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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

Teen Crews Brighten City’s Fire Hydrants

by NATALIE KAINZ

Azaria Green took a break Friday from maintaining and brightening New Haven’s fire hydrants, to watch Mayor Justin Elicker try his hand.

Every week for six weeks this summer, 15-year-old Azaria has been going out into the streets to maintain the city’s fire hydrants.

She starts by taking the caps off each hydrant. Next, she scrubs the nozzle for rust and lubricates it to ensure that firefighters will be able to remove the caps in an emergency. Finally, she paints the fire hydrant a bright, canary yellow.

Fire hydrant maintenance is only one part of Azaria’s role as one of nearly 50 teens in the city’s Youth Ambassador Program. During the rest of the week, she and her team are out picking up trash, learning life skills from their supervisors, and finding new ways to beautify the community.

The program is a collaboration among the police department, Livable City Initiative, and the parks and public works department. It aims to get young people involved in their communities and give them an opportunity to earn some extra pay.

“I’m looking forward to watching the mayor paint a fire hydrant,” Azaria said at a press event at the Dwight police substation on Friday. “We’ve been out here all day!”

The rest of Azaria’s crew, Fire Chief John Alston Jr., and Acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez. stood by to watch Mayor Justin Elicker learn to paint a fire hydrant.

“How’s my technique?” Elicker asked, while lubricating a nozzle under Azaria’s watchful eye.

Each crew consists of five youths, who started working on July 12. There are 12 teams working across the city; the teens are paid $13 dollars an hour. Typically, they work from 9 a.m. to 2:30 or 3 in the afternoon.

When the teens work on fire maintenance, it typically takes them about 20 minutes per hydrant with two people working on each one.

Alston gave the youth some tips to make the task easier.

“The trick is to not look at the cap when you’re putting it back on,” said Alston.

“If you’re looking at the cap, things won’t line up the way they should.”

Fire property maintenance technician Michael Ingrassia helped train the youth ambassador crews. He said they were attentive and eager to learn. Many of them were able to grasp the importance of the task for public safety.

“If there’s any cracks in the fire hydrant from rust, they explode,” explained Ingrassia. “A lot of pressure comes through them all at once.”

Each youth team is supervised by a staff member from the city Youth and

Recreation Department. Shadece McFadden, 32, said that in addition to teaching the youths how to do community service tasks, she teaches them skills like putting together a resume, dressing for a job interview, setting up a bank account, and cashing a paycheck.

“They’re teaching me stuff as much as I am teaching them,” said McFadden. “I had whole conversations with them about being comfortable in your own skin, combatting racism, and understanding what PTSD is — it’s about life lessons as well as learning these skills.”

Jovany Velez — another youth ambassador on the team — said that while he enjoys working on the fire hydrants, his favorite memory is actually from cleaning up.

“Yesterday there was a corner next to 200 Orange St. where we were cleaning that had a lot of trash,” said Jovany, 14.

“When we were done, it was just so good to see it clean.”

Both Azaria and Velez said they might consider joining the fire department one day. Alston and Dominguez said that recruitment to the police and fire departments is a secondary goal of the program.

“Police officers are coming in and out of these substations all the time and interacting [with the youths],” said Dominguez. “We’re just grateful that we can utilize our substations in the summer programming.”

NATALIE KAINZ PHOTO Azaria Green.

14-year-old Alexis Polanco lubricates the nozzle.

Church “Vax” Party Reaches Teens, Seniors

by NATALIE KAINZ

New Haven Independent

Some finally had enough information to feel comfortable. Others wanted to travel safely. Some came for the free pizza.

Whatever the reason, 30 people got their first Covid-19 shots Thursday, after six months of waiting, at a church pop-up that’s part of New Haven’s race to stay ahead of the Delta variant and contain the pandemic by reaching the unvaccinated.

The health department collaborated with several local nonprofits and the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center held the pop-up event, titled “Get the vax, periodtt,” at Saint Paul’s Union American Methodist Episcopal Church at Dwight and Chapel.

Although the event was targeted at youths, people as old as 65 came to get vaccinated — and pick up the $25 gift cards, pizza, and sweet treats offered to those who attended.

“I just had to wait for the perfect time when everyone was getting it,” said 15-year-old Milton Jackson, who received his first shot of Pfizer.

Jackson’s grandmother Annette Yancey cheered him on: “Don’t look at the nee-

Asani and James Hall munch on free pizza after getting vaccinated.

dle! Look at me!”

Although Yancey was already vaccinated, she brought her grandkids — Milton and his two teenage siblings — to the event because she didn’t want to worry

about them getting sick anymore.

“They were nervous about the needle.

But I told them if grandma can get it, there’s nothing to be afraid of,” said Yancey.

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Both 13-year-old Jonathan Cuapio and 15-year-old Brianna Ruffin came to get vaccinated because they were worried about getting other people sick. Their parents encouraged them to go to the event.

According to pediatrician Tamiko Jackson, parental influence is often a huge barrier to youths getting vaccinated. Jackson and dietician Robert Blocker were on site at the event to answer questions from those with concerns.

“A lot of children actually want the vaccine, but the hesitancy stems from the parents,” said Jackson. “Reassurance is about making sure we get the parents on board.”

City Health Director Maritza Bond said having clinical staff who can educate while they vaccinate is the best way to assuage concerns. Flyers were available at the event explaining how children can have “the talk” about getting vaccinated with their parents.

“The plan is to have a space where kids can come and ask questions,” said Sara Keiling, Cornell Scott’s Covid-19 vaccine program director. “The more we can engage with the community and the more

information we can give, the better.”

Bond said that another step in reducing vaccine hesitancy is the involvement of community leaders. That includes leaders like St. Paul’s Rev. Westin Robinson, who collaborated with the city to organize the event.

“What better way to love one another than to get vaccinated so we can all come back together?” said Robinson, while partaking of one of the free snow cones given away at the event.

Robinson’s efforts to publicize the event at church prompted 61-year-old Karen Wilkinson to attend. Wilkinson said she got vaccinated because she has asthma and wanted to be with her family without having to worry.

Patricia Norton, 62, also heard about the event through the church. For Norton, getting vaccinated meant having the freedom to travel.

“After my brother told me he had Covid, he said, ‘You don’t want to get that sick,’” said Norton. “I want to travel to see my brother’s granddaughter for the first time in Pennsylvania.”

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

New Haven Gives Friends A PU$H Into Fashion

by BRIAN SLATTERY

New Haven Independent

PU$H is a clothing line run by three friends who grew up together around New Haven — Shannon Harrell, Jr., Johnathan Mitchell, and Jamon Rouse — with a passion for sports, fashion, and improving the situation for themselves and their community. But it’s really the product of a family, the “family we chose,” Mitchell said.

Since it officially opened for business in 2015, PU$H has been making everything from T-shirts and hoodies to sweatpants, socks, and bathing suits, one season at a time; it just released its summer line of clothes through its website this week. The clothes are designed to be athletic and to look good, but the entire line also has a message to impart.

“It all starts with what our community had given us,” Mitchell said. That New Haven community gave them basketball and football. “It was how kids even know each other coming from different neighborhoods.”

Mitchell and Rouse lived on the same street — Henry Street, near Orchard — growing up. “It was a cool street to live on because there were so many different walks of life,” Mitchell said. “We’re our own little fraternity on Henry Street. There are a lot of kids who grew up around the same age and know each other from when everything was innocent and cool. From my perspective,” growing up there meant that “you understand people’s struggles.

It’s all out in the open. Nobody’s hiding.

Our moms were going through the same things, we were going through the same things. Good or bad, you understood where it comes from. You get a lot of humble people from that street. Even if you didn’t go through half of what your friend went through, you understand it.”

Rouse and Mitchell met as children while playing for the New Haven Steelers, the city’s team in the Pop Warner youth football league. “Our moms used to sit together and watch our games and our practices,” Mitchell said. “We had involved parents.”

The Steelers and high school football later — Harrell and Mitchell played on the same team at West Haven High School — “fostered us knowing each other. It wasn’t until later that we started to find out we had common interests other than sports…. We grew closer together,” Mitchell said.

The move from football to clothing started with Rouse. “It’s always been something I’ve been into,” Rouse said. “Even when I was playing football, I always liked to be fly. On the field, off the field…. If I go to the grocery store, I got to have it on. If I go the laundromat, I got to have it.”

Rouse liked shopping for clothes when he was a kid but he couldn’t afford what he wanted. “So I said, ‘I’ll make my own stuff,’” he said. He had a fashion role model, a barber named Blaze. “He was a straight hood dude,” Rouse said, “but he had talent, and he made me want to tap into my talent more.” Rouse had shied away from drawing and painting as a child. “I didn’t realize how far art could really take

me until I got older,” he said. Blaze “is gone now, but he was the one that really sparked my interest. Now I got influences like Basquiat, Warhol, the Jackson Pollocks of the world.”

“He’s the brainchild when it comes to the clothing and the art,” Mitchell said of Rouse. “That was the initial spark to us having a brand. He had the name in his head and he had the designs.” Rouse starting making clothes at around 18. “Everything was cut myself,” Rouse said, “made straight from hand.” He learned how to make patterns and sew from videos online — “YouTube and Google University,” he said — starting with simpler projects like coin pouches and moving on from there, to garments with zippers and hoods. “It just kept growing and growing,” Rouse said.

He got his fabric from “mom-and-pop stores in Connecticut. Sourcing the fabric has always been the tough part” — and remains so, Herrell said. “You got to be specific.”

“You got to feel it, touch it,” Mitchell said. “it’s one of those intimate deals.”

Herrell had also been drawn to fashion early. “I was already designing before we became a unit, but I didn’t really see myself as a designer,” he said. He worked at a sneaker store in Orange. “That was how I met Rouse,” Herrell said. “He would come to the sneaker store at the time. He knew my co-worker but we didn’t know each other as much. Rouse wasn’t interested in buying anything. He just wanted to hang out.”

“Whoa, whoa,” Rouse said. “I bought a couple sneakers.” They all laughed. But Rouse “was the first person of our age group, of our generation, that I’d ever seen sewing,” Herrell said. “He would come in with these customized hoodies.” Herrell recalled asking Rouse how he made his clothes. It inspired Herrell to try it too.

While they were all students at Southern Connecticut State University, Rouse and Herrell started making clothes together.

“He would come over and we would design together,” Herrell said. “That’s how it began for us.” They showed them around to their friends, who started buying them.

“Spreading the message before it was a brand helped it,” Mitchell said. But “one man can’t sew everything, so we bought another sewing machine. Two men can’t sew everything. You can only sell 10 to 12 of those and not stretch yourself out. So that’s where someone like me came in.”

By then the three of them were just out of Southern, making art, clothes, and music — and working to save money. “I already had a business mind from being younger. I used to make music and was selling beats as a kid,” Mitchell said. “I understood contracts and bartering. I understood how to make the brand a business.” Rouse had the initial ideas; all Herrell and Mitchell had to do, Mitchell said, was “foster them.”

“I saw the potential early,” Mitchell added. “These are my friends, and I believed in them.” He also knew that making a brand wasn’t going to be a “quick thing.

BRIAN SLATTERY PHOTOS Jamon and July Rouse, Johnathan Mitchell, and Shannon Harrell, Jr.

With any business, it’s going to take at least five years.”

“Five years is the preface,” Herrell said.

The three friends made their first massproduced run of t-shirts in 2015, using money they saved from their jobs. “We knew we had to be creative,” Mitchell said, to differentiate PU$H from other clothing brands. “That went hand in hand with our message. What we stood for, and how we interacted with each other, we put into the universe. That was our selling point at first.

This is a shirt, but if you know us as people, you know we like high-quality stuff.

We could make something simple and turn it into timeless. We’re hustling and trying to get money, but we’re not going to short our customer.”

That was one part of the message. For Rouse, the ideas were even broader. “No matter what obstacles you face in life, just keep pursuing what you’re doing,” he said.

He flipped the word “push” to make it its mirror image for a reason. It meant that, if wearers looked at themselves in the mirror, they would get the message themselves. If they wore it out in the street, they could project that message onto others. “It’s to bring the world together,” Rouse said. “it’s deeper than clothes. My main thing when starting it was: ‘how can I do something of substance, and have a real impact on my community? How do I lead the youth without being preachy-preachy?”

PU$H started with a single box of 100

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T-shirts and one design. “It was a box of shirts, and us driving around, hand-tohand transactions,” Mitchell said. Herrell remembered the same. “We were utilizing our social capital,” he said. “John is a musician. Rouse is a painter. My college experience brought a whole bunch of eyes as a social activist…. People liked us as people.”

They wrapped the T-shirts in brown paper tied with string, reminiscent of packaging for drugs. That was part of the message, too. “We’re flipping the narrative,” Rouse said. “We know people whose parents were plagued by drugs,” Mitchell said.

“We’re not ‘80s babies, but crack stayed in the neighborhood past the ‘80s, past the ‘90s. So we flipped it.” Drugs, he said, “are not our pillar. Our pillar is being creative.

The narrative’s been changed now.”

They sold out their first run of shirts, made enough to do another run of clothes, and grew steadily from there. They branched out into hoodies and sweatpants, socks and swimsuits. They made clothes they wanted to wear and wanted to see on other people.

They found and built a relationship with a shop in Pakistan to produce their designs, keeping professionalism high from concept to manufacture to shipping, and “standing for what we’re standing on,” Mitchell said.

They opened their online store for PU$H in 2019. During the pandemic shutdown, they saw sales improve as people shopped

that much more from their homes. They also saw their clothes appearing on social media, as people took pictures of themselves wearing PU$H clothing.

“A lot of our sales are people we don’t know now,” Herrell said. “I’m never going to get tired of seeing people wearing our stuff.”

They do short runs by season, gauging interest from customers, selling out a line, and moving on to the next designs. “We can gauge it so that we’re never losing,” Mitchell said. They’ve been able to finetune their marketing, learning “how to turn it into a success,” Herrell said. “We still have an athlete mentality. All the good stuff behind the scenes is all season training. Once we’re dealing with our manufacturers and our product, it’s like practice.

And then game day is releasing stuff.”

Recently they produced a commercial to help get the word out further about what they’re doing. “Our community messaging is big now,” Mitchell said. The trio “push heritage — things that promote thinking about what you’re doing and moving your body.” One item, the thinking cap, was inspired heavily by Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro.

“He was showing the school system we evolved in and what it’s doing to the Black community. My college experience is almost the same as what he was talking about in 1920. Not a lot has changed,” Mitchell said. “We come from the same poverty, you might say.” The trio was inspired to “push that message through in our way. We’re going to be of one accord.

We’re going to be eclectic, and we’re going to embrace the people with talent, embrace the people with art. We’re going to make money and share information. That’s where we’re pushing it to. That’s what we do for each other.”

They have ideas for getting their clothes into existing brick-and-mortar stores, or possibly getting their own storefront, which could double as a workspace for them. And they have long-term plans to build a company with an eye toward possibly giving it to Rouse’s 1-year-old child, July.

“This business is supposed to last until he wants to take it over,” Mitchell said. “He’s grown up around this his whole life. Wherever big Rouse goes, little Rouse goes.

He’s soaking it all in, so his future’s going to be a different route. He can go to college like his uncles if he wants to, or he could run a business if he wants to. That wasn’t an option that was given to us. We had to take what we’ve seen and implement it ourselves, and do a lot of groundwork.

It’s a brand, and it’s a clothing company, but by the time he’s 18 it’s going to be a corporation.”

“This is a whole new monster now,” he added.

“Breaking generational curses,” Rouse said. “That’s what this was founded on.”

Visit PU$H’s website for its current season of clothing and archives of previous designs.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

DeLauro & DC Crew Bring Home The Bacon

by ISAAC YU

New Haven Independent

New Haven’s federal delegation came home Friday with big smiles — and big pots of money for local families and businesses.

At two separate events in town, at the YMCA and the Shubert theater, the federal officials joined local movers and shakers to celebrat two pieces of the American Rescue Plan, a landmark $91 million Covid-relief stimulus that Congress passed in March.

One is an expansion of the child tax credit, the result of an 18-year campaign led by New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Families are receiving their first checks under the expansion, which promises to slash the number of children living in poverty by more than half.

Meanwhile, the Shuttered Venues Operators Grant program, geared towards performing arts spaces that have been closed since the early stages of the pandemic, will provide relief to venues across town as they gear up for a returned fall season.

A Child’s “Miracle” Last Friday, New Haven families, along with millions of others across the nation, received their first monthly check from the federal government in the amount of $300 for children under 6 and $250 for those ages 6 to 17. The money came with no strings attached, and went to nearly everyone, including families in the lowest tax brackets.

Experts expect the historic, once-in-ageneration benefit to lift 55 percent of children, or 27 million families, out of poverty.

That was the news Congresswoman DeLauro celebrated inside the New Haven YMCA on Friday.

She then urged eligible families who have not claimed the credit — there are 25,000 in Connecticut — to do so as soon as possible.

“It is imperative that youngsters and their families receive this money,” DeLauro said. “This is the cost of food, the cost of diapers, healthcare, for middle class families, lower class families, and working class families. There is still time!”

On Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Internal Revenue Service will hold an event at the Taxpayer Assistance Center at 150 Court S. to help families apply for the credit. Those who apply in the weeks to come will be able to receive payments for both July and August, she said.

Connecticut’s two U.S. senators, Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, joined her at the podium at the YMCA. They stressed the importance of making

JAMI LARUE PHOTO DeLauro with constituent at YMCA event.

the credi permanent, an effort Blumenthal tied to broader talks in D.C. on an infrastructure bill.

“We cannot afford to do the roads and bridges and leave out our kids, or not take care of the human being,” Blumenthal said. “The infrastructure program will be incomplete, and it won’t be approvable, without a permanent child tax credit on it. If we walk away from these children, we will be a lesser nation.”

President Biden has voiced support for the permanence, he added.

Mercedes Robinson, a single mother of children ages 8, 4, and 1, applauded DeLauro at the event. After going back to school to study psychology last August, Robinson said during remarks to the press, she is just five classes away from graduating. The tax credit will help her finish her degree.

“The child tax credit can help me alleviate some of the financial burden and allow me to focus on school and providing for my children,” she said.

Both senatorsheaped praise upon DeLauro’s long-term advocacy. She first introduced the legislation in 2003, then

in the next ten consecutive Congressional sessions.

Murphy spoke of the wider economic impact of having more disposable income in the city, describing the credit as a “miracle.”

“This money is the difference for families living in poverty and being able to pay their bills,” Murphy said. “It also gets spent right here in New Haven. If not for Rosa DeLauro, this would not have happened.”

Throughout the speeches, the Congresswoman’s eyes were glued to two small children present, whom she immediately went to greet after the conference. The money, she said during her speech, could help not only make ends meet but enrich the childhoods of Connecticut’s children.

“Let’s give them swim lessons!” she shouted.

SVOG: “The Lights Are On Today!”

The Congresswoman and senior senator regrouped following the first event just a few blocks away on the stage of the Shubert Theatre on College Street.

There, they touted the Shuttered Venues Operators Grant (SVOG), which

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will funnel $90 million to Connecticut performance venues, including $3.96 million to those in New Haven.

“These theaters are our cultural heritage that we lose at our peril, and thankfully they’re going on strong this fall,” said Blumenthal.

Among the speakers was Anthony McDonald, executive director of the Shubert Theatre, which will receive funding alongside the Long Wharf Theater, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the Square Foot Theatre and Tavern, Café 9, and other venues.

Cultural wealth generates economic wealth, McDonald said, bringing audiences to support nearby businesses as well as the venues’ employees.

“Supporting the arts in the country, and more importantly in Connecticut, will help get the economy back on its feet,” McDonald said. “When we are open, downtowns benefit.”

Café 9 owner Paul Mayer echoed that sentiment, calling the grant “a new lease on life” for his venue after the pandemic almost forced him to close permanently to avoid financial ruin.

Catherine Marx, who directs the Small Business Administration’s Connecticut District, said that some SVOG funding remains to be doled out and encouraged eligible businesses to apply.

The Shubert, which has operated in New Haven since 1913 (with some years of hiatus), holds deep memories for long-time New Haveners. Mayor Justin Elicker showed up on Friday, recalling a turn on stage singing Justin Bieber lyrics while strumming a guitar.

The venue’s upcoming season includes musicals like Anastasi and Hairspray.

DeLauro performed at numerous dance recitals at the Shubert as a youngster, and gave a brief tap performance on Friday in her red heels to admiring onlookers. She helped revive the theater while working under then-Mayor Frank Logue in the 1970s and holds her election night events on its stage.

Declaring “the lights are on today!”, she quoted author Jhumpa Lahiri: “The power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, change us. What are we searching for when we read a novel, see a film, listen to a piece of music? We are searching, through a work of art, for something that alters us, that we weren’t aware of before.”

Thomas Quagliano, a stagehand at the Shubert, spoke of the hope he and other members of the stagehand union Local 74 have, and the enduring strength of his theatre, which has held contracts with the union for over a century.

“This offers us a light at the end of a very long tunnel,” he said.

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Newhallville Celebrates Nuclear-Free Lot THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven Independent

Gov. Ned Lamont, a dozen middle school students, a local landlord, and two Newhallville alder candidates walked onto a vacant lot—to celebrate that now, after decades of contamination, the site of a former Shelton Avenue nuclear manufacturing site is finally clean and ready to be repurposed.

That celebratory press conference and site visit took place Monday afternoon at 71 Shelton Ave. A year and a half after remediation work on the property first began in October 2019—and 500 trucks, 10,000 tons of removed materials, and 100 soil samples later—the site was officially approved for “unrestricted use” in March.

Lamont joined Newhallville neighbors and state and federal officials at the site on Monday to fete that cleanup, and to imagine what might one day stand where a long-dilapidated former nuclear fuel manufacturing facility has since been removed.

The $14 million cleanup was funded by the federal Department of Energy (DOE), and was overseen by the site’s former owner, General Electric (GE).

The property is now owned by local landlord Schneur Katz. The DOE plans to install historical panels on the back

SOPHIE SONNENFELD PHOTO Gov. Lamont (center), Kim Harris (left), and Harris Tucker school students celebrate the newly cleaned lot.

end of the property to recognize the legacy of the site.

“GE did a great job of listening to our input and making sure that we did it right. This site’s got a long history as a big part of helping us in the Cold War, but that’s the legacy you want on the

site, not what’s left behind on the site,” said DEEP Radiation Division Director Jeffrey Semancik on Monday.

Semancik said that as asbestos, lead dust, and residual enriched uranium debris were removed, they ensured it was all packaged and sprayed down so

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DEEP Supervising Radiation Control Physicist from the Radiation Division Michael Firsick said that after extracting remnants of manufactured radioactive material, any amount of radioac-

tive material left now is of a “natural background” level.

He said they conducted close to 100 soil samples across the property to confirm those levels.

“The amount of radioactive material we found here wasn’t a public health and safety risk to the neighborhood or the environment but it was material that you wouldn’t want to ingest. And if the building collapsed, you wouldn’t want people walking through it,” Firsick said.

Firsick and Semancik spoke about the process and showed Lamont photos of the lot before the remediation while welcoming him to the now-clean site.

A group of young students from Harris and Tucker School summer care presented the governor with a certificate of appreciation.

Lamont praised the cleanup work and the collaboration between organizations and community leaders involved.

“It brings the community back to life and hey, kids, it also shows you we really love you and care about you.

That’s why people put in a lot of effort to take this place that was sort of messy, unhealthy, and unsafe and you guys decide what should be here next. It’ll be something a lot better than what we had here before.”

West Hills Heals THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

by MAYA MCFADDEN

West Hills residents were embraced and prayed over for a day of healing from the city’s violence, lack of accessibility to resources, and the mental effects of the Covid pandemic.

Ward 30 Democratic Co-Chair Iva Johnson organized the Day of Healing event Saturday to gather the community to heal together rather than alone. Residents listened to gospel music, prayers, and singing from their front porches from the McConaughy Terrace basketball court.

Local vendors tabled at the event to promote the personal healing aspects in their work. Free hotdogs and chips were provided by Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe.

Upon This Rock Ministries sponsored the event with on-the-spot spiritual support for the community.

“There’s some deep rooted pain here,” said Johnson.

Pastor Christine Perry, Minster John Perry, Overseer Rosa McCooter, and Elder Felicia McLaurin from Upon This Rock Ministries prayed with residents

and shared about the church’s community resources. Pastor Perry prayed for healing from Covid, gun violence, drug addiction, homelessness, and job loss.

“We’re not targeting just their spiritual well being but their mental, emotional, and physical needs,” Perry said.

The church provided free business clothes to visitors to wear for job interviews.

Perry encouraged visitors to get vaccinated to help the city heal from the Covid and the effects of the pandemic. Upon This Rock Ministries simultaneously ran a vaccination clinic at its base on Grand Avenue during the event.

In a prayer over homeless mother and daughter Aida Crespo and Jaritza Ramos, McLaurin and McCooter urged the pair to “believe in the power of the Lord.”

“Dispatch angels of protection around this family,” McLaurin said in the prayer.

“We thank you Lord for sending them here.”

West Hills Alder Honda Smith urged the community to not give up on the youth but to help them heal by listening and en-

West Haven Gets A New Bakery! Gatisonella

West Haven Planning & Zoning Commissioner Steven R. Mullins congratulates Tabitha Gatison, owner of Gatisonella Bakery on Wagner Place in West Haven.

Mullins holds what he refers to as, “The best banana pudding in town.” In addition to Mullins, last Saturday’s opening was attended by numerous City residents and several City officials including West Haven Councilwoman Bridgette Hoskie, who participated in the ribbon cutting.

The opening of Gatisonella is the fulfillment of Gatison’s lifelong dream of opening and operating a bakery. Gatisonella Bakery is the first family owned bakery in the City of West Haven since Peshel’s Bakery closed in 2013 after a 67 year run on lower Campbell Avenue.

gaging with them. “You got to love them in spite of the good, bad, and the indifferent,” she said.

Smith added that the violence in the city and lack of healing from it should be declared a public health crisis.

Sharonda Washington read a poem/ prayer called “Believe” at the event while wearing the motorcycle vest belonging to her older brother, who died in 2017.

The back of the vest pictured her cousin Lakida Williams, who died of sickle cell disease.

Washington has been a missionary for 23 years, helping community members get through hard times like what she experienced. Washington lost three of her brothers in New Haven and, 11 years ago, her husband. She was 11 when she lost her first brother.

Washington sang a gospel song and read a poem to “lift spirts” and “pass on God’s message.”

“I got on that microphone for the Lord,” she said.

Dance teacher and performer Earl AliRandall performed an African dance at the event to promote the outlet of the arts for healing.

New Lifestyles Empowerment founder Janice Murray distributed with a group of volunteers wellness bags full of supplies like body wash, toothpaste, and tooth brushes.

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Murray’s nonprofit provides mentorship and skill-building workshops to support women facing drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, and reentry into society.

In addition to the wellness bags, the group encouraged community members to attend the organizations’ weekly Virtual Empowerment Lounge for women to share their experiences and support each other.

Murray came to New Haven 15 years ago for a treatment program for her own addictions, then founded the nonprofit in 2010.

Twice a month the organization hits the streets and distributes wellness bags and information about the virtual lounge to the community.

“If you reach the women you reach the children and the community,” Murray said.

URU The Right To Be Inc. joined the event to promote self care in the community. Our Humanity Initiative Project Director Meredith Benson provided visitors with essential oils and a conversation about the the effects the pandemic has had on the community.

The event ended with a closing prayer

by Perry.

“Lord we thank you right now God for the divine connection that you have allowed us to connect today,” she said.

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Newhallville

“They did a good job, but we’ve got other sites in this community that we need to talk about,” Rev. Boise Kimber said at Monday’s event.

“They did an excellent job, they kept the community informed on every step.

We felt like we were a part of what you were doing. This community has suffered over the years with contamination and so this is a beginning.”

What’s Coming Next?

Shepard Street block watch captain, community gardener, and Newhallville alder candidate Addie Kimbrough visited the site every month. She said the organizations working on the cleanup sent out thorough reports and always came to management team meetings.

Kimbrough said she would like to see affordable housing in the empty lot— “very affordable housing.” Additionally, she said there should be a way to incorporate some kind of community space.

“Even if you have affordable housing here you can have a park where the children can play. It doesn’t have to take up the whole space.”

Secretary for the Newhallville Community Management Team, state legislative aide, and fellow Newhallville alder candidate Devin Avshalom-Smith said he would like to see business spaces or housing spring up in the lot.

“Something that would generate revenue that would stay in the community.”

Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris, runs Harris and Tucker School, said the kids took a poll on what they want to see built in the property. They landed on a farm with lots of animals, a playground, or tennis courts.

Harris grew up in Newhallville and said she still remembers how dilapidated the lot looked when she was a kid.

“To see it now with all the possibilities is beautiful.”

“You really help to elevate the community by keeping us in the loop. We just want to keep these types of things happening in our neighborhood where we become more educated, where this generation really has a chance to make a difference in how they live.”

Eleven-year-old Spirite Watson who is from Newhallville came with the Tucker and Harris School group Monday afternoon.

As for her vision of the lot, Watson said, “I hope that it turns into a playground so more children can play.”

Local landlord Schneur Katz, who owns the property and the office building next door at 91 Shelton Ave., also attended Monday’s event.

Katz said he is currently “exploring different options” for the lot.

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Can the presentation of 100-year-old sociological data be called art? tion offered by the Southern states. Working with his students and a modest budget in only four months they created “The Exhibit of American Negroes”. The show was a complete success in Paris and won numerous medals including a gold medal for the overall exhibition.The exhibit included almost 500 photographs of African Americans, four bound volumes of over 400 patents by African Americans, included African-American art and sculpture. The exhibition had over 50 millions visitors from all over the world.

Recently, Artspace displayed 30 of Du Bois’ data portraits arranged into four categories: Migration, Property, Family and Work. Because the colors are water colors applied by hand, they possess an artistic feeling usually absent from other scientific graphs. Yet it was more than the simple use of water colors that earned these works high artistic merit.

Almost ten years earlier Dubois had been awarded a grant to study in Germany. He wanted to go to Berlin which at the time was one of the most modern cities in the world. Just a year before Du Bois’s arrival, electric lights had replaced the gas lights and many buildings now had central heating and ventilation. It was in Berlin and no doubt also traveling in Paris where he was exposed to the young artists and ideas that eventually would develop into Fauvism and Bauhaus. Fauvism broke from Impressionism and demanded bold and vibrant colors

by Andrew Kaplan

The current exhibition at Artspace of New Haven answers this question in the affirmative with the provocative exhibit, “W.E.B. Du Bois, Georgia, and His Data Portraits.”

After getting a PhD from Harvard, DuBois turned to the relatively new discipline of sociology. He thought that by studying sociology’s scope of history, statistics, and demographics he could better understand the challenges as well as the accomplishments of his fellow African Americans. He revealed “life within the Veil,” as Du Bois called the structural forces of oppressions that separated black and white populations, and hindered the advancements of African Americans.

The African-American lawyer, Thomas Calloway, a classmate of Dubois at Fisk University and part of the American delegation to the 1900 Paris World’s Fair, invited Du Bois to organize an exhibition on Black life. At the time Du Bois was teaching sociology at Atlanta University as one of the first professors of sociological theory and empirical methodologies.

The Data Portraits by DuBois - or what we today call “infographics’’ - were shown at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair under the title, “Exhibit of American Negroes”. The goal of the exhibit was to present an accurate representation of African Americans in the United States that contrasted with the misleading informa-

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that were simple and exaggerated. Followers of Bauhaus emphasized simple geometric design with little or no decoration. They also created a new family of sleek graphic fonts. DuBois infographics predate both schools by five years and 15 years, respectively.

CITY AND RURAL POPULATION 1890 clearly demonstrates DuBois avantgarde thinking. Most scientists would create a simple bi-colored bar chart. Instead he utilizes four vibrant Fauvist colors with a Bauhaus-like simplicity floating on a huge blank sheet of paper. As further evidence of his genius, he takes four data points and creates a work of art so simple to evoke the American Modernist, Frank Stella. To emphasize the greater frequency of African-American living in the country and villages he created a “DuBois” spiral. The blank background highlights and strengthens the simplicity of the colored curved lines.

In ASSESSED VALUATION OF ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY OWNED BY GEORGIA NEGROES, is another example of Dubois’ intellect and tenacity.

Unhappy with the traditional tools for graphing data he creates his own. Dubois employs a bulls-eye design reminiscent of Jasper Johns bulls-eye painting of the 60’s. A black center highlights $5,337,885 in 1987. Successive concentric circles in bold blue, yellow and red dramatically underscore the increasing wealth of African-American. This use of concentric circles is a hopeful statement saying that the circles of their wealth will be like circles emanating from a stone thrown in a pond. The outer circles will continue to grow in size.

NEGRO BUSINESS MEN IN THE UNITED STATES Various, pure, glowing colored squares and rectangles are used to detail the total salary of various professions. These brightly colored blocks float on the blank paper reminiscent of Rothko’s work foreshadowing the modernistic colored squares of Mondrian who also was a fan of the Fauvists.

DuBois was truly one of the great intellectuals of the 19th century. He even corresponded with Albert Einstein in German. As a professor of Sociology he was desperate to share and show data concerning African-Americans by any means necessary. Because standard graphing tools were not powerful enough, he created his own data language often incorporating the new emerging ideas of European art. The use of Modernist shape, color and form, predates Europe’s avant-garde movements. The infographics of DuBois are not only artistic, they are visionary.

This show closed Saturday, June 26.

However, you can view and even download high quality copies from https:// publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-eb-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-ofafrican-american-life-1900.

Andrew Kaplan, Walden Pond Designs. Is a long time resident of Guilford, CT.

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‘Mother’ Viola Fletcher Among 200 Black Wall Street Survivors Headed to Ghana

By Stacy Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

On the evening of May 31st, 1921, a vicious white mob from neighboring Tulsa, Oklahoma, descended on the prosperous African American community of Greenwood, intent on murdering, looting and burning that community to the ground.

In the aftermath of the nightmare that unfolded for Greenwood’s Black residents, every home and business was destroyed, at an estimated cost in 1921 dollars of $4.5 million dollars.

Those survivors who weren’t able to escape the conflagration, which included World War 1-era biplanes dropping gas bombs, found themselves being herded at gunpoint into concentration camps.

The number of killed and injured are believed to be in the thousands, a number that included many women and children.

Two of those children, Viola Fletcher, age 7, and her newly born brother, Hughes Van Ellis, now 107 and 100 respectively are survivors of those two terrible days in 1921.

Viola Fletcher – affectionately known as Mother Fletcher – appeared on the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s morning breaking news program, “Let It Be Known,” on Monday, July 19, 2021.

The program, which airs at 7:30 a.m.

EST, can be seen live at Facebook. com/BlackPressUSA/Videos, YouTube. com/c/BlackPressUSATV, and on Twitter @BlackPressUSA. Mother Fletcher, who witnessed most of the violence and horror, says that she’s been haunted every day of her long life with terrible dreams and memories.

“On that first night,” Mother Fletcher recounted, “I went to bed in my family’s home in Greenwood, a community that was rich, not only in terms of wealth, but in culture, community, and heritage.

My family had a beautiful home. We had great neighbors, and I had friends to play with.

She continued: “I felt safe and had everything a child could ask for. I had a bright future ahead of me there in Greenwood, a place that could have given me the chance to truly make a good life in this country. But within a few horrible hours, all of that was gone….”

The night of the Massacre, a young Viola Fletcher was roused with her siblings by her parents, Lucinda Ellis and John Wesley Ford, and were told they had to leave their home immediately.

When the family came out into the street, they were greeted with images of unspeakable violence resembling scenes from Dante’s Inferno!

The smell of acrid smoke and orange hot glow from burning homes, businesses and buildings created a horrific glow in the night sky. Worse of all, the children saw bodies of the dead lying in the streets as the white mob made its way through Greenwood.

“We were lucky. Many people weren’t. I will never forget the violence of the white mob as we made our escape, and to this day I still see Black men being shot, still smell smoke and everything around us on fire,” Mother Fletcher said.

“I still see airplanes flying overhead dropping firebombs. and still hear the screams of terrified people. I relive the

Mother Fletcher Massacre every day.”

In May 2021, as the City of Tulsa, enriched with millions of dollars dedicated to the Centennial of the Tulsa Massacre, Mother Fletcher made an appearance before the United States Congress to give testimony regarding the hardships of her life.

“When my family was forced to leave Tulsa, I lost my chance at a good education. I never finished school past the fourth grade. I never made much money,” Mother Fletcher told Congress.

“My country, the State of Oklahoma,

and City of Tulsa took a lot from me and from so many others. Despite this, I spent time supporting the country during the Second World War, working in California’s shipyards.”

She continued: “But for most of my life, I was a domestic worker serving white families. But to this day, I can barely afford my everyday needs, while the City of Tulsa has unjustly used the names and stories of victims like me to enrich itself while I continue to live in poverty.”

Recently, after years of being relegated as hidden history, the Tulsa Oklahoma/ Black Wall Street Massacre has finally begun to gain its rightful place in the history of the United States of America, with news media interviews and entertainment programs (most notably 60 Minutes on CBS, and HBO’s The Watchmen series), and documentary films retelling the story of the events that took place so long ago in Tulsa, events most people in the United States, until now, had very little knowledge of, and when and if it was spoken of, was classified as a “race riot” which has very different connotations than a massacre.

“Imagine a long life where you saw men walk on the moon, and every conceivable accomplishment of this nation, including the Civil Rights Movement, and even the election of a Black President,” said Dr. Toni Luck, Chief Operating Officer of Our Black Truth, Inc. “And then you have people like Mother Viola Fletcher, who lived to see all of that, but who has been haunted for 100 years by painful memories of all she and others in the Greenwood community suffered those two days from May 30 to June 1, 1921.

“It’s for this reason that my organization and our sponsors are taking Mother Fletcher and Uncle Redd to Africa. When we met her and her brother in Tulsa during the Centennial, she expressed a wish to finally and at last see Africa, a personal dream Mother Fletcher’s had for decades.

“And thanks to my partners, two young African American geniuses, Michael and Eric Thompson, founders of the new social media platform, Our Black Truth, she will, at long last make that wished for

Los Angeles County Returns $75 Million Land to Black Family

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Nearly a century after the government allegedly used trickery and eminent domain to seize their valuable property, the family of Charles and Willa Bruce are finally receiving justice.

Officials in Los Angeles County reportedly have decided to return the family’s Manhattan Beach property that estimates show might be worth as much as $75 million.

The beach resort once flourished while welcoming African American visitors in the 1920s – a time when Black people and other minorities weren’t allowed on White beaches.

The property famously took on the name “Bruce’s Beach.” Meanwhile, descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce had fought for years to have the land returned to the family.

“It was a very important place because there was no other place along the coast of California where African Americans

could actually go and enjoy the water,” Chief Duane Yellow Feather Shepard, the Bruce family historian and spokesperson said in a local interview.

Regularly facing threats and intimidation tactics from the Ku Klux Klan and other White supremacists, the Bruce family maintained their property and kept the resort open.

But in 1924, the city council cited eminent domain as a reason to take the land, reportedly under the guise of building a park. “However, the land remained untouched for years,” the Insider reported.

According to media reports, Willa and Charles Bruce fought back legally but received only $14,000 in compensation.

Now, city officials have placed the value of the property at $75 million.

“When I first realized that the countyowned the property that was once Willa and Charles Bruce’s Beach Lodge, I knew that returning it to the Bruce family was the right thing to do,” Los Angeles County

Supervisor Janice Hahn told CBS Los Angeles in a statement.

“But this is the first time a government has done anything like this, and there were a lot of questions about how it would work.”

For the family and Shepard, there remains more work.

“Our next step will be, once we get that land restored to us, is to go after them for the restitution, for the loss of revenue for 96 years of our family from the business, the loss of generational wealth, and the punitive damages for their collusion with the Ku Klux Klan in disenfranchising our family,” Shepard remarked.

According to media reports, Willa and Charles Bruce fought back legally but received only $14,000 in compensation.

(Photo: Visitors to Bruce’s Beach in 1920, featured in the book “Living the California Dream,” by Alison Rose Jefferson.

Credit...Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection – UCLA)

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Church “Vax” Party

Asani Hall, 13, who received the Pfizer vaccine, wants to travel too — but not quite as far as Pennsylvania. Hall plans to go to Six Flags with her family once she is fully vaccinated.

“It was a good spot [to get vaccinated] because it’s safe, secure, and homely,” said Asani’s father, James Hall. He was vaccinated last month.

Meanwhile, others had even simpler reasons for attending.

“I’m just here for pizza,” said Jaed Avery, who at 8 years old is too young to receive the vaccine but tagged along to the event with his mother.

Popcorn, cotton candy, and snow cones were provided by “Invite Fun Rentals LLC” as incentives. Pop songs played on loudspeakers.

Mayor Justin Elicker said that the event is an effort to combine fun with health because at this stage, creativity is required to encourage people to get vaccinated.

“It’s basically a party here,” said Elicker. “With all the kids going back to school soon, it’s a great time for them to get their first vaccine shots.”

According to Bond, Thursday’s event was the 227th pop-up vaccination booth run by the city. Another event is being held on Friday afternoon at Transformerz Barbershop on Whalley Avenue. It will also feature two nurses who can answer questions and respond to concerns.

While Biden Addresses Voting Rights, VP Harris Hints at Filibuster Remedy

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

While President Joe Biden asserted his discontent with voter suppression laws making their way through legislatures in GOP-led states, Vice President Kamala Harris dropped a bombshell regarding potential plans to sidestep the oppressive filibuster and push through laws to protect the ballot box.

During a speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 13, the President made a “moral case” for voting rights and pledged to do whatever he could to protect ballot access as American votes face “authoritarian and anti-American restrictions.”

At the same time, Vice President Harris hinted to NPR that it might be time to consider unconventional measures to stop Republicans from restricting access and denying certain citizens the right to vote.

The network noted that the Vice President intimated that she had started talks with senators about a voting-rights exception to the filibuster.

“I believe that of all the issues that the United States Congress can take up, the right to vote is the right that unlocks all the other things,” Harris told NPR. “And for that reason, it should be one of its highest priorities.”

When pressed on whether she supported a carveout to the filibuster for voting rights proposed by Congressman James

Clyburn (D-S.C.), Harris said, “I don’t mean this in any offense, but I’m not going to negotiate this way. But I’m certainly having conversations with folks.”

Most legislative bills need at least 60 votes to pass the evenly divided U.S. Senate, meaning at least 10 Republicans must support the measure. The GOP almost unanimously has rejected bills that would make it easier for all Americans to

vote, particularly seniors and minorities.

If Democrats hope to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act or the For the People Act, abolishing the filibuster rule of 60 votes appears necessary.

Or, as Vice President Harris hinted, a way to subvert the filibuster.

In Philadelphia, the President lashed out

at Republicans.

“Some things in America should be simple and straightforward. Perhaps the most important of those things, the most fundamental of those things, is the right to vote,” the President insisted.

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For Cubans, it’s the blockade and the lack of vaccine support

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO

As thousands of Cubans spilled out into streets across the Island in the largest protests against the government in a generation, academics, social justice organizations and national leaders have called on America to take stock of U.S. policies toward Cuba that have added to the Island nation’s suffering.

Rolling power blackouts, food and medicine and medical supply shortages, and a wave of Covid-19 that is out pacing the nation’s ability to administer a scant vaccine supply are the fault lines that have caused Cubans to take to the streets this week in protest.

“Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S. federal government’s inhumane treatment of Cubans and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo.”

The social justice organization issued a statement on Twitter, July 14, urging the Biden Administration to lift the current economic embargo against Cuba, indicating the embargo is responsible for nationwide destabilization.

“This cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cuban’s own right to choose their government, is at the heart of Cuba’s current crisis,” according to Black Lives Matter.

DeWayne Wickham, dean of Morgan State University School of Global Journalism, has sponsored field trips since 2000 for journalists and students to get first-hand experience in Cuba. He, too, sees the U.S. economic embargo combined with the Covid-19 pandemic as contributing factors to the multi-layered

crisis in Cuba.

“Anyone who has been to Cuba recently understands that for half a century, Cuba has been under severe economic pressure from the United States. That’s the backdrop of this crisis that should not be ignored,” Wickham said.

Former President Barack Obama sought to normalize relations with Cuba, opening tourism, educational and professional activity. In 2017, former President Trump rolled back many of the Obama era efforts, and in 2019, imposed even stiffer sanctions on Cuba and as well as other nations who do business with Cuba.

These new restrictions, plus U.S. denial of vaccine support has sent Cuba’s

residents into the streets, Wickham noted.

“You combine an economic boycott and the denial of vaccine support to a country only 90 miles from the U.S. shoreline, and yes the frustration of the population goes up.” Wickham said. We [the U.S.] are giving vaccine to people all over the world, but none to Cuba. The intent is to create a desperate situation.”

U.S. House of Representatives members and committee leadership are also pressuring the U.S. to lift the embargo against Cuba this week. “I call on President Biden to help alleviate the suffering in Cuba by rescinding the Trump era sanctions and offering additional humanitarian and vaccine assistance to the Cuban

people.” U.S. Rep. Gary Meeks, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said in a statement July 12.

Meeks joined more than 75 House members including Representatives Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), and Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), who appealed to President Biden in March to lift the additional sanctions placed on Cubans by the Trump Administration.

In a letter issued March 2, the legislators identified the shortages that have led to this summer’s protests: ”At a time when Cubans are facing acute shortages of food and medicine exacerbated by their preventive economic shutdown, which has

helped to limit the spread of the SARSCoV-2 virus. With the stroke of a pen, you can assist struggling Cuban families and promote a more constructive approach by promptly returning to the Obama –Biden Administration policy of engagement and normalization.”

International leaders have also added their voices to urge Biden to discontinue the Trump administration’s repressive Cuban restrictions. “The first thing that should be done is to suspend the blockade of Cuba as the majority of countries in the world are asking,” said Mexican President Lopez Obrador.

“That would be a truly humanitarian gesture,” he added. “No country in the world should be fenced in, blockaded.”

The Biden administration has encouraged Cuban protests but stopped short at suggesting any change in the status of the current economic sanctions. In a statement released from the White House this week Biden urged the Cuban government to “hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment.”

Cuban President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez responded to Biden’s comments by suggesting that trade sanctions implemented during the Trump administration, have not been lifted by Biden. “Is it not very hypocritical and cynical that you block me that you, who carry out policy that violates human rights of an entire people for more than 60 years, intensify it in the midst of a situation as complex as the pandemic, and you want to present yourself as the big savior?” said DíazCanel via Twitter.

“Lift the blockade. Lift the 243 measures, and we will see how we get along,” said Díaz-Canel.

Indiana State Police Investigating Death of Black Woman in Custody lifting ring that operated from Louisville, Kentucky to Edinburgh, Indiana.

Unable to raise the $4,000 bond, Chappell remained in custody as she awaited a court hearing.

Authorities at the prison said Chappell complained of feeling sick and was rushed to Seymour Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead on Friday, July 16.

“It is unsettling, we want justice, we want answers – we have a lot of questions and no answers,” Ronesha Murrell, Chappell’s sister, told WDRB. Indiana’s Channel 3 news reported that Chappell’s family said they talked to her days prior to her death and she seemed healthy and in good spirits.

“I asked her how was it going, she was like she’s doing okay,” Chappell’s sister, Ronesha Murrell, explained to the news outlet. “We just talked, we just laughed for a little minute, she talked to my son, and we ended the conversation with I love you, she was going to call me back.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Indiana State Police are investigating the death of 23-year-old Ta’neasha Chappel, a Black woman who died after being transported from a Jackson County jail to a local hospital on Friday, July 16.

“It is with extreme sadness that we announce the passing of Ta’Neasha Chappell. She unexpectedly passed away at The Jackson County Jail in Brownstown, Indiana,” wrote Jeffontae Elijah McClain, who has organized a GoFundMe for Chappell’s funeral expenses.

“She was a loving mother, sister, daughter, and friend who touched the lives of many around her. She leaves behind her 10-year-old daughter Nevaeh who will miss her terribly,” McClain continued on the GoFundMe site that so far has raised about $6,412 of a $13,000 goal.

According to law enforcement officials, Indiana State Police arrested Chappell in May alleging she participated in a shop-

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Chappell’s mother told WAVE 3 News her daughter feared for her life in the jail.

“She called every day telling us to get her out of there,” Chappell’s mother, Lavita McClain, said. “‘Mama they’re going to kill me in here, they’re going to kill me in here,’ and she would always say ‘get me out of here if anything happens to me just know that they did it.’”

The family has demanded answers.

“We are all devastated by her loss but are working tirelessly to figure out the events that transpired moments before her passing,” Jeffontae Elijah McClain stated. “In the meantime, we need any help possible to give her the proper burial she deserves.

Any and all help will go to her funeral arrangements and autopsy. On behalf of our family, we truly appreciate your support and encouragement during this time.”

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George Clinton at 80: ‘Funking’ the World Up One Day at a Time

by Barry Anderson, BDO Contributing Writer

From Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and 2Pac to De La Soul, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino and everyone in between, Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton’s music has been sampled by countless artists. If it was a hit song in the mid-late 90’s, it was probably a funkadelic sample in it somewhere. As, the chief architect of funk, Clinton paved the way for G-Funk and without him, we wouldn’t have songs like Warren G’s “Regulate” or Dre’s “Let Me Ride,” De La Soul’s “My, Myself & I”, Tupac’s “Holla if you Hear Me” and numerous other hit records.

Now, at age 80, the ambassador of funk is slowing down his partying days — a lot. In the past couple of years, he has stopped taking drugs and has officially retired from touring, in the traditional sense. He still may be on tour with the band, but he won’t be performing with them.

All of this change is due to his change in health. In 2018, Clinton had a pacemaker put in to help treat a heart condition.

As the mastermind behind ParliamentFunkadelic’s unique sound turns 79 this year, he reflects on his life and all that he’s learned.

“This music is historical,” says Clinton. “And, this is not just the records.

It’s in The Snoop, Dre, Tupac, right up until today. It all samples this music.

The musicians pay for the samples but it doesn’t go to the right people. But, the drugs were a way that these people could get my music and recordings. On drugs, it was a pain in the ass to deal with. I had to clean up just to get respect from people to talk about it.

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Help Haiti) It was while doing what he loves most, the shows now.”

“I have to be cool period,” he contincreating music, that he felt something ues. “I can direct the band but I can’t go was wrong.

“I thought I had vertigo but it was my out there and jump up and down. It’s just body saying, ‘You go. You go sit your overwhelming. You know I’m going to ass down,’” he said with a chuckle. “I try. But you definitely know when it’s went and checked, and oh yeah, it was time to sit your ass down.”

Even though it was later in life that that time. A valve, not in my heart itself, the electrical wires, I had shook them he decided to stop doing drugs, it was loose. I was funkin’ too hard. They told something that he felt needed to be done.

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How Olympic Track and Field Runner Keni Harrison Overcomes a bad Race

by Jasmine Browley, BlackDoctor.org One bad race left track and field runner Keni Harrison contemplating the next four years for her next move.

In 2016, Harrison broke the 28-yearold world record in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds and was undefeated except for July 8, when she was second in her semifinal and sixth in the final.

Unfortunately, Harrison did not qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio 2016.

Now, she’s eager to right that wrong at this year’s Olympics.

“That’s a memory that’s not really going to go away until I go out there and run the way that I want,” she said in an interview.

“So, just having that feeling of not making it, that’s what makes me work hard at training because I’m like, ‘This opportunity is coming again and I’m going to be ready this time.’’

During the lockdown, Harrison said she was blessed to still train. With no 100 hurdles races at all in 2020, she was able to work on her sprinting, a luxury she doesn’t have during a typical season.

Training with sprinters Jenna Prandini, a 2016 Olympian, and Teahna Daniels under coach Edrick Floreal, “I was able

to learn how to run like a sprinter and just really try to perfect my sprinting technique because that’s only going to help me in between the hurdles,” Harrison said in an interview.

“I don’t like losing at practice, so I just try to give it all I’ve got and try to hang onto them and I think that has

only made me faster.”

However, her newfound speed may have tripped her up at her next meet, when she fell really hard for the first time.

Harrison clipped the first hurdle and then stumbled into the second one, crashing to the track.

“It just happened so quick,” she said in an interview, “but going back and looking at the film, it was like I got a great start and I forgot to flex my trail foot.

And just like that, ‘OK, now I’m down on the ground.’”

Fortunately, she just scraped her arm a bit but it shook her confidence a bit.

In practice, she put renewed focus on her trail leg drills and reminded herself, “You need to pay more attention and work on your technique and you can’t forget about it.”

She has been undefeated since, with wins at the Texas Invitational and USATF Golden Games, clocking 12.48 seconds in both events to rank No. 2 on the world list behind Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico (12.32).

Harrison has the top time for American competitors, followed by Tonea Marshall at 12.52.

Now, she will go on to compete for gold in the Olympics for Team USA’s track and field team.

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While Biden Addresses Voting Rights, VP Harris Hints at Filibuster Remedy

counted. The Democratic threshold is liberty. With it, anything is possible. Without it, nothing, nothing.

“This is a test of our time,” Biden continued.

He called the suppression laws in places like Texas and Georgia the most significant test of American democracy since the Civil War. “That’s not hyperbole — since the Civil War,” the President remarked.

“The Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on Jan. 6. I’m not saying this to alarm you. I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”

The President explained that things could and should be different.

“We have the means — we just need the will. The will to save and strengthen our democracy,” Biden exclaimed.

“We have to prepare now. As I said time and again, no matter what, you can never stop the American people from voting.

They will decide, and the power must always be with the people. That’s why just

like we did in 2020. We have to prepare for 2022.”

The President concluded that the push for voting rights legislation must continue. “[The For the People Act] would help end voter suppression in states. Get dark money out of politics. Give voice to people. Create fair district maps and end partisan political gerrymandering,” the President argued.

“As soon as Congress passes the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, I will sign it and let the whole world see it. That will be an important moment.”

If Democrats hope to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act or the For the People Act, abolishing the filibuster rule of 60 votes appears necessary. Or, as Vice President Harris hinted, a way to subvert the filibuster. (Photo: “When I think about @repjohnlewis, and all the folks who marched from Selma to Montgomery, I am always inspired by their resilience, by their strength, and by their fight for America to achieve her ideals.” | The United States Senate - Office of Senator Kamala Harris)

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

Jamaica Seeking $10.6 Billion in Slave Trade Reparations from Great Britain

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

That free and inhumane labor greatly enriched the slave owners.

Britain prohibited trade in slaves in its empire in 1807 but did not formally abolish the practice of slavery until 1834. To compensate slave owners, the British government took out a 20-million-pound loan – or $27.7 million U.S. – and only finished paying off the subsequent interest payments in 2015.

ing reparations to African Americans.

The commission’s mission includes identifying the role of federal and state governments in supporting the institution of slavery, forms of discrimination in public and private sectors against freed slaves and their descendants, and lingering adverse effects of slavery on living African Americans and society.

Congresswoman Jackson Lee, who sits on numerous House committees, including the Judiciary, Budget, and Homeland Security, has made the reparations legislation her top priority during the 117th Congress.

“I think if people begin to associate this legislation with what happened to the descendants of enslaved Africans as a human rights violation, the sordid past that violated the human rights of all of us who are descendants of enslaved Africans, I think that we can find common ground to pass this legislation,” Congresswoman

Jackson Lee pronounced.

In Jamaica, officials displayed shackles, coffles, slave collars, cotton screws, bear traps, branding irons, and other items used to control slaves as stirring evidence for the case for reparations.

“We need a sense of outrage directed at those who could do such things to other human beings,” Verene Shepherd, a Jamaican resident, wrote in a petition on the Facebook page of the country’s National Council on Reparations.

“Reparations now,” Shepherd declared.

According to the National Library of Jamaica, about 600,000 Africans landed in Jamaica during the slave trade.

“Seized from Spain by the English in 1655, Jamaica was a British colony until it became independent in 1962,” the Reuters report noted. “The West Indian country of almost three million people is

part of the Commonwealth, and the British monarch remains head of state.”

Britain prohibited trade in slaves in its empire in 1807 but did not formally abolish the practice of slavery until 1834.

To compensate slave owners, the British government took out a 20-million-pound loan – or $27.7 million U.S. – and only finished paying off the subsequent interest payments in 2015.

Slaves and their descendants have never received compensation.

“I am asking for the same amount of money to be paid to the slaves that were paid to the slave owners,” Mike Henry, a member of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party, told Reuters.

“I am doing this because I have fought against this all my life, against chattel slavery, which has dehumanized human life.”

OP-ED: The Movement for Justice Will Not Be Deterred OUR VOICES

By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just undercut the Voting Rights Act again. Having gutted the section that required pre-approval of state voting laws to protect the rights of minorities to vote in Shelby v. Holder, Republican-appointed justices now have castrated the backup clause — Section 2 — which bans racial discrimination in election practices in Brnovich v. DNC. The result will open the floodgates even further to the wave of partisan laws that Republicans are pushing in states across the country to suppress the

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Jamaica has put a price tag on slavery and is sending the British government the bill.

State officials of the Caribbean nation said they are asking Great Britain to pay $10.6 billion (USD) in reparations.

The former British colony served as the center of the slave trade, where Africans were kidnapped, enslaved, and forced to work on sugar cane, bananas, and other plantations.

“We are hoping for reparatory justice in all forms that one would expect if they are to really ensure that we get justice from injustices to repair the damages that our ancestors experienced,” Olivia Grange, Minister of Sports, Youth, and Culture, told the Reuters news service.

“Our African ancestors were forcibly removed from their home and suffered unparalleled atrocities in Africa to carry out forced labor to the benefit of the British Empire. Redress is well overdue.”

In the U.S., Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee has pushed H.R. 40, a bill to form a commission to study reparations for African American victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

“Has anyone addressed the question of slavery and its comprehensive impact on Black Americans in this country? This is what H.R. 40 will do,” Jackson Lee remarked.

While H.R. 40 doesn’t place a specific monetary value on reparations, it does focus on investigating and presenting the facts and truth about the unprecedented centuries of brutal enslavement of African people, racial healing, and transformation.

The bill would fund a commission to study and develop proposals for provid-

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votes of African Americans and other people of color. The right-wing justices continue their assault on the meaning and power of the Voting Rights Act, a triumph of the civil rights movement that Justice Elena Kagan, writing in dissent, noted represents the “best in America.” The reaction against the civil rights movement continues.

Every movement for equal justice under the law in this country has been met with a brutal reaction. When reformers tried to limit the spread of slavery into new states coming into the republic, the slave states seceded, launching the Civil War, the deadliest war in American history. After losing the war, when the federal government began reconstruction to free the slaves and guarantee equal political and economic rights to all, the reaction was brutal, with lynching and terrorism — led by the Ku Klux Klan and others — spreading to sup-

press the newly freed slaves. In the end, segregation — America’s version of apartheid — spread through the South and the hope of the civil rights amendments was crushed. Now, after the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act and the election of Barack Obama, the reaction has been fierce.

Across the country, Republican legislators have sought to make it harder for African Americans and other people of color to vote. The long lines that mark inner-city voting sites are a graphic demonstration of the success of those efforts, for many people can’t take the hours off from work to cast a ballot. In each era, the lawless reaction — and blatant violations of the Constitution — have been ratified by disgraceful decisions in the Supreme Court. The court ratified segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson, inventing the doctrine of separate but equal

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— a concept that existed only in the judge’s imaginations, not in the realities of any of the former slave states. Voter suppression following the civil rights movement was ratified in Shelby v. Holder and now in Brnovich vs. the DNC, that have essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.

The so-called “conservative” justices on the Supreme Court are rewriting the laws passed by Congress to serve their own partisan purposes. Now the excuse is to limit voter fraud, even though there is no evidence of such fraud other than in the ravings of partisan politicians. This struggle will continue. Clearly, Republicans across the country have decided that rather than seeking to win the votes of African Americans and other peoples of color, they would rather pass measures to suppress their vote — from discriminatory changes in voting

dream come true, replacing bad memories with what we know will be good ones in beautiful Ghana.”

In addition, Our Black Truth will also produce a documentary film to capture every moment of this historic occasion.

Mother Fletcher and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, known in the community as “Uncle Redd”, will be traveling to Accra, Ghana, West Africa during the month of August, 2021, and will enjoy a spectacular itinerary and the great hospitality of the Ghanaian people, government officials, tribal chiefs and Nanas, tour Cape Coast to see the dungeons at the slave castles there, and stand in the “Door of No Return.”

They will also be greeted upon arrival

by Our Black Truth’s on-ground partner, H.E. Ambassador Erieka Bennett, head of Mission at the Diaspora Africa Forum, the only embassy for the African Diaspora, and is located at the historic W.E.B Dubois Center in Accra.

“They will be feted by an adoring public here in Accra and receive honors from Ghanaian chiefs and nanas and a delegation of nobles from Nigeria based here in Accra,” said Ambassador Bennett.

“They will also place wreaths on the grave of Dr. W.E.B. Dubois and place names of 4 their ancestors on the Sankofa Wall, a memorial established here on the grounds of the Diaspora Africa Forum.”

They will also be welcomed at Jubilee House by the President and Vice President of the nation, the Ambassador continued.

“We believe every African American, in their heart of hearts, has a desire to see the Motherland,” said Ike Howard, grandson of Mother Fletcher.

“My Grandmother wants to see where she believes our history originated and at 107 years old has made visiting Africa a priority to be realized during her remaining years.”

Our Black Truth (OBT) is a recently launched social media platform that is designed to provide freedom of expression and respectful exchange that members of the African American community often do not experience on some social media platforms, finding themselves censored for strong and righteous opinions, and their personal data sold to corporations.

Our Black Truth is the 21st century gateway to reach and connect the African American community and African diaspora with a place of our own, said OBT’s CEO, Michael Thompson, a systems engineer who began his career in digital technology solving connectivity problems for America Online (AOL).

Along with Our Black Truth social media, some of the other sponsoring organizations on both sides of the Atlantic of this historic undertaking include The Diaspora Africa Forum, The African Communications Agency, The Africa Legacy

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Listing: HVAC Technician

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory Fast paced Petroleum Company is hiring for a full time, CT training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT HVAC Technician. License required – S-10,S-2 or S-1. ApWe offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits plicant must have experience in oil, propane, natural gas and Contact: Tom Dunay VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE A/C. Competitive wage, 401(k), sign on bonus and benefits.

Send resume to: Attn: HR Manager, Confidential, PO Box 388, Phone: 860- 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Guilford,Authority, CT 06437.

Email: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to applyapartments at this develAffirmative opment locatedAction/ at 108 Frank New Haven.

Maximum income**An limitations ap- Action/Equal Opportunity Employer** Affirmative EqualStreet, Opportunity Employer ply. Pre-applications will 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 reGarrity Asphalt Incduring seeks: CT Fence quest by calling HOMEReclaiming, INC at 203-562-4663 those hours.Large Completed pre- Company looking for an individual for our Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing PVCStreet, Fence Third Production Shop. Experience preferred but will applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northtrain the right person. Must be familiar with carpentry hand Floor, New Haven, CT 06510. east & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits & power tools and be able to read a CAD drawing and tape measure. Use of CNC Router machine a plus but not required, will train the right person. This is an in-shop production poContact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 sition. Duties include building fence panels, posts, gates and Email: rick.touMust have a valid CT driver’s license & be able to obtain VALENTINAsignant@garrityasphalt.com MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDESmore.

DISPONIBLES a Drivers Medical Card. Must be able to pass a physical and Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply drug test. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com.

Affirmative Action/deEqual Opportunity HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y Employer de la New Haven Housing Authority, está AA/EOE-MF 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 porSeeking correo atopetición operating heavyde equipment; be willing to travel throughout the employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, llamando HOME INC alexcellent 203-562-4663 horas.Pre-solicitudes deberánand remitirse Northeast &aNY. We offer hourlydurante rate &esas excellent benefits operator teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT personal 06510 . transportation and a valid drivers license reReliable

Construction

quired. To apply please call (860) 621-1720 or send resume to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

We all have

DREAMS.

Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To apply please call (860) 621-1720 or send resume to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V Drug Free Workforce Asbestos Workers wanted for upcoming year long project in Springfield, MA. Must be licensed in Massachusetts. Please call Greg at 860-214-3122 or send an email with information and certifications to lorena@hazpros.com

DISPATCHER The Town of Wallingford is seeking responsible candidates to perform 911, police, fire and EMS emergency dispatching duties. Must be able to work under stressful conditions and be able to type information with a high rate of speed and accuracy. Must be able to work all three shifts including weekends and holidays and be able to work additional shifts beyond the regular shift schedule. Requires a H.S. or business school diploma with courses in typing and 2 years of responsible office work experience.

Wages: $ 22.72 ~ $28.28 hourly plus shift differential and excellent fringe benefits. Closing date is August 4, 2021, or the date of receipt of the 50th application, whichever occurs first.

Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492. Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone: 203-294-2080, Fax: 203-294-2084. EOE.

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport

Request for Proposals (RFP) Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS) Invitation toUniform Bid: nd Design Services State of Connecticut 2 Notice Office of Policy Solicitation Number: 185-MD-21-S SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Drug Free Workforce

and Management

Old Saybrook, CT Authority of the City of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) The Housing (4 Buildings, 17 Units) is requesting proposals from qualified consultants for an Indefinite Quantities ConThe State of Connecticut, Office of tract Wage for Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS) Design Services. SolicitaPolicy and Management is recruiting Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Rate Project

tion package will be available on July 19, 2021 to obtain a copy of the solicitation you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org, please reference solicitation New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, number and title on the subject line.CastA pre-bid conference will be held at 505 Trumbull Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06606 on August 3, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m. Although attendance is in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, instructions for this position is available not mandatory, submitting a proposal for the project without attending conference is Flooring, Painting, at: Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, not in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should be emailed only to Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. https://www.jobapscloud.com/ bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than August 10, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers ThisCT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= contract is subject to state set-asidetoand compliance allcontract the questions will berequirements. posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org.

210506&R2=1581MP&R3=001 Proposals shall be mailed, or hand delivered by August 20, 2021 @ 3:00 PM, to Ms. The State of Connecticut is an equal Caroline Sanchez, Bid Extended, August 5, 2016Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604. opportunity/affirmative action employer Due Date: Late proposals will not be accepted. for a Policy Development Coordinator position.

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 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

Let Job Corps help you achieve yours.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

St. New Haven, CT

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour Now enrolling! until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Tuition-free at its officecareer at 28training Smith Street, High school diploma programs Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the College credit opportunities Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility,Housing, 26 Smith Street Seymour. meals and medical care provided

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith For more information, visit jobcorps.gov or call (800) 733-JOBS [5627] Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

New Haven County - Jesselica Rodriguez – Rodriguez.Jesselica@JobCorps.org !"#$%&'(")*+,$*-+#".&/$*0(1,)2*3*4&//2*0(,,&"*5*Conner.Kelly@JobCorps.org Waterbury and Surrounding Areas – Abdul Shabazz – Shabazz.Abdul@JobCorps.org

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfCAREERS BEGIN HERE fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Job Corps is a U.S. Department of Labor Equal Opportunity Employer Program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. TDD/TTY telephone number is (877) 889-5627.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

and strongly encourages theAnticipated applications Start: August 15, 2016 of women, minorities, and persons Project documents available via ftp link below: with disabilities.

THE GLENDOWER GROUP http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage QSR STEEL CORPORATION Invitation for Bids

APPLY NOW!

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Contractor HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,General S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businessesfor Valley Street Townhomes Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 The Glendower Group is currently seeking Bids for a general contractor for Valley Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders AA/EEO EMPLOYER Street Townhomes. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from GlenTop pay for top performers. Health dower’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.

Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. com/gateway beginning on Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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02,03, 2016 THEINNER-CITY INNER-CITY NEWS NEWS -July July27, 282016 , 2021- August - August 2021

Large CT Fence Company looking for a full-time individual for our

Wood Fence Production Shop. Experience preferred but will train the right person.

Must be familiar with carpentry hand & power tools and be able to read a CAD drawing and tape measure. This is an in-shop production position. Duties include mortising & drilling wood posts for fence panels, building fence panels, gates & more. Use of table VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE saws, routers, miter saws, nail guns and other woodworking equipment is required.

Some pickup and delivery of materials will be required. Must have a valid CT driver’s HOME INC, of Columbus andCard. the New Haven Housing Authority, license and be on ablebehalf to obtain a DriversHouse Medical Must be able to pass a physiaccepting pre-applications for studio one-bedroom apartments at this develcalisand drug test.

Please email resume to and pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com.

AA/EOE-MF

NOTICE

opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will 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 reavailable in the heart of Westport. quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Income based affordable Rental apartment

2 bedroom, Riverview.

Contact 347-366-1204

NOTICIA The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDASfor DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES Request Proposal (RFP) DISPONIBLES

Labor and Employment Legal Services

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está Solicitation Number: 187-LG-21-S 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 The HousingLas Authority of the estarán City ofdisponibles Bridgeport09d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) máximos. pre-solicitudes a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 is seeking seeks attorneys/law firms for the provision of a full cadre julio, 2016 hastaproposals cuando se from han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100)of legal services. graduatedserán fromenviadas an accredited law school and en las oficinasRespondent(s) de HOME INC.must Las have pre-solicitudes por correo a petición bellamando a member of the INC Connecticut Bar. Solicitation will be available July 26, a HOME al 203-562-4663 durante esaspackage horas.Pre-solicitudes deberánonremitirse 2021, obtaindea HOME copy ofINC the en solicitation musttercer sendpiso, yourNew request to, bids@parkcia lastooficinas 171 Orangeyou Street, Haven CT 06510 . tycommunities.org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line.

A pre-proposal conference will via conference call on August 10, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.

Although attendance is not mandatory, submitting a proposal for the project without attending conference is not in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than August 17, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www. parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be mailed, or hand delivered by August 26, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m., to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland 242-258 Fairmont Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604.

Late proposals will not beAve accepted.

NEW HAVEN

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

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 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

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY 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, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

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

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Office, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

Economic Development Marketing Specialist Town of Wallingford

DELIVERY PERSON

NEEDED

Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

(203) 387-0354 QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Town of Bloomfield Account Clerk

Hourly Rate - $29.77 Deadline to apply 7/22/21 Pre-employment drug testing.

AA/EOE.

For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.org

Part-Time (19.5 hours per week). Dynamic municipal economic development office seeks an individual with exceptional digital marketing skills to perform a variety of confidential, responsible administrative duties in creating and implementing marketing programs to support economic development activities within the Town of Wallingford.

The successful applicant must maintain active engagement with local businesses, State of Connecticut economic development agencies, commercial real estate brokers, and other Town of Wallingford departments in order to best position the community as a destination for business expansion and relocation. The position requires a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in marketing, business administration or related field, plus one (1) year of experience in marketing, digital marketing, economic development, business development, or an equivalent combination of education and qualifying experience substituting on a year-for-year basis. Wage Rate: $22.00 hourly. Cover letter and resume can be sent to: Economic Development Office, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. (203) 294-2062. Email: edc@wallingfordct.gov. EOE

Experienced Commercial Property/Facilities Manager Fusco Management Company is seeking a qualified Property/Facilities Manager with a minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience managing commercial properties. Excellent organizational and communication skills are required. Responsibilities include: Budgeting and forecasting of expenses - timely approval of invoices, preparation of client bill packages Oversight of maintenance staff and subcontractors - prioritizing and scheduling project work, reviewing work order requests, oversight and coordination of subcontractors to minimize disruption to the property Oversight of janitorial, landscaping, and other vendors inspections - continual follow up with subcontractors to ensure optimum performance

to Bid: in developing specifications for bidding work and purchasing within guidelines.

Assists MECHANIC Invitation 2 Notice Maintaining positive tenant and client relations - responding to tenant requests, follow TRACTOR TRAILER SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE up to ensure completion nd

Full Time, Benefits, Old Saybrook, CT Top Pay (4 Buildings, 17 Units)

Excel, Word and Outlook computer skills would be helpful

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Apply:Pace, 1425 Honeyspot Company will make best efforts to have the managed properties within counties in Rd. Ext., Stratford, CT EOE reasonable proximity to candidates home. Medical and dental benefits, 401k. Equal Opportunity/Affi rmative New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing,Employment Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast- Action Employer. Please submit resumes to openjobs.group@fusco.com.

Phone calls will not be accepted. in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding,

DRIVER CDL Division CLASS A Flooring, Painting, 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework,

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

Heavy Cleaner Duties and Responsibilities Full Time – All to Shifts This contract is subject state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

Top Pay-Full Benefits Fusco Management Company is looking for qualified Heavy Cleaner. year5,custodial EOE Please apply person: Bidin Extended, Due Date:One August 2016 experience required and good communication skills.

1425 HoneyspotAnticipated Rd. Ext.Start: August 15, 2016 Cleans offices, cell block, hallways, stairways, windows and doors. Will pick up trash Stratford, Project CT 06615 documents available via exterior ftp link below: around of buildings and maintain cleanliness of restrooms and elevators. Will change light bulbs and other small maintenance tasks as directed by Building Superhttp://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

Town ofQuestions Bloomfi eld carpets, and furniture using commercial type vacuum cleaners and shampooing equipFax or Email & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com intendent. May open or close building as needed. Vacuums, spot cleans and shampoos

Makes small repairsBusinesses to bathroom fixtures, may snake drains to remove blockages.

HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,ment.

S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified

May order stock. Move furniture, equipment, or fixtures as required. Operates pressure Part Time Police Dispatcher Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 washing equipment as needed. May shovel and remove snow and ice from sidewalks, AA/EEO EMPLOYER Pro-rated Benefits entryways, and roofs.

$27.80 hourly

Pre-employment physical/drug test required. AA/EOE For more information, please visit www.bloomfieldct.org

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Medical and dental benefits, 401k. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Please submit resumes to openjobs.group@fusco.com. Phone calls will not be accepted.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS NEWS July - July , 2021 - August 2021 INNER-CITY 27,282016 - August 02,03, 2016

The Town NOTICE of East Haven

is currently accepting applications for the following positions:

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

Public Safety Dispatcher: $54,953.60/year HOME INC, onPolice behalf of Columbus and the New Haven Housing Authority, OfficerHouse C: $59,025/year

is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develApply online at www.policeapp.com/ opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apEastHavenCT<http://www.policeapp.com/EastHavenCT>. ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25,Assessor: 2016 and$98,377/ ending year whenFor sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have Tax application information please visit https://www. townofeasthavenct.org/civil-service-commission/pages/job-notices-and-tests been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reThe Town East HOME Haven INC is committed to building a workforce of Completed diverse individquest by of calling at 203-562-4663 during those hours. preuals.

Minorities, Handicapped and Veterans to apply. applications mustFemales, be returned to HOME INC’s offices atare 171encouraged Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

ELM CITYNOTICIA COMMUNITIES

Invitation for Bids VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES VDI Equipment

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo The Housingpre-solicitudes Authority of para the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is curubicado en laBids callefor 109VDI Frank Street, New Haven. Secopy aplican limitaciones de ingresos rently seeking equipment.

A complete of the requirement may be máximos.

LasElm pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m.Portal comenzando Martes 25 obtained from City Communities’ Vendor Collaboration https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante horas.Pre-solicitudes Wednesday, June 23,esas 2021 at 3:00PM.deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES Request for Proposals

Leadership and Team Building Consulting Services

NEW HAVEN

Elm City Communities is currently seeking proposals for leadership and team building 242-258 Fairmont Ave consulting services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City Communities’ Vendor Collaboration 2BR Townhouse, 1.5Portal BA,https://newhavenhousing.cobblestone3BR, 1 level , 1BA systems.com/gateway beginning All new apartments, newon appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95

highways, near bus stop & shopping center Monday, July 26,parties 2021 at 3:00PM. Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 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

Request for Proposal (RFP) General Counsel Legal Services St. New Haven, CT Solicitation Number: 186-LG-21-S

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

DELIVERY PERSON

Fusco Management Company, LLC is seeking a hands-on individual who is capable of performing minor repairs and duties as well as supervising maintenance operations of the facilities. Must be computer literate and should communicate verbally and via email to coworkers, vendors and tenants. Works with co-workers to improve facilities.

Operates and maintains sophisticated mechanical and electrical equipment, performs miscellaneous repair work as needed, performs cleaning and other related duties as required.

Qualifications:

NEEDED

A combination of experience, education, and/or training which substantially demonstrates the following knowledge, skills and abilities.

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week, Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

(203) 387-0354

Town of Bloomfield Custodian

$23.40/hourly (benefited)

1. Principles and practices of installing, operating, maintaining and repairing building equipment and systems 2. Operation maintenance and repair of various pumps, motors, air conditioning equipment, boilers, blowers, control valves and switches, and instruments related to HVAC, and to the digital control system.

3. Ability to trouble shoot and repair lighting, plumbing, fire protection, security systems and energy management systems normally found in an office building environment.

4. Identify Hazardous materials encountered in the work environment and knowledge of their treatment.

5. Should be able to promote safety in the workplace and be vigilant concerning visitor safety.

Medical and dental benefits, 401k. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Please submit resumes to openjobs.group@fusco.com. Phone calls will not be accepted.

Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE. For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.gov

Invitation to Bid: CITY OF MILFORD 2 Notice nd

Seeking qualified condidates to fill SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE numerous vacancies to include, Old Saybrook, CT Deputy Assessor, Mechanic Buildings, 17 Units) Sewer Line, Public Health (4 Nurse Exempt & Not and more. For Tax information andPrevailing Wage Rate Project detailed application instructions, New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castvisit www.ci.milford.ct.us Click on SERVICES, JOBS and in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, JOB TITLE. Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework,

Portland

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) seeks proposals from attorneys/law firms for the provision of a full cadre of legal services. Respondent(s) must have graduated from an accredited law school and be a Sealedofbids are invited Bar. by the HousingsetAuthority of the Town ofavailable Seymouron member the Connecticut A complete of RFP documents will be July 26,3:00 2021.pm To obtain a copy of the solicitation must send at your bids@ until on Tuesday, August 2, 2016you at its office 28request Smith toStreet, parkcitycommunities.org, reference solicitation number title on the at subject Seymour, CT 06483 forplease Concrete Sidewalk Repairs andand Replacement the line. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at PCC’s Administrative Offices at 150 Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604 on August 10, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m. All interested parties are strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Although not mandatory, all applicants areconference encouragedwill to attend to better the PCC’s requirements under A pre-bid be held at theunderstand Housing Authority Office 28 Smith this RFP.Seymour, AdditionalCT questions should only to bids@parkcitycommunities.

Street at 10:00 am, be on emailed Wednesday, July 20, 2016. org no later than August 17, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be mailed, documents are available Seymour HousingSanchez, Authority OforBidding hand delivered

by August 26, 2021, from at 3:00the p.m. to Ms. Caroline Director office, Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604.

Late proposals will not be 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. accepted.

For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.org

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

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SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Building Superintendent

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Youth Services Administrator Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 full-time Project position. documents available via ftp link below: Go http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage to www.portlandct.

org for details.

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

Town of Bloomfield HR Staff Assistant Hourly Rate $29.34 Deadline to apply 8/10/21

Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

(800) 733-JOBS[5267] OR JOBCORPS.GOV

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 28, 2021 - August 03, 2021

New Haven Public Schools

Early Childhood Programs

We are Accepting Applications!

Parents of 3 and 4 year olds are encouraged to apply.

Application begins with a phone call

Contact the Program Coordinator at 475-220-1462/1463.

FREE and Sliding Scale 6-hour Programs for 3 and 4 Year Olds of low-income New Haven families Available in the following New Haven Public Schools:

• Benjamin Jepson Multi-Age School • Dr. Mayo Early Childhood School • Fair Haven School • John Martinez Sea & Sky STEM School • Lincoln-Bassett Community School • Truman School • Additional community locations also participate in the program.

NEW HAVEN

Contact: Esther Pearson-Pinckney, Head Start Social Service Coordinator at 475-220-1462/1463 or email: esther.pearson-pinckney@nhboe.net

HeadStartNewHaven.com / 475-220-1462 / -1463

JULY

Meet Us in the Community All Throughout July: MONDAYS

9am-1pm Martinez 9am-1pm Fair Haven School

TUESDAYS

WEDNESDAYS

9am-1pm King/Robinson 9am-1pm Dr. Mayo 11:30am-1pm Clinton Ave. 12-6pm Floyd Little Field 10am-1pm Dr. Mayo House 20

THURSDAYS

10am-1pm Truman 12-6pm Floyd Little Field House