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Vol. 85, No. 12 March 23 — March 29, 2017 Prince George’s County, Maryland Newspaper of Record Phone: 301-627-0900 25 cents

$2.05 Million in Grants Awarded for Stormwater Management and Citizen Engagement Projects ship displayed by these organ - By PRESS OFFICER izations, communities and ed - PG County Government ucational institutions in Prince George’s County, and their LARGO , MD—The Prince commitment to responsible George’s County Department of programs that reinforce best the Environment and the Chesa - environmental practices, edu - peake Bay Trust announce the cate and engage residents, and recipients of 23 grants for envi - reduce pollution and litter. ronment-friendly stormwater Grants totaling $2.05 mil - management and citizen en - lion were awarded, supporting gagement projects. Prince on-the ground restoration proj - George’s County neighborhood ects that treat and control groups, faith-based organiza - stormwater, support municipal - tions, non-profit organizations, ities in the County to meet pol - and schools received support for lution and education goals for projects that ranged from cleaner water, support and use $11,791 to $500,000. County-based businesses, and “The Trust is proud to be a provide citizen awareness and partner with Prince George’s CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY JACK CHAVEZ engagement to protect the County to distribute resources County’s natural resources. BHSL project engineer James O’Sullivan stands in front of the fluidized bed combustion unit at Double Trouble Farms in this that engage residents and make These projects include diverse Jan. 27, 2017, photograph. The company runs eight similar units in the United Kingdom. a difference for our communi - communities and residents and ties and the environment,” said strongly support County goals Dr. Jana Davis, Executive Di - for environmental education. rector of the Chesapeake Bay Established in 2014, the Prince Trust. “We know that greener George’s County Stormwater neighborhoods, cleaner Irish Firm Brings Renewable Energy Stewardship Grant Program streams, and better natural re - focuses on water quality pro - sources all around are good for grams that achieve nutrient us, our businesses, our kids, and/or sediment reduction TJAoCK CMHAVEZa rylatechnnolodgy usPed too repuurpolse troney day aIll Enasterdn Shuore psoutl - rchy icken houses) and have a and our health. These grants of - By from stormwater, citizen en - chicken manure. try—on the Chesapeake Bay. drier atmosphere for the birds, fer everyone in Prince George’s Capital News Service gagement projects that aim to The Maryland Department of “Our main objective is bird hence drier manure.” the chance to take action and involve residents and busi - RHODESDALE, MD—Bob Agriculture and Irish agri-tech enhancement,” BHSL project The project was completed do something to improve their nesses in efforts to improve lo - Murphy’s Double Trouble company Biomass Heating Solu - engineer James O’Sullivan told and went online in December. own communities.” cal watersheds, removing trash Farms may be the most cutting- tions Limited, or BHSL, have the University of Maryland’s While O’Sullivan oversees the “The Department of the En - from streams, reducing pet edge poultry operation on the committed nearly $3 million to - Capital News Service. “We equipment on the farm, BHSL vironment congratulates the re - waste, planting trees, engaging Eastern Shore right now. ward manure-to-energy technol - want to completely diminish runs it off-site. cipients of these stormwater youth, and supporting faith- But the significance of the ogy that they hope will signifi - ammonium (from Murphy’s management and citizen en - farm in Rhodesdale, Maryland, cantly reduce the impact of chickens to the bay). We want gagement grants. We’re proud is not the poultry itself. It’s the Murphy’s chickens—and perhaps to reduce humidity (in the See ENERGY Page A 5 of the environmental steward - See GRANTS Page A 3

Update: PG County Board Over 100 County Residents Compete For Coveted High- of Education Approves Wage Jobs at EDC Hiring Event for Dave & Buster’s By LORI C. VALENTINE 2017 –2018 School Calendar PGCEDC the Prince George’s County By PRESS OFFICER Board of Education approved a LARGO , MD—Today, more PGCPS school calendar with August 22 than 100 candidates crowded UPPER MARLBORO, as the first day of school for the One Stop Career Center in MD—Prince George’s County students and June 6 as the last at the Economic Development Public Schools will begin the day of school along with a post- Corporation headquarters in 2017 –2018 school year Sep - Labor Day calendar. Largo, Maryland with high ex - tember 6 and end June 13. Last August, Gov. Hogan is - pectations of securing gainful The school system’s request sued an executive order man - employment at the Capitol to begin prior to Labor Day was dating local education agencies Heights Dave & Buster’s. This denied Tuesday by the State popular restaurant and enter - Board of Education. Last week, tainment venue that consistently See CALENDAR Page A 3 hosts capacity crowds Thursday through Sunday partnered with the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corpo - Prince George’s County Executive ration (EDC) to fill more than Rushern L. Baker, III Announces 50 high-wage positions, many paying upwards of $250 per The Creation of More Than 15,000 night. EDC President and CEO PHOTO COURTESY LORI C. VALENTINE Jim Coleman along with EDC EDC President and CEO Jim Coleman and Pierre McCown, Talent Coordinator, Dave & New Jobs in Last 36 Months Chief Operating Officer Paul Buster’s welcome candidates at the EDC Hiring Event. By PRESS OFFICER 313,192. Measured from the Rowe welcomed the candidates PG County Government corresponding 3Q 2013 data, this and wished them the best of is an addition of 15,070 jobs over luck in becoming a part of a Helping County residents move Pierre McCown, Talent players, open to new oppor - UPPER MARLBORO , a 36 month period. This is the great international company like from a job to a career and be - Coordinator for the Capitol tunities, and take their train - MD—Recently released data highest level of 3Q jobs reported Dave & Buster’s. come wealthy in a company Heights Dave & Buster’s was ing seriously. Dave & from the State of Maryland’s De - in Prince George’s County since “Prince George’s County has with great benefits and the op - delighted by the large turnout Buster’s prides itself on pro - partment of Labor, Licensing and 2007, before the beginning of the an outstanding talent pool, portunity to grow into manage - of candidates at the hiring viding $2,000 per employee Regulation (DLLR) shows that impacts of the Great Recession. ready and willing to grow in a ment builds strong communities event today. He explained on training before that em - Prince George’s County 3Q 2016 company like Dave & in Prince George’s County. I’m that successful candidate will jobs numbers reached a new high Buster’s,” said Coleman. “This excited about today’s partnering progress quickly at Dave & for the Baker Administration at See JOBS Page A 7 is what the EDC is all about. event with Dave & Buster’s.” Buster’s if they are team See HIRING Page A 6

INSIDE Maryland Students Continue Viola Davis: A Historic Talent PG County Movie Review: Earth Talk Strong Showing on Earns a Historic Distinction Rushern L. Baker, III’s Data The LEGO Batman Movie Dear EarthTalk: Advanced Placement When she was honored with a star Dazzles Technology Conference Once again computer-animated to Both participation and success on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ear - “As a result of County Executive look like everything was built out of I would like to know what good the improved throughout the nation, ac - lier this year, Davis marveled, “I Baker’s use of data, crime has been re - Legos, the new film casts Batman EPA has done for the environment? cording to the report, with 36.2 per - can’t believe my life.” Indeed, her duced by 50%, home values have in - (voiced by Will Arnett) as a self-cen - cent of public high school gradu - own story is worthy of the Holly - creased by 14%, high school graduation tered, beatboxing egotist who sings —Mary W., ates now taking at least one AP wood treatment. She was raised in rates have increased to 81% and our songs about how awesome he is while via e-mail course and 21.9 percent receiving poverty by a mother who was maid household median income has increased saving Gotham but goes home every a 3 or better. and factory worker. to nearly $77,000” said Coleman. night to an empty mansion. Community , Page A3 Commentary , Page A4 Business , Page A5 Out on the Town , Page A6 Features , Page A7 A2 — March 23 — March 29, 2017 — The Prince George’s Post Towns and N EIGHBORS In and Around Morningside-Skyline by Mary McHale 301 735 3451 Neighborhoods In search of Sunday School Coming up the snow, with the temperature picture, Easter 1962 Community Outreach at Suit - about 20°. Boys from the Apache William “Billy” Hammett land Road Baptist Church, 6412 Patrol who made the trip were Maryland Day Celebration Offers showed up at my door several Suitland Road. Free food and Leo Abernethy, Martin Miller, days ago with a plea: Could I clothing will be available to the Jan Smith, Jay Smith, Robert help him locate a photo taken in community, Saturday, April 1, Whipple and David Wilhelm. LAoNNtAsP OoLIfS, FMDu—Fnor foMra rtylhande L ivEe Cnasintoi lerd e nFesseas, lmocal imlpyact grants and April of 1962, outside Bells 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Dr. Kelvin (Morning-Side-Lines, Jan. 1957) the tenth year in a row, the the way in February, totaling the state’s horse racing indus - United Methodist Church in M. McCune, Pastor. Four Rivers Heritage Area is $46,291,292 from both slot try. February 2017 contribu - Camp Springs. The Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Norris Pyles, owner of sponsoring Maryland Day, a machines and table games. tions to the state from all six Billy grew up on Robin Lane, House Museum, in Waldorf, auto and truck dealerships, Friday –Sunday, March 24 –26 Maryland Live’s gross gaming Maryland casinos and fiscal the son of Joseph and Peggy opens for the 2017 season on dies at 80 event to commemorate the revenue per unit per day was: year-to-date totals are docu - Norris C. Pyles, 80, a long - Hammett. He attended Camp March 25. The house is open on March 25, 1634 landing of the $264.21 for slot machines, mented in the attached spread - time resident of Temple Hills Springs Elementary, Sur - Wednesdays and Saturdays from and the by English $3,532.57 for banked table sheets and available online. and Mechanicsville and a promi - Ark Dove rattsville Junior High and grad - 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays, settlers at St. Clement’s Is - games and $1,076.29 for non- Maryland Lottery and nent Prince George’s business - uated in 1971 from Suitland noon to 4 p.m. For information, land, in what is now St. banked table games. February Gaming is responsible for man, died March 2 in Bradenton, High School. He retired when call 301-274-9358. Mary’s County, Maryland. 2017 revenue at Maryland oversight of the state’s casinos. Fla. He was the son of Carlton he turned 60 and now lives in Morningside Election Day This year, more than 20 Live decreased by $7,719,352, In this role, the agency pro - and Mildred Pyles and an Oxon Indian Head. will be May 1, when voters elect historic and cultural sites in or 14.3%, from February vides direction and guidance Hill High School graduate. But when he was nine, he at - two Council members. Annapolis and Anne Arundel 2016. Maryland Live Casino to its casino partners on finan - Norris was a residential real tended Sunday School at Bells. Skyline’s annual Flea Market County will offer more than operates 3,941 slot machines cial, security, regulatory and estate developer and home - On Easter Sunday, April 22, will probably be on May 20 at 40 family-friendly events at and 209 (157 banked and 52 licensing procedures for the builder in Prince George’s, St. 1962, he had his class picture the Morningside Firehouse. no cost or $1 per person. Par - non-banked) table games. facilities. To keep Marylanders Mary’s, Charles and Kent taken. He has seen that picture More information to follow. ticipating sites and organiza - informed and to maintain County. He also owned two au - MGM National Harbor but cannot find it and it’s impor - tions include: Annapolis transparency of casino opera - tomobile dealerships in Mary - generated $45,769,070 from tant to him. The black-and-white Changing landscape Maritime Museum, William tions, monthly financial re - County Exec Baker wrote a land, a Pontiac and a GMC truck both slot machines and table photo features one teacher with Paca House and Garden, ports are posted on powerful letter (which was pub - dealership in Waldorf and a games in February. Gross ten children. He has visited Bells Maryland Hall for the Cre - gaming.mdlottery.com. Mary - lished in The Washington Post) Ford-Mercury dealership in gaming revenue per unit per and other possible sources with - ative Arts, Charles Carroll land Lottery and Gaming re - about why the FBI building be - Chestertown. day in February at MGM Na - out luck. House, Watermark Tours, minds players to play respon - longs in Prince George’s He was active in building and tional Harbor was: $263.27 Now he thinks someone will Maryland State House, sibly and within their budget; County. Landover and Green - renovating churches in Mary - for slot machines, $5,802.68 see this story and call him at Chesapeake Children’s Mu - resources are available at belt are the two possible loca - land and Florida, served as a for banked table games and 301-906-3695 if they have the seum, Maryland Theatre for mdgamblinghelp.org or by tions. (The other is Springfield, deacon in many churches and $1,483.00 for non-banked picture or know where he can the Performing Arts’ Stage calling 1-800-GAMBLER. Va.) However, the move is now was a member of the Gideon As - table games. MGM National get it. One, Maryland State on hold, due to the current gov - sociation and of the Southgate Harbor operates 3,212 slot Archives, Naval Academy America’s First ernment cutback. Lions Club. machines and 165 (126 People Museum at Preble Hall, Gourmet Biscuit Co. Prayers please: The Sisters The SunTrust Bank (once, One of his great joys in life banked and 39 non-banked) Galesville Heritage Society, Expands Headquarters who have a convent nearby, told Citizens Bank), on Branch Av - was sharing with his sons their table games. Galesville Community Cen - FREDERICK , MD— me that eight Sisters of their or - enue at Beech Road, has closed. interest in skeet shooting, hunt - ter, Historic London Town Horseshoe Casino Balti - Mama Biscuit’s Gourmet Bis - der, the Daughters of St. Anne, Paisano’s Pizza, at the inter - ing and fishing. and Gardens and Wiley H. more generated $22,031,143 cuit Co. (MBGB), America’s were in a serious auto accident section St. Barnabas, Temple He was preceded in death by Bates Legacy Center. from both slot machines and first gourmet biscuit baking in Ethiopia last week. Four of Hill and Raleigh Roads, has his parents, twin sisters Marilyn Attendees are invited to table games in February. Gross company, founded by Lesley the Sisters died. Two others are opened in the former Jerry’s. and Martha Lee, and in 1983 by stop by the Visit Annapolis gaming revenue per unit per Riley, has grown by leaps and in critical condition. Sardi’s Peruvian Chicken, his son Richard C. Pyles, Sr. and Anne Arundel County day was: $212.56 for slot ma - bounds. From the first online County Executive Baker 3443 Branch Avenue, has Survivors include Mary, his wife Visitors Center at 26 West chines, $1,995.95 for banked sale in May 2015, MBGB toured the new Harriet Tubman opened in the former Tender Rib of 42 years, sister Janice Lucca, Street or the Information table games and $574.04 for quickly became the biscuit Underground Railroad Visitor next to McDonald’s. brother David Pyles, sons Alan Booth at City Dock to pick non-banked table games. darling to local wineries, Center, in Church Creek, Md., Branch Avenue in Bloom has Pyles and Steven Pyles, Sr., up a complimentary Mary - Horseshoe Casino’s February wholesalers, and supermarkets on March 17. lost its funding. The office is seven grandchildren and 13 land Day program. A compli - 2017 revenue decreased by like Wegmans and Whole My daughter Kathleen closed and former director Jen - great-grands. Funeral services mentary Maryland Day shut - $2,981,332, or 11.9%, from Foods. Other food markets Shearer came from West Chester, nifer Funn reassigned to a proj - were in Bradenton. tle to select events in February 2016. Horseshoe have retained the gourmet bis - Ohio, to spend a week with me. ect in Baltimore County, effec - Casino Baltimore operates cuit leader to make private la - Milestones downtown Annapolis will de - Among other special events dur - tive March 1. bel goods. Like well-proofed Happy birthday to Lewis part from the 26 West Street 2,186 slot machines and 179 ing her visit: she made her sig - Thank you to John Scroggins (154 banked and 25 non- dough, Mama Biscuit has ex - nature chicken & dumplings. for this information on the new Woods, March 24; Ken Kyser Visitors Center from 10:00 and Jay Rollins, March 25; Gina a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily, cour - banked) table games. panded out of an incubator and the gone in our greater area. shared the kitchen at Clustered Applause Foster, March 26; Walter Dimes, tesy of Towne Transport. Hollywood Casino Per - Spires Bakery located in Fred - The 89th Aerial Port Morningside Memories March 27; Robert Hay, Jr. and For a complete listing of ryville generated $6,210,824 Squadron at Joint Base Andrews Boy Scouts of Troop 282 David Righter, March 28; Kim - Maryland Day Weekend from both slot machines and erick, Maryland. Beginning has won the Air Mobility Com - went on a weekend camping trip. berly Smith, March 29; Akwete events, festivities and shop - table games in February. Gross March 2017, MBGB is relo - mand’s Large Terminal of the With their packs, they hiked from Bedewi, March 30; Sylvia Bar - ping discounts, Visit gaming revenue per unit per cating to 7,500 square foot Year award for operations from Bells Church to Camp Shreve, bour and Mark Cummings, http://www.visitannapolis.org day was: $221.36 for slot ma - warehouse and office space at Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. the Clinton Troop’s campsite. March 31. /events/annual/maryland-day. chines, $2,510.46 for banked 7309 D Grove Road, Freder - During that period it processed They were welcomed by the Happy anniversary to Terry Maryland Day is funded table games and $424.81 for ick, MD. In 2017, Mama Bis - 75,000 passengers, 19 tons of Clinton Troop, set up their equip - and Gina Foster on March 26; by the Four Rivers Heritage non-banked table games. Hol - cuit will more than double equipment and more than 8,000 ment, and the two Troops had an and Antoinette and Charles Mat - Area and participating venues lywood Casino’s February their staff to 20 employees and other SAMs. enjoyable camping experience in tison, March 29. to highlight the area’s his - 2017 revenue decreased by with projections to double that toric, natural and cultural $297,693, or 4.6%, from Feb - number by 2018. sites. The event is managed ruary 2016. Hollywood No stranger to the kitchen, by the Chesapeake Children’s Casino Perryville operates 850 Riley owned and operated her Museum and marketed by slot machines and 20 (12 own successful, Southern- Brandywine-Aquasco Evans Management LLC. banked and 8 non-banked) style restaurant in North Car - by Audrey Johnson 301 888 2153 table games. olina. Mama Riley’s mission Maryland Casinos is to “bring a Northern flair Generate $128.7 Million in Rocky Gap Casino Re - to a Southern classic” and UNION UNITED land. Activities will be held in - GOSPEL MUSIC generated $4,364,925 Revenue During February sort quality is baked into every METHODIST side the school and outside PROGRAM from both slot machines and Maryland Live Leads the item she allows out the door. WOMEN’S DAY (weather permitting). You are invited to come enjoy table games in February. Way for the Month at Nearly Mama Riley and her team, The Women of Union United Camp Honorarium: $225- an evening of Downhome Gross gaming revenue per Methodist Church invite every - $300, background screening will Gospel Music Saturday, March $46.3 Million have created over 50 signa - BALTIMORE, MD— unit per day was: $205.73 ture heart-shaped, biscuit one to join us at our United be required. To register as a Staff 25, 2017, 3:00 PM at New Hope for slot machines and Methodist Women’s Day 10:00 Member for Camp Spring Fling, Fellowship Cooperative Parish Lottery and Gaming today recipes. The top sellers in - announced February 2017 $1,142.31 for banked table clude both sweet and savory AM Worship Service Sunday, or if you have questions or need Family Life Center. The program games. This facility does not April 23, 2017. Our guest more information, contact Astrid will feature The Mighty Won - revenue numbers for the offerings, like her famous state’s six casinos: Holly - have non-banked table Chicken Pot Pie and Bananas speaker will be Lay Minister Myers, [email protected], or ders, The Briscoe Brothers, games. Rocky Gap Casino Pearl E. Chase. The address is call 202-274-3334. Liturgical Dancers and many wood Casino Perryville in Foster with salted Pecan Pra - Cecil County, Horseshoe Resort’s February 2017 rev - line, Kahlua stuffed Brie with 14418 Old Marlboro Pike, Up - more performers. There will be enue increased by $531,337, per Marlboro, Maryland 20772. COLLEGE FAIR a free will offering (proceeds will Casino Baltimore in Balti - brown sugared pecans, National Association for Col - more City, Casino at Ocean or 13.9%, from February Spiced Mango with Tequila- Rev. Dr. KD Weaver, Pastor. go towards the Family Life Cen - 2016. Rocky Gap Casino Re - lege Admission Counseling ter Building Fund). For more in - Downs in Worcester County, Lime glaze. Gluten-free ver - sort operates 662 slot ma - CAMP SPRING FLING (NACAC) College Fair will be formation, contact the church Maryland Live Casino in sions are available. chines and 17 table games. Join us for a week of fun held on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 301-888-2171 or e-mail: Anne Arundel County, Rocky “The unique flavor combi - from April 18 –21, 2017 at Dis - from 6:30 PM –8:30 PM. You [email protected]. The Gap Casino Resort in Alle - Casino at Ocean Down s nations of our gourmet biscuits trict Heights Elementary School will be able to meet face-to-face address is 15601 Brooks Church gany County, and MGM Na - generated $4,046,190 from transport your taste buds back from 9:00 AM –4:00 PM. Paid with college representatives. Au - Road, Upper Marlboro, Mary - tional Harbor in Prince slot machines in February, and to your childhood. Some of staff is needed. Staff will have dience to include students, par - land 20772. George’s County. Maryland’s its gross gaming revenue per our biscuit flavor profiles, are an opportunity to work with ents and guardians. casinos totaled $128,713,443 unit per day was $180.30. familiar, reminding you of girls in Kindergarten through The address is the Prince SOUTHERN AREA in revenue during February Casino at Ocean Downs’ Feb - family recipes. We bake love 5th grades as unit leaders and George’s Sports & Learning ASSESSMENT FESTIVAL 2017—an increase of ruary 2017 revenue increased and nostalgia into every heart- get paid having fun. Unit Lead - Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Join us at Dr. Henry A. Wise, $35,440,368, or 38.0%, com - by $138,339, or 3.5%, from shaped biscuit,” states, Riley. ers will participate in crafts, Landover, Maryland 20785. Of - Jr. High School for our Southern pared to the February 2016 February 2016. Casino at Biscuit baking classes and games, and traditional Girl fice of Professional School Area Assessment Festival Sat - figure of $93,273,076. Ocean Downs operates 800 parties for adults and kids will Scout activities. Counseling 301-567-8669. urday, March 25, 2017 from In a year-to-year compari - slot machines and does not be available. The new facility Camp Spring Fling is a com - Register free to receive fair 9:00 AM –4:00 PM. The school son not including MGM Na - have table games. will allow local companies to munity outreach camp designed details, avoid lines onsite, and is located at 12650 Brooke Lane, tional Harbor, which opened on Under Maryland law, order online and pickup at the as an introductory program for share your contact information Upper Marlboro, Maryland Dec. 8, 2016, statewide casino casino revenue supports the facility. Go online and create girls who are not currently Girl with your choice schools. Regis - 20772. To obtain more informa - revenue in February 2017 de - Maryland Education Trust a variety dozen or half dozen Scouts. The camp will be held ter on the website at tion, please call Lionel Harrell creased by $10,328,702, or Fund as well as small-, minor - to savor at home. www.mam - at District Heights Elementary http://www.nacacfairs.org/ncfs - at 301-333-0963 or e-mail him 11.1%. ity- and women-owned busi - abiscuit.com School, District Heights, Mary - tudentregistration. at [email protected]. March 23 — March 29, 2017 — The Prince George’s Post —A 3 COMMUNITY

Practical Money Skills Maryland Students Continue Strong By Nathaniel Sillin

Showing onthe Atest tdakervs, Maarnylancd setu -dta kPing lpalacce ein mMareyland t sented 21.2 percent of Maryland What Can We Learn from the By PRESS OFFICER dents averaged 3.87 tests per stu - schools. For example: students taking an AP test. MDE Tiny House Phenomenon? dent second to Virginia at 3.9 • The percentage of Maryland • Equity gaps also exist be - BALTIMORE, MD—Mary - tests per student. Massachusetts graduating seniors scoring a 3 tween racial subgroups. While land student success on the Ad - averaged 3.1 tests per student. or better on an AP test has in - Asian students make up just 6 You may not have seen one in vanced Placement (AP) test re - “The AP program gives stu - creased from 21.8 in 2006 to percent of the 11th and 12th your neighborhood yet, but the mained strong in 2016 as dents important options while 30.4 this year—a leap of 8.6 per - grade student body, they account tiny house phenomenon has participation rose to a new record. still in high school as they con - centage points. for 15 percent of the AP test tak - spread across the country. For The percentage of Maryland sider career and college,” said • Nearly half of all Maryland ers. Maryland’s 11th and 12th some, the move is driven by a de - seniors who earned a score of 3 Dr. Karen Salmon, State Super - high school graduates take at graders are 44 percent White, but sire to downsize and live a mini - or higher on one or more AP ex - intendent of Schools. “The latest least one AP exam while in high represent 54 percent of students malistic lifestyle. Others see it as ams exceeded 30 percent for the data from the College Board in - school, and that tally has in - taking an AP test. African Amer - a way to decrease their impact on third consecutive year—30.4 dicates continued growth in the creased dramatically over the ican students are 35 percent of the environment. percent in 2016. That placed sec - program and a high rate of suc - past decade. In 2006, 32.7 per - the 11th and 12th grade popula - Economics are often a large ond to Massachusetts, which cess for Maryland students. All cent of Maryland graduates had tion, but 14 percent of students part of the equation. Buying and edged out Maryland with 31.0 students should have the oppor - taken at least one AP exam dur - tested on AP. Maryland’s 11th maintaining a tiny home is rela - percent of its students earning a tunity to succeed in rigorous ed - ing their high school career. By and 12th graders are 11 percent tively inexpensive, and the savings can help many people on score of 3 or better. ucational programs.” 2016, 49.3 percent of seniors Hispanic, and are 9 percent of their path towards financial freedom. A score of 3 or better is the These new statistics are in - were taking at least one of the students taking an AP test. Tiny-home living (often shortened to tiny living) isn’t for every - threshold at which many higher cluded in AP cohort data just re - high-level exams. The College Board’s Ad - one. However, tiny living requires ingenuity and resourcefulness education institutions award col - leased today by the College • The number of Maryland vanced Placement Program, and we can all learn something from those who choose tiny. lege credit to high school stu - Board for the class of 2016. Both high school seniors who scored which began in 1955, allows stu - Freedom from debt is priceless. Living within one’s means dents on an AP assessment. The participation and success im - a 3 or better on an AP exam in - dents to pursue college-level is a foundational belief to many within the tiny living community. percentage of Maryland gradu - proved throughout the nation, creased from 12,081 in 2006 to studies while still in high school. Between labor and materials, a tiny home could cost about ates taking an AP test while in according to the report, with 36.2 17,095 in 2016. Students of different interests $20,000 to $60,000 to build. By contrast, the U.S. Census Bureau high school increased to 49.3 percent of public high school • In Maryland, as in the rest and backgrounds can choose found the median sale price for a new home in December 2016 percent, behind only Florida (53 graduates now taking at least one of the nation, there are gaps in from more than 30 courses to was $322,500. percent) and the District of Co - AP course and 21.9 percent re - AP participation and success be - demonstrate their knowledge of lumbia (52.2 percent). In Mas - ceiving a 3 or better. tween student groups. For exam - rigorous academic curriculum. The relatively low price gives you a chance to own a tiny sachusetts, 44.1 percent of grad - The College Board’s new ple, while students eligible for More information about the AP home without having a mortgage that’ll take three decades to uates completed an AP test. analysis of the college-level as - Free and Reduced Price Meals program is available at pay off. The ongoing savings in the form of lower utility, tax and Maryland also has the second sessment program provides a va - account for 44.2 percent of the https://apstudent.collegeboard.or maintenance bills also make it easier to pay off non-housing highest test count per student. Of riety of information on efforts student population, they repre - g/home. debts, such as student loans, and live a debt-free life. That being said, you can live in a larger home and still look for ways to lower your monthly expenses and fight lifestyle in - flation (spending more as you make more money). A common tip is to allocate half of your next raise or bonus to your savings or use it to pay down debts. But why not challenge yourself and Prince George’s County Executive Announces use your entire raise or bonus to build your net worth? Make room for things that are important. Moving into a tiny home can require major downsizing, but some view that as $5.1 Million Iingn Gavp Feinasnctinmg Proegranm atnd inCou nHty. oThue Hsoiusningg T ruTst rGueorsget’s CFountuy Dnepad rtment of By PRESS OFFICER will enable the County to support Fund is an affordable housing Housing and Community Devel - a feature rather than a disadvantage. It’s not about getting rid of PG County Government things that aren’t absolutely necessary, after all sometimes “un - the development of viable, production program that will opment (DHCD). “The Housing necessary” decorations turn a house into a home. Rather, from LARGO , MD—In his budget mixed income communities by complement existing Federal Trust Fund will enable the De - furniture to clothing, you have to decide what’s important to you announcement today, Prince providing gap financing for the and State efforts to increase and partment to expand our work and leave the rest behind. George’s County Executive development of decent and qual - preserve the supply of decent, with affordable housing devel - It’s easy to fill a large home with clutter and then attempt to Rushern L. Baker, III will invest ity workforce housing. The safe, and affordable housing. Mr. opers and meet our goals of in - clean every spring. Perhaps a better approach would be to take a $5.1 million in the County’s budget allocates $2.5 million for Baker’s proposed investment creasing the housing stock avail - tiny-home mindset to the store with you. Don’t get bogged down Housing Trust Fund (HTF). HTF the Pathway to Purchase Pro - will extend Prince George’s able for working families in by asking yourself if you can live without something—you can will support two new pro - gram which will provide down County’s residential market’s re - Prince George’s County.” live without many things—instead, try to only spend money on grams—the Workforce Housing payment and closing cost assis - covery and expand the stock of After County Council budget things that add meaning and joy to your life. Gap Financing Program and the tance to approximately 150 eli - workforce housing. approval, money from the Hous - Pathway to Purchase Program. gible first-time home buyers to “We are very happy about this You have more space than meets the eye. Watch a tour of a This budget allocates $2.6 purchase owner occupied or va - announcement today,” said Eric tiny home, and you’ll see that great organization skills and original million for the Workforce Hous - cant residential properties in the C. Brown, Director of the Prince storage ideas are a must. Tables turn into benches and chairs double See TRUST FUND Page A 6 as shelves—everything seems to have at least two purposes. How could a little imagination transform your home? Might lation in the Arundel Canal, and educational experiences a new shelving system and selling items that aren’t important to Clean Water Fund; Grants from A1 provide one year of maintenance. To provide a social (MWEEs), teacher professional you anymore give you more room? Inventiveness and thinking $42,402: based organizations throughout marketing campaign for home - development, integration of en - outside the box are keys to making the most of what you have. Alliance for the Chesa - the County. peake Bay, Inc.; $33,322: To owner stormwater management vironmental material into cur - High-quality products are worth the investment. Many tiny- lay the groundwork for a future and Rain Check Rebate out - riculum, provides training for home owners are keenly aware of the waste they’re putting back Honorees of the Prince George’s County River - reach in the Town of Capitol teachers and maintenance staff, into the world. Some even choose to live in a tiny home because Stormwater Stewardship Wise program. Heights, Maryland. and implements small practices it’ll reduce their ecological footprint. The savings that come from Grant Program include: People for Change Coali - on school grounds. tiny living and this approach to life often lead to investments in REAL School Gardens; $ tion; $44,151: To provide out - Maryland League of Con - long-lasting products rather than cheaper alternatives. Interfaith Partners for the 100,000: To train and support Chesapeake; $51,010: To de - students and teachers at three reach that will increase the servation Voters Education Quality over quantity is certainly a worthwhile mentality to velop and implement faith-based elementary schools in Prince homeowner association en - Fund; $29,497: To provide citi - adopt. Put it into practice by looking for companies that offer “train the trainer” sessions for George’s County to use out - gagement in the Rain Check zen engagement for the Latino lifetime warranties on their products. You might be surprised to ten congregations and provide door classrooms, engage stu - Rebate program. community and Latino-serving find that from socks to power tools there are dozens of manufac - technical assistance for twenty dents, and provide meaningful The Low Impact Develop - organizations in the Anacostia turers that uphold this promise. congregations to implement the watershed educational experi - ment Center, Inc.; $60,000: To watershed through workshops, How will you make use of these lessons? Simple living and Alternative Compliance Pro - ences (MWEEs). develop a master plan in the Port demonstration projects, and an outdoor activity. conscious buying aren’t exclusive traits of tiny-home owners. gram options two and three. Town of Cheverly; Towns area that outlines the Regardless of the size of your home, you may find that incorpo - Neighborhood Design Cen - $121,833 : To design, engineer, stormwater solutions in a con - CENTRO DE APOYO FA - rating these principles and practices save you time and money. ter; $27,363: Provide technical and construct four micro-biore - cept plan that will be used to im - MILIAR; $30,333: To provide Two valuable resources that should never be wasted. assistance services for future ap - tention practices and plant trees plement the projects. citizen engagement to the Latino plicants in year four (FY18) of at Boyd Park in the Town of DuVal High School; $26,207: community and faith-based com - the Prince George’s Stormwater Cheverly, Maryland. To implement a high visibility rain munity organizations through workshops and training semi - calendar is best for Prince Stewardship grant program. End Time Harvest Min - garden at DuVal High School in from A1 nars. This project will support Calendar George’s County.” Interstate Commission on istries; $16,415 : Provide citi - Lanham, Maryland. to develop a school calendar “As Chief Executive Offi - the Potomac River Basin; zen engagement using a rain University of Maryland the Alternative Compliance Pro - that starts after Labor Day and cer of the second-largest $60,189: To implement the garden planting event for the College Park; $135,000: To de - gram options two and three. ends no later than June 15. To school district in the state, I Score Four Students, Schools, Wellness Ambassadors, stu - velop a Prince George’s County People for Change Coali - date, the primary rationale am concerned about summer Streams and the Bay program dents, and citizens that will Pet Waste Education Campaign tion; $41,130: Provide techni - given for the executive order learning loss and our ability that will engage 209 Northwest - learn how local actions can im - that will provide outreach, citi - cal assistance for four faith- is the boost of tax revenue for to schedule professional de - ern High School (Hyattsville) prove the community health zen engagement, pet waste sta - based organizations. This Ocean City and the popularity velopment and planning op - students and 540 Accokeek and clean local streams. tion installations, and develop an project will support the Alter - portunities for teachers,” said native Compliance Program op - of the proposal with the gen - Academy (Accokeek) students Maryland League of Con - assessment management tool. Prince George’s County Pub - tions two and three. eral public. in watershed investigations and servation Voters Education People for Change Coali - lic Schools CEO Dr. “Under the Governor’s action projects. Fund; $11,791: To provide tion; $68,432: To implement a Central Kenilworth Avenue mandate, local Boards of Ed - Maxwell. “More importantly, Greenbelt Homes, Inc.; citizen engagement, outreach pet waste campaign that in - Revitalization Community De - ucation can no longer imple - I am concerned about the ba - $101,935: To implement storm- to the Latino community, and cludes education and outreach velopment Corporation, Inc.; ment a school calendar that re - sic needs that many families water management practices in to implement the Latino for the citizens, pet waste station $50,000: To develop a pilot tree flects the unique needs of their struggle to meet, such as reg - the neighborhood and engage River Festival. installations, and maintenance planting program for residential school districts,” said Dr. Se - ular nutritious meals and the City of Greenbelt residents Maryland National Capital and monitoring. properties and neighborhoods. gun C. Eubanks, Board of Ed - child care. We do not believe in watershed restoration. Park and Planning Commis - Anacostia Watershed Soci - Prince George’s Green; ucation Chair. “I strongly be - this mandate prioritizes chil - Anacostia Riverkeeper; To implement ety; $500,000: To launch the $50,000: To increase tree canopy lieve a pre-Labor Day school dren and families.” sion; $250,000: $200,000: To implement the first stormwater management prac - Prince George’s County Con - in the County through partner - “trash trap” in Prince George’s tices, plant trees, remove inva - servation Green Earth pro - ships with municipalities, citi - County. This device will collect sive species, and engage citi - gram—an innovative pilot pro - zens, and businesses, and test in - Proudly Serving Prince George’s County and remove trash from the zens at up to seven parks and gram, which combines novative outreach efforts to stream, educate the community community centers in the Ana - stormwater management proj - enhance tree plantings on private Since 1932 about the trash trap and its instal - costia watershed. ects with meaningful watershed residential properties. A4 — March 23 — March 29, 2017 — The Prince George’s Post COMMENTARY

Riversdale House Museum Cong. Steny H. Hoyer House Democratic Minority Whip

Hoyer: Stripping Away the Rights of VA Employees Will Not Improve the Care That Our Veterans and Their Families Deserve WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman Steny over 150 billion dollars in cuts in pay and benefits H. Hoyer (MD-05) gave remarks on the House over the last six years. Open to the Public Floor today in opposition to House Republi - “Stripping away the rights of VA employees cans’ bill that would strip the rights of Depart - to work in a nonpartisan professional environ - PHOTO CREDIT: PG PARKS & RECREATION ment of Veterans Affairs employees who serve ment will not improve the care of our veterans RIVERSDALE HOUSE MUSEUM Riversdale was one of the most distinctive homes in the region during the early Federal period. Today, the central veterans and their families. A video of his re - and their families deserve and expect from the portion of the house serves as a museum interpreting the lifestyle of an affluent family. The rental areas include a marks and a transcript are available at VA medical system. large carpeted ballroom in late 19th century decor as well as a smaller meeting/banquet room and catering kitchen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47gtXKG - “This bill, in my view, would undermine the Riversdale House Museum and the Museum Shop are open to the public Fridays and Sundays from 12 noon - 3:30 tAk&feature=youtu.be collective bargaining rights—I am a very strong pm year round. Riversdale is available for weddings, receptions, and meetings. For fees and availability, and to “I rise in opposition to this bill and adopt many supporter of collective bargaining rights—of em - view contracts, please call 301-864-0420 for more information. of the premises that my friend, Mr. Walz, adopted. ployees serving as doctors, nurses, physical ther - I also adopt the premise of Dr. Roe, who is a really apists, and others in critical jobs, and it will disrupt dear friend of mine, that Tim Walz is the kind of the collaborative relationship between VA man - guy you wouldn’t mind riding across the country agers and employees that is essential to a success - with. That’s because he’s honest, he’s knowledge - ful workplace environment.” able, and he’s sincere. And frankly, I attribute all “Many years ago, almost 100 years ago, we those same characteristics to Dr. Roe. adopted a civil service system. the premise of that Child Watch “But, Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this system is we ought to have professional employ - by Marion Wright Edelman bill. Everybody on this Floor agrees that our vet - ees—not political employees, not political ap - erans deserve the best care possible. There’s no pointees, not subject to change because of the po - debate about that. All of us in this House are fo - litical winds that may be blowing one way or the cused on that goal. But this bill does nothing to other. This bill risks demoralizing those who have meet this goal, in my view. tirelessly been working to help our veterans rein - A Time for Courage and Truth “This bill is part of, and I do not ascribe it to tegrate into civilian life across this country. After the new administra - • Serving as a compelling age 95 on August 28, 1963, the Dr. Roe, but a significantly long history of a par - “Let me make it clear and I’m sure Dr. Roe is tion’s first Black History Month role model for all Americans same day as the March on Wash - tisan effort to scapegoat federal civil servants. It not surprised when I say this that I agree with Mr. event included a general refer - for nearly two centuries.” ington. We can also make sure has been going on for decades, long before Dr. Walz. If there’s an employee not performing well, ence to 19th century lion Fred - They concluded: “Like the we know and teach our children Roe got in it or Mr. Walz got in it. that employee ought not to be kept on. But this erick Douglass as “somebody President, we use the present not just who Frederick Douglass “It is a follow-on to the dangerous hiring freeze, bill removes the process that was negotiated or who’s done an amazing job and tense when referencing Dou - and W.E.B. DuBois are, but some frankly, the Trump Administration imposed in Jan - could be negotiated in a collective bargaining way is being recognized more and glass’s accomplishments be - of the lessons they taught us. uary, and the repeated attempts over the last several more,” Frederick Douglass’s de - cause his spirit and legacy are In a time when lies about non- years to extract more and more cuts from federal scendants jumped in with their still very much alive, not just existent widespread voter fraud employees’ pay and benefits, which contributed See VETERANS RIGHTS Page A 5 own clarification: during Black History Month, but threaten to reinforce and escalate “The President’s comments every month.” a new era of targeted and perni - from the Roosevelt Room of the A similar response could have cious voter suppression, we can White House, about Frederick been prepared just a few days reread this warning from The Douglass, were noted and ap - later when the Department of Ed - Souls of Black Folk : “Away with preciated by us, the Douglass ucation shared a quote by Dr. the black man’s ballot, by force family. In fact, we believe, if he W.E.B. DuBois that misspelled or fraud,—and behold the sui - had more time to elaborate, the his name. We may not be able to cide of a race! … The power of President would have mentioned react to every mistake or omis - the ballot we need in sheer self- the following: sion made about Black or Latino defense,—else what shall save Marc Morial, President and CEO ‘Frederick Douglass has done or Asian American or Native us from a second slavery?” an amazing job … American or immigrant or In a time where fears about National Urban League • Enduring the inhumanity women’s history. But we can cer - unprecedented abuses of power of slavery after being born heir tainly make sure our children are being matched by record- to anguish and exploitation but know the correct and full truth. setting mass displays of nonvi - still managing to become a We can make sure they know olent resistance, we can remem - force for solace and liberty W.E.B. DuBois was one of the ber what Frederick Douglass Viola Davis: when America needed it most, first great Black Civil Rights and said in 1857: “The whole his - • Recognizing that intellectual leaders. He was the tory of the progress of human A Historic Talent Earns a Historic Distinction knowledge was his pathway to first African American to receive liberty shows that all conces - “In my mind I see a line, and over that line, I where public school left off because I had such freedom at such a tender age, a Ph.D. from Harvard University sions yet made to her august see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful enormous needs as a child of abject poverty. • Teaching himself to read and a founding leader of the Na - claims, have been born of white women with their arms stretched out to me Coming from a background where I was first and write and becoming one tional Association for the Ad - earnest struggle. The conflict over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no generation going to school, I had enormous chal - of the country’s most vancement of Colored People has been exciting, agitating, all- how. I can’t seem to get over that line.” lenges that needed to be met that were much eloquent spokespersons, (NAACP) and founding editor of absorbing, and for the time be - —Harriet Tubman, quoted by Viola Davis deeper than academia.” • Standing up to his overseer its journal The Crisis . He wrote ing, putting all other tumults to in her 2015 Emmy acceptance speech. Upward Bound, a summer program where to say that ‘I am a man!’ many influential books and arti - silence. It must do this or it does high school students take college prep classes • Risking life and limb cles, including the classic The nothing. If there is no struggle, Acting’s triple crown—Oscar, Emmy and and earn work experience at a college campus by escaping the Souls of Black Folk , and re - there is no progress. Those who Tony—has been won by only 23 people in his - for six weeks, opened doors that eventually led abhorrent institution, mained a tireless crusader for the tory. Now, the first African American has to the Juilliard School, one of the nation’s leading • Composing the Narrative rights of Black people around the achieved that feat: Viola Davis. performing arts programs. of his life and helping to world until his death in Ghana at See WATCH, Page A 8 It seems fitting that Davis’ history-making Her success has not shielded her from chal - expose slavery for the crime honor occurred directly at the crossroads of lenges that she has said result from being “a woman against humankind that it is, Black History Month and Women’s History of color, of a certain age, and a certain hue.” • Persuading the American The Prince George’s Post Month, for she made history as a Black woman Her 2015 Emmy win established her as a role public and Abraham Lincoln that in more than one way: she also is the most- model when she used her acceptance speech to we are all equal and deserving of The Prince George’s Post nominated Black actress in Oscar history, with make a welcome statement about diversity in the right to live free, P.O. Box 1001 15207 Marlboro Pike three nominations. In addition to her role in the entertainment industry: “The only thing that • Establishing the North Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-3151 Fences, for which she won, she earned nomina - separates women of color from anyone else is newspaper when there Star Phone: 301-627-0900 • Legal Fax: 301-627-6260 tions for The Hel p in 2012 and Doubt in 2009. opportunity,” she said. “You cannot win an was very little in the way of Email: [email protected] She was nominated twice for an Emmy, winning Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” She navigation or hope for the Contents © 2017, The Prince George’s Post in 2015 for her role in How To Get Away With was the first Black woman to win the award for millions of enslaved persons, Murder . She earned three Tony nominations, Best Lead Actress in a Drama. Only one other • Supporting the rights winning for King Hedley II in 2001 and Fences black actress has won an acting Emmy: Isabel of women when few men of Publisher/Senior Editor Editor Legusta Floyd Michal W. Frangia in 2010. She’s the first Black actress to win five Sanford, who won for Best Lead Actress in a such importance endeavored Screen Actors Guild awards. She had also won Comedy in 1981. to do so, General Manager/ Typesetter/Page Layout three Drama Desk Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Davis’ exemplarity extends beyond her stellar • Arguing against unfair Legal Advertising Manager Jennifer Sheckels Golden Globe, and three Critics’ Choice Awards, talent and bold outspokenness. She’s a bene - U.S. immigration restrictions, Brenda Boice among others. factor for the Rhode Island city where she was • Understanding that racism Legal Advertising Assistant Web Manager When she was honored with a star on the Hol - raised, Central Falls. Her philanthropic projects in America is part of our Robin Boerckel Kyler Quesenberry lywood Walk of Fame earlier this year, Davis include the city’s Adams Memorial Library, the ‘diseased imagination,’ marveled, “I can’t believe my life.” Indeed, her Central Falls High School chess team and drama • Recruiting his sons—who Prince George’s County, Md. Member National Newspaper Publishers Association, own story is worthy of the Hollywood treatment. club, and the Segue Institute for Learning, a were born free—to fight in the and the Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association. She was raised in poverty by a mother who was charter school. She’s also the spokeswoman war to end the enslavement of The Prince George’s Post (ISSN 10532226) is published every Thursday by maid and factory worker. She told the New York for the Hunger Is campaign, to eradicate child - other African Americans, the New Prince George’s Post Inc., 15207 Marlboro Pike, Times she stole food from the grocery store and hood hunger. • Being appointed the first Upper Marlboro, Md. 20772-3151. garbage cans and wore the plastic clips from We at the National Urban League consider black U.S. Marshal by President Subscription rate: 25 cents per single copy; $15 per year; bread bags in her braids. Viola Davis a true woman of power; we congrat - Rutherford B. Hayes, $7.50 senior citizens and students; out of county add $1; out of state add $2. Davis credits a federal anti-poverty program, ulate her on her historic achievements and her • Being appointed U.S. Periodical postage paid at Southern Md. 20790. Upward Bound, with saving her life. She told epic journey and are grateful for her generous Minister to Haiti by President Postmaster, send address changes to Prince George’s Post, P.O. 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The American Counseling Association’s PG County Executive Rushern L. Baker, Counseling Corner III’s Data Dazzles Technology Conference Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative Proves Data Can Transform Lives Are Today’s Kids Suffering By LORI C. VALENTINE From “Activity Overload”? PGCEDC Most of us remember our childhood days as happy, fun times. OXON HIL l, MD—On Sure, there was school work, but also lots of free time, friends to March 6, County Executive hang with, and none of the stress we adults face. Rushern L. Baker, III was one of the key panelists that partic - But is childhood today all that carefree? Examine your child’s ipated in the Socrata Connect schedule and you may find it’s much busier than you realized … 2017 Conference at the Gaylord sports practice … soccer games … gymnastic classes … scout Hotel at National Harbor. Eco - meetings … church groups and much more. Then there’s school, nomic Development Corpora - homework, chores and just finding time to eat dinner. tion President Jim Coleman Kids today lead busy lives, and sometimes those lives are was also on hand at the Con - just too busy. ference and served as the mod - Often, kids themselves drive the schedule, not wanting to feel erator for a lively discussion on left out or less involved than their friends. Teens may feel obli - how the use of data can make gated to boost extracurricular activities in order to get into the government initiatives work “right” college. Peer pressure and adult expectations can make more effectively and create life- PHOTO COURTESY LORI C. VALENTINE a child feel he or she has to stay super busy. changing results for residents Left to right: Jim Coleman, President and CEO, PGCEDC: Carla Truitt, CEO, Be Clean Clean - Sometimes it’s parents doing the pushing, wanting their chil - during the “Lead with Perform - ance Data” panel at the confer - ing Services; County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III, Prince George’s County; Charles Brown, dren to have a full range of opportunities, or worried that left to Community Liaison their own resources, kids will just get in trouble, play video ence. County Executive Baker games and eat junk food. highlighted how the County’s Transforming Neighborhoods was fully committed to making values have increased by 14%, data driven policies of the Try evaluating your child’s schedule to see if it’s negatively Initiative (TNI) used data to fo - Prince George’s County better high school graduation rates Baker Administration have affecting your child’s life or family relationships. Is there never cus government resources to for every community.” have increased to 81% and our transformed the County over time for a family meal or a game or movie night? Are your chil - help improve conditions in Mr. Coleman kicked off the household median income has the last seven year. Panelists dren frequently tired, anxious or depressed? Are they falling some of the County’s most panel by sharing an overview of increased to nearly $77,000” included local community liai - behind in school work and suffering lower grades? Are there challenged neighborhoods. Prince George’s County with the said Coleman. “In the economic son Charles Brown, and the stress-related health complaints, like frequent headaches and “Our Transforming Neigh - Socrata audience. Attendees development world, we have CEO of Be Clean Cleaning stomach aches? borhood Initiative has relied seemed impressed that the County seen consistent and significant Services, Carla Truitt. When you see problems, it’s time to limit activities. Start by heavily on data from the very is one of the wealthiest counties growth through business attrac - Socrata is a cloud-based data filling in a calendar with all the current activities. You may be beginning,” said County Execu - in the country, the wealthiest ma - tion and expand and more than software company based in Seat - surprised just how busy your children are. tive Rushern L. Baker, III. “In jority-minority county in the 7,000 jobs being created within tle, Washington that provides a Accept that sometimes you just have to draw the line and say addition, using our senior level United States, is home to NASA the last year. Not only are our software-as-a service data plat - no. If an activity doesn’t really match your child’s interests, age, management team to interact and Goddard, Joint Base Andrews and neighborhoods being trans - form and cloud applications ex - temperament and ability, why schedule it? respond in real-time to commu - MGM National Harbor, and re - formed, but so are the lives of clusively for city, county, state cently increased its household in - our hardworking residents. It’s and federal government organi - Discuss with your children not just what they want to do, nity concerns on a variety of is - come to nearly $77,000 with a morning again in Prince zations. This allows government but why they want to do it and how realistic it is. If doing an sues helped to ensure that the highly educated population. George’s County!” data to be more discoverable, us - activity is just because friends are doing it, it might not be the program was treated as a top pri - “As a result of County Exec - Coleman then led the pan - able and actionable for govern - right choice. ority for all departments in the government. This structure utive Baker’s use of data, crime elists through a series of ques - ment knowledge workers and the Discuss with an over-scheduled child what’s happening and showed that this Administration has been reduced by 50%, home tions that emphasized how the citizens they serve. how it might be possible to cut back. Kids need free time away from organized activities just to be able to relax, to socialize with friends, to be part of the family, and to blow off steam. Give your kids the free time they need just to be kids. Energy from A1 “The whole system is fully Counseling Corner is provided by the American Counseling automated,” O’Sullivan said. “It Association. Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counsel - is controlled by our remote op - ing.org or visit the ACA website at www.counseling.org erations team in Ireland.” The farm houses more than 160,000 chickens—a large num - ber, no question—but a fraction Veterans Rights from A4 of the 300 million “broilers,” or and if, by the way, it takes 300-plus days, then perhaps this leg - chickens bred specifically for islation could deal with that to shorten it. There are ways that meat production, that the USDA this could be dealt with that, in my view, will not undermine the says the state produces annually. civil service protections that are important not only for the em - O’Sullivan says the chickens ployees but for the system itself. on Murphy’s farm can produce “I have no doubt that there are measures that can be adopted as much as 10 tons of manure a to improve VA performance and effectively and fairly discipline day. When left on the ground, employees who are engage in misconduct. We ought not to tolerate the manure finds its way into lo - CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY JACK CHAVEZ cal waterways and eventually the that. But this bill does not include them. I have not read Senator Double Trouble Farms on the Eastern Shore on Jan. 27, 2017. The farm houses 160,000 chickens Chesapeake Bay. Isakson’s bill, but perhaps that is closer, and I look forward to re - in four chicken houses. As large as that number appears, it is less than 0.1 percent of the “broil - The phosphorus and nitrogen viewing it with both the Chairman and the Ranking Member. ers” Maryland produces annually. “This bill goes too far, shreds basic due process rights, in my in livestock manure are essential view, and punishes even model employees. And let me say as an to healthy ecosystems, according “People are looking for ways to mented their fluidized bed com - Technology Fund. Grants from aside, when I say undermines basic due process rights, part of to a 2004 report released by the save it, and that’s my goal.” bustion chamber units in the the fund are awarded based on those rights are to have some time to get representation, to Chesapeake Bay Foundation. In Murphy sees this technology, United Kingdom in 2003, and an applicant’s ability to meet a thoughtfully respond, to have some discovery as to what is going excess, however, these natural which his farm and BHSL began today run eight different units on variety of requirements, accord - on here, what is being alleged, why is it being alleged, who is al - plant nutrients cause “explosive” working on three years ago, as a six different farms there. ing to the department’s Office of leging it. This bill eviscerates that in some respects. growth in algae and other under - means to clean the bay while One of the main byproducts Resource Conservation program “I am proud to represent 62,000 federal employees in Mary - water plants, which stifle other preserving a vital economy. of the process is fly ash, and manager Louise Lawrence. land’s Fifth District, including many who work at the VA’s clin - forms of life in the bay. “Right now we’re transport - O’Sullivan says BHSL is deter - “(We run) a competitive (ap - ics in Charlotte Hall and in Camp Springs in the neighboring BHSL utilizes a process ing manure (to other nearby mining a market for it. Specifi - plication process) annually. Pro - Fourth District. called fluidized bed combus - farms for fertilizer),” Murphy cally, BHSL is in talks with posals are evaluated based on re - “We ought to remember, Mr. Speaker, or Mr. Chairman, that tion, which works by heating a said. “But eventually those composting and phosphorus sponses to requirements,” when we undermine our federal workforce and our ability to re - bed of sand inside a fuel com - fields, which didn’t have manure leaching companies, he said. Lawrence said. “We have ap - cruit and retain the best and brightest, we undermine our govern - bustion chamber until bubbling before, will get caught up and Fly ash’s value comes from its proved funding for six projects to ment’s ability to serve the American people. So this is just not at 600 degrees Fahrenheit. Once experience the same problem.” phosphorus, potassium and car - date. These projects vary in cost about present employees, it’s about those who might consider this level is reached, manure is “Somewhere along the line, bon content. from $300,000 to $1.4 million.” employment in the future. fed into the chamber and the we have to get rid of this ma - If the project goes well, “Mr. Chairman, I hope we don’t make the mistake of, in effect, temperature is raised to 1,600 nure,” Murphy added. “If you O’Sullivan said, there are plans Other projects include: throwing the baby out with the bath water. Let’s not take away degrees Fahrenheit. This can burn eight to 10 (tons) a day, to bring the technology to nearby • $150,790 to Green Moun - the rights and protections of those who serve us so ably. But, yes, process produces hot gases, that’s manure that doesn’t go on Bellview Farms, another poultry tain Technologies Inc. to repur - I agree with Dr. Roe and Ranking Member Walz. If there are which in turn are used to boil the fields.” farm Murphy owns. Bellview pose horse manure at Days End those who are not serving us well, yes there ought to be a process, water that ultimately heats the Murphy says he hasn’t heard houses twice as many chickens Farm in Woodbine. we ought to be fair, we ought to have time in which to respond. chicken houses. any opposition to the project lo - as Double Trouble Farms. • $237,520 to Green Moun - Not interminable time, so we can have an agency of which we Not only does the process cally, and others in the poultry Manure-to-energy technology tain Technologies Inc. to repur - can be proud and does what we all want, serve our veterans in a heat the chicken houses with industry have met the project has the potential to reshape how pose dairy cow manure at Iager way that we would expect, demand, and that we are morally in - clean, renewable energy, it keeps with approval. farms handle excess manure not Farms in Frederick County. the manure off the ground and “The economy around here is only in Maryland, but the rest of clined to do. And I yield back the balance of my time.” • $350,302 to Veteran Compost out of the waterways. driven by chicken farms,” said the country, especially the other and O Compost to repurpose Livestock manure has long Bruce Boney, a former IT con - bay-watershed states. 2 horse manure in Davidsonville. been one of the sources of bay pol - tractor for Perdue Farms. “If “Maryland is literally creating lution that the state Department of they’re trying to make an effort the blueprint (for dealing with ex - • $676,144 to Planet Found IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE! Agriculture seeks to diminish, but towards cleaner water, I think cess manure in waterways),” Energy Development to repur - in The Prince George’s Post implementing environmentally it’s positive work.” Maryland Secretary of Agriculture pose poultry manure in Berlin. friendly policies while preserving O’Sullivan is quick to note Joe Bartenfelder said last month. • $1.4 million to CleanBay industries vital to local economies that BHSL is not bringing tech - Maryland’s commitment to - Renewables to construct and op - Call Brenda Boice has been difficult. nology to the United States that ward the project, $970,000, erate an energy-to-manure plant at 301 627 0900 “We can’t lose poultry on the doesn’t have a track record. In comes from the Department of that will benefit farms in Som - ( Eastern Shore,” Murphy said. fact, the company first imple - Agriculture’s Animal Waste erset County. A6 — March 23 — March 29, 2017 — The Prince George’s Post

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Three years ago, The LEGO Movie surprised everyone by being very good despite having the flimsy premise of “What if we made a movie based on a toy?” What we feared would be a cynical feature-length com - mercial turned out to be a joy - ful, self-aware comedy about ROTTENTOMATOES teamwork and imagination in In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self- which the word “Lego” was PHOTO COURTESY NAPSI described leading man of that ensemble—Lego Batman—stars in his own big-screen adventure: never spoken. The spinoff, Families today have busy lives but they should still try to The The LEGO Batman Movie . But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save , contin - put some play into every day. LEGO Batman Movie the city from the Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try ues in that vein—spoofy, zany, to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up. self-referential—without sus - (NAPSI)—If life for your family sometimes seems to be taining the same dizzying level all work and no play, The Genius of Play wants to remind of energy (which is kind of a you why it is so important to make time to play every day— relief, actually). Batman doesn’t consider him his Batman’s “I work alone” policy eran of Cartoon Network’s and how to achieve it! Once again computer-ani - greatest enemy. (“Whoa, whoa, … but so does belonging to the Adult Swim) with affectionate Did you know there is a direct correlation between play mated to look like everything I don’t have a bad guy. I’m fight - Justice League, which the film enthusiasm. On one level, there and stress reduction? Or that elementary students who have was built out of Legos, the new ing several bad guys right now.”) is keen to overlook. are clever meta-jokes about the more than 15 minutes of recess are better behaved in school film casts Batman (voiced by Then there’s the new police The story isn’t exactly flaw - superhero genre and previous than those who have less? Will Arnett) as a self-centered, commissioner, Barbara Gordon less, and there’s a stretch in the incarnations of Batman. On a According to experts at the Genius of Play, a movement beatboxing egotist who sings (Rosario Dawson), who says middle where the laughs and more basic level, there are won - whose mission is to raise awareness about the benefits of songs about how awesome he Gotham needs active, involved energy are diminished as the derful details, like the fact that play and bring more play into kids lives, playtime is a pow - is while saving Gotham but citizens, not an unaccountable plot chugs along. The promising Barbara Gordon went to “Har - erful tool to help you unwind, while bringing the whole goes home every night to an vigilante who has destructive idea of using Superman’s Phan - vard for police,” suggesting that family closer together. What’s more, through play kids build empty mansion. His faithful battles with supervillains but tom Zone as a depository for this could all be the product of physical skills, improve cognitive abilities, learn communi - butler, Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), never seems to catch them. villains from all universes fiz - a kid’s imagination. The hand - cation and social skills, process and express emotions, and is his only friend, and he’s more In the middle of this, almost zles, as it turns out Lego doesn’t ful of belly laughs and consis - increase creativity. like a father figure (albeit one accidentally, Bruce Wayne have the rights to as many in - tent cheerfulness are more than Batman doesn’t listen to). Bat - adopts an eager orphaned teen teresting bad guys as we enough to compensate for the How Families Can Play Every Day man says he doesn’t need any - named Richard Grayson thought (save for Batman’s in - addled, overstuffed story. And Here are some fun ideas from Genius of Play ambassador, one else, but secretly he’s afraid (Michael Cera) who becomes numerable nemeses). Call me how bizarre that the semi-paro - parenting expert and author Meredith Sinclair, M.Ed, on how of being part of a family again. Batman’s sidekick without re - crazy, but maybe a cartoon dic Batman is the first of all the to incorporate play into your busy every day routine: His lone wolf, “I don’t need alizing Batman and Bruce about superheroes doesn’t need movie Batmans to make us feel • Leave space for the spontaneous: Intentionally mark off anyone” attitude upsets the Joker Wayne are the same person. five screenwriters? an emotional connection to the small chunks of time on the calendar throughout the (Zach Galifianakis), whose feel - (The film gets a lot of mileage But when it’s on, it’s on, di - character. Legos—is there any - week for “spontaneous” playtime. Sometimes, spontane - ings are hurt when he realizes out of that.) This conflicts with rected by Chris McKay (a vet - thing they can’t do? ity takes planning. • Turn everyday occasions into playful moments. Make household chores fun by putting on some favorite music and having the kids dance as they put the toys away, make the bed or help with the dishes. • Collect easy-to-play instruments like harmonicas, bon - gos or toy ukuleles for impromptu after-dinner family jam sessions. • Keep playthings like hula hoops, crafts and playground chalk on hand for quick 10-minute play breaks during the day. It only takes a moment to create a chalk “picture frame” in the driveway and get the kids to draw some - thing creative inside it. • For a fun evening, try shutting down all screens after dinner once in a while and gathering the whole family around a board game. It’s Child’s Play: Great Ideas and Resources Parents, teachers and play lovers can get expert advice, play ideas for all ages, and information on the benefits of play at www.thegeniusofplay.org. 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housing projects through reno - Trust Fund from A3 vation and rehabilitation. These ing Trust Fund will be made include multi-family and senior available at the beginning of the communities. DHCD has new fiscal year. DHCD would awarded over $10 million in be able to offer up to $15,000 in HOME Loan funds to real estate down payment and closing costs developers building new con - for the Pathway to Purchase Pro - struction and rehabilitating and gram. DHCD would also issue preserving affordable homes in an announcement informing real Prince George’s County. This estate developers that it has $2.6 translates into 100 new rental million available for gap financ - townhouse units and 620 rental ing for workforce housing con - apartment units. DHCD was struction and rehabilitation. able to leverage its $10 million Over the past 5 years, DHCD in gap financing to over $153 has successfully co-financed 6 million in affordable housing new construction projects and development for Prince helped preserve 13 affordable George’s County.

of the candidates were invited Hiring from A1 back for second interviews. ployee goes on the floor alone. For more information on job Successful candidates, both opportunities with Dave & part-time and full-time, are Buster’s or other employers in also eligible for an impressive the County, contact Ron Hop - benefits package that includes kins, EDC Business Consultant basic medical, dental and vi - at ([email protected]) or sion insurance. Roughly half 301-618-8400. March 23 — March 29, 2017 — The Prince George’s Post —A 7

Calendar of Events EARTH TALK ... What Good Has EPA Ever Done March 23 — March 29, 2017 for the Environment Anyway? Dear EarthTalk: funds states, non-profits and ed - ucational institutions to address Platinum Live: Little Margie Clark and Friends local and regional problems; and Date and Time: Friday, March 24, 2017, 11 am I would like to know what educates the public about how Description: Margie Clark, also known as Little Margie, is a good the EPA has done for the to avoid and mitigate environ - powerhouse blues, soul, and R&B vocalist. She is one of the environment? mental risks. Laws implemented original Jewels, a group that has been performing and recording —Mary W., and enforced by the EPA to pro - since the late 1950s and whose hit “Opportunity” stayed on the via e-mail tect our land, air and water save national charts for 11 weeks. Little Margie performs at the Play - Without the U.S. Environ - hundreds of thousands of Amer - house with her blues band, so don’t miss this morning of pure mental Protection Agency icans from premature death blues entertainment. (EPA), Americans would breathe every year and keep our ecosys - Cost: $10/person dirtier air, drink more polluted tems healthy in the face of innu - Ages: For seniors 60 and better. water and live and grow food on merable threats. Location: Publick Playhouse contaminated soils. Polluters The EPA’s very first major ac - 5445 Landover Rd, Cheverly, MD wouldn’t be held accountable for complishment back in the early Contact: 301-277-1710; TTY 301-699-2544 their irresponsible behavior, 1970s was setting standards on CREDIT: GAGE SKIDMORE, FLICKRCC wildlife would have a more dif - common air pollutants plaguing Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s pick to run the EPA, says he isn’t con - Miss Gorgeous Prince George’s County Teen Pageant ficult time finding suitable habi - urbanized and industrial areas vinced that carbon dioxide emissions from human industrial activ - Date and Time: Friday, March 24, 2017 7 –9:30 pm tat to raise their young, and across the U.S. Other highlights ity is to blame for global warming, and would like to see significant Description: Calling all young ladies! You can now register for greater and greater concentra - from the EPA’s first decade in - cuts to EPA funding if not the dismantling of the agency altogether. our 2017 Teen Pageant Competition. Classes will be held on Fridays tions of greenhouse gases would clude: banning the pesticide DDT from 7 –9:30 pm and Sundays from 12:30-3:30 pm for 8 weeks. jeopardize the ability of our own and requiring extensive environ - communities; creating the En - ities to keep tabs on pollution Cost: $50 Resident; $65 non Resident atmosphere to protect us from mental reviews of all pesticides; ergy Star program to force ap - and set standards for the safe Ages: 14 –17 the heat of the sun. In short, the establishing the first fuel economy pliance makers to tow the line use, handling and disposal of Location: Good Luck Community Center United States and the rest of the standards for cars and trucks on regarding energy efficiency; pollutants. As more and more of 8601 Good Luck Rd, Lanham, MD world would be a nasty place to American roads; overseeing the forging a market-based system our lands are paved over, our Contact: 301-552-1093 live, resulting in shorter life ex - phase-out of PCBs, chlorofluoro - to reduce acid rain pollution; pri - natural resources extracted and pectancy for humans and a de - carbons and leaded gasoline; and oritizing environmental justice our air and atmosphere compro - Xtreme Teens: G.E.A.R. Cookies! crease in biodiversity overall. setting nationwide benchmarks to protect low-income and mi - mised, we can all be thankful for Date and Time: Friday, March 24, 2017, 7 –10 pm The EPA was created via Ex - for drinking water quality. nority communities from dispro - the foresight of Richard Nixon Description: Learn to bake fresh cookies from scratch! These ecutive Order by Republican Some of the EPA’s notable portionate exposure to pollu - in establishing the world’s first simple recipes will leave you wanting more! President Richard Nixon in De - achievements since then include: tants; and setting new standards government agency devoted to Cost: Free with M-NCPPC Youth ID cember 1970 in response to ris - implementing “Superfund” to clean up emissions from environmental protection. Ages: 10 –17 ing concerns about pollution in (Congress’ billion dollar plan to diesel fuel. More recently, the Location: Prince George’s Plaza Community Center an increasingly industrialized remediate the most hazardous of EPA has started the process of CONTACTS: EPA History, 6600 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville, MD United States. Its purpose, then industrial waste sites across the regulating the emissions of www.epa.gov/history; Energy Contact: 301-864-1611; TTY 301-699-2544 and still now, is to ensure that country); establishing protec - greenhouse gases contributing to Star, www.energystar.gov. all Americans are protected from tions of endangered wetlands as global warming. Trap and Skeet: Youth Sporting Clays Clinic significant risks to their health a top agency priority; cleaning Beyond the agency’s direct EarthTalk ® is written and Date and Time: Saturday, March 25, 2017, 10 am –12 pm and the environment where they up Chesapeake Bay, the Hudson actions on behalf of the environ - edited by Roddy Scheer and Description: The Prince George’s County Trap and Skeet Center live, learn and work. To accom - River and other major water - ment here at home, its very ex - Doug Moss and is a registered and Shooting Star Shotgun Sports, LLC will offer a series of plish this, the EPA develops and ways; launching the Toxic Re - istence serves as an important trademark of E - The Environ - Saturday Morning Youth Shotgun Shooting Clinics for ages enforces environmental regula - lease Inventory program to in - model for other countries to fol - mental Magazine 13 –17 years old. These reduced fee clinics are made possible by tions based on laws passed by form the public about the low, and indeed most nations of (www.emagazine.com). funding from the Ray Pages Sr. Foundation. The goal of these Congress; monitors environmen - discharge of specific pollutants the world now have their own Send questions to: clinics is to introduce youth shooters to the shotgun sports and tal quality across the country; from industrial facilities in their environmental oversight author - [email protected]. to teach and reinforce safety and shooting etiquette. The clinics will advance participants into the sports of Trap, Skeet and Sport - ing Clays. Reservations are encouraged to secure a spot, payment County unemployment has one of the best feelings comes Most recently, the $1.4 billion is due at time of reservation and can be made by credit card. Jobs from A1 Call 301-577-7178 or register in person at our the Prince George’s dropped to 3.9% currently from from talking to a County resident MGM National Harbor resort County Trap and Skeet Center Clubhouse. Reservations can be “Six years ago, I stated that 7.8% in 2010. whose job was saved or created opened to critical acclaim . Fur - made in any or all of the clinics. Prince George’s County would Under the Baker Administra - as a result of the County’s ef - thermore, established malls such Cost: Resident: $10; Non-Resident: $10 become the economic engine of tion, the County created the new forts.” said Baker. “And with as the Mall at Prince George’s Ages: 13 –17 this region and state,” said Prince Department of Permitting, Inspec - each job comes a career, an edu - and Iverson Mall are anticipating Location: 10400 Good Luck Road George’s County Executive tions and Enforcement that elim - cation and, often, an identity and multiple-million dollar renova - Glenn Dale, MD Rushern L. Baker, III. “The re - inated red tape and redundancy purpose in life. For far too long, tions. In 2014, County Execu - Contact: 301-577-7178; TTY 301-699-2544 actions I generally received to resulting in a more business Prince George’s County was a tive Baker was named a top “Re - that declaration was that I was friendly regulatory environment. place where people lived, but did tail Friendly Public Official” by being very optimistic and hope - County Executive Baker also cre - not work. We have begun to the trade magazine Shopping Arts Drop-In: Kinetic Sculpture ful, or they were patronizing, as - ated the $50 million Economic change that trend, which is going . Date and Time: Saturday, March 25, 2017, 10 am –12 noon Centers Today suming that I was naïve. But I Development Incentive Fund to be better for our quality of These successful employment Description: Arts Drop-In with Aaron Springer is a fun time for knew that we had the location, (EDI Fund) that has been utilized life, the environment, our and economic development num - kids and parents to get creative with a variety of craft materials the resources, and, most impor - to attract, retain, and expand busi - budget, and the limitless possi - bers are due to the support of and an imaginative facilitator. tantly, the residents and a busi - nesses located in the County, with bilities that lie in the future for many individuals and organiza - Cost: FREE ness base to make this happen. $32 million in EDI Funds lever - this County.” tions in the County. The County Ages: 2–10 years old We all needed to start rowing in aging almost $750 million in pri - On the horizon is a ground - Executive acknowledges these Location: College Park Community Center the same direction, and we have.” vate capital and investments. The breaking for the future Regional partnerships and the innovative 5051 Pierce Avenue, College Park, MD Prince George’s County led County Executive has made five Medical Center in Largo. Ad - ideas and resources provided by Contact: 301-441-2647; TTY 301-699-2544 the state in 3Q job growth over international economic develop - ditionally, Prince George’s them: these partners include the the past 12 month reporting pe - ment missions garnering eco - County is currently leading the County Executive’s senior staff, Xtreme Teens: New Game Night riod with 7,850 new jobs, or nomic interest and investment in race to become home to the new in coordination with the Prince Date and Time: Saturday, March 25, 2017, 7 –10 pm 22% of the State’s total job the County from around the consolidated Federal Bureau of George’s County Council, the Description: This new game called, “Snakes” is a game all teens growth: when the MGM Na - world. Finally, the County Exec - Investigations (FBI) Headquar - Prince George’s Senate and should try! Teams will compete to capture all scattered balls tional Harbor’s 3,600 new jobs utive passed sweeping ethics and ters—a 11,000 jobs, $2.5 billion House Delegations, the Prince while blindfolded. The team that gathers all the balls first, WINS!! are added, Prince George’s oversight reforms that quickly dollar project that will further George’s Chamber of Commerce, Cost: Free with M-NCPPC ID County will be able to claim job changed the perception through - rebrand and re-invent the the Prince George’s Business Ages: 10 –17 growth of over 18,000 new jobs. out the business world and an - County’s economy. Roundtable, the Prince George’s Location: Good Luck Community Center These jobs are a result of the nounced that Prince George’s Prince George’s County’s County Economic Development 8601 Good Luck Road, Lanham, MD more than $9 billion in various County is open and serious about economic success is also in - Corporation (EDC), FSC First, Contact: 301-552-1093; TTY 301-699-2544 projects in recently built, under attracting the biggest and best in - cludes noticeable increases in re - the Convention and Visitors Bu - construction, and pipeline eco - dustries and companies. tail options including attracting reau, the Revenue Authority, De - Ceramics: Beginners Workshop nomic development in the “We have achieved a litany the County’s first Whole Foods, partment of Permitting, Inspec - Date and Time: Saturday, March 25, 2017, noon –1:30 p.m. County. In addition, it is a re - of achievements from property two Harris Teeters, the Tanger tions, and Enforcement (DPIE), Description: Interested in making your own ceramics? Come flection of the hard work and values increasing to graduation Outlets, Dave & Buster’s, and Department of Housing and Com - get an introduction to the wonderful world of pottery! You might dedication of our private sector rates hitting record highs to mas - the transition of the Laurel Mall munity Development (DHCD), end up molding your future! partners. Prince George’s sive reductions in crime. But to the new Laurel Town Centre. and the Redevelopment Authority. Cost: Resident: $3 Non-resident: $5 Ages: 6 and older Location: Langley Park Community Center 1500 Merrimac Drive, Hyattsville, MD Contact: 301-445-4508; TTY 301-445-4512

Women in Jazz: From Classrooms to Careers Date and Time: Sunday, March 26, 2017, 2 pm Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month, this talk explores the unique path of girls and women who aspire to attain careers in jazz music. Candy Shannon, host and producer of WPFW’s “The Morning Brew-Friday Edition,” will moderate the panel. Cost: Free Ages: All ages welcome Location: Montpelier Arts Center 9652 Muirkirk Rd., Laurel, MD Contact: 301-377-7800; TTY 301-699-2544

Puppet Show Date and Time: Monday, March 27, 2017, 2 –3 pm Description: Enjoy a nature-themed puppet show & meet an animal. Cost: Resident: $3; Non-Resident: $4 Ages: Ages 2 –10 Location: Watkins Nature Center 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD Contact: 301-218-6702; TTY: 301-699-2544