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METRO AREA ACCORDING TO AAA “We march today to affirm to all the world that science is rele- INSIDE vant, useful, exciting, and beauti- ful,” said former New Jersey Con- gressman and one-time Bethesda resident Rush Holt, who currently serves as the executive director of Editor’s the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Notebook “Evidence should not be op- tional. Good policies start with an by Brian J. Karem understanding of how things actu- ally are,” he added, speaking to a crowd on the grounds of the Wash- ington Monument. Blinded me Last month, the Trump admin- istration released a 2018 budget PHOTO BYNICKOLAI SUKHAREV with science proposing cuts to research pro- Protesters in the District show up to show their support for scientific research. The March for science grams at the National Institutes of During his tenure in the Mary- said Alicia Christy, 61, a physician have access to health care, particu- comes at a strange time in Health, the Environmental Protec- land Senate, Raskin said he sup- and women’s health advocate from larly contraception,” she added. tion Agency and the Department of the Washington D.C. ported stem cell research and in Kensington, Maryland. Attendees also traveled from Energy’s Office of Science. Congress routinely supports clini- Christy, a former U.S. Army outside the Washington area. Page 4 Reactions to the budget among cal research and approaching gun medical officer and former re- Sol Katzman, 65, and Lisa attendees ranged from disappoint- violence as a public health issue. searcher at NIH in Bethesda, ex- Hochstein, 58, traveled from Santa ment to fear. Raskin is currently a co-spon- plained that research funding sup- Cruz, Calif., to attend the march. Participants in the march in- sor of the Scientific Integrity Act, a ported her work in studying contra- “It’s a most important thing cluded scientists, students, activists bill designed to protect federal ceptive and family planning issues. not to turn our backs on science and and elected officials. agencies from political pressure or “Being able to plan their fami- head back into the dark ages, where “America depends on re- special interests and ensure gov- lies and space their children would people just relied on their faith,” search,” said Congressman Jamie ernment-conducted research is in- be life-changing for these women,” said Katzman, a computer analyst Raskin (D-Md.) after the event. dependent and transparent. Christy added, referring to a 2013 “As legislators we deal with sci- “I feel a strong obligation and research trip she took to Uganda. “I ence-related issues all the time.” need to support medical research,” feel it’s important for women to See “March,” page 8 Hundreds show up for Holocaust Remembrance Day Bullis beats joined Jones at Washington Hebrew new home, where she didn’t know because we don’t like them,” she By Suzanne Pollak Congregation in Potomac in an after- the language and couldn’t understand said, adding, “What matters is that Prep @SuzannePollak noon of remembrance that included the foods. we are all humans. We are all our Bullis rolls over the nor- Refugees from Liberia and the young people meeting with Holo- She recalled the time she and her brothers’ keepers.” mally stout Georgetown Prep Holocaust urged those gathered at caust survivors and a reading of the sister mixed some water into a bowl Marsha (Leikach) Tishler has Little Hoyas. Sunday’s Holocaust Remembrance names of some of the those murdered of flour, added salt and waited for it spent much of her adult life spread- Page 20 Day commemoration to listen and by their surviving relatives. to turn into bread. It didn’t taste ing her story so that the world would learn from their stories and to always “Displaced Persons: Struggles good, but “it was bread to us,” she re- remember where hatred leads. remember. to Find a Home” was the theme of the called. Along with her family, she fled “I am sure in a few years, there commemoration, which was present- When she hears immigrant- her home in Poland hid in a nearby will be a Syrian child telling the same ed by the Jewish Community Rela- bashing in the news, Jones feels a forest. Not knowing what else to do, story as ours. We haven’t learned,” tions Council of Greater Washington. burden, she said. She wants everyone her parents left her at the doorstep of said Crannough Jones, whose family Jones was an 18-year-old high to understand that “immigrants want a farmhouse. She was only 3 months fled the brutal warlord Charles Taylor school student when she fled to safety. They want to get away from old. in 1989. America. Along with her mother and murder,” she said. Two survivors of the Holocaust sister, she worked hard to adapt to her “We shouldn’t kill somebody See “Holocaust” page 8 2THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL APRIL 27, 2017 EFLECTIONS R The Montgomery County Sentinel, published weekly by Berlyn Inc. Publish- ing, is a community newspaper covering Montgomery County, Maryland. Our of- March 10, 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 20849-1272. Subscription Rates for The New court cells found with questionable locks Montgomery County Sentinel – Weekly by mail: $40.00 per year & $26.50 for Se- Each week The Sentinel visits a A prisoner also could hang phone call,” he said. sheriff’s criticism of the new nior Citizens. (USPS) 361-100. memorable story from its archives. himself unobserved, from bars Calvin A. Lightfoot, who has cells. More than three months after that cover the tops of the cells, separate jurisdiction over the “I was appalled when I first Bernard Kapiloff The Sentinel reported security Kight said. county jail as director of the De- saw it and I directed substantial PUBLISHER E MERITUS problems posed by a lack of hold- “When I saw this, I went partment of Correction and Reha- changes immediately. Unfortu- Lynn G. Kapiloff ing cells for prisoners brought to bonkers,” Kight said of the new bilitation was warden of the Bal- nately, the world ‘immediately’ CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ the District Court in Gaithers- cells. timore city jail from 1979 to has different connotations in gov- PUBLISHER burg, the cells are in place but the A state contracting official 1981. Lightfoot confirmed that a ernment than in your household,” [email protected] county sheriff refuses to use said the $100,000 holding cells section of that facility still has Sweeney said. Mark Kapiloff them, calling the lock-ups flimsy have remained empty for at least bars across the top of cells hous- Sweeney said he fully sup- ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER and unsafe. six weeks. They were installed ing about 250 inmates, as a result ports Kight’s decision not to use [email protected] The new holding cells have after The Sentinel reported secu- of renovations there in 1965. the holding cells until renova- such poor security features that rity problems posed by an ab- But Lightfoot expressed sur- tions are completed to make them EDITORIAL the county’s chief corrections of- sence of cells to confine people prised that any cell built 20 years secure. Brian J. Karem ficer says he would “never” sanc- who are in custody pending ap- later would have that dangerous He was not aware that the EXECUTIVE EDITOR [email protected] tion such an outdated design if pearances at the Gaithersburg feature. locks were unsatisfactory until the facility were under his author- courthouse. “I would never design a cell Tuesday, Sweeney said. An assis- Brandy L. Simms ity. The company that designed like that—never,” he said, adding tant told him replacement locks SPORTS EDITOR Sheriff Raymond M. Kight and installed the new holding that similarly designed cells are were ordered in early February but [email protected] said one of his deputies easily cells did not consult with him or rare, “almost nonexistent.” “have not arrived,” he said, adding MARK ROBINSON kicked out the lock mechanism his deputies before constructing In a telephone interview that he hopes they will be deliv- [email protected] on the door of one of the new the lock-up facilities, according Tuesday, Robert F. Sweeney, ered by the end of next week and CITY EDITOR courthouse cells, while standing to Kight. chief judge of the state’s District that other security renovations can VINCENT SHERRY inside it. “They never gave us one Court system, said he agreed with be completed the same day. [email protected] COPY EDITOR NEAL EARLEY [email protected] NEWS REPORTER Write us Jacqui South, Terry Brennan & Hogan says I-270 funding remains on track David Wolfe, Mark Poetker PHOTOGRAPHERS projects are being started.” “This does something, and By Neal Earley The Montgomery County The April announcement that’s – we don’t want to say no to TAZEEN AHMAD @neal_earley Sentinel welcomes letters.