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Editorʼs
Notebook
by Brian J. Karem
Lost your
Mojo?
We take a look at the problems of losing your “Mojo”
on a nationwide scale.
Page 4
Girls romp!
Clarksburg girls basketball
team defeats Damascus for the
school’s first victory over its
rival in school history.
Page 20
January 14 - January 20, 2016
ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Larry
Hogan (R) proposed tax breaks targeting retirees, working families and
“struggling small businesses” Tuesday.
“I can’t imagine anybody could
oppose these commonsense” initiatives, said Hogan.
The first-term governor put tax
relief and education funding at the
center of his legislative agenda,
though the governor did not announcement how he plans to pay for
the tax cuts.
“On the 20th, we’ll give you our
budget, and you’ll see the details,”
said Hogan.
During a news conference at the
State House, Hogan also unveiled an
initiative to encourage manufacturers to set up shop in Western Maryland, the lower Eastern Shore and
the City of Baltimore.
Under his proposal, those manufacturing companies would not
have pay a corporate tax at all and all
state taxes would be waived “for a
decade,” according to Hogan.
He specifically targeted “cer-
tain new companies who commit to
bringing in a certain number of jobs
into our most troubled areas of the
state where unemployment is the
highest.”
For retirees, “We’re proposing a
measure that will save 640,000
Maryland retirees $183 million in
taxes,” said Hogan.
The 2016 legislative session officially kicked off Jan. 13 when the
legislature reconvened. Hogan said
his “top priority” this year, like last
year, is education funding.
Likewise, he was skeptical
about a Democratic proposal to low-
er in-state tuition rates.
“I don’t want to see cuts to
higher education, so that’s probably
what a tuition decrease would do,”
said Hogan.
The governor trumpeted school
spending during his first term in office and pledged to be the first governor to “fully fund” the Geographic
Cost of Education Index in both his
first and second years in office. He
also said the state will contribute
more than $600 million to school
construction.
See “Governor” page 8
Guardian
Angels
patrol on
Metro
By Nadia Palacios
Special to The Sentinel
Recent violent attacks on the
Metro prompted the anti-crime organization Guardian Angels to expand their volunteering services
throughout the Red Line this past
weekend.
Guardian Angels is a nonprofit
crime prevention organization that
consists of volunteer patrollers. The
organization was founded in New
York City in 1979 and has spread
into several chapters across the
country.
Guardian Angels D.C. chapter
leader John Ayala said that they had
decided to step up their patrolling on
the Metro due to several calls from
citizens and after recent attacks.
“We have been getting a lot of
calls about teenagers just running
loose on the Metro and harassing
people,” Ayala said.
According to Richard Jordan,
the public information officer for
the Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority, crime is actually
down.
“The fact is that Part 1 crime
last year was the lowest it's been
See “Metro” page 8
PHOTO BY TERRY BRENNAN
WSSC continues to work on water main break problems throughout the County.
WSSC scrambles to fix broken mains
By Brianna Shea
@Bshea2991
ROCKVILLE - The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
continues to scramble and repair a
reported 1,918 water main breaks in
Montgomery County and Prince
George’s County for 2015.
WSSC reported 776 of those
breaks occurred in the County, said
Lynn Riggins, a spokesperson for
WSSC.
In 2014, 715 of the 1,943 breaks
were reported in the County and in
2013, 711 of 1,693 were in the
County, she said.
In order to combat and prevent
breaks, the WSSC created a planned
water pipe replacement plan to fix
aging infrastructure, Riggins said.
WSSC is replacing cast iron
pipes with ductile pipes because
they are more durable, said Luis
Maya, a spokesperson for the
WSSC.
“Ductile iron is much more
durable and resists corrosion,” Maya
said. “Cast iron is much more prone
to corrosion which weakens the
pipe.”
Riggins said the switch began in
the 1970s.
The goal is to replace 55 miles
of water pipe each year in both counties, said Maya.
See “Legislators” page 8
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JANUARY 14, 2016
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL
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EFLECTIONS
November 1, 1990
Traffic court and beating the system
Each week The Sentinel visits a
memorable story from its archives.
In an effort to alleviate Maryland’s severe prison overcrowding,
state officials are starting a program
that would allow some inmates to
complete their sentences at home.
Under Maryland’s first
statewide attempt at home detention, inmates who meet certain criteria will be released to their
homes, where they will be required
to stay when they are not working
or attending rehabilitation programs. An electronic anklet would
be used to monitor the prisoners.
The state Board of Public
Works last Wednesday gave final
approval for a contract for the electronic monitoring equipment after
the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services experienced delays in selecting a company.
The department rejected five
of the six bids it received, leaving
only Vorec Co. of Tarrytown, N.Y.,
which submitted a bid of $547,900.
Under the new program, inmates will be monitored with battery-operated devices fitted around
their ankles that periodically send
coded messages to electronic receivers installed in their homes.
The receivers are programmed to
alert prison officials by phone if
they do not get the signals when the
prisoner is supposed to be home.
In case the inmate is in a “null
spot,” where the transmission is impeded, such as a bathtub, the receiver employs a backup voice-recognition system to make sure that the in-
mate has actually left the home.
The system is considered tamper-proof since the receiver notifies
officials if the inmate attempts to
take the unit off. The systems that
were rejected suffered problems either with tamper-proofing or were
thought to be too new and unproven
by state prison officials.
About 40 inmates, all from the
Baltimore metropolitan area, will
initially be placed on the system,
according to program director Art
Ford.
The Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services
plans to be able to maintain a 300inmate system by 1992, Ford said.
“It’s either this or build a 300 bed
pre-release facility,” Ford said.
Inmate selection criteria for
the program considerably limit the
County to increase DUI enforcement in coming year
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ROCKVILLE – Montgomery
County police will step up efforts to
identify drunken drivers after an
uptick in alcohol-related arrests in
2015.
“Every day or night, officers are
arresting drunk drivers during their
normal course of duties,” according
to County police Capt. Tom Didone
of the County traffic division.
Montgomery County police arrested 3,221 people on DUI charges
in 2015, Didone said.
In 2014, 3,189 people were arrested, and 3,302 people were arrested in 2013, Didone said.
These arrests apply to the County police, Gaithersburg, the County’s
division of the National Capital Park
Police and Chevy Chase Village jurisdictions, said Officer Rick
Goodale, spokesperson for the County police.
He said there will be more emphasis on “spending more time looking” for these drivers.
Didone said the department
looks at previous data including
where the most arrests occurred.
He said areas such as Route-355
and the Silver Spring and Bethesda
corridor are hot spots.
The County’s Alcohol Holiday
Task Force actively looks for drunken drivers during the holidays,
spokesperson Capt. Paul Starks said.
The task force is made up of officers from six police departments,
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number of prisoners eligible for the
program, according to Ford. No
person ever convicted of a violent
crime, drug dealing or child abuse,
for example, may join the program,
he said.
In addition, the program director said only inmates who have 18
months or less remaining on their
sentences will be allowed into the
system, and all home detained inmates will be required to have fulltime jobs.
The program is the latest tool
conceived by correction officials
designed to hip away at the state’s
growing inmate overcrowding
problem. According to state corrections figures, there are more than
17,500 inmates in Maryland, which
only has the cell capacity to house
about 10,000 prisoners.
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the sheriff’s department, Gaithersburg police, the County’s division of
the National Capital Park Police Department and state police.
The task force began Nov. 15
and worked until Jan. 9.
He said officers not on the task
force also look for those who may be
under the influence of alcohol or
drugs.
Starks said when people are
pulled over, they perform three standardized tests for the officer to determine if the person is sober.
The first test is the walk-andturn test, the second is the stand-onone-leg test and the third is the horizontal gaze test.
Fourth District Officer Noah
Leotta died on Dec. 10 after Olney
resident Luis Reluzco, 47, struck
Leotta during a traffic stop at the intersection of Rockville Pike and Edmonston Drive on Dec. 3.
Reluzco has not been charged
because police were waiting for his
blood toxicology results as of Jan.13,
said Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti, a
spokesperson for the department.
Sgt. S.A. Flynn, with the department’s Alcohol Enforcement Unit,
said she has been hit by a drunken
driver and had other close calls.
“It’s something we go to work
and think about every day,” said Flynn. In 2002, Flynn, pregnant at the
time, was rear-ended by a drunken
driver while she was in her patrol car
on Rockville Pike.
Flynn and another officer were
nearly hit by a driver under the influ-
ence of drugs and alcohol during a
routine traffic stop on Wayne Avenue
at Dale Avenue two years ago.
Flynn said she was bracing herself for the car to hit her patrol car,
but the driver swerved to the left lane
at the “very last minute,” Flynn said.
“His car kept coming and coming,” Flynn said. She said these incidents do not scare her or make her
hesitant to perform her job. “It makes
me more committed to doing my
job,” Flynn said.
A drunken-driving accident in
Frederick resulted in the death of the
driver, and the officer was out of
work for almost a year in 2015, Flynn said.
She said that in 2011 an officer
was hit head-on while driving to
work in Germantown and survived
the accident.
As County police officers work
to take drunken drivers off the road, a
bill that holds businesses liable for
those who are visibly intoxicated,
leave the establishment and injury
someone will be reintroduced this
legislative session.
State Del. Kathleen Dumais is
reintroducing a Dram Shop bill that
can hold establishments civilly liable
if a visibly intoxicated patron leaves
the establishment and injures someone. “I would be in support of it for
sure,” said Zachary Campbell, a
manager for Limerick’s Pub.
He said bartenders take classes
taught by the County’s Department
of Liquor Control to be certified and
learn the signs of intoxication.
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OPINIONS &VIEWS
Finding that lost Mojo
Somewhere on FedEx Field
Sunday toward the end of the first
quarter, Aaron Rodgers and the
Green Bay Packers found their offensive mojo - much to the chagrin
of the Washington Redskins.
Editorʼs Notebook
by Brian J. Karem
Apparently, according to
Rodgers in his meeting with sports
reporters after the Packers victory,
mojos are tricky things and it only
takes a play or two to get them back.
Bart Starr, a former quarterback for the Packers of some fame,
once said football was a great
metaphor for life.
If both of these quarterbacks
are to be believed, and who am I to
argue, then I’m waiting for America
to find its mojo again.
Maybe someone can ask Aaron
Rodgers. Certainly that question
wouldn’t be any worse than the
young reporter who asked Rodgers
what he thought about some who
had said they’d rather have Kirk
Cousins playing for the Packers
than the reigning NFL MVP.
Perhaps America could at least
exhibit Rodger’s dry sense of humor. Recently The Sentinel found
firsthand how far off we are when it
comes to our national mojo.
This newspaper has been on the
side of civil rights and civil liberties
for the last 50 years.
Your humble editor was jailed
four times in the 1990s trying to defend the First Amendment.
Our editorials are usually –
when denigrated – referred to as
having a liberal bias. Our owners
have been routinely chastised as
“The Liberal Kapiloffs.”
So imagine our surprise when a
local office holder recently accused
us of taking an “editorial stance”
against immigrants.
Someone had told this office
holder that we printed a letter from
someone else and we were therefore
“anti-immigration.”
The office-holder is a friendly
and respectful human being. We got
along well on the telephone, but this
person made a decision about an editorial stance we never took without
ever reading an editorial. They
merely heard from someone else
something they interpreted as being
“anti-immigration.”
For the record we print a lot of
letters from people with whom we
disagree. That’s life. You don’t have
to agree with us and you’re entitled
to your opinion. On our opinion
page, as long as you are polite, then
we’ll print your letter – though we
reserve the right to comment and often do so.
In the recent State of the Union
Address, for example, you could
find Kim Davis, the Christian antiConstitutional county official from
Kentucky in attendance as President
Obama spoke. He made it clear that
having a difference of opinion is a
part of what makes our country
great, but we need to be civil and
rely on facts before forming opinions.
Maybe President Obama and
the Green Bay Packers got their
mojo working and the rest of us
have to catch up.
Obama factually and accurately referred to the Constitution, what
happens to terrorists like Osama Bin
Laden when they cross us, and dismantled the current G.O.P rhetoric
with sound reasons and those curious little things – facts – which
seem to be so elusive to many of us
– including many elected officials
and reporters.
If, for example, you’re going to
ask the reigning NFL MVP a question about his “sagging” production
and compare him to a young quarterback starting in his first playoff
game, you might want to actually
know what you’re talking about.
If you’re going to say you want
to make our country great again and
say that ISIL is the biggest threat to
our safety in history, then you might
want to put the threat in context and
look at the numbers.
If you want to vilify Muslims,
then you might want to consider reality. And if you want to vilify this
newspaper for being anti-immigrant, then please with respect know
this: We are not. We firmly believe
everyone should have an opportunity to experience the American
dream if they’re willing to participate in the great American experiment.
As a grandson of a Syrian
refugee (Lebanon was a part of Syria when my grandfather fled political strife there) it would be the worst
kind of hypocrisy to close the door
on others who yearn for freedom.
I attribute this all to our lost national mojo. The Packers found
their mojo at FedEx. Maybe everyone should call up Aaron Rodgers.
He seems to know what’s going on.
You could also give President
Obama a call. In fact it might be easier getting through to him than
Rodgers – after all the Packers are
still in the playoffs and have to worry about the Cardinals.
The President only has to worry about the economy and ISIL and
Congress.
Hmmm….Bart Starr was right.
JANUARY 14, 2016
JANUARY 14, 2016
LETTERS
We don’t agree
To the editor;
The recent documented brutal
attack by thousands of young men,
apparently refugees from the Middle East or Africa, of over one hundred young women in Cologne,
Germany on New Year's eve should
serve as a caution on whom we consider to be refugees.
The question should be asked,
if this is the shape of events to come
if we open our gates unlimited to a
flow of refugees. Certainly the
refugees involved, whether admitted to Germany recently or in the
past, have shown little respect for
women . Whether this is part of
their culture or simply young men
having fun still does not remove the
stigma from their actions, nor serve
as an excuse.
Over one hundred young
women in Cologne and more elsewhere have been permanently traumatized by these unwarranted attacks. Is this a scenario that we
want to see repeated in the U. S..
N. Marans
Silver Spring
WSSC and me
To the editor;
In Response to your cover story
on the WSSC sewer restoration project.
Insufficient notification, meetings called and cancelled on short
notice, WSSC is making up the rules
as it goes along, and keeping the public off-balance in an effort to force its
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LEGAL MATTERS
agenda. It seems WSSC can operate
with reckless abandon, and our elected representatives are powerless to
stop them.
I find it reprehensible that these
two homeowners are being deprived
of the use and enjoyment of their
homes, simply because they are unlucky enough to live adjacent to the
entrance determined by WSSC. Did
anyone consult them on this decision? Must these two women bear
the burden for the “greater good”?
What about their rights?
I challenge Mr. Leggett, Senator
King and council member Katz to
rein in WSSC, and negotiate compensation for these landowners, and
not let WSSC hang them out to dry.
C.A. Rounds
Germantown, MD
And never forget
To the editor;
The people who are telling me
to be accepting of immigrants like
the liberal Sentinel forgot that terrorists are threatening our way of life.
They must be stopped and never
allowed in this country.
R.G. Shelton
Rockville
editor’s note: as the grandson of
a Syrian refugee may I merely quote
Bill the Cat: “Thfffpt.”
Or to paraphrase our President,
a bunch of thugs running around in
pickup trucks with guns do not
threaten the stability of our country,
though I guess they’d like to do so.
Sigh.
Overcrowded prisons and sentences
THE
COURT
REPORT
by Tom Ryan
In the last year there has been a
lot of discussion about overcrowded prisons and soaring prisoner
populations, including moves taken
by the Obama administration to release early a large number of federal prisoners. One of the reasons for
the high number of federal prisoners is the Armed Career Criminal
Act (ACCA) , a federal law that
mandates enhanced prison terms
for certain convicted felons with
criminal records that meet the law’s
requirements. State laws have similar enhancement provisions. The
federal law is illustrated by a recent
opinion from the federal Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals called
United States v. Camden Barlow.
The Court’s opinion indicates
Barlow pled guilty in U.S. District
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to another,” which the trial judge
relied on in applying felony speeding to support the enhanced prison
term.
The Government admitted
that since Barlow was sentenced,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
the “otherwise” category was so
vague that it was unconstitutional.
That left Barlow with only two previous convictions that met the test
for “violent felonies,” so the Court
held he was not eligible for an enhanced sentence and the trial judge
had to resentence him. The Court
went on to find that given the sentences available for his breaking
and entering convictions, these
crimes were felonies so that he was
a felon who could not possess a
firearm.
This illustrates how the Courts
go about applying enhanced punishment laws that can produce very
lengthy prison sentences.
Thomas Patrick Ryan is a partner in the Rockville law firm of McCarthy Wilson, which specializes in
civil litigation.
REAL ESTATE
Finding the ever elusive real estate “Bargain”
REAL
ESTATE
SOLUTIONS
By Dan Krell
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Court in North Carolina to possession of a firearm as a felon. A year
earlier, he had pled guilty in State
court to two counts of “felony
speeding to avoid arrest,” and also
pled no contest to felony breaking
and entering, as a result of which under North Carolina law he could
only be sentenced to up to nineteen
months on each conviction. The
ACCA provided that a convicted
felon with three previous convictions for “violent felonies” could be
given an enhanced sentence, and he
was sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison. He appealed, challenging both his sentence and whether
under the law he was a “felon.”
The appellate Court noted that
the under the ACCA as enacted by
Congress, “violent felonies” could
include certain listed crimes, including burglary, arson, extortion,
or crimes involving explosives. A
second category was crimes that
have an element of us or attempted
use of physical force against another person. The last category in the
law was a crime that “otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury
The typical real estate investor
and the average home buyer have
something in common – they both
are looking for a home that makes
financial sense, a bargain if you
will. After all, who wants to overpay for their home?
Although the investor’s priority is purely financial, a home buyer’s priority is a mix of lifestyle requirements that fits a budget. Even
with priorities in line, both investors
and home buyers don’t always recognize a bargain when it presents itself.
Finding a bargain home is not
as easy as some will have you believe. Bargain hunters typically
look for distressed properties such
as foreclosures (also known as
“bank owned” or REO homes) and
short sales. Although there was
abundant opportunity to buying
such homes immediately after the
housing crash, many were hesitant
due to lack of market confidence.
However, as confidence was revived in the housing market, the
courthouse real estate auctions were
once again attended home buyers
and investors looking for good
buys. And as home prices increased, so did the price for distressed properties; making it more
difficult to find the bargain home.
Even “motivated” home owners
may not be as motivated as you
think in today’s market.
This phenomenon is corroborated by a recent study of “bargain
homes” by Trulia’s research blog.
Ralph McLaughlin reported on January 7th (Where Is A “Bargain” Really A Bargain?; trulia.com) that advertised bargains were actually
good buys in 55 of 100 housing
markets. Furthermore, hot markets
tend to offer less price discounting
than cooler markets; home sellers
are less inclined to make price reductions in markets where there is
increased buyer competition. Locally, the Baltimore metro region
was found to be in the top discounted markets for bargain homes (with
an average discount of 11.3%);
while the Washington DC metro region was found to be in bottom of
discounted markets with an average
of 4% discount on a bargain home.
It’s clear now that home prices
were at the bottom during 20082009. At that time, home inventories swelled and there was an abundance of (what would seem today)
“cheap” homes for sale. I wrote at
that time (If Cheap isn’t Selling,
What is?; May 28, 2008) about how
cheap homes were not selling, and
how home buyers changed their focus from “buy anything” to buying
quality homes that impart value. Of
course, one of the main reasons
cheap homes were not selling quickly was that there was an additional
cost associated with the purchase;
most of the cheap homes were distressed and required rehab, or at the
very least needed updates and minor
renovations.
For most investors, the concept
of a bargain home is strictly the result of numbers in a formula; and for
some home buyers, the bargain may
be about getting a good price. However, a bargain home could be more
than just the price tag. Maybe the
bargain home is also the “value
added” home. Rather than just focusing on price, buyers should also
be aware of a home’s potential. Of
course there is always risk when
buying a home, which we experienced during the financial meltdown eight years ago.
Regardless, many lament having not bought homes at or near the
price bottom. But hind sight is
20/20. And what didn’t seem like a
bargain just a few years ago, is in
comparison to today’s increasing
home prices and an active housing
market, a missed opportunity.
Dan Krell is a Realtor® with
RE/MAX All Pro in Rockville, MD.
You can access more information at
www.DanKrell.com.
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JANUARY 14, 2016
NEWS
Berliner takes on chair of Metro governments
By Brianna Shea
@Bshea2991
ROCKVILLE – The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ board of directors has appointed Montgomery County Council Vice President Roger Berliner
(D-1) its new chairman.
“With your support, it is my
hope that our primary focus for this
next year will be on two specific sets
of issues fundamental to the future
of our region – WMATA and our regional economy,” said Berliner. “It
is not an accident that both of these
issues are prominent on our agenda
today.”
Berliner will focus on areas
within Metro such as creating a
Safety Oversight Committee and
how it is funded, said Drew Morrison, legislative senior aide for
Berliner.
“And if the experience of the
other 28 communities that have done
this work is any guide, the collaboration that is fostered in this effort begins to permeate and spread
throughout the culture of the region,” Berliner said. “That would be
good thing for us.”
Berliner is succeeding former
mayor of Alexandria, Virginia,
William Eullie for a one-year term,
said, said Morrison.
The group includes 300 elected
officials from 22 local governments,
legislators from the state and Virginia and the United States Congress.
Members come from 12 jurisdictions in Maryland, the District of
Columbia and nine jurisdictions in
Virginia.
Local members include County
Executive Ike Leggett; Nancy
Navarro, County Council member
(D-4); Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman; and City of Rockville Mayor
Bridget Newton among others.
The Council of Governments is
an independent nonprofit association that brings state leaders together
to discuss regional issues in D.C.,
Maryland’s suburban areas and
Northern Virginia.
Gaithersburg opposes state highway plans
By Peter Rouleau
@Petersrouleau
GAITHERSBURG – A proposal by the State Highway Administration to scale back a long planned
new intersection near I-270 and
Watkins Mill Road has sparked
protest from Gaithersburg city officials, who say that the proposed
changes would hurt the city’s economic development.
According to Mayor Jud Ashman, the city learned last week that
in November, SHA officials had proposed building the new interchange
with only off ramps as a cost-cutting
measure, arguing that the effect on
traffic would be minimal.
“This has been planned for a
decade,” Ashman said. “Recently it
was fully funded and shovel-ready.
They did not discuss this with us;
we just learned about it second-hand
this past week. We’re trying to marshal all of our troops to pressure
SHA to put it all back on the table.
This is an important issue for the
whole county, not just Gaithersburg.
The governor is touting his record
on economic development, and this
has huge economic ramifications
for the entire area.”
Ashman and all five members
of the City Council signed a letter to
Gregory I. Slater, director of the Office of Planning and Preliminary
Engineering for SHA protesting the
“unacceptable” proposed changes.
“We are writing to not only express our dismay that we were not
informed substantive changes were
being considered but to strongly disagree with the finding that these
changes address traffic concerns in
the short term,” the letter read. “The
City is not supportive of anything
less than a full interchange. Several
approved projects and potential redevelopment projects are contingent upon the construction of the
full diamond interchange. While we
understand that a change in scope
could reduce the overall costs, those
savings would be outweighed by the
negative economic development
and vitality impacts to the City of
Gaithersburg and the Upcounty
area.”
Ashman said that he and the
council had already discussed the
proposed changes with Gaithersburg’s delegation to the state legislature and that they would advocate
for construction the full interchange
when they attend the opening day of
the legislative session next week.
“The lack of transparency is
the most disappointing thing,” said
Council Vice President Michael
Sesma. “The governor said he
would be transparent in all his actions.”
“We predicated all of our traffic studies on the plan as it was proposed at the time,” said Council
member Henry Marraffa. “We did
numerous studies proving that the
interchange was a good idea.”
Marraffa said that a new town
center and a new site for the city’s
police department were among the
proposed projects which would be
affected by the changes.
Public Schools vote unanimously to require special election
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
ROCKVILLE—The Montgomery County Public Schools
board of education unanimously
voted during its meeting Tuesday to
oppose the bill that would require a
special election if a board of education member vacancy appeared
within a term, citing expenses.
Delegates David Moon (D-20),
Kumar Barve (D-17) and Alfred
Carr (D-18) are among those sponsoring the bill, according to a memo
by MCPS legislative aide Patricia
Swanson.
Under the bill, board of education candidates seeking a position
that became vacant at least one year
before the end of a term would not
be appointed but rather elected by
voters, said Rebecca Smondrowski
(D-2), board of education member.
“Right now, if someone were to
resign in the middle of a term the
Board (of Education) appoints
someone to fill the seat for the rest
of the term and then they run like
usual,” said Smondrowski. “The bill
that’s being submitted would
change that from an appointment to
a special election.”
The elections are countywide
and nonpartisan, Smondrowski said.
The Montgomery County
board of elections would have to
hold a special election to fill the vacancy.
“In the event of a vacancy for
an elected member on the County
Board (of Education), if the vacancy
date is at least 365 days before the
end of the elected members’ term, a
special election shall be conducted
if the vacancy on the County board
for the remainder of that term and
until a successor is elected and qual-
ifies,” according to a draft of the bill
dated Aug. 5, 2015.
According to the bill, if the vacancy is within a specific district,
the replacement would need to live
in that district.
Board of education member
Philip Kauffman (D-at large) said
he did not see a need for a change to
be made to the bill.
“I would just say if there was a
problem with our current process
this is something to fix I could see,
but I don’t think that we have examples of where we’ve had problems,”
said Kauffman. Smondrowski
agreed with Kauffman. “We have a
system in place that works,” said
Smondrowski. “There is no reason
to change it.” Board member Pat
O’Neill (D-3) said she thought the
current process of appointing members in that situation rather than
holding an election worked best.
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Of caterpillars, loopholes and stump speeches
By Paul Schwartz
Sentinel Columnist
During this current campaign
season we once again are hearing a
great deal about closing the corporate tax loophole. What, however,
is, exactly, this loophole? How
does it work and how do we close
it?
A perfect place to start is with
the all-American company, Caterpillar, who masterfully took advantage of the loophole to avoid paying, as Bernie Sanders would put it,
their fair share of taxes.
Keeping in mind that this is
currently legal, all the loophole basically refers to is for a corporation
to set up a presence in a tax-friendly
nation and apply profits to that foreign entity while assigning losses to
the domestic operation in the United States. This enables the corporation to seek the least in tax obligation to the United States IRS coffers.
According to a recent Senate
investigative report, Caterpillar, a
major American corporation, the
manufacturer of heavy construction
and mining equipment, established
a subsidy in Switzerland (remember Swiss bank accounts?) to avoid
paying $2.4 billion of income taxes
over a 13 year period.
According to that same report,
Caterpillar transferred $8 billion of
profits to the Swiss subsidiary from
1999 to 2012 for the sole reason of
manipulating its tax obligation to
the U.S. and take advantage of the
lower tax rate Caterpillar negotiated with Switzerland.
It is important to understand
that, as a manufacturer, no manufacturing by Caterpillar occurs in
Switzerland; neither does any significant sales.
Almost all manufacturing by
Caterpillar and most sales occur
right here in the United States.
Also keep in mind that Caterpillar is not the only corporation to
set up overseas subsidies for the
sole purpose of reducing its tax
obligation to the U.S. The number
of corporations that do so are too
long to list here.
It is also important to under-
stand that, from a business standpoint, it makes a great deal of sense
for companies to seek the maximum in profits regardless of the impact on the U.S. economy.
It is government's responsibility to address these inequities.
When President Obama or any
of the current crop of presidential
candidates raise the issue about corporations paying their fair share of
taxes, they are only talking about
changing the current tax code in a
manner that penalizes companies
for availing themselves of this corporate tax loophole.
One such remedy would be to
simply require a certain amount of
actual corporate activity to occur in
the foreign subsidy, whether it be
based on manufacturing output or
sales, to qualify for applying that
foreign entity's tax rate to any significant portion of taxable corporate income.
The current Congress, which is
so blatantly beholden to corporate
interests, will hear none of that.
Even Donald Trump has mentioned during his campaign that the
wealthy should pay their fair share
of taxes.
He also goes on to claim that
taxes on corporations, as well as
wages, are too high, thereby, creating a bit of a conflict within his own
position.
The reality is that a company
like Caterpillar, whose manufacturing and sales primarily take place in
the U.S., will not lose out to competitors by closing this loophole because of the nature of the market.
The only thing that would be
lost are reduced profits based on tax
avoidance.
If competition with competitors was to be impacted negatively,
the solution would be to raise tariffs
on foreign manufactures to protect
domestic industry, not release
Caterpillar from their rightful tax
obligation which is then picked up
by us, the individual tax payers.
The fear of large corporations
leaving the U.S. to set up operations
in overseas tax friendly nations is
always a possibility and has been a
reality over the last 40 years with
the increase in "globalization".
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However, that is not what was
happening in the case of Caterpillar
since there is no operation in
Switzerland other than a Swiss address.
It should also be remembered
that the current federal tax rates on
corporate taxable income varies
from 15 percent to 39 percent.
Back in the 1950s under President
Eisenhower the rate could go as
high as over 90 percent.
More significantly, however,
back in 1952 corporate income tax
accounted for 33 percent of all federal tax revenue. Today, despite
record corporate profits, corporate
taxes account for less than nine percent.
In other words, closing the corporate tax loophole that allows corporations to set up corporate subsidies in foreign tax friendly havens
for the sole purpose of lowering
their tax obligation in the U.S. is
not just about fairness.
It is about money coming out
of our wallets, yours and mine, to
make up the difference in tax revenue.
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COVER STORY
Montgomery County, Maryland
Department of Environmental Protection
PUBLIC NOTICE
Application for a Temporary Noise Waiver
The Department of Environmental Protection is currently reviewing 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 Morgan-Keller Specialty Contracts Group of 70 Thomas Johnson Drive, Frederick, Maryland, for
the purpose of utility work along Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, between
Highland Avenue and Maple Avenue. Due to the impact on vehicle traffic,
the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) is recommending the
Governor sets legislative agenda for session
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Local state Sen. Nancy King
(D-39) questioned the governor
touting record investments in education funding.
“He’s not adding anything to it.
He’s funding what’s mandated,” she
said.
King also sounded skeptical
about Hogan’s tax cut proposal. The
governor said “an overwhelming
majority of Marylanders want this”
at the Jan. 12 news conference.
“I just need to hear what’s going to be cut, what needs to be cut to
do a tax cut,” said King. “The word
‘tax cut’ is just music to people’s
ears, but they need to realize that a
tax cut for one person is probably a
cut in funding for another person
somewhere.”
As the governor prepares to unveil his budget next week, Hogan
said he is not interested in offering
financial relief to localities that will
lose millions of dollars from the
fallout of a United States Supreme
Court decision issued last May.
In the case titled Comptroller
of the Treasury of Maryland v.
Wynne, the Supreme Court considered arguments about why residents
who pay income tax to another jurisdiction for income earned in that
other jurisdiction are allowed a
credit against the state tax but not
the county tax.
A 5-4 majority of the court
ruled Maryland’s personal income
tax scheme violated the dormant
Commerce Clause.
“Well, I think they’ve all been
preparing for this for several years
and most of the localities are going
to have to deal with those problems
themselves as we’re dealing with
our problems here. But if we can be
of some assistance in helping them
figure it out, we’ll be happy to talk
to them,” said Hogan.
“I’m more concerned about the
$200 million taken out of the pockets of taxpayers than I am the $200
million taken out of government,”
he added.
work hours be 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Monday-Friday. Morgan-Keller has
applied for a lane closure permit from the SHA, and the work is scheduled
to begin January 29, 2016 and projected to last approximately 3 weeks.
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The application and related documents are available for public inspection.
“Pedestrian”
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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
Gretchen Ekstrom, DEP/DEPC, 255 Rockville Pike, Suite 120, Rockville,
MD, 20850. Telephone 240-777-7750, Fax 240-777-7715 or email
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since 2007 except for 2014, which
was an exceptionally good year,”
Jordan said.
Part 1 crime includes aggravated assaults, arsons, vehicle
thefts, larcenies, rapes and robberies.
Jordan said crime has decreased 23 percent since 2015. Jordan also said that the handling of
these attacks depends on the severity of the situation.
“If we are alerted while the
crime is in progress, we will dispatch police officers, and many
times they arrive on scene and are
able to apprehend suspects or question people who may have been involved. If it is reported after the
fact, then we would investigate it
based on the information that is
provided,” Jordan said.
The Guardian Angels have
worked with the transit police by
enforcing the “See Something, Say
Something” rule and plan to continue working with them by informing the police of what they
witness on the Metro, according to
Ayala.
Jordan, however, said that the
Guardian Angels are not the police
and that if anyone is an emergency,
they should notify the Metro transit
police. “The Guardian Angels are
our customers. They are welcome
to ride the system like anyone else.
They are not law enforcement, so
anyone who does need police assistance should call or text the Metro
Transit police department or notify
a Metro employee,” Jordan said.
Ayala said that much of the focus will be in the Red Line. He
hopes there will be at least dozen
uniformed Guardian Angels on
board the trains and walking
around the platforms. There will
also be a few Guardian Angels not
in uniform.
“They [Angels in civilian
clothes] will not physically engage.
We don’t want people to know who
they are. They will contact the police,” Ayala said.
Ayala also said those in uniform will call the Metro Transit Police and will detain a suspect
should a crime happen in their
presence. They will also engage in
conversation with the youth on the
trains to create awareness and possibly recruit.
WSSC continues to clean up broken pipes
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“We’ve surpassed it in the
past,” he said.
In fiscal year 2015, a little less
than 24 miles of small diameter
pipe, 16 inches or smaller, was replaced out of a little more than 64
miles of pipes in both counties,
Riggins said.
The goal for the year was surpassed by nine miles that year.
Riggins said a little less than
62 miles, surpassing the 51 mile
goal, were replaced in both counties
and cost just under $96 million in
fiscal year 2014.
She said a little more than 18
miles were replaced in the County
that year.
Twenty-one miles of pipe in
the County were replaced in fiscal
year 2013, she said.
Riggins said the total amount
of a little more than 52 miles of pipe
were replaced at a cost of a little un-
der $94 million in fiscal year 2013
combined in both counties, Riggins
said.
“It’s like comparing apples to
oranges,” Riggins said Riggins said
the cost to replace large diameter
pipe cannot be correlated to miles
because the replacements include
more components.
In fiscal year 2015, the cost of
the entire replacement project in
both counties was just under $142,
000,000.
The cost of the project in fiscal
year 2014 was a little over
$111,000,000 and in fiscal year
2013 the project’s price tag was
close to $123,000,000.
She said large diameter
planned replacements include
planned replacement and emergency repairs, while the smaller
pipe replacements do not include
emergency repairs.
Maya said the plan does not include water main breaks such as the
one that occurred on Saturday, because these are considered emer-
gency fixes, where they must be repaired immediately.
On Jan. 9 on Capehart Drive in
Gaithersburg left 37 homes without
water for three and a half hours,
Riggins said.
She said the 47 year-old threeinch pipe broke.
Riggins said no bottled water
was handed out to residents because
the break did not take long to repair.
“If customers are without water for six hours, we bring them water,” she said.
Riggins said it is standard procedure because it becomes an inconvenience after that amount of
time.
There was some damage to the
road because the construction
workers had to dig up the road a bit,
to look at and repair the pipe and
patch it up.
“We don’t have a reason for
every pipe break,” she said.
The company would have to
perform forensic analyses to determine the cause of the breaks.
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JANUARY 14, 2016
NEWS
Legislators weigh in on the current session
This week the Montgomery
County Sentinel completes its survey
of legislators who are setting their
priorities as the legislature opens in
Annapolis.
We asked each candidate three
questions:
What are the priorities in the
legislature this year.
Should taxes be raised and what
is tops on their private wish list of
legislation?
State Sen.
Jamie Raskin D (D-20)
For Raskin, bridging the divide
between the Democratic legislature
and Republican governor is the “key
issue” so legislators can “make the
proper investments in education,
school construction, transportation,
criminal justice reform and the public infrastructure,” he said.
Raskin said he plans on introducing legislation focused on gun
control and curbing drunken driving.
His bills would “see that
firearms are surrendered by convicted domestic abusers” and that “suspected terrorists cannot access
firearms,” according to Raskin.
He also said he supports expanding the use “of the ignition interlock device to cover all convicted
drunk drivers as well as other strong
anti-drunk driving” initiatives.
As for taxes, Raskin said, “Let's
hope none of them have to be
raised!”
Del. Sheila Hixson
(District-20)
“We think the Voting Rights Act
this year for ex-felons to vote,” said
Hixson about the most important legislative issue this year. “We felt they
have paid their dues to society and
they have to right to vote.”
Hixson said she would like the
Death With Dignity bill pass this session because it gives a person the
right to determine whether they will
want to be on artificial life support
systems.
“I have a youth prevention suicide program,” Hixson said.
Students are talking to counselors right now, but the bill gives
students someone to talk to.
“I’m pretty involved with the libraries in the state,” Hixson said.
She said this is a “money bill”
that will give resources to libraries.
Delegate Andrew Platt
D (D-17)
“I think (the most important issue) is going to be education funding, making sure Governor Hogan
doesn’t shortchange our schools and
our students,” said Platt.
Platt said he wanted to pass a
bill to increase pre-kindergarten access for students.
“(It’s) the bill to expand access
to pre-kindergarten so we can get
more 4-year-olds into the classroom
and prepare them for school.”
He said he’s writing a bill to assist low-income families in completing the Free Application for Federal
Student Aid to apply for college financial aid. A third bill Platt advocated passing would ban the sale and
distribution of gun silencers.
Platt said he opposes tax increases and he opposes tax breaks for
the wealthy and for large companies.
“I don’t think we should raise
any taxes this year, but I also don’t
think we should be cutting taxes for
big corporations and top earners,”
said Platt.
Del. Benjamin Kramer
D (D-19)
Kramer said the most important
issue in the upcoming session is eco-
nomic development.
He said there’s a rumor federal
government will decrease in size.
Several county residents work for the
federal government and if those jobs
disappear, residents may have to find
jobs in the private sector, said
Kramer.
“We’re still heavily dependent
on the federal government, public
sector for jobs,” said Kramer. “Now
we’ll be more dependent on the private sector.”
Kramer said he wanted legislation involving the ignition interlock
program to be passed.
Delegate Marice Morales
(D) D-19
“I would love to see pay equity
passed in this session,” said Morales.
“For too long women have been undercompensated for (working) the
same jobs men are.”
“Maryland women make 78
cents to a man’s dollar,” said
Morales.
Pay is less than that for African
American or Latina women, Morales
said.
Legislation for pay equity
would have more than one function.
“It bolsters the power that courts
have to say that there was a genderbased reasoning for why an individual woman was underpaid for that
job,” said Morales.
Morales said she wanted to see
her bill requiring sexual assault affirmative consent on all college campuses. The University of Maryland
adopted affirmative consent last year.
“It would be my dream to see all
college campuses adopt what University (of Maryland) at College
Park is doing.”
People held liable or responsible for sexual assault would not be
criminalized under the bill, said
Morales.
Some college representatives
who opposed Morales’ bill last year
were under investigation by the Department of Education for Title 9 violations, according to Morales.
Morales also said she wanted to
see the universal voting legislation
introduced by Del. Leudtke and by
Sen. Roger Manno.
She said she would like to see
the Ignition Interlock bill passed so
someone convicted for
“It forces you to breathe into
your system into the car very day for
a year. It’s going to change your behavior.”
Morales said she was not in a
rush to increase taxes.
Del. Will Smith (D-20)
The top three bills Smith said he
would like to see introduced and
passed this session regard gun control, prison reform and green energy.
Smith explained one bill would
require people “convicted of domestic violence to surrender their
firearms to a licensed gun distributor
or the authorities within 48 hours of
their conviction.”
A “justice reinvestment” bill, if
enacted, “could reduce Maryland’s
prison population by 3,930 inmates
over the next 10 years, averting $247
million in corrections spending,” according to Smith. “Those savings
would then be reinvested into programs and practices proven to protect public safety and reduce recidivism.”
“I’d have to say that Justice
Reinvestment could prove to be the
most important issue of the session,”
said Smith. “Very few pieces of legislation have the potential to create
substantive institutional change. If
passed it could be the most important
thing the Assembly does in a generation.”
Smith also said he supports a
bill to require “a responsible approach to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions by growing clean energy
sources like wind and solar energy
and relying less on landfill gas and
black liquor.”
Smith said he would consider
supporting tax cuts as part of an “effort to stimulate the success of our
small businesses.” However, before
backing tax cuts, Smith said he
would want to ensure legislators are
fully funding public schools and are
“moving to make college tuition
more affordable.”
Del. Eric Luedtke
(D) D-14
The most important issue, “I
think it’s going to be a debate over
voting rights,” said Luedtke.
The Freedom to Vote Act will
modernize Maryland voter registration law, Luedtke said. The presumption at the motor vehicle registration
office would switch from opt-in voter registration to opt-out. In addition,
felons who complete jail sentences
would be eligible to vote as well.
He said he wanted to see a
Health in Maryland initiative passed
that would add a tax to the sale of tobacco. He said it would contribute to
health in at least two ways: it would
likely reduce the amount of tobacco
people buy and a portion of the money gathered from the tax would be allocated to tobacco prevention to discourage juveniles from smoking. A
portion would also go toward Medicaid expansion.
He and Sen. Madaleno are drafting a bill to add two early voting stations to Montgomery County. Only
delegation representing the county
would have to pay for it.
The delegation representing the
county would be the only ones to
vote on it, said Luedtke.
A local board of elections representative said the board wanted one
additional early voting station.
Luedtke said he thought “there
was universal support in the delegation” for it.
Luedtke said he would support
tax cuts for smaller businesses. He
said it’s too early to say how the tax
cuts would be determined.
State Sen. Susan Lee
(D-16)
According to Lee’s chief of staff
Michael Lore, the senator’s top priority this upcoming legislative session is her pay equity bill.
Lore explained the bill is similar
to a law in California which shifts the
burden on to the employer “to explain why they’re not paying equal
rates to women that they pay to
men.”
The bill also clarifies that there
can be “no retribution” taken against
employees for asking other employees about their salary information,
said Lore.
Lore also highlighted Lee’s bills
dealing with domestic violence and
human trafficking as among her
chief priorities this session.
He said a bill to take away the
“malicious intent” requirement in
stalking and harassment cases could
also make it easier for prosecutors to
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driving and save lives is “worth having.”
“The criminal justice reforms
recommended by the Justice Reinvestment Coordinating Council,”
Dumais said.
The recommendations will reduce the prison population and could
save the state money.
argue related cases because it’s difficult for them to prove what the sus-
cause she needs to look at the budget.
State Sen. Nancy King (D-39)
pect thought at the time of any incidents.
State Del. Ariana Kelly (D-16)
Increasing economic security
for families is at the top of Kelly’s
priority list for 2016.
She described it as a “critically
important” issue for legislators to address.
Kelly also included a paid family leave bill and “a number of pay equity bills” as issues she plans to support this session.
“All of these bills work together
King said she is focusing on education funding, ranging from capital improvement projects to offering
relief for college tuition costs and
even eliminating tolls for school buses traversing the Intercounty Connector.
She said she would like to
change the funding formula in order
to increase funding to school system
.“This bill is formula driven, so the
growing systems would get more
money,” said King.
The senator also said she’s
putting forth a bill in on behalf of the
Montgomery County Council to
eliminate the requirement for the
County to advertise public hearings
in newspapers, offering the alternative of posting them on the County
website instead.
King said she does not think any
taxes should be raised this year.
“None,” she said. “I don’t see
any appetite (for raising taxes)
to increase economic security for
families,” said Kelly.
Sen. Cheryl Kagan
(D-17)
“The answer is always the budget,” Kagan said. “It’s the blueprint
for our state’s priorities.”
She said she is working on a bill
that will improve the capacity and effectiveness of the 9-1-1 system for
the state.
Kagan said she is working on an
impaired driving legislation that will
allow police officers to test people
for levels of cocaine, methamphetamines, prescription drugs and marijuana.
She said she is working on legislation that mandates any state government website must have languages are spoken by three percent
by the population.
“The only language closet is
Spanish” Kagan said.
She said she is unsure if taxes
will need to be raised this year be-
“I don’t really have a tax I’m
looking to increase,” Dumais said.
Del. Ana Sol Gutiérrez (D-18)
Education funding is issue No. 1
for Gutiérrez, who said the General
Assembly is tasked with restoring
“the damage done by the governor
last year.”
She referred to the Geographic
Cost of Education Index, which Democrats and Gov. Larry Hogan (R)
grappled with fully funding last year.
Gutiérrez also cited “teacher
needs” and student growth in Montgomery County as issues the legislature should address this session.
The delegate said implementing
the recommendations from a law enforcement commission that came out
this week in response to the Freddie
Gray death case in Baltimore.
Her other two priorities include
funding and expanding dual-language instruction in schools, saying
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) “is not doing the job
we need to have” done, and funding
infrastructure that protects the environment, including a focus on solar
and wind power.
among the members or the communities we represent.”
Del. Kathleen Dumais
(District-15)
Dumais said criminal justice reform is the most important issue this
legislative session.
She said Maryland incarcerates
too many people for non-violent and
low-level drug-related crimes.
“Maryland does not have a custody statue that would help courts
make decision in family law cases,”
Dumais said.
She said she would like to see
the Dram Shop Law passed because
legislation that will decrease drunken
“I don’t think there should be
any taxes raised,” said Gutiérrez.
Del. Anne Kaiser
(District-14)
“The most important issue
every session is our budget,” Kaiser
said. “It's not simply numbers, but a
reflection of our values.”
She said investments need to be
made in education, public safety,
transportation and health care.
“In regards to education, I will
focus on fully funding our nationleading schools as we deal with issues such as increasing enrollment,”
Kaiser said. “At the same time, we
have to protect our crucial public services -- from women’s healthcare to
after school meals -- to sheltering the
least among us; these are the challenges we face, and the issues that
will define us.”
She said she does not think there
will be support for increased taxes
this year.
“If anything, we need to look at
tax reform that lessens the burden on
middle class families -- with a revenue neutral approach -- that protects
funding for our priorities, like education, colleges and universities,
healthcare and public safety,” Kaiser
said.
Del. Jim Gilchrist
(District-17)
“Certainly supporting education, transportation, the environment
and healthcare,” Gilchrist said about
the most important issue in the legislative session.
Gilchrist said he would like to
see a “retention election,” for circuit
court judges, that includes the
judges’ names on the ballots and voters can choose either ‘yes’ or ‘no.’
“In Maryland with Circuit
Court judges, the judges are appointed, but still have to go through an
election,” he said.
Gilchrist said he would like to
see a “Death with Dignity” bill
passed this legislative session.
The legislation will allow doctors to prescription to aid in the patient’spassing.
Gilchrist said he would legislation that will not allow attorneys to
act as their own real estate agents,
but will allow them to if they are
working on a legal case.
“At this point, I don’t know of
any taxes that should be raised,”
Gilchrist said.
He said the Fiscal Year 2015
budget closed with $295 million and
the fy 2016 budget is estimated to
close at $520 million.
Kirill Reznik
(D) District 39
“Maximizing all the money we
need to get from the state to fund our
schools (is important)” in the upcoming legislation, said Reznik.
Last year the County delegation
approved a budget that funded more
of MCPS’ needs, but Gov. Larry
Hogan did not approve all of it, said
Reznik.
Reznik said he is helping but not
sponsoring a bill for universal voter
registration.
Reznik said he didn’t think
Hogan’s priority to cut taxes is realistic.
“(We have to) protect what have
so our social safety net is not gutted
by tax cuts,” said Reznik.
Though The Montgomery County
tried repeatedly to reach out to all
members of the Montgomery
County delegation, the following
representatives did not respond to
our requests prior to deadline:
Sen. Brian Feldman (D-15)
Sen. Richard Madaleno (D-18)
Del. Craig Zucker (D-14)
Del. William Frick (D-16)
Del. Jeff Waldstreicher (D-18)
Del. Charles Barkley (D-39)
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JANUARY 14, 2016
NEWS
Rockville prepares for revenue reduction
By Danica Roem
@pwcdanica
ROCKVILLE – City staffers
are preparing for a $200,000 reduction in income tax revenues this
year as a result of a United States
Supreme Court decision last year
and how the state has misallocated
County income tax revenue.
Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and the four City Council members discussed the budget during a
work session at their first regularly
scheduled meeting of 2016 Monday.
According to worksheet signed
by City Manager Barbara Matthews
and chief financial officer Gavin
Cohen, “The General Fund forecast
currently assumes that income tax
will be reduced to $12.2 million in
FY 2017 (down from $12.4 in FY
2015 and FY 2016) and will in-
crease by a modest two percent in
each subsequent year.”
The city document provided a
warning to the council members
about potential hits to the city’s income tax revenue.
“In FY 2017 and in future
years, this revenue category will be
impacted by the Supreme Court decision on the Wynne case and the
misallocation by the State of County income tax revenue,” states the
document.
At the work session, Council
member Mark Pierzchala asked
Stacey Webster, who serves as the
deputy director of finance for the
city, about a change in revenue
data.
“I would say the number-one
fundamental change was our income tax estimates,” said Webster.
Webster explained she removed
between $400,000 to $600,000 a
year from the expected income tax
revenue based on actual numbers
from the most recent budget.
“Knowing that between the
Wynne case and the misallocation
of revenue, we are probably going
to take at least a couple-hundredthousand-dollar hit a year. So I
wanted to make sure we were
showing a conservative estimate on
income tax even though we do not
have any final information,” said
Webster. “That’s just a very, very
initial estimate.”
Council member Beryl Feinberg noted a $2.3 million adjustment for employee salaries, which
is commonly referred to as “comp
and class” or compensation and
classification, meant a rise in personnel costs for the city.
“I think that put some added
stress on the budget,” said Feinberg, calling the figures from Web-
ster “somewhat sobering.”
The city document from Cohen
and Matthews also stated the
Wynne decision and what city officials are described as the state’s
misallocation of the income tax revenue “could potentially have serious impacts to the City's overall
General Fund resources.”
Cohen and Matthews cautioned the Mayor and council “that
these impacts could lead to major
revenue or expenditure changes,
such as increases in the property tax
rate or decreases to City programs
or services.”
The city worksheet noted a 1
cent property tax increase could be
in the cards for fiscal year 2018.
Rockville’s property tax rate
currently stands at $0.292 per $100
of assessed value and $0.805 per
$100 of assessed value for personal
property.
Pierzchala said he wanted to
ward off that potential tax hike if
possible.
“There’s just a fundamental
shift between Fiscal Year ‘16 and
Fiscal Year ‘17 and perhaps (FY)
‘18 that really gives me pause and
I’d rather start addressing some of
this this year if not the whole
thing,” said Pierzchala.
According to Webster, the city
should be able to avoid tax increases in FY ’17, but she was less certain about the future.
“I think when we can look at
what our FY ’17 budget will look
like, and I’m pretty confident we
can do FY ’17 without any sort of
tax rate increase, but we’ll have a
better idea moving forward of what
our programs are costing this year
because they’ve definitely changed
since the FY ’16 budget was adopted,” said Webster.
B.O.E stresses student safety Montgomery College moves forward with renovation
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
ROCKVILLE — As rumors
swirl, Montgomery County Public
Schools officials are trying to allay
fears of raids at schools after the Department of Homeland Security recently began a nationwide deportation effort.
Jeh Johnson, secretary of
Homeland Security, said in a letter
dated Jan. 4 that the department Immigration and Customs Enforcement
began the weekend of Jan. 2-3 a nationwide effort to remove immigrant
families that entered the country illegally and with children.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) engaged in concerted, nationwide enforcement operations to take into custody and return
at a greater rate adults who entered
this country illegally with children,”
said Johnson. “This should come as
no surprise. I have said publicly for
months that individuals who constitute enforcement priorities, including
families and unaccompanied children, will be removed.”
According to County Council
member Marc Elrich, immigrant
families became worried after they
heard stories of Immigrant Customs
Enforcement raids occurring in
Prince George’s County.
News outlets reported ICE raids
occurred in various locations in the
U.S. the weekend of January 2-3.
Johnson said ICE took 121 individuals into custody “primarily from
Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina,
and they are now in the process of
being repatriated.”
ICE targeted adults and children
apprehended for crossing the southern border illegally after May 1,
2014, who received a final order of
removal from an immigration court
and they have not claimed asylum or
other humanitarian relief, Johnson
said.
Larry Bowers, interim superintendent for MCPS, said parents
should continue to send their children to school because the schools
are safe and they need to ensure students don’t fall behind in their
school work. Students are safe in
their schools from the Immigration
Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security, according to Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez
(D-18).
“While as a general matter, ICE
treats schools as sensitive areas
where arrests, interviews, searches
and surveillance will not occur,
Montgomery County Public Schools
administrators are closely monitoring the situation,” said Bowers in a
statement released Tuesday afternoon.
Bowers said MCPS is aware of
news reports of a letter released by
ICE last week and MCPS will use
existing procedures to ensure safety
in schools.
“MCPS will continue to follow
established procedures to ensure that
our schools are safe places for all of
our students to learn, regardless of
immigration status,” said Bowers his
statement Tuesday.
Kimberly Statham, deputy superintendent of school support and
improvement, said Jan. 5 she was
concerned about students, especially
immigrant students, feeling safe in
schools because some students might
have thought recent events in the last
week relating to immigrants applied
to them.
Joann Lelek at Broad Acres Elementary School in Takoma Park is
more than 80 percent Hispanic or
Latino as June, according to MCPS
Schools at a Glance.
By Nadia Palacios
Special to The Sentinel
Montgomery College’s Germantown campus anticipates starting
renovation of $40 million this summer.
The renovation will be in its Science and Applied Studies building so
that it can house the projected enrollment growth, according to college
officials.
Acting Director of Planning and
Design for the college Sandra Filippi
said the renovations will also make
room for the science programs that
did not fit in the new Bioscience Education Center, which was dedicated
back in September 2014.
“The renovated space and new
addition will house the sciences
which were not included in the Bioscience Education Center,” Filippi
said.
These sciences include astronomy, engineering, geography, land-
scape technology, physics and physical science.
Filippi also said that the building will continue to house student
services for the Germantown campus, such as assessment, counseling,
disability support and admissions.
Assistant Director of the Office
of Capital Budget Neil Bergsman
said the state will provide half of the
$40 million over the period of time
needed for the completion of the renovation.
According to the Enacted Capital Budget, the state is supplying
Montgomery
College
with
$6,050,000 for the fiscal year of
2016. The Capital Budget Book said
the proposed amount that the state
will provide for fiscal year 2017 is
$9,370,000, though this amount has
yet to be reviewed.
The senior associate of the architectural design team from
Ziger/Snead, Jonathan Lessem, said
that construction will be divided into
two phases.
“What we’re doing effectively
is dividing the building in half. The
north half will remain occupied because student services must remain
in the building, and the south half of
the building is being renovated, and
we’re adding a third floor above the
south half. That’s phase one,”
Lessem said.
Lessem also said the second
phase will consist of renovating the
north half of the building.
Ziger/Snead, the architect company that requests the building permit, applied for the permit in late August 2015. Filippi said that the college is now in the process of
searching for and hiring a general
contractor to begin the construction.
Filippi said that construction is
anticipated to begin in the summer of
2016 and should be completed by the
summer of 2018. Students will be
able to use the building during the
time of the renovations.
Leggett explains economic impact of losing liquor monopoly
By Brianna Shea
@Bshea2991
BETHESDA – County Executive Ike Leggett warned County residents about the economic impacts of
losing the County’s monopoly on
liquor and losing the Wynn Case at
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional
Services Center Monday night.
The forum allowed Leggett to
hear from the public about their
thoughts and concerns about next
year’s budget.
He said the County’s operating
budget is $5 billion, with majority of
funds going toward the County public schools and public safety operations.
He said 80 percent of the budget
is school funding, public safety and
the County’s debt service and cannot
be changed due to the law or operational necessity.
“That is why $30 million has
such a devastating impact,” Leggett
said.
He said he has an issue with privatizing the County’s liquor operations because the County could lose
$30 million.
Leggett said there are two options for replacing this money, either
increasing taxes or cutting the budget
further.
Property taxes could increase by
$100 a year for an average household, Leggett said.
If the referendum to allow residents to vote on the fate of the Coun-
ty’s Department of Liquor Control
comes to fruition, they have to understand what they are voting for,
Leggett said.
Leggett said if the referendum is
passed he does not want residents to
assume there are no consequences
for their actions.
He said he does not have any issue with privatizing, but the money
the County could lose is detrimental.
“I really have no qualms against
privatization,” said Leggett.
He said he supported the privatization of the County’s economic development to a private economic development corporation.
“I don’t want people to say they
don’t fully understand this,” Leggett
said.
JANUARY 14, 2016
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NEWS
The debate of the future look at the past rages on
By Peter Rouleau
@Petersrouleau
TAKOMA PARK – The novelist and philosopher George Santayana is credited with the saying
“Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it.” According to historical preservation advocates, the state government’s failure to commemorate important heritage sites could condemn
Marylanders to a wide swath of negative consequences.
At a town hall meeting at Historic Takoma Park on Saturday,
Nicholas Redding, director of
Preservation Maryland, outlined the
key issues at stake in the effort to preserve and increase historical preservation funding.
“We need to be sure that we
don’t describe our issues as a niche
issue or as something that’s just nice
to have,” Redding said. “Our issues
are integral to community development; they are integral to creating the
kinds of sustainable communities
that people want to move into.”
Redding said there was a “disconnect” between Maryland voters,
who have repeatedly indicated in
polls that they support funding for
heritage sites and elected officials
who fail to vote for such funding. He
noted that in 1969, the General Assembly had created Program Open
Space, under which a small percentage of the tax paid on every property
purchase in the state is put into a fund
set aside for the preservation of open
spaces and historical sites.
“Since 1969, the General Assembly and many governors have
treated this like a little piggy bank,”
Redding said. They have dipped into
it and taken out $1 billion that was
promised to the people to be spent on
preservation and instead spent it on
various pet projects throughout
Maryland.”
Redding referred to Del. Sheila
Hixson (D-Montgomery), chair of
the House Ways and Means Committee, as “a particularly difficult legislator to talk to about these issues.”
Jim Baird, Mid-Atlantic Director of the American Farmland Trust,
echoed Redding’s statements.
“Woods and trails are not only
beautiful and historic; they provide
food and watershed protection,”
Baird said. “These are not frills. They
provide a lot of economic benefits.”
Baird described Program Open
Space as “a masterpiece of visionary,
cooperate legislation,” but said that
“Governor Ehrlich wiped it clean.
Governor O’Malley was great about
it for many years, but towards the
end of his time in office, he dipped
into it, too.”
Noting that the current proposed
budget makes significant cuts to
preservation funds, Baird urged attendees to sign a petition to restore
funding for historic preservation at
www.partnersforopenspace.org.
Redding said that his organization and other historical preservation
societies would work to make the
public desire for heritage funding
known in the coming session. He
urged attendees to write to their legislators and speak to them in person
whenever possible.
Sarah Rogers, executive director of Heritage Montgomery, said
that when the assembly considers
cuts to preservation funding, the
stakes are very high for Montgomery
County.
“Montgomery County has set
the bar pretty high,” Rogers said.
“We have the Ag Reserve, 93,000
protected acres that are always under
threat from development or building
projects. They see one thing, preservationists see another. Montgomery
County is very much in danger of
losing the character and fabric of in
its heritage sites.” Rogers praised
Reddin’s efforts and expressed optimism that a concerted effort to preserve heritage funding in Montgomery County would inspire others
throughout the state.
“We’re a county that has resources; we can be the example,”
Rogers said.
G.O.P candidates debate for District Six seat
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
GAITHERSBURG — Eight
individuals running for Congress
answered questions on topics such
as national security, immigration
and the Second Amendment at the
Holiday Inn Jan. 7 for the Congressional District 6 debate.
Terry Baker, Scott Cheng,
Robin Ficker, Amie Hoeber, Frank
Howard, Christopher Mason,
Harold Painter and David Vogt each
have their eyes Democrat John Delaney’s District 6 seat in Congress.
When asked, each candidate
that evening said he or she supported the Second Amendment and
would protect the right to bear arms.
When asked whether they supported abortion rights, all but one
said yes. Hoeber would not say she
supported it; however, she said she
stands by the current law, under
which abortion is legal.
Members of the panel asked
some candidates about whether they
would make changes to institutions
such as health care.
A panelist asked Cheng
whether he would propose legisla-
tion regarding Affordable Care Act,
following a Congressional bill to repeal it.
Cheng, a physician, called the
act a “mess-up” and said health care
should be an agreement between the
doctor and the patient.
With regard to immigration,
Baker and Howard said they supported building a wall along the
Mexican border, as presidential candidate Donald Trump has advocated.
Ficker and Painter answered a
question about immigration. Ficker
did not seem bothered by illegal immigration to the U.S.
“There are millions of very
bright people around the world who
would make very fine Americans
that could contribute to our society
and bring jobs to Western Maryland
, and I am all for… bringing those
people to the United States,” said
Ficker.
Ficker compared the process of
obtaining citizenship with getting
married and paying taxes.
“If people are here illegally,
it’s a legal process. You have to go
through the legal process just like
you do when you get married, just
like paying taxes as a legal process
for people to go through to become
citizens, and I’m for that. “
Painter, however, disagreed
and said the topic is an issue that
corresponds with his agenda.
“I think immigration is both a
problem for national security and
for what’s, to be honest, my main
agenda and that is restoring American economy and the working man
to the middle class,” said Painter.
Baker said he thought some
members of the Islamic State are in
the U.S. and would support a war
against ISIS.
Trump said he thought all
mosques should be closed. Baker
did not agree.
“Closing, no,” said Baker.
“Not at this time,” because “I’m not
so sure everyone that goes there is a
terrorist.”
Some candidates said that other
issues were more important to them
than the environment and sustainable energy. A panelist asked Baker
whether he thought climate change
was the biggest threat to the nation.
He said “getting rid” of terrorists is the nation’s priority.
“These terrorists out there, they
want us dead,” said Baker. “They
hate us.”
A panelist asked Vogt if he supported the coal industry, and he said
yes.
“Our Western Maryland population was built by coal,” said Vogt.
“Killing industries like Senator Delaney has done with coal is absolutely deplorable.”
Mason said he supported energy that was “economically suitable”
and that would result in energy independence. He said he supported all
types of energy, including coal and
nuclear energy.
Candidates’ responses to questions on Delaney’s stance on the
Syrian refugee crisis came in varying levels of sentiment but for the
most part did not encourage additional refugees due to distrust of the
effectiveness of the vetting process
for refugees.
Howard echoed the governor’s
statement that allowing refugees in
under a weak vetting process was a
security risk.
“It’s extraordinarily dangerous
to let in Syrian refugees without
proper vetting,” said Howard.
Following the debate, Hoeber
said although she thought the vetting process was detailed, having
background checks and multiple interviews, Syrian documents and
records were not organized enough
to be reliable sources of background
information.
“I think it’s absolutely impossible to do with the Syrian refugees
that deployed here,” said Hoeber.
“We cannot vet their unconnection
with terrorism. There isn’t enough
data of the society in Syria didn’t
keep their source of records. We
wouldn’t have access to those
records even if (Syria) had kept (the
records).”
Howard and Vogt and said they
supported the governor’s decisions
about whether to allow Syrian
refugees to live in the U.S. and
about seeking a balanced budget.
Howard said Hogan and other
governors in the U.S. who do not
support welcoming Syrian refugees
were doing “the right thing.”
Vogt said he agreed with
Hogan’s approach to seek a balanced budget. He added that Hogan
had a strong command of the state’s
budget. He said the most recent
budget was the strongest one yet.
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JANUARY 14, 2016
ALENDAR
INTERFAITH CELEBRATION OF REV.
DR. KING'S LIFE AND LEGACY
Jan. 17. 3:00 P.M. Come celebrate MLK's vision of reconciliation at a unique multi-faith service
commemorating the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King. Coordinated by the InterFaith Conference of
Metropolitan Washington at the St. Paul AME
Church, 4901 14th Street NW (Corner of Emerson)
Washington, DC. Parking available across 14th
Street at the Kingsbury School and on local streets.
Reception with light refreshments will follow program.
JAN 14
CONCERT: BILL AND THE BELLES
Jan. 14. 7:00 P.M. (doors open at 6 pm) A rare
appearance in our area--this Bristol, TN trio presents
early country music for the modern listener with
striking 3-part harmony. Website: http://billandthebelles.com/ Contact: Ruth Goldberg,
[email protected] or Patuxent Music, (301)
424-0637, [email protected]. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Advance tickets are available for purchase. Where: Patuxent Music, 409 N
Stonestreet Ave, Rockville.
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:
EROICA
Jan. 14. 8:00 P.M. Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony weaves struggle, tragedy and eventual triumph
into a story that celebrates human possibility. BSO
Principal Oboe Katherine Needleman expresses the
lyrical themes and technical fireworks of Baltimore
native Christopher Rouse’s genial and spirited oboe
concerto. Marin Alsop, conductor. Katherine
Needleman, oboe. Strathmore - The Music Center,
5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Visit BSOmusic.org or call 1-877-BSO-1444 for ticket information.
SENIOR CONNECTION: “DON’T LET
WINTER WORRY YOU”
Jan. 14. 1:00 P.M. Winter can be a tough time
for many reasons. The days are shorter and darker,
sidewalks and streets can get icy, heating bills increase as we turn up the thermometer, and we can’t
forget the potential for another snowmageddon.
Join staff from the Jewish Social Services Agency
(JSSA) for a presentation on “Don’t Let Winter
Worry You!” The program will be held at the Holiday Park Senior Center located at 3950 Ferrara Drive in Silver Spring. You’ll get information about
seasonal depression, fall prevention and home safety, hypothermia and emergency preparedness. For
more information, contact 301-962-0820. Please
RSVP to [email protected] or call 301962-0820. This program is sponsored by the Senior
Connection.
ALOG KENTLANDS MANSION EXHIBIT
2016
Jan 14 – Mar. 20. The Art League of Germantown (ALOG) exhibit will feature the two-dimensional artwork (Oils, Acrylics, Watercolor, Pastel,
Pencil/Charcoal, Mixed Media and Photography) of
ALOG members in a juried show at the Kentlands
Mansion in Gaithersburg, MD. An exhibit reception
is scheduled on Tuesday, January 12 from 7:008:30pm. The artists will be in attendance to meet patrons.
The Kentlands Mansion, located at 320 Kent
Square Rd., Gaithersburg, MD, was built by Frederick Tschiffley Jr. in the 1890s. The period decorated
mansion and other buildings are still standing and in
use today for social functions and business meetings. For more information and operating hours,
please call 301-258-6425. Location: Kentlands
Mansion, 320 Kent Square Rd, Gaithersburg.
JAN 15
"LEND ME A TENOR" PRESENTED BY
ROCKVILLE LITTLE THEATRE
Jan. 15. 8:00 P.M. Six performances | Jan. 15, 16,
22, and 23 at 8 p.m. | Jan. 17 and 24 at 2 p.m. This
madcap, screwball comedy brings us backstage at
the opera where, due to a series of hilarious
mishaps, the world’s most famous tenor is unable to
go on. A laugh-out-loud chain reaction of mistaken
identity, farcical plot twists, double entendre, and
musical mayhem! F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre,
Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 Edmonston Drive,
Rockville. For more information call 240-314-8690.
Tickets are $22 ($20 for students and seniors 62+).
January 14, 2016 – January 20, 2016
COURTESY PHOTO
Honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s legacy - Volunteer at
Montgomery Countyʼs MLK Day of
Service at locations throughout the
county and make January 18 a day
to give back to your community.
WINTER WALTZ BALL
Jan. 15. 7:00 – 11:00 P.M. The weather outside
may be frightful, but our party will be delightful!
Arts on the Green presents an elegant evening of
ballroom and Latin dance fun at Kentlands Mansion. Dancers of all levels are welcome, from
novice to master. Waltz is a smooth, graceful dance
characterized by long, flowing movements, turns,
and rise & falls. Instructors from Two Left Feet will
teach Waltz, demonstrate other dances and answer
questions on proper technique. Non-alcoholic refreshments included; cash bar available. Where:
Kentlands Mansion, 320 Kent Square Road,
Gaithersburg. For more information call 301-2586425.
JAN 16
WINTER WONDERLAND CANAL WALK
Jan. 16. 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. This 10km trail,
with a 5km option, rated 1B, is an easy out and back
walk on the C&O Canal Towpath upstream from
Carderock to the Widewater area and to Locks #15
and #16 on relatively flat natural surfaces. An optional 1km trail will take you out to Olmsted Island
to view the Great Falls of the Potomac River. The
terrain is suitable for strollers but not for wheelchairs. Restrooms are available at the Start/Finish
point. WATER WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE EXCEPT IN THE RESTROOMS AT THE START
POINT. The GPS coordinates for the Start/Finish
point are 38.976280, -77.205389. Where: Third
Parking Area, Carderock Recreation Area, C&O
Canal Towpath, Cabin John. Sponsored by the
Seneca Valley Sugarloafers Volksmarch Club. For
more information call 301-385-0054.
WAKE UP, BROTHER BEAR!
Jan. 16. 10:00 – 10:45 A.M. This audience-favorite show is back from hibernation! Watch as
Brother and Sister Bear experience a full year of
glorious seasons. Together we see a waterfall melt,
meet a butterfly, chase an elusive fish, and skate on
an icy pond. Children are invited to join the action
with a small bag of props that help create magical
moments. Presented by Imagination Stage. Address:
4908 Auburn Ave.
Bethesda. Additional dates: Jan 17, 23. For more
information call 301-280-1660.
WALTZ AT GLEN ECHO PARK
Jan. 17. 2:45 - 3:30 P.M. Introductory Waltz
Workshop and 3:30 to 6:00 P.M. Dance. Join us for
a Waltz Dance in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen
Echo Park on Sunday, January 17, 2016 featuring
the ensemble Taylor Among the Devils playing a
lively mix of folk waltzes with a few other couple
dances, including Hambo, Schottische, Swing, Tango, and Polka. The 45-minute 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 202-238-0230 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.
JAN 18
MLK JR. DAY OF SERVICE
Jan. 18. Make Martin Luther King Jr. Day on
January 18, 2016 a Day ON and not a day off. Save
the date to volunteer at Montgomery County’s
MLK Day of Service at locations throughout the
county. There will be service projects for all ages
that will make an impact to lives in your community. Be Ready to Serve!!
JAN 19
SCIENCE CAFE EVENT: THE VISIBLE
HUMAN PROJECT
Jan. 19. 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. Join us at 6:00pm for
hors d'oeuvres and the celebration of our new partnership with USP, followed by a presentation at
7:00pm by Dr. Michael Ackerman on The Visible
Human Project. The image dataset for The Visible
Human project, developed in the mid 90's, gives a
unique and detailed look inside the body. People
around the world use the images in a variety of
ways, to help students learn anatomy; or to develop
products like artificial limbs; or to create tools to
help surgeons rehearse operations. Learn why and
how this project was accomplished and demonstrate
some of the products which the Visible Human
dataset has made possible, including the machine
recognition of individual prescription pills. U.S.
Pharmacopeial Convention, 12601 Twinbrook
Pkwy
Rockville.
JAN 20
LOSS OF A CHILD SUPPORT GROUP
Jan. 20. 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For parents grieving
the death of a child of any age. A six-week group
that meets each Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
at the Montgomery Hospice offices at 1355 Piccard
Drive, Suite 100, Rockville. Registration required:
301-921-4400.
UPCOMING
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PARENT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP
Jan. 21. 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For adults who have
experienced the death of one or both parents. A sixweek group that meets each Thursday from 6:308:00 p.m. at Montgomery Hospice offices at 1355
Piccard Drive, Suite 100, Rockville. Registration
required: 301-921-4400.
AWARD-WINNING ARTURO O'FARRILL
AND THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ OCTET AT
BLACKROCK
Jan. 22. 8:00 P.M. GRAMMY Award-winning
pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill, son of bigband leader and Afro Cuban Jazz musician Chico
O’Farrill, will perform with the Afro Latin Jazz
Octet at BlackRock Center for the Arts on Friday,
January 22 at 8:00pm. Arturo O’Farrill—pianist,
composer, educator, and founder and Artistic Director of the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance—was
born in Mexico and raised in New York City. Growing up Arturo was inspired by his father’s music but
cast a wider net when finding his niche – Afro Latin
Jazz, a genre to which he’s made extraordinary contributions. Tickets are $18 - $32 and are currently on
sale through the BlackRock box office in person,
online at blackrockcenter.org or by calling
240.912.1058.
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION WORKSHOP "HEALTHY HABITS FOR A
HEALTHIER YOU"
Jan 23. 1:00 P.M. At any age, there are lifestyle
habits we can adopt to help maintain or even potentially improve our health. These habits may also
help to keep our brains healthy as we age and possibly delay the onset of cognitive decline. This free
workshop covers four areas of lifestyle habits that
are associated with healthy aging: cognitive activity,
physical health and exercise, diet and nutrition, and
social engagement. In each area, we will discuss
what we know, drawing on current research, as well
as what we can do - steps to take now to improve or
maintain overall health in each area. Aspen Hill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Rd, Rockville. Free. For
more information and to register, call 800.272.3900.
MUSIC: DC FUSION
Jan. 24. 7:30 P.M. DC Fusion has quickly become one of the region's most in-demand dance
bands, and it's easy to see why. With keyboard wizard Benjie Porecki at the helm, dynamic and versatile vocalists, and the area’s top instrumentalists, this
band can do it all. Members of DC Fusion have
performed with artists such as Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Angie
Stone, Isaac Hayes, Chuck Brown and many more.
For more information, visit www.chrisgrassomusic.com/Fusion. Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, 7719 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda. Tickets:
$10
TALK: DEALING WITH DEER AND OTHER MAMMAL PESTS IN YOUR GARDEN
Jan. 25. 8:00 P.M. Bambi may be cute, but he
and his mother, cousins, and rest of the herd are very
hungry and they would love to make a feast of your
garden. This talk will cover proven and humane tactics for gardening with deer, rabbits, rats, groundhogs, and other furry creatures that are attracted to
both edible and ornamental gardens. Refreshments
will be provided after the talk by the following Silver Spring Garden Club members: Janet Ishimoto,
Sarah Leung, Sue Smith, Anne Asher, and Patricia
Miller. This event is FREE and open to the general
public. Where: Brookside Garden, Visitors Center/Education Building , 1800 Glenallan Avenue,
Wheaton. Our featured speaker, Kathy Jentz, is editor and publisher of Washington Gardener Magazine.
TRENDING TOPICS: RESPONDING TO
THE HEROIN EPIDEMIC
Jan. 25. 12:15 – 2:00 P.M. Guest speaker John
McCarthy, Montgomery County State's Attorney,
will discuss the County's response to the heroin epidemic on Monday at the Wheaton Library, 11701
Georgia Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland. Sponsored
by the League of Women Voters of Montgomery
County. Free. Public welcome. Refreshments provided. For more information call the League at 301984-9585, email [email protected]. Like us on
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mont.lwvmd.org.
Follow us on Twitter@mocomdlwv
FOX HILL'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS DISCUSSION GROUP TO FEATURE AMBASSADOR JOHN HERBST
Jan. 26. 7:45 – 9:00 P.M. The upcoming Foreign
Affairs Discussion Group will feature Ambassador
John E. Herbst, an expert in conflict prevention, resolution and the building of stability and civil society
in troubled or disrupted nations. Herbst served for
31 years as a Foreign Service Officer and holds the
Presidential Distinguished Service Award and the
State Department Distinguished Honor Award. His
discussion topic, “Stabilization Operations,” will address ongoing worldwide crises, challenges and possible solutions for troubled governments and
regimes. The program provides a question and answer session and is open to the media and public.
Reservations are requested to attend the event. Contact Julie Sabag at Fox Hill at 301-968-1850 or at:
[email protected].
INTER-RELIGIOUS STUDY AS A CIVIC
GOOD
Jan. 28. 12:00 – 1:00 P.M. The Case for Building Learning Communities through Religious Difference, an intensive opportunity for interfaith conversation with religion scholars from the Institute of
Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS).
WHERE: Episcopal Church of the Ascension
205 Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg. To register
please email Rev. Randy Lord-Wilkinson, [email protected].
BUILDING RESILIENT HOUSES OF WORSHIP IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Jan. 28. 2:00 – 4:00 P.M. How Faith Communities can respond to an Active Assailant. Co-Sponsored by Faith Community Working Group, Police
Department, Office of Emergency Partnerships and
Homeland Security. WHERE: Rockville Public Library, 21 Maryland Avenue.
KRISTIN CHENOWETH AT STRATHMORE
Jan. 29. 8:00 P.M. Broadway legend, TV star,
and movie queen Kristin Chenoweth graces the Music Center at Strathmore with her inimitable beauty,
humor, and talent with her Coming Home Tour. The
concert features stories from Chenoweth’s life on
stage and screen, and music that spans the breadth
of her career, with venerable standards by Lerner
and Loewe, Harold Arlen, and Kander and Ebb, as
well as pop favorites. Chenoweth will also world
premiere a song composed by Grammy and Tony
nominated composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa,
from his new concept opera I Am Anne Hutchinson,
which will have its world premiere at Strathmore
later in the 15-16 Season. Lippa will be present to
conduct during the January concert with
Chenoweth. This performance is sponsored by Joel
& Elizabeth Helke. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or visit
www.strathmore.org.
ANNUAL CASINO NIGHT AT THE J
Jan 30. 7:30 P.M. The Rosenbloom Owings
Mills JCC of Greater Baltimore plays host to a spectacular night on the town: Casino Night at the J.
Blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, delicious appetiz-
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ers, complimentary beer and wine, and live auction.
In advance of Casino Night, the JCC is also launching its dynamic “Bids for Kids Online Auction” at
www.biddingforgood.com/jcc. Items include skybox Ravens tickets, vacation get-aways, restaurant
gift cards, spa services, and even a two-week luxury
RV! A preview for the Online Auction begins Monday, January 11, 2016; the Auction goes live January
17 through January 28, 2016. Location: The Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC is located at 3506 Gwynbrook Ave., Owings Mills. Time: 7:30 pm to
10:30pm. Contact: Esther Greenberg at [email protected] or 410-559-3545 for press inquiries.
Tickets: To purchase tickets visit www.biddingforgood.com/jcc. $75 per person (in advance); $100 at
the door.
WALTZ DANCE AT GLEN ECHO
Jan. 31. 2:45 - 3:30 P.M. Waltz Workshop and
3:30 to 6:00 P.M. Dance. Join us for a Waltz Dance
in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park on Sunday, January 31, 2016 featuring the ensemble Tangerine Tempo. 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 45-minute 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 202-238-0230 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.
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION WORKSHOP "THE BASICS: MEMORY LOSS,
DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE"
Jan. 30. 1:00 P.M. This free workshop is for
anyone who would like to know more about
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of aging. If
you or someone you know is affected by
Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, it’s time to learn
the facts. Topics covered include: Symptoms and
effects of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia; How Alzheimer’s affects the brain; Causes
and risk factors and much more. Where: Aspen Hill
Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Rd, Rockville. Free. To
register, call 800.272.3900.
MEDITATION PROGRAM: HOW TO
MEDITATE DAILY
Feb 1. 7:00 – 8:00 P.M. In this four-week compact course (Feb.1, Feb. 8, Feb. 18 & Feb. 22) you
will learn the basics of meditation: what it is, what
the benefits are, and how to do it by blending current scientific research with ancient yogic wisdom.
The instructor, James McCullum, has traveled extensively to train and study with yogic monks to
learn more about yogic lifestyle, meditation, and
deep meditative experiences. Please register online
at www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library. Click
“Branches” and select “Quince Orchard Library.”
Call 240-777-0200 for more information. Registra-
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GRAMMY Award-winning pianist and composer Arturo OʼFarrill, son of bigband leader and Afro Cuban Jazz musician Chico OʼFarrill, takes the stage
with the Afro Latin Jazz Octet at BlackRock Center for the Arts on Friday,
January 22 at 8:00 pm.
MONTGOMERY COUNCIL 2323 DINNER
Jan. 31. 3:00 – 7:00 P.M. The Knights of Columbus’ chefs will be serving a fresh garden salad,
Spaghetti & Meatballs, garlic bread. Dinner will be
served from 3:00 to 7:00 pm at the Father Cuddy
Hall, 17001 Overhill Road in Derwood. Tickets are
$10.00 for adults (ages 14 & above); $7.00 for children (ages 7 to 13); free for children 6 & under; or,
$35.00 for a family; by contacting Mike Thomas in
advance at (301) 330-5970.
CHRISTIAN UNITY SERVICE
Jan. 31. 3:00 P.M. All welcome to join with
Montgomery County churches at annual prayer service for Christian Unity. Saint Elizabeth Catholic
Church, 917 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD. The
Rev. Kathryn Woodrow, Pastor of Faith United
Methodist Church, Rockville, will preach. Special
music will be provided by the combined choirs of
the participating churches and the Trinity Lutheran
Church Handbell Choir. A freewill offering will
benefit Mid-County United Ministries of Wheaton.
tion is limited to 20 people. Bring your own mat or
use a chair for the practice.
MASTERMIND EVENT FOR SMALL
BUSINESS OWNERS
Feb. 5 & 6. Join 14 other business owners for a
one-day workgroup at a lovely home in Arlington.
Retool and reset your business in the New Year with
the collective wisdom of others, led by Nancy Becher of Business Success Unlimited. Choose either
Feb 5 or Feb 6. For details and to register, contact
[email protected] or call Nancy 269-3196041.
THE GORDON CENTER PRESENTS ISRAELI SINGER/SONGWRITER SENSATION NOA
Feb. 6. 8:00 P.M. Noa (Achinoam Nini), Israel's leading international singer/songwriter, graces
the Gordon stage to celebrate the Gordon’s 20th anniversary. A huge event for everyone, Noa also performed at The Gordon’s opening 20 years ago, and
she was our very first act! Noa is known the world
January 14, 2016 – January 20, 2016
over. She has shared her angelic voice and magnetic
stage presence with superstars such as Sting, Pat
Metheny, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli and many more.
On the Campus of the
Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC, 3506 Gwynnbrook
Ave., Owings Mill. For more information call
410356-7469.
Feb. 7. 2:45 – 3:30 P.M. Waltz and 3:30 – 6:00
P.M. Dance. Join us for a Waltz Dance in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park on Sunday, February 7, 2016 featuring the ensemble Terpsichore.
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
45-minute 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 202-238-0230 or Glen Echo Park at 301634-2222, go to www.WaltzTimeDances.org or email [email protected]. The Glen Echo
National Park is located at 7300 MacArthur Blvd.,
Glen Echo.
MONTGOMERY HOSPICE BEREAVEMENT WORKSHOP: FOREVER YOURS
Feb. 12. 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. A special workshop
for widows, widowers and life partners who want to
honor and remember their loved ones on Valentine’s
Day. 1:00-2:30 p.m. Free and open to any Montgomery County resident. Montgomery Hospice,
1355 Piccard Drive, Rockville. Registration required: 301-921-4400.
VALENTINE’S DAY CABARET AT
STRATHMORE
Feb. 14. 8:00 P.M. Alan Cumming takes doeeyed lovers on a fantastical arc from the throes of
love to unrequited desire in a Valentine’s Day
cabaret dripping with feelings in Alan Cumming
Sings Sappy Songs on Sunday, February 14, 2016 at
8 p.m. in the Music Center at Strathmore. The eclectic Tony winner, best known for his star turns as the
Emcee in the Broadway revival of Cabaret and Eli
Gold on the hit series The Good Wife, traverses
songs from the likes of Annie Lennox, Elaine
Stritch, Adele, Keane, and Rufus Wainwright “with
tremendous theatrical authority” (The New York
Times). The evening of song and comical banter is
backed by his Emmy-winning Musical Director
Lance Horne and cellist Eleanor Norton. For more
information or to purchase tickets, call (301) 5815100 or visit www.strathmore.org.
CHINESE NEW YEAR PARADE
Feb. 14. 2:00 P.M. The Chinese Consolidated
Benevolent Association (CCBA) announces this
year’s Chinese New Year’s celebration to be held on
H Street in Chinatown, Washington DC. This year,
4714 in the Chinese Lunar Calendar, is the Year of
the Monkey, symbolizing wisdom, intelligence,
confidence, creativity and leadership. To ring in the
Year of the Monkey, the CCBA has planned numerous events including: Pre-parade VIP Luncheon.
Dynamic community-based parade with traditional
Chinese Lion Dance, Dragon Dance, marching
bands, Kung Fu schools, Shaolin Monks, ChineseAmerican beauty pageant winners, Dragon Boat
racers and much more. Well wishes from the Mayor,
Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office
and other VIPs. Stage performance from Chinese
Lion Dance Troupes…all followed by the sizzlecrackle and pop of the firecracker finale. To cap off
festivities, there will be a VIP Dinner in the evening.
Route Start: 6th & Eye St NW | Route End: 6th & H
St NW.
CONCERT: NIH PHILHARMONIA
Feb. 20. 7:30 P.M. The NIH Philharmonia, under
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DC Fusion at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, Sunday January 24.
Showtime is at 7:30 pm, tickets are $10.
the direction of Dr. Nancia D'Alimonte, presents "In
Remembrance" at St. Elizabeth Church in
Rockville, MD. The concert is free to the public and
will include "A German Requiem" by Brahms with
The Metropolitan Chorus of Arlington. For more information, please visit www.nihphil.org or call 240
888 6781
Feb. 21. 2:45 – 3:30 P.M. Waltz and 3:30 – 6:00
P.M. Dance. Join us for a Waltz Dance in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park on Sunday, February 21, 2016 featuring the ensemble New Caledonia. 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 45-minute 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 202-238-0230 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.
ONGOING
ART EXHIBIT: "TRUE COLORS: LIKE A
RAINBOW" AT DEL RAY ARTISANS
Through Jan. 31. Del Ray Artisans’ artists interpret colors of the rainbow in the "True Colors: Like
a Rainbow" art exhibit. For centuries artists have
been inspired by these true colors. Come enjoy the
artwork and mingle with the artists at the Opening
Reception on January 8, 2016 from 7-9pm at Del
Ray Artisans gallery (2704 Mount Vernon Ave,
Alexandria VA). Don’t miss the workshops on wire
jewelry, polymer clay, resin, and paper flowers!
www.TheDelRayArtisans.org/True
ALOG KENTLANDS MANSION EXHIBIT
2016
Through Mar. 20. The Art League of Germantown (ALOG) exhibit will feature the two-dimensional artwork (Oils, Acrylics, Watercolor, Pastel,
Pencil/Charcoal, Mixed Media and Photography) of
ALOG members in a juried show at the Kentlands
Mansion in Gaithersburg, MD. An exhibit reception
is scheduled on Tuesday, January 12 from 7:008:30pm. The artists will be in attendance to meet patrons.
The Kentlands Mansion, located at 320 Kent
Square Rd., Gaithersburg, MD, was built by Frederick Tschiffley Jr. in the 1890s. The period decorated
mansion and other buildings are still standing and in
use today for social functions and business meetings. For more information and operating hours,
please call 301-258-6425. Location: Kentlands
Mansion, 320 Kent Square Rd, Gaithersburg.
FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS
Every Saturday. 9:30 – 10:30 A.M. Food Addicts
Anonymous meets every Saturday at the Unitarian
Universalist Church, 100 Welsh Park Drive, Building #4, Rockville, MD 20850. We welcome new
members. For questions, please visitwww.foodaddictsanonymous.org or call Jewell Elizabeth @ 301762-6360.
OPEN LIFE DRAWING AT DEL RAY ARTISANS
Jan –Dec. LIFE DRAWING: Looking for a
chance to hone your figure drawing skills? Del Ray
Artisans offers a range of open life drawing sessions
for just this purpose. Just drop-in for the session and
bring your supplies to draw or paint our live models.
Fee ranges from $8-$12. All skill levels are welcome. Del Ray Artisans is located at 2704 Mount
Vernon Avenue, Alexandria VA. See our calendar
for dates and times:
calendar.TheDelRayArtisans.org
SENIOR FIT
Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:15 A.M. & 2:15
P.M. This 45-minute, multi-component exercise
program is for people age 55+. Ongoing classes are
offered at 23 locations in partnership with Kaiser
Permanente. Call 301-754-8800 to request a physician's consent form to register and for a class schedule. Where: Holy Cross Hospital Senior Source,
8580 Second Avenue, Silver Spring. For more information call 301-754-8800. Cost: Free.
TEEN WRITER'S CLUB
Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Join us at the Marilyn J. Praisner Library, at 14910 Old Columbia Pike,
Burtonsville, MD 20866, to meet other teens who
share your interest in writing. Learn to improve your
writing and try new approaches. Ages 12 and up are
welcome. For additional library events and information call 240-773-9460.
ART EXPLORERS OPEN STUDIO
Saturdays, 10:00 – 12:00 P.M. Join us on Saturday mornings, 10am to 12:30pm in the Candy Corner Studio for drop in art activities for parents and
children. Activities change weekly and there is no
pre-registration; $10 per child. This weekly event is
presented by Playgroup in the Park (PGiP) and Glen
Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture. Location: The Candy Corner Visit
www.glenechopark.org or call 301-634-2222
AFTERNOON GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
Tuesdays 1:30 – 3:00 P.M. For anyone grieving
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the death of a love one. Registration required at
(301) 921-4400. North Bethesda United Methodist
Church, 10100 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD
20814.
LOSS OF A CHILD SUPPORT GROUP
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For parents grieving the death of a child of any age. Registration required at (301) 921-4400. Montgomery Hospice,
1355 Piccard Dr., Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20850.
EVENING GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For anyone grieving
the death of a loved one. Registration required at
(301) 921-4400. Hughes United Methodist Church,
10700 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20918.
PARENT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP
Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. For adults who have
experienced the death of one or both parents. Registration required at (301) 921-4400. Mt. Calvary
Baptist church, 608 North Horner’s Lane,
Rockville, MD 20850.
BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
Tuesdays. 6:30 – 10:30 P.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, Wheaton-Glenmont, MD 20902
[email protected]
CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH
Sundays 11:00 – 3:00 P.M. $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. Visit http://www.blacksbarandkitchen.com or call (301) 652-5525. Black’s Bar
and Kitchen, 7750 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, MD
20814.
LAUGH RIOT AT THE HYATT
Saturdays 8:00 – 10:00 P.M. Check out a live
standup comedy show by local standup 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].
$10 at the door. Visit http://www.StandupComedyToGo.com or call (301) 657-1234. Hyatt Regency
Bethesda, 1 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD.
CORPORATE BARTENDING FOR CHARITY
Wednesdays 4:00 – 7:00 P.M. 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. Visit tommyjoes.com or call (301) 654-3801 for more information. 4714 Montgomery Ln., Bethesda, MD
20814.
LIVE MUSIC FRIDAYS
Fridays 9:30- 12:30 P.M. Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery features different music styles by
various live bands that perform both original and
cover songs. So come relax and enjoy live music
and Rock Bottom's award-winning handcrafted
beer. Visit http://www.rockbottom.com or call (301)
652-1311 for more information. 7900 Norfolk Ave.,
Bethesda, MD 20814.
SALSA NIGHT
Tuesdays 7:30 – 12:30 P.M. 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. Visit salsawild.com or call
(301) 654-0022 for more information. 4723 Elm
St., Bethesda, MD 20814.
HEY MR. DJ
Fridays 9:00 – 2:00 A.M. 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: 2:00 – 6:00 P.M. Meet
the owners, learn about the origin of chocolate, and
see how it is grown and processed. Experience how
chocolate is made from the actual cacao seed to the
final chocolate 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) 6546972.
COUNTRY THURSDAYS
Thursdays, 9 P.M. 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 Ave., 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. Call
(301) 951-0115 for more. Flanagan's Harp and Fiddle, 4844 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814.
– Compiled by Tazeen Ahmad
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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12004 - Happy Ads
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Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Content
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Writers (Rockville, MD), Support
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analytically
the dvlpmt
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chemical engg content to be integrated into
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the
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Courtroom Clerk
District Court of Maryland for
Montgomery County
Silver Spring
D 3887714-1
Perform
specialized
clerical work at the
2 X 1.76
i
47135ADN
Help
Wanted,
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advanced
level
assisting
the judge
in courtroom
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procedures
003173ADNET CHEMICAL ENG
paperwork
SENTINEL for the judge s and/or defenADNETs signatures.
CHEMICAL ENG
dant
Responsible for assisting
the judge in the maintenance, operation, and
organization of the courtroom. Work is performed with considerable independence and is
evaluated for efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness and compliance with procedures. Resolve
a variety of unprecedented or unusual problems. Ability to work overtime, as needed
without prior notice. Ability to travel to
Rockville
location as needed. Maybe called in
D 3887681-1
during
emergencies,
e.g. inclement weather
2 X 1.76
i
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General
- CNG
conditions
staffWanted,
shortages.
Please visit
the
3887681-1 website
court’s
to
apply
003173COURT CLERK
http://www.courts.state.md.us/jobs/index.html
SENTINEL
COURT CLERK
EOE
Sr. Technical Advisor for Health & Nutrition
to: develop & update ADRA's nutrition technical strategies, standards & protocols; collect &
make tools & initiatives, inc. workshops,
available to nutrition implementers; support
Sr. Country Mgrs. by providing technical support, mentoring & training; ensure that donor
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intern'l humanitarian standards are
2 X 3.01 i
adhered
to; facilitate
data collection
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Help Wanted,
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qualitative & quantitative surveys on
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WANTED
health
& nutrition
services; identify & apply
SENTINEL
nutrition
best
practices,
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HELP WANTED
innovative methodologies to enhance the quality & effectiveness of ADRA programs. Min.
Req: Master's in Nutrition or rel. field or for.
equiv. plus 2 yrs. rel. exp. req'd. Send resume
& cover ltr to: Attn: HR, ADRA Int’l, 12501
Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904.
A DVERTISE
IN
The Sentinel!
HELP WANTED,
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exp Estimator/Proj Manager
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SENTINEL
MECHANIC
Mechanic
IV
‘
Maryland Environmental Service seeks a Mechanic
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CDL preferred. See ALL requirements on
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i 21108, or fax to 410-729-8235, or
Millersville,
47135OPE Help Wanted, General - CNG
email
[email protected]
3887619-1
003006OPENINGS
SENTINEL
OPENINGS
Communications
Specialist
to: handle internal
communication efforts for ADRA's Marketing
& Development Unit, inc. intranet manag't,
president's communication, & coordinate
internal training events; assist in development
of a strong media contact list; track media
mentions & media trends, seeking out & managing media placement; create & develop
press releases, media relations content & conD 3887765-1
tent
for corporate release; contribute to social
2 X 2.51 i
media
calendar
& digital
communication.
Min.
47135UAD
Help
Wanted,
General - CNG
Req:
BS Media Studies, Communications or
3887765-1
003676UADWEB
GEMG
TECplus
ASST
rel.
field or foreign
equiv.
2 yrs. rel. exp.
SENTINEL
req’d.
Nat’l & intern’l travel req’d. Send
UADWEB GEMG TEC ASST
resume
& cover ltr to: Attn: HR, ADRA Int’l,
12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD
20904.
Emergency Technical Assistant to: assist in
developing ADRA's network emergency manag't policies, protocols & guidelines; assist
coordinate network emergency response of
category 3 emergencies; ensure response proposals adhere to donor obligations & agency
standardsregs & procedures; coordinate w/
Business Development Unit on developments
of USAID & DOS Bureau of Population,
Refugees & Migration (PRM) & maintain contact with key staff of such organizations; collect relevant info. on the emergency & Country
Office capacity to assist in making proposals
3887736-1
toD
Min. Req: MS Public Health
2USAID/PRM.
X 2.51 i
or47135UAD
rel. field req’d.
resume
& cover
to:
Help Send
Wanted,
General
- ltr
CNG
3887736-1
Attn:
HR, ADRA Int’l, 12501 Old Columbia
003676UADWEB
COMM
Pike,
Silver Spring,
MDSPE
20904.
SENTINEL
UADWEB COMM SPE
The Sentinel Newspaper has an immediate
opening for a sales representative to sell
print and online advertising.
The successful candidate must have advertising sales
experience, preferably in the newspaper industry and
online. Applicant will conduct sales and service calls on
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The successful candidate must have strong people
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computer skills and have reliable transportation. A
college degree is preferred. Interested persons should
send cover letter, resume and references to:
Lynn Kapiloff - 5307 N. Charles St. Baltimore,
MD 21210 or email: [email protected]
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SR TECH ADVISOR
The
Sentinel Newspapers,
a 160-yearSENTINEL
USADWEB
SR TECH
ADVISOR
old
general
interest
newspaper in
HELP WANTED
Montgomery County and a 90-year-old
general interest newspaper in Prince
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reporters, sales staff and photographers. If you have an interest, then
please forward your resume and other
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1 X 1.25 i
MD./STUDIO
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January 14, 2016
PHOTO BY DAVID WOLFE
Kalynn Sefcik of Damascus loses the ball in a physical matchup Friday.
Clarksburg Girls Beat Damascus
Coyote coach says school makes history by defeating Swarmin’ Hornets for the first time ever 56-50
By Carlos Alfaro
@carlosalfarorod
DAMASCUS – No one was
happier than Clarksburg head coach
Sissy Natoli after the lady Coyotes
defeated Damascus Friday 56-50.
“Just incredible,” Natoli said
after the victory. “It was just huge.”
Huge, but not easy as the two
teams battled in a close and physical
matchup.
Clarksburg managed to widen
its lead to eight points briefly during
the second half, but Damascus never
trailed by more than that and fought
an incredibly tough battle all night.
For Clarksburg it made the victory that much more sweet.
“First time we beat Damascus,
and it was a huge win for us. Just being able to close out a game against a
good team. We’re on a roll here,
playing pretty good defense, a little
flat the first half, I thought we played
much better the second half,” said
Natoli.
Clarksburg started out hot, put
together an early seven-point run
and exited the first quarter leading
15-10.
Junior forward Lindsay Brown
scored half of Damascus’ points in
the first quarter.
“We knew they were athletic,
we knew they were much bigger
than us, our goal was to keep them
out of the lane and not let them get
easy baskets,” said Steve Pisarski,
head coach for Damascus.
The second quarter brought a
rejuvenated Damascus offense, as
they worked on whittling down the
score differential.
Both teams traded the lead
through the latter part of the second
quarter but a quick run past an unexpecting Clarksburg defense by junior
guard Kalynn Sefcik and a subsequent layup in the last 10 seconds put
Damascus ahead at halftime 27-25.
In the third quarter, consecutive
three pointers from senior guard
Kaylan Jackson and sophomore
guard Phylicia McInnis edged out a
lead from Damascus that Clarksburg
would never relinquish.
Clarksburg only outscored
Damascus by one point in the fourth
quarter but it was enough to keep the
Swarmin’ Hornets at bay and break
the losing spell when competing
against them.
“Let’s just say we’re history in
the making. It’s a tough game, but
we got through it,” said Clarksburg
senior point guard Ciara Wright.
With the loss Damascus fell to
6-2, while Clarksburg moved up to
7-2.
JANUARY 14, 2016
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SPORTS
County athletes score well in P.G. track meet
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
HYATTSVILLE—
Montgomery County athletes took first in
multiple events and set a meet record
in the girls 500m run and the boys
55m hurdles Saturday at the Montgomery Invitational at the Prince
George’s Sport and Learning Complex.
Masai Russell of Bullis finished
the girls 500m race in 1:14 minutes—
a meet record.
Northwest High School athletes
claimed multiple wins in both track
and field events. The jaguars won the
boys 4x200m relay, the boys distance
medley relay (10:55) and the boys
4x800m relay.
Meanwhile Taylor Wright won
the girls triple jump for Northwest
with 39 feet, 2 inches.
Northwest hurdler and sprinter
Shyheim Wright clocked a meet
record when he placed first in the
55m hurdle finals in 7.4 seconds, followed by Good Counsel hurdler Ian
Davis (7.8 seconds). Wright also
broke the meet record earlier that day
in the semifinals.
“Everything was perfect,” said
Northwest head coach Robert Youngblood about Wright’s race. “It was a
great start.”
Youngblood said 55m hurdlers
have to be sprinters as well as hurdlers.
“(They) have to sprint to the first
hurdle as opposed to run to the first
hurdle,” said Youngblood.
Youngblood said he placed
Wright in the 55m dash and not the
55m hurdles for a until he learned to
incorporate sprinting into his race.
The hurdler’s starts improved as a result.
“Now he explodes better off the
blocks,” said Youngblood.
Northwest jumper Taylor
Wright won the girls triple jump (39
feet, 2.5 inches).
Bullis won the girls 4x400m relay finishing by 6 seconds ahead of
the pack, finishing in 3:57.
Alexus Pyles, Clarksburg
jumper, finished first in the 55m hurdles finals. She was joined by multiple Montgomery County hurdlers.
Alexis Postell, Bullis, second place
8.5 seconds; Leondra Coreia, Northwest (8.6); Helnsarah Penda, Seneca
Valley, fifth (8.65); and Lindsay
Lewis, Bullis, (8.8) seventh of seven
finishers.
Clarksburg head track and field
coach Scott Mathias said Pyles ran
her hardest.
“It wasn’t her perfect race,” said
Mathias. “She hit a couple of hurtles
but she ran fast. She ran as hard as she
could run.”
“When it comes down to the finals it’s a lot of nerves, a lot of pressure,” Mathias said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re pretty. It doesn’t matter if
you’re fast. All that matters is that
you win and she did.”
In the boys distance medley relay other county teams made the top
10: Winston Churchill (11:08),
fourth; Quince Orchard, seventh
(11:14); James H. Blake, eighth
(11:18); and Bethesda-Chevy Chase
(11:18)placed ninth.
The Paint Branch girls team won
the girls distance medley relay
(12:41) followed by Walter Johnson
(12:44).
Desalyn Dillard, Paint Branch
head coach, said she was proud of her
distance medley relay anchor, senior
Bethlehem Taye.
“She had a very smart race,” said
Dillard. “She was patient. She was
aggressive.”
Paint Branch started out in the
lead, but two teams passed the Panthers runner.
When Taye received the baton
she had about a 15m-20m gap, Dillard said.
Instead of trying to close the gap
all at once with a surge, she caught up
to Walter Johnson anchor Abigail
Green a little each lap before she was
close enough to pass her.
“Abby (Green) is a very talented
athlete,” said Dillard. “That race
could’ve easily gone either way.”
Good Counsel senior Jack Wavering finished third in the 3200m
run with a lifetime personal record
9:30, after his 9:36 record.
“I was pretty happy with it,” said
Wavering. “4:50 followed by 4:40 is
pretty good.”
He ran his second mile faster
than the first and made a lifetime personal record.
Wavering ran in the front pack
the entire race, which was primarily
lead by Richard Montgomery junior
Rohann Asfaw (9:36).
Wavering raced with Asfaw and
Northern High School (Calvert County) runner Matt Bennet (9:25), finished
second as well as Eric Walz (9:32)
from Dulaney placed fourth. Asfaw
placed fifth. The four raced each other
during cross country in 2015.
For Asfaw the race did not end
as well. Asfaw led the 3200m runners
for more than half the race up until
the final few laps. He said setting the
pace was one of the hard parts.
“My coach and I decided to take
a more aggressive approach and take
the lead,” said Asfaw. “I think doing
most of the work took a toll on me
mentally, and it didn't work out so
well in the end.”
Around lap 10, he said Bennett
was trying to take the lead, so Asfaw
sped up somewhat.
“Well I continued to lead until
about 2 laps to go, and after holding
off other runners (who were) trying to
gain the lead, my body had become
tired and I wasn't able to keep (the
lead) any longer,” said Asfaw.
After continuing to lead the
group for about four laps, Bennett
and others passed him. Asfaw finished 10 seconds after first-place finisher Hengst (9:25) of McDonough
School and placed fifth.
Wavering said the familiar competition pushed him.
“That was actually really exciting,” said Wavering. “When I first
looked at the heat sheet (before the
meet) seeing all the really top guys
was really exciting for me.
Asfaw agreed that the familiar
competition added to the race, however.
“It brought back memories from
XC and it was fun racing them since I
know them,” said Asfaw.
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In the last seconds of the first half, Blake's Kobe Colston (0) and Magruder's Marquaine Wilkerson (5) fight for a
loose ball Friday night in Derwood during a varsity boys basketball game.
Colston eventually pulled it up and scored on a fast break layup to bring the Bengals within two points at the half,
27-29. Blake went on to win 57-55.However, Magruder made up for the loss Tuesday with a 45-44 win over Blair
while Blake fell 61-52 to Springbrook. The Colonels next host Springbrook Thursday and the Bengals head to
Burtonsville this Friday to play Paint Branch.
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JANUARY 14, 2016
SPORTS
Whitman girls destroy R.M. sans junior guard Meyers
By Eva Paspalis
@EvaPaspalis
BETHESDA – Watch any Walt
Whitman varsity girls basketball
game and junior guard Abby Meyers
is impossible to miss.
She gives opposing defenses
fits as they struggle to cover her. She
possesses a finesse that makes even
the most difficult shots look simple.
What was impossible to miss on
Tuesday night, however, was the
tremendous beating the Vikings laid
on the visiting Richard Montgomery
Rockets. Meyers did not even dress
to compete.
Meyers sprained her ankle on
December 28 during the 34th Annual Governor’s Challenge holiday
tournament game against Stephen
Decatur High School.
The bout against Richard Montgomery marks the second game in a
row she has missed. Vikings head
coach Peter Kenah said he kept
Meyers out of the game as a precaution.
Senior forward Betsy Knox
picked up the slack by logging 14
points in a game that proved the
Vikings can win emphatically even
with their leading scorer on the
bench. Senior forward Emily Mey-
Rockets cruise past Vikings
By Eva Paspalis
@EvaPaspalis
BETHESDA – The Richard
Montgomery varsity boys basketball
team went on an 11-point scoring run
in the final minutes of Tuesday’s
game to snatch a victory against the
divisional rival Walt Whitman, 6357.
The win gives the Rockets a 7-2
record and sole possession of first
place in the 4A South division.
The Vikings (5-4) have lost
three of their last four games. Two of
their most recent losses were decided
by six points or less.
Rockets senior forward Daniel
Alexander earned 17 points in a
game featuring nine ties and several
lead changes.
Alexander’s fierce fourth quarter rebounding was instrumental in
Richard Montgomery’s victory. The
senior, along with junior center Zaire
Mitchell-Paden, guarded the paint
and kept Whitman from scoring.
The Rockets boasted multiple
scoring threats, as both MitchellPaden and senior guard Jonathan
Custodio both scored 10 points.
“They have some good guys
that made plays,” said Vikings head
coach Chris Lun. “We need to capitalize when we have opportunities.”
The Vikings could not land a
free throw in the final four minutes of
the game, disintegrating their fivepoint lead.
Whitman junior guard Hannes
Kogelnik scored four three-point
baskets in the first half.
The Richard Montgomery defense rendered him a non-factor in
the second half. Kogelnik finished
with 12 points.
Vikings head coach Dave Breslaw said that neutralizing Kogelnik
was an important part of his team’s
game plan.
“We talked about guarding [Kogelnik] at length,” he said. “If you
keep a guy on him, he’s not going to
drive.”
The Rockets also shut down
Vikings junior guard Jack McClelland, who scored 12 points in the loss
to Churchill last Friday.
McClellan appeared to struggle
to find his rhythm. Richard Montgomery held him to just three points
on the night.
“We’re just trying to wear teams
down,” said Breslaw.
Lun said he expects a “competitive, hard fought game” whenever
the Vikings face Richard Montgomery. His team travels to face
Wootton Friday afternoon.
Richard Montgomery faces
BCC the same day. The Barons’ one
point loss to Churchill on Tuesday
puts them one game behind the
Rockets in the divisional standings.
Breslaw described last year’s
playoff loss to the Barons as a motivator for this season.
“BCC, that’s everything,” he
said. “We can learn a lot from that
game.”
ers also scored 10 points.
Whitman improved to 8-3 and
plays Wootton Friday. Kenah said
Meyers will probably play limited
minutes.
“We’ll see how she responds to
a full practice,” he said. “We will
know better after tomorrow.”
The Rockets (6-5) appeared
hapless from the start. Knox led the
Vikings on a 10-point scoring run
from tipoff. Richard Montgomery
fell into a 19-4 hole after one quarter.
Rockets senior guard Devon Goetz
earned nine of her team’s 16 points.
The Vikings held Richard
Montgomery to one basket in the
third quarter. The Rockets struggled
from the foul line and most shot attempts missed wildly. Knox and
Whitman senior guard Marie Hatch
pulled down the rebounds.
Kenah expressed confidence in
his team’s performance going into
the game.
“With us it’s always about defense and moving the basketball,” he
said. “We set a goal of not giving up
more than 35 points. We hit that.”
The Rockets remained supportive of their teammates, chanting
from the bench even as they stared at
a 45-12 deficit.
Richard Montgomery head
coach Mike Oakes appeared defiant
after the loss.
“I have a very mentally tough
team, so I’m really not concerned
about whether or not the girls are going to recover [from the loss],” he
said. “It was a golden opportunity to
play with the best and we didn’t take
advantage of it by playing our best.”
The 9-1 BCC Barons are up
next on Richard Montgomery’s
schedule.
Oakes said he believes his team
is ready for another challenge.
“We’ll put in two good days of
practice. We’re going to come out
ready to go on Friday,” he said.
MoCo athletes nominated for McDonald awards
By Brandy L. Simms
@BLS1969
Clarksburg senior guard Andrew Kostecka headlines a list of
Montgomery County student-athletes who have been nominated for
the 2016 McDonald’s All-American
Game which is scheduled to take
place March 30 at the United Center
in Chicago.
Kostecka, a Loyola signee, is
one of three Clarksburg players who
have been nominated for the prestigious all-star game.
“Honored to be nominated for
the McDonald’s All-American
game,” said Kostecka. “Means a lot
to me and shows that my hard work
is paying off.”
Clarksburg seniors Dallas Marshall and Jeffrey McInnis have also
been recognized along with Blake
swingman Jeffrey Powell-Young and
former Montrose Christian standout
Alani Moore, a Germantown native.
On the girls side, Bullis forward
Lawrencia Moten is among the nominees along with National Cathedral
standout Isabella Alarie who com-
petes for the Germantown Lady Panthers AAU program.
Raven James, a former Bullis
standout who plays at Paul VI, has
also been nominated for the McDonald’s All-American Game.
“I’m really fortunate and grateful for the opportunity,” said James.
“I mean it’s an honor really and it just
goes to show that hard work really
does pay off and we will see what
happens. I just have to keep working
to get better you know, but I am definitely blessed and excited about the
nomination.”
Two high school football coaches call it quits
By Brandy L. Simms
@BLS1969
After nearly two decades
coaching high school football in
Montgomery County, Northwood
head coach Joe Allen is stepping
aside.
Allen, who also held head
coaching stints at Bethesda-Chevy
Chase and Churchill, has opted to
resign his position at Northwood
after one season at the helm.
The Washington, D.C. native
said he is leaving the Northwood
football program due to family
obligations.
“I had to make a decision
based on my family,” said Allen,
who guided the Gladiators to a 2-8
record last season. “I’m not quite
sure what I’m going to do yet but I
know I couldn’t support my family
and coach at Northwood at the
same time. Northwood was a great
experience for me.”
Allen compiled an overall 4251 record during his head coaching
career in Montgomery County including a 36-27 mark in six seasons
at Churchill.
During his tenure at Churchill,
Allen guided the program to three
division titles in six years including
the 2011 campaign that saw the
Bulldogs finish 10-2.
“That,” said Allen,” was probably the highlight.”
Meanwhile, Watkins Mill head
coach Kevin Watson has resigned
after five seasons at the helm of the
Montgomery Village public school.
Watson compiled an overall
23-28 record during his tenure including a 5-6 mark last season. The
Wolverines last year earned a playoff berth for the first time since
1999.
Besides Northwood and
Watkins Mill, B-CC and Walter
Johnson are also searching for new
head coaches to lead their respective football programs. Einstein last
month hired Mike Bonavia to replace Neal Owens who parted ways
in November after a two-year stint
at the Kensington public school.
“We are going through a formal selection process to hire a new
coach,” said Watkins Mill athletic
director Reginald Spears. “The interview process will begin in early
February.”
Famed Gaithersburg football coaching legend dies after lengthy illness
By Brandy L. Simms
@BLS1969
A Montgomery County high
school football coaching legend has
passed away.
Fred Joyce, a longtime assistant coach at Gaithersburg High
School, died on January 9. He was
74.
During his tenure at Gaithersburg – which lasted more than four
decades – Joyce helped coach many
of the program’s top student-athletes including Hank Fraley who
went on to play in the National
Football League and now coaches
with the Minnesota Vikings.
“He was a special person who
shaped a lot of lives,” said Joyce’s
nephew and Northwest head coach
Michael Neubeiser.
“I remember how much he
cared about his athletes and his attention to detail. He was all about
being fundamentally sound.”
In 1994, Joyce was among the
first assistant coaches ever to be inducted into the Maryland Football
Coaches Hall of Fame. He received
the John W. Voight Award for loyal
service.
Last October, Joyce was among
a group of 22 inductees who were
enshrined in the inaugural Gaithersburg High School Athletic Hall of
Fame.
Joyce joined former Gaithersburg head coach John Harvill and
current Trojan helmsman Kreg
Kephart in the Gaithersburg Hall of
Fame along with many other individuals associated with the
Gaithersburg football program.
“That was Harvill’s right hand
man,” said Ellsworth “Tookey”
Turner, a former Gaithersburg twosport athlete who was also among
the inductees enshrined in the
school’s inaugural Hall of Fame.
“Coach Joyce was no joke. He
was a hell of a coach and a hell of a
football player, too.”
In addition to football, Joyce
also coached track and field at
Gaithersburg.
Joyce was a three-time state
champion in the shot put and discus
at Fort Hill High School in Cumberland and earned a football scholarship to the University of Maryland where he was a three-year letterman.
Joyce is survived by his wife,
Celeste, and sons Jimmy and Doug.
JANUARY 14, 2016
23
SPORTS
Shokoohinia pins four to win Patriot title
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
OWINGS
–
Hamoon
Shokoohinia stepped onto the top
spot on the podium, looked at the
wrestlers positioned on either side
and thought, “finally.”
Shokoohinia pinned all four opponents toward winning the 145pound title at the Patriot Classic
Tournament, enabling the Walt
Whitman High senior to call himself
a champion for the first time in his
nearly two-year-long high school career.
“I was on varsity at the end of
my sophomore year, but I only had
about eight matches,” said
Shokoohinia, who finished sixth in
the county and fourth in the Class
4A-3A West Regional. “This is only
my second full year of varsity and
my first time winning a tournament.
It feels like it’s the first step to my
higher goals and to much better
things to come.”
Shokoohinia joined undefeated
teammate and practice partner Mitch
Fenton (152) in running the table in
the 22-team affair at Northern High
of Calvert County.
“Last year, Mitch and I were the
only two to qualify for the state tournament, so this was sort of similar,”
said Shokoohinia, who is 17-3. “I
made it to states in a tough weight
class at 152 and wrestled [Centennial’s two-time state champ] Austin
Kraisser, which was a great experience. I feel like it’s prepared me better for this year.”
Teammates James Bamberger
(138) and Marcos Solloso (170)
were third, and sophomore Clark
Boinis (113), fourth as the Vikings
(175 points) placed five wrestlers
within the top four of their weight
divisions toward a third place finish
behind champion Oakdale (251.5) of
Frederick County and runner-up Old
Mill (189) of Anne Arundel County.
“In the medal rounds wrestling
for first, third and fifth, we had a total 7-1 record, so I was pretty happy
with that,” said coach Derek Manon.
“We only took 11 guys, so it’s hard
to win a tournament when you don’t
have a full lineup. But each of our
guys had at least two wins. Everybody contributed with a couple of
pins.”
Shokoohinia nailed down three
first-period falls, including one in
just 21 seconds, on the road to decking H.T. Elson of Herndon, Virginia,
in 3:30 of their title bout.
“All of my losses this year were
up at 160,” said Shokoohinia. “Being at 145 and going before Mitch,
it’s like I can maybe provide some
motivation for him.”
Fenton registered two first-period pins and another in the second before winning, 5-2, over Oakdale’s
Chase De Maille, a two-time state
qualifier and regional champion
who owns a 7-2 victory over Damascus’ county champion, Brendan Parent up at 160 pounds.
“I personally believe that I
could have wrestled better,” said
Fenton, who earned a county title as
a sophomore, his third regional
crown last year and has placed third
and fourth at the past two Class 4A3A state tournaments. “A win is a
win, so I’ll take it, but I could have
done a little more, offensively. So in
that regard, I could have done better.”
Fenton missed last year’s county tournament with an illness before
decking all three regional opponents
in the first period, a combined 4 minutes, 37 seconds. In addition to his
own quest, Fenton is stoked for his
teammates, in general, and,
Shokoohinia, in particular.
“Hamoon has really put in the
work. I was so happy to see my practice partner up there after winning
it,” said Fenton. “We have The
Grapple At The Brook at Springbrook this weekend. I won it last
year, and I’m looking to keep my
streak ”
Also participating was eighth
place Sherwood, which crowned
Charlie Siarkis (285), had runnersup in Hunter Mueck (106) and Tristan McKneely (113), and a fourth
place finish from and Chase Wilson
(120).
A senior who went 31-5 as a
county runner-up and regional
champion who placed sixth at states
last year, Siarkis pinned all three opponents, including Old Mill’s Zach
Acosta at 3:02 of their title bout.
Madyun leads Battling Barons on the mat Wilson wins eight matches
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
Sufyan Madyun became aware
two weeks ago that he would likely
be wrestling his buddy, Blake
Matthews, of Bullis.
“I texted Blake and said, ‘Hey,
we might be wrestling each other,’”
said Madyun, who has known
Matthews for six months. “He was
like, ‘Yeah,’ and then we both
laughed about it.”
But it was Madyun who laughed
last.
Madyun emerged victorious
from their 152-pound match at
Bethesda-Chevy Chase, his 6-5 triumph over helping the host Barons
(22-1) to win their Battlin’ Barons
Duals invitational highlightec by a
42-28 win over runner-up Franklin
of Baltimore County, which was a
42-30 winner against third place
Springbrook.
“We both smiled at each other,
shook hands and started wrestling.
There was no talking during the
match,” said Madyun, who twice
countered Matthews’ high-crotch
single-leg attempts to secure takedowns of his own.
“I just whizzered Blake and
kind of funked out of a scramble to
get around him each time. I’d say
those were the difference in a match
that was always tied or else I was up
by one. I was never behind.”
Madyun went 8-0 with two pins
to improve to his overall record to
21-2. Similar performances were
turned in by teammates Eli Guttentag
(106), Alec Cohen (170) and Marcelo McAndrew (182) as the Barons’
winning streak improved to 20 consecutive matches since falling to defending county and Class 4A-3A
state champion Damascus, 54-18, on
Dec. 12.
“Damascus is always a tough
team, but I think that we’ve progressed since then,” said Cohen, a senior county runner-up who was third
at regionals. “If we were to face them
again, I think you would see a lot of
improvement there.”
Madyun, McAndrew and Cohen are all seniors with identical 21-2
records. McAndrew went 8-0 with
six pins, and Cohen, 8-0 with seven
falls.
“Marcelo and I really have a
tremendous dynamic in the way that
we push each other in practice and
how it translates onto the mat,” said
Cohen. “We have a lot of young
wrestlers who have come in and
done well, and it was a great experience for our team to do as well as we
did this weekend.”
Guttentag, a freshman, also
went 8-0 with 6 pins and a major decision to improve his mark to a teamleading 23-0. Marcelo’s younger
brother, sophomore Gabriel McAndrew (195), went 6-2 with six pins.
“We’re really excited about how
we’re doing, which has definitely
surpassed expectations,” said Marcelo McAndrew, who was third in the
county last year. “The younger guys
have come in and put in the work as
have the five or six seniors, which
has really helped the team to improve.”
Top wrestlers for Springbrook
were Aaron Robertson (170/182),
Christian Balmoris (106), Letrell
Harris (113/120) and Luis Galeano
(145).
Robertson went 7-1 with five
pins, his lone defeat coming at 182
pounds against Franklin. Balmoris, a
second-year wrestler, also went 7-1
with six pins to improve to 16-4.
Harris and Galeano each went 6-2 for
the Blue Devils.
“Balmoris is really developing,
which is fun to watch,” said coach
Rob Whittles, whose Blue Devils
host a Grapple At The Brook Tournament on Friday and Saturday. “It was
a good team effort and those guys really led us in wins for the weekend.”
The Grapple at The Brook field
will include Clarksburg, Gaithersburg, Northwest, Sherwood and
Whitman, Howard County’s
Atholton, Long Reach and Reservoir, Harford County’s Fallston,
Prince George’s County’s Roosevelt,
St. Mary’s County’s Great Mills, Virginia’s McLean, Woodbridge and
Yorktown, and Delaware’s Cape
Henlopen.
Highlights for Bullis were
Matthews, the Brown brothers, Alex
(145) and Aryemis (160/170), and
Marcelo Motta (132).
A senior who finished seventh at
private school states last year, Alex
(28-2) pinned eight opponents in a
combined 9 minutes, 33 seconds to
earn the trophy for Most Falls In The
Least Amount of Time. A fourth
place finisher at states, Aryemis, a junior, also pinned his eight opponents
to improve to 29-0, decking one
wrestler in a cradle for his 100th career win.
Matthews went 7-1 to improve
his overall record to 26-3, and Motta,
7-1 to raise his record on the year to
23-5.
Landon sophomore Brendon
Gallagher (138), a fifth place finisher
at last year's private schools state
tournament, was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler after
going 8-0 comprised of four pins,
three technical falls and a major decision to improve his overall record to
24-2.
Gallagher’s 5-2 title bout win at
Mad Mats was over sixth-place private schools finisher Josh Laubach
of Baltimore’s Archbishop Curley.
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
BETHESDA — Cornell Wilson won eight matches and pinned
adversary, Pat Bernardo, of Wootton, toward earning the Most Outstanding Wrestler Award at last
weekend’s Big Trains Duals at Walter Johnson.
A Paint Branch senior who has
been competing at both 220 and 285
pounds, Wilson went 8-0 with seven
falls, improving his record to 22-1
on the year and pacing the Panthers
to an overall second place finish in
the 12-team team affair.
Wilson’s history with Bernardo
includes losing, 6-3, on the way to a
third place finish at counties, and, 32, in overtime, en route to placing
third at the Class 4A-3A West Re-
gion tournament.
But Wilson got the last dig in
last year after his 5-2 consolation
rounds victory eliminated Bernardo
from the state tournament, where
Wilson finished fourth.
“This was a big match against
my rival, Pat Bernardo, and I pinned
him in the second period at 220,
where he was ranked No. 1,” said
Wilson. “I’ve been wrestling at 285
to fill a gap on our team, but it feels
good to make a statement and to
show anyone who is doubting that
I’m going back to 220.”
Wilson’s lone defeat has come
by 3-2 in overtime against
Poolesville’s unbeaten 285-pound
Kyle Wilkins, a returning county
and regional champion who placed
third in last year’s 2A-1A state tournament.
Good Counsel senior soars
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
Garrett Neff had no trouble
reaching the 160-pound finals of last
weekend’s Hub Cup Tournament at
North Hagerstown High of Washington County on a major decision, a
technical fall and a first-period pin.
But that’s where the Good
Counsel senior faced St. Paul’s junior Dale Tiongson, who is not only a
friend and former Falcons’ teammate
from a year ago, but who had taken
Neff into overtime last month before
losing a tight bout.
“I’ve always liked Dale, and to
go out and wrestle an ex-teammate
was weird. But the match meant a lot
to my coaches, and to me,” said Neff,
who decked Tiongson last month toward finishing seventh at The Beast
Of The East Tournament.
“Our previous match was tied,
5-5, in the first period of overtime
when he drove for a double, I threw
in an under-hook, rolled across my
back and pinned him. We used that
match as a preparation for this recent
one since we figured we could meet
in the finals.”
Neff had just enough, yet again,
to earn a 3-2 championship triumph
over Tiongson, who reached the title
bout on three pins after having lost,
1-0, two weeks ago to Centennial of
Howard County’s two-time state
champion Austin Kraisser.
Joining Neff as champions were
Jared Thomas (106), Kevin Budock
(145), Paul Hutton (170) and Brady
Daniel (220), with a runner-up finish
from Bailey Thomas (152) as the
Falcons (264 points) easily out-distanced runner-up Archbishop Spalding (178) and the 20-team field.
24
JANUARY 14,2016
SPORTS EDITOR’S CORNER
Richard Montgomery brothers shine in sports
By Brandy L. Simms
@BLS1969
ROCKVILLE – Richard
Montgomery High School senior
Daniel Alexander and his kid
brother Daryn are inseparable.
“We do a lot of things together
in the house and when we go play
sports,” said Daniel, 17, “so we’re
always usually together.”
Daniel and Daryn, a 15-yearold sophomore, are both threesport athletes at the Montgomery
County public school.
On the basketball court, they
are like two peas in a pod, wherever one goes, the other is sure to follow.
Take for instance the Rockets’
game against Wootton earlier this
month.
On a particular play, Daniel
passed the ball to his younger sibling who scored a basket and was
fouled. Daryn converted the foul
shot for the three-point play that
helped extend the Rockets’ lead.
Richard Montgomery went on
to win the game, 64-50, thanks in
part to the Alexander brothers who
exhibit a special chemistry on the
court.
“When I’m down he knows
how to motivate me the best,” said
Daniel, “so I think it’s great playing
with my little brother.”
Growing up in a household
with six children, Daniel and Daryn
always dreamed of one day playing
together in high school and that
dream turned into a reality last year
when Daryn made Richard Montgomery’s varsity football team.
Daryn said they used to have a
sibling rivalry when they were
younger but that has changed now
that they are in high school.
“We’re more mature now,”
said Daryn. “We learned that we’re
brothers and at the end of the day
PHOTOS BY JAQUI SOUTH
Daniel and Daryn Alexander from Richard Montgomery.
we got to look out for each other.”
Last year, the Alexander brothers helped lead the Richard Montgomery football team to its finest
season in a decade; the Rockets finished the 2015 campaign with a 9-2
record and earned the program’s
first postseason berth since 2005.
Daniel was among the county’s
leading wide receivers this past season, registering 38 catches for 660
yards and eleven touchdowns. He
also made an impact at cornerback
with 62 tackles and six interceptions including a 95-yard interception return for a touchdown in
Richard Montgomery’s 20-13 win
over Clarksburg last October.
“Daniel’s a really great football player,” said Richard Montgomery sophomore quarterback
Spencer Silverstein. “I’m going to
miss him next year.”
The brothers played varsity
football together last fall and are
now varsity teammates on the basketball team this year. This spring
they both plan to compete together
on Richard Montgomery’s varsity
track and field team.
On Tuesday night, the brother
act was in full effect as Daniel and
Daryn combined for 22 points in
the Rockets’ 63-57 win over Whitman. The road victory helped
Richard Montgomery improve to 72 on the season.
The Alexander brothers have
set lofty goals for the 2015-16 campaign and would like to help put the
Richard Montgomery basketball
program back on the area map.
“I want to win a state championship with him,” said Daryn. “I
want to make it to a state championship before he goes to college.”
The “Smiling Assassin” gets his due and is a MoCo fond football memory
During his playing days on the
NFL gridiron, Montgomery County
resident Steve Atwater earned the
nickname “Smiling Assassin.”
The
Sporting
View
by
Brandy L. Simms
On Saturday, during our nearly
20-minute phone conversation, Atwater told me he got that nickname
from a former NFL coach.
That coach was none other than
former Dallas Cowboys defensive
back Charlie Waters who was a
Denver Broncos assistant when Atwater was selected by the franchise
in the 1989 NFL Draft.
Atwater, a Chicago native,
grew up in St. Louis and played college football at the University of
Arkansas where he switched positions.
After enjoying a stellar career
as a high school option quarterback,
Atwater became a safety in college.
He was named to the All-Southwest
Conference team three times and
was twice named an All-American
and finished as the Razorbacks’ alltime leader in interceptions with 14.
His NFL career was legendary,
he competed against players such as
Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Tim
Brown, Barry Sanders, Bo Jackson,
Marcus Allen and Keenan McCardell among others.
However, his signature moment arrived in 1990 during a Monday Night Football game against the
Kansas City Chiefs and their mammoth running back Christian Okoye
who was nicknamed the “Nigerian
Nightmare.”
Okoye burst through the line of
scrimmage where he was met by Atwater who knocked him backwards.
The famous video clip has been
viewed more than 700,000 times on
YouTube.
“He was just riding roughshod
on everybody,” recalled Atwater,
who won two Super Bowls and was
named to eight Pro Bowls during his
tenure with the Broncos. “Fortunately, I was able to stop him that time.”
A few years ago, Atwater migrated north from Georgia to Maryland with his wife and children to be
closer to his two sons who were
both playing college football at the
time. Steve Atwater Jr. played at
Georgetown and DiAndre Atwater
competed for the Princeton Tigers
of the Ivy League.
A third son, Paris, was a high
school junior at Sherwood when the
Atwaters moved to Montgomery
County.
Steve Atwater joined the Sherwood coaching staff to share some
of his knowledge of the game.
“I had a great time, man” said
Atwater. “I had helped coach most
of my boys coming up. It was my
first time coaching Paris’s team, one
of the teams that Paris played on.”
Atwater is among a group of 15
finalists for the Pro Football Hall of
Fame. In past years, he’s been
named a semifinalist but now is just
one step away from receiving the ultimate honor.
“I’m pretty excited about it,”
said Atwater, a Brookeville resident.
“I’ve never gotten this far before.”
On February 6, the Pro Football
Hall of Fame Class of 2016 will be selected from the list of 15 modern-era
finalists plus three senior nominees
and Atwater could be in that group.
Atwater’s family is also overcome with joy at the notion that he
could be a Pro Football Hall of
Famer in the near future.
“We are all extremely grateful,” said Paris Atwater, who graduated from Sherwood in 2014, “and
just praying that the next cut goes
his way.”
You can contact Brandy at: [email protected]

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