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Potomac Entertainment Calendar March 6

Entertainment calendar for the Potomac area.

Glen Hills Area Sewer Study Calendar

March 18: Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), 7:30 p.m.

Column: Brickyard Road School Site Update

It has taken two years, but the Brickyard Community has prevailed in its mission to stop the proposed soccerplex at the Brickyard school site.

Column: Citizens Prevail on Brickyard

Just two years ago, at West Montgomery County Citizens Association’s March 2011 meeting, we learned that there was to be a commercial soccer complex on Brickyard Road’s 20 acres owned by the Board of Education as a future school site and used as an organic farm for the past thirty years.

At One Hundred Years, She’s Going Strong

Ada DeFranceaux recalls old Potomac friends and the good times they shared.

“He always called me CHEE-ILE,” Ada DeFranceaux said. The youngest of 12 children, she was referring to one of her older brothers who, at the time, was working in Washington.

Music Accompanies Art Opening

The opening of The Art Gallery of Potomac’s March 2 exhibit included a duet performance by Jacqueline Niemat and Jose Cueto. Niemat, who is from Potomac, has made a name for herself as one of the premiere recitalist in the Washington / Baltimore area.

Potomac Theatre Company Summons ‘Blithe Spirit’

Show opens Friday night.

This month the Potomac Theatre Company presents Noel Coward's comedy “Blithe Spirit.” The play premiered in 1941 in London and was adapted into an Oscar-winning 1945 film starring Rex Harrison. The play begins with a séance where novelist Charles Condomine hopes to gather material for his next book. During the séance the medium accidentally summons the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. Charles is the only one who can see her, and she makes things very difficult on Charles' marriage to his second wife, Ruth.

Fourth Presbyterian Hosts Spelling Bee

For the fifth year in a row, The Fourth Presbyterian School hosted the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee for Montgomery County on Saturday, March 2. The bee is sponsored by The Meakem Group and was held at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda.

Churchill Boys’ Basketball Wins Quarterfinal Match-up

Bulldogs reach region semifinals for third consecutive year.

Churchill will host Quince Orchard tonight in the 4A West semifinals.

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WES To Present ‘Little Mermaid Jr.’

Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. will be performed by the sixth-grade class of Washington Episcopal School, on Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 15 at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 16 at 12:30 p.m.

Potomac School Notes Feb. 27

School notes for Potomac natives.

Student Wins DAR Essay Contests

Anna Gray writes of forgotten Revolutionary hero.

Thirteen-year-old Anna Gray discovered the story of unsung hero Sybil Ludington when she googled “Revolutionary War women” — and as Anna explains her choice, “She was the most interesting of the women I had not heard of.”

This Land Is Our Land

Next steps not certain in ongoing Brickyard controversy, but Board of Education makes clear the land belongs to the school system.

With a resolution Monday night, Feb. 25, the Montgomery County Board of Education made clear what it already thought it had made clear.

Art Gallery Hosts ‘Yolanda Prinsloo and Friends’

This month The Art Gallery of Potomac presents “Yolanda Prinsloo and Friends.”

Field Notes: The Nose Rules

The other day I watched my canine companion, Zina, put her nose to the breeze and then bury it deep in the grass near the pasture fence. Her excitement reminded me of the days when my German Shepherds were able to roam freely in the fields before the housing development set in. Their nose-down, tail up odyssey fulfilled every scent-driven need in their bodies.

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