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‘Brutal’ assault gets man 3 life terms - 2 New campaign targets juvenile justice reform- 4 Fire and brimstone marks ‘final’ Graham book- 8 Looking at HIV crisis in Va’.s black community- 14

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Advocacy groups bring awareness to disparities in Henrico County schools Advocates for Equities in Schools, I Vote for Me and Dignity in Schools Campaign recently hosted a community roundtable where concerned parents and Henrico County School Board candidates expressed concerns about disparities that are affecting the black student population.

I Vote for Me Executive Director Lorraine Wright described “alarming” data from the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights regarding in and out of school suspensions as well as expulsions.

Data shows that Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) black student enrollment is at 37.3 percent. The black student population comprises 62.4 percent of in-school suspensions, 69.8 percent of out-of-school suspensions and 56.7 percent of expulsions. Most concerning, is that 47.2 percent of black Pre-K students received more than one out-of-school suspension.

“We must change the climate in our schools,” Wright said. “It feels like our youth are expected to mess up.

How can they be productive with that expectation?”

Parents and advocates said that the mentality of the East End community must live up to an equal standard for the sake of educating youth.

According to the advocates, attaining

this standard is a community effort, and the public officials representing the districts hold responsibility as well.

The advocacy groups said that past representatives on the school board didn’t necessarily do all they could to stand up for youth affected by disproportionate suspension rates. They feel school board representatives should speak for those who can’t speak for themselves and work to change the apparent disparities between the West End and East End of Henrico County.

Dr. William Noel, director of Student Support and Disciplinary Review Office for HCPS was present for the discussion held at the Fairfield Library. He said that while students must be held accountable for their actions, staff should “truly understand” the students they teach in order to better reach them.

“Students are less inclined to be disruptive if they feel you care about them,” Noel said, adding that the county wants to work to eliminate the number of explosions and longterm suspensions that seem to overwhelmingly occur in the county’s East End schools.

The community feels that the churches can play a vital role in leveling the educational field. Two candidates running in the Fairfield District are also pastors of churches

Advocacy groups, community leaders and parents at a recent roundtable discussion addressing disparities in Henrico County. in the East End community.

Rev. Roscoe Cooper, who serves as pastor of Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church and chairman for the Board of Directors for Capitol Area Health Network (CAHN), acknowledges the disparity that exists within the county. He further contends that while the suspension rates are alarming and the pipeline from school to prison is disturbing and needs to be addressed it has to be accepted that the pipeline begins at home.

“We as parents have to be responsible and raise our children and institute the value of education in our children,” said Cooper. “This issue and our youth is near and dear to my heart. It starts with us.

We have the opportunity to make a difference in our children and community.”

Rev. Marcus Martin, pastor of New Bridge Baptist Church and a former special education teacher was also in attendance. He believes momentum in moving black youth forward,

killing the disparities between the county and becoming a unified school system, can come about through leveraging relationships from not only faith bases but local and corporate businesses that will benefit from the next generation of citizens, consumers and workers.

“We are stronger together and weaker apart,” Martin said. “We must work together to have a movement for our youth. I want people to gravitate toward the vision of becoming involved.”

Both Martin and Cooper said their sole purpose of seeking the Fairfield District seat is to support community youth and the productivity of education.

“I’m not using this to jump-start a political career but instead to institute a vision for social justice,” Martin said.

Tara Adams, who is also running for the Fairfield District seat, was absent from the roundtable discussion. –ajs

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Jesse Matthew gets 3 life terms for ‘brutal’ assault JUSTIN JOUVENAL The man accused of killing Virginia college students Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was sentenced Friday in a separate attack in Fairfax in 2005.

Jesse L. Matthew Jr., 33, abducted, sexually assaulted and attempted to kill a woman in an attack that Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David S. Schell called “vicious and brutal.” Schell handed down the maximum punishment — a life term — in each of the three counts for which Matthew was convicted.

“The violence of these offenses was extreme,” Schell said.

Matthew showed little emotion as the sentence was read to a packed courtroom that included the parents of Graham and Harrington, but his mother sobbed and yelled: “I hope you rot in hell.”

It was unclear whom Debra Matthew-Carr was addressing, but her family helped escort her from the courtroom as she cried loudly. Family members declined to comment after the hearing.

Matthew, who has never spoken publicly about the crimes he has been accused of committing, did not break his silence Friday. When Schell asked him if he wanted to address the court before he was sentenced, he answered softly, “No, sir.”

Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh described Matthew as a Jekyll and Hyde character. Morrogh said Matthew could be pleasant, but he was also a vicious sexual predator who was hunting a victim the night of Sept. 24, 2005. He added that Matthew had never shown remorse for the attack.

“There is a complete and utter lack of responsibility from this defendant,” Morrogh said.

Morrogh read excerpts from a letter written by the then-26-year-old

Jesse Matthew during one of numerous court appearances. victim, who was not in the courtroom Friday but whose testimony was instrumental in obtaining Matthew’s conviction in the case in June.

The woman, who is from India, was allowed to testify in the sentencing phase shortly after the trial, so she did not have to return to the United States. The Washington Post generally does not name the victims of sexual assault.

In the letter read by Morrogh, the woman described the attack as a “bad dream.” The woman, who had just started a job after graduate school, was walking home from a book store when Matthew grabbed her a few steps from the townhouse she rented.

Matthew carried her to a grassy patch at one end of her neighborhood and began attacking her. In the letter, she wrote Matthew banged her head into the ground, like a “rugged football.” Matthew sexually assaulted her and began strangling her.

“I see my mother’s sad face, like she is saying, ‘Goodbye,’ ” the woman wrote of being strangled. She eventually passed out and Morrogh said a passerby helped scare Matthew off.

“That night I died,” Morrogh read from the woman’s letter.

After the hearing, Morrogh described the victim as a “real hero” who made Matthew’s conviction possible.

But the road to justice was long.

Fairfax City police investigated dozens of suspects, but the brutal crime went unsolved for nine years.

The big break came when Matthew was arrested in the high-profile killing of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. The 18-year-old from Fairfax County disappeared from downtown Charlottesville after a night out with friends in September 2014. Matthew could face the death penalty if convicted in that case, which is set to go to trial in July.

Following Matthew’s arrest, a DNA sample was taken from him.

Authorities later said it matched material collected from under the nail of the woman in Fairfax after her attack. Matthew was charged in that case.

In June, Matthew’s trial in the Fairfax case ended abruptly after the prosecution finished its case.

Matthew entered a surprise Alford plea. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but concedes that prosecutors have enough evidence to obtain a conviction.

After the 2005 attack, authorities

said Matthew stalked other victims. He was recently charged with murder in the 2009 killing of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, who disappeared during a Metallica concert in Charlottesville and was later found dead. The trial in that case is set to begin Oct. 24.

Bob Frank, a public defender who represented Matthew, asked the court to sentence Matthew to far less time on Friday. He told the judge that Matthew had a difficult life, saying he grew up poor, his father was an alcoholic, Matthew had no serious criminal record and he was sexually abused as a child.

“He’s a gentle giant,” Frank said.

“We ask the court to look at the total man, not just the monster portrayed by the commonwealth and the media.”

The allegation that Matthew was sexually abused was contained in a letter a former girlfriend of his wrote to the judge. The woman wrote that Matthew told her his father had taken him along when he cheated on his wife. While the trysts were going on, Matthew told her, he was abused by people she did not name. None of Matthew’s other family members or friends reported the sexual abuse in letters they wrote.

Morrogh said in court it had no bearing on the current case. Morrogh also said Matthew’s conviction in Fairfax County is significant because it could be a strike against him if he is convicted in Graham’s case, and the judge and jury are weighing sentencing him to death.

Gil Harrington, the mother of Morgan Harrington, said after the hearing that she and the Graham family were relieved that Matthew will spend the rest of his life in prison. Her daughter has been gone for six years, but it still seems unreal, she said.

“We are just starting to come out of the fog of disbelief,” Harrington said. © WaPo

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New campaign seeks to transform Virginia’s approach to juvenile justice RISE for Youth, a bipartisan campaign in support of community alternatives to youth incarceration, launched last week. The campaign comes from a broad statewide coalition and will focus on reforms that will increase community investment in youth rather than primarily rely on incarceration in large prisons.

The campaign launch comes on the heels of findings earlier this year that Virginia tops all states in the nation in referring students from school to law enforcement. Additional research has shown that youth prisons contribute to high rates

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Rutgers MBA graduate becomes president of Shaw University Tashni-Ann Dubroy is not the type of woman to back down from a challenge.

The Rutgers MBA graduate lived up to the challenge at 18, when she immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, applied to a medley of colleges and was denied any scholarships and admission.

She lived up to the challenge when she instead applied, and then attended community college in New York City, and then transferred into Shaw University on scholarship in Raleigh, North Carolina. Years later, she would walk on the same campus grounds, except instead of being a student, she was president.

Since that time, Dubroy continued to walk up to various challenges. She attained her doctorate in chemistry, a field that, statistically, continues to report low numbers of women of color in the fields of science, technology, education and mathematics, especially in top-ranking institutions.

There were just eight tenured African American female professors among the top 100 chemistry departments in the United States in

2007, according to a study conducted

by Marcy Towns, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The numbers fell even more for Native Americans in the same data set — there was just one tenured Native American female professor.

“For every science discipline, the numbers of underrepresented women in each racial group compared with the total number of faculty is well below 1 percent and simultaneously much less than the percentage in the general population,” according to the study.

More recent numbers published in the National Science Foundation Survey of Doctorate Recipients in 2012 found that women of color constituted 2.3 percent of tenure or tenure-track faculty.

Broad data aside, Dubroy knows how women show up — or more accurately, fail to show up — in STEM fields.

She recalled seeing an overwhelming majority of men compared to women as she prepared

of reoffending, wasteful taxpayer spending and disproportionate impacts on youth of color.

RISE for Youth coalition partners include a diverse and bipartisan array of organizations from across the state. The campaign, according to insiders, unites policy experts and activists from both conservative and progressive backgrounds to reinvest in proven, community-based alternatives, and transition from Virginia’s juvenile prison system for youth incarceration to small, secured facilities for high risk youth.

The goals of the campaign include: 1) Ending the school to prison pipeline in Virginia by reducing the number of students referred to the juvenile justice system for minor misbehaviors.

2) Supporting youth in their homes and communities by giving local governments funding to provide services to the youth in those settings rather than spending far greater sums of taxpayer dollars on state-run prisons that remove children from their homes and families.

3) Building a true continuum of evidence-informed placements for youth who cannot safely remain in their homes by creating secured facilities that are regionally based, focused on positive youth development and no larger than 24 beds.

“The formation of this coalition should make it clear to Governor [Terry] McAuliffe and the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice that support for juvenile justice reform across the state is as broad as it is passionate,” said Kate Duvall, attorney at the Legal Aid Justice

Center and RISE for Youth Coalition partner. “We will work tirelessly until our juvenile justice system gives all Virginia youth a true chance to succeed.”

Earlier this month, Justice Fellowship, Right on Crime, and the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy released new research analyzing data from Virginia’s Department of Juvenile Justice and recommending the state limit its historic reliance on incarceration in remotely located, large facilities and instead establish “a workable infrastructure of community-based options that respect the victim, reform the youth and protect the family unit.”

“Virginia’s juvenile justice system relies too much on large youth prisons far from family that ultimately fail both to recognize human value and to provide safe communities, all while placing an enormous burden on taxpayers,” said Craig DeRoche, executive director of Justice Fellowship, a RISE for Youth coalition partner. “It’s time for real and restorative reforms that will improve community safety, protect taxpayers and give all youth in Virginia a chance to succeed.”

“Reforming our juvenile justice system is not only humane and responsible, it’s also what’s best for Virginia’s economy,” said Michael Cassidy, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Institute, a RISE for Youth coalition partner. “We need to move towards investing in proven programs that reduce reoffending rather than spending high sums of taxpayer money on youth incarceration.”

to receive her doctoral degree in chemistry from North Carolina State University in 2007.

“I didn’t have any African American women PhDs who I could look up to as role models,” she said.

“I had to depend on all white, male role models. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s something that is a reality.”

But being one of the few women in a male-dominated field never inhibited Dubroy.

For a few years, she worked as a chemist, analyst and manager at BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world.

She left BASF when she had to decide between pursuing a career in corporate chemistry and pursuing opportunities in entrepreneurship — and her passion for business won.

When she was at the business table at BASF, she was over her head, she said. She had no business experience, but she wanted to contribute to the discussion. So she took the first step to developing a sense of business savvy, and eventually enrolled in the Rutgers MBA program, where she chose to study marketing.

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Fair housing gets boost Hampton, Henrico, Chesapeake and Richmond are among seven Virginia localities and organizations that will receive nearly $7 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fight housing discrimination, improve economic conditions and increase access to affordable housing.

The funding comes from HUD’s Community Development Block

Grants (CDBG) program, HOME program, Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program and Fair Housing Initiatives Program.

The CDBG program provides grants to state and local governments to develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for low- and moderate-

P’burg transit introduces new service to city’s entertainment amenities Petersburg Area Transit (PAT) has a new transit service to Camelot, Petersburg Sports Complex, Petersburg High School, Vernon Johns Middle School and Dogwood Trace Golf course.

City Manager, William E. Johnson III, said that “providing public transportation to areas like the Sports Complex and Dogwood Trace, and two of our public school, this really allows our citizens and visitors the ability to take a ride and visit the all the exciting attractions and places, and enhances accessibility to jobs within Petersburg.”

The route was created and funded at no additional cost to PAT by innovatively using an existing driver, bus and by splitting the run times with the Virginia Avenue route. The scheduled times the bus will depart Petersburg Station located at 100 W. Washington Street will be at 6:45 a.m., 7:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 2:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.

“This new service allows patrons connecting from our PAT stops in Richmond, Hopewell and Colonial Heights more access to key destinations in Petersburg for work, school or play,” said Transit Systems Manager Darius Mason.

income persons.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) who worked as a fair housing lawyer from 1984 to 2001, said he has seen the benefits equal access to housing and home ownership can have in communities.

“By ensuring the supply of affordable housing, helping build strong, prosperous communities and educating citizens on their rights, these grants will make a positive impact on the lives of families in Virginia,” said Kaine whose cases were focused on implementing provisions of the Fair Housing Act throughout Virginia.

Chesapeake will receive $1,019,917 from the CDBG and $361,113 from the HOME program; Hampton will receive $1,221,322 from CDBG and $350,782 from the HOME program; Richmond’s Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia will receive $325,000 through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program’s grant competition; Henrico County will receive $1,575,820 from CDBG, $139,425 from ESG and $599,842 from the HOME program.

Other localities that will receive funds include Lynchburg, Bristol and Waynesboro city.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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SYG is a license to kill MARC H. MORIAL “Racial stereotypes are still part of American culture, and, by default, part of the American criminal justice system. Instead of being color-blind, an impossible exercise, the impact of race must be addressed head-on and become openly part of the legal critique. It must be discussed where necessary to amend laws that enable race, or the fear of race, to be a guise to harm the disfavored race. This is our task if we choose to accept it.” – Professor Tamara Lawson, “A Fresh Cut in an Old Wound--A Critical Analysis of the Trayvon Martin Killing” - August 2012 Trayvon Martin’s unjust death at the hands of a trigger-happy, selfdescribed neighborhood watchman continues to shock and live on in our nation's collective consciousness. And with the release of a recent study commissioned by the American Bar Association, it may also become the impetus behind the movement to abolish or scale back Stand Your Ground protections--protections that influenced the ultimate acquittal of Trayvon's murderer and focused our attention on the dangerous confluence of race and criminal justice in America.

On the evening of Feb. 26, 2012, Trayvon became a tragic illustration of the glaring defects in Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. The 17-yearold, with no criminal record, was walking home from a store armed The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 1 No. 36 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

only with a bag of candy and a can of iced tea when he was confronted and then shot to death by George Zimmerman. Because of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, Zimmerman was taken in for questioning but was later released on the grounds of self-defense. He would not be charged with murder by the police--that night.

According to the law, which Florida became the first state to adopt in 2005, people are authorized to use deadly force in cases of self-defense without the duty to retreat in the face of any perceived threat to their life or property. As long as you can claim that you are in fear for your life at any given point, the law hands you a license to kill at will. Rather than lower homicide or crime rates, this essentially free pass to criminal behavior has only served to further endanger public safety--particularly the lives of people of color--and exploit the mistrust, animosity and racial injustice that color our daily interactions and justice at every level.

Trayvon’s murder served as the genesis of the ABA’s National Task Force on Stand Your Ground Laws.

The task force has researched the impact of Stand Your Ground laws in the 33 states that carry some variation of the law, and their discoveries should give pause to all Americans committed to fair and balanced treatment within our criminal justice system. In a previous The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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study by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition in collaboration with the National Urban League and VoteVets, our data showed that in the 22 states that had enacted Stand Your Ground Laws between 2005 and 2007, the justifiable homicide rate by private citizens was 53 percent higher after the passage of the law. The study also found that in Florida alone, justifiable homicides jumped to 200 percent. A 2012 ABA report cited statistics compiled by researchers at Texas A&M that found that states with Stand Your Ground laws have more homicides than states without the statute.

When you take into consideration the history of race in this country, the disproportionate impact of the law on African Americans should come as no surprise. The task force’s research has also found that a white shooter who uses deadly force against a black victim is 350 percent more likely to be found justified than a black shooter who kills a white victim.

Because of the racial bias inherent in Stand Your Ground laws, and the danger to the general public caused by this “shoot first, ask later” mentality, we need to do more than review the laws, we need to repeal them. Stand Your Ground has not proven itself to be a common sense law that keeps our communities--and our neighbors--safe. According to one of the task force's researchers, “if we

are to use science and data and logic and analysis to drive sensible public policy, then there is no reliable and credible evidence to support laws that encourage stand your ground and shoot your neighbor.”

No matter who you are, or what ethnic community you claim as your own, we all want the same thing: to be safe. Stand Your Ground laws have proven that rather than curb violence, the laws increase violence.

The explosive combination of Stand Your Ground laws and pre-existing racial stereotypes and tensions have worked disproportionately against communities of color, making them victims in far larger numbers and depriving them of justice in our criminal justice system. Repealing Stand Your Ground laws would seem like common sense, but unfortunately, common sense is not so common. Just weeks ago a bill was introduced by a Florida legislator that would effectively provide more protection for people who claim self-defense, placing the burden on prosecutors to prove that the defendant was wrong to use deadly force. Stand Your Ground laws do not protect us--they hurt, divide and kill-and we must work together to enact public policy and gun laws that will ensure the safety of the American public.

Morial is head of the National Urban League.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Frank talk

While government agencies seek new ways to boost the economy and create jobs, one industry is just waiting for government support in order to invest billions of private dollars into the economy. I’m talking about the energy industry – the one that has led the way in job creation and investment since the recent Great Recession.

America’s energy companies are waiting on pipeline approvals so they can more safely carry oil and natural gas to processing centers. Building those pipelines will create tens of thousands of jobs. Oil companies are waiting for the federal government to lift the 40-year ban on crude oil exports, while our allies around the world are waiting to pay us to buy our crude oil.

Yet as Washington leaders are delaying these decisions, the Administration is pushing efforts to raise taxes on these very energy companies.

Raising energy taxes is a bad idea for at least two reasons. First, it punishes an industry that already is suffering under a higher tax rate than other industries. Second, higher energy taxes would mean higher costs for gasoline, heating oil, electricity, food and goods that must be transported, etc. These price increases would hit every American family, and those on fixed incomes would suffer the most.

Washington: Don’t just target one industry. Instead fight for comprehensive tax reform that will help the economy and support job creation.

Marquess Johnson Richmond

‘This has become routine’

That’s what President Barack Obama said after a gunman killed 10 before police shot him to death at Umpqua Community College in Rosebud, Oregon on Oct. 1. Obama said a mouthful there; more than he knew.

“Mass shootings” -- gun homicides with four or more victims -- are indeed “routine.” That is, they are stable. There’s been no discernible upward trend in the number of incidents or victims over the last 40 years, contra scaremongers who pretend this is a new or growing phenomenon.

It’s also routine for victim disarmament (“gun control”) advocates to begin dancing on the graves of those killed in “mass shootings” before the bodies have had time to cool, demanding more, and more draconian, laws of a type which are not only patently evil and irrefutably unconstitutional, but which have never produced the results their supporters claim to want. The main centers of American “gun violence” are, and always have been, areas where corrupt legislators or naive voters adopt the victim disarmers’ schemes.

Obama happens to be GraveDancing Ghoul in Chief at the moment, but would-be Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wasted no time hitting the dance floor either, hoping to gain back some ground on opponent Bernie Sanders by grandstanding on the fact that Sanders hasn’t historically been quite as stark-raving nutzoid on the topic of guns and self-defense as the Democrat mainstream.

Clinton focused on the victim disarmament lobby’s bete noire, the

National Rifle Association. “What’s wrong with us that we can’t stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby?” she asked.

A better question might be “with friends like the NRA, what do gun owners need enemies for?” The NRA has either overtly backed, or at best “grudgingly” compromised on, every major piece of American victim disarmament legislation since the 1930s. At their very best, they’re weak-kneed moderates who can’t be trusted to show any backbone in defense of human rights. At their worst ... well, Benedict Arnold doesn’t lack for modern imitators.

For those politicians and activists silly enough to think “gun control” is a winning issue in 2016, one thing to keep in mind: There are somewhere between 270 million and 350 million guns in the hands of between 70 million and 100 million Americans.

You can’t have them. You don’t have to like it. That’s how it is whether you like it or not. Get used to that routine.

Thomas Knapp

On Dr. Allix B. James

The Virginia Union University family has lost an outstanding alum and great educational leader in the passing of Dr. Allix B. James, the seventh president of Virginia Union University.

Dr. James devoted his life and his work as a student and leader at Virginia Union University. He has been associated with the university for over 70 years as a student, as a professor, and as its president in 1970. The university has on many occasions, recognized the contributions of Dr. James. He was bestowed our highest honor in 2011

with the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters and in 2015 he was recognized at our 36th Annual Community Leaders Breakfast, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, with the MLK Lifetime of Service Award from Virginia Union University. Dr. James established two endowed scholarships at the University, one in honor of his father Samuel H. James, and another to honor his wife, Sue N. James.

He was devoted spiritually and financially to the welfare of Virginia Union University. Our prayers go out to his family.

Dr. Claude G. Perkins

Fresh faces needed

There is something wrong with the Democratic Party. The candidate who is providing the only real sizzle in the Democratic presidential race right now is Bernie Sanders, a 74-year-old socialist senator from Vermont who is something of a oddball. Hillary Clinton, their frontrunner, a soon-to-be 68-year-old party stalwart, is stale, bogged down in scandal and can’t draw a crowd.

So, who is it that many in the Democratic Party are looking to as the party’s “savior” in the face of the unremarkable Democratic field so far? Answer: Joe Biden, a 72-year-old, former six-term senator from Delaware and the current vice president. And this isn’t the only evidence that the Democrats have a problem.

There is fundamentally something wrong with their candidate pool. Democrats’ old, white presidential field and reliance on retread candidates shows there is “something wrong” with the party Ed Rogers

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Faith & Religion

The LEGACY

Billy Graham warns of fire and brimstone in ‘final’ book ADELLE BANKS (RNS) In his latest book, evangelist Billy Graham declares that nonChristians are doomed to live in a fiery hell, a message his son said he has wanted to share for several years.

“There were some family members who thought that he shouldn’t do it because it was a negative subject,” said Franklin Graham in an interview Friday (Oct. 2). “And Daddy said, ‘It is a negative subject.

It’ s a real subject. It’s a real place.’”

“Where I Am: Heaven, Eternity and Our Life Beyond,” released this week and billed as the “final work” by the 96-year-old, offers a vivid depiction of hell that harkens back to his youthful zeal as an emerging evangelist on the national stage.

“As a Christian and a preacher

Rev. Billy Graham of the Gospel, I am always grieved to have to interrupt a marvelous picture, such as eternal life in Heaven, to talk about another Participants also will be able to eternal place that Jesus calls help prepare personal care kits Hell,” Graham writes. “It has no similarities to what is typically called and bag lunches for distribution to homeless individuals, and participate home, nor is Hell a resting place, a holding place, or a graveyard. Hell is in service projects with United a burning inferno.”

Methodist Family Services and the Scholars who have followed church’s other outreach ministries.

Graham’s ministry say his words are Information also will be available a significant shift from the approach about opportunities to serve both he took after the first decade of his locally and abroad, including ministry, which gained prominence upcoming mission trips. in a Los Angeles crusade in 1949.

Volunteers may drop in to help “In the 1950s, especially the early with most activities at any time years, he could be pretty specific from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday, and colorful, but as early as 1954 during the London Crusade he Oct. 17. However, those interested noted that he was not sure if fire in participating with Stop Hunger would be involved,” said William Now or CARITAS are asked to Martin, author of a 1991 biography register ahead of time at http://bit.ly/ of Graham and a senior fellow for rumcservice. religion and public policy at Rice “The event offers meaningful University’s Baker Institute. fun for the entire family,” notes Michael Hamilton, chair of the Reveille UMC, adding that service history department of evangelical opportunities are available for all Seattle Pacific University, said ages, with child care available for Graham spoke often of “the hell of ages four and under. To register in the contemporary state of the world advance for child care, participants and the hell of the chaotic personal life. Those are the two hells that are are asked to visit the website above.

Church to hold Day of Service Reveille United Methodist Church plans to offer citizens an opportunity to participate in 12 service opportunities in three hours at its annual ‘Day of Service’ on Saturday, Oct.17, from 9 a.m. to noon, at the church, 4200 Cary Street Rd., Richmond. The event is free and open to the public.

Day of Service offers allows participation in a wide range of service projects all in one place and in one morning, according to Reveille UMC. The featured activity will be packaging 20,000 meals for the nonprofit, international hunger-relief organization Stop Hunger Now, which coordinates the distribution of food and other aid to crisis areas across the globe.

Reveille UMC needs more than 200 volunteers to help with this and other projects, including preparing the church to host families who are working to transition from homelessness to permanent housing through CARITAS.

really dominant through most of his ministry, though in the earlier years he talked more about an actual Bible hell.”

But Franklin Graham said of his father: “He’s always pictured hell as what the Bible teaches.”

In the new book, Billy Graham hedges his bets, but just a bit.

“I can say with certainty that if there is no literal fire in Hell, then God is using symbolic language to indicate something far worse,” he writes. “Just as there are no words to adequately describe the grand beauty of Heaven, we cannot begin to imagine just how horrible the place called Hell is.”

Matt Baugher, W Publishing Group’s senior vice president and publisher, said the book project included collaboration with Franklin Graham and Donna Lee Toney, who read portions back to the elder Graham, who suffers from macular degeneration.

The younger Graham said he encouraged his father but did not write the book.

“One of his concerns was that hell and heaven were being distorted by Hollywood,” said Franklin Graham.

“And you have these films that have come out and books and so forth about heaven or hell. And my father wanted people to know what the Bible has to say about them.”

The younger Graham, who is now president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, was at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday, when North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill requesting the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall include a statue of the evangelist to replace that of Charles Aycock, a former governor and white supremacist.

“I think for another generation it will give an opportunity for my father to reach out from the grave with the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Franklin Graham said. “As people read and study his life, they’ll read and understand the message that he

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AAA to host 2015 Senior Driver Day in Va. Beach AAA Tidewater will host a “Senior Driver Day @ AAA” on Oct. 10 to provide senior drivers with information to keep them driving as long as possible and as safely as possible. The event is scheduled in Virginia Beach from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and will be held at AAA Tidewater Corporate Office, 5366 Virginia Beach Blvd. The free event is open to all older drivers and their adult children.

(from page 8) preached.”

In a chapter titled “Forever Separated and Forever United,” Billy Graham emphasizes his belief that individuals can choose to avoid what the Scripture describes as “unending death in a lake of fire and brimstone that burns forever.”

“God does not send unrepentant souls into the pit of darkness; those souls choose their destiny,” he said.

Franklin Graham said his father no longer has the Parkinson’s diseaselike symptoms he once had but sometimes needs people to speak up so he can hear them. He watches the morning news, football and golf on his big-screen television and keeps up with current events.

The book, filled with passages from the Bible. dwells on the evangelist’s views of eternity. But it also gives glimpses of Billy Graham’s personal life, including his love for his wife Ruth, who died in 2007.

“She no longer has detours to maneuver; she has traveled the smooth highway to Heaven,” he writes. “I will join her soon.”

Here are a few excerpts of what Billy Graham wrote about heaven and hell in “Where I Am”: HEAVEN: “We will know morning glories that never cease because the Son will shine His eternal light upon us forever, and all of Heaven will be filled with resounding joy. Being in His presence will be our treasure. I look forward to that.”

“Heaven captures the imagination, but it is not an imaginary place. It is not a fantasyland in which to dwell.

It is not a place one can travel to and come back again — at least not

Similar to popular community health-care events, AAA Senior Driver Day will offer presentations and hands-on activities with the opportunity to sample AAA’s suite of research-based senior driver resources. Attendees will have access to tools that can help assess and improve driving skills, reduce driving risks and foster dialogue between adult children and their senior parents about driving issues. There in our earthbound life. Heaven is a literal place.”

“We need to say either yes or no.

But some of us say maybe. Some of us try to straddle the fence and live in both worlds, but Jesus will not compromise with us. The Gospel plan is all set. We must accept His Son if we are to enter into His eternal kingdom. If your answer is not yes, then the choice is made.”

HELL “You may be thinking, ‘Billy surely you do not believe all of this Hellfire and brimstone!’ My dear friends, it is not what I say that counts; it is what the Word of God says.”

“The worst kind of death is described in Scripture — unending death in a lake of fire and brimstone that burns forever. Just as we cannot fathom the wonder of living forever in glory, we cannot possibly comprehend the alternative.”

“Every person who rejects Christ and His atoning work will be cast into this horrible pit of despair.

Worse will be to remember that it was by choice — that God called you to salvation but you rejected His wonderful gift. God does not send unrepentant souls into the pit of darkness; those souls choose their destiny. You’ve heard the saying, ‘They aren’t living; they are just existing!’ There will be ‘no purposeful living’ in Hell, just an existence beyond all misery.”

“You may wonder what Hell is really like. Don’t look to comedians for answers. The Bible tells you the truth. Hell is a place of sorrow and unrest, a place of wailing and a furnace of fire; a place of torment, a place of outer darkness, a place where people scream for mercy; a place of everlasting punishment.”

will be a CarFit station, free battery and tire checks courtesy of AAA Car Care Center technicians, and information on driver improvement classes. In addition, many of AAA’s other services will be on hands to provide information.

“Research shows that nearly one-in-three Americans don’t know where to turn for information on senior driver issues,” said Georjeane Blumling, vice president of public affairs for AAA Tidewater. “AAA’s Senior Driver Day will help families learn how to prepare for and address the challenges senior drivers face as a result of the natural, inevitable consequences of aging.”

“We are excited about the opportunity to provide seniors in Hampton Roads with information they can use to continue to drive as safe as possible for as long as possible”, said Blumling. “This is a topic that will affect each of us at some point in our driving lives.

Giving senior drivers and their adult children tools to help meet the challenge of making the transition from driver to full time passenger is

a key element in the process.”

Several AAA senior driver safety resources on display will include: AAASeniors.com – A one-stop online resource that offers expert advice and science-based tools and programs to help families navigate the issues associated with senior driving and mobility.

AAA Roadwise Review – A computer-based screening tool that allows users to measure the functional abilities scientifically linked to crash risk among older drivers.

CarFit – A community-based program that offers older adults the opportunity to check how well their personal vehicles “fit” them for maximum comfort and safety.

Smart Features for Mature Drivers – A guide that identifies vehicle features that can assist drivers with the visual, physical and mental changes that are frequently encountered as they age.

AAA Roadwise Rx – An online resource that can identify potential dangerous interactions of medications that can adversely affect driving skills for older drivers.

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Africans seek deeper cultural exchange with black Americans

HAMPTON ARTS 2015/16

Mei Turay emigrated to the United States from Sierra Leone as a young boy with his family more than 30 years ago and settled into the District’s Columbia Heights neighborhood with ease. His cultural identification quickly took on that of many native Africans who moved to D.C. in the 1970s – black American popular culture when among friends, and a strict adherence to Sierra Leonian values at home.

“There were certain stereotypes of Africans that I wanted to separate myself from growing up – especially since most often they were negative things like starving kids on television, civil unrest,

and later, HIV infections,” said Turay, who did not readily admit he was African until the release of Eddie Murphy’s 1988 film “Coming to America”.

“I learned to hide my accent as much as possible and do the things my friend did so they wouldn’t associate me with those images.” Turay said that with cultural events like the annual D.C. Africa Festival, held Sept.27, black Americans are afforded a glimpse into the history, language, art, food, and rituals of their ancestral homes. Barring such cultural exchanges, Turay said he believes black Americans would continue to view African nations as backwards, primitive,

impoverished, and desolate.

South African student Mariah Chetty concurred with Turay, saying cultural festivals have an immense effect on black Americans who claim their African ancestry without a complete understanding of it. What blacks do not know, Chetty said, can be harmful to their self-identity.

“For Africans living in America, the cultural exchange is almost always one where we are learning from Americans, rather than Americans learning from us,” said Chetty. “Every black person

should make a sojourn to the Motherland at least once in their lifetime because popular culture is not always popular and in the same way black Americans would not want the world to think of them using representatives from reality housewives shows, South Africa is not all poverty, disease, and Mandela memorials.”

Chetty points to the vibrant Nigerian film industry, known as Nollywood, which the Nigerian government said earned an estimated $3.3 billion with 1,844 movies produced in 2013 alone. There are also successful businesswomen like South Africa’s Toy Majola, who customizes one-of-a-kind stilettoes through her ToyGal Shoes, for black women globally.

“I applaud cities and states that spotlight the diversity of Diasporic African cultures, especially in places with high concentrations of black Americans.

Every one of the 54 countries and nearly 3,000 languages should be acknowledged because it proves we are many, but one,” Chetty said.

“We are all one family, and black Americans are a branch on that family tree. We just have to get a point where we all recognize that it is the same tree.”

The legends sing

Mary Wilson & Freda Payne SING THE LEGENDS

SAT. OCT. 17 | 8PM T H E A M E R I C A N T H E AT R E 1 2 5 E . M E L L E N S T. H A M P T O N

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Mary Wilson & Freda Payne are legendary superstars who join together for a tour-de-force evening of music paying tribute to the iconic Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald. The memorable concert includes classics like “Mr. Paganini,” “Mack the Knife,” “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “They Can’t Take that Away from Me,” “Stormy Weather,” “Honeysuckle Rose” and many more.

Wilson of the Supremes is best known for being a founding member of the Motown female singing trio, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Supremes when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Wilson has toured the globe as a performer and

continues to travel as advocate on behalf of social and civic issues.

Payne returns to the Hampton Arts stage after a sold-out performance last season. An accomplished singer and actress, Payne’s career like few of her peer’s has spanned over 45 years. Her Broadway credits include “Hallelujah Baby”, “Lost In the Stars”, “Sophisticated Ladies”, “Jellies Last Jam”, “The Blues in the Night”, and “Ain’t Misbehavin’”. Her 1970 release “Band of Gold” sold over a million copies, and won Payne her first gold record.

These two superstars come together on Oct. 17 in an intimate one-night-only event of music, story and virtuosity that citizens are asked not to miss.

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R&B group to feature on kids app

Ask Alma

Ex-wife taking up too much time Dear Alma, My husband was married very young, from the age of 20-22.

The marriage was a disaster and they divorced without having a conversation or even seeing each other in court. He didn’t contest it or show up to the court date.

She recently found him on Facebook and asked if she could give him a call. When he came and asked me about it, I said it would be ok. My husband and I are very close; we have successful adult children, and a lovely grandchild.

We are very active in our church.

I said yes, because we’ve had a wonderful life, a happy and loving 25 years of marriage. I was ok with it at first, but lately they’ve been having long conversations on the phone and what I thought was going to be a one or two time thing, is still going on. He talks to her while I’m in the room. They seem to have a really good friendship building.

My patience has run thin.

I recently told him the conversations need to stop and he said no. She’s not married, lives in another state, and has cancer. He says he wants to be there for her, but I don’t think that’s his place.

I trust my husband but I don’t trust her. I think she is lonely and just reminiscing about my husband.

I know I opened this can of worms but what do I do to put the lid back on.

Should I threaten to leave and give him an ultimatum?

D.T. Tampa, Fla. D.T., It would never sit well with me to tell someone to leave a marriage of 25 years. What may be a deal breaker for one, might not be for another. What I will say is, you are not the number one woman in your husbands heart – right now.

I know, I know, that’s a handful of hurt to hold, but honesty is what you get while sitting in the Ask Alma Café, and you my dear took a seat. First and foremost, don’t ever offer an ultimatum, or you may find yourself unaccompanied. Giving an ultimatum to your partner is like offering a cold glass of pride and arrogance. The offer of “my way or the highway” doesn’t give the other person a reasonable choice or viable option. You have one of two

decisions to make. You can turn the other cheek and wait for this circus to pass through town, (‘cause we both know it will), or you can start to do what’s needed to regain your number one “I’m every woman-wife #1” status. The choice is up to you.

Since your husband was honest enough to bring this to your attention and ask for permission, I don’t think these long talks are a threat to your marriage. As you mentioned, she’s in one state and you live in another. When one takes the time to finalize, wrap up life lessons and loose ends over the years, it can be cathartic. I think he’s trying to extend a more compassionate side of himself because she’s ill. Don’t fault him for that. Deal with him based on what he actually does, not what you’ve imagined him doing.

Mark my words, the rambles of reminiscing will begin to roll away, because at some point one of them will remember why they divorced in the first place. I anticipate that will be your husband. If you had asked me this question 20 years ago, I would have told you to tell him to get the steppin’ but I know better now.

Twenty-five years is a long time and as his wife, you’ve gotta dig in deep, do a better job of weathering this storm. Since it’s the first real tsunami in your relationship, lay down some rules but don’t grab your umbrella and run. Tell him what’s on your mind, tell him how this situation makes you feel and ride it out.

I’ve got a good feeling about your husband and I think he’ll revert with a sack of sorrys before you know it. Be prayerful, exercise your patience and rely on your faith.

You’ve invested 25 years of your life to this man and your family. Play to win in this game called marriage, and remember you’ve got a 25-year home field advantage! ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

TAKE 6, the most award winning jazz, pop and R&B a capella group in the world, recently recorded their “ABCs” for their likenesses to perform on the new animated elementary education app, “REBA TO THE RESCUE”.

There are plans for at least two more songs to help preschoolers learn both academic and life lessons. There is a colors game, a shapes game and a basic math game.

Reba is a “pint-sized princess” who loves assisting others. From schoolwork to recycling, Reba is ready, willing and able to come to the rescue with assistance and encouragement. “And now the ‘Kings of A Capella’ are helping to teach kids their ABC’s and more,” said Cicely C. Mitchell.

Mitchell, the African-American creator of the children’s learning series, has combined elements of jazz music, learning and love! A former

educator, she is aware that it has been empirically proven that music has a positive impact on learning, particularly math and science.

“Reba to the Rescue” is a series of informative and encouraging stories geared toward preschoolers. Each story features a lesson about life and learning put to music and filled with fun-loving characters.

The “Reba to the Rescue”© series is the result of over a decade of experience Mitchell has enjoyed as an educator with K-12 children, which gave her the groundwork to compile information about development objectives. The endeavor has been designed to help children develop solid foundations in reading, writing, comprehension, life skills and vocabulary. The series and app are appealing to diverse cultures, and are available in English, Spanish and Japanese with plans for further expansion.

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Federal funds to support efforts to expand access to voluntary, highquality preschool in 11 Virginia communities The U.S. Department of Education is sending $17.5 million in funds to Virginia under the Preschool Development Grants program to expand access to early childhood education. The funds will go to further expand preschool access in what the department is calling “the high need” localities of Brunswick, Chesterfield, Fairfax, Giles, Henrico, Norfolk, Petersburg, Prince William,

Richmond, Sussex, and Winchester.

The state will distribute funding to each locality.

“Research has shown that early childhood education is critical for lifelong learning and successful development,” said U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.). “These additional dollars will help support the commonwealth’s efforts to expand access to high-quality

(from page 4) tweets — she said she was the first Today, Dubroy is the co-founder of the Brilliant & Beautiful Foundation, a non-profit organization that drives to support the aspirations of girls who dream of pursuing careers in science.

“I have reaped significant returns on my investment on my Rutgers MBA,” she said.

Next to the Brilliant & Beautiful Foundation, Dubroy operates two beauty enterprises, both of which largely focus on utilizing new technologies and Dubroy’s astute chemical knowledge to work with the hair of women of color.

But Dubroy’s main career is at Shaw, the oldest black university in the South. She is active on Twitter and tweets daily about Shaw, higher education and female empowerment. She occasionally tweets at other university presidents, such as Walter M. Kimbrough of Louisiana’s Dillard University, @HipHopPrez.

Just as Dubroy habitually

president at Shaw to use social media — more university presidents are taking to using social media, and they are seeing the effects.

“It makes me approachable,” Clif Smart, president of Missouri State University, told the Eduventures Advisory Service for Higher Education Leaders. “I am no longer just the old bald guy sitting in the admin building.”

Dubroy said social media comes naturally to her, as she is part of the millennial generation, or the generation of individuals born between 1982 and 2002, according to Neil Howe and William Strauss, the two individuals who established time demarcations in their generational theory. She said she was also the youngest president hired at Shaw — she was hired on Aug. 1, 2015, and turned 35 a month later.

“I want to remain genuine to (my students) so they realize that I am a president but also a caregiver and professor,” Dubroy said. “By relating to them, it helps with retention. It certainly helps to have them engaged.” –Katie Park

preschool for children from low- and moderate-income families. I will continue to fight for this important program, which helps ensure that Virginia’s children have a fair shot at being college and career ready.”

Warner’s Senate colleague, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), said that 90 percent of brain development occurs before a child’s fifth birthday, and investing in early childhood education helps close the achievement gap between children of all backgrounds. “[The funding] is not just an investment in education, it’s an investment in our children’s – and our nation’s - future success,” said Kaine. “I’m proud that Virginia’s early childhood education programs have been a model of excellence. I will always support their expansion, as well as continue to look for ways to increase access to these fantastic programs nationwide.”

This is the second year that Virginia has received $17.5 million in competitive federal grants through the program, which supports states in their efforts to build or enhance infrastructure to enable the delivery of high-quality preschool services to children. The program also supports the expansion of high-quality preschool programs in targeted communities that would serve as models for expanding preschool to all 4-year-olds from low- and moderateincome families.

The Republican-led Senate and House Appropriations Committees have approved spending bills that would eliminate funding for the Preschool Development Grants program. Under the committee proposals, an estimated 6,000 additional children in Virginia would lose out on the opportunity to attend preschool if the program is eliminated after this fiscal year.

Scholarship open for lowincome high schoolers

financial need who seek to attend the nation’s best four-year universities.

“There are thousands of students with financial need who are among the nation’s highest achievers,” explained Executive Director Harold O. Levy. “They are the academic superstars who, if given the chance to reach their full potential, could become the next generation of leaders and innovators.”

The program, which boasts a network of 2,000 extraordinary scholars and alumni, also connects students to opportunities they might not otherwise have, such as internships, studying abroad, and funding of up to $50,000 per year for graduate study.

“We want to not only support them financially, but to raise their profiles, provide them with a community of fellow scholars, and offer support and advising to make sure they attend the highly selective institutions that match their talents,” Levy said.

Recipients will be chosen based on exceptional academic ability and achievement, unmet financial need, persistence, desire to help others, and leadership. Applications require students to provide their academic transcripts, standardized test scores, teacher recommendations, selfassessments, and essays.

The application period will close on Nov. 3. Visit www.jkcf.org/ scholarships/ for more information.

Harold O. Levy The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is one again inviting applications for its College Scholarship Program, the largest undergraduate scholarship in the country. Students selected as Cooke Scholars will be awarded as much as $40,000 each year for four years for tuition, living expenses, books, and other required fees. Cooke scholarships are available to highachieving high school seniors with

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PETITION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR APPROVAL TO IMPLEMENT NEW DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS, FOR APPROVAL TO CONTINUE A DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND FOR APPROVAL OF TWO UPDATED RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSES PURSUANT TO § 56-585.1 A 5 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUE-2015-00089 On August 28, 2015, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 5 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), the Rules Governing Utility Rate Applications and Annual Informational Filings (“Rate Case Rules”) of the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”), the Commission’s Rules Governing Utility Promotional Allowances, the Commission’s Rules Governing Cost/Benefit Measures Required for Demand-Side Management (“DSM”) Programs, and the directive contained in Ordering Paragraph (6) of the Commission’s April 24, 2015 Final Order in Case No. PUE-2014-00071, filed with the Commission its petition for approval to implement new demand-side management programs, for approval to continue a demand-side management program, and for approval of two updated rate adjustment clauses (“Petition”).

In its Petition, Dominion Virginia Power seeks approval to implement two new DSM programs as the Company’s “Phase V” programs. Specifically, the Company requests that the Commission permit the Company to implement the following proposed DSM programs for the five-year period of May 1, 2016, through April 30, 2021, subject to future extensions as requested by the Company and granted by the Commission: Residential Programmable Thermostat Program; and Small Business Improvement Program.

According to the Company, both of its proposed Phase V programs are energy efficiency programs as defined by § 56-576 of the Code. The Company proposes a five-year spending cap for the Phase V programs in the amount of $51,369,393, which is inclusive of operating costs, estimated revenue reductions related to energy efficiency programs (“lost revenues”), common costs, return on capital expenditures, margins on operation and maintenance expenses, and evaluation, measurement and verification costs. The Company further proposes that spending within the cap be flexible among the Phase V programs and requests the ability to exceed the spending cap by no more than 5%.

Additionally, in its Petition, the Company requests approval to continue its Residential Air Conditioner Cycling Program (“AC Cycling Program”). The AC Cycling Program was originally approved by the Commission in Case No. PUE-2009-00081, and was extended by the Commission in Case No. PUE 2012-00100. In its Petition in the current proceeding, the Company seeks approval to extend the AC Cycling Program, a peak-shaving program as defined by § 56-576 of the Code, through April 30, 2021, subject to future extensions as requested by the Company and approved by the Commission. According to the Company, it plans to maintain the current level of participation in the AC Cycling Program and does not plan to actively solicit additional enrollment to expand the program significantly beyond its current level.

Further, the Company requests approval of an annual update to continue two rate adjustment clauses, Riders C1A and C2A, for the May 1, 2016, through April 30, 2017 rate year (“Rate Year”) for recovery of: (i) Rate Year costs associated with programs previously approved by the Commission in Case No. PUE-2011-00093 (“Phase II programs”), Case No. PUE-2013-00072 (“Phase III programs”), and Case No. PUE-2014-00071 (“Phase IV programs”); (ii) calendar year 2014 true-up of costs associated with the Company’s approved Phase II and Phase III programs; (iii) Rate Year costs and calendar year 2014 true-up costs associated with the Company’s Electric Vehicle Pilot Program, which was approved by the Commission in Case No. PUE2011-00014; and (iv) Rate Year costs associated with the Company’s proposed Phase V programs.

The cost components for Riders C1A and C2A are comprised of a Rate Year projected revenue requirement, which includes operating expenses that are projected to be incurred during the Rate Year, and a monthly true-up adjustment, which compares actual costs for the 2014 calendar year to the actual revenues collected during the same period. For Rider C1A, Dominion Virginia Power requests a total revenue surcredit of $856,816, due to a Rate Year projected revenue requirement in the amount of $900,958, and a monthly true-up adjustment credit of $1,757,774. For Rider C2A, Dominion Virginia Power requests a total revenue requirement of $50,423,354, which consists of a Rate Year projected revenue requirement of $43,329,364, and a monthly true-up adjustment of $7,093,990. The proposed total revenue requirement for Riders C1A and C2A is $49,566,538. According to the Company, compared to the rates currently in effect, the proposed revenue requirement represents an increase of approximately $696,484 for Rider C1A and an increase of approximately $12,359,906 for Rider C2A. Dominion Virginia Power states that it is not seeking recovery of lost revenues related to energy efficiency programs at this time; however, the Company further states that it is not waiving any right to seek such lost revenues in future proceedings for the Rate Year.

For purposes of calculating the Rate Year projected revenue requirement and the 2014 calendar year monthly true-up adjustment, the Company has utilized a general rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.0%. A 10.0% ROE was approved by the Commission in Case No. PUE-2013-00020.

Dominion Virginia Power proposes that the revised Riders C1A and C2A be applicable for billing purposes, either: (a) for usage on and after fifteen calendar days following the issuance of an order by the Commission approving Riders C1A and C2A; or (b) for usage on and after May 1, 2016, whichever is later. According to the Company, implementation of the proposed Riders C1A and C2A would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.30. The Company has calculated the rates for revised Riders C1A and C2A in accordance with the same methodology used to calculate rates in the Company’s prior DSM proceedings.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on March 8, 2016, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Petition from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s Petition and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, RS 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the public version of the Petition and documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing, on or before December 4, 2015, a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 232182118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent simultaneously to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00089. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before January 22, 2016, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5 20 240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00089.

On or before March 1, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Petition shall file with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, written comments on the Petition. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before March 1, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015- 00089.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118.

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VCU grant to expand Richmond’s capacity to address HIV ‘crisis’ in black community A Virginia Commonwealth University professor has been awarded a nearly $1.5 million grant to expand the Richmond region’s capacity to prevent HIV and substance abuse, particularly among young blacks.

Faye Belgrave, Ph.D., a professor in the Health Psychology Program of the Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences, received the five-year research grant, “Building Capacity for Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention,” from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

“HIV continues to be a crisis in the black community, especially among young black adults,” said

Belgrave. “One in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV and one in 32 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at the current prevalence rate.

So you can see that HIV continues to be a huge problem, despite the research and advances in programs to prevent HIV.” While the number of new HIV infections has fallen over the past five years, the black community continues to be disproportionately affected. Black women have HIV at a rate 20 times higher than white women, while black men are six times more likely to have HIV than white men.

The grant is targeted at young adults, ages 18 to 24, because the

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Faye Belgrave, Ph.D. period of emerging adulthood is marked by a higher rate of drug use, including marijuana, alcohol and tobacco. At the same time, drug use is correlated with increases in sexual risk behaviors within that age group.

As part of the grant, Belgrave’s team will partner with two nonprofit community organizations: Fan Free Clinic, which has long provided HIV testing and prevention services, and Nia Inc. of Greater Richmond, a faith-based organization that provides a variety of HIV/AIDS interventions.

“What we want to do is use these community organizations to really target other community agencies and get these other agencies involved in substance abuse and HIV prevention,” Belgrave said. “Not to say that a lot of this is not already ongoing, but when we talk about building capacity, we are talking about building more of an organized, integrated effort so that we’re not duplicating services.”

Fan Free Clinic will provide rapid HIV and Hepatitis C testing for the project, as well as risk reduction counseling, access to condoms

and barriers, and harm reduction material for injection drug users.

“Right now in Virginia, we can estimate that 13 percent of those living with HIV don’t know it and about 50 percent of those living with Hepatitis C do not know it,” said Cristina Kincaid, director of health outreach for Fan Free Clinic. “And among young people who inject drugs, 72 percent do not know their Hepatitis C status.”

Kincaid said the team’s goal is to educate and test individuals to make sure they know their status so they can reduce their risk for transmission of both HIV and HCV, especially among young blacks.

“Our hope is that the work carried out through this grant will increase status awareness for both HIV and HCV and provide lifesaving information to those most affected by both illnesses,” she said. “This project will give us an opportunity to expand the work we do in communities most affected by both HIV and Hepatitis C. Currently, we go out into the community and conduct street

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10.10, 9:30 a.m.

The first ever Hampton Roads Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) Cafe.

You are invited to a CCDA Café – a place to meet others who have a vision to see our under-resourced communities in the Hampton Roads area, wholistically transformed and restored. Byron McMillan, Director of Content and Training for Jobs for Life, will represent CCDA and share about the Christian Community Development Philosophy and the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). CCDA consists of people from every sphere of society who come together for the good of our neighborhoods and our communities implementing the CCD Philosophy in their communities around the country.

Visit http://www.eventbrite. com/e/hampton-roads-ccda-cafetickets-18301396971 for details or call 757-602-9196.

10.10, 1 p.m.

Healthy Living Learning Center 4th Annual Open House takes place at 201 W. Washington St, Petersburg.

The free event features center tours, fun and games, children’s activities, health screenings, health information, raffle prizes, food and exercise demos, and access to community health professionals.

For more information, visit ppls.org/ library-services/healthyliving/

10.13, 6:30 p.m.

Participants in a free financial workshop will gain practical skills as they practice setting achievable financial goals.

The “Money Goals” workshop will be held at Virginia Credit Union in the Boulders Office Park, 7500 Boulder View Drive, Richmond.

Participants will consider spending, saving and their use of credit as they establish short-term, mid-range and long-range goals for the future.

To register, visit https://www.vacu. org/Education_Resources/Seminars. aspx or call 804-323-6800.

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Retail and restaurant business seminar The Hopewell Downtown Partnership in collaboration with the Crater Small Business Development Center of Longwood University will host a seminar geared towards retail and restaurant businesses.

This free seminar on Oct. 14, from 2-5 p.m., at the Hopewell Library – HMA Room, 209 East Cawson St., will provide tools to help define and differentiate your customer, master retailing basics, build your brand, and market/ advertise. Merchandising strategy and demonstrations – including window displays will be available.

RSVP to www.sbdc-longwood.com, 804-518-2003 by Oct. 13.

Seminar presenter is Marc Willson who brings 35 years of experience to bear helping retail, restaurant and tourism-related small businesses refine and promote their concepts to the public. In 1975, Marc started his retail career as co-owner of the largest distributor of Earth Shoes in the U.S. Since then he has held executive positions with retailers such as Britches of Georgetowne, Crown Books, Circuit City, The Bicycle Exchange, Ecampus. com and Storetrax, Inc. Most recently, he traveled to Dallas, Texas to open the world’s first energy efficiency store for Current Energy, LLC, a company funded by Ross Perot, Jr. Marc joined the SBDC in 2009 as a Retail Industry Consultant and has delivered over 70 seminars and assisted over 300 retailers throughout Virginia.

Open House and Oxford Style Debate The School of Math, Science and Engineering at Reynolds Community College will host an Open House and Oxford Style Debate on the topic of Genetically Modified Food on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Lipman Auditorium of the Massey Library Technology Center on the Parham Road Campus, located at 1651 E. Parham Road in Richmond. This event is free and open to the public.

The Oxford Style Debate will explore the safety of Genetically Modified Food. Aside from the debate, participants will have the opportunity to meet Reynolds engaging math and science faculty members, learn more about transfer credits in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) majors, and experience a mystifying magic show. In addition, free paper shredding will be available from 5 to 7 p.m.

The program is a free community event sponsored by Reynolds School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering. For more information about this event contact Shalini Upadhyaya (supadhyaya@reynolds.edu) or visit the website www.reynolds.edu.

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10.13, 6 p.m.

Voters on the Peninsula will have an opportunity to elect candidates of choice in several major races on the local and state levels.

A “Meet the Candidates -Voters Forum” will be held at Main Street Library, 110 Main Street, Newport News.

Citizens will have an opportunity to meet, ask questions, and learn about the candidates for the following races- Newport News City Clerk of Court, Virginia State House of Delegates 91st-96th House Districts and Virginia State Senate 1st and 3rd Senatorial Districts. The public is invited.

Oct. 13 is the last day to register in order to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 3 general election. To find out the candidates on your ballot or your voting status go to www.sbe. virginia.gov.

This event is being sponsored by the Newport News Branch NAACP in conjunction with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Lambda Omega Chapter and Newport News Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

10.13, 7:30 p.m.

The Peninsula Concert Band will present a special evening concert in the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland St. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. Admission is free.

The Peninsula Concert Band has been performing in the Tidewater area for more than 60 years. It is made up of members of local military bands as well as civilian musicians. The band has presented a variety of concerts over the years, including concerts at churches, dedications, graduations, retirement communities, An Occasion for the Arts, and Newport News Centennial celebrations.

Advanced tickets will not be distributed for this concert. For more information visit wrl.org/events/ concerts.

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Analysis: Women’s rising earnings have reduced inequality While there is striking public support for work-family policies such as paid family leave, paid sick days, and access to affordable child care and early childhood education, the benefits of work-family policies often are not considered within the context of economic inequality. However, a new report and an accompanying analysis released by the Center for American Progress suggest that policies aimed at increasing women’s labor force participation would reduce the nation’s staggering levels of income inequality.

Between 1963 and 2013, income inequality among married couples grew 25 percent. According to CAP’s analysis, however, inequality in the United States would have grown more than 50 percent faster during that period if women’s earnings had not increased. In other words, America’s currently unacceptable levels of income inequality would be even more unacceptable if not for women’s growing earnings.

“The message is simple: In order to fight inequality, we must support women’s ability to stay and thrive in the workforce,” said Judith Warner, CAP senior fellow. “While this message has taken root in many advanced economies around the world, the United States continues to silo work-family policy as a ‘women’s issue’ rather than an engine to fight inequality.”

The United States is the only industrialized nation that does

not guarantee paid time off for working parents to care for a new child, as well as one of the only high-income nations that does not guarantee workers paid sick leave.

Lack of work-family policies has put a singular burden on American women, who still bear the lion’s share of responsibility for unpaid work at home. As a result, women without access to work-family policies are forced out of work when they have caregiving responsibilities.

This is particularity the case for lowincome women, who are less likely to have access to work-family supports through their employers than highincome women.

“Over the past three decades, income inequality has grown at a staggering rate, as those at the top take home an increasing share of the economic pie,” said Sarah Jane Glynn, CAP director of Women’s Economic Policy. “Policies that help women stay in the workforce, such as paid leave and access to quality, affordable child care options, should be seen as a critical tool for fighting inequality.”

Inequality has many causes and requires a multifaceted policy response. As CAP’s new report and analysis reveal, however, measures that help families—and women in particular—reconcile their work and family obligations are a critical countervailing force against the scourge of income inequality.

Free United States Army Field Band concert Henrico County Recreation and Parks is hosting a concert by The Volunteers of the United States Army Field Band on Thursday, Oct. 15 at Henrico Theatre, 305 East Nine Mile Road in Highland Springs. This free concert will be held at 7 p.m. and will feature Soldier-Musicians from the U.S. Army Field Band.

Since its inception in 1981, The Volunteers has been telling the Army story through rock, pop, country, and patriotic music. Its members have performed for millions of listeners in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Kuwait, and Iraq. This group tours more than 100 days each year, bringing a powerful message of patriotism and support to communities large and small. Its members are passionate about representing their fellow Soldiers through music. Get to know The Volunteers, and see what the proud men and women of America’s Army can do.

The concert is free, however tickets are required. Order tickets online at www.henricolive.com.

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(from page 14) outreach, education and testing services, and we are always looking for ways to continue to meet people where they are, both literally and figuratively.”

Lindsay Bryant, project manager for Nia Inc. of Greater Richmond, said her organization is excited to work in collaboration with VCU and Fan Free Clinic to increase capacity to prevent HIV within the faith community and throughout the Richmond region.

“This [will allow] us to involve African-American college students in evidence-based and substance abuse prevention curriculums,” Bryant said. “This will be even more effective because we will use existing groups and friendships of the students. Allowing them be collaborative partners as we meet them where they are and focus on substance abuse, HIV prevention and education, including HIV testing and counseling.”

The grant has five specific objectives: •Establish integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention services in Richmond and at VCU for the target population by linking organizations and entities that provide these services through the establishment of a work group/

advisory council.

•Improve capacity within Richmond and VCU for increased access to HIV and substance abuse education and prevention services.

•Implement gender and culturally appropriate evidence-based prevention interventions for men and women.

•Carry out substance abuse and HIV awareness and education activities within targeted catchment areas in Richmond and at VCU. •Increase HIV and HCV testing and counseling.

More broadly, Belgrave said she hopes the project encourages young people in the Richmond community to see HIV testing as normal and routine.

“Everybody should be tested, but at least every young adult between the ages of 18 and 30 should engage in routine testing,” she said. “If it becomes routine, if it becomes normative, then people are not thinking, ‘I’m being tested because I engaged in risk behavior.’ That’s my goal.”

Belgrave also hopes it reduces the stigma of HIV. “I would like to see the discussion of HIV to become more normative,” she said, “so that people see HIV for exactly what it is — a chronic illness.”

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Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women. About one in eight women born today in the United States will get breast cancer at some point. Women can survive breast cancer if it’s found and treated early. A mammogram – the screening test for breast cancer – can help find breast cancer early when it’s easier to treat.

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a chance to raise awareness about the importance of early detection of breast cancer. The LEGACY is spreading the word about mammograms and encouraging communities, organizations, families, and individuals to get involved. Let’s use this opportunity to spread the word about steps women can take to detect breast cancer early.

Here are a few ways to spread the word Friday, October 30, 2015 about steps women can take to detect breast 2:00 p.m. ET – RFP 15-61/CGA (Re-bid) Investigations Video System for cancer early: Hampton Police Department •Ask doctors and nurses to speak to womenVirginiaPress_2015_3.22x4.indd 5 7/16/2015 10:09:17 AM A Non-MANDATORY about the importance of getting screened for Preproposal conference breast cancer.

October 21, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. local time, 40 Lincoln Remaining items from Central Fidelity Bank •Encourage women ages 40 to 49 to talk Large selection of items to include floor safes, desks, chairs, file cabinets, book cases, Street, Hampton, VA 23669 with their doctors about when to start getting cubicle sections, pictures, commercial kitchen equipment, chandeliers, & much more. th items at 828 Main St (15 Floor), Lynchburg, VA 24504 mammograms.

For additional information, see our web page at •Organize an event to talk with women ages Bidding Ends October 15 at 6pm http://www.hampton.gov/bids-contracts 50 to 74 in your community about getting 12% Buyer’s Premium with 2% discount if paying with cash or check VAAF93 A withdrawal of bid due to error shall be in accordance with Section 2.2mammograms every two years. counts Realty & Auction Group 4330 of the Code of Virginia. All forms relating to these solicitations may Next week, The LEGACY will present 800-780-2991 • countsAuction.com be obtained from the above listed address or for further information call; “Ready… Set… Go PINK!” in honor of Breast (757) 727-2200. The right is reserved to reject any and all responses, Cancer Awareness month. The special edition to make awards in whole or in part, and to waive any informality in will hit the streets of Richmond, Petersburg submittals. and Hampton Roads on Wednesday and Minority and Woman-Owned Businesses are encouraged to participate. will include information on breast health, mammogram information and survivor Karl Daughtrey, testimonials.

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