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New Haven Symphony Orchestra To Celebrate Overlooked Composer Florence Price March 5 As part of its ongoing #MakeFlorenceFamous campaign, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) will showcase the music of Florence Price at Dvořák & Price on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall. Led by music director Alasdair Neale, the concert will feature Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 played by Oliver Herbert, Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor, and Rossini’s William Tell Overture.

Florence Price was the first female African American composer to have a symphonic work performed by a major symphony orchestra (Chicago Symphony, 1933). Florence and her compositions have been historically overlooked due to racial and gender inequity, depriving her and the world of the legacy she deserves. Her works are often compared to Dvořák, as they both reference African American folk music and share a Romantic aesthetic. This concert will showcase the similarities in their sounds, and will explore why a white, male, European has been praised throughout history for his take on “American” music, while Florence Price has been continually forgotten and omitted.

This concert will be part of the NHSO’s season-long effort to #MakeFlorenceFamous. Recent discoveries of her un-

a post-concert reception catered by The Orchid Café.

Tickets: Adult tickets range in price from $15 – 74. College student tickets are $10 and KidTix (kids under 18) are free with the purchase of an adult ticket.

Blue Star Tickets for active military personnel and their immediate families are free. For tickets or more information, call (203) 787-4282 or visit NewHavenSymphony.org.

published works have led to new performances of her music in the US and abroad, and the NHSO aspires to make her into a common household name.

At the age of 18, Oliver Herbert is one of the most tonally distinctive and accomplished young cellists of his time. Herbert first studied under Clive Greensmit, and recently graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Carter Brey and Peter Wiley. He has toured the U.S. and Greece with pianist Xiaohui Yang, won multiple International Cello Competition awards (2015, 2018), and has debuted with the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, and Las Vegas Philharmonic, among others. He currently plays on a 1769 Guadagnini cello, on loan, that belonged to the great Italian cellist Antonio Janigro.

There will be a free, 30-minute “Prelude” pre-concert talk led by NHSO Harmony Fellow and Cellist/Arranger Kelsee Vandervall at Sudler Hall, beginning at 6:30pm the night of the concert.

The NHSO Harmony Quartet will also play a Neighborhood Concert on Saturday, March 7 at 3pm in the Stetson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, which will feature music by Price, Dvořák, and William Grant Still, a talk-back session with the audience, and

Pre-Concert Activities: Prelude: Free 30 minute pre-concert talk at Sudler Hall, 100 Wall Street, New Haven with NHSO Harmony Fellow Kelsee Vandervall.

Pre-Concert Symphony Supper: Concert-goers are invited to attend a prixfixe dinner at the Union League Café starting at 5:30pm the night of the concert. Dinner is $45 and includes tax and tip. RSVP through NewHavenSymphony.org or call (203) 787-4282.

Dvořák and Price is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy. The Classics Series media sponsor is the New Haven Register. KidTix and Blue Star tickets are sponsored by Frontier Communications. The concert’s media sponsor is the Inner-City Newspaper.

Elicker Slams Yale As Tax Increase Looms

by PAUL BASS

New Haven I ndependent

Saying he’s following through on a promise to make tough decisions to restore fiscal order, Mayor Justin Elicker plans to propose a tax increase along with spending cuts in his first city budget.

He revealed that plan as he took a shot as his alma mater for not helping the city more with its financial woes.

Elicker revealed the taxplan during a talk last Friday at a conference at his alma mater, the Yale School of the Management.

While he won’t recommend any layoffs, he will propose slashing “a lot” of vacant positions in city government.

The mayor subsequently confirmed the remarks in a conversation with the Independent. He said he is tackling deep financial problems with his proposal, which he must formally submit to the Board of Alders by Monday for review.

Before then, Elicker said, he won’t divulge details of the proposal, including the amount of the proposed mill rate increase.

But he did say that the amount of money he proposes cutting from the budget is “much larger than the revenue” gained from the proposed increase.

Elicker: Details coming Monday.

In last year’s mayoral campaign, Elicker criticized then-Mayor Toni Harp for having successfully proposed an 11 percent mill-rate hike in 2018. Elicker called the hike too high. He also criticized the mayor for avoiding tough longrange fiscal decisions by, for instance,

refinancing $160 million in debt through a process known as “scoop and toss,” under which the city gets extra millions in cash up front to spend on operating expenses that future administrations must pay back later with interest.

The current mill rate is 42.98. That means that homes and cars are taxed $42.98 on every $1,000 of assessed properties (which is 70 percent of appraised market value).

Elicker was asked about how his proposal squares with his criticisms of his predecessor.

“People elected me to make difficult decisions. This year we have significant budgetary challenges,” he said. “I am addressing those challenges head on rather than putting hopeful line items in the budget, rather than refinancing our debt, rather than making one-time sales that plug a budget hole in this year but pass on our problems to future years.”

He argued that Harp “raised taxes in one year 11 percent and refinanced our debt: That’s not an effective way to get the budget under control.”

In preparing his budget proposal since taking office Jan. 1, Elicker instructed department heads to submit scenarios for cutting their budgets by 3, 6, and 10 percent.

In emails and public statements in re-

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cent weeks, he began preparing the public for a possible tax increase and painful budget cuts by referring to the city’s dire financial straits.

Yale’s “Defining” Moment Elicker’s public disclosure of his taxraising and budget-cutting plans came during a keynote address and heated question-and-answer period at the end of an SOM conference on data and development.

Noting that Yale had an annual operating surplus of $91 million last year, the mayor argued that the university should be contributing much more than $12 million annually in voluntary payments to the city.

He made both an ethical/moral and a practical argument for Yale to up its financial contributions. (Yale argues that it offers more than similar institutions in voluntary contributions to its host city and notes that it’s New Haven’s largest employer.)

“Does Yale University want to be in a city where our taxes continue to rise and we are unable to fund the very things we want to fund because we can’t attract people because our taxes are so high?”

Elicker asked the audience.

“It has to do with what is ethical and right. The response I think would be: Let’s grow.”

Without more revenue, Elicker argued, the city can’t grow — or take care of some basic needs. The grand list grew by just 0.5 percent last year, he said — hardly fast enough to close what he characterized as a $40 million budget gap he inherited.

He took sharp questions from the audience about how taxes are lower in Cambridge, where the state doesn’t send payments in lieu of taxes for property owned

by Harvard. Elicker called that a false comparison for a variety of reasons, beginning with the far higher median value of homes in the Massachusetts college town.

“I think this is a defining moment for us all,” Elicker remarked. “I will be presenting a budget that shows that the taxpayers have done their part. It shows that our municipal employees who have lost many positions — I’m not laying off people, but I will be eliminating a lot of vacant positions — municipal employees have done their part.

“The remaining groups that have to do their part are the university, the hospital, and, I believe, our state. You all need to raise your voices and say, ‘We bear responsibility as a community, as a university, as neighbors, to make sure that New Haven is a place where everyone will have the opportunity to thrive.’”

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Vegan “Eco-Chef” Serves Carrot Soup, With A Side Of Black History

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven I ndependent

While cooking up a savory carrot soup, nationally known “vegan eco-chef” and cookbook author Bryant Terry diced up a history lesson on the flavors and ingredients of African American food for Black History Month.

Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center and the Yale Sustainable Food Program brought the chef and food justice activist to campus for one segment of a four-part “Cooking Across the Black Diaspora” series to discuss the impact of food culturally and socially. (Other chefs who participated in the series this month were Nyesha Arrington, Paola Velez, and Kiki Louya.)

Terry’s turn, complete with a cooking demonstration, took place Wednesday evening at the Yale Afro-American Cultural Center.

In what Terry called a “lecture demo,” he led a talk with the public on the history of food insecurity and efforts to feed the community, as he simultaneously began making the soup with the cooking of his aromatics: garlic, onion, and celery.

Terry debuted the recipe from his newest cookbook, Vegetable Kingdom.

While cooking he shared a variety of cooking tips for the audience.

Tip #1: Always cut your vegetables evenly.

Terry said decided on his carrot soup recipe for the demo because of carrots’ accessibility. He also wanted to share a

recipe that can be easily made by college students, thanks to its use of minimal ingredients.

“If you can boil a pot of water, you can make carrot soup,” Terry said.

The Wednesday collaboration was also part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of both the Afro-American Cultural Center and Yale Department of African American Studies.

Terry last came to town in 2014 to have a similar gathering and discussion at the Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church on Orchard Street.

After lightly cooking his aromatics, Terry began adding his homemade seasoning mixture, ras el hanout.

Tip #2: Use whole spices not preground mixtures Terry discussed the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program, which provided meals to children starting in 1969.

“We are still dealing with these same food system issues today as they were,” Terry said.

Terry and the audience agreed that food and cultural identity go hand in hand.

Terry discussed the many stereotypes he has heard about African American cooking always being unhealthy. “I want to complicate the understanding of how black people eat,” he said.

Referring to his 20 years of experience in cooking and food activism, Terry said he hopes his work will illuminate the historical legacy of African American’s agricultural skills for cooking.

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTO Members of the audience taste Terry’s recipe.

“The roots of our dishes are hearty and Next, Terry added his homemade broth to the pot of ingredients and added his flavorful,” he said.

The lack of accessibly to healthful food chopped carrots. constitutes what Terry called a public Tip #3: Eat what is in season. health crisis particularly affecting Afri“Mother nature knows what we should be eating and when,” Terry said. can Americans throughout history.

“The government didn’t want to feed Terry’s choice of carrot soup was also in these children until they were shamed part because carrots are in season. into it because of the Black Panther ParTo complete his recipe, Terry used an ty’s work,” Terry said.

immersion blender to smooth out his soup with the option of adding coconut milk for creaminess. “You want the soup to pour easily off the spoon,” he said.

To close the evening out, copies of Terry’s cookbook were sold by members of the People Get Ready Bookstore. Terry personally signed them for audience members.

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Cross Cheer Team Ups Its Game

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven I ndependent

Despite injuries, nerves, and muscle soreness, the Wilbur Cross cheerleading team got back in the game this season.

The team worked overtime for weeks to prepare to compete in the New England Open Cheer & Dance Competition Saturday at East Haven High School.

Cross’s team hadn’t participated in competitions in four years. This season the coaches and team members decided to up their game and become more competitive in what some people don’t always recognize for being the sport that it is.

The long-awaited result: the team placed second place at Saturday’s competition, the second of the year.

Two days before the team members went to the competition they cheered on the basketball team at its winning SCC (Southern Connecticut Conference) quarterfinal game against Amity Regional. The girls warmed up in the cafeteria after getting suited up and got in a few practice runs of their sideline cheers.

Assistant Coach Ebony McClease gathered the team up from the cafeteria after warming up to welcome the basketball team and coaches with a “Push ‘Em” cheer. The 19 cheerleaders then rushed into the full gym with pom-poms in hand.

For many on the team, cheerleading is more than a hobby. Shalymar Rosa, 17, for instance, intends to join a cheer team in college and become a team captain.

As a senior Rosa decided to try out for the team to cheer for her first time. Rosa transferred to Cross last year after her previous school closed. Rosa said she had always been interested in cheerleading, but it wasn’t offered at her last school, so Rosa played volleyball and basketball to keep active.

Now Rosa has a dedicated passion for cheerleading and all the skill and work required in it. “We’re not accessories.

We’re athletes,” Rosa said.

The topic of Rosa’s ten-page senior paper is the sport of cheerleading. “I can give anyone a million reasons why it is a sport,” she said.

“A sport that uses no padding at that,” she added.

The sport requires both mental and physical skill, she noted. “Lifting a person in the air properly and catching them properly requires a lot of strength and precise skill.”

At the start, Rosa was hesitant of her abilities. She has improved significantly, and performed in the Saturday competition with the team. “I didn’t think I could be a base and put a whole person in the air,” she said. Now Rosa has the basket toss stunt nearly perfected as she interlocks her fingers with two other bases to toss a flyer into the air.

“I feel more comfortable with them than

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTO Cross cheer team performs a “basket toss” at time-out.

Cross’s revived cheer team.

anyone else,” Rosa said about her team.

The team functions much like a family, said McClease.

Freshman Ai Ling Chow-yen, 14. joined the team to meet new people and show off her school spirit.

“I thought it was going to be easier,” she said. Before joining the team Chow-yen didn’t consider how much upper body strength she would need and the skill it takes to remember dozens of cheers.

“We use just as much physical exertion as any other sport,” she said.

Iris Castillo is the team manager. She initially got the position by showing up to all practices and joking about being their manager. Her role requires her to work with the coaches on technical tasks like cheer choices and paperwork while also managing her teammates on a personal level. Castillo is interested in pursuing sports management after high school.

Lyric Miller, 16, now a junior, joined the team her freshman year. As a flyer, Miller sprained her ankle during a recent practice from landing the wrong way on it.

Next year Miller has a good chance at being a team captain, said Krystal Gentles, 17. To prepare Miller, the three current captains let her run a practice alone earlier this month.

The team practices three days a week with practice, from two to four hours a day, in either the gym or the atrium for higher ceilings.

This past week the team spent practice time sharpening up competition performances.

This year is McClease’s first as the assistant cheer coach. McClease, a special education teacher at Cross, is an alum.

As a student, McClease played basketball, so all year she has been learning something new about cheerleading from the team.

McClease said she has learned a new level of sportsmanship and a sports mentality from her team.

“I’ve really learned what it means to be a mentor,” McClease said.

Gentles is one of three team captains along with Destinee Marotta and Joi Howard.

Gentles joined the team her freshman year. Before joining, Gentles said, she was sure her previous dance experience would give her a leg up. She was surprised to learn that the two are quite different. Gentles went from learning dance jumps like a straddle leap and switch leap to cheerleading jumps like tucks and herkies.

“If I didn’t do cheer, I wouldn’t be who I am today,” she said.

Krystal Gentles, Destinee Marotta, and Joi Howard.

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High School Starts Too Early

efits to students with regard to physical and mental health, safety, and aca(Opinion) Every school day, thousands demic achievement.” A study of Seattle of New Haven high school students -– schools, which in 2016 pushed start myself included -– head off for school times back from 7:50 to 8:45, found in the dark. Classes at Wilbur Cross and that the change significantly increased Co-op begin at 7:30 a.m., and Hillhouse the amount of time students slept, in addition to improving test scores, grades, starts five minutes later.

In order to make it to school on time, and attendance. Research on the effects students wake up well before sunrise. of the Minneapolis School District’s deAmong New Haven policy makers, cision to have high school begin at 8:30 there does not seem to be any motiva- instead of 7:20 found that it resulted in “fewer disciplinary incidents in the tion to change this situation.

This is a mistake. Strong evidence halls and lunchroom… students reportexists that early school start times are ed less depression… over 92% of the detrimental to learning: if New Haven parents said their kids were “easier to wishes to improve the educational out- live with.” This last data point should be comes of its high school students, start- especially appealing to parents – when ing the school day later is an imperative. your teenager is well rested, it makes As a junior at Wilbur Cross, I have seen your life better too.

Other school districts are noticing the firsthand the harms early start times are mounting pile of evidence. In 2018, doing to me and my peers.

First, the evidence. According to a Guilford high schools decided to start 2014 study in the American Academy later. Starting in 2021, Norwalk public of Pediatrics, “a substantial body of high schools will begin at 8:30. In Caliresearch [demonstrates] that delay- fornia, state lawmakers recently prohibing school start times is an effective ited high schools from opening earlier countermeasure to chronic sleep loss than 8:30 a.m.

New Haven has declined to make any and has a wide range of potential benby SIMON BAZELON

New Haven I ndependent

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Juniors Riley Delucia and Elina Murarka in Environmental Science class.

changes, sticking to its early school openings. The Board of Alders appears to have little interest in the matter. Mayor Justin Elicker’s transition team’s report did not include any men-

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tion of changing school start times at all, and Elicker hasn’t made any public statements on the issue. According to Lihame Arouna, one of the student representatives on New Haven’s Board of Education, moving start times back has

not been an object of much discussion.

To a number of students I have spoken with, the lack of action from government officials is disappointing. ”It seems like they don’t really care about us, or about how much we sleep,” said Federico Lora, a junior at Wilbur Cross, adding that “this is an important issue to pretty much every teenager in New Haven: there should be some action.”

Other students emphasized how much they dislike current start times. “To make my bus, I have to wake up at 5:45,” Wilbur Cross senior Roger Baldwin said. “English is my first class, but like, how am I supposed to learn about literature at 7:30 a.m.? I’m not even really awake yet.”

A common sentiment was expressed

by Wilbur Cross freshman Tam Trinh: “I always feel more rested when I wake up later in the day, even if I sleep the same amount. Sleeping from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. is better than sleeping from 10 to 6.”

That belief squares with scientific research on adolescent sleeping patterns, Con’t on page 08

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New Haven’s Six Degrees of Separation through Music at New Haven Museum

On a Sunday afternoon in March 1998, 30 like-minded people squeezed into Jonathan Berryman’s living room to explore the idea of forming a black choir. They talked, they sang “And They Lynched Him on a Tree,” and the Heritage Chorale of New Haven (HCNH) was born. Berryman, founder and director of HCNH, will present “New Haven’s Six Degrees of Separation through Music” at the New Haven Museum on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, at 6 p.m.

His presentation will focus on HCNH and serve as the foundation for a conversation on how music in New Haven connects communities, town and gown and ideologies, and include HCNH music clips. Admission to the program is free.

Berryman notes that the members of HCNH, which still performs, are a living history of choral music in Black New Haven, and, in some ways, of Black America. Their experiences span from the 1930s to the present and connect to eras that preceded their own stories.

“What people love most about HCNH is that they come together and perform music that they otherwise might not get a chance to sing with like-minded people who they might not otherwise see on a regular basis.”

HCNH has performed in concert with Yale University musical groups, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven Chorale, and Coro Allegro in

“Community Conversation”

Set For Dixwell Plaza

A second community conversation is set for the future of Dixwell Plaza, the retail anchor of Dixwell’s main commercial artery.

The event is scheduled to take place at the Elks Lodge, 87 Webster St., on Tuesday, March 10, from 6 to 8 p.m.

ConnCORP, the organization that has been buying up the plaza with plans to rebuild it, is hosting the event (which was eventually scheduled for a different time and location).

ConnCORP unveiled its general approach for the plaza at a well-attended first forum on Jan. 29.

Boston. NCNH members have varied professional backgrounds and represent a variety of Christian denominations, others are non-denominational.

About Jonathan Berryman Jonathan Q. Berryman, founder and director of New Haven’s Heritage

Chorale, graduated with honors from Princeton University with a BA in music. He continued his education at Yale University where he earned a Master of Music degree in choral conducting and a certificate in sacred music studies from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. While

at Yale he served as assistant conductor of the Yale Camerata. In addition to directing The Heritage Chorale of New Haven, he teaches choral music at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School and is minister of music at Messiah Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the recipient of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven 2005 Award for Creative Collaboration, and the Phenomenal Man Award from the New Haven Alumni Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. About the New Haven Museum The New Haven Museum has been collecting, preserving and interpreting the history and heritage of Greater New Haven since its inception as the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 1862.

Located in downtown New Haven at 114 Whitney Avenue, the Museum brings more than 375 years of New Haven history to life through its collections, exhibitions, programs and outreach. As a designated Blue Star Museum, the New Haven Museum offers the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, free admission from Memorial Day through Labor Day. For more information visit www.newhavenmuseum. org or Facebook.com/NewHavenMuseum or call 203-562-4183.

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Schools Seek Help On Teacher Diversity teachers, while it lost 138 white teachers and 14 African-American teachers.

The staffing demographics do vary across the district. No school had an outright majority of teachers of color last year, though L.W. Beecher Interdistrict Magnet School, Columbus Family Academy, John C. Daniels Interdistrict Magnet School, King-Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School, Engineering & Science University Magnet School and James Hillhouse High School came close, according to state data.

New Haven has consistently received far more interest from teachers of color.

Non-white candidates represented at least 40.8 percent of those who sent in résumés last summer.

But in a repeat response from the last time school administrators appeared before the Education Committee, Lisa Mack, the district’s human resources director, said she didn’t know whether New Haven’s hires actually matched the applicant pool.

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK New Haven I ndependent

Thwarted by budget cuts, New Haven’s school leaders are looking for “partners” to help find more black and brown teachers.

Top school administrators told alders about the partnerships they’re pursuing at a Wednesday night Education Committee meeting in City Hall’s aldermanic chambers, in a follow-up to a 2018 hearing about what the district has been doing to recruit, train and retain more teachers of color.

As of last school year, 72.5 percent of New Haven’s teachers identify as white — way off from what classrooms look like, where only 12.9 percent of students identify as white.

Even though New Haven has one of the most diverse faculties in the state — pretty much tied with Hartford and Bridgeport — that “racial gap” between teachers and students consistently ranks among the largest, at least for the 14 districts that the Connecticut State Department of Education tracks.

Over the past five years (as the New Haven’s faculty has contracted by 94 teachers, once the federal Teacher Incentive Fund grant ran out), the demographics have become a closer match. Since 2014, the district has hired 23 more Hispanic

Why do the schools care about these statistics?

Research has consistently shown that students of color do better when they’re taught by a diverse faculty: not only scoring higher on short-term exams, but

also changing their long-term ambitions.

One study, for instance, found that black students growing up in poverty are 39 percent less likely to drop out if they have just one black teacher before they enter middle school.

Experts say that’s because, with what’s known as “race-match effects,” expectations for students are set higher, especially for Black boys, and students report feeling that they have someone who cares for them and with whom they can communicate.

But, like in New Haven, teachers of color are a rarity in public schools across the country.

There’s a number of different explanations, including racial disparities in who can get in to masters programs, pass certification exams and afford to live on a flat-lined teacher’s salary.

Even after the hiring process, research says that teachers of color are also slightly more likely to call it quits early, largely because of the difficult schools they’re often assigned to and the additional tasks of discipline or translation they’re often asked to take on without compensation.

To change that, administrators talked, last time around, about visiting historically black colleges in the South and school districts overseas in Spain and Puerto Rico. Two years later, they said

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they haven’t been able to afford to keep those trips going.

“We haven’t branched outside Connecticut this year,” Mack said Wednesday night. “Again, funding has been difficult. But we’re figuring out other ways, without exhausting funds. We’re trying to innovate.”

Instead, they’ve been pursuing partnerships with foundations, universities and even public-housing agencies to see if they can find new ways of diversifying who’s on staff.

“To be very candid, over the years, we’ve noticed our students are not inCon’t from page 17

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Amid Carnage, Speed & Cell Use Targeted

by EMILY HAYS

New Haven I ndependent

A week after seeing a fellow parent lying injured in the crosswalk near his child’s daycare, State Rep. Roland Lemar returned to Hartford determined to make New Haven’s streets safer.

On Monday, Lemar, co-chair of the state legislature’s Transportation Committee, oversaw a hearing on a bill he has proposed to tackle the root, as he sees it, of these kinds of crashes: speeding cars and distracted drivers.

The proposal, House Bill 5324, is the latest in a series of measures he has advanced in recent years, including two versions of a “vulnerable users” law that is enabling cops to add financial penalties for reckless drivers who seriously injure pedestrians, cyclists, and disabled people.

“I’ve been working on street safety for over a decade now. We focused on ‘Complete Streets’ policy and street design,” he said. “I think a lot of those have made the streets safer, but our drivers have gotten less safe.”

Drivers have struck and killed four pedestrians in New Haven already this year and injured others. If that rate continues, it would continue a trend of increasing numbers of walkers killed by drivers in Connecticut and nationwide. New Haveners are worried about these numbers. They sent in dozens of comments to a Tuesday afternoon public hearing on Lemar’s bill. All nine members of the public who waited in the Hartford Legislative Office Building to speak supported the bill, and four were from New Haven.

HB5324 largely increases fines and rules for drivers, like raising to $625 the penalty for repeatedly driving while using a cell phone. It also allows local governments to decrease speed limits below 35 miles per hour.

This last measure was a favorite addition among commenters. Many pointed to studies that showed that a pedestrian hit by a car driving 40 MPH has a 15 percent chance of survival, compared to a 95 percent chance if hit by a car driving 20 MPH. Physician Rahul Shah waited through hours of related and unrelated speeches in Hartford to share his support. He works in the emergency room at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford and tends to kids hit by cars.

“Whenever there’s something preventable like this, it is difficult. It takes a toll. You feel like there is more we could all be doing,” Shah said.

Shah explained to the state transporta-

tion committee that this lack of safety has far-reaching health consequences.

He recalled talking with a child dealing with obesity during his residency at the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.

He said he asked hopefully whether the kid might be able to start walking and biking around his block. His mother was bewildered and said that her street was far too unsafe for such a thing.

State senators and representatives came and left the six-hour transportation hearing on Tuesday afternoon. No one expressed opposition to Lemar’s bill.

The only debate took place during the testimony of the Quinnipiac University men’s cross country coach, Joshua

Glaab Glaab described his fears as a runner and a daily cyclist. He lauded the message of stricter enforcement that HB5324 was sending.

“I feel that Connecticut as a state has encouraged both aggressive driving and an entitlement issue when it comes to being in our cars,” he said.

“This morning, I had a 15 minute bike ride to meet with someone at park services in New Haven. Three times, I had cars cut me off.”

State Sen. Henri Martin, a Republican who represents the area around Bristol, asked Glaab whether he thinks it would help to spend more time in driver’s ed classes on these topics.

Glaab agreed that it would.

“Some people will become more

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conscious with these laws. How can we make sure that lasts?” Martin said.

Democratic Sen. Catherine Osten of Sprague asked Glaab whether he thinks some of the education efforts should extend to pedestrians. She said that many roads in her district have no traffic lights. When pedestrians wear dark clothes, they can be very difficult to see.

Glaab offered that there are more natural deterrents to this kind of behavior for pedestrians and cyclists than for motorists.

“If I’m in a bike and I hit your car because I’m doing something unsafe, you get a dent. If you hit me with your car, I’m lucky if I get a short hospital stay. I’m very likely to be in a casket instead,” he said.

Not everything commenters want is in Lemar’s bill. In particular, Lemar did not try to introduce cameras in the bill to ticket people who run red lights.

Lemar said this omission was the result of a “spectacular failure” he experienced in his first term. When he tried to advocate for stoplight cameras then, he received 14,000 negative emails by his count.

“I tell you my email inbox in 2011…

I’m still recovering,” he said.

Lemar is far more confident about HB5324. He has until March 20 to get it out of committee, he said, and he thinks he has the votes to do it. Then he will have to rustle up votes among the full General Assembly, but he is taking one step at a time.

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which suggest that the onset of puberty results in a shift of natural sleep cycles.

Whereas younger kids naturally wake up early, teens are hardwired to stay up late at night, and wake up late in the morning.

A common argument against delaying school start times is its effect on after school sports. But for many teams, sports practice begins at 3 p.m. anyway, well after the school day has ended at around 2 p.m. For sports like basketball, volleyball, and swimming, having lights indoors means a lack of sun isn’t a problem at all. New Haven ought to prioritize the health and wellbeing of our thousands of high school students over the ability of a few sports programs to practice for an additional few minutes every day.

A second common argument in favor of keeping things the way they are is cost.

Opponents of later high school start times argue that any changes will result in increased transportation costs. Given New Haven’s fiscal straits, increased costs are certainly a concern. But a simple change could likely avoid large cost increases. Most New Haven elementary schools begin after 8:30: if the bus times for elementary and high schools are switched, a dramatic increase in bus costs seems avoidable.

Such a switch would also benefit working parents, who often struggle balancing leaving their young children home alone in the mornings with getting to work on time.

An analysis by The Hamilton Project, a D.C. based think tank, finds that later start times help cities in the long run fiscally. By raising attendance and performance, they lead to an increase in lifetime earnings for affected students, and a corresponding increase in future tax revenue.

Justin Elicker ran for mayor on a message of change, not continuity, and has made educational outcomes in our city one of his priorities. Addressing the problem of chronic sleep deprivation among New Haven high school students is a particularly promising way to improve our city’s school system, a goal local officials have struggled to achieve for decades. The mayor, along with the Board of Alders and the Board of Education, should immediately begin assessing the best way to make New Haven high schools start at a reasonable hour. The scientific evidence is strong, and is backed up by the experience of just about every high school student.

Our city should join the ranks of the dozens of school districts across America that have changed when classes begin: high school needs to start later.

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formerly New Haven Family Alliance(NHFA)/ Veterans Empowering Teens Through Support (VETTS) Francette Carson, ICN Correspondent

New Haven Family Alliance (NHFA) and Veterans Empowering Teens Through Support (VETTS Inc.) merged and has rebranded with a new color, logo, name, and mission statement. “You make our work possible. “The new footprint will be the motivation to make a difference through the work. The reveal was held at 4 Science Park, and the venue was filled with community providers and leaders in support of the new innovative non-profit agency: Urban Community Alliance.

The new mission is about being an integral part of the urban renewal of the city, including the implementation of innovative programming to better serve the community. NHFA core programs include; Juvenile Review Board, Male Involvement Network(MIN), and Intensive Family Preservation (IFP). The VETTS program is a youth development program committed to providing services to fight community deterioration and juvenile delinquency. The collaboration will advance the mission of empowering families, integrating natural supports, encouraging strong healthy families, and vibrant self-sustaining communities.

The driving force behind this collaboration is three phenomenal women.

Barbara Tinney, Dr. Maysa Akbar, and Shirley Ellis-West make the dream work through their commitment, drive, and passion pouring themselves into a common goal. The strategic partnership between the two non- profit organizations has been in the planning process for the past fifteen months. The method of coalition building and systems change is part of the agency’s core mission. New Haven Family Alliance had concerns about financial sustainability; however, it has implemented a plan with Integrated wellness to ensure financial soundness and infrastructure.

Barbara Tinney has been an advocate for children and families, leading the NHFA for well over 25 years. Tinney retired in 2018; however, she continued to bless the agency with her wealth of knowledge, passion, and enthusiasm to continue to serve at-risk children and families in the city of New Haven. Tinney has served as a mentor to many throughout the years. During this process of revitalization of NHFA, she has played an integral role in the collaboration of these two agencies.

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VETTS, a psychologist, author, and healer. Dr. Akbar’s is committed to focusing on the issues of urban trauma.

Tinney described Dr. Akbar as a powerhouse with a genuine commitment to the community through sacrifice, dedication, and hard work. She further indicated that Dr. Akbar is a “visionary innovator and committed stakeholder of urban children and families.” Dr. Akbar stated, “I’m up for the challenge but need the community support from other professionals and organizations working together to make a difference.”

Shirley Ellis-West, Executive Director, received 25 years of mentorship working under Barbara Tinney. The leadership development formed in collaboration with Dr. Akbar and Tinney has evolved, and Ellis-West states she feels awesomely blessed to be in this leadership position. Ellis-West is referring to herself as Shirley 2.0 and reigning to her theme song, “I’m coming out” by Diana Ross.

Shirley 2.0 stated, “I got this, and we got you!” Shirley 2.0 is a dynamic gamechanger that is committed to leading the Urban Community Alliance through this transformation and into the next phase of its legacy.

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10 Breakthrough Women Artists As Polled By Black-Owned Art Galleries

By Shantay Robinson, BlackArtInAmerica.com

Black women artists, in recent years, have been receiving more acclaim than they have in the past. But they are still largely unrecognized for their contributions to visual art that spur conversations on justice and equity. This year Black Art in America polled black-owned art galleries to find out who the 10 Breakthrough Black Women artists are. We spoke to Stella Jones Gallery, N’Namdi Contemporary, Walton Gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, E&S Gallery, 10th Street Gallery, Richard Beavers, Zucot Gallery and Black Art in America. This list, of course, doesn’t represent all the talented black women artists doing great things, but what this list does is highlight the artists who have proven to be trailblazing in the collections they have been acquired into, the exhibitions where they have shown, and the ingenuity of their art.

Bisa Butler Art quilter extraordinaire, Bisa Butler, doesn’t apply paint to her canvases but the highly contrasted images she creates begs for closer inspection. Butler modernizes historical figures in an effort to bring them back to life. Figures like Josephine Baker, Frederick Douglas and Jackie Robinson have held their space on her canvases imploring the viewer to see them anew. The colors she sews together in order to create subjects of colorful hue are derived from black and white photographs she stylizes. The subjects’ placement on muted or vibrant backdrops help illuminate her subjects’ liveliness while at the same time illustrating their significance. With no paint applied to the canvases Butler creates, she painstakingly makes shadows and light with fabric that give dimension to her subjects. The beauty of her quilts is not solely in the importance of the subject matter in modern times, but the innovation and sense of bravado Butler employs to paint with fabric that has been relegated as woman’s work.

Delita Martin Beneath the paint, textiles, and collaging, Delita Martin features real black women in artworks that celebrate their beauty, strength, pain, and resilience.

Inspired by vintage and family photographs, Martin uses visual language to tell oral stories. The narratives told in her paintings render sincere, intimate, and honest stories of women who may not be mentioned in contemporary news or history books, but whom we all are familiar. They are mothers, sisters, aunts, and cousins who work tirelessly to maintain family life and order but who many not receive apt credit for their work. Using traditional African textiles to overlay her images, Martin calls back to the moth-

space on the paper. Fragmentary, they float in malleable white space waiting to be discerned by the viewer. On close inspection, the details and texture may be evidence of the complexity of life, perhaps the complexity of black female existence. The figures she evokes in sometimes intimate embraces render the sensuality of life experiences but invoke a disconnect on another level. One the one hand the artworks attempt to take up space and at the same time lack the capacity to do so. The disjointed figures abstractly placed in the parameters of the canvas beg for some harmony.

But maybe that should not be expected.

Higher concerns of safety and comfort are revealed in the work, begging for conjecture and solace in always aggressive times.

erland connecting the tradition of black women as the backbone of the community in Africa as well as throughout the Diaspora. While the women depicted in Martin’s artworks may not be overtly celebrated for their contributions to the world, by immortalizing them on canvas, she offers them acclaim.

Lavette Ballard Fences have been used to keep people in or out, but Lavette Ballard uses fences to insert the narratives of historical images of black people but especially black women into the art historical canon.

Taking historical black and white photographs, she applies them onto large and small reclaimed aged wooden fences to create artworks that rebirths these subjects into contemporary times. Working with reclaimed wood, Ballard aesthetically gives a depth to her collages that would not accentuate the combination of black and white photographs and color paint the same way on traditional canvas.

Color is overlaid on the black and white photographs, inside her subjects’ forms, and throughout her wooden canvases to give her subjects a second life. These figures might not have been given entrée to the artworld in their time, but Ballard affords them entrance into the lives and the environs of the modern-day.

Monica J. Beasley Unbeknownst to her viewers, Monica J. Beasley’s artwork is not solely about pretty colors and delicate textures. The femininity inherent in the pastels she uses is supposed to evoke the feelings of femininity and daintiness, but there’s a story behind the obvious that women are supposed to be dainty and delicate. Generally speaking, when have black women had that luxury? American history hasn’t allowed black women luxury to attend to her whims in the lace and satins that are

afforded others of her gender. The floral collages Beasley creates might be a reminder to the rest of society that black women are not merely the mules of this world. Like women of any other creed, they deserve to be treated as ladies. It was never her choice whether or not to find employment like her white counterparts, the majority of black women in the United States have always worked.

Sometimes she deserves beautiful and delicate reminders of her womanhood.

And Beasley offers, if only aesthetically, that reminder.

Genesis Tramaine Genesis Tramaine manipulates the black face to evoke the emotions and encounters of black people. The Urban Expressionist painter uses crude brush strokes to illustrate the psyche in order to understand the inner workings of her black subjects. Inspired by 1980s graffiti and gospel hymns, the narratives she induces in her imagined portraits of black inner life speak to the complexity of black existence. Obviously encouraged by Jean Michel Basquiat, Tramaine takes the manic markings evidenced in the orifices of the face and inserts stories that one may never have the courage to speak. The on goings of the subconscious are evident in the portraits that she paints confessing the intricacy and strife of black animation. The stories she conveys may not be coherent to all, but those living the life understand the difficulty in articulating not only the double consciousness but the triple jeopardy that is the black women’s plight.

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze The works on paper by Ruby Onyienyechi Amanze leave space for the imagination to explore infinitely. The figures that Amanze creates seem fractured and inherently do not actually take up much

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Ann “Sole Sister” Johnson Inspired by her dreams, Ann Johnson depicts the grief of black people who are not recognized by popular culture for their suffering. Like Sandra Bland, many black women are victimized but are not recognized as victims by long held beliefs that they inherently can endure more pain than their counterparts.

Johnson explores these issues within the black community through experimental printmaking. Using mixed media, she brings attention to the traumas of black women while exploring narratives of this black underclass. Making unexpected media like cotton, feathers, or vegetables her canvases, Johnson uses printmaking to apply images to them suggesting the fragility of the subjects she portrays. The tenuousness of the canvases she works with speak to the endurance of a people, tolerable enough to be taken to the brink of self-destruction but unable to withstand constant oppression. The fragility of her canvases is evidence of the foundation that her subjects stand upon.

Tracy Murrell Celebrating beauty and grace, Tracy Murrell takes silhouettes of women and applies them to patterned paper in order to create harmony essential to exist in this world as a woman of color.

Inspired by the poise and elegance of women, Murrell repeats poses to familiarize the viewer with her subjects and then surprises them with the patterns she combines to create coherence. The lack of features on her subjects allow the silhouettes to be available to any woman, lending themselves to a multitude. In response, these silhouettes inspire meditation, permitting the viewer reflection.

Modest in posture, the artworks offer an alternative to the stereotypical views of women of color as loud and hypersexual.

The silhouettes atop the decorative backdrops disrupt the contemplative stances of her subjects but renders them harmonious with the busyness. Murrell offers an alternative to typical interpretations

that depict women of color as anything other than contemplative, secure, and beautiful.

Uruba F. Slaughter When figures aren’t enough and there are no words to heal the suffering, abstraction is used in its place. Uruba Slaughter surpassed an aneurysm through abstract painting. Her custom textures depict the suffering of one in pain but who is willing to overcome humanity’s suffering in order to see beauty.

The colorful and contrasted canvases she creates depict the darkness to light the artist has endured. And the texture tells of the struggle it took to get there. Her canvases scream for relief from the pains of ordinary life as well of those of extreme circumstances. The simplicity and complexity on the canvases she creates speak to life as well as death. The morbid and the light. The pain and beauty.

When figures aren’t enough to depict the circumstances of life, colors placed with texture on a canvas might be the only thing left to tell of the fortitude it takes to overcome. Slaughter’s canvases convince of the painstaking care the artist can take to deliver that message.

Sherry Shine A quilt artist, Sherry Shine invokes the traditions of African textile creations to speak to particular African American women’s experiences. The bright colors she uses to convey the narratives of black women tell of the intimate relationships black women create in an oppressive system of domination. Her subjects may be imagined, but the stories of sisterhood and love depicted in her quilts bear the real lives of women who aside from enduring strife take moments to live. Shine constructs images who bond platonically and in romantic love. Even when black women aren’t present in her work, their traces are left in the garments of a clothesline or the rhythmic color palettes they inspire. Without using paint to depict the colorful interiors of black women, Shine utilizes the quilting tradition to portray the humanity of black life and love. Shine’s quilts are testament to the beauty and power of the black feminine mystique. *Shantay Robinson, BAIA resident scholar has participated in Burnaway’s Art Writers Mentorship Program, Duke University’s The New New South Editorial Fellowship, and CUE Art Foundation’s Art Critic Mentoring Program. She has written for Burnaway, ArtsATL, ARTS.BLACK, AFROPUNK, Number, Inc. and Washington City Paper. While receiving an MFA in Writing from Savannah College of Art and Design, she served as a docent at the High Museum of Art. She is currently working on a PhD in Writing and Rhetoric at George Mason University.

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Sisters’ Journey March Survivor of the month – Marie Mason

My name is Marie Mason. I was 61 when I found out that I had breast cancer. In June 2011, I went for my annual mammogram. The doctor stated that everything was normal and no cancer was detected. One weekend in September 2011, while doing a breast exam in the shower, I felt a huge squishy lump under my left arm. I also felt a small lump in my left breast. I realized that the lump under my arm was a lymph node.

My immediate thought was that I had an infection and needed to go get some medication to clear it up. Regarding the lump, I wasn’t worried because my two sisters have lumpy breasts so I just figured that I was going to be like them.

I never thought for a minute that I had breast cancer because I just had the mammogram in June. That Monday, I contacted my OB/GYN. She didn’t have any appointments available for a few weeks but the midwife had one that afternoon, so I agreed to see the midwife.

We met that afternoon and he told me that the lump under my arm and in my breast were concerning and that I needed to see a surgeon immediately. He told me not to let anyone tell me that the lumps were nothing because they were.

He scheduled an appointment for me

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to have a diagnostic mammogram, and within five days I went to have it done.

They continued to take image after image after image. The radiologist took forever to come and talk to me. When he finally came into the room he told me that I needed to see a surgeon as soon as possible. I asked what was wrong, but he wouldn’t answer. He just said that he was sending my report to my OB/GYN. My OB/GYN was in the same building so I went upstairs to get the report. Before I left the radiologist’s office, I asked one of the technicians what was wrong with me. She was very honest and told me that I had breast cancer. I appreciated her for being honest with me but went into shock/denial. I didn’t want to believe it nor did I want to deal with that reality, but I knew that I better get a surgeon immediately. I went home and told my three children that I had breast cancer. They had many questions for which I had no answers. I researched good breast surgeons. I chose Dr. Kaye Zuckerman. My two daughters and my sister went with me about a week later to meet with Dr. Zuckerman. She sent me to have a biopsy and answered all of the questions that my children and I had.

I came to terms with the fact that I had

manded them. Of course, restrooms are just a minor manifestation of the hegemonic patriarchy that rules our nation.

A great picture of our nation’s racist patriarchy was the visual of doughy and dissipated white men interrogating the amazingly composed Anita Hill as she reviewed her experiences with now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Though Hill was persuasive, she was attacked in the vilest of terms, accused of nonsense like “erotomania,” and even recently harassed by Thomas’ unhinged spouse who was still seeking apology after two decades. Note to Thomas, take the phone from your wife when her meds are not working. In any case, Thomas is on the Supreme Court because white men chose to disregard the word of a Black woman, a decision that thenSenator Joe Biden says he now regrets. Thomas was confirmed by the narrowest margin in history 52-48.

Here we go again. By the time this is published the matter of 45’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is resolved, but the issue of pernicious patriarchy will not be. Regarding Kavanaugh, he has been accused by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford of sexual as-

breast cancer and decided that I Wanted to have surgery immediately.

Dr. Zuckerman called after she received the results of the biopsy. She told me that I could not have surgery yet because the type of breast cancer I had was so aggressive. I had to have chemotherapy first to shrink the tumor. I chose Dr. Jeremy Kortmansky as my oncologist. After meeting with him, he advised

me that I had to have chemotherapy every other week for three months. He stated that if everything went well after the chemo, I’d have to wait six weeks for it to leave my system before I’d be able to have surgery.

After discussing the ways that he could administer the chemotherapy, I decided to have a port surgically placed into my chest to access the chemo rather than have them attempt to find a vein every other week, which could be problematic.

I decided to have a double mastectomy with reconstruction because I did not want cancer to come back in my other breast. I was a school social worker at the time. While having my first chemotherapy session, I sat next to our secretary. She had breast cancer 10 years earlier. Here she sat having chemo again because the cancer came back in her other breast. At that point I realized I was making the correct decision about having a double mastectomy. My reconstruction surgeon was Dr. Stefano Fusi.

I had chemo from November 2011-January 2012. I was lucky that my blood work was good each time I went for treatment. Dr. Kortmansky advised me that if my blood work wasn’t good, they

couldn’t administer the chemo and that I’d have to wait until they built up my blood cells. Of course this would have prolonged having the surgery. Every time that I had chemo, one of my children, my sister or one of my friends sat with me while the chemo was being administered. I had a wonderful support system from the day that I found out that I had cancer until this present day.

My surgery was March 28, 2012. I began radiation two weeks later. My radiology oncologist was Dr. Christin Knowlton. I had radiation from April 2012-July 2012. I have been cancer free now for seven years. However, I continue to suffer with lymphedema in my left arm. It spreads to my chest and upper back so I have to wear compression garments. I also have to see a lymphedema specialist.

I have been cancer free now for seven years. However, I continue to suffer with lymphedema in my left arm. It spreads to my chest and upper back so I have to wear compression garments. I also have to see a lymphedema specialist.

At this stage of my life, I see my oncologist once and my radiology oncologist twice a year.

sault more than 35 years ago, when both were teens. She disclosed her accusations in a letter that California Senator Dianne Feinstein received in July, but did not share with the FBI until later, mainly because Ford asked for confidentiality. Ford has requested that the FBI investigate her assertions, and the Senate judiciary committee is still fast-tracking the Kavanaugh vote. The outcome, while necessary, is not the bottom line. The issue is the way that racist patriarchy makes some offensive and illegal behavior acceptable.

Privileged white male culture allows and encourages excessive drinking and obnoxious behavior toward women. It is excused because “boys will be boys.” But what boys? Black boys, even accused of “reckless eyeballing,” are fair game for lynching! White boys on rampages are excused for assault, rape, and attempted rape. Can I call the name of Recy Taylor, the young Black woman who was walking home from church and raped by a gaggle of white men who thought her body their right? Can I remind us of the Texas gubernatorial candidate, Clayton Williams, who said that if rape was inevitable, a woman should “lay back and enjoy it”? Ann Richards beat him, but

that wasn’t quite the point. The point was that some man thought that rape was inevitable enough to “enjoy.”

Privileged white male culture allows a man who should not have been elected President to denigrate women regularly. We are “fat,” “dogs” and “liars.”

He bragged about grabbing women’s genitals, and our society is so poached in pernicious patriarchy that 52 percent of all women still voted for him.

They thought he was joking because, for too many women, patriarchy has so seeped into our consciousness that the abuse of women is a joke.

If we women were honest, we would say that we have all cosigned patriarchy in the interest of keeping it moving. We have deflected the sexist comments that come our way, even as we cringe from them. We smile at men that we abhor because they may have decision making power in their hands.

We dress up or dress down depending on the occasion and the way we have to play the game. We know the system is slanted against us, we know we still have to play, and we decide when we choose to blow the whistle, a whistle we could blow every single day. #MeToo is the tip of the iceberg because it fails to deal with race sys-

tematically, but also because it manages the evident and personal, not the institutional.

In addition to being #MeToo women, we are mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives (hello Julie Chen Moonves), so some of us want to justify patriarchy for “our” men. Our son, husband, cousin, brother “didn’t mean it” and could not be that bad. Wake-up call — if they violated a woman, they were that bad. If they raped a Black woman and you turned away from the accusation, you are wrong, you are horribly and complicity wrong.

Tearing down the walls of pernicious patriarchy means attacking the very foundation of our nation. When we attack patriarchy, we also attack the racism that is also part of our foundation.

Many have lined up to support Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. How many are equally willing to attack the pernicious racist patriarchal roots of our nation?

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, media contributor and educator. Her latest project MALVEAUX! On UDCTV is available on youtube.com. For booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com

The Pernicious Power of Patriarchy

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor Our nation, these United States, is founded on the principles of racism and patriarchy. They are reflected in our very constitution, where enslaved persons were counted as a fraction of a person, and only men of property were allowed the right to vote. The filthy inequality at the foundation of this nation has now bubbled up and boiled over, now polluting every aspect of our lives.

Patriarchy places men at the center of life, and women at the periphery. It suggests that women do not matter. It allows for the subjugation of women when they attempt to enter public spaces that have previously been earmarked as “male” spaces. Thus, there were no restrooms for women legislators in the US House or Senate, even as women entered those spaces. They were only created when women de-

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OP-ED: Why “green buildings” are a civil rights issue

By Jacqui Patterson and Mandy Lee, NAACP

Voting rights. Segregation. Criminal justice reform. For more than a century, the civil rights movement has taken on the inequities that divide and disfigure American society. Now the green building sector has joined the fronts of struggle for access and equity.

Why? The green building sector is transforming the places in which we live, work, and gather. Sustainable buildings, defined by certification programs like LEED, promote the health and wellbeing of building occupants while minimizing climate change and pollution. For some people.

This wave of better building practices has yet to fully reach the people suffering the most from buildings that are unsafe, unhealthy, unaffordable, and unsustainable. African Americans and other people of color disproportionately feel the burden of unsustainable buildings: energy insecurity in their homes, health problems like asthma from poor indoor air quality, and damage from worsening disasters fueled by climate change. These are enduring legacies of discriminatory practices, disinvestment, and barriers to building wealth over the generations.

What’s worse, the sustainable building sector is an insider’s club with a serious diversity problem. Whether

it’s as policy makers, advocates, architects, contractors, or even in the construction workforce, the most impacted communities are underrepresented in the design and construction of sustainable buildings. For example, according to the National Organization of Minority Architects, less than two percent of registered architects are

African Americans, and less than 0.4% are African American women. Green building is a huge growth industry, but communities of color are not yet positioned to fully benefit from it.

When we decided to establish our new headquarters as a living building and began to explore what it takes to do so, we saw the problem firsthand

at meetings of green building organizations. We were struck by just how homogenous some of those spaces were in terms of race, with a significant dearth of people of color engaged in these discussions. We juxtaposed this against what we knew to be true: Communities of color and low-income communities are more likely to be in

sick buildings, whether it’s mold, lead, asbestos, or radon. We are more likely to be in the least energy-efficient buildings, and that is reflected in the fact that we pay the highest proportion of our income for electricity. And we are more likely to be in the least disaster-resilient buildings, with homes in floodplains or without reinforcement.

That’s why the NAACP recently launched the Centering Equity in the Sustainable Building Sector (CESBS) Initiative, pushing forward civil rights in this critical (if unexpected) new sphere. The NAACP will define and articulate an agenda for an equitable green building sector, using its Baltimore headquarters as a living laboratory for this concept. Through this effort, the NAACP will develop a replicable model for centering equity in all aspects of sustainable, healthy, safe, and regenerative buildings.

So, what would an equitable green building sector look like? It would advance community-wide transition, not just a few green buildings in isolation. Sustainability would be seen as a basic necessity – not a luxury item — in any building project. Low-income communities, communities of color, and women would be at the heart of a better building industry, supported by more inclusive education and professional development pathways. Sustainability investments would prioritize the most impacted communities.

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Are Black People Immune to the Coronavirus?

by Derrick Lane

There’s a rumor going around that black people can’t get the coronavirus. After all, we haven’t heard or seen of too many cases of any African Americans who have contracted the virus.

So we did a little research to 1) see where this rumor came from, and 2) to see if it was true.

It seems as though social media help spread a story about “report” that said a man who had the Coronovirus stayed alive because of his African American skin.

Here’s the direct quote: “Doctors said he remained alive because he has black skin, the antibodies of a black are 3 times stronger, powerful and resistant compared to that of white.”

To be honest, scientists are saying

there’s no evidence that statement is true and have denied where it came from. As a matter of fact, none of the articles ever mentioned that black or darker skin, or even African American lineage made people immune to the disease.

And recently, a case of the Coronavirus has shown up in the continent of Africa, in the country of Egypt. We are unaware if the person who contracted the virus is of darker skin or not.

Egypt has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus – heralding its entry into Africa, a continent with increasingly close ties to China where the virus originated.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has already declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency – largely because of fears that… … poorer countries may not be able to cope with an outbreak.

“The main reason for this declaration is

not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries. Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is from Ethiopia.

The health systems in many African countries are already struggling with the existing workload, so can they deal with another outbreak of a highly infectious disease?

Michael Yao, WHO’s head of emergency operations in Africa, notes that some countries on the continent “have the minimum to start with – they’re not starting from scratch”.

“We know how fragile the health system is on the African continent and these systems are already overwhelmed by many ongoing disease outbreaks, so for us it is critical to detect earlier so that we can prevent the spread.”

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Schools Seek Help

terested in education. Financially or otherwise, teaching is not the easiest thing these days,” Iline Tracey, the district’s interim superintendent said. “We’re trying to make sure we’re working with different organizations, with [New Haven Promise scholarship recipients], to make it more attractive, to become part of the teaching force in New Haven.”

Mack said that they’re looking to the Connecticut State Department of Education to recruit certified staff from Puerto Rico, and Southern Connecticut State University to take high-schoolers who express an interest in becoming an educator.

Keisha Redd-Hannans, an assistant superintendent, said the district is also looking to reopen a teaching academy in the city’s high schools, as it used to have at Hillhouse.

An additional $100,000 grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund might also allow Elm City Communities, the city’s public-housing agency, to put up the security deposit and first month’s rent for teachers moving in from out-of-state this fall, said Kanicka Ingram-Mann, the district’s new senior talent recruiter.

The district is also subsidizing what it calls “alternative routes to certification,” Mack said.

That includes 18 teachers who are earning cross-endorsements to teach English learners with ACES, the state-funded regional education services center; about 18 slots for new teachers recruited by Teach for America, the national nonprofit that recruits recent college grads to teach for at least two years; and 6 teachers-in-residence who are working toward their certification through Relay Graduate School’s yearlong program.

Those programs can still be tough to pay for, between the $5,000 tuition and $240 tests, according to two Relay participants, Yajaira Alamo and Lygia Davenport, who spoke at the hearing.

“I’ve seen my classmates drop out because they don’t have the funds,” said Alamo. “I went to New Haven Public Schools. I want to stay here and teach, but there are no open positions in the school that I’m currently working at.

What can be done? We are in this program because we want to work for New Haven.”

Near the end of the meeting, Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr., a former social-studies teacher at LincolnBassett School, told the rest of the Education Committee that they could become one of those partners.

He said that the Board of Alders usually doesn’t have much control over school district spending, but he hinted that it could allocate a special line-item to cover tuition and testing costs for New Haven teachers in alternative-certification programs, like Relay.

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Walmart is Entering the Healthcare Business: No Appointments or Insurance Needed Derrick Lane, BlackDoctor.org

Healthcare has been changing over the years. With the influx of boutique hospitals, urgent care facilities and clinics, healthcare has changed a lot in just the last 10 years.

But it’s about to change again, thanks to Walmart (that’s right, Walmart).

The retail giant remodeled a store in Georgia earlier this year and added a new healthcare facility to it. Walmart customers at the location can now talk to a counselor, get their teeth cleaned, or get a regular medical checkup.

But get this: you don’t need an appointment.

Appointments aren’t necessary and insurance isn’t required either. It’s also flexible with services even available on Sundays. It’s unclear how big of a rollout this may turn out to be as the company’s president of U.S. health and wellness, Sean Slovenski, said, “It has to be a profitable business on its own.” He wouldn’t say how many patients were coming in to use the services but did say that it was much more than what the company was expecting.

So, your shopping experience will change at Walmart and could be something like this: Walmart “care hosts” take you, the customer, from the waiting area to one of 12 care rooms in the 6,500-square-foot facility. Afterward, you would be steered to the in-store pharmacy. While you wait for your prescriptions, you’d of course,

be able to visit the produce section and grab some veggies recommended by the doctor. Later, there’s even a free Zumba class in the community room.

In addition to medical, dental, and eye care, the centers also provide X-rays, hearing checks, and diagnostic lab tests for things like blood glucose and lipids — and you would get all of this under

one roof.

Walmart opened its first pharmacy in 1978, but founder Sam Walton’s desire to adapt his low-price retail philosophy to the world of… …health care kept coming in second to other growth initiatives. In the 1990s, Walmart focused on building massive Supercenters to break into the grocery sector, which accounted for 56% of its $332 billion in U.S. sales in 2018, the most recent data available.

Rather than tucked in a corner like many CVS or other convenient stores, Walmart care centers have separate entrances visible from the parking lot. They’re run by doctors, not nurse practitioners with plenty of exam rooms to support a steady stream of patients. Paperwork is almost nonexistent because many appointments don’t involve insurance, and administrative functions such as scheduling and billing have been outsourced to a backoffice specialist called Zotec. (Walmart does accepts insurance, but patients might be better off paying the nominal flat fee) This newest store is the company’s second store to feature a healthcare facility. The first was in September when Walmart began offering services in Dallas, Ga.

Howard University Receives Record Donation for STEM Scholarships

New Haven Family Alliance (NHFA) and Veterans Empowering Teens Through Support (VETTS Inc.) merged and has rebranded with a new color, logo, name, and mission statement. “You make our work possible. “The new footprint will be the motivation to make a difference through the work. The reveal was held at 4 Science Park, and the venue was filled with community providers and leaders in support of the new innovative non-profit agency: Urban Community Alliance.

The new mission is about being an integral part of the urban renewal of the city, including the implementation of innovative programming to better serve the community. NHFA core programs include; Juvenile Review Board, Male Involvement Network(MIN), and Intensive Family Preservation (IFP). The VETTS program is a youth development program committed to providing services to fight community deterioration and juvenile delinquency.

The collaboration will advance the mission of empowering families, integrating natural supports, encouraging strong healthy families, and vibrant self-sustaining communities.

The driving force behind this collaboration is three phenomenal women. Barbara Tinney, Dr. Maysa Akbar, and Shirley Ellis-West make the dream work through their commitment, drive, and passion pouring themselves into a common goal.

The strategic partnership between the two non- profit organizations has been in the planning process for the past fifteen months. The method of coalition building

Photo Credits: Pictureready Photography/Troy Marshall and systems change is part of the agency’s core mission. New Haven Family Alliance had concerns about financial sustainability; however, it has implemented a plan with Integrated wellness to ensure financial soundness and infrastructure.

Barbara Tinney has been an advocate for children and families, leading the NHFA for well over 25 years. Tinney retired in 2018; however, she continued to bless the agency with her wealth of knowledge, passion, and enthusiasm to continue to serve at-risk children and families in the city of New Haven. Tinney has served as a mentor to many throughout the years. During this process of revitalization of NHFA, she has

played an integral role in the collaboration of these two agencies.

Dr. Maysa Akbar is the Founder of VETTS, a psychologist, author, and healer.

Dr. Akbar’s is committed to focusing on the issues of urban trauma. Tinney described Dr. Akbar as a powerhouse with a genuine commitment to the community through sacrifice, dedication, and hard work. She further indicated that Dr. Akbar is a “visionary innovator and committed stakeholder of urban children and families.” Dr. Akbar stated, “I’m up for the challenge but need the community support from other professionals and organizations working together to make a difference.”

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Shirley Ellis-West, Executive Director, received 25 years of mentorship working under Barbara Tinney. The leadership development formed in collaboration with Dr. Akbar and Tinney has evolved, and EllisWest states she feels awesomely blessed to be in this leadership position. Ellis-West is referring to herself as Shirley 2.0 and reigning to her theme song, “I’m coming out” by Diana Ross. Shirley 2.0 stated, “I got this, and we got you!” Shirley 2.0 is a dynamic game-changer that is committed to leading the Urban Community Alliance through this transformation and into the next phase of its legacy.

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“green buildings”

would be deeply engaged in planning and design, because “shaping the environment is best done by the people who live in it,” according to Professor Dale Glenwood Green of Morgan State University.

Some communities and organizations are getting it right and helping us imagine what is possible. For example, the Mental Health Center of Denver, Colorado planned to build a new, green campus in the predominantly African American and low-income Northeast Park Hill community. The Center sought input from neighbors to shape the design and function of the four-acre property. As a result, the Dahlia Campus for Health and WellBeing now offers a comprehensive array of services in addition to mental health care: a preschool that is inclusive of students regardless of ability; a pediatric dental clinic; an urban farm, teaching kitchen, and farmers’ market; and a variety of indoor and outdoor community spaces. The campus’ sustainability and equity approaches were verified through LEED Gold certification and a tool called the SEED Evaluator.

Another model is the Green Communities Criteria (GCC) program, a framework and certification developed

by Enterprise Community Partners to bring the benefits of sustainable construction practices to low-income families and affordable housing.

While this program is still in development, it has already produced 127,000 certified affordable homes through $3.9 billion in investment. Thanks to the leadership of standards like GCC, a total of 32 states have incentivized green building certification programs for affordable housing developments receiving support from the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program.

Fundamentally, sustainability without equity will merely sustain inequity. The civil rights movement has a critical role to play in creating a sustainable building sector that is both green and just – for the benefit of our families, our communities, the economy, and the planet.

This op-ed is adapted from two reports released today from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Centering Equity in the Sustainable Building Sector (CESBS) Initiative. Patterson is the Senior Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program; Lee is the program manager for the CESBS Initiative at the NAACP.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - March 04, 2020 - March 10, 2020 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

Planting Bed Maintenance Program at Bonnie Acres INVITATION TO BID NOTICE Vance Drive, Bristol, Connecticut VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- bids APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE The Bristol Housing Authority will receive sealed on or before 2:00 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at their offices at 164 Jerome Avenue, Bristol, CT 06010, INC,will on be behalf of Columbus House the immediately New Haven Housing Authority, andHOME said bids publicly opened and readand aloud thereafter. is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development at for 108furnishing Frank Street, New Haven.

Maximum income limitations apBids will belocated received all labor, materials, tools and equipment necessary ply. Pre-applications available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Ju;y to complete the Plantingwill BedbeMaintenance Program at Bonnie Acres onMonday Vance Drive, 25, 2016 and ending whenofsufficient pre-applications 100) have Bristol, CT 06010.

The scope work shall include, but is(approximately not limited to, weekly and been received at the offices for of HOME INC. Applications bethrough mailiedDecember upon remonthly maintenance practices one year beginning April will 2020 quest byopportunity calling HOME 203-562-4663 those Sealed hours. Completed pre-to 2020 with up INC to 4atadditional yearlyduring renewals. bid packages must be returned HOME INC’s offices atProgram.

171 Orange Street, Mitzy Third be applications clearly marked “Bonnie AcrestoPlanting Maintenance Attention: Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Rowe, CEO.” A pre-bid walk through will be held on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

Please meet at the Bonnie Acres Community Room, 59 Vance Drive, Bristol, CT 06010. Attendance is strongly recommended for all bidders.

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Contact Documents including Plans and Specifications will be on file at the Bristol HOMEAuthority INC, en nombre de la Columbus y deCT la New Haven HousingMarch Authority, está Housing 164 Jerome Avenue,House Bristol, starting Monday 2, 2020. aceptando pre-solicitudes estudios y apartamentos un dormitorio en esteatdesarrollo Contract Documents can para be reviewed, purchased ordesent electronically no cost. ubicado en la callecan 109also Frank New Haven.

Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos Project information be Street, obtained online at Projectdog.com. máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 2016Housing hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes 100)to Thejulio, Bristol Authority reserves the rightpre-solicitudes to reject any(aproximadamente or all bids and/or en las de HOME INC. Laswhen pre-solicitudes serán enviadastopor a petición waive anyoficinas informalities in bidding, such action is deemed be correo in the best intera HOME INC al Authority.

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ELM CITY COMMUNITIES Invitation for Bids

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Carting, Recycling Removal Services Street Seymour,Rubbish, CT at 10:00&am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Bids for carting, rubbish, & recycling removal services. A Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Ofcomplete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor fice, 28 SmithPortal Street, https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateSeymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

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The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to Monday, February 3, 2020 at 3:00PM reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

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New Parking Lot at Gaylord Towers INVITATION TO BID NOTICE Bristol, CT The Bristol Housing Authority will HOUSING receive sealed bidsAPPLICATIONS on or before 1:00AVAILABLE p.m. EDT, VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL PREWednesday, March 25, 2020 at their offices at 164 Jerome Avenue, Bristol, CT 06010, and saidHOME bids will beon publicly and read aloudand immediately INC, behalfopened of Columbus House the New thereafter.

Haven Housing Authority,

is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this devel-

Bids will belocated received all labor, tools and income equipment necessary opment atfor 108furnishing Frank Street, Newmaterials, Haven. Maximum limitations ap-to complete “New Parking Lot at Gaylord Towers,” 55 Gaylord Street, Bristol, CT 06010. ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y The scope of work shall include but is not limited to a new bituminous Parking Lot and 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have related work. Sealed bid packages to be clearly marked “New Parking Lot at Gaylord Towbeen received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reers. Attention: Mitzy Rowe, CEO.”

quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must bewill returned INC’s offices Orange Third A pre-bid walk through be heldtoonHOME Wednesday, March at 11,171 2020 at 2:00Street, p.m. Please Floor, Haven, CT 06510. meet at theNew Gaylord Towers Community Room, 55 Gaylord Street, Bristol, CT 06010. Attendance is strongly recommended for all bidders.

NOTICIA

Contact Documents including Plans and Specifications, as prepared by J ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS, 84 Market Square, Suite 3, Newington, CT 06111, will be on file at the VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Bristol Housing Authority 164 JeromeDE Avenue, Bristol, CT. Contract Documents can be reviewed and purchased within the Advanced Reprographics on-line plan room at www.

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y Project de la New Haven Housing Authority, está advancedrepro.net or by calling (860) 410-1020. information can also be obtained aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo online at Projectdog.com.

ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos

Themáximos.

Bristol Housing Authority reserves the right to09 reject anyp.m. or all bids and/orMartes to waive Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles a.m.-5 comenzando 25 anyjulio, informalities bidding, when such action is deemed to be in(aproximadamente the best interest of the 2016 hastaincuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes 100) Bristol Housing bidLas documents must beserán filledenviadas out completely when submiten las oficinasAuthority. de HOMEAll INC. pre-solicitudes por correo a petición ted.llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse

a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

A satisfactory Bid Bond or Certified Check in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the base bid, shall be submitted with each bid. The Bid Bond shall be made payable to the Bristol Housing Authority and shall be properly executed by the Bidder. A 100% Performance, Labor and Material Bond is also required. All sureties must be listed on the most recent IRS circular 570.

NEW HAVEN

“Attention of bidders is directed to certain requirements of this contract which require payment of Davis-Bacon wages, and compliance with certain local, state and federal require242-258 ments. This is a Federally funded project.”Fairmont Ave

2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

No bids shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the opening of bids without All new apartments, newAuthority. appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 the consent of the Bristol Housing

highways, near bus stop & shopping center

For further please contact Carl parties Johnson, Bristol Housing Authority, Director Petinformation, under 40lb allowed.

Interested contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 of Capital Funds at (860) 585-2028 or Jay R. Victorick, J ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS at (860) 665-7063.

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s

“AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MBE’s, WBE’s, SBE’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assistEMPLOYER in the intellectual formation of Candidates inAND response to the Church’s Ministry needs.

The cost is $125.ARE Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30SECTION 3 DESIGNATED ENTERPRISES ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT” 3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT

Exp. F/T Lay Out person for structural Steel and Misc. Shop.

Send resume: hherbert@gwfabrication.com

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

FENCE ERECTING CONTRACTORS

Welder/Helper:

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for Fence Installer foremen and helpers. Foreman must have at least 5 years’ experience. Helpers-no experience required, will train the right person. Work available 1012 months per year. Valid Ct. Driver’s license required and must be able to get a DOT Medical Card. All necessary equipment provided. Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. OSHA 10 training required. Please email resume to rhauer@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE – M/F

Large CT fence & guardrail contractor looking for a shop welder/helper. Duties include but are not limited to cutting & notching pipe to build gates, and fabbing, plating posts, truck & trailer repairs. Ability to mig weld steel and aluminum is a plus. Some road work may be required. All necessary equipment provided. Must have a valid CT driver’s license and be able to get a DOT medical card. Required to pass a physical and drug test.

Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Starting pay @ $17.00 per hour. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE-MF

HELP WANTED: Large CT guardrail company looking for Laborer/Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to get a medical card.

Must be able to pass a drug test and physical. Compensation based on experience. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F

Large CT. Fence Company

is looking for an individual for our stock yard. Warehouse shipping and receiving and Forklift experience a must. Must have a minimum of 3 years’ material handling experience.

Must be able to read and write English, and read a tape measure. Duties will include: Loading and unloading trucks, pulling orders for installation and retail counter sales, keeping the yard clean and organized at all times and inventory control. Individual will also make deliveries of fence panels Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for expe- and products, must be able to lift at least 70lbs. Required to rienced, responsible commercial and residential fence erec- pass a Physical and Drug test, have a valid CT. Driver’s Litors and installers on a subcontractor basis. Earn from $750 to cense and be able to obtain a Drivers Medical Card. CDL B $2,000 per day. For more information email resume to rhauer@ & A drivers a plus. Send resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor. atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE/MF com AA/EOE/MF

FENCE ERECTING SUBCONTRACTORS

CITY OF MILFORD Seeking qualified condidates to fill numerous vacancies to include,Public Works Office & Administator Operations Manager, Invitation to Bid: Information Technology Manager, and more. For information and detailed application instructions, 2nd Noticevisit WWW.ci.milford.ct.us Click on SERVICES, JOBS and JOB TITLE.

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Saybrook, CT Construction Seeking(4toOld employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster trades for Buildings, 17 Units)

a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To apply please call Exempt or & Not Prevailing Rate Project (860)Tax 621-1720 send resume Wage to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V Drug Free Workforce

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castin-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances,Payroll Residential Casework, Payroll Clerk- Performs responsible office work in the processing of all general government payrolls and maintain all payroll Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. records. The position requires a H.S. diploma or G.E.D, plus 5 years of experience in responsible office work involving typing, This contract is subject data to state set-aside and contract compliance accounting, bookkeeping, entry and payroll processing. $25.72 requirements. to $30.87 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package.

Apply: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. The closing date will be the date that the 50thBid application is received, or March 11, 2020, whichever occurs first. EOE Extended,form/resume Due Date: August 5, 2016

Water

Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

degree in engineering or chemistry, plus four (4) years of progressively responsible experience at least two supervisor the operation of a 28 municipal A pre-bidwith conference will(2)beyears heldasatathe HousinginAuthority Office Smith water treatment and pumping system or an equivalent combination of education and Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. qualifying experience. State of Connecticut Department of Health Services Class IV Water Treatment Plant Operator and Class II Distribution System Operator Certification, or the documents ability to obtain within the from six-(6)the month probationary Must Ofalso Bidding are available Seymour Housingperiod.

Authority have and28maintain a valid Connecticut Driver's License. $67,668 - $86,581, plus fice, Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) Salary 888-4579. an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. The closing date will be The 10, Housing Authority reserves rightapplication to accept or reject any or allfirst. bids, to March 2020 or the date we receive the the 50th whichever occurs EOE

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 AA/EEO EMPLOYER

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Water Treatment & Pumping Supervisor- Water Division is seeking a qualified indiSeymour, CTand 06483 for Concrete Repairs and Replacement at the vidual to direct supervise all phasesSidewalk of operations and maintenance of the Town’s Smithfield Assistedstations, Livingand Facility, Smith Street Seymour. water treatmentGardens plants, pumping wells. 26 Applicants must have an associate

reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

ELM CITY COMMUNITIE Payroll Invitation for Bids Keys & Locks Services

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Bids for keys & locks services. A complete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, March 2, 2020 at 3:00PM.

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CITY OF MILFORD Seeking qualified condidates to fill numerous vacancies to include, Director of Operations Milford Landing Marina, Recreation Director, and more.

For information and detailed application instructions, visit WWW.ci.milford.ct.us Click on SERVICES, JOBS and JOB TITLE.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - March 04, 2020 - March 10, 2020 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

DELIVERY PERSON

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Contact: Tom Dunay

NOTICE

NEEDED

Phone: 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of860Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Email: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develWomen Minority Applicants are New encouraged to apply income limitations apopment & located at 108 Frank Street, Haven. Maximum Action/ Opportunity Employer ply.Affirmative Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME Reclaiming, INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preGarrity Asphalt Inc seeks: applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing Haven, CTbe06510. andFloor, cleanNew driving record, willing to travel throughout the North-

Part Time Delivery Needed

east & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

NOTICIA

Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300

One/Two Day a Week,

Must Have your Own Vehicle

The Manchester Housing Authority will open the State of Connecticut Con-

gregate Housing waiting list for Westhill Gardens Congregate. The property consists of 37 1-BRunits designated for frail seniors age 62 or older. Up to 150 applicants chosen by lottery will be entered onto the waiting list. Applications available in person and on the MHA website at http://manchesterha.org and will be accepted by mail or in person at 24 Bluefield Drive Manchester, CT 06040. Applications will be accepted March 2, 2020 8AM – March 31, 2020 at 4PM. FY 2019 Income Limits 1 person

2 persons

3 persons

4 person

52,850

60,400

67,950

75,500

The Manchester Housing Authority does not discriminate based upon race, color, disability, familial status, sex or national origin.

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/deEqual Opportunity Employer HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está

If Interested call

aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipjulio,Must 2016have hastaacuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes ment.

CDL License, clean driving record, capable of(aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas operating heavydeequipment; be willing to travel throughout the por correo a petición llamando&a NY. HOME 203-562-4663 horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Northeast We INC offeralexcellent hourlydurante rate &esas excellent benefits a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

Union Company seeks:

(203) 387-0354

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

KMK1907 Insulation Inc. Hartford Turnpike

Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

HELP WANTED:

NEW HAVEN

North Haven, CT 06473

Request for Proposals Energy Consultant The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Proposals for energy consultant services. A complete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, February 24, 2020 at 3:00PM.

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT

is requesting proposals for Learning Center Services.

Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha. org under the Business section RFP’s/RFQ’s Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

Mechanical Insulator position. Constuction Laborer

Invitation to Bid: Large CT guardrail company Insulation company offering good pay 242-258 Fairmont Ave 2nd Notice looking for Laborer/Driver with valid CT CDL Class Looking for a Laborer with experience in Crane/Pile Driving operations. We and benefits. Please mail resume to above address.

A license2BR and able to get a medical card.

Must be will consider those with no prior experience. Required skills/qualifications inTownhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA able to pass a drug test and physical. CompensaMAIL ONLY clude: OTC 105 OSHA10 hour Certification, Valid Drivers License, Must be All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Old Saybrook, CT tion based on experience. Email resume to dmasThis company is an Affirmative Action/ able to lift over 50 pounds, Minimum age of 18, Must Provide personal transporhighways, near bus stop & shopping center (4 Buildings, 17 Units) tracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F Equal Opportunity Employer. tation to and from the jobsite.

Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Please contact: Eric Bombaci Bombaci Construction CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Bombaciconst@aol.com New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition,8605754519 Site-work, Cast-

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

WATER

CertificateEngineer Program. This is–a 10 month program designed to assistWater in the intellectual formation of Candidates Junior The Town of Wallingford’s Division is seeking a responsible and skilled individual to prepare and Shingles, Vinyl Siding, in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30maintain permanent utility location records. Requires an associate’s degree or equivalent in civil engineeringin-place plus twoConcrete, (2) yearsAsphalt of 3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. Experienced DOT certified Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Welder for Misc/Structural Steel progressively experience in the utilityU.F.W.B. field, Church or an equivalent (203) 996-4517 responsible Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D.water/sewer Pastor of Pitts Chapel 64 Brewster combination of education and qualify experience substituting on a year-for-year basis.

Salary: $59,594 $76,209 annually. plus an excellent fringe benefit package.

Apply: Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

Email hherbert@gwfabrication.com St. New Haven, CT Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford,This CT contract 06492. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

Closing date will be March 10, 2020 or the date the 50th application is received, whichever occurs first. EOE.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Community Engagement Project Manager Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour Project documents Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. (FHI) is seeking an experienced Project Manager for our Community Engagement Serviceavailable via ftp link below: Invitation for Bids until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Team. Candidates should demonstrate their ability to lead project teams, supervise andhttp://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage develop staff, provide excellent On-Call Printing Services Seymour, 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairsmanage and Replacement at the concurrently, and conduct business develclient serviceCT with innovative and strategic solutions, multiple projects Smithfield Gardens Assisted Livingdeveloping Facility, 26and Smith Street Seymour. opment.

Responsibilities will include implementing strategic outreach plans to meaningfully and@ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Fax or Email Questions & Bidsinclude to: Dawn Lang

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is cur-

facilitate communication with stakeholders and the general public on transportation and HCC community projects, encouragesplanning the participation of all Veteran,rently S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses seeking Bids for on-call printing services. A complete copy of the requirements Construction Company, Seymour, CT 06483 utilizing a wide variety of tools and techniques including public meetings, printed materials, socialHaynes media, website, press 32 Progress A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith may beAve, obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousreleases, and PowerPoint presentations.

Additionally,July the candidate AA/EEO EMPLOYER Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, 20, 2016. must possess excellent oral and written communication ing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, February 24, 2020 at skills. Experience with major transportation infrastructure projects is preferred.

3:00PM.

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Of-

Minimum degree: Bachelor's degree in business/consulting environment, city/regional/urban planning, civil engineering, 28 field Smithwith Street, Seymour, 06483of(203) 888-4579. orfice, related a minimum of CT 10 years experience.

Candidates with a valid driver's license preferred. Salary commensurate with level of experience. Send resume to communityengagement@fhiplan.com or Elizabeth Marchion, 416 The Housing reserves theFitzgerald right to accept or rejectInc. anyisoranallEEO/AA bids, to /VEV/Disabled employer.

Asylum Street, Authority Hartford, CT 06103. & Halliday,

reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

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CITY OF MILFORDSeeking qualified condidates to fill numerous vacancies to include,Public Works Office & Administator Operations Manager, Information Technology Manager, and more. For information and detailed application instructions, visit WWW.ci.milford.ct.us Click on SERVICES, JOBS and JOB TITLE.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS -

COMMENTARY:

March 04, 2020 - March 10, 2020

Learn and Teach Your Children about Anger

If you can name it, you can tame it.

By Dr. Linda McNair, The Buckeye Review Newspaper

Anger is an emotion and should not be ignored. Teaching children how to handle anger is better than telling them they are not angry and ignoring their hurts.

Here is an example in preschool.

One toddler takes the other toddler’s toy that he was playing with and he starts crying and yelling, “give that back to me.” The teacher hears this and says, “Now, now you must learn to share. Stop crying and play with something else.” At this point the teacher teaches the toddler, to ignore his hurt and pain, to move on and get over it. The older this toddler becomes he continues to learn to stuff and suppress his hurt and pain. Some of the behavioral symptoms can be: breaking things, causing property damage, disregard of others property, verbal and/or physical aggression, road rage, frequent fights, etc. As, time passes, he has learned ways to handle his anger inappropriately, by possibly becoming a bully and/or a very angry boy who turns into a very angry man. As a teenager or adult, he can be diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder (IED). Uncontrolled anger can lead to other disorders such as: attention deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), oppositional defiance (ODD), anxiety, depression, bipolar, along with some personality disorders.

As a result of anger, the individuals will experience some physical symptoms such as tightness, tension, pressure in the head or chest. After an anger episode, tiredness, tremors, racing thoughts, inability to focus or concentrate, poor performance in school or at work, eas-

ily frustrated, moody, irritability, sadness and possibly blind rage.

Learning to deal with the above signs and symptoms can help toddlers avoid a difficult life. Controlling or managing anger can help them avoid the pit falls later. If a toddler goes without learning how to control their anger it can lead to requiring medication and or therapeutic interventions for years to come.

The toddler must first recognize when someone does something to cause bad or inappropriate feelings. By addressing those negative feelings with a trusted guardian, parent or friend they learn to verbalize their feelings and are in touch

with their emotions rather than wondering about the physical response.

Doing this can help the toddler break down their feelings and look at what has taken place from an honest standpoint.

Don’t ignore the negative feelings; talk about what he/she is feeling. Slow down their racing thoughts and action by having them taking slow deep breaths and communicate what is happening. By doing this the toddler begins to heal and this will cause him/her to dig deep inside. The toddler will get a chance to hear and recognize what is happening and can learn ways to retell their story.

They can begin to visualize the incident

and figure out how they want things to turn out. Dealing with anger can easily be rectified earlier than later. Either way anger can be controlled it will just take longer in adults because they have developed entrenched behavioral patterns.

According to an article written in the Washington Post (2015), one in ten Americans have severe anger issues and access to guns. That is almost 22 million Americans. If you stop and think about this; there are a lot of people who have not been taught that they are in charge of telling their own story and crafting the results they desire.

Here is a tip for children and adults. If

you can name it, you can tame it. Feelings are noticed in your body before you verbalize them but once you say, “I’m angry” and notice the feelings associated with that emotion, they subside more readily than when they are not acknowledged. Knowing that you cannot change anyone but yourself you have to take charge and learn techniques to quiet the storm that is rage inside.

The choice is yours. Stop, think and breathe, this will give you an opportunity to think about your story. And remember, you are the star and the director of this production called life.

If you live in Ohio, you can always contact the 211 Operator to find out what agencies are in your area for help and always remember the Crisis Hot Line number 1-800-273-8255 is available and if you are having thoughts of harming self 1-800-273-8255.

Dr. Linda is a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years-experience.

She enjoys everything about helping others. The best thing she enjoys is helping those who are hurting.

She is a certified IBCT (Integrative Behavior Couples’ Therapist) clinician. She was training under the creator of IBCT. She has taken several classes in the Gottman therapy as well.

Linda along with her husband Dr. M. Mike McNair founded “Pair of Docs Counseling”. They do nouthetic counseling. This is where the Word of God is seen as the leading authority in the counseling session. They do private couple’s counseling, seminars, conferences, coaching and premarital counseling. You can contact them through the Buckeye Review Publishing. 330-743-2250.

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