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n Officials, principals sayschools, students
ready for full rollout
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
Montgomery County PublicSchools studentswere scheduledto start taking new state testsearly Monday morning, but icywinter weather upset that plan.
Instead, the Partnership forAssessment of Readiness of Col-lege and Careers tests — whichwill be fully implemented for thefirst time this spring — had towait for Tuesday.
Suzanne Woertz, supervisorof the school system’s testingunit, said Monday that the lostday isn’t expected to derail test-ing schedules. Some schools willshift back a day; others will takeadvantage of built-in makeupdays, she said.
“If we just miss this one day,then we don’t anticipate anyproblems with having enoughdays for all of our schools to fin-ish testing,”Woertz said.
The school system must fol-low a state-dictated windowfromMarch 2 throughMarch 26.The district doesn’t need to askto extend that time frame yet,Woertz said, but school officialswill re-evaluate if schools closeagain on a testing day.
Schools can choose when togive the tests, as long as studentstake them within the 20-daywindow. That flexibility marksa significant change from thestricter schedule for the Mary-land School Assessment tests,Woertz said.
The PARCC tests, whichthe district piloted last year, arealigned with the Common CoreState Standards and replace theMarylandSchoolAssessments inreading andmath.
This month, students willtake the first of two PARCC test-ing rounds. The first group oftests are “performance-basedassessment” that are longerand more complicated than the“end-of-year assessment” stu-dents will take later this spring.
Students in third through
PARCC testsface slight delayafter snow day
n Gallery space to benamed for parentsof major gift donor
BY PEGGYMCEWAN
STAFFWRITER
BlackRock Center for theArts in Germantown is nam-ing its main art gallery The KayGallery in honor of Ina and JackKay, parents of Lauren Pollinof Barnesville who, with herhusband, Rick Pollin, made thesingle largest ever individualdonation to the center.
The amount of the do-nation, “in the six figures,”according to the center’s Exec-utive Director Krista Bradley, isto remain private at the requestof the donors, she said. It is alsoan unrestricted gift.
“This is a big deal for Black-Rock,” Bradley said. “Thismoney allows us to enhanceour programs, to reach morepeople and it gives us somebreathing room.”
Pollin was not available foran interview about her gift toBlackRock but Bradley said she
BlackRock begins anniversary fundraising
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Gallery Director Anne Burton gives a tour of the art gallery at BlackRockCenter for the Arts in Germantown.
n Calendar mightextend to June 15;
more snow in forecast
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
After a messy ice stormcoated much of the area on
Sunday, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools students got thedayoffMondaydue to lingeringdicey conditions.
County students, however,could find themselves in theclassroom an extra day in June.
The school district has foursnow days built in to its calen-dar.Mondaymarked the fifth.
“So parents and students
should plan for the school yearto be extended at this point,”Dana Tofig, a school systemspokesman, wrote in an emailMonday.
District officials’ decisionto close schools Monday wasmainly tied to road and side-walk conditions, Tofigwrote.
“While it warmed upthroughout the day, the con-
ditions this morning were notgood,” he wrote.
Tomake up for lost instruc-tion time, the district plans toextend the school year by oneday to June 15, a Monday. Ifschools close for any additionalsnow days, the system wouldcontinue to make up days in
Monday’s snow day could mean longer school year
n Boyds community votesto submit plan ahead ofofficial recommendations
BY PEGGYMCEWAN
STAFFWRITER
Knowing changes in traf-fic and commuter patterns willcontinue to impact their com-munity, members of the BoydsCivic Association jumped aheadof county and state planners andcameupwithaplanof their own.
“This is just a concept,” Mir-iam Schoenbaum, head of theCivic Association’s Transporta-tion Working Group committee,said at a special meeting of thecivic association Thursday. “Thisis our long term vision for thearea.”
At Thursday’s meeting.Schoenbaumpresentedthecom-mittee’s concept sketch and ex-plained its impact on the historiccommunity of Boyds.
She said that in January2014, Montgomery County De-partment of transportation pre-sented the civic association witha concept plan for additional
parking at the BoydsMARC trainstation, which also included aturnaround for busses carryingcommuters to the station fromClarksburg.At that time,MCDOTasked for community input withthe idea of making a final deci-sion in the fall of 2014. That wasdelayed, Schoenbaum said, be-cause the Maryland State High-wayAdministrationwasstudyingtraffic congestion where Barnes-villeRoadmeetsClarksburgRoadan intersection not far from thetrain station.
It was during the delay thatthe Boyds Civic Association de-cided to jump inwith aplanof its
Civic associationtakes serious look atcommuter problems
n ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘Tarzan,’‘Legally Blond,’ ‘High School Musical’
among upcounty offerings
BY PEGGYMCEWANSTAFFWRITER
The showmust go on! In spite of snow,sleet and rain causing school closures, stu-dents in upper Montgomery County areworking hard to get their spring musicalsready for openingnight.
Damascus and Northwest high schoolsshare opening weekend this week. Damas-cus students will perform “Mary Poppins”beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, while North-westwillopen“LegallyBlonde,TheMusical”at 7 p.m. Friday.
Snow days are a challenge said StevenKachadorian, director of “Mary Poppins.”Withno school, there is no rehearsal.
He is optimistic that the showwill go onandbeagoodperformancebecause, “We’vealways been ready todo a show,” he said.
Damascus studentshaveonly thisweek-
end to shine on stage. After its Thursdayopening, “Mary Poppins,” will have a per-formance at 7 p.m. Friday and two perfor-mances, 2 and7p.m. Saturday.
“Legally Blonde, theMusical,” under thedirection of Sherion Cosby, will run over thenext two weekends. Students at Northwestwill take the stage at 7 p.m. Friday and Sat-urday and the following weekend,March 13and 14. They will also present matinee per-formances onSaturday,March 14 and15.
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Damascus High School students Dallan Campbell as Bert and the ensemble cast rehearse for their upcoming production of “Mary Poppins” on Friday.Damascus and Northwest high schools share opening weekends this week, with Northwest preparing its production of “Legally Blonde: The Musical.”
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4Orientation to Small Business Re-
sources, 5-6 p.m.,MarylandWomen’sBusiness Center, 51Monroe St., PlazaEast-20, Rockville. Learn about the centerand other community resources to helpstart and grow a business. Free. [email protected].
Purim: A Night of Interactive Improv,6 p.m., CongregationHar Shalom, 11510Falls Road, Potomac. Featuring the award-winning entertainment of Now This!Improv Group. Festivities will kick off withGanMegillah (pre-K to 2nd). Enjoy a freedinner serving ofMordechaiMacaroniand Estheroli. Free; registration required.www.harshalom.org.
Bloody Orators Toastmasters Club,6:30-7:30 p.m., 15601 Crabbs BranchWay, Derwood. Develop public speaking,communication and leadership skillswith a community of learners in a posi-tive, supportive environment. Free forfirst-time guests. [email protected].
Business Oriented Toastmasters,8-9:30 p.m., Potomac Valley NursingHome, 1235 Potomac Valley Road, Rock-ville. Members can present preparedspeeches, give impromptu speeches, of-fer constructive evaluations and practiceconductingmeetings. Free for first-timeguests. 202-957-9988.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5American Red Cross Blood Drive,
2:30-7:30 p.m., Rockville UnitedMethod-ist Church, 112WestMontgomery Ave.,Rockville. Hosted by the Lions Club ofRockville. Appointments recommended.www.redcrossblood.org.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6Couples Corner Mini-Retreat, 7-10
p.m., Parent Encouragement Program,10100 Connecticut Ave., Kensington, also9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.March 7. For couples in acommitted intimate relationship. $150 percouple. 301-929-8824.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7American Red Cross Blood Drive, 8
a.m.-1:30 p.m., Trinity UnitedMethodistChurch, 137000 Schaeffer Road, German-town. Red-cell donations accepted. www.redcrossblood.org.
The Universities at Shady Grove 2015Spring Open House, 9 a.m.-noon, 9630
Gudelsky Drive, Rockville. Learn about80-plus bachelor and graduate degrees.Meet with representatives fromnine part-ner universities to learn about admissionrequirements, transfer of previous credits,career tracks, financial aid andmore. [email protected].
Beautiful Bluebirds, 1-2 p.m., Black HillVisitor Center, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive,Boyds. Learnwhere these native birds live,how they nest and how to attract them toyards. Get instructions on how to buildandmonitor a bluebird nest box. $5. Reg-ister at www.parkpass.org.
A New York Romance, and Other Pas-sions, 7 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church,11200 Old Georgetown Road, NorthBethesda.Wagner College Choir, Cham-ber Singers and Stretto Vocal Jazz Ensem-ble take listeners on a 175-year journeyofmusic by composers who lived in, im-migrated to or kept returning to New York.The program includesmusic by Copland,Bernstein, Gershwin, Foster, Ellington andIves. Free. 301-881-7275.
SUNDAY, MARCH 8Winter Olney Farmers and Artists
Market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sandy SpringMu-seum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring.Featuring 25 farmers, juried artists andfood vendors, both inside and outside themuseum. Free admission. 301-774-0022.
Nature Architects, 11:30 a.m.-2:30p.m., Black Hill Visitor Center, 20926 LakeRidge Drive, Boyds. Venture into differ-ent park habitats to design and constructthings using natural objects andmateri-als. Childrenmust be accompanied by anadult. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Blues Night at the Tree of Life Cafe,7-9:30 p.m., UnitarianUniversalist Con-gregation of Rockville, 100Welsh ParkDrive, Rockville. Blues singer and guitaristEleanor Ellis will perform,with Pearl Bailesonharmonica. Also featured is TheAlphaDogAcoustic Blues Bandwith RogerHart.Singer-songwriter Anthony Sepulvedawillmake a cameo appearance. $15 suggesteddonation.www.uucr.org/tree-life-cafe.
Fine Arts String Quartet, 7:30 p.m.,Jewish Community Center of GreaterWashington, 6125Montrose Road, Rock-ville. $30-$40. 301-348-3779.
MONDAY, MARCH 9Common Conditions of the Elbow,
Hand and Wrist, noon, Longwood Com-munity Center, 19300 Georgia Ave.,Brookeville. Dr. Alison Kitay,MedStar
MontgomeryMedical Center’s chief ofhand surgery, will discuss common disor-ders like carpal tunnel syndrome, tenniselbow, hand andwrist lumps and bumps,and arthritis. Free. 301-774-8761.
Pain Connection DMV Chronic PainSupport Group, 1-2:30 p.m., 12320ParklawnDrive, Rockville. For anyonewith chronic pain, their family andfriends. Participants can bring pillows,mats, ice or hot packs to be comfortable.301-231-0008.
American Red Cross Blood Drive, 3-8p.m., Faith UnitedMethodist Church,6810Montrose Road, Rockville. Doublered-cell donations accepted. Bring a photoID, eat iron-rich foods and drink extra wa-ter beforehand. Appointments requested;walk-ins accepted. 800-733-2767.
Alzheimer’s and Dementia SupportGroup, 6-7 p.m., Brightview FallsgroveAssisted Living, 9200Darnestown Road,Rockville. Discuss problems and solutionsandmeet others walking a similar path.Information, fellowship and support;refreshments provided. Free, RSVP re-quested. 240-314-7194.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10Time for Tots: Feel the Wind, 10-11
a.m., Black Hill Visitor Center, 20926 LakeRidge Drive, Boyds. Read a story about thewind, then head outside tomake kites tofly around the visitor center. $5. Registerat www.parkpass.org.
ABCs of Starting a Business, 6-9 p.m.,MarylandWomen’s Business Center, 51Monroe St., Plaza East-20, Rockville. Learnmore about the steps involved and dis-cover the resources available. An attorneywill answer questions about legal struc-tures. $10. [email protected].
Redhot and Blue of Yale, 7:30 p.m.,Kensington Baptist Church, 10100 Con-necticut Ave., Kensington. Yale’s oldestcoeducational a cappella group presentsan evening of vocal jazz. $10 suggesteddonation. [email protected].
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A story and a correction in the Feb. 25 Gazette incorrectly reported how longMontgomeryVillageFoundationBoardcandidateNeville Levi hadownedpropertyinMontgomery Village, based on information Levi provided. He has owned prop-erty since the summer of 2014.
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Weichert Realtors recognizeslocal office, sales associateKim Farina, regional vice president
of Weichert, Realtors, announced Feb.23 that the Germantown/Upper Mont-gomery County office was recognizedforoutstandingperformance in January.The office led the region, which servesMontgomeryandPrinceGeorge’s coun-ties and the surrounding areas in theDistrict of Columbia, for resales.
In addition, Weichert, Realtors, an-nounced that sales associates JoaquinCerritos and Dimitri Apostolopoulos ofthe Germantown/Upper MontgomeryCounty office were each recognized fortheir exceptional success in January.Both top producers, Cerritos led theregion for resales and Apostolopoulosled for resale listings and resale revenueunits.
Damascus residentawarded scholarship
James DiMarzio of Damascus, a se-nior at Towson University, recently re-ceived the Maryland Law EnforcementOfficers Scholarship for 2015.
The MLEO Scholarship provides fi-nancial aid awards to Towson studentsin good academic standing who areMaryland residents and are planningcareers in law enforcement. DiMarzio
received $1,000.DiMarzio is majoring in Criminal
Justice. He is a member of the NationalCriminal Justice Honor Society and hasbeen honored on the Dean’s List sixtimes. His career plans are to go into lo-cal or state law enforcement.
TheMarylandLawEnforcementOf-ficers, Inc. is a professional, nonprofitorganization located in Baltimore.
Damascus American Legionhonors Korean War vets
The Damascus American LegionPost 171 honored 24 local veterans ofthe Korean War era on Presidents Day,Feb. 16, at the Post Home.
Among the veterans honored weresix members of Post 171: Glenn Toms,Bob Ray, Ed Williams, Jack Talamo, BillRaab and Bob Bellison. Nearly half thehonorees are members of the Chap-ter 142 of the Korean War Veterans ofAmerica, headquartered in Frederick.
Thehonorees’ familieswere also in-vited to attend the luncheon ceremony,which included a time for the vets toshare their war experiences.
“Some of their stories were enter-taining, some were very serious, andsome included descriptions of howmuch South Korea has changed sincethe War ended in 1954,” memberGeorge Bollingwrote in an email.
The afternoon also included a clas-sical belly dance by Itsi Mitchell and abrief talk by Jim Lichtinger, a benefitsspecialist from the Maryland VeteransAdministration who offered assistanceto all the veterans attending.
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n Findings basedon ethno-racial andlinguistic diversity
BY PEGGYMCEWAN
STAFFWRITER
Germantown was namedthe second most diverse city inAmerica by wallethub.com, anonline source of financial infor-mation for consumers and smallbusiness owners.
Though not a city, German-townis, forU.S.Censuspurposes,
identifiedasa“censusdesignatedplace.” It has more than 90,000residents according to a 2013Census Bureau estimate and isthe third most populated placeinMaryland, after Baltimore andColumbia.
“In light of Black HistoryMonth, WalletHub identified themost ethnically and linguisticallydiverse landscapes among 350 ofthe most populated U.S. cities,”Richie Bernardo wrote for thewebsite.
That was done to take thepulse of current levels of diversityandraiseawarenessof racialgaps
across U.S. cities, WalletHub.com’scommunicationsmanagerRazDaraban, said in an email.
In ranking cities, WalletHublooked at racial and ethnic di-versity, language diversity andregion of birth. Each was given apoint value for determining thefinal rank. Germantown receiveditshighest score in racial andeth-nic diversity and was just abouteven in language andbirthplace.
Catherine Matthews, direc-tor of the Upcounty RegionalServices Center in Germantown,said she knew Germantown wasdiverse, but seemed surprised
that itwas rankednumber two inthe country.
“Its very much a plus,” shesaid. “Withpossible challenges.”
On the plus side she men-tioned bringing people togetherwith theopportunity to learnnewapproaches to solvingproblems.
“Its an opportunity to teachour children appreciation forsomeone who comes from a dif-ferent background,” she said.
Possible challenges includegetting used to changes in neigh-borhoodsandallowingothers thefreedom to live in a way they aremost comfortable.
“The country as a whole isbecoming increasingly ethnicallydiverse, and living in an ethni-callydiversecity today isgoodex-posure to the opportunities andchallenges all cities will be facingsooner or later. Ethnic diversityin neighborhoods is associatedwith a strong preponderance ofbusinesses and local organiza-tions that generate economicactivity and sustain community.Children exposed to ethnic andlanguage diversity early on, de-velop a broader and more so-phisticated understanding of thediversityof theworld,”MarioLuis
SmallGrafstein, Family Professorof Sociology, Faculty of Arts andSciences at Harvard Universitywrote on thewebsite.
Matthews said the German-town area is seeing a broader va-riety of businesses, most visiblyrestaurants, which she attributesto the community’s ethnic diver-sity.
Jersey City, New Jerseyranked ahead of Germantown.Also in the top 10 are New YorkCity, No. 4; Irving, Texas, No. 7;and six cities inCalifornia.
Germantown named second most diverse city in country
The following is a summary of incidents inthe Germantown area to which MontgomeryCounty police responded recently. The words“arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt.This information was provided by the county.
Armed robbery• GermantownTransit Center, 19945
Aircraft Drive, Germantown, at 11:40 a.m.Feb. 13. The subject threatened the victimwith a weapon and took property.
Aggravated assault• 11600 block of Bedford Court, Ger-
mantown, between 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. Feb.15. The subject is known to the victim.
Commercial burglary• Sunoco, 19235 Frederick Road, Ger-
mantown, between Feb. 8 and 12. Forcedentry, took property.
Residential burglary• 12500 block ofMiddlebrook Road,
Germantown, between Feb. 2 and 16.Forced entry, took nothing.
• 13000 block of Prices Distillery Road,Clarksburg, between 8 and 9 p.m. Feb. 16.Forced entry, took property.
Vehicle larceny• Four incidents in Germantown be-
tween Feb. 9 and 17. Took tools and toolkits. Affected streets include Crystal RockDrive and Century Boulevard.
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Edison High students sellrefurbished cars, computersThe Montgomery County Stu-
dents Automotive Trades Foundation(ATF) and Information TechnologyFoundation (ITF) hosted their secondrefurbished car and computer sale ofthe year on Feb. 21 at Damascus HighSchool.
Because of the snow falling thatday, the time for the sale was sale wasshortened but students assisted cus-tomers with test drives and the pur-chase of computers and peripherals.At 10:30 a.m., the automobile lotterydrawing occurred to determine theorder of purchasers for the 23 cars forsale. Despite the early closing, thema-jority of the cars were sold.
The remaining inventory of carsand computers will be sold by theFoundations Office at Thomas EdisonHigh School, 12501 Dalewood Drive,
Silver Spring. Interested buyers shouldcontact Mike Snyder at 301-929-2164or [email protected] cars, and Kelly Johnson at 301-929-2197 or [email protected] for computers.
The final sale of the year willbe held from 9 to 11 a.m. May 9, atThomas Edison High School, 12501Dalewood Drive, Silver Spring. A listof cars available for purchase will beposted at www.cars2purchase.org atthe end of April.
The Automotive Trades Founda-tion and Information TechnologyFoundation rely the on support of do-nated vehicles and 17-inch or largerflat panel LCD monitors. To donateeither, contact Snyder for or Johnsonwith the information above.
Middle schoolers inScience Bowl Saturday
Teams from six MontgomeryCounty middle schools will competeSaturday to represent Maryland in themiddle school national finals of the
U.S. Department of Energy Office ofScience’s National Science Bowl.
The local teams that will competeatPrinceGeorge’sCommunityCollegeinLargoare fromtheLandonSchoolofBethesda; Clemente of Germantown;Cabin John and Hoover, both of Po-tomac; Frost of Rockville; and TakomaPark.
The finals will be in April in Wash-ington, D.C.
March Book Battle is underwayBibliophiles are invited to join the
fray during the Montgomery CountyPublic Libraries’ secondannualMarchBook Battle.
This month, local book lovers canvote at montgomerycountymd.gov/li-brary for their favorite children’s, teenand adult books. The battle will openwith eight pairs from each category.
Each week, new book pairings willbe posted for voting. Displays of thetitles and authors will be featured atlibrary branches. The champions willbe announcedMarch 30.
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n Germantown skater amongOlympic hopefuls training at
Wheaton Ice Arena
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
Fresh off finishing first and sec-ond in junior ice dancing at the U.S.Figure Skating Championships, fourMontgomery County athletes are rep-resenting the United States this weekin the 2015World Junior Figure SkatingChampionships in Estonia.
Quinn Carpenter of Wheaton andLorraine McNamara of Germantownwon the junior ice dancing gold medalin January at the national champion-ships in Greensboro, N.C. Michael Par-sons and sister Rachel Parsons, bothfrom Rockville, won the silver medal inthat competition.
The skaters often train at theWhea-ton Ice Arena and were there Feb. 24 toperform in a celebratory event.
Three speed skaters who repre-sented theU.S. at the 2015World JuniorShort Track Speed Skating Champion-ships in Japan last weekend also werethere: Richard Montgomery HighSchool junior April Shin, ChurchillHigh School graduate Shaner LeBauerand Thomas Hong of Laurel. Shin fin-ished seventh in the 1500meters, whileHong placed 12th and LeBauer 27th inthe 1000meters.
Carpenter, 19, learned to skate attheWheaton arenawhen hewas young
and joined the Wheaton Ice SkatingAcademy program when he was 7.Skaters in that programalso trainundertop-level coaches at the Cabin John IceRink and Rockville Ice Arena.
Carpenter andMcNamara, 16, whojoined the academy when she was al-most 5, paired up and began compet-ing almost a decade ago. They finishedfourth in the 2008 U.S. Junior NationalChampionships and thirdat thenation-als in 2012 and 2013.
Last year, they won a silver medal
at the nationals, then finished fourthat the World Junior Championships.In 2013, they placed ninth in the worldchampionships and third in nationals.Along the way, they won numerouscompetitions, suchas at theLakePlacidIce Dance Championships.
“We try not to focus so much onwinning a competition,” said Carpen-ter, who graduated high school whilebeing homeschooled and attendsMontgomery College. He plans to ma-jor inmechanical engineering. “We just
want to improve and do the very bestwe can every timewe compete.”
McNamara, a sophomore at Con-nelly School of the Holy Child in Po-tomac, said she particularly enjoys theperformance aspect. “I love being onthe ice with themusic and putting on ashow for the crowd,” she said.
The Parsonses, who also trainthrough theWheaton Ice Skating Acad-emy program, competed with otherpartners before pairing up several yearsago. They won the novice-level icedancing competition at the 2011 U.S.National Championships during theirfirst year of skating together.
Then in the first Winter YouthOlympic Games in Austria in 2012,the Parsonses finished fourth in the12-team ice dancing field, behind twoduos from Russia and one from theUkraine. Last year, theyplacedeighthatthe World Junior Championships afterwinning the bronzemedal at nationals.
There canbe pressure in such com-petitions, but the skaters try to keep re-laxed and focused.
“We talk to each other,” said Mi-chael, 19, a Magruder High graduatewho attends Montgomery College.“Sometimes I do visualization exercisesto stay focused on our routine beforewe compete.”
Listening to music also can helprelieve pressure, said Rachel, 17, a ju-nior at Magruder. Carpenter said healso does visualization exercises beforecompetitions.
Beyond the pressure of the compe-
tition, they try to realize how far theyhave come and enjoy being in newplaces. “We get to travel all over theworld,” Rachel said.
Other skaters who train with theWheaton academy won medals in dif-ferent levels at the national champion-ships in Greensboro. Those includedCaroline Green, 11, and Gordon Green,13, first place in novice dance; EmmaGunter, 13, and Caleb Wein, 13, thirdplace in novice dance; and ElizabethTkachenko, 9, and Alexei Kiliakov, 9,first place in juvenile dance.
Last year, the duo of Luca Becker,14, and Gigi Becker, 13, won the goldmedal in novice dance at the nationals.Eliana Gropman, 14, and Ian Somer-ville, 14, won the silver medal in novicedance at that same competition.
The ice dancing competition in Es-tonia is runby the International SkatingUnion, one of the oldest internationalsports federations that governs com-petitive ice skating events. The field is alittle different this year, with some skat-ers from last year moving to the higherlevel, Carpenter said.
The skaters have aspirations to getto the Olympics, perhaps in 2018, buthave to jump from the junior to seniorcircuit at some point.
“Making the Olympics has alwaysbeen a dreamofmine,” Carpenter said.“It’s important to make your move tothe senior-level competitions at theright time.”
Local athletes represent U.S. in world skating competitions
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Four Montgomery County athletes are representing the United States this week in the 2015World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Estonia: from left, Rachel Parsons and MichaelParsons, of Rockville; Lorraine McNamara of Germantown and Quinn Carpenter of Wheaton.
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Sarah Chen of Silver Spring performs with the CCACC Sunday Chinese Folk Dance Class during the Lunar New Year Celebration at BlackRock Centerfor the Arts in Germantown on Saturday. The celebration’s activities included performances of traditional Chinese dances, demonstrations of martialarts, music and song. Visitors were invited to tour the center and participate in making paper lanterns, dragon puppets and Origami and to practiceChinese Calligraphy.
Students in middle and highschool are invited to show theirinterest in science, technology,engineering and mathematics inthe national STEM Voice VideoCompetition.
The videos should explainwhy these subjects are importantto the students or depict theirSTEMhero.
Thecompetition isorganizedby the Coalition of State Biosci-ence Institutes, a group of non-profits that focus on life scienceseducation, entrepreneurshipandworkforce development.
TheEastern regioncoordina-tor is the MdBio Foundation of
Rockville.LegalU.S. residents in grades
5 through12andyounger than18are eligible. Entries, up to a min-ute long, can include interviews,short stories, animations or per-formances of drama or singing,and must correctly identify andexplain the acronym for STEMorexplore the interdisciplinary na-ture of STEM.
Six semifinalistswill eachwin$500; two grand prize winnerswill win $1,000. The submissiondeadline is April 17.
More information isavailableat tinyurl.com/qhafowq.
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STEM contest open tostudent videographers
Montgomery County islooking for 11 people to serve ona charter review commission.Members serve four-year terms.
Applications are due at5 p.m.Wednesday.
The commission studiesthe county’s charter and makesrecommendations on proposedcharter amendments. The com-mission generally meets once amonth in Rockville and submits
a report every other year.Letters of interest and re-
sumes may be submitted [email protected]. According to aCounty Council news release,resumes should include pro-fessional and civic experience,political party affiliation, homeand office telephone numbers,and an email address.
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n Vapor devicesto be added to existingtobacco-use ban
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
The use of electronic ciga-rettes will be prohibited incertain public places in Mont-gomery County.
The County Council unani-mously voted Tuesday to ban e-cigarettes inpublic placeswhereit bans tobacco.
Thenew lawwillmake it ille-gal forminors tousee-cigarettes.It also will require the liquidused in e-cigarettes to be sold inchild-resistant packaging.
Council Vice PresidentNancy Floreen, who proposedthe legislation, said county resi-dents will be better off if vapingis banned from public places,alongwith smoking.
The county currently banssmoking indoors inpublicplacessuch as restaurants, stores, of-fices and government buildings,and on county property.
“I think this sends an im-portant message to our com-munity and the world at largethat Montgomery County isvery dedicated to addressingpublic health,” said Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park. “And
I really do believe that’s one ofour primary responsibilities aselected officials.”
The ban on electronic ciga-rettes would take effect 91 daysafter the bill becomes law. Thebill becomes laweitherwhen it’ssigned by the county executiveor returned unsigned.
Also known as personal va-porizers or electronic nicotinedelivery systems, e-cigarettesprovide both nicotine and nico-tine-free options.
E-cigarettes havebeen avail-able in the United States since
2007.Useof thedeviceshasdou-bled every year since 2010, withthe industry estimated at $1.5billion, according to informa-tion from theNational Institutesof Health, National Instituteon Drug Abuse, presented at acouncil Health and Human Ser-vices Committee briefing.
Council President George L.Leventhal, who co-sponsoredthe bill, said it takes the burdenofdiscerningelectronic cigaretteuse from tobacco cigarette useoff business owners.
“It’s really disruptive and
surprising to people whensomeone pulls out one of thesedevices and begins vaping it,”he said. “Customers don’t knowhow to react. It puts the propri-etor of the business in a difficultposition.”
Business owners bear theresponsibility of enforcing theindoor smoking ban, said Lev-enthal (D-At Large) of TakomaPark. A uniform policy for bothsmoking and vaping, he said, is“just fair.”
Proponents claim vaping isa healthier alternative to smok-
ingand is aneffectiveway toquitsmoking, often citing personalor anecdotal evidence.
But Councilwoman NancyNavarro said vaping as a smok-ing cessation method has “notbeen establishedwhatsoever.”
“You really don’t knowwhatyouare ingesting,” she said, add-ing that research shows there iscause for concernwith theprod-ucts.
Recalling a time when shewas in a store in Florida next toa person who was vaping, Na-varro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring
said that experience reinforcesfor herwhy the law is important.
“It reminded me of why it’sso important that we do what-ever we can to, number one, beeducated, but number two, alsoestablish clear guidelines,” shesaid. “Because obviously, overthere, it’s quite acceptable andpeopledon’t realize there is defi-nitely cause for concern just be-ing around in public — aroundchildren for example, etc. — us-ing these types of devices.”
Montgomery County outlawing electronic cigarettes indoors
n New alcohol tax to recoup lostrevenue mentioned as an option
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
If Montgomery County gets out ofthe alcohol business, it would need toadd a steep excise tax to avoid losingabout $30 million in annual revenue, acounty official said.
The County Council’s new ad hocCommittee on Liquor Control is con-sidering options for reforming how thecounty handles alcohol, ranging fromcompletely getting out of the businessto simply reforming operations.
At the request of CouncilmanHansRiemer (D-At Large) of Takoma Park,the committee chairman, Montgom-ery’s Office of Legislative Oversight re-viewed the county’s alcoholic beverage
system and the Department of LiquorControl.
“We knew this needed a really fo-cused policy analysis,” Riemer saidpreviously. “Now we have the founda-tion to have productive discussions.”
Currently, the county makes about$30 million annually by controlling al-cohol sales and distribution.
Turning the business of booze overto the private sector would cost thecounty that revenue andmore, a reportby the Office of Legislative Oversightfound. The county could lose up to $43million annually, the report says.
But the report also found thecounty could recoup whatever it losesthrough taxes and fees.
George Griffin, director of the De-partment of Liquor Control, cautionedcouncil members at a meeting Fridayagainst imposing taxes and fees to “fillthis $30million holewe just voluntarily
dug.”He said the numbers show that
to fill the $30 million gap, the countywould need to tax alcohol 2 cents perounce on top of what the state charges.
It might not sound like much, butthe 2 cents equates to $2.56 per gallonor about $6 per case for all alcohol —liquor, wine and beer—Griffin said.
“That is a staggering alcohol tax in-crease in one time and it is onerous,”he said. “And I think that when the li-censees findout people are even think-ing about raising the price of product$6 per case to make up the money wearemaking now, there could be a lot ofpush-back. We’re going to impose anadditional $30 million on the productat the wholesale level and make thelicensees pay it. That’s basically whatthese revenue alternatives get to.”
Griffin said the state tax is 40 centsa gallon on wine and 9 cents a gallon
on beer.Piggybacking a 2-cent-per-ounce
local tax would mean the tax on beerwould go from 9 cents a gallon to$2.65 a gallon, he said. On a six-packof 12-ounce bottles, that’s $1.44more.
Riemer said Tuesday that hedoesn’t see the council imposing sucha large excise tax on alcohol.
“With a statement like that, he’s try-ing to put up roadblocks,” Riemer said.“I think there are feasible solutions.Wejust have to first figure out how muchrevenuewe’re trying to solve for andwedon’t have an answer to that questionyet.”
Oneway tomake up lost revenue isopenmore county stores, he said.
While the council is months awayfrom any decision, Riemer said thereis emerging support for only priva-tizing special orders. That would letrestaurants, bars and other license
holders place special orders directlywith private distributors, rather thanthe county.
Leslie Rubin, co-author of the re-port, said the county fills most specialorders through other wholesalers anddistributors. About 15 percent of or-ders are filled directly from producers,she said.
Riemer said getting the countyout of the special-order business bestsolves concerns with product varietyand customer service and isn’t likely tocost the county $30million in revenue.
In a letter to the council, ChiefAdministrative Officer Timothy L.Firestine said that increasing fees orpiggybacking a tax threatens to reducethe county’s competitiveness in the re-gional market.
Private liquor control in county could come at high cost
The Universities at ShadyGrove (USG), 9630 GudelskyDrive, Rockville, will hold itsSpring 2015 OpenHouse from 9a.m. to noon on Saturday.
Prospective students andtheir families are invited to learnabout themore than80bachelorand graduate degrees offeredat USG. They will be able tomeet with representatives fromUSG’s nine partner universitiesand learn about admission re-quirements, transfer of previouscredits, career tracks, financialaid andmore.
Current high school stu-dents are invited to attend a30-minute session to learnwhy USG is a smart and cost-effective choice to complete abachelor’s degree after earningyour associate’s degree fromMontgomery College (MC). Thesession will include informationon howUSGworks, the benefitsof attending a program housedon our campus and how to bea part of the “MC-USG DegreeConnection” pathway.
Student Ambassadors willbe on hand to speak about thepersonalized student experienceat USG.
The open house will alsofeature tours of the state-of-the-art campus, including theaward-winning, “green”CamilleKendall AcademicCenter. Selectprograms will offer fee waiversto those who apply for admis-sion during the event.
To learn more and prereg-ister for the open house visithttp://shadygrove.umd.edu/openhouse orwww.shadygrove.umd.edu, or call 301-738-6000.
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n Drivers say fees limit income;cab companies say ride-booking
is to blame
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Driving a cab in Montgomery County’sheavily regulated taxi industry means pay-ing to go to work each day. The county isconsidering capping those costs.
Taxi passengers pay drivers, who pay acab company its share.
Taxi companies inMontgomeryCountyconsiderdrivers “independent contractors”and charge drivers to lease cabs, as well asfees for credit-card processing and otherservices, such as paying tolls on the Inter-county Connector.
With ride-bookingcompaniesUberandLyft now in themarket for rides,Montgom-ery County is considering changing its taxiregulations, including fees that drivers pay.
On Friday, the council’s TransportationInfrastructure Energy and Environmentcommittee voted to cap two fees: the leaseof the vehicles and credit card processing.
Thecommittee is considering threebillsaimed at achieving greater balance in themarket of for-hire transportation services.
One would create regulations for ride-booking companies entering the market,likeUber and Lyft, to allow fair competitionwith cab companies. Another would cre-ate a central system for dispatching all cabrides.A thirdwould reformthecounty’s reg-ulationson taxis, includingwhat companiescharge drivers.
The bills will go to the full council forconsideration.
Aftermeetingwith drivers, CouncilmanRoger Berliner, the committee chairman,said the conditions of cabbies need to im-prove.
“I do feel that our drivers have gottena raw deal and it’s time to comprehen-sively address them,” Berliner (D-Dist. 1)of Bethesda said. “This is the time and theplace.”
The General Assembly is also consid-ering legislation related to ride-bookingcompanies, but Berliner said it wouldn’timprove cab drivers’ status.
Cab drivers claim the system is broken
and high fees dig deep into their pockets,leaving them little income.
By the time cab companies take theircut, many drivers earn less than mini-mum wage, despite driving the maximum12 hours a day, said Barwood Taxi Servicedriver Peter Ibik, president of the Mont-gomeryCountyProfessionalDriversUnion,which formed in 2013.
Taxi company owners counter thatunregulated ride-booking services such asUber and Lyft, not fees, are to blame.
“That iswhat is killing drivers’ income,”Dwight Kines, owner of SunCab, said.
Lee Barnes, president and CEO of Bar-wood, said drivers can earn $30,000 to$100,000 per year.
Barwood driver Nelson Biama, a unionmember, said he makes $30,000 to $36,000a year driving full-time.
Uber and Lyft have argued that they arenot taxi services, but companies taking ad-vantageofnewtechnology toconnect riderswith drivers.
A taxi driver’s income potential is lim-ited, in part, by county law. County regula-tions limithowmuchcabdrivers canchargeforridesandlimitdriversto12hoursperday.Ride-booking companies aren’t subject tothat law and often employ surge pricing,raising rates at peak or high demand times.
Cab drivers’ income also is limited bywhat they pay the cab companies, Ibik said.
Biama said he pays $112 per day to renthis 2011 cab from Barwood. In gas, he paysabout $55 per day. With other fees, he esti-
mates he pays Barwood $800 aweek.A chart from the union estimates that
some drivers pay $950 to $1,148 aweek, de-pending on the cab company.
Barnes said the lease covers everythingfrom the cost to buy andmaintain vehiclesto insurance and depreciation. He said heoffers various discounts on the lease of upto $20 per day.
SunCab charges drivers about $550 perweek to lease a cab, which includes all re-lated costs, Kines said.
Ibik said drivers pay other fees to thecompanies. One is for credit-card transac-tions.
Montgomery County law requires cabdrivers to accept payment by credit card.
Kines said he doesn’t charge drivers toprocess credit cards.
Barwood charges drivers a 7.5 percent“technology, marketing, sales and service”fee that includesprocessingcredit cardpay-ments, Barnes said.
He estimated that of the average 14fares a driverwillmakeper day, about threeare paid by credit card. Barnes said driversearn, onaverage, 9 percent higher in tips oncredit-card payments.
But if drivers could provide machinesto take credit-card payments, instead of us-ing cab companies’machines, Ibik said, thedrivers’ cost would be about 3 percent.
The committee voted Friday to amendthe bill to cap fees on credit-card transac-tions at 5 percent and to let drivers providecredit-card machines, as long as they meetlegal requirements.
The committee also voted to cap howmuch companies can charge for leases, butwithout a number. The committee told theDepartment of Transportation to establisha cap for the council to approve.
Kines and Barnes said they’re con-cerned about their drivers’ incomebecausedrivers can pick other companies, or drivefor Uber or Lyft.
Barnes said taxi companies want le-gal reforms, so drivers and companies canmore fairly competewithUber and Lyft.
Walking away from a taxi companywon’t solve the problem, Ibik said.
“Somebody has to step up and say, ‘No.This is enough,’” he said.
Montgomery considers cap on cabbie fees
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Peter Ibik, president of the Montgomery CountyProfessionals Drivers Union, speaks during aMontgomery County Council meeting about regu-lating rental rates and other fees for cabs.
n Campaign encourageshigh school students
to get involved
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
Formore than amonth, stu-dents across the national capitalarea have been campaigningand fundraising tohelpmake animpact in blood cancer researchandbecomeStudent of theYear.
Quince Orchard HighSchool junior Patrick Paolini,17, was named second runnerup at the National Capital AreaChapter of the Leukemia andLymphoma Society’s Student oftheYear campaignat its celebra-tory gala on Saturday.
Team Paolini raised morethan $54,000 for the Leukemiaand Lymphoma Society, or LLS,which “exists to find a cure andensure access to treatment forblood cancer patients,” accord-ing to National Capital AreaChapter deputy executive direc-
tor Jaclyn Toll.“The Student of the Year
campaign is a six-week fund-raising campaignbyhigh schoolstudents,” Toll said.
During those six weeks, stu-dents, who apply and then arenominated to participate areencouraged to raise as muchmoney as they can for LLS us-ing online campaigns, eventsand reaching out to friends andfamily. At the endof the sixweekperiod, the student who raisedthemost receives a $5000 schol-arship to whichever college oruniversity they attend. Thereare also $1000 scholarshipprizesfor those who raise a minimumof $10,000 as well as $2500 Citi-zenship Award scholarships forvolunteerism,missionandcom-munity involvement.
In addition to raising quitea bit more than $10,000, TeamPaolini was one of two teamsto receive the mission award,which was given to the teamswho successfully spread LLS’smission. Patrickmade a video inorder to help spread the word.
Toll explained that the Na-tional Capital Area Chapterhosted the inaugural Student ofthe Year campaign last year.
“This yearwehavefiveotherLLSchapters that aredoing itbe-causeof the successwehadwithit last year,” Toll said. “Hopefullyit will keep expanding.”
This year the students raised$401,197.52, surpassing lastyear’s total of $300,000.
Patrick is one of 19 studentsmaking up 12 different teams.While Patrick is an individualteam, himself, he has had helpfrom fellow students, as well asfamily.
“It’s typically his campaign,but a lot revolves around fam-ily,” said Kristin Paolini, Pat-rick’s mom. “I think for him hewanted to experience what hisdadworks a lot in. Hewanted tosee what it was like.”
Patrick’s father, Pat Paolini,is on the National Capital AreaChapter board.
“My great grandfather diedof leukemia, it was even moreof an incentive to join the cam-paign,” Patrick said.
In order to raise money,Team Paolini hosted threeevents, launchedanonline cam-paign and had a constant socialmediapresenceand reachedoutto people they knew.
“One of our main goals wasemail. We emailed so manypeople, which actually turnedout to beoneof our best things,”Patrick said.
“Online donation is criti-cal. Whether it’s $10 or $2000,people give whatever they cangive and it makes a difference,”Kristin Paolini said.
Patrick explained that hisfamily encouraged him to ap-ply to compete and made surehe knew it was going to take alot of time on top of his alreadypacked schedule of school,homework and soccer.
“I got used to it, but it will benice to get back to my routine,”Patrick said. “But I’llmiss raisingmoney. It’s a great cause to getknown.”
Patrick said before Satur-day evening’s gala that he wasexcited to see what other teamshad done during the campaign.
The gala revealed that TeamEJ, composed of Jessica Boschfrom Connelly School of theHolyChild inPotomacandEdenGray from Walt Whitman HighSchool inBethesda,werenamedthe Student of the Year winners.The teamraised themostmoneywithmore than $76,000.
“Knowing that teenagerscan do such a thing as this eventhoughwe are not adults yet, wecanmakeacauseknownaroundthe world,” Patrick said.
Gaithersburg teen raisesthousands for leukemia
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First runner up, Sahana Bhagat from The Madeira School in McLean, Va.,and second runner up, Patrick Paolini from Quince Orchard High School inGaithersburg, at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s National Capital AreaChapter 2015 Student of the Year gala in Washington, D.C.
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n County Councilconsidering terms forselling current site
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
A school bus depot’s futurehome remains uncertain as thecounty considers how to sell thesite of the current depot andfinda spot for a newone.
A Montgomery County Pub-lic Schools bus depot now onCrabbs Branch Way in Rockvillehas about 410 buses. It needs tomove to make way for develop-ment around the Shady GroveMetro station.
The depot is one part of thecounty’s Crabbs Branch ServicePark, which once held a varietyof county functions.
Facing a proposed dead-line of January 2017, school andcounty staff are still scramblingto clinch short-term and long-term solutions. In an ongoing,years-long search, they are look-ing at one ormore sites for a newdepot.
In its capital budget request,the school board asked thecounty for $100,000 to study thecurrent site of the district’s BlairG. Ewing Center as a relocationoption. The idea has stirred op-position from Aspen Hill andother county residents.
During a Feb. 10 meeting,County Council staff describedother possibilities for a perma-nent location and a short-termsolution that places the depot’sbuses atmultiple sites.
Under the short-term solu-tion, the school system wouldpark about 82 buses in 10 highschool lots, 100 buses at the dis-trict’s Carver Educational Ser-vicesCenter inRockville, and100buses at the county’s EquipmentMaintenanceandTransitOpera-tionsCenter.
Piecing these sites togetherleaves about 130 buses withouta home.
Besides the Ewing centersite, the list of potential long-term relocation spots includes aMontgomery Village-area site onWoodfield Road that the Mary-land-National Capital Park andPlanning Commission owns andthe county-owned Oaks Landfillin Laytonsville.
Council staff said those siteshaven’t been studied, althoughsome limitations are alreadyknown.
Some council members saidFeb. 10 that they didn’t want theschool district to use a site thatcurrently holds a school, refer-ring to the Ewing center locationthat holds alternative educationprograms.
James Song, director of theschool system’s Department
of Facilities Management, saidin an interview that the schoolboard hasn’t responded to thetwopossible long-term solutionsmentioned alongside the Ewingcenter in the Feb. 10 meeting.The district would study othersites, but needs money to do so,he said.
If the depot would move totheEwing site, Song said, thedis-trict figures it could fit 370 of the410 buses that need to be relo-cated. The district hasn’t studiedthe property.
For the possible short-termsolution, Song said, the districtcould lease private commercialproperty for the outstanding 130buses in the plan.
As officials consider reloca-tion options, the council is con-sidering how land on the eastside of the service park—wherethe depot now sits — will passfrom the county to developersLCORandNVR.
Thecouncilwill holdapublichearing March 17 on the dispo-sition of the service park land.OnMarch 30, the council’s Gov-ernment Operations and FiscalPolicy Committee and Educa-tion Committee will discuss thedisposition.
Down the road, the councilwill vote on a declaration of nofurther need for the property,which, if approved, would au-thorize the county executive to
dispose of the land.In a Feb. 23 letter to Leggett,
CouncilPresidentGeorgeLeven-thal outlined council questionsand comments related to thedisposition.
Somecouncilmemberswereconcerned about the proposedJanuary 2017 sale date, “giventhat neither a short-term norlong-term relocationplan for thebus depot has been fully devel-oped,” the letter says.
The letter asks about poten-tial depot sites that developersoffered when responding to acounty request for developmentproposals for the service park’seasternside,nowcalled JeremiahPark.
GregOssont, deputy directorof the county’s Department ofGeneral Services, said develop-ers pitched ideas in their propos-als, but “none of themoffered usa panacea.” Developers underconsideration could increasetheir bid in lieu of offering bothmoney and land for the depot,he said.
Elrich, however, said it’s “ab-solutely clear” that the develop-ment proposal request had arequirement that a developerfind a solution for moving thedepot.
“I guess I’mcuriousas towhywedidn’t hold them to the termsof the deal,” he said.
The request said the bus de-
pot nowfills 35 acres, but “devel-opers may not need to identifythe same total number of acresand the county will considermultiple sites of fewer acres.”
A developer wouldn’t be ex-pected to design or construct fa-cilities on a new site, the requestsays.
Ossont said the languagewas meant to help developersoffer more viable proposals forrelocating the bus depot, but itwasn’t an obligation.
Elrich said the county shouldadjust the sale date, so develop-ers don’t get the land until theyfind a depot solution.
Plan for school district bus depot’s next home remains hazy
n Students driven by goals,see multiple reasons forfellow youths’ struggle
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
Three out of every four blackmale students in MontgomeryCounty Public Schools’ class of2012 earned a high school di-ploma — the best rate of thecountry’s large urbandistricts.
The Schott Foundation forPublic Education released a re-port in February that showed thecounty school system — with agraduation rate of 74 percent —atop a pack of districts with atleast 10,000 black male studentsenrolled. Cumberland Countyin North Carolina was in secondplaceat68percentandBaltimoreCounty in third at 67percent.
“Montgomery County hasbeen a leader in this area for awhile,” said John Jackson, thefoundation’s president and CEO,but “a lot of work” remains to bedone across the country.
The foundation calculatedthe rate, which differs slightlyfrom what the Maryland StateDepartmentofEducationreports
online for Montgomery for 2012—76.9 percent.
In 2014, the graduation ratefor black boys was 81.9 percent,accordingtotheonlinestatedata.
Montgomery’s black stu-dents — both girls and boys— had a graduation rate of 86.4percent in 2014, according tostateeducationdepartmentdata.
Pointing to the 2014 statistic
for boys and girls, ChristopherGarran, the district’s associatesuperintendent for high schools,said “you can’t be happy” withthat number.
“It reinforces the work thatwe still have to do,” he said.
Garran said high schoolswork to help struggling students,including black males. Schoolstry to make instructionmore en-
gaging, intervene when studentsaren’t doing well academically,and reduce suspensions, he said.
The system tries to conquertheobstacleof“beliefsandexpec-tations” — an issue of “whetherwe hold similarly high expecta-tions for all kids,”Garran said.
Byron Johns — educationchair of theMontgomery Countybranch of the National Asso-ciation for the Advancement ofColored People — said the or-ganization is glad the countyis “making strides” to improvegraduation rates for black males,but the remaining gap is “still ex-traordinary.”
The report shows a 17 per-cent gap between black males’graduation rate andwhitemales’graduation rate of 91 percent in2012.
Johns said the74percent rateis “absolutely disturbing.” Failingto graduate high school affects aperson’s economic future, op-portunities, family, and commu-nity, he said.
However, he sees ways thedistrict is helping students at riskof not graduating, such as earlyinterventionandefforts toreducesuspensions.
Three students at Paint
Branch High School in Burtons-ville, drawing on their experi-ences and observations, sharedwhy they think someblackmalesmight struggle in school.
SemajeWicker, a 17-year-oldjunior, said some studentsmightlack motivation. Others don’t re-spect teachers, he said, or don’twant to be toldwhat to do. Aper-sonal relationship is important tohelp a student understand that ateacher is trying tohelp, he said.
Jordan Hill, 16, also a junior,said students might face respon-sibilities that affect academics ordon’t get support at home. Apar-ent might be absent or the stu-dentneedsto lookafterayoungersibling, he said.
Junior Donovan Parris saidthe 74 percent rate shows that— compared to students outsidethe system —more black malesin Montgomery pursue a vision.He’s driven to do well in schoolby a goal towork in business andfinance.
“I’m going to hang out withpeople that have the same pas-sions as me and I know thatthere’s no quick and easy way toget that, you know, I’m just goingto have to put in my work,” saidDonovan, 17.
Semaje said he’s seen “a lotof people mess up,” but he findsmotivation inhisgoal tobea law-yer. He works hard to maintainhis focus.
All three students said theyfindsupportatPaintBranchfromteachers and Principal MyriamRogers.
Rogers saidavarietyof thingsat her school—where the enroll-ment last year was 53 percentAfrican-American — providesocial emotional and academicsupport.
Students can take advantageof peer tutoring, she said, or theAdvancement Via Individual De-termination program, in whichstudents enroll in honors classesand learn skills such as organi-zation and goal setting. Anotherprogram hosts basketball gamesfor students who do well in classor take steps to improve.
Rogers said some studentsdon’t see the value of graduatingthat school staff describe.
“Sometimes, it’s a big leap offaithwhenyouseeyou’re thefirstone that’s trying to attempt thatroute [and] you’ve lived differentexperiences,” she said.
County leads large districts with black male graduation rate
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(From left) Semaje Wicker, 17, Jordan Hill, 16, and Donovan Parris, 17, walkto class at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville.
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n Gaithersburg-basedcompany promises cage-free eggs, no veal crates
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
Sodexo, the internationalfood and facilities managementcompany based in Gaithers-burg, has unveiled its newestanimalwelfare guidelines, com-mitting to sourcing its liquideggs from cage-free hens by2020 and eliminating veal cratesby 2017.
Three years ago, Sodexocommitted to sourcing itsshelled eggs fromonly cage-freehens by 2014, a goal it met, andalso said it would completelyeliminate gestation crates fromits pork supply chain by 2022.
The Humane Society of theUnited States’ director of foodpolicy, Josh Balk, said that hehas been working with Sodexofor many years and they’ve “al-ways been a wonderful groupto work with.” Balk applaudedtheir newest commitment.
“The type of work we dowith Sodexo is a model for anonprofit and a for-profit com-pany working together to createa better world,” Balk said.
Balk explained that he firststarted working with Sodexo on
a campus level to improve itssustainability, and then movedto companywide policies beforethe latest version, which is “anupdated animal welfare com-mitment that builds off of theirprevious commitments.”
“What I think is importantalso is Sodexo is a company thatis globally known and growing
and it sees animalwelfare issuesas a core component of theirbusinessmodel,” Balk said.
Deborah Hecker, vice presi-dent of corporate social respon-sibility at Sodexo, explainedin an email that “responsiblesourcing of food products thathave been grown and raisedis something that has always
been a core focus of our supplychain.” She explained that thefocus on the issue was formal-ized in 2009 as part of the com-pany’s “Better TomorrowPlan.”
The changes that Sodexo ismaking will all be implementedwithin the next few years. Re-cently, Sodexo made a promiseto phase out eggs from caged
hens and, in February, ex-panded that to include liquideggs, which are already crackedand prepared in a container forscrambling.
Hecker made sure to em-phasize in the email that Sodexodoes not “manufacture, growor raise animals or products,”rather they purchase their sup-plies from vendors for their cli-ents. Sodexo’s clients includeschools, college and universi-ties, health care centers, gov-ernment, corporate offices andremote sites.
“Here’s what’s been hap-pening over the past severalyears: The largest restaurantchains, food service companies,grocery chains and distributioncompanies have come togetherto improve the lives of animalswithin their supply chains,”Balk said.
He explained that mostcompanies are focusing onthree key elements, includingthe addition of more plant-based foods on their menus,discontinuing use of cages forchickens and stopping the useof gestation cages for motherpigs. Balk said this is being donebecause of the public’s interestin “animal welfare, sustainabil-ity and human health.”
“Consumers know nowmore than ever before, likely be-
cause of the age of the Internet,”Balk said.
Hecker explained in anemail that while it “certainlyis an issue that is front andcenter with consumers,” themost recent announcementwas not prompted by its recentpopularity. She explained thatSodexo has been working onusing more humanely sourcedanimal products formany yearsand have “made great strides.”Sodexo has had a working rela-tionshipwith theHumane Soci-ety of theUnited States formorethan five years.
“These policies are onlygood if it causes change on theground,” Balk said.
Balk said if food buyers re-fuse to buy caged eggs or vealfrom crates, then producerswill begin to change their waysto reflect what their customerswant. He explained that someegg companies who never be-fore offered a cage-free optionhave started to do so, and porkproducer Smithfield Foods isone of the leaders in stoppinguse of gestation crates.
“Sodexo has created themodel policy for all of the topfood corporations in the worldto follow,” Balk said.
Sodexo making strides toward humanely sourced food
PHOTO FROM THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
Gaithersburg-based food services company Sodexo has made a move away from the use of eggs from hens in cages,as pictured above. By 2020, the company will source all of its eggs, both in-shell and liquid, from cage-free hens.
n Critics cite impact onthose struggling financially
BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
Lawmakers in Annapoliswant tochange thewaysalesandauctions at self-storage sites areadvertised, but some nonprof-its say the measure could meantrouble for the poorer and morevulnerable users of those facili-
ties.Currently, a self-storage fa-
cility can sell or auction off theproperty in a storage unit if therenter is in default formore than60days and the sale is advertisedin a general-circulation newspa-per at least three days ahead oftime.
Thenewbillwouldgive facil-ity operators the option of eitherputting a notice in a newspaperor advertising the sale in “anyother commercially reasonable
manner specified in the rentalagreement” — such as onlinelistings — as long as the saledrew three “independent bid-ders.” Those bidders must notbe related to or have a shared fi-nancial interest with each otheror the facility operator, accord-ing to the bill.
Lawmakers say the bill willmake the process more afford-able for the self-storage busi-nesses.
State law currently requiresrenters to be notified of the timeand place of the auction andgivenat least 14days topaywhatthey owebefore the auctionpro-ceeds.
But changing the rules foradvertising thesale is concerningtoMarcelineWhite, executivedi-rector of the nonprofitMarylandConsumer Rights Coalition.
“More notice in a variety ofplaces is better,” she said.
People often put items instorage facilities because theyare struggling financially andwould then have to repurchaseitems if their property is sold,White said.
But Prince George’s County
Del. Dereck E. Davis (D-Dist. 25)of UpperMarlboro, chairman ofthe Economic Matters Commit-tee and the bill’s lead sponsor,said the bill is just about adver-tising, and that moving fromprinted notices to online noticeswas more cost-effective for theself-storage businesses.
The Maryland Self StorageAssociation did not respond torequests for comment.
Those businesses have al-ways been able to sell the prop-erty if a renter is in default, Davissaid. The issue was brought tohis attention by the owner of aself-storage business, he said.
Montgomery County Del.Benjamin F. Kramer (D-Dist. 19)of Silver Spring, one of the bill’sco-sponsors, said he doubtedthat many people were readingprinted auction notices to findout if their own property wasbeing sold. Most people havecellphones and Internet accessregardless of their economiccircumstances, and may havemore access to the Internet thanthey do to printed publications,Kramer said.
Some area self-storage fa-
cilities direct callers inquiringabout auctions directly to onlinelistings.
Self-storage facilities are acommonly used service for peo-ple facing financial trouble, saidKim Propeack, chief of politicsand communications for Casaof Maryland, the Langley Park-based nonprofit that advocatesfor immigrants. That populationincludes many Casa clients, soprovisions like those in the billwere troubling, Propeack said.
A bill passed by the Gen-eral Assembly in 2013 that al-lowed storage facilities to notifycustomers via email that theywere in default of their rentalagreement initially contained aprovision similar to the currentproposal.
That provision drew objec-tions from the MDDC PressAssociation, which representsnewspapers in Maryland, Dela-ware andWashington, D.C.
“In an area like self-storageauctions, you needmore notice,not less,” Rebecca Snyder, theorganization’s executive direc-tor, told The Gazette on Feb. 24.“Smaller-circulation newspa-
pers, targeted to specific com-munities, can act as a lifeline.”
If a personhas fallenonhardtimes and can’t pay their bills,they may not want to talk aboutit, but public notice might helpfriends and family recognize theproblem and come together toact as a safety net, Snyder said.
The proposed new noticerequirements might allow astorage facility owner to justcall three acquaintances on thephone to round up three inde-pendent bidders, Snyder said.
Kramer toldTheGazette thathe understood that public no-tices were part of newspapers’revenue, and that theremight beconcern from newspapers thatother notices, too, might start tomove online.
A hearing on the House ver-sion of the bill is scheduled for1 p.m. Wednesday before theHouse Economic Matters Com-mittee. TheSenate versionof thebill will be heard at 1 p.m.March11 before the Senate FinanceCommittee.
Storage wars: Proposed change to auction rule raises concerns
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NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARINGThe Mayor and City Council and the Planning Commission of the City
of Gaithersburg, Maryland, will conduct a joint public hearing onSchematic Development Plan SDP-6905-2015 filed by Medimmune
Incorporated on
MONDAYMARCH 16, 2015
AT 7:30 P.M.
or as soon thereafter as this matter can be heard in the CouncilChambers at 31 South Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The applicant requests approval of the schematic development plan,SDP-6905-2015, per the Sixth Amendment to the X-129 AnnexationAgreement located on Lot 7 (501 Orchard Ridge Drive) within theMedimmune Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The subjectapplication proposes a childcare facility to serve the Medimmune/AstraZeneca employees with associated parking and improvements.The subject property site is bordered by Orchard Ridge Drive.
Further information may be obtained from the Planning and CodeAdministration Department at City Hall, 31 South Summit Avenue,between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, orvisit the City’s website at www.gaithersburgmd.gov.
Rob Robinson, Long Range Planning ManagerPlanning and Code Administration
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comes from a family knownfor its philanthropy, especiallyin the area of the arts. Her par-ents promoted a strong senseof community and believed ingiving back to that commu-nity, Bradley said.
The Kays were major sup-porters of Jewish social ser-vices and contributors to theUnited States Holocaust Me-morial Museum, the KennedyCenter, Suburban Hospitaland the University of Mary-land, according to a BlackRockpress release.
“Seeing those acts of gen-erosity from my parents is aninspiration to me,” Pollin saidin the release.
Pollin is a member of theBlackRock Board of Trustees,having served four years.
“It feels comfortable com-ing to BlackRock,” she said inthe press release. “It’s accessi-ble. It feels welcoming. Black-Rock is a terrific place. Thereis somuch that goes on here.”
An invitation-only dedi-cation ceremony will be heldSunday at BlackRock. At thattime a plaque naming the gal-lery inhonorof theKayswill beunveiled.
“Wehavebig scissors andabig ribbon,” Bradley said. “It isan opportunity for us to cometogether and celebrate.”
The Pollins’ gift is alsothe beginning of BlackRock’sLegacy Gift Program, LauraYoung, director of develop-ment said. Both she and Brad-ley said there are other spacesin the center available fornaming by interested donorsincluding two smaller galleryspaces, performance spacesand classrooms.
Young said Pollin’s dona-tion is a lead gift of the center’scomprehensive fundraisingcampaign in celebration ofits 15th anniversary next year.The goal for that is to raise $1million for the center.
“[Pollin] wants this to bean inspiration toothers,”Brad-ley said.
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own.“Wewant togetout in frontof
theagencieswithwhatwewant,”association president HammetHough said. “We would like toapproach the agencies recom-mending that Clopper Roadbe realigned with BarnesvilleRoad and the MARC station bemoved.”
There are a number of agen-cies to approach, Hough said.Those involved besides MC-DOT and SHA are the MarylandDepartment of Transportation(MDOT) and Maryland NationalCapital Park and Planning Com-mission (MNCPPC). Eachagencyhas a stake in commuter trans-portation or owns property af-fected by changes in the currenttrafficpatterns.
About 40 members attendedThursday’s meeting and, afterhearing Schoenbaum’s presen-tation, voted to approve the planas a concept. With that approval,the civic association will presentthe concept to the different stateand county agencies working onthe local trafficproblems.
“It is a safe assumption thattraffic will continue to increaseinBoyds,”Schoenbaumsaid. “Allagencies are focusing on Boydsand it would be good to have acomprehensive idea.”
The proposed concept callsformoving the train station, nowoccupying a small site within theBoyds historic district, to a largertract of land east of the intersec-tion of Clopper and Clarksburgroads. It also recommends re-aligningClopperRoad and creat-ing an overpass to cross the traintracks. The realignment wouldhaveClopperRoad intersectwithBarnesville Road. There, a con-trolled intersection via round-about or traffic light is suggestedto keep trafficmoving.
“This plan solves the trafficproblem, would expand accessto the MARC station and takes
development away from historicBoyds,” Schoenbaumsaid.
She said she does not see theplan going into effect anytimesoon,maybefiveor tenyears,butbelieves this is the time to get theidea out.
Houghagrees.“It is an attempt to get to the
negotiating table andmake [gov-ernmental agencies] react to usrather thanwe reacting to them,”he said.
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eighth gradeswill takemath andEnglish language arts tests. Highschool students studying Alge-bra 1, Algebra 2 and English 10will take corresponding tests.
The district and individualschools have been preparing forthe new tests, both directly andindirectly, school officials andprincipals said.
Most students will take testson computers, a task made eas-ier by the school system’s tech-nologyplanput inplace over thelast couple of years, said KaraTrenkamp, director of the dis-trict’s Department of Instruc-tional Technology. The plan hasaddedChromebook laptops andother devices in certain class-rooms and expanded wirelessnetworks in schools, amongothermeasures.
Trenkamp said the district
added more technology for ev-eryday teaching and learning,but it hashelpedprepare schoolsand students for the PARCCtests.
District officialshaveconsid-ered what assignments studentsshould see in the classroom thatwould be similar to tasks theywill face in the PARCC assess-ments, such as writing an essayfrommultiple sources, she said.
The district gleaned les-sons from last year’s pilot tests.Schools testedwhat activity theirWiFi could handle and foundthat the version of the Internetbrowser being used was impor-tant, Trenkamp said. Some stu-dents didn’t realize how long itwould take to complete whatseemed like a small number ofquestions, including an essay,Woertz said.
“The devil’s in the detailsand that surfaced for us a lot ofdetails,” Trenkamp said.
The district will help
schools during testing, includ-ing through an online resourcelibrary, technology specialists,and a help desk to field calls.
Kyle Heatwole, principal atSinger Elementary School in Sil-ver Spring, said Friday that the200 to 250 studentswhowill takethe tests are already comfortablewith the technology they willuse.
The school’s third- and fifth-graders have had Chromebooksin their classrooms since Janu-ary, he said, and the school hashad laptops since the buildingopened two years ago. Studentsare generally “very technologi-cally saavy,” he said.
About twoweeks ago, Singerstudents tried a short practiceround, which helped calm thenerves of some younger stu-dents, Heatwole said.
Heatwolewelcomes the newtests’ arrival.
“I’m really happy that nowwe’re going to have a test that
does align to the curriculumwe’ve been using,” he said.
Principal Sean McGee alsosaid on Friday that his studentsat Wims Elementary School inClarksburg were familiar withthe Chromebooks they’ll use forthe PARCC tests, having usedthem for class work.
He said the school also heldpractice sessions to help stu-dents get a feel for how the testslook on the Chromebooks and“the rhythm of it.” Students hadsome small questions during thesessions, but nothing “major,”he said.
The school didn’t preparestudents specifically for the testcontent,McGee said.
“We’re not really in the busi-ness of teaching to the test,” hesaid. “Webelieve the curriculumreally prepares the students forit.”
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Rehearsal time is essential,said director Sherion Cosby. Sheis definitely hoping the weatherdoesnot close schools for the restof thisweek.
“We’re still hoping to makeit,” she said. “We have three [re-hearsals] scheduledbeforeFridayand we can make it with three.The kids haveworked really hardandwewant to get all the perfor-mances in.”
Students at Clarksburg HighSchool, who will stage “Tarzan,”have an extra two weeks for OldMan Winter to break his grip onthe area. Their performanceswill be at 7 p.m.March 20 and 21and againMarch 27 and 28. Theyhave a matinee scheduled for 1p.m.March 21.
Seneca Valley, too, has alittle extra time to work on “HighSchool Musical.” They will beperforming the show, describedby director Joanna Fellows as a
kindofmodern “Grease,” the lastweekend inMarch.
Poolesville students areworking on “Seven Brides forSeven Brothers,” which they willperformat the endof April.
Jennifer Nardi, a senior whoplays Winifred, the mother, in“Mary Poppins” said being in aschool play is fun for her, espe-ciallymusicals.
“Its so rewarding,” she said.“You feel accomplished fromlearning all those lines and youget to bewith your friends.”
Dallan Campbell, a seniorwho plays Bert, agrees that it isfun working with friends andputtingonagoodshow.He isnotworried about the loss of somerehearsal days.
“We still have some workto do but it comes together,” hesaid.
Ticket prices to each school’smusical vary, so check the indi-vidual websites for more infor-mation.
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that same mid-June week.That possibility looms, as theNational Weather Serviceforecast calls for at least somesnow Wednesday night andThursday.
The state requires schooldistricts to hold 180 instruc-tion days.
The system can ask thestate to waive any snow daysnot built in to the calendar.
Last year, state Superin-tendent Lillian M. Lowery ap-proved the district’s request towaive fouroutof six extra snowdays. The district’s request towaive five days was denied.
Tofig said the district willdecide whether to apply for a
waiver following winter’s end,when school officials knowhow many extra snow daysthey had to add.
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A small icicle attached to a carbegins to melt as the temperaturerises above freezing in Olney onMonday.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONFor ticket prices and up to date performance times check:
n ‘Mary Poppins,’ Damascus High School:montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/damascushs
n ‘Legally Blond, the Musical,’ Northwest High School:montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/northwesths
n ‘Tarzan,’ Clarksburg High School:montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/clarksburghs
n ‘High School Musical,’ Seneca Valley High School:montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/senecavalleyhs
n ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,’ Poolesville High School:montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/poolesvillehs
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Patricia Herndon BarleyShreeve, 92, of Peoria, Illinoisformerly of Gaithersburg, Md.,passed away at 4:30 p.m.Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, atLutheran Hillside Village inPeoria.She was born March 17,
1922, in Washington, D.C., toFranklin and Antoinette(Nason) Herndon. She marriedCarl Barley and later marriedRobert Shreeve. He precededher in death in 2004. She alsowas preceded in death by hersister, Dorothy.Surviving are her son, Craig
(Gail) Barley of Morton, Ill.; two grandsons, Matthew (Pam)Barley of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Andrew Barley of Dayton,Ohio; two great grandsons, Avery and Quinn Barley of EdenPrairie, Minn.; two nephews, Thomas (Lori) and Stephen Lach;and one niece, Martha (Norman) Totten, all of Massachusetts.
Pat graduated from Towson State Teachers College inMaryland in 1942. She then went on to teach elementary schoolin Maryland and Pennsylvania. She later received her Master ofEducation degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
She became the first woman administrator in her schooldistrict, retiring in 1992 as Assistant Superintendent of the York,Pa., Central School District.
Pat also was the director of the Penn State-York Campusstudent teacher program, mentoring and encouraging manyyoung educators at the start of their careers.
She enjoyed playing bridge with her friends, reading,knitting, traveling, and doing crosswords. Pat also was anaccomplished artist. She was especially proud of her grandsons,Matt and Andy.
Cremation has been accorded. A Celebration of Life Servicewill be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 21, 2015, at Waters ofLife Chapel at Lutheran Hillside Village in Peoria.
Knapp-Johnson Funeral Home and Cremation Center inMorton is handling arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that tax-deductibledonations be made to the Morton Community Foundation, 105E. Jefferson St., Morton, IL 61550. Gifts to the Foundation willbe endowed to provide perpetual funding to two local animalcharities: T.A.P.S., a no-kill animal shelter in Pekin, Ill.; andCritter Meals-on-Wheels through Neighborhood House inPeoria.
Online condolences may be sent to the family atwww.knappjohnson.com.
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ObituaryJean Marie (Krott) Deery ofGermantown, Maryland passedaway on Tuesday, February 3,2015.Born in Olean, New York onFebruary 21, 1942, Jean wasthe daughter of the late Josephand Elizabeth Krott. Shegraduated from GloucesterCatholic High School inGloucester, NJ and PierceCollege in Philadelphia, PA.Beloved wife of James J.
Deery; loving mother of Katherine E. Talbert, Michael J.Deery (Leslie), James J. Deery, IV (Shelly), Debra A.Crnarich (Daniel), and John M. Deery (Jessica), sister ofDon Krott (Pat) and Joanne McConville (Harry). She wasalso survived by ten loving grandchildren. She was afounding member of Mother Seton Parish in Germantown,MD and active in Mother Seton Seniors. After herretirement from Giant Food, she enjoyed traveling to seeall of her children and grandchildren.Memorial contributions may be made in Jean’s name to:Alzheimer’s Association, 108 Byte Drive, Suite 103,Frederick, MD 21702.Online condolences can be made atwww.devolfuneralhome.com
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Amy Louise Marshall ofLaytonsville, Marylanddied on February 14,2015. She was thedaughter of ShariMcCullen Krantz andDouglas Marshall; sisterof Wesley and CaseyMarshall; granddaughterof Cheryl McCullen.Amy, 19, was a student atGaithersburg HighSchool, a league bowler atBowl America. Donationsin Amy’s memory may bemade to the Int’l WAGRSyndrome Association,PO Box 769, Hanover,PA, 17331.
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OUROPINIONS
LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
Chemical debate
As president ofMontgomery County FarmBu-reau, Iwould like to respondtoMichaelTabor’s let-ter (“FarmBureau should sit out pesticide debate,”Feb. 4).Just who is Mr. Tabor? He prides himself as an
organic farmer, using sustainable farming prac-tices.Heclaims toproduce foodona farminPenn-sylvaniawithout using chemicals.Really. Suchclaimsmaysoundprogressive,but
are simply untrue. Without chemicals, there is nolife.Water and soil are comprised of chemicals.Mr. Tabor is quick to advance his values, while
denouncing the values of others. It takes a lot ofnerve to suggest that MCFB, whose membershiprepresents more than 3,500 families, should be si-lent. Mr. Tabor, I remind you that every Americanhas the constitutional right to freedomof speech.Let me be firm:MCFB will not sit this one out.
WebelieveBill 52-14 is abigmistakeand shouldbewithdrawn by its sponsor, Mr. Leventhal. We viewthis bill as unenforceable, and if adopted, in viola-tion of state lawand federal law.Farmers, lawn-care providers and consum-
ers who use pesticides do exercise caution andcommon sense. They don’t need to be denied theright to use a certain product, nor do they need toconsult with someone in Rockville about a permit,special exception or a determination of essential-ity. The EPA-approved product labels advise usersof necessary directions for use andprecautions.
There are dozens of reasons why MCFB op-posesBill52-14.Oneof themainreasonswasstatedbyMr. Tabor: “It is true that the potential harms ofmany pesticides used today cannot be definitivelysubstantiated.” The absence of harm is reasonenough forMCFB to join others in the very seriouseffort tostopMr.Leventhal’sgoal tocreatewhatwe
believe is anunnecessary layer of regulation.We should not create expensive regulations
based on philosophies of a small minority of citi-zens. When councilmen and councilwomen ad-vance the interests of the minority and refuse tolisten to thewill of themajority, confidence in gov-ernment is lost.MCFB believes Bill 52-14 throws our lawn ap-
plicators under the bus without good cause. Theseexperts are knowledgeable about the productsavailable to them to achieve the intended resultsthat homeowners request. Farmers feel a kinshipto thosewho tend to the land, lawns andplants.MCFB seeks to represent all aspects of agricul-
tural practices.We support each farmer’s choice tomanage their business in a manner that fits theirobjectives.Montgomery County farmers fear this bill will
provide the framework for future council actionsthat would interfere with farm business plans,and potentially result in the demise of their familyfarms.Our farmers have huge investments in land,buildings, machinery and human capital. Theywant their children and grandchildren to have op-portunities toassumeownershipof the familybusi-ness.Mr. Tabor should pursue his dreams, but he
shouldnot dream for the rest of us.
Lonnie Luther, Damascus
Council shouldn’t infringe on farmers’ investments
2011 FILE PHOTO
A Chevy Chase resident opposed to pesticide sprayingin her neighborhood put up this sign.
CountyCouncilmanGeorge Leventhal’s pro-posedbanonpesticideuse for public andprivateproperty takes away products rigorously testedand approved by the Environmental ProtectionAgency from professionals and homeowners.Theban is basedon fear, not science, and ignoresthe benefit of reliable weed, insect and diseasecontrols for our community.As former sportsfieldmanager forMontgom-
eryCounty’s acclaimedMarylandSoccerPlex anda current worldwide educator on turfgrass man-agement, my work is focused on creating betterturfgrass at all levels. Progress is made daily to-ward creating solutions to improve local fields.This proposed ban ignores this progress. It
ignores innovation of product technology. Andit removes many tools used to make fields andlawns better while reducing environmental im-pact — tools that removeweeds, reducemowingand reduce irrigation; tools that keep turfgrassstrong and healthy; tools tested and approved bythe EPA.This ban also fails to consider integrated pest
management already practiced by licensed, pro-fessional lawn-care operators and turfgrassman-agers. It uses pesticideminimally to treat specificthreats to healthy outdoor spaces.Let’s not ignore the benefits of EPA-tested
and approved pesticides because ofmisinforma-tion. Ask your council representative to vote noon Bill 52-14.
Jerad Minnick, RockvilleThewriter is the president and founder of
Growing Innovations in Rockville.
Pesticide banignores progressand innovation
The recent letters to the editorfrom the two Girl Scouts promot-ing pesticide-free lawns (“Garden-ers don’t have to use chemicalpesticides,” “The queen’s garden canbeamodel fornaturalpractices,”Feb.4)were truly inspiring.We teach our young people to
take care of their health and the envi-ronment,yetasadultswefail to followthrough and provide even safe lawnsand playing fields for them. Council-man George Leventhal’s proposedBill52-14wouldcorrect thisoversight.The Montgomery County Coun-
cil has passed other acts to protecthuman and environmental health—the most recent polystyrene ban, forexample.The Centers for Disease Control
andPrevention just reported the suc-cess of smoking bans in significantlyreducingourexposuretosecondhandsmoke—another issue onwhich ourCountyCouncil showed leadership.We are all exposed to lawn pesti-
cides,whetherwechoose touse themornot. Theydrift, are tracked intoourhomes on our shoes and pets’ paws(2,4-D can stay in carpets for up to ayear), and runoff into ourwaterways.Bill 52-14wouldrestrict the“non-
essential” (or cosmetic) use of lawnpesticides because the risks of a “per-fect” lawn are not worth the benefits.The pesticide and turfgrass lobby-ists are deliberately exaggerating thescope and intent of the bill: agricul-ture, golf courses and invasiveweeds,for example, are all exempt (and this
lawhas absolutely nothing to dowithindoor pest control).There are safer alternatives, and
grub infestations have not taken overOntario, Canada, which passed a farmore sweeping ban almost a decadeago.Our State House grounds in An-
napolis have been pesticide-free fortwo years.Our kids should be able to prac-
tice and play sports on safe lawns —without pesticides or artificial turf— just simple grass on which manyof us adults used to play. The opposi-tion’s argument that kids will trip onweeds and get concussions is simplynonsense.What isn’t nonsense are the
peer-reviewed studies that suggest
a link between commonly usedlawn pesticides like 2,4-D, dicamba,and glyphosate to cancers (humanand animal), Parkinson’s, autism,endocrine disruption, etc. I chooseto believe the American Academyof Pediatrics that warns us to keepchildren from contact with cosmeticlawn pesticides, not the lobbyinggroups and industries that profitfrom their sale.I urge the council, as stewards of
public health, to support a strong Bill52-14.
Julie Taddeo, Takoma ParkThewriter is amember of Safe
GrowMontgomery, a coalition thatfavors limiting exposure to lawnpes-ticides.
Trust pediatric group, not lobbyists, on pesticide dangers
Pesticides are harmful to people. I am gladsome of our lawmakers are starting to thinkabout people’s health with Healthy Lawns Bill52-14.My little sister and I have asthma. My sister
has been admitted to the hospital a couple oftimes for this. We try very hard to avoid things,like pesticides, that can cause us to have asthmaattacks.Our doctor filled out a sheet to include us on
Maryland’s pesticide sensitivity list. Lawn com-panies are supposed to call my parents beforethey spray pesticides on my neighbors’ yards.On those days, we have to stay inside the wholeday, and maybe longer, if we can still smell thepesticide vapors.Butbeingon the list doesn’t really protectme
ormy family. Inmy community, lawn pesticidesare used a lot. FromMarch to November, when-ever we step outside, we worry about breathingin pesticide vapors that drift around in the air,or playing at places that have pesticides put onthem.When I used to go to elementary school,
many times the nearby neighborhood wouldspray lots of pesticides near our school. Wecould smell the vapors when we were on schoolgrounds. Last fall, when it happened, my sisterand I got asthma for over a week.Kids like me would like to go out to play, ex-
ercise and go to school, without having to worryabout getting sick from breathing pesticides. Ihope more people will ask lawmakers to pass astrong Bill 52-14. A strong bill would finally pro-tect what’s important— our health.
Kate Tan, 12, Germantown
Pesticide vapors affectpeople with asthma
As parents, we fear for our chil-dren’s safety in many ways, whetherit’s walking to school, letting ourteenagers drive for the first time, orexposure to violent content on theInternet.Another concern for parents is
keeping our children safe from dis-ease and illness. A countywide con-versationhasstarted thatcouldmeanahealthier future forourchildren. It’sabout restricting the use of cosmetic,or “non-essential,” lawn pesticidesthat are extremely toxic to humans.What is particularly disturbing
is that we know children are highlysusceptible to pesticide toxicity.Evidence shows clear links betweenearly-life exposure to pesticidesand pediatric cancers, decreasedcognitive function and behavioralproblems. A meta-analysis of recentepidemiological studies indicates
a 50 percent increase in childhoodleukemia risk following routine ma-ternal pesticide use in the home orgarden.Children are also especially vul-
nerable because their daily activitiesincrease their exposure. They spendmore time playing outside on freshlysprayed lawns,playgroundsor sportsfields. Children also breathe morerapidly than adults and are morelikely to put contaminated hands intheirmouths.Furthermore, children’s brains,
nervous systems and organs, includ-ing the liver and kidneys, are stilldeveloping after birth. Exposure tolawn pesticides during this sensitiveperiod of development can lead toirreversible damage.Women’s expo-sure to lawn pesticides during preg-nancy can cause harm to the fetusand can be spread to infants during
breastfeeding. It’s no surprise thatthe American Academy of Pediatricsargues against such practices.The good news is that the detri-
mentalhealtheffectsdue topesticideexposure are completely prevent-able. The simple solution: Eliminatethe exposure via regulation. In fact,pesticide regulation in other U.S.states and municipalities, includingtheprovincesofQuebecandOntario,Canada, has successfully reducedex-posures among these populationswithout negatively affecting the lawncare industry.Unanimous support in the
CountyCouncil for thisbill shouldbea no-brainer, to use an unscientificterm. Since the1950s,wehave seenadramatic increase in the use of toxicpesticides on our lawns.Despite the overwhelming sci-
entific evidence about the dangers
of these pesticides, we have a fighton our hands. The chemical compa-nies are powerful and strongly resistefforts to restrict the use of its prod-ucts. So as we approach the spring,theCountyCouncil will face a choice— should it side with the chemicalcompanies or should it side with thehealthandwell-beingof our childreninMontgomeryCounty?This common sense bill would
targetonly themostdangerouspesti-cides and leaveMontgomeryCountyresidentswithmanysafealternatives.
Stephanie L. Fowler,Washington, D.C.
Thewriter is amember ofChesapeake Physicians for Social Re-sponsibility, a partner in Safe GrowMontgomery, which is a coalitionthat favors limiting exposure to lawnpesticides.
Exposure to lawn pesticides carries dangers
“MontgomeryCounty is a lib-eral and forward-thinking county,”Odessa Shannon, a longtime countyresident, told theCountyCouncil lastweek.Shannonwas oneof a handful of
older black residentswho spokeoftheir experiences growingupand liv-ing throughnot-so-long-agodecadesof segregation andovert discrimi-nation. Itwas part of the council’s90-minute sessionmarkingBlackHistoryMonth in February.However, addedShannon, a
member of the county school boardin the early ’80s: “Wehave a longwayto go.”That observationwas echoed
recently by a six-minute videopro-ducedby a groupofminority teens atBethesda-ChevyChaseHigh School,
which isinwhatmanyof itsresidentsconsiderthemostliberal,forward-thinking
part ofMontgomeryCounty.In the video, called “I, Too, Am
B-CC,” students eloquently tell ofhurtful comments directed theirwaybypeers, includingwell-meaningfriends:
“You’re very smart for a blackkid.”“You’re very pretty for a black
girl.”“You’re thewhitest blackperson
I know.”The studentswere inspiredby
a video called “I, Too, AmHarvard”that challenged stereotypes ofmi-nority students at the Ivy Leagueuniversity.“Most students at B-CCdon’t
necessarily see this problem, are notdirectly affectedby it,” seniorMakdesHailu,who is black andproduced thevideo, toldTheGazette.In recentmonths, race rela-
tions have erupted again into the
nation’s consciousness. Events inFerguson,Mo.; Staten Island,N.Y.;and elsewherehavebeen aharshreminder thatwhile somemay thinktheUnited States becameapost-racial society after President BarackObama’s election in 2008, the sting ofbigotry is still felt regularly bymanyAmericans. That includes black,biracial andHispanic students atBethesda-ChevyChaseHigh School.It’s no coincidence that such a
poignant videowasmadebyMont-gomeryCounty high schoolers.As Shannon told the council, shedecideddecades ago tomovewithher children fromWashington,D.C.,to the county for its high-quality
schools.“Educationwas themost im-
portant thing in our lives,” saidShannon,whoadded that shewasthe only blackmember of her classat SmithCollege inNorthampton,Mass. “Itwas the onlywayout.”Hailu andother studentswho
workedon the video created apow-erful piece—available at tinyurl.com/npg23uj— that drives hometheir painful points. Anyone con-cerned about race relations in our so-ciety and community—orwho canjust appreciatewhat a small groupofinsightful students can createwitha simple camera—should check itout.
Painful legacy lives on
STUDENTS’VIDEO SHOWS
BIGOTRY ISSTILL WITH US
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The letters and opinions inTheGazettediscussingDr.Starr’sdeparture all shared a commontheme: bewilderment.Mr. Faris’s blistering attack
on the school system(“Time forahousecleaningatMCPS,”Feb.11)didn’t relatetomyexperienceasaparent of elementary andmiddleschool students. I’ve heard aboutterrible management issues at acoupleofnearby schools, but ourchildren’s teachers have rangedfromquite proficient to amazing,with only a few rough patches inmiddle school.Everything I’ve seen sug-
gests that badly administeredschools are the exception, al-though surely some struggle toadequately respond to the chal-lenges of a student population
with diverse circumstances andneeds. I do know that my chil-dren’s education is smarter andmore challenging thanmy “elite”private school experience severaldecades ago, and also superior tothe other two very good schoolsystems we experienced else-where.But one thing is definitely
missing: openness and honestyabout policy and leadership dif-ficulties. Perhaps not everythingneeds to be shared, but when itcomes to the top job. I expect theboard to explainwhy it ismakinga change. If not, I hope there willbe highly qualified candidateswho will challenge what I be-lieved to be a pretty good boardin thenext election.
John D. Wilson, Silver Spring
Education is quite good,but openness is missing
As someone who taught inMontgomery County PublicSchools for 34 years, under fivesuperintendents, I have to won-der what on earth this board isthinking.Joshua Starr is a man of vi-
sion, integrity andcourage.He is
a brilliant leader, whom I expectto see on the forefront of educa-tion on a national level.Montgomery County threw
away thebest educational leaderI have yet to see, and it is a sig-nificant loss to our children.
Judy Di Salvo Stenger, Rockville
Loss of Starr was significant
I recently attended a meetinghosted by Equity One detailingtheir plans for theWestbard site inBethesda. Being a resident of theneighboring Springfield neighbor-hood, I am very interested in thefuture of this site.While I realize reality may ul-
timately differ from the drawingsand models, I was impressed withwhat they presented. The planaddresses traffic, increases green
space, includes space for commu-nity events and acknowledges ex-isting retailers.Further, they addressed key
concernsrelatedtobuildingheight,residential expansion and transit.I urge those who are open to
the much needed change at thissite to take a good look at theirplans.
Kim Bishop, Bethesda
Westbard developmentplan shows promise
Wearecominguponthe100thanniversary of the national parksin 2016. Funding is critical to ourparks’upkeep,well-beingandcon-tinuance.I read The Gazette’s editorial
about paying for the C&O Canal(“AC&OCanalboost,” Jan.28)withmuch interest. Since the editorialwas published, it sounds like partof the problemhas been solved.However, I would like to dis-
cuss one additional area of con-cern regarding the C&OCanal andthenearby PotomacRiver.Unfortunately when, I am on
the Potomac River, on its islandsand among the rocks alongsidethe canal, I see scads of trash andI pick it up. However, I should nothave to be doing this. Everyone issupposedtobeconcernedwith theenvironment and aware of issuesrelated to it, including pollution.We discuss global warming/
climate change. We have had tochange to CFC light bulbs. We userecyclable bags instead of plastic.
Yet, people leave fishing tackle,cans, bottles, dog poop and otherjunk along our waterways witha total disregard to the conse-quences of their actions. This is adisgrace.This is not done in ignorance,
but in hubris. People do not care.They just leave it on the ground—it is not their problem.Maybe, since others are paid
to pick up their trash, people donot feel they need to haul awaywhat they brought in. They arenot taking personal responsibilityfor cleaning up their own messes.This attitude andbehavior just hasto change.The C&O Canal and the other
national parks belong to me andtherestof thecitizensof theUnitedStates and we are not taking careof them the way we should. If wepersonally took better care of ourparks, maybe charging user feeswouldnotbebeingdiscussedatall.
Mark Gochnour, Germantown
Treasure national parks;don’t trash them
When it is all said and done, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools has a budget revenue loss of between $15million and$25million, as supportedby the state.In a normal world, you would reduce costs by that
much and that would be the end of it. But this is Mary-land and the maintenance of effort law is so strict, thatnowbecomes a local issue.To be clear, themaintenance of effort law is a finan-
cially irresponsible piece of legislation that discouragesuseof technologyandanyothercost reductions thata re-sponsible institutionwouldperform.If thispoorlywrittenlawwasnot in existence,we couldhave closed the gap inournet revenue andnet expenseswith someeasyfixes.Take the two-plus million dollars in surplus created
by lower fuel costs to reducefiscal year 2016 expenses.Unless fuel costs drastically increase over thenext 60
days, at least $3million could be saved by simply adjust-ing the FY 2016budget for this line item.Choose how to close the last $20million: defer cost-
of-living adjustments, defer step increases, or simplymatchMCPShealthbenefitswithother countyagencies.Butweareunder theridiculousmaintenanceofeffort
law that discourages efficiency indelivering services. It istime for all counties that spend above the average to beexempt frommaintenanceof effort laws.Will our Montgomery County team in Annapolis
do something for the citizens of Montgomery County?Never.
Robert Monsheimer, Silver Spring
Maintenance of effortlaw thwarts efficiency
The Gazette’s Jan. 7 editorial (“Saveamphipods — at what cost?”) argues thatwhile some endangered animal speciesmaypossibly be lost due to the Purple Linelight-rail system, there will be large net en-vironmental benefits due to a reduction ingreenhousegasemissions fromlowerauto-mobile use. You calculate that “9,800 tonsof carbon dioxide that otherwise wouldenter the atmosphere and contribute toglobal climate changewill be eliminated.”But this calculation left out one side ef-
fect of the impact.While theremaywell befewer car trips (the figure you cite is 17,000fewer trips per day), the Purple Line itselfwill use a good deal of energy to operate.The rail vehicleswill run on electric power,and greenhouse gases are emitted to gen-erate such power.While the documents posted on the
official Purple Line state web site do notprovide a figure for how much power willbe used, they do recognize it will be sub-
stantial.One can arrive at a rough estimate of
how much by comparing the Purple Lineto existing light-rail systems in the U.S.wherepowerusefiguresareavailable. Spe-cifically, the light-rail line system operatedas part of the DART system in Dallas uses114 million kilowatt-hours per year, for asystem of 163 light-rail vehicles. The 114million kw-hrs corresponds to 86,700 tonsof CO2 emissions a year.The Purple Line will have 58 vehicles.
Assuming power use will be in proportion,the electric power to operate the PurpleLine will lead to 30,800 tons of CO2 emis-sions per year. This is more than threetimes the tons of CO2 “saved” by fewer cartrips.Operations alone of the Purple Line
would therefore lead to a net increase ofgreenhouse gas emissions of over 20,000tons of CO2 a year.But the overall impact will in fact be
worse. Therewill bemajor greenhouse gasemissions (as well as other adverse envi-ronmental impacts) frombuilding the $2.5billion system. Any such project needs agooddeal of steel, concrete and other suchmaterials, and there are high greenhousegas emissions frommaking each. Runningheavy construction equipment, gettingworkers to their job sites and all the otheractivities required to build a $2.5 billionsystem all lead to significant greenhousegas emissions.We need good public transit systems.
But the low to medium density of mostof the Purple Line corridor means thatenhanced bus service can provide betterservice at far lower cost than constructionof a rail line. The 20,000-ton-per-year netincrease in CO2 emissions is a direct con-sequence of building a rail system in a cor-ridor where therewill be almost no impacton car use.
Frank J. Lysy, Washington, D.C.
Purple Line reasoning ignores important factorsLET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
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Intrexon paying $41Mfor fruit company
Intrexon, a synthetic biol-ogy company in Germantown, isbranching out into fruit.
The company agreed to ac-quire Okanagan Specialty Fruitsof Summerland, British Colum-bia, the developer of the Arcticapple, the first non-browningapple, for $31million in Intrexonstock, plus $10 million cash, ac-cording to anews release.
Intrexon said it is expand-ing its food programs to includetrees yielding fruit that is moreappetizing and convenient forconsumers while providing eco-nomic benefit throughout thetree fruit supply chain.
The deal is expected to closeby July.
After loss, BroadSoftturns a profit
BroadSoft of Gaithersburg,which provides Internet proto-col-basedservices tothetelecom-munications industry, reporteda profit last year of $1 million,versus a net loss of $8.9 millionin 2013. Revenues rose to $216.9million from$178.5million.
Its fourth-quarter profit roseto $9.1 million from $512,000 inthe fourth quarter of 2013; rev-enues grew to $65.8million from$52.0million.
Bioscience companieswin state grants
TwoMontgomeryCounty lifesciencecompaniesareamongthesix recipients of a total $865,000in grants from the BioMarylandCenter’s BiotechnologyDevelop-mentAwards program.
Eachcompanywill receiveupto $200,000, according to a newsrelease.
• Brain Biosciences of Rock-ville is developing a compact
portable positron emission to-mography scanner to evaluatepatientswithsuspectedAlzheim-er’sdiseaseorotherneurodegen-erative disorders.
• Mindoula Health of SilverSpring is developing a telehealthplatform enabling virtual and in-person 24/7 behavioral healthcase management services andcollaborative care.
Profits climb atUnited TherapeuticsUnited Therapeutics, which
develops and sells treatments forpulmonaryarterialhypertension,reported that its profit last yearalmost doubled to $340.1millionfrom $174.6million in 2013. Rev-enues rose to $1.29 billion from$1.12billion.
The Silver Spring companyreported a fourth-quarter profitof $115.9 million, versus a netloss of $30.3million in the fourthquarter of 2013, and revenuesrose to$346.4millionfrom$289.0million.
DiamondRock Hospitalityturns big profit
DiamondRock Hospital-ity of Bethesda, whose holdingsinclude the Bethesda MarriottSuites, reported that its profitlast year soared to $163.4 millionfrom$49.1million in 2013.
Revenues rose to $872.9 mil-lion from $799.7 million. Rev-enue per available room grew to$161.44 from$144.67.
Its fourth-quarter profit grewto $63.6 million from $29.6 mil-lion in the fourth quarter of 2013,as revenues increased to $223.6million from$201.5million.
DiamondRock also reportedbuying the 157-roomShorebreakHotel in Huntington Beach, Ca-lif., for $58.5 million. KimptonHotels & Restaurants will be thenewmanager.
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n Dads from Colesville,Randallstown develop
PocketGuardian
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
After hearing news reportsof cyberbullying and sextingincidents that led to suicide,friends and dads James Ryanand Jason France wanted toaddress these issues using tech-nology.
Ryan and France, who eachownadefensecontractingcom-pany, developed an app theyhope will make parents andguardiansmore awareofwhat’sgoing on in their children’s livesand even help prevent suicides.
Their creation, Pocket-Guardian, can track what textmessages are sent with phones.
Ryan, of Randallstown, saidbullying used to happen in per-son, face to face. Now, it oftenhappens electronically, over so-cialmedia.
“But these days the kids arein their rooms, you’re unawareof what’s happening on theircellphones or on their comput-ers,” he said. “There needed tobe a way that parents could bealerted to bullying, the type ofbullying that’s happening inmodern-day times.”
Two versions of the iOS andAndroid app are slated to comeout this year and are meant tobe downloaded on a child’sphone. One version, costing 99cents, will send a text messagealert to a parent when the childreceives or sends a messagewith language or a photo thatlikely indicates cyberbullying orsexting.
Demonstrating a beta ver-sion, France showed an alert onhis phone: “An inappropriatemessagemay have been sent orreceived by your child.”
The app purposely doesn’ttell the parent the content of a
message or who the other per-son is to protect the child’s pri-vacy, said France, of Colesville.
This feature separatesPock-etGuardian from similar apps,Ryan said, such as those thatsend every text message a childreceives to a parent.
For $1.99, a second versionof theappwill send thealert andblock the message from beingsent or received by the child.
A child can’t uninstall Pock-etGuardian from a phone with-out knowing a password. Theapp notifies a parent when achild tries to uninstall it.
France and Ryan collected
tens of thousands of sampletextmessages,withandwithoutcontent that could be cyberbul-lying and sexting.
Based on this collection,they said, the app doesn’t justanalyze text, but determinesthe probability that a word orphrase is related to cyberbully-ing or sexting. The app will im-prove as it goes through moreexamples, France said.
The app also can breakdown images to determine ifthey contain nudity or are oth-erwise inappropriate,Ryansaid.That analysis happens on thechild’s phone and the company
does not gain access to any im-ages.
SusanBurkinshaw, aparentin Montgomery County PublicSchools, said the app soundslike a good way for parents tomonitor behavior and chil-dren’s choices.
Burkinshaw, who is HealthandSafetyCommitteeco-chair-woman of the MontgomeryCounty Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, said shecould see it used as youngerchildren get smartphones. Itcould help parents who aren’twell acquaintedwith socialme-dia, she said.
She said, however, that kidswill find away around barriers.
Sameer Hinduja, co-direc-tor of the Cyberbullying Re-search Center, said the creatorshave good intentions, but anapp isn’t thebestway toaddressthe issue.
He said he didn’t thinkthe app would accurately flagtexts. Kids joke and talk to eachother in “mature ways,” usingsarcasm and double enten-dres, that make it difficult todetermine if a message is trulycyberbullying, said Hinduja, acriminology and criminal jus-tice professor at FloridaAtlanticUniversity.
Kids are innovative, he said,and can use other means ofcommunication if apps screentheir texts.
It’s more helpful, he said,to work with kids on skills suchas empathy, conflict resolutionand handling stress.
Hinduja said he’s con-cerned that parentsmight thinkan app solves the problem.Talking with kids and being in-volved in their lives are impor-tant, he said.
“I don’t want them to wipetheir hands of the problem be-cause they’ve installed a pieceof software,” he said.
App screens texts for cyberbullying, sexting
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Jason France of Colesville, co-founder of PocketGuardian, shows a textmessage alert from a beta version of the app.
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WRESTLING: Northwest High School’s Dell Ngonga andthe other Montgomery County champions compete onSaturday for state championships at Cole Field House.
BASKETBALL: 4A West Region championship gamesare scheduled for this weekend:Girls: 7 p.m. Friday at Paint BranchBoys: 1 p.m. Saturday at Blair
n Falcons grapplerwins county, regionchampionships
BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFFWRITER
When county and regionchampion Kyle Wilkins wres-tles, he can hear his mom anddad cheering him on from thestands. He said they’re usuallythe first voices he hears.
The Poolesville HighSchool junior stepped on awrestling mat for the first timelast season, and after a roughinaugural year, it was thosesame voices, he said, that gavethe heavyweight the supporthe needed to keep striving toreach the heights he has today.
Wilkins’ record was 12-18last season, but he stuck withthe sport because ”it’s just areally fun sport. I’m one thatreally enjoys physical things.And also, I think it was my
mom’s support. And my dad’stoo. They just wanted me tostick with it because it was agood way to stay in shape forfootball.”
A gifted football player,Wilkins said he stumbled intothe sport of wrestling by ac-cident. He was walking past awrestling workout in the hall-way last year and one of thecoaches noticed him, saw po-tential in his body frame, andasked if he wanted to wrestle.
“I thought about it for a
few seconds and I said, ‘Yeah,sure,’” Wilkins said. And sincethat day, he has been moldedintooneof thebestwrestlers inthe 285-pound weight class inthe state.
“Kyle’s very smart,” Pool-esville coach Kevin Dorseysaid following Wilkins’ countychampionship win againstSherwood’s Charlie Siarkas.Siarkas had beaten Wilkinsearlier in the season, butDorsey saidWilkins listened tocoaching andmade the neces-
sary adjustments. “He’s beenvery, very, very patient. Lastyear, I don’t know. He didn’twin very many matches at all.He was impatient and wouldget frustrated because whathe was trying to do wouldn’twork. This year, he’s been pa-tient. Let the moves come tohim. Look for a mistake, takeadvantage of it. And he’s beenwinning with that.”
Parents’ cheers motivate Poolesville junior heavyweight
n Screaming Eagles guardemerges as playmaker for
girls basketball team
BY ERIC GOLDWEINSTAFFWRITER
This season wasn’t like theprevious ones for Seneca Val-ley High School girls basketballplayer Alanah Roy.
Whereas before she playedthe off guard, this winter shewas thrust into the role of floorgeneral and de facto on-courtleader. But she wasn’t just run-ning the offense; she was also ascorer, a rebounder, and a de-fensive linchpin for theGerman-town school.
“She’s basically been like afive-man team,” second-yearcoach JenniferHoffman said. “...She could play any position youcould stick her in.”
Roy was one of the few re-turning players for the Scream-ing Eagles, who were comingoff an 18-7 campaign. The teamstruggled this winter, going 6-17and losing to Northwood of Sil-ver Spring, 47-33, in Friday’sfirst roundplayoffmatchup. Butin an inexperienced lineup, Royprovided much needed consis-tency and stability. The 5-foot-8senior finished the regular sea-son leading Seneca Valley inpoints (14 per game), rebounds,assists, blocks and steals.
Roy, of Gaithersburg, hasbeen playing basketball sinceshe was about 10 years old, but
Senecaseniortakes thepoint
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Seneca Valley High School’s AlanahRoy (left) is guarded by Damascusplayer Marykate Staines during aJan. 9 game.
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Poolesville High School’s Dorit Song won the women’s 200-yard freestyle at Friday’s 3A/2A/1A state meet in Landover.
n Falcons senior leadsteam to another statechampionship sweep
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
Swimming is the typeof sport that almost daresan athlete to get in her ownhead and once in there, a lotof damage can be done. Lapafter lap, yard after yard, star-ing at the cement bottom ofthepool, it’s very easy toover-think, PoolesvilleHighSchoolsenior Dorit Song said.
“I think swimming isreally unique in that it’s amental game as much as aphysical game,” Song said.“Sometimes you’re your ownworst enemy.”
Song has been a topswimmer at Poolesville sinceshe was a freshman. She wontwo of the four events shecontested at the 2012 Class3A/2A/1A state meet and
claimed second in the othersto finish as the second-high-est individual scorer. Long-time Falcons coach JonnyLeong said it’s been gratify-ing as a coach towatchSong’sconfidence grow throughouther high school tenure asshe’s embraced her status asone of the Washington, D.C.area’s best.
These days Song thrivesunder pressure and knowingher team relies on her highscoringabilities, she said. Andshe said she’s learned to trulyrelish the racing aspect of thesport and using the peoplenext to her to get better. Oneof those people on occasionbeing 2012 Olympic goldmedalist Katie Ledecky.
“I’ve had such goodexamples [to look up to],”Song said. “Sometimes I’ll beswimming next to Katie andit’s just like, ‘Oh my God, sheis over there, try not to stare.’But definitely our coach isalways saying we have twoof the most mentally strong
people in the swimmingworld on our team, Katieand [Jefferson (Va.) senior]Andrew Seliskar. ...[Ledecky]is just out of this world andhaving that example is reallygreat, we all admire her workethic, it’s something we lookup to and want to employthat in our own swimmingcareers.”
Song, who said she ap-preciates the individualitywithin a team atmosphereof swimming, went 4 for 4 inPoolesville’s 3A/2A/1A statetitle run Friday at the PrinceGeorge’s Sports and LearningComplex. It was the Falcongirls’ second championshipin three years; with the Pool-esville boys’ fourth straighttitle, Friday also marked theprogram’s second sweep inthree years.
Song’s perfect record Fri-day capped quite an impres-sive four-year state record inwhich she’swon11of 16 statefinal races, including fourconsecutive 100-yard free-
style titles. And she’s neverfinished outside the top 2 inany individual event or relay.
Though most of Song’schampionship races havebeen in the freestyle events—and the 200 freestyle is argu-ably her best— she’s actuallya rather strong 200 individualmedley and 100 breaststrokeswimmer. Song finished 11thin both the 200 individualmedley and 100 freestyle atthe prestigious WashingtonMetropolitan InterscholasticSwimmingandDivingCham-pionships held last month. Ayear ago she placed seventhin the 200 freestyle and 11thin the 100 breaststroke. In2013 Song posted two top 10finishes in the 100 and 200freestyle events atMetros andevenas a freshman shewas inthe top 15 of the 200 and 500freestyle races.
Song said she prides her-self on being versatile but isalsowilling to swimwhatever
A Poolesville sweep, withmuchmore success to come
See POOLESVILLE, Page B-2
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See CHEERS, Page B-2
I usedto love thesnow.
Itmeant daysoff fromschool,sledding,snowballfights, hotchocolate,grilledcheesesandwiches and tomato soup.
Now, I just count the days untildaylight savings time resumes.Winter is just a nuisance and in-convenience—dealingwith schoolcancellations and staffing resched-uled games can be amajor head-ache—and each successive year itseems to getmore annoying. I longfor the hot, humid andmosquito-filled days of July and August (Iwill probably complain about theweather then, too).
But with snow, ice and tem-peratures in the 20s on Saturday,thousands of student-athletesthroughoutMaryland began try-ing out for spring sports. A quickglance through Twitter revealedthat themajority of teams held in-door practices or delayed tryouts.
Lacrosse, baseball, softball,tennis, golf and track don’t lendthemselves traditionally as indoorsports. They, for themost part, aredesigned to be played on grass un-der the blue skies and the goldensun.
“It’s a huge hindrance and putsus at a disadvantage,” Damascusgirls lacrosse coachMarcus Juradosaid. “It is tough to get anythingaccomplished other than condi-tioning.
“I’m not sure whenwewill beable to get outside evenwhenweget the snow off the field.Maybenext week?
Teamsmay not even be able tohave—or delay—accurate cuts.
“We have several kids on thebubble and you can’t find out any-thing in the gym,” Jurado said. “It’sgoing to be a lot of blind guessesuntil we get outside and into game-like conditions.”
Whilemost teams are in thesame position andwill likely lagbehind their expected routine duetomuddy fields, a few schools—mainly thosewith artificial turf—may enjoy the luxury of gettingoutside sooner (there’s no guaran-tee it will happen). InMontgomeryand Prince George’s countiesWalter Johnson, Gaithersburg,Paint Branch,Wootton, RichardMontgomery andOxonHill are thepublic high schools with turf.
When theD.C. Sniper terror-ized the region in the fall of 2002, Iremember having to practice foot-ball inside the gym—sometimesin full pads— for several weeks. Itflat out stunk andwas hard to fo-cus. I imagine it is no different nowfor athletes used to playing outside.
But theweather, as it alwaysdoes, will eventually improve. Inthe comingweeks, TheGazette isscheduled to begin profiling stu-dent-athletes and teamswith ourspring previews. Jennifer Beekmanis covering softball and gymnastics,Eric Goldwein is handling lacrosseand tennis, Prince J. Grimeswillcover baseball and volleyball andAdamGutekunst will be our go-toguy for track and field and golf.
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never at point guard, she said.She had been playing mostlyshooting guard for SenecaValley; last season she was inand out of a starting lineup,playing alongside severalexperienced guards in thebackcourt. On her AmateurAthletic Union teams, shehad played shooting guardand small forward.
Though point guard isn’tRoy’s ideal position, Hoffmansaid that with four startersgraduated — including All-Gazette honorable mentionJuanita Craig — the team wasleft with no other choice.
Roy struggled as the pri-
mary ballhandler early in theseason, particularly with herdribbling, she said.
“It was hard adjusting tobeing the lead guard,” Roysaid.
But as the season pro-gressed, Roy became morecomfortable in her new po-sition. Going up against theopposing team’s top defend-ers — sometimes two of them— she regularly scored indouble figures. In a 58-46 vic-tory over Northwood on Jan.28 — Seneca Valley’s highestscoring output of the season— she registered a team-high32 points.
Roy didn’t only impactthe game with her scoring.She also recorded sevendouble-doubles and grabbed
9.1 rebounds per game whileaveraging three assists, foursteals and a block.
“Of course it’s frustrat-ing for her and it can be seen.But she works through it,” se-nior teammate Rayana Cookesaid.
Roy said she is lookingto play basketball in collegeand mentioned Kean Univer-sity — a Division III school inNew Jersey — as a possibility.Though her final varsity sea-son wasn’t an easy one, shesaid it helped her prepare toplay at the next level.
“I’ve learned that I’m ca-pable of a lot more things,”Roy said. “… I think as hardas it is, I think it’s helpedme.”
SENECAContinued from Page B-1
events Leong needs her in tocomplete his best lineups.While Leong said he’s beenfortunate enough to coach aprogramwhere his swimmershave always been flexible, noteveryone can be so success-ful in such a wide variety ofevents as Song.
As Song stood behind thestarting blocks of the meet-finale 400 freestyle relay
Friday, she said she and class-mate Lindsay Knapp lookedat each other and wonderedwhether they should laugh orcry at the prospect of swim-ming their final high schoolrace. They decided on theformer, she said, becausethough the winning momentwas bittersweet, the two feelgood about the program theyare leaving behind. The othertwo members of that relaywere freshmen who postedgreat results Friday, includ-ing Katarina Lechner’s four
event wins.“I’m sad that it’s over but
I don’t feel like it’s over, I feellike people are still going tocarry on the legacy, I hopethey still keep bringing homechampionships,” Song said.“I remember sophomore yearwhen we won [for the firsttime] we were so ecstatic. Ifeel like the team is in goodhands, I think they’re going tokeep improving over the nextthree years.”
POOLESVILLEContinued from Page B-1
Last season was humblingWilkins said. He won his firsttwo matches of the season butdidn’twin a singlematch at thefollowing tournament. Hum-bling experiences such as thathave helped in shapingWilkinsinto the wrestler he is today.
“I just try to stay humble—even though I have a lot ofwinsthis year — so I don’t get a bighead,” Wilkins said. “I remem-ber at one point in the season, Ihad looked at my rankings andI was like No. 8 in the state or
something. And then I wentinto a tri-meet and I just lostboth of them and I just didn’tknowwhat happened.
“I just learned from all mylosses. I just turned that intomotivation to just do so muchbetter this year.”
Wilkins is 33-5 this seasonand, after winning his weightclass at Saturday’s 2A/1ASouthRegion tournament, hewill en-ter states on Friday as a No. 1seed — making his path to astate title a little less strenuousthan it will be for others.
He said the formula forwinninghasbeen towrestle theway he’s taught by his coaches,
but that’s only part of it. Thosepeople cheering him on in thecrowdplay a big role in his suc-cess too, even before he gets tothe gym.
“My coaches [help], defi-nitely in the wrestling room.Butwhen I’mat home,mypar-ents give me a lot of good mo-tivation too. Just kind of keepme prepped up and excited forthe next match,” Wilkins said.“When I’m in there wrestling,they’re like the first ones thatI hear, so it’s just kind of goodto hear that my whole family isthere supportingme.”
CHEERSContinued from Page B-1
n Falcons fall to Paul VIin WCAC finals
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
The Good Counsel HighSchool girlsbasketball teamneverstood a chance in its two regu-lar season meetings against PaulVI. In the first one— a game thatseniorNicoleEnabosi andsopho-more Lindsey Pulliam had the flu— the Falcons went down 30-14athalftimeandlost58-24.Thoughthey were healthy in the secondone, the result, a 62-34 loss, wasmoreof the same.
But a different Good Coun-sel team (20-10) showed up toThursday’s Washington CatholicAthletic Conference champion-
ship, one that hung in the gameandevenheldabrief leadover theFairfax school midway throughthe fourthquarter.
Playing against the nationallyranked Panthers (30-2) — unde-feated in the WCAC — the Fal-consput togetheroneof theirbestgamesoftheseasonina49-47lossat American University’s BenderArena inWashington,D.C.
“We knew how much wewanted this and I think that’swhywe played so much better,” Ena-bosi said.
Pulliam had a team-high 14points while Enabosi, a Univer-sity of Delaware recruit playingin her third WCAC title game infour years, added 11. The Olneyschoolwas taskedwith defending6-foot-4 senior center JonquanaeCole, and it was effective doing so
formostof thegame.GoodCoun-selsophomoresCaraJudkins(6-2)and BreonnaMayfield (6-4) eachspent time guarding the NorthCarolina State recruit, while Ena-bosi andPulliamcarried the scor-ing load.
“Our defense really kind ofhelped us stay so close to them,”Enabosi said.
Good Counsel’s near upsetdidn’t come out of nowhere. TheOlney school has been playingbetter of late,winning its previoussixWCACgames, includingMon-day’s 83-63victoryoverSeton.
“You don’t flip a light switch.Thatwas aprocess the last coupleweeks,we’re justchippingawayatitonedayatatime,”Falcons14th-year coachTomSplaine said.
Good Counsel nearly pulls off upset
n Coyotes pull away lateto win first-round playoff
BY JOHN HARRIS IIISPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
ClarksburgHighSchoolseniorAustinDuffy hadnever dunked ina boys basketball game until Fri-day’s Class 4A West Region first-roundcontest againstNorthwest.
The6-foot-6inchforwardsaidhe saw an opening after scoopingupa looseballwith less than threeminutes remaining in the gameand his team trailing, 43-42. Hethen drove into the lane intent ongiving his team the lead back andhammering home a dunk at thesame time.
“Yeah it was the first time Idunked in a game,” Duffy saidwith a hearty laugh. He finishedwithagame-high16points.“Itfig-uresacloseplayoffgamewouldbethefirsttimeIgetachancetodoit.Iwas like, ‘I don’t getmany transi-tionopportunities, this ismyshot,I gotta try!’ And then Iwas like, ‘I’llprobablyget fouled’ ... Iwoundupgetting fouledand Imade it.”
The tenacious two-handedjam over junior guard Nick Pintosentthehomecrowdintoafrenzy,and pumped up Duffy and hisentire team. The Coyotes (12-11)wentontoa50-43victoryover thevisitors, sending them to Tues-day’s quarterfinal at Col. ZadokMagruder.
“He’s never got a dunk inhis career, but that was crazy,”said Clarksburg coach G.J. Kissal.“He’s always dunking in practice,but never in a game. [On thatplay] I was like, ‘Whoa!’ I was sur-prised.Thatplay reallyhit theminthe mouth and gave us the mo-mentum we needed to finish thegame.”
Friday’s contest gave theCoyotes their second win againstNorthwest in three games thisseason. The playoff game yieldedeight leadchangesandsix ties.Noteamledbymore thanfourpointsuntil Duffy knocked down oneout of two free throws with 12.7seconds left to give his team aninsurmountable48-43advantage.
“We knew it was going to bea dog fight,” Kissal said. “They’vegot some guys who can do somethings,butwewereabletodefend.Andwhenwe feel like we can de-fend, we have a good chance ofwinning. In the first game weplayed we gave up 69 points (in a69-67 loss) then the next time wegave up just 40 (a 51-40 win), soclearly the major difference to usis getting stops. Early in the gametheywere able to get out in transi-tion.Our focuspointathalfwas toget defensive rebounds. If we boxoutwewin thegame.
“I was pleasedwith out effort,it was not pretty but our mottois ‘gritty not pretty’ so it wasn’t athingofbeautybutwe’ll take it.”
The Coyotes’ Andrew
Kostecka played a pivotal role inthe victory with 15 points, fourrebounds and three assists. In atwo-minute span late in the thirdquarter, the 6-4 junior ran downNorthwest’s lightningquickseniorguard Jamar Wilson and madea spectacular block. He also hit ajumperandmadetwoniftyassistsduring his big-play spree as histeamheldonto a 36-34 lead at theendof theperiod.
“Every gameweplay.Weplayas hard aswe can,” Kostecka said.“It never looks pretty but the re-sults are good. I like thewaywe’regoing.”
Wilson, in his final gamewithNorthwest, paced the Jaguars (10-13)with15points.
“It all comes down to heart.And Clarksburg showed that theyhad more heart,” said Wilson,a key member of the Jags statechampion football squad whoplans to play football and basket-ballatWesleyCollegeinDelaware.“They showed that they reallywantedit. I triedtodowhatIcoulddo to give my team a spark. Butsometimes the crowd can get toyou, other players can get to you,but you know, I wouldn’t want totrademy teammates for anybody.Northwest isn’t known for bas-ketball but I think we can changeourprogramaround. I’masenior,there’snothingelse I cando,and Iam going to go out withmy headheldhigh.”
Clarksburg gets by Northwest
n Rockville surprises atthe small schools
state meet
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
The Rockville High Schoolswim team is not known for be-ing one of Montgomery Coun-ty’s strongest. But at Friday’sClass 3A/2A/1A state meet,which was swept by Poolesvillefor the second time in threeyears, the Rams accounted fortwo of the six total multiple in-dividual event winners.
Junior Griffin Alaniz’s winsin the 200-yard individual med-ley and 100-yard backstrokeand sophomore Alexa Stewart’svictories in the 100-yard but-terfly and 500-yard freestylebrought attention to a programthat often gets lost in the shuffleof bigger and more competi-tive programs. With their singlewins a year ago, both of Rock-ville’s stars have now won threeof their last four individual racesin state competition.
That’s what makes theClass 3A/2A/1A championshipmeet special, Poolesville coachJonny Leong and Rockvillecoach James Castonguay said.While top swimmers from everyschool do relish the opportunityto compete against the Wash-ington, D.C. area’s best atmeetslike the Washington Metropoli-tan Interscholastic Swimmingand Diving Championships,held earlier this month, Alanizand Stewart said, Friday was arareopportunity for thecounty’ssmaller programs to compete asoverall teams on a more levelplaying field.
“Rockville is a small school,we’re in themiddleof thecountybut we don’t have many kids,”Castonguay said. “When we goto Metros there are the privateschools and the big 4A schools,[the smaller schools] pull from asmaller pool of kids. It’s nice tosee what [the kids] can do whenwe’re against equivalent pro-grams.”
Poolesville, which techni-cally has the county’s second-lowest enrollment but is in aunique position since its mag-
net program can draw studentsfrom all over, dominated Fri-day’s competition. The Falconboys clinched their fourth con-secutive state title with a 317.5-181 advantage over Damascus,the county’s smallest school perenrollment numbers. HarfordCounty’s C. Milton Wright fin-ished third with 164 points andSeneca Valley (138 points) andRockville (129) claimed fourthand fifth. Poolesville remainsundefeated in county compe-tition — Montgomery Countyschools onlybeganparticipatingin the statemeet in 2012.
Poolesville’s girls, who se-nior Lindsay Knapp, a winner inthe 50-yard freestyle Friday, saidhad been eyeing Friday’s cham-pionship since coming up justshort a year ago, won 386-181over Talbot County’s Easton. Itwas the Falcons’ second title inthree years and therefore alsothe program’s second sweep inthat time. Frederick County’sUrbanafinished third in thegirlscompetitionwith163points andC. Milton Wright and Worces-ter County’s Stephen Decaturrounded out the top 5.
Other Montgomery Countyteams to finish in the top 10were the Damascus girls (sev-enth) and Seneca Valley girls(10th).
“The great thing with thisboys team is we just have a re-ally great, talented and deepteam and we’re able to use theirstrengths and we’ve just kindof been on a roll,” Leong said.“With the girls, we talked aboutwhat eventshurt us last year andwehad a couple freshmen comein and help us in those events.”
The Falcon boys and girlstook two completely differentpaths to Friday’s titles. Whilethe girls won eight of 11 races,including all three relays, whichare worth more points, Pooles-ville’s boysonlywon two—bothrelays. Many of the Falcon girls,Leong said, finished above theirprojected seedings.
Senior Dorit Song and (100freestyle, 200 freestyle) andfreshmanKatarina Lechner (200individual medley, 100 back-stroke) won two events apiecefor the Falcons. Friday markedSong’s fourth consecutive 100freestyle state title.
Damascus junior RyanO’LearywasMontgomery’s onlyother individual winner Friday,successfully defending his 2014title in the 100 breaststroke.
“The cool thing about hav-ing all the small schools to-gether is youdon’t have to goupagainst [theprograms] that havea lotmore students thanwedo,”
Leong said. “After last year’smeet when [the girls] had it wellwithin their grasp and let it slipaway, I know the group of se-
niors it’s been their resolve fromday one the focus on having afantastic season to get everyonefired up [to go for the title].”
For complete meet resultscheck pvswim.org.
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Poolesville boys, girls sweep state swimming championships, again
ScottMathiasClarksburg
Winning thestate titlerequires alotmorethan onestellar athlete. Led small butmighty squad to school’sfirst-ever girls state title.
NorthwestDavino Frazer, juniorJosh Netterville, sophomoreAndrew Daniels, juniorJalen Walker, senior
The state champion relayteam’s top time (1:31.63)was county’s fastest, state’sfifth-best.
Paint BranchOliver Lloyd, seniorHafis Adegun, juniorLorenzo Neil, seniorTaiwo Adekoya, senior
Region and state championowned county’s top time(3:30.29) and rankedNo. 13in the state.
Paint BranchTaiwo Adekoya, seniorLorenzo Neil, seniorRyun Anderson, seniorOliver Lloyd, senior
The county and state cham-pions recorded the top timeinMaryland (8:00.27), top 30nationally.
ChrisSpiessClarksburgJunior,pole vault
County’sbest (12-6)was goodfor thirdat statechampion-ship, alsowon regionmeet.
NoahVernickQ. OrchardSenior,shot put
Finishedfirst seventimes,includingsweep ofchampi-onshipseason andrecordedstate’s sec-ond-bestthrow.
JalenWalkerNorthwestSenior,55
His toptime (6.46)rankedsecond inthe county,sixth instate;finishedfourth atseason-endingmeet.
JaronWoodyardWoottonJunior,300
Statechampionownedcounty’stop time(35.14) inthis eventand the 55dash.
ShyheimWrightNorthwestJunior,hurdles
Versatilehurdler/sprinter/jumperpostedcountry’sthird-besttime (7.27)en route tostate title.
TaiwoAdekoyaP. BranchSenior,500
County’ssecond-fastest time(1:07.24);finishedsecondat countyand regionmeets, fifthin state.
AaronBeidlemanNorthwestSenior,high jump
County’stop jump(6-3)ranked fifthinMary-land, wonthe countyand statechampion-ships.
DorionJonesQ. OrchardSenior,triple jump
Had state’ssixth-bestjump(44-10) inseventh-place finishat VirginaTech; woncountytitle.
AmirKhaghaniWhitmanSenior,3200
Woncounty,regionmeets, fin-ished thirdat states;owned thecounty’stop time(9:25.83).
OliverLloydP. BranchSenior,800
Postedcounty’ssecond-top time(1:57.43)andwasrunner-upin county,region,statemeets.
JoshNettervilleNorthwestSoph.,long jump
Had state’stop jump(22-2) andfinishedtop 3 inall butonemeet,includingfourmeetwins.
RobertYoungbloodNorthwest
He had thestate’smosttalentedandwell-rounded
squad. But his devotion topushing his athletes outsidetheir comfort zones is amainreasonwhy they win.
BullisKyla Lewis, seniorAlexis Postell, sophomoreArianna Richards, freshmanMasai Russell, freshman
Season’s top time (1:40.67)ranks eighth in the country;won private school champi-onship by two-plus seconds.
BullisKyla Lewis, seniorAlexis Postell, sophomoreLindsay Lewis, sophomoreMasai Russell, freshman
Maryland-best 3:52.21 iscountry’s 11th-fastest; wonprivate school championshipinmeet-record fashion.
WhitmanLela Walter, seniorErin O’Connor, juniorLena Feldman, sophomoreClare Severe, senior
The 4AWest Region andstate champions owned thestate’s top time (9:37.80) by4.31 seconds.
KylaLewisBullisSenior,55
Postedcounty-best 7.15in privateschoolchampi-onshipwin (meetrecord),rankedsecond instate.
NoraMcUmberB-CCSenior,3200
She had thecounty’stop timebymorethan nineseconds(11:03.93)andwasgood forstate title infirst indoorseason.
RachelPocratskyG. CounselSenior,500
VirginiaTechrecruitowned thestate’s fifth-best time(1:15.93)andwonthe stateprivateschoolmeet.
MarthaSamBlakeSenior,300
After beingthe runner-up at thecountymeet, shewon herregion andstate titles,posting astate-besttime of39.28.
ClareSevereWhitmanSenior,800
Virtuallyunbeat-able in thisevent thepast twoyears, shedefendedher statetitle withMaryland-best2:15.30.
JustinaAbabioClarksburgJunior, shotput
Countyand regionwinnerled countythrow-ers witha 35-.075;finishedfifth at statemeet.
Lisa-AnneBarrowH.-ArmsSenior,long jump
DivisionI recruitpostedcounty’stop jump(18-7) inwin atBishopLoughlinGames.
Mia DelBorrelloDamascusSenior,pole vault
Regionwinner’scounty-best per-formance(10-06.00)was goodfor fourthplace atstatemeet.
LeondraCorreiaNorthwestJunior,55 hurdles
One ofcounty’sbest jump-ers, sheownedcounty’sthird-besttime (8.42),was key inpostseason.
TyatiannaJohnsonSenecaSenior,triple jump
County’ssecond-best jump(36-11)rankedsixth instate; fin-ished in top2 of all butonemeet.
KiernanKellerW. JohnsonSenior,1,600
Recordedthe state’sbest time(5:01.47)in statetitle run;also wonthe countyand regionmeets.
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3,200 RELAY
Alexus PylesClarksburgJunior, high jump
This is a rare versatility. Pyles was county championin the high jump, hurdles and triple jump, postingstate-bestmarks in the first two and second-best inthe third. The hurdles state championwas runner-up in high jump at season-endingmeet.
Diego ZarateNorthwest
Senior, 1600
Pardon the cliché but this Virginia Tech recruit’sheart is unrivaled. The state’s second-fastest in thisevent (4:20.09), he swept championship season inboth the 1,600 and 800 in leading the Jaguars totheir Class 4A state title defense.
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Poolsville High School’s Julia Wang took second in the 200-yard freestyle atFriday’s state meet in Landover.
n Traditional bocksgive way to family ofspecialized beers
Just as music has its famousBach family spanning many gen-erations, the beer world has itsown illustrious family of bocks.
The grandfather of the fam-ily, traditional bock, gave birth tomai (May) bock, doppel (double)bock, and eis (ice) bock. Otheroffspring include weizenbock,winterbock and dunkle (dark)bock. Traditional bock beersusually first appear in Marcheach year. Doublebocks arereleased around Easter whilemaibocks follow on May 1, oftenwith festive celebrations.
First produced in the late14th century in the town of Ein-beck, these strong beers werecopied by the breweries in Mu-nich in the early 17th century,modifying the barley/wheatgrain bill to an all barley beer.The Bavarian dialect name forthe Einbeck beer evolved intothe word beck and then to bock.
Bock beer does not comefrom the bottom of the ferment-ing vessel as the old tale is told,but is a separate, full bodied,type of lager beer. Since bockalso means goat in both Germanand Dutch, the goat is often dis-played on bock labels. It is saidthat a good bock has the kick ofa goat.
Traditional bocks are lightcopper to brown in color with
a complex maltiness, and oftensome toasty or caramel flavors.They may have slight hop bitter-ness, but malt is the dominantflavor.
Mediumto full-bodied, thesestrong, smooth, malty lagershave alcohol by volumes (ABV)of 6.3 to 7.2 percent. Some win-ter bocks have added spicinessor alcohol. Most bocks are bot-tom fermented lagers but some,most prominently weizenbocks,are top fermented ales.
Maibocks, also called helles(bright) bock to distinguish themfrom the darker winter bocks, areclear and deep gold to subduedamber in hue. Maibocks have acrisp malty flavor, possibly a lowspicy or peppery quality, a mod-erate hop (more apparent thanthe other bocks) and dry finish.Maibocks have 6.3 to 7.4 percentABVs.
All doublebocks stem fromthe original of the style calledSalvator and known as “liquidbread.” It was developed bymonks for consumption duringtheir 40 day Lenten fast preced-ing Easter and the four weekAdvent fast prior to Christmas.Doublebocks are dark gold todark brown, full-bodied withcomplex, deep malty sweet-ness and aroma, and often with
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n Touring companywill also conduct workshop
BY KIRSTY GROFF
STAFF WRITER
Communitymembersplanningoncom-ing to theUprightCitizensBrigade’s comedyshows at BlackRock Center for the Arts thisweekendshouldhaveno ideawhat toexpectduring the night — because the performersdon’t, either.
UCB focuses on improvisational com-edy, showcased in the touring company’stwo performances along with an improvworkshop.
Unlike scripted comedy, improv is ac-tions made up on the spot, typically througha prompt of some kind. The UCB TouringCompany uses an interview with an audi-ence member at the beginning of the showto create ideas from which to start scenes.
Company member Mike Kelton, whohas officially been with the group for abouteightmonths,didn’toriginallyplanonfocus-ing on improv; much like the comedy genre,his involvement began on the fly based on asituationhe foundhimself in: losingaspot inanactingclasshisagentaskedhimtopartici-pate in.
“I wasn’t one of those improv-heads be-fore I started,” he said. “I had heard of UCBbefore and knew I always wanted to try, soI thought I would just quickly sign up for aclass there so he wouldn’t drop me as a cli-ent. I felt guilty for not being in the otherclass, and then literally fell in love with it.”
It was during his classes in 2011 that hegot the chance to see his first true improvshow — that experience hooked him, even ifit made it hard to go back to class and try toevenget througha simple sceneconfidently.
“I remember watching people on stagehaving the best time of their life,” he said,“and I was like, I want in on *that*. Whatever
*that* is, I want to make magic like that.”Kelton’s been making that magic for
almost four years now, working his waythroughUCB’s class curriculum in twoyearsand participating in shows and workshops.He says he became obsessed with the com-edy form, working it into his schedule likesome fitness buffs make time for CrossFitand SoulCycle (“My body deteriorated, butmy mind and heart were just flourishing”).
Through it all, he has been constantly
both instructingand learning,asaremanyofhis company members.
“We’re all each other’s teacher,” he said.“While there are rules to comedy, you canlearn from any comedian — you can pickup a trick, some of their style and embodythem. No one is naturally a great improviser,it takes a million scenes and shows to evenfeel comfortable making things up.”
Making it up as they go
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Some members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company will come to BlackRock Center forthe Performing Arts for improvisational comedy shows and a workshop for adults.
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There are some key elementsof successful improvisation thatare important for both newcom-ers and seasoned vets to keep inmind, such as never saying “no”to someone’s idea and activelylistening to others on stage in ascene. Kelton will help impartsome of these lessons on inter-ested attendees at the comedyworkshoponSaturday.
One of the more importantaspects to Kelton is to not entera scene with any expectations orconcrete ideas — looseness andflexibility is crucial.
“The best improvisers areusually kind of amess in real life,because they’re oblivious andhavenomotives,”hesaid. “That’s
the best way to react naturally inthemoment.”
That element of surprise, theunexpected, is what levels theplayingfieldbetweenperformersrelatively new to improvisationand others who have been inter-ested their entire lives. No oneknowswhat toexpect,andKeltonsays members of the companyregularly laugh on-stage duringperformances because the hu-mor in the scenes is genuine andunanticipated.
Kelton does take on somescripted gigs, such as pop culturecommentary on VH1; however,for him it doesn’t compare quiteto the feelingof gettingawaywithsomethingasagrownuponstageplayingpretend.
“My biggest thing is that I al-ways have fun,” he said. “You’reanadultmaking stuff upon stage— if you’re not having a blast,you’re an [idiot].”
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DANCESSocial Ballroom Dance, 2126
Industrial Highway, Silver Spring,301-326-1181, hollywoodball-roomdc.com.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8to 10 p.m.Mondays, steps andformations taught. No experience,partner necessary, T-39 BuildingonNIH campus,Wisconsin Av-enue and SouthDrive, Bethesda,240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-cArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays,8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9 to11:30 p.m. dancing toDJs, GlenEcho Park’s Spanish BallroomAn-nex, $8, capitalblues.org.
Contra, March 6, JackMitchellcalls to Sugar Beat with Elke Bakeron fiddle,Marc Glickman on pianoand bodhran and Susan Brandt onflute, 7:30 p.m., $10, fridaynight-dance.org.
English Country, March 4, TomSpilsbury and Laura Schultz call-ers, 8 p.m., Glen Echo TownHall(upstairs), fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, March 14,Natty Beaux, $18, $12, 17 andyounger. Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, flyingfeet.org.
Waltz, March 15, Valse Impres-sions with Edith Coakley Stowe(fiddle), Carrie Rose (flute), LizDonaldson (piano), Ralph Gordon(bass); waltztimedances.org.
Ring of Kerry Irish Danceclass, groupmeets on Tuesday’suntil lateMay at RidgeviewMiddleSchool. Beginning class starts at 7p.m., followed by the experiencedclass at 8:05 p.m. The cost is $50.Ceili and set dances are per-formed, and no partner is requiredfor the lessons. For information,email Jean at [email protected] or visit ringofkerrydancers.org. Dancersmust be at least8 years old to senior. Anyoneyounger than 16must be accom-panied by an adult.
MUSICArts Barn, 311 Kent Square
Road, 301-258-6394.Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, Rare Earth,March 4; SoulcialHour Band,March 5; BernardEbb Songwriting Awards,March6;MidgeUre plusMargotMac-donald,March 8; Hernan Romero,March 11; NewRiders of the PurpleSage,March 15; TheDrifters,March 18;Maggie Rose,March 20&March 21;Whiplash: Hank LevyLegacy Band,March 22; call forprices, times, 7719Wisconsin Ave.,Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesd-abluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts,
Upright Citizens Brigade,March 6;Upright Citizens Brigade,March7; Still Dreaming,March 8; SwingDance Party,March 13; Lunasa,March 14; 12901 TownCommonsDrive, Germantown. 301-528-2260,blackrockcenter.org.
Hershey’s At The Grove, MartyTucker Band,March 6; John ZahnBand,March 7; Colliders,March13; Dangerous Curves,March14; Sookey Jump,March 20; SoulGravity,March 21; TomBlood LateasUsual,March 27; The Crossing,March 28; call for times, 17030Oakmont Ave., Gaithersburg. 301-948-9893; hersheysatthegrove.com.
Fillmore Silver Spring, KalinandMyles,March 13; AndyGram-mer and Alex & Sierra,March 14;Young Thugs & Travis Scott,March15; St. Patrick’s DayHappyHour,March 17; Leo Jimenez,March 19;Girard Street Garvey,March 20;Da Big Fella w/ Pinky KillaKorn,MainGirl, Ethan Spalding,March27;Mat Kearney,March 28; 8656Colesville Road, Silver Spring. fill-moresilverspring.com.
Strathmore, PaddyMoloney&TheChieftains,March 4; BSO:Shakespeare in Love and SimonTrpceski,March 7; Jessica Krash,March 8; YAA&MCYO:West SideStory and Romeo et Juliette,March8; AIR:MarkMeadows,March 11;Steven Lin,March 12; BSO:Mo-zart’s GreatMass,March 12; An-dras Schiff,March 15; CaladhNua,March 16; CarlosNunez,March17; call for venue, times. Locations:Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike,North Bethesda;Music Centerat Strathmore, 5301 TuckermanLane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.
ON STAGEArts Barn, “WillyWonka Jr.”
March 14 throughMarch 29, $20;311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394
Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Pe-tite Rouge—ACajun Red RidingHood,” throughMarch 8, call forprices, times, Adventure TheatreMTC, 7300MacArthur Blvd., GlenEcho, 301-634-2270, adventurethe-atre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “Wiley andtheHairyMan,” throughMarch 15,call for prices, times, ImaginationStage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda,imaginationstage.org.
Highwood Theatre, “The Im-portance of Being Earnest,”March20-March 22; “August: OsageCounty,”March 27-March 29; 914Silver Spring Ave., thehighwood-theatre.org, 301-587-0697.
Olney Theatre Center,“Godspell,” throughMarch 15;“Grounded,” throughMarch 22,call for prices, times, 2001Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Aladdin andHisWonderful Lamp,” throughMarch 15; Tiny Tots@ 10, selectWednesdays, Saturdays andSundays, call for shows and showtimes, Puppet Co. Playhouse, GlenEcho Park’s North Arcade Building,7300MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.
Rockville Musical Theatre,“Next to Normal,” April 10 through26, Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Ed-monstonDrive, Rockville, 240-314-8690, r-m-t.org.
Round House Theatre, “Chat-room,”March 13 throughMarch16, “Uncle Vanya,” April 8 throughMay 3, call for show times, 4545East-West Highway, Bethesda.Tickets range in price from$10 to$45 and seating is reserved. 240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org.
Silver Spring Stage, “33 Varia-tions,” throughMarch 21,Wood-moor Shopping Center, 10145Colesville Road, Silver Spring, seeWeb site for show times, ssstage.org.
Randolph Road Theater, 4010Randolph Road, Silver Spring, bel-cantanti.com,
Cafe Muse, FriendshipHeightsVillage Center, 4433 South ParkAve., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, Randeall
Lear,March 12 through April 12,3766Howard Ave., Kensington,301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com
Glenview Mansion, RockvilleCivic Center Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, EarthlyDelights: TheDeborah BriskerBurk Exhibit, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.Monday through Saturday, noonto 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022WisconsinAve., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160ViersMill Road,Wheaton,mont-gomeryart.org.
VisArts, Nicole Lenzi: ShadowEchoes, throughMarch 22; JoelD’Orazio: 1992 Forward,March 11through April 12; ShannonCollis,March 11 through April 12; JefferyCooper,March 27 through April26; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155GibbsSt., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visart-satrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gal-lery, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center,second floor, 8230Georgia Ave.,Silver Spring, washingtonprint-makers.com.
Kentlands Mansion, Artworkof the Art League of Germantown,throughMarch 27, 320 KentSquare Road, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6425.
Arts Barn, Howard Cohen –Seventy Years an Artist, throughMarch 8, 311 Kent Square Road,Gaithersburg, 301-258-6394
Rough Around the Edges:Inspirations in Paper by RonniJolles, throughMarch 15; recep-tion 2 to 4 p.m.March 8; GoldmanArt Gallery, 6125Montrose Road,Rockville. 301-348-3770; jccgw.org.Openwhen JCCGW is open; freeadmission.
Gallery B, 7700Wisconsin Ave.,Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda.org.
ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508
Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.
IN THE ARTS
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOURING COMPANYn When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; workshop at 3 p.m. Saturday
n Where: BlackRock Center for the Performing Arts, 12901 TownCommons Drive, Germantown
n Tickets: $20 for show, $50 for workshop
n More information: BlackRockCenter.org; 301-528-2260
intricate chocolate anddarkfruit flavors. Little or nohopsare evident in these very strong,rich lagerwithABVsof 7 to 14percent.Doublebocks are agedformuch longer than regular la-gers to develop thepronouncedsmoothness,mellowness andhigher alcohol content.Manydoppelbocks havenames end-ing in “-ator,” as a tribute to theoriginal Salvator nowmadebythePaulaner brewery.
Tomake amore robust beer,Bavarianbrewers froze abock,removed the ice and createdamore concentrated versioncalled eisbock. Legendhas itthat thiswas an accident.Nowsimilar beers are breweddirectly.Eisbocks are deep copper to darkbrown in colorwith rich, sweetmalt and sometimes caramel or
chocolate flavors, balancedwithsignificant alcohol and somedryness. Theremaybe somedark fruit tastes and the alcohol(9 to 14percent ABV) is smooth,not harsh, providing a clean la-ger taste.
Troegenator (8.2percentalcoholbyvolume,ABV) isbrewedby theTroegsBrewery inHershey, Pa. It has a very sweetnosewith ahint of caramel.Quite smooth, themoderatesweetmalt front continues intothemiddle. Thefinish adds lightfloral hopswhich slightly bal-ance themalt and segue in theaftertastewhere themalt fadesand thehops andmalt are inbalancewith an addedhint ofcherry. Thehigh alcohol levelis incrediblywell hidden in thisdangerous beer.Ratings: 8/8.
AventinusEisbock (12percentABV) ismadebyG.Schneider andSohn inKelheim,Germany. TheAventinushas
an aromaof alcohol anddarkfruit tending toplum.The lightplumand sweetmalt front leadsto amiddlewhere the sweet-ness increases tomediumwitha touchof alcohol present. Thesweetness ebbs in thefinish asthemalt brings in a toffee char-acter. The alcohol reappears andcomes to the forefront in thequite dry aftertaste. The alcoholwill blend into thebeerwithsomeaging.Ratings: 8.5/8.
PikantusWeizen-Bock (7.3percentABV) is brewed inErd-ing,Germany, by theErdingerBrewery. Pikantus has abouquetof sweetmalt, cherry, chocolateand roast. Thequite light sweetfront from the large volumeofwheatmalt in thebrewpresagesa similarmiddle. Thefinish addsa slight roastwhich continuesin the aftertastewhichhas a lin-gering sweetmalt and ahint offloral hops.Ratings: 8/8.
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TheMarin-Price Galleries inChevy Chase is set to unveil itslatest exhibit, “Earthly Delights,”by Potomac artist DeborahBrisker Burk.The exhibit will run from Sat-
urday through to March 27, withan opening reception set for 5:30p.m. on Saturday.Burk describes her first solo
show as her capturing of the col-ors of the American landscape
— the mountains, valleys andbeaches — in line and shape. Atthe centerpiece of these works isher quest to mix representationwith abstraction.Burk loves color, but also tex-
ture and form. Each work is verymuch alive and fresh.She has been painting since
childhood and has worked in arange of media, including sculp-ture, printmaking, painting, and
drawing.She’s has been featured in
numerous galleries, collectionsand exhibitions in the U.S., Israel,Canada, Russia, Egypt, and India.Burk earned her undergradu-
ate and graduate degrees in artfromGeorge Washington Univer-
sity. For many years, she taughtart at St.Andrew’s in Bethesda,and privately in her studio.
Picturesque view of the world “Firmscapes IV,City Illusion,” willbe on displaystarting Saturdayat the Marin-PriceGalleries as partof an exhibitfeaturing theworks of DeborahBrisker Burk.DEBORAH BRISKER BURK
Olney Theatre Center has extended the run of “God-spell,” until March 15.Steven Schwartz’smusical, an updated take on Jesus’
parables with amessage almost anyone could get be-hind.Much like
“Childrenof Eden,”Schwartz’sother Bible-inspiredmusi-cal, “Godspell”is less aboutreligion andmore aboutthe goodnessof humanityand the im-portance oftaking care ofone another.Thismessageis conveyed through songs representing each of Jesus’lessons in the Bible.The genders of the “Godspell” roles traditionally
aren’t playedwithmuch, and Schwartz hasmentionedbefore that he feels theaters would have to be careful ifcasting a woman as Judas. However, the roles of John theBaptist/Judas in OTC’s version of the show are played byRachel Zampelli, which provides a very interesting takeon the tale.Tickets for the show are $38-$75. Formore informa-
tion, visit olneytheatre.org or call 301-924-3400.
Continuing the love
PHOTO BY NICHOLAS GRINER
Jason King Jones, center, directs JordanCoughtry as Jesus and Rachel Zampelli asJohn the Baptist/Judas in the Olney TheatreCenter production of “Godspell.”
Arts on the Green continues itsSinger Songwriter Series, pairingworkshops with performances, asit welcomes Jon Langford.On Saturday, Langfordwill lead
a workshop at 3 p.m., then performa concert at7:30 p.m., bothat the ArtsBarn at 311Kent SquareRoad in Gaith-ersburg.Best
known for hiswork in theTheMekonsand theWaco Brothers, Langfordhas been a leading pioneer in theassimilation of folk/countrymusicinto punk rock since the genre’sfirst evolutionmore than 30 yearsago. Langford will perform a soloacoustic concert in the intimate,99-seat Arts Barn, with his songchoices reflecting his eclectic takeon Americana, folk and countrymore than straight up punk rock.The afternoonworkshopat-
tendees have the opportunity to getto know the artist andhis process aswell as theperformer andhis com-pletedworks. Theworkshopprom-ises to be amemorable chance formusic students to exercise creativemuscles andhear Langford’s profes-sional perspective.A Renaissanceman, theWelsh-
born Langford is acclaimed as bothamusician and a visual artist and ispresently based in Chicago. Recentaccolades include having his song“What Did YouDo in theWar?”named one of SpinMagazine’stop-40 country songs for 2014.Tickets are $45, for the work-
shop and concert and $25 for theconcert only. Formore informa-tion, visit gaithersburgmd.gov orcall 301-258-6394.
Just a bit ofAmericana
GrammyAward-winning flamencoguitarist Hernan Romero is set to per-form at the Bethesda Blues and JazzSupper Club at 7 p.m.March 11.Recognized as one of the world’s
foremost flamenco guitarists, Romero’smusic is both sophisticated and acces-sible, spicedwith the exotic traditionsthat infuse flamenco-gypsy,MiddleEastern andMediterranean folk inter-wovenwith textures of classical, jazzand Latin rhythms.Inspired by themusic of his family,
Romero became part of their perform-ing ensemble by the age of 4. Romero’smother, popular International singerEstela Raval, contributed to this bysurrounding young Romerowith thebest ofmusical environments. Romerobecame strongly influenced by theflamenco style when his familymovedto Cadiz in Andalusia, Spain; receivingclassical guitar training fromRobertoLara, one of Andres Segovia’s disciples.Tickets are $15 and can be ordered
online or purchased at the door. Formore information, visit bethesdablues-jazz.com or call 240-330-4500.
The powerof flamenco
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Hernan Romero will be performing at the Bethesda Blues and JazzSupper Club on March 11.
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