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A Day in the Life of Meals on Wheels Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Washington suburb Takoma Park prepare and pack food to be delivered to scores of area eldery and disabled resiedents. The program nationaly is facing possible budget cuts under the Trump budget plan. PHOTO- Autumn Dalton AUTUMN DALTON HUNS - It’s 9 a.m. and the savory smells of garlic, ground beef, and cabbage waft through the air of a quaint, but adequate commercial kitchen at Zion Lutheran Evangelical Church in Takoma Park. Jamie Griffin, 37, is using all the strength her roughly 5’ 4” frame can muster to stir a large pot of beef
and cabbage–a meal that will feed those who otherwise could not feed themselves, scores of residents just seven miles from the nation’s Capitol who are part of the 2.4 million seniors who daily rely on Meals on Wheels. Three retiree volunteers, Peggy Wade, 69, LaVerne Sommerville, 75, and Terese Bouey, 61, are assisting. Today they are packing meals.
While chatting amongst themselves. Sommerville can’t remember if she took her blood pressure medication this morning. She thinks she may have lost the pill instead of swallowing it. Griffin is the kitchen manager. She prepares hot meals five days a week for 40-45 senior citizens living in Takoma Park, Md., who participate in the program. She has been with
Takoma Park’s Meals on Wheels for nine months. Griffin said she tries to keep the meals as nutritious as possible. The cold meal contains a sandwich, piece of bread, fruit, salad, juice, and milk. Today’s hot meal is beef and cabbage, mashed sweet potatoes, and peas. “I try to keep extra carbs out of
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News (from page 1) hot meals since packed lunch has a sandwich and bread,” she said. According to a Brown University study, meals delivered to homes help seniors stay out of assisted living facilities through Medicare, which cost taxpayers thousands of dollars. The Brown University study also showed that those who had meals delivered every day had far fewer falls and hospitalizations than those who were delivered frozen meals less frequently. Despite such evidence, White House Budget Chief Mick Mulvaney said “Meals on Wheels sounds great,” but really doesn’t provide a real service. So, the Trump administration is planning to cut the money that helps fund it. “We're not going to spend [money] on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we’ve made to people,” Mulvaney said at a March press conference. Jill Feasley, the director of Meals on Wheels of Takoma Park, strongly disagrees. Feasley, 51, who has been with the organization since 2002, said she daily sees the importance of the program. “The cost is far less, and it’s what people want–to stay in familiar surroundings,” Feasley said. The Trump administration has threatened to severely cut the Meals on Wheels program by the elimination of Community Development Block Grants, Social Services Block Grants and, most significantly, dramatic cuts to the Older Americans Act, which is underneath the Department of Health and Human Services. “They did call for cutting the Department of Health and Human Services, 18 percent,” Feasley said. Meals on Wheels of Takoma Park receives a third of its funding from government entities; some from Montgomery County (the county in which the organization is located), and the rest from the federal government. Meals on Wheels of Takoma Park could lose up to $6,300
Kitchen manager Jamie Dalton stirs the beef, cabbage and garlic that will be part of the day's meal deliveries. with the proposed cuts. Feasley said if she loses part of her funding and is unable to make up for it through donations, she will need to raise the prices of the meals or get rid of her position so only unpaid volunteers coordinate the program. Feasley and Griffin are the only paid workers. They split the $42,000 allocated for salary. The program relies on volunteers to help assemble and distribute meals. Today, as Griffin and Wade pack the meals, Bouey and Sommerville seal the containers. “I volunteer because I can get out and meet people, and help some people out,” Somerville said. At around 11:15 a.m., the paired volunteer drivers and deliverers depart to distribute the meals. Route four is handled by Joyce Schultz, 69, of Silver Spring, Md. A native of Chicago, she drives a blue Honda Accord with University of Illinois at Chicago Alumni and Cubs stickers. Schultz has been a driver for over 15 years and has eight stops on her route. Her husband also does a route on Fridays. Many of the seniors are extremely private and preferred not to be interviewed, photographed or identified.
Before leaving, Schultz gently slides the cooler and container holding meals into her back seat. Since Schultz usually doesn’t interact with the recipients as a driver, she took some time to walk up to the front doors of the recipients and greet them. On the first visit, around 11:45, the door was locked. “Sometimes, a locked door worries us,” Schultz said. “It may mean the recipient has fallen or is injured. It could also mean they had a doctor’s appointment, and forgot to remind us.” After pulling out her husband’s cellphone and calling the number listed on the registry, the resident picked up the phone and had her grandson, who was around middle
school age, open the door and retrieve the meal. After a short drive to the next location, a woman opened the door with a huge smile on her face. A Spanish-language television program was playing in the background. When asked if she could answer a couple questions, she said that she couldn’t speak English, but smiled widely for a picture. Directly across the street from the previous woman’s apartment was leveled ground. “This is where the apartment explosion was,” Schutz said. “I delivered a meal to the same lady the day before it exploded.” The second to final stop around 12:50 led to a home that looked like it was placed in a forest. As the volunteers approached the door, a service dog, Olive, started to bark menacingly. The recipient, 66, who asked not to be named, said she is grateful for her delivered meals. “This means a great deal to me because I don’t have any family,” she said. “They’ve all passed away. With this, somebody checks on me.” Schultz backed out of the driveway and made the 15-minute drive back to the church. All eight deliveries lasted roughly an hour and a half. By 1 p.m., drivers and volunteers return to the church to return the insulated containers and coolers so they can be reused tomorrow, and the next day and the next week and the next month, unless Congress and the Trump administration say differently.
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Norfolk politician gets 6 years Black Press shows resilience of the black community
It’s a hard fall for former Norfolk City Treasurer Anthony Burfoot who last week turned himself in to U.S. Marshalls at the Norfolk Federal Court to begin serving his prison sentence. Burfoot was recently sentenced to serve six years behind bars for public corruption and perjury. In December, a jury found Burfoot guilty of six of the eight charges he was facing for public corruption and perjury. He was facing four perjury charges but was only found guilty of two of those charges. Federal prosecutors were seeking a sentence of 15.5 years and said at his sentencing that Burfoot is an enemy of the city who took advantage of the public. Burfoot’s attorney sought no more than two years. At first, the judge was going to
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Anthony Burfoot immediately order him incarcerated following sentencing but Burfoot’s defense argued he needed a few more days to get his mother’s affairs in order. The judge granted his request. He was ordered to report to prison before 2 p.m. on April 19.
Radio One Richmond expands, acquires local sports station Radio One Richmond is expanding its portfolio into sports with the acquisition of WXGI AM Richmond ESPN 950 AM, effective May 1. Radio One Richmond, a subsidiary of Radio One, Inc., will diversify its all music cluster (WCDX-FM, WKJS/ WKJM-FM, and WPZZ-FM) and add the sports radio format of WGXI-AM. It will simulcast the new Richmond ESPN Radio on 1240 AM and 102.7 FM. The local marketing agreement will go into effect on the same day and the deal is anticipated to close by the end of June. WXGI-AM licensed to Richmond, is the flagship station of the Redskins, Washington Nationals in Richmond, as well as the University of Richmond Spiders football and basketball. Radio One Richmond notes that this expansion will allow them to “super serve the loyal sports fans” in the Richmond Metropolitan and tri-cities area with sports content on-air, on-line, through social media and engaging community events. These changes will make Radio One
Richmond a go-to destination for all of ESPN’s sports updates. “We are so excited to have ESPN 950 AM as part of our Radio One Richmond Family. We are elated to have the opportunity to enhance the already successful ESPN brand in the marketplace and provide our clients with a new and more diverse advertising portfolio,” said Marsha P. Landess, vice president and general manager of Radio One Richmond. In addition to carrying Redskins games throughout their active season, Radio One’s ESPN 950AM, 1240 AM and 102.7 FM line up will include, national syndicated shows “Mike & Mike” in the Morning, Dan Le Batard, Russillo & Kanell, Bomani Jones and local favorites such as SportsPhone with Big AL, The Sports Huddle with Bob Black, Hard Workin’ with Greg Burton, Sports King with Jamie King. Radio One, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified media company that primarily targets African-American and urban consumers.
For 190 years, the Black Press has chronicled the spirit and resilience of the African-American community. “You can see it in the spirit of the process that we have [developed] in documenting our history—we are marvelously resilient by nature, we are street fighters, guerilla fighters and resilience defines us,” said NNPA Foundation Board Chairman Al McFarland. The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Blackowned media companies in the United States, also known as the voice of the Black community, has been the repository of black history for generations, capturing that spirit and resilience through compelling journalism and stirring images. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, the president and CEO of the NNPA, said that the strength of the Black Press has been widely demonstrated through decades of change. “Since 1827, the Black Press in America has been on the frontline of publishing in the interests of freedom and justice,” Chavis said. “Today, the NNPA continues to represent the resilient, trustworthy tradition of the Black Press that is indispensable to black America.” Janice Ware, the publisher of the Atlanta Voice, which was founded in 1966 by Ed Clayton and J. Lowell Ware, said that like other NNPA member newspapers, the Voice had a defined vision and mission. “[The Atlanta Voice] has been the vehicle that has allowed the important information [affecting African-Americans] to be captured,” Ware said. “I celebrate my father for his vision to start the publication and our motto, which is, ‘A people without a voice cannot be heard.’” The venerable, award-winning publication was born out of the refusal of the white-owned majority Atlanta media to give fair and credible coverage to the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, the Voice states on its website.
“Our motto is still prevalent today,” Ware said. “We’ve got to record our history; if we don’t, they will.” As the media industry continues to evolve, driven by advances in technology, black newspaper publishers balance “click-bait” and quick-read content with longer, indepth news articles. Rosetta Perry, publisher of the “Tennessee Tribune” in Nashville, said that even though millennials aren’t reading traditional newspapers as much as past generations, news organizations in the black community—including newspapers, radio stations, magazines and websites— are working together to ensure that critical information reaches the masses. “There are many stories about Black people both domestic and international that the mainstream media ignores or underplays,” Perry said. “The Black Press cannot afford to be silent or not be certain to get the word out about them, whether it’s voter suppression or police misconduct and brutality.” In 1973, Howard University, a historically black institution in Washington, D.C., collaborated with the NNPA, to establish the Black Press Archives at the school’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. The archives also include a gallery of distinguished newspaper publishers and historical records related to the Black Press. Black newspapers are also collected and preserved there for scholars, students and the public. “While some think that the Black Press is no longer needed, they need only to look at the newsrooms of the mainstream press—newspaper and television—and see that when pressured after the Civil Rights Movement, they hired more blacks,” in the past than they do now said Dorothy Leavell, the outspoken publisher of the award-winning Crusader newspapers in the Chicago area. Leavell continued: “And, most
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Va. will recieve $10m to combat opioid addiction Virginia will receive $9,762,332 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to combat the opioid epidemic that kills an average of three Virginians daily. “These funds will help Virginia respond to the epidemic of opioid abuse that has devastated communities across the Commonwealth,” said Virginia senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Democrats.“Addressing this crisis and stemming the alarming rise in overdose deaths will require a sustained focus on prevention and increased access to opioid addiction treatment.” Overdose deaths from prescription opioid, fentanyl and heroin abuse have been rising at an alarming rate in Virginia. In November 2016, the State Health Commissioner declared Virginia’s opioid crisis a public health emergency. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia (OCME) estimates that nearly 1,100 Virginians died of opioid overdose in
2016. The 21st Century Cures Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law at the end of last year, set aside $1 billion over two years for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states to amplify their efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Warner sponsored bipartisan legislation earlier this year to help fight synthetic drugs like those closely related to fentanyl, which have been implicated in the rising number of overdose deaths. Last month, Kaine joined 19 of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Donald Trump urging him to address the nationwide opioid epidemic by awarding the $1 billion already set aside. This funding is the first of two rounds that will be provided to states by HHS through the State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grant to increase access to treatment and reduce opioid-related overdose deaths.
Renowned NASA scientist shares popular life story Dr. Christine Darden, a renowned NASA scientist, visited Richmond Montessori School on Friday in the Lynn C. Humphreys Performing Arts Center.. Darden, 74, a retired NASA mathematician, data analyst and aeronautical engineer, was featured in the book “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race,” a 2016 book by Margo Lee Shetterly, on which the 2016 Oscarnominated film “Hidden Figures” was based. Also a former director at Langley Research Center, she spoke to students about her experience with the NASA space program and as an African-American woman in the science field in the 1960s. Carden and other iconic women
contributed to iconic NASA projects by solving equations or writing programming that engineers utilized, oftentimes being denied credit for their work.
Public Comment Meeting for the Recommended Placement of Added Bus Stops Monday, April 24, 2017 6:00 P.M. City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, 5th Floor Conference Room GRTC is seeking public comment on the recommended placement of added bus stops as it plans for Your New GRTC Transit System. The new transit system is designed to provide enhanced service for GRTC riders, with a projected implementation of fall 2017. A full list of stops recommended to be added and stops that will be removed can be accessed on our website: www.ridegrtc.com. Public Comments will be received up to April 27, 2017. Questions and Comments: planningcomment@ridegrtc.com (804) 254 -4785 Planning Comment, 301 E. Belt Blvd. Richmond, VA 23224
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Henrietta Lacks’ cells may be responsible for the future of medicine When Henrietta Lacks (right), a 31-year-old black woman from Virginia, sought treatment for stomach pain at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, doctors discovered a fast-growing cancerous tumor on Lacks’ cervix. Doctors harvested Lacks’ cells without her permission during surgery, a clear ethical violation today, in the hopes of using them for scientific research. Those same cells continued to replicate long after her death from cervical cancer, however, and they fueled some of the most noteworthy scientific advancements in modern medicine. Now “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” a movie staring television personality Oprah Winfrey, based on the 2010 book of the same name, seeks to cement Lacks’ place in medical history. “I am a student of the African American culture ... I have never, in all of my readings, in all of my stories, heard of HeLa or Henrietta Lacks,” Oprah said at press event this month. “I could not believe that. How could I have been in this town all this time and never seen one thing about her?” For a snapshot of how influential Lacks’ cells, also called HeLa cells, have been on science, look no
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further than PubMed, the National Institutes of Health’s online library for medical research. Searching “HeLa” nets more than 90,000 results. Indeed, HeLa’s influence is so widespread, involved and often, interconnected, that’s it’s impossible to pinpoint its scope. Here’s how HeLa will influence the future of medicine: HeLa cells will continue to benefit countless patients Indeed, HeLa cells have been a cornerstone of research for Andrew Adey, assistant professor of molecular and medical genetics at Oregon Health and Science University, where he does cancer research. Because HeLa cells are extremely well documented, Adey uses them
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as a control for the cancer-detecting technologies his group develops. “We use HeLa cells to calibrate and refine our technologies because we know exactly which mutations are present,” he told reporters. “Just about every single technology we work on developing, we use HeLa cells first.” Just about every single technology we work on developing, we use HeLa cells first. Andrew Adey, assistant professor of molecular and medical genetics It’s not possible to quantify how many lives have been saved from research based on HeLa cells, but one measure, in combination with gains in preventative medicine, might point to the scope: Deaths from cervical cancer, the disease that took Lacks’ life, declined more than 60 percent between 1955 and 1992, according to the NIH. HeLa cell research has also had an immense influence on health beyond cancer, contributing also to the development of the polio vaccine and helping to map the human genome. “The number of lives saved by research that utilized HeLa is most likely in the millions,” Adey said. The future of biomedicine is rooted in HeLa research. HeLa-based research laid the groundwork for what’s known as precision medicine: treatments tailored to an individual’s
environment, lifestyle and genes, rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription. Precision medicine is regarded by some oncologists as the future of cancer treatment. One example is immunotherapy, in which scientists stimulate a patient’s immune system to treat his or her cancer. The stimulation can range from drugs to vaccines to cell transfers. This type of research had been championed by former President Barack Obama, who allotted $215 million for a Precision Medicine Initiative in his 2016 budget. “HeLa cells continue to be a major tool in many laboratories focused on the development of cancer drugs,” said Patricia Thompson-Carino, a pathology professor at Stony Brook School of Medicine. HeLa cells have bolstered scientists’ knowledge about cancer treatment resistance and helped doctors to better match cancer drugs to patients. And although immunotherapy is multifaceted, and certainly doesn’t work for everyone, former President Jimmy Carter’s immune system-boosting melanoma treatment in 2015 is one notable success. Today, HeLa’s not the only immortal cell line aiding researchers, but it arguably paved the way for those lines and the immeasurable medical innovation that followed.
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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.
On Bedden departure
It is unfortunate and irresponsible. How was this man supposed to clean up a 15+ year mess in three years? The children of RPS deserve better and I'm tired of people scapegoating these kids because of their race and socio-economic status. This school board has some explaining to do. And it better be about more than the fact 8.3 million dollars was found (like it went into a personal spending account). I want specifics. This impacts the kids; my kids. They're not just a bunch of numbers and statistics. They are developing human beings that deserve better. I'm tired of the politics. This has to stop. Christi Munford-Thomas -Shocked and disappointed at this development. The School Board owes the public a detailed explanation for their decision. Otherwise, our confidence in the almost “totally new” School Board will erode quickly. I can only hope that the reason(s) for the Board’s decision is more than the “facts” as they are presented in this article. We need more continuity in RPS leadership - both on the School Board and at the Superintendent level. Camille Harris -The Richmond Public Schools have already gone to great efforts to cut student suspensions and guard against any bias against minorities, so it is perplexing to hear this. -“The fairness of [RPS] disciplinary policies has drawn scrutiny from
the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which agreed last week to investigate claims of inequities raised by lawyers for two named students and the Richmond branch NAACP.” Above as The College Fix notes in an article, the fact that blacks are suspended at a higher rate than whites doesn’t show racial bias, but rather reflects the fact that more black kids are acting up in school (schools use suspensions as a last resort, to keep classes from getting constantly disrupted, and ensure that other kids have a chance to learn). A 2014 study in the Journal of Criminal Justice found that the reason more blacks kids are suspended than whites in America’s schools is because more of them misbehave, not because teachers or principals are racist. (See the study “Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap in school suspensions”). When suspensions are curbed, it hurts minorities most -- especially the majority of black kids who follow the rules. A 2017 Manhattan Institute study found that when suspensions are curbed, violence and gang activity rise most in schools that are 90% or more minority. And a University of Rochester professor found years ago that “in public schools with discipline problems, it hurts those innocent African American children academically to keep disruptive students in the classroom,” and “cutting out-ofschool suspensions in those schools widens the black-white academic
achievement gap.” Given the higher poverty rate in the black community, and greater challenges in black kids’ home environment, it’s not surprising that a higher percentage of them act out in school than do white kids. As the College Fix notes, disparities in suspension rates between blacks and whites do not necessarily “even amount to unintentional discrimination of the ‘disparate impact’ variety. Even ‘disparate impact’ complaints are supposed to be based on statistical findings that control ‘for various factors that one would expect to be relevant to the likelihood of disciplinary action.’” such as poverty and being from a single-parent household; “Student misconduct rates are much higher in schools where poverty is common, especially abuse aimed at teachers: verbal abuse aimed at teachers is five times higher in such schools.” The College Fix article is titled, “Feds launch sketchy racial ‘disparate impact’ investigation of Virginia school district.” Fred Woerhle
Dear Big O,
I am writing you this letter to say thank you. I want to thank you for what you have done for this country – outside of politics. Honestly, I don’t know enough about politics to judge what was good or bad, but I want you to know that when you said “Yes We Can” – a young man dreaming a dream from rough circumstances in Florida heard you. When you were elected president for the first time I was 16 and I watched you make the
never-imaginable, attainable and I heard your cry to inspire hope. I used those words as motivation and saw your achievement as an opportunity and permission to work make my dreams come true too. You were the president of the United States – the highest office in the world. You broke a barrier and a stereotype proving not every minority has to use a ball to make a way. You’ve inspired a lifetime of dreamers young and old. Now, kids from my community – and my future children – will know that there is no dream too big – even they could be the president of the United States. As I prepare for the honor of visiting the White House, I will be there as a Super Bowl Champion – and I will think of you, mainly because the White House is a different, and better place because you lived there. I was a kid that came from nothing and I am living out one of the greatest dreams of my life. I am just grateful for the opportunity to walk in the same steps as you did, and to have a platform to inspire and I hope to leave my mark on history the way you did. One day, when I meet you, I will shake your hand and say thank you to your face but until then this kid is going to continue to dream until I can’t anymore. Thank you for blazing a trail, but for more than that, for leaving a paved road behind you for others to climb on. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your DREAMS Oprah Yes we can!! DREAM BIG!! Thank you... P.S Holla at me to help you with your broke jump shot. Jacoby Brissett
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SCOTUS sides with church in playground dispute RNA - A clear majority of Supreme Court justices seemed ready last week to rule that the separation of church and state should not extend to swings and slides. In a case with implications for more than 30 states that prohibit using public funds for religious purposes, the justices appeared aligned against Missouri’s refusal to include a Lutheran church in a grant program that provides funding to resurface playgrounds and make them safer. The high court had delayed hearing the case for nearly a year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps because of fears the eight remaining justices would split along ideological lines, as they have in some cases involving religious liberties. But the addition of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch this month may not have been necessary. “It does seem as though … this is a clear burden on a constitutional right,” Justice Elena Kagan said in reference to the state’s refusal to treat Trinity Lutheran Church as equal to other nonprofits seeking state grants, given that the church met all the neutral criteria for the program. If the high court were to rule against the church on such a safety issue, said Justice Stephen Breyer, “we proliferate litigation forever in areas that are critical, like police, fire, health” from aggrieved religious institutions seeking to participate in secular activities. Their concerns raised the possibility that the court would rule 7-2 in favor of the church, though perhaps on narrow grounds, so as not to set a broad, nationwide precedent on public funding for religious institutions. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor did not seem inclined to support any such funding. The case dates back to 2012, when
the Columbia, Mo., church applied for a state grant to replace the unforgiving, pea gravel surface of its child learning center’s playground with material made from recycled tires. It placed fifth among 44 applicants, 14 of which were awarded grants, but the church was passed over based on a provision of the state constitution. The church’s lawsuit soon became a cause célèbre among supporters of religious freedom, led by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which took its case to court. It lost at the federal district and appellate court levels, but the Supreme Court’s decision in January 2016 to hear the case was seen as a positive sign. Then Scalia died the next month, prompting the court to delay hearing the case until now. Gorsuch’s confirmation wasn’t the only late-breaking event, however. Missouri’s new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, last week reversed the state policy and said churches will be eligible for such grants in the future. That led some justices to wonder if Trinity’s challenge was unnecessary. “If we have no adversity, hasn’t this case become mooted?” Sotomayor asked James Layton, the state’s former solicitor general who argued in favor of the religious exclusion. The church raised two central claims in court papers. It said the exclusion violates the First Amendment’s protection against policies prohibiting the free exercise of religion, as well as the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection for all. “This is clearly singling out a religious organization with no justification to do so,” said David Cortman, the Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel who argued the church’s case. If the Supreme Court were to rule against the church, its supporters say, that could give states justification to deny funds for
other services, ranging from police and fire protection to soup kitchens and battered women’s shelters. The conservative Institute for Justice says 1.3 million students in schoolchoice programs could be affected. Justice Samuel Alito, one of the court’s staunchest defenders of religious freedom, cited a series of examples to illustrate that Missouri’s exclusion of religious groups could extend to funding that protects against school violence or acts of terrorism. He and others wondered how those programs could be denied but not police and fire protection, which are required under the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
If police and fire protection must be provided to the church, Breyer asked, how can the state “deny money to the same place for helping children not fall in the playground, cut their knees, get tetanus, break a leg, et cetera? What’s the difference?” Layton, who worked for the state’s prior Democratic administration, defended the policy as treating all religions and religious groups the same. While the free exercise clause requires that the state not interfere with the church’s activities, it does not require state funding, he said. “We don’t want to be in a position … where we are selecting among churches,” Layton said.
Local author releases book
Calling for unity within the world, “That We All May Be One: A Biblical Perspective Regarding Race and the Gospel” shares author Evangeline Henderson’s thoughts on the source of division and strife in the world and how it can be healed and restored. “People want justice, equality, unity, and peace, but on their own terms,” said Henderson in announding the publication of her new book. “These desires can only be realized according to God’s terms, not man’s terms/demands.” Depicting both episodes from the Bible and modern-day, Henderson discusses the cause of racial dissension and how to resolve it. She highlights the Good Samaritan,
the prophet Jonah and the apostle Peter to show that while everyone, even servants of God, can experience or exhibit discrimination, the Bible shows illustrates that it can be resolved with God’s help. “Change must first begin with each individual and you can’t change yourself,” said Henderson, who resides in Chesterfield County and serves at her local church. “Change must come from the inside out, not from the outside in. Behavior is the result of what’s in the heart. Hatred/ bigotry is a heart issue. When the heart is transformed, everything else will change.” The book is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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School-aged girls to showcase social change projects Girls For A Change (GFAC), a national social profit organization that empowers girls to create social change, will soon host the spring 2017 Girl Action Teams from several schools and community programs to showcase the social change projects they created in their afterschool programs. GFAC will host the event on May 4, 5:30 p.m. at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens Auditorium - 1800 Lakeside Avenue, Henrico. It will be part of the “Black Girl Showcase” and will feature as its special guest, Lauren Mims, former assistant director for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans during the Obama administration. The public is welcome register and donate at blackgirlshowcase.eventbrite.com. GFAC notes that the purpose of this free citywide event, is to “uplift, celebrate, showcase, and fortify black girls and other girls of color”. Girls get to introduce the social change projects that they worked on in their Girl Action Teams to their communities and the world. “This is a celebration of the great work happening in our community; an exploration of the ideas, techniques, and technologies that are driving this change; and an invitation for everyone to get involved in creating a better future
Angela Patton for their community,” notes the organization, which has served more than 2,000 girls in Richmond schools since 2008. GFAC further notes that “driven by technology, and inspired by local success stories, girls are partnering in their community with activists, leaders, change-makers, and businesses, and through these partnerships, start to tackle some of our toughest social challenges, answer some of our biggest questions, and create solutions.” GFAC CEO Angela Patton has been a champion for and advocate of black girls for over a decade. She notes that “ultimately, we want to create an
extraordinary learning environment that helps black girls and other girls of color meet goals of graduating, being community-ready, collegeready, and entrepreneurial- ready. “At Girls For A Change, we are preparing girls to be ready to take action to take the leap and lead. So take the leap and come out to Richmond’s first Black Girl Showcase huge difference in a girl’s life by making sure she knows she matters, she is seen, she is hear, and she will be celebrated!” Girls For A Change provides a curriculum that is facilitated by volunteers recruited and trained to be coaches for Girl Action Teams of 10-15 girls ages 11-18 who meet afterschool for 14 weeks. In the program, girls choose a community issue that is important to them, such as dating abuse, teen pregnancy, or racism. The girls are then empowered to design and lead a social change project to combat that issue. They learn problem solving, leadership, project management and failure recovery skills in the process. Girls For A Change empowers
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young women to understand the power and resources they have in their community and selves, lead social change and speak out against societal issues that concern them. Women over 18 can apply to be volunteer coaches through GFAC’s Changer Your World Training sessions to work in local schools and agencies to facilitate the Girl Action Teams. Coaches receive training and support and enjoy professional and life coaching as a result. “We’re always looking for volunteers willing to co-lead a Girls Action Team, help coordinate an event or provide whatever unique talents they have,” notes Patton. “We provide people with engaging volunteer opportunities where you can share your time, talents and skills to help grow the impact of Girls For A Change. Coach a Girls Action Team, act as an ambassador at events, assist with social change projects, work on research projects and strategic initiatives, or propose and execute on something new! For more information, call 1-866738-4422 or visit girlsforachange.org.
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Self-made & singular: An interview with Dazeases DAVY JONES First Person I met up with London Perry, who performs under the name Dazeases, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Best Café on the sunny January Saturday that followed the president's announcement of a Muslim travel ban. She and I talked for a little more than an hour, and near the end of the conversation, I mentioned that I’d been doing newsinduced breathing exercises just before she arrived. “Humanity at large is a history of power struggles,” she said in her response. “And there’s constantly the oppressed and the oppressor. And things elevate over time, but that’s just a universal story. Being an individual in that, it’s really easy to succumb to that fear. I think it’s okay to feel fear, obviously, but how is that going to dictate how you act, I think is really what’s important.” With her sparse, weighty electronic music, Dazeases achieves a kind of alchemy that’s tremendously inspiring, especially right now: She transforms vulnerability into strength via self-knowledge, openness, and a true artist’s embrace of experimentation. “I’m kind of going by the seat of my pants,” she mentioned at one point. “You’re seeing it in action.” Much of Dazeases’ experimentation is done in GarageBand, her production tool of choice, and she works with an unlikely combination of deliberateness and speed. “I’ve played some instruments and have a very entry-level understanding of music structure,” she explained, “but I don’t feel like I have control. I can’t sit down and [say] ‘I’m hearing this’ and make it happen. It’s a very painstaking [process of] trying to make things work, trying to get what I want to happen. I really don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just making up as I go and being like ‘That sounds good enough.’” That drive -- “I get really restless real fast. I just want to start doing the next thing...” -- has allowed her, in just a few years, to craft a
PHOTOS: Craig Zirpolo series of releases that each built on the successes of what came before. That series starts with a 2014 instrumental track called “Consumer” and progresses through a pair of EPs (Lame Parties and Welcome Back), building toward 2016’s C R U M B S album and her latest, Local Slut. Records’ new “Hatched” subscription series, in which albums by four bands -- Big Baby, Camp Howard, and Doll Baby are the other three -- will be issued quarterly on cassette with subscriber-only bonus perks. “I was into those bands before I knew they were going to be part of the series,” Dazeases said. “It was honestly very flattering to [think] ‘Oh, okay. I’m on that level too.’” Though she casts herself as a newcomer in certain respects, the total effect of her music feels much more cultivated. Songs like “Plum” and “M E D U S A” exert a heavy, commanding magnetism, especially when she ventures into her lower register. I asked about how she got her start singing, and she pointed to a few early experiences -- singing with her mom in a Baptist choir for a short time, taking voice lessons at the suggestion of a teacher in the University of Virginia’s summer Young Writers Workshop, which had a songwriting course. Nevertheless, her performance style is self-made and singular. She
prefers low lighting; just the night before, at a show in Charlottesville, she improvised her own ambiance using lamps she found at the venue. “Any photos -- if you see a lamp on a chair, that was me.” And she described an approach to organizing set lists that involves front-loading upbeat material. “It’s really cool to watch that tone change or make that tone change happen,” she said. “I usually do an emotional slope in my sets, so it’ll start out as positive as I get for my music -- it’s not really positive or happy by nature -- and then just drag it down. Down, down, down. Like, unrelenting.” It takes uncommon confidence to intentionally bring an audience down, but in doing so, Dazeases is being faithful to the themes of her music. Her C R U M B S album in particular touched on the dark issue of how power manifests itself in relationships, and the video associated with “M E D U S A” finds her playing both the role of captor and the captured. “I like the idea of being kidnapped by myself” Dazeases explained, “because I’m very interested in control and power and the implications of that. Being a black femme person, I'm given little societal validation in comparison to that of most of my past partners. In the search for validation, I've often relinquished control of a relationship,
allowing it to become almost entirely on the other person's terms. Do I think I was targeted or exploited in that regard? At times, yes. But I can also acknowledge that, even when I became cognizant of it happening and of its detrimental effects on me, I rarely cut the cord clean.” Coming to that level of self-awareness hasn’t been easy. Transferring to Virginia Commonwealth University involved an adjustment period in which Dazeases learned hard lessons about how insecurities and alcohol mix, particularly when it comes to sex. “I saw myself as marketable, but only in a certain way. And there was something I wanted, but I didn’t think I could get it by just being like, ‘Hey, you want to hang out sometime?’” She’s since traded the party scene for one that’s more creatively minded. The Dazeases project has placed her at the center of Richmond’s thriving artistic community, which she’s poised to become an even bigger part of with the momentum generated by the release of Local Slut. “I’m interested in people [whose] socializing is about doing,” she said. “It’s not about ‘Where are we going to get drunk tonight?’ It’s about ‘What are we going to see and participate in tonight?’ and going and seeing what people are working really hard on and curating and presenting. It’s really nice because then it feels like a real community.” - Gay RVA
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RVA Ballet on a $10 million Road to the Future Campaign Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, announced its $10 million Road to the Future Campaign last week. Virginia’s acclaimed professional ballet company, which has toured The Kennedy Center, New York, London, and in 2015, a four-city tour in China, announced the public phase of the campaign during a celebration event Wednesday evening at Dominion Resources’ corporate headquarters on the James River in Richmond. Campaign Chairs David R. Beran, Thomas F. Farrell II, and John A. Luke Jr. explained that given how far the Ballet has come since 1957, “the time is now to take Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, to the next level of support.” The Chairs were pleased to announce that $6.35 million had already been raised during the quiet phase of the Campaign. The Chairs and Board of Trustees were joined by Richmond Ballet Artistic Director Stoner Winslett, Managing Director Brett Bonda, and Campaign Director William Hancock, as well as professional company dancers, School of Richmond Ballet students, and dancers from Minds in Motion outreach program. The purpose of the Road to the Future Campaign is to support the
Core Needs of Richmond Ballet: Education; National & International Touring; Creative Capital; Building Enhancements; and Endowment. “We are at a significant crossroads in our 60 year history, and we invite you to invest with us in Richmond
Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia,” said William Hancock, Campaign Director. Founding Artistic Director Stoner Winslett has led Richmond Ballet since 1980, consistently adhering to the mission and vision, as well as cultural and financial integrity.
VUU basketball coach is first back-to-back winner of Coach Gaines Award Virginia Union University’s AnnMarie Gilbert, head coach of the VUU women’s basketball team, has become the first back-to-back winner of the Clarence “Big House” Gaines Award, given by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA), announced over the weekend. Gilbert will receive the award at the 58th Annual NMSA Awards Banquet on Monday, June 26, at the Millennium Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Gilbert guided the Lady Panthers to a 28-5 record and an appearance in the 2017 National Championship Game in Columbus, Oh.
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“The Richmond Ballet aspires to help transform our world through the unique and special power of dance by training and presenting ballet dancers as the ultimate artists/athletes, who inspire us by demonstrating unlimited human potential and beauty.”
College Basketball Coach of the Year Awards have been presented to the head coach in NCAA Division I and Division II, who earn recognition they may not receive from mainstream outlets. An NSMA committee votes on the winners at the conclusion of the NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments. The Gaines Awards are presented at the annual NSMA Awards Banquet. Gaines was the legendary head basketball coach at Winston-Salem (NC) State University. In 47 season as head coach, his teams won 828 games, including the 1967 NCAA Division II National Championship. Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe was the leader of that 1967 team. He went on to an NBA Hall of Fame career. Among the other notable players Gaines coached were Cleo Hill, the first NBA first-round draft choice from a historically black college or university, and sports media personality Stephen A. Smith. A former president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), Gaines was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.
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Jobless rate drops, is 2nd lowest of major U.S. state Gov. Terry McAuliff’s office last week celebrated Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate lowering 0.1 percentage point in March to 3.8 percent, the third consecutive monthly decline. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.8 percent is the lowest rate since the May 2008 rate of 3.8 percent. Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continues to be below the national rate, which was down 0.2 percentage points in March to 4.5 percent. “I’m pleased to see our tireless efforts to diversify and build a new Virginia economy come to fruition,” said McAuliffe. “We are certainly starting 2017 off in a great position, and today’s announcement of the third consecutive drop in unemployment is a very positive indicator that our economy is strengthening. With the threat of sequestration cuts later this year, we must continue to do everything we can to make targeted investments in key sectors of the economy. I look forward to this positive trend in unemployment decline continuing through the remainder of this year and beyond.” Virginia has the second lowest
Gov. Terry McAuliffe seasonally adjusted unemployment rate among major U.S. states. Virginia’s labor force expanded for the 12th consecutive month to 4,290,397, setting a record high for the Commonwealth, and household employment expanded for the 27th consecutive month to 4,129,123, also a record high. The labor force increased by 9,248 in March, as household employment rose by 13,530 and the number of unemployed fell by 4,282. “We continue to see increases in employment and labor force expansion, as well as decreases in the unemployment rate throughout Virginia, strong signs that the governor’s mandate to build a new Virginia economy is working,” said Secretary of Commerce and Trade Todd Haymore. “In partnership
(from page 4) said the Black Press wasn’t needed. While they were employed, the black reporters were not given the freedom to report stories as they existed, often White editors changed the story with headlines that fit their perspective, not the essence of the story, if some of them recognized their stories as submitted, it was rare.” Leavell said that when black reporters were making good salaries at mainstream media outlets, they mostly remained silent. Many now want to speak up as their numbers are dwindling. Many have left predominately White newsrooms and returned home to the Black Press, added Leavell. “The Black Press is driven by a purpose and a mission to tell the truth and to stand up to those who would rob humanity of its fullness,” McFarland said. “We stand to
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis call attention to the truth of our existence and to the commitment of freedom and liberation. Our spirit is underlying in our newspapers; we are resilient and we no longer have to see ourselves through the lenses of Europeans.” McFarland added: “There’s a new narrative that says we have been winning and we are winning.
with the General Assembly and the private sector, we are making great strides and will continue these efforts to further enhance Virginia’s business climate, support existing businesses as they expand, recruit new companies to the commonwealth, and spur job creation opportunities.” Virginia’s nonfarm payroll employment is 45,800 jobs higher when compared to March of 2016. Virginia’s over-the-year employment
growth was 1.2 percent and has been positive for 36 consecutive months. Nationally, total nonfarm employment grew 1.5 percent in March compared to a year ago. In March, the private sector recorded an over-the-year gain of 46,200 jobs, while the public sector recorded an over-the-year loss of 400 jobs. Compared to a year ago, on a seasonally adjusted basis, eight of the eleven major industry divisions experienced employment gains.
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Annual Inspire Youth@Work Fair seeks to connect youth with summer jobs, opportunities The third annual Inspire Youth@ Work Summer Opportunities Fair will be held on Saturday, April 29 from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Cedar Fork Resource Workforce Center located at 121 Cedar Fork Rd., Richmond. This fair is the only one in the area with a mission to connect young people (ages 14 - 24) with government, businesses and not-for-profit organizations that are looking to fill summer jobs, volunteer programs, internships, resources, and leadership development opportunities. This event is expected to draw 300 to 500 attendees from the city and surrounding counties, according to planners. Hosted by the Capital Region Workforce Partnership, Resource Workforce Development Board, and the Capital Region Transition Council and Inspire Youth Network, this free event also aims to raise awareness about resources and programs available and provide
success tips on resume and interview preparation for the young adults in our community. “With so many bright, energetic, and motivated young people in our region, it is a joy to connect these individuals with summer opportunities that can have a positive impact on their future. Beyond taking on new responsibilities and learning new skills, working for the first time can profoundly shape someone’s goals and prospects for the future,” said Krishawn Monroe, assistant director of the Capital Region Workforce Partnership. “Because this event is made possible as a joint partnership of the city and surrounding counties, there is no limit to registration. We encourage registering your youth groups, clubs, and teams to attend this event.” Employers, businesses, and nonprofits that wish to recruit at the event can register opportunities online at inspireyouthatwork.net .
Local bankers celebrate ‘Financial Literacy Month’ In 2000, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy began promoting April as Financial Literacy Month. In 2003, April was declared as Financial Literacy Month for the first time by the U.S. Senate and Financial Literacy Day on the Hill was founded. The goal of Financial Literacy Month is to highlight financial literacy as an essential life skill and its importance. Virginia banks observe this month with events, activities and classes to help youth and adults improve their understanding of financial principles and practices. Bankers note that it is “essential” to Virginia that its citizens be financially literate, responsible and able to properly manage money, credit, and debt. The
good news, they note, is that Virginia is one of 20 states in the nation that requires high school students to take a course in economics and one of 17 states that requires high school students to take a course in personal finance. Bankers’ main focus this month is Teach Children to Save (TCTS). Teach Children to Save is an annual awareness program through which bankers demonstrate their community commitment by teaching young people about the value of saving. Visiting classrooms, youth centers and after-school programs, bankers use their realworld knowledge and professional skills to encourage young people to start saving at a young age. This year, bankers will visit elementary
Participating kids are looking for direction, looking for information for their future. There is so much out there and this is a way to bring it all to them in one place, according to past participants. Employers and summer opportunity holders that serve the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New
Kent, Powhatan and the city of Richmond are invited to participate, free of charge, at the event.
school classrooms on April 28, the nationally celebrated Teach Children to Save Day. In its 20th year, TCTS notes that it has reached 8.9 million young people through the commitment of more than 225,000 banker volunteers. Virginia bankers will carry out TCTS presentations throughout the state, incorporating games and activities into real life lessons focusing on the concept of saving, how interest makes money grow, how to create a budget, and how to differentiate between needs and wants. New this year, bankers will presenting lesson plans to get youth excited about banking industry professions. Banker presentations, such as those carried out during Financial Literacy Month, play an important role in helping students understand personal finance topics. Last year, 425 Virginia bankers from 31 banks made 432 presentations and reached 24,203 students
acrossVirginia. While April is a great time to focus on financial literacy, bankers don’t just visit classrooms in April; they participate in other financial literacy events throughout the year, including: · Get Smart About Credit in October, when they visit high schools across the state to make presentations on knowing your credit score, paying for college, protecting your identity and managing your money; · VBA Bank Day Scholarship Program, when they host students in their banks for the day. A total of $26,000 in college scholarships is distributed through this program; · Virginia Council on Economic Education Teachers Institutes, when bankers teach the credit portion of this free training for teachers; · More than 100 banks in Virginia support the VBA Education Foundation, the vehicle through which the VBA is able to offer these programs.
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Report makes “The Case for Fair Housing” as segregation persists & hate crimes rise The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) recently released its 2017 “Fair Housing Trends Report: The Case for Fair Housing”. Every year, NFHA collects data on housing discrimination complaints and reports on key housing issues across the U.S. in the prior year. But the 2017 report is more expansive, given an increased need to bring attention to the importance of the Fair Housing Act and the work that remains to be done to advance housing equity. “We are one year away from commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act which was passed just seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April, 1968. Some advances have been made in opening up neighborhoods to everyone; however, people of color, persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups continue to be unlawfully shut out of many neighborhoods that provide quality schools and health care, fresh food, employment opportunities, quality and affordable credit, small business investment, and other opportunities that affect life outcomes. That is why we felt compelled to make the Case for Fair Housing in this comprehensive report,” said Shanna Smith, president and CEO of NFHA. The 2017 Trends Report includes 2016 discrimination complaint data compiled from private, nonprofit fair housing organizations, as well as federal and state governmental entities responsible for enforcing the Fair Housing Act. It chronicles the development of residential segregation in the U.S., which was primarily a 20th century construct that unfolded in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery but the foundation of which is evidenced to this day. The facts clearly demonstrate that segregation resulted from deliberate discriminatory policies and practices by the federal government, the housing industry, and local communities. The report also presents information about the adverse costs of segregation to individuals, communities, and the nation. Key facts from the report: • There were 28,181 complaints of housing discrimination in 2016. •Discrimination based on disability accounted for 55 percent of all complaints. •Race-based housing discrimination accounted for nearly 20 percent of housing discrimination complaints. •Only a fraction of racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination in housing is reported, because research shows most people do not report suspected discriminatory treatment. •It is estimated that more than four million instances of housing discrimination occur annually. Notable in 2016 was an increase in housing-related hate activity. Since the fall of 2016, there has been an uptick of hate crimes involving people who were harassed in their neighborhoods or at their apartments, university dormitories, or homes. “These instances are sometimes reported to local law enforcement but should also be reported to local fair housing centers and NFHA, because we will push to ensure that people who harass or intimidate are held accountable for violating the Fair Housing Act,” said Smith. The report also highlights the emerging battle to combat fair housing violations on shared housing and social media platforms. Companies like Airbnb and Facebook have proactively made changes to their sites in an effort to comply with fair housing laws, but there are continued concerns about the potential for discrimination on similar platforms. Facebook worked with NFHA and other leading civil rights organizations in an effort to prevent individuals from utilizing its platform to place discriminatory ads. The report documents that 70 percent of housing discrimination claims are handled by local, private fair housing centers. There is an increased need for HUD and other governmental agencies to expediently process cases and aggressively enforce the Fair Housing Act. There is also a need for increased support of fair housing initiatives by the philanthropic community.
Finally, the report includes key recommendations for eliminating housing discrimination, strengthening fair housing enforcement, and expanding access to opportunity.
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Many women are confronted with concerns about their biological clock as it relates to fertility. Join Nancy Durso, M.D., a reproductive medicine specialist at VCU Health, in a discussion about a woman’s biological clock and ways to determine reproductive health. The talk will be at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s Kelly Education Center, 1800 Lakeside Ave., Richmond and will include information about advances with in vitro fertilization, pre-implantation genetic screening, donor eggs and cryopreservation of eggs. Register online at vcuhealth.org/events or call 804-628-0041 for more information.
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The Henrico County office of Virginia Cooperative Extension will present a free workshop to help residents better manage their finances. The Tools for Today’s Economy workshop will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the demonstration kitchen of the Human Services Building, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive. The session will outline steps for making sound financial decisions in today’s economy. The deadline for registration is Tuesday, April 25. Participants are asked to register by calling the Extension office at 804-501-5160. Information also is available at henrico.us/extension. The workshop is being offered in recognition of April as National Financial Capability Month.
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More than 200 fourth and fifth graders from Richmond will showcase their QuickStart tennis skills April 27 at the eighth annual Young Aces Open at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Mary and Frances Youth Center. The Young Aces Open will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is organized by VCU’s Lobs & Lessons. This is a youth enrichment program that strengthens life skills, promotes academics and creates a path to higher education through the sport of tennis. Entrance to the event is at 120 S. Linden St., between the Cary Street Gym and Cary Street Field. The rain location will be at the Richmond Volleyball Club. “One day leads to a year, which creates a lifetime memory. This is what we hope to inspire through Young Aces Open and the Lobs & Lessons program,” said Tina Carter, director of the VCU Mary and Frances Youth Center. “Tennis can help create opportunities for youth throughout their lives, whether they play for fun, to stay healthy or it becomes part of their educational path.” The tournament is a partnership between the Mary and Frances Youth Center and Richmond Public Schools to introduce students to QuickStart Tennis, which is team-centered and uses foam balls, smaller racquets and modified courts to boost a player’s confidence and create a positive experience. For the eighth year of the largest QuickStart Tennis Tournament in the world, each of the 26 participating schools will send four boys and four girls to play mixed doubles. Each child will play an equal number of games, with no elimination. After the matches, participants will go through various tennis challenges and educational stations. The tournament will conclude with an awards ceremony, with medals and trophies given to the top three schools in each bracket. Local physical education teachers will also compete in a mini tournament in the afternoon.
Varina District Supervisor Tyrone E. Nelson will hold a Community Conversations meeting to discuss the opioid epidemic in Henrico County. The meeting will be held at the Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Road. Nelson will be joined by County Manager John A. Vithoulkas and members of the Henrico Heroin Task Force for a discussion of heroin and opioid abuse and ways to prevent it. For information, call 804501-4208.
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Fairfield District Supervisor Frank J. Thornton will hold a constituent meeting to continue to highlight the opioid crisis in Henrico County. Thornton will be joined by representatives of the Henrico County Branch of the NAACP as they resume a discussion that began in March about the growing concerns associated with opioid abuse and addiction. Thornton also will explain the new Fairfield Citizen Taskforce Committee. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. For information, call 804- 501-4208.
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