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Gajewski, who leads the National Philharmonic in residence at Strathmore and is a sought-after conductor, will be in Katowice, Poland, serving on the jury of the 8th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors, which ends on the 25th, and then is guest conducting the Silesian Philharmonic on November 30. He'll return December 3rd.
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If you are like me, you are always curious just who those "write-in" candidates are. Whom did people want to see in place of the 11 possible City Council candidates and three possible mayoral candidates? The City was kind enough to provide me with the write-in list and, from me to you.
Among the notable entries was one Ron Paul fan who thought the Texas member of Congress and presidential candidate would be better suited being mayor of Our Fair City. Another voter thought Charles Manson should get the job. Eewww, is what I say to that.
However, if our write-in voters had had their way, it is our City Council that would be most interesting. One voter thought Britney Spears would make a good Council member, while another thought Arnold Schwarzenegger should join in.
Now that would be a Council. Although, it might lean too heavily toward policies that benefit California . . . .
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The City today posted the district-by-district voting information. Just to begin to get my mind around it better, I created a spreadsheet out of it and posted it here.
You might need a map of the districts to make sense of the data, though it is not absolutely required.
The information on the spreadsheet is in two sections: first by actual votes, then by vote share. I also created a couple of charts. As I create more charts, I will update the spreadsheet.
I am happy to add to the spreadsheet, if you want to suggest improvements.
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It appears, according to the Washington Post, that the Intercounty Connector is set to move ahead after all:
A federal judge today upheld the Maryland State Highway Administration's environmental study of an 18.8-mile intercounty connector through Montgomery and Prince George's counties, clearing the way for the road's construction after 50 years of controversy. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Alexander Williams Jr. against environmental groups that had tried to stop the toll road via two lawsuits means the project has overcome its final legal hurdle.
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Events in Rockville
Friday, November 9
Rockville Musical Theater, Into the Woods, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. $20 Adults, $18 Seniors (62+), $16 Children (under 18) This musical is based on a collection of fairy tales and what happens AFTER the “happily-ever after”.
Can’t Hang, Austin Grill - Rockville, 10 PM. No cover. This crowd pleasing band with a catchy, reggae sound, has sold over 9000 CDs without a label. Find out why.
Saturday, November 10
Speaker’s Series, Eileen McGuckain, Rockville Library Meeting Room #1, 10:00 AM Eileen McGuckian will be speaking about Rockville's history and Peerless Rockville, “an award-winning nonprofit, community-based organization founded in 1974 to preserve buildings, objects and information important to Rockville's heritage.”
10th Annual American Indian Festival, Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe St., 10AM – 5 PM. This colorful and information-packed festival features authentic presentations and food. My family particularly enjoys the performers and authentic jewelry. The Grand Entry parade of dancers will begin at 1PM. Take advantage of this great educational opportunity, especially if your kids are studying American Indians in school.
Washington National Opera Presents, Twinbrook Library, 1 PM. A volunteer will provide an interactive program about Hansel and Gretel, the opera, by Engelbert Humperdinck. They’ll be storytelling and crafts for ages 5 and up.
Rockville Musical Theater, Into the Woods, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. $20 Adults, $18 Seniors (62+), $16 Children (under 18) This musical is based on a collection of fairy tales and what happens AFTER the “happily-ever after”.
Natural Born Easy, Austin Grill - Rockville, 9:30. No cover. Their self-proclaimed goal is to have “a rowdy, good time” with their blues, Southern jam style.
Sunday, November 11
Veteran’s Day Ceremony, Veteran’s Park, 11 AM. Special wreath laying ceremony. We all drive past this park with its large flag between Rt. 355 and Rt. 28. I see it daily on weekdays. The foliage is always red, white and blue to honor our soldiers. Take the time to stand in Veteran’s Park and show our respect for and appreciation of our Veterans.
Rockville Musical Theater, Into the Woods, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 4 PM. $20 Adults, $18 Seniors (62+), $16 Children (under 18) This musical is based on a collection of fairy tales and what happens AFTER the “happily-ever after”.
Veteran’s Day Benefit Concert by The Rockville Men’s Chorus & the Rockville Singers, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater, 7:30 PM. This very special performance honors those who have served and those who are serving in the armed forces. No admission will be charged but donations will be accepted to raise funds to support families visiting their military family members who are receiving treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital and the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Sponsored by the City of Rockville and Community Ministries of Rockville.
Thursday, November 15
Ocio Jazz Ensemble, Twinbrook Library, 7 PM. A program of jazz and popular music from this DC –based ensemble. Recommended for adults and children over the age of 5.
Friday, November 16
A Concert of Music by Washington Area Women Composers, The Mansion at Strathmore, 11 AM. FREE. Although I do not usually include performances at Strathmore, Rockville Central Team Member, Jenny R’s friend, Winifred Hyson, is one of the composers featured. Jenny says, “It’s a really neat piece of music!” Her piece is “Under the North Portico”. Other composers are Wang An-Ming, Leslie Bennett, and Jo Lombard. This concert is presented to the community by The District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs.
Rockville Musical Theater, Into the Woods, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. $20 Adults, $18 Seniors (62+), $16 Children (under 18) This musical is based on a collection of fairy tales and what happens AFTER the “happily-ever after”.
Hand Painted Swingers, Austin Grill – Rockville, 9:30 PM. No cover. Local band with a pop sound and clear lyrics promoting their new CD “Speed Hump”.
Saturday, November 17
Special Pre-Thanksgiving Farmer’s Market, City of Rockville, Corner of Rt. 28 and Monroe Street, 9AM-1PM. Many readers have been telling me that the Farmer’s Market is not really ended for the season because you have this one last opportunity to purchase some extra-special harvest items for Thanksgiving. Check out Amy’s review. She finally convinced me!
Twinbrook Community Pool, Yard Sale in the pool parking lot at 13027 Atlantic Avenue, 9AM-Noon. You can rent a 20 x 17 ft. space for $20 by making a reservation by mail (P.O Box 705 Rockville MD 20848) before Nov. 13th and keep your proceeds. You can help out by donating items at specific times at the pool office. For info YardSale@TwinbrookPool.org. Thanks to all our friends in Twinbrook who read Weekend to Weekend! I’d like to encourage everyone to come on out and support their fundraiser!
Celebrate America Recycles Day, Rockville Library, Meeting Room #1, 11AM – 4 PM. Exhibits, demonstrations, crafts, and prizes. Don’t miss Rocco the Recycling Retriever and the Recyclemobile!
Crafts for Kids, Twinbrook Library, 1PM. The Dogwood Dogs 4H Club is doing crafts – “Ark, Ark, do Art”. It’s free and you don’t have to register. All ages.
Rockville Musical Theater, Into the Woods, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. $20 Adults, $18 Seniors (62+), $16 Children (under 18) This musical is based on a collection of fairy tales and what happens AFTER the “happily-ever after”.
Ty Braddock, Austin Grill – Rockville, 10 PM. No cover. He’s been nominated for country vocalist of the year by the Washington Area Music Association. Check out what your mouse can do on his website!!
Sunday, November 18
Inauguration Ceremony and Reception, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 1 PM. Welcome our new Mayor and City Council at this ceremony, followed by a reception. Everyone is invited! At least I think so. The City's website is not highlighting this event nor does it show up on the Theatre list. You can tell my frustration is mounting after 5 months of event blogging. There is a mention of the ceremony in the link above. But really folks, we shouldn't have to struggle with the website to find information on events.
Rockville Concert Band, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 4 PM - 6 PM Stars, Stripes and Sousa! The Rockville Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Vincent Patterson, is celebrating 50 years with music of Sousa, Wagner, Cohan and others. FREE, no tickets required.
Email cindycgblog@gmail.com if you have a fun, educational or community event to be included in Weekend to Weekend. Include links!
We will publish event listings occurring in & around our coverage area (map) on Thursdays. The inclusion of events is at our discretion.
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Rather than issue a series of posts, I thought I would collect all the day-after-election items into one article.
Here are the final (still unofficial) numbers. In case you hadn't yet heard, the winners are Hoffmann, Gajewski, Britton, Robbins, Marcuccio. You can see a video of Hoffmann's and Gajewski's acceptance speeches here.
According to the City, overall turnout was light, with a total of 5,887 votes cast. That's 19.93% of the City's 29,535 registered voters.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was newcomer and first-time candidate Piotr (Peter) Gajewski's strong showing -- he garnered the highest vote total of any candidate, with 3,019. (Sources tell me his internal goal was 3,000.) Another big surprise was seven-term incumbent Bob Dorsey's relatively weak electoral showing with only 1,844 votes, placing him fourth down among the unsuccessful candidates.
The election was marred by a human error-induced snafu. A training voter database was supplied to the City by state election officials instead of the real one. In the training database, everyone whose address begins with "5" was tagged as having requested to vote absentee -- so, when they got to the polls to vote, they came up as having already gotten their ballot.
City election staff very quickly figured out what to do as a workaround, but the error dominated the anemic press coverage our election got from the "big" press. I mean, considering Rockville is the third-largest (or is it second now?) city in Maryland, and the county seat of Montgomery and all.
That said, our little local election made the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Rockville Central broke its own record and registered 1,011 page views (or "hits") throughout the day, with 414 individual readers. Thank you readers!
(The photos in this piece are all from the various candidate election night celebrations. I am sorry I don't have one for Anne Robbins.)
THE CONTEST RESULTS ARE IN
Some of our readers are keenly interested in these results because they took part in our election results prediction contest, vying for fabulous and unspecified prizes. No one predicted it exactly right. The most common prediction was Hoffmann, Robbins, Marcuccio, Britton, Mullican. Most predictors underestimated Gajewski's results and overestimated Mullican's final total. So, to determine who was closest, I had to do some math. On the predictions where just one pick was wrong, I subtracted final vote totals for the correct missing candidate from the wrong pick, and . . . drum roll . . . winning this year's prediction contest is . . . Piotr (Peter) Gajewski. Truly. He sent in his prediction at 9:41 am on Monday.
Peter's prediction: Hoffmann, Marcuccio, Robbins, Mullican, Gajewski. Since he got himself right, I subtracted Mullican's total from Britton's total and Peter was just 739 votes off.
Only one other person made the same prediction: Rockville Central team member CindyCG (who is Cynthia Cotte Griffiths for those in the know). But Peter got his in first, so he wins.
What does he win? Why, a T-shirt and CD from my band, The West End, of course! Peter, please send me your shirt size. You can keep it just between us. (Can someone tell me what forms I need to fill out to keep this on the up-and-up in terms of election law? I don't want someone to call it a campaign donation.)
Various candidates and others issued statements to the voters, reflecting on the campaigns. Here they are:
Mark Pierzchala: "It was great meeting some of you today and I appreciate that you made the effort to come out to vote, so many thanks. Any voting day is a good day come what may."
John Britton: "By voting, you validate the hard work of all the candidates. Thank you."
Phyllis Marcuccio: Thank you to all. I am honored. The heroes in this election are the candidates' families who held them together, their dedicated committee members, volunteers who walked the city, orchestrated the debates, froze for long hours at the polls, and of course, the citizens who came out to vote. Now it is the electeds' jobs to fulfill their promises. [This entry UPDATED from the original post.]
Brigitta Mullican: "The City of Rockville Election for 2007 impressed me because of the number of candidates who ran for a position on the Rockville City Council. This commitment shows deep concern for the quality of life in our Rockville city. I am eager to work with a new Rockville Mayor [and] Council and am honored to serve the citizens of Rockville."
Tracy Pakulniewicz-Chidiac: "Thank you to everyone who took the time to listen to the candidates and hear our issues. You, the voters, are who make the democratic process work, and I'm grateful for your participation."
Real Rockville: "[C]ongratulations to everyone who ran for office and everyone who worked on campaigns. Regardless of who wins, anyone who had the guts to run or took the time to help in a campaign, needs a round of applause. I think the residents of Rockville should be grateful to all of those wonderful people who took the time and effort to show us what democracy in action looks like. . . ."
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I could only be one place at a time when the election returns came in, and I happened to be at Giuseppe's Restaurant on Regal Row when the news came in, so I was able to catch Susan Hoffmann's and Piotr (Peter) Gajewski's acceptance speeches. They were holding tandem election night parties. (Another successful council candidate, John Britton, was holding his celebration a few doors down at Tara Asia.)
Here are Mayor-Elect Hoffmann's and Council Member-Elect Gajewski's thank you speeches:
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Here is a better breakdown of the election results, including winners and those who did not. Basic numbers are from the City, but I reordered them in descending order. Above the line won, below the line did not.
Mayor / Votes / %
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2007 Rockville Mayor and Council Election
Mayor:
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I have just been told that Beall, the last polling place to do so, JUST turned in their data. Long night!
It's 9:37 now; info should start flowing soon.
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