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10 New Bricks Laid At Homicide Memorial THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12 , 2021

by LISA REISMAN

Latasha Brown’s wails tore through a quiet, sun-dappled Saturday morning as she cradled a red brick bearing the name and age of her son, Tashawn Eddie Brown.

“I don’t know if I’m gonna heal, so all I can do is make sure people say his name so he’s not forgotten,” Latasha Brown said, after laying the brick into the Magnitude Walkway at the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.

The walkway is lined with bricks with the names and ages of every victim lost to gun violence in New Haven dating back to 1976. The brick honoring Tashawn was among 10 newly laid in memory of recent homicide victims on Saturday. In 2021, New Haven has seen 22 homicides.

Latasha Brown called her son her best friend, her confidant. He watched out for his seven brothers and sisters. After some struggles in his teens, he graduated from Hillhouse with a full scholarship to Porter & Chester Institute with plans to become an electrician.

On the evening of May 19, he was shot and killed on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.

He was 18.

The park was created by mothers of gun violence victims with assistance from the Urban Resources Initiative. In June, it opened at 105 Valley St. as a site of hope and healing as well as a place to build public awareness of the crisis of gun violence in the city.

“This day is bittersweet,” said Marlene Miller Pratt, among the mothers who made the garden a reality.

“It’s bitter because we know they’re gone, but what’s so sweet is they will not be forgotten,” she said as she stood against the dramatic backdrop of West Rock.

“Too many times, there’s a gun shooting, and we have our vigils, and people come by the house, and there are candles, and balloons, and flowers, but then the candle goes out, the balloon deflates, the flowers wilt and die,” she said.

“Just like you see a Holocaust museum, a Vietnam memorial, they are not going to be forgotten; 50, 60, years from now, people will remember that they were taken from us too soon,” she said.

“The hope is that when people walk upon these bricks, when they see all these names, that they will wake up to this problem.”

For Bridgeport’s Nayhelis Olmo, girlfriend of Kevan Bonilla, the park is “a place to come and visit whenever we want, to sit down, and talk to him by the river. We are very grateful.”

Olmo and Bonilla’s mother Ana laid a brick in his memory.

Bonilla was a gifted boxer who competed in the Junior Olympics and qualified for the national championships in 2017.

LISA REISMAN PHOTO Latasha Brown at Saturday’s event at the Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.

Ana Bonilla, mother of Kevan Bonilla, at right, with Nayhelis Olmo, Kevan’s girlfriend.

He was also, his mother said, “special, one-of-a-kind, a great son who was good to people and loved God.” Miller Pratt, who taught Kevan at Geraldine Johnson Middle School, recalled him as a leader.

“Kevan was ready to take the lead in everything,” she said. He was also protective. “I was new at the school, and he’d always say ‘Miss Miller Pratt, I got you, don’t worry about anything here,’ and he’d show me his fists. He was already winning medals in boxing by then.’”

In the early morning hours of July 10, Bonilla was shot and killed in Fair Haven.

Marlene Miller Pratt, one of the driving forces behind the memorial garden.

He was 20.

“That hit me hard,” Miller Pratt said.

“He always pushed himself beyond his expectations. Once he reached a goal, he would move on to the next. He had such a bright future.”

Bricks were also laid Saturday in memory of Danielle Monique Taft, who was shot to death back in 1994 at the age of 7 months; and 2021 homicide victims Miguel Angel Ramos, Ciera Lashay Jones, Richard Lamar Whitaker Jr., Zaire

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Luciano, Adrian Barwise, Tyshaun Hargrove, and Mariyah Nakhoune-Inthirath.

Hippy Nakhoune said he felt mixed emotions on seeing his daughter’s name on a brick.

Mariyah Nakhoune-Inthirath, an aspiring model from Bridgeport, died after suffering a single gunshot wound on Sheffield Avenue on May 15. She was 20.

“Part of me feels bad,” he said. “I don’t want to have my daughter remembered on a brick. I want my daughter to be remembered for doing something for the world. But the other part of me feels that now I can come here and get some sense of peace when I’m feeling stressed out or depressed or when I’m really thinking about her.”

His daughter “was an amazing, outgoing, people person,” he said. “She was the light of the party. She had a way of knowing how to put a smile on someone’s face

when they were feeling down.”

By then, Latasha Brown was leading a group of Tashawn’s brothers and sisters, relatives, and friends onto the lawn with a gaggle of blue balloons, his favorite color. An eagle swooped above. The group looked to the sky. Then Latasha Brown began a chant.

“Say his name,” she called out.

“Tashawn Eddie Brown,” they responded.

“Say his name,” she called out again, more loudly.

“Tashawn Eddie Brown,” they shouted, his name carrying through the park.

The New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing is at 105 Valley St. 203-4326570; https://uri.yale.edu/botanical-garden-healing

Artists, Athletes Team Up To Get Out The Vax THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12, 2021

by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org

The hosts of ThaTeam Podcast sit around a table, their smiles guarded as they listen closely to each other. One picks up the phone as the words Be A Good One shine behind her in white and gold leaf. The others take a beat; eyes swivel to one side of the room. Even without sound, a conversation is almost palpable. Above their heads, huge white letters read “Got Questions? Okay to ask.”

The podcasters are part of a twopronged campaign from the New Haven Health Department, Department of Cultural Affairs, and multiple citywide partners working to spread vaccine literacy among New Haven adults and youth who are still hesitant around the shot, and sometimes fighting a rising tide of disinformation. This month, it joins dozens of pop-up vaccination clinics and at least one health fair geared toward getting the city vaccinated.

“We are ensuring that we are being inclusive of our partners, we are collaborative, and we don’t necessarily have to lead at the city level,” said city Health Director Maritza Bond during a press conference last week. “We have to partner with individuals who have built relationships with the city.”

Roughly 65 percent of eligible New Haveners (meaning 12 years old and over) are fully vaccinated, according to the Elicker Administration. Over 71 percent have received at least one vaccine dose. In New Haven youth, that number remains closer to 50 percent. To date, the city has held over 530 vaccine pop-up clinics with the help of Griffin Hospital, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, and Fair Haven Community Health Center.

Last month, Mayor Justin Elicker also instituted a vaccine-or-test mandate for city employees that officially went into effect on Sept. 27.

The twin campaigns, which have enlisted photographer Leigh Busby and videographer Donnell Durden, are dedicated to getting more residents vaccinated as the pandemic passes its 18-month mark.

One, branded “OK2AsK,” is intended to target adults who may still have medical questions around the vaccine, and haven’t yet connected with a provider they trust. The other, aimed at teens and called “Life Back,” offers the vaccine as a path to some degree of normalcy at school, on the playing field, and at home.

Both come out of $4 million in federal funding that the city secured earlier this year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH). Both bring in local influencers, from designer Tea Montgomery to members of Wilbur Cross High School’s basketball team to Dr. Tamiko JacksonMcArthur, a pediatric specialist and a

Wilbur Cross High School Students Fredo Delgado and Christian McClease at a press conference on the campaign. Lucy Gellman Photo.

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member of the city’s Board of Education. Many of the images and videos also come in Spanish.

Adriane Jefferson, city director of cultural affairs, said the branding language came out of conversations with citywide artists, young professionals, healthcare providers, creators and entrepreneurs and members of the city’s Board of Education. Figures like Montgomery and members of ThaTeam, who she met while working for the Connecticut Office of the Arts in 2019, seemed like trusted messengers.

“The first is a call to action to find out the answers to the questions,” she said.

“Make your choice, but make a decision that’s going to be best for you and the people around you. Then ​​what we discovered in our conversations with the Board of Education is that a lot of young people are more moved by what they can do to get their life back.”

The results, which build on New Haven’s 2020 Mask Up campaign and URU’s evolving “Our Humanity” banners, criss-cross the city on billboards, city buses, and social media channels.

In one, Montgomery bursts into a smile, eyes crinkling at the edges. He is talking to Jackson-McArthur, whose blue scrubs peek out at the right of the frame.

A raffia sculpture hangs over their heads, dipping its pink strands into the frame. It feels easy, joyful, as if whatever alarm or hesitancy was there before has dissolved completely.

In another, members of ThaTeam freeze mid-discussion, as if they are recording an episode and have paused to unpack a question (as, in fact, they often do on the

show). Their eyes are soft, understanding. A warm sort of energy crackles between them.

Co-host Rebekah Moore—known simply as Bek by her friends and family—said that she and fellow ThaTeam members were excited to jump on board after learning about the campaign from Jefferson. Moore was born in Hamden, and moved to New Haven when she was in high school. She’s a proud alum of James Hillhouse High School and Southern Connecticut State University.

“What we liked about it [the campaign] was it wasn’t so much, ‘Go get vaxx’— which we want people to do—but it was ‘Get the vaxx facts,’” she said in a phone call last week. “There are a lot of people giving out false narratives ... we just want people to get their own proper information from credible resources.”

As a healthcare professional, Moore has been in the eye of the pandemic’s storm for just over a year and a half. When Covid-19 hit the city last year, she was pregnant and working in an emergency department as an information assistant.

As public information spread about how to prevent transmission of the virus, she took every precaution that was available to her. She got vaccinated when she returned from maternity leave this year.

She didn’t need convincing, she said— but she understands why people may.

She pointed to an American healthcare system that has not given Black people and non-Black people of color reason to trust it, from the history of medical apartheid and experimentation to nursing books that spread harmful misconceptions about Black women’s ability to

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feel pain. The same week the campaign dropped, she and co-host Latrelle Coward held a special episode with Dr. Tanilla Brown about vaccine literacy, science versus disinformation, and navigating a new normal.

She added that the politicization of Covid-19—conservative white Americans remain the single largest group opposed to vaccination—is “just mind-boggling to me.” For her, the vaccine was a way to protect herself, her infant son, and members of her extended circle. When she sees a friend, she said, she always remembers that they might be going home to a grandmother who is more likely to fall ill from Covid-19. ”I have to protect my family and my mom, my sister, my business partner and friends,” she said. “The people around me that I love, and the people that they love. And our community! With so much death around, we don’t need to add another reason why we are dying in vast numbers. We already have a lot going on with police brutality and senseless killings. This doesn’t need to be part of that list.”

In a photograph meant to speak to younger New Haveners, four members of Wilbur Cross High School’s basketball team throw their arms around each other, eyes on the camera as trees blur in the background. Three players in, junior Fredo Delgado holds the ball steady between his hands. A few inches away, a message reads “Get Back In The Game.

Get Vaccinated.”

Delgado practices what he preaches.

Earlier this year, he and fellow team member Christian McClease received

the Pfizer vaccine at the Health Department’s Meadow Street headquarters (New Haven Public Schools Athletic Director Erik Patchkofsky took a video to encourage other players to do the same).

The two have since tried to spread the vaccine gospel at school, although “we’re mainly telling the sports people,” Delgado said.

McClease and Delgado also got vaccinated to protect their families, they said in a conversation last week. Both watched their mothers contract and become sick from Covid-19. At home, Delgado has two brothers, one of whom is just seven months old. McClease has five brothers, who he said are still vaccine hesitant “because they don’t want Covid in their bodies.”

That hesitancy springs from a common piece of disinformation that the vaccine contains a live virus, he learned before getting the shot himself. To the contrary, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines both use messenger Ribonucleic acid (mRNA), which teaches a body’s cells to make a spike protein. That protein in turn stimulates the production of antibodies.

It means that if Covid-19 does enter the body after full vaccination, cells have the genetic memory to recognize and fight it.

“I’d like to encourage my fellow athletes, my teammates and classmates to get vaccinated,” McClease said. “Just to make sure everybody’s safe, in case another outbreak happens. I encourage them, and everybody that I’m around … so everybody around me can be safe.

That’s really it.”

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City, Statewide Gun-Control Group Team Up On Violence Prevention Strategy

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven Independent

A day before a group of moms plans to lay 10 more bricks in honor of recent homicide victims, city officials and community partners gathered at a Valley Street memorial to detail plans for a new city office dedicated to violence prevention.

That press conference took place Friday morning at the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence, which sits in the shadow of West Rock at 105 Valley St. The focus of the presser was the recent creation of a new city Office of Violence Prevention.

That new one-person office came into being when the alders voted last week to create a new city Department of Community Resilience, of which the Office of Violence Prevention will be a part.

Mayor Justin Elicker and city Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal announced Friday that the city has hired the advocacy group Connecticut Against Gun Violence (CAGV) to help get that office off the ground.

CAGV will spend the next few months conducting public listening sessions, studying the current network of local violence prevention programs, and researching similar initiatives already in place in municipalities across the country The group will then hand a report of their findings to the city, which will use it as a “blueprint” for how best to coordinate existing violence prevention efforts, fund new programs, and care for those who have survived local gun violence.

“In order to actually implement a comprehensive set of evidence-based practices, you need a coordinating infrastructure,” Dalal said about the new Office of Violence Prevention. That will be the top responsibility of whoever winds up being hired to fill the full-time role of Office of Violence Prevention coordinator.

As for CAGV’s work in the coming months, “we’re going to look at the [violence] hotspots of New Haven, look at identifying where the gun violence is, where the resources of New Haven are, and do an overlay to see whether those match up,” said CAGV Executive Director Jeremy Stein.

All of this took place Friday at the end of the curving brick path that cuts through the placid park-side greenspace.

Hundreds of red bricks bearing the names of homicide victims from decades past already line that walkway.

On Saturday morning, the moms who spent years working to make the memorial garden a reality plan to lay 10 more named bricks — in a cruel race to catch up with the ever-growing list of people

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who have been shot and killed in New Haven so far this year.

The park officially opened on June 12.

The 10 new bricks will commemorate the names and lives of homicide victims who have been killed since late May of this year. So far in 2021, New Haven has seen 22 homicides.

“Every time we lay a brick, my heart ... my heart drops for that family,” said Celeste Fulcher, one of three moms who helped found the memorial garden.

Fulcher lost her daughter Erika Renee “Hoppy” Robinson to gun violence in 2013.

“It doesn’t feel good laying more bricks, but it does feel good getting the word out that [the park] does exist and trying to reach those who need help to not cause any more deaths,” added Pamela Jaynez, another one of the park’s cofounders. Jaynez lost her son Marquese Tyrell Janez to gun violence in 1997.

Fulcher and Jaynez said that Friday’s city press conference at the park is exactly the type of event that should take place at this memorial garden: A public declaration that the violence needs to stop, and the charting of a path forward to make that vision a reality.

“I’ve been to quite a few meetings, and have heard a lot of talk,” Fulcher said. “But we don’t see action.” She said she hopes the launch of this new city office and this new research effort

by CAGV will spur “something being done” to stop the violence and care for survivors.

“We need our city to heal,” Jaynez said. “We don’t want any more moms to through the hurt we’ve experienced.

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by MAYA MCFADDEN Generations cease to exist when our New Haven Independent children lose their lives.”

New Haven’s public schools are strugThomas Daniels also joined Friday’s press conference to talk about the im- gling to get drivers to fill all 301 daily bus portance of prioritizing gun violence runs.

As the second month of the school year prevention citywide.

Daniels is the founder of a support begins, the national bus driver shortage group called Fathers Cry Too. He lost continues to cause some of the 18,000 his son Thomas Daniels Jr., nicknamed New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students some trouble while they are picked “Tank,” to gun violence in 2009. up and arriving to school late.

“When I walked down that path this NHPS Director of Transportation Carl morning, it’s a sad trip for me down Jackson provided an update on the chalmemory lane,” he said, gesturing to the lenges to the Board of Education’s Fibrick walkway before him. nance and Operations Committee during Starting in 1989, he said, “I lost a lot its regular meeting Monday afternoon. of good friends” to violence. That vio- Jackson said his team is making “steady” lence poured over into the 1990s. All the strides in resolving the issue but expects while, “I had no idea what the parents of that late arrivals will continue through the my friends were going through when I month. Currently NHPS is needing “comwas young.” Until the 2009, when he bine as many as 10 routes” for drivers to lost his son to a shooting, and “I found pick up or drop off students because of myself to be one of those parents.” driver shortages.

Connecticut Violence Intervention “Of the approximately 18,000 students Program (VIP) founder Leonard Jahad transported daily, fewer than 5 percent are said he walked down the brick path affected by the current driver shortage,” Friday morning and asked himself, states a memo Jackson wrote to the committee. A total of 301 drivers are needed “Where’s this path gonna end?”

He also repeated to himself a line that for NHPS regular runs by contractor First he said motivates him in his daily street Student. Currently the district has 274 outreach work, and that he’ll be keeping drivers to cover all of its runs. This has in mind as the city kicks off this new resulted in drivers doubling up runs and then longer wait times for families. dedicated violence prevention office.

Jackson added that on any given day 10 “Not another brick,” Jahad said. “Not SCSU_UOH_AdFall21_5.472x5.1.qxp_Layoutto120 10/4/21 1 drivers4:00 willPM callPage out sick.

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six drivers called out on Monday, for instance.

Due to the national competition for certified drivers, Jackson predicted the shortage will last throughout this month.

“A lot of places are paying premiums for these experienced drivers,” he said.

First Student has been offering a $5,000 bonus for hired experiences drivers with credentials and a possible $3,000 bonus for those needing training. According to Jackson First Student last reported that it has “a lot of applications in the pipeline.”

To avoid doubling up routes and to meet

First Student’s goal of having a sparedriver ratio of 10 percent for potential emergencies, the district needs a total of about 350 drivers.

As the school year continues, Jackson’s team and First Student have been working on sending lateness memos to schools informing them during morning runs which buses will arrive late.

“We’re not operating at optimum level, certainly below the standard that I would like but we’re operating, [but] we’re getting kids home,” Jackson said.

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Meanwhile, there’s the spread of Covid to worry about. Jackson reported that about 65 percent of their bus drivers are fully vaccinated; 124 drivers have opted for weekly testing.

“I imagine that with the pandemic and looking at the immediate future, this is going to take a little while to work out,” said committee member Larry Conaway.

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Protesters Demand Path To Citizenship

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

A mic held against her mask, Nayeli Garcia looked up through the rain at U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s office to let the New Haven Congresswoman—and everyone within earshot—know who she is.

I am a student at Gateway Community College, Garcia said. I am an essential worker who cleans houses. I am an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.

And I deserve a path to citizenship.

Garcia offered that personal history and political demand Monday afternoon during a rain-soaked protest led by Unidad Latina en Accion outside of DeLauro’s office at 59 Elm St. She was one of roughly two dozen protesters to brave the weather to hold banners, block the sidewalk and the street, and call on DeLauro to advocate for including a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the Congressional Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion American Families Plan.

In early September, the U.S. Senate’s parliamentarian ruled that the widereaching social policy bill could not include a path to citizenship for roughly eight million “Dreamers” (children of immigrants), Temporary Protected Status recipients, farmworkers, and essential workers if that bill were to be passed by the filibuster-busting method of “budget reconciliation.”

Advocates like Garcia took to the sidewalk and street Monday to pressure New Haven’s federal delegation to keep fighting for the inclusion of such a policy in whatever bill ultimately gets voted on, regardless of the Senate parliamentarian’s recommendation.

Fountain and Tamara Nuñez del Prado.

“Like many of you, I put my body on the line during the pandemic,” said Nayeli, a 23-year-old West Haven resident and Hillhouse High School graduate who is originally from Tlaxcala.

She said she has kept working her housecleaning job throughout the pandemic, even as she has started school at Gateway.

“This path to citizenship is not going to fall from the sky,” she said to cheers. “We have to demand it.”

Bolivian-born immigration and trans rights activist Tamara Nuñez Del Prado

also spoke at the rally.

“Hear our voice,” she said to DeLauro’s office, her Spanish translated into English

by ULA’s Meg Fountain. “We are not a public charge. We are not a burden on the state. No. We are essential for the economy of this nation.”

“We have earned this immigration reform,” she continued. “We have earned citizenship with our labor, with our contributions.”

Roselina Aquino said that she has kept working throughout the pandemic as a

landscaper at a nearby farm.

“We never stopped working. Not one day,” she said. She said she came down with Covid last November, and is convinced that she got it while on the job.

“We have made sacrifices,” she said.

When is this country going to recognize and properly value that work?

Wilbur Cross High School freshman Shelley Roblero said that it pains her how long her parents have gone without seeing their parents and siblings in their home country of Guatemala.

Roblero was born in the United States; her parents immigrated from Guatemala.

Because they are undocumented, they have not been able to see their families in years.

“My parents made great sacrifices to come here,” she said. She argued that they should be free to travel and see their families and still be able to return to this country where they work and have built their lives and raised their children.

Before temporarily stopping traffic on Elm Street, ULA founder John Lugo led the protesters in a call and response, spoken in Spanish and translated into English

by Fountain.

“Who sacrificed during Covid?” he asked.

“We did!” the group responded.

“Who got sick from Covid?”

“We did!”

“Who made it possible for the economy to function while everyone else stayed home?”

“We did!”

“Who died of Covid?”

“We did!”

“Who needs immigration reform?”

“We did!”

In an email comment sent to the Independent Monday night, DeLauro pledged her support for the protesters’ cause.

“In Connecticut and across the country, our immigrant communities make America stronger,” she said. “Providing a pathway to citizenship for the millions of Dreamers, TPS holders, farmworkers, and essential workers is important to our economic recovery.

“I strongly support including a pathway to citizenship in the budget reconciliation package.”

At Fundraiser, Bond Supporters Make Case For “Underdog” Bid

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

It’s not the resume that counts most. It’s the talent.

That’s the reason supporters gave Thursday evening for showing up to the latest event in New Haven for next year’s secretary of the state campaign on behalf of an undergo candidate.

A couple dozen supporters came to Portofino’s restaurant to attend a fundraiser for the exploratory campaign committee of Maritza Bond, one of three New Haveners preparing runs for the job of guarding democracy in Connecticut.

Bond’s event took place in the final hours before the deadline for quarterly campaign fundraising reporting. Candidates look to demonstrate support through those fundraising reports in order to convince more backers to come on board.

In addition to Bond, the city’s health director, Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen has formed an exploratory

committee to lay groundwork for a 2022 run; and former Democratic Town Chair Jacqueline James said she’s about to announce her own run. Statewide, Democratic State Reps. Joshua Elliott of Hamden, Matt Lesser of Middletown, and Hilda Santiago of Meriden are also seeking to break out of the pack of potential candidates.

Why all the interest in what was formally a little-noticed position?

Two reasons: • It may be the only statewide position (or one of two) without an incumbent running for reelection in2022. Incumbent Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is retiring.

• The profile of the position itself has grown amid nationwide battles over elections and ballot access. The secretary of the state is Connecticut’s top elections official. Besides overseeing elections, the secretary of the state is in charge of business filings and maintaining the com-

mercial registry. The secretary of the state also proposes and lobbies for new election laws.

Interviewed at Thursday night’s fundraiser, Bond’s supporters readily acknowledged that her resume doesn’t include the specific positions that her potential opponents would bring, and the position’s occupants since 1991 have brought to the job: Elected officeholder.

Campaign manager. Crafting of votingrelated legislation.

The more important qualification for this job, they argued, is the talent Bond would bring: Administrative chops honed in decades of public-health positions throughout the state. Vision. Energy. And follow-through.

Kimberly Staley said she saw Bond’s talent when she served as Bond’s supervisor. Staley was the city of Bridgeport’s chief administrative officer when Bond worked as its health director. Staley now works in Hartford; she drove down to

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PAUL BASS PHOTO Maritza Bond addresses campaign gathering, along with Chatham Square community organizer Lee Cruz, Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee Vice-Chair Anthony Paoletto, former New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.

Thursday night’s event to show her support.

“Her skill sets are transferrable. When you think about elections, you’re looking for an administrator who can think big” and follow through, Staley said. “I know her work ethic. I know her background.

She has a great deal of passion and commitment. I know positive, ethical results.”

Anthony Paoletto, vice-chair of Bridgeport’s Democratic Town Committee, made the same point in recalling serving as a member of Bridgeport’s City Council when it hired Bond: “She came in with a mission and plan to move the department forward. She put that vision into action.”

In New Haven, Bond has served as the public face of city government’s daily response to the Covid-19 pandemic. She worked with public-health students, hospitals and clinics, ministers, and community organizers to bring testing and masks, and then vaccinations to lower-income Con’t on page 08

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450 Walk Suicide Out Of The Shadows

by LISA REISMAN

New Haven Independent

Latasha Brown’s wails tore through a quiet, sun-dappled Saturday morning as she cradled a red brick bearing the name and age of her son, Tashawn Eddie Brown.

“I don’t know if I’m gonna heal, so all I can do is make sure people say his name so he’s not forgotten,” Latasha Brown said, after laying the brick into the Magnitude Walkway at the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.

The walkway is lined with bricks with the names and ages of every victim lost to gun violence in New Haven dating back to 1976. The brick honoring Tashawn was among 10 newly laid in memory of recent homicide victims on Saturday. In 2021, New Haven has seen 22 homicides.

Latasha Brown called her son her best friend, her confidant. He watched out for his seven brothers and sisters. After some struggles in his teens, he graduated from Hillhouse with a full scholarship to Porter & Chester Institute with plans to become an electrician.

On the evening of May 19, he was shot and killed on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.

He was 18.

The park was created by mothers of gun violence victims with assistance from the Urban Resources Initiative. In June, it opened at 105 Valley St. as a site of hope and healing as well as a place to build public awareness of the crisis of gun violence in the city.

“This day is bittersweet,” said Marlene Miller Pratt, among the mothers who made the garden a reality.

“It’s bitter because we know they’re gone, but what’s so sweet is they will not be forgotten,” she said as she stood against the dramatic backdrop of West

Rock.

“Too many times, there’s a gun shooting, and we have our vigils, and people come by the house, and there are candles, and balloons, and flowers, but then the candle goes out, the balloon deflates, the flowers wilt and die,” she said.

“Just like you see a Holocaust museum, a Vietnam memorial, they are not going to be forgotten; 50, 60, years from now, people will remember that they were taken from us too soon,” she said.

“The hope is that when people walk upon these bricks, when they see all these names, that they will wake up to this problem.”

For Bridgeport’s Nayhelis Olmo, girl-

friend of Kevan Bonilla, the park is “a place to come and visit whenever we want, to sit down, and talk to him by the river. We are very grateful.”

Olmo and Bonilla’s mother Ana laid a brick in his memory.

Bonilla was a gifted boxer who competed in the Junior Olympics and qualified for the national championships in 2017. He was also, his mother said, “special, one-of-a-kind, a great son who was good to people and loved God.” Miller Pratt, who taught Kevan at Geraldine Johnson Middle School, recalled him as a leader.

“Kevan was ready to take the lead in everything,” she said. He was also protec-

tive. “I was new at the school, and he’d always say ‘Miss Miller Pratt, I got you, don’t worry about anything here,’ and he’d show me his fists. He was already winning medals in boxing by then.’”

In the early morning hours of July 10, Bonilla was shot and killed in Fair Haven.

He was 20.

“That hit me hard,” Miller Pratt said.

“He always pushed himself beyond his expectations. Once he reached a goal, he would move on to the next. He had such a bright future.”

Bricks were also laid Saturday in memory of Danielle Monique Taft, who was shot to death back in 1994 at the age of 7 months; and 2021 homicide victims

Miguel Angel Ramos, Ciera Lashay Jones, Richard Lamar Whitaker Jr., Zaire Luciano, Adrian Barwise, Tyshaun Hargrove, and Mariyah Nakhoune-Inthirath.

Hippy Nakhoune said he felt mixed emotions on seeing his daughter’s name on a brick.

Mariyah Nakhoune-Inthirath, an aspiring model from Bridgeport, died after suffering a single gunshot wound on Sheffield Avenue on May 15. She was 20.

“Part of me feels bad,” he said. “I don’t want to have my daughter remembered on a brick. I want my daughter to be remembered for doing something for the world. But the other part of me feels that now I can come here and get some sense of peace when I’m feeling stressed out or depressed or when I’m really thinking about her.”

His daughter “was an amazing, outgoing, people person,” he said. “She was the light of the party. She had a way of knowing how to put a smile on someone’s face when they were feeling down.”

By then, Latasha Brown was leading a group of Tashawn’s brothers and sisters, relatives, and friends onto the lawn with a gaggle of blue balloons, his favorite color. An eagle swooped above. The group looked to the sky. Then Latasha Brown began a chant.

“Say his name,” she called out.

“Tashawn Eddie Brown,” they responded.

“Say his name,” she called out again, more loudly.

“Tashawn Eddie Brown,” they shouted, his name carrying through the park.

The New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing is at 105 Valley St. 203-4326570; https://uri.yale.edu/botanical-garden-healing

Chief: Cycle Blow-Out Cost $100K; Pay Up

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

The city plans to send a bill for more than $100,000 in police and public works overtime to the organizer of an unpermitted, 5,000-person motorcycle rally that tore through the Annex.

Interim Police Chief Renee Dominguez and Mayor Justin Elicker made that announcement Monday morning during their latest weekly crime-related press conference held on the third floor of police headquarters at 1 Union Ave. Dominguez and Elicker said that the city has been busy calculating the cost of overtime incurred by city staffers who worked extra duty extra duty on Saturday, Sept. 25, and Sunday, Sept. 26, in

response to the EastCoastin’ motorcycle event. Roughly 150 city police officers worked the event, as well as public works employees who helped with dump trucks and barricades.

That event saw over 5,000 people fill the city’s industrial waterfront to rev their engines, do motorcycle stunts and burnouts, and temporarily take over Waterfront Street.

Police also chased cyclists the Friday night before the event, as they lit fires and rode rampant on city streets. Many came from out of town and filled local hotels for the gathering.

So far police have made four EastCoastin’-related custodial arrests, including of the event’s organized Gabe Canestri, Jr.

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Interim Police Chief Renee Dominguez Monday: Either cash or check will do.

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City police have charged him with misdemeanor counts of inciting a riot and second-degree breach of peace.

Canestri has not yet entered a plea in the case, and has been released from custody on a $10,000 bond.

At Monday’s presser, Dominguez and Elicker said that the total city overtime cost for the event so far is over $100,000.

That number will likely rise, Dominguez said, given that the event stretched across two pay periods, from a Saturday night into a Sunday morning.

“We’ll be pursuing payment from Canestri,” she said. “We do feel we have some tools to get the payment back for this.”

How might the city go about collecting

that overtime cost from Canestri?

Dominguez said the police department is working with the city’s Corporation Counsel on how exactly to proceed. One route could involve asking for restitution at Canestri’s next court date in his ongoing criminal case. Another route could be to pursue a separate civil action against Canestri focused on collecting that $100,000-plus.

“We have not yet sent the bill,” Elicker said. “Because we’re still calculating the bill.”

Canestri declined to comment for this story, citing advice from his lawyer not to comment publicly about EastCoastin’ 2021 as his criminal case continues.

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A Human Rights Champion Gets Her Due

by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org

Find your fellow activists, accidental and otherwise. Look for them in the streets, in the state legislature, in college dining halls and sanctuary congregations. Once you know who they are, get to work.

New Haven organizer, activist, death penalty abolitionist and immigrant rights crusader Kica Matos delivered that message Wednesday night in Hartford, as she became a 2021 inductee into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. Over 200 people attended the event, held outdoors along the city’s Mortensen Riverfront Plaza. In a testament to her huge and often intersectional footprint, Matos’ cheering section hailed from New Haven, Hartford, New York City, and as far as the Fiji Islands. She is currently the vice president of initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Matos received the honor alongside Teresa Younger, president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and trans rights trailblazer Jeirmarie Liesegang, who died of cancer last November. Spotlight recipients included Enola Aird, Pat Baker, ​​Rabbi Donna Berman, Glynda Carr, Callie Heilmann, Lady Pamela Selders, Marilyn Ondrasik and New Haven’s own Khalilah Brown Dean. The President’s Award went to The Campaign School at Yale, helmed by New Havener Patti Russo.

“Tonight, as we elevate the cause of social justice, let us recognize that there are still many freedoms and struggles to fight for,” Matos said as she took the stage.

“Let us also remember that we must remain eternally vigilant, because some of the freedoms that we have taken for granted are not yet set in stone.”

Born in Puerto Rico in 1966, Matos has spent decades fighting for immigrant justice, carceral reform and an end to capital punishment across the country, including in New Haven. After growing up between Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Fiji Islands, she moved to New York for graduate school—first in political science at the New School, and later law at Cornell University.

For four years in between her degrees, she worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, largely organizing with Black communities in the American South. Before her move to New Haven in 2001, she was an assistant federal defender in Philadelphia, where she represented prisoners on death row. By then, she had realized “that I was going to dedicate my life to fighting for the abolition of the death penalty,” she said in a film that preceded her remarks Wednesday night.

After moving to New Haven—city residents can thank her now-husband, LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez, for brokering that deal—Matos became

the first woman to lead JUNTA for Progressive Action, where she instituted programming meant to meet the community’s changing needs. During her tenure, Matos built out after-school and summer programs for kids, spearheaded English language learning and legal assistance, and added driver’s education classes.

Where she saw a need in the community, she worked to meet it.

She brought that same approach to City

Hall in 2007, where she argued for “Ban the Box” legislation and was instrumental in creating the Elm City Resident ID Card as deputy mayor for community services under Mayor John DeStefano. Paul Bass, then in the very early years of editing the New Haven Independent, remembered seeing a line of residents wrapped around the block by City Hall in the hours before it opened, eager to sign up. Almost 15 years later, dozens of U.S. cities have

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adopted similar municipal ID programs.

“I don’t know anybody else who has made such a great impact on New Haven,” he said in a short film before Matos’ remarks. “Who has inspired us to work together to tackle our big challenges in such a constructive way.”

Matos did it while becoming a mom to Henry Fernandez IV, now a junior at Engineering and Science University Magnet School (and budding journalist in

the pages of this publication) who blew at least one kiss to her from the audience as she uttered the words “te quiero mucho” Wednesday night.

She did it while arguing for an end to the death penalty, which Connecticut voted to abolish in 2012. She did it while challenging city, state, and national governments on the treatment of immigrants, working (and often marching) hand in hand with activists, organizers, and people living at the margins, who came out of the shadows as a matter of necessity.

And she did it while getting arrested—in front of the White House to protest President Barack Obama’s aggressive deportation of migrants, in front of Trump Tower in New York as the Trump Administration attacked Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), in downtown New Haven as protesters blocked an intersection where Yale University had named a college for avowed white supremacist John C. Calhoun.

In New Haven, her footprint has touched every part of the city. Five years ago, she and activists rallied to give Corey Menafee, a Black dining hall employee at Yale, his job back after he smashed a panel depicting enslaved people carrying bales of hay on their heads. When they were successful—a win she credits not to herself, but to fellow activists and to Menafee’s own tenacity—she escalated the campaign, moving to change the name of Calhoun College.

She has been a frequent and steady voice in the city’s sanctuary movement, working with a kaleidoscopic coalition of organizers to advocate for Nury Chavarria, Marco Reyes, Nelly Cumbicos, Nelson Pinos, and dozens of other immigrants who have faced deportation orders from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

She helped steer Mayor Justin Elicker’s transition team in the months before he took office in 2020. In between, she has folded the arts into protest movements, from healing drums on the New Haven Green to bomba in the name of Black liberation and neighborhood safety.

“The truth is that justice almost always comes through fierce, and sometimes lengthy battles,” she said Wednesday, strings of lights twinkling behind her.

“Battles fought by women, men and young people, many of whom are directly impacted by injustice.”

On a plaza overlooking the Connecticut River, she found her usual rhythm of resistance long before ever taking the stage. Close friends and members of several groups, including Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental and Bomba Works NYC, surprised her at the event, walking out to greet her in song and percussive movement before the ceremony. In just moments, she had joined them, donning a white skirt to dance before orbiting a

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Edgewood Kindergarteners Head Outdoors

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

With arms spread wide, a class of kindergarteners felt a light fall breeze tickle their faces and wisp through their hair.

“I can feel the wind!” one student called out. “These flowers smell like fruit punch!” another student said aloud.

Students’ senses were put to the test Monday at Edgewood Creative Thinking Through STEAM Magnet School.

The outdoor lesson represented both a continuation of a style of teaching at Edgewood School that predated the pandemic, as well as an example of how New Haven Public Schools teachers are finding safe and innovative ways to keep in-person classes going even as Covid continues.

Children under the age of 12 remain ineligible to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, though the Pfzier/BioNTech is in the process of seeking federal approval for its vaccine to be given to children ages 5 to 11.

A class of roughly 20 kindergarteners Monday practiced using their senses during an outdoor lesson about the weather.

The class utilized one of Edgewood’s newest outdoor learning areas, now home to two picnic tables and next to the school’s flower and fruit garden.

Edgewood kindergarten teacher Michelle Paulishen has perfected her outdoor teaching strategy over the years—a method of teaching that has become all the more relevant during the ongoing pandemic. She encourages her students to interact with nature; keep their worksheets handy; and have fun.

Paulishen prepared the class with a prelesson about weather and senses before going outdoors Monday. Before heading outside the class read the children’s book “My 5 Senses” by Aliki Brandenberg.

This gave the students a refresher on what their five senses are and what using them looks like.

With clip board and pencils in hand, the students began with writing their names at the top of their papers, then moved down a chart of how they use their senses outdoors. “Use your eyes. What do you guys see that tells you about the weather?”

Paulishen asked.

The students’ eyes left their papers and wandered.

Responses called out: “The sun.” “The clouds.” “Bees.”

In the blank chart spaces the students began drawing bumble bees, fluffy clouds, and a smiling sun with dozens of rays.

Next the students moved on to what they could hear outdoors.

During the lesson, Edgewood Avenue road work echoed about a block away from the picnic table area where the students worked. “If you’re really quiet you might be able to hear over the construction,” Paulishen said.

Paulishen crouched close to a path of wild

plants with her hand cuffed around her ear. “Listen with me guys. I hear something that’s making noise in the grass.”

The class closed their eyes with hands cuffed over their ears. “It’s crickets!” one student answered after listening closely to the chirping of the bug.

Several students began drawing “bugs with big legs” in the “hearing” box on their work sheets. Others attempted to write the work “cricket” in the box.

As they moved down to the touch sense the students got up from their seats to close their eyes and extend their arms out and feel the weather. “The wind is blowing my paper all around,” said kindergartner Logan.

Paulishen sounded out the word WI-N-D as the class wrote in the “touch” worksheet box. Others drew curled lines to resemble the motion of blowing air and leaves of nearby bushes.

For the fourth and final sense box the students sniffed the plants surrounding the picnic area along with the growing tomatoes and peppers in the habitat garden. The students lowered their masks to sniff the flowers describing their smells as “soap” and “strawberries.”

Six-year-old London took a big whiff of a bush of red marigolds and then used her pencil to draw them in her worksheets “smell” box.

Paulishen described outdoor lessons as a win-win. “They don’t see outdoors as school work,” she said. “It incorporates the lesson and social, emotional learning in one.”

The only sense the class didn’t use outdoors Monday was taste.

Starting in October, Paulishen and her class will graph the weather everyday using their senses. Instead of just teaching about weather for one marking period, Paulishen teaches about weather and climate for the entire school year to keep the students interested in outdoor learning.

She also plans to do guided reading lessons outside and math lessons with chalk on the playground, like she has in the past.

When planning to teach outside, Paulishen also prepares a back up indoor plan in case the weather is bad.

Paulishen has been a teacher for 19 years.

She has taught for NHPS for 14 of those years, and has taught kindergarteners for 10 of those years.

“There’s no excuse to not do reading and writing outdoors. All they have to do is walk over to a plant or watch a car go by and it ignites their imagination,” she said.

While teaching outside Paulishen said she notices that some students who are more quiet and nervous in the classroom worry less when outdoors and ask more questions.

When Paulishen begins teaching her class about different types of clouds she plans to bring them to Edgewood Park for most lessons. One will include lying

Now the area is home to the school’s outdoor cafe, where starting this school year students of all grades have been alternating outdoor lunch periods. The space is rainbow themed with picnic tables and benches for students to eat lunch and at other times read, take mask breaks, use their computers, and have outdoor lessons.

The school is working on getting approval for building a performance pavilion on its blacktop area for outdoor music and art-related school displays.

Additionally the school is working on a fifth outdoor learning space in the school’s alley entrance on Yale Avenue.

This space will soon become a musical outdoor maker space with help from Common Ground students.

“There’s more to think about outdoors for the teachers and students. So when we go outside we have to be intentional,” Perrone said.

Perrone said the school has purchased and received donations of new kids-size hats, coats, and gloves from Old Navy for the winter season to continue outdoor learning when possible.

“We’re taking all the barriers away from getting classrooms outside,” he said. “We want to allow true learning.”

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MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOS “Touching” the wind at Edgewood School Monday.

in the field area and studying the clouds together.

“Outdoor learning allows for more authentic mini lessons to happen and the time flies when we’re outside,” she said.

Paulishen spent the first three weeks of the school year teaching her students about the safe areas to stay in when outdoors. She plans to refresh students about these perimeters after school-breaks.

On Monday the kindergartners used one of Edgewood’s four outdoor learning classroom spaces. All four were created last fall as apart of the school’s outdoor exploration goal.

Principal Perrone: “We Knew We Had To Be Outside” “Our outdoor exploration goal was developed by the school community before Covid. But now Covid has become our motivator,” Principal Nicholas Perrone said Monday.

“They’ve been cooped up and scared because of the virus for so long, we knew we had to be outside,” Perrone added.

Perrone has tasked the school administra-

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tion with providing support to teachers of all grade levels to help them get comfortable with teaching outdoors. Creating lesson plans for an outdoor lesson is different than teaching indoors, Perrone said.

“Outdoors comes with so many unplanned teachable moments, like a butterfly pollinating in front of you or neighborhood homelessness,” he said.

Edgewood classes often utilize Edgewood Park across the street for outdoor lessons as well. Perrone said he plans to partner more with the Friends of Edgewood Park group to offer students tours and cleanups during the school day. On Monday several classes walked back and forth to the park for mask breaks, walking trips, and recess time.

Edgewood has established a partnership with Common Ground School, which offers student help with building and enhancing Edgewood outdoor areas.

Common Ground helped to create two of the outdoor spaces at Edgewood last fall. The spaces used to be a “dilapidated” alley way used for staff parking.

communities of color. In remarks to the crowd Thursday night, Bond spoke about that pandemic work — and her work helping businesses stay open, and helping elections officials enable people to vote — as relevant to the work she would do if elected secretary of the state. She also vowed to continue Merrill’s push for a state constitutional amendment to allow no-excuses absentee voting and other efforts to boost voting rights and access.

“I am not a politician. I am definitely an underdog,” Bond told the gathering. “But I have been a public servant for the past 20 years. ... My career has been fighting for people of all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds.

John LeBlanc was working as a bartender at one of those businesses, a local restaurant, when Bond started making her rounds as health director to enforce the city code. “I was the only staff member who didn’t get nervous,” he recalled with a chuckle. “I’ve seen how much of a hard worker she is. I know whatever she puts her mind to, she’ll get done.”

LeBlanc was seated at Thursday’s event with hair salon owner Luvena Jones, who grew up with Bond in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood. They’re now neighbors in the Heights. “She works nonstop. She puts her heart into everything does,” Jones said. “She’s not a ‘yes man’ kind of woman. The political world could use someone like that.”

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Reginald Dwayne Betts Named 2021 MacArthur Fellow

by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org Reginald Dwayne Betts has been building toward a better world for years. In his youth, he built a freer future for himself after someone slid Dudley Randall’s Black Poets beneath the door of a solitary cell, and the voices of Etheridge Knight and Lucille Clifton pulled him through prison. In his 20s, he built a career as a scholar, writer and criminal justice crusader that flowed from community college to Cave Canem to the Yale Law School.

Most recently, he has been building knowledge with Freedom Reads, a collaboration between the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Yale Law School Justice Collaboratory that seeks to place 500-book collections—Betts refers to them as “freedom libraries”—in 1,000 medium and maximum security prisons.

The work hasn’t gone unnoticed. Tuesday afternoon, Betts—a poet, public defender, doting dad and nationally recognized criminal justice advocate who lives in New Haven—was among 25 people named to the 2021 class of MacArthur Fellows. He, with other members of his cohort, will receive $625,000 in unrestricted fellowship funding.

“I feel like America doesn’t recognize the power and the strength and the intelligence of poets,” he said earlier this year,

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Photo.

in a conversation with Cave Canem cofounders Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady at the New Haven Free Public Library. “And the actual culture building that poets practice.”

He wasn’t talking about himself at the time—the praise was for Amiri Baraka, Clifton, Clarence Major, Eady and Derricotte, Elizabeth Alexander and so many others—but he could have been. As a

teenager, Betts was incarcerated for a carjacking that carried felony charges and was tried as an adult case, despite the fact that he was 16 at the time.

While serving a nine-year sentence in prison, “I decided I was going to be a writer,” he told the graduating class at Metropolitan Business Academy this June. He didn’t tell a soul about his plan.

Instead, he read—first books on a rickety

cart at the Fairfax County Jail, then poetry he was able to request through Interlibrary Loan. Libraries became his lifeline to the outside world.

When he was released in 2005, Betts pursued writing and poetry alongside an interest in criminal justice reform, all of which he balanced with becoming a husband and father to two young sons. His work led him to Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 2016 (he is now back at the school, pursuing a Ph.D. in Law). In addition to his work as a public defender and outspoken advocate for reform, he has also returned to dozens of prisons and juvenile detention facilities to speak about his own experience.

Betts has spoken openly, often fiercely and with biting humor about a world that underestimates people who look like him, from his classmates at Yale to members of the Connecticut Bar Association, who nearly blocked his application for admission in 2017. He has turned, time and time again, to the arts to provide a strong, sometimes hard-to-stomach dose of truth telling that works as the antidote.

His collections of poetry, from the 2015 Bastards of the Reagan Era to his 2019 Felon, have made a sweeping, deeply human argument for prison reform and abolition. Felon, in particular, hits hard as Betts marries inelegant, hard-to-read redacted legal documents with the eerie, economical beauty of poetry. Last year,

he brought that lyricism to Pleading Freedom, a joint show with NXTHVN Founder and 2018 MacArthur Fellow Titus Kaphar. The exhibition featured their 2019 project Redaction alongside poems and paintings. Read about it here.

Earlier this year, Betts spoke to seniors at Metropolitan Business Academy about how he had never attended a high school graduation—not his own, not those of his siblings, cousins, friends, or his mother’s friends’ children. He acknowledged a loss there, and urged them to “hope audaciously”—perhaps the very piece of advice that has brought him to this point.

“You leave here today, and there will be people who will not expect you to be where you want to be tomorrow,” he said as 99 masked faces looked back. “And they will make it seem like their lack of expectation for you is about what you know. But really, their lack of expectation is about what you look like.Their lack of expectation is about what they think they know about your family.”

“When I say you need to hope audaciously, when I say you need to plan your tomorrows without even understanding how you get to them,” he continued. “I mean that you have to be willing to fail, you need to be willing to ask questions.

Because you don’t know what your tomorrows will be, you just have some hope for them, you gotta always do your best.”

Newhall Blasts Affordable Housing Plan

by NORA GRACE-FLOOD

Scrap the existing plan. The neighborhood doesn’t want NeighborWorks New Horizons, or affordable housing.

Fifty residents of southern Hamden delivered that message Monday night at a public meeting about the future of a blighted property located at 560 Newhall St., home to Hamden’s long deserted and decaying middle school.

The community forum was led by Hamden Acting Town Planner Erik Johnson.

It was held both in-person at the Keefe Community Center and over Zoom.

The goal was to receive residents’ input prior to an Oct. 18 Legislative Council vote. The Council will decide whether or not to move forward with a site blueprint drafted by NeighborWorks New Horizons, aka Mutual Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer with which Hamden signed a contract with back in 2015 to redevelop the property.

Those who showed up to the event were largely there to critique the premise of the conversation itself, reiterating concerns named by district Council member Justin Farmer throughout the last two months of council meetings regarding the middle

school.

The controversial saga goes as such: Hamden signed a contract with Mutual Housing six years ago with the understanding that they’d implement their plan — which included building roughly 90 apartments that would be 80 percent affordable and 20 percent market rate, as well as a community center — before July 22, 2021.

An unexpectedly lengthy remediation process (read about that here and here) stalled the project. The council granted the nonprofit an extension to redevelop their site plan in accordance with new environmental constraints discovered through the remediation. Read about that current site plan here, which remained largely unchanged even after the soil inspection. It involves building 87 apartments on site, demolishing the old gymnasium and building a small “community facility” that would be operated by Mutual Housing, and using the unbuildable extra acreage behind the old middle school for athletic fields.

To date the project has not gotten off the ground.

Neighbors at Monday night’s meeting argued that Mutual Housing’s proposal

NORA GRACE-FLOOD PHOTO Newberry residents Cleveland Bromell, Earnestine Bromell, and Kei-

ther Butler, all of whom have lived next to the Newhall property for decades, raise their hands to critique Mutual Housing’s site proposal.

would inadvertently harm those living around the property. They argued the Council and nonprofit had failed to properly reach out to long-time residents at an appropriate place and time, both this summer and six years ago. If the council and developers had successfully facilitated community conversation, the audience

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said, they’d know that few people want affordable housing on the site.

With only two weeks before the vote on whether to renew the contract, many residents at the event expressed a belief that the property’s pathway had already been determined and that the public forum was a mere formality.

“If the decision’s already been made to develop housing on that site, why are we here?” asked Yvonne Jones, founder and CEO of an educational enrichment nonprofit called Destined to Succeed.

Johnson disagreed. He said he saw the Council as having three options when it votes in two weeks: • To end the contract with Mutual Housing and go out to bid with a new developer, effectively starting the process from scratch.

• To approve Mutual Housing’s plan and continue on to finalize specifics.

• To highlight terms of the agreement that might require significant modifications and instruct Johnson to continue negotiations with Mutual before moving forward with the plan.

The options boil down to: compromise or begin again.

At first, neighbors at Monday night’s Keefe meeting called any level of compromise out of the question. Affordable housing, the residents said, doesn’t belong in a historical wetland that experiences regular flooding and on a property already prone to traffic jams.

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On Whalley, Shaunda Holloway's Ode To Survival Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org

Five faces crowd the frame, looking out at the viewer from a brilliant orange backdrop. One sports a crown of thick black hair; the others triangulate behind her. Red paint streaks the image, landing on their cheeks and necks. On the surrounding canvases, leaves climb and rustle in yellow and brown. A two-toned face sports long, gleaming cowrie shell earrings collaged onto a wooden board.

Big, blooming flowers appear over old articles about the “war on crime.”

All of the images are part of Strong Ones, a solo show from artist Shaunda Holloway running at People Get Ready Books (PGR) through Oct. 31. For Holloway, it marks a sort of full circle moment as the bookstore turns two years old and celebrates surviving a pandemic with one of its earliest supporters. The show unfolds in PGR’s community room, located in the former home of Music Haven off Whalley Avenue. Masks and social distancing are required.

“The thing that struck me is what we’re all going through right now with this pandemic, and the strength it takes to endure,” she said at an opening on Friday night. “Life in general, but wearing a mask 24/7. You know? First you don’t have to wear a mask, then you do. So that takes a lot of endurance. A lot of the pieces—I hope that they encourage people to continue to be strong.”

The works in the show tell that story piece by piece. In the collage Her Magic Was In Her Pen, Holloway gives the canvas a sense of movement while celebrating the work of Zora Neale Hurston, equal parts darling and architect of the Harlem Renaissance. On one side of the image, bright shapes float through a milky white and blueish ground. A leaf rises over a woman’s mouth, as yellow and white paint swirl in the background. In the lower righthand corner of the frame, an article in faded newsprint celebrates Hurston’s career. The author’s stately portrait looks out in black and white like an invitation.

From far away, it looks as though the collage is a book, with a neat green spine patterned in climbing, technicolor leaves.

On closer inspection, the floating shapes become rounded, monochrome faces, wispy feathers and large, abstracted droplets of color. Layers reveal themselves one at a time, some glinting in the room’s low lighting as others pop loudly from the canvas. It’s the kind of piece a viewer can return to again and again, each time with slightly new meaning.

There’s an equally rich sense of watching the artist’s process morph and evolve.

Among several oil on wood compositions, Holloway has included three of her monotypes, all done on the printing press at her Hamden home. Unlike printmaking processes in which artists pull multiples,

monotypes are one of a kind—they produce only a single image. To make them, Holloway paints directly on a plate, then prints the mirror image directly on paper. What viewers are seeing in person doesn’t exist in a set of prints anywhere else.

To create textures, Holloway has used netting, lace, leaves, and fabric among other multimedia materials. The result is wonderfully unrestrained, with geometric patterns and vibrant, pulsating colors that rise from the paper. In one, she uses the technique to celebrate the natural world, with hand-rendered, veined flowers that emerge from a dark, depths-of-the-ocean blue and look as though they could be eyes or faces.

The bookstore’s quiet community room, dotted with tables and chairs and large enough for physical distancing, invites a kind of close looking that seems right on time for the show. Friday, Holloway buzzed around the room, chatting with friends, fellow printmakers, and a few pint-sized viewers who studied her work intently. Sugar, the bookstore’s dog, padded quietly around the space, stopping for quick hellos and a few cautious sniffs and nuzzles.

A sense of narrative carries over to her doors, which she has salvaged, propped up and painted with bright faces, beaming moons, and at least one abstracted cityscape. In Stand Up!!!, eight different faces look out at the viewer, their eyes wide and searching. Between them, Holloway plays with shape and color, some heads glowing as others balance squarely

on their necks and shoulders. A viewer may feel nods to Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Kentridge, Martin Puryear and the West African carvers from whom Cubism was so rudely cribbed, but they are also entirely her own.

Across the wall, her painted Sonflowers looks out in vivid oranges, reds and yellows, folding human faces into the natural landscape. It’s effective and affecting, making the viewer wonder who among the flowers might still be with them, and who might exist beyond the veil. There’s a sense that both doors might lead somewhere in Holloway’s imagination, where a world without Covid-19, racism, and ableism is entirely possible. As if on cue, Christopher Meyer’s Wings and a guide to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series sits in between the two.

The works feel at home in the bookspace for a reason: Holloway has been a fan of co-owners Delores Williams and Lauren Anderson since the store’s humble beginnings. An early supporter of People Get Ready, Holloway first loaned work to the bookstore in October 2019, before its opening on Indigenous People’s Day. When the pandemic forced the bookstore to close its physical doors last March, those pieces “actually kept us company,” Anderson said. The solo show expands that work.

“It was this really beautiful way of staying in community with somebody that we have super fond feelings for, when we couldn’t see people in person,” Anderson said. “We love her. We love who she is as a person, and we love who she is as

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an artist.”

“This space, it’s a bookstore, but it’s become a real community institution, and it’s nice to be a part of that since the beginning,” Holloway added. “They’re so smart and so welcoming.”

Between now and the end of October, Holloway said she is hopeful that the show will have a fair amount of foot traffic, including during Artspace New Haven’s Open Source Festival this fall. To her, this fall feels like New Haven is coming back, even in the face of an ongoing pandemic. She sees the city returning as institutions reopen and students return to campus. For the first time this year, she is also teaching printmaking at Creative Arts Workshop. Find out more about her class, “Inspired Collagraph and Monotype Quilts,” here.

“When the universities are in session, there’s a collective intellectual buzz in New Haven that you can just feel,” she said. “That feeds me. There’s a pulse and it’s just something that ... it’s like a current, you know? That intellectual energy translates into creative energy. These are the things that keep me going.”

Strong Ones runs at People Get Ready Books, 119 Whalley Ave. in New Haven, through Oct. 31. Find out more Holloway at her website. Get the bookstore’s hours here.

The artist Shaunda Holloway at People Get Ready bookspace on Whalley Avenue. Her solo exhibition, Strong Ones, runs through Oct. 31. “Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by Shaunda Holloway.

Barrille, then laying her palms to its surface. Kevin Diaz, who founded the group in 2016, later gifted her a drum painted with palm trees, ocean, and low-hanging white clouds.

On stage, she urged attendees to continue fighting, quoting the late Civil Rights icon Ella Baker. She looked to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could overturn the 1973 precedent set by Roe v. Wade this December.

She noted voter suppression efforts in 18 states, including 30 pieces of proposed and signed legislation that are meant to keep Black and Brown people, queer people, and women from the polls.

She turned her eyes to the U.S.-Mexico border, where horrific violence against Haitian migrants has amplified a much deeper, more entrenched racist divide built into the U.S. immigration system.

In the thick of it, Matos said, she thinks of the activists. The longtime organizers, and also the “accidental” activists, who have parlayed their own lived experience into advocacy. She shouted out Menafee, Chavarria, and Chavarria’s young daughter Hayley, whose activism came out of simply wanting her mom to stay in the United States.

“I look forward to continuing with all of you on this journey,” she said to loud cheers, whoops, and two standing ovations. “Dreaming big. Fighting hard. And memorializing, in our hearts and in our minds, the kind of world that we seek to live in.”

Younger, whose previous work as executive director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and president of the Connecticut ACLU frequently brought her into New Haven, also advocated for that kind of forward momentum. When she wakes up each morning, she said, “I challenge myself to do something every day.”

“You see, if we each do something, it means we will get so much more done,” she continued. “A fight for social justice isn’t about sitting in places of comfort.

So what will you do, like my fellow honorees, to make yourself uncomfortable?

To make others uncomfortable? So that we can change the systems that are out there.”

Note/Comment from Addys Castilo: For the sake of accuracy, the drums that were being played are not congas. They are Barrilles. Barrilles are authentic to Bomba whereas congas are used in salsa and rumba. The folks that serenaded Kica Matos were not all members of Movimiento Cultural. In fact, we chose to not identify ourselves as Movimiento Cultural. We were a ‘Junte’ a gathering of folks from the bomba community, including folks from Bomba Works NYC, that came together to honor our sister. This was not a performance rather a sacred gift to our cultural sister and an honoring to include the spirit of the ancestors that are indeed proud of our ‘guerrera’ Kica Matos.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12 , 2021

COMMENTARY:

Who Gets Flexibility?

I had not planned to have a policy conversation when I boarded my connecting flight from Detroit to DC. But the young white woman, totally professionally dressed, seemed to want my ear. She was coming to Washington to do “advocacy,” she said, around workplace flexibility and “reimagining work.” I thought girlie just wanted to hear herself talk, so my responses were minimal – um hum, okay.

But I was more interested when she wove her policy thoughts into her own story – a young mom who COVID challenged to ensure that her children didn’t fall behind.

The exchange sustained us for the scant hour or so of the flight, but I went another perspective as we began to exit the plane.

We were in row 15, just five rows out of first class. As we left, I observed several women, mostly Black and Latina, and one African man, frantically cleaning the plane’s first-class cabin. It was clear that they were also waiting for the rest of us to get off the plane so they could go to the back and continue to clean.

The airlines promise cleaning between flights, and these folks were doing their jobs. Watching them, though, made it clear that the flexibility my seatmate was advocating for is not flexibility that trick-

les down. Those who write, talk, think, and compute for a living have the privilege of flexibility. Those of us who clean, sit behind a cash register, pick up garbage, or more, don’t have the same benefit of flexibility. Too much of the policy conversation centers around providing flexibility for some. What accommodations are we prepared to offer others?

For example, at hotels these days, guests are told that we should sleep on the same sheets and use the same towels for days, only asking for housekeeping services when we need them. But when we do not have housekeeping services, there’s a sister who has less work. She can’t clean our rooms from home, so her work week, once 40 hours or more, is now shortened.

Her paycheck is smaller. Her benefits may disappear. Where is flexibility for her Our policy lens is distorted by our privilege and class situation. Desk jockeys advocate for desk jockeys, folks who can easily do their jobs from their desk or the office. Folks who can’t desk jock or advocate are left on their own. Too many of those who don’t’ have the luxury of flexible work are Black or Brown. A conversation about flexible work reeks of privilege and sidelines too many in the labor force.

According to the Brookings Institute’s Dr. Kristin Broady, about 13.4 percent of the workforce teleworked. Nearly a third of Asian American workers teleworked, compared to 12.4 percent of whites, 11.2 percent of Black people, and a scant 7.9 percent of Chicano/Latinx people. I’m not casting any shade on Asian American workers. Still, I’m wondering about other workers and how we reimagine work

for those who aren’t sitting at the policy table.

Simple arithmetic suggests that when we pay people more, we get more effort, that many won’t mind the three-day workweek if they can be paid for it. Some of the workers, most of whom are women, won’t mind spending more time engaged in their children’s education, perhaps volunteering at their schools. Others might like the time to upgrade their skills, possibly enrolling in classes that augment their already proven skills with management possibilities. Or they might choose to chill, work less complicated, and embrace the notion that their lives should only be dictated by work and survival.

Predatory capitalism extracts surplus value from workers, exploiting them because they have no choice but to work at substandard conditions for the capitalists to maximize their profits. Covid reminded us of our interdependence, of the many ways we must rely on each other. For many privileged workers, it has meant that the terms and conditions of their work can be reexamined. What about the workers we rely on for our health care, transportation services, grocery shelving, and more. It will be a classist tragedy if the few folks at the top only enjoy workplace flexibility. Workplace flexibility, and the pay that goes with it, must also be a privilege of those at the bottom.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State, LA. Reach her at juliannemalveaux.com

Plus, the crowd asked, how might placing more affordable housing into an overdeveloped, low-income part of the town further disparities between their area and wealthier districts?

“It’ll destabilize the area even further,” said Velma George, New Haven’s homelessness coordinator and a Hamden resident. “Come on, we’ve been disenfranchised for many years.” George stressed that she does support the concept of including affordable housing in the project; her concern is the density.

Newhall Street is on the southern end of town. Its surrounding neighborhood is composed primarily of Black and brown people.

Johnson encouraged the crowd to think more carefully about their stance, pointing out that the apartments will be aimed at individuals with incomes between $30,000 and $70,000.

“You’re basically just filling the space with people with the same income,” he said.

“Sometimes they’re the same people that look just like us,” he added, motion-

ing towards himself.

The audience raised their voices in response to that statement.

“It’s about homeownership,” Yvonne Jones countered. “At the end of the day, my property value is going to decrease!”

OK, Johnson said. So what would be the alternative to affordable housing?

“A grocery store,” Jones suggested.

Senior housing, others said. Gloria Faber pushed for single-family homes.

Keith Butler of Newberry Street asked, “Why not a little medical center or something?”

“This was an environmental disaster six years ago,” Johnson reminded the crowd.

“This property probably has a negative value today … It should not be thought about as an opportunity.”

Johnson suggested that the town wouldn’t be able to sell the property, but also probably couldn’t afford to fund building anything itself on site. “The goal is ultimately for it not to be a blighted site.”

NeighborWorks President and CEO Tom Cruess joined the meeting on Zoom.

Mutual Housing said they might consider lowering the total number of apartments, that they plan to perform traffic and flooding studies during site development, and that it was to be determined whether or not they would charge a fee for space rentals by local nonprofits within the potential gymnasium-turned-community center.

Cruess said he would be interested in forming an advisory board with community members to make sure established Hamden nonprofits could use the space.

“We build these projects and then operate them — we don’t sell them. So we want to be good neighbors. We truly want to build something that services and improves your community,” Hoffman insisted.

Attendees said that they do not trust the developers to become those good neighbors. George said water management has been promised by the town in the past in similar situations, such as during the remediation of the nearby Villano Park — but nothing came of it. Hamden youth center founders Yvonne Jones and Me-

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Select Committee on the January 6 Committee, Led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sends Out Subpoenas

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (DMiss.), the Select Committee on the January 6 Committee has sent out a second round of subpoenas to 11 people tied to the events leading up to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been marginalized by the members of the Republican Party in the U.S. House. Several members have been implicated as having a connection with the planning of the attack, which happened on the day President Joseph Biden’s election was officially certified.

“The Select Committee is investigating the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power, in order to identify and evaluate lessons learned and to recommend to the House and its relevant committees, corrective laws, policies, procedures rules, or regulations,” wrote Chairman Thompson on September 28.

The subpoenas include demands for various records. Those documents include requests for information on the planning, funding, and participation in events around January 6. The Select Committee issued subpoenas for records from the following individuals and their associated entities, and has instructed the individuals to testify at depositions: • Amy Kremer, founder and Chair of Women for America First (WFAF)

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lissa Atterberry-Jones expressed concern that Mutual Housing would invite their separate partner nonprofits into the new “community facility,” rather than supporting the extant programs that make up the town.

“We should just scrap the whole thing and start over,” Jones suggested with a sigh towards the conclusion of the meeting.

Disgruntled “yeahs” echoed in agreement throughout the room.

Council member Dominique Baez pointed out that council members Kristin Dolan and Athena Gary were participating via Zoom, though all four members were double booked with a Legislative Council meeting at 7 pm, which was only the midpoint of the 6 pm forum.

“All your voices are important, but I cannot speak for the other council members,” said Council member Dominique Baez said. The public has two more opportunities to voice their concerns and push council members to represent their stance: At an Economic Development Commission meeting on Oct. 12, and when the Council is scheduled to vote on Oct. 18.

• Kylie Kremer, founder and Executive Director of WFAF. • Cynthia Chafian, submitted the first permit application on behalf of WFAF for the January 6th rally, and founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition.

• Caroline Wren, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Advisor.”

• Maggie Mulvaney, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Lead.”

• Justin Caporale, of Event Strategies, Inc., listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Project Manager.”

• Tim Unes, of Event Strategies, Inc., listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Stage Manager.”

• Megan Powers, of MPowers Consulting LLC, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Operations Manager for Scheduling and Guidance.”

• Hannah Salem, of Salem Strategies LLC, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Operations Manager for Logistics and Communications.”

• Lyndon Brentnall, of RMS Protective Services, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “On-Site Supervisor.”

• Katrina Pierson, former Trump campaign official, reportedly involved in the organization of the January 5th and 6th rallies and was in direct communication with the former President about the rallies.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is a political analyst who appears regularly on #RolandMartinUnfiltered. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12, 2021

Kelly Price Speaks on Being Reported Missing & COVID Battle: “I Died”

by Gemma Greene, BDO Staff Writer

Over the past few weeks, people had been wondering about the award-winning singer Kelly Price since no one had heard from her. Concern continued to grow when he sister reported her missing. This sent shockwaves through social media as fans and celebrities alike posted pictures and comments of concern for the celebrated singer.

Now, in an exclusive interview with TMZ, the 48-year-old Price emotionally spoke about flatlining from COVID-19 complications and having been “disappointed” with the turn of events amid speculation she’d disappeared.

The “Friend of Mine” singer told the outlet she was never missing. Price made it clear, “I was never missing … everyone in my family knew exactly where I was.

It’s very disappointing that things came to this.”

Despite her sister, Shanrae Price, claiming the singer’s daughter was a child, Kelly says her youngest daughter is 27 years old.

On Friday, her daughter, Jonia Rolle, spoke to affiliate station CBS-46 and told the outlet her mother was “fine” despite having been recently hospitalized for COVID-19.

The Grammy-nominated singer said that while being hospitalized, doctors “lost” her at one point.

“At some point, they lost me,” explains Price. “I woke up a couple of days and

Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images for The Blackhouse Foundation) Kelly Price Instagram the first thing I remember was the doctors standing around me asking me if I knew what year it was,” Kelly Price recalled of the horrifying moment. When the interviewer asked Price to explain what she meant by “they lost me,” she clarified: ‘I died.’

Price said before admitting herself to the

hospital, she suffered from COVID-19 for a week, and her partner was taking care of her. She said her conditions were “progressing in the wrong direction,” and after taking care of her, she says her partner tested positive “within a week” after she caught it. “My temperature had raised to 103 [degrees] and my breathing was

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extremely shallow,” said Price.

Though Price’s near-death experience with COVID-19 ended with her life spared, she told TMZ that she is not yet out of the woods. “I have what is called long COVID and I am facing a very uphill battle right now,” Kelly said, before trailing off in tears. “I suffered a lot of internal damage and so I have a lot of rehabbing to do before I am able to be concert-ready again.”

People sometimes called “long haulers” experience long Covid, post-Covid conditions, post-Covid syndrome — there’s no settled name. There’s also no diagnostic test, no specific treatment, no pill to take. And while research is ongoing, there aren’t large, peer-reviewed, goldstandard clinical trials yet either.

There are potentially hundreds of symptoms, including shortness of breath, fatigue, headache, fever, anxiety, depression, pain, a loss of taste and smell, difficulty thinking, brain fog, a racing heart and many others.

Symptoms are not consistent. Doctors can’t predict what symptoms someone will have or who will get them, and symptoms can change over time, or disappear and then come back.

Dr. Mitchell Miglis, an autonomic disorders specialist who works with post-Covid patients at Stanford Health Care said there are cases where he reminds people to watch their salt, or increase their fluids, or prescribes a beta blocker, and they eventually get better.

“We first try to control the symptoms and then use that as a bridge to get them more physically active and then treat all the components that we can,” Miglis told CNN. Some people get better on their own over time, or symptoms can be treated, but for others, recovery remains elusive.

Price first shared that she had tested positive for Covid-19 on July 29. She has not shared whether she is vaccinated.

“I’m following Dr’s orders. I’m quarantined. Feeling really drained,” she wrote on Instagram. “Splitting headache but I’m not in the hospital. I’m grateful and expecting to have a quick recovery. #GodIsAHealer.”

Price said she received her first negative Covid test about a week ago.

She gratefully posted a thank you to those who had been concerned on her Instagram page.

Price’s attorney, Monica Ewing, told CNN via email that her client “does plan to talk more about her Covid journey but not right now. She wants to get further along her recovery and rehabilitation journey first.”

Now with that episode behind her and knowing her recovery comes first, she has reflected on the tough year she had during the pandemic, including losing her grandmother to COVID-19. Now, Price says she is focused on herself and her recovery journey.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12 , 2021

Poet John Murillo to be the featured reader at the Quinnipiac University program ‘Amplifying Latinx Voices’ Oct. 6 Poet and teacher John Murillo, author of “Up Jump the Boogie,” will read excerpts of his work at the Quinnipiac University virtual program, “Amplifying Latinx Voices,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6.

Murillo grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a Black father and Mexican mother. He wrote raps and freestyled as a teenager before venturing into writing essays, then determined to begin more focused work on his poetry in his mid-twenties. Murillo completed his undergraduate degree at Howard University. After years of working various jobs and only writing and reading in his limited free time, Murillo decided to build his life around poetry. He received his MFA from New York University.

“Up Jump the Boogie,” Murillo’s debut full-length, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award. It was also deemed

by The Huffington Post to be among their

“Ten Recent Books of Poetry You Should Read Right Now.” His follow-up collection, “Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry,” was published in 2020. A meditation on racism and institutional violence in America and their personal consequences, it won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award and was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Awards.

Murillo has been awarded fellowships from the NEA, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, MacDowell, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is also the winner of the T. S. Eliot Foundation’s Four Quartets Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, two Larry Neal Writers Awards, and the Poetry Foundation’s J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize.

His poetry has appeared in “American Poetry Review,” and “Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner,” as well as “Best American Poetry 2017, 2019,

and 2020” and “Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry.” In the past, he has taught at Hampshire College and NYU. Murillo is currently an assistant professor of English and creative writing program director at Wesleyan University. He also teaches at Sierra Nevada College’s low-residency MFA program. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the poet Nicole Sealey.

“Amplifying Latinx Voices” is a collaborative event between Quinnipiac’s Department of Cultural and Global Engagement and the Department of English. It is a part of the Creative Writing Program’s “Yawp!” series and part of the university’s celebration of Latinx Heritage Month.

For more information, call 203-5828652 This program is free and open to the public.

TRiBL Founder & CEO Ikechi Nwabuisi Lays Out Plan for the New Black Wall Street ATLANTA, — Ikechi Nwabuisi, founder & CEO of TRiBL, today calls for a “New Black Wall Street,” offering a bold vision on how Blacks around the world can create generational wealth at a time when the pandemic over the past year has dramatically affected so many people’s lives.

In this new op-ed, Nwabuisi, a Nigerian-American, is the founder and CEO @ TRiBL, a messaging app for PanAfrican commerce, offers his strategies.

Publications may run the following piece under his byline, Ikechi Nwabuisi. Photo attached.

Wake up everybody! It’s time to celebrate the success of the success of those in the past and now in the present who represent brave Black men and women who are rewriting the scripts, illustrating that Black people can – and are – creating wealth.

We must channel our consumer buying power of $1.4 trillion to create the new Black Wall Street. Now is a great opportunity for us to embrace what Tulsa’s Black Wall Street symbolized: Black excellence; the power of community; and, the importance of unity. Ever since the death of George Floyd, we are realizing that we have to fight for social justice, but we also have to do what our predecessors did in Tulsa: They created a blueprint for wealth creation within our community. BankGreenwood.com reports that, a dollar circulates six hours in the Black community, 20 days in the Jewish community and 30 days in the Asian community.

According to a study by the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, “If 1,200 median priced houses in Tulsa

were destroyed today, the loss would be around $150 million. The additional loss of other assets, including cash, personal belongings, and commercial property, might bring the total to over $200 million.” What’s maddening is that this demonstrates the level of oppression faced, and the intention to upholding white supremacy.

Despite on-going efforts by the family members of those loved ones lost, they have repeatedly denied their claims for reparations. This gives us greater urgency for us to take control of our own destinies and move from words to actions to understand these three valuable lessons that we can apply today: 1) We must create wealth within the Black community; 2) We must buy black;

and, 3) We must create safe spaces/ communities where majority of commerce is Black-owned.

The pandemic has only highlighted the tremendous racial wealth gaps in this country. For Blacks, the median annual wage is nearly $10,000 more than White employees, a recent McKinsey study reported. The study goes on to show how Blacks are more likely to get hired in traditionally lower-paying jobs that prevent us from ever gaining the wealth we deserve even though we put in hours to get the jobs done.

The tragedies of the past year have fueled a new energy in buying Black. #BlackWallStreet, #BuyBlack and #BankBlack are trending. WeBuyBlack.com has become one of the

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largest online marketplaces for Blackowned businesses. The Official Black Wall Street app offers another invaluable tool for Black-owned businesses and consumers. That’s all good, but ultimately, it’s all about ownership and equity. It’s not just about access. It’s about actual ownership of businesses.

The ability to create jobs through entrepreneurship and share resources crafted for us, and by us. While information is information, our experiences are unique and require the context and/ or experience of people of our ethnic backgrounds.

What the new Black Wall Street needs is a community that combines culture and group economics so we can collectively accumulate wealth. We need commerce where Blacks can spend money and those dollars circulate within the Black community around the world so they can do business with other blacks – seamlessly. We need technology, creating social networks for-us-buy-us and those that allow us to access blockchain. These three elements – community plus commerce plus technology – are the tools for us to accumulate long-term wealth. No, we’re not talking about fast money that we make in a single transaction, but wealth that will stand the test of generations, passed on from one to the next.

In our tech driven society, we are the leaders of the internet. As we gain more education and access to resources and tools, we are able to build businesses and tools. We have more than earned the right to have our own keys to own, build, invest, and grow our communities without waiting on reparations or

help from politicians and government agencies who have proven that they do not have our best interests in mind.

The new Black Wall Street empowers us to re-train our community with a community-first mentality that will significantly shift our behavior. Group economics amongst Black people around the world will enable us to take advantage of some of the biggest wealth creation events, which will occur over the next 50-years i.e., emerging market real estate/infrastructure, blockchain, cryptocurrency, etc. With the power of our global community, we have the potential to tap into more than $2.5 trillion in Pan-African commerce.

Now is the time. We have unprecedented access to information, knowledge, and economic power, if we choose to accept it. What Blacks have is the opportunity to take advantage of a global marketplace where commerce is already happening. When we work together to ensure that dollars are circulating between our communities, we will create sustainable wealth for generations to come.

Ikechi Nwabuisi, a Nigerian-American, is the founder and CEO @ TRiBL,a messaging app for Pan-African commerce. Our all-in-one crypto platform uses a Discord meets CashApp like experience to pool money & streamline commerce within Black communities across the US, Nigeria, & more. The company has partnered with VISA and crypto firms Circle Internet Financial & Paxos Brokerage Firm to enable interoperable exchange of digital currencies worldwide.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12, 2021

Women of Color With Breast Cancer Launch New Brand Photography Campaign to Build Awareness BlackNews.com

Nationwide — For the Breast of Us, the first-ever blog and online community for all women of color affected by breast cancer, is excited to announce the launch of its new brand photography in an effort to increase the representation and inclusion of minority breast cancer thrives.

For the first time since launching in 2019, it has revealed new brand photography featuring its founders and members of its diverse Breast Cancer Baddie Ambassador team.

The photos, taken by Ride the Wave Photography in Orlando, Florida, provide a sharp contrast to the mainstream breast cancer narrative centered on the experiences of white women. With photo highlights featured on its website, the community demands for women of color to be truly seen, valued, and understood with its #WhenYouSeeUs campaign.

After struggling to find stories and images of women who looked like themselves, For the Breast of Us LLC, was created in 2019 by two young, black breast cancer survivors, Jasmine Souers and Marissa Thomas.

“I remember searching online just a few years ago trying to find images of black women with breast cancer,” said For the Breast of Us cofounder Marissa Thomas who was diagnosed with breast cancer at

35. “So many of the women in our community did the exact same thing because it’s not easily available.”

“Being part of this photoshoot gave us the opportunity to be the women we were once searching for. It’s an amazing feeling to create something that screams ‘You’re not alone!’ It’s a big deal for our community.”

An opportunity to harness the collective power of marginalized communities, For the Breast of Us empowers women of color to share their honest experiences with breast cancer and provides educational content to help them navigate the challenges to accessing quality healthcare. From taboo topics like sex and intimacy to living with metastatic breast

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cancer, For the Breast of Us has captured the attention of women going against their cultural norms to keep quiet about health matters.

“Every woman featured in this campaign knows what it feels like to be invisible as a person of color navigating the health system,” said For the Breast of Us cofounder Jasmine Souers, diagnosed

with breast cancer at the age 26 after an initial misdiagnosis.

“From the breast cancer campaigns and the cancer center support groups to having our concerns dismissed by our doctors and not being given all of our treatment options. This photoshoot is our way of saying, ‘We’re here, we matter, and we’re done dying in the dark and suffering silence.’ We are living boldly and loudly. And as long as we’re alive, we’ll be fighting to make the journeys easier for the women diagnosed after us.”

About Launched in 2019 by two young, black breast cancer survivors, Jasmine Souers and Marissa Thomas, For the Breast of Us, LLC is a blog and online community for women of color affected by breast cancer. Their mission is to help women of color make the rest of their lives the best of their lives after a breast cancer diagnosis. A welcoming space for women of color of all ages and stages, For the Breast of Us offers a private Facebook group for support, educational webinars, monthly live video podcasts on trending topics, and an opportunity for women of color to share their experiences in meaningful ways. To learn more about For the Breast of Us, visit BreastOfUs.com. Also, follow them on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 06, 2021 - October 12 , 2021

Merck Says COVID Pill Reduces Risk of Death and Hospitalization

by Jason Henderson, BlackDoctor.org

People newly infected with COVID-19 might soon have access to what essentially is Tamiflu for the novel coronavirus, a breakthrough that experts say would drastically alter the course of the ongoing pandemic.

At least three contenders are vying to become the first antiviral pill that specifically targets COVID-19, according to reports from drug manufacturers.

Merck & Co.’s antiviral drug molnupiravir leapt into the lead on Friday.

That’s when the company announced it will ask for quick U.S. approval for emergency use of their pill, after clinical trials showed it halved patients’ risk of hospitalization or death from COVID. Around 7% of COVID patients treated with molnupiravir were either hospitalized or died within a month of taking the drug, compared with 14% of patients who received a placebo. The analysis was based on data from 775 patients who’d enrolled early in the trial.

The new medication is just one of several antiviral pills now being tested in studies, and experts say these medications could give doctors a powerful new weapon to battle the virus. Latestage study results of two other antiviral pills, one developed by Pfizer and the other by Atea Pharmaceuticals and Roche, are expected within the next few months, The New York Times reported.

In the Merck trial, which was conducted entirely on unvaccinated patients to prove the medicine can reduce hospitalization and death, molnupiravir was taken twice a day for five days.

Merck says that an independent board of experts monitoring its study data recommended that the trial be halted early because the drug’s benefits to patients were so convincing. The company adds

that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agrees with that decision.

How will an antiviral pill protect you?

If they prove safe and effective, these drug candidates could keep people infected with COVID out of the hospital and prevent those around them from contracting the coronavirus, experts say.

“These are all drugs that in one way or another interfere with the multiplication of the virus,” Dr. William Schaffner, medical director of the Bethesda, Md.based National Foundation for Infectious Diseases says.

“If you were exposed and the virus is already in your body starting to multiply, if we could get in there early with these drugs that inhibit their multiplication, obviously the virus can’t spread to other parts of your body — thus sparing you developing illness or getting a milder illness,” Schaffner shares. “It also would make you less contagious to others.”

People living with a COVID patient also might be able to get a prescription for one of these antivirals, Schaffner adds.

“It might well be that we could give these drugs to family members who are exposed and never have them develop any infection at all,” Schaffner says.

Existing treatments are flawed There are already antiviral treatments available for people in the early throes of COVID, but they each have flaws that limit their usefulness.

Doctors have been using remdesivir — a drug developed to treat Ebola — to curb the damage done by a COVID infection, but its effectiveness is limited, Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with

the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security shares.

“What we’ve seen so far, drugs like remdesivir are not really knockout punches because they are kind of repurposed” from the viruses they originally targeted, Adalja says.

Monoclonal antibodies also can attack the virus in early infection, but “as you know they’re in short supply and they’re pretty darned expensive,” Schaffner notes. “They have to be given either intravenously or through a series of multiple injections under the skin, all of which makes things even more expensive, and you have to go to designated locations for treatment.”

“What we’ve always needed is a Tamiflu equivalent to keep people out of the hospital, to decrease complications, but it takes time for antiviral drugs to be made because they’re so specific to the viruses that are causing disease.”

Prescribed for flu, Tamiflu (oseltamivir) reduces flu symptoms and shortens re-

covery time.

Keeping people at home is a priority “We always believed antivirals, especially an oral antiviral, would be an important contribution to the pandemic,” Daria Hazuda, vice president of infectious diseases and vaccine discovery at Merck, tells the Washington Post.

“Keeping people out of the hospital is incredibly important, given the emergence of variants and the continued evolution of the virus.”

Merck’s news comes on the heels of Pfizer’s announcement early last week that it had entered phase 2/3 clinical trials for a COVID antiviral it calls PF07321332.

Pfizer’s drug candidate would be taken in combination with the antiretroviral HIV drug ritonavir to see if it could keep COVID from spreading to healthy trial participants living in the same household as someone with a confirmed infection, the company said in a

statement.

The trial plans to enroll up to 2,660 people who will be randomly assigned to receive either the pill or a placebo twice daily for 5 to 10 days.

Meanwhile, Roche and Atea Pharmaceuticals announced positive early results for its own experimental antiviral, AT-527, in late June.

Early data from phase 2 trials showed that in two days the pill reduced the viral load of COVID patients by 80% on average compared to placebo. However, the early analysis only involved data from 62 hospitalized, high-risk patients.

The Roche-Atea pill wound up clearing about 47% of patients within two weeks, making them completely COVID-free. By comparison, 22% of people taking a placebo were cleared of COVID in the same time frame.

Roche and Atea expect to announce more results from phase 2 and 3 trials later this year, the companies say.

The prospect of curbing COVID at home with a pill is cause for cautious celebration, Schaffner notes.

“Isn’t it great that we have at least three different firms working on three different drugs?” Schaffner says. “It’s like the Olympics. We want to see who gets there first, but we would like to see all three of them be successful.”

Merck — which is developing the pill with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics of Miami — did not say which patients it would ask the FDA to approve for the treatment. Initially, that group may be limited to patients who are eligible to receive monoclonal antibody treatments, possibly older people, and those with medical conditions that put them at high risk for poor outcomes from COVID-19 infection. But experts note that they expect the drug to eventually be used in many people who test positive for the virus, The Times reported.

Sisters’ Journey Inc October Survivor of the Month - Semaria Cobb

My name is Semaria Cobb and I’m a very proud breast cancer survivor! I was diagnosed at age 37.

I first felt pain in my breast and then realized there was a lump in the same area, so I set an appointment with my primary physician to have it checkedout.

My doctor sent me to have a mammogram and breast ultrasound, neither of which detected the lump, but it was still very painful to touch. My doctor told me that if it is painful, it’s not cancer. He sent me to see a breast surgeon for peace of mind. She conducted her own ultrasound in the office and she did see the lump. She told me to give

her a few days to think about what she wanted to do.

Three days later I got a call from the nurse saying the doctor wanted to leave the lump as is and look at it again in three months. Of course I wasn’t happy with that diagnosis and insisted that they take it out. I was scheduled for a lumpectomy and when the results came back it was pure disbelief. I had stage 3 DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) breast cancer.

I spoke with the doctor to see what my options were. She suggested radiation and medication – Tamoxifen – because I was ER positive. But first she said I needed another lumpectomy to

make sure they had gotten all the cancer out.

After my second surgery it was determined that the cancer was in my entire left breast and that I needed to have it removed. I immediately asked, “What about the right breast?” I was told that if I kept it, I would need to continue having mammograms and possibly additional biopsies. Without hesitating, I instructed them to take them both out!

I had a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction. In total I had undergone six surgeries.

Throughout the whole process my family and closest friends were, and still are, my support system. I am a

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single parent. My daughter was 12 years old when I was diagnosed and of course she was my biggest concern.

When I told her that I had cancer she had two questions: She asked if I was going to lose my hair. “No,” I said. She asked if I was going to die. “Not if I can help it,” I told her.

I will be 14 years cancer free on May 24, 2021. I wanted to share my journey to let women know that breast cancer is not always a death sentence. In closing, I never asked “Why me?” Instead, I said, “Thank you,” because having breast cancer and beating it only showed me my strengths and none of my weaknesses.

INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,06 2016 - August 02, 2016 THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October , 2021 - October 12, 2021

Construction NOTICE

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

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develDrug Free Workforcea opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by of calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours.

Completed preThe Town Wallingford is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Assistant must beOffi returned HOMEhighly INC’s responsible offices at 171 Orange Third to applications the Animal Control cer to to perform work in theStreet, enforcement NewState Haven, CT 06510. ofFloor, local and ordinances, regulations and statutes pertaining to municipal animal

ANIMAL CONTROL

control activities. The position requires a H.S. diploma or equivalency plus 2 years of experience as an animal care worker in a kennel, animal control facility, veterinary hospital or boarding facility. Must possess and maintain a valid State of Connecticut Motor Vehicle Operator’s License and must be able to be “on site” within a 30-minute VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES period when responding to all callsDE from the Wallingford Police Department. $22.48 to $26.66 hourly plus an excellent benefits package. Apply to: Department of Human HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus HouseMain y de la New Haven HousingCT Authority, Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Street, Wallingford, 06492.está Apaceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios apartamentos de un dormitorio en este of desarrollo plication forms will be mailed upon yrequest by calling the Department Human ubicado en(203) la calle 109 Frank Street,beNew Haven. Sefrom aplican Resources, 294-2080 or may downloaded thelimitaciones Departmentdeofingresos Human máximos. Web Las pre-solicitudes disponiblesThe 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes will 25 Resources’ Page. Fax #: estarán (203) 294-2084. closing date for applications bejulio, the date 50th application or resume is received or October 15, 2021, whichever 2016the hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) occurs rst. EOE. en lasfioficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

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Full Time Construction Position: -

Experience in repair of sewer services, pipe laying and installation & repair of water mains, service lines experience, CDL license Must be able to pass pre-employment drug screen, driving record verification Legal working status, OSHA 10, 30 & OSHA 40 a plus Apply at: Butterworth & Scheck, Inc., 10Thompson St., Stratford, CT 06615

NEW HAVEN

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

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The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for an Undersecretary - Office of Policy And Management for Finance, Strategic Decisions and Accountability.

Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions are available at: https://www.jobapscloud.com/ CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= 210921&R2=0450EX&R3=001 The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

DPW Truck Driver Full-time position Go to www.portlandct. org for details

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

Request for Proposal

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

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST

FHI Studio is actively seeking an innovative and self-motivated full-time Community Engagement Specialist to work on projects focused on improving the quality of life in communities. As a community engagement specialist, you are vital to engaging communities in developing high-quality, livable communities that support the community's residents, employees, and visitors. You work on Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Invitationprojects to Bid: that range from major transit, bridge, airport, and related infrastructure Top pay for top performers. Health projects to neighborhood development plans to street activation and community nd Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. 2 Notice events. You utilize your understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in planning and design to increase the diversity of community voices. Your attenEmail Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT tion to Old Saybrook, CTdetail and event planning experience fosters an engaging and collaboraAFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER tive environment for a variety of stakeholders. Excellent time management is (4 Buildings,your 17 Units) specialty that is used to be a project team member, provide excellent client Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wageand Rate Projectbusiness development. You gain great enjoyment from enservice, conduct gaging others in a collaborative process through social media and various virtual and in-person mediums.

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, CastAssistant Assessor willSiding, hold a degree in planning, marketing, sociology, or related field in-place Concrete, Asphalt Candidates Shingles, Vinyl Full Time – Benefited with a minimum of threeCasework, years of experience in consulting, event organizing, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential or public relations. Candidates will also demonstrate experience in developing Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. and implementing engagement strategies and in social media, targeted publicity, This contract is subject to state set-aside and and event contract compliance requirements. planning.

If you feel you'll be perfect as our Community Engagement Pre-employment physical/drug test reSpecialist, apply now using our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application at quired. AA/EOE For more information, Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 https://fhistudio.com/join please visit www.bloomfieldct.org

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THE GLENDOWER GROUP

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

Proposals

Senior Recreation Assistant for Businesses Redevelopment of Westville Manor for Phase 1 HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, Lender/Investor S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Construction Part Time –Haynes Non BenefiCompany, ted 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483

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The Glendower Group is currently seeking proposals for a lender/investor for AA/EEO EMPLOYER

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

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redevelopment of Westville Manor for Phase 1. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Glendower’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 3:00PM.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October , 2021 - October , 2021 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,06 2016 - August 02, 12 2016

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

Listing: HVAC Technician

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

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

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

Maximum income**An limitations ap- Action/Equal Opportunity Employer** Affirmative EqualStreet, Opportunity Employer ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reGarrity Asphalt Incduring seeks: CT Fence quest by calling HOMEReclaiming, INC at 203-562-4663 those hours.Large Completed pre- Company looking for an individual for our Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing PVCStreet, Fence Third Production Shop. Experience preferred but will applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northtrain the right person. Must be familiar with carpentry hand Floor, New Haven, CT 06510. east & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits & power tools and be able to read a CAD drawing and tape measure. Use of CNC Router machine a plus but not required, will train the right person. This is an in-shop production poContact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 sition. Duties include building fence panels, posts, gates and Email: rick.touMust have a valid CT driver’s license & be able to obtain VALENTINAsignant@garrityasphalt.com MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDESmore.

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

Affirmative Action/deEqual Opportunity HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y Employer de la New Haven Housing Authority, está AA/EOE-MF aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipjulio,Must 2016have hastaacuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes ment.

CDL License, clean driving record, capable of (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas porSeeking correo atopetición operating heavyde equipment; be willing to travel throughout the employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, llamando HOME INC alexcellent 203-562-4663 horas.Pre-solicitudes deberánand remitirse Northeast &aNY. We offer hourlydurante rate &esas excellent benefits operator teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT personal 06510 . transportation and a valid drivers license reReliable

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Police Officer

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Union Company seeks:

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

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

NEW HAVEN

Construction

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

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V

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

We all have

DREAMS.

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

Let Job Corps help you achieve yours.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

St. New Haven, CT

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drug Free Workforce

Do You Want A Job That Makes A Difference?

Become A Town of Greenwich Police Officer.

Candidates must fulfill several basic requirements including:

• Be a U.S. Citizen • Be at least 20 years of age • Possess 45 college credits, or 2 years of active military service or equivalent

Current Salary: $69,701 plus benefits.

To view detailed information and apply online visit: www.governmentjobs. com/careers/greenwichct *Application Deadline: 11/01/21 4:00 PM

Invitation to Bid:

nd The Town of Greenwich is dedicated to Diversity & Equal Opportunity Employment State of Connecticut 2 Notice Office of Policy and Management

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Old Saybrook, CT Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport The

Request for Proposal (RFP) Green Physical Needs Assessment 190-MD-21-S New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Solicitation Demolition, Site-work,Number: Cast-

(4 Buildings, 17 Units) The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for an Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Undersecretary - Office of Policy And Management for Finance, Strategic Decisions and Accountability.

Further information regarding the duties, in-place Concrete, AsphaltThe Shingles, VinylAuthority Siding, of the City eligibility requirements and application Housing instructions are available at: 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Flooring, Painting, Division

of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is currently seeking proposals from qualified consultants to conduct a Green https://www.jobapscloud.com/ Physical Assessment (GPNA), an Energy Audit and UPCS/REAC inspecMechanical, Electrical, Plumbing andNeeds Fire Protection.

CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= tions of PCC’s development portfolio, in accordance with applicable regulations isThis210921&R2=0450EX&R3=001 contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. sued by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD’s The State of Connecticut is an equal regulations require that the GPNA incorporate the recommended Energy Conservaopportunity/affirmative action employer Bid Extended, Due Date: 5, 2016 tion August Measures from the Energy Audit. All of the information must be provided in a and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, andAnticipated persons Start: format August as 15,prescribed 2016

by HUD (i.e., using the HUD GPNA Tool). Solicitation packwith disabilities. age will be link available Project documents available via ftp below:on October 04, 2021, to obtain an electronic copy of the RFP you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org., please reference http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage the solicitation number and title on the subject line. A Pre-proposal conference will QSR STEEL CORPORATION be held via conference call on October 19, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m. Although attendance Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com is not mandatory, submitting a proposal without attending the pre-proposal conferHCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses ence may not be in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 be emailed only to Caroline Sanchez at bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders AA/EEO EMPLOYER than October 26, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted Top pay for top performers. Health on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be emailed, or Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. hand delivered by November 8, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m., to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Chief Procurement Officer, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604. Late proposals Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER will not be accepted.

APPLY NOW!

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School Security

Greeter- The Town of Wallingford’s NOTICE Board of Education is seeking qualified individu-

als to perform a variety of duties associated with monitoring access to the building or assigned station, implementing security protocols as provided by district and building VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE level administrative staff. Requires graduation from high school, plus a minimum of one year experience working with the public. Individual considered for the positions HOME INC, onto behalf Columbusand House and the New Haven Housing Authority, will be required be fiof ngerprinted undergo background checks.

Hourly Rate: is accepting pre-applications for studio andDepartment one-bedroom at this devel$13.00 plus benefi t package. Apply to: The ofapartments Human Resources, Town located 108 Frank Street, Wallingford, New Haven. Maximum apof opment Wallingford, 45atSouth Main Street, CT 06492.income Formslimitations will be mailed ply.request Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y upon from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from 2016 andofending sufficient (approximately 100) have the25, Department Humanwhen Resources Webpre-applications Page. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. Closing date been received6,at2021 the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon rewill be October or the date the 50th application is received, whichever occurs quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed prefirst.

EOE.

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

THE GLENDOWER GROUP NOTICIA

Request for Qualifications

DELIVERY PERSON

NEEDED

Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

(203) 435-1387 QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DEfor ALQUILER DISPONIBLES Project Architect the PRE-SOLICITUDES Repositioning of

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

aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo

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

Elm Scattered Sites Properties HOMECity INC, enCommunities nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está The Glendower Group is Frank currently seeking a project architect the reubicado en la calle 109 Street, New Proposals Haven. Se for aplican limitaciones defor ingresos positioning of Elm City Communities scattered sites properties.

A complete copy of25 the máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes requirement may cuando be obtained Glendower’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// julio, 2016 hasta se han from recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadason por correo a petición

llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Monday, September 27, 2021 3:00PM. a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, terceratpiso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

NEW HAVEN POLICE OFFICER 242-258 Fairmont Ave

Competitive examinations held for the position 2BR Townhouse, 1.5will BA,be3BR, 1 level , 1BAof

Police cer in the All new apartments, newOffi appliances, newGuilford, carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Madison, Orange, Wallingford and West Haven center Police Departments. highways, near bus stop & shopping Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 Candidates may register for the testing process at www.policeapp.com/southcentral.

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s

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

Application deadline is Friday, October 15, 2021.

St. New Haven, CT

The written and oral board exams will be administered by the South Central Criminal Justice Administration. All candidates must possess a valid CHIP card dated after April 15, 2021.

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour THE DEPARTMENTS PARTICIPATING IN THIS DRIVE until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at itsRECRUITMENT office at 28 Smith Street, ARE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERS. Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Listing: HVAC Technician

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Fast paced Petroleum hiring for a full time, CT20, HVAC Street Seymour, CTCompany at 10:00isam, on Wednesday, July 2016.Technician. License required – S-10,S-2 or S-1. Applicant must have experience in oil, propane, natural gas and A/C. Competitive wage, 401(k), sign on bonus and benefits. Send resume documents available from Seymour Authority Ofto:Bidding Attn: HR Manager, are Confi dential, PO Boxthe 388, Guilford,Housing CT 06437.

fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

**An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

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

POLICE OFFICER

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for two (2) Fiscal and Program Policy Section Directors, a Leadership Associate (confidential) and a Broadband Mapping Coordinator.

Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions are available at: https://jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=210901&R2= 1585MP&R3=001&Viewer=Admin&Test=Y; https://jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=210913&R2= 1585MP&R3=001&Viewer=Admin&Test=Y; https://jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=210902&R2= 5989VR&R3=001&Viewer=Admin&Test=Y; and https://jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=210831&R2= 6856AR&R3=001&Viewer=Admin&Test=Y The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

City of Bristol $69,017 - $83,893/yr.

Required testing,

Ducci Electrical Contractors, Inc. Seeks an experienced accounts payable specialist to join the fast paced AP department.

Duties include coding invoices, routing for approvals, problem solving, invoice entry, registration info, and apply cutting checks, matching packing slips, filing, compliance. Full-Time Position. Excelonline: www.bristolct.gov compensation and benefits package. Send resume to Ducci Electrical Contractors, Invitation lent to Bid: Inc. 74 Scott Swamp Rd. Farmington, CT 06032 or via email at humanresources@ nd DEADLINE: 10-29-21 2 Notice duccielectrical.com.

An VILLAGE affirmative action equal opportunity employer. EOE/M/F/D/V. SAYEBROOKE

MECHANIC Old Saybrook, CT (4 Buildings, 17 Units) ANIMAL CONTROL TRACTORTaxTRAILER Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

Full Time, Benefits, Top Pay The Town of Wallingford is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Assistant the Animal Control Offi cer to perform New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing,toSelective Demolition, Site-work, Cast- highly responsible work in the enforcement Apply:Pace, 1425 Honeyspot of local and State ordinances, regulations and statutes pertaining to municipal animal in-place Concrete, Asphaltcontrol Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Rd. Ext., Stratford, CT EOE activities. The position requires a H.S. diploma or equivalency plus 2 years of Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Casework, experience as Residential an animal care worker in a kennel, animal control facility, veterinary hospital boarding facility. Must possess and maintain a valid State of Connecticut Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing andorFire Protection.

DRIVER CLASS A and Motor Vehicle Operator’srequirements.

License and must be able to be “on site” within a 30-minute This contractCDL is subject to state set-aside contract compliance period when responding to all calls from the Wallingford Police Department. $22.48 Full Time – All Shifts to $26.66 hourly plus an excellent benefits package. Apply to: Department of Human Top Pay-FullBid Benefi ts Due Date: Extended, August 5, 2016of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. ApResources, Town EOE Please apply in person: plication Anticipated Start: August 15,forms 2016 will be mailed upon request by calling the Department of Human 1425 Honeyspot Rd. Ext. Resources, (203) 294-2080 or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Project documents available via ftp link below: Resources’ Web Page. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. The closing date for applications will Stratford, CT 06615 http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage be the date the 50th application or resume is received or October 15, 2021, whichever occurs first. EOE.

Fax or Email & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Town ofQuestions Bloomfi eld

Heavy/Highway general contractor

HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Part Time - Foster Care Family Support Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 is looking to hire a skilled Carpenter with willingness and eagerness to become a Carpenter Worker (non-benefited) AA/EEO EMPLOYER Foreman. Training will be provided. Prefer candidate to be familiar with ConnDOT procedures, bridge, and road construction work. Must communicate effectively with clients, $20.00 hourly be well organized and safety conscious, and must be able to read plans. This is hands-on Pre-employment drug testing. field leadership position. Top compensation and benefits are available. Full time position.

For more details, visit our website We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage qualified woman and minorities to – www.bloomfieldct.org apply. Email resume to jobs@rothacontracting.com

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Custodian NOTICE

Maintenance workers needed for the Wallingford Public Schools to work the 2:00 P.M. to 10 P.M. shift. Hourly rate: $19.49 to $24.46 hourly plus shift differential. Requires some experience in building maintenance work. The closing date for applications is VALENTINA MACRI APPLICATIONS September 29, 2021 or theRENTAL date we HOUSING receive thePREfiftieth (50) applicationAVAILABLE whichever occurs first. Apply: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492.

FormsHouse will be mailed uponHaven request from the DepartHOME INC, on behalf of Columbus and the New Housing Authority, ment of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of develHuman is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this Resources Web Page.

Phone # (203) 294-2080 Fax #Maximum (203) 294-2084. opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. incomeEOE. limitations ap-

ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preThe Town of Wallingford’s SewertoDivision is seeking qualifi ed applicants for theThird posiapplications must be returned HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, tion of Maintainer II to perform skilled sanitary sewer construction and maintenance Floor, New Haven, CT 06510. repair work for the sewage collection system, including its appurtenances. The position requires 3 years employment in a field related to heavy sewer construction work of which 2 years shall have involved a special skill in operating manual and mechanical equipment, or an equivalent combination of experience and training substituting on a year-for-year basis. $26.16 to $31.18 plusPRE-SOLICITUDES an excellent benefi ts package. ApVALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DEhourly ALQUILER DISPONIBLES ply to: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Application materials can be emailed to wlfdhr@wallingHOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está fordct.gov. Application forms will be mailed upon request by calling the Department aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo of Human Resources, (203) 294-2080 or may be downloaded from the Department of ubicado en la calleWeb 109 Page.

Frank Fax Street, Se aplican limitaciones Human Resources’ #: New (203)Haven.

294-2084.

The closing date de foringresos applicamáximos. disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando 25 tions will beLas thepre-solicitudes date the 25th estarán application or resume is received or OctoberMartes 12, 2021, julio, 2016occurs hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) whichever first. EOE. en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

MAINTAINER - SEWER NOTICIA

ELECTRIC UTILITY

CHIEF ELECTRICIAN – The Wallingford Electric Division is seeking a highly respon-

sible individual to direct and assign the work related to the installation, maintenance, repair, inspection and operation of all facilities and equipment within the division’s substations. This position requires a high school, trade/vocational school diploma or a GED, plus six (6) years of experience in the maintenance and operation of electric utility substations and/or utility grade protection and control systems. Two (2) years of college-level education or advanced training in a related field may substitute for two Ave (2) years of the experience242-258 requirement.Fairmont Must possess and maintain a valid Protective Switching and Tagging Procedures certifi cation from other approved 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1CONVEX level ,or1BA agency or obtain same within six (6) months of hire. Must possess and maintain a All new apartments,motor new vehicle appliances, new carpet, to$I-91 & I-95 valid State of Connecticut operator’s license. close Wages: 42.77 – $ 45.83 highways, near bus stop & shopping center (hourly) Apply to: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492.

Application materials can@ be860-985-8258 emailed to wlfdhr@ Pet under 40lb allowed.

Interested parties contact Maria wallingfordct.gov. Application Forms will be mailed upon request by calling the Department of Human Resources, (203) 294-2080 or may be downloaded from the DeCT. Unified is pleased to offerFax a Deacon’s partment ofDeacon’s HumanAssociation Resources Web Page. #: (203)294-2084. The closing date will Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates beinOctober 19, 2021.

EOE response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30-

NEW HAVEN

3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT

WATER TREATMENT

Superintendent-Water – The Town of Wallingford is seeking a highly qualified

Manager to direct the technical and administrative work involved in the operation of the collection, storage, pumping, treatment and distribution systems of the Water Division. This position requires a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or uniSealedin bids invitedengineering by the Housing Authority the Town of responsible Seymour versity civil are or sanitary plus seven years of of progressively experience the on water utility fiAugust eld with at years of supervisory experience, until 3:00inpm Tuesday, 2, least 2016five at its office at 28 Smith Street, orSeymour, an equivalent of education and qualifying substituting on a CT combination 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairsexperience and Replacement at the year-for-year basis. Must possess and maintain a valid State of Connecticut DepartSmithfield Assisted Living Facility,System 26 Smith StreetCertifi Seymour. ment of PublicGardens Health Class II Water Distribution Operator cation or be able to obtain the same within 6 months of hire. Must possess and maintain a valid State ofAConnecticut Driver’s License.

Salary; $ 94,207 - $ 120,532 (annually). pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28Apply Smithto: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, WallStreet Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. ingford, CT 06492. Application materials can be emailed to wlfdhr@wallingfordct. gov. Application forms will be mailed upon request by calling the Department of HuBidding documents are available the Seymour Authority Ofman Resources, (203) 294-2080 or mayfrom be downloaded fromHousing the Department of Human Resources Web Page.

Fax#: (203) 294-2084.

The closing date for applicaitons will be fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

October 21, 2021. EOE

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

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

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

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

Listing: Dispatcher

Extremely fast paced petroleum company needs a full time (which includes on call and weekend coverage) detail oriented experienced Dispatcher. A strong logistics background and a minimum of one year previous experience required. Send resume to: HR Manager, P.O. Box 388, Guilford, CT. 06437 ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT

DELIVERY PERSON

is requesting proposals for

NEEDED

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT SERVICE.

Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org under the About Us tab, Doing Business tab, RFPs & RFQs. Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

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

(203) 435-1387

Town of Bloomfield Custodian

Large CT Fence Company

looking for a full-time individual for our Wood Fence Production Shop. Experience preferred but will train the right person. Must be familiar with carpentry hand & power tools and be able to read a CAD drawing and tape measure. This is an in-shop production position. Duties include mortising & drilling wood posts for fence panels, building fence panels, gates & more. Use of table saws, routers, miter saws, nail guns and other woodworking equipment is required. Some pickup and delivery of materials will be required. Must have a valid CT driver’s license and be able to obtain a Drivers Medical Card. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com. AA/EOE-MF

$23.40/hourly (benefited)

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

Invitation to Bid: CITY OF MILFORD 2 Notice nd

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

Portland

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

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

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

org for details.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 AA/EEO EMPLOYER

DPW Truck Driver Full-time position Go to www.portlandct. org for details 22

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With Xfinity Internet, you get reliably fast speeds and great coverage both in and out of the home. Because when you add Xfinity Mobile, you get connected to the most reliable wireless network. And, you can save up to *$400 a year on your wireless bill plus get nationwide 5G included at no extra cost. Can your Internet do that? *Savings compared to weighted average of top 3 carriers based on optimized pricing. Xfinity Internet required. Reduced speeds after 20 GB of usage/line. Actual speeds may vary.

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Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. Mobile: Requires residential post-pay Xfinity Internet. Line limitations may apply. For Xfinity Mobile Broadband Disclosures visit: www.xfinity.com/mobile/policies/broadband-disclosures. Actual savings may vary. Xfinity Mobile utilizes the highest ranked network from RootMetrics® 1H 2021 US report. WiFi networks not tested. Results may vary. Award is not endorsement. Call for restrictions and complete details. NPA237601-0005 NED AA Converged V3

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