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“I’m Scared”
TODAY’S GAS
PRICE
$3.67per gallon
Last Week
OF THE YEAR
County SWAT Team Activities Bring Fear
$3.69 per gallon
A month ago
$3.63 per gallon
Used once every other day according to state stats - often to serve simple search warrants
A year ago
$3.46 per gallon
By Alexi Worley
AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF
UNLEADED REGULAR GAS IN
MARYLAND/D.C. METRO AREA
ACCORDING TO AAA
INSIDE
Sligo Creek
In the second of a series we
take a look at the Sligo Creek
Bridge on New Hampshire
Avenue as one of the dangerous bridges in Montgomery
County.
Page 10
Special to the Sentinel
Charles Adams (not his real
name) woke with a start.
Armed men loomed over him.
Guns raised, they dragged the middleaged father out of bed and threw him
to the floor, his body hitting the
ground with a resonating thud.
He lay there helplessly, stricken
with fear as his wrists were jammed
into handcuffs, a gun shoved against
his head.
Adams wasn’t being robbed – the
gang of men holding him at gun point
was the Montgomery County Police
Department SWAT team.
Following the raid, Adams was
never charged with anything or issued
an apology from the department.
“It was something I will never
forget, the gun being pointed at my
head. Who knows? What if they
slipped?” Adams said. “They could
have killed me, they could have killed
my girlfriend, they could have killed
either of the little girls, they could
have killed my son. I’m much more
scared of the cops than I am of the robbers.”
Maryland remains one of only a
COURTESY PHOTOS
Before police raided Annie Huʼs house, left and her bedroom after a SWAT raid.
few states that require law enforcement agencies with SWAT teams to
regularly report data on deployments.
MCPD is among the agencies required
to supply data.
The number of deployments by
the MCPD SWAT team is climbing,
with 93 percent of these deployments
being used to execute simple search
warrants, according to calculations
from reports from the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Control and
Prevention (GOCCP).
MCPD defends their use of
SWAT teams, saying that many times
the situation calls for them.
“Much of the SWAT’s use is for
search warrants,” said Paul Starks,
public information officer for MCPD.
“The MCPD SWAT team is frequently
requested and needed for the safe execution of these warrants.”
Starks said the department determines which situations warrant SWAT
team deployment based on the “potential for violence.”
Civil libertarians and defense attorneys alike worry this increase in de-
See “SWAT” page 8
Rockville City considers plight of new Clerk
By Donna Broadway
and Max Simpson
Got the Spirit?
The local professional
woman’s soccer team has a
farm club that staked its claim
to a championship this week.
Page 20
ROCKVILLE - Rockville City
Clerk Doug Barber will bid adieu to
the city after two and a half years on
the job and now the city manager, according to a city hall insider, is looking to wrestle oversight of the position away from the mayor and city
council.
Barber, who was passed over
for the position in 2010, was hired in
2012. He served as city clerk for the
city of Hyattsville in Prince
George’s County from 2002-2012.
Barber’s last official day will be
August 8.
The mayor and City Council
will announce an interim city clerk
by the end of July. The mayor and
council will also meet to discuss the
qualifications and personal characteristics required for the position.
“I’ve been on the council for
seven months and I feel excited I get
to be a part of the process of hiring
someone so I can make a difference
and contribute to the success of the
city and city hall and running this
city,” Councilmember Virginia Onley said. “The citizens of Rockville
will be pleased with our success.”
A city hall insider said the mayor and city council members are discussing moving the city clerk position from directly under the mayor
and council to under the control of
the city manager.
Onley and Mayor Bridget New-
ton said they are not in favor of reassigning the management of the position to the city manager.
“I think Rockville has done
very well under the council/mayor
form of government,” Newton said.
“Just like in the federal government,
you need different branches, they all
have their roles and it’s a good check
and balance. I actually hope we retain the set up as it is and how it’s
worked for Rockville for many
years. We have a wonderful history
of clerks in the office and I’ve
known many of them personally.”
To change the way the city clerk
is appointed would require an
amendment to the city charter, according to City Manager Barbara
Matthews. The clerk is currently ap-
pointed by the mayor and council.
Matthews had no comment on
changing the city clerk’s position
from reporting to the mayor and
council to reporting to the city manager.
Chair of the Charter Review
Commission and former Mayor
Steven VanGrack said the clerk
should “definitely be appointed by
the mayor and council.”
“We have a form of government
where the mayor and council appoint
the people who run the government
on a daily basis,” VanGrack said. “It
is important to ensure the city clerk,
city manager and city attorney are
Please see “Clerk” page 8
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JULY 17, 2014
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL
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EFLECTIONS
September 23, 1982
Klan leaders recruit Saturday in Damascus streets
Each week The Sentinel visits a
memorable story from its archives.
About a dozen members of the
Ku Klux Klan, clad in the familiar
white sheets, paraded on a street
corner in Damascus last Saturday,
handing out Klan literature in an apparent recruitment drive.
The Klansmen covered both
sides of the intersection of Routes
27 and 108 that form downtown
Damascus. They pushed pieces of
literature into the open windows of
many cars stopped at a traffic light.
Some passersby, however, accepted
the literature handed to them.
Saturday marked the first of
what the Klansmen said will be a
good series of appearances in Mont-
gomery County designed to recruit
more members. Three of the men
present Saturday for the two-hour
Klan appearance, Gary Hall of
Glenmont, Marc Gobleck of
Wheaton and a third unidentified
man were from Montgomery County. The rest, including Sam Royer,
who identified himself as head of
the Klan in Maryland, were from
rural western Maryland counties.
Royer and Hall, who as a resident of the county is head of the recruitment drive here, refused to say
how many Klansmen there are in
the county, but claimed that there
are more than 10,000 members
statewide.
Later, the Klansmen gathered
to speak with reporters. They were
admittedly anxious for press coverage.
The Klan will no longer be
silent as it has been in the pass, Klan
members said, nothing that they will
become more politically active.
They would not specify, however,
what action by the Klan can be expected.
“The Reagan administration is
turning out to be a boon for the
Klan,” Royer said.
“The NAACP has an organization, why can’t we?” asked another
Klan member.
Roscoe Nix, director of the
Montgomery County chapter of the
NAACP, said the success of the
Klan’s efforts to recruit here will depend on “the extent to which the
majority of the white people in the
county believe” the Klan and the
NAACP “are comparable in their
history.”
All residents of the county, not
just blacks, should be concerned
whenever a group like the Klan
steps up its recruitment activities,
Nix said.
“They believe they will be able
to portray the blacks as scapegoats
for the society’s problems,” he said.
“They believe with the economic
conditions what they are and crime
(statistics high), the mood will be
receptive.”
He said the NAACP will watch
the Klan, focusing especially on
how public officials respond to
Klan activities.
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Takoma Park partners to bring summer camp
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By Diana Kelly
Takoma Park has partnered with
Washington Adventist University
this summer to offer a free camp to
74 children, ages 7-16, from low-income families. The program is funded through a $6,000 grant from the
city and $45,000 from Montgomery
County.
The Lunch and Learn Summer
Camp began June 30 and will run
through August 8 at the Washington
Adventist University campus. City
Councilman Jarrett Smith started the
camp last year at the city’s Essex
House apartments.
Smith said the purpose of the
camp is to provide a fun and safe
place for children to go during the
summer while reinforcing their reading and math skills and exposing
them to opportunities.
“The achievement gap is something MCPS discusses every year,
but seems like it is not closing,”
Smith said. “So we want to help kids
not just close the gap, but essentially
to really consider what their options
are and what their futures are going
to be.”
The camp runs from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. weekdays, with optional
after-hours lessons in music and
soccer.
Camp Coordinator Curtis
Watkins said a volunteer staff provides tutoring and games, Montgomery County Public Schools provide lunch and a snack, and Educare
– a program that works with at-risk
children – provides health and fitness
activities including CPR training.
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Campers line up to enjoy activities in Takoma Park.
Watkins said the camp also
takes advantage of the college-campus setting.
“A lot of these kids have never
been on an academic campus, so
coming to Washington Adventist
they have the opportunity to interact
with a lot of the departments,”
Watkins said. “We have some of the
professors helping out so the young
people can envision an occupation
and a future.”
Modetta Hardy’s son Leighton,
12, is attending the camp this summer. Hardy said her son has fun and
stays for the music lessons.
“It’s a great opportunity for the
kids to socialize and even study, and
I like the fact that they offer additional opportunities such as the music program as well as soccer,”
Hardy said.
Hardy said she has wanted to
enroll Leighton in summer camp before, but could not afford it.
“I am very grateful for the opportunity because camps are expensive, so this is extremely helpful to
me,” she said.
Smith said he is pleased with
the camp’s growth, but still hopes to
reach more families and offer more
programs in coming years. He said
he also wants to form partnerships
with local businesses that could offer children more insight into future
careers.
“Our goal is to show the kids
what a path looks like, and then put
them in front of the people who can
show them how to achieve their
dreams,” Smith said.
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NEWS
“Gaps in Practices . . .”
Inspector General widens scope of ongoing credit card scandal
By Donna Broadway
Staff Writer
ROCKVILLE – The county’s
credit card scandal is expanding as
county- issued credit cards are now a
top priority for the county’s Inspector
General.
Amid the recent reports of
Montgomery County Public School
Board of Education members using
their cards on expensive meals, hotels
in neighboring D.C., leather bags,
home internet, and hundreds of dollars in personal purchases mistakenly
made by BOE chief of staff Ikhide
Roland Ikheloa, County Inspector
General Edward L. Blansitt III said
his office will look at the policy and
procedures for all county-issued
credit cards.
“It’s pretty clear that there are
organizations with better procedures
than others and we will test that theory to see if it’s working out,” Blansitt
said. “We know there are some gaps
in practices that need to be addressed
at least in that case and we want to
make sure that if there are gaps elsewhere that those are identified. We
help identify better practices so they
have a strong system of monitoring
their purchase cards. This is potentially a worthwhile activity for our
office.”
In April, MCPS assembled an
ad-hoc committee after an MPIA request from the Parents Coalition revealed the purchases. The committee
will deliver their final report at the end
of July. The Maryland State Prosecutor’s Office subpoenaed the records in
June and are currently reviewing
them. Chief investigator James I.
Cabezas declined to give specific details about the investigation.
County Executive Ike Leggett
does not have a county-funded credit
card. He, like the County Council, is
reimbursed for his expenses.
Leggett’s assistant has a purchase
card for office expenses.
MCPS is not the only county entity to be accused of misuse of tax
payer-funded credit cards. In 2012,
Blansitt questioned 45 percent of purchases made by the Office of Human
Rights (OHR) using purchase cards.
The purchases included flowers,
movie tickets, sports apparel, alcoholic beverages, long distance telephone calls, virgin mobile gift cards,
arts and craft supplies and food purchases at convenience stores, markets, and specialty shops.
The cards were authorized for
purchases with a value of $5,000 or
less that were not under county contract.
The IG questioned nearly
$30,000 in transactions made using
the cards from September 2008-September 2010. Blansitt’s report, which
was released in 2012, said 92 of the
221 questioned transactions did not
have the receipt required for reimbursement.
According to the report, OHR
purchased more than $12,000 in
food, ice, greeting cards, kitchen supplies, table cloths, lanyards, and
sweatshirts, $330 in gift cards and
$770 in flowers. The report said at
least seven of the gift cards were unaccounted for. The purchases continued after the department received a
memorandum from the county’s
chief administrative officer about the
purchases.
OHR Director James Stowe said
his agency does not currently have
any purchase cards.
“The report is out there and if
anyone wants to look at it, it’s public
record,” Stowe said.
The report found OHR did not
comply with the transaction review
policy and called the unauthorized
purchases an egregious violation of
purchase card policy. The number of
cards issued to the department was
reduced from five to one and Blansitt
asked OHR to adhere to strict review
guidelines.
Stowe said he was not ordered to
reimburse the county for any of the
charges but said he did pay for the flowers charged on the cards. He said the
flowers were given to staff members
who suffered losses in their families.
“I’m not there anymore in my
career,” Stowe said. “I’m trying to do
things differently and if I knew then
what I know now, I wouldn’t have
done it.”
Council President Craig Rice
(D-2) first questioned the county’s issuing of the cards in 2012 after Blansitt first presented his report. At the
IG’s presentation, Rice reiterated his
stance on the cards.
“There are so many things out
there, I’m not sure why we continue
to have county issued credit cards,”
Rice said. “We really need to take a
look at why? What’s the point of us
having these purchase credit cards, if
we can get everything we need via
new means, via the new technology.”
The IG report on county purchase cards will be completed in September 2014.
Man sentenced in child sex abuse case
By Jim Davis
On Tuesday Montgomery
County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl
McCally sentenced Adderli CruzRosario of the 8800 block of Piney
Branch Road in Silver Spring to 57
years in prison after he pleaded
guilty to five child sex abuse
charges.
Montgomery County Police detectives investigating the case de-
scribe Cruz-Rosario as a monster
and said he sexually abused five
young children and threw an infant
into a bedroom wall.
According to charging documents, the abuse started in 2012
when Cruz-Rosario moved in with
his girlfriend and her children and
ended in 2013 when he was arrested.
Cruz-Rosario also forced his
girlfriend to have sex with him during the time he lived with her.
Charging documents also state
the injuries to the five children include bruises, non-acute rib fractures and internal injuries.
Ramon Korionoff, public affairs director for the Montgomery
County State's Attorney's Office,
said “Children are innocent. They
deserve our protection from abusers
like Mr. Cruz-Rosario. It was important to hold this defendant accountable while preventing the re-victimization of the children should they
have testified in court.”
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OPINIONS &VIEWS
Re-Tasking SWAT to
something more useful
We are blessed in Montgomery
County for a variety of reasons.
There is a high quality of living,
plenty of parks, great schools, and
many different venues for entertainment. There are great restaurants and a variety of life others
across the country envy. We live a
life many consider idyllic in a relatively crime-free county as well.
Editorʼs Notebook
by Brian J. Karem
For that the Montgomery
County Police and Chief Tom
Manger deserve credit and thanks.
The county police, now housed at
the former National Geographic
Headquarters, do an excellent job in
serving and protecting the county
with more than 1200 officers and
the latest in technology.
But the department’s success
may also be its undoing. With so
many officers in a county relatively
crime free, there is little need for
some of the divisions a large metropolitan police department routinely
has in its entourage. With just a
dozen or so murders a year, for example, the homicide department
does not need as much manpower
as a similar size city with a larger
homicide rate.
The same goes for the SWAT
team. The Special Weapons and
Tactical Unit, once the subject of
romance in prime time television, is
a unit originally designed to take
down some of the most hardened
and dangerous criminals. The
Montgomery County Police have a
very good SWAT team, but in a
complacent, well educated and affluent community, there appears to
be little need for SWAT.
So, how do you keep a SWAT
team around when you don’t have
Hollywood-type dangerous bad
guys running around threatening to
kill people and cause unrestricted
mayhem? In Montgomery County
we’ve apparently expanded the role
of the team and it now includes the
duty of serving warrants.
Some of the people who’ve
had the pleasure of meeting the
county’s SWAT team at the crack of
dawn and with the assistance of
flash/bang grenades are not your
typical, run of the mill repeat offender.
One woman we spoke with, a
newlywed with a high security
clearance had never been in trouble
with law. Your average, law abiding
citizen when she saw the police
gathering outside of her house she
offered to let them in with a key.
They didn’t take her up on the offer.
Another, middle-aged man
who also has a top security clearance job working with Homeland
Security has also never been in
trouble with law and was never
charged with a crime though he
says SWAT visited him in Damascus twice. He said he is now more
afraid of the police than criminals.
Civil Libertarians will rant and
rave that we now live in a police
state. The police, despite all their
best efforts to the contrary, have really painted themselves in a corner
in this issue. While the “mission
creep” taking place is obviously
more a matter of trying to find
something to do with the high
priced SWAT team than it is an effort to exert total police control
over the county, the result is still the
same.
There are otherwise law-abiding citizens who were thrown to the
ground, cuffed and terrorized by
police officers who are trained to
deal with the most dangerous criminals, not your average non-violent
criminal suspect.
The police will be angry about
our story on this issue, and civil libertarians will claim we haven’t
gone far enough. But the facts are
what they are. The SWAT team, by
statistics supplied by the police
themselves, has expanded its duties
to include serving warrants on nonviolent criminals.
Those people are now fearful
of the police and what they can and
will do to suspects in Montgomery
County. It isn’t a good move for the
police and it sends a very bad signal
to the taxpayers who continue to
pay the bill for the police department.
Far from justifying SWAT’s
existence the police run the risk of
showing the county in the starkest
terms why SWAT isn’t needed and
should be defunded. That would be
a mistake as well.
There are still reasons for
SWAT, but not serving your average
warrant by kicking down doors, using flash/bangs and scaring otherwise non-violent alleged offenders.
Find something else for these welltrained officers to do. That makes
more sense.
What doesn’t make sense is
spreading ill will for an otherwise
stellar department.
JULY 17, 2014
JULY 17, 2014
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LEGAL MATTERS
LETTERS
From another Rockville resident
To the editor,
The Montgomery County Sentinel reported on more than 3 items effecting the residents of the County and Rockville specifically:
1). Concerning the Pepco rate increase which cites County Executive Ike
Leggett as saying the “the rate increase was too high…”, was for him to neglect ownership for his support of ‘the Energy Tax” which was long ago supposed to have “sunset”, as being the cause as to why energy bills are too high.
He and the Council are part and parcel to the problem assuring MC Residents
with higher energy costs. All efforts in the last council session to reduce the
onerous “Energy Tax” burden have been negated except to fill county coffers
with more tax dollars to fund patronage programs under the radar of public
scrutiny. All this at a time when energy prices in the United States are tumbling.
2). The long running battle by the City of Rockville to conceal Saul Ewing’s personnel report is yet another example of the lack of transparency for
the mistakes and culpability of Rockville City Government and its discriminatory employment practices. It is apparent that there must be something to
hide and without any public apologies or admissions of fault forthcoming are
assurances for the situation to continue unabated and behind closed doors.
3). As the City Clerk revolving door continues, is also apparent that
working for Rockville City Government has been untenable for many.
It has been years since Rockville, MD has been listed as one of the best
places to live in the United States and the above three circumstances are just a
few of the contributing factors as to why.
H. Mulzac
Rockville
And yet another Rockville resident
To the editor,
Rockville is an embarassment and I am ashamed of those in the city government. I called last week just to get some information from the city about
city services and activities. I was put on hold for a half hour and when someone finally spoke to me they were extremely rude.
R. Nichol
Rockville
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Oh, jurors just want to go home
Although serving on a jury is one
of most important functions a citizen
can perform in this country, there is a
reason it is commonly referred to as
jury duty. Having to serve as a juror,
THE
COURT
REPORT
by Tom Ryan
particularly in a multi-day trial, is a
burden on the time and often financial
resources of jurors. Once selected for
a jury, however, it is incumbent upon
jurors to fulfill their oath to fairly and
impartially render a just verdict. What
happens when a juror threatens not to
do that was explored by Maryland’s
highest court in its recent opinion in
the case of Nash v. State.
The Court of Appeals’ opinion
indicates that Mr. Nash was indicted
on a charge of first degree murder, and
his case went to a jury trial beginning
on a Tuesday. After hearing testimony
through Friday morning, the jury was
given the judge’s instructions on the
law and heard final argument of counsel, retiring at 2:40 Friday afternoon
to deliberate its verdict. Just after 5:00
p.m. a note from the foreperson of the
jury was delivered to the Judge which
read: “I don’t believe the defendant is
being given a fair verdict based on one
of the juror stating out loud that she
will vote guilty because she wants to
go home.”
The Judge conferred with the attorneys about what to do. The defense
lawyer moved for a mistrial, but did
not ask the judge to question any jurors privately (a practice called voir
dire) to explore the allegations of the
note. The judge denied the motion,
then told the jurors they would be excused for the night but would have to
return the following Tuesday to continue to deliberate.
When all jurors returned, the
judge denied a renewed motion for
mistrial by the defense lawyer. The
jury then convicted the defendant of
first degree murder. Each of the jurors
were individually polled and agreed
with that verdict.
On appeal, the defendant’s attorneys argued that the trial judge should
have granted a mistrial, given the note
from the jury. The Court of Appeals
noted that there is presumptive prejudice if there is any private communication with a juror or other juror misconduct during trial. Here, however,
there would only have been misconduct if a juror acted on her stated desire to quickly convict just to go
home. Since the defense attorney did
not ask the judge to question that juror
to see if there was any potential prejudice to the defense, the appellate court
found that it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial judge to deny a
mistrial.
Thomas Patrick Ryan is a partner in the Rockville law firm of McCarthy Wilson, which specializes in
civil litigation.
Reality television and expectations
Some say real estate realities are nowhere near the t.v. version
Reality TV has been a part of
our culture since the 1990’s, and
chances are that you’ve watched Reality programming at some time. Reality TV has benefitted from the
booming housing market of the early
to mid 2000’s, when the number of
real estate reality shows grew exponentially. Today, real estate related
REAL
ESTATE
SOLUTIONS
By Dan Krell
reality TV is prevalent, and you
could probably catch one at almost
any time of day.
What is it about reality TV, or
more specifically – real estate reality
TV, that draws us in like a moth to the
light? Matthew Wilkinson and Paul
Clark suggest in their research (2014.
Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain: The Rejection Of
Artifice And The Culture Of Choice.
ASBBS E - Journal,10(1),132-143)
that our affinity to reality programming is our culture’s desire for “fluid, ambiguous, and amorphous experiences.” And before I embark on
their philosophical explanation
based on “postmodernism” and its
implications, it apparently boils
down to our search for “authenticity”
and the notion of participation.
Alternatively, Alex Weprin reveals that there is a feeling among
programming executives that audiences have become bored by
“forced, trite reality shows” and are
attracted to TV shows that “feel more
‘real.’” But there’s a limit to “authenticity,” even in reality shows.
Weprin quotes Animal Planet President and General Manager Marjorie
Kaplan, saying “I don't know that
every nonfiction show is going to be
authentic; clearly there is room for
wonderfully inauthentic reality TV
that we all watch and wink and nod
and know is contrived…." (Jan 10,
2010. Cablers target laughs, authenticity, geeks. Broadcasting & Cable).
And why not? “Reality” TV is
an escape from monotony and lets us
perceive we are participants; real estate reality programming helps us
imagine how our homes, our
lifestyles could be different. Since
the airing of MTV Cribs, we imagined how we could live like celebrities. Home renovation, real estate investing, buying foreclosures, house
flipping, luxury homes, and home
shopping: there is no lack of real estate related subjects on TV today –
and they all seem to make it all look
easy and exciting.
But there is a concern by some
in the real estate industry that reality
TV is doing more than entertaining
viewers, it is also shaping consumer
expectation. The real estate related
reality format is typically a condensed version of the process that
highlights only parts of the consumer
experience; the portrayed drama in
this sub-genre can range from the
very subtle to the outrageous.
A recent Realtor® Magazine article highlights professionals’
thoughts on the matter (June 16,
2014. Reality TV Skewing Home
Remodeling Picture?); and the consensus is that some consumers demand a similar experience to what
they see on TV. Some real estate
agents have also expressed concerns
about home buyers and sellers whose
expectations are not realistic; they
want more in an abbreviated span,
losing perspective on the elements
and time that the home buying and
selling process requires.
Maybe the whole genre is misconceived; maybe real estate Reality
TV should be more realistic, where
the drama is drawn out over weeks
and months documenting the excitement and tedium of the real estate
transaction. But then again, maybe
T. S. Eliot was correct in the characterization (Burnt Norton): “…humankind cannot bear very much reality.” TV may not be genuinely about
being real, as much as it is about entertainment value.
Dan Krell is a realtor with Gerlach Real Estate, Inc. in Chevy
Chase, Md. You can access more information at www.DanKrell.com.
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JULY 17, 2014
FEDERATION CORNER
Leapfrogging for leaders
By Carole Ann Barth
MCCF Immediate Past President
The pace of innovation and
technological change keeps picking
up speed. Government, however, is
like a huge ocean liner; it does not
change course quickly or easily. This
is why leapfrogging has become an
important concept in the quest for a
more nimble bureaucracy. The following is an example.
In the 1990s, Prince George’s
County invented bioretention (or engineered rain gardens), and pioneered the concept of Low Impact
Development (using small-scale,
distributed facilities like rain gardens
to capture and treat stormwater at the
point of generation). These techniques perform better than
conventional stormwater
management, cost less, and
are more flexible. But despite
all the benefits of Low Impact
Development (LID), and even
after twenty-plus years of experience, it is still not utilized
to its full potential in the DC
metropolitan region. For that,
we need to look to the west
coast--to Portland, Oregon
and Seattle, Washington.
Twenty years ago, our region had regulators, planners,
engineers, contractors and developers who were trained and
experienced in stormwater
management ponds. LID, however,
required a paradigm shift. In hindsight, it is not surprising that many of
these experts resisted the new approach to stormwater. Like generals
fighting the last war, they continued
to act as their experience and training
dictated. Thus it has been a long,
slow process to move from centralized, regional stormwater management to small-scale, site-specific,
distributed controls.
In contrast, Oregon and Washington states did not have a long history of stormwater management.
They were just beginning to develop
programs at the time that LID was
created. With no big investment in
conventional stormwater management, they were able to leapfrog past
it and enthusiastically embrace the
new technology instead.
So how can our leaders intentionally practice leapfrogging? It
starts with paying attention to inno-
fic tie-ups. For a fraction of the cost
of adding road capacity, this has had
a tremendous impact in reducing
congestion. So, advanced signalization is an innovation worth adopting.
However, instead of doing exactly what Las Vegas did, we could
take advantage of more recent technology. Rather than investing in road
sensors to monitor congestion, we
could tap into the data now available
from GPS-enabled cars and phones.
Thus we could realize the benefits of
Las Vegas’ innovation at an even
lower cost and have an even more
flexible and responsive system.
Clearly, this is an issue on which local governments in our region could
benefit us all by leapfrogging.
I am willing to bet that readers
of this column can come up
with many other potential
leapfrog opportunities. How
about it? Let us challenge our
leaders to leap forward instead
of plodding bravely into the
past. Send your ideas to me,
Carole Barth, at the Civic Federation email [email protected] we will see if we can stimulate some leapfrog action.
Montgomery County, Maryland
Department of Environmental Protection
PUBLIC NOTICE
Applications for Temporary Noise Waivers
The Department of Environmental Protection is currently evaluating an application for a Temporary Noise Waiver as allowed under
the Montgomery County Noise Control Ordinance, Chapter 31B,
Section 11(a). The Temporary Noise Waiver is being requested by
the City of Rockville, Department of Public Works, 111 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, Maryland, to perform nighttime construction for
the installation of water pipes and concrete vaults under Southlawn
Lane between Lofstrand La. and East Gude Dr., Rockville. The
work is being performed at night to minimize water service disruptions to nearby commercial establishments. The work will be performed between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and is scheduled to occur
between August 4 and November 26, 2014.
The application and related documents are available for public inspection. The Department will receive comments on the application
for ten (10) days after publication of this notice.
Comments, questions or requests to examine documents may be directed to Steve Martin, DEP/DEPC, 255 Rockville Pike, Suite 120
Rockville, MD, 20850. Telephone 240-777-7746, Fax 240-7777752 or email [email protected].
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vations. For example, Las Vegas has
invested in advanced signalization
controls which enable traffic planners to adjust the length of green
lights in real time to respond to traf-
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7
CRIME
P.G. gets Senning case
By Alexi Worley
24-year-old Rickley Senning
was indicted June 11 on charges that
he kidnapped his girlfriend, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge
Audrey Creighton, earlier this year,
according to a spokesperson for the
Prince George’s County State’s Attorney.
John Erzen, a spokesperson for
the Prince George’s County SA, said
Senning was indicted on charges of
kidnapping, false imprisonment,
three counts of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, theft,
auto theft, driving under the influ-
ence, and driving while impaired. On
May 19 Senning allegedly assaulted
Judge Creighton in her own home
and kidnapped her using the judge’s
own vehicle, according to charging
documents.
Creighton managed to escape in
the parking lot of a Gaithersburg grocery store, prosecutors said.
Senning was extradited back to
Maryland last month after being arrested in Florida. He remains behind
bars on a $500,000 bond.
Erzen said the Prince George’s
County SA stepped in after the Montgomery County SA excused itself
from the case because of the victim’s
position as a judge in the county.
COURTESY PHOTO
Rickley Senning
Closure sought in decades-old murder case
By Peter Rouleau
Special to The Sentinel
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OBITUARY
Mary "Lois" Hall Edmead,
92, of Fort Wayne, Indiana
formerly of Silver Spring,
Maryland
Passed away Friday, July 4,
2014, at Woodview Health Care
Center in Fort Wayne. Born in
Washington D.C., Mary worked as a
Cryptographer with the United State
Government for 25 years. Surviving
are her son, Wayne (Kathryn) Hall of
Fort Wayne; grandchildren, Anne
Hall and Christopher (Leslie) Hall;
great-grandson, Peter; brother,
William (Rosalie) Butler of Silver
Spring, MD. Mary was preceded in
death by first husband, Raymond
Hall; second husband, Edmond
Edmead; parents, James and Lucille
(Pierce) Butler and four siblings.
Celebration of Life Service 2:00 pm
Satuday, July 19, 2014, at Fort
Lincoln Funeral Home, 3401
Bladensburg Rd, Brentwood, MD
20722 with calling one hour prior.
Memorials may be made to the
Community Harvest Food Bank or
Allen County Education Partnership.
To sign the online guest book, go to
www.mccombandsons.com.
ASPEN HILL - On July 24,
1975, 15-year-old Kathy Lynn Beatty was assaulted in the wooded area
near the Aspen Hill K-Mart and 7-11.
She was taken to the hospital but died
as a result of her injuries on Aug. 4.
Nearly 40 years later, a former classmate of Beatty’s believes that he is
close to discovering the truth about
that night’s tragic events.
Steve Kerpelman was a member
of Beatty’s class, which had just
graduated from ninth grade at Parkland Middle School – then known as
Parkland Junior High School. Although he did not know Beatty well,
he remembers her as “A kind, quiet
girl who had a nice smile.” Kerpelman said that her death was devastating to the community, which was still
reeling from the disappearance of the
Lyon sisters three months earlier, a
case which also remains unsolved.
Kerpelman would pursue a career in law enforcement, spending 21
years as a member of the Prince
George’s County Police department,
more than half of that time as an in-
vestigator. After retiring, he became
a licensed private investigator based
in Gambrills. For the past six years,
as a service to Beatty’s mother, Patricia Haberman, Kerpelman has been
investigating Beatty’s death free of
charge.
Kerpelman said his firm has received a good amount of valuable information since initiating social media outreach in March.
“We’ve gotten in touch with
some people who have been harder
to locate, and we’ve received a
constant flow of tips,” Kerpelman
said. “We’re trying to reach the
older residents.”
Kerpelman uses his old Parkland yearbooks as a means of beginning a dialogue with former classmates.
“It’s likely that Kathy knew the
people who assaulted her, that something just got out of hand that night,”
Kerpelman said. “We believe that
somebody out there knows the truth
about what happened.”
Kerpelman expressed optimism
that the case will someday be solved.
His investigation has been aided by
several friends of Beatty and long-
time county residents.
“Everyone involved is doing
this for Kathy’s mother,” Kerpelman
said.
Haberman praised Kerpelman’s
efforts.
“Steve is a wonderful investigator,” Haberman said. “He knocked
on my door six years ago and volunteered to work the case, and he won’t
take a dime from me. I’m so appreciative for what everybody has done.
Kathy was a sweet girl. She wouldn’t
let me swat a fly that got into the
house. She deserves closure.”
Haberman said she shares Kerpelman’s confidence that the truth
about her daughter’s death will come
to light.
Kerpelman’s firm, SMK Investigations, is offering a reward of
$5,000 for information leading to the
identity of the person or people who
were with Beatty on the night of her
assault. Anyone with any information, however trivial it may seem, is
encouraged to e-mail [email protected] or call 240-304-8633.
A vigil for Beatty will be held
this Friday at the Aspen Hill Kmart
parking lot. All are welcome.
Aspen Hill man faces life for stabbing
By Jim Davis
A 41-year-old Aspen Hill man
faces life in prison plus 20 years for
stabbing his ex-girlfriend nine times
inside her Gaithersburg apartment.
Montgomery County Circuit
Court Judge David Boynton found
Craig Smith guilty on three counts:
attempted first-degree murder, firstdegree burglary and first-degree assault.
In August 2013, Montgomery
County police and fire department
units responded to the 700 block of
Clopper Road in Gaithersburg for a
reported stabbing.
Upon arrival police officers and
paramedics found Nancy Lea Bise
suffering from multiple stab wounds.
She was transported to a local trauma
center for treatment.
According to a MCPD press release, Bise told police that Smith, her
ex-boyfriend, broke into her home
and stabbed her.
MCPD detectives were able to
find Smith and arrest him for the
stabbing.
In a press release from Montgomery County State’s Attorney
John J. McCarthy, Public Affairs Director Ramon Korionoff said “Peo-
ple are entitled to feel safe in their
bedroom, in their home. Mr. Smith's
jealousy and rage aren’t excuses to
stab an ex-girlfriend nine times. The
victim in this case was very fortunate
that we have some of the best surgeons in the country at our local hospitals otherwise she might have died.
We look forward to a long sentence
before Judge Boynton at the August
7 sentencing.”
In making the announcement,
McCarthy thanked Assistant State’s
Attorneys Amanda Michalski and
Mark Anderson for their prosecution
of the case and the MCPD for their
detective work.
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JULY 17, 2014
COVER STORY
SWAT team in MoCo mission migrates to warrants
“I’m Afraid ” from page 1
ployments reflects the militarization
of the local police department.
“The worst violence that most
citizens have to endure is at the hands
of police officers,” said criminal defense attorney Rebecca Nitkin. “It’s
the parent that comes into the office
after their son was caught with pot
and they talk about how they heard
the door being broken down and shot
guns are held to their and their kids’
heads and they truly, truly believe
that they are going to die at the hands
of what they think are armed robbers.
Not in their wildest dreams do they
think it’s a Montgomery County Police Department officer executing a
search warrant.”
According to the National Tactical Officers Association, SWAT, or
Special Weapons and Tactics, teams
were originally created in the 1960s for
use in high-risk missions, such as barricade, hostage and suspect situations.
Only 7 percent of MCPD SWAT
team deployments were for situations
other than search warrants, 5 percent
of which were barricade situations
and 2 percent of which were for situations classified as ‘other’, according
to the GOCCP reports for the MCPD
SWAT team. In 15 percent of the
SWAT deployment cases no arrests
occurred.
“The rationale for creating a
SWAT team is that the police needs to
be prepared in case there are situations that go beyond capacity of ordinary patrolmen, such as hostage situations and scenarios where officers
will be facing people who are heavily
armed,” said Tim Lynch, director of
the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice. “However, over time
there’s this mission creep, where the
department starts to think, ‘Well, we
have this team and they’ve done all
this training but they’re not being
used.’ So they start to call out the
SWAT units for routine activity.”
The percentage of MCPD
SWAT team deployments used to
serve search warrants is even higher
than the national average, 79 percent,
which was calculated by the ACLU
in their June 2014 report, “War
Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing.”
Use of the MCPD SWAT team is
climbing, with the number of SWAT
deployments per year having increased from 119 in 2010 to 188 in
2013, according to the GOCCP reports. There were 726 total deployments during this time.
In other words, the MCPD
SWAT team was deployed, on average, once every other day in 2013,
according to calculations from the
GOCCP reports.
Starks said MCPD attributes this
increase to a rising number of search
warrants and the possible danger involved in executing them.
The increase mirrors both national and state trends, with the number of
annual SWAT deployments in the
United States having risen from a few
hundred in the 1970s to 50,000 in
2005. That’s more than 100 deployments in the United States every day,
according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist from Eastern Kentucky University.
The GOCCP reports on the state
of Maryland as a whole reveal there
are roughly four deployments in the
state every day. Montgomery County
has the third highest number of deployments in the state, below Baltimore City and Prince George’s County.
“Montgomery County is not the
worst offender, that is by far Prince
George’s County,” said David Rocah
ACLU senior staff attorney.
The majority of these raids are
Rockville Clerk position
mulled after Barber leaves
“I’m Afraid ” from page 1
accountable to them because they
have to carry out the instructions of
the mayor and council.”
Onley said the issue has been a
point of discussion since 2011 and
she does not see a reason for the
city clerk position to be reorganized.
“I kind of like the direct line to
the mayor and council but I haven’t
seen anything to indicate it’s not a
good organizational fit. Nobody has
talked me down that it is not a good
organizational fit. I haven’t been
given any facts that say it should be
different than what it is right now,”
Onley said. “There are things that
come up on the radar and when they
do, I will have to address them
along with my other colleagues.”
Councilmember Beryl Feinberg said the city clerk position in
general was discussed during an executive session but had no comment
on any changes to how the clerk is
appointed.
Councilmember Tom Moore
offered no comment on whether
there have been discussions about
changing the way the city clerk is
appointed or if he would support
such a change.
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accompanied by forcible entry and
seizing of property, at 82 percent and
96 percent respectively, according to
the GOCCP reports for the MCPD
SWAT team.
As was the case with Annie Hu,
30, a database developer with a top
secret clearance level from Silver
Spring, whose home was raided by a
MCPD SWAT team after her husband
was caught with marijuana the night
before.
Hu said she was heading to
work when she saw officers heading
towards her home. Thinking they had
new information about her husband,
she followed the officers back to her
house.
As she was pulling up she saw a
gang of officers charging towards her
door with a battering ram.
Running to the officers, Hu said
she yelled that she had the key and
could let them in. Ignoring her cries,
the officers beat down the door,
seized her car and proceeded to destroy her home as she watched, terrified and confused.
The officers then searched,
handcuffed, and arrested her for
drugs that belonged to her husband.
Despite repeatedly asking to see
a warrant, Hu said the only time she
only saw one when she returned to
her home the next morning and found
it tossed onto the kitchen table.
“I felt degraded…that I lost all
of my rights as a citizen,” she said.
“Now I feel unsafe when I see the police, I don’t know who to trust. I feel
like they are watching us, harassing
me and my freedom, or finding reasons to pull me over and abuse their
power.”
The charges against her have
since been dropped, but the property
seized and destroyed by the MCPD
SWAT team, including her car, was
not repaired or replaced by the de-
partment.
Asset forfeiture laws enable officers to seize property they believe
was involved in a crime. In Maryland, the government only has to
prove that it is more likely than not
that the property was involved in the
crime, according to the Institute for
Justice.
Seizing this property can be
profitable for law enforcement. According to the Institute for Justice,
Maryland state law enforcement received more than $50 million in forfeiture revenue between 2002 and
2008.
“Montgomery County is obviously part of this larger trend of increasingly using SWAT deployments
for search warrants, which is not what
SWAT teams were originally intended for,” Rocah said. “It reflects the
growing militarization of our police.”
According to Lynch, part of this
militaristic behavior can be attributed
to the military mindset that SWAT
team members receive through training, which is successful on the battlefield but harmful on the suburban
streets of Montgomery County.
“When you put on the military
garb, with the helmets and the
weapons…and you combine all that
with the rhetoric of politicians about
the war on drugs and on terror, you
get this military mentality,” Lynch
said. “What we want to do though is
to keep that separate from policing.
Our police should be using the minimum amount of force necessary.”
Beginning in spring 2009,
Maryland law required that every law
enforcement agency with a SWAT
team record and submit data about
the team’s deployments, according to
Maryland’s public safety article 3507.
According to Rocah, the reports
could use improvement.
“Maryland deserves credit for
beginning to collect statistics but they
are hugely inadequate in that they
don’t precisely break down the crime
that led to the search warrant,” Rocah
said. “They also don’t specify
whether fire arms were found or the
race of those involved.”
This step toward increasing police accountability was further hindered as legislators let the bill expire
at the end of June.
The GOCCP encourages agencies to continue collecting this data
anyway.
“While law enforcement is not
required by law to collect or report
the SWAT data after June 30, 2014,
GOCCP strongly recommends that
agencies continue to collect the data
and submit it in the event that the
Maryland General Assembly amends
the law and imposes new reporting
requirements during the 2015 legislative session,” said Bill Toohey, GOCCP public information officer.
According to Starks, MCPD will
continue to collect and analyze data
on its SWAT team despite the law’s
expiration.
“Legislators should re-impose
and fix the data to allow for a more
complete understanding of the use of
SWAT teams,” Rocah said. “They
should never have let the law slip by
in the first place.”
According to Lynch, agencies
need to collect and use this data in order to reevaluate their use of SWAT
teams before it’s too late.
“Usually it’s just in the light of
some kind of tragedy that these important questions come up, instead of
asking them at the outset and stopping the tragedy in the first place,”
Lynch said. “Agencies need to really
start thinking about which situations
really call for these teams, and
which don’t.”
How we arrived at the SWAT data
and why we protected two witnesses:
To derive the percentage of SWAT deployments, The Montgomery County Sentinel calculated the number
of deployments issued for search warrants and divided that number by the number of total SWAT team
deployments. This same method was used to calculate percentages for the number of deployments where
forcible entry was used and property was seized. The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention
provided the raw data for these calculations. Those numbers were supplied by the Montgomery County Police
Department as required by state law: MD Code Ann., Public Safety Art., 3-507 (B).
The Montgomery County Sentinel filed a Freedom of Information Act request in order to receive these
numbers and the accompanying reports. We examined 726 SWAT deployments from July 2009 until
December 2013. There were 13 people injured and two deaths from these deployments.
Ninety five percent of the deployments were for Part I crimes involving, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, breaking and entering, larceny and theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. No further breakdown
in these numbers were available. Five percent of the deployments were for Part II crimes, described as a
“variation of offenses” - usually drug cases according to the GOCCP. Numbers supplied do not indicate raids
on wrong addresses or other arrest information.
The Sentinel agreed to protect the identities of two local residents involved in a search warrant by a
SWAT team after talking with their attorney, Rebecca Nitkin, and because the witnesses faced losing their
security clearance with the federal government should their names be disclosed.
JULY, 17 2014
9
NEWS
Montgomery County looks to protect criminal past
By Donna Broadway
Staff Writer
ROCKVILLE- Montgomery
County is looking to ban the box.
Not the cardboard kind to rival the 5
cent bag tax, but a ban on the box
that asks convicted felons about
their criminal pasts.
The county is looking to join
ten states, Baltimore City and the
District of Columbia in barring employers from asking applicants
about their criminal histories on job
applications. The bill will not force
employers to hire convicted crimi-
nals and will not prevent employers
from conducting background
checks on applicants. The ban will
not have an effect on federal jobs.
There is a 65 percent employment rate among convicted criminals in Montgomery County. The
Montgomery Works program has
three employment centers in the
county and has helped 8,000 convicted criminals receive employment.
“The re-entry customer or former offender has diverse skill sets,”
said Yolonda Tully, director of operations for Montgomery Works.
“They come with IT background,
driver experience, nursing experience. Some are able to transition
back into those jobs and some have
to do career changes but we’ve
been helpful in supporting them in
those efforts. Some of those are veterans. It’s a dual benefit for the
business community.”
In Maryland, 7 percent of the
population has been convicted of a
felony and 2 percent of the adult
population has served prison time.
In fiscal 2013 more than 3,000 convicted criminals were released from
custody. In Montgomery County,
Maryland State and Montgomery
County government jobs do not ask
applicants about their criminal history.
Employers may receive penalties for denying an applicant an interview or employment because of
their criminal history in the form of
civil fines and financial compensation to the applicant. The county
has yet to determine the exact definitions for violations.
The complaints will be filed
with the Office of Human Rights.
“We’re not taking away the decision making and how they handle
the employment,” said James
Stowe, director of the Montgomery
County OHR. “What we are saying
is that if you go far enough to be interested in a particular candidate, to
at least to be able to give them a
conditional offer or go even as far
to hire him or her, but also you really want that person to work out.
This will give them the chance to
back up and pursue if they want to
pursue at the point in time with the
background check or anything required for the job site itself.”
There is a public hearing on the
bill scheduled for Sept. 9 at 1:30 p.m.
County companies get $1.2 M Messitte bands the use of “Redskins” name
By Max Simpson
Special to The Simpson
Three Montgomery County
companies received a total of $1.2
million in funding from the state’s
InvestMaryland program.
“I congratulate our most recent
Montgomery County companies
that have received funding via InvestMaryland,” County Executive
Ike Leggett said in a press release.
“It reinforces the tremendous dedication these companies have to their
respective industries as well as the
vibrancy of our diverse business
community. No doubt this funding
will help Cellphire, Brain Sentry and
ClickMedix further their important
work and we are proud each will
continue to do so from here in the
County.”
InvestMaryland is administered
by the Maryland Venture Fund and is
supported by $84 million raised
through an auction of tax credits to
Maryland insurance companies, according to a press release from the
Maryland Department of Business
and Economic Development. Cellphire, a Rockville-based biotechnology company, received $1 million
from the InvestMaryland program.
“The underlying technology
that Cellphire has developed
promises to provide a quantum leap
forward in how cells are handled and
used within healthcare today,” Cellphire CEO Stephen H. Willard said
in the MDBED press release. “Our
initial application – platelets – is a
perfect example, as untreated
platelets last five days outside of a
donor’s body. With our patented
treatment, we are able to freeze dry
platelet-derived products for storage
measured in years, at room temperature. Reconstitution is as simple as
adding sterile water. This investment
from MVF enables us to begin pursuing other applications in diagnostics, sports medicine, plastic surgery
and dentistry.”
The funding will be used to further develop Cellphire’s product and
move it closer to Food and Drug Ad-
ministration approval, according to a
county press release.
The 2014 InvestMaryland Challenge was targeted toward Maryland
companies in the startup or earlygrowth stages and had four categories with $100,000 Governor’s
Cup Awards as top prizes, according
to the challenge website. The categories are Life Sciences, Information
Technology, Cyber Security and
General Industry and more than 250
companies applied, according to a
county press release. To be eligible
for the 2014 challenge a company
needed to have fewer than 25 employees and less than $1 million in
revenue in the fiscal year before applying, according to the InvestMaryland Challenge terms and conditions.
At least 51 percent of the grant money must be spent in Maryland.
Brain Sentry, a Bethesda company that makes helmet-mounted
sensors to detect possible concussions, won in the Life Sciences category. If a sensor detects a hard hit a
red LED will flash to signal the player should be tested for a concussion,
according to the Brain Sentry website. The sensors are meant to prevent concussions from going undetected by players or coaches and are
available for football, hockey and
lacrosse helmets.
“We are using the InvestMaryland funding to continue to advance
our sensor technologies,” Brain Sentry CEO Greg Merril said. “We are
launching new sensors this fall that
include a hit counter that allows
coaches to monitor the number of
subconcussive impacts and identify
players that need to improve their
tackling technique to reduce head
contact. We are also ramping up our
sales and marketing initiatives.”
ClickMedix, a Gaithersburg
company that has developed an app
for phones and web browsers to assist in medical networking, won in
the Information Technology category. The app is meant to maximize the
number of patients that physicians
and health organizations can serve,
according to a county press release.
Tracy Yu
U.S. District Court Judge Peter
J. Messitte banned the use of the
name “Redskins” from his court on
July 15 in a pretrial ruling brought by
former New York Giants linebacker
Barrett Green against the Washington team. His 21-page ruling deliberately excludes use of the controversial nickname, as evidenced by his
one-paragraph footnote.
The footnote states: “Pro Football’s team is popularly known as the
Washington ‘Redskins’ but the Court
will refrain from using the team
name unless reference is made to a
direct quote where the name appears.
Pro Football’s team will be referred
to hereafter as the Washington
Team.”
According to the Washington
Post, Messitte has also asked attor-
neys to refrain from using the term in
his courtroom. He told the Post, “My
footnote is what it is,” declining to
comment further.
Though no formal explanation
concerning the decree to remove
“Redskins” from his courtroom has
been provided, Messitte is preceded
by a long reputation of handling sensitive and racially-charged cases in
Maryland. The judge has also been involved in issues of judicial reform for
over 30 years. Previously a member
of the International Judicial Relations
Committee in the U.S. Judicial Conference, Messitte has received several
awards and honors for his efforts.
Messitte’s stance against the
name is not unprecedented. His actions come on the heels of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s statements to ABC on June 13.
“I think the name ought to be
changed. I think it is an offensive
name,” Holder said.
The explicit absence of ‘Redskins’ from the ruling coincides with
an implicit push from Washington
officials for a name change.
Recently, the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office cancelled the
team’s trademark registration on the
grounds that it “may disparage” others. In May, 50 Democratic Senators
inundated NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell with letters pushing for his
formal support of a name change for
the Washington team.
Throughout his career, Messitte
has been described as being a perfectionist and meticulous in his court
procedure. As far back as 1997, his
longtime law clerk told the Post,
“Before he publishes an opinion, it is
not unusual for him to go through 16
or 17 drafts.”
Messitte has declined to comment on the ruling.
Wise group hosts seminars for needy children
By Jake Brodsky
RESTON, Va. - The Wise Investor Group at Robert W. Baird &
Co. has begun hosting seminars
with The National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) that focus on teaching youth the skills to
become fiscally responsible adults.
The first workshop, held on
May 21 with the NCCF’s Greentree
Adolescent Program (GAP), focused on teaching basic budgeting
skills and increasing financial literacy. The workshop was hosted by
Nancy Popovich and Chris Aime,
both of whom are directors and financial advisors with the Wise Investor Group. The GAP program
focuses on helping traumatized,
victimized and poorly socialized
males ages 16-18 become produc-
tive members of society.
According to Popovich, who is
participating in all three workshops, the first event was successful
in helping to prepare the boys to become fiscally responsible adults.
Some of the workshop’s focal
points included teaching the boys
how to live within their means and
how to create and maintain a budget.
“Developing a firm understanding of how to manage their
own income, taxes and basic budgeting works while they are young
and a supportive environment like
GAP will help prepare these young
men for successful financial futures,” Popovich said.
A second workshop, done in
association with NCCF’s KinNet
group with a focus on providing
guidance to family members caring
for children who are separated from
their biological parents, was hosted
on June 18. A third workshop will
be held on October 4.
According to Popovich, the
idea to help the NCCF grew out of a
fundraiser the Wise group participates in every January to help children in need.
“We were trying to find ways
that we could be helpful without
just donating,” Popovich said.
The NCCF was eager to work
with the Wise Investor Group after
hearing from the group.
“[It felt] amazing because we
have inquiries about volunteers all
the time but nothing that specific
and a life skill like financial planning is something that we can really
utilize in a lot of our different programs,” said NCCF Volunteer Coordinator Dahlia Levin.
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July 17, 2014
NEWS
Two structurally deficient bridges slated for help
By Iftekar Husain
The Maryland State Highway
Administration is planning to rehabilitate two structurally deficient
bridges crossing Sligo Creek in
Montgomery County.
The bridge carrying New
Second
in a series
“Moco Bridges Falling
Down”
Hampshire Avenue is already in the
demolition phase of rehabilitation,
while the SHA is making plans to
repair the Carroll Avenue Bridge
next year in order to minimize traffic congestion.
According to the Federal Highway Administration’s National
Bridge Inventory, the bridge carrying MD 650 (New Hampshire Avenue) over Sligo Creek has not been
repaired since 1954. As a result the
deck has been left in poor condition,
littered with potholes and dents that
could damage tires and cause accidents. According to the SHA, the
average traffic across the bridge is
more than 69,000 vehicles per day.
The deck of the northbound
MD 650 Bridge is being demolished to meet the SHA quality assurance standards. After the construction is complete on the northbound bridge, the SHA will focus
its efforts into repairing the southbound bridge. Traffic along New
Hampshire Avenue is being diverted to Ethan Allen Avenue (MD 410)
and Carroll Avenue (MD 195).
Since last May, the SHA has spent
nearly $2.8 million to rehabilitate
the bridge. The SHA estimates the
project will be complete by Jan. 1,
2015 if the weather and other conditions permit it.
The National Bridge Inventory
also lists the bridge carrying MD
195 (Carroll Avenue) over Sligo
Creek as structurally deficient – its
deck and superstructure have been
worn into poor condition over the
years. The bridge, which according
to the inventory carries an average
of more than 9,500 cars per day, has
not been rebuilt since 1932.
According to the SHA, the current estimated cost of rehabilitating
the Carroll Avenue Bridge is
$946,000 in engineering. The construction costs have not yet been tallied.
According to the SHA’s Maintenance of Traffic Analysis published last October, “The surface of
the bridge appears to be fairly worn;
many potholes are present on each
travel lane. The sidewalks are also
in very poor condition with many
cracks and pieces missing.”
According to a SHA press release, “The primary scope of the
project is to rehabilitate the bridge
and includes completely replacing
the bridge deck, beams, and
columns above the arches, the sidewalks and railings, and the ornamental lights. [The SHA] will ensure the continued safe operation of
the bridge and extend the service
life of the 81-year-old structure.”
COURTESY PHOTO
Highway workers work the Sligo Creek bridge near New Hampshire Ave.
Smallpox vaccine found at NIH a result of “bad housekeeping” says CDC
By Allison Brickell
BETHESDA - Vials containing
the variola, or smallpox, virus discovered in an unused storage room in an
FDA laboratory on the NIH Bethesda
campus are the result of a mishandled
situation, according to one doctor.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control, scientists discovered the vials while preparing for the
lab’s move to the FDA main campus.
Dr. Chris Leonard, who completed
his Ph.D. on viruses at Cornell Medical School, said scientists in the
1950s – which the CDC said the vials
date from – did not take the same precautions they do today.
“Having worked in a lot of labs
that have moved around, there’s lots
of stuff that sits around in the back of
freezers that no one looks at,”
Leonard said. “Most likely (the samples) had gone to a researcher doing
work about smallpox at NIH and
these samples remained behind, and
that’s what they discovered. It’s not
good that they lost track of it.”
According to the CDC, there are
two official World Health Organization (WHO)-designated repositories
for smallpox: CDC in Atlanta, Georgia and the State Research Centre of
Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) in Novosibirsk, Russia. The
WHO oversees the inspection of
these smallpox facilities and conducts periodic reviews to certify the
repositories for safety and security.
“Finding these samples at NIH
suggests that they were not as successful at clearing out all the samples
of smallpox outside of those two lab-
oratories as they hoped,” Leonard
said. “It’s really a case of bad housekeeping.”
According to the CDC’s media
statement following the discovery of
the vials, the vials were immediately
secured in a CDC-registered select
agent containment lab in Bethesda after their discovery. The statement said
there is no evidence that any of the
vials have been breached, and onsite
biosafety personnel have not identified any infectious exposure risk to
lab workers or the public.
Leonard said though the personnel who handled the vials may be
vaccinated as a precautionary measure, he doesn’t think there will be an
outbreak.
“They might vaccinate the people who found (the vials) just to be
sure, but depending on how old they
are they may have been vaccinated
already,” Leonard said. “It wouldn’t
at all be surprising for them to take a
precaution like that. It’s a concern
that there was a mishandling of these
samples decades ago, but there’s no
real present-day concern. This was a
mistake that was made decades ago
and they discovered it recently and
have it completely under control.”
According to the CDC’s media
statement, the vials were transported
safely and securely with the assistance of federal and local law enforcement agencies to CDC’s highcontainment facility in Atlanta on
July 7. Leonard said there are multiple ways to destroy samples like
those found at NIH. The samples
themselves would be pressure
cooked, he said, in an autoclave, and
any areas where the scientists had
worked with the sample would be
wiped down with a bleach solution
and exposed to ultraviolet light.
Leonard said viruses can remain
infectious for long periods of time if
stored properly.
“Smallpox is surprisingly stable
compared to the common cold,”
Leonard said. “It’s infectious on blankets that were used by someone with
smallpox. Whereas the common
cold, it dries up and doesn’t last in the
environment for very long. Pox viruses like small pox are relatively stable.
They’re hardy. They’re more resistant in general. This one was in reasonable storage conditions so it’s not
surprising that it would be viable.”
According to the CDC, the last
natural outbreak of smallpox in the
country occurred in 1949. By 1972,
routine smallpox vaccinations for
children in the U.S. were no longer
needed. In 1980, smallpox was said
to be wiped out worldwide, and no
cases of naturally occurring smallpox
have occurred since.
The CDC has a smallpox response plan and guidelines for people
to follow in the event of an outbreak,
including vaccinating and monitoring
people, identifying priority groups
and handling smallpox cases according to their severity.
The CDC lists priority vaccination groups that are considered high
risk, which includes those who came
face-to-face with or had household
contact with a smallpox patient after
the onset of the patient’s fever; those
exposed to the initial release of the
virus; those involved in the direct
medical care, public health evaluation or transportation of confirmed or
suspected smallpox patients; lab personnel involved in the collection
and/or processing of clinical specimens from suspected or confirmed
smallpox patients; personnel involved in contact tracing and vaccination, or quarantine/isolation or enforcement, or law-enforcement interviews of suspected smallpox; those
permitted to enter any facilities designated for the evaluation; those permitted to enter any facilities designated for the evaluation, treatment, or
isolation of confirmed or suspected
smallpox patients treatment, or isolation of confirmed or suspected smallpox patients; and others who have a
high likelihood of exposure to infectious materials.
In the event of an outbreak, the
CDC’s actions and responsibilities
include:
1. Delivery or standby readiness
for delivery of smallpox vaccine and
vaccination components
2. Initial laboratory confirmation of smallpox infection and establishment of laboratory protocols for
confirmation in surge-capacity laboratories.
3. Coordination with state/local
health officials to establish communications and implement federal-state
response plans
4. Immediate mobilization and
deployment of CDC personnel to assist local and state public health officials with epidemiologic investigations, surveillance, implementation
of case isolation protocols, contact
identification, vaccine administration, adverse events monitoring, and
vaccine inventory monitoring
Some of the state and local pub-
lic health responsibilities and actions
in the event of an outbreak include:
1. Activation of local/state emergency response plans for bioterrorism
and/or smallpox outbreaks
2. Designation of state/local
leads to coordinate local case surveillance and isolation, contact tracing
and monitoring, epidemiologic investigation, and vaccine administration
3. Mobilization of local and state
public health resources to conduct
epidemiological investigations, surveillance, implementation of case
isolation protocols, contact identification, vaccine administration, and
adverse events monitoring
4. Designation and activation of
sites/clinics for vaccine administration
Once an outbreak of smallpox
has been identified, the CDC Director
will direct personnel to perform tests
to confirm smallpox cases, perform
vaccinations, work with state and local health officials to refine and initiate strategies for vaccine administration, assist with quarantine protocol,
monitor cases, trace the outbreak, and
serve as liaisons to other federal
agencies.
If given to a person before exposure to smallpox, the vaccine can
completely protect them. Vaccination
within three days after exposure will
prevent or greatly lessen the severity
of smallpox in most people. Vaccination four to seven days after exposure
likely offers some protection from
disease or may decrease the severity
of disease. Vaccination will not protect smallpox patients who already
have a rash.
JULY, 17 2014
11
NEWS
Montgomery County no longer the best in education
By Donna Broadway
Staff Writer
ROCKVILLE-The 2013-2014
Maryland Report Card no longer
ranks Montgomery County as the top
education system in the state. In the
report, Montgomery County’s Maryland State Assessment (MSA) scores
and math and reading proficiency
among students lagged behind those
of at least 11 other school systems in
the state.
On the MSA students from
Calvert County High Schools had the
highest scores for elementary and
middle school students while
Howard County ranked second in elementary and middle school. Montgomery County ranked sixth in elementary school MSA scores and
third in middle school MSA scores.
Overall, students taking the MSA
saw as much as a 2 percent decline in
some test areas. The scores for the alternate MSA increased in several areas.
The decline in rankings follows
the MCPS recalculating Algebra 1
students’ grades. The final report
cards for MCPS students were delayed after officials recalculated the
grades of thousands of Algebra 1 students to include a 15 percent increase
to reflect the scores of the previous
year in which nearly 70 percent of
high school students failed the final.
Only 12 percent of middle school
students failed the test with the recalculated scores.
A MCPS spokeswoman declined to answer specific questions
about the scores and rankings and instead provided a statement from
MCPS superintendent Dr. Joshua
Starr.
“As we expected, MSA scores
declined in MCPS and those declines
were in line with what we saw across
the state. We spent this year focusing
on the future success of our students
and not preparing them to take tests
that are not aligned with what is being taught in the classroom,” Starr
said.
In the 2013-2014 school year,
Maryland implemented its new College and Career-Ready Standards,
which is an offset of the U.S. Department of Education’s new Common
Core curriculum. Under the new
standards, students are taught gradeappropriate math and reading skills
that will prepare them for college
and careers. In 2016-2017, Maryland will implement the Partnership
for Assessment of Readiness for
College and Careers (PARCC) tests.
Rather than administer the Maryland
High School Assessment to students
in the 2014-2015 school year, the
state will transition students to the
PARCC by using the assessments
for Algebra 1 and English 10 final
exams.
Board of Education President
Phil Kauffman wrote a letter to state
Superintendent Dr. Lillian Lowery
expressing concerns about the transition, asking for a two-year gap during the transition. Several elected
leaders also petitioned the state to opt
out of taking the exam, which did not
align with the new standards. Governor Martin O’Malley declined, calling the test important and informative. The state may lose $280 million
in federal funds in addition to a fine if
it chooses not to administer the federally-mandated test.
Overall, MCPS met its target
goal for participation rate and many
of its graduation goals, though it did
not meet its graduation goal for
mixed race students and special education students. MCPS did not meet
most of its goals for closing the
achievement gap. The achievement
gap in reading was reduced in elementary schools but was not significantly reduced in middle schools.
Among high school students, strides
toward closing the achievement gap
were made in Algebra and biology.
Statewide, Maryland had a
dropout rate of about 3 percent.
The state overall saw a decline in
both attendance rates at all levels
and in qualified teachers. One
group in the state met proficiency
standards in reading – all other students did not meet proficiency
standards in math or reading. All
students met the participation standard set by the state.
The report also ranked the best
and worst schools in the state. No
Montgomery County schools made
the top or bottom performing rankings, but Brookhaven Elementary in
Aspen Hill and Kemp Mill Elementary in Silver Spring were named
“focus schools,” which are schools
with populations of low-performing
students.
“This is not the federal department of education, this is Montgomery County, and we have to figure out how we make it work in
Montgomery County. The challenge
becomes being realistic while remaining hopeful. What we’ve seen in
the last month, in addition to recalculating algebra 1 scores, we’ve seen
memos from the BOE saying that it
doesn’t gauge well with African
American parents or Latino parents.
We’ve seen a report that test scores
have fallen in elementary schools.
That’s a whole lot going on in the
case that hope is a diminishing asset,” Councilmember Cherri Branson (D-5) said.
Branson’s district contains six
of the 11 lowest performing high
schools in the county.
Despite the scores, several good
things are happening for MCPS students. According to Starr, MCPS students received a combined $342 million in scholarships; an increase in
students taking AP and International
Baccalaureate (IB) exams, and
ranked second in the state in collegebound students. Starr also said the
school system invests $2 million
more in low performing schools.
“Springbrook High School has
seen some of the largest gains in
graduation rates in recent years, in
fact the graduation rate for Hispanic
students jumped 10 points last year
and for ESOL students jumped more
than six points,” Starr said. “The
number of AP exams taken by students at Einstein High School has
jumped 75 percent in five years and
in that same time frame, the number
of AP exams earning a college ready
score of three or higher has jumped
101 percent. We have more kids taking the classes and more kids succeeding.”
On the report card, Worcester
County on the eastern shore statistically ranked first in achievements
during the 2013-2014 school year,
while Carroll County, Caroline
County, Calvert County, and Kent
County rounded out the top five.
D.C. and Montgomery Councils discuss transportation in first joint meeting
By Donna Broadway
Staff Writer
The Montgomery County and
Washington, D.C. councils held their
first ever joint Transportation and
Environment Committee meeting
July 16. The discussion focused on
extending and coordinating Bus
Rapid Transit, Metrobus, and future
D.C. streetcar routes between the
two jurisdictions.
County councilmember Roger
Berliner (D-1) and D.C. councilmember Mary Cheh (Ward 3) cochaired the meeting. According to
her website, Cheh worked with the
D.C. Department of Transportation
to develop the streetcar infrastructure
in the city as well as other projects in
the capital, including 11th Street and
South Capital Bridges.
“Every day, tens of thousands of
commuters bog our roads to get to
[D.C.] and bog [their] roads,” Berliner said. “We have a mutual interest in
changing the arc of that and getting
people into first-class, state-of-theart transportation. We need a partnership with the District of Columbia to
achieve our vision fully.”
Jamie Henson from the D.C.
Department of Transportation said
there are approximately 11,00016,000 daily riders on new transit initiatives from D.C. to Montgomery
County. There are approximately
75,000 quarterly riders that go to
Montgomery County destinations.
According to a press release
from the county council, the council
members discussed how to extend
the Bus Rapid Transit routes from
Montgomery County into D.C. The
BRT is a 102-mile, 125-bus station
system in Montgomery County with
routes on Georgia Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, Colesville Road and
New Hampshire Avenue, which all
extend into D.C. According to the
Montgomery County Department of
Transportation’s 2011 study on BRT,
these buses provide a similar experience to riding the light rail and include all-day service, efficient boarding and alighting, and stops spaced
between half a mile and one mile.
Rather than traveling on a new route,
the buses would travel along the arterial roadway system in the county.
A proposal made during the
meeting would extend the BRT to
Friendship Heights if the DDOT implements bus-only lanes in Georgetown and National Cathedral. The
DC Council also proposed to extend
street car lines from Wisconsin Avenue into Bethesda, Piney Branch
Road into Takoma Park and the
Metro Rail on 16th Street into downtown Silver Spring.
According to the MCDOT
Study, “Construction of the highest
capacity BRT system with all recommended improvements would range
between $2.3 and $2.5 billion, averaging between $15.8 and $17.1 million/route-mile.”
WMATA has announced the
opening date of the Silver Metro line
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will be July 26. Plans are also underway to build the Purple Line in Montgomery County that would connect
stations in Bethesda, Silver Spring
and Takoma Park to the Red, Green
and Orange Metro lines. The Maryland Transit Administration estimated the costs of the building the Purple
Line to be approximately $2.2 billion.
Both county and D.C. council members are looking for more cost-effective methods of transportation to reduce congestion along the Beltway.
“We don’t want Montgomery
County to be building a BRT that
comes to the District’s borders and
all of a sudden D.C. has to have a
new bus infrastructure,” Henson
said. “I don’t think we are yet at the
point of finality or even close.”
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July 17, 2014
NEWS
Bongino and Republicans aim for sixth district
By Len Lazarick
[email protected]
For the second time this year,
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky
Republican considered a presidential contender, has helped Dan
Bongino raise money in his race to
recapture Maryland’s 6th Congressional District for the GOP.
“We’ve nationalized this race,”
Bongino said in an interview after a
Silver Spring fundraiser for which
Paul was the main draw Tuesday
night. “We had to bring some attention to Maryland.”
Democrat John Delaney took
the seat from 20-year incumbent Republican Roscoe Bartlett in 2012 after Democrats radically redrew the
Western Maryland district to include
more Montgomery County Democrats and lop off conservative Carroll
County voters.
“[Gov.] Martin O’Malley took
gerrymandering to a new level and
stole our congressional seat in the 6th
District,” Maryland Republican
chair Diana Waterman told the crowd
of about 100 at Tuesday’s fundraiser.
“Dan Bongino is the perfect
candidate to take back our congressional seat,” Waterman said. “He’s
not your typical Washington insider.”
Bongino, 39, is a former Secret
Service agent who was the party’s
U.S. Senate nominee in 2012, losing
to incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin
in a three-way race.
In recent months, Bongino said
he has been raising more money than
Delaney, but Bongino freely concedes that, as “the sixth richest member of Congress,” Delaney could easily write himself a check for a million
dollars as he did in 2012 defeating
the party establishment candidate in
the Democratic primary, state Senate
Majority Leader Rob Garagiola.
Delaney made a personal fortune founding and running two financial services firms.
June reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show
Bongino has raised $533,000 for this
campaign and has $73,000 cash on
hand. Delaney has raised $707,000
and has $163,000 in cash, but still a
sizable $603,000 debt, reflecting the
large loans he made to himself for his
first race.
Bongino has gained the support
of conservative Republican leaders
such as Paul, Utah Sen. Mike Lee
and former Florida Congressman
Allen West. But all three nationally
known independent political analysts
of congressional races expect Delaney to hold onto the seat. TheCook
Political Report does not consider
the race competitive, andSabato’s
Crystal Ball and theRothenberg Political Report view the seat as safe for
the Democrats.
That’s not what Bongino finds
as he goes door-knocking in the dis-
COURTESY PHOTO
Rand Paul, left and Dan Bongino, right.
trict that stretches from Potomac to
the mountains of far western Maryland.
“Nobody seems to know who
[Delaney] is,” Bongino says. “I
think he’s taking this race for granted.”
Bongino described himself as a
“conservatarian,” “a liberty leaning
conservative.”
“Liberty is not a hard sell,” he
said. “Divide and conquer politics
dies down when they meet you in
person.”
People know “you can spend
your money better than the government,” he said
Sen. Paul has roots in the Tea
Party and libertarian wing of the
Republican Party, and Bongino said
he was comfortable with his views,
including his position on foreign
policy, which other Republicans
call isolationist.
“I’m very cautious about our
foreign use of troops,” Bongino
said.
Bongino praised Paul’s outreach to minority groups and others
not considered part of the traditional Republican base.
Let people keep their own
money
Paul’s speech at the fundraiser
emphasized fiscal discipline and
the lack of it in the federal government.
The senator talked about his
plans for Economic Freedom Zones
to revitalize cities like Detroit, reducing taxes for people to create
economic stimulus “by keeping
their own money.”
He said current economic stimulus plans wind up enriching the
wrong people, and there is a revolving door between Wall Street and
Washington.
“They take your money and
give it to rich people,” Paul said.
“We need to zero out [the tax breaks
for] big corporations.”
“They’re using the rest of us to
enrich themselves,” he said.
Paul drew his biggest applause
in regard to the influx of Central
American children and teenagers
across the Mexican border into
Texas. He said the government
should not be flying the children to
California, “they should be flying
them back to Central America.”
Paul said he favored “an in-between solution” on immigration reform, but “you have to have a secure border first.”
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DHR overspends budget by $27 million in last four years
By Charlie Hayward
[email protected]
In the last four years, the Department of Human Resources
(DHR) overspent its budget by $27
million — and inadvertently
masked its overruns with improper
accounting adjustments, an audit of
the department has revealed.
After the audit came out, DHR
removed the director of the grants
management office due to concerns
about oversight of millions of dollars of grants. The Office of Legislative Audits (OLA) released thereport late last month covering some
DHR operations for three years,
ending in August 2012.
The audit also found that DHR
paid legal bills without checking to
make sure the work had been performed and did not address major
weaknesses that could result in
fraud in computer systems that deliver or track food stamps, child
support payments, and foster care
payments.
The department promised to
correct most of the problems, but it
pointed out that the auditors did not
actually find any fraud had oc-
curred.
Four years of deficit spending
had been masked by improper accounting entries
DHR facebook logoDuring
2010-13, DHR spent $26.7 million
more than its available budgetary
resources. This overspending, according to the audit, apparently
created a deficit balance that will
need to be zeroed out with extra appropriations or more money from
the general fund. Worse, auditors
said the overspending was unintentionally concealed because the department improperly counted future-year revenues in the same accounting calculations with current
expenses.
In response to the audit, DHR
said it thought the accounting adjustments were proper. DHR’s response
also agreed with the OLA’s recommendation to avoid improper adjustments in the future. The response did
not, however, address the need to
“undo” improper entries and zero
out any deficit spending that may
have accumulated since 2010.
DHR paid lawyers $13.7 million during 2012 without checking
the lawyers’ invoices. Those lawyers
were contracted to represent indigent adults in protective services and
children in child assistance and
parental-rights cases in court.
The audit found that DHR did
not perform on-site quality reviews
at lawyers’ offices, or failed to document any results from such visits in
the few cases where DHR said they
had visited. In addition, DHR did
not obtain required annual reports
from 11 of the 12 law firms contracted to represent DHR beneficiaries.
The auditors said DHR made no attempt to notify the firms that the reports were overdue.
Some of these problem had
gone uncorrected after being identified in previous audits.
said it implemented corrective action for all recommendations.
The audit found that DHR did
not oversee $14 million in grant
funding to organizations and agencies that provide emergency food,
housing and support for the disadvantaged.
That included paying for goods
and services without knowing if the
intended recipients actually got
them and failing to ensure grantees
submitted activity reports. In 113 of
119 instances, DHR could not locate
the reports to show the auditors.
Lastly, the auditors said DHR
failed to perform grantee site visits
corresponding with almost 80% of
grantee expenditures. Similar problems were found in the previous audit of the department.
said it removed the director of the
Office of Grants Management and
made other personnel changes. DHR
also said it implemented corrective
action for all recommendations.
The audit found major vulnerabilities in large IT systems that DHR
oversees for food stamps, child support payments, and foster care payments. These systems help deliver
benefits, as well as track and manage
beneficiaries’ eligibility.
OLA reported 12 significant
weaknesses within four of DHR’s
mission-critical systems. Two were
repeat findings.
In the current fiscal year, these
systems will process data corresponding with more than $2 billion
of DHR’s transactions. Some of the
risks include:
Fictitious food-stamp benefi-
ciaries who could obtain goods and
possibly cash from bank-issued debit cards
Unauthorized purchase orders
for fictitious goods or services
Improper changes within databases containing sensitive beneficiary information, including sabotage
by disgruntled employees or contractors.
Computer security violations
that cannot be detected in a timely
manner
Improper segregation of duties
that could enable one person to perpetrate and conceal wrongdoing
Allowing too many people too
many system privileges and access
suggested that OLA’s descriptions of
the risks were overstated. However,
DHR agreed to implement the recommendations, while pointing out
that auditors did not actually find
any fraud or malfeasance.
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PRESCHOOL SONGS AND STORIES
July 17. 11a.m.-11:45a.m. Admission is just
$3 per child per session. There is no fee for
adults. Payment may be made at the door. The
Arts Barn 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. For more information call 301-258-6394
or visit gaithersburgmd.gov/artsbarn
BACKYARD THEATER: STORY PIRATES
July 17. 9:30a.m. When the Story Pirates
take the stage, you'll be amazed at what happens next... and so will the Story Pirates! Join
the Story Pirates as they create a show before
your eyes that's as crazy, hilarious and unexpected as kids themselves. Laugh as your little
ones invent monsters, dancing ninjas, superhero tomatoes - or any other idea they call out,
and watch as Story Pirates bring their ideas to
life. Tickets are $8. Strathmore 10701
Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD 2085
Phone: 301-581-5100
D’S MAGIC
July 17, 7:30p.m.-8:30p.m. Dave Thomen
Magic, illusions and laughter! Bring the whole
family! Moves inside in bad weather. Bring a
blanket, lawn chair, bug repellant and dinner.
In case of inclement weather call 240-3148682 at 4 p.m. day of event. Lincoln Park
Community Center 357 Frederick Ave,
Rockville, MD, United States
BLUES DANCE
July 17. 8:15p.m.-11:30p.m. Capital Blues
proudly presents weekly Thursday night blues
dances. We rotate DJs and instructors each
week to inspire and challenge you. A beginner
workshop from 8:15 - 9:00 pm offers important partnering basics for new dancers. The
class is included with admission; no partner
necessary. Dancing runs from 9 pm to 11:30
pm to blues music from every corner of the
genre. Note: the entrance to Back Room Annex is on far left side of Spanish Ballroom. Admission: $8 Back Room Annex Glen Echo
Park 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Glen Echo, MD
20812 301-634-2228
JULY 18
FAMILY MOVIE IN THE PARK
July 18. 8p.m. watch a movie on the BIG
screen and under the stars! Bring your family
and friends to this great community event. The
family friendly movie will start at 8:30 pm.
Popcorn and refreshments will be sold on site.
Be sure to bring your blanket, chairs and dinner! Admission is $3 and will be taken at the
door. Isreal Park 357 Fredrick Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850 Phone: 240-31408620
HISTORY HAPPY HOUR: A TASTE OF
MARYLAND
July 18. 6:30p.m.-8p.m. White is the foodways consultant to Riversdale House Museum
in Riverdale Park, Maryland. Learn about the
July 17, 2014 – July 23, 2014
history of Marylands most iconic food traditions and food businesses such as Maryland
Beaten Biscuits, crab cakes, coddies, McCormick Spices and Old Bay. Cost- $15.00 in
advance online. At the door, $20 Non-member,
$15 Museum members. Includes beer, wine,
and appetizers Sandy Spring Museum 17901
Bentley Rd. Sandy Spring, MD 20860 Phone:
301-774-0022
THE MUSIC MAN
July 18. 8p.m.-10:30p.m. In this classic musical with music and lyrics written by Meredith
Wilson, a traveling con artist, Marian the Librarian, and 76 trombones add up to a happy,
rousing musical adventure that will sweep you
up in its parade. Tickets are $20-$22. F. Scott
Fitzgerald Theatre 603 Edmonston Ave
Rockville, MD 20850 Phone: 240-314-8690
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JULY 20
WALTZ DANCE
July 20. 2:45p.m.-6p.m. Waltz Dance in the
Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park on Sunday, July 20, 2014 featuring the ensemble
Green Light Karma. This versatile band will
provide a lively mix of folk waltzes with a few
other couple dances, including Hambo, Schottische, Swing, Tango, and Polka. The 45minute dance lesson begins at 2:45 p.m. with a
half-hour introductory Waltz workshop and a
more advanced move presented the last 15
minutes. Social dancing follows until 6 pm.
Admission is $10. No partner required. For
more information, call Joan Koury at 202-2380230 or Glen Echo Park at 301-634-2222, go
to www.WaltzTimeDances.org or e-mail
[email protected]. The Glen Echo
National Park is located at 7300 MacArthur
Blvd., Glen Echo, MD 20812.
JULY 23
MEDICARE INFORMATION SESSION
July 23. 7p.m.-9p.m. Turning 65? Here are
important questions you need to think about:
Do you need to sign up for Medicare now?
Can I work and get Medicare? Do you know
the Medicare alphabet, A,B, C and D? Join
Montgomery County's Senior Information
Sessions. These free sessions are offered
through the State Health Insurance Assistance
Program (SHIP). The Germantown Library,
19840 Century Blvd., Germantown, MD
20874.For more information call 301-5902819 or visit www.medicareabcd.org
CONJUNTO CHAPPOTTIN
July 23. 7p.m. Sail away to Havana for a
night of Cuban "son" music thats steeped in
tradition and bursting with Latin jazz and sultry salsa. Conjunto Chappottn traces its roots
back to the 1940s and founder Arsenio Rodriguez, who handed the band down to his
trumpet player, Felix Chappottn, whose grandson is at the helm today. Free. Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD
20852 Phone: 301-581-5100
Oh My God...ard! These are usually the first words out of peoples' mouths
when they view Michael Godard's artwork. Godard, known as the "Rock Star
of the Art World" is currently the #1 best-selling artist in the U.S.
UPCOMING
SIP AND STROKE AT AMERICAN TAP
ROOM
July 29. 7p.m. VisArts takes its popular Sip
and Stroke program to American Tap Room
located in the heart of Rockville Town Square.
You will be seated in a special area, provided 4
wine glasses and all the materials and instruction you need to create personalized, functional
designs. No experience is required; this is a fun
and easy project. American Tap Room's full
bar and menu is available for you while you
work or for after you have finished your creation. Tickets are $50. American Tap Room 36
Maryland Ave, Rockville, MD 20850
MICHAEL GODARD - ‘THE ROCKSTAR OF THE ART WORLD’
Aug. 23. 1p.m.-4p.m. A never-before-seen
collection of works by Michael Godard, the
Rockstar of the Art World, will be on exhibition and available for acquisition in a dual-exhibition presentation at two Wentworth Gallery
locations in Bethesda, Maryland and McLean
Virginia. Michael Godard will be making a
very special appearance at both Wentworth
Gallery locations in Bethesda (1-4 pm) and
McLean (6-9pm) on Saturday, August 23. Artwork is available for acquisition and all appearances are open to the public Westfield
Montgomery Mall
7101 Democracy Blvd. Bethesda, Maryland Visit www.wentworthgallery.com for
more info and to RSVP.
2ND ANNUAL RACE FOR EVERY
CHILD 5K RUN/WALK
Sep. 13. 8:30a.m.-12p.m. Registration is
now open at RaceForEveryChild.org. Participants can sign up as an individual, create or
join a team, or participate virtually. A half-day
event, Race for Every Child features a wide
range of fun for the family, including: 5K
run/walk, kids’ Dash for kids 3 to 10 years old,
awards ceremony for top Race finishers and
fundraisers, fun kids fitness activities, face
painting, balloon art and more on and around
Freedom Plaza and live entertainment. The
goal for the 2014 Race for Every Child is to
raise $1 million and also to draw more than
4,500 participants in the 5K run/walk and
Kids’ Dash. Last year nearly 4,000 people participated, raising more than $750,000. Among
those who ran or walked were families whose
children’s lives had been saved by the organization. Freedom Plaza (located at the corner of
14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, adjacent to Pershing Park) 1455 Pennsylvania
Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004. For more
information, visit RaceForEveryChild.org.
ONGOING
FREE FOR ALL IN THE PARKS
June 26-July 24. 7:30p.m.; 2p.m. The free,
four-concert series begins June 26 and runs
through July 24. Bring a blanket, lawn chair,
bug repellent and a picnic dinner for a great
evening out. This summer's performers are:
The Shifters, June 26, 7:30 p.m. (reggae)
Montrose Community Center, 451 Congressional Lane; Bumper Jacksons, July 10, 2 p.m.
Rockville Senior Center-Carnation Room 1150
Carnation Drive; Dave Thomen, July 17, 7:30
p.m.; Lincoln Park Community Center, 357
Frederick Avenue; James Mabry, July 24, 7:30
p.m. ; Calvin Park, 1248 Gladstone Drive.
Free. In case of inclement weather, please call
240-314-8682 after 4 p.m. the day of the show.
For more information, contact Julie Farrell,
arts programs specialist, at
[email protected] or 240-314-8682.
BETHESDA SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
May 8-Jul. 24. 6p.m.-8p.m. With warm
summer weather approaching, patrons will be
able to delight in weekly outdoor concerts in
downtown Bethesda. This series, produced by
the Bethesda Urban Partnership, will feature
free Thursday evening concerts during May,
June, and July. The concerts offer a diverse
range of music including rock, funk, jazz,
swing, and reggae. The concerts begin on May
8 and take place on Thursday evenings, from 6
– 8pm in Veterans Park, located at the corner
of Woodmont and Norfolk Avenues. May 8 Soul Crackers (Rocking Soul & Blues) May
15 - Gary and the Groove (Rock & Oldies)
May 22 - Squeeze Bayou (Cajun) May 29 Flo Anito (Rock/Pop/Originals) June 5 - Armand Ntep (African) June 12 - Levi Stephens
(Country Crossover) June 19 - Built 4 Comfort
(Blues/Classic Rock) June 26 - Natty Beaux
(Swing) July 3 - I and I Riddim (Reggae) July
10 - King Soul (Soul) July 17 - Speakers of the
House (Variety Dance) July 24 - Texas Chainsaw Horns (Classic R&B/Soul) Veterans Park
Corner of Norfolk and Woodmont Avenues
Bethesda, MD 20814 Phone: 301-215-6660
SUMMER READING SESSIONS
June 23.-Aug. 4. 7p.m.-9:15p.m.. The sessions are open to musicians of all ages who are
accomplished enough to play in a symphony
orchestra and who have reasonable sight-reading skills. Each reading session will primarily
be a read through with some rehearsal. Doubling is expected and acceptable. We want lots
of people at each session, so please pass this on
to all of your friends. Please go to the website
to register in advance of each session or contact Amanda Laudwein at
[email protected]. Montgomery Philharmonic, Inc. 610 South Frederick Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Phone: 240-3988870
THE BFG
June 25-Aug. 10. 1:30p.m.-4p.m. Little orphan Sophie cant sleep. When she peeks out
the window, she is surprised to see a giant.
He’s surprised to see her too and whisks Sophie away to his home in Giant Country. But
this is no ordinary giant; Sophie’s giant is the
worlds ONLY friendly giant. He operates in
the strictest of secrecy to bring good dreams to
the human world. Other giants steal and have a
nasty habit of eating children! To save the children of England, Sophie and the Big Friendly
Giant (BFG) embark on a magical journey to
Buckingham Palace. Tickets are $10. Imagination Stage 4908 Auburn Avenue Bethesda,
MD 20814 Phone: 301-280-1660
THE TEMPEST
July 15-Aug. 4. Daily. Shakespeares glorious tale of magical creatures, love and forgiveness on a faraway island is sure to captivate in
our outdoor space, the Root Family Stage. In
celebration of their 65th consecutive year of
touring, well be returning to an old format
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professional show, mentoring current National
Players who take the younger roles. Tickets are
$20. Olney Theatre Center 2001 Olney Sandy
Spring Rd Olney, MD 20832 Phone: 301-9243400
DANI GIRL
July 17-Aug. 10. 7p.m.-9p.m. When Dani, a
precocious nine year old, loses her hair to
leukemia, she embarks on a magical journey to
get it back--along with her imaginary friend
Raph and fellow patient Marty. Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, Dani Girl is an
inspirational tale of life in the face of death,
hope in the face of despair, and the indomitable
power of the human imagination. With music
by Michael Kooman, and book/lyrics by
SUMMER CONCERT SERIES AT GLEN
ECHO PARK
June 19-Aug. 28. 7p.m.-9p.m. Enjoy your
evening with your friends and family during a
free Concert at Glen Echo Park every Thursday night 7:30pm, starting June 19 and going
until August 28. Listen or dance in the Bumper
Car Pavilion, which is completely covered;
concerts will be held rain or shine. June 19:
QuinTango June 26: Clarence "The Blues
Man" Turner July 3: Flutes on the Brink July
10: Orrin Star Duo July 17: Rockville Swing
Band July 24: Trio Caliente July 31: Quiet Life
Motel August 7: Redwine Jazz Band August
14: U.S. Navy Band "Country Current" August
21: Ursula Ricks Project August 28: U.S. Navy
Band "Cruisers" Glen Echo Park Partnership
for Arts and Culture 7300 MacArthur Blvd
Glen Echo, MD 20812 Phone: 301-634-2230
Continental Latin, August 1 – Ruben Montoya
Blues, R&B, August 8 – 8 ohms Funk, R&B
August 15 – Unity Reggae Band Reggae, August 22 – King Teddy New Swing, August 29
– First Class Motown, Pop, Classic RockFree.
Fountain Plaza Stage Downtown Silver
Spring, Silver Spring, MD
PINKALICIOUS
June 20 – Aug. 31.Various times. Based on
the book by Victoria & Elizabeth Kann Starring Felicia Curry All Ages Pinkalicious can't
stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings
from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands
her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe - a
dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this
predicament. Tickets are $10.50-$19. Adventure Theatre MTC 7300 MacArthur Blvd Glen
Echo Park Glen Echo, MD 20812 Phone: 301634-2270
TUESDAY IN THE PARK
Dec. 31.- Sep. 10. 11a.m.-12p.m. Join a
naturalist at the Cabin John Regional Park
playground off Tuckerman Lane to explore
what's happening outside! No registration required. Rain cancels program. Children must
be accompanied by an adult. Free. Locust
Grove Nature Center 7777 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20817 [email protected] (301) 765-8660
COURTESY PHOTO
Conjunto Chappottín y sus estrellas is one of the most renowned Son
bands in Cuba and has performed in the major Cuban music halls and in
many American, European and African countries. The band dedicates to
the traditional son with a variety of different stylistic elements such as
son-montuno, guajira, guaracha, mambo, danzon, danzonette, charanga, afro-son, bembe, rumba (made up of yambu, Columbia &
guaguanco), and cha cha cha.
Christopher Dimond, Dani Girl has been developed at the Kennedy Center, American
Conservatory Theater, the Festival of New
American Musicals, and the ASCAP/Disney
Musical Theatre Workshop. Tickets are $10$25. Unexpected Stage Company 4010 Randolph Road Randolph Road Theater Silver
Spring, MD 20902 Phone: 301-337-8290
SILVER SPRING SUMMER SWING
CONCERT SERIES
June 26-Aug. 15. 7p.m.-9p.m.The free concerts are held on Thursday evenings on Veterans Plaza at the Silver Spring Civic Building,
Ellsworth Dr. and Fenton St. Performances are
canceled due to weather only if it is raining.
Silver Spring Regional Center Veterans Plaza 1
Veterans Place Silver Spring, MD, MD 20910
Phone: 240-777-6821
WINE DOWN
June 12-Aug. 28. 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m. Join
Dawson's Market for live music, wine and
small plated food every Thursday in June, July
and August from 6:30-8:30pm. Enjoy live music from: The Digits Band (Classic Rock)
Howie Jung Trio (Jazz) NinJazz (Jazz) Steven
& The Hawkings (Indie Rock) Dawson's Market 225 N. Washington st. Rockville, MD
20850
DOWNTOWN LIVE
July 4-Aug. 29 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m Live music Friday evenings at the Fountain Plaza
Stage. Grab drinks and dinner with friends and
family while enjoying a live concert to start
your weekend. July 4 – Kajun Kelley Americana, Rock, July 11 – Crawdaddies Cajun, Zydeco, July 18 – Fabulous Exaggerations R&B,
Pop, Classic Rock, July 25 – Grupo Latino
FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
May 2-Sep. 26. 6:30p.m.-9:00p.m.Kick off
your weekend with live music, good food, and
good beer! HAPPY 4TH OF JULY (NO
CONCERT); July 11th – The Nighthawks
(Blues); July 18th – Rumba Club (Latin); July
25th – Sons of Pirates (Key West Rock); August 1st – The Shack Band (Southern Funk
Rock ‘n’ Roll); August 8th – Tom Principato
(Blues); August 15th – King Teddy (Swing);
August 22nd – Dublin 5 (Irish Rock); August
29th – Jeff from Accounting (Rock/Pop Cover
Band); September 5th – Ruthie & The Wranglers (Americana Country); September 12th –
The Crawdaddies (Roots Rock and Zydeco);
September 19th – Dreamstreet (Classic Cover
Rock); September 26th – Stay Tuned for our
Series Finale! Check for weather cancellations
at:
http://rockvilletownsquare.com/events/special-events/friday-night-concert-series/
NATURAL ORIGINS
July 10-Oct. 3. 6:30p.m. The Betty Mae
Kramer Gallery & Music Room presents Natural Origins, an exhibition of recent works by
Len Harris and Ellen Kalin. Both Harris and
Kalin respond to organic and atmospheric elements in their artistic practices, presenting
works that are divergent yet complementary.
The gallery is open 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Monday - Friday. Opening Reception on Thursday,
July 10 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Free. Kramer
Gallery and Music Room The Betty Mae
Kramer Gallery One Veterans Place Silver
July 17, 2014 – July 23, 2014
Spring, MD, MD 20910 Phone: 301-565-3805
FENTON STREET MARKET
May 3-Oct. 25. 10a.m.-4p.m. Visit the Fenton Street Market to shop local in the heart of
downtown Silver Spring. Every week over 60
vendors showcase: original artwork, handmade
and imported crafts, restored bikes, jewelry,
body products, furniture, vintage clothing,
unique services such as acupuncture, henna tattoos and much more. Plus, enjoy crepes,
donuts, community activities and live music.
Free. Veterans Plaza
1 Veterans Place Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-960-8779
BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
Tuesdays. 6:30p.m.-10p.m. Local
backgammon tournament on the 2nd and 4th
Tuesday of each month starting March 11.
More information at MeetUp.com-DC Metro
Backgammon Club. Ruby Tuesday Westfield
Wheaton Mall 11160 Veirs Mill Rd, WheatonGlenmont, MD 20902 [email protected]
CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH
Sundays 11am-3pm. $33 $12 for unlimited
champagne cocktails Executive Chef Todd
Wiss has cooked up a seasonal brunch menu
complete with a brunch time standard – Champagne! Guests are welcome every Sunday to
indulge on Black’s favorites like Smoked
Salmon, Chesapeake Bay Blue Fish Rillette,
Herb Crusted Pineland Farms Prime Rib or
breakfast treats like House Made Brioche
French Toast, Quiche and a selection of Chef
Wiss’ homemade jams. Black’s Bar and
Kitchen 7750 Woodmont Avenue Bethesda,
MD 20814 Visit http://www.blacksbarandkitchen.com or call 301-652-5525
LAUGH RIOT AT THE HYATT
Saturdays 8pm-10pm. Check out a live
standup comedy show by local stand up
comics every weekend at the Hyatt Regency
Bethesda. There's a $25 cash prize joke contest
for non-comedian audience members after the
show. Check it out every Saturday night! Comedians can sign up to perform by emailing
[email protected]. Hyatt Regency
Bethesda 1 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda,
MD 2081. $10 at the door Visit
http://www.StandupComedyToGo.com or call
301-657-1234.
CORPORATE BARTENDING FOR
CHARITY
Wednesdays 4pm-7pm. Send your CEO or
VP to Tommy Joe's to bartend for charity!
Can't bartend? No problem, the on-staff bartenders are there to help for a good cause (no
experience necessary). Represent your company during happy hour, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the charity of your choice.
Maybe you can even pull off some flair behind
the bar and make Tom Cruise proud. 4714
Montgomery Lane Bethesda, MD 20814. Visit tommyjoes.com or call 301-654-3801 for
more information
COURTESY PHOTO
In this witty and touching contemporary musical, Dani, a precocious nine year old, loses her hair
to leukemia and embarks on a
magical journey in order to get it
back—along with her imaginary
friend Raph and fellow patient
Marty. Simultaneously hilarious
and heartbreaking, Dani Girl is an
inspirational tale of life in the face
of death, hope in the face of despair, and the indomitable power
of the human imagination.
LIVE MUSIC FRIDAYS
Friday 9:30pm-12:30pm, Rock Bottom
Restaurant & Brewery features different music
styles by various live bands who perform both
original and cover songs. So come relax and
enjoy live music and Rock Bottom's awardwinning handcrafted beer. 7900 Norfolk Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814. Visit
http://www.rockbottom.com or call 301-6521311 for more information
SALSA NIGHT
Tuesdays 7:30 pm-12:30am. Come to the
Barking Dog every Tuesday night for their sizzling Salsa Night. Take lessons with salsa instructor Michelle Reyes from 7:30 p.m. to 9
p.m. for only $10. Learn to shake those hips,
and then show off your new skills to the music
of a live salsa band during the open dance after
class. 4723 Elm Street Bethesda, MD 20814.
Visit salsawild.com or call 301-654-0022 for
more information.
HEY MR. DJ
Fridays 9 pm-2 am. It’s time to dance! Grab
your friends and come to The Barking Dog for
a good time on the dance floor. Every Friday
and Saturday night the Dog brings in a DJ to
play the Top 40 and your favorite songs. Make
sure you check out their great drink specials
before you show us what you got! The Barking
Dog, Elm Street Bethesda, MD 20814. Free
admission
SPAGNVOLA CHOCOLOATE FACTORY TOUR
Saturdays and Sundays : 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
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late during this "sweet" educational tour, from
chocolate bars to truffles to bonbons. Each tour
also includes a FREE chocolate tasting! 360
Main Street Suite 101 Gaithersburg, Maryland
20878. Visit http://www.spagnvola.com or call
240-654-6972
COUNTRY THURSDAYS
Thursdays, 9pm. Union Jack's traditionally
British pub in Bethesda heads to the South for
their all new Country Night every Thursday.
Live country/rock bands, free cowboy hats for
the cowgirls, bandanas for the cowboys, drink
specials, including $2 PBR cans, $2 Budweiser
bottles, $4 Jack Daniels drinks, food specials
including 50 cent hot wings. Best of all, there's
no cover to get in! And be sure to get there early for Union Jack's famous Beat 4915 Saint
Elmo Avenue Bethesda, MD 20814
WORLD SERIES OF POKER
Every Tuesday and Sunday night Flanagan's hosts Poker in the rear from 8-10 p.m. It's
Bethesda's own version of The World Series of
poker. Flanagan's Harp and Fiddle, 4844
Cordell Ave.Bethesda, MD 20814 301-9510115
TAKOMA MOVES! COMMUNITY
DANCE CLASS AT DANCE EXCHANGE
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8 p.m., $10 per class.
First Thursday of each month from 6:30 - 7
p.m., free! This open-level, community modern class brings together movers of all ages and
abilities to move and make at Dance Exchange. Led by teachers from the DC region,
Takoma Park Moves creates a space to explore
improvisation, technique, and choreography in
an intergenerational class. This drop-in class
will kick off on the first Thursday of each
month with a free, 30 minute get to know you
class. New to dance? Join us. Returning to
dance? Join us. Just want to dance with your
family and neighbors? Join us. Presented by
Dance Exchange, 7117 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD. For more information, please
visit: http://danceexchange.org/ or call: 301270-6700.
NEED A SITTER? IT’S LEGO TIME AT
VISARTS!
Saturdays, 12 – 5 p.m. at VisArts in
Rockville. Go on a date, get some shopping
done, or just relax for a few hours while your
kids get to play with more than 15 pounds of
LEGO bricks! Children can play on our LEGO
race track, build a car, a tall tower, a city or free
build. They can even take part in a LEGO craft
project! Our top-notch staff are LEGO enthusiasts and ready to entertain your kids while you
get some "me" time. Register at
[email protected].
GAITHERSBURG ROTARY CLUB
WEEKLY MEETING
Every Tuesday, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Hilton
Hotel, 620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg. For
more information, please visit www.gaithersburgrotary.org.
THE COMEDY AND MAGIC SOCIETY
Fridays, 8 p.m. Astounding magic and
slight of hand with interactive theatre and hilarious fun. Ages 10 and up. 311 Kent Square Rd,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878. For more information: 301-258-6394. Price: $12 to $15
DROP-IN YOGA IN BETHESDA
Fridays, 6 – 7 p.m. Community classes are
mixed level, one-hour asana classes taught by
a rotating selection of Unity Woods teachers.
Just drop in – no registration required! Unity
Woods Yoga Center, 4853 Cordell Ave.
Bethesda. Ages 18+. Cost: $5. For more information, call 301-656-8992.
TEEN SK8 AT WHEATON ICE
Most Friday evenings 8 – 10 p.m. The
Wheaton Ice Arena is the place to be on Friday
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skates. Wheaton Regional Park, 11717 Orebaugh Ave in Wheaton, MD. For more information, call: 301-905-3000 or visit: montgomeryparks.org.
THE WIDOWED PERSONS SERVICE
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Weekly support groups for newly widowed
persons at three locations: at Margaret
Schweinhaut Center 1000 Forest Glen Rd. Silver Spring on Mondays, at Holiday park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Wheaton, on
Thursdays and at Jane Lawton (Leland) Center, 4301 Willow Lane, Chevy Chase on
Thursdays. These support groups are open,
free of charge, to all widowed persons who
have suffered a loss within the past two years.
Those preferring an evening group are encouraged to call the WPS office.
The groups are facilitated by trained volunteers. For more information or to register,
please call: 301-949-7398 to register. The Widowed Persons Service is a non-profit volunteer
organization sponsored by AARP, the Montgomery County Mental Health Association,
and other community organizations.
– Compiled by Donna Broadway
The Montgomery County
Sentinel
regrets to inform
organizations that only
Montgomery County
groups or events located
within the county will be
published on a space-available basis.
Send news of your group’s
event AT LEAST two
weeks in advance to:
22 W Jefferson St. Suite 309
Rockville, MD. 20850
or email [email protected]
or call 301.838.0788
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NEWS
Local attorney beats Iran
“We set out to sue the Iranian government for as much as possible,” - Gaskill
By Alexi Worley
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The second U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals ruled on July 9 that $1.75
billion in Iranian money should be
given to the families of victims of the
1983 bombing of a Marine barrack in
Beirut.
The court affirmed the judgment of the U.S. District Court’s earlier decision that the money go to the
victims’ families in order to help satisfy an unpaid $2.65 billion judgment they won against the Islamic
Republic of Iran in 2007.
“We set out to sue the Iranian
government for as much possible
money as we can take away,” said
Rockville attorney Dan Gaskill who,
along with attorneys Thomas Fay
and Steven Perles, is a plaintiff for
the victim’s families. “Every dollar
that we take is a dollar that they don’t
have for nuclear weapons.”
The families filed the case, Peterson et al. v The Islamic Republic
of Iran, in 2000, and accused Iran of
helping to fund the terrorist group
Hezbollah, that was responsible for
the attack that killed 241 American
servicemen.
In 2007 U.S. District Judge
Royce Lamberth ruled in favor of the
families, ordering Iran to pay the
more than $2 billion judgment.
“Basically Iran said, ‘We don’t
give a shit what your Mickey Mouse
court says, we’re not paying a dime,
we will never pay you, go to hell,’”
Gaskill said. “But then we find out
that Iran is laundering money
through Citibank…so we filed to
seize that money.”
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Iran was allegedly funneling
money from Bank of Markazi, the
central bank of Iran, through a number of other organizations, including
Citibank, Clearstream Banking and
the Italian bank UBAE, according to
Gaskill.
Gaskill said the plaintiffs’ investigation also resulted in the United
States government seizing a skyscraper worth $5-$7 million that belonged to the Iranian government.
In 2010, under the Terrorism
Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA),
and using a statute that was passed
specifically for their case, 22 U.S.C.
§ 8772, the families took action
against the Bank of Markazi in order
to obtain those funds.
In February 2013, the U.S. District Court ruled in favor of the victims and their families, saying that
the money, which was being held in
New York by Citibank, should go toward covering part of the damages
owed to them by Iran.
While Clearstream and UBAE
opted for a settlement, Bank of
Markazi appealed, claiming that the
law was changed arbitrarily in order
to allow the funds to be turned over
to the victims’ families, which conflicts with a treaty between the United States and Iran, violates separation of powers, and effects an unconstitutional taking.
Circuit Judge John Walker ruled
the Bank of Markazi’s argument
“had no merit,” leaving the government of Iran with the decision to either appeal to the second Circuit
Court’s full panel of judges or for the
Supreme Court to hear the case.
Attorney Thomas Fay said that
COURTESY PHOTO
Dan Gaskill
it is “extremely unlikely” that the
Supreme Court would rule in favor
of the Bank of Markazi.
Fay said the case has been “grueling, but a joy to work on.”
“Anybody who really is in love
with practicing law would feel lucky
to have this case,” Fay said. “This
case is like hitting a home run at the
bottom of the ninth inning at the
World Series.”
Gaskill said the victims and
their families served as his motivation throughout the 13-year case.
“They get down sometimes, the
clients,” Gaskill said. “They wonder,
‘What are we doing all this for? For
the money?’ And I say, ‘Listen, the
Iranian government just lost a skyscraper that makes them hundreds of
millions of dollars and they lost it because of you, because of your brother, because of your son. That’s one
less bomb they can build.”
Representatives from the Bank
of Markazi were unavailable for
comment.
The case is No. 13–2952–C.
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July 17 2014
FEATURES
Making a long awaited return to entertainment
Baby boomers remember longingly the days of Drive-Ins, but the movie venue is now apparently growing
By Tracy Yu
BALTIMORE - “I would sing to
you, but then you’d cry” is the first
thing that cackles through radio
speakers as the closing credits of
“Maleficent” roll down and car lights
start blinking their applause. There's
a full moon washing out the 52-by120 foot movie screen (the largest in
the country, according to owner D.
Edward Vogel) and Lana Del Rey is
crooning “Once Upon a Dream.” It’s
Friday night and moviegoers pack
the lot of Bengies Drive-In Theater,
propped on the hoods of cars,
sprawled across lawn chairs and dangling out of windows.
For Maryland residents, Bengies is perhaps the sole reason that
drive-ins haven’t been confined to
the nostalgic relics of the past. In its
59th year of continuous operation on
Baltimore’s Eastern Boulevard, Bengies is the last of its kind; other
Maryland drive-ins, such as the
Rockville Drive-In (open 1954-81),
have since shut down.
Open rain or shine every weekend, Bengies doesn’t appear to be in
danger of a similar fate. A winding
line of customers spill into their
snack bar during intermission and
leave with an arsenal of moviemunching material – orders range
from jalapeño cream cheese poppers
(five for $5.95) to pumpkin spice
cappuccinos ($1.75 for a large). They
also boast a Facebook following of
over 41,000 likes.
“It’s pretty awesome, it’s got
kind of a retro feel, which is kind of
cool,” Catonsville resident and firsttime customer Jean Kang said. “It’s a
little more wholesome, it seems, than
going to a normal theater. It also reminds me of the things I’ve seen in
movies that I never really thought I
would experience. And there’s more
of a sense of community in that.
We’re all close together versus in a
movie theater where we’re all individual.”
While indoor theater ticket
prices continue to rise, Bengies
charges a flat rate of $5-$10 dollars
for 3 films, starting with a PG family
flick before venturing into PG-13
and later R. All that’s required to
watch Emily Blunt save the world
from a militant alien invasion (with
the help of Tom Cruise, in the night's
second film “Edge of Tomorrow”) is
an AM or FM radio. Outlets for
portable devices are provided at each
parking space.
“It’s awesome. My car battery is
going to die, but I know they can
power me right up and I can be on
COURTESY PHOTO
While drive-in theaters have suffered across the country, in Baltimore there has been a resurgence which has also been seen across the country.
my way,” regular patron Renee Sayers said.
Sayers makes the five-minute
drive to Bengies at least two or three
times a summer.
“I love it,” Sayers said. “I love
how they’re really strict on trying to
keep the peace here. I love how
they’re just trying to keep it family
fun.”
The lineup of featured films is in
constant rotation, with new additions
updated by Wednesday. This week,
“Maleficent” has been swapped for
“Earth to Echo” and “Transformers:
Age of Extinction” for “The Purge:
Anarchy.” Customers are welcome
to pitch their own movie requests.
To visit Bengies from
Rockville, take the Maryland 200 E
ramp to I-95 and take the exit to 19AB for Interstate 95 N toward Balti-
more. After merging, take exit 61 for
US-40 E. Exit onto MD-700 S and
turn left toward Eastern Boulevard.
The theater is located at 3417 Eastern
Blvd.
Show times follow the sunset
and are subject to change. Visa and
MasterCard are accepted at concessions, but box office admission is by
cash only. For more information, visit www.bengies.com or call 410-687-
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5627.
For those unwilling to brave I-95
and an hour of traffic navigation, the
Comcast Outdoor Film Festival benefitting NIH Charities will hit
Rockville on Hungerford Drive on
Aug. 15. Gates open at 5 p.m. and admission for the weekend “drive-in
style” experience is free. For more information on the Comcast Outdoor
Film Festival, visit filmfestnih.org.
July 17, 2014
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PHOTOS BY DAVID WOLFE
Above Washington Spirit Reserve
team member and goalkeeper
Adelaide Gay unwinds on a keeper
quick. Above right, Emily bruder
battles among three Valkyrie
players for control of the ball.
Below, directly right, Jennifer M.
Mihok of the Valkyries battles with
Ashley Herndon.
Far right, Ashley Cuba lines up for
a header on a long pass.
Spirit’s Reserves end up season as champs
By David Wolfe
Sentinel Sports
BOYDS - The Washington
Spirit Reserves of the USL WLeague ended their regular season
as conference champions with a 32 win over the North Jersey
Valkyries at the Maryland Soccerplex on Sunday.
The Reserves kept the Valkyries
on their heels for the bulk of the
game. Great field control by the Reserves midfielders forced the
Valkyries into a nearly continuous
defensive effort. The occasional successful Valkyrie attack into Reserves
territory was quickly turned back,
usually by Reserves defender Satara
Murray or midfielder Maddie Huster.
Murray had the speed and ball
control to handle anything the
Valkyries brought to the pitch. At
times during the game Murray’s
masterful ball-handling skills gave
the impression she was toying with
the Valkyrie offense.
Primary Reserves keeper Adelaide Gay held the Valkyries to one
goal during her time in the match before she was substituted out in the
75th minute. Adelaide is ranked as
No. 1 in goalkeeper wins and
shutouts in the W-League.
Coach German Peri said he was
pleased with the win. Peri said the
tempo of the game was slow.
For the overall successful season, Peri said a portion of the credit
goes to his star keeper Adelaide and
the rest to everyone’s team effort.
Peri said one obvious asset of the
team is they play together as a team,
not a group of stars doing their own
thing.
The Washington Spirit Reserves’ next game will be the Northeastern Conference championship
game on July 18 at 7 p.m. They will
be playing the No. 2 Braddock Road
Stars Elite at the Maryland Soccerplex in Boyds. The winner of the
game will advance to the National
Championships in Bradenton, Fla.
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JULY 17, 2014
SPORTS
Gaithersburg Giants in playoff hunt this season
Jake Brodsky
Sentinel Sports
The Gaithersburg Giants, midway through their second season in
the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball
League (CRCBL), are in contention
for one of six playoff spots with 13
games left over the next 10 days of
the season.
The Giants were founded in
2006 by John Brady and put in the
Eddie Brooks league. After Brady’s
death in 2009, Alfie Riley, the
team’s general manager, took over
along with head coach Jeff Rabberman, Gaithersburg High School’s
head coach. The two moved the
team into the Maryland Collegiate
League in 2009.
In 2013 the CRCBL approached the duo about moving the
Giants into their league and that
year the team played its first season, finishing with a 28-18 record
and finishing third in the regular
season.
This year the team has been
hindered by injuries and lost a few
key players, including Collin Shaw
Diggs wins more honors
By Brandy L. Simms
Sentinel Sports
Maryland wide receiver Stefon
Diggs has been named to another
preseason watch list.
The Tallahassee Quarterback
Club Foundation announced Tuesday that Diggs was among a group of
55 student-athletes named to the
2014 Biletnikoff Award Watch List.
The Biletnikoff Award annually
recognizes the most outstanding receiver in college football. However,
any player regardless of position
who catches a pass is eligible for the
award including tight ends, slot
backs and running backs.
The Gaithersburg native has also
been selected to both the 2014
Maxwell Award Watch List and the
2014 Paul Hornung Award Watch List.
Diggs, a junior, is among 19
wide receivers included on the 74man watch list for the Maxwell
Award, which honors the nation’s top
collegiate football player. The Good
Counsel product is also one of 10
players from the Big Ten who have
been selected to the watch list.
Meanwhile, Diggs is among a
group of 47 players selected for the
Paul Hornung Award Watch List,
which is given to the most versatile
player in major college football. He
is also one of 10 players from the Big
Ten named to the Hornung Award
Watch List.
“Stefon is a special athlete,”
said Maryland head coach Randy
Edsall. “He has tremendous abilities
and talent. The thing that separates
him is that he’s a tremendous competitor. He’s a worker. He thinks that
every time he touches the ball, he can
take it the distance.”
Diggs finished second on the
team in receptions and receiving
yards last season despite missing the
last five games with a leg injury. In
seven games, Diggs compiled 34 receptions for 587 yards and three
touchdowns and averaged 83.9 yards
receiving per game.
During the 2012 campaign, the
former Montgomery Village Sports
Association youth league standout
became the Atlantic Coast Conference’s all-time freshman leader for
all-purpose yardage.
Diggs has also earned preseason
accolades from various national publications including Athlon Sports and
The Sporting News.
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of the University of Texas, to higher
leagues such as the Cape Cod
League. Despite the injuries, the
Giants are 13-14 and are in a threeway tie for the fifth seed entering
the final stretch of the season.
One player who has stepped
up is Matt Sanchez of Texas State
University, who is filling in for injured Seton Hall All-Big East center fielder Derek Jenkins who separated his shoulder sliding into
home.
“[Sanchez] has really been our
catalyst,” Riley said. “We put him
up at the top of the order and we’ve
actually got a little mini-win streak
going on right now.”
Other standouts include Brady
Acker of George Mason, who is
second in the league with a batting
average of .355, and Trevor Houck
of Lafayette College, whose 1.25
ERA ranks him third in the league.
Riley said he is pleased with
the team’s record given the injuries
and is looking for the team to hold
their playoff spot as they enter the
final stretch of games.
“We definitely want to make
the playoffs,” Riley said.
After making a successful
transition into the CRCBL the Giants are starting to garner more fan
attention. Riley attributed the increase in fan attendance partially to
the field renovations, including an
upgrade in the stadium lights which
allowed games to be scheduled later
in the evening. Riley said the team
is attempting to expand its promotional calendar. Their next game is
July 17 against the Vienna River
Dogs. The game on July 24 is Rotary Club Night.
Former Good Counsel player on short list
By Brandy L. Simms
Senior Sports Writer
Former Good Counsel standout
Blake Countess has been named to
the 2014 Bronko Nagurski Trophy
Watch List.
The Bronko Nagurski Award
has been presented annually to the
National Defensive Player of the
Year since 1993.
Countess joins former Good
Counsel teammates Stefon Diggs
and Kendall Fuller on the preseason
watch list.
Countess, a redshirt junior defensive back at Michigan, started all
13 games for the Wolverines last season and was named first-team All-
Big Ten. The Owings Mills native
tied for the conference lead and was
seventh in the NCAA with six interceptions and also registered 46 tackles including two for a loss.
During his college career,
Countess has appeared in 26 games
with 20 starts and recorded 90 tackles, 3.5 for loss, six interceptions, 10
pass breakups and one forced fumble.
Meanwhile, Fuller, the 2012
All-Sentinel Player of the Year, is
among a group of 76 student-athletes
nationwide that have been selected to
the 2014 Bednarik Award Watch List
that honors the best defensive player
in college football. Fuller has also
been named to the Bronko Nagurski
Trophy Watch List.
Diggs, a Gaithersburg native,
has been selected to both the 2014
Maxwell Award Watch List and the
2014 Paul Hornung Award Watch
List. The junior is among 19 wide receivers included on the 74-man
watch list for the Maxwell Award,
which honors the nation’s top collegiate football player. The Good
Counsel product is also one of 10
players from the Big Ten who have
been selected to the watch list.
Diggs is among a group of 47
players selected for the Paul Hornung
Award Watch List, which is given to
the most versatile player in major college football. He is also one of 10
players from the Big Ten named to
the Hornung Award Watch List.
Rockville Express strong league contenders
By Wyatt Karem
Sentinel Sports
The Rockville Express Baseball
program looks to continue its winning ways as the playoffs are right
around the corner.
The Rockville Express has a 1713 record and currently holds the No.
4 spot in the Cal Ripken Collegiate
Baseball League (CRCBL).
After starting the season with a
rough 0-2 start, the Rockville Express is one of only four teams with
winning records in the CRCBL. The
Express has been one of the more
successful teams in the league for the
last couple of years, posting a 56-34
record over the last two seasons and a
CRCBL regular season championship in 2012. Their last league
championship was in 2007.
The Express has had their fair
share of former players going on to
play professionally. A total of 35 former Express players have been drafted or are playing professional baseball, including Justin DeFratus, who
plays for the Philadelphia Phillies,
and Joe Smith, who has played for
the Mets, Cleveland Indians, and Los
Angeles Angels.
The Express has five players in
the CRCBL Home Run Derby and
All-Star Game.
The Express has been batting
well with a team batting average of
.258 and five home runs this season.
Four players have batted over .300
with at least 90 at bats.
The Express isn’t pitching as
strongly, with a team ERA of 3.71.
The Express has 221 team strikeouts
on the season.
Outfielder Romeo Cortina leads
the league in homeruns with four and
has a batting average of .317 on the
season. Pitcher Mike Bittel, from Se-
ton Hill University, is No. 5 in strikeouts on the year. Bittel also has the
sixth best ERA in the league with a
1.71.
Other players near the top in categories include Brandon Benson,
from Georgia College & State University, and Anton Constantino from
Slippery Rock University. Benson is
fifth in the league in RBI with 20.
Constantino is tied for second in the
league with three wins.
The Express are going through a
rough patch in their season as they
are 2-3 in the last five games. The
team won their last game 5-4 against
the D.C. Grays.
The team’s next game is
against the FCA Herndon Braves on
July 17 at Montgomery College at 7
pm. The Braves won 5-3 the last
time they played The Express. The
Express are 1-2 on the season
against the Braves.
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SPORTS
PHOTOS BY JACQUI SOUTH
Summer League Activity. At left Quince Orchard Daryl Lewis scores on a layup. At right Magruderʼs Joe Hugley blocks a shot during St. Andrews summer league basketball.
Damascus displays upper county sports history at Heritage Museum
By Brandy L. Simms
DAMASCUS – The history of
sports in Upper Montgomery County is currently on display at the Damascus Heritage Museum.
Walk into the one-room museum housed across the street from the
Damascus library and you will find
memorabilia from the rich history of
sports in this small Maryland town.
The exhibit showcases baseball, golf, volleyball, tennis,
wrestling, track and field, lacrosse,
karate, bowling, soccer, cheerleading, basketball and football tradition
with old photos, trophies and newspaper clippings of local legends.
“I played on the old sandlot
team with Bobby Bellison,” said
Henry Abrahams, who graduated
from Damascus High School in
1954. “Bobby was the fastest guy in
the league.”
Abrahams played on a baseball
team with his father, Joe, and brothers, Louie and Joe.
Damascus tennis legend Mary
Boswell is also one of the exhibit’s
featured athletes. Boswell captured
the Althea Gibson Cup in 2002 and
was inducted into the Fairmont State
Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.
Boswell was also enshrined in the
Mid-Atlantic Tennis Hall of Fame
last year.
Former Damascus High School
wrestling coach Dave Hopkins is
also featured in the exhibit. Hopkins
was inducted into the Maryland
Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2001.
The exhibit recognizes former
Damascus High School student-athletes such as Don Caparotti, Kevin
Thompson and Craig Turner who
went on to play major college and
professional football.
Caparotti played collegiately at
the University of Massachusetts before enjoying a stint in the Canadian
Football League.
Thompson, who guided Damascus to a pair of state championships during his high school career, became the starting quarterback
at Penn State and played in the National Football League, NFL Europe
and the Arena Football League.
Meanwhile, Turner, a former
Alabama running back, scored the
last touchdown for the legendary
Bear Bryant. The photo of Turner’s
historic touchdown run is enclosed
in a frame on the wall at the museum.
The Damascus Heritage Museum is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from noon until 5pm. The
sports exhibit runs through October.
Former Montrose Christian coach joins the Washington Wizards staff
By Brandy L. Simms
University of Maryland
women’s basketball assistant David
Adkins has joined the Washington
Wizards coaching staff.
The former Montrose Christian
associate head coach has joined
Randy Wittman’s staff as a player
development assistant.
The opening was created when
Ryan Saunders left to join the Minnesota Timberwolves coaching staff.
Saunders is the son of Timberwolves
head coach and President of Basketball Operations Flip Saunders.
Meanwhile, Adkins, 50, joins
the NBA franchise after spending
the past five years at Maryland
where he worked with various student-athletes including current
WNBA players Alyssa Thomas and
Tianna Hawkins.
During a seven-year stint at
Montrose Christian, Adkins coached
future NBA players such as Linas
Kleiza, Kevin Durant and Greivis
Vasquez.
Adkins has also trained local
products Marissa Coleman and
Michael Beasley among others.
“David Adkins is one of the
most highly regarded player development coaches in all of basketball,”
Maryland head coach Brenda Frese
said when Adkins joined her coaching staff in 2009.
Frese also congratulated Adkins
on the new move via Twitter saying
“he made a big impact on our program.”
In five years at Maryland, Adkins helped guide the Terrapins to
four NCAA Tournament appearances including the 2014 Final Four.
During his tenure at Montrose
Christian, the Rockville private
school finished nationally ranked in
USA Today five times.
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