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ICE Overrides Blumenthal On Deportation

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK New Haven Independent

Marco Antonio Reyes Alvarez, the undocumented Ecuadorian immigrant who has found sanctuary from deportation in a church downtown, might face a prolonged stay at First & Summerfield due to a new directive that limits the ability of members of Congress to halt removal orders.

Federal legislators have regularly introduced “private immigration bills,” which, if passed, would grant permanent legal residency to a person who entered the country illegally. More importantly, while the private immigration bills were being considered, federal agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used to hold off on deporting the individual. If a U.S. senator was willing to stick his neck out for an undocumented immigrant, authorities would take that into consideration before kicking the immigrant out of the country.

But effective this year, agents are no longer waiting to see if a private immigration bill can pass both chambers and get Donald Trump’s signature. Unless a committee chairman pens a letter, ICE will proceed with enforcement actions, regardless of a congressman’s intervention.

That might interfere with Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s last-ditch attempt to shield Reyes from removal.

Reyes inside church with his daughter and wife.

In a statement to the Independent, Blumenthal expressed outrage at the policy change.

“Private bills are one useful means of addressing the shortcomings of our broken immigration system in especially egregious cases of injustice,” the senator said. “The Trump administration’s shameful policy changes make the need for comprehensive immigration reform all the more urgent.”

On Aug. 3, just before the Senate broke for a summer recess, Blumenthal introduced a private immigration bill for Reyes — five days before the

45-year-old father of three would skip his flight back to Ecuador, a country he hasn’t seen in 20 years.

On May 5, ICE’s acting director, Thomas Homan, informed the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that his agents would no longer automatically grant a stay of removal each time a private immigration bill is introduced.

The one exception: the chair of the full committee or a subcommittee all Republicans can still request a stay in writing. Even then, Homan’s directive says immigrants can receive only one stay, shortened to six months.

Because the bill was filed in the last hours of the legislative session, Blumenthal didn’t have time to send a letter to his colleague Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and ask for a stay of removal. (Grassley has requested at least one private immigration bill for his own constituents.) Under the new rules, absent a letter from Grassley, ICE will continue to target Reyes for deportation.

“The Trump administration’s policies are cruel and unjust and ignore considerations relating to family ties, lack of criminal record, and pending appeals a round-up, in effect, of anyone whose immigration status may be in question,” Blumenthal stated.

“They mark an abrupt and arbitrary change from longstanding policies that prioritized serious criminal offenders and others who are dangerous.”

Thirty immigrants, whose private relief bills were introduced this session before Homan’s letter went out, were granted stays until March 2019, according to Shawn Neudauer, a spokesperson for ICE’s New England office.)

ICE said it altered the process because few of the private immigration bills ever become law. Between 1986 and 2013, close to 1—private immigration bills were signed into law, only eight of which were introduced

after 9/11. These days, most die in committee.

“The stay mechanism, combined with the repeated introduction of bills, which are rarely, if ever enacted, could prevent ICE from removing aliens who fall within the enforcement priorities” that Trump outlined in an executive order on sanctuary cities, Homan wrote.

A Democratic congressman from Colorado, Rep. Jared Polis, said he believes ICE’s policy was drafted in response to a stay for Jeanette Vizguerra, a mother of four and grandmother of one.

Vizguerra spent 86 days in sanctuary in the First Baptist Church in Denver before gaining a two-year stay.

“In the past, I have used private bills as a last resort after all other avenues have been exhausted, and they have worked to keep families together,” Polis told his hometown Boulder Weekly in May. “The threshold that ICE has laid out effectively ends private bills as a tool for members of Congress to use to help immigrants who have exhausted all administrative options but whose cases present exceptional humanitarian factors that are above and beyond the norm.”

Reyes’s attorney, Erin O’Neil-Baker, is separately requesting a stay of removal from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, while she tries to reopen his cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services.

Eclipse-Watching Fair Haveners Share The Glasses

by ALLAN APPEL

Thirteen-year-old Judah La Rose was generous about sharing the special and much sought-after special light-filtering glasses through which he viewed today’s rare total solar eclipse.

“There’s no point in keeping them. I’d have to wait 99 years to use them again.

I’d be 114 years old and I’d be blind by then,” said the witty and mathematically-minded incoming Sound School freshman.

Still when he viewed the eclipse at around 2:45, the moment of near “totality” when about 60 percent of our star was covered by the moon’s shadow, he pronounced what he saw “cool” and proceeded to try to make a photograph and send the image of the historical moment to himself.

Judah was among more than 100 sungazers, roughly four times the number

of people who visit the Fair Haven Branch Library on a summer’s afternoon, who gathered there for one of the city’s many eclipse-watching parties.

While younger kids with their parents or care-givers made images of the sun with crayons on paper, including rotating constructions of how the three celestial bodies line up to make today’s eclipse, older kids and adults were gathered downstairs in the branch’s community room to catch the NASA channel feed projected on a screen.

Periodically, as more of the sun was shadowed, children’s librarian Martha Blume corralled the eclipse-watchers to go outside with the glasses and view what one kid, Nick Velez, called the eating away of the sun, as if by The Munitz family of East Haven was there in force, including brothers Christian, Santos, and Johan. Santos,

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around 1:40 p.m.

Librarians Morrison and Blume in back row with fellow gazers at

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who said he’d like to study astronomy; he was impressed and intrigued.

The experience of watching the eclipse, he said, “made me think that the universe is so big, but what else is out there? It really makes you think.”

The 11-year-old Skojec twins, Angelina and Rachael, who go to the Helen Street School in Hamden, must have had a good dinner last night because they compared what they saw through the glasses to food.

Rachael said what she saw reminded her of what it’s like when you’re wrapping up lasagna and you have one piece of foil, but it’s not big enough and you need another.

“You can’t wrap up a watermelon, the whole. You need pieces of foil,” Angelina added.

Angelina also had expected the shadow on the sun to be bigger, but learned, from Con’t on page 3

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Post-Charlottesville “Unity” Event Casts Wide Net menthal said. “How repulsed he would have been ... It was a frightening moment in American history.” By praising many of the ralliers who joined the neo-Nazi march and supporting their stated demands about preserving Confederate monuments in public squares, President Trump revealed that “he doesn’t speak for America,” Blumenthal argued. He called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to prosecute not just the man who drove into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring many more, but also fellow “coconspirators” in the movement, under Section 241 of the Civil Rights Act. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro cited an interview Trump aide Steve Bannon gave to the American Prospect magazine last week before he was fired, in which he spoke of how Republicans can “crush” Democrats with an “economic nationalism” message if Democrats continue speaking about race.

President Trump followed that script in his remarks after the Charlottesville

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

On Monday afternoon in New Haven, even Jewish lives mattered.

Jewish lives mattered. Muslim lives mattered. Black lives, Christian lives ... all lives necessary in building a just society and confronting deadly bigotry were on display and identified at a community “unity” event (rally? press conference? something in between?) organized by the Harp administration and the police department on the second floor of City Hall.

They organized the event in response to the deadly violence at a pro-Confederate monument rally staged by neoNazis and Ku Klux Klanners on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the subsequent excuse-making and even support for the right-wing racial ralliers expressed by President Donald Trump.

Along with elected officials and officials from the Chamber of Commerce and Yale, they invited an imam to speak, Saif Hasaan of Masjid al Islam on George Street. They invited Rev. Bonnie Scott of the United Church on the Green to speak. And they invited Judy Alperin, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven to speak.

This official event came a week after another post-Charlottesville protest in New Haven organized by grassroots social justice groups. Some Jewish activists at the event said they were devastated not to hear more of a direct acknowledgement of the presence or relevance of Jews to the discussion — even though the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville chanted, “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and soil,” a reference to a Nazi slogan.

Monday afternoon’s City Hall event, on the other hand, cast a wide ethnic and religious net.

“We will not ever allow outside forces to come into our city and incite antagonism and fear,” declared Police Chief Anthony Campbell, himself an ordained minister.

“This is what our city looks like,” Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker said of the diverse crowd. “If anybody thinks you can come to our city and spew hate, we will not tolerate it.”

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who is Jewish, spoke about how his father came to the U.S. in 1935 to escape Nazi persecution.

If his father had seen the videos of the Charlottesville march, “it would have ashamed and embarrassed” him, Blu-

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the programs, posters, and dioramas in the library, that the eclipse viewed from Fair Haven was partial.

Branch librarian Morrison said he is excited about the interest generated by the eclipse and has been taking calls for a week about obtaining those glasses, which Judah was so casual about.

He gave away a few select pairs during the week but then sent some of the supply that had been sent to him from the central branch back, because they had run out.

On Monday afternoon he had 100 pairs to give out to people who had started coming by as early as 10:30 a.m.As some people left with them, by around 2:45, when the totality was wowing gazers craning their necks up to the sun, people were sharing happily.

Morrison said the science-interest is going to carry forward to more STEM programs at the branch.

That’s going to include a monthly coding club to be run by the children’s librarians Martha Blume and Tyshawna Neal; word is they’ll be teaching Java, Scratch, and Python to a beginners and an intermediate group; check the branch’s site for more details as September rolls in.

Before she went out to view the eclipse with glasses provided by the library, Sherri Hoffman said, “I wanted to be able to say I saw it. Because of my health, I’ve missed out so much, I don’t want to miss out on this.”

rally, she argued.

“It is contemptible that the White House would incite a race war as a political strategy,” DeLauro declared.

“We reject that cynical strategy.” She called it a “false choice” to pit the pursuit of racial justice against the pursuit of well-paying jobs for Americans.

“We stand with you as the Muslim community to unify our community, to fight hatred and bigotry,” Imam Hasaan (who hosts WNHH FM’s “The Saif Zone” program) told the crowd. “We have to work together as one people.”

The Jewish Federation’s Alperin came to the lectern accompanied by two local rabbis, Rona Shapiro and Michael Farbman. “We say no to hate,” Alperin declared. “No to xenophobia. No to anti-Semitism. No to anything that will tear us down.”

After the event, Marcus Paca who’s challenging Harp in a Sept. 12 Democratic mayoral primary, issued a statement criticizing her for her administration’s response to a gathering on the New Haven Green last month of a right-wing violence-prone group called the “Proud Boys,” which ended in brief minor violence and four arrests (of counterdemonstrators). Paca repeated a criticism he aired a day earlier at a mayoral debate, when he argued that Harp should have known about that gathering in advance and shown up to it. “Leadership starts at home.

The mayor did not rally against hate and bigotry last month when a white supremacist group came to our city green. Yesterday she refused even to condemn the Proud Boys.”

Firebirds Endorse Harp

A group representing black New Haven firefighters has endorsed the reelection campaign of Mayor Toni Harp.

Leaders of the group, the New Haven Firebirds, announced the endorsement Monday afternoon outside the Goffe Street station, citing her “proven track record as it relates to affordable housing, as it relates to turning the public education system around” and promoting minorities and public safety.

Harp has supported one of the group’s signature initiatives, which readies high schoolers for public safety careers.

Harp faces Marcus Paca in a Sept.

12 Democratic primary in her quest for a third two-year term. Paca has also qualified to run as an independent in the Nov. 7 general election.

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3 Seek West Rock/West Hills Seat

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

Two of the three candidates running to be the next alder for Ward 30 are lifelong New Haveners with connections and histories that they hope will bridge both sides of the big rock on the west side of town.

They also hope to turn out enough voters to decide whether strong experience or new energy matters most in the next representative for the West Rock/West Hills section of the city.

Those two candidates are Michelle Sepulveda, who was appointed by Mayor Toni Harp to serve out the rest of the term of Carlton Staggers, who resigned; and Tosha James-Goldson, who is throwing her hat in the political arena for the first time.

Though it has among the lowest voter turnout in town, Ward 30 nevertheless has three candidates running for the alder seat. The third candidate is Charlie Delgado. Multiple attempts to reach Delgado for this article were unsuccessful. Delgado and James-Goldson have qualified to have their names placed on both the Sept. 12 Democratic primary ballot and the Nov. 7 general election ballot. Sepulveda is running only in the primary.

If the surnames Sepulveda and Goldson are familiar, they should be.

Sepulveda served as the West Rock/

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Sepulveda: back in the Ward 30 saddle, hoping to stay there.

West Hills alder for two terms. JamesGoldson is married to a former West Rock/West Hills alder, Darnell Goldson, who now serves as an elected member of the city’s Board of Education.

Both women promised to help the ward get its fair share of government resources. They offered some different perspectives on the ward.

Sepulveda said she sees the ward

Political newcomer James-Goldson.

through the lens of someone who has lived on both sides of West Rock. She lived in the old Brookside publichousing development as a teen and now lives on the West Hills side on Rock Creek Road, the same street where more than 20 of her first cousins lived when she was growing up.

James-Goldson said she sees the ward through the eyes of someone who once lived in public housing in the city as a young single mother, raising her first child and trying to get an education

and jobs to improve their life; to now being a married two-time homeowner in the neighborhood. She first owned a home on Rock Street and now owns one on West Hills Road.

“I want to improve my community,” James-Goldson said. “I feel as though Carlton [Staggers] was filling the seat but he didn’t do much as far as fulfilling his obligations to the community.”

James-Goldson, who is a licensed professional nurse by night she works the third shift and wife and mother of two by day said that if she is elected she will be focused on addressing crime and after-school opportunities in the ward.

“Most of the people of the ward work,” she said. “And children don’t really have a place to go to after school where they can continue their education or just have a positive environment to play and de-stress and get positive love and feedback.”

James-Goldson said she understands the daily struggles that some of her constituents in public housing might be experiencing. As an alder she would work to make sure that they know that the city has resources that can help them do what she did to improve her life with education, a career, and homeownership, said said. If the Con’t on page 7

“Proud Boys” Protesters Take Plea Deal

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK New Haven Independent

As the the nation’s attention was riveted to the fallout of a fatal confrontation between white supremacists and counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, two anti-racist counterdemonstrators accepted a plea deal for their roles in an earlier confrontation that went awry in New Haven.

The two activists, David M. Simone, 49, of North Bergen, N.J., and Roseanna Ryburn, 37, of Brooklyn, N.Y., both appeared before Superior Court Judge Karen Nash Sequino last week on charges of interfering with police officers during a protest against a group of white nationalists who call themselves the Proud Boys. Both accepted a plea deal of six months in a probationary program.

On July 8, six members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group that espouses libertarianism, male dominance and white “pride,” met on the New Haven Green to hear a scheduled speaker. The lecturer never arrived. Nearly 150 counterdemonstrators showed up in opposition,

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Police cuff Roseanna Ryburn at Green counter-protest.

almost all of them from New Haven and determined to remain non-violent. But a few of them from out of town also showed up, wearing the face masks and carrying the tools of the direct-action oriented “antifa” movement.

In the clash, those few out-of-towners attacked the Proud Boys. Camera footage from the event shows Ryburn, with a pink bandana and big sunglasses ob-

scuring her face, shoving a Proud Boy in the back, smacking his arm with a black vuvuzela and kicking him in the behind at least twice. According to the New Haven Police Department, Ryburn also allegedly threw a paint-filled balloon toward an cop, then walked away.

(The balloon didn’t hit anyone; the paint splattered on an officer.) Police also said that Simone allegedly blared his mega-

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phone’s siren in a cop’s face and carried illegal fireworks in his backpack.

In the courtroom this past Monday morning, joined by nearly a dozen supporters who watched in silence, Simone and Ryburn’s attorney disputed the police’s account of their actions and the court’s rationale for punishing them.

“I just want to make sure it’s clear my client detests the very concept that Nazis are here,” said the attorney, Ken Krayeske.

Judge Sequino answered that it is the court’s job to make sure that violence isn’t met with violence. That way, “hate is reduced all around,” she said as she handed down her order.

The defendants decided to cut a deal and take “accelerated rehabilitation,” a diversion program available to some non-violent, first-time offenders. The defendants acknowledged their lawbreaking, and Sequino agreed to dismiss their cases if each didn’t commit another offense for six months. To qualify for a fee waiver, Ryburn also has to complete Con’t on page 8

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Fair Haven Showers The Babies

by ALLAN APPEL

New Haven Independent

Young dad Chris Pena drives a truck; having just qualified for a commercial driver’s license, he’ll be able to move up and continue to pay the rent twobedroom apartment, where his wife stays home to care for the couple’s kids, 2 1/2-year old Lia and baby Zoe, born just three weeks ago.

Still the baby supplies do run out on Fridays, and Pena’s wife often has to wait until he comes home with his paycheck before she can go out and buy another batch of diapers.

That’s why he was happy to attend Fair Haven’s first-ever community baby shower, which helped Pena’s family and nine others with needed supplies.

The gathering took place Monday morning at the Fair Haven Community Health Center’s (FHCHC) newest facility at 50 Grand Ave., which opened in October 2015 and is home to a nurse-midwife program that helps deliver about 150 babies a year.

All the families are participants in the center’s state-funded Nurturing Families program. One Monday they each received a huge basket full of diapers, wipes, age-appropriate books, bibs, pacifiers, thermometers, and other baby care basics that make the joyous but incredibly stressful first months and years of a new baby’s life and that of her family more secure.

The items were purchased by the event’s organizers, The United Way of Greater New Haven, with about $4,600 donated by local corporate sponsors.

As daughter Lia happily hopped around during the ceremonies, Pena

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Lucky new dad Pena with older daughter Lia.

said he is committed to making his kids’ childhoods easier than his own in the South Bronx.

He said especially Monday’s shower gifts “take the edge off” financially.

The gift baskets were part of a kind of graduation celebration for FHCHC’s ten families enrolled in the Nurturing Families program, which features a ten- week course in both pre-natal and post-natal care, said Beth Pellegrino’s, United Way’s Director of Community Impact.

Resources permitting, the groups would like to make the community shower an annual event.

In addition to mountains of diapers, wipes, toys, books, bibs, and thermometers, United Way’s offices are

also storing strollers, pack-and-play’s, car seats, and other larger size items available on an as-needed, family-byfamily basis, said Nurturing Families Coordinator Evelyn Flamm.

The Fair Haven Community Health Center’s women’s care and midwife program has only about a 9 percent— compared to 34 percent nationally— rate for caesarean sections, said that program’s longtime director, Ellen Wormser.

Ready access to baby and parent necessities allows families to focus on bonding, nurturing, and developmental milestones, key components of healthy child development, according to the organizations’ press release announcing the community shower.

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resources for after-school programs don’t exist, she said, she wants to be part of driving the discussion of creating them.

Sepulveda is running as the Ward incumbent; she also served two terms as its alder from 2006-9. She said she sees the challenge for the ward less in terms of a lack of resources, more in terms of it less as a lack of information about what is available in the neighborhood. She said she wants to be a bridge to those resources, not only when it comes to after-school programs, but for jobs, particularly for 18 to 24-year-old men.

“It feels good going door-to-door talking to so many constituents,” she said.

“So many were happy that I’m back.

And it’s a good time for me to be back.

With my experience and my concern, I see that the community can use me.”

Sepulveda supported Staggers to represent the ward because of his ties and commitment to the neighborhood; she also considers him a friend. She said she is not looking to place blame on the current state of the ward, which no longer has a functioning ward committee.

“I was shocked to see my list of registered Democratic voters,” Sepulveda said. “The numbers are low.”

She said when she was first serving as alder the Brookside and Rockview public housing developments both were being redeveloped. Now that they’re back online, she said, it’s time for some coalition building and getting folks back registered to vote and involved beyond elections.

“Safety is the number one issue,” she

said. “And when I say safety I mean as far as young kids are concerned with the shootings that have happened, but also the safety around traffic. There are so many kids in the neighborhood and I’ve already had calls for a couple of speed bumps in the area.”

Sepulveda, who also is a mom of three, is currently a truancy prevention specialist and cheerleading coach at Hillhouse High School so the youth of the city are dear to her heart.

“I wear many hats,” she said. “I love it.”

She said if she is elected to be alder once more, rebuilding that sense of community will be high on her priority list, along with working on both ward and citywide issues.

“I think we are doing a great job as a city,” she said. “The mayor is doing a great job particularly when it comes to working with the youth. I’m a part of Youth Stat and I think we are doing all the right things as far as kids are concerned and we need to build on that.”

James-Goldson also has her eyes set on bringing the two sides of the ward together through voting, but also with good old-fashioned block parties and other neighborhood events that help people connect with their neighbors.

She said often people don’t believe their vote matters; she pointed to the election of former President Barack Obama as what can happen when people do exercise their voting rights.

“It does matter,” she said. “Your vote does count, and you need to come vote for your alderman and vote for someone who is going to stand up for you, who understands and knows what you’re going through.”

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Even Without A Budget Connecticut Shoppers Get a Tax Break

by Cara Rosner CT. Junkie News

One of the biggest shopping seasons of the year - second only to the holidays - is here: back to school time.

As consumer confidence grows, spending for school and college is poised to reach an all-time high of $83.6 billion this year, up 10 percent from $75.8 billion last year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF).

“Families are now in a state of mind where they feel a lot more confident about the economy,” NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said in a statement. “With stronger employment levels and a continued increase in wages, consumers are spending more and we are optimistic that they will continue to do so throughout the rest of the year. As students head back to the classroom, retailers are prepared to meet their needs whether it’s for pencils and paper, shirts and pants or laptops and tablets.”

A separate survey by Stamford-based Synchrony Financial, which polled more than 1,850 parents of K-12 and

college students in July, found 63 percent of K-12 parents feel confident about their overall financial condition, and 75 percent feel confident about their job. Additionally., 63 percent said their household finances have improved this year.

With confidence rising, the NRF survey found families with children in el-

ementary through high school plan to spend an average of $687.72 each, for a total of $29.5 billion - up 8 percent from $27.3 billion.

Those shoppers plan to collectively spend $10.2 billion on clothes, $8.8 billion on electronics, $5.6 billion on shoes, and $4.9 billion on school supplies.

Spending across all categories is poised to increase this year over last year. On average, the NRF found parents expect to spend $238.89 on clothes, $204.33 on electronics, $130.38 on shoes and $114.12 on school supplies.

For the 17th year, Connecticut will hold its annual “tax-free week” from Aug. 20-26. During that week, most individual clothing and footwear items priced less than $100 will be exempt from state sales and use tax. Typically, the 6.35 percent sales tax is applied to most clothing and footwear purchases.

The sales tax holiday is timed every year to coincide with back-to-school shopping, and many retailers run additional sales and promotions to further entice shoppers.

“Retail sales are an important part of any state economy, including the jobs involved,” state Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin Sullivan said in a statement. “While the research is mixed on whether there is actually more business done over time due to sales tax holidays, it’s a helpful way to promote retail shop-

ping - all of which employ people that support the sales.”

This year the state expects to forego about $4.1 million in sales and use tax revenue during the sales tax holiday week. Sullivan said the economic boost the holiday provides more than compensates for the cost.

The state doesn’t have a two-year budget in place to account for the revenue loss, but the sales tax free week is written into statute so there’s nothing stopping it from happening.

Some families got an early jump on shopping long ago, while others are procrastinating. The NRF survey found 27 percent of families nationwide began back-to-school shopping two months before the start of school, while 21 percent expect to wait until the last week or two before the school year begins.

Consumers plan to shop at various places, the NRF found, with 57 percent heading to department stores, 54 percent looking at discount stores, 46 percent going to clothing stores, 46 percent shopping online, and 36 percent heading to office supply stores.

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Paca Eventually Gets In The Door

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

Mayoral candidate Marcus Paca had a date with an older woman. Actually, it was a date with about 20 older women.

But it almost didn’t happen.

Paca showed up to the East Shore Senior Center on Townsend Avenue at noon Tuesday dressed in a nice suit, ready to charm the women with coffee and cannolis from Rocco’s Bakery. The only thing missing was flowers.

But he got stopped at the door. The center’s director told him he needed approval from the city’s elderly services director if he wanted to come in.

Marcus, who is challenging incumbent Mayor Toni Harp in a Sept. 12 Democratic primary, had made the date three weeks ago. He’d spoken on several occasions at the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center with no problems. What was the difference this time?

The Channel 8 news crew that arrived with him.

He ultimately was allowed to speak but not with the news crew present.

“They made up that protocol right when I walked in the door,” Paca said. “Because News Channel 8 was here and caught [the director] on camera they rescinded it after 15-20 minutes but wouldn’t allow the Channel 8 news to come in.”

Harp administration spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that what happened is exactly the protocol—that’s why Paca was able to speak to the seniors but the news crew was given the boot.

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Paca stumping at the East Shore Senior Center.

“For each of the city’s three senior centers, the Department of Elderly Services happily entertains political candidates by appointment,” Grotheer said.

“We require prior notification if press coverage is involved. His appointment did not include press coverage.

“Mr. Paca is welcome in that setting,” Grotheer added. “But it is professional courtesy to provide prior notification of media coverage.”

After the director put in a call to her boss, Paca was allowed to speak to the women, who were assembled for a game of bingo. But the news crew had to stay outside, she told him. The New Haven Independent arrived while Paca was speaking and after the news crew

kicked out. This reporter was allowed to stay without incident.

He spoke about his vision for the city.

He also listened to the concerns of the senior women of which there were four: their lunch at the senior center, shoddy bus service, the lack of police presence in the neighborhood, and need for a crosswalk across Towsend Avenue.

Mamie Gagliardi, 90, was one of the more vocal attendees. She said the women have been complaining for a year about the condition of their lunches. She said the food is prepackaged so they can be “just thrown in the microwave.”

“Before we used to have meals come

in from Bridgeport and a woman would spruce them up,” she said. “We would sometimes have crab salad and tuna salad, some variety. But these prepackaged meals? I hate to say it, but I wouldn’t give these prepackaged meals to my dog.

“I know we only pay $3 but I’d rather add another $2 and get a good sandwich,” Gagliardi added.

“I see the lunch program as a major, major concern of yours,” Paca told the women. “And that makes it a major concern of mine.”

City Elderly Service Director Migdalia Castor said later that a not-for-profit agency used to provide meals to the senior center, but when that agency

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Outside the courtroom, Krayeske and Simone criticized the justice system for overlooking the danger that white supremacy poses to American civil society. Krayeske, a one-time administrator for New Haven’s clean-elections program, said it was foolish not to hear what the alt-right was really calling for in their plans for a white ethno-state.

“We need people to protest public displays of white supremacy. We know what their ends are, and we cannot empower them. It’s a complete and total failure to re8cognize the threat,” he said. “There must be no tolerance for intolerance that ends in death chambers.”

Simone said that he had “no regrets” about his actions. If anything, he added, he felt “vindicated” by watching the carnage in Charlottesville that left one woman dead and dozens injured when a 20-year-old from Ohio plowed his car into anti-fascist protestors. “If it wasn’t for us, it could have been repeated here,” he said.

“They’re here, they’re in our country.

The state is not protecting us, and the government is not protecting us,” Simone added. “The police are not going to do anything; they would have wanted to protect [the white supremacists].

“Think of it this way: People always ask, ‘What would you have done during Hitler’s rise in Nazi Germany?’ The answer is exactly what you are doing now.

If you’re not happy with that, then you need to reevaluate,” Simone continued.

“My grandfather didn’t see his friends die face-down in the muck [in World War II] to have these guys go unopposed. They have to literally be chased down our streets.”

Asked whether violence against might not further radicalize far-right extremists and make them out as martyrs to potential recruits, Simone said he believed that peaceful protest is also a key strategy for resistance, but that occasional violence shouldn’t be ruled out.

We don’t want [white supremacists] to be able to show their face in public.

They were afraid for a long time, but that’s changed now that Trump’s in the White House and the government is supporting them,” Simone argued. “I think that a punch is worth it for a Nazi to be scared.”

In mid-February next year, Simone and Ryburn are both scheduled to return to the Elm Street courthouse to have their cases closed.

Two other local activists also ended up in handcuffs at the July 8 protest: Barbara Fair and her nephew DraMese Fair. At her July 19 court appearance, Fair refused a plea deal and told the Independent she plans to fight the charges. She and her nephew are both due in court again on Sept. 26.

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by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

Light and cherubs and flowing wine have returned to a reconstructed former church in the heart of New Haven’s downtown nightlife district after two years of darkness.

Its name is Vanity.

The reconstructed former church at 144 Temple St. originally the Playwright restaurant, then the Russian Lady, site of memorable social and political bashes has been reborn as a bar and restaurant and events-rental venue and rechristened Vanity.

The venue had its soft opening and an official ribbon-cutting with the mayor Tuesday afternoon. The formal opening comes Friday night.

A four-man partnership (calling itself The 4 Horsemen Entertainment Inc.) purchased the business, which had been closed for two years, and renovated it. The crew stripped the metal work and covered it with cooper-reactive paint, reupholstered the furniture ...... and added a mirror wall ... along with a dueling-piano spot up front ...

... not to mention a heavenly-beingthemed replica of a Giovanni Tiepolo painting on the ceiling.

In addition to the main bar area, the 15,000 square-foot venue includes a 30-seat corporate dining room, a party space that can accommodate 500 people, a second-floor lounge, and a 100-person fine-dining restaurant.

Executive Chef Andrew Fine promised to serve memorable “fusion” dishes there. Asked to name one of his signature dishes, he cited “Hailbut and Avocado Versus the Universe.” It features limoncello poached halibut with soy pineapple and panko-encrusted avocado.

So there.

Among the city officials at the event were two people recently hired to helm the Harp administration’s smallbusiness effort, Deputy Director of Economic Development Cathy Graves and Small Business Officer Gerry Garcia, a former city alder. They’re pictured checking out the new digs with 4 Horseman Persident John Mocadlo.

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Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson, Mayor Toni Harp, and John Mocadlo perform the ceremonial deed.

Investigation Finds Difference of ‘Management Style’

by Christine Stuart

WINDSOR LOCKS, CT — The man who is credited with saving the life of a co-worker back in 2011 accused Kevin Dillon, the head to the Connecticut Airport Authority, of creating a “hostile work environment” that caused him to resign after 26 years.

Rollin Tebbetts, the former airport operations manager, resigned on July 19. In his resignation letter he said it was so awful working for Dillon that he resigned his $126,000 job without any immediate employment opportunities.

“Most people come to work in fear,” Tebbetts said in his resignation letter.

And, “Mr. Dillon uses inappropriate and abusive language.”

His exit prompted the chairman of the Connecticut Airport Authority Charles Gray to call for an investigation. The results of the review were released publicly Monday at the Airport Authority’s monthly meeting.

Pullman & Comley was hired to conduct the interviews and prepare a report for the board.

The report found “differences of opinion on management style rather than specific issues of personnel administration or operations.”

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CAA Executive Director Kevin Dillon

Gray said there were no health and safety issues found during the investigation.

The report said “Mr. Tebbetts suggested a lack of emphasis on safety, but state that he had no examples of any lapses in safe operations. In fact, safety and security are priorities that are regularly reinforced by senior management, as witnessed by the successful FAA inspection.”

Gray also noted that Tebbetts made similar complaints in 2009 about former senior management at Bradley concerning the lack of command and intimidation of employees. That time he was reprimanded for insubordination in the manner in which he reported to senior management.

“We conclude that Mr. Tebbetts has not raised any material conduct or compliance issues, and in particular no

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issues relating to operations or safety,” the one page report states.

Following the release of the report, Dillon said it was the conclusion he expected.

“It’s unfortunate we had to expend time on false allegations,” Dillon said.

“But I have great respect for all the staff here.”

Dillon was hired in 2012 and is currently paid more than $381,375 in salary and bonuses.

The authority also contributes the maximum of $50,000 annually to a separate retirement plan — a 401a — for Dillon, and also provides him with a $400,000 term life insurance policy.

He has a state vehicle for both his executive duties and “personal purposes within the New England states and New York.”

Tebbetts was unable to be reached for comment Monday. The landline number listed was not in service and he has not responded to emails sent to his LinkedIn account.

The Connecticut Airport Authority, which oversees Bradley International Airport and the five general aviation airports, was established in July 2011.

Before the quasi-public agency was created, the airport was run by the state Department of Transportation.

lost its state funding it had to stop. She was able to find city money to keep the lunch program going temporarily through Meals on Wheels.

Castro said she has since found grant money to return to a fuller meal program that will be prepared on site and is working out details with a city union and Gateway Community College, whose students would volunteer to help run the program.

Gagliardi also raised the concerns about bus service and getting crosswalks on Towsend Avenue and said she has been told that they can’t be put on a state road. She said that the city’s director of elderly services is aware of the seniors’ concerns. They even told the mayor during a luncheon at the center. She said all they’re ever told is that “it’s being looked into.”

Paca responded that the reason that such things aren’t being addressed is that both the city and the state are broke. And he blamed over taxing and spending and waste in government. He pointed the finger at what he said is the current administration entering into non-essential contracts, “fighting legal battles that should not be fought,” and a duplication of services in City Hall.

“Who’s hurt?” he asked rhetorically.

“I think it’s our young people and our seniors. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to be a better steward of taxpayer dollars. I’m going to cut out all that waste and make sure the priorities of our city are clear. The needs of our seniors are important. The needs of our young people are important. This is not about politics.

“I’m not a career politician like our current mayor,” he added. “I’ve had real jobs.”

Paca told the women that if they elect him mayor he will make it a priority to get East Shore seniors access to better lunches and balance the city’s policing efforts so that the East Shore gets its fair share of officers. He also promised that if elected he’d come by at more than just during election season.

“To me, leadership is about prioritization,” he said. “Leadership is about saying we as New Haveners take care of each other. We as New Haveners take care of our neighbors. We as New Haveners take care of our communities because it’s the right thing to do.”

Gagliardi said Paca was “very nice,” but at 90 she’s seen a lot of people running for office in her day.

“They all come at election time,” she said.

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3 Reasons To Call 911 Vs. Taking Yourself To The ER by Dr. Regina Bailey

If you have a life-threatening emergency medical condition or traumatic injury, you should call 911. However, sometimes people are nervous about calling 911 and try to get themselves to the emergency room via car. This can be very dangerous.

Here are 3 reasons you should call 911 for an ambulance, rather than transport yourself to the emergency room.

1. Severe Medical Conditions and Trauma Some of the top reasons you should call 911 include if you are having difficulty breathing, chest pain, signs of a stroke, seizure, think you are in labor, having bleeding that cannot be controlled by holding pressure, have been involved in a serious car accident or serious trauma. If your condition is serious it may worsen on your way to the emergency room, so it may be dangerous to be transported by a private vehicle versus an ambulance.

2. Medicine and Equipment on Ambulances First responders, like paramedics, have medicine and equipment on their trucks that can help stabilize your emergent condition. Ambulances carry

oxygen and have tools for intubation; they can do EKGs which can detect a heart attack; they have medication to help your blood pressure, breathing, pain; and they also have tourniquets and other equipment that can help control bleeding. They also can get you to the emergency room safer and faster than you can yourself.

3. Knowledge of Hospital Specialist Availability Emergency professionals also will know the best hospital to go to for your emergency. For example, some hospitals have the capability to take care of patients with strokes, have catheterization labs for patients with heart attacks, obstetrical services for women in labor, and specific surgeons that can take care of your emergency.

This may not be information that you have readily available and can save you precious life-saving time.

If you are having symptoms of a stroke, it is best to go to a hospital that is a certified stroke center, as there is better access to life-saving medications and procedures, therefore better outcomes. It is possible to reduce the devastating effects of a stroke using a medication called tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), but this medication

can only be given within a certain period of time from when the symptoms started. If you fall out of this window you may not be eligible to receive this medication. This medication is also not available at all hospitals. African Americans are less likely to receive this medication than Caucasians largely due to greater pre-hospital delay among African Americans (like not calling 911 for evaluation and trans-

port), and therefore are more likely to suffer greater disabilities from the stroke.

If you or someone you are around are having a life threatening emergency, when in doubt, call 911 so that you do not delay obtaining appropriate medical care.

Dr. Regina Bailey is and Emergency Medicine Physician, Lawyer, Best Selling Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur,

Radio and TV Personality and a former NFL Cheerleader. She has published books and articles in the health law, biotechnology and medicine fields. She has appeared on TLC, Discovery Life Channel, CNN, E! Channel and has been published in the New York Times, US News, Medscape, Huffington Post and Ebony Magazine.

Procter & Gamble’s ‘The Talk’ Ad Stirs Race Debate

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Procter & Gamble kicked off the 10th anniversary celebration of the “My Black is Beautiful” campaign by releasing a commercial titled “The Talk,” featuring African-American women discussing the realities of being Black in America and warning their children about the perils of racism.

“The Talk” sparked fierce reaction across the nation; ironically, conservative media outlets attacked the campaign, calling it divisive and racist.

Kristine Decker, Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) North American Media and Brand Operations Director said that the company wasn’t trying to alienate anyone with “The Talk.”

“We felt like it was an opportunity to start a dialogue about bias,” said Decker. “We’ve been on a mission to talk about bias in many forms and we decided, as part of our ‘My Black is Beautiful’ campaign, to take on the

topic of bias from a racial bias perspective.”

The online campaign celebrates the diverse collective beauty of Black women and encourages them to define and promote their own beauty standard—one that’s an authentic reflection of the indomitable spirit of African-Americans, Decker said.

Decker continued: “We went back to the 1950s and we felt that this is something that we have to talk about and

we listened to our consumers and we spent time trying to understand what other stories needed to be told.”

In the short video, a young, AfricanAmerican girl tells her mother that someone said that she’s, “pretty for a Black girl.”

Another scene, set in the present, shows a mother sitting in the passenger seat of a car, preparing to give her daughter a driving lesson. The mother begins to tell her daughter what she

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should do when she’s pulled over by the police.

“This is not about you getting a ticket,” the mother says. “This is about you not coming home.”

At the end of the video, viewers are urged to “talk about ‘the talk,’ so we can end the need to have it.”

Decker said that many parents have the ‘birds and the bees’ talk, but Black parents have a very different conversation they need to have with their children.

“It’s about race and what it’s like growing up Black,” said Decker.

While some condemned the ad, others expressed support.

“I think it is horrible that we live in this reality where this ad is even needed,” said Rafael Navar, an advisory board member for the Dream Defenders, a civil rights group that launched in Florida in the wake of the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

“The realities depicted in the ad are all too real for too many young people living in the United States and it’s a

travesty that this is the case,” Navar said.

Even though, Navar recognized that the conversations depicted in the video are all too real for many people, he was concerned with the P&G using a highly sensitive, real and hurtful subject to promote their brand.

Black Lives Matter officials called the ad encouraging and an example of how other multi-billion-dollar companies can begin supporting conversations around race and police violence.

“The conversations featured in the ad illustrate some of the ways Black parents have attempted to protect Black children for generations in a country that does not value our lives or the lives of our children,” said Miski Noor, the communications strategist for Black Lives Matter. “However, it cannot stop with one ad. The work of undoing racism in this country must go beyond words and result in action that changes the material conditions of Black people.”

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Comedian & Activist Dick Gregory Dies At 84

by Carter Higgins, BDO Special Contributor

Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, who broke barriers by telling it like it is and expertly redefining what to laugh at and what to take action against, died Saturday. He was 84.

Gregory’s son, Christian, told The Associated Press his father died late Saturday in Washington, D.C. after being hospitalized for about a week. He had suffered a severe bacterial infection.

“The family appreciates the outpouring of support and love, and respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time,” Christian Gregory said. “More details will be released over the next few days.”

Gregory was one of the first black comedians to find mainstream success with white audiences in the early 1960s. He rose from an impoverished childhood in St. Louis to become a celebrated satirist who deftly commented upon racial divisions at the dawn of the civil rights movement.

Gregory earned a track scholarship to Southern Illinois University Carbondale.[1] There he set school records as a half-miler and miler. His college career was interrupted for two years in 1954 when he was drafted into the United States Army. The Army was where he got his start in comedy, entering and winning several Army talent shows at the urging of his commanding officer, who had taken notice of Gregory’s knack for cracking jokes.

In 1956, Gregory briefly returned to SIU after his discharge, but dropped

out because he felt that the university “didn’t want me to study, they wanted me to run.”

In the hopes of performing comedy professionally, Gregory moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became part of a new generation of black comedians that included Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, and Godfrey Cambridge, all of whom broke with the minstrel tradition that presented stereotypical black characters. Gregory drew on current events, especially racial issues, for much of his material: “Segregation is not all bad. Have you ever heard of a collision where the people in the back of the bus got hurt?

In 1961, while working at the blackowned Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, he was spotted by Hugh Hefner performing. Gregory attributed the launch of his career to Hugh Hefner, who watched him perform at Herman Roberts Show Bar. Based on that performance, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club as a replacement for comedian “Professor” Irwin Corey.

In 1964, Gregory became more involved in civil rights activities, activism against the Vietnam War, economic reform, and anti-drug issues.

As a part of his activism, he went on several hunger strikes and campaigns in America and overseas.

Gregory began his political career by running against Richard J. Daley for the mayoralty of Chicago in 1967.

Though he did not win,… … this would not prove to be the end of his participation in electoral politics.

Gregory unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States in 1968 as

a write-in candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party, which had broken off from the Peace and Freedom Party.

Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 joined Gloria Steinem and other suffragists to lead a ultimately successful march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100,000 on Women’s Equality Day (August 26, 1978).

Gregory was diagnosed with lymphoma in late 1999. He said he was treating the cancer with herbs, vitamins, and exercise, which he believes kept the cancer in remission.

Since the late 1980s, Gregory was a figure in the health food industry by advocating for a raw fruit and vegetable diet. He wrote the introduction to Viktoras Kulvinskas’ book Survival into the 21st Century. Gregory first

became a vegetarian in the 1960s, and has lost a considerable amount of weight by going on extreme fasts, some lasting upwards of 50 days. He developed a diet drink called “Bahamian Diet Nutritional Drink” and went on TV shows advocating his diet and to help the morbidly obese.

In 1984 he founded Health Enterprises, Inc., a company that distributed weight loss products. With this company, Gregory made efforts to improve the life expectancy of African Americans, which he believes is being hindered by poor nutrition and drug and alcohol abuse. In 1985 Gregory introduced the “Slim-Safe Bahamian Diet”, a powdered diet mix.[30] He launched the weight-loss powder at the Whole Life Expo in Boston under the slogan “It’s cool to be healthy”. The diet mix,

drunk three times a day, was said to provide rapid weight loss. Gregory received a multimillion-dollar distribution contract to retail the diet.

In 2014 Dick Gregory updated his original 4X formula which was the basis for the Bahamian Diet and created his new and improved “Caribbean Diet for Optimal Health”.

Gregory died at a hospital in Washington, D.C. on August 19, 2017. The cause was heart failure.

Gregory had eleven children (including one son, Richard Jr., who died at two months): Michele, Lynne, Pamela, Paula, Stephanie (a.k.a. Xenobia), Gregory, Christian, Miss, Ayanna, and Yohance. he is and forever will be missed.

TV and Film Producer, Louis Arriola, Strikes Gold Again With Indie Wire Series Fest Winner “Up North” — “Up North is a dramatic powerhouse centered around an innocent teenager being trapped in the New York prison system” —

Los Angeles, CA — Telecommunications titan and tv/film producer Louis Arriola has a lot to be proud of this year. As the founder of NYLA Production he has witnessed every one of his films make an indelible mark on the silver screen.

His production company, NYLA Production continues to mimic his mission of greatness. “It’s a gratifying feeling to see my vision become a reality. My production company will continue to nourish up and coming talent by showcasing them in the most positive light,” says Arriola.

His latest project Up North has amassed critical acclaim as the recip-

ient of several awards at this year’s Series Fest, which recognizes some of the best independent television in production. Up North is a drama series created by Emil Pinnock and Damaine Radcliff.

The project also picked up four awards including: Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Pilot, while also winning the overall Audience Award (which is voted on by the attendees).

This project is centered around an innocent African American teen who is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, and as a result he gets trapped in the New York prison system.

This drama series is already generating buzz from several cable networks who are comparing it to HBO’s The Wire because the series is able to capture the “true grit” in one of the roughest prison systems in the country.

Arriola’s production credits include: Will To Love (2015) TV Film (TV One Networks) Weekend with the Family (2016) (Feature Film Select AMC Theatres and TV One) Only for One Night (2016) (BET Networks) Boy Bye (2016) (Netflix)

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Watch Official Trailer Here: www.youtube.com watch?v=eHvS6OcS6rg Up North (2017) (Drama Series TV Pilot) Louis Arriola IMDB: www.imdb.me/louisarriola About NYLA Production: NYLA Production is under the direction of telecommunications titan Louis Arriola. In 2015, NYLA Production received instant acclaim for the debut film Will to Love on TV One, A Weekend with The Family in 2016 premiering in select AMC Movie Theatres and on TV One,

and Only for One Night which made a global world premiere on Sept 3, 2016 exclusively on BET Networks.

This year has placed Louis in the driver’s seat as a hands-on producer with several projects on the horizon such as the Series Fest award winning tv pilot Up North, and Boy Bye which can be viewed exclusively by Netflix subscribers today.

In just one year, Louis Arriola has solidified a resume of TV and film projects that consistently flourish and remain very lucrative. For more details about his production company, visit www.nylaproduction.com

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Reality TV Moment Taints NABJ Convention

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

A panel discussion on police brutality, that featured verbal sparring between White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman and veteran journalist Ed Gordon, silent protests and heckling, overshadowed the celebration of media excellence at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention in New Orleans, La. Manigault-Newman, the director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison and the second-highest ranking African American staffer in the Trump Administration, was a late addition to the panel, titled “Black and Blue: Raising Our Sons, Protecting Our Communities.”

Manigault-Newman lost her father and her brother to street violence in Youngstown, Ohio, according to NBCNews.com.

After learning that Manigault-Newman would join the session, two panelists, Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine and Jelani Cobb, a journalism professor and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, declined to participate; Jones was slated to moderate the panel.

Cobb later tweeted that he learned about Manigault-Newman’s addition to the panel shortly before the event started and that it was not clear, if she would speak about policies of the Trump Administration. Critics of the group’s decision to invite ManigaultNewman, have argued that such strict guidelines for the conversation were particularly troublesome at a convention of journalists. A handful of activists and journalists, who attended the panel, stood and turned their backs to the stage in protest over ManigaultNewman’s appearance.

Gordon stepped in, at the last minute, to moderate the panel discussion.

“The event began cordially, but within minutes, it devolved into a shouting match between Ms. Manigault-Newman and Mr. Gordon,” The New York Times reported. “She interrupted him, accusing him several times of attacking her as Mr. Gordon pressed for answers about her role in the Trump administration and changes to criminal justice policies under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.”

In video clips from the panel, that were widely shared on social media,

Gordon and Manigault-Newman can be seen pacing back and forth on stage talking over each other, as audience members heckled and jeered the former reality TV star’s reactions to Gordon’s questions. Though the NABJ convention was in New Orleans, the scene resembled a reunion show episode for “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”

At one point, Manigault-Newman told Gordon “shame on you” in response to a question and told one of the panelists “just Google me,” when asked about her general work.

“I did my best to keep this as civil as possible,” said Gordon.

Manigault-Newman stood and responded: “Don’t be aggressive, ask your question, but don’t lecture me.”

Manigault-Newman said that she could not disclose, confidential conversations with the president, an often-used line by Trump’s White House staffers.

“Ms. Manigault-Newman did say she thought it was wrong for Mr. Trump to make those comments,” that suggested that police officers should abuse suspects, according to The New York Times.

When NABJ President Sarah Glover stood before the audience to explain

the strict parameters of ManigaultNewman’s appearance, which did not include policy questions impacting African Americans, the groans of exasperation grew even louder.

In the middle of the onstage fiasco, several audience members, notably journalists Roland Martin of TV One and Wesley Lowery of The Washington Post, walked out.

“This Omarosa appearance is beneath NABJ,” Lowery tweeted shortly after the debacle.

During this year’s convention, the NABJ also honored April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, with the coveted Journalist of the Year Award and Rochelle Riley, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press, received the Ida B. Wells Award.

“April Ryan is a true trailblazer and truth seeker. She’s dogged and unapologetic about her pursuit of the story,” said NABJ President Sarah Glover. “In the White House press corps circle, where too few Black women have been given an opportunity to report, April has excelled and persevered in spite of the many obstacles she has confronted. Her work Con’t on page 19

CBC Chairman Talks HBCUs, Impeachment and #RootOutRacism

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

During a conference call with reporters, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), pledged to revisit the debate around impeachment when Congress returns after Labor Day and announced a new campaign to #RootOutRacism in the White House.

Richmond promised a “robust discussion” about impeachment by the CBC when Congress returns on September 5. The House of Representatives hasn’t been in session since July 28; members often travel to their home districts during the August recess.

With more than 400 days until the midterm elections of 2018, the CBC reaffirmed a position against the Trump Administration that would indicate that not much will change until Democrats are able to win a majority in the House or Senate. Richmond insisted that the CBC will continue to focus on policies that impact African Americans, rather than the political spectacle that fills hours of cable news broadcasts.

In response to President Trump’s recent

comments about the White nationalists’ rally in Charlottesville, Va., that was attended by Ku Klux Klan members, neoNazis and White supremacists, the CBC has reaffirmed a hard stance against the Trump Administration. The CBC declined an invitation to meet with Trump, weeks ago.

“Things will always reveal themselves if [we] give people time to do it,” said CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond (DLa.) regarding President Trump. Richmond mentioned that members of the CBC held a recent conference call and that civil disobedience had not been ruled out as they confront Trump’s policies.

“We’ve come to the conclusion that we are in a sad and shameful place,” Richmond told reporters. He then pointed to Trump advisors Sebastian Gorka and Stephen Miller by name as two members of the administration who, in his view, should not continue to work at the White House because of their White supremacist views.

“The people who work in the White House should not be White nationalists or White supremacists,” added Richmond. “This country is having a crisis

of leadership.”

In a June 9 invitation, Trump had requested that all of the members of the CBC meet with him on a quarterly basis.

On June 21, CBC leadership declined any further meetings with the president.

Members of the five-person CBC board met with President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on March 22.

On the question of impeachment, Mi-

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nority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (DCalif.) has balked at the idea that House Democrats would back impeachment proceedings for this president and has pressed members not to call for such a move.

But three Black Caucus members, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) have supported the idea. Rep. Green has gone as far as drafting detailed articles of impeachment.

Richmond was also critical of the president’s response to the needs of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

“They brought all those HBCUs to town.

They took a picture in the Oval Office and then they did nothing,” said Richmond. “If you look at President Trump’s budget, he has a number of actions in it that actually hurt HBCUs.” White House Communications Director for the Office of Public Liaison, Omarosa Manigault is organizing the annual HBCU conference scheduled for September 17-September 19 in Washington, D.C. “He still has a [HBCU] commission, he

still hasn’t named anyone to,” said Richmond. “Omarosa is still pretending to have influence with this president. I’m just surprised that she’s still there as an African American woman after his latest comments.”

Richmond said that he wouldn’t be surprised, if many of the HBCU presidents declined to show up for the annual event.

“If they postpone it, great. If they cancel it, great,” said Richmond. “What I’d rather see, besides a conference and a fly-in day, is some substantive policies to help these schools with their scholarships, with their campuses, with their infrastructure.”

Richmond continued: “I don’t think you need a conference in [Washington, D.C.] to do that. This White House is not serious about improving our HBCUs, our institutions of advancement.”

Lauren Victoria Burke is the WhiteHouse Correspondent for NNPA Newswire. Lauren appears on “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin every Monday. Connect with Lauren by email at LBurke007@gmail.com and on Twitter at @LVBurke.

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#BlackGirlHealing: “Caring For Our Bodies Is Revolutionary”

That GirlTrek motto speaks to me in my own language. I’m that Sojourner Truth-quoting, Mary McLeod Bethune-loving sista who won’t submit my DNA to Ancestry.com for fear that my results won’t directly connect me to Harriet Tubman. I just gotta be related to a slave who resisted, cussed, fussed and walked, (not ran) away from slavery and took all her friends and family with her to freedom. As light-skinned black and militant as I wanna be…that’s me.

My love affair with GirlTrek began, unsurprisingly, on the Edmund Pettis Bridge, during the re-enactment of the Selma march. I had my mom, my daughter, my niece, my bestie and her mom with me and we felt powerful and connected to the Black sisterhood collective in a way we hadn’t in a long time. It was glorious.

We walked and talked to each other and the hundreds of GirlTrekkers on that journey and realized that in order to reach the broader goals of freedom and equality in our respective communities, we needed mental and physical strength for the task. We needed to fortify and preserve our health and wellness. We needed to make sure our cups were full enough to pour from.

“We will not go gently into that darkness of diabetes” While walking, in Selma, I reflected on the ailments in my family that had taken away loved ones from me too soon. I had lost an aunt who was as close to me as a sister to diabetes at age 57; and my paternal grandmother,

whose body and mind were otherwise strong, succumbed to congestive heart failure in her 80s.

As I watched my daughter walking hand-in-hand with my mother, the revolutionary nature of reclaiming our health was made crystal clear. We give so much to our families, our communities and our nation. In a world that spends a lot of time and effort tearing down Black women and the families we raise, caring for our own bodies is revolutionary indeed. How dare we make our wellness a priority when the world views us as disposable?

My daughter, Kaitlyn, and I came home to Houston, and kept walking and talking, bringing our family and friends into the movement. Kaitlyn took her superhero blue gear with her

to The University of Texas and started a trekking group there, as well.

Last November, at our extended family’s Thanksgiving gathering, we led everyone in our first Family 5K, including loved ones from our youngest children, to our 95-year-old matriarch.

It felt good to declare, as a family, that we would not go gently into that darkness of diabetes, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, high blood pressure or heart disease. We would fight for ourselves and one another!

I’m honored to volunteer as a Fixit Advocate for GirlTrek in Houston.

With the tremendous help of Houston’s GirlTrek members, we’ve adopted the historical 5th Ward neighborhood around Atherton Elementary.

Famous Houstonians who have at-

tended the school include Barbara Jordan and George Foreman. We have contributed to the start of a rooftop garden at the school to eliminate the area’s food desert. We’ve surveyed the walkability of the neighborhood and made public comment to city officials on needed improvements. Most importantly, we’ve demonstrated to the community another of GirlTrek’s mottos: “When Black women walk, things change.”

When my children were young, I gave them walking tours of The University of Texas at Austin, also my alma mater, and showed them the south-facing statues on the campus, in honor of Confederate “heroes.” I told them that as painful as the statues were, I used to walk by them and smile, knowing

those fellows were likely spinning in their graves that I was attending the University despite their violent attempts to keep my ancestors enslaved and unlearned. It made me so proud to see my daughter boldly leading collegiate trekkers, in superhero blue, around those same statues that loomed over and mocked them as they made their way to greatness.

Last night, I received notice that finally the statues were being removed.

It dawned on me that my repeated walk and the walk of other women and men of color along the path of those statues toward graduation made a difference.

We walked and things changed.

I couldn’t be prouder to represent GirlTrek along this path.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS August 23, 2017 - August 29, 2017

What You Want vs. What You Need In A Relationship

By William Spivey

“You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need” The Rolling Stones sang about it, now it’s time to talk about what we want vs. what we need in relationships. My observation is that most people, spend far more time pursuing that which they want without much consideration of Con’t from page 19

Noor continued: “Companies such as Procter & Gamble should continue to work not only via garnering publicity for themselves, but also in their offices, factories and in homes.”

Noor said that this moment isn’t about the hard conversations that Black people have been having for generations with our families, it’s about the hard conversations White people need to have about White privilege and dismantling systemic racism with one another.

Carol H. Williams, who runs one of the largest African-American advertising and marketing agencies in the country, was skeptical about the ad, at first.

“Then I recalled when we developed the ‘My Black is Beautiful’ brand and the challenges faced at the time by P&G,” said Williams. “The research revealed insights of how women of color had suffered for decades for society’s failure to recognize the unique beauty of women of color.

Williams continued: “So, the very platform of ‘My Black is Beautiful’ was founded to eradicate a racist narrative meant to destroy the self-esteem and the confidence of women of color.”

While some debate Proctor & Gamble’s intentions, Williams said that argument is irrelevant.

“P&G has started this narrative and now that it has opened the door, now what? P&G cannot throw this explosive topic onto their platform and think that they are done,” said Williams.

Williams added: “They will have to spearhead a reconstruction to the very fibers of this country; it can’t just drop the mic. My Black is Beautiful is the celebration of resilience, strength, working harder, being smarter and the ability to succeed.

what they need. Some have conflated their needs with their wants and are unable to differentiate between the two.

When I started writing this I was headed toward differentiating between wants and needs and suggesting we prioritize the latter vs. the former. The more I thought about it, is it even possible to override a lifetime of indoctrination and suddenly change priorities? If you want something bad enough it pretty much is a need, whether anyone else including your partner thinks so or not.

We are all shaped by our experiences.

Maybe you experienced abandonment, destitution, infidelity or abuse. Your needs will be shaped far more by what you’ve been through than anything I might offer up. What I will suggest is, take the extra time and energy to choose someone whose needs and wants are compatible with your own. It’s very possible to fall deeply in love with someone, totally unable to be what you need them to be. Worse yet is someone who pretends to be what you need in order to accommodate wants/needs of their own. Not only will they ultimately let you down. They will also have lost a bit of themselves in conforming to the needs of another.

The point is… and maybe what I wanted to say all along. Is that you have to have serious and honest communication or extremely good luck if you hope to have a successful, ‘till death do you part kind of relationship. You have to discuss each others fears, weaknesses, and expectations in order to even begin to know what you might be getting into. I have a theory that you don’t really know a person until you know their deepest pain. That hurt will inform their choices the rest of their life as they have no desire to repeat it. That could be a good place to begin the conversation.

William Spivey. Writer, poet, wannabe philosopher. Elsewhere he writes about politics, race and social justice. He blogs at enigmainblack.wordpress.com.

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Reality TV Moment Taints NABJ Convention

has risen to the top.”

A former friend of ManigaultNewman, Ryan has been vocal about her tense relationship with the White House staffer.

Lately, the NABJ has struggled when it comes to engaging with highprofile political guests during their annual conventions.

Last year, during a brief question and answer session with then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Black journalists asked the former Secretary of State about her email server and whether she thought some of Donald Trump supporters were racist.

The Undefeated’s Editor-In-Chief Kevin Merida asked Clinton, “What is the most meaningful conversation you’ve had with an African American friend?”

None of the journalists asked Clinton about her plans to close the wage gap between Blacks and Whites, economic empowerment in the Black community, or how she planned to ensure adequate federal funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

In a statement about the dust-up during the “Black and Blue” panel discussion, the NABJ said that group has invited the White House administration to participate in the annual convention, for years.

“Omarosa Newman, Director of Communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, was invited as a panelist this year to share her perspective on issues that are critical to our members, and moreover, critical to the communities that we serve,” the statement said. “During her time on the panel, she exercised her right to decide which questions she wanted to answer and which she did not want to answer.”

The statement continued: “Moderator Ed Gordon asked tough questions and the Q&A quickly became combative. NABJ does not endorse the positions or the discourse by panelists or moderators at its programs.”

Lauren Victoria Burke is the White House Correspondent for NNPA Newswire and a writer and political analyst. Lauren appears on “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin every Monday. Connect with Lauren by email at LBurke007@gmail.com and on Twitter at @LVBurke.

Freddie Allen contributed reporting for this story.

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Steve Bannon, President Trump’s Most Controversial Advisor, Leaves White House Post

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Civil rights leaders and members of Congress praised the dismissal of Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the White House; Bannon’s exit is just the latest departure from the chaotic Trump Administration, that has yet to win a major legislative victory.

Bannon seemed to be in good spirits after the White House announced that he would be leaving the coveted post.

In an interview with The Weekly Standard, Bannon said that he felt “jacked up.”

“Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons,” Bannon told The Weekly Standard. “Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition.

There’s no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up.

And rev it up we will do.”

He also told the magazine that he could be more effective without the constraints of the White House.

“I can fight better on the outside,” Bannon said. “I can’t fight too many Democrats on the inside like I can on the outside.”

In a statement about Bannon’s dismissal, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) said that Bannon needed to go, but so do other White supremacists working in the Trump Administration.

“Firing Steve Bannon is not enough, because the issue of him working in the White House has never only been about him,” said Richmond. “It’s also been about the racist and discriminatory policies he’s helped draft and

implement which hurt African Americans.”

The CBC released “A Top Ten List of the Trump Administration’s Racist and Discriminatory Policies.” The list included: 1. Voter Suppression Commission 2. Supporting Texas’ Discriminatory Voter ID Law 3. Reinstating the War on Drugs 4. Attacking Affirmative Action at Colleges and Universities 5. Rolling Back Consent Decrees that Keep Police Accountable 6. Muslim Ban 7. Mass Deportation 8. Rolling Back Civil Rights Enforcement Across Federal Agencies 9. Reinstating the Use of Private Prisons 10. Refusing to Protect Americans and the Nation from White Supremacists In a separate statement on Bannon’s removal, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) called the ousted Breitbart chief the standard-bearer for the worst instincts in American society.

“Whether Bannon personally trades in violence, racism, and bigotry, he allowed Brietbart, his media organization, to become a platform for White nationalism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant sentiment of the worst kind,” said Conyers.

Although Conyers said that he was pleased that Bannon was no longer serving in the White House, he added that Bannon’s removal will not undo the damage that has already been done and it will not reconcile the hate-filled agenda of the Trump Administration.

“President Donald Trump has shown us his true colors,” said Conyers. “He sided with un-American White su-

Steve Bannon premacists, neo-Nazis, and all those who give racism and hatred a voice.

Trump’s failure to reflect on his dangerous rhetoric continues to embolden these groups and ideals.”

Civil rights leaders also voiced their support of Bannon’s exit.

Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said that Bannon was the driving force behind the racial turmoil that threatens to tear this country apart.

“Such a divisive figure has no place in the White House,” Clarke said in the statement.

Vanita Gupta, the president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said that Bannon’s departure was the right result, but not for the right reason.

“The president, who continues to sow hate and division, clearly did not fire Bannon because of his White supremacist views and ties to the so-called ‘alt-right,’” said Gupta. “Someone like Bannon should have never worked in the White House to begin with.”

Gupta continued: “President Trump must address the deep wounds he has created by ridding his administration of Sebastian Gorka, Stephen Miller, and any other staffers who stoke bigotry, hate, and division. Unless and until the president calls out evil; disavows neo-Nazis, White nationalists, and White supremacists; fires these staffers; and abandons his administration’s anti-civil rights agenda, he will continue to have no moral credibility.”

White House insiders have claimed

that Bannon submitted his resignation letter earlier this month, but the announcement was delayed, because of the violent White supremacists’ rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left one dead and 19 injured.

Since July 21, four senior staffers have departed the White House; Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, and Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.

Derrick Johnson, the interim president and CEO of the NAACP, said that the group was glad to see Bannon out of the White House.

“Ousting one key staffer, however, can’t erase the words used by President Trump this week in defense of domestic terrorists, neo-Nazis and White supremacists,” said Johnson, in the statement about Bannon’s dismissal. “President Trump provided permission for these hate groups to exist. Following the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, numerous other rallies and White supremacist groups are being mobilized across the country.

Johnson continued:” These groups are not rallying for peace, or for the preservation of Confederate memorabilia.

They exist purely to foment hatred and violence. And they march with the president’s blessing.”

Lauren Victoria Burke is the White House Correspondent for NNPA and a writer and political analyst. She appears on NewsOneNow with Roland Martin every Monday. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on Twitter at @LVBurke.

Freddie Allen contributed additional reporting for this story.

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Please call PJF Construction Corp. @ 860-888-9998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - Portland Administrative Assistant for reception, phones, filing, and corporate staff support. Working knowledge of Haz. Waste Regs., Manifests, AP & billing. OSHA certification a +. Forward resumes to RED Technologies, LLC Fax 860-218-2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc. com RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE. VNA Community Healthcare is searching for Certified Home Health Aides (HHA). Must have 6 months – one year of experience as a HHA. Several opportunities for full and parttime flexible schedules. Submit resume and cover letter to jobs@vna-commh.org. Visit our website www.connecticuthomecare.org for other opportunities. EOE/M/F

TRANSFER STATION LABORER

Off load trailers, reload for trans/disp. Lift 50 lbs., operate industrial powered trucks and forklift. Asbestos Worker Handler Training a +. Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 173 Pickering St., Portland, CT 06480; Fax 860-342-1022; or Email to lkelly@redtransfer.comRED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Listing: Senior Accountant 2+ years public accounting or 4 + years corporate accounting experience. CPA preferred.

Monthly tax prep, assist w/monthly closing, account analysis/reconciliation, maintain subledgers, assist managing network and system projects. Must be able to work independently with little/no supervision. Report to Dir. of Acctg. w/heavy exposure to CFO. Strong Excel and analytical skills a must. Great growth potential! Benefit package. Petroleum industry experience a plus. Send resume to: Human Resource Dept. P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437. **An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BID HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY BOILER PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICES IFB NO. B17003

CONTACT PERSON

Ms. Devin Marra, Director of Procurement Telephone: 203-744-2500 x141 E-Mail: dmarra@hacdct.org

HOW TO OBTAIN THE IFB DOCUMENTS:

Contact Ms. Devin Marra, via phone or email.

BID SUBMITTAL RETURN

Housing Authority of the City of Danbury 2 Mill Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06811 Envelope Must be Marked: IFB No. B17003 Boiler Services

BID SUBMITTAL DEADLINE/BID OPENING

August 31, 2017 at 10:00am (EST)

[Minority- and/or women-owned businesses are encouraged to respond]

Field Engineer

BA/BS in Civil Engineering or Construction Management.

2-5 yrs. experience. OSHA Certified.

Proficient in reading contract plans and specifications.

Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002; Fax 860.218.2433; Email resumes to info@redtechllc.com. RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Project Manager Environmental Remediation Division 3-5 years exp. and Bachelor’s Degree, 40-Hr. Hazwoper Training Req. Forward resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002;

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Class A CDL Driver

with 3 years min. exp. HAZMAT Endorsed. (Tractor/Triaxle/Roll-off) Some overnights may be required. FAX resumes to RED Technologies, at 860.342-1042; Email: HR@redtechllc.com Mail or in person: 173 Pickering Street, Portland, CT 06480. RED Technologies, LLC is An EOE.

Common Ground High School

has a part time opening (29 hours per week) for a Math Teaching Assistant (TA). The Math TA is responsible for supporting Math teachers in the classroom during the school day, providing targeted supports in academic labs both during and after school, and assisting with a four week summer school in 2018. For a complete job description, please visit http://commongroundct.org/2017/07/ common-ground-seeks-part-time-math-teaching-assistant/ for a complete job description. Common Ground is particularly eager for candidates who help us fulfill our commitment to building a racially and culturally diverse faculty and staff.

KMK Insulation Inc. 1907 Hartford Turnpike North Haven, CT 06473

Mechanical Insulator position.

Insulation company offering good pay and benefits.

Please mail resume to above address.. MAIL ONLY This company is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

Account Associate – Town of Manchester

37.50 hrs. - $41,651.58 CLOSING DATE: August 25, 2017 Call HR Recruitment Line at (860) 647-3170 for info or visit: www.townofmanchester.org.

Town of Bloomfield

Tax Clerk II Salary $27.76 For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.org Deadline to apply 8/29/17

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT

is requesting qualifications from experienced firms for Internet, Internet Voice Bundle and Hosted Voice service. RFQ documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org under the business tab, RFPs/RFQs. Norwalk Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Curtis O. Law, Executive Director

Truck Mechanic

Immediate opening for a truck mechanic. Maintenance “hands on” to be done on petroleum trucks and trailers. Must have commercial truck repair experience. Send resume to: Attn: HR Dept, P O Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437. **An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

TRANSFER STATION LABORER Off load trailers, reload for trans/disp. Lift 50 lbs., operate industrial powered trucks and forklift. Asbestos Worker Handler Training a +. Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 173 Pickering St., Portland, CT 06480; Fax 860-342-1022; or Email to lkelly@redtransfer.com

Listing: Receptionist/Office Assistant

Petroleum Company has an immediate full time opening. Previous experience in a very busy office handling multiple telephone lines and dealing with customers required. Excellent customer service skills a must. Previous petroleum experience a plus. Applicant to also perform administrative/clerical tasks as assigned. Please send resume to: H.R. Manager, Confidential, P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437.

********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********

THE INNER-CITY NEWS August 23, 2017 - August 29, 2017

SERVING UP THE BEST OF SUMMER AUGUST 18–26 CT TENNIS CENTER AT YALE, NEW HAVEN TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 855-464-8366 SPECIAL EVENTS SHOPRITE KIDS DAY Sunday, August 20 AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA

2016 CONNECTICUT OPEN CHAMPION

OPENING NIGHT presented by Yale Monday, August 21 Featuring mixed doubles with Martina Navratilova and Mats Wilander

POWERSHARES MEN’S LEGENDS Thursday and Friday, August 24-25 Thursday: James Blake vs. Michael Chang Friday: John McEnroe vs. Mark Philippoussis

WTA SINGLES AND DOUBLES FINALS and UNITED TECHNOLOGIES MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY Saturday, August 26

THE INNER-CITY NEWS August 23, 2017 - August 29, 2017

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