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Attention Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Requested in home 03-05-09 PRSRT STD A Connection U.S. Postage Newspaper PAID Martinsburg, WV Potomac PERMIT #86 Playoff Basketball Takes Churchill senior Chase Hicks goes for a lay-up over Whitman’s Ian Ross when the two teams met in the first round of the Flight Montgomery County 4A West playoffs Friday night. Sports, page 13 Churchill prevailed, 50-44. Classified, Page 14 Classified, ❖ Remembering Sports, Page 13 Remembering ❖ ‘Bubba’‘Bubba’ News,News, pagepage 33 Calendar, Page 8 Damaged Engine Snow-Struck News, Page 3 Back in Service News, Page 10 Photo by Harvey Levine/The Almanac Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comMarch 4-10, 2009 ❖ Volume LIII, Number 9 More onlinePotomac at Almanacpotomacalmanac.com ❖ March 4-10, 2009 ❖ 1 This Week POTOMAC SENIORS VILLAGE County Executive failing to stop at a red signal. After process- A Residential ing, he was driven home by police. Assisted Living Community In Car Crash Offering Respite Care On Sunday, March 1 County Executive Fatal Crash in Isiah Leggett was involved in a car crash in Burtonsville, Md. when the vehicle in which Darnestown Our Community Provides: he was riding was struck by another vehicle. An early morning crash on Darnestown 24-hour supervision Respite Care Program Injuries to all four individuals including Road on Saturday, Feb. 28 left one Memory Care Leggett were minor. Poolesville teenager in grave condition. At Transportation & Escort Service At approximately 10:20 p.m., police of- approximately 2:37 a.m., police officers and Medication Management Activities Program ficers from Montgomery County’s 3rd Dis- fire and rescue responded to the report of a Potomac Seniors Village is nestled on lush green 6.7 trict and Howard County Fire/Rescue per- traffic collision in the 15500 block of acres of a Potomac estate - just steps away from the sonnel responded to the report of a traffic Darnestown Road. The preliminary investi- shops and cafes of Potomac “Village.” Our collision on Sandy Spring Road near the off- gation revealed that a black 2000 compassionate and certified staff caters to each ramp at Columbia Pike. The preliminary Volkswagen Jetta was traveling westbound resident’s unique needs in a gracious country-home investigation revealed that a white 1996 on Darnestown Road approaching setting that is safe and secure. Ford pick-up truck driven by Kendall Ster- Bellingham Drive. For reasons still under ling Smith, 47, of the 12500 block of Bar- investigation, the Jetta left the roadway and At Potomac Seniors Village, we provide respite care bara Road in Wheaton, was traveling west- struck an electrical utility pole which caused for as little as few days or as long as a few months. bound on Sandy Spring Road. Evidence in- the pole to break in two pieces. The vehicle Many people choose respite care for their elderly dicates that Smith entered the intersection continued off the roadway, striking a tree family member when preparing for a scheduled on a red signal and struck the county before coming to rest. vacation, a business trip, or simply because they vehicle’s front-passenger door. The passenger of the vehicle has been need time off from the demands of care giving. The 2008 Chevrolet Suburban was being identified as Dale Michael Carnahan, 18, driven by a member of the Montgomery of the 17300 block of Soper Street in 10501 Burbank Dr., Potomac, MD County Security Services Division, Lt. Poolesville. He was flown to Baltimore 301-299-1670 Samantha Horwitz. Leggett and his wife, Shock Trauma and is in grave condition. He www.Potomacseniorsvillage.com Catherine, were sitting in the back seat of was not wearing his seatbelt. The driver of Burbank Dr. the Suburban. All three occupants were the vehicle has been identified as Christo- River Rd. Giant transported to Laurel Regional Hospital pher Michael Florczyk, 19, of the 17300 ૽ where they were treated for non-life threat- block of Dowden Way in Poolesville. He was ening injuries and released. transported to Shady Grove Hospital, was Falls Rd. Smith performed field sobriety tests at the treated for his injuries and released. He was Safeway Walgreen scene and was arrested and charged with wearing his seatbelt. Detectives would like driving under the influence of alcohol and See This Week, Page 10 2 ❖ Potomac Almanac ❖ March 4-10, 2009 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Potomac Almanac Editor Steven Mauren 703-917-6431 or [email protected] News See www.potomacalmanac.com A Father, Son, Brother and Soldier Captain Brian “Bubba” Bunting remembered by friends and family after his death in Afghanistan last month. By Aaron Stern The Almanac or seven months in Afghani- stan, the best way for Capt. FBrian M. Bunting to feel close to his infant son Connor was to watch tapes that he had made of the two of them reading Photos courtesy of Nicki Bunting books together. But for two weeks in Capt. Brian M. Bunting with his wife, Nicki Pascal Bunting and their son Brian “Bubba” Bunting with his February those tapes were put aside Connor. Bunting was killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Feb. 24 when an son Connor while on leave last as Bunting came home to his family improvised exploding device detonated near his vehicle. Three other month from his duties with the on leave from his duties with the U.S. men were killed as a result of the explosion as well. U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Army. Bunting returned to Afghanistan on A member of the Individual Ready Reserve, leader,” said Tim Simpson, a close friend of Bobby apparently thought his newborn Feb. 20 and four days later he was assigned to the 27th Infantry Brigade Com- the Bunting family. “I think his work ethic, brother looked less like a cute baby and bat Team, Syracuse, N.Y. his discipline … people saw that and they more like a “Bubba.” Bunting was 29. naturally were drawn to that.” The name stuck with Bunting as he grew “I think his work ethic, his “He was just always smiling, it was funny,” up in Potomac, where he became a three- IN THE DAYS since his said his wife, Nicki Bunting. That smile — sport star and class president at the Bullis discipline … people saw that and death, Bunting, who grew a wide, toothy grin — was something of a School. He was one link in a family chain up in Potomac, has been trademark for Bunting. “He would always that ran through Bullis — his five other sib- they naturally were drawn to that.” remembered as a gregari- crack that smile, he was just the happiest lings attended Bullis, his late mother Penny — Tim Simpson, friend ous yet unassuming man person ever,” said Nicki Bunting. Bunting was an upper school administra- who inspired those who Brian Bunting was known by those close tive assistant and his father, Bob Bunting, killed, along with three other men, knew him by leading by ex- to him as “Bubba.” Simpson said the nick- was the longtime director of facilities at the when an improvised exploding device ample. name came about when Brian Bunting’s school, said Simpson, who is the director detonated near their vehicle, accord- “He was a natural leader but in the way parents brought him home from the hospi- of admissions at Bullis. ing to the U.S. Department of Defense. that he wasn’t always intending to be a tal after he was born. Brian’s older brother See Remembering, Page 11 Winter Wonderland First substantial snowfall of season closes schools, sends parents and children to local sledding hills. By Aaron Stern winter hit the Washington, D.C. on The Almanac Monday, March 2, closing Mont- gomery County Public Schools and ind whipped the keeping many home from work, W freshly fallen snow including county employees who into a stinging cloud were on liberal leave. that gusted across of the top of hill “They’ve been asking me [to go behind Robert Frost Middle sledding] since 7:15,” said Nancy School. On the crest, children and Feldman as she braced herself parents contemplated the descent against the cold and the wind be- and the climb back up, weighing hind Frost just after 10:30 that the advantages and drawbacks of- morning. Feldman brought her son fered between inner tubes and Jake, and his friend James Kuldell, plastic toboggans, riding solo and both fifth-graders at Travilah El- riding with a partner. ementary School. Such considerations were re- Watching the scene unfold, but Photo by Aaron Stern/The Almanac quired after the first substantial not yet heading downhill herself Snow blowers and snow shovels were the order of the day as residents dug out from as snow fall of an unseasonably cold See Snowstorm, Page 4 many as six inches of snow that fell around the area. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Potomac Almanac ❖ March 4-10, 2009 ❖ 3 News Snowstorm Sends Parents, Children Outside From Page 3 was Emily Schaefer, who lives near Wootton but attends the mag- net program at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring. Snow days were good for fun, she said, but they were also good for catching up on school work. “It gives me time to read and work on stuff for school,” she said. The hill beside Cold Spring El- ementary is much smaller and is sheltered from the wind by the school on one side and a stand of trees on the other. As she readied for a quick run to the bottom, Cold Spring third-grader Peri Ehudin said that she was excited when she heard that morning that school was closed.