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n Regular trash pickup to bring an endto strewn litter, safety concerns

BY KIRSTEN PETERSENSTAFFWRITER

After more than six years of complaints, CedarHaven residents say an eyesore will finally be re-moved from their prized view of the Patuxent River— a 2.5 ton trash container.

The trashcontainer came toCedarHaven in2007,when Prince George’s County placed it at the inter-section of Richard Allen Street and Crispus AttucksBoulevard in Aquasco. Outsiders came to dump theirwaste and the trash container would then overflowwith litter, polluting the river, residents said.

“There used tobe apristinewater front,” said res-identCarmellWeathers. “Whywould youdeface it byputting a Dumpster there? But that’s what they did.”

On Jan. 8, Angela Angel and Roger Merritt Jr. ofthe Department of the Environment met with CedarHaven residents to confirm that the trash containerwouldbepermanently removed. They alsopresentedtwo options for weekly trash collection.

“By removing the container and instituting a resi-dential trash collection service, the residents ofCedarHaven will have their household disposal needs met

without creating an opportunity for illegal dumpingthat threatens our land and eventually our water-ways,” Angel wrote in an email to The Gazette.

The Prince George’s County Department of theEnvironment emptied the trash container once aweek, but for a while it did not seem often enough,said Daryl Taylor, whose elderly uncles still live inthe homes they built in CedarHaven.When the trashcontainer was full, residents and outsiders wouldleavehouseholdwaste andevenbulky items likemat-tresses lying on the ground.

“It used tobecleandownhere, but thatDumpsterbrought in amess,” Taylor said.

Weathers said the trash container, which is 200feet from her home, brought people to the commu-nity that she did not knowand the soundof their carsat night startled her.

She said she pleaded with the county in 2008 toremove the trash container tonoavail. Taylor andCe-dar Haven residents revived the effort and a solutionwas set in motion last August when Council Chair-manMel Franklin (D-Dist. 9) of UpperMarlborometwith residents and committed to removing the trashcontainer.

“Itwas a terrible situation for someofus,”Weath-ers said. “This is like a dream come true to hear this

Cedar Haven dropsDumpster

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Daryl Taylor of Temple Hills stands Jan. 12 near piles of trash next to a community Dumpster on Crispus Attucks Boulevardnear the Patuxent River in Aquasco. Taylor, who has several family members living in the area, has been advocating for theremoval of the Dumpster over aesthetic and environmental concerns.

n Extra hours alreadyincorporated into calendar

BY JAMIE

ANFENSON-COMEAU

STAFFWRITER

While a number of two-hour delays at Prince George’sCounty Public Schools couldquickly add up to a full schoolday, the instructional hours lostwill not have to bemade up, ac-cording to school officials.

To date, the school systemhas instituted three two-hourdelays, on Jan. 7, Jan. 8 and Jan.14. One inclement weather clo-sure took place Jan. 6.

School system CEO KevinMaxwell said Jan. 14 that wetroad conditions followed byovernight freezes raised con-cerns about bus safety in theearlymorning.

The PGCPS calendar has184 school days, with four daysfor inclement weather added tothe end of the school calendar.Maryland law requires at least180 school days unless a hard-ship waiver is granted.

By this time last year, thecounty already had used fourinclement weather days.

PGCPS spokeswoman LynnMcCawley said the school sys-tem incorporates extra instruc-tional hours into the school yearbeyond the minimum requiredby the state.

“This year’s calendar [2014-2015] has an extra 24.6 instruc-tional hours for elementary andhigh school students and 233.4for middle school students,”McCawley said in an email.

McCawley said each dayincludes instructional time be-

Delaysfor snowoff thebooks

n Elementary school parents unsatisfiedwith county’s renovation efforts

BY EMILIE SHAUGHNESSY

STAFFWRITER

Parents at Ardmore Elementary who have beenvoicing concerns about the Springdale school’s waterquality and asbestos tiles say the county’s promise toput its entire lead remediation budget into Ardmorethis year is not enough.

Beverly Thomas, an Ardmore parent with a back-ground in construction, said the $200,000 promisedby school systemofficials to remove lead inArdmore’swater pipeswill only be a Band-Aid on the school’s in-

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Parents at Ardmore Elementary School gather Jan. 12 to hearfrom school system officials about planned renovations toArdmore’s building.

n Former administrator doggedby harassment complaints

BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAUSTAFFWRITER

A Largo High School principal at the centerof several lawsuits alleging racial harassmentand retaliation is no longer employed with theschool system, according to school officials.

Lynn McCawley, Prince George’s CountyPublic Schools spokeswoman, said that An-gelique Simpson-Marcus, former principal atLargo, is no longer employed with the schoolsystem.

McCawley declined to discuss the circum-stances of Simpson-Marcus’ departure, citing

personnel concerns.McCawley said Assistant Principal Mark

Bickerstaff has been named acting principal ofLargo.

“He assumed duties as acting principal onJan. 15,”McCawley said.

Departing Largo High on Friday afternoon,senior Marcus Battle, 18, of Largo, said Bicker-staff wished the students a good weekend overthe announcements before dismissal.

“He’s just a real nice guy,” Battle said ofBickerstaff. “He looks out for the students.”

In July, a U.S. District Court jury awarded$350,000 to former Largo teacher Jon Everhart,66, in compensatory damages in a suit againstthe PGCPS school board. Another trial, to de-termine what back pay, retirement and healthbenefits Everhart is owed is scheduled to be

held inMarch, according to court documents.Everhart, who is white, alleged in his suit

that Simpson-Marcus, who is black, used racialprofanity and created a hostile work environ-ment for Everhart.

When Everhart filed a complaint, the suitalleges that Simpson-Marcus began givingEverhart unsatisfactory performance reviews,andother retaliatorymeasures, leading toEver-hart being fired in 2010.

Everhart’s attorney, Bryan Chapman, saidhe feels Simpson-Marcus was not provided theappropriate level of guidanceby the school sys-tem when she took over as principal of Largoin 2007.

“I look at it as something that could have

LargoHigh School principal is replaced

n City officials begin outliningbudget priorities

BY EMILIE SHAUGHNESSY

STAFFWRITER

Although Bowie will not adopt a new budget forseveral months, city officials have begun to discusstheir priorities for fiscal 2016 — including keepingproperty taxes at the same rate for the sixth year in arow.

During Tuesday night’s council meeting, city fi-nance director H. Byron Matthews outlined the city’sbiggest projects for fiscal 2016 and beyond. Those in-clude the city’s new police call center and an indoorsports facility that will ultimately cost more than $22million.

According to Matthews, “the city’s financial posi-tion remains strong,” but there are several differences

Bowie seeksto avoidproperty taxincrease

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JAN. 22FastPencil for Libraries, 11 a.m., Oxon

Hill Library, 6200 OxonHill Road, OxonHill. FastPencil for Libraries helps you getpublished. The do-it-yourself online writ-ing service engages new or establishedauthors to develop and edit works, alongwith the tools needed to get published.Join the Library’s writing community fora hands-onworkshop to get started—orget inspiration—on your ownwritingprojects. Contact 301-839-2400.

Girls Who Code Club, 3:30 TO 5:30p.m., Bowie Library, 15210 AnnapolisRoad, Bowie. Girls will enjoy a computerscience education and tech industry expo-sure. This clubwill work on collaborativecurriculumbased technology projects.Registration preference will be given toBowie residents. Registration required.Contact 301-262-7000.

JAN. 23Holy Trinity Episcopal Day School

Open House, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., HolyTrinity Episcopal Day School, 13106Annapolis Road, Bowie. Holy TrinityEpiscopal Day School will hold its AllSchool OpenHouse for prospectiveparents. The Lower School campus,Grades 1 – 4, is located at 13106 An-napolis Road, Bowie,MD 20720.Preschool/Kindergarten andGrades5 – 8 are located at 11902Daisy Lane,GlennDale,Maryland 20769. Call 301-262-5355 or visit our website at www.htrinity.org.

JAN. 24Quilting Class, 10 a.m., Spauldings

Library, 5811OldSilverHill Road,DistrictHeights.Come joinus andhave fun learn-inghow tohandquilt.Weall can learn fromeachother andmakenew friends.Comewithhalf a yardof fabrics, 100percent cot-ton light anddark colors. Beginner and In-termediate levels. Contact 301-817-3750.

DownloadableMaterials, 10:30 a.m.,Surratts-ClintonLibrary, 9400PiscatawayRoad,Clinton. Learnabout the library’sdownloadable resources—books, audio-books,magazines,music, andvideos.Callthe InformationDesk fordetails or to regis-ter. Contact 301-868-9200.

CollegeGoal Sunday, 11 a.m., Spauld-ingsLibrary, 5811OldSilverHill Road,Dis-trictHeights. A free event tohelp studentsand families complete theFreeApplicationfor Federal StudentAid. Register online atCollegeGoalSundayMD.org.Contact 301-817-3750.

EnigmaCracked, 2p.m., BowieLibrary,15210AnnapolisRoad,Bowie.Dr. VincentHoughton, director of the InternationalSpyMuseum,will discuss espionagedur-ingWorldWar II. PatrickWeadonof theNationalCryptologicMuseumwill discusshow theBritish crackedEnigma.Contact301-262-7000.

MeetTheAuthor: Janet Sims-Wood,2p.m.,OxonHill Library, 6200OxonHillRoad,OxonHill. Join author Janet Sims-Woodas she shares insights aboutherbook,“DorothyPorterWesley atHowardUni-versity: BuildingaLegacyofBlackHistory.”Contact 301-839-2400.

OpenHouseatHighlandParkChris-tianAcademy, 3 to 5p.m.,HighlandParkChristianAcademy, 6801Sheriff Road,Landover. AnOpenHouseExtraordinaire isin theworks at theHighlandParkChristianAcademy.ComeseewhyHPCA is oneof theoldest of the 122private schools inPrinceGeorge’sCounty. Studentswill showcasetheirwork. The robotics roomwill beopenfor interestedparents. Formore informa-tion, call 301-773-4079or [email protected].

JAN. 25“Opera … From a Sistah’s Point of

View” Concert is Witty and Diverse, 5 to8 p.m., Bowie Performing Arst Center,15200 Annapolis Road, Bowie. SopranoAngelaM. Brown uses her voice as a ve-hicle to singlehandedly help audiences ofall ages and backgrounds understand thatopera can be enjoyed by themasses. FromAida to gospel, soprano Angela Brownaims to dispelmyths about opera throughher ownwitty and inspired recital entitled.Cost is $25. Contact 301-839-1444 [email protected].

JAN. 26Book Discussion: True Crime, Noon

at Upper Marlboro Library, 14730Main St., Upper Marlboro. Call theUpper Marlboro Branch for details.Contact 301-627-9330.

Introduction toMS Publisher 2010,6 p.m., Hillcrest Heights Library, 2398Iverson St., Temple Hills. Learn howtomake newsletters, brochures, cardsandmore. Advancemouse and key-boarding skills required. Registrationrequired. Participantsmay bring theirown personal laptop due to the limitnumber of equipment available. Con-tact 301-630-4900.

Digital DownloadNight, 7 p.m.,Largo-Kettering Library, 9601 CapitalLane, Largo. Did you receive a new

tablet during the holidays? Your libraryhasmany downloadable resourcesand apps available to you for free withyour library card. During our DigitalDownloadNight, librarians will showyouwhat apps the library has to offer,including ebooks,magazines, mov-ies, music andmore. Staff will also beavailable to help you download andget started using these great services.Contact 301-336-4044.

Family Game Night, 7 p.m., Acco-keek Library, 15773 Livingston Road,Accokeek. Put on your game face andget ready to compete at Family GameNight. Featuring fun and excitinggames such as: Uno, Junior Scrabble,Trouble and many more. The gamesand light refreshments will be pro-vided. Contact 301-292-2880.

JAN. 27Meet the EmPOWER Rangers, 3 p.m.,

NewCarrollton Library, 7414 RiverdaleRoad, NewCarrollton. Bring the familyand join one of the EmPOWERRang-ers for a fun interactive presentationabout our energy choices andwhat wecan do today tomake our homes andneighborhoods cleaner and greener.Learn how to reduce your energy use,savemoney and safeguard the earth atyour library. Contact 301-459-6900.

Girls Read: Grades 3, 4 and 5, 4p.m., OxonHill Library, 6200 OxonHillRoad, OxonHill. Find out about thelatest books, share your favorites, andpractice your reading with games andother fun activities. Contact 301-839-2400.

Black Literature BookDiscussion,6:30 p.m., OxonHill Library, 6200OxonHill Road, OxonHill. Suzan-LoriParks’ “GettingMother’s Body.” Con-tact 301-839-2400.

BookDiscussion, 7 p.m., Spauld-ings Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road,District Heights. JamesMcBride’s “TheGood Lord Bird.” Contact 301-817-3750.

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n Oxon Hill-basedpeace organization setssights on county needs

BY EMILIE SHAUGHNESSYSTAFFWRITER

For one new nonprofit,planting seeds of peace in theMiddle East starts with buildinggarden boxes in Prince George’sCounty.

The Holyland Peace Fellow-ship Foundation, composed ofmembers from across PrinceGeorge’s, led its first unity proj-ect Monday, funding and help-ing to build vegetable gardensfor students at Ardmore El-ementary School in Springdale.

The Rev. Samford Brown ofOxon Hill founded Holyland inAugust to help promote a reso-lution of the Israeli-Palestinianconflict, but said internationalpeace starts at home — withpublic serviceprojects thatbringcitizens together.

“In my view, fellowship isthe infrastructure we use inpromoting peace,” Brown said.“Today,what Iwanted todowascreate an atmosphere wheregrownups, children, multiplecultures came togetherwith onepurpose: public service to cre-ate harmony in the community.I wanted to partner with theschool to demonstrate what weare trying to do across the sea.”

About 50 community mem-bersandvolunteershelpedbuild10 cedar planters for Ardmorestudents, who will now be ableto plant, grow and learn abouttheir own mini gardens, saidArdmore principal GeorgetteGregory.

“I thought it would be greatif every child had their very owngarden. They could really tend itand they could see the life cycleof plants and understand what

it takes to start from a seed,” shesaid. “They would be far moreaccepting of nutritious eatingif they had an appreciation forwhat it takes to start this wholelife cycle with plants and fruits.”

Sixth-grader Aniyah Coun-cil, 11, of Springdale said she isnot only excited to grow vegeta-bles and fruits at the school thisyear, but hopes to be involvedin other service activities in thefuture.

“I think it’s great,” she said.“I would like to help out home-less people so that they canhavefood for themselves.”

Melvin Haft of Bowie, vicepresident ofHolylandPeaceFel-lowship Foundation, said peaceand unity must start at a per-sonal level —with an individual

sense of harmony.“I love the word ‘harmony’

and named my daughter Har-mony. What harmony meansis a unity between a mind andheart,” he said. “To createpeace, one must have personalpeace.We are all reallymeant tobe peace-makers. It’s what wenaturally want.”

Haft said his organization’smission closely aligns with thevalues promoted by Martin Lu-ther King, Jr., so it was fitting thegroup’s first service project tookplace on theMartin Luther KingJr. holiday.

“[King] saw service as a wayto create peace and harmony.That in a sense is what our or-ganization is about,” he said.“Whatever everyone’s religion,

race, faith,weareone family un-der God.”

Marilynn Bland, director ofstrategicpartnerships forHLPFFand a former Prince George’sschool board and council mem-ber, said she is excited about thetraction the nonprofit is gainingin the county.

“It’s going really well. Every-where we’ve gone in the com-munity, people really want tohear about [our mission],” shesaid. “We’re trying to get peoplefamiliar with peace vs. violence,so that [peace] becomes thenorm. We’re going to continuetobe involved in the communityin anywaywe can.”

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(From left) Nia Lovick, Kensei Tsubata, Marilynn Bland and Michael Gregory volunteer Monday at the Holyland PeaceFellowship Foundation’s first service project at Ardmore Elementary School in Springdale.

n Group preps studentsfor college, careers


Prince George’s Countyhigh school students who areapplying to college or prepar-ing for their first job can re-ceive guidance from the sistersof Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror-ity, Inc. through a new educa-tional enrichment program.

Achievement, Self-Awareness, Communication,Engagement, Networkingand Developmental Skills, orA.S.C.E.N.D., is a six-monthmentoring program that be-gins this month, said DanaekaSpear, president of the FortWashington-based UpsilonTauOmega chapter.

Boys and girls who par-ticipate in the program canattend free workshops on avariety of topics, such as SATpreparation, presentationskills, college essays, dressingfor success and more, Spear

said. The sisters will also bringin guest speakers and organizea road trip to colleges.

“It’s a good program fornetworking,” Spear said. “Thespeakers we’re bringing areoften from outside our organi-zation and it’s an opportunityfor students to meet differentpeople from different aspectsof life.”

The program is free toall participants and is part of“Launching New Dimensionsof Service,” a four-year inter-national initiative of AlphaKappa Alpha to expand itscommunity presence.

The application deadlineis Jan. 31. For information,families can email [email protected].

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We Can StillGrow…..

The cloud of financialuncertainty is hoveringover both the state andcounty, fermenting intensediscussions on how todissipate this cloud andmove to prosperity. ThePrince George’s Chamberof Commerce intends to bea significant voice andprovide advocacy onmoving to prosperity.

We contend partnering,with both the business andcivic communities, isessential for reachingsound policy. Policydebate can lead to anausterity posture wherethere are winners; butmostly, we lose. Instead,policymakers shouldcapture innovativeprosperity initiatives thatincrease entrepreneurialopportunities, create jobsand invest in communities.

In Prince George’sCounty, there are twoexamples of moving toprosperity: the Purple Lineand County RegionalHospital. Already havingreceived considerablefederal support and strongprivate-publicpartnerships, slowingdown the Purple Linewould be a tragic missedopportunity. Likewise, theregional hospital will notonly advance clinicalequity, but be atremendousentrepreneurial engine.

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n Resident dedicated tospeaking out

against injustice


WhenMaryLouise James Is-bell, 75, of Forestville sawMartinLuther King Jr. speak at ClaflinUniversity in South Carolina,shewasn’t just captivated by thecivil rights leader— she said shewas motivated to fight injusticewherever she found it, whetherit be at a segregated lunch coun-ter or an underserved schoollibrary.“To this day I praise Martin

Luther King Jr. andmy father formaking me always stand up forwhat I believe in,” Isbell said.Isbell said she was a junior

studying education at SouthCarolina State College, nowSouth Carolina State Univer-sity, in Orangeburg, S.C., whenKing visited nearby Claflin inFebruary 1960. As he explainedhis philosophy of nonviolence,students from both schoolscrowded around King, whoseemed to tower over them, shesaid.“His voice was thunderous,”

Isbell said. “He justmesmerizedyouwith how he spoke.”Students then planned to

march fromthecollege todown-town Orangeburg, where an S.H. Kress & Company five anddime store refused to let AfricanAmericans sit and eat the foodthey bought there, Isbell said.Isbell said she wanted to be

on the front line of the marchbecause of the discriminationshe witnessed in her hometownof Kingstree, S.C.Ku Klux Klansmen came to

her house and harassed her fa-ther for sending his children tocollege to the point that he con-sidered it dangerous for she andher siblings to come home dur-ing breaks, she said.With heels on, hair done,

andarms locked, Isbellmarchedwith 1,000 students on March15, 1960, to the five and dimewhere studentswere stoppedbypolice and blasted by fire hosesthree times before they were ar-rested, Isbell said.“It took a lot of courage to

do what she did,” said SonjaMontague, 66, Brandywine, afriend and former colleague.“Your parents are sending youto school and you’re off fightingforwhat youbelieve in. She’snota violent person. She’s verynon-violent. It took a lot.”The county jail did not have

enough room for the students,so theywere corralled in an out-door stockade before they werereleased on bail, Isbell said. Shesaid she and her classmateswere treated “like celebrities”when they returned to school.After graduation, Isbell

moved back home and taughtworld history at a segregatedschool in Cades, S.C. Herschool’s library was not well-balanced, stocking randomnumbers of books, she said.Isbell asked her principal

for more copies, but he refusedto help, suggesting that she besatisfied with what they had. In-

stead, Isbell went straight to thesupervisor of county librariesand asked for the books avail-able at the nearby white school.“My dad’s philosophy was

always to speak up for whatyou believe in and when I metMartin Luther King it furtherinstilled that belief and I got thebooks I needed for my library,”Isbell said.Isbell went on to work as a

librarian at Gwynn Park MiddleSchool in Brandywine and re-tired in 2003 after 26 years ofservice. She’s actively involvedin her community and churchand serves as the president ofthe Friends of OxonHill Library.ElizabethRedd, 76, ofWash-

ington, D.C., worked with Isbellat Gwynn Park and said Isbell isstill making sure students haveaccess to books — she collectsand donates old books everyyear, Redd said.“You don’t find a lot of good

people but Mary’s a good per-son,” Redd said. “I would standby her and go help her if sheneededme to.”Isbell said sharing her story

with young people who nevergot to meet Martin Luther KingJr. made her realize the impor-tance of her encounter.“When I was coming along

it was more what he taught usto fight for than Martin LutherKing Jr. but as I grow older, [it’s]‘Mary, you actually saw theman. You actually saw this greatman,’” Isbell said.

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MaryLouise James Isbell stands in front of a display board in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Oxon Hill Libraryon Jan. 12. Isbell saw King speak in 1960, when she was a college student in South Carolina.

Madison Green, a studentat Benjamin Tasker MiddleSchool, is the winner of themiddle school competition fortheMartin Luther King, Jr. essayand poster contest sponsoredby the Prince George’s CountyEducators Association, theschool announced.Madison, a sixth-grader, en-

tered the annual contest withan original piece of artwork thatfeatured newspaper clippingsand a picture and quote fromKing, according to a statementfrom Tasker’s parent-teacher-student organization.“This is a huge accom-

plishment because this was acounty-wide competition,” the

statement read. “Madison willbe honored at a special cer-emony later thismonth andwillreceive an award. We wouldlike to say congratulations toMadison Green for her achieve-ment.”

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n Junior sues fraternity,proposes jail time penalty

BY EMILIE SHAUGHNESSYSTAFFWRITER

A 20-year-old Upper Marl-boro student is lobbying forharsher punishments for frater-nity and sorority “hazing” aftersuing fraternity Alpha Phi Alphafor alleged physical and emo-tional abuse.

Kevin Hayes, a junior atBowie State University, said hewas beaten, harassed and hu-miliated while pledging for Al-pha Phi Alpha during the fall of2013. The student governmentassociationmember and formerfreshman class president saidhe was hit with wood, trappedin a guarded room and verballythreatened by members of theorganization.

The Alpha Phi Alpha Frater-nity, Inc. did not return requestsfor comment by press time.

But Hayes is not stoppingwith his $3 million lawsuit, filedDec. 29 by attorney Jimmy Bellof Jimmy Bell, LLC. The studenthas been contacting politi-cians and social organizationsto raise support for Sen. JamieRaskin’s anti-hazing bill andhas proposed an amendmentthat would impose amandatoryweekend in jail for anyone con-victed of hazing.

“Jail, for a college student,is somewhere we do not wantto be. It would definitely scaremany people off,” Hayes said. “Ifeel it’s a good place to start. Inorder for generations afterme tonot deal with this.”

Hayes has received emailresponses from several statesenators and delegates, includ-ing Barbara Frush (D- Dist.21)of Beltsville, who said they willsupport thebill andamendmentthis legislative session.

“We’re grown up adults andyou don’t beat up on other peo-ple,” said Frush, who added thatBowie State lies just outside herdistrict. “Assault is wrong andthis is assault.”

Bowie State University hasreleased a statement saying theschool is not a named party inthe lawsuit and cannot com-

ment on specific allegations.Hayes said ing before at

pledged Alpha Phi Alpha to bepart of theorganization’s historyof leadership andpublic service.

Now, the history major saidhewants to go to law school andbecome a criminal prosecutorto fight injustices like the oneshe said he suffered.

Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Ta-koma Park, who proposed asimilar hazing bill last year thatpassed in the Senate, but wasnot voted on in the House, saidHayes’ testimonyhasbeenvalu-able in raising awareness andsupport for his bill.

“I want to praise this young

man. Many of the victims we’vespoken to have been too embar-rassed or afraid to go public,” hesaid. “I think Kevin is a hero forstepping forward to say that thisis unacceptable.”

Raskin’s bill would increasethepenalty for hazing from$500to $5,000, which the senatorsaid is a more realistic financialdeterrent.

“The problem is the law istoo weak,” Raskin said. “This isnot your grandfather’s hazing.This is locking people in darkbasements for 20 hours withheavy metal music playing andbeing pummeled repeatedly.”

Hayes said he is grateful forthe support he received from lo-cal legislators and organizationsthat include the Prince George’sCounty chapter of the NAACP.

“It’s an interesting experi-ence because I’m only 20-years-old and I can’t think of many20-year-olds who have gottenthis much [public] support,”he said. “It has made my driveto [become a prosecutor] evenstronger.”

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Bowie State student Kevin Hayes issuing his fraternity for physical andemotional abuse.

n Officials: land additionscould attract businesses


Adding more than 700acres of uninhabited land tothe Town of Forest Heightsmay not sound like an eco-nomic boon, but townofficialsand residents say annexingthis area could put the townin a prime position to become“the jewel” of Prince George’sCounty.

Forest Heights Mayor Jac-queline Goodall and the TownCouncil have proposed twoextensions of the town.

The first would encom-pass 446.88 acres of NationalPark Service land that includesOxon Cove Park andOxonHillFarm.

The second is comprisedof 289.97 acres of federal,state and county-owned landas well as properties ownedby the county Board of Edu-cation, Maryland-NationalCapital Park and PlanningCommission and the OxonHill Methodist Church.

The ultimate goal of an-nexation is to bring in com-mercial businesses that canhelp reduce the tax burden onresidents, Goodall said.

“We want to be in the po-sition to grow,” Goodall said.“Bowie didn’t grow to whereit is in one day. However itmoved from a very small town

to really one of Prince GeorgeCounty’s shopping areas andeconomic development areas.I see the potential of ForestHeights to do the same thingas amunicipality.”

Town Attorney Kevin J.Best said if the town annexesthese areas, the charter andordinances of the town can beenforced there. These areasare public lands, meaning noconsent is required from theproperty owner before annex-ation, Best said.

As part of Forest Heights,a sustainable community thatis eligible for stateCommunityLegacy grants, annexed areascanbenefit fromgrant-fundedprojects, Goodall said.

One project could bepedestrian and bicycle trailimprovements near OxonRun, which could enhancethe connection between For-est Heights and Washington,D.C., Goodall said.

Jim Hudnall, a member ofthe Oxon Hill Bike and TrailClub, said the section of trailclosest to Forest Heights is“almost nonexistent” and lo-cal pedestrians and cyclistswould take advantage of im-provements.

“Some people in the clubdo commute to [Joint BaseAn-acostia-Bolling Air ForceBase]and Naval Research Lab. Apark trail improvement wouldbe abigbenefit to them,”Hud-nall said. “If the Town of For-est Heights worked with theNational Park Service, I think

they would have a nice trailconnection.”

When annexing land,towns can only extend to ar-eas they “touch,”Goodall said.By annexing areas that borderthe town, Forest Heights canreach residential and com-mercial areas that may wantto join the town in the future.

Only 14 businesses cur-rently operate out of the town,Goodall said.

“It needs more, not justresidential homes, but busi-nesses to make it a more vi-able base,” said resident FrankPrather, 66, who has lived inthe town since 1961.

Town AdministratorVern Haefele said the ForestHeights community needs towork together if it wants to tapinto the town’s potential.

“This town has so muchpotential, it’s really scary,”Haefele said. “It could be anall-American city, but it takesa lot of work.”

If the town chooses tomove forward with the plan,the annexed properties willjoin Forest Heights 46 days af-ter the annexation resolutionis passed.

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Forest Heights Councilman Robert Barnes (Ward 1) discusses the annexation proposal with resident FrankPrather (left) during a Jan. 12 meeting.

The Bowie Senior Chorale isseeking bass and tenor singersto practice andperformwith thegroup.

The chorale is composed ofabout 100 members, 55-years-old andolder,whopractice from2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursdaysat the Bowie Senior Center, ac-cording to a press release fromthe chorale. The chorale per-forms four concerts a year, twoin the spring and two holidayconcerts, according to the re-lease.

Members do not need to beBowie residents andnoprior ex-perience is necessary.

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Management from the University of Maryland. Having over 25years of sobriety, Louis helped countless alcoholics in theirrecovery. He recently retired from NOAA and took pride intending his 12 acre farm. Louis enjoyed golf, fishing, and wasan excellent cook.

Surviving to cherish his memory are his wife of 35 years,Debbie Cambardella, 2 sons, Tony Cambardella of HarpersFerry, WV and Bobby Cambardella of Odenton, MD; twodaughters, Jamie Campbell and her husband Matthew of RisingSun, MD and Jessica Cambardella of Ephrata, PA; 2grandchildren, Robert Cambardella and James Campbell; abrother, Bill Cambardella and his wife Michele and 2 sisters,Cindy Cambardella and her partner Janet Hartman and MaryKamberger and her husband John.

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Drifting tricycles, motorizedbikes and even street-legal racecars— all custom-built and cre-ated with a 3-D printer — couldbe cruising around NationalHarbor in the next year, follow-ing the launch of technologycompany Local Motor’s firstEast Coast location.Jon Peterson, principal of

Fairfax-based Peterson Cos.,which developed National Har-bor, announced the partnershipwith Phoenix-based Local Mo-tors on Jan. 12 by riding onto theNational Plaza’s stage in a RallyFighter, a car designed with thehelp of 7,000 people crowd-sourced online.NationalHarbor visitors will

be able to customize all aspectsof a car, ranging from the vinylexterior to the type of motor,and drive it out the door within24 hours, said Justin Fishkin, thechief strategy officer for LocalMotors.The Strati, a car with a 3-D

printed frame, exterior andsome interior components,ranges from $18,000 to $30,000,Fishkin said.Although an exact location

has not been determined, LocalMotorswilloperatethreedistinctspaces in a 45,000-square-footfacility — a 15,000-square-footshowroom and retail space, a

10,000-square-foot build floorand a 20,000-square-foot openlab, where car enthusiasts anddesigners alike can collaborateon a vehicular vision.“Theoretically you can do

anything you want,” Fishkinsaid. “Our power to innovate isonly limited by our communitymembers.”The National Harbor facil-

ity will be the first location inthe world to roll out a fleet of3-D printed cars, Peterson said.With 3-D printing, Local Motorscan produce the entire body ofa car as a single, unified piece,then “snap on” non-printedmechanical components, suchas the wiring, suspension, mo-tor and tires, Fishkin said.David S. Iannucci, the senior

economic development adviser

to Prince George’s County Ex-ecutiveRushernL.Baker III, saidLocalMotors couldenhanceNa-tional Harbor’s global appeal.“I think this is an excit-

ing expansion of everythingNational Harbor brings to theentertainment and retail com-munity,” Iannucci said. “Itcould really bring people fromaround the world to see what’sbeing done.”The launch will create 100

jobs, opportunities that Ian-nucci said could keepUniversityofMaryland, College Park, grad-uates inPrinceGeorge’sCounty.“That educated, skilled,

motivated workforce is a re-source to be tapped,” Iannuccisaid. “There are clearly studentsfrom theUniversity ofMarylandwhose skill areas are a perfectmatch for this.”Fishkin said Local Motors

is hoping to make connectionswith universities in the area, butalso to give back to the commu-nities in its backyard.Ida Bailey, 36, of National

Harbor said county residentswould be interested in creatingtheir own custom cars.“I think it’s cool. I like the

idea,” Bailey said.Peterson said he’s confident

that the National Harbor loca-tion can be operational in thenext 12months.

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Jon Peterson, principal of The Peterson Cos., shows off the custom-printedRally Fighter at a Jan. 12 announcement at National Harbor. Local Motorswill open its first East Coast location at National Harbor.

The Bowie Center for Per-forming Arts will host a per-formance by MetropolitanOpera singer Angela Brownon Sunday and is offering freeadmission to students under18 years old.Brown’s performance,

entitled “Opera...From a Sis-tah’s Point of View,” will bepresented by the Coalition forAfrican Americans in the Per-forming Arts and will includecontributions by alum andvocal students from Prince

George’s County publicschools, according to a state-ment from the BCPA.“Opera...From a Sistah’s

Point of View” seeks to makeopera and classical vocalperformance relatable to adiverse audience and dispelcommon myths about the artform, according to the BCPA.“Our organization targets

all audiences with a focus onPrince George’s County youthand residents,” said PamelaSimonson, board chair for the

Coalition for African Ameri-cans in the Performing Arts,in a statement. “It is our hopeand responsibility to give stu-dents choices in music andthe performing arts. Angelawill help us do that in a fun,creative and different way.”The concert will begin at

5 p.m. at the BCPA, locatedat 15200 Annapolis Road inBowie. Visit www.4caapa.orgor call 301-839-1444.

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This activity report is pro-vided by the Prince George’sCounty Police Department asa public service to the com-munity and is not a completelisting of all events and crimereported.

District 2Headquarters, Bowie, 301-

390-2100 Glenn Dale, Kettering,Lanham, Largo, Seabrook, Wood-more, Lake Arbor, MitchellvilleandUpperMarlboro.

JAN. 12Vehicle stolen, 2900 block

Citrus Lane, 3:34 a.m.Theft from vehicle,9600block

CedarhollowLane, 9:43 a.m.Theft from vehicle,2400block

LemontreeLane, 10:23 a.m.Residential break-in, 16100

block Penn Manor Lane, 12:01p.m.

Assault, 300 block PrairieCourt, 12:58 p.m.

Robbery on commercial prop-erty, 16700 block GovernorsBridge Road, 8:42 p.m.

JAN. 13Theft from vehicle, 4800

block King JohnWay, 4:09 a.m.Theft from vehicle, 10000

blockGreenbeltRoad, 6:09a.m.Theft, 16700 block Gover-

nors Bridge Road, 12:37 p.m.Theft, 3100 block Saffron

WaldenWay, 2:30 p.m.Theft, 3300 block Crain

HighwayNw, 6:42 p.m.Vehicle stolen and recovered,

1600 block Monarch BirchWay, 9:29 p.m.

JAN. 14Theft from vehicle, 800 block

Largo Center Drive, 12:31 p.m.Theft from vehicle, 10300

block BaldHill Road, 3:49 p.m.Theft from vehicle, 9300

block Darcy Road, 9:12 p.m.Robbery, 4100 block Enter-

prise Road, 9:33 p.m.Robbery, unit block of Cas-

tletonDrive, 10:10 p.m.


blockSpringBranchDrive, 3:24

a.m.Theft from vehicle, 12400

block Fairwood Pky, 6:33 a.m.Theft from vehicle, 10200

block Lake Arbor Way, 7:17a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1200block Mercantile Lane, 11:13a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1000 blockLargo Center Drive, 1:59 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9200blockMorley Road, 2:49 p.m.

Theft, 9400 block LanhamSevern Road, 2:57 p.m.

Residential break-in, 13100block 11th St., 3:16 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4200 blockBar Harbor Place, 3:29 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 12200 blockOpen View Lane, 4:02 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3300blockHeidi Lane, 4:57 p.m.

Theft, 1100 block ShoppersWay, 5:01 p.m.

Theft, 800 block Largo Cen-ter Drive, 5:02 p.m.

Theft,14700blockGovernorOden Bowie Drive, 5:28 p.m.

Theft, 15500 block Annapo-lis Road, 6:04 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10500blockMartinLutherKingHigh-way, 10:50 p.m.


block Sebago Court, 2:59 a.m.Residential break-in, 12100

blockWhitehallDrive, 7:53a.m.Theft, 1700 block Bay Berry

Terrace, 8:58 a.m.Residential break-in, 1700

block Bay Berry Terrace, 9:44a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11400block Honeysuckle Court, 2:43p.m.

Theft from vehicle,9700blockGoodLuckRoad, 3:24p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 5400block Barker Place, 3:52 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9700block Good Luck Road, 11:12p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 800 block

ShoppersWay, 11:13 p.m.

JAN. 17Residential break-in, 9700

block Good Luck Road, 1:41a.m.

Theft, 600blockCrainHigh-way Sw, 1:16 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 700 blockCastlewood Place, 3:47 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8600block Greenbelt Road, 4:49p.m.

Robbery, 12600 block Mar-leighDrive, 9:32 p.m.

JAN. 18Assault with a weapon, 11400

block Glen Dale Ridge Road,12:50 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,Race Track Road/Old ChapelRoad, 1:10 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4900block Collingtons BountyDrive, 1:23 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14600block Debenham Way, 9:30a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14800block Debenham Way, 9:52a.m.

Theft, 2200 block AmberMeadowsDrive, 11:18 a.m.

Theft, 10200 block Lake Ar-borWay, 2:59 p.m.

Assault, unit block of Her-ringtonDrive, 3:46 p.m.

Theft, 3100 block PylesDrive, 4:33 p.m.

District 4Headquarters, Oxon Hill,

301-749-4900. Temple Hills, Hill-crest Heights, Camp Springs,Suitland, Morningside, Oxon Hill,Fort Washington, Forest Heights,Friendly, Accokeek and Wind-brook (subdivision in Clinton).

JAN. 12Residential break-in, 6700

block Stoneridge Court, 12:01p.m.

Robbery on commercial prop-erty, 4400 block 23rd Pky, 1:05p.m.

Theft, 11400 block HickoryDrive, 1:54 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6900block Dudley Ave, 2:35 p.m.

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frastructure problems.Thomas said she indepen-

dently enlisted the help of acontractor to assess the cost ofoverhauling the school — in-cluding pipe replacement, as-bestos abatement and blacktoprepair — and received the esti-mate of $22 million to $25 mil-lion.

“We ask you to take thisbaseline budget back and findthe money for us,” Thomas toldschool officials and legislatorsat a Jan. 12 PTA meeting. “Thisschool is a high-performingschool. Get us $25million.”

Ardmore’s building,which ismore than60-years-old, isn’t theonly one in the countywith lead,asbestos and other hazards, butArdmore parents began voicingconcerns late last year after chil-dren were allegedly injured onbrokenblacktopandawater testwas conducted and confirmedlead toxins, Thomas said.

Carl Belcher, director ofbuilding services for PGCPS,said there are “several” schoolsin the county dealing with is-sues similar to Ardmore’s, but acomplete list was not availableby press time.

While lead was first discov-ered at the school 10 years agoand students have been drink-ing from bottled water for sev-eral years, parents questionedwhy they didn’t know about itsooner.

Belcher said the school sys-temmade public its plans to re-place water pipes this summerand systematically repair asbes-tos tiles at the school.

“I don’t really have a goodanswer for why it took so longfor parents to be notified, butit is a matter of public record,”he said. “There was no intent tohide any facts from anyone.”

Keith Olive, another Ard-more parent, said he and hiswife were unsatisfied with theschool system’s response topar-ent concerns andare attemptingto transfer their twochildrenoutof Ardmore.

“I’m well beyond upset anddisappointed in the school sys-tem,” Olive said. “The countyfunded football fields but left

only $200 [thousand] for repairsto aging schools.”

New turf athletic fields likethe one installed at Oxon HillHigh School last year can costbetween $700,000 and $1 mil-lion, The Gazette reported inApril.

Belcher said $200,000 is un-likely to cover the entire costof the lead remediation at Ard-more, but PGCPS environmen-tal officer William Dallas notedthat the system is limited byfunding.

“I can only move as fast asmy funding,” Dallas said. “I un-derstand. I’m a parent. My kidsgo to Prince George’s Countyschools too.”

Thomas said her construc-tion company works on schoolrenovation projects in Wash-ington,D.C., that are often com-pleted in eight weeks. She said itwould be possible to overhaulArdmore over the summer, it’sjust amatter of finding the fund-

ing.“We have to develop a plan

of action to solicit the PrinceGeorge’s County Council andour school board official tomake Ardmore E.S. a priority fora full renovation,” she said.

Tanisha Baker, Ardmore’sPTA president, said many par-ents are interested inpetitioningfor a complete overhaul of theschool, but that she wouldn’t besurprised if some parents gaveup and transferred out.

“It does make you feel hor-rific that you would send yourchildren to a school that is ingreat need of maintenance. It’sdisconcerting to say the least,”Baker said. “We know otherschools got funding to do [acomplete renovation] and wedon’t want to hear the same an-swers about standard processand procedures.”

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SCHOOLContinued from Page A-1 “I’m well beyond upset and disappointed

in the school system.”Keith Olive, Ardmore parent

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residentsmay see in theupcom-ing fiscal year, which begins inJuly.

Bowie’s highway user taxrevenue,whichhelps fund streetmaintenance, is supplementedthis year by the State HighwayAdministration and allows thecity to fund additional roadwayprojects, Matthews said. Nextyear, the fund will likely dropback down from about $1.4mil-lion to less than $500,000, whichmeans fewer roads will be ad-dressed, he said.

“We have a program thatindicates we [repair] so manymiles per year — about 18miles,”Matthews said. “In thoseyears in which we receive addi-tional money from SHA, we willdomore streets.”

Matthews also projecteda five percent rate increase inwater and sewer to help com-pensate for declining user con-sumption.

Despite several multi-million dollar projects comingdown the pike, Bowie Mayor G.FrederickRobinson saidhedoesnot want to raise property taxesas a source of revenue.

“I think I can say with somedegree of confidence is thatcouncil is totally in support ofkeeping the tax rates low,” Rob-inson said.

Councilman H. L. DufourWoolfley Jr. (at-large), who wassworn in Monday, said he is ea-ger to takepart inbudget discus-sions over the comingmonths.

“That’s where we drive thebusiness end of the city so it’sa good place to get a better un-derstanding of what everyone’sworking on,” he said.

Woolfley said he partici-pated in an advisory group thathelped form the city’s currentstrategic priorities and is there-fore familiar with Bowie’s bud-get philosophies.

Councilman Dennis Brady(at-large) said he would be in-terested in the council reviewingand possibly revising the city’sstrategic plan, which lays downoverarching goals that guidebudget decisions.

“We keep citing the strategicplan, and strategic plans onlyhave a value if they are currentor fresh. And it was adopted in[2007],” he said. “Youdon’twantthem to go too long becausethen they become stale, andthey become words on pagesand lose theirmeaning. ”

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yond the state minimum re-quirements.

PGCPS increased its middleschool hours significantly be-yond the state requirement inaneffort to boost student achieve-ment, saidBill Cappe, educationspecialist for theMaryland StateDepartment of Education.

Gina Bowler of Upper Marl-boro, whose daughter attendsthe Spanish immersion pro-gram at Overlook Elementary inTemple Hills, said she was gladthe school system called for thedelays.

“For me, I felt less anxiousabout the safety of my children.

I was more worried about theicy road conditions, so forme, itwas a relief,” Bowler said.

A two-hour delay was origi-nally called on Jan. 6, but waslater changed to a school clo-sure.

ValerieWhite of Largo, pres-ident of the Largo High SchoolPTSA, said that announcement,dated at 7:27 a.m., should havebeenmade sooner.

“It was very last minute, es-pecially for teacherswhohad al-ready arrived at school,” Whitesaid.

McCawley said there is nodeadline for announcements,but that the school system triesto make a decision by 5 a.m. inorder to get it in to the morningnews.

White said the other an-nouncements were made in atimely manner, and Bowler saidthe school systemdid a good jobof sending email and text alertsin a timelymanner.

T. Carter Ross of Hyattsville,parentof two students atHyatts-ville Elementary, said the schoolsystem’s alert system workedwell, and thathisdaughters keepa close eyeon school closure an-nouncements.

Ross said he prefers the two-hour delays.

“It’s disruptive, but not asdisruptive as a full-day closure,”Ross said.

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been avoidable,” Chapmansaid. “I don’t blame Ms. Simp-son-Marcus. I hold the schoolsystem and the school boardaccountable.”

Other cases against Simp-son-Marcus and the schoolsystem are pending, Chapmansaid.

Largo High sophomore Ab-dul Kaba, 15, of Largo said he

was surprised Simpson-Mar-cus was still at the school afterthe lawsuits.

“As an adult you shouldn’teven bully kids. You shouldn’tabuse your people or treat yourpeople wrong,” Kaba said. “Ifelt she should go.”

In September, the presi-dent of the Prince George’sCounty chapter of the NAACP,Robert “Bob” Ross, called forSimpson-Marcus’ departure.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s awhite person or a black person,

if someone is engaging in thattype of racial harassment, andcosting the school system thatmuchmoney, they need to go,”Ross said. “I think [the schoolsystem] finally took the rightaction and relieved her of herduties.”

No number was publiclylisted for Simpson-Marcus andattempts to reach her via emailwere unsuccessful.

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will be gone finally.”Arthur W. Turner, the

president of the Cedar HavenCivic Association, said he waspleased with the responsive-ness of county officials.

“Everything we have asked

them to do, they have done,”Turner said,

Residents can choose be-tween county or private trashcollection. County trash col-lection would add $275 inproperty taxes yearly for allresidents, while collectionthrough Aquasco-based con-tractor Amber’s Disposal, LLC

would only cost $228 annuallyfor residents who opt in.

Turner said he would sur-vey Cedar Haven residents thisweek and notify the county oftheir choice this week. Trashcollection could begin as earlyas February, Angel said.

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Maryland Gov.-elect Larry Hogan Jr. and his wife, Yumi Hogan, leave St. Mary’s Church in Annapolis after aWednesday morning prayer service on the day of his inauguration.

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On a personal level, theonly way tomove amountainis stop supporting it.

No. 1, be healthy. Drink atall glass of water before everymeal andwalk briskly 25 to 40minutes a day. If you feel greatabout yourself, youwill relyless on the world’s syntheticnovelties to do it for you, andyouwill lessen the toxic by-products in our environment.Care for yourself in order tocare for others.

No. 2, change your percep-tion. For all the centuries ofbattling the arrogance of geo-centricity, then slavery, thenequality for women, we havereached the final epiphany ...that we are not superior to, butrather a product of, our envi-ronment. That we do not haveDominion to abuse our landsandwaters without harmingourselves. The truth is, treescan live without humans, butnot vice versa. Do not confusethe successful who serve ourcommunity with the sell-outs.Men of profit have alwaysscreamed the sky will fall whentheir power was threatened.

Yet it is safer nowmore thanever because of egalitarianism.

No. 3, care ... for the living.Water a tree that bears fruit. Afamily can feed itself for free(as long as they do not useGMO seeds) with the smallestof yards. Differentiate cropswith neighbors and share. Playcards with friends. Frolic withchildren. Explore the forestsandwaters that sustain you.

No. 4, fight. Put the onuswhere it belongs. Do not takeyour frustrations out on yourfamilies. Youmay not have thetime or the adventurous spiritto chain yourself in protest,but you can call the [countyleaders] and police depart-ment who said they are hereto protect you. Poisoning is acriminal act. Call often. Fivetimes a day, every day. An an-noying bit of shame ismoregrace than they deserve thusfar for their failure to keepmil-

lions of pounds of toxins awayfrom you.

No. 5, choose to invest inalternative energy. If you havemoney earning ameager 1 per-cent interest in a bank, you cankeepmore of yourmoney bypurchasing solar power fromthe local company.My family’sreturn on investment has been600 percent greater annually inwhat we do not sacrifice in en-ergy costs. Solar City offers freepanels for those with no up-

frontmoney. A 40-mpg vehiclecan save you thousands in gasdollars every year and keep ad-ditional allergens, carcinogens,and particulatematter out ofour children’s air ... a win-win.

No. 6, dream. Start andsupport real local businessesHomegrown is simplymoreenergy efficient and has fewerhuman rights violations.Weare lucky to have permacultureand organic farms in our area,but just a handful of restau-rants use them to prepare pes-ticide- and herbicide-free food.We need real fresh (chemicaland preservative-free) bread,wine, and cheesemakers nowmore than ever.

No. 7, know your greatness.Do not perceive yourself aslesser than. Surely, any singlemother has superior budgetbalancing skills compared toeconomists and politicianswho earn six figures for theirperpetual failures. You are bril-liant, strong and imaginative.Or, if you are simply averagelikeme, you canGoogle it. Aworld of genius is at your fin-gertips.

Brenda Songy, Leonardtown

Everyone can fight for a healthy environment

Too often, small glimmers of hope are overshadowedby themany larger tasks at hand in the Prince George’sCounty school system. Such is the case with the recentlyreleased pass rates for county ninth-graders.

Preliminary figures from theMaryland State Depart-ment of Education indicate a 5.9 percentage point in-crease in ninth-grade pass rates. To put it in perspective,the increase means that 81.4 percent of county freshmen— arguably one of the most difficult years for students—moved on to the 10th grade in 2014 (up from 75.5 percent

the previous year).Research shows that the

ninth grade is the most likelyto be repeated in high school;it has long been a concern ofPrince George’s school lead-ers.

And the improvementdidn’t come easily. Educa-tion officials worked to

give students more opportunities to make up for failedclasses, and used an Early Warning Indicator Report toidentify and help students likely to struggle in the ninthgrade.

For example, before the school year even started, ad-ministrators at Charles H. Flowers High School in UpperMarlboro contacted families of students identified in thereport to coordinate strategies for helping them succeed.Flowers’ ninth-grade promotion rate rose from 75.9 per-cent in 2013 to 93.2 percent in 2014.

At Potomac High School in Oxon Hill —where thepass rate rose from 66.2 percent in 2013 to 84.6 percentlast year— a strong focus is placed on ninth-graders, toinclude housing them in a separate building.

Clearly, the hard work is paying off.By comparison, the statewide average increased by

one-half of a percentage point, to 86.8 percent. Granted,the county average still lags behind the state, but the factthat the gap is closing is a positive sign.

“Are we 100 percent where we need to be yet? I’d sayno, but we are moving in the right direction,” schoolsCEO KevinMaxwell said of the pass rates.

He’s right. There is more work to be done— but thisis an enormous step forward, and educators, parents andstudent should take amoment to bask in the achieve-ment.

‘Moving in theright direction’

Community involvementmakes a difference

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“Life’smost persistent and urgent question is: ‘Whatare you doing for others?’”—Martin Luther King Jr.

Just a few days ago, Prince Georgians and others acrossthe nation celebrated the life and legacy of Civil RightsleaderMartin Luther King Jr.

Many honored hismemory by taking timeMonday toparticipate in volunteer projects, an annual effort intendedto commemorate King’s emphasis on the importance ofcommunity service. It’s a great tribute to hismemory andawonderful contribution to our communities.

As we remember King, whowould have been 86 thisyear, it’s also important to remember themany othermessages he shared during his lifetime—many of whichremain at the forefront today as we deal with ongoingcrises over religious conflicts, political differences, clashesbetween communities and police, educational inequitiesandmore.

King put his life on the line for freedom, tolerance,justice, nonviolence— issues that we are still struggling toachievemore than four decades after his death.

There weremany opportunities this week to contributeto King’s goal of getting residents to lend a hand to eachother, and a large number of Prince Georgians were in-volved.

Beyond this week, however, there are important issuesthat need to be addressed in our communities, challengesthat simply can’t be resolved in one day.

For example, while Prince George’s County police havecome an enormously longway toward building trust in thecommunity (and kudos to police officials for their positiveoutreach efforts in the wake of protests nationwide), thereis still more work to be done. For residents and officials,what can be done to continue the progress?

In schools, what can be done to ensure students arereceiving the resources they need? In our neighborhoodsand businesses, what can be done to embrace differences?In our government, what can be done to foster better com-munity outreach and cooperation among officials?

The importance of community involvement cannotbe understated, and themany volunteersMondaywholent a hand should be commended. Their dedication tohelping others should not only be celebrated for the day,but it should serve as inspiration to others for additionalcommunity-fueled initiatives in the county.

The current population of Americanadult voters is among the least read andthe least informed of all the voters in thisera of technology and computers. Votersshould be mature enough to know whatit means to earn a living, pay taxes andbe capable of understanding the cost ofliving and astute enough to understandwhat is expected of elected officials andbureaucrats.

Sixteen-year-old girls and boys, whohave recently emerged from the bonds ofpuberty and are certain to make whimsi-cal and spontaneous (detrimental) deci-sions, would be more dangerous than thecurrent majority of uneducated, adultvoters. Majority rule by ignoramusesand other imbeciles poses almost insur-mountable threats to any so-called de-mocracy. Truly, extending the franchise

to children who are still under the careand guidance of their parents or guard-ians will doubtlessly produce disastroussolutions to elementary problems if forno other reason than ignorance and theirwoeful lack of life’s experiences. This

proposal has to be the most ridiculous,harebrained idea presented to a politicalbody in the past 100 years.

I can think of almost nothing in ademocratic society than is more fright-ening than to be ruled by an ignorant,whimsical majority who believe no mat-ter what, “the majority is always right!”

To question and challenge the errantmajority in Nazi Germany (and otherhistorical empires) almost always meantcertain death.

As an afterthought, I ask: Has servicein some levels of municipal governmentbecome so unappealing and such an ab-horrent to adult citizens that they haveto call on minors (children) to establishpolicy and rule?

Carl C.K. Bronner, Laurel

Don’t lower the voting age

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University Park Church uses solar energy from panels mounted on the roof.

“A nation that continues year afteryear to spendmoremoney onmilitarydefense than on programs of social upliftis approaching spiritual doom.” The Rev.Dr.Martin LutherKing Jr.

Notmuch haschanged since the’60s.

Annually, thisnation continues tospend on defensemore than the nextsixmostmilitarizednations, combined.Congress has al-located $1.5 trillionfor the F-35, alone. This fighter jetmaynever be safe to fly and its gunnerymaynot be fired prior to 2019 while awaitingsoftware fixes, but themerchants-of-

death-from-above are doing quite well,thank you!

We could likely endworld hunger byallocating $1.5 trillion to that effort.

Which programwould generatemoregoodwill and likely promote world peace?

In themeantime, toomany of our ownveterans end up sleeping on vents and un-der bridges; toomany of our families canbe bankrupted by one health crisis; toomany of our workers toil too hard for toolittle reward; toomany of our children stillattend schools that are poorly resourced.

How can this happen in the countrythat, overall, boasts the “highest” qualityof life ever attained?

The answer is simple: toomany ofthe powerful and privileged have chosenpersonal profit over the public welfare,andwe, caught up in our daily struggle tothrive, have allowed acquired wealth to

consolidate tremendous political power inthe hands of a far too greedy few.

In his last book, “Where DoWeGoFromHere: Chaos or Community?” Dr.King offered us a different visionwhen hewrote, “The dignity of the individual willflourish when the decisions concerninghis life are in his own hands, when he hasthe assurance that his income is stable andcertain, andwhen he knows that he hasthemeans to seek self-improvement.”

What is the first step toward achievingdignity for all and ending intergenera-tional inequity?Wemust ensure the effec-tive education of all children lest anothergeneration become fodder for the weap-ons of war.

Kenneth B. Haines is the president ofthe Prince George’s County Educators’Association.

Most important investment: our children

Concerning the newsme-dia reports of police prejudiceagainst blacks, I can relatemy first-hand experiences ofthe Prince George’s CountyPolice Department. You see, Irecently graduated in Session

#32 from the P.G. Citizens Po-lice Academywith actual black,Asian andHispanic instructorswho gave freely of their time toshow us some of the thoroughbehind-the-scenes training ofrecruits.

Other cities in the country,such as New York, come tostudy our innovative and suc-cessful programs.

It seems tome that if thepolice are left to do their joband not threatened, which only

can escalate violence, that res-olution can come soon enoughwhen the facts are presentedto a judge who canweigh theevidence.

Kathryn Fuller, Hyattsville

Insight gained from citizens police academy

This proposal has tobe the most ridiculous,

harebrained idea presentedto a political body in the

past 100 years.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: Largo at Forestville, 7 pm Friday.It looks like the County 3A/2A/1A League title will comedown to these two teams. Largo won the first game.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Montrose Christian at Pallotti,7 pm Thursday.

SWIMMING: Roosevelt vs. Bowie, 3 pm Saturday.

Thememory is abit hazy — ithas been afew decades— but when Iwas in fourthgrade I recallthrowing a bitof a tantrumso that I couldswitch home-room teachers at Ocotillo Elemen-tary School in Phoenix.

I can’t remember why I didn’tlike my teacher or my classmates.I do recall that the classroom Iwanted to transfer to had a youngerteacher and she seemed to be nice.Certainly it had to be better overthere, right?

It must have been some kind oftantrum — how did my parents putup with me — because I switchedhomerooms with only a couple ofmonths left in the school year.

Where the memory doesn’tfade is that I regretted it almostimmediately. The younger teacherwasn’t any nicer than my previousone (thank goodness), still makingdemands of me. I was the new guynow in a room filled with kids withestablished friendships. I shouldhave stayed put.

That thought came to me onFriday after watching senior shoot-ing guard Kaine Wilson playingonce again with Parkdale’s boysbasketball team.

Wilson averaged double-figurescoring as a sophomore and juniorand developed a reputation for be-ing a four-point shot expert. Thisseason, however, was going to be achallenge because Parkdale had noother starters returning.

Potomac, however, had justwon a state basketball title and hadthe best point guard in the countyback in Randall Broddie and a ter-rific post player in Anthony Smithcoming back.

So Wilson started this seasonthere. He said all the right things,the transfer wasn’t about basket-ball. He wanted to live with his dad,who lives in Potomac’s district.

But things didn’t go well atPotomac.

“I tore a ligament in myankle early in the season, it kind ofslowed me down,” Wilson said.

Then, that terrific post player,Smith, suffered a season-endinginjury. Potomac went from a Class3A contender to a rebuilding teamreal quick.

Wilson averaged only fivepoints per game at Potomac.

“There were some family is-sues, and I moved back in with mymom,” Wilson said. “I’m happy I’mback, this is like home.”

He wasn’t the only mid-sea-son transfer at Parkdale. Seniorguard Joseph Adedayo joined thePanthers a week into the seasonafter helping Theodore Roosevelt(Washington, D.C.) win a champi-onship last year.

The two of them, friends whoplay on the same Amateur AthleticUnion team, have bolstered Park-dale’s postseason hopes for thisseason. The Panthers (5-7) upsetdefending state champion Wiseby 10 points in Wilson’s first gameback.

“I love my team, we’re gettingbetter every day,” Adedayo said.

Wilson is back to averagingdouble digits (17.5 ppg) and Park-dale won’t be a pushover in theplayoffs. Problem is, neither is therest of the loaded 4A South Region.

Coach Tremaine Price saidhe is just happy to have his teamwhole again.

“He just walked through thedoor,” Price said. “Both of themwere Parkdale kids to start with, sowith them knowing the other kids,it hasn’t been that big an adjust-ment.”

Thomas Wolfe was wrong. Youcan go home again. And maybe, asI learned in the fourth grade, thebest move to make is no move.

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BY ERIC GOLDWEINSTAFF WRITER

Kyle Arrington was a basketballplayer first, and when he did startplaying football at Gwynn Park HighSchool, he suffered from a bad case ofalligator arms. The then-sophomoredefensive back would keep his armsstiff as he backpedaled, and his coach,Danny Hayes, kept trying to correcthim.

“That drovemenuts at onepoint,”Hayes said.

Arrington, of Accoceek, didn’tbreak that habit immediately. But alli-gator arms and all, he still became one

of the best cornerbacks in the area.To this day, Hayes keeps an eye on

Arrington’s defensive form, but nowhe gets to do so on a television screenrather than at the Brandywine field, asArrington and the New England Patri-ots take on the Seattle Seahawks Feb.1 in Super Bowl XLIX.

“Every time I watch him I lookfor the alligator arms, and I don’t seethem anymore,” Hayes said.

Arrington, 28, is in his sixth NFLseason and has established himselfas a veteran cornerback. In Sunday’sAFC championship victory against theIndianapolis Colts, he locked downIndianapolis receiver T.Y. Hilton and

played all 56 defensive snaps.At the start of his NFL career, he

was simply trying to earn a rosterspot. Arrington played college foot-ball at Hofstra University, graduatingin 2008. He went undrafted, and thensigned with the Philadelphia Eaglesbut was waived before he played anNFL down. Eventually, he made it onthe field.

Arrington appeared in the 2009season opener with the Tampa BayBuccaneers, becoming Hayes’ firstformer player to play in the NFL. Butafter just one game with Tampa Bay,

From alligator armsto the Super Bowl

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Gwynn Park High School graduate and New England Patriots defensive back Kyle Arrington is set to play in the Super Bowl Feb. 1.

n Transfer from South Carolinabolstered sprint-heavy girls squad

BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFF WRITER

Wise High School junior GabrielleGlasco said she never really consideredherself a distance runner, but she cer-tainly has Prince George’s County op-ponents fooled.

Backhome inSouthCarolina—shemoved with her family to Maryland justbefore the start of the 2014-15 schoolyear — Glasco kept mostly to the 400meters, 800 meters and relays. On oc-casion, she ran the mile though it wasfar from her favorite, she said.

There has been a big gaping holein the distance events for the other-wise hugely competitive Pumas trackprogram and Wise girls coach GideonTinch said it was quite clear whenGlasco came out for the cross countryseason this fall that she was exactly

Wise juniorgoes thedistance


Wise High School distance runner GabrielleGlasco (right) competes in the 3,200-meterrelay during the Prince George’s Countytrack championships on Jan. 15.

Gwynn Park graduate leads New England into championship game


Northwestern High School’s Saquan Jamison goes to the basketagainst visiting Parkdale during a Dec. 9 basketball game in Hyatts-ville. The experienced Wildcats are a contender in the 4A SouthRegion this year.

n Eagles will try to limit Lions’ big manafter 47-point performance

BY ADAM GUTEKUNST

STAFF WRITER

Moments after raising his hands and flash-ing a toothy smile to the fans at Douglass HighSchool onDec. 12, Largo seniorAbdulaiBunduand his teammates were pulled into a hallwayof the Upper Marlboro school, barely escapinga skirmish amongst fans that had started at thecorner of the court.

The 6-foot-7 Lions’ star had lifted his foul-ridden team from the jaws of an early-seasondefeat with a 47-point, 17-rebound effort andstoodwith a stone-cold serious lookonhis faceas he announced to a reporter what many inthe stands had already figured out.

“This is my house,” Bundu said after the70-66 win.

Tuesdayevening,Bunduandcompanywillhave todefend their homecourt against a surg-ing Douglass team that has come quite a waysfrom the Dec. 12 meeting. The Eagles havegone 9-2 since, defeating the likes of ClintonChristian (73-62 on Dec. 20) and North Point(68-65 on Jan. 7) along the way.

Inexperience, something that has provento be an non-issue recently, was what ul-timately proved to be the Eagles downfallagainst Largo in their first meeting. Douglasstook a 42-31 lead into halftime. But the Lions,led by Bundu’s effort, slowly chipped away atit.

But the collapse is in the past, according tocoach Tyrone Massenburg. The Eagles have arenewed sense of confidence heading into thehighly-anticipated rematch.

The scoring balance tells enough of thestory. Massenburg’s top five scorers averagebetween 12.4 and 8.1 points per game, a dis-tribution of wealth that makes the Eagles amatchup nightmare.

“It creates a problem — we talk aboutthat,” Massenburg said. “We always say whatwould another team do against us and whowould they key on. It’s kind of tough to key onone player because you can look up and that

player might not be in the game. There couldbe a whole different five and everything couldstill be running on the same accord.”

On any given night Douglass will go 12-deep, diving into their bench to keep Mas-senburg’s up-and-down style running at fullsteam. Three times in the past five games theEagles have featured a different scoring leader.

On the other side of the ball, Largo’s offen-sive talent is not a secret. Bundu has contin-ued his scoring tear, averaging a county-best31.3pointsper gameanddominating theglass.And, as Largo coach Lewis Howard pointedout, the Lions would be remiss to stop pound-ing the ball into the paint despite the extra at-tention their standout center receives.

“Pound for pound, no one in our league

Largo, Douglass set to clash again

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Largo’s Abdul Bundu (right) scored 47 points inDecember against Douglass.

n Roosevelt is undefeated, but leagueand region are up for grabs

BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFF WRITER

Now in his 10th year as boys basketball coach at EleanorRoosevelt High School, Brendan O’Connell said he could cer-tainly use a break every once in a while. O’Connell, widelyconsidered one of the best coaches in the area, has guidedthe Raiders through the grueling 4A South Region to the statetournament six times. And this season, Roosevelt is poised foranother run with an 11-2 record.

Parity reigns in 4A

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BEST BETn Largo at Forestville, 7 p.m. Friday: The veteran

Lions take on the up-and-coming Knights in gamethat might decide who plays for county title.

BEST BETn Douglass at Largo, 7 p.m. Tuesday: A rematch

of Largo’s dramatic win in Upper Marlboro whereAbdulai Bundu had 47 points and 17 rebounds.

BASKETBALL HOW THEY RANK

Also receiving votes: Crossland 2.

The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school basketball teams in Prince George’s County.

Also receiving votes: Seton, 5; Douglass, 1.

LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.Abdulai Bundu, Largo 14 431 30.8ChristianMatthews, Nat. Christian 15 348 23.2KevinDorsey, ClintonChristian 16 349 21.8Michael Speight,Wise 14 296 21.1ShawnMoss, OxonHill 7 146 20.9Edward Polite, DuVal 14 291 20.8Kavon Sclaffod, FairmontHeights 7 142 20.3Randall Broddie, Potomac 11 222 20.2KirkHawkins, Laurel 13 259 19.9David Belle, Northwestern 13 243 18.7MichaelMiddleton, Crossland 6 112 18.7

LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.Briel Palmer, Northwestern 11 293 26.6De’Janae Boykin, Flowers 6 129 21.5DamiOloyede, High Point 11 209 19.0Charnise Tyler, Suitland 9 171 19.0Ariana Romney, G. Brethren 12 220 18.3Imani Quinn, FairmontHeights 7 119 17.0DrewCalhoun, Parkdale 12 203 16.9DestineeMcQueen, DuVal 10 169 16.9Kaila Charles, Eleanor Roosevelt 7 113 16.1Raven Fox, Seton 19 296 15.6DamoniWells, Potomac 13 202 15.5

Coaches and team statisticians may email season team statistics to [email protected] before noonon Mondays to be included.

GirlsRank School Record Points

1. Roosevelt 10-1 60

2. McNamara 13-4 51

3. Riverdale Baptist 13-8 47

4. Largo 9-3 41

5. Parkdale 9-1 30

6. National Christian 13-6 26

7. Forestville 9-3 24

8. Flowers 8-4 8

8. Gwynn Park 8-4 8

10. Grace Brethren 9-2 6

BoysRank School Record Points

1. DeMatha 15-1 60

2. National Christian 13-3 54

3. Largo 11-2 44

4. McNamara 12-6 38

5. Capitol Christian 24-4 36

6. Douglass 10-3 32

7. Pallotti 14-2 23

8. Roosevelt 10-2 22

9. Bowie 9-3 12

10. DuVal 11-2 7

is stronger than Abdulai,” Howard said.“We’re still going topower theball insideand allow him to showcase his talent. ...We’re 11-2 right now and I’d be a fool todraw up anything other than the blue-print of what we’ve done to this point.”

When it comes to guarding Bundu,Massenburg said his undersized Eagleswill simply have to make the 6-foot-7center work harder for his points. Bun-du’s 47 points in the Dec. 12 matchupcame on 17-of-21 shooting.

“He’s very tough, he’s very ferociousgoing for theball,”Massenburg said. “Hesees the ball and he goes to get it. ... Ourgoal is to try to box him out a little moreand pretty much play our game. Eventhough he scored a lot of points, we stillhad opportunities to win the game.

“This next game is going to mean alot for us. But I anticipate maybe seeingthem again [in the playoffs].”

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But if the veteran coach islooking for a break, he won’tbe finding in this year’s County4A League, where a handful ofteamshave staked their claimascontenders at the season’smid-waypoint.

“Rightnow,we’reinfirstandthe only ones without a loss,”O’Connell said. “But I feel likeevery Tuesday or Friday we’replaying a tight game against ateamthat couldbeatus.”

Here’s how things are look-ingat themid-waypoint:

FavoritesEleanor Roosevelt (11-2): Af-

ter four-year guard LarryMcCanmoved to California followingthe Raiders’ first game, Roos-evelt was left with one returningstarter. But that hasn’t slowedthe Raiders, who have been thelonemark of consistency in awild 4A League. Oludoyin Fado-jutimi (13.4 points per game)leads a balanced scoring attack.

Northwestern (10-3): TheWildcats have something a lotof 4A teams desire: experience.Northwestern’s starting lineupis comprised of four seniors and6-foot-5 junior bigman SaiquanJamison. Pair that with thetalented backcourt of 5-foot-4point guardMikeWhite and6-foot-4 combo guardDavidBelle, and there’s a contender inHyattsville.

DuVal (11-3): After playingdefending 4A state championWise tough in the 4A South Re-gion final last season, the Tigersneeded nomotivation cominginto this winter. DuVal, led byRadfordUniversity recruit EdPolite (21.1 ppg) and talentedpoint guard Kevin Simpson(18.5), recorded 11 consecutivewins after dropping the seasonopener toWise.

ContendersFlowers (10-4): The Jaguars

came out of the gates strongwithan 8-1 start, but it wasn’t untiltheir Jan. 9 overtimewin overNorthwestern that Flowers es-tablished themselves as a threat.A five-point Jan. 13 loss at Roo-sevelt might actually bolster theconfidence of the team.

Bowie (9-4): The Bulldogsmay finally be capturing thatsamemagic they showed duringtheir early season run of upsets.In themidst of their two-game,mid-December losing slide,coach Cedric Holbrookmen-tioned his teamwould have torefocus.

DarkhorseWise (8-6): While the Pumas

are certainly not the team theywere a year ago, a pair of sopho-mores has the defending statechampions right in the thick ofthingsmidway through the sea-son. GuardMike Speight (21.0)and 6-foot-5 forwardDarronBarnes (18.5) have provided aspark for a team still without theservices of senior bigman TrevorBrown (knee injury). If Wise canestablish any kind of consis-tency, they’re asmuch a playeras anyone else.

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hewas cut again.That was probably for the

best. Later in the 2009 season,the Patriots added Arrington totheir practice squad and even-tually promoted him to their 53-man roster, where he remainstoday. In his six-season tenure,he has registered 48 pass deflec-tions, nine interceptions, fiveforced fumbles and 283 tackles.

Listed at 5-foot-10 and 190pounds, Arrington’s physical-ity is part of what makes him aneffective defensive back. That’sbeen a strength of his sincehe was an upperclassman atGwynn Park, according to RafiqGunthorpe (Class of 2004), whoplayed alongside Arrington inthe Yellow Jackets secondary.

“Did he have a shot at theNFL? Yes, I thought he did,”Gunthorpe said. “Now, wouldI have predicted that five, sixyears later he’d have gone fromanundrafted free agent towherehe is today? I don’t know if I’dactually seen that.”

Arrington appeared in theSuper Bowl in 2012, when thePatriots lost to the New YorkGiants. This year, he’s trying tobecome Hayes’ first player towin it.

“I try to remember what heused to be in high school. I tryto sit back and enjoy it,” Hayessaid.

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what he needed to fill it.“[Tinch] was like, ‘I need you to be

my distance person,’” Glasco said. “Hewas like, ‘We’ve never had someonecover the distance part.’ I knew therewould be a lot of pressure onme [to dowell] but I like it, it feels good to playmy part for the team.”

Glasco ran all the distance eventsin Thursday’s Prince George’s Countychampionship meet, finishing sixth inthe 1,600meters and fourth in the 3,200meters — the first time she ever con-tested it—andwas the second legof thePumas’ fourth-place 3,200-meter relay.Inoneof the last eventsof theevening, atiredGlasco still finished 13th in the 800meters.

Though Wise finished third in thecounty on Thursday behind Bowie andFlowers, the same spot it was a yearago, the Pumas were 12 points closer tobreaking into the top2 this timearound,and on another day, probably could

have.Moving forward toward theregionand state meets, Tinch said doing so iscompletely in the realmof possibility.

“When I look at the state and theregion, it’s still wide open,” Tinch said.“The sprints are balanced, the distanceis balanced, the field is balanced, it’swhoever showsup. ... [Glasco]hasmadea huge impact for us. We’ve always hadthe sprints and the field events but nowour team ismorebalanced than ever.”

And Glasco is only bound to getbetter as this season progresses. Givenher results, it’s hard to believe, but thisyear is the first time she’s ever run crosscountry — and she posted the county’seighth-best time (22 minutes, 6.5 sec-onds),perathletic.net—or indoor track.

In South Carolina there was onlyan outdoor track season, she said. Andrunning indoors is a whole lot different.For example, on the smaller surface,the races consist of twice as many laps.Though distances don’t change, run-ning a four-lap 800 is more of a mentalburden for someone used to runningtwo laps, let alone the eight laps of the1,600 and 16 in the 3,200. There’s also

much less space to work with when try-ing tomake amove, Glasco said, whichcanbehazardous.

“It tookmetwoor threemeets togetused to it,” Glasco said. “My coach justkept telling me not to think about [theextra laps]. He was like, it’s the samething inside as outside.”

GlascomightnothavecometoWiseexpecting to run two-mile races but shesaidshehasenjoyedfindingherniche inthe longer distances. As a cerebral run-ner — she is a thinker, sometimes to afault, on the track — with an unwaver-ing will that can’t be taught, Tinch said,these eventsfither style.Glasco said sheappreciates the time in the longer racesto strategize andmake adjustments.

“[Having Glasco] takes a lot of pres-sure off the other girls, knowing there’ssomeone in the distance events,” Tinchsaid. “Now we know we have balance.We go into meets a lot more comfort-able. Everyone carries their own load,we depend on everyone.”

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n Bulldogs find outSaturday if they have shotat ending 15-year streak

BY JENNIFERBEEKMAN

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It’s hard to find a sportwhere contests between tra-ditional rivals Bowie andRoosevelt high schools aren’tmarqueematchups, and swim-ming is no different. The twoprograms account for thesport’s biggest rivalry and Sat-urday’s meet between the twoundefeated teams, scheduledfor 3 p.m. at Prince George’sCommunity College, will havemajorpostseason implications.

In fact, there’s likely a lotmore to learn from this year’smeeting than in years past.Roosevelt, especially on the 15-time defending Prince George’sCounty champion girls side,has been nearly untouchablein almost two decades — thefour-time defending countychampion boys have won 10county titles since 2002. Andwhile Roosevelt has shown nosigns of giving up its positionatop the county yet, there’s noquestion the area’s depth charthas increased, allowing thenextgroup of teams — historicallyled by Bowie— to chip away attheRaiders’ advantage.

“[Saturday] will definitelybe a good gauge, I’m not surewhere Roosevelt is,” Bowiecoach Maggie Fletcher said.“I’m not sure where we stand[against them].”

TheRaiderboysreturntheirtop3scorers—ChristianDixon,Michael Stevens and NathanDonoghue— from a team thatwon counties by 33 points lastwinter and four of their top 5.That, coupled with a group offreshmen that’s already mak-ing an impact, puts Rooseveltahead of the game. Bowie alsoreturnedseveral leadingscorers,includingsophomores JonBen-dana and Noah Louisy, but theBulldogs will also have to findways to make up for the loss oftwomajor scorers.

That’swhatSaturday’smeetis about, though, Fletcher andfirst-yearRooseveltcoachAlexisDonoghuesaid,findingtherightcombinations and prosperoushead-to-headmatchups.

On the opposite end of thegender spectrum, Rooseveltgraduatedthreeof its top5scor-ers, including multiple-timeGazette Swimmer of the Year,Jennifer Clune. Clune was in athree-waytieatoptheindividualscoring list at last year’s countymeet that included currentBowie sophomore DeAngelaFobbs.

In fact, the Bulldogs, whohave already defeated thetwo-time defending countyrunner-up Flowers team thatknocked them out of their pe-rennial second-place position,returned their top 6 swimmers.So, if therewaseverachance forBowie to make an impressionagainst its rival, this year mightbe the year — it sure won’t beeasy, though.

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n Award-winning writerpens novel on love

The question “Who wrotethe book of love?” has beenposed in song repeatedly sinceThe Monotones released thepop single in 1958.

Earlier this month, thedefinitive answer to that querymaterialized. “The Book ofLove” was published and the

authoridenti-fied. RogerRosenblatt,74-year-oldDistin-guishedProfessor ofEnglish andWriting atStony Brook

University and New York Timesbest-selling author with a mul-titude of impressive credentials,wrote the book. And he did sowhile living in Bethesda. In fact,the native New Yorker who hassince returned to live in theEmpire State, wrote his last fivebooks during his seven years inMontgomery County.

The new book, subtitled“Improvisations on a CrazyLittle Thing,” is a celebrationof and meditation on variousaspects of love — among them,romance and passion, love offamily and friends, country,

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The Greenbelt Arts Centerpresents “Clybourne Park,” asequel to the 1959 play “A Rai-sin in the Sun,” which focuseson the perspective of the com-munity rather than the per-spective of the family.

The play deals with racialtension and changing commu-nity dynamics over the courseof 50 years.

According to director BobKleinberg, the play is dividedinto two acts: the first act, ablack family moves into an all-white neighborhood. The sec-ond act takes place in the sameneighborhood 50 years in thefuture, but it involves a whitefamily moving into a blackneighborhood.

“As the cast and I werereading it we all started to no-tice these parallels showing upthrough the play,” said Klein-berg. “There are the obvious

ones, but then there are evensimple ones like the church bellringing at 4 o’clock in both actsto signify somethinghappeningat four.”

Kleinberg compared thematerial of the play to real lifesituations, specifically to areas

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is fascinating,” said Kleinberg.“My stepson lives in D.C. nearthe Verizon Center and he’swatching the 14th Street areachange into an up-and-comingplace, so it applies all over.”

“Clybourne Park” refers toa neighborhood in Chicago andfollows the story of two familiesand one house. In the first actmiddle-class white couple Bevand Russ are selling their home

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to the Youngers, the family “A Raisin inthe Sun” follows. In act two, the com-munity is all black and experiencinggentrification, and a white couple istrying to buy a house and expand it.

Both families feel pressure fromthe community to not sell their houseor buy into the community.

“50 years apart and the pressuresare still there,” said Kleinberg. “Thechange doesn’t actually change.”

The original play premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 for a month. It re-opened 6 months later in the RoyalCourt Theatre in London under thedirection of Dominic Cooke featuringnames such as Martin Freeman (of“The Hobbit” fame) and Olivier Awardwinner Sophie Thompson. From thereit has had several runs all over the U.S.,winning the Pulitzer Prize for Dramaand the Tony Award for Best Play.

Ted Culler, the actor portrayingRuss in the first act and Dan in the sec-ond, said the play will relate a messageof racism to the audience.

“The audience will take a simplemessage that racism is alive and wellin America and shows itself in waysother than violence and overt hatred,”said Culler. “But although racism isa theme that runs through the entireplay, selfishness, insensitivity, lack ofempathy and lack of more than per-sonal are also big elements.”

Russ, according to Culler, is a

mid-level executive living in whitemiddle-class Chicago struggling withsuppressed anger due to a tragic eventthat happened more than two yearsago.

“The most challenging thing aboutplaying Russ is having to dig in myown emotions and experiences to findthe Russ in me,” said Culler. “It’s notthat there isn’t a lot of Russ in me, it’sjust that it is a very uncomfortable ex-ploration.”

Culler said his character in the sec-ond act, Dan, is the contractor helpingthe new family remodel their houseand is a “bull in a china shop.” In theprocess of digging up the backyard hediscovers a footlocker and a letter thatgives a whole new outlook on the foot-locker.

The idea of perspectives runs un-derlying throughout the play, andCuller said this will be something theaudience will pick up on the most.

“It’s all about perspective and notnecessarily your own,” said Culler.

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The Clarice, 32nd annual Choreog-raphers’ Showcase (two shows), Jan. 24;Macbeth, Jan 30; Macbeth (two shows),Jan. 31; Maryland Masti 9, Jan. 31; Univer-sity of Maryland, College Park, theclarice.umd.edu.

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work, writing, art and nature. Hispoetic language and the lines he ref-erences from well-known love songsbring to mind Pete Hamill’s commentabout a previous novel in the NewYork Times Book Review: “Rosenblattwrites the way a great jazz musicianplays, moving from one emotion toanother playing some with a dose ofirony, others with joy, and a few withpain and melancholy...”

Rosenblatt acknowledged per-petuating the style of his previousfour books. “It has become verycomfortable “[to write] section aftersection with no demarcation.” Theformat, he pointed out, “simulatesa poetry collection, this book moreclosely than the others.” Rosenblattstarted out wanting to be a poet, butdidn’t have “the patience to see if Ihad the stamina or the talent. But therhythms of poetry stayed with me; it’sthe way my mind works.” He likenedthe process to his piano playing. “Iwrite a book by ear, too. It starts withthe thought of a song, the lyrics playa part, and it builds up, and coversthe subject.”

The book is “dedicated to theone I love,” Ginny, his wife of 52years. The couple met in high school,Friends Seminary, a small Quakerschool in Manhattan, dated on andoff until they married in their early

20s. “The story I have to tell is ofyou,” he wrote. “Of others, too. Otherpeople, other things. But mainly ofyou. It begins and ends with you. Italways comes back to you.”

The author does not claim to bean authority on what makes a suc-cessful marriage. “I wouldn’t pre-sume to offer a formula, but I think ithas a lot to do with remembering thatyou love someone. People get intotrouble when they forget,” he said.

Rosenblatt earned his undergrad-uate degree at New York Universityand his doctorate at Harvard, wherehe also taught. He has served as liter-ary editor and columnist for The NewRepublic, columnist for the Washing-ton Post, and multiple prize-winningessayist for the NewsHour on PBSand Time magazine. His Time coveressay, “A Letter to the Year 2086” waschosen for the time capsule placedinside the Statue of Liberty at itscentennial. He has written 17 books,which have been published in 14languages, six off-Broadway plays,including a comic one-man show,“Free Speech in America” the NewYork Times named among the 10best plays of 1991.

Rosenblatt gave up journalismto write books in 2006. Two yearslater, upon the death of their daugh-ter Amy, he and his wife moved toBethesda to help their son-in-lawbring up their three young grandchil-dren.

“We were both pleasantly sur-prised by Bethesda. We enjoyed itsrestaurants and movies, walkingaround the small city, with all thenew buildings going up,” he said,noting that his close friend, Bethesdaauthor Alice McDermott “didn’tknow if we’d like it after New York.”

He affectionately recalled hisgranddaughter Jessie’s introduc-ing him to her fourth-grade class atBurning Tree Elementary School. Shesaid, “This is my grandfather Boppo.He lives in the basement and doesnothing.”

Now back home since the sum-mer, living in Quogue on Long Islandand teaching writing at Stony Brook’sSouthampton campus, Rosenblatthas completed a new novel, due outin a year, and is deep into writinganother. Both are serious, he said, incontrast to his previous two, whichwere satiric. The writing, he said,doesn’t take him long; he spendsfar more time in the preparatory“brooding over the subject,” whichfrequently occurs while he is writingits predecessor.

He particularly relishes “the artis-tic freedom of being able to just makeit up,” he quipped. “I have a knackfor lying through my teeth.”

Roger Rosenblatt will be in townfor a book signing at 6 p.m. Saturday,Jan. 24, at Politics and Prose, 5015Connecticut Ave., NW, DC.

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tier one approval through NMAC. Prices and payments valid only at listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 01/26/2015.

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4AT THISPRICE $0 DOWN

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OR

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$17,495

MODEL #13115



OR

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$25,995Leather, HeatedSeats, moonroofMODEL #16214



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