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January 25, 2019 Is this cardinal, resting on a A Biweekly Newspaper January 25, 2019 • Volume XIV, Number 21 crystalline branch, yearning for spring? See more winter pictures in Family Album on page 2. Town Confirms Proposed Grocery Store Not Coming To Donovan Shopping Center By Link Hoewing Town Manager Wade Yost confirmed at the January 22 Town of Poolesville commissioners’ meeting that Jason Kirsch, the investor and former owner of a grocery mart in Bethesda, had ended discussions with the Donovan Company about opening a grocery mart in Poolesville. Donovan is the owner of the shopping center where CVS, Tractor Supply, Cugini’s, and other businesses currently operate. Yost said that Gary Dobbs, the Donovan Company executive in Councilmen Abe Albornoz and Andrew Friedsen made charge of the project, indicated that the an appearance at the commissioners' meeting. company has spent substantial funds Edwards Ferry lockhouse this winter. to develop plans for building the new According to Yost, Jason Kirsch, a were not being met. In the view of Learn more about it in In Your Own store facilities. The store would have principal in the group that would op- Kirsch, the delays have been continu- Backyard on page 3. been located in the open space be- erate the new store, said that he has ous, and he took the out for his tween Tractor Supply and the daycare laid out significant funds for equip- own protection. center. Dobbs also said the company ment for the store and that he had While this spells the end of the had taken out a $1 million loan to fund promises that the new store would be project for a new grocery mart in the construction. He indicated that getting under roof by October 2018. A clause Donovan shopping center, Kirsch specific build-out requirements from in the contract agreement between the appears to want to continue looking the tenant was difficult and caused two parties allowed him to get out of the delays. the agreement if specific milestones Continued on page 12. Local Officer Patrols Upcounty Area Parks These friendly ladies from the Barnesville Baptist Church By Susan Petro for a private company before joining volunteered for something really Officer Kimberley Poulos became a the State of Maryland as a forensic special. See Tidbits for details police officer for the Maryland National chemist. Additionally, Poulos worked on page 4. Capital Park and Planning Commis- for both the Montgomery County sion (MNCPPC) just two years ago but Police Department (MCPD) and a spent many years working behind the federal agency as an analyst. scenes in law enforcement as a civilian. Poulos moved to Beallsville in 2010, Poulos grew up in Guildford, England the same year she met her late husband, and moved to the United States in 2009 an eighteen-year veteran for MCPD. to attend Virginia Tech, where she Poulos credits him for inspiring her for received her undergraduate degree in becoming a police officer. “I got to see Biology and Chemistry. Afterwards, how much he loved his job, and how Poulos went to Radford University he genuinely made a difference in where she received a Master’s Degree the lives of others,” said Poulos. One of in Criminal Justice. the main reasons why Poulos decided In 2007, Poulos moved to Maryland to apply to MNCPPC to become an to continue her studies at the Univer- officer was her desire to have the sity of Maryland, where she also began opportunity to interact with and im- Officer Kimberley Poulos serves our her career teaching criminology and pact the community in a positive way. Winning threesome at 2019 Dorsey community with the Maryland criminal justice. Poulos then went to Duals. Details in Youth Sports on National Capital Park Police. page 9. work in corporate fraud investigations Continued on page 13. Page 2 The Monocacy Monocle January 25, 2019 Family Album Photos by Terri Pitts. WonderlandWinter January 25, 2019 The Monocacy Monocle Page 3 In Your Own Backyard Making the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Into a National Historical Park By Jon Wolz Congratulations To The Shedka and On January 8, 1971, Pres. Richard M. Nixon signed a bill that was passed by the Elliot Families On Their New Homes! 91st Congress on December 22, 1970 making the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal a National Historical Park. The C&O Canal was begun with the turning of a shovel of dirt by Pres. John Quincy Adams on July 4, 1828. It was completed in 1850, extending 184.5 miles from Georgetown in Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland. The original idea was to extend the canal all the way to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but the Canal Company was competing with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and decided to stop the canal at Cumberland. The canal boats carried a variety of products, including coal, bricks, stones, and agricultural goods to market in Georgetown. In 1889, after a tremendous flood, the Canal Company was put into receivership and was acquired by the B&O Railroad. In 1924, a damaging flood caused canal operations to permanent- ly cease. In 1938, the canal was obtained by the U.S. Government from the B&O Railroad in exchange for a $2 million loan. The canal was placed under the National Park Service. In 1950, the Bureau of Public Roads C&O Canal Report was submitted to Congress that proposed a twenty-four-foot-wide parkway with eight-foot shoulders on each side from Great Falls to Cumberland. Both the Washington Post and the Washington Star newspapers favored the parkway con- Charlie & Brian helped them buy each other’s houses. cept. In 1954, Associate Supreme Court Justice Douglas challenged the Post and The Ultimate House Swap! Star newspapers to hike with him from Cumberland to Georgetown. Douglas said of the canal, “It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capitol’s back door—a wilderness area where man can be alone 19939 Fisher Avenue with his thoughts, a sanctuary where he can commune with God and nature, a Poolesville, MD 20837 place not yet marred by the roar of wheels and the sounds of horns.” The Post Broker/Office-301-428-8200 and Star accepted his challenge. The eight-day Douglas Hike in March 1954 made opinion sway against building a parkway, and the idea was abandoned. Don Hoffacker’s Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc. “We have been top rated by a local, prominent consumer group” Residential Sales & Services A ant wa ry r • Free estimates B d On the eve of enactment of the creation of the C&O Canal as a national • Quality service historical park, from left to right, Eagle Scout Jon Wolz of Silver Spring, Cub Scout Charles Stover of Rockville, Congressmen (Senator Elect) J. Glenn Beall, • Prompt service Jr. and Gilbert Gude testified for the bill during the final hearings on it by the Medal of Excellence • Family operated since 1977 for 2007 Senate Interior Subcommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. SUPER SERVICE Sixteen years passed before President Nixon signed the bill making the canal a AWARD WINNER 2007-2015! National Historical Park. In 1970, Congressmen Gilbert Gude and J. Glenn Beall http://www.angieslist.com of Maryland co-sponsored a bill to make the C&O Canal into a National Histori- cal Park. Congressman Gude contacted Mr. Charles Stover of Rockville to find a 19703 Waters Road Boy Scout to testify before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation Germantown, MD 20874 of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on his feelings for making the 301-972-0017 C&O Canal into a National Historical Park. Mr. Stover had recently helped plan http://www.donhoffacker.com Continued on page 7. Page 4 The Monocacy Monocle January 25, 2019 lost my temper and didn’t come to to keep the facilities open on Rande(m) regret it. So there you have it. My one Tidbits Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to Thoughts biggest regret in life is any time I lost 9:00 p.m. as the preferred time to donate items, and then again on my temper. For those on the receiving Nearly Two Hundred Is Public Secret Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. end, and who still stuck with me, God Years of Service An Oxymoron? bless you. For those who walked away, You can also make donations at this thinking, “He’ll regret that one day,” When you walk through the doors of time, too. By Rande Davis you were right. the Friendly Thrift Shop next to the As you clear out your closets and This is that time of year again— For better or worse, I will enter 2019 Blue Hearth on West Willard Road, attics, remember, your donations to when we start thinking about goals. To with the all the same aspirations that you enter a space with nearly two FTS go first to persons living locally in centuries of community service. The me, goals are not exactly like aspira- have made me who I am—but, for need and eventually through another building has served Poolesville as a tions. Aspirations are things we hope goals, that’s another thing altogether. local group, Helping Ends, are deliv- town hall, a hospital, a church, a cem- or pray for. Goals are things that re- Goals are all about change, and this is ered to areas of West Virginia where etery, even a movie house. Today, its quire measurements, like gains/losses, the time of year we often make life’s the items reach those persons in need.