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FeedMore and partners serve food, fellowship to help communities and people in need AIJIA LIAO AND HALEY ZHAO

CNS - At FeedMore headquarters on Rhoadmiller Street in Richmond, hundreds of volunteers from local schools, businesses and churches teamed up with FeedMore staff to make this winter a little bit warmer.

People were busy packaging and preparing foods at that headquarter on a recent Monday afternoon.

Through the efforts of FeedMore, Central Virginia’s core hunger-relief organization, the food distribution organization will serve more than 900 seniors and homebound neighbors this winter.

“We want to ensure that families in need have something to eat during the holiday,” said Jessica Howe, the marketing and communications manager of FeedMore. “It also helps them to build a fellowship in the community, you know, they can even invite friends to share the meal. ” About 200 to 300 volunteers work at FeedMore every day to guarantee the quality of foods and to deliver meals to clients on time. About 80 percent of the workforce at the kitchen are volunteers.

Staff and volunteers package food and follow specific dietary restrictions of each recipient to accommodate their nutritional requirements. The menu is adjusted each season.

“Our volunteers will deliver right to the person’s door. It’s diet specific.

We have 14 different diets, so if you have kidney disease, high blood pressure or something going on, we can help create a meal specific to you to help you get better,” Howe said.

Workers and volunteers prepare foods to be distributed at FeedMore.

Olivia Adams volunteers with her children at Meals On Wheels program to deliver meals to clients at least once a month. Adams said that she and her husband considered the community service as a good opportunity to show their children how the community gets together trying to solve serious problems like hunger and poverty.

“A lot of families do not have a place to stay during the holiday, we all know that. They even don’t have enough money to buy food.” said

Adams.

In fact, Richmond has had the highest poverty rate in the state for years, with one in three children in the city living below the federal poverty level and one in four residents living below the poverty level. The U.S. Census Bureau also reported the food insecurity rate in Richmond to be around 21.3 percent.

To combat this, FeedMore partnered with different organizations and community centers throughout the city, providing foods

and groceries at a much lower price than the market. Organizations are able to pay a membership fee to get groceries and fresh food or order specific meals from FeedMore.

Peter Paul Development Center is one of the community centers that partners with FeedMore.

People live in public housing community generally make less than $9,000 a year, which is far from sufficient, especially for households with seniors and children. The

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NN sheriff joins other law enforcement to curb crime through kids’ investments Newport News Sheriff Gabe Morgan has been selected to sit on the newly created National Leadership Council of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.

The organization, comprised of more than 5,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors and violence survivors, makes the case for solutions that reduce crime and steer children towards productive lives.

According to his office, Morgan believes it is imperative to have programs for young children to help ensure their future success and to help ensure the safety of the communities in which they live.

(from page 1) fact that East End community is considered to be a food desert further adds onto the difficulties families face.

“There are not a lot place to go to have access to good quality produce. More than 55 percent of residents living in East End are living below the poverty level. There are also studies that have shown the life expectancy in the East End of Richmond is 20 years shorter compared to the West End,” said Danielle Ripperton, the director of development at the center.

To help with the situation, the center paired with FeedMore on its food distribution program. Adrienne Johnson, the outreach ooordinator, said many organizations go through FeedMore to buy foods because the cost is lower.

About 120 people come to the food distribution each time. The number of people who receive help can reach from 300 to 400. Ninety-eight percent of those people are from East End. “We target the families in the East End,” said Johnson, “but if someone comes to the food distribution that does not live in this area, we don’t

Sheriff Gabe Morgan

“If we want to protect our citizens from the trauma and cost of crime, we have to do much more to prevent crime in the first place,” he said.

Morgan has been a member of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids since 2007.

He has advocated for communitybased programs as alternatives to youth detention facilities, for expanding access to health care to low-income parents and uninsured Virginians, and for early childhood development programs.

He continues to support initiatives that invest in kids, according to his office.

“Sheriff Morgan has used his

expertise and firsthand experiences in law enforcement to educate policymakers on how we can make our communities safer by ensuring kids get a good start in life and never enter down a path of crime,” said Josh Spaulding, the organization’s acting national director.

The new council has nearly 30 law enforcement leaders and violence survivors from around the country.

Members will help advise the organization to continue leading efforts to advance evidence-based solutions that steer children away from crime and towards productive lives.

turn them away. There will never be a time when we will say no to someone who came to the food distribution.”

Ripperton said the food distribution takes place twice a month on the first and third Wednesday using the ground of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. The church, along with Peter-Paul, has volunteers to help run the program.

“Our community volunteers are really big help, they are here from start to finish to make sure this program went through smoothly, we invited people and welcome them,” said Johnson.

The center’s food distribution includes a mix of food to fulfill the needs of people who come.

“We always have meat, typically we have breads, some sweets depends on what FeedMore gives to us, and we really try to get some fresh products from farms,” said Johnson.

Johnson said since there is no quality grocery store in the area, people would have to get on the buses just to go get quality groceries.

Damon Jiggetts, the center’s executive director, said most of the people come to the food distribution

on a regular basis. He sees the program as a way to help people in the community to get through hard times. He recalled seeing a man showing up frequently for several months, afterward Jiggetts learned that the food helped to feed the man’s family as he was looking for a job.

The center also offers a twice-aweek lunch is a part of a program targeting residents who are 50 or older. Johnson said there are currently about 50 seniors enrolled, who pay a small membership fee.

Another mission of Peter Paul is to ensure the welfare and the progress of the children in the neighborhood.

The Youth Program support students age from 7 to 18, providing them with nutritious foods and offering afterschool mentoring on schoolwork.

About half of the adults who live in these four public housing communities did not complete high school, and less than 4 percent of them have a bachelor’s degree, Ripperton said.

There are four public schools in the East End, some of which have been in the news following shootings, other violence and lockdowns.

“Good and bad are different terms.

I thinks all of the schools in East Ends still need some more support, you know, just because you built the new building doesn’t mean that the internal infrastructure is good. ” Johnson said.

Another challenge in East End is with the subsidized properties, which are privately-owned by but subsidized by the government to rent to people below certain income level.

“They get their rents regardless from the federal government, so they are under no standards to keep their property maintained,” Ripperton said.

The mayor’s office is working to replace some of the public housings sections for mixed income housing.

Jiggetts was optimistic about this federally-funded program, which would replace subsidized properties to market home ownership.

“You may read or heard about things happened in here, a lot of bad things, but what we want is to let people know that there aren’t just bad staff happening in East End,”Jiggetts said. “There is something good, something positive, and we are trying to make changes here.”

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GoToWork invests in transport network for workers

Company offers prepaid ride share service

GoToWork, a personal transportation service located in Richmond with plans to invest more than $500,000 in capital expenditures. According to the Greater Richmond Partnership (GRP), the company plans to hire 40 employees to provide service in Richmond, Chesterfield, Chester, Henrico, Glen Allen, Ashland, Colonial Heights, and Petersburg.

“I’m very pleased to start offering reliable and affordable access to Richmond-area residents who want to carpool but not deal with the hassle of coordinating the ride and maintenance of owning a car,” said Kiana Childs, CEO and founder of GoToWork.

Childs is looking for employers and staff agencies who need short- or long-term solutions. GoToWork’s cost- and time-efficient solution for transportation aims to reduce employee turnover.

“Our service assists individuals who need transportation to and from work or for individuals who live in areas with limited public transportation,” said Childs.

“I’d like to welcome GoToWork to the city of Richmond,” said Mayor Levar Stoney. “The company’s focus will help existing businesses with costly turnover and assist in reducing unemployment in our community.

We wish them the best in growing their routes throughout RVA.” Seating is guaranteed weekly as a GoToWork enrolled member. The fleet consists of 12 and 15 passenger vans as well as handicap-accessible shuttle buses. Team members contact riders to confirm pick up information including location and time with a 15-minute early arrival guarantee.

“GoToWork provides employees with reliable transportation while also complementing the GRTC transit system,” said Barry Matherly, GRP president and CEO. “We see GoToWork as a win-win scenario for the region’s employers and workforce.”

William Seaton, Business Development with the Va.

Barry Matherly

Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, referred Childs to contact Grace Festa, Business Development Manager for the Partnership.

Both Seaton and Festa serve on the Capital Region Workforce Development’s Business Solutions Team, which is a collaborative effort by the region’s government and non-profit workforce services

groups, supporting central Virginia’s employers with free workforce development services.

GoToWork is a service of the Childs Foundation. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for all. This includes sustaining employment and independence from public assistance and improving quality of health in the Central Virginia and Tidewater areas.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH EXPERIMENTAL COMPANION TARIFF, DESIGNATED SCHEDULE RF, PURSUANT TO § 56-234 B OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2017-00137 On October 23, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application (“Application”) for approval to establish an experimental and voluntary companion tariff, designated Schedule RF, Environmental Attributes Purchase From Renewable Energy Facilities (Experimental) (“Schedule RF”) pursuant to § 56-234 B of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and Rule 80 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), 5 VAC 5-20-10 et seq. According to the Application, Schedule RF will be a voluntary companion tariff to an approved embedded cost-based tariff, currently including Rate Schedules GS-1, GS-2, GS-2T, GS-3, GS-4, and Rate Schedule 10, under which participating customers will be serviced concurrently.

Dominion states that Schedule RF will be available to eligible existing or new commercial and industrial customers who (i) wish to bring incremental load to the Company’s system that will support the development of new renewable energy generation facilities; and (ii) commit to support the development of such facilities by enhancing their cost-effectiveness for all customers in exchange for the environmental attributes, including, without limitation, renewable energy certificates associated with these new facilities in an amount that corresponds to up to 100 percent of the energy they produce. The Company states that new renewable generation facilities constructed in connection with this experimental offering will serve as system resources. The Company further states that neither the approvals for construction of any such facilities, nor the recovery of costs associated with any such facilities, are being sought in connection with this proceeding. According to the Application, the Company intends the revenue stream associated with Schedule RF to be credited back to all Company customers through one or more future cost recovery mechanisms, as determined by the Commission in future cost recovery proceedings.

As proposed, Dominion would open enrollment in Schedule RF for a period of five years from the initial effective date of Schedule RF. The Company states that each participating customer’s Schedule RF charge will be based on a price that is to be separately negotiated and memorialized in a the Confirmation between Company and the customer.

The Application states that participating customers will enroll in Schedule RF, but no charges will be incurred under Schedule RF unless and until all necessary approvals have been obtained and the renewable facility identified in the Confirmation is constructed, becomes operational, and begins to generate renewable energy. Dominion states that in the event the Commission does not grant necessary approvals of the construction, operation or cost recovery for any new renewable generation facility, any applicable Confirmation – and the customer’s correspondening enrollment in Schedule RF – will terminate.

According to the Application, Schedule RF is necessary to provide information about demand for the development of new renewable generation facilities and support for their development through environmental attribute purchases by existing and new commercial and industrial class customers of the Company, with associated economic and environmental benefits, which is in furtherance of the public interest pursuant to Code § 56-234 B. Finally, the Application notes that one new customer, Scout Development LLC (“Facebook”), a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc., has provisionally committed to subscribe to Schedule RF, subject to the provisions of an agreement between Facebook and the Company.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on March 6, 2018, 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 the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The Company’s Application, as well as 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 Energy 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 Application and other 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.

On or before February 27, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before February 27, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00137.

On or before January 11, 2018, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent 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, 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. PUR-2017-00137. 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.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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Sister to Sister opens resource center in NN A new resource center is coming to the Southeast Community.

Sister To Sister, Inc.’s “Each One Teach One” center at 2009A Jefferson Ave. opens next month but the organization held a ribbon cutting event on Sunday.

Beginning Jan. 22, 2018, the center will offer various day and evening programs, resources, and information on services for underrepresented youth, the homeless, and indigent families of Newport News. Among the programs offered to residents are S.U.P.E.R. Saturday, SheCan Empowerment workshops for women, computer literacy classes for youth and adults, training and certification for men, and job readiness workshops. Citizens can also attend parenting classes, anger management programs, health and wellness classes, and participate in various assistance programs for the homeless. In addition, the center is available to the public for hosting meetings, receptions and seminars. Center hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with varying hours on Saturdays.

There is no membership requirement or fee associated to utilize the center, but donations are being accepted.

According to the organization, the mission of Sister To Sister is to build healthier communities by empowering youth and families. The organization was founded in 1992 by Hakima Abdul Samad Muhammad and Dr. Pamela D. Hall.

“For over 20 years, we have fulfilled our mission in helping young women to reach their potentials academically, behaviorally and socially through our motto of Each One Teach One,” notes Muhammad.

“This program was created to support the educational, nutritional,

medical and economical needs of the community while enriching the lives of our youth and their families. As you know, the needs of children and their families change for a variety of reasons that is why the program is tailored to deal specifically with each

youth’s individual need.

“I believe if we empower our youth with the necessary skills and knowledge of their African-American heritage they will overcome their everyday obstacles.

I would like to thank all those who

have helped Sister To Sister over the years in making a difference in the life of a child and empowering families and communities. It is because of all of you that we are able to continue to keep our motto alive Each One Teach One.”

Hakima Abdul Samad Muhammad (l) and Dr. Pamela D. Hall developed the organization focusing on community.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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What no one told me about being ‘first’ to go to college BRANDON TERRELL I was reared and schooled in Detroit, where poverty and oppression eloquently danced while violence and crime serenaded the communities.

The crime and oppression in my neighborhood drove me to submit a college application that changed my life's trajectory. I wasn’t going to college to become an adult; I faced mature challenges and struggles long before filling out my college applications. For me, higher education represented an escape from adult struggles.

But, I couldn’t escape the financial challenges. For first-generation college students like me, the responsibilities designed for mature adults were often delegated to us adolescents. Now that I’m in graduate school, I have some distance and perspective on what first-gens really need to thrive at a four-year college.

And, despite some model programs at universities, I fear the current political climate and threatened budget cuts will only make it harder for first-gens to obtain a four-year degree.

I know from experience my journey as a first-gen and non-traditional

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undergraduate college student is devastatingly common.

No one in high school or college spoke to me about the financial realities of being a student who couldn't rely on family for support.

FASFA, Pell Grants and loans were foreign concepts. The conversations I had growing up rarely involved college. We talked about who was buying dinner that night or who needed to get a job to help pay bills.

Survival was the goal. By the time I applied to college, I had already tangled with life and boxed with oppression, discrimination, stereotypical beliefs, and negative ideologies, all while juggling school, plus a job or two.

Life had prepared me for college.

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But the challenges never stopped coming.

Even as I struggled to pay tuition and buy meals when the food courts closed for the weekends, I often got calls from relatives who needed help buying groceries. Relief started with me. I had no safety net - I WAS the safety net.

Completing college required a survival balancing act-maintaining my GPA, bridging gaps back at home, and navigating collegiate bureaucracies while carefully responding to microaggressions and prejudice in majority white spaces.

Spectators would classify the underlying factor of our motivation as “grit” or “determination”, but for many first gens, our motivation is simply survival. We have no choice.

Missing an assignment, being too tired to attend a bio lecture after working more than 30 hours a week, failing a 300 level course, or even missing a tuition payment created a slippery slope back to the environment that suffocated dreams.

But we are a population colleges cannot afford to lose, as we represented 36 percent of students seeking a four-year degree nationwide in 2012.

Politicians, educators, social

workers, counselors, and administrators must address the intersecting social and cultural challenges that precede our applications, accompany us to college, and follow us even after securing a degree.

Access to college and financial aid is not enough to secure a better quality of life for students coming from lowincome backgrounds. The gap is widening with only 14 percent of the most economically disadvantaged students earning a bachelor’s degree, according to a 2015 federal study.

We need a different support system to thrive in college-mentors, help with living expenses, travel costs, tutors, flexible schedules, and emotional support from other students who feel isolated, but are coping with similar struggles.

We need to stop talking about college attainment in simplistic ways. It takes so much more than grit.

Terrell is currently attending graduate school at Eastern Michigan University, after graduating there in 2015 with a bachelor's in psychology.

He also works at the University of Michigan as a program assistant for the community health department.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Protecting employers who steal workers’ tips

The Trump administration took their first major step towards allowing employers to legally take tips earned by the workers they employ. The Department of Labor released a proposed rule rescinding portions of its tip regulations, including current restrictions on “tip pooling”—which would mean that, for example, restaurants would be able to pool the tips servers receive and share them with untipped employees such as cooks and dishwashers. But, crucially, the rule doesn’t actually require that employers distribute pooled tips to workers. Under the administration’s proposed rule, as long as the tipped workers earn minimum wage, the employer can legally pocket those tips.

And what we know for sure is that, often, they will do just that. Recent research suggests that the total wages stolen from workers due to minimum wage violations exceeds $15 billion each year, and workers in restaurants and bars are much more likely to suffer minimum wage violations than workers in other industries. With that much illegal wage theft currently taking place, it seems obvious that when employers

can legally pocket the tips earned by their employees, many will do so.

It is worth noting how deeply unusual it is that there are no actual estimates in the proposal of the amount of money that would be shifted from workers to employers as a result of the rule, even though data that researchers use all the time are available to produce them.

The requirements that agencies must follow during the rulemaking process are very clear, and among them is that agencies must assess all quantifiable costs and benefits “to the fullest extent that these can be usefully estimated.” When there is uncertainty about a quantifiable cost or benefit, agencies typically do something like provide a range—they don’t forgo providing an estimate altogether. It is obvious why the department left out the required estimate: this rule is bad for workers, and any estimate would have made that crystal clear.

Make no mistake: as a result of this rule, workers will take home less, and their loss will be employers’ gain.

And Trump’s DOL is willing to break the requirements of the rulemaking process to attempt to hide that fact.

Heidi Shierholz

Dump the home mortgage interest deduction

The U.S. Senate’s version of “tax reform” reduces the amount of mortgage interest that home buyers can deduct from their taxable incomes. Currently, the maximum deduction is for interest paid on

mortgages of up to $1 million on two homes or on home equity loans of up to $100,000. The new bill would cap that at $500,000 on one home. The House version doesn’t reduce the mortgage cap, but does away with the home equity deduction.

This fairly minor piece of the “tax reform” puzzle is drawing a lot of comment, and quite a bit of resistance and criticism both on Capitol Hill and in public discussion.

Here’s why: For obvious reasons, people who are in the process of buying homes love the home mortgage interest deduction. It lets them claw back a little bit of money they’d otherwise pay to Uncle Sam. About 20% of American taxpayers benefit from the deduction each year, and politicians want their votes.

Politicians also love campaign contributions from the other parties who benefit even more from this deduction -- home builders, realtors, and mortgage bankers and brokers.

I’m a big fan of tax cuts. In any amount, of any kind, for anybody.

The less money the government takes from Americans, the better.

But I’d rather those cuts didn’t come in the form of “targeted” deductions or credits.

At present, the home mortgage interest deduction represents $70 billion less in annual federal tax revenues than would be the case if it didn’t exist. That raises two possibilities: The first possibility is that the government is getting that $70 billion elsewhere. That is, from

the people who aren’t paying down mortgages.

The second possibility is that the government didn’t need that $70 billion and is just letting it go back to taxpayers.

If the government is getting the money from people other than home buyers, well, that doesn’t seem very fair. So what if I decide to spend my money on beer, football tickets and a new big screen 4k television instead of on the monthly payments for a McMansion? Why should that increase my tax bill?

And if the government doesn’t need the money and is letting it go back to taxpayers, why not just reduce the tax rate and let it go back to ALL the taxpayers instead of creating a targeted deduction that only gives it back to 20 percent of them?

A lot of marketing dollars have gone into promoting the idea that owning a home is invariably a good idea and an essential piece of “the American dream.” But in fact, there are good reasons for many people to rent. Why should the burden of financing government fall more heavily on their backs?

The home mortgage interest deduction is part social engineering for the financial benefit of generous campaign contributors, and part vote-buying from a demographic created in part by that very social engineering. I’m surprised the politicians are tinkering with it at all. But since they are, they should dump it and replace it with a general rate reduction.

Thomas L. Knapp

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Faith & Religion

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Programs, church groups offer options to feed the hungry JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK AND ALEX PENA CNS -When Miko McKeiver was younger, he had dreams of opening a restaurant with his mother.

“We cooked it all,” said McKeiver, 41, who has lived in Richmond he was 4. “Soul food, Italian -- I mean it didn’t matter. My momma cooked that thing and I watched her as a little kid.”

McKeiver’s vision was put on pause when he had to take care of his mother, who had fallen ill, when McKeiver was in his 20s. Although McKeiver’s mother eventually died, he said attended culinary school and held a variety of jobs in the restaurant industry.

“If I could just make one person happy with the meal I make, then I did my job,” McKeiver said.

“My favorite job was at a place called David’s Bakery, and all we did was bake pies and cakes.

Even though I had to get up at 3:30 a.m., I had me a good time.”

There were a lot of extra pies and cakes left over at the end of the day, McKeiver said. Instead of throwing the food away, McKeiver and his boss would pass them out to nearby homeless people.

“I had my good times and I had my bad times,” McKeiver said. “But my thing is, when I worked, I know how it is because I been on the streets so my thing is I love to give back.”

McKeiver spent his adult life in and out of culinary jobs. With each one, McKeiver made it a priority to donate the extra food, often taking the initiative to ask his bosses to give back.

“We had extra food,” McKeiver said. “We would throw it away and I said ‘No, how about we just give it to them?’ So what we did was we put them in trays and we see the homeless people and we set them up there and I made sure they was nice and hot and we fed them.”

One of these places was a Red Lobster in Richmond. Even though McKeiver no longer works there, the restaurant continues to donate excess food, he said.

“Well I know a couple guys from Red Lobster, they still do it,” McKeiver said. “Because you know, I mean, not to be funny or nothing, but you throw away food in the trash, and you can give it to somebody who needs it.”

The current manager at that same Red Lobster, who asked not to be named because he did not want to speak for the entire Red Lobster chain, said that the restaurant donates its extra food every Monday.

Members from Broken Bread Ministries, a church in Highland Springs, come every Monday

to the restaurant to collect a week’s worth of gathered excess food, the manager said.

“If something gets cooked, and it can’t hit the table, or a guest says they didn’t order that, we’ll donate it,” the manager said. “We just freeze it, bag it, tag it and tell what it is and they pick it up.”

Lamb’s Basket, another food access organization in Richmond, serves up to 75 hungry people each of the three days they open their doors per week.

Ann Decker, president of Lamb’s Basket, has volunteered with the organization for the past 12 years. She said Everyone who works for Lamb’s Basket is a volunteer Lamb’s Basket is a 501-3c corporation, meaning that it is a federally tax-exempt nonprofit organization that is classified as a charity.

The organization is supported by several churches in the Lakeside area, Decker said.

Grocery stores that donate to the charity receive a tax deduction on the donated goods, she said, which Lamb’s Basket picks up two to three times per week.

Clients line up each day food is being distributed.

They are given a number and once they are called back, are able to select specialty foods, fresh produce and frozen meats. They are also given a paper bag filled with canned and boxed foods, Decker said. The food allocation is determined by how many members are in the family.

“Each client can come twice a month,” Decker said. “So many of our clients receive food stamps, but the numbers for that are down so much. So we are able to supply a lot of things.”

Lamb’s Basket clients must fit into the federal guidelines for poverty, Decker said.

“We take them at 150 percent of the poverty guidelines, so it’s a pretty high number,” she said.

“Some pantries only take at 100 percent of the poverty guidelines.”

Wendy Rutherford, 55, a Richmond native, has been on disability since 2010 due to a brain injury, she said. Rutherford comes to Lamb’s Basket every other week to get her groceries that will last her throughout the month.

“They are very friendly and they give you a good variety of food,” Rutherford said.

Trader Joe’s, a neighborhood grocery chain with several organic and gourmet food options, is the largest food supplier to Lamb’s Basket, Decker said.

“They’re donating six days a week and it’s all really nice things,” Decker said. “They will donate their flowers, and our clients love to receive flowers, because that’s something not in their budget.”

Rutherford consistently returns to Lamb’s Basket because of its high quality, she said.

“I’ve gone to my own church and I didn’t get any vegetables or anything like that,” Rutherford said.

“I only got canned goods and it’s not as nice.”

Between churches and organizations such as Lamb’s Basket, there are several opportunities for hungry people in Richmond to have access to food, said McKeiver, who currently uses some of these services.

“You should never be hungry,” McKeiver said.

“They feed you out here 24/7. Different churches, they take their time out and they come and feed you.”

Rutherford, however, said she wishes there would be more services similar to Lamb’s Basket throughout Richmond. Rutherford said she was not aware of the problem of food access in the city until she had to deal with it firsthand.

“I didn’t have a need,” Rutherford said. “To be honest with you, I mean, I had gone and volunteered for a Thanksgiving to feed the homeless once. But it wasn’t something that I’ve done on a yearly basis.”

Although McKeiver acknowledged that there was opportunity for food access in Richmond, there is still room for improvement, he said.

“I think they could do more,” McKeiver said.

“I mean, Richmond, to be honest, they’re always talking about ‘We can do a lot more,’ but you’re not doing it. They wanna take their funds over to another country, but you’ve got a lot of homeless people in here that you can help out.”

For now, McKeiver said, he will continue to look for another culinary position in the city.

“The best thing I can say about Richmond is you’ve got opportunities,” McKeiver said. “Yeah, I wish I could be cooking right now.”

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‘Father of Black Psychology’, White, dies at 84 Psychologist and activist Joseph L. White – whose trailblazing work revolutionized the way AfricanAmericans are understood in psychology and was affectionately referred to as the “godfather” of his field by students, mentees and colleagues -died recently at the age of 84.

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, White emerged as a powerful voice of change: challenging psychologists to understand better the unique experiences of ethnic minorities. He is widely considered a pioneer in the contemporary field of Black Psychology and, in 1968, he helped found the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi).

His seminal article in Ebony magazine in 1970, “Toward a Black Psychology,” also was instrumental in beginning the modern era of African-American and ethnic psychology, and it helped to define and frame the discourse in that field of study. It was that article that earned him the distinguished honor of being forever referred to as “the father of Black Psychology.”

“Throughout his life, Dr. Joseph L. White has stood on the side of social

justice, and directed the activities of his psychological and academic endeavors with visions of hope and possibility for transforming dark yesterdays into brighter tomorrows,” said Thomas A. Parham, a past ABPsi president and vice chancellor of student affairs at University of California, Irvine, where White served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry since 1969. “He taught us with his heart and soul, he mentored us, he nurtured us and he guided us, because that is part of the culture he helped create.”

White was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Dec. 19, 1932, and was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Upon completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at San Francisco State he was accepted into the doctoral program at Michigan State University in clinical psychology. He became the first African-American at Michigan State to receive his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1961, and in his words, became the first black psychologist he had ever seen.

During his career, White was a part of the faculty and administration at both California State University, Long Beach and his alma mater

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Joseph L. White San Francisco State University. He later joined the faculty at UCI in 1969. At the time of his passing, he was a professor emeritus at UCI, where he served as a teacher, author, supervising psychologist, mentor, and director of ethnic studies and cross-cultural programs.

He was appointed to the California State Psychology Licensing Board

by Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and served as chairman for three years.

He also served as a member of the

Board of Trustees of The Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.

He is survived by his wife Lois White of Irvine, California; three daughters Dr. Lori Suzanne White, Lynn White Kell, and Dr. Lisa Diane White; his former wife Myrtle Escort White; his sons-in-laws Anthony Tillman and Kevin Kell; his brother Gerald “Bunky” White; his aunt Estella “Betty” Lee, and a host of beloved cousins, colleagues, students and extended family.

BWR salutes Tarana Burke of #MeToo movement The Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) recently congratulated its colleague, Tarana Burke (pictured right), credited as founder of the “Me Too” Movement and others who were recognized by Time Magazine as the “Silence Breakers,” and collectively are the Time Magazine Person of the Year 2017.

Burke is the founder of Just Be, Inc., a nonprofit organization that helps victims of sexual harassment and assault. She created the “Me Too” Campaign 10 years ago.

Burke was inspired to start the “Me Too” Campaign in 1997, when she had a conversation with a 13-year girl who was a part of a mentoring program focused on girls of color, who shared she was being abused by her mother’s boyfriend.

Burke felt she did not have a response or way to help the little girl in that moment and it bothered her for years and inspired her to start the “Me Too” Campaign. The movement went viral this year when

actress Alyssa Milano used the hashtag #MeToo. In the week after #MeToo first surfaced, versions of it swept through 85 countries, from India, where the struggle against harassment and assault had already become a national debate, to the Middle East, Asia and countries in between.

“I believe it is vitally important to lift up Tarana Burke for her vision, steadfast leadership and commitment in fighting for over a decade to ensure women and girls of color, who are victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault, have their voices and stories told and recognized,” said Melanie Campbell, convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable.

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Partnership to divert 10 low-level offenders from jail to a VCU classroom Instead of serving sentences in jail, 10 low-level offenders from Richmond will be diverted to Virginia Commonwealth University where they will take the course English 366: Writing and Social Change this spring semester alongside 10 VCU students.

At VCU, the low-level offenders will be taking part in a new program called Writing Your Way Out: A Criminal Justice Diversion Program, which is a partnership between VCU, VCU’s College of Humanities and Sciences and Richmond’s Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Writing and Social Change is a service-learning course that has been taught since 2011 at the Richmond City Justice Center as part of Open Minds, a program founded by David Coogan, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences.

In Open Minds, jail residents and VCU students come together to read and write about literature, share the stories of their lives, support one another, and contend with the diversity of experiences tied to race, class, generation, gender, sexual orientation, addiction and the criminal justice system.

The Writing Your Way Out program will bring that same model to VCU’s campus, providing both the offenders and VCU students with a transformational experience.

“I hope that this program helps [the offenders] figure out a way to live a better life, a life that keeps them out of the criminal justice system, a life in which they’re proud of what they’re doing, where they’ve discovered a new life purpose or just kind of figured out those selfsabotaging behaviors that create a lot of pain in their own life and in the lives of others,” Coogan said.

For the VCU students, the course will show that although their lives might seem far removed from those who are or have been in jail, they have much more in common with one another than they might at first

realize.

“Though some are incarcerated and some are free, we’re all struggling with something. It could be a history of trauma or poverty,” Coogan said.

“And then all the other differences that seem like a problem or seem like they could divide us — it could be race, it could be gender, it could be orientation. And these are subject to this collaborative inquiry. People realize how to respect one another in their very diverse struggles.”

Each of the diverted participants will be mentored in the class by two coaches, Dean Turner and Kelvin Belton, who participated in a similar course with Coogan while they were incarcerated at the Richmond City Jail in 2006. Turner and Belton later became co-authors with Coogan of “Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail” (Brandylane Books, 2015).

“Professor Coogan’s model illuminates the complexity of an offender’s behavior, making it harder for a rush to judgment,” said Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring. “For participants, it offers something that traditional prosecution trajectories do not — introspection and hope.”

Writing Your Way Out will accept only low-level offenders who can demonstrate their motivation to break the cycle of crime in their lives and who have a facility with writing and reading. No person shall be eligible for the program if he or she has previously been convicted of a sex offense, any violent felony involving a crime against a person, or any form of burglary.

All participants will follow a code of conduct created for the program. Violations by diverted participants will be referred to the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.

The VCU Police Department will be available on call for immediate assistance and maintenance of a successful classroom environment but will not be present inside the classroom. VCU retains the right to exclude any person from Writing

Writing and Social Change will be taught by David Coogan, Ph.D. Your Way Out at any time.

VCU Police Chief John Venuti said he and his department support Writing Your Way Out and that it will be a benefit to the community.

“I have found that people often learn more from being given a second chance rather than an actual consequence,” Venuti said. “In the appropriate situations, this program allows select offenders to get that second chance.”

Writing Your Way Out will require no new funds or resources, and will in fact save the Virginia taxpayers’ money by reducing court costs and eliminating the cost of incarceration.

The three-credit course will be part of Coogan’s regular teaching load in the Department of English. VCU students will take the class for credit, while the diverted participants will participate as part of a plea agreement.

The cost of the diverted participants’ course materials — including notebooks, pencils and copies of “Writing Our Way Out” — will be minimal, and covered within existing budget allocations from the College of Humanities and Sciences. The two program coaches are not paid VCU employees, but will be paid with funds raised by the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.

“The College of Humanities and Sciences is very proud to partner with Richmond’s Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney in promoting responsible citizenship behavior and rehabilitation for low-

level offenders through a writing diversion program,” said Montserrat Fuentes, Ph.D., dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences. “As a college, we are committed to make a difference on the lives of our community members while offering a transformative educational experience to our students.

“This diversion program promotes writing and literature for selfreflection as a means to prevent and reduce recidivism, while offering a unique experiential learning and training opportunity to VCU students in class with diverted participants.

An education might be the answer to provide treatment and foster changes in thinking that will address low-level offenses and promote responsible citizenship. As an urban university, it is our mission to make a positive impact on our community and we value faculty members, such as David Coogan, who bring to life initiatives that make that possible.”

Roughly half of the diverted participants for Writing Your Way Out have been selected so far, organizers said.

“We’re working with the public defender’s office and a judge so they’re all aware of the program,” Coogan said. “Collaboratively among these three offices — the judge, the public defender and the prosecutor — everyone is thinking about who would be best positioned to take advantage of this opportunity, who really wants to change, as opposed to, ‘You’re being sentenced to VCU.’”

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Taking care of elderly parents takes a toll Dear Alma: I am a 64 year-old divorced woman who lives with my father. Some years ago, when my marriage fell apart, and Mom was diagnosed with dementia, I moved back home to help my dad with her. I was also working part-time, so I couldn’t afford my own apartment.

Two years ago, Dad and I could no longer care for Mom at home, so we put her in a care facility, and I retired. During this time, I have made new friends, three of them live in the state of New Mexico.

A few months ago, I went to visit these friends, and fell in love with New Mexico. The cost of living isn’t as high as it is here, and the laid-back, small city life seems to mesh well with my personality. I feel this is the place I am meant to live the rest of my life. My problem is that Dad is 87, and I’m leery of moving hundreds of miles away, knowing there are some thugs in the neighborhood, who may try to break into the house once they learn Dad is there alone.

Although I have a sister, she has never been there for our parents the way I have been. In fact, our parents haven’t seen her in seven years. Some friends and relatives say I should go for it, since I’m divorced and childless, and also reminding me I’m no longer a young woman. Then, there are those who feel I’m being selfish for wanting to make this move and finally live my own life. Am I wrong?

New Mexico is calling me

Dec. 13, 2017 • 11 Dear New Mexico, It takes a special person to care for elderly and/or invalid family members. I’m sending a big hug your way.

I want to start by sharing that my mom lived with me and my family for the last two years of her life. She had come to a place where she could no longer live alone. Was my life on hold?

Yes, but I wouldn’t take a dime for that time, as I’m sure, neither would you. You’ve already lived through the thick of it, so, there isn’t much more I could share with you about the “role reversal” regarding parental care. It’s hard, it’s thankless and it’s heartbreakingly some of the best times you’ll spend with your parents, unconditionally caring for them as they did for you. It’s an honor for us, but not so much for strong-willed parents. Their eyes always seem to see you as the child they raised. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how many children you have or how many times you’ve been married.

I can’t help but think, now that your mom’s gone on to glory, that you should continue to be there for your dad. Don’t abandon him now. Stay, give him the same love and commitment you gave to your mother. Your dad, I take it, doesn’t need as much attention, but that shouldn’t determine your decision.

You’re doing it just, because it’s the right thing to do. Is it selfish for you to want a break, to want to relocate and start living your own life?

Absolutely not at all, that’s normal and you have every right to feel that way.

You’ve been an attentive, dedicated and loving daughter…don’t stop now.

There’s no need to relocate, just yet.

Take care of your Dad and, every three months or so, go visit your friends for a week or two. Sadly, when your dad’s no longer with us—it’ll be time to make your move.

I don’t have either one of my parents anymore, and I regret the extra time I missed spending with them every day, because I was busy, I had a family, I had people to see, places to go, things to do. So, trust me, you’ll never regret putting your life on hold by choosing to honor your mother and father. God is watching and will undoubtedly grant you the desires of your heart.

Hold on a little longer, your day is coming. You gave and it will be given back to you in good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.

TV One cancels Roland Martin’s NewsOne Now show STACY M. BROWN The only black daily newscast on television is no more.

TV One is canceling Roland Martin’s morning show “NewsOne Now” due to budget cuts.

“They called a meeting on Wednesday and told the staff they were canceling the show. They’re having significant financial problems and they have to scale back,” a source told The New York Post.

“After four years of award-winning programming and distinguished service to our viewers as the only black daily newscast on television, the network has made the difficult decision to suspend the production of NewsOne Now as a daily morning news show. The last live show is scheduled Thursday, December 21, 2017,” TV One’s Interim General Manager Michelle Rice wrote in a memo.

The news shocked staffers— including Martin—as the network had just expanded the morning show to two hours in September, according to Page Six. “There were lots of tears…The staff was completely caught off guard,” Page Six reported a source as saying.

TV One management did not return messages.

According to Page Six, the memo added: “While we will continue our long-standing partnership with Roland Martin to ensure his important voice can be heard across all Urban One platforms examining issues of importance to the black community, we regret this decision adversely affects several of our valued colleagues whose positions will be eliminated with the suspension of the show.”

The news caught viewers off guard and many, including high-profile journalists, took to social media.

“Maybe if the viewers make enough noise, TV One will reconsider canceling Roland Martin’s NewsOne Now,” said journalist Jawn Murray.

“The only news show geared toward African Americans—and ditch the dozen or so black crime shows they air.”

Author and media personality Tariq Nasheed tweeted: “Damn…TV One just canceled Roland Martin’s NewsOne show.”

Gregory H. Lee, Jr., the editorial

Roland Martin director at NBA.com and the past president of the National Association of Black Journalists called the cancelation of NewsOne Now “crazy.”

Lee wrote: “Roland Martin’s morning show had real substance and covered the issues of our community.

On Thursday morning, Martin read more from the memo that was sent out to employees of the Urban One company.

“We are committed to providing quality news content to our viewers, but now realize a daily news program is not sustainable in this current financial climate,” Martin read from the memo. “Our plan is to take a moment to regroup and restructure NewsOne Now in 2018 under a new format that will serve the needs of our diverse audience and the business.”

Martin noted that, during the show’s run, there were a number of stories that were covered on NewsOne Now that weren’t covered anywhere else.

“For me, my voice will not be silenced,” said Martin. “You have numerous platforms, numerous opportunities the ability to be able to communicate with folks through social media as well, that voice will always be there, speaking to our issues.

“The most important thing for us to understand is that we move forward…speaking to our issues and our concerns. I understand that a lot of people are hurt and disappointed by this…between now and Dec. 21 we’re going to keep doing our jobs, keep giving folks hell, keep holding folks accountable and doing and saying what is required.”

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Elective surgeries hone surgical skills, more GLORIA MONTGOMERY Inside Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center’s second floor surgery suite, surgeons and medical teams are busy honing their critical-care skills. In one room, a retiree is getting a new nose. A few feet away, surgeons are replacing broken knees and performing bariatric surgery on dependents to enhance their quality of life. Regardless of procedure or patient, every incision is an exercise in mission readiness.

“Often, when we think of readiness, we’re only thinking of the warfighter or active-duty soldier,” said Lt. Col. Leah Triolo, an orthopedic surgeon and deputy of the Fort Hood hospital’s surgical services. “But there’re a lot of other green suitors who to go to support that warfighter, and that’s our medical team.”

That team, said Triolo, includes every member on the nursing and anesthesiology staff to the postrecovery and the ward staff who are taking care of the medications and providing more challenging care.

“Even though the surgery itself is elective, providing care to more complex cases, such as a total joint replacement, helps with the readiness of the entire team,” she said.

That’s why every surgery is value added when it comes to saving lives, according to CRDAMC’s surgical team.

Every surgery a training opportunity “Everything we do is a training opportunity to better prepare us for such things as gunshot wounds, fractures and IED explosions when we do go downrange,” said Lt. Col. Lance Taylor, who as chief of operating and anesthesia services, orchestrates the battle rhythm inside CRDAMC’s 8-bay surgical suite.

The elective surgeries, too, said Triolo, offer the medical team exposure to different population groups who often have two or more complex issues that require extensive

Inside Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center’s second floor surgery suite, surgeons and medical teams are busy honing their criticalcare skills. Regardless of procedure or patient, every incision is an exercise in mission readiness. PHOTO: Marcy Sanchez critical care.

“When we look at our total joint population, they represent a population of complex patients because of their medical comorbidities that we may not see when we treat only our active-duty population who are often young and healthy,” said Triolo who has deployed twice to Afghanistan with Forward Surgical Teams. “It’s the same with the bariatric care population who are often admitted to the intensive care unit postop because of other pre-existing conditions that represent critical-care issues.”

Maj. Saundra Martinez, a perioperative nurse who saw her share of injuries during her 20072008 deployment to Tikrit, Iraq, with the 82nd Airborne, said repetition and training in controlled environments translate to surgical excellence and patient safety.

“All that training just clicks in when you are deployed,” said Martinez, who is the chief nurse and officer in charge of CRDAMC’s operating room suites. “That muscle memory just comes back to you regardless of the procedure and requires you to critically think about what’s going on and what you need to

do to get that patient stable.”

Elective surgeries help refine skills Open surgeries such as hernias or gastric bypass procedures also offer real-world lessons in anatomy.

“In theater, we get big cases like gunshot wounds to the abdomen and blast explosions, so what we do stateside exposes us to that open-body environment,” said Capt.

Carolyn Dillon, who deployed to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2013-2014 and now serves as a circulating nurse who helps prep the patient for surgery and oversees operating room preparation. “We saw lots of wounds from IED explosions, burns and gunshot wounds to the arms and chest, so taking care of the patients there from our fixed experiences here, helps you think outside the box. You’re just not going to have all the necessities in theater that you have here, so critical thinking is key. Overall, all the experiences refine your skills, so you kind of know a little bit about everything.”

On average, the eight surgical teams, which consist of the surgeon, circulating nurse, technician and anesthesiologist perform about 30 surgeries daily.

It’s important, said Taylor, who manages the surgical center’s operating hub with rapid-fire precision, to keep the operating rooms hopping to maximize both operational resources and the surgical skills of the hospital’s medical team.

“If the operating rooms weren’t filled all the time, how would we get our skills?” said Martinez. “How would we know how to take care of our patients?”

For CRDAMC physician, Lt. Col. Paula Oliver, who recently returned from a combat deployment, every procedure regardless of simplicity or severity prepares surgeons for combat’s worst-case scenarios.

“The more you operate, no matter the procedure, the more familiar you are with the anatomy and are exposed to complications and anatomical differences,” said Oliver.

“Even those who care for civilian trauma can’t be completely prepared for the massive wounds we see with IED blasts, but the more you know, are exposed to, and are comfortable with, helps when you receive your first traumatic multiple amputee.”

Repetition builds confidence That repetition also builds confidence for the Army’s operatingroom technicians who shadow the surgeons.

“The only way you are going to boost your confidence level is through repetition,” said Spec. Matthew Barek, an operating-room technician who has already assisted in more than 300 surgeries in the three months he has been at CRDAMC. “It helps you to not get nervous and to be able to do everything you need to do.”

Surgery is not just about incisions and sutures. It’s also about patient safety.

“Everyone on that table is someone’s mother, father, son or daughter,” said Sgt. Mark Johnson

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Newport News’ Phoebus and Fox Hill water storage tanks taken out of service

For several years the Waterworks Department of the city of Newport News has been planning and preparing to demolish the Phoebus

(from page 12) who is as the non-commissioned officer in charge of CRDAMC’s surgery department, supervises the enlisted, civilian and contracted operating-room technicians.

And that, said Martinez, is why every surgical opportunity is a training exercise in deployment medicine.

“It really is irrelevant what kind of surgery it is,” said Martinez.

“Having the opportunity to hone our skills during routine procedures is essential downrange when saving lives on the battlefield.”

And those skills, said Triolo, are the unifying element for all the medical providers tasked with saving lives.

“When you’re forward deployed, you don’t have the assets you have here at home, but the skills, which come from the readiness you’ve developed by taking care of critical patients, you take with you,” she said. “Even though the procedures we’re performing here may be thought of as elective or not needed in a military setting, the trickledown effect for the readiness of the hospital’s entire team is important.

And we like the positive impact it can have on the entire population that we support here at Fort Hood.”

Water Storage Tank (103 Carnegie Street, Hampton), and the Fox Hill Water Storage Tank (914 Beach Road, Hampton). The work is being

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performed this winter and consists of the demolition of both tanks as well as soil grading and seeding to both sites. Once the properties are cleared, water pressure monitoring stations will be installed.

Both tanks, serving as landmarks for travelers and boaters, are approaching 100 years in service which is the life expectancy of a water storage tank. The removal has been approved by the Virginia Department of Health.

Over the years, knowing the end of their useful lives was approaching, Waterworks began doing significant engineering analysis, hydraulic modeling (pumps, tanks, and pipes sized based on projected demand), and extensive fire flow analysis.

Findings resulted in larger water pipelines being installed to increase water capacity, flow, pressure,

and enhanced fire flow protection.

Once these distribution system improvements were implemented and operational, the next step was to conduct the proof of concept phase of the project. This required taking both tanks off line for an extended period of time while continuing to provide uninterrupted service.

The Phoebus Tank has been out of service since 2014 and the Fox Hill Tank has been out of service for six months.

And so, it is the appropriate time to bid farewell to two longstanding facilities that have been a part of Waterworks for decades. Thank you Phoebus and Fox Hill Tanks for serving our communities, for gracing our landscape, for being reliable iconic facilities, and for being a beacon and gallant partner for all these years.

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$6.5m in grants to support crime victims in Virginia Virginia has received $6.5 million in federal grant funding to localities, nonprofit organizations and state agencies to provide support for essential programs and services in all aspects of Virginia’s criminal justice system. According to the Virginia Governor’s Office, the funding will help criminal justice agencies and other organizations protect their communities and schools, respond effectively to crimes against women, support critical services for victims of domestic crimes, and improve the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system.

“Keeping our communities safe is a key part of growing our new Virginia economy,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “These grants will reach neighborhoods and communities all across Virginia and will strengthen our criminal justice system’s ability to ensure the safety of all our citizens. I commend the Criminal Justice Services Board and the Department of Criminal Justice Services for their efforts to extend the reach of these dollars throughout the commonwealth, and their continued commitment to the people of Virginia.”

The grants were approved by the Criminal Justice Services Board and will fund programs in 2018. The money for the grants will come from federal funds allocated to Virginia from the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and the Violence Against Women Act. Recipients of some of the grants will be required to provide matching funds.

The grants also includes those to support training and planning to enable agencies to respond, on a regional basis if needed, to public protests and demonstrations, and efforts to prevent radicalization and extremism. The board’s action included approval of grants totaling nearly $700,000 for these purposes.

Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, Brian Moran, also noted, “The Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Services Board have done good work making sure the grant programs they administer are responsive to a wide variety of needs and issues confronting the criminal justice system. An important grant opportunity identified by the Board

People impacted by crime in Virginia can apply for assistance with reasonable and necessary expenses that arise from the crime. These can include: Medical expenses Funeral expenses Lost wages Prescriptions Crime-scene clean-up moving Temporary housing Mileage to medical appointments and to court-related appointments for child victims Loss of support From an offender removed from the home in domestic violence or child sexual-assault cases Dependents of homicide victims Counseling for direct victims, for children who witness domestic violence, and for the immediate family of a homicide victim

DCJS Director Francine Ecker and DCJS this year is the planning and preparation for handling large scale public demonstrations. I’m very glad to see that agencies are taking advantage of this funding to upgrade prevention efforts and enhance their capabilities to respond effectively to these types of events in ways that will prevent the kind of violence we saw in Charlottesville.”

Moran chaired the Governor’s Task Force on Public Safety Preparedness and Response to Civil Unrest which was established in the wake of the violence that erupted during the “Unite The Right” demonstration in Charlottesville. Funding for training and planning was cited as an important need by the task force in its recently issued report.

“We are very fortunate to have access to federal grant funds we can make available to meet these and other needs to support new initiatives that might not otherwise be possible,” said DCJS Director Francine Ecker.

The Services Board approved grants in these DCJS-administered programs: -$465,311 - 38 grants in the federally funded Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) to provides continued support to rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations that provide core services, direct intervention, and related assistance to victims of sexual assault.

- $1,743,513 - 42 grants through the federally funded Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/ JAG) Program to support a variety of law enforcement and criminal justice system improvements, including

response to civil unrest and violence prevention.

- $4,208,166 - 96 grants of federal funds through the Violence Against Women Act (VSTOP) Program Supports improved investigation, apprehension and prosecution of persons committing violent crimes against women, and services for victims - $98,745 - 4 grants using federal funds from the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Continue programs intended to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.

Applicants for all of the grants approved by the Board were required to submit grant applications describing their projects and provide

budgets showing how the funds will be spent. The applications were reviewed by DCJS staff and by a committee of the Board and were recommended to the board by that committee.

DCJS administers nearly 1,000 grants annually totaling more than $250 million. They support programs and initiatives across the criminal justice system in Virginia. In addition to providing funding, DCJS also administers law enforcement training standards, conducts research and evaluations, provides technical assistance, offers training for criminal justice practitioners, and provides regulatory oversight to private security and related businesses.

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Mississippi opens its own Civil Rights Museum WIRE - The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened Saturday in Jackson as a testament to the state’s complicated, often dark, racial and political history.

Mississippi is a key chapter in the nation’s ongoing struggle for equality, but the state has been slow to acknowledge the racism and violence in its past. The new museum now tells that difficult story.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron delivered a speech at the museum opening.

Pamela Junior, director of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, guided a group of guests through the galleries before the official opening.

The tour starts with a look at Africans coming to the U.S. through the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Next, museum guests journey through the Emancipation Proclamation and Reconstruction, when black communities begin to thrive. Then the tour takes a turn into a room dominated by a tree with limbs sprawling overhead.

“It’s not only you think about the tree and lynching,” Junior said. “But you look up and see the images — Jim Crow images — as leaves on the limbs of the tree.”

There are five lynching monoliths, etched with the names of some 600 victims. Junior wants visitors to experience these dark, cramped spaces as they move through the museum.

“The [civil cights] movement was very uncomfortable,” she said. “I want them to feel uncomfortable. So they can understand that once they come through this tunnel, they’ll come to light.”

The challenge, she said, is to “make Mississippi the best that [it] can [be].”

Junior said she and her colleagues will encourage visitors to travel across the state to learn more at key historical sites. And there are

plenty – Bryant’s Grocery store, where Emmett Till was fatefully accused of flirting with a white shopkeeper before he was abducted and brutally killed; the house where NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway; voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s grave; the field where Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee first called for Black Power; and the Neshoba County memorial to three civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan during Freedom Summer.

Mississippi state Sen. Hillman Frazier calls his state “ground zero when it comes to civil rights.”

Frazier, of Jackson, was instrumental in getting legislation passed for the new museum and served on the planning committee. It was a long time coming, he said.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron was one of those who spoke at the opening event saying the museum stands “as testament to a healing process that is transforming Mississippi.

“In this place, we acknowledge the histories of the people of Mississippi and the deep resolve to find common ground for the future - a future where communities of freedom, opportunity and justice will thrive.”

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The event will also feature a ‘Holiday Shop’ for children to enjoy secretly shopping for their family and friends. A variety of gifts are available for purchase between $1 - $8 and personal shoppers will be available to assist them. Both cash and credit cards are accepted for purchases.

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CancerLINC has partnered with NAMI of Central Virginia to present the seminar ‘Maintaining Your Mental Health During Cancer Treatment’. The event will be held in the Petersburg Library Multipurpose Room, 201 W. Washington St., Petersburg.

The Science Museum of Virginia’s December events have something in common: all include launching something in the name of science.

On Friday, Dec. 15, the museum hosts the last Science After Dark of 2017. To summarize the year of science, innovation and fun, and in honor of Ralphie’s epic shot from the 1983 classic holiday film “A Christmas Story”, the museum is breaking out eye-themed activities and demonstrations.

Guests can watch museum educators dissect cow eyes, create “A Christmas Story”-themed crafts and try to win prizes by catching ping pong balls launched across the rotunda during the Bernoulli Blower Ping Pong Ball Extravaganza. Weather permitting, the Richmond Astronomical Society will be on the front lawn with telescopes letting guests use their eyeballs to stargaze at the cosmos.

Special all-live Cosmic Expeditions recapping the year in space news will happen at 6:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. “A Christmas Story” is showing in The Dome at 8 p.m. Admission to Science After Dark is $10, which includes Museum exhibits and one Dome Feature (either a Cosmic Expedition or "A Christmas Story"). Additional Dome features are $5. Food and drinks, including craft beer, are available for purchase in the Periodic Table Café.

Continuing the tradition of the Museum conducting quirky experiments on fruitcake each December for nearly a decade, Fruitcake Science returns Dec. 26–30. During that week, daily demonstrations will take place on the holiday treat everyone loves to hate. Museum educators will freeze fruitcake with liquid nitrogen, burn it with a blow torch, shock it with electricity and drop it down a zip line. Plus, guests can see the museum’s special fruitcake collection which includes a fruitcake that launched to space and back, one that traveled directly from Buckingham Palace and new this year, a Virginia-shaped fruitcake recently baked by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

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The University of Richmond Downtown is hosting a new exhibition, “RVA Cures: Conquering Childhood Cancer.” The exhibition was part of September’s National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Organized by Connor’s Heroes Foundation, the exhibition tells the stories of local children, caregivers and researchers who are facing cancer, the number one disease killer of children.

The exhibition features photographs by Richmond artist Kristin Seward and 100 zebrafish painted by children and local artists.

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