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Mayors’ compact combats hate and bigotry - 2 Division continues over age-old name - 8 Re-imagined painting propels artist’s success - 11 Partnership seeks to protect sleeping babies - 14

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Going to prison is never easy

Gov. Terry McAuliffe gave remarks at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Family Day festival, Aug. 27.

Family members visited and had lunch with incarcerated youth at Richmond-area’s Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center this past weekend. It was an event that highlighted a change in Virginia’s juvenile correction system, which has often left many youthful offenders far from home and family members who could offer support, both emotional and financial.

For the past year, Virginia has provided free transportation for families to visit incarcerated family members in Bon Air and elsewhere.

Da’Quon Beaver, 22, is a community organizer with RISE for

Youth, an organization advocating for alternatives to youth incarceration.

He spent seven years in jail after he was convicted, at age 14, for stealing $50 with six peers. He was held in two of the 80 prisons on Youth First’s list—both barbed wire–surrounded with a 300-bed capacity. After one Christmas at Bon Air, a riot led to a prison shutdown and a foreclosure of all visitation, and Beaver recalls weeping in his bed “like a baby.”

On the first visitation after that lockdown, Beaver said in a published report, only five children out of around 300 received visitors. “It was sort of an epiphany to me,” he said, “I started to look around at the treatment. Staff didn’t care and looked at kids like criminals.

“Kids were restrained. People with disabilities were put in isolation.

These things shouldn’t even happen to adults.”

Beaver stressed the necessity of building “new customs” to hear and assist juveniles in the community.

“It’s can’t just be about building new facilities; the prison continuum needs breaking,” he said.

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Newport News Mayor Price signs national compact to combat hate, extremism and bigotry Last week the United States Conference of Mayors announced that mayors across the country are signing onto the Mayors’ Compact to Combat Hate, Extremism and Bigotry. To date, more than 260 mayors from 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are on board, including Mayor McKinley Price.

“As a community leader and an advocate for equality, I Mayor McKinley Pricefeel it is my duty to publicly take a stand against the heinous violence and hate we saw in Charlottesville earlier this

month. While still ensuring Newport News remains a place where free speech and constitutional rights are protected, I want to make it very clear that extremism, white supremacy and any form of bigotry are not acceptable in this fine city.

This situation reminds us that as a city we must remain vigilant in promoting inclusiveness and tolerance, celebrating diversity and challenging prejudices,” Mayor Price said.

“What happened in Charlottesville... reminded us all that violent hate

Mayor McKinley Price and racism are very much alive in America in 2017. We are aware that this was not a singular event and that white supremacist groups have held rallies in other cities since the tragic events which occurred in Charlottesville and will continue to do so in the future,” the United States Conference of Mayors writes.

“The Conference of Mayors and mayors across the nation stood with Charlottesville through statements and tweets. With this Compact, mayors have come together in a formal way to combat hate, extremism and bigotry in their cities and in our nation.”

The Mayors' Compact to Combat

Hate, Extremism and Bigotry consists of 10 key components: Expressly Rejecting Extremism, White Supremacy and All Forms of Bigotry Denouncing All Acts of Hate Wherever They Occur Ensuring Public Safety While Protecting Free Speech and Other Basic Constitutional Rights Calling for Fully-Resourced Law Enforcement and Civil Rights Investigations of Domestic Terrorism and Hate Crimes Elevating and Prioritizing AntiBias and Anti-Hate Programs in Our Nation’s Schools Supporting Targeted Communities and Bringing Together Civic and Community Leaders to Build Trust Celebrating Diversity, Promoting Inclusivity and Challenging Bias Promoting Law Enforcement Training on Responding to and Reporting Hate Incidents, Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism Encouraging Residents in their Communities to Report Hate Incidents and Crimes, Including Using Hot Lines and Online Tools Maintaining Civil Rights Enforcement and Strengthening Hate Crime Laws When Necessary More information and the list of mayors currently signed-on are available on the United States Conference of Mayors website.

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AG warns against purebred puppy Internet sales scams Attorney General Mark R. Herring is warning Virginia consumers about an active fraud involving purebred puppies. When looking for a purebred puppy to add to their family, many consumers start their search on the internet, and that is exactly what scammers are relying on. Attorney General Herring's Consumer Protection Section has recently received multiple reports of consumers entering into agreements to buy a pet with a company they found online, only to learn the website and the company are a scam - and that no such puppy ever existed.

“Finding a new puppy to add to your family is an exciting time for Virginians, and the last thing anyone would want to happen is to pay hundreds of dollars to bring that puppy home, only to find out that he or she never existed,” said Herring. “Unfortunately, we've seen an increase in complaints about these puppy scams, and I urge all Virginians to give careful consideration to all large purchases made online, particularly if the terms seem too good to be true.”

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Scammers are posing as Virginiabased companies selling purebred pets on the Internet. Consumers will often pay hundreds of dollars to bring one of these animals into their home, and discover afterwards that the company, and the sale, were fraudulent. As part of the fraud, consumers are asked-after payment for the animal is complete-to pay additional funds for “transportation insurance”, and told that their pet cannot be delivered until this amount is paid.

Two examples of such websites include Treasure Yorkies and Marvel Teacup Chihuahua.

Herring is urging consumers to exercise caution when buying purebred puppies or kittens online, and to look out for some of the following red flags indicative of this scam: •The puppy or kitten involved in the transaction is a purebred, or a designer breed, and the price of the animal is significantly less than any other site or seller on the Internet (more than 50-75 percent off of a similarly-priced purebred); • The company requires payment via MoneyGram, Western Union, or

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other similar method; • The representative of the company has a generic free e-mail account, such as through Google or Yahoo, and insists on communication only through e-mail; • The seller says that the dog will be transported via air travel, and asks for the closest airport during discussions surrounding the transaction; • After the initial fee of several hundred dollars is paid for the animal, the consumer may be asked to pay “pet transportation insurance,” or other similar previously-undisclosed fees or

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In addition, Herring is recommending precautionary steps consumers can take when purchasing a pet from an online business, including being wary of paying for any pet entirely online, or before seeing the animal in person; seeking referrals for pet sellers from sources you know and trust, such as friends, family, or your veterinarian; searching for the business name or website in the Attorney General’s Online Consumer Complaint Database; and checking with the local Better Business Bureau for any complaints.

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Construction begins on Amtrak’s parking lot expansion The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) have begun construction on an $8.3 million project to improve the customer parking experience at Amtrak’s Richmond Staples Mill Road station (RVR). The project is funded by DRPT with construction oversight from VDOT. The station parking lot currently holds 274 spaces for Amtrak

passengers boarding the train at Staples Mill. Following completion, the parking lot will more than double its current capacity to 589 parking spaces. It also will include a dedicated bus loading zone, bike racks, taxi/ride-share parking, improved pedestrian accommodations, additional ADA parking and two entrances via Staples Mill Road and Bremner Boulevard.

“We are excited to break ground and continue providing more parking

City approves codified ‘Education Compact’ STAFF & WIRE Following months of public meetings, some slimming edits and one news conference on the steps of City Hall, the Richmond City Council and School Board passed resolutions supporting the mayor’s education compact with little fanfare.

Billed as a “first stage” and committing both bodies to more meetings, the resolutions found unanimous support at a 20-minute joint meeting of the two governing bodies with Mayor Levar Stoney — the second of its kind this year.

The resolution commits the elected officials to several points, including quarterly meetings of the full Richmond City Council, School Board, the mayor, the city schools superintendent and administrative staff. Also includes is the establishment of an advisory “education compact team”, which will meet monthly. Its members includes representatives from council, the board, the mayor’s office, RPS leadership, parents, teachers and nonprofit, civic and philanthropic leaders, And, finally regular meeting between representatives of city agencies whose operations directly affect children and families — known as the “children’s cabinet.”

The compact was the cornerstone of the city mayor’s education plan on the campaign trail last year — a pledge to meet and collaborate more with both groups. It was meant as an antidote to a political climate marred by infighting and public frustration at various times during the last two administrations.

“I understand citizens don’t want

Mayor Levar Stoney the mayor to run the school system,” said Stoney following the passing of the resolution. “Trust me, I understand. What they do want is for the mayor to find the right balance between supporting the needs of the school system and strengthen the long-term investments we make in public education and our families.”

The compact’s rollout was not all smooth. Early public meetings about it were sometimes met with people more interested in talking about specific problems in the schools than a collaborative pact between governing bodies.

A group of education advocates representing 10 organizations gathered on City Hall’s step in early June to ask that council delay voting on the compact until a new superintendent was hired.

The mayor released a “reader’s guide” to the compact in July that responded to some criticisms, including those that the compact was a vehicle for certain ideological battles or for the privatization of the schools.

for Amtrak riders at the Staples Mill station,” said Jennifer Mitchell, Director of the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation.

“We look forward to enhancing the overall Amtrak customer experience with these important improvements.”

The construction, which began Aug. 14, will undergo three phases over the next year.

Phase I and II will involve construction on the properties adjacent to the current Amtrak parking lot and opening a new rear entrance off of Bremner Boulevard.

Phase III will involve connecting the new properties to the existing parking lot and resurfacing the entire lot. The Staples Mill Road entrance

will be closed during Phase III. In addition, construction is underway for ADA-compliant improvements to the bathrooms as well as ADA access on the platform.

New LED lighting and signage will be added as well.

Parking will be limited during construction with a minimum of 250 available spaces. Passengers should consider allowing for extra travel time, being dropped off, using a rideshare service or taking advantage of alternate parking at the Henrico County Park and Ride, five blocks from the station at the intersection of Cloverdale Avenue and Crockett Street.

Construction is expected to be completed in summer 2018.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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The case for a ‘year of service’ DOROTHY McAULIFFE & KIM REYNOLDS In times of national crisis, Americans have a history of coming together and giving back.

In the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt put 3 million unemployed men to work through the Civilian Conservation Corps. During the Cold War, President Kennedy told Americans to “ask not” what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country, setting the stage for the establishment of the Peace Corps.

And after 9/11, millions of Americans stepped forward to serve their neighbors, as volunteering soared and national service opportunities grew to lend a hand both at home and abroad.

Today, our nation suffers from an erosion of trust in one another and our key civic institutions. We see the effects all around us — from the fraying of American communities to concerns about our national government. How do we rescue a sense of national purpose and restore confidence in our democracy and ourselves?

General Stanley McChrystal (ArmyRet.) has awakened the country to a big idea — to make a year of national service a rite of passage for 18-28 year olds. Large-scale national service would deepen Americans’ understanding of the responsibilities, not only the rights of citizenship, The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 No. 35 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

and cultivate the next generation of leaders, who can work together across social and political divides to produce results for our country.

McChrystal correctly argues that national service programs are deserving of Congress’ continued support. We agree and have joined his Service Year Alliance to make a year of service a common expectation and opportunity for young people.

We believe states have a great role to play in expanding these opportunities. Here, we offer our “two state solution for national service” to inspire other states to join this cause.

In Virginia, under first lady Dorothy McAuliffe’s leadership, we’ve worked to promote national service, partnering to engage every college and university in the commonwealth to create service year opportunities for students to connect their courses of study with real-world experiences to improve their communities. In 2016, over 50 Virginia colleges and universities signed on to Virginia’s Compact on National Service, and together, they are integrating service year opportunities on their campuses to build up their students as engaged citizens.

In Virginia, our commitment to the enduring necessity of service runs deep. Home of our first president and citizen-soldier, George Washington, Virginia became the nation’s first state to be designated an “Employer of National Service.” We encourage AmeriCorps and Peace Corps alumni to put their experience to work The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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on behalf of the commonwealth, recognizing that applicants emerging from a National Service Year create a skilled talent pool to fill jobs in our state government workforce. Since that designation in early 2015, we have tripled the number of national service alumni working for the Commonwealth.

In Iowa, led by Gov. Kim Reynolds, we launched the nation’s first Governor’s Council on National Service, signing a groundbreaking executive order charging state agencies to create service year opportunities to solve public challenges at low cost to taxpayers.

We wanted to develop a strategy to expand national service opportunities and further our reach with existing state and private funding. We believe national service is a successful strategy to engage citizens and improve government effectiveness.

Since our council issued its report, we have worked with both sides of the aisle in the Iowa legislature to implement it. We passed legislation creating the Iowa Reading Corps, which has already documented success getting struggling readers back on track and reducing special education costs.

We created RefugeeRISE AmeriCorps, helping refugees integrate into Iowa communities.

Working with the Iowa Economic Development Authority and private utility companies we expanded

the Iowa Green Corps into new communities, helping keep energy costs lower and reducing peak consumption. This fall we will launch a new national service program aimed at curbing the growing opioid epidemic.

But our efforts are far from over. We’re working to make it easier to create more service year opportunities because we believe service should be part of what it means to be an American. For every service year opportunity we create, more than 30 other volunteers get involved, bringing people of all backgrounds together to turn us from a country divided to a country united.

By promoting national service as a pathway to success for young people, states reinvigorate our democracy and put more Americans back to work for the public good. Policies that put national service at the center of cultivating future leaders are critical to our nation’s success.

States shouldn’t wait to encourage more people to enter a better relationship with their country at a time of national division and loss of public trust. Now more than ever is the time to embrace national service.

States can lead the way.

Reynolds is the governor of Iowa.

McAuliffe is the first lady of Virginia.

They have worked closely with Service Year Alliance to show what states can do to advance national service.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

How to heal

Racial healing can facilitate trust and authentic relationships that bridge vast divides created by race, religion, ethnicity and economic status. Once the truths are shared, racism is acknowledged and hearts begin to mend, only then will communities begin to heal the wounds of the past and together move forward to address the bias in employment, education, housing and health that causes widespread disparities, and denies opportunities to our children.

To be sure, racial healing is predicated not just on an emotional encounter, such as saying, 'you're sorry,' rather it's predicated on a truth-telling. But who's truth? We all have our own truth and we need collective conversations to help us in reaching a common truth and a vision for the future, based on what we decide together.

And while sharing each of our individual truths requires sharing stories, reaching a common truth is more than a blending of stories.

It's about co-creating a common set of morals, principles, wisdom and guidance that is written on our hearts, captured in our faith and in

how we treat each other as human beings. It is developed by all of us in the courtyard, in town halls, in living rooms with family and neighbors, all in the crucible of human goodness. That's where we develop "the" truth.

Racial healing accelerates human capacity for resilience, truly embracing one another and reconnecting many people who previously had their identities denied back to their roots, culture, language and rituals. *The focus of racial healing is our “collective humanity,” and lifting up that which unites us rather than that which divides us, while discovering, respecting and indeed honoring our unique experiences. *Racial healing will facilitate narrative change, which will help everyone in communities articulate the truth about their collective histories and be exposed to full, complete and accurate representations of themselves and their communities.

Communities must heal so they can grow. Let’s heal and build sustainable progress neighbor by neighbor, community by community to transform America so all children can have a brighter future.

La June Montgomery Tabron

Obstructionist

Donald Trump once again put his politics of obstruction and fear ahead of a functioning government, and could once again bring Virginia’s economy to a screeching halt.

Unfortunately, Virginians know what it’s like to feel the pain of a

government shutdown -- paychecks were delayed, families were forced to go without the services they depend on and businesses across the Commonwealth took a hit. In 2013, Virginia’s revenues fell by 4.5 percent during the government shutdown -- and that is something we don’t want to have to revisit again in 2017.

Putting rigid ideology ahead of the American people and ahead of Virginia’s economy is reckless, and using the shutdown as a bargaining chip is irresponsible. Our leaders in Washington must come together and agree on a bipartisan compromise to not only avoid a government shutdown, but to maintain the upward mobility in Virginia’s economy.

Ralph Northam

The ‘hi-jacking’

Steve Bannon’s west wing departure is a punch in the gut to the true believers who are convinced that President Donald J. Trump leads a movement.

Bannon saw Trump’s election for what is was: a political revolution and a once in a lifetime opportunity to completely transform the loser do nothing- donor driven national Republican Party into a vehicle for real political change who champions the beleaguered American worker.

More than anyone, the former White House strategic advisor was dogged in seeing to it that Trump’s campaign promises were kept. He kept an infamous white board in his office with every Trump campaign promise written in bold. It was everyone’s reminder of why-and how-

Trump won.

Bannon was the keeper of the Trump ideological flame.

Most importantly, the former Breitbart CEO was the first line of defense against a west wing that is now dominated by Wall Street titans, hedge fund paper pushers, Neo-Cons and warmongers who want the US to continue down the sixteen year old master of the universe path of military intervention, regime change and troop deployments.

Our kids come home in body bags and with missing limbs. The military industrial complex continues to make money. We have no objective in Afghanistan and no AUMF (Authorization of Military Force).

More pressure now falls on three key Trump advisors: Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller and Hope Hicks to fight for the policies that got Trump elected and to not sell out his base.

Absent these three and his kids, this White House senior staff is now looking like what you would see in a Mitt Romney or Marco Rubio Administration.

Across the swampland of Washington, enemies inside are hijacking the Trump revolution.

Against all odds, Donald Trump won the presidency promising to clean the Augean stables of Washington and wash out the filth of corrupt insiders who betrayed the American people they were supposed to serve.

Now, the purge is underway in Washington.

But it’s the Trump loyalists being purged. How did this happen?

John Fredericks

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Faith & Religion

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Virginia congregation deeply divided over church’s name honoring Robert E. Lee DAVID PAULSEN ENN - Was Robert E. Lee an American hero or a traitorous defender of slavery? The Confederate general has been called both in the ongoing debate over whether statues, monuments and plaques in his honor should be remain on display in public places, from parks to churches.

At least one aspect of Lee’s biography is undisputed: He was a prominent parishioner at the Episcopal church that now bears his name, R.E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia.

And that name now threatens to tear the congregation apart.

“Change is hard, and this is about change that goes right down to our identity,” vestry member Doug Cumming told Episcopal News Service. He supports removing Lee from the name of the church.

Turmoil has grown since 2015, when the vestry first considered but failed to approve a proposal to remove Lee’s name from the church. Members began leaving the congregation in protest, and such exits continued this year after the vestry in April chose not to act on a consultant’s recommendation for a name change.

Then violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, a city barely an hour northeast of Lexington, accelerated a national re-examination of the Confederacy’s legacy. Defense of a statue of Lee became a rallying point for white supremacist groups, who descended on Charlottesville this month and clashed with anti-racism counter-protesters, leaving dozens wounded and one counter-protester dead.

On Monday, the Lee Memorial Church vestry held its first monthly meeting since the melee

in Charlottesville. Again, it decided against taking steps toward a name change, instead unanimously approving a statement that began by condemning white supremacism, racism and violence in Lee’s name.

The vestry members said they “object strenuously to the misuse of Robert E. Lee’s name and memory in connection with white supremacy, anti-Semitism and similar movements that he would abhor.

Lee was widely admired in both the North and the South as a man of virtue and honor and as among the leading reconcilers of our fractured land.”

The statement defended Lee’s reputation as a Christian, though not as a Confederate.

“We do not honor Lee as a Confederate,” the statement reads.

“Nor do we subscribe to neoConfederate ideas in honoring him.

We honor Lee as one of our own parishioners, a devout man who led our parish through difficult years in post-Civil-War Virginia.”

Anne Hansen, who helped craft the statement last week, resigned from the vestry afterward because church leaders would not commit more definitively to discussing a name change.

“My hope had been that if we could make a unified statement, say something unanimously … that we would be able to move from there into further action in a consensual way [regarding] the implications of our association with Lee,” Hansen said in an interview with ENS. “At the vestry meeting, that became apparent to me that was not going to happen.” She added that she blamed herself for getting upset and not articulating her views clearly enough.

The vestry’s inaction on the

The sign in front of R.E. Lee Memorial Church bears the name of the church and, therefore, also the Confederate general who was a parishioner there. issue is fueling tension inside and outside the congregation, creating an unnecessary distraction for the church, Southwestern Virginia Bishop Mark Bourlakas told Episcopal News Service. He favors the name change.

“The name has become not only a distraction to their Gospel mission, but … it’s dividing parishioners and causing all kinds of rancor,” said Bourlakas, who plans to visit the congregation this month to assist in reconciliation efforts. “My priority is to heal the congregation, and I don’t believe that that healing can occur while the name stays the same.”

Church renamed for Lee in 1903 The church’s history dates to 1840, when it was known as Latimer Parish but didn’t have a permanent worship space. Parish records cited by Cumming show the first church building was dedicated in 1844 as Grace Church. It bore that name when when Lee joined the congregation in 1865, after the Civil War, according to a 2015 church news release.

While serving in Lexington as president of Washington College, later renamed Washington and Lee University, the former Confederate

general spent the last five years of his life, until his death in 1870, helping the struggling congregation survive.

He served as senior warden and at one point agreed to pay the pastor’s salary from his own pocket, according to a report last week.

There is no record, however, of why the congregation chose to rename the church for Lee in 1903. It may, as some suggest, have been part of the “Lost Cause,” a campaign across the South to rehabilitate the image of the Confederacy and its leaders at a time when racism and segregation also were on the rise. Or, changing the name may simply have been a way to honor the congregation’s most famous parishioner.

Those who favor changing the name back to Grace note that few Episcopal churches are named after deceased parishioners. They also worry the church is failing to send a welcoming message by hanging a sign out front featuring the name of a slaveholder who was willing to go to war against the Union to preserve slavery.

The debate over the church’s name came to a head in 2015 after a white

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Campaign to mark sanitation strike, King assassination As the shocking events of Charlottesville, bolstered by the incendiary rhetoric of Donald Trump, stir nightmarish visions of the 1960s, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) are embarking upon a major commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and Dr. Martin Luther King’s final “Mountaintop” speech; events that led up to Dr. King’s assassination and transformed the civil rights landscape forever. On June 27th, AFSCME and COGIC launched the “I AM 2018” CAMPAIGN, designed to connect the legacy of the strikers and Dr. King to the current issues facing our nation.

States AFSCME President Lee Saunders, “AFSCME emphatically and unequivocally condemns the Nazi white nationalists who spewed vile bigotry and incited domestic terrorism two weeks ago. Now is a moment for all Americans who believe in freedom and justice, in tolerance and inclusion, to stand up and speak out. In light of this, our

(from page 8) supremacist with a fondness for the Confederate flag shot and killed nine people at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. That massacre prompted a nationwide reexamination of how the Confederate flag had come to represent racist ideologies.

Members of Lee Memorial Church spent several months discussing the church name in light of the Charleston shooting. After surveying the congregation and hearing a range of opinions for and against, the vestry voted, 9-5, in November 2015 in favor of removing Lee’s name, but because it chose to require a supermajority for passage, the measure failed by one vote.

Then in 2016, the church hired a reconciliation consultant, ultimately spending $16,000, and formed the Discovery and Discernment Committee of vestry members and parishioners to more carefully pursue reconciliation among the congregation and decide what actions to take.

union has been on the front lines of the civil and racial justice struggle for decades. In the coming year, through the “I AM 2018” initiative we have launched, we will honor the memory of Dr. King a half-century after he was assassinated during a

trip to Memphis to support striking AFSME sanitation workers.”

“The violence, hate and white supremacy on display in Charlottesville, Virginia must be condemned by all people of faith and goodwill,” said COGIC Presiding

Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr. “We in the church must provide moral leadership to show how we vigorously pursue justice.”

Saunders stresses that, “This campaign is not just a look back at our past; it’s a call to action, to inspire and train people to create a better American future. One where we lift up each other. One where we recognize and celebrate our common humanity. One where we respect and embrace our neighbors.”

During the 1960s, one of the most transformative chapters in the civil rights movement was the close collaboration between religious, civil rights and labor organizers the same spirit I AM 2018 seeks to create. “By attacking problems, in communities across the nation, from these interrelated perspectives simultaneously we maximize the likelihood of success,” said Blake.

Leading up to events planned for April 2, 3 and 4, 2018, the campaign will focus on training and mobilizing youth activists and organizers to work in communities nationwide addressing the issues civil rights, labor rights, and economic justice.

The committee and consultant issued a 15-page report in April 2017 that summarized the various perspectives on the church’s name.

“The committee discerned from its work in discovery that a significant number of parishioners remain quite uneasy with the name of the church,” the report said.

It warned that those parishioners felt marginalized, and they may withdraw from the congregation, or conflict over the name could continue to escalate.

The report contained several recommendations, including the creation of a committee to seek new ways to honor Lee’s historic ties to the parish. It also recommended this: “That the name of the church be officially restored to its former name of Grace Episcopal Church.”

The vestry met the same month to review the report. It accepted all the recommendations, except the one urging a name change.

This reporter left messages seeking comment from senior warden Woody Sadler, as well as a vestry member, A.W. “Buster” Lewis, who has been a vocal opponent of changing the name.

Neither had responded at the time of publication, though Lewis told ENS in a March story that he felt he and his parish were being “attacked.”

After the April vestry meeting, “there’s certain members of the vestry that felt with relief that the discussion was over,” vestry member Cumming said. “But I really think on some level they weren’t paying attention.”

The discussion didn’t resume in a significant way until the violence in Charlottesville raised concerns again about how Lee had come to be a symbol of white supremacist ideology.

“We’re in a different moment since Charlottesville,” Bourlakas said. “These symbols have become too toxic. We’re a church that cares deeply about sacraments and symbols, and this symbol, whatever you might think of it or what it represented, has been co-opted and has become toxic.”

Hansen, though, fears it may be too late. “We had already missed our opportunity to change the name of the church in a deliberative proactive way on our own terms,” she said.

Although he doesn’t intend to impose his preference on the congregation, Bourlakas said it is important to for him help guide the two sides to reconcile. He thinks that the statement the vestry issued Monday alluded to the path forward, with its concluding reference to the church’s commitment “not to Lee, but to that gospel which is his hope and ours.

“We invite all to share in it, and we aim to let nothing stand in the way of our proclaiming it with integrity,” the statement ends.

To let nothing stand in the way, Bourlakas said, would seem to include a name.

“For me this is an easy fix, because the original name of the church was Grace Church. That’s the name of the church when Lee was a parishioner,” the bishop said. “If it’s about honoring Lee, that’s the church he worshiped in. If it’s about history, that’s the historical name.

“But most important, it’s a fine name of a church. And Lexington and our country could use a lot more grace.”

AFSCME President Lee Saunders stresses the importance of the “I AM 2018” campaign at AFSCME headquarters in Washington, DC as Rep. John Lewis, COGIC Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr. and NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith listen.

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Computer-based school launches in Richmond STAFF & WIRE A new computer science-based school in Richmond launched last week with a ceremonial ribbon cutting event. CodeRVA Regional High School, on Durham Street, will see attendance from more than 90 ninth and tenth grade students from around the region in its first year.

“We will offer the opportunity to get a two-year degree at the school, as well as paid internships in computer science before they leave here,” said CodeRVA Executive Director Michael Bolling said. “We’re going to be using a blended learning model, which is a combination of online instruction combined with face-to-face instruction that really personalizes learning for students.”

Students attending the school were selected using a lottery system that included a pool of 700 candidates.

CodeRVA has three goals, according to its website: • Redesign the high school experience to better meet the needs of today’s students • Address racial, economic, and gender inequities in STEM-related education • Increase the pool of potential employees in coding and other computer science-related fields for central Virginia The school’s location, within five minutes of Maggie Walker Governor’s School enables partnering school divisions to leverage the existing transportation system to Maggie Walker, said Bolling, who added that initial planning and implementation

More than 90 students in 9th and 10th grades from around the region will attend CodeRVA in its first year. grants were provided through the Virginia Department of Education’s High School Innovation Grants.

Architectural services were provided at no cost to CodeRVA by Ballou, Justice, and Upton and SMBW Architects. Capital One provided furniture for the school and a grant

United Way Virginia Peninsula seeks 200 volunteers for projects United Way of the Virginia Peninsula (UWVP) is looking for more than 200 volunteers to participate in the Days of Caring project on Sept. 6, in Newport News and Sept. 15, in Williamsburg. The Day of Caring is typically one day where local companies send teams

of employees to volunteer on improvement projects that the service agencies might not have the manpower or resources to afford. Due to the recent merger of the United Way of the Virginia Peninsula (UWVP) and United Way of Greater Williamsburg (UWGW), the Day of Caring project

to assist in initial costs. CarMax has provided a grant that provides for the school’s independently-operated student selection system and initial technology equipment costs.”

Students from Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Hanover, Henrico,

Hopewell, New Kent, Petersburg, Powhatan, Prince George, Richmond, and Sussex can attend the regional computer school.

While the school will open with less than 100 students, school leaders plan to select up to 100 students to fill future classes.

was expanded to two days to help accommodate the full service area of the newly merged organization.

Volunteers take on projects at nonprofits that include cleaning, lands8-21 united waycaping, repairing, painting, and more. Currently there are over 600 volunteers from more than 35 local companies who are signed up to tackle over 75 projects at local social service agencies, schools, and community

organizations through United Way’s Days of Caring.

Interested in volunteering? To sign up and for more information visit, uwvp.org for the Sept.

6 Newport News event and visit uwgw.org for the Sept.15 Williamsburg event. Nonprofits and public service agencies that serve the greater peninsula and are in need of additional help are encouraged to submit projects to the United Way.

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Artist who re-imagined an iconic renaissance painting with black gets her first gallery exhibit STAFF & WIRE Afro-Cuban painter Harmonia Rosales believes that all created in God’s image, and her re-imaging of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam”, featuring both Adam and God as black women, apparently struck a chord with people around the world. With the religious Above: Harmonia Rosales repaintings of Michelangelo, da Vinci imagines “The Creation of Adam” with black women. The original and Rembrandt (to name a few) painting can be seen in the mostly featuring white men, it has Sistine Chapel, in Vatican City. been difficult for people of color to feel represented in the world of recognized painting” – one that classical art. shows white men as central figures Rosales’ masterful painting of authority – and “flip the script.” took the social media world by “White figures are a staple storm, generating over 10,000 in classic art featured in major likes and nearly 1,000 comments museums. They are the ‘masters’ on Instagram, not to mention of the masterpieces. Why should write-ups in BuzzFeed, BET. that continue?” she said. com, The NY Post, Afro Punk and The artist went on to explain The Huffington Post and more. that representation matters in Stars like Samuel L. Jackson, all mediums, and that includes Willow Smith, Erykah Badu art. “Replacing the white male and SwizzBeats also took notice, figures — the most represented and collectors include Amar’e — with people I believe have been Stoudemire and Steven Bennett. the least represented can begin to Now, for the first time, the viral recondition our minds to accept artist is exhibiting her work in new concepts of human value,” a gallery setting, premiering Harmonia Rosales she reasoned. “If I can touch even a new paintings at Simard Bilodeau small group of people and empower Contemporary in downtown Los them through the power of art, then Angeles on Sept. 17, with an opening I’ve succeeded in helping to change the way we see the world.” reception from noon.

The result is certainly powerful, as Harmonia’s artwork has resonated with Rosales’ talent as a painter has been described as awe-inspiring as the thousands of people on social media already. message of empowerment and equality she is communicating. Even though As for Harmonia’s own inspiration, she explained to Buzzfeed that her she’s an entirely self-taught artist, she exhibits an amazing grasp of the daughter is a huge source of passion when it comes to her artwork. “I want techniques and visual styles that the world-renown masters perfected my daughter to grow up proud of her curls and coils, her brown skin, and for centuries ago. Her exhibit will feature additional works inspired by Da Vinci, her to identify as a woman of color, a woman of value,” she said. “What I do Botticelli and others. with my art contributes to the way she and all other little girls like her will Rosales is wonderfully bright and passionate about the work she is doing come to recognize themselves.” Harmonia’s art is a reminder to all of us that and we would love to connect you with her for an interview, noted her representation is essential, as it helps people of all identities see themselves publicist. in different forms.

The 33-year-old recently told BuzzFeed that she wanted to take a “widely

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Red Cross worker recounts disaster aid experience Dyan Greggs arrived home in Henrico County on Sunday, Aug. 20, after spending 21 days in Williams Lake, British Columbia, responding to the wildfires with the National American Red Cross.

Greggs, an emergency planner was deployed from the Richmond Chapter to assist the Canadian Red Cross assist countless residents who have been evacuated from their homes due to the threat of wildfires.

Greggs, who spent three months responding to Hurricane Katrina as shelter operations manager and managed six emergency shelters in Biloxi, Mississippi, was deployed to British Columbia to be a shelter supervisor in the province. She flew into Prince George on July 29 from Vancouver after a flight from Richmond to Detroit and Detroit to Vancouver.

“I could see many wildfires burning from the sky as we flew to Vancouver,” said Greggs. “The smoke was massive and the smell filled the airplane upon our approach into Vancouver. It was a very alarming feeling but I knew that I was being deployed to help thousands of evacuees so I turned my concern into an urgent need to help others who were on the ground experiencing the fires first hand.”

Greggs arrived into Prince George and was received by a Canadian Red Cross worker who had lines of taxi cabs awaiting them at the airport.

About 10 Americans Red Cross volunteers and staff were deployed and shared the plane from Vancouver to Prince George, BC. “We didn’t know other volunteers were on the plane but we were so glad to see each other once we were met with our Canadian counter part at the airport. I felt really proud to be deploying from America to help the Canadians help their residents in such a dire need,” said Greggs.

Greggs received orientation on Sunday July 30 at the headquarters in Prince George where she was briefed that the wildfire was the worse in British Columbia in over 60 years. Following the orientation, she and others from The American Red Cross, as well as from The Canadian

Williams lake hoovered over the low lying area.

Similar to her deployment to the San Diego wildfires some years ago, Greggs was deployed as a shelter supervisor but was immediately trained as a case worker because the residents were no longer in shelters but were now in need of money the province was providing for evacuation and re-entry. The location where the residents came to get resources was called the Resiliency Center which is a mall.

“We occupied what once was a sporting goods store,” said Greggs.

“Everyone from their department of social services, to wireless service providers to insurance agencies, the Salvation Army and local faith based organizations were on-site to assist the residents with re-entry into their homes.

“In my capacity as caseworker, I learned how to field questions from the beneficiaries (clients to us in the U.S.), how to verify the residents in the system and how load money on the Red Cross Master Card. The lines of residents was wrapped around metal, chained line dividers. So many residents came into the resiliency center and it was non-stop from the time we opened the doors at 8 am until we closed the doors at 8 pm.

Most people came to the resiliency center to receive their $300 re-entry funds either on a pre-loaded Master Card or via electronic funds transfer.

They came in to notify us that they were back in order for the transfer to take place. Many others had already received their $600 and $300 but still needed assistance from the Red

(continued on page 13) Dyan Greggs helped in the recent response of the Williams Lake fires.

Red Cross drove three hours away to Williams Lake. The community of Williams Lake community was just allowed back into their homes less than a week before they arrived. The atmosphere was still very smokey from nearby fires. Williams Lake sat in a valley and the smoke from fires to the West, East, North and South of

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Missing black professors Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress - except for blacks in STEM. COLLEEN FLAHERTY

Efforts to diversify the faculty may not be focusing enough on key areas, namely math-based fields -- especially when it comes to black faculty members. And such efforts haven’t led to any premium in pay for those hired to contribute to campus diversity. That’s all according to a new study of faculty representation and wage gaps by race and gender in six major fields at 40 selective public universities.

Consistent with existing research, the study says, black, Hispanic and female professors are underrepresented, while white and Asian professors are overrepresented across disciplines. But nearly all of that can be attributed to underrepresentation of black and Hispanic men and women and women of all backgrounds in the natural sciences, technology, engineering and math, it asserts.

A comparison of senior and junior faculty members suggests increasing diversity over time -- especially in STEM -- except for a key group: Black faculty members.

The study attributes observed differences in faculty representation by race and gender to related differences in the number of Ph.D.s in various academic fields, and their backgrounds and experience. Again, though, the exception is black faculty members, who are overrepresented in non-STEM fields relative to Ph.D. production, and underrepresented among STEM faculty relative to Ph.D.s granted.

Those same factors explain some of the disparities by gender, but not all, according to the study.

“If a rationale for policies to improve faculty diversity is to provide role models for underrepresented students, and if it is presumed that students will gravitate toward such role models, the current diversity imbalance in higher education implies that students from underrepresented groups may be nudged toward lower-paying, non-STEM fields,” the study says. “This would serve to perpetuate an already-existing imbalance in the work force, both in academia and the broader labor market.”

A simple takeaway is that “STEM and non-STEM fields exhibit very different diversity conditions, which merits consideration in the design of policies” to increase faculty diversity, the study notes.

“Representation and Salary Gaps by Race-Ethnicity and Gender at Selective

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(from page 12) Cross for food, gas and personal hygiene items.”

Many people recounted to Greggs that they received a knock on their door at 4 a.m. and were told that they had to evacuate, while others were away from home when the evacuation order came for Williams Lake, so they did not have anything and could not return back home because of the evacuation order.

Greggs loaded one card after the other as she heard so many stories of where they were and where they went after the evacuation order.

When asked what impressed her the most about her Canadian counterparts, Greggs said, “There were many First Nations in this community and the Canadian Red Cross was very knowledgeable about the First Nations customs and did everything to respect them and their elders. They stressed the importance that I shared as much information as given to me with a First Nations elder because they would then go back to their locations and share the information with those they served in their community.”

Greggs also said that one of the most challenging parts of the deployment was the smoke and being on alert orders. The staff and volunteers on deployment in Williams Lake could not be outside for long periods of time for most of the deployment and had to wear a face mask at times when the smoke was really heavy. Also, Williams Lake remained under alert for almost three weeks from the time the residents were allowed to go back home. This means that the staff and volunteers had to bring a to-go bag to work each day in case we had to evacuate. This added stress to the environment but Greggs said that she was able to deal with the stress of being under evacuation alert because they had a plan in place in case they had to evacuate.

“All were assigned to a car and a driver of that car. In case of evacuation, everyone knew where to go and with whom they would be riding with,” she said.

Only two days before the American Red Cross was scheduled to leave, the alert order was lifted for Williams Lake. Greggs said that she was relieved.

During her delpoyment, Greggs said that attending regular church services also helped her through the stress of the evacuation alert.

She attended Cariboo Bethel Church located at 833 Western Ave, Williams Lake BC V2G 2J5. It was during one of the church services that she and another American Red Cross volunteer received comfort from the service whereby the Youth Pastor spoke of the alert and not getting complaisant as time went by. The pastor shared that although his bags were packed in his car because of the alert, he found that he would go out to his vehicle and take things like his favorite shirt out. Then he found himself taking other items out. He shared this to remind everyone that we were still on alert and should be diligent in being ready to leave at any time.

Greggs was thankful that the alert was soon lifted.

In addition do doing case work, Greggs also worked the reception desk. The People’s Services worker who placed Greggs at that desk said that they needed someone strong to be at that desk because they would face so many questions, some tears from residents, some challenging words from residents because of what they were facing and because they would face some very long, long lines. Greggs manned the reception desk for about nine days intermittently and did everything from help a beneficiary access his email account and successfully complete his electronic wire transfer so he can have access to the funds given to him by the province, to giving a coloring book and crayons to a mother of two, to consoling people who were at their breaking point.

All in all, Greggs said, It was a great experience, though quite challenging. But to know that I was able to hand at least a hundred people master cards to be able to put gas in their cars to make it home and to help a man get money for gas to visit his ailing wife in the hospital three hours away was worth the trip.

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Local groups partner with Baby Box Co. to provide safe sleep resources and education STAFF & WIRE Virginia has become the latest state to borrow an age-old Finnish approach to country the unsafe trend of infants dying in unsafe sleeping environments.

The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) has entered into a partnership with Children’s Hospital of Richmond (CHoR) at Virginia Commonwealth University and The Baby Box Co. to equip Virginia’s new and expecting families with safe sleep education. Virginia will become the sixth U.S. state to offer its families a free Baby Box program, which will provide both education resources and free baby boxes to the 103,000 babies expected to be delivered in Virginia over the next year, according to The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

The baby boxes, which serve as a safe sleep option for infants up to six months of age, were on full display at last week’s Safe Sleep Launch event in Richmond. Hosted by CHoR, the event provided details of the partnership designed to educate all caregivers about life-saving sleep practices for infants. During the event, families from Urban Baby Beginnings, one of several statewide community partners, were on hand to share their experiences with the baby box program and helpful resources.

In state fiscal year 2015, local departments of social services investigated 127 reports involving 131 child deaths suspected to be caused by child abuse or neglect.

Following a comprehensive review of each case, it was determined that for those cases where child abuse and neglect was ruled out as a factor in the child’s death, 64 percent were related to an unsafe sleep environment.

“Unsafe sleep practices are the key factors that contribute to the increase in child fatalities in Virginia,” said VDSS Director of Family Services Carl Ayers. “Distributing a safe

sleep environment to every baby and educating new parents on risk factors is another step in our ongoing efforts to increase public awareness and reduce sleep-related infant fatalities.”

Along with the Baby Box Co., partnership, VDSS will launch a statewide safe sleep campaign in September to provide education, resources and support to all caregivers on the importance of safe sleep practices for infants during their first year of life. The campaign,

Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources William A. Hazel Jr. said of the boxes presented last week: “It’s not just a box, it’s a program.”

which will coincide with National Infant Safe Sleep Awareness Month in September and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month in October, will include social media outreach, statewide billboards, and a dedicated microsite.

“In Virginia, sleep-related deaths are the leading cause of death among infants between one month and one year of age. Every baby deserves to have a safe, healthy environment, and that includes the availability of safe sleep spaces,” said VDSS Commissioner Margaret Ross Schultze. “Educating parents and the community at-large on the use of safe-sleep practices is critical to the prevention of infant sleep-related fatalities.”

Through the National Governors Association‘s Three Branch Institute, VDSS has led Virginia’s team in developing and implementing an integrated approach to improve safety and reduce child fatalities throughout the Commonwealth.

Virginia’s team, which includes partners from Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services, the Virginia Department of Health, the Virginia Supreme Court, the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate, have made a safe sleep campaign a priority of their work in order to help prevent sleep-related fatalities in the Commonwealth.

To further support vital research on the impact of safe sleep practices, education and the use of baby

boxes impact in high-risk behaviors associated with infant mortality, VCU and VDSS will also launch a study that begins in September.

“Our goal in the newborn nursery is to help all families get a healthy start on life,” said Tiffany Kimbrough, M.D., CHoR pediatrician and medical director of newborn nursery. “Our primary focus is on ensuring the baby’s safety, from lactation and safe sleep habits – to car seats and when to call the pediatrician.

“We are excited to begin distributing Baby Boxes as part of the Virginia Safe Sleep campaign, and look forward to providing all families with a free, safe and simple sleep environment for their baby.

Bumpers, teddy bears and other traditional baby items might be cute, but they can be dangerous and are not part of a safe sleep environment.”

“We’re honored to be launching the Baby Box University program in Virginia, where state organizations, nonprofits and the community are not only promoting safe sleep practices, but also taking a holistic approach to child safety and health through education, campaigns and valuable research,” said Baby Box Co. co-founder & CEO Jennifer Clary.

“The Baby Box University program, combined with these efforts, will further impact a broader message that education is vital to ensuring babies have a safe and equitable start in life.”

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Studio again collects shoes in fight against poverty to adequate footwear resulting in significant ramifications for their health and well-being. Tens of millions are at risk of infection from soil-transmitted parasitic diseases like hookworm, that can cause lasting suffering and lifelong debilitation. Meanwhile many adults don’t have access to sustainable employment. In Haiti for example,

Based in Nashville, Soles4Souls is the largest distributor of shoes in the world, sending over 30 million pairs of shoes to people in need in 127 countries, according to the charity’s website.

Those gently and used shoes in used shoes you no 127 countries. longer want will “Spotlight help Spotlight Studio is a Dance Studio’s strong supporter special charity of Soles4Souls’ event set for mission. We’re today, Aug. 30. excited to collect With shoes for the 9th Soles4Souls, year in a row Spotlight and we hope to Dance Studio take a big step wants to create in providing the “meaningful organization opportunities”, with the new and some in gently used shoes Pamela Le Bescond developing nations they require to need. disrupt the cycle of That’s the poverty around the message being delivered by Spotlight globe,” said Pamela Le Bescond of Dance Studio, whose 9th annual Spotlight Dance Studio. shoe drive at Spotlight Dance Studio Soles4Souls notes that it will located at 6828 Woodlake Commons convert every used pair of shoes Loop Midlothian will collect shoes to collected from the community into help those less fortunate around the a “value-added social currency globe. The event takes place from 3 to achieve positive change, both to 6 p.m., with attendees encouraged humanitarian and economic”. The to bring new and gently used shoes. gently used shoes will be distributed The studio will also accept donations to micro-enterprise programs that year round at their studio where they create jobs in Haiti, Honduras have a permanent collection bin. and other developing nations. The The shoes that Spotlight Studio resulting revenue will help fund the collects will be delivered to free distribution of new shoes in the Soles4Souls–a non-profit social U.S., Canada and developing nations enterprise that creates sustainable around the world. jobs and provides relief through the The World Bank estimates that distribution of shoes and clothing approximately 900 million people around the world. Founded in 2006, live on less than $1.90 per day. the organization has distributed 400 million are children. Millions more than 30 million pairs of new of these children don’t have access

more than two-thirds of the labor force don’t have jobs.

“The simple truth is that almost anyone with a closet has shoes they don’t wear, or an old pair that will just end up in a landfill,” said Le Bescond. “Give those to us, and know that you are taking a step to make the world a better place for all of us.”

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The Newport News Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue is accepting and processing applications for Real Estate Tax Relief for the Elderly and Disabled program available to Newport News homeowners. Those who meet specified eligibility requirements including age, income, and assets, may qualify for deferral or exemption of real estate taxes. The deadline for filing a 2017-18 application for Tax Relief for the Elderly and Disabled is Aug. 31.

Eligibility requirements for deferral: · Applicant must own and reside in the home and be at least 65 years of age by Dec. 31, 2016 or be permanently and totally disabled. · Total combined income from all sources during 2016 of the applicant, spouse, and all relatives and nonrelatives residing in the home shall not exceed $50,000. Some exceptions apply. · Combined assets of all persons as of Dec. 31, 2016 shall not exceed $200,000, excluding the residence. · If multiple persons, other than a spouse, are listed on the deed, all persons listed must meet the eligibility requirements.

Eligibility requirements for exemption: · Applicant must own and reside in the home and be at least 65 years of age by Dec. 31, 2016. · Total combined income from all sources during 2016 of applicant, spouse, and all relatives and nonrelatives residing in the home shall not exceed $25,000. Some exceptions apply. · Combined assets of all persons as of Dec. 31, 2016 must not exceed $10,000 excluding the residence. · If multiple persons, other than a spouse, are listed on the deed, all persons listed must meet the eligibility requirements. · Household costs related to maintaining the home must equal or exceed 40 percent of the total household income.

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Henrico County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman and Fairfield District Supervisor Frank J. Thornton will hold a constituent meeting Wednesday, Sept. 13 to discuss health care and financial assistance that may be available for senior citizens. He also will lead a discussion of the topic “Why Do Counties Matter?”

Thornton will be joined by Jelisa S. Turner, Henrico’s advocate for the aging.

The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. For information, call (804) 501-4208.

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Broomfield Christian Methodist Episcopal Church will celebrate its Annual Choir Day at 609 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, with special guests. They include the legendary Ingramettes, Gospel Truth of Sixth Baptist Church, D. K. Logan and Nu Beginnings.

Dr. Johnny J. Branch will serve as master of ceremonies. Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information e-mail Linda Lewis at 150lewis@yahoo.com.

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Join Lesley Haines, the assistant conservator of the USS Monitor Project as she discusses Civil War artifact preservation. The lecture will take place at the Mariners’ Museum, 100 Museum Dr. in Newport News.

During the discussion “The Many Faces of Preservation: Where does Conservation End and Restoration Begin?” Haines will talk about the theory of preservation using examples from the museum’s collection, including the conservation of USS Monitor artifacts and the restoration of the Cape Charles Lighthouse lens.

Picking an appropriate process for preservation and conservation depends on many factors: what is the object made of, how it was used, and where will it be displayed.

Civil War lectures are free with Museum admission, but reserving a seat is suggested as seating is limited. For more information, visit museum website or call 757-596-2222.

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(from page 13) Public Universities,” published this month in Educational Researcher, was written by Diyi Li, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics at Mizzou.

They note that their campus, among others, has been a seat of student unrest concerning faculty diversity, or lack thereof: at Mizzou, for example, the Legion of Black Collegians has demanded an increase in the percentage of black faculty and staff members campuswide to 10 percent by this academic year.

Although it is “straightforward to obtain aggregate data on faculty representation at universities,” the authors say, “contemporary policy discussions would benefit from more detailed information.”

For example, they say, “it would be useful to know how faculty diversity compares across fields, and whether universities are behaving in a way consistent with placing independent value on a faculty member’s contribution to work-force diversity.”

To inform such questions and conversations, Li and Koedel looked at racial and gender diversity and wage gaps on 40 campuses in six departments they considered “inclusive” of STEM and non-

Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, teaches a student. She emphasizes the importance of the parents in the program that teaches coding.

STEM fields: biology, chemistry, and economics; and educational leadership and policy, English, and sociology, respectively. Data were hand collected from public institutions holding top slots in the U.S. News & World Report rankings and concerned mostly tenure-track and tenured professors in the 201516 academic year.

In addition to finding that that underrepresentation of black, Hispanic and female faculty members is driven by the STEM fields, the paper also says that

patterns of racial and gender representation by field generally align with patterns in Ph.D. production. Doctoral data came from the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates.

Examining faculty representation by rank, the authors found that assistant professors are less likely to be white and more likely to be Asian and Hispanic, and less likely to be male, than associate and full professors. That’s true of all fields, especially those in STEM. The glaring exception, of course, is that black faculty members are just as underrepresented among junior faculty members as they are among senior faculty in STEM. Regarding wage gaps, the study says that black and Hispanic male faculty members earn, on average, $10,000 to 15,000 less annually (unadjusted for any factors) than their white counterparts.

That’s about 8 to 12 percent over the average wage studied, some $120,195. Adjusted for various factors, however -- namely academic field, experience and research productivity -- the racial wage gap generally disappears. The gaps for Asian, black and Hispanic faculty are relative to white faculty; the gap for women is relative to men.

The unconditional or unadjusted gender gap is even larger, at about

$23,000. Controlled for various factors, the wage gap between men and women shrinks to about $4,000 -- but that’s still statistically significant, according to the researchers.

Koedel said last week that a major takeaway is that underrepresented minority and female faculty members have a much higher representation in lower-paying fields, even when non-tenure-track faculty members (who are disproportionately female and underrepresented minorities) are excluded from the sample.

And of the finding that there’s no apparent wage premium for faculty members who increase campus diversity, despite many institutions having launched major campaigns around that goal? Older research did not identify a wage premium, but some may have expected that to change in recent decades, Koedel said.

The study notes that one way to increase faculty diversity in STEM without the ability to offer a premium is to recruit from lowerranked departments. There’s little evidence that that’s happening thus far, though. Koedel said he didn’t know whether his findings would be different at major private institutions, which presumably would have more flexibility in terms of allocating funds for hires that contribute to diversity goals.

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