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Editorʼs
Notebook
by Brian J. Karem
Montgomery County officials
are taking precautions and warning
residents to brace for a possible blizzard and a foot of snow this weekend.
According to a meteorologist
for the National Weather Service,
Howard Silverman, temperatures on
Friday are predicted to stay below
30.
The NWS issued a blizzard
watch, which will begin on Friday at
noon and will continue until 6 p.m.
on Saturday. The watch statement
said residents should expect high
wind as well as power outages.
Silverman said winds are expected to reach 20 to 30 mph, with
wind gusts between 30 to 40 mph.
Conditions are expected to clear
up by Sunday, with temperatures in
the mid 30s
Director of Public Works Craig
Simoneau said his department will
be using all available personnel for
the street crews and will be doing
two shifts for 24 hours starting Friday.
“We already have two shift rosters getting filled up,” said Simoneau.
According to Simoneau, the
County has already contacted emergency contractors to bring resources
from outside the state in case the
weather conditions worsen. If the
snow rises more than two feet, the
contractors will be called into action.
Simoneau also said that crews
will also be on call to oversee the operating water tanks and valves and to
respond to freeze calls and water
main breaks.
Maryland Department of Trans-
See “Snow” page 8
WSSC project
will run long
By Danica Roem
@pwcdanica
Registering
politicians
A state politician in South
Carolina wants to register
journalists. We suggest in
Maryland we register politicians.
Page 4
GAITHERSBURG – Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission grounds crews are set to take
several months longer than originally announced to complete work on
repairing a leaking sewage line
south of the Quince Orchard Valley
neighborhood.
WSSC spokesperson Jim
Neustadt cited an expired right-ofway access point along Bradbury
Drive as the reason for forcing the
crews to enter only through an ac-
See “WSSC” page 8
Hearing ends
By Danica Roem
@pwcdanica
Kennedy
Girls win!
Kennedy girls defeat Blair
to keep the good times rolling .
Page 20
ROCKVILLE – The attorneys
for Montgomery County Public
Schools and the parents of a specialneeds child offered their closing
statements Friday, ending oral arguments in the seven-day court hearing
at the Carver Educational Services
Center.
Administrative Law Judge Marina Sabett requested the two attorneys
submit written arguments by Jan. 20
regarding whether she should even
rule on anything regarding medical
information in the case about whether
MCPS offered a free and appropriate
public education for a teenager who
See “Hearing” page 8
PHOTOS BY JACQUI SOUTH
Decay at the Rockville Metro, above, while in the inset you see the long wait times for a train.
Metro to change the way it is “on time”
By Kathleen Stubbs
@KathleenStubbs3
Amid pushbacks for new railcars, rush hour delays, and escalator and elevator outages, Metro
staff announced at a Board of Directors committee meeting Jan. 14
that the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority is piloting a
new way of gauging timely train arrival.
WMATA staff said riders said
time estimates for trains were false
and many riders complain they are
late to their destinations.
Paul Wiedefeld, Metro’s general manager, told the Maryland
House Environment and Transportation Committee Tuesday that
Metro “has not been able to use
money efficiently” for several projects.
He said the organization’s decision not to raise fares and the absence of increased funding from
Metro’s jurisdictions will make this
year challenging.
A few dozen new 7000 series
rail cars were supposed to be added
by now, but Metro safety engineers
saw defects while inspecting the
cars when they first arrived. Metro
engineering staff then had to work
on the cars before they could be
tested. Some were in the process of
being tested when Wiedefeld had a
See “Metro” page 8
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JANUARY 21, 2016
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL
R
EFLECTIONS
October 8, 1992
County receives Crescent Trail funds
Each week The Sentinel visits a
memorable story from its archives.
Standing on a rusty, weedchoked, Bethesda railroad track,
Planning Board Chairman Gus Bauman accepted a $867,000 check last
week to help fund the first phase of
construction on the Capital Crescent Trail.
The check, presented by state
Department of Transportation Secretary O. James Lightizer, is a combination of state and federal funds.
I(t will go towards the $1 million
project of tearing out the old railroad tracks that run3.4 miles from
downtown Bethesda to the District
line and replacing them with a hiker-biker trail.
“I’m very pleased that Secretary Lightizer has agreed to fund
this project,” said County Executive
Neal Potter, who was also at the
check presentation ceremony. “This
has been one of our priorities to encourage more walking and bicycle
riding, both for recreation and as an
alternative to the automobile.”
Potter said Pepco officials have
agreed to provide $100,000 of inkind services to help remove the
rails and create a redrainage system.
This would leave the county with a
tab of $33,000.
Bauman said the 3.5 miles is
only the first phase of the Capital
Crescent Trail, which was approved
by the Park and Planning Commission in July. The second phase will
run from downtown Bethesda to
downtown Silver Spring. And in the
other direction, the National Park
Service will extend the trail from
the D.C. line into Georgetown. The
complete trail will span 11 miles.
Bauman said the long-term
plan calls for an arc in which the
Capitol Crescent Trail will intersect
with the Metropolitan Branch Trail.
It will start at Capitol Hill, run up to
Silver Spring, through Bethesda and
down to Georgetown. But it will be
several years before the entire trail
is completed.
The first phase is expected to
begin in a few weeks, as soon as the
county receives a storm water management permit, said Bill Gries, the
project coordinator.
Edwards and Van Hollen battle in tight race latest poll shows
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON -- The race
between Democratic Reps. Donna
Edwards and Chris Van Hollen for
the Maryland Senate is tight, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Van Hollen, who represents the
state’s 8th District, is supported by
38 percent of likely voters, while
Edwards, of Maryland’s 4th District, is popular with 36 percent of
likely voters, according to the survey conducted by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies.
Twenty-four percent of the people
polled said that they were undecided.
The two candidates are vying
to replace outgoing Democratic
Sen. Barbara Mikulski.
The poll, conducted Jan. 11-16
among 402 prospective Democratic
voters, showed a shift from a previous survey taken last November by
the Baltimore Sun, which showed
Van Hollen at 45 percent to Ed-
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Van Hollen, who is white, is
drawing more than 54 percent of the
white vote and 44 percent of the
overall male vote, the poll found.
Conversely, Edwards, who is black,
is pulling a mere 15 of the white
vote and 30 percent of male voters.
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African American voters and 40
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JANJUARY 21, 2016
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OPINIONS &VIEWS
Registering politicans
According to credible published reports a South Carolina state
representative wants to start registering journalists he thinks are “responsible” and penalizing those who he
thinks are not.
Editorʼs Notebook
by Brian J. Karem
Mike Pitts, a Republican – go
figure – has introduced the South
Carolina Responsible Journalism
Registry Law which would define
what a journalist is and keep a list of
those who are seen as responsible
and penalize those no on the list with
fines or imprisonment.
He doesn’t like the fact that the
press “has no problem demonizing
firearms,” and while Pitts himself
doesn’t think the bill has any chance
of passing, he did say in a news report published in a South Carolina
paper and co-authored by Schuyler
Kropf ( a reporter who once went to
jail to defend the First Amendment)
that Pitts favors a registry and penalties because he doesn’t believe journalists adhere to any ethical standard.
So while Pitts tries to get
around the First Amendment which
clearly states Congress can make no
law, “abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press,” I’d like to
consider what if we applied the same
standard to all elected officials.
Perhaps we the people should
pass legislation which fully embraces the spirit of H.L. Mencken. A
well known social critic and known
as The Sage of Baltimore, Mencken
– himself a journalist – once said of
journalists, “He prints balderdash
because he doesn’t know how to get
anything better.” And he also said,
“…He is quite content to take more
propaganda from Washington. It is
not that he is dishonest, but that he is
stupid – and, being stupid, a coward.”
As for politicians, Mencken
said a good politician under democracy is “quite as unthinkable as an
honest burglar . . . he is simply one
who preys upon the commonwealth.
It is to the interest of all the rest of us
to hold down his powers to an irreducible minimum and to reduce his
compensation to nothing.”
So perhaps, if we’re in the fantasy world of South Carolina politics
we could find an appropriate vampire in the statehouse to introduce
legislation who will limit representatives to a mere two terms in office.
At the same time, they can’t get paid
and they cannot take campaign contributions. They should be, under my
South-Carolina LSD dream, also be
fact-checked every week. The first
time an elected politician is found to
be lying, they’ll be fined a sum equal
to the annual median income of
everyone in the state. The second
time they are caught lying they must
be fined that amount and spend a
year in prison. The third time they
are caught lying they will be fined
and sentenced to five years in prison.
The first time they are found
denying basic historic or scientific
facts, including but not limited to
denying the Holocaust, man landing
on the moon, evolution, global
warming, the safety of smoking tobacco, the dangers of marijuana or
the root cause of the American Civil
War, they shall be jailed for life in a
Turkish prison.
As for the second amendment –
anytime a politician is found guilty
of editing the second amendment to
justify owning more weapons than
the National Guard, or turning a
blind eye to the amount of gun violence done in this country they’ll be
confined to a small room where the
faces of the dead and the tears of
their loved ones are seen and heard
in Dolby Surround Sound and projected on the white walls of the room
until such time as the politician
agrees to apologize to the victims’
families for being callus and inhuman.
There is, of course, some speculation that this wonderful legislator
was merely offering a satirical jab at
reporters who have “demonized” the
second amendment.
But the joke would be on him
and other politicians.
Satire in the statehouse is as
welcome as a prostitute in church. It
is difficult to get politicians to understand sobering reality, and the
same can be said for most reporters.
Subtlety isn’t in them and satire is
beyond their grasp.
No, the problem today in this
country when it comes to politics
can be boiled down to this: Each side
demonizes the other and both demonize the press.
The reasons for this are many,
but I maintain the root cause can be
traced to the 1980 national elections.
Termed a “realignment” election by
many political scientists, it brought
to us Ronald Reagan.
Deregulation of the media soon
followed. The radical right gained a
voice. Facts took a back seat to
rhetoric.
And now here we are in 2016.
Donald Trump, a clown of biblical
proportions is the front runner of the
Grand Old Party. The Democrats of
2016 sound like the Republicans of
1980.
And so it goes. . .
JANUARY 21, 2016
JANUARY 21, 2016
LETTERS
Metro Crime
To the editor;
While the crime rate on Metro
may have decreased in the last
decade, any attack is intolerable. It
is therefore encouraging that the
Guardian Angels are getting involved in policing the Metro System, although not having the same
authority as Metro security guards.
The statement that some will
not be in uniform, but still serving to
avert criminal actions on Metro is
not acceptable. When gangs of
teenagers run wild, beating and robbing passengers, a single not in uniform Guardian Angel would not
serve as a deterrent and may add to
the list of victims.
What is the solution for zero
tolerance for attacks on passengers?
Unfortunately at the present there
appears to be none other than stiff
sentences for those caught, showing
that their is a price to be paid for
criminal action
N. Marans
Silver Spring
Editorial policy
To the editor;
In response to your stories and
letters, it is apparent that you do publish letters that disagree with your
editorial policy.
Last week in an editorial about
losing your mojo, (“Finding that lost
Mojo” 1/14/16) you spoke about the
need to allow all kinds of opinions in
your opinion page even if they don’t
agree with your opinion.
What you forget is that all kinds
of opinions need to be heard on your
news page as well.
Republicans should be allowed
on your news stories - not just the democrats just because the democrats
are the dominant voice in Maryland.
We need to hear other voices.
R. Snyder
Damascus
editor’s note: you mistake opinions for facts. Balance must be maintained in a news story, but we will not
be seeking alternative opinions
about who built the pyramids, man
landing on the moon, the Holocaust,
global warming, evolution, etc.
We firmly believe our opinion
doesn’t deserve to be on the news
pages with one exception - it is our
opinion that our news pages will be
filled with facts. If you believe other
wise, thanks for reading.
Nothing really
To the editor;
What does the Sentinel owe the
county council? The favorable coverage you give these people is unbelievable. They are on the wrong side
of every issue and you continue to
listen to them and put them on your
news pages as if what they say is fact.
It isn’t.
G. Spaulding
Rockville
editor’s note: please see previous letter. I’m sure you won’t find the
council agreeing with you either.
LEGAL MATTERS
Student athletes and the concussion issue
THE
COURT
REPORT
by Tom Ryan
For some time now there has
been a lot of publicity and discussion about sports concussions and
their effects, starting some years
ago with the National Football
League as dramatized in the new
movie “Concussion.” This includes
an article in this week’s Washington
Post Sports pages about parents
who sued to allow their allegedly
concussed son to play in a high
school football game. The State of
Maryland enacted its own law in
2009 to address this issue, and
Montgomery County and the other
counties have addressed this issue
as well.
The Maryland law is found in
the Health and Safety of Students
subtitle, Section 7-433 of the Education Article, entitled “Concussion
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policy and awareness.” It defines a
concussion as a “traumatic injury to
the brain causing an immediate and,
usually, short-lived change in mental status or alteration of normal
consciousness,” arising from a
“fall, a violent blow to the head or
body, or the shaking or spinning of
the head and body.” The law goes
on to specifically require that “a
student who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or other head injury in a practice or game shall be
removed from play at that time.”
Such a student “may not return to
play until the student has obtained
written clearance from a licensed
health care provider trained in the
evaluation and management of concussions.”
It contains a section requiring
the Maryland Department of Education to come up with concussion
awareness programs to educate
coaches, students and parents about
concussions. The Department put
together “Policies and Programs on
Concussions for Public Schools and
Youth School Programs,” which
was amended in 2012 and is available online. It includes sample
forms required to be signed by students and parents acknowledging
their awareness of issue surrounding concussions. The State also has
a form Medical Clearance form
which must be used to certify that
health care professional has cleared
the affected student to return to
sports activities. That professional
can be a physician, nurse practitioner, physician’s assistant or neuropsychologist.
There are also reporting requirements for non-school related
athletic programs that want to use
school property. The State program
contains a lot of information about
concussions and care responsibilities. Montgomery County Public
Schools has its own Concussion
Plan, the current version of which is
from July 2015 and is also available
online. I would urge Montgomery
County students involved in sports,
and their parents, to review it.
Thomas Patrick Ryan is a partner in the Rockville law firm of McCarthy Wilson, which specializes in
civil litigation.
REAL ESTATE
It’s always about the price baby - yeah!
REAL
ESTATE
SOLUTIONS
By Dan Krell
Write us
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Pricing a home for a sale is not always
easy. There is an abundance of empirical research that has confirmed
the many variables that affect sales
price. Some influences are manageable and some are not. The top factors to consider when pricing your
home to sell include location, condition, features, and timing.
Your home’s physical location
is one of the top factors that will affect its sale price. Although home
prices vary from neighborhood to
neighborhood, your home’s location
within the neighborhood could also
impact the sale price. Homes located
on commuter routes typically sell for
less because of the traffic and noise.
Even homes located just off of the
thoroughfare can be impacted by the
perception of traffic and noise; the
sale price could be lower than a similar home situated further away from
the main road.
A home can sell for more when
located close to neighborhood
amenities; however, the price could
drop if perceived too close. Neil
Metz’s research (Effect of Distance
to Schooling on Home Prices. The
Review of Regional Studies 45.2
(2015):151-171.) indicated that
homes located close to schools tend
to sell for more. However, the opposite was found with homes within
1,000 feet from schools; the home
sale price decreased as the distance
from the school closed in from 1,000
feet (probably due to congestion and
noise). This effect is typically true
for other neighborhood amenities
such as shopping areas.
Repairing and upgrading your
home prior to listing can increase the
sale price. In contrast, deferred
maintenance can not only deter home
buyers – it could attract low offers;
especially if the home has been on
the market for a lengthy period.
Many home buyers are looking for a
“turn-key” home, where they don’t
have to be concerned about immediate maintenance; while some are
willing to put in the time and effort to
personalize a home. If you’re making updates to your home, consider
that the quality and installation of upgrades can impacts price as well;
cheap fixtures and sloppy workmanship can have a similar affect as deferred maintenance.
Your home’s amenities can also
impact the sale price. For example,
features such as a finished basement
or deck can be appealing and add
value. Even green amenities can impact sales price. Research conducted
by Cadena and Thomson (An Empirical Assessment of the Value of
Green in Residential Real Estate.
The Appraisal Journal 83.1 (Winter
2015): 32-40.) concluded that homes
that were designated “green” increased sale price by 1%, while certified green homes increased sale price
about 2%; however, energy efficient
features increased sales price by
about 6%!
Finally, your sales price can be
affected by the timing of the sale.
Miller, Sah, Sklarz, and Pampulov
(Is there seasonality in home pricesevidence from CBSAs. Journal of
Housing Research, 22(1) (2013), 115) conducted a comprehensive
study of home sales that occurred in
138 Core Based Statistical Areas
(CBSAs are geographic population
centers set by the Office of Management and Budget for use by Federal
agencies in collecting, and publishing statistics) from February 2000 to
April 2011. They concluded that
monthly price changes can vary
through the year; and homes that sell
during summer months (April
through September) typically sell for
more than homes that sell during the
winter (October through March).
However, they point out that the seasonality effect could be due to weather; there is less price variance in areas with less temperature variation.
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 21, 2016
FEDERATION CORNER
And now: More budget fun
By Paula Beinenenfeld
Civic Federation
Each year we join with our colleagues at the Parents’ Coalition
of Montgomery County and the
Montgomery County Taxpayers
League to organize the deep dive
into the $2.4 billion Montgomery
County Public Schools (MCPS)
Operating Budget, and this coming year is no exception. We are
organizing the event now, and
will hold the Budgetpalooza! on
February 4th. All are welcome
and encouraged to “take a chapter.” All the chapters and appendices have been posted to
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/
10c094cadac28a3fb6-fourth with
a handy location for you to sign
up. We’ll tweet out reminders
with the link at our twitter feed,
@MCCivicFed, using the hashtag
#Budgetpalooza. The chapter-bychapter analysis … that’s up to
you!
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
Operating Budget was presented
to the Board of Education (BOE)
by the Acting Superintendent, Larry Bowers, on December 8th. It includes a 4.5% increase. Read the
budget. $2.4 billion is a lot of
money, and it’s all public money.
Every penny.
We know our schools are
overcrowded. They have been for
years. We know cafeterias in high
schools are so crowded our children are eating on the floor in the
hallways. We know the number of
portables exceeds what is acceptable in a first-rate education system. We k now our children—and
our teachers and staff—have been
exposed to radon for years. So, we
want to make absolutely sure that
the money we entrust to our publicly elected officials, the members of the Board of Education, is
spent properly. We don’t want the
money going to Board of Education members to spend on fancy
lobster and steak dinners, and
nights at the Washington Hilton.
We want the money to go to our
teachers in the classroom, and we
want the money spent on improving our children’s education.
Because the Board of Education won’t do their job and analyze
the proposed budget, the residents
will step up and do it. Because it’s
our money. And they’re our children.
The current MCPS FY16 budget is $2.39 billion, about half of
our entire county budget. All the
rest of our needs—including fire,
police, libraries, roads, environ-
ment, the health and welfare of our
indigent and most needy, everything else—are funded out of the
remaining half of our annual budget. The County Council has the
fiduciary responsibility to carefully review the MCPS budget and do
what is best for the entire county.
Public hearings before the
BOE took place on January 7th
and 14th, 2016, with BOE work
sessions to follow. The BOE will
take action on the proposed FY17
Operating Budget at their meeting
on February 9th, 2016. The BOE
then transmits the budget to the
County Council on March 1st.
And that’s where we step in,
to do the deep dive that the BOE
refuses to do. The Civic Federation
believes that our public
schools are important to the quality of life in the county, and that the
enormous MCPS budget—about
half of our entire county budget,
remember— requires close and
constant scrutiny. So, as we’ve
done the past three years, we’re
taking on that challenge
again. We encourage you to
sign up to take one chapter, review
it, and present it at our Fourth Annual Budgetpalooza!
The Budgetpalooza! Will be
held this year on Thursday, February 4th, from 7 to 9:30 PM, at the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional
Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor
Lane, in Bethesda.
As we have done before all
the chapters and appendices are up
o
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COVER STORY
Snow predictions for the area send chills down local residents’ spine
“Snow”
from page 1
portation spokesperson Charlie Gischlar said the highways will be pretreated tonight in the D.C. suburbs
with salt brine solution.
“That helps us because when
the big storm comes, it prevents that
initial bonding of snow and ice
from forming,” said Gischlar.
Pepco spokesperson Bob Hainley said the company is preparing
for the storm by taking stock of all
of its personnel.
“We have 150 line men, and we
have another 250 contracted line
personnel, and then we have another
200 tree crews who are working on
the system. Pepco is monitoring that
forecast and will have those crews
ready to restore any outages,” Hainley said.
Hainley also said advised cus-
tomers and residents stay clear of
any work sites and to call the company for power outages.
Interfaith Works’ Community
Vision Program in Silver Spring includes a warming center and is open
during the day when temperatures
are below 32 degrees, according to
Charlotte Garvey, spokesperson.
The address for the Interfaith Works
Community Vision Program is 8210
Dixon Ave. Homeless persons in
need of warmth or shelter may call
301-585-4471 for information
about the Community Vision Program.
Metro rails patrolled by Guardian Angels Hearing draws to a close
“WSSC”
from page 1
cess road between two houses
along Suffolk Terrace in order to
build a 16-foot-wide, 1,200-foot
long construction road that could
be traversed by vehicles the size of
dump trucks.
The crews are also planning to
remove at least 58 trees in the park
where the sewage line is located,
40 more trees than initially expected, as the WSSC uses an alternative
plan to repair a leaking sewage
pipe that is less “environmentally
friendly” than initially announced,
according to Neustadt.
The plan is different from the
primary option pitched to residents
at community meetings in October
and December, which would have
used a right-of-way access point to
the park between two houses along
Bradbury Drive.
Resident Ellen Dimond, one of
the two homeowners whose properties adjoin the construction access point, pitched that WSSC
could access the south side of the
sewage line by entering through
Sioux Lane.
That road is south of the park.
Dimond pointed out the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission owns the
land on both sides of a Pepco utility
easement to the south of the
stream.
“Sioux Lane is not a practical
access,” said Neustadt. “We have
ruled that out time and time again.”
According to Neustadt, the
brush in the area is “too heavy,” the
terrain is steeper than it immediately south of Suffolk Terrace and “it’s
where kids walk to school.”
“Many of the neighbors expressed concern about the kids
walking to school,” he said.
WSSC officials said during a
Jan. 4 preconstruction walkthrough that there is supposed to be
a 4-foot-wide mulch path for
school students placed between the
access road and Dimond’s property
to the east of the road.
The students would then turn
left to walk to Ridgeview Middle
School before the construction
crews arrive at 9 a.m.
“The reason for the Bradbury
elimination was because there was
some right-of-way accesses that
had expired,” said Neustadt, noting
the residents there “didn't want us
to renew them.”
Neustadt confirmed Tuesday
the WSSC does not have an “exact”
date for the beginning of construction, though he said the organization’s plan is to begin this month.
“We're hoping to, absolutely.
We're hoping so, that's our plan,”
he said.
The construction may run until
at least November, according to an
email Neustadt sent to Quince Orchard Valley residents.
He noted that when project
“was originally scheduled to start
in October 2015, this sewer rehabilitation project was slated to be
completed in 3-6 months.
“However, due to the need to
build a longer access road and reduced work hours to 9 (a.m.) to
3:30 p.m., this project will take
longer to complete. It is projected
that this project will now take up to
10 months or more.”
Resident Lorraine Lomberg is
among the most directly affected.
Trucks are expected to enter
the property from the street to the
north of her house, traverse the access road to the west of her house
and head to the project site along
the construction road to the south
of her house.
“Well, at this point, I keep getting different stories every time I
turn around, so I don’t know what
to believe anymore,” said
Lomberg.
“The access road in between
the two neighbors’ homes is 16 feet
wide plus 4 feet for the pedestrian
walkway. For the rest of the project
the width is 16 feet wide,”
Neustadt added.
Metro decides to change what’s “on time”
“Metro”
from page 1
media brief following a WMATA
Board of Directors committee
meeting Jan. 14.
Metro’s station escalator functionality was at 93.3 percent in
2015, a high for the last five years,
WMATA said in a news release
Monday.
The Rockville Station’s up escalator was turned off Tuesday
during the morning rush hour, and
the Shady Grove Station’s up escalator was off the same time
Wednesday, instead having the left
escalator serve as the up escalator.
A local rider said he doubted
the accuracy of the 93.3 percent
based on his experience this week.
“I don’t believe (it’s) 93 percent,” said Joe Allen, a Gaithersburg resident. Allen, who works in
the medical field, said he questioned the accuracy because he
passed more than one non-working
escalator on his commute home
from Silver Spring around 10 p.m.
Tuesday.
Environment and Transportation Committee Chairman Kumar
Barve (D-17) asked Wiedefeld for
an update on when Metro will have
cellular service below ground.
Even after negotiations occurred between WMATA and a
phone service company for an
agreement on a plan to improve
cellphone service in the tunnels,
Wiedefeld told the Environment
and Transportation Committee the
agreement is in progress but not
complete or signed.
WMATA said contractors began replacing an escalator at Waterfront Station at the end of service hours.
Joshua Low, a
Rockville resident, said he thought
WMATA needed more funding
from local and state governments.
“Clearly, our elected officials
need to make sure Metro is a priority (and fund it),” said Low.
Allen said he drives a vehicle
on the weekends because singletracking “drives me to drive.”
Brian Pulfrey of Gaithersburg
said his weekend commute to work
is lengthened by 30-minute headways. He has taken the Metro to
work for as many as 10 years.
Pulfrey said that within the
past 12 months he was riding a
Metrorail train when he noticed a
door was open while the train
moved.
He said Metro needs to improve in all areas of the system including management, facilities and
cars. “It needs to be fixed from the
bottom up,” said Pulfrey.
He said problems on trains
should be repaired at the time they
occur. Maintenance needs to be
done in a timely manner to reduce
the amount of track work on the
weekends, said Pulfrey.
“WSSC”
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has a large brain malformation,
epilepsy and learning disabilities.
Sabett has 30 days from the
completion of the trial to render a
written verdict.
MCPS attorney Jeffrey Krew
worked to significantly limit the
scope of testimony allowed by Paul
Griffin, the parent of the specialneeds teenager, and Dr. James
Chamberlain , the division chief of
emergency medicine and trauma
services at Children’s National
Health System.
The MCPS attorney argued that
the family’s attorney, Holly Parker,
violated procedure in each case and
objected repeatedly to questions
Parker asked Chamberlain and Griffin.
He said he never received
Chamberlain’s resume from Parker,
so the judge could not qualify him as
an expert witness to discuss the
severity of the boy’s seizures.
Although Parker said Krew received Chamberlain’s resume, she
could not produce evidence of it being sent at least five days before
Chamberlain’s testimony so Krew
could figure out whether he wanted
to challenge the doctor’s credentials
that would make him an expert in
seizures.
Chamberlain said Friday he has
reviewed the boy’s medical transcripts but has not directly treated
him.
The judge did not allow a continuation of the case and instead allowed Chamberlain to answer only
basic matter-of-fact questions.
“In reviewing [the student’s]
records, did you review or see in any
documents that [his] seizures were
mild?” Parker asked Chamberlain.
“No,” replied Chamberlain.
“I have no further witnesses,”
said Parker. Earlier in the day, Krew
argued Griffin should have testified
during the “case in chief” part of the
proceedings when the plaintiffs established their evidence for the hearing as they have the “burden of
proof” in the case.
Parker called Griffin to testify
about whether he was locked out of a
restroom at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School, which Griffin said could
have been problematic if his son
used a restroom there and the door
locked behind him.
Krew and MCPS witnesses said
all the locks in the restroom were removed after a student died by suicide there in February. During closing arguments, emotions ran high in
the hearing room. Parker accused
Krew of “character assassination”
for his comments about Griffin and
some of the plaintiff’s witnesses.
WMATA infrastructure plans delayed
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
Arguments over the local subway continue while critics say the
infrastructure continues to decay.
Metro’s general manager announced at a board of directors
meeting Jan. 14 that The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will put off releasing a sixyear plan for projects until next year.
Michael Goldman, board of directors Financial Administration
Committee member, said the reason
for the extra year is that WMATA
and member jurisdictions could not
agree on priorities for the next sixyear plan.
WMATA’s general manager
Paul Wiedefeld said Metro needs an
extra year to write its next six-year
plan because recent projects were
improperly managed.
“Dollars is important, but if you
have to clear something, if you have
to get a permit by a certain date —
“if we’re not getting there, guess
what. It impacts the entire project,”
said Wiedefeld.
According to a WMATA report
to Metro’s Finance and Administration Committee, Metro used $3.7
billion of its $5billion Capital Improvement Program for fiscal years
2011-2016.
WMATA spending decreased
in the spring of 2014 into 2015 for
various reasons, such as projects
taking longer than expected, delays
in bus and railcar deliveries and implications of a financial management oversight audit, according to
the report. Wiedefeld said he would
spend the next year reviewing the
planning for the projects en queue
and he planned to re-prioritize the
projects.
Del. Kumar Barve (D-17),
chairman of the Environment and
Transportation Committee, said
Wiedefeld has extensive work to do
in fixing the Capital Improvement
Program.
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Racism and political correctness
By Paul Schwartz
Sentinel Columnist
As a political observer, I am
thoroughly convinced that a Donald
Trump nomination as the 2016 Republican candidate for president will
very likely result in both a landslide
victory for Democrats in keeping the
White House and a retaking of the
Senate.
It could even result in drawing
enough Democrats to the polls to
give them an outside chance of retaking the House of Representatives.
From a Democrat standpoint,
therefore, a Donald Trump candidacy would be a welcomed event; from
an American standpoint, having a
blatant racist at the top of the ticket
of one of our two major parties, it
would be an affront to every ideal
for which this nation stands.
What exactly is racism?
Regardless of the exact definition of racism as it relates to race, in
my view racism is, primarily, grouping an entire category of people together to hate, or, at least, stereotype.
By using the so-called broad
brush approach, it makes it a great
deal simpler for the hater to hate
through generalization.
There is no need to actually
look at individuals as individuals regardless of what grouping they may
find themselves due to religion, ethnicity, race, nationality or heritage.
Racism, though, didn't start
with the candidacy of Donald Trump
and his attacks on various ethnic and
religious groups.
He just brought it to a new level. The fear that the Republican party now has about the disaster that
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with Trump at the top of its ticket is
real. The blame, however, is not with
Trump; the blame is squarely on the
shoulders of the Republican party
for creating the monster that is
Trump.
As stated in Galatians, "Whatever one sows, that will he also
reap".
The Republican party, by turning a blinds eye and allowing Trump
to spew unfettered his racist attacks
on President Obama, especially regarding the nonsensical "birther"
non-issue, created the environment
in which Trump has unleashed his
venom on the other Republican candidates and continues to rise in the
polls at the expense of candidates
that would be far preferable to the
party to head the ticket. Serves them
right; maybe there is some justice in
this world.
The difference between the blatant racism of today and the more
hidden racism of yesterday goes
back, not to Trump, but, rather to,
yes, Fox News.
It was Fox News and its inability to accept a President of color that
brought blatant racism out of the
closet and into the mainstream. Fox
made it alright to be racist since, if it
can be said on television, then it
must be all right to express it anywhere, even at John McCain rallies
in 2008, Mitt Romney rallies in 2012
and at everyone's rallies in 2016.
It wasn't too long ago that Al
Campanis, then general manager of
the Los Angeles Dodgers, was fired
for expressing his thoughts that were
construed to be racist.
You may recall Nightline anchorman Ted Koppel asking him
why, at the time, there had been few
black managers and no black general managers in Major League Baseball.
Campanis' reply was that
"blacks may not have some of the
necessities to be, let's say, a field
manager, or, perhaps, a general
manager" for these positions.
Elsewhere in the interview he
said that blacks are often poor
swimmers "because they don't have
the buoyancy." His remarks were
deemed offensive, not tolerated and
he was fired the next day by the
Dodgers.
In today's political discourse
world of FOX News and Russ Limbaugh, these comments are rather
tame compared to the hate-filled
comments made on a daily basis under the banner that it is all right
NOT to be politically correct.
Political correctness has nothing to do with the hate-filled
rhetoric coming out of the mouths
of either the candidates or the pseudo-news organizations covering
them.
Political correctness concerns
toning down a use of terms to make
it more palatable and less offensive
based on an individual's sensitivities.
Political correctness may mean
referring to a janitor as a custodian
or a garbage man as a sanitation engineer. It may even make use of the
term "mentally challenged" in lieu
of referring to someone as retarded.
It does not mean misrepresenting
facts and inciting hatred against a
group of people, any group of people, as is currently the case with today's political coverage and the candidates being covered.
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Investigation in gang-related murder continues
By Nadia Palacios
@Ndpalacios94
Police continue to look for additional suspects involved in the killing
of a Prince George’s County man authorities believe was gang-related.
Police arrested a third suspect
on Jan. 11 in Lewisville, Texas.
Montgomery County Police say
the body of 18-year-old Denis Vitalino Montufar-Bautista was found in
the Northwest Branch Trail area in
Silver Spring on Dec. 22.
Montufar-Bautista’s body was
in the creek along the trail when detectives from the Montgomery
County Police Department- Major
Crimes Division located him at approximately 11 p.m.
According to the charging documents, Montufar-Bautista was reported missing on Nov.16 days after
he reported an assault to a school resource officer at High Point High
School in Beltsville.
The assault occurred on Oct. 28
and was carried out by four to five
gang members of the Park View
Loco Salvatrucha clique of the gang
MS-13, police said. Arrest warrants
were then obtained for four students
believed to be MS-13 members.
Interviews with the suspects led
investigators to Noe Antonio CoreasMejia as the person suspected of ordering the assault on MontufarBautista.
Montufar-Bautista was last seen
with the second suspect, Julio Cesar
Rivas Rosales.
Investigators interviewed Cesar
Rivas on Dec. 22, which led to indications that Montufar-Bautista was
killed. Further investigations showed
that the death of Montufar-Bautista
was authorized by a higher ranking
MS-13 member, police said.
Coreas-Mejia and Rivas Rosales were charged the following day
with the murder of MontufarBautista. Rivas Rosales, 15 years
old, was charged as an adult. Detectives believe that the third suspect,
Leonardo Carlos Siguenza-Neiros,
was trying to avoid arrest by fleeing
Maryland.
The public information officer
for the Montgomery County Police
Department, Rick Goodale, said
Siguenza-Neiros was brought to
Montgomery County on Jan. 14 from
the Denton County Detention Center
in Texas. He is being held in the
Montgomery County Detention Center with the other two suspects.
Another County public information officer, Capt. Paul Starks, believes authorities have arrested the
primary suspects of the homicide.
Detectives believe the homicide
is gang-related because the area
where the body was found has heavy
gang activity. State Attorney John
McCarthy did not have any comments as it is a pending investigation.
The news release also stated that
detectives urge anyone who has any
knowledge related to the case or any
additional suspects to contact the Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5070.
Howling and crowing at the latest G-burg council meeting
By Peter Rouleau
GAITHERSBURG – The cock
crowed and the dog howled at the latest Gaithersburg City Council meeting.
Locals took the opportunity
Tuesday night to voice their concerns
Mayor Jud Ashman and the City
Council on an inquiry into the Animal Control Division over roosters
and plans to charge non-residents for
use of a dog park.
Aaron Rosenzweig, who has repeatedly testified against the city’s
ban on owning roosters and alleged
that his family was harassed by the
city’s Animal Control Division,
made another appearance Tuesday
night. After stating his name and address for the record at the beginning
of his testimony, as required by procedure, Rosenzweig then listed the
home addresses of Ashman and all
five members of the City Council.
“How does that make you
feel?” asked Rosenzweig, who
founded the website teamgaithersburg.org to campaign for greater
transparency in the city’s government “Giving one’s address to open
yourself up to retaliation is the primary reason citizens don’t participate in public comments. Why do
you require our address? Since when
have you ever followed up? I’ve now
leveled the playing field. Are you
happy? Are you not entertained?”
Rosenzweig asked several questions pertaining to the cost of the
Gaithersburg Book Festival, an an-
nual gathering of authors on the
grounds of City Hall, which Ashman
founded in 2010. He also demanded
to know the results of the investigation into the city’s Animal Control
Division, which city officials say
was undertaken in response to his
complaints.
“Publish the results of the internal investigation of city staff including but not limited to corrective action,” Rosenzweig said. “Is this a
mythical report? Did you even do an
investigation? Why can’t we see the
report? What are you hiding? Everything should be placed on the city
website for everyone to view. You
have 30 days if you don’t want to violate the Maryland Public Information Act. The clock starts now. Will
you provide this information of your
own free will? Will you charge thousands of dollars for this information?
Could you give me a ballpark?”
City Attorney N. Lynn Board
said that the city would respond to
Rosenzweig’s questions as required
by the PIA.
In the summer, the city issued
changes to its ordinances phasing out
non-city resident memberships for its
dog exercise park on Bickerstaff
Way. Several resident and non-resident members objected to this
change in testimony at City Hall, arguing that it would disrupt a sense of
community enjoyed by the park’s human and canine visitors. Earlier this
month, City Manager Tony Tomasello introduced proposed revisions to
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low them to continue to use the park.
Terri Sedran, a non-resident member
who was active in organizing public
testimony against the proposed
changes last year, spoke at City Hall
Tuesday Night to object to the increase of the proposed fee schedule.
“My position is that the original fee of $60 should remain,” Sedran said. “My reasons have to do
with the message you’re sending.
You’re sending the message that
when the public comes, right or
wrong, and speaks publicly, there’s a
fine for that. Secondly, there never
was a financial issue having to do
with the fee that you were charging
non-city residents. Thirdly, I think
everyone should have access to the
dog park.”
Ashman said that he and the
council are scheduled to meet with
officials from the State Highway Administration on Friday to discuss a
proposed interchange near I-270 and
Watkins Mill Road. Last week, Ashman and the council sent a letter to
Gregory I. Slater, director of the
SHA’s Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering objecting to
the department’s proposed scaling
back of the interchange. The letter
stated that the city was not supportive of anything less than a full interchange and that the proposed
changes would hurt economic development in the city.
In lieu of a work session next
week, Ashman and the council will
travel to Annapolis to meet with state
legislators as part of “District 17 in
Annapolis Night.”
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County focuses on “Vision Zero Action Plan”
By Brianna Shea
@Bshea2991
ROCKVILLE – Montgomery
County Council members introduced the “Vision Zero Action
Plan,” which aims to end traffic-related deaths.
"There have been far too many
crashes in our community, and even
one life lost on the road is too many,”
said Berliner (D-1), council vice
president, who is the Council's representative on the Countywide
Pedestrian, Bicycle and Traffic Safety Advisory Committee. “Our County must make an even greater commitment to make the necessary policy and engineering changes to
ensure that, within a reasonable
timeline, we can honestly say that
the roads in our community are safe
for everyone."
Council member Marc Elrich,
(At-Large), chair of the Public Safety Committee and Council member
Hans Reimer (D-At-Large), introduced the resolution Tuesday morning with Berliner.
Thirty people on foot have been
hit to date this year, said Ronit Dancis, president of the Action Committee for Transit.
Rockville resident Devika Gunasekere, 67, died after she was
struck by a County Ride On Bus
when she was attempting to cross
Old Georgetown Road.
County tightens up on trash
By Brianna Shea
@Bshea2991
ROCKVILLE – Montgomery
County Council members Nancy
Navarro (D-4) and Craig Rice, (D-2)
introduced a bill that would amend
existing County law prohibiting illegal dumping to provide additional
penalties on Tuesday.
Repercussions include a civil
fine of $500 for the first offense and
$1,000 for subsequent offenses coupled with criminal penalties.
Navarro said there are options
for residents who want to have their
larger items such as couches picked
up for free and dumped.
She said areas such as Wheaton
North, Takoma Park and Aspen Hill
have been affected most by the
dumping.
Navarro said she saw mattresses
dumped on the median, shopping
carts and plastic bags in neighborhoods, as well as motor oil dumped
down sewer drains.
Several police departments, the
County’s Department of Transportation and the County’s Housing and
Community Affairs are able to enforce this law.
Navarro said she has had residents tell her their property values
have decreased due to the dumping
and the unattractiveness of the items
dumped or left on neighbor’s lawns.
The penalties are a “tool to ensure quality of life,” Navarro said.
Rice said the environmental impacts affect the water resources and
systems in the County.
“This is a flock of canaries
telling us we are damaging the envi-
ronment,” Rice said.
This bill will affect two groups:
those who dump their items and businesses that offer to dump others’
trash for a discounted price.
Rice said household items such
as tires and automobile oil are popular items discarded.
People have to pay to drop off
items over a certain weight, which
can lead people to discard items in a
wooded area for free.
A public hearing is scheduled
for Feb. 9 at 1:30 p.m.
The council, acting as the County’s Board of Health, unanimously
voted to approve a resolution to include municipalities in the County’s
legislation holding businesses accountable for selling tobacco to minors on Tuesday.
“It’s a very serious thing to give
a child a tobacco product,” said Rice.
Municipalities such as Chevy
Chase, Rockville, Takoma Park and
the other 16 municipalities are now
included.
The first penalty increased to a
maximum of $1,000 and $1,000 for
subsequent offenses, before the bill
was passed the first offense was $500
and increases to $750 for subsequent
offenses.
Rice said convenience stores
and gas stations adjacent to or near
high schools are the largest group
that tends to break this law because
they are conveniently placed for students to stop, Rice said.
He said stings performed by the
County’s Department Health and
Human Services conduct stings and
have resulted in minors being sold
tobacco.
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In 2015, 12 out of 449 pedestrian collisions were fatal, said Montgomery County Police Capt. Tom
Didone. In 2014, nine out of 420
were killed, and 13 out of 477 pedestrians were killed in 2013, said Didone.
Montgomery County Police
Chief Tom Manger said 44 deaths
occurred on state highways in the
County, a decrease from the 50 to 60
the police investigate in years past.
Manger said drivers not paying
attention to the road may be the most
common reason for collisions in the
County.
He said distracted driving,
speeding and impaired driving are
factors for why drivers do not pay at-
tention.
“There are too many pedestrianrelated deaths,” Elrich said.
He said drivers and pedestrians
both need to obey safety laws such as
stopping at a stoplight and wearing
brightly colored clothes at night.
“Our community is united,”
Berliner said. “This resolution has
been co-sponsored by every one of
my colleagues.”
She said most of these collisions
occur on state roads such as Routes
355, which is also known as Georgia
Avenue, and 586, which is also
known as Veirs Mill Road.
Berliner said the State Highway
Administration needs to implement
safety procedures such as lighted
signs to signal to drivers when a
pedestrian is in the walkway.
“My brother was on the shoulder,” said Ray Holden, whose brother, Tim, had been struck on Massachusetts Avenue on Aug. 28.
Holden said Tim was on his way
to meet up with one of his daughters
for coffee when a driver hit him.
“Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians need to co-exist on the roadways,” Holden said.
Riemer said the speed camera
program has played a part in decreasing collisions and deaths.
He said fines must be increased,
speed limits must be decreased and
roads need to be looked at.
Costco files appeal to build gas station in Aspen Hill area
By Nadia Palacios
Costco filed an appeal to the
Court of Special Appeals after being
denied a special zoning exception for a
proposed gas station.
The company was denied the exception by Montgomery County Circuit Court in December and filed the
appeal on Jan. 15.
According to the former president of the Kensington Heights Association, Danila Sheveiko, Costco
changed its argument for the appeal
when the case got to the Circuit Court.
Previously, Costco argued that
the community’s opposition was
based on emotion.
Sheveiko said Costco is now arguing that the county did not have the
right to deny the special zoning exception.
Costco Wholesale’s vice presi-
dent for operations, Rob Leuck, released a statement regarding why it is
appealing again with this new argument.
“Costco believes the Montgomery County Circuit Court erred
when it upheld the denial of a special
exception to locate the proposed gas
station next to our existing store at the
Westfield
Wheaton Shopping Center,”
Leuck said.
Though Leuck also said that the
proposed gas station would meet all
the standards in regards to air quality,
Larry Silverman, environmental policy expert for the Stop Costco Gas
Coalition, said having a gas station in
that area can cause health risks.
According to Silverman, the
idling cars and delivery trucks in a
dense urban area can cause a lot of pollution.
“I think that their big plan is to
move their stores and gas stations in
the urban area,” Silverman said.
Silverman also said that scientific
evidence, such as studies regarding air
pollution and its effects on health,
were presented during the hearing,
which lasted for 37 days.
The county hearing examiner of
the case and the appeals board agreed
that the company did not prove that the
proposed gas station did not present a
safety and health risk to the residents.
Costco argued that state and federal standards pre-empted the county’s, which Judge Gary Bair rejected
as without merit.
“As is pellucid, these arguments
of counsel contain no explicit mention
of the doctrine of preemption. Although Petitioner contends that it
nonetheless referenced the subject of
such an argument, the Court finds this
position unpersuasive,” Bair said.
Rockville examines priorities for coming year in council
By Danica Roem
@pwcdanica
ROCKVILLE – City Council
members prioritized 25 items for
their legislative agenda earlier this
month, which range from city employee pay to completion of the Pike
Plan this year.
During a goal-setting session
two days before the first council
meeting of 2016, the mayor and
council members whittled down a
list of about 75 proposed priorities to
25 items divided into seven categories.
The categories included:
•Efficient and effective city service delivery
•Good governance
•Safe and livable neighborhoods
•Planning and preservation
•Informed and engaged residents
•Economic development
•Stewardship of infrastructure
and environment
The City Council also added
one sentence to its work plan about
being “fiscally responsible,” though
it did not include any specific action
items in that category, according to a
draft copy of the plan provided by
city spokesperson Marylou Berg.
For city services, the city prioritized finishing its compensation and
classification plan, which regards
bonuses and merit pay increases for
city staffers. The council is also set to
receive a senior services study and
develop a multi-year implementation
plan for it.
Five items made up the “good
governance” agenda, including a
top-to-bottom review of the boards
and commission system. The city
government includes 26 boards,
commissions and other designated
groups of non-elected members.
Others include enhancing non-discrimination measures affecting the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; finding office space
for council members; opening a data
initiative about all aspects of city
governance; and finding more effective ways to promote school construction at the County level.
“We need some work space here
at City Hall,” said Council member
Virginia Onley.
Safe and livable neighborhoods
include more affordable housing,
emphasizing seniors and veterans,
connectivity between neighborhoods, putting up a mural and lighting at East Middle Lane and Park
Road under the railroad tracks, a police force review, and adopting and
implementing a Vision Zero policy,
which focuses on eliminating roadway fatalities.
“Frankly, I think it’s time we
have a frank discussion about the police department,” said Police Chief
Terry Treschuk during a Jan. 11budget work session.
The City Council will need to decide whether to add more officers to
the police force in the city that Mayor
Bridget Donnell Newton often says
swells to more than 100,000 people
during weekday business hours.
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MCPS continues its budget juggling act
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
ROCKVILLE - Parents, teachers and union leaders lobbied
against larger class sizes during an
operating budget hearing at the
Carver Educational Services Center
Thursday.
Others had different problems
they say the school system needs to
address.
Chris Rutledge, representing
Einstein Cluster, said parents at the
high school need more translation
services.
He said automated telephone
calls to Einstein family homes ought
to be translated but are not.
“Schools send out multiple
Connect Ed calls and emails to parents each week – all of which should
be translated, but many of which
aren’t,” said Rutledge in his testi-
mony.
Last school year, about 44.8
percent of students at Albert Einstein High School were Hispanic,
although 9 percent of the total number of students was in the English
Speakers of Other Languages program, according to Schools at a
Glance. Sligo Middle School was
41.7 percent Hispanic at that time.
“It is a lie to say we are committed to ending the achievement
gap, when we can’t communicate
with half of the school,” said Rutledge about Sligo Middle School.
“That sends a profound message to
families.”
“Parents who visit the schools
would also benefit from staff who
speak their language,” said Rutledge.
He said he heard some schools
offer high school student service
learning hours to translate in
schools but that it was not a longterm solution.
Juan del Cid, a Montgomery
Knolls Elementary School parent,
said he noticed a need for additional
translation or interpretation services
during parent-teacher conferences
this school year.
In Montgomery Knolls, 247
students are in ESOL and 97 parents
requested an interpreter for parentteacher conferences, said Cid.
He said the Language Assistance Services unit supplied four
hours of translation services. This
resulted in 14 families receiving
translation services of the 97 families that requested them.
“I feel very sad because we
don’t have the budget to hire the
support staff needed,” an interpreter
said on behalf of Cid.
Elizabeth Wert, a full-time
school counselor in Germantown,
said she is not able to address all the
social and emotional needs of students in her school due to the number of students at the school. She
said she thought another counselor
was needed, particularly to address
crisis situations.
“I think that the challenge is
getting to the kids where issues
might sort of pop up,” said, a fulltime counselor at Great Seneca
Creek Elementary School.
“They might not be in my small
groups. I might not be going into
their class that week and I think the
problem is being able to get them in
the time that they are in crisis. A lot
of the times I’m not able to maybe
until a couple days later, and I think
that’s the biggest challenge.”
Counselors help students address their anxiety and depression,
develop social skills and handle
their emotions and are responsible
for hosting small groups and teaching students lessons each week, said
Wert.
Chris Lloyd, president of
Montgomery County Education Association, a union for teachers in the
county, said 20 elementary and middle schools have one administrator
who is a “one-stop shop” for administrative needs.
Sumbal Sheldon spoke on behalf of the Watkins Mill Cluster and
requested additional security officers in elementary schools in the
cluster.
Merle Cuttitta, president of
SEIU Local 500 union for school
staff, said hour and staff position reductions are not sustainable for the
school system.
A few people in the audience
held up signs that read “I am a
paraeducator” or “I am a bus driver,” during her testimony.
Takoma stress viability options Body cameras find their way into Takoma Park PD
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
TAKOMA PARK—The mayor,
city manager and City Council said
Tuesday that planning distribution
of money and resources will be more
important this year due to the scheduled pay increase for city staff.
The assistant city manager will
organize the council members’ ideas
gathered Tuesday into a structured
list so that the Council can move forward creating steps to address the
priorities.
Council members said financial
sustainability and environmental
sustainability are top priorities, and
Washington Adventist Hospital and
Takoma Junction are two areas for
which to discuss the possibility of
planning this year.
One priority theme was ways to
make the city environmentally sustainable. Council member Rizwan
“Rizzy” Qureshi (Ward 3) said he
thought environmental sustainability, rather than being its own goal,
should be incorporated into the planning of all future projects.
Ludlow said installing LED
street lights was an option for increasing the amount of sustainable
energy.
The hospital is scheduled to be
relocated, but council members have
said they wanted an emergency facility to remain in the area. City
Manager Suzanne Ludlow said she
thought a special council should be
arranged for that purpose because
the hospital was originally placed in
Takoma Park using a special exception zoning text amendment. The
land was originally intended for a
residential area, she said.
Mayor Kate Stewart said Takoma Park will work in partnership
with Washington Adventist Hospital
to plan the Takoma Park campus because the city does not own the land.
Ludlow said Takoma Park’s tax
base is on the smaller side within
Montgomery County. She said the
city puts money into the affordable
housing and also loses revenue from
it.
Ludlow said one solution to financial sustainability would be interjurisdictional partnerships. Several
council members said they agreed.
The city is bordered by Washington, D.C., and by Prince George’s
County. Decisions in one jurisdiction about commercial or residential
development as well as police affect
the other two.
Ludlow said since the Purple
Line stop will likely be located close
to the city’s borders, she thought the
council should find out whether a
partnership between police stations
of different jurisdictions could be
formed.
The city is in the process of
planning Takoma Junction. The
council is scheduled to have a forum
on affordable housing.
One theme in Takoma Park priorities was improving the “livability” of the city. A couple of suggestions for this were adding development and paying for youth
programs.
Stewart said she thought council members seemed to support including youth programs as a funding
priority for this year.
Advertise In The Sentinel
By Brianna Shea
@Bshea2991
Takoma Park— Body cameras
found another home with the Takoma Park Police Department earlier
this month.
“Now that we have the cameras, it’s going to tell the truth of
what happened in that incident,”
said Capt. Tyrone Collington with
the department
Capt. Rick Bowers said 30
Taser Axon Body Cameras were
purchased to record any interactions
officers have with the community.
The cameras were funded
through the city’s general fund in
Fiscal Year 2016 and given to 28 patrol officers in January, said Collington.
He said Chief Alan Goldberg
wears a camera.
Bowers said the cameras are
tiny black boxes that are positioned
on the officers’ chests.
“There’s a lot of benefits to having these cameras,” said Collington.
He said there is a reduction in
complaints from residents about officers.
The cameras provide transparency and build trust with the
community, he said.
“We have the ability to pull the
video to confirm or negate the complaint,” he said.
Collington said video footage
is used for training purposes to
teach other officers what to do or
not do.
“There is no discrepancy in
what took place,” Collington said.
Collington said people are
calmer in interactions with officers
when there are cameras.
The person may use profanity
or act aggressively toward the officer, but when they are made aware
they are being recorded, they
change.
There are limitations to these
cameras though, Collington said.
Cameras do not catch everything that is happening in the situation, and the field of view may be
obstructed.
He said if officers move their
heads or bring their hands up, it
could obscure the shot.
Collington said the camera
does not capture an officer’s emo-
tions because it is only a machine
and its’ purpose is to record.
Collington said officers must
tell people they are interacting with
they are being filmed.
Cameras must be turned on before reaching the person being
pulled over or responding to a call,
but there are certain situations when
cameras can be turned off.
He said cameras are only
turned off when officers go into
someone’s home or if someone is
talking to an officer about a child.
“If they want to talk about their
child’s behavior, they want some input or advice, we turn them off,”
Collington said.
Footage is stored indefinitely
on a secure server that tracks who
and how many times an officer
viewed footage, but they are not
able to delete it.
The Body-Worn Camera System, the camera pilot program in the
County, was launched June 23.
In June, the department was
part of the pilot program, where six
officers were able to test the chest
piece, a piece that fits onto glasses
and a collar piece.
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demic 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 301-984-9585,
email [email protected]. Like us on Facebook:www.facebook.com/mont.lwvmd.org. Follow
us on Twitter@mocomdlwv
JAN 21
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.
JAN 26
JAN 22
"LEND ME A TENOR" PRESENTED BY
ROCKVILLE LITTLE THEATRE
Jan. 22. 8:00 P.M. Six performances | Jan. 23 at 8
p.m. | Jan. 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+).
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.
JAN 23
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.
WAKE UP, BROTHER BEAR!
Jan. 23. 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. For more information call 301-2801660.
ISRAELI CINEMA AT TIKVAT ISRAEL
Jan. 23. and 30. 7:45 P.M. Two nights of Israeli
Cinema at Tikvat Israel, including CUPCAKES
January 21, 2016 – January 27, 2016
COURTESY PHOTO
Grammy-nominated rap star Fetty
Wap is headed to The Fillmore
Silver Spring for his first solo tour
next month as part of the Monster
Energy Outbreak Tour. He will be
joined by Post Malone and Monty.
(2013) on Saturday, January 23 @7:45pm and THE
FAREWELL PARTY (2014) on Saturday, January
30 @7:45pm. Light refreshments and discussion
will follow each film. Moderators include Dr. Eric
Zakim, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Maryland and Yael
Meroz, M.A., Tel Aviv University, Thesis in Popular
Israeli Music. $15/person per film; $5 for students
with a valid student ID. Fees are used to pay for film
screening rights to support the Israeli film industry.
RSVPs requested (but not required) at [email protected] or 301-762-7338 Snow Date:
Saturday, February 6th. Tikvat Israel, 2200 Baltimore Road, Rockville, MD 20851. To learn more
about the films and event, go to
www.tikvatisrael.org.
JAN 24
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
JAN 25
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 epi-
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].
JAN 27
ASPEN HILL CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES FORUM
Jan. 27. 7:30 P.M. A Candidates Forum for the
U.S. House of Representatives (8th Congressional
District) will held at the Aspen Hill Library, 4407
Aspen Hill Road, Aspen Hill, MD. All of the candidates have been invited - regardless of political party. Most of the forum will be devoted to questions
from the audience and (hopefully!) answers from
the candidates. The forum is sponsored by the
Friends of the Aspen Hill Library and the Aspen Hill
Civic Association. For more information, call (301)
871-1113 or [email protected].
UPCOMING
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 appetizers, 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.
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.
FREE NECK & BACK SCREENING TO ASSESS RANGE OF MOTION, POSTURE
AND STRENGTH
Jan. 30. 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Bethesda Physical Therapy's Jesse Lewis will be providing free
neck and back screenings at Anytime Fitness in
Kensington (4265 Howard Avenue). Jesse Lewis is
a PT (physical therapist), DPT (doctor of physical
therapy), OCS (orthopedic certified specialist),
CSCS (strength and conditioning specialist) and will
be assessing range of motion, posture and strength.
He will also recommend/advise if further treatment
options are necessary.
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.
Info: (301) 942-4183
ASPEN HILL SUNDAY MOVIE MATINEE
Jan. 31. 2:00 P.M. Night at the Museum: Secret
of the Tomb (2014) - staring Ben Stiller and Robin
Williams - will be the Sunday Movie Matinee at the
Aspen Hill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Road, on January 31, at 2 p.m. Admission is free and everyone is
welcome. Running time is 97 minutes. The Aspen
Hill Sunday Movie Matinees are sponsored by the
Friends of the Aspen Hill Library. For more information, call (301) 871-1113 or e-mail
[email protected].
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.
ART EXHIBIT: "PARTNERSHIPS" VCA
ALEXANDRIA ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Jan. 31- May 15. "Partnerships", an art exhibit
exploring the bond between humans and animals, is
presented by Del Ray Artisans’ Gallery Without
Walls program and Veterinary Clinics of America
Alexandria Animal Hospital. The exhibit runs from
January 31-May 15, 2016 at the animal hospital
(2660 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA). An open house
is planned for April 2016 by VCA Alexandria;
artists featured in the exhibit will be available to discuss their artwork. Details: www.TheDelRayArtisans.org/GWW
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. Registration is limited to 20 people. Bring your own mat or
use a chair for the practice.
ASPEN HILL CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES FORUM
Feb. 3. 7:30 P.M. A Candidates Forum for the
U.S. House of Representatives (6th Congressional
District) will held at the Aspen Hill Library, 4407
Aspen Hill Road, Aspen Hill, MD. All of the candidates have been invited - regardless of political party. Most of the forum will be devoted to questions
from the audience and (hopefully!) answers from
the candidates. The forum is sponsored by the
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410356-7469.
Friends of the Aspen Hill Library and the Aspen Hill
Civic Association. For more information, call (301)
871-1113 or [email protected].
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC DYNASTY
Feb. 6. 4:00 P.M. BlackRock Center for the Arts
will screen the documentary film The Winding
Stream, directed by Beth Harrington, as part of the
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s On Screen/In Person
program on Saturday, February 6 at 4:00pm. A conversation with the director will follow the screening.
The Winding Stream tells the story of the American
roots music dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes,
tracing the influence of their music from the 1920s
through the present day, and how a seemingly unlikely young man named Johnny Cash would be the
one to lift up the Carter legacy from obscurity. Tickets cost just $5 and are on sale at the BlackRock
Box Office, online at blackrockcenter.org, or over
the phone by calling 240.912.1058.
VOLUNTEER – MAKE BLANKETS FOR
SICK CHILDREN
Feb. 5. 10:00 A.M. – 9:00 P.M. Volunteers invited to make BLANKETS as gifts for sick children in
hospital. You may knit, crochet, or quilt (yarn and
fabric provided). Monthly meetings are at the University of Maryland Extension Office, 18410
Muncaster Road, Derwood, MD 20855. This project is sponsored by the Montgomery County chapter of Family & Community Education. Donations
of plain fabric and children’s prints and of worstedweight acrylic yarn gratefully accepted. For more
information and directions, please call Pat at 301460-5451.
MONSTER ENERGY OUTBREAK TOUR
PRESENTS: FETTY WAP - “WELCOME
TO THE ZOO"
Feb. 5. 9:00 P.M. Grammy-nominated rap star
Fetty Wap is headed out on his first solo tour next
month as part of the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour.
Fetty Wap will be joined on the "Welcome To The
Zoo Tour" by Post Malone and Monty. Where: The
Fillmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring. Tickets: $35 |
available on http://concerts.livenation.com
MASTERMIND EVENT FOR SMALL
BUSINESS OWNERS
Feb. 5 & 6. Join 14 other business owners for a
TALK: MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND,
1930-1979
Feb. 6. 3:00 – 4:00 P.M. Clare Lise Kelly, senior
architectural historian for the Maryland-National
Capital Park & Planning Commission, discusses the
history of modern architecture in Montgomery
County from its first appearance in the 1930s
through the 1970s. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing (paperback $55, hardback $65, cash or check.) Silver Spring Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Station, 8100 Georgia Avenue, Silver
Spring, MD. Information: 301.537.1253 | [email protected] | Free (donations accepted)
ROCKVILLE CONCERT BAND PRE-
COURTESY PHOTO
BlackRock Center for the Arts will screen "The Winding Stream, "a
90–minute documentary, telling the story of the American roots music
dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes, tracing the influence of their music
from the 1920s through the present day on February 6.
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
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
SENTS ITS ANNUAL JAZZ CONCERT
Feb. 7. 3:00 P.M. Guest ensemble Rockville
Swing Band joins the city's band for their annual
free jazz concert. This exciting mix of musical talent
performs contemporary jazz, big band arrangements
and traditional swing from the Golden Era. No tickets required; $5 suggested donation. The F. Scott
Fitzgerald Theatre is located in Rockville Civic
Center Park, 603 Edmonston Drive.
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
January 21, 2016 – January 27, 2016
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.
IPAD CLINIC / DOWNLOADING EBOOKS
Feb. 9 – Mar. 29. 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Customized 45-minute one-on-one help using your iPad
to learn basic features or learn how to download eBooks and e-Audiobooks on your mobile device
like the Kindle, Nook or Android. Registration is required. Sign-up for a 45-minute session at the Information Desk or call 240-777-0200 to sign-up. For
iPad users, please bring your Apple ID and password. For Kindle users, please have your Amazon
login and password. Free | Quince Orchard Library,
15831 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg.
THE LAUREL SENIOR FRIENDSHIP
CLUB (LSFC) MEETING
Feb. 10. 10:30 A.M. Come to the Laurel Senior
Friendship Club (LSFC) general meeting & learn
about our club and hear about our planned trips for
2016, and enjoy a special Black History Program.
Pay at the office by February 3 if you would like to
attend our baked chicken luncheon. The meeting
will be held at the Laurel-Beltsville Senior Activity
Center (L-BSCA), 7120 Contee Rd., Laurel, MD
20707. Please refer questions to the LSFC office
(301-206-3380), Monday through Friday, 10 am to
12:30 P.M.
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.
CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Feb. 13. 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Usher in the
Chinese New Year 4713, Year of the Monkey, with
the Gaithersburg Chinese School. Enjoy folk dancing, performances and arts and crafts. Performances
at 11:00 a.m. and arts and crafts at 12:00 p.m. Space
is limited. Presented by the students and staff of
Gaithersburg Chinese School and sponsored by the
Friends of the Library, Quince Orchard Chapter.
Call 240-777-0200 for more information. Free |
Quince Orchard Library, 15831 Quince Orchard
Road, Gaithersburg.
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,
COURTESY PHOTO
"Morning Light" by Michele Reday Cook is one of the paintings featured at
"Partnerships", an art exhibit exploring the bond between humans and
animals,at the Del Ray Artisansʼ Gallery that runs from January 31 - May 15.
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.
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY TAMBURITZANS PRESENT "NEW HORIZONS"
Feb. 14. 2:00 P.M. Reflecting the traditions and
influences of more than 100 nationalities and cultures, the Tamburitzans return to the Fitzgerald Theatre, fusing progressive and traditional music and
dance to create a visually stunning and electric performance. Tickets: $35-$38. The F. Scott Fitzgerald
Theatre is located in Rockville Civic Center Park,
603 Edmonston Drive.
WIDOWED PERSONS SERVICE MEETING
Feb. 14. The Widowed Persons Service of
Montgomery County will host its "second Sunday
of the month meeting” at the Aspen Hill Library,
4407 Aspen Hill Road. Our speaker will tell us
about the range of activities available at the Holiday
Park Senior Center. The Center is the largest such
facility in Montgomery County serving over 500 seniors each day. A contribution of $ 4 is suggested.
Please call the WPS office at 301-949-7398 if further information is needed.
SPRING GARDENING CONFERENCE
Feb. 20. The 16th Annual Spring Gardening
Conference will be hosted by the Montgomery
County Master Gardeners. Entitled “Exploding the
Myths: Fascinating Facts to Help You Avoid Common Gardening Mythstakes!” the event will offer
gardening workshops at the University of Maryland
Extension Montgomery County Office, 18410
Muncaster Road, Derwood, MD. The charge for the
conference is $55.00, or $50 each for groups of 2 or
more). The price covers coffee and refreshments,
bag lunch, presentations, handouts, door prizes, ac-
cess to speakers and on-line reference for presentations. The registration deadline is Feb. 16. Space is
limited and workshops will be filled on a first-come,
first-served basis.
CONCERT: NIH PHILHARMONIA
Feb. 20. 7:30 P.M. The NIH Philharmonia, under
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
THE FREDERICK DOUGLAS STORY:
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
Feb. 20. 2:00 – 3:00 P.M. This one-man dramatic
presentation tells of the life journey of an enslaved
child who dared to learn to read, a young teen who
dared to be all that he could be, a young man who
dared to escape to freedom and a free man who
dared to challenge his country to live up to its
promises for all of its people. Call 240-777-0200
for more information. Program sponsored by the
Friends of the Library, Quince Orchard Chapter.
Free | Quince Orchard Library, 15831 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg.
AUDUBON NATURALIST SOCIETY
HOSTS BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION
Feb. 20. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS) will host it’s first-ever celebration for Black History Month, Taking Nature Black
at its Woodend Nature Sanctuary. The day-long
event begins with a Green Jobs Fair where college
students, retirees and professionals of color can find
short-term and long-term paid and volunteer opportunities in the environmental industry with nonprofit, government and private sector employers. There
will be breakout sessions on environmental advocacy, cultural competency in the workplace, and stewardship practices at home or in local communities.
The day will conclude with a cocktail party reception. A light breakfast and lunch will be served.
Woodend Nature Sanctuary (ANS Headquarters),
8940 Jones Mill Road, Chevy Chase.
Feb. 21. 2:45 – 3:30 P.M. Waltz and 3:30 – 6:00
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for dates and times:
calendar.TheDelRayArtisans.org
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.
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.
VICTORIAN LYRIC OPERA COMPANY
PRESENTS "ROBIN HOOD"
Feb. 25 – 26. 8:00 P.M. In this comic opera,
Robin, the Earl of Huntington, is robbed of his title
by the shrewd Sheriff of Nottingham. With his band
of merry men, including Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale
and Little John, Robin takes from the rich to give to
the poor until he is able to regain his title.
Tickets: $28 adult; $24 senior; $20 student. $12
preview performance on Feb. 25. The F. Scott
Fitzgerald Theatre is located in Rockville Civic
Center Park, 603 Edmonston Drive. Additional
Dates: March 4-5 at 8:00 P.M.; Feb. 28 and March 6
at 2:00 P.M.
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
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
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.
º– 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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House votes to override Hogan’s 2015 vetoes
By Jessica Campisi
Capital News Service
ANNAPOLIS – During the
opening prayer in the Maryland
House of Delegates, Curtis Stovall
“Curt” Anderson, D-Baltimore,
mimicked a verse to reflect the
day’s agenda.
“Where there is veto, override,” he said.
Anderson’s sentiments proved
true, as the House voted Wednesday
to override three of Gov. Larry
Hogan’s vetoes, including legislation that would give voting rights to
ex-felons.
A three-fifths majority is needed in the House for an override, and
85 votes -- just enough -- were cast
to override the voting rights veto.
Eric Luedtke, D-Montgomery,
voiced strong opposition to the veto
and urged his fellow delegates to
follow suit.
“Voting is not just a right. It is a
fundamental right,” he said. “(Ex-
G.O.P candidates
debate for D-8
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@Bshea2991
SILVER SPIRNG – Republican
candidates for the 8th U.S. Congressional District focused heavily on
health care reform at a forum at
Leisure World on Monday.
Shelton Skolnick, a Montgomery County attorney, Aryeh
Shudofsky and Gus Alzona came together to discuss the issues they
would focus on if elected.
Almost 50 people attended the
event.
Skolnick and Alzona spoke
about health care issues that plague
the senior citizen community.
They said the Social Security
tax should be eliminated right now.
As of now, tax is collected on the
first $118,000 in income.
Skolnick said he had ideas as to
what could replace President Barack
Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Medicare Part A, which applies
to hospital care, should be expanded
to all Americans, which would reduce private insurance costs and
provide an incentive for the government to audit hospitals, Skolnick
said.
In order to lower prescription
drug prices, there should be a ban on
advertising them on television and
radio.
“It it’s simple; it will be easy to
enforce,” Sklonick said.
He said he has a proposal that
includes a Social Security life insurance policy that would increase a
person’s benefits by 50 percent if
they delayed receiving Social Security benefits.
Skolnick said his proposal
would increase benefits and help the
government because people would
wait longer to receive their benefits.
Skolnick said if Congress does
not pass the budget by July 31, it
should work five days a week with
no vacations, recesses or holidays
until it is passed and signed by the
president.
Shudofsky said Medicare and
Medicaid both have issues that need
to be fixed, where all options
“should be on the table” when possible solutions are discussed.
He also suggested putting
Earned Income Tax Credit payments
into paychecks rather than as a lump
sum during tax season.
Shudofsky also put emphasis
on job training, as well as making financial literacy mandatory for high
school seniors.
People should know how to balance a checkbook and be fiscally responsible, and these mandatory
classes will help to do that, he said.
He criticized the Obama administration’s sanctions on Iran for testing two ballistic missiles as weak,
calling for reimposing harsher economic penalties.
Alzona kept his speech short,
saying he does support repealing the
Affordable Care Act as well.
After the meeting, Alzona said
he would fight to keep the regulation
that allows people up to 26 years old
can stay on their parents’ insurance.
Alzona said that if the act could
not be repealed and replaced with a
better option, the act would have to
be “tweaked” to be more patient-,
family- and doctor-friendly.
Alzona said people vote for the
person, not the party.
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felons) get jobs and they pay taxes,
but they should not be taxed without representation.”
The House also faced opposition to the override from several
delegates, including Jason Buckel,
R-Allegany, who said “there should
be consequences” for those convicted of a felony.
These overrides mark the first
legislative clash between the majority-Democratic House and the Republican governor during the 2016
General Assembly session.
Before discussing the voting
rights bill, the House voted 90-51 to
require hotel room vendors to collect sales tax and pay the full
amount to the state for hotel rooms
in Howard County.
The House also voted 92-49 to
override Hogan’s veto of a bill that
would have allocated $2 million to
a performing arts center in Annapolis.
The Senate, which also holds a
Democratic majority, is expected to
attempt to override the voting
rights bill Thursday, as two members were absent Wednesday for
medical reasons. Twenty-nine
votes are needed in the Senate to
override a veto.
The Senate is scheduled to vote
on three additional vetoes Thursday, including legislation that
would decriminalize drug paraphernalia; a bill that would prevent
police from taking assets worth less
than $300; and a bill that would require hotel booking agencies to pay
the same sales tax as hotels.
Kefa cafe reopens in heart of Silver Spring
By Nadia Palacios
The Silver Spring community
celebrated the reopening of Kefa
Cafe on Saturday after the cafe was
closed for 11 months.
The Kefa Cafe was closed in
March due to a fire in the neighboring restaurant. Co-owner Lene
Tsegaye said she anticipated the
cafe would be open to the public
two weeks after the fire, but the insurance took longer in looking at
the damages than she expected.
“They (insurance) had to figure out how much damage for each
business, so they took time and they
had to upgrade every single thing,”
said Tsegaye.
Tsegaye also said smoke was
the primary cause of damage to the
cafe and that the insurance covered
the damages to the restaurant while
building management took care of
updating the electrical work.
According to Montgomery
County Fire and Rescue Service
spokesperson Peter Piringer, the
fire was caused by an electrical
problem in the ceiling of the Bombay Gaylord Restaurant, which is
located behind Kefa Cafe.
Piringer also said the block is
probably one of Silver Spring’s oldest.
Community member Dolores
McDonna helped raise money so
that Kefa Cafe could open a spot in
the Silver Spring Public Library.
“When they learned about the
library opportunity but they had to
come up with $50,000 to be able to
open that cafe, we worked with
Lene and Aby to set up the Internet
fundraising campaign. The money
practically raised itself,” McDonna
said.
Alan Bowser, the president of
the Park Hills Civic Association,
said the cafe was an important gathering place for many community
members. Bowser also assisted
with the social media effort that
supported moving the business into
the library.
The revenue from the spot in
the library helped the Tsegaye’s
with reopening the cafe on Bonifant
Street.
“They are wonderful chamber
members,” said Jane Redicker,
president of the Greater Silver
Spring Chamber of Commerce.
“We’re happy that they will be reopening.”
An artist who contributed to
Kefa’s in-store exhibit, Bobbie Kitner, said that along with having
great coffee and great food, the cafe
has always had a great atmosphere.
“I think it is because it is sisterowned, and my best friend is my
sister. I’m so glad that they are reopening. It was a sad day when they
couldn’t reopen from the fire,” Kitner said.
Tsegaye said that the help of
the community gave her and her
sister the motivation to continue
working toward reopening the cafe.
“If it weren’t for the community, it would have been so easy to
give up,” Tsegaye said.
Takoma Park considers election changes to ease voter access
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
TAKOMA PARK — The city
clerk said changes that could come
as soon as 2018 could allow residents to vote for the mayor and City
Council members at the same time
as they vote for County Council
members in general elections.
Currently, the County Council
elections and the City Council elections occur in different years, said
Takoma Park Board of Elections
Chairperson Marilyn Abbott.
“Takoma Park elections are in
the odd-number years, and they’re
only for the mayor of the city and
the City Council,” said Abbott. “We
have nothing to do with the presidential elections and the primaries
that are coming up.”
Jessie Carpenter, Takoma Park
city clerk, and Abbott are compiling
a list of questions and concerns for
the director of the Maryland Board
of Elections.
“We’re confident that they’ll
try to work with us; we just need to
figure out how to make it happen,”
said Carpenter.
Carpenter said she is hopeful
the elections could be merged, but it
is too soon to tell.
“It’s possible it won’t work,”
said Carpenter. “We won’t know for
a little while.”
Takoma Park’s candidates
would have to be added to the ballot.
The city allows residents who
are prohibited elsewhere to vote,
and a referendum that passed in November aims to allow them to vote
for the county positions if the election years merge.
The ballot in November contained a referendum for whether to
combine the elections while maintaining voting rights for 16- to 17year-olds, noncitizens and individuals on parole or probation for a
felony.
Abbott, chairman of the Takoma Park Board of Elections, said
voting rights for the teens would
have to be maintained.
“We need to make sure that we
don’t lose 16- to 17-year-olds’
vote,” said Abbott.
The vote was 1944-206 in support of the change, according to a
Takoma Park Board of Elections report.
Takoma Park would have to
change its charter if the change were
to be approved, said Carpenter. The
city attorney will help with that
process.
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Sasha Branda brings the ball upcourt with Blair Camille Estrin.
Kennedy Girls Outlast Blair 57-48
By Eva Paspalis
@EvaPaspalis
SILVER SPRING – It was almost a comeback. The Montgomery
Blair Blazers girls varsity basketball
team nearly crawled out of a 13 point
deficit against the Kennedy Cavaliers Friday night.
It was the free throws that sealed
Blair’s fate. The Cavaliers went 6for-8 in the last four minutes of the
game, holding on to beat the Blazers
57-48.
Kennedy was without its start-
ing center and starting forward. Head
coach Kevin Thompson said one
player is rehabbing an injured shoulder and the other was excused from
the game for personal reasons.
Thompson told his team to ramp
up their overall effort to compensate
for being two players down.
“We had to be really scrappy on
defense,” he said. “I told them that
tonight I just want to see effort.”
The two teams went into halftime tied at 24. The Cavaliers amped
up their defense in the third quarter,
holding Blair to just five points.
The Blazers found their rhythm
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court for a layup.
Estrin’s basket jumpstarted a 10
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Blazers within six.
Kennedy sophomore Asia
Lewis and senior Khadijah Pearson
both delivered at the foul line, ensuring Blair couldn’t overtake their
lead.
However, the Blazers had one
last gasp. Estrin sunk a three pointer
with two minutes left as the fans in
red and white shouted their approval.
Cavaliers senior center
Stephanie Obia barreled through the
defense to grab another two points
and put the game on ice for Kennedy.
Blazers head coach Carlos
Smith attributed the loss to his team’s
lack of experience.
“It’s going to take more playing
time,” he said. “We’re showing our
inexperience when we don’t execute.”
Thompson was proud of the
passion and confidence his team ex-
hibited.
“They played with a lot of heart,
a lot of determination,” he said. “I
told them in practice that’s the area
that was missing.”
The Cavaliers improve to 7-4
and will travel to face Blake next Friday. Blair fell to 6-6.
Smith said he was pleased that
his team stayed competitive.
“We show [competitiveness] in
every game,” he said. “Early in the
game we fought back when we were
already down. It’s just the inexperience that is getting to us.”
JANUARY 21, 2016
21
SPORTS
Magruder girls outlast Springbrook 48-40
By Eva Paspalis
@EvaPaspalis
ROCKVILLE – It was an
evening of fouls and turnovers as
the Magruder girls varsity basketball team held on to beat the visiting Springbrook Blue Devils, 4840.
The Blue Devils were once
again without their leading scorer,
senior guard Jada Holland, who is
sidelined with a medical condition.
Holland, a University of Maryland
Eastern Shore commit, hasn’t
played since Springbrook faced
Clarksburg on December 18th.
Springbrook has lost five of
its last six in Holland’s absence,
including a four-game losing
streak.
Thursday’s game against Magruder was within reach, as the
Colonels never led by more than
nine points.
Magruder senior guard
Caleema Johnson led all scorers
with 16 points. Springbrook freshman guard Zoe Macon led her
team with 10 points.
The aggression level of both
teams was high going into the
game. The Blue Devils amassed
ten fouls in the first quarter alone.
“People were diving on the
floor,” said Colonels head coach
Ka’Shauna Cook. “They were getting crazy.”
Magruder led by eight at the
half. The scrappy Blue Devils refused to let their opponents have
an easy victory.
Macon drove down the court,
pulling a foul and setting up a three
point play. Her layup as the third
quarter expired tied the game at 32
apiece.
“I want to do whatever my
team needs to get the job done,”
said Macon.
Springbrook freshman guard
Astou Seck hit a layup to give the
Blue Devils their first lead with
five minutes left to go.
Macon spun around in the
paint and found herself back on the
free throw line.
“If we’re down, I’m going to
try my best to get those points that
we need,” she said.
Cook said she couldn’t let her
concern affect her team as Springbrook yanked the lead away.
“If I get nervous, they get nervous,” she said. “Basketball is a
game of runs. You just have to adjust to it.”
Macon and Magruder senior
guard Tyra Lyles both dove for the
ball and fell over each other. Johnson stole the ball away and scored,
putting the Colonels back in the
lead.
The Springbrook bench responded vehemently. Holland and
head coach Russell Davis tried to
For coach Joyce it always boiled
down to “The little things”
By Kathleen Stubbs
@kathleenstubbs3
While Fred Joyce is known for
coaching football at Gaithersburg
High School, he also trained more
than a dozen state champions in
shot-put, discus, long jump, high
jump, triple jump and pole vault
during his 40 years of coaching at
the school.
Joyce’s coaching led to more
than 25 state championship titles
won by Gaithersburg athletes, all in
field events.
According to fellow coach
Herb Tolbert, cross-country coach
at Gaithersburg, Joyce was the first
coach in the county to use video extensively in his training.
“He would spend hours just
going over the videos with the athletes,” said Tolbert, later adding,
“Then it became very popular after
he had been doing it for years.”
Tolbert estimated Joyce started taping his athletes during practice in the 1970s. Joyce used video
to show his throwers and jumpers
what they were doing wrongly and
how to correct it.
“What’s going to make the difference between the one that’s very
good and the one that’s a champion?” asked Tolbert. “It’s the little
things. And that’s what Fred believed in immensely.”
Joyce focused on seemingly
minute details in shot-put, discus,
pole vault, high jump, long jump
and triple jump. If an athlete’s foot
was out of place by as little as one
inch, he would find a way to show
the thrower or jumper what needed
to be fixed.
“You could tell a kid 20 times
you need to have your foot at this
position and they go “Okay,” but it
never is,” said Tolbert.
Gaithersburg’s field coach was
different because he created methods to teach the athletes. He tied bi-
cycle tire inner tubes to goal posts
with rope and used them to teach
pole vault hopefuls to be comfortable being upside down.
Joyce would show athletes
through video footage what they
did wrong and explain what they
needed to fix.
Joyce filmed his athletes
weekly, sometimes daily, from
multiple angles and then showed
the videos to the throwers and
jumpers the next day during lunch
or during practice, to show them
how to improve, said both Tolbert
and fellow coach Francis Parry.
Parry said videotaping was indeed useful in teaching.
“I coached gymnastics,” said
Parry. “If you don’t videotape,
how can you possibly tell a kid or
an athlete what they’re doing
wrong?”
Joyce had a process for teaching athletes how to perform each
event.
“Fred’s process. That’s what
got him, and got the athletes one after the other to where they were,”
said Parry. “In every event there
was a process.”
He trained his sons James and
Doug at Gaithersburg. James was a
six-time state champion in indoor
and outdoor track and field for shot
put and discus. He set the school
record for shot-put and discus.
Doug is in the top five best throws
for shot-put.
His nephews, Kevin Neubiser,
Mike Neubiser and David Neubiser, became state champions in shotput and discus at Gaithersburg under Joyce’s coaching.
Jason Woodward, Gaithersburg athletic director, said school
records set by athletes Joyce
trained in the field events remain
unbroken since he retired.
He also enhanced the old campus by adding a pole vault pit in the
gym floor.
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calm them down.
Several Blue Devils committed fouls to stop the clock. Johnson
hit a three pointer as Magruder began to pull away for the final time.
“We executed the way that I
think this team can execute, except
for the last few minutes of the
game,” said Davis. “We had a couple of turnovers, a couple of ill-advised shots.”
Springbrook drops to 3-7. Magruder improved to 5-6. A game
against powerhouse Paint Branch
looms in the distance.
“Hopefully we can remember
some of the things we did well here
today, so we can execute against
Paint Branch,” said Cook.
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JANUARY 21, 2016
SPORTS
Five Good Counsel wrestlers among the Hub Cup best
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
BERLIN, MD – Bailey Thomas
and Kevin Snyder were not among
the five Good Counsel wrestlers who
stood atop the podium last weekend,
when the Falcons dominated the
field for Hub Cup title at North
Hagerstown High of Washington
County and their first tournament
victory of the season.
Thomas (152) was a runner-up,
falling short of an 7-5 overtime title
bout loss to the host Hubs’ Isaiah
Brooks. Snyder (195), meanwhile,
was still sidelined with an ankle injury.
But last weekend’s War On The
Shore at Stephen Decatur High represented redemption for Thomas and
Snyder, whom ascended to championship status along with four other
teammates as the Falcons (246
points) handled runner-up Mount St.
Joseph (202), Virginia’s Spring
Grove (167.5), defending Class 4A3A state champion Damascus
(154.5) and the entire 22-team field.
Kevin Budock (145), Garrett
Neff (160), Paul Hutton (170) and
Brady Daniel (220) won titles for the
second straight weekend, Jared
Thomas (106) finished third after
taking his division at the Hub Cup,
and Cord Richardson (113), fourth,
for a Falcons squad which placed 11
wrestlers within the top five of their
weight classes at Stephen Decatur.
“We wrestled really well, going
six-for-six in our finals matches,”
said Snyder, Ohio State-bound senior
and one of five Falcons who were
private schools state runners-up last
season. “We preached attacking and
scoring all week, because last week
in the Hub Cup finals, we froze up
and didn’t wrestle like we usually do.
We were loose and had fun, and that
showed in our wrestling, top-to-bottom.”
Snyder nailed down two firstperiod pins, another in the second
and overcame longtime rival, Logan
Rill of Mount St. Joseph, a returning
third place finisher at states, 5-2, for
his title.
“I ran a half-nelson and a bararm on the guys I pinned. I’ve wrestled Logan Rill four times and won
them all, but some matches are closer
than others,” said Snyder, who suffered a high ankle sprain last month.
“It was frustrating that I couldn’t shoot off the ankle. I didn’t wrestle for about a week, but I did all of
the conditioning and weight-lifting
that I could to get my ankle
stronger.”
Thomas decked his first two opponents in a combined 1:49 before
winning his semifinal bout, 7-4, over
Mount St. Joseph’s fifth place state
finisher, Cornelius Shuster. Thomas
blanked Class 4A-3A state runnerup, Gino Sita, of Huntingtown High,
8-0, in the finals.
“I should have been on top of
the podium last week, so I was pretty
angry. My single-leg takedowns
were working on Shuster, and I
worked Sita’s head and got him really tired before I took him down,” said
Thomas, a junior returning state runner-up.
“We beat [private school powers] Spalding and St. Paul’s last
week, so we came in wanting to
dominate Damascus. We showed up
and proved we are the best in the
state, and if we all continue to wrestle well, there’s not a team in the state
that can beat us.”
Neff used a pin, a major decision and a 4-3 victory over Damascus tournament runner-up, Tyler Matheny of Lake Braddock to reach the
finals, where he edged Spring
Grove’s Marcus Kehr, 7-5. Kehr’s
18-11 semifinal victory was over
Damascus’ county and regional
champion, Colin McLaughlin, who
finished fourth after losing, 7-6, to
Matheny.
“I didn’t know who Matheny
was, which can make it a little
tougher when he knows who you are.
You can throw things at them that
they’re prepared for and they can
surprise you,” said Neff of Matheny,
a 5-4 loser to Bullis’ unbeaten
Aryemis Brown after leading, 4-0, in
the Damascus tournament finals.
“But I watched the Spring
Grove kid take it to McLaughlin. I
saw Kehr getting tired, which helped
me in my finals match. He tried a
headlock and other big moves and
ended up throwing me to my back,
but I rolled out of it before he could
get any back points.”
Budock pinned twice, routed
Damascus’ John Allan Furgeson, 134, in the semifinals and handled
Justin Bennett of Sussex Central, 103, in the finals. A returning private
schools state runner-up, Budock has
placed third at each of the Beast of
The East and PowerAde tournaments
and seventh at the Iron Man.
Hutton used two pins, a 10-5
semifinal victory and a 3-2 championship win over Damascus’ Ben
Lokos, who reached the finals by
sandwiching pins of 52- and 46-seconds around a 3-2 victory over
Mount St. Joseph’s Justin Henry.
A junior transfer from River
Hill High, where he was a 4A-3A
state champ, Daniel edged Freedom’s Evan Evan Callahn, 5-2, for
his crown a week after pinning all
four opponents to win the Hub Cup.
Damascus’ lone champion was
Ryan Lawrence (138), with Lokos
and state champion Scottie Obendorfer (132) finishing second, Johnny McLaughlin (113) third, and Colin McLaughlin and Furgeson,
fourth.
Lawrence led the host school’s
fourth-place state finisher, Andy
McKahan, 3-2, before winning by
default due to McKahan’s inability
to stop the blood flow from his nose.
“I was winning in the third period and felt good,” said Lawrence.
“I’m just trying to get better and better as the season goes on.”
Lawrence’s loss was by 7-6 to
Southern Garrett’s state champ Devan Hamirck after leading, 6-4, in
the second period on a night
Lawrence also beat Oakdale’s state
runner-up, Kyle McDonald, 12-3.
Obendorfer won his semifinal,
12-3, over Curley’s sixth place state
finisher, Joshua Laubach, but lost his
title bout rematch, 9-7, to Virginia
State champion Darius Wiles, who
beat Obdendorfer, 7-2, in the Damascus tournament finals.
“Scottie went opened up a little
bit more and tried to push the action
instead of trying to keep it close and
win it at the end,” said Swarmin’
Hornets’ coach John Furgeson. “It
was a great match, but the Wiles kid
was ready for it and Scottie came up
on the short end.”
Poolesville’s Wilkins pins eight opponents to improve to 29-0 on the season
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
P O O L E S V I L L E - Poolesville’s Kyle Wilkins (285)
pinned all of his eight opponents to
improve to 29-0 with 26 pins as the
Falcons’ placed third in their inaugural Kevin Dorsey Duals.
A senior county and regional
champion who placed third in the
Class 2A-1A state tournament,
Wilkins paced the Falcons to an
overall 6-2 record good for third in
an event dedicated to Dorsey, a
10th-year coach who has returned
after being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or
Lou Gehrig’s disease) during the
summer of 2014.
Also going 8-0 were the Falcons’ Chris Danna (113) and Justin
Budd (170), with Brian Truppo
(120) finishing at 7-1, and Alex
Carbonell (106) with a record of 62.
“We lost some close dual
meets to Cosby, of Richmond, Virginia, and Ligonier Valley of Ligo-
nier,
Pennsylvania,”
said
Poolesville co-coach Timothy Tao.
“There was some very good
wrestling and a lot of great matches. The tournament was a big success, overall. Individually, we had
some wrestlers with great success.”
Truppo split bouts with a Nick
Huskey of Ligonier, as did Carbonell, the latter, with Ligonier
wrestler Zach Pyle.
“One of the best matches of
the night goes to Alex Carbonell.
Zach Pyle is a freshman who had
won states multiple times at the junior Olympic level,” said Tao. “He
came into high school being ranked
in Pennsylvania.”
Carbonell was shutout, 11-0,
the first time around but won the
rematch with Pyle, 13-7.
“Alex was losing to Pyle in the
final match of the night and wrestled tough,” said Tao. “It was great
to see him get revenge after losing
to him the first time.”
In Baltimore County, Logan
Wilson (145) and Patrick Okocha
(182) were named Oustanding
Lightweight and Heavyweight
wrestler, respectively, to pace Walter Johnson to the overall title at
last weekend’s Best Of The Next
Tournament at Perry Hall High.
The Wildcats finished 9-0 in
the dual meet formatted event, with
titles also coming from Kemper
Sterns (106), Grant Anderson
(120), Dillon Jobes (132), J.D.
Fitzpatrick (138) and Jakub Kielb
(160).
Runners-up were the Wildcats’ Henrique Corte (152) and
Chris Mendoza (195), with Joe Wu
(220) and Leo Squeredo (285) finishing third, and both Andrew Masison (113) and August Meriot
(126), fourth.
Fitzpatrick, Wilson, Kielb and
Okocha all went unbeaten for the
Wildcats, who routed runner-up
Howard of Howard County, 56-12,
with Aberdeen of Harford County
winning a tiebreaker for third place
over Langley of Virginia after a 3636 draw.
Wilson and Kielb improved to
29-0, Okocha is 29-1, and Fitz-
patrick, 28-2 on the year for the
Wildcats, whose victories included
one by 70-0 shutout over Dulaney
of Baltimore County.
With a dual meet record of 214, the Wildcats have posted their
fifth straight 20-win season under
26th year coach Tom Wheeler.
At South Hagerstown High in
Washington County, Magruder’s
Samir Sharad (120), Joe Sanchez
(126), Mohamed Bangura (152)
and Chris Railey (160) all went 9-0
while teammate C.J. Cramma (113)
finished at 8-1 for the Colonels.
Sanchez pinned four opponents and registered two technical
falls, and Cramma’s lone defeat
was to state champion, Matt Shealy
of River Hill, by the score of 6-2.
At the Franklin High of Baltimore County tournament, Wootton
crowned Riley Smart (138) and Pat
Bernardo (220), and Jake Warner
(113) and Jack Cohen (132) finished second for the Patriots at an
event won by Parkdale of Baltimore County.
A wrestler who placed third at
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counties and fourth in the regionals, Smart won, 13-7, over Parkdale’s Michael Gbenro, while
county and regional runner-up,
Bernardo, required an overtime
takedown to defeat Nick Nordhausen of Mount Hebron of
Howard County.
Montgomery Blair team captains Nauman Funyus (120) and
Ryan Holland (132) are making the
grade both on the mat and in the
classroom.
A junior with a 3.7 grade point
average, Funyus is 17-2 on the
year, having won the title at last
month’s Magruder Mad Mats tournament.
A sophomore with a 4.0 average, Holland is 17-3, having won
all seven matches, six by pin, to be
named Lower Weight Most Valuable Wrestler at the recent Big
Train Duals at Walter Johnson.
“They are great examples of
what it means to be a Blazer,” said
Blazers’ coach James Herbold.
“They are excellent people on the
mat and in the classroom.”
JANUARY 21, 2016
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Damascus and Whitman gear up for showdown
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
POTOMAC – Where defending
Class 4A-3A state champion Damascus may have stumbled a bit, county
rival Walt Whitman appears to have
hit its stride entering Saturday’s trimeet showdown at Wootton at 2:30
p.m.
The Swarmin’ Hornets (15-0)
are trying to preserve their 94-match
winning streak toward earning a potential fourth straight Class 4A-3A
state dual meet title as well as a fifth
overall state tournament crown.
In the Vikings (7-0), the
Swarmin’ Hornets face a red hot
squad which, over the past two
weekends, has finished third and
first, respectively, at the Patriot Classic at Northern High of Calvert
County and the Grapple At The
Brook at Springbrook.
Last weekend at Stephen Decatur High of Berlin, Maryland, the
Swarmin’ Hornets were dethroned
by Good Counsel on the way to a
fourth place finish behind runner-up
Mount St. Joseph of Baltimore and
Spring Grove of Virginia.
The Swarmin’ Hornets’ lone
champion was Ryan Lawrence
(138), with state champion Scottie
Obendorfer (132) and Ben Lokos
(170) finishing second, Johnny
McLaughlin (113) third, and both
county and regional champion Colin
McLaughlin (160) and John Allan
Furgeson (145), fourth.
“We had a few guys drop into
different weights and learned a lot
about our team,” said Swarmin’ Hornets’ coach John Furgeson. “We’re
excited about [Whitman]. We’ll give
them a few days off to relax and replenish their bodies to get after it
again and be ready.”
Before last weekend, the
Swarmin’ Hornets had won the Appalachian Duals as well as their own
Holiday Tournament.
Among this season’s victories
for the Swarmin’ Hornets are those
during a tri-meet by, 52-18, over
Southern Garrett County, and, 42-22,
over Oakdale of Frederick County,
winner of the Northern tournament
over the Vikings.
In defeating the Rams of Garrett
County and the Bears of Frederick
County, the Swarmin’ Hornets lost a
combined eight of 28 bouts. A highlight of that event was Lawrence’s
12-3 domination of Oakdale’s state
runner-up, Kyle McDonald, to rebound from an earlier 7-6 loss to the
Rams’ state champion, Devan Hamrick (20-0, 14 pins) after leading, 6-4,
in the second period.
On the other side, Hamoon
Shokoohinia (145) and Mitch Fenton
Vikings dominate Grapple At The Brook
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
SILVER SPRING -- Walt Whitman’s James Bamberger (132) and
Marcos Solloso (170) epitomized
their entire Vikings’ squad by capturing respective championships at last
weekend’s Grapple At The Brook
Tournament a week after placing
third in the Patriot Classic at Northern High of Calvert County.
Bamberger and Solloso – each
with 25-2 records on the year -- produced nearly identical results with
two each in pins, a major decision
and one-point title bout victories at
Springbrook as the Vikings (184
points) eclipsed runner-up McLean,
Virginia (163 points) and the 16team field.
Hamoon Shokoohinia (145) and
Mitch Fenton (152) were champions
for the second straight week for the
Vikings, who were third behind
champion Oakdale (251.5) of Frederick County and runner-up Old Mill
(189) of Anne Arundel County in the
Patriot Classic.
Braeden McKee (160) and Ezra
Alexander (182) were third at
Springbrook and John Luke Iglesias
(195), fourth for the Vikings, who
placed eight wrestlers within the top
five of their weight divisions. McKee and Iglesias were fifth at the Patriot Classic, where Alexander failed to
place.
“Confidence is the word that
comes to mind after the way we
wrestled at Springbrook,” said Bamberger, whose Vikings are 7-0 in dual
meets. “We’re feeling really good
about our season so far, and it all
seems to be coming together.”
Bamberger got it together to
overcome a three-point deficit to
win, 6-5, against Ricky Bryant of
Roosevelt of Prince George’s Coun-
ty, who reached the title match on
three first-period falls.
“I was down, 4-1, going into the
third period when he got in on a single-leg,” said Bamberger. “But I hit a
five-point elevator to put him on his
back and rode him out for most of the
third period before cutting him for an
escape point.”
Bryant won last weekend’s 132pound title at the Patriot Classic, doing so by 4-2 decision over state runner-up Kyle McDonald of Oakdale.
Bamberger was pinned in last week’s
138-pound championship rounds by
Calvert’s Chris Howes, whom he rebounded to beat, 4-3, for third.
“I wrestled a sloppy last week,”
said Bamberger, whose only other
loss was by decision to Edgar Cruz
of Richard Montgomery. “So I decided to drop down to 132 because I
knew I could do better.”
Last month, Bamberger earned
a 9-8 victory over Mount Hebron’s
sixth-place state finisher, Jimmy
Hayden at the Lloyd Keaser Classic
at North County of Anne Arundel
County.
Solloso, meanwhile, impressively wrestled from the seventh
seed to edge top seeded state qualifier, Gavin Legg of McLean, 4-3, in
the finals.
“Some of the kids seeded above
Marcos were state qualifiers, so it
was a tough weight class. But Marcos’ best attribute is that’s he’s a nonstop pressure wrestler for six minutes,” said Vikings’ coach Derek
Manon. “The McLean coach said,
‘My kid was pretty tired at the end of
the match and it seemed like your kid
would wrestle another match.’”
At Northern, Solloso lost a 4-2
semifinal bout to eventual champion, Ryan Shubert of Oakdale, a repeat state qualifier who pinned his
other three tournament opponents.
Among Shubert’s losses this year is
one by 6-4 to Damascus’ Colin
McLaughlin, a county and regional
champion who placed third at states.
Shokoohinia and Fenton pinned
twice to reach their title bouts, where
the former overcame Fallston’s Zach
Kaufman, 7-3, and the latter,
Atholton’s Sean Billups, 14-4. After
pinning all four opponents last
week, Shokoohinia decked his first
two at Springbrook in 16- and 43seconds.
“I brought some fire into my
first match after getting a bye in the
first round, and it was the same for
the next two rounds,” said
Shokoohinia, who placed sixth in
the county and fourth in last year’s
Class 4A-3A West Regional. “I
could have wrestled better in the finals, so now, it’s about fixing some
of the little things to get better.”
Fenton earned a county title as a
sophomore, his third regional crown
last year and has placed third and
fourth at the past two state tournaments. 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.
The Blue Devils (fifth)
crowned Nick Kilby (120), winner
of three decisions by a combined,
23-9, including a 9-3 championship
victory over Howard County runnerup, Willie Hampton, of Atholton.
Kilby’s teammate, Christian
Balmoris (106) finished second,
with Billy Madden (126) and Louis
Galeano (145) placing third, and Letrell Harris (113) and Christian
Velleda (152), fourth.
Sherwoood’s Charlie Siarkis
(285) earned falls in the first and
second periods before edging Wootton’s Cameron McAfee, 8-4, for the
title and his 89th career victory.
(152) were champions for the second
straight week for the Vikings, who
were third behind champion Oakdale
(251.5) of Frederick County and runner-up Old Mill (189) of Anne Arundel County in the Patriot Classic.
James Bamberger (132) and
Marcos Solloso (170) were first at
Springbrook after having finished
third at the Patriot Classic.
“We’re improved from the lightweights to middleweights and heavyweights,” said Shokhoonia. “Damascus is the next step in the challenge.”
Fenton was also a champion at
last month’s Lloyd Keaser Classic at
North County of Anne Arundel
County, where the Vikings placed
eight wrestlers within the top four of
their weight divisions on the way to a
runners-up finish to St Paul’s, the
Baltimore area’s preseason No. 4ranked team.
The unbeaten Fenton remains
the unquestioned leader of the
Vikings, having earned a county title
as a sophomore, his third regional
crown last year and has placed third
and fourth at the past two state tournaments.
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.
At Northern, Solloso lost a 4-2
semifinal bout to eventual champion,
Ryan Shubert of Oakdale, a repeat
state qualifier who pinned his other
three tournament opponents.
Among Shubert’s losses this
year is one by 6-4 to Damascus’ Colin McLaughlin, a county and regional champion who placed third at
states.
“We’re confident about our
match with Damascus,” said Bamberger. “I don’t see us losing.”
Bullis hosts Bubba duals
By Lem Satterfield
@lemslatest
POTOMAC --- The Bullis
School, on January 30, will honor
“One of our very own heroes,” according to a release from Bulldogs’
coach Chris Brown in 1998 graduate
Brian "Bubba" Bunting.
A wrestler, football and lacrosse
player, Captain Bunting graduated
from West Point and served his country in the U.S. Army, losing his life as
a result of a road-side bomb in
Afghanistan.
Read Bunting’s bio here:
http://arlingtoncemetery.net/bmbunting.htm
The inaugural Captain Brian M.
“Bubba” Bunting Memorial
Wrestling Dual Meet Tournament
that will include Bishop O'Connell,
Episcopal, St. Andrews, St. Anselm's
Abby, St. John's College and The
Heights.
Starting at 8:45 a.m., the “Bubba
Bunting Duals” will include a memorial ceremony recognizing the
Bunting family’s longstanding connection to Bullis.
Teams will compete from 9:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Athletic Center
gymnasium.
The Bullis School on January 30
will honor “One of our very own heroes,” according to a release from
Bulldogs’ coach Chris Brown in 1998
graduate Brian "Bubba" Bunting.
A wrestler, football and lacrosse
player, Captain Bunting graduated
from West Point and served his country in the U.S. Army, losing his life as
a result of a road-side bomb in
Afghanistan.
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SPORTS EDITOR’S CORNER
The 2015 All-Sentinel High School Football Team
The Montgomery County Sentinel is proud to announce it’s High
School top performing football team
from the 2015 school year:
2015 All-Sentinel High School
Football Team
Coach of the Year – Joshua
Klotz, Richard Montgomery
Overall Player of the Year –
Marcus Simms, Sherwood, Sr.
WR/DB
Offensive Player of the Year –
Jake Funk, Damascus, Sr. RB
Defensive Player of the Year –
Keandre Jones, Good Counsel, Sr.
LB
First Team Offense
QB – Dwayne Haskins Jr.,
Bullis, Sr.
RB – Jake Funk, Damascus, Sr.
RB – Dominyck Sims,
Wheaton, Sr.
RB – Andrew Zuckerman,
Churchill, Sr.
WR – Cortez Chase-Ervin,
Seneca Valley, Sr.
WR – Marcus Simms, Sherwood, Sr.
OL – Jake Bradshaw, Damascus, Sr.
OL – Ike Schurman, Good
Counsel, Sr.
OL – Zeph Titus, Q.O., Sr.
OL – Sean Clark, Georgetown
Prep, Sr.
OL – Cole Cheripko, Northwest, Jr.
TE – Josh Thomas, Gaithersburg, Sr.
ATH – Shawn Barlow, Q.O. Sr.
K – Joe Curry, Damascus, Sr.
KR –Julian Carter, Blake, Sr.
First Team Defense
LB – Keandre Jones, Good
Counsel, Sr.
LB – Keith Simms, Landon, Sr.
LB – Cameron Brown, Bullis,
Sr.
LB – Da’Quan Grimes, Damascus, Sr.
DL – Izon Pulley, Good Counsel, Sr.
DL – Sean Green, Q.O., Sr.
DL – Bob Jonjo, Sherwood, Sr.
DB – Martin Foray, N. West, Sr.
DB – Markus Vinson, Damascus, Jr.
DB – Antonio Fox, Seneca Valley, Sr.
DB – Damani Neal, Bullis, Jr.
P – Owen Starheim, Damascus,
Sr.
Second Team Offense
QB – Mark Pierce, N.West, Sr.
RB – Mohamed Ibrahim, Good
Counsel, Jr.
RB – Owen Wright, Georgetown Prep, Jr.
RB – Travis Levy, Sherwood, Jr.
WR – Daniel Alexander,
Richard Montgomery, Sr.
WR – Trevon Diggs, Avalon, Sr.
OL – Kojo Dingle, Good Counsel, Sr.
OL – Charlie Siarkas, Sherwood, Sr.
OL – Michael Hite, Seneca Valley, Sr.
OL – Delano Myers, Damascus,
Sr.
OL – Jack Stubbs, Good Coun-
sel, Sr.
TE – Mark Ebo, Landon, Sr.
ATH – Donovan BeckettSimms, Seneca Valley, Sr.
K – Brian Dolan, G. Prep, Sr.
KR – Marqel Simpkins,
Gaithersburg, Sr.
Second Team Defense
LB – Jordan Hill, Paint Branch,
Sr.
LB – Jalen Lea, Good Counsel,
Jr.
LB – Riley Bartlett, Georgetown Prep, Sr.
LB – Patrick Bernardo, Wootton, Sr.
DL – Chinedu Odeugu, Georgetown Prep, Sr.
DL – Joshua Paschal, Good
Counsel, Jr.
DL – Michael Bradshaw, Damascus, Jr.
DB – Devin Judd, Good Counsel, Sr.
DB – Ibrahim Konate, Northwest, Sr.
DB – JD Guerrero, Paint
Branch, Jr.
DB – Fofie Bazzie, Quince Orchard, Jr.
P – Colin Suhr, Good Counsel,
Sr.
Honorable Mention: Shawn
Bliss, Desmond Colby, Jake Silverman, Armani Ceballos, Markel
Grant, Travis Nannen, Adrian FelizPlatt, Marvin Beander, Eisley Kim,
Jonathan Hetrick, Khalil Owens,
Mike Collins, Reggie Anderson,
Daquan Wims, Brian McNeary, Ivan
Nnadi, Jalen Hill, Clifton Budd,
Kendall Pinales, Chris Green, Jaron
Woodyard, Jonathan Wanat, Isaac
Ukwu, Stanley Perry, Patrick Shifflett.
FILE PHOTOS
Joshua Klotz led the Richard
Montgomery Rockets back into the
stratosphere this year (above left)
while, (above) Jake Funk run over
everyone for Damascus. Directly
above, Marcus Simms dominated
boths sides of the ball.
Maryland loses out to Ohio State as two local athletes flip their commitment
The
Sporting
View
by
Brandy L. Simms
On Monday, Bullis quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. and Good
Counsel linebacker Keandre Jones
flipped their verbal pledge from
Maryland to Ohio State.
My Twitter account erupted as
I reported the news about the two
highly-touted recruits who decided
to leave Maryland behind in favor
of a more high-profile program.
How can you blame them?
Let’s face it, Urban Meyer is
one of the nation’s top coaches. The
51-year-old Ohio native has won
three national titles at two different
schools in the past decade.
He guided the University of
Florida Gators to national prominence in 2006 and 2008 before he
landed in Columbus in 2011.
He’s continued the Ohio State
tradition by recruiting elite talent to
the campus and was rewarded last
year when he guided the Buckeyes
to the national championship.
Haskins this week posted a
video on social media from a visit
the family took to the Ohio State
campus back in 2008.
In the video, his father asked
young Dwayne what he thought
about the family’s tour of the football facilities. “This is awesome,”
said Haskins, then a fifth-grader.
“I’m going to college here.”
If you watch the video, you
can clearly see that Dwayne Haskins Jr. has always wanted to be a
Buckeye. He’s dressed in Ohio
State garb and has a smile on his
face bigger than Donald Trump’s
bank account.
“It’s been a dream of mine to
play for Ohio State since I was 8
years old,” Haskins posted on Twitter. “In my heart I’m a Buckeye.”
Meanwhile, Jones, a two-time
All-Sentinel Defensive Player of
the Year, last weekend made an official visit to Ohio State accompanied by his mother, Lauren Middleton, and sister, Jazmyne.
Middleton posted photos of her
son holding up Ohio State’s national championship trophy and trying
on the Buckeye’s championship
ring for size. Urban Meyer sure
knows how to win over a recruit.
Although Maryland is the
home school for these two highlyregarded student-athletes, the Terrapins don’t have national championships in the trophy case and that
may have been the difference. The
Ohio State football program has
captured eight national titles since
the 1940’s and produced seven
Heisman Trophy winners not to
mention dozens of All-Americans
and NFL Draft picks.
Maryland is a basketball
school and recruits at a high-level
in that sport. It’s hard to compete
with Ohio State on the gridiron.
The Maryland football program will certainly rebound from
this setback but Ohio State is rejoicing after winning the recruiting battle with these talented Montgomery
County private school products.
“Keandre and I are like brothers,” Haskins tweeted. “Blessed to
say he’s family and joining me at
Ohio State #BuckeyeNation.”
You can contact Brandy at:
[email protected]

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