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I DO, I DO . . .<br />
OR<br />
YEA! I DID IT!<br />
Our next issue will kick off the month<br />
of June which is Black Music Month,<br />
National Dairy Month, and National<br />
Ice Tea Month. We will also be<br />
highlighting Father’s Day 2006, Juneteenth 2006, the<br />
annual Folklife Festival on the mall, the annual Waterfront<br />
Festival, National Hunger Awareness Day, the BET Awards, the<br />
50th Anniversary of the Interstate System, and the<br />
SILVERDOCS documentary film festival—just to mention a<br />
few. June is also the month of brides and grads, so if you have<br />
either on your agenda, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Herald</strong> would like to offer you<br />
our sincere CONGRATS and wish you and your family members<br />
the BESTEST, COOLEST, MOST BLESSED time ever!<br />
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County<br />
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County<br />
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VOLUME XV, NUMBER 21 Imaging the Politics, Culture, and Events of Our Times<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
✶✮✶✸✻✲✪✵☎✭✪❂<br />
✻✮✶✮✶✫✻✪✷✬✮☎✖✔✔✚<br />
✽he<br />
Shadow<br />
of<br />
Sunlight<br />
holds<br />
everything<br />
still<br />
in<br />
its<br />
silence . . .<br />
As<br />
it<br />
walks<br />
across<br />
a<br />
carpeted<br />
field<br />
of<br />
grass<br />
painted<br />
in<br />
a<br />
thousand<br />
shades<br />
of<br />
green,<br />
a<br />
boy<br />
moves<br />
towards<br />
the<br />
hallowed<br />
grounds<br />
which<br />
hold<br />
the<br />
man<br />
that<br />
taught<br />
him<br />
how<br />
to<br />
play<br />
baseball<br />
and<br />
to<br />
laugh<br />
from<br />
the<br />
frame<br />
of<br />
his<br />
stomach<br />
and<br />
not<br />
the<br />
back<br />
of<br />
his<br />
throat.<br />
A<br />
man<br />
who<br />
thawed<br />
his<br />
mind<br />
from<br />
being<br />
self-centered<br />
and<br />
non-caring.<br />
A<br />
place<br />
where<br />
love<br />
over-ruled<br />
all<br />
other<br />
emotions . . .<br />
He<br />
is<br />
a<br />
soldier’s<br />
son<br />
who<br />
believed<br />
in<br />
God<br />
and<br />
country<br />
and<br />
family<br />
and<br />
self . . .<br />
He<br />
pinched<br />
the<br />
small<br />
coin<br />
that<br />
his<br />
dad<br />
had<br />
given<br />
him<br />
and<br />
cupped<br />
it<br />
in<br />
Photo Courtesy<br />
Department of Defense<br />
his<br />
other<br />
hand . . .<br />
He<br />
knew<br />
that<br />
there<br />
would<br />
be<br />
no<br />
easy<br />
way<br />
to<br />
start<br />
this<br />
conversation,<br />
but<br />
he<br />
must<br />
talk<br />
about<br />
how<br />
life<br />
had<br />
stopped<br />
and<br />
then<br />
started<br />
again.<br />
He<br />
now<br />
lives<br />
Continued on<br />
page 2<br />
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in<br />
a<br />
moment<br />
that<br />
is<br />
not<br />
totally<br />
his<br />
. . . A<br />
foreign<br />
place<br />
that<br />
he<br />
accepts<br />
but<br />
does<br />
not<br />
know<br />
. . . yet<br />
he<br />
is<br />
at<br />
a<br />
place<br />
where<br />
the<br />
past<br />
with<br />
his<br />
past<br />
comes<br />
alive<br />
. . .he<br />
almost<br />
always<br />
start<br />
his<br />
conversations<br />
with<br />
his<br />
dad<br />
by<br />
saying<br />
his<br />
dad<br />
is<br />
love . . .<br />
And<br />
that<br />
now<br />
and<br />
always<br />
he<br />
will<br />
take<br />
care<br />
of<br />
the<br />
family<br />
and<br />
mom . . .<br />
and<br />
you<br />
always<br />
say<br />
that<br />
all<br />
is<br />
all<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
Editorial<br />
and<br />
nothing<br />
is<br />
alone<br />
. . . and<br />
that<br />
our<br />
family<br />
is<br />
now<br />
living<br />
on<br />
our<br />
side<br />
of<br />
the<br />
divide<br />
for<br />
this<br />
moment;<br />
you<br />
and<br />
I.<br />
. . . death<br />
and<br />
life<br />
side<br />
by<br />
side<br />
expressing<br />
the<br />
pain<br />
and<br />
sorrow . . .<br />
beyond<br />
that<br />
look<br />
for<br />
the<br />
good.<br />
. . . then<br />
why<br />
are<br />
you<br />
dead<br />
and<br />
who’s<br />
tomorrow<br />
can<br />
I<br />
steal<br />
. . . I<br />
am<br />
alone<br />
inside<br />
your<br />
thoughts.<br />
Where<br />
can<br />
you<br />
take<br />
tomorrow,<br />
today<br />
with<br />
sails<br />
powered<br />
with<br />
your<br />
dreams<br />
and<br />
my<br />
determination<br />
yet<br />
dad<br />
we<br />
are<br />
not<br />
the<br />
one’s<br />
choosing<br />
the<br />
peace . . .<br />
Iraq<br />
has<br />
now<br />
sucked-out<br />
all<br />
of<br />
my<br />
oxygen<br />
as<br />
it<br />
suffocated<br />
all<br />
of<br />
yours . . .<br />
You<br />
have<br />
always<br />
said<br />
push<br />
the<br />
edge<br />
of<br />
where<br />
you<br />
are<br />
to<br />
where<br />
you<br />
want<br />
it<br />
to<br />
be.<br />
I<br />
am<br />
confused,<br />
yet<br />
I<br />
know<br />
God<br />
is<br />
always<br />
having<br />
us<br />
re-think<br />
our<br />
morality<br />
. . . And<br />
the<br />
will<br />
of<br />
God<br />
may<br />
lie<br />
beneath<br />
many<br />
options<br />
available<br />
to<br />
man . . .<br />
And<br />
where<br />
is<br />
the<br />
road<br />
to<br />
peace.<br />
I<br />
love<br />
you . . .<br />
Every<br />
year<br />
my<br />
conversation<br />
with<br />
you<br />
will<br />
get<br />
easier . . .<br />
but<br />
not<br />
now,<br />
your<br />
death<br />
has<br />
suddened<br />
upon<br />
us,<br />
. . . faith<br />
is<br />
a<br />
way<br />
of<br />
covering<br />
thoughts<br />
. . .you<br />
always<br />
said<br />
to<br />
me,<br />
that<br />
I<br />
could<br />
never<br />
hit<br />
two<br />
curve<br />
balls<br />
in<br />
a<br />
row.<br />
I<br />
didn’t<br />
hit<br />
it<br />
last<br />
night<br />
and<br />
I<br />
never<br />
saw<br />
this<br />
one<br />
coming . . .<br />
PDD<br />
2 THE METRO HERALD
May 26, 2006<br />
THE METRO HERALD 3
AROUND THE REGION/AROUND THE NATION<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
For the 22nd consecutive year,<br />
local students will have an opportunity<br />
to earn money this<br />
summer while providing an array of<br />
community services to improve the<br />
quality of life for area residents<br />
through Operation Brightside.<br />
Each summer, the “Green Team”<br />
takes on a six-week project conducted<br />
by the Jacksonville Urban League with<br />
support from the Anheuser-Busch<br />
Jacksonville brewery. <strong>The</strong> project<br />
provides jobs for youths from low- to<br />
moderate-level income families.<br />
By joining the Anheuser-Busch Operation<br />
Brightside team, they are improving<br />
the quality of life for area residents,<br />
advancing their education and<br />
earning money while they’re doing it.<br />
One of the core priorities of the Green<br />
Team program is to teach job skills to<br />
the participants.<br />
“Operation Brightside gives these<br />
students a sense of volunteerism and<br />
humanitarianism that will be instilled<br />
in them for a lifetime. It shows the<br />
participants and others around them<br />
that there is joy in helping others,” said<br />
Syl Robinson, plant manager for the<br />
Jacksonville brewery. “Equally if not<br />
more important, however, are the job<br />
skills the participants learn. On the<br />
Green Team, they are taught the importance<br />
of getting along with coworkers,<br />
being punctual and seeing a<br />
job through to completion.”<br />
According to Richard Danford,<br />
Ph.D., Jacksonville area Urban League<br />
president, the Anheuser-Busch Jacksonville<br />
brewery has supported the<br />
Urban League since 1984.<br />
“Like Anheuser-Busch, the Urban<br />
League has a long, proud tradition of<br />
serving the community, and we’re<br />
pleased to be part of Operation Brightside,”<br />
said Danford. “<strong>The</strong> Operation<br />
Brightside program enables participants<br />
to fulfill self-proposed missions<br />
of giving back to their respective communities<br />
and finding solutions to community<br />
needs.”<br />
To be selected for the Green Team,<br />
each student must complete a written<br />
application and interview, submit a<br />
copy of their transcript or report card,<br />
write a 250-word essay and must have<br />
personal recommendations from their<br />
school or respected members of their<br />
communities.<br />
Team members must be at least 16<br />
year of age. <strong>The</strong>y will be paid $6.15<br />
per hour and work six hours a day Monday<br />
through Friday for six weeks, beginning<br />
June 26, 2006. <strong>The</strong> Green<br />
Team activity ends Aug. 4, 2006, with a<br />
commemorative luncheon and a career<br />
day that helps team members learn how<br />
PROJECT TO HELP IMPROVE HEALTH<br />
OF CHESAPEAKE BAY COMPLETED<br />
Officials at <strong>The</strong> Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission<br />
announced that the major maintenance project on an existing<br />
storm water management pond in Sligo Creek Stream Valley<br />
Park in Silver Spring, designed to improve environmental runoff into the<br />
Chesapeake Bay, has been completed and the trail has been reopened.<br />
Located upstream of University Boulevard behind the Kemp Mill Shopping<br />
Center, the pond provides water quality and flood control benefits to the<br />
downstream sections of Sligo Creek.<br />
Over time, the pond collected material generated from upstream erosion<br />
and ensures those materials does not end up in the Chesapeake Bay. <strong>The</strong><br />
project removed the collected sediments and modified the control systems for<br />
improved efficiency.<br />
To protect trails around the surrounding area and maintain pedestrian access<br />
during construction, the contractor installed wood mulch paths and safety<br />
fencing along the existing hiker/biker trail between University Boulevard and<br />
the pond. Materials generated from the project were used to grade an open<br />
space within Evans Parkway Neighborhood Park to improve drainage and usability.<br />
“Nearby residents and trail users were very patient with the construction<br />
process which took longer than expected due to weather and limited work<br />
areas, but the trail is now reopened and the pond function has been improved<br />
dramatically in terms of protecting Sligo Creek,” said project manager Andy<br />
Frank.<br />
M-NCPPC’s award-winning 32,695-acre park system in Montgomery<br />
County includes 395 parks, 274 playgrounds, 305 tennis courts, 360 athletic<br />
fields, more than 200 miles of trails, two ice rinks, 133 picnic areas, nature<br />
and equestrian centers, lakes and marinas, recreation buildings and more.<br />
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www.metroherald.com<br />
OPERATION<br />
BRIGHTSIDE 2006<br />
to prepare a resume and search for a job.<br />
This year, Anheuser-Busch will<br />
contribute almost $500,000 to sponsor<br />
Green Team programs in the cities in<br />
which it operates breweries. <strong>The</strong> company<br />
also has sponsored Green Teams<br />
at summer and winter Olympic competitions,<br />
entertainment events and major<br />
sports events, including the 2006<br />
NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis.<br />
For more information, visit www.<br />
anheuser-busch.com<br />
CIVIC FORUM ON<br />
GERMANTOWN<br />
MASTER PLAN<br />
To begin updating the 1989<br />
Germantown Master Plan,<br />
the Montgomery County<br />
Department of Planning invites the<br />
public to participate in a civic<br />
forum on Wednesday, May 31<br />
from 7:30p.m. to 9p.m. with discussion<br />
by community and business<br />
leaders. <strong>The</strong> forum will take<br />
place at the Black Rock Center for<br />
the Arts, 12901 Town Commons<br />
Drive, Germantown.<br />
Montgomery County Councilmember<br />
Michael Knapp (District<br />
2, Upcounty) will moderate<br />
the discussion on the future of the<br />
employment corridor identified in<br />
the 1989 Germantown Master<br />
Plan. Panel participants include:<br />
• Allison Bryant, Ph.D., Montgomery<br />
County Planning Board<br />
• Royce Hanson, former Planning<br />
Board Chairman for the<br />
1974 Germantown Master Plan<br />
• Steve Poteat, former Upcounty<br />
Regional Services Center Director<br />
• John Carter, Chief, Community-Based<br />
Planning Division.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panel will discuss the past,<br />
present and future of the area along<br />
the I-270 High Technology Employment<br />
Corridor in Germantown.<br />
Participants will explore<br />
the relationship between transportation<br />
infrastructure and land<br />
use planning in a community<br />
where residential and retail elements<br />
are nearly built out.<br />
By 2030, <strong>The</strong> Maryland-National<br />
Capital Park and Planning<br />
Commission’s Research and Technology<br />
Center projects that Germantown<br />
will achieve 57 percent<br />
of the employment capacity<br />
planned in the 1989 Master Plan.<br />
At that point in time, 93 percent of<br />
the housing capacity would be<br />
reached.<br />
<strong>The</strong> May 31 civic forum will<br />
also provide input to a panel of<br />
land developers from the Urban<br />
Land Institute of Washington, DC.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Urban Land Institute worksession<br />
on June 26-30, 2006 is sponsored<br />
by the Germantown-<br />
Gaithersburg Chamber of<br />
Commerce, 301-840-1400, and<br />
various property owners.<br />
More information, including<br />
the current Germantown Master<br />
Plan, is available at www.mcmncppc.org/community/plan_ar<br />
eas/I270_corridor/master_plans/<br />
germantownmp0789/germantown0789.shtm.<br />
THOMAS ISAAC LOG CABIN<br />
HOLDS HERITAGE FAIR<br />
<strong>The</strong> Thomas Isaac Log Cabin located at 8398 Main Street and Ellicott’s<br />
Mills Drive, Historic Ellicott City, MD 21043 will host a variety of vendors<br />
celebrating Maryland history from 10am until 5pm on Friday<br />
and Saturday; June 2nd and 3rd. Sunday’s hours are from 11am until 5pm,<br />
June 4th, 2006. Local authors will be selling and signing books on local and<br />
Maryland history. Traditional crafters will offer their wares; living historians—<br />
their gently used re-production 17th–20th Century clothing and accoutrements<br />
as well as local gardeners selling plants and cuttings. <strong>The</strong> Heritage Fair is just<br />
one of many participants in Historic Ellicott City’s National Road Yard Sale<br />
Days held in the restored 19th Century village. Don’t miss Catonsville’s National<br />
Road Yard Sale Days, just five miles, east of Ellicott City, June 2–4th ,<br />
the Catonsville Strawberry Festival on June 3rd and the yard sales in Poplar<br />
Springs, West Friendship and Mt. Airy (Route 144), just West of Ellicott City,<br />
Maryland. All these charming towns are from seven to 20 miles from Baltimore<br />
and about 25 miles from Washington, DC on Route 144, An All American<br />
Scenic Byway.<br />
<strong>The</strong> First Annual Historic National Road Yard Sale Days will be held from<br />
May 31-June 4, 2006 in celebration of our nation’s first interstate highway’s bicentennial.<br />
Individuals, families and businesses are invited to hold their own Independent<br />
yard, garage and sidewalk sales all along the Historic National Road<br />
from Baltimore to St. Louis. That’s 824 miles of treasure hunting. <strong>The</strong> Historic<br />
National Road is also known as Route 144, Main Street and Frederick Road in<br />
Baltimore and Howard Counties. For more information on <strong>The</strong> First Annual Historic<br />
National Road Yard Sale Days and the Thomas Isaac Log Cabin Heritage<br />
Fair contact 301-371-7531 or kkair@starpower.net For more information on<br />
Historic Ellicott City’s National Road Yard Sale Days and Howard County yard<br />
sales contact: Ed Lilley at 410-313-1905 or Edward@visithowardcounty.com.<br />
For more information on Catonsville’s National Road Yard Sale Days, contact<br />
Patsy Anderson at 410-744-4042 or womenonfire@hotmail.com<br />
RED CROSS SHOPPERS PROGRAM<br />
SEEKS VOLUNTEERS<br />
For some seniors and individuals with disabilities, shopping for groceries<br />
presents major challenges. But, help is available through the<br />
Volunteer Shoppers Program of <strong>The</strong> American Red Cross of the National<br />
Capital Area.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program currently needs volunteers to provide escort and non-escort<br />
grocery shopping services for seniors and individuals with disabilities<br />
throughout Montgomery County, but especially in the Bethesda, Rockville<br />
and Silver Spring areas.<br />
Each volunteer is matched with a client whom they either escort to the grocery<br />
store or shop for on a regular basis. By donating two hours of time each<br />
week, every two weeks, or once a month, volunteers assist those who are not<br />
able to drive or carry groceries. Being able to meet their own nutritional<br />
needs enables clients to continue to live in their own homes. <strong>The</strong> client-volunteer<br />
relationship also offers the client regular social connection, helps to alleviate<br />
isolation and loneliness, and promotes good health through adequate<br />
nutrition.<br />
All volunteers under the age of 18 must have parental permission to participate.<br />
Those 16 years and over may participate on their own, but younger<br />
volunteers-who must be at least 14-must be accompanied by a parent when<br />
shopping.<br />
Training is provided for volunteers who also have the opportunity to take<br />
other Red Cross courses-such as First Aid and CPR-free of charge.<br />
For additional information, contact the Montgomery County Volunteer<br />
Center at 240-777-2600.<br />
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA HOLDS THE<br />
ANNUAL ARMENIAN FESTIVAL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Annual Armenian Festival is scheduled for Saturday, June 3,<br />
from noon to 6pm at Market Square, 301 King St. <strong>The</strong> festival will<br />
be held rain or shine, and admission is free.<br />
<strong>The</strong> festival will feature traditional Armenian folk dancers; instrumentalist,<br />
soloists, and performing arts groups; displays showcasing Armenian<br />
paintings and arts and crafts; and several exhibits depicting ongoing earthquake<br />
and relief projects. Armenian food and pastries will be available for<br />
purchase.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Armenian Festival is an annual charity event that benefits Gyumri,<br />
Alexandria’s Sister City, in Armenia. Proceeds from the festival assist with<br />
the humanitarian and educational needs of Gyumri’s citizens. <strong>The</strong> City’s Department<br />
of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities and the Alexandria-<br />
Gyumri Sister City Committee are co-sponsoring the event.<br />
For additional information, call the City’s Events Hotline at 703-883-4686<br />
or visit alexandriava.gov.<br />
Visitors to the historic district are encouraged to take the <strong>Metro</strong> yellow or<br />
blue lines to the King Street <strong>Metro</strong> Station in Old Town, take DASH or <strong>Metro</strong><br />
buses, or park in one of the convenient parking garages or lots. For a parking<br />
map, contact the Alexandra Convention and Visitors Association at 703-838-<br />
4200.<br />
4 THE METRO HERALD
AROUND THE REGION/AROUND THE NATION<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD:<br />
MARYLAND’S NETWORK<br />
TO FREEDOM MAP GUIDE<br />
<strong>The</strong> Underground Railroad:<br />
Maryland’s Network to Freedom<br />
map guide showcases a<br />
collection of sites, programs and facilities<br />
that have witnessed or interpret<br />
the stories of freedom seekers along<br />
the Underground Railroad. Most of<br />
these places are part of the National<br />
Park Service’s Network to Freedom.<br />
Maryland is the first state in the nation<br />
to publish a map guide of its sites in<br />
the program. <strong>The</strong> Network to Freedom<br />
was mandated by Congress in<br />
1998.<br />
“This map guide, Underground<br />
Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom,<br />
resulted from the need to bring<br />
the dramatic stories of these freedom<br />
seekers to light, and we are very proud<br />
to be the first in the nation to do so,”<br />
said Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.<br />
“We are also pleased with the joint efforts<br />
of the National Park Service, state<br />
and local government, and private entities<br />
to preserve, interpret and present<br />
Maryland’s African-American history<br />
and heritage to the traveling public.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> state also recently released a<br />
new booklet called Maryland’s<br />
African-American Heritage Guide, a<br />
32-page publication that serves as an<br />
introduction to the Maryland African-<br />
American experience from Colonial<br />
times up to present-day.<br />
Map guides will be distributed by<br />
the Maryland Welcome Centers, local<br />
tourism visitor centers, and at sites in<br />
the collection. Visitors may also call<br />
800-719-5900 or order via www.visitmaryland.org.<br />
NEW EIDTION OF<br />
COMMUTER GUIDE<br />
Anewly-updated edition of<br />
“Getting <strong>The</strong>re,” a free guide<br />
to facilities and services accessible<br />
by public transportation in the<br />
North Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg,<br />
and Germantown areas, is now<br />
available. <strong>The</strong> guide shows how easy<br />
it is to get around without a car and<br />
features information on both transit<br />
and bike trails.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guide offers both employees<br />
and residents in the Maryland Route<br />
355 and I-270 corridors information on<br />
Ride On, <strong>Metro</strong>rail, <strong>Metro</strong>bus, and<br />
MARC Commuter Rail, and includes<br />
maps showing the public transportation<br />
connections to major retail centers,<br />
recreation and community facilities,<br />
medical centers, post offices, local<br />
government offices, public libraries,<br />
and other areas of interest.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guide provides addresses, telephone<br />
numbers, and websites for public<br />
transportation options, and lists<br />
helpful hints for taking public transportation.<br />
For copies of the guide, contact or<br />
NEW AREA GUIDES NOW AVAILABLE<br />
visit the Montgomery County Commuter<br />
Services Office, Department of<br />
Public Works and Transportation, 8401<br />
Colesville Road, Suite 150, Silver<br />
Spring 20910, or call (301) 770-POOL<br />
(7665). You can also email your requests<br />
for the guide to: commuter.<br />
express@montgomerycountymd.<br />
gov.<br />
For more information, go to www.<br />
montgomerycountymd.gov/commute.<br />
RECREATIONAL TRAILS<br />
GUIDE<br />
Many Washington area residents<br />
enjoy hiking and biking<br />
the popular W&OD trail<br />
which stretches more than 45 miles between<br />
Arlington and the Town of Purcellville.<br />
However, many residents<br />
may be unfamiliar with 23 other trails<br />
in Northern Virginia. Nineteen maps,<br />
information on each location and types<br />
of facilities nearby are included in “An<br />
Introductory Guide to Recreational<br />
Trails in Northern Virginia” published<br />
by the Northern Virginia Regional<br />
Commission.<br />
Each separate, trail-by-trail map insert<br />
includes three primary types of information:<br />
a narrative description of<br />
the trail, a map, and a trail elevation<br />
profile. An index map identifies the<br />
location of the facility/park in Northern<br />
Virginia as well as directions to the<br />
primary access point or the park in<br />
which the trail is located. <strong>The</strong> narrative<br />
also includes a qualitative assessment<br />
of the level of difficulty; identification<br />
of the major sites or attractions<br />
along the trail, surface type, parking<br />
and trail length.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guide is published in an attractive,<br />
easy to use format that allows the<br />
user to carry the individual map with<br />
them while hiking, biking or horseback<br />
riding. Tri-folded maps fit easily into<br />
saddlebags, hip pockets or back packs.<br />
Maps illustrate the location of trailheads,<br />
parking, connecting trails, and<br />
facilities along the trail. Elevation<br />
profiles give the user a sense of the terrain<br />
that the trail traverses as well as<br />
the general level of difficulty.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Introductory Guide to Recreational<br />
Trails in Northern Virginia can<br />
be ordered from NVRC by mailing an<br />
order form available on the website<br />
www.novaregion.org (click on publications)<br />
or by visiting the NVRC offices,<br />
3060 <strong>Will</strong>iams Drive, Suite 510,<br />
Fairfax, VA 22031. All orders must be<br />
prepaid by cash or check only. Call<br />
703-642-0700 for more information.<br />
Each Guide costs $9.95 each plus shipping<br />
and handling and discounts are<br />
available when multiple guides are<br />
purchased. <strong>The</strong> Recreational Trails<br />
Guide is also sold at area bicycle<br />
stores.<br />
For more information about<br />
NVRC, visit www.novaregion.org or<br />
call 703-642-0700.<br />
NORTHERN VIRGINIA<br />
QUICK GUIDE<br />
<strong>The</strong> Northern Virginia Regional<br />
Commission has published the<br />
15th edition of the Quick<br />
Guide, an index to more than 1,000<br />
public and private agencies offering a<br />
variety of human services to Northern<br />
Virginians. <strong>The</strong> 2006 Guide provides<br />
information about services including<br />
abuse and neglect of children or adults,<br />
alcohol and drug abuse, budget counseling,<br />
consumer complaints and protection,<br />
day care for children and<br />
adults, disability issues, emergency<br />
needs, multi-cultural services, health<br />
care information, in-home services, rehabilitative<br />
services, shelters, and senior<br />
and youth services.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quick Guide helps case managers,<br />
social workers, school guidance<br />
counselors, mental health outreach<br />
workers, police personnel, and others,<br />
to quickly find the services that their<br />
clients need. <strong>The</strong> comprehensive<br />
index lists services provided by the<br />
City of Alexandria, the counties of Arlington,<br />
Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince<br />
<strong>Will</strong>iam, as well as regional agencies<br />
and other organizations.<br />
Copies of the Quick Guide cost<br />
$3.50 each plus shipping and handling.<br />
Multiple copies are available at a discount.<br />
To request a copy call 703-642-<br />
0700 or download the order form from<br />
www.novaregion.org. <strong>The</strong> printed<br />
Quick Guide is portable—just 4x6<br />
inches and less than 100 pages long.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quick Guide can also be<br />
viewed on line, where updates are<br />
posted throughout the year. Go to<br />
www.novaregion.org/qgonline.htm.<br />
Lake Anne Village was dedicated<br />
forty-one years ago<br />
marking the beginning of what<br />
is now recognized as the world-class,<br />
planned community of Reston. At a<br />
time when suburban areas outside the<br />
nation’s capital were focused on the<br />
size of the house and the yard, Reston’s<br />
plan was about creating a community.<br />
Robert E. Simon’s seven goals were<br />
the foundation of the plan and will sustain<br />
the community into the future.<br />
Guided by these goals, a community<br />
was created where we find diversity of<br />
housing types; pedestrians taking priority<br />
over vehicles; a mix of uses connecting<br />
people and places; the environment<br />
being primary in all<br />
development; and economic stability.<br />
Today Reston’s Master Plan is reality<br />
as cranes around Reston Town Center<br />
signal the development of the last<br />
parceled sites. Just as it took decades for<br />
a Plan developed forty years ago to create<br />
today’s community, planning must<br />
guide Reston’s future. <strong>The</strong> changes that<br />
will take place in the future will address<br />
the redevelopment of the Industrial Corridor,<br />
Lake Anne Village, and the building<br />
of rail to Wiehle Avenue and on to<br />
Dulles Airport. Reston citizens were involved<br />
in the early planning and development<br />
of the community and citizens<br />
will continue to play a similar role in<br />
planning Reston’s future.<br />
A citizen task force participated in<br />
the 2001 re-planning of the Industrial<br />
Corridor along the Dulles Toll Road.<br />
“BIKE THROUGH TIME” ON<br />
NATIONAL TRAILS DAY WITH<br />
ALEXANDRIA ARCHAEOLOGY<br />
Celebrate National Trails Day with a 15-mile bike tour of a loop of<br />
the Alexandria Heritage Trail, guided by staff from the Alexandria<br />
Archaeology Museum. <strong>The</strong> ride includes some street bicycling,<br />
gravel trails, a few hills and a guided tour of some of Alexandria’s lesser<br />
known prehistoric archaeological sites. <strong>The</strong> tour will stop in Old Town to<br />
see the Godspeed and for an optional lunch. Bring a bike lock and some<br />
money for lunch.<br />
This bicycle tour is free and open to the general public. Tour takes place<br />
on Saturday, June 3, 2006 from 10a.m.–1p.m. at the George Washington<br />
Masonic National Memorial located at 101 Callahan Drive, Alexandria<br />
Pre-registration and helmets are required. Children under 16 years old<br />
must be accompanied by a participating adult. Sponsored by Alexandria Archaeology<br />
and BikeWalk Alexandria..<br />
For more information contact the Alexandria Archaeology Museum at<br />
703-838-4399.<br />
KEEPING THE UNITY IN<br />
COMMUNITY . . .<br />
CATHY M. HUDGINS<br />
Special to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Herald</strong><br />
REMEMBER<br />
OUR VETS ON<br />
MEMORIAL<br />
DAY<br />
<strong>The</strong> task force made recommendations<br />
using many of the original principals<br />
of early Reston, and the Comprehensive<br />
Plan was changed accordingly: tapered<br />
density around transit station<br />
areas, a diversity of housing in pedestrian<br />
friendly neighborhoods, open<br />
space and public art, and pedestrian access<br />
to the transit station.<br />
<strong>The</strong> county-owned Wiehle Avenue<br />
parking lot was subject to a Request for<br />
Proposal (RFP) for joint development<br />
with the private sector. <strong>The</strong> desire is to<br />
develop the nine-acre parcel meeting<br />
Federal Transit Administration requirements<br />
to provide parking, but incorporating<br />
the parking in a mixed-use development<br />
on the site. Design principals for<br />
the RFP were developed with citizen<br />
input, consistent with the Industrial Corridor<br />
change. <strong>The</strong> final results of the RFP<br />
will be announced in the near future.<br />
Lake Anne Village Center is still<br />
considered the heart of Reston by<br />
many; however, forty years after its<br />
dedication, this scenic area needs updating.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2005 Lake Anne Charrette<br />
developed guidelines for Lake Anne<br />
revitalization. An RFP has been issued<br />
to identify consultant services to develop<br />
design guidelines to assist in<br />
moving forward.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most significant changes to the<br />
Reston community and the Dulles Corridor<br />
will come with the Dulles Corridor<br />
<strong>Metro</strong>rail Project (DCMP). Phase<br />
I, ending at Wiehle Avenue, is scheduled<br />
to receive the final approval to<br />
begin construction in 2006 and project<br />
completion is scheduled for 2011. In<br />
preparation for rail, a Wiehle Avenue<br />
Station Management Plan will be developed<br />
to determine how to effectively<br />
manage vehicular and pedestrian<br />
traffic in and around the Wiehle Avenue<br />
Station. A Project Advisory Committee<br />
(PAC) comprised of community<br />
stakeholders will work to establish and<br />
provide oversight of the Plan. A series<br />
of community meetings will be conducted<br />
to obtain input and comments<br />
from the public.<br />
Recent agreement by the Commonwealth<br />
to transfer the management of the<br />
DCMP to the <strong>Metro</strong>politan Washington<br />
Airports Authority (MWAA) is one of<br />
the most positive decisions made offering<br />
the most assurance to the successful<br />
completion Phase II. With MWAA managing<br />
the project, the possibility of a<br />
long delay between the completion of<br />
Wiehle Avenue station and the Reston<br />
Parkway station is less likely than believed<br />
earlier. <strong>The</strong> sooner the DCMP is<br />
completed, the less impact the construction<br />
will have on the community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> opening of the Reston Transit<br />
Center at Town Center is another important<br />
change that will provide enhanced<br />
transportation services for resident,<br />
retail, and commercial patrons, as<br />
well as the entire community. Bus service<br />
now, and upon completion of rail, is<br />
critical to improving transportation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last forty years have been<br />
about creating a community based<br />
upon a well defined Reston Master<br />
Plan. Undoubtedly, Reston is one of<br />
the most recognized communities by<br />
planners all around the world. More<br />
importantly, the building of Reston has<br />
created a sense of place and community<br />
for over 65,000 residents and<br />
more than 60,000 employees. Elements<br />
of Reston’s planning have been<br />
emulated within Fairfax County, the<br />
country and abroad. Planning for the<br />
next forty years must complement the<br />
successful community of today.<br />
I invite the community to stay<br />
tuned and involved as we move forward<br />
on these many changes.<br />
THE METRO HERALD 5
AFRICA UPDATE/ASIA PACIFIC AMERICAN MONTH/POTPOURRI<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
AFRICAN CULTURE CENTER TO BREAK<br />
GROUND IN NAMIBIA, AFRICA IN 2006<br />
<strong>The</strong> first African Culture Center (ACC)<br />
(www.africanculturecenter.com/project.html), an entertainment village for<br />
tourists visiting Africa, is scheduled to break ground in the Republic of<br />
Namibia in 2006. <strong>The</strong> ACC features Namibia’s indigenous people creating<br />
native crafts, a traditional Namibian feast and a sunset stage performance that<br />
includes live tribal dancing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ACC was created by <strong>The</strong> PAL Project, Inc., a minority-owned development<br />
company based in California. “Our top priority right now is to raise<br />
investment capital. <strong>The</strong> ACC staff had a successful year raising investment<br />
dollars in 2005 and we are looking forward to an even better year in 2006,”<br />
said company president Karen Crumlin. Crumlin added, “Timing is crucial!<br />
Currently, one U.S. Dollar is worth 6.39 Namibian Dollars. This means that<br />
investment money from the U.S. goes a long way in Namibia. As Africa prepares<br />
for the 2010 World Soccer Cup, this is the perfect time to build a tourist<br />
project, such as the ACC.”<br />
When tourists arrive at the ACC they will have the opportunity to walk<br />
through the African village and interact with natives demonstrating some of<br />
the traditions of their tribe. <strong>The</strong> highlight of the evening is a sunset dinner<br />
filled with the traditional foods of Africa. During dinner, guests are entertained<br />
with a live stage performance featuring song and dance from representatives<br />
of some of the countries 11 different tribes. According to Crumlin,<br />
“It’s like having an African tribesman invite you home for dinner.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> ACC has been endorsed by the Embassy of the Republic of Namibia<br />
in Washington, D.C. as well as representatives from the Namibian government.<br />
Representatives from the various tribes, including the King of Ondonga,<br />
are excited about the opportunity for economic growth in the rural<br />
areas of Namibia. “<strong>The</strong> ACC is a humanitarian effort that gives the Namibian<br />
people a place to tell their story and provides the traditional villager with the<br />
opportunity to earn a respectable salary in a safe environment,” said Crumlin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> PAL Project Inc. is a Mountain View, California-based development<br />
company with offices in the Republic of Namibia, Africa. PAL stands for Project<br />
African Luau. <strong>The</strong> company takes the concept behind the traditional<br />
Hawaiian Luau and redefines it with the traditions of the tribes of Africa. Future<br />
plans include an African Culture Center in Ethiopia.<br />
UGANDA’S DEFENSE MINISTER<br />
PRESENTS TESTIMONY ON<br />
“ENDANGERED CHILDREN”<br />
In written testimony presented on April 26, 2006, to the House International<br />
Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International<br />
Operations, Ugandan Minister of Defense Amama Mbabazi<br />
told Members of Congress about the terrorist threat faced by his country and<br />
its neighbors from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA):<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Lords Resistance Army (LRA) is one of the most brutal terrorist organizations<br />
the world has known in recent history. This criminal group has<br />
orchestrated a terror campaign against the people of Northern Uganda for the<br />
last 19 years. <strong>The</strong> nature and extent of the heinous crimes perpetrated against<br />
innocent civilians is unparalleled. Atrocities meted out by this group; large<br />
scale massacres, abductions, maiming, mutilation, looting of properties, rape<br />
and defilement of young girls caused untold human suffering. . . . Women<br />
and children bore the brunt of this LRA terror campaign.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> hearing explored the topic “<strong>The</strong> Endangered Children of Northern<br />
Uganda.” Minister Mbabazi said that the Ugandan government has responded<br />
to the threat both militarily and through humanitarian and social programs<br />
designed to rescue and rehabilitate the children who have been victimized<br />
by the terrorists.<br />
“One of the most successful aspects of Uganda People’s Defence Forces<br />
(UPDF) operations against the LRA is the rescue of children this terrorist organisation<br />
has abducted in Northern Uganda. Today over 20,000 children<br />
have been rescued from the LRA by the UPDF. Among the newest are 55<br />
children rescued in different UPDF operations in Pader district who reported<br />
to the Christian Children’s Fellowship (CCF) on Tuesday, 25th April 2006.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se are now receiving psychosocial support and other immediate bodily<br />
needs from the CCF.”<br />
Summarizing his government’s response, Minister Mbabazi stated: “<strong>The</strong><br />
Government of Uganda has a triple challenge in relation to getting these children<br />
back into normal society. <strong>The</strong> first challenge is that of receiving them<br />
and meeting their bodily needs. <strong>The</strong> second challenge is that of re-orienting<br />
the minds of the children many of whom were made to commit atrocities<br />
while the girls were for the most part turned into sex slaves. <strong>The</strong> third challenge<br />
that Government and her partners face with the rescued children is to<br />
provide them with the skills necessary to start a new life.”<br />
Noting that the conflict in northern Uganda is often characterized as “a<br />
forgotten war,” the new Ugandan Ambassador to the United States, Perezi<br />
Kamunanwire, commended the subcommittee chairman, Representative<br />
Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), “for sponsoring a hearing on this important but<br />
often overlooked issue.” He added: “Increased attention in the United<br />
States and other countries,” he said, “can only result in the channeling of<br />
greater resources to address the conflict and to deal with the rehabilitation of<br />
the region when the terrorist threat has been eliminated.”<br />
For more information, visit www.ugandaembassy.com/.<br />
ETHIOPIAN<br />
ENVOY GIVES<br />
“REASONS FOR<br />
OPTIMISM”<br />
TO U.S.<br />
CONGRESSIONAL<br />
COMMITTEE<br />
At a congressional hearing<br />
recently, Ethiopia’s acting<br />
ambassador to the United<br />
States said he is “convinced there<br />
are reasons to be optimistic about<br />
the future.”<br />
In oral testimony and a prepared<br />
statement, His Excellency<br />
Fesseha Asghedom Tessema,<br />
chargé d’affaires at the Ethiopian<br />
Embassy in Washington, told<br />
members of the Subcommittee on<br />
Africa, Global Human Rights, and<br />
International Operations of the<br />
House International Relations<br />
Committee that “democratization<br />
has taken a center stage in the development<br />
discourse of today’s<br />
Ethiopian politics. Despite challenges,<br />
Ethiopia is moving on the<br />
right direction towards democratization.”<br />
Ambassador Fesseha added<br />
that “Ethiopia is experiencing<br />
strong economic growth. Our<br />
gross domestic product grew by<br />
11.5 percent in 2004 and 9 percent<br />
in 2005. Despite drought, the agricultural<br />
sector has grown by 15<br />
percent and exports have grown by<br />
24.5 percent in the past year. <strong>The</strong><br />
primary school enrollment rate,<br />
which was 61 percent in 2000-<br />
2001 grew to 79 percent in 2004-<br />
2005. Coverage of health services<br />
at about the same time grew from<br />
52 to 70 percent. <strong>The</strong> infant mortality<br />
rate (under age five), which<br />
was 167 per 1000 in 2002-2003,<br />
declined to 97 per 1000. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
a construction boom in Addis<br />
Ababa and other cities, with residences,<br />
offices, retail shops, and<br />
manufacturing facilities being built<br />
at an unprecedented rate.”<br />
Despite aggressive questioning<br />
by members of the subcommittee<br />
about the current political situation<br />
in Ethiopia, Ambassador Fesseha<br />
responded emphatically to concerns<br />
about human rights, democratization,<br />
and the Ethiopian judiciary.<br />
“Ethiopia is learning, through<br />
experience,” he said, about “how<br />
to become a better democracy.<br />
We are pleased that international<br />
observers, such as those from the<br />
Carter Center, agree that Ethiopia<br />
is on the right path. <strong>The</strong> fact that<br />
opposition parties increased their<br />
seats in Parliament from 12 to 172<br />
is evidence of progress, since a robust<br />
democracy depends in large<br />
part on the participation of an active<br />
and loyal opposition, engaging<br />
the majority party in debate, respectfully<br />
challenging the positions<br />
of the Prime Minister and his<br />
cabinet, and helping to hone proposed<br />
legislation into good, strong,<br />
and effective law for the benefit of<br />
all the people.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> full prepared statement of<br />
Ambassador Fesseha is available<br />
for viewing online at www.<br />
ethiopianembassy. org.<br />
HOYER CELEBRATES ASIAN PACIFIC<br />
AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), a member of the Congressional<br />
Asian Pacific American Caucus, recently released the following statement<br />
in recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,<br />
which is being celebrated throughout the month of May.<br />
“Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the first ever Congressional<br />
Democratic Asian and Pacific Islander American Leadership Summit, where<br />
House and Senate Democrats met with over 100 Asian Pacific American leaders<br />
from across the nation.<br />
“Under the leadership of Chairman Mike Honda (D-CA), the Congressional<br />
Asian Pacific American Caucus has been an instrumental and influential<br />
partner in working with the Democratic Caucus and leadership here in<br />
Congress.<br />
“During this month, we commemorate the significant contributions that<br />
the Asian American and Pacific Islander community has made to our country.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are more than 14 million Asian American and Pacific Islanders in<br />
the United States, including about 300,000 in my home state of Maryland.<br />
Asian Pacific Americans also have the most diverse background of any minority<br />
population, tracing their roots to almost fifty different countries and<br />
ethnic groups.<br />
“Today, Asian Pacific Americans play an important role in every aspect of<br />
American life - as authors and artists, as business leaders, as political leaders,<br />
as military leaders, as scientists and innovators, as athletes, and in virtually<br />
every other aspect of American society.<br />
“In addition to recognizing the important role that Asian Pacific Americans<br />
play in our country, this month’s celebration is also a time to remember<br />
significant historical contributions that Asian Pacific Americans have made to<br />
our nation. From the construction of our transcontinental railroads to defending<br />
the United States in times of war, Asian Pacific Americans have contributed<br />
greatly to the American tapestry.<br />
“I am pleased Americans have so much to benefit as a result of our diverse<br />
society. We continue to learn from each other and share each other’s traditions,<br />
history, and culture.<br />
“That is why it gives me great pleasure today to recognize the significant<br />
advances and contributions made by the Asian Pacific American Community<br />
to our country during Asian Pacific Heritage Month.”<br />
UNIVERSOUL CIRCUS 2006—<br />
DISCOVER THE JOY<br />
UniverSoul Circus is staging its<br />
largest most ambitious production<br />
ever in its 13th touring<br />
season, breaking new ground once<br />
again with the premier of soulful center<br />
ring Ice Skaters, a brand new Ringmaster,<br />
the return of Ringmaster’s<br />
sidekick Zeke. UniverSoul Circus<br />
plays the Washington area at Capital<br />
Plaza Mall in Landover Hills, Md.,<br />
May 31-June 18.<br />
“It’s cool, it’s fresh, its urban,” explains<br />
UniverSoul Founder and President<br />
Cedric Walker. “It’s more than a<br />
satisfying experience.”<br />
UniverSoul Circus opens in Landover<br />
Hills May 31 thru June 18 at<br />
Capital Plaza Mall, 6200 Annapolis<br />
Rd. Tickets, ranging from $10 to $35,<br />
are on sale now via Ticketmaster.<br />
Group sales are available by calling<br />
800-316-7439. Show times: Opening<br />
night 7:30p.m.; Tuesdays thru Fridays<br />
10:30a.m. and 7:30p.m.; Saturdays<br />
12 noon; 4:30p.m. and 8p.m.;<br />
Sundays 1p.m., 4p.m. and 7p.m.<br />
With acts<br />
from North<br />
America,<br />
South America,<br />
Africa, Asia, Europe, and the<br />
Caribbean, UniverSoul has sought to<br />
infuse center ring with a new energy<br />
and vitality that appeals to urban (and<br />
suburban) America. <strong>The</strong> array of cultures<br />
and talent underneath the Univer-<br />
Soul Circus big top includes new acts<br />
from China, Ethiopia and France.<br />
New in 2006, UniverSoul Circus<br />
welcomes Tony Tone, one of the fastest<br />
rising comedians in America today—<br />
as its new Ringmaster. Tone, a master<br />
impressionist, has opened for Jamie<br />
Foxx, Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle,<br />
among many others. He has appeared<br />
on such shows as HBO’s Def Comedy<br />
Jam and BET’s Comicview.<br />
Zeke, an original member of UniverSoul<br />
Circus, is returning to a familiar<br />
role—as the beloved Ringmaster’s<br />
Sidekick.<br />
“This is a show created especially<br />
produced for everyone’s enjoyment,”<br />
said Walker. “Good, clean, fast paced,<br />
non-stop, family fun does not discriminate.<br />
My worldwide search for young,<br />
cross cultural talent continues to reap<br />
great rewards for the circus and its audience.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se acts are amazing!”<br />
For more information visit www.<br />
universoulcircus.com.<br />
6 THE METRO HERALD
CAPITAL COMMENTS/INSIGHTS & VIEWPOINTS<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
ALEXANDRIA MAYOR AND<br />
ENTIRE INCOMING CITY<br />
COUNCIL ENDORSE HARRIS<br />
MILLER FOR U.S. SENATE<br />
U.S. Senate candidate Harris<br />
Miller today received the endorsements<br />
of Alexandria<br />
Mayor Bill Euille and all six other<br />
members of the newly elected Alexandria<br />
City Council.<br />
Mayor Euille, Councilman and<br />
Vice-Mayor-Elect Andrew Macdonald,<br />
Council members Ludwig Gaines, Rob<br />
Krupicka, Del Pepper, and Paul Smedberg,<br />
and Councilman-elect Tim Lovain,<br />
all announced their support for<br />
Miller in the June 13th Democratic<br />
Primary for U.S. Senate. With these<br />
endorsements, Harris Miller has the<br />
support of all seven incoming members<br />
of the Alexandria City Council,<br />
who were elected on May 2nd.<br />
“I am proud to endorse Harris<br />
Miller for the United States Senate,”<br />
said Mayor Bill Euille. “<strong>The</strong>re is a<br />
deep need for real change in the direction<br />
of our country, and Harris has the<br />
experience, the knowledge, and the<br />
commitment to Democratic values to<br />
make that change happen.<br />
“We need a Virginia Democrat we<br />
can count on in the U.S. Senate to get<br />
this country turned around and create a<br />
better future for Virginia families.<br />
Harris Miller will be that candidate and<br />
he will be that U.S. Senator.”<br />
Mayor Euille served on City Council<br />
from 1994 to 2003, including service<br />
as Vice-Mayor. He has served as<br />
Mayor since 2003.<br />
“Harris has been traveling around<br />
Virginia, showing that he is the candidate<br />
making the effort to reach out to<br />
voters across the Commonwealth,”<br />
said Councilman and Vice-Mayor<br />
Elect Andrew Macdonald. “I am impressed<br />
with his hard work and his<br />
commitment to improving life for Virginians,<br />
and that’s how I know he’ll<br />
win in June and November.”<br />
PATTI LABELLE HONORED<br />
FOR PROFESSIONAL AND<br />
CHARITABLE<br />
ACHIEVEMENTS<br />
Lt. Governor Michael S. Steele<br />
surprised renowned entertainer<br />
Patti LaBelle during her recent<br />
concert here and honored her on stage<br />
for her 40 years of professional work<br />
and efforts to promote various charitable<br />
organizations.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> people of Maryland join in<br />
expressing our admiration for your<br />
’lifetime of achievement; as a gifted<br />
and generous woman who has enriched<br />
the music world and inspired audiences<br />
for the past 40 years,” said Lt.<br />
Lt. Governor Michael S. Steel (on left) preents Pattie<br />
LaBelle achievement award<br />
“Harris<br />
Miller best represents<br />
the<br />
ideals and principles<br />
of the Democratic<br />
Party,”<br />
said Councilman<br />
Ludwig<br />
Gaines. “His<br />
Harris Miller<br />
commitment to<br />
equality and opportunity<br />
are unrivaled in this election,<br />
and I know that he’ll be the best candidate<br />
against George Allen in November.”<br />
“Harris knows Virginia, Capitol<br />
Hill, and the importance of technology<br />
to Virginia’s economy, and he shares<br />
our values,” said Councilman Rob<br />
Krupicka. “He is a leader that can hit<br />
the ground running and will serve Virginia<br />
well.”<br />
“Harris Miller has the understanding<br />
and knowledge of policy that we<br />
need in a U.S. Senator,” said Councilwoman<br />
Redella “Del” Pepper. “He will<br />
be a strong partner for Alexandria and<br />
communities across the Commonwealth,<br />
and that’s why I’m supporting<br />
Harris in the June 13th primary.”<br />
“Harris Miller has the results-focused<br />
message that Virginia Democrats<br />
have won on in all areas of Virginia,”<br />
said Councilman Paul<br />
Smedberg. “He will work for equality,<br />
opportunity, and fairness for all Virginians,<br />
and that’s why I know he’s the<br />
best person to represent Virginia in the<br />
U.S. Senate.”<br />
“Harris Miller’s hard work and<br />
longtime service with the Virginia Democratic<br />
Party makes him the<br />
strongest and most credible challenger<br />
to George Allen,” said Councilmanelect<br />
Tim Lovain. “He will bring the<br />
Virginia Democratic way to Washington,<br />
and that’s why I’m supporting him<br />
in the primary.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> primary election to choose Virginia’s<br />
Democratic nominee for the<br />
Senate race will be held on June 13th.<br />
Governor<br />
Steele, in presenting<br />
Ms. La-<br />
Belle with a<br />
State of Maryland<br />
Governor’s<br />
Citation.<br />
Ms. LaBelle,<br />
a two-time<br />
Grammy-Award<br />
winner, began<br />
her career with<br />
Lt. Governor<br />
Michael S. Steele<br />
(R-MD)<br />
the legendary<br />
60s quartet, Patti<br />
LaBelle & the Bluebelles, before going<br />
on to perform with the retro 70s trio,<br />
LaBelle and more recently a solo artist.<br />
Off the stage, Ms. LaBelle has been<br />
a spokeswoman for the National<br />
Medical Association<br />
that administers a scholarship<br />
in her name, the National<br />
Minority AIDS<br />
Council’s “Live Long,<br />
Sugar” campaign and the<br />
American Diabetes Association.<br />
Patti also serves on<br />
the Boards of the National<br />
Alzheimer Association and<br />
the National Cancer Institute.<br />
In addition, the University<br />
of Miami’s prestigious<br />
Sylvestri<br />
Comprehensive Care Center<br />
dedicated a special research<br />
laboratory in her<br />
honor for her work on behalf<br />
of cancer awareness.<br />
MORAN-<br />
DAVIS<br />
SECURE<br />
$13 MILLION<br />
FOR FORT<br />
BELVOIR<br />
EXTENSION<br />
Northern<br />
Virginia<br />
C o n -<br />
Rep. Jim Moran<br />
(D-VA)<br />
gressmen Jim<br />
Moran (D-VA-<br />
08) and Tom<br />
Davis (R-VA-11) successfully secured<br />
$13 million in funding to continue the<br />
construction of a proposed Woodlawn<br />
replacement extension through Fort<br />
Belvoir. <strong>The</strong> appropriation is included<br />
in the FY 2007 Military Quality<br />
of Life Appropriations bill (H.R. 5385)<br />
which passed the House recently.<br />
“This appropriation gets the Woodlawn<br />
project moving even further down<br />
the road,” said Moran. “Rep. Davis and<br />
I will continue to push for this much<br />
needed thoroughfare until residents in<br />
the area get some traffic relief.”<br />
“With the BRAC realignment<br />
bringing 20,000 new employees to the<br />
Belvoir area in the next five years, we<br />
need to look at every option to alleviate<br />
traffic,” Davis said. “Rep. Moran<br />
and I will continue to fight for every<br />
dollar to fund the necessary infrastructure<br />
improvements, including this crucial<br />
project.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> $13 million appropriation is for<br />
construction of phase 2 of a defense<br />
access road through Fort Belvoir, Virginia.<br />
This money will help continue<br />
construction of the extension of Old<br />
Mill Road through Fort Belvoir to<br />
Telegraph Road, creating an East-West<br />
transit route that was eliminated with<br />
the closure of Woodlawn Road after<br />
9/11. <strong>The</strong> ensuing traffic disruptions<br />
caused by this closure have adversely<br />
impacted military readiness, local traffic<br />
patterns and the local economy.<br />
To date, Moran and Davis have authorized<br />
and appropriated more than<br />
$27 million for construction of the<br />
Woodlawn Road extension. Last<br />
week, Moran and Davis secured funding<br />
in the FY ’07 Defense Authorization<br />
bill, which cleared the path for inclusion<br />
of today’s appropriations<br />
funding in the FY ‘07 Military Quality<br />
of Life Appropriations bill.<br />
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WITH GAS PRICES<br />
SKYROCKETING, HOYER<br />
DISCUSSES THE<br />
IMPORTANCE OF<br />
TELECOMMUTING<br />
With the average cost of a<br />
gallon of gas now over<br />
$3.00, Congressman Steny<br />
H. Hoyer (D-MD) visited the Bowie<br />
State University Telework Center to<br />
meet with federal and private teleworkers<br />
from Maryland.<br />
“One of my proudest achievements<br />
in Congress has been leading the charge<br />
to make telecommuting the official policy<br />
of the federal government,” Hoyer<br />
said. “As we enter an era in which energy<br />
conservation will be more important<br />
than at any other time in our nation’s<br />
history, teleworking is central to a<br />
smart energy independence program.”<br />
Ever wonder what it would be<br />
like to be invisible You<br />
could go around and nobody<br />
would see you. Nobody would<br />
know you existed. Do you remember<br />
playing hide and seek Wow. If<br />
you were invisible you could always<br />
win the game because no one would<br />
be able to find you. “Ollie Ollie<br />
ump fee. I’m coming to find you.”<br />
What a game. Those who could<br />
hide the best always won the game.<br />
It was great being invisible until you<br />
discovered that if no one cared to<br />
find you, you really did not win.<br />
Regrettably, there is a similar game<br />
being played in the Gulf Coast. Our<br />
children appear to be invisible. But<br />
it is no game. It is a situation of life<br />
and death. And right before our<br />
eyes we are witnessing the most<br />
devastating reality of what it means<br />
to be invisible in the richest country<br />
in the world. Right before our eyes<br />
we are losing our children.<br />
We are literally losing our children<br />
due to the lack of adequate<br />
health care, public education and<br />
housing. <strong>The</strong>re are over 125,000<br />
displaced families in the Gulf<br />
Coast. In a Red Cross shelter north<br />
of Birmingham, Alabama there are<br />
over 2,000 children who have lost<br />
their parents. In a FEMA trailer<br />
park outside of Baton Rouge 700 of<br />
the 1,670 residents are children. In<br />
the richest nation in the world one<br />
fifth to one fourth of our children<br />
are growing up in poverty. Of the<br />
1.9 trillion dollars of tax cuts, which<br />
will give the richest one percent of<br />
all tax payers $57 billion each year,<br />
we could instead provide health<br />
care for all 9 million uninsured children<br />
and end child poverty in<br />
America. Wow! Centuries ago<br />
Jesus said, “Let the little children<br />
come to me, and do nothing to hinder<br />
them, for the kingdom of<br />
heaven belongs to such as these.”<br />
(Matthew 19:14). Maybe we missed<br />
Jesus’ request.<br />
Sometimes I wonder where our<br />
priorities are. A wise man once<br />
said: “Where your heart is there<br />
also is your treasure.” Are our children<br />
our treasure It is extremely<br />
painful to note that one in three<br />
sheltered children in the Gulf Coast<br />
region has some type of chronic illness.<br />
Are our children our treasure<br />
In 1993, Hoyer joined with Rep.<br />
Frank Wolf (R-VA) to steer the Treasury-Postal<br />
Appropriations Act through<br />
Congress, which included $5 million in<br />
funding for three telework centers in<br />
the Washington <strong>Metro</strong>politan area.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bowie State University Telework<br />
Center is one of fourteen GSA<br />
telework centers in the region. <strong>The</strong><br />
centers serve over 570 federal and private<br />
sector employees. Other Maryland<br />
centers are located in Frederick,<br />
Hagerstown, Laurel, Prince Frederick<br />
and Waldorf.<br />
Joyce Larrick, director of the Bowie<br />
State University Telework Center, said<br />
Hoyer is the single biggest reason there<br />
is a telecommuting center in Bowie<br />
today. “We are grateful to Congressman<br />
Hoyer for his career long dedication to<br />
teleworkers and their families,” she said.<br />
Hoyer said telework reduces traffic<br />
INVISIBLE PEOPLE<br />
BY CARL P. WALLACE<br />
EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE<br />
In the Gulf Coast region one half of<br />
the children who had some level of<br />
health coverage do not have any<br />
now. Are our children our treasure<br />
Did the need for health care coverage<br />
just disappear Have a heart. I<br />
guess invisible people don’t need<br />
health care.<br />
Let’s think about it. Perhaps our<br />
children are invisible because they<br />
do not vote, lobby or pay taxes.<br />
Let’s think about another point.<br />
Can you imagine what it must be<br />
like to be undocumented and in this<br />
situation Is there such a thing as<br />
double invisibility<br />
<strong>The</strong> Children’s Defense fund released<br />
a “Call to Action for Katrina’s<br />
Children.” It calls in part for:<br />
immediate emergency mental<br />
health and health services for children<br />
and their families; quality public<br />
education and after-school and<br />
summer education; as<br />
much attention focused on constructing<br />
levees of support for<br />
strong health care, family and public<br />
education as they will for the<br />
construction of the physical levies<br />
that will hold back the water in future<br />
storms; and, prayer for Katrina<br />
children and families and for leaders<br />
who work for justice. Prayer<br />
and action will make a difference.<br />
Our children must be made visible.<br />
Maybe, just maybe, if we lift our<br />
voices to make their needs known<br />
our children will not disappear right<br />
before our eyes. Maybe, just maybe<br />
if we take action we will not loose<br />
the least of these. Maybe, just<br />
maybe we will find our treasure.<br />
<strong>The</strong> invisible can be made visible.<br />
“Ollie, Ollie ump fee. We’re<br />
coming to find you!”<br />
• • •<br />
<strong>The</strong> United Church of Christ has<br />
more than 5,700 churches throughout<br />
the United States and Puerto<br />
Rico. Rooted in the Christian traditions<br />
of congregational governance<br />
and covenantal relationships, each<br />
UCC setting speaks only for itself<br />
and not on behalf of every UCC<br />
congregation. UCC members and<br />
churches are free to differ on important<br />
social issues, even as the<br />
UCC remains principally committed<br />
to unity in the midst of our<br />
diversity.<br />
congestion, promotes<br />
conservation<br />
and reduces<br />
America’s dependence<br />
on<br />
foreign oil, improves<br />
the envi-<br />
Rep. Steny Hoyer<br />
(D-MD)<br />
ronment, inc<br />
r e a s e s<br />
productivity, enhances<br />
the security<br />
of government,<br />
and most importantly,<br />
strengthens families by reducing commuting<br />
times.<br />
“Telecommuting answers the challenge<br />
of today’s fast-paced workplace<br />
while allowing employees to work<br />
much closer to home,” Hoyer said. “As<br />
Marylanders continue to face pain at<br />
the pump, I will continue to promote<br />
this viable and successful alternative.”<br />
THE METRO HERALD 7
CAPITAL COMMENTS<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
GOVERNOR KAINE’S<br />
STATEMENT ON<br />
DOD INSPECTOR<br />
GENERAL’S RULING<br />
Governor Timothy M. Kaine released<br />
the following statement<br />
recently, regarding the<br />
announcement of the Department of<br />
Defense Inspector General’s ruling that<br />
Virginia is not in compliance with the<br />
BRAC Commission’s requirements to<br />
address encroachment around Oceana<br />
Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach:<br />
“I was disappointed to learn today<br />
that the Department of Defense Inspector<br />
General has ruled Virginia not in<br />
compliance with the requirements laid<br />
out by the BRAC Commission for<br />
keeping the Oceana Naval Air Station<br />
in Virginia.<br />
“Although the Navy asked for<br />
Oceana to remain open, the BRAC<br />
Commission has ignored the value of<br />
this installation to the community and<br />
to the nation.<br />
“In response to the BRAC Commission’s<br />
order issued late last year,<br />
state and local officials in Richmond,<br />
Virginia Beach and Chesapeake put together<br />
a plan that meets each of the<br />
Commission’s six requirements for<br />
maintaining operations at Oceana.<br />
Our plan fully and fairly addresses the<br />
requirement to prevent further encroachment,<br />
while protecting the rights<br />
of Virginia families who own property<br />
in the area.<br />
“We disagree with the Inspector<br />
General’s ruling, and we will, in consultation<br />
with Virginia Beach, Chesapeake,<br />
our Congressional delegation,<br />
the Attorney General’s Office, and our<br />
legal counsel, carefully consider our<br />
next steps.”<br />
APPOINTMENTS TO THE<br />
CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL<br />
COMMISSION<br />
Governor Timothy M. Kaine recently<br />
announced appointments<br />
to the Civil Rights<br />
Memorial Commission. Launched in<br />
July 2005 by former First Lady Lisa<br />
Collis, the Commission was established<br />
to create a memorial to honor<br />
Virginians who fought for equal rights<br />
for African Americans.<br />
<strong>The</strong> memorial will primarily commemorate<br />
the 1951 student-led protest<br />
at the Robert Russa Moton High<br />
School in Prince Edward County, Virginia.<br />
Sixteen-year old Barbara Johns,<br />
a junior at the school, led the protest<br />
against the deplorable conditions of the<br />
racially segregated school. Richmond<br />
attorneys Oliver Hill and Spottswood<br />
Robinson later represented the students<br />
and their parents in Davis v. County<br />
School Board of Prince Edward<br />
County, one of the four cases consolidated<br />
into the Brown v. Board of Education<br />
case of 1954, declaring separate<br />
but equal to be unconstitutional.<br />
<strong>The</strong> memorial is being created by<br />
sculptor Stanley Bleifeld and will be<br />
built in Capitol Square. It is expected<br />
to take approximately two years to<br />
complete.<br />
Lisa Collis of Alexandria will continue<br />
to serve on the Commission.<br />
Collis is the former First Lady of Virginia.<br />
Leroy R. Hassell, Sr. of Richmond<br />
has been reappointed to serve as a<br />
member on the Commission. Hassell<br />
is Chief Justice of the Virginia<br />
Supreme Court.<br />
Judith C. Anderson of Richmond<br />
will continue to serve as a member on<br />
the Commission. Anderson previously<br />
served as a deputy secretary of the<br />
commonwealth and is currently retired.<br />
Dr. “Woody” Holton of Richmond<br />
will serve as a member on the Commission.<br />
Holton is a professor of history<br />
at the University of Richmond.<br />
Rita O. Moseley of Farmville will<br />
serve as a member on the Commission.<br />
Moseley has been employed with<br />
Prince Edward County High School<br />
for 25 years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable <strong>Will</strong>iam J. Howell,<br />
Speaker of the House of Delegates and<br />
the Honorable Thomas K. Norment,<br />
Senator of Virginia will continue to<br />
serve on the Commission.<br />
ACTION ON LEGISLATION<br />
FROM RECONVENED<br />
SESSION<br />
Governor Timothy M. Kaine<br />
announced recently that he<br />
has signed comprehensive energy<br />
legislation successfully amended<br />
during the 2006 General Assembly Reconvened<br />
Session. <strong>The</strong> Governor also<br />
announced the vetoes of eight other<br />
measures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> energy bill, SENATE BILL<br />
262, strengthens the state’s energy policy,<br />
promoting energy efficiency in appliances<br />
and state buildings, and supporting<br />
federal efforts to determine the<br />
extent of natural gas resources 50 or<br />
more miles off the Atlantic coast.<br />
“We must determine the potential<br />
size of the natural gas reserves off the<br />
coast of the Commonwealth before<br />
there is any meaningful discussion of<br />
offshore drilling. Otherwise, it is impossible<br />
to fairly weigh the benefits of<br />
offshore energy against the concerns<br />
expressed by the public, the U.S.<br />
Navy, and NASA. I am pleased the<br />
General Assembly agreed with me that<br />
my amendments to Senator Frank<br />
Wagner’s bill promote energy efficiency<br />
and energy independence while<br />
protecting our natural resources.”<br />
In addition, the Governor announced<br />
the following vetoes:<br />
HOUSE BILL 350 and SENATE<br />
BILL 676, which would consolidate<br />
the two Schools for the Deaf and Blind<br />
into one school in Staunton, provide<br />
for a continuing regional program in<br />
Hampton, and convey the existing<br />
Hampton property to a specific nonprofit<br />
entity.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> issue of consolidation has<br />
been debated for a number of years.<br />
While a consensus exists on consolidation<br />
at Staunton, there is disagreement<br />
on the appropriate approach going forward<br />
for the Hampton property,” Governor<br />
Kaine said. “<strong>The</strong> enrolled bills,<br />
while good faith efforts, do not achieve<br />
the necessary consensus about future<br />
use of the Hampton school and associated<br />
programs. Thus, I am vetoing<br />
this legislation, but I will continue to<br />
work with the patrons and all stakeholders<br />
to craft a consensus during the<br />
ongoing budget discussions and in the<br />
future.”<br />
HOUSE BILL 370, which would<br />
take away existing local government<br />
authority to regulate firearms along<br />
public highways.<br />
“I am reluctant to take away local authority<br />
without a substantial reason, and<br />
there has been no demonstrable problem<br />
with the existing law,” Governor Kaine<br />
said. “I proposed that this bill not become<br />
law until it was passed again by<br />
the 2007 General Assembly, which<br />
would have afforded an opportunity for<br />
further study of the bill’s effects. Unfortunately,<br />
the House of Delegates rejected<br />
this amendment. Accordingly, I<br />
am vetoing this<br />
measure.”<br />
HOUSE BILL<br />
1185, which would<br />
significantly alter<br />
protection for riparian<br />
rights in the<br />
Commonwealth.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> common<br />
law of Virginia establishes<br />
a framework<br />
that protects<br />
the riparian rights<br />
Tim Kaine (D)<br />
Governor-Elect of<br />
Virginia<br />
of those who use our waterways for<br />
agricultural, municipal, industrial,<br />
recreational and other beneficial uses.<br />
This bill would single out agricultural<br />
use in a way that could have significant<br />
long-term consequences for downstream<br />
uses,” Governor Kaine said.<br />
“My administration is working with<br />
farmers in a cooperative spirit to make<br />
sure that new regulations address the<br />
concerns of all stakeholders, and that is<br />
the appropriate way to address this<br />
subject.”<br />
HOUSE BILL 1290 and SENATE<br />
BILL 260, which would have addressed<br />
machinery and tools taxation<br />
of manufacturers by local governments.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> previous standard required<br />
that machinery and tools must have<br />
been idle for 12 months in order to be<br />
exempt from taxation, but this bill establishes<br />
a much shorter standard of<br />
three months,” said Governor Kaine. “I<br />
am concerned that this significant<br />
change will have a revenue impact on<br />
localities. That is one reason why<br />
local governments oppose this bill.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> bill also called for a working<br />
group on machinery and tools taxation.<br />
While Governor Kaine has vetoed this<br />
legislation, he will convene a working<br />
group, led by the Secretary of Commerce<br />
and Trade and the Commissioner<br />
of the Department of Taxation,<br />
and to include members of the manufacturing<br />
community, as well as local<br />
government, that can address this and<br />
other issues.<br />
SENATE BILL 429, which would<br />
remove from the Governor the authority<br />
to appoint the Secretary of the<br />
Board of Elections.<br />
“I support the patron’s stated intent<br />
of ensuring that the Board of Elections<br />
operates in the most efficient and evenhanded<br />
manner,” said Governor Kaine.<br />
“While I do not believe that this bill is<br />
needed to accomplish that result, I will<br />
work with the patron and all interested<br />
parties to accomplish that goal.”<br />
SENATE BILL 689, which would<br />
reduce the membership of the Virginia<br />
Workforce Council by four members,<br />
and the number of Governor’s appointees<br />
to the Council by eight.<br />
“Our global economy demands that<br />
we dedicate significant resources to<br />
educating and training our present and<br />
future workforce, and I am committed<br />
to working with the General Assembly<br />
during my term to give this important<br />
issue the attention that it deserves.<br />
However, I do not believe that this bill<br />
in its current form advances that goal,”<br />
said Governor Kaine.<br />
“I am disappointed that the House<br />
of Delegates rejected my good faith<br />
amendments, which would have restored<br />
to the Council two additional<br />
members and required that four other<br />
members be appointed in consultation<br />
with the General Assembly leadership,”<br />
the Governor said. “Absent that<br />
compromise, I conclude there is no<br />
reason for the executive branch to cede<br />
this appointment power.”<br />
MFUME SUPPORTS BLACK CAUCUS EFFORT<br />
IN ADDRESSING ENERGY CRISIS<br />
Former U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume applauded<br />
the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus recently, for<br />
raising their influential voice on behalf of Maryland<br />
consumers regarding the proposed BG&E rate increase.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Maryland Black Caucus recognizes the pain the rate<br />
hike will have on their constituents,” Mfume said. He further<br />
stated “I am encouraged by the Caucus leadership calling for<br />
a special session to address this critical matter. I campaign in Kweisi Mfume<br />
every corner of the State and the people are calling out for<br />
government to take action.”<br />
Rep. Mfume had described the proposed rate hike as “obscene” and has called<br />
for all candidates in the race for U.S. Senate to speak out on behalf of consumers<br />
against the rate hike.<br />
NAGIN WINS<br />
NEW ORLEANS ELECTION<br />
Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip<br />
style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane<br />
Katrina, narrowly won re-election over<br />
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee<br />
one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.<br />
With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Nagin had<br />
52.9 percent, or 56,068 votes, to Landrieu’s 47.1 percent,<br />
or 49,884 votes.<br />
Results from Louisiana’s Secretary of State’s Office<br />
signaled the Nagin victory. Absentee and early votes went<br />
slightly for Nagin. And while the results showed Nagin Mayor Ray Nagin<br />
carrying majority black precincts and Landrieu winning<br />
in majority white ones, Nagin pulled a significant crossover vote in some heavily<br />
populated predominantly white precincts in Uptown New Orleans.<br />
Nagin, a former cable television executive first elected to public office in<br />
2002, argued the city could ill-afford to change course just as rebuilding gathered<br />
steam. His second term begins a day before the June 1 start of the next<br />
hurricane season in a city where streets are still strewn with rusting, mud-covered<br />
cars and entire neighborhoods consist of homes that are empty shells.<br />
“I want the city to come back,” said 61-year-old Alice Howard, an evacuee<br />
who returned by bus from Houston to cast her ballot. “This is my city. This is<br />
home to me. ... I want to make sure the correct person takes care of home.”<br />
Howard and 250 other evacuees wearing “Displaced Voter” T-shirts were<br />
greeted by a jazz band at a City Hall rally with Nagin and Landrieu.<br />
<strong>The</strong> candidates embraced when they met while campaigning Saturday, reflecting<br />
the civil tone of a race where there has been little disagreement on the<br />
major issues: the right of residents to rebuild in all areas and the urgent need<br />
for federal aid for recovery and the best possible levee protection.<br />
That has turned the closely watched race into a referendum on leadership<br />
styles: the brash newcomer incumbent vs. the political establishment challenger.<br />
Nagin, a self-styled maverick, portrayed himself as a political outsider<br />
brave enough to stand up to federal officials when necessary. <strong>The</strong> former cable<br />
television executive, first elected to public office in 2002, argued the city<br />
could ill-afford to change course just as rebuilding gathered steam.<br />
<strong>The</strong> janitor’s son from a black, working-class neighborhood is known for<br />
his improvisational, some say impulsive, rhetoric. After Katrina plunged his<br />
city into chaos, Nagin was both scorned and praised for a tearful plea for the<br />
federal government to “get off their (behinds) and do something” and his nowfamous<br />
remark that New Orleans was intended to be a “chocolate” city.<br />
Landrieu, who served 16 years in the state House before being elected to<br />
his current post two years ago, says his strength is his ability to bring people<br />
together and get things done.<br />
<strong>The</strong> scion of a political dynasty known as Louisiana’s version of the<br />
Kennedys, he’s the brother of Sen. Mary Landrieu and would be the first white<br />
mayor in a generation, since his father, Moon Landrieu, left office in 1978.<br />
Landrieu supporters note New Orleans will largely be rebuilt with federal dollars,<br />
and an established politician could have more success in dealing with the<br />
leaders who control the purse strings.<br />
Nagin, who had widespread support from white voters four years ago, lost<br />
much of that support in last month’s primary but was predicting a stronger<br />
showing this time.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> reaction we’re getting from out on the streets is very positive among<br />
all demographics, all races,” he said after voting at his neighborhood precinct.<br />
“It’s pretty amazing.”<br />
Fewer than half of New Orleans’ 455,000 pre-Katrina residents are living<br />
in the city, and a large number of blacks scattered by the storm have yet to return.<br />
Evacuees arrived by bus from as far as Atlanta and Houston to vote.<br />
More than 25,000 ballots were cast early by mail or fax or at satellite polling<br />
places set up around Louisiana earlier in the month—5,000 more than were<br />
cast early in the primary. Secretary of State Al Ater said late Saturday afternoon<br />
that turnout appeared to be on-par with the April 22 primary, when about<br />
37 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.<br />
David Postel, a retired Air Force colonel voting in a relatively untouched<br />
part of town, said he went with Landrieu because he considers him “the lesser<br />
of two evils.”<br />
“We’re hoping Landrieu has enough political pull to get a little more attention,”<br />
he said.<br />
Among the first to vote was <strong>Will</strong>ie Solomon, who moved back into the<br />
Eighth Ward home where she rode out Hurricane Katrina, even though flood<br />
water reached her knees. Her vote was going to Nagin.<br />
“I’m not going to see one family run the whole city,” she said.<br />
8 THE METRO HERALD
CAPITAL COMMENTS<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
DUNCAN RECEIVES<br />
FOUNDERS AWARD FROM<br />
CULTURAL ALLIANCE;<br />
In recognition of his distinguished<br />
service to the arts, Montgomery<br />
County Executive Douglas M.<br />
Duncan has received the Annual<br />
Founders Award from the Cultural Alliance<br />
of Greater Washington. <strong>The</strong><br />
award is being presented this evening<br />
at the Alliance’s annual Founders<br />
Award Gala held at the JW Marriott<br />
Hotel in Washington, D.C.<br />
“Mr. Duncan’s support, endorsement<br />
and investment in the construction<br />
and renovation of new cultural facilities<br />
make the arts central to<br />
community development,” said Executive<br />
Director Jennifer Cover Payne.<br />
“His actions have identified arts and<br />
humanities as a focal point for county<br />
identity and community livability.”<br />
“We are very proud of the investments<br />
and partnerships we have made to<br />
grow Montgomery County into a diverse<br />
and dynamic center for the cultural arts,”<br />
said Duncan. “<strong>The</strong> obvious benefits to<br />
the quality of life in our county have<br />
been more than matched by the beneficial<br />
impact on our economy. A strong<br />
cultural arts community not only has a<br />
positive impact on the related businesses<br />
such as retail and dining, but throughout<br />
the entire community.<br />
“Today’s knowledge-based economy<br />
needs a highly educated workforce,”<br />
Duncan said, “and those professionals<br />
are attracted to areas that<br />
offer a wide variety of opportunities to<br />
enjoy the cultural arts. Thanks in part<br />
to our investment in the arts, we are attracting<br />
and retaining the kind of highquality<br />
jobs we need to keep our community<br />
growing and prospering.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cultural Alliance of Greater<br />
Washington is dedicated to sustaining<br />
and increasing regional leadership, appreciation,<br />
support and resources for<br />
arts and culture.<br />
Tonight’s other honorees include<br />
Target Corporation with the Business<br />
Patron Award and Howard Shalwitz,<br />
Founder and Artistic Director of the<br />
Woolly Mammoth <strong>The</strong>atre, with the<br />
Arts Founder Award.<br />
DUNCAN WELCOMES NEW<br />
AGE SECURITY SOLUTIONS<br />
TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY<br />
Bolstering Montgomery County’s<br />
dynamic technology industry,<br />
County Executive Douglas M.<br />
Duncan today welcomed the homeland<br />
security firm New Age Security Solutions<br />
(NASS) to his jurisdiction. A<br />
leader in the counter-terrorism protection<br />
and preparedness solutions field,<br />
NASS is relocating from Tyson’s Corner,<br />
VA to its new offices in Rockville.<br />
NASS brings 10 new jobs to the<br />
County with further expansion plans in<br />
the near future.<br />
“We are very proud to be the new<br />
home of such an important cuttingedge<br />
and prestigious company,” said<br />
County Executive Duncan. “New Age<br />
Security Solutions is exactly the type of<br />
innovative company we work hard to<br />
attract to our County and we look forward<br />
to working with them to ensure<br />
they continue to grow and prosper here.<br />
With more than 2,000 firms flourishing<br />
in the County, Montgomery is a leading<br />
center for the information technology<br />
sector, as well as the ideal location for<br />
any advanced technology firm.”<br />
NASS provides innovative protection<br />
and preparedness solutions created by<br />
some of the world’s leading counter-terrorism<br />
experts, especially in the fields of<br />
aviation, maritime, mass transportation<br />
and high profile sensitive installations<br />
security. NASS<br />
also provides security<br />
design and<br />
engineering services<br />
to its clients<br />
and helps them to<br />
supervise the implementation<br />
of<br />
the security technologies<br />
NASS’<br />
clients decide to<br />
adopt.<br />
Montgomery County<br />
Executive<br />
Douglas M. Duncan<br />
“We are<br />
pleased to be able to locate our international<br />
headquarters in Rockville. It’s<br />
a wonderful community in which to<br />
work,” states Rafi Ron, president of<br />
NASS. Ron has 30 years of securityrelated<br />
experience, including serving<br />
as Chief Security Officer at Ben Gurion<br />
Airport in Tel Aviv.<br />
NASS works with security officials<br />
or local law enforcement to implement<br />
state-of-the-art security methodologies<br />
and operations for all environments<br />
where a high level of security is a must<br />
by adapting recommended plans, practices,<br />
or training to the regulations of<br />
local aviation, maritime, and police authorities.<br />
NASS bases its program on<br />
the proven track record of Israeli security.<br />
It applies the experience gained in<br />
facing Israel’s security challenges to<br />
better prepare government and private<br />
organizations throughout the world<br />
against new and traditional threats.<br />
NASS provides security assessment<br />
and training for law enforcement,<br />
aviation and port authorities in the<br />
United States, as well as internationally<br />
aligned countries. Behavior Pattern<br />
Recognition training programs are<br />
implemented in federal, regional and<br />
local government security-related<br />
agencies, arming members with the<br />
most effective counter terrorism tactics<br />
available today. <strong>The</strong> company’s professional<br />
team is comprised of law enforcement<br />
and counter terrorism experts<br />
with hands-on experience both<br />
nationally and internationally. NASS is<br />
led by Rafi Ron, an internationally recognized<br />
thought leader in the fields of<br />
counter terrorism, transportation and<br />
aviation security. NASS was founded<br />
in October 2001 in Washington D.C.<br />
“NASSCorp. is one of the top<br />
homeland security consulting companies,<br />
using knowledge and techniques<br />
developed in Israel’s long struggle in<br />
the war on terror. We’re proud to have<br />
them in Maryland,” said Barry Bogage,<br />
Executive Director of the Maryland/Israel<br />
Development Center, a<br />
public-private partnership of Israel’s<br />
Ministry of Industry and Trade, Maryland’s<br />
Department of Business and<br />
Economic Development, and <strong>The</strong> Associated:<br />
Jewish Community Federation<br />
of Maryland.<br />
LABOR UNIONS SUPPORT<br />
DUNCAN–SIMMS TICKET<br />
Doug Duncan and Stuart Simms<br />
recently received endorsements<br />
from seven labor unions. Representatives<br />
from American Federation<br />
of State, County and Municipal Employees<br />
(AFSCME) Local 2462; AF-<br />
SCME Local 2735; AFSCME Local<br />
4007; IAFF Local 1715; IAFF Local<br />
1605; Montgomery County Association<br />
of Administrative and Supervisory<br />
Personnel (MCAASP); and Montgomery<br />
County Federation of Teachers<br />
(MCFT), Local 1670 stood with Duncan<br />
and Simms in Laurel outside the<br />
Headquarters of the Operative Plasterers<br />
& Cement Masons International<br />
Association to announce their support<br />
for the ticket and its commitment to<br />
bring effective leadership that works<br />
for families across the state.<br />
ALLEN HAILS COMMITTEE<br />
PASSAGE OF CAPTAIN<br />
JOHN SMITH WATER TRAIL<br />
U.S. Senator George Allen (R-<br />
VA) recently praised the unanimous<br />
vote of the Senate Committee<br />
on Energy and Natural<br />
Resources to approve legislation designating<br />
the route of Captain John<br />
Smith’s exploration of the Chesapeake<br />
Bay and its tributaries as a National<br />
Historical Water Trail. Senator Allen<br />
introduced the legislation with his colleagues,<br />
Senators John W. Warner (R-<br />
Va), Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), and Barbara<br />
Mikulski (D-MD).<br />
“In Virginia, we are all so proud<br />
that we are coming up next year on the<br />
400th anniversary of the founding of<br />
America’s representative democracy at<br />
Jamestown, the oldest permanent English<br />
settlement in the New World. As<br />
part of that celebration we should remember<br />
the fascinating, exploratory<br />
voyages of Captain John Smith and his<br />
vital charting and mapping of the<br />
Chesapeake Bay and its rivers including<br />
the Potomac, Rappahannock, York<br />
and James,” said Senator Allen. “As<br />
we move closer each day to this historic<br />
Jamestown anniversary I am<br />
happy to see this legislation has moved<br />
one step closer to final passage.”<br />
Captain John Smith was a key<br />
founder of the settlement in<br />
STATE TEACHERS<br />
ENDORSE TOM<br />
PEREZ FOR<br />
ATTORNEY<br />
GENERAL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Maryland State Teachers<br />
Association, representing<br />
64,000 teachers from<br />
every Maryland County, this weekend<br />
endorsed former federal prosecutor,<br />
civil rights lawyer, and<br />
Montgomery County Councilmember<br />
Tom Perez in his campaign<br />
for the Democratic Party<br />
nomination for Maryland Attorney<br />
General.<br />
Perez, who seeks to replace the<br />
retiring Joe Curran, received 89<br />
percent of the ballots cast by<br />
statewide teachers meeting in Columbia.<br />
“I am honored to be supported<br />
by so many teachers who want the<br />
same things for the kids they teach<br />
as I want for my kids in that they<br />
are able to go as far as their Godgiven<br />
gifts can take them,” said<br />
Perez, who has been recognized as<br />
one of the ‘rising young stars of<br />
Maryland politics.’<br />
“Our schools are our future and<br />
good schools begin with good<br />
teachers.”<br />
“Marylanders want an attorney<br />
general who will fight for access to<br />
health care and affordable prescription<br />
drugs; to protect our environment;<br />
for good schools for all;<br />
for safe streets and communities;<br />
to hold corporations, big utilities<br />
and oil companies accountable;<br />
and to aggressively defend our<br />
rights as consumers.”<br />
Perez is scheduled to officially<br />
open his campaign on Tuesday<br />
with news conferences in Silver<br />
Spring, Baltimore, and Hyattsville.<br />
Jamestown, VA. He spent three years<br />
(1607-1609) exploring the Chesapeake<br />
Bay in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania<br />
and Delaware covering some 3,000<br />
miles. To this day, these maps are<br />
some of the most accurate maps of the<br />
Bay region.<br />
Last year, the Senate approved legislation<br />
sponsored by Senators Allen,<br />
Warner, Sarbanes and Mikulski that requested<br />
a study by the U.S. Parks Service<br />
as to an appropriate route for such<br />
a trail. That study is near completion.<br />
ALLEN TO KEEP FIGHTING<br />
FOR OCEANA<br />
Senator George Allen (R-VA) recently<br />
responded to the announcement<br />
by the Inspector<br />
General of the Department of Defense<br />
that Virginia Beach has not met the<br />
federal BRAC requirements to keep jet<br />
operations fully functional and the<br />
Master Jet Base open at Naval Air Station<br />
Oceana. Below is Senator Allen’s<br />
statement:<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Deputy Inspector General has<br />
examined this situation with very strict<br />
scrutiny and has not allowed much latitude.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were six criteria and five<br />
and half of those six criteria were met.<br />
I think Virginia Beach took an extraordinarily<br />
creative approach, sticking to<br />
the principles that really reflect the<br />
views of the people of Virginia Beach,<br />
and actually put together and adopted,<br />
working with the<br />
State government,<br />
a very effective<br />
plan to<br />
acquire the property<br />
around<br />
Oceana. Most<br />
importantly as<br />
far as the criteria<br />
that are in this<br />
agreement, they<br />
have come up<br />
Sen. George Allen<br />
(R-VA)<br />
with the 15 million dollars a year to<br />
voluntarily purchase those properties.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> legal saga of the BRAC<br />
process and Oceana continues but the<br />
base remains open and fully operational.<br />
One other thing that’s going to continue<br />
will be my efforts to ensure that Oceana<br />
stays open for generations to come. I<br />
will join the entire Virginia Congressional<br />
delegation, the State legislature,<br />
the Governor, and the Attorney General<br />
in doing whatever we can to keep<br />
Oceana open as the Master Jet Base for<br />
the Eastern part of our country. It is colocated<br />
perfectly close to the fleet and<br />
the Navy wants to stay there and those<br />
facts and attributes do not change with<br />
today’s ruling. Neither does our resolve<br />
to do whatever we can to keep Oceana<br />
serving the national security of our<br />
country, training the next generation of<br />
U.S. Naval Aviators and also being the<br />
neighbor that all of us appreciate in the<br />
South Hampton Roads area.”<br />
AFRICAN AMERICANS EXCEED<br />
VOTER TURN OUT PROJECTIONS IN<br />
NEW ORLEANS RUN OFF LECTIONS<br />
<strong>The</strong> nonpartisan National Coalition on Black Civic Participation<br />
(NCBCP) praised the tenacity of African American voters casting<br />
ballots during the May 20th Run-Off elections in New Orleans.<br />
Displaced by Hurricane Katrina in far greater numbers than any other<br />
group, African American voters demonstrated that they wanted to be actively<br />
involved in the city’s future. Initially projected by analysts not to<br />
match voter participation in the April 22nd Primary Election, African American<br />
voters surpassed the expectation and cast ballots in record numbers<br />
making up more than one-half of the 40 percent of the voting electorate.<br />
“If there is a good news story for New Orleans, it is that African Americans<br />
are a part of the ongoing dialogue that’s shaping the city’s renaissance,”<br />
said Melanie L. Campbell, Executive Director and CEO of the 80-<br />
organization member National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. In<br />
the months leading up to the election, the NCBCP along with a number of<br />
national and local organizations working under the umbrella of the Rebuild<br />
HOPE Now Campaign, convened a four-city series of voter empowerment<br />
and candidate forums. <strong>The</strong> sessions targeted African Americans forced<br />
away from their homes and living out-of-state in Houston, TX, Atlanta,<br />
GA, Baton Rouge, LA, or in temporary housing in New Orleans.<br />
Vincent Sylvain, local convener of NCBCP’s, Louisiana Unity ‘06<br />
Coalition stated, “African Americans claimed their voting rights in New<br />
Orleans. All <strong>The</strong> National Coalition had to do was provide support, accurate<br />
information, and an opportunity for displaced Katrina survivors to<br />
make their Election Day choices,” Coordinated by Louisiana Unity ‘06,<br />
NCBCP volunteers initiated an aggressive “Get-Out-<strong>The</strong>-Vote” effort in<br />
partnership with the National Urban League, the NAACP Legal Defense<br />
Fund and other local and national organizations. Combined, the groups<br />
worked to ensure that African American voters could anticipate an incident-free<br />
Election Day.<br />
Only 15 percent of the original African American residents have returned<br />
because the poorest areas of New Orleans remain completely uninhabitable.<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Coalition believes that to choose a future for<br />
their city, all New Orleanians regardless of race or economic background<br />
need to be involved in the discussions addressing how the city will be rebuilt.<br />
“On Primary Day in April and again on the May 20th Run Off election,<br />
African American voices were heard. Our hope now is that the<br />
newly elected city officials act upon the issues of greatest concern to this<br />
constituency,” Campbell stated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) is a national,<br />
nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of over 80 member organizations<br />
dedicated to enhancing the full participation of the Black community in<br />
all levels of civil society. Over its 30-year history, NCBCP has served as<br />
an effective convener and facilitator at the local, state and national levels<br />
of efforts to address the disenfranchisement of African Americans and<br />
other marginalized communities. For more information visit www.<br />
ncbcp.org<br />
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MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE 2006<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2006 National Memorial Day Parade will take place on May 29<br />
starting at noon; parade starting point will be Third and Madison<br />
Streets, NW, Washington, DC. <strong>The</strong> National Memorial Day Parade<br />
was discontinued due to the outbreak of World War II. In 2004, the National<br />
Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC was formally reinstated to<br />
coincide with the promotion of the 60th Anniversary of D-Day and the<br />
unveiling of the World War II Memorial.<br />
Parade participants will include military units, marching bands, veterans<br />
groups, military vehicles, flag teams, and many other exciting and colorful<br />
units.<br />
For more information, call 202-777-7272 ext. 220.<br />
THE 2006 NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY PARADE<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Memorial Day Concert, held on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol<br />
on Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 8:00PM in Washington, DC, is a free concert,<br />
open to the public. No tickets are necessary for admission. Taking the<br />
<strong>Metro</strong> to the concert site is strongly advised due to traffic volume and street closings<br />
put in place for the event. <strong>The</strong> nearest stations are Capitol South, Federal Center SW<br />
(Orange/Blue line) and Union Station (Red line).<br />
<strong>The</strong> program is also broadcast live nationally on PBS at 8:00PM Eastern Standard<br />
Time (check local listings). Please allow extra time for travel if you are planning to<br />
attend <strong>The</strong> National Memorial Day Concert, as space will be limited and heightened<br />
security measures will be in place. Checkpoints will be set up for search of bags and<br />
parcels. Guests will be required to enter through a metal detector. Access is at the<br />
Southwest corner of the Capitol grounds.<br />
This year's concert will focus on two major themes: honoring the contributions of<br />
the “citizen soldiers” serving in the National Guard, and paying a tribute to the brave<br />
pilots who flew with the Air Force during World War II—including the more than<br />
90,000 combat casualties and more than 30,000 men who lost their lives.<br />
Co-hosted by acclaimed actors Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna, the concert will<br />
also feature performances by Lee Ann Womack, Dianne Wiest, Charles Durning,<br />
Big & Rich and Frederica von Stade, who'll be joined by the National Symphony Orchestra<br />
under the direction of Erich Kunzel. General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) will<br />
will lead the nation in reminding us all of the true meaning of Memorial Day. <strong>The</strong> U.S.<br />
Joint Chiefs of Staff will also play a special role in the concert along with a Joint<br />
Armed Forces Color Guard and color guard teams from each branch of the armed<br />
services provided by the Military District of Washington, the U.S. Army <strong>Herald</strong><br />
Trumpets, U.S. Army Chorus and U.S. Army Chorale, the U.S. Navy Sea Chanters,<br />
the U.S. Air Force Ceremonial Brass and the U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Concert can also be heard in stereo over National Public Radio and can be<br />
seen overseas by U.S. military personnel in more than 135 countries on American<br />
Forces Radio and Television Network.<br />
Bed a little lumpy<br />
Toss and turn any<br />
Wish the heat was<br />
higher, or maybe the<br />
A/C was lower Had to<br />
go to the john, or need<br />
a drink of water<br />
Picture yourself<br />
sleeping here. Count<br />
your blessings,<br />
especially those hardwon<br />
blessings paid for<br />
by our men and women<br />
in uniform. Pray for<br />
their safe return.<br />
Photos shown are from previous year’s parade.<br />
SLEEP WELL LAST NIGHT<br />
THE PURPOSE/MISSION<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Memorial Day Concert<br />
features uplifting musical<br />
performances, documentary<br />
footage and dramatic readings that<br />
honor all Americans who have served or<br />
made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.<br />
It is the nation's premier Memorial<br />
event, using the powerful medium of television<br />
to reach out to millions and it<br />
provides an outlet for loved ones to remember,<br />
grieve and begin to heal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Concert’s mission is to unite the<br />
country in remembrance and appreciation<br />
of the fallen and to serve those who<br />
are grieving. Executive producer Jerry<br />
Colbert said, “We think of the agony of<br />
the mother or father who lost a child,<br />
the spouses and children left behind, the<br />
people who are wounded in body and<br />
soul. And we do this memorial service<br />
to remember and reach out to them.”<br />
THE PERFORMERS<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2006 National Memorial Day<br />
Concert will feature a host of<br />
award-winning stars and wellknown<br />
personalities. See below for<br />
thoseincluded in this year’s program.<br />
CONCERT FEATURES<br />
Each year, the National Memorial<br />
Day Concert presents a unique<br />
program honoring the valor and<br />
patriotism of Americans who have<br />
served our country in times of conflict.<br />
This section features the highlights of<br />
the 2006 show, in which we bring to life<br />
the experiences of individual servicemen<br />
and women and their families and<br />
pay a collective tribute to their sacrifice.<br />
CITIZEN SOLDIERS: A<br />
TRIBUTE TO THE ARMY<br />
NATIONAL GUARD<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Guard the oldest component<br />
of the U.S. Armed Forces and<br />
one of the nation's longest enduring institutions<br />
celebrates its 370th birthday<br />
in 2006. An elite group of warriors, the<br />
Guard traces its lineage to the earliest<br />
North American colonies, which drew<br />
on English military traditions to organize<br />
citizen militias.<br />
Today’s National Guard continues its<br />
historic dual mission, providing the<br />
states with units trained and equipped to<br />
protect life and property and the nation<br />
with forces ready to defend our country<br />
and its interests around the world. <strong>The</strong><br />
Guard's unprecedented level of involvement<br />
in Iraq far greater than the mobilization<br />
of both World Wars has hit<br />
towns hard all over America, with losses<br />
that resonate throughout communities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2006 National Memorial Day<br />
Concert will pay special tribute to the<br />
“citizen soldiers” serving in the National<br />
Guard, and recognize the impact<br />
that their service and sacrifice has had<br />
on their families at home.<br />
AIR FORCE PILOTS OF WWII<br />
For the young pilots who flew the<br />
World War II missions, the air war in<br />
Europe was daring, dramatic . and extremely<br />
dangerous. More than half the<br />
planes were lost, with 95,000 casualties,<br />
and more than 50,000 airmen ended up<br />
in POW camps.<br />
On the eve of the 60th anniversary<br />
of the United States Air Force, the 2006<br />
National Memorial Day Concert on<br />
PBS will pay tribute to the brave pilots<br />
of World War II who fought in the<br />
European theatre particularly those who<br />
were captured as POWs.<br />
ATIME FOR UNITY<br />
Memorial Day has always been a day<br />
of unity a time for Americans to come<br />
together in remembrance of our fallen<br />
heroes from wars past and present. It is,<br />
in the words of Abraham Lincoln, a call<br />
“to bind our nation’s wounds, to care for<br />
him who shall have borne the battle, and<br />
for his widow, and his orphan.”<br />
At the 2006 National Memorial Day<br />
Concert, Gen. Colin Powell USA (Ret.)<br />
will share his thoughts on Memorial Day<br />
then and now and how the holiday’s<br />
deeper meaning continues to inspire us as<br />
we struggle for ways to heal at a time<br />
when “there is immediacy to our sorrow”<br />
and “the wounds of war are new again.”<br />
SALUTE TO SERVICES<br />
It is traditional at patriotic events to<br />
honor each branch of the Armed<br />
Services with its own service song,<br />
and for the members of each branch to<br />
assume the position of “attention” during<br />
the duration of their song.<br />
In 1986, National Memorial Day<br />
Concert producer Jerry Colbert commissioned<br />
American composer Henry<br />
Mancini to create a special medley<br />
arrangement to serve this purpose in the<br />
National Memorial Day Concert.<br />
ABRAKADOODLE<br />
ON PARADE<br />
Abrakadoodle will be participating in<br />
the City of Bowie Memorial Day Parade.<br />
<strong>The</strong> parade is scheduled for<br />
Saturday, May 27th at 11:00 am (rain or<br />
shine). Parade begins at the Bowie High<br />
Annex (on Belair Drive) and ends at Acorn<br />
Hill Park (on Stonybrook Drive).<br />
To register for this free event visit http://<br />
app.jackrabbitclass.com/reg.aspid=<br />
120697. For more information: email:<br />
lcox@abrakadoodle.com; phone: 301-464-<br />
3007 or toll free 866-464-3007; or visit<br />
www.abrakadoodle.com.<br />
Joe Mantegna Gary Sinise Big and Rich Colin Powell Charles Durning Fredrica vonStade Lee Ann Womack Erich Kunzel<br />
Dianne Wiest Military District of Wash. Army <strong>Herald</strong> Trumpets Army Chorus Army Chorale Navy Band Sea Chanters USAF Ceremonial Brass USAF Singing Sergeants<br />
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MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE 2006<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
IWO JIMA FILM RELEASED FOR<br />
MEMORIAL DAY SCREENINGS<br />
T<br />
he League of Grateful Sons, a new documentary chronicling the journey<br />
that sons and grandsons took last March to the black sands of Iwo<br />
Jima in honor of their fathers who fought there in 1945, is being released<br />
for screenings in churches and other venues across America this<br />
Memorial Day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trinity Broadcasting Network will host the world television premiere<br />
of <strong>The</strong> League of Grateful Sons, at 7pm PST on Monday, May 29.<br />
“This Memorial Day, we are encouraging churches, veteran’s organizations,<br />
and other groups to screen <strong>The</strong> League of Grateful Sons in their communities,”<br />
explained Doug Phillips, executive producer of the film and president<br />
of Vision Forum Ministries. “We must honor the veterans of the Second<br />
World War, and screening our film is one way of doing that. It is our prayer<br />
that this documentary will be a tool that will inspire the younger generation<br />
to connect with the WWII vets—to ask their stories, to hear their heart, and<br />
above all, to show them honor.<br />
On March 12, 2005, Phillips journeyed with his two eldest sons to Iwo<br />
Jima for the sixtieth anniversary of the battle. With him came fathers who<br />
fought on the island, joined by their sons and grandsons. Other sons came<br />
whose fathers never left the volcanic ash during the bloody conflict with the<br />
Japanese in 1945. <strong>The</strong> League of Grateful Sons, a powerful new documentary,<br />
tells the stories of these men.<br />
<strong>The</strong> League of Grateful Sons was produced as part of <strong>The</strong> Faith of Our Fathers<br />
Project, an ongoing work of Vision Forum Ministries to tell the stories<br />
of the providence of God through the families that make up American history.<br />
Shot on location on Iwo Jima, Texas, Hawaii, and Guam, and featuring an<br />
original score, the film premiered last October at the San Antonio Independent<br />
Christian Film Festival and is now being distributed on DVD through<br />
various retails outlets nationwide.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> League of Grateful Sons is not just another war film,” observed<br />
Phillips. “It is the true story of how faithful fathers and honoring sons unearthed<br />
generational lessons for the sons and daughters of our day within the<br />
context of the defining battle in Marine Corps history—the epic battle for Iwo<br />
Jima.”<br />
For more information visit www.leagueofgratefulsons.com.<br />
ROLLING THUNDER’S 19TH ANNUAL “RIDE FOR FREEDOM”<br />
<strong>The</strong> 19th Annual Memorial Day Run paying homage to the nation’s veterans and POWs/MIAs includes<br />
motorcycles, cars, and flags, and thousands of people lining the streets along the parade route. Rolling<br />
Thunder, a class 501 C-4 non-profit organization with chapters throughout the United States, actively<br />
promotes legislation to increase veteran benefits and resolve POW/MIA issue from all wars. In addition, volunteers<br />
provide food, clothing, education and support to veterans in their communities year-round.<br />
PROGRAM AND TIMELINE<br />
Friday, May 26—Arrival at Headquarters Hotel Hyatt Regency Crystal City 3:00PM, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway<br />
Arlington, VA; Candlelight Vigil—Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC—9:00PM<br />
Sunday, May 28—Assemble North Pentagon Parking Lot for the Ride for Freedom and Demonstration—6:45AM;<br />
Procession leaves Pentagon over Memorial Bridge to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial—12:00PM; Program at the<br />
Reflecting Pool—1:15PM; Musical tribute to veterans—3:00PM—Paul Revere and the Raiders; Nancy Sinatra;<br />
and Connie Stevens<br />
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA HOSTS ANNUAL<br />
MEMORIAL DAY JAZZ FESTIVAL<br />
<strong>The</strong> City of Alexandria will host its Annual Memorial Day Jazz Festival on Monday,<br />
May 29, from 1:00-7:00PM, at Fort Ward Park, 4301 W. Braddock Road.<br />
Admission is free.<br />
Tom Grooms of WJZW “Smooth Jazz” 105.9 FM will serve as this year’s master of<br />
ceremonies. <strong>The</strong> festival will feature music from Juanita <strong>Will</strong>iams, Kevin “Stixx”<br />
Marshall, Al <strong>Will</strong>iams, Keith Kilgo, and the James Bazen Big Band.<br />
<strong>The</strong> park features amphitheater and grass seating. Lawn chairs and blankets will be allowed.<br />
Vendors will provide food for purchase, and attendees can bring picnic baskets.<br />
Grills are available in the park at picnic sites. No alcoholic beverages are allowed, and<br />
pets should be left at home.<br />
Parking will be available on both sides of West Braddock Road. Additional parking<br />
will be located at the Minnie Howard School, 3801 West Braddock Road., and T. C.<br />
<strong>Will</strong>iams High School, 3330 King St.<br />
In case of inclement weather, the festival will be relocated to the Lee Center’s Kauffman<br />
Auditorium, 1108 Jefferson St.<br />
For additional information, call the City’s Events Hotline at 703-883-4686.<br />
PBS TO AIR<br />
LINCOLN AND LEE<br />
AT ANTIETAM—<br />
THE COST OF FREEDOM<br />
Inecom Entertainment Company is pleased<br />
to announce that Lincoln and Lee at Antietam—<strong>The</strong><br />
Cost of Freedom will air nationally<br />
on the PBS HD Channel during the<br />
Memorial Day weekend. Distributed nationwide<br />
since its release in January 2006, the<br />
award-winning Lincoln and Lee at Antietam—<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cost of Freedom DVD is available at<br />
video stores, Internet retailers, educational and<br />
institutional distributors and retail chains<br />
nationwide.<br />
Narrated by Ronald F. Maxwell (director of<br />
Gettysburg and Gods and Generals) and written,<br />
directed and produced by multiple-award<br />
winner Robert Child (Gettysburg: Three Days<br />
of Destiny and Gettysburg: <strong>The</strong> Boys in Blue<br />
and Gray), Lincoln and Lee at Antietam—<strong>The</strong><br />
Cost of Freedom vividly brings to life the story<br />
of America’s fight for freedom during the<br />
bloodiest day in American History.<br />
Nearly twice as many Americans died at the<br />
Battle of Antietam than had fallen in the American<br />
Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican<br />
War and the Spanish-American War combined.<br />
In striking comparison, American losses on D-<br />
Day were a quarter of those at Antietam.<br />
Lincoln and Lee at Antietam—<strong>The</strong> Cost of<br />
Freedom is presented by Penn State Public<br />
Broadcasting (PSPB) and distributed by American<br />
Public Television (APT). Local stations<br />
that offer digital broadcast services will broadcast<br />
the film in high-definition format on the<br />
following May dates (check local listings):<br />
• May 28, 2006 7:00pm (EDT)<br />
• May 29, 2006 4:00pm, 8:00pm and<br />
11:00pm (EDT)<br />
For more information visit www.<br />
AntietamConflict.com or www.Inecom.com.<br />
BEAT THE HEAT AND<br />
TAKE THE PLUNGE<br />
AT AREA POOLS<br />
Come out Memorial Day weekend at<br />
any one of the Park Authority’s four<br />
community swimming pools or two<br />
waterparks for the grand opening of the<br />
2006 season! With the heat wave approaching,<br />
it’s time to purchase your pool passes,<br />
and make your plans to take a dip in one of<br />
their cool pools for the summer.<br />
Admission fees for community pools do<br />
not exceed $4.00 during peak hours with discounts<br />
for children and seniors. Evening<br />
discounted rates of $1.50 to $2.50 are available<br />
after 4:00p.m. Admission fees for Waterworks<br />
Waterpark do not exceed $5.75,<br />
and admission fees for Splash Down Waterpark<br />
do not exceed $13.25. Evening discounts<br />
and discounts for children are available<br />
at both waterparks. Discounts for<br />
seniors are also available at Waterworks.<br />
Guests should also check their calendar of<br />
events on line for specialty nights, family<br />
events, and upcoming activities.<br />
Check out the summer issue of Leisure<br />
magazine for a Prince <strong>Will</strong>iam County Park<br />
Authority Community Pool Pass Order<br />
Form. Passes are available for all four community<br />
pools and Waterworks. Visit the<br />
Splash Down website www.splashdownwaterpark.com<br />
or the Waterworks website<br />
www.waterworkswaterpark.com to get<br />
complete details for their limited hours<br />
through June 15. Splash Down swim lessons<br />
are also available by calling Ben<br />
Lomond Community Center at (703) 361-<br />
7126.<br />
Call (703) 792-7060 for information on<br />
how to purchase season passes by phone<br />
using a credit card, or mail in the form in<br />
Leisure magazine. You can also purchase<br />
admission tickets and Season Passes to<br />
Splash Down Waterpark at a discounted rate<br />
using the Click-n-Print system online.<br />
12 THE METRO HERALD
HEALTH & WELLNESS<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
LILLY OFFERS TIPS FOR<br />
DISASTER PREPARATION FOR DIABETES<br />
With hurricane season starting<br />
June 1 and tornado season<br />
in full force, Eli Lilly and<br />
Company, the worldwide leader in diabetes,<br />
is offering tips for people with diabetes<br />
to help limit interruption of their<br />
medical treatment if disaster strikes.<br />
People with chronic medical conditions<br />
that require daily medications are<br />
among the most vulnerable victims of<br />
natural disasters, as access to their<br />
homes, medical supplies and even<br />
medicines may be interrupted or compromised.<br />
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina<br />
last summer, people with diabetes faced<br />
particular challenges, especially patients<br />
using insulin, a hormone that the<br />
body needs for the correct use of food<br />
and energy. People using insulin need to<br />
take their medicine every day, often<br />
multiple times, to keep blood sugar levels<br />
in balance; meals and therapy routines<br />
are often carefully planned.<br />
Stress and erratic eating patterns<br />
can change blood sugar levels, and the<br />
chaos of a disaster or catastrophic<br />
event can confuse these routines and<br />
potentially seriously affect the health<br />
of people with diabetes. Diabetes affects<br />
an estimated 194 million adults<br />
worldwide and more than 20 million in<br />
the United States.<br />
“Patients with diabetes, especially<br />
those taking insulin injections, should<br />
make sure to have a reserve supply of<br />
medication and supplies for a period of<br />
several weeks in the event of a major<br />
disaster or evacuation,” said Dr. Carlos<br />
R. Hamilton, past president, American<br />
Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.<br />
“Experience with Hurricanes Katrina<br />
and Rita in 2005 taught us that medical<br />
services, including pharmacies, may<br />
not be available and emergency care in<br />
shelters may lack the ability to give insulin<br />
injections. <strong>The</strong>se emergency supplies<br />
should include equipment for selfmonitoring<br />
of blood glucose, including<br />
test strips and monitor batteries.”<br />
As a service to help people with diabetes<br />
and their caregivers prepare for<br />
a natural disaster, Lilly—one of the<br />
world’s leading manufacturers of insulin—offers<br />
special tips for Diabetes<br />
Disaster Preparation. <strong>The</strong>se helpful<br />
suggestions can be applied no matter<br />
where you live, whether in a hurricane<br />
region, tornado alley, earthquake zone<br />
or elsewhere, and can be applied<br />
broadly to any medical condition.<br />
• Ensure that your medications and<br />
supplies are stored in a defined location<br />
and can be easily gathered if<br />
you must quickly evacuate your<br />
home or place of work<br />
• If you use insulin, keep cool packs<br />
or ice in your freezer that can be<br />
easily reached to keep your medicine<br />
cool while on the go<br />
• Compile an easy-to-identify, easyto-reach<br />
kit that includes:<br />
• Extra medical supplies, such as syringes,<br />
cotton balls, tissues, alcohol<br />
swabs, blood glucose testing strips,<br />
blood glucose meter, lancing device<br />
and lancets, urine ketone testing<br />
strips and any other items relevant<br />
to your therapy and blood sugar<br />
monitoring<br />
• An empty hard plastic bottle to dispose<br />
of syringes and lancets<br />
• Small cooler to store your insulin<br />
while away from refrigeration<br />
• Pen and small notebook to record<br />
blood sugars<br />
• Extra pair of glasses (if you wear<br />
glasses)<br />
• Extra copies of prescriptions and<br />
health insurance cards<br />
• Emergency medical information<br />
and emergency contact list, including<br />
your caregiver’s and physicians’<br />
names and phone numbers. If<br />
you are a parent of a child with diabetes,<br />
keep a copy of the physician’s<br />
orders for your child’s care<br />
on file with the school, as well as in<br />
your disaster kit<br />
• Up-to-date glucagon emergency kit<br />
(if using insulin) and fast-acting<br />
carbohydrate (such as glucose<br />
tablets or orange juice)<br />
• Non-perishable items such as granola<br />
bars, unsweetened cereal, hard<br />
candies, peanut butter and crackers,<br />
and water<br />
• Typical emergency items such as a<br />
First Aid kit, flashlight, whistle,<br />
matches and candles, radio with<br />
batteries, and work gloves<br />
• Keep the kit up-to-date and ensure<br />
you have enough supplies to last at<br />
least a week<br />
• Keep something containing sugar<br />
with you at all times in case you develop<br />
low blood sugar<br />
• Maintain your meal plan to the best<br />
of your ability and keep hydrated.<br />
However, food and water supplies<br />
can often become contaminated<br />
during a disaster and it may be necessary<br />
to boil water before drinking<br />
• Monitor your blood sugar frequently<br />
and record your numbers<br />
• Increase your food intake during<br />
periods of excessive physical exertion<br />
(such as lifting heavy objects<br />
or walking longer-than-usual distances)<br />
by eating appropriate<br />
snacks between meals<br />
• Wear shoes at all times and examine<br />
your feet often, as people with<br />
diabetes are more vulnerable to developing<br />
infections. If you have a<br />
foot wound, seek medical attention<br />
immediately<br />
• If you are relocated or affected by a<br />
disaster, call your doctors as soon as<br />
possible to touch base and maintain<br />
the continuity of your medical care<br />
• If you are a parent of a child with<br />
diabetes, make sure that you clearly<br />
identify which school staff members<br />
will assist your child in the<br />
event of an emergency<br />
• If you are displaced or need to<br />
evacuate, identify yourself immediately<br />
as a person with diabetes and<br />
report any related conditions so that<br />
authorities can provide for proper<br />
medical care<br />
“No one can anticipate the effect of<br />
a natural disaster, but with proper<br />
preparation and care, people with diabetes<br />
can survive and manage their disease<br />
with limited interruption while<br />
dealing with the aftermath of a disaster,”<br />
said Dr. Sherry Martin, medical<br />
advisor, Eli Lilly and Company. “Taking<br />
the time to prepare now may make<br />
a huge difference in an emergency.”<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.lilly.com.<br />
GIVING VOICE TO PEOPLE<br />
WITH SCLERODERMA<br />
<strong>The</strong> third volume of the Voices of Scleroderma book series continues<br />
to educate and inform readers through both world-renowned medical<br />
experts and more than 100 short stories of people with scleroderma.<br />
Scleroderma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the connective<br />
tissue and is characterized by excessive fibrosis of the skin and internal<br />
organs. <strong>The</strong> disease, which targets mostly women, affects about 30<br />
people in a million a year. It is called the “disease that turns people into<br />
stone,” because the illness causes hardened scar tissue throughout the<br />
body. <strong>The</strong> illness can be catastrophic if organs are impacted. <strong>The</strong>re is no<br />
cause and treatments are limited.<br />
“My life flashed in front of me,” described Naomi, a scleroderma patient<br />
from New Jersey, in her first-hand account in Voices of Scleroderma<br />
Volume 3.<br />
“Here I was in my early 30s with three little children at home and this<br />
doctor is telling me that within two years I could be dead. I looked at her<br />
and I remember telling her that there was no way I was going to die! I had<br />
children to raise.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>se touching short stories—written by the patients like Naomi or<br />
loved ones—were originally written for the nonprofit International Scleroderma<br />
Network’s website at www.sclero.org/. <strong>The</strong> stories are an interesting<br />
study of the progression of the disease from the patient point of view,<br />
and how it impacts individuals in so many different ways.<br />
In Naomi’s case, the disease began 20 years ago, and she now has<br />
scarred lungs, and deformed hands. She has excruciating hand pain in the<br />
cold, an irregular heart beat and acid reflux, but her fighting spirit keeps<br />
her alive. She recently married off her two sons, and brought her sons to<br />
tears when she was able to dance her mother and son dance—oxygen tank<br />
and all. “I will fight this battle until my body cannot take it anymore. Do<br />
not give up! Fight the battle! We may not win but we will not be brought<br />
down easily.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> book is an easy read as well. Editors Judith Thompson Devlin and<br />
Shelley L. Ensz divided the book into four parts: systemic scleroderma, juvenile<br />
and localized scleroderma, autoimmune and overlap, and an international<br />
section published in five different languages. <strong>The</strong>se were the original<br />
languages written by scleroderma patients across the world. <strong>The</strong><br />
website itself uses 22 languages through hundreds of volunteers throughout<br />
the world.<br />
Professor Marco Matucci-Cerinic and Dr. Irene Miniati note in Chapter<br />
1 that systemic scleroderma was called “the most terrible of human ills” by<br />
Sir <strong>Will</strong>iam Osler, and that many doctors lack the expertise to suspect or<br />
detect scleroderma early.<br />
<strong>The</strong> books are readily available worldwide through Amazon.com.<br />
THE NATIONAL<br />
GRANGE FIGHTS<br />
THE METH PROBLEM<br />
IN RURAL AMERICA<br />
Methamphetamine, commonly<br />
referred to as meth, is a highly<br />
addictive drug that is affecting<br />
every segment of society, especially rural<br />
America. In response to this growing crisis,<br />
the National Grange, an agriculture<br />
and rural advocacy organization, is<br />
spreading awareness about the dangers of<br />
meth in its DVD, “Methamphetamine: A<br />
Menace to Rural America.”`<br />
<strong>The</strong> 15-minute DVD highlights the<br />
problems with meth in rural areas, explains<br />
who is affected, and gives advice<br />
on how rural Americans can combat meth<br />
labs in their areas.<br />
“Meth producers are attracted to farming<br />
areas because it affords them a privacy<br />
that urban areas do not provide,”<br />
said <strong>Will</strong>iam Steel, president of the National<br />
Grange. “As a result, farmers,<br />
many financially-disadvantaged, have to<br />
assume the burden of costly toxic cleanups<br />
and stolen farming chemicals that aid<br />
producers with the creation of meth. <strong>The</strong><br />
average clean-up cost is $25,000 to<br />
$30,000.”<br />
Several surveys, report that meth lab<br />
seizures in rural areas increased by 62<br />
percent in 2005, meth abuse among rural<br />
Americans increased by 82 percent in<br />
2005 (5.3 percent of those users were<br />
under 12 years old), 60 percent of children<br />
taken from homes with meth labs<br />
had the drug in their systems in 2005, and<br />
more than 3,000 children living in rural<br />
areas become “meth orphans” in 2005.<br />
For more information visit www.<br />
nationalgrange.org.<br />
Archive issues are available at www.metroherald.com!<br />
THE METRO HERALD 13
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/KATHERINE DUNHAM DIES AT 97<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
WOLF TRAP’S SUMMER SEASON KICKS OFF AND THE 17TH ANNUAL SWAP ROMP BEGINS<br />
Lynyrd Skynyrd jump starts the<br />
month of June at Wolf Trap<br />
with a sold out Thursday,<br />
June 1 show, while the New York<br />
Gilbert & Sullivan Players perform<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pirates of Penzance on Friday,<br />
June 2 and Saturday, June 3, and<br />
Marcia Ball, Rebirth Brass Band, Chris<br />
Ardoin & Double Clutchin’, and<br />
Charivari share the stage for Wolf<br />
Trap’s 17th Annual Louisiana Swamp<br />
Romp on Sunday, June 4.<br />
LYNYRD SKYNYRD AT THE<br />
FILENE CENTER; THURSDAY,<br />
JUNE 1 AT 8P.M.<br />
This show is now sold out. Patrons<br />
can call (703) 255-1868 on the day of<br />
the performance to check for last<br />
minute ticket availability.<br />
Classic rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd return<br />
for their second performance at<br />
the Filene Center, having been together<br />
for more than three decades and recognized<br />
as the enduring rock band of the<br />
working class. All Music Guide’s<br />
Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes<br />
Lynyrd Skynyrd as “the definitive<br />
Southern rock band, fusing the overdriven<br />
power of blues-rock with a rebellious,<br />
Southern image and a hard<br />
rock swagger.”<br />
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’S<br />
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE<br />
AT THE FILENE CENTER;<br />
FRIDAY, JUNE 2 AT 8 P.M. &<br />
SATURDAY, JUNE 3 AT 8 P.M.<br />
Performed by the New York Gilbert<br />
and Sullivan Players; Tickets range<br />
JANICE LYTHCOTT HILL<br />
NAMED EXECUTIVE<br />
DIRECTOR OF THE<br />
LINCOLN THEATRE<br />
from $10 to $38. Wolf Trap begins the<br />
summer musical theatre season with the<br />
New York Gilbert and Sullivan Player’s<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pirates of Penzance. Hailed as one<br />
of the company’s most popular performances,<br />
<strong>The</strong> New York Times calls<br />
the show “exquisitely inventive...effervescent<br />
and beautifully crafted.”<br />
A comic opera in two acts, with<br />
music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto<br />
by W. S. Gilbert, <strong>The</strong> Pirates of Penzance<br />
was first performed at the Fifth<br />
Avenue <strong>The</strong>atre in New York City on<br />
December 31, 1879, and is the only<br />
Gilbert and Sullivan opera to premiere<br />
in the United States. <strong>The</strong> story centers<br />
on the predicament of young Frederic,<br />
who, as a child, was mistakenly apprenticed<br />
to the pirates until his<br />
twenty-first birthday. Although Frederic<br />
has a moral objection to piracy, he<br />
must remain a pirate until 1940 because<br />
he was born in a leap year on<br />
February 29. Throughout the opera, a<br />
cast of characters assist Frederic in surviving<br />
his dilemma.<br />
17TH ANNUAL LOUISIANA<br />
SWAMP ROMP AT THE<br />
FILENE CENTER; SUNDAY,<br />
JUNE 4 AT 2 P.M.<br />
Featuring Marcia Ball, Rebirth<br />
Brass Band, Chris Ardoin & Double<br />
Clutchin’, and Charivari. Tickets are<br />
$20 in advance and $25 on the day of<br />
the show.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Louisiana Swamp Romp returns<br />
to Wolf Trap for its 17th year,<br />
celebrating the legendary music of<br />
Louisiana in the exciting environment<br />
of the Filene Center. Past Swamp<br />
Janice Lythcott Hill<br />
Janice Lythcott Hill, who has<br />
spent more than 25 years as an<br />
executive and producer in the<br />
recording and entertainment industry,<br />
has been named Executive Director of<br />
the historic Lincoln <strong>The</strong>atre. <strong>The</strong> announcement<br />
was made by Rick Lee,<br />
Chairman of the U Street <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Foundation, which has management<br />
responsibility for the New Lincoln<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
Most recently, Mrs. Hill served as<br />
Director of Marketing and Event Management<br />
for the Congressional Black<br />
Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF),<br />
where she was responsible for the<br />
planning and implementation of all<br />
marketing initiatives and production of<br />
CBCF events.<br />
In making the announcement, Rick<br />
Lee said, “<strong>The</strong> Lincoln <strong>The</strong>atre Board<br />
of Directors had its search committee<br />
identify the most qualified person<br />
available for the challenging position<br />
of Executive Director of the Lincoln<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre. We are pleased to have such a<br />
nationally experienced person as Mrs.<br />
Hill to serve in this capacity”.<br />
Janice first became associated with<br />
the CBCF during the 16 years she<br />
worked with pioneering recording executive,<br />
the late LeBaron Taylor, at<br />
CBS Records and Sony Music Entertainment,<br />
first as Manager of Administration<br />
for CBS Records and later as<br />
Director, Project Development for<br />
Corporate Affairs at Sony Music Entertainment.<br />
She has also served as<br />
Project Director for the International<br />
Jazz Academy and Hall of Fame; Producer<br />
of President Bill Clinton’s Birthday<br />
Bash in l994; and Producer of Beyond<br />
the Music Makers for WETA-TV.<br />
In speaking about her new appointment,<br />
Mrs. Hill said she was thrilled<br />
about being a part of the renaissance of<br />
the “new” U Street and the “new” Lincoln<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre. “It is my personal honor to<br />
be able to build on the Lincoln’s rich<br />
legacy by capturing the multicultural energy<br />
of the community through vibrant<br />
and exciting programming. It is inspiring<br />
to participate in the revitalization of<br />
such a dynamic area - what’s good for<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lincoln is good for U Street!”<br />
At the Lincoln <strong>The</strong>atre, Mrs. Hill is<br />
responsible for all administrative and<br />
artistic aspects of the theatre. She indicated<br />
that her immediate priorities include<br />
“reinstituting the Artist-in-Residence<br />
Program, initiating<br />
programmatic quality control mechanisms<br />
and broadening marketing efforts.”<br />
Built in l922, the Lincoln <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
was a popular venue hall for legendary<br />
jazz artists like Duke Ellington, Billie<br />
Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella<br />
Fitzgerald and others in the l930s and<br />
l940s. <strong>The</strong> theatre has undergone extensive<br />
renovation and is presently<br />
owned by District of Columbia government.<br />
Romps have featured artists such as<br />
BeauSoleil, <strong>The</strong> Iguanas, and Steve<br />
Riley and the Mamou Playboys. This<br />
year’s show features a rich collection<br />
of talent straight from the Bayou, playing<br />
Cajun, zydeco, and funk.<br />
Marcia Ball was raised in Vinton,<br />
Louisiana, an area known for its Gulf<br />
Coast rhythm and blues. Ball absorbed<br />
the region’s unique culture, as she took<br />
formal piano lessons while growing up.<br />
Known for a piano style that incorporates<br />
elements of zydeco, swamp blues,<br />
and boogie woogie, Ball released several<br />
well-known recordings on Rounder<br />
Records in the 1980s and early 1990s. A<br />
three-time Grammy-nominee, Ball was<br />
also the recipient of Blues Music<br />
Awards (formerly the W.C. Handy<br />
award) and was inducted into the Austin<br />
Music Hall of Fame in 1990.<br />
Since 1983, Rebirth Brass Band has<br />
been committed to upholding the tradition<br />
of brass bands while at the same<br />
time incorporating modern music into<br />
their shows. <strong>The</strong>ir signature brand of<br />
heavy funk has placed them among the<br />
world’s top brass bands and they remain<br />
a favorite among the younger<br />
generation. Rebirth Brass Band includes<br />
Stafford Agee (trombone),<br />
Shamar Allen (trumpet), Glen Andrews<br />
(trumpet), Keith Frazier (bass drum),<br />
Philip Frazier (tuba), Derrick Shezbie<br />
(trumpet), Herbert Stevens (trombone),<br />
and Derrick Tabb (snare drum).<br />
A third generation accordionist of<br />
Louisiana’s most famed southern region<br />
musical dynasty, Chris Ardoin<br />
followed in the traditions established<br />
by his father and grandfather. A child<br />
prodigy, Ardoin played Carnegie Hall<br />
by the time he was 9 years old and<br />
formed Double Clutchin’ at age 13,<br />
with his brother, cousin, and a family<br />
friend. Blending Creole music with<br />
WILL DOWNING<br />
DISCUSSION &<br />
BOOK SIGNING<br />
<strong>Will</strong> Downing, singer,<br />
photographer and now<br />
author, will discuss and<br />
sign his new book “Unveiled” on<br />
Friday, June 2nd from 6:30-<br />
8:30PM at Bowie Town Center,<br />
15624 Emerald Way, Bowie, MD<br />
20716.<br />
Unbeknownst to many listeners,<br />
<strong>Will</strong> is a noted photographer<br />
and has captured the images of his<br />
contemporaries, such as Al Jarreau,<br />
Chaka Khan, Jill Scott and many<br />
more. “Unveiled” is a compilation<br />
of over 9 years of work as well as<br />
a showcase for the creations of<br />
seven up and coming artists.<br />
For more info: 301/352-4110.<br />
About <strong>Will</strong> Downing<br />
Just one note . . . and you instantly<br />
know ‘That Voice”! <strong>Will</strong><br />
Downing has been entertaining sophisticated<br />
soul fans with his sensual<br />
baritone voice for over 16<br />
years. He has been recognized by<br />
the Grammy Awards and the<br />
NAACP Image Awards for his excellence<br />
on the stage and in the studio<br />
and has been embraced by<br />
radio stations across the R&B,<br />
Smooth Jazz, and Adult Contemporary<br />
dial. He is also noted for his<br />
duets with noted singers, Chante<br />
Moore, Rachelle Farrell, and Mica<br />
Paris.<br />
Rebirth Brass Band<br />
KATHERINE<br />
DUNHAM DIES<br />
AT 97<br />
everything from R&B, rock, and jazz,<br />
to blues, country, and gospel, Ardoin<br />
continues to tour and will release his<br />
newest album, Whose Da Boss, in the<br />
summer of 2006.<br />
Charivari has worked on establishing<br />
itself as the premier concert and<br />
dance band in Cajun music today, delivering<br />
high-energy performances that<br />
blend the best of traditional compositions<br />
with vibrant original works. With<br />
roots deep in the heart of the Cajun<br />
prairies of Southwest Louisiana, the<br />
band continues the legacy of waltzes,<br />
two-steps, fiddle tunes, and stories<br />
about the lives of the Cajun & Creole<br />
peoples. Charivari is driven by the<br />
unique vocals of Randy Vidrine and<br />
rip-roaring fiddling of Mitchell Reed.<br />
Through adding Jonno Frishberg on<br />
fiddle and accordion, the band explores<br />
the origin of fiddle in Cajun<br />
music. Alfred “Bo” Ledet on bass and<br />
Matt Swiler on drums provide a full,<br />
rich, mystical sound to the group.<br />
Tickets can be purchased by calling<br />
Tickets.com at 1-877-WOLFTRAP;<br />
or online at www.wolftrap.org. For<br />
more information, call Wolf Trap at<br />
(703) 255-1868.<br />
Katherine Mary Dunham<br />
passed away in her sleep in<br />
New York City on Sunday,<br />
May 21.<br />
Dunham was a dancer, choreographer,<br />
and songwriter who was trained<br />
as an anthropologist. She was an innovator<br />
in African-American modern<br />
dance as well as a leader in the field<br />
Katherine Dunham<br />
of Dance Anthropology, or Ethnochoreology.<br />
Dunham was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She studied both dance and anthropology<br />
while an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of<br />
Chicago during the 1930s. She showed great promise in her ethnographic<br />
studies of dance and studied under the great anthropologists of the day, Robert<br />
Redfield, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Edward Sapir, and Bronislaw Malinowski.<br />
In 1936, she was awarded a Rosenwald Travel Fellowship to conduct ethnographic<br />
study of the Vodun in the West Indies, a path also followed by fellow<br />
anthropology student, Zora Neale Hurston.<br />
While working on her masters, she was told by her advisors that she had<br />
to choose between anthropology and dance. Much to their regret, she chose<br />
dance, left her graduate studies before finishing her doctorate, and departed<br />
for Hollywood, where she made a number of films before forming her own<br />
company.<br />
Dunham married producer John Thomas Pratt, who managed her career.<br />
She also began the Katherine Dunham Company, a troupe of dancers, singers,<br />
actors and musicians, which was the first African American modern dance<br />
company. <strong>The</strong> company toured worldwide and in the then segregated South,<br />
where Ms. Dunham once refused to hold a show after finding out that the<br />
city’s black residents had not been allowed to buy tickets for the performance.<br />
Dunham later directed the Katherine Dunham School of Dance in New<br />
York City and was an artist-in-residence at Southern Illinois University. Dunham<br />
was also known for her anthropological work in studies into Haitian and<br />
Caribbean culture.<br />
In 1967, Dunham opened the Performing Arts Training Center (PATC) in<br />
East St. Louis, Illinois as an attempt to use the arts to combat poverty and<br />
urban unrest. <strong>The</strong> PATC drew on former members of Dunham’s touring company<br />
as well as local residents for its teaching staff.<br />
Known for her many innovations, the Dunham Technique is now taught as<br />
a modern dance style in dance schools, including at the Harkness Dance Center<br />
of the 92nd Street Y.<br />
AWARDS<br />
• In 1989, Dunham was awarded a National Medal of Arts, an honor shared by<br />
only two other University of Chicago alumni, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.<br />
• Dunham has her own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.<br />
14 THE METRO HERALD<br />
Charivari
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
COME TO WASHINGTON:<br />
THE ART PROJECT<br />
From June 1 through September<br />
30, Sonnig Records, the<br />
Come to Washington: A Song<br />
for the City host committee, and four<br />
charming venues bring you the “Come<br />
to Washington: A Song for the City”<br />
painting exhibition tour. Love Cafe<br />
will kick off the tour between June 1–<br />
29 in Northwest at 1501 U Street.<br />
Next, the painting travels to Southeast<br />
with Mr. Henry’s Capitol Hill displaying<br />
it from July 1–30 at 601 Pennsylvania<br />
Avenue. <strong>The</strong>n it is on to the Market<br />
Inn in Southwest at 200 E Street<br />
from August 1–30. <strong>The</strong> tour ends at<br />
Colonel Brooks Tavern in Northeast at<br />
901 Monroe Street, being on display<br />
there from September 1–30.<br />
On March 24, 2006, Sonnig<br />
Records hosted the launch event for<br />
“Come to Washington: A Song for the<br />
City”, a campaign to name Lincoln<br />
Ross’ “Come to Washington” as DC’s<br />
unofficial song. During the event, artist<br />
J. Anthony (www.jamesdesigns.net)<br />
installed a canvas onsite for guests to<br />
sign, draw, and doodle on. He painted<br />
the campaign title in an elegant, gold<br />
script and added a street sign of a<br />
Southeast intersection that has Washington’s<br />
most breathtaking view.<br />
March 24th guests filled the canvas<br />
with color, sayings, and objects.<br />
After the campaign launch event,<br />
Washington notables added their mark<br />
to the “Come to Washington: A Song<br />
for the City” painting. Visit the tour<br />
to see contributions made by sports<br />
anchor Glenn Harris, celebrity chef<br />
Warren Brown, news reporter Pat<br />
Collins, LOVE nightclub owner<br />
Marc Barnes, organic chef Nora<br />
Pouillon, Chuck Brown, news anchor<br />
Maureen Bunyan, 9:30 Club<br />
co-owner Rich Heincke, radio personality<br />
Al Santos, Artistic Director<br />
for Arena Stage Molly Smith,<br />
WPFW-89.3 FM General Manager<br />
Ron Pinchback, radio personality<br />
Jeannie Jones, Black Cat owner and<br />
manager Dante Ferrando and G.<br />
Bernard Wandel, news anchor Gordon<br />
Peterson, and music mogul Marcus<br />
Johnson.<br />
In the fall, the painting will be auctioned<br />
at the “Come to Washington: A<br />
Song for the City” gala. Sonnig<br />
Records is donating 25% of the winning<br />
bid to the DC Music Center, a<br />
non-profit organization that provides<br />
affordable music lessons for inner city,<br />
low income and minority youths and<br />
adults. Details on the gala will be released<br />
mid-summer.<br />
“Come to Washington: A Song for<br />
the City” painting viewers can lounge<br />
with Washington’s most delicious cupcake<br />
while at Love Cafe. And for the<br />
warmth of a cozy neighborhood pub<br />
and restaurant, art and culture lovers<br />
can catch the painting at Mr. Henry’s<br />
or Colonel Brooks Tavern. Daters can<br />
examine the piece while indulging in a<br />
succulent seafood dinner and hearing<br />
live jazz at the Market Inn.<br />
<strong>The</strong> “Come to Washington: A Song<br />
for the City” painting exhibition tour is<br />
sponsored in part by Mickelson’s Fine<br />
Art Framing. Join Sonnig Records in<br />
this effort to bring the four sections of<br />
Washington together through song. Go<br />
to www.lincolnross.com for more information<br />
about the campaign and to<br />
purchase the catchy “Come to Washington”<br />
anthem, or call Sonnig<br />
Records at (202) 210-2427.<br />
CHILDREN’S FILM<br />
PROGRAM AT<br />
NATIONAL GALLERY<br />
OF ART<br />
All shows are in the East Building<br />
Auditorium of the National<br />
Gallery of Art on a first-come,<br />
first-seated basis. For details visit www.<br />
nga.gov/programs/flmchild.htm<br />
PELICAN MAN<br />
(LIISA HELIMINEM,<br />
FINLAND, 2004, 89 MINS.)<br />
JUNE 3, 7, AND 14 AT<br />
10:30AM/JUNE 4 AT 11:30AM<br />
AGES 7 AND UP<br />
A pelican takes human form, rents<br />
an apartment, and gets a job, and no<br />
one notices that he is actually a bird —<br />
except ten-year-old Emil. Find out if<br />
they can keep the pelican man’s true<br />
identity a secret. In Finnish with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
REEL FUN<br />
JULY 8 AND 19 AT 10:30AM AND<br />
11:30AM JULY 9 AT 11:30AM<br />
AGES 3 AND UP<br />
See stories about a young worm, a<br />
monster family, and an Indian princess<br />
in this series of short films. Films include<br />
Armonia (Lauren Grieman,<br />
Canada, 2004, 3 mins.), Cartoon Animal<br />
Kingdom (David Katz, USA,<br />
2005, 3 mins.), Sundae, Sunday (Eva<br />
Saks, USA, 2005, 3 mins.), Maya the<br />
Indian Princess(Kavita Ramchandran,<br />
USA, 2004, 3 mins.) Diary of a Worm<br />
(Gene Deitch, USA, 2004, 10 mins.),<br />
Ish (Weston Woods, USA, 2005, 8<br />
mins.), and Little Monsterette (Ted<br />
Sieger and Alexandra Schatz, Germany/Smitzerland,<br />
2004, 9 mins.).<br />
Pelican Man<br />
MAGICAL MÉLIÈS<br />
JULY 28 AND 29; AUGUST 11<br />
AND 12 AT 11:00AM AND 1:00PM<br />
AGES 6 AND UP<br />
As producer, director, actor, and designer,<br />
Georges Méliès used the magic<br />
of film to create fantasy worlds. A selection<br />
of his silent films, including A<br />
Trip to the Moon and <strong>The</strong> Magic<br />
Lantern, will be shown with live piano<br />
accompaniment.<br />
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS<br />
(VINCENTE MINNELLI,<br />
MGM STUDIOS, USA,<br />
1951, 113 MINS.)<br />
JULY 28; AUGUST 11 AT 2:30PM<br />
AGES 10 AND UP<br />
This musical romance stars Gene<br />
Kelly as a struggling young painter<br />
who finds love on the Left Bank. <strong>The</strong><br />
film’s climatic ballet sequence features<br />
art direction inspired by French masters,<br />
including the paintings of Henri<br />
Rousseau.<br />
SHORT STUFF<br />
AUGUST 5, 9, AND 16 AT<br />
10:30AM AND 11:30AM<br />
AUGUST 6 AT 11:30AM<br />
AGES 6 AND UP<br />
Join us for a series of live-action<br />
and animated short films from around<br />
the world. Films include Wind (Erik<br />
van Schaaik, <strong>The</strong> Netherlands, 2004, 5<br />
mins.), Gopher Broke (Blur Studio,<br />
USA, 2005, 5 mins.), <strong>The</strong> Mantis Parable<br />
(Josh Staub, USA, 2005, 8 mins.),<br />
A Song for Daniel (Jason DaSilva,<br />
Canada/Iraq, 2005, 9 mins.), and Charlotte’s<br />
Red (Colin McIvor, Northern<br />
Ireland, 2005, 15 mins.).<br />
REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT HOSTS<br />
7TH ANNUAL D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS<br />
ART EXHIBIT<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Metro</strong>politan Washington Airports Authority is pleased to host the<br />
D.C. Public Schools 7th Annual Citywide Student Art Exhibition at<br />
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.<br />
<strong>The</strong> work of more than 300 students from 75 elementary, junior high and<br />
high schools is displayed in the baggage claim level of Terminal B/C. This<br />
year’s theme is “Creating Meaning, New Ideas and New Views, ” and includes<br />
drawings, paintings, collages, prints and mixed media. <strong>The</strong> exhibit<br />
runs until May 31.<br />
“Art plays an important role at Reagan National Airport,” said James E.<br />
Bennett, President and CEO of the Airports Authority. “<strong>The</strong> work of more<br />
than 30 professional artists is actually built into the design of Terminal B/C.<br />
We are pleased to complement our permanent collection with the artwork<br />
from these talented young people.”<br />
THE METRO HERALD 15
EDUCATION/SPORTS & RECREATION<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
OP-ED<br />
When you’re a new mother or<br />
father, you learn quite<br />
quickly that your child has<br />
been born into a world filled with hidden<br />
dangers. You have to make sure<br />
that the stuffed animal you place in<br />
your baby’s crib doesn’t represent a<br />
choking hazard...that your child doesn’t<br />
fall out of his high chair...that your<br />
two-year-old doesn’t stray into the<br />
street while chasing a bubble.<br />
Once your child graduates from the<br />
toddler years, you have to be concerned<br />
about whether he’s wearing a<br />
helmet when cycling through your<br />
neighborhood...or whether she’s<br />
spending enough time doing her homework.<br />
You have to be focused on what<br />
your child is eating...how your child is<br />
sleeping...and how your child is dealing<br />
with stress.<br />
And, in this age of digital technology,<br />
you have to be absolutely obsessed<br />
with what your child is doing<br />
online.<br />
Sure, you may know enough to<br />
keep your child from browsing through<br />
porn sites, but did you know that your<br />
EIGHT ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS RECEIVE<br />
EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARDS<br />
Eight Alexandria City Public<br />
School (ACPS) teachers will<br />
be honored on Tuesday, June 6,<br />
at the Excellence in Education Awards<br />
dinner sponsored by the Alexandria<br />
Education Partnership (AEP), a nonprofit<br />
organization that supports ACPS<br />
with community resources and career<br />
preparation.<br />
Principals, colleagues, parents and<br />
students from six elementary schools,<br />
George Washington Middle School<br />
and T.C. <strong>Will</strong>iams High School nominated<br />
the following award recipients<br />
for their abilities to inspire students to<br />
appreciate learning and attain maximum<br />
potential; create classrooms that<br />
promote diversity, individual talents<br />
and self esteem; and serve as positive<br />
role models.<br />
Wanda Bridget Allen, a kindergarten<br />
teacher at Lyles-Crouch Traditional<br />
Academy since 1993, educates<br />
her students through a variety of fun<br />
activities, from using teddy bears in<br />
lessons to performing in costume to<br />
encourage students to read. A participant<br />
on numerous leadership and planning<br />
teams, Allen recently served as<br />
the ACPS kindergarten preparatory coordinator.<br />
Allen was a finalist for <strong>The</strong><br />
Washington Post’s 2006 Agnes Meyer<br />
Outstanding Teacher Award.<br />
Terrell LeVaughn Ambrose, an<br />
ACPS instrumental music teacher<br />
since 1999, serves as the T.C. <strong>Will</strong>iams<br />
High School music department chair<br />
and director of Symphonic Bands I and<br />
II, Concert Band, Marching Band, Jazz<br />
Combo and Jazz Ensemble. Under<br />
Ambrose’s leadership, the band program<br />
has grown and students have performed<br />
at a variety of local venues, including<br />
the John F. Kennedy Center for<br />
the Performing Arts. Ambrose is<br />
known for making sure that all his students<br />
receive equal opportunities and<br />
individual attention.<br />
Anika Buster-Singleton, a sixthgrade<br />
language arts teacher at George<br />
teenager could easily become a victim<br />
of a sexual THE predator-just LATEST by occupying<br />
a place in cyberspace<br />
DANGERS IN<br />
<strong>The</strong> problem is mySpace.com, a<br />
supposedly innocuous Internet website<br />
CYBERWORLD<br />
Nathan Tabor<br />
Special to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Herald</strong><br />
where people can post their pictures,<br />
chat, and post their musings about the<br />
universe. <strong>The</strong> trouble is, mySpace attracts<br />
individuals who want to sexually<br />
exploit teenagers. Newspapers are carrying<br />
headlines showing the troubles<br />
with mySpace: a 15-year-old runs<br />
away from home to be with a man she<br />
met on the Internet...a 24-year-old man<br />
is arrested for having sex with a 14-<br />
year-old girl he knew from my-<br />
Space...a 32-year-old man is accused<br />
of soliciting sex from a 13-year-old<br />
through mySpace.<br />
In short, your Internet connection<br />
could easily become a pathway for a<br />
predator.<br />
In such a situation, what can a parent<br />
do Some parent activists have decided<br />
to arm themselves with information.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’re educating themselves<br />
about the dangers of mySpace.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’re learning about what their<br />
teenage sons and daughters are doing<br />
online. And they’re taking action to<br />
reduce the risks to their children.<br />
At one point, these parents might<br />
have never thought that anything bad<br />
could happen to their child from his or<br />
her exposure to the World Wide Web.<br />
In fact, they might have encouraged<br />
their teens to spend time on the Internet<br />
in order to polish their computer<br />
skills and broaden their horizons. But<br />
now they’ve come to realize that no<br />
teen is immune to the lure of a clever<br />
predator in cyberspace.<br />
Apparently, teens can become easy<br />
targets because they have a tendency to<br />
reveal too much information on the<br />
‘Net. <strong>The</strong>y’re naïve enough to believe<br />
that the people they meet through my-<br />
Space share their values as well as<br />
their interests. <strong>The</strong> teens may be looking<br />
for affirmation from their cyberfriends...especially<br />
if they have difficulty<br />
making friends at school.<br />
Because they’re often entering cyberworld<br />
through the safety of their parents’<br />
homes, they may not realize that<br />
danger could be just a click away.<br />
Fortunately, though, caring adults,<br />
including school officials, are awakening<br />
to the threat posed by mySpace.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rapid growth of the site has some<br />
school leaders taking concrete steps to<br />
protect children, which is considered<br />
to be the site’s main audience. In addition<br />
to the threat of sexual predators,<br />
the site may also attract drug dealers,<br />
child porn dealers, and a host of other<br />
troubled souls. If you wouldn’t want<br />
your child to interact with such people<br />
in your neighborhood, why would you<br />
let him or her communicate with such<br />
Washington Middle School since 1999,<br />
promotes a family-type classroom atmosphere<br />
where students practice the<br />
slogan Each One Teach One. Buster-<br />
Singleton, who leads the 6-3 Trailblazers<br />
team, incorporates activities that<br />
address her students’ varied learning<br />
styles. She places a strong emphasis on<br />
developing reading abilities, honing<br />
writing skills and promoting strong<br />
work ethics.<br />
Maria Fletcher, a teacher at Mount<br />
Vernon Community School since<br />
1985, is known for setting high standards<br />
in her second-grade classroom.<br />
Amentor for new teachers, she is quick<br />
to offer her time and ideas to colleagues.<br />
Fletcher specializes in nurturing<br />
students who are low achievers or<br />
have behavioral problems, and makes<br />
a practice of highlighting students’<br />
achievements. Fletcher has served as<br />
grade-level chairperson and as a member<br />
of many school committees.<br />
Arthur Harris, physical education<br />
teacher at Douglas MacArthur Elementary<br />
School from 1983 to 1985 and<br />
from 1992 to the present, serves as the<br />
department’s lead teacher. “Coach<br />
Harris” stresses self-improvement over<br />
competition in his classes and challenges<br />
his students with skill-building<br />
activities - such as learning to walk and<br />
eventually run the mile - that carry<br />
over from year to year. Harris coordinates<br />
the school’s annual field day and<br />
Hoop it Up event for Character<br />
Counts.<br />
Mara Mellody, fourth-grade teacher<br />
at Matthew Maury Elementary School<br />
since 2003, boosted the school’s Virginia<br />
Studies Standards of Learning<br />
(SOL) test scores from 34 percent in<br />
2002-2003 to 86 percent in 2003-2004<br />
and 81 percent in 2004-2005. Mellody<br />
co-authored a Teaching Historical<br />
Places lesson plan on segregation in<br />
Alexandria, participated in the ACPS<br />
Teaching American History grant program<br />
and directs the school’s 21st Century<br />
tutoring program. She was a finalist<br />
for the 2006 Agnes Meyer Outstanding<br />
Teacher Award.<br />
Noemi Rivera, third-grade teacher<br />
at Jefferson-Houston School for Arts<br />
and Academics since 2003, is known<br />
as the school’s “Science Lady.” Her accomplishments<br />
include raising Jefferson-Houston<br />
third-grade science SOL<br />
scores 38 percent and managing a Science<br />
Resource Room stocked with materials<br />
teachers can borrow. Nominated<br />
for a Presidential Award for Excellence<br />
in Mathematics and Science Teaching,<br />
Rivera encourages independent learning<br />
by providing free-choice as well as<br />
mandatory assignments.<br />
Donna Schmidt, an ACPS teacher<br />
since 1990, has taught first grade at<br />
Samuel Tucker Elementary School<br />
since 2000. Schmidt serves as Primary<br />
Team Leader, has conducted districtwide<br />
math workshops for kindergarten<br />
teachers and is a candidate for National<br />
Board Certification. She is known for<br />
helping students learn by offering special<br />
attention, from helping a youngster<br />
practice self control through use of<br />
an hourly behavior chart to visiting a<br />
bedridden parent to discuss home<br />
learning ideas for a troubled child.<br />
Two Alexandria private-school<br />
teachers also will be honored at the<br />
event. Robert Davis teaches the eighthgrade<br />
Principles of Science class at St.<br />
Stephen’s & St. Agnes School, and<br />
Kenneth A. Risley teaches Advanced<br />
Placement and Regular U.S. History at<br />
Episcopal High School.<br />
<strong>The</strong> recognition event on June 6 at<br />
the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center,<br />
5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, features<br />
a mixer at 5:00PM followed by<br />
dinner at 6:00PM. For more information<br />
about the event or sponsorship opportunities,<br />
contact AEP Executive Director<br />
Kerri Rogers at krogers@<br />
alexchamber.com or 703-549-1000,<br />
extension 208.<br />
people on the Internet<br />
As a parent, you need to ask yourself<br />
some tough questions, such as how<br />
much time your children spend on line<br />
and whom they’re talking to. You also<br />
have to determine if they appear to be<br />
heading down a path that could lead to<br />
danger.<br />
When our children are little, it’s so<br />
much easier. We simply have to hold<br />
their hands while crossing the street to<br />
make sure that they get safely to the<br />
other side. When they’re teens, we<br />
need to guide them safely to adulthood.<br />
And that might involve unplugging<br />
the computer once in a while.<br />
• • •<br />
Nathan Tabor is a conservative political<br />
activist based in Kernersville,<br />
North Carolina.<br />
TWO SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS<br />
RECEIVE HARRY BURKE AWARDS<br />
Stacey Broderick, a special education teacher at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary<br />
School, and Amy Cable, who teaches sixth graders with<br />
emotional disabilities at George Washington Middle School, received<br />
the 2006 Harry Burke Outstanding Achievement in Special Education<br />
Awards.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Alexandria Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) presents<br />
the honors annually to two Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS)<br />
employees, one secondary and one elementary, who demonstrate outstanding<br />
ability and excellence in doing their jobs and a deep commitment<br />
to educating children with disabilities. Broderick earned the Elementary<br />
Division honor and Cable received the Secondary Division prize during<br />
the 20th annual ceremony, held on May 11 at Minnie Howard School.<br />
Broderick, who has taught at Tucker since 2002, implemented the school’s<br />
inclusion program for third and fifth graders. Her peers call her “a very enthusiastic<br />
and conscientious teacher” who places a high priority on her students’<br />
success and rewards the children’s efforts with movie outings. Her students<br />
say she “is a great teacher and makes learning fun” through such<br />
activities as concocting chocolate mud pies and writing about the cooking experience.<br />
Cable, a teacher at George Washington since 2003, runs a classroom<br />
that her peers describe as “a visual, kinesthetic and auditory learning laboratory.”<br />
She carries her dedication to her students outside the classroom,<br />
by starting after-school activities, such as a tennis club, for students with<br />
disabilities and mentoring adolescent girls in the “Space Of Her Own”<br />
program. Her students describe her as “funny, helping, out-spoken and<br />
giving.”<br />
Seven nominees also received recognition at the ceremony, emceed by<br />
SEAC co-chairs David Cordell and Jonathan Friedman. <strong>The</strong> Elementary<br />
Division nominees include Kerri Buonamico, Life Skills teacher at John<br />
Adams Elementary School; Susan Doyle, intermediate teacher of students<br />
with learning disabilities at Maury Elementary School; Beverly Harris,<br />
special education teacher at Jefferson-Houston School for Arts and Academics;<br />
Karen Reekie, special education teacher for students with emotional<br />
disturbances at Charles Barrett Elementary School; and Jill Taylor,<br />
special education teacher at Mount Vernon Community School. Secondary<br />
Division nominees include <strong>The</strong>resa Foley, reading specialist at<br />
Francis C. Hammond Middle School; and, as the first ever team nominee,<br />
Hammond Team 6-3, consisting of Team Leader Pat <strong>Will</strong>iamson, Scott<br />
Berkowitz, Eric Grutza, Juliana Petraia, Colette Brown, Rochelle Johnson,<br />
Beverly Cannizzaro and IEP Coordinator Jennifer Masood.<br />
Harry Burke, the first ACPS director of special education, and the<br />
awards’ namesake, was among several past award winners who attended<br />
the 20th anniversary celebration. Participants also paid tribute to Marylou<br />
Wall, the soon to be retiring ACPS director of Student Services.<br />
For more information, contact the ACPS Department of Information<br />
and Outreach at 703-824-6635.<br />
SOUTH LAKES HIGH TO ESTABLISH<br />
SPORTS HALL OF FAME<br />
South Lakes High School will introduce its first inductees into<br />
the school’s Sports Hall of Fame at a banquet at Hidden Creek<br />
Country Club in Reston on Wednesday, May 31 at 6 p.m.<br />
South Lakes High School is a Fairfax County public school.<br />
Inductees—including administrators, coaches, and athletes—will<br />
be honored for helping to create and sustain school pride and sportsmanship.<br />
Inaugural inductees include:<br />
• Kendyl Baugh, track and field athlete, class of 1989.<br />
• George Felton, principal from 1978 to 1984.<br />
• Bob Graumann, football coach from 1991 to 1999.<br />
• Grant Hill, basketball athlete, class of 1991.<br />
• Paul Kaplan, tennis coach from 1980 to 1997.<br />
• Dave Morgan, activities director from 1989 to 2001.<br />
• Wes Suter, gymnastics athlete, class of 1982.<br />
• Christy Winters-Scott, basketball athlete, class of 1986.<br />
• Carl Zaleski, activities director from 1978 to 1989.<br />
For more information, contact South Lakes High principal Bruce<br />
Butler at 703-715-4500 or bruce.butler@fcps.edu .<br />
16 THE METRO HERALD
SPORTS & RECREATION<br />
May 26, 2006<br />
Barry Bonds<br />
Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second<br />
place on the career home run<br />
list Saturday, ending a ninegame<br />
homerless stretch with a shot<br />
into the first deck of the elevated<br />
stands in right-center during San Francisco’s<br />
4-2, 10-inning victory over the<br />
Oakland Athletics.<br />
“This is a great accomplishment because<br />
of Babe Ruth and what he<br />
brought to the game of baseball and his<br />
legacy in the game of baseball,” Bonds<br />
said. “This and a World Series ring to<br />
me would be the ultimate. He changed<br />
the game of baseball. ... It’s just great<br />
to be in the same class.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> second-inning drive landed<br />
about eight rows up in the seats overlooking<br />
the high fence just to the left of<br />
the out-of-town scoreboard. Though<br />
the A’s don’t provide estimated distances<br />
on home runs, this one appeared<br />
to travel about 400 feet ó far from<br />
being one of Bonds’ trademark behemoth<br />
drives.<br />
Booed when he was introduced before<br />
the game, the Giants’ star received<br />
a long standing ovation after his home<br />
run, and the game was delayed about<br />
90 seconds.<br />
Next up is Hank Aaron’s record of<br />
755.<br />
“This took a lot off me. It’s good,”<br />
Bonds said. “A lot of relief. Well, until<br />
something else comes up.”<br />
Bonds, dogged by allegations of<br />
steroid use and repeated taunts on the<br />
road, was immediately greeted by his<br />
teammates after circling the bases.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y surrounded him at the top of the<br />
dugout as Bonds tipped his cap and<br />
blew a kiss to his wife and two daughters<br />
sitting in the first row.<br />
Bonds had gone 29 at-bats without<br />
a homer since hitting No. 713 with a<br />
450-foot shot May 7 in Philadelphia.<br />
His teenage son, Nikolai, a Giants bat<br />
boy, was waiting for him at home plate<br />
and they embraced.<br />
“I like the fact that ball was hit, that<br />
ball was crushed,” San Francisco manager<br />
Felipe Alou said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Giants plan to commemorate<br />
No. 715 in their own ballpark. Major<br />
League Baseball has said it won’t do<br />
anything special to celebrate Bonds<br />
moving into second place, and a commissioner’s<br />
office spokesman said<br />
baseball had no comment Saturday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ball was caught on the fly by<br />
19-year-old Tyler Snyder of nearby<br />
Pleasanton, who was cheered by fans<br />
around him and quickly left the Coliseum<br />
with his souvenir. When Bonds<br />
was told Snyder is an A’s fan, he<br />
quipped: “I, um, forgive you. If he<br />
doesn’t like me, give me the ball.”<br />
Left-hander Brad Halsey became<br />
the 420th pitcher to allow a homer to<br />
Bonds, who was San Francisco’s designated<br />
hitter in an interleague series<br />
against the A’s.<br />
BARRY BONDS HITS 714TH HOME RUN,<br />
TIES BABE RUTH’S CAREER TALLY<br />
<strong>The</strong> seven-time NL MVP was<br />
booed when his name was announced<br />
before the game and again the moment<br />
he began walking to the batter’s box.<br />
He connected on a 1-1 pitch from<br />
Halsey, making history with his sixth<br />
home run this season.<br />
“It’s a pretty unbelievable thing,”<br />
Astros reliever Brad Lidge said in<br />
Houston, where the Giants swept a<br />
three-game series earlier in the week.<br />
“No matter what kind of controversy<br />
surrounds him and no matter what side<br />
of the fence you are on as far as what<br />
he did or didn’t do with performanceenhancing<br />
drugs, you’ve got to admit<br />
that it’s a pretty impressive number.”<br />
Bonds came to the plate in the third<br />
to chants of “Barry! Barry!” and struck<br />
out looking. He flied out to left leading<br />
off the sixth and was intentionally<br />
walked in the eighth and again in the<br />
10th with none out and runners on second<br />
and third.<br />
Bonds had hoped to reach his latest<br />
milestone home run at home in San<br />
Francisco, where he hit Nos. 500, 600<br />
and 700 along with 660 and 661 to tie<br />
and pass his godfather, <strong>Will</strong>ie Mays. In<br />
2001, Bonds hit the final three of his<br />
73 homers at home to break Mark<br />
McGwire’s single-season record of 70.<br />
“I’m just glad it happened in the<br />
Bay,” Bonds said. “East Bay, West<br />
Bay. I’m just glad it happened here.”<br />
Still, the slugger had to be happy to<br />
hit No. 714 back in the Bay Area in<br />
front of his family and friends. Only<br />
six days earlier, Bonds suggested he<br />
was being haunted by “two ghosts” ó a<br />
reference to Ruth and Aaron.<br />
Ruth passed Sam Thompson to<br />
move into second place on June 20,<br />
1921, when he hit his 127th home run.<br />
Aaron passed Ruth in April 1974 ó and<br />
now Hammerin’ Hank’s mark is the<br />
only one left for Bonds to chase.<br />
Yet Bonds has said that could be a<br />
long shot considering he turns 42 on<br />
July 24, is playing on a surgically repaired<br />
right knee and with bone chips<br />
floating around in his left elbow.<br />
In his 21st major league season,<br />
Bonds has hit nine career home runs as<br />
a designated hitter ó and realizes his<br />
future could be in the American<br />
League as a DH if he returns in 2007.<br />
Bonds had 40 plate appearances between<br />
Nos. 713 and 714. He had been<br />
4-for-29 (.138) with 10 walks, three intentional,<br />
six runs scored, two RBIs<br />
and four strikeouts since his last homer.<br />
“He finally hit it It’s about time,”<br />
Ken Griffey Jr., who entered the night<br />
with 539 career homers, said in the<br />
Cincinnati Reds’ clubhouse in Detroit.<br />
“Now I don’t have to keep watching<br />
TV to see him do it.”<br />
Bonds was destined for greatness at<br />
an early age. <strong>The</strong> son of three-time All-<br />
Star Bobby Bonds and the godson of one<br />
of the game’s greatest players in Mays.<br />
Bonds spent his childhood years roaming<br />
the clubhouse at Candlestick Park,<br />
getting tips from Mays and other Giants.<br />
In a matter of years, Bonds went<br />
from a wiry leadoff hitter when he<br />
broke into the big leagues with Pittsburgh<br />
in 1986 to the most feared slugger<br />
of his generation and possibly ever.<br />
It was a transformation many-including<br />
federal prosecutors in the<br />
BALCO case-believe was fueled by the<br />
use of performance-enhancing drugs.<br />
Bonds has long denied ever knowingly<br />
taking steroids, though the new book<br />
“Game of Shadows” reveals his alleged<br />
longtime doping regimen the authors<br />
say began after the 1998 season when<br />
Bonds saw the attention McGwire and<br />
Sammy Sosa generated in their race for<br />
the single-season home run record.<br />
Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson,<br />
pleaded guilty to his role in a steroid<br />
distribution ring, and a federal grand jury<br />
is looking into whether Bonds perjured<br />
himself when he testified to the separate<br />
grand jury that indicted Anderson and<br />
three others in the Bay Area Laboratory<br />
Co-Operative scandal.<br />
One fan in the front row behind<br />
home plate Saturday sported a No. 25<br />
Bonds jersey with BALCO on the back<br />
where Bonds’ name should be.<br />
Partly because of his prickly relationship<br />
with fans and the media,<br />
Bonds was never a beloved superstar<br />
even before the steroid allegations. He<br />
was not voted by fans onto baseball’s<br />
All-Century team, losing out to Griffey,<br />
among others.<br />
But the latest accusations have hurt<br />
his reputation even more, and the anticipation<br />
as he neared Ruth’s mark<br />
was tempered for that reason. Just as<br />
when Aaron passed the Babe in 1974,<br />
there is resentment among those who<br />
believe Ruth is the greatest player ever,<br />
although this time it’s more because of<br />
steroids than racism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> allegations of cheating have put<br />
a cloud over Bonds’ rapid rise up the<br />
home run chart. He hit his 500th homer<br />
on April 17, 2001, on the way to a<br />
record 73 that season, and reached 700<br />
on Sept. 17, 2004, a stretch unmatched<br />
by any player at the end of his career.<br />
Before the bottom of the 11th inning<br />
in the Yankees’ 5-4, 11-inning win over<br />
the Mets at Shea Stadium, a message<br />
on the scoreboard announced Bonds’<br />
714th homer, and the crowd booed.<br />
“I still remember Barry Bonds as a<br />
great player, regardless of steroids or<br />
what,” Yankees manager Joe Torre<br />
said. “How many home runs would he<br />
have hit without whatever people are<br />
saying is going on I don’t know. I<br />
know one thing: That player-wise, he’s<br />
pretty good.”<br />
Bonds has said his many milestones<br />
won’t mean as much later if he doesn’t<br />
win a World Series ring, the only thing<br />
missing from a decorated resume featuring<br />
the record seven NL MVP<br />
awards, 13 All-Star selections and<br />
eight Gold Gloves in left field.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Giants fell six outs short of<br />
winning it all in 2002 when they blew<br />
their lead in Game 6 and lost in the deciding<br />
seventh game to the Angels.<br />
While Bonds was at his best that postseason,<br />
with eight homers and 27<br />
walks, it was his struggles in his first<br />
five trips to the playoffs with Pittsburgh<br />
and San Francisco that characterized<br />
his career before he became a<br />
record-setting home run hitter.<br />
No matter the controversy, his home<br />
fans still adore him, chanting his name<br />
when he comes to bat and waving yellow<br />
rubber chickens whenever an opposing<br />
manager makes the most unpopular<br />
choice to intentionally walk him.<br />
It is Bonds, after all, who is the<br />
biggest reason 3 million fans a year pack<br />
the seats at the Giants’ sparkling waterfront<br />
ballpark, which opened in 2000.<br />
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2006 USA BASKETBALL<br />
WOMEN’S WORLD<br />
CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM<br />
Continuing on its past success of<br />
building gold medal winning<br />
teams around a core group of<br />
internationally experienced players,<br />
USA Basketball, which has claimed<br />
gold at the last two FIBA World Championships<br />
and past three Olympic<br />
Games, announced today that threetime<br />
Olympic gold medalists Lisa<br />
Leslie (Los Angeles Sparks) and Sheryl<br />
Swoopes (Houston Comets), twotime<br />
Olympic gold medalist Katie<br />
Smith (Detroit Shock), 2000 Olympic<br />
gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones<br />
(Washington Mystics), and 2004<br />
Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird<br />
(Seattle Storm), Tamika Catchings (Indiana<br />
Fever) Diana Taurasi (Phoenix<br />
Mercury) and Tina Thompson (Houston<br />
Comets) have been selected as the<br />
first eight members of the 2006 USA<br />
Women’s World Championship Team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> selections were made by the USA<br />
Basketball Women’s Senior National<br />
Team Committee and approved by the<br />
USA Basketball Executive Committee.<br />
“USA Basketball’s senior women’s<br />
program has a proud history of success<br />
in international competition, including<br />
five consecutive gold medals over the<br />
past ten years,” said USA Basketball<br />
President Val Ackerman. “<strong>The</strong> 2006<br />
World Championship player roster<br />
once again represents an impressive<br />
blend of youth and veteran leadership,<br />
and with coach Donovan at the helm,<br />
we are in an outstanding position to<br />
continue our unparalleled run and solidify<br />
the domination of American<br />
women in the sport of basketball,”<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se eight players have contributed<br />
to the success of the USA Basketball<br />
women’s program over the past<br />
two decades,” said Committee chair<br />
and WNBA Chief of Basketball Operations<br />
and Player Relations Renee’<br />
Brown. “You not only have three- and<br />
two-time Olympians, but you have<br />
some talented young players who are<br />
hungry to compete alongside our veterans<br />
and help continue to build upon<br />
USA Basketball’s past successes. Not<br />
only have all of them have competed<br />
together in international competitions,<br />
but the Committee also knows that<br />
they all have a respect for each other’s<br />
games and they are willing to collectively<br />
come together to compete and<br />
win for the USA.”<br />
“This is a tremendous group of core<br />
players, with extensive experience in<br />
bringing home the gold,” said USA<br />
and Seattle Storm head coach Anne<br />
Donovan. “With this group, I know we<br />
are assured of going to battle in the<br />
World Championship with our best and<br />
most proven veterans. <strong>The</strong>se players<br />
understand the drive, preparation and<br />
commitment that we need to stay on<br />
top. I am confident that these experienced<br />
Olympians will set the pace for<br />
yet another gold.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Donovan-led U.S. squad will<br />
look to defend its World Championship<br />
title at the 15th FIBA World<br />
Championship, scheduled to be played<br />
September 12-23 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.<br />
Behind the play of 2002 FIBA World<br />
Championship MVP Leslie, as well as<br />
Bird, Catchings, Milton-Jones, Smith<br />
and Swoopes, the United States captured<br />
the ‘02 gold medal, successfully<br />
defending it’s 1998 World Championship<br />
crown.<br />
<strong>The</strong> U.S. owns a record seven gold<br />
medals, one silver and one bronze at<br />
the World Championship, while compiling<br />
an 80-20 (.800 winning percentage)<br />
record, including a 19-0 winning<br />
Amember of the historic 1995-96 USA<br />
Basketball Women’s Senior National Team<br />
and 1996 Olympic Team, Sheryl Swoopes<br />
continues to help the U.S. in its quest for<br />
gold medals. (photo by USA Basketball)<br />
streak that dates back to the 1994<br />
bronze medal game.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Committee, chaired by WNBA<br />
Chief of Basketball Operations and<br />
Player Relations Reneé Brown, will<br />
use part of the WNBA season to evaluate<br />
players for the final four roster positions,<br />
which will be announced later<br />
this summer.<br />
Donovan will be assisted on the<br />
sidelines by Connecticut Sun head<br />
coach Mike Thibault and collegiate<br />
head coaches Gail Goestenkors of<br />
Duke University (N.C.) and Dawn Staley<br />
of Temple University (Pa.).<br />
<strong>The</strong> eight core members possess a<br />
wealth of international experience having<br />
played in a combined 777 international<br />
games. Not only do they own 13<br />
Olympic gold medals between them,<br />
they also have nine World Championship<br />
golds and a pair of World<br />
Championship bronze medals as Leslie<br />
and Smith were members of the 1998<br />
USA World Championship Team; the<br />
pair teamed with Bird, Catchings, Milton-Jones<br />
and Swoopes in aiding the<br />
U.S. to gold in 2002; while Leslie and<br />
Swoopes were on the 1994 USA team<br />
that finished with the bronze medal.<br />
Further, in major international competitions,<br />
they boast a combined 35<br />
golds, four silvers and three bronze<br />
medals. Underscoring their successful<br />
histories with the red, white and blue,<br />
USA teams with any of these eight<br />
players as a member have rolled to a<br />
striking 749-41 overall record for a<br />
94.8 winning percentage.<br />
Not only are the core members familiar<br />
with one another on the court,<br />
they have all been coached by Donovan<br />
in the past. Donovan, an assistant<br />
coach for the 1998 and 2002 World<br />
Championship teams that featured<br />
Leslie, Milton-Jones and Smith in ‘98<br />
and all but Thompson and Taurasi in<br />
‘02, was also an assistant on the sidelines<br />
in Athens where all eight core<br />
members helped lead the U.S. to gold.<br />
Additionally, Bird has played for<br />
Donovan in Seattle since the 2003<br />
WNBA season.<br />
Most recently, Smith featured on all<br />
three rosters during the 2006 USA Basketball<br />
Women’s National Team’s<br />
spring training and exhibition tour,<br />
which was headed by Donovan, assisted<br />
by Thibault in all three segments<br />
and Staley in Australia. Bird, Milton-<br />
Jones and Taurasi joined Smith on the<br />
first tour, which saw the U.S. claim a<br />
3-0 record in Europe March 2-9; the<br />
second tour of Europe, March 17-27,<br />
saw Swoopes and Smith give veteran<br />
leadership as the United States again<br />
went 3-0; while on the third training<br />
segment the USA posted a 4-1 record<br />
and won the April 7-12 Australiahosted<br />
Opals World Challenge behind<br />
the play of Smith and Thompson.<br />
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Can you imagine life without<br />
lemons From iced tea to icebox<br />
pie, lemon adds a spark of<br />
flavor that is simply irreplaceable.<br />
“Good cooks everywhere recognize<br />
the culinary value of lemon—not only<br />
for its own refreshing taste, but also for<br />
the way it brings out flavor in other<br />
foods,” observes Linda Carman,<br />
Martha White® baking expert.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re may be no more versatile<br />
fruit than a lemon. Valued for its undeniably<br />
refreshing flavor, lemon pies,<br />
cakes, cookies and sauces are among<br />
our favorite desserts. But lemon also<br />
enhances the flavor of breads, salads,<br />
salad dressings, fish, chicken, vegetables<br />
and even other fruits like melons.<br />
Nor can we forget how a squeeze of<br />
lemon juice enlivens beverages like<br />
iced tea, tomato juice and, of course,<br />
its namesake, lemonade. And as a natural<br />
antioxidant, lemon prevents<br />
browning of fruits and vegetables.<br />
BAKING WITH LEMONS<br />
For all the wonderful uses of<br />
lemons, baking has to be high on the<br />
list. Making something sweet out of a<br />
naturally tart fruit is simply magic.<br />
Lemon curd and the filling for a lemon<br />
pie are basically thickened and sweetened<br />
lemon juice. A little lemon juice<br />
and grated peel contribute a more subtle<br />
flavor to cakes, cookies and breads.<br />
And sometimes lemon is the secret ingredient<br />
in a fruit cobbler or pie that<br />
provides a special little flavor boost.<br />
Even convenient mixes get a new<br />
twist with some lemon juice or peel.<br />
Luscious Lemon Berry Muffins are<br />
easy to make and will provide the perfect<br />
accent to a spring brunch or luncheon.<br />
And Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf is<br />
great to have on hand for breakfast or<br />
to pair with fresh fruit for a casual<br />
dessert.<br />
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with lemon bars. Lemon Cheesecake<br />
Bars feature a buttery cookie crust<br />
topped with a lemony cream cheese<br />
layer — the perfect refreshing finish to<br />
a spring get-together.<br />
LEMON LORE<br />
<strong>The</strong> following tips will help you become<br />
better acquainted with how to<br />
use lemons to add zest to your favorite<br />
meals and recipes.<br />
• Lemons warmed just to the touch,<br />
give up juice more easily. Warm in<br />
a microwave for 30 to 40 seconds<br />
depending on microwave wattage<br />
and size of lemon. <strong>The</strong>n press and<br />
roll around on tabletop a couple of<br />
times.<br />
• For grated zest or peel, grate only<br />
the yellow peel—the white part is<br />
unpleasantly bitter. A fairly new<br />
kitchen gadget, the micro plane<br />
grater which looks like a rasp, is<br />
very sharp and makes grating a<br />
snap.<br />
• If your recipe calls for peel or zest<br />
and juice, don’t forget to grate the<br />
peel first. It’s much easier.<br />
• If you have too many lemons on<br />
hand, freeze measured amounts, 1<br />
to 2 tablespoons, in an ice cube<br />
tray. Store cubes in a plastic bag.<br />
• To prevent browning, rub lemon<br />
juice on the surface of bananas, apples,<br />
pears or avocados, or add to<br />
the cooking water of vegetables<br />
like potatoes or cauliflower.<br />
• One medium lemon will yield<br />
about 3 tablespoons of juice and<br />
about 1 tablespoon of grated peel.<br />
MARTHA WHITE’S ZEST FOR SUMMER BAKING<br />
LUSCIOUS LEMON LEMON POPPY<br />
BERRY MUFFINS SEED LOAF<br />
Muffins<br />
2 (7 oz.) pkgs. Martha White®<br />
Blueberry, Blackberry,<br />
WildBerry or Strawberry Muffin<br />
Mix<br />
2/3 cup milk<br />
1 egg, beaten<br />
1 tablespoon lemon juice<br />
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel<br />
Glaze<br />
1⁄2 cup confectioners’ sugar<br />
1 tablespoon lemon juice<br />
Heat oven to 425º F. Lightly spray<br />
12 muffins cups with nonstick cooking<br />
spray.<br />
Combine muffin ingredients in<br />
medium mixing bowl; stir just until<br />
moistened. Fill muffin cups about 2/3<br />
full.<br />
Bake at 425º F. for 12 to 16 minutes<br />
or until golden brown and toothpick inserted<br />
in center comes out clean. Cool<br />
2 to 3 minutes in pan. Remove to wire<br />
rack.<br />
Combine glaze ingredients in small<br />
bowl; stir until blended. Drizzle over<br />
warm muffins. Makes 12 muffins.<br />
Loaf<br />
2 (7.6-oz.) pkg. Martha White®<br />
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin Mix<br />
2/3 cup milk<br />
1⁄4 cup Crisco® oil<br />
2 eggs, beaten<br />
Glaze<br />
1 cup confectioners’ sugar<br />
2 tablespoon lemon juice<br />
Heat oven to 350° F. Grease bottom<br />
only of a 9x5-inch loaf pan. In<br />
large bowl, combine all ingredients;<br />
mix well. Pour into greased pan.<br />
Bake at 350° F. for 45 to 50 minutes<br />
or until toothpick inserted in center<br />
comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes.<br />
Remove from pan; place on wire<br />
rack. Cool 1 hour or until completely<br />
cooled.<br />
For glaze, combine powdered sugar<br />
and lemon juice in small bowl; mix<br />
well. Drizzle over cooled loaf. Wrap<br />
tightly and store in refrigerator. Makes<br />
one (16-slice) loaf.<br />
Go to www.marthawhite.com for more recipe ideas,<br />
such as Wonderful Waffles with Fresh Fruit and Luscious Lemon Sauce.<br />
LEMON<br />
CHEESECAKE BARS<br />
Crust<br />
2 cups Martha White® All-Purpose<br />
Flour<br />
1⁄4 cup sugar<br />
1⁄4 teaspoon salt<br />
1⁄2 cup butter, melted and cooled<br />
Filling<br />
2 (8-oz.) pkg. cream cheese,<br />
softened<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
4 eggs<br />
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel<br />
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice<br />
Lemon slices, fruit and mint, if<br />
desired<br />
Heat oven to 350° F. Grease 13x9-<br />
inch pan. In medium bowl combine the<br />
crust ingredients. Beat with electric<br />
mixer until crumbly. Press mixture in<br />
bottom of greased pan. Bake at 350°<br />
F. for 20 minutes or until light golden<br />
brown.<br />
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl,<br />
combine cream cheese and sugar.<br />
Beat with electric mixer until blended.<br />
On low speed of mixer, beat in eggs,<br />
lemon peel and juice just until smooth.<br />
Remove partially baked crust from<br />
oven. Pour filling over crust. Bake an<br />
additional 20 to 30 minutes or until<br />
filling is set. Cool. Cut into bars.<br />
Garnish with lemon slices, fruit and/or<br />
mint, if desired. Store in refrigerator.<br />
Makes 24 bars.<br />
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May 26, 2006<br />
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