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Anderson Reconnects With Dixwell

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

Dixwell, Bryan Anderson was telling gangbanger-turned-street-outreachworker WIlliam “Juneboy” Outlaw, “is an old stomping ground for me.”

On Tuesday afternoon Dixwell Avenue was a renewed stomping ground for Anderson as well. He ran into Outlaw outside the city government’s neighborhood “Opportunity Center” outpost. Anderson was on the Avenue for the New Haven leg of his trip, capping a daylong swing through the Third U.S. Congressional District to announce his 2018 candidacy for the seat currently held by fellow Democrat Rosa DeLauro.

“Change is needed no knock to her,” Outlaw said of DeLauro. “She’s been around too long. I’ve never seen her in Newhallville.”

Anderson proceeded to tell Outlaw about the job he had at the old Elm Haven projects (now Monterey Place) up the street, working with addicts and running a food pantry with the tenants council.

Outlaw took Anderson’s campaign flyer. “I’m going to put this on my Facebook page,” he promised. “You are going to get that seat!”

After close to a half century in the politics business, Anderson, a 62-year-old former New Haven alder and housing authority director, knows it won’t be quite so simple to seize that seat from a popular 14-term incumbent from his own party — who last had a serious opponent when the first President Bush was still in the White House. And he knows he can’t count on established Democratic votegetters, who have long relationships with DeLauro, to help him get there.

He was reminded of that fact repeatedly along the campaign trail Tuesday.

He first announced his candidacy in the morning outside City Hall in Milford, where he serves as an alderman now.

The city’s mayor, Ben Blake, made sure to proclaim his support for DeLauro.

(DeLauro is indeed running for a 15th two-year term, according to campaign manager Jimmy Tickey. “Rosa is totally focused on defeating the dangerous agenda being pursued by many in Washington D.C.,” Tickey said.)

“There’s no better friend of Milford than Rosa DeLauro. During tragedies and disasters, she’s here with a steady hand and a tireless work ethic bringing comfort and support to those in need,” CT News Junkie quoted Blake as saying. ““I would hope Bryan would reset his sights on running, winning, and serving on our Board of Aldermen where he can make a positive difference.”

While Anderson finished his day in New Haven, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp issued a statement promising to work hard

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David Lee points the candidate to a squatter’s den.

for DeLauro’s reelection next year.

State Democratic Party Chairman Nick Balletto echoed the theme: This is not the time for Democrats to try to knock off elected fellow Democrats, not when the party is barely holding onto the State Senate and battling the Republicans running Washington. “I don’t think we have the luxury after last November to continue fighting with each other,” Balletto told the Independent.

Anderson called that argument “a paper tiger.”

“The real issue is the fact that there are unmet needs in the city of New Haven, surrounding suburbs, the Naugatuck Valley and Shoreline towns,” Anderson said. Then he resumed his first steps on the year-long trek to prove the skeptics wrong through shoe-leather retail politics, drawing on a mix of positions on issues and personal connections.

Anderson started his New Haven swing at 317 Dixwell, the house where his mother grew up. Accompanying the candidate were a former state senator from West Hartford, a cousin from Derby who’s experienced in campaigns, and a couple of fellow 2016 Bernie Sanders supporters concerned with issues like single-payer health care and the influence of big money in politics. Anderson used the house at 317 Dixwell, a combined hair-braiding salon and apartment house, to point out that his family lived in the neighborhood for five generations.

(His mother’s side, at least. His dad grew up in the Valley. Anderson himself grew up in Hamden.)

It turns out that the house was one of the properties the Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) has targeted in one of its periodic foreclosure-filing tears to

Anderson with Juneboy Outlaw.

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collect on debts of as little as $1,000 (or sometimes even less). Anderson called the WPCA’s tactics, which drive already struggling families deeper into financial holes, “one of the biggest injustices going on in New Haven. Why isn’t anyone preventing this from happening?”

Next Anderson popped in next door at the Freedom Temple Holiness Church, where Pastor Dorothy Mewborn told him she would never forget how, as a realtor, he helped her congregation buy the building, at a good price, in 1999.

He spoke with Clarence Phillips Jr. about Phillips’ late father, a building inspector for city government ... ... as former Westville Alder Sergio Rodriguez pulled up to offer a warm greeting. Rodriguez and his wife got married in Anderson’s home; Anderson officiated. Rodriguez, who chairs the board of the city’s public-financing Democracy Fund, was careful not to have his embrace of Anderson interpreted as a campaign endorsement.

“I’m here as a friend,” Rodriguez said.

“In politics you make lots of friends. I know them both [DeLauro and Anderson]. They’re both friends.”

Anderson made a connection, too, with Samuel McCallum. He knew McCallum’s father Nathaniel, the former bishop in charge of the House of Prayer up the street. Samuel, who is 56 and unemployed, promised to “go all out” as a volunteer to help Anderson get elected.

When no personal connections presented themselves, Anderson asked the people he encountered such as Asvin Mandania, owner of the Maddie Packy liquor store what issues they want to see their Congressperson address.

“Peace,” replied Mandania, who previously ran the old Broadway Liquors near Tower Parkway.

That gave Anderson an opening to push one of his three top campaign positions: Ending the war in Afghanistan, bringing the troops home, taking the lead along with other nations toward a negotiated peace. He spoke of how after 17 years, the war has served as a message to young people that war is “acceptable.” (Anderson’s other top positions: He’d co-sponsor a “Medicare for All” single-payer bill that DeLauro did not support; and he’d push for job-creation efforts like new infrastructure spending.)

David Lee, who lives above the liquor store, was concerned with issues closer to home namely the squatters living in the abandoned optometrist’s office next door (“They go to the bathroom outside”). The clogged sewer causes the block to reek from human sewage every morning. “We call and call LCI [the city’s anti-blight agency]. Nobody comes out,” Lee complained.

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Christian McBride Remembers Band Leader Ray Brown in a special evening of Art, Wine and Jazz at

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The Ridgefield Playhouse presents Christian McBride’s “Remembering Ray Brown” with Benny Green and Lewis Nash on Saturday, October 28 at 8pm. More than a bass virtuoso and restlessly creative bandleader, four-time GRAMMY®winner Christian McBride is one of jazz’s foremost public intellectuals.

An erudite and seemingly indefatigable force, he’s taken on a series of high profile positions running illustrious jazz institutions, like his 2016 appointment as artistic director of the iconic Newport Jazz Festival.

Somehow he still finds time to work with half a dozen different bands, including the trio on “Remembering Ray Brown” – a band with instrumentation that harkens back to the legendary trios of Nat Cole and Art Tatum.

Ray Brown was a Grammy Awardwinning double-bassist who played a leading role in defining the modern jazz rhythm. He played both as a soloist and with other jazz masters such as Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald, to whom he was also married for a brief time.

He has also accompanied some of the world’s top singers including Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn and Tony Bennett. With musicians who worked under the mentorship of bassist and jazz legend Ray Brown, this band includes pianist Benny Green, who recorded nine albums with Brown in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and drummer Lewis Nash, the drummer of choice for an incredible array of artists – from the masters of the music to the hottest young players of today – and he is equally in demand as a clinician and educator. Together they pay tribute to the late bandleader and Dizzy Gillespie collaborator, one of McBride’s friends and greatest influences. In this Moffly Media Evening of Art, Wine and Jazz, ticket holders are invited to enjoy a complimentary Italian wine tasting by Pera Wines and an art exhibit by award-winning Greenwich artist, Paul Larson in the lobby at 7:15pm. Paul Larson is a current member of the Greenwich Art Society, the Loft Artist’s Association in Stamford, CT, and Art/ Place Gallery in Fairfield, CT. His work is exhibited regularly since 1975. Kicking off the night is open-

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Campaign Launched To Help Vulnerable Children & Families

by STAFF

New Haven Independent

The United Way of Greater New Haven sent in this write-up about the launch Tuesday to coincide with the launch of an annual campaign to help children and families in need, at a time when “funding cuts and general instability around the state budget process have sent shockwaves through the nonprofit community in Greater New Haven.”

In New Haven County 45 percent of people live in poverty or don’t make enough to make ends meet. 1 in 5 don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Funding cuts and general instability around the state budget process have sent shockwaves through the nonprofit community in greater New Haven. We need to do something, and everyone can be part of the change we want to see in our community through this year’s United Way campaign.

“The high rates of poverty and hunger in our community are unacceptable,” said Jennifer Heath, President and CEO of United Way of Greater New Haven.

“While the economy has bounced back for some, we know from the ALICE report, commissioned by Connecticut United Ways, that too many families are still struggling financially.”

Donations to the United Way campaign help people like 33-year-old Kristen Calderon and her son Javi. Calderon was homeless with a baby just a few years ago.

“It was never part of my plan,” she said.

“As a parent it is even harder, I can’t explain to Javi why we have nowhere to live.”

First, United Way and our partners

helped her family find and pay for an apartment of their own.

The next step was getting a job so that Kristen could support her family. Secure Jobs, a program that United Way invests in at New Reach, helps people overcome nearly all of the obstacles that come with finding a job. Kristen got a job as an energy assistance worker connecting people to available resources.

For Kristen, it was opportunity to earn a living and give back to others at the same time.

Employment is the best way to keep people who were homeless in their new homes.

United Way brings together people and partners to tackle the tough issues that no one organization can solve on its own. Working in this “united way” allows the organization to make a big difference in the community; last year, United Way’s work impacted 46,005 people in Greater New Haven. This year, our fundraising goal is $6.5 million dollars.

United Way serves children and families in our 12 town community in greater New Haven: New Haven, Bethany, Hamden, North Haven, North Branford, Guilford, Madison, Branford, East Haven, West Haven, Orange and Woodbridge.

Last year, United Way of Greater New Haven: • Worked with 19 community partners to create strong parent child relationships and high quality infant toddler care, serving 570 children and families.

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• Worked with 26 community partners, serving 8,250 students with quality in school and afterschool programming.

• Partnered with 19 community providers to expand access to healthy food, serving 310,239 meals to fami-

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• Collaborated with 17 community partners to house 220 chronically homeless people and helped prepare taxes for free for 4,503 low-income families.

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$5.8M Artists’ Haven Headed For Dixwell

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK New Haven Independent

An abandoned Dixwell factory last known for turning out counterfeit Dr. Dre “Beats” and “Lg Tone+” headsets could get new life and compete with New York City studios to house the next generation of emerging artists, under a plan detailed to the zoning board Tuesday night.

That’s the goal for the two artists and one financier behind the PostMasters Project, which is hoping to revamp an industrial complex at 169 Henry St. into 38,000 square feet of apartments, artists’ studios, gallery spaces, offices, an assembly hall and a cafe.

Titus Kaphar and Jonathan Brand, two Yale School of Art grads, envisioned the space as a hub for artists at every stage of their careers to share lessons about their creative process and making a living. Inside the space designed by Deborah Berke Partners, the firm of the Yale School of Architecture’s dean, artists can rub shoulders in an even more compact version of the galleries that predominate in Westville. Established professionals will discuss their work with young museum curators training at the Yale University Art Gallery, while emerging visual artists mentor students from Hillhouse High School a block away.

“There’s all these interesting people that live here [in New Haven], but they’re working out of their homes. You have New York Times writers, business professionals and artists: all kinds who move in small circles. Part of this [project] is trying to broaden the circle, to give them a space to collaborate,” said Jason Price, a private-equity analyst who joined artists Kaphar and Brand to found the project. “The hope would be that it is a beacon that brings those sorts of people out of their homes into the community.”

The PostMasters team presented initial plans to the Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday night, as it sought a number of waivers: special exceptions to open a nonconforming use in the residential zone and to permit a far lower number of parking spaces, as well as variances to extend the front steps, widen a loading dock and construct a third story for apartments. Planning staff recommended approval of the project, but the matter will first go to City Plan Commission for a site plan review before a final vote.

After graduation, Kaphar and Brand “realized how difficult it was to make a career in New York City. It’s just very, very expensive to become an artist there

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Titus Kaphar, one of the founders.

and also to raise a family there.

They both ended up moving back to the New Haven area and, in doing so, realized they could develop their studios here, develop their practice and also become professional artists,“ Price explained to the board.

“What took their vision a step forward,” Price continued, “was asking, ‘Well, how come New Haven can’t retain all of these well-known artists that trained at the university and move to Boston and other places in the world?’ They found a dilapidated building in the Dixwell neighborhood to develop into an artists incubator that could retain the talent and help redevelop the neighborhood.”

Brand said he believes now’s r the right time for this project to open, given the skyrocketing rents in New York City that are sending artists up into Hudson Valley towns like Beacon and Newburgh.

PostMasters plans to offer sixmonth fellowships to curators, yearlong fellowships to younger artists and residencies to established artists, said Carrie Mackin, co-founder and executive director. The exact numbers are still being worked out, but the building’s current design has 17 slots that can be divvied up among the three programs. (“It won’t be hard to fill them,” added Helen Rosenberg, one of the city’s economic development officers.)

PostMasters expects each fellow will be paired with two high school students to mentor, Mackin added.

The $5.8 million project is funded largely by private donors. It is also supported by grants from the Ford Foundation and RISC Foundation, Price said.

While an arts center is technically not in keeping with the area’s RM-2 zoning, planning staff noted that a previous factory there wasn’t either.

Tom Talbot, the deputy director of zoning, recommended the switch to limit “uncertainty” in the area about whether heavy industry might return.

“It may be possible to legally conduct industrial type operations that could be detrimental to the neighborhood in terms of noise, hours of operation, and commercial vehicle traffic. The most immediate benefit to the neighborhood of this proposal is the assurance that once this proposed operation commences on the site no further industrial use of the property would be possible, short of a Use Variance,” Talbot explained.

“It is clear to staff that this proposed use is more compatible with a residential neighborhood area than any industrial use would be.”

The renovation has already resulted in a cleanup of the Macalaster Bicknell factory, which once produced chemicals and lab equipment.

PostMasters received a $200,000

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investment from the city and state brownfield loans to remediate the site, allowing it to replace a roof and knock down walls that had asbestos.

According to the zoning ordinance,

the project should have 48 parking spaces, but the team has asked for a waiver to only have 13 spots. Stephen Studer, a Milford lawyer who’s representing the project, said that Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church had agreed to open up 60 spaces on its lot.

There’s also 29 on-street spaces nearby and three bus lines, Studer added.

The zoning board’s chair, Benjamin Trachten, asked if there would be any “live entertainment” at the development.

Price said that the only thing close would be discussions of art in an assembly hall.

“I don’t know if you could call that live entertainment,” Price said. “No, I would not call that live entertainment,” Trachten deadpanned. Talbot noted the project’s “pedestrian accessibility” in his advisory report. “When taking into consideration the unreasonable level of parking required by the Zoning Ordinance, all appear to indicate the appropriateness of the requested reduction.”

If PostMasters gets the necessary approvals from the City Plan Commission and a favorable vote when its application return to the zoning board, the project could be completed as soon as Sept. 2018.

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by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

CT Transit bus drivers rallied on the New Haven Green Tuesday to demand better bus design and more safety features. They left the Green with a commitment from management to meet later this week about how to make buses safer.

That was the upshot of a rally by members of the Amalgamated Transit Union to call attention to the life and death working conditions and passenger and pedestrian safety problems that they say have gone unaddressed for years.

Drivers called on CT Transit to provide buses with protective barriers for operators to guard them against assaults that they say are on the rise; redesigned rearview mirrors so they don’t create blind spots for drivers; workstations that are ergonomically designed to prevent use injuries; proper air filtering; and buses that are free of vermin and other insects like roaches and bed bugs. Union members advocated for buses built more like those in Europe that they say do a better job of protecting drivers, passengers, and pedestrians.

“We’re not here to bash any of the transit companies,” said Mustafa Salahuddin, president of ATU Local 1336 Bridgeport. “We’re here to tell them to meet us in helping them in asking for better workstations for our drivers, and ask for better, cleaner burning [fuel] buses.

“We’re not here to say they’re not doing their jobs, they have terrible buses, that they are facilitating things that are unsafe,” he added. “We’re here to partner with our transit companies to make this a venue that will change the way we look at transportation and transporting people.”

Except things did get a little tense between CT Transit Manager David Lee, who crashed the event, and Jerry Pizunski, who serves as chairman of the ATU Connecticut Legislative Council.

The council released a resolution at the end of September calling on transit agencies and bus manufacturers to make buses safer for operators and riders. Before the official start of the rally, Pizunski told Lee that he has been pressing CT Transit over the blind spots created by the driver-side rearview mirror for the last six years, with no results. He said the buses would be safer for bus drivers, other drivers,

MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO ATU’s

Jerry Pizunski explains blindspot problem with bus rearview mirrors.

Salahuddin: Do bus companies and manufacturers care about driver welfare and safety?

Lee listens to Local 281-New Haven’s Ralph Buccitti.

passengers and pedestrians if the mirrors were mounted lower and offset to prevent the side of the bus from blocking the view.

“They could be safer,” Pizunski said of the buses to Lee prior to the rally.

“Everything could be safer,” Lee said.

“So we shouldn’t be doing it,” Pizun-

ski asked.

“You’re saying that they are unsafe.

That’s in the ATU’s press release,” Lee responded.

“We’re saying that the company is not listening to us,” Pizunski said.

“They’re doing nothing to make sure the buses are safer, and….”

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“We’re doing nothing to make them safer,” Lee said. “I disagree with that.

Do you really feel that way?”

“Yes,” Pizunski said.

“I’m insulted by that,” Lee said.

“That’s really an offensive thing to say. As much as if I said bus drivers aren’t doing anything to drive safer.

That’s not true.”

From Insulted to Listening Lee vehemently disagreed with the some of the union members’ position that CT Transit has turned a blind eye to safety. But he said if the union wants to come walk through a bus and point out the safety concerns and solutions for addressing them, he’s all ears.

“I’ve invited the union — and I’ve done it this morning — to look at the bus and show us what they think ought to be the solution,” he said.

“We’re open to that discussion. It’s an open-ended invitation to tell us what the union’s recommended solution to the barrier issue is. What they have in Bridgeport is one of many different designs. One gentleman suggested that the perfect solution is in Frankfurt, Germany. That’s not available in the United States. I’m open to this discussion. If you want to tell us what looks like the optimal solution from your point of view, we want to listen.”

Doug Holcomb, general manager for Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority, said that the Park City has been working with the union on many of the concerns outlined in the resolution and has been undergoing a pilot to test the deployment of a two-panel barrier system for drivers on about 70 percent

of its 57-bus fleet.

“For us, safety is a path, not a place, so we’re constantly working on that,” he said. “We disagree with the union on many, many things, but safety is not one of them. It’s a place where we’ve found common ground.”

He said bus mirrors in Bridgeport also have been modified based on union concerns and the system has implemented a cleaning program. This weekend he plans to be down in Atlanta meeting with engineers for some of the largest manufacturers of buses.

But that is all happening in Bridgeport because the buses in that city are among the handful in the state run by an independent transit authority rather than the state Department of Transportation (DOT)-oversee CT Transit. That means if Bridgeport wants to run a pilot, or make upgrades independent of the rest of CT Transit, it can.

ATU Local 281-New Haven’s Ralph Buccitti said that while Lee is responsible for the management of the rest of the buses throughout the state, procurement of buses is left up to the state government bureaucracy. The union wants the state to have a procurement committee that includes the input of both bus drivers and riders. He said such a system would have informed officials that the new fare boxes don’t work well and that the manual vent openings at the top of the bus are too high for drivers to open and close safely.

“Bus features and design are decided by folks who are looking at dollars and cents,” he said. But if a feature designed to save money and not prevent injury results in an injury, was it worth it? he asked. “We bring the complaints [to the state] ... and these things we feel falls on deaf ears,” Buccitti said.

Lee promised to meet with union members as early as Thursday.

“We’ll look at the mirrors. We’ll talk about barriers,” he said. He said if union members can come up with a barrier design that they will all agree to use, that could help drive the conversation about how to deploy them.

ATU Local 443- Stamford President Veronica Chavers said she’s holding Lee to his word.

“We want our drivers protected at all times,” she said. “These drivers are being spit on, and nothing is being done. We’re human too. We want to go home to our family and we want to have a safe haven just like everyone else and that’s not happening all the

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were the ideas he heard in classes about the latest trends in policing as well as the exchanges he had with cops from around the country as well as from far-flung locales. A cop from Gaza, for instance, told Reyes how he starts each day checking under his car for bombs before he goes to work. The curriculum included classes on behavioral and forensic science, “terrorist mindsets, leadership [and] communication,” among other subjects Among the ideas most impressed upon him, Reyes said, were the need for cops to tap into social media; to engage their critics, and to focus on officer “wellness,” helping cops and their families cope with the emotional and psychological stresses of the job.

Reyes and fellow top city cops got a chance to put that into practice this past Saturday when a gunman shot his

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New Haven Independent

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The old-timers warned Otoniel “Tony” Reyes: Beware the Yellow Brick Road.

Reyes received that warning before preparing to attend an elite training session at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Reyes spent most of July, August and September there in an executive course for 224 top cops from around the world.

He was the first New Haven cop to attend the Quantico training in seven years. The veterans warned him about the experience’s “fitness challenge”: the Yellow Brick Road, a Marine-built hilly 6.1-mile obstacle course through the woods that attendees must complete in order to graduate from the academy. Participants must “climb over walls, run through creeks, jump through simulated windows, scale rock faces with ropes, crawl under barbed wire in muddy water, maneuver across a cargo net,” according to the FBI. As it turned out, Reyes, who’s 45,

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Otoniel Reyes addresses media after Saturday’s shooting of two cops.

was able to handle the obstacle course just fine. What impressed him more

wife, shot two cops, then holed up for hours until the SWAT team was able to capture him.

Reyes Wednesday discussed his experiences in Quantico and the lessons he brought back to New Haven on an episode of WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS October 04, 2017 - October 10, 2017

Defunct Land Deals’ Revival Stalled

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

A plan to allow a builder to amend his defunct land disposition agreement hit a roadblock and touched off a debate about whether developers who fail to live up to past promises should get second chances.

The debate took place at the most recent meeting of the board of directors of the Livable City Initaitive (LCI), New Haven government’s anti-blight neighborhoods agency.

The LCI board hit the pause button at the meeting Thursday night on moving forward a plan that would allow the Chapel Lofts II LLC to amend a 12-year-old land disposition agreement (LDA) to permit the building of nine condominiums above two retail spaces on a vacant lot at 1198 Chapel St. LCI Executive Director Serena NealSanjurjo said that it is the first of 14 LDAs agreements that allow the city to sell its unused property to developers under conditions that they develop it or return it to the city that the city is looking to revive.

The thinking is that developers had a hard time making those old deals work during difficult economic times; now that the economy has picked up here the Harp administration would like to give them another chance, in some cases to build denser projects than originally envisioned.“We have approximately 14 or so very, very old LDAs on the records that have not been moved,” Neal-Sanjurjo said. “An example of that would be the [John] Schnip LDA that we just [reworked] with Randy Salvatore [in the Hill]. This is another one that is one of the older ones. There are several others that are coming to fruition right

Yolen: Why reward developers? Neal-Sanjurjo: We benefit.

now, however, our challenge is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

Neal-Sanjurjo said that the LDAs are with a variety of developers, both forprofit and not-for-profit.

“We are trying to bring these folks back to the table and say, ‘If you are interested in developing, we want you to develop,’” she added. “‘If you are not, then the city will move toward getting that LDA finished and pull back that property to the city. ‘It’s absolutely unbelievable that 25 years would go by and folks would not develop. That just doesn’t make any sense.”

Shneur Katz, who is at the helm of the Chapel Lofts partnership, has signaled to the city that he’d still like to develop his project if it can be modified to meet new zoning regulations and the market demand for rental units. The original project was never built; he purchased it two years before the Great Recession.

His parcel at 1198 Chapel St. was initially zoned as a Business A, or BA, when it was purchased in 2005. Now

it is zoned Business District-1, or BD-1, which allows for more mixed-use developments like the Novella, the Salvatorebuilt project a half-block away at Chapel and Howe.

City Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson said in a previous interview with the Independent that Katz has told the city that he sees more potential in a development that has rental units above those two retail spaces instead of condos — 24 units to be exact.

LCI Board Chairman Tim Yolen was not impressed at Thursday night’s meeting by the argument that the city had found a way to get these developments back on track without costly lawsuits “I’m offended by this as a longtime resident of New Haven that people can come in and after their LDA basically goes south, they can come in and negotiate a far more lucrative deal,” he said. “And at the taxpayers’ expense from where I sit. and I don’t like it.”

Yolen asked how the city benefits from allowing developers who have failed to fill their end of the bargain to develop

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land that should be back in the city’s possession — and to build a denser project denser. What of those people who fulfilled their LDAs, even during an economic downturn?

“I think it’s outrageous that they go from nine to 24” units, he added. “That’s outrageous. I’m sorry. I don’t know who’s running the show on this, but that’s offensive. I find it really troubling and if it’s coming from the top, then the top ought to come here and speak to this commission.”

Neal-Sanjurjo argued that a more dense development would bring more money to the city’s coffers. So would allowing the other 14 developers to amend their LDAs and get to work, under very specific conditions and timelines, she said.

New and amended LDAs will come with clear deliverables and strict 18-month timelines, she promised. Developers who don’t meet the requirements of revised agreements will be in default, and the city will exercise its right to take back the land, she said.

Evan Trachten, LCI’s acquisition and

disposition coordinator, also pointed out that Katz has maintained the vacant parcel and paid his taxes on the property and others he owns in the city. Trachten said that Katz has kept in touch with the city over the years about the parcel and his desire to develop it.

But Yolen said he didn’t want answers from Neal-Sanjurjo and Trachten. He wanted answers from the city’s economic development office. Trachten, who was taken aback by the opposition to the plan, took responsibility for not telling anyone from that office to attend Thursday’s meeting. Yolen wasn’t having it.

“They should have appeared,” Yolen said. “They don’t need to be told.”

The two alders on the committee, Dolores Colon of the Hill and Newhallville’s Delphine Clyburn, also weren’t feeling the proposal.

“I have questions for this developer,” Colon said. “If you couldn’t build nine in 25 years, what makes you think you can build 24 now?”

Neal-Sanjurjo pointed out that the 1198 Chapel St. LDA is not 25 years old, but 12 years old. It was the Schnip LDA that took 25 years.

“Because they have more money now,” Clyburn intoned.

“It’s because they’ll make more money now,” Yolen said.

“The city will make more money,” NealSanjurjo countered.

The board ultimately decided to table the proposal until there could be presentations from the developer and from the economic development office specifically on the 1198 Chapel St. project but also on the other outstanding LDAs.

Harp, Ganim Team Up THE INNER-CITY NEWS October 04, 2017 - October 10, 2017

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

They joined forces on a casino and on a youth summer hoops tournament.

They’re joining forces on wooing Amazon. Even their hometown daily newspapers have joined forces.

The mayors of New Haven and Bridgeport until now two parallel urban universes 21 miles apart have decided it makes sense to do business together in order for both of Connecticut’s two largest cities to grow. And they’re making it a habit.

“I don’t think that we’ve seen it previously. ... You haven’t seen New Haven and Bridgeport working together,” New Haven’s Toni Harp said during her latest appearance on WNHH radio’s “Mayor Monday” program. “As more and more of these proposals come up, they’re looking for a place where there are more people. We begin to look at our neighbors and say, ‘Who can we work with?’”

“I’ve never had a problem with [Bridgeport Mayor] Joe Ganim. We always worked together on ‘urban policy issues’ when I was in the State Senate. He’s been easy to work with.

And so am I,” Harp said.

Call it a marriage of mutual economic self-interest at a time when the state’s fiscal tap is running dry.

“I admire Mayor Harp and am excited about working with her and the City of New Haven,” Ganim said. He said the casino and Amazon opportunities brought the two administration together in the quest for “billions of investment and thousands of jobs. “ He called Bridgeport and New Haven “just minutes away.” “The benefits of each city, for jobs and tax base growth as well as for the region and the state, are magnified and become massive when you combine the attributes.”

The first inklings of a Harp-Ganim alliance came this summer when Bridgeport’s hizzoner showed up at City Hall to promote this year’s annual “Hoop It Up” summer basketball tournament, which began as a New Haven-only affair.

The Harp-Ganim duo made a joint appearance two weeks ago by the Steelpointe Harbor development on the Park City’s waterfront. They were there to support the surprise announcement of MGM Resorts International’s

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Power duo: Harp and Ganim at casino announcement.

bid to gain state permission to build a $675 million casino there. Other New Haven leaders joined her, including Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker, UNITE HERE Local 35 (and international Vice-President) Bob Proto, whose union works with MGM in Nevada and who noted, “We’d be crazy not to pass this deal.”

Behind the scenes, Harp had negotiated a commitment to place a jobtraining center for the casino in New Haven. And she’s banking on New Haveners getting jobs there as well if the state approves the casino (by no means a foregone conclusion).

“We really have a vibrant region and opportunity between Bridgeport and New Haven. There are a lot of things that can happen in between and in both areas if we work together,” Harp said at the announcement.

Harp and Ganim have also decided to redouble efforts to try to woo Amazon to locate its planned new 8.1 million square foot second headquarters in both New Haven and Bridgeport.

The state has opted to push two other

proposals instead, from Stamford and Hartford/East Hartford. Harp said on radio Monday that she believes New Haven/Bridgeport can still make a better case. They need Connecticut to champion the proposal because Amazon is looking for steep state tax breaks wherever it ends up locating.

“It’s going to be a hard sell,” Harp acknowledged on the radio Monday.

“But nothing beats a failure but a try.”

In the process of working on the proposal, she said, officials developed a greater appreciation for how, combined, the two cities’ regions add up to well over 1 million employees. That presents a large enough workforce perhaps to attract large employers who might otherwise not look at the area.

She echoed a remark that New Haven Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Virginia Kozlowski made last week in this Independent article, about how whatever happens with Amazon, the process has created new possibilities of working together.

To that end, Harp said, New Haven and Bridgeport officials are planning

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to travel together to an international business fair in Hanover, Mass., next spring to connect with potential employers. In the past New Haven’s delegation has gone on its own.

The emerging New Haven-Bridgeport meld began organically in June, when Heart, the parent company of Bridgeport’s daily CT Post, purchased New Haven’s daily New Haven Register. The two organizations now sport identically designed websites and share much copy, from statehouse coverage to stories that span the two regions, such as the new president doing double duty at Housatonic and Gateway Community Colleges.

New Haven State Sen. Gary Winfield noted that “a lot of people have noticed” the new Bridgeport-New Haven alliance. He called “smart policy.”

“I think the cities should be working together, particularly how the state seems to work. The smaller towns seem to work better together than the cities do. The future of this state has to do with what happens to the cities,” he said.

Harp said she can also envision some marketing efforts involving the full I-95 corridor from the New York State line to Branford or Guilford or Madison. She and Stamford Mayor John Martin have had discussions along those lines, she said.

Meanwhile, Ganim has launched a bid for the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He’s looking for the urban vote in particular as a self-styled champion of cities.

Harp was asked if she’s supporting Ganim for governor.

“Right now he’s the mayor,” she responded. “I want to collaborate with him as mayor.”

Harp was asked on “Mayor Monday” about the ongoing budget stalemate at the state Capitol. Connecticut is the only state in the country without a budget. Many communities braced for local budget problems of their own this week when, in the absence of a budget, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy planned to cut many towns’ educational aid.

But New Haven’s aid, under the Educational Cost Sharing program, is remaining constant under Malloy’s plan.

So Oct. 1 wasn’t a portentous date for the city, Harp said.

Nov. 1 might be. She said that cuts to other forms of state education funding and the inability of the governor to distribute PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes program) in the absence of a legislatively approved budget put $100 million in expected money at risk for New Haven this fiscal year.

The first third of that cash would be needed by Nov. 1. So if no budget gets approved by then the city may have a cash emergency, she said.

She said the city’s planning for that eventuality. Meanwhile, it has a second scramble on its hands: to convince agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s not to lower New Haven’s bond rating.

“We’ve been warned. We’re worried that we’re going to be downgraded,” she said. Her financial team has been meeting with the agencies to stress that the city has been balancing its budget and doing what it needs to do to meet its obligations unlike, say, Hartford, which faces bankruptcy. “You’ve got to look at our track record. They’re not looking at that.” A lowered bond rating increases the cost of borrowing money, which in turn can plunge a city deeper into debt.

New Haven Rallies For Puerto Rico THE INNER-CITY NEWS October 04, 2017 - October 10, 2017

by LUCY GELLMAN

New Haven Independent

Angelique Quiñones hadn’t planned to spend her Saturday fundraising for Puerto Rico. But when her mom Elizabeth Reyes spotted a social media post asking for volunteers, she and her sister Alexandra signed on, donning new Puerto Rico themed jerseys and heading at full speed toward Grand Avenue.

The two sisters and Reyes were three of some 90 volunteers to come out to Grand Avenue and Quinnipiac River Park for “New Haven for Puerto Rico,” a grassroots fundraiser and outdoor concert for Puerto Rican families affected by Hurricane Maria.

The product of both a GoFundMe page and on-site, individual donations and entertainment, the event raised over $60,000 for Puerto Rico relief efforts.

Participating partners included the City of New Haven, New Haven Latino Council, Puerto Ricans United Inc. and ARTE, Inc., which just opened its annual Hispanic Heritage Month exhibition.

At his 19 Grand Ave. gallery all day Friday and Saturday, ARTE, Inc. Director David Greco called the event “just amazing.”

“Puerto Rico will be better in the long run Puerto Ricans are such resilient people,” he said. “They bounce back.

But they still need so much help.”

Greco added that the crisis on the island hits home: Many New Haveners have been trying to get in touch with their friends and family members and help them evacuate. Since the hurricane, his mother-in-law has been stranded in her rural mountain town, unable to access through roads that were destroyed by the storm. As Greco and his partner try to get her to New Haven—a process that has involved booking flights, and then rebooking them as they’re serially cancelled—she is running out of food.

As of 2014, 8.4 percent (that’s 301,182 people) of Connecticut’s total population was Puerto Rican, according to the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at City University New York.

In New Haven County, which includes not only New Haven but also its surrounding municipalities, that number was 24 percent of the total population and 31 percent of the state’s.

At ARTE, Inc. paintings and multimedia work from the exhibition winked out on the walls. In a series of works by artist Joel Cruz, Puerto Ricans endured, rallying around the flag and celebrating the island’s bright architecture. Two figures in a painting

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A postal worker adds “humanitarian relief” to his weekend route.

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Angelique Quiñones, whose grandmother “lives between New Haven and Farjado, Puerto Rico.”

nearly came to life, raising the flag triumphantly before a historic church.

Speaking on the artist’s behalf, Greco said that Cruz had originally planned to submit other works to the exhibition, but changed his mind when the hurricane hit.

As volunteers fanned out over Grand Avenue, Greco offered coffee, pastries

and pizza to those who needed a break, or were counting the mix of cash and checks flowing in. Elsewhere in the small gallery, a group sold shirts reading “Got Coquito?” to go towards fundraising efforts.

Following Saturday’s event, he said that a delegation including him and Rep. Juan Candelaria would be work-

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ing on where to send the funds and how to visit for on-site humanitarian relief. He said they’ve already decided “we’re definitely not going through the government,” to avoid corruption and mismanagement of funds.

Organizers had asked volunteers to spread out at different locations, going as far as State and Court Streets downtown. At Grand and Blatchley Avenues, Waleska Candelaria and Amado Heredia were collecting cash donations from drivers who passed them. The sister of State Rep. Juan Candelaria, Waleska is mourning an aunt who perished during the storm, and said that her fundraising efforts felt personal.

Farther down Grand at the Quinnipiac River, fundraising efforts continued with musical and dance accompaniment, with representatives from Puerto Ricans United, Inc., New Haven’s fire department, and both state and national legislative bodies asking for donations. Downtown Alder candidate Hacibey Catalbasoglu announced that his family’s business Brick Oven Pizza will have a fundraiser on Monday, donating proceeds from orders that mention Saturday’s Puerto Rico fundraiser.

“My heart is with the Puerto Rican community here, in our city and our state, as well as our families in Puerto Rico who are suffering, and through no fault of their own,” said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro. “The federal government should not skip one beat. We

should be there making sure that the hospitals are running, that the roads are clear, distributing medicine and other services.”

“We should not let this happen to Americans or anyone,” she added as a state away, President Donald Trump fired off a series of angry Tweets to the mayor of San Juan. “There should be no slow walking … It should be done now.”

Groups including Movimiento Cultural tookg the stage with bomba dancers and euphoric, percussive beats. In the crowd (he later also performed onstage), Bregamos Community Theater Founder Rafael Ramos beat his drum and mingled with the crowd.

Swaying back and forth from his place on Front Street, flag vendor Ramon Rivera made a direct donation to relief efforts, then decided to donate half his proceeds as well. Waving a large Puerto Rican flag, he watched as the crowd transformed from a tight, chilly huddle to a bumping celebration of Puerto Rican culture, with strangers arm-in-arm and shoulder-to-shoulder with each other.

As that outdoor dance party continued after the event’s 5 p.m. conclusion, nearby churches collected donations of water, canned and packaged food, clothing, diapers, medical supplies and paper goods that had been coming in.

At Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal on East Pearl Street, Pastor Hector Luis Otero said that a mix of congregants and community members had donated “enough to fill three or four” 40-foot shipping containers with supplies.

Now, he is working with shipping companies and Candelaria to coordinate a pick up this week.

From the church, supplies will go to a port in New York City, and then to the island. He said that he is also “trying to get to Puerto Rico” himself in the next two to three weeks.

“We feel awesome because the community responded in such a great manner,” he said. “The [recovery] process in Puerto Rico is going to take a long time.”

He added that around 65 percent of the church’s regular attendees, of whom there are about 400, are first or second generation Puerto Rican.

“We’re trying to put our hands together and help,” he said.

David Sepulveda contributed reporting.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS October 04, 2017 - October 10, 2017

Latest “Vlock House” Built For Homeless

by ALLAN APPEL

New Haven Independent

A homeless family will be able to look out onto Adeline Street while cooking dinner and also find privacy in a rock garden, thanks to the design of the latest house Yale architecture students built in New Haven.

Some 200 people came out Monday night to tour and celebrate the new house, the 28th annual home that Yale School of Architecture students have built as part of the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project. This is the first year that a home was designed specifically for the homeless.

The distinctive, many-windowed, pitched-roof modernist house is at 54 Adeline St. in the Hill.

Into it one homeless family and one individual will move next month, sharing a common modernist building with the adjoining units separated by an elegant breeze-way and fronted by a flowerlined path gracing the narrow street.

“Imagine if you were sleeping on a bench last week, and someone gave you keys to your own place [like this],” said Columbus House Chief Executive Officer Alison Cunningham.

School of Architecture Dean Deborah Burke said when she arrived she had wanted to “deepen” the Vlock Project.

That took the form of a partnership with Columbus House, the city’s lead orga-

nization in the struggle to end homelessness.

The Valentine Macri Court houses, 17 units of affordable housing also managed by Columbus House, are adjacent to what was an empty lot, and on which 54 Adeline now rises.

Cunningham interacted with the students, brought them to the neighborhood, had them talk with homeless people, all to inform what they were going to build.

Then 53 students in six teams competed for a winning design. When it was chosen, all 53 learned teamwork by helping to fashion most of the components of the house not on site but as prefabricated elements put together in a warehouse on Yale’s West Campus.

That was in June and July.

The walls, roof panels, cabinets all the elements were trucked to the lot, which the city arranged to be turned over to Columbus House. A building team of 14 students over a two month period scrounged generous donors of windows, landscaping, and appliances and raised the house from the ground One of the team leaders, Kerry Garikes, said she learned from consulting with homeless people contemplating their first place that they want living space where they could say, “This is my house, but part of a larger community.”

Her fellow team leader Dan Whitcombe said that was one of the reasons

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Adeline, unveiled Monday night.

the high-roofed structure ended up having so many windows of different sizes looking out both on Adeline and West Streets.

The two units a larger two-bedroom for a family and a smaller efficiency are separated by a common space the students call the breezeway.

Whitcombe stood by the large bay window in the efficiency unit — a bay large enough almost to be a sleeping

porch. It has a nook quality, a place to contemplate Adeline Street while the owner is cooking or he or she can be private as well and not be seen. His or her choice.

“It’s very open to the street. [The window is] is trying to bring the house out and the street in,” he said.

Taking their Columbus House clients’ preferences for making privacy important but not in a way that cuts

residents off from the street also figured into how the student designers created the front entrance.

Instead of a set of steps going down to the sidewalk (which the city just built), the students came up with a long elegant path, lined by a box of mums and terminating in a rock garden, fed by dropping rainwater from the concealed gutter above.

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$492K Clean-Up Grant App OK’d For St. Luke’s Development

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

St. Luke’s Development Corp. got a step closer to making a long-awaited mixed-income housing near the intersection of Whalley Avenue, Sperry, and Dickerman streets a reality.

The Board of Alders Monday voted unanimously in support of the city applying for $492,000 from the state Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) to clean up the site where the church organization plans to build affordable housing, commercial and community space.

The city determined it needed that money to clean up hazardous material and partial demolition of the properties associated with the development, according to a letter from city Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson.

It has taken more than five years of jumping through zoning regulation

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St. Luke’s and the commercial complex it’s been working to transform for more than five years.

hoops for St. Luke’s Development Corp. to move forward with the plans

to build 28 multifamily, mixed-income housing units, three of which

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will be owner-occupied.The project will include ground-floor commercial space, a basement community access area, and a community garden.

The construction os set to happen on property the development corporation, which has been working to improve the neighborhood surrounding the Whalley Avenue church, has purchased at 117-125, 129 Whalley Ave., and 16 Dickerman St., and property it will purchase in the next week under an option to purchase agreement for 34-36 Sperry St. and 10-12 Dickerman St. The project is one unified development from Whalley Avenue to Dickerman Street, with multiple structures sharing parking and open space. The Whalley Avenue properties would include a 45,000 square-foot four-story building with 28 affordable units, including 10 for the elderly, six studio apartments, and 12 two-bedroom apartments. The Sperry and Dicker-

man Street properties would feature one three-story structure with four apartments and on-site parking for 24 cars.

St. Luke’s was granted approval in 2013 and a one-year extension on Nov.10, 2014, for a project that would have created 40 apartments instead of 28. But it couldn’t find financing for that at that time. The proposed height of the residential building on Whalley Avenue and the number of apartments was reduced to make it more affordable to build.

In a June 5 letter to alders, Nemerson said that the city had completed an environmental and hazardous building assessment of the site under a previous $200,000 grant from DECD and determined that it would take a grant of nearly half a million to clean up the site which includes a former automotive shop. St. Luke’s asked the city to proceed with applying for a grant that would aid the cleanup cost.

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Chris Randall for I Love New Haven

Finding Himself in Art

For Leigh Busby, art was literally a saving grace. After years of homelessness, crippling bouts of anxiety, episodes of schizophrenia, and paralyzing thoughts of suicide, Busby found in art a meaning and purpose to life.

“It saved my life. Every day I look forward to getting up and creating something else,” Busby said in an interview at his home.

Now 54, Busby has been haunted by mental health issues since he was 10.

But in the past four years, since he came to New Haven, he has found in his artistic vision a tool with which to embrace life. Busby currently works in three mediums iPad paintings, acrylic paintings on canvas, and photography.

His imagery primarily portraits but also urban and rural landscapes has appeared in shows both locally and internationally.

“It seems like overnight, but it’s been a long time coming. This stuff was in me and is just now starting to peek out,” Busby said. “There’s so much creative energy now that’s being released.”

Although Busby had decades of bad experiences with the mental health system, he found doctors he could trust at Cornell Scott Hill Health Center. Still, four years ago, he felt he was reaching the end of his tether.

“I was contemplating suicide. ‘There’s nothing here for me on Earth. God left me with no gifts to use,’” he recalled thinking. But his wife, Darlitha, reminded him he could draw.

He thought, ‘But who is going to buy pencil work?’

He went to his last appointment at Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, planning to kill himself afterwards. But as he was leaving, he spotted a flyer for an art contest to design pages for the center’s calendar. He told his wife that if he won the contest he would enroll in Gateway Community College to pursue art. And he was a winner, his colored pencil and ink drawing chosen for January.

“God blessed me to find art. Art found me, I should say,” Busby said. “God used art to change my life.”

In his portrait paintings, Busby strives for caricature and realistic tones. He tries to capture his subject’s “soul,” with an emphasis on his depiction of their eyes.

“I’ve had people come to visit me at City-Wide Open Studios and one after another they’re crying over the eyes.

I’ve always had that. Even when I did pencil, my art teachers said the eyes were expressive,” Busby said. “It’s probably because of the depression I’ve faced. I’m very sensitive to that.

All the things that I thought were really bad for my life are now being used to understand people and put it in my pictures.”

When it comes to photography, Busby prefers to capture subjects in candid shots rather than posed. People often don’t like how they look in photographs. But Busby says to them, “Let me show you how I see you. And then they go, ‘Wow!’” A key epiphany in the past several

years was the realization that the rote learning approaches of most schools have failed him, but that he is a strong visual learner. With each successive tool he has picked up—the iPad, acrylics, photography—Busby has honed his chops devouring hours of instructional videos on YouTube.

Largely self-taught, Busby also credits Betty Turner, an art teacher he had at Hackensack High School in New Jersey, for teaching him exercises in contour drawing, gradations of tone, and other fundamentals that resonate for him to this day. Turner told him that he would be a famous artist one day.

“How did she see that way back then, and I didn’t see it until four years ago?” Busby wondered.

Painting on the iPad overcame his

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fears of working in color. Shedding concerns about wasting paint that he couldn’t afford, Busby was able to experiment. Making ample use of the “undo” feature in an app like Procreate, Busby absorbed the fundamental principles of painting.

“I use exactly what I can afford at each stage. The whole philosophy behind that is to use what you have wherever you are,” Busby explained.

He paints on the iPad with a Sensu Brush, a tool that mimics a real paintbrush. “People see me doing it in the train station and are fascinated by it,” Busby said. “It took away the fear of painting.”

Busby wields the iPad as a traditional artist would. Not working over a photo although he uses photos for reference

Busby draws a freehand sketch, refining his composition. “Everything I paint, I don’t use digital tricks or computer tricks. It’s just good oldfashioned painting,” Busby said.

He often gives demonstrations at local schools. With a number of his paintings, he has saved the process of creation as a video that shows each mark sequentially from initial line work to the painting’s completion.

“All the things I didn’t have when I was a little kid, and wanted, I can now pass on to these kids,” Busby said. He demystifies the process of art making.

In learning how to paint with acrylics in six weeks, Busby also took advantage of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. Paying regular visits, Busby would get up close to the paintings to understand the brush strokes and how artists layered color.

“I started acrylics because, as an iPad artist, people were challenging me, saying, ‘That’s not art,” because there is no original to keep,” Busby recalled.

Showing that his skills transferred to canvas silenced doubters.

Busby’s enthusiasm recently has focused on photography. Originally employing the camera simply to take reference shots for his paintings, compliments he received from professional photographers inspired him to take it further. He is a regular contributor to Chris Randall’s I Love New Haven website. As a way of giving back to the community, Busby often photographs events for churches and community organizations like Musical Intervention.

His struggles are not over. Busby has been involved in a 10-year-long battle with Social Security to get his disability benefits restored. On disability from the time he was in high school due to his mental health issues, Busby left the system to try and work. But when his problems flared up again, Social Security froze him out. Busby hopes to use his talents to bring this issue which is not his alone to public attention.

“I’m trying to be what I want people to be to me,” he said.

Check out Busby’s work at the Goffe Street Armory as part of City-Wide Open Studios Oct. 14 & 15.

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Trap Yoga Hits New Haven THE INNER-CITY NEWS October 04, 2017 - October 10, 2017

On a recent Saturday morning, Thema Graves was reaching back into her memory, recalling a session she’d had with MC Yogi. The subject at hand: hip-hop, asana, and loving the body you’ve got.

“Just take a minute to center yourself, to be with your body,” she ministered to six women at Alisa’s House of Salsa, all of them cross-legged on the their yoga mats. “Because at the end of this, when we leave here, it’s just the two of you. You and your body.”

Sun streamed through the front windows. Six bodies, still flushed from the warm outside, prepared to find their center through vinyasa flow. They had an unlikely soundtrack: 2 Chainz’ “It’s A Vibe,” looping from the back of the room.

Graves is leading a charge to bring trap yoga—vinyasa practice set to the crisp, bouncy and beat-flecked flows of trap music—to New Haven. Since early September, she has folded it into her Saturday ritual, partnering with dancer, radio host and business owner Alisa Bowens to offer classes at Alisa’s

Graves:

Two of my favorite things.

Lucy Gellman Photo.

House of Salsa on Westville’s main drag. Classes are held for an hour each Saturday, from 1-2 p.m.

It’s not the kind of yoga that students might be used to. No lavender oil is gently applied during Shavasana (corpse pose), and instead of a quiet fan, an air conditioner blows in fits and starts from the front of the room, becoming part of the soundtrack.

Played at low volume from the back of the room, tracks from 2 Chainz,

Keri Faux, Drake, Sage the Gemini, Calvin Harris, French Montana and others fill the space.

It makes for downward-facing dog, cobra, warrior and lunge poses peppered with lyrics like “Been bustin’ bills, but still ain’t nothin’ change/ You in the mob soon as you rock the chain,” and “You my type, my type and I’m starving/I think you fit my appetite/Kan you live up to the hype?”

But they’re not incongruous with

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yogic practice, Graves said after the most recent session. If yoga is about centering oneself through meditative, repeated movement and measured breath, then trap yoga just makes it a little less formal and more jubilant— while keeping participants in the zone.

“Be a little freer with your movements,” she encouraged students who were new to the class. “Maybe you can bounce your booty a little, do some free movements.”

The six students (of whom this reporter was one) slowly took the advice to heart, shedding self-conscious peeks at fellow practitioners for rhythmic footwork, slow-pedaling feet and cracking joints, and a little extra hip action. In Bowens’ small, no-frills studio, they jumped into their flows, adding some sway to wheeling arms and long, shallow lunges. The sweet, dank scent of sweat and heavy, deep breathing filled the room by the end of the hour.

As the clock neared 2 p.m., Graves ushered the group into Shavasana, on which it is customary for classes

to end. It’s a pose in which the body is splayed out on a mat, spine to the floor, back of head and heels touching the ground. From the back of the space, soft lyrics continued to bounce from an iPhone onto the walls, and onto the floors.

“Passionate from miles away/Passive with the things you say/Passin’ up on my old ways/I can’t blame you no, no,” sang Drake.

The room, otherwise, was completely silent.

Afterwards, Graves said that classes have been going just as she’d envisioned at the beginning.

“It’s like a yoga party. Asana to dance beats … two things I love,” she said.

She added that it’s been slowly growing by word of mouth, which she’d hoped for. “You know it’s good when people come back every week and bring their friends!”

Trap Yoga with Thema takes place every Saturday from 1-2 p.m. at Alisa’s House of Salsa, 912 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Classes are $15 and all skill levels are welcome.

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More than 59 Dead, 400 Injured in Las Vegas Mass Shooting

By Freddie Allen, Editor-In-Chief, NNPA Newswire

Las Vegas authorities have identified Stephen Paddock, a 64 year-old White man from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunmen in one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history.

During a brief press conference Monday morning, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters that more than 50 people were killed and more than 400 people that were wounded during the attack were transported to local hospitals, according to The New York Times. Police have determined that Paddock fired on the crowd of roughly 22,000 attending a country music festival from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Sunday night.

“Online video of the attack outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino showed the singer Jason Aldean performing outside at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a three-day country music event, interrupted by the sound of automatic gunfire,” The New York Times reported. “The music stopped, and concertgoers ducked for cover.”

Authorities haven’t reported anything about Paddock’s motive; not much is known about the weapons used in the attack, although some experts have speculated that multiple firearms were used, including a high-caliber, automatic rifle.

Police have reported that Paddock

died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

According to NBC News, “The brother of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was stunned to learn Monday that his relative was the suspected perpetrator of the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Paddock, who lives in Orlando, said his brother has retired to Mesquite, Nevada and spent his time at the hotels, going to shows and gambling.”

During an interview with NBC

News, Paddock said that his brother, “was just a guy” and that the family was “completely at a loss.”

Monday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted, “My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!”

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the American composer and playwright of the awardwinning play “Hamilton,” also took to Twitter to share condolences for people affected by the tragedy in Las Vegas.

“Heartbroken by the news out of Las

Vegas,” Miranda said. “Praying for those of us waiting for news from loved ones who went to hear live music on a Sunday.”

During an interview with MSNBC, Danny Tarkanian, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Nevada said that the attack was “the worst fear of anybody who has lived in Las Vegas.”

Jamelle Bouie, the chief political correspondent for Slate.com, questioned why authorities hesitated to call the mass shooting an act of ter-

rorism.

“That Las Vegas authorities have ruled out terrorism at this early stage is another example of how the idea has all but been racialized,” Bouie tweeted.

Writer and social media activist Shaun King suggested that the shooter’s “whiteness” prevented authorities from calling him a terrorist, even though he “conducted the deadliest mass shooting in American history.”

As some took to social media calling for the mass shooting to be labeled an act of terrorism, others used the tragedy to call for stricter gun control.

Still, most social media users continued to share sympathy and prayers for the concertgoers and their families.

“Don’t even know what to say,” R&B singer Trey Songz tweeted. “To be in Vegas while this is happening, brings a pain to my heart. My team and I are safe Thank God! Prayers up.”

NBA superstar Isaiah Thomas tweeted, “Prayers up for the victims & families of the Las Vegas Shooting! #PrayForVegas.”

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association offered prayers and sympathy for those who suffered in the attack, while calling for a deeper conversation about the role that guns play in American society.

“NNPA affirms heartfelt condolences to families impacted by senseless murders in Las Vegas,” Chavis said on Twitter. “End gun violence!”

The American Flag Is Drenched in Black Blood

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Columnist I am not sure why the national anthem and the so-called American flag are part of our nation’s sports pageantry. Before 2009, while the national anthem was played, sports gladiators were not required to suit up, stand up, and put their hands to their hearts; and why should they? The song that is sung is an insult to people of color. When I hear “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” I think, “the land of the thief and the home of the slave.” The Department of Defense paid the National Football League (seriously?) to promote a fake

sense of cultural hegemony, and to spread the false notion that we are all on the same page when it comes to patriotism.

How could we be on the same page?

How could the men who have been hauled out of their cars, pushed down to their knees, forced to justify the reasons they are driving high-end cars be on the same page with the men who “own” them, who may or may not support them, or may or may not kneel with them?

Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, not because he wanted to disparage the flag, but because he disparaged the many ways that African American people were being diminished by police brutality.

Call the names, call the names, the men and the women who have been unjustifiably killed, call the names, and call the names of the many ways

Back Lives Must Matter. Call the names, call the names, of the structural racism that cuts like a knife, or kills like a bullet. Call the names.

There are those who have a story to tell about so-called disrespect to the “American flag,” the same American flag that is drenched in blood. Black men went to fight in World War I and came back to this country and were lynched, because they refused to yield the sidewalk to White people. What flag did they serve under, and why should we celebrate it? Why do disingenuous fools, including “Mr. 45,” chide NFL owners with strangely coded language, suggesting a lack of loyalty? Where is the loyalty to the Black men and women who supported a country that would not support them? The paradox of loyalty is that African Americans love a country that does not love us. We pledge the flag, drenched in blood, because we want

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something better.

Colin Kaepernick took a stand, and many of his colleagues support him because they cannot embrace a flag that supports the unjustified killing of African American men. Colin Kaepernick sacrificed his career to make a point, and he has been focused and fierce about his principles. Colin Kaepernick, by kneeling, encouraged all of us to stand up for our rights. Colin Kaepernick is a hero!

This protest is more, though, than Colin Kaepernick. This protest is about police brutality. This is a protest about the fake-Jake way some would bond us together, linking arms and elbows, trying to make a point. There is no point beyond the fact that young, Black men, who play football, baseball, and basketball see their brothers and cousins on their knees, legs and arms splayed, forced to the ground by oppressive po-

lice forces. The professional athletes freely kneel, because others knelt when they were forced to, because they were not free.

We can fly this flag all we want to, we can sing melodious songs about “the star spangled banner,” but the flag we fly in the name of sports is a flag that is drenched in blood. Players weren’t “encouraged” to stand at attention during the national anthem until 2009, when the Department of Defense paid money to make it happen. I’d prefer for my tax dollars to be spent more wisely. I’d prefer that some of that money went to washing the blood out of the flag.

Julianne Malveaux is an author, economist and founder of Economic Education. Her latest book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available to order at Amazon.com and at www.juliannemalveaux.com.

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got her start in pageants, from vying for the coveted Miss Cinderella crown as a child to finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss North Carolina competition as an adult.

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Triple Negative Breast Cancer: What Black Women Need To Know

by Gemma Greene, BDO Staff Writer

Anyone can get triple-negative breast cancer, however, African-American women are more likely to develop breast cancer at a younger age (under 50) and often have a more aggressive form of the disease called triple-negative breast cancer. This means that the cancer does not express the gene for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, or HER2 that can stimulate breast cancers to grow—and therefore is immune to many of the targeted treatments that can be used to block tumor growth. Triple-negative breast cancer tends to grow and spread more quickly than other types of breast cancer. Black women are three times more likely to develop triple-negative breast cancer than their White counterparts.

In fact, research indicates that 20 to 30 percent of breast cancers diagnosed in African-American women are triplenegative.

Researchers have also found that it is more likely to affect: Younger people. Triple-negative breast cancer is more likely to occur before age 40 or 50, versus age 60 or older, which is more typical for other breast cancer types.

Hispanic women. Triple-negative breast cancer most commonly affects African-American women, followed

by Hispanic women. Asian women and non-Hispanic white women are less likely to develop this type of cancer. A study found that black women

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Healthy breast cells contain receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone. They also contain receptors for a protein called HER2, which stimu-

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In women with triple-negative breast cancer, the malignant cells do not contain receptors for estrogen, progesterone or HER2. Breast cancer that is ER, PR and HER2 negative cannot be treated with hormone therapies or medications that work by blocking HER2, such as trastuzumab.

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in the exam for Certified Public Safety Dispatcher. Hourly rate of pay is $ 23.59. Candidate must possess High School diploma or GED and must hold and be capable of maintaining State of Connecticut Telecommunication Certification and Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD). Candidates must be COLLECT/NCIC certified or be recently expired requiring only the short one day recertification class to become re-certified. Additional Preferred Qualifications: Ability to speak and understand Spanish. Demonstrated knowledge of local geography. Knowledge of ProQA. Certified Emergency Medical Technician or Paramedic. Previous dispatch/police/fire experience. Certified Emergency Fire Dispatcher (EFD) and/or Emergency Police Dispatcher (EPD). Experience with Nexgen LEAS Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. Please apply at www.PoliceApp.com/ EastHavenCT. The fee to apply is $40 and this is a rolling application process that will be open indefinitely. The Town of East Haven is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, Females, Veterans and Handicapped are encouraged to apply.

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The Manchester Housing Authority is pleased to announce the opening of the State of Connecticut Congregate Housing Program. Westhill Gardens Congregate consists of 37 one bedroom units. Applications are available in person and on the MHA website at http://manchesterha.org and will be accepted by mail or in person at 24 Bluefield Drive Manchester, CT 06040. Applications will be accepted October 1, 2017- December 29th, 2017 at 4PM. The Congregate Program offers housing, a daily meal, and supportive services to frail elders, age 62 or older.

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St. Luke’s Sr. Housing, with its Managing Agent DeMarco Management Corporation are pleased to announce that applications are being accepted October 9, 2017 for the St. Luke’s Sr. Housing located at 120 Goffe St., New Haven, CT. We have newly renovated spacious one-bedroom units. Amenities include all new appliances, handicap accessible units and all utilities are included. Applicants must be 62 years of age or older to apply. Income and age limit restrictions apply.

Applications are available at DeMarco Management Corporation, 117 Murphy Rd, Hartford, CT 06114 or you can request an application either by phone (860)951-9411 email at: compliance@demarcomc.com or by AT&T relay service by dialing 711. All applications must be returned to DeMarco Management. **APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THE PROPERTY ON THURSDAYS FROM 9:00 am-1:00 pm. AT THE PROPERTY** Equal Housing Opportunities

El Sr. Housing de St. Luke’s, con su Agente Gerente DeMarco Management Corp., se complace en anunciar que las solicitudes serán aceptadas octubre 9 de 2017 para Vivienda de St. Luke’s ubicado en 120 Goff St., New Haven, CONNECTICUT. Tenemos unidades espaciosas de un dormitorio. Las comodidades incluyen todos los electrodomésticos nuevos, unidades accesibles para discapacitados y todos los servicios públicos están incluidos.

Se aplican restricciones de límite de ingresos. Las solicitudes están disponibles en DeMarco Management Corp., 117 Murphy Rd, Hartford, CT 06114 o al (866) 951-9411 correo electrónico en: compliance@demarcomc.com o por servicio de retransmisión AT & T marcando 711. Todas las aplicaciones serán recibidas en Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming Inc DeMarco Management. seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic Igualdad de Oportunidades

preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory trainingAsphalt on equipment we operate.

Garrity Reclaiming Inc Location: Bloomfield CT seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic Contact:experienced James Burke Phone: 860preferably in Reclaiming and 243-2300 Road Milling Equipment.

We offer factory email: jim.burke@garrityasphalt.com training on equipment we operate.

Location: Bloomfield CT Women & Minority Applicants are Contact:encouraged James Burke Phone: 860to apply 243-2300 Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity email: jim.burke@garrityasphalt.com Employer We offer excellent hourly rate & Women & Minoritybenefits Applicants are excellent encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

Union Company seeks: Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, clean driving record, capable of operating Union seeks: Tractor Trailer heavyCompany equipment; be willing to travel Driver for Heavy & Highway throughout the Northeast & Construction NY. We offer Equipment.

Must have a CDL License, excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits clean driving record, capable of operating Contact: Dana Briere Phone: heavy equipment; be willing to travel 860-243-2300 Email: throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com excellent hourly rate & Applicants excellent benefits Women & Minority are Contact: Dana Briere Phone: encouraged to apply 860-243-2300 Email: Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Employer Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

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Help Wanted: Immediate opening for construction laborer for Heavy and Highway Construction. Please call PJF Construction Corp.@ 860-888-9998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F

Help Wanted: Immediate opening for Dump Truck Driver for Heavy and Highway Construction.

CDL A license and clean driving record required. Please call PJF Construction Corp. @ 860-8889998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F.

Field Engineer

BA/BS in Civil Engineering or Construction Management.

2-5 yrs. experience. OSHA Certified.

Proficient in reading contract plans and specifications.

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

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

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

Invitation for Bids Professional Moving and Storage Services

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Bids for Professional Moving and Storage Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 3:00PM.

TRANSFER STATION LABORER

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

Office or General Help:

Immediate opening in the Contract Department, in a fast-paced petroleum environment.

Strong computer skills (ie: Excel, Microsoft Office) and analytical skills a must. Candidate must possess a high level of accuracy, attention to detail and be able to research and work independently. Petroleum and energy industry knowledge experience a plus. Send resume to: Human Resource Dept., P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437.

**An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

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

HOW TO OBTAIN THE IFB DOCUMENTS:

Contact Ms. Devin Marra, via phone or email.

BID SUBMITTAL RETURN

Housing Authority of the City of Danbury 2 Mill Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06811 Envelope Must be Marked: IFB No. B17004 Snow Removal

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

10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002;

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

Mechanical Insulator position.

Insulation company offering good pay and benefits.

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

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT is requesting proposals for the painting of interior vacant units.

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.

Class A CDL Driver

norwalkha.org<http://www.norwalkha.org> under the Business section RFP’s/RFQ’s

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

Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Curtis O. Law, Executive Director.

Common Ground High School seeks a PART TIME Special Education Teaching Assistant (TA). The TA is responsible for supporting the Special Education teachers in general education and special education classes. Support will include individual and small group instruction, facilitation of on-task behavior, and implementation of students’ IEPs, including accommodations, goals, etc. Click here for more details and how to apply http://commongroundct. org/2017/10/cghs-seeks-a-part-time-special-educationteaching-assistant/.

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT

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

Truck Mechanic

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

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

ELECTRIC

Distribution Technician- the Town of Wallingford Electric Utility is seeking highly skilled candidates for Distribution Technician.

Applicants must be a H.S. graduate and be fully qualified as a Journeyman Lineman or First Class Lineman. Hourly rate: $38.16 to $43.22, plus an excellent fringe benefits package. The closing date for applications is September 22, 2017 Apply: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492, (203) 294-2080, Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE.

Listing: Receptionist/Office Assistant

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

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8th Annual African American Authors & Empowerment Expo to Be Held on Saturday, October 7th One of the largest expos for African American authors is coming to Morgan State University

Nationwide — The African American Authors & Empowerment Expo (AAAEE) is holding its 8th annual event on Sat., Oct. 7, 2017 from 11am to 5pm in Baltimore, MD on the campus of Morgan State University in the University Student Center’s Calvin and Tina Tyler Ballroom. The event will feature 60 vendors, as well as hundreds of local & national authors.

This massive event is free to the public and includes workshops, speaking panels, author presentations and live entertainment.

2017 marks eight years of event excellence in Maryland for the expo. AAAEE has a reputable reputation for showcasing hundreds of independent authors/artists from across the nation at its annual literary events. AAAEE’s mission is to create a platform that exposes independent authors to the general public while helping authors make connections with national book clubs, provide entrepreneurial workshops, panels and author seminars.

Last year was a historic moment in AAAEE’s further expansion when it officially announced its partnership with Morgan State University to host this year’s expo as a pre-launch for the college’s

Attendees networking at last year’s event

annual Homecoming. This new partnership creates a remarkable opportunity for AAAEE to help Morgan State University prepare college students for careers in the literary arts, communication and business.

In honor of this amazing partnership, AAAEEE is launching the “Positioning Yourself to Live Without Limits” panel and “The Reality

of Reality TV, Hip-Hop and Social Media” panel. This panel will be an open forum for the students and attendees to discuss the negative and positive effects of today’s reality shows: “Are they setting good examples for your teens?”

Today’s hip-hop music: “Are the lyrics promoting positive acts or are they promoting violence and sex?” Social media: “Has the cases

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in suicides and bullying gone up because of social media?” All of these topic will be addressed.

Featured panelists include Dr. Jacquie Hood Martin, Dr. Karen Bethea, music producer Herb Middleton, Stevie D of the R&B group Force MD’s and Rob Schwartz, CEO/Founder/Chief Editor /Executive Producer of Who?Mag TV to name a few.

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“Vlock House”

You exit the house by walking the path and joining the sidewalk at either hand, a kind of gentler transition.

The roof is also longer by several feet over this front, bringing the path, like a terrace, into the house. It is both outside and inside at the same time.

Of this area Jean-Louis Valaise, proud father of student builder Alex Valaise, said, “It draws you in. You want to take shelter.”

The younger Valaise was one of the 14 of the 53 students on the crew who put together the pre-fabricated sections.

He told his son, “Most housing for the poor is you do it fast as you can. This is a proud home to go home to.”

Speakers from Mayor Toni Harp to Yale President Peter Salovey and Burke hailed the program Monday night as not only a contribution to the short supply of affordable housing in the city, and as a means for students to take its lessons out into the world.

Paul Rasmussen had participated in the program back in 2015, helping to build the house at Winthrop and Scranton Streets, when he was a Yale student, He came back from his job Toshiko Mori Architect in New York City to give a high five to his partner, one of the current student builders. And he stood admiring “the elegant way to terminate the railing” in the steps leading up to the second floor of the family unit.

He said he’s working with that firm on the renovation of the Berlin Central Library. He credited the Yale program with his wanting to work on projects benefiting the public good, not just the well-to-do.

“It’s really nice to benefit the lives of everyday people,” he said.

This is the first of five homes that Yale Architecture School students will build in the partnership with Columbus House.

Alex Valaise noted that lots of community people were at the event, including the kids who were riding bikes and doing wheelies during the course of the construction this summer.

Cunningham said that in the winter during the “point-in-time survey,” New Haven counted 534 homeless people, including 80 families. Now there will be one less homeless family and one less homeless individual.

And they will be living on Adeline Street in a building that Cunningham and she was not alone called “stunning.”

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Anthem Protests…Trump Vitriolic Comments…Football?

by Anthony Scott, ICN Sports

Last week the NFL started with the anthem protests being ramped up, in response to Donald Trump’s vitriolic comments about athletes. I totally respect the players for that, despite my desire to use sports to escape from the rest of the world. I’m sure that was the biggest NFL storyline this week, but I choose to watch with the sound off.

I also refuse to watch TV news. With that said, this interesting week was chock full of comebacks and upsets.

The Eagles beat the Giants on a 61yard field goal, the Patriots had to fight to the end to beat Houston, and two games went to overtime. Seattle and the Giants are continuing to struggle, by the way. With things starting to take shape, teams are starting to figure out their strengths and weaknesses. The scores of the week were: Rams over 49ers 41-39, Jaguars over Ravens 447, Bills over Broncos 26-16, Patriots over Texans 36-33, Bears over Steelers 23-17 (OT) Jets over Dolphins 20-6, Colts over Browns 31-28, Falcons over Lions 30- 26, Saints over Panthers 34-13, Eagles over Giants 27-24, Vikings over Buccaneers 34-17, Titans over Seahawks 3327, Packers over Bengals 27-24 (OT), Chiefs over Chargers 24-10, Redskins over Raiders 27-10, The storyline last week was a bevy of exciting finishes. The Texans were 13.5 point underdogs to Patriots, but they almost won the game. Their 3633 loss may be viewed as a moral victory to some, considering they looked as good as they have all season. Tom Brady had a great game, throwing for five touchdowns and 378 yards. Brandin Cooks had five catches for 131 yards and two TDs. Rob Gronkowski had eight catches for 89 yards and a TD. Chris Hogan caught to TDs as well. Despite all of this, the Pats could not run away from Houston, and Texans rookie quarterback Deshaun Wat-

son was part of the reason why. He went 22 of 33, with 301 yards and two touchdowns. He did have two interceptions however, including one in New England territory. The Patriots were lacking at linebacker due to the Dont’a Hightower injury, and Watson took advantage. Jadeveon Clowney had a huge game as well, with two sacks and fumble return. The return came with the score at 14-13. It would have probably been the play of the game had Houston won. The Texans forced a New England punt with seven minutes left in the game, but they could not capitalize.

They settled for a 36-yard FG with 2:24 left. They also botched a critical thirdand-1. The Patriots did not look like themselves on defense, but they made enough plays to win as champions do.

The Bears upset the Steelers, winning 23-17 in OT. Jordan Howard scored a 19-yard TD in OT to seal the Bears’ 23-17 overtime win against the Steelers. It concluded a 74-yard, game winning drive. Rookie running back Tarik Cohen almost won it a would be 73 yard TD run, only to have it called back because he stepped out of bounds.

Le’Veon Bell only had 15 carries for 61

yards. The Steelers looked awful defending the run against the Bears.

The Packers struggled last Sunday against the Bengals, but Aaron Rodgers proved his greatness again in an overtime win. Cincy lead the entire game, until Rodgers tied the game with a TD pass to Jordy Nelson with 21 seconds left. Green Bay kicked a field goal to win in OT. On the first Green Bay touchdown, Aaron Rodgers pulled one of the best play fakes I’ve ever seen. They did not score much for the rest of the game, but Rodgers showed his greatness despite not putting up elite numbers.

The defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons are now 3-0, but it took a controversial call to secure their 3026 win over the Detroit Lions. Down four, Detroit found itself with a 1stand-goal at the 1-yard line with just 19 seconds left. On third down, Matthew Stafford hit Golden Tate for what was called a TD. Upon further review, however, the ref ruled that Tate did not cross the goal line. There were still eight seconds left on the clock, but the refs ruled 10-second runoff. This ended the game. This lead to mass confusion,

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but this rule was always been in place unfortunately. Since Detroit had no timeouts, they would have theoretically had to rush back to the line to run a play if not for the review. This is why the rule exists, and it makes sense it this scenario.

The Giants came back after trailing 14-0 against Philly, eventually taking a 21-14 lead on two TD catches

by Odell Beckham Jr., and a 77-yard score by Sterling Shepard. The Eagles eventually won on a 61-yard FG by kicker Jake Elliott as time expired.

He made a 46-yarder roughly a minute before.

This was also a week full of upsets.

The listless New York Jets shockingly won a game, beating Miami 206. The Jets defense, which allowed Oakland to score 45 points last week, held the Dolphins scoreless until the last play of the game. The New Orleans Saints got back on track, defeating the division rival Carolina Panthers 34-13. Drew Brees threw for three touchdowns. Other upsets included the Buffalo Bills beating a very good Denver Broncos team 2616, and Jacksonville destroying the

previously unbeaten Baltimore Ravens 44-7 in London.

One of the most impressive performances of the week was Minnesota Vikings WR Stefon Diggs had another stellar game in their 34-17 win against the Buccaneers, finishing with eight catches for 173 yards and two TDs. 59 of those yards came on one catch. Kirk Cousins had a huge game in the Redskins’ 27-10 victory over the Raiders. He threw for 365 yards and 3 TDs. Another was Colts QB Jacoby Brissett and wide receiver T.Y. Hilton went to work against the lowly Cleveland Browns this week. Brissett had 259 passing yards and a touchdown. He also rushed for two TDs. Hilton finished with seven catches and 153 yards, as well as a 61-yard TD Chiefs’ rookie RB Kareem Hunt is continuing to dominate, finishing with 172 yards in a win over the Chargers.

His had a 69-yard touchdown run in the fourth to close out the win. Hunt is the first rookie to gain 100 yards in his first three games since Matt Forte did it in 2008 with the Bears. Fellow rookie RB Joe Mixon showed why Cincinnati used such a high pick on him, despite his domestic violence arrest in college. He finished with 101 yards. His shifty ability and vision lead me to believe he will be officially starting over Giovanni Bernard at some point, especially considering the amount of rookie backs who are playing right now. Many ridiculed the pick at the time, but he was one bright spot in an otherwise sputtering offense. Neither offense line looked good in this game.

There are still many questions to be answered, but the top teams are starting to reveal why they are so good.

Kansas City and Atlanta look dominant, with Detroit appearing to be right behind them. Time will tell how the season shapes up.

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ALERT: FBI Releases Warning On Internet-Connected Toys

by T. R. Causay, Social Reporter, BlackDoctor.org

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a 2017 public service announcement alerting consumers to the potential dangers of “smart toys,” basically any toy that can connect to the internet. This applies to a range of toys currently on the market that have everything from microphones to cameras to cloud storage of audio, video, and other data collected from users.

The FBI raises concerns about toys negatively impacting your children’s privacy and security.

The features and functions of different toys vary widely. In some cases, toys with microphones could record and collect conversations within earshot of the device. Information such as the child’s name, school, likes and dislikes, and activities may be disclosed through normal conversation with the toy or in the surrounding environment.

The collection of a child’s personal information combined with a toy’s ability to connect to the Internet or other devices raises concerns for privacy and physical safety.

Just as an example, imagine a child telling an internet-connected stuffed toy: “And we’re leaving tomorrow for Disney World. No one will be here for a week. I hope you won’t be lonely.” If the parent has provided their address as part of the toy’s “activation” or the toy has GPS capability, potential bad guys know that your house will be empty – perhaps too tempting for robbers.

In moving rapidly to bring internetconnected toys to the market, manufacturers (particularly manufacturers of overseas-produced inexpensive “knock-off” versions of popular toys) might have overlooked proper security measures or not fully complied with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule and Federal Trade Commission’s guidance for these types of technology. For this reason, the FBI has advised parents to be

mindful of the implications of poorly secured smart toys and offers several tips for you to improve the security of internet-connected toys: – Use strong and unique login passwords. This includes changing any default passwords provided by manufacturers. While those passwords may seem strong and unique, manufacturers often assign the same password to all or many devices. Passwords should be changed immediately to ones that only

you can possibly know.

– Ensure your toys are running on the most updated versions. Failing to update the device’s software may make it vulnerable to hacking or other problems. You may or may not be automatically prompted to install updates.

Kroll recommends changing the device settings to receive automatic updates whenever possible.

– Only connect and use toys in environments with trusted and secured Wi-Fi

In the Los Angeles Times article, Keast said that the release was incident free and that it was exactly what prison officials had hoped for in the interest of public safety.

“I do not know where he’s going,” Keast said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“I didn’t want to know, to be honest.”

In 2007, Simpson and a group of other men, two of them carrying guns, went to the Las Vegas hotel room of a sports memorabilia dealer and took hundreds of items from him, according to The New York Times.

“Mr. Simpson said he was merely reclaiming property that had been stolen from him, but he was convicted in 2008 of robbery, kidnapping and other charges,” The New York Times story said.

Now that Simpson is free, there’s rampant speculation that he will likely sit for a major television interview with the highest

bidder, then make his way back to Florida where he’s expected to serve out the rest of his sentence on parole.

Several experts told the NNPA Newswire that they believe Simpson, 70, should simply stay away from the spotlight. While at least one said that Simpson might pitch a reality television show, others said they believe his age and his family will keep him away from the media.

“Quite frankly, what he needs to do is spend time with the remaining members of his family, stay out of the media and away from the cameras,” said Philadelphia-based attorney Fortunato Perri, Jr., an attorney in the firm, McMonagle, Perri, McHugh & Mischak, the team that represented comedian Bill Cosby during his criminal sexual assault trial earlier this year. “Certainly, [the 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend] had something to do with the make-

up of the 33-year sentence in this case.”

Perri continued: “Wherever he goes, whatever he does, that’s going to be something in his past. He’s an older gentleman now and I think he’ll stay out of the limelight.”

Dr. Marsha Brown, a forensic psychologist of the Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law in Coral Springs, Fla., said that Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in “The Trial of the Century,” was incredibly polarizing and divisive. Many people, who believed that he was guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, felt that the former NFL running back was wrongfully avoided prison time.

“In a 1995 CBS poll 76 percent of Whites thought the former NFL star was guilty, while just 22 percent of Blacks thought so.

Now, 79 percent of Whites and 41 percent of Blacks think that. Only 10 percent of Whites and 39 percent of Blacks think he is not guilty, according to Newsweek.com.

internet access. In addition to ensuring that your home network is secure, remember that open Wi-Fi networks such as those you might access at a hotel, airport, or restaurant are often not secure.

– Do not buy a toy that doesn’t let you know exactly how data is collected, used, stored, or processed. If at all possible, research the privacy policy of the toy before purchasing. This applies even if your child receives the toy as a gift. If you can’t verify that it’s safe, consider whether it is worth the risks to keep the toy.

Many internet-enabled toys and devices will come with an app that can be downloaded onto a smartphone, giving you control of the device anywhere you can connect to the internet.

You need to consider the privacy and security of that app as well as the toy itself. Review the app’s settings and policies carefully for what will be shared and potentially accessed.

If your child grows tired of the toy, be careful when giving it away or reselling it. Your child’s information should be deleted before you discard it. Manufacturers should offer guidance on how to remove your child’s information. Additionally, if your child loses the toy, immediately contact the manufacturer to ask how stored data can be removed.

Remember, there are a lot of sick and crazy people in the world, so before you let your children play with that toy, maybe you should play around with it first.

The Juice Is Loose: After Nine Years, O.J. Released from Prison

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor

After serving the better part of a decade in prison, NFL Hall of Famer and cultural icon O.J. Simpson was released from the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada on Sunday, October 1 at 12:08 a.m.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Nevada Department of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Keast said that was by design.

Simpson’s release was largely overshadowed by news coverage of the mass shooting in Las Vegas during a country music festival, that left more than 50 dead.

“Keast said there were no media present at the time he left—avoiding fears of a chase on Nevada highways that might have brought back memories of the notorious Ford Bronco chase in 1994,” the Los Angeles Time reported.

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So, when Simpson was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in 2008 and sentenced to 33 years, the people, who believed that he was guilty of the 1994 murders, celebrated the lengthy sentence handed down as “just desserts,” said Brown.

“Due to public curiosity about him, as well as today’s tendency to film and post even the most mundane events on social media, it may be nearly impossible for Simpson to stay out of the spotlight completely,” Brown said.

Community reintegration can be difficult and there will always be someone watching, she added.

Brown continued: “In any case, many people hope Simpson will be able to do something productive, meaningful, and beneficial to society.”

Ben Bogardus, an assistant professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University, said

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