August 2012

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Vol. 8, No. 8
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August 2012
Centerville Students Prepare
for Oakdale Transition
By Teresa Bell-Stockman
T
his fall, as part of the redistricting required by the
Oakdale High School feeder pattern, Oakdale Elementary
School will welcome a number
of new students who previously
attended Centerville Elementary
School.
Frederick County Public
School children are no strangers
to overcrowded classrooms, por-
tables and continued ballooning
enrollment. New school openings, renovations and additions
are a part of life here.
The opening of the newest
high school in Frederick County
— Oakdale High School (OHS)
— in 2010 had far-reaching effects as redistricting impacted not
only students at Linganore and
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Redistricting Continued on page 7
Photo | Tracey McCabe
Urbana Carnival Fares through Rain
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All but two evenings of this year’s Annual Urbana Carnival held July 16 - 21, were interrupted by inclement weather, said Doug Smith, former president of the Urbana Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department —
the worst weather ever for the carnival. In spite of the gloomy weather, funds were still raised for the Fire
and Rescue Department, and locals enjoyed the 24 rides, tasty food and band performances. See page 6
for more photos and information from this year’s event. ­— By Bethany E. Starin
Welcome to a Family Meal
By Bethany E. Starin
W
hen Frederick native
and “Top Chef ” finalist Bryan Voltaggio
crafts his epicurean delights, he
can’t help but be reminded of his
young family. On his left forearm,
the name of his son, Thatcher, is
tattooed in scrolling text, and his
right arm reads Piper, his daughter’s name.
Family is a significant priority
to him, Voltaggio said, and that’s
impacted his decision to open
a family-oriented restaurant in
Frederick with his business partner, Hilda Staples. In keeping
with this theme, the new eatery
was dubbed Family Meal and officially opened July 7.
Voltaggio said that, growing
up, mealtime was a vital time
to his family, and it’s a ritual he
Photo| Bethany E. Starin
Construction of the new edition to Oakdale Elementary School (OES) was still underway in
mid-July in preparation for the first day of school Aug. 27. The completion of the addition allows
for the final phase of redistricting that started with the opening of Oakdale High School. About
80 students in the Holly Hills/Mussetter Road areas of Ijamsville will transfer from Centerville
Elementary School in the Villages of Urbana to OES this fall.
Local Teachers Keep
Busy in the Summer
By Kristy Crawford
A
Photo| Bethany E. Starin
Family Meal offers a diner classic with a twist
-- a hamburger topped with avocado, bacon,
cheddar and a fried egg.
wants to encourage.
“I believe in that tradition so
much,” Voltaggio said. “Life has
changed. It’s a lot faster, kids are
involved in many activities, so it
is tough for people to get together. … Obviously it is a little easier
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family meal Continued on page 8
s always, summer flies
by, and it’s almost time
to get ready for the new
school year. Frederick County
schools start classes on Aug. 27.
Students will have a lot to tell
their classmates — about vacations, camps and other fun activities during their time off.
Students aren’t the only ones
enjoying a much-needed break
from school this summer. FCPS
teachers, who return to school
on Aug. 21, have also kept busy
during their time off. Some
work in other jobs, teach summer classes, some attend school
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TEACHERs’ SUMMERS
Continued on page 15
Photo | Submitted
Urbana Middle School teacher Jonathan
Kurtz and his wife, Rachel, enjoy their
summer break with a missions trip
to Ecuador.
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Urbana Resident Helps Veteran Families Bond aroundTOWN
By Sally Alt
U
rbana resident Gary Hefner
wants to help veterans take
time for family through the
National Warrior Foundation. Hefner
founded the nonprofit organization
with the goal of allowing every sol-
dier returning from Afghanistan and
Iraq to take vacation and spend quality time with their families — at no
cost. According to Hefner, veterans
can build a stronger relationship with
their families by taking vacations
together.
Photo | Gary Hefner
The National Warrior Foundation organized a community service project for retired Marine Sergeant Adam
Kisielewski (on the right side of the door).
Based in Urbana, the National
Warrior Foundation will serve veterans in Frederick, Montgomery and
Carroll counties. The foundation,
which is in the process of obtaining
501C tax-exempt status, will work in
partnership with other organizations,
including Operation Second Chance,
to help veterans readjust to everyday
life. Hefner also would like to build
a golf course resort to bring in more
revenue to enable veterans to take a
family vacation.
His motivation is simple: “I really
like to give back to people,” he said.
Hefner, who has worked for 22
years in the home building business,
said he would also like to help veterans by renovating the homes of
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HELPING VETERANS
Continued on page 10
Local Designer Gives Urbana Homes Custom Flair
Compiled By Bethany E. Starin
Photo | Submitted
Urbana kids celebrate July Fourth with a bike parade, led by an Urbana
Volunteer fire truck.
Local Kids Celebrate Fourth
On the Fourth of July in Urbana, neighborhood
celebrations included the kids of Notting Hill and
Wyndham Drive in Urbana celebrating with a bike
parade. The Urbana Volunteer fire truck and firefighter Michael led the way.
By Bethany E. Starin
I
f you walk into interior designer
Meredith Ericksen’s home, you
may notice the architectural details of the rooms, the interesting
light fixtures and a vignette above her
piano — a personal collection she decided not to hide away in a box.
The vignette includes silhouettes of
her three daughters from when they
were young, a wreath, a silver baby
rattle that was Ericksen’s when she
was young, and a little cubby-holed
box that she painted and decoupaged
and which displays teacups from her
collection.
“I like to create vignettes and encourage people to hang their collections up — to put things that they love
up ... instead of hiding things away in
a box,” said Ericksen, a Frederick resin
INTERIOR DESIGN Continued on page 11
Photo | Submitted
Jeong’s Urbana Taekwondo’s demonstration at the Urbana Music Festival
included performances by each student, demonstrating something they
had learned in class.
Jeong’s Urbana Taekwondo Demonstration
Photo | Tracey McCabe
Designer Meredith Ericksen sits in the kitchen in the Urbana home of Ian and Jennifer Morrison. Ericksen
gave custom design to the space, including the light fixture and built-in bookshelf in the island.
Kids Become Chefs at the Kitchen Studio Cooking School
By Sally Alt
D
o your kids dream of becoming
a chef? At the Kitchen Studio
Cooking School in Frederick,
they can learn to make a wide range
of delicious dishes from country
French chicken to peach gelato.
Located in Frederick, the school offers small classes and cooking camps
for children ages 6 to 17, as well as
birthday parties for kids as young as
kindergarten age to 16 years.
The school allows kids to “do
things that they may not get to do at
home,” said Carolyn McAllister, who
has taught cooking classes since the
school opened seven years ago.
McAllister said that in her class,
“We primarily focus on good cooking skills.” She teaches kids how to
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KID CHEFS Continued on page 10
At the Urbana Music Festival on June 23, Jeong’s
Urbana Taekwondo held a demonstration. The
Hawk’s Demo Team performed breaking boards,
kicking, nun chucks, bo-staff, self defense, gun self
defense and a 360 tornado kick. Each student demonstrated something they learned in their class or the
Demo Team class. According to staff at Jeong’s Urbana
Taekwondo, the demonstration was intense and full of
surprises. When the boards broke, they flew high in
the air and clattered down to the floor.
The highlight of the demonstration was when
Master Jeong performed a demonstration himself.
The demonstration included an apple, a knife and a
360 tornado kick. Why an apple? One of the adults
stood on a bench with the knife. Amid gasps and
whispering, the adult put the apple on the knife and
Master Jeong stood getting ready to do the 360 tornado kick. As Master Jeong’s foot hit the apple, the
apple exploded, with parts flying high into the air and
people clapping dramatically.
Jeong’s Urbana Taekwondo offers Taekwondo
(Korean martial arts), Kumdo (Korean swords) and
Yoga and is located beside Capital One Bank in
Urbana. For more information on Jeong’s Urbana
Taekwondo or the Hawk’s Demo Team, call
301.874.4706 or email jeongstkd@gmail.com.
Zip Line Challenge
More than 40 women ranging from teens to those
in their 80s stepped out of their comfort zone and
Photo| Sally Alt
Chef Caroline McAllister teaches a cooking class at the Kitchen Studio Cooking School in Frederick.
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out & about Continued on page 12
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All Volted Up
S
oon after I moved
to Frederick, I was
talking with a local business owner who
said to me, “We always
joke that there is nothing
to do in Frederick — but
to eat.”
We both laughed, but
I have frequently thought By Bethany
E. Starin
about his statement —
and tend to agree. There
are lots of other niches Frederick fills —
I love the lake at Baker Park, revamping
pieces of furniture I find at Carroll Creek
Antiques, and visiting the Weinberg for
concerts — but excellent, locally made
food is definitely downtown Frederick’s
main draw. This summer, my husband and
I have enjoyed grabbing Saturday-morning
breakfasts downtown and taking it to eat
outside, or dining a la fresco at dinnertime
at the new places popping up along the
Carroll Creek Promenade.
So if all we do in Frederick is eat, at least
we do that well, right? Take Volt for example. Frederick County drew “Top Chef ’s”
Bryan Voltaggio back to his hometown to
establish his flagship restaurant in downtown Frederick. While I’ve never grabbed
a table at Volt for dinner, my husband and
I did discover that you can get dessert in
the Volt lounge without reservation. From
your seat on the modern leather couches,
you have a view of the kitchen — a live
feed onto a flatscreen TV hanging above
the bar. The screen shows Voltaggio and
other kitchen staff crafting gorgeous foods,
including what we have often talked about
since — Textures of Chocolate.
Since biting into that incredible dessert,
I decided I wanted to try to get an interview with Voltaggio for a future article. A
few months later, I found myself sitting in
Volt’s meeting room — long table, modern
chairs, trendy lighting — and Voltaggio
walked through the glass doors, wiping his
hands on his apron. Even though I tell myself it’s just another interview, I can always
feel myself getting nervous, but there’s really no need — Voltaggio is unpretentious,
humorous and easy to keep a conversation
with. He even throws in funny anecdotes
about his family.
This month was no different. I got to
speak to Voltaggio again, this time about
his newest restaurant, Family Meal, which
officially opened on East Street July 7.
During our conversation, he was laughing
and discussing the incredible amount of
fried chicken Family Meal dishes up.
“The idea of the fried chicken was something that could shared at the table,” he
said, adding that he thought people may
share the basket of chicken around the table and order other dishes as well. “People
sit down [at Family Meal], and four people
order four orders of chicken! People have
been really excited about it.”
I favored the burger, topped with cheddar, bacon, avocado spread and a fried egg
— it was delicious and tasty when paired
with the duck-fat fries that are served up
in a tin bucket. Family Meal has a modern
diner feel to it, but is fused with homey details: orange flowers in jars on the table and
waitresses wearing brightly colored aprons.
For more details on Family Meal, see the
front page.
Speaking of homey touches, as a
Christmas gift, I purchased a copy of
“VOLT ink.,” a cookbook Voltaggio
wrote with his brother, Michael. I thought
that before gifting it I would try to create
Textures of Chocolate in my own kitchen and flipped to the recipe — only to shy
away seeing the more than 25 ingredients
and pages of instructions. Instead of ruining the memory, I will treasure reminiscing on the bites of Textures of Chocolate
and sips of strong French-press coffee —
or I may find myself in that lounge again
very soon.
I would love to hear your opinion about
the greatest draws Frederick has for you
and your family and get your comments
on Voltaggio’s newest eatery or other local restaurants you revisit. Or if there’s a
timely issue you think is not addressed in
these pages that’s relevant to our Urbanaarea readers, I would love to hear from
you. Contact me at 240.409.6734 or jot me
a note anytime at bethany@towncourier.
com.
Photo | Bethany E. Starin
Textures of Chocolate, from Bryan Voltaggio’s Volt in downtown Frederick, incorporates chocolate caramel, milk chocolate
gelato, raw organic cocoa and other ingredients into a multi-experience dessert.
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Local Business Brings Out Women’s Inner Bombshell shoptalk
By Kristy Crawford
Compiled By Kristy Crawford
A
new photography studio opened
in the Villages of Urbana this year,
and it wants to help women discover
their feminine side.
Capitol Bombshell opened in January
in the basement studio of owner Luigi
Crespo. Crespo said his mission is to help
women feel beautiful on the inside as well
as the outside.
“After all, beauty is an inside job!”
Crespo said. “We are not your typical mall
photo studio. We give women an empowering experience and a chance to bring out
their inner bombshell.”
Focusing on the retro styles and glamour of the 1940s to 1950s era, Capitol
Bombshell offers a full-day experience,
where clients enter a “star” dressing room,
complete with their name on the door and
filled with a large assortment of outfits and
shoes. Outfits range from fun to sexy and
also feature several women’s vintage military outfits. Stylist Jennifer Butt helps them
choose from various themes, props and
outfits, based on their interests and personality — or dream image — and then completes the look with hair and makeup.
A two- to three-hour photo shoot follows, in which customers are free to express their true personality or create new
personas, from fun and playful to more risqué pin-up styles.
“My clientele has included neighborhood working moms — inside or outside
of the home — and professional or aspir-
New Program Provides
Assistance to Local Businesses
Photo | Courtesy of Capitol Bombshell
Stylist Jennifer Butt helps celebrity model, Go-Go-Amy, prepare for her “How to Be a Pinup Girl” workshop on July 22,
at the Capitol Bombshell photography studio in Urbana. Studio owner Luigi Crespo and Butt helped 14 women with the
makeover and photography session.
ing models working on their portfolios,”
Crespo said.
Crespo then posts photographs on a secure website for customers to see and
choose their favorites. Within a week, he
said, they are sent an album of their favorite portraits.
“The whole experience is fun and helps
a woman feel feminine, beautiful and more
confident.”
Crespo was an event planner for more
than 14 years and was unhappy with some
of the photographers he hired for the many
events he organized.
“One day, it all clicked,” Crespo said,
Compassion and a Wedding Gown
By Madelyne Xiao
F
or Terry Warfield, manager of
TLC Bridal Boutique in downtown Frederick, the Brides Across
America program was a means of reaching out to others who had experienced
the deployment of a family member into
the armed forces.
The program, now nearing its fifth
year in operation, opens boutique doors
to military brides seeking a free dress for
their wedding. On July 10, Warfield of-
fered 25 program participants a large selection of wedding gowns from her own
inventory. It was Warfield’s first year as a
participating boutique manager.
“I’d like to do it again,” she said.
Warfield empathized with the military
couples, where either the bride or groom
was an active-duty service member.
“My son-in-law is active duty military, and he’d been deployed twice,” said
Warfield. “We knew that he was fairly
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Photo| Shaun Campbell
TLC Boutique owner Terry Warfield (right) pictured with Brides Across America participant Army Sgt. Doris Cruz.
“and I decided to invest the time and resources to become a photographer myself.”
He trained for three years and purchased
equipment and the materials he needed to
open his own studio.
Crespo said he saw a niche not being
met in the area — that of photographing
in a vintage style. “I loved photographs
like the ‘Vargas Girls,’” Crespo said. The
“Vargas Girls” were pin-up portraits from
the World War II era, created by Alberto
Vargas, and featured in Esquire magazine,
galleries worldwide, and later in Playboy
The Frederick County Business
Development and Retention Division
and the Frederick Board of County
Commissioners began a new program in 2012. Since February,
Commissioners and staff have visited
a business every Monday to personally
express their appreciation for the work
in the county and to provide support
and assistance where needed.
“We are pleased with the response
from county businesses who appreciate the time and care we are providing
to them through this new program the
Board of County Commissioners initiated as part of our business-friendly
strategic plan,” said Board President
Blaine Young. “We hope many businesses will take advantage of these appreciation and assistance visits.”
During May, county officials visited the Brunswick Woodworking Co.,
Whistle Stop Java Shop, Three Points
Cycle, Emmitsburg Glass Company,
the Historic Carriage House Inn
of Emmitsburg and Qiagen Inc. In
June, officials visited Plamondon
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shop talk Continued on page 13
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Annual Urbana Carnival
This year marked the 34th anniversary of the Annual Urbana Carnival — five days of community and family-oriented fun. This year, locals made the most of the rainy weather, raving
over the pitt beef and pitt pork — a cooking process that lasts 10 to 12 hours — and enjoying live band performances. Doug Smith, former president of The Urbana Volunteer Fire and
Rescue Department, said that the raffle was different this year, as the organization was
unable to give away a car due to economy. Instead, prizes included a Carnival Cruise Line
voucher, a 55-inch flatscreen television and an iPad. This event is run by the community,
Smith said, put on by Urbana’s Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, as well as nonprofits Wesley United Methodist Church, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Urbana Recreational Council,
LOUYAA (Linganore Oakdale Urbana Youth Athletic Association) and Urbana FFA Chapter at
Urbana High School. Here, locals are shown enjoying Carnival fun on July 17 and 21.
Photo | Kristy Crawford
— By Bethany E. Starin
Three-year-old Liam Anderson enjoys a ride at the Urbana Carnival.
Photo | Kristy Crawford
Two-year-old Cordelia Feltz, with her mother, Sophie, enjoys her first visit to the Urbana Carnival.
Photo | Tracey McCabe
Urbana’s Atticus Brandenburg, 5, enjoys his sprinkle-covered ice cream from the Urbana Ladies Auxiliary stand at the
Carnival.
Photo| Kristy Crawford
Commissioner Patricia Lunsford looks on as Urbana Hawks Football players and friends compete at an Urbana Carnival game booth. The booth raises funds for the youth league, part of the Linganore Oakdale Urbana Athletic Association (LOUYAA).
From left: Lunsford, Dylan Jones, Nehemei Cross, Austin Himes, Jeb Bethune and Randy Jones.
August 2012 ■ redistricting
from page 1
Gov. Thomas Johnson high schools, but
also the Urbana feeder patterns.
OHS opened with two grade levels –
ninth and 10th. In 2011, the school expanded to three grades, and this fall OHS
will include grades nine through 12 and
will welcome its first graduating class.
As the high school took three years to
transition into enrollment of all four grades,
the redistricting also took a few years to
fully implement and hinged on completion of a planned addition to Oakdale
Elementary School (OES).
“We’ve added 13 classrooms,” said
Randy Perrell, principal at OES. “We are
getting about 80 kids from Centerville. …
We will have every room in use.”
Perrell had more good news: “We had
six portables, [and] they are going to be
leaving.”
Holly Hills parent Susan Welch has two
children impacted by the Oakdale High
School redistricting.
Her 12-year-old will start 7th grade
at Oakdale Middle and her 15-year-old
will be a sophomore at Oakdale High.
Previously they were in the Urbana Middle
and High schools feeder pattern. Her two
older children both graduated recently
from Urbana High School.
“My kids were redistricted last year and
we are loving it. There are so many opportunities available at a new school. My
daughter has danced all her life, and she
made the LAX team. Who would have
thought? So far so good — we having
nothing but good things to say!”
Welch said she has a few neighbors with
children transitioning from Centerville to
OES. “They are very excited,” she said.
The impacted attendance area mainly includes Holly Hills and Mussetter
Road, geographically located just across
Md. 144 from Oakdale High, Middle and
Elementary schools. The group of students
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who were redistricted from Centerville to
OES will continue on to Oakdale Middle
and High schools.
Welch said it is wonderful that these students will now also attend middle and high
schools so near their communities.
“We knew it was coming,” said Steve
Raff, principal at Centerville Elementary,
located in the Villages of Urbana. Raff
said his school is rated by the state to hold
675 students and is currently hovering in
the low 900s. “It was no surprise to the
families.”
Raff worked closely with Perrell to
make this a smooth transition for the students and their families.
“We collaborated in developing some
communication,” said Raff.
In mid-February, OES hosted an evening open house for the new students and
their families, allowing them to see and
tour the school and giving Perrell a chance
to welcome them and have them meet
some of the staff.
“We did an orientation,” said Perrell. “It
was a family and student meet-and-greet.
The students really loved it. … [I] talked
to a lot of parents, and they really appreciated it.”
Raff agreed that families were pleased
with their efforts, and they got some thank
you’s. He said communication is key, and
both schools wanted to take away any of
the unknown so families and students will
be comfortable and successful with the
transition.
On June 6, the students from Centerville
again visited OES for a move-up day of
sorts to meet the teachers and some of the
students and once again familiarize themselves with their new school. By now, these
students have received letters letting them
know their fall classroom assignments and
who their teachers will be for the school
year.
Raff summed it up best: “We will miss
our friends as they move to OES, but we
know they are in terrific hands!”
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The striped section of this map indicates the area impacted by the redistricting of Centerville Elementary students to
Oakdale Elementary. These students will also attend Oakdale Middle and Oakdale High schools.
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August 2012
meal
to go out. I wanted to create an experience
where people felt good about taking their
kids out, knowing it is freshly prepared and
food that’s from the area.”
Family Meal is housed in a former 1960s
Nissan car dealership on East Street and
has a diner vibe. Dressed with minimalistic cement floors, wood booths and simple
tables, it’s accented with modern touches
— a rough wood bar is set in front of sleek
espresso machines, beer taps and a panoramic view into the kitchen. Voltaggio’s
signature clean and modern feel is met
with warm and almost vintage accents —
small bunches of orange flowers on each
table, bowls of lemons and limes on the
bar and old-fashioned straw containers —
and waitresses wearing ruffly, chartreuse
aprons. The fried chicken platter is dished
up in a cheerful yellow bowl shaped like a
chicken and is served with two flaky biscuits. Rockfish and steak entrees are also
on the menu.
If in a sweet mood, adult milkshakes are
offered, and new flavors are currently being developed Voltaggio said. Currently,
the top seller is the Bourbon Vanilla, he
said, and all ice cream is house-made.
While a very different feel than Volt,
his flagship restaurant, the food is made
from the same local, organic ingredients,
Voltaggio said. Menu options start with
breakfast (served all day) choices such as
waffles topped with blueberries and cream
or an omelet stuffed with asparagus, ham,
cheddar and morel mushrooms. The salads, including the wedge topped with gorgonzola and bacon, are beautifully presented. Among the appetizers offered are fried
green tomatoes served with a sweet pecan
topping and set in a tasty buttermilk sauce.
When asked why he chose the diner
feel, Voltaggio said he saw a vacancy in
Frederick for a spot with this atmosphere.
“In downtown Frederick there is a need
for something that was a little more casual
in experience. I wanted to have a threemeal restaurant — offering breakfast lunch
and dinner — where families could gather
around reasonably priced food made with
really great ingredients in an approachable
manner,” he explained.
And this family experience isn’t just for
his customers, Voltaggio said. He said he’s
dedicated to making mealtimes special for
his young family.
“I cannot just do it for others; I have to
do it to myself, too,” said Voltaggio, adding that much of his time is spent cooking
so he is not able to be home for dinners on
a regular basis. “In the near future, I am
going to create a time to be with them [in
the middle of the day] between lunch and
dinner.”
Also in the future, Voltaggio said he will
feature more of his childhood favorites on
the menu.
“My mom used to make a really good
lasagna and meatloaf. We are testing it out
to make it part of the menu. I think you
will see some of that come out on the horizon,” he said.
In addition, he’s in the process of evolving a specials menu.
“Like a Monday special, a Tuesday special — I want to implement something like
that into a menu,” he said with a laugh. “I
think that’s fun — like meatloaf Monday
or that type of thing.”
Favorites among young diners include
the macaroni and cheese — incredibly
creamy baked with a crispy topping — as
well as the duck-fat fries, topped with salt
and served with dipping sauces, Voltaggio
said.
Voltaggio said the fried chicken has been
the most popular dish.
“Fried chicken was always a second-cut
thing at Volt, and that became a part of our
family meal — when my staff got together
every day and we would eat, we would always mess around with fried chicken,” he
said.
Voltaggio said even with three restaurants in Frederick — Lunchbox opened
last fall — and RANGE is slated to open
in Chevy Chase this fall, he has still made
time to be at Family Meal every day. A former sous chef at Volt, Adam Howard, oversees the day-to-day goings on of Family
Meal and is the chef de cuisine.
“I have many great people that are
around me. I am only as good as the people around me. My role, my job is to help
my team to succeed in seeing my vision
of where I want these concepts to be,”
Voltaggio said. “I never ask anybody to do
something I wouldn’t do. I have washed
dishes at Family Meal, and I will do it
again if needed.”
For more information, visit Family
Meal at 880 N. East St., visit www.
voltfamilymeal.com or call 301.378.2895.
Photo| Bethany E. Starin
Bryan Voltaggio and Hilda Staples’ newest restaurant opened in July and dishes up three meals a day from locally grown
ingredients in a family-oriented diner.
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Residentartists
By Madelyne Xiao
Michael Berry
Questions and Answers with a Frederick Photographer
T
he wood tables and chairs in Michael
Berry’s kitchen are reminiscent of
the plain, honest elegance of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s prairie style. They stand in
contrast to the imposing black-and-white
landscape photographs framed and scattered along the walls like museum pieces.
Berry, a graduate of Millikin University
in Illinois, majored in fine arts and was
studying a multi-disciplinary coarse load
that included ceramics and sculpture before he discovered serigraphy (silk screening) and the photographic elements inherent in preparing a print. Now a full-time
photographer, Berry sat down with us to
talk cameras, darkrooms and artistic idols.
Courier: When did you know the
arts were something you wanted
to do?
Berry: Ever since I was a kid. Childhood
dream. Kids want to be cops or firemen
or doctors, and I wanted to be an artist.
My mother encouraged it — Christmas
gifts and things like that. [They] always
pertained to coloring books or crayons
and drawing stuff. I even had an Etch-aSketch. Then, when I got a little bit older,
it was paints.
Courier: What’s your equipment
of choice as professional
photographer?
Berry: Right now, it’s DSLRs. You
know, professional-level digital stuff. I also
use large-format film, 8-by-10, 4-by-5.
Large sheets of film, large cameras.
Courier: No darkrooms?
Berry: Not anymore. I used to spend a
lot of time in darkrooms. I probably spend
as much time image-editing on the computer now as I spent in the darkroom. It
seemed like days on end in the glow of amber light and the smell of chemistry. So,
yeah, it was a lot of print-making, a lot of
film developed.
Courier: Any difference in
photographs produced in the
darkroom and those produced
digitally?
Berry: The gap has been closed recently because the paper manufacturers who
were making premium photographic paper are now making premium inkjet paper. There’s a depth to it — not the kind of
depth you get with traditional darkroom
work, but there’s more of a depth to it now
that there’s the technology that’s gone into
it.
Courier: How do you choose the
landscapes you photograph? What
appeals to you in a scene?
Berry: I walk around with my eyes wide
open. I guess it’s a gift that we — being
artists, photographers — can look in terms
of planes and shapes and lighting and no-
Photo| Submitted
Local photographer Michael Berry cites English romantic
painter John Constable as a major influence: "His work has
a lot of moody clouds — so does mine."
tice contrast. Just being able to walk into
a scene and see something. Some people
walk by something that I think is absolutely beautiful, but, again, that’s subjective, as
well. It doesn’t have to be a scene. It could
be a piece of junk.
Courier: Or, in the case of some of
your works, it could be people.
Berry: Yes, yes.
Photo| Courtesy of Michael Berry
Berry’s photo, “Convergence,” taken during Alaskan travels: “In Alaska, it was planes, mountains, majestic landscapes,”
he said.
ler for having a strong visual that’s tied to
something that’s technically strong. The
opposite of that, of course, if something
that is technically strong, but there’s really
nothing there.
Courier: Who do you draw your
inspiration from?
Berry: There’s a variety of people I admire. I could look at a car and draw inspiration from that because it’s the work of
either a singular vision or a group of individuals within a design group who’ve
worked very hard at a particular design.
n
local photographer Continued on page 13
Courier: How do you get complete
strangers to sit for a portrait?
Berry: They have to have a real visual
quality about them because I, by nature,
am kind of shy. I have to ramp up my courage to approach someone. There’re times
when I’ve just left what I think is a fabulous image. I’ve left it there because I just
couldn’t muster the courage to approach
someone. Everyone responds and reacts
differently when there’s a camera on them.
It kind of alters who they are because they
want to project their very best selves, but
it’s up to the photographer to put them in
a frame of mind that they feel comfortable
projecting. It allows the viewer of the end
result a view into their world. So I become
a storyteller. What I’d like to do is disappear from the scene altogether.
Courier: Do you ever go on photo
tours to hunt for subjects?
Berry: (Laughs) Every time I step out the
door is a photo tour. Have an open mind;
don’t limit yourself. When I was working in Philadelphia, when I had first gotten started, I found myself spending a lot
of time right there in Philadelphia. Now,
I’m in a rural environment. I find farm
animals very interesting. I find the patterns and structures of barns very interesting. I’ve gone to Europe. I’d like to go to
the Antarctic, South America, the AsianPacific rim.
Courier: What’s the identifying
feature of your work?
Berry: Well-executed. I’m a real stick-
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VETERANS
soldiers with disabilities. In addition, he
would like to assist soldiers in finding work
after they return home.
“We have opportunities to find employment for soldiers in the construction fields,
marketing, and sales fields,” Hefner said.
He would also like to provide transitional housing to soldiers who need a place to
live.
After his own father, who was a veteran, committed suicide when Hefner was
33 years old, Hefner decided to spread his
message about the importance of a man’s
role in the family and building strong family relationships. So far, he has told his
story to 200 soldiers. A member of the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA),
he said he’s thankful to share a lesson “that
a lot of guys need to hear.”
Hefner, married for 20 years with two
daughters ages 11 and 19, said he did not
get to go on vacations as a child. Three
years ago, he was able to take a wonderful vacation to Disneyland with his whole
C
family. It was an “incredible vacation,” an
experience that he’d never had growing
up, he said.
Adam Kisielewski, vice president of
Operation Second Chance, said Hefner has
got “a lot of dedication and his heart is in
the right place.” Kisielewski plans to work
together with Hefner “to continue to provide assistance to veterans and their families when they need it the most.”
Kisielewski said Operation Second
Chance plans to help Hefner achieve his
vision of providing retreats for soldiers
and their families. He would also like to
help veterans get more time away from the
Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center in Bethesda by providing shorter
retreats or trips to events such as baseball
games.
“I’ve had so much positive feedback about
the foundation,” said Hefner. “We’ve had a
lot of contributions come in that we’ve just
passed out to help different soldiers.”
As a fundraiser for the National Warrior
Foundation, Hefner plans to hold a golf
tournament on Sept. 24 at Blue Mash.
For more information, visit www.
nationalwarriorfoundation.com.
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August 2012
CHEFS
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measure correctly, follow a recipe, handle
a knife and chop properly. She said she also
helps kids learn how to break down a recipe into simple, achievable steps so they’re
not intimidated by the recipe.
“We all work together and have a good
time,” said McAllister. “We try to expose
them to new foods.”
The Kitchen Studio Cooking School in
Frederick has a 5-1 student/teacher ratio.
“We really focus on individual attention,”
said McAllister. Each cooking class has a
teaching assistant to provide extra support
and guidance to the kids.
“You do have a lot of people to help
you,” said 9-year-old Hailey Smith, a student at the cooking school. Hailey will
begin fourth grade in the fall at Urbana
Elementary School. “It’s really fun,” she
added, saying that both teachers are “very
nice.” Hailey said she also enjoys meeting the other students and learning their
names, grades and favorite foods.
After taking classes at the cooking school,
Hailey said she cooks more at home now
after learning to read a recipe and measure
ingredients. Hailey feels it’s important for
kids to learn how to cook because when
they grow older they will have the skills to
cook for themselves.
McAllister said everyone needs to eat
three times a day. If people don’t learn how
to cook their own meals, they have to rely
on processed foods or restaurants, she said.
McAllister studied cooking at the
Culinary School of Washington in
Washington, D.C., and L’Acadamie de
Cuisine in Bethesda. Originally trained
in baking and pastry-making, she worked
as a pastry chef at the Province restaurant
for 18 years. Province formerly occupied
■ charity
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gowns
high on the list to be deployed again.”
Warfield donated about $30,000 worth
of bridal gowns to the cause by the event’s
end. For her, the day passed in a flurry
of activity. Warfield emphasized the care
TLC Boutique took to cater to each bride’s
specific needs.
“Every bride is different — every bride
the space in downtown Frederick where
Acacia is now found. McAllister currently
has her own business as a personal chef and
cooks for people in their homes.
Cooking teacher Keri-Ann Henson said
that in the cooking classes, the teachers
help kids by “giving them a life skill.”
Keri-Ann Henson, who has a background in education, earned her master’s degree in the art of teaching from
American University in Washington, D.C.
“I have enjoyed combining my teaching
background with my love of cooking” by
working at the school, she said.
Henson teaches “Passport Around the
World” cooking classes, in which she focuses on a different country each day such
as Italy, Mexico or France and teaches kids
how to prepare its cuisine. She also teaches
a “Celebrity Chef ” class where every recipe is from a celebrity chef such as Rachel
Ray. Kids demonstrate how to cook a
recipe with a partner in front of a video
camera.
Kids are typically in class for two-and-ahalf to three hours. “We’re busy the whole
time,” Henson said.
At the end of class, everyone sits down
to eat the meal that the students have prepared. Henson said she wants the kids to
appreciate “the time and thought that goes
into a nice meal.”
For Henson, the most rewarding aspect
of teaching at the cooking school is seeing
the kids gain confidence as they learn new
skills in class.
“Kids appreciate being given the responsibility that goes with being in the kitchen,” she said. “They actually love to do the
dishes.”
For more information about the Kitchen
Studio Cooking School, visit www.
kitchenstudiofrederick.com.
has a vision,” said Warfield.
The goal of the boutique’s staff, she said,
was to provide individual brides with personally tailored gowns and wedding day
solutions. “The goal is to have this bride
look absolutely incredible and breathtaking
on her day,” she said.
Twenty-five brides from as far away
as Arizona have Warfield to thank for
their dresses, which they were given
free-of-charge.
URBANA LIBRARY FARMERS’ MARKET
Sundays at the Urbana Regional Library
Noon until 3 p.m. through October 7
Come Enjoy the Mid Summer Bounty
At the market this month, Peaches, Corn, Blueberries, Tomatoes, Peppers
And all of your other summer favorite fruits and veggies!
Don’t forget the wonderful baked goods, BBQ
or live plants and cut flowers either.
See you soon!
For More Information or to become a vendor
contact: Jan Wickline, 240.405.4939
Please look for us on Facebook or at
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August 2012 ■ Interior
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Design
dent who runs her own company, Tuscan
Blue Design, in downtown Frederick. “I
really encourage clients to figure out a way
to live in their spaces instead of just putting
everything away.”
A graduate from Auburn University in
Alabama with a degree in interior architecture, Ericksen became fascinated with architecture living and traveling abroad with
her parents. In high school, Ericksen lived
in Cairo, Egypt, and she talks about an intensive photography class that began to inspire her to pursue design.
“We went out and photographed so
many different beautiful sites in Egypt,”
she reminisced. “I think touring all those
amazing ruins and the pyramids — and I
photographed a lot of those things — I began to think about structure and design in
those years.”
Rather than simply emphasizing decorating or design, Ericksen’s program at
Auburn dedicated the first two years to
studying architecture, followed by two
years in the interior design program.
Because of this, Ericksen said she doesn’t
just look at a space wanting to add curtains
or paint — she sees the space as an architectural project as well.
“It’s a little more than just decorating. It’s
how it structurally works,” she explained,
adding that she loves to see how the whole
space flows together. “I really like to bring
interior-architecture details. I will always
talk about adding moldings — what can
we do to add more interest to the space?”
While Ericksen said she doesn’t have a
trademark style, if you step into the Urbana
home of Jennifer and Ian Morrison,
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magazine.
“They were risqué photographs,” Crespo
explained, “nothing improper; they displayed the glamorous and feminine side of
women.”
Butt has been a licensed cosmetologist since 1999, and was a hairstylist at the
Hair Cuttery in Urbana. She met Crespo
when he walked in and asked about stylist
who might be interested in his new venture. Butt said she was interested immediately and was willing to take the risk with
Crespo.
you may notice a few details that mimic
Ericksen’s taste. Above the window in their
living room is custom molding that ties
into the crown molding around the room
— showing Ericksen’s love for architectural
details. Or the stunning light fixtures hang
above the dining room table might catch
your eye. Spanish paintings are about to go
up on the wall, Ericksen said, the beginnings of vignettes to bring the Morrison’s
unique personality to the space.
About a year ago, Ericksen started working with the Morrisons, who moved into
their home in Urbana in August 2011.
“We had moved into a house with a very
open floor plan and needed help to define the spaces and select paint colors that
would complement one another,” Jennifer
said.
Ericksen said the Morrison’s home is
beautiful — but everything was painted a
builder white, and the Morrisons wanted
her “to bring a lot of warmth and interest
into their home.” Ericksen started by creating a paint scheme.
Often, she said, clients choose to center the color scheme around a painting or
a piece of furniture. Ericksen used a transitional rug Jennifer already had for inspiration — woven hues of blues, greens and
brown. The warm palate Ericksen created
for the downstairs played off of this piece
— a warm beige, warm gray green and a
warm blue. Then, Ericksen floor-planned
their family room, breakfast room and the
kitchen area.
In order for things to work well when
crafting a design with a couple on their
home, a partnership must be formed,
Ericksen said.
“It is about taking their style and making it work. Leading them in right direction but giving them a space for them,” she
“I thoroughly enjoy making people look
great and feel good about themselves,” Butt
said, “and I love bringing my creative talents to help women to release their inner
bombshell!
In July, Capitol Bombshell held its second workshop with “Go-Go Amy,” a celebrity pin-up model, who has been featured in The New York Times. Customers
learned how to do their own vintage hair
and makeup and posed like pin-up models
during a photo shoot.
The studio will schedule more workshops this year, and information will be
posted on the company website. For more
information, visit Capitol Bombshell at
www.capitolbombshell.com.
Photo | Courtesy of Capitol Bombshell
Kitty Lynne, from Fredericksburg, Va., poses with celebrity model, Go Go Amy, during the “How to be a Pin-up Model”
workshop on July 22 at Capitol Bombshell.
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said. “I want to design functional, beautiful space for clients. I don’t just want to sell
furniture, window treatments, etc.”
The custom touches are among the
things in the Morrison’s home design of
which Ericksen is most proud.
“They have a raised bar in the kitchen
that attaches into the breakfast room, but
the breakfast room is really small. … We
put a bookshelf underneath that ledge for
her to put all of her cookbooks and storage
items in there, which turned out perfectly
so they have a room for table and chairs
and extra storage in the breakfast room,”
Ericksen said.
Jennifer said she has been thrilled with
the outcome.
“Meredith quickly honed in on our design preferences when we had not fully defined them for ourselves. She is very easy to
work with and really took all of our suggestions and worked them into the design,”
she said. “Our home now feels very warm
and inviting, yet remains functional for a
family with two young children.”
For the future, Ericksen said tile around
the fireplace might be in the works.
When not at her studio a block or so from
Volt on Market Street, Ericksen is with her
husband and three daughters. Ericksen said
her family settled in Frederick and decided
to call it home after 12 years of Air Force
travel — and they love all that Frederick
has to offer including the downtown area
and the local history.
For more information on Tuscan Blue
Design, visit www.tuscanbluedesign.com
or call Ericksen at 301.620.0500. Or keep
up with Ericksen’s work on her blog at
www.tuscanbluedesign.com/content.
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Friends Meeting School
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off a zip line platform at an Adamstown
challenge course on July 17. The event was
sponsored by Wholistic Woman Retreats,
a woman’s group led by central Maryland
certified coaches trained in personal and
professional development that facilitates
short-term and overnight retreats to encourage women. The women included
Frederick residents and from locations as
far as Stevensville, Md., and Martinsburg,
W.V. The zip line event was facilitated by
Upward Enterprises of Adamstown.
Photo | Submitted
Jo Ostby of the Greater Urbana Area Food Bank accepts a check for $600 from (from left) Daniel Yang, Bharadwaja
Chappa, Anirud Meyyur, Edward Yoon and Michael McCarthy, representing Forever In Our Hearts and Urbana
Middle School SGA.
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Photo| Submitted
Part of a local professional development retreat run by
Wholistic Woman Retreats, Therese Blanchard enjoys her
ride down the zip line.
Urbana Hawks Teams Win
in Baseball and Softball
Jo Ostby of the Greater Urbana Area Food Bank accepted a check for
$600 from Daniel Yang, Bharadwaja Chappa, Anirud Meyyur, Edward
Yoon and Michael McCarthy, representing Forever In Our Hearts and
Urbana Middle School SGA.
Forever In Our Hearts was organized in 2007 by a small group of
Urbana Middle School (UMS) students after the sudden deaths of two
classmates. David Brockdorff and family were killed by his father in a
tragic murder-suicide Thanksgiving Day. Equally tragic the next year was
the loss of Ian Willis who succumbed unexpectedly to illness. The loss
of their friends motivated a group of seventh-graders to work together to honor the memory of their classmates through charitable works
and donations to organizations appropriate for honoring David and Ian.
With the generous assistance of school counselor Dana Lippy and parents, Forever In Our Hearts embarked upon an ambitious schedule of
fundraisers, including the very successful “Teen Nights” at UMS.
Now in its fifth year, Forever In Our Hearts has raised more than
$15,000. Donations have been made in David’s name to The Heartly
House of Frederick for the benefit of victims and survivors of domestic
violence, and to Dog Town USA and Project Ian. Last year, Forever In
Our Hearts also formed an after-school tutoring group and homework
club at UMS, giving back to the school that has continued to support
them long after graduating middle school. Members also help prepare
the UMS Math Counts Team for competition and collect food for the
Greater Urbana Area Food Bank.
For more information, contact Lindee McCarthy at macattack6@
comcast.net or 301.874.1508 or email Dana.lippy@fcps.org.
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from Urbana has won a state championship. The Hawks will now move on to the Cal Ripken Mid Atlantic Regional
in Basking Ridge, N.J., starting Aug. 3. Team Members include Carter Albers, Ethan Wooden, Colby Patterson, Joe
Harrell, Thomas Wiles, Rhys Evans, Michael Dodson, Conner White, Austin Turley, Colin Meade, Avery Himes and
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shoptalk
from page 5
grants include:
Companies, Beckley’s Camping Center,
Specialized Engineering and Trans-Tech
of Adamstown.
For more information on the outreach
program, visit www.discoverfrederickmd.
com
or
www.discoverfrederickmd.
blogspot.com, or contact Business
Development Specialist Sherman Coleman,
Business Development and Retention
Division, at 301.600.2137 or online at
scoleman@FrederickCountyMD.gov.
Women’s Giving Circle
Gives 23 Grants
The Women’s Giving Circle of Frederick
County has presented 23 grants totaling $127,500 to 17 area nonprofits serving women and children. The grants
were presented during the seventh annual tea on June 26 at the Dutch’s Daughter
Restaurant. The Women’s Giving Circle of
Frederick County Fund is one of more than
630 component funds of The Community
Foundation of Frederick County.
The new grants bring the Women’s
Giving Circle grant total to more than a
half-million dollars since the first grants
were provided in 2006. The organization
has given a total of $567,500 in support of
its mission to provide programs and services promoting self-sufficiency for women
and children.
“The Women’s Giving Circle was delighted to be able to fund a variety of organizations that focus on helping women and
their children in Frederick County,” said
Lisa Ausherman, grant committee chair.
“Grants ranged from emergency services, health care, housing, educational programs, hotline funding, and even a low
cost vehicle program. We are committed
to helping women become more self sufficient and also to connect them with the
wonderful network of nonprofit agencies
we have in our county.”
A few of the nonprofits that received
■ LOCAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER
Furniture, same thing. Architecture — I
love architecture. I love the prairie style,
Frank Lloyd Wright and his disciples. He
just got it right — just every aspect of his
work. I’ve been to the Oak Park Studios,
Falling Water, Taliesin, the Guggenheim.
Then there’s I.M. Pei. Painters — a lot
of early 20th century, late 19th century.
Winslow Homer is a favorite. The Wyeths,
John Constable. Photographers — you’ve
got Ansel Adams, the Westons.
Courier: Have you done any shows
in or around the Urbana area?
Berry: I’ve been juried into the
Delaplaine, juried into and participated in
a group show at Frederick Arts Council.
I’ve exhibited up in New Jersey. I’ve had
my work hanging in Denver, in Illinois.
Courier: Any advice for aspiring
gram, chosen by the client.
Big Brothers Big Sisters’ mission is to
provide children who are facing adversity with professionally supported oneto-one relationships with adult participants. “We are grateful that the Giving
Point Project has chosen to partner with
us to make a difference in the lives of children of our community,” said Big Brothers
Big Sisters Executive Director Barbara
Martin. “Partnerships with corporate citizens, schools, communities and of course
families, are necessary to support structured long-term mentoring so that we can
continue to improve the odds for some of
America’s most vulnerable children.”
According to Co-owner and CEO Joe
Anselmo, the Giving Point Project was
launched in May to generate consistent and
substantial financial support for charities
and nonprofits. “Because there are so many
worthwhile causes today,” said Anselmo,
“most people have an affinity with one or
two special nonprofits or charities. This
program is unique. … It is not only the
frequency and amount of money donated,
but the fact that the consumer has a say in
where the money goes.”
Turning Point’s goal is to exceed $10,000
in donations by the end of 2012.
For more information about the
Giving Point Project, visit www.
GivingPointProject.com. To learn more
about Big Brothers Big Sisters, and opportunities to help the program, visit www.
bbbsfrederick.org.
• Advocates for Homeless Families received a $4,500 grant to assist 14 to
20 homeless mothers with childcare
and transportation expenses. Children
of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
received a $2,250 grant to support
childcare scholarships for two women who are attending school, update
and print resource booklet and mentor
caregivers.
• Families Plus, Inc. received a $3,500
grant to support six four-week childbirth education and infant care classes for women up to age 21. Frederick
County Health Care received a $7,400
grant to cover costs of specific healthrelated treatments and medical procedures by connecting uninsured, lowincome women to the appropriate
health care services.
• The Frederick Rescue Mission received an $8,500 grant to assist women
and their children with food services,
shower facilities, clothing, furniture
and GED classes geared specifically
to women. Heartly House, Inc. received a $10,000 grant to purchase a
new telephone system to be used for
the 24-hour hotline, purchase 28 new
phones, and improve and upgrade existing telephone system.
• Hope Alive, Inc. received an $8,000
grant to provide financial assistance for
shelter operations and provide support
for Hope Alive residents. Mission of
Mercy received a $10,000 grant to support the prenatal care program serving
more than 40 women and the chronic
care program serving more than 450
women and children.
Photo | Submitted
The Women’s Giving Circle of Frederick County gave 23
grants to the following recipients (front row, left to right):
Ann Ryan, Linda Helms, Housing Authority of the City of
Frederick; Roberta Geidner, Heartly House; Ronnie Osterman, Families Plus!; Jennifer Charlton Shuldes, Mission
of Mercy. Middle row, left to right: Sara Ryan, Religious
Coalition for Emergency Human Needs; Marty Young,
Community Living; Shari Scher, Children of Incarcerated
Parents; Linda Ryan, Hope Alive; Janet Jones, Frederick
Community Action Agency; Marte Birnbaum, Gale House;
Leigh Joos, Frederick County Health Care. Back row, left to
right: Nicole Dailey, Boys & Girls Club of Frederick County;
Shuana Clay, The Arc of Frederick County; Cindy Trawick,
Second Chances Garage; Arnold Farlow, Tommy Skaggs, The
Frederick Rescue Mission; Pat Hanberry, Mental Health
Association of Frederick County; Ken Allread, Advocates for
Homeless Families.
Turning Point Real Estate in Urbana.
As a recipient of the project, the nonprofit organization is now eligible to receive donations when a consumer buys or
sells a house through Turning Point. For
each sales associate participating in the
Giving Point Project, up to 5 percent of
the agent’s commission will be donated to
a charity or nonprofit recipient of the pro-
Eugene L. Souder, Jr.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Becomes
Giving Point Project Recipient
In June, Big Brothers Big Sisters of
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Launch of the School Year
The 2012/2013 school year begins in a few weeks — on Aug. 27 — for students. To help families get ready, Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) has
created a Back to School page on its website. Information includes the school
year calendar, bus stop and walker information, school supplies and information about open houses and orientations. Visit the website at www.fcps.org/
BackToSchool.
New Principals and
Assistant Principals
FCPS recently announced principal and
assistant appointments and changes to area
schools, including Urbana High School
(UHS) and feeder schools:
UHS welcomes welcome principal
Jay Berno, transferring from that role at
Middletown High. Berno began his career
with FCPS as a teacher in 1974. He was
promoted to the positions of assistant principal and principal in 1988 and 1993.
UHS also welcomes assistant principal Jacob “Jack” Sclar, who is transferring
from Brunswick High. Sclar began his career with FCPS as a teacher in 1981. Sclar is
replacing Jeff Marker, who will now be assistant principal at Frederick High. Marker
began his career with FCPS as an assistant
principal at Tuscarora High in 2005, and
has also served at Oakdale High.
Centerville Elementary is welcoming
new assistant principal Sharon West. West
began her career with FCPS in 1986 as a
special education teacher, and also taught
at Ballenger Creek Elementary. She was
promoted to director of special education and psychological services in 2000.
In 2004, West accepted an on-loan position with the Maryland State Department
of Education as the branch chief for student achievement and professional development. West is replacing Kim Mazeleski,
who has been promoted to elementary science curriculum specialist.
Urbana Elementary welcomes assistant
principal Sue Gullo, who is transferring
from Monocacy Elementary, where she was
assistant principal since 2003. Gullo began
her career with FCPS as a teacher at Spring
Ridge Elementary in 2002. She became
the school’s media specialist in 2000, and
also for Thurmont Elementary from 20012003. Gullo replaces Michelle White, who
is moving to Whittier Elementary.
Frederick ACE
Since 2005, FCPS has partnered with
the Mentor Program with Frederick
ACE — Architecture, Construction and
Engineering — and has helped more
than 400 local high school students prepare for industry-related careers. From
it’s first sponsor, Bechtel Corporation,
the program now includes several others,
including the Bechtel Women’s Group,
Gilbane, Loiederman Soltesz Associates,
Linton Shafer Warfield & Garrett, P.A.,
Millennium Resource Engineering LLC,
Morgan Keller, Severn, O’Connor &
Kresslein, P.A., TIME of CCBC, Trimble
Navigation, Weyerhaeuser. ACE businesses have offered numerous
summer internships and hired many students who have completed the program.
At this year’s closing ceremony, ACE
Frederick awarded a total of $12,000 in
scholarships, helping graduates continue
their studies.
The application process for the upcoming school year begins in mid-August.
Details are online at www.acementor.
org, including information for those interested in serving as a mentor.
First-year students can expect presentations in areas such as construction, estimating, landscape architecture, project
management, public speaking, scheduling,
surveying and several engineering disciplines including chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, nuclear, structural and piping. Students who participate
in a second year of ACE concentrate on
a design competition with sessions about
the design topic that may include mock
Planning Commission meetings and site
field trips.
In 2008, a team of nine FCPS students won the highest award in a nationwide design challenge for their project,
“ReRouting Transportation,” focusing on
the growing concern of traffic along I-270
in Maryland. In addition, the Frederick
ACE program won the national ACE
Mentor Program’s Emerging Affiliate
of the Year Award for 2006-07. The local affiliate is part of a national initiative
launched in 1991 in New York City and
expanded to more than 100 teams across
the continental United States and Hawaii.
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August 2012 ■ TEACHERs’
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themselves, and hopefully everyone spends
time with friends and family.
In June, Urbana Middle School band/
theatre arts instructor Jonathan Kurtz
went to Ecuador, near the edge of the
Amazon rainforest, with his wife, Rachel,
and fellow members of Mountain View
Community Church. They participated in
an annual camp for Ecuadorian children in
crisis.
“Many of the children are from broken
homes or have been abandoned by their
parents,” Kurtz said. “Their lives are difficult to begin with and this camp and the
school help to offer some hope in a crazy
world.”
Kurtz and the other adults organized and
ran the camps, and some students and graduates from Urbana high schools were there
to help as camp counselors and mentors.
He said they gave attention and affection to
many children who desperately needed it.
“I was very proud of the way our group
formed relationships with these students,
and many are still friends with some
of them on Facebook, with the help of
Google Translate,” he said.
They visited an orphanage, and also
managed to do a little sightseeing, including a visit to Quito, near the equator. “We
had a great time,” Kurtz said, “and we look
forward to going back some day.”
Urbana Elementary teachers Karen
Wills and Faith Humerick took a class together at Westminster Conference Center
through the Maryland State Department
of Education. Entitled, “Maryland
Agriculture in the Classroom,” the fiveday course included workkshops designed
to help the third-grade teachers improve
the social studies units.
“We learned so much about agriculture,” Humerick said, “and how it closely
it ties in to almost everything we teach, including geography and economics.
They went on several field trips, such a
dairy farm, a fruit orchard, an egg-packing
plant, grocery store and the UTZ potato
chip factory. Wills said she was amazed at
how hard the farmers work every single
day of the year, and how the weather can
make or break their season.
“It was really eye-opening,” she said,
“how difficult farming is, and how important it is in our lives.”
By cutting an apple several times, one
farmer illustrated how little land — approximately 1 acre per 37 — is suitable for
farming in the United States.
In their visit to the potato chip and
egg-packing plant, the teacher/students
watched the long processes involved in
bringing products from farms to stores.
“It was amazing how the machines
could spot the ripe potatoes from the green
ones,” Wills said. “Then they go through
several stages; they’re cut, cooked, divided
into sections and flavored and packaged.”
Most of the workshops were hands-on,
and information was taught in a way to
help teachers to better use it in the classroom. “We walked away with so many
materials for the classroom,” Humerick
said, “including lots of children’s books to
share with the students.”
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Both Wills and Humerick agreed that
this was the best workshop they had ever
attended in their many years of teaching.
“We had a blast,” Humerick exclaimed,
“and we can’t wait to incorporate what
we’ve learned into our curriculum!”
In June, Sarah Calderone, a fifth grade
teacher at Centerville Elementary, went to
Indonesia, Java and Bali for 10 days with a
childhood friend. “I travel during the summer because I love learning about other
people and cultures,” Calderone said. They
ate traditional foods, saw classic dance and
music presentations, and toured the temples and cities. Calderone kept a journal
about her adventures and the different cultures to share with family and friends.
Two summers ago, Calderone backpacked through Europe with a college
roommate. They traveled to 14 cities in
five countries in 17 days, including Spain,
France, Italy, Greece and Switzerland.
“With the dynamic population we have,
I feel like it is crucial to understand where
our students and our families are coming
from,” Calderone said. “I work very hard
to save enough money to travel, because
for me, it’s not a vacation. The world is my
classroom, and I can never fully quench my
thirst of the knowledge that is it provides.”
Next year, Calderone is taking a leave of
absence to finish her master’s degree in intercultural communication and linguistics
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
College (UMBC).
“It was a difficult decision to take a year
away from what I love most, teaching,” she
said, “but what I will gain in the end is too
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out&ABOUT
Trinity School of Frederick Hosts
Summer Play Date
Trinity School of Frederick offers a cool
indoor play date, open to the public, on
Aug. 6 from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. that features
story time, science stations and interactive
activities.
Trinity’s Summer Play Date is designed
for children in pre-kindergarten through
second grade. Play dates offer children a
chance to interact with one another to reinforce language and play skills, and they
help build interactive social skills.
Pre-registration for this free event is
required by Aug. 3 to Cynthia Piazza at
301.288.2333 or cpiazza@trinityschooloffrederick.org. Trinity School of Frederick
is located at 6040 New Design Road in
Frederick next to the Harry Grove Stadium.
For more information, call 301.228.2333.
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Relentless Golf Classic
The second annual Relentless Golf
Classic will be on Sept. 14 at The Links
at Challedon in Mt. Airy. The event will
benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society. In addition to 18 holes of golf, including cart, activities include a 50/50 putting contest, lunch provided during registration and after tournament awards dinner
and raffle for cash and prizes. The deadline to enter is Aug. 31, and the event is
limited to the first 32 foursomes. For more
information, contact VOU resident, Mitch
Berger at 301.874.0592 or 301.922.3343
or email him at mtazberger@comcast.net.
More information is available at http://
pages.lightthenight.org/md/WestMD12/
MBerger.
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Mitch Berger and Steve Gold, co-organizers of the Annual Relentless Golf Classic, register golfers at last year’s event.
This year’s event will be held Sept. 14 in Mt. Airy.
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August 2012 localvoices
‘Junk’ Mail
I
believe I have a
“junk” mail problem.
Oops — correction —
the Postal Service doesn’t
like unsolicited mail referred to as “junk” but
rather as advertising mail,
direct mail or admail.
Hardly a day goes by
By Rich
without mail I’d prefer
Terselic
not to receive, not counting valid bills. The unwanted mailings have increased in quantity and
sophistication. Instead of being addressed
generically, such as “resident” or “concerned citizen,” they often include my
name and address, including on the tear-off
section intended for return replies. I have a
concern for identity theft and remove and
shred all such name/address mentions before discarding the balance of the mailing.
I recently asked a bachelor friend if he
shared the problem of receiving quantities
of unsolicited mail. He said he doesn’t since
he does not donate to charities or candidates for election, and doesn’t buy things
on-line or through catalogs. In my case
I have done this entire list of things and
fear I am experiencing the consequences of
the proverb: “no good deed, regardless of
magnitude, goes unpunished.”
During the run-up to local and national
elections, I get the distinct impression that
every candidate and party to whom I ever
donated has shared their mailing lists. In
the case of candidates to which I did donate, I fear my small initial donation is being spent on follow-up mailings. Some of
the mailings include questionnaires that
end with a request for another donation. I
doubt that answers I might provide would
be read or tabulated.
Charities to which I have donated must
also share mailing lists since I receive requests for donations from numerous organizations to which I haven’t donated.
Charities use a variety of moral suasion
techniques in their appeals, such as showing starving and disabled persons, as well
as including address labels, note pads, small
denomination currency, coins and trinkets.
With regard to mailing labels, I started discarding newly received items after concluding I already had a lifetime supply. By
including single dollar bills, they try testing my conscience about not returning a
donation.
Years ago I learned about a cancer research foundation that made me hesitant
about donating to unfamiliar organizations. It was founded by a scientist with the
stated goal of funding cancer research. He
bought a mailing list from a mass mailing
firm and personally funded the cost of an
initial mailing. The responses more than
covered his cost, and he made additional
mailings that also more than covered their
cost. In an interview some years later, the
founder admitted that he took a substantial salary as head of his foundation and
that grants made to researchers had been in
paltry amounts. This is a sad story since it
“poisons the well” for valid charities.
In addition to concern for the validity
and honesty of the various charities or the
merits of the candidates for office, I have
concern for the environmental impact of
the volume of mail solicitations. I probably recycle a pound or more of discarded
mailings every week. From an economic
standpoint, while the mass mailing industry creates jobs, if the success of mailings is
typically at the one to three percent level,
it seems a great deal of “churning” occurs
with a low net societal benefit.
Is there a solution to the receipt of quantities of “junk” mail? I have registered various services to restrict unsolicited mailings, but it doesn’t seem to work. I also
call firms that gratuitously send catalogs,
asking to be deleted from mailing lists. A
structural problem with getting off mailing
lists is if one has made a donation or made
a purchase, this provides that mailer an exception to an obligation to stop mailings.
Editor’s Note: Rich Terselic is a member of
the board of directors of the Villages of Urbana
Homeowners’ Association.
POLICEBLOTTER Local Road Closing
According to Frederick County reports,
Bartholows Road in Monrovia — between
Weller and Bill Moxley roads — will be
closed for approximately six weeks to replace a headwall, a small retaining wall at
the outlet of a storm-water pipe. Vehicle Pursuit
On July 17 in Frederick, at approximately 3:12 p.m., a deputy with the Frederick
County Sheriff ’s Office observed a silver
Mercury Grand Marquis driving erratically on North Market Street in the area
of Schifferstadt Boulevard. The vehicle
passed the deputy and several other motorists while travelling on the shoulder at
Compiled By Kristy Crawford
a high rate of speed. The deputy was driving an unmarked cruiser and attempted to
catch the vehicle as it merged onto Route
26. The Mercury wove in and out of traffic
as it turned from Route 26 onto Monocacy
Boulevard and the deputy was unable to
catch up to it. He alerted other law enforcement officials to the vehicle’s direction of travel.
Another deputy soon observed the
Mercury on Monocacy Boulevard near
Route 15 and attempted to initiate a traffic
stop; however, the driver of the Mercury
refused to pull over. The deputy began to
follow the vehicle at a distance on northbound Route 15 when he observed it rear
end a black Hyundai Elantra driven by a
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police blotter Continued on page 27
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VILL AG ES
www.villagesofurbana.net
OF
August 2012
U R B A N A
Reporter
August 2012
August Meeting Dates
Monday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 7, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 13, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 29, 11 a.m.
Pools & Outdoor Recreation
Design Review
Covenants
Physical Assets Management
Grounds
Social & Activities
Design Review
Finance
Board of Directors
All meetings are at the Natelli Community Center except Physical Assets
Management, which is held at the Shafer’s Mill Recreation Center.
Dedicated Fitness
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Classes begin on July 24 – 5:30 a.m.
Format will include:
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•Conditioning
•Core Training
•Plyometrics
•Stability and Strength Training
The classes will take place on Tuesday and
Thursday mornings, 5:30 – 6:30 a.m. Meet at
the basketball court on Harris Street (next to
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NEWS YOU CAN USE
Resident Meeting
Following resident concerns about speeding and playing children in the area near the
Tavistock Tot Lot, representatives of the Frederick County Sheriff ’s office have scheduled
a neighborhood meeting for Aug. 2, 7 p.m., at the Tavistock Tot Lot to observe conditions and discuss resident concerns. Your input is important. Please plan to attend this
important neighborhood meeting!
Landscaping Updates
The VOU Grounds Committee has approved some minor re-landscaping for the
Sweetbriar Court island and for the Kendall Drive island. The planting beds will be reedged and mulched, and the plants shaped. At Kendall Drive, two declining cedar trees
will be removed. In the fall, replacement trees will be planted to replace the dead deciduous trees in both areas. The re-landscaping work will begin within the next few weeks.
First Call for Candidates
Are you interested in serving your community? The Villages of Urbana is seeking
nominations for the board of directors. This year there are two open seats, each for a term
of three years, from the 2012 Annual Meeting to the 2015 Annual Meeting. The deadline
for nominations is Sept. 24. To qualify, you must be a member in good standing of the
Villages of Urbana Community Association. Self-nominations are welcome. For more
information or to volunteer, please contact the community manager at 301.831.4810 or
by email at manager@villagesofurbana.net.
On-site office: 9023 Harris Street • Phone: 301.831.4810 or 301.874.0487 • Office hours: Mon. – Fri., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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August 2012
SeniorMOMENTS
Local Farmers’ Markets
D
id you know the
average American
consumes
300
pounds of fresh produce
per year?
It’s August, and the local farmers’ markets have
a large variety of fresh, locally-produced fruits, vegBy Susan
etables, bakery and meat
Hofstra
products for sale. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates more than 1,000,000 people visit a
farmers’ market weekly!
More than 20,000 farmers use farmers’ markets to sell to consumers. The average supermarket produce travels about
2,000 miles to its destination while the
average farmers’ markets produce travels
less than 50 miles (sometimes the farm is
“just-around-the-corner”).
Farmers’ markets are a great place to shop
and to get exercise as you walk around. Not
all farmers take credit cards and checks, so
take some cash and some shopping bags.
As you shop, remember to buy a vari-
ety of fruits and vegetables and to choose
a rainbow of colors for a wide variety of
nutrients. Challenge yourself to try at least
one new item each time you visit a farmers’
market. (When I was a child, my mother
would say, “It’s part of your education” to
try new foods.)
When you shop at a farmers’ market,
don’t be shy in asking the local farmers to
help you make your selections. Here are
some questions you might want to ask the
farmer:
• Which items are in peak season?
• Which fruit/vegetables/other items
do you recommend today?
• What is the best way to store the fruit/
vegetables/other items?
• How long can the fruit/vegetables/
other items be stored?
• What cooking methods do you
recommend?
Because older adults, children and those
persons with weakened immune systems
may be especially vulnerable to the bacteria that sometimes contaminate fresh produce, it’s important to take precautions
to protect yourself and your family from
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senior moments Continued on page 21
Farmers’ Markets in
Frederick County
A Better Choice Bakery & Market
Open all year, 7-days a week
27 West Potomac Street, Brunswick
Dublin Roaster’s Farmers’ Market
Sundays, 10 a.m. – 1p.m.
1780 N. Market Street, Frederick
Emmitsburg Farmers’ Market
Fridays, 3 – 6:30 p.m.
302 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg
Everedy Square & Shab Row
Farmers’ Market
Thursdays, 3 – 6 p.m.
Church Street and East Street, Frederick
Farmers’ Markets at
NCI-Frederick
Tuesdays, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Fort Detrick (Building 549) Open to Public
Frederick City Market
Saturdays, 9 a.m – Noon
331 N. Market St, Frederick
Frederick County Virtual
Farmers’ Market
Open every day 24 hours
www.discoverfrederickmd.com/farmersmarket
Grace Community Church
Farmers’ Market
Fridays, 3 – 7 p.m.
Alt. Rt. 40 & Braddock Heights
Great Frederick Fair
Farmers’ Market
Saturdays, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Frederick Fairgrounds
Middletown Farmers’ Market
Thursdays, 3 – 6 p.m.
Christ Reformed Church 12 S. Church St.,
Thurmont Main St.
Farmers’ Market
Saturdays, 9 a.m. – Noon
Thurmont Carnival Grounds
Urbana Library Farmers’ Market
Sundays, 1 – 3 p.m.
Urbana Regional Library
West Frederick Farmers’ Market
Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 1p.m.
110 Baughman’s Lane, Frederick
YMCA of Frederick Co.
Farmers’ Market
Tuesdays, 3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
1000 N. Market St., Frederick
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August 2012 seniormoments
from page 20
foodborne illnesses associated with eating
contaminated uncooked food.
Go straight home from the farmers’ market. Fresh produce and other perishable
foods left sitting in your car will decline in
quality and pose food safety problems.
Store most fruits and vegetables in the
refrigerator at a temperature of 40° F or below. Bacteria found on fruits and vegetables
are likely to thrive at room temperatures.
Store fruits in a separate refrigerator
crisper from your vegetables. Fruits give
off ethylene gas that can shorten the life of
vegetables. Some vegetables give off odors
that can be absorbed by fruits and affect
their quality.
Bananas, melons, onions, potatoes, tomatoes and squash can be stored at room
temperature in a clean, dry, well-ventilated
place, away from direct sunlight.
Some produce can be ripened on the
counter and then stored in the refrigerator (examples include avocados, kiwifruit,
peaches, pears and plums). However, don’t
store them in plastic bags. This slows the
ripening and increases the rate of decay
from the accumulation of carbon dioxide
and the depletion of oxygen.
The kitchen sink is our last line of defense in making sure fruits and vegetables
are clean and safe to eat. Fresh produce
has a natural protective coating that helps
keep in moisture and freshness so don’t
wash produce until you are ready to use
it. Rub briskly with a clean brush or hands
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Scrub and rinse each piece of product
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Do not wash foods in soapy water because the soap can leave residue.
Rinse lettuce leaves individually under
cool tap water. You may want to peel away
and toss out the very outside layer of leafy
produce.
Rinse delicate fruit, such as berries, in a
colander. Remove the leafy stems as they
often harbor bacteria.
Rinse sprouts and fresh herbs before
serving.
Rinse and scrub produce even if their
peels are not consumed. (When produce
is sliced, bacteria on the skin/rind may be
transferred from the outside to the inside.
Even lemon peels are often in contact with
other foods or beverages.)
Frederick
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Frederick County. At the site you will find
where the farmer’s markets are located,
when they are open, what items are
available, and detailed information about
the participating farmers, bakers, artisans
and business owners. There is even a chart
listing the approximate harvest dates for
each produce.
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vitalSIGNS
What is Wii-hab?
T
he Nintendo Wii
video game system
is not just for fun
and games, although it
can certainly makes rehabilitation more enjoyable.
Wii-habilitation, or “Wiihab,” is the medical application of interactive video By Stephanie
gaming devices to enDunker
hance therapy treatment.
Therapists have been using the Wii as a treatment tool since 2008
to increase their clients’ balance, strength,
range of motion and coordination.
Several features make the Nintendo Wii
ideal in the rehabilitation setting. The
motion-sensitive controllers and interactive “Mii” characters provide users with a
form of biofeedback. In other words, the
player is able to get visual feedback on the
TV based on his or her body’s movements.
This feedback allows the player to alter
movements to achieve a desired outcome,
like improving posture or reaching further.
The Wii balance board is an amazing
tool for balance and stabilization training.
Pressure-sensitive force plates have been
used by clinicians and researchers to test
and treat patients for many years; however,
the high cost of such equipment prevented
most people from having access to them.
The Wii balance board brings an affordable and user-friendly version to homes
and smaller clinics.
The variety of games and activities further enhances the Wii-hab experience.
Bowling, skiing, basketball and yoga are
just a few examples. There really is something for everyone, regardless of age or
physical ability. Wii bowling leagues are
popping up in retirement communities
across the country and research suggests
that seniors who participate have increased
strength and balance as well as decreased
risk of falls.
There are specific Wii-fit balance exercises that are a great adjunct to traditional
physical therapy in the treatment of neurological dysfunctions, such as stroke, head
injury, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s
disease. Wii-Fit balance exercises can help
patients learn to shift weight from one leg
Wii bowling leagues
are popping up
in retirement
communities
across the country.
to the other safely (a necessary component
of walking). Wii-fit activities can also help
people become more aware of body position and movement, which can increase
balance and decrease fall risk.
Wii-hab is also helpful in the treatment
of orthopedic problems, such as back pain,
joint replacement, arthritis, pain in the hip,
knee, ankle and even shoulder.
Many tried and true physical therapy
exercises can be improved upon using the
Wii. A great example is the plank exercise. The plank exercise is used to increase
strength in the muscles in the abdomen and
back. It is also known as a “core stability”
exercise. To make this exercise more difficult, a physical therapist may have their
client perform the plank on a therapy ball.
Further progression of this exercise can
be achieved with the Wii by placing the
therapy ball on the balance board and performing the plank while shifting weight
on the ball to maneuver an onscreen boat
down a winding river. Suddenly the exercise is much more challenging and a lot
more fun.
Caution: Do not try this at home! These
exercises are best performed with a trained
physical therapist after a thorough assessment. Different exercises are appropriate for different individuals with different problems. Wii-hab should not replace
professional rehabilitation, but rather be a
component of a rehabilitation plan of care.
With your physical therapist as your guide,
Wii-hab can enhance your rehab!
Photo | Submitted
Stephanie Dunker assists client Connie Domingues with a Wii-hab activity at Sage Orthopedic Physical Therapy.
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KAUFMAN’sKITCHEN Summer’s Bounty: Make Now, Eat Later A
n abundance of
fruits and vegetables
are available everywhere you turn. Hope you
are supporting your local farmers’ markets and
fruit stands. Lots of recipes
can be made and frozen,
canned or jarred.
SIMPLE MARINATED
PEPPERS
By Sheilah
Kaufman This is an easy but versatile preparation
for roasted peppers from an acclaimed New
York City restaurateur and chef. There are
more than 80 recipes that will invite you
into the kitchen to enjoy dishes light on
the fuss and big on flavor and with integrated Indian techniques for these farmto-table dishes. Great on a toasted baguette
with chévre, puréed with cream for a simple pasta sauce, or served as a side dish.
Roasted garlic makes all the difference, but
fresh garlic (use half as much) works, too.
From Masala Farm Stories and Recipes from
an Uncommon Life in the Country by Suvir
Saran (Chronicle Books).
12 red bell peppers
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
Kosher salt
6 roasted garlic cloves or 3 fresh garlic cloves
Place oven rack to the upper-middle po-
sition, and heat the broiler to high. Place
peppers on an aluminum foil-lined rimmed
baking sheets, and broil until blackened
on all sides, 12 to 16 minutes. Wrap each
pepper in a damp paper towel, and place
them in a large paper bag to steam. Set
aside for 20 minutes. Open the bag and remove peppers. Remove the stems and turn
each pepper upside down over the sink to
drain. Peel the blackened skins off. Make a
lengthwise slit in the peppers do they can
lay flat, and use a knife to scrape away the
seeds. Whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, and a sprinkle of salt in a 9x23-inch
baking dish. Place the peppers flat in the
dish, and place the garlic cloves between
them. Cover the dish with plastic wrap,
and refrigerate overnight or up to 1 week
before serving.
Makes 12 roasted peppers.
RAW ZUCCHINI SALAD
Zucchini undergoes a radical transformation when it’s salted, from still and
bland to flexible and flavorful, making
the vegetable the focus. This is light, refreshing and satisfying. A great vegetarian side dish, perfect for late summer and
early fall when zucchini is abundant. From
Michael Ruhlman’s Ruhlman’s Twenty: 20
Techniques, 100 Recipes, A Cook’s Manifesto
(Chronicle Books). This book will teach
you how to cook or, if you are already adept in the kitchen, this book will make you
even better, teaching you how to think
about what you are doing so you can understand the what, why and how, leaving
you free to explore, experiment and hone
your skills.
2 zucchini, 1 green and 1 yellow, cut on the bias into
slices 1/8-inch thick or julienned
Kosher salt
1 tablespoon minced shallot
1 garlic clove, minced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup toasted slivered almonds or toasted roughly chopped walnuts (optional)
1/4 cup fresh herbs such as parsley, basil, or chives,
cut into chiffonade (optional)
Put the zucchini in a colander and sprinkle evenly with 1 teaspoon salt. Toss and
sprinkle evenly with another 1 teaspoon
salt, distributing it evenly. Let stand for 10
to 20 minutes (the squash should be limp
but still have some bite to them).
In a small bowl, combine the shallot,
garlic and lemon juice. Shake the moisture off the zucchini and taste. If too salty,
rinse briefly under cold water and pat dry.
In a medium bowl, toss the zucchini with
the olive oil. Spoon the lemon shallot mixture over, and toss some more. Season with
pepper, more salt, and lemon juice if desired. Garnish with nuts and herbs if using.
Serves 4.
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SWEET CORN FRITTERS
For more than 20 years, guests at Lisa’s
restaurants have asked for the recipe for her
fabulous pickled watermelon rind. Lisa also
loves dicing these pickles finely to use as a
chutney for corn fritters. They are also a
colorful, yummy summer appetizer. When
canned, these rinds make a great gift. Lisa’s
life in the kitchen, and her fabulous recipes, come from 30 years of creating food
inspired by her Southern roots while honoring classic techniques and amazing local
ingredients are a mix of high end or downhome. In the end she’s simply a Southern
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with a plate of fried chicken. These recipes
will quickly become part of any cook’s repertoire. From: Fried Chicken & Champagne:
A Romp Through the Kitchen at Pomegranate
Bistro by Lisa Dupar (Partners West)
(http://www.duparandcompany.com/).
1 large (12 to 15 pounds) watermelon
1 quart apple cider vinegar
2 pounds sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 tablespoon red pepper flakes
1 garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon allspice berries
n
kaufman’s kitchen Continued on page 27
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NORA’sCORNER
Steve Had a Little Lamb
W
ho would imagine a sheep farm
at the end of a
neighborhood street in
present-day Silver Spring,
Md.? Yet Joan and Steve
Hobbs have a flock of 35
Dorset sheep on 46 of the
original 56 acres Joan’s
father purchased in 1954.
By Nora H.
Joan’s
family,
the
Caplan
Anselmos,
originally
came from a town northwest of Genoa, Italy. When they arrived
in the United States, the family eventually went into the wholesale produce business, Steve Had a Little Lamb, sometimes
selling their wares to the White House.
Later, Joan’s parents moved to their land
in Montgomery County. Several members
had become builders by that time.
In 1982 Joan’s father, brother and Steve
constructed the Hobbs’ ranch-style house.
Their rail fenced-in back yard has a purple
clematis and Knock-out roses in one corner, a hammock strung between two trees
in another, an island of plantings in the
center and plenty of room for Gracie, their
Red Merle border collie/Australian shepherd, to patrol her territory.
“Is that your sheep guard dog?” I asked
Joan.
Surprisingly she said, “No. We’d originally had a Great Pyrenees that was supposed to be a guard dog, but that didn’t
work out.” Instead, Joan bought Bubbles,
a guard donkey who keeps watch over her
charges.
“How did you happen to get interested
in raising sheep?”
Joan explained that when she was a
child, she always had pets — ponies and
horses. As an adult she became very interested in sheep, especially Dorsets because
she greatly admired a local sheep farmer,
Betty Gray, who had a flock of Dorsets. She
read everything she could about sheep and
found Ron Parker’s handbook on raising
sheep invaluable. She joined the Howard
County Sheep Association and listened to
all their talks and advice.
“Sheep people are very helpful,” Joan
said.
She attended seminars in Virginia and
sheep-related events elsewhere.
At last Joan felt ready to start her own
flock. She had decided to raise Dorsets for
the meat market (lamb), not for their wool.
In 1985, Steve gave her two lambs for her
birthday. That was the beginning of her
business.
Many of her customers are from the
Mideast. Some of her customers want to
pick out their own lamb; most ask her to
choose. She doesn’t sell mutton. She never
gives males names because it would be too
painful to see them ride away to the processing plant.
As I surveyed the fields just beyond the
Hobbs’ yard, I asked, “Where are all the
sheep?”
Steve said that he would round them up
for me. He poured a mixture of oats, corn,
barley and molasses that is turned into protein pellets into a feeding trough nearby in
the pasture. In a trice, here they came running — ewes and lambs, pale beige wool
— some with white faces and the others
black-faced. When they are sheared, their
wool is as pure white as Ivory soap.
“I’m sure there’s more to raising sheep
than just turning them out to graze, isn’t
there?” I asked Joan.
“You have to learn to be your own vet,”
she said. “Steve vets our animals quite well.
He’s learned to do stitches. Sometimes he
has to do a caesarean [section] on a sheep
in distress.”
Once, a ewe named Tinkerbell that his
granddaughter had become attached to was
in great distress at the time of her lambing. Steve knew he had to perform a c-section on her to save the lamb, but she would
not be able to survive. To keep his granddaughter distracted, he told her that the
lamb would be hers to take care of — that
it would have to be bottled-fed three or
four times a day. They made a pen for her
in the garage. Even though it was wintertime, the lamb would be fine because sheep
like the cold. Eventually the lamb followed
Steve around, and “everywhere that Steve
went, the lamb was sure to go.”
Joan mentioned that parasites are a problem for sheep. They need to be dewormed
regularly. A visual sign of problems is detected by examining their eyelids. If they
are very white, the sheep may be anemic;
their eyelids should be red. Their hooves
need to be trimmed regularly. They are
shorn once a year, usually in April, for a
year’s growth.
The Hobbses have a first aid kit that includes needles, syringes, penicillin, tetanus
shots, combination shots for various problems, antibiotic cream and deworming
medication. Joan and Steve check each of
their flock daily.
Steve is a lifetime member of the
Montgomery County Fair. Each year the
Hobbs family picks five sheep to show. The
week before the fair, Steve bathes them
twice before he loads them into a trailer. Before the judging, their three granddaughters and Steve wash the sheep again;
Joan trims them and finally covers them
with special canvas covers to preserve their
pristine white fleece. At last, the candidates
are ready to enter the show ring.
Sheep are judged on their body structure.
They should have straight legs and backs
and should be able to stand on their own.
They are judged according to the standards
of their breed — to have short ears, pink
noses, clear eyes, and to be a certain size.
The judges are from all over the United
States, especially the Midwest where there
are the most purebreds. This region produces a higher percentage of sheep judges
than any other area in the United States.
“If you ever decide to leave this place,” I
asked Joan, “what would you do with the
sheep?”
Joan answered decisively, “The sheep go
with us.”
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OFF THE SHELF
Are Your Kids Ready for School?
H
ard to believe
we’re coming to
the end of summer, but the bins of
school supplies lining the
aisles of stores tell me it’s
true! Those of you with
school-aged children are
probably busy shopping
By Amy
for clothes and shoes,
Whitney
pencils, glue sticks, backpacks and lunch sacks for the new school
year.
But kids need other tools for a successful
school year — and you can shop for those
at the library for free. Keeping the kids
reading will help them to keep up their
reading skills while engaging their interests. Summer is a great time to let them
read whatever catches their eye — whether it’s a comic book, MADD Magazine, a
newspaper or the latest Gossip Girl novel,
it’s all worthwhile if it keeps them reading!
Even reluctant readers can be persuaded to watch a Playaway View book, which
displays a book on a video screen. Take a
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few along on vacation with you — they’re
a great distraction for long car trips.
Kids can also play on the library computers. Even the very youngest children
love the AWE computers in the Children’s
Room — the games are so much fun that
the kids don’t even realize they’re learning
while they play.
Teens love to social network, watch
YouTube or play with the tablets on our
Tech Bar. Many of them have been jamming with their peers at our Teen Music
Cafes one Sunday a month. The next one
is Aug. 18 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. Bring a guitar and join in!
Invite a few friends to visit the library
with your kids and watch as they put on a
show in the puppet theater. Playing with
puppets helps kids to develop creativity,
storytelling and problem solving — all
skills that’ll help them in school. Older
kids can challenge each other to a game of
Jenga or Monopoly, or just stretch out on
the floor with a game of checkers. Playing
games teaches them invaluable lessons
about getting along and playing fair.
Robyn Monaco and Sandra Cartagena,
librarians in the children’s department, recently won a mini-grant from the Ezra Jack
Keats Foundation to fund Learning Parties,
four sessions full of fun family learning ac-
tivities, crafts and tips to help parents nurture a young reader. Families who attend
the Learning Parties will actively explore
the concepts of colors and shapes, music
and sound, letters and writing, and movement and dramatic play while exploring
the book “Whistle for Willie” by Ezra
Jack Keats. Robyn and Sandra will bring
Willie’s world to life as the families participate in crafts, activities, and art projects, all
designed to develop early literacy skills in
the children.
Who knew that having fun at the library could help kids prepare for academic
success?
Many patrons will be happy to know
that we recently updated our renewal policy. Most library materials may now be renewed twice, as long as no one else is waiting for the item. Materials may be renewed
by phone, online at www.fcpl.org or by
visiting the library.
Enjoy these last relaxing days of summer!
Call anytime for your information needs
at 301.600.7004 or visit us online at www.
fcpl.org.
Editor’s Note: Amy Whitney is director of the
Urbana Regional Library. She can be reached
at AWhitney@FrederickCountyMD.gov or
301.600.7012.
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She is stunned by Bill’s suicide and focuses
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on the property of her employer and benefactor. But the book becomes intriguing
as readers are treated to the story of Lilly’s
early life and the roles her son and grandson played.
In the 1920s, young Lilly was forced to
flee from Ireland when her life was threatened by the Irish Republican Army because of her fiancé’s political activities.
Within a day, her father was able to secure
her passage to America. As Barry writes,
“In America … everything is possible.
Everything is both true and untrue in the
same breath.”
Her life there is marked with highs and
lows. The cousin she has been told to seek
in New York has disappeared. A violent
episode threatens her life again in this new
land. A man she loves and trusts misleads
her. But she has a son she adores and friends
who help and support her.
Barry’s words are carefully chosen and
expressive, but his writing is especially vibrant when Lilly recalls the 1960s. Her son,
who is drafted, survives a tour of duty in
Vietnam but “dies inside” once he’s back
home. He had met Martin Luther King Jr.
at the home of Lilly’s employer and was
broken by all the deaths of “good souls”
in that terrible time. Barry writes, “That
was a decade burned black by grief. There
were a half-dozen men with guns waiting
in dark space in those years to fire their
weapons.”
The power of this novel rests in its ability
to convey the complexity of life — its transcendent beauty and crushing pain. Barry
has said in interviews that he hopes readers
will come away with a sense that no matter what life gives us, it is possible to accept it with grace and good-heartedness.
As Lilly says, “To remember sometimes is
a great sorrow, but when the remembering has been done, there comes afterwards
a very curious peacefulness. Because you
have planted your flag on the summit of
the sorrow. You have climbed it.”
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August 2012 KAUFMAN’sKITCHEN
from page 24
1 orange, zest and whole segments
After you enjoy the watermelon, the easiest way to remove the rind is to cut the
watermelon into long 1-inch strips. With
a sharp knife, remove just a thin layer of
the green outside skin. Leave as much of
the white layer as possible and a touch of
the inside red layer. Then cut the rind into
1-inch even cubes.
In a large pot over medium-high heat,
pour 1/2-quart of the vinegar and 1 pound
of sugar over the watermelon rind and
boil for 5 minutes. Combine the remaining 1/2-quart vinegar and remaining 1
pound sugar in a separate pot and simmer
until syrupy (similar to maple-syrup consistency). Add the syrup to the watermelon
rind along with the cinnamon stick, cloves,
nutmeg, pepper flakes, garlic, allspice, orange zest and orange segments. Simmer for
15 minutes. Strain off the syrup. Set the
watermelon rind with spices to the side.
Continue to reduce the syrup until it becomes thicker, like maple syrup. Pour the
syrup back over the watermelon rind. You
may can it at this point, following standard
canning instructions, or store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
Makes about 1 gallon of pickles.
SWEET SUMMER CORN FRITTERS
From: Fried Chicken & Champagne: A
Romp Through the Kitchen at Pomegranate
Bistro by Lisa Dupar (Partners West)
(http://www.duparandcompany.com/).
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 egg
1 teaspoon lime juice
1/2 cup water
2 cups corn
1 scallion, finely sliced
2 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
1 red jalapeño pepper, minced
Peanut or vegetable oil, for frying
In a bowl, sift the rice flour, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cayenne together. Lightly beat the egg and add to dry ingredients along with lime juice and water.
Beat until smooth. Add the corn, onions,
cilantro and red jalapeño. Fold together
until combined.
Heat the oil in a deep pot on the stove
until it reaches 350° F (use a candy thermometer). Using a small ice-cream scoop,
scoop the fritter batter and gently drop into
the hot oil, about 6 at a time. Cook until
golden brown; about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes.
Remove from oil and drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with salt (optional). Serve the
corn fritters warm with watermelon rind
chutney
Makes 24 to 32 fritters.
For more recipes or details about Sheilah
Kaufman, visit www.cookingwithsheilah.com.
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policeblotter
from page 17
resident of Pennsylvania. The driver of the
Mercury made no attempt to avoid the
collision and intentionally rammed the
Hyundai two more times in an effort to
push it off of the road. After witnessing this behavior, the deputy reinitiated a pursuit but the suspect fled.
While doing so, the suspect intentionally
struck the deputy’s cruiser on two separate occasions before coming to a stop on
Route 15 at Stull Road and was taken into
custody.
The suspect, a 28-year-old male resident
of Frederick, was uninjured. The suspect is
facing numerous charges including driving
under the influence and assault. His name
will be released when charges are filed.
Local Fire Marshal Urges Caution
On July 4, fire and rescue units responded to a call for a shed fire at the rear
of a residence on Magnolia Avenue in Frederick. An automobile adjacent to the
shed was also involved with the fire.
After the fire was brought under control, personnel were alerted to another
fire on Fairview Avenue. Firefighters responded to the scene and found a portable restroom on fire. An investigation by the Office of the Fire Marshals is
currently underway to determine cause of the fires and if the two fires were
connected.
On June 24, fire and rescue personnel responded to the Firestone’s
Restaurant in downtown Frederick after employees discovered smoke in the
front dining area. After the fire was extinguished, an investigator from the
Frederick County Fire Marshals office determined that the fire was caused by
discarded smoking material, which fell through an opening along the steel access grate outside the front of the building. Damage is estimated at $15,000.
On Thursday, June 28, Frederick County Fire and Rescue Units were dispatched to Collingwood Lane in Farm Brook for a reported roof on fire. Fire
personnel were able to extinguish the fire and contain it to the roof area of the
house. Investigators have determined that the fire originated on the exterior
rear wood deck and was caused by a discarded cigarette.
In light of these situations, The Fire Marshals Office reminds citizens to use
caution when discarding smoking material, and to make sure that it is fully extinguished and placed in an appropriate container.
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MIKE AT THE MOVIES
“The Amazing Spider-Man”
(PG-13) ★★★
Here we go again.
Same plot, different actors, different
villain.
In fact, one of the
problems with this
version is that there is
only one villain, and
Peter Parker is blamed
— and blames himself
By Mike
— for creating him.
Cuthbert
He did that by being
precocious. A nerdy
high school student who eschews contact
lenses for his late father’s glasses, Parker is
bullied and suffers pangs of love for Gwen
Stacy (not Mary Jane). But Gwen or Mary
Jane, we know that he will somehow defeat the villain and gain her devotion while
saving her from a dire fate at least once.
And that’s the problem with this reboot
of Spider-Man: We’ve seen it all before
so it boils down to which version has the
cooler special effects. This version starts
with a ho-hum 3-D but beyond that, there
isn’t much to recommend it.
Spidey is darker than usual in the hands
of British actor Andrew Garfield, but
Gwen is magnificent. Emma Stone as a
blond? Who would have imagined it? She
steals every scene she’s in just by looking as
if she could be in high school though better
looking than all her classmates.
Rhys Ifans is the villain but a sympathet-
ic one since he’s made into a lizard through
misapplication of a formula designed to
grow back his missing right arm. When
it turns him instead into a rampaging, super-strong lizard, how can you blame him?
Especially since he got the formula from
Spidey?
Spider-Man on film, as on Broadway,
has always been about the special effects,
and this version is as well. The flying scenes
are predictably spectacular, and the seemingly endless supply of “web” is effective.
But the whole is affected negatively by the
fact that we’ve seen it all so many times before. That forces one to focus on the plot,
and that ain’t much. The question remains:
Why did anyone think another version of
the same story was necessary now?
The film’s most notorious footnote is
that the comic book genius Stan Lee gets
a cameo role as a befuddled librarian in a
fight scene. The other is that Emma Stone
is stone-cold stunning.
A wasted scene after the initial credits
hints at a sequel, but, again, why?
“Savages” (R) ★★★
This is one violent film, as you might expect. Oliver Stone, whose predilection for
pot is infamous, lets his fantasies loose in a
complicated plot involving a ménage between Ben and Chon (Aaron Johnson and
Taylor Kitsch) and O (Blake Lively), who
are quality pot-growers with their own
comfortable network, and Elena (Salma
Hayek), who is the head of a rival cartel in
Mexico. She wants to force Ben and Chon
out of business and take over their network
because their pot is better. Her chief associate in crime is Lado (Benicio Del Toro).
No end of murder, decapitation and mayhem ensues.
The opening scene, not 10 minutes in,
includes drugs, sex and the beheading of
five Mexicans. That’s for starters. Then
there is a brutal assassination in the streets
of Laguna set to the Brahms 1st Symphony
— a bizarre choice, but making bizarre
choices is why Oliver Stone makes the big
bucks.
The premise of this film is solid for a
thriller: Set perfectly horrible villains
(Hayek’s mob) against the innocence of
Ben and the violence of ex-soldier Chon;
throw in a tall, vacuous blond; add some
military operations out of the Iraqi playbook; add a few more villains and a supporting force for the good guys; and let
‘er rip. Chon warns all of us that “Savages
don’t make deals,” then makes a deal with
the savages. By then, everybody is a savage
so it doesn’t make much difference. Throw
a corrupt federal agent named Dennis
( John Travolta) into the mix and add lots
of blood and exploding body parts and you
have a modern thriller.
To be honest, Hayek, Del Toro and
Travolta steal this picture. Lively is handicapped by such stupid lines as: “I have orgasms. He has wargasms.” But then again,
that’s in character for her. She admits she’s
been on pot since she was 9. Nevertheless,
she seldom rises above mere furniture that
could have been played by almost anyone.
There is not much of moral value here
at all, and the several endings may make
you gnash your teeth in frustration. If you
like violence, though, it’s here. And the
Brahms is a nice touch, if totally inappropriate for assassinations.
“Ice Age” (PG) ★★★
Strictly for the under-12 set, and it had
them rocking with gales of laughter at the
constant slapstick mayhem, pratfalls and
collisions that dominate its thin plot.
Briefly, a cataclysmic shift in the continents leaves a mammoth family headed by Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie
(Queen Latifah) split, with Manny promising to find his family somehow sometime. Daughter Peaches, who looks like
Cameron Diaz but is voiced by Keke
Palmer, is in rebellion (teens, you know,
dangerous even for mammoths) and, with
her friend mole Louis (Wiener), voiced by
Josh Gad, wanders off and gets in trouble.
Enter Capt. Gutt, a fierce chimp (Peter
Dunklage); a saber-toothed tiger named
Diego (Dennis Leary); a sultry female tiger, Shira, ( Jennifer Lopez); various other
animals from meerkats to squirrels; and a
Granny Slug (Wanda Sykes), who steals the
picture. Thus you have a recipe for a whippy, dippy 90 minutes.
There are odd moments in this film. For
example, why did John Powell, who did
the score, rely so heavily on the “Ode to
Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth when original music would do just as well? Why does
Scrat, the acorn-mad squirrel whose scene
from the film has been used as a teaser for
n
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mikeat the movies
from page 28
over a year, have to be in the film? His
greedy chase after acorns could be a cartoon or a series, but it just gets in the way
here.
The kids loved the movie and could care
less about the plot, so relax and let them
enjoy it. Why it is a “PG,” I have no idea.
The “violence” is pure comic stuff. And
did I tell you that Wanda Sykes’ Granny
has a whale of a time?
“Katy Perry: Part of Me”
(PG) ★★★
Katy Perry represents a triumph of fantasy and romanticism over reality — for a
while. Predictably, because we know the
facts, reality intrudes three-quarters of the
way through her concert film as the impossible demands of a yearlong tour shred her
marriage to comedian Russell Brand.
This older male, accompanied by at least
10 teen females, watched and sympathized,
but I was left with a question: Why was it
necessary to plan a year-long tour just after getting married? She says it was because
she had a new CD coming out and “you
have to tour.” But she clearly exhausted
herself with attempts to keep the marriage
going by jetting off on her break-days to
find Brand, wherever he was.
With perhaps intentional parallels with
Justin Bieber’s concert tour on film, the
narrative arc here includes a religious background, early success as a performer and
songwriter, and a crisis in the tour. Bieber’s
was a throat condition. Perry’s is the di-
vorce. Perry is 27. Rumors were that Brand
wanted a family. Perry says: “A baby can’t
have a baby, and I’m still a baby.” Maybe
that’s why she booked the world tour.
Perry also admits that: “Since I was 9
years old, I wanted to be on stage, having
audiences sing along with me.” This film
and her career is not really about the music.
It’s about the crowds, the costume changes,
the legs, the figure, the fireworks — like
Bieber except with him it’s the hair, not
the legs. The film does a good job of explaining, through loyal friends, relatives
and crew members, Perry’s early failures to
catch on with a record label and her eventual success at Capitol, made possible by a
Columbia staffer who stole all Perry’s material from Columbia when she switched
jobs. As is pointed out, Perry was not an
overnight sensation, though her “I Kissed a
Girl” was a crucial choice for her breakout
recording.
Perry is an engaging young woman,
whose endurance is explained by a rigorous workout schedule and her youth; but
one fears for her career if she does another
tour like this one. But she may be cursed
with what she has. As one fan wisely points
out: “You can’t be anyone else because everyone else is already taken.”
For what it’s worth, I like the Perry who
sings ballads. The audience shuts up and
lets her be heard. The rest is a long shriek.
For girls of a certain age and their tolerant
mothers.
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arts& entertainment
form Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m.
on Aug. 9 at the Baker Park Bandshell
in Frederick. The Summerfest Family
Theatre has brought wonderful entertainment to young people in Frederick for
more than 16 years. For more information
about Summerfest Family Theatre events,
contact Jennifer Martin at 301.600.2844 or
jmartin@cityoffrederick.com.
Photo| Submitted
Tim and the Space Cadets perform at the Baker Park
Bandshell in Frederick on Aug. 9 as part of the Summerfest Family Theatre.
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s Robin
Hood: Occupy Sherwood
“Robin Hood: Occupy Sherwood,” by
Sarah Shulman, which features the original caped crusader, is produced as part
of Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s summer program in partnership with Hood
College, The Ensemble School and
Frederick Community College (FCC).
Performances will be on August 10, 11, 16,
17 and 18 at 2 p.m. at FCC’s JBK Theatre
at 7932 Opossumtown Pike in Frederick.
Tickets cost $19.50 for general admission
and $16.50 for students and seniors.
Tim and the Space Cadets at the
Summerfest Family Theatre
Tim and the Space Cadets will per-
Wonders of the Universe
You can look into deep space through
the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope
and experience the birth of the universe.
On this excursion, you’ll see the beginning of galaxies and see some breathtaking nebulae and other astronomical structures. You will fly into the Milky Way
and come back to Earth on a wondrous
tour through the solar system. Shows begin at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. and doors open
at 5 p.m. Tickets are $4 per person. The
Earth, Space and Science Lab is located at
210 Madison Street in Frederick. You can
find out more about the Wonders of the
Universe at 240.236.2694.
“The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare … [Abridged]” at the
Olney Theatre.
The Olney Theatre Center offers free
summer Shakespeare starting with the
National Players’ production of “The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
… [Abridged]” by Adam Long, Jess
Winfieldon and Daniel Singer on July
27 and 28. The performance will be at 8
p.m. on the Root Family Stage. The theatre is located at 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring
Road in Olney, Maryland. Please bring a
lawn chair or blanket, since there is limited bleacher seating. For more information,
you can call 301.924.3400 or visit www.
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Art in the Park
The annual Art in the Park event will be
held on Aug. 17 at Harry Grove Stadium.
Attendees will able to enjoy a Frederick
Keys baseball game, as well as experience
many art-related activities.
The baseball players will also be wearing jerseys made by a local artist. The players will autograph the shirts, which will be
auctioned off to the highest bidder to benefit the Frederick Arts Council.
The event will also incorporate the annual Stitch N’ Pitch activities that night,
which encourages local knitters, embroiders, and others to get involved in stitching
activities during the game. The National
NeedleArts Association (TNNA), in partnership with Major League and Minor
League Baseball, encourages thousands of
“Stitch N’ Pitch fans” to bring their yarn,
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knitting needles, needlepoint, and other
projects to work on at the game.
Art in the Park is organized by the
Frederick Arts Council in partnership with
the Frederick Keys. Discounted tickets to
the game are available at the Cultural Arts
Center for only $5 per person. You can call
301.662.4190 for more information.
“Psycho” at Screen on the Green
Screen on the Green is a summer tradition in Washington, D.C. Bring a blanket to the National Mall and watch a classic film on a huge movie screen. You can
see a movie on Monday nights beginning
at dusk, around 8:30 - 9 p.m. People start
to find their place on the lawn as early
as 5 p.m. Movies play except in extreme
weather. Screen on the Green does not
have rain days. On Aug. 6, you can see
the film “Psycho” (1960), which is about
a woman who steals $40,000 from her employer’s client and encounters a motel proprietor too long under the domination
of his mother. The movie stars Anthony
Perkins, Janet Leigh and Vera Miles. You
can get to the National Mall (between
7th and 12th Streets) by Metro. The closest stations are Archives/Navy Memorial,
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Urbana Residents Take Time for Themselves with Yoga
By Sally Alt
Y
ou don’t have to be a yogi to take
yoga classes in Urbana. The classes, which are open to both beginners and advanced students, started in April
at the Villages of Urbana Community
Center.
Instructors Terri Becker, Stacy Mallow
and Kaylah McCourtney teach hour-long
classes in a six-week series, but also allow
individuals to drop in on a class, which
typically has three to 15 people. Teachers
incorporate different styles of yoga to build
strength and ease stress and anxiety.
Laura Silberman, who moved to Urbana
in March, said taking yoga classes is “a
way to feel part of the community.” She
added, “Both my husband and I feel it has
helped us in our daily lives — physically
and mentally.”
The yoga classes accommodate students’
individual needs. Patty Moon, a yoga student who had a knee replacement less than a
year ago, said Kaylah McCourtney’s gentle
yoga class Wednesday morning “has been
the perfect yoga class for my situation.”
Yoga also teaches you “how to live in the
moment,” said Moon. It helps you to release “tension that you carry with you.” If
students come into class with worries, the
practices help them to put that aside. After
a yoga class, I “feel energized and have a
better outlook on things,” she said.
Students end the class with a “quiet,
peaceful, comforting tone,” Moon added.
McCourtney’s class also is “extreme-
Photo|Submitted
Kaylah McCourtney helps a student in her gentle yoga class, which is held on Wednesday mornings.
ly important for your balance, especially
for seniors,” said Robert Anastasi. Taking
yoga classes has also improved his muscle
tone, Anastasi said, adding, “I feel much
better when I’m taking yoga than when
I’m not.”
Carole Beal, one of McCourtney’s students began taking yoga on her doctor’s
recommendation. “I get some weight bearing exercise, balance exercise, and stretch-
ing,” she said. Beal said she feels “very relaxed” at the end of class.
Beth McKay, a student in Terri Becker’s
Thursday evening yoga class, said Becker’s
yoga class has helped her to become stronger and more flexible, as well as to live a
healthier lifestyle. “It’s good exercise for
the body and mind,” she said.
Becker encourages all of her students to
“go at their own pace,” she said.
Beth McKay said she recommends the
class to anyone considering yoga.
Terri Becker, who teaches third grade
at Little Bennett Elementary School in
Clarksburg, said yoga is beneficial, because
“it makes people mentally stronger when
they are going through tough challenges.”
Yoga students enjoy time away from stresses of everyday life, she added.
Becker, who lives in Urbana, has taught
yoga for two years and started conducting
classes at the Clarksburg Town Center. She
said she tries to lead the class by taking into
account what the students want and need.
It’s important for students to listen to their
own bodies, she explained.
McCourtney said she first did yoga because it brought her joy, and later it became
a full-time job. “I love the practice,” she
said.
In her class, she said, the practice of
yoga can lower students’ heart rate and
blood pressure through breath work.
McCourtney, a Frederick resident, has
been teaching yoga for about six and half
years.
“I really love watching people learn
from their own bodies,” said McCourtney.
People don’t need any yoga experience to
take one of the yoga classes at the Villages
of Urbana, she said. “You can just come,
and you’ll be supported.”
If you are interested in learning more
about the yoga classes at the Villages of
Urbana, visit the yoga studio’s website at
www.vouyoga.com.
PLAYBOOK
For the Love of the Game
In a recent conversation,
Michael Hayden, president
of the Urbana Hawks softball and baseball league,
shared a fantastic, local story
that I wanted to pass along
to our community. Hayden
lives with his family in the By Timothy
Mellott
Villages of Urbana. Here
is a the story in Hayden’s
words:
urely, the baseball gods were looking
down on our league and more particularly on Dillon Papier. The 2012
Urbana Hawks softball and baseball program had a very difficult decision to make
with regard to how our community friend
Dillon Papier could participate in the more
competitive 10U kid pitch division.
Dillon’s story may be familiar to you —
it has been very well documented in local
publications. He has a rare metabolic disorder known as Neimann-Pick disease type
C, which at this time is a terminal condition. As a result of his ailment, Dillon
S
has very limited mobility, which normally
would prohibit him from playing kid pitch
baseball for safety reasons.
Thankfully, a group of parents who volunteer as coaches came to a very quick
agreement about how to keep Dillon’s
dream of playing baseball with his friends
alive. The eight coaches got together and
devised a plan that would allow Dillon to
play. Dillon’s father, Mark Papier was allowed to pitch to Dillon, which he does
on a regular basis in their backyard, at the
start of an inning when Dillon was due to
hit. Each team agreed Dillon would have
a lead off home run each time. This was
the only way to keep him safe. Defensively,
Dillon would play outfield with his father
by his side.
This is such a great gesture by all the participants of the 10U division. So many kids
are capable of playing sports, but few have
a devout love for the game. Dillon possesses an extreme love for the game but was
robbed of his ability to play. Dillon is an
inspiration to the entire league and our
Photo | Darrile Papier
Dillon Papier hits a home run in the Championship Game on June 22. Dillon's Dad, Mark Papier, pitches the winning shot
to him.
league is better with him in it.
Now, to give a nod to the baseball gods!
On June 11, Dillon’s team — the Nationals
— coached by Gary McKee, earned a spot
in the 10U division championship game vs.
the Giants, coached by Pete Tomasulo. In
a day where too much emphasis is put on
winning and not enough on development
and enjoyment of the game, it is only right
that the boy who loves the game of basen
playbook Continued on page 34
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Urbana Hawks Teams Win in Baseball and Softball
from page 12
In June, several teams from Urbana were big winners in the Linganore Oakdale
Urbana Athletic Association (LOUYAA) regional baseball and softball tournaments.
— By Kristy Crawford
Urbana Hawks
Baseball & Softball
Come experience one of the best youth
sports programs in Maryland.
Photo | Submitted
The 13-and-under Urbana baseball team won first place in the 2012 Montgomery County Baseball Association
(MCBA) tournament. Front row: Ryan Washabaugh, Andrew Bullock, Brady Lowe, Tyler Scholz, Tyler Woodward and
Colin Murphey. Back row: Coach Eric Scholz, Coach Tim Mellott, Ian Faulconer, Logan Haggerty, Alex Rojas, Coach
Jason Woodward, Josh Faulconer, Coach Dan Lowe, Sam McFadden and Coach Chuck Washabaugh.
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Photo | Submitted
In the 12-and-under division, the Hawks took home the 2012 Frederick Cal Ripken Championship Trophy. Front
row, from left: Jordan Myers, Lucas Hayes, Sean Carey, Kellyn Curry, CJ Parisi and Jake Deak. Back row: Coach Fred
Carey, Charlie Kennedy , Tyler Woodward, Coach Will Yakel, Cody Phipps, Coach Paul Antognoni, Reese Antognoni,
Hunter Quartucci and Coach Tim Deak.
Photo | Submitted
In girls’ softball, the Urbana Hawks 15-and-under team won the Frederick County Girls’ Softball League (FCGSL)
crown. Front row: Shelby Day and Julia Balderson. Second row: bat boy John Hanna, Kathleen Willett, Coach
Brian Downs, Micki Quartucci and Leah Chewning. Back Row: Coach Emily Downs, Dana Day, Kelly McCarthy,
Rebecca Downs, Amber Murphy, Katie McKee and Coach Stephanie Murphy. Not pictured: Rachael MacDonald and
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playbook
from page 32
that I share this story in hope that parents,
players and fans are reminded to appreciate
the love of the game. With this in mind,
we must remember that passion and love
are not measured by a player’s ability, but
by his heart.
To assist the Papiers with the awareness
campaign and funding for NPC Type C
research, the Dillon Papier Charity Golf
Tournament is being held Sept. 21 at
Hollow Creek Golf Club. To participate or
sponsor, go to www.dillonsfight.org. Also
on the first Monday of every month (including Aug. 6), Foster’s Grille in Urbana
donates a portion of the evening’s proceeds
to the National Niemann-Pick Disease
Foundation in honor of Dillon.
ball so dearly gets to play in a championship game.
The Nationals carried a record of 4-61 on the season, placing them sixth out of
eight teams. Though the Nationals lost the
championship game, they were still victorious. Dillon was able to continue playing
the game he loves, which is a testament to
all those involved in the decision to allow
him to play at this level. To top it all off,
Dillon was given the opportunity of a lifetime when both coaches in the championship game allowed him to pitch to Charlie
Bundy.
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1 car garage!
Short Sale
Sold for 98% of
List Price
3732 Singleton Terrace
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $2,100
9061 Clendenin Way
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $429,900
3815 Sugarloaf Parkway
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $309,900
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3524 Tabard Lane
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $289,900
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Above List Price
in 11 Days
102% of List Price
in 4 Days
Elaine Did it Again!
101% Of List
Price In 9 Days
3847 Triton Lane
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $515,000
3994 Braidwood Drive
URBANA HIGHLANDS • $358,000
8929 Amelung Street
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $297,000
3835 Sugarloaf Parkway
VILLAGES OF URBANA $332,900
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Another Successful
Short Sale
99.9% Of List Price
95% Of List Price
Sold in 10 Days!
9414 Prospect Hill Place
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $260,000
9073 Clandenin Way
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $465,000
9410 Prospect Hill Place
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $265,000
4005 Wyndham Way
VILLAGES OF URBANA • $499,000
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Found the Buyer
Listed &
Found Buyer
Elaine Did it Again
98.7% of List Price
97% of List Price
2677 Brook Valley Road
WORKMANS MILL • $499,900
2613 Mae Wade Avenue
ADAMSTOWN • $515,000
5106 Garland Court
IJAMSVILLE • $415,000
5215 Fairgreene Way
IJAMSVILLE • $492,000
10 Jennifer Lynne Drive
BRUNSWICK • $296,000
6132 Newport Terrace
SPING RIDGE • $232,000