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Missing Henrico man found dead - 2 A 2nd chance for former addicts - 4 Stemming the tide of hatefulness - 8 Venus Williams on greatest feat - 11

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Opioids: An American health crisis LEHA BYRD

Overdose deaths in the United States involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ninety-one Americans die daily from an opioid overdose and more than 1,000 are treated daily in emergency departments for not using prescription opioids as directed.

In 2016, Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Health Commissioner Marissa Levine declared the opioid addiction crisis a public health emergency in Virginia.

Locally, in medical centers like VCU, efforts are under way to combat this public health crisis — through addiction treatment, pain management, health care policy, education and research. This multipart series provides a snapshot of those efforts.

Quite a few things make Tavara Webb happy these days: seeing her 6-month-old baby girl develop day by day; being part of her teenagers’ lives; buying a car; and hearing the words, “your urine is clean.”

It’s been almost a year since the Richmond resident has heard otherwise. Webb is part of the VCU Health Obstetrical Addiction Program that treats new and soonto-be moms with drug addictions, particularly opioid addictions.

Clinicians have worked with close to 40 patients since it began in February 2016. The program’s inner workings emphasize a multidisciplinary approach that includes drug treatment, drug counseling, psychology sessions and social-work provisions. After a patient delivers her baby, the team works closely with newborn providers

Tavara Webb stands on the deck outside her apartment in Richmond's northside. to monitor neonatal abstinence syndrome, and provides social support to mothers once discharged.

Female inmates from Henrico County and Richmond City Jails also participate in the program, based out of the VCU Health Nelson Clinic.

Additionally, program clinicians provide care at Riverside Regional Jail and Rappahannock Regional Jail, and coordinate transition of care for inmates once they’re released.

Webb became part of the program after revealing to her nurse that she was addicted to oxycodone while pregnant and a patient at the Nelson Clinic. At the time she was also

struggling with homelessness and self-esteem, but said the program has helped her connect with services, manage withdrawal and adopt a well-rounded outlook on her future.

“Prior to me starting that clinic, I felt like there was nothing I could do to get back on my feet,” Webb said.

“But, everything was the opposite when I stopped doing the drug.”

What are opioids?

Opioids are a prescription drug most commonly used to medically relieve pain, particularly after surgery or injury. Examples of opioids are morphine, tramadol,

oxycodone and methadone. Heroin is also considered an opioid, but is illegal.

Even when used as prescribed, opioids can have serious side effects, including depression, nausea and physical dependence, whereby users have withdrawal symptoms when they stop taking medication. There’s also the risk of tolerance, which leads to users taking more of the medication to get relief.

Today, nearly half of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid, according to the

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McEachin still seeks answers to Essex Village issues Congressman A. Donald McEachin (D-4th District) has sent another letter to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson renewing his demand for more information about, and action to address, problems at Essex Village, the Section 8 subsidized housing complex in Henrico County.

He issued this statement explaining his action: “On June 7, I asked HUD to make concrete changes to ensure that residents of Essex Village have

access to safe, sanitary, and affordable housing.

More than two weeks later, I have not received a substantive response — nor has any action been Rep. McEachin taken.

“Justice delayed is justice denied.

Missing man found dead STAFF & WIRE Missing man Taj Rashad Bullock was found dead last week in a wooded area in eastern Henrico County, according to police.

“The body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner who will determine the manner and cause of death,” said a Henrico Police spokesman. “No additional information is available at this time.”

Bullock, 25, was last seen alive on June 10. He was a young father who was working to get his life on track, said his father.

Bullock’s father recently shared how he is proud of his son, whom after being released from prison for violating his probation, sought a new direction, turning from drugs and getting back to work.

It is unclear what may have happened to Bullock. When he went mission, Henrico investigators released a photo asking the public for tips into his disappearance.

Bullock’s father said a relative purchased a rental car for his son to use, but Bullock never gave it back.

His dad believes that may have had to do with circumstances outside of his son’s control because it wasn’t like him to do something like that.

Residents in Eastern Henrico said they saw a dark colored SUV being

Families are living in dangerous, dirty, completely unacceptable conditions. In the face of such clear suffering, public officials have a responsibility to act -- none more so than officials at HUD. The agency has not responded to documented problems with the force or the swiftness that affected families deserve. Allowing this situation to arise in the first place, and to persist for years on end, has been a waste for taxpayers and an injustice for residents.

“Once again, my letter calls for a plan to close Essex Village and provide residents with housing

vouchers. It again seeks concrete improvements that would help residents in the meantime, including a policy change to allow Henrico County’s own inspectors to accompany those sent by HUD. And in the event that HUD believes such changes are not possible, it demands that they explain why – and requests constructive alternatives that would meaningfully improve conditions.

“I remain very upset that PK management pockets millions of tax dollars for its supposed oversight of Essex Village and yet residents live in squalor. This is completely unacceptable.”

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towed away from the area of Barker Avenue, not far from Nine Mile Road.

It’s the area where investigators spent several days searching by air and with K-9s looking for clues of the missing Bullock.

On social media, several people were offered well wishes for his safe return.

Bullock had a criminal history in Henrico and Chesterfield, including convictions for grand larceny, marijuana possession, and being a felon in possession of ammunition.

Bullock had recently passed a drug screening for a new job. That was what made his son’s sudden disappearance so surreal.

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(from page 1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to CDC data, national death rates from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, rose 72.2 percent from 2014 to 2015, 33,091 Americans died from opioid overdose in 2015, and 91 Americans die daily from an opioid overdose. Its prevalence in various communities isn’t exclusive and anybody can fall subject to its addiction.

“Opioids work on the part of our brains that cause pleasure by increasing the level of dopamine in our brains. So, each time someone uses opioids, they get a spike in the level of dopamine. That reinforcing pleasurable effect is part of what can cause addiction,” said Sebastian Tong, M.D., a VCU Health family medicine physician who leads the VCU Health Obstetrical Addiction Program along with Mishka Terplan, M.D., a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry and associate director of addiction medicine.

The idea for the program originated after Tong began receiving calls from local correctional facilities asking for help with their female inmates, some with child and in withdrawal from drug addiction.

He wasn’t surprised.

“Based on the increasing drug overdose death rates that I was hearing about in Richmond, and also speaking anecdotally to other clinicians, I suspected that there was a huge unmet need,” Tong said.

Opioids in the news In November 2016, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and State Health Commissioner Marissa J. Levine, M.D., declared the opioid addiction crisis a public health emergency in Virginia. The statement was in response to the growing number of opioid overdoses, and issued a standing order allowing all Virginians to obtain the drug Naloxone, which can be used to treat narcotic overdoses in emergencies.

In February, McAuliffe signed four bills into law to address the state’s ongoing epidemic. The bills included one to examine processes for providing local social services to infants exposed to opioids in utero.

June 28, 2017 • 3 Because the opioid epidemic has medical and social implications, it’s critical that lawmakers are involved, said Janet K. Abraham, a clinical social worker in VCU Health Women's Health who practices with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

“So many of these women have social hurdles that drive them to drug abuse before, during and after giving birth,” she said. “Our goal is to align them with the appropriate mental health strategies and social services that position them for success and help them best care for their children.”

VCU Health Obstetrical Addiction Program patients engage in weekly psychosocial counseling and support groups, led by a clinical psychologist along with VCU doctoral psychology students. Patients also see a physician for weekly obstetrical and addiction care. During these visits, eligible patients are prescribed medication-assisted treatment in the form of buprenorphine, a partial opioid agonist approved to treat opioid use disorder. Buprenorphine has been shown to improve abstinence from illicit substances as compared to counseling-only models. A high-risk clinic obstetrics social worker is available to connect patients with resources and the team works closely with the inpatient obstetrics/newborn social workers.

Even with the careful crafting of a program that includes outreach however, Tong said he realizes some things are still out of his control. It’s frustrating, he said.

“Despite having a comprehensive team that includes a social worker and a psychologist, participants often struggle with social needs, such as housing, where there are limited resources,” he said. “If you happen to currently live next door to a drug dealer, it’s much harder to stop using.”

Other specificities, too, factor into addiction tendencies, like genetics and the experience of childhood trauma, said Terplan.

“Most people use or have used drugs and alcohol, however only a minority develop an addiction to the drug. Among people who used heroin in the past year, for example, only 20 percent or 25 percent will meet

Tavara Webb sits in her apartment with her youngest daughter, Taylor. criteria for an addiction,” he said.

“So the question is why some people develop addiction and others don’t.”

Life now Webb was introduced to opioids after suffering a neck injury during a 1998 car accident, two days after she graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. As a mom struggling with drug addiction then, she can tell the difference in her parenting style now.

“When my older kids where younger, I would say, ‘I can’t wait for them to start walking. I can’t wait for them to start talking,’” she said.

“Now, my mind has just been clearer.

I’ve gotten a place now. I have a car.

Those were things I thought were over for me.”

As she works to stay drug free and rebuild her life, Webb, 36, still attends a weekly psychosocial support group at VCU Health. When she talks about her present-day life, she can feel the stares of those in the group who seem amazed at her progress. When she sees others she knows are still on drugs, she’s amazed, too.

“I see them and I think, ‘Did I ever look like that?’” she said. © VCU News

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Program offers chance to former addicts, felons BRYAN McNEIL After 34-year-old Richmond resident Michael Cheatham completed an addiction treatment program for heroin and cocaine, he landed a job working at a local produce warehouse. He appreciated the job, but couldn’t help feeling like he wanted something more fulfilling.

“I wanted something better, something like a career,” he said.

“Then I heard about this opportunity coming up through VCU about how to work in construction and I thought, ‘That’s the career change for me.’”

Cheatham is one of 14 men who took part in a pilot program called Quick Start Construction Training that is teaching the basics of construction work to Richmond residents who have struggled with addiction, homelessness and incarceration in order to give them a new opportunity and career, while also funneling trained workers to the state and local construction industry.

“In a bigger sense, it’s about breaking the chain of poverty and

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On a recent afternoon, participants learned how to read and understand schematics.

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giving hope to people.”

“We’re teaching them basic construction 101,” said Richard F. Sliwoski, associate vice president of Facilities Management at Virginia Commonwealth University, who came up with the idea for the program and organized a grassroots coalition that includes VCU, the VCU Health System, construction industry associations, the Richmond City Sheriff’s Office and the nonprofit organization CARITAS. “The goal is jobs. But, in a bigger sense, it’s about breaking the chain of poverty and giving hope to people.”

The first cohort of participants found their way to the program after previously taking part in either the sheriff’s office’s re-entry program called Recovering from Everyday Addictive Lifestyle (REAL), or CARITAS’ CARITAS Works job and life skills programs.

Sarah Huggins Scarbrough, Ph.D., internal program director for the Richmond Sheriff’s Office, said the sheriff’s office is proud to

be partnering with VCU to support formerly incarcerated Richmond residents acquire skills that will lead not just to a job, but a career.

“It’s no secret that finding employment for felons is difficult — and often a major contributor to relapse and recidivism,” Scarbrough said. “Even more difficult is finding a job as a felon with a living wage.

The opportunity that has been presented to us and CARITAS Works is incredible — now our clients not only have an opportunity for a job, but a career path. They are equipped with top-notch training, followed by employment in the industry.

This is employment in respectable companies, making living wages, in a career that they could retire in.”

Over the last several weeks in a VCU Facilities Management training room, the 14 participants learned about hand tools, power tools, safety, construction drawings, material handling, communication skills, and

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Largest graduate class at James River Juvenile Detention James River Juvenile Detention Center celebrated its largest class of high school graduates this week as 13 residents received their high school diploma or GED certificate.

The ceremony was held at the detention center on Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates marked their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception followed.

Representatives of the news media are welcome to provide coverage as long as they do not photograph the graduates’ faces.

“These graduates are to be commended for their hard work and dedication,” said Superintendent Michael D. Martin. “Their time here will change their lives forever. They will soon return to the community with a running start. We congratulate them and thank our detention and educational staff. This moment also would not be possible

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“These participants will complete this course with a general understanding of tools, a general understanding of what they’re supposed to do — what equipment they’re supposed to wear, how they’re supposed to act, what they can and can’t do,” said Ron Clarke, the program instructor. “And I really try to drill into them, the most important thing is to be there on time and ready to go to work, consistently.”

As part of the training, participants are each earning an OSHA 10 card, a safety certification that is required for many construction jobs.

“Getting their OSHA 10 cards is a big thing,” Clarke said. “That means an employer doesn’t have to send them to a class for 20 hours to get this certification. That automatically saves the employer money, and it gives them a leg up.”

In addition to the OSHA 10 certification, each of the participants received a stipend during the training, and was issued work boots and other safety equipment that will ensure they are ready to go to work.

Tray Thompson, a former truck driver who entered the program after completing a drug addiction recovery program and CARITAS Works, said the program has opened his eyes to the possibility of a career as an

without the support of judges, probation officers

electrician.

“A lot of what I’m interested in is electrical. I have no knowledge of electrical work at all, but I’m learning a lot,” he said. “This happened to come up at the right time. I had an opportunity to go back and keep driving a truck [after completing the addiction recovery program] but this is what I want to do [with my future].”

The best part, Thompson said, is the program culminates in a job fair with local construction companies looking to hire people.

“The industry is coming in here to pick us off and put us to work,” he said. “I mean, you can’t beat that.”

Recently, six contracting companies visited the program and interviewed the participants, and organizers are optimistic that all 14 will be offered jobs.

Patrick Dean, president of the Virginia chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, said the program is providing participants with what they need to be employable, and comes as contracting companies are in major need of workers.

“The need for skilled craftsmen is off the charts. But the only way you get [workers] to that point is you gotta start them somewhere,” he said. “We’re probably short 10,000 craft workers in the state of Virginia right now. While these [workers] aren’t considered craft workers yet, they basically enter the job as a

and families.”

Of the 13 graduates, 11 received a GED certificate, and two others will receive a high school diploma. Three of the graduates have secured jobs following their release, and one other plans to attend a local university. The detention center had an additional resident earn a GED certificate earlier this year, giving it 14 graduates for the year.

Each graduate is a resident of the detention center who has been sentenced for six months to its post-dispositional program, which provides an alternative to incarceration through the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice. Participants attend class at the detention center through a program operated by Henrico County Public Schools. The 60-bed detention center is jointly owned and operated by the counties of Henrico, Powhatan and Goochland.

laborer and what they will do is, once they get through the summer, then their companies would put them into our apprenticeship programs.”

The program, he said, is getting participants comfortable with working on job sites.

“As long as they can handle that, then we’ll get them into an apprenticeship program where they can specialize in carpentry, electrical, plumbing, and so on,” Dean said.

Associated General Contractors of Virginia also contributed to the program. "Contractors need qualified workers to complete jobs on time and keep projects under budget at VCU, said Gordon Dixon, CEO of the organization. "This pilot program is a great opportunity to introduce construction careers to Richmond residents ready and willing to learn a valuable skill that lasts a lifetime."

Larry Little, vice president of support services and planning for VCU Health System, said the program is helping fill a need for construction workers while also helping Richmond residents.

“This training program has provided access for future employees who will help build our great city,” he said. “Training is often unavailable or difficult to obtain. It is our desire to develop and provide opportunities to the citizens of Richmond.”

Marilyn Milio, program manager with CARITAS Works, also

praised the program, calling it “an opportunity for our participants who are already job ready because of the CARITAS Works program and the sheriff’s office REAL program to gain skills in the construction industry and be guaranteed employment once they successfully complete this program.”

Richmond resident Joseph Carter, who got involved with the program through CARITAS, said he is excited about taking what he’s learning in the class and one day possibly becoming a master plumber or another skilled worker.

“I just had off-and-on jobs here and there,” he said. “I’d always just been running the streets. Mother was addict, father was an alcoholic. I was left to fend for myself. So, you know, I made some bad choices. But this [program] was a good choice that was presented to me, and I’m really glad I made it.”

Cheatham, for his part, also never imagined he’d work in the construction industry. Now, however, he says he’s been enjoying learning about the various careers that will soon be available to him.

“I’ve been thinking about becoming a plumber — because I could go back to school and get my [journeyman] and a master’s, and just keep on growing,” he said. “I’ve got a thing about growing. I just want to get better and better.” © VCU News

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Urgent SOS to protect Medicaid MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN This is an urgent SOS. Republican senators worked behind closed doors on their own version of the terrible American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed by the House of Representatives in early May that will rip away health coverage from 23 million people. They plan to vote on a Senate bill just before they leave Washington for the July 4 recess.

The Senate leadership kept its bill secret, but we know it’s bad — ending Medicaid as we know it. Your help is needed right now to keep Senators from moving forward with this terrible health plan! More than 50 years of progress made in expanding and improving comprehensive childappropriate health coverage for children across America hangs in the balance. Everybody who cares about children needs to mobilize as you have never mobilized before and raise a ruckus to save children's health care safety net.

When Medicaid was first created in 1965 it provided children with a range of services necessary to treat acute and long-term health conditions, but there was no pediatric- and development-specific benefit. A 1964 government study found 50 percent of military draftees were rejected as a result of poor physical and mental health that could have been diagnosed and successfully treated in childhood and adolescence. The realization

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that children’s health was a national security issue led to a sea change for children. In 1967 Medicaid added the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit for children up to age 21 to meet their unique and developmental health needs, guaranteeing children a full range of comprehensive primary and preventive care and access to all medically necessary health and mental health services.

Since then we have been striving to live up to the promise of ensuring all young people are able to reach healthy adulthood — laboriously trying to expand coverage to more children thousands by thousands, millions by millions, state by state. Today, thanks to Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 95 percent of children in America have health coverage — a The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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historic high. Medicaid has evolved to be an essential part of the coverage system for children, ensuring 37 million children the health coverage they need to survive and thrive, including 40 percent of all children with special health care needs, and covering more than 40 percent of all births. Medicaid plays a critical role for children with special health care needs — for example, providing services throughout childhood to an infant born with a heart condition or a child with autism. For families struggling to find the financial resources needed to care for their children with disabilities, Medicaid is a lifeline and often the only viable source of financing for their children’s extensive and expensive health care needs. For some children with complex health conditions, Medicaid supplements private health coverage to ensure them access as they grow to needed specialized medical equipment and devices such as hearing aids and wheel chairs.

Medicaid is also a valuable source of preventive services, helping children get the well-child visits and screenings they need to support healthy development and prevent expensive complications later.

By investing in child well-being now, our nation and economy will recoup huge benefits later. Medicaid is far more efficient and costeffective than private insurance for

children and research comparing children eligible for Medicaid during childhood to their non-eligible peers found Medicaid-eligible children were more likely to graduate from high school, attend college, make greater contributions as adult taxpayers, and live longer than those without coverage.

Yet despite more than 50 years of progress, improvements, and success, the Senate is on the verge of recklessly crafting a bill to repeal and replace the ACA and end Medicaid as we know it. Like the terrible AHCA bill in the House, Senate Republicans want to convert Medicaid to a “per capita cap,” which means changing Medicaid’s financing structure from a federal guarantee of coverage for all medically necessary services to an annual per person federal payment that does not increase regardless of the extent of use or cost.

Please don’t let this misleading jargon fool you — this is emasculation of health coverage for up to 37 million children and a cut cloaked in confusion so people can’t see the magnitude of the damage it will do. For example, it claims to give states “more flexibility” but in reality will force states to increase their own spending dramatically, make deep cuts in benefits, or, more likely, both.

Make no mistake: there is no way the Senate can design a Medicaid

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Pause on hate

Hate is not a political strategy. We need a time out from the political vitriol that has been dividing our nation since President Donald Trump was elected last November. There have been just too many incidents of violent political discord-enough to threaten the future of the country.

Every American, right or left, has a right to voice an opinion, but we don't have a right to incite riot and inflict bodily harm for the sake of a political viewpoint. The hatred directed against the president has reached a boiling point. It has been palpable and has led to violent protests and mayhem throughout the country. The lone gunman who went hunting for Republican lawmakers in Alexandria is a worrisome example of what can happen.

The shooter wounded four individuals who were practicing for a charity baseball game. He left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise [R-LA] in critical condition. The shooter had a history of anti-Republican and antiTrump social media posts, including one in which he wrote: “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” The incident showed how out-of-hand things have gotten, so much so that the Justice Department says it would take special measures to address ‘ideologically motivated’ crimes of violence by radical groups and individuals.

I call for solidarity as a nation lest we destroy the future for our children and grandchildren. We should express political disagreement when it is warranted, but let’s keep it civil. We need to lower the volume and tone down the rhetoric. And, it is incumbent on our political leaders and the media to help us to do that.

Things won’t get better until all of the people, those who voted for the president and those who didn’t, accept the fact that Donald Trump

is the duly elected president of the United States. We need to give him an opportunity to do the job for which he was elected.

The administration and Congress have important work to do in order to fix the economy and a broken health care system. These should be our top priorities, not political ideology.

Dan Weber

Not enough

In reaction to the release of the U.S. Senate’s proposed “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” the bill that would remove health care from millions of hardworking Americans: This version of Trumpcare, just like the House version, is mean and heartless. The Senate bill wreaks the same damage that the House bill does: driving up the cost of care, causing tens of millions of hardworking Americans to lose coverage, gutting key protections, and imposing a crushing age tax.

But Senate Republicans didn’t stop there: the Senate Trumpcare bill is especially disastrous for Americans on Medicaid, particularly individuals with disabilities, vulnerable children and pregnant women, families living paycheck to paycheck, and middle class seniors with long-term healthcare needs.

This bill — crafted without public input, bipartisan collaboration, or compromise — could cause millions of hardworking Americans to lead shorter and sicker lives, solely to provide the wealthiest Americans with tax cuts. We need to write legislation that protects all Americans, not to benefit the select few.

While this bill may cut federal spending, it also could cut millions of lives short and make too many people choose between healthcare and other basic needs. We need to keep increasing access to quality affordable healthcare, not limiting it. I strongly oppose the ‘Better Care

Reconciliation Act,’ and its blatant disregard for the health and wellbeing of millions of Americans.

Rep. A. Donald McEachin

Without consequences On June 16, a jury acquitted St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez of all charges in the 2016 killing of motorist Philando Castile. That acquittal was, in a sense, also a death sentence -- not for Yanez, but for future motorists unfortunate enough to encounter cops like him.

No, this is not a “bad cop” story. It’s a sad tale and I actually feel sorry for Yanez. But the facts are what they are.

Yanez killed Castile. The killing was caught on video and neither Yanez nor his attorneys denied it.

His defense (that he feared for his life) was based on ridiculous grounds relating to the smell of cannabis and the presence of a child (“I thought, I was gonna die, and I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing, then what, what care does he give about me?”).

Reasonable fear of death or grievous bodily harm justifies a selfdefense claim. Yanez’s fears were far from reasonable, especially in a trained law enforcement officer whose partner was mere feet away and whose subject of interrogation was peaceful and compliant right up to the moment Yanez shot him.

The jury, in relieving him of the consequences of that failure, continued a sad tradition of holding law enforcement officers to a lesser standard of conduct than ordinary Americans. In doing so, they made the world a safer place for cops who shouldn’t be cops -- and a more dangerous place for the rest of us.

Tom Knapp

(from page 6) “per capita cap” or block grant that won’t harm low-income children and children with disabilities. Adults with disabilities, seniors, and others vulnerable Americans would be hurt too. Entire families will be affected. Simply put: Medicaid saves lives. And right now Medicaid’s life hangs in the balance propelled by greed, callousness and political opportunism. These cuts in Medicaid are being used to pay for tax cuts for the very wealthy. Children’s crucial health needs should not be a political plaything for any party at any time.

The time for you to tell your Senators that you will not stand for a bill being drafted in secret to end Medicaid as we know it is right now.

The flood of phone calls generated by upset constituents when the House was first considering the AHCA must be repeated and increased dramatically and we urgently need you to flood the stealthy Senate with phone calls right now and flush them out of their hiding place. Tell your Senators not to let children move backwards and undermine the critical health care safety net. Urge your Senators specifically to reject any structural changes or cuts to Medicaid. America’s future depends on the health of our young and Medicaid works for children. In fact it works for multiple generations.

We must not turn back the clock.

Call, tweet, visit and organize right now to urge your Senators to protect Medicaid for America’s children and families and #KeepKidsCovered.

Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund. For more information go to www. childrensdefense.org.

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Stemming the tide of hatred with kindness, and finding ‘life itself’ ADELLE M. BANKS RNS - John Fuller recently made a monthlong effort to never utter a negative word to or about his wife, a busy mom he sometimes took for granted.

For a similar period, Katie Phillips found something positive to say about her 7-year-old son, with whom she had a “prickly relationship.”

And Christine King performed acts of kindness for an irritating coworker.

Kindness — a virtue embraced by both the religious and the nonreligious — requires intentional behavior and can have beneficial results for both the giver and recipient of a benevolent act, experts say.

But, don’t we know that already?

Aren’t most of us already kind?

We’d like to think so, said Phillips, an Atlanta-area mother of five, who took a “30-Day Kindness Challenge” earlier this year.

“But when you actually stop and think, ‘OK, what am I actively doing to please my child?'” said the woman who leads an adoption ministry at her church. “‘How can I find little ways to make them happy, make their day, let them know I’m thinking about them?’” she added. “You’re really humbled because you think, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t do this nearly as often as I thought I did.’”

In recent months, Christian authors — as well as Parade magazine — have highlighted step-by-step processes to help readers learn how to be kind. Though organizations like the World Kindness Movement and the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation have encouraged altruism since the 1990s, more recent

studies by scientists back up its benefits.

“People are longing for kindness,” said relationship researcher Shaunti Feldhahn, author of “The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days to Improve Any Relationship.”

“Everybody likes living with a kind home, with a kind church, with a kind school and with kind neighbors.”

So she created daily goals for how to treat a friend, loved one or colleague: Say nothing negative, say something affirming and be generous to them in some small way. Feldhahn found that 89 percent of relationships improved when people took those steps for a month.

“They had trained themselves in purposeful kindness,” she said.

Convoy of Hope President Hal Donaldson has similar goals for a “revolution of kindness,” but for strangers as well as acquaintances.

“Hatred has just seized the headlines and anger is marching through the streets of our nation,” said Donaldson, author of “Your Next 24 Hours: One Day of Kindness Can Change Everything.”

“If we’re going to stem the tide of hatred and conflict, it’s not going to be through more hatred and conflict.

It’s going to be through kindness.”

Donaldson knows about the benefits of kindness firsthand. His father was killed and his mother was seriously injured when they were hit by a drunken driver when he was 12. A

family of four took in his family of six, sharing a single-wide trailer while their mother recovered. He and his brothers went on to found a Christian charity that mobilizes volunteers to help the poor.

But he has also worked on his own level of kindness — first for 24 hours and then trying to make it a way of life — from “being kind to a waiter to opening a door to jotting a note to a friend who I knew was going through a tough time.”

He made that plan after reading Proverbs 21:21: “Whoever goes hunting for what is right and kind finds life itself.”

Donaldson’s organization has distributed more than 20,000 copies of his book to churches, including The Chapel, a suburban evangelical megachurch in Chicago that focused on its lessons for three weekends starting on Easter Sunday.

Jamie Wamsley, associate senior pastor at The Chapel, sees the steps toward kindness as an antidote to the frightening headlines about the state of the world — laden with concerns about financial insecurity, race relations and military action.

“I think a lot of people are scared, and kindness, in the face of fear — kindness is a rare form of courage that really has the capacity, I think, to transform people’s perspectives and to profoundly help them,” he said.

A growing body of scientific

evidence backs up the notion that kindness has benefits for a happier and perhaps even healthier life.

“People become happier over time when they are prompted to do more acts of kindness,” said Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside.

She and other researchers conducted a “Kindness in the blood” study involving finger-prick blood tests of three groups that did specific acts of kindness (for the world, for others or for themselves) and a neutral control group. They discovered that acts of kindness for other individuals prompted improved immune cell molecular profiles, involving stronger antiviral activity and less inflammation.

Other scientists have linked kindness to boosts in hormones such as oxytocin, which can lower blood pressure, and endorphins, which produce positive feelings.

But there also can be downsides to kindness, from being labeled a “pushover,” as Inc.com columnist Jessica Stillman wrote, to inadvertently aiding a disreputable cause.

“Don’t allow your generosity to be exploited and your good intentions to be thwarted,” writes Donaldson.

“There are too many people who really need your help.”

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Nooses stoke memories of “America’s Dark History” LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE U.S. Park Police confirmed that another noose was found on the National Mall, recently, according to published reports.

Late last month, a portion of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C., was closed for nearly three hours after a noose was found in a gallery, officials said.

The museum, on the National Mall near the White House, reopened fully later that day, after police deemed the area “safe and secure,” according to an internal memo provided to ABC News by the Smithsonian.

In an article posted to the Smithsonian’s, museum officials said that the noose is a reminder of “America’s dark history with lynching” and referred to similar incidents of noose sightings around the country including at a school in Missouri, a construction site in

Maryland, on the campus of Duke University, at a fraternity house on University of Maryland’s campus, at a middle school in Maryland and at a high school in Lakewood, California.

Tourists found the noose in the museum’s exhibit on segregation.

The incident at NMAAHC occurred after a noose was found on May 26 hanging from a tree outside the Hirshhorn Museum, which is located close to the Black History museum.

In an email to museum staffers, Lonnie Bunch, the director of NMAAHC, said that the incident is a painful reminder of the challenges that African Americans continue to face.

“The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity—a symbol of extreme violence for African-Americans,” said Bunch.

On May 30, at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, N.C. a Black doll with a noose around its neck was suspended outside of a window.

Henrico County set to host annual July 4 celebration Henrico County Recreation and Parks will present “Red, White, and Lights”, taking place at Meadow Farm Museum/Crump Park, 3400 Mountain Road, on July 4. The free event begins at 4 p.m. and will feature the Richmond Symphony, a laser-light show, patriotic performances, special recognitions, and family activities.

A Henrico County 4th of July Celebration has taken place annually since 1981, and this is the second year the event has been held later in the day with a finale by the Richmond Symphony and a laserlight show. The symphony, who is celebrating their 60th anniversary this year, will perform under “The Big Tent,” a state-of-the-art mobile stage that allows the orchestra to take its music out into the local

communities.

Guests may bring blankets or chairs and are encouraged to arrive early to fully enjoy the event.

Children and their families will enjoy living history exhibits, contests and games, inflatables, an obstacle course, airbrush tattoos, Jonathan Austin, Miss Sheri the Clown, and Uncle Sam on Stilts, all in the Family Fun Zone from 4-8 p.m.

Food trucks will be onsite to provide a meal or snack while guests enjoy the evenings performances, beginning at 5:45 p.m. The Continentals will provide big band music and Bill Bevins, host of “Star Mornings” on 100.9 FM and WTVR CBS 6’s “Virginia This Morning” will serve as emcee for the evening. For more information, go to henricorecandparks.com.

“The Smithsonian family stands together in condemning this act of hatred and intolerance, especially repugnant in a museum that affirms and celebrates the American values of inclusion and diversity,” wrote secretary of Smithsonian Institution David Skorton in an Institution-wide email back in May. (Smithsonian Institution ) “Let me be clear: This was an offensive act that has no place in our school. The imagery is deeply offensive and everyone in our school community should be appalled,” said Principal Malik Bazzell, as reported by a Raleigh TV station.

During a rally at the a park named after Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee Charlottesville, Va., on May 13, participants with torches chanted “Russia is our friend” and “you shall not erase us.”

According to ThinkProgress.org, the rally was in response to “the state’s decision to sell off a statue of treasonous general Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia against the United States during the Civil War.” ThinkProgress.org also reported that, “Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer condemned the rally and its attendees.”

On May 26, in Portland, Oregon, a man named Jeremy Christian hurled anti-Muslim vitriol on a subway train at two young women, then murdered two men who intervened, Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Ricky

Best, 53, and injured a third, Micah Fletcher.

On May 20, Richard Collins, 23 year-old second lieutenant in the Army, was stabbed to death by University of Maryland student Sean Urbanski, 22, as Collins waited with friends for a ride. Lt. Collins was about to graduate from Bowie State University on May 23. The FBI is investigating the murder as a possible hate crime and it has already been reported that Urbanski was a member of an “alt-right” group on Facebook.

On the eve of the NBA Finals, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James’ Los Angeles home was vandalized; the “N-word” was written with spray paint on his house.

“Just shows that racism will always be a part of the world, part of America. Hate in America, especially for African-Americans, is living every day. It is hidden most days.

It is alive every single day,” James told reporters. “No matter how much money you have, how famous you are, how much people admire you, being black in America is tough.”

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Venus Williams’ greatest achievement comes off court NANCY ARMOUR There’s one title Venus Williams cherishes more than all others.

It’s not the one you might think.

“Role model, definitely,” Williams said recently. “Tennis is limited. …

Being a role model transcends.”

Seven Grand Slam titles, the Olympic gold medal and world No. 1 – she’s done it all in a career that has stretched into its third decade.

The power and athleticism with which she and sister Serena play transformed the game.

Yet for all of that, Venus Williams’ greatest impact has come off the court. There is equal prize money at Wimbledon largely because of her. She was the driving force in the WTA’s partnership with UNESCO that promotes gender equality. She is a financial backer of Ellevest, an online investment platform geared toward women.

She is part of Brawny’s new Strength Has No Gender campaign, which is recognizing trailblazing women in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. She’s also championing equality through The Players’ Tribune “Stand Up” series.

“My sense is, over time, she will have a place in the history books in terms of equality for women and the role that athletes can play to effect social and political change in the world,” said Larry Scott, who was chairman and CEO of the WTA from 2003-09 and is now the Pac-12 commissioner.

“I had the chance to meet Arthur Ashe and be part of the work he did fighting apartheid in South Africa,” Scott added. “Then getting to know Billie Jean King and seeing the impact she’s had beyond her sport as a social activist and entrepreneur and pioneer.

“I think Venus has the opportunity to go down in history as an athlete of that ilk, who had an impact beyond their sport.”

Williams gives a self-conscious laugh when she hears this. Unlike her little sister, who commands the spotlight as if she owns it, Venus Williams has never been comfortable

Venus Williams with the spectacle that comes with being a star athlete.

But her quiet and calm, almost regal, demeanor masks a fierce passion to stand for what is right.

“We should all speak up when you have the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself and when it’s something that’s not right,” Williams said, simply.

That’s easier said than done, though. Especially for a 20-something at the height of her career.

The U.S. Open has had equal prize money for men and women since the early 1970s, thanks to King’s threat of a boycott. But the other Grand Slams continued to pay male champions more for another 30 years, a disparity that rankled the female players.

When Scott raised the issue when he arrived at the WTA, he found one of his staunchest supporters in Williams. It was not the money itself – Williams had signed what was then a record five-year, $40 million endorsement deal with Reebok in 2000 – but the message it sent to

women.

All women.

“Look at the rest of society,” Scott said. “You look at corporate America, and women executives don’t have 90 percent of the CEO positions and they probably don’t have 90 percent of the (pay).”

At a meeting the day before the women’s final at Wimbledon in 2005, Williams made an emotional appeal to the chairs of all four Grand Slams.

Asking them to close their eyes, she told them to imagine themselves as a young girl who worked just as hard, sacrificed just as much and dreamed just as big as any boy, only to be told when she reached the pinnacle that, “you’re almost as good, but not quite the same.”

“She, on a very emotional and powerful level, connected,” Scott said. “I really felt if we were going to get over the line, it was coming out of this meeting.”

But Wimbledon refused to budge.

So before the 2006 tournament, Williams wrote a simple yet strongly stated op-ed for The Times of London, a piece that caught the

attention of members of Parliament and then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Beginning with the 2007 tournament, Wimbledon paid its men’s and women’s champions equal prize money.

“I did dream big in my own way and people (today) can dream even bigger. Knowing there are no limits, no boundaries,” Williams said. “I personally believe in no limits at all.

If there’s one thing I believe in at all, it’s don’t accept limits.”

She’s bringing that attitude to her work with Brawny. In addition to commemorative packaging that rebrands the iconic lumberjack as a female, the campaign features videos of women who have broken barriers in traditionally male-dominated fields.

“I find these women empowering,” Williams said. “It’s motivating, it’s exciting. It gives you reason to get up and do more.

“You can be anything you want to be, as a male or female. That’s what this message is.”

It’s what her message is, as well.

And it will resonate long after she’s done playing.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER W, WARREN COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUR-2017-00074 • Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider W. • Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $125.791 million for its 2018 Rider W. • A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on November 8, 2017, at 10 a.m.

• Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On June 1, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider W (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Warren County Power Station (“Warren County Project” or “Project”), a 1,342 megawatt nominal natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Warren County, Virginia.

In 2012, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of the Warren County Project and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider W, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the Project. The Warren County Project became fully operational in 2014.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider W for the rate year beginning April 1, 2018, and ending March 31, 2019 (“2018 Rate Year”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2018 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $115,108,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $10,683,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $125,791,000 for service rendered during the 2018 Rate Year.

Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 10.5%, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a combined-cycle generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 11% for the months of January 2016 through March 2016, which comprises the general ROE of 10% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return, and an ROE of 10.6% for the months of April 2016 through December 2016, which comprises the general ROE of 9.6% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2015-00061, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

If the proposed Rider W for the 2018 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider W on April 1, 2018, would decrease the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.12.

The Company indicates that it has calculated the proposed Rider W rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider W proceeding, Case No. PUE-2016-00063.

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

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

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on November 8, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s 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, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the public version of the 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 November 1, 2017, 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 November 1, 2017, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00074.

On or before August 30, 2017, 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 and Procedure (“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-2017-00074. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before September 27, 2017, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00074.

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.

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY

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UR launches beekeeping program; bee hives will address ecological concerns, create living lab on campus The University of Richmond has installed two honeybee hives on campus as a sustainable and educational response to bee populations’ global decline.

In Virginia and throughout the world, honeybees are in a state of crisis known as the Colony Collapse Disorder, which has the potential to influence the stability of local and global food-systems. UR’s beekeeping

initiative responds to this decline by engaging faculty, staff and students in research opportunities.

“Maintaining working productive hives at UR will allow students to observe and work with a living laboratory, which will demonstrate the interconnected roles of individual species in our local ecosystem,” said Kirstin Berben, biology laboratories manager.

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putting the other person before you and making an effort not to think the worst of them.”

Although kindness plans are often focused on individuals, group efforts have reaped rewards too.

Christ the Word Church in Rolesville, N.C., did its own “random acts of kindness” initiative last year by distributing more than $2,000 in gift cards to customers at local businesses.

“The people involved still speak of our experience of witnessing what a simple act of kindness can affect a person,” said the Rev. Patrick Cherry.

“So often the seemingly ‘random’ act of kindness revealed people’s hidden pain, giving further weight to the old adage ‘You never know what someone is hiding behind a smile.’”

Feldhahn, who has taken her challenge to Christian conferences and secular corporations, said transformation in behavior comes as people turn their attention on themselves instead of trying to change others. She thinks the kindness steps could be applied in social media — and hopes grassroots people might use them there to bridge divides with government public figures of opposing viewpoints.

“When you are kind to someone, you find yourself caring about them more,” she said. “You can disagree, but you stop being disagreeable about it because you care about them.”

And then there’s the century-old example from Jerome K. Jerome’s “The Cost of Kindness,” in which members of a fictional congregation despised their cleric, who had an “inborn instinct of antagonism to everybody and everything surrounding him,” but parishioners were so kind to him at his farewell ceremony that he canceled his plans to leave the church.

But kindness, in real life, can be thought of as a personal goal.

Fuller said his acts of benevolence — doing more household chores — for one loved one caused a “spillover,” where he now pays more attention to being kind to others in his life.

“It’s sort of like if I’m out of shape physically, I’ve got to start exercising,” said Fuller, who is a cohost on Focus on the Family’s “Daily Broadcast” show. “I became aware that I’ve got to be more proactive and more intentional with my good words.”

King, a former marketer who worked at the Hearts at Home ministry, said she learned the difference between being nice and being kind as she improved communications with her colleague by complimenting her more and complaining less.

“We all know that you should say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and hold the door,” she said. “Being kind is

Research possibilities include the observation of hive behavior and investigation of environmental conditions that affect the species, she said.

Biology and environmental studies students will maintain a pollinator garden that includes apple and peach trees, as well as shrubs and flowers to attract bees and butterflies.

“We want to rethink the way we engage our students with these issues and encourage them to develop solutions that we can then pilot,” Rob Andrejewski, sustainability director, said. “There is a level of awareness and critical thinking that goes into it that helps students steward our land, which leads to the thriving of plants and animals.”

Berben and Joe Essid, who oversees UR’s writing center, will serve as Richmond’s beekeepers.

Essid practices sustainable land

management on his property in Goochland County and has kept bees for 16 years.

“I think it’s important for institutions like the University of Richmond to become a model to other community organizations because the crisis is great,” Essid said. “The more community hives we have and the more exposure people have to honeybees, the more aware they’ll be about what each of us can do in our own backyards. Afterall, a third of our food comes from the help of honeybees.”

The hives are between the Wilton Center by Cannon Memorial Chapel and the steam plant.

The beekeeping initiative is sponsored by the Department of Biology, the Office for Sustainability, Dining Services and the School of Professional and Continuing Studies.

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NNPA hosts national black parents town hall FREDDIE ALLEN In an on-going effort to increase awareness about the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA) in the black community, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) hosted a national town hall for black parents at the National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Md. As the fall school year rapidly approaches, education advocates, community stakeholders and civil rights groups have expressed concerns about the implementation of ESSA, President Obama’s landmark education law that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

The NNPA, a trade group representing over 200 black-owned media companies, received a grant

from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to engage the Black community about ESSA. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the

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president and CEO of the NNPA, and Dr. Elizabeth Primas, the program manager for the NNPA’s ESSA Media Campaign, co-moderated the event.

Chavis thanked the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for enabling the NNPA to raise public awareness about ESSA and to focus on black parents.

Community activist and radio personality DJ EZ Street emceed a lively reception before the town hall, giving the participants an opportunity to interact with the panelists and NNPA members.

“There are a lot of organizations that have organized teachers, there are a lot of organizations that have organized [school] administrators, but the group that isn’t wellorganized is parents, particularly black parents,” said Chavis, adding that ESSA can only bridge the academic achievement gap, if parents get involved and engaged.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 81 percent of white students in grade 12 scored higher than the average black student in the same grade.

“Most of us have never heard of ESSA, that’s reality, but we’re going to change that reality over the next couple of years,” said Chavis.

“There is no more singular important issue than the education of our children. I want to make sure that we stress what we can do as parents.”

Lynn Jennings, the director of national and state partnerships of Education Trust, said that parents need to know what’s in the law in order to use the law, because it’s a tool. Jennings noted that community investment and community stakeholders are a big part of ESSA. “The key to parents getting involved is knowing that the plans are not permanent,” said Primas.

“They can be revised all the time and if the parents keep making their voices heard, they can get those plans revised.”

Marietta English, the president of National Alliance of Black School Educators, challenged the cultural competency of the some of the tests that are administered in our nation’s public schools.

She noted that, for children who grow up in the inner city, checkcashing depots might be a more familiar financial institution than conventional banks; questions about saving and financial transactions might not take that experience into account.

“We’re not testing the knowledge of our children, we’re testing the knowledge of other children,” said English.

Lynn Jennings said that the testing issue is real, and it has been an area of deep concern for a long time.

“It’s important that when we’re talking about ESSA, we’re clear

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Event showcases entrepreneurship and diversity Walmart has invited more than 500 businesses from across the nation this week to present their Made in the USA products to the world’s largest retailer in Bentonville, Ark., giving entrepreneurs an opportunity to potentially reach millions of Walmart customers.

Some of this year’s Open Call attendees include Mary’s Kitchen, a Richmond business. Mary Lee, the entreprenuer knows that some people may think that their sweet potato pie is the best, Lee truly believes her pie takes first prize. When she was a child, people would line up to get her mother Dorothy’s sweet potato pies; and now Mary has brought the same recipe to Open Call, wanting to share her family’s tradition with Walmart shoppers.

Now in its fourth year, Walmart executives note that the Open Call is one way in which the company invests in American jobs by “accelerating the growth of U.S. manufacturing”.

“This year’s event will showcase

American entrepreneurship and celebrate ingenuity and diversity,” according to the company, which notes that nearly half of all businesses attending Open Call self-identify as diverse, including 25 percent identifying as women-owned.

“We are thrilled that entrepreneurs from across the country, including many diverse-owned businesses, continue to respond so strongly to the opportunity to participate in Walmart’s annual Open Call,” said Cindi Marsiglio, Walmart vice president for U.S. Sourcing and Manufacturing. “While finding products our customers want is a year-round focus for our buying teams, Walmart’s annual Open Call is a special opportunity to connect our buyers with companies that are manufacturing products in the U.S. and to identify new and unique product solutions.”

Attendees this year represent 48 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. States with some of the largest representation include

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as a community and understanding the power of our village.”

Stewart lamented that the deck is often stacked against black parents in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to ensuring equitable education for their children.

Speaking directly to the parents in the audience, Stewart said that it’s “time to be ruthless and militant about protecting the intellectual development of your black child.”

The number of counselors in schools to help your children figure out what the next step is has declined, Stewart noted.

“In my perfect world, a black child is born, and on that day, their parent would write the first [Individualized Education Program] for that child; their hopes and their dreams,” said Stewart. “When the child goes to kindergarten, the [parent] shows up at that school and says ‘This is what I want for my child, I need to know what your plan is for making sure my child is [successful] and, by the way, every year, we’re going to have this discussion, and I’m not going to do it alone.’”

about the role that the assessments and the tests are supposed to play,” said Jennings. “The tests are designed to show where inequities exist in educational systems.”

Stewart agreed.

“You can’t erase the achievement gap by erasing the data that it exists,” said Stewart. “I’m fearful that the educational establishment is trying to do that. When you have a civil rights lawsuit, most of the time, those are based on test scores.

“Once we start letting states play around with what data they collect and how they collect it, it has implications elsewhere for civil rights.”

Dr. Teia Hill, the president and CEO of Fightin4Lives, LLC, said that black parents need to do a better job of speaking up about the issues that are relevant to the community.

“We are very powerful,” said Hill. “When we get upset, the room shakes, but we don’t walk in that authority.

“We have to go back to who we are

California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.

With some companies pitching multiple products, more than 750 meetings have been scheduled with Walmart buyers representing a broad range of product categories.

From secret sauces and pocketsized hair gel, to photographic mouse

pads and bowls designed to keep cereal crisp, this year’s diversity of new innovative products represent a broad range of categories such as food and beverages, home décor and apparel. While some businesses are larger, many are “kitchen-table” companies, vying for a chance to work with the world’s largest retailer and earn a place on the shelf.

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Air Force Brig. Gen. Allan Day will relinquish command of the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation to Air Force Brig. Gen. Linda Hurry in a formal change of command ceremony at the Defense Supply Center Richmond’s Frank B. Lotts Conference Center.

DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Darrell Williams will preside over the ceremony.

6.29, 6: 30 p.m.

Participants can learn about the process of purchasing a home and obtaining a mortgage at a free seminar offered by Virginia Credit Union.

The First-time Homebuyers Seminar will be held at Virginia Credit Union in the Boulders Office Park, 7500 Boulder View Drive, Richmond. Mortgage experts will be on hand to answer specific questions.

To register to attend, call 804323-6800 or visit www.vacu.org/ Learning_Planning/Financial_ Education/Seminars_Workshops/ Detail/SID/2.aspx

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Microbiologists to discuss new technology to cure genetic diseases

The Science Museum of Virginia welcomes clinical microbiologist, Arthur Guruswamy, as a special addition to its free Lunch Break Science program.

On Wednesday, July 5 at noon, Guruswamy will present “The Exploding World of Curing Genetic Diseases Known as CRISPR/ CAS9” – discussing a breakthrough technology that is hailed as one of the greatest medical discoveries of our time.

The community is invited to bring lunch and join the former Mayo Clinic researcher as he breaks down the science behind the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. The CRISPR system (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) can be programmed to target specific stretches of genetic code and to edit DNA at precise locations, allowing scientists to permanently modify genes in living cells – and may make it possible to permanently correct mutations in the human genome.

“My presentation will focus on the potential of this biological system to correct human genetic diseases by altering DNA,” explains Arthur Guruswamy, clinical microbiologist. “This discussion at the Science Museum of Virginia will be the first of its kind in the Richmond area, and I am excited to share the spectacular results from laboratories around the world that have adopted this technology.”

Sharing his in-depth knowledge of genetic diseases, Guruswamy will give a professional perspective of this new technology and delve into the impact this discovery has made on the future of medical treatments. The hour-long presentation will explain CRISPR in easy-to-understand terminology, keeping the community informed on the latest information about this developing medical technology.

Lunch Break Science is free to the general public. Seating is limited. Visit smv.org or call 804-864-1400 for more information.

WIN A 1965 CORVETTE STING RAY.

Valiant Virginians, a 501(c)3 non profit, is raffling a classic numbers matching 1965 Corvette Sting Ray Coupe. Proceeds from the raffle go to help Virginia families who have lost their means of transportation and need a car or car repairs to get to work.

When merited, Valiant Virginians (www.valiantvirginians.org) “gifts” donated cars to deserving families or helps repair a family car. Ben Jones, aka “Cooter” of Dukes of Hazzard fame, will draw the winning ticket on July 30 at the Cooter’s Last Stand event in beautiful Luray, Virginia (4768 US-211). To view photos and to BUY A TICKET ONLINE, visit www.valiantvirginians. org. Order by phone at 540-746-1962. Tickets $100 each. Hurry! Only 1200 tickets being sold. Winners not required to be present. For more info email, greg@valiantvirginians.org or call 540-746-1962.

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The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF) and Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond invite you to attend a reception to launch an exciting initiative that will strengthen early childhood education in the RVA community.

The invitation is attached, and also a PDF with a summary and some information about the Richmond Area Service Alliance (RASA) that will add an enhanced and meaningful layer of support for several childcare centers in Richmond.

The event is scheduled at Robert L. Taylor Childcare Center, 929 N. 26th St., Richmond.

Representatives from the VECF and the Alliance partners will be at the event and available for interviews. In a nutshell, Commonwealth Autism will serve as a central hub entity for RASA, providing back-office support, leadership mentoring and other support services to the first cohort of childcare centers that includes FRIENDS Association for Children, St. James’s Children’s Center, and Church Hill Activities and Tutoring (CHAT).

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Section 5311 – Formula Grants for Rural Areas Section 5316 – Job Access and Reverse Commute Section 5317 – New Freedom Section 5339 – Buses and Bus Facilities Program The SMP is a document that describes the state’s policies and procedures in administering FTA programs. The SMP for the FTA Sections 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317, and 5339 programs can be found at http://www.drpt.virginia.gov. All comments for these draft plans can be submitted to drptpr@drpt.virginia.gov, until June 30, 2017.

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