2015, 2016, 2017 MDDC News Organization of the Year! Celebrating more than 160 years of service! Vol. 164, No. 50 • 50¢ SINCE 1855 Thursday, May 23, 2019 INSIDE Ring The Bell Montgomery CC Wireless Protest Forty people gathered in finalizes budget for front of the Verizon store in Bethesda May 15 and called on all wireless companies to stop deploying small cell wireless mi- upcoming year crowave antennas in residential funding from the council. areas, which they consider a seri- By Elle Meyers According to the county, with an ous health threat. @_ElleMeyers increase of $84.1 million from the ROCKVILLE—The County original budget proposal, MCPS will Page 3 Council reached a tentative agree- be funded beyond the maintenance of ment on the fiscal year 2020 operating effort level, which is required by the budget. State of Maryland. The council settled on the budget The budget allocates a total of for the coming fiscal year by a straw $2.68 billion for MCPS which, ac- vote on May 16. cording to the county, more than fully They were able to fund county funds the requested amount by the departments and programs more thor- MCPS Board of Education. oughly than the original budget pro- “At roughly half our budget, the posal while still maintaining reserve continued investment in our schools levels of 10 percent adjusted govern- is sound,” Councilmember Craig mental revenue of $128.3 million. Rice said. “The reality is that not ‘Twelfth Night’ Maintaining these reserves al- funding MCPS would be much cost- lows the extra county funding in the lier. Full funding will allow MCPS to “Twelfth Night” is performed event of an unforeseen issue like a enrich reading and writing interven- at Olney Theatre Center, May 29- market downturn or particularly bad tions further, add counselors to ele- June 2. Recommended for children weather that causes damages. mentary schools and enhance after- school activities in schools with in grades 7-12. 2001 Olney-Sandy “For me, this is a proud moment greater socio-economic need.” Spring Road, Olney. www.ol- because this budget brings together During budget discussions over neytheatre.org. my priorities and my work on educa- the last few months, Rice was vocal tion, economic development and Page 11 on issues of school funding and advo- workforce development with a focus cated for betting funding of MCPS PHOTO BY MICHAEL SMITH on equity, fiscal prudence, and sus- Officer John McClellan of the Montgomery County Police Departments and Montgomery College. tainability,” said County Council The local community college Honor Guard rings the bell as names of the fallen or lost in battle are read President Nancy Navarro. during the one year anniversary of the dedication of the Montgomery Montgomery County Public County Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall held at Memorial Plaza in Schools (MCPS) and Montgomery Rockville, MD on May 21. Story continues on Page 8. College (MC) both received extra See Budget, Page 8 Memorial wall dedicated to Vietnam veterans from county is embraced “We did this because many of us According to the commission, Leggett also attended the ceremony. By Elle Meyers Sherwood Wins! lose the opportunity to honor the the memorial wall was designed by Leggett served in 1969 and has @_ElleMeyers On May 17, the Warriors memories of our fallen brothers and Architect Randy Hawkins. Bullis played an integral role in the cre- ROCKVILLE—Vietnam Vet- hosted No. 1 seed (from Section I) sisters who died in service.” commented that the wall is an effec- ation and placement of the memori- erans gathered at Memorial Plaza to Dulaney of Baltimore County in a The ceremony was hosted by tive memorial because it makes al. dedicate the new site to the Mont- hotly contested battle. However, the Commission of Veterans Affairs people stop and think. During his time as county exec- gomery County soldiers who passed Sherwood would come out on top which worked with the county over “The location is fantastic,” said utive, Leggett created the Commis- in walk-off fashion to win the re- away or never came back home from the last few years to find a central lo- Imants Celtnieks who served be- sion of Veterans Affairs in 2008. He gional title. war on May 21. cation to honor Vietnam Veterans. tween 1967 and 1968. “I mean it’s explained that a memorial to Viet- The memorial wall was in- “It took our commission a long the middle of town, but it’s closed in, nam veterans was something they Page 17 stalled a year ago and has 130 names time to have this important memori- it’s bright, it’s very quiet also even had wanted for many years. of service members from the county al established and find the right though we have a major road here.” Memorial Plaza, as it looks to- who were killed or reported missing place for it,” said Daniel Bullis, who The plaza faces Jefferson Street day, was many years in the making. in action from 1955-1975. serves as chair of the commission. and although cars and buses were Leggett explained that the memorial “We did this in memory of “Now our mission is to make sure driving back and forth during the wall was the last addition to the those who did not come back,” said that the 130 veterans whose names ceremony, the plaza stayed quiet plaza. First renovations were made to Michael Subin who serves as the are on the wall and their families are thanks in part to a fountain that county executive’s representative on never forgotten for the sacrifices drowned out the street noise. the Commission of Veterans Affairs. they made for our country.” Former County Executive Isiah See Memorial, Page 8 2 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL MAY 23, 2019 EFLECTIONS The Montgomery County Sentinel, R published weekly by Berlyn Inc. Publish- ing, is a community newspaper covering Montgomery County, Maryland. Our of- August 1, 1963: Boy ‘Pilot’ Gets Only Light Term fices are located at 22 W. Jefferson Street, Suite 309, Rockville, MD 20850. Each week the Sentinel visits a up without permission, Bernadette accident and had received several been “unanimously liked” by em- Founded in 1855 by Matthew Fields. All memorable story from its archives. Flint of Baltimore, who was de- lessons in flying. He did not have a ployees at the airport and said he mail to: P.O. Box 1272, Rockville, MD 20849-1272. Subscription Rates for The scribed as the fiancee of the defen- license, however, and admitted that felt the accident was largely the re- Montgomery County Sentinel – Weekly A 17-year-old Derwood youth, dant’s brother, Samuel, who also he had flown planes on several oth- sult of “poor judgment, particularly by mail: $40.00 per year & $26.50 for Se- who already has spent more than was a passenger. The two brothers er occasions without authority. from the standpoint of taking pas- nior Citizens. (USPS) 361-100. nine months in jail while awaiting escaped with painful but not severe “I didn’t have permission,” he sengers with him when he didn’t Bernard Kapiloff trial, was given a suspended sen- injuries. told the court, “but I never tried to know anything about the plane.” PUBLISHER E MERITUS tence Monday for his role in the In imposing sentence, Judge hide it from anyone.” After entering a plea of guilty Lynn G. Kapiloff death of a girl passenger in the crash Moorman gave consideration to the Price testified he invited his at the start of the trial, defense attor- CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ of a plane he was flying last Octo- fact that the boy had remained in brother and his fiancee to fly with ney Bernard Wels concluded his PUBLISHER ber. jail since his arrest three days after him about 10 p.m. the night of the case with the contention that an ac- [email protected] Judge Walter H. Moorman or- the crash because of his father’s in- crash and had been aloft for a few quittal would be justified under the Mark Kapiloff dered a three-year sentence in the ability to obtain money required for minutes when “a control jammed,” circumstances involved. He said he ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Maryland House of Correction for bond. Nevertheless, he lectured shortly after the engine stuttered was convinced the boy felt no sense [email protected] David A. Price, who had pleaded Price sternly and warned him that briefly. Despite his efforts to level of danger at the time “because he guilty to a manslaughter charge at a he would be returned to prison for the plane, he said, it plunged down- thought he was a good pilot.” EDITORIAL hearing last Thursday, and then sus- another two years if he failed to re- ward and crashed nose first, throw- Despite the tragic climax, Daniel Kucin Jr. EXECUTIVE EDITOR pended the term in putting the turn to school or misbehaved in any ing the girl out although he and his Welsh declared, “this boy did just [email protected] youth on probation for a two- year manner. brother were held in their seats by about what any other boy of his age period. According to testimony at the safety belts. might do if he was deeply interested José Umaña Fatally injured, the plane trial, young Price had been em- In his final argument Assistant in aviation-it was just this type of [email protected] crashed near Laytonsville at night ployed at the Montgomery County State’s Attorney Alfred Burka told interest that produced the Lind- CITY EDITOR on Oct.