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May 10, 2019 A Biweekly Newspaper May 10, 2019 • Volume XV, Number 4 Some house repairs require respiratory caution. See more pictures of the Two Charged in Restaurant Burglaries By Jack Toomey Rebuilding Together Team on page 2. An adult female and a juvenile male have been charged with the burglaries of the Mexican Grill and the Water- shed Café that occurred in the early morning hours of April 28, and the Crown Gas Station on April 6. On the morning of April 28, a passerby noticed that the front door of the Mexican Grill, the well-known Poolesville eatery, was tampered with and standing open. The citizen called the police. Soon after arriving, the officer verified that the front door had been pried open, allowing the culprits to enter the premises. A large amount of liquor had been stolen. The Mexican Grill, one of three targeted area businesses, On the same night, presumably was burglarized on April 28. The Girl Scouts make leaders. the same group of thieves tried to Find out how in Tidbits on page 6. break into the Watershed Café across the street. In that case, they tried to Jessica Gomez-Koehn, the manager meeting to make her feelings known. pry open the back door but were of the Mexican Grill, said, "I feel In the meantime, police detectives unsuccessful. violated. We have been here ten years, from the Rockville Station began A police spokesperson said that the and I am concerned about the police investigating both cases. They obtained security system inside the Mexican presence (in Poolesville).” She said security footage from the Mexican Grill indicated that the intrusion hap- that she had been in contact with Town Grill and determined that a small car pened at about 2:30 a.m. She said that Manager Wade Yost and is hoping that nearly $600 worth of liquor was stolen. she can attend the next commissioners’ Continued on page 18. UMCVFD Volunteer Saves Life at Golf Course By Rande Davis The golfer was reported to be at the On April 23, a male golfer at the eighth hole. Poolesville Golf Course had a severe Instantly, Lynne remembered that cardiac arrest, lost consciousness, and her daughter, Mollie, a trained career Washington Ballet’s Eun Won Lee stopped breathing. Thanks to the firefighter and EMT employed by with HGCBT’s founder and artistic quick action by an area UMCVFD vol- Prince William County Fire Rescue director Fran Ichijo. Get the details unteer and Montgomery County Fire Service in Virginia and a volunteer in Center Stage on page 9. Rescue personnel, the individual, who with UMCVFD, was playing golf that had lost a heartbeat, was revived and day with her grandfather (Lynne’s safely transported to Shady Grove dad), Charlie Glass. She called Mollie Hospital. There is no official report on on her cellphone, who happened to be the man’s condition other than it is starting her second nine at the tenth thought that he is still recovering at hole, next to the eighth. Mollie then the hospital. rushed to the victim. Lynne Bodmer, of Total Automotive After assessing the severity of and Diesel, who has been an active situation, she initiated the chain of the UMCVFD volunteer for many years survival and began CPR, resuscitating the patient, providing constant and is the organization’s current trea- Mollie Bodmer was golfing with compressions to restore the man’s surer, heard over her emergency radio her grandfather, Charlie Glass, heartbeat, and awaiting the arrival of How big was the one that got receiver that an individual had col- when she got a call about a cardiac away? See fishing tournament lapsed at Poolesville Golf Course and arrest victim on another hole. pictures on page 11. was in need of immediate assistance. Continued on page 19. Page 2 The Monocacy Monocle May 10, 2019 Family Album Repairing Homes for Residents in Need Poolesville Helping Hands, working through Rebuilding Together, has been assisting in home repairs for residents in need for nearly twenty-five years. Joe Hetrick of Chrisler Homes and Bernie Mihm of Fine Earth Landscaping used their professional expertise in organizing and managing this voluntary effort. This year, fifty-six area residents stepped forward to help. 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Arboretum By Rande Davis You gotta understand: as a kid I was I made a bold and perhaps outlandish psychologically impacted by the origi- By Maureen O’Connell announcement in February, and now I nal movie The Incredible Shrinking Tucked away off the main street in have to live with it. In a moment of Man and immediately recalled a time I Poolesville, behind the log and frame what I now see as deranged foolhardi- drove through a strange misty fog in a John Poole House, is a garden that ness, I let you, our loyal readers, in on place where cloudiness should not time and people have forgotten: the my goal to get myself fit, lose some have been. Was this the moment Edward L. Stock, Jr. Memorial Arbore- weight, set specific goals, and, even in which my fate was set? Was I to tum. This collection of shrubs, trees, worse, in a weak moment of zaniness, continue to shrink forever? The doctor herbs, and perennials, indigenous to promised to keep you informed every reassured me that all was fine, that western Montgomery County before three months. Uh-oh, the first day most people lose height as they grow 1850, was started in 1976 by nursery- The John Poole House of judgement has now arrived. There’s older. What a relief—I had figured that man and landscape designer Edward Ed Stock Arboretum. no turning back, no way out, so at the current rate, in three hundred L. Stock, Jr.; he designed the garden here goes. years I would only be about two and was its major planter. After gradu- stocked with plants brought to the My first goal was to join Anytime inches tall. Whew! ating from Cornell University in 1929, Poolesville area by early settlers and Fitness and start on February 1. I then I guess I shouldn’t have been he returned home to Bethesda and, plants native to the environment. promptly missed my first goal by surprised about losing inches, but with his brother Steve Stock, started a He did extensive research with the putting that off by ten days, but at least what made the matter worse was I nursery and landscape business, Stock National Arboretum in Washington, I did join the club. That’s the good actually thought I was growing taller Brothers, Inc. They later moved from D.C., the Montgomery County Men’s news. The bad news is that was really not shorter. I based that on the fact that Bethesda to Rockville in 1946 and to Garden Club, and horticulturists not enough. You actually have to go as the years have gone by and my belly Beallsville in 1961. Today, the Four working in Colonial Williamsburg, inside and do some work. expanded, every time I had to pick up Streams golf club occupies this land. Virginia to find plants that were hardy, Anytime Fitness assigned counselor something from the ground, it was In 1974, Historic Medley District low maintenance, and would thrive in Chris Sabate to give me an orientation clearly farther away than it had ever (HMD) Inc. purchased and restored Poolesville weather conditions. They tour and to provide some initial advice been before. I logically concluded I the John Poole House (JPH), built in would also be the types of plants that that might help me in preparing my was getting taller. 1793 and the oldest building in Pooles- a shopkeeper would grow in his plan. Chris is a very nice and knowl- Back to the update: How am I ville. A .83-acre lot surrounded the backyard. He searched for such plants edgeable young man, a Poolesville doing? It’s been slower than I had house, and, for Mr. Stock, it became his High School graduate who went on to hoped. Weighing-in in the heavy- avocation to develop an arboretum Continued on page 24. play ice hockey for the University of weight division, I still am hopeful to Maryland. He looked the part and make it below two hundred by Pooles- proved to be a master of self-control ville Day. This morning I was 224, so at Contributing Writers since, as he read over my goals, he that rate, I may make it. As far as Dominique Agnew smiled, was highly supportive, and upper body progress, not so much. My [email protected] Kerri Cook never once gave into what must first attempt was on an upper body [email protected] have been a strong urge to burst out machine set for fifty pounds by some- Published and Edited by Andie Devynck laughing.