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Lydia, Emily and Claude Martin
perform bluegrass throughout
Gather
the afternoon during the
Travilah Oak Festival on
Saturday, Oct. 11. Hundreds of
people turned out for the
annual tradition that celebrates
the Travilah Oak, one of the
oldest trees — roughly 300
years old — in Montgomery
Round
County.
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Photo by Aaron Stern/The Almanac
Anger Follows Country Inn National Downturn
Police Raid Downsized Impacts Local Businesses
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Married
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The groom is a 2002 graduate
of the University of Maryland and
holds a BS degree in marketing
and logistics and is currently a pur-
chasing and supply management
specialist for the United States
Postal Service.
The bride is a 2004 graduate of
“Tucked away in the back corner of Cabin John Shopping Towson University and holds a BS
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7745 Tuckerman Lane ogy and is currently employed as
Cabin John Shopping Center 11230 Grandview Ave. a project coordinator working with
Potomac, MD Wheaton, MD 20902 the D.C. government. After a
301.983.5566 301.962.8888 cruise to Mexico, the couple re- Lindsay Michelle Kaufman and Gary Klaff were married
sides in Rockville, Md. Sept. 14.
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Potomac Almanac Editor Steven M. Mauren
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News See www.potomacalmanac.com
Police
Analyzing
Scotland Raid
Residents say
September raid was
racially charged,
and property was
needlessly damaged.
Photo by Aaron Stern/The Almanac
By Aaron Stern
The Almanac
he Internal Affairs Depart-
T ment of the Montgomery
County Police is investigating
an early morning raid by police of six
homes in the Scotland neighborhood
that occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
Residents say that the officers freely
addressed residents using expletives
during the raid, went out of their way
Sign of the times: drivers stopped and stared — and some stopped to get some free office equipment — after
to damage personal property, and took
Sheriff’s deputies removed the last belongings of an evicted tenant in the Semmes Building in Potomac Village
pictures of a naked teenage girl who
on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
they forced to lay naked on a floor for
Downturn Pressures Local Businesses
an extended pe-
riod of time.
The warrants “This all
that were served
Potomac’s small door of a ground-floor office space occu-
pied by a mortgage company, officers spent
steadily increasing pressure leveraged on
small businesses by rising prices of fuel and
that morning by stemmed
detectives from
businesses are less than an hour acting in their infrequent
capacity as one-way movers, dispatching
production and the declining buying power
of the average consumer.
the 2nd District’s from a
burglary investi-
feeling burn of desks, computer monitors, shelving units
and office chairs onto the short, grassy slope POTOMAC PIZZA IS typically packed on
gation unit burglary
slumping economy. between the four-story Semmes Building Fridays during lunchtime, and that was no
stemmed from a
burglary that oc-
investigation,
and River Road. different on Friday, Oct. 3 as customers
By Aaron Stern As the day wore on passing drivers craned caught up with friends, chatted with co-
curred earlier this
year in the Scot-
a burglary
their heads to wonder at the debris, a man workers, and ate pizzas and subs.
The Almanac
jumped out of a pickup truck, grabbed a But these days business is generally a little
land neighbor- that
hood, said Lt. Paul
our Sheriff’s patrol cars showed up keyboard, got back in the truck and drove bit slower at the Potomac fixture, said Adam
Starks of the occurred in
F at the Semmes Building in
Potomac Village on Wednesday,
Oct. 1 to put the final rendering
on the story of a business gone south. Sixty
days after the Montgomery County Sheriff’s
away.
It was an inglorious end to a local busi-
ness and a sign of times in which even
Potomac’s relatively insulated economy is
feeling the crunch of the housing market
Greenberg, the restaurant’s owner and
president of the Potomac Chamber of Com-
merce.
“The last few weeks because of this gov-
ernment stuff, everybody’s being cautious,”
Montgomery
County Police.
Some of the six
raids were carried
out on no-knock
the Scotland
neighborhood.”
— Lt. Paul Starks,
Department posted an eviction notice on the fallout, the crisis in Wall Street, and the See Businesses, Page 8
warrants, and the Montgomery County
raids were led by Police
Montgomery
Hard Times in Horse Country County SWAT teams, Starks said.
For those who have always put up with the cost of feeding and do average consumers, but few might the horizon, Vrany wishes there “This all stemmed from a burglary
wanted to buy a horse but never boarding a horse. suspect the slowdown in the con- were more potential adopters out investigation, a burglary that oc-
thought they could afford it, now “You’re going to pay your gas and struction of new housing would there, and hopes that the economy curred in the Scotland neighbor-
might be their best chance of your electric long before your going impact horses. turns in a positive direction in the
owning their dream animal. to pay your board if that’s a choice As lumber mills cranked out lum- near future.
hood,” Starks said. “We were given
Unfortunately the original pur- you have to make,” Vrany said. ber packages for home builders, “Some days I hold my breath,” information from the victim of the
chase price of a horse is a tiny “That’s the situation we’re facing.” farms like Days End could rely on a said Vrany. “We’re trying our best, crime, investigators developed prob-
fraction of what it costs to keep a Some people who have adopted steady source of cheap sawdust and but all of that has an effect on us.” able cause that the suspect or suspects
horse over time, as Brooke Vrany, horses are asking to return them be- wood shavings to use for bedding. Days End Farm Horse Rescue,
of the Days End Farm Horse Res- cause they can no longer afford to Now, many local mills aren’t even in Inc. is a non-profit, volunteer
and evidence may be at these loca-
cue, knows. care for them. Vrany anticipates that operation said Vrany, and it was based humane organization whose tions.”
Vrany is the farm manager and fewer people will be adopting horses cheaper for her to switch to straw mission is fostering compassion
director of programs and emer- while a bad economy can also mean bedding. Yet straw is harder to come and responsibility for horses LEO THOMPSON said that police
gency services at Days End, which an increase in horses needing rescue. by — and consequently more expen- through intervention, education,
takes in abused or abandoned Days End relies largely on private sive — because many farmers want and outreach. To volunteer, make officers told him they were looking
horses, retrains them and offers donations for their $1.3 million an- to grow corn and soy now to sell to a contribution or consider adopt- for his son on suspicion of gang-re-
horses that are suitable for adop- nual budget. producers of alternate fuel. ing a horse in need of a home, see lated activity and stolen property to
tion. These days though there are Rising food and gas costs affect With her farm is already near its www.defhr.org, call 301-854-
fewer and fewer people willing to horse farms in similar ways as they capacity and many more horses on 5037 or email: info@defhr.org.
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This Week in Potomac News
Roger’s Thoughts
Roger Berliner meets with constituents.
ounty Councilman Roger Berliner (D-1, at all [for those without health insurance] because
C Potomac, Chevy Chase, Bethesda) met
with residents at a North Bethesda el
ementary school on Monday, Oct. 13 and
talked with residents about issues in their commu-
nities and in the county at large.
you didn’t have the political will?’ These are some of
the kinds of tradeoffs that have to be made and it’s
not easy.”
On potential health issues and the loss of tranquility
along the Capital Crescent Trail if a proposed future
On the redevelopment of the area around White Flint light rail system is installed:
Photo by Grace Kimm Mall into an area reminiscent of the new downtown “[The public right-of-way for the trail and the light
Habitat for Humanity participated with a float in last Rockville; Berliner called the current retail area of rail] would never have been bought if it was for the
year’s Potomac Day parade. White Flint “A strip mall on steroids”: trail alone. It was envisioned from the beginning that
“The issue of White Flint is the issue of smart [light rail would be installed] and it was never envi-
Potomac Day This Weekend growth … what you’re trying to do is to have a com-
munity that lives and works in the same place. The
sioned otherwise … It would be a different experi-
ence but I would say to you I don’t think it would be
The 27th annual Potomac Day celebration is Saturday, Oct. 18. whole paradigm of how we go about development a bad experience.”
The annual event begins at 8 a.m. with a 5k Fun Run (starts at has changed … and the belief is, if done correctly, it
Potomac Library), and the parade up River Road starts at 10 a.m. will relieve traffic on Rockville Pike.” On Montgomery County being forced to fund traffic
This year’s parade will be led by the Rockville High School Rams’
improvements to accommodate the expansion of the
marching band. On sometimes voting in opposition to the wishes of National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda:
The rest of the afternoon will feature a classic car show, a some of his constituents: “I fundamentally believe this is a Federal responsi-
PetConnect animal adoption booth (including a “Kiss the Puppy” “I take your concerns very seriously. It is my job to bility … and I believe it is their responsibility to miti-
booth), moonbounces, rockclimbing, and other activities. On hand take your concerns very seriously. My job does not gate the impact of this because the County can’t af-
too, as always, will be food from the restaurants of Potomac. The stop there … I have a bigger responsibility that is ford it and the State can’t afford it and it was a Fed-
Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department will participate so fami- not easy, that is weighing the [larger] public inter- eral decision.”
lies can get an up-close look at the men, women and equipment est.”
that battle fires in and around Potomac.
On Councilwoman Valerie Ervin’s (D-5) proposal to
The annual event is sponsored by the Potomac Chamber of Com- On the proposal before the County Council to charge formally support withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq,
merce and is a way of saying thanks to Potomac residents from those transported to hospitals a fee for being trans- Berliner said the county has developed a reputation
the business community, said Adam Greenberg, the Chamber of ported by an ambulance; the fee has been proposed to for not focusing its attention close enough to home:
Commerce president. help bridge a projected $250 million county budget “The answer is no, I won’t support that. I oppose
All proceeds from Potomac Day, including a silent auction, will shortfall for the 2009 fiscal year. this war in my bones … [but] do I think this is the
go to benefit Club Hero, which donates families to African vil- “If I’m a firefighter I’m saying, ‘You want me to right moment in time for Montgomery County to
lages affected by AIDS. take a pay cut and you’re not going to approve an weigh in? No, I don’t.”
ambulance fee that would be paid for by insurance
Churchill Does ‘Rent’ companies [for those with health insurance] or not — Aaron Stern
Winston Churchill High School will be among the first high
schools in the country to be performing the award-winning Broad-
way play “Rent: School Edition” when the curtains go up Oct. 24,
25, 31, and Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gertrude Bish Auditorium.
New ATM To Affect Traffic Flow
A portion of the proceeds from “Rent: School Edition” will go to proposed drive-through ATM in the Potomac directional signs and people do whatever they want.”
pay for the drama club’s trip to Scotland in August.
The Bish Auditorium at Winston Churchill High School is lo-
cated at 11300 Gainsborough Road. Tickets for the show cost $12
A Place shopping center in Potomac Village
would create a new traffic pattern in the busy
parking lot.
To cure that, cars will no longer be able to take
the immediate left when turning into the parking
lot from Falls Road. That lane will be designated for
or $10, depending on seat location, and may be purchased on- PNC Bank officials plan to submit plans to convert one-way traffic leaving the ATM and the parking
line at www.seatyourself.biz/Churchill. The Halloween show will their walk-up ATM in the parking lot — near Falls spaces in that row. In addition to the stop sign at the
also be a benefit show for the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washing- Road beside the brick wall adjacent to Potomac BP turn onto Falls Road, a stop sign will be placed in
ton, D.C., as actors will collect money in buckets — a la Broadway service station — into a drive-through facility. The the parking lot in front of that one-way traffic lane
Cares: Equity Fights AIDS — to benefit the clinic. plans could be submitted to the Montgomery County to allow cars to get out from the ATM.
Planning Board in the next month. If the project The ATM facility itself will serve one car at a time
doesn’t hit any snags, the structure could be built and will have ATM and drive-through banking capa-
Special Education Forum next summer. bilities. A pneumatic tube will be laid down between
The five candidates for the Montgomery County Board of Edu- Aside from PNC Bank customers, the facility will the ATM and the PNC Bank branch next to Sprinkles
cation will hold a public forum on Sunday, Oct. 19 to discuss spe- affect those who visit Potomac Village often enough during construction to accommodate bank deposits.
cial education in the school system. The meeting will be held at to know that getting in and out of the Potomac Place Only three of the parking lot’s 373 parking spaces
the Rock Creek Church, 19100 Muncaster Road in Derwood, Md. parking lot onto Falls Road can sometimes be a pa- will be eliminated, said Rich.
from 4 to 5:30 p.m. tience-trying experience. Cars trying to leave the lot The new structure will help to serve PNC custom-
The forum will feature brief statements from each candidate typically stack up at least three deep, meaning that ers who use the Potomac Promenade PNC branch,
and then open to dialogue between the candidates before they those cars that come in and want to make a quick as that branch will be closed down in the coming
take questions from the floor. The forum will end with each candi- left turn must often wait to do so. In turn that can months, bank officials said.
date giving concluding statement. cause cars to stack up on Falls Road too. The goal of — Aaron Stern
the new traffic pattern from the new ATM is to
PAInT Opening smooth out the kinks of that process, said James Rich
of Zuckerman Gravely Management Company, which
Rotary Club Hosts Event
Potomac Artists IN Touch and CitiBank invite the public to at- controls the Potomac Place shopping center. At the next Rotary Club meeting, Wednesday, Oct.
tend the opening Reception Potomac Days Art Tour at CitiBank, “This intersection gets very gummed up and for 22, two associates from the National Association of
9812 Falls Road in Potomac Promenade Shopping Center on Fri- you people who live here you know that better than Missing & Exploited Children will offer practical
day, Oct, 17, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. I do,” said Rich at a meeting of the West Montgom- steps residents can take to secure their children and
ery County Citizens Association on Wednesday, Oct. loved ones. It begins at 12:15 p.m. at Normandie
1 where he and PNC officials detailed the plans. “I Farm Restaurant 10710 Falls Road. For more infor-
think part of the problem now is that there are no mation, visit http://www.rotaryclubofpotomac.org.
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News
POTOMAC 5K Saturday, October 18th
Country 8:00am (Registration 7:30am)
(Northwest corner River & Falls Roads, Potomac Village)
Inn Plan
Telephone (301) 299-2170
(Potomac Chamber of Commerce)
This race benefits a local charity each year.
Refreshments after the race
Downsized Trophies for top finishers
Long Sleeve Jerseys
$20.00 PRE-REGISTRATION
Proposal for $25.00 on the day of the race
restaurant Make checks payable to:
Potomac Chamber of Commerce
and mail to:
For more information go to:
facility no longer Potomac Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
PO Box 59160
Potomac, MD 20859-9160
www.potomacchamber.org
and click on “Potomac Day”
includes over- Only Direct Registration accepted
night lodging.
The Potomac Chamber of Commerce
By Aaron Stern
The Almanac
P.O. Box 59160
Potomac, MD 20859
he Koh family is back with
T a revised plan for a restau-
rant facility that would
require a zoning change to their October 18th 2008
property near the intersection of
River Road and Lake Potomac
Drive.
“I think this is far more feasible
than what we had before,” said
Potomac Day is Coming!
Francis Koh at an Oct. 1 meeting
of the West Montgomery County
Citizens Association.
Be Sure to Join Us!
A 4,000-square-foot restaurant
facility and a small craft shop are
the focal points of Koh’s newest
STEEPED IN TRADITION
plan. Those had been in the
family’s earlier plans, but gone
now is a proposed banquet hall
facility, as are 12 guestrooms that
the Kohs had originally intended.
That proposal was met with a
largely negative reception by the
Montgomery County Planning
Board last winter, and the board
granted the Koh family deferment
on their plans with the recommen-
dation that they work with the
community and extensively alter
— and scale back — their project.
“COMMUNITY” IS
Residents have been skeptical
about the facility and have ex- OUR MIDDLE NAME! 5K, Parade, Car Show,
pressed concerns that the project
would bring added traffic in the
Kids Festival, etc…
afternoons and noise long into the
night. A July meeting between the
For more information, go to
Kohs and residents was conten- www.PotomacChamber.org
tious, and some residents at that
meeting said they feared such a and click on “Potomac Day”
project in their neighborhood
could adversely affect their prop-
erty values. Too Much
The noise concerns were driven
in part by the now-discarded ban-
quet proposal, but many in the
Fun
audience at the West Montgomery
County Citizens Association meet- To Be Had!
ing remained skeptical.
THE KOH’S PROPERTY is cur-
Sign Up Today!
rently zoned for residential use but The Potomac Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
the family is seeking a change to a
Country Inn zoning category that
For more information, please contact Jennifer Matheson
would permit the proposed uses. pcc@potomacchamber.org
When originally created, the
www.potomacalmanac.com or 301-299-2170
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Johanna Tigges, 5 and Caroline and Kate Schneider, 5 and 3, respectively, enjoy Italian
ice under the Travilah Oak as they listen to the lively bluegrass of Lydia, Emily, and
Claude Martin of Western Maryland.
Gather Round
Travilah Oak Day celebrates
longevity and community.
ost trees in these parts Travilah Oak is one of the oldest
M don’t live to see 300.
Then again, most trees
don’t have birthday parties.
trees in the state, having witnessed
both Union and Confederate sol-
diers pass by and the coming and
But the Travilah Oak is no ordi- going of the town of Travilah. And
nary tree, and on Saturday, Oct. with its good health, it may out- Jaimie Morris, 4, gets a
11 hundreds of residents from live many of those who came out horse ride.
Potomac, North Potomac, to see it on Saturday, said Lara
Darnestown and beyond came out Miller, an arborist for Montgom-
to celebrate the nearly 300-year- ery County.
old tree. At just under 100 feet in height,
“We came last year and it’s a nice the tree is short in comparison to
day to come out,” said Dan others of its age. That’s because
Schrueffer who came with his “when trees can spread out they
wife, Anjali, and their daughter don’t need to grow up,” said Miller.
Alisha, 2. Warm temperatures, Trees this old in developed ar-
bright sun, and lots of family- eas are hard to find, said Miller.
friendly features — food, face “We find them here and there …
painting, Chinese liondancing, but it is rare and they should be
horse rides, hay rides, live blue- celebrated because it’s a sign of
grass music, among others — conservation at its best,” Miller Stephanie Vivina, 10, of
made the day popular for families. said. Darnestown, took home a
Older than the United States, the — Aaron Stern narrow victory in a highly
competitive pumpkin-
decorating contest judged
Photos by
Aaron Stern
by The Almanac and Quince
The Alamanc Orchard High School art
teacher Jeremy Lundquist.
Sam Castillo, 6, pets a miniature horse
that was there for the petting at the Dana Semmes gathers everyone for the
Travilah Oak Festival. cutting of the tree’s birthday cake.
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❖ Bring on the Doggy Police (when
neighbors just can’t seem to get along),
Saturday, Oct. 18; 2-4 p.m.; Wheaton
Community Center, 11711 Georgia Ave.
Maybe, your neighbor complains about
your dog barking. Or your dog chased
the neighbor’s cat - soiled your
neighbor’s lawn - nipped at a child - runs
loose when your kids leave the door
open. Or your dog hasn’t done any of
these things, but is still considered the
neighborhood terror. Learn ways to re-
solve disputes before they escalate. The
speaker, Didi Clement, is a former Ani-
mal Control Officer, and is currently the
director of Humane Society
University.How Dogs Can Help Indi-
viduals with Autism and other
Developmental Disabilities, Saturday,
Oct. 25, 2-4 p.m. at the Wheaton Com-
munity Center, 11711 Georgia Ave.
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Businesses Feel Effects of Slumping Economy
From Page 3 lous,” he said. “It’s not So far Chantraparnik said she has
he said. like I can double the price yet to pass the increase in business
“This government stuff ” that of my pizza.” costs onto her customers, but she
Greenberg refers to is the Federal He did have to increase knows that this holiday season might
government’s response to the collapse prices though, raising the be a little slower than those in years
of Wall Street behemoths and banks, price of each of his piz- passed, even though the average
and as average citizens have watched zas by $1 in January. The Potomac resident
their retirement investments and spike in the cost of doing may not feel the
other savings depreciate, they have business makes those sting of tough eco- “The last
grown more hesitant to spend the things that are constantly nomic times as
money they still have. That increas- on the rise regardless of sharply as the aver- few weeks
ing consumer thriftiness poses a new the economy — rents and age American citi-
threat to small businesses already payrolls, for instance — zen. because of
dealing with that much more painful, “A lot of people in
higher freight Greenberg said. this area might not this
“There are a and product costs
over the last year
“There isn’t anything
that hasn’t gone up in
be affected directly
by the economy but
government
lot of people and more.
Greenberg said
price,” said Murray
Berman, who along with
I think every fam-
ily is concerned,”
stuff,
in Potomac that these days his older brother Fred has Chantraparnik everybody’s
regular custom- owned Hunter’s Inn in said. “I think it’s in
who are ers who used to Potomac for the last six the back of being
come in two to years. Fish and produce everyone’s mind to
reasonably three times a have gone up the most, in be careful with cautious.”
week might just the neighborhood of 15 spending.”
secure in come in once or to 20 percent in the last While many in
—Adam
Greenberg,
their day to twice a week. several months. Potomac might be
Photo by Aaron Stern/The Almanac
Those who might insulated from eco-
Potomac Pizza
day living, but have come in
once a week now
LIKE GREENBERG’S
pizza dough and pizza
nomic fallout, the
conversations that Anna Maria Joyner
we’re all come in once or boxes and Berman’s pro- hears her customers having on their
twice a month. duce and seafood, the cellphones these days have a ten-
worried about But while the cost of entertaining chil- dency to hinge on the economy and
drop in business dren has gone up in re- the economic bailout plan.
this has been more cent months. Jarunee Fortunately for Joyner, the manager
recent, busi- Chantraparnik runs Toys at the Potomac Place county-run wine
meltdown.” nesses have been Unique, a specialty toy and liquor store, her business is fairly
—Murray Berman, feeling the store around the corner static whether times are good or bad,
Hunter’s Inn crunch for more from Potomac Pizza. The and in times like these a county gov-
co-owner than a year now. Kitchen staff at Potomac Pizza serve up dishes cost of purchasing her ernment facing million in budget
“Costs have during a recent lunch rush at the popular Potomac toys has gone up roughly shortfalls can be thankful that it con-
definitely increased over the last year, restaurant. Rising business costs and more frugal five percent, in the last trols and profits from the sale of spir-
the whole industry,” said Greenberg. customers have hurt some local businesses. year, but, worse, freight its to its residents.
That includes everything from the and delivery costs have “People drink when they’re happy
cornerstones of his business — grains of 2007 and March of this year was when jumped more than 10 percent in recent and people drink when they’re down,
and dairy — but also surges in the his costs were highest, as the price of crude months due to rising gas prices. As a result so we can’t lose,” Joyner said.
prices of paper and petroleum-based oil surged internationally. The price of she said that she tries to get discounted Fortunately for the Berman broth-
products, meaning that it’s more ex- Greenberg’s flour jumped 300 percent — freight prices by ordering in higher quanti- ers, their business has actually in-
pensive than ever to stock pizza boxes from $11 per bag to $33. As gas prices have ties, which also means that she orders less creased a little over the last year,
and carryout plastic bags. come back down his costs have lowered to frequently, which in turn presents a prob- something that Murray Berman at-
more reasonable rates. Flour is now some- lem of storage. tributes to having a presence in the
STILL, things right now are actually where between $15 and $18 per bag, “Then it’s hard because this is a small community.
better than they were earlier this year, Greenberg said, but it still hurts. store, we don’t have a lot of space to inven- “We’re a neighborhood place,” he
Greenberg said. Between November “It’s still up 75 percent, that’s still ridicu- tory,” she said. See Economy, Page 19
Police Analyzing Raid in Scotland Neighborhood
From Page 3 tion periodically as he recalled the details fice said that they had been in contact both Starks said that while no formal com-
taling upwards of $20,000, but came away of that morning while speaking at a public with members of the Scotland community and plaints were lodged by residents of the
with only two bandanas from his home on meeting County Councilman Roger Berliner with police, including Chief Thomas Manger. community, the investigation into the
Scotland Drive. At one point police indi- held with constituents to discuss their gen- Starks, a police spokesperson, said that raid was launched nonetheless.
cated they were going to search a shed he eral concerns on Monday, Oct. 13. that there is no set protocol in determining “The bottom line is the police depart-
had built on his property and Thompson Thompson said that police damaged whether or not to use SWAT teams when ment learned of at least some members
said he told them he had a key to the shed. doors, doorframes and furniture, then told serving warrants tied to a burglary. of the community thinking that the po-
Thompson said police responded that they the residents that police were not respon- “There is no normal. It’s hard to define lice acted improperly and, based on that,
had a key of their own and broke the shed sible for repaying for any damage incurred. what normal is. If there is a belief or evi- Chief Manger said we are doing an in-
door with a battering ram. The nature and manner in which police dence that there may be weapons or some ternal investigation” Starks said.
The police officer then turned to Th- conducted themselves indicated a racial sort of violent resistance … then the SWAT Mike Mage, the co-chair of the Mont-
ompson and said, “‘[Expletive], I told you bias, Thompson said. team will serve the warrant.” gomery County American Civil Liberties
we had a key,’” Thompson recalled. Starks did not say what if anything was Union, said that his office was also look-
Thompson’s voice faltered with emo- LEGISLATIVE AIDES from Berliner’s of- recovered. ing into the incident.
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News Is Your Fireplace Ready for Fall?
Smaller Country Inn
From Page 5 remain with the property even if
County Inn Zone was designed to the Koh’s project should not be vi-
grandfather in establishments like able — another oft-expressed
Normandie Farms and the Comus worry from neighbors — many
Inn, small restaurants that were will worry about who and what
established before Montgomery would come to the property next.
County zoning ordinances were The family hopes to present their
first established in 1958 and that revised plan to the Planning •Beautiful efficient Heat
were no longer compatible with Board’s staff to restart the review
the residential areas surrounding process later this year.
them. If approved, the Koh prop- But while the Kohs have scaled
erty would be just the second down their proposal, they have yet
project in the county to obtain the to offer concrete plans about what
Country Inn zoning change for type of restaurant they would run
new construction. or who would run it. Francis Koh
Even with the amount of com-
munity opposition the Kohs face,
reiterated only that it would be an
upscale dining facility. That wasn’t
10%*
the change in zoning is the biggest good enough for Potomac resident
hurdle to getting the approval of Liza Durant, who said she wanted 11/2/08 PA
the project, said Jodie Kline, the to see a more concrete business
family’s attorney. Kline said that plan. “I mean, we don’t want to see
because the zoning change would a Chili’s there,” she said.
School Notes
To have an item listed mail to 7913 Thursday, Oct. 16 at 9 a.m. The
Westpark Drive, McLean VA 22102, e- school is located at 5600 Little Falls
mail to almanac@connection Parkway, Bethesda. Contact the Office
newspapers.com, or fax to 703-917-0991. of Admission at 301-652-7878,
Deadline is Thursday at noon for the fol- admissions@w-e-s.org or visit www.w-
lowing week’s paper. e-s.org.
Washington Episcopal School The Montgomery County Human
invites parents to an open house for Rights Commission and the Office of
a question/answer session and tour See School Notes, Page 12
12266 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
240-221-0078
Located in Federal Plaza
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Calendar
Things To Do Fall Frolic
To have community events listed free in Glen Echo Park’s 4th annual Fall ($1/$2)
The Potomac Almanac, send mail to 7913 Frolic will be held on Saturday, Oct. ❖ Decorate Trick-or-Treat bags, 1
Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102, e- 25. This family event with a festive to 4 p.m. (free)
mail to almanac@connection Halloween theme is open to the pub- ❖ Trick-or-Treating at galleries,
newspapers.com, or fax to 703-917-0991. lic, and visitors of all ages are invited 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (free)
Deadline is Friday at noon for the follow- to the park to explore the arts through ❖ Costume Parade through Park,
ing week’s paper. Photos and artwork hands-on crafts, live performances, 3:30 p.m. (free)
encouraged. Unless otherwise noted, all and Halloween activities. For infor- Open Studios
events are in Potomac. For more informa- mation, call 301-634-2222 or visit And Galleries
tion, call 703-917-6451. www.glenechopark.org. ❖ Art Glass Center at Glen Echo,
noon to 4 p.m.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES ❖ Glen Echo Pottery, noon to 5
THURSDAY/OCT. 16 Children and Families p.m.
Community Pumpkin Patch. The ❖ Discovery Creek’s weekend fam- ❖ Photoworks, “Emily Whiting:
community pumpkin patch is open ily program, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ($5/ Portraits,” 1 to 4 p.m.
from Oct. 11-31 at North Bethesda non-members; free/members and ❖ Popcorn Gallery, “Magnificence
United Methodist Church, 10100 Old children under 2 yrs.) Amidst the Metropolis: Photographs
Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Regular ❖ The Puppet Co. presents “The 3 from Theodore Roosevelt Island,”
hours are Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.- Billy Goats Gruff,” 11:30 a.m. and 1 noon to 6 p.m.; opening reception, 6
8 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-8 p.m. Call
p.m. ($10) p.m. to 9 p.m.
301-530-4342.
Community Harvest Festival. Bring
❖ Hands on Puppets at the Puppet ❖ Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery,
the family for carnival games, snacks, Co. Playhouse, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (free) “Paintings of Tilghman Island,” noon
moon bounce, animals and much ❖ Adventure Theatre presents to 5 p.m.
more at the North Bethesda United “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” 11 Dancing
Methodist Church, 10100 Old a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 4 p.m. ($12/chil- ❖ Swing dance to the big band
Georgetown Road, Bethesda, from dren 12 and under; $15/adults) sounds of Blue Sky 5 + 2 in the
12-4 p.m. Call 301-530-4342. ❖ Pumpkin Painting, 1 to 4 p.m. Spanish Ballroom. Lesson from 8 to
Music in the Mansion. Performer ($1) 9 p.m. followed by dancing until
and scholar Edwin Good performs at ❖ Face Painting, 1 to 3:30 p.m., midnight. ($15)
the Mansion at Strathmore, 10701
Rockville Pike, Bethesda at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25/person; call 301-581- discussions from 3-5 p.m. at the 5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.
2100 or visit www.strathmore.org. Potomac Library, 10101 Glenolden Classical Music. The National
Adidam Talk. Adidam Revelation Drive. Registration not required. Philharmonic Orchestra will perform
Bookstore, 10610 Falls Road, Magic Show. Potomac Library, 10101 works by Mozart and Mendelssohn at
Potomac, presents (on DVD) monthly Glenolden Drive, celebrates Potomac the Music Center at Strathmore,
talks by Avatar Adi Da Samraj and Community Day with a special 10701 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, 8
presentations by his students about performance from the SHAZAM p.m. Tickets: $29/person; call 301-
their relationship with him from Magic troupe at 12:30 p.m. All ages. 581-5100 or visit
7:30-9 p.m., $9. Cal 301-762-1057 or Please register online or by calling www.strathmore.org.
e-mail info@adidamdc.org.10610 240-777-0690. Homecoming Carnival. Join St.
Photo by Mary Kimm/The Almanac Salsa Dance. Enjoy a Salsa Dance with Andrew’s Episcopal School for their
FRIDAY/OCT. 17 a Salsa lesson at the Spanish annual Walkathon and Homecoming
Chuck Brown. 8 p.m., Music Center at
Adam Greenburg atop the Potomac Pizza truck in last
Ballroom in Glen Echo Park from 8-9 Carnival to be held at the Postoak
Strathmore, Concert Hall. Tickets: year’s Potomac Day parade, threw t-shirts and candy to p.m., taught by Keith Givens, Road Campus. Registration begins at
$35. 301-581-5100 or the crowd. Potomac Day, this Saturday, Oct. 18, includes a followed by dancing to live music 9:30 a.m. Visit www.saes.org, or
www.strathmore.org. until midnight. All ages are welcome. contact Brooke Norrett at 301-983-
POSITIVE-ly Fun Rock Concert. A
parade, 5k Run, free children’s rides, car show, and a $15/person. Call 703-599-3300. 5200 x283 or bnorrett@saes.org.
musical show with Kidsinger Jim at business fair. For more information, see Life and Death on the C&O Canal.
the Cabin John Mall Atrium, 11325 http://www.potomacchamber.org/index.php/events. Through various scenes visitors SUNDAY/OCT. 19
Seven Locks Road, Potomac, 9:30 experience the struggle to survive on Family Dance. Spend the afternoon
a.m. fndcontra@yahoo.com. more about the Montgomery Country the C&O Canal during its dancing with your children at the
Middle Eastern Bazaar. Saints Peter Cajun and Zydeco Dance Party. animal complaint process, from 2-4 construction and operation. Bumper Car Pavilion in Glen Echo
and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Held in the Bumper Car Pavilion at p.m. at Wheaton Community Center, Costumed interpreters will present Park from 3-5 p.m. Admission: $5/
Christian Church, 10620 River Road, Glen Echo Park from 8 p.m.-12 a.m. 11711 Georgia Ave. Wheaton. Call the program 11 different times. person. Visit www.fsgw.org.
Potomac, will host its 25th annual with an optional introductory lesson 301-983-5913 or visit Programs begin every 15 minutes Waltz Dance in the Spanish Ballroom
Middle Eastern Bazaar and Food at 8 p.m. $18/person, e-mail www.yourdogsfriend.info. from 6:30-9 p.m. $5/adults, $4/ at Glen Echo Park begins at 2 p.m.
Festival the weekend of Oct. 17–19, dancingbythebayou@verizon.net. Imagination Station Gala. children 4-15. Call 301-767-3714 for with a special Texas 2-step workshop,
11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Friday and Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn reservations. followed by a half-hour introductory
Saturday and 12-6 p.m. Sunday. The SATURDAY/OCT. 18 Ave., Bethesda, will host its 29th Grape Stomp. Sugarloaf Mountain Waltz workshop then 21⁄2 hours of
Bazaar will feature live music, arts Potomac Day. The annual events annual gala, “Understanding Hearts: Vineyard, 18125 Comus Road, social dancing. Admission is $8 per
and crafts, international groceries, include a parade, 5k Run, free Celebrating Teachers and Other Dickerson, is holding its second person. Call 202-238-0230.
religious items, children’s activities children’s rides, car show, and a Heroes.” VIP reception at 6 p.m., annual Grape Stomp with live music, Sunday Blues. Blues dance in the
and more. Visit www.peterpaul.net. business fair. To register or for more silent auction at 6:30 p.m. and an wine tasting, BBQ, tours and more. Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park,
Contra Dance. The Friday Night information, see http:// original musical theatre performance 12-5 p.m.; $10/over 21, free/under from 7-11 p.m. featuring live music.
Dancers presents traditional www.potomacchamber.org/ at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $250/ 21. A 1-1/2 hour dance workshop, taught
American dancing including contra index.php/events. person; contact Barbara Rollins at Beat-Boxing. Dave Baumgartner of by Donna Barker and Mike Marcotte,
dances, square dances, and waltzes Bring on the Doggy Police (when 301-280-1625 or Almost Recess will lead a workshop begins at 7 p.m. No partner required.
at the Spanish Ballroom in Glen Echo neighbors just can’t seem to get brollins@imaginationstage.org. on the vocal acrobatics of beat-box at Admission for the workshop and
Park. Contra dance lesson from 7:30- along). Learn how to reconcile Conversation Club. Join in practicing the Mansion at Strathmore, 10701 dance is $17 (7 – 11 p.m.); or $12
8:15 p.m., dance from 8:30-11:30 neighborhood conflicts that arise and improving your spoken English Rockville Pike, Bethesda, 12-3 p.m. for the dance only (8:30 – 11 p.m.).
p.m. to live music. $9/person. E-mail from dog misbehavior and find out with the help of volunteers leading Tickets: $30/person; call 301-581- Call 301-634-2231.
Bulletin Board
To submit an item for the Civic Cal- topics will include Osteoporosis, and how to develop a strategy for Preschool Fair will be held at the Suite 100, Bethesda, from 10-11
endar, e-mail almanac@connec- Treatment, and Prevention. Cost: your successful participation in the Potomac Community Center from 10 a.m. with other people who have
tionnewspapers.com or fax the submis- $5.00/person. Call Alexa Kempel at process. 9-11:30 a.m., Montgomery a.m. – 12 p.m. Admission is free and been affected by cancer. Learn
sion to 703-917-0991. Deadline is 240-678-4561 or visit County Executive Office Building, children are welcome. Call Colleen about free programs for people
Thursday at noon two weeks prior to www.PotomacNewcomers.com. 101 Monroe St., Rockville. Greer at 301-299-9884 or e-mail with cancer and their loved ones.
the event. For questions, call 703-917- (momspotomac@gmail.com). Call 301-493-5002 or e-mail
SATURDAY/OCT. 18 THURSDAY/OCT. 23 twcdc@thewellnesscommunity.org
6451. THURSDAY/OCT. 30
Cancer Recovery Workshop. Exercise Class. Join Kym Sevilla as
THURSDAY/OCT. 16 Women can explore their relationship she leads people affected by cancer in Exercise Class. Join Kym Sevilla as .
WEDNESDAY/NOV 19
Exercise Class. Join Kym Sevilla as with their bodies after cancer discussion and exercises that will she leads people affected by cancer in On Parenting. Dr. Edward M.
she leads people affected by treatment by translating the enhance awareness of posture and discussion and exercises that will Hallowell, psychiatrist and best-
cancer in discussion and exercises challenges of an illness into its alignment at The Wellness enhance awareness of posture and selling author of 14 parenting
that will enhance awareness of potential for healing at The Wellness Community, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, alignment at The Wellness books, will speak on how
posture and alignment at The Community, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 100, Bethesda. 10-11 a.m.; Community, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, parenting can lead to raising
Wellness Community, 5430 Suite 100, Bethesda, from 10 a.m.- free. Call 301-493-5002 o e-mail Suite 100, Bethesda. 10-11 a.m.; children who are happy, connected
Grosvenor Lane, Suite 100, 2:30 p.m. Call 301-493-5002 or e- twcdc@thewellnesscommunity.org. free. Call 301-493-5002 o e-mail and responsible. The Bullis School
Bethesda. 10-11 a.m.; free. Call mail twcdc@thewellnesscommunity.org. Blair Family Center for the Arts,
twcdc@thewellnesscommunity.org FRIDAY/OCT. 24 Howard Auditorium, 7:30-9:30
301-493-5002 o e-mail FRIDAY/OCT. 31
twcdc@thewellnesscommunity.org. for reservations. Preschool Fair. Learn about local p.m. Pre-registration required by
The Potomac Area Newcomers Civic Federation Seminar. Learn preschools at the 11th Annual Halloween Celebration. Enjoy tea calling the Parent Encouragement
Club will hold a pot luck more about the procedures and law Preschool Fair sponsored by the and treats at The Wellness Program, 301-929-8824. Tickets
luncheon at 12 p.m. Discussion involved in the land rezoning process MOMS Club of Potomac. The Community, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, are $25/person, $45/couple.
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Theater
Potomac
Since 1953
Potomac’s Gift
and Saddlery
Photo by Scott Suchman
parent/ preschool/
Huckle Cat (Matthew A. child kindergarten
Anderson) tells his best classes gymnastic
friend, Lowly Worm, about grade sports
school skills
plans for his very big day in
Busytown, in the current
production by Imagination
gymnastics
karate
development
dance
Webkinz Fans
Stage. Celebrate October 18
Only
Imagination Stage’s performances of
“Busytown,” suitable for all ages, runs
cheerleading camp
Potomac Day
parents’
through Nov. 2, playing on Saturdays bithday
and Sundays at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. in parties
survival
night
At The Surrey
the Annette M. and Theordore N. Lerner They always leave a little taller. Buy Two Webkinz
Family Theatre. For Oct. 25, the show
will play at 10:30 a.m. Single tickets The lessons your child learns at Get One Lil’kinz Free
range from $10-$21. Shows run roughly
90 minutes, with one intermission. Res- The Little Gym will fill you both with pride: Mon. Fri. 9:30-7:00 pm
ervations are recommended. Call the How to reach higher. How to listen better. Call to schedule a free
10107 River Road
box office at 301-280-1660 or visit introductory class. Thurs. 9:30-8:00 pm
How to tackle challenges with confidence Potomac, MD.
www.ImaginationStage.org. Imagina- POTOMAC: Potomac Woods Plaza • Sat. 9:30-6:00 pm
tion Stage is located 4908 Auburn and a smile. tigpotomacmd.com • 301-294-4840 301-299-8225
Avenue, Bethesda and is handicapped Sun. 12:00-5:00 pm
accessible.
“A Year with Frog and Toad”
runs Oct. 15-17, at 8 p.m., Oct. 18, at
1 and 8 p.m., and Oct. 19, at 2 p.m. 25th ANNUAL FALL
This musical follows the adventures of
two amphibious friends, a worrywart
toad and a perky frog. Due to the reno-
vation of the Performing Arts Center,
this show will be performed in the The-
atre Arts Building.
Wootton High School Center for the
Arts will present Tim Kelly’s “Horror
High!” a send-up of teen slasher flicks.
Show times are: Thursday, Oct. 23,
Friday, Oct. 24 and Saturday, Oct. 25
at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students,
$10 for adults (general admission only)
and can be purchased at the Wootton
Box Office Monday, Oct. 20 through October 17, 18, 19, 2008
Wednesday, Oct. 22 from 3-6 p.m. and
two hours before show times on perfor-
mance days. Ticket forms are available
online at: http://
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/
schools/woottonhs/academics/art/
HorrorHighOrderForm.pdf
Winston Churchill High School will
perform the award-winning Broadway
play “Rent: School Edition” when
the curtains go up Oct. 24, 25, 31, and
Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gertrude
Bish Auditorium. The next major event
planned is five performances of Walt
Disney’s classic, “Beauty and the
Beast,” set for Dec. 5, 6, 7, 12, and
13. The Bish Auditorium at Winston
Churchill High School is located at
11300 Gainsborough Road. Tickets for
the show cost $12 or $10, depending on
seat location, and may be purchased on-
line at www.seatyourself.biz/Churchill
6/30/09
“Miss Nelson is Missing!,” a
musical-comedy, will be running at the
Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn FRI: 11 AM-9 PM
Ave., Bethesda, Nov. 22-Jan. 4 at SAT: 11 AM-9 PM
12:30 and 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays and • SUN: NOON-6 PM
Sundays. Recommended for ages 4 and
up. Call the box office at 301-280-1660
or visit www.ImaginationStage.org.
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Born and raised in the suburbs
of Massachusetts, her selfless na-
ture was on display from an early
age when, as a teenager, Kreider,
a Protestant, used to walk the Carole Compton Kreider
Catholic children in her neighbor-
hood to church. Cold Spring Elementary School,
“When her mother found out she Cedar Lane Unitarian Church,
was horrified,” said Montgomery among other local organizations,
with a laugh. and when the time came she was
Kreider graduated from a devoted and doting grand-
Simmons College with a bachelor mother.
of science degree in Boston and Kreider is survived by her hus-
shortly thereafter married Army band Kenneth Kreider, her chil-
Captain Kenneth Kreider. The two dren Cindy Kreider Montgomery,
started their family and in 1972 Kenneth Brett Kreider, Christopher
moved to Potomac when Kenneth Lee Kreider, her brother Robert
Kreider went to work for the Na- Compton, her stepsister Marilyn
tional Bureau of Standards, now D’Angelo, stepbrother Bruce
the National Institute of Standards Compton, and six grandchildren.
and Technology. Once their three Kreider, who was voted the Class
children went off to school, Carole Wit at Westwood High School in
Kreider rejoined the workforce Westwood Mass., Class of 1956,
with the Montgomery County will always be remembered as
Court Team, where she reviewed someone people loved to be
the mental evaluations of prospec- around, Montgomery said.
tive prisoners. She found herself “Everybody wanted to be near
drawn to the work and in 1985 her just to have fun,” Montgom-
graduated from Bowie State Uni- ery said. “It was just fun to be
versity with a master’s degree in around her. She had charisma that
counseling psychology. Kreider drew people to her.”
then went to work for Affiliated Kreider will be buried at Arling-
Community Counselors in ton National Cemetery, Nov. 13 at
Rockville, a non-profit group that 2 p.m.
offers counseling to poor and un- Donations in lieu of flowers
derprivileged residents. She could be directed to Cedar Lane
worked there as a counselor from Unitarian Church (cedarlane.org),
1985 to 1996, and from 1990 to 9201 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, MD
1996 she served as the 20814, HOPE worldwide
organization’s intake coordinator (hopeww.org), 353 West Lancaster
and administrative director. Ave., Suite 200, Wayne, PA 19087
“She never thought about the or Center for Celiac Research
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pose,” said Montgomery. “She was King, Director of Operations, Cen-
trying to help people. She wanted ter for Celiac Research, University
to serve the community.” of Maryland, 20 Penn St., S303B,
Kreider was also very active with Baltimore, MD 21201.
School Notes
From Page 9 rules and criteria are available at
Human Rights are sponsoring an es- www.montgomery countymd.gov/con-
say contest for all Montgomery tent/humanrights.
County middle school students.
The theme of this year’s contest is “What The Holton-Arms School will host
Does Justice and Dignity for All Mean to its fall open house on Sunday, Nov. 16,
You?” Essays should address how they from 2 - 5 p.m. Registration is at 2 p.m.,
would combat problems of human rights followed by a welcome from the Head of
injustices and discrimination. There will School Susanna Jones at 2:15 p.m. The
be first, second and third place winners Open House is free and open to the pub-
named in each grade (sixth, seventh and lic. For more information call
eighth grades). The deadline for sub- 301-365-5300 or go to www.holton-
mitting an entry is Oct. 24. Contest arms.edu.
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Whitman junior forward Kat Barth following a free kick in the first half of Whitman’s 4-
2 loss to Walter Johnson.
Just Out of Reach
Previously undefeated, vision heading into the game. The win clinches
the division for Walter Johnson since it now
Whitman loses division holds the tiebreaker over Whitman.
In the Vikings’ two previous games, a 3-2
title to Walter Johnson. double overtime win over Northwest and a 2-
1 win against Wootton last week, Whitman
jumped out to a 2-0 lead only to relax after
By Mark Giannotto
halftime and barely hang on
The Almanac
for the win.
hitman girl’s soccer team watched a
The storyline was the same
Saturday — except for the re-
“I don’t
W first half lead and a division title dis
appear in 4-2 loss to Walter Johnson
last Saturday.
The Vikings and Wildcats had been deadlocked
with identical perfect records within the 4A West Di-
sult.
THE VIKINGS JUMPED out
to an early lead after junior
Emma Bethel scored a little
know what
it is at
halftime
over a minute into the game
and senior Retha Koefoed but we
headed in a second goal five
minutes later off a corner kick have to do
from senior Meghan Doherty.
“The girls did the job them-
something,
selves motivating themselves
before the game,” coach Greg
maybe a
Herbert said. “They knew better
what was at stake with a divi-
halftime
Photos by Harvey Levine/The Almanac
sion championship, and they
were really, really excited.”
But the Vikings couldn’t speech.”
keep with up Walter Johnson’s — Whitman
forward, Caroline Miller. The coach Greg
senior made plays for the
Wildcats in the second half,
Herbert
scoring three goals and assist-
ing on her team’s fourth.
Once Miller got going, the Vikings had no
answer.
“She got loose a couple of times,” Herbert
said. “Our game plan was to play solidly all
over the field and we did it in the first half. In
Whitman freshman Emily Yin races for
the second half … we just had a couple of mis-
a loose ball in the second half of
cues and that let them get back in the game.
Saturday’s game. See 4-2 Loss, Page 15
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Sports
4-2 Loss
From Page 14
We gave them a lot of momen-
tum and that changed the com-
plexion of the game.”
IN THE FIRST HALF, the Viking
squad maintained possession
throughout the majority of the
half, connected on crisp passes,
and generated plenty of quality
scoring chances.
The Viking team in the second
half was constantly on its heels
thanks to the onslaught delivered
courtesy of Miller, an All-Met per-
former the past two seasons.
Afterwards, amidst some forlorn
faces, Herbert emphasized that his
team move past the lost division
title, and to instead focus on rep-
licating the first half, all game
long, next time.
“I don’t know what it is at half-
time but we have to do something,
maybe a better halftime speech,”
Herbert joked.
The Vikings get a shot at re-
demption this Wednesday, Oct. 15,
after the Almanac’s presstime,
against B-CC. They close out the
regular season in a non-league
game against Holton Arms on Oct.
22.
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Sports
Photos Courtesy of Aida Middel
Sophomore Sophomore
Bertan Unal Harris
at Provi- Middel
dence playing
College. lacrosse for
Vermont
Competing
Against Cancer
Former Churchill lacrosse team-
mates, Harris Middel and Bertan
Unal, faced off against one another
this weekend when Middel’s Uni-
versity of Vermont lacrosse squad
played Unal’s Providence College
team this past weekend in the
Catamount Classic in Massachu-
setts.
As part of the Catamount Clas-
sic, Middel and Unal, both sopho-
mores in college now, were play-
ing to raise funds for Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute’s testicular cancer
research at the University of Ver-
mont.
Lacrosse teams from Dartmouth,
Brown, Massachusetts, and Bryant
also participated in the event. Any-
one interested in making a dona-
tion should contact:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute;
Division of Development & The
Jimmy Fund; 10 Brookline Place
West, 6th Floor; Brookline, Mass.
02445-7226 or call 617-632-3019.
Football Roundup
The Churchill Bulldogs football
team earned a landmark victory last
Friday night, Oct. 10, 2008 defeating
Northwest, 49-27, to improve its
record to 5-1 on the season. The win
was Churchill’s third straight and
puts the Bulldogs in position to earn
their first playoff berth since 2004.
Senior wide receiver Danny
Holzman led the charge for
Churchill, catching six passes for
more than 170 yards and two touch-
downs, including a 64-yard grab on
the game’s first play from scrim-
mage. The Bulldogs scored on their
first four possessions to take a 28-13
lead into halftime. Churchill faces
Magruder this Friday before travel-
ing to play local rival Whitman on
Oct. 24.
The Wootton Patriots football
team was dominant in a 20-0 shut-
out of Rockville last Friday night,
Oct. 10. The win upped the Patriots
record to 4-2 this season and keeps
them on pace for a playoff bid at the
end of the year.
Once again leading the way for
Wootton was quarterback Mike
Mooney, who was 21-of-31 for 255
yards. Twelve of his completions
went to wideout Stephane
N’goumou, who finished with 112
yards receiving.
The Patriots move on to face Blair
at home this Friday.
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Practice Makes Perfect
Area tennis teams excelling
thanks to practice schedules
that leave little time to spare.
By Mark Giannotto are going to help me get
The Almanac into college and it helps
my ranking,” said Macy
or many of her Whitman after she walked off the
F counterparts on other sports court following another
teams this fall, the day ends victory over Damascus
once practice is complete last Friday. Macy has lost
following a long day of school. only three times in high
But for sophomore Sarah Macy the school play this season.
No. 1 singles player on the Vikings Macy’s coach at
girl’s tennis team, the moment her Whitman, Julie Frank,
high school practice ends really means understands the de-
she’s just in the middle of her gruel- mands placed on many
ing daily routine. On top of practic- of her players. More
ing for two hours every day with her than half her team com- Photos by Mark Giannotto/The Almanac
Whitman teammates, Macy attends petes in these weekend Churchill’s Lauren Pinsky practices her serves during warm ups before last Friday’s
another two-hour training session tournaments, and al- match against Rockville.
with her private coach twice a week most all of them practice
that is often more demanding than the with private coaches as well. side of high school practice. With players BOTH THE BULLDOGS and Vi-
practice she just completed. For this reason, she tries to keep things working on their skills with other profes- kings are eyeing a rematch when the
It’s easy to underestimate the time low key on her Viking squad. After winning sionals, Woods tries to help out his players’ playoffs start in two weeks. Whitman
last Friday on senior day against games in other ways. defeated Churchill, 4-3, in hotly con-
Damascus to go to 12-0 on the “We work a lot on the mental game, try- tested match in the regular season.
“So maybe they give up season, it appears as if Frank’s ap- ing to stay focused on their objective and For the Vikings, this season has
proach is working.
lounging in front of the TV, but that’s where I really try to make an impact been a reward following a few sea-
“It puts them in a team setting,” for them,” said Woods. sons of rebuilding. Three years ago,
it’s building their character Frank said. “I find for some of the Added Churchill sophomore Ashley Lin: Whitman finished in the bottom of
girls who do play very intensively “Coach Woods motivates us, but we also Divison I in Mont-
when you look at the time in the USTA tournaments, where motivate ourselves.”
there is so
gomery County,
management skills involved.” much pres-
forcing the team
to move down to
“It’s been
— Ben Woods, Churchill girl’s tennis coach sure on
them as an
Divison II.
After winning
kind of
individual,
management skills needed as part of it’s a nice outlet for
the weaker divi- hectic, but
sion in 2006,
being considered a top player in this them to be able to Whitman moved I’m used to it
area. The heavy load of tennis creates play the sport that back into Division
a delicate balancing act for players they love as a part of I and finished because I’ve
and coaches. a team and repre- third a year ago.
For instance, Macy says she tries to senting their school.” Some of the been playing
finish all her homework for the week Other coaches, like
over the course of two days (Tuesdays Churchill’s Ben
credit for the
steady rise has
tennis for a
and Thursdays) when she only has one Woods, think the in-
practice. tensity created by
been the play of
relative newcom-
long time.”
“It’s been kind of hectic, but I’m used playing for school ers to the high — Whitman
to it because I’ve been playing tennis pride can sometimes school scene like sophomore
for a long time,” said Macy, who create more pressure Macy and No. 2 Sarah Macy
started playing tennis every day as a than the tournament singles player,
12-year-old. circuit. He said in freshman Nicky
team competition, Gottret. Both practice and play out-
THE EXTRA PRACTICE is necessary players don’t have side of Whitman as well.
because of the various tournaments the luxury of getting The Bulldogs lean on the play of No.
most top high school players partici- another match in a 1 singles star, sophomore Lauren
pate in during the weekends. The consolation round Pinsky, whose two older brothers won
United States Tennis Association like they would in a state titles for Churchill. Pinsky is an-
(USTA) sponsors events every week- tournament. other area player who attends her
end throughout the east Players on school’s practice only to head straight
coast, and how players fare at them Churchill’s team this to another practice for two more
determine their rankings within the season, whose lone hours of work.
region. loss this year came to “So maybe they give up lounging
Those rankings are then used by Whitman two weeks ,”
in front of the TV said Pinsky’s high
college coaches in helping to decipher ago, said about 75 school coach, Woods. “But it’s build-
who to recruit. percent of their Whitman sophomore Sarah Macy says she tries to do ing their character when you look at
“They’re more important than high teammates attend a week’s worth of homework in two days in order to the time management skills in-
school tennis right now because they training sessions out- manage her tennis-heavy schedule. volved.”
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living, but we’re all worried about this melt-
down,” Berman said. “I don’t know what’s
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As they finished lunch at Bezu on Friday,
Oct. 3, customers Carole Herman and Janice
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in some everyday ways.
“I’m definitely not driving as much as I
used to because I drive an SUV,” said
Mueller.
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said Herman.
But the opportunity to engage in what
they called “social venting” over lunch?
Some things are hard to give up.
“You’ve got to have some joys in life,” said
Herman.
Upbeat attitudes like that — combined
with diligence and even-keeled persever-
ance — will help to see businesses and con-
21 Announcements 21 Announcements 21 Announcements sumers alike through these dark times,
Chantraparnik said. “The economy comes
and goes. We have to survive — with a
smile,” she said.
Fine Arts
An exhibition of works by artists who have
joined Glen Echo Park’s resident arts community
over the past year will be on display through Oct.
19 in the Popcorn Gallery in Glen Echo Park,
Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 p.m. Free. Call 301-
634-2222 or visit www.glenechopark.org.
Bring photos to a morning critique led by a
faculty member at the Photoworks Studio in
Glen Echo Park on Oct. 19 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
and enjoy coffee and bagels. Call 301-229-7930 or
visit glenechophotoworks.org.
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