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Dudderar Farmhouse a Labor of Love

By Pam Schipper

F or the team preserving the Dudderar Farm-house and giving it new

life in the 21st century, it’s all about respect—for the 1830s craftsmen who took at least 18 months to build the original masonry home and the rela-tively new Villages of Urbana (VOU) community just cele-brating its 20th anniversary.

“We’ve been in Urbana since it started, and we have an emotional attachment,” said

Robyn Daly, sales manager with Parkwood Homes. They want-ed to give something back to the community, preserve a landmark at the entrance to the Villages, and create a home that is unique and livable again.

Parkwood purchased the Dud-derar Farmhouse, which has been empty since 1992, from Tom Na-telli. The project resonated with Parkwood principals Steve Wil-cox and Jack Fleury, known for their work in the ground-break-

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Army of Volunteers Prepares for 45th Urbana Community Carnival

By Kari A. Martindale

A s Urbana Volunteer Fire Department prepares to host its annual carnival,

from July 15 to 20, volunteers are coming from around Urbana to make it happen. Susie O’Brien, president of the department, esti-mates that 75 to 100 volunteers, which include members of the �re department and non-mem-ber volunteers, will execute the event. “With the dedication of our volunteers and the support of our community,” said O’Brien, “we are able to celebrate our 45th Annual Community Carnival this year.”

Volunteers from the �re de-partment itself run several games throughout the midway. They also have support from members of Home Church, which will be running the duck pond.

Urbana High School’s Mini-THON committee will be run-ning a coke bottle pitch; the pro�ts are split between the �re department and Four Diamonds, a foundation that supports pedi-atric cancer research and families undergoing treatment.

Troop 1775 will be cooking up the funnel cakes this year in

appreciation for the department letting them use the hall for Scout meetings. Troop 1775 also helps pick up the trash every morning.

The �re department will be o�ering plenty of food, said O’Brien. “We have the inside dining hall, which o�ers bu�et dinners from 5 to 8 nightly. We also have two buildings on the grounds that sell additional food. The Carnival Kitchen has fried chicken, seafood, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, ham sandwich-es and Urbana Fries,” which

O’Brien says are cut fresh each night and served up to carni-val-goers. “The Coke Building,” she continued, “sells pit beef and pork sandwiches, steak and cheese subs, sausage sandwiches with the �xin’s, hot dogs, French fries and country ham sandwiches.” There will be pizza on the grounds, as well.

The Ladies’ Auxiliary will be o�ering sno-cones and soft ice cream. The Ladies’ Auxiliary is

Photo | Pam Schipper

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For the Parkwood team—Senior Project Manager Costel Filip, Sales Manager Robyn Daly and Sales Associate/Marketing Coordinator Patrick Fleury—the Dudderar Farmhouse renovation is a labor of love.

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Charlie Giglio Earns Eagle Scout, Builds Chromebook Shelves for Urbana Middle


T his spring, Urbana High School junior Charlie Gi-glio earned his Eagle Scout

after completing a service project for Urbana Middle School.

When Giglio was thinking about what kind of service project to do, he was put in touch with Urbana Middle School Principal Stacey Hiltner. “I am blessed to have a community around me,” said Giglio. “I knew the for-mer principal of Urbana Middle School, who was able to put me in touch with the current principal.”

When Giglio learned that students were dropping their

Chromebooks during lunch, he began to think about how he could help. He surveyed the caf-eteria area, found a wall to place shelving on, and then designed shelving for the school. “I’m an engineer at heart,” admitted Giglio, who studies in the engi-neering program at the Frederick County Career and Technology Center. “It was good to have this real-world project,” he said. “I had a lot of opportunities to use the (CAD software).”

Giglio �rst built a prototype. He then changed his material from plywood to a birch lam- Photo | Submitted

Urbana High rising senior Charlie Giglio earned his Eagle Scout this spring by making Chrome-book shelves for students at Urbana Middle School. Pictured are UMS Principal Stacey Hiltner and Charlie Giglio near �ve sections of birch laminate shelves.n EAGLE SCOUT Continued on page 4

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VOU Residents Working to Ensure Safe Streets As the Villages of Urbana (VOU) community has grown,

so have safety concerns. A group of residents formed the Safe Streets Urbana committee to improve the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers on neighborhood streets.

At the committee’s latest June 15 meeting, many issues were discussed, including FCPS bus transportation, the history of Worthington tra� c calming, the status of raised crosswalks and some of the latest tra� c improvements in the neighborhood. Meeting minutes and tra� c safety con-tacts are available on the group’s Facebook page. Search “Safe Streets Urbana” and request to join the group page or email [email protected].

Speci� c tra� c concerns discussed included• the installation of a tra� c signal at Lew Wallace and

Worthington—anticipated sometime between Labor Day 2019 and the start of the 2020-21 school year (Frederick County Public Schools is responsible for this light);

• the installation of a tra� c signal at Carriage Hill and Fingerboard—now pending design application (Na-telli is responsible for this light and road widening for Fingerboard);

• the installation of a crosswalk and raised speed hump at the intersection of Carriage Hill Drive and Car-riage Hill Street near the Goddard School, to be com-plete before the start of the 2019-2020 school year;

• request for extension of the asphalt path along Bealls Farm Road into the park;

• request for evaluation of the intersection at Sugarloaf and Hartwick/Shaw� eld Lane where many students cross without a crosswalk and the speed limit is 35 mph;

• educating students on pedestrian and bicyclist safety during the � rst week of school in September; and

• raising driver awareness to improve safety for students walking and bicycling to school.

The group also hopes to advocate for more speed signs, such as on Worthington between the Urbana District Park and the Stone Barn community/Timber Green Drive and as cars come up Carriage Hill to the Goddard School, looking to exit the Villages at Fingerboard Road. Reduc-ing speed limits on neighborhood roads, such as Addison Woods where it is 35 mph, is also being considered.

Residents are encouraged to call the Frederick County Sheri� ’s O� ce main number, 301.600.1046, with unsafe

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Scouts and leaders from Troop 1023 arrive at Philmont Scout Ranch for a backpacking expedition through the backcountry of New Mexico. Pictured are (front, L to R) Ethan Gitzen, Henry Rodrigues, Ryan Klinger, staff (unknown), Charles Lowery, Charles Kretz, Bruno Kretz; (back, L to R) Bob Klinger, Bryan Lowery, Colin Thompson, Ian Edler and Patrick Rodrigues.

Sustainability Efforts Ramp Up in UrbanaCommunity leaders, residents want to bring composting education initiatives to neighbors.

By Patsy Beckman

T he time seems right in the Ur-bana community to use the African proverb: “It takes a

village” when trying to achieve crit-ical environmental advances. Many leaders and residents believe further education and action is needed on the part of their neighbors.

They are looking for alternatives to disposing food waste into an out-of-state land� ll. They have hefty goals of not only decreasing the amount of trash, but eliminating it altogether.

A proposal penned by Villag-es of Urbana (VOU) residents on composting in the neighborhood is currently under consideration by the VOU Board with more di-alogue coming at its July meeting. Items such as what foods would be permitted for composting and what bins could be used in a denser neighborhood are being discussed.

Joe Richardson, owner and founder of Bar-T, has just wrapped up two successful composting pro-grams at Urbana High School and Urbana Elementary School at Sug-arloaf where he teamed up with members of the Southern Frederick County Rotary.

The data Richardson presented to Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) Superintendent Terry Al-ban shows a profound change. In a � ve-month period, 9,735 pounds were separated and composted; more than 4,000 pounds of liquids stayed out of trash cans; and 2,115 pounds of items, previously thrown away, were recycled.

“There is no going back now,” he said in hopes of having all FCPS students separating their trash to get the organics out of it. “This is no longer a pilot program. We won’t go back.”

Fourteen schools will dive into the program this fall. Richardson’s hopes are to have 44 schools on board by 2022.

Despite this success, Richardson has his eye on � nding solutions to other environmental challenges.

He is troubled by the tremen-dous amount of food students throw away. “Twenty to forty apples, not eaten, 80 to 100 � lled bottles of milk going into the trash. We need to get this food to a food bank. I want to establish a network there to get this food collected and not wasted.”

Another item he is addressing is to

work with local parent-teacher asso-ciations (PTAs) to discuss reducing the number of plastic sandwich bags that students bring to school. “Par-ents are making these great lunches, but they are going into the trash,” he said about the apprehension stu-dents have returning to their parents with uneaten meals. “If we can get the PTA to promote reusable con-tainers, there is a better chance the food will go back home.”

Next, he’ll lead his tireless envi-ronmental charge into the lives of another demographic—senior citi-zens—and the retirement commu-nities where they make their homes.

“You take food waste and make a commodity. We need to change our behaviors,” he said.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,and Compost?

Environmental leaders feel e� orts at home should parallel what is be-ing done in schools. Katie Esposito’s passion is climate change.

Along with pushing used crayon and old marker drives at Center-ville Elementary School, Esposito will lead the parent volunteer e� ort when the school begins composting at the start of the 2019-2020 school year.

Esposito, a resident of VOU, is also the president of Friends of the Urbana Regional Library (FURL). She is launching an initiative to col-lect used party decorations to resell alongside used books at FURL’s up-coming book sale at the library on Sept. 21 and 22.

“I � gure it is true to my person-al concerns with sustainability, re-� ective of the family-centric com-munity we have here, and we will be raising additional funds, which

will be poured right back into the library,” said Esposito, who once practiced public health law for the U.S. government.

After reading hundreds of books, articles and stories about climate change, Esposito—now the stay-at-home parent of two—has been ap-prised of extreme adverse weather, agricultural and mental health con-ditions that could result from inac-tivity.

“I am alarmed by what is project-ed, how little is being done about it, and what problems my children and their peers will inherit because of our inaction,” she said.

What these sustainability ground-breakers want to do is change the current culture of apathy when it comes to the environment.

“I realized right now change is not coming comprehensively or fast enough from the top down—feder-al government, corporations—but that it can also come from the bot-tom up.” In her VOU home, Es-posito has been hosting sustainabil-ity meetings, using less energy, and swapping clothes.

On another front, Megan Hook will join her sister with the open-ing of their new restaurant, Pum-pernickel + Rye, in Casa Bella Commons this coming summer. The restaurant will o� er sandwich-es, soups and salads. There will be breakfast items, including bagels; meats and salads; co� ee, espresso, fresh pressed juices and smoothies; and there will be a vast grab-and-go section for busy Urbana families.

By striving to eliminate unneces-sary waste whenever possible, Hook expects to make a positive in� uence on her community. “We are focus-

Photo | Patsy Beckman

Properly composted organic waste is a commodity, which can be sold at garden centers, home improvement stores, or used in residents’ own backyards.

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Office Building Coming to Urbana Pike

The Planning Commission gave unani-mous approval June 12 to the Urbana One, LLC Concept Site Plan for a new two-sto-ry, 7,396-square-foot o�ce building on Urbana Pike, to be located across the street from Casa Bella Commons. A renovated garage and modest 1950s home are cur-rently on the .45-acre site. The garage will be expanded forward toward Urbana Pike and then turn toward the current house location to form an “L”-shaped building with interior court.

The Villages of Urbana (VOU) Man-tz Lane leads directly to the back end of the site. A sidewalk will be added to the site to promote pedestrian access from the VOU/Mantz Lane to Urbana Pike, with a well-marked crosswalk added mid-block so pedestrians can safely cross to Casa Bella Commons and Urbana Elementary.

Redistricting Affects Landsdale Both options A and B show students in

the Landsdale Monrovia development be-ing redistricted to Linganore High School. The change will more than double drive time for Landsdale students.

For other proposed changes, visit www.facebook.com/LOURedistrict.

The Board of Education will hold pub-lic hearings on Sept. 17, 7 p.m. at Urbana High School; Sept. 19, 7 p.m. at Linganore High School; and Sept. 24, 7 p.m. at Oak-dale High School.

Greenbriar Launches Emergency Veterinary Care Fund

All pet families know how awful it is when one of our furry family members are hurting. But this is especially heart-break-ing when your pet needs emergency vet-erinary care that you just can’t a�ord. Greenbriar Veterinary Hospital & Luxury Pet Resort, 3051 Thurston Road, recent-ly launched The Paisley Promise Relief Fund to reduce the heartache and provide life-saving treatments when our pets need them, regardless of ability to pay. Visit www.greenbriarpets.com to learn more about the fund.

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A new of�ce building proposed for Urbana Pike will include a sidewalk to promote pedestrian connection from the VOU/Mantz Lane to Urbana Pike, Casa Bella Commons and Urbana Elementary.

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inate. “It has a better grain,” he ex-plained, “and is easier to varnish and to work with.”

He built the shelves in �ve sections. After building one section, he recruit-ed family and friends to help with the sanding, cutting, assembly and var-nishing of the other four sections. He added a rubber trim to the edges of the shelves.

Giglio pursues many opportunities to ful�ll his passion for engineering. He and fellow members of the 2017-2018 Frederick County Career and Technol-ogy Center InvenTeam were awarded a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant to help fund a system they designed to remediate well water for Melka Olba School, in rural Ethiopia. He is also participating in International Subma-rine Races, an event hosted by the Na-val Surface Warfare Center. Compet-itors design and race human-powered underwater vehicles.

Giglio became a Cub Scout in the �rst grade and has enjoyed his scouting experience ever since. When he was 15, Giglio attended Northern Tier, a Boy Scout wilderness camping experi-ence in Minnesota’s Great Northwoods. “We were paddling and portaging,” said Giglio. Scouts paddle through the wilderness and, when moving on land,

carry their canoes. It was challenging, but Giglio appreciated “the solitude experience ... and (experiencing) what real nature is like.”

In addition to his time with Troop 796, which he “Eagled out of,” Giglio founded Troop 1775 and served as a den chief. “You’ re a mentor to the Cub Scouts,” he said. As a junior assistant scoutmaster, Giglio said he has gained invaluable experience with meetings, agendas and other tasks that come along with leadership. Giglio credits Senior Patrol Leader Kevin Mason of Troop 1775 with having a profound in�uence on his life.

Giglio has earned 27 merit badges. When asked what his favorite was, he chuckled and answered, “plumbing.” When Giglio was in eighth grade, the toilet in his house had a blockage. Gi-glio and his father rented a snake auger and unclogged the toilet as a part of his merit badge requirements. “I learned this really valuable skill,” Giglio said. “(It was) one of my most memorable badges.”

It is that kind of experience that Gi-glio �nds to be one of the most valuable aspects of Boy Scouts. “I don’t think you can replace the on-the-ground op-portunities to do so many things.”

“Boy Scouts is a real family,” Giglio said. “I recommend everybody do Boy Scouts.”

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ing New Urbanist community of Kent-lands and bringing neo-traditional archi-tecture and New Urbanist principles to other communities since, including places as far-�ung as Colorado and now Utah.

“Most of our inspiration comes from walking down historic streets,” Daly said. “That’s how we create our new homes. This is what we do and what we love.

“When we had an opportunity to take something historic and add our spin to it, it was something we really couldn’t pass up,” she added.

They received a �urry of phone calls and emails last year when work started on the home. “Once we got it up on wheels, everybody thought it was leaving, but it wasn’t,” said longtime Parkwood Senior Project Manager Costel Filip.

The Dudderar Farmhouse had to be moved for two reasons, he explained.

“It had about a 4-and-a-half-foot stone basement that was collapsing in. Basically, it was barely holding the house up.” The 17-foot move enabled Parkwood to turn what was essentially a root cellar into a modern basement with rough-in plumbing for a full bath and space for a bedroom and recreation room.

They also needed to tear away a late 1950s addition to the house “that was to-tally falling apart,” said Patrick Fleury, Parkwood Homes sales associate and mar-keting coordinator.

The addition wasn’t even on the founda-tion, Filip added. “We tried to save it, but it wasn’t salvageable. It was too far gone.”

The loss of the old addition to the histor-ic masonry home and the necessary move to create a new basement and foundation was a blessing in disguise. Both opened up wonderful creative opportunities.

“We felt like as you came up the street, the house needed to be the focus,” Filip explained. They repositioned the home slightly and designed a new two-story ad-dition—that includes a great room with gas �replace, kitchen, mud room, a mas-ter suite and bedroom, two bathrooms and laundry room, plus a mud room and two-car garage—to be appealing from all sides. A front porch that will align with Sugar-loaf Parkway has the option of becoming a double front porch accessible from the second story master bedroom suite.

“We’re excited to have it up and going,” Fleury said.

According to the Maryland Historical Trust inventory for the Dudderar Farm, completed in 1998, “The brick dwelling was constructed ca. 1850 and ‘represents a simple, but sophisticated, interpretation of the early Classical Revival style in form, mass, proportion and ornamentation.’”

But through working on the house, Fil-ip discovered something that dates it even earlier. “I didn’t know how old it was when I came up here (in the attic) for the �rst time with (Tom) Natelli,” he said, point-ing to pegs in the wooden beams forming a low, “V”-shaped ceiling. “This is what got me.…There’s not a nail in this. It’s all wooden peg that holds this roof up. … My belief is it’s early 1830s because by the

1850s, they’re using metal.”He has a lot of respect for the builders

who came before him. “I hope that these houses that I’m building are going to be still standing 200 years from now. We have tools that cut all this now,” he said, ges-turing to the beams. “Back in the day it was only chisel and hammer—it’s precision cut with a chisel and a hammer. That took time. It took pride for somebody to do that. … They took time to do it right, knowing that they might never have the time to go back and �x it (and) it’s still standing. … It’s built right.”

The home’s brick �replaces—two downstairs and two upstairs—are being preserved, though they will be decorative and not functional. The bricks themselves tell a story.

“This brick actually was built on site,” Filip said. “So, there’s a vein of clay that apparently starts somewhere here and goes all the way to Sugarloaf Mountain. For this house, every brick was made here on site and cured with wood �re here on site, and that’s the reason … I’m saving every brick that we can.”

Extra bricks will be reused, Daly said, possibly to create the mud room �oor.

Up in the attic, you can see the brick chimneys and what looks like a smoky resi-due beneath the roof beams. This, too, tells a story. “You could see that they used to use this attic for a smokehouse,” Filip said. “That’s why (the wood) is preserved. … If you look at that chimney, I guarantee if I take the mortar o� it would be a grate. … They had a damper and they would allow the smoke out of the chimney and have meat hanging (up here). … That’s how they used to cure it.”

According to the Maryland Histor-ic Trust, the Dudderar Farmstead was a nineteenth-century agricultural complex that consisted of 10 structures: a two-sto-ry brick farmhouse and a hand-hewn log shed, both constructed ca. 1850, a con-crete-block shed constructed ca. 1930, three small wood frame barns constructed ca. 1930, a wood-frame bank barn con-structed 1880, a terracotta silo constructed ca. 1930, a dairy barn, and a creamery con-structed ca. 1930. Today’s farmhouse takes its name from the Dudderar family that ac-

quired the property in 1920 from the Rev. and Mrs. Po�enbarger and owned it for 46 years.

Search “Parkwood Homes” on Facebook to see plans for the renovated four-bed-room, two-car garage home. Interested buyers can customize �nishes in the his-toric farmhouse. Contact Robyn Daly at 240.415.4103, ext. 1 or [email protected] for more information.

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Parkwood Senior Project Manager Costel Filip points to wooden pegs in the attic that date the Dudderar Farmhouse to the 1830s.

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While the Scouts might be some of the carnival’s youngest volunteers, there is cer-tainly no upper age limit for volunteers. The oldest member, Glenn Brubaker, is 102 years old, and he can be found in the dining hall, wiping down trays alongside auxiliary member Mary Smith, who is in her early nineties. “We have a strong corps of volunteers,” said O’Brien.

The department recently lost a life mem-ber, Jake Lenhart, whose contributions to the department were immeasurable. “We will feel that loss the week of the carnival,” said O’Brien. “He would be there at 6 in the morning,” she recalled, “then work un-til about 2 in the afternoon, go home and shower, and be back working until 10 or so.” She noted that Lenhart’s relatives are still coming to help, and added that extend-ed family of many members of the �re de-partment volunteer each year.

Students from Urbana High School also volunteer throughout the carnival grounds, earning SSL (student service learning) hours.

Pro�ts from the carnival go into the gen-eral fund account for the �re department. O’Brien said the funds pay for the mortgage on the building, apparatus, equipment and building upkeep; and funds are often used to supplement the money that the depart-ment receives from the county budget. “We just purchased a new ambulance and will be receiving a new tanker in November of this year,” said O’Brien.

O’Brien was excited to talk about all that the carnival has to o�er. “Don’t forget to tell them about the entertainment” she said of the lineup of a variety of genres of bands, “and it’s free!” There is no cost for parking or admission to the carnival.

There is still time for community mem-bers to volunteer. “It takes an army,” O’Brien said. Anyone interested in volunteering for the carnival can call 301.606.3008. More information about the carnival can be found at www.urbanavfd.org.

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Tornado Causes Damage East of Urbana

By Jack Toomey

T he afternoon of May 30 was warm and humid, typical of the lead up to summer. Around 3 p.m., a line

of thunderstorms developed in Loudoun County, Virginia, and crossed the Poto-mac River without much disruption. Their east-west formation and movement was unusual for the area and once into Freder-ick County, the storms strengthened.

Dawn Gordon, the owner of the Finger-board County Inn on Fingerboard Road, was preparing to leave for an errand when the winds suddenly picked up and torren-tial rain began falling. As she raced for her car, a ladder blew over her head and trees on the property began falling. Once she got into the car, the wind actually moved the car sideways in the driveway. Her proper-ty su�ered moderate damage. The chicken coop was destroyed, and a tree came down on the roof of the house causing damage to the chimney.

From there, the storm moved on to col-lapse an ancient barn on the Murphy Farm across Fingerboard Road from the inn, and then it crossed the Whiskey Creek Golf Course and eventually on into Howard County. The storm did extensive damage on Prices Distillery Road, bringing down trees and power lines. News stations sent helicopters over the scene and their vid-eo showed obvious “twisting” damage to trees, which is a classic signature of a tor-nado.

The National Weather Service made a survey of the area and con�rmed that this was a weak F-0 tornado on the Fugi-ta Scale, which is used to rate the severity of tornados. An F-0 is the weakest level of tornado and indicates winds of 40 to 72 mph. Light damage to chimneys, branch-es broken o� trees, shallow rooted trees blown down, and sign boards damaged are typical.

There were no reported injuries.

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An F-0 tornado on May 30 left damage at the Fingerboard Country Inn and Murphy Farm on Fingerboard Road, and caused the closure of nearby Prices Distillery Road.


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Following Richardson’s lead at area schools, Pumpernickel + Rye will have a composting program in place. Speci�c con-tainers will be designated for compostable waste around the building. Key City Com-post will remove the waste to produce soil rich in nutrients.

Involved parent-volunteers and sustain-ability advocates are eager to show students the entire process of how speci�c waste materials decompose and become a nutri-ent-rich material that helps plants grow.

Students in the garden club at Urbana El-ementary at Sugarloaf planted a new butter-�y garden topped o� with �nished compost that started out as the students’ lunch scraps. “We just used the county’s compost in a �ower garden we planted at Sugarloaf Ele-mentary School,” said volunteer and VOU resident Carey Murphy.

A local, full-service composting compa-ny, Key City Compost, co-founded by Phil Westcott, picks up the school’s food waste for composting at an out-of-state facility. Westcott plans to open his new facility in Frederick County later this year. He wants to invigorate government leaders and res-idents to make changes for the sake of the environment.

“We have seen a lot of growth and sup-port in the last six months,” he said.

Prior to founding Key City Compost, Westcott worked in the environmental sciences where he witnessed �rst-hand the di�erences residents could make simply in their own gardens. That is when he decid-ed to start his own composting company in hopes of restricting food waste, creating new soils, saving taxpayer dollars and cre-ating local jobs. “I knew that I could have an impact on a smaller scale,” he said about localized solutions to composting and sus-tainability and the endeavor he started just over two years ago.

Along with Urbana schools and restau-rants like Hook’s, Key City Composting works with residential customers. The company provides a �ve-gallon bucket for residents to �ll with food scraps. The �lled bucket is picked up weekly and swapped out for a fresh one before items are composted.

Richardson is now ready to lead the composting charge at all remaining Ur-bana schools for the 2019-2020 school year—along with all Brunswick schools—and Green Valley, Butter�y Ridge, Yellow Springs, North Frederick, Monocacy and Lincoln Elementary Schools. Parent volun-teers will be trained this summer in prepa-ration for the fall.

“If we teach students to separate compost, recyclables, liquids and trash, they will teach their parents,” Richardson said. “This is just one piece of a puzzle, but it is a big piece. We really have to change our approach. It is incredibly empowering to teach a child.”

From Garbage to GardenAccording to the Environmental Pro-

tection Agency (EPA), more food reaches land�lls and incinerators than any other single material in the waste stream.

Annmarie Creamer is an analyst for Fred-erick County’s Recycling Outreach Pro-gram and serves as her department’s pub-lic information o�cer. “While preventing food waste is the best strategy, there will always be a little something left on a plate or that broccoli that got hidden at the bot-tom of the ‘fridge; we’d love for even those leftovers not to be wasted—especially since most of Frederick County’s waste has to be trucked away for disposal in an out-of-state land�ll,” said Creamer.

Creamer is leading an e�ort to dispel some of the myths circulating about the dis-advantages of composting.

This spring, she has spent hours adminis-tering free classes and o�ering tours at the Frederick County Waste Facility for groups of six or more. The classes teach residents how to compost properly.

“The tour itself is eye-opening,” said Murphy, who attended a late-spring session. Residents can view an area where they cre-ate compost and mulch from residents’ yard waste that eventually gets sold to the public.

Creamer discussed the status of the al-most-full Frederick County land�ll, a result of the huge population growth in Urbana as well as other communities.

She touts the composting process as “a simple, all-natural process that doesn’t re-quire expert training or advanced educa-tion—anyone can do!”

The Frederick County Department of Solid Waste sells GeoBin composters available at wholesale pricing year-round. “There are bins built to suit di�erent styles and methods that take little or no ongoing maintenance,” Creamer said. You can pur-chase a compost bin at 9031 Reichs Ford Road Mondays through Fridays from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

The Frederick County Master Gardener volunteers (a program of the University of Maryland) are a team of local residents who �eld questions and o�er their expertise via their o�ce: 301.600.1596, Facebook page, and at local events. The Frederick County Public Library system has a wealth of books on the subject.

“We also o�er the ‘Recycle Coach’ app that can quickly answer the question of whether a particular item belongs in a trash can, recycle cart or compost bin,” added Creamer.

Some composting items are stale bread, plain pasta, rinds, pea and bean shells—even paper towels and popsicle sticks.

For more complete composting informa-tion, you can sign up for one of the county’s free home composting classes.

To register for a scheduled class, request a personalized instructional program on composting for your group or club, or to ask speci�c questions about your home compost pile, please contact Creamer in the O�ce of Recycling at [email protected] or 301.600.7405.

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T he Green K9 has given patrons of the Urbana Library Farmers’ Market pause recently with veterinarian-ap-

proved treats, free healthy pet food samples and CBD products for pets. “I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from people,” said owner Marni Lewis, adding that the CBD (or cannabinoid) products have been espe-cially popular.

Lewis acknowledged that The Green K9 with none of its own farm-raised or handmade products is a bit of an anomaly at the farmers’ market and “they were so welcoming,” she said of market organizers Jan and Ray Wickline. But heart and soul, she embraces local—and is determined to partner with as many local businesses and farms as possible when The Green K9 lux-ury dog daycare and healthy pet market & out�tter opens at the Urban Green Apart-ments in late August.

In fact, dogs celebrating a birthday at The Green K9 are in for a special treat. Ur-bana’s new Sage Cakery will bake a cake especially for the birthday dog and canine friends. The Green K9’s $50, one-hour birthday package includes a cake, photos, party hats, bandanas and a bag of treats.

Lewis’ roots are local and in small busi-ness. She grew up in Reisterstown, Mary-land, where her mother owned a kennel and was a well-known dog trainer.

Lewis’ own journey in pet care began in 2001 when she founded the �rst luxury pet resort in Southern Florida. This was such a novel idea back then that they made the front page of The Miami Herald.

Lewis came up with the luxury pet re-sort concept after a traumatic experience boarding her own dog in Florida. “It was an old-school kennel, no air-condition-ing. … I thought, ‘I can do better,’” she recalled.

She built this �rst Davies, Florida-based business from the ground up. Then in 2010, she opened The Green K9 in Mount Dora, Florida. “The inspiration to open a healthy pet specialty store (The Green K9) was because of the loss of several of my own dogs to cancer,” she said. “In 2006 I went to the Global Pet Expo and learned about eco-friendly and all-natural pet products such as organic, raw and minimally pro-cessed foods and treats and supplements that promote lifelong health and longevity. After seeing amazing results with my own pets, I was hooked and became passionate about sharing these products with other pet

owners. I have a BS in health education, so it was a natural �t for me.”

She recently moved back to Maryland and settled in Urbana to be close to her sis-ter. The Urban Green Apartments, where she lives, are pet friendly and “everybody has a dog here.” With its dog park and outdoor patio space, Lewis knew the site would be perfect for The Green K9 Ur-bana.

The 4,330-square-foot luxury pet resort will o�er daycare for dogs 40 pounds and under, events like dog birthday parties and Yappy Hours on the Urban Green patio, grooming and self-wash stations, and a healthy pet market and out�tter.

The market will sell the “least processed foods,” Lewis said, such as raw, freeze-dried, dehydrated or lightly cooked foods. Emphasis will be on organic foods.

The out�tter will carry harnesses, col-lars, leashes, clothing, halties and halters. “These are unique things you won’t �nd elsewhere,” Lewis said. She encourages pa-trons to bring their dogs to the shop be-cause choice “really depends on the dog.” Lewis can recommend the best products for your dog and even “give a quick train-ing on how to walk the dog and how to get the dog to heel.”

Local contractor Tri-Kelly is doing the buildout that Lewis said will include a daycare room with dog couches for rest-ing and a self-wash shower station for re-ally big dogs. Despite the couches, Lewis said daycare at The Green K9 is di�erent because there are no scheduled naptimes. Dogs go outside once every hour for potty breaks and stimulation. “They’re active all day and constantly interacting,” she said. “They can rest themselves, but they have company all day.”

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Have Your Cake & Eat It Too at Sage CakeryBy Marylou Bono

B aked goods “without all of the hard feelings”–with this mission state-ment, Sage Cakery seemed like

something I had to experience! The newly opened Sage Cakery, the passion of owners Nikkie Byrd and partner Kurtis Esworthy, greets you with the energy of the sage leaf logo and a positive vibe. Rows of inno-vatively � avored cupcakes, fancy espresso machinery and cafe seating promise a hap-py and relaxing experience.

“I like to be part of people’s good mo-ments...making them smile,” Nikkie re-vealed. They searched for the right location for a long time, signed a lease, waited for the building to be built and then took four months for their build-out. Joining Kiddie Academy and Papa John’s Pizza, they are among the � rst tenants at Landon Crossing, a commercial center that includes the his-toric Landon House at the corner of Urbana Pike and Fingerboard Road.

Byrd’s bakery background began in her teens when she ran Buttercream Shoppe out of her home, baking for family and friends and decorating cakes. “I love being crafty and creative,” she said. “I’ve been decorating for a long time, and it’s a unique medium to work with. I like baking, but cake decorat-ing is my passion!”

A native of Monrovia, she graduated from Urbana High School in 2001. At that time, her interest in health and wellness was growing, so she enrolled in herb school. She felt a bit burned out with baking and wanted to incorporate healthful qualities and herbs into her recipes. “I like to create new � a-vors...have fun with a basic recipe,” she said.

About � ve years ago, she got serious about opening a bake shop—and knew it had to be in Urbana. “A lot of people have encouraged me for a long time to take this leap. ... I just needed to go for it!”

She hopes the bakery and café will be a warm, comfortable, feel-good place where people will come to hang out. They plan to

o� er meals made with ultra-healthy ingredi-ents, including salads, soups and sandwiches. Sometime within the next six months, they hope to be serving breakfast and lunch.

“People who pushed me to do this know me for my cakes,” Byrd said, but the shop also creates cake pops, dessert bars and cook-ies in addition to signature cupcakes with buttercream frosting. The sweet bites come in a variety of � avors, happily leaning to the exotic with choices such as cardamom pear, turmeric chai spice, vegan chai, and maple and fenugreek. I sampled a delicious carda-mom pear, and it is highly recommended!

Sourcing of premium ingredients is para-mount to Byrd, and she strives to obtain the

freshest available including as much organic and local as possible, non-GMO and select European ingredients. The co� ees are from Dublin Roasters in Frederick. Frontier Co-op, of which she is a member, provides her tea and spices. She likes the transparency of their sources, certi� cations and use of fair trade.

The business is about 50 percent walk-in and 50 percent custom cake and online orders. They do weddings, birthdays and all sorts of events–large or small. Delivery can be arranged for large orders. She is busy with a lot of custom wedding orders cur-rently and emphasizes that the more notice the better. She doesn’t want to turn anyone down.

Before the end of summer, the duo plans to host some family-friendly events, includ-ing one called “Rainbows, Sprinkles, Uni-corns & Glitter” and perhaps another with a superhero theme. In keeping with that sage energy, Byrd said, “I consider myself an art-ist! I would like to create something like an herbal bon-bon–a treat that would satisfy the sweet tooth and be completely good for you. Maybe with sun� ower butter and as-tragalus root...incorporating herbs in a tasty way.”

Visit Sage Cakery at 3401 Urbana Pike, Suite E2, 240.341.2710, or online at www.sagecakery.com and on Facebook.

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Nikkie Byrd and Kurtis Esworthy opened Sage Cakery, located in Landon Crossing, on May 21.

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Songs for Seeds Opens in UrbanaBy Gina Gallucci-White

W ith � ve kids under the age of six between them, friends Allison Meador and Alex Williams are

always on the lookout for fun activities for their children to participate in.

One day, the two began talking about what business they could bring to the Fred-erick/Urbana area that was young family friendly. That night, Meador was scroll-ing through her Facebook feed before bed and found an advertisement for Songs for Seeds, a musical program open to children ages birth to six.

Founded in 2009 by the owners of a New York City children’s play space, the program features a weekly 45-minute class led by a three-piece live band of musicians who also serve as teachers. The program has franchises in nine states including New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Flor-ida. In early June, Meador and Williams opended the program’s � rst franchise in Maryland at 3558 Worthington Boulevard in Urbana.

The songs, played on guitar, keys and drums, include ones written for Songs for Seeds by Mr. Ray, a children’s composer. Each song focuses on early education such as colors, animal sounds and shapes. Each week they also play a couple of di� erent child-appropriate Top 40 hits includ-ing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.”

The audition process to � nd their mu-sicians took awhile. “Not only are you

looking for talented musicians that can perform live and are good at what they do but they have that passion for working with children,” Williams said. “When we were auditioning people, the � rst ques-tion was ‘Why do you want to work with kids?’ Obviously, it is one thing to be able to perform at bars at night but it is another thing being able to captivate an audience of kids.”

Out of the three selected, one is a teacher at a local music school and plays in a band while the other two have worship leader backgrounds.

During one segment of the class, kids get mini instruments and play along with the band. Each week also features a di� erent

nursery rhyme. “The class is structured in a way that every week you see the same nine segments, but the content is di� er-ent,” Williams said.

While there are other music programs for young children in the area, the pair be-lieve Songs for Seeds is di� erent because of the live band. “You have that exposure to live music which a lot of kids don’t get un-til later in life, if ever,” Williams said. “Not only are they watching the live musicians but at the end of class we always invite them up to play with the instruments. They can touch and feel them and play with them. The drums are always a huge hit because you know kids just love to hit them as hard as they can and make a ton of noise.”

Meador works in property management and Williams assists in the o� ce one day a week. The two met several years ago when they both worked full time in the industry. “We hit it o� immediately,” Meador said.

The program has a monthly fee and families sign up for once-a-week classes. If families miss a class, a makeup class is of-fered at another time. There are 100 weeks of curriculum. “For two years, you are getting a di� erent class every single week,” Meador said.

Williams’ children are ages 2, 4 and 6. Before Songs for Seeds, she would be able to take her two older kids to a class but had to sit back and � gure out how to entertain her youngest. Kids are not separated by age at Songs for Seeds.

“It is refreshing to have a class where you can take kids birth to 6 because then you don’t have to worry about leaving anyone out or trying to entertain the one while the other ones are playing or learning,” she said. “... What a 2-year-old is going to get out of class is going to be di� erent than what a 4-year-old gets. My 2-year-old loves the beat. He loves to play the instru-ments and he just feels the music and is vi-sually stimulated. Whereas my 4-year-old is actually learning.”

After two weeks of classes, Williams notes her son was at the dinner table sing-ing some of the songs, including one that teaches the children how to say hello in di� erent languages. “There is no way I would have been able to teach (my son) that on my own,” she said.

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By Pam Schipper

D r. Jennifer Burns is returning home to open her own practice, Urbana Pediatrics, on Monday, July 1. Many

know her from her 12 years with The Pe-diatric Center of Frederick, where she was main provider for more than eight years in the Urbana o�ce. Others know her as a mom, friend and neighbor. She has lived in Urbana for 15 years.

“It’s nice to be coming back to the com-munity,” she said.

Dr. Burns recently left Frederick County Pediatrics in New Market, where she prac-ticed for more than two years. She said it was time to o�er her own philosophy of care, one rooted in getting to know her pa-tients and the challenges they face.

“I like to know my patients and their history. I prepare for their visit by reading their charts beforehand and then really lis-ten during the visit,” she said. “Visits may take 5 to 10 minutes or up to 45 minutes.”

Dr. Burns grew up in Manhasset on the North Shore of Long Island, and she knew that she wanted to be a pediatrician when she was 10 years old. She didn’t particularly like her own pediatrician, she said, but she has had a lifelong fascination with under-standing how things work.

After graduating from Dartmouth Col-lege, she received her medical degree from New York Medical College and did her residency in general pediatrics at Chil-dren’s National Medical Center-George Washington University. “It was de�nitely a great education,” she said of Children’s. “You see everything.” After completing her residency, “I stayed an extra year (at Children’s) and worked emergency med-icine. I saw a lot of asthma. I didn’t like the ER because I knew I wouldn’t see the person again.”

And seeing patients again to develop

strong relationships is the cornerstone of her care. “In primary care, you don’t have to rush,” she said. She takes the time to thoroughly study a patient’s challenge and treat it in a targeted way that often involves following up with a patient one day to the next.

Her new practice at Casa Bella Com-mons features a partitioned well/sick child waiting room, six exam rooms that include a room dedicated to new moms and ba-bies—“I love seeing the newborns,” she said—and two nurses’ areas. Exam rooms are decorated to look like home with warm wood furniture, a Disney beach theme and maps that children and parents can study while waiting for the doctor. Dr. Burns and her husband created preliminary de-signs for the o�ce, and her husband, a mu-sic teacher, created the “Urbana Pediatrics GROW WITH US!” colorful logo that features a slide.

Dr. Burns chose Casa Bella Commons for her practice because it reminds her of commercial centers on Long Island, she said. And she values the local vibe that it has—with business owners from Urbana and Frederick, as well as its hometown de-velopers Paul Hynes and Robert Bongior-no.

In her free time, Dr. Burns loves to read, both �ction and non-�ction, and enjoys taking her six-year-old son to parks and green space in the community. He es-pecially likes the Community Park—or �retruck park, she said.

Dr. Burns will be joined on opening day, July 1, by Nunzia Sulmonte, practice manager and Urbana resident, who worked with her at The Pediatric Center of Fred-erick. Dr. Burns is Board Certi�ed in Pe-diatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She treats patients from birth through age 21. For more infor-mation, visit urbanapediatrics.com.


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EDUCATIONGirl Scouts Earn President’s Volunteer Service Award


S even members of Girl Scout Troop 81265, all sixth-graders at Windsor Knolls Middle School, earned the

2019 President’s Volunteer Service Award after volunteering for more than 50 hours, individually, during the year 2018-2019.

Rachel Beckman, Cheyanne Campbell, Angela De La Cruz, Samantha Ibarra, Se-quoia Martindale, Gabby Olliges and Lena Reesman volunteered for the Frederick County Animal Control shelter, Frederick County Parks & Recreation, CareWear, Savage Dance Company, the Animal Wel-fare League, their Girl Scout service unit, and other organizations throughout Fred-erick County.

De La Cruz was able to help her father collect donations for Three Rangers Foun-dation. “We asked restaurants and shops if they could donate to (a fundraising) golf tournament,” she said. The tournament raised money to provide assistance to Rangers of the U.S. Army’s 75th Regi-ment.

Martindale organized a visit to two adult English as a Second Language classes at

Frederick Community College. There, she and two troopmates shared what the Girl Scouts program is and showed the students what the equivalent Girl Guides look like in their home countries. “I liked creating

the slideshow and presenting it to peo-ple who didn’t know anything about Girl Scouts,” said Martindale.

Reesman helped organizations such as CareWear. She said that using a sewing

machine, she and other troopmates sewed pillowcases for cough pillows that go di-rectly to hospital patients. The pillows help ease the post-surgical pain of coughing or sneezing.

Rachel Beckman especially enjoyed her hours working with younger dancers at Savage Dance Company. “I got up front with the instructors and helped the 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds with stretching, (dance routines) and other activities,” she said. She added that her older sisters are good role models for volunteering.

Madelyn Beckman, who is also a student at Windsor Knolls, spent 130 hours vol-unteering over the past year. She will be leaving eighth grade with a combined total of more than 300 hours of volunteer work during her three years in middle school.

Gabby Olliges most enjoys her time with Frederick County Animal Control shel-ter, where she continues to volunteer on a regular basis. “I walk dogs, and I make sure they have enough food and water. I do the same for cats and other animals.” She paused. “But we don’t walk the cats.”

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Danielle McNerney Dishes on SAVE the MOMSBy Kari A. Martindale

D anielle McNerney, a rising junior at Urbana High School, recently spoke to attendees of her SAVE the

MOMS workshop at the Walkersville Li-brary. McNerney is Food Network’s 2017 Chopped Junior Champion and the CEO and founder of SAVE the MOMS. “At the library talk,” said McNerney, “I demon-strated how to make quick and easy chick-en salad bites.”

McNerney said the mission of SAVE the MOMS is “to teach kids and teens how to cook in order to give moms (and dads) a break!” She sells recipe cards that help teens prepare healthy meals.

“SAVE the MOMS recipe cards have 10 quick and easy-to-follow recipes that teens and kids can cook for the whole family,” said McNerney. “Each recipe card is bro-ken down into � ve easy-to-follow steps that are easy to understand. (It’s) perfect for any beginner chef.”

The recipe cards contain more than just instructions for preparing the meal. “The best part about these recipe cards is the helpful safety and cleanup tips that come along with every recipe,” said McNerney. “These tips help teens and kids to learn not only how to cook, but how to take care of their workspace.”

McNerney herself began cooking when she was around eight years. That’s when

she had begun to comprehend that her mother had cancer, which she’d been suf-fering for several years. “At four years old, I would make little salads and simple things like that,” said McNerney, “but it was when I was a little older (that) I fully comprehended what cancer was and how it impacted our family, so that’s when I really started to get cooking.”

“I wanted to � nd a way to help,” she said. “Both of my parents disliked being in the kitchen, so I felt learning to cook would be the perfect way to help my family during a tough time. Thankfully, my mom has been in remission for 10-plus years, and the pas-sion for cooking I developed at a young age is still growing stronger every day.” Now, McNerney wants to “see other teens and kids learning how to cook in order to help their (families)!”

In 2017, McNerney competed on Food Network’s “Chopped Junior.” On the cooking reality show, contestants between 9 and 15 years of age compete by turning a mystery basket of ingredients into a dish that is judged on creativity, presentation and taste. They create three dishes: an appetizer, an entrée and a dessert. Each round lasts 30 minutes.

“Being on ‘Chopped’ was such an amaz-ing experience,” said McNerney. “It was de� nitely nerve-wracking, but when I stepped into the ‘Chopped’ kitchen, the nerves faded away and I became even more excited than I already was. It de� nitely was surreal to be competing on a show I had been watching ever since I was young, and to have won was absolutely crazy.”

McNerney used such ingredients as kohlrabi, gumdrops, Turkish pizza and cottage cheese. “In the appetizer round,” she said, “I made a salad that included candied bacon and a fresh cherry-tomato vinaigrette. In the entrée round I made a mac n’ cheese with toasted breadcrumbs on top. Then, in the dessert round, I made a berry Napoleon that had layers of whipped cream, berries and caramel.”

McNerney used some of her winnings from the competition to start her business of selling SAVE the MOMS recipe cards. She wants the learning experience to go beyond a meal here or there, though. “By learning how to cook, I have learned such a valuable life skill,” she said. “I wanted the product I came up with to be a good way for beginner chefs to begin to feel comfortable in the kitchen and to not feel intimidated. “

To promote the business, McNerney posts “lots of delicious food pictures” on her Instagram account, @Savethemoms.

The “quick and easy chicken salad bites” dish that McNerney demonstrated at the library, she said, “was made up of a fresh basil pesto that was spread onto a small round of bread and topped with freshly made chicken salad. That recipe is de� nite-ly one of my go-to recipes if I want some-thing quick, fresh and delicious!”

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New Color Run Adds to Success of CarnivalBy Kari A. Martindale

O n June 11, 2019, Windsor Knolls Middle School (WKMS) held its annual carnival event. The event

was organized by sixth grade social studies teacher Lorri McCadney and Special Edu-cation Department Chair Jamie Tull.

This year, students rotated stations throughout the day, including the carnival station, a movie they selected from 12 PG and PG-13 rated options, yearbook distri-bution, Kahoot Trivia, awards, and a Color Run.

Approximately 70 parent volunteers as-sisted. Volunteers participated in carnival setup and cleanup, monitoring students, and making the Color Run happen. “This was ... the inaugural year of the WKMS Color Run,” said McCadney. “Each grade level had a designated course to run as teachers stood at various Color Stations, ready to douse the students with colored cornstarch.”

Parents helped prepare the Color Run course and monitored students during the run while teachers were participating in the event. Michele Jaeb, vice president of the PTSA, which helps fund the carnival, was one of the parents who helped set up the Color Run. “The kids enjoyed it a lot,” she said, “(and) it was clear the sta� was having just as much fun as the kids.”

Many parents asked why award distri-bution was included with the day’s events. McCadney said, “This was the �rst time

WKMS combined all end-of-year events into one day. Prior to this year, events like yearbook distribution, awards and the car-nival took place on di�erent days; as a re-sult, there were multiple days with adjusted schedules and disruption to the instruction-al environment. Combining all events into one day and including additional activities resulted in a fun, relaxed environment that allowed students and sta� the opportu-nity to interact and have a much-needed brain-break prior to the projects and exams that tend to take place during the last two weeks of school.”

However, McCadney noted that sta� is considering alternatives for the future. “While re�ecting on the success/challeng-es of our Carnival Day, one of the things that we all agreed needed ‘tweaking’ was the dissemination of awards.”

Students did �nd the carnival environ-ment to be fun and relaxed. Sixth-grad-er Caitlin Montgomery said, “I liked the free time (of the carnival), and the in�at-ables.” Each grade spent about an hour and a half visiting stations that interested them. They enjoyed choices like in�atables, a rock-climbing tower, miniature golf, bas-ketball, kickball, soccer, spikeball, corn hole and 9-square.

As for the inaugural Color Run, Mc-Cadney said, “Judging by the smiles and laughter, the Color Run was a success! Students are already looking forward to next year’s run through colored cornstarch clouds!”

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Congratulations to Urbana High’s Michaela Garvey, recipient of the Minds in Motion scholarship from The Allstate Foundation and the MPSSAA. The scholarship recognizes students who have excelled on the playing �eld and in the classroom. Michaela is pictured here with her parents, Patty and Michael Garvey, and CJ Ecalono, Urbana High track and �eld coach.

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Emily Yi Becomes Miss Maryland Outstanding Teen

Rising Urbana High senior Emily Yi became Miss Maryland Outstanding Teen 2019 on Saturday, June 22 night at The Historic Maryland Theater in Hagerstown. With this win, Yi earned both cash and in-kind scholarships to colleges through-out the U.S. She will represent Maryland at Miss America’s Outstanding Teen next month in Orlando, Florida. UHS rising senior Bridget O’Brien was second runner up in the competition.

Vacation Bible School a Mane EventVacation Bible School weeks are being

held at area churches with a “Roar! Life is wild. God is good.” theme. Here is a sam-pling, but be sure to look at o� erings at

congregations near you. Wesley Chapel, 3519 Urbana Pike, July 8-12, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

This epic African adventure, “Roar! Life is wild. God is good.” engages the whole herd. At “Roar,” kids explore God’s good-ness and celebrate a ferocious faith that powers them through this wild life.

VBS at Wesley Chapel is a combined ef-fort of three Urbana-area churches (Faith-Point, Living Grace and Wesley Chapel). Wesley Chapel will be transformed into an amazing space of love and growth for the children attending VBS and for the peo-ple who volunteer to help make it happen. Space is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot.

There is no charge for participation but donations are accepted during the week of VBS or through a secure online donation website. (Choose Vacation Bible School in the pull-down menu for funds.)

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UHS Class Offi cers ElectedRising seniors and juniors at Urbana

High School recently ran for class o� ce. The results of the election are senior class o� cers Tera Sackey, president; Jack Walk-er, vice president; Sneh Gandhi, secretary; Christian Melean, treasurer, and junior class o� cers Sarah Sackey, president; Na-talie Voorhees, vice president; Cathryn Diaz, secretary; and Dylan Jones, treasurer.

School Administration ChangesAccording to a Frederick County Pub-

lic Schools press release, Kemptown and Centerville Elementary Schools will have new principals, e� ective July 1, and cur-rent Centerville Principal Tracy Hilliard will serve as planning principal for the new Urbana Elementary School, opening in fall 2020. Tess Blumenthal remains principal of Urbana at Sugarloaf Elementary.

Karen Hopson will be principal of Cen-terville Elementary. Hopson transfers from Middletown Primary, where she has been principal since 2011. She began her career with FCPS teaching fourth grade at Spring Ridge and transferred to Oakdale Elemen-tary to teach third grade in 2001. Ms. Hop-son was promoted in 2002 to assistant prin-cipal at Valley Elementary, and transferred to Deer Crossing in 2005. She became principal there in 2008. Ms. Hopson also

served as co-principal for the FCPS Sum-mer Success Program. In 2011, she trans-ferred to Middletown Primary School. Ms. Hopson earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Frostburg Uni-versity and master’s in educational leader-ship from Hood College.

Kathryn Golightly will be principal of Kemptown Elementary. Golightly transfers from Lincoln Elementary, where she has been principal since 2014. She began her career as a teacher at North Frederick Ele-mentary in 1994, and became the reading specialist at Waverley Elementary in 2000. She was promoted to assistant principal of North Frederick Elementary in 2002. She transferred to Hillcrest Elementary in 2003 and then to Ballenger Creek Elementary in 2006. In 2009, Ms. Golightly earned promotion to principal of Emmitsburg El-ementary, remaining there until her trans-fer to Lincoln Elementary in 2014. Ms. Golightly earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Frostburg State University in 1990 and master’s degree in reading and administration certi� cation from Western Maryland College in 2000.

Jo Ann Branham will be assistant prin-cipal at Windsor Knolls Middle. Branham was most recently Ballenger Creek Middle math specialist.

Hannah Feldman returns from leave as assistant principal at Green Valley Elemen-tary.

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Shaped Paintings Form ‘Natural Topography’

This summer, the Delaplaine’s satellite gal-lery at the Urbana Re-gional Library is show-casing the unique 3D painted canvas creations of Lyndie Vantine enti-tled “Natural Topography.” Considering the immense natural beauty of surround-ing Frederick County, the exhibit provides a cool respite from the outside inside.

“On their own, organic forms and landscaping have a presence about them,” Vantine said. “Each one has its own.” Her forms represent simple scenes and sym-bols that guide the eye to her inspiration. “I want it to be about land that rolls,” she added. Her shaped series hums with the rhythms of land surface and in�uence of regional traditions and attempts to forge something new.

Vantine said that her work is painting-re-lated, and she considers herself a painter �rst and not a sculptor. Stretchers for the canvas are created �rst, using primari-ly hazelwood branches and other wood, which forms the frame. She drafts ideas of organic forms and features in landscaping

and nature in a sketchbook and paints the canvas accordingly using a palette favor-ing blues, greens, browns, rust and earth-toned variations. There is a great deal of handiwork involved with the stretching and hardware to construct the frame. “I’m a sewer as well—since the �fth grade,” she said. “This makes the work of stretching and �tting the fabric over the stretchers and branches come naturally. They are all sew-ing techniques.”

Originally from Bu�alo, New York, Vantine resides and has her studio in Man-chester. Of her piece, “Hard Compromise,”

she said, “I live in a very rural area, and when I walk out onto the �elds, there are soybeans and corn growing and it makes a patchwork, a growing together—abstract ideas in each section of the crop �eld.” In contrast, the inspiration for “Polliwog Hallow” was childhood summers spent at a cottage on Lake Ontario. “The shore-line creek had a pond with polliwogs. The shapes are their eyes, scum from the pond is the greens and blues in the quiet water.”

She has been a painter since 1986, earn-ing an undergraduate degree from the Philadelphia College of Art and a graduate degree from the Maryland Institute Col-lege of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. “I was doing more relief work at MICA, and I let that explode,” she said. “It was the interac-tion of the program ... to be in�uenced by others and still make it your own.” There was very little classwork or instruction, and she primarily created in studios with other students—the interaction of ideas, advice and critique coming from herself or peers. “Half of those people from that time I’m still in touch with,” she said. Vantine works in a series and recently began fea-turing more open pieces such as “Drifters,” “Eclipse,” “Huddle” and “(W)hole in the Sea,” which are in the show. “Strain” fea-tures large egg shapes emerging and crack-

ing, “Cradle” resembles a kangaroo’s pock-et and “Morf” a green/aqua moon.

Artists can be practical as well, and Van-tine spent 25 years in various capacities at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she earned a Master of Liberal Arts. “It �lled out the other half of my education,” she said. “I created my own program based on sources to feed my artwork.” Six years ago, she left Hopkins to concentrate on her art full time. She said it made her more secure to work for a period and not be so focused on art. Now there is time to be more productive and concentrate on contemplative and soothing compositions. “We are bombarded with so much of everything else,” she said.

Vantine’s work has been exhibited at the Delaplaine, Creative Alliance in Bal-timore, Susquehanna Art Museum, Black-Rock in Germantown, Carroll County Arts Center and other regional spaces. She is “always experimenting and brainstorm-ing in some way” and is currently engaged in two projects—one in Philadelphia and another regional exhibit.

“Natural Topography” is on view at the lower level of the library through August. See more and contact her through her website at www.lvantine.com.

Photo | Marylou Bono

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Cats, Travel & the VetLast month we

learned that a cat’s symptoms of illness and pain are subtle—and yet, the biggest challenge is getting them to the vet. You must �nd your cat, catch and wrestle him or her into the carri-er, listen to meowing in the car and avoid injury. Sometimes cats even eliminate in the carrier. You worry if they’ll cooper-ate during the appointment, and then you have the same trip home.

You can make the experience much better for both of you. It’s about training and positive associations. Yes, cats can be trained! You would never expect a dog to do well without exposing them to the leash, other people or the car. Cats are no di�erent. It’s a terrifying experience with-out proper training.

Keep a carrier out all the time. It’s a place for them to sleep, eat, play or explore. Add cozy bedding, a daily treat and rotate toys in there. It becomes a safe, familiar place and a home away from home rather than a warning sign. At the very least, take the carrier out three to seven days before you need it and do the same things. Consider using a calming cat pheromone spray in the carrier.

Lock your cat in a smaller room with less furniture so they are easier to catch with-out a big chase. Bathrooms work great for this. Consider feeding them regularly in that space to make it easier. They come for breakfast and you shut the door. There is no bed or couch to hide under or behind.

Move the carrier carefully and hold it with both hands. Your cat will have a more

stable ride without tilting and banging like a roller coaster. Place it in a secure location in the car and consider putting a shoulder belt across it. Drive more slowly and avoid abrupt turns and stops.

Get to your appointment a little early. Upon arrival, ask to be placed in an exam room. Cats do best with 5 to 10 minutes to acclimate to new smells and sounds. Keep yourself calm. Your cat senses how you are feeling and matches your emotions. Bring your cat’s favorite treats even if they may be too nervous to eat. It is another positive association and familiar smell.

If you have a kitten, get him or her used to all of these things and consider taking your kitten on rides regularly or into the carrier and out to the car for a few min-utes. Bring some treats or toys to help your kitten relax. Get him or her used to eating soft treats every day that will allow you to hide medications needed for travel or if they are sick. You will �nd medicating a cat much easier this way.

Even more anxious and less adaptable cats will adapt to regular exposure to travel so the process isn’t so terrifying. For the cats that still panic on the trip and at the vet, your vet may be able to prescribe a medication to relax them more for the ex-perience.

Last but not least, choose the right vet for your cat. Find one who will usher your cat into a room quickly, give him or her time to acclimate, talk to you for a few min-utes before handling your cat, examine and handle your cat with you in the room with the minimal restraint needed and utilize a multitude of other techniques to lessen your cat’s stress. Every moment of the ex-perience contributes to making it success.

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HISTORICALPERSPECTIVEWho Murdered Paul Lentz?

Wednesday June 18, 1975 was a warm day in the Montgomery-Fred-erick County area. The temperature reached the mid-80s and area swim-ming pools were crowded. The Beatles, Black Sab-bath, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Kiss, and Pink Floyd had taken over the music industry and young teenagers �ocked to record stores to purchase their records and tapes. It’s likely that Paul Lentz, who was a ninth-grader at Julius West Junior High by 1975, was one of those devotees. Ger-ald Ford was the president and the Vietnam War had just ended, relieving millions of teenagers of the chance of being drafted and being sent to the killing �elds of South Vietnam.

Paul Lentz had just �nished ninth grade at Julius West Junior High School on the west side of Rockville. In those days ninth

grade signaled the end of junior high school. In the fall of 1975, he would have enrolled at Richard Montgomery High as a tenth-grader. He seemed to be an ordinary boy, but surviving notes kept by the Mary-land State Police indicated that he may have been a small-time seller of marijuana. During the afternoon Paul left his house in the College Gardens section of Rockville and headed for the Congressional Bowling

Alley on Rockville Pike. His friends hung out there, and he knew that he could spend most of the day there as long as his conduct was acceptable. Whether he arrived at the bowling alley is not known. None of his friends could be located for this article.

DeAnne Adams, then a neighbor of the Lentz family, said that Paul was a polite and quiet boy. She recalled that the family had several medical tragedies, including Paul’s sister contracting the measles and having to be institutionalized.

No one could recall seeing Paul after his trip to the bowling alley, and he was not seen for the next six days. It is not known whether his parents reported him missing. There is no missing person report in the ar-chives of the Montgomery County Police.

On June 24 a state employee was work-ing at the intersection of Maryland Route 80 and Park Mills Road. He noticed some-thing unusual in a ditch by the side of the road and to his horror realized that it was a body. He called the police and the Mary-land State Police, and the sheri�’s depart-ment responded. Because the body was

found on a state route, the policy was for the state police to handle the investigation. Their investigation revealed that Paul had been stabbed to death.

The original investigators are long re-tired or deceased. The case �le is missing along with any photographs or evidence. How did Paul get to Frederick County from Rockville? Was he kidnapped, killed and his body dumped in the ditch? Did he willingly ride with someone to Freder-ick County? Sergeant Dave Sexton of the Maryland State Police Cold Case squad is at a loss to provide answers today because of the loss of the case �le.

There are people alive today who know what happened on that day. They have lived with the guilt and the memory of the crime on their minds for 44 years. Someone knows something about the terrible death of Paul, and the police are waiting for the call that will lead them to the culprits.

If you have any information on the mur-der of Paul Lentz, call Sergeant David Sex-ton of Maryland State Police Cold Case squad at 410.653.4211.

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Water is a requirement for life—we must have it in order to live. To en-sure that our bodies are adequately hydrated, it is important to understand why we must remain hy-drated at all times. Water has many responsibili-ties within the body. Most importantly in the warm summer months, water helps to prevent overheating. Our body does this through the production of sweat, and with-out water we are unable to produce sweat. As the sweat evaporates, it allows the tissues just below the skin to cool. Of course, as we sweat water levels in the body are reduced and must be replenished. If we fail to re-plenish our water supply, this water loss can lead to further problems that can potentially be life threatening.

So how do we know that we are prop-erly hydrated? The answer depends on the individual but is fairly easy to determine. To start, if you are not drinking water regu-larly, it’s time to start. And this means plain old water, nothing else. If this is new for you, begin drinking an 8-ounce glass of water with every meal. Make it your goal to consume at least eight of these glasses daily. For a person who is active or spends a lot of time outside, hydration is even more of a necessity. According to the American Col-

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Made in kindergarten by Bonnie (Madeline McGraw), Forky is, in fact, a spork who considers himself trash. He spends early moments in the � lm trying desperately to throw himself into the nearest trash can, saying, “I’m not a TOY! I’m a SPORK!” Woody saves him for better things, but Forky has some perilous adventures to sur-vive before he can settle down.

The audience I saw the � lm with (the theater was about a third full and most-ly kids under 10) laughed at the right moments, and their parents were right with them. This is a very cleverly done, funny � lm. Bo Peep is almost an ardent feminist and easily takes over leader-ship of the gang of toys when Woody is someplace else. Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) is his usual bumbling self, rely-ing on his programmed buttons to tell him what to do or what to avoid.

Near the end of the � lm, Buzz’s messaging system overloads, and this is one of the many charmingly funny moments of the movie. Another very funny running gag is the character Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves) who is proud of being the most-crashed doll in Canada. (He’s a motorcycle dare-devil.) His battle cry is the over-con-� dent cry: “Yes I CAN-ada!” No, he frequently CAN’T, but that doesn’t stop him from trying crazy stunts in order to save Buzz, Woody or another toy in trouble. Duke emerges as one of the great characters in the � lm.

The underlying plot of the movie is grounded in the fact that all the toys who are aware want a human owner. To say that “I have a girl” or “boy,” is to ascend to the top of the toy world. Most of the toys don’t have that plea-

sure; they serve their owners well until their owners grow tired of them, leave them behind during a move or grow up and don’t think they need toys any-more.

The cast is star-studded: Joan Cu-sack, Bonnie Hunt, Jordan Peele, Christina Hendricks, Keegan Mi-chael-Key and Kristen Schaal, among others, assume roles in this miracle of a � lm. I loved hearing the sound of kids really getting into the � lm and the sound of their parents, laughing with them. Yes, it’s funny, cute and moving, and it is also a love story from the � rst: love between Woody and Bo, love be-tween parents and children, but most of all, love between children and their toys. Sometimes we forget how deep it can be.

Anna (R) ****This � lm is lush with scenery and

fashion and LOTS of bullets (this is a Luc Besson feature, after all). Anna (Sasha Luss) is a professional model and assassin operating as a KGB agent to start with but not necessarily to end with. In an extremely convoluted plot, made even more di� cult to follow by constant intrusions of the “3 Weeks Earlier,” “2 Weeks Later” notices that make any � lm hard to follow, Anna moves from street urchin selling trash in a Moscow market to a high-class model and then KGB assassin. Nice ca-reer path!

She has two male bosses: Luke Ev-ans as Alex Tchenkov for the KGB and Cillian Murphy as Lenny Miller for the CIA. Anna plays both of them for all the sex she can get and, when they wear out or get other assignments, she turns to Maud, a lesbian urchin from Paris, played by Lena Abova in her � rst screen role. Maud is another model and how she fell for Anna is a mystery, only one of dozens in this extremely busy � lm.

Called “a blind key who can open many doors,” Anna proves to be just that, but she’s also a dead shot with a silenced pistol or martial arts. We learn this early on, in the � rst of several Bes-son-inspired mass murders by his her-oine in a restaurant. She shoots, maims and incapacitates hordes of men who appear from nowhere with the express purpose of killing her but none of them succeed. When she’s done, more than 20 men have played their last role.

Helen Mirren (Olga) is wonderful

as a crusty, Linda Hunt-type growling and obscene spy boss who puts in mo-tion several of the plot turns that mark the � lm’s ending scenes. They include one of the most ridiculous scenes ever � lmed. Taking place in a Paris park, the scene focuses on Alex, Lenny and Anna. Anna asks for her freedom—again—and both KGB and CIA seem to agree to let her go. As she walks away, Olga appears and shoots her several times. Suddenly, agents appear from behind every tree and bush in the park, all with weapons drawn. Alex and Lenny face o� with pistols on each other and everybody stands around while wise members of the audience laugh and mutter “Besson” under their breath.

In one way, the � lm is successful because it is so comical and overdone. In another way, it fails because it is so comical and overdone! Take your pick. I rather enjoyed watching the exotic Luss, who has appeared with Besson as creative force in another energetic � lm, “Valerian and the City of a Thou-sand Planets” so she knew what she was getting in for. Now you, too, have a bit of an idea!

Child’s Play-2 (R) **Lesson # 55 in how to sidetrack a ca-

reer: Play a role far from your comfort zone and, in the end, make it degrad-ing. The charmingly funny and o� beat Aubrey Plaza learns that painful lesson in the sequel to “Child’s Play” from 1988. She “stars” as Karen Barclay, a clerk selling Buddi dolls. There is soon to be a new Buddi—Buddi 2, as a mat-ter of fact—both a clone of Chucky from the original � lm. Except that there is little original in this movie.

A disgruntled employee at the main factory that makes Buddi dolls re-moves all restraints from the cell run-ning Buddi, allowing it to do anything it wants. Plaza’s son, Andy (Gabriel Bateman), loves his new friend since he is new to town (but not new enough to prohibit Shane, played by David Lew-is, from moving in on his mother). It is therefore no surprise when Shane is an early target of the vicious Chucky (he re-names himself to avoid confu-sion), and Shane is soon gone. Oddly enough, after we’ve seen his face get chopped into pieces, his skull appears in Andy’s living room, intact with a few cuts. Since this is only the � rst of many improbable or impossible events, we hardly even notice.

Chucky keeps asking Andy: “Are we having fun now?” to which the only possible answer from the audience should be a shouted “NO!” The di-rector � nds various, usually uncreative ways, to spray blood around the set and the � lm moves to its predictable end—only not soon enough. A thoroughly unenjoyable hour and a half. Skip it for, maybe, a crossword puzzle?

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It’s Greek for Me: ‘Circe’ Reimagines Sorceress as Heroine

I got back to the gods in May. No need for concern. I was not undergoing a spiritual transformation. Instead, I had the illuminating and pleasing experience of reading Madeline Miller’s “Circe.”

The 2018 novel—its stunning cover art; its mix of classical myth, romance and imagination written in the rhythms of an epic poem, even its con-

venient post-narrative glossary—reawak-ened my too-long-dormant fascination with Greek mythology. As a lit major in college, I studied and delighted in Homer’s epic poems “The Iliad” and “The Odys-sey,” plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eu-ripides and Aristophanes, and “D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths.”

The author, a high school teacher who lives outside Philadelphia, holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classics from Brown University. Her � rst novel, “The Song of Achilles,” won the Orange Prize in 2012. “Circe” is short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (the new name for the Orange Prize) and has won awards includ-

ing the Indies Choice Best Adult Fiction of the Year, The Kitschies’ Red Tentacle Award and an American Library Associa-tion Alex Award.

Miller reimagines the story of Circe, the daughter of the mighty sun god Helios and the water nymph Perse. Circe, who has played minor roles in previous literature, is mostly remembered as the sorceress who turned Odysseus’ men into swine.

“I was not surprised by the portrait of myself, the proud witch undone before the hero’s sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime for poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep,” Mill-er’s Circe said, referring to Homer.

Here Circe is recast as a powerful and resourceful heroine who narrates her own perspective of the mortals and immortals, both good and evil, she encounters; of her expertise in witchcraft and on her personal experiences of love and motherhood.

In Miller’s book, Circe interacts with many of the most familiar members of the Greek pantheon—both before and after Zeus banishes her to the deserted island Aiaia. Among them are Prometheus, her niece Medea, Daedalus and Icarus, Hermes and the monsters Scylla and Minotaur.

Miller presents Circe’s loveless child-hood among the Titan divinities as well as repeated instances of sexual violation by men (mortal and immortal) as justi� cation for Circe’s malicious actions. The author seems to acknowledge that yes, Circe turns

men into pigs—but they deserve it. These scenarios seem clearer through the author’s modern feminist lens. And thus, Circe, a minor villainess of mythology, becomes a sympathetic, even heroic, character.

Also as her story progresses, Circe’s sense of empowerment intensi� es—and she glo-ries in it. “For a hundred generations, I have walked the world, drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. Then I learned I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. I thought: this is how Zeus felt when he � rst lifted the thunderbolt,” Mill-er writes.

Circe’s compassion is evident in her wel-coming mortal and immortal visitors to her island, and especially in her distinc-tively maternal feelings toward her son, Telegonus. Although apparently a� icted with post-partum depression, she feels “a love so sharp it seemed my � esh lay open. I made a list of all the things I would do for him. Scald o� my skin. Tear out my eyes. Walk my feet to bones, if only he would be happy and well.”

And here’s the rub: Through the mil-lennia of her existence, Circe outlives all the humans she loves with singular passion, thus arriving at an understanding of what it means to be mortal.

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SPORTSHawks Close Out Historic Season at Nationals

By Jennifer Beekman

M ost high school sports team’s sea-sons culminate with a state cham-pionship. And in years past, the

Urbana High School girls’ outdoor track and �eld team would have taken some time o� to recuperate from a grueling near-ly monthlong postseason, especially after winning its �rst-ever Class 4A title this spring. But with a school record nine ath-letes quali�ed for New Balance Outdoor Nationals—in six relays and three indi-vidual events—and the Hawks decided to keep forging ahead.

Though Urbana Coach CJ Ecalono was not permitted to hold o�cial team prac-tices—per Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association rules, coaches are not allowed to coach a team represent-ing the coach’s school beyond the sports season—he set the girls up with some sug-gested workouts and left them to their own devices.

“We’re talking another three weeks of

training (after states), which is not typically what you do,” Ecalono said. “But they are so self-motivated, they went out there on their own, met up after school or in the morning; even the seniors who were at the beach for senior week got their workouts done. In years past I never could’ve ( just sent workouts), but this group, speci�cally this year, is so self-motivated.”

Added recently graduated Susannah Auderset: “It’s challenging without (the whole team) there, it’s hard to push your-self. But we all met (to train together) and pushed each other and pushed ourselves.”

New Balance Outdoor Nationals, host-ed by North Carolina A&T State Uni-versity June 13 to 16, perennially features the country’s top high school talent. The Hawks reaped the bene�ts of their hard work, holding their own against the best of the best and setting three new program records along the way.

On June 15, recent graduate Lily Mor-rell, rising seniors Riley Johnson and Piper Jons, and rising sophomore Ella Auderset

set a new team mark (1 minute, 42.54 sec-onds)—and posted the state’s ninth-fast-est time—to earn a top 30 �nish among

more than 50 squads in the 800-meter re-

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Nine Hawks quali�ed for the New Balance Outdoor Nationals, hosted by North Carolina A&T State University June 13 to 16.

Urbana Youth Baseball Proving Its Worth Among Area Travel ProgramsBy Jennifer Beekman

T hree travel baseball teams represent-ing the Urbana Youth Baseball and Softball Association won champion-

ships in their respective age groups—9-under, 10U and 11U—on June 23. The following day, programs began holding tryouts for the 2019-20 season with record registration numbers across the board, ages 8-14, Hawks 10U Coach Justin Collins said.

Urbana Hawks 10U went 4-1 to win the Atlantic “A” Division of the Mid-At-lantic Baseball Association tournament. The Hawks 9U (3-0 in playo�s) and 11U won their respective age groups at the Montgomery County Baseball Association (MCBA) championship.

“That’s another good sign of where the program is heading,” Collins said. “We’re getting a lot of notoriety from our three championships all on the same day and people are starting to realize that we’re a force to be reckoned with when it comes to baseball and the coaching and support we provide to players.”

Though Urbana Youth Baseball is aligned with the Urbana High School team, serving as a sort of farm program for future student-athletes, Hawks travel base-ball is just that—a travel program geared toward training and competing at a higher level. There is great camaraderie through-out the program, among all age groups, and the priority is always to develop young players to reach their maximum potential,

Collins said, but performing well and win-ning tournaments helps earn recognition and solidi�es the name of Urbana Youth Baseball.

“We have six former Division I college baseball players coaching our travel teams,” Collins said. All of our coaches have been with the program for a good number of years, working up through the various age groups, which brings a great sense of unity within the program as well.”

After an up and down season, during which Collins said it took longer than expected to �nd the right combination of players in the batting order and on the �eld, the Hawks 10U team (12-23 record) exploded for 38 runs in three consecu-tive wins on the tournament’s �nal day to clinch the title with a 12-7 win over the Burtonsville Storm (Black). Trevor Collins and Drew Blessing led the Hawks at the

plate on championship Sunday, tallying seven and six hits, respectively. Collins also drove in �ve runs.

Other top performers on championship Sunday included Matt Jakubowyc (seven runs batted in), Conley Hajjar (six hits, four RBI) and catcher Lucas Murdock (six hits, �ve RBI). Hajjar started two games on Sunday, including the �nal; Blessing and Collins, who started one game on Sunday, came in to relieve him and close out the win.

Urbana Hawks 9U’s depth was on dis-play over the course of the MCBA cham-pionship, Coach Todd Raithel said. The team, which beat Damascus 7-6 in the �-nal, entered the tournament with an 11-7 record to earn the No. 2 seed before going undefeated—thanks to two bottom-of-the-six rallies—for the title.

The title was the result of a complete

team e�ort, Raithel said, and featured stellar performances out of the bottom of the Hawks’ lineup. Pitchers Matthew Ro-drigues and Philip Giuliani, Liam Fleet, Anthony Hines and Caleb Stilwell, who overcame an 0-2 count to drive in the winning run, shined in their �nal game before aging up to 10U.

The Hawks 11U went undefeated in four games at the MCBA tournament, clinch-ing the trophy with an 11-5 win over the Olney Pirates. Zac Taylor, Jake Allen and Armando Gonzalez all tallied multiple hits; Kiegan Rupinta drove in Urbana’s �rst two runs. Starting pitcher Mason Johnson gave up only two runs in three innings. The Hawks 11U �nished the season 35-10.

“( June 23) was a banner day for Urba-na Youth Baseball,” Collins said. “It really means a lot to the program.”

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Urbana Hawks 11U went undefeated in four games at the MCBA tournament, clinching the trophy with an 11-5 win over the Olney Pirates.

Photo | Erin Hajjar

Urbana Hawks 10U went 4-1 to win the Atlantic “A” Divi-sion of the Mid-Atlantic Baseball Association tournament.

Photo | Terri Stilwell

Urbana Hawks 9U’s depth was on display over the course of the MCBA championship.


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lay championship race. On the same day, Jons, Morrell, rising sophomore Karly Mc-Donnell and Susannah Auderset snapped a school record in the 1,600 sprint medley relay championship with a time of 4:11.17, good for 22nd. On June 16, Karly and Emily McDonnell, Johnson and recent graduate Mary Miller ran a program-best 12:48.67 in the emerging elite distance medley for another top 30 � nish.

Urbana competed in three more relays, � nishing 26th of more than 50 teams in the 1,600m relay championship ( Jons, Kar-ly McDonnell, Susannah and Ella Auder-set) and in the top 35 of the emerging elite 1,600m relay ( Johnson, Emily McDonnell, Morrell, Michaela Garvey) and emerging elite 3,200m relay (Emily and Karly Mc-Donnell, Garvey and Susannah Auderset).

Ella Auderset tallied two top 20 � nishes in the emerging elite 400m run and 800m run championship; Morrell also quali� ed and � nished in the top 40 of the emerging elite 400m hurdles.

“In the past, we’ve had one or two relays quali� ed but we had (nine) people down there and it was an amazing experience to � nish o� our season and a good end of high school (for me),” Susannah Auderset said. “It’s amazing to watch and point out all the runners you hear about, who are hit-

ting all these fast times. The competition is shocking at � rst, because our relays that performed well in regionals and states, ar-en’t up at the top at nationals. But it was a chance for us to push ourselves and get � red up.”

The Hawk boys were also represented in North Carolina. Benjamin Warrick, Evan Schwab, Myron Holland and Tim-othy Ogunsola � nished in the top 30 of the emerging elite 800m relay and Hol-land, Schwab, Ryan Beach and Jack Eskay picked up 25th in the emerging elite 800m sprint relay.

Urbana’s girls broke a total of 11 school records in 2019, including Mary Miller’s 18:50.18 en route to winning the 5,000m run at the DMV Meet of the Elite on June 1 and Jons’ 25.28 in the 200m dash on the same day. Though the Hawks graduated several top scorers this spring, a solid core is slated to return in 2020, and they have their sights on even larger achievements.

“We’re losing a lot of seniors, but the people who went to nationals and are coming back, we have even greater goals for next year,” Ella Auderset said. “One of the big things is we get these backpacks so when we go back for indoor track and cross country, (our teammates) see these backpacks and it sets an example of what they can do if they really work hard. And I think that makes our program as a whole work harder.”

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