The Rockville Rundown: 5 Things You Need to Know Today

Today: Ingleside couple keeps youth best-seller’s Mmemory alive
Jeni Stepanek, the mother of the late Mattie Stepanek, will be at Ingleside at King Farm for a ceremony certifying the retirement community as a “Peace Community” through the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation. Mattie is the 13-year-old best-selling poet who died in 2004 from a rare form of muscular dystrophy. Ingleside residents Bob and Laurin Balkam were the Stepanek family’s former neighbors and inspired the retirement community to become “Peace Community,” an Ingleside spokeswoman tells Patch. Learn more about the foundation at MattieOnline.com.

You said it: "As long as you had the physical space for more kids … I don’t see why not.”
That was Patch reader Timma’s response to a last week’s story about a Rockville’s Board of Appeals decision to deny a woman’s proposal to expand her home day care’s capacity from eight children to 12 (See: Home Day Care Expansion Denied by Rockville Board of Appeals. Good or Bad Call?).

Here’s Timma’s full response:

Timma July 20, 2013 at 09:14 am

As long as you had the physical space for more kids, and you followed safety guidelines, I don't see why not. You are providing a valuable service.

>>> Do you agree with Timma? Do you think the city made the right call? Post your comments here. 

Go, Do: Tonight is kids’ night on the Square
Michael Rosman will give a magic show plus kids eat free at participating restaurants tonight at Rockville Town Square. Check out the details at RockvilleTownSquare.com.

Trending: Baby names
Monday Morning the Twitter-verse was all a-flutter with news that Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge was in labor and that a new royal baby was on the way. Though the royal baby had not yet been born at the time this story was compiled (it was later reported that the Duchess gave birth to a baby boy), the Social Security Administration released its annual list of which baby names were most popular on this side of the pond. >>> See: The Royal Baby is Here! What are Maryland's Most Popular Baby Names?

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