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Vol. 83, No. 30 July 23 — July 29, 2015 Prince George’s County, Maryland Newspaper of Record Phone: 301-627-0900 25 cents

Government, Community and Healthcare Leaders Attended Ribbon Cutting of New Care Center By Press Officer them for the return to their Weiss PR home environments. During the ribbon-cutting Lanham, MD – On July 8, program, Phil Down, president government, community and at Doctors Community Hospi - healthcare leaders attended a rib - tal, stated that the new center bon-cutting ceremony for the will help with that transition by new Doctors Community Reha - treating “people in the most cost bilitation and Patient Care Cen - effective setting and getting ter. A Genesis Healthcare and them back to their homes, to Doctors Community Hospital their jobs; and we’re going to collaboration, this new rehabili - be able to do it here. This would tation and transitional care fa - have, in the past, been done in cility will provide high-quality the hospital at a much higher and comprehensive services to cost. So, we want to drive the short-term-stay patients and hospital cost down, give better long-term residents – people care and have better outcomes who need additional care prior for the patients.” CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY KATHY OWENS to transitioning from hospital “What is going on here, on settings to their home environ - Janice Jackson has used MTA Mobility for 31 years, and she said recently the service has been the worst she has this campus, is the future of ments. Guest speakers included ever seen it. Jackson, who is an incomplete quadriplegic, uses the alternative transportation service to go to work, health care. We have a lot of Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor meetings, meet friends and go shopping, which is why its reliability is crucial for her and thousands in the area. discussions going on nation - Boyd Rutherford and Prince wide with very big acute care George’s County Council Chair systems, academic medical sys - Mel Franklin. tems, but I will tell you, there Many hospitalized patients is no acute care organization require specialized care prior Paratransit Riders Frustrated, that is further along, not just in to going home. When com - talking about what they want to bined with the increasing rates do, but actually bringing it to of various chronic medical con - MBy GRACTE TOAOHE Y Und“Theey sraid it wSouldc be trhere uqutadiripnlegic y and executive di - thus a violation of the Americans life,” elaborated Mike Reitz, ditions, transitional care can Capital News Service in 10 minutes,” Jackson, 55, rector of Women Embracing with Disabilities Act. chief operating officer at Gen - benefit patients’ long-term said. It wasn’t. Abilities Now, a mentoring pro - esis HealthCare. “The continu - health. This type of care can BALTIMORE — Janice About four and half hours gram for young women with What is Mobility? ity of care and the transition of include providing comprehen - Jackson sat outside Walmart later, after the call center con - disabilities that focuses on their Because of her disability, care as people move through sive rehabilitation that im - waiting. She had a ride sched - tinued to tell Jackson 5 or 10 abilities. “We are in the process Jackson is one of about 25,000 the system — move from the proves patients’ mobility and uled with Maryland Transit Ad - more minutes, after a phone call of being neglected and abused residents who are qualified and acute care set—ing to post- specialized clinical services for ministration’s Mobility, the para - and visit with the police, after by the system every day.” certified to use Maryland Tran - acute and home is critical – and those who need extended re - transit service for people with her phone died and she soiled And she is not alone. sit Administration’s Mobility typically not well done. What covery time to address complex disabilities in the Baltimore area, her pants for fear of missing her The Maryland Disability Law services as an alternative to Phil and his leadership team are wounds or injuries. Simulta - to pick her up at 2:30 p.m. so ride to go inside to use the bath - Center and the AARP Foundation fixed-route systems, like the lo - doing [at Doctors Community neously, transitional care can she could make it to a meeting room—a Mobility bus picked filed a class action lawsuit in Jan - cal bus, light rail system or Hospital] is breaking down contribute to the reduction of in Towson. her up. She missed her meeting uary against the state’s transit ad - metro/subway lines. A paratran - those barriers, making sure hospital readmission rates and She waited the 30-minute by hours. ministration and the Maryland sit option is federally mandated when somebody goes to that healthcare costs by helping leeway, and at 3 p.m. she rang “In 31 years, this is the worst Department of Transportation for people receive needed medical Mobility’s call center to inquire I’ve ever seen Mobility,” said improperly denying eligibility about her late ride. Jackson, who is an incomplete and access to paratransit services, services that better prepare See CARE CENTER Page A 3 See RIDERS Page A 5

PGFD Firefighters Extinguish Prince George’s County Council Seeks Blue Ribbon Commission Members Fire, Rescue Two Pets and Ensure By Press Officer County Council and the fiscal dynamics of Prince PGCPS County Executive over the George’s County’s govern - Quick Veterinarian Treatment next year to address the ment; and feedback from The Prince George’s County’s structural deficit – community stakeholders con - PRESS OFFICE By County Council is currently the imbalance caused when cerning the County’s budget PG County Fire/EMS accepting resumes from normal government spending and tax structure. Prince George’s County Fire - County residents with ex - exceeds tax revenues on an “The Council received a fighters quickly extinguished a pertise in matters of budget, annual basis. The commis - very loud and clear message fire inside of a Landover Hills finance or public policy, to sion will collect, review and from residents during the home and rescued two pets serve as members of the Blue discuss comparative budget most recent budget process,” found inside. At around 11:15 Ribbon Commission on Ad - data and information regard - said Council Chairman Mel am, on July 13th, a neighbor dressing Prince George’s ing Prince George’s County’s Franklin. “We need to get the called 911 and reported smoke County’s Structural Deficit. fiscal health; policies and County’s fiscal house in order was coming from the attic of a The Blue Ribbon Com - practices that affect Prince and create more confidence in home in the 4900 block of 78th mission, established by George’s County’s revenue Avenue in Landover Hills. Council Resolution 26-2015, structure and the strength of will propose policies to the Firefighters from the Lan - its tax base; the structure and See BLUE RIBBON Page A 5 dover Hills Fire/EMS Station 830 were the first to arrive and encountered light smoke from the attic of a single family home. Tips for Beating the Heat A fire in the kitchen was found PHOTO COURTESY THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY FIRE/EMS By Press Officer cases, a person’s body temper - malls, libraries, grocery stores after forcing entry into the house. PG County Government ature rises rapidly and may or movie theatres. We also en - The fire was quickly extin - and smoke inhalation. The cat “Blueberry” he showed no signs damage the brain and or other courage citizens to utilize one guished. The house was charged was given to a neighbor for safe of improvement and a decision LARGO, MD — According vital organs,” said Pamela B. of the designated Maryland- with high heat and thick smoke keeping and the dog was being was made that to the National Weather Service Creekmur, Health Officer. National Capital Park & Plan - with searches yielding no human treated by Firefighter/Medics on Firefighter/Medics would trans - the air quality index will be un - “We encourage all residents to ning Commission (M-NCPPC) occupants being located, how - the scene, however, “Blueberry” port the dog to a nearby veteri - healthy for individuals who are check on the elderly, neigh - Recreational Cooling Centers ever, a dog and a cat were re - was in need of immediate vet - narian hospital on Annapolis at risk of heat related illnesses bors, family and friends.” to seek relief. These neigh - moved from the house. The cat erinarian care. A smaller dog es - Road in Lanham. Veterinarians due to high heat and humidity The Office of Emergency borhood facilities are open to quickly regained her senses once caped when firefighters entered immediately started to work with in Prince George’s County. Management would also like County residents during nor - removed to fresh air and ap - the home and is being searched Blueberry, who, as it turns out, “Everyone is vulnerable to to remind citizens who are in mal business hours. peared fine. The dog, “Blue - for within the community. heat-related illnesses when need of relief from the heat to berry” – an older Beagle mix, After 15 minutes of providing their bodies are unable to prop - seek shelter in air-conditioned was suffering from burn injuries oxygen by Firefighter/Medics to erly cool themselves. In such facilities such as shopping See RESCUE Page A 3 See HEAT Page A 3

INSIDE State Fire Marshall Offers Off To The Races: How Will Farmers Markets: Important Movie Review: “Balls Out” Earth Talk Grilling Safety Tips 2016’s Presidential Candidates Sales Outlets for Organic Farmers Our hero, a likable fifth-year senior Dear EarthTalk: for Marylanders Save Our Cities? Producers pursue organic certifica - named Caleb Fuller, is about to graduate, I recently heard about a cafe in the Increased outdoor activities also Rather than recite our problems, tion for a variety of reasons, and there take the LSAT, and get married. He’s Netherlands that harvests so-called result in an increase of outdoor fire rather than fall into the trap of recy - has been consistent growth in certified not sure he actually wants to do all of “kinetic” energy from its revolving risks; therefore the Office of the cling failed solutions for today’s and organic operations in the U.S. Last those things. Fondly recalling the intra - door to power its interior lights. Is State Fire Marshal is providing a tomorrow’s challenges, we will re - year alone, the total number of domes - mural football team he captained fresh - there potential for “kinetic” energy to few common-sense tips that will unite in Florida to deliberate on solu - tic certified organic operations in - man year before it was riven by tragedy, provide significant amounts of elec - help Marylanders enjoy a safe tions and fresh ideas to the economic creased by over five percent to a total he resolves to get the boys back together tricity to help replace fossil fuels? grilling season. and social troubles plaguing our cities. of 19,474. for one last pre-adulthood hurrah. — Doug Mola Boise, IDA Community , Page A3 Commentary , Page A4 Business , Page A5 Out on the Town , Page A6 Features , Page A7 A2 — July 23 — July 29, 2015 — The Prince George’s Post Towns and N EIGHBORS In and Around Morningside-Skyline by Mary McHale 301 735 3451 Neighborhood Events New medical care facility to August 8: $30 for adults, $15 for Women’s Civic Group. There open in Clinton children (8-15), and $75 for a were three on the editorial staff: Edwards Reintroduces S.O.S. Act to Curb Patient First Urgent Care is family of four. Gertrude Langford, Arletta Jen - under construction and due to First day of school for stu - nings and Blanche McCormick. Overdose Epidemic open soon at 9000 Woodyard dents, Tuesday, August 25. Washington, D.C. – Con - County. “In addition to its ef - Road in Clinton. (Teachers and some grades May they rest in peace gresswoman Donna F. Ed - ficiency, the house is located Among its services: on-site meet earlier.) Jeanne W. Hayes, 94, long - wards (MD-4) reintroduced within walking distance to the x-rays, lab testing and prescrip - Andrews Air Show, Sept. 18 time volunteer at the Oxon Hill the Stop Overdose Stat Suitland Metro Station and the tion drugs; walk-in care for rou - & 19 Food Pantry, died a year ago, (S.O.S.) Act in conjunction Suitland Federal Center.” tine injuries and illnesses; and Pope Francis begins his pas - July 8, 2014, at her home in Rid - with Senator Jack Reed (D- The net zero energy house primary care for patients without toral visit to the U.S. with arrival erwood Retirement Village, Sil - RI) and with the support of 25 is priced to sell at $320,000 a regular physician. No appoint - at Joint Base Andrews the after - ver Spring. A native Washing - of her colleagues in the House. and includes: 3 Bedrooms and ment necessary. noon of Sept. 22. tonian she earned her Juris The Act will establish a grant 2 full baths, solar panels as the Hours and bios of medical Doctor degree at the Washington program that funds efforts to renewable energy source, an personnel will be available when African dance for children College of Law (now part of educate and train the public, HVAC mini-split system and it open. Children's African dance and American University), and a BA first responders, and care - energy efficient windows and drum classes are being offered from George Washington Uni - givers of those at risk of over - Congresswoman doors, fixtures and appliances, Former Skyline President Saturdays through Aug. 22, 10 versity. She was a female pioneer dose on how to administer Donna F. Edwards a solar hot water heater, bam - running for Congress a.m. to noon, at St. Michael's in the convention and exposition naloxone, a drug that reverses boo floors in the living and Dr. Alvin Thornton, Howard Truth/OSLC, 4915 St. Barnabas business and the first woman the effects of heroin and opi - dining room areas, 42 inch University professor, former Sky - Road in Temple Hills. Classes are president of the National Asso - AL), Cartwright (PA-17), oid overdoses until proper Clark (MA-5), Conyers (MI- kitchen cabinets with granite line resident and president of the free. For information, call 301- ciation of Exposition Managers. medical care can be provided. counter tops, cultured marble Skyline Citizens Association, 894-3556 or go to www.saint - She also volunteered with Meals 13), Cummings (MD-7), De - “Since I first introduced this Lauro (CT-3), Ellison (MN-5), double sinks, tub and separate 1983-84, has announced his bid for michaelstruth.org or www.face - on Wheels and Independence & bill in 2009, nearly 140,000 shower, his and her closets, pa - the 4th Congressional District seat, book.com/stmichaelstruth. Information for the Blind. She Foster (IL-11), Keating (MA- Americans have died from opi - 9), Lee (CA-13), Lewis (GA- tio doors that lead to a deck joining a crowded field in the race was the widow of D.C. Police oid-related causes, including and back yard and more. to succeed Rep. Donna Edwards Morningside memories Detective Sgt. John W. Hayes. 5), Lujan (NM-3), Maloney When we moved to Maryland more than 4,000 from my home (NY-18), McGovern (MA-2), For more information on in the House of Representatives. Survivors include sons Stephen state of Maryland,” Edwards the County’s first Net Zero En - He is a former member of the in 1958, most of the schools—both and Warren, three grandchildren Moore (WI-4), Norton (DC), public and private—didn’t have said. “While I remain encour - O’Rourke (TX-16), Pingree ergy Home, please contact Pa - County School Board, and is and five great-grands. aged by the Obama Adminis - tricia Omondi, Senior Con - known for The Thornton Plan, kindergarten. But in Morningside Walter Eugene Lattimore, (ME-1), Rangel (NY-13), we were fortunate to have Mrs. tration’s priority of expanding Rush (IL-1), Ryan (OH-13), struction Advisor/Special which he developed. Although 74, Senior Pastor of Victory naloxone access across our na - Projects Administrator for the we usually just call it “Thorn - Irene Smith and her Morningside Church International in Ft. Tonko (NY-20), Van Hollen Co-operative Kindergarten, which tion, it is Congress’s role to ap - (MD-8), Watson-Coleman Redevelopment Authority at: ton,” the plan is The Bridge to Washington, died July 8. He is propriate funding. I thank Sen. [email protected] or Excellence in Public Schools Act met at the old Town Hall, corner survived by his wife Apostle (NJ-12), Welch (VT-AL). of Woodland Road and Forest Reed for leading this effort on The S.O.S. Act is supported (301) 883-5300. of 2002, which established a Dr. Carmen Lattimore; six chil - the Senate side, showing law - state school aid formula to ensure Drive. Over the course of seven dren, 12 grandchildren and two by: American Association of Poi - makers that we have a respon - PG County Implements that schools and school systems years or so, five of my children at - great-grandchildren. son Control Centers, Fraternal sibility to fund programs that New Temporary County- have the resources necessary to tended Morningside Co-op. Order of Police, Maryland Coun - make a real difference in treat - based Certification for provide every child with an ade - Officers for the year 1960-61 Milestones cil of Emergency Nurses Asso - were: Doris Goode, president; Happy birthday to Bill Curcio ing and preventing overdose, ciation, National Association of Local Businesses quate and equitable education. and ultimately saving lives. And LARGO, MD – The Prince Dr. Thornton officially de - Doris Gardiner, vice-president; and Thomas DeGraba, July 25; Drug Diversion Investigators, Mary McHale, treasurer; Nancy Florence Cray, Agnes Koch and while I understand that there is Inc., Drug Policy Alliance, Harm George’s County Supplier De - clared his candidacy July 21 at much work to be done in order velopment & Diversity Divi - the Glenarden Municipal Center. Smith, recording secretary; and Jennifer Booth, July 26; Floyd Reduction Coalition, Trust for Alma Broderick, juice chairman. Shields, Connie Robbins and Pa - to address substance abuse be - America’s Health. sion announces that a new res - fore it gets to the point of over - olution to the Jobs First Act is Coming up Other chairmen were Mary Col - tricia Rosetta, July 27; Matthew Night Out Against Crime pic - lege, Mildred Stanley, Margaret Gryskewicz, Kenny Hunt and dose, each year hundreds of County’s Completes in effect that allows the nics will be held in Morningside Bresnahan, Virginia Rosch and Jason Nichols, July 28; Gary Maryland families and tens of Rehab of First Net Zero County to issue temporary and in Skyline on Tuesday Hazel Loughmiller. Barnes, July 29; Helen Rawlett thousands of American families Energy House County-based certifications to evening, August 4. These remembrances come and Helen Cordero, July 30; need immediate assistance.” Selected As 2015 businesses whose principle St. Philip’s is hosting its an - from the Morning-Side-Lines John Short, Paula Boxley and “We can’t let more young Educational Tour Site by place of operation is located nual Crab Feast, 1 to 5 p.m. on newsletter, published by The Howard C. Booth, July 31. people fall victim to heroin Green Build International in Prince George’s County. and opioid abuse. This is a Largo, MD —- The Rede - The purpose of the temporary serious public health and velopment Authority of Prince certification is to consider lo - safety problem in Rhode Is - George’s County (RDA) has cal businesses with certain ex - Brandywine-Aquasco land and every type of com - completed the renovation of isting business certifications munity across the country. the County’s first Net Zero En - to be certified County-based by Audrey Johnson 301 888 2153 Opioid dependence and over - ergy house at 3413 Glenn businesses for a period of one dose is a growing problem that Drive in Suitland, MD and will year, while undergoing the 2015 LEGISLATIVE CASINO TIME STROKE SUPPORT GROUP cuts across social and eco - be holding a series of Open normal County-based business IT’S CASINO TIME to Join us for a free Stroke Sup - WRAP UP nomic boundaries and we need Houses for interested in home certification process. Delegate Michael A. Jackson Delaware Park Raceway and port Group on the fourth Thurs - to take action or it will con - buyers to take a look at the nu - “The County recognizes (Your Voice in Annapolis) event Casino Wilmington Delaware day of every month at 5:00 PM- tinue to get worse,” warned merous features that make this that the introduction of new will be Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Sunday, August 9, 2015. Bus will 6:30 PM in Southern Maryland Senator Jack Reed. “The home the ultimate in energy business certification processes from 6:30 PM-9:00 PM. Dele - leave Park-N-Ride, Clinton¸ Mary - Hospital Library. Registration is Overdose Prevention Act will efficiency. This one-of-a-kind, can be confusing and often re - gate Jackson’s district covers land at 10:30 AM and St. Philip’s required. Call 301-877-5858. establish a comprehensive na - 100 year-old home is designed quires a significant period of parts of Brandywine, Upper Church at 11:00 AM. The bus will Hospital address is 7503 Sur - tional response to this epi - to provide superior energy sav - transition,” said Sharon Moore Marlboro, Cheltenham in return at approximately 8:00 PM. ratt’s Road, Clinton, Maryland. demic. It emphasizes collab - ings, water efficiency and a Jackson, acting executive di - Prince George’s, Dunkirk and Fun package includes a $30.00 oration between state and healthy living environment. rector, Prince George’s County Owings in Calvert. Invited rebate 50/50, music and a bagged MARYLAND HORSE and federal officials and employs The home produces annually Supplier Development & Di - Guest will be Thomas V. lunch. All tickets must be pur - PONY SHOW best practices from the med - as much energy as it consumes versity Division. “We want lo - “Mike” Miller, Jr. President of chased by August 2, 2015. Dona - The Prince George’s Eques - ical community. And it invests in a year, minimizing the utility cal businesses to have every Maryland Senate. tion is $40.00. Absolutely no re - trian Center is hosting the indoor in community programs and bill to virtually zero. The house opportunity possible to take 2015 Legislative Wrap Up funds. Contact Shirley A. Cleaves Maryland Horse and Pony Show treatments that have proven ef - meets Energy Star and LEED advantage of the benefits of the ($27.00 per person) at Mama (302) 690-4260, Ruby E. Hinnant Wednesday-Sunday, September 9- fective in combating this star - Platinum Standards. Visitors County-based certification.” Lucia 10136 Southern Maryland (301) 637-1235, Michele K. 13, 2015 at 8:00 AM. The address tling national trend. This is an and potential home buyers will Once issued, the temporary Blvd. Dunkirk, Maryland Chase (301) 888-2510 or Vivian is 14900 Pennsylvania Avenue emergency and it requires a see why this home has been certification will be in place 20754. RSVP by Tuesday July F. Rich (804) 301-9530 for tick - Upper Marlboro, MD 20772. Cost coordinated and comprehen - selected as a 2015 Green Build for a period of one year, giving 21, 2015 at 240-753-6002. ets. Benefit: Peter A. Gross. Sr., is free for spectators. Contact 301- sive national response. The Offsite Educational Tour Site sufficient time to complete the Friends of Michael A. Jackson, Scholarship/Memorial Fund. 952-7900: TTY 301-952-7998. Overdose Prevention Act by Green Build International standard County-based certi - Damiana K. Murphy, Treasurer brings together federal author - Conference and Expo. fication process. Companies (Labor Donated). UNITED METHODIST MEN BADEN COMMUNITY The United Methodist Men CENTER ities, first responders, medical During the 2015 Housing interested in temporary HIDEAWAY HORSE Washington East District Prayer Baden Community Center is personnel, addiction treatment Fair on Saturday, June 13th, a County-based certifications CENTER Breakfast Meeting (Increasing a good place where you can go specialists, social service free shuttle bus will take hous - must be headquartered in Hideaway Horse Center is a Territory for Ministry) will be 9:00 and exercise. The Center in - providers, and families to help ing fair attendees on a tour of Prince George’s County and full service equestrian facility AM September 21, 2015 at As - cludes a fitness center with Nau - save lives and get at the root the County’s Net Zero Energy must have an existing Minor - owned and operated by Bridget bury United Methodist Church. tilus and five stations of cardio of this problem.” Home at 11:00 a.m. The Rede - ity Business Enterprise/Disad - Rice located on 43 acres at 12301 The church is located at 4400 Ac - equipment and dumbbell hand A Centers for Disease Con - velopment Authority of Prince vantage Business Enterprise Cross road Trail Brandywine, cokeek Road , Brandywine, Mary - weights. The Center is located trol and Prevention (CDC) re - George’s County spearheaded (MBE/DBE) certification with Maryland. Telephone number is land. Donation is $10.00. Please at 13601 Baden-Westwood port credits overdose preven - the renovation of this home at least one of the following 301-782-3200. The Center offers RSVP to UMWED President Road, Brandywine, Maryland. tion programs with training over the last 9 months, making organizations: · Maryland De - horseback riding lessons, board - Cary Montgomery 301-627-0028 Telephone number is 301-888- more than 150,000 potential the home highly insulated, partment of Transportation ing, showing and summer camp. or [email protected]. 1500; TTY 301-203-6030. bystanders who successfully highly efficient and designed to (MDOT); Washington Metro - reversed more than 26,000 produce as much energy as it politan Area Transit Authority overdoses using naloxone and consumes. During the tours and (WMATA); Maryland-District other rescue techniques. The open houses, experts will be on of Columbia Minority Sup - medical community and the hand to talk about solar panels plier Development Council CASA Applaundousnc emDenet pcroviidsesi aomnple boa - nlo cPal cuomrmpunitlies t hLat wienre ne e - CDC support efforts to expand and solar hot water heaters, cut - (MD-DC/MSDC); U.S. De - By PRESS OFFICER CASA sis for the State of Maryland, gotiated at the end of last year. overdose prevention pro - ting utility costs with energy ef - partment of Veterans Affairs Montgomery and Prince “We support a future where grams. A recent New York ficient fixtures, installing rain (VA); Women Presidents’ Ed - (Langley Park, MD) – George’s Counties, the Univer - today’s visionaries have used Pur - Times article highlights the ef - barrels and planting trees and ucation Organization CASA applauds the decision by sity of Maryland, non-profits, la - ple Line construction to reduce fectiveness of naloxone in re - utilizing environmentally (WPEO); U.S. Small Business Governor Hogan today to move bor unions, faith-based organi - sky-rocketing rents, create a well- viving people who have over - friendly building materials. Administration (SBA); and/or forward planning and negotia - zation, businesses, and trained and well-compensated la - dosed. However, as it stands, “We are very pleased with certified with the U.S. Small tions on the Purple Line, calling neighborhood associations, to re - bor force, and preserve small the drug overdose epidemic is the results of this renovation,” Business Administration as a the decision “a win for every - turn to the table and sign the Pur - businesses in our local struggling only getting worse. said Howard Ways, Executive social or economically disad - day Marylanders.” ple Line Community Compact – communities,” said Father Jacek The S.O.S. Act is cospon - Director of the Redevelopment vantaged business or as a While details remain to be fi - a series of commitments to poli - Orzechowski, Parochial Vicar at sored by: Reps. Carney (DE- Authority of Prince George’s HUBZone small business. nalized, the Governor’s an - cies to preserve and strengthen St. Camillus Church. July 23 — July 29, 2015 — The Prince George’s Post —A 3 COMMUNITY

Practical Money Skills State Fire Marshal Offers Grilling Safety By Nathaniel Sillin

Tips for Macylrindyer flroam nthe dveheicler as oughly with water before empty - By PRESS OFFICER soon as possible. ing the barbecue. Only transport Building a Back-to- MD State Fire Marshal • Ensure all connections are ashes in a metal container. School Budget STATEWIDE – As the sum - tight. Check all connections with Please be reminded that Back-to-school spending isn’t just about clothes and mark - mer months unfold before us, soapy water. The appearance of other than one and two family ers anymore. families across Maryland con - bubbles indicates leaks, re- dwellings, no use or storage tinue to venture outside to the of hibachis, grills or other sim - In 2014, Forbes reported that Accenture estimated tighten leaking connections. beach, the mountains or maybe ilar devices used for cooking (http://newsroom.accenture.com/images/20020/Graphic.pdf) that • Make sure grease is not al - just to their backyard. Increased shall be located on any bal - nearly half of respondents reported they would spend $500 or lowed to drip onto the hose or outdoor activities also result in cony, under any overhanging more on back-to-school expenses, including not only clothes gas cylinder. an increase of outdoor fire risks; portion or within fifteen feet and desk supplies, but electronics therefore the Office of the State • Store the cylinder (including PHOTO COURTESY MD STATE FIRE of any structure. as well. MARSHALL Fire Marshal is providing a few those attached to barbecues), With any outdoor cooking Yet there’s one more aspect of common-sense tips that will outdoors in a shaded, cool area Metal Ash Can w/Lid equipment, never be tempted to back-to-school spending that’s help Marylanders enjoy a safe out of direct sunlight. use them inside – not even in a growing and can add hundreds – grilling season. • Read thoroughly and follow • Once a fire has been started, garage with the door open or on and sometimes thousands – to a manufacturer’s instructions for never add more starter fuel! Fire a porch or a balcony. “Outdoor family’s overall K-12 education Outdoor Cooking Safety Tips gas grill use. Save the instruc - can easily follow the stream of grills produce carbon monoxide, budget. Since the 2008 economic for Gas Grills: tions for later reference!Outdoor fluid back to the container caus - an odorless, colorless, and poi - crisis, many public school sys - • Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cooking Safety Tips for Char - ing an explosion and potential sonous gas which even in small tems have tried to make up for (LPG) cylinders should always coal Grills: serious bodily harm. quantities can cause injury or funding shortfalls by adding first- be transported in the upright • Use only a small amount of • Use great caution in disposing death. LPG cylinders that de - time or expanded fees for sports, position on the floor of the ve - charcoal starter fuel. A little goes of ashes. Ashes may contain live velop a leak indoors can cause extracurricular activities and spe - hicle with all windows open. a long way! Consider using char - coals that can start a fire if not dis - an explosion with devastating re - cialized academics. Never transport cylinders in the coal that does not require starter posed of properly. The safest sults,” stated State Fire Marshal This means that back-to-school budgeting, even for families trunk of a car. Remove the fuel for ignition. method is to wet the ashes thor - Brian S. Geraci. with kids in public school, now requires a more holistic, year- round approach to all back-to-school expenses. peratures and inadequate or When working in the heat, • Take frequent rest breaks from A1 Given their potential dollar amounts, parents should exam - Heat unbalanced replacement of monitor the condition of your in the air conditioning ine school fees first. Public education has never been com - Please be mindful that ex - fluids. Symptoms of heat ex - co-workers and have someone or shade pletely free of charge beyond local taxes – parents have tradi - treme heat can be dangerous haustion include muscle do the same for you. Limit tionally paid extra money to support their kids’ participation and even deadly if precaution - cramps, dizziness, weakness heavy exertion when high lev - At Home in sports, music or other extracurricular activities. However, ary measures for protection and/or headaches. els of heat and humidity are • Check on relatives and many school systems are adding fees for a broader range of are not taken. Children, the elderly and present and avoid the hottest friends, especially the elderly offerings including after-school activities, top-level courses, Heat stroke is the most se - those that suffer from chronic period of the day between 10 • Increase time spent in air- lab-based instruction and even Advanced Placement (AP) rious heat-related illness that heart or lung conditions are a.m. and 3 p.m. conditioned environments classes. So before you start spending money on clothes and occurs when the body be - particularly vulnerable to heat- like libraries, malls, and supplies that can be bought off-season, on sale or possibly comes unable to control its related illness because they are At Work movie theatres used, get a handle on how applicable instruction and activity temperature and is unable to unable to adjust to sudden • Avoid the heat • Eat smaller meals, fees might affect your budget. (http://www.practical - cool down. With the potential changes in temperatures. • Reduce activity more often for body temperature to rise to Even in cool temperatures, • Take cool baths moneyskills.com/ budgeting/). Parents in financial need may • Drink plenty of water qualify for public aid or grants to cover such fees; if not, 105 degrees or higher, individ - cars can heat up to dangerous • Make sure pets have ac - • Adjust your schedule to choices will need to be made. uals may begin to exhibit temperatures very quickly. Do cess to water and shade symptoms such as red dry not leave children, infants or start earlier if you work Consider turning back-to-school shopping into a money skin, disorientation, delirium, pets in cars any length of time, outdoors (if possible) For more information about lesson. Most kids like to have certain kinds of clothes, shoes and nausea. even if the windows are heat-related illness visit or supplies. Those “wants” can be turned into a discussion Heat exhaustion is a milder cracked. Children who are left Outdoors http://www.cdc.gov/extreme - about spending priorities, value, choice and comparison shop - form of heat-related illness unattended in parked cars are • Wear light colored cloth - heat/warning.html or ping. Using the Back to School Budget (http://practical - that can develop after several at the greatest risk for heat ing, a hat and sunscreen http://dhmh.maryland.gov/ex - moneyskills.com/calculators/calculate/backToSchoolBudget.ph hours of exposure to high tem - stroke, and possibly death. • Drink plenty of water tremeheat p?calcCategory=family) calculator with your kids can help them learn how create a budget before shopping for essentials. care and the owner cannot be As kids get older, the discussion can expand to cover bigger- Rescue from A1 found or does not have the re - ticket purchases like smartphones, computers and fees for spe - is a regular patient at that facility. sources to pay for vet care then cial courses and activities they want to pursue. Some of these The fire caused an estimated the “Sparky Fire Fund” would as - issues might evolve into a discussion about earning money $5,000 in fire damage. Blueberry sist in paying a portion of the bills. through chores or a part-time job. is expected to make a full recov - Anyone interested in donating to Once priorities are decided, every expense should be tracked, ery thanks to the quick thinking the fund may do so by visiting the including a child’s round trip school transportation, meals, tu - and fast actions of personnel get - website at https://donatenow.net - toring fees or immunization and healthcare expenses not covered ting him to the appropriate facility. workforgood.org/AACSPCA. Be by insurance. And once that budget is set, it means a constant It’s hard enough learning that your sure you designate the Sparky Fire search for smart ways to cut. Some ideas may include: home sustained some fire dam - Fund. The fund was not needed o Car pooling (track your costs to make sure you’re not age, however, there is a huge in this case. adding significantly to your overall transportation budget) sense of relief to learn that your The following images of family member pets are all Okay. “Blueberry” being treated by Vet - o Packing lunches at home The Prince George’s County erinarians were captured by An - o Working with school administrators to raise outside dona - Fire/EMS Department has part - drew Pantelis, IAFF Local 1619 tions or grant funding to cover parents’ out-of-pocket costs nered with the Anne Arundel President. Pantelis and IAFF o Organizing school supplies in one place to avoid pur - County SPCA to set up the Sparky 1619 Treasurer John Wiseman chasing duplicates Fire Fund. When firefighters en - assisted an ambulance crew in o Renting equipment, supplies or instruments used until a counter an injured pet in a home transporting the injured canine to child’s interests are established fire that requires immediate vet the vets. PHOTO COURTESY THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY FIRE/EMS o Scouting garage sales, thrift shops and online marketplaces for used, required-edition textbooks, instruments, electron - from A1 ics, sports equipment, clothes and other supplies you’d oth - Care Center erwise buy new; online resources shouldn’t charge shipping hospital, they get the right care or return fees there and move very quickly, o Reviewing school and classroom supply lists before buy - very safely, very successfully ing essentials through the continuum.” o Bulk- and group-buying supplies and services with other The ribbon-cutting ceremony parents to get volume prices included guest speakers Lieu - tenant Governor Boyd Ruther - o Consolidating back-to-school shopping during tax-free days ford and County Council Chair (if your state offers them) Mel Franklin. They spoke of the o Swapping used supplies and equipment with other parents importance of this new center o Checking retail memberships for any back-to-school sav - and Doctors Community Hospi - ings they offer tal to the community. o Watching for print and online coupons or special discount Lieutenant Governor offers through your school Rutherford stated, “Doctors has built a legacy over the years of o Listening to your kids — they might spot money-saving being a trusted neighborhood ideas faster than you can facility, neighborhood hospital One final secret budget item — rewards. Saving money on providing high-quality health back-to-school expenses can help parents meet a number of fi - care to the citizens of Prince PHOTO CREDIT: RICK REINHARD nancial goals, but kids’ academic or activity success deserves George’s County and Mary - Mayor Frederick Robinson, City of Bowie; Delegate Tawanna Gaines, District 22; Delegate Anne recognition. Consider setting aside a little of those savings for a land.” “The opening of the Re - Healey, District 22; Mayor Emmett Jordan, City of Greenbelt; City Councilmember Konrad reward they can enjoy. habilitation and Patient Care Herling, City of Greenbelt; Chief Operating Officer Mike Reitz, Genesis HealthCare; City Coun - Center, in collaboration with cilmember Henri Gardner, City of Bowie; President Phil Down, Doctors Community Hospital; Bottom line: When setting your back-to-school budget Genesis Health systems, is Senator Paul Pinsky, District 22; Delegate Alonzo Washington, District 22; and Chief Executive this year, think beyond the supplies. Consider every possible building on that proud legacy Officer Gene Ransom, Maryland State Medical Society. fee and expense associated with your child’s school year that was already established by and plan accordingly. Doctors; and patients will come the most modern equipment; success for the county; it’s a provided this caliber of care for here to receive specialized care and its convenient, comprehen - success for Maryland.” years and years and years, of - that they need. They will re - sive and quality care that will Prince George’s County Proudly Serving Prince George’s ceive treatment from top med - be provided to everyone that Council Chair Mel Franklin County Since 1932 ical professionals and access to crosses those doors. This is a went on to state, “Doctors has See CARE CENTER Page A 6 A4 — July 23 — July 29, 2015 — The Prince George’s Post COMMENTARY

The Benson-Hammond House Cong. Steny H. Hoyer House Democratic Minority Whip

Hoyer, Cardin, Mikulski Write Veterans Affairs Secretary Expressing Concern, Urging Action Regarding Impending Closure of Greenbelt VA Clinic WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Steny ices, more difficult for our veterans, but it H. Hoyer and U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and would cut the number of exam rooms in the re - Open to the Public WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Barbara A. Mikulski (all D-Md.) have sent a gion from 16 to 13.” PHOTO BY: PUBDOG THE BENSON-HAMMOND HOUSE letter to Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert “Congress has been clear in our message to The Anne Arundel County Historical Society continues to operate the house as the only remaining example of McDonald expressing their concern over the the VA — that it must do more to reduce barri - what was once a thriving business in Northern Anne Arundel County — truck farming. The rooms of the house forthcoming closure of the Greenbelt, Md., ers to care for our nation’s veterans. Eliminat - display antique furniture and textiles of the Victorian era. The third floor of the house is a museum displaying Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) ing the Greenbelt CBOC without a plan to re - implements of farm life in the late 19th century and rotating exhibits on the second floor give visitors an oppor - in northern Prince George’s County. The space place it is a step in the wrong direction,” the tunity to see portions of the Society’s large collection of quilts, clothing, cooking utensils and other artifacts. that houses the VA-leased clinic will be sold letter continued. The third floor also houses the Society’s large collection of antique dolls. There is a museum shop on the first by the private owner at the end of September The letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs floor. Open to the public from March through December on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free for members of the Historical Society; non-members are asked to donate $3.00 per adult. 2015. The VA has yet to find a suitable re - Robert McDonald follows here: placement CBOC in the immediate area. In July 9, 2015 FY14, the clinic had more than 6,400 encoun - The Honorable Robert McDonald ters, of which more than 1,700 were unique. Currently, the clinic is at maximum capacity Secretary due to the high concentration and needs of vet - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs erans in the area. 810 Vermont Ave, NW The members of Congress write: “Our un - Washington, DC 20420 derstanding is that starting on September 14, Child Watch 2015, the Greenbelt facility will transfer their Dear Secretary McDonald: by Marion Wright Edelman doctors and services to an existing CBOC in We were recently notified by regional VA Camp Springs, MD, approximately 16 miles leadership that the Community Based Outpatient away. We have asked regional officials for their Clinic (CBOC) located in Greenbelt, MD, will plans to replace the Greenbelt CBOC. However close by the end of September 2015 as a result we are extremely concerned that no such plans of the property owner’s decision to sell the VA- Redlined for Failure and the Prison Pipeline exist beyond an open-ended assessment of the leased space. While the sale of the property is Ndume Olatushani is an couragement from my teachers. many small but significant location to replace the clinic. Permanent closure artist, organizer, and a passionate My fourth grade teacher who events that I was exposed to as a of the Greenbelt CBOC would not only make advocate for justice who works was white asked my class what child that contributed to the tra - access to services, including mental health serv - See VA CLINIC Page A 5 with the Children’s Defense we wanted to be when we grew jectory of my life’s decisions. Fund’s Nashville organizing up. When I told her I wanted to “As a young man, I began team. He helps us fight to keep be a veterinarian, her response making some bad decisions that children and people of color, es - was that I should instead aspire landed me in jail and prison on pecially Black boys, out of the to do something with my hands, a range of felony charges. I have Cradle to Prison Pipeline™ and like construction. seen the inside of jails and pris - Marc Morial, President and CEO mass incarceration system which ons in four states. While I was will trap 1 in 3 Black boys born making the decisions that National Urban League in 2001 sometime during their landed me in all those jail and lifetime. He also combats zero prison cells, I had no idea that tolerance school discipline poli - the criminal record I was devel - cies that push Black children, oping would lead to me being especially Black boys, out of falsely accused and wrongly Off To The Races: How Will 2016’s school and criminalize children convicted of a robbery murder. of color. I met Ndume soon after I was 26 years old when, in Presidential Candidates Save Our Cities? he was freed as an inmate 1985, I was wrongly convicted “You must register. You must vote. You must American and Latino communities—continues wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death for a learn, so your choice advances your interest and to rip our nation apart. We must question and who served almost 28 years in murder that took place in Mem - the interest of our beloved Nation. Your future, listen to any candidate’s proposals to reverse prison, 20 on death row, before PHOTO COURTESY CILD WATCH phis, Tennessee, a state I had and your children’s future, depend upon it, and I this ever-widening trend of inequality. An ed - his release June 1, 2012. He’s a Ndume Olaatushani never even stepped foot in be - don’t believe that you are going to let them down.” ucated citizenry is best prepared to choose the gentle, forgiving man. Long be - fore standing trial there. — President Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks on the candidate who will advance his or her interests, fore that, Ndume was a small “It took 28 years—20 of which Signing of the Voting Rights Act, August 1965 and ultimately, the interests of a stronger, Black boy trying—and failing— “Years later, when I was sit - I spent on death row—for me to healthier and more inclusive nation. During his to survive the violence, poverty, ting in a prison cell assessing my finally prove that I was innocent. For four days beginning in July, political, remarks on the signing of the Voting Rights and low expectations that sur - life, I understood the significance In December of 2011, a court business, and community leaders will convene Act of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson said, rounded him. of her statement. As a child I did overturned my conviction in the in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the 2015 Na - “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever Not long after his release not understand the effect her face of overwhelming proof that tional Urban League Conference. Conference devised by man for breaking down injustice from prison, he wrote his story: statement had on me psycholog - the prosecutors in my case had attendees should expect to engage in thought- and destroying the terrible walls which im - “My name is Ndume Ola - ically, and I did not understand buried a mountain of evidence provoking discussions with leaders and experts prison men because they are different from tushani. I was born and raised the pathology of racism. Of demonstrating my innocence. The in a variety of areas, including economics, en - other men.” The stakes are too high for us, and in St. Louis, Missouri. I cur - course I do not lay the misguided bulk of the buried evidence tertainment, civil rights and politics. This year, for future generations, not to have these dis - rently reside in the Nashville, decisions I made on her showed that an entirely different following a long-standing tradition of major- cussions together. Tennessee area. I spent my early doorstep, but she was a part of party presidential candidates addressing the In this year’s analysis of the state of Black years in the notorious Pruitt- the thread that weaved the quilt conference, the National Urban League counts America, the National Urban League found Igoe Projects where the best and of my life. It was her and so See WATCH, Page A 12 several 2016 presidential hopefuls—Republi - that while strides have been made in Black and worst of human behavior were cans and Democrats alike—as invited guests. Brown communities, tremendous gaps continue always on display. Because the The candidates, including former Secretary of to leave us with a crisis in education, jobs and Pruitt-Igoe Projects had become The Prince George’s Post State Hillary Clinton, former Florida Gov. Jeb justice. In the case of justice, a series of horrific so lawless they were the first to Bush, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley acts—from the deaths of Black men and be torn down by the federal gov - The Prince George’s Post and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, will share women at the hands of police, to the racially ernment in the 1970’s. P.O. Box 1001 15207 Marlboro Pike their respective vision and strategies to save motivated murder of nine people in a South “At a young age I was ex - Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-3151 our cities. 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In some ways Legal Advertising Assistant Web Manager row’s challenges, we will reunite in Florida to families and community activists, are fighting I became the people who stood Robin Boerckel Kyler Quesenberry deliberate on solutions and fresh ideas to the to ensure that any new legislation adopted pro - around at the site of the play - economic and social troubles plaguing our tects civil rights and promotes equity, equality ground murder, laughing and Prince George’s County, Md. Member National Newspaper Publishers Association, cities. These are discussions that are too im - and accountability in education. joking, as the young man took and the Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association. portant to take place in silos. The solutions to These conversations are indispensable in this his last breaths. 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The American Counseling Association’s Farmers Markets: Important Sales Counseling Corner Outlets for siOty. Sryntghetiac fenrtilizecrs anFd armers By PRESS OFFICER pesticides, sewage sludge, ir - USDA Making A Summer Road radiation, and genetic engineer - Across the nation, farmers ing may not be used. Addition - Trip More Enjoyable markets continue to be great ally, all organic producers must places for communities to gather, accommodate the health and It’s summer vacation time, which for lots of us means piling shop for fresh, healthy food, and natural behavior of their ani - in the family car and heading off, hopefully, for fun and adven - get to know local farmers and mals. The organic regulations ture. Unfortunately, all too often that summer road trip can be - ranchers. Farmers markets are require that livestock have come a source of family stress and frustration. It doesn’t have to also important outlets for the sale year-round access to the out - be that way. of organic agricultural products. doors and be raised per animal Yes, being locked in the back seat of a car for hours on end In fact, more than 40 percent health and welfare standards. can be boring, but here are a few ideas to minimize the boredom. of organic operations report direct Producers pursue organic cer - A good starting point is to make sure that everyone is going sales to consumers. As consumer tification for a variety of reasons, to be well fed and hydrated during your road trip. A cooler full demand for organic and local food and there has been consistent of drinks and a bag full of healthy snacks can help achieve that increases, farmers markets offer growth in certified organic oper - goal. And yes, make sure the snacks are healthy. Load the kids important opportunities for or - ations in the U.S. Last year alone, up on high-sugar drinks, candy and snacks and you’re looking ganic producers to enter new mar - the total number of domestic cer - forward to a surge of sugar-fueled energy followed by a big kets and grow their businesses. tified organic operations increased post-sugar crash. Neither of these work well in the confines of The National Organic Program by over five percent to a total of a car. (NOP) — part of the USDA’s 19,474. Most farmers and busi - PHOTO COURTESY USDA It’s also a good idea to plan for stops along the way, especially Agricultural Marketing Service nesses that grow and handle or - if you have younger children in the car. Those stops, whether to (AMS) — plays a critical role in ganic agricultural products must If a farmer or vendor at a farmers market uses the word “or - see an attraction or have a bite to eat (maybe a picnic in a roadside the continued growth of organic be certified. There is an exception ganic” to describe their products or practices, they must comply park?), can break up the trip for the kids and the adults as well. agriculture by ensuring the in - for organic producers and han - with the USDA organic standards and regulations. The organic tegrity of certified organic prod - dlers who sell less than $5,000 in label indicates that the product has been produced through ap - Think about making the journey, not just the destination, a ucts. We do this by developing gross revenues per year. How - proved methods that foster cycling of resources, promote eco - positive and enjoyable part of your trip. Before leaving, check clear standards, overseeing the ever, even if an operation is ex - logical balance, and conserve biodiversity. out some tour books for places you might visit along the way. certification of organic operations, empt from organic certification, They don’t always have to be large tourist attractions. Often the and ensuring compliance with the it still must comply with organic you. For information about AMS cussion and meet-and-greet with simpler things (an old historic farm, a small museum, some - USDA organic regulations. standards and regulations if it la - services related to farmers markets, USDA and local agricultural body’s giant ball of string) can be interesting experiences for a If a farmer or vendor at a bels and sells products as organic. you can visit the AMS webpage service provides, plus an exten - brief visit, will usually be crowd-free and give everyone a chance farmers market uses the word If you or a farmer you know is dedicated to farmers markets and sion training session. to stretch. “organic” to describe their interested in becoming a certified local food marketing, where you Whether consumers purchase Today’s technology can also help keep the car’s occupants products or practices, they organic producer and/or selling will find USDA’s National Local organic products at a wholesaler, entertained. MP3 players, portable CD players, handheld games, must comply with the USDA your organic products at a local Food Directories. supermarket, or farmers market, portable DVD players... the list is long and with earbuds for organic standards and regula - farmers market, we have some Earlier this month, USDA they can be confident that the everyone (including Mom or Dad in the front passenger seat) tions. The organic label indi - helpful resources. You can visit joined producers and local stake - NOP is ensuring the organic each can enjoy their own personal entertainment without dis - cates that the product has been the NOP website to download a holders to discuss local food op - integrity of the products from turbing anyone else. produced through approved Farmers Market Fact Sheet, learn portunities in the Hudson Val - farm to market. We look for - Equipped with maps, tour books, snacks, electronics, art methods that foster cycling of more about organic production re - ley’s organic market. With over ward to continue to serve you, projects for young kids, books for older children and anything resources, promote ecological quirements, and determine whether 60 people in attendance, the the organic community, and else that will fight boredom, you’ll find that even a long road balance, and conserve biodiver - organic production is an option for event included a lively panel dis - American consumers. trip doesn’t have to be stressful and frustrating. A little plan - ning and preparation can make the journey as much fun as The parties to the lawsuit the final destination. Riders from A1 have been in settlement talks for under the ADA to provide com - weeks, and are expected to con - Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling parable transportation for people tinue, Maryland Disability Law Association. Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counsel - with disabilities. Center litigation director Lauren ing.org or visit the ACA website at www.counseling.org Mobility buses operate in Bal - Young said, but no one can com - timore City, Anne Arundel County ment on the status of the case. and Baltimore County anywhere Representatives from the transit Residents interested in within ¾ of a mile radius of a agency also declined to com - Blue Ribbon from A1 serving as a Blue Ribbon fixed-route transportation system. ment on the lawsuit. how the County manages Commission member Riders are supposed to pre- The lawsuit focuses on two taxpayer dollars. We encour - should submit a letter ex - schedule their rides, either with issues: the certification procedure age our best and brightest pressing interest and re - the Mobility call center or clients must go through to use residents to consider serving sume to ClerkoftheCoun - through an online system, which Mobility, and its phone services. as a member of the Blue Rib - [email protected]. has a program that works to or - Young explained that a flawed bon Commission as we work Submission materials may ganize about 7,000 daily rides. re-certification process has been to address our long-term also be mailed to Clerk of Each ride isn’t considered late denying people the service who budget challenges.” the Council; 14741 Gover - CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY GRACE TOOHEY until it extends beyond the 30- desperately need it, and busy, The Blue Ribbon Com - nor Oden Bowie Drive; Up - Cheryl Gottlieb, 30, waits for her ride from Maryland Transit Ad - minute scheduling window. long holds or dropped calls make mission will consist of 15 per Marlboro, Maryland ministration’s Mobility service in Towson so she can go to an art “I think we’re doing well but scheduling rides impossible. members appointed by the 20772, or faxed to class. Gottielb has spastic cerebral palsy, which makes it difficult we can do better,” said Dan “It’s critical for people, so County Council in consulta - 301.780.2097. Deadline for for her to stand for long periods of time or walk without support. O’Reilly, MTA Mobility direc - what’s promised to them under the tion with the County Execu - submissions is Wednesday tor. “We just got through a cou - law is what we want,” Young said. ton Metropolitan Area Transit portation on April 16, O’Reilly tive. Commission members July 15, 2015. No phone ple bad months, the weather was However, Barnes and O’Reilly Authority’s paratransit option, said he needs to follow up with will serve a term of one year. inquiries please. the definite impact.” talked about some of their proposed MetroAccess, and is one of the the customer service manager The on-time performance goal improvements, like the addition of three contractors for Mobility. because people said they never VA Clinic from A4 for Mobility is 90 percent, which 36 new Mobility buses to the fleet “My goal is to make sure that hear back. the service regularly meets, said out of the VA’s control, the VA must ensure that the services of more than 400, getting a health the new resources MTA has in - The service received more than Rob Barnes, senior deputy admin - provided at the Greenbelt CBOC be restored in northern Prince check on their scheduling system vested in Mobility are used as ef - 15,000 complaints since 2012, the istrator for MTA. Barnes served as George’s County. and expanding their call center to fectively and efficiently as possible majority of which focused on a the interim MTA administrator un - As you may know, the Greenbelt CBOC serves a large num - increase staff by 20 percent. as we continue to meet increasing no-show ride or a late ride, but til Gov. Larry Hogan’s appointee, ber of veterans in the Northern Prince George’s County Region. “It’s a matter of implement - demands for paratransit services,” many people also complained Paul Comfort, took over the posi - In FY14, the facility had 6,406 encounters of which 1,714 ing those and most importantly Comfort wrote in an email. about a discourteous vehicle op - tion May 11. But in the last few were unique. And in FY15 to date, the facility has had 4,240 (making sure they are) executed erator or a scheduling issue. months the on-time performance encounters of which 1,559 were unique. According to the re - and monitored,” Barnes said. Beyond Complaints “We take those complaints percentage has dropped to the low- gional VA officials we met with, this facility is considered to Comfort has a background in MTA Mobility has a system very seriously; as a part of our to mid-80s, Barnes said. be at maximum capacity. As we are sure you would agree, paratransit services from a previ - in place to take, respond and re - process we want to know the de - “We are proud of the services being at maximum capacity indicates there is a great need for ous job as assistant project man - act to complaints, O’Reilly said, tails of every one because we in - we offer, serving the 7,000 trips a CBOC in this area. ager and director of operations but after listening to customers every day. Yes, there are areas Our understanding is that starting on September 14, 2015, for MV Transportation, which at a monthly Citizens Advisory of improvement,” Barnes said. the Greenbelt facility will transfer their doctors and services was contracted by the Washing - Committee for Accessible Trans - See RIDERS Page A 6 to an existing CBOC in Camp Springs, MD, approximately 16 miles away. We have asked regional officials for their plans to replace the Greenbelt CBOC. However we are ex - tremely concerned that no such plans exist beyond an open 2P0RE1SS5 OF FNICER ew Volunteer Award IT PAYS TO ended assessment of the location to replace the clinic. Perma - By nent closure of the Greenbelt CBOC would not only make ac - PG County Government ADVERTISE ! cess to services, including mental health services more difficult Please join the Office of for our veterans, but it would cut the number of exam rooms Ethics and Accountability (OEA) in the region from 16 to 13. in congratulating Ms. Linda CALL We recognize that it would take some time and effort to find a Foreman, the recipient of the new location for the Greenbelt CBOC, but the veterans in northern 2015 New Volunteer Award from US Prince George’s County depend on the services provided there. the Department of Family Serv - Congress has been clear in our message to the VA—that you must ices, Retired and Senior Volun - do more to reduce barriers to care for our nation’s veterans. Elim - teer Program (RSVP). Ms. Fore - inating the Greenbelt CBOC without a plan to replace it is a step man has been working for the in the wrong direction. OEA for approximately 7 We are asking that you look into this matter personally, and months and we are impressed by ( provide us with a plan to identify a suitable replacement CBOC the exceptional quality of admin - in that immediate area. We appreciate your time, and consideration istrative support she provides. Brenda Boice of our request. We are thankful to have her on Sincerely, our team. PHOTO COURTESY PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY GOVERNEMENT 301 627 0900 A6 — July 23 — July 29, 2015 — The Prince George’s Post

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ERIC D. SNIDER’S IN THE DARK TOWN The Edge of Sports Movie Review by DAVE ZIRIN “Balls Out ” The Irresistible Realness of Balls Out Dusty Rhodes Grade: B- Rated R, some profanity and a lot of vulgarity 1 hr., 38 min

Plenty of movies deal with high-profile college athletics, but why hasn’t anyone made a comedy about intramural sports? Any situ - ation where the stakes are low but emotions are high is ripe for mock - ery, and that’s intramural play in a nutshell. Fortunately, this gap has now been filled by “Balls Out” (originally called “Intramural”), a Tributes are pouring in for the late Virgil Runnels Jr. the loose – some might say sloppy – influential pro wrestling impresario who passed away on underdog comedy that has some Thursday at the age of 69. This is not a tribute to Mr. Runnels. solid laughs and just the right This is a tribute to his alter ego, the man who “dined with amount of heart (almost none). Kings and Queens and slept in alleys eating Pork ‘n’ Beans” Our hero, a likable fifth-year otherwise known as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes. senior named Caleb Fuller (Jake Pro wrestling is a morality play, a violent opera that splices Lacy), is about to graduate, take ROTTENTOMATOES together broad characterization and physical action to create With graduation, marriage, and an uncertain future on the horizon, fifth year senior Caleb the LSAT, and get married. He’s a unique form of mass entertainment. At its nadir, which is Fuller (Jake Lacy) decides to do the one thing he vowed to never do again: get the ol’ flag not sure he actually wants to do all often, it is racist, sexist, homophobic trash, not to mention football team back together. Now with the help of his Panther teammates and unorthodox of those things. Fondly recalling unbearably boring. At its best, you would find the prime of head coach Grant Rosenfalis (Nick Kocher), Caleb must defy all odds in the hope of achiev - the intramural football team he cap - Dusty Rhodes: the antithesis of “this business” at its worst. ing the glory he once had. Set in the highly popular world of college intramural sports, tained freshman year before it was He was shaped like a Russian Matryoshka Doll, had a BALLS OUT is the epic sports movie for the guys who don’t deserve one. riven by tragedy, he resolves to get pronounced lisp, and dressed like someone who found the the boys back together for one last (Nicholas Rutherford), rounds per-aggressive jerk who takes in - we see him, and there are se - only clothes that could fit his fluid full-figured physique at pre-adulthood hurrah. As he puts out the squad. tramural football far more seriously quences with a rollerskating gang Goodwill and made the best of it. The character and the man it, “This is our last chance to do And Grant (yes, his last name than he should (which is to say, at from out of an ‘80s post-apoca - behind him grew up dirt-poor in Texas and, like all the best something that doesn’t matter.” is pronounced “Rosen-phallus”), all). Dick’s sister, Meredith (Nikki lyptic movie. Beck Bennett goes wrestling characters, his on-screen persona was an amplifi - What was the tragedy that now wheelchair-bound and living Reed), becomes Caleb’s new po - all-out nutso as the douchey vil - cation of his true self. That meant in a 1980s cultural landscape ended the team four years ago? like a hermit, returns as the “crusty tential love interest, wooing him lain, a potential break-out per - dominated by entertainment like Dallasand Dynasty and the As we saw in the film’s tone-set - yet affable veteran” to coach the away from his clingy, cartoonish formance for the up-and-coming male body-images of Schwarzenegger and Stallone, he was ting prologue, it was that Caleb’s team, an acknowledged reference fiancee (Kate McKinnon), who the “SNL” star, while his castmate an actual and undeniable working class shape and voice. best friend Grant Rosenfalis to the beloved sports movies of movie clearly only intended to be Kate McKinnon is amusing but Dusty Rhodes was the most public expression about sur - (Nick Kocher) was hit by a late yesteryear. Bradley Jackson’s free- a placeholder anyway. There are misused as the grating fiancee. viving in the Reagan 1980s: a Jonathan Kozol book in tights tackle during the championship wheeling screenplay has a lot of training montages and faux-inspi - Most of the leads are less well- armed only with a sharp tongue and a bionic elbow. Remem - game and paralyzed “from the that kind of meta-humor – I’d be rational speeches, which coach known than that. Their fresh-faced bering this Dusty Rhodes matters because the historical am - balls down.” They haven’t spo - surprised if Jackson isn’t a fan of Grant delivers in a Charlton Hes - anonymity actually works in the nesia about the Reagan years has been so total. An extremely ken since. The other players went “Community” – right down to a ton-y voice. movie’s favor, reinforcing the un - well-funded right-wing campaign has whitewashed the truth their separate ways, but Caleb pair of announcers (Jay Pharoah Directed by Andrew Disney, derdog motif and inviting us to root of the era: that Ronald Reagan left a body count of victims easily reunites the lovable losers: and D.C. Pierson) who do play- the film’s humor is mildly satiric for them. Some of the dead-end due to an indifference as callous as it was calculated. The dumb Vinnie (Gabriel Luna), by-play commentary on the at times, but mostly it’s broad and gags would have been excised or Reagan backlash spared no one, least of all industrial workers: weirdo magician Chance (Brian games, without microphones, in farcical, grounded in relatable rewritten if this were a stricter pro - the people who worked with their hands and sent children to McElhaney), nerdy George (Will the empty bleachers, evidently for conflicts and characters but not duction, but it’s funny more often college on a single union wage, without student loans. It Elliott), and fat, opera-singing their own amusement. limited by the constraints of re - than it isn’t. And while a more dis - sounds like another world, and it was: a world that Reagan’s cowboy Jimmy (Sam Eidson). The team’s rivals, the Titans, ality. George the nerd gets shot ciplined approach might have ren - agenda—with no small help from congressional Democrats— Caleb’s current roommate, the are a bro-moerotic group led by in one scene, stabbed in another, dered a tighter, more polished film, destroyed. Dusty Rhodes was the voice of the person getting generically irresponsible Hank Dick Downs (Beck Bennett), a hy - but is always OK the next time its shagginess is appealing. crushed under the weight of Reagan and keeping his head held high, dignity not only intact but non-negotiable. No, he Ransom, Maryland State Med - apeutic and recreational court - About Doctors Community wasn’t a labor leader or trying to do any kind of protest. He from A3 Care Center ical Society. yards; Flat-screen televisions and Hospital was a voice: a fake character with an authentic presence, fight - ten times not getting the recog - bedside telephones; Wi-Fi access Doctors Community Hospital ing in the ring for the people being left behind. This was seen nition that Doctors deserves. About Doctors Community and laptops for patients; Beauty is a 182-licensed bed medical most famously in what is known as his “Hard Times” promo. But I’m here today to say Rehabilitation and Patient salon; Ample parking For more and surgical hospital. A non- Dusty Rhodes’s nemesis was the “limousine riding, jet Prince George’s County loves Care Center information, call 301-552-2000. profit hospital that was founded flying” Ric Flair. Speaking to Flair through a camera lens, Doctors Community Hospital. A Genesis HealthCare and in 1975, some of its high-quality Rhodes said, We believe that this kind of fa - Doctors Community Hospital About Genesis HealthCare and comprehensive services in - You don’t know what hard times are, daddy. Hard times cility is the caliber of facility collaboration, this new facility Genesis Healthcare, Inc., clude: Bariatric and Weight Loss are when the textile workers around this country are we want to see all across our will provide high-quality and (NYSE: GEN) is a holding com - Center; Center for Comprehen - out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can’t pay their great county.” comprehensive care for short- pany with subsidiaries that, on a sive Breast Care; Center for Ear, wages, can’t buy their food. Hard times are when the Other ribbon-cutting atten - term-stay patients as well as combined basis, comprise one of Nose and Throat; Center for autoworkers are out of work and they tell ‘em to go dees included Mayor Frederick long-term residents — all within the nation’s largest post-acute Wound Healing and Hyperbaric home. And hard times are when a man has worked at a Robinson, City of Bowie; Dele - a compassionate and nurturing care providers with more than Medicine; Comprehensive Or - job for thirty years—THIRTY YEARS—and they give gate Tawanna Gaines, District environment. Located on the 500 skilled nursing centers and thopedic Services; Doctors Re - him a watch, kick him in the butt and say “hey a com - 22; Delegate Anne Healey, Dis - campus of Doctors Community assisted/senior living communi - gional Cancer Center; Emer - puter took your place daddy,” that’s hard times! That’s trict 22; Mayor Emmett Jordan, Hospital in Lanham, Maryland, ties in 34 states nationwide. Gen - gency Department; Imaging hard times! And Ric Flair you put hard times on this City of Greenbelt; City Coun - this new 77,000 square feet cen - esis subsidiaries also supply re - Services; Infusion Center; Joslin country by takin’ Dusty Rhodes out, that’s hard times. cilmember Konrad Herling, City ter has: 130 beds and 84 private habilitation and respiratory Diabetes Center; Metropolitan And we all had hard times together, and I admit, I don’t of Greenbelt; City Councilmem - rooms; 3,500 square feet reha - therapy to more than 1,800 Medical Specialists; Rehabilita - look like the athlete of the day supposed to look. My ber Henri Gardner, City of bilitation gym; Two cafés offer - healthcare providers in 47 states tion Services; Sleep Center and belly’s just a lil’ big, my heinie’s a lil’ big, but brother, Bowie; Senator Paul Pinsky, ing restaurant-style dining and and the District of Columbia. Vascular Health Program. For I am bad. And they know I’m bad. District 22; Delegate Alonzo culinary-trained chefs; Four pri - For more information, visit gen - more information, visit DCH - But Dusty Rhodes was no caricature, the working-class Washington, District 22; and vate lounges for patient and fam - esishcc.com or call 866-745- web.org or call 301-DCH-4YOU version of “Kamala the Ugandan Headhunter” or anything Chief Executive Officer Gene ily activities; Two enclosed ther - CARE (866-745-2273). (301-324-4968). so ugly. Shining through “Dusty Rhodes” was Virgil Runnels, who not only grew up “Texas poor” but in the back pews of “No other service in MTA of groups who are affected by ramshackle black churches. He had something unique to the from A5 Riders would take this abuse, there has to Mobility’s shortcoming to rural South, seen in the connective tissue of the Southern vestigate each and every com - be something done,” she said. “It’s make a real difference. Baptist church: poor white people who learned how to preach plaint,” Barnes said. our lifeline, without paratransit, we Jackson’s first rally for the from watching the black masters of the art. This was Virgil Over the past four years, the rel - couldn’t do anything, work, doc - coalition was on May 2 at the Runnels who, not unlike Jerry Lee Lewis, would sit in the ative number of complaints per tors, appointments… the use of World of Possibilities Expo in black church, drawn by the energy, and soak up what he saw. every ride has slowly decreased, as transportation is our livelihood.” Baltimore, where she hoped to Dusty Rhodes then translated that experience, bringing it to the annual number of rides has con - President and CEO of the call attention to the issue and the wrestling world and in authentic fashion, had a Southern tinued to increase: The complaints League for People with Disabil - gain excitement for their poor man’s cadence that a black audience instantly identified. remain around 4,000 each year. ities David Greenberg said Mo - movement, she said. She hopes This meant that Rhodes had a mass following among not CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY But for some people, complain - bility is a great service for many to eventually call the attention only poor whites but poor blacks in the South. I remember GRACE TOOHEY ing has become useless. Marylanders giving people the of the governor, legislators, watching Dusty Rhodes when I was a kid traveling through “We never got a call back, never opportunity to work and social - Cheryl Gottlieb prepares for and taxpayers to the injustices Georgia, staying at a hotel, and everyone—guests, workers, get feedback, but the problems still ize and participate in civic af - her ride from Mobility with in Mobility. black and white—standing and just watching him cut his pro - exist,” Jackson said. “We are be - fairs, but he said right now it is ride cards she has purchased “Everybody needs to put this mos on a lobby television. It is no exaggeration to write that yond filing complaints.” struggling to meet the needs of through MTA, so she doesn’t on their radar,” Jackson said. if you were trying to find points of unity in the post–Jim its customers. have to worry about exact “It’s going to take a village, Crow South in the 1970s and 1980s, Dusty Rhodes was on Call for Action “There are some problems change—or losing money. we’re going to make a differ - the short list. In more than three decades of with Mobility that have wors - Each card costs $1.85, which ence now.” But this is where the story gets ugly. His “realness” in the riding Mobility, Jackson said, ened over the last year or 18 is the price of a ride. ‘I don’t have many as many Southern territories was mocked mercilessly in meta-fashion this is the first time she’s ever months,” Greenberg said. problems’ felt the need to really stand up Jackson has decided to form “Make Them Accountable.” for her rights—because she said the MTA Coalition—creating a She said she is forming part - nerships with all different kinds See DUSTY Page A 7 she cannot “let them win.” new acronym for the letters: See RIDERS Page A 7 July 23 — July 29, 2015 — The Prince George’s Post —A 7

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Shakespeare in the Parks Not worth it Date and Time: Friday, July 24, 2015 7:30 pm Riders from A6 And that “game” just isn’t Description: Come hear many of Shakespeare’s most beloved Cheryl Gottlieb, 30, has been worth it for Mat Rice, who also words spoken with a freshness and honesty unmatched to any fighting Mobility, trying to hold lives in Towson. He went to the other theatre. In this truly “edge-of-your-seat” performance, them accountable, for months. Maryland School for the Blind, you’ll experience thrilling stagecraft, star-crossed lovers and the She said she is tired of being late where he learned how to use joy and heartbreak of Romeo and Juliet. Bring your lawn chair to work, missing opportunities paratransit services, and at first and enjoy the the free performance at your favorite park. to meet with friends, or getting he was really impressed. Now, Rain location: City of Hyatssville Multipurpose Room home hours later than necessary. not so much. 4310 Gallatin St., Hyattsville 20781 But, she said, she doesn’t “Paratransit was really not a Ages: All ages welcome have the worst situation because reliable way to get around,” Rice Location: Magruder Park she knows how to book rides on - said, citing almost typical 5- to 40th Avenue & Hamilton Street, Hyattsville 20781 line, can find the numbers of 7-hour waits. “There would be Contact: 301-446-3232; TTY 301-699-2544 people who work for Mobility situations where I would show and has figured out to schedule up late to meetings, meetings CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY GRACE TOOHEY Basket Weaving by necessary drop off time as op - would be ending.” Date and Time: Saturday, July 25, 2015 10 am-3 pm posed to pick up time. When Rice started working Damon Briggs, 39, cracks a joke in his home in Silver Spring Description: Learn how to weave a basket using reed and “The vast majority of mobil - for People on the Go, a group of where he lives with his parents. Briggs has moderate to severe other natural materials. This is for students of all skill levels, ity users are senior citizens, (or advocates with intellectual and cerebral palsy, which affects his ability to walk and grasp small from beginners to advanced. Materials will be supplied by have) cognitive disabilities,” developmental challenges work - objects, but he explains that it doesn’t impact any of his cognitive the instructor. Gottlieb said. “I don’t have as ing toward recognition, he often abilities or social skills, which is why it frustrates him that trans - Cost: Resident: $30; Non-Resident: $36 many problems.” traveled to Annapolis to lobby portation issues limit his ability to go out into the community. Ages: 13 & Up That’s not to say she isn’t and talk with state leaders, but Location: Patuxent River Park Visitors Center frustrated with Mobility, her Mobility ended up being more “When you have a service which means many days he’s 16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, MD main form of transportation. of a hassle for him, and some - like paratransit, that is unfortu - stuck at home. Contact: 301-627-6074; TTY: 301-446-3402 Gottlieb has spastic cerebral times a barrier. nately the only game in town “I’m always wanting to go palsy, which affects her ability He now chooses to ride with for some people,” Rice said. out, because I like to meet peo - Mousetrap to stand and wait for buses and his support staff driving his ve - “Paratransit really thinks they ple and I like to talk to people,” Date and Time: Saturday, July 25, 2015, 12 noon walk long distances, as well as a hicle, instead of waking up hours can get away with the stuff that said Briggs, 39, who has mod - Description: Design and build your own Mousetrap Racecar for visual processing issue, which early and getting back very late, they pull.” erate to severe cerebral palsy. the second event in our Engineering Challenge Series. Using a makes it difficult to read bus and this way he never worries There are some private busi - When he has his personal sup - standard Victor mousetrap, see how far you can make your car schedules. Living in downtown about being left behind or watch - nesses that offer more reliable port staff with him, which is travel. Entrants will be awarded points for distance and creativity. Towson helps because she can ing as drivers leave without him. transportation services, but they three days a week, they will go Prizes will be awarded. Call the museum for more information use her power chair to travel to “You don’t really experience are overwhelmingly pricey, es - out in his staff’s car or in a taxi. and a complete set of rules. local places, but to get to work, full community inclusion be - pecially for people are on a “I’m a person first, I have a Cost: FREE for contestants. meetings, outings with friends— cause you literally have to sec - fixed income from the govern - right to want to be socially in - Ages: 8-18 it’s not easy. ond guess whether you’re going ment. Mobility costs riders cluded in society,” Briggs said. Location: College Park Aviation Museum “I have to assume that it’s go - to make it there,” Rice said. $1.85 per ride no matter the dis - “We want to be recognized as a 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, MD, ing to take me an hour and a half tance, while many private com - help to society instead of as a Contact: 301-864-6029, TTY 301-699-2544 anywhere,” she said. “I usually A fight for rights panies will have a flat rate of hindrance.” end up places late or 40 minutes The disability rights move - at least $50. Briggs is working on jump- Arts on the Waterfront: Lahla Hadiya early … It’s always a game.” ment has been growing since the Damon Briggs of Silver starting a non-profit, the Na - Date and Time: Sunday, July 26, 2015 6-7:30 pm She said that she can be al - second half of the 20th century, Spring refuses to use paratransit tional Organization for the Phys - Description: Join us for our final Sunday concert this season most to her destination and then and though there are many laws services. He could use MetroAc - ically Challenged, to ensure with the Neo Soul/R&B songs of Lahla Hadiya. the driver will turn around or in place to protect people with cess, which serves Montgomery people with challenges are in - Cost: Free head the opposite direction be - disabilities, like the Americans and Prince George’s counties, Ages: All ages welcome cause the scheduling system with Disabilities Act, it’s not al - but the stories he said he heard Location: Bladensburg Waterfront Park picked up another ride. ways that simple. from friends made him opt out— See RIDERS Page A 12 4601 Annapolis Rd, Bladensburg, MD 20710 Contact: 301-779-0371; TTY 301-699-2544 dots and McMahon had him pathological contempt for work - Again, this piece is not about Dusty from A6 plunging toilets and yukking it ing-class people. Dusty Rhodes, Virgil Runnels. It’s about the Safe Summer: Roller Skating by his expanding Northern- up with a black woman known in his eyes, was a clown. McMa - power of Dusty Rhodes in very Date and Time: Monday, July 27, 2015 10 pm-12 midnight based competition, the World as “Sapphire.” The name “Sap - hon took a hero and brought him dark times to make a fake char - Description: Tonight, teens will participate in a roll bounce Wrestling Federation (now the phire” has a long history in low, which in many ways was acter as real as can be: the last skating party. So, bring a friend and come skate to the sounds WWE), operated by boss Vince minstrelsy dating back to the an unintentionally wicked reflec - gasp of a multiracial working- of DJ Richard. McMahon. As David Shoemaker 19th century. As described at tion of the reality of working- class culture being smothered to Cost: Free with M-NCPPC Youth ID writes in his terrific history of the Jim Crow Museum of class life by this time. The “hard death by neoliberal economics Ages: 12-17 wrestling, The Squared Circle, Racist Memorabilia, it marks times” of the early 1980s became and deindustrialization. Yet if Location: Bladensburg Community Center McMahon created a black the black woman playing the new normal. By 1990, “hard Virgil Runnels had to die, Dusty 4500 57th Avenue, Bladensburg 20710 “slave” character named “Vir - “rude, loud, malicious, stub - times” was just “times.” Rhodes never will. He lives on Contact: 301-277-2124; TTY 301-445-4512 gil”, owned by “The Million born, and overbearing.” The distance had never been in the form of a new wrestler Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, as a In the hands of the WWF, greater between those “dining with a big belly and big heinie Safe Summer: Boys 2 Bowties way to mock Dusty Rhodes for Dusty Rhodes was turned from with kings and queens” and named Kevin Owens, currently Date and Time: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10 pm-12 midnight “‘acting black’ in speech and working-class hero to working- those “eating pork and beans” taking this world by storm. He Description: Boys will join the Xtreme Teens mentoring group, mannerisms.” (This was an in - class minstrel. McMahon, a and it would only widen as the also lives on anywhere that the Boys 2 Bowties. At this mentoring group, they’ll learn how to nocent pre-Internet era when few decade later, became a wrestling years commenced. But McMa - poor of every color can find deal with personal issues, make new friends and have fun. wrestling fans could have told character himself, the evil boss hon could not erase Dusty common space and language in Cost: Free with M-NCPPC Youth ID you that Dusty’s real name was man Mr. McMahon. He was so Rhodes. Others can write about a culture that thrives on division. Ages: 12-17 Virgil Runnels.) effective at that because it was— the history of conflict between In this world of sports fakery, he Location: Bladensburg Community Center Then in 1989 when Rhodes not unlike the old Dusty generations of the McMahons was real as hunger. He was “The 4500 57th Avenue, Bladensburg 20710 was—like almost everyone— Rhodes—the amplification of and the Runnels, how they American Dream” Dusty Contact: 301-277-2124; TTY 301-445-4512 sucked into the WWF universe, his true self. Vince McMahon is would work together off and on Rhodes, and in so many ways, he was dressed in yellow polka a ruthless right-winger with a in the subsequent decades. more real than the dream itself.