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 County Dribbles
To Goal
County issues request for
proposals for
soccer fields on
Brickyard Road farm site.
ONE IN AN ongoing series of articles.
Council President Roger Berliner (D-1) looked to the colorful banners in Potomac Presbyterian Church — "peace, love, joy" — before he alerted more than a hundred angry citizens that Isiah "Ike" Leggett and the county would issue its request for proposals to build soccer fields on Brickyard Road the next day. The next morning, Thursday, Jan. 12, the county publicly issued its specific plans to build soccer fields on the 20-acre Brickyard Road site that Nick Maravell has organically farmed the last 31 years. Read more...
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Honey Ogens
Bakes with Feeling
A hobby turns into a career.
 HONEY OGENS LAUNCHED the Honey Bee Baking Company last year from her Glenolden Drive home. She began baking many years ago because it made her feel relaxed and happy. When her children, Matt and Elissa came home from school, she always had home-baked goods ready for them. Even though she was working with her husband, attorney Ronald Ogens, she made the time to surprise a sick neighbor, friend or someone celebrating a special occasion with a homemade coffee cake, cookies or other baked treat. Read more...
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Potomac’s Matt Belford,
Champion Skier — Now Teaches
He also heli-guides In Alaska.
 TWENTY-THREE YEARS ago, The Potomac Almanac published the story of 14 year-old local skier Matt Belford. Belford had placed third among Maryland’s ski racers in the Coca-Cola Jr. NASTAR standings while racing at Jackson Hole, Wyo. He won the Maryland Governor’s Cup Championship with the best combined time for the Giant Slalom and Slalom races at Wisp Ski Resort. He raced every weekend in the winter with the Liberty Ski team, competed in the Canaan Valley Giant Slalom, the Jeep Ski Challenge at Silver Creek, W.Va., and other races in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. Read more...
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