Silver Spring Voice • November 2009

Table of Contents • November 2009

	page 1 Cover		page 29 Home and Garden: Ads
	page 2 Long & Foster Takoma		page 30 Home and Garden: Your garden "to do" list
	page 3 What's inside		page 31 Home and Garden: Ads
	page 4 Citizen Bill Voice Mail		page 32 Home and Garden: Green and snug with wind power, windows and rim joists
	page 5 Dispatch from Baghdad My brother's color		page 33 Home and Garden: Green and snug, continued
	page 6 Sin of the Month: Teeth		page 34 Home and Garden: Green and snug, continued
	page 7 Climate change threatens Maryland's coasts and islands		page 35 Home and Garden: Ads
	page 8 Q: What is the path to peace?		page 36 School Scene: Forbidden Fruit Astro-Turf War
	page 9 Holiday Gift Guide		page 37 School Scene, continued
	page 10 Remembering Ruth Abbott		page 38 Street Hockey with Bob DeGemmis
	page 11 Holiday Gift Guide		page 39 Calendar
	page 12 Immigration reform		page 40 Calendar
	page 13 Anti-immigration group		page 41 Calendar
	page 14 Maryland news		page 42 Calendar
	page 15 Maryland news, continued		page 43 Calendar
	page 16 Silver Spring Then and Again: Thayer Avenue's forgotten past		page 44 Calendar
	page 17 Silver Spring Then and Again, continued		page 45 New wine bar opens in Takoma
	page 18 Residents remember the terror of the sniper		page 46 Our Canadian Neighbor: The White-Throated Sparrow
	page 19 Scenes from Rock Creek Fall Festival		page 47 The Heart of Parenting: Born to lead
	page 20 Halloween		page 48 Drama Queen: This streetcar named Desire
	page 21 More Halloween		page 49 The challenges of staging a 21st century Merchant of Venice
	page 22 Montgomery Blair High School turns 75		page 50 Fashionista: A day at the opera
	page 23 Think global, eat local		page 51 Fashionista, continued
	page 24 Mixed Unity holds peace summit		page 52 Streetcar named Desire, continued
	page 25 Perez confirmed to head Federal Civil Rights office		page 53 Deer population explosion threatens the herd and its habitat
	page 26 Rolling with a Roller Girl		page 54 Opinion: Listening to the Women of Afghanistan
	page 27 Home and Garden: The benefits of canning		page 55 Classifieds
	page 28 Sligo Naturalist: Cutting through the fats, oils, and grease		page 56 Long and Foster Silver Spring

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