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New Haven Museum Finds Its Rhythm Lucy Gellman, Editor, The ARTS Paper www.newhavenarts.org

In the wide rotunda of the New Haven Museum, history was unfolding. Through plexiglass, a line of four beer cans caught in the light, their color-blocked and puzzle-piece designs glinting as visitors came in close for a look. A vine wove its way up a clear tap handle. Just inches away, a pair of salsa shoes shimmered.

For a moment, it looked like they might come to life and start strutting their way through the museum.

Friday morning, Salsera and Rhythm Brewing Co. founder Alisa BowensMercado unveiled a new collection at the New Haven Museum dedicated to her work as Connecticut’s first Black woman brewer. The collection comprises several of her cans, an early prototype of her tap handle, Rhythm Brewing swag and postcards, a pair of dazzling salsa shoes and a sequined red halter dress. The last items are a nod to her first business: when Bowens isn’t brewing, she is known for her work as the founder of Alisa’s House of Salsa in Westville.

“It is an honor to be standing here, and to have my life’s passions both in one case together,” she said at the museum Friday. “I hope, through this display, that it inspires, empowers and encourages people throughout the community to just let them know that entrepreneurship, and living your life’s passion and your dreams, it can absolutely come true.”

The collection will live in a small display case in the museum’s rotunda through September, and then will go into its archives. Elinor Slomba, a consultant on the project and founder of Verge Arts Group, said that it puts itself in conversation with the exhibition From Clocks to Lollipops: Made in New Haven. She added that several of the items will likely join a future iteration of From Clocks to Lollipops when it is updated. The show includes New Haven’s history of beer brewing, including Yale Brewing Co. and the original Hull’s Brewing Company.

It has been at least a year in the making.

Last February, New Haven Museum Executive Director Margaret Anne Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky asked BowensMercado if she would consider donating some items to the museum at a taste-testing event downtown shortly before Covid-19. The interest dovetails in her own effort to document history as it happens.

When the museum shut its physical doors during the pandemic, that timeline turned into months.

As they beckon from the case, objects tell a story of Black entrepreneurship and innovation that connects New Haven’s past to its present. There is Rhythm’s flagship brew—an unfiltered lager adorned with a treble clef that dips into a red R—as well as three new flavors

that Bowens-Mercado rolled out between early 2020 and this spring. Last year, she released a light version of her signature lager around her February birthday. Then Covid-19 hit, and she pivoted to running two businesses during a pandemic.

As she turned her studio into a pickup location and applied for an alphabet soup of federal funding, new opportunities sprang up for her to grow the brand. Last summer, she rolled out a silky, coffee-flavored stout called Black Is Beautiful with Two Roads Brewing and the national Black Is Beautiful craft brewing campaign. For her, she said, it is part of how she advocates for herself as the state’s first Black woman brewer—and as a Black woman navigating predominately white spaces in business, brewing, and arts and culture.

She also began work on her BGM Vanilla Porter, a sweet, creamy dark beer that pays homage to her 50 years on this earth with a “Birthday Girl Magic” theme. The beer was brewed, canned and released earlier this year in a collaboration with Black Hog Brewing in time for Bowens-Mercado’s 50th birthday. Friday, she joked that it was only fitting to celebrate that milestone with her face on a can of cold beer.

“It was liquid that was put in a can, but it signified 50 years of the spirit of family, the spirit of entrepreneurship, and where I have been and what we’ve done in the last 50 years,” she said.

The cans are accompanied by an original prototype for the tap handle, designed by​​ Alex Murdoch of MakeHaven, as well as Rhythm Lager swag and a pair of silver

rhinestone-studded dancing shoes. Each has a story: she regaled family members with the memory of Murdoch’s first visit to her salsa studio, which resulted in a handle meant to look like it was lit from beneath.

The shiny, high-heeled slippers have carried Bowens-Mercado across stages, clubs, and ballroom floors in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and New Haven and New York City. When her Westville studio celebrated its 20th anniversary last year—and survived the pandemic—she

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decided to retire them.

“They were my good luck shoes,” she said. She added that she will miss her red dress, “with sequins and glitter and all kinds of glam,” but felt like it was time to hang it up and buy another one for the next decades of her dance career. Friday, she showed it off from the archival box where it will now live, preserved among layers of tissue paper.

Lindy Lee Gold, a senior development specialist at the state’s Department of Economic & Community Development,

said that she is thrilled to see the installation at the museum. Gold has known Bowens-Mercado’s family longer than Bowens-Mercado has been alive; her father helped Bowens-Mercado’s dad William get his own business off the ground.

Currently, she is working with the brewer to find space for her own tap room in Connecticut.

As Bowens-Mercado milled around the case with family and friends, each pointed out something different that caught their eyes. Sharon Gambrell, who met Bowens-Mercado’s mother, Millicent Bowens, in downtown New Haven when the two were 14, said she does not consider herself a beer drinker but drinks Rhythm. After becoming close with the family when she and Millicent worked at SNET, she watched Bowens-Mercado enter the world and grow up.

“She had that drive as a little girl,” Gambrell said. “I call her my shero, because she never stops.”

Bowens-Mercado’s mother and father studied the cans with delight before moving to the dress, which shimmered even from its box. Millicent Bowens said that she sees the collection as one more ceiling that her daughter—who runs a dance studio, brews beer, roasts coffee, and still makes time for family gatherings each week—has shattered in the city.

“Nothing really surprises me with Alisa,” she said. “For her to be here, it’s an amazing accomplishment, and I’m so very proud of her.”

The accomplishment is also part of the museum’s evolving mission to tell the full story of Black inventors, entrepreneurs, and creatives in the city. While New Haveners may now recognize names including William Lanson, Collections Manager Mary Joan Christ acknowledged that the museum has work to do in educating its public—and its own staff—about the Black makers and intellectuals who helped build New Haven.

During its time on display, BowensMercado’s collection will live one floor down from a patent for an early ironing table that the U.S. government issued to Black New Havener Sarah Boone in 1892. Boone, a dressmaker who was illiterate when she migrated from the American South and settled in Dixwell in the nineteenth century, is one of the only Black women inventors the museum has documented record of. Before receiving her patent, she likely learned to read as a congregant at Dixwell Congregational Church.

“It really allows us to document [history] and to inspire our fellow community members to understand what’s going on in our city and how special many of our citizens are,” Christ said.

The New Haven Museum is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. by reservation only.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

Agencies Join Forces To Help Homeless Youth

by STAFF

New Haven Independent

Youth homelessness is on the rise — and a 55-year-old New Haven agency serving homeless and at-risk youth is becoming an affiliate of a leading, 108-year-old family mental health and support agency to take on the challenge together.

Here’s a shorter way of saying that: Youth Continuum has become an affiliate of Clifford Beers.

Clifford Beers — which Farnam House also joined earlier this year in order to pool resources— made the announcement in a release issued Thursday.

Clifford Beers, the leading provider of affordable behavioral health services in the greater New Haven, CT, area, and Youth Continuum, the leading provider of services for young people experiencing homelessness in New Haven County, today announced their agreement to affiliate and join forces to battle the growing problem of youth homelessness throughout greater New Haven.

As an affiliate, Youth Continuum will become a subsidiary of Clifford Beers which provides a wide variety of behavioral health and wellness services to children, adults, and families in New Haven and Fairfield Counties. Youth Continuum will continue to operate as a separate 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in its current locations and will continue to offer, without interruption, all the housing and support services it currently provides

Pictured in these photos: Youth Continuum staff and youth.

to young adults in New Haven. Youth Continuum joins the Clifford Beers affiliate system alongside Mid-Fairfield Child

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“We couldn’t be more excited that Youth Continuum, known for its exceptional commitment and high level of expertise in reaching and serving young people, will be joining the Clifford Beers family,” said Dr. Alice Forrester, the CEO of Clifford Beers. “Joining forces with other agencies that share our passion for helping individuals in need streamlines operations, reduces operating costs, and enables the community to take full advantage of our combined knowledge and expertise. This affiliation will allow us to jointly serve young adults who are experiencing homelessness in a more seamless way, with a broader array of services that can help them to thrive.”

Launched in 2019, the Clifford Beers affiliate system is designed to simplify and coordinate community access to critical social services and to reduce affiliate operating costs by sharing common administrative functions such as human resources, billing, compliance, and finance.

“By joining the Clifford Beers family, we can take full advantage of the combined size and resources of our two agencies.

This will better enable us to achieve our core mission of helping young adults ages 14-24 find safety, stability, and a path to independence by preventing and addressing homelessness,” said Paul Kosowsky, CEO of Youth Continuum. “We are thrilled this affiliation with Clifford Beers will allow us to expand access to the many types of support services young

people need to transition successfully into adulthood.” Mr. Kosowsky will continue to serve as CEO of Youth Continuum and report to Dr. Forrester who serves as CEO for Clifford Beers.

Rochelle Cummings, president of the Clifford Beers Board of Directors, notes that the uncertainty of state and federal funding makes consolidation a particularly smart move. “Nonprofit funding can be unpredictable, and policy shifts in Hartford and Washington, D.C. could bring serious challenges to both agencies and the young people they serve. This affiliation will allow both agencies to better weather funding and environmental changes and help ensure that young people continue to have access to the safe housing and behavioral health services they need.”

Margo Tucker, president of the Youth Continuum Board of Directors, adds, “I am thrilled that through this partnership with Clifford Beers, Youth Continuum will be able to provide a broader range of services to the most vulnerable population of New Haven. Integrating housing access with comprehensive mental health services is vital for the success and development of our youth.”

Both agencies receive substantial funds from state agencies and rely on the generosity of the individual donors and foundations to support their mission of providing care for the most vulnerable individuals.

A New Oyster Era Blooms THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven Independent

On National Oyster Day, Fair Haven celebrated its oyster farming history while looking forward to future steps.

Mayor Justin Elicker and Fair Haven Heights Alder Rosa Santana visited Copps Island Oysters on the banks of the Quinnipiac River Thursday afternoon to highlight the historical significance of oyster farming in New Haven. Copps Island Oysters Founder Norm Bloom, and his son, Jimmy Bloom who now owns the farm walked the group through their docks, boats, shell pile, and renderings of a planned expansion.

The Blooms farm 14,000 acres along the Connecticut coast from Greenwich to Stonington. Norm Bloom said they have customers from across Connecticut to Texas, Florida, and the West Coast. Along with oysters, Copps Island Oysters markets clams and lobsters.

Norm Bloom estimated that 80 percent of their market comes from farming in the New Haven Harbor. While they are headquartered in Norwalk, they use their New Haven area to farm, produce oysters, and store shells. “Everything happens here,” Bloom said.

The Bloom family has worked in oyster farming since the 1940s. Norm Bloom opened Copps Island Oysters in 1994.

In total, they manage between 25 and 30 boats and employ nearly 60 people.

Fair Haven was home to booming oyster farming throughout the 1700 and 1800s.

“It’s great to see a traditional business like oystering thriving here,” said New Haven Deputy Economic Development Administrator Carlos Eyzaguirre.

At the celebration, the Blooms detailed

Farm stand at Copps Island Oysters.

plans for renovating their historic buildings, and creating a new hatchery to help them “get to the 21st century.”

In New Haven, they save the oyster shells in large piles, wait for spawning time in July, and then put the piles back in the water and wait to harvest.

With the new hatchery, Norm Bloom said, they plan to combine new hatchery methods to help control growing conditions with their traditional oystering where they seed in the sound and grow oysters naturally.

The hatchery will give them a more sustainable, reliable seed source, Jimmy Bloom said. In a hurricane they lost 50 percent of their crop in one day. “It’s hard to recover from those kinds of circum-

stances.”

Jimmy Bloom said 90 percent of their market relies on restaurants: “People are intimidated by shucking or it’s too much work for them, so there’s not a big culture to buy oysters in the grocery store, bring them home and shuck them themselves.”

The Blooms plan to include a new processing facility on the north end of the property, where they will prepare retail packages to sell at grocery chains with pre-shucked oysters and flavors.

Their plans for renovation and the new facilities are currently in the permitting phase.

They also hold a farm stand each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Copps Island New Haven site. To place larger

orders in advance, customers can call 415-202-6246.

Patty King, who started to run the farm stand when Covid-19 hit, said it has been successful.

They sell their own fresh oysters, clams, and lobsters and occasionally have scallops and flounder they buy. “It’s always fresh!” King said.

Santana said she is grateful for Copps Island Oysters’ dedication and adherence to community input.

Her mother lives down the street from Copps Island Oysters and said she used to smell the shell pile from her house. “I want to appreciate what they have done to mitigate the odor, they’ve done a phenomenal job,” Santana said.

To address the smell problem, the Blooms said, they used an environmentally friendly agent to mix with water and spray on the pile.

Elicker spoke about his interactions with Copps Island Oysters when he was executive director of the New Haven Land Trust. Elicker said he’s been on the oyster farming boats with public school kids and community members and shucking oysters at Land Trust fundraisers. “Consistently you’ve shown and firsthand I’ve witnessed your care for the surrounding neighborhood,” Elicker said.

He added that the oyster farm not only supports the community by providing jobs and engaging the community in their work, but also a “positive environmental impact.”

Elicker also noted the benefits of oysters to the environment as they are “filter feeders.” According to the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, oysters can filter 100 gallons of seawater each day.

Newhallville Kicks Off Weekly Summer Music And Arts Festival

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven Independent

Newhallville neighbors gathered at the Learning Corridor Saturday afternoon to enjoy jazz, art, and an interactive drum circle, for the first week of a concert series that is scheduled to run through September.

Every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. local artists, musicians, and speakers are slated to perform and engage with Newhallville neighbors in the community-transformed crossroads at Shelton Avenue and Hazel Street.

The festival was organized by The Perfect Blend President and Founder Jeanette Sykes. Sykes has been working to pull the festival together for the last few months.

“We really wanted to make sure we had the right artists. I want local people, I want homegrown,” she said.

Sykes landed local gospel, R&B, and dance performers to come each Saturday.

Since the pandemic was so isolating, Sykes

with ice cream and fried dough at the next Saturday events.

Mike Battle is running the sound equipment for the summer festival. “We try to be a part of everything for the neighbors and for the people because we’ve got a lot going wrong today. And so we try to bring everyone together and show we can beat this” he said.

Battle added that he hopes the festival will help “to raise up kindness and goodness.

So we can be together as one, stop the violence, and show that we can all get along and do things in a peaceful way.”

At a table with works by artist Zona Taylor, Hamden resident Christine Batts was admiring a painting of a pit bull. She said she wanted to get it for her brother-in-law.

He is in the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, which has a pit bull as its mascot.

Batts drove by the festival after studying for an exam in New Haven. She said she

said, it is important to pull the neighborhood together. “It’s all about healing and connecting our community together.”

Sykes said she also wanted to give kids in the neighborhood something fun to do.

As advertised on flyers they distributed through the neighborhood, she said, “It’s a family affair!”

Under a tent, Sykes put out buckets of beads and crafts for kids. In the next few Saturdays, a team of local artists will help kids make personalized notebooks and do face painting for kids as well.

Between music and dance performances, a lineup of speakers for the Saturday events includes State Rep. Robyn Porter, State Sen. Gary Winfield, and Alders Steve Winter and Kim Edwards. “We want to make sure they can give some inspiration and also make sure people can get to see and know them. They need to know what they’re doing.”

Sykes plans to incorporate food trucks

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Mayors: Time To Mask Up THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

by NORA GRACE-FLOOD, PAUL BASS & SOPHIE SONNENFELD

Amid a Covid-19 resurgence, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker ordered people to wear masks in public indoor spaces in the city, while Hamden Mayor Curt Leng “strongly recommended” that his town do the same.

They issued their statements a day after Gov. Ned Lamont issued an order allowing municipalities to issue their own rules on masks. (Earlier in the pandemic, Lamont had issued an order preventing them from doing so.)

“We have some towns that have 99 percent of their people vaccinated and some towns that have less than 50 percent. I think mayors and first selectmen ought to have a little more discretion so they can have the right tools to combat Covid given the particularities of their situation,” Lamont said at a separate pandemic-related press announcement Friday morning at Fair Haven Community Health Care.

Elicker’s order takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m.

It requires “indoor masking at all establishments — such as bars, restaurants, theaters, and office buildings — regardless of people’s vaccination status,” according to a City Hall press release issued Friday afternoon.

The mayor said he acted in response to “the increasing spread of the Delta Variant.”

“I’ve been quite clear that we’re going to use every tool that we can to make sure that we keep residents safe,” Elicker said while appearing alongside the governor at Friday’s Fair Haven event.

The federal Centers for Disease Con-

Elicker: “Common-sense” step. trol Thursday reported that over a seven- getting sick. An estimated 65 percent of day stretch, New Haven County now eligible New Haveners (12 years old or has more than 100 Covid-19 cases per above) have received at least one Covid 100,000 residents. City Health Direc- shot, according to mayoral spokesperson tor Maritza Bond noted that the state’s Kyle Buda; 58 percent have been fully positivity rate has almost quintupled in vaccinated. five weeks. The latest statistics released Next door in Hamden, meanwhile, Friday afternoon by the governor’s office Mayor Leng prepared to issue a “strong show a 3.52 statewide positive rate, with recommendation” for residents to mask 19 Covid-19 patients newly hospitalized up in indoor public spaces. As for potensince a day earlier. New Haven County tial further steps, he said is in discussions reports 59 hospitalized Covid-19 patients. with the Health Department and plans to Elicker urged New Haveners to get vac- continue through the weekend and into cinated if they haven’t already, since next week. that’s the most effective way to avoid At Hamden’s Magic Mile, many shop-

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pers were already masking up Friday, order or not.

“When I first heard about a virus spreading in China, I went out and bought 10 bottles of alcohol, boxes and boxes of wipes, and a bunch of bleach,” Symone White recalled while perspiring on a stretch of Walmart sidewalk, reaching her plastic-gloved hand out to adjust her granddaughter’s face mask.

“Everybody thought I was crazy. My husband was laughing at me. A month later, he’s scared out of his mind.”

White, who lives in New Haven, drives out to Hamden regularly to browse through consumer goods at Burlington Coat Factory, Dollar Tree, Marshalls, and to restock her steady supply of Lysol.

Other than trips to the retail outlets, she has been proactively isolating since the start of Covid-19 last winter. She left her job as a home aide for seniors six months ago because her employers couldn’t provide her information as to whether or not clients and workers were vaccinated, she said.

Even though she got vaccinated herself back in May, she said, she wears a mask indoors and outdoors. She takes it off when she’s alone at home with her husband and 4-year-old granddaughter, Ariana, whom she cares for. She also uses disposable gloves to navigate crowded places where cross-contamination is otherwise inevitable, like the aisles of Aldi’s.

“I don’t know what the hell is going on, and they don’t either,” she said of government officials.

Heidi Schutz, who stopped by Dollar Tree for a pack of chocolate puddings and a bottle of Sprite, said she also has not let up on masking, constant hand washing,

and vigilant sanitation practices since she contracted Covid-19 herself back in January — right after she got the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine.

Schutz theorizes that she contracted the virus through a simple exchange of cash in a store. She had been so careful about protecting herself, she said, that her tendency to scratch her face in response to bad allergies could have been her only downfall.

Schutz said that she has COPD and severe asthma. Before she got to a hospital and tested positive, she said, her lungs filled up with fluid in under two hours.

“I was spitting it out and breathing it in when I tried to inhale,” she recalled. “I don’t know why young people keep playing it off.”

She sighed, noting that two of her five children refuse to get vaccinated. “It’s very scary!”

“It only takes one meet up. and you got it,” she warned, stating that she has continued to social distance and wear a mask every day regardless of having finally gotten her second dose, various rises and falls in cases, and changes in governmental guidelines.

While others maintained strict safety standards, Christina Pettengill was feeling relatively relaxed while out on a maskless paper-towel run.

Pettengill said she has become comfortable showing her face around town again since upgrading her status to “full vaccinated” in April. Her toddler son, Traycen, who is not vaccinated, struggled with keeping his tiny mask over his nose.

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Newhallville Alder Hopefuls Petition Onto Primary Ballot

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

Newhallville Democrats will have three alder candidates to pick among on Sept.

14 — in what may turn out to be the only contested primary in town this year.

Last week, Newhallville Ward 20 alder hopefuls Devin Avshalom-Smith and Addie Kimbrough successfully petitioned their way onto September’s Democratic primary ballot by submitting to the city/ town clerk’s office signatures from at least 5 percent of registered Democrats in the ward—or a minimum of 72.

Avshalom-Smith submitted 108 signatures, and Kimbrough submitted 72. The city clerk’s office has certified the petitions.

That means that the two alder challengers have secured ballot access for Sept. 14.

They will face off during that Ward 20

THOMAS BREEN PHOTOS Newhallville alder candidates Shirley Lawrence, Devin Avshalom-Smith, and Addie Kimbrough.

Democratic alder primary against Shirley Lawrence, who in July won the local Democratic Party’s endorsement for the local legislative seat recently vacated by Delphine Clyburn.

As of Monday afternoon, AvshalomSmith and Kimbrough are the only two

candidates in any city election to have submitted petitions to make their way onto the primary ballot.

Candidates who did not win their respective parties’ endorsements during last month’s conventions have until 4 p.m. on Wednesday to submit petitions to the city/

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town clerk’s office in a bid to participate in September’s primary.

If no other candidates submit petitions by then, the Ward 20 Democratic alder race will be the only contested primary among the 33 local elected offices in play this year.

The largely uncontested primary path ahead comes thanks to a series of candidate departures from various races before voters had any chance to weigh in.

Democratic mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton dropped out of the race at the start of the Democratic Town Convention, clearing the path for endorsed Democratic candidate and incumbent Justin Elicker.

Fair Haven alder candidate Carmen Flores dropped out of the race during the Ward 14 Democratic Ward Committee meeting, clearing the path for endorsed Democratic candidate Sarah Miller.

Quinnipiac Meadows alder hopeful Yul Watley recently told the Independent that he will not in fact be running for local office in Ward 12, clearing the path for enCon’t on page 10

Beaver Hills Makes Stone Soup THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

Major Ruth dusted off his speakers and sound system. Brian Wingate brought his grilling spatula. Michael Knight offered up his lawn for the bounce house. Ainissa Ramirez flowed all the electricity through extension cords from her home.

Each neighbor pitched in, one by one turning a community-building idea into a memorable “stone soup”-like block party in Beaver Hills.

A hundred Beaver Hills residents passed through the block party Saturday, held on Glen Road just off of Ella T Grasso Boulevard.

The inaugural gathering encouraged residents to get to know their immediate neighbors and meet others from different stretches of Beaver Hills.

The street was closed for the familyfriendly celebration with local vendors, games, music, a pop-up vaccination clinic, and food.

Candice Dormon, who has lived in Beaver Hills for the past eight years, helped market the event by creating a video series called the “Beaver Hills Story Archive” that captured residents’ stories about why they moved to the neighborhood and what they enjoy about it. She also created several videos of the city’s “hidden gems” to introduce the vendors at the block party.

“We want to feel united and like a unified Beaver Hills,” Dormon said.

Organizers also put up flyers in the neighborhood and door-knocked leading up to the day of the event.

Dormon encouraged neighbors to support local organizations and small businesses that are “in our backyards.” During the event Dormon began putting together a business referral network of neighborhood entrepreneurs to later share with the Beaver Hills Community Facebook Group.

“Everybody does a little of something now more than ever. Why look for work beyond Beaver Hill?” she said. “Our neighbors are the plumbers, artists, authors, photographers, urban farmers we should lean on.”

While organizing the event, the team knew they wanted a bounce house. After learning they couldn’t put it on the street, they had to come up with another plan.

Ramirez’s lawn is on a hill, so it couldn’t be put there. She reached out to her neighbor across the street, Mike Knight.

“I thought he would say no, because his lawn could be in a movie,” she said.

It turned out that “the guy with the best grass on the street has a soft spot for kids.” Knight agreed to have the bounce house on his property for the block party.

Donations for the event came from community members and the Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills (WEB) Management

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Hi neighbor! Covingtons meet Cramers at block party.

Esai Alverez, 12 gets vaccine at Saturday event.

Team.

The Saturday block party was the first of what the organizing team hopes to make into an annual event for the neighborhood.

“This is about public safety and building relationship in our community to be better and look out for each other,” said Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, one of the organizers of the event.

Bellevue Road resident James Cramer got to meet neighbors for the first time who have lived in the area for years as

well as some other neighbors who moved in last week.

The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop gave dozens of kids lessons on riding a bike for the first time and how to do so safely.

Eli Whitney Museum set up three craft tables for youth of all ages to make “singing frogs” which kids colored and used as wooden musical instruments; stackable wooden “balancing acrobats”; and spinning paper tops.

Under a Covid vaccination tent, Griffin Health nurses gave Esai Alverez, 12, his

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first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

“I always wanted to get it done to help keep my family and community safe,” Alverez said.

Alverez, a student at Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS), said he enjoys how many kids live in Beaver Hills, enabling him and his younger brother to make friends and play outside often.

Once fully vaccinated, Alverez said, he looks forward to being able to travel more and feel more safe while playing sports like baseball.

Marc Ramirez, Anissa’s brother, is a chef who developed a spice, called Taste Budeez. He shared samples with his neighbors. The spice targets taste receptors in the tongue rather than the noses.

He moved to Beaver Hills 15 years ago.

He began making the spice about five years ago after reading a New York Times article about how taste receptors in our noses decrease as we age.

Marc walked Westville neighbor JoAnne Wilcox through the spice demo Saturday.

While plugging her nose, Wilcox put a jolly rancher in her mouth. It gave her a faint taste of the candy. Then she unplugged her nose and the taste got stronger.

“Those nose receptors do a lot,” Marc said.

Before the block party Roydon Road

resident Kim Stoner said she mostly only knew Beaver Hills neighbors who live on the east side of Ella T Grasso Boulevard.

Bryttney Wingate brought her 4-yearold son Tre’mir to the Saturday event to help him to readjust to playing with kids his age after being limited in his social interactions during the past year because of the pandemic. Tre’mir has also been attending camp this summer to get reengaged. Tre’mir also got to spend the day listening to music, which he loves to sing along to with his mom.

Families played life-sized Connect Four, Beyblade Battles, and cornhole while taking breaks from eating grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Angela Covington moved to Beaver Hills seven years ago. Since then she has gotten involved with her neighbors mostly online. Saturday helped her to match some faces to the names she’s known for so long.

Covington previously lived on Sherman Avenue, which she said didn’t have much of a neighborhood feel. “Now my kids can safely get with their friends from the street and play,” she said.

Other vendors included People Get Ready, the New Haven Museum, City Climb Gym, and MakeHaven.

“This is what a village looks like. Having fun together and supporting each other,” said Dormon.

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Adger Cowans / Jahmane: A Dialogue In Styles The Norwalk Art Space July 22nd - August 26th

by Allen Jackson/Dooley-O So the phone conversation went something like this: Yo Jahmane is ya art show Thursday? He says yes. Bet, I will be there. On my way I called Chedda to pick him up, but he couldn’t make it, a previous commitment popped up (a nap).

I jump on the the Merritt crossing over to I95 passing Bridgeport, with my sound track a heavy metal song had me deep into the lyrics.

Finally I find myself in Norwalk, a 20 min ride from New Haven. I pull up on Norwalk Art Space. The vision as you step towards the gallery, your ears are welcomed by a latin band rockin’ the building. Amazing statutes with great lighting in the front. Norwalk Artspace use to be a Church that was redeveloped into a Art Gallery & Space for the community .

Check it, as I walked in the building I was greeted by Rapper B-more 7 and Eek-a Mike from Rhode Island who are always supporting any Hip Hop/Art Movement.

The Curator of this event was Duvian Montoya. As he was making announce-

ments I glanced to my right and saw amazing art by Artist Jahmane West, a collage of Abstract funk space particles.

Jahmane West is a native Norwalk art superhero who stops at nothing to save the planet from being corny. The other exhibitor was Photography by Adger Cowans an artist who came up and studied with the likes of Gordon Parks, who just released a book called Personal Vision who’s work has been in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Museum of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard Fine Art Museum, Detroit Art Institute, James E. Lewis Museum, Whitney Museum and numerous other art institutions.

Each piece of art was mounted on moving walls giving the Norwalk Art Space the ability to move the art work around for artist talks and workshop. As I walk around I see all my art community from Graff writers to great artist. This Venue was well put together by Motoyo. I definitely like the fact that the food and drinks where off the hook… Veggie appetizers and wine just kept coming.

The invitation of people from the Nor-

walk area was a mixture of communities. knowing Jahmane personally, it’s like watching a master do his thing weekly with Art on canvas, furniture and apparel, as well as private and public murals.

His work is complete from front to back with no flaws. His art reflects the wittiest ideas. Adgers photography was done with a technical passion meaning; you can feel how his iris lays on the camera… There was nothing unfocused! It was like his own iris has a Carl Zeiss lens on it!

What caught my eye was the Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones photo sitting on a plane. This piece was crispy clean as I would say on Dixwell Ave, “it was butters”.

While sipping on white and red wine, my eyes were caught off guard by Cowans meditation piece that can make a sleep number bed feel like concrete slab it was so relaxing and beautiful to the beholder. I’m talking about me (lol) So this show Curated By Duvian Montoya o and the Norwalk Art Space was more than a art show it was movement The exhibit runs July 22nd - August 26th

Artist Info: www.adgercowans.com www.artofjahmane.com www.thenorwalkartspace.org

What Took Tuskegee So Long to Name Charlotte Morris as President?

by Jarrett Carter Sr, HBCU Digest

The winding road to Charlotte Morris finally being named as Tuskegee University’s permanent president reached its destination today, as the long-serving executive will finally steer the Machine with a formal executive’s title, salary, and expectations.

Her credentials as a key part of the university’s academic enterprise for the better part of 30 years affirm her as the right choice for the job.

For over three decades, Dr. Morris has served in several roles at Tuskegee University including Chief of Staff to the 5th President and Secretary to the Board of Trustees. As Chief of Staff, she assisted in the development and implementation of a successful $169 million capital campaign in 2005. Most recently during her tenure, Dr. Morris also served as the Director of the University’s Title III Program and has acted as Interim and Associate Dean in the Brimmer College of Business and Information Science. Through Dr. Morris’ leadership, she has strengthened the University’s strategic partnerships with corporations such as Google and Cargill to generate $6 million in gifts and donations to strengthen career readiness initiatives and invest in the next generation of STEM leaders. In addition to the many honors and awards Dr. Morris has received, she was given the Distinguished

Administrative Staff Achievement Award at Tuskegee University. Dr. Charlotte Morris has always been held in high regard by her peers and superiors while meeting and exceeding expectations.

What was omitted from the write-up is that she has four times served as acting or interim president of the university, fol-

lowing the retirement of Benjamin Payton, and the resignation or removal of Gilbert Rochon, Brian Johnson, and Lily McNair.

Along with the joy and respect that the TU community must have over Morris’ appointment, the community should also ask the obvious; why is she good enough

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now when she hadn’t been good enough in the last decade of executive turmoil?

Why is the table now set for Morris, who has always had her hands in grantmaking, fundraising, and federal collaboration on behalf of Tuskegee, when it wasn’t appropriate to do so after each of her test drives in the preceding years?

Tuskegee has only had nine presidents in 140, and five of them, including Morris, will have been appointed since 2010.

Something is wrong there and the board is either flailing to fix it or working hard to find the person who can best hide it.

Perhaps in Morris, given her institutional knowledge and her familiarity in the campus community, they have found the one who can address both needs at the same time.

Her leadership saga is almost a mirror image of Larry Robinson’s journey at Florida A&M University, who also found the presidential promised land after several turns at leadership in the wilderness of interim status.

But Morris didn’t need to be found. She wasn’t even hiding in plain sight. They have long known that she could lead because they put her in charge to do so.

Whether she is in the seat for a good time or a long time remains to be seen; chances are it is the former, because she’s already worked hard for 30 years waiting on this moment.

No matter how good she is in either case, the university seemingly subtracted five to seven years away from the difference she could’ve made with other searches to finally get her where she clearly always deserved to belong.

Tuskegee finally got the “who” right, now the board just needs to clarify and support the “why” behind it.

DeLauro Endorses Elicker THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven Independent

On National Oyster Day, Fair Haven celebrated its oyster farming history while looking forward to future steps.

Mayor Justin Elicker and Fair Haven Heights Alder Rosa Santana visited Copps Island Oysters on the banks of the Quinnipiac River Thursday afternoon to highlight the historical significance of oyster farming in New Haven. Copps Island Oysters Founder Norm Bloom, and his son, Jimmy Bloom who now owns the farm walked the group through their docks, boats, shell pile, and renderings of a planned expansion.

The Blooms farm 14,000 acres along the Connecticut coast from Greenwich to Stonington. Norm Bloom said they have customers from across Connecticut to Texas, Florida, and the West Coast. Along with oysters, Copps Island Oysters markets clams and lobsters.

Norm Bloom estimated that 80 percent of their market comes from farming in the New Haven Harbor. While they are headquartered in Norwalk, they use their New Haven area to farm, produce oysters, and store shells. “Everything happens here,” Bloom said.

The Bloom family has worked in oyster farming since the 1940s. Norm Bloom opened Copps Island Oysters in 1994.

In total, they manage between 25 and 30 boats and employ nearly 60 people.

Fair Haven was home to booming oyster farming throughout the 1700 and 1800s.

“It’s great to see a traditional business like oystering thriving here,” said New Haven Deputy Economic Development Administrator Carlos Eyzaguirre.

At the celebration, the Blooms detailed plans for renovating their historic buildings, and creating a new hatchery to help them “get to the 21st century.”

In New Haven, they save the oyster shells in large piles, wait for spawning time in July, and then put the piles back in the water and wait to harvest.

With the new hatchery, Norm Bloom said, they plan to combine new hatchery methods to help control growing conditions with their traditional oystering where they seed in the sound and grow oysters naturally.

The hatchery will give them a more sustainable, reliable seed source, Jimmy Bloom said. In a hurricane they lost 50 percent of their crop in one day. “It’s hard to recover from those kinds of circumstances.”

Jimmy Bloom said 90 percent of their market relies on restaurants: “People are intimidated by shucking or it’s too much work for them, so there’s not a big culture to buy oysters in the grocery store, bring them home and shuck them themselves.”

The Blooms plan to include a new processing facility on the north end of the property, where they will prepare retail packages to sell at grocery chains with pre-shucked oysters and flavors.

Their plans for renovation and the new facilities are currently in the permitting phase.

They also hold a farm stand each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Copps Island New Haven site. To place larger orders in advance, customers can call 415-2026246.

Patty King, who started to run the farm

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Rosa DeLauro, center, endorsing the reelection of Justin Elicker, at left, as State Rep. Juan Candelaria, who introduced her, looks on at right.

stand when Covid-19 hit, said it has been successful.

They sell their own fresh oysters, clams, and lobsters and occasionally have scallops and flounder they buy. “It’s always fresh!” King said.

Santana said she is grateful for Copps Island Oysters’ dedication and adherence to community input.

Her mother lives down the street from Copps Island Oysters and said she used to smell the shell pile from her house. “I want to appreciate what they have done to mitigate the odor, they’ve done a phenomenal job,” Santana said.

To address the smell problem, the Blooms said, they used an environmentally friendly agent to mix with water and spray on the pile.

Elicker spoke about his interactions with Copps Island Oysters when he was executive director of the New Haven Land Trust. Elicker said he’s been on the oyster farming boats with public school kids and community members and shucking oysters at Land Trust fundraisers. “Consistently you’ve shown and firsthand I’ve witnessed your care for the surrounding neighborhood,” Elicker said.

He added that the oyster farm not only supports the community by providing jobs and engaging the community in their work, but also a “positive environmental impact.”

Elicker also noted the benefits of oysters to the environment as they are “filter feeders.” According to the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, oysters can filter 100 gallons of seawater each day.

National Council of Negro Women, Ben Crump File Suit Against Johnson & Johnson NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorneys Ben Crump of Ben Crump Law and Paul Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson on behalf of members of the National Council of Negro Women, citing the company’s specific marketing of talcum-based baby powder to Black women, despite links to ovarian cancers.

The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) leads, advocates for, and empowers women of African descent, their families, and their communities, connecting more than 2 million women and men.

NCNW has a large portion of members who have used Johnson & Johnson’s powder products, believing they were safe, and is ideally positioned to inform women about their risks.

“This lawsuit is about the lives of our grandmothers, our mothers, our wives, sisters and daughters – all of whom were cynically targeted by Johnson and Johnson,” Crump said.

“All the while, company executives knew

the risk of ovarian cancer from talc.”

Internal documents from Johnson & Johnson reveal the company’s intent to market its talc-based products specifically to Black Women.

The complaint requests corrective action to inform Black women and all other

consumers about the risks associated with using the products and their connection to ovarian cancers.

Johnson & Johnson continues to deny that its talc products are harmful, despite an overwhelming amount of research, dating back to the 1960s of the carcinogenic

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dangers of using talc-based products.

Black women were the subject of Johnson & Johnson’s marketing and advertising campaigns for decades and were a central part of the company’s business strategy.

A 2009 company business plan noted that

the “multicultural consumer [is] highly important to business – need to maintain,” and expressed concern that it was becoming “difficult to efficiently retain core aa consumer.”

“This company, through its words and images, told Black women that we were offensive in our natural state and needed to use their products to stay fresh,” said NCNW executive director Janice Mathis.

“Generations of Black women believed them and made it our daily practice to use their products in ways that put us at risk of cancer — and we taught our daughters to do the same. Shame on Johnson and Johnson.”

Napoli said the company put “profits over people, ignoring and hiding a mountain of research about the risks.”

“We seek to make known what long has been hidden by Johnson and Johnson, and the NCNW, with its tremendous network among Black Americans, is the ideal organization to do it.”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

The Worldwide COVID Threat to Black People

by Ellis Dean, BlackDoctor.com

The word pandemic, as defined by Dictionary.com means, “a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world.” COVID-19 is by definition a worldwide pandemic. This means that, in order for it to be truly controlled, most of the countries in the world must achieve some level of herd immunity. Wealthy countries like the United States have large vaccine supplies. The argument here is more about safety and misinformation than access to vaccines.

But, what about the rest of the world?

Specifically, what about countries in Africa and the Caribbean that are predominantly Black and, sometimes, poor? The short answer is not very well.

Outside of a few notable exceptions like Morocco (26.7% population fully vaccinated), South Africa (7.7%), and Tunisia (7.1%), most African countries are less than 2% fully vaccinated. The reasons for the low vaccination rates in African countries are what can be expected when a sudden pandemic hits a nation with poor infrastructure. The numbers are compounded by the fact that the wealthy nations are hoarding and stockpiling doses. For example, the world’s richest countries will have 1.9 BILLION doses more than they need to fully vaccinate their population(s) by the end of August.

Additionally, the surge of the Delta variant in India prompted their government to impose restrictions on delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine through Covax, a global partnership created to deliver free doses to countries that needed them.

The goal was to vaccinate 20% of Africans by the end of the year. Since the restrictions slowed supply, projections have been lowered to approx. 7%. That is only 10% of what is needed to achieve herd immunity.

Recent developments may prove to have an impact on the lack of vaccinations on the continent. The U.S. is investing $200M in an Aspen Pharmacare manufacturing facility in South Africa. Aspen, the largest pharmaceutical company in Africa, produces the J&J vaccine and this investment should allow the company to expand production beyond its current rate of 300M doses per year.

J&J has promised its offering of vaccines on a not-for-profit basis. In December, the company pledged 500M doses to the aforementioned COVAX worldwide relief initiative.

Additionally, Pfizer and BioNTech revealed a manufacturing agreement with the Biovac Institute in South Africa. This should provide more than 100M doses of their vaccine by the beginning of 2022.

Notice that popular countries that have residents who frequently visit the United

States like Nigeria (0.7%) and Kenya (1.1%), Somalia (0.6%), and Sierra Leone (0.2%) have rates so low that they didn’t even make the top ten. If the slow and low vaccination rates in Africa continue, it could prolong the pandemic,

allow for the creation and incubation of more variants, and significantly impact the continent for generations to come.

What About the Caribbean?

Caribbean interests by people from

wealthy, more vaccinated nations have seemingly had an impact on vaccination rates. Many island nation economies depend on tourism so those who work on or around the frequented resorts have increased vaccination rates. However, the islands with a large number of natives living in the United States surprisingly have low vaccination rates.

Noticeable countries missing from this list are Jamaica (4.0%), The Bahamas (10.1%), and Trinidad and Tobago (12.5%). Those countries have large numbers of natives living in large metropolitan cities in the United States (Miami, New York) who frequently visit their native countries. This could potentially have a negative impact on the fight against the COVID pandemic.

In conclusion, there are approximately 5.54 BILLION people of African descent in the world. That means almost 3.88B will have to be vaccinated in order to reach the 70% required for herd immunity. In order to do this, the world will have to overcome centuries of racism, distrust, and political agendas to ensure the health and safety of all. Trusting governments and politicians isn’t something that makes any of us feel safe. But, our health and safety aren’t up to politicians or governments. It’s up to us. One vaccination at a time.

OINK. HONK. FREE! NEIGH. Through September 6, Connecticut children 18 and under plus one accompanying adult enjoy FREE Zoo admission courtesy of the CT Summer at the Museum program.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021 PRESS ROOM:

SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON RESISTANCE AMONG YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN

WASHINGTON, DC – “It is only by being “too much” that new cracks in the wall of patriarchal dictatorships can emerge.”

These words from award-winning blogger and Pan-African feminist activist, Rosebell Kagumire in her essay entitled “African Young Women Resisting Beyond Borders” underscores young African women’s utilization of the Internet to bring attention to sexual violence, police brutality, and gender disparities. A recent chain of events emphasizing resistance on a global stage, has opened the doors for the composition to make its way to the forefront of conversations again.

At the Tokyo Olympics, United States gymnast, Simone Biles, sent shockwaves throughout the world when she withdrew from the team competition and later individual events, to focus on her mental health. Citing the necessity of having her body and mind in sync, the now seventime Olympic medalist chose not to follow the status quo of “pushing through.” Instead, she used her platform to emphasize the power of using one’s voice and actions to draw attention to unrealistic expectations, supremacy structures, and the muting of victims.

Kagumire does the same by highlighting the various ways these women have developed a collective voice to demand an end to experienced injustices. Her essay begins with an explanation regarding last year’s Twitter uproar after dozens of UganCon’t on page 05

Newhallville Alder Hopefuls

dorsed Democratic candidate and incumbent Gerald Antunes.

Incumbent Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks announced before the convention that she will not be running for reelection in Ward 28, clearing the path for endorsed Democratic candidate Shafiq Abdussabur.

Incumbent Annex Alder Jody Ortiz recently told the Independent that she will not be running for reelection in Ward 17, clearing the path for endorsed Democratic candidate Sal Punzo.

The only other ward in the city besides Newhallville’s Ward 20 that could have a contested primary is Fair Haven Heights’ Ward 11, which includes the low-income senior apartment complex Bella Vista. In that ward, incumbent Alder Renee Haywood has won the Democratic Party’s endorsement for reelection. Although no challengers have yet submitted petitions to make it onto the primary ballot, four other Democrats have filed to run for that seat. They include: Kurtis Kearney, Ira Johnson, Robert Lee, and Patrick Myrthil.

November’s general election, meanwhile, will have at least a handful of contested races thanks to a slate of candidates fielded by the local Republican Party and, in one alder race, the Green Party. Those contested general election races will include races for mayor, city/town clerk, Board of Education District 1, Fair Haven Heights’ Ward 11 alder, Fair Haven Heights’ Ward 13 alder, and Upper Westville’s Ward 26 alder.

Women and men at the #ArewaMeToo rally in Kano State, Nigeria. Credit: Abubakar Shehu at African Arguments

dan women disclosed they’re victims of sexual assault and harassment. Referencing movements that have pushed for accountability and consequences, Kagumire referred to the viral revealing as “Uganda’s own #MeToo movement.”

“These young women were building on the bravery of women who had earlier told their stories despite the public wrath they faced.”

Noting mounting displeasure, Kagumire explains how the “patriarchal power” structure uses its authority to silence women. Standing in the gap for those afraid to speak publicly, Sheena Bageine, a social Con’t on page 05

Newhallville Kicks Off Weekly Summer Music And Arts Festival

pulled over when she saw tents set up and people gathered in the Learning Corridor.

“I’m so glad I came this way!” she said.

Batts wandered over to watch musician Gamaliel “Gammy” Moses perform.

Moses led an interactive drum circle and spoke about the tradition of Caribbean drumming.

Earlier in the afternoon, William Fluker and his band played jazz for the neighborhood. Fluker lives in North Haven and teaches music at Davis Street Arts and Academics Interdistrict Magnet School in New Haven.

Fluker grew up in Washington, D.C., where he said community music festivals are the norm: “I felt that this was missing here.”

“I’ve been looking for this kind of thing for a long time,” Fluker said. “Music is essential. It brings cultures together. It’s a language.”

After the summer festival, Sykes said, she is planning to start working on a Fall Fest in October and Holiday Lights Festival in December for Newhallville.

media activist, anonymously posted their stories online. Subsequently, her arrest triggered a new Twitter hashtag.

“Young Ugandan women responded, from lawyers to mental health specialists to social media warriors, and the #FreeSheena hashtag trended. Within a few hours, she had become a liability for compromised police who released her on bail. Sheena’s case is still ongoing. But the actions of her peers and the solidarity she evoked shows how agile young women’s mobilization in the digital age is, despite the entrenched hegemonies that still prevail in daily life.”

Kagumire contends in her essay that despite the resistance, “millions of young women across the African continent have found a common voice for community building, organizing, and mobilization, taking advantage of the steady increase of Internet penetration and the proliferation of cheaper smartphones.”

To support this fact, she references a 2019 Afrobarometer report stating, “women who regularly use the Internet has more than doubled over the past five years in 34 African countries.” The percentage increased from 11 to 26. Despite the rise, women are still less likely to own a mobile phone, computer, or phone with Internet capabilities, access the Internet regularly, or receive their news from an online source.

Although accessibility is limited, women like Biles continue to seize opportunities to underline injustices as they arise. Later, in her writing, Kagumire steers the conversation back to the use of hashtags to create awareness around long perceived “women’s issues.”

The #SudanWomenProtest, which began in 2019, targeted the leadership of Omar al Bashir (former Sudan head of state). Thousands of women united in rejecting policies that gave credence to sexist and discriminatory laws. The revolt was a shock to many despite the years of resistance from Sudanese women. Social media pro-

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vided them with a platform to spread their message abroad, resulting in an overthrow of the Bashir regime.

In areas where online access remains limited, “young feminist movements and collectives remain marginalized even in young people’s movements pushing for political changes.” Kagumire stated.

“Young people in Africa are increasingly organizing in search of radical change in the way African nations are governed, to deliver dignity and respect for citizens’ voices. Without the equal participation and leadership of young feminists, however, such a social transformation will remain elusive.”

Absolutes such as these are the reasons it’s imperative for women to gather to strategize and implement plans of action.

While the organization of like-minded individuals in many African countries is becoming more of a focus in mainstream media, the years of work is evident.

In 2006, women from various African countries met to establish the African Feminist Forum. According to charter documents, “the space was crafted as an autonomous space in which African feminists from all walks of life at different levels of engagement within the feminist movement such as mobilizing at local levels for women’s empowerment to academia, could reflect on a collective basis and chart ways to strengthen and grow the feminist movement on the continent.”

As many of the movements have hinged upon grassroots efforts, Kagumire points out the necessity of women in parliament positions to generate lasting change. To create a power shift, women must continue to demand that their humanity be recognized even if it’s deemed as “asking for too much.” About Rosebell Kagumire: Rosebell Kagumire is also a writer and communications strategist. She is the current curator and editor of AfricanFeminism.com. Kagumire is the co-editor of ‘The Role of Patriarchy in the Roll-back of Democracy, focusing on East Africa and the Horn of Africa

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Time To Mask Up

only in “really crowded” spaces. She said she isn’t “super concerned” about the prospect of getting sick; any precautions she still takes are “mostly” for her son.

Joe Zaino, who is 84 years old, was also wearing a mask when he showed up to Dollar Tree to “see what they have” on Friday morning.

His mask philosophy: “I don’t want to take any chances.”

Zaino lives in Hamden with his 67-yearold wife and her 95-year-old mother. He has five grandkids and three great grandchildren who live out in Washington State. He hasn’t seen them since 2019, right before everything shut down in March.

“Now I’m at war with my daughter, ‘cause she won’t get the needle,” he said.

If her work schedule allowed her and the rest of his family to come visit Connecticut, he said, “I’d just have to take my chances!”

Health Insurance Boost The governor cited the pandemic surge, meanwhile, at the Fair Haven Health event Friday morning as he announced an expansion of a state health insurance program.

The program, called Covered Connecticut, offers health insurance to people who earn too much money qualify for Medicaid but not enough to purchase private plans through Access Health CT (the state’s version of Obamacare) — “folks caught between the cracks,” as State Sen. Matt Lesser put it at Friday’s announcement. The program offers either free or “extremely low cost” premiums and deductibles to people caught in those cracks (depending on their income.)

The governor unveiled the program earlier this year after he decided not to support an effort by Democrats in the legislature to create a “public option” plan to cover more people in the state.

So far it has enrolled only 600 people.

Open enrollment (through the Access Health program) was supposed to end Aug. 15. Friday’s announcement is that open enrollment has now been extended until Oct. 15.

Officials are hoping in that time to reach 40,000 individuals they’ve identified as qualifying for the program. Undocumented children up to age 8 are also eligible.

“If there was one truth that we, unfortunately, learned the hard way during Covid, it was that people who did not have frequent access to medical care and had comorbidities, if and when they contracted Covid, they would undoubtedly get much sicker and some cases tragically die because they were not able to have access to regular healthcare,” State Rep. Sean Scanlon said at Friday’s event.

“With going back to school, they’ll be able to get preventative health checkups and their vaccinations without worrying about the cost of care,” said Department of Social Services Commissioner Deidre Gifford.

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Companies, Non-Profits, Government Agencies Make Combined Commitment to Alert Millions to Emergency Rental Assistance Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

The White House on Wednesday announced commitments from major companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to continue an all-out push to make sure tenants and landlords take advantage of federal rental assistance to help cover rent, utilities, and other housing costs and keep people in their homes.

According to a Fact Sheet released by the White House, the action could help reach tens of millions of Americans.

Officials noted that the continued call to action coincides with the launch of a new rental assistance finder produced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Anyone behind on rent can go to ConsumerFinance.gov/RentHelp and input information on their location to find local rental assistance programs in their area and apply for assistance.

“Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, billions of dollars in federal rental assistance is available to renters who are behind on housing costs, as well as landlords who have struggled during the pandemic,” White House officials wrote in the Fact Sheet.

“The Administration is building on a whole-of-government effort and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders to spread awareness of the CFPB’s new tool, as well

as the resources available to assist tenants and landlords.”

Emergency rental assistance is available to tenants in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., territories, and in Tribal areas, and will continue to be available after the expiration of the CDC eviction moratorium on August 1, 2021.

The White House said the continued “Call to Action builds on the groundwork laid over the past several months by the Administration to engage renters and landlords,

including hosting two virtual convenings with thousands of participants to share best practices on eviction prevention and build local plans of action, streamline guidance for the rental assistance program to make it easier and more efficient, and engage agencies across the federal government to help get the word out to households in need.”

For more general information about the Emergency Rental Assistance program, individuals can visit the unified federal housing assistance portal hosted by the Con-

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sumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Agencies across the federal government, non-profit groups, faith-based organizations, and private sector companies are responding to the Biden-Harris Administration’s call to action to raise awareness, the White House added.

“We expect that these efforts will reach tens of millions of Americans,” officials stated.

Private sector and non-profit commitments include PayPal, Square, Inc., Go-

FundMe, Lyft, Avail, and Propel.

Additionally, the National Apartment Association will send an alert to their 90,000 members nationwide and the National Multifamily Housing Coalition will share the CFPB tool with their 10,000 members through emails and a newsletter.

The National Low Income Housing Coalition plans to include a link to the CFPB tool on their website, place an article about the tool and emergency rental assistance in their newsletter which is distributed to 135,000 people, and will brief stakeholders on their weekly call.

United Way, the Arc, Children’s Defense Fund, Operation HOPE, Bread for the World, and others also are aiding.

Federal agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and others also have made commitments.

“The Census Bureau will share the CFPB tool and information on emergency rental assistance with members of their Census Counts and States Count lists,” officials stated.

“The Census Counts list includes over 60 national organizations with a deep investment in meeting the needs of marginalized communities and the States Count list includes partners in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 11, 2021 - August 17, 2021

Barack Obama Turns 60! Still Fly, Funny and Fighting for Us

by Marcus Greenlee, BDO Contributing Writer

There are a number of Americans who will probably spend Obama’s birthday and President’s Day reminiscing about the good old days when he was actually caring for people and doing real American political work like establishing the Affordable Care Act, taking action to save the environment by signing the Paris Agreement and creating 11.3 million new jobs that caused the unemployment rate to drop to 4.6 percent, the lowest rate in nearly a decade.

But as one of the flyest presidents in U.S. history turns 60, he says he could not have accomplished anything without his wife.

“I couldn’t have done anything that I’ve done without Michelle … not only has she been a great First Lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day.”

And apparantely, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree when you look at Obama’s children. Obama made a tearyeyed statement about his daughters as he’s seen them grow, mature and start to lead their own lives post-graduation.

Featured on BlackDoctorTracker “Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes you’re growing up to become two strong, smart, beautiful young women, just like your mom. And I’m so proud of you guys.”

Even though he’s no longer in the White House, the 44th President Of The United States has still been keeping busy by helping others to speak up for their rights as citizens and creating his foundation. Built upon many of the same principals as his presidency, Obama and his wife started clocking more hours for the nonprofit corporation, established in 2014, aimed at developing the future leaders and active citizens that will one day impact the world.

When Trump signed an executive order imposing a travel ban on folks from seven Muslim-majority counties and preventing Syrian refugees from entering the country indefinitely, Obama was among several leaders advocating for citizens to fight for their rights and protest. In a statement released just 10 days after he left office, Obama encouraged Americans to protest: “Citizens exercising their constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their

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voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake.”

But even with all of that, many in the Black community still ask “what did Barack do for me?” So, as we look forward to what he will do, we take a look back to what he has done. See below: • My Brother’s Keeper: My Brother’s Keeper is a coordinated Federal effort to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential. Nearly 250 communities in all 50 states have accepted the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge to raise money for young men of color programs. More than $600 million in private sector and philanthropic grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in low-interest financing have been committed in alignment with MBK, and new federal policy initiatives, grant programs, and guidance are being implemented to ensure that every child has a clear pathway to success from cradle to college and career.

• Economic Security Has Improved: Businesses have added over 14 million jobs over 70 straight months of job growth,

which sets a new record. From 16.8% in March 2010 to 8.3% in December 2015, this job growth has helped but the African American unemployment rate in half and is at its lowest level since 2007.

• College Is More Accessible & Affordable: Increasing the maximum Pell Grant by more than $1000 and total Pell Grant by 70%, President Obama signed legislation to help millions of low to moderate income students afford college every year. He’s also taken steps to reduce student loan burdens including student loan interest rates to historic lows and capping student loan payments. The president also established and made permanent the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which provides a tax cut of up to $10,000 over four years for nearly 10 million working and middle class families a year paying for college.

• Made Home Ownership More Affordable: The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has long been an important source of financing for African American families seeking to buy their first home.

Nearly half of African American families used FHA to get a mortgage. During his presidency, Obama had the FHA create a major new step to make buying a home more affordable and accessible for creditworthy families. The FHA reduced its annual mortgage insurance premiums by half a percentage point. For the typical homebuyer, this translates into a $900 reduction in their annual mortgage payment.

Existing homeowners who refinance into a FHA mortgage saw similar reductions in their mortgage payments as well. Following the reduction in 2015 the number of Black borrowers (new purchases or refinance) with an FHA loan increased by nearly 50%.

• Black people were hit especially hard by the housing crisis. The President took action to help homeowners, including expanding access to refinancing, which allowed responsible borrowers to save an average of $3,000 per year. The Administration has taken measures to allow homeowners who are behind on their payments to modify their mortgages to avoid foreclosure.

• Prevented Families from Financial Abuses, Hidden Fees, and Deceptive PracCon’t on page 13

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The Genius and Foresight of Prince Revealed Again in ‘Welcome 2 America’

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

It is rare when a posthumous CD receives the rave reviews as Prince’s “Welcome 2 America.”

It is even rarer when the previously unreleased music was hidden in plain sight for more than a decade.

Yes, Prince played many of the same songs during his 2010 tour of the same name.

But the Purple One never released “Welcome 2 America” music – perhaps with the remarkable foresight he had always possessed, Prince had his eyes on 2021, Black Lives Matter, and the pandemic.

“I swear that he’s speaking from the grave,” Elisa Fiorillo, a member of Prince’s New Power Generation, told the New York Post.

“Now I listen to it, and I get it more than I did when I sang it, which is crazy. It’s like he read into the future,” exclaimed Fiorillo, who sang background vocals for the album.

Prince died in 2016 of an accidental prescription drug overdose. He was 57.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Oscar and multi-Grammy and American Music Award-winner, reportedly has a treasure trove of unreleased hits inside his vault at Paisley Park, his famous home that’s now a huge tourist attraction outside of Minneapolis.

But it’s “Welcome 2 America” that has music aficionados, journalists, and fans fawning over the superstar all over again.

“Prince Made ‘Welcome 2 America’ in 2010. It Speaks to 2021,” The New York Times raved in its headline this week.

“Funkier, Sexier, Superflyier Than Most of His Latter-Day Music,” Rolling Stone

headline writers asserted.

“A Prismatic Prince Shines Again on Welcome 2 America,” NPR added. “‘Welcome 2 America’ was made two years into the Obama administration, and Prince didn’t see much progress. In

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the title track, women sing, ‘Hope and change’; then Prince dryly observes, ‘Everything takes forever/The truth is a new minority,’” mused the famed music critic John Pareles.

Pareles notes that the songs take on racism, exploitation, disinformation, celebrity, faith, and capitalism.

“21st century, it’s still about greed and fame,” Prince sings in “Running Game (Son of a Slave Master).”

“Eleven years after the album was recorded — as the 2020s have brought bitter divisiveness, blatant racism, battles over history and a digital hellscape of hyped consumption and algorithmically boosted lies — Prince doesn’t sound pessimistic, just matter-of-fact,” Pareles relayed.

“Welcome 2 America” wasn’t made casually, he concluded.

“It’s one of Prince’s more collaborative albums, constructed in discrete stages with different cohorts of musicians.”

“With the album coming out now, it’s almost like what everyone needs to hear,” Tal Wilkenfeld, who played bass during the March and April 2010 recording sessions, told the Post.

“He was very focused on the socio-political climate… He really cared to have a voice in what was happening in the world at large and make change.”

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Barack Obama Turns 60!

tices: To prevent mortgage companies, credit card lenders, and payday loan companies from exploiting consumers with hidden fees and other deceptive practices, President Obama fought to pass the most far-reaching Wall Street reform in history which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

• Helped the Long-Term Unemployed Get Back to Work: The Obama Administration took steps to help more of the long-term unemployed get back to work, and around one-quarter of whom are African-American. The Department of Labor awarded nearly $170 million in “Ready to Work Partnership” grants to support the best models for partnerships between employers, non-profits, and the job training system to help train and connect the long-term unemployed to work.

• Increased Funding to HBCUs: Federal funding to HBCUs grew each year since 2009. Through the Higher Education Act, HBCUs received a $17 million funding increase in 2016—the largest increase for the federal program in six years. And President Obama’s FY 2017 budget seeks to maintain and strengthen these opportunities for HBCUs to build their capacity.

The FY 2017 budget proposes $85 million in mandatory funding to HBCUs, an increase of $5 million from FY 2016, plus an additional $244.7 million in discretionary funds for Title III.

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INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS- August July 27,11 2016 - August 02, 17, 2016 THE INNER-CITY , 2021 - August 2021

NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY NOTICE Inspection Services RFP No. P21001

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

SCOPE:

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, The Housing pre-applications Authority of the of and Danbury hereby issues this at Request for is accepting forCity studio one-bedroom apartments this develsecure contract perform HQS Inspections. opment Proposal located at to 108 FrankaStreet, NewtoHaven.

Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y PROPOSAL SUBMITTAL RETURN: (approximately 100) have 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications Housing Authority of offices the CityofofHOME Danbury, Mill Ridge Rd, CTupon 06811rebeen received at the INC.2 Applications willDanbury, be mailied Must be RFP No.P21001, Inspection Services quest byEnvelope calling HOME INCMarked: at 203-562-4663 during those hours.

Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third SUBMITTAL DEADLINE Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

September 3, 2021 at 10:00am (EST)

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CONTACT PERSON FOR IFB DOCUMENT: Ms. Devin Marra, Director of Procurement,Telephone: 203-744-2500 x1410 VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES E-Mail:DE dmarra@hacdct.org [Minority- and/or women-owned businesses are encouraged to respond] HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está 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 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 esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

NEW HAVEN 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 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

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

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 ELM CITY COMMUNITIES Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Request for Proposals

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.

Quality Control Services

Elm City Communities is currently seeking proposals for quality control services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City Communities’ VenBidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Ofdor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway fice, 28 on Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. beginning

Monday, July 12, 2021 at 3:00PM.

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 informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the

TOWN OF GREENWICH

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SALARY: $60,910.00 - $76,825.00 Annually A full-time position with competitivebenefits package.

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The Town of Greenwich is Dedicated to Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment

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Certified Police Officer The Town of Wallingford is currently accepting applications for current Connecticut P.O.S.T.C Certified Police Officers. Applicants must be active P.O.S.T.C Certified Police Officers in good standing with their current department, or have retired in good standing, still having a current certification status with P.O.S.T.C. This Process will consist of Written, Oral, Polygraph, Psychological, Medical Exam, and Background Investigation. The Town of Wallingford offers a competitive pay rate $73,569.60- $ 81,619.20 annually. Application deadline will be August 27, 2021 Apply: www.policeapp.com to complete the application process. EOE.

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AA/EOE.

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Meal Services Provision D.J. Komanetsky Estates, Bristol

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

Proposals for the provision of one daily noon meal at the DIMITRY J. KOMANETSKY ESTATES, Congregate Housing for the Elderly, will be received by the Housing Authority of the City of Bristol, CEO, until Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 at 4pm EDT at its administrative offices, 164 Jerome Ave., InvitationAttn. to Bid: Bristol, CT 06010.

APPLY NOW! 2 Notice nd

The Housing Authority of the City of Bristol (BHA) is exempt from all Federal, State and Municipal SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders taxes.

Top pay for top performers. Health Old Saybrook, CT the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive informalities when such action is BHA reserves Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. to be in the best interest of the Authority.

(4 Buildings,deemed 17 Units) considers providers for the project.

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Portland

BHA reserves the sole right to select the firms it

Specifications are on file and can be obtained at BHA, 164 Jerome Ave., Bristol, CT 06010 and Dimitry

J. Komanetsky Estates, 81 Grove Ave., Bristol, CT 06010 during normal business hours. Electronic New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castdocuments and any questions can be answered by contacting Carl Johnson, Director of Capital Funds cjohnson@bristolhousing.org. in-place Concrete, AsphaltatShingles, Vinyl Siding, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, No proposal may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent BHA. Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and ofFire Protection.

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

Youth Services Administrator is an equal employment opportunity contractor. HUD Section 3 companies, small business, mi-

nority owned business, and women owned business enterprises are encouraged to participate. full-time position.

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Town of Bloomfield Request for Proposals Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 CertifiedManager Businesses Construction at Risk for Westville Manor EntryHCCLevel Police Officer Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483

Salary $71,957

AA/EEO EMPLOYER The Glendower Group is currently seeking proposals for Construction Manager at Risk for Westville Manor. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Glendower’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.

Deadline to apply 8/20/21 com/gateway Pre-employment drug testing. AA/ EOE. beginning on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 3:00PM. For Details go to policeapp.com

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Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

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

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Union Company seeks:

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

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

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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.

MINORITY CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY –

Valley St. Townhouses, New Haven, CT, CT SOLICITATION OF SBE/MBE CONTRACTORS: Enterprise Builders, Inc., an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, seeks certified SBE/MBE Subcontractors and/or suppliers and local business enterprises to bid applicable sections of work/equipment/supplies for the following construction project: Valley St. Townhouses, in New Haven, CT. Bid Date and Time: Monday, August 23rd, 2021 by 3:00 PM. Electronic Plans and specifications can be obtained at no charge by contacting the Estimating Department at Enterprise Builders at (860) 466-5188 or by email to bbaril@enterbuilders.com. Project is Tax Exempt and Residential Prevailing Wage (Davis Bacon) applies. This project is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. EBI encourages the participation of certified SBE/MBE, veteran-Owned, and Section 3 contractors. EBI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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NEWS- July 27,11 2016 - August 02, 2016 THE INNER-CITY INNER-CITY NEWS August , 2021 - August 17, 2021

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES NOTICE

Invitation for Bids

Essex Exterior Envelope and Dwelling Unit Improvements

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Bids for exterior envelope dwelling unit improvements.

HOME INC, on behalf of Essex Columbus House and theand New Haven Housing Authority, A is complete copy of the requirement mayand beone-bedroom obtained fromapartments Elm City at Communities’ accepting pre-applications for studio this develVendor Collaboration Portal opment located at 108 Frankhttps://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateStreet, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apway on ply.beginning 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 August HOME INC. will be mailied upon reWednesday, 4,Applications 2021 at 3:00PM. quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned HOME INC’s at 171 Orange Street, Asbestos Workers wanted fortoupcoming yearoffices long project in Springfi eld,Third MA. Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Must be licensed in Massachusetts. Please call Greg at 860-214-3122 or send an email with information and certifications to lorena@hazpros.com

NOTICIA

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

Request for Proposal (RFP) HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está Labor and Employment Legal Services aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo Number: ubicado en Solicitation la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. 187-LG-21-S Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25

The Housing Authority of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) julio, 2016 hasta cuandoof se the han City recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) is en seeking seeks de proposals attorneys/law firmsserán for the provision of a full cadre of las oficinas HOME from INC. Las pre-solicitudes enviadas por correo a petición legal services.

Respondent(s) must have graduated from an accredited law school and llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse beaalas member Connecticut Bar.Orange Solicitation will be Haven available July .26, oficinasofdethe HOME INC en 171 Street, package tercer piso, New , CTon06510 2021, to obtain a copy of the solicitation you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.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, Fairmont 2021 @ 3:00 p.m., to Ms. 242-258 Caroline Sanchez, DirectorAve of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604.

Late proposals will not be accepted.

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

NEW HAVEN

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

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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

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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,

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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 INNER-CITY NEWS August , 2021 - August 17, 2021 NEWS- July 27, 11 2016 - August 02, 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

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.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

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

Payroll

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DELIVERY PERSON

NEEDED

Payroll Clerk- Performs responsible office work in the processing of all general government payrolls and maintain all payroll records. The position requires a H.S. diploma or G.E.D, plus 5 years of experience in responsible office work involving typing, accounting, bookkeeping, data entry and payroll processing. $27.22 to $32.68 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or maybe downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. The closing date will be the date that the 50th application form/resume is received, or August 11, 2021, whichever occurs first. EOE

Construction

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)

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

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 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 license and be able to obtain a Drivers Medical Card. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com. AA/EOE-MF

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.

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

Assistant Director of IT

Salary $77,655 to $119,861 Deadline to apply 8/24/21 Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE. For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.org

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