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1934194 NEWS: Adventurous women in Olney tackle their bucket lists, item by item. A-3 Starr steps down as head of county schools n O’Neill says board, superintendent agree a new leader is needed BY LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER Joshua P. Starr is stepping down on Feb. 16 as Montgomery County Public Schools superin- tendent, four months before his four-year contract would have ended. The county school board unanimously approved on Tues- day an agreement that leads to Starr’s departure following public uncertainty of whether the super- intendent had enough board sup- port to renew his contract. School board president Pa- tricia O’Neill said Tuesday dur- ing a press conference that board members and Starr agreed that a new leader was needed to “carry forward the board’s vision.” “While I’m not happy cer- tainly at the way things have turned out, at the same time it is absolutely the board’s authority to move in a direction that they see fit,” Starr said at the press confer- ence. Starr said he is “very proud” of the work done in the district dur- ing his tenure, but sees more to be done. “It was my hope that I would be here to continue that work with our staff, our students, our families and our community,” he said. “However, I recognize and respect that the board has the right to choose the leader and the direction of the school system.” O’Neill and Starr didn’t elabo- rate on the reasoning behind his departure. O’Neill said the board “deeply appreciates” Starr’s work in the system. Starr told The Gazette in Janu- ary that he wanted a second term and that he was “in it for the long haul.” He said at the time that he had done what the school board has asked him to do. Tuesday’s news came two days after what was Starr’s dead- line to formally ask for a second term. The board would have had until March 1 to make a decision. Starr replaced Jerry D. Weast as superintendent in Montgom- ery County in 2011 after leading the public school system in Stam- ford, Conn. His current salary is $264,002. The Gazette, after interview- ing six of the eight school board members, reported on Jan. 21 that two were ready to support another term for Starr. Others didn’t com- mit to one side or the other. A week later, a Washington Post editorial and a story quoting unnamed Montgomery County officials reported that Starr appar- ently didn’t have enough support from the board to continue, spark- ing rampant speculation about his future. Among the responses, a Change.org petition started in support of Starr. As of Tuesday, the petition had about 570 signatures, some from teachers and parents. The school system will hire a search firm to conduct a search across the country for the system’s next leader, O’Neill said Tuesday. School officials hope to have a new permanent superintendent See STARR, Page A-12 2011 FILE PHOTO Joshua Starr, here in his first school board meeting as superintendent in July 2011, is leaving in two weeks. Automotive B-13 Business A-13 Calendar A-2 Classified B-9 Entertainment B-5 Obituaries A-11 Opinion A-14 Sports B-1 INDEX Please RECYCLE Volume 28, No. 5, Two sections, 32 Pages Copyright © 2015 The Gazette ROCKVILLE | ASPEN HILL | POTOMAC | OLNEY 25 cents DAILY UPDATES AT GAZETTE.NET Wednesday, February 4, 2015 The Gazette SPORTS: Good Counsel ice hockey considers moving up to play with top teams. B-1 HEADING SOUTH County’s Minority Scholars Program to be used in Chilean universities. A-11 NEWS METRO SAFETY County official: Firefighters ready for emergencies. A-4 SEE HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES INSIDE ADVERTISING INSIDE A SECTION WINTERIZE YOUR WINTERIZE YOUR HOME HOME n 3-2 vote backs parents at nearby elementary school in Rockville BY RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER Amidst competing allega- tions of poor communication and peddling misinformation, Rockville’s mayor and council adopted a zoning change Mon- day night that could block a de- veloper from building a storage facility near Maryvale Elementary School. The 3-2 vote amends the city’s zoning laws to prohibit self- storage warehouses within 250 feet of a public school in certain parts of Rockville unless the city provides an exemption. Mayor Bridget Donnell New- ton supported the amendment, as did Councilwoman Virginia Onley and its sponsor, Council- woman Beryl Feinberg. Councilman Tom Moore and Councilwoman Julie Palakovich Carr voted no. A motion to form a work group involving the developer, Si- ena Corp. of Columbia, and resi- dents to resolve concerns failed 3-2, with Moore and Palakovich Carr again in the minority. The vote puts in jeopardy Siena’s plan to build a large self- storage warehouse on Taft Street in east Rockville near Maryvale Elementary, and raises the possi- bility of legal action by Siena. After the vote, Robert Dal- rymple, an attorney representing the company, said he and com- pany officials would examine their options, including possible legal action. “We’re not done,” Dalrymple said. Feinberg has insisted the amendment was not directed at the Siena project, and repeated Monday night that “nothing could be further” from the truth that the measure represented so- Zoning change blocks proposed storage facility n Olney community ‘thrilled’ with $41.8 million project BY TERRI HOGAN STAFF WRITER After decades of lobbying from the community and nu- merous setbacks due to county budgetary woes, construction on a brand-new Farquhar Middle School in Olney has begun. In December, the school board awarded the $41.8 million construction contract to Dustin Construction. Staging began in January. The school is expected to open in August 2016, according to Gboyinde Onijala, a spokes- woman with the school district. Principal Joel Beidleman said it is hard to believe that con- struction is finally underway. “During a time in which our school system has to navigate many competing priorities, I believe the construction dem- onstrates our school system’s commitment to creating new learning environments,” he said. “Our school community, our school system and Mont- gomery County in a joint effort were able to reach this common goal ensuring the best for our students. I would like to thank all of the community and county members for making this dream a reality for Olney.” PTA President Chelsea Cur- tis said the excitement is infec- tious and difficult to put into words. “The county really gave us what we wanted and we believe the new school will be very well- equipped for the future,” she said. “We have a lot of students whose parents and grandparents went to Farquhar, and several of our teachers went to Farqu- har. While it will be bittersweet to leave this building, we are all thrilled about the amazing op- portunity.” Curtis said construction has not caused any problems for stu- dents, staff or parents. Construction begins on Farquhar Middle TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE “The county really gave us what we wanted,” says PTA President Chelsea Curtis, here with Farquhar Middle School Principal Joel Beidleman, of the new Olney school, expected to open in August 2016. n North Bethesda hall a ‘fantastic experience’ for musicians and audience BY ELIZABETH WAIBEL AND ROBERT RAND STAFF WRITERS It’s been 10 years since it opened, and during that decade, its state-of-the- art, acoustically refined concert hall has resounded with the melodies, harmo- nies and rhythms of composers and mu- sicians ranging from Beethoven to Bo Diddley. This week, Strathmore in North Bethesda celebrates the 10th anniversary of its music center and arts education fa- cility with concerts and performances by local and nation- ally known artists. The Music Cen- ter at Strathmore, home of the organi- zation’s large con- cert hall, opened for its first concert in 2005. That performance featured the Bal- timore Symphony Orchestra with guests including cellist Yo-Yo Ma. CEO Eliot Pfanstiehl was one of the founders of Strathmore. The county owns the Strathmore property off Rock- ville Pike, and the nonprofit Strathmore Hall Foundation operates it. When it first opened as an arts cen- ter in 1983, the Mansion at Strathmore hosted concerts in a 100-seat hall. “It wasn’t [very] hard to launch the place,” Pfanstiehl told The Gazette. “That said, while we were a little entity and a little mansion on a hill, the world did not know about us.” By 1988, the facility had added an outdoor gazebo that could host concerts for audiences of 1,500. When Strath- more’s staff saw that 1,500 people would go to a concert on the lawn, they realized the county had an unmet need for a mu- sic venue, Pfanstiehl said — and one with a roof. Then-County Executive Douglas M. Duncan supported the idea, and the Bal- timore Symphony Orchestra was looking for a second home in the area. “Once you have the Baltimore Symphony saying they’ll come to your concert hall, things move a lot faster,” Pfanstiehl said. Duncan could not be reached for comment. Since the 1990s, the orchestra had been seeking another regular venue out- side of Baltimore. It struck a partnership with the Strathmore Hall Foundation and became a founding partner in the Music Center at Strathmore turns 10 with a flourish 2005 FILE PHOTO Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs the first concert at the Music Center at Strathmore in 2005. See CONSTRUCTION, Page A-12 See STORAGE, Page A-12 See STRATHMORE, Page A-12 More on Strathmore’s anniversary n Page B-5
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NEWS: Adventurous women inOlney tackle their bucket lists,item by item. A-3
Starr steps down as head of county schoolsn O’Neill says board,superintendent agree anew leader is needed
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
Joshua P. Starr is steppingdown on Feb. 16 asMontgomeryCounty Public Schools superin-tendent, four months before hisfour-year contract would haveended.
The county school boardunanimously approved on Tues-day an agreement that leads toStarr’s departure following publicuncertainty ofwhether the super-
intendenthadenoughboardsup-port to renewhis contract.
School board president Pa-tricia O’Neill said Tuesday dur-ing a press conference that boardmembers and Starr agreed that anew leader was needed to “carryforward theboard’s vision.”
“While I’m not happy cer-tainly at the way things haveturned out, at the same time it isabsolutelytheboard’sauthoritytomove in a direction that they seefit,” Starr said at the press confer-ence.
Starrsaidhe is“veryproud”ofthe work done in the district dur-inghis tenure,but seesmore tobedone.
“It was my hope that I wouldbe here to continue that workwith our staff, our students, ourfamilies and our community,” hesaid. “However, I recognize andrespect that the board has theright to choose the leader and thedirectionof the school system.”
O’Neill andStarrdidn’telabo-rate on the reasoning behind hisdeparture. O’Neill said the board“deeply appreciates” Starr’s workin the system.
Starr toldTheGazette inJanu-ary that hewanted a second termand that he was “in it for the longhaul.” He said at the time that hehad done what the school boardhasaskedhimtodo.
Tuesday’s news came twodays after what was Starr’s dead-line to formally ask for a secondterm. The board would have haduntilMarch1 tomakeadecision.
Starr replaced Jerry D. Weastas superintendent in Montgom-ery County in 2011 after leadingthepublic school system inStam-ford,Conn.
His current salary is $264,002.The Gazette, after interview-
ing six of the eight school boardmembers, reportedonJan.21thattwowerereadytosupportanotherterm for Starr. Others didn’t com-mit toonesideor theother.
A week later, a WashingtonPost editorial and a story quoting
unnamed Montgomery Countyofficials reported thatStarr appar-ently didn’t have enough supportfromtheboardtocontinue,spark-ingrampantspeculationabouthisfuture.
Among the responses, aChange.org petition started insupportofStarr.AsofTuesday,thepetitionhadabout570signatures,some fromteachersandparents.
The school system will hire asearch firm to conduct a searchacrossthecountryforthesystem’snext leader, O’Neill said Tuesday.School officials hope to have anew permanent superintendent
See STARR, Page A-12
2011 FILE PHOTO
Joshua Starr, here in his first schoolboard meeting as superintendent inJuly 2011, is leaving in two weeks.
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n 3-2 vote backs parentsat nearby elementaryschool in Rockville
BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
Amidst competing allega-tions of poor communicationand peddling misinformation,Rockville’s mayor and counciladopted a zoning change Mon-day night that could block a de-veloper from building a storagefacilitynearMaryvaleElementarySchool.
The 3-2 vote amends thecity’s zoning laws toprohibit self-storage warehouses within 250feet of a public school in certainparts of Rockville unless the cityprovides an exemption.
Mayor Bridget Donnell New-ton supported the amendment,as did Councilwoman VirginiaOnley and its sponsor, Council-womanBeryl Feinberg.
CouncilmanTomMooreand
Councilwoman Julie PalakovichCarr votedno.
A motion to form a workgroupinvolvingthedeveloper,Si-ena Corp. of Columbia, and resi-dents to resolve concerns failed3-2, with Moore and PalakovichCarr again in theminority.
The vote puts in jeopardySiena’s plan to build a large self-storage warehouse on Taft Streetin east Rockville near MaryvaleElementary, and raises the possi-bility of legal actionby Siena.
After the vote, Robert Dal-rymple, an attorney representingthe company, said he and com-pany officials would examinetheir options, including possiblelegal action.
“We’re not done,”Dalrymplesaid.
Feinberg has insisted theamendment was not directed atthe Siena project, and repeatedMonday night that “nothingcould be further” from the truththat themeasure represented so-
Zoning changeblocks proposedstorage facility
n Olney community‘thrilled’ with
$41.8 million project
BY TERRIHOGANSTAFFWRITER
After decades of lobbyingfrom the community and nu-merous setbacks due to countybudgetarywoes,constructionona brand-new Farquhar MiddleSchool inOlneyhas begun.
In December, the schoolboard awarded the $41.8millionconstruction contract to DustinConstruction. Staging began inJanuary.
The school is expected toopen in August 2016, accordingto Gboyinde Onijala, a spokes-womanwith the school district.
Principal Joel Beidlemansaid it ishard tobelieve that con-struction is finally underway.
“During a time in which ourschool system has to navigatemany competing priorities, Ibelieve the construction dem-onstrates our school system’scommitment to creating newlearning environments,” hesaid. “Our school community,our school system and Mont-gomery County in a joint effortwere able to reach this commongoal ensuring the best for our
students. I would like to thankall of thecommunityandcountymembers formaking this dreama reality forOlney.”
PTA President Chelsea Cur-tis said the excitement is infec-tious and difficult to put intowords.
“The county really gave uswhat we wanted and we believethe new school will be verywell-equipped for the future,” shesaid. “We have a lot of studentswhoseparentsandgrandparentswent to Farquhar, and severalof our teachers went to Farqu-
har. While it will be bittersweetto leave this building, we are allthrilled about the amazing op-portunity.”
Curtis said construction hasnotcausedanyproblemsforstu-dents, staff or parents.
Construction begins on Farquhar Middle
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
“The county really gave us what we wanted,” says PTA President Chelsea Curtis, here with Farquhar Middle SchoolPrincipal Joel Beidleman, of the new Olney school, expected to open in August 2016.
n North Bethesda halla ‘fantastic experience’ formusicians and audience
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELAND ROBERT RAND
STAFFWRITERS
It’s been 10 years since it opened,and during that decade, its state-of-the-art, acoustically refined concert hall hasresounded with the melodies, harmo-nies and rhythmsof composers andmu-sicians ranging from Beethoven to BoDiddley.
This week, Strathmore in North
Bethesdacelebrates the10thanniversaryof itsmusic center andarts education fa-
cility with concertsand performancesby local and nation-ally knownartists.
The Music Cen-ter at Strathmore,home of the organi-zation’s large con-
cert hall, opened for its first concert in2005.ThatperformancefeaturedtheBal-timore SymphonyOrchestrawith guestsincluding cellist Yo-YoMa.
CEO Eliot Pfanstiehl was one of thefounders of Strathmore. The countyowns the Strathmore property off Rock-
ville Pike, and the nonprofit StrathmoreHall Foundationoperates it.
When it first opened as an arts cen-ter in 1983, the Mansion at Strathmorehosted concerts in a 100-seat hall.
“It wasn’t [very] hard to launch theplace,”Pfanstiehl toldTheGazette. “Thatsaid, while we were a little entity and alittlemansiononahill, theworld didnotknowabout us.”
By 1988, the facility had added anoutdoor gazebo that could host concertsfor audiences of 1,500. When Strath-more’s staff saw that 1,500 peoplewouldgo toa concert on the lawn, they realizedthe countyhadanunmetneed for amu-sicvenue,Pfanstiehlsaid—andonewith
a roof.Then-County Executive Douglas M.
Duncansupported the idea, and theBal-timoreSymphonyOrchestrawas lookingfor a secondhome in the area.
“Once you have the BaltimoreSymphony saying they’ll come to yourconcert hall, things move a lot faster,”Pfanstiehl said.
Duncan could not be reached forcomment.
Since the 1990s, the orchestra hadbeen seeking another regular venueout-side of Baltimore. It struck a partnershipwith the Strathmore Hall Foundationand became a founding partner in the
Music Center at Strathmore turns 10 with a flourish
2005 FILE PHOTO
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs the first concertat the Music Center at Strathmore in 2005.
See CONSTRUCTION, Page A-12 See STORAGE, Page A-12
See STRATHMORE, Page A-12
More onStrathmore’sanniversaryn Page B-5
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n League of Adventurous Womencelebrates 10th anniversary
BY TERRI HOGANSTAFF WRITER
Michaelle Scanlon, a former leader of anOlney Girl Scout troop, wondered why chil-dren should have all the fun.
As she stood around holding the first-aidkit while watching her Scouts participate in avariety of fun events and activities, she real-ized that grown-ups need to have fun, too.
That revelation led to the launch of theLeague of Adventurous Women, a groupthat just celebrated its 10th anniversary andis the impetus for a national organization forwomen seeking new adventures.
Scanlon — who goes by “Missie” — saidthe group comprises about 45 women, typi-cally in their 40s or 50s, and mostly from theOlney-Brookeville area.
There are no dues — members just signup and pay for the activities they are inter-ested in.
The group recently held its annual meet-ing, where curling and an Appalachian Trailhike were among the 13 items added to their“bucket list” of activities.
In previous years, these activities haveranged from more rigorous adventures suchas skydiving, a trapeze lesson and going to afiringrange, tomoresubduedactivities, suchas flower arranging, brewery tours and visit-ing a psychic.
“People just suggest things they have al-ways wanted to do but maybe never had thechance,” Scanlon said.
She recalled the trapeze lesson in Wash-ington, D.C., as one of the most memorablethings she’s done.
“I never thought learning a trapeze was
even possible, unless you were joining thecircus,” she said. “I had so much fun that Iwent back several times, and went from justswinging back and forth to actually letting goand being caught.”
Karen McIntosh of Olney has been withthe group since its inception.
“The organization has provided me withthe opportunity to try a lot of things in life,and the camaraderie among the group andmeeting new people has been great,” McIn-tosh said.
It also has given her new insight.“I never considered myself a ‘gun per-
son,’ but loved both skeet shooting and thefiring range, which gave me more respect forpeople who own guns,” she said.
McIntosh said she appreciates the inspi-ration from the group as the members cheereach other on.
“Women in their 40s and 50s just don’thear that kind of feedback very often,” shesaid. “It’s really nice to have cheerleadersencouraging you.”
Scanlon said that is just one of the manyreasons thegroupisappealing toherandtheother members.
“The demographic is women whosekids are older, so they have more time andresources to spend on themselves,” she said.“They are looking to add some zest to theirlives.”
WhileMcIntoshconsidersherselfamore“academic” person who tends to enjoy theless-adventurous activities, Joanne Ansorgeof Olney, also a charter member, prefers theextreme.
“I’ve always been an adventurous per-son,” she said. “Adventure is different toeveryone, and while I prefer the more ad-venturous stuff, others may not be as muchof a risk-taker.”
Ansorge has enjoyed an introductory
flight lesson and skydiving with the group.“Not everyone wants to jump out of a
plane, but it is easier when you have othersto do it with,” she said.
The group also participates in somecommunity service and charity events suchas the Relay for Life, Susan B. Komen Racefor the Cure, Polar Bear Plunge and thecounty humane society’s Love Ball.
After the group formed, Scanlon begankeepingablog.Fromthat, shewascontactedfromothersaroundthecountry interested instarting similar organizations.
She founded the League of AdventurousWomen as an umbrella network of adven-ture groups.
The League of Adventurous Womenis a nonprofit network of women’s adven-ture groups designed to support the manywomen’s adventure organizations aroundthecountry. Ithelpsgroupsconnectandcol-laborate, and helps women find adventureorganizations in their communities.
“The league now includes 270 local or-ganizations representing 60,000 women,”Scanlon said. “Some are groups focused ona specific activity like fishing or mountainbiking, but others are bucket-list group likeours.”
McIntosh is inspired by Scanlon’s dedi-cation.
“Missie spends 20 to 30 hours a week onthis, because she really believes in it,” shesaid. “To her, it is all about making a differ-ence in women’s lives.”
For information on joining the Leagueof Adventurous Women or to learn howto start a similar group, contact Scanlon [email protected]’swebsite is leagueofadventurouswomen.org.
Olney women conquer their bucket lists
n Proposal would alignRockville’s triggerwith county’s
BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFF WRITER
The mayor and councilare scheduled to vote Mondayon a controversial proposal tochange how Rockville deter-mines how development affectsschools.
The proposal would alignthe city’s standards with Mont-gomery County’s for determin-ing when growth in an areamust stop because of over-crowded schools. It would raisethe city’s trigger from 110 per-cent of program capacity to 120percent.
The change would also av-erage capacity by the clusterof lower-grade schools that
feed into eachhigh school,rather thanper school, asthe currentsystem does.
The issue was debated attwo public hearings that drewmore than 80 combined speak-ers, and the mayor and councildiscussed the issue again Mon-day.
Councilwoman VirginiaOnley said she thinks the issueneeds more discussion and acoordinated approach with thecity’s Planning Commission.
Onley said she doesn’t wantto “open the floodgates to de-velopment,” but she also thinksthe city needs to identify which
areas need to be developed andwhat it would like to put there.
“I think it’s either, we’re notdoing anything, we’re in mora-torium, or, let’s just open it upand be like the county,” shesaid.
Critics of the plan say itwould lead to widespreadovercrowding. Supporters saythe current standards haven’tstopped overcrowding andchanging them would help thecity grow by encouraging moredevelopment.
Onley said that in an areawith a variety of entertainmentoptions, Rockville runs the riskof missing out.
“I don’t think Rockville ismoving forward the way weneed to move forward,” shesaid.
Mayor Bridget Donnell
Newton said county schoolsin Rockville are already over-crowded, but not as muchas they would be if the city’sstricter standards weren’t inplace.
Changing to the countystandards will increase schoolpopulations “exponentially,”she said.
Newton said she’d like thecity to be part of any discussionon changing county standards.
Councilman Tom Moore,who proposed the changes,said he agrees the city shouldbe part of a county discussionon school standards.
Changing to the countystandards would allow the cityto talk with the county on amore equal footing, he said.
Vote on school, growth standards is Monday
Leonsis namednonprofit’s chairmanThe DC College Access Pro-
gram, a private nonprofit thathelps Washington students pre-pare for, enroll in and graduatefrom col-lege, namedTed Leonsisof Potomacchairman.
Leonsisis founder,chairman,m a j o r -ity ownerand CEOof Monumental Sports & En-tertainment, which owns theWashington Wizards, Capitalsand Mystics, and Verizon Cen-ter.
He succeeds the nonprofit’sfounding chairman, DonaldGraham, CEO and chairman ofGraham Holdings and formerCEO of The Washington Post.Graham will remain a boardmember.
Theater studentshonored at festival
Students from AdventureTheatre Musical Theater Cen-ter in Rockville and Glen Echowere recognized at the 2015Junior The-ater Fes-tival heldJan. 16-18in Atlanta.
The stu-dents won aFreddie GExcellencein Mu-sic groupaward. Also,Emma So-phie Mooreand HenryN i e p o e t -ter wonFreddie GAwards forE x c e l l e n tIndividualPerformance by a Female andMale, respectively.
The students, ages 11 to 17,performed selections from “IntoThe Woods JR.”
Emma, Henry, Trevor Bandand Kendall Jones were fourof 110 performers who madeit to the final call-back for fu-ture Broadway Junior shootsin New York City this summer.
Also, Sammy Strent and EmmaTower were named to the JuniorTheater Festival All-Stars.
County students areIntel Science finalistsTwo finalists in the 2015
Intel Science Talent Search arefrom Montgomery County Pub-lic Schools:
• Yizhen Zhang, who at-tends Richard MontgomeryHigh School in Rockville, with aproject called “Wiring for ‘Blue’-Connectome of the S-Cone Pho-toreceptor in the Outer Retina.”
• Michael H. Winer, who at-tends Montgomery Blair HighSchool in Silver Spring, witha project called “Interactionsof Electrons and Phonons in aCrystal.”
They are among 40 nationalfinalists announced Jan. 21. Thefinalists will compete March 5to 11 in Washington, D.C., forMedal of Distinction awards of$150,000 each, given to studentswho show exceptional scientificpotential in three areas: basicresearch, global good and inno-vation.
Montgomery County PublicSchools had 16 of the 21 semifi-nalists in Maryland.
‘Tiger Mom,’ husbandto discuss new bookYale Law School professor
Amy Chua and her husband, JedRubenfeld, will discuss their newbook, “The Triple Package: HowThree Unlikely Traits Explain theRise and Fall of Cultural Groupsin America,” at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 inRockville.
The talk will be in the CharlesE. Smith Jewish Day School, An-nette M. and Theodore N. LernerFamily Upper School Campus,11710 Hunters Lane.
Chua achieved notoriety asthe “Tiger Mom” after the re-lease of her book “Battle Hymnof the Tiger Mother.”
The authors will discuss thebook’s thesis that a combinationof a superiority complex, inse-curity and impulse control fuelthe disproportionate successof certain cultural and religiousgroups. They will discuss howJews fit into this “triple package”and how the cultural values re-sponsible for success can endurethrough future generations.
A book signing and receptionwill take place after a question-and-answer session. The talk isopen to the public, but reserva-tions are required by email [email protected] or by calling301-692-4837.
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n Crews train on WMATAsystem; department has‘rail buffs’ with expertise
BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
As metropolitan Washington gov-ernments review last month’s Metrofatality, Montgomery County’s act-ing fire chief offered some assurancesThursday.
Thecounty’sfireandrescueperson-nel get hands-on training about Metroemergencies, Scott Goldstein said. Also,the county has a team of experts whoknowhow to react.
Fire and rescue staff respond toabout 20 calls a year within the Metrosystem for smoking or electrical arcing,Goldstein told the County Council’sTransportation, Infrastructure, Energyand Environment Committee.
Arcing occurswhen electricity flowsout of a cable where it should not.
Crews responded to 62 such inci-dents from 2012 to 2014, many aroundtheBethesdaandMedicalCenterMetrostops, he said.
Metro safety has drawn concernfrom both congressional and local of-ficials after a train on Jan. 12 encoun-tered heavy smoke in a tunnel near theL’EnfantPlaza stationonMetro’sYellowLine inWashington.
An Alexandria, Va., woman died inthe incident, and 83 other passengerswere hospitalized.
Montgomery County has 11 Metrostations and 19 of the 117miles of trackin theMetro system, Goldstein said.
Six of the county’s stations areabove ground and five below, includingthe deepest station in theMetro systemin Forest Glen and the second-deepestinWheaton.
The depth of stations can hamperrescue crews’ efforts to communicateby radio, as happened in the L’EnfantPlaza incident.
Recent tests have found problemswith radio communication in tunnels inMontgomery portions of the Red Line,
according to TheWashington Post.Working up to 200 feet below grade
in a concrete chamber canmake it diffi-cult toget radios towork,Goldstein said.
The tunnels have a system of an-tennas to help improve radio transmis-sions, which are checked by fire andrescue personnel every two weeks, hesaid.
Once they’ve identified a problemin the system, it sometimes can take awhile to get it fixed, he said.
The tunnels have boxes every 800feet, each of which contains a switchthat lets emergency crews switch offpower to part of the third rail that pow-ers the train cars. There also are phonesthat let crews talk to station managers
and other people in the station itself.All fire and rescue workers get an
orientation and hands-on training withtheMetro system, Goldstein said.
The WashingtonMetropolitan AreaTransit Authority has a “top-notch”training facility in Landover that in-cludes a mock-up of a tunnel that canhave smoke pumped into it, he said.
Montgomery fire and rescue hasa group of 12 lieutenants and captainswho are “rail buffs” and can act as ex-perts on the rail system and incidentcommanders when crews respond toa situation on the Metro system, Gold-stein said.
Acting fire chief: County ready forMetro emergency
n Proposed law wouldprohibit selling puppies,
kittens at pet stores
BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFFWRITER
Dogs likeMonster, a cockerspaniel bought at a Rockvillepuppy shop, haveMontgomeryCounty considering a ban sell-ing puppies and kittens at retailpet stores.
“One second he could bethe sweetest dog in the world.The very next, he was sinkinghis teeth into my thigh,” Ge-neva Brooks, Monster’s owner,testified Jan. 27 at a hearing onthe proposed ban.
He was so aggressive, heput people in the hospital,Brooks said. She tried train-ers, veterinarian behaviorists,medication, a Thundershirt,a hands-on therapy called T-touch, “you name it” to teachMonster to be calm and well-adjusted.
“After he put me in theemergency room, I knewwhat Ihadpouredallmy time,money,
heart and soul into was a futileendeavor,” she said. “Monsterwas irreversibly damaged.”
Two years ago, Brooks hadMonster euthanized.
Monster’s tale was one ofthe tearful stories shared at thehearing by residents urging thecouncil to pass the bill, whichwas introduced by CouncilPresident George L. Leventhal(D-At Large) of Takoma Park.
The bill would prohibit lo-cal pet stores from selling dogor cats andonly allow theadop-tion of animals from shelters orrescue groups at the shops. Thebill aims to stem the sale of ani-mals bred in commercial oper-ations— known as puppymillsor kittenmills— in the county.
The council’s Public SafetyCommittee is scheduled to dis-
cuss the billThursday.Leventhal’s proposed
model forMontgomery Countyhas proven successful for thethousands of PetSmart andPetco stores across the coun-try, said Wayne Pacelle, presi-dent and CEO of the HumaneSociety of the United States inGaithersburg.
Pacelle said the two large
pet retail chains no longer selldogs or cats. Instead, the cor-porations work with rescuegroups and shelters to findhomes for animals.
“Since this model started, 6milliondogs andcatshavebeenadopted,” Pacelle said.
Only one pet store inMont-gomery County, Just PuppiesInc. in Rockville, sells puppies.
Mitchell Thomson, ownerof Just Puppies, said he and hisstaff care about the puppiesthey sell and get the dogs fromlicensed kennels inMissouri.
“At Just Puppies, we reallycare about our puppies, theirorigins, a short comfortablestay at our facility and their fu-ture well-being,” he said, testi-fying against the bill.
Thomson saidhis store sellshealthy puppies from kennelsthat are federally regulated. Petstores and breeders, he said,are the most regulated sourcesof pets and provide consumerswith protections such as war-ranties.
Some employees and oth-erswhoworkedwith the store’sanimals said they saw sick ani-mals, returned or euthanized
puppies, and had suspicionsthat the puppies came frommills.
Veterinarian Lindsey An-derson said her clinic, VCANorth Rockville Animal Hospi-tal, has worked “closely with apet store within MontgomeryCounty” to treat its animals.
Anderson said the animalsshe sees fromthe store—whichshe didn’t name—are nomoreor less sick than other dogs. Butthe puppies often have respi-ratory infections due to beinghoused in a communal setting,she said.
For all of the claims madeat the hearing about the shop,Leventhal’s proposed lawwould not affect its operations.
Because Rockville has itsown animal control ordinance,the county bill wouldn’t applyin the city, said Rockville Coun-cilwoman JuliePalakovichCarr.
Palakovich Carr said shetalked with Leventhal lastmonth about his legislationand is working on introducinga similar measure in the city.She’s waiting for the county totake action first.
In his 12 years on the coun-cil, Leventhal said, no other billhas been as popular as the thisbill.
Not everyone supports thebill.
Ruth Hanessian, owner ofa pet store in the county thatdoes not sell dogs or cats, saidthe bill “is an example of leg-islation that sounds kind andhelpful while the result will beto decrease responsible choos-ing of what everyone wants tobe a successful family experi-ence for both pet and people.”
Others expressed opposi-tion to allowing stores to onlyoffer animals from rescuegroups or shelters.
Mike Bober, executive vicepresident of the Pet IndustryJoint Advisory Council, said thebill would deprive residents oflooking to a pet store as an al-ternative for a pet.
Staff Writer Ryan Marshallcontributed to this report.
Emotions high at hearing on puppy proposal
Planning is underway forOl-ney Days 2015, which will takeplaceMay 16 and 17.
Each year, 10,000 or moreOlney-area residents gather toenjoy family-friendly events andcelebrate living in Olney.
Highlights include Joe’sRideand Stride: Remembering Ol-ney’s Kids, the Olney Idol con-test, car and truck show, fun fairand fireworks, the Olney Daysparade, the Rock the Lot blockparty and a beer garden.
Producing Olney Days costsabout $15,000, andeachyear theexpenses increase, according toorganizers.
The nonprofit Olney CivicFund was established in 2013with the support of the GreaterOlney Civic Association to raiseawareness and funds forOlney’scharitable, educational, civicand cultural activities.
A key project is support-ing Olney Days by appealing tobusinesses and residents.
The group welcomes corpo-
rate sponsorships and designeda program to give businessesbroad exposure throughout theyear.
“Last year we were fortu-nate to receive financial supportfrommany businesses and indi-viduals both local to Olney andfrom surrounding areas,” JohnWebster, the fund’s chairman,said. “We hope to receive evenbroader support for 2015.”
The organization also isbuildinga fund toprovidegrantsto select Olney charities. Anysurplus from Olney Days goesto this fund, he said. Last year,it gave $1,000 to Project Change.
The all-volunteer OlneyCivic Fund seeks help with Ol-ney Days, fundraising, commu-nity outreach and planning anupcoming golf tournament.
Volunteer and donation in-formation is at olneycivicfund.org. Donations also may bemailed toP.O.Box154,Brookev-ille, MD 20833.
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n Richard Montgomerysenior takes first prize
BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
Johns Hopkins University’sRockville campus will host adisplay of art by MontgomeryCounty high school studentsthrough the end ofMarch.The “Out of the Ordinary”
exhibitwill be ondisplay on theschool’s campus at 9605 Medi-cal Center Drive.Montgomery County Pub-
lic School students were in-vited to submit entries in thecategories of mixed-media artand photography, said EllenPoltilove, a spokeswoman forthe university.Students from 20 county
high schools submitted 174pieces of mixed media artand 221 photos, which a jurynarroweddown to 43mixed-media pieces for display and33pieces in the photographycategory.First, second and third
prizes were offered in eachcategory, as well as threehonorable mentions in themixed-media category.Lei Yan, a senior at
Richard Montgomery HighSchool in Rockville, took firstplace in the mixed-mediacategory.Second place went to
Amanuel Gebremariam ofEinstein High in Kensing-ton and third went to KenHa of the Visual Arts Center.Honorablementionswent to
Abby Staub and Rachel Gold-berg, both of Sherwood Highin Sandy Spring, and ThasaneePhongpanangam of WatkinsMill High in Gaithersburg.First place in photogra-
phy went to Dahlia Ehrenbergof Northwood High in SilverSpring, while Maddy Walkerof Northwest in Germantowntook second and Adele Spinderof Poolesville High took thirdplace.
Student artists move beyond ‘Ordinary’
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Lei Yan, a senior at Richard Montgomery High in Rockville, talks abouther first-place entry, which is visible over her right shoulder, at Thursday’sopening reception for the new “Out of the Ordinary” student art exhibit atJohns Hopkins University in Rockville.
n Free exhibition inN. Bethesda to feature
installations, performances
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
An unfinished office build-ing on Rockville Pike is getting acolorful, if temporary, new useas a contemporary arts venue.The Pike & Rose Audio Vi-
sual Arts Festival on Saturdaynight brings contemporary per-formers and art installations toan empty office building in thenew Pike & Rose developmentin North Bethesda. The inte-rior walls of the building havenot yet been built, so now it isan open space with windows allaround.Pike & Rose is bringing in
Nuit Blanche New York andMaterials&Methods toproducethe event. Prava Festival in-cludes 15 contemporary artistsand collaborations, includingMatmos and Milton Croissantfrom Baltimore, and JonathanMonaghan and Gems fromWashington.“There are a lot of artists
that are working in these newforms,” said Ethan Vogt, execu-tive director of Nuit BlancheNew York. “... It’s kind of an ex-citing time in that field, so it’s agreat opportunity to do some-thing in this new space.”People can wander through
the three floors of the exhibi-tion and watch repeating per-formances or installations. Vogtsaid the exhibition is designedto appeal to fans of contempo-rary art and casual observers.“It’s absolutely for anyone
who’s interested in music —people who are interested evenin roller skating,” Vogt said.Baltimore’s Charm City RollerGirls are scheduled to skate toelectronic music by Allard vanHoorn.“We strive to make some-
thing that is very approachableand kind of grabs you, but alsothe more you learn about it orthemore time spent, the deeperit goes,” he said.The free exhibition is ar-
ranged as a “free-flowing space”that people can explore as theylike, without following any par-ticular path, Vogt said.“It’s not a maze. It’s an
aquarium,” he said.The festival is inspired by
small community festivals insome European towns and issimilar to other immersive artsfestivals Nuit BlancheNew Yorkand Materials & Methods haveproduced in other cities. Vogtsaid as new neighborhoodssuch as Pike & Rose are born,it’s important to create a senseof place.The artwork at Prava Fes-
tival will be influenced by itsoffice-building presentationspace, as well as the audience.Vogt said the festival’s organiz-ers want to show that art can bean event, and art is made by thegathering of people. In particu-lar, they were seeking artworksthat need people to reach theirfull potential and artistswho areinterested in working in publicand allowing the public to bepart of themoment.“Those are some central
principles — to make piecesthat are very much inspired bythe site and really come to frui-tion when they’re surroundedby an audience,” he said.
Festival pushingartistic envelope
PHOTO BY NICK WOLFE/NUIT BLANCHE NEW YORK
Saturday night’s Prava Festival at Pike & Rose in North Bethesda will featureart, music and “free-flowing space,” organizers say.
IF YOU GOn What: Pike & Rose AudioVisual Arts Festival, featuringcontemporary art installationsand performances.
n When: 6 p.m. Saturday to 2a.m. Sunday
n Where: Pike & Rose, 11580Old Georgeown Road, NorthBethesda.
n Cost: Free with registrationon the event website. Opento people 18 and older.
n Information: PRAVAFest.org.
‘OUT OF THE ORDINARY’n When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday through Saturday
n Where: Johns HopkinsUniversity’s Rockvillecampus, 9605 MedicalCenter Drive.
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n Review will covercurrent Rockville site,
undetermined alternative
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County PublicSchools will look again at pos-sible plans for its Blair G. Ew-ing Center after a MontgomeryCounty Council committee di-rected the district to reconsiderthe current site and study an al-ternative.School officials have said
the district previously hoped tomove the Ewing center from itscurrent spot on Avery Road inRockville to the former EnglishManor Elementary School inAspen Hill as part of the fiscal2015-20 Capital ImprovementsProgram.The center houses alterna-
tive education programs for stu-dents struggling with academic,disciplinary or behavioral prob-lems.The school systemhas faced
increasing community opposi-tion to the Ewing center’s possi-ble move and the system’s planto relocate its Shady Grove busdepot to the Avery Road site.The County Council’s Edu-
cation Committee proposedThursday that the school districtlook again at the current Ewing
site, taking into account recentchanges to the programs. It alsoproposed a second study on anyother possible site, not namingthe English Manor property toallow for flexibility.Committee Chairman Craig
L. Rice (Dist. 2) of Germantownsaid the full council likely willapprove the recommendationfor the studies at its Tuesdaymeeting.The verdict to conduct fur-
ther review came at the endof the committee’s Thursdaymeeting with school officials todiscuss redirecting about $1.5million that was set aside forplanning efforts around the cur-rent Avery Road site. School of-ficials wanted to put thatmoneytoward plans to use the EnglishManor site instead.James Song, director of the
school system’s Departmentof Facilities Management, andthe Ewing center’s principal, IraThomas, told committee mem-bers that the current Ewingbuilding isn’t right for the centerfollowing a recent redesign ofprograms.Both cited the structure of
the building, which is broken upinto “pods” and separates stu-dent groups. Among its changesto alternative education, thedis-trict consolidated its programsto include one at the middle-school level and one at the high-school level.
Thomas said Ewing stu-dents deserve a new, state-of-the-art building for their socialand emotional needs. The cen-ter aims to stop the “school-to-prison pipeline,” he said.“We are the last stop for
them,” Thomas said. “This iswhy it’s so important that wehave a place that they can calltheir own.”Song said the $16.6 million
budgeted for Ewing center im-provements would go furtherat the English Manor site. Also,EnglishManor’s smaller size is abetter fit, he said.Song said a 2013 feasibility
study of the current Ewing site— which identified three waysto renovate the center — is nolonger useful because it wasbased on alternative educationprograms as they used to be.Councilwoman Nancy Na-
varro suggested that, besidesstudying English Manor, thedistrict look again at the Ewingcenterwithnewalternative edu-cation programs inmind.“At least for me, it would be
important to know exactly whatwe’re looking at,” said Navarro(D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring.“That hasn’t occurred.Wedon’tknowwhat the feasibility wouldbe.”Councilman Marc Elrich
(D-At Large) of Takoma Parkexpressed skepticism about theschool system’s reasoning for
changing course from its previ-ous plans to renovate the AveryRoad site. He said school offi-cials had the same understand-ing of “best practices” for theprograms at the time of the 2013study.He also said he didn’t think
$16 million would be enough tolet the school system renovateandadd space toEnglishManor.“For a myriad of reasons, I
don’t buy what you’re saying,”he said.Before the committeemeet-
ing, about a dozen opponents ofthe district’s plans held a rallyoutside theCountyCouncil’s of-fice building in Rockville.Jamison Adcock, an opposi-
tion leader and vice presidentof the Aspen Hill Civic Associa-tion, said after the meeting that“it does not make sense” thatschool officials changed theirminds about the Avery Roadsite.“Now we’re gonna have
studies that I think will be morecomprehensive and may makesome sense,” Adcock said.The studies will help school
board and council membersmake “more informed deci-sions,” Song said after themeet-ing.Rice said the two studieswill
“put onpaper”which site is bestfor students.
School district to study possible Ewing center sites
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Blair G. Ewing Center Principal Ira Thomas talks to County Council membersabout a plan to move alternative education programs from the Blair G. EwingCenter in Rockville to the English Manor Elementary School site in Aspen Hill.
n Rice urges takingtime to ‘get it right’
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County Pub-lic Schools’ plans to change itspolicy and practices on handlingchild abuse and neglect drewquestions and support fromcounty officialsMonday.The issue of child abuse in
the school system was a focusin November when two princi-pals said they should have toldparents earlier about incidentsat their schools. An allegation atRobertoClementeMiddleSchoolin Germantown and another at
John T. Baker Middle School inDamascus involved district em-ployees accused of inappropri-ately touching a student.Afterward, Superintendent
Joshua P. Starr said the districtcould improve its processes andprocedures on handling childabuse.Montgomery County Coun-
cilmanCraigL.Rice saidMondaythat he found “a lot of questionmarks that were out there interms of how to best go abouthandling these types of situa-tions.”“I would urge that we take
our time and get it right,” he saidduring a County Council Educa-tionCommitteemeeting.The meeting, he said, would
focus on the future, not pastevents.Andrew Zuckerman, the
county school district’s chief ofstaff, shared a series of changesthe school district is carrying out.They cover district policy andregulation, staff training, back-ground checks, parent educationand communication with schoolcommunitieswhenallegationsofchild abuse arise.The district formed a work
group focused on child abuseand neglect, which Zuckermansaid informed recommendationsfor the changes.He said new school liaisons
will know thedistrict’s policy andregulation on abuse “inside andout” and help guide principals.
The liaison would help coordi-nate responses to incidents, suchas helping a student get counsel-ing,andhavestrongrelationshipswith county agencies, he said.Rice said council members
need to “weigh in” again on aproposednewpolicy.Thedistrict aims to complete
a new policy, with help from anoutside expert, by the end of theschool year, Zuckerman said.Montgomery County Police
Chief J. Thomas Manger, whovoiced support for the workgroup’s efforts, said he antici-pates more consistent responsesto child abuse in the district, in-cluding who is notified whenschool staff suspect abuse.He said after the meeting
that new training will help teachschool staff how to handle suchsituations.“It’s just common sense that
principals need to and schoolemployees need to be able todetermine from a victim whatthey’re dealing with, but youdon’twant themcomplicating orinterfering with a criminal inves-tigation,” he said.Assistant State’s Attorney
Debbie Feinstein said the an-swer to one question hasn’t beenfinalized: What will happen tothose who don’t properly reportsuspected abuse? That informa-tionwill be in theupdatedpolicy,she said.“I think that’s a significant
piece that wasn’t there before,”
said Feinstein, a work groupmember.Workgroup member Jen-
nifer Alvaro — whose past andcurrent work includes educa-tion, prevention and treatmentrelated to child abuse — said inan interviewMonday that countyofficials should have taken timeduring the meeting to look atpast incidents and invited a par-ent voice to participate, such asherself.Alvaro said she’s glad the
county is “finally moving for-ward,” but the same people whomade past decisions and “cre-ated the problem” are makingthe changes.
Education panel digs into school plan to address abuse allegations
The following is a summary of inci-dents in the area to which Montgom-ery County police responded recently.The words “arrested” and “charged”do not imply guilt. This informationwas provided by the county.
Peeping Tom• 2500 block of Baltimore Road,
Rockville, at 10:07 p.m. Jan. 17. Thesubject was seen looking in thewindow.
Residential burglary• 11200 block of South Glen
Road, Potomac, betweenDec. 13 andJan. 12. Forced entry, took property.• 12900 block of Turkey Branch
Parkway, Rockville, on Jan. 15 or 16.Forced entry, took property.
Vehicle larceny• Three incidents in Rockville
between Jan. 12 and 20. Took cash,jewelry, CDs and clothing. Affectedstreets include Ardennes Avenue,Higgins Place and Linthicum Street.• Two incidents in the parking
lot of Federal Plaza, 1776 JeffersonSt., Rockville, on Jan. 19. Forced en-try, took a briefcase.
POLICE BLOTTER
Montgomery County resi-dents 13 and older are invited tosubmit entries to thecounty’s in-augural StormDrainArtContest.Hosted by the County De-
partment of EnvironmentalProtection and Rock Creek Con-servancy, the contestwill use thewinning art to educate residentsabout the connection betweenlocal storm drains and streamsand the Chesapeake Bay.Submissions should portray
an educational theme relatedto streams or storm drains andthey should be colorful, creative,original and easy to reproduce,
according to a news release.Each design should include ashort tagline or message, in anylanguage, related to the chosentheme.Artists can choose their pre-
ferred medium, but the entryshould be a JPG, PNG or PDF ofthe design and can be as simpleas submitting a picture of the fi-nal piece.Entries are due at 2 p.m.
Feb. 23. Two of the winning en-tries will be chosen by a panel,with the third winner decidedby voting on Rock Creek Con-servancy’s Facebook page. Thethree winning selections will bepainted on storm drains in thecounty for Earth Day 2015 inApril.Stormdrainart isnowvisible
at the Aspen Hill and Kensing-ton Park libraries. More contestinformation, including photosof some storm drain art, is atmygreenmontgomery.org/art.
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n Derwood, Germantownparks eyed for solar panels; countyestimates power savings of $291K
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
Rock Creek Regional Park in Derwoodand South Germantown Recreational Parkcould become the sites of two solar farms,according to the county’s parks depart-ment.
Montgomery Parks will present its ideaat thenextmeeting of theUpcountyCitizensAdvisory Board onMonday inGermantown.The meeting is open, and the public is wel-come to attend.
After researching possibilities, the parksstaff chose twosites that areexpected tohavethe least effect on park users, facilities, natu-ral resources and bordering properties, saidMikeRiley, director ofMontgomeryParks, inaMontgomery Parks press release.
“The study also revealed numerous ben-efits of installing solar farms for the public,the parks department and the environment,”Riley said in the release.
Planners estimate that installing the solarfarmswill saveMontgomeryParks,partof theMaryland-NationalCapitalParkandPlanningCommission,nearly$291,000ayear inenergycosts per array.
Harnessing the energy from the sun in-steadofburninggasolinewouldbeequivalenttocutting thepollutiongeneratedby300cars,according to the release.
If the idea goes forward, MontgomeryParks would contract with a third party com-pany thatwouldbuild andmaintain the arrayof solar panels.
“The Commission will receive a set rateof payment for kilowatts produced,” saidProject Manager Dominic Quattrocchi in anemail.
The plan is due to go before the county’sPlanning Board on March 5 and, pendingboard approval, construction could beginlate spring and finish by the end of the year,according to the release.
Similar projects have also been con-structed in Prince George’s and Frederickcounties and the town of Poolesville, Quat-trocchi said in the email.
“We estimate that it will save $30,000 to
$50,000 a year on electricity bills,” said Pool-esvilleMayor JimBrown.
The Poolesville panels went into opera-
tion in January 2014, he said.The town contractedwith a third party to
lease the landnear thePoolesvillewastewatertreatment plant to build and run the solar ar-ray, Brown said.
The company in turns sells the electric-ity back to the town at a fixeddiscounted ratethat is 15 to 20percent belowcost.
“We had the land, whichwas basically anunused resource,” he said. “We had the op-portunity to leverage it during a really goodtime in the electricitymarket.”
Alsopartof the town’smotivationforsup-porting the project was to generate electricitywithout burning fuel.
“Wewanted to use our resource properlyin the most environmentally useful and cor-rectway,” Brown said.
Bright idea proposed to harness the sun
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(From left) Poolesville Town Manager Wade Yost, Mayor Jim Brown and Joyce Brenner, executive direc-tor of Poolesville Green, stand with the solar array at the town’s wastewater treatment plant. The elec-tricity generated by the panels offset the energy costs from the town’s facilities.
UPCOUNTY ADVISORY BOARDn What: Montgomery Parks solar farms
initiative
n When: 7 to 9 p.m. Monday
n Where: Sidney Kramer Upcounty RegionalServices Center, 12900 MiddlebrookRoad, Germantown
n Information: ParkPlanning.org and scrolldown to Upcoming Community Meetings
n Comments: Contact Project CoordinatorDominic Quattrocchi at [email protected] or301-650-4361
n Public outcry persuadescounty to step back
and reconsider options
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Barely a week after a bill wasintroduced to helpMontgomeryCounty create an independentagency for transit projects, theproposal is dead, at least for thisyear.
“The plan is to pull the bill,which I think is the right move,”Del. Shane Robinson, the coun-ty’s delegation chairman, saidMonday.
Introduced Jan. 23 at the re-quest of County Executive IsiahLeggett (D), thebillwouldenablethe county to create an indepen-dent authority to finance andoversee transit projects.
Robinson (D-Dist. 39) ofMontgomery Village said heplans this week to have the billwithdrawn from the General As-sembly.
The bill was set for discus-sion in the House Ways andMeans Committee and Environ-ment and Transportation Com-mittee, which are chaired byMontgomery County Dels. She-lia Hixson (D-Dist. 20) of SilverSpringandKumarBarve (D-Dist.17)ofGaithersburg, respectively.
Leggett said Monday heasked thedelegation towithdrawthe bill for this session, but plansto comebackwith a refined pro-posal next year.
Stepping back gives thecounty time to consider otherideas for financing and buildingneeded transit projects.
Thus far, Leggett’s idea is theonlyoneon the table, buthe saidhe is open to others.
“I’m not suggesting we willnot come back to this—we verywell may” he said. “If there is abetter idea out there, I’m willingto listen to it. But I have not seenit yet.”
As written, Leggett’s pro-posal set off a firestorm of broadopposition that included eventransit supporters. A publichearing on the bill on Fridaydrew more than 75 people totestify both for and against theproposal and lasted more thanfour hours.
Among the topconcernswaswhat some described as an end-run around the county’s charterlimit on raising taxes.
In 2008, MontgomeryCounty voters put a cap onproperty tax increases, limitingannual hikes to the rate of infla-tion plus the value of new con-struction, unless all nine councilmembers vote toexceed it.How-ever, special taxing districts arenot subject to the cap.
Leggett’s proposed billwould have considered the en-tire county a special district thatthe independent authority hadthe power to tax for transit with-out limit.
“This bill is stunning in itsscope, foolish in its strategy andunconscionable in its treatmentof the voters of MontgomeryCounty,” Joan Fidler, presidentof theMontgomery County Tax-payers League, said. “It will al-lowanun-electedbody to createpre-conditions which can causethe County Council to raise itsproperty taxes above the charterlimit.”
Concerns and questionsraised at the hearing promptedLeggett to pull the bill and put itback on the drawing table.
Even though the bill washeaded for the standingcommit-tees in Annapolis, it still neededthe delegation’s support.
Robinson said to win thedelegation’s stamp of approval,Leggett’s next proposal needsbroader public support, includ-ing from more groups in thecounty. It also needs thebackingof the County Council.
The wary council delayedtaking a position on the billlast week and pulled it from its
agenda Monday after Leggetthalted the idea for this year.
“People are looking at thisidea and saying it’s not a per-fect idea,” Leggett said. “I admitthat.”
For now, Leggett said, he istaking suggestions on how to
address the county’s need fortransit.
He cautioned that it is notrealistic to bank on significantstate support or roomin thecap-ital plan for large transit projects.
Delegation to withdraw transit authority bill
Olney theater presentsmusical program
The Olney Theatre Centerwill present “From‘Godspell’ to‘Wicked’: TheMusic of StephenSchwartz” at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Christopher Youstra, asso-ciate artistic director of musictheater; Michael Bobbitt, artis-tic associate; and local actressBayla Whitten will present anhourof songsby, andconversa-tion about, Stephen Schwartz,the composer and lyricist of“Godspell,” “Pippin,” “Chil-dren of Eden,” “Wicked” andthe upcoming Broadway show“Houdini.”
This event is free to centermembersand$10fornonmem-bers. More information is at ol-neytheatrecenter.org or call theboxoffice at 301-924-3400.
Civic group talkon road issues
The Montgomery CountyCivic Federationwillmeet from7:45 to 10 p.m. Monday in thefirst-floor auditorium of theCountyCouncilOfficeBuilding,100MarylandAve., Rockville.
“Perilous Potholes andCrumbling Curbs: Neighbor-hoodRoadResurfacing”will bethe topic. A panel of speakerswill address local road issuesand provide time for questions.Following the road discussionthere will be a session with up-dates on local issues.
All county residents andrepresentatives of civic organi-zations arewelcome to attend.
Free parking is available inthe garage accessed from East
Jefferson and Monroe streets.More information is at mont-gomerycivic.org.
Senior Connection hostsvolunteer open houseThe Senior Connection will
hold a volunteer open housefrom 9:30 to 11 a.m. Wednes-day at the Holiday Park SeniorCenter, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Sil-ver Spring.
Thegroup linksolderadultsto services and resources sothey can live as independentlyas possible.
There are openings for vol-unteers todrive seniors tomed-ical appointments, help withgrocery shopping and providemoney management supportservices.
For more information andto RSVP for the open house,contact Mary Murphy at [email protected] or call 301-942-1049.
TheSeniorConnectionalsowill hold training sessions forvolunteer drivers and groceryshoppers from 10 a.m. to noonFeb. 11 at the Jewish Councilon the Aging, 12320 ParklawnDrive, Rockville; and 7 to 8:30p.m.Feb. 18at theHolidayParkSeniorCenter.
Citizens group hosts talkon pesticide bill
The West MontgomeryCountyCitizensAssociationwillmeet at 7:15 a.m. Feb. 11 at thePotomac Community Center,11315Falls Road.
Chris Gillis, senior legisla-tive aide to County CouncilPresident George L. Leventhal(D-At large) of Takoma Park,will discuss Leventhal’s billregulating theuse of pesticides.
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Wallace, O’BrienMadeline Secor Wallace and Michael Graham O’Brien were married onOctober 25, 2014 at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, MD. Thereception was held at the Dumbarton House in Georgetown, Washington,D.C. The bride, daughter of Richard E. Wallace, JR. and Anne Wallace ofPotomac, MD, attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal School where shecurrently works as the Director of Alumni Affairs and Special Events. Shereceived her B.S. from the College of Charleston (SC).
The groom, son of Michael P. O’Brien and Kathy S. O’Brien of Bethesda,MD, attended Walt Whitman High School and earned a BA from LehighUniversity (PA). He currently works as an Accounting Manager. Madelineand Graham O’Brien currently live in the DC area.
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Lindsay Ann Hubbard andMichael Edward Yare weremarried October 4, 2014 atThe Lodge at Little SenecaCreek, Boyds, MD. Rev.Gerard Green officiated.
Lindsay, the daughter of Dr.Heddy Hubbard of Rockville,MD and Mr. James Hubbardof Stevensville, MD is agraduate of Winston ChurchillHigh School and theUniversity of Maryland,Baltimore County. She isAssistant to the Director,Macklin Business Institute,Montgomery College.
Michael, son of Mr. Brian andMrs. Jane Yare of Columbia,MD., is a graduate of AtholtonHigh School and owner ofWashingtonian Dog Walkers,LLC in Gaithersburg MD.
Samantha Yare, the groom’ssister, and Jamie Hubbard thebride’s sister served asbridesmaids. The bride’sbrothers, Kenny, Stephen andJeffrey Hubbard served asgroomsmen.
The couple reside inGaithersburg, MD with theirtwo beloved dogs, Monty andJunior.
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n Ex-con who hadrelationship with victim
enters guilty plea
BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
A man accused of drunk-enly abducting a MontgomeryCounty circuit judgewithwhomhewas in a relationship pleadedguilty Friday andwas sentencedto three years in prison.
Rickley Senning, 25, faced10 counts including kidnapping,second-degree assault, and un-lawfully taking a car, stemmingfrom aMay 19, 2014, confronta-tion. Prosecutors said Senningconfronted Judge Audrey A.Creighton, now 54, at her Dick-erson home, pulled her hair andtried to force her to drive him toGaithersburg.
Senning pleaded guilty tothree counts — false imprison-ment, second-degree assault,and driving while under the in-fluence of alcohol.
Retired Howard CountyCircuit Judge Diane O. Leasuresentenced Senning to two 10-year sentences — suspendingseven years from each— for theassault and false imprisonmentcharges, and another one-yearsentence for the drunk drivingcharge. Senning will serve an ef-fective sentenceof three years inprison, followed by five years ofprobation.
Leasure handled the casebecause it involved aMontgom-ery County judge.
Prosecutors from PrinceGeorge’s County representedthe state in the case, also be-cause of conflicts that Mont-
gomeryprosecutorswouldhave.In an application for a
temporary protective orderCreighton filed the day after thealtercation, she refers to Sen-ning as both an “intimate part-ner” and a “cohabitant.” Shedescribes an intoxicated Sen-ningpullingher hair, forcingherintoher car anddemanding thatshe drive him from her Dicker-son home to Gaithersburg.
Creighton wrote that Sen-ning yanked her hair severaltimes, urging her to go faster,and at one point, almost madeher hit the car in front of her.After Senning asked her to pullover, Creighton jumped out ofthe car and ran to anearby store,where an employee called 911.
Statements from county po-lice pick up the narrative fromthere: Creighton escaped fromthe car near the Harris Teetergrocery store on DarnestownRoad. Senning drove off, andwas involved in a crash on Dar-nestownRoadnearBondyLane,but escaped.
A warrant was issued forSenning’s arrest and he wastaken into custody in Miami onMay 27, when Miami-Dade po-lice answered a call for a suspi-cious person.
Assistant State’s AttorneyChristine Murphy said at Fri-day’s plea that a 13-year-oldboy fractured his skull whenSenning crashed into his car onDarnestown Road.
Before becoming a judge,Creighton served as Senning’slawyer when she was a publicdefender, representing him ona trespassing charge in 2008, ac-cording to online court records.
After Murphy read a state-ment of facts into the record as
part of the plea agreement, Sen-ning indicated several elementsof the statement with which hedisagreed. But when promptedby one of his attorneys, CharlesN. Shaffer, Senning agreed thathe was still guilty of the chargesto which he had pleaded.
Creighton did not appear atthe plea hearing, and a spokes-woman for the court systemsaidFriday that Creightonwouldnotcomment on the case. She hasnot spoken publicly about theevents, and is currently assignedto chambers work — which in-volves mostly paperwork — incriminal and family cases andis only conducting hearings incivil matters, the spokeswomansaid.
Senning has previouslyfaced charges including theft,burglary and armed robbery.In 2008, he was sentenced tofive years in prison for second-degree assault after punchinga corrections officer. He wasreleased in 2013, according tothe Maryland Department ofPublic Safety and CorrectionalServices.
Senning lived with Creigh-ton in June, July and August2013 — shortly after he was re-leased from prison — and forthree weeks in May 2014, ac-cording to Creighton’s protec-tive order application.
William E. Wallace, Sen-ning’s other attorney, told re-porters after the hearing thatSenning “apologizes sincerely”to the people he injured. Wal-lace also said that Creighton’srelationship with Senning was“clearly inappropriate” and thatshe lied to police about her rela-tionship with Senning.
A rival judicial candidate in
the last election, Daniel PatrickConnell, had accused Creightonof initially lying to police andclaiming her relationship withSenning was platonic.
John Erzen, a spokesmanfor the Office of Prince George’sCounty State’s Attorney AngelaAlsobrooks, said he did not feelCreighton had been dishonestand that she had fully admittedshe and Senning were in a rela-tionship.
Erzen said there may havebeen some “back and forth earlyon” regarding the nature of therelationship, but that was notuncommon in domestic inci-dents. Creighton had initiallytoldpolice that shewas in a rela-tionship with Senning, but thathe was not her boyfriend, andbeencooperative and forthcom-ingwithprosecutors throughoutthe case, Erzen said.
On a 911 recording providedby prosecutors, Creighton canbe heard telling the operatorthat a “friend of hers”was drunkand had forced her into her car.When asked if Senning was herboyfriend, Creighton replied“not really” and said he hadbeen staying with her for aboutfour weeks while looking for anew apartment, but that he was“not living there.”
A letter from Connell alleg-ing misconduct by Creightonhas been delivered to the state’sCommissionon JudicialDisabil-ities, an independent body thatinvestigates complaints againstjudges, but the commission’sproceedings do not becomepublic until it brings chargesagainst a judge.
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Life science companiesat Dubai exhibitionRepresentatives of four
Montgomery County life sci-ence companies were among
a small groupthat traveledlast week toDubai forArabHealth 2015, amajor global
health-care exhibition.They were part of delega-
tionledbythestateDepartmentof Business and Economic De-velopment’s international tradeand investment team, accord-ing to an agencynews release.
Attending were represen-tatives from Dimetek DigitalMedical Technologies andLonghorn Vaccines & Diagnos-tics, both of Bethesda; and IOBMedical and Mawi DNA Tech-nologies, both ofGaithersburg.
Credit union namesmortgage executiveMid-Atlantic Federal Credit
Union of Germantown namedAlanSpeckdirectorofmortgageorigination.
Previously, Speck was CEOand director for Sunset CapitalMortgage; president and man-aging member of Elite Mort-gageCapital; andexecutive vicepresident of wholesale and re-tail origination for Aurora LoanServices.
Speck holds a bachelor’sdegree in economics from theUniversity ofMaryland,CollegePark.
Federal Realtynames new VP
Federal Realty Invest-ment Trust of Rockvillenamed Michael Ennes vicepresident, residential brand-ing and operations.
Previously, Ennes wasa senior director for severalbrands at Hilton Worldwide.He holds a bachelor’s degreefrom Michigan State Univer-
sity and master of businessadministration from the Uni-versity of Denver.
Emergent expandingBaltimore plant
Emergent BioSolutions ofGaithersburg, which developsvaccines for anthrax and otherpharmaceuticals, is doublingits 58,000-square-foot spacein Baltimore to include moremanufacturing, quality controllabs and warehouse space, thestate Department of Businessand Economic Developmentsaid in anews releaseTuesday.
The expansion, which isexpected to create 158 newjobs in the next four years,is supported by a $2 millionconditional loan from DBED’sMaryland Economic Devel-opment Assistance Authorityand Fund, which also helpedEmergent move recently fromRockville to Gaithersburg andexpand there.
In 2012, the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and HumanServices committed $222 mil-lion to establish Emergent’sBaltimore facility as a Centerfor Innovation in AdvancedDevelopment and Manufac-turing to develop medicalcountermeasures and providemanufacturing capabilities toaddress public health threats.
Wheaton gets Chinese,Vietnamese restaurants
Steve Y. Quach and An-drew S. Quach have openedtwo new restaurants in Whea-ton.
Gourmet Inspirations Chi-nese Fine Dining and CamRanh Bay Pho and Grill, aVietnamese eatery, are both at2646University Blvd.
The Quaches have reno-vated a building previouslyoccupied by Good FortuneChinese Restaurant. Together,the restaurants have 20 em-ployees, according to a newsrelease.
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Rockville police— includingtheir dog Boomer— took to thefrigid waters of the ChesapeakeBay on Jan. 23, raising $3,230 forSpecial OlympicsMaryland.
It was the sixth consecu-tive year the police participatedin the 19th annual Maryland
State Police Polar Bear Plungeat Sandy Point State Park in An-napolis. As of Jan. 28, this year’splunge had raised a total of $1.5million, according to a city newsrelease.
This year, 11 representa-tives of the department took
the plunge in the bay, whosetemperature is in the mid-30sat this time of year. Boomer wasthe star, raising $1,695.
All told, Rockville policehave raised more than $24,000for the nonprofit.
Donations are still being ac-
cepted at ow.ly/I3ccr; donorsmay select a specific plungerto whom the donation shouldbe credited, or choose “generalteam donation” to support theentire team.
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n All student groups improve
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
Nearly nine out of every 10 students in Mont-gomery County Public Schools’ class of 2014earned a high school diploma, according toMary-land StateDepartment of Education data releasedJan. 27.
The county school district’s four-year gradu-ation rate increased to 89.7 percent in 2014, a 1.4percentage point bump from 2013.
The rate has improved consistently in the pastfew years, starting with the district’s class of 2012.From 2012 to 2013, the district’s graduation raterose about 1 percentage point, to 88.3 percent.
Montgomery’s students graduated at a higherrate in 2014 than Maryland students did as awhole.
The county’s overall improvement was ac-companiedby gains across theboard in individualstudent groups, including Hispanic and African-American students. Continuing a growth trend inrecent years, both groups saw larger gains from2013 to 2014 than they did from 2012 to 2013.
In 2014, African-American students had agraduation rate of 86.4 percent, up 2.5 percentagepoints from the previous year.
Among Hispanic students, 80 graduated in2014. That also was an increase of 2.5 percentagepoints from 2013.
Special education students’ graduation rategrew by 2.9 percentage points, reaching 70.4 per-cent in 2014.
The school district also saw growth in rates forstudents who are English language learners andthose who get free and reduced-price meals, anindication of poverty.
Graduation rates increased at 15 of the coun-ty’s 25 high schools. They decreased at 10 schools.
Another bump for graduation rateGRADUATION RATE CHANGESHigh schools with greatest graduation rate in-creases from 2013 to 2014 (in percentage points)
1. Wheaton: 9.6
2. Einstein: 5.8
3. Watkins Mill: 5.6
4. Whitman: 3.7
5. Quince Orchard: 3.1
High schools with greatest graduation rate de-creases from 2013 to 2014 (in percentage points)
1. Bethesda-Chevy Chase: -3.0
2. Clarksburg: -2.2
3. Northwest: -2.0
4. Blake: -1.3
5. Blair: -0.9SOURCE: MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
n Corridor City Transitwaywould slip behindlight-rail project
BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
The Purple Line shouldbe Montgomery County’s toptransportation priority, empha-
sizing to Gov. Larry Hogan theproject’s importance, accordingto County Council committee.
The council’s Transporta-tion, Infrastructure, Energy andEnvironment Committee votedThursday to rank the PurpleLine higher than the CorridorCity Transitway in the county’sletter to the Maryland Depart-ment of Transportation.
The letter now goes to thefull council, which is expectedto consider it Tuesday.
In its letter last year, thecounty listed both the PurpleLine and theCorridor City Tran-sitway as its No. 1 priority.
The Purple Line is a $2.45billion 16-mile light rail proj-ect that would stretch fromBethesda to New Carrollton.
The Corridor City Transitwayis a bus rapid transit systemthat ultimately could run fromthe Shady Grove Metro stationnorth to Clarksburg.
The county always hasspoken as if the Purple Lineand Corridor City Transitwayare equal priorities, even if thePurple Line is further in theplanning process, said the com-mittee’s chairman, CouncilmanRoger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) ofBethesda.
Hogan’s transportation sec-retary, Peter K. Rahn, told a stateSenate committee last weekthat he hopes to make a recom-mendation to Hogan (R) on thePurple Line within 90 days.
Given that, the countyshouldn’t miss any opportunityto emphasize that the PurpleLine is an essential priority, said
Casey Anderson, chairman ofthe county’s Planning Board.
Meanwhile, the transitway is“not as much in the crosshairs”of the state budget process rightnow, he said.
Councilwoman Nancy Flo-reen (D-At Large) of GarrettPark said she would treat thetwo projects as the county hasall along.
“The Purple Line is ready topop, one way or the other,” shesaid. After that, the transitwaywould get the focus.
Councilman Tom Hucker(D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring saidthe county should try to makeclear to Hogan that the countyneeds the Purple Line as an eco-nomic and transit priority.
“This year is not last year,and we should be sensitive tothe political environment and
help thegovernormake the rightdecision on this very importantproject,” Hucker said.
Other priorities include $25million to build a portion ofMontrose Parkway East fromMd. 355 to Parklawn Drive, im-proving the interchanges onU.S. 29 at Tech Road and Indus-trial Parkway in Silver Spring,and improvements to the inter-change at Georgia Avenue andMd. 28.
Al Roshdieh, deputy direc-tor of the county’s DepartmentofTransportation, said the inter-changes onU.S. 29 are critical tothe planned bus rapid transitproject on that road.
“If you want to build thatBRT, that interchange has to be[improved],” he said.
County panel: Purple Line is No. 1 transportation priority
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n Chilean universitieslooking at ways to close
achievement gap
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
One by one, studentsstood in front of their peers,with varying levels of confi-dence. They were practicingpublic speaking at the Minor-ity Scholars Program retreat atBethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool on Jan. 16.
As one student describedhis first high school track raceand others read the Maya An-gelou poem “Still I Rise,” sev-eral pairs of eyes and ears fromoutside the classroom — andoutside the country — weretuning in.
During the scholar pro-gram’s retreat, staff from theUniversidad Santo Tomás,Temuco, in Chile watchedstudents in two workshopsthrough video conferencing— one on public speaking andanother on leadership.
The program, which fo-cuses on closing MontgomeryCounty Public Schools’ studentachievement gap, also has gar-nered interest from anotherschool in Chile, the Universi-dad Catolica of Temuco.
MichaelWilliams, a teacherand the Minority ScholarsProgram coordinator at Wal-ter Johnson High School inBethesda, said the universitiesare interested in the programand how similar efforts couldbe used in the Temuco area insouthern Chile, which has itsown achievement gap.
Minority Scholars is in 12county high schools and in-volves a variety of activities,including mentoring, tutoring,
projects and college trips.The retreat, held Jan. 16
and 17, drew about 150 stu-dents from 14 high schools.
Montgomery County Pub-lic Schools has long-standinggaps in performance betweenstudent groups, especially be-tween African-American andHispanic students on one sideand theirwhite andAsianpeerson the other.
Williams got the word outabout the program when herecently traveled to Chile witha Fulbright research grant. Hesaid staff from the two schoolswere impressed that highschoolers “take the bull by thehorns and try to create changesthemselves.”
“I think they just liked thefact that we had a student-
driven initiative,” he said.InTemuco, a gap in student
performance exists betweenwealthier city residents andindigenous students who facepoverty and a lack of access toeducation opportunities, Wil-liams said.
Universidad Santo Tomas’educationdepartmentwants toinclude the “MSP experience”in a future project involvingstudents in its teacher trainingprogram, Olga Fabiola Calde-ron, a leader in the univer-sity’s education department,wrote in an email.
She wrote that the stu-dents would replicate thescholars program on a smallscale in some of the region’ssecondary schools.
Chile is undergoing edu-
cation reform and the univer-sity hopes to develop “newapproaches in education,” shewrote in her email.
Williams sent informationabout the program and the re-treat to the Universidad Catol-ica of Temuco, which has beentrying to expand education op-portunities for the Mapucheindigenous group.
“They definitely want to
share ideas,” Williams wrote inan email.
Through the MinorityScholars Program, Williamssaid, he has seen studentschange — improving gradesand test scores while gainingconfidence, a feeling of belong-ing to a school, and an aware-ness of their intelligence.
“This gives us some hopethatwhenwe share these ideas,people seem tobe latching on,”he said.
Laila Fakri, a Walter John-son High senior, said she seesthe program “empowering mi-nority students” and helpingthem gain qualities they canapply in college and life. Lailahelped run the retreat’s leader-ship workshop.
“It’s student run and that’sthe beauty of this program,”she said. “It’s students teach-ing other students how to beleaders.”
School board member Ju-dith Docca, who attended theretreat, said Minority Scholarsis “a great leadership program”that lets students mentor theirpeers.
Docca (Dist. 1) of Mont-gomery Village said she wantsstudents from the program tomeet with school district staffto talk about issues in the sys-tem.
“The students tell uswhat isreal,” she said.
Minority Scholars Program heading south
DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Students discuss leadership qualities during the Minority Scholars Program retreat at Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool last month. From left are Richard Montgomery High junior Brittany Fletcher; Paint Branch sophomore SamuelAdebesin; Walter Johnson senior Marcel Green; Walter Johnson junior Tony Smith; and Bethesda Chevy-Chase sopho-more Maya Payne.
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The Olney Theatre Centerreceived17HelenHayesAwardsnominations for its 2014 season.
The Helen Hayes Awardshave celebrated outstandingachievement in more than 90professional theaters in theWashington metropolitan areasince 1985, according to a newsrelease.
The 17 nominations are arecord for theOlney theater; theprevious record was eight.
The nominations includeeight for “How to Succeed inBusiness Without Really Try-ing,” including outstandingmusical; and seven for “Colos-sal,” includingoutstandingplay.
Also, several of the Olneytheater’s artistic associateswere nominated for their workat other area theaters.
“All of us at Olney — board,staff, artists and technicians— are so humbled by this tre-mendous recognition fromthe hardworking judges at the-atreWashington,” Jason Loe-with, Olney Theatre Center’sartistic director, said in a state-ment. “We’ve worked hard toup our game since I came to thetheater in 2013, and to see suchstrong recognition for both ourtraditional fare like classic mu-sicals as well as the new playswe’ve begun to champion is ab-solutely terrific.”
The awards will be pre-sented April 6.
More information about theawards and a full list of nomi-nees are at tinyurl.com/mjejjbe.
—GAZETTE STAFF
Theater gets17 Helen Hayesnominations
Girls campfocuses onengineering
Rising freshmanand sopho-more high school girls who likeworking in groups and solvingproblems and want to knowmore about engineering are in-vited to apply to Girlz Engineer-ing Camp this summer.
The camp will be held from8 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 22-26 atRichard Montgomery HighSchool, 250 Richard Montgom-ery Drive, Rockville. It’s spon-sored by Montgomery CountyPublic Schools and LockheedMartin of Bethesda.
The cost is $50, which in-cludes snacks, a T-shirt and afield trip.
For registration informa-tion, email Melvise Powell [email protected].
—GAZETTE STAFF
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Casey Patrick Ryan (Age 25)On January 30, 2015, our beloved Casey,aka “the weatherman” died of a drugoverdose at his childhood home inBrookeville, MD. His fathers’ goldenretriever, Champ, was by his side when hepassed in the night. Casey’s hard foughtbattle to beat the disease of addiction waslost after several relapses and numerousvaliant attempts at treatment. Born inSilver Spring, MD on St. Patrick’s Day,
Casey lived and loved with all his heart during his 25 years. He issurvived by his parents Timothy & Jimena Ryan, his brother, IanRyan, and his sister, Scarlet Ryan along with many extended familymembers including two grandmothers, Maria del Solar ( Tata ) andAlice Ryan. While Casey spent a few adolescent years in Utahduring high school and most recently worked in North Dakota,Casey lived most of his years in Olney, MD. He was eager to “comehome” and build a fresh start in the community he loved. Hemissed his family and friends and wanted to find a way to helpothers by sharing his story and his struggle. Casey was theinspiration for and the chief champion behind the Olney ManorSkate Park. His strongest passions included weather; particularlyfierce storms and intense pressure systems, and also heartfeltcommunication around conversations that matter. The family willreceive friends on Friday, February 6, 2015 from 6:30pm-8:00pmat Roy Barber Funeral Home, 21525 Laytonsville, MD [email protected]. A Funeral Service toCelebrate Casey’s Life will be held on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at11:00am at Oakdale Emory United Methodist Church – GeorgiaAvenue & Emory Church Rd,, 3425 Emory Church Road, Olney,MD 20832. Interment at Brookville United Methodist Cemetery andReception following the service. In lieu of flowers, donations maybe made to Nick’s Place Inc., 4604 W Caroline Avenue, Beltsville,MD 20705 www.nickplace.org - a local nonprofit dedicated tohelping young men beat addiction.
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music center.Together, they persuaded
the state tomatchMontgomeryCounty’s funding. The countyand state each provided halfof the roughly $100 million inconstruction costs for the new1,976-seat concert hall and artseducationcenter,whichopenedFeb. 5, 2005.
It was a rare instance oflawmakers from MontgomeryCounty and the Baltimore areaagreeing on a major project,according to the National Phil-harmonic, one of Strathmore’spartner organizations.
Since then, attendance atBaltimore Symphony Orches-tra concerts at Strathmore hasgrown, reaching a record atten-dance of 82 percent paid capac-ity in the 2013 to 2014 season,according to the orchestra.
The orchestra also providesfree educational programs thatreach hundreds of county stu-dents annually.
TheMusic Center at Strath-
more now hosts seven partnerorganizations, including theBaltimore Symphony Orchestraand theNational Philharmonic.
“Nowwehaveaquartermil-lion people per year, over 160concerts,” Pfanstiehl said.
Severalconcertsareplannedfor the 10th anniversary, includ-ing a gala and Rachmaninoffprogram from the BaltimoreSymphony on Thursday, a tapperformance by Savion Gloverand 10th anniversary partyFriday, and 10th anniversaryconcerts from the NationalPhilharmonic on Saturday andSunday.
Strathmore reported totalrevenues of $7.8 million in theyear ending June 30, 2013, ac-cording to its most recent avail-able tax filing, netting $162,701.It reliesheavilyoncontributionsand grants, to the tune of $2.3million that year, with ticketsales and other program reve-nues accounting formost of thebalance.
Tickets sales for the Balti-more Symphony’s roughly 50concerts at Strathmore last yeartotaled $2.6 million, according
to Jack Fishman, vice presidentfor external affairs for the or-chestra at Strathmore. That wassupplemented by about $1 mil-lion in fundraising there.
That’s about half what theorchestra posted in ticket salesat Meyerhoff Symphony Hall inBaltimore, where it plays abouttwice asmany concerts a year.
But the musicians loveStrathmore, Fishman said.
“Manymusicians would killfor theacoustics at Strathmore,”he said. “We’re incredibly for-tunate as a community andorchestra” to have such a goodconcert hall.
The hall was designed inpartbyacousticianLarryKirkeg-aard ofChicago, Fishman said.
“The musicians hear them-selves and each other better onstage at Strathmore,” he said.“They look forward to playing atStrathmore. It’s a fantastic expe-rience.”
Ticket and other informa-tion on Strathmore perfor-mances is at strathmore.org.
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called spot zoning.Theamendment is aimedat
protecting children and otherswho walk or bike near schoolsduring school hours or at othertimes, she said.
Besides approving theamendment, the mayor andcouncil denied a request byMooreandSiena towait 30 to45days and to form a work groupto help address concerns raisedby parents and other neighbor-hood residents.
Nothing is going to happenon theproject in thenextmonthor so, sowhynot takesometimeto see if Siena can address thecommunity’s concerns, Mooreasked.
“There is no harm in delay,”he said.
But Newton said there hasbeen ample time for a workgroup if Sienahadwantedone.
ShedisputedMoore’s asser-tion that the amendment wasbeing rushed through.
“I just don’t want the recordto reflect something that isn’ttrue,” she said.
The city cannot legislativelycompel a company and resi-dents to come together, Onleysaid.
If themayor and council aretryingtoprotect thecommunity,they should act, she said.
“It doesn’t seem like it’ssafety first. It’s business first,”Onley said.
Dalrymple and several proj-ect opponents traded barbsaboutmisstatements and a lack
of communication in tryingto resolve the problem beforeMonday.
Kashi Way, one of the op-ponents, said Siena has had apoor record of reaching out tothecommunity, andheviews itsinterests in further discussionsas a stalling tactic.
“I think the opportunity fora dialogue has come and gone,”Way said.
Melissa McKenna, vicepresident of advocacy for theMaryvalePTA,saidafter thevotethat she and other opponentsof the facility now will look for-ward to the results of studies ofthe neighborhood and the areaimmediately to the north to seehow they canbe revitalized.
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“The only impact has beenpositive,” she said. “The guyshavebeen great toworkwith andare doing everything right.”
Farquhar, at 16915 Batch-ellors Forest Road, was built in1968, and except for the additionof a gymnasium, has not beenmodernized.
The new school is being builton adjacent property acquired ina land swap between the schoolsystem and the Maryland-Na-tional Capital Park and PlanningCommission.
Earlier planswouldhave sentstudents to the Tilden HoldingCenter in Bethesda, while theschoolwas razed and rebuilt.
Parents, not wanting theirchildren to be bused across thecounty, lobbied for the swap in-volving a 17.9-acre property justnorthof the existing school prop-
erty.Thenorthernparcelwas des-
ignated as Rural Open Space, aspart of theapproval for thedevel-opment under construction onthe other side of Batchellors For-est Road, and is recommendedfor use as a local park in the 2005OlneyMaster Plan.
Current plans call for the stu-dents to remain in the existingschool while the new school isbuilt on theopenspace, and thentheexistingbuildingwill be razedand that 20-acre school propertywill becomeparkland.
Onijala said conversion ofthe current school site intoaparkshouldbe completed in 2017.
The new school will havea capacity for 796 seats, with aplanned core capacity for 1,000students, if expansion is needed.The capacity is lower than theexisting school’s capacity of 906,but enrollment projections showa decline, from 577 students thisyear to 547 students in the 2019-
20 school year.The project will provide the
required teaching spaces andsupport spaces. Opportunitieswill increase for students withcognitive disabilities to be taughtin integrated settings with theirnon-disabled peers as much aspossible,withclassrooms locatedin close proximity to the generaleducation population, accordingto school officials.
Thebuildingwillcomplywiththe Americans with DisabilitiesAct and the project is designedto achieve silver certification orhigher under the Leadership inEnergy and Environmental De-sign standards of the U.S. GreenBuildingCouncil.
There also will be opportuni-ties for learning to takeplaceout-side the classroom, with flexiblespaces and an outdoor courtyardandplaza areas.
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inplaceby July1.State Superintendent Lillian
M. Lowery on Tuesday approveda school board recommendationtoappointthedistrict’schiefoper-ating officer, Larry Bowers, as theinterimsuperintendent.Bowers isset to retire June30.
Starr, who plans to stay inpublic education, said he and theboard viewed it as in the system’s“best interest” for him to leavethis month rather than finish outhis term.
Asked why the board didn’twant Starr to continue, O’Neillnoted she hadpreviously said shesupportedasecondtermforStarr.
“I am only one individual,”she said. “It is apart of a collectivebody inacollectiveprocess.”
The board has eight mem-bers, she said, “with eight dif-ferent thoughts, opinions, usingtheir own instincts in evaluating
the system.”Board Vice PresidentMichael
Durso said in an interview Tues-day that he wouldn’t go into thedetails of the situation.
“Idon’tknowthat it’sproduc-tive to, you know, to go into whatreally is a personnel matter,” hesaid.
Montgomery County Coun-cilmanCraig L. Rice said Tuesdaythat officials need to ensure “sta-bility” in the district, so schoolleaders and staff know whetherthe system is heading in the sameor a different direction followingStarr’sdeparture.
Rice, chairman of the coun-cil’s Education Committee, saidhe had not heard before thatthe board’s vision differed fromStarr’s.
“It’s a very inopportune timeforusaswe’reabout to roll upoursleevesandtacklethebudgetbothat the local and the state level,” hesaid.
Montgomery County Execu-tive Isiah Leggett said Tuesday in
a statement that he was “disap-pointed” Starr did not seek an-other term.
Frances Frost, president oftheMontgomery County Councilof Parent-Teacher Associations,said she was “surprised” and “alittle concerned” about what thechangemeans for the school sys-temin the interimperiod.
“Asparents, I thinkitwouldbeimportant for us to know ... whatwas missing, what did they notseehappeningand if that impactswhatourgoals areasa school sys-tem,” she said.
Doug Prouty, president of theMontgomery County EducationAssociation, said the teachers’union hopes the board looks forsomeone who has “an equal em-phasis” oncollaborationandwhofocuses on race and equity issuesto close thedistrict’s achievementgap.
“It’s a sad day for the schoolsystem,”he said.
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Federal Realtynames new VP
Federal Realty InvestmentTrust of Rockville named Mi-chael Ennes vice president,residential branding and op-erations.Previously, Ennes was a se-
nior director for several brandsat Hilton Worldwide. He holdsa bachelor’s degree fromMich-igan State University and mas-ter of business administrationfrom the University of Denver.
Oil information firm hasnew VPs, presidentOil Price Information Ser-
vice of Gaithersburg renamedits energy analytics subsidiary,LCI Energy Insight, PointLogicEnergy and named three newvice presidents.Previously, Jack Weixel was
a director managing the NorthAmerican natural gas, Euro-pean gas, and GIS businessunits of Bentek Energy.Charles Nevle worked for
Bentek Energy, NiSource andBoardwalk Pipeline.Brian Stephenson was vice
president of sales for WoodMackenzie and director of salesfor Bentek Energy.Also, Randy Rischard was
named president of PointLogicEnergy. Previously, was direc-tor of oil and gas for OPIS.
New eateries openingin Pike & Rose
Stella Barra Pizzeria, asmall chain owned by LettuceEntertain You Restaurants ofChicago, is expected to opena location in the new NorthBethesda development some-time in early February, accord-ing to a news release from therestaurant company.Lettuce Entertain You re-
cently opened another res-taurant, Summer House Santa
Monica, in the same develop-ment.
Wu rejoins DBEDas deputy secretaryBenjaminH.Wuof Potomac
is returning to the state Depart-ment of Business and EconomicDevelopment as deputy sec-retary, acting as the agency’sCOO, ac-cording toa news re-lease fromthe office ofGov. LarryHogan (R).“ A s
a nativeMarylanderand resi-dent of Montgomery County,it’s a privilege to work withGov. Hogan and DBED Sec-retary Mike Gill in advancingthe administration’s priorityof championing our critical in-dustry sectors,” Wu said in therelease. “Gov. Hogan has de-clared that economic develop-ment will be a hallmark for hisadministration. I thank Gov.Hogan for this exciting oppor-tunity to help changeMarylandfor the better.”Wu was a regional assis-
tant DBED secretary for busi-ness development in suburbanMaryland and also a senior ad-viser for technology policy forthe agency under Gov. MartinO’Malley (D).He also was federal deputy
undersecretary of commercefor technology and assistantsecretary for technology policy.While with that department, hewas COO at the National Insti-tute of Standards and Technol-ogy in Gaithersburg. Earlier,Wu was counsel for then-Rep.Connie Morella (R-Dist. 8) andthe Technology Subcommitteeof the House Science Commit-tee.
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n Co-founders of FoodRecovery Network,
Delta Produce honored
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
Ben Simon has seen afood recovery organization hehelped found while at the Uni-versity of Maryland, CollegePark, grow to national status.Kosta Dionisopoulos has
seen awholesale produce com-pany he co-founded in his Sil-ver Spring home grow to a largewarehouse in Washington,D.C., that distributes produceto regional hotels, restaurants,caterers and even the WhiteHouse.Now they are being recog-
nized by a national businessmagazine.Simon, 25, a Silver Spring
native, was recently listedamong the honorees in Forbes’“30Under 30” feature for socialentrepreneurs. Dionisopoulos,28, was honored by Forbes’ “30Under 30” for food and drink.The fourth annual feature
recognizes 30 of the brighteststars under age 30 in 20 differ-ent fields, which also includesconsumer technology, finance,health care, retail, science,sports andmusic.Silver Spring high school
alumni who have made previ-ous lists includeRebeccaSugar,creator of the CartoonNetworkshow “Steven Universe” and aMontgomery Blair High gradu-ate. She was named to the “30Under 30” entertainment listtwo years ago.Dionisopoulos, who could
not be reached for comment,co-founded Delta Produce in2009 with Christos Marafatsos,with the goal of distributing thefinest produce. The companyoperates six days a week, hav-ing built relationships with lo-cal and national farmers andsuppliers.Simon, who graduated
from Blair High in Silver Springand now lives in Riverdale
Park, founded Food RecoveryNetwork with some Marylandclassmates in 2011. The ideastarted by collecting unusedprepared food from the collegedining hall and other placesto deliver to local shelters andother organizations.It is now a national net-
work at some 113 colleges anduniversities, leading to the re-covery of more than 600,000pounds of food, after Simonand others reached out to cam-puses suchasBrownUniversityand theUniversity ofCalifornia,Berkeley.Thenetwork’sCollegePark headquarters employs 12full-timeworkers.“I hadno idea itwouldgrow
so fast,” said Simon, the non-profit organization’s executivedirector.An alliance with Gaith-
ersburg-based Sodexo Foun-dation, which awarded thenetwork its first large grant in2013, helped boost the national
outreachof FoodRecoveryNet-work. “They really took somegood chances with us,” Simonsaid.Back in elementary school,
Simon started regularly par-ticipating in an area walkathonfor the homeless. He volun-teered with food drives at Blairthrough a group called Stu-dents for Global Responsibil-ity.“Getting involved like that
was amajor turning point,” Si-mon said. “It woke me up to alot of injustices.”Food Recovery Network
works with not just collegecampuses, but food busi-nesses, restaurants, footballstadiums, farmers and grocerystores to put food that mightbe thrown away to good use.It helped spark MontgomeryCounty to start a Food Recov-ery Work Group.The organization has a
goal to increase the number
of registered colleges to 150by May and to 500 by May2018. Representatives are talk-ing with large food suppliersabout getting involved.Businesses and consumers
in the U.S. threw away about70 billion pounds of food in2012, the most recent year forwhich estimates are available,according to the Environmen-tal Protection Agency. Thatwas about 20 percent morefood that was tossed out in2000.Foodwaste constituted the
largest type of garbage in U.S.landfills in 2012 at about 20percent,more than plastic andpaper, according to the EPA.“There is a huge potential
in food recovery to reduce hun-ger in America,” Simon said. “Iwant to help make food recov-ery a norm and not the excep-tion.”
Local entrepreneurs recognized by Forbes
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Ben Simon of Silver Spring, founder of the Food Recovery Network, is one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” honorees.
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A hearing on the application will be heldin the Montgomery County GovernmentRockville Library, First Floor MeetingRoom, 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville,Maryland 20850, on:
Thursday: February 19, 2015At: 10:00 a.m.
Any person desiring to be heard on saidapplication should appear at the timeand place fixed for said hearing.
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The Montgomery County Councilhas voted to ban plastic foam cups andcontainers (expanded polystyrene),starting in January 2016. A reason of-fered is that the“foambreaksdownintosmall difficult to detect pieces and lin-gers for years, posing a threat to aquaticlife.”
It was not too long ago that thecouncil was concerned about plastic(and paper) bags, for the same reason.[In that case, the plastic appeared to bepolyethylene.]
The council at that time voted toimpose a 5-cent tax on each bag to dis-courage use. [No hearings were held todiscuss imposing a new tax, nor wereattempts made to distinguish betweenpaper and plastic. However, those areother matters, not related to this com-munication.]
The obvious question is: Why isthere a tax on plastic and paper bags,but a ban on plastic foam? Reduced us-age of both, to reducepollution, has thesameobjective— inboth cases.
Theapparent reasondoesnotdem-onstrate logic. Foam is banned because
it breaks down into small particles, andbags are taxed because they do notbreakdownintosmallparticles.Regard-less of particle size, the fact is that bothare pollutants. So why are they treateddifferently?
Does the council read its ownmin-utes?Does the council care about beinglogical? If so, one of the following twoactions are required.
1. Change the ban on expandedpolystyrene and impose a 5-cent tax oneach“cupandcontainer” (todiscourageuse), or
2. Revoke the 5-cent tax on plasticand paper bags and ban them (to as-surenouse).
This communication does not takea position on the matter. This commu-nication is merely intended to demon-strate the inconsistencyandlackof logicin the council’s actions, while trying toapply “good intentions.”
Perhaps the entire subject of pre-venting pollution should be evaluatedfrom an overview perspective, insteadof attacking the subject piecemeal.
Bruce Bernstein, Rockville
Foam ban doesn’t meshwith reasoning for bag tax
Therewereover100peopleatthe Jan. 13 Montgomery Countyhearing held by the MarylandPublic Service Commission onthe proposed Exelon buyout ofPepco.
We heard from climate sci-entists, environmentalists, en-gineers and homeowners whohave experienced Pepco’s recenttree-cutting rampage.
We learned that if themergergoes through, Exelon will be anear monopoly (85 percent) ofpower generation in Marylandand that the Chicago-based cor-poration is the largest powercompany in the country. Theywant to buy Pepco because ourmid-Atlantic-basedcompanyhasa steady revenuestreamand theywant toshoreuptheirportfolio tocounterbalance their deteriorat-ingnuclear power plants.
Theopposition to themerger
was overwhelming among thewitnesses. Many spoke of Ex-elon’s anti-renewable energyphilosophy and others spoke oftheir concerns that a Chicago-based mega-corporation will notbe responsive to consumers inMaryland.
Acoupleofwitnessesbroughtup the idea of municipalizing orde-privatizingPepco.
The Maryland Public Ser-vice Commission is mandatedto make a decision in the “bestinterest of thepublic.”
Besides reliable, affordablepower,Marylanderswant tohavea say in howour power companyoperates.Wedon’twant destruc-tion of trees; we do want rapidtransition to renewable powersources likewind and solar.
Maryland must say no to theExelon/Pepcodeal.
Deborah Schumann, Bethesda
Exelon buyout of Pepcowon’t helpMarylanders
On the first page of your Jan.14 issue, you have a very apro-pos subject (“Shovel, or else”).Bravo.
The question is, however:Are property owners ever finedfor not following the law? AsKensington Town Manager[Sanford] Daily said, the finesare rarely levied. Indeed.
If the state, counties, com-munities, etc., would like to fill
their coffers and add sums ofmoney to their budgets, all theywould have to do is to enforcethe laws, including issuing finesto the many drivers who con-tinue to drivewith roofs coveredwith ice and snow to the detri-ment of all other cars on theroads. Easy.
Is it that the authorities justcan’t be bothered?
Beatrice Fitch, Bethesda
Snow fines could fill coffers
The Gazette’s “Too muchpower” editorial (Dec. 31) seemedbrimming with doubts about stu-dents’ abilities. Students praised inhonor roll lists and commended fortheir AP scores can’t grasp “com-plexities” and aren’t ready for “thenitty-grittiest of details.” Indeed,those same students shouldn’t bein “the middle of contract nego-tiations” because, perhaps, studentmembers of the board of education(“SMOBs”) can’t “campaign for thatlevel of trust” to “thousands” of vot-ers.
Many students know the realityis far different. Although state lawprovides for a different election for-mat for the studentmember, SMOBsmust still campaign assiduously andpainstakingly to roughly 80,000 vot-ers,more than the3,137 votes for theWest Virginia lawmaker cited as anelectioneeringmodel.
While The Gazette may be“leery” of introducing the studentmember to contract negotiations,the reality is that SMOBs have beeninvolved in contract negotiations formany years under current laws.
Not only has the SMOB been“immersed in the nitty-grittiest ofdetails” with the school system’soperating and capital budgets, theSMOB in fact has studied, debated,and voted on both budgets for some40 years. While none of the SMOB’sbudget votes ultimately count,SMOBs have served with the sameresponsibilities of any board mem-ber—meetingwith lawyers, CountyCouncil members, and state legisla-tors on behalf of one of America’s
largest school systems. The boardof education recently unanimouslybacked efforts to expand SMOB vot-ing rights.
Rather than mocking adults bysaying “a teen could hardly havedone worse,” let’s try to highlightaccomplishments of student mem-bers who have soared above thelimits of their current restricted say.Montgomery County SMOBs havepioneeredchanges in cellphonepol-icies and set up new organizations,from the Student Advisory Coun-cil to the MoCo Student, to engage
peers in school policy.AnneArundel SMOBs,whohave
had full voting rights since 1975,pushed transportation reforms thatsaved their county $100,000 peryear. Local SMOBs elsewhere inMaryland have watched out to en-sure transparency, accountability,and fairness among their older fel-low-members, while bringing pub-lic school experiences to the boardtable.
Rather than diminish Mont-gomery County’s hard-workingSMOBs asmediocre at best, it’s time
that Maryland legislators grant theSMOB an expanded voice to betterserve students and all county resi-dents, ensuring that the quality ofa Montgomery County educationreaches ever-greater heights.
It wouldn’t be the first timeMaryland legislators expandedSMOB voting rights. In 2010, thestudent member of the state boardof education gained an expandedvote, including votes on budgets.
Engaged, voting SMOBs are nei-ther rare nor revolutionary. Theyexist in places ranging from the Cal-ifornia and Tennessee state boardsof education to the Unalaska CitySchool District in the Aleutian Is-lands because dedicated, talented,voting studentmembershelp schoolsystems perform at their best. Forthe sake not only of students, butalso of Montgomery County’s re-nowned education in general, it’stime to roll back the limits to Mont-gomery County’s student voice.
Richard Yarrow,Richard Montgomery High School
Dahlia Huh,Clarksburg High School
Ananya Tadikonda,Roberto Clemente Middle School
Richard Yarrow is president ofthe Montgomery County RegionalStudent Government Association.Dahlia Huh is the student memberof the Montgomery County Boardof Education. Ananya Tadikonda isthe president of Montgomery CountyJunior Councils.
Editorial shortchanged student boardmembers
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Clarksburg High School student Dahlia Huh is the student member of the MontgomeryCounty Board of Education.
To solve a problem, the first step is to identifythe problem correctly.
InNovember’s elections, thequestionwasnothow to increase voter turnout in general. It washow to increase Democratic voter turnout. Mary-land Republicans did not have a turnout problemthis fall.
AnthonyBrownfailed toarticulateavision thatmobilized the Democratic base or to wage a cam-paign at all after the primary election. Yard signsthathadbeeneverywhereduring theprimarywerecompletely absent during the general election. I
received weekly postcards and frequent phonecalls from primary gubernatorial candidates andnot a single one during the general election.
This kind of visible outreach plays a huge rolein putting elections on voters’ radar and helpsthemdevelop a sense of who is running andwhatthey stand for.
But negative campaigning and the sense thatpoliticians are bought and paid for bymonied in-terests is very effective at making voters cynicaland apathetic.
The solutionsdescribed in this article (“Mont-
gomer group brainstorming ways to increasevoter turnout,” Jan. 14) do not address the realproblem.Marylandhas alreadymade it extremelyeasy and convenient for people to vote. The realquestion is how to make them care about voting,and how to engage them in creating a society thatworks better for them.
Rebecca Wilson, HyattsvilleThe writer is co-director of SAVEourVotes.
org, a nonpartisan grassroots organization work-ing for Secure, Accessible, Verifiable Elections inMaryland.
To increase voter participation, address underlying issues
With somanyMontgomery County pub-lic schools overcrowded, elected officialsunderstandably look for ways to slow downgrowth.
Montgomery County’s adequate publicfacilities ordinance sets certain thresholdsbefore development can proceed, such assufficient water and sewer service. A big testis the impact on schools.
In 2005, Rockville passed its own or-dinance, adoptingstricter standards thanthe county’s in hopesof avoiding an enroll-ment crunch at itsschools.
But there’s intensedebate in the city aboutwhether this efforthas worked, or is evencounterproductive,andwhether Rockvilleshould use the coun-ty’s standards.
On its face, Rockville’s ordinance has astronger slowdown approach, particularlyin setting an important ceiling on capacity.The county lets schools hit 120 percent ofcapacity before a developmentmoratoriumkicks in as a stopgap. Rockville sets the trig-ger at 110 percent.
Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton, whobacks the city’s standards, is pitted againstCouncilman TomMoore, whowants Rock-ville to follow the county’s standards.
Thismight look like a anti-growth/pro-growth showdown, butMoore’s ratio-nale for the county standards seems to bethe right approach. He says that schoolsin Rockville get less attention because citystandards keep the schoolsmildly over-crowded.Meanwhile, other county schoolsthat getmore crowded get a higher priorityin construction funding.
Moore compared the city’s standards toa light switch that seems to shut somethingoff, but isn’t actually attached to anythingelectrical— the city’s standards feel good,but don’t affect the process of addingschools.
Putting aside obvious partisanship atplay, we checkedwith county planning andschool system officials who, in softer terms,confirmedmuch ofMoore’s reasoning, par-ticularly the bottom line: The school districtlooks at crowding numbers and responds tothe greatest needs. Rockville’s schools don’tbecome crowded enough to become a toppriority.
It might seemunnatural to raise thecapacity cutoff and let schools getmorepacked before they improve, but the issueismore complicated. There is ebb and flowin capacity, as bubbles of enrollment comethrough. Adding trailers for classrooms asneededmight not be the perfect way, butredrawing school boundaries could unleashangrier waves of protest.
It helps to look at repercussions of achange.Moore argues that Rockville’s landismostly developed. If amoratoriumwerelifted, there likely will be plans formulti-family units, which produce fewer childrenfor the school system than single-familyhomes.
Another debated point is developmentfees for when schools go past 105 percentcapacity, but don’t reachmoratorium level.These are fees that builders pay to accountfor development’s effect on the community.Opponents scoff atMoore’s idea, sayingit’s illegal for Rockville to impose thesefees. That’s true, but asMoore pointed out,the county can, and it could directmoneywhere it’s needed.
We commend both sides in Rockville fortackling a thorny issue, but we think con-sistent countywide standards for school ca-pacity is best. Overcrowding is a concern forteachers, principals, parents, students andthe whole community. Putting Rockville’sschools on the same footing as the rest ofthe county will help.
Perhaps supporters of the Rockvillestandards can lobby the county for achange. Until then, Rockville’s councilshould vote next week in favor of the pro-posed APFO changes.
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LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
Spring is just around thecorner and if the MontgomeryCounty Council has its way, resi-dentswill learnto livewithweeds,ticks, grubs andMother Nature’sother irritants. Thecouncil, at theurging of a small group of advo-cates, has introduced a bill (52-14) that would prohibit the useof virtually all lawn, landscapeand ornamental pesticides onprivate and county property byhomeowners or professional ap-plicators.Described by some as a chil-
dren’s health initiative, the billhas little basis in health or sci-ence,according toascientistwhospent 11 years with the EPA’s Of-fice of Pesticides and Toxic Sub-stances.Stuart Cohen, a Ph.D. envi-
ronmental chemist and Mont-gomery County resident with39 years of experience, testifiedthat the bill fails “to acknowledgethe extensive testing — typicallymore than 80 studies, at least 18of which are in toxicology— anda thorough federal reviewof eachproposed pesticide’s use pat-tern,” to ensure “a reasonablecertainty of no harm” before apesticide is approved and regis-teredby theEPA.If thecouncil prevails, county
residents could buy lawn careproducts, but they can’t usethem. If this concerns you,pleasecontactyourCountyCouncil rep-resentative and attend the hear-ing inRockville Feb. 12.
Chris Cathcart, PotomacThewriter is president and
CEOof theConsumer SpecialtyProducts Association,which rep-resents the interests of householdproducts, including lawn care.
Bill allowspurchase, notuse, of lawn
care products
I think personally that we should get rid of thepesticides because of what you said about the pes-ticides being harmful to humans and other livingthings (“Montgomery County pesticide hearingdraws a crowd,” Jan. 21).In school, we are learning about inhalants in
health class and pesticides were on the list of dan-gerous chemicals to breathe in. We also learnedhow the chemicals can affect you.We learned aboutlong-term effects and short-term effects.I think thatmaybe gardeners could find another
product to use. I also think that the pesticides arebad and because they are meant to kill small ani-mals, which I think is wrong to do.In conclusion, you know my opinion and that I
think the pesticides are wrong.
Marissa Baylor, 11, GermantownThewriter is a Girl Scout Junior in Troop 4045 in
Germantown.
Gardeners don’t have touse chemical pesticides
Concerning the MontgomeryCounty pesticide hearing: I thinkthat chemical pesticides should bebanned from all plants and pub-lics areas. Instead, a more natural,healthierchoicewouldbeput touse.A good candidate for this more
natural “pesticide” would be some-thing that they actually use in theQueen of England’s garden. It is amixture of garlic and water (thatis sprayed), and although it mightleave a small smell for a couple ofhours, it is completely environmen-tally safe (as the plants and animalsare not harmed), and it is a very ef-fective pesticide.I think that chemical pesticides
should be banned from golf courses
and farms, unlike what the lawstates. Golf courses are public areas,too, and I know that I go to somea lot with my grandpa, and othergrandfathers bring their grandchil-dren to courses, too. So children areexposed to these chemicals at golfcourses.Also, little childreneat food from
farms thatuse thesepesticideseverydaybecause these farmproductsarein almost everything.Please takemyopinionseriously
like any other active citizen of thissociety. Thank you.
Sophia Chaskes, 11, GermantownThewriter is aGirl Scout Junior
in Troop 4045 inGermantown.
The queen’s garden can be amodel for natural practices
The County Council auditorium wasfilled beyond capacity on Jan. 15 — thelargest, most well-attended hearing inmyrecentmemory.Supporters of Safe Lawn Care Bill 52-
14 were mostly moms, dads, their chil-dren and grandchildren. Opponents weremostly folks who had a personal financialinterest — lawn maintenance and golfcourse spray companies, tree care busi-nesses, and soccer field and stadium in-vestors and companies. Plus, there werethose whose main concern was the “in-convenience” of changing how they carefor their lawns and those who argue thereis no definitive proof that pesticides causeany harm.Then there was a large group of farm-
ers with signs reading “We’re Against ThisBill.”As a farmer who has raised food with-
out chemicals on 60 acres in Needmore,Pa., since 1972, that troubled me. As aone-time Farm Bureau member, I amperplexed.At a recent University of Maryland
farm conference, I asked other con-
cerned Farm Bureau members, “Why aremany Farm Bureau farmers frequentlyagainst legislation thatmight protect theirfamilies, such as bills that ban the use ofchemicals potentially dangerous to theirfamilies, neighbors and farm workers?”We couldn’t come upwith an answer.It is true that the potential harms of
many pesticides used today cannot be de-finitively substantiated. Their long-termeffects are still in question. However, ac-cording to many studies, there is a goodchance they might be, and the precau-tionary principle requires that we take therisks seriously. So why are folks so willingto ignore the possibility, especially whenthere are alternatives?There are strong indications that pes-
ticides are linked to endocrine disrup-tions, various cancers (breast anduterine),asthma, Parkinson’s, immune deficien-cies, stunted brain grow and sterility.Perhaps this time, the Farm Bureau,
which sometimes frightens and alarmsfarmers through pressure and lobbyinginto opposing any restrictions of pesti-cides and poisons, should sit this one out.
This legislation specifically exempts farm-ers. County elected officials and citizensgo out of their way to support farmers.Taxpayers and elected county officials
havealreadygiven farmers exemptions fortaxes, zoning and regulations and go outof their way to support farmers.Let the concerned moms, dads and
their childrenwork this oneout andweightheir interest against thosewhomight suf-fer financially.Perhaps some farmers and business-
people should view this as anopportunity,rather than a burden. In Canada, where asimilar lawwas passed, lawn care compa-nies and other businesses did not suffer.Rather, they changed some of their prac-tices to accommodate the law.There should be as few exemptions as
possible, and no “sunset” provisions.Let’s finally put human health above
financial gainwithoutbeingunnecessarilypressured by lobby groups.The next hearing is at 7:30 p.m. Feb.
12. Come to the hearing, listen and decidefor yourselves.
Michael Tabor, Takoma Park
Farm Bureau should sit out pesticide debateWhat is the appropriate re-
sponse when someone thinksthat someone else is being anirresponsible, or bad, or worse,parent? Calling the cops shouldbe the last option, not the first.The first step should be a discus-sion.But first, why do I contend
thatcalling theauthoritiesshouldbe last? If nothing is found to beillegal, which is the case most ofthe time and in the recent caseinMontgomery county, it wastesresources needed elsewhere.The call starts a process that
includes multiple agencies. Itwastes the time of the familymembers and the person whocalls the cops is gone after in-vesting a few minutes creating asocial avalanche.This is one of the increas-
ingly annoying results of our so-cialmedia society— you can saywhatever you want without anyconsequences.When I was 8 years old, I
delivered a local paper, door todoor, in my neighborhood, onWednesdays after school. It was1960.Yes, life was different then,
but the biggest difference wasnot the crime rate. Themain dif-ference was that I knewmany oftheneighbors and theyknewme.That is why if I had seen childrenthat I thought were too youngto be alone and unsupervised, Iwould have approached them tosee if they were OK or watchedthem to see where they lived,thenknockedonthedoor tohavea conversationwith theparent.I might not have agreed with
their decision, but I would haveunderstood their position andbeen able to express my con-cerns to the appropriate person,a family member, not a policeofficer.
Tom Hirsch, Aspen Hill
Talk to aparent beforecalling police
Safe Lawn Care Bill
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Clarksburg, Northwest aim for region titles
n Track teams get creativeto stay in shape when the
weather turns bad
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
No running in the hallway.Chances are every childheard those
words at least once by an authority fig-ure at school. But, as it turns out, thereare exceptions. For instance, when it’s15degrees and snowingoutsideand thetrack and field team needs somewhereto practice — good luck trying to getgym time during basketball and wres-tling season.
The intent, despite the winter be-ing deemed indoor track season, is to
hold training sessions on schools’ out-door trackswheneverpossible, coachesagreed— though even that presents itsown challenges. But when Mother Na-ture has other ideas, coaches’ creativityis put to the test, Kennedy coach KevinMonroe said.
“My rule is, and it’s beenmy rule forthe 14 years I’ve been at Kennedy, is, ifit’s 34 degrees and above, we’re goingoutside so bundle up,”Monroe said. “Ifsomething prevents us from going out-side, we run the halls upstairs. We domodifiedworkouts.
I measured it out and if you goaround [the top floor] it’s a little lessthan 350 meters so we’re able to getgood running in. The only thing is stop-ping once you go around the turns. Butthen it’s working on quick acceleration
and things like that.”Hallway running seems like theway
to go as it most closely simulates run-ningona track. But, though it’s virtuallyunavoidable through the course of anentire season, coaches said they makeevery effort to limit the amount of timespent running the school’s corridorsbe-cause the hard tile surface is extremelytaxing on athletes’ bodies. Churchillcoach Scott Silverstein said there arecertain athletes who have struggledwith injuries that hewon’t evenallow toparticipate inhallway running—hedidadd that the Bulldogs are fortunate tohave one of the county’s nicest trainingroomsequippedwith several treadmillsand elliptical machines for athletes to
Snow puts the emphasis on training indoors
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Paint Branch High School’s Oliver Lloyd gets baton from teammate Ryun Anderson during theJan. 20 3,200 relay race at Prince George’s County Sports and Learning Complex.
Clarks-burg HighSchool’sLucie Noallcompetesin the1,600 dur-ing theJan. 20Montgom-ery Countytrack andfield cham-pionship.BILL RYAN/THEGAZETTE
n Falcons considerjumping up to AA to take
on the top teams
BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFFWRITER
The Good Counsel High Schoolice hockey team was just a gameaway from completing the seasonwith an undefeated record in theMid-Atlantic Prep Hockey League’sA East division.
The Falcons entered their Jan.28 game, against Gonzaga’s Varsity-II team, 7-0 in the division, 10-0 inthe MAPHL-A conference, and 1-0against Gonzaga.
But on that day,Gonzaga foughtoff a late game barrage and scoredon an empty net to take a 6-4 leadand hand Good Counsel its only di-vision loss of the season.
It was a close loss that Falconsplayers and coaches weren’t usedto, but even in the freshness of anunfamiliar feeling to the season,therewas one thing that couldn’t belost in the temporary disappoint-ment — Good Counsel’s status as aperennial MAPHL-A championshipcontender each year.
The MAPHL’s A conference ishome tomanyof the “little-brother”team’s of the AA conference. Forinstance, Gonzaga’s main prepteam plays in the AA conference— against teams such as DeMathaand Georgetown Prep — whichalso have two teams. Good Counseldoesn’t have a AA team. The Fal-cons play the A squads which tendnot to travel like themain, and usu-ally better prep squads.
But Good Counsel has been a
force in the MAPHL-A, reachingthe title game in two consecutiveseasons. In 2013, the Falcons wonthe MAPHL-A championship. Lastseason, they nearly repeated, fallinginovertime toSt. Stephen’s&St. Ag-nes in the title game.
This year, the Falcons have out-scored their MAPHL-A opponentsby 6.5 goals per game.
With the success Good Coun-sel has had in the MAPHL-A, coachChad Sillery said there will be seri-ous consideration for the team tomove up to the more competitiveAA division next year. In fact, thattalk startedafter last season, he said.
“Last year we really were think-ing of it after going to the champi-onship game— do we bounce up,”
Sillery said.The team has a freshman goalie
in Cruz Hanson splitting time withjunior Jacob Tasto this year. Thecombination of those two will se-cure the future, allowing the teamto remain competitive after movingup. “So it’s definitely on the table,”
Good Counsel may be moving up
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Good Counsel’s Ben Tasto competes vs. Gonzaga during the Jan. 28 hockey game in Washington, D.C.
See HOCKEY, Page B-2
See TRAINING, Page B-4
n Thursday’s meets set teamsup to compete for the indoortrack state championship
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
It’s possible thisweek’spenultimateregion trackandfieldmeetsmight actu-ally be the season’smost critical. Why?
“The qualifying aspect,” ClarksburgHigh School coach Scott Mathias said.“There’s nopoint in looking to the statemeet until the region is through. It’s getas many kids as possible [to states] and
get them in scoring position.”While teams are allowed three en-
tries per event, only the top 24 times,distances or heights are accepted. Thetop 4 finishers at regionals automati-cally move on to the state champion-ship but anyone who achieves certainpredetermined standards—which canbe found at the Maryland Public Sec-ondary Schools Athletic Association’swebsite — will advance to compete inthe season-ending competition.
Crafting the perfect regionmeet lineup can be tricky, coachesagreed. The limited field makes for a
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n Efficiency down the stretch lifts Devilspast previously unbeaten Rockets
BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFFWRITER
Despite Springbrook High School basketballcoach Darnell Myers’ in-game hooping and hol-lering he is a cool customer. So when person af-ter person approachedMyers — a paraeducatorat Springbrook — during the school day, tellinghim they were coming to the “big game” Fridaytonight, Myers said he routinely reminded him-self to stay focused. TheBlueDevilswere going tostickwithwhat they knew, evenwith undefeatedRichardMontgomery coming to town.
With just under two minutes remaining inthe third quarter of Friday night’s matchup withthe Rockets,Myers had a rare, subduedmomentin the huddle as he addressed his team, down-playing the pressure of a tightly-contested gamebymaking the circumstances seem familiar.
“I said, ‘We’ve been in this situation before,’”Myers said. “I just told them they had to comeout and play.We had to run good set offenses.”
Myers’ Blue Devils responded to theircoach’s instruction, charging out of the timeoutwith a string of aggressive defensive stands anda collection of fourth quarter offensive sets thatsaw Springbrook convert on their first four fieldgoal attempts to secure a 43-40 win against thepreviously unbeaten Rockets.
Buckets in the lane servedas the catalyst for amethodically efficient fourthquarter that saw theBlue Devils shoot 5-of-7 from the field — by fartheir best quarter of the game. Springbrook’s pa-tience and gradual ball movement into the paintresulted in a handful of wide open shots that al-lowed the Blue Devils to pull away from a peskyRichardMontgomery team.
Center Aaron Burton got loose on the blockand banked home a bucket that gave Spring-brook a 32-29 lead to start the fourth quarter.
Springbrookhands a lossto Rockets
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Springbrook High School’s Falu Seck goes up againstRichard Montgomery’s Nick Jackson during Friday’sboys basketball game at Springbrook in Silver Spring.
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Bullis coach asked to lead McDonald’s All-American team. B-3
METROS: Katie Ledecky and the top public and privatehigh school swimmers from around the region competeat the annual Metros championship on Saturday.
BOYS BASKETBALL: Seneca at Wheaton, 7 pm Friday.
BOYS BASKETBALL: Whitman at B-CC, 7 pm Tuesday.
faster-paced meet than usual,which means athletes com-peting in two, three, even fourevents, won’t have nearly asmuch time in between races.
“You try to get the most outof [the athletes] but at the sametimeyoudon’twant to run theminto the ground and do them adisservice where they’d be in-dividually strong in somethingbut not if [they’re overworked],”Mathias said.
Class 4A WestScheduled for 4 p.m. Thurs-
day at Prince George’s Sportsand Learning Complex. Whilewinning the region isn’t neces-sarily at the top of every team’swish list, it’s a good bet those intop contention — namely thecounty champion Northwestboys and Clarksburg girls—willbe aiming for a championshipseason sweep. Still,Mathias saidhe likes to put little pressure onthe end result.
“We try not to focus toomuch onwinning themeet, thatwill take care of itself if we dowhat we’re supposed to do,” hesaid.
And that concept reallyrings true for all teams. North-west boys and Clarksburg girls,each propelled by national-cal-
iber athletes across the boardof events, are frontrunners butthe omission of the horizon-tal jumps does change teams’dynamic. Based on the countymeet, Clarksburg will lose 24points and Northwest will bedown 14. The county runner-upQuinceOrchardboyswill lose 20points.
In addition, severalmarqueeathletes were missing from thecounty competition, includingthe 2014 Maryland GatoradeGirls Cross Country Runner ofthe Year, Nora McUmber ofBethesda-Chevy Chase, anddefending 800-meter run statechampion Clare Severe (Whit-man), which will likely shake upresults.
Other teams capable ofmaking a push to the top inthis ultra-competitive regioninclude Paint Branch boys andgirls, RichardMontgomeryboys,Northwest girls, Walter Johnsongirls, Blake girls, and Churchillgirls.
But individual sports suchastrack are special in that the re-gion and state meets can still bea platform for athletes to shineeven if their teams aren’t com-petitive as a whole. Just aboutevery team is in contention forat least one individual title.
“At the core, [track] is anindividual sport,” Quince Or-chard coach Seann Pelkey said.“At the high school level thereis a lot of emphasis on team, on
how all the independent cogscome together to make theteam. In a lot of other sportsyou can have some less ath-letes that their success is de-termined by how well the teamdoes. Track exposes individu-als, a bit.”
Class 3A WestScheduled for 4 p.m. Thurs-
day at Baltimore Armory. Sen-eca Valley’s runner-up finish ayear ago topped MontgomeryCounty teams — the region isa blend of Montgomery andFrederick counties — and theScreaming Eagles are poised todo as well or better.
But Damascus has the tools
to improve on last year’s fifth-place finish. The traditionalrivals will likely be compet-ing for the county’s top finishbut Watkins Mill and Einsteinwon’t be too far behind. Only17 points separated the four atthe county meet.
Watkins Mill’s boys lookpoised to break into the top 5from eighth place a year agoand lead the county’s con-tingent. Seneca will be downsome valuable jumping pointsbut should remain competi-tive; middle-distance/distanceheavy Rockville is also in posi-tion to compete for a top-5 re-sult.
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Good Counsel goalie Cruz Hansonstops the puck against Gonzagaduring the Jan. 28 hockey game inWashington, D.C.
Then it was Burton’s frontcourtmate, E.J. Dyson, who poweredin a shot. The activity on theblock freed up guards DonovanWalker and Falu Seck for openshots and before the Rocketsknew it, they were trailing 38-31with just a fewminutes remain-ing.
“In the first half, I thought
three or four times Aaron andE.J. was open and our guardsdidn’t get them the ball,” My-ers said. “That’s what we talkedabout at halftime — getting theball to them.”
It was another workman’snight for Burton, as the 6-foot-6senior had a game-high 15points, was a menace on bothends of the glass, and did hispart to neutralize Rockets’ cen-ter Nick Jackson, who after scor-
ing eight first quarter points,converted on one field goal forthe remainder of the game.
“That young man, when hegot here his ninth grade year,I told him he was going to be apretty good player,” Myers said.“... He loves his teammates anddoes everything for his team-mates so that’swhy I tell them torewardhimback. If he reboundsand sets picks for you, let himhave the ball too. And that’s
what theydid tonight. They gavehim the ball.”
Burton knew when Myers’emphasized working the ballinto the interior at halftime,that he was in for a big secondhalf. So as the stoic Blue Devils’captain stood, hands on hips, inthe locker room postgame, hecouldn’t help but smile at howhe responded to his coach’swishes.
“We had to make sure we
all got touches on the ball and[went] inside,” Burton said. “It’salways good tohaveagoodchal-lenge.”
Richard Montgomery’sgreatest challenge came at theendof the game,when theRock-ets’ smallest lineup of the yeargrew increasingly fatigued fromSpringbrook’s lengthier offen-sive possessions and the wearand tear of a game thatwas closethroughout. The Rockets were
without four players, who wereunavailable for various reasons,but still mustered a late charge.After a Renzo Farfan 3-pointercut the lead to 43-40, an errantinbounds pass gave the visitorsthe ball with seven seconds leftanda chance to tie. But amissedJackson 3-pointer and an off-target attempt by Daniel Alex-ander sealed the game, handingcoach David Breslaw’s grouptheir first loss.
“There was a lot of stuff wecould do better,” Breslaw said,adding that the two snow daysat thebeginningof theweekhadthrown awrench into his team’sroutine. “If you can get off moreshots earlier in the week andkeep that going, that wouldhelp.”
Springbrook 43, RichardMontgomery 40
Richard Montgomery (15-1)14 4 11 11— 40
Springbrook (12-2) 10 18 1213— 43
Richard Montgomery —Nick Jackson 11; Renzo Farfan11; Tim Whaley 6; Seth Nosan-chuk 5; Daniel Alexander 4; Ju-lianWatson 3.
Springbrook — Aaron Bur-ton 15; Donovan Walker 8; Vin-cent Brown 8; E.J. Dyson 7; FaluSeck 5.
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Sillery said. The team’s movewill be voted on at a leaguemeeting during the offseason.
A huge part of Good Coun-sel’s success this year stemsfrom the locker room atmo-sphere. While it isn’t a senior-heavy group, the players on thisteam genuinely get along.
“I’ve always been a firm be-liever in, it starts in the lockerroom, transfers on the ice,” Sil-lery said. “We’ve had a greatnucleus of kids.”
The leader of that group isseniorMason Leahy, who Sillerysaid really started to put thingstogether last year. Leahy leadsthe league in scoring this seasonwith 32 points on 21 goals and11 assists—both teamhighs.
Leahy credited Sillery forthe team’s recent success be-cause he brought a new spark ofenergy to the program once hetook over in 2012.
“WhenChadcame in, every-thing changed,” Leahy said. “Noknock against the old coaches,but he just came in with somenew firepower and brought it tous.”
The Fordham University re-cruit will likely get a chance tocompete for another MAPHL-Achampionship before he gradu-ates, but he won’t be aroundif the team moves up to theMAPHL-AA. Still, he has gottena taste of what those games arelike from when Good Counselplays the MAPHL-AA teams innon-league games, and Leahysaid his competitiveness alwaysgoes to another level for thosegames.
“It’s awesome,” Leahy said.“Especially against team’s likethat. It’s great playing thosegreat teams.”
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At 12-4, it’s safe to sayMagrud-er’s role players around star centerJoe Hugley have fallen into place,but it’s been two of coachDanHarwood’s sophomores who havecemented a foundation for theColonels’ future.
GuardDavid Garey (9.8 ppg)and swingman Brian Boehlert (6.9)have been pleasant surprises for
Magruder. Garey was thrust intothe starting point guard positionafter last year’s starter did not re-turn to the team. Garey’s play was“erratic” in the first three games,according toHarwood, but he hassignificantly improved his decisionmaking.
Boehlert, a 6-foot-4 sharp-shooter who comes off the bench,took some time to adjust to theintensity and speed of the varsitygame, Harwood said, but hasthrived as he’s becomemore com-fortable.
“A lot of times during varsityif you have sophomores gettingsignificant playing time, you’ll seemore improvement,” the veterancoach said. “I tell them in the sec-ond half of the season to play likejuniors.”
Clarksburg hopingbig win rights the shipLosing a game at the buzzer
is heartbreaking. Try losing two... in a row. That’s what hap-pened to Clarksburg, which hadthe ball bounce the other way intwo consecutive games, losing toNorthwest (Jan. 16) and Spring-
brook (Jan. 20) on back-to-backbuzzer-beating layups. In theCoyotes’ next game, a Jan. 23loss to Bethesda-Chevy Chase, athird-quarter injury to star AndrewKostecka (scratched cornea) led toa late collapse and handed Clarks-burg its ninth loss in eleven games.
ButWednesday against QuinceOrchard, the ball finally bouncedClarksburg’s way at the end of thegame, as an overtime defensivestandwith seconds remaining pre-served amuch-needed 62-61 winand, hopefully, righted the ship forcoach G.J. Kissal’s group.
“We needed it,” Kissal said ofthe win. “Man, we needed it bad... getting that win for usmentallywas important. Wewere doingthings the right way and the ballwasn’t bouncing our way and itshakes confidence. Sometimes,you do everything you can to con-trol it and do everything right andit still doesn’t work.”
Prep searching forconsistency in second half
In his five years at GeorgetownPrep, coachHerb Krusen has seena number of great teams. Therewas last year’s Bullis team, thegreat Episcopal teams and a fewothers. But this year, Krusen said,“There’s no great teams— just alot of really good teams.”
To insert themselves in themixof those teams, Prep is going tohave to establishmore consistencydown the stretch. The Lil’ Hoyashave not been able to put togethera three-gamewinning streak sincethey started the season 3-0.
Krusen’s group is led by anumber of underclassmen, includ-ing juniors KevinMcDonald (12.8ppg), sharpshooter Trystan Prata-pas and freshman Jared Bynum,
who Krusen said has played sowell with somanyminutes that, “Iforget he’s a 15-year-old.”
The competitiveness of the IACis new to a lot Prep’s players, butit’s something Krusen said he’sseen his younger athletes becomemore comfortable with as the sea-son progressed.
“I forget sometimes this thefirst go around for some of them,”the Prep coach said.
Springbrook guardmanages games with ease
A few of Springbrook’s recentcontests got a little close for com-fort, as the Blue Devils scratchedout three wins by two, six andthree points in a ten-day stretch.Leading Springbrook in scoringfor each of those games was seniorpoint guardDonovanWalker— aplayer who has an uncanny knackfor knowing just what the teamneeds andwhen.
During that stretch, the BlueDevils needed him to utilize hisspeed and silky touch to putpoints on the board. Friday nightin Springbrook’s 43-40 win overRichardMontgomery, Spring-brook neededWalker, who hadonly eight points, to be a calmingpresence at the front of the offenseandwork the ball into the interior—both of which he did effectively.
“A great point guard doesn’thave to be a great scorer,” saidSpringbrook coachDarnell Myers.“And a great guard can get every-one else involved and you still win.He knows how to score andwhenhe has to. ... Having a kid like thaton your team,man, as smart as heis, it’s a great plus for us.”
—ADAM GUTEKUNST
Magruder gets help from youthBEST BETn Walter Johnson at Whitman, 5 p.m. Friday:
There are few hurdles in the way of a perfectregular season for the Vikings. This is the biggesthurdle left.
BEST BETn Seneca Valley at Wheaton, 7 p.m. Friday: The
Eagles lead the 3A/2A Division but the defendingleague champions are right behind them. Thisgame may decide who wins it.
BASKETBALL HOW THEY RANK
Also receiving votes:Quince Orchard, 2;Georgetown Prep, 1.
The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school basketball teams inMontgomery County.
Boys
Rank School Record Points
1. Montrose Christian 15-3 602. Springbrook 12-2 533. Richard Montgomery 15-1 474. Magruder 12-4 445. St. Andrew’s Episcopal 16-3 336. Gaithersburg 10-4 317. Takoma Academy 17-5 218. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 12-4 199. Bullis 15-6 1510. Charles E. Smith Jewish Day 11-1 4
Girls
Rank School Record Points
1. Whitman 12-0 602. Paint Branch 15-1 543. Good Counsel 14-7 474. Holy Child 14-3 435. Wootton 11-3 356. Churchill 12-3 317. Walter Johnson 13-2 248. Magruder 9-6 169. Covenant Life 10-2 1210. Charles E. Smith Jewish Day 11-1 5
Also receiving votes: Poolesville, 3.
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.Anthony Tarke, Gaithersburg 14 337 24.1Walter English,McLean 11 245 22.3Aaron Byrd, Landon 18 392 21.8JonathanMustamu, Kennedy 12 261 21.8Jauvenel Leveill Jr., Northwood 12 251 20.9Grayson Slover, Sandy Spring 15 268 17.9AlaniMoore,Montrose Christian 16 302 17.8Bryan Knapp, JewishDay 11 211 17.6Nate Peterson,WashingtonChristian 12 208 17.3XavierMcCants, Sherwood 14 238 17.0
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.DominiqueWalker,WatkinsMill 14 297 21.2DaisaHarris, Paint Branch 16 326 20.4Danielle Durjan,WatkinsMill 14 285 20.4Hope Randolph,Magruder 15 274 18.3Sheri Addison,Wootton 16 290 18.1AbbyMeyers,Whitman 12 212 17.7Daphne Lerner, JewishDay 12 211 17.6Khadijah Pearson, Kennedy 12 199 16.6Japria Karim-DuVall, Churchill 15 241 16.1Kaylan Jackson, Clarksburg 13 204 15.7
Coaches and team statisticiansmay email season team statistics to [email protected] beforenoon onMondays to be included.
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Springbrook High School’s Aaron Burton drops the ball in the Richard Montgomery basket during Friday’s boys basket-ball game in Silver Spring.
KEEPING IT BRIEF
BOYS BASKETBALLNOTEBOOK
B Y A D A M G U T E K U N S T
Bullis coach to leadAll-American game
Bullis School boys basketballcoachBruceKelley, in his 11thyearwith thePotomac school,wasnamedhead coach for the 38thannualMcDonald’s All-AmericangameonApril 1 at theUnitedCen-ter inChicago.
Kelleywill be the coachof theEast team,which features 12 of themost highly-recruited seniors inthe country. Kelleywas contactedby the game’s committee in earlyJanuary andwas asked to senda resume in. Twoweeks ago, thelongtime coachwasnotified thathehadbeen selected as a coach—anannouncement thatwasmadeWednesdaynight onESPNUasKelley and theBulldogsweresquaring offwithGeorgetownPrep.
“When the committee selected
me, Iwas sort of surprisedbecausethere’s a lot of highpowernationalprogramsout there,” Kelley said.
—ADAM GUTEKUNST
County stars shineat Virginia Tech
With a time of 3minutes,52.21 seconds, Bullis’ 1,600-meterrelay squad of Kyla Lewis,MasaiRussell, Lindsay Lewis and AlexisPostell eclipsedMontgomeryCounty’s best all-timemarkby five seconds en route to arunner-up finish in the event atthe Virginia TechHigh SchoolInvitational held Friday and Sat-urday. The time is the country’sninth-best.
The Paint Branch boys wonthe 3,200 relay in a county-lead-ing 8:00.27. Churchill senior LucySrour set a new school record inthe 1,600-meter run (5:04.20);
Paint Branch’s BethlehemTayeset her own program recordsin the 1,600 (5:16.15) and 3,200(11:16.75).
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Springbrook bocceteam advances
The SpringbrookHigh Schoolbocce teamwonwas one of eightteams to advance to theMont-gomery County Public SchoolsBocce Championship tourna-ment, scheduled for 10 a.m. Sat-urday at Paint Branch. The SilverSpring school won theDivision Ifinal by defeating Paint Branch ofBurtonsville on Saturday. PaintBranch, Northwest, RichardMontgomery,Wootton,WatkinsMill, Bethesda-Chevy Chase andRockville also qualified for thetournament.
—ERIC GOLDWEIN
The Rockville High School girlsbasketball team started the seasonslow, losing its first four games.
Now the Rams (6-6) are back to.500, and as coach FrankWeaverputs it, “We’re finally playing bas-ketball like we’re supposed to.”
“I think we’re playing as ateam,” saidWeaver, who returned
to the Rockville sidelines afterstepping down in 2011. “We’replaying better defense and doingthings like that, that gives us theopportunity to win the game.”
The Rams have won fourstraight as ofMonday, with theirmost impressive victory comingagainstWatkinsMill. Junior guardHazel Carmona is leading theteam in scoring with 14.0 pointsper gamewhile senior forwardKathleenMcTighe is averaging 9.0.
Gaithersburg’s big weekThe Gaithersburg High School
girls basketball team isn’t quitethere yet, but it’s been showingsigns of life. On Friday, the Tro-jans snapped a four-game losingstreak with a 50-32 win againstNorthwest. And then onMonday,they defeated Clarksburg, 56-47,improving their record to 6-8.
The key, coach AdrianMcDan-iel said, has been keeping the turn-overs down. Against the Coyotes,they had just eight turnovers, theirsecond lowest total of the season.The lowest came inDecember,when they beat No. 7Walter John-son 59-56.
“We finally put a game to-gether where we didn’t turn theball over,”McDaniel said. “...They’re improving. They’re reallyimproving.”
Blair defense locks downThe Blair High School girls
basketball team, though inexpe-rienced, has found away to hoveraround .500 by regularly holding
opponents under 40 points. Butwhen the Blazers (7-8) need of-fense, they haven’t been getting it.
“We just kind of hit thesescoring slumps andwe haven’tfigured out exactly how to get outof them,” coach Erin Conley said.“... It’s been something we’ve beenstruggling with all season.”
The offense is what held theSilver Spring School back in recentlosses to Poolesville (36-30) andBethesda-Chevy Chase (38-33).The Blazers had big leads in bothgames before coughing themup,Conley said.
Defensively they’ve beenconsistent, despite playing witha smaller lineup and bringing infour new starters from last year’s14-8 team.
Junior guard Camille Estrinand senior guard Breanna Campguard the top scorers while sopho-more forward Lauren Frost hasdone a solid job defending inside,Conley said.
“Knowing that we struggle of-fensively, we’ve got to reallymakesure we can lock teams down ondefense to allow ourselves an op-portunity to win games,” Conleysaid.
Poolesville embracingchallenge
The Poolesville High Schoolgirls basketball team is in themiddle of its toughest stretch of
the season, and its recent resultshaven’t been favorable; the Fal-cons are coming off a 59-28 loss toNo. 1Whitman and a 55-47 loss toChurchill. Poolesville (9-5), whichwas scheduled to play DamascusTuesday, can get back on trackwith games against Northwest andEinstein this week.
“We’ve had a tough stretch,but that’s good. That’s what youwant going into the stretch of theseason,” first-year coach JamieJamison said. “Youwant to havethose tough games that really chal-lenge you.”
B-CC bouncing back?The new year hasn’t treated
the Bethesda-Chevy ChaseHighSchool girls basketball teamwell.After a strong start, the Baronswent through a rough stretchwhere they lost six of seven games— including one on a buzzer-beater against Blake. They alsolost freshmanCharlotte Lowndesfor several weeks due to a brokenankle.
But lately, things have startedlooking better for B-CC (8-8),which had a comeback victoryover Blair on Friday, and is sched-uled to get have their startingguard return to the lineup thisweek.
Rockville gets on a roll at right time
GIRLS BASKETBALLNOTEBOOK
B Y E R I C G O L D W E I N
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Springbrook High School’s Yiana Thomas gets her hand on the ball as Rich-ard Montgomery’s Samantha Griffin drives toward the basket during Friday’sgirls basketball game in Rockville.
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use as an alternative.This year the Churchill
booster club also purchased anindoor runway that the sprint-ers and jumpers have been ableto use. Clarksburg coach ScottMathias said, when available,the school’s auditorium can bea good alternative because it iscarpeted. And while there is acertain point where no one is
allowed outside — Bethesda-Chevy Chase coach Chad Youngsaid there are times when Bar-ons Athletic Director Jim Ta-pley forbids outdoor training,as do other ADs — it is “easier”for long-distance runners to gettheirworkoutsdone in thecolderconditions than the sprintersand jumpers, coaches said.
“We get almost a bootcamptype training [in theauditorium],jumping jacks and running upand down the aisle,” Mathiassaid.
The winter season is one ofadjustmentandmoderation,butcoaches said it’s not toobigof anissue because the indoor trackseason is used mostly as prepa-ration for thespringoutdoor sea-son. For schools with adequateweight rooms, teams can spendindoor days lifting; Quince Or-chard coach Seann Pelkey saidthe winter, for his team, is about“getting back to the basics.”
“We generally have moreindoor time planned, any-way,” Pelkey said. “Doing core
strength, flexibility work. Evenon nicer days, the time we’respending outside is limited.”
Many times teams mightcombine indoor and outdooractivities, like warming up anddynamic stretching inside to en-sure athletes’ muscles are readytogo, Silverstein said.Youngsaidthe winter season can featuremore time in the classroomwithvideo analysis.
Even when athletes are ableto train outside consistently,there are adjustments to be
made for indoor competition.For one, a single lap on an out-door track is 400 meters com-pared to 200 meters indoors.Indoor tracks have varying de-grees of turns, Silverstein said,as opposed to a fairly standardangle outdoors. And there is a lotless space, in general, to make amove indoors.
Another major transition isair quality and what’s known inthe running community as theindoor track lung burn.
“The breathing is a big one
and it’s not just because of the[cold] temperature but the in-side air in the winter is so dry,”Mathias said. “There’s always alot of coughing, a lot of mucusis created. I always say every-one leaves [the Prince George’sSports and Learning Complex]with a cold. ...The problem isthere are not a lot of alternatives.Either your outside or you’re in-side running the hallways.”
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TheRichardMontgomeryHigh School icehockey team iswrappingup its second seasonas apureMarylandStudentHockey League 2Ateam. In theMSHL, 2A teams aremadeupofplayers from just one school, as opposed to the1A cooperative teams,which are comprisedofplayers frommore thanonehigh school—butnotmore than 13 from the same school. If ateamfields 14 ormoreplayers from the sameschool, itmust becomeapure team,which iswhat RichardMontgomerydid last year.
The teamhas onemore game remainingthis season—against a toughWhitman squad(7-3)—but even if it fails towin, RichardMont-
gomery (2-8) alreadyhas exceeded last season’sone-win total.
“I think our goalwas to compete, and I thinkwe’re playinghard for a full threeperiods,” saidCoachDaveMartella. “Our kids are playingwith enthusiasm.Wegot a full squad showingup for practice— for the games. I think the kidsbelieve they canwin, evenwhen the chips aredown. So theyhave a goodattitude.”
Experience pays off for RockvilleRockville andMagruder high schools’ co-
op ice hockey team is an experienced groupofplayers ledby seniors Justin Flavell, DavidWil-kes, JordanWilmot andRyanO’Connell. Juniorgoalie Avery Eng alsohas played an instrumen-tal role for the team this year. Sincebeginningthe season0-2-1, the teamhas gone 5-2 in itslast seven games to give those seniors anop-portunity to compete in theMarylandStudentHockey Leagueplayoffs onemore timebeforethey graduate.
Last season, the team lost to 1A state semifi-nalist Blair by onepoint in thefirst roundof thepostseason.CoachMikeGifford said they canmake somenoise this year.
“We’ve beendeveloping through the seasonandhave shown thatwe can competewithupper-level teams,”Gifford said. “I like ourchances.”
Rockville closes the regular seasononFridayin a tuneupgameagainst Blair (9-1) thatwon’tlikely alter playoff seeding.
One-loss Blair gets no playoffsBy all accounts, theBlairHigh School co-op
ice hockey team is oneof thebest 1A teams intheMarylandStudentHockey League this year.
A state semifinalist last year, Blair is 9-1 this sea-son and sitting infirst place in theMontgomery1A conference standings.
Normally, first placewould garner afirst-roundbye in theMSHL1Aplayoffs, but Blairlikelywill notmake theplayoffs at all. Accordingto coachKevinMcCabe, the team is beingpun-isheddue to the “perceptionof impropriety.”
Blairwas accusedof discouragingplayersfromaparticular school from joining the teamso itwouldn’t have tobecomeapure team.In theMSHL, pure teams—also knownas 2Ateams—aremadeupof players from just oneschool, as opposed to the 1A cooperative teamswhich are comprisedof players frommore thanonehigh school—butnomore than13 fromthe same school. If a teamfields 14 ormoreplayers from the same school, itmust becomeapure team.McCabedenied the allegations.
“We’ve been through twoappeal processes,”McCabe said. “The leaguebasically agreedthatwedidnothingwrong, but the league alsoagreed to let the sanctions stay inplace.”
WJ gets by with youthFor thefirst time since 2010, theWalter
JohnsonHigh School ice hockey teamwill finish
the regular seasonwith a record above .500. Theteamsealed that fatewith its 7-0 victory againstRichardMontgomery on Jan. 30—bringing itsrecord to 6-3-1with just one game remainingin the regular season. And for the second timein three years, Johnsonwill participate in theMarylandStudentHockey Leagueplayoffs.
WJ coachGregg Ivers credited the team’syouth for the energy and enthusiasm thatthey’re able to bring to the ice each andeverynight. In the samebreath, he said because ofthat youth, there’s room tobecomemoredis-ciplined.
WJhas done a great jobof keeping goalsscored against themat aminimumthis season,allowing the second fewest ofMontgomery 2Ateams.
“Our goaltender,OwenGreene is so out-standing,” Ivers said. “Just really a rock. Every-bodyonmy teamwouldprobably agree, he isourMVP.”
Johnsonwill playWootton (6-3-1) onFeb. 6,in the seasonfinale, for anopportunity to jumpfrom the fourthplayoff seed to third andavoidhaving toplayChurchill (10-0) in the openingroundof theMontgomery conferenceplayoffs.
RM faces pure team growning painsAs has become the norm,
SherwoodHigh School won an-other Division II title Saturday inconvincing fashion. But theWar-riors are a lotmore than the bestof the county’s second tier. TheWarriors, who finished third at the2013WashingtonMetropolitanInterscholastic Swimming andDiving Championships, are poisedto break back into the top 5 at Sat-urday’s competition after falling toseventh last winter.
While Sherwood boasts oneof theWashington, D.C. area’stop sprint freestylers inMorganHill, an influx of younger talenthas helped deepen theWarriors’lineup. They only won five of 12events Saturday but twowere re-lays, which are worthmore points.Hill, the defending 50-yard free-styleMetros champion, won allfour events she contested Saturday— 200 and 400 freestyle relays, 50freestyle, 100 freestyle. ClassmateMargarita Ryan took the 100 back-stroke.
Sophomore leads BlairWhile much attention has
been placed on Blair High Schoolboys swimmers in recent years,the Blazers’ girls have beenmak-ing their way up the county hier-archy. Though Churchill appearsto be head and shoulders abovethe rest of the field heading intoSaturday’s WashingtonMetro-politan Interscholastic Swimmingand Diving championshipmeet,the Blazers proved in Saturday’sDivision I runner-up perfor-mance that they are in position tocompete for a top 5 spot— theyfinished outside the top 10 a yearago.
Sophomore distance freestylerMadisonWaechter won threeof the four events in which shecompeted Saturday, the 200- and500-yard freestyle and the 200freestyle relay. While Blair mightnot win a ton of events, the Blaz-ers did have at least one person orrelay team in the top 3 of eight outof 12 events Saturday.
Records fall at WMPSSDLHolton-Arms School senior
CarolineMcTaggart won and setmeet records in all four events shecontested in leading the Panthersto their third consecutive Wash-ingtonMetropolitan Prep SchoolSwimming and Diving Leaguechampionship; Gonzaga won theboys competition.
Meet marks were eclipsed in14 of 22 races, six — two fromMcTaggart (50- and 100-yardfreestyle), two from 2012 Olympicgold medalist Katie Ledecky (200freestyle, 200 individual medley),Georgetown Prep’s 200medleyrelay and Gonzaga’s 200 freestylerelay—were the league’s all-timebest. Complete results are online.
In addition to her individualwins, McTaggart anchoredmeet-record 200 and 400 freestyle relaysquads. Ledecky’s time in the 200freestyle (1 minute, 41.82 sec-onds) lowered her own nationalhigh school standard from a yearago. Other meet record breakersincluded, Gonzaga’s Brendan No-vak (200 freestyle, 500 freestyle),Georgetown Prep’s Grant God-dard (200 individual medley, 100freestyle) and Carsten Vissering(100 breaststroke).
“Caroline had an amazingmeet, I think she was really mo-tivated to finish her WMPSSDLcareer on a great note,” Holtoncoach GrahamWesterberg said.“We feel privileged to be at thetop of such a special league.”
The depth just continues togrow, there are somany strongteams nowwith somany swim-mers, just to have that opportu-nity to be at the top, we wanted toenjoy that moment.”
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n Several optionspair nicely with thisfrigid time of year
Withwinter’s grip still uponus, it is comforting to know thatthere arewines ideal for chillyweather. Fuller in bodywithmore complexity and structure,winterwines are better to servewith the cold-weathermeals.Among the recent releases of
reds suitable for these icer timesis the award-winningTerlato&Chapoutier Shiraz +Viognier2013, an intriguingly spicy andcitrusy blend fromAustraliamodeled after thewines ofFrance’sNorthernRhone region.It showsblueberry, dark cherryand redberry flavorswithina silky smooth, floral scentedframewith apersistently brightfinish.SouthAmerica remains a
source of reasonably priced, highquality reds including theCar-menCarmenereGranReserva2011 fromChile. It is savory andexpressivewith red fruit aromasandflavors accentedwithblack-berries, tobacco,mild spice andpepper leading into a very pleas-ingfinish.TheAchaval-FerrerMalbec
2013 is oneof thebetter exam-ples of thenowvery popular va-rietal. It is remarkably balancedwith goodacidity thatmatcheswellwith the richdarkplum,black cherry andblueberry fla-vors thatmingle nicelywith oakandhints of chocolate. TheirAchaval-FerrerCabernet Sauvi-gnon2013 is also enjoyable andshows abit ofmint andherbalqualities among the raspberry,plumandblackberry flavors.Consider aswell the entry-
levelQuinta doValladoTinto
2011 createdwithboth youngandold vine grapes fromoneofPortugal’s finest estates. Begin-ningwith expansive redberryandfloral scents, it proceedswith raspberry, plums andmo-cha alongwithnotablemineral-ity andbalancedfinish.Fromoneof the largest
estates inRioja is theBilbainasZacoRioja 2012, a pleasurableTempranillo that startswith an-ise and cherrywhichmerge intodark berry and raspberry flavorsshowing somemint and earthi-ness at the end. Their BilbainasVinaPomalReservaRioja 2010ismore full-bodied and intensewithdeep red cherry, berry andplumalongwith leather, cof-fee and vanilla notes.Or try theplumandfloral scentedCuneRiojaReserva 2009withdarkcherry, vanilla and raspberryflavors alongwith some smokeand spice.The Sangiovese basedwines
fromMontepulcianohave longbeen awinter favorite, espe-ciallywhen served along sometagliatelle toppedwith ragu.TheAvignonesi VinoNobile diMontepulciano 2010openswithfloral andherbal accentedberryaromas that deftly expand in theglass and joinwith strawberry,black cherry and currant flavors.Alsopresent are notes of choco-late, grilled gameand spice thatlinger during the lengthy, per-fectly balancedfinish.TheFrescobaldi Castelgio-
condoBrunello 2009 is anotherterrific Italianwine showingdeep red cherry anddark currantaromas andflavors in a lovely,
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n Weekend filled withmusic of Chopin, others
BY KIRSTY GROFFSTAFFWRITER
For its 10th anniversary, theNational Philharmonic is team-ing up with old friends for a cel-ebratory concert at home at theMusicCenter at Strathmore.The Sunday performance
will include music from theNational Philharmonic’s firstconcert at Strathmore, includ-ing Andreas Makris’ “Strath-more Overture,” and featuremusicians who have performedalongside the group over theyears.National Philharmonic’s
history in the area starts withtwo separate organizations: theMasterworks Chorus, which be-gan in 1975, and the Montgom-ery Chamber Orchestra, startedby the National Philharmonic’smusic director and composer,PiotrGajewski, in 1985.Originally named theMont-
gomeryChamberOrchestra, thegroup began after Gajewski’s fa-ther, who lived in MontgomeryCounty at the time, noticed thearea didn’t really have a localorchestra.Gajewskiwas living inSavannah, Ga., at the time, buthis dad thought the opportunitywouldbeworth exploring.“When I moved here and
formed theMontgomeryCham-ber Orchestra,” he said, “myhope was a concert hall wouldbe erected — it was a longshot hope, not completely far-fetched, but at that time therewas no way to connect the dotsyet.”The orchestra later became
the National Chamber Orches-tra, and it established a homeat Rockville’s F. Scott Fitzger-ald Theatre, developing a rela-
tionship with the surroundingcommunity and then-MayorDouglasM.Duncan,whowouldgo on to become the county ex-ecutive.After Duncan announced
his campaign for the position,Gajewski suggested to him thatthe county could use a perform-ingartscenter—agoal theBalti-more Symphony Orchestra hadin mind, as well. The county al-readyowned the land for Strath-more, and support developedin the mid-’90s for constructingwhat would become the MusicCenter at Strathmore, whichopened in 2005.While planning and con-
struction of the newconcert hallwas underway, Gajewski con-sidered how the relatively smallNational Chamber Orchestra
would fit into the nearly 2,000-seat facility. The MasterworksChorus, then led by Stan Enge-bretson, had similar issues withsize, as well as budget. Gajewskithought that if the two put theirassets together, theywouldhavea better chance at succeeding ata concert hall like Strathmore.“Itwasn’tallassuredthiswas
somethingthatwouldgoterriblysmoothly, that all of a suddenwe would play this 2,000-seathall with all the implications ofexpense and it was going to gowell,” he said. “However we didit,wewouldhave tofindawayofcollaborating and cooperating.”Engebretson became cho-
rale artistic director for theNational Philharmonic post-merger, and the combined or-ganization held several concerts
together before debuting atStrathmore onFeb. 11, 2005.Ten years later, cellist Sum-
mer Hu, who participated inStrathmore’s opening week fes-tivities at age 11, will play Tchai-kovsky’s“VariationsonaRococoTheme” at the anniversary con-cert, and pianist Brian Ganz willpresent Chopin’s “IntroductionandGrandePolonaiseBrillante.”The anniversary concert
won’t be the only time thisweekend that Ganzwill performworks by Chopin at Strathmore;on Saturday, hewill perform thefifth recital in his “ExtremeCho-pin” project, an attempt to per-formall of thecomposer’sworksin adecade.Gajewski suggested Ganz
A massive 10th birthday party
PHOTO BY MARC APTER
Cellist Summer Hu and pianist Brian Gantz (right) will perform with the National Philharmonic, directed by PiotrGajewski, at the group’s 10th anniversary concert Feb. 8.
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IN THE ARTSFor a free listing, please sub-mit complete information to
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DANCESSocial Ballroom Dance, 2126 In-
dustrialHighway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, hollywoodballroomdc.com.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8 to10p.m.Mondays, steps and forma-tions taught.Noexperience, partnernecessary, T-39Building onNIHcampus,WisconsinAvenue andSouthDrive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-cArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays,8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9 to 11:30p.m. dancing toDJs, GlenEchoPark’s SpanishBallroomAnnex, $8,capitalblues.org.
Contra, Feb. 6,Nils Fredlandcalls toMaivishwith JaigeTrudelonfiddle, AdamBroomeonguitarandMatthewOlwell onflutes andpercussion,GlenEchoPark SpanishBallroom, 7:30p.m., $10, friday-nightdance.org.
English Country, Feb. 4, Stepha-nie Smith caller, 8 p.m., GlenEchoTownHall (upstairs), fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, Feb. 14, RedDressBallwith theEric FeltenJazzOrchestra, $18, $12, 17 andyounger. GlenEchoPark SpanishBallroom,flyingfeet.org.
Waltz, Feb. 15, Audaciouswith LarryUnger (guitar&banjo),AudreyKnuth (fiddle), PaulOorts(mandolin&accordion)&more;waltztimedances.org.
Ring of Kerry Irish Dance class,groupmeets onTuesday’s until lateMay at RidgeviewMiddle School.Beginning class starts at 7 p.m.,followedby the experienced classat 8:05 p.m. The cost is $50. Ceiliand set dances are performed, andnopartner is required for the les-sons. For information, email Jeanat [email protected] visitringofkerrydancers.org.Dancersmust be at least 8 years old to se-nior. Anyone younger than 16mustbe accompaniedby an adult.
Silver Spring Contradance,Civic Building,GreatHall, Feb. 12,7 to 10p.m.,OneVeterans Plaza atFenton&Ellsworth, Freeparkingat 801Ellsworth. PaulOorts, guitar,mandolin, banjos, cittern,musette
accordion.Alexander Mitchell, fiddle, Ralph
Gordon, bass. Caller: Janine Smith,Refreshments during social break7 to 7:30p.m.BeginnerDanceWorkshop, 7:30 to 10p.m. Free tofirst-timers; $5 students; $8 FSGW,BFMSmembers/revels; $10 generaladmission.
MUSICBethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, 14th annual BuddyHollyTribute, Feb. 6; TheMarcels, Feb. 8;DukeEllingtonOrchestra, Feb. 14;DukeEllingtonOrchestra, Feb. 15;call for prices, times, 7719Wiscon-sinAve., Bethesda. 240-330-4500,bethesdabluesjazz.com.
Fillmore Silver Spring, Gloriana,Maddie&Tae, Feb. 6; 50Centw/GUnit, Feb. 12; Periphery, Feb. 13;8656Colesville Road, Silver Spring.fillmoresilverspring.com.
Strathmore, Blues Symphony,Feb. 4; BSO:GarrickOhlssonPlaysRachmaninoff, Feb. 5; SavionGlov-er’s STePz, Feb. 6;National Phil-harmonic: BrianGanzPlayChopin,Feb. 7;National Philharmonic 10thAnniversaryConcert: Beethoven’sNinth, Feb. 8, Cyrille Aimee, jazzvocalist, Feb. 8; AIR: CristianPerez,Feb. 11; call for venue, times. Loca-tions:Mansion, 10701RockvillePike,NorthBethesda;MusicCenterat Strathmore, 5301TuckermanLane,NorthBethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.
ON STAGEArts Barn, “Boeing, Boeing,”
Feb. 13 throughMarch 1, $20, 311Kent SquareRoad, 301-258-6394
Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Pe-tite Rouge—ACajunRedRidingHood,” throughMarch 8, call forprices, times, AdventureTheatreMTC, 7300MacArthurBlvd., GlenEcho, 301-634-2270, adventurethe-atre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “Wiley andtheHairyMan,” Feb. 11 throughMarch 15, call for prices, times,Imagination Stage, 4908AuburnAve., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org.
Highwood Theatre, “OtherDes-ert Cities,” Feb. 6 through15, 914Silver SpringAve., thehighwoodthe-atre.org, 301-587-0697.
Olney Theatre Center, “God-spell,” throughMarch 1, call forprices, times, 2001Olney-SandySpringRoad,Olney, 301-924-3400,olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Circus!,”throughFeb. 15; TinyTots@10,selectWednesdays, Saturdays andSundays, call for shows and show
times, PuppetCo. Playhouse,GlenEchoPark’sNorthArcadeBuilding,7300MacArthurBlvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.
Rockville Musical Theatre, “NexttoNormal,” April 10 through26,FitzgeraldTheatre, 603EdmonstonDrive, Rockville, 240-314-8690, r-m-t.org.
Round House Theatre, “Rapture,Blister, Burn,” throughFeb. 22, callfor show times, 4545East-WestHighway, Bethesda. Tickets rangeinprice from$10 to $45 and seatingis reserved. 240-644-1100, round-housetheatre.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, “YourMemo-
ries, Your Sentiments, YourWishes,Your Secrets,” JimCondronandKristenLiu, throughFeb. 28, 3766HowardAve., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com
Glenview Mansion, F/1.4 Photog-raphyGroupexhibit, “RichlyBlackandWhite,” featuring JareeDon-nelly, CraigHiggins, Timothy Lynch,andMargeWasson. Rockville CivicCenter Park, 503EdmonstonDrive,Rockville. rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, GalleryExhibit, throughFeb. 28, 10:30 a.m.to 7p.m.Monday throughSaturday,noon to 5p.m. Sunday, 7022Wis-consinAve., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association, Gal-lery Show, throughMarch 2,West-fieldWheatonMall, 11160ViersMillRoad,Wheaton,montgomeryart.org.
VisArts, Suspension, throughMarch 1;NancyDaly, throughFeb.22; LainiNemett, throughMarch1;Gibbs StreetGallery, 155GibbsSt., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visart-satrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gallery,PyramidAtlantic Art Center, sec-ondfloor, 8230Georgia Ave., SilverSpring,washingtonprintmakers.com.
Kentlands Mansion, BridalGownRetrospective, Feb. 5 through26;Artwork of theArt LeagueofGer-mantown, Feb. 6 throughMarch 27,320Kent SquareRoad,Gaithersburg,301-258-6425.
Arts Barn, HowardCohen – Sev-enty Years anArtist, throughMarch8, 311Kent SquareRoad,Gaithers-burg, 301-258-6394
Rough Around the Edges: Inspira-tions in Paper by Ronni Jolles, Feb. 8throughMarch 15; reception 2 to 4p.m.March 8;GoldmanArtGallery,6125MontroseRoad, Rockville. 301-348-3770; jccgw.org.Openwhen JC-CGW is open; free admission.
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Wasn’t too long ago you could find him inthe club. Now’s your chance to find him at theFillmore Silver Spring.50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, will be per-
forming in Silver Spring Feb. 12 alongwith allof his G-Unit pals. You’d better act quickly,though, as tickets are selling out.In 1996, Jackson started rapping in his
friend’s basement. Some guy named Eminem(youmight have heard of him) listened tohismusic and, well, since then, he’s released
several albums, produced albums, created hisown label, been in a fewmovies, made a lot ofmoney investing in something that turned outto be VitaminWater and is currently the sec-ondwealthiest rapper behind Jay-Z.Not bad for a guy whowas shot nine times
at close range back in 2000, huh? Luckily he’snot a cat.Tickets for the show are $56.50. Formore
information, visit fillmoresilverspring.com orcall 301-960-9999.
Straight to the Fillmore
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50 Cent and G Unit are set to share the stage Feb. 12 at the Fillmore Silver Spring.
Olney Theatre Center isbeginning its 77th seasonwithSteven Schwartz’s “Godspell,”an updated take on Jesus’parables with amessage almostanyone could get behind.Much like “Children of
Eden,” Schwartz’s other Bible-inspiredmusical, “Godspell”is less about religion andmoreabout the goodness of human-ity and the importance of takingcare of one another. Thismes-sage is conveyed through songsrepresenting each of Jesus’ les-sons in the Bible.The genders of the “God-
spell” roles traditionallyaren’t playedwithmuch, andSchwartz hasmentioned beforethat he feels theaters wouldhave to be careful if casting awoman as Judas. However, theroles of John the Baptist/Judasin OTC’s version of the showare played by Rachel Zampelli,which provides a very interest-ing take on the tale.Tickets for the show are
$38-$75. Formore information,visit olneytheatre.org or call301-924-3400.
Walking,singing
with Jesus
PHOTO BY NICHOLAS GRINER
Jason King Jones, center, directsJordan Coughtry as Jesus and RachelZampelli as John the Baptist/Judasin “Godspell.”
Sometimes—especiallywhen it comes to art—col-laboration really is the bestthing.Waverly StreetGallery’s
sixth annual collaborative ex-hibition, “20+20”will includepaintings, sculpture, prints,mixedmedia, andmore. Thework of the 20 guest artistswill be complementedbynewwork fromWaverly StreetGal-lerymembers. This annualshowenlivens the gallery, set-
ting the tone for another yearof collective exhibitions bylocal artists.Waverly StreetGallery fea-
tures contemporary visual art-istsworking in awide rangeofmedia.Gallery artists includepainters, printmakers, sculp-tors, ceramic artists, photogra-phers and jewelers.Theopening reception
starts at 6 p.m. Feb. 13. Formore information, visitwaver-lystreetgallery.com.
Piece of togetherness
WAVERLY STREET GALLERY
The latest exhibit at the WaverlyStreet Gallery, which opens Tues-day, features collaborative worksby members and guest artists.
supple and lush framewithme-dium tannins andbits of licoriceand vanilla at the end.Aperpetually favorite pro-
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should attempt to be the firstto complete all 250 of Chopin’sworks, with theNational Philhar-monic performing the compos-er’s orchestralworkswithhim.“Itwas something I’vealways
wanted to do,” Ganz said, “buthe was the one to make the firstmove and propose doing this.I was thrilled and honored hewanted to embark on this adven-turewithme.”Ganz first heard recordings
of Chopin’s works at 9 years old,andhewas immediately hooked.“They captivated me, and I
utterly fell in lovewithhismusic,”he said. “It becameapassionandsometimes an obsession — in away, a pianist has to be obsessedin oneway or another to becomea pianist, it’s part of our land-scape.”TheSaturdayrecitalwill focus
on “The Art of theMazurka,” thegenre Chopin wrote more thanany other and that appears the-matically in many of his works.Ganzwill perform 17 total works,including 10mazurkas.Chopin’sgift formelodydrew
Ganz into the composer’s works,and he hopes his passion reso-nates with audiences. He tries tomake his concerts as intimate aspossible, with talks and glancesbehind the scenes.“Performing, I’m not a big
fan of thatword,” he said. “WhenI play for people, it’s more of asharing: This is what I love, what
I find fascinating and beautifulabout themusic.Comeandsharethiswithme.”In addition to its collabora-
tions with local musicians, mak-ing music accessible to childrenhas been standard for the Na-tional Philharmonic since its in-ception. Even with the NationalChamber Orchestra, Gajew-ski’s dream was for the group toperform for all of MontgomeryCountyPublicSchools.When theMusic Center at Strathmore wasgetting ready to open, he saw anopportunity arise to live out hisdream.“There’s a tremendous
amount of science that has to dowith howhelpful it is to a generaleducation for kids to participatein music programs,” Gajewskisaid. “They come in, and whenthey leave they’re changed.”In the future, he says he
would like the National Philhar-monic torecordsomeof itsmusicand performmore operas. It alsois in talks to expand the publicschool concerts from seven toeight thanks to the increase inschool population, and he hopesto include more American-writ-ten music in the National Phil-harmonic’s repertoire.“We’ve taken on the name
National Philharmonic,” he said.“It’d be great if we could playworks by living American com-posers.”
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT REGULATIONS
WSSC is Seeking Public Comment on Proposed Changesto the Plumbing and Fuel Gas Code
WSSC is proposing amendments to adopt the 2015 International Plumbing and FuelGas Codes and also make some technical and administrative modifications to the 2013WSSC Plumbing and Fuel Gas Code. The proposed changes have been preliminarily re-viewed by the WSSC Plumbing and Fuel Gas Board and are being released for publiccomment.
In addition, the proposed changes are being coordinated with interested stakeholders;including the Maryland National Capital Building Industry Association, the WashingtonSuburban Master Plumbers Association, the Mechanical Contractors of America - MetroWashington chapter, the Air Conditioning Contractors Association, the American Societyof Professional Engineers, the Apartment and Office Building Association, WashingtonGas and governmental agencies; including Prince George’s County Departments of Per-mitting, Inspections and Enforcement (DPIE) and Fire/EMS and Montgomery County De-partments of Permitting Services, Department of Environmental Protection and Fire andRescue Service.
To review proposed code language, you may visit the WSSC Website at:https://www.wsscwater.com/codebooks. A limited number of hard copies of the WSSCproposed code changes will be available at the WSSC Headquarters Permit’s counter.
WSSC intends to adopt these new regulations following a public comment period. Writ-ten comments will be accepted until March 9, 2015 at WSSC Regulatory Services Group11th floor, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 20707.
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On January 27, 2015, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Com-mission ("Commission" or "WSSC") adopted Amendment No. 4 toResolution No. 2010-1876. That Resolution, which was approvedby the Commission on May 19, 2010, delegated certain authorityfrom the Commission to the WSSC General Manager/Chief Exec-utive Officer ("GM/CEO"). Amendment No. 4 clarifies and ex-pands the GM/CEO’s authority, in situations other than those in-volving projects and procedures already approved by the Com-mission, to apply for and execute permits required by govern-ment agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency andMaryland Department of the Environment, in connection withWSSC facilities, construction projects, or other WSSC relatedmatters. The GM/CEO’s entire delegated authority is set forth inResolution No. 2010-1876 and in the Amendments to that Resolu-tion. These documents may be obtained by contacting the WSSCCorporate Secretary at (301) 206-8200 and can be accessed us-ing the WSSC web site, www.wsscwater.com.
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MSRP $27,180
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