May 30, 2008 The Monocacy Monocle Page A Biweekly Newspaper May 30, 2008 Volume V, Number 4. Clarksburg Getting Ready to Celebrate 256th Anniversary he Clarksburg Historical So- Clarksburg was first settled in back then, Clarksburg actually rivaled Rockville and Poolesville as one of the Ryan Pike becomes our area’s newest ciety, Inc., with the help of 1752 by William Clarke, who came largest towns in Montgomery County. Eagle Scout. See Local News Tother groups and individu- here from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to One of the most popular events on Page 14. als, is preparing for its June 7 Clarks- trade with the Seneca Native Ameri- burg Day festival. This year’s event cans. His son, John, built a family during Clarksburg Day is a walking helps mark the 256th anniversary of home at 23346 Frederick Road (Route tour of twenty sites within the old sec- the township. 355), and it is from this family that the tion of Clarksburg. The Clarke family town was named. home, built in 1797, and the Horace Clarksburg was a Wilson house, built circa 1800, are thriving town in the mid- just two of the highlights of the tour. 1800s having a general Dr. Horace Wilson was a highly-ac- store, tanneries, leather- complished resident having been a making machines, black- physician, state delegate, and senator. smiths, and wheelwright The home actually has been the home shops. Andrew Jackson to many doctors over the years. Students from Poolesville Elementary stopped in Clarksburg While the main events will be held School presented this banner of to dine at a tavern called on Wims Road next to Clarksburg appreciation to the wounded soldiers Dowden’s Ordinary High School, there will be a special visiting from Walter Reed Army on his way to become Medical Center. See more pictures on president. It may sur- Page 24. Clarksburg Day 2008 will be bigger and better. prise many to learn that -Continue on Page 19. in spring 2009 as Soccerplex Plans part of the launch of Women’s Profes - Expansion of sional Soccer. An earlier league ended Stadium play in 2003. The Freedom will play By Kristen Milton at the facility at least three years, Hef- he Maryland Soccer Foun- felfinger said, but dation hopes to nearly the league requires Why are five PHS students in the bush double the stadium seat- better than one in the hand? Read T a 6,500-seat stadium ing at its Boyds soccerplex by next seating capacity, Local News on Page 19 spring in anticipation of play by a new and the Boyds soc- women’s professional soccer league. cerplex currently The plans were revealed during the offers only about group’s May 1 annual report to the 3,400 seats. Montgomery Planning Board. The Heffelfinger foundation, which holds a forty-year said bids for the The Maryland Soccerplex in Boyds lease on the 162-acre facility in a pri- work and associated vate/public partnership, is required by fencing were already being sought, the facility to make itself available for that lease to provide an annual report and she hoped to bring plans before larger events. Heffelfinger noted that to the board on its finances and future the board this summer for approval. the improvements would not require plans. A community meeting would be held debt service on the part of the founda- The expanded seating plans were in the meantime, she said, to inform tion. “This will be paid by others,” she the biggest development in a presen- neighbors of the new plans and seek said, without specifying the source of tation by executive director Trish Hef- input. the money. felfinger. Heffelfinger said Washing- “That’s sort of a major improve- Later in the May 1 discussion, ton Freedom, a team chaired by John ment,” Heffelfinger acknowledged. board member Allison Bryant alluded Hendricks—whose wife Maureen is a They moved Clarksburg Day to However, the soccerplex lease had to funding issues when he asked soccerplex board member—will begin a new location this year, but it’s anticipated eventual stadium expan- not that hard to get there. See our playing at the Maryland Soccerplex sion to 7,500 seats, she said, allowing -Continued on Page 25. special Guide beginning on Page 16. May 30, 2008 The Monocacy Monocle Page 2 Sponsored by: Selby’s Market Your IGA Hometown Food Store John Poole Middle School students held a car wash and concert to send the concert band and director Robert Fogleman to a band festival competition at King’s Dominion The annual Potomac Hunt Races on Partnership Road successfully dealt with a saturated race course as this pack of jumping horses attests. Photograph by Ed Lunsford Herb Brown is first to take the putting competition challenge during the PHS Booster Club’s Jake Perkins Golf Tournament. Others pictured: Charles Self, Chet Anderson, and Chip Dunn. The Jake Perkins Annual Golf Tournament to benefit Poolesville High School athletic programs through its booster club was played at Bretton Woods Country Club. Pictured are Bill Jamison, Jodi Brooks, Kathy Kenly, Frank Jamison, John Warren, and Sue Kramek. May 30, 2008 The Monocacy Monocle Page 3 a grape grower noticed one day that his spots turns yellow. with a systemic fungicide. This should In the Garden roses had powdery mildew, he knew it You can prevent fungal diseases by protect your roses from most diseases. was immediately time to spray sulfur on spraying with a fungicide, but it will not A systemic one is better, as it will not be his grapes to prevent them from getting cure the condition. What do you do? I washed off by rain. Spray as needed for A Bed of Roses the same disease. Roses also warn of heavily prune the stems that have black insects. Here again a systemic solution By Maureen O’Connell other diseases and growing problems spot. Don’t worry; you won’t kill the is preferable. I use Orthenex Insect and before they affect the grapevines, and bush by pruning, but if you leave it the Disease Systemic spray. I have over I was recently in Napa, California. they serve as a habitat for some benefi- way it is, the fungus will spread to all eighty rose bushes, so I need a large The floor of the Napa Valley encom- cial insects that eat other undesirable the leaves and defoliate the entire bush. sprayer. If you have only a few bushes, passes the towns of Napa, Yountville, insects. It will weaken and then die. If you prune a ready-mixed spray bottle will be suf- Oakville, Rutherford, St. Helena, and Maintaining healthy roses in the it, it will delay flowering, but the bush ficient. Last year, Bayer came out with a Calistoga. The valley’s rolling hills and Napa Valley is easier than in Monocacy will set new leaves and re-grow. new product called Bayer All-In-One. It rhythmic lines of grape vines are home country because of the valley’s moderate Set up a health maintenance pro- is a three-way systemic product that fer- to many of California’s legendary vine- climate. During the spring and summer gram now for your roses. Once a month tilizes and provides insect and disease yards, from the large estates of Beau- months, the temperatures are in the from now until September, fertilize control. It is not a spray. You pour lieu, Beringer, Louis Martini, Stag’s seventies and eighties, and there is low with a rose-specific fertilizer, such as humidity. It is an ideal climate to grow Rose Tone. Spray about once a week Leap, and Sterling Vineyards to the -Continue on Page 21. small family-owned Cakebread Cellars, all flowers, especially roses. When I Hill Family Estate, and Bourassa Vine- was there, however, the area was in the yard. Driving the thirty-mile distance midst of a heat wave; the temperatures on the scenic Silverado Trail from Napa were in the low one hundreds. to Calistoga, you pass on both sides Our climate can be notoriously of the narrow, winding road beauti- difficult to grow and maintain healthy ful well-landscaped vineyards. They roses. Our hot, humid weather favors have perfectly-spaced row after row many rose fungal diseases, and the of grapevines growing on Y-shaped Japanese beetles can destroy entire stakes. I noticed that almost every vine- gardens. Generally, late May and June yard, both small and grand, had rose are the best months for roses in our area. bushes in multiple shades of red, pink, The weather is warm, but not extremely yellow, and white planted at the end of hot, and the beetles don’t arrive until each row. There were also rose bushes about the fourth of July. Well, this year planted at the vineyard’s entrance, up is going to be the exception. The month the driveway, and around the parking of May has been the wettest in fifty-five areas and the manor house. There were years. The rain continued for days, so roses everywhere in the towns. The plants’ leaves were wet for a long period Napa Valley was a large bed of roses. of time. The temperatures have jumped I was curious as to why there were around from the eighties to the forties roses strategically planted near the and fifties and back again to the eight- rows of vines and how they main- ies—all ingredients for a perfect storm of tained them. At one of the vineyards, I fungal diseases. This year, I was travel- asked one of the gardeners these ques- ing a bit in the early spring and did not tions.