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By Danica Roem@pwcdanica
TAKOMA PARK – TheCounty Councils from Mont-gomery and Howard aren’t alonein countering Gov. Larry Hogan’s(R) qualified opposition to set-tling additional Syrian refugees inMaryland.
The City Council passed aresolution Monday night affirm-ing “its duty and willingness towelcome our Syrian neighborsbecause to shut the door on thosein need is inconsistent with (the)basic values of our community.”
It then states the city “willwork with other levels of govern-ment and non-governmentalagencies and residents of the cityto identify ways in which thecommunity can provide supportfor refugee families relocating tothe Takoma Park area and inte-grating into our community.”
Hogan announced his opposi-tion to resettling Syrian refugeesin a Nov. 17 Facebook post, hisopposition hinges on whether the
By Danica Roem@pwcdanica
GAITHERSBURG – The Mont-gomery Village Master Plan is caus-ing a stir as local residents and Coun-ty Council members alike try to de-cide if changing the zoning for thearea is the best option to preserveopen space in the 50-year-old com-munity.
The main controversy centerson whether the Master Plan shouldallow residential developer Monu-ment Realty to redevelop the golfcourse into a new residential neigh-borhood.
Although the County Council
isn’t likely to vote on the master planuntil January, the plan appears tohave earned at least some support onthe Council.
According to council memberHans Reimer (D-At large), local resi-dents just aren’t interested in pur-chasing the golf course, so the nextbest option is the one outlined in theMaster Plan.
“Local residents do not want tobuy it and maintain it,” he said. “Andso they aren’t willing to buy it andmaintain it, then the compromisethey have come up with is to allowsome houses to be built on it in ex-change for dedicating a huge amountof it for recreational use and park
land.”However, council member Marc
Elrich (D-At large) said the commu-nity is “somewhat” more divided.
One of his main concerns is thathe does not want to widen one of theroads in the area as it would requirepurchasing the right of way into pri-vate property.
“I think it's just absurd to dothat, that you would harm these peo-ple if that's what's necessary to ac-commodate additional developmentin the village,” he said. “I have no in-terest in changing those roads outthere.”
While Elrich doesn’t have a bigissue with redeveloping commercial
properties, he noted an existing legalcovenant in place that should preventresidential development in that areamarked as green space.
A day before the Council’s Dec.1 public hearing regarding the Mas-ter Plan, local resident Dave Lechnerquestioned the rational for redevel-oping the golf course.
“What I believe the CountyCouncil faces is a simple decision onwhether to help continue to protect‘open spaces’ that are supposed to beprotected ‘in perpetuity’ per theirown rules, or help a developer rezone80 acres of a 140 acre prime proper-
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By Kathleen Stubbs@kathleenstubbs3
ROCKVILLE - The Mont-gomery County Council and countyexecutive on Nov. 24 said they areopen to resettlement of Syrianrefugees in a letter to the U.S. Officeof Refugee Resettlement.
George Leventhal, then-CountyCouncil president, said at a newsconference Monday that the council
and county executive’s message torefugees is the same as before theSyrian refugee crisis.
Leventhal confirmed the feder-al government and the Departmentof Homeland Security possess theauthority to determine whether peo-ple seeking refugee status can settlein the U.S. and that state- and coun-ty-level governments cannot makethat decision.
“It isn’t really up to us,” Leven-
thal said. The county is not without any-
thing to offer refugees, however.Leventhal said at the news confer-ence that the county can provide aninviting community where refugeesfeel comfortable resettling.
Council members and the coun-ty executive said in the letter, “Weare disheartened that many gover-
See “County” page 8
County also sides with Syrian refugees
Residents decry development plans that would destroy area’s favorite golf course
See “Takoma” page 8
PHOTO BY GEORGE SMITH
Dasha Kurochkina, Gabby Bennett and Jolee Childs admire their plaques after Northwest won the Maryland Class4AState Volleyball Championship by defeating Dulaney High School in three sets.
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County could lose hundreds of jobs
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Montgomery County andRockville stand to lose 600 jobs andalmost $70,000 in corporate taxes ifHolladay-Tyler Corporation movesto Prince Georges County.
Officials at the printing compa-ny refuse to confirm reports thatthey may soon move to the neigh-boring company, saying only, “ne-gotiations are underway.”
The company would transfer its600 employees if the plant moves toPrince George’s County, John Ab-salem, an attorney for Holladay-Tyler said.
Edmond Rovner, special assis-tant to the Montgomery County ex-ecutive, said he wasn’t sure why theprinting company would actuallymove out of this country.
“Realistically, we don’t knowwhat is motivating them or what wecould have done to keep them here,”Rover said.
Over the past decade, Holla-day-Tyler has generated continuingcomplaints from its Twinbrookneighbors who worry about pollu-tion from the printing chemicals.
“We never suggested theymove. We just wanted the pollutioncontrolled,” said Carole Cohen, aneighborhood activist.
Holladay-Tyler wants to moveinto the Merkle Printing Building, a300,000-square-foot facility, in theGlendale area, said Morris Tranen,of the Prince George’s business as-sistance office.
The company’s application fora $9.5 million Economic Develop-ment Bond (EDB) was put on hold
last week when Glendale residentsexpressed concerns about potentialenvironmental problems from print-ing chemicals.
An EDB is a low-interest loan,which encourages businesses to ex-pand, Tranen explained.
“The county council approvesthe loan and the business shops for abank, which doesn’t pay taxes on theloan’s interest. It is a good deal,“Tranen said.
Glendale residents expressedconcerns about Holladay-Tyler’s en-vironmental record.
“Look at all the problemsyou’ve had up in Rockville. Theywere fined $30,000,” said Glendaleresident Doris Neble.
“We don’t want to deprive themof their right to practice business,but we don’t want to be deprived of
our right to enjoy our neighbor-hood,” she added.
There have been several print-ing plants in the area and they havealways caused trouble, Neble said.
“Printing facilities have a longhistory of odors, printing fumes, andstretching regulations,” she contin-ued.
So far, the Prince George’scounty council granted the printingcompany an “inducement resolu-tion.” That will enable the firm tocharge any further developmentcosts against the bond, if it is ap-proved, explained Bobbi McCarthy,Prince Georges county Associate at-torney.
McCarthy said this resolutiondemonstrates that the county is stillinterested in this company, but theyneed to do some more work.
By Jim Davis@PGSentinel
BETHESDA – A MontgomeryCounty Animal Services officerrescued a dog from a storm drainFriday afternoon.
Around 1 p.m., some residentsliving along the 7800 block ofLonesome Pine Lane, just off ofSeven Locks Road, kept hearing adog barking.
After several residents and An-imal Services employees searchedthe area, they located a medium sizedog which fell into a storm drainand was trapped under the street.
“Once I located the dog I madeseveral attempts to get the dog tocome to me" said Officer LavoniaByrd. "I used food (and) kept call-ing him but after an hour it was ob-vious that he was not coming out.”
Just after 2 p.m., units from theCounty’s Fire Department arrivedto assist with the rescue.
"When rescue units arrived onthe scene they had to use a specialsaw to cut off the steel grates fromthe storm drain," said County Fireand Rescue spokesperson PetePiringer. “Once we were able to getdown into the storm drain, we madeseveral attempts to reach the dogbut the dog kept moving away."
After two hours of trying toreach the dog, firefighters decidedto wrap blankets around a hose lineand use it like a plunger to push the
dog out, said Byrd.It took four hours to free the
dog but Byrd finally managed topull out the Wheaten terrier namedCookie, which wore a collar with aphone number printed on a tag.
Byrd called the number andthe dog’s owner informed the offi-cer Cookie went missing in Octo-
ber 2014 from her home in Kens-ington
Byrd said the owner wasshocked to hear Cookie survivedand later retrieved the dog.
"This happens often," Byrdsaid. "A dog is lost for a long peri-od of time and then found manymiles away.”
Dog reunited with owner a year later
PHOTO BY JIM DAVIS
Cookie found herself in a storm drain this week and was freed after fourhours. The story came out all right in the end as Cookie was reunited withher owner a year after disappearing from Kensington.
NEWSDECEMBER 3, 2015 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL 3
County hopes to end homeless vet problemBy Brianna Shea@Bshea2991
ROCKVILLE — MontgomeryCounty’s Coalition for Homeless-ness aims to end veteran homeless-ness in the County by Dec. 15.
“We are sure that by mid-De-cember, we will have ended home-lessness for veterans in MontgomeryCounty,” said
Susie Sinclair-Smith, executivedirector of Coalition for the Home-lessness.
The veteran homeless are peo-ple who have served in active dutyand have no place to stay, said Sin-clair-Smith.
Since October, 18 veterans havebeen given permanent housing, shesaid.
As of Nov. 27, there were 44veterans who have permanent hous-ing, Sinclair-Smith said.
She said there are still 11 indi-vidual veterans and three familieswho are waiting for housing.
The coalition’s emergency shel-ter received five more veterans overthe holiday weekend due to the coldweather, said Susan Kirk, executivedirector of Bethesda Cares.
She said they claimed to be vet-
erans, but that hasn’t been con-firmed.
In September, the coalition re-ceived $300,000 and Bethesda Caresreceived $200,000 a month later,Kirk said.
She said the coalition receivedmore money because there is more ofan emphasis on finding permanenthomes and long-term help.
Bethesda Cares offer servicessuch as rent assistance for up to ayear, she said.
Kirk said 20 veterans are in sup-portive housing for those who do notneed financial help for more than ayear.
Sinclair-Smith said people be-come homeless because they cannotafford housing and have mental is-sues that may hinder them.
Michael Pistole, 58, served inthe Navy when he was 18 until hewas 21.
He said he worked on sub-marines in Charleston, North Caroli-na.
Pistole said he became home-less in 2009 after he was diagnosedand treated for cancer at the NationalInstitutes of Health.
He stayed with friends, but didnot pay rent.
Pistole stayed at the Gude DriveShelter, where he shared a room with40 other men, from 2013 to late2015.
In August, he went to the coali-tion after he found out the groupgives help to veterans who need helpfinding permanent housing.
Pistole said that within a matterof weeks, the coalition was able toprovide him four different options,two in Takoma Park and two inMontgomery White Oak.
He moved into his apartment inWhite Oak in late August.
“I have my own keys,” he said.He said donors helped furnish
his apartment.The donors gave him furniture
such as lamps, a coffee table and acouch and supplied him with enoughfood to last him a month, he said.
“My goal is to give back asmuch as I can now that I am in myown place,” he said.
This effort is part of the Zero2016 campaign, which focuses onending homelessness for vets andend chronic homelessness by the endof 2016.
“We’re very honored to be apart of this initiative,” Sinclair-Smithsaid.
By Kathleen Stubbs@kathleenstubbs3
Three Montgomery CountyCouncil members and the CountyPlanning Board sent the publicschools superintendent a letter Mon-day asking what land the school sys-tem will use to add room for studentsin school clusters.
Leventhal, who served as theCouncil president until Dec. 1, saidthe request does not have a deadline.
Pat O’Neill, Board of Educationpresident, said the board’s discussionof plans for anticipated capacity is-sues is ongoing, but the board sub-mitted possible solutions, a list ofMCPS properties no longer servingas schools and a list of possible fu-ture school locations, before theMCPS superintendent received theletter.
Leventhal distributed copies ofa memo from Superintendent LarryBowers from September that includ-ed the list of 45 closed school sites.
The board currently owns 15and the other 30 were transferred toMontgomery County government,Bowers said in the memo.
Planning Board chairman CaseyAnderson and Council membersGeorge Leventhal (D), Roger Berlin-er (D-1) and Craig Rice (2) said theywanted to know how MontgomeryCounty Public Schools plans to alle-viate overcrowding at the WalterJohnson, Bethesda-Chevy Chase andWhitman clusters.
According to the letter, officialsfrom the Council, the Planning De-
partment and the Parks Departmentneed to know MCPS’ plans to ad-dress overcrowding from the 2017-2022 capital improvements plan.
“These options for medium tolong-term school capacity are espe-cially important in the Walter John-son, Whitman, and Bethesda-ChevyChase clusters, where redevelop-ment interest is strong and land use isscarce,” said Anderson in the letter.
The officials also wanted to ver-ify the Board of Education has a planfor those clusters 10 years from now,said Melissa McKenna, the Countycouncil of PTAs chairman of theMCPS capital improvements pro-gram.
The Board of Education votedunanimously for the Department ofLong-Range Planning to host around table discussion with studentsof the cluster and their parents, Wal-ter Johnson cluster PTA membersand residents of the cluster on possi-ble solutions to add capacity to thecluster.
The discussion would be led byBruce Crispell and his staff, O’Neillsaid.
O’Neill said a date for theroundtable is to be determined.
The Board of Education wouldnot be able to make a decision aboutaddressing the Walter Johnson Clus-ter until after the discussion.
Walter Johnson High School en-rolled 2,289 students, said KeiraKinsey-Nahar, administrative assis-tant for the school.
According to the MCPSSchools at a Glance for the 2014-
2015 school year, the school has a ca-pacity for 2,345.
Representatives of the MCPSDepartment of Long-Range Plan-ning predicted the school would notbe large enough to hold all the stu-dents in the future, given slated de-velopments in the area.
During the two hearings preced-ing the school board approving itscapital improvements program Nov.16, board members considered addi-tions and re-opening a closed MCPSschool property.
McKenna said the Board of Ed-ucation included funding for a WaltWhitman High School addition.
According to the letter, the Plan-ning Board will be working on plansfor future communities such as West-bard, Downtown Bethesda, GreaterLyttonsville, Rock Spring and WhiteFlint II, which would be served bythe three clusters mentioned.
“We need the support and assis-tance of MCPS in developing specif-ic and achievable recommendationsfor school capacity in each areawhere development is anticipated,”said the planning board chairmanand three council members in the let-ter.
Board of Education presidentPat O’Neill earlier sent Leventhal alist of MCPS properties not beingused as schools by MCPS.
McKenna said the PlanningBoard wanted to be assured Board ofEducation members are coming upabout solutions to capacity issues be-yond the six-year period of the Capi-tal Improvements Plan.
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My wife and I were driving towork this morning, anxious to getour early morning liquid caffeineupload when – all of a sudden –someone parked on the street inTown Center opened up their dri-
ver’s side door right in front of ourmoving big behemoth of a FordExpedition.
Luckily we avoided a colli-sion, and we drove on to purchaseour favorite general cellular stim-ulant in liquid form.
“Stupid Woman,” my wifesaid.
“Hey!” I said. “If I said that,then you would have called me asexist.”
She would’ve too, and she ad-mitted it. “I can say that thoughbecause I’m (long pause, drumroll please) a woman,” she ex-claimed.
I vociferously disagreed. Did-n’t do me much good, but hey Itried.
“Well, it’s how you say it,”my wife explained – further mud-dying the waters.
According to her, if I placethe emphasis on the first word“stupid” it means something dif-ferent than if I placed the empha-sis on the second word “woman”.
For the record, I’m not sureshe placed the emphasis on eitherword and I said merely recogniz-ing that the offending idiot whodidn’t bother to look before open-ing her car door was a woman inno way is an actual indication ofbeing a sexist.
I just thought it was funnythat my wife thinks she can say theexact same thing that was goingthrough my mind and she can getaway with it while I cannot.
Logically, I feel like the oldrobot in “Lost in Space.”
No. No. I’m not thinking“Run Will Robinson. Run.” I’mthinking more of “That does notcompute.”
I rant often about the lack oflogic in this world – and I guessmy wife has grown tired of listen-ing to my musings about – as Web-ster’s defines it – “The science ofthe formal principles of reason-ing.”
But I can’t let this stuff go. It isn’t all right for my wife to
make the very same statement I
would have made and be coveredby “I’m a woman so it’s okay,”any more than it’s okay for a blackperson to call someone the “N”word and get away with it while ifa white person were to say thesame thing, they would be brandeda racist at the least. It doesn’t mat-ter to me if the “N” word used by ablack person ends in an “a” or an“ah” as opposed to “er.” That is il-logical too.
If we are all the same – as ourwonderful constitution, the GoodLord, and every minority activisttells us, then we should all betreated the same way.
Of course, that argues againstAffirmative Action, the Red Flagin the NFL, and most major box-ing matches. Meanwhile it de-fends women in the locker room,female NASCAR drivers, andequal rights (including maritalrights) for all.
Of course, lest we forget,there are very few things logicalabout human beings.
We’re not Vulcans.We are ruled by emotions, a
distinct lack of reason – and knee-jerk reactions to every stimuli.We’re Pavlov’s dog run amuck.
How else to explain WallStreet? It’s up. It’s down. It’s thehighest high. It’s the lowest low –and all before noon on Monday.
It’s happy Barack Obama waselected. It’s scared Barack Obamawas elected. It’s happy about theWar. It’s upset about the War.
If Wall Street were in fact asingle human being, it would beput on Prosac, wrapped in a littlewhite jacket and shoved in thecriminally insane ward of the localmental hospital.
There just isn’t any logic.“We’re headed for a Depres-
sion! We have to bail out thebanks! We have to bail out the carmanufacturers.”
Holy Hannah. What a mess.Logically, perhaps the banks
should be less greedy, quit makingquestionable marginal loans andinventing investment schemes thatmake Mob bosses blush.
As for the automobile manu-facturers - what a load of rubbish.Bail them out? How about theybuild cars we want. For example,logically, I want a car that will lastfor 10 years, but I can also takeback every two or three years forupgrades – like a computer.
The first person to get onewill be that woman who openedher car door in Town Center.
Many more acts like that andshe’s going to need a driver’s side-door upgrade real quick.
There’s a logic to that.
That does not compute!
Editorʼs Notebookby Brian J. Karem
4 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL DECEMBER 3, 2015
From November, 2008
Following the rules in judicial electionLEGAL MATTERS
Maryland still provides for theelection of Circuit Court judges,who are appointed by the Governorafter vetting by Judicial Nominat-ing Commissions and must thenstand for election. If an attorneydecides to challenge a “sittingjudge” in a contested election, thisresults in political campaigning.Since lawyers and judges are sub-ject to rules of professional con-duct, candidates must be careful notto run afoul of their ethical rules, asillustrated by a case last monthfrom Maryland’s Court of Appealscalled Attorney Grievance Com-mission v. Stanalonis.
The majority opinion, from afive Judge majority, indicates that
there was a contested primary elec-tion in St. Mary’s County in whichStanalonis, an experienced prose-cutor, sought to challenge a newlyappointed sitting Judge.
The primary election was onlytwo months after the Judge wassworn in. Stanalonis’ election cam-paign sent out flyers to prospectivevoters, one of which identified theJudge as opposing “registration ofconvicted sexual predators.” Thecandidates won their respective Re-publican and Democratic primaries,and the sitting Judge then won thegeneral election.
The Maryland Attorney Griev-ance Commission charged Stanalo-nis with violating Maryland Rule ofProfessional Conduct 8.2 (a) pro-hibiting false statements as to thequalifications of a judge or candi-date for such office, and rules re-garding misconduct involving mis-representation or prejudicial to theadministration of justice.
Pursuant to Maryland Rules ajudge was appointed to hear thecharges, who found that two of the
statements alleged did not violatethe Rules but the third did, althoughthere was a demonstrable basis forthe statement. Stanalonis appealedthe findings, and the majority of theCourt of Appeals agreed with himand dismissed the charges.
The majority found that therewas not clear and convincing evi-dence to show that Stanalonis’ be-lief about the challenged statementwas a “gross departure” from whata prudent lawyer would believe. Itnoted that the hearing judge did notfind that the statement at issue wasknowingly false, so that the chargesof misrepresentation were not suffi-ciently proven.
This case does illustrate someof the professional risks involvedfor lawyers and judges having tocampaign in contested elections.
Thomas Patrick Ryan is a part-ner in the Rockville law firm of Mc-Carthy Wilson, which specializes incivil litigation.
When Feng Shui calls you’d better listen
It didn’t seem that long agowhen feng shui was important to al-most every home buyer and seller.And if Google Trends is an indica-tion of relevance, the diminishingnumber of searches for feng shuiover the last decade indicates re-duced interest. Perhaps the burstinghousing bubble shifted everyone’sattention; buyers’ were determined toget distressed properties at a deal,while sellers were determined to geta model home look through staging.Although seemingly having lost sig-nificance in the housing market, fengshui is once again becoming a topconcern for buyers and sellers.
If you’re not familiar with theconcept, Merriam Webster (merri-am-webster.com) defines feng shuias “…a Chinese system for position-ing a building and the objects withina building in a way that is thought toagree with spiritual forces and tobring health and happiness.” The In-ternational Feng Shui Guild (ifs-guild.org) adds that feng shui is de-rived from the Chinese philosophy ofTaoism and has been practiced foraver 5,000 years. Furthermore, it is
based in science and nature to helpyou live a healthy and prosperouslife!
You may already be familiarwith some feng shui principles, as afew basics of home staging sharesimilar tasks. For example, de-clut-tering, maximizing space and creat-ing a “light filled home” are some ofthe preparations prescribed to stage ahome for sale. And according to fengshui principles, these undertakingsare vital in channeling a home’s ener-gy flow. Although there may besome crossover, take caution not toconfuse home staging with feng shui;staging a home is not the same as fol-lowing feng shui principles.
One of the reasons for the surg-ing focus in feng shui is the increaseof home buyers from China. Accord-ing to the National Association ofRealtors® (realtor.org), buyers fromChina represented about 16 percentof international home buyers, whilepurchasing an estimated $28.6 bil-lion of real estate in 2014.
Feng shui is also important toChinese-Americans, according to arecent survey conducted by BetterHomes and Gardens® Real Estateand the Asian Real Estate Associa-tion of America (Feng Shui a Driverof Home Selection and Investmentfor Chinese-Americans; bhgre.com;August 11, 2015). The survey re-vealed that 76 percent of respondentsare familiar with the principles, andhalf of those respondents practicefeng shui, which is “…considered to
dictate spatial arrangement andbuilding design to produce a harmo-nious flow of energy.” When itcomes real estate, consider that 81percent of respondents indicated thatfeng shui influenced their buying de-cisions; and that 79 percent of re-spondents indicated that they wouldpay more for a home that followsfeng shui principles. And if you’reselling a home, you should take no-tice that 75 percent of respondentsindicated that they experienced atleast one “deal breaker” conflict offeng shui principles in a home.
If your home doesn’t exactlycorrespond with feng shui principles,consider offering a “Feng Shui Con-tingency.” Such a contingency washighlighted in a 2014 Realtor®Magarticle about the Seattle housing mar-ket and the high concentration ofbuyers from China (Why You MayNeed the 'Feng Shui Contingency;realtormag.realtor.org; September22, 2014). Much like a home inspec-tion contingency, many buyers areincluding a contingency to have afeng shui master approve the house.The good news is that some conflict-ing elements may be remedied (suchas landscaping); however, otherscannot (such as the home’s physicallocation and direction).
Dan Krell is a Realtor® withRE/MAX All Pro in Rockville, MD.You can access more information atwww.DanKrell.com.
REALESTATESOLUTIONS
By Dan Krell
by Tom Ryan
THECOURTREPORT
DECEMBER 3, 2015 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL 5
LETTERSMontgomery and its air park
To the editor;The Sentinel’s Nov 12 article about the Airpark and its relationship with
the community missed a few major points. The real question is how did thisconversation go from one of safety concerns following the December crash ofa light jet, to a discussion of noise and perceived flight path or rule changes?The sensationalistic testimonies of many residents interviewed for the storydescribing low-flying planes, changing flight paths, higher traffic volume, andeven surprise that there’s an airport in their neighborhood, are devoid of facts.And the biggest point not mentioned is that in the 55-year history of the Air-park, December’s tragedy was the only accident that caused ground fatalities.By any measure, that’s actually a pretty admirable safety record for an airportsurrounded by so much development.
Truth is, there have been four modifications of the traffic pattern, all ofwhich were made to address concerns of nearby citizens. The traffic patternwas shifted over the less-populated north side of the airport in the 1970s andthe altitude that aircraft fly has been raised twice. Finally, a noise-abatementplan was implemented in the early 1990s for aircraft departing to the north-west over Montgomery Village.
Despite contrary claims by residents, operations at the airport are far few-er these days than since the airport’s peak traffic period in the late 1970s andearly 1980s. The claim of more planes flying at lower altitudes is simply nottrue and are likely anecdotal perceptions from nearby residents. Operations atthe Airpark were slashed substantially following post-9/11 restrictions putinto place by Homeland Security and the FAA. Finally, were pilots flying asdescribed by this vocal minority of residents, we would all have lost our li-censes, if not our lives. For self-preservation as well as the preservation ofkeeping the Airpark open for business, pilots overwhelmingly fly safely andfly the published procedures at the Airpark. We all acknowledge that accidentscan happen, but the Airpark has proven for 55 years that it is a safe operation.County residents should not let the baseless opinions of a few vocal neighborsattempt to place restrictions on a county asset.
P. Bedell Gaithersburg
Deer hunts
To the editor;Last Thursday, as families across the country gathered to give thanks,
deer in two Montgomery County parks had little to be thankful for. At least 63of them had recently been cruelly killed by participants in the Pilot ArcheryManaged Deer Hunting Program.
This was no hunt—it was a slaughter. What the records do reveal is thatone hunter—who was a leader of the group selected to hunt in Potomac andshould have been reporting violations, not engaging in them—killed an eight-point buck in violation of hunt protocol, apparently without consequences be-cause he killed again four days later. Maryland Department of Natural Re-sources records also indicate that one of the 63 deer killed was a button buck,who was no more than 6 months old and would likely still have been with hismother. The slaughter is on hiatus until after the holidays, but we hope author-ities will have a change of heart and permanently end this cruel killing pro-gram before more deer are shot or orphaned and left to die slowly and in pain.Visit www.PETA.org to learn more.
I.E NewkirkWashington, D.C.
County government and term limits
Montgomery County politicians engage in mismanagement of bud-getary issues and expect a taxpayer bailout, mismanagement of foreign poli-cy and expect a migrant bailout. These are just a few reasons that MoCo citi-zens are lining up to support a petition on term limits.
Regrettably, MoCo has a budgetary process that demands increasingtaxes and increasing sacrifice from it's residents, but has little or no constrainton executive demands.
What is unusual, however, is that in a county that micromanages lawncare, grocery bags, and tree trimming, the elite politicians have acted with alightning speed knee-jerk reaction to migration and fiscal challenges. Therehave been none of the usual procedural hearings, citizen outreach, infrastruc-ture impact, public consultation, or taxpayer consideration.
Instead, there is a willingness to sacrifice public safety and financial se-curity to perpetuate a partisan political narrative.
This is the type of monolithic mindset and group think, with a lack ofconsultation and disrespect for process, that is causing a bipartisan call forterm limits.
J.SnowDamascus
F o r a l l y o u r l o c a l n e w s g o t o
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By Paula Bienenfeld and Louis Wilen
Civic Federation Public UtilitiesChair and Parents’ Coalition memberLouis Wilen has uncovered areport on radon in our Mont-gomery County PublicSchools. Radon is linked tocancer according to the EPA,specifically lung cancer andleukemia. The report, pro-vided by MCPS officials, isso far limited to a poorly pho-tocopied list of the school fa-cilities and the radon level foreach school. We have no ad-ditional information.
Twenty-six schools andthe Smith Center posted lev-els in the dangerous zone,with a level of 4picoCuries/liter (pCi/L) orabove. At least one room at the SmithCenter had an unbelievably high lev-el of 11.9 pCi/L. According to theEPA, at a level of 10 pCi/L “the riskof cancer from radon exposure com-pares to 20 times the risk of dying in afire” for those who don’t smoke. At alevel of 4 pCi/L the risk compares to“the risk of dying in a car crash.”Don’t let your child take that risk. Actnow and demand independent test-ing. Better yet, do the testing your-self. Kits are inexpensive and the testis simple and can be done during nor-mal school operations. If not, contactthe EPA at 202-343-9290 and letthem know what’s going on.
Herewith the list of schools andMCPS properties with dangerouslevels of radon.
These are:Beall Elementary School: 4
rooms where levels range from 4.4 –7.7 pCi/L
Cresthaven Elementary School:“All rooms below radon limit exceptcopy room, which had a level of 4.9.”
Damascus Elementary School:all rooms below radon limit exceptfor the kitchen, gym, and AOR,which tested between 5.5 and 6.2.
East Silver Spring ElementarySchool, which tested below radonlimit except for the “Ed Suite” whichtested 4.7.
Fallsmead Elementary School islisted as ‘26/42 [rooms] below radon
limit. However, no information onthe 16 rooms that may fall in the dan-gerous radon levels is provided.
Glen Haven Elementary School,“All rooms below radon limit except
7A (4.9). In the case of Glen Haven,the rooms were tested before 2004,that is, over 10 years ago. Retestingis ‘scheduled’ but no dates for retest-ing are shown on the list.
Highland Elementary School:All rooms below radon limit exceptthe Gym (4.1).
Highland View ElementarySchool: IMC (5) and staff lounge(4.7)
Jackson Road ElementarySchool: Room 6 tested at 5.1 andRoom 235 tested at 5.4.
Jones Lane Elementary School:Rooms 3, 12, and 27 tested at 4.0-6.7
Maryvale Elementary School:Room 1 and the Music Room hadhigh results, 4.6-4.9
Oak View Elementary School:Room 9: test level 4.4
Oakland Terrace ElementarySchool: K1, K2 and IMC levels: 4.2– 5.2
Parkland Middle School has notbeen tested since 2007, almost 10years ago.
Quince Orchard High School:Seminar Room at 5.4
Redland Middle School: 13rooms tested at 4.7 – 6.0
Ridgeview Middle School:Rooms 112 and 113 tested at 4.2 and5.8 respectively.
Rock View Elementary schoolwas last tested in 1999.
Rocking Horse: the Basement
has high levels, at 5.9Lois P. Rockwell: the Confer-
ence room had a level of 4.7Rosemont Elementary School:
The Music room had a level of 6.0Smith Center: 5 rooms
had levels at 4.2-11.9South Lake Elementary
School: 9 rooms with highlevels ranging from 4.5 – 9.6
Springbrook HighSchool: 8 rooms with levelsfrom 4.1-9.8
Takoma Park Elemen-tary School appears never tohave been tested.
Viers Mill ElementarySchool: Conference Roomtest level at 4.1
Watkins Mill Elemen-tary School: Rooms 14 and20, test levels at 4.5 and 5.1
Wayside ElementarySchool: Room 47 tested at 6.1
Westbrook Elementary School:Main office test level at 4.3
Westland Middle School: Themain gym, the auxiliary gym, and Chall had high levels, ranging from 4.2– 6.0
The Surgeon General stated in2005 that “Indoor radon gas is thesecond-leading cause of lung cancerin the United States and breathing itover prolonged periods can present asignificant health risk to families allover the country.”
And, the County Council hasrecognized the dangers of radon bypassing the recent radon inspectionlaw. The elected Board of Educationhas chosen to ignore the dangers andcontinues to work to expose childrento radon.
If your child is in one of the pub-lic schools with dangerous radon lev-els, take action. Call the State andcall the EPA. Demand independenttests and the inexpensive solutionsthat are required.
The views expressed in this col-umn do not necessarily reflect for-mal positions adopted by the Feder-ation. To submit an 800-1,000 wordcolumn for consideration, pleasesend an email attachment to [email protected].
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The most important ingredientto a democracy is the people's right tovote. To exercise that right most ef-fectively requires an informed elec-torate. On Tuesday, November 17th,I attended a forum of candidates thatwas designed to provide just such anopportunity for voters. The Women'sDemocratic Club of MontgomeryCounty (WDC), in conjunction withthe Montgomery County Democrats,hosted a forum of the seven Democ-ratic candidates seeking to fill the 8thDistrict Congressional seat that willsoon be vacated by CongressmanChris Van Hollen as he seeks to winthe Senate seat of retiring SenatorBarbara Mikulski.
More than 300 attendees packedthe audience and it is encouragingthat the impressive turnout may beindicative of an impressive turnoutfor the upcoming 2016 elections. Theseven Democratic candidates includeState Senator Jamie Raskin, Kath-leen Matthews, Will Jawando, JoelRubin, Delegate Kumar Barve, Dele-gate Ana Sol Gutierrez and DavidAnderson. The forum provided oneof the earliest opportunities for vot-ers to see and hear all of the sevenDemocratic candidates discuss theircongressional priorities while re-sponding to questions posed by boththe WDC and the audience members.
It is a rather impressive slate ofcandidates. There is not a Trump orCarson, or, for that matter, a Rubio orCruz in the group. This will mandatea bit more scrutiny by the voter to un-cover meaningful distinctions amongthe candidates, but distinctions thereare.
Senator Raskin emphasized themore than 100 bills that he intro-duced in Annapolis that were passedby the state legislature on such topicsas gun safety (the Firearms safetyAct of 2013), marriage equality,equal pay for equal work (the LillyLedbetter Act), the Second ChanceAct, the Shareholders Protection Acton campaign finance reform and somany others.
Kathleen Matthews pointed toher experience in the community agood deal of it acquired during hermany years as an on air reporter forChannel 7 News. More importantly,however, she pointed to her morethan forty years as an advocate andchampion for issues important to all,but, particularly important to womensuch as workplace equality, endingdomestic violence, protectingwomen's healthcare decisions, af-fordable childcare, paid family andmedical leave and a fair minimumwage.
Delegate Barve pointed to theunique perspective that he offers asboth a liberal and as someone who isa professional accountant and theChief Financial Officer of a small
business. This experience, he be-lieves, places him in the best positionto truly understand the link betweenjob creation and the training essentialto fill the jobs created. He also point-ed to his understanding of the chal-lenges of being a minority as heworked his way up as a legislator.
Delegate Gutierrez pointed toher history as a fighter for minoritiesand her understanding of the plightof women, minorities and workingsingle parents as having been one.She emphasized her experience inthe community having served on theschool board as well as her 14 yearsas a state delegate. Joel Rubin point-ed to his experience on Capitol Hillas having first-hand experienceworking with both Republicans andDemocrats as a member of the StateDepartment. This experience, com-bined with his experience in thePeace Corps and as a Congressionalaide, places him in good position, hebelieves, to understand the workingsof Washington. Will Juwando point-ed to his experience as a member ofthe Obama Administration and alsohis first-hand experience as a minori-ty working his way up from poverty.He emphasized that his position inthe White House gave him a perspec-tive on how the federal governmentworks that the other candidates maynot possess. David Anderson empha-sized a clear distinction betweenhimself and the other candidates de-scribing himself as a contrarian" andcentrist, center left I believe is theterm he used, whose "centerpiece" ofhis campaign is a plan to provide"not only paid leave and child caresupport to working families, but taxcredits for parents who opt to stay athome to raise children". He alsopointed out that he is a professor andauthor of six books.
On most of the major issues, thepositions of the candidates were fair-ly consistent. On the issue of recog-nizing the reality of climate change,for example, all of the candidates ac-knowledged the need to transition torenewable energy and pointed totheir history of supporting green ini-tiatives.
As well, all, to a candidate, werein favor of having the horrendousSupreme Court decision in the Citi-zens United case overturned so thatcampaign financing can be reformedand the playing field of grassrootsvoters and special interest groups canbe leveled.If there was one negativethat came out of the evening it dealtwith the audiences reaction to nega-tive campaigning, specifically candi-date Anderson's attacks on the twofront-runners, Jamie Raskin andKathleen Matthews, as a campaigntactic.
Maybe if the audience was com-prised of more Republicans, this tac-tic would have been more accepted;it was not well received by this audi-ence.
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ty, bought in a bankruptcy auctionfor $5 (million), and then buildtownhouses on the property,” saidLechner in an email, adding the re-zoning “would raise the value of theland” to more than $70 million if therate was $250,000 per quarter acrelot.
“This would be a $65 (million)giveaway to a developer, and wouldcome at the expense of almost 400middle-class homeowners in Mont-gomery Village (who) own propertythat overlooked golf course fair-ways,” he added.
Reimer noted there was “verybroad support in Montgomery Vil-lage” for the redevelopment, partic-ularly from the Montgomery Vil-lage Foundation.
The council member also de-scribed the golf course as “bank-rupt,” which is why it needed to besold in the first place.
Part of the golf course would bededicated to park land and partwould be set aside for residentialdevelopment.
“It’s the only proposal on thetable to save green safe at all be-cause the golf course is defunct,”said Reimer, later adding, “And I dothink that in terms of recreationalvalue, more people would be able touse this space than before.”
Reimer countered that lawyersfor the county reviewed the legalityof regarding the redevelopment pro-posal and established “there is no le-gal issue.”
“So that’s all there is to it. Ican’t really stress enough that theMontgomery Village Foundation
Board supports it,” said Reimer.“The democratic process in Mont-gomery Village has played out. Thepeople have spoken.”
Elrich, however, claimed theissue isn’t settled and vowed towithhold a favorable vote if thecovenant protecting the green spaceis legally binding.
“But I won't vote for it if thecovenant is legal. Because thesepeople were guaranteed when theybought their properties that theywould be protected. I'm not going tovote to undo their protections," hesaid.
Reimer repeatedly mentionedthe Montgomery Village Founda-tion’s support as being key to weigh-ing his eventual vote on the MasterPlan.
“I know there are people whooppose it but the people who are
charged with representing the com-munity there have many times overthe years have stated very clearly”their support, he said. “So the peoplewho are closest to the ground thereare people I listen to very intently…and so I think the democratic processof Montgomery Village deserves alot of respect on this issue.”
Lechner, however, supportskeeping the area as close to its origi-nal design as possible..
“Montgomery Village was de-
signed on the premise that both mid-dle-class and non-affluent home-owners had great views of lakes,streams, pools, and a golf course. We(residents) are counting on theCounty Council to help preserve thevisions of this planned community,not help the developer profit just be-cause we do not have mansionsoverlooking our golf course, but in-stead have mostly modest town-houses, placed there at the request ofthe planning board in 1970.”
COVER STORY8 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL DECEMBER 3, 2015
Montgomery Village plans cause community stir“Montgomery” from page 1
nors have expressed opposition tohaving Syrian refugees make newhomes in their states.”
The county offers its servicesand programs to all residents, in-cluding refugees who wish to reset-tle here, Leventhal said.
In the letter, the county gov-ernment members endorsed theHomeland Security Department’sscreening process.
People eligible for refugee sta-tus must be fleeing their homecountry because they have beenpersecuted or face the threat of fu-ture persecution, and the persecu-tion must be for one of five rea-sons: race, nationality, religion, po-litical opinion or membership in asocial group.
Hassan Ahmad, an immigra-tion lawyer in Washington, D.C.,said the screening process actuallybegins with the Office of the Unit-ed Nations High Commissioner forRefugees in the country where thedisplaced people are located.
Staff in the commissioner’s of-fice supply displaced persons withnecessities such as food and waterfirst, Ahmad said.
The federal government deter-mines whether individuals fromother countries can obtain refugeestatus.
Ahmad said that if a person in-tended to do harm to other peoplein the U.S., seeking refugee statuswould be the least-convenient andmost time-consuming, risky ap-
proach to entering the country. The interview process for
refugees is not required to enter thecountry with a student visa, atourist visa or a business visa.
Refugees visit the Office ofthe United Nations High Commis-sioner for Refugees for fundamen-tal needs, such as food and water,Ahmad said.
“It is only the beginning,” saidAhmad. “Then they need to be re-settled.”
Four million displaced personsfrom Syria are in the world, Ahmadsaid. A small percentage will be se-lected for resettlement in the U.S.,partly because displaced personsdo not decide where they resettle,Ahmad said.
The high commissioner forrefugees determines where therefugees will resettle.
If the agency decides the U.S.is the destination, U.S. governmentagencies will fly the displaced per-son into the country, said Ahmad.
Ahmad compared eligibility tobe a refugee to a ticket to a footballgame. One could have been eligi-ble according to the UNHCR butstill be refused access if the personposed security risks after screen-ing.
Then the person will undergothe U.S. screening process, whichcan take 1.5 to three years, Ahmadsaid.
U.S. Citizenship and Immi-gration Services within the Depart-ment of Homeland Security is re-sponsible for overseeing immigra-tion to the U.S.
In the U.S. the next part is a
series of one-on-one, face-to-faceinterviews, Ahmad said.
“It’s a pretty extensive vettingprocess,” said Ahmad.
“Asylum officers and refugeecoordinators are really, really goodat piecing together stories beingtold by people,” Ahmad said.
Refugee coordinators com-pare reports, documents, news arti-cles and social media as part oftheir background checks, Ahmadsaid.
Ahmad said many refugees donot have documents because theyleft everything behind when theyfled, but this does not bar themfrom being allowed to resettle inthe country. It’s possible to getthrough with just their story andthe information to which therefugee coordinators have access.
“The story has to be suffi-ciently detailed, sufficiently cor-roborated,” Ahmad said.
People could pass the back-ground checks but then mess uptheir stories in interviews and notultimately be permitted to resettle,Ahmad said.
Through interviews and back-ground checks, governmentagency workers determine if theperson is eligible and qualified tobe a refugee. They also check thefacts of the person’s story andsearch for evidence of undesirabil-ity in the candidate. A person couldbe barred from resettling in thecountry due to infection with atransmittable, life-threatening ill-ness or through affiliation with aterrorism organization, Ahmadsaid.
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County Council supports Syrians
federal government “can provideappropriate assurances thatrefugees from Syria pose nothreat to public safety.”
According to one of the 11“whereas” clauses in the TakomaPark resolut ion, 39 Syrianrefugees have settled in Mary-land since 2011.
The City Council also af-firmed the city’s “commitmentto remain a place of sanctuaryand safe haven for refugees fromaround the world, regardless oftheir national origin.”
However, neither the stategovernment nor the City Councildetermine where the federalgovernment will relocate Syrianrefugees.
According to a Nov. 25statement issued by U.S. Officeof Refugee Resettlement (ORR)director Robert Carey, no statecan establish a policy denyingresettlement for Syrian refugees.
“States that continue to useORR funding must ensure thatassistance and services are de-livered without regard to race,religion, nationality, sex, or po-litical opinion. States may notdeny ORR-funded benefits andservices to refugees based on arefugee’s country of origin or re-ligious affiliation. Accordingly,states may not categorical lydeny ORR-funded benefits andservices to Syrian refugees,”said Carey in his “dear col-league” letter.
Part of the controversyaround whether to admit Syrianrefugees into the United Statesregards whether federal agen-cies have the capacity to thor-oughly vet refugee applicantsbefore they arrive.
Takoma Park’s resolut iondeclared refugees already under-go “intense background andmedical checks” and the process“can take as long as 24 monthsto complete.”
“Syrian refugees are subjectto even more precautions thanother refugees. It is the most ro-bust screening process for any
category of individuals seekingadmissions into the UnitedStates, and it is only after admis-sion that ORR and our partnersin resettlement begin our work,”said Carey in his Nov. 25 letter.
Mayor Kate Stewart joinedfive council members in votingfor the motion originally draftedby newly elected council mem-ber Rizzy Qureshi (Ward 3).
Council members Peter Ko-var (Ward 1) , Terry Seamens(Ward 4), Jarrett Smith (Ward 5)and Frederick Schultz (Ward 6)supported the motion, whichpassed 6-0.
One person abstained fromvoting: council member TimMale (Ward 2) , who recusedhimself because he works for theObama administration as the as-sociate director for Conserva-tion and Wildlife for the WhiteHouse Council on Environmen-tal Quality.
Male stood up and walked tohis left away from the dais, seat-ing himself in the front row ofthe auditorium as the councilmembers del iberated. He re-joined the council after the vote.
According to Schultz, pass-ing the resolution would “put thefull weight of the City of Tako-ma Park” behind the issue.
All six local residents whoaddressed council during publiccomments on voting items ex-pressed support for the motion.
Before the meeting started,ci ty resident Thomas Nephewhanded out sheets of paper withcomputer printed text stating “Isupport REFUGEES IN MARY-LAND because…” to some sup-porters of the motion.
One person wrote after el-l ipses, “Syrians deserve to betreated with humanity.”
The emblem for the Mont-gomery County Civil RightsCoalition appeared at the bottomof each sheet of paper.
“They suffered violence justlike what happened in Paris forf ive years,” Nephew told thecouncil. Stewart said during aninterview the vote was a heart is-sue for the city well known forits progressive politics.
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Manno challenges change in liquor lawsBy Kathleen Stubbs@kathleenstubbs3
State sen. Manno (D-19)saidminimizing or eliminating the coun-ty’s involvement in liquor controlcould create a dent in the already de-ficient Montgomery County PublicSchools budget.
Manno, a member of the statesenate’s budget and taxation com-mittee, said one of the main groupsaffected by a change in the countybudget would be kindergartenthough twelfth grade education.
State senator William Frick andother county delegates proposed abill that would allow alcohol whole-salers to sell directly to liquor storeowners and restauranteurs, if theychose, rather than through the countydepartment of liquor control.
“Just having the bill passed withbegin a chain of events that has a re-ally serious effect on the county’sability to fund capital projects,”Manno said.
The county executive said at thebill hearing Monday privatization ofall alcohol, rather than the county’sresolution to privatize special orders,could jeopardize the county’s AAAbond rating.
County Executive Isiah Leggettpreviously stated the county’s liquorcontrol business produces not onlyapproximately $30 million in rev-enue but also $114 million in bondsthat are used to fund projects such asroads, libraries and schools.
If the county loses its liquor dis-tribution bonds, the school capital
improvements projects would haveto depend more on general obliga-tions bonds, of which the county ispermitted to sell a limited amount,Leggett said Monday. The county isalmost at its limit of general obliga-tions bonds, he added.
Montgomery County PublicSchools receives 60 percent of thecounty budget, Leggett said.
George Leventhal, CountyCouncil president until Tuesday, list-ed in his testimony five specific cap-ital improvements projects that thebonds would cover, including aschool a police station, a recreationcenter a fire station and a transporta-tion project.
Leventhal said $105 millionwould cover Wilson Wims Elemen-tary School, 3rd District Police Sta-tion, Plum Gar Recreation Station,Travilah Fire Station and the Snouf-fer School Road Widening projectcombined.
For fiscal year 2016, MCPS re-ceived $53 million less than theboard of education requested for itscapital budget. The board of educa-tion recently requested a $17 millionincrease in the budget for the six-year capital improvements plan.
Leggett said he was certain theschool system would be affected bythe loss in revenue resulting fromcomplete or near-complete privatiza-tion of alcohol in the county. He in-quired of the bill sponsors the sourceof funds to replace the $30million inrevenue but did not receive an an-swer.
He listed two consequences for
residents. First, everyone would payan additional approximately $100per year in taxes. Second, the itemson the list of MCPS capital improve-ments projects would remain in thequeue longer, or be eliminated alto-gether.
According to the MCPS, enroll-ment August 31 increased by about2600 students since the previousschool year. The list of capital im-provements projects includesschools that are aging and need to beupdated as well as addition projectsfor schools that have more studentsthan space available to hold them.
Several schools throughout thecounty are overcrowded, while oth-ers are projected to be overcrowdedin next six years. With a lower bondcapacity, fewer of these projectswould be included in the capital bud-get at a time.
Board of Education presidentPat O’Neill said a change in the mon-ey the county earns from liquor con-trol would affect the number of pro-jects MCPS can afford to complete.
“Any deficit, competes in thebond capacity would have a negativeimpact on us because we don’t haveenough bonding ability to completeall the bonding projects that are neces-sary, so it’s a concern,” O’Neill said.
Despite the magnitude of thepotential impact, Manno said he didnot think enough of the senate dele-gation to the county would supportthe bill.
“I would doubt that there are 5votes to pass (the bill) in the senatedelegations,” said Manno.
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PUBLIC NOTICEApplication for Temporary Noise Waiver
The Department of Environmental Protection is currently evaluating an ap-plication for Temporary Noise Waivers as allowed under the MontgomeryCounty Noise Control Ordinance, Chapter 31B, Section 11(a).
Concrete Protection & Restoration, Inc., 2811 Lord Baltimore Dr., Balti-more, MD, is requesting a Temporary Noise Waiver for the ongoing reno-vation of the Montgomery County Executive Office Building traffic circle,101 Monroe St., Rockville. Work involving demolition of concrete isplanned for daytime, nighttime and weekends to expedite the renovationprocess and accommodate daily courthouse activities. The work has beenongoing and is scheduled to occur between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. week-days, and 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. weekends.
The application and related documents are available for public inspection.The Department will receive comments on the application for ten (10) daysafter publication of this notice.
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Police officer honored for humanitarian work By Danica Roem@pwcdanica
Rose Borisow is constantlybusy these days.
And that’s not necessarily agood thing.
When the long-time Mont-gomery County police officer isn’tworking the midnight shift in theGermantown area, she often spendshours a day crafting artistic tributesto first responders and military mem-bers, human and animal alike, whodied in the line of duty from allacross the country and even differentparts of the world.
Back in mid-September,Borisow received a tribute banner ofher own featuring hundreds ofbadges from police and fire depart-ments throughout the United States,the same ones she honored bymemorializing their fallen servicemembers during the last four years.
Her workload hasn’t lightenedup since that late-night recognitionSept. 13.
Last year, she mailed out 120packets of 11x14-inch color prints,all of which she crafts at her own ex-pense and on her own time.
She couldn’t even guess howmany she was on track to draw thisyear.
“It continues. You might have alull of a week or two and then youcan have two in a day. It seems tohave been worse lately. It seems tocome in waves and I just try to keep
up and do the best I can,” saidBorisow.
For her efforts to memorializethose who gave their lives in the lineof duty, The Sentinel in honoringBorisow at its second-annual “Excel-lence in Government” award cere-mony Dec. 11 at the Bethesda Bluesand Jazz Supper Club.
At the same banquet, the Sen-tinel is also honoring Gov. LarryHogan (R), Attorney General BrianFrosh (D), State’s Attorney for Mont-gomery County John McCarthy,County Council member SidneyKatz (D-3), Rockville City Councilmember Beryl Feinberg, Drs. TaraPalmore and Julie Segre and the latepublisher Austin Kiplinger.
Borisow’s award is based onher humanitarian efforts to let lawenforcement departments and fami-lies of the fallen know each servicemember who dies leaves behind alegacy.
“The main point is I like to helppeople heal,” said Borisow. “That'swhat really drew me into this... WhenI hear back from kids and wives andpartners later how much that artworkmeans to them, that makes me hap-py.”
Last month, she drew a pair oftributes for one former PrinceGeorge’s County officer, BarryBeam, when she found out he hadcancer.
Unlike the bulk of Borisow’sart, she had a unique opportunity inthis case to offer thanks to someone
before that person died. Beam suc-cumbed to his disease Nov. 27.
The first design she crafted forhim was inspirational, based on aprayer for healing.
The second one offered a synop-sis of his career, which included mul-ti-year stints with the United StatesAir Force military police and theU.S. Park Police.
According to Borisow, whenBeam received the synopsis print,“That just lit him up and made hisday and then he started going reallydownhill.”
Former U.S. Park Police ChiefTeresa Chambers contacted Borisowabout the idea of drawing up legacyart for Beam while he was still alive.
“I had Rose working on it forprobably six weeks or so,” saidChambers, adding she delivered it tohim Nov. 20, a day before he wentinto surgery.
“Barry just glowed and basked,”she said.
Borisow said she’s found thatdrawings she crafts for police andmilitary dogs killed in action tend toreceive the most attention of herwork, including one of the K9 killedduring a police raid north of Parisshortly after the terrorist attacks inthe city last month.
“And it usually is that way be-cause they are so much more inno-cent, especially these days when po-lice are getting a bad rap,” saidBorisow about the attention peopleoffer to tributes of dead animals.
“Anybody can watch a movie andsee people getting murdered left andright. But when it's an animal, youfeel like it's your pet.”
The daughter of German andRussian immigrants, Borisow is afirst-generation American is nostranger to grief.
Her mother died last month.Three months ago, she put down herdog. She’s attended funeralsthroughout the year.
She’s all too aware of the risk ofpolice work, having shot an armedman in 2000 (he survived) after heran from her with his hand on a gunin his pocket, the same day he shot
someone in Gaithersburg.A judge dismissed a lawsuit
against her. While her art keeps herbusy in her hours away from policingit’s also cathartic, an outlet for ex-pression she’s used to touch thehearts of hundreds of people.
“Sometimes I'll have three to doin a day... but then I'll get inundatedagain,” she said, recalling the frustra-tion of crafting some of her piecesbefore she randomly comes acrosssomeone who thanks her.
“And that's when I'll get a littleangel come along and say, ‘That'swhy you're doing it,’” she said. “Iknow I’m supposed to do it.
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Rose Borisow
By Danica Roem@pwcdanica
Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) canceris in remission. By the book, he’s“100 percent cancer free.”
However, that doesn’t mean hehas an entirely clean bill of health.
He’ll need to stay cancer freefor five years before he’s officiallydefeated the disease.
Hogan relayed during a Dec. 2interview how he not only battledcancer this year during but learnedfrom it too, all while still runningthe state Executive’s Office.
That latter part is why The Sen-tinel is honoring Hogan at its sec-ond-annual “Excellence in Govern-ment” award ceremony Dec. 11 atthe Bethesda Blues and Jazz SupperClub.
“I'm really doing great,” saidHogan. “I’ve been feeling better andbetter almost every single day.”
In the run-up to Father’s Day(June 21), Hogan heard from a groupof doctors he never knew that he hadan aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’slymphoma in its third stage.
Hogan, who’s generally an up-beat speaker, found out one of thehardest things for him about his can-
cer diagnoses was breaking thenews to his family.
He first told his wife, then laterhis adult children, all of whom hesaid shed tears over the news.
While celebrating Father’s Daywith his family, Hogan broke thenews to his own father.
“My dad was probably theworst. He's 86 years old and worriedabout hi s son,” said Hogan. “He'semotional to begin with... I kept try-ing to reassure him that I'm a prettygood.”
According to the Republicangovernor of one of the most Democ-ratic-leaning states in the country, “Ijoked with him this wasn't as toughas beating (former Lieutenant Gov.)Anthony Brown (D) in that election.We're going to have no problembeating this one either.”
The governor, just half a yearinto his first term of leading thestate, decided shortly after his diag-nosis that he wanted to “try to makesomething good come out of this.”
“It was not always easy, it wasbalancing out the job responsibili-ties and my new-found calling toraise awareness, raise money andhelp people who are going throughsimilar battles.”
So he decided with his admin-istration at the onset that he wouldput his life up on display as “trans-parent and open” as possible, whichin turn allowed him to heard fromother cancer patients, ranging fromretirees to inner-city kids in Balti-more.
Likewise, Hogan’s promotedthe idea of early screenings to detectcancer and, in turn, he heard backfrom “several people” who he saidtold him they were checked out be-cause of what he said.
“I certainly learned a lot aboutthe disease,” said Hogan, “abouthow it affects families and lovedones. I saw the kinds of things peo-ple have to deal with.”
As governor, Hogan wouldn’tbe able to execute all of his day-to-day duties, especially attendingevents, while undergoingchemotherapy.
Every 16 days, he entered theUniversity of Maryland MedicalCenter in Baltimore for five days of24-hour chemo treatments.
He also endured three surgeriesand four spinal taps, some of whichwere harder to handle than othersemotionally.
Hogan received treatments in
Baltimore, Anne Arundel and An-napolis, allowing him to be treatedin the same state he governedthroughout his recovery.
Of course, as governor, Hoganacknowledged he has access to thebest medical care in a state that al-ready is one of the worldwide lead-ers in health care.
Meanwhile, Hogan delegatedsome responsibilities to his cabinetand lieutenant governor, who oftenappeared at events in lieu of him be-cause of his weakened immune sys-tem.
Hogan sifted through docu-ments at the hospital, where he alsoreceived security briefings.
“Although I was tied up at thehospital for five days at a time, I wasstill able to get a lot of things done.Physically, I couldn't be out at someevents but I could still make majordecisions,” said Hogan. “In fact, Iwas taking these steroids to combatthe chemotherapy and I was very fo-cused... my staff was complaining Iwas working them too hard.”
According to Hogan, his bestadvice for anyone battling cancer“has to do with attitude,” particular-ly in regard to “not taking time to beworried or scared or feel sorry for
yourself but focus on what you haveto do to get well.”
The governor said his fight of-fered him a new perspective aboutbudgeting.
“It's one thing to look at num-bers and hear about stories but to bethere as a patient for five months, Igot a whole new perspective aboutthe doctors and nurses and the kindof care they provide to the citizensof Maryland,” said Hogan, whoplans to make this year’s capitalblood drive in Annapolis an annualoccurrence.
“It’s something I'm not going toforget about and it's going to besomething I'm going to stay in-volved in... and do everything I canto stay involved with these organi-zations until we find a cure for thisterrible disease.”
During the last half a year,Hogan’s aesthetic changed as he lostall of his hair during chemotherapy,leaving him completely bald.
He’s considering growing hismane back out though that may notbe his call to make.
“We haven't gotten the finalword yet,” he said. “I think I'll letthe first lady make the final deci-sion.”
Governor Hogan honored for battling cancer
NEWSDECEMBER 3, 2015 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL 11
By Karen TangCapital News Service
SILVER SPRING -- ChrissyGrube is like any other 10-year-oldballerina. She loves dancing andstriking arabesque poses with herfive-year-old sister, Amanda.
“I love to dance,” Chrissy de-clared. “I dance wherever I am.”
Chrissy and Amanda are Ger-mantown residents but attend class-es at Maryland Youth Ballet in SilverSpring. They are a part of the Musicand Motion program that is offeredat the ballet studio.
However, while the girls aretreated like ballerinas, there is onething that sets the girls in the Musicand Motion classes apart from oth-ers: they all have disabilities.
Chrissy and Amanda sufferfrom a rare genetic disorder calledgiant axonal neuropathy (GAN),which results in loss of control incertain body functions, such as mov-ing the arms and legs.
The last time Chrissy was ableto walk was in February 2014. Shehas since lost all function in her legs.
“The effects of GAN are usual-
ly apparent when the children aretoddlers and fail to develop motorskills normally,” said her father,Steve Grube
It turns out Chrissy was bornwith GAN, but it wasn’t until Sept.11, 2014, that she was diagnosedwith the disease.
Chrissy now needs a wheel-chair to move from one place to an-other, but her disability doesn’t stopher from doing what she loves.
“The ability to again be adancer, even if it is in an adaptiveclass, made Chrissy very happy,”Steve Grube said.
The program provides thera-peutic ballet classes to dancers withphysical disabilities, so for Chrissyand others like her, they are able toget up and move around when theyusually aren’t able to.
“We don’t have classes per dis-ability,” said Mary Henley, Musicand Motion instructor. “It doesn’tmatter, if you are willing and want tobe here, then you’re in.”
Chrissy’s father emphasizedthat the Maryland Youth Ballet is theonly facility in the area that putsforth the effort to let disabled kids
lead rich lives through dance.Chrissy and Amanda travel
more than an hour every Saturday toparticipate in Henley’s classes.
Like any other ballet class, thegirls start by stretching and goingover choreography moves.
The ballet classes have allowedthe girls to feel like every other kidin the world, Steve Grube said.
Music and Motion provides twodance sessions. The first class is of-fered to those disabled children thatare able to walk mostly without as-sistance, while the second class isoffered to those in wheelchairs orwalkers, Henley said.
How can one practice balletwhile in a wheelchair? Henley letsthe girls dance in weight-bearingharnesses, which allows thosedancers that are unable to use theirlegs to move freely.
“Imagine sitting all day, every-day,” Henley said. “Isn’t it wonder-ful when you finally get up?”
One of Chrissy’s favorite partsof ballet is being able to move herlegs, she said.
“There is very little else in theweek (that Chrissy) looks forward to
than dancing,” Steve Grube said.Chrissy isn’t the only one excit-
ed.“This is the only thing I look
forward to every week,” Henleysaid.
It’s a job where she can see
long-term results working with peo-ple who need it, she said.
Chrissy and Amanda’s fatheragreed.
“Mary’s efforts (at Music andMotion) are legendary,” SteveGrube said.
A most determined ballerina . . .
By Jacob BellCapital News Service
ANNAPOLIS—Jim Reihl fol-lowed a routine over his first 30 yearsas an oysterman: Get to work beforesunrise, harvest until he meets hisquota or fatigue sets in, and headback to the docks by 3 p.m.
But his routine has changedsince 2010, when the state beganbeefing up its development of water-men-restricted oyster sanctuaries inthe hope that bivalve numbers re-bound from decades of harvests, dis-ease and declining bay health.
Maryland will get a windowinto the effectiveness of their sanctu-aries come July, when the results of amulti-year, multi-million dollar oys-ter restoration project in the Chesa-peake Bay become available.
Until then, oyster stakeholdersthroughout Maryland are playing thewaiting game—a game local water-men say they can’t play much longer.
Nearly a quarter of the remain-ing available oyster habitats in thebay are sanctuaries, including HarrisCreek, the site of the state’s restora-tion project. To ensure the bestchance of success for the sanctuaries,the state and its partner agenciespicked locations with good waterquality, ideal salt levels and hard bot-toms for the oysters to settle on.
Many of those locations, how-ever, were frequently worked by wa-termen, according to Reihl.
“They took 25 percent of thebest bottom in the state,” said Reihl,
who also serves as a board memberfor the Maryland Oystermen Associ-ation. “If we’re not going to get that25 percent back, and we don’t expectto get it back, you have to make dowith what you got.”
Maryland oystermen brought in$14.1 million in dockside sales lastyear, a 15-year high, according to theMaryland Oyster Population StatusReport 2014 Fall Survey. They andstate officials attribute much of thatsuccess to increased harvesting intraditionally underworked areas, aswell as above-average production ofoyster babies, called spat, across thebay.
Additionally, early research hasshown better-than-expected survivalrates among oysters in the HarrisCreek sanctuary, which completedspat seeding in mid-September, and atendency for currents to push manysanctuary-spawned oysters out tocommercial waters where watermencan turn them into profits.
In spite of the figures and re-search, many of the more than 1,000licensed oystermen in Maryland re-main wary of sanctuary efforts.
The oystermen see last year’slarge haul as an initial victory in anotherwise long-term battle. Harvest-ing from underworked areas requiresyears of dredging oysters and replen-ishing shells, which oysters latch ontoand grow from, for bars to becomeconsistently lucrative, Reihl said.
The bigger worry, though, isthat the years of restrictions will be invain, that the Harris Creek data will
show no significant difference be-tween oyster populations in protect-ed versus unprotected waters, or,even worse, the data will show sanc-tuary efforts are more prosperousthan they actually are—a false posi-tive—according to Jim Mullen, ex-ecutive director of the MarylandOystermen Association.
“I’ll be honest, the jury is out,”Mullen said. “(We) don’t know whatthey’ll find.”
Of particular concern is BroadCreek, a public shellfish fishing trib-utary that neighbors Harris Creek.Both creeks empty into the same riv-er, the Choptank, which is also large-ly public.
Broad Creek produces a set ofjuvenile oysters each year. The bigquestion is how researchers will de-termine where spat in the ChoptankRiver came from, Mullen said. With-out that determination, Broad Creekspat that end up in the Choptank Riv-er could overstate the amount emi-grating from Harris Creek -- and theoverall success of the project, hesaid.
Rivers with higher spat produc-tion normally have more spat travel-ing out to other waters, meaning re-searchers could discern origins basedon rivers’ individual spat levels, saidElizabeth North, associate professorat the University of Maryland Centerfor Environmental Science HornPoint Laboratory.
Origins gets murky, however, ifboth creeks have similar spat produc-tion.
“I don’t see how anyone is go-ing to be able to say one way or an-other, unless we use some really out-standing genetic evidence that does-n’t exist yet,” North said.
The Harris Creek project costthe state and its partner agenciesmore than $25 million between 2011and 2015. That money went to con-struction and seeding of oyster barsacross 312 acres of river bottom.
The project’s success wouldbuttress further sanctuary efforts andserve as a step toward meeting regu-lations for oysters and bay clean up.The state must restore oyster popula-tions and habitats in 10 bay tribu-taries by 2025 to meet the goals ofthe Chesapeake Watershed Agree-ment, a state-federal plan that formerGov. Martin O’Malley signed in2014.
“We have about 1 percent of ourhistoric level of oysters left in theChesapeake Bay. Obviously, that’s apretty dire situation,” said StephanieWestby, Chesapeake Bay OysterRestoration Manager for the Nation-al Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-istration, which partners with thestate. Estimates of oyster harvestsduring the late 19th century indicatehauls of 15 million bushels eachyear, according to the Horn PointLaboratory. Last year, harvest levelswere at 416,000 bushels, accordingto the state’s 2014 Fall Survey.
“There’s broad recognition thatwe need to do (restoration) on a larg-er scale, and we need to do it on asanctuary level.”
The Maryland Oyster Restora-tion Interagency Workgroup, whichincludes NOAA, the Maryland De-partment of Natural Resources, theOyster Recovery Partnership and theBaltimore District of the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers, has more sanc-tuary work scheduled for the Chop-tank River complex.
That work includes in-waterrestoration of 440 acres of the LittleChoptank River, which began in2014. The project plans to plant near-ly 2 billion oyster seeds and will costan estimated $29 million. Anotherrestoration project in the nearby TredAvon River began this year, with 24acres of reef costing more than $2million constructed.
Adult oysters can filter up to50 gallons of water each day, ac-cording to the Chesapeake BayFoundation.
“They’re pretty good filter feed-ers, so they remove a lot of the partic-ulate algae from the bay,” said Don-ald Meritt, director of the hatcheryprogram at the Horn Point Laborato-ry, which provides the state with oys-ter seed and shells. “The state is very,very interested in having healthyoyster populations, which supporthealthy oyster fisheries.”
Watermen argue, though, thatthe methods the state is using toreach that end are hurting them in theshort term. A shortage in the supplyof oyster shells, for example, haspushed the state to use stone for theinfrastructure of many of its newbars.
Beware the oyster man as he worries over the sanctuaries
PHOTO BY KAREN TANG
Chrissy Grube.
NEWS12 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL DECEMBER 3, 2015
O’Malley hunts for support in his home stateBy JON BANISTERCapital News Service
WASHINGTON -- FormerMaryland Gov. Martin O’Malleymet with the House Democratic Cau-cus Tuesday morning in an effort toearn more support for his presiden-tial run as he continues to struggle inthe polls.
Democratic frontrunner HillaryClinton has been endorsed by 38 sen-ators and 144 House members,, in-cluding every Democrat in the Mary-land delegation.
“I certainly asked all the mem-bers if I could not today be their firstchoice, if I could today be their sec-ond choice and I look forward totheir support in the future,” O’Mal-ley said in a press conference after
the meeting, responding to a CapitalNews Service question. “So I don’texpect any endorsements today but Ido expect endorsements later in thisprocess once the people start to de-cide.”
In addition to not receiving anyendorsements from Maryland’s con-gressional Democrats, O’Malleyalso has struggled to earn supportfrom the voters of his home state.Just 7 percent of Maryland Democra-tic voters listed the former governoras their top choice in a MarylandPublic Opinion Survey conducted inNovember by St. Mary’s College andreleased Tuesday.
That survey also showed O’-Malley holding a 26 percent ap-proval rating among Maryland resi-dents, with 66 percent rating him un-
favorably.Hillary Clinton led with 48 per-
cent of Maryland respondents, whileVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders re-ceived 19 percent.
Speaking to reporters, O’Malleydrew a contrast between himself andthe two Democratic frontrunners oneconomic policy, trying to positionhimself between Clinton andSanders, a self-described Democrat-ic Socialist.
“The economy we build is aproduct of the choices we make,”O’Malley said. “Between the sort ofcrony capitalism and Wall Street cap-italism, an economy by the few andfor the few, and the proven failurethat is socialism, there is a better wayforward and it is fair market Ameri-can capitalism where, when people
work hard, they are able to getahead.”
House Democratic CaucusChairman Rep. Xavier Becerra ofCalifornia said O’Malley received awarm reception from Democrats inthe closed meeting.
“Not only was he well-received,he received a standing ovation andquite a bit of applause. And so he’sconsidered a great friend, a great De-mocrat, and one of the best gover-nors we’ve seen in quite some time,”Becerra said in a press conference af-ter the caucus meeting. “All of uswere thrilled and pleased that he tookthe time to visit with us and give usmore words about his leadership andwhat he would do for this country.”
O’Malley has been endorsed byone member of Congress, Rep. Eric
Swalwell of California, a Universityof Maryland College Park alumnus.
“What I most admire is his per-spective as someone who is willingto, day in and day out, make the caseliterally doorstep to doorstep, mainstreet to main street, across Iowa andNew Hampshire and he believes thatthe time he puts in now will pay divi-dends come January and February,”Swalwell told reporters after themeeting.
On the Republican side, the St.Mary’s College survey showedstrong support in Maryland for Don-ald Trump and Ben Carson, with 27percent and 24 percent respectively.The survey was conducted via e-mailand had 116 respondents, giving it arelatively high margin of error ofplus or minus 9.1 percent.
By Naomi EideCapital News Service
ANNAPOLIS-- Maryland’scomptroller on Tuesday proposedlegislation to boost penalties for tax-related crimes and increase thestate’s prevention and enforcementefforts.
“Tax fraud and identity theft as-sociated with it are a growing con-cern across the country as personalinformation becomes more and moreavailable to perpetrators and asschemes become more and more so-phisticated,” said Comptroller PeterFranchot.
Franchot, a Democrat, is re-sponsible for Maryland’s revenues,including tax collection. His pro-posed Taxpayer Protection Act is de-signed to allow officials to better de-tect and prevent fraudulent tax activ-ity.
In 2007, the comptroller’s officestopped 314 fraudulent returns worthapproximately $656,000. As of the
end of October 2015, the comptrol-ler’s office has stopped 18,709 fraud-ulent returns totalling more than $38million, according to Franchot.
Since he took office in 2007, thecomptroller’s office has stopped ap-proximately $152 million in taxfraud, Franchot said.
Franchot did not say how muchfraudulent tax returns have cost thestate.
The act would increase thestatute of limitations for tax-relatedcrimes to six years, allowing officialsmore time to fully investigate crimesand press charges. The current statuteof limitations is three years.
Under the proposed law, peoplecommitting certain tax-relatedcrimes would face felony instead ofmisdemeanor charges, according tothe comptroller’s office news re-lease.
For those tax preparers under in-vestigation for committing fraud, of-ficials could place injunctions to stopthem from filing more returns, ac-
cording to Franchot. The act would also provide offi-
cers in the comptroller’s field en-forcement division with additionalpowers needed to enforce tax law, in-cluding issuing subpoenas and sign-ing charging documents, Franchotsaid.
The comptroller’s office has“some authority to issue administra-tive subpoenas,” said Jeffrey Kelly,director of the comptroller’s FieldEnforcement Division. The legisla-tion would “expand on that slightlybut it will also allow for us to issuecriminal subpoenas in certain typesof cases, like income tax fraud.”
Enforcement Agents, as part ofthe Field Enforcement Division, aresworn-in police officers who investi-gate and enforce laws related to staterevenue, according to comptroller’swebsite.
The increased authority wouldallow them to act more quickly in taxfraud cases, Kelly said.
“What we’re saying, with this
legislation, is that we think there’sgoing to be a lot more sophisticatedprograms to attack agencies in stateslike ours and giving us this legisla-tive authority, extra enforcement,will allow us -- we estimate -- to headoff $20 million in prospective fraudschemes,” Franchot said.
The main goal of the act is toprotect taxpayer’s money and priva-cy, creating a “very strong initiativegoing after the bad guys,” Franchotsaid.
According to a January reportby the U.S. Government Account-ability Office, in 2013 the IRS paidout approximately $5.8 billion infraudulent tax returns.
“Nefarious people” take realpersonal information and send it in toreceive tax returns, diverting themoney from the legitimate taxpayerand into the perpetrator’s account,said Kelly.
“It’s not difficult to get a wholelot of very private information frompublic sources,” which large crimi-
nal organizations, working from dif-ferent states or internationally, use tofile fraudulent tax returns, Kellysaid. “We can’t keep up with thetechnology they’re employing rightnow.”
To help protect taxpayers, theproposed act would move up thewithholding date that employers arerequired to file their tax returns withthe state from Feb. 28 to Jan. 31, ac-cording to Deputy ComptrollerSharonne Bonardi.
“Fraudsters tend to file earlyand unfortunately file often,” Bonar-di said, so moving up the date so thecomptroller’s office receives the em-ployer tax information earlier wouldhelp deter potential fraud.
Earlier this year, Franchot tookadditional steps to help curb taxfraud in Maryland. In November, thecomptroller’s office signed a Memo-randum of Understanding with theIRS to help share information to helpdetect refund fraud and increase se-curity measures.
Franchot proposes changes to tax collection laws
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Dec. 3. 8:00 P.M. A holiday mash-up for thewhole family, The Hip Hop Nutcracker re-imaginesTchaikovsky’s classic score through explosive hip-hop choreography. A dozen all-star dancers, an on-stage DJ, and an electric violinist bring the tradition-al Nutcracker story to life in contemporary NewYork City. Presented by Strathmore at Strath-more - The Music Center, 5301 Tuckerman Lane,North Bethesda. Admission Info: $29-$46 | Phone:301-581-5100
THEATRE: GUYS AND DOLLSDec 3. 2:00 – 4:30 P.M. and 8:00 – 10:30 P.M.
Considered by many to be the perfect musical com-edy, and featuring great musical theatre classics like“Luck Be A Lady,” “A Bushel and a Peck,” and “SitDown, You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” Guys and Dollsweaves a tale of old-time gangsters, hot-box girls,and gambling. Join Nathan, Adelaide, Sky, andSarah in one of America’s best-loved musicals.(Recommended for ages 7 and up). Tickets are $38-$75. Discounts available for groups, students, se-niors, and military. Presented by Olney TheatreCenter at Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney SandySpring Rd, Olney. For more information call 301-924-3400. Additional dates: December 4, and 5.
DEC 4AMERICANA BAND THE STEEL WHEELSTO RETURN TO BLACKROCK
Dec. 4. 8:00 P.M. Following a sold-out perfor-mance in 2014, BlackRock Center for the Arts willwelcome back Americana band The Steel Wheelson Friday, December 4 at 8:00pm. The dynamicfour-piece string band has captured audiences acrossthe country with their heady brew of original soulfulmountain music and their deep commitment to rootsand community. Based in the Blue Ridge Mountainsof Virginia, The Steels Wheels is a dynamic four-piece string band that marries old-time musical tra-ditions with their own innovative sound andlifestyle, generating a truly magnetic revival. Ticketsto see The Steel Wheels are $18 - $44 and are sell-ing fast. To purchase tickets please call240.912.1058 or visit blackrockcenter.org.
MBT'S 27TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION OFTHE NUTCRACKER
Dec. 4 – 13. Metropolitan Ballet Theatre hasbeen presenting the full-length traditional staging ofThe Nutcracker since 1989. Year after year audi-ences are enchanted by MBT's performances whichfeature student and professional dancers, fabulouscostumes, and beautiful scenery including a Christ-mas tree that seemingly grows forever, magicaldancing dolls, marching toy soldiers, giant mice, adazzling blizzard with dancing snowflakes and aland of luscious sweets. Tickets start at $19, groupdiscounts available. Presented by Metropolitan Bal-let Theatre and Robert E. Parilla Performing ArtsCenter at Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center,51 Mannakee St., Rockville. Phone: 301-762-1757
HOLIDAY MARKET 2015 AT DEL RAY AR-TISANS
Dec. 4 – 20. Del Ray Artisans 20th Annual Hol-iday Market features handcrafted work from localartists (wall art, botanical, pottery, photography, jew-elry, glass, and more), plus poinsettias, ornaments,and 2016 calendars to support the gallery. Differentartists are featured each weekend! Open the firstthree weekends in December: December 4-6, De-cember 11-13, December 18-20. Hours: Fridays 6-9pm, Saturdays and Sundays 11am-6pm. Locatedin the Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Av-enue, Alexandria VA. Free entry and handicap ac-cessible. www.TheDelRayArtisans.org/Holiday-Market
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moreland Church. Items for sale include embroi-dery, olive wood, glass, ceramics, jewelry, andmore. The event is free. Westmoreland is located inBethesda, MD, on Westmoreland Circle at the inter-section of Massachusetts and Western Avenues.Parking is available. 301-229-7766. Additionaldates Dec. 5 from 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. and Dec.6 from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.
DEC 5"THE NUTCRACKER" PRESENTED BYROCKVILLE CIVIC BALLET
Dec. 5 and 12 at 2 and 7:30 P.M. Dec. 6 and 13at 2 P.M. Tickets: $17 Adults, $13 Children (12 andunder) and seniors (60 and older). . Buy tickets on-line at www.rockvillemd.gov/theatre or by phone orin person at the box office (240-314-8690). Where:F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
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The trio will perform Beethoven Piano TriosOp.1, No. 3 and Op. 70 No. 1 and Brahms PianoTrio, No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87. For more informa-tion call 301-320-2770
NIH PHILLHARMONIA CONCERTDec. 5. 7:30 P.M. The NIH Philharmonia, under
the direction of Nancia D'Alimonte, presents "TheEmperor" on Saturday, December 5th at 7:30 pm.The concert will feature Mathew Van Hoose, pianosoloist, and will include: Beethoven - Piano Concer-to no. 5 (Emperor); Brahms – Symphony no. 4
The concert is free to the public and will takeplace at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville,MD. Please call 240 888 6781 with any questions.
RSI HOLIDAY BAZAAR AND CRAFTSHOW
Dec. 5. 9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. Handmade crafts,book sale, bake sale, raffle, thrift shop and home-made treats. This event is sponsored by Rockville
Seniors, Inc. Location: Rockville Senior Center |1150 Carnation Drive, Rockville. Contact: 240-314-8800.
A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL: LATIN SONGS& BELTWAY BRASS
Dec. 5. 7:00 – 9:00 P.M. Bask in the contagiousrhythms of the Caribbean parranda and the Mexicanposada that are part of the 12-day Epiphany celebra-tions. The concert features Sonia Morales’s Christ-mas song Brillará una Estrella, for choir and brassquintet; popular bilingual sing-alongs; and Ameri-can classics with The Beltway Brass Quintet. Weextend a very special invitation to all former Canti-gas singers! Come re-live joyful holiday memoriesas you join us in singing Cantigas’s hallmark holi-day songs. Bethesda United Methodist Church,8300 Old Georgetown Rd., Rockville. Phone: 301-230-1361
EXHIBITION: REFLECTIONS ONJERUSALEM
Dec. 5. 4:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. PhotoworksGallery is pleased to present Chip Kahn's Reflec-tions on Jerusalem. Artist Reception and GalleryTalk on Saturday, December 5, 2015, 4-6PM. Thisevent is located at the Photworks Gallery. Go toglenechophotoworks.org for more details.
FAIR HILL SHOPPING CENTER TO HOSTWINTER FESTIVAL AND CANNED FOODDRIVE
Dec. 5. 1:00 – 4:00 P.M. Fair Hill Shops wel-comes the community to celebrate a Winter Festivaland donate canned food items to benefit the MannaFood Center. The center is anchored by HarrisTeeter and is located at 18100, Town Center Drivein Olney, MD. Fair Hill Shops is hosting a FREEfamily day with arts, crafts and activities for the en-tire family!
THE CHRISTMAS REVELS: A MEDIEVALCELEBRATION OF THE WINTER SOL-STICE
Dec. 5 – 13. Revel with us and with our belovedking, a mysterious woodland queen, a pair of fools,and an unexpected guest. As the Winter Solsticecalls us all together, meet us in a special place thatstraddles the majestic and the mythical realms. Thetown folk gather with court and forest, new and oldtraditions find common ground, and a deeper com-munity emerges. Join us and find the true heart andspirit of the holiday season as we bid goodbye to theold year and celebrate the birth of the new.
Amidst it all, enjoy rousing traditional music,
powerful medieval songs, ethereal chants, seasonalcarols, rollicking tunes on early instruments, famil-iar rounds, folk and courtly dances, a madcap “12Days of
Christmas,” the eerily hypnotic Abbots Bromleyhorn dance, a topsy-turvy “Lord of Misrule,” and anevocative mummers’ play. Where: Lisner Auditori-um, 21st and H Streets NW, Washington, DC20052. For more information call (301) 587-3835.
DEC 6CLARA BARTON HOLIDAY CRAFTSHOW
Dec. 6. 1:00 – 5:00 P.M. The Friends of theClara Barton Community Center is sponsoring theninth annual Holiday Craft Show at the Center,7425 MacArthur Boulevard, Cabin John, Maryland20818, on Sunday, December 6, 2015, from 1:00 –5:00 p.m. Free event with free parking. Our show isspecial because all 50 artists, authors and crafters arefrom the local area and are presenting their ownwork.
Questions? Call Leslie Barden at 301-365-1311,email: [email protected] You can alsovisit our website at http://www.friendscbcc.org
PATH TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE: "PUR-SUIT OF HARMONY TOUR"
Dec. 6. 3:00 P.M. Colesville United MethodistChurch is presenting a very unique and powerfulprogram – “The Pursuit of Harmony Tour”.Colesville UMC is hosting the celebrated and awardwinning Jewish-American songwriter/producerMichael Hunter Ochs and noted Palestinian song-writer/recording artist and Peace Activist Alaa Al-shaham for an intimate afternoon of song and con-versation. Where: Colesville United MethodistChurch, 52 Randolph Rd., Silver Spring, MD20904.
FREE HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE ATROCKVILLE'S GLENVIEW MANSION
Dec. 6. 1:00 – 4:00 P.M. Opening reception forthe free Rockville Art League exhibition (openthrough Dec. 31) at the mansion's art gallery. Enjoylive music by: Rockville Singers at 1:15 p.m., Vic-torian Lyric Opera Company at 2:15 p.m., and Capi-tal Accord Chorus at 3:15 p.m. | Rockville CivicCenter Park, 603 Edmonston Drive.
FANCY NANCY SPLENDIFEROUSCHRISTMAS
Dec. 6. 11:00 – 2:00 P.M. Break out your partydresses – Fancy Nancy is back after two sold-outshows in 2014! This December celebrate the holi-day season with Fancy Nancy in this hour-long mu-sical based on the popular children’s book. In thispiece Fancy Nancy learns despite all the presents,decorations, parties, and other fancy holiday things,family and especially her sister Jojo are more impor-tant than any fancy stuff that she could buy. Filledwith catchy, charming songs, this energetic and col-orful holiday indulgence is appropriate for childrenof all ages. Tickets: $15 - $21.
NATURAL HOLIDAY CRAFTS(ADULT/CHILD)
Dec. 6. 1:30 – 3:00 P.M. Spend the afternoonusing a variety of natural or recycled objects tomake holiday crafts and ornaments. Each participantwill complete at least three projects. Ages 3-10.Adult participation required for children under age8. Croydon Creek Nature Center, 852 Avery Rd.,Rockville. Contact: 240-314-8770. Registration re-quired.
THE KLEZMATICSDec. 6. 6:00 P.M. World-renowned Grammy-
winning superstars, The Klezmatics have revitalizedklezmer for the new century. Steeped in Eastern Eu-ropean Jewish tradition and spirituality, their sound
is inspired by Arab, African, Latin and Balkanrhythms, and their music addresses contemporarythemes such as human rights and anti-fundamental-ism. In the course of over twenty years they have re-leased nine albums of wild, spiritual, provocative,reflective and ecstatically danceable music, foreverredefining and transcending traditional labels. Tick-ets: $18 - $44. Tickets to all events are on salethrough the BlackRock box office in person, onlineat blackrockcenter.org or by calling 240.912.1058.
DEC 8COMMUNITY CHANUKAH CELEBRA-TIONS
Dec. 8. 6:00 P.M. The Menorah Fire Truck Pa-rade begins at 6 pm from RVFD Station 3 inRockville. The parade travels to Chanukah Wonder-land and through the neighborhoods on its way toour Chabad House, 11520 Darnestown Rd.,Gaithersburg. The parade concludes at the ChabadHouse with the lighting of our Community Meno-rah and a Chanukah Party. For more details, pleasevisit our website, www.OurShul.org, or call our of-fice, 301.926.3632. Please provide this contact in-formation in your publication. If you have any ques-tions, please feel free to contact Rabbi SholomRaichik at 301.537.0067 or [email protected].
DEC 9THE LAUREL SENIOR FRIENDSHIPCLUB (LSFC) GENERAL MEETING
Dec. 9. 10:30 A.M. The Laurel Senior Friend-ship Club (LSFC) will be holding its next GeneralMonthly Meeting on Wednesday, December 9,2015 @ 10:30 am. Come & learn about our club,hear about our planned trips for 2016 and enjoy aspecial "Christmas Wishes" music program by theNew Dimensions Singers. If you would like to at-tend our roast beef luncheon, please sign-up byWednesday, December 2. This month's luncheon isbeing provided at no cost by the LSFC & is open toall seniors. The meeting will be held at the Laurel-Beltsville Senior Activity Center (L-BSCA), 7120Contee Rd., Laurel, MD 20707. Please refer ques-tions to the LSFC office (301-206-3380), Mondaythrough Friday, 10 am to 12:30 pm.
DEMYSTIFYING MEDICAREDec. 9. 7:00 – 8:45 P.M. Get answers to impor-
tant questions about Medicare now: When should Isign up? Can I work and get Medicare? What is theMedicare alphabet—A, B, C and D? Speaker, LetaBlank, Program Coordinator of the MontgomeryCounty State Health Insurance Assistance Programwill answer these questions and more. Call 240-777-0200 for more information. Place: Quince Or-chard Library / 15831 Quince Orchard Road /Gaithersburg | Free
UPCOMINGGEORGETOWN GLOW LIGHT-ART EX-HIBITION
Dec 11 – 20. Georgetown GLOW—the popularholiday celebration featuring outdoor public light-artinstallations that invite visitors to “re-imagine theseason of light,”—is even bigger for 2015. In itssecond year, Georgetown GLOW will expand froma weekend-long celebration to a 10-day exhibitionfrom December 11-20, with works lit from 6 – 10p.m. nightly. Georgetown GLOW is a signaturewinter event celebrating the holiday season orga-nized by the Georgetown Business ImprovementDistrict (BID). Visitwww.GeorgetownGLOWDC.com for announce-
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ments and updates. The Georgetown GLOW exhi-bition encourages contemplation of, and interactionwith, the natural environment. The intimate, historicC&O Canal—a beautiful, meditative waterwayreminiscent of Georgetown’s founding as a porttown just steps from bustling M Street—will serveas the primary location for the works. Five site-spe-cific installations, commissioned by local, regionaland international artists, will be on view along andadjacent to the C&O Canal, Georgetown WaterfrontPark, and other locations south of M Street. Whileworks will be on view throughout the 10-day peri-od, each piece will be lit nightly from 6-10 p.m. Anannouncement of the artists and their projects is tocome.
CLAIRE LYNCH BLUEGRASS HOLIDAYDec. 11. 8:00 P.M. This Holiday season, treat
your family to an evening of classic holiday tunesperformed by award-winning Bluegrass singerClaire Lynch and her white-hot band featuring soul-ful, young gun Bryan McDowell (fiddle-mandolin),twenty-something virtuoso Jarrod Walker (man-dolin-guitar) and A-Lister Mark Schatz (bass-ban-jo). You’ll see an Appalachian dance around aChristmas tree, feel the joy of the Menorah lights,and experience the extraordinary skills of the CLBplayers as they present a jazz interpretation of abeloved old carol. While Emmylou Harris hailsLynch as having the “voice of an angel,” Dolly Par-ton credits Claire with “one of the sweetest, purestand best lead voices in the music business today.”Named by DigitalJournal.com as one of the “10 best
angelic voices of our time” alongside icons likeJudy Collins, Sarah McLaughlin and Alison Krauss,Claire Lynch is a legend in her own right. Tickets toall events are on sale through the BlackRock box of-fice in person, online at blackrockcenter.org or bycalling 240.912.1058. Tickets: $18 - $36.
HOLIDAY GINGERBREAD HOUSEWORKSHOP
Dec. 12. 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Build yourown gingerbread house for holidays. Come learn thetricks of the trade and get creative. Fee includes onehouse and all the sweet decorating supplies. Work-ing conditions will include plenty of cookies and hotchocolate. Thomas Farm Community Center, 700Fallsgrove Drive, Rockville. Cost: $45 resi-dents/$50 non-residents. Course #52322.
COMMUNITY CHANUKAH CELEBRA-TIONS
Dec. 12. 7:00 – 9:00 P.M. Join our FamilyChanukah party with a Havdalah service, music and
dancing, latkes, drinks, and more activities. This willbe held at Chanukah Wonderland, 640 CenterpointWay. For more details, please visit our website,www.OurShul.org, or call our office, 301.926.3632.Please provide this contact information in your pub-lication. If you have any questions, please feel freeto contact Rabbi Sholom Raichik at 301.537.0067or [email protected].
“HOLIDAY SIP AND SHOP“Dec. 12. 11:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. King Farm Vil-
lage Center will partner with four unique boutiquetrucks and a local coffee truck for a holiday shop-ping event that will take place by the Village Greenacross from L’Or Salon and Baja Fresh. Tin LizzyMobile Boutique, The Strut Truck, The Board Bus,and Trunk Love will all be on hand offering a rangeof men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing and ac-cessories. To help visitors stay warm, the JavaCruiser will be offering complimentary lattes, cap-puccinos, hot cider, and hot chocolate. King FarmVillage Center in Rockville, Md. Is located off Red-land Boulevard less than a mile from I-270’s Exit 8and just west of MD Route 355/Rockville Pike
HOLIDAY ROCK CONCERT SET FORROCKVILLE SYNAGOGUE
Dec. 13. 7:30 P.M. Tikvat Israel Congregation'scantor, Rochelle Helzner, will join the Mark NovakBand for a holiday concert, “Rock of Ages – JewishMusic with a Contemporary Beat at the synagogue.Tickets are $25 each. Order online attikvatisrael.org/concert or call 301-762-7338. Tik-vat Israel is located at 2200 Baltimore Road inRockville MD.
FREE HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE ATROCKVILLE'S GLENVIEW MANSION
Dec. 13. 1:00 – 4:00 P.M. Children's Day withSanta and Mrs. Claus and live music by: The Heav-enly Handbells of Trinity Lutheran Church at 1:15p.m., Heart of Maryland Chorus at 2:15 p.m., andWatkins Mill High School Chamber Singers at 3:15p.m. | Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 EdmonstonDrive
AFRO BLUE CHRISTMASDec. 13. 5:00 P.M. Howard University’s premier
vocal ensemble Afro Blue will bring their “vocal bigband” stylings to BlackRock in a special holidayconcert jam-packed with unique arrangements oftraditional holiday songs. Afro Blue has previouslyperformed their holiday show live on NPR and atthe White House. Performing music similar to thestyles of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, The Man-hattan Transfer and Take 6 – while adding their ownunique sound – Afro Blue has performed to wide
critical acclaim. Tickets to all December perfor-mances are now on sale and can be purchasedthrough the BlackRock box office in person, overthe phone by calling 240.912.1058, or online atblackrockcenter.org.
MCM OPEN HOUSEDec. 17. 12:00 – 1:00 P.M. The International
Cultural Center (ICC) in partnership with Mont-gomery County Faith Community Working Group(FCWG) and Gaithersburg Interfaith Alliance (GIA)invites you to an open house to learn more about ourMontgomery County Model (MCM). Please savethe date. Open to Public. Please plan to bring yourown lunch. WHERE: 19650 Club House Road, Ste# 205, Montgomery Village. For more informationemail [email protected]
LLOYD DOBLER EFFECT: HOLIDAY EX-PERIENCE CONCERT
De. 18. 7:00 P.M. Enjoy a mix of holiday fa-vorites, band originals that are performed in an alter-nate fashion and unique cover songs orchestrated bythe band. Features visits by Santa Claus, TheGrinch, The Human Dreidel, Elvis, a Leprechaun,Bad Santa and more. Tickets: $15 advanced; $18day-of-show.
Buy tickets online at www.rockvillemd.gov/the-atre or by phone or in person at the box office (240-314-8690). Where: F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
BETHESDA FINE ARTS FESTIVALDec. 18. Application Deadline. The Bethesda
Fine Arts Festival features 130 booth spaces. Alloriginal fine art and fine craft is eligible to apply. Allwork must be created by the artist; no manufacturedor mass produced work is eligible. All artists mustprovide their own white tents and weights. BoothFees:
Standard 10 x 10 .......... $425; Deluxe 10 x20.............. $850; Application Fee .............$35. Cre-ate an account and user login. Upload images andpay $35 entry fee using major credit card. The 13thannual Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will be on Satur-day, May 14 & Sunday, May 15, 2016, in down-town Bethesda, Maryland, a lively urban arearenowned for restaurants, shopping, galleries andtheaters
"WELCOME WINTER" PRESENTED BYTHE ROCKVILLE CONCERT BAND
Dec. 20. 3:00 P.M. Expect to hear the soft snowfalling, bright holiday cheers and icicles tinkling.
No tickets required; $5 suggested donation. Buytickets online at www.rockvillemd.gov/theatre or byphone or in person at the box office (240-314-8690).Where: F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
HOLIDAY CONCERT PRESENTED BYTHE ROCKVILLE CHORUS
Dec. 20. 7:30 P.M. Enjoy a wide variety of se-lections -- both traditional and contemporary -- tocelebrate the season. No tickets required; $5 sug-gested donation. Where: F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
ART EXHIBIT: "TRUE COLORS: LIKE ARAINBOW" AT DEL RAY ARTISANS
Jan 8-31, 2016. Del Ray Artisans’ artists inter-pret colors of the rainbow in the "True Colors: Likea Rainbow" art exhibit. For centuries artists havebeen inspired by these true colors. Come enjoy theartwork and mingle with the artists at the OpeningReception on January 8, 2016 from 7-9pm at DelRay Artisans gallery (2704 Mount Vernon Ave,Alexandria VA). Don’t miss the workshops on wirejewelry, polymer clay, resin, and paper flowers!www.TheDelRayArtisans.org/True
COFFEE AND CRITIQUE Dec. 13. 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Sunday
morning photo jam sessions! View and discussyour prints. This free event has unlimited coffee
and bagels. Coffee and Critique is at Photoworks.For more information viewglenechophotoworks.org.
FREE HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE ATROCKVILLE'S GLENVIEW MANSION
Dec. 20. 1:00 – 4:00 P.M. Tour the mansionand enjoy live music by: Richard MontgomeryHigh School Madrigals at 1:15 p.m., The EncoreSingers at 2:15 p.m., and Harmony Express at 3:15p.m. | Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 EdmonstonDrive
MLK JR. DAY OF SERVICEJan. 18. Make Martin Luther King Jr. Day on
January 18, 2016 a Day ON and not a day off. Savethe date to volunteer at Montgomery County’sMLK Day of Service at locations throughout thecounty. There will be service projects for all agesthat will make an impact to lives in your communi-ty. Be Ready to Serve!!
ONGOINGART EXHIBIT AT VISARTS: DAEDAL ADJ.RICH, INTRICATE, ADORNED
Through Dec. 13. Ceramic artist Kate Westfallpresents a solo exhibition of new functional ceramicvessels that are designed for daily and ceremonialuse. With intricate profiles, lavish ornamentationand earthy-colored glazes. Westfall’s vessels conveya sense of whimsy, rustic luxury and humble ele-gance. | Closing Reception: Sunday, December 13,2:00 p.m. | Common Ground Gallery, VisArts atRockville is located three blocks from the RockvilleMetro station at 155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, MD.For information, please visit www.visartscenter.orgor call 301-315-8200.
ROMANTIC COMEDY: STAGE KISS Through Dec. 27. When two actors with a histo-
ry are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgot-ten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch withreality as the story onstage follows them offstage.Sarah Ruhl’s singular voice returns to Round Housewith Stage Kiss, a charming tale about what hap-pens when lovers share a stage kiss—or when actorsshare a real one. Directed by Aaron Posner. Where:Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway,Bethesda. For tickets call: 240.644.1100
A LUMP OF COAL FOR CHRISTMASThrough Dec. 31. Presented by Adventure The-
atre MTC at Adventure Theatre MTC. What do a
Christmas stocking, a Korean Barbeque and Secre-tarial School, a sketch artist, Shakespeare, and adrug store coupon have in common? The hilariousand heartburning, uh, heartwarming holiday journeyof a Lump of Coal who wants to make art on anycanvas will light a fire in even the smallest, flamma-ble heart, or it will at least convince you to open upa Korean BBQ and Secretarial School. AdventureTheatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo.Tickets: $19.50
“WEAVING COMMUNITY” ON A LARG-ER-THAN-LIFE LOOM
Through Dec. 31 11:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. TheSandy Spring Museum creates a one-of-a-kind workof community-generated art when it opens its“Weaving Community” project on September 5.All visitors to the museum are invited to come andweave on a giant loom that will be constructed fromthe 11 foot tall oak beams that frame the exhibit hall.Fabric artist Suzanne Herbert Forton will facilitatethe weaving of a community tapestry, using the oakbeams of Bentley Memorial Exhibition Hall at theSandy Spring Museum as the frame of a giant loom.The larger-than-life loom will be created first bystringing warp between the floor and the 11 foothigh horizontal oak beams that are a permanent partof the exhibition hall architecture. Next, the sup-porting vertical oak beams will mark off differentsections of warp, with each section containing dis-tinct thematic content woven into its weft and creat-ed from a wide variety of materials: yarn, fabricstrips with personal messages and statements, rib-bon, recycled clothing, plastics, photos and foundobjects. Sandy Spring Museum is located at 17901Bentley Rd, Sandy Spring, MD. The exhibit runsthrough Dec. 31. For more information call 301-774-0022 or visit www.sandyspringmuseum.org.
GARDEN OF LIGHTS: WINTER GARDENWALK THROUGH HOLIDAY LIGHT DIS-PLAY
Through Jan. 3. 10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Stepinto a magical winter wonderland illuminated withmore than one million dazzling colorful lightsshaped into hand-crafted, original art forms of flow-ers, animals and other natural elements. Stroll fromgarden to garden enjoying twinkling tree forms,fountains, sparkling snowflakes overhead and more.The Garden of Lights celebrates its 18th season as aBaltimore/Washington, DC area family holiday tra-dition. The night wouldn’t be complete without avisit inside the Conservatory to enjoy watching G-
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Grammy-winning superstars, The Klezmatics, bring the expressive anddanceable sounds of klezmer to BlackRock Center on December 6.
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Treat the whole family to Rockville Civic Ballet's production of "TheNutcracker." This holiday favorite runs from December 5 - 12 at the F. ScottFitzgerald Theatre.
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Scale model trains wind through a seasonal land-scape. Afterward, warm up inside the Visitors Cen-ter while you sip hot cocoa and listen to one of thenightly musical performances. The ConservatoryWinter Display and Garden Railway Exhibit is opendaily from 10 AM to 5 PM through Sunday, January3, 2016. Where: Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenal-lan Avenue, Silver Spring.
SATURDAY FARMERS MARKETSaturdays 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Every week,
on Saturday, through mid-November, the FarmersMarket transforms itself as different fruits and veg-etables become available throughout the season.Your pick of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, bed-ding plants, cut flowers, preserves, honey, herbs,baked goods, and more. All items offered are pickedfresh daily and available as supplies last. The Mar-ket accepts EBT benefits. Location: Jury parking lotlocated on the corner of Rt. 28 and Monroe Street |Address: Rockville, MD 20850 | Contact: 240-314-8620
TEEN WRITER'S CLUB Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Join us at the Mari-
lyn J. Praisner Library, at 14910 Old Columbia Pike,Burtonsville, MD 20866, to meet other teens whoshare your interest in writing. Learn to improve yourwriting and try new approaches. Ages 12 and up arewelcome. For additional library events and infor-mation call 240-773-9460.
ART EXPLORERS OPEN STUDIOSaturdays, 10:00 – 12:00 P.M. Join us on Satur-
day mornings, 10am to 12:30pm in the Candy Cor-ner Studio for drop in art activities for parents andchildren. Activities change weekly and there is nopre-registration; $10 per child. This weekly event ispresented by Playgroup in the Park (PGiP) and GlenEcho Park Partnership for Arts and Culture. Loca-tion: The Candy Corner Visitwww.glenechopark.org or call 301-634-2222
AFTERNOON GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPTuesdays 1:30 – 3:00 P.M. For anyone grieving
the death of a love one. Registration required at(301) 921-4400. North Bethesda United MethodistChurch, 10100 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD20814.
LOSS OF A CHILD SUPPORT GROUPWednesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For parents griev-
ing the death of a child of any age. Registration re-quired at (301) 921-4400. Montgomery Hospice,1355 Piccard Dr., Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20850.
EVENING GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPThursdays 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For anyone grieving
the death of a loved one. Registration required at(301) 921-4400. Hughes United Methodist Church,10700 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20918.
PARENT LOSS SUPPORT GROUPThursdays 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For adults who have
experienced the death of one or both parents. Regis-tration required at (301) 921-4400. Mt. CalvaryBaptist church, 608 North Horner’s Lane,Rockville, MD 20850.
BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENTTuesdays. 6:30 – 10:30 P.M. Local backgammon
tournament on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of eachmonth starting March 11. More information atMeetUp.com-DC Metro Backgammon Club. RubyTuesday Westfield Wheaton Mall 11160 Veirs MillRd, Wheaton-Glenmont, MD [email protected]
CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH Sundays 11:00 – 3:00 P.M. $33 $12 for unlimit-
ed champagne cocktails Executive Chef Todd Wisshas cooked up a seasonal brunch menu completewith a brunch time standard – Champagne! Guestsare welcome every Sunday to indulge on Black’s fa-vorites like Smoked Salmon, Chesapeake Bay BlueFish Rillette, Herb Crusted Pineland Farms PrimeRib or breakfast treats like House Made BriocheFrench Toast, Quiche and a selection of Chef Wiss’
homemade jams. Visit http://www.blacksbarand-kitchen.com or call (301) 652-5525. Black’s Barand Kitchen, 7750 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, MD20814.
LAUGH RIOT AT THE HYATTSaturdays 8:00 – 10:00 P.M. Check out a live
standup comedy show by local standup comicsevery weekend at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda.There's a $25 cash prize joke contest for non-come-dian audience members after the show. Check it outevery Saturday night! Comedians can sign up toperform by emailing [email protected].$10 at the door. Visit http://www.StandupComedy-ToGo.com or call (301) 657-1234. Hyatt RegencyBethesda, 1 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD.
CORPORATE BARTENDING FOR CHAR-ITY
Wednesdays 4:00 – 7:00 P.M. Send your CEO orVP to Tommy Joe's to bartend for charity! Can't bar-tend? No problem, the on-staff bartenders are thereto help for a good cause (no experience necessary).Represent your company during happy hour, and aportion of the proceeds will go to the charity of yourchoice. Maybe you can even pull off some flair be-hind the bar and make Tom Cruise proud. Visit tom-myjoes.com or call (301) 654-3801 for more infor-mation. 4714 Montgomery Ln., Bethesda, MD20814.
LIVE MUSIC FRIDAYSFridays 9:30- 12:30 P.M. Rock Bottom Restau-
rant & Brewery features different music styles byvarious live bands that perform both original andcover songs. So come relax and enjoy live musicand Rock Bottom's award-winning handcraftedbeer. Visit http://www.rockbottom.com or call (301)652-1311 for more information. 7900 Norfolk Ave.,Bethesda, MD 20814.
SALSA NIGHTTuesdays 7:30 – 12:30 P.M. Come to the Bark-
ing Dog every Tuesday night for their sizzling SalsaNight. Take lessons with salsa instructor MichelleReyes from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. for only $10. Learnto shake those hips, and then show off your newskills to the music of a live salsa band during theopen dance after class. Visit salsawild.com or call(301) 654-0022 for more information. 4723 ElmSt., Bethesda, MD 20814.
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Super-model Faviola Dadissailed aboard the 246-foot-long“Phocea,” the second-largest pri-vate sailboat in the world, and wascaught up in the biggest recent scan-dal in yachting. For the first time inprint, she is answering questions inthis multi-part series.
The Sentinel: How long didyou have to stay in Vanuatu, whileawaiting trial?
Dadis: I stayed there about twomonths on the “Phocea.”
The Sentinel: Were you able toenjoy some aspects of the country?
Dadis: Yes, towards the end ofmy stay. I went hiking at some beau-tiful waterfalls, jet skiing, kayaking,and snorkeling at the world’s onlyunderwater post office.
The Sentinel: But did you getdengue fever?
Dadis: Yes, I got dengue hem-orrhagic fever, a very serious dis-ease. It was terrible. I had a veryhigh fever, a rash, migraines, sponta-neous bruising and intestinal prob-lems for six weeks. I received IV an-tibiotics for my weakened immunesystem and had my blood tested over10 times. My blood platelet counthad dropped significantly and therewas concern that if I cut myself, Icould bleed to death. It was veryscary because in Vanuatu there werenot adequate supplies or medicines,so all of my tests had to be sent toAustralia, and if anything serioushappened, I would need to be airlift-ed there. My doctor pleaded with au-thorities to have me returned to theUS, but was refused.
The Sentinel:Were you held inthe Port Vila jail for a day after yourarrest?
Dadis: Yes. The cell was dis-gusting—it was covered in feces,urine and blood, and there were ratscrawling around the floor.
The Sentinel: Was the fine orlegal fees paid for you?
Dadis: Yes, by the yacht owner.The Sentinel: How did you
leave the country?Dadis: By airplane. I stopped in
Los Angeles to visit friends, then
flew on to Vegas to see my family.The Sentinel: Some press ac-
counts seem to indicate that you“snuck out of the country” by buyingan air ticket with cash at the lastminute, in violation of a court order.How do you respond?
Dadis: I did not sneak out of thecountry. My flight was scheduled forthe upcoming Sunday. I heard on Ra-dio New Zealand Friday night thatthe prosecutor had submitted an ap-peal to keep me in the country.
I had paid all my fines, and hadadhered to all the conditions set forthin my bail. There was no reason tokeep me in the country and mylawyer suggested I change my flightto the next day. I was hassled by im-migration, but they agreed that I hadbeen cooperative and after discus-sion with various authorities, theypermitted me to board the flight.
The Sentinel: The captain ofthe “Phocea” was reportedly chargedwith failing to report the arrival of avessel and entering at an unautho-rized port, with a possible fine of$33,000 US. Eventually he was finedonly $5600, due to being “preventedfrom exercising his powers as Cap-tain.” Comment?
Dadis: I’m not really qualifiedto comment on his charges.
The Sentinel: How did othercrew-members and the owner leavethe country?
Dadis: Everyone left by flightsto various destinations. Some of thecrew members remained.
The Sentinel: Were you helpedfinancially in this?
Dadis: Yes.The Sentinel: Some persons
speculate that the “Phocea” wassmuggling small quantities ofweapons to local officials, to armtheir private security forces or localexpats. What do you think?
Dadis: I think it’s very far-fetched. There was absolutely no il-legal activity aboard.
The Sentinel: The “Phocea”was front page news in Vanuatu al-most every day for six months, andyou were the subject of front page ar-ticles. What errors would you like tocorrect?
Dadis: I couldn’t even begin tocorrect the several months of falseaccusations. There were so manythings printed to make the crew ap-pear as though we were criminals in-volved in some crazy political con-spiracy or smuggling of illegalgoods. Every day we would get thepaper and joke about it together—thecrew knew the yacht and its contentsinside out.
We were all very certain of ourinnocence.
The accusations made about ussmuggling drugs came from the po-lice confiscating a dried flowerarrangement in their search, andclaiming it was opium. The accus-tions of weapons smuggling camefrom a confiscated water pistol thatresembled a real gun. Also, I am not
and have never been the girlfriend ofthe yacht’s owner. It’s amazing howthe press can spin things to makethem sound much more exciting thanthey really are.
The Sentinel: The yacht “Pho-cea” was still under arrest, after tenmonths, in Port Vila harbor. Was thatreasonable?
Dadis: Yes, I believe there wasstill some clarification needed aboutwhere it was registered.
The Sentinel: Some membersof the crew were detained on boardthe yacht, right?
Dadis: Some of the crew mem-bers remained on board, but were not
detained. They were all completelycleared. The yacht legally requires anumber of crew members to remainon board for maintenance.
The Sentinel: Some securitystaffers on board the yacht have beendescribed as “scary and tough-look-ing big guys from Serbia” who are“clearly up to something.”
Dadis: I’d say that a yacht thesize of the “Phocea” requires securi-ty and that it is the security staff’s jobto look scary, tough and intimidat-ing. They were all very nice guys.
The Sentinel: The police in-spector who was reportedly vigor-ously investigating the “Phocea”
case was suspended from duty.Comments?
Dadis: I was aware he was sus-pended, but I have no knowledge ofwhy. I feel there was a lot of corrup-tion involved in the case. It’s purelyspeculation, but I think the entire casewas fabricated in order to extort mon-ey from the crew and try to confiscatethe yacht. I read in one article that theVanuatu government hoped to getover $6,000,000 US for its sale.
Silver Spring resident LewToulmin worked in Vanuatu for 33months, and has sailed on everyocean.
Travel TalesBy
Llewellyn Toulmin
DECEMBER 3, 2015 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL 19
Smugglers, Super Models and scandals - Oh My!
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FAVIOLA DADIS
Super Model Faviola Dadis, above, and the Phocea at full sail, below.
20 The Montgomery County Sentinel December 3, 2015
By Eva Paspalis@EvaPaspalis
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The undefeated Swarmin' Hor-nets walloped the Reservoir Gators,48-7, propelling Damascus to the3A state championship at M&TBank Stadium in Baltimore for thesecond year in a row.
Damascus (13-0) vies for itseighth state title in program historyThursday at 7 p.m. against Dundalk(12-1). A win would mark the firststate championship victory forDamascus since 2007.
The Hornets put together a 13-0 record last year before losing thestate title game 35-21 againstFranklin, the fourth time in programhistory the varsity football teamplaced as the state runner-up.
Hornets senior running backJake Funk etched his name into twomore record books Friday. Funkbroke the Damascus and Marylandstate record for most touchdowns ina season with 50.
Funk amassed five touchdownsand rushed for more than 320 yardsagainst the hapless Gators.
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Damascus junior running backMarkus Vinson also partook in thegator feast. Vinson played in thefirst two quarters and still postedmore than 130 yards on the groundand two touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Hornets seniorkicker Joe Curry went 5-for-6 on ex-tra point attempts.
Damascus head coach EricWallich, who earlier was namedRedskins high school coach of theweek, appeared confident the Hor-nets’ loss to Franklin in the 2014state championship would motivatehis team.
“You have to have confidencebut not to the extent of not execut-ing,” he said. “I think this team be-lieves in themselves but I think thatthe pain that they felt last year willcertainly keep them grounded.”
The Gators, on the other hand,started the season 0-2. Friday’s
semifinals appearance was the firstin Reservoir history.
The Hornets stung on all cylin-ders from the start of the game. Forhis first touchdown, Funk cut to hisleft during a 44-yard dash as multi-ple Reservoir defenders dove forhim and missed.
Gators senior running backJosh Young scrapped for any yardhe could grab from beyond the brickwall of the Damascus defense.Young was held to 17 yards in thefirst half.
Funk brushed past the Gatorson the next possession and turnedon the jets en route to a 56 yardscore.
The senior’s third touchdowncame on a first-and-10 deep in Hor-
nets territory. Funk claimed theDamascus single-season touchdownrecord as he cruised untouched 74yards into the end zone.
A few minutes later, Funkscored for a fourth time. He ran 16yards down the sideline to put Dam-ascus up 28-0.
Reservoir struggled to heat upoffensively.
Damascus defenders forced se-nior quarterback Jaris Foreman toscramble wildly on multiple occa-sions. Young wasn’t allowed pastthe line of scrimmage on most ofhis carries.
The Gators caught a glimmerof hope when senior Abdul Sesaynearly tipped Hornets quarterbackJulian Kinard’s pass to Vinson.
However, Vinson leapt overSesay’s head, turned on his heel andsped 41 yards down the field for hisfirst touchdown of the night. Cur-ry’s extra point flew wide right.
Vinson, who also plays corner-back, showed the Gators his versa-tility. Young took Foreman’s hand-off and aired it out across the fieldinto Vinson’s arms.
The cornerback-turned-re-ceived ran to his right, then abrupt-ly cut left, wrestled to the groundonly after he raced past the pylonfor a 70-yard pick-six to put Dam-ascus up 41-0 at the half.
Funk’s name went into thestate record books with a 62-yardtouchdown at the start of the thirdquarter.
Sesay’s six yard touchdown afew minutes later kept the Gatorsfrom their first shutout loss of theyear.
“We’ve had one of the mostsuccessful years in our school’s his-tory,” said Reservoir head coachBryan Cole. “Things didn’t particu-larly go our way today, but some-times you go up against an oppo-nent who is a little bit better thanyou and they make you pay for it.”
Vinson said that the 2014 lossin the state championship taught histeam a valuable lesson.
“We’re keeping our heads onstraight, we’re not getting cocky,”he said. “We’ve got tunnel vision.We can’t get complacent. We needto bring back that hardware.”
Damascus Drains Reservoir 48-7
PHOTO BY DAVID WOLFE
Jake Funk carves up the gridiron as he amassed 320 yards and five touchdowns in a Damascus semifinal romp over Reservoir.
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Northwest falls short in bid for another titleBy Brandy L. Simms@BLS1969
UPPER MARLBORO –Northwest senior quarterback MarkPierce and the Jaguars fell short lastFriday night in their bid to capturethe Germantown public school’sthird consecutive Class 4A statechampionship.
The visiting Jaguars were over-whelmed by a talented Wise teamand fell to the Pumas 37-15 in thestate semifinals.
“They’re a great team,” saidPierce. “They’re very physical, veryfast and I respect them. They playedbetter than us tonight.”
Northwest (9-4) supplied noanswer for Wise senior runningback CJ Rainey, who rumbledthrough the Jaguars’ defense at will.
“I know he was breaking tack-les,” added Pierce. “Their o-linewas firing off the ball, getting himfive, six yards a pop.”
The 5-foot-8, 190-poundspeedster helped the Pumas remainunbeaten and move a step closer tocapturing the program’s secondstate title in three years.
Rainey, who holds scholarshipoffers from Delaware State, Howardand UMass, said he looks forward toplaying for a state championship.
“It feels great to be able to playfor a state championship,” saidRainey, who finished with 206yards rushing on 33 carries andscored a touchdown. “We’veworked extremely hard in the off-season, starting from January. Com-peting in the weight room and tak-ing that competition onto the field.We treat every day in practice as an-other opportunity to better ourselvesas a unit. We are all blessed to be inthis position.”
Wise scored on its first posses-sion when junior quarterback JabariLaws connected with senior wide re-ceiver Myles Wolfolk from 15 yardsout.
Wolfolk, a new North Carolinacommit, added the two-point con-version to put the Pumas out front 8-0 with 4:50 remaining in the firstquarter.
Rainey scored on a four-yard
run with 9:28 left in the second quar-ter and Wolfolk earned his second-straight two point conversion,putting the Pumas up 16-0.
However, Northwest seniorMartin Foray returned the ensuingkickoff 93 yards down the sidelinefor a touchdown and Pierce addedtwo points with a pass to AlphonsoForay to trim the deficit to 16-8.
Wise (13-0) dominated the sec-ond half and cruised to the victory.
Wolfolk credited the Wisecoaching staff for helping preparethe team.
“They gave us a great gameplan,” said Wolfolk. “All we have todo is execute.”
The Pumas will play undefeat-ed Howard (13-0) Thursday night inthe 4A state championship game.
Howard also happens to be the almamater of Wise head coach DaLawnParrish.
Meanwhile, Northwest had tosettle for the 4A state semifinalistmoniker after capturing back-to-back 4A state championships duringthe past two seasons.
“Losing your senior year andnot winning states, I thought I wouldbe a little more sad but what we’vedone as a team, with my teammates,this class, these seniors, we’ve beenthrough a lot,” said Pierce.
“Two state championships:that’s a hell of a career, so we didwhat we could do and all goodthings come to an end. So I guess itwas my time to go out but it was justgreat. The whole high school foot-ball experience, it was great.”
Good Counsel will battle public school powerhousesBy Lem Satterfield@lemslatest
OLNEY – Good Counsel willchase public school powers NorthHagerstown and Damascus overconsecutive weekends on Januaryduring what could be the program’sbest-ever wrestling season.
“The mentality is, ‘Let’s goahead and put some pressure onourselves,’” said coach SkylarSaar, whose Falcons schedule is re-plete with events such as the Iron
Man, Beast Of The East, Power-Ade and National Preps that areconsidered some of the nations’most prestigious.
“Everything is focused aroundthat first weekend in February andwinning the state tournament, andwe go to a lot of national tourna-ments in December. But if we’regoing to be one of the best teams inthe states, then let’s prove it.”
To that end, the Falcons willwrestle in the Jan. 8-9 Hub Cup In-vitational at North Hagerstown,
featuring the host and 2014 Class4A-3A state tournament champion,as well as Washington CatholicAthletic Conference rival DeMathaamong 20 teams from Maryland,Virginia, West Virginia and Wash-ington, D.C.
Good Counsel will also com-pete in the Jan. 15-16 War on theShore Invitational at Stephen De-catur in Berlin, Md.
Damascus, winner of lastyear’s Class 4A-3A state dual meetand tournament titles, is the de-
fending champion of that meet."North Hagerstown is the top
public school team this year as ofnow," said Billy Buckheit, rankingscoordinator for the Maryland StateWrestling Association. "But Dam-ascus will be right there again, andGood Counsel will catch Damas-cus at War on the Shore.”
This year’s Falcons, mean-while, are primed to surpass the ac-complishments of the 2013 ver-sion, which captured the program’sfirst-ever Maryland Private
Schools’ championship. “We haven’t wrestled in those
tournaments in a while, so it’s go-ing to be cool to go up against thatin-state competition against peoplethat you know,” said Snyder.
“North Hagerstown and Dam-ascus are two really good programsthat have won state titles, so it’s go-ing to be tough and exciting com-petition. But I can’t wait because Ijust want to establish that we’redefinitely the best team in thestate.”
PHOTO BY JACQUI SOUTH
Cameron Brown shows his emotional investment as Northwest fell short intheir bid for a third straight state title, above. While below NorthwestPrincipal Lance Dempsey comforts runningback Khalil Owens.
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G. Prep optimistic for coming hoops22 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL DECEMBER 3, 2015
By Nate KreshSentinel Sports
NORTH BETHESDA – AtGeorgetown Prep, optimism for thecoming boys basketball season hasswept over the Little Hoyas, thanksto new varsity head coach Ryan Es-kow.
Even though he’s a rookie inthe competitive IAC, Eskow saidhe believes his team has a chancefor success, following up on its 16-12 record from last season.
“I’m going up against a lot ofcoaches who have a ton more expe-rience than me,” Eskow said. “ButI think that my new perspective,my fresh mind and the fact that
we’ve got a great team attitudehere, is really going to help combatthat.”
Buy-in from older players hasbuilt that attitude.
According to senior shootingguard McDonald, the boys shouldsurprise local basketball fans, de-spite several potential setbacks.
“I don’t think a lot of peopleare expecting a lot from us, sincewe’re so young, we have a newcoach, and we lost some transfers,”McDonald said. “But I think withthe way we’ve been practicing, andhow our scrimmages have gone sofar, we’re looking pretty good.”
Eskow said he hopes theirleadership trickles down to the un-
derclassmen. “The quicker my young guys
come together and really follow thelead of my older seniors, the betterthat we can be,” he said.
Eskow pointed to McDonaldas a “glue guy” helping to fosterthat buy-in from the new players.
“He’s one of the greatest kidsI’ve ever had the opportunity tocoach, and I’m lucky to have himin my first year here,” Eskow said.“He’s really provided some of thatglue to keep people in line and keepthings together.”
McDonald, a captain, said hewants to reward his coach’s faith inhim.
“He counts on me to be vocal
on the court with talking and com-municating, and to kind of be thefirst one here, last one out type ofguy,” McDonald said.
With seniors like McDonaldguiding them, Eskow expects greatthings from his young players.
He specifically highlightedsophomores: point guard JaredBynum, wing Mezie Offurum, andforward Ike Nweke.
“The faster they realize justhow good they are, and how goodthey can be, the sky is the limit forthat sophomore class,” Eskow said.
Bynum said he sees himselfflourishing under Eskow.
“He wants me to get my teaminvolved more since I’m the point
guard. He wants me to get every-one going,” Bynum said. “So I def-initely see myself becoming moreof a leader.”
Eskow predicted the strongteam culture and desire to growthat’s already been developed willpay dividends.
Bynum echoed the same opti-mism showed by Eskow and Mc-Donald, for this season and be-yond.
“I think this year will be theyear to start a new trend in prepbasketball,” Bynum said. “Now,people don’t look at prep basket-ball as a powerhouse, but I feel likethis year, we can really establishthat.”
By Nate KreshSentinel Sports
OLNEY – Veteran members ofthe Good Counsel varsity girls bas-ketball team remember falling toPaul VI by just two points, 49-47,during last season’s WCAC cham-pionship game at American Univer-sity’s Bender Arena.
It’s made them hungry to finishthe job this season.
“Of course it’s motivation,”said senior shooting guard MariahGray. “We all know how we felt atthe end of that game.”
That motivation has 15th-yearhead coach Tom Splaine eager forone thing.
“Game one. I’ve been wantingto get this season started,” Splainesaid. “Any time you lose in a cham-pionship game, like we did last year,it leaves you a little hungry for get-ting back at it.”
The Falcons will be trying tofind their way back to Bender Arenafor their third time in four seasons,and their ninth time in 12 seasons.
But despite making it to somany championship games, Splainesaid doesn’t want anyone resting ontheir laurels.
“This team, the way it’s con-structed, hasn’t really achieved any-thing yet,” he said. “We’ve still gota lot to earn.”
Splaine will lean on Gray, andfellow senior Arianna Phillips, tohelp push the team to the top.
According to the coach, hewants both to be leaders this season,through how they play and whatthey say.
Gray said she understands theresponsibility the upperclassmenhave in guiding the underclassmen.
“We hold them accountable alot in practice. We don’t let them
say, ‘It’s not my fault.’ We let themtake accountability for their mis-takes,” Gray said. “We push them,not so hard that they push back, butenough to let them know to alwaysbe aggressive on the court.”
One young player Splaine ex-pects to be a big contributor isfreshman point guard Chloe Chap-man. Chapman, an AAU standout,is bringing both the skills and focusto win a title. She said she sees theseason ending “in the champi-onship game.”
Arriving there, however, willbe tough in a league traditionallyloaded with talented.
“I think we can beat everybodyon our schedule and I think almosteverybody on our schedule can beatus,” Splaine said.
On that schedule, Gray circledPaul VI as the Falcons’ team tobeat.
“Because of how we playedthem last year, we want to get backand win those games,” said Gray.
Chapman said she expects thatkind of intensity all season.
While Splaine would measuresuccess by how hard the teamworks and how well they learn toplay together, he explained winningthe title is particularly special.
“There’s nothing finer than sit-ting in American University at theend of the year and raising the tro-phy,” he said.
Gray, in her final season withthe team, with two championshipgames and a semifinals appearanceon her resume, said she wants to fi-nally raise that trophy alongside hercoach.
“We fought hard all threeyears, and we just fell short, “ Graysaid. “So finally reaching that goal,finally winning a championship,will be icing on the cake.”
Last season provides girls atGood Counsel inspiration forcoming championship run
By Jacqui South@jacqui_south
SANDY SPRING – Olney fea-tures two strong basketball programsat Sherwood and Good Counsel.
However, there’s a team fromnearby Sandy Spring that plans toprovide a third option.
The Sandy Spring Friends varsi-ty boys basketball team plans to chal-lenge its Potomac Valley AthleticConference rivals and play in a trio oftournaments at St. Andrew’s, St. Al-ban’s and North Carolina during theupcoming season.
In his third year as head coach,Carl Parker is building the programfrom the ground up.
“We’re not known for being anelite basketball program. We are hop-ing that by doing things the right wayand building this program slowly thatwe’ll get to where we want to be.”
In addition to his head coachingposition at SSFS, Parker is in hisfourth season as assistant coach atWashington Adventist University.
“I’ve learned a lot from friends
and mentors like coach Steve Turnerand coach Juan Hill at Gonzaga, mycollege coach Mike Glick who’s overat Gwynn Park, and my head coach atWashington Adventist University,Patrick Crarey (II), and last but notleast coach Dom Perno, who’s theformer (University of Connecticut)coach who kind of inspired me tomake coaching my life’s work,” hesaid.
According to Parker, the Wilde-beests plan to run a motion offensethat prioritizes players sharply cuttingand moving the ball quickly.
The team also plans to run man-to-man and zone defensive set-ups inan effort to “mix it up,” said Parker.
“But defense is really where westart for everything. And it’s our pri-ority this season to be a strong defen-sive team because I think that’s howyou win tournaments,” he said.
The team includes multipletransfer student-athletes this year.
Junior Mike Young transferredfrom Bethesda-Chevy Chase, and 6-foot-9 forward Milos Apic is an inter-national student from Serbia.
Apic said his height makes himstand out on the court.
“Serbia is a lot harder. As youcan see here, I’m the only tall guy.There (are) a lot of good guys (atSSFS) willing to work hard,” he said.
A third transfer student is sopho-more Malakai Parker from TakomaAcademy.
“I think we have a lot of offen-sive talent. I think we’ll be able toscore a lot of points beyond the arc,”he said.
Theo Portee has been at theschool since sixth grade and ex-plained this year’s team’s roster in astrength in and of itself.
“We have more depth on theteam. We have guys who are hereready to play,” he said.
“We have a lot more athleticismthis year which leads to better defenseand we have more of a variety ofscorers,” added veteran JamesBankole.
The Wildebeests take on the RedDevils from Washington Internation-al School during the Dec. 2 homeopener.
Sandy Spring boys hope to make PVAC splash
PHOTO BY JACQUI SOUTH
Malakai Parker on a layup.
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This week:
Damascus vs. Dundalk
Marty sails into the sunset smiling at the 2015 gridiron
Marty al-ways getsmisty this timeof year. Thepopcorn, thehotdogs and thecheeseburgersseem a little betterat the high schoolfootball concession stand. The BigBasso Profundo also can’t help
thinking about all the teams thattried so hard, the kids who put theirtime and effort into playing and thecoaches, good and bad who helpedout their cause.
Richard Montgomery cameback to the land of the living thisyear and was perhaps the biggestsurprise of the pigskin season.
Close on their heals was aresurgent Magruder, but could any-one have picked Wheaton at the be-ginning of the season to go as deepas they did into the playoffs - muchless even make the playoffs?
It was a season of surprises andfor Lance Dempsey and the wonder-ful team from Northwest, it was a
bitter pill to swallow that theycouldn’t comple a three-straight runfor the state title.
Still, it had to feel real good forNorthwest’s program to defeatQuince Orchard in the playoffs afterlosing a regular season game to theRed Army.
Sherwood had a nifty seasonwith some big blocks of granite onthe front line. Fred Kim’s boys atSeneca Valley also proved to be bet-ter than most thought - though theycouldn’t get beyond the first roundof the playoffs.
On the private school side, itwas an off year for Good Counseland Bullis while Georgetown Prep
showed some real life - despite aseason ending loss to Bullis.
Avalon continues to amaze TheHigh and Mighty with it’s lack ofoffensive coaching, highly talentedand ultimately under coached andunder-disciplined castaways fromGilligans island.
That brings us to Damascus.This ole Damascus resident ad-
mits a soft spot as soft as his favoriteJimmie Cone for the Swarmin’ Hor-nets.
This year they brought a wholenew definition to being steamrolled.
With Jake Funk and the Dam-ascus Funky bunch, this team hasbeen a joy to watch all season long.
So, with that said, in the finals it is:Damascus 35Dundalk 3Yeah, Marty knows all about
the Owls and their quarterback.But the most overlooked part
of the Swarmin’ Hornets is their de-fense. They just don’t let peopleinto the end zone. It’s almost a sac-rilege to see another team get a firstdown.
When you have that kind of astingy defense, then the FunkyBunch can run wild and does.
There will be no stopping theFunk in Damascus. They will bringhome their first title since 2007.
It’s the year of the Hornet!
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Marty
DECEMBER 3, 2015 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL 23
By Eva Paspalis@EvaPaspalis
GERMANTOWN – TheMontgomery County RecreationDepartment hosted the ChineseGuangdong Provincial DivingTeam Sunday at the first-ever EastMeets West Dive Show at the Ger-mantown Indoor Swim Center.
The exhibition, titled “A Div-er ’s Journey,” featured Guang-dong divers between the ages of13 and 18, and local divers be-tween the ages of seven and 76.
The show served as the
Guangdong team’s first in theWashington, D.C metropolitanarea.
Montgomery County DiveClub program director DougBeavers found out the Universityof Miami (Ohio) hosted theGuangdong team for severalyears.
Beavers grabbed the opportu-nity to invite the divers to theCounty.
“We have so much admirationfor the Chinese divers,” he said.“China has the best diving teamsin the world and this is the best
diving team in China.” The Guangdong team claimed
sixty percent of the gold medals inChina’s national diving champi-onship last September.
Rockville native and 2011Grammy nominee Brian “BT”Transeau provided the soundtrackfor the show. BT specializes inelectronic dance music and creat-ed songs live during the show tocorrespond with the divers’ per-formance.
He declined an interview re-quest.
The exhibition started with a
bang as a fully clothed diver per-formed a backflip out of a chair onthe 10 meter platform.
In a story-like layout to theevent, the program showed a div-er’s progression. Each competitorclimbed onto a higher platformand performed increasingly diffi-cult dives.
Local diver Max Weinrich,12, started diving five years ago.
In October, he participated inthe Pan American Junior DivingChampionship in Cuba.
Weinrich appeared excited tomeet and perform with the Guang-
dong team.“It’s pretty cool that they
wanted to come and dive with us,”he said. “It was a lot of fun.”
The Guangdong team’s per-formance showcased grace and fi-nesse. The divers performed mul-tiple midair somersaults and hitthe water with barely a splash.
Diver He XiaoJie, 14, starteddiving when she was six years old.She said she is still nervous on theplatform.
“I worry that my dives won’tbe as good as everyone else’s,”said He XiaoJie.
China’s best diving team shows up in Germantown
By Carlos Alfaro@carlosalfarorod
SILVER SPRING – Mont-gomery Blair and Poolesville splittheir swim scrimmage Saturday atthe Martin Luther King Jr. SwimCenter in Silver Spring.
The Falcons won the closeboys meet 82-68 while the Blazergirls cruised to a 108-48 victory.
Poolesville starts the yearwith a long legacy of success. The
boys won the last four 3A/2A/1Astates championships in a row, aMPSSAA record, and the girlswon the state titles in 2015 and2013, placing runner-up at statesin 2014 and 2012.
However, the boys and girlsteams alike lost several key se-niors to graduation in June.
Likewise, the head coachesfrom Poolesville and Blair arecounting on strong performancesthis season from their rookies.
“We have a promising fresh-man class. We’re looking to seewhat we have and that’s what thepurpose of tonight was and so farwe have a lot of work to do and alot of practice to do,” saidPoolesville head coach JonathanLeong.
Blair head coach Emily Raw-son sounded an optimistic noteabout her own teams.
“I think we’re going to have areally good season,” she said. “We
have a lot of new freshmen that arevery versatile and a lot of return-ing juniors and seniors that are go-ing to compete with the team.”
In a shift from how previousmeets operated, the teams compet-ed in diving first Saturday, withPoolesville’s Jason Kuldell andChloe Kim prevailing by scores of50.1 points and 76.32 points.
The boys’ 200 yard medleyrelay featured Blair swimmersTeague Sauter, Richard Wang,
Thomas Brown de Colsto andNathaniel Kinyanjui, who finished10 seconds faster than Poolesville,clocking in at 1:48.77 minutes.
In the girls’ event, Blair cameout on top once again with theteam of Sophia Liu, Brianna Forte,Sammie Grant and MadisonWaechter, with a time of 1:56.49.
Blair came in first again in theboys’ 200 yard freestyle, withJohn Lathrop achieving a time of1:56.53.
Poolesville sets out to defend state dive and swim titles
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PHOTO BY DAVID WOLFE
Picture of the Week . . .Jake Funk leaves a trail of would-be tacklers behind him as he rushes for yardage. The Damascus Swarmin ̓Hornets are headed to the state championship.
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Good Counsel wrestlers aim for the state top spotBy Lem Satterfield@lemslatest
OLNEY – Good Counsel seniorKevin Snyder threw down the chal-lenge to older brother Kyle this sum-mer.
“I was like, ‘Man, we’re goingto be better than your team,’” saidKevin Snyder, who will join Kylewrestling at Ohio State next fall.“That started our little rivalry, but,seriously, we’re going to have one ofthe best teams that we’ve ever hadhere at Good Counsel.”
Those are lofty aspirations, to besure, for Kevin Snyder in the wake ofKyle’s trailblazing, whirlwind suc-cess leading the Falcons’ varsitywrestling team.
As a junior in 2013, Kyle Sny-der won his third straight state titleduring his undefeated (179-0) highschool career, one that culminatedwith the Falcons winning the pro-gram’s first-ever private schoolsstate championship.
After twice earning Wrestler of
The Year honors, Kyle spent his se-nior year training at the Olympictraining center in Colorado Springs,later finishing as a redshirt freshmanNCAA runner-up for champion OhioState in March.
In September, he became theyoungest American to win afreestyleWorld Championship as a 19-year-old at 213 pounds.
But if there is one place Kevincan surely top Kyle it is perhaps bybeing a leader on the greatestwrestling team Good Counsel hasever known.
"Last year, from about 132pounds on, we were just lights out,and we rarely lost a match during thedual meets," said Kevin Snyder, oneof three Falcons wrestlers who havealready made their college picks."This year, it seems like from 106 to120, we're going to be really strong.We've got some of the toughest guysin the state."
Snyder is among seven Falconswho are ranked within the top six bythe Maryland State Wrestling Asso-
ciation, with four of those being top-ranked, another at No. 2, and twoothers in sixth.
Not only have head coach Sky-lar Saar’s Falcons won three consec-utive Washington Catholic AthleticConference championship tourna-ments and four of the past five butthey are undefeated spanning threeseasons and 53 consecutive dualmeets.
“I think that this team may bedeeper than the 2013 team, but, obvi-ously, you have to be healthythroughout the season,” said Saar.“There’s nothing that is ever going toreplace the leadership of Kyle Sny-der, but we’re pretty tough with somegood freshmen in there at the lowerweights with some good experienceeverywhere else.”
The Falcons’ goal is to not onlycontinue their conference and dualmeet streaks but to improve on athird place finish at states behind de-fending champion McDonogh ofBaltimore and John Carroll of Har-ford County – one spot ahead of tra-
ditional Baltimore power Mount St.Joseph.
"I see Good Counsel as one ofthe deepest and talented teams thatI've seen since the Mt. St. Joe teamthat won PowerAde in 2004. Theyhave more No. 1-ranked guys in thestate than any team in recent history,and very good guys at the otherweights," said Billy Buckheit,MSWA rankings coordinator.
"They have the big guns neces-sary to place top 10, probably higher,at the Ironman, Beast of the East, andPowerAde tournaments. They willlikely finish in the top three at Na-tional Preps. Just about everyone intheir lineup is a multiple time stateplacer, and the younger guys arehighly decorated junior leaguewrestlers."
Snyder (195 pounds, 55-9record) and seniors Kevin Budock(145, 63-7) and Garrett Neff (160,42-9) as well as junior BaileyThomas (152, 39-4) are all returningtop-ranked state runners-up. A statechamp as a freshman and sopho-
more, Budock is bound for Old Do-minion, and Neff is heading to Duke.
Senior state runner-up Paul Hut-ton (170, 47-11) is ranked No. 2, andjunior River Hill transfer BradyDaniel (220), a 4A-3A state champlast year, is also ranked No. 1.
Sophomore Paul Purkey (182,35-20), a fourth place finisher atstates, is ranked sixth by the MSWA.
“I think that I’ve acclimatedmyself well so far, as the year goeson, that will get better,” said Daniel,a 182-pounder last year. “I knewSnyder would be here as a partner,which is going to be great. I like thewhole program.” In addition, threeof the Falcons’ first four wrestlers arefreshman coming off of junior leaguestate championship seasons. Theother, sophomore Cord Richardson(113), posted a 35-18 record andplaced eighth last season at states.Freshman Jared Thomas already isranked sixth at 106 and adds depthwith fellow ninth-graders ChrisSanchez (120) and Tyler Harbison(126).