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Vol. 162, No. 37 • 50¢ SINCE 1855 March 9 - March 15, 2017 TODAY’S GAS Rockville considers sanctuary PRICE $2.33 per gallon City holds public forum and listens as residents and neighbors discuss immigration the council received many letters over She said she found out from research- lenges immigrating to the U.S., but Last Week By Kathleen Stubbs $2.33 per gallon @kathleenstubbs3 the past few weeks pertaining to the ing the costs related to ICE that the said his experience paled in compari- sanctuary city status. agency does not reimburse police de- son to those of many people fleeing vi- A month ago ROCKVILLE – More than 80 There were “many in support and partments for performing ICE duties. olence in Central and South America. $2.32 per gallon people testified during a public hear- there are many who have concerns,” Dan Kelly, a Silver Spring resi- “I am an immigrant,” Kelly said. ing Monday on a planned ordinance Newton said. dent, said he supported the ordinance “I have a green card. My process took A year ago which would preclude the city from People waited up to four hours and urged the city to adopt the term months to complete, much money and $1.82 per gallon enforcing federal immigration law. for their turn to speak during the may- “sanctuary city” because several peo- was a tenth of what others must go AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF Residents, property owners and or and council’s public hearing. ple who seek asylum in the U.S. have through and fail at crossing America’s UNLEADED REGULAR GAS IN MARYLAND/D.C. METRO AREA workers in the city, as well as individu- Local immigration attorney Kate to wait years to receive that status. southern border.” ACCORDING TO AAA als from elsewhere in the county, Perino said she supported the ordi- “Asylum cases can take years to He repeatedly encouraged the shared concerns about what would nance because if police had to act as process,” Kelly said. “If (they) were city to become a “sanctuary city.” INSIDE happen if the ordinance was imple- Immigration and Customs Enforce- made to wait in their home countries, “Sanctuary law seeks to protect mented. ment detainers, that would cause a they could die of gang violence or po- local jurisdictions from becoming Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton “drain on limited public safety re- lice action before knowing the deci- non-deputized agents of aggressive said the purpose of the public hearing sources.” In addition to the police offi- sion,” he said, after mentioning sever- prejudicial measures,” Kelly said. Editor’s was to give residents a chance to com- cers being taken away from their exist- al people emigrate to the U.S. from El ment on the idea of Rockville becom- ing law enforcement responsibilities, Salvador. See “Rockville,” page 8 Notebook ing a sanctuary city. She said she and it would cost the city more money. He said he personally faced chal- by Brian J. Karem County to hold hearing on providing security to Jewish centers By Suzanne Pollak How about a @Suzanne Pollak The Montgomery County Coun- good Tweet? cil agreed Tuesday to hold a public hearing on April 4 to allocate $225,000 Brevity may be the soul to three Jewish institutions so that they of wit - but some is witless could beef up their security in light of and soulless. the 130 bomb threats received across Page 4 the United States since the beginning of this year. The most recent threat occurred Monday night at the Bender Jewish Community Center in Rockville. A threatening email was received at 11:32 p.m., said Ron Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community Re- lations Council of Greater Washington. Halber declined to say who the email was sent to, noting, “I am not in- terested in giving anyone ideas.” The JCC staff conducted two building sweeps, and police also per- formed an internal and external sweep of the building with dogs, President PHOTO BY MARK POETKER Whitman Speakers from a variety of faiths up for the Jewish Community Center’s hate crime solidarity event earlier this and CEO of the JCC Michael Feinstein showed week. Wins! wrote in an email to JCC members. prudent and urgent that we assist the TheWhitman girls team “We continue to operate as usual, Jewish community in protecting their captures the 4A West crown. but with our heightened level of securi- Parents and students talk inclusion schools, their offices and their commu- Page 24 ty,” he wrote. The incident was the second threat nity services facilities,” County Execu- Isabelle Young, co-founder of school the JCC has received. In the earlier in- tive Ike Leggett wrote to council mem- By Kathleen Stubbs @kathleenstubbs3 club RM huddle, said MCPS re- cident, the JCC was evacuated. The bers when he requested the additional sponded in a satisfactory manner to Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School funds for security. ROCKVILLE – Montgomery incidents of discrimination that she and the Jewish Federation of Greater Only three days before the threat County Public Schools’ parents and and her little sister observed at Washington, both of which are located was emailed into the JCC, more than students said the school system’s in- school. Her sister witnessed a friend in Rockville, also have received bomb 100 interfaith clergy members filled tentions of not tolerating hate are who was Muslim being called a ter- threats. the stage at that facility, to show their clear, though their levels of satisfac- rorist at her elementary school. “Given the serious nature of re- tion varied. cent anti-Semitic threats, I believe it is See “Jewish,” page 8 Richard Montgomery freshman See “Schools,” page 8 2THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL MARCH 9, 2017 EFLECTIONS R The Montgomery County Sentinel, published weekly by Berlyn Inc. Publish- ing, is a community newspaper covering Montgomery County, Maryland. Our of- October 20, 1988 fices are located at 22 W. Jefferson Street, Suite 309, Rockville, MD 20850. Founded in 1855 by Matthew Fields. All mail to: P.O. Box 1272, Rockville, MD Child abuse reports rise in local county public schools 20849-1272. Subscription Rates for The Montgomery County Sentinel – Weekly by mail: $40.00 per year & $26.50 for Se- Each week The Sentinel visits a pared with the 109 in the 1978-79 about one-quarter of the referrals report suspected cases of neglect- nior Citizens. (USPS) 361-100. memorable story from its archives. school year, officials said. received by the social services ed children, defined as those who County teachers are detecting The largest increase has oc- agency during the 1988 fiscal year. suffer significant physical or men- Bernard Kapiloff potential child-abuse cases among curred in the Area 3 school district, Once a referral is received, the so- tal harm because they were ig- PUBLISHER E MERITUS their students at a rate almost triple which covers the fast-growing up- cial services staff decides whether nored or left unattended. Lynn G. Kapiloff that of 10 years ago, according to county. Referrals there have risen to investigate. Last year, 208 of the 311 re- CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ figures released last week by the from 51 in 1980-81 to 119 last School employees are re- ferrals from the schools were for PUBLISHER school system. year. quired by law to report suspected suspected abuse, the others for ne- [email protected] Teachers and other staff mem- Area 2, which includes cases of abused children, defined glect. Mark Kapiloff bers referred 311 students to the Rockville schools, has seen the as children who have been sexual- The latter however, have in- ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER county Department of Social Ser- smallest increase, about 37 percent ly abused or sustained physical in- creased at a slightly higher rate in [email protected] vices as possible abuse victims during the last seven years. juries through cruel or inhumane the last decade than cases of sus- during the last school year, com- School referrals comprised treatment. Employees also must pected abuse. EDITORIAL Brian J. Karem EXECUTIVE EDITOR [email protected] Brandy L. Simms NEWS BRIEFS SPORTS EDITOR Write us [email protected] Man charged with threatening judge MARK ROBINSON [email protected] tor in protective gear, but no danger- since the pipe’s installation. He said CITY EDITOR Compiled by ous materials or weapons were the city decided to flush out and The Montgomery County Sentinel staff reports VINCENT SHERRY found. clean the sewer main because the lo- welcomes letters. [email protected] Police arrested a man Thursday This story will be updated as it cation of the new “lateral” by 200 COPY EDITOR who is accused of threatening a judge develops. West Jefferson St. has a history of with a bomb over a domestic court problems. NEAL EARLEY case. Public Works Cleans “We’ve had some sewer issues All letters must be original, [email protected] REPORTER Units from the Montgomery Sewage in Rockville in that neighborhood with the house County Police Department and lateral, which has nothing to do with signed by the author Jacqui South, Terry Brennan & Montgomery County Sheriff's De- ROCKVILLE – The city Public (the sewage spill),” Plymale said, re- and must include the author’s David Wolfe, Mark Poetker partment were able to locate the sus- Works Department reduced west- ferring to when sewage flowed from PHOTOGRAPHERS pect through his license plate number bound traffic from two lanes to one the top of a broken sewage truck into and pulled him over at Maryland Av- daytime telephone number TAZEEN AHMAD for less than half an hour Monday so a parking lot less than 100 feet away CALENDAR EDITOR enue and Great Falls Road, near that city laborers could clear out Feb.