!, AC, P/OPTIONS, CC, “HANDYMAN”
2005 Buick Century...................................5,498#KP00882, AT, AC, PW/PLC, CC “HANDYMAN”
2000 Ford F-150 Supercab.........................5,500#KX71474, AT, AC, BD LNR, “HANDYMAN”
UNDER $10,995 UNDER $10,995
‘01 Toyota Corolla LE $4,498
‘04 Acura MDX $12,477‘06 Suzuki GR Vitara $10,970
‘11 Hyundai Sonata $18,988 ‘07 Ford F-150 Supercrew $22,470
#KP02976 NICE! AT, PW, MD INSP’D#KP02976 NICE! AT, PW, MD INSP’D #KP05316 GORGEOUS 44K! 1 OWNER LTHR, MNRF#KP05316 GORGEOUS 44K! 1 OWNER LTHR, MNRF
#KP95439A LUXURY 4WD 69K! $2,517 UNDER KBB#KP95439A LUXURY 4WD 69K! $2,517 UNDER KBB #KP62182 DVD! AWD $1,798 UNDER KBB#KP62182 DVD! AWD $1,798 UNDER KBB
#KP65991 MNRF, LEATHER, FAC WARR#KP65991 MNRF, LEATHER, FAC WARR #KP86231 LIARIAT, NAV/MNRF $4,022 UNDER KBB#KP86231 LIARIAT, NAV/MNRF $4,022 UNDER KBB
WWHHEEAATTOONN UUSSEEDD VVEEHHIICCLLEESSWHEATON USED VEHICLES
‘02 Buick LeSabre LTD $8,470
‘08 Ford Mustang Cnvtbl $13,488
#KP08213 SUPERSAVER!! $3,194 UNDER KBB#KP08213 SUPERSAVER!! $3,194 UNDER KBB
‘08 Suzuki XL-7 LTD $15,988
#KP24618 NAVIGATION $1,352 UNDER KBB#KP24618 NAVIGATION $1,352 UNDER KBB
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