The Pri nce Ge orge’s Pos t A C OMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FOR PRINCE GEORGE ’S COUNTY Since 1932 Vol. 82, No. 36 September 4 — September 10, 2014 Prince George’s County, Maryland Newspaper of Record Phone: 301-627-0900 25 cents Programs Welcome More Than 126,000 Students To PG County PuImbmelrisicon, Sa ncewh Spoanoishl Is m - By PRESS OFFICER PGCPS mersion program at three ele - mentary schools, an innovative With the opening of the Aerospace Engineering and Avi - 2014-15 school year, Prince ation Technology Career Acad - George’s County Public Schools emy at DuVal High School, and (PGCPS) is finalizing prepara - the opening of Edward M. Felegy tions to welcome over 126,000 Elementary, a creative and per - students to its 208 schools. forming arts themed, state-of-the- More than 800 new teachers art school in Hyattsville. and 30 new principals will join “We are excited to welcome their colleagues as Dr. Kevin M. our students to the new school CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY PAULWALL HAWKINS The 2014 Pink Pierce Pumper needs a name. Maxwell enters his second year year,” said Dr. Kevin M. as Chief Executive Officer. This Maxwell, Chief Executive Of - year marks the first International ficer for PGCPS. “From build - Baccalaureate Primary Years Pro - gramme at Melwood Elementary “Pinky” “Hope” and ?? - Third Pink School and John Hanson French See STUDENTS Page A 3 PGFD Unit Needs a Name By PRESS OFFICER was designed to raise Breast submit a nomination. When partment receives multiple en - O’Malley Applauds Successful Cancer Awareness; however, choosing a name, keep in tries for the winning selection, PGFD the lavender strip on the mind that while the new the person whose entry was Wind Energy Auc"Wtieo nen ed a jobs agenda to pumper represents every type Pierce engine is predomi - received first will get an offi - By PRESS OFFICER The Prince George's County of cancer. nately pink, its lavender-col - cial PGFD pink uniform shirt Office of the Governor match our climate challenge," Fire/Emergency Medical Serv - The Pierce pumper will ored strip represents all can - that is worn by our personnel Gov. O'Malley said. "Expanding ices (EMS) Department is be housed at Capital Heights cers. Also, your choice during the month of October. ANNAPOLIS, MD — Gov - renewable energy, like we're do - preparing to accept the final Fire/EMS Station 805, where should be in good taste and The winning entry will be ernor Martin O’Malley and Lt. ing here, will bring Maryland’s addition to our cancer aware - Pinky currently resides. demonstrate a positive out - announced on September 30, Governor Anthony Brown vision for clean energy one step ness campaign, “Proud to be Croom Fire/EMS Station look. One or 2 words are 2014, at 11:00 a.m., during congratulated U.S.Wind Inc., closer to reality and clearly set Pink.” In October 2012, 845 in Upper Marlboro is preferable, but all nomina - the dedication ceremony for a company provisionally our State apart on the country’s Pinky, an engine wrapped in slated to become Pinky’s new tions will be considered. In the new pumper at the Capital awarded wind energy leases in renewable energy landscape. ” pink, was introduced to the home, with Hope remaining the event the Fire/EMS De - Heights Fire/EMS Station. the U.S. Department of Inte - BOEM will officially award public. Just shy of 2 years at College Park Fire/EMS Sta - rior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy leases after the winning bids later, Hope—a painted pink tion 812. Management (BOEM) official pass anti-trust review by the paramedic transport—made The nickname Hope was Entries can be sent via Twitter to @PGFDPIO and Face - auction. The two lease areas U.S. Department of Justice and her debut. Soon the Depart - selected from over 200 entries book at Facebook.com/PGFDPAGE , and should include are within the Maryland Wind Federal Trade Commission. ment will place in service a submitted through a social #PGFDPINK. If you do not have a social media account, Energy Area (WEA) of the Secretary Sally Jewell con - 2014 Pierce Velocity pumper, media promotion. The same nominations may be submitted via email Outer Continental Shelf lo - curred, offering that “today’s also painted pink but with a process will be used to [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is cated 10 nautical miles east of lavender strip around it. Each name the pumper, and, once September, 28, 2014. Ocean City, Maryland within of these pieces of apparatus again, everyone is invited to Federal waters. See WIND Page A 5 Protecting Maryland’s Blue Crabs Lt. Governor Brown and Ken Ulman By JOE GILL, Secretary – to target crabbers who don’t MD Dept. of Natural Resources play by the rules. The enforce - Annouces Support for Coastal ment effort is being embraced I say, “Maryland.” by our partners at the Virginia Companies’ New Headquarters Marine Resources Commission Officials Hold Ceremonial Groundbreaking for New 240,000 You say, “Crabs.” and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, as we stand to - Square-Foot Facility in Laurel Which Will Create 400 New Jobs Few things dial up an instant gether to protect and manage “By working with our part - The State, through the connection to our home state like these resources using the best By PRESS OFFICER ners in Howard County, we are Maryland Department of Busi - Office of the Lt. Governor a pile of steamed crabs, hot to available science. ensuring that The Coastal ness and Economic Develop - the touch and dusted with Old NRP’s game plan follows Companies – which has tripled ment (DBED), has approved a Bay, spread across a table cov - the one established last year to BALTIMORE, Md. – Lt. in size over the last six years – $1 million conditional loan ered with brown paper. Sur - protect another Bay keystone Governor Anthony Brown has a new state-of-the-art fa - with the requirement that the rounded by friends and family species – oysters. Surveillance, joined Howard County Exec - cility with the space needed to company retain its jobs in PHOTO COURTESY THE with the Orioles game providing undercover operations, night MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF utive Ken Ulman to announce expand and add new jobs ,” Maryland. Howard County is the soundtrack—you could be vision equipment, saturation NATURAL RESOURCES state and county support for a said Governor Martin O’Mal - also assisting with the Com - somewhere else, but why would patrols and the Maritime Law Fresh Steamed Maryland new corporate headquarters in ley. “Our most important pri - pany’s relocation by providing you want to be? Enforcement Information Net - Blue Crabs. Laurel for The Coastal Com - ority continues to be creating $150,000 in property tax cred - We often take for granted our work (MLEIN) are all being panies, a leading Mid Atlantic and retaining the kinds of jobs its and placing the project in next bushel of crabs and the one employed. Officers will be on produce and dairy supplier. that will sustain Maryland’s its Fast Track Development after that, just as our parents and the lookout for undersized below the minimum safe level Officials also held a ceremo - economy for today and decades Process to expedite the review grandparents did. crabs, overharvesting, recre - and the last two juvenile popu - nial groundbreaking for the to come.” of applications and permits. We shouldn’t. Harsh winter ational crabbers keeping fe - lation surveys were not as robust new 240,000 square-foot “The continued investment The new headquarters is being weather, coastal currents and male crabs, and crab pots that as we would have liked. With headquarters, which is ex - in Maryland and Howard constructed just 3 miles from natural predators can threaten are not registered. this, awareness and enforcement pected to be complete by early County by The Coastal Com - the company's current opera - the health of the blue crab pop - Rest assured we are not efforts such as Don’t Get 2016. The new facilities will panies sends a strong message tion in Savage to accommodate ulation. To be sure, conditions looking to ruin anyone’s outing Pinched are necessary now more house the operations of vari - that Maryland has the right staff and strengthen The can change as quickly as the or dinner plans. We are work - than ever. ous operating divisions of The combination of highly-skilled Coastal Companies' leading striped bass bite in early fall. ing to ensure the health of our The signature species of Coastal Companies including workers and strategic location position in its core market. Good crab harvest years, such fishery, the livelihoods of hon - the Chesapeake Bay and its Coastal Sunbelt Produce, East that world-class companies “When we learned that The as 2012, are sometimes fol - est, law-abiding watermen and tributaries will keep its treas - Coast Fresh, Cold Chain Lo - need to succeed,” said Lt. Gov - Coastal Companies was looking lowed by poor seasons marked the enjoyment of our citizens. ured place in our heritage only gistics and Cold Chain Im - ernor Brown. “We are pleased at several options as they sought by scarcity and high prices. Despite harvest being within if we protect it. So, enjoy ports as well as The Coastal to be able to help this home- room to grow, our whole team The Maryland Natural Re - the safe range for the last six Maryland’s delicious blue crab Companies Foundation. The grown Maryland company con - sources Police have launched a years, the 2014 spawning age fe - and the rest of your summer… company plans to create 400 tinue to expand and add 400 campaign – Don’t Get Pinched male crab abundance was just but don’t get pinched.