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Potomac LongLong WaitWait forfor PowerPower News,News, PagePage 33 Intense thunderstorms on Sunday, July 25, brought down trees and tree limbs all over Potomac, and cut off power to more than two-thirds of homes and Classified, Page 14 Classified, ❖ businesses in Potomac and Montgomery County. Sports, Page 11 ❖ Big Wheel Bikes Opens News, Page 3 Calendar, Page 6 Grounds for The Ground Big Train News, Page 2 /The Almanac Captures Requested in home 8-5-10 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Another Postmaster: Attention Championship #86 PERMIT Championship WV Martinsburg, Sports, Page 11 PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Harvey Levine Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comAugust 4-10, 2010 ❖ Volume XXIV, Number 31 onlinePotomac at Almanacpotomacalmanac.com ❖ August 4-10, 2010 ❖ 1 News LET’S TALK Real Estate Collecting Grounds for the Ground Garden clubs brew need to expand recycling effort. By Colleen Healy The Almanac by Michael Matese ocal gardeners hope to take a bag of old coffee CHALLENGES OF A Lgrounds with them when they get their CHANGING MARKET Starbucks grande skinny vanilla Many regions of the country are by Photo experiencing a transition in real ice coffee to go. estate trends. What are the Many gardeners use coffee implications for sellers? grounds in their garden because Firstly it is essential that you they make good mulch. Members Colleen Healy price your home accurately from of the Potomac Village Garden the outset. Consult with your real estate professional to deter- Club hope that all cafes and cof- mine a competitive price for fee shops can start giving away your home. their old coffee grounds to garden- Sellers can also gain an ers to recycle. /The Almanac advantage by improving the Potomac Village Starbucks al- home’s appeal for the prospec- tive buyer. This could include ready has a program in place; it offering incentives, or you could started the movement in Potomac give the walls a fresh coat of because of the several gardening paint in a neutral color, creating clubs and the many avid garden- the look of a “new home”. ers in town. Garden club members From left: Members of the Potomac Village Garden Club , Linda Rieger, Myra Wormald, You could also consider offering to pay some of the non- are requesting that cafes put used Peggy Dennis, Starbucks manager Zahra Sepehri, Terri Valenti and Margaret Vogel. recurring closing costs (for grounds in a bag so people can example the loan appraisal or pick them up at the end of the day composted coffee grounds are less The garden club began in 1963 loan points) which could be a for their gardens. acidic “so you do not have to worry More and, according to Tipton, includes major motivation to cash-poor Peggy Dennis wants to make this about hurting the plant. Plus the To learn more about organic gardening an “interesting mix of people. We buyers. go to www.growingSOUL.org. Starbucks Having a home inspection and a standard procedure because “it grounds do not attract other ani- is located at 10116 River Road. Phone is learn a lot from each other. We doing those urgent repairs is good for the gardens and takes mals.” 301-299-9226. take care of the Potomac Library before your home is listed, is a the grounds out of the waste Zahra Sepehri, manager of the Garden and our group has won good idea so buyers don’t stream. Grounds are useful or- Potomac Village Starbucks, is Starbucks program for awhile. Pa- lots of awards and started pro- become discouraged if they have ganic matter that can be put back happy to give away the used trons “are welcome to have the grams to give children opportuni- to wait for repairs. Ask your real estate professional to advise into the earth instead of being grounds and says it has been a grounds for their garden, they just ties to experience nature includ- you about staging your home to burned. Patrons and gardeners need to call ahead and come pick ing Girl Scout projects. The club show well. can take the bags home to dis- the up.” is also having speakers about na- pose of them in a more useful “Grounds are useful Garden club member Susan tive trees and shrubs and has many and profitable way.” Tipton is “excited about this idea interests including an Azalea club, For professional advice on all aspects of buying and selling Linda Rieger wants the club organic matter that of using coffee grounds in my gar- an organic garden group and a real estate, call: to “raise awareness that waste den. I have heard the grounds are Maryland nature plant club. In from the kitchen is very good can be put back into great for composting and keeping addition we do garden therapy MICHAEL MATESE for your garden. You can com- the ants off my fig tree. It is good with residents in nursing homes Long & Foster Realtors post other fruits and vegetables the earth instead of to keep the grounds out of the and help them make arrange- 301-806-6829 for your garden.” being burned. landfill. They are really beneficial ments. This club makes you feel [email protected]. The soil is neutral in this area, to gardeners. It is a win/ win situ- like you are making a small con- said Terri Valenti, and — Peggy Dennis ation for everyone.” tribution to the community.” grooming • doggie daycare • overnights dog walking • pet sitting • doggie taxi • training 301.760.7883 POTOMAC www.daisyspetservice.com 2 ❖ Potomac Almanac ❖ August 4-10, 2010 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Potomac Almanac Editor Steven Mauren 703-778-9415 or [email protected] News See www.potomacalmanac.com Community’s Long Wait for Power service from Pepco and make recommen- Most Potomac homes dations for improvements. “Many of our Yard Cleanup Aftermath residents have suffered great inconvenience For many residents, the remaining vestiges of the were without storm are a newly cleaned out refrigerator and and sometimes life-threatening problems freezer and a plethora of fallen limbs and other electricity for more due to the extended outages,” Leggett said. debris around their property. The majority of Potomac’s homes and Here are county guidelines for disposing of yard businesses remained in the dark without debris: than 48 hours, some • Tree debris on private property will be col- power, more than two days after storms hit lected on a resident’s regular recycling day if it is more than four days. the area. no more than four-feet in length and four inches On Sunday afternoon, July 25, more than in diameter. 216,000 homes and businesses in Mont- • Put tree branches and limbs in bags, bundles or containers, keeping bundles less than 45 pounds or Potomac residents who live off by Photo gomery County were without power, more and less than 30 inches in diameter. Eldwick Way, Wednesday morn- than two-thirds of its customers. Montgom- • Tree debris that is too large for curbside col- ing, July 28 dawned with frustra- ery County Fire and Rescue responded to lection, or cannot be bagged, bundled, or put in F containers can be recycled at no charge to single tion, a fourth day without power more than 650 emergency calls in under Harvey Levine Harvey family home residents (up to 500 pounds) at the after a line of violent thunderstorms crossed seven hours during and after the storm. Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Sta- Potomac on Sunday, July 25. On Tuesday, July 27, Pepco reported that tion, located at 16101 Frederick Road, Derwood. The frustration was that they could see 10,030 homes and businesses were still Check the County’s website for hours of operation. the problem, but couldn’t get Pepco to come • Another option is to contact a private com- without power in Potomac zip code 20854 pany, such as a tree service, landscaping or lawn out to fix it. A huge branch was tangled in alone, where there are a total of 17,687 service, for assistance in removing and disposing /The Almanac power lines along Eldwick, and at one point Pepco customers. Businesses in Potomac of storm debris. a crew of electrical workers from DelMarVa Village were without power until Tuesday • Residents may want to check with their home came to inspect the damage, said Barry insurance company, which may cover storm debris afternoon. removal and disposal. Stiefel, a nearby resident. The crew said all they could do was re- “MANY OF our businesses have suffered port the damaged lines because they were This tree on Deborah Drive, just significant losses at a time when they can should have the very best system that we not equipped with maps of Pepco’s electri- south of Tuckerman Lane, was one ill afford to,” said Leggett. can and today we do not.” cal grid, and a Pepco crew had to come to among many brought down by Potomac’s representative on County On Tuesday, July 27, 107,000 Pepco cus- do the actual repairs. thunderstorms on July 25. Council, Roger Berliner, and his wife were tomers were still without power in Mont- “It’s a terrible system,” Stiefel said, with still without power on Tuesday, July 27. gomery County; 103 traffic signals were crews called in from other states to help, While Eldwick Way residents did get their Berliner said he would be ask the Maryland dark; 55 roads were blocked. The Potomac but most of the time they were just wait- power back by Wednesday evening, other Public Service Commission, to open an in- library was closed.