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$281,400 in Scholarships Awarded to 199 New Haven Students New Haven Scholarship fund to celebrate students at award ceremony Founded in 1959 by Jean Paton Lovell (1894-1996) the New Haven Scholarship Fund (NHSF) has been assisting New Haven students in their pursuit of Higher Education for over 57 years.

NHSF’s sole mission is to provide scholarships to eligible New Haven resident students who have academic potential and unmet financial need. In its initial year the NHSF awarded eight $100 scholarships. This year the NHSF will award scholarships to 199 New Haven students ranging from $600 to $2000 for a total of $281,400!

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Amistad Academy.................7 ........................... $10,200 Common Ground .................4 ........................... $5,600 Co-op Arts and Humanities .10 ......................... $16,000 Eli Whitney ..........................4 ........................... $5,800 ESUMS.................................11 ......................... $13,200 HSC ......................................4 ........................... $5,600 Hill Regional........................12 ......................... $19,200 Hillhouse ..............................57 ......................... $85,800 Metro Business.....................26 ......................... $31,800 New Haven Academy ...........6 ........................... $7,600 Riverside ..............................5 ........................... $3,000 Sound School ......................8 ........................... $11,600 Wilbur Cross ........................45 ......................... $66,000 TOTAL..................................199 ....................... $281,400

81 students will receive $2,000 81 students will receive $1,200 34 students going to Community Colleges will receive $600 Thanks to the many donations from New Haven and surrounding communities, the NHSF will celebrate a milestone surpassing $8 million in scholarships to over 7,500 students since its inception.

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We are pleased to recognize Ruth Drews, Hillhouse High School College Advocate, as well as the Hillhouse class of ’65 for their initiative to raise $10,000 for an endowed scholarship. We also congratulate The New Haven Federation of Teachers who will be awarding their first named scholarship!

The 2016 scholarship award ceremony is scheduled for June 12th at 4:00pm at the United Church on the Green, 270 Temple Street, New Haven CT .

To donate to the NHSF (all donations go directly to students): http:// www.newhavenscholarshipfund.org/ or simply mail your donation to: New Haven Scholarship Fund PO Box 8936 New Haven CT 06532-8936 A good education is important because it contributes to world peace. Properly educated persons apply their knowledge, insight, understanding, and fine ideals to meet more adequately their family needs and beyond that, to develop the justice which alone can earn for us ‘Peace on earth, good will to men.’ “ -Jean Lovell

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HOSPITAL PARKING FEES. WHY?

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By Samuel T. Ross-Lee As a member of the clergy, I am afforded free parking at the Hospital. Free parking is an appreciated allotment for clergy who visit parishioners and others who are patients there often.

Unfortunately, this benefit is not afforded non-clergy who happen to be Mothers and Fathers, Sisters

and Brothers, long-time friends, fellow church members, or even lay church servants. You get the picture. Besides the clergy, and perhaps some persons with special privileges, if one needs to visit loved ones in the hospital, they are forced to pay for parking.

They pay either at parking meters, at the risk of getting a parking ticket if they don/t, or they pay the hospital, a charge that is not covered by medical insurance, I’m sure.

sick or dying loved ones in the hospital? I mean, no one goes to the hospital on a pleasure trip.

Hospital visits are not a part of “disposal income” outings. Besides the exorbitant fees charged for necessary (and sometimes unnecessary) medical care, hospitals are making money from the people who come to provide the sick and the dying something the hospital simply cannot: The comfort and healing power that comes from the familiarity of loved ones’ visits.

But, why? Why should the public be forced to pay to visit their

Modern medicine has advanced in ways that we could not imag-

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by Arlene Davis-Rudd, ICN Staff Writer Earlier this month, Irrita Osborn and local Senior Citizens who were named outstanding volunteers for the year, were recently honored at an Annual Awards Luncheon held at Anthony’s Ocean View. The highlight of the day was the special award given to Irrita Osborn, former head of the Dixwell/ Newhallville Seniors for decades.

Irrita Osborn was lauded and applauded for her many years of excellent work with the Senior group and the planning of out-ofcity events that interested most of the senior group and encouraged

their participation. Many went on the frequent trips that they still speak about and how much they enjoyed them. Irrita recently retired, however, from what I’m hearing, her phone continues to ring daily and she’s always ready to lend a helping hand. She will be missed.

The new Director,Gwen Grady, has some large shoes to fill, however, I’m told that she’s prepared to fill them by hitting the ground running.

Sponsored by the City of New Haven’s Department of Elderly Services, and the Commission on Aging, this year’s Awards to outstanding senior volunteers went to the following: Eleanor Douglas, Frances Rogers, Judith Seamour, Robin Smith, Karen Zawnerko, Freddie Mae Amaker, Charlene

Baroncini, Martha Gallagher, James Bryant, Dolores Galiette, Bertha Kahn, Laura Rodriquez, and Bianca Sangurima.

Seniors who attended this wagerly awaited yearly event held at Anthony’s enjoyed the food, had fun, and did the electric slide with music by an amazing DJ who, also, danced to his own tunes.

Howard Saroff, Chairman of the Commission on Aging, served as Master of Ceremonies, and hardworking Maya Welfare from the Office of the Mayor awarded each reciepient with a Certificate. Always on the go, Elderly Services Director, Migdalia Castro participated to the fullest in the planning of this Annual special event. A great time was had by all.

The fact that we have allowed money to dominate much of our society should bother us. Even in institutions where money did not start out as the priority, we have allowed it to become so, and in many ways, it ruins or at least distorts whatever it touches.

The cost of higher education in America has skyrocketed over the past two decades. We are so accustomed to this fact that we hardly remember when it was possible for a college student to work a part-time job while in school, perhaps a full-time one during the summer, and earn enough money to make a significant dent in their college tuition and fees. That is not true anymore.

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But, the one service that the hospital definitely cannot provide, they have nonetheless found a way to monetized. Does anyone besides me think that there is something wrong, if not just plain creepy, about this? It is bad enough that patients are forced to pay whatever fee a hospital decides to charge for what it does do, but it is egregious that the hospitals force non-patients to pay also, just because they wish to visit their sick or dying loved ones on the hospital’s property. In this way, the institution has turned patients visits into commodities sold to people who receive no medical benefit from the hospital.

Even more morbid than that, the sicker ones loved one is, the more one has to pay to visit them. It is this kind of unnecessary profiteering that has desensitized many of us to the illicit behavior of capitalism and its insatiable need for “more”.

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ine even a few decades ago, replacing organs, performing nonevasive surgery, etc. But what it has not been able to replace is the love and comfort of family visits.

There are no pills, machines, or medical procedures that can substitute for that.

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Ed Board Hires Security, PR Chiefs

by ALIYYA SWABY

Montalvo was a “fabulous kindergarten teacher,” she said.

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Larry Conaway, currently assistant principal at New Light School, will become principal of two alternative schools: New Light and Riverside Academy.

Riverside is located on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and has about 80 students. New Light is in the Wooster Square neighborhood with about 50 students.

The Board of Ed has a new official voice after almost nine months without a permanent hire in the role as well as a new security chief in the face of increasing in-school fights.

Mercy Quaye is to start as communications director June 1. She is the fourth _spokesman/”former New Haven Register reporter to fill the position out of the last five people to hold the job.

Quaye follows in the footsteps of Register reporters-turnedschool-spokespeople Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo, Christopher Hoffman, and Abbe Smith.

Michelle Wade, who is not a New Haven Register reporter, held the position between SullivanDeCarlo’s and Hoffman’s tenures.

ALIYYA SWABY PHOTOQuaye: latest in the Reg-to-school PR pipeline.

supervisor of language arts and reading to being permanently hired for the position.

Quaye’s hiring was one of five major central office leadership changes unanimously approved Monday night at the end of a fivehour-long Board of Education at L.W. Beecher School, a meeting length that has become standard with the current board.

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Quaye was a student in New Haven Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade.

After high school, she attended Quinnipiac University, graduating in 2013, and then became a breaking news reporter at the Register including covering some Board of Education meetings.

New security chief Reddish.

Conaway: double duty.

Montalvo (right).

“I’m excited to be able to give back to the community that prepared me for my career,” she said at Monday’s meeting.

Until earlier this year, Quaye was honing her communications chops at pro-charter group Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN).

She will make $72,544 a year in her new city job.

The board also approved Thaddeus Reddish, retired New Haven assistant police chief, as the new schools security director. His salary originally started off at $100,000, but he negotiated it up to $120,000, according to Superintendent Garth Harries. The

Board member Ed Joyner enthusiastically approved Brantley for the role, in part because she had helped to develop an effective reading program to build foundational literacy skills.

Growing up in Bridgeport, “she knows the urban landscape. She’s exactly the kind of educator we need in an urban district,” Joyner said.

Brantley has been in New Haven for 30 years, filling the roles of teacher, instructional coach and coordinator for the literacy initiative. She said one of her first steps in the new role would be to deploy a foundational phonics program, with five hour training sessions for teachers rolled out by three certified members in the department.

district has not had a security director for months, even as the student board members reported the number of fights in the schools dramatically increasing over the past year.

experience in doing that.” Reddish will be a good fit, she said. “He should make at least what an assistant principal makes.”

Reddish was not present at Monday’s meeting.

Myrna Montalvo will move from principal of John Martinez School to principal of the new Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School when it opens in the fall.

Superintendent Harries said he wanted an experienced leader in the role.

Mayor Toni Harp said security officers who spoke with her “felt they were inadequately trained and wanted someone who had

Three people also transitioned into new leadership positions after Monday’s vote. Lynn Brantley will move from being interim

Board member Alicia Caraballo praised Montalvo’s skills as an educator—when Caraballo was a social worker at Truman School,

Superintendent Harries told the Independent that Conaway will bring the two sites together over the next year, likely to both end up on Riverside’s campus. “What we know is that our alternative schools are very small,” he said.

“As a result, they’re not really aligned well to provide the full range of services.” Though they have small classes with a relatively large number of teachers, alternative schools don’t have access to the “full student service teams that best practice alternative schools really need,” he said.

Conaway is responsible for “ensuring that support,” Harries said. As head of New Light for the past year, Conaway has built a strong team of teacher leaders who will support the program over the next year as he spends most of his time at Riverside.

Board member Darnell Goldson said Conaway is more than up to the job, but that he is worried the merged schools would turn into “another Hillhouse” a school with a complex three-principal leadership structure that has been under fire in the last year.

He urged Harries to give Conaway the needed resources to run the two schools well.

Harries said he and Conaway had discussed exactly that in the negotiation process. Conaway will be helped by the fact that he is “working with two strong staffs,” Harries said.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the last four consecutive schools spokespeople, rather than four of the last five, had been Register reporters.

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Magnets’ Long-Term Future Questioned

by PAUL BASS

D’Agostino, who’s 45 and a practicing attorney, dived into that question during an appearance on WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program. He predicted that tuition will prove the “death knell” for magnet schools, which he predicted will shrink anyway.

And he’s not so sure that’s a bad idea.

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He started a statewide conversation about charging suburban kids tuition to attend New Haven magnet schools. He ended up raising a broader question: Are magnet schools on the way out?

Hamden State Rep. Michael D’Agostino popped the question when New Haven announced it might start charging tuition to suburban students in order to close a budget gap created by emergency state funding cuts.

D’Agostino proposed a bill requiring communities to give other towns a year’s notice before beginning to charge tuition at magnet schools. The bill also requires the state education commissioner to sign off on any new tuition charges.

The bill which passed both houses of the legislature late last month and awaits the governor’s signature ended up enjoying broad

Education has always played an important part in D’Agostino’s life. His family moved to Hamden when his father became superintendent of schools. D’Agostino himself served on Hamden’s Board of Education, including a stint as president, before his 2012 election to the state House of Representatives.

D’Agostino confers at Capitol on tuition bill with New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter.

support, including from New Haven.

But it had one unintended consequence: Bridgeport officials said they hadn’t realized before that they could charge suburban towns

for the tuition.So they notified the towns that they intend to do so starting next year. New Haven is considering following suit.

A broader debate hovers above the tuition question: In an era of

state budget-tightening, will Connecticut shore up its traditional public schools, continue promoting charter schools, or take a new look at its support of magnets? Or all of the above?

So he had a lot to say about where education is, and should be, headed in Connecticut. Edited excerpts of the interview follow. You can hear the whole episode by clicking on the audio file at the

City Selling Land To Not-For-Profits LCI, said although the agency has not worked with BIMEC before, BIMEC has a reputation of serving young people in community.

Additionally, its proposal will help save demolition costs and restore the building for a “legitimate purpose,” Trachten said.

by QI XU New Haven Independent

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The city is preparing to sell vacant property to two not-forprofits to bring more affordable housing to the Hill and youth training to Newhallville.

The board of the Livable City Initiative (LCI), New Haven government’s neighborhoods antiblight agency, voted unanimously to sell two vacant Hill lots to Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven, and a vacant rundown Newhallville building to the Believe In Me Empowerment Corporation (BIMEC).

The proposed sales now go to the Board of Alders for final approval.

The rundown house at 320 Shelton Ave. is to be sold to BIMEC for $3,000. The house sits opposite the Lincoln-Bassett Community School at the intersection of Shelton Avenue and

Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn, who also serves on LCI board, said residents in the neighborhood need the change.

QI XU PHOTOClyburn, Neal-Sanjurjo, Trachten, and Yolen at LCI board meeting.

Bassett Street. BIMEC, a not-forprofit dedicated to youth, has proposed to rehabilitate the house and turn it into a training center to improve skills for youth and young adults in the neighborhood.

At Wednesday’s LCI board meeting at City Hall, Chairman Tim Yolen raised a concern about the lack of a parking lot in the plan.

LCI executive director Serena Neal-Sanjurjo said she had met

with BIMEC multiple times.

Although the organization does not have specific layout of the area, it has concrete ideas about how it will use the space, she said. “The issue is whether to turn about a corner in a neighborhood that we are putting a lot of effort into stabilizing. It is not based on zoning, but based on the neighborhood and youth that will go into the building.” NealSanjurjo said.

Evan Trachten, a specialist at

“They want to know how fast it is going to be done. They want a turnaround in that corner,” Clyburn said.

The board voted to sell the land to BIMEC on the condition that it submits confirmation of funding of the youth center and a plan to obtain regulatory approval of a parking plan. This way, LCI can ensure that the buyer does not “put the cart before the horse,” Trachten reassured the board.

The board also voted to sell 35 Arch St. currently an open lot to

Habitat for Humanity for$1,000 and a piece of vacant land along Washington Avenue for $2,000, based on a rate determined by the Board of Alders for nonprofits.

Habitat for Humanity plans to build a single-family home for a lowerincome family at the Arch Street site and a two-family home on Washington Avenue. The board mandated that Habitat for Humanity sell the houses to families who plan to own the property for at least five years.

Trachten praised Habitat for Humanity’s track record. The notfor-profit has several construction projects underway in the city, including one on Wilson Street. Its volunteer work helps families obtain provides mortgages below market value.

“It’s not overbuilt. It’s not overpriced,” Neal-Sanjurjo said of the proposed property. “[Habitat for Humanity] is one of the groups that we can really bank our money on.”

by MARKESHIA RICKS

Harp had other good news.

Thursday night was the last night of target practice at the Sherman Parkway police academy firing range, where loud gunshots have bedeviled neighbors. The new police academy on Wintergreen Avenue will have an indoor firing range, the sound from which should be virtually undetectable to residents.

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Octagenarian Mert Brown asked the mayor to grant him one wish: Repair the sidewalks near his Newhallville home before he dies.

Brown told the mayor at a community meeting that he has watched for years as sidewalks near the Knickerbocker Club were repaired, while the ones in front of his Newhallville home remained untouched.

“Everybody fixed the sidewalks for the Knickerbocker; they fixed the sidewalks for everywhere around,” he said. “And nobody fixed mine. Nobody has touched mine. Every time I say something, everybody looks at me like I’m crazy.

MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Mark

Barros with Alder Clyburn at community meeting.

City Engineer Giovanni Zinn said that he’s taking about $20,000 from his streetlight budget for the city, a project that is nearly complete, and using it for tree trimming around those new LED lights that have gone up all over the city.

Serena Neal-Sanjurjo said the city is working a plan to increase homeownership in Newhallville and throughout the city. She said making sure that the city has stable housing is one of the administration’s top priorities.

That means keeping existing homeowners in their homes, and helping people who have been renting long term to become homeowners, she said.

“Newhallville took one of the biggest hits ... during the market crash,” she said. “We’ve got to figure out a way to counter that and work to at least even the scale around rentals and homeownership.”

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Newhallvile To Harp: We’ve Waited

Livable City Initiative Director

His plea echoed others offered from among the more than 100 people who showed up to a meeting at Lincoln-Bassett School to tell Mayor Toni Harp and several of her administrators seek action on basic city services such as sidewalk repairs, tree maintenance and trimming, traffic calming on Shelton Avenue, and absentee landlords and rogue tenants.

Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn organized the meeting this past Thursday night so that people could pose their questions directly to Harp. A number of the neighbors, longtime residents of Newhallville and homeowners, expressed frustration that they have reported problems to the city over the years that never seem to get addressed.

Mark Barros said he’s been on a waiting list to have trees near his Butler Street home cut for five years. Not only has the city not come, he said; when he’s called, he just gets the runaround. He said he saw someone come to trim trees just once, back in 2012, when the fire department arrived because the trees were rubbing against the power line, creating a possible fire hazard.

down some streets that are so dark that you can’t see them because of the trees,” Barros said. He said he has nothing against the mayor, but he would believe that the work would get done when he sees it being done.

Reese Green said he feels the same. He lives on the last block of Bassett Street before the Hamden town line. He said it seems like whenever there is a new public works project fixing sidewalks and curbs, the city always runs out of money when it gets to his block.

“I pay taxes like everyone else,” he said. “And the problems with the sidewalks really pisses me off.

Every time there is a major project we get the shaft.”

Harp told residents that her administration is working on many of their concerns. But she also encouraged them to keep reporting

their problems. She said that in the past the city contracted out much of the street-level work in the city.

Her administration has brought more public-works tasks in-house.

“But because we’re doing more in-house, that means we’re going to get to more these things,” she said. What’s working against the city now is the temperamental weather.

Chief Administrative Officer Mike Carter said he oversaw a complete assessment of the city’s streets. He said he had good news and bad news to report.

“The good news is we have found money to do a lot of the work that needs to be done,” he said. “The bad news is there is more work than money.” But the administration is diligently seeking more funds from other sources, he said.

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“You have city officials touting these new LED lights but you go

Part of the crowd at Lincoln-Bassett.

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Next Generation Joins Clean-Up Cause Scramble On To Iron

Out Lock-Up Plan

by PAUL BASS | New Haven Independent

Sixth-grader Jason Sanchez put a smile on the earth to remind New Haveners to pick up their trash.

by MARKESHIA RICKS In about 30 days, judicial marshals will stop staffing the lockup at 1 Union Ave. But whether the lock-up will close and arrestees will go to the New Haven Correctional Center instead remains up in the air.

Sanchez, who attends John S. Martinez School, put that green smile on what became the firstplace finisher in a citywide anti-litter public-service announcement poster contest aimed at spreading the message that New Haven needs to pick up its trash pick-up game.

He and other winning students displayed their posters Monday afternoon at a City Hall press conference, where Mayor Toni Harp urged the assembled young people to become “ambassadors” in a “Clean City Initiative” her administration has launched to keep trash off the streets. Honda Smith of the public works department has been organizing the campaign, which includes ht_picks_it_up/»volunteer neighborhood clean-ups.

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Sanchez with his winning poster.

DOC could say yes. It could say no. Or some combination of the two.

Campbell, who heads the police department’s administrative bureau, said what is certain is that judicial marshals will no longer run the 1 Union Ave. lock up come July 1. In fact, according to State Judicial Branch spokeswoman Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, marshals will vacate the lock-up at midnight June 30.

“We’re going to have the cleanest city in Connecticut because of you,” Harp said.

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Sanchez who said he likes art, and loves soccer won a $125 gift certificate from the Artist & Craftsman Supply store on Chapel Street.

The city’s public works and parks department organized the contest with the support of the Downtown Special Services District and the Solid Waste Authority. Parks chief Rebecca Bombero has been calling on the public to help keep parks clean amid an increase in litter (as described in this story). Teachers Jean Blakeslee of Martinez School, Carina Ruotolo of Robert Clemente Leadership Academy, and Rebecca Looney of Augusta Lewis Troup School worked with the students.

Assistant New Haven Police Chiefs Al Vazquez, Achilles “Archie” Generoso and Anthony Campbell are scheduled to meet Thursday morning with state Department of Corrections officials to find out they hope whether the city can strike a deal that will enable cops to hold arrestees at the Whalley Avenue center.

The contest winners were: Middle School Level: First Place: Jason Sanchez, Grade 6, John S. Martinez School First Runner-Up: Angelinna Moye, Grade 7, John S. Martinez School Second Runner: Up Issa Mendez, Grade 7,Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy Elementary School Level: First Place: Jolienna Jean, Grade 4, Augusta Lewis Troup First Runner-up: Yeinalis Perez, Grade 3, John S. Martinez Second Runner-Up: Mariluz Monteagudo, Grade 3, John S. Martinez

So the department has to figure out what to do with the on average 660 people that flow through the existing lock-up each month.

The judicial marshals are among the victims of the budget cuts that have been made by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature to close a $930 million state budget gap. City officials were notified April 14 that marshals will no longer staff the detainee lock-up

currently at 1 Union Ave. Losing the marshals could be a significant loss to the city because the marshals currently run the lock-up, provide equipment for monitoring the arrestees and make sure that they are fed. The police department provides the space for the lock-up, an officer and a records clerk who work in tandem to process the arrestee.

Stearley-Hebert said that in fiscal 2015 it cost the judicial branch nearly $1.7 million to staff and equip the lock-up; projected costs for fiscal 2016 is nearly $2 million. But she said any savings to the branch by removing the marshals aren’t directly related to 1 Union Ave. “If the judicial marshals are not on the layoff list, they will be relocated to fill vacant positions in the branch as a result of layoffs, attrition and other types of vacancies,” she said in an email.

But she said the judicial branch isn’t trying to leave the police department high and dry. “The Judicial Branch is eager to work with the city on a plan to assure an orderly transition of operations to the city.”

The worst-case scenario is that the police department can’t strike a deal with the DOC, Campbell said, and has to absorb the cost of staffing and running the existing lock-up. That could mean anything from the department covering the costs through its operating funds and being reimbursed. Or a possibly even harder scenario— getting the Board of Alders to fund the lock-up as a line item in the department’s budget. Campbell Con’t on page

the heart had properly filling with blood between each heartbeat, the researchers said.

By HealthDay News BlackDoctor.Org

Patients with more damage tended to be older, heavier, have diabetes and higher blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, the study authors noted. But after taking these factors into account, the researchers found that alcohol consumption still seemed to be a factor in damaging heart function.

Even an ounce of alcohol a day might alter heart function if you have high blood pressure, researchers report.

For someone with high blood pressure, drinking — even in small amounts — can impair functioning of the lower left chamber of the heart, which pumps blood to the rest of the body, according to a new study from Italy.

“Because even moderate alcohol consumption increases occurrence of early functional cardiac changes in patients with [high blood pressure], reduction of use of alcoholic beverages might be beneficial for prevention of cardiac complications in these patients,” said lead researcher Dr. Leonardo Sechi.

for presentation Friday at a meeting of the American Society of Hypertension in New York City. Until published in a peerHow this heart damage occurs reviewed medical journal, the isn’t known, and the study doesn’t results should be considered establish a direct cause-and-effect preliminary. relationship. Additional studies in One-third of U.S. adults have which alcohol consumption is re- high blood pressure, also called duced or eliminated will be needed hypertension. It contributes to to confirm the findings, said Sechi, more than 350,000 deaths — who with the University of Udine about 1,000 per day — each year School of Medicine. in the United States, according to The study results were scheduled the hypertension society.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow is a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He said, “High blood pressure is a major risk factor for developing heart failure, which leads to over one million costly hospitalizations a year.”

For the study, Sechi and his colleagues studied the effect of alcohol on 335 patients with high blood pressure who had no other heart problems.

Researchers measured their heart function with an electrocardiogram and heart scans, and asked about their drinking patterns.

Based on daily alcohol consumption, the participants fell into four groups, ranging from no

alcohol (over half the participants, or 172) to less than an ounce a day, to about 1.4 ounces or more.

Those who drank the most had thicker left ventricular walls, stiffening the chamber and making it function less efficiently, the researchers said.

Sechi’s team found signs of heart damage in nearly half the participants, which was associated with how much they drank. The more they drank, the more trouble

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High Blood Pressure & Alcohol May Be A Bad Mix For Your Heart

Alcohol can increase blood pressure, but the impact of alcohol consumption on heart function in individuals who already have high blood pressure has not been well studied, he said.

“These findings reinforce current guidelines that individuals with high blood pressure limit alcohol consumption,” Fonarow said.

Bernie and Donald Are Two Sides of Same Angry, White Coin

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist

I don’t think either Bernie or “Duh” Donald planned to get as far along in the presidential process as they have so far.

Senator Sanders proudly carries the redistributionist flag with rousing rhetoric about social and economic justice. His agenda seems to have been to raise these issues aggressively and he did.

His presence in the campaign pushed Hillary hard to the left and made her engage with constituencies she might otherwise have ignored. For all his success, I don’t think Sanders expected to have more than 1500

delegates to his credit. And now that he has them he doesn’t know what to do with them. Both he and “Duh” Donald are publicly floundering, signaling that they never had a winning, or graceful losing, plan.

Secretary Clinton and her followers shouldn’t be so hard on Bernie, though. While they should not demand that he get out of the race, he is well advised to tone is rhetoric down. I sat with women at the 2008 campaign who sobbed their way through then-Senator Clinton’s concession speech and appeal for party unity. I debated a PUMA (Party Unity My “Hind Parts”) activist who swore she would not support nominee Obama. In 2008, Hillary devotees were as passionate as Bernie devotees are now. The kumbayaa

moment comes in July in Philly, not just yet. It reflects poorly on the Hillary camp to dismiss or ignore those who are passionate about Senator Sanders.

At the same time, it is important to note that extreme anger is a unique privilege of White men.

Imagine then-nominee Obama raging at Hillary in the way that Bernie has. His temperament would have been sliced and diced and parsed and inspected and he would have been so damaged by the conversation that it might have affected his electoral results. If Secretary Clinton ever managed to get her voice to Bernie’s decibel, if she every managed to project such rage, she’d be written off as a crazy lady and peripheralized.

But when the angry, White men yell and scream and whine and lie,

they are celebrated not condemned. That sounds like a double standard to me.

Both Bernie and “Duh” Donald are whining about rules they say are rigged against them, but the rules may have favored them.

Donald Trump has garnered a greater percentage of delegates than votes because of the way some states have chosen to award delegates. He wants more, but he failed to invest as much time learning the rules as some of his competitors did. Senator Sanders says he should have more delegates, but if he had to play under republican rules, he’d have fewer. Democrats are more likely to award delegates on a proportional basis, which means

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For all their dueling ideologies, Senator Bernie Sanders and “presumptive Republican nominee” Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin. Both of them are angry, so intensely so, that they are inciting a destructive anger among their followers.

When Republicans brawled and pushed and shoved at Trump rallies, I never anticipated the flip side – the fisticuffs and rhetoric at the Nevada state Democratic convention, the likes of which might have put Trump terrorists to

shame. Both the Chump Trumps and the Burning Bernies are being led by whining, angry, entitled White men, separated by ideology, but joined by both outrage and naiveté.

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Americans At Higher Risk For Kidney Damage greater decline in kidney function and those who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day had a 97 percent greater decline in kidney function.

By American Heart Association News

Cigarette smoking — a universal health hazard — may particularly damage kidney function in African-Americans, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

• Smokers had 38 percent higher inflammation levels compared to non-smokers.

“It’s important for those who have risk factors for kidney disease to realize that smoking is a significant risk factor and could ultimately end up leading to dialysis,” Hall said. “And once you have kidney disease, it exacerbates the risk of cardiovascular diseases.”

“Cardiovascular and kidney diseases are closely linked, but few people are aware of the impact of smoking on kidney function,” said Michael Hall, M.D., study lead author and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Researchers determined rates of decline in kidney function in 3,648 African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study, which examines cardiovascular disease in AfricanAmericans ages 21-84 in the Jackson, Mississippi, area.

Participants completed three

questionnaires over 12 years.

After adjusting for factors such as age, gender, physical activity, diabetes, hypertension and prevalent cardiovascular disease, researchers found: • Kidney function declined 83

percent higher in smokers compared to those who had never smoked.

• The rate of kidney decline worsened with more smoking: those who smoked up to 19 cigarettes daily had 75 percent

African-Americans are disproportionately affected by chronic kidney disease because of higher rates of hypertension, obesity and diabetes, and may be more susceptible to adverse effects of smoking to the kidneys.

Yet little data exist examining the effects of smoking and kidney disease among AfricanAmericans.

While blacks are less likely than whites to smoke, their metabolism of substances in cigarettes also differs compared with other ethnic groups.

Menthol-flavored cigarettes — popular among many AfricanAmerican smokers — has been associated with increased concentrations of blood cadmium, a toxic metal used in protective coatings. Exposure to low levels of the metal has also been linked to kidney damage.

“We should be aggressive with screening patients who have risk factors for kidney disease by finding out if they smoke and, if so, encourage them to quit or cut back as much as possible if they can’t quit,” Hall said. “There does seem to be a dose-dependent effect, meaning patients who smoke more are at higher risk for having worsening kidney injury over time.”

TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT… AT THE PUMP… THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND ∞ Use the cruise control (and the optional radar-activated cruise control system) for holiday road trips. Both systems minimize sudden acceleration and de-acceleration.

According to fueleconomy.gov, speeding, rapid acceleration and braking can decrease gas mileage by 33 percent.

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Automotive expert Jeff Fortson and Toyota Help drivers save money on gas for the long weekend holiday road trip TORRANCE, Calif. Memorial Day weekend is approaching and it’s time to hit the road. Toyota has teamed up with automotive industry expert Jeff Fortson to help make holiday travel more fuel-efficient.

According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), the national average price of gas is approximately $2.29 per gallon, a slight increase compared to last month.

This increase is expected to continue as demand for gas holds steady with over 38 million drivers projected to travel this holiday weekend.

“Drivers can take simple

steps to help them get the most gas mileage on their trips this Memorial Day weekend,” says Fortson, founder and editor of JeffCars.com, a site dedicated to auto education and car-buying clinics.“Taking heed to these tips will not only lead to fuel savings but will help pro-

vide a little extra money once you arrive at your destination.”

Toyota and Fortson offer six fuel-efficiency tips designed to help protect your pocket at the pump before you start a memorable road trip with family and friends.

∞ Be sure to check and properly inflate each tire, including the spare before you set out on a trip. Gas mileage can be improved if tires have adequate pressure. Some vehicles are equipped with a tire pressure monitor system which alerts youwhenit detects tire pressure is critically low. If the car isn’t equipped with this system, a tire gauge can be purchased atthe local parts store and the service department can check the air pressure. ∞ Rent a fuel-efficient vehicle. If you are renting a car,

you may want to consider a hybrid vehicle, such as Prius or Prius V. ∞ Use the factory installed navigation system or favorite app from your smart phone.

These navigation systems will alert drivers of traffic congestion and provide you with the shortest route to your destination. ∞ Always pack smart. Just like flying, you should only take necessary items for a road trip. Avoid using the roof rack, if possible, because it reduces the aerodynamics and decreases fuel efficiency. ∞ Watch the A/C. It is recommended that you use the air conditioner when driving highway speeds. When driving in stop-and-go traffic, turn the air conditioner off and allow air to circulate through the vehicle.

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Against-the-Odds Documentary Chronicles the Inspirational Ascension of Youtube Singing Sensation A Review by Kam William New Haven Independent

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By day, Samantha Montgomery cared for the elderly as an orderly in a New Orleans old folks home. After hours, however, the aspiring singer/ songwriter spent most of her free time pursuing her elusive dream of superstardom.

As Princess Shaw, she would perform solo in local clubs on open mic nights, mostly in front of inattentive, unappreciative audiences. She also posted heartfelt renditions of her original tunes on Youtube where she failed to generate much of a following.

But lucky for Princess, among her handful of fans was Ophir “Kutiman” Kutiel, a pioneering composer/musician/ video artist living half a world away on a kibbutz in Israel.

Without her knowledge, he began producing her tunes in the studio, augmenting her haunting a cappella vocals with an

orchestra that included keyboards, bass, cello, viola, drums, guitars, percussion, violins, saxophones and a brass section.

Miraculously, this promising diamond in the rough was suddenly blessed with a very professional sound evocative of Amy Winehouse. And when

Kutiman subsequently released his polished version of Princess’ “Give It Up” on Youtube, it soon went viral, generating millions of hits.

Next thing you know, the new internet sensation not only had a following, but found herself being mentioned in every-

thing from the New York Times to People Magazine, all thanks to a generous stranger she’d never even spoken to. Eventually, the two do finally meet when Princess flies to Tel Aviv to do a show booked by Kutiman.

So unfolds Presenting Prin-

cess Shaw, a moving documentary directed by Ido Haar. The inspirational picture devotes as much time to details of Princess’ traumatic personal life as to her magical music.

Along the way, we learn that she was left traumatized by the physical and sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother ’s boyfriend while growing up in Chicago. Today, she continues to encounter a host of challenges, being, black, gay and struggling financially.

Let’s just hope that Princess Shaw is able to turn the corner with the help of this uplifting biopic and Kutiman’s mashups of her soulful ballads.

Excellent (4 stars) Unrated Running time: 83 minutes Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

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HOSPITAL PARKING FEES. WHY? now and that saddle them with the punishing debt that they are handed along with their degrees.

Debt that they accrue mind you simply for trying to educate themselves and make the greatest contribution to the world that the can.

To the uninitiated, the price of college might seem necessary as we feel the cost of educating inevitably rises. But, the facts show that in many public colleges and universities, the schools where 73% of all colleges students attend (USNews and World Report), much of the cost of college goes to pay for non-academic activities and personnel. And in too many of these instances (One is too many for my taste), it is the Head Football Coach who is not only the highest paid employee at the public college but also in the entire state. The cost of these salaries are passed off to students who face this raised cost because they happen to be at the college to get an education, and the coach’s salary, as the parking deck at the hospital, is an inconvenient, but unavoidable, add-on.

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I would be remiss, and perhaps charged with hypocrisy, if I did not point out that religious institutions are more money obsessed than they have ever been, as well. So much so that many Pastors see their primary responsibility as raising money, not ministering to the flock.

It is not an accident that last month a Washington Post headline shouts Needing to raise ten of millions, Washington National Cathedral picks a fundraiser for its new

dean. The Dean of the National Cathedral, an Episcopalian congregation, is the Pastor of the church.

The Post reports: “David Kautter, chairman of the Chapter, the body that governs the cathedral, said the search committee that picked Hollerith (the new Dean) named five main criteria: spiritual leadership, strategic thinking, managerial experience, development experience and a history of convening people.” Four of the five “main criteria” sound as if they could easily match the job description of a corporate C.E.O., not so much the criteria that Jesus taught his disciples when he commissioned them to “preach the gospel”.

Least I seem naïve in this discussion allow me to say, as a Pastor, and as such a leader of a nonprofit institution, I understand that money is essential to the functioning of non-profits and to keeping them vibrate.

But, in the face of capitalistic greed run rampant in America, some institutions’, like hospitals, schools and churches, the primary reason for existing should not be greedily grabbing as much money as we can, but providing the best service with the money that we honestly and necessarily receive.

Samuel T. Ross-Lee is the Senior Pastor at Immanuel Baptist Missionary Church in New Haven, CT. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and Harvard University.

He can be heard Friday mornings 9:00 am on www.uglyradio.net

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There’s More Than 1 Kind of Black HBCUs educate not just African-American students but also those from the Caribbean, Africa and beyond graduates of the Master of Social Work program was Chenelle Forbes of Kingston, Jamaica, who founded Burgers With Love, a program that feeds the homeless in Uptown Charlotte, N.C., and is going on to work as an emergency-shelter social worker for the Salvation Army Center of Hope.

By Mary C. Curtis, HBCUDigest.com It was definitely a major coup for Johnson C. Smith University, one of the nation’s HBCUs, to snag Oprah Winfrey as its commencement speaker. And she certainly delivered with down-to earth wisdom, her own inspirational stories and lessons from leaders from Martin Luther King Jr. to Maya Angelou.

On a sunny Sunday morning, Winfrey told the sea of more than 300 graduates—her words overheard by the several thousand family members and friends who came to support them—“Your future is so bright, JCSU, it burns my eyes!” The eyes that stared back at her, sometimes glistening with tears, reflected the global diversity of HBCUs, a quality that might surprise those who don’t know much about the schools’ historical mission. (Winfrey herself attended HBCU Tennessee State University.)

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Winfrey was just one of a parade of high-profile speakers at HBCUs, up to and including the president and first lady, who, during the Barack Obama years, have highlighted the institutions that historically educated a majority of the doctors, lawyers and professionals of color—and, indeed, students of color in

HBCUs have never had the luxury of existing in a bubble that keeps real life from touching their students, and that was reflected in the stories of other graduates of the JCSU Class of 2016.

A member of the Class of 2016 reacts as President Barack Obama addresses the 2016 commencement ceremony at Howard University on May 7, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images

general—before most majority white institutions admitted them.

And because admission to majority-white schools doesn’t guarantee a warm welcome (see current turmoil because of racially charged incidents on campuses from the University of Missouri to Yale), many students of color given every option continue to gravitate toward HBCUs for social and psychological reasons in addition to academic ones.

While the majority of HBCUs were established after the Civil War to educate African

Americans, they have always welcomed all. International students from the African Diaspora who looked to HBCUs for education included Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana, who attended Lincoln University, an HBCU in Pennsylvania.

While Winfrey was at Johnson C. Smith for all the students, she spoke especially to the two women she called her “daughter-girls.”

Among the Class of 2016 were Noluthando “Thando” Dlomo and Nompumelelo “Mpumi” Nobiva, who are graduates of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, the school Winfrey founded in 2007 and has continued to support financially and spiritually. Another of the academy’s graduates is still studying at JCSU. Winfrey saluted their hard work and special gifts and acknowledged the support of the school and the host families that provided the young women with a home away from home. It was a hat tip to nurturing that mirrored the support system that has always existed but is often not noted by a larger society more intent on labeling black community support as nonexistent or dysfunctional.

Dlomo, of Johannesburg, plans

to take her communications major, theater minor, to an advertising job in Chicago. Nobiva, who majored in interdisciplinary studies, with a focus on global outreach, public rhetoric and strategic communications, was a fixture on the dean’s list from her arrival.

Like her patron, she is an indemand speaker and has received a presidential scholarship to High Point University to study for a master’s in strategic communications.

At the Johnson C. Smith commencement, the valedictorian’s address was delivered with a distinctive lilt and a humorous nod to missing jerk chicken by Oshauna Morgan from Jamaica. Morgan, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, is heading to Washington State University for training as a research assistant in a bioengineering lab. She lamented a “brain drain” from countries such as hers.

“Wealth and success are completely different,” she said, and vowed to eventually return “to make a positive difference in the lives of others.” She urged the graduates to plant a seed, an idea, in their hometowns—across the country or the globe. See Also Among JCSU’s inaugural

Gracyn Doctor, a star volleyball player who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports management, lost her mother in the mass shooting last year at Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, often referred to as “Mother Emanuel.” Ramon Garibaldo is an undocumented immigrant who came to the U.S. from Mexico with his mother in 2010; he is headed to Yale University’s six-year political science Ph.D. program.

Though the educational backgrounds of Winfrey and of Columbia- and Harvard-educated President Obama diverge, their messages to HBCU graduates— ones of excellence and service— reflect the important historic mission of such institutions.

With both supporting programs to nurture the next generation of global ambassadors, the spotlight is guaranteed to only grow brighter as the man Winfrey supported in his electoral quest for the presidency moves on to his own next chapter.

Mary C. Curtis is a Roll Call columnist and contributor to NPR and NBCBLK, who has worked at The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Charlotte Observer, Politics Daily and as a contributor to The Washington Post. She is a senior facilitator for The OpEd Project at Cornell and Yale universities. Follow her on Twitter.

That led to work at Columbia University as a research assistant and a research interviewer at its Mailman School of Public Health.

By Carter Higgins, BlackDoctor.Org After 67 years and two prison stints, a former Harlem drug dealer, David Norman, who grew up with a rap sheet full of arrests, has graduated from Columbia University as the oldest member of his class.

As a full-time staffer, he was permitted to take no more than seven credits per semester.

At his graduation, he sat at the front of his class and cried tears of joy.

“It’s always possible to pursue your dreams,” Norman shared.

Norman’s extraordinary journey from drugs to a degree started when he was young. Norman was drinking by age 11 and using heroin before his 15th birthday. Norman turned into a street hustler, slinging dope and making money.

The only education before going to prison consisted of his high school education. That only lasted one day.

“I had a 35-year run with addiction,” he said.

His first stint upstate came in 1967. Nearly three decades later, he was charged with manslaughter after fatally stabbing a man in a street fight. The six years he spent in Mohawk Correctional Facility in upstate Rome proved life-

“It was a great feeling,” said Norman, who has been sober for 21 years. “I’m just now starting to come down from my little high…

“I Had To Change”

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…I had to wash my clothes yesterday. That brought me back down.”

changing.

David Norman turned his love of money into books. He started learning Hebrew. He even helped run a program that taught life skills to inmates preparing to return to society.

It was the six years he then spent at that upstate New York correctional facility that changed the course of his life.

He told the New York Daily News,“I had a moment of clarity in which I was able to recognize everything I had done at that point was fairly counter-productive and I needed to engage in some new activities and some new behaviors.”

He walked out of prison in 2000 a changed man, eager to devote the second half of his life to raising

up the most vulnerable.

“I did a little inventory of myself to try to unearth what it was that led me astray in the beginning and what I need to do when I get home not to fall victim to this activity again,” he said.

He secured a job as an outreach worker at Mount Vernon Hospital, helping substance abusers access the services designed to help them.

In his spare time, he volunteers with the Coming Home Program at Riverside Church, where he mentors ex-cons who have been recently released from prison.

Norman is planning to write a book chronicling how he turned his life around.

He hasn’t started writing yet, but he already has an idea for a title: “You Don’t Have to Wait as Long as I Did.”

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Bernie and Donald Are Two Sides of Same Angry, White Coin that a close race might give each candidate nearly the same amount of delegates. Sanders has no standing to call the system rigged.

He has kept his distance from the Democratic Party for most of his career, never participating in the rules process. If he wanted to write his own rules, he should have run for President as an independent.

Sanders and Trump have positioned themselves as

outsiders, but they want insiders to roll out the red carpet for them, because they jumped into a game they haven’t mastered. They haven’t worked at establishing a foundation, but they are demanding the keys to the house.

They aren’t wiling to put the work into reforming our flawed, twoparty system. Instead, they are finding unfairness when none is there, whining when work might

make a difference, and leveraging their angry, White maleness into voter approval.

Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist based is Washington, D.C. Her latest book, “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy is available via amazon.com and juliannemalveaux.com.

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Rep. John Lewis’ Graphic Novel to be Taught in New York City Public Schools rights movement using the graphic novel series. “March” is being added to the a new teaching curriculum called “Passport to Social Studies.” In New York City, students study the civil rights movement in the 8th grade. Now the Department of Social Studies will feature scenes from the graphic novel “to discuss milestones such as John Lewis’s speech at the 1963 March on Washington,” according to a release from Top Shelf Comix.

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA News Wire Contributor In August 2013, Georgia Congressman and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis teamed up with artist Nate Powell and writer Andrew Aydin released a graphic novel entitled “March: Book One.” The graphic novel series depicted Lewis’ historic involvement in the civil rights movement in comic book form. In January 2015, “March: Book Two” was released. Now the largest school system in the U.S. will be using the graphic novels to teach students about the civil rights movement.

Top Shelf Comix has also contacted other school systems and colleges about using the graphic novel featuring Lewis. “March” is being used as part of the first-year reading program at Michigan State University, Marquette and Georgia State as well as other schools.

Lewis, who has been in Congress since 1987, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966 and, at just 23 years-old, he was the youngest speaker at the historic March on Washington in 1963. Lewis was also one of the original freedom riders. In 1960 he fought against segregation by participating in a series of dangerous non-violent demonstrations that would eventually lead to historic changes in the law in the South.

“Teachers across the country, at every grade level, have embraced MARCH as a dynamic and powerful visual testimony of the civil rights movement, narrated by one of its major figures. For example: “MARCH has become essential reading in my courses…From the poignancy of Lewis’ childhood sermons with the family chickens to the courage of Freedom Riders nearly trapped inside a burning bus, each panel of MARCH rewards close readers, inviting analysis and critical reflection,” said Qiana Whitted of the University of South Carolina.

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On March 7,1965, Lewis led a demonstration of over 500 marchers on Highway 80 in Selma, Alabama. When the marchers attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Lewis and several others, were confronted violently and beaten by police on a day now known as “Bloody Sunday.”

Now the New York City Department of Education has decided to use Lewis’ story as depicted in “March” as a tool to teach eighth graders about the civil rights movement. March has lauded by Publishers Weekly as being one of

the best books of 2013 and was number one on the New York Times Bestseller list.

“I am deeply moved that New York City Public Schools are adding ‘March’ to the Social Studies

curriculum. This is a major step to ensuring every young person receives the best possible education about Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement,” Lewis stated in a Facebook post on May 9.

Congressman Lewis and the graphic novel co-creators recently addressed hundreds of students in New York as well as many of school system’s social studies teachers about teaching the civil

Lauren Victoria Burke is a political analyst who speaks on politics and African American leadership. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke.

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doesn’t yet know how much that cost would be, or when that ask might have to happen.

The urgency of the situation came to light at a recent Board of Alders Finance Committee meeting, where city Budget Director Joe Clerkin was pressed about whether the city has a financial contingency plan if it can’t strike a deal with the DOC to detain arrestees at the Whalley Avenue center. Clerkin said it does not.

Campbell said he is working on that contingency plan even as the assistant chiefs meet with DOC officials.

Interview with Kam Williams Aspiring Singer Talks about Transformation into Youtube Sensation with Help of Secret Admirer/ Music Producer Born and raised in Chicago, 39 year-old Samantha Montgomery moved to New Orleans in 2006. By day, she works as a caregiver for the elderly and, by night, she fearlessly performs as Princess Shaw online and at local open mics.

Inspired by her personal joy and pain from past and present, Princess’ lyrics resonate with honesty and emotion in a very visceral way.

It’s this truth that inspires her collaborator Kutiman as well as the emerging fans who have discovered their viral hit “Give It Up.”

“If worst comes to worst and the DOC can’t do it, we will need anywhere from one supervisor per shift to four to six officers per shift,” he said. “If everything doesn’t work out, we will have to staff it.”

Here, she talks about her very uplifting biopic, Presenting Princess Shaw, which will be in theaters, on Demand and on iTunes starting May 27

Police union attorney Marshall Segar said if the city can strike a deal with DOC, the union has some significant concerns about what working conditions would be like for any police officer placed in the corrections facility.

Kam Williams: Hi Princess, thanks for the interview.

Princess Shaw: Thank You, Sugar!

KW: When did you develop an interest in singing and songwriting?

PS: When I was very young, but I didn’t really find my own voice and my own sound until much later—around 2012.

KW: How hard was it finding time to pursue your dream while working long days in the nursing home?

PS: It’s just about finding balance and making time to do what you love.

KW: Were you ever discouraged when the videos of yourself you put on Youtube failed to generate much traffic?

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my story with.

KW: When was the first time you heard of Kutiman?

PS: I had heard a mash-up of his about a year before he released mine, but didn’t connect that the two were the same person until much later. I wasn’t familiar with his name at all when he released his video with me.

KW: What did you think the when you heard what he’d done with your songs?

Ido said that every time he left New Orleans his heart was telling him to come back. I had no idea that he and Kutiman knew each other when he started filming me, or even when I heard the song for the first time.

KW: What was it like meeting Kutiman in person?

PS: It was amazing, like finding a musical soulmate. He is like a brother to me now, and we have become great friends.

KW: What message do you think people will take away from Presenting Princess Shaw?

PS: No, because I didn’t put the videos up for other people, I put them up for me, as something to do for myself.

PS: I was so happy and excited— like he took the music that was in my heart and put it out into the world. The music that he put with my lyrics was exactly what I wanted and had always heard in my heart.

KW: How about when you weren’t picked to be a contestant on the reality-TV series The Voice?

KW: How surprised were you to learn that Ido Haar was making a movie about you?

KW: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?

PS: They want you to share your story on those shows, and I just felt that wasn’t the right time for me to share my story, so I didn’t. When Ido [director Ido Haar] came along, I knew he was someone that I could trust and felt comfortable sharing

PS: Initially, Ido was making a documentary about several of the Youtubers that Kutiman was including in his videos, although none of us knew we were being included. But slowly, over time, it narrowed down to just me and Kuti.

PS: That you survive the struggle in your life and if you keep going and keep pursuing the thing that feeds your soul, it’s worth it.

PS: I see someone who has a lot of love for herself now, and that’s beautiful.

KW: Thanks again for the time, Princess, and best of luck with the film.

PS: Thank you, Kam.

“What I think it is important to recognize is that not having the lock-up facility at 1 Union is a fast departure in how the city has delivered policing services,” he said.

Segar said of immediate concern is that the lock-up function, which is a short-term process, would be moved off site, and the officer who staffs it would be working in a prison, which is a very different work environment from working in the police department. That officer would need to be able to move between police headquarters and any off-site detention facility to transport arrestees for signatures and to review paperwork with supervisors.

There also is no lock-up for women at the Whalley Avenue center.

A commenter to a previous Independent article on the subject with extensive experience in local law enforcement, pointed out other unanswered questions.

“The current booking process requires getting warrants and other paperwork from Records at 1 Union Ave,” the commenter

wrote. “That paperwork is then sent with the completed Uniform Arrest Report to the front desk at 1 Union Ave. to then be transmitted to court. Does this mean that an officer will now have to shuttle the paperwork back and forth from 1 Union to Whalley Ave. and back? That could occupy an officer for an entire shift. Also, will the Livescan fingerprint machine and photo imaging equipment also be moved to Whalley Ave.? Will they function if not connected to the City IT network? If not, how will the booking info be downloaded to the NHPD records system? Might it be easier to continue booking arrestees at 1 Union and then transport them to Whalley?”

“At the DOC facility, the police officer would basically be an invited guest and subject to DOC policies and procedures,” Segar said. The union is working cooperatively with the police department, Segar said, but until police officials get the word from DOC any negotiations around next steps are on hold.

Given the state’s budgetary concerns, Segar expressed some doubt about whether the city could get the DOC to take on the department’s arrestees.

“I don’t know how flexible the DOC can be from a financial and policy standpoint,” he said. “The departure of the judicial marshals is going to impact everyone. Nobody can put their finger on it.

There haven’t been any hard and fast negotiations between the city and the union, and that’s nobody’s fault.”

Campbell said the union’s concerns are real and would have to be worked out.

“We could always use our general funds as a stopgap measure” to staff the lock up at 1 Union Ave. and keep it running, Campbell said. “It’s not what we want to do.”

He said if the department has to take on the lock-up, ideally the Board of Alders would approve a line item in the budget for the facility on an emergency basis. “I would call this an emergency,” he said. “The money definitely has to come from somewhere, and it’s going to come for us. They’re our prisoners, so the responsibility ultimately falls on us.”

Hundreds of Black Men & Boys from Around the Country Go to Washington D.C. for Black Youth Vote Hill Day

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 More than 400 black men and boys attended the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP)’s program, Black Youth Vote 2016 BYV! Day on Capitol Hill under the theme,”Moving From Protest to Policy to the Polls!”.

The youth from all over the country attended a forum on Capitol Hill which included speakers such as NCBCP President & CEO Melanie L. Campbell, BYV! Hill Day national coordinator Rev. Tony Lee and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO). They then paid visits to several members of Congress to discuss issues of importance including Jobs, Education, Criminal Justice Reform, Fatherhood and Voting Rights.

The organization also has placed the importance of increasing incentives and support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to attract more black male teachers and educators.

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When you snuggle with animals, it fills you with oxytocin, endorphins and other healing hormones that support your body’s ability to initiate self-healing. This is why pet therapy is mentally and physically effective. If you don’t have a pet, a trip to the pet store or local zoo can help elicit these same emotions.

By Elizabeth Overstreet, BlackDoctor.org Contributor If you want to win the war on stress, it is important to understand the role of cortisol and how it can be your friend or foe. If balanced, cortisol can help your body keep its immune system in check. But, left unchecked and unbalanced, cortisol can wreak havoc on your body.

Cortisol is critical to your body.

Also known as the ‘stress hormone,’ it is essential to helping you regulate your blood pressure and immune system when your body is in crisis. When your cortisol levels are balanced, it protects your immune system from emotional setbacks as well as physical attacks. Cortisol also helps you to use your energy reserves to protect your body’s ability to fight off infections.

cortisol. 15 minutes of daily downtime will help alleviate, reduce your stress levels and regulate cortisol production in your body.

However, if your cortisol levels are always working at a high level, this hormone can cause some problems to your body. Some of these problems include sleeplessness, a non-functioning immune response, abnormal blood sugar levels and weight gain in your stomach.

Abnormal blood sugar levels and weight gain occur when you are stressed out because your body urges you to eat something high in calories. It provides a temporary boost in energy and leads to weight gain and increased sugar levels. So it’s important to strike a balance with your cortisol levels.

Here are five ways to lower your cortisol:

increase. By paying attention to what you eat, you can balance the cortisol levels in your body helping to protect your immune system.

2. Exercise regularly. Regular exercise serves two purposes. It helps you manage your weight and also results in weight loss. When you exercise, your body produces those feel good endorphins. As endorphins are released into your brain, this helps you to combat stress and anxiety. As a result, excess cortisol production is alleviated. By exercising regularly, you also contribute to reducing excess amounts of cortisol from your system. In other words, it’s a stress buster.

3. Meditate to clear your mind.

According to the National Science Foundation, we have between 12,000 – 50,000 thoughts per day.

That’s a lot of thoughts! With so much thinking and continuous thought processing, it’s no wonder that our stress levels can easily get out of whack. That’s why it’s important to take a breather! Sit with your eyes closed in a silent environment so you can clear your mind. Do this for 15 minutes a day.

African American woman meditating on couchMediation is helpful because our bodies have an amazing ability to create selfrepair. According to the book, Mind Over Medicine; Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, our bodies can help fight cancer, prevent infection, repair wounds, and also protect us from infectious agents. But, when we stress out, the opposite occurs. The body’s ability to heal itself becomes deactivated when your body is full of stress hormones such as

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1. Pay attention to what you eat.

Nutrition is critical and controls the production of cortisol in your body. Eating a balanced diet of fruits, vegetables and lowglycemic foods like eggs lower the cortisol levels in the blood. Whole grain products also help to control the production levels of cortisol in the body. When you add in vitamin B5 and folic acid, which is plentiful in beans, fish, whole grains, sunflower seeds and fruits to this mix, this also provides balance for your cortisol levels.

Processed sugar and flours do the opposite, causing cortisol levels to

4. Spend some time cuddling with animals. Ever wonder why seeing and playing with animals provides you with a warm and fuzzy feeling? Well, there is a scientific reason this happens.

5. Give of yourself. A South African woman was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and decided instead of focusing on herself she needed to shift this energy towards others. The medicine woman wrote the South African woman a prescription to give 29 gifts for 29 days. The woman with multiple sclerosis completed the request, and the results were astonishing. Her MS symptoms started to lessen. By giving and being generous, it activated a relaxation response that helped to bolster her body’s natural self-repair mechanism.

This is not a suggestion that generosity will cure diseases.

However, science is still uncovering how the mind can have a tremendous effect on the diseases we have and how we deal with them.

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The Housing Authority of the City of Waterbury is accepting proposals for Chief Financial Officer Consulting Services. The pre-proposal conference will be on Monday, May 02 at 2:00 pm at the 2 Lakewood Road office in Waterbury. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, May 10 at 3:00 pm. To obtain the required documents pertaining to RFP S-CFO04012016 please contact Gina Worth, Purchasing Coordinator, at (203) 596-2096 or email at gina.biello@waterburyha.org .

NOTICE OF LEGAL SERVICE NORWALK HOUSING AUTHORITY The Norwalk Housing Authority is seeking Legal Services. Proposals are to be submitted no later than 4:00 p. m. on May 4, 2016 at Norwalk Housing Authority, 24 _ Monroe Street, Norwalk CT. Copies of the RFP Legal Services are available on our website, www.norwalkha.org under the Business tab, RFP/RFQ. Please use the following contact information for any additional inquiries; TTD/TYY 800-545-1833 x437, or the Office of Thomas F. Hickey, Director of Finance at 203-838-8471 x133.

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DEEP RIVER HOUSING AUTHORITY OPENING WAITING LIST FOR SENIOR/DISABLED

Pre-application for waiting list at Orchard Hill Estates II State Elderly complex will be accepted until June 30, 2016. To qualify, you must be at least 62 or disabled with a maximum gross income of $46,000 (one person) or $52,600 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application on line at coventryct.org, or at 1630 Main St., Coventry, CT 06238 or have one mailed by calling 860-742-5518.

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Pre-applications for waiting list at Orchard Hill Estates I HUD complex will be accepted until June 30, 2016. To qualify you must be at least 62 or disabled with a maximum gross income of $18,800 (one person) or $21,450 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application on line at coventryct.org, or at 1630 Main St., Coventry, CT 06238 or have one mailed by calling 860-742-5518.

The Deep River Housing Authority will open its waiting list for Senior/ Disabled Housing on June 1st. This list will remain open until July 31, 2016.

To request an application please call 860-526-5119 applications will be accepted by mail (must be postmarked by 7/31/16) Housing is available to anyone over 62 or handicapped/disabled that meet the income guidelines. Monthly rate is based on income with a minimum base rent requirement of $495.

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The Glendower Group, Inc an affiliate of Housing Authority City of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Proposals for Tax Compliance Consultant Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, May 23, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

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Beautiful, spacious, Newly renovated Two bedroom units for $1200.00 and Three bedrooms units for $1350.00 plus utilities. Close to shopping center, and on bus line. Section 8 welcome.

For more information contact Maria Figueroa Housing Consultants, LLC @ (860) 985.8258 cell or (860) 231.8080 ext. 11 office.

Help Wanted. Immediate opening for construction laborer. Please call PJF Construction Corp. @(860)232-9251.

We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F Elm City Communities Invitation for Bids 76 Day Street Townhouse Renovation Elm City Communities also known as The Housing Authority City of New Haven is currently seeking Bids for 76 Day Street Townhouse Renovation. Bids will be received until Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, April 25, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

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HVAC Service TechnicianQualifications & Requirements: Valid and active S2 or S1 license issued by the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection . Minimum 5-7 years experience installing and servicing commercial and industrial systems a must.

Knowledge of code requirements. Write up necessary parts, supplies and equipment specific to each job. Ability to diagnose and properly repair system and unit problems and install new equipment.

General Maintenance on systems and units. Safe and proper usage of tools used in the trade. Perform work as requested by Management. Must be client focused and professional with excellent communication skills both oral and written. Must have a current valid driver’s license with a clean driving record. Competitive salary along with excellent benefits including medical and dental insurance, vision care coverage, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, short & long-term disability insurance, and life insurance. Please email resume to lcross@sarracco.com EOE/M/FPipefitter Sarracco Mechanical Services, Inc. is currently seeking experienced Pipefitters who hold a Qualifications & Requirements: Valid and active S2 or S1 license issued by the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. Minimum 5-7 years experience. Knowledge of code requirements. Safe and proper usage of tools used in the trade. Must have a current valid driver’s license. Excellent benefits including medical and dental insurance, vision care coverage, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, short & long-term disability insurance, and life insurance. Competitive wages based on experience. Please email resume to lcross@sarracco.com EOE/M/F

FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC AND FIREFIGHTER/EMT The Town of Wallingford is currently accepting applications for Firefighter/Paramedic and Firefighter/EMT. Applicants must have a valid CPAT card issued within 1 yr. prior to June 20, 2016, HS diploma/GED, valid driver’s license and hold a valid EMS License applicable to the level/position applying for, which must meet CT State Regulations. Copies of licenses/certifications must be submitted with application materials. The Town of Wallingford offers a competitive pay rate $51,964.64 to $66,994.72 annually. In addition, there is a $4,200 annual paramedic bonus or a $1,700 annual EMT Bonus, plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Application deadline is June 20, 2016 or the date the 75th application for each position is received, whichever occurs first. Apply: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT. phone: (203) 2942080; fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE.

ELECTRIC UTILITY ELECTRICIAN Electric utility is seeking a highly skilled maintenance electrician with extensive substation experience to maintain and repair transmission and distribution class switchgear, bus-work, lightning arrestors, protective relays, insulators, switches power transformers, data circuits, controls and other related components. Must be a high school/trade school graduate and have 4 years’ experience in the maintenance and operation of electric utility substations and/or utility grade protection and control systems. Completion of a recognized four (4) year maintenance electrician apprenticeship program may substitute for the experience requirement.

Two (2) years of college-level education or advanced training in related field may substitute for two (2) years of the experience requirement. Must possess a valid motor vehicle operator’s license issued by the State of Connecticut and be able to obtain with 6 months of hire a valid Protective Switching and Tagging Procedure certification from CONVEX or other approved agency. Wage rate: $34.73 to $38.31 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Closing date will be that date the 100th application form/resume is received, or June 24, 2016 whichever occurs first. Apply: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. (203) 294-2080 / Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE

HVAC Service TechnicianQualifications & Requirements: Valid and active S2 or S1 license issued by the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection . Minimum 5-7 years experience installing and servicing commercial and industrial systems a must. Knowledge of code requirements. Write up necessary parts, supplies and equipment specific to each job. Ability to diagnose and properly repair system and unit problems and install new equipment. General Maintenance on systems and units.

Safe and proper usage of tools used in the trade. Perform work as requested

by Management. Must be client focused and professional with excellent communication skills both oral and written. Must have a current valid driver’s license with a clean driving record. Competitive salary along with excellent benefits including medical and dental insurance, vision care coverage, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, short & long-term disability insurance,

The Glendower Group, Inc an affiliate of Housing Authority City of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Proposals for Tax Compliance Consultant Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway

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Safe and proper usage of tools used in the trade. Must have a current valid driver’s license. Excellent benefits including medical and dental insurance, vision care coverage, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, short & long-term disability insurance, and life insurance. Competitive wages based on experience.

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Un nuevo y lujoso complejo de apartamentos, situado en las faldas de la roca del oeste, Augustine St. Nuestros departamentos son amplias y luminosas de un y dos dormitorios .Comienzan desde de $ 1.300 incluyendo los servicios públicos y están equipadas con refrigerador de tamaño completo, aire acondicionado central, trituradores de basura, walk in closet y conexiones de lavadora/ secadora. Llame a la Oficina de Gestión de la Propiedad al 203-389-2100 o 203-410-9427 para programar una cita. Visítenos en www.twinbrookproperties.com.

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Housing Authority of the City of New Haven Invitation for Bids Uniform Physical Conditions Standards Contractor (UPCS)

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids for Uniform Physical Conditions Standards Contractor (UPCS). A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday. May 18, 2016 at 3:00PM

Glazier Apprentice Opportunity Well established Architectural Glazing Contractor doing business in CT and NY. We are looking for someone interested in building a career with our company in the glass and glazing industry.

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Semac Electric is seeking Electricians (CT Licensed Journeymen & Foremen, E1 and E2) to join our team for medium & large commercial construction projects thru out the State of CT: Hartford, Fairfield & New Haven Counties. We have excellent wages and benefits. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications available at our main office at 45 Peter Court, New Britain, CT or send resume to P.O. Box 638, New Britain, CT 06050 or via fax to 860-229-0406 or email: mailto:careers@semacelectric.com”careers@semacelectric.com

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Semac Electric is seeking Electricians (CT Licensed Journeymen & Foremen, E1 and E2) to join our team for medium & large commercial construction projects thru out the State of CT: Hartford, Fairfield & New Haven Counties. We have excellent wages and benefits. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications available at our main office at 45 Peter Court, New Britain, CT or send resume to P.O. Box 638, New Britain, CT 06050 or via fax to 860-229-0406 or email: mailto:careers@semacelectric.com”careers@semacelectric.com

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CT Junior Republic Human Service Positions CLINICAL COORDINATOR (Danbury, Meriden, Waterbury) (3) FT Positions Available – Conducts client assessment and supervises intake process, develops service plans, provides clinical supervision, provides crisis intervention, prepares reports and cofacilitates service team meetings. Master’s degree and 3 yrs exp in screening, assessment and treatment planning. LCSW, LMFT, or LPC license required.

EDUCATIONAL ADVOCATE (Danbury) FT - Reviews the educational history of clients, advocates for clients and coordinates services with school districts and provides academic testing and tutoring. Master’s with 2 yrs exp or Bachelor’s with 3 yrs exp.

THERAPIST (New Britain) FT – Provides evaluations and individualized treatment plans, both clinic-based and community/ home-based treatment services utilizing the A-CRA and ACC models of care to youth and families.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN MOVING TO WORK 2017 ANNUAL PLAN

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Section VB of the Authority’s Moving to Work Agreement (the “Agreement”) requires that before the Agency can file its Approved Annual Moving to Work Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (the “HUD”) that it must conduct a public hearing, consider comments from the hearing on the proposed amendments, obtain approval from the Board of Commissioners, and submit the amendments to HUD. Pursuant to said Section VI B, the Authority will conduct a public hearing on May 31, 2016 at 4:00 PM, in the 3rd floor Board of Commissioners Conference Room at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 to receive comments and recommendations. A copy of the Plan will be available for review starting May 2, 2016 on the Authority’s website at www.elmcitycommunities.com or can be picked up at the front desk in the main lobby area at 360 Orange Street. You are invited to provide written comments addressed to HANH MTW 2015 Plan, Attn: Maza Rey, P.O. Box 1912, New Haven, CT 06509-1912. Any individuals requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing may call Teena Bordeaux, Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator for HANH at 498-8800 extension 1507 or at the TDD Number 497-8434.

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