Rockville Rewind: July 25-29

Rites of summer—with a look toward the fall—made news in and around Rockville this week as Patch featured the arts and outdoor activities, another candidate filed for a run at the City Council and students and teachers stocked up on donated school supplies. 

Meanwhile, county leaders traveled to El Salvador to sign an agreement with a sister city and the County Council heard testimony on a proposed curfew.

Tom Moore, chairman of the city’s Compensation Commission and a candidate for City Council in 2009, in the Nov. 8 election.

Families and teachers gathered at Richard Montgomery High School on Monday morning as the Drive for Supplies program . The program, now in its 12th year, is a joint effort of the county school system and Learn Shop Inc., a Wheaton-based nonprofit.

County officials and community leaders left for El Salvador on Monday, where County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) was to  with the Salvadoran state—or "department"—of Morazán. The delegation also planned on buying musical instruments for a children’s cultural center in Perquín, a city in Morazán, using money raised in Montgomery County with help from Hungry for Music, a nonprofit that donates instruments to children around the world.

A faulty water heater in a townhouse on First Street poisoning early Tuesday morning.

Tuesday’s —from ice hockey to tennis to time with your dog.

Also Tuesday, Patch near Shady Grove. Steven A. Silverman, director of the county’s Department of Economic Development, called the campus “very, very critical in terms of our life sciences efforts in the county.”

Rockville City Police announced Tuesday that they would that aims to eliminate traffic fatalities through increased enforcement of aggressive and impaired driving.

At the County Council on Tuesday, police and Silver Spring civic leaders praised a proposed curfew for people under age 18. The curfew who questioned its potential effectiveness and consequences. Leggett, who proposed the curfew,

On Wednesday, Patch took .

Also Wednesday, in which a man called “Come here, boy,” to an 11-year-old boy playing in front of his home in the Rockshire neighborhood. News of the incident spread through a community list serve and through the boy’s father who notified a pool and two schools. By Wednesday night, police had interviewed the boy and his family and determined that the incident was not an abduction attempt.

On Thursday, we featured an exhibition of abstract paintings that is on exhibit through Tuesday in the art gallery at .

Also Thursday, more than 500 children who are enrolled in city summer programs at . The program is part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity.

On Friday, we featured . The device is considered a weapon in the fight against human trafficking.

We closed out the workweek with a look at 35 places around Rockville .