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Basketball Tournament In The Hill Honors Lost Lives

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven Independent

Duke Dennis scored a few baskets and scored new friends Saturday afternoon in the first Gone But Not Forgotten Memorial Basketball Invitational.

The tournament was held at the basketball courts outside Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy. Over 100 kids, all 15 years old and under, competed on 10 teams. Referees and organizers kept score of each game but did not hold a championship match to determine a winning team.

The event was a collaboration between the Connecticut Bail Fund and Building It Together. Along with the tournament, the organizers set up an inflatable slide, bounce house, and tents for vendors for Hill neighbors to enjoy.

Event Co-Director Jewu Richardson said he organized the event to commemorate and celebrate the lives of Hill residents who died this year from sickness, gun violence, domestic violence, or natural deaths.

“The goal was to celebrate all the people that have passed by having the youth out here with everybody having fun and making it a joyous event. Especially in the Hill neighborhood, there have been a lot of passings lately, so we wanted something to boost the morale,” Richardson said.

The idea sprouted from conversations Richardson had in a barbershop on Congress Avenue. Support and help to put the event together grew from there. Richardson said they plan to continue the basket-

SOPHIE SONNENFELD PHOTO Duke Dennis (center left), Amari Caple (left), Kai Cenat (right), and Sirraya Pratt.

Tyrone Grant, Tasha Blanco, Bob Saulsbury, Roslyn Morrison, Jewu Richardson.

ball invitational every year with the same goals in mind.

Duke Dennis and his teammates won their game on Saturday by 10 points.

Dennis, who attend Wexler Grant School, has played basketball since he was “a little kid.”

“We had a great team effort and hustle.

We did what we could to win!” he said.

Dennis said his favorite part about the event was “working with other people and doing what we could to make team chemistry and build relationships.” He said he made friends while practicing on the courts outside Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy over the summer.

“We just wanted the winner and loser to shake hands. We wanted to also give the kids an opportunity to come and show their talents,” Co-Director Tasha Blanco said.

Blanco said they hosted kids from different neighborhoods across the city: “It seems like the young folks really enjoyed their time. It was definitely a chance for the community to come together.”

“We were hoping to bring a sense of community to everyone and also start to honor and celebrate the folks who have passed with something positive to do before the kids return back to school,” Blanco added.

Coach Bob Saulsbury, who was a sponsor for the event, observed the tournament alongside the four referees. Saulsbury just turned 92 and came with his daughter, Roslyn Morrison, and his nephew.

“When I came out here and I saw all of these youngsters participating, I felt very good. They have an opportunity to be supervised and organized in a nice atmo-

sphere,” Saulsbury said.

As he was watching one game early in the afternoon, one boy sitting next to him said to another, “I’m gonna go to the NBA.” “Really?” Saulsbury joked. “How’re you going to get there? Are you going to drive or take the bus?”

Saulsbury said he was surprised at how advanced the players all were. “Plus, the coaches understand the value of being a winner. And I don’t just mean winning games but winning with a good attitude and doing well in school.”

Across the field, Andrea Wright had a tent sent up for her beauty business, Glossology. Wright sold handmade, organic lip glosses and hair growth oil, eyelashes, and sunglasses.

Wright, who was born and raised in the Hill, said the neighborhood used to have many community events like Saturday’s invitational.

“There were so many kids out here, it definitely brings the community back together. Because that’s what we need, especially after Covid and with all these killings.”

Next to Wright’s tent, Natasha Mckalla sold accessories for women and girls.

She vends at summer events for her Bridgeport-based accessories business, called Re’ndevous. . Kids and families picked up kids’ hats, bows, and fidget spinner toys from her table on Saturday.

Greta Johnson handed out information about CT Bail Fund and honored her nephew Kevin Mills, who was shot and killed in Hamden last week.

Hoops Star Remembers Kids Back Home

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

As basketball star Tanaya Atkinson prepared to fly out of the country, she passed the rock to kids back home in New Haven to ensure they have filled book bags and free fresh hair cuts in time to return to school.

Atkinson, 25, hosted a back to school supplies giveaway Friday morning at the Transformerz Barber Shop on Whalley Avenue in Amity.

Atkinson paid for 32 kids to get a free hair cut at the barbershop Friday and gave them each an additional voucher to go again before school starts. She said she wanted to help kids and parents out with the financial burdens of back to school shopping during a pandemic.

Kids received signed basketballs and photos with Atkinson and picked from dozens of book bags filled with pencils, paper, a ruler, markers, highlighters, and notebooks.

In Friday’s 90-degree weather, Atkinson also provided families with drinks, fresh fruits, and snack bars.

She hopes to make the giveaway an annual event at a variety of licensed barbershops around New Haven in the future.

Atkinson set up shop outside of Transformerz, which allocated four barbers to take kids’ appointments during the giveaway.

Next week Atkinson heads to Spain to play for the international women’s team, Kutxabank Araski, for her fourth year.

She was also a guard for the WNBA’s Washington Mystics; she has signed on this year with the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun. Last year Atkinson hosted basketball trainings for young athletes. “You can’t always make it and forget about the people that are back home,” she said.

While at New Haven’s Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School, Atkinson played in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). She

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTO WNBA’s Tanaya Atkinson at Friday’s giveaway.

broke records at Career High School and Temple University. She netted 1,890 points and 1,053 rebounds during her Temple career, both second-place all-

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time records at the school. She also set the Temple records for points in a season (654) and free throws in a season (169).

She also earned a bachelor’s degree at

Temple in media studies and production.

“I want to use my platform to help people and kids even when they aren’t asking for help,” she said.

Hamden mother, Tina Smith brought her son Vince Milton Jr., 17 to Transformerz for the first time to support Atkinson. Smith ususally bring her son to a barber in Bridgeport but after Friday’s cut with Transformerz barber Jay Newt she said she plans to bring Milton there more often.

Thirteen-year-old Kiara and her guardian Genita Santos stopped by Friday’s event to pick up a signed ball. Kiara, who is going to the 7th grade this year, hopes to become a professional basketball player. “People think girls can’t play basketball, but she proves them all wrong. I want to do that too,” Kiara said.

After taking a photo with her top basketball inspiration, Santos and Kiara went and got it printed and brought it back for Atkinson to sign.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 18, 2021 - August 24, 2021

Rally Readies Return To School, In Person

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

Back-to-school anticipation and excitement filled the air at Bowen Field as families prepared for kids’ return to the classroom — without a doubt, this year, that that’s where they belong.

The Board of Ed’s Youth, Family & Community Engagement staged the event Monday from 2 to 6 p.m. with the help of two dozen community agencies.

An estimated 1,500 New Haveners lined up early to pick up backpacks filled with school supplies, down hot dogs and softserve ice cream, shake their bodies, find out about scholarships and health care and after-school activities, and, if they made it across the street to Hillhouse High’s fieldhouse, get a Covid-19 vaccine shot. A steady stream continued arriving throughout the afternoon.

The families circled the booths arrayed around Bowen Field track to get on track for the new school year, which begins Aug. 30.

The goal was to “give kids what they need to get off to a great start,” said public schools’ youth development and engagement supervisor Kermit Carolina. “Day one is the most important day of school.”

Chief of Youth, Family and Community Engagement Gemma Joseph Lumpkin distributed attendance trackers to help parents prevent chronic absenteeism.

As usual this time of year, kids ex-

pressed a combination of nerves about the unknown and excitement about returning to friends and new challenges. Carlos Pizarro, armed with a hand sanitizer prize from Cricket Wireless’ beanbag booth, spoke of a slight concern about “seeing new people” when he begins 5th grade in two weeks, but he’s also looking forward to seeing his friends.

“It’s going to be good,” Xavier McClease predicted about freshman year at Coop High, where he plans to try out acting and play sports. At Monday’s fair, founder Lawrence Lopez offered Xavier a taste of the rowing involved at the new Crew Haven program at Long Wharf’s Canal Dock House on Long Wharf. Xavier expressed interest in signing up.

Jackson Andrew Biroscak was already pumped about third grade at Ross Woodward School even before Green Peacock zumba leader Chaila Gilliams got him swinging his arms and shaking his body at the fair. “I’m going to have a new teach and a new classroom,” Jackson enthused.

“It’s amazing! I can learn a lot.”

Parents, too, expressed a mix of apprehension and optimism: optimistic about their kids’ return to productive learning and play, apprehensive about the Delta variant-fueled resurgence of the Covid-19.

Parents felt that same nervousness last year. New Haven was the last city to resume in-school learning amid a public

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divide on the subject. But a year later, a consensus was on display at the fair: No one expressed doubt that kids need to be back in person at school. No more remote, please; just make in-school learning work out, safely.

Even outdoors, many participants, including vaccinated participants keeping a safe distance from others, masked up at the fair.

“I’m feeling a little leery about it,” grandma Claudia, a retired Masonicare nurse who worked with hospice patients, said about Mykara beginning Hillhouse and Ava beginning first grade at Barack H. Obama Magnet University School amid the pandemic/endemic. “Not everybody is following the rules, getting vaccinated and wearing the masks.” Still, she said, it makes sense to return to the classroom. And “this is great what they’re doing,” she said of Monday’s gathering, “the free stuff they give to the kids.”

“The biggest thing is safety of the kids — without losing the education,” Silas Shannon said as he waited on the Omega Psi Phi fraternity-run hot dog line with toddler Olivia and rising LW Beecher Museum School of Arts & Sciences Interdistrict Magnet kindergartner Silas IV. “It’s tough as a working parent” to keep kids on track through remote learning said Shannon, who’s an accountant.

So it’s full steam ahead: “He’s ready. My wife’s ready. Everybody’s ready.”

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Booker T. Academy Principal Calls On Governor To Mandate Teacher Vaccinations

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

John Taylor is waiting on the governor for some help keeping his teachers and students safe.

Taylor is the executive director of Booker T. Washington Academy, a K-8 charter school based on New Haven’s State Street and Hamden’s Circular Drive. He’s knee deep in preparations for the first day of the new school year on Aug. 30, preparations focused on adapting to the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

About 80 percent of his teachers are vaccinated against Covid-19. Taylor would like help requiring all of them to get the vaccine.

He needs Gov. Ned Lamont to issue a mandate for that to happen. Emergency powers granted during the pandemic would allow the governor to issue a mandate without legislative approval.

“We need to hear from the governor,” Taylor said Tuesday during an appearance on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program.

“I would love there to be a mandate,” he said. “It gives people a sense of safety to know that people are vaccinated.”

Lamont was asked about a possible teacher mandate around the same time as Taylor’s interview, during an unrelated press confer-

CHRISTOPHER PEAK PHOTO

Booker T. Washington Academy Executive Director John Taylor.

ence (about the earned income tax credit) across town at Junta for Progressive Action on Grand Avenue.

Lamont responded that in general he prefers incentives to mandates. However, he

said, he will keep a mask mandate in place at K-12 schools through at least Sept. 30. (“I’m hoping we may not need it. I’m hoping that the 30th is good, but we need to make sure we have the flexibility to act if we need to after Oct. 1.”)

And Lamont promised to have an answer on a teacher-vaccine mandate as early as Wednesday.

“I think it makes an awful lot of sense,” he said. “But it requires a little bit of discussion and that’s what we’re doing.” Los Angeles, Chicago and New York are among the governments that have issued teacher vaccine mandates.

New Haven teachers union President David Cicarella said he supports a “reasonable compromise” that pairs a mandate with medical or religious exemptions or weekly testing for teachers with other reasons for opting out.

“Fingers Crossed” Under Taylor’s leadership, Booker T. Academy returned to hybrid in-person when school reopened in the fall of 2020, months before the regular public schools did. Booker T will reopen this time with no option for hybrid or remote learning on Aug. 30. Students will remain in pods/ cohorts, as they did last year, meaning the same subset of each grade will take all its classes together. That way, if someone

contracts Covid, only that pod may have to learn from home temporarily.

Taylor said he’s “optimistic” but “with fingers crossed” about handling the Covid resurgence.

Taylor oversaw the launch of Booker T. seven years ago, an effort organized through Varick AME Zion Church. It has grown to 540 students, 84 percent of whom are Black.

More than half the teachers, as well, are Black, a high rate compared to other Connecticut schools, and a product of a deliberate recruiting effort that includes outreach to historically Black colleges and universities, Taylor said.

“You can’t be what you don’t see,” Taylor said. “We’re asking our students to aspire to greatness,” and to consider becoming professional educators themselves. “They need to see people who look like them.”

At the same time, Taylor said, his top consideration in hiring teachers is to find people who are “super-competent” and “care deeply about children,” more than racial background. Teachers work a longer day at Booker T, from 7:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. They also get more breaks — two “preps,” rather than the traditional one prep, to afford more time to catch their breath and work collaboratively with colleagues.

Newhallville Corner Renamings Advance

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

Alders fast-tracked the renamings of two Newhallville street corners after two neighborhood leaders who have dedicated decades of their lives to church-focused community service.

Local legislators took those votes Monday night during the latest regular monthly meeting of the Board of Alders City Services and Environmental Policy (CSEP) Committee. The two-hour virtual meeting took place online via Zoom.

Now the proposals have one last stop: expected approval by the full Board of Alders.

During Monday evening’s meeting, the committee alders unanimously voted in support of renaming the corner of Brewster Street and Shelton Avenue for General Bishop Elijah Davis, Jr., who spent 35 years as the pastor of Pitts Chapel Church on Brewster Street.

The committee alders also unanimously voted in support of renaming the corner of Lilac Street and Butler Street in honor of Mary C. Griffin, longtime deacon of First Calvary Baptist Church, dedicated community management team member, polling station volunteer, and celebrated baker.

“Ms. Griffin is just a wonderful woman all the way around. She’s a beautiful queen,” West Rock Alder Honda Smith said during the meeting, noting how she has known Griffin for three decades and has long admired her perseverance in looking after neighborhood youth in need. “This is

a beautiful thing, and I truply support this 100 percent.”

“He’s a great man. He’ll do anything to help his community, the people of the community, and I just can’t say enough about him,” Deacon Joe Davis said about Elijah Davis during the public testimony section of Monday’s meeting. “If anybody deserves to have his name on a street corner, it’s General Bishop Elijah Davis.”

Throughout the meeting, with the help of over a dozen members of the public and recently-retired former Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn, the pictures of two lifelong community servants took shape.

According to the proposed corner-renaming aldermanic order, Griffin has lived on Lilac Street in Newhallville since 1972.

Clyburn said neighbors have long called Griffin “the Mayor of Newhallville” because of her commitment to the community.

She and her husband Melvin were ordained as deacons at First Calvary in 1997.

She spent her professional career in New Haven as a public school teacher at Lincoln Bassett School and Troup Academy.

According to the aldermanic order, she volunteered at polling stations, was an active member of the neighborhood management team, helped establish a community block watch, organized community cleanups, assisted in preparing food for the elderly, and donated her baking skills to annual Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday parties.

“She’s a beautiful person,” said Sean

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTO

General Bishop Elijah Davis, Jr.

Hardy. “I’ve known her all my life. She is superb, very active in the community, very committed. I love myself Ms. Mary Griffin.”

Darrell McClam agreed. He said that renaming the corner after Griffin while she’s very much a part of the neighborhood she has long served is a fitting way “to give her her flowers now.” “This is such an important accolade for her,” he said.

Those who spoke up in support of Davis

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similarly showed the longtime Newhallville pastor in praise.

According to the proposed aldermanic order, Davis was born in North Carolina.

He and his family moved to New Haven and joined Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church in 1974.

He would become the pastor of that chapel in 1986, and, over the course of his long career, add to his list of titles Connecticut State Police Chaplain, Presiding Annual Bishop of the Northern Connecticut Annual conference, General Bishop of the Unified Freewill Baptist Churches, and Second Vice President of the National Convention of Freewill Baptist U.S.A. The order also states that, during his career helming Pitts Chapel, he’s helped establish a neighborhood food bank, winter coat drive, youth mentoring program, deacon training school. He’s also helped people recently released from prison find jobs and housing, provided counseling and assistance to those struggling with HIV and AIDS, held annual Christmas toy giveaways, and opened an after school center at the church.

“When people were getting shot, Bishop Davis would walk the streets of Newhallville, trying to make calm and get peace back into the neighborhodo,” McClam said. “Brewster Street is not the best street in Connecticut. He wanted to be where the problems were, by his choice. He wanted to stay in Newhallville. He let people know they can do better, that there’s a better way.”

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by THOMAS BREEN New Haven Independent

For the first time in a year and a half, I sat in a dark, air-conditioned theater with my friend Dan Heaton and a trough-sized serving of popcorn and — just as I’ve done hundreds of times in pre-pandemic times — watched a movie at the Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas.

The cause for such cinephilic celebration was the nine-screen downtown movie theater‘s improbable and, for the movie-obsessed like myself, miraculous emergence from its Covid19-induced shutdown.

The local first-run and arthouse theater at 86 Temple St. has been closed for all intents and purposes since Covid-19 first made landfall in Connecticut in March 2020.

The theater briefly reopened in June 2020. But facing the daunting prospect of few new Hollywood releases and even fewer paying customers in those early months of the pandemic, it promptly re-closed on July 1 of that year.

That means that Friday’s reopening of the doors, flicking on of the digital projectors, and re-popping of the (fresh enough) popcorn marked the first time in well over a year that movie-hungry members of the New Haven public could return to the downtown cinema and catch a flick on the big screen.

That’s not to say that local moviegoers have been left bereft of all cinematic options during the pandemic. Quite the contrary.

The New Haven Documentary Film Festival has offered hundreds of screenings—online and in person—of new nonfiction films each of the past two years, including during the festival that wrapped up Sunday. The city’s only other remaining first-run movie theater, Cine 4 on Middletown Avenue, reopened months ago, in April. And in an act of cinematic desperation earlier this summer, I biked up to North Haven’s Cinemark to catch a screening of Black Widow before a public-radio roundtable review.

But there’s something different about being able to walk (or in my case, bike) a few blocks to a hometown theater, as Dan and I did on Friday.

Walking across the red bow-tie-patterned carpet with his arms stretched wide, Dan — a former Yale University Press colleague of mine and the only person I know in New Haven who attended the Bow Tie Cinemas more frequently than I did before the pandemic hit — declared with jubilation and re-

THOMAS BREEN PHOTOS Dan Heaton (above) picking up pre-movie-watching essentials at newly reopened Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas (below).

lief, “I’m home!”

I couldn’t disagree.

During our first trip back to the movies together on Friday, Dan and I saw Free Guy. The bubblegum-flavored action-comedy stars Ryan Reynolds as an exuberantly optimistic bank teller whose life is upended when he realizes that the violent, chaotic and repetitive world he exists in is in fact that of a role-playing video game. He’s less of a human playing the game, more of a background character designed to be played.

It’s a Truman Show riff for a superhero-inundated cinematic generation.

Thanks largely to Reynolds’ impish charm and the more versatile acting chops of co-lead Jodie Comer, the movie hits the mark for self-aware fun — even if its attempts to raise questions about the nature of free will and the consequences of artificial intelligence barely skim the surface.

To be honest, I would have been content with just about any cinematic fare on my journey back.

As Dan ably put it, the reopening of the Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas felt like a homecoming.

Ever since I moved to New Haven a

decade ago, I’ve spent a disproportionate amount of my life bouncing between the 200-seat theaters and 40-seat screening rooms at 86 Temple St. It’s where my partner Lucy and I went on our second ever date (a midnight screening of Friday the 13th; poor Kevin Bacon, he never stood a chance). It’s where I’d catch up with just about every new release I could while diving deep into the film criticism podcast Filmspotting, and then writing movie reviews for the Independent, and then hosting the weekly

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radio show “Deep Focus” on WNHH with fellow Independent writer and film buff Allan Appel.

It’s where I’d often run into and geek out to movies with Dan, who for years kept his own blog (the late, great Cheeseblabbery) with witty and insightful write-ups about the hundreds of films he’d watch every year, mostly at the downtown Criterion.

Dan and I and a handful of uniformed staffers were the only people present at the newly reopened downtown theater when we arrived a few minutes before

Friday’s 1:30 p.m. screening.

Due to an unfortunate disregard for the local press, the manager of the theater told the Independent that Bow Tie’s company policy prohibits employees from talking to reporters.

Multiple calls and emails and other attempts to get in touch with Bow Tie’s corporate office received no response.

The theater at 86 Temple St., which first opened in New Haven in 2004, is part of a national chain owned by a family that’s been in the movie exhibition business for over a century.

The Temple Street building’s maintenance man, Bob Russo, however, did tell the Independent that he’s been keeping up the empty theater even during the shutdown. (He also looks after the 44 luxury apartments that sit atop the theater in the rehabbed 1930s-era building that used to be home to United Illuminating.)

In the runup to Friday’s reopening, Russo said, he’d been replacing light bulbs, making sure the bathrooms were in working order, and checking in on the air conditioning and ventilation systems.

The only other fellow moviegoer who arrived before Dan and I walked down the carpet to Theater 5 was Sam Lim (pictured at right), a Korean language teacher at Yale.

He showed up to the movie theater’s reopening day to catch a screening of Respect, the new Jennifer Hudsonstarring biopic about Aretha Franklin.

Before the lights dimmed and the onslaught of previews began, Dan and I leaned back in our upholstered chairs in a middle row in the otherwise empty theater.

We talked about the Mets doubleheader he’d been to earlier in the week.

About how he’d serendipitously thumbed across a Sparks album in a cut-out bin in early 1980s West Virginia, decades before Edgar Wright’s new documentary came out.

About whether or not the new aggressively idiosyncratic Leos Carax musical Annette would make its way to New Haven, or whether we’d have to go to New York to catch a screening.

And about the joy and relief of being able to catch new movies at a hometown theater as opposed to having to make the trek by bus out to the Milford mall—or, as Dan more succinctly described that cinematic alternative, “hell.”

When the theater lights turned down and the silver screen lit up, we were far from “hell” indeed.

It was good to be back.

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Covid-Safe Annual Puerto Rican Fest Features Salsa, Tostones, & Vaccines

by NATALIE KAINZ New Haven Independent

Natasha and Naomy Velez flew across the stage, shaking their white skirts to the rhythmic beat of a barriles drum. The twin sisters were performing the Bomba — a traditional dance from Puerto Rico — in front of more than 100 people Saturday in Criscuolo Park.

The Velez sisters are members of Movimiento Cultural, one of three music and dance groups invited to perform at “Music in the Parque,” — this year’s annual Puerto Rican Festival.

Saturday’s festival featured cultural performances, Latin American food trucks, and a vaccination clinic from Griffin Health.

The Velez sisters have been dancing with Movimiento Cultural for 3 years, and dancing period since they were 6 years old. For them, the Puerto Rican Festival was a way to celebrate both their culture and inspire others to get vaccinated.

“Aside from dancing, we’re both medical assistants,” said Natasha Velez. “I want Bomba to inspire the people of the Latin community to come and get vaccinated.”

They certainly inspired Marangely Flores, who came to watch the performance with her daughter Mia. Flores said that she would love to join a dance crew like Moviemento Cultural.

“I’m thinking about getting vaccinated today,” said Flores. “Since I have a daughter, I want to get vaccinated so that she doesn’t get sick.”

Flores said that another motivation for getting vaccinated at the event was the raffle for tickets to a concert

by Latin music artist Marc Anthony.

All attendees who got vaccinated at the Griffin Health clinic right beside the park would get a raffle ticket.

According to Griffin Health employee Grace Garde, who was running the vaccine clinic, seven people were vaccinated at the festival. The clinic offered vaccines between 2 and 4 p/m.

“Many of the people who got vaccinated today came because they are scared of the Delta variant,” explained Garde. “At a lot of the clinics, minorities often think they’re not welcome to get vaccinated so we have to tell them that they are welcome here.”

City Public Health Director Marit-

Movimiento Cultural singers.

Marangely and Mia Flores.

Carmen and Paul Gonzalez with their niece Brooklyn.

Garde (far right) with the Griffin Health vaccination team.

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za Bond made a brief speech at the event encouraging people to get vaccinated.

“The Latin community has been negatively impacted by the virus at higher rates,” said Bond. “We want to makes sure that as we’re celebrating our culture, we’re also celebrating life and access to vaccines.”

The festival was hosted by Puerto Ricans United. This year’s festivities were slightly smaller than previous years due to Covid-19 restrictions. Typically, the Puerto Rican Festival would take place on the New Haven Green and would draw thousands.

“It’s going to be much smaller than usual, but I think people can still enjoy the music and food,” said Puerto Ricans United Treasurer Frank Alvarado.

Angel Laureano, who came to the festival for the first time this year, said that he actually prefers the festivities taking place in Criscuolo Park. While sipping on a cool drink near the food trucks, Laureano noted that there is far more room in Criscuolo for parking and space for the children to play in the park’s splash pads.

“Just look at this! The kids are playing, this guy is walking his dog outside, and people are finally out of the house breathing the fresh air!” said Laureano.

Food trucks from Antojos Criollos and Bebo’s BBQ served up empanadas, tostones, and pollo frito to the crowd. Meanwhile, onlookers gathered by the stage to dance to salsa music played by DJ Richie Rich.

“You know what’s good about Latinos?” Rich called out to the crowd.

“We don’t need 10,000 people to party. We party no matter what!”

On the other side of Criscuolo Park, members of Bregamos Community Theater in Fair Haven encouraged people to dance to Rumba music played on conga drums. Raphael Ramos, the founder and president, said that Bregamos has always come to participate in the Puerto Rican Festival in some capacity. Two years ago, they painted murals for the event.

“Puerto Rico is our livelihood and our heartbeat,” said Ramos. “I hope people come to the event and feel the spirit of unity — and also get info on where they can be vaccinated.”

Teens Get A Night Out At Westville Bowl THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 18, 2021 - August 24, 2021

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

The Chicago rapper known as G Herbo used to come to New Haven as a teen to kick start his music career. He returned to town as the headliner for a free fullcapacity hip-hop show for pandemicweary city youth, a summer celebration of community at the Westville Bowl.

G Herbo was one of three artists performed at the Westville Music Bowl Wednesday evening for the free concert hosted by the city’s Youth and Recreation Department (YARD). Other performances were by Jamaican dancehall singer HoodCelebrityy and rapper and singer Toosii.

The show’s 8,000 tickets were claimed in 27 minutes. Out of health and safety precautions YARD filled the venue to about 66 percent of capacity. Masks were given out at the door and required for entry.

In an interview after the show, G Herbo talked about the impact New Haven made on him nine years ago as a starting artist. “New Haven was one of the first places that reached out to me and understood my music,” he said.

At 17 years old, he had small shows and performances at New Haven venues like Toad’s Place. “I never really knew I had fans until coming to New Haven,” he said.

YARD partnered with the city Health Department, street outreach workers from the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program, and several police departments to provide youth with a “positive, safe, and fun” event.

City Director of Youth and Recreation Gwendolyn Busch Williams and Youth Services Specialist Ronald Huggins, who emceed the show alongside rapper and promoter Fatman Scoop, organized the event with the help of the New Haven, West Haven, and Yale police departments.

“We were here for support and safety,” said Assistant Police Chief Karl Jacobson. “We had zero arrests and zero negative interactions.

“Our officers wanted this for these kids. New Haven youth need things like this.”

Huggins said when the artists heard about the concert’s focus on kids, they each decreased their performance prices by more than 50 percent.

G Herbo performed last due to his flight from Chicago getting canceled. His luggage was also lost at the airport.

“He was so dedicated to being here he used the money he made from tonight to get a private chopper to fly here and be here for you guys,” Huggins told the crowd.

“Kids have been home for 18 months,

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOS Rapper G Herbo performs for fans at Westville Bowl Wednesday night.

Gwendolyn Busch Williams, G Herbo, and Ron Huggins.

Friends Gigi, Ma’Kiya Barkley, Tareesa, Stormy.

and their parents are still struggling to pay rent. We did this for them, so families don’t have to worry about nothing,” Huggins said.

This is the second annual YARD free concert for youth. In 2019 YARD brought out R&B singers Sammie, the Hamden native Avery Wilson, and Hip Hop star PnB Rock. Last year’s planned summer show was canceled due to the pandemic.

This year’s concert was funded by a portion of the city’s federal American Rescue Plan dollars, Huggins said. “The crowds at concerts for big artists aren’t usually made up of urban kids like today’s was,” Huggins said. “We knew we had to remove the financial issues.”

Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers encouraged the kids to keep the event positive so more can happen in the future.

“We need to show everybody that the youth in New Haven can come together and have no violence,” she said. “Because every time we say we want to do something for the youth everybody get a little skeptical. Not me.”

Beaver Hills Alder Richard Furlow, Mayor Justin Elicker, Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal, and Health Director Maritza Bond were also in attendance at the event.

Wednesday was the new Music Bowl’s first hip-hop show, said Huggins. “Hip hop is a genre of music filled with regular people telling their stories,” he said.

During his performance Toosii brought out New Haven artist DustyStayTrue to perform two songs. This fall DustyStayTrue will go on tour with Toosii as a special guest.

Sisters Jordan and Jesenna Alston and Blair Griffin got seats in the pit for Wednesday’s concert. The group said they were shocked to see artists like Toosii and G Herbo coming to Connecticut. “People don’t usually care about Connecticut,” said Jesenna, 17.

In the past Jordan, 20, and Griffin, 20, said they have had to travel to other towns to see concerts at places like the Oakdale Theatre and Foxwoods Resort Casino. “The fact that this happened in New Haven is surprising,” Griffin said.

The Wednesday concert was Jesenna’s first ever.

Although nervous about crowding at the concert and potential Covid-19 spread, the trio decided to obtain tickets because they were tired of spending their summer indoors.

Jordan and Griffin said they spend their days with their kids, who were too young to bring to the concert. Jesenna said she would be “bored inside” if not at the concert Wednesday.

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Hill Health CEO Defends Billing Practices THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 18, 2021 - August 24, 2021

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

In the wake of a $350,000 settlement with the state and federal governments, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor said his organization was seeking to give underserved clients better care, not breaking rules, when it scheduled multiple dental care visits for Medicaid patients.

Taylor offered that response during a Thursday morning interview with the Independent.

His comments came one day after the state Attorney General’s office and the U.S. Attorney’s office announced in separate email press releases that the local health center (CSHHC) has agreed to pay $350,000 and change its scheduling policies to settle an investigation into three years of alleged dental service double-billing.

“We did not violate any law, regulation or rule,” Taylor said. “What we have in this instance is a difference in the interpretation of the rules, and no guidelines that precluded us from scheduling as we did.”

The settlement agreement (detailed below) and Wednesday’s government press releases allege that CSHHC implemented a policy between 2017 and 2019 that had Medicaid patients set up separate appointments for routine dental cleanings and dental exams.

Because Connecticut Medicaid uses an “encounter-based” reimbursement model to compensate federally qualified health centers for all services provided to Medicaid recipients on the same day, the twoappointment setup meant that CSHHC got paid two encounter rates “for services that could have been completed during the same visit.” CSHHC’s current encounter rate is approximately $162.

“Cornell Scott Hill applied a policy that caused the state Medicaid program to overpay for routine dental services,” state At-

MARKESHIA RICKS FILE PHOTO Taylor: Hill Health needed to put matter “behind us.”

torney General William Tong is quoted as saying in one of Wednesday’s press releases. “This policy burdened patients by needlessly requiring repeat visits for their dental exams and cleanings. This policy had real consequences for their Medicaid patients, including requiring adults and children to take more time off work and/or school, as well as the burden of additional transportation. In addition to the $350,000 restitution payment, Cornell Scott Hill will allow all Medicaid patients the ability to schedule both their dental cleaning and exam in one visit.”

During Thursday’s interview, Taylor disagreed with Tong’s take on the matter. He repeated that his organization broke no rules and acted solely in the interests of its patients.

“Our practices were about maximizing

access for patients who came to us, sometimes in very dire straits. The money never crossed our mind. This is about patient welfare,” he said.

He offered an explanation for the prior policy that had Medicaid patients set up two dental service appointments rather than one.

“Many uninsured and underinsured people don’t have historical, ongoing dental access,” Taylor said. “When they come to us, their acuity levels are so severe. We wanted to afford an appropriate amount of time to stabilize them. And we can’t do that in one visit. It’s just too much.”

He said that many of the health center’s dental patients haven’t seen a dentist in five, 10, 15 years: “They come to us when they are in excruciating pain.”

“That is the reason that we did that prac-

tice” of scheduling two dental appointments rather than one,” he said. “So that our providers would have enough time to care for people appropriately and carefully.”

Now, as required by the settlement with the state and federal governments, the health center will offer patients the opportunity to schedule routine cleanings and dental exams on the same visit. “The choice will be the patient’s.”

Hill Heath didn’t offer that one-visit option before “because of the typical clinical profile of the patients who were coming to us,” Taylor said. “We are now. We are offering the patients that option.”

Taylor stressed that Hill Health wasn’t aware that the billing practice violated federal regulations,“because that is still not codified in law or regulation.”

Taylor was asked about a section of the state Department of Social Services regulations that is referenced in the settlement agreement. It states that federally qualified health center Medicaid claims “are limited to one all-inclusive encounter per day to include all services received by a client on the same day unless the client suffers an illness or injury subsequent to the first encounter that requires additional diagnosis or treatment or if the client has different types of visits on the same day such as medical and dental or medical and behavioral health.”

That language “doesn’t speak specifically to this,” Taylor said. And he repeated that the health center is “first guided by what is in the best interested and clinical appropriateness of the patient.”

Taylor said that the health center ultimately agreed to the $350,000 settlement and policy change because “we needed to put this issue behind us. It’s really stressful to undergo one of these negotiations.” And the legal fees add up very quickly.

“This settlement in no way compromises our commitment to our patients,” he concluded. “We have always and we will always stand here to provide access to all people who come to us, and to provide the highest quality services to anyone.”

Settlement Details The only publicly available document in the case is the 12-page settlement agreement signed on Aug. 3 by Taylor and health center-hired attorney Joan Feldman, and on Aug. 4 by state Assistant Attorney General Joshua Jackson and Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Hughes and Richard Molot.

Click here to read that settlement agreement document in full.

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How Much Worse Would Provincetown’s COVID-19 Outbreak Have Been Without Vaccines?

by THE BOSTON GLOBE Editor’s note: The Valley Independent Sentinel is participating in The Last Best Shot, an effort led by The Boston Globe and The New England Newspaper and Press Association to combat COVID-19 vaccination disinformation in our region.

At first blush, a wintertime conference in downtown Boston and a series of summer parties at the tip of Cape Cod don’t seem all that similar.

But major COVID-19 outbreaks in the two settings nearly a year and a half apart dramatically demonstrate the protective value of vaccinations — even in the face of a more contagious form of the virus.

The February 2020 Boston Biogen conference set off a global tidal wave of COVID infections, while the outbreak at the Provincetown parties appeared to fizzle with only a handful getting sick enough to be hospitalized.

The big difference? Vaccinations. The vast majority of the Provincetown revelers with reported infections had received their shots.

If not for all the vaccinations, warned Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, “that would have been a disaster.”

The infamous Biogen conference of 175 executives from around the world shares several striking similarities with the recent July Fourth celebrations in Provincetown, which attracted visitors from across the country. The people at both gatherings were relatively young, mobile — and vulnerable.

During the conference, in the earliest days of COVID-19, scientists hadn’t yet realized masks and social distancing could curb the virus’s spread. In Provincetown, many also gathered closely and without masks because they were vaccinated and following CDC guidance at

(CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF)

Paul Richards departs Essentials in Provincetown, MA on August 06, 2021.

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that time, which suggested such precautions weren’t needed.

The Biogen conference emerged as one of the main drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic, linked to as many as 300,000 COVID infections worldwide, as executives who were exposed to the disease in Boston returned to their far-flung homes.

But it appears Provincetown has not become a Biogen 2.0, at least from what is now known, even though it had the makings of an even bigger superspreader event, one involving thousands of people packing house parties and clubs during weeklong festivities.

By the end of July, roughly 1,000 COVID-19 infections were linked to the events in Provincetown. Three-quarters of the patients analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were vaccinated. In all, eight people were hospitalized, but no one died.

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Working Families Catch A (Tax) Break THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 18, 2021 - August 24, 2021

their incomes in savings. They are living marginally and they have to meet daily expenses and it’s often a struggle,” said Looney.

“The increase will help families have more money in their pockets for medical care, food, and other needs. This is particularly critical as the Latinx community continues to be disproportionately impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Junta Executive Director Brunilda Pizarro.

Yaniel Ramos has been working as an intern with Junta for a month.

“A lot of the people we see are in extreme need, and anything that can help in any way is necessary at this point,” Ramos said.

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven Independent

Guess who’s getting a bigger tax break in Connecticut?

The answer: low to moderate-income working individuals and families.

The governor brought that message Tuesday to Junta for Progressive Action on Grand Avenue. He held a press conference to highlight the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which sends refunds to taxpayers below certain income thresholds.

Connecticut’s EITC has increased by 32.6 percent, from 23 percent to 30.5 percent of the federal EITC. “It’s a tax cut for working families and middle-class families who are paying enough and makes this state just a little more affordable,” Lamont said.

Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Mark Boughton said that the now $40 million program will reach 220,000 taxpayers and their dependents in the state this year.

“This is a tremendous investment in families in the state at a time when they can really use it,” Boughton said.

The program has graduated levels of refunds based on income. When Connecticut residents file their taxes, they can check off if they’re eligible. To qualify, a resident’s earned income must be less than $50,954 ($56,844 married filing jointly) with three or more qualifying children, $47,440 ($53,330 married filing jointly) with two qualifying children, $41,756 ($47,646 married filing jointly)

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with one qualifying child, or $15,820 ($21,710 married filing jointly) with no qualifying children.

Depending on the number of children, in 2020 a resident could get back between $124 and $1,532 max from the state EITC. With the new boost that amount will grow.

Lamont said the tax credit roughly represents an extra $500 a year for those who qualify, “to help take care of that kid, help take care of basic utility needs. Something to live on.”

Mayor Justin Elicker shared statistics from a Connecticut State Department and

Revenue Services study in 2014.

Elicker said the study showed that the lowest income earners in Connecticut paid 23.6 percent of their income to state and local taxes while middle-class earners paid 13 percent, and the top ten percent of earners paid 10 percent of their income. “That in my view is wrong. This is a strong step to help correct that,” he said. Some Democrats int he legislature have pointed to that study (not updated since 2014) to argue for raising marginal tax rates on the wealthiest taxpayers.

Gov. Lamont has rejected that argument, arguing it would “punish success” too in-

crease tax rates on the wealthy.

New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney reviewed the history of the EITC in Connecticut, which was instituted in 2011.

The EITC was first proposed in Connecticut in 2000. Looney fought for its passage, then helped lead the fight to increase it.

“It is targeted to try to empower working people. Every dollar that is received through the EITC, both federal and state, comes back into the economy because people at that level of income to qualify for it are not people who are in a position to set aside a significant portion of

Rally Targets “Climate Chaos”

In the wake of a dire report on the planet’s future, two dozen activists held a demonstration Friday on the Green calling for local and global action on climate change.

The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said a small window of opportunity remains to address sea level rise and other catastrophic effects of man-made climate change CT Climate Crisis Mobilization (C3M), Sunrise New Haven, and Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA) were among the groups represented at the protest.

One focus was on the threat of rising sea levels putting New Haven and the Connecticut shoreline under water.

Another focus was Chase Bank’s support of the fossil fuel industry. Demonstrators called on Chase to stop funding Enbridge’s construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline across Anishinaabe treaty territory in northern Minnesota. Indigenous organizer Tara Houska likened Chase giving a “sustainability loan” to Enbridge to giving a health award to tobacco companies.

Organizer Melinda Tuhus of (C3M) was

one of 700 people – and counting – to be arrested along the pipeline route in Minnesota. “I visited the headwaters of the Mississippi, and saw Enbridge’s preliminary work to tunnel the pipeline under the river in two places nearby,” she said. “Since my visit in May, the company has built the pipeline across many rivers and lakes – where wild rice is grown, sacred to the Anishinaabe –

and has spilled drilling mud into many of them, fouling the waters for the rice and all aquatic creatures.”

“Banks like Chase are using your money, without your permission, to invest in projects that threaten our friends in Minnesota and all of us sharing this planet, to fund more aggressive violence against indigenous women, to destroy their homes and

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livelihoods, to flatten and kill the habitats of our relations across this continent,” said Eluned Li of Sunrise New Haven, who also traveled to Minnesota. “I ask all of you today to apply whatever pressure you can to these banks and state officials, that they agree to act humanely, and preserve a version of the future our descendants can live and thrive within.” She urged people to call the Army Corps of Engineers and demand they revoke the 404 water quality permit for the project.

ULA members held a banner featuring Berta Cáceres, an indigenous land defender murdered in Honduras while opposing a dam project. ULA members have fled homes in Central America in the wake of stronger hurricanes and the devastating drought.

“Hey, JP Morgan Chase: bad investment, big disgrace!” participants chanted outside the downtown bank branch., “If you want it drier, hotter, fund Line 3: wipe out more water!” They passed out flyers asking New Haveners to contact CEO Jamie Dimon.

COVID-19 Outbreak

Disease experts point to Provincetown as a remarkable stress test, saying that high vaccination rates in the town and surrounding Barnstable County substantially dampened what could have been much worse.

Jha’s admittedly very rough estimate is that, without any vaccines, the initial caseloads would have been at least five times larger than they were.

Jha based his calculation on the CDC’s estimate that the Pfizer and Moderna shots prevent about 80 percent of symptomatic infections from the wildly contagious Delta variant. So instead of 20 percent infected with symptoms, even with vaccines, it would have been about five times that without vaccines, under Jha’s estimate. That would have meant 5,000 initial infections, instead of the roughly 1,000.

“The July Fourth weekend in Provincetown, if that population was not vaccinated, would have led to many tens of thousands of infection over time,” Jha said.

“It would have been a Biogen,” he said.

Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and lead researcher on the Biogen study, has now joined with colleagues at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the CDC to sequence infections from the Provincetown outbreak and, once again, follow the path of transmission.

Lemieux said scientists are still trying to understand the impact from the Delta strain, which is at least twice as contagious as the original COVID-19 virus.

The Provincetown outbreak demonstrated that, while vaccinated people were unlikely to get seriously ill from Delta, they can carry it, potentially threatening others who are more vulnerable.

“Provincetown is a wake-up call,” he said.

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Night Out Cleanup Crew Hits Cedar Hill Streets

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Wednesday was 17-year-old Ma’Kiya Barkley’s first-ever concert. She was most excited to see G Herbo perform.

“Tonight was amazing. He made eye contact with me and everything,” she said.

Barkley, who lives in Bridgeport, was joined by six of her friends at the event.

“I felt safe and had the time of my life,” she said.

New Haven native Mikayla Rountree, 13, not only got a front row seat to see her favorite artists G Herbo and Toosii, but even was passed a towel from G Herbo during his performance.

Rountree has been listening to G Herbo since she was 11 years old. She saw him perform live for her first concert ever Wednesday night. Rountree was joined at the concert by her sister and a few cousins.

“When he gave me his towel I was so excited, because that’s literally my favorite rapper,” Rountree said.

“This was wonderful for her, because the pandemic has them locked them up in the house,” said Rountree’s mom, Karen Bunkley. “For a year we haven’t been able to do anything. But yesterday she finally got to get out and be amongst other people.”

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

Cedar Hill streets shone a bit brighter and cleaner Friday, thanks to a new federal pandemic relief-funded partnership between the public works department and a job-training nonprofit for ex-offenders.

The fruits of that new partnership were on display at a press conference and clean streets-walkthrough held at the corner of May Street and Cedar Hill Avenue.

Backed by nearly a dozen orange-vested workers from the nonprofit EMERGE organization and flanked by city Department of Parks and Public Works streetsweeping vehicles, Mayor Justin Elicker touted a new one-year, $75,000 contract between the city and EMERGE. The contract is funded by a portion of the “summer reset” allocation from the $100 million-plus in federal American Rescue Plan aid coming to New Haven. It employs four-person EMERGE crews to travel the city five days a week, assisting city street sweeping operations by raking trash from the tree belt and the sidewalk into the street to allow for the city vehicles to pick that trash up as they wash and clean the pavement.

It represents the latest city-beautification efforts undertaken by EMERGE, which already partners with the city to install bioswales all across town, as well as with the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) to

EMERGE’s Richard Watkins (right).

plant and take care of New Haven’s street trees.

This work is about “giving back to the community and feeling good about what we’re doing,” EMERGE Professional Development Coordinator Richard Watkins said. For people returning from incarceration, finding gainful, meaningful, and socially productive employment is often hard to do. EMERGE provides all of that, he said, as well as a sense of community and professional pride.

“We may have a criminal background,” Watkins said, “but you have to look at what we’re doing now.”

Before hitting the sidewalks and streets with rakes in hand, hustling to clear the tree belt a few steps ahead of oncoming street sweepers, EMERGE workers praised the new city contract—and received some words of praise themselves from grateful Cedar Hill neighbors.

“It’s hard to give back to society” after being incarcerated, EMERGE Su-

pervisor/Coordinator James Dixon said.

“We’re just grateful” for the opportunity.

“People make mistakes,” added EMERGE’s Jermaine Smith Working with the nonprofit has helped him become a better man, and a better father, he said.

Lifelong Ridge Street resident Markel Greene thanked the crew for beautifying the neighborhood. “You’re doing a great job,” he said. “This was one of the worst streets.” Now it’s looking like a place one can be prouder to call home.

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OP-ED:

This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Black Wall Street

By Tristan Wilkerson, Think Rubix, Managing Principal

Let me first say, I love my grandma. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t love their grandma. And yet, we live very differently than the generations that have come before us.

The 21st century looks different for entrepreneurs, in particular entrepreneurs of color. And, as the digital global economy evolves, we are learning that entrepreneurship and enterprise are still your best shot at prosperity, systems change, and social equity.

We may live differently than Grandma did, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we live better. And this is our challenge – to make tomorrow more than different, but undeniably better. Here’s why rebuilding America’s Black Wall Streets is the win we’ve all been waiting for.

So, what happened to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street? The story of that terror is best told by Viola Fletcher, a grandmother and 107-year-old survivor of the Tulsa Massacre that demolished one of America’s foremost prominent Black Wall Streets in vibrant Greenwood, Oklahoma. “I have lived through the massacre every day…I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street.” she recounted in a powerful testimony to Congress.

To put it plainly, the form of terrorism Black folks endured in Tulsa was calculated (and state-supported). It did what it was intended to do; embed a permanence of fear and inferiority among Black people.

In a visceral poem, AJ Smitherman penned: “Kill them, burn them, set the pace.

OP-ED: You’re Welcome —

Let them know that we are white men, Teach them how to keep their place.”

Prior generations of Black Wall Streets across the country withstood violent racism intended to deny wealth-building for their families and equity-based economic participation. This includes redlining and the deliberate financial exclusion of Black banking and Black borrowers, a denial that many still face today. Systemic racism prevented entire generations of Black Americans from building wealth, leaving behind a persistent and devastating racial wealth gap where the median Black family wealth is less than 15% than that of their white counterparts.

Many have tried to blame the Black-White racial wealth gap on Black ineptitude, but

that’s misplaced propaganda. The greatest threat to Black wealth, historically, isn’t Black ineptitude; it’s White supremacy.

Creating and sustaining a Black economic ecosystem, where dollars are invested and circulated within a network of Black businesses and entrepreneurs, will look physically different than the Black Wall Streets of the past, thanks to the digital economy.

Paying for a vegan hot plate with Apple Pay, menus imprinted on QR codes, online retail, vertically integrated e-commerce, socialized media, digital marketing, streamlined manufacturing, influencers, and content creators are just a handful of the things that you wouldn’t have found on Black Wall Street back in the day thanks to the internet. The post-pandemic economy

sits squarely in this digital world, and represents a golden opportunity to finally invite the permanent participation of firms, producers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who are Black, Black-led, and women.

In 2020 alone, we lost 41% of Black businesses between the months of February-April. Many of our brick-and-mortar mainstays didn’t survive the economic shutdown, particularly those who weren’t sufficiently tech-enabled. Many of those mom-and-pop shops or small-to-medium size enterprises (SME) have been subsumed under the new everyday economy.

The everyday economy is now almost entirely online, and the central reason we have to tech-enable every Black business at little to no cost.

Rebuilding Black Wall Street requires long-overdue repair of many forms. Black communities have incurred compounding negative interest, while their counterparts have enjoyed opportunities to build incredible wealth.

Repair is more than access to capital. And access to capital does not mean high-interest loans or loans at all. And it isn’t always money. What access to capital really entails is its relationship to resources. It means low-cost, affordable capital at every stage in the life cycle of a business. It also means knowledge sharing, access to technology, and proper participation in supply chains.

In short, it’s wholesale economic participation for Black entrepreneurs.

Repair is more than Black banking too.

Repair is Black-led Venture Capital and Private Equity firms like High Street Equity that are committed to “creating value with more than capital.” Repair is closing the Black-White racial wealth gap could unlock nearly $1.5 Trillion in untapped GDP. Rebuilding Black Wall Street requires a shift in thinking that asset frames Black business. One that values Black life. Only then will we begin to heal the harm of violently systemic racism and create the opportunity for a world of better for generations to come.

Tristan is the grandson of sharecroppers and church folks. His background is rooted in public policy and political econ. He’s a Capitol Hill alum and campaign veteran turned entrepreneur and investor. He leads Think Rubix as Managing Principal and lives in Washington, DC.

How Southern Democrats Can Continue to Save Our Nation’s Democracy

By Rhonna-Rose Akama-Makia, Director of Engagement, Think Rubix I’m from Arkansas. So, it’s not hard to imagine how I ended up running a political campaign in Texas. We can all agree now that the South will have a vital role in the future of politics in this country, especially now that preliminary Census results show population growth shifting south.

The South has always been important to politics, but the shocking results in Georgia’s presidential and Senate run-off races means that national Democrats are paying a little more strategic attention to it. Even though we came up short, the Democrats’ closeness in the TX-06 race perfectly captures the changing political dynamics across the South and offers a glimpse into the near and bright future of this region.

As Republican legislatures across the country – and especially in the so-called “red states” across the South – try to ram through over 250 various voter suppression bills to shore up their grip on power, the South runs the real risk of falling back into the pattern of oppression and minority rule and taking the entire country with it. If Democrats want to get serious about build-

ing up their base in the South, they’re going to need to make the right choices right now.

The first key point is that traditional Democratic institutions need to explicitly commit to recruiting and supporting diverse candidates of different races, genders, gender identities, socio-economic statuses, lived experiences, etc.

The world is calling for representation that resembles them. Their identity, their existence, their story. Many are answering the call and stepping up, opening their lives and spaces for the opportunity to advocate for their friends, families and communities.

And while we all wish we could live in a world where the best candidate wins, no matter how much money they do or don’t spend, that’s just not the way American politics currently works.

The second key principle is that Democrats need to seriously invest in diverse operatives for these candidates once they recruit them. Candidates like Jana Sanchez are everywhere, but they need major dollars to compete, and that can only be provided through a national Democratic strategy to provide support to the best candidates in these emerging districts. We have seen how investing in resources and support

can make or break a candidate’s campaign.

By providing staff to campaigns that are trained and ready to run and support campaigns makes a huge difference. There are a lot of groups doing training for candidates, but we also need to see that support in operatives for competitive campaigns.

The third and final key decision that Democrats need to intentionally build up their state parties and the infrastructure they can provide to great candidates. There’s been lots of handwringing in recent years about the decimation of state party chapters, and new DNC Chair Jaime Harrison has committed to investing in them.

While a key and very important step, we also have to recognize the need for some reputation repair in some of these states.

Many state parties have been torn apart from lack of activity and investment over the years. Candidates can only succeed if they have the right training, staffing, and support for their campaigns. State parties are uniquely positioned to equip and provide that for them. Just like Democrats need to think strategically about which candidates they invest in, they need to carefully plan out how those investments are deployed to rebuild some of that decaying

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infrastructure.

Many races end up close because of the through hard work, sweat, tears, and a whole lot of hope about the future of the South, and what it can do for the entire country. We know that Democrats simply can’t hope to maintain control in Washington without it, but we also now know the roadmap to success. It’s on national Democrats to follow that roadmap now.

Rhonna-Rose Akama-Makia is a SecondGeneration African Immigrant raised in the American South who is passionate about Politics & Economics. As a trained facilitator, she has facilitated 1000+ workshops with over 10000+ individuals from various communities, organizations, and companies across the country. She is currently the Director of Engagement at Think Rubix.

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Broadway’s Neon Lights Shine with 10 New Black Plays, Musicals

“This new hit stage musical, presented in association with Tina Turner herself, reveals the untold story of a woman who dared to defy the bounds of her age, gender, and race.”

Based upon Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel of the same name, “The Color Purple” counts as an epic tale of 40-years in the life of a family in rural Georgia.

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

After a somewhat experimental reopening in June with “Springsteen on Broadway,” the Great White Way will step further into the mix with the August 4 debut of “Pass Over” at the August Wilson Theatre.

Barring any restrictions, the late summer and fall plays and musicals will feature no less than a dozen African Americanthemed productions – ten of which are new.

“There is some great Black entertainment on Broadway,” said Irene Gandy, the legendary and influential Broadway press agent who counts among the few African American producers.

Among those Gandy and others who have expressed excitement over are “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” “For Colored Girls,” and “Skeleton Crew,” starring Phylicia Rashad and written by “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” writer Dominique Morisseau.

“Tina,” the stirring musical on the life of pop superstar Tina Turner also makes its debut this fall.

Among the off-Broadway offerings is “Sistas: The Musical.”

According to production notes, at its center is fourteen-year-old Celie.

Broadway officials have said the shows will go on, but only at 100 percent capacity. So, if New York reinstates restrictions on indoor crowds, Broadway could shutter once again.

“Sistas” counts as an uplifting musi-

cal journey featuring a playlist of songs

by Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and Beyoncé, and other female African American greats.

According to a fact sheet, “Tina” reviews the life of superstar Tina Turner

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from humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her transformation into the global Queen of Rock’ n’ Roll.

“Tina Turner didn’t just break the rules; she rewrote them,” producers of the show noted.

When Celie is forced by her abusive father to marry a cruel farmer called “Mister,” she is separated from all she loves.

But, ultimately, Celie conquers the odds to find her voice and her strength, coming into her own.

“There are Black people on Broadway,” declared Gandy, who also worked in the music industry with legends like BB King, Patti LaBelle and The Jackson 5.

Gandy also served as a producer on “Lady Day,” and “Porgy & Bess,” which earned the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

“Broadway is green. Now we have 10 Black shows coming, ‘Pass Over,’ ‘Lackawanna Blues,’ ‘Chicken’ N Biscuits,’ and we have ‘MJ the Musical.’ Come out and see them.’”

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‘Respect’: Jennifer Hudson Talks Faith and Finding Your Voice

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor

Academy award-winning actress and Grammy award-winner Jennifer Hudson has made a triumphant return to the big screen in the role of a lifetime, starring as Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul.

Named for one of Franklin’s greatest hits, Respect, a biopic written by Tracey Scott Wilson and directed by Liesl Tommy, takes viewers on a journey through Franklin’s tumultuous life. Despite all of the personal obstacles and professional challenges, Franklin who was lauded and often described as a genius because of her impeccable musicianship, empowering writing and powerful performances, rose above the setbacks becoming the voice of a generation.

Hudson, who Franklin hand-picked to play her before her death in 2018, rose to fame as a contestant on American Idol in 2004. Hudson was lambasted by cantankerous host Simon Cowell who said Hudson was “out of her depth” in the contest and would not make it in the industry.

Three years later, Cowell issued a public mea culpa saying he was “wrong” about Hudson after she won the 2007 Academy Award for best supporting actress in her

breakout role as Effie White in Bill Condon’s film version of Dreamgirls.

Hudson’s self-titled debut album would go on to win the Grammy for Best R&B album in 2008. In October of that same year, Hudson’s mother and nephew were tragically killed in a domestic violence incident. Like Franklin, Hudson’s young life was marked by obstacles and tragedies. Like Franklin, she rose above them and continued to build and maintain a celebrated career.

In a virtual interview with Hudson, the two-time Grammy winner discusses what she has in common with Franklin, most of which is faith.” I think her faith was everything and mine as well. That’s what got me through this because I wouldn’t have been able to do this without it,” says Hudson. “It’s her base. It’s who she is.

When you leave the church and go beyond, people think you left the church but that’s what actually carries you through,” Hudson adds.

Like Franklin, Hudson began singing in the church and went on to gain superstardom in the R&B world. “I think it’s so powerful the film starts in the church and ends in the church,” says the woman who recently sang at Franklin’s home church, New Bethel Baptist Church. Hudson says she “had to do it” because being in that

space was familiar and moved her. Like Aretha, faith is central to Hudson’s life and needed to be central to the film.

“That (faith) was most important to me and to have that faith maintained throughout the film,” offers Hudson. “Even though she sang many genres, gospel was always her base and that’s what got her through everything musically.”

Faith is woven throughout the film and there is something for everyone in the film Hudson declares. The Academy Award winner says this film is for all audiences – women, spiritual people, dreamers and those who may have had big dreams and suffered setbacks.

What is Hudson’s takeaway from Aretha Franklin’s life? “The takeaway for me was just owning your voice. It wasn’t until Aretha owned her voice [that] we all got our Queen of Soul.”

RESPECT premieres in theaters Friday, August 13, 2021.

This article was written by Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Culture and Entertainment Editor and the founder & editor-in-chief of The Burton Wire. Follow Nsenga on Twitter @Ntellectual. Follow The Burton Wire on Instagram or Twitter @TheBurtonWire.

New Tito Jackson CD Features a Host of Superstars, Targets Civil Unrest

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Bobby Rush, Kim Fields, Magic Johnson, UB40, and Smokey Robinson are just some of the names featured on Jackson 5 legend Tito Jackson’s latest CD, “Under Your Spell.”

In addition to an army of superstars, Jackson also enlisted members of his famous family.

The blues-infused record streaming on all download platforms from the SRG ILS label imprint contains the hit single, “Love One Another.”

The song features George Benson, Eddie Levert, Bobby Rush, Marlon Jackson, and Stevie Wonder.

The accompanying video contains cameos featuring Brian McKnight, Deborah Cox, Kim Kardashian, Kim Fields, and

Chris Tucker.

Family members including matriarch Katherine Jackson, sisters Janet and Latoya, brothers Jermaine and Jackie, and a host of nieces and nephews.

“It was me it was a no brainer, because at the time there was a lot of unrest in the world, especially in America with [Black Lives Matter] and the storming of the capital,” Tito Jackson mused.

“My partner and I felt that it was a good time to write something to tell the people to come in peace and love each other. We are better than this. That was the basic principle of that song,” Jackson insisted.

“Under Your Spell” counts as Jackson’s sophomore blues album.

The Jackson Five lead guitarist’s “innate abilities as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and arranger shine through bril-

liantly, creating a spectacular record destined for airplay and rave reviews in many formats,” label officials wrote in a news release.

Renowned songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff came out of retirement to write “All in The Family Blues” for Jackson, featuring Eddie Levert.

Jackson honors his friend BB King on the CD, covering King’s 1964 classic, “Rock Me Baby.”

King’s daughter, Claudette King, joins Jackson on the track.

Primarily, Jackson highlights the need for world peace.

“It’s a thing with the Jacksons that we’ve always tried to go for harmony, peace, and love throughout the world,” Jackson asserts.

“This is just another limb on that tree.”

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Nation’s Only Black Cybersecurity Reskilling School Receives $10M Funding Boost to Connect Students with High-Paying Careers in Tech

DETROIT, Mich — Detroit-based Automation Workz Institute, Inc., the nation’s only Black tech diversity consulting and upskilling institution, today announced the close of $10 million growth financing to drive the expansion of their cybersecurity, network engineer and development certification courses to people of color across America.

• Game-changing funding will increase people of color access to Automation Workz programs • 30 percent of Automation Workz graduates have received six-figure job offers • “The best social justice program is a job, especially a high-paying highdemand tech job” – Automation Workz CEO & Founder Ida Byrd-Hill Focusing on careers in network engineering, cybersecurity and IT/tech, as a post-secondary vocational school, Automation Workz customizes workforce training to develop diverse adults for high-paying careers in business, tech and cybersecurity.

The announcement took place on Tuesday, August 10, at the 2021 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.

“This new funding partnership with Blair is game-changing on so many levels,” said Automation Workz CEO and Founder Ida Byrd-Hill.

“Lack of money should not be a barrier to move into the plethora of high-paying tech jobs that, for too long, have been a barrier to people of color.

“For years, I’ve advocated the best social justice program is a job, especially a high-paying high-demand tech job.

“I’m so thankful to Blair for believing in Automation Workz which I built to discover the tech genius that is often overlooked within inner cities.”

As an immediate benefit, the new funding will increase people of color access to Automation Workz’s program using Income Share Agreements whereby stu-

— and how we get there — uniquely depends on automation, processes and people (APP).

Emphasizing innovation and ideation, Automation Workz expertly retools and enhances APP for internal and external audiences through scalable, customized services designed for organizations of all sizes.

In 2021, Automation Workz was ranked as one of the nation’s top 10 Cybersecurity Bootcamps by Career Karma. Most recently, it was named one the Best Cyber Security Bootcamps of 2021 by Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning. For additional information, go to https://autoworkz.org.

dents sign an enrollment agreement.

Upon graduation or receipt of a higherpaying job, whichever happens first, they will share income to repay tuition over four years.

Automation Workz will also be able to add more staff and artificial intelligence capabilities to increase enrollment, hence more job offers.

Automation Workz’s goal is to assist 50,000 people of color to achieve sixfigure job offers to create prosperous affluent economies in inner cities across America, thereby reducing crime, poverty and the stress that plagues inner cities.

“Blair is excited to partner with Automation Workz, a leading education provider, to increase upward mobility and afford students the opportunity to achieve great outcomes,” shared Justin Stolzenberg, Head of Growth at Blair.

“Their commitment to providing students an excellent education and lifelong career path is second-to-none, and continuously proven through their commitment to outcomes-based financing. We are thrilled to work with Automation Workz on removing the burden of upfront payments from their students and increasing access to their program.”

To date, 30 percent of Automation Workz graduates have received and accepted six-figure job offers with the highest offer received by a Black woman.

Reflecting its community and student constituents, people of color Instructors and mentors provide a safe and inspiring training space to launch into the tech industry.

In addition, beyond a traditional curriculum, hands-on certification training utilizing digital simulations, games and

animation are unique tools to both grow and groom the invisible tech geniuses that live in inner cities.

Both endorsement and validation of its high-powered training is illustrated by Automation Workz’s inclusion as one of the nation’s top 10 Cybersecurity Bootcamps by Career Karma and being named one the Best Cyber Security Bootcamps of 2021 by Intelligent.com.

In addition, Pearson PLC of London has validated Automation Workz as distinctly having a niche audience of 30–40-yearold Black women which is unique across the world.

About Automation Workz Institute Founded in 2017 as Cisco Networking Academy, Automation Workz Institute is an SBA woman-owned career technical trade school that advocates the future

About Blair Blair empowers schools of all kind to be more accessible by structuring and creating sustainable ISA (Income Share Agreements) programs.

The team at Blair deeply believes in two core facts: education is powerful and access to education should not depend on one’s financial background.

Millions of talented people are not able to fulfill their potential due to financial barriers.

Backed by some of the most prestigious institutions of the educational and financial services sector, we are building the financial and technological infrastructure to create outcome-based financing methods.

Our goal is to help level the playingfield and give everyone the chance to improve their own lives with just grit and passion rather than a stellar credit score.

As a service to educational institutions, we only succeed if our partner institutions and their students succeed.

To learn more, go to https://joinblair.com.

Haiti: 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits; 1,297+ Dead

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Culture and Entertainment Editor

UPDATE: As of today, the death toll has climbed to 1,297 people as the search continues for survivors. Rescue workers continue to search feverishly as the Caribbean nation braces for a quickly approaching tropical storm.

A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck the western side of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. Haiti is still recovering from a 2010 catastrophic earthquake which killed 250,000 and left more than 3 million people im-

pacted by the fallout.

Seismologists said the epicenter of the quake was 78 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince (Saint-Louis du Sud) and the effects were felt as far away as 200 miles in Jamaica.

Multiple news outlets are reporting more than 1200 people are dead and some like the BBC are expecting that number to climb as search and recovery efforts continue.

Check out a report by CBSN News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers, who is Haitian-American, and has reported extensively from Haiti: A little more than one month ago,

Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise was assassinated at his home, leaving the country reeling. On July 20, 2021, Ariel Henry was appointed prime minister of Haiti. Henry said there is “extensive damage” and has declared a state of emergency through the end of the month. Elections for the new president will be held next month.

This story is developing. Follow The Burton Wire on Twitter @TheBurtonWire for updates.

This news brief was written by Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., founder & editorin-chief of The Burton Wire. Follow Nsenga on Twitter @Ntellectual.

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Walking After a Stroke Can Boost Survival lines for stroke survivors in the future.”

by Jason Henderson, BlackDoctor.com

After a stroke, survivors can greatly increase their odds for many more years of life through activities as easy as a halfhour’s stroll each day, new research shows.

The nearly five-year-long Canadian study found that stroke survivors who walked or gardened at least three to four hours a week (about 30 minutes a day), cycled at least two to three hours per week, or got an equivalent amount of exercise had a 54 percent lower risk of death from any cause.

The benefits were highest among younger stroke survivors. Those younger than 75 who did at least that much physical activity had an 80 percent lower risk of death, according to the study.

“We should particularly emphasize [physical activity] to stroke survivors who are younger in age, as they may gain the greatest health benefits from walking just 30 minutes each day,” study author Dr. Raed Joundi, of the University of Calgary, says.

One U.S. expert in stroke care says more needs to be done to help people who survive a stroke get active.

“It is important that stroke neurologists enroll their patients in exercise programs, because encouraging exercise/physical activity may not be sufficient,” Dr. Andrew Rogove, who directs stroke care at Northwell Health’s South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y., notes.

READ: Can You Do Stroke Rehab At Home?

The new study included nearly 900

stroke survivors, average age 72, and more than 97,800 people, average age 63, who had never had a stroke. All of the participants were followed for an average of about 4.5 years.

After accounting for other factors that could influence the risk of death (such as age and smoking), the researchers found that 25 percent of the stroke survivors and six percent of those who’d never had a stroke died from any cause during followup.

Among the stroke survivors, 15 percent of the people who exercised at least the equivalent of three to four hours of walking each week died, compared to 33 per-

cent of those who didn’t get at least that much exercise, Joundi’s group reports.

The bottom line: “Our results suggest that getting a minimum amount of physical activity may reduce long-term mortality from any cause in stroke survivors,” Joundi shares.

“Our results are exciting, because just three to four hours a week of walking was associated with big reductions in mortality, and that may be attainable for many community members with prior stroke,” he adds. “In addition, we found people achieved even greater benefit with walking six to seven hours per week. These results might have implications for guide-

READ: 10 Ways to Stop a Stroke in Its Tracks One other expert noted that although the study couldn’t prove cause and effect, there was a “dose-dependent” trend in the findings: As the amount of exercise rose, the risk of dying during the study period fell.

“This study is important because it establishes a dose-dependent response between physical activity and mortality,” Dr. Salman Azhar, who directs the stroke program at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City says.

Azhar stresses that stroke survivors’ ability to be mobile and exercise of course varies greatly from patient to patient. He notes that many patients who had “functional difficulties,” other illnesses, financial issues or a lack of family support did not provide information in the study on just how much activity they engaged in each day.

“This is the very group that would tend to have less physical activity and have a higher risk of dying,” Azhar adds.

So, he says, “the challenge remaining is how to overcome the obstacles to increase physical activity in stroke survivors in the community, especially when resources are limited, and [other illnesses] exist.”

If you are unsure of how exercise may affect your condition, consult with your doctor. You can also work with a physical trainer to come up with different ways to get walking or try other exercises that may be safe for your condition.

New Report Reveals Breakthrough Cases Among Vaccinated Are Extremely Rare Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are extremely rare events among those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new study released on Monday, August 2, by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.

The rate of breakthrough cases reported among those fully vaccinated is well below 1 percent in all reporting states, ranging from 0.01 percent in Connecticut to 0.90 percent in Oklahoma.

The rate of breakthrough cases in the District of Columbia stands at 0.04 percent.

The hospitalization rate among fully vaccinated people with COVID-19 ranged from effectively zero (0.00 percent) in California, Delaware, D.C., Indiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, and Virginia to 0.06 percent in Arkansas.

The report’s authors also noted that hospitalization might not have been due to COVID-19.

Further, the report revealed that the rates of death among fully vaccinated people

with COVID-19 were even lower, effectively zero (0.00 percent) in all but two reporting states, Arkansas and Michigan, where they were 0.01 percent.

Even then, the researchers said it’s not

clear whether those deaths were COVID-19 related.

More than 90 percent of all COVID cases and 95 percent of all hospitalizations have been among unvaccinated in-

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dividuals.

In most states that track COVID data, more than 98 percent of COVID cases were among unvaccinated people, the report concluded.

“While the information on breakthrough events is still limited and incomplete, this analysis of available state-level data indicates that COVID-19 breakthrough cases, and especially hospitalizations and deaths, among those who are fully vaccinated are rare occurrences in the United States,” the report’s authors submitted.

“Moreover, this data indicates the vast majority of reported COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the U.S. are among those who are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated,” the researchers continued.

“These findings echo the abundance of data demonstrating the effectiveness of currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines.

“Moving forward, particularly as the more transmissible Delta variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 circulating in the U.S., more robust state-level data will help to monitor ongoing vaccine effectiveness and inform discussions about booster vaccinations.”

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details on the investigation.

“The United States and the State of Connecticut contend that they have certain civil claims against CSH arising from the following conduct during the time period from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2019: CSH implemented a policy that required Medicaid patients to receive prophylactic cleanings and dental exams on separate days, resulting in CSH getting paid two encounter rates instead of just one rate,” the document reads.

“CSH denies the United States’ and the State of Connecticut’s allegations… This Settlement Agreement is neither an admission of liability by CSH nor a concession by the United States or the State of Connecticut that their claims are not well founded.”

The health center and the state and federal governments subsequently struck a settlement agreement to “avoid delay, uncertainty, inconvenience, and expense of protracted litigation of the above claims”.

The two key terms of the agreement are: • The health center agreed to pay the state and federal governments a total of $350,000, “all of which is restitution, no later than the Effective Date of this Agreement, by electronic funds transfer pursuant to written instructions to be provided by The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.”

• Starting on the effective date of the agreement, which was Aug. 4, the health center “shall offer all Medicaid beneficiaries the option of scheduling a prophylactic cleaning and dental examination on the same day. Should a Medicaid beneficiary choose to have a cleaning and exam performed on the same day, CSH shall schedule such same day appointment on the first available appointment day.”

Per the agreement, the state and federal governments have released the health center from any civil monetary claim the federal government has for the alleged overbilling. The governments have not released the health center, however, from any criminal or tax code liability that could arise from this alleged scheduling practices.

The health center is also prohibited from covering the costs of the $350,000 settlement payment through other charges to state and federal government programs.

“Unallowable Costs shall be separately determined and accounted for by CSH,” the document reads, “and CSH shall not charge such Unallowable Costs directly or indirectly to any contracts with the Untied States or the State of Connecticut, or seek payment for such Unallowable Costs through any cost report, cost statement, information statement, or payment request submitted by CSH or any of CSH’s subsidiaries or affiliates to the Medicare, Medicaid, ConnPACE, TRICARE, or FEHBP Programs.”

And the agreement further prohibits the health center from seeking payment “for any of the health care billings covered by this Agreement from any health care beneficiaries or their parents, sponsors, legally responsible individuals, or third party payors based upon” the alleged double-billing.

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Town of Bloomfield Assistant Assessor Salary $41.82 hourly

The Housing Authority of the City of Bristol (BHA) is accepting bids from qualified firms to perform lead-based paint testing and risk assessment services for the Cambridge Park Development located at Jerome Avenue, Davis Drive, and Quaker Lane, Bristol, Connecticut. Please find attached the Request for Proposal and information on proposal requirements.

The selected consultant shall be responsible for compliance with all federal, state and local statutes and regulations. All services provided shall be consistent with the requirements and guidelines of the HUD Office of Healthy Home and Lead Hazard Control and the State of Connecticut.

Please note that in order for the City to consider your bid to perform a risk assessment for this property, the proposal must include all items listed in the RFP. All submitted reports and documents must meet stated requirements.

Sealed bids must include technical and cost information and be submitted to Mitzy Rowe, CEO by 4:00 PM September 15, 2021 in the BHA Office at 164 Jerome Avenue, Bristol, CT 06010. All questions regarding this Request for Proposals shall be submitted via email only to Carl Johnson, Director of Capital Projects, cjohnson@bristolhousing.org.

BHA is an equal employment opportunity contractor. HUD Section 3 companies, small business, minority owned business, and women owned business enterprises are encouraged to participate.

Deadline to apply 9/2/21 Pre-employment drug testing.

AA/EOE.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST

For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.org

FHI Studio is actively seeking an innovative and self-motivated full-time Community Engagement Specialist to work on projects focused on improving the quality of life in communities. As a community engagement specialist, you are vital to engaging communities in developing high-quality, livable communities that support the community's QSR STEEL CORPORATION residents, employees, and visitors. You work on projects that range from major transit, bridge, airport, and related infrastructure projects to neighborhood development plans Invitationtotostreet Bid: activation and community events. You utilize your understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in planning and design to increase the diversity of community 2nd Notice voices. Your attention to detail and event planning experience fosters an engaging and Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders collaborative environment for a variety of stakeholders. Excellent time management Top pay for top performers. Health is your Old Saybrook, CTspecialty that is used to be a project team member, provide excellent client Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. service, and conduct business development. You gain great enjoyment from engaging (4 Buildings, 17 Units) others in a collaborative process through social media and various virtual and in-person Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, Tax Exempt & NotCTPrevailing Wage Rate Project mediums.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Candidates will hold a degree in planning, marketing, sociology, or related field with a minimum three years of experience New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective of Demolition, Site-work, Cast-in consulting, event organizing, or public relaCandidates will also demonstrate experience in developing and implementing in-place Concrete, Asphalttions.

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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

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full-time position.

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Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 org for details.

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RED TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (RED)

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is accepting applications/resumes for the following positions

Town of Bloomfield in our Portland, CT location: 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 Certified Businesses EntryHCCLevel Police Officer CDL Drivers – Class A & B Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483

Salary $71,957

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Senior Project Manager – Environmental Division Health & Safety / Compliance Manager Technical Services Representative Diesel Mechanic

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THE INNER-CITY August , 2021 - August 2021 INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS- July 27,18 2016 - August 02, 24, 2016

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.

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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

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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.

SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER/DESIGNER FHI Studio is actively seeking an innovative and self-motivated full-time Senior Environmental Planner/Designer to manage projects in our environmental service line.

As a project manager, you are vital to helping clients meet regulatory requirements and identify and achieve their project goals. You focus on projects that are resilient and adaptable to meet existing and future community needs. Being a highly organized senior environmental planner, you efficiently prepare NEPA, MEPA, CEPA, SEQRA, and CEQR documentation. Excellent time management is your specialty that is used to lead project teams, provide excellent client service, and conduct business development.

You gain great enjoyment from engaging in the community with various meetings, public workshops, and public hearings.

Candidates will hold a degree in urban planning, environmental planning, environmental science, or related field with a minimum of 7 years of experience in environmental consulting or related field. Candidates will also demonstrate experience in leading environmental planning and compliance projects. Our ideal candidate preferably has experience with a variety of stakeholders, presenting public presentations, and can travel for projects. If you feel you’ll be perfect as our Senior Environmental Planner/ Designer, apply now using our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application at https:// fhistudio.com/join.

Custodian:

Invitation to Bid:

State of Connecticut 2nd Notice Office of Policy The Town of East Haven is currently seeking qualified applicants to participate in and Management the Civil Service Examination for the position of Custodian. Graduation from High

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Old Saybrook, SchoolCTor 1 year employment in building care and cleaning operations required. The rate pay is $22.23/hour; 40 hours/week.

(4 Buildings, 17 of Units) The State of Connecticut, Office of Account Policy and Management is recruiting Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing WageClerk-Payroll: Rate Project The Town of East Haven is currently accepting applications

to participate in the examination for Account Clerk-Payroll. The current vacancy is in the Finance Department of the Board of Education but this list may be used to fill New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castother Account Clerk positions within the Town of East Haven. The starting salary is Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application $54,325/year, 40 hours per week. in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, instructions for this position is available Applications participate Casework, in the examination are available online at www.townofeFlooring, Painting, Appliances,toResidential at: Division 10 Specialties, asthavenct.org/civil-service-commission/pages/job-notices-and-tests<http://www.

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. https://www.jobapscloud.com/ townofeasthavenct.org/civil-service-commission/pages/job-notices-and-tests> or the ThisCT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= contract is subject to state set-asideCivil and contract compliance requirements.

Service Offi ce, 250 Main Street, East Haven CT and must be returned by Septem210506&R2=1581MP&R3=001 ber 10, 2021. The Town of East Haven is committed to building a workforce of diverse individuals. Minorities, Females, Handicapped and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

The State of Connecticut is an equal for a Policy Development Coordinator position.

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster

Let Job Corps help you achieve yours.

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

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

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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

Bid Extended, opportunity/affirmative action employer Due Date: August 5, 2016 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

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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.

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

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 3:00PM.

NEWS- July 27,18 2016 - August 02, 2016 THE INNER-CITY INNER-CITY NEWS August , 2021 - August 24, 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.

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Listing: HVAC Technician Fast paced Petroleum Company is hiring for a full time, CT HVAC Technician. License required – S-10,S-2 or S-1. Applicant must have experience in oil, propane, natural gas and A/C. Competitive wage, 401(k), sign on bonus and benefits. Send resume to: Attn: HR Manager, Confidential, PO Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

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Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

Truck Mechanic

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Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay.

Immediate opening for a full time truck mechanic. Commercial truck experience required. Work to be performed on trucks and trailers. Send resume to: Attn: HR Dept, P O Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437. **An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

Asbestos Workers wanted for upcoming year long project in Springfield, MA. Must be licensed in Massachusetts. Please call Greg at 860-214-3122 or send an email with information and certifications to lorena@hazpros.com

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

intervention coordinator

Town of Bloomfield Account Clerk

Part-time, 19.5 hours per week. The Town of Wallingford Youth and Social Services Department is seeking a responsible individual to work with youth in the Y&SS Diversion Program. The diversion program provides education, referrals, and support Hourly Rate - $29.77 to youths and families on youth risky behavior matters. This position also allows the ability to be involved in other youth related programs within Youth and Social SerDeadline to apply 7/22/21 Pre-employment drug testing. vices when time allows. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in social science, criminal justice, adolescent psychology, social work or a related field plus 3 years’ AA/EOE. experience working with youth involved in criminal justice matters, risky behavior, or For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.org case management with youth and families. A combination of education and qualifying experience may substitute on a year-for-year basis. This position requires a valid CT Invitation driver’s to Bid: license. Rate of pay: $18.00 to $21.00 per hour. Apply by August 31, 2021 to: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Room nd 2 Notice #301,Wallingford, CT 06492. (203) 294-2080; Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE

MECHANIC TRACTOR TRAILER SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE Full Time, Benefits, Old Saybrook, CT Top Pay (4 Buildings, 17 Units)

TOWN CLERK

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage RateTOWN Project CLERK – The Wallingford Town Clerk’s Office is seeking a ASSISTANT Apply:Pace, 1425 Honeyspot qualifi ed individual to assist in the administration and supervision of the Town Clerk’s Rd. Ext., Stratford, CT EOE ce. HighDemolition, school graduate or GED with six (6) years’ experience in responsible office New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing,offiSelective Site-work, Castwork of which one year must involve supervision. College level training in business in-place Concrete, AsphaltorShingles, Vinyl Siding, public administration or related field may be substituted for work experience on Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Casework, theAppliances, basis of oneResidential year of college for one year of work experience up to four years. One years’and experience working in at least one of the following fields is preferred: mortgage Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing Fire Protection. real compliance estate closings, and/or law office work dealing in real estate and/or bankFull Time – All to Shifts This contract is subject state set-aside lending, and contract requirements. ing transactions. Wages $25.65 - $31.06 per hour plus an excellent benefit package.

Top Pay-Full Benefits Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, EOE Please apply person: Bidin Extended, Due Date: August 5,CT 2016 Wallingford, 06492. Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of 1425 HoneyspotAnticipated Rd. Ext.Start: August Human15, Resources 2016 or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web via Page.

Thebelow: closing date will be the date the 50th application or resume is received Stratford, Project CT 06615 documents available ftp link or August 25, 2021 whichever occurs first. EOE

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Town ofQuestions Bloomfi eld Fax or Email & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com general contractor Heavy/Highway HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses

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

Part Time Police Dispatcher Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, is looking to hireCT a 06483 skilled Carpenter with willingness and eagerness to become a Carpenter Foreman. Training will be provided. Prefer candidate to be familiar with Pro-rated Benefits AA/EEO EMPLOYER

$27.80 hourly

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

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ConnDOT procedures, bridge, and road construction work. Must communicate effectively with clients, be well organized and safety conscious, and must be able to read plans. This is hands-on field leadership position. Top compensation and benefits are available. Full time position. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage qualified woman and minorities to apply. Email resume to jobs@rothacontracting.com

THE INNER-CITY INNER-CITY NEWS August , 2021 - August 24, 2021 NEWS- July 27, 18 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

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

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

DELIVERY PERSON

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) 435-1387

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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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - August 18, 2021 - August 24, 2021

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HALF MARATHON | RELAY | 20K | 5K | KIDS FUN RUN USATF 20K National Championship Post-race party on the Green features live music, great food, East Rock Brewing beer, and the ACES Kids Fun Zone!

New Haven kids run FREE in the Kids Fun Run courtesy of Town Fair Tire

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