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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

by THOMAS BREEN

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Connecticut Democrats descended on Sherman Avenue to remind local politicos that the fate of November’s general election and whether or not the state turns red may rest on whether they can turn out the New Haven vote.

On Saturday afternoon around 20 local, state, and national Connecticut Democratic politicians joined a few dozen supporters to send that message and celebrate the opening of the New Haven Democratic headquarters at 180 Sherman Ave. Rallying just 24 days before Nov. 6’s general election, most of the party’s slate of statewide candidates visited the Elm City to make a pitch for why 2018 represents a critical year for American democracy. Control of the state legislature and the governor’s office is up for grabs this year, as are the other top statewide offices.

The candidates also noted at every turn that high voter turnout in New Haven, where over 37,000 voters are registered as Democrats, will be critical if the party wants to retain control of the governorship and the state legislature. Democrats currently hold an 80 to 71 seat majority over Republicans in the state House of Representatives, and are tied 18 to 18 with Republicans in the state Senate.

For at least a decade, Democrats who win statewide races for offices like governor or senator have done so when the party’s largest concentration of voters here in New Haven produced the largest statewide margin of victory. (U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy famously declared that when he saw the lines out the door of Newhallville’s Lincoln-Bassett School in 2012, he knew he’d won the election.)

“For every single election,” Mayor Toni Harp said at Saturday’s rally, “New Haven makes a difference for Democratic voters.

We recognize that New Haven has got to do its job so that our state is Democratic. We want the rest of the United States to know that we are tired of the nonsense that is going on in Washington.”

In the past two gubernatorial elections, the Elm City played a crucial role in delivering wins to outgoing Democratic governor Dannel Malloy.

State Sen. Martin Looney, standing beside a half-dozen local candidates for state House and Senate, reminded listeners that in 2010 Malloy trailed Republican candidate Tom Foley by 12,000 votes after votes had been tallied in 168 of Connecticut’s towns and cities. But after New Haven’s votes were counted, he said, Malloy emerged on top by a 6,000-vote margin.

“When the totals of New Haven had been added,” said, “he won by 18,000” votes in New Haven.

Malloy defeated Foley in the Elm City by almost the exact same margin in 2014, earning 23,183 New Haven votes while his Republican opponent won just 3,291.

“We need from you the kind of work that we saw in 2010,” Looney said. “We’re counting on you this year to help.”

Each Democratic candidate for state constitutional office issued a similar plea for New Haven Dems to get out the vote over the next three weeks.

“I got the memo a long time ago that if you want to get elected statewide, you’ve got to come through New Haven,” said Shawn Wooden, the former Hartford City Council president who is the party’s nominee for state treasurer.

“New Haven, you make the difference,” said Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont. “We can’t do it without you.”

At stake in this election, each Democrat who took the mic said, is not just whether Connecticut stays blue or red. At stake is the fate of American democracy itself.

“Democracy is on the ballot this year,” said Sen. Murphy, who is running for reelection this November. “Don’t take for granted the experiments we have been engaged with over the past 240 years.”

He said that the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans represent a threat not just to affordable and quality healthcare access, women’s reproductive rights, and treating undocumented immi-

Crowd at Saturday afternoon’s rally.

Looney (center) surrounded by state House and Senate candidates.

Wooden: “I got the memo … You’ve got to come through New Haven.”

State attorney general candidate William Tong.

grants like human beings. He said that they also present a threat to the very rule of law itself.

Democrats have been seeking to focus the campaign conversation on Trump, who is unpopular in Connecticut; Republicans have sought to focus the conversation on departing Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who ranks even lower in state polls.

Stamford State Rep. William Tong, who is the Democratic nominee for attorney general, echoed Murphy’s remarks.

“If you’re a woman,” he said, “if you’re an immigrant, if you’re a Connecticut taxpayer, if you live in the city of New Haven, the president of the United States has declared war on you and your family. The question now in the next 24 days is: what are you gonna do about it?”

“We’re fighting for the soul of our country,” said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who is also up for reelection. “And it’s fragile. Democracy is fragile. We have to nurture it. We have to bring it along.”

New York U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, who represents portions of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan and who in 1993 became the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to Congress, ended the party rally by calling on Connecticut Democrats to focus on turning out New Haven’s black and Hispanic Democratic voters.

“The difference in terms of who is going to win this election here depends on our Democratic base,” she said. “We have to make sure that everyone comes out to vote, but particularly Latinos and African Americans.”

She said that when she worked for the governor of Puerto Rico in 1985, she organized a nationwide voter registration drive that ultimately registered over 250,000 Puerto Ricans. She said that that voter registration drive helped propel the election of David Dinkins, New York City’s first African American mayor, in 1990.

“We have to organize and put forward a grassroots mobilization,” she said. “That requires face-to-face contact, door to door.”

New App Builds Community Through Homecooked Meals

by MOLLY MONTGOMERY NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

When Hojung Kim moved off-campus dormitories during his undergraduate days at University of Chicago, he wondered how he would keep up with rent and friends.

His answer: Creating a pop-up restaurant in his home. Friends, friends of friends, and those who heard by word of mouth would come over and pay him to cook them food.

Now Kim and his friends Gabe Oviawe, Kevin Zheng, and Eric Duong are launching an app so that others who don’t want to eat alone can host or attend social, homecooked meals at an affordable rate.

The app is called Homecooked.

“In a nutshell, Homecooked is a social dining app that lets you book home-cooked meals made by people in your neighborhood,” said Zheng, a junior at Yale Col-

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lege. “Instead of catering or delivery, you go to their homes and sit down and eat with them. It’s really a community-building approach through food.”

Over the past year, the team has helped

promote 26 events with a Google document and a Facebook page. Zheng recalls hearing about one event that was a particular success – two Yale graduate students, Chris Wang and Hannah Lant, made butternut

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squash ravioli and salad for a table full of Yale students and New Haven residents. A retired principal and a software engineer sat beside a Yale undergraduate and three graduate students. The undergraduate and the software engineer, who met for the first time at the dinner, played the video game Super Smash Bros together the next day.

The Homecooked team hopes that once the app is launched, events like Wang and Lant’s will become much more common.

Users will be able to select hosts based on presented interests and food preferences, and rate those hosts based on their experiences at the table. Hosts will be able to charge guests a booking price determined by cost of ingredients and time spent preparing.

The entrepreneurs have funded their work with grants from Yale and University of

Chicago, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, and 1ST50K, an organization that encourages entrepreneurs to launch their business in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. So Kim and Oviawe have based operations in Cape Girardeau, while Zheng and Duong have been promoting meals in New Haven.

Though other apps allow users to book home-cooked meals, Zheng said that Homecooked is different because it focuses on combatting social isolation rather than offering a fancy culinary experience.

“We don’t sell food, really. Homecooked is a lifestyle product. We sell an experience, and we sell an emotion.”

You can follow Homecooked on Facebook and download the app from the iOS app store starting Oct. 23.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

On 2nd Try, Mom Named Student Of Month

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Tracey Davis-Massey might be the oldest person ever named as New Haven’s Student of the Month. She’s 45 years old, and she’s two months away from finally completing high school.

Superintendent Carol Birks has made celebrations of student achievement a fixture of almost every Board of Education meeting. Students have danced, recited poems, given speeches, and played the drums and violin, sometimes just before contentious votes. And they have shaken hands with the board members and received plaques for their achievements in class.

The parents usually look on proudly, often with tears welling in their eyes. But at Tuesday night’s meeting at Celentano School, one of those parents was honored for the first time.

Almost three decades ago, Davis-Massey dropped out of her South Carolina high school to give birth to her first child.

As she raised four kids, she didn’t find the time to go back.

Until last year. “The time is now,” Davis-Massey decided.

She enrolled at the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center last September.

Since then Davis-Massey has taken classes in criminal justice, history and art, including a few at Gateway Community College. She’s now planning to don a cap and gown next spring, right at the same time as her youngest will also be graduating from Wilbur Cross.

“I get to express myself. It’s like I get to feel again. I get to go back to my childhood,” Davis-Massey said after the meeting ended. “It gives me so much hope at the end of the

day. It makes me a better person to know that I’m not in this alone.”

Michelle Bonora took over as Adult Ed’s principal last year.

Right away, she instituted a “No Excuses” campaign, spreading a message throughout New Haven that there’s nothing to stop adults from getting their high school diploma.

Knocking on doors, riding on buses and tabling in front of school buildings, the Adult Ed team talks up the wraparound services and the dedicated staff that help navigate the challenges students face in their second go-round at high school education.

Davis-Massey said she feels that she has the “biggest support team” at Adult Ed to keep her motivated. In turn, she’s tried to give that support back to her younger classmates who are dealing with problems that she’s faced over the years.

Davis-Massey said she’ll have enough credits for her highschool equivalency by December. But she added that she doesn’t think she’s done with her education. She’s set her sights on a four-year college, then a master’s degree in social work. After her two brothers took their own lives, she wants to counsel others in suicide prevention.

The board members seemed touched by Davis-Massey’s story, commenting on it throughout the night, especially after reviewing the latest standardized test scores that show barely one-fifth of elementary school students are on grade level in math.

“One of the things that makes me proud about New Haven is that we will educate you from the time you are 3 years old all the way up to adulthood,” Mayor Toni Harp said. “It is never too late to become someone who can contribute and someone T:9.25” who can be educated.”

CHRISTOPHER PEAK PHOTO Tracey Davis-Massey with her family.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

“LEAD” Gains Footing After Rocky Roll-Out

by THOMAS BREEN

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

You can’t try something new without making mistakes.

So reasoned managers of an experimental city initiative to divert low-level drug users toward help and away from prison. They said they’re learning from those mistakes and making progress.

That’s the message that three managers of the city’s new Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program delivered in an hour-long interview with the Independent Thursday in the offices of the Harp administration’s Community Services Administration (CSA) on the second floor of City Hall.

They gave an update on their progress in the wake of community criticism about LEAD’s rollout .

The CSA (which encompasses all city government’s social service departments) is responsible for LEAD. Both the CSA and the program are firmly under new leadership nearly a year after the pilot officially launched. The managers said they’re confident that the weeks and months ahead will see greater levels of transparency, community participation, and pre-arrest diversions for people who commit low-level crimes related to their struggles with addiction.

“It’s a pilot,” said Dakibu Muley, the administrator of the department, sitting alongside LEAD Program Manager Cynthia Watson and CSA Manager of Community Development Ayishea Denson. “It’s intended for us to make mistakes, and to figure out what’s best.”

The interview came one week after community watchdogs, sex worker advocates, and Yale law and public health students held a highly critical teach-in on the city’s

adoption of LEAD. They criticized city management of the grant-funded program for not being transparent about how many people the program has served since launching in Nov. 2017, and for not including community members

Peter Schaller of United Way sent in this write-up and these photos: Despite the cooler temperatures and morning rain, hundreds of hearty volunteers banded together to beautify parks and neighborhoods across seven different sites in New Haven Saturday.

United Way of Greater New Haven mobilized the volunteers of all ages for the firstever New Haven Day of Caring, coinciding with the start of the annual United Way fundraising campaign. Volunteers tackled general clean-up and beautification, trash pick-up, raking leaves, weeding, planting, painting and more.

“I think the projects today are terrific, but it’s more than just raking leaves and painting, it’s really about the power of what’s possible when we come together to make a difference,” said Jennifer Heath, President and CEO of United Way of Greater New Haven.

Volunteers got their start at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at East Rock Park.

Then throughout the late morning and

early afternoon different projects got underway at parks across the city including Criscuolo Park, DeGale Field, East Shore Park, Edgewood Park, and Lighthouse Point Park. The day of service wrapped up at Peat Meadow Park around 3 in the afternoon. Some of the highlights included clearing out sand and weeds from a parking lot at Lighthouse Park, so city crews could paint traffic and parking lines, pulling trash as big as tires and chairs from the trees around East Shore Park, and seeing volunteers as young as three years old roll up their sleeves alongside their parents for painting projects inside when it was raining outside. By the afternoon the sun peaked out, and volunteers reflected on a day well spent.

“Many urban communities around New Haven are dilapidated and have many trash pieces and garbage around, everybody is making it a better place to be used recreationally and for other events,” said New Haven Day of Caring volunteer William Sapp.

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CSA Administrator Dakibu Muley: Turnover’s over. We’re on it.

LEAD Program Manager Cynthia Watson and CSA Manager of Community Development Ayishea Denson. with lived experience of substance abuse and sex work in the local program’s weekly leadership meetings.

The interview also coincided with reports that the police department has informally made progress in winning the trust and co-

operation of advocates for street sex workers, who helped the cops arrest an alleged serial sexual assaulter.

49 Helped So Far LEAD, based on a national model that has been adopted in Seattle, Santa Fe, and Albany, is designed to divert low-level drug offenders who voluntarily choose to participate away from the criminal justice system and towards an array of housing, mental health, employment, and addiction services.

Last year, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center received a $200,000 state grant and the city received a $75,000 federal grant to develop a two-year-pilot implementation of LEAD in the Hill North, the Hill South, and Downtown neighborhoods, with the grant funding expiring in April 2019.

Muley and Watson said that the city’s LEAD pilot has served a total of 49 people through the beginning of October. Two of those participants entered the program through arrest diversions, meaning that they were picked up by the police for committing a non-violent misdemeanor or for possession of a controlled substance and chose to opt into the LEAD program rather than be arrested.

Forty-three of the program’s participants have entered LEAD through “social contacts,” a non-diversionary method for people who have not committed any crimes but whom police officers or social workers or other community members believe would benefit from participating in LEAD. Watson said that she is not sure whether the four other program participants came in through diversions or social contacts, and that she and an intern are currently researching the records collected on those participants to figure out how they joined.

“I think we want to make sure that we’re offering the service to as many people that fit the criteria and are in search of needed services,” Muley said in response to a question about how many people LEAD hopes to serve by the end of the pilot in April. “A bottom line for us is nonexistent.”

Watson said that she did not know off hand how many of those 49 people are currently, actively engaged with the program and working with the program’s two engagement specialists based out of Cornell Scott Hill Health Center and Columbus House.

Muley said that, for much of this spring and early summer, he was playing catch up on how New Haven’s LEAD pilot was structured and who its key stakeholders were and are. Muley inherited the pilot two months after it launched when he replaced Martha Okafor as the head of CSA in Feb. 2018.

Watson said that she, too, is relatively new to the program, having been hired by the city with LEAD grant funding just this past August.

“A lot of work in my first couple months was just trying to unpack where we were as a city this initiative,” Muley said.

He said that one of the first key administrative changes he made to LEAD came in June, when he divided the program’s interagency leadership team into two groups: a policy group, focused on high-level decision making and laying out a vision for how LEAD should work during the duration of the pilot, and an operations group, focused on the day-to-day interactions between engagement specialists and city residents struggling with addiction.

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Parks Cleaned On “Day Of Caring” Serena Ly at the clean-up.

Paul Crnkovic, with New Haven Parks, Recreation, and Trees said, “It was very inspirational to see people giving back and cleaning up the community, it made me feel good today.”

“I like to get involved, this is where I live around here, I got a group of staff and we are here,” said volunteer Josie Vazquez at the East Shore Park site.

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According to United Way, projects like this help show their value in the community, noting that their organization can accomplish things that no one person or organization could do on their own.

United Way feeds the hungry, houses the homeless, and helps children get the best possible start in life with a good education.

The work Saturday will positively impact these neighborhoods, the people living

nearby, and all of the volunteers who gave their time.

This citywide event is a partnership between United Way of Greater New Haven, New Haven Parks and Recreation, Yale University, Yale New Haven Health, and Dwight Hall, and all of these organizations were well represented among the volunteers.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

Democratic Lawmakers Say Payday Loan Background Does Matter

by Christine Stuart CT. Junkie News

HARTFORD, CT — Democratic lawmakers who serve on the Banking Committee believe Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob Stefanowski’s tenure as CEO of a payday loan company should matter to voters, even if his former company is barred from selling its product in Connecticut.

Under the north portico of the state Capitol, Reps. Matt Lesser and Bobby Gibson, joined Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff and attorney Sarah Poriss Monday in explaining why voters should care about the three years Stefanowski spent with DFC Global, a payday loan company that made high interest loans to consumers in the United Kingdom and the United States.

None of the loans were made in Connecticut, which bans the sale of payday loans.

Stefanowski’s campaign said he would do nothing to loosen Connecticut’s ban on the products.

“His time at DFC Global shows his willingness to dive headfirst into difficult situations in an attempt to reform and turn around troubled organizations,” Kendall Marr, a spokesman for Stefanowski’s campaign, said. “That is why he is the best person to lead our state and get Connecticut back on track.”

Stefanowski has said himself that he set out to change the industry with a predatory reputation.

In November 2016, Stefanowski told a D.C. audience that everybody thought he was crazy to take the position at DFC

Global, but “There’s a bunch of reasons I did it. The one I want to talk about today is that I truly believe there is a segment of the population that needs our product.”

He said there are people who can’t get bank accounts who need their product and the public sector has not found a solution to the problem.

“The problem with the industry is they got a little bit greedy and they took advantage of people when they didn’t necessarily have to,” Stefanowski said.

“I think we can create a company or we are already creating a company that treats people fairly, gives them a product that they desperately need, and provides a solution to this segment of the population that’s growing by the day.”

He said they created a product that’s term limited with a 60 percent interest rate.

But that was just as objectionable to Democratic lawmakers and a consumer attorney.

“This industry continues to try and find ways around our laws,” Lesser said.

He said it’s an “indefensible product” that traps consumers in debt and poverty.

Duff said this may not be the issue that brings somebody out to the polls on Election Day, but if it impacts themselves or their neighbors and their families they will understand why we’re standing out here today.

He said voters want politicians who will stand up to “these types of schemes.”

“The question is would you take one out?” Poriss said. “Then why would you want them to be accessible to any of your

neighbors, friends, family members … why would you want these in your community?”

She said there’s nothing in a payday loan that is designed to help a consumer.

“They’re designed to fail,” Poriss said.

“They’re designed to trap consumers, over and over into a lifetime of debt.”

Asked whether these products help a certain segment of the population, the resounding answer from the group was “no.”

Lesser said it goes to the difference in opinion about how you improve the middle class.

“Do we build the middle class by getting people a good education, raising wages, strengthening living conditions? Or do we do it by getting people more and more mired in debt. The idea that you can borrow your way out of poverty is just fundamentally wrong.”

Lesser said he’s afraid if Stefanowski becomes governor he will appoint a Banking Commissioner who is “sympathetic to Bob’s personal views, which are sympathetic to the idea that you can borrow your way out of poverty.”

Marr countered that “Bob would appoint a banking commissioner whose chief goal is to protect consumers who knows the banking industry inside and out.”

Before working as CEO of DFC Global, Stefanowski worked as CFO of UBS in London for three years, and before that he was chairman and managing partner at 3i Group PLC for three years, and prior to that he spent 13 years in various departments at General Electric.

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Rep. Matt Lesser and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff After leaving DFC Global, Stefanowski filed the necessary paperwork to run for governor.

Since announcing last September he’s spent $3 million of his own money on the campaign. Most of it was used by the Madison resident to win a five-way Republican primary in August.

“As much as Democrats want to talk about anything but Connecticut’s fiscal crisis all you have to ask yourself who is going to lower taxes: a liberal Democrat from Greenwich or Bob Stefanowski?” Republican Party Chairman JR Romano said Monday.

APT Gets A Local Earful THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

by ALLAN APPEL

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

“You’re blowing smoke at us and expecting us to see clouds.”

“You’re talking first about your clients, and not about the neighborhood, of which APT is a part.”

Hill neighbors offered an evening of comments like those Tuesday night to an official from the APT Foundation.

Having received an earful last month from two dozen speakers at a City Hall hearing, APT sent Kathy Eggert, the director of its Congress Avenue clinic, to meet neighbors at the monthly Hill North Community Management Team meeting.

There, in the basement community room of the Wilson branch library, she heard about unaddressed quality-of-life problems caused by APT clients leaving the clinic on nearby Congress Avenue.

Eggert said she found the meeting positive, and vowed to come to each monthly meeting of the Hill North Community Management Team until a solution is worked out.

The team members voted to form a committee of their members, devoted specifically to the APT issue, to help accomplish precisely that purpose.

Under pressure from constituents following a killing near the site on Congress, overdoses on the Green, and the daily dealing with APT clients wandering the streets near Congress Avenue and engaging in unwholesome activities including defecating on neighbors’ property after exiting APT, alders last month were able to address APT staff directly.

True Vote Tuesday night the conversation continued with the nearest APT neighbors like Lynda Wilson and Dora Brown, both of whom emerged from last month’s larger discussion skeptical of APT’s promises.

“All the green spaces have been taken over” by APT clients, said Wilson.

“What do we do to reclaim our neighborhood?”

“Those APT people were admonishing us,” said Brown of last month’s City Hall meeting. She is a molecular biologist now retired after 39 years of service with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. With irritation, she added: “I understand [the science of the treatment]. But those people have a responsibility. We need to address this. There’s no quality of life.”

Leslie Radcliffe suggested one approach might be to infuse the green spaces in the community —particularly the park on Arch Street and White Chapel’s prayer garden on White Street — with positive behaviors, like people going in as a group to play cards.

That was small comfort to longtime residents like Brown, who remember

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Hill Alder Ron Hurt with APT skeptics Lynda Wilson and Dora Brown.

Wilson branch librarian Luis Chavez-Brumell and APT’s Eggert.

Pastor Anderson and Wilson share a pre-meeting hug.

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quieter days before the growth of APT’s methadone clinic. “I’m impatient,” she told Eggert. “We’re being completely ignored as a community.”

Eggert said APT CEO Lynn Madden and other officials have been meeting with alders. The conversation is ongoing.

“I acknowledge your concern and frustration,” said city government Community Services Administrator Dakibu Muley, who was also in attendance.

“The mayor is committed to a solution,” said Alder Hurt.

“Some problems are bigger than APT,” said Eggert. “People with homelessness, others with serious medical conditions.

[But] I recognize some of our patients are not good neighbors.”

Brown said Eggert’s generally quiet attendance, mainly to listen, reflected a lack of a sense of urgency. “You should know the history . We were promised not to disrupt the life of the community!”

Then it was the turn of Pastor Chip Anderson of the Community Presbyterian Church on Davenport Avenue to weigh in: “There is history. You focused on your clients, not the neighborhood. We don’t have a safe neighborhood. Safe corners to walk to. We think about the drug abusers because, yes, they’re our neighbors. You need to start by thinking you’re in a neighborhood where people live. The wounds are decades deep.

You’re not going to address them by first talking about your clients.”

Landlord Kampton Singh offered to clarify the group’s position to Eggert: “We have no issue with the APT Foundation [work], but with the loitering” and other quality of life issues.

As its last order of business of the evening, the management team organized committees, one of which is devoted specifically to focusing on APT Foundation issues. Both Wilson and Brown signed up for the committee.

Eggert is also going to the Downtown/ Wooster Square Management team meeting next week.

“It’s a complex issue. We’re in the neighborhood. We need to partner and find solutions,” she said.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

Report: Vaping Among High School Students Spiking

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HARTFORD, CT — One out of seven Connecticut high school students reported vaping in 2017, according to a new study released by the state Department of Public Health (DPH), a number that is double the amount that was vaping just two years ago.

A total of 14.7 percent of high school students reported vaping in 2017, compared to 7.2 percent in 2015.

In contrast, 3.5 percent of high schoolers reported currently smoking traditional cigarettes in 2017.

DPH compiled the 2017 report using data collected from March to June 2017.

The state defines “current use” as having used a product at least once in 30 days.

The survey found 1 in 10 ninth graders and over 1 in 5 12th graders currently vape.

The most prevalent reason given for starting use of these products was a friend or family member used them and over half obtained them from a friend. Fruit, followed by mint or menthol, were the most popular flavors, and more than half used their devices for other substances, such as marijuana, THC or hash oil, or THC wax.

“These results are especially troubling because youth are generally unaware of the presence and level of nicotine in their devices and can become addicted with only a few puffs,” DPH Commissioner

Dr. Raul Pino said. “Although the cigarette smoking rate continues to decline among this age group, vaping continues to increase. Based on misleading claims about e-cigarettes, many teens believe they are trying a ‘safe’ product.”

It confirms what smoking prevention advocates already knew that “the use of e-cigarettes among our youth has reached epidemic proportions,” Bryte Johnson, director of governmental relations for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), said.

“We must ensure e cigarettes are included as part of statewide comprehensive tobacco control strategies that reduce tobacco use so our children can grow up not the next generation of tobacco users but as the first tobacco-free generation,” Johnson added.

According to a 2016 report by the Surgeon General, nicotine poses harm to teen brains, negatively affecting their development with long-term changes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently labeled youth e-cigarette use an epidemic and put the manufacturers on notice about potential actions they may take in order to reduce youth access and use.

One popular brand of vaping, Juul, contains the same amount of nicotine in one ‘pod’ as in a pack of cigarettes, and many teens report that they use one pod each day. These devices are shaped like a USB drive and are easily concealed, and

teachers have reported use in the classroom while class is in session.

The survey also found that more than one quarter or 27.3 percent of high school students live with someone who uses tobacco, and 45 percent reported exposure to secondhand smoke or vaping aerosol.

“Preventing the initiation of tobacco use altogether, educating children and young adults on the dangers of ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Vaping System), and reducing exposure to secondhand smoke and aerosol are all very important for protecting children’s health,” added Pino.

Among the report’s findings were that among high school students who ever tried any tobacco product, 50 percent tried vaping first; 24 percent tried cigarettes first; and 13 percent tried cigars first.

The study further showed that 43.3 percent of male students who ever tried tobacco product first vaped and that among female students 57.1 percent who used tobacco products first use was vaping.

The study found that for high school students the prevalence of vaping is significantly higher among males or 25 percent than among females or 12.9 percent and did not vary significantly by grade.

“The statistics released by Connecticut’s Department of Public Health confirm what we have seen firsthand—vaping among teenagers is at an epidemic

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level,” U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro said.

“Big tobacco companies have immorally targeted our children with deceptive flavors and social media advertising with little regard for their health or safety.”

The Food and Drug Administration has stepped up enforcement, but more needs to be done, DeLauro said.

“At the top of that list, FDA should ban the more than 15,000 flavors that are cur-

rently on the market and crackdown on products that have been illegally sold without a premarket review,” DeLauro said. “Furthermore, Congress should immediately take up my legislation, the Stop Tobacco Sales to Youth Act, which would require age verification for the online sale and delivery of tobacco products.”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

Scores Suggest Personalized Learning Pays

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

In one math class at John S. Martinez Sea & Sky STEM School, students no longer sit in neat, orderly rows. On new four-wheeled desks, they swivel around the classroom without a seating chart.

Moving the old desks around caused a raucous break from the classwork. The new desks glide as quietly as a whisper.

“They can just scooch over,” said Angel, a fifth-grader.

The teacher, Diane Mitchell, said that ease allows her to change seating arrangements multiple times a day. Students can get closer to see what’s on the board, circle up to work with partners, then regroup to share with others.

The mobile desks are being piloted as just one way to promote more collaborative, hands-on and personalized learning— an approach that new test score results suggest may be paying off.

For years, New Haven Public Schools have tried to shift the way classes are taught. Rather than covering the same material with the entire class, teachers are now expected to differentiate the lessons for a wide range of skill levels. Delivering an abstract lesson from the front of the room is out; working through problems in small groups is in.

At least, that’s what curricular supervisors say should be happening districtwide.

They point to schools like Martinez, a K-8 magnet in Fair Haven that’s open to city residents, and Mauro-Sheridan, a K-8 interdistrict magnet in Westville that accepts suburban students, as examples of schools that are getting it right.

Right down to the physical layout of the classroom, the two schools have reshaped instruction to encourage students’ individual growth. And the results are showing up on standardized test scores. Martinez and Mauro-Sheridan both notched significant gains on a key measure of how much students learn each year. Most importantly, those high scores held for high-needs students, who face significant hurdles of poverty, language and disability.

Ronald Ferguson, director of Harvard University’s Achievement Gap Initiative, said personalized instruction, a culture of achievement and active parent involvement are often found at schools where achievement is rising rapidly. He said it’s not just a strong bond with kids that matters, but a responsiveness to individual needs that makes a difference.

“People do emphasize relationships, but it’s really attention to detail and customization, tailoring. Sometimes people say personalization,” Ferguson said. “It’s really attending to the particularities of children’s learning needs. They’re individualizing both the diagnosis of learning problems and the prescription.”

The district’s elementary school students, as a whole, are far behind on measures of proficiency. Last school year, 66.5 percent tested below grade level in reading, and 78.8 percent tested below grade level in math. But administrators are hoping they

CHRISTOPHER PEAK PHOTO

Martinez 5th-graders try desks that can wheel around the room.

A restorative circle in Deborah Kosloff’s eighth-grade class at Mauro-Sheridan. can replicate the strategies that are working at Martinez and Mauro-Sheridan to start closing the gap.

Going For Growth Rather than looking at “proficiency” alone, how many student display mastery of a subject on standardized tests, Connecticut’s State Department of Education (SDE) actually gives more weight to “growth,” the learning an individual student demonstrates across multiple years.

The growth targets for each student are supposed to be an “ambitious yet achievable” benchmark that will keep them on grade level. For students who are behind, the targets are spaced out so that they will catch up within five years. That means they actually need to cram more than a grade’s worth of instruction into each year.

The goals aren’t any different for highneeds students, whom the state defines as kids who are impoverished, who are learning English or who are diagnosed with a learning disability.

Across Connecticut, public schools are struggling to meet these benchmarks, especially for the high-needs students who are only learning just about half of what they

need to know. That likely means that the key to closing achievement gaps statewide remains elusive.

“Every student who comes into our schools — whatever their achievement level, high or low — we want to see that growth. That is our promise,” said Ajit Gopalkrishnan.

“We want to see growth numbers be a lot stronger than they are,” he added, because they’re “probably a leading indicator of where things are headed long-term.”

While the state as a whole hasn’t cracked it, several of New Haven’s standout elementary schools are getting close.

At Quinnipiac Real World Math STEM School, Worthington Hooker School, John S. Martinez Sea & Sky STEM School, L.W. Beecher Museum School and Strong 21st Century Communications School, the most vulnerable students are beating statewide averages in growth, including the one set by their less challenged peers.

There’s still a ways to go. On average, Martinez’s high-needs students are completing 70 percent of their goals in reading and 63 percent in math; Mauro-Sheridan’s, 62 percent in reading and 67 percent in math. But administrators say those schools are set-

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ting an example that the rest of the district should follow.

New Haven is systematically focusing on the “individual growth and success of each student,” trying to “meet the students where they are,” Superintendent Carol Birks said, and the district is already seeing the payoff on “internal and state assessments.”

Going forward, schools district-wide will lay out “established” and “measurable” standards for each student’s growth that teachers and parents can all get behind, emulating what’s working in the top-performing schools, Birks said.

“By scaling and replicating these successful efforts and practices across the district, through a system-wide effort of learning and teaching as One New Haven, I am confident our growth we have witnessed in New Haven will continue and accelerate,” she added.

Individuating Instruction Lou Menacho, who completed a successful turnaround after becoming Martinez’s principal in 2016, said that his school’s success has been all about connecting with students. If they find the material engaging and trust the person who’s teaching it, they’ll want to perform, he said.

“One of the things we talk about is engagement at Martinez: How do kids feel about the learning?” he asked. “Is there effective pacing, physical movement, humor? Are we building relationships? How do we present the material? How do they figure out whether it’s important, if it’s connected to their life ambitions?”

Leading that kind of class is often different from the way that the teachers themselves were taught, the district’s supervisors say. The curriculum has been updated so that math is grounded in concrete examples and pictorial representations, and reading builds on a foundation of sounding out words.

But more importantly, students are now divided into groups to work on those skills.

“Now a classroom is not just everyone reading ‘Animal Farm,’ Chapter 3,” said Will Clark, the district’s chief operating officer. “They’re reading 27 different books maybe and explaining them to each other.”

With that differentiation, students who are struggling don’t feel left behind, while students who are running ahead can still feel challenged by the work.

When schools relied solely on boosting their proficiency numbers, they often focus on the students who are right at the cusp of reaching grade level. But by emphasizing growth, every student’s learning matters.

“It’s all about high expectations and rigor,” said Sandy Kaliszewski, the bubbly principal who’s run Mauro-Sheridan since 2014.

“Our instruction is tailored to what the child needs.”

At her school, students talk through their goals in reading and math with their teacher every six weeks. Those help determine how students will be grouped. Kaliszewski emphasized that those pairings change constantly.

“We don’t wait until the next test and see

that a student didn’t make it,” said Lynn Brantley, the district’s reading supervisor.

“We know what they’re doing all along and shouldn’t be shocked.”

Teachers also make sure parents are clued in about that growth plan at each reportcard conference, Kaliszewski said. They break down exactly what each child is expected to learn and offer suggestions for how they can help at home, she added.

Creating Culture Administrators said that changing up the instruction only works if students trust their teachers. Those relationships are strengthened, they said, through restorative practices.

On a recent morning at Mauro-Sheridan, a class of fifth-graders arranged themselves around the edges of a blue carpet, emblazoned with the presidential seal, and started discussing the concept of responsibility.

As ambient music played in the background, Claudia Post, the teacher, kicked off the discussion by asking students what responsibilities they have and how they feel when they don’t get follow through.

“Mad at myself.” “Unaccomplished.” (“I love that word choice,” Kaliszewski chimed in.) “Weird.” “Remorseful.”

“Guilty.” “Unreliable.”

Post then asked the students to think of one thing they could change about themselves so they didn’t have a reason to feel that way.

The ritual the teacher’s open-ended question, the chorus of answers and student’s individual action plans is repeated throughout the building’s three floors at the start of every school day.

Kaliszewski said that those “restorative circles” help students put a vocabulary to their emotions, build a sense of character and set a school-wide culture. “It’s like a safe haven for children to talk to each other,” she said. “It’s all about teaching them to make the right decisions.”

Ferguson, the Harvard professor, said that many schools struggle to maintain a “peer culture of achievement.” Too often, rather than motivating one another, kids undermine each other’s success, distracting from their studies.

“One of the biggest problems in schools is that students get trapped in a peer culture,” he said. “They get in trouble or go off-task because they’re trying to do what other kids want them to do. That interferes with learning.”

Ferguson said that a culture that “prioritizes and celebrates achievement,” like at Mauro-Sheridan and Martinez, keeps everyone focused on the same end goal.

“If you think about it, a kid’s main influences are their teachers, their peers and their parents. It looks like these schools are operating through each of these influences and having some success,” he said.

“Particularly in a school district that can sustain that kind of effectiveness for, say, 12 years, you can really turn kids’ lives around. That’s partly the schools, partly the parents, and partly the community.”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

Unveiled Canal Mural Champions Women

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Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn, Mayor Toni Harp, and Farmer. arts corridor in the New Haven section of the trail.”

She said that her organization estimates that 100,000 people will cross the section of the trail that the mural looks out on this year, and that that number may only increase now that the pedestrian-bike path is continuous for 25 miles between New Haven and Southington.

A cavalry of local politicians came out to herald the unveiling of the mural, to praise Adae for his artistry and community engagement, and to celebrate the women’s empowerment message.

“I like to think about women as the first civilizers,” Mayor Toni Harp said. “The men went out. They hunted. They gathered. But the women stayed home, took care of the children, and built community.”

Newhallville State Rep. Robyn Porter, Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn, and Hamden City Councilman Justin Farmer all thanked Adae for bringing such a bright, positive, and inspiring message to the neighborhood.

“This community and so many others need healing right now,” Porter said. “We need to get back to being a village. This wall represents to me the village” the love, the healing, the restoration that we need in order to get ahead.”

“Thank you for bringing this river of life to us and this neighborhood,” Clyburn added.

Adae said that the unveiling of the mural on the heels of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings is a testament to how the fight for women’s rights is far from over, and doesn’t always move in a straight line of progress. After all, the mural idea was born nearly two years ago during a nationwide protest against the election of President Donald Trump, who has been accused of sexual assault by over a dozen women.

“When we see injustices happen,” Adae said, “when we see oppression happening, we can change things, just like we changed this wall. It’s the same process.”

The brick wall facing the canal trail used to be painted blue, covered in graffiti, and hidden behind overgrown weeds. All that was needed to transform that public canvas into the women’s empowerment mural, Adae said, were 17 gallons of primers, thousands of dollars of paint, and the patient and attentive support of 150 community volunteers who took time out of their days and nights to create something beautiful together.

“This is an example of unity and what unity can do,” he said. “This mural is for you. This mural is for me. This is our artwork.”

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One day after a judge accused of sexual assault ascended to the nation’s highest court, a local painter unveiled a mural depicting 17 actual and imaginary New Haven women, all standing proud and strong and committed to a more equitable future.

That was the result of Wednesday morning’s joy-filled, sun-dappled press event on the Farmington Canal trail near the New Haven-Hamden border, where artist Kwadwo Adae joined over 100 supporters, community activists, and Newhallville neighbors to celebrate his recently finished Women’s Empowerment Mural.

Adae wanted to bring to his art some of the strength, diversity, resilience, and unity of today’s women’s rights movement after attending the first women’s march in New York City nearly two years ago.

“We can’t continue with the status quo if half our population doesn’t feel safe,” Adae said. “Me as a man, I’m trying to set an example of intersectionality. You don’t need to be a woman to fight for women’s rights.

You don’t need to be a person of color to fight against racism.”

The mural, which Adae started painting on June 4 with the help of assistant Toni Giammona, stretches across an 18-by-106foot brick wall on the side of Tri-Con Construction Managers LLC’s offices at 400 Goodrich St. Adae, who has run the Adae Fine Arts Academy on Chapel Street for 13 years, created another public mural on the Farmington Canal trail two years ago. Over 150 community volunteers wound up contributing to the painting of the mural over the course of the past five months.

The mural itself depicts 17 women and girls, all of different race, age, nationality, dress, profession, and body type, All stand with confidence and authority as they stare out at the pedestrian and bike path and hold high a flaming torch a la the Statue of Liberty.

Some of the female representations are inspired by New Havener community icons such as Stetson Branch librarian Diane Brown and Newhallville parent-teacher organization (PTO) stalwart Flo Caldwell.

Some are inspired by women who have had a profound impact on Adae’s own life, such as his sister Nana and his hematologist Joanna.

And some are products of his imagination, a blue-bobbed transgender woman and an elderly Latina abuela who leans with her right hand on a cane, propelling her torchbearing left-hand all the higher.

The mural was funded by a $12,000 grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts with additional financial support from the outdoor apparel store REI, the Graustein Memorial Fund, the Newhallville Safe Neighborhood Initiative, Neighborhood Housing Services, the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs, and the Farmington Canal Rail-to-Trail Association.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

Quinnipiac University School of Law to host open house for prospective students on Nov. 3

North Haven, Connecticut – Oct. 15, 2018 – Prospective law students are invited to attend an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Quinnipiac University School of Law Center, 370 Bassett Road.

Those who attend will tour the center and learn about the law school’s academic program and how the faculty works closely with students to develop a course of study that matches their goals. The law school has concentrations in several areas, including civil advocacy and dispute resolution, criminal law and advocacy, family law, health law, intellectual property, international law and policy, tax law and workplace law.

“The Quinnipiac University School of Law is a dynamic law school, small by design, dedicated to preparing highly trained lawyers who will hold themselves accountable as leaders and serve their clients with skill and compassion,” said Jennifer Gerarda Brown, dean of the law school.

In addition, the law school offers several joint degrees, including the JD/MBA and JD/MBA in health care management with Quinnipiac’s School of Business, JD/ Master of environmental law and policy in partnership with Vermont Law School, and the JD/MSW (master of social work) with the university’s School of Health Sciences.

In addition, students can choose from a growing slate of international opportunities, including a summer legal study abroad program in Ireland.

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Quinnipiac’s clinical and externship programs immerse students in real-life work and environments that build highly skilled lawyers. Because the state of Connecticut permits supervised law students to represent clients in their second year, the law school has been able to design programs that offer an extra year of hands-on experience compared to those in most other states. Every student is guaranteed participation in at least one of these practical learning opportunities, mastering theory along with crucial practice-ready skills.

Over the last three years alone, students in the law school’s clinics have provided

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more than 31,000 hours of free legal services. Among the 20 clinic practice areas are criminal justice, health law, intellectual property, legislative and public interest.

Quinnipiac’s externship program has more than 300-plus placement sites and is built on a model that emphasizes collaborative relationships among students, faculty supervisors and the lawyers, judges and mediators who serve as field supervisors for Quinnipiac externs. The law school offers externships in 15 categories, including family law and veterans’ advocacy.

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The Bicentennial of Connecticut’s 1818 Constitution: Robert Imholt Explores Origins and Implications New Haven, Conn. (October 17, 2018)— It’s common knowledge that Connecticut is the Constitution State. The General Assembly adopted it as the official motto in 1959, and the motto itself goes back to 1904 when it was adopted as the theme for the Connecticut Building at the St. Louis World’s Fair. But what does the moniker mean for its citizenry? And does Connecticut deserve to be called the Constitution State? Robert Imholt, Professor of History Emeritus at Albertus Magnus College, will examine these questions in a free presentation at the New Haven Museum at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, 2018.

The Connecticut Colony’s Fundamental Orders of 1639 was hailed as the world’s first written constitution. It was the basis for the 1662 Connecticut charter and, according to some, the inspiration for the United States Constitution of 1787. Imholt notes that in 1818, after almost two decades of debate over whether Connecticut had a constitution, the General Assembly approved a call for a constitutional convention. Voters in each town gathered on the Fourth of July to elect delegates. From late August to the middle of September, the delegates met at the Old State House in Hartford to draft a constitution. On the first Monday in October, by a small margin, voters approved Connecticut’s first Constitution.

If histories say anything about the Constitution of 1818, it is that the Constitution ended the establishment of the Congregational Church in the state. But Imholt maintains that the standard interpretation over-

emphasizes the hold of congregationalism prior to 1818 and oversimplifies the evolution of church-state relations in Connecticut, both before and following the Constitution’s ratification. It also overstates the importance of the religious question in the debates on the 1818 Constitution itself.

Imholt’s presentation will survey Connecticut’s constitutional history with particular attention to early-19th-century debates over whether Connecticut had a constitution, the forces that led to the convention, and what the Constitution of 1818 accomplished. The 1818 Constitution, though often amended, remained the state’s constitution until 1965.

About Robert Imholt A native of the Midwest, Imholt received a southern education at Washington and Lee University in Virginia and the University of Kentucky. He believes some fit of divine whimsy sentenced him to life in New England as a member of the History Department at Albertus Magnus College for 46 years.

Past president of the New England Historical Association, he has published numerous articles on Connecticut in the early republic, most recently “Connecticut Confronts the Guillotine: The French Revolution and the Land of Steady Habits,” The New England Quarterly, 90, no.3 (September 2017): 385417. He recently completed an essay on religious disestablishment in Connecticut for a collective work to be published by the University of Missouri Press in January. His current project is a biographical study of Timothy Dwight, poet, preacher, and president of Yale from 1795 until his death in 1817.

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Alders Vote Down Matteson As CAO THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

The Board of Alders for the first time exercised its power to scuttle top mayoral appointments by voting down the the Harp administration’s choice for the next chief administrative officer.

Over the objections of a small contingency of colleagues, one of whom unsuccessfully sought a roll call vote, the alders voted against confirming Sean Matteson, a former chief of staff for Mayor John DeStefano, for the position during their bi-monthly meeting at City Hall Monday night.

The alders were exercising authority they gained in a 2013 charter revision not only to review top mayoral appointees, but to vote them up or down.

Hill Alder Evelyn Rodriguez led the charge on the floor Monday night in support of Matteson, who has been serving as the acting chief administrative officer, or CAO, since Mike Carter resigned the positionabout a month ago.

Rodriguez, who serves as the chair of the Aldermanic Affairs Committee, said that Matteson came out of a grueling two-hour confirmation before that committee with a “strong record” that showed that he was “well qualified.” She praised his union work and said that she believed he had the chops to work collaboratively to address some of the biggest issues facing the city right now.

Matteson had worked for UNITE HERE, the union that represents Yale workers, before he went to work for CIty Hall for DeStefano; then he endedup on the opposite

MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Matteson with Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn after

her “no” vote on his confirmation.

Hill Alder Evelyn Rodriguez, who championed Matteson’s confirmation from the floor.

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side of labor on some matters both in that job and a subsequent one with the pro-charter group ConnCAN. A majority of alders are affiliated with UNITE HERE. Rodriguez said she recognized that colleagues might have beef with Matteson leftover from his days acting as the consigliere for former Mayor DeStefano—a time when he was very “political,” she said. But the nuts-and-bolts oriented CAO is a different position, she argued.

At his confirmation hearing before the Aldermanic Affairs Committee, Matteson promised he would rein in police and fire overtime, which has already blown through 40 percent of their budgets in the first two months of the fiscal year. In addition to that, he planned to figure out how to deploy a small crew of tree-trimmers citywide, protect trash-collectors who are too often getting hurt on the job, and improve customer service on the police’s non-emergency phone line. He also promised to keep politics out of it.“There are serious problems happening in our city,” Rodriguez said. “We need all departments working together. I believe Mr. Matteson can do that.”

Colleagues like Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn weren’t ready to forgive and forget.

“I did have some personal things with Mr. Matteson,” Clyburn said in her floor remarks. “When my ward had come to the table on our own and was sitting at the table with Achievement First to make sure we get a community benefit agreement from Achievement First, that they would give

back to our neighborhood, Mr. Matteson has said to DeStefano not to support us.”

Achievement First operates charter schools, including Amistad High School in Newhallville. It negotiated a deal to open that school with Clyburn and other alders in 2012 when DeStefano was mayor.

“I’m just tired of everything with this administration, how they treat different wards,” she added. “I just don’t trust that it won’t be any political involvement.”

Hill Alder Dolores Colon said she didn’t trust such a promise either.

“I was here when he was chief of staff,” she said, “and political or not, the city did not thrive. As a result, the current mayor inherited a huge, huge amount of financial problems. Topmost on that list is something that he himself mentioned: the firemen and the police overtime. I know that is a complicated matter. But if we’re resting our hopes on his helping us resolve that long-term issue … I’m not willing to give him a second chance to resolve that particular issue.”

Colon said the Harp administration took three months to fill the position of fire chief.

What’s the hurry? she asked.

“We can keep him in the position of acting … indefinitely,” Colon added. “We should not be rushing to make this decision without comparing him to other applicants.”

Dwight Alder Frank Douglass agreed with that sentiment.

“Haste makes waste,” he said. “There should not be a rush for this position to be Con’t on page 12

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

Executive Director Reflections: A Time of Transition

By Melissa Spear, Executive Director Melissa Spear, CG’s Executive Director, is moving on.

This weekend I hiked the Mattabasset Trail along Powder Ridge Mountain in Middlefield. From the summit I could see all the way to Long Island Sound. Connecticut’s forests stretched to the horizon wearing their fall colors. It was my first hike of the year in long pants – the cool air of autumn seems to have finally arrived.

It is a time of transition, and not just for the weather. I am also about to undergo a transition, as is Common Ground. I will be leaving Connecticut at the end of November to join my daughter in Seattle, Washington. I have imagined I would eventually return to my roots in the West ever since I moved to Connecticut 30 years ago, and now just seemed like the right time.

I have been with Common Ground for almost a decade now. I can honestly say it has been an amazing 10 years. I person-

Melissa Spear ally have learned so much from being here, and feel incredibly honored to have had the privilege of working with my colleagues in service to this organization. Common

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Alders Vote Down filled. I’m quite sure there are plenty of other people qualified for this position.”

But time is of the essence Newhallville/ Prospect Hill Alder Steve Winter said, speaking in favor of Matteson’s appointment: The city is wrestling with a large projected structural deficit, and Matteson demonstrated he understands the issues surrounding it.

“We need a candidate who can hit the ground running,” Winter said. “I believe Sean Matteson … is a good fit for this role.”

East Rock Alder Anna Festa tried to steer the discussion back the question of fitness.

“New Haven is a political city,” she said.

“We are politicians. Everything is run on politics. All wards have special needs …

The question here is whether or not Mr. Matteson is capable of doing the job. … Based on his past practices as well his resume, I think he is capable of doing this job.”

When it looked like Rodriguez might continue the fight, Amity/Beverly Hills Alder Richard Furlow, who also serves as the board’s majority leader, asked for the question to be called so that debate would end.

Alders ultimately rejected Matteson’s confirmation on a voice vote. West Rock Alder Michelle Edmonds Sepulveda was the lone abstention. Though she was on the board when Matteson was chief of staff, she said, she didn’t feel she had enough information to vote on his fitness for CAO. Matteson, who was present at the meeting Monday, said it was not the outcome that he hoped, nor was he expecting that people had such hard feelings from his chief of staff days.

“I don’t take it personally,” he said. “I do appreciate the kind words I did get.”

He said he’s sure there will be lots of discussions starting tomorrow about what happens next. His plan is to be at Tuesday’s Fire Commissioners and the Board of Alders Public Safety Committee meetings.

Harp administration spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that the mayor will meet with Chief of Staff Tomas Reyes Tuesday “to ensure continuity of services and the plan to move the city forward.”

Harp has six months to resubmit Matteson’s name or that of another candidate.

Until then he can continue working in the job in an acting capactiy.

About That Voice Vote ...

Rodriguez had asked that alders vote individually at the end of her initial floor remarks in support of Matteson Monday night. (You can catch her request at around the 22:26 mark on the Facebook Live video.)

When Alder Furlow called the question (at around the 34:26 mark) Rodriguez tried to interject that she requested that alders vote individually. Board President Tyisha Walker-Myers told her that she “did not request the right thing.”

“You voiced your opinion,” Walker-Myers said. “So, if you are looking for something different, you need to figure out what the term is.”

Apparently, Rodriguez would have had to have requested a “roll-call” vote if she wanted to have her colleagues vote individually.

Walker-Myers said that terminology was explained to Rodriguez at Democratic caucus. She also noted that any of Rodriguez’s colleagues who also supported the Matteson appointment could have made the proper request.

“This is not our first rodeo,” Walker-Myers said. “People put too many emotions in this instead of knowing the process.”

Rodriguez said she believes that her colleagues understood her request even if she didn’t use the right words.

“I believe it could have been considered, especially on a crucial item like this,” she said.

Ground is truly one of a kind, a gem, a bona fide community asset. A lot has changed since I joined Common Ground as its Executive Director. First and foremost we have grown. The student population increased from approximately 150 in 2009-2010 to 215 today. Staff increased from 27 to our current full time staff of 60.

The budget grew from $2,700,000 in 20092010 to $5,500,000 in 2018-2019. Two important new programs also came to life during my tenure here – the SchoolYards program and the NatureYear program. In order to accommodate all of this growth our campus has been completely renewed with, most significantly, the addition of the award winning Springside building as well as the beautiful and functional Harvest Pavilion. We also completed the renovation of the original Hilltop building, the installation of significant passive stormwater management features (including an educational wetland), extensive native landscaping across the site, and the addition of wayfinding signage to help our visitors find

what they are looking for.

Less tangible but just as important, Common Ground’s financial position has been significantly improved by diversifying our sources of revenue and implementing financial tracking systems to ensure we are living within our means.

We have also worked hard, and will continue to prioritize creating a workplace where diversity, equity and inclusion are honored and where staff feel valued and heard. This work has included everything from instituting systems to guide the way we recruit, hire and orient new employees to conducting all staff trainings on topics such as implicit bias and restorative justice, to strengthening internal communications around important organizational initiatives.

While there is always more to be done, I am proud of what has been accomplished in the time I have been here. Common Ground has grown in a sustainable fashion and I am confident it has a secure future. While I have contributed to Common

Ground’s success, without your support, whether as a donor, a funder, a volunteer, a member of our staff, a program participant, a parent, a student or a partner organization – the successes of the past 10 years would have been impossible to achieve. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Now it is time for me to take what I have learned here and use it to benefit another worthy organization. I know I am leaving Common Ground in a strong position with an amazing staff and Board that will guide it through this transition over the next 6 months. Staff and Board will work together to find a wonderful new Executive Director to lead Common Ground on this next leg of its journey. I will be watching from across the continent and look forward to coming back many times in the years to come to visit my second home.

I will be at Common Ground until the end of November. If you are interested in knowing what I am up to next, visit www. tilthalliance.org. And feel free to visit me in Seattle any time. I will miss you all!

Cops, Yale Reach Tentative Contract Deal

by STAFF

It took 28 months and 74 bargaining sessions, but Yale’s police union has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.

If the rank and file vote approval, the agreemen will run seven years.

Well, closer to five more years in actuality the seven years would include in retrospect the two years since the last contract expired.

Members of the union, the Yale Police Benevolent Association (YPBA), are scheduled to vote on Oct. 30 whether to ratify the contract, which would run from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2023.

Union leaders are urging a yes vote.

The union represents the 71 non-supervisory patrol officers and detectives in Yale’s 93-person police department.

“Our new contract represents a good, practical settlement that provides many enhancements in significant areas,” union leaders wrote in a press statement. The statement said the contract offers 3 percent annual pay increases. “additional job security protections; enhanced union administrative capabilities; grievance procedure enhancements, including increased cost sharing by the University for arbitrator fees, as well as improved due process and procedural rights protections.”

The leadership also reported that it succeeded in resisting a Yale demand that, like members of Yale’s UNITE HERE unions, the cops participate in a Health Expectations Program (HEP) that requires mandatory medical tests as well as coaching for those with chronic conditions. In return, the union agreed to “small premium coshares for two-person and family coverage under the Yale Health Plan, which is currently premium-free.”

The university also withdrew two controversial health insurance proposals, according to the union: To require members to

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keep paying premium co-shares in retirement; to eliminate reimbursement of Medicare Part B premiums; and to reinstate a $800 maximum out-of-pocket expense cap under the MEdicare Rx Plan.

Union members rally for a contract on Sept. 28.

Those health proposals in particular led

to public protests by union members and a strike threat as negotiations dragged on.

Click here, here, and here to read about some of that.

Yale’s public affairs office declined comment on the contract deal.

Union members rally for a contract on Sept. 28.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

By Michael H. Cottman, Urban News Service

“Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty” “Even boys 10 to 16 years old felt the whip. There was no such thing as a good slave owner” – Tom Nash, Monticello tour guide.

DALLAS -- Gayle Jessup White strolled through a poignant exhibit about slavery while processing a complex past: Many of her ancestors – men, women and children – were enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.

Jessup White, who says she is a descendent of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the enslaved women who had six children by Jefferson, helped bring the exhibition, “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty,” to Dallas.

“This is a story about my family,” said Jessup White, who is the Community Engagement Officer at Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home, Monticello. “This exhibit humanizes people. You will see tools that were used by enslaved people, people who were cast aside, people who were left behind, but these people were the backbone of America.”

The exhibition tells the story of slavery at Monticello, Jefferson’s 5000-acre Virginia plantation, from the perspective of six families who were enslaved there for more than 80 years. Jessup White notes the irony that we know so much about them because Jefferson, the primary author of The Declaration of Independence, “took such copious notes” on his land and slaves.

More than 300 artifacts, works of art and documents representing Jefferson’s Monticello, will be on display at the African American Museum in Dallas from Sept. 22 to Dec. 31. The exhibit, which premiered

at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, breaks new ground by focusing in more detail on the life of Sally Hemings who was enslaved with an estimated 400 men, women and children who labored on Jefferson’s plantation.

Some of the artifacts that appear in the exhibit include nails made by the enslaved families, which became an extremely profitable industry for Jefferson; a hand-carved tombstone, china and pottery owned by the enslaved families.

Some of Jefferson’s items on display include a finely carved chess set, his eyeglasses and bookstand. There’s also a medicine bottle from Paris that may have been brought back by Sally Hemings during her time in France with Jefferson; a portion of a black pot (Jefferson encouraged his slaves to marry and gave them a black pot as a wedding gift) and an arm chair used in the house that is believed to have been made by John Hemings, a gifted furniture maker.

Until this exhibit, some of the artifacts had never left Monticello.

After Dallas, the show will travel to other cities including Detroit and Richmond. over five generations.

The exhibit features a special display about Hemings, one of the most famous African American women in American history. Jefferson fathered at least six children with Hemings, Jessup White said.

“We’ve given back to Sally Hemings her humanity,” Jessup White said. “We want visitors to understand Sally Hemings as a person through her family roles as a mother, daughter and sister. We’re not just talking about Thomas Jefferson and his family, we’re telling powerful stories about the enslaved people and their families, too.”

This exhibit is especially personal for Jessup White because she is a descendent of Sally Hemings’ brother Peter Hemings and one of Thomas Jefferson’s great-great grandsons, Moncure Robinson Taylor.

Jessup White said research shows Taylor fathered children by her great-grandmother, Rachael Robinson, who was his family’s

domestic servant. DNA testing shows the Taylor family descendants are her third and fourth cousins.

Bishop T.D. Jakes, Pastor of The Potter’s House and an honorary co-chair of the Dallas exhibit, said Jefferson was a deeply conflicted man.

“You know, it’s interesting, as I was walking around museum, reading some of the quotes that were attributed to Jefferson, the conflict that he had while being an advocate for emancipation on one hand yet he was a slave owner on the other,” Jakes said.

Dr. Harry Robinson, President and CEO of Dallas’ African American Museum, said Dallas residents – black and white – can benefit from the exhibit.

“Dallas is sometimes considered a cultural outpost and when we established this museum, we were trying to fill the void,” Robinson said. “This exhibition will help us bring about discussions of [racial] issues that we have been dodging for some time.”

Meanwhile, Jessup White said she wants people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds to tour the exhibit to gain a deeper understanding of Hemings and other enslaved families who lived and worked on Jefferson’s plantation.

“This is an American story because these enslaved people helped shape America,” she said. “This exhibit is a big deal: There is lots to see, lots to take in, and lots to learn.”

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

COMMENTARY: So Much Hate; So Little Tolerance

By Harry C. Alford

Political rivalry is as much a part of Americana as “Red, White and Blue.” We expect it and cheer on whatever side we support.

Throughout the history of our great nation, elections would bring much debate and comparisons as to whose side or positions would be best for the future of our nation.

I remember fearing the thought of Barry Goldwater becoming our nation’s president. I thought he was a maniac – a civil rights hating racist and a war monger. Not too long after that 1964 election cycle, I would be depending on Senator Goldwater to save my future.

We were in Army basic training at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. From there we would go to Infantry Officer Candidate School in Ft. Benning, Georgia. President Nixon decided that we were going to withdraw from Vietnam and, thus, the Army needed to reduce its manpower. They determined to stop us from going to Officer School (i.e. renege on our contracts with the US Army).

It seemed like we were destined to be “screwed.” However, one of our compatriot’s mother worked for Senator Goldwater.

He called his mother about the betrayal and she quipped “I will tell Uncle Barry about this.” The next day our contracts were back in force. Barry Goldwater had compassion for us and stepped up to protect us. He wasn’t that evil, “fire breathing” mongrel I

thought him to be.

The above experience taught me to understand that American politics should be restrained from hatred. There should be tolerance of other views. We should choose our political sides, debate and then elect a winner. Whoever that winner is, he becomes our leader for a set period and will be re-elected or not depending on the popularity of his performance. We move on regardless of the outcomes. This is about the prosperity of America and how we do it is up to the voters. We win some.

We lose some. But life goes on under the sweetness of democracy and the guarantee of freedom and individual rights.

Sadly, since the latest federal election something has happened to our current state of minds. The political sides – Democrats and Republicans- have become intolerable of each other.

The Democratic Party seems to be hurt from the 2016 election. They were so sure of victory that the defeat is not being accepted too well. In more peaceful times we would all say, “If you don’t like it, deal with it at the next election.” That type of patience does not seem to be tolerable any more.

Democratic party members are becoming venomous in their attitudes and the making of their new platform. They are so antiTrump to the point of it being an attitude of resistance, obstruction and hatred of

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However, he is a Trump nominee and, thus, must be stopped by any means necessary, according to the Democratic side of Congress. They have not “thrown the kitchen sink” yet but just about every trick, ethical, unethical or even illegal, is being tried.

One example is encouraging a mentally challenged individual to place a formal complaint of sexual assault against nominee Kavanaugh. An alleged act that happened over 36 years ago. She requested discretion about the handling of this. What did they do? They leaked her accusation to

the national press and paraded her on national television and gave her a questionable legal representative. They have put an “accuser” who needs medical help and privacy in a position of traumatic exposure.

You must feel sorry for her.

If that is not enough, they have two more “accusers” who claim either sexual indiscretion or down right gang rape. Yes, they are trying to paint a sleezy, criminal picture on a human being who has played by the rules and has lived a great, impressive American life. Hopefully, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will settle this matter soon. He has already successfully completed six previous FBI investigations covering the same period of time. However, it would not be too surprising if they try some more shenanigans, moral or immoral, legal or illegal to stop this nomination from going through.

The Democratic Congress is going through a mental crisis at the expense of our normal political process. Somehow, I hope this will straighten itself out through the next elections that are coming up. Dear Lord, may our voters and elected officials come to their senses and end this hatred and lack of tolerance.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018 Film Review by Kam Williams Amandla Stenberg Stars in Adaptation of Searing, Inner City Saga

The Hate U Give

16 year-old Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) straddles two different worlds which never intersect, one, black and poor, the other, white and privileged. That's because she lives in the ghetto in Garden Heights, but her parents (Regina Hall and Russell Hornsby) have sent her to Williamson, an exclusive prep school located on the other side of the tracks.

They know that Williamson gives her a better chance of making it out of the ‘hood than the local public high school which is only good for girls who want to get “high, pregnant or killed.” Consequently, Starr uses slang when hanging out with her friends on the block, although she always talks properly around her classmates.

Having different personas isn’t a problem until the night she accepts a ride home from a party from Khalil (Algee Smith), a close childhood friend she’d lost touch with.

While obeying all the rules of the road , they’re inexplicably pulled over by the police, ostensibly for “driving while black.”

Starr quietly complies with the condescending cop’s (Drew Starkey) every order, since she and her siblings had been carefully trained by her father how to survive such an encounter. However, Khalil opts to challenge the officer and is shot dead in seconds when his hair brush is mistaken for a gun.

Within days, Starr finds herself suddenly being swept up into the eye of a media storm as the only eyewitness to the killing of an unarmed black kid by a white lawman. The community calls for justice, but the only hope of Officer MacIntosh’s even being arrested is if Starr testifies before the grand jury.

That is the compelling point of departure

of The Hate U Give, a searing, inner city saga directed by George Tillman, Jr. (Notorious). The movie is based on Angie Thomas’ award-winning novel of the same name which spent 50 weeks on the New York Times’ Young Adult best seller list.

The heartbreaking bildungsroman features a top-flight cast, starting with Amandla Stenberg who is riveting from beginning to

end as the terribly-conflicted Starr Carter.

Also delivering powerful performances are Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Anthony Mackie and Common in service of a timely story certain to resonate with AfricanAmerican audiences.

A grim reminder of just how tough it is to be young, marginalized and black in a merciless environment oblivious of your plight.

Obama Issues Second Round of Midterm Endorsements NNPA Newswire Staff

WASHINGTON –President Barack Obama issued a second round of midterm endorsements, lending his name in support of 260 Democratic candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House, and state legislature.

“The Democratic Party has always made the biggest difference in the lives of the American people when we lead with conviction, principle, and bold, new ideas. Our incredible array of candidates up and down the ticket, all across the country, make up a movement of citizens who are younger, more diverse, more female than ever before,” said President Obama. “They’re Americans who aren’t just running against something, but for something. They’re running to expand opportunity and restore the honor and compassion that should be the essence of public service. I’m proud to endorse so many of them today, and I’m eager to continue making the case for why they deserve our votes this November.”

In this round of endorsements, President Obama focused on close races in which his support would make a meaningful difference; state legislative and/or statewide races that are redistricting priorities; Obama campaign and administration alumni who

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have been inspired to run for office; and building a pipeline of diverse talent and elevating the next generation of leaders within the Democratic party.

President Obama is committed to using his unique standing to support Democrats up and down the ballot in 2018. Today’s endorsements build on an initial round of 81 midterm endorsements that he issued in

August and several campaign appearances over the last month. President Obama has campaigned for candidates in California, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania so far and has held fundraisers this year for campaign committees, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and individual candidates.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 17, 2018 - October 23, 2018

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third Fridays of the month at Cornell Scott’s offices on Columbus Avenue. The operational group meets on the second and fourth Fridays of every month at that same location.

The groups consist of representatives from Cornell Scott, Columbus House, CSA, the state prosecutor’s office, the New Haven police, the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Yale researchers, and LEAD community liaisons Jesus Garzon Ospina and Rasheen Murphy. (Denson said that former Hill South community liaison Alejandro Pabon-Rey left the job earlier this summer and now works for the state.)

“This will not be successful if the community is not a part of this,” Muley said.

“We’re not withholding from the community. We want to make sure that this is not something that is controlled by any one or two entities. This is a community effort.”

He said that he has been making the rounds of different community management teams, introducing the many services that CSA offers around homelessness, prison reentry, and elderly needs while also talking up LEAD. He and Watson have planned a “community leadership team” meeting for Oct. 23 at John C. Daniels School from 6 to 7 p.m., where they hope to present on the latest with LEAD to some of the community groups like Sex Workers and Allies Network (SWAN) that the city signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with last year in which they promised to include those groups in positions of Lead leadership.

Muley said that the Oct. 23 meeting should lead to the permanent appointment of a community advocate to LEAD’s policy group.

After the late October meeting, he said,

city managers of LEAD as well as visiting officials from LEAD’s National Support Bureau will visit New Haven to train six new Hill and Downtown police officers as well as community representatives on how the pre-arrest diversions and social contacts should work.

Police Turnover Muley said that around 33 local police officers were trained in how to use the program’s intake form last November. But some of those officers have retired or resigned. Now the city’s program managers are looking to get a new group of officers up to speed on how to participate in LEAD. Muley, Watson, and Denson also answered a few specific criticisms leveled against the city last week during the LEAD teach-in.

Muley called the mayor’s office an appropriate entity to manage LEAD in New Haven because city officials were the ones who had the foresight last year to visit Seattle’s LEAD operation and recognize the importance of trying out a pre-arrest diversion program right here in the Elm City.

“The city recognized the need to be forward thinking and reaching out to try to secure such a grant,” he said. “They recognized that innovation was needed and a change was needed.”

Watson said that the city is sticking to the national model’s recommendations that LEAD should only address people who commit certain low-level addiction-related offenses, and that the program should exclude, for now, people who have more serious criminal records.

“We’re trying to stay true to what the model is saying,” Watson said. “The model is based on low-level crime. In a pilot, one of the things you want to test is: so what is the best fit?”

In theory New Haven’s LEAD pilot allows police officers to reopen arrest warrants for diverted participants who do not check in with their assigned social worker within 30 days of opting into the program.

In practice, that has not happened in the Elm City, Denson said.

“It’s not concrete,” she said about the actual time limit that the city uses to determine when a person who once opted into the program is officially considered done with LEAD, whether because they’ve dropped all communications with the city or because they’re achieved more permanent housing and a more stable level of services.

In response to a question about transparency, Watson and Denson said the policy and operational working group’s meeting minutes will be posted to a public-facing website soon once Watson and an intern finishing combing through the many pages created to date and redacting names and any personal identifying information for program participants.

Muley said that, after the grants end in April 2019, the city will report out to state and federal funders on how the pilot went and seek to secure new funding to roll out LEAD to other city neighborhoods beyond the Hill and Downtown.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sister’s Journey Survivor Stories: Stacey Hobson, October 2018 Calendar Feature

Hi, my name is Stacey Hobson. I am the mother of one son, DaVonn, and grandmother to one special granddaughter, Keyani.

I started having mammograms in my late 20s at the request of my doctor due to another breast-related issue. In May 2006, I went to have my regularly scheduled mammogram. This time things were different.

First, the technician told me not to get dressed; then she told me the mammogram was not clear and she needed to take another image. After the second mammogram, the technician told me she wanted to have the radiologist take a look at my mammogram results. Two hours and three mammograms later, I was told my mammogram results were abnormal and I needed a biopsy.

At 35 years young I had to have a biopsy.

A week later, I got the results that I had Stage 1 Breast Cancer and it was treatable.

I scheduled a consultation to get all the information I could about Stage 1 Breast Cancer – surgery, treatment, pre- and postsurgery and any other information that was important to my health. I was in shock, scared and nervous, but I immediately told my son, my mother (Sharon), my sisters (Debbie, Adrienne, Erica, & Jonisha) and my friend (Marvina) who were all very supportive.

Although it was Stage 1 Breast Cancer, it was detected early and it was invasive, but confined to the area where the abnormality began. It was successfully treated with surgery (a lumpectomy, removing the tumor

and any adjacent tissue) and 16 weeks of radiation. Some days were better than others, but most importantly, I survived, and I’m here grateful and thankful.

EARLY DETECTION IS THE BEST PROTECTION!! Thanking God for his grace and mercy.

Special thank you to my sister Debbie and good friend Marvina who were right there with me before and after surgery and then by my side at home while I was resting, relaxing and recuperating!!!

Since becoming a Survivor, I have been a committee member with the American Cancer Society/Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. I started my own Team in 2007, Team F.A.C.E.D (Fighting Against

Cancer Every Day). We started out with 10 team members and now we have over 40 walkers and supporters and we continue to grow every year. I would like to thank all the walkers, and supporters. We will find a cure one step at a time!

Stage 1 Breast Cancer! What does that mean for me? GOD IS BIGGER THAN ANY PAIN, PROBLEM OR PROCEDURE! God Bless all the survivors!

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White Realtor Fired For Trying to Stop a Black Man From Entering His Own Luxury Condo St. Louis, MO — A white woman who works as a realtor in a luxury apartment has been terminated from her job after a video of her confronting and blocking an AfricanAmerican man from entering his loft went viral online. The woman said she felt “uncomfortable” so she had to demand proof that he really lives there.

D’Arreion Toles, who is 34 years old, was returning home from work late night last week when the woman kept him from entering. She blocked him until he proved to her that he lived there.

In the video uploaded on Facebook, Toles can be heard asking the woman to “please move.” But she kept questioning Toles if he lives there and what unit. She said she would not get out of the way because she felt “uncomfortable.” She even followed Toles on the way to the front door of his apartment.

“I was kind of blown away, shocked and like wow,” Toles told KMOV. “I am just glad I had my camera out. If I did not have my camera out, I feel it could have gone a totally different way.”

Toles posted the video on his Facebook account. The video has been viewed over six million times and shared more than 140,000 times now.

Toles also shared that police came to his unit after the incident that night because the woman called. But the police left without giving anyone citation.

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D’Arreion Toles and Hilary Brooke Mueller The woman, identified as Hilary Brooke Mueller, has been fired from her job because of her behavior. Tribeca Luxury Apartments, her employer, said they were “disturbed” by the incident caught on the video. They confirmed she was their employee but the incident happened in a different apartment.

“The Tribeca-STL family is a minorityowned company that consists of employees and residents from many racial backgrounds,” it said in a statement. “We are

proud of this fact and do not and never will stand for racism or racial profiling at our company. After a review of the matter the employee has been terminated and is no longer with our company.”

Meanwhile, Toles is not considering filing a complaint against the woman and he wishes her “the best.”

“I am not mad at her. I am not upset with her. I am not going to go after her legally or anything like that,” Toles said.

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James Brandon Lewis Charts A Course To Firehouse 12

by ADAM MATLOCK

“It takes a lot of gumption…a lot of work to really map yourself,” said tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, “and get beyond your taught norm.”

He was speaking of his formative years in school and of his career path since which will lead him to perform with his trio at Firehouse 12 this Friday night, Oct. 19.

On 2016’s No Filter, the trio bursts out of the gate with ferocious energy (“It is hands down not playing around,” Lewis said), but never loses sight of his extremely personal sound. It suggests that Lewis has put that work in as a player, composer and bandleader.

Lewis traces his trajectory as a player back to his roots in Buffalo, N.Y. (“it’s a groove town,” he said) as well as to foundational experiences playing gospel and listening to hip hop records with his older brother in the ‘90s. His 2014 album Divine Travels explored his connection with spiritual music in more depth, while he describes 2015’s Days of Freeman as a kind of tribute to hip hop.

“This is the generation of the concept album in jazz,” Lewis says, and while No Filter doesn’t have as overt a concept as his previous albums, the record feels like a record rather than a collection of songs, with an easy progression from track to track, and guest appearances that feel woven into the fabric of the music. The core trio of Lewis, bassist Luke Stewart, and percussionist WarRP inner cityIIInews 5.471a huge x 5.1. oct ren Trae Crudup internalizes range

of influences to create a sound that grooves relentlessly, pushing at the edges of time and tonality but never abandoning them.

No Filter isn’t as overt in its connection to hip hop as Days of Freeman, but still shows a player enamored of the sound, and respectful of it enough to not try to force it into his compositions.

“I didn’t have to learn about it; it was just there in my subconscious,” Lewis said of his connection to the genre. This shows in his playing. Lewis at times sounds like he’s channeling the cadence of an MC in the midst of his improvisations, sometimes playing more with rhythm than pitch. This is most recognizable on the track “Y’all Slept,” which features a guest verse by Brooklynbased MC P.SO the Earth Tone King. In the solo that follows, Lewis’s phrasing almost echoes the unhurried flow of the MC, making the marriage of styles feel totally natural.

“To me, you’re doing the music a disserstill gets a huge sound that is tightly locked vice if you have a backbeat and you’re just in, but makes little fluctuations and adjustplaying bebop licks over it…. That’s not hip ments as they go, sometimes ending briefly hop,” Lewis said. in totally unrecognizable territory. Beyond Lewis said the trio format gives him freehip hop and gospel influences, you can hear dom as a composer and especially as an imstrains of West African grooves, the harder proviser. He cited mentor and pianist Matedge of downtown-scene experimental rock, thew Shipp, as someone who pushed him to and electronic timbres coming from the trio, try the format. and it is a pleasure to hear these influences so “A whole other universe opened up for me,” thoroughly incorporated into the trio’s sound. he said. “It seemed as if my melodic ideas “In one show, we could be playing rock, were never ending … it made me aware that hip-hop, free jazz … but the freedom comes I don’t have to have a harmonic instrument from breaking down the constructs,” Lewis … guiding where I should be going.” This said. “The fluidity can be fascinating.” rev.qxp_Layout 1 10/12/18 1:35 1 creates a remarkable effect, in that the PM trio Page Questions of identity and authenticity are

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“In one semester we listened to Michael Jackson, in another we listened to Billie Holiday, in another to Tupac. But he always encouraged us to find the unique moment, whether it was one note, one little dynamic gesture,” Lewis said. It’s clear that this kind

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“I don’t have to lie to myself about who I am as a player,” he said. But one doesn’t get the impression that he has boxed himself in.

Lewis is moving the boundaries for himself, album by album and night by night, across a map of sound.

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How Black Women Are Affected Differently by Ovarian Cancer

by Jasmine Browley, BlackDoctor.org

Ovarian cancer is perhaps one of the most dangerous diseases because it is often diagnosed at an advanced stage and has metastasized, or spread to other parts of the body very quickly, often without the knowledge of the victim. It is also the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among women, with more than 22,000 US women facing a potential diagnosis in the next few years, and around 15,000 dying from it.

If it’s caught in an early stage (Stage 1-2), however, a woman has more than a 90 percent chance of long-term survival.

Only about 20 percent of cases are caught in their early stage when the disease is most curable. While Black women have a lower incidence rate of ovarian cancer than their white counterparts, their 5-year survival rate is significantly lower because of late detection.

Key signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer that women should be aware of include bloating, pelvic or stomach pain, backaches, changes in eating habits or feeling full quickly, constipation, menstrual changes and pain during sex, per The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition. While these signs aren’t direct indicators of cancer, if they continue for more than 14 days, women should pay close attention to them and mention their concerns to an OB/GYN immediately.

Since the symptoms of ovarian cancer are very unclear and could easily be conflated with other minor health issues, the fact still remains that these often overlooked symptoms contribute heavily to ovarian cancer’s high rate of diagnoses at advanced stage, thus requiring more aggressive, rigorous and invasive methods of treatment.

Another contributing factor to the dispro-

portionate treatment in the Black community is that most African American patients aren’t aware of their family’s medical history.

In an interview with Ebony Magazine, Dr. Lisa M. Johnson, founder of Ivy Obstetrics & Gynecology in New York City said, “a lot of the symptoms that women experience as they age are considered acceptable changes that come with life. They don’t necessarily talk to their daughters or granddaughters about what they’ve experienced because that’s not considered proper.”

Johnson continued by saying that her young female patients say “‘Oh, my grandmother had a hysterectomy, but I don’t know why, or my cousin had cancer but no one will talk about it.’” She also said that this is often not the case when it comes to many of her white patients who come to her office with more than enough information about their family history, possibly because they feel more comfortable inquiring about the important information.

Dr. Johnson also suggested that Black women should get more comfortable researching their risk factors for developing ovarian cancer later in life. The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, states that genetic predisposition, personal or family history of ovarian, breast or colon cancer, increasing age and undesired infertility all play into the susceptibility of developing ovarian cancer.

While there is no screening test for early ovarian cancer available yet, you can work closely with your doctor to keep an eye on potential warning signs, dig deep into your family’s history for clues and stay informed about the disease overall. For more information, please visit www.cancer.org/cancer/ovarian-cancer.

Jasmine Browley holds an MA in journalism from Columbia College Chicago, and has contributed to Ebony, Jet and MADE Magazine among others. So, clearly, she knows some stuff. Follow her digital journey @JasmineBrowley.

Could HBCUs Follow Trend of Colleges Banning Greek Life on Campus?

BYJL Carter, Sr. HBCUDigest.com

Last week, the University of Iowa became the latest university to suspend Greek fraternities on campus following reports of alcohol abuse and student code of conduct infractions. It is part of a growing wave of schools removing Greek life from campus in fear of hazing and substance abuse culture within the groups which can lead schools vulnerable to controversy and legal claims.

The action at Iowa follows several high profile fraternity bans in recent months at the University of Minnesota and the University of Missouri.

Five fraternities at West Virginia University were banned for 10 years after all disassociated with the school in light of what they deemed as harsh new rules regulating recruitment and conduct. In Tennessee, a bill was proposed to ban Greek fraternities and sororities from the state’s public campuses.

Several historically black Greek-letter or-

ganizations are intrinsically tied to HBCU campuses, and while none have been banned in recent years, suspending organizations on campus in the wake of hazing or misconduct reports is becoming more frequent at HBCUs. Last month, Wiley College placed a moratorium on campus-based Greek chapters, citing a claim of hazing within one of the groups.

Morgan State University’s Alpha Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. received two years of probation in 2013 when a student filed a claim against the chapter alleging its members of blocking his application because of his sexual orientation.

In 2009, Prairie View A&M University handed down a five-year disband order to the campus chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. following the death of student Donnie Wade.

Dillard University President and hazing expert Walter Kimbrough wrote for The

Atlantic in 2014 about the differences between historically black and white fraternities.

Black fraternities and sororities don’t share the same peripheral issues. A miniscule number own or even rent chapter houses due to very small numbers. The same is true with alcohol. Studies indicate less alcohol usage for example by Black college students, not so much because of less interest, but less disposable income to provide large quantities to guests at an event.

But there are different symptoms that indicate the same dark power or force exists in black groups, one that also creates tragic problems. It invades undergraduates who have been members of a group for a year or two, and miraculously overnight are the authorities on their group and how one should become a member. Their national leaders, scholars, lawyers, and experts, all who say don’t haze, have no credibility with these young geniuses.

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Water Treatment

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Water Treatment Pumping Operator I. The Town of Wallingford Water Division is seeking qualified candidates to maintain and opGalasso Materials is seeking a motivated, organized, detail-oriented candierate the water treatment plants, pump stations, and well facilities. date to join its truck dispatch office. Responsibilities include order entry and truck ticketing in a fast paced materials manufacturing and contracting Must process a High School Diploma or G.E.D with one (1) year company. You will have daily interaction with employees and customers of experience involving the operation or maintenance of equipment VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE as numerous truckloads of material cross our scales daily. We are willing of the type predominant in the water treatment industry. Ability to to train the right individual that has a great attitude. NO PHONE CALLS obtain within one (1) year, State of Connecticut DPH Class I Water PLEASE.Authority, Reply to Hiring Manager, PO Box 1776, East Granby, CT 06026.

HOME INC, behalf ofCertifi Columbus HouseI Water and the New Haven Housing Treatment Planton Operator’s cate, Class Distribution EOE/M/F/D/V. is accepting studio and one-bedroom at this develSystem Operatorpre-applications Certification andforsuccessful completion of an apartments apopment located at 108 Frank Street,certifi Newcate Haven.

Maximum proved water treatment plant operator’s program. $25.01income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available fromt 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y - $30.40 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefi package.

Apply: Department Human Resources, Town ofpre-applications Wallingford, 45 South 25, 2016 of and ending when sufficient (approximately 100) have Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492.

The closing date will be the been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon redate the 50th application/resume received, or October 2018 quest by calling HOME INC atis203-562-4663 during23, those hours. Completed prewhichever occurs first.beEOE applications must returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third

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HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio enThe esteCommunity desarrollo Foundation for Greater New Haven VNA Community Healthcare and Hospice ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos is máximos. searching Homecare Nurses (RN or LPN)p.m. andcomenzando is seeking Lasfor pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 Martesto25fill the position of Director of Gift Planning.

Case Managers (RN) to work in the Greater New HaPlease refer100) to our website for details: http://www.cfgnh.org/ julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente About/ContactUs/EmploymentOpportunities.aspx.

EOE. ven haveINC. 1-2Las years of experience as an por correo en County. las oficinasMust de HOME pre-solicitudes serán enviadas a petición Electronic submissions only. No phone calls RN/LPN. opportunities fullesas and per diem llamando aSeveral HOME INC al 203-562-4663for durante horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse flexible schedules. website www.connecta las oficinas de HOMEVisit INC enour 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport Request for Proposal (RFP) General Counsel Solicitation Number: 115-EO-18-S

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) seeks proposals from attorneys/law firms for the provision of a full cadre of legal services. Respondent(s) must have graduated from an accredited law school and be a member of the Connecticut Bar. A complete set of RFP documents will be available on September 24, 2018. To obtain a copy of the solicitation you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at PCC’s Administrative Offices at 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604 on October 11, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. All interested parties are strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Although not mandatory, all applicants are encouraged to attend to better understand the PCC’s requirements under this RFP. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than October 18, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be mailed or hand delivered by November 5, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604. Late proposals will not be accepted.

Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport

Request for Proposal (RFP) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Management and Support Services Solicitation Number: 116-S8-18-S

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is seeking proposals from consulting/management firms to provide management and support services for our HCV Program. A complete set of RFP documents can be obtained on September 24, 2018 by emailing your request to bids@parkcitycommunities. org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at PCC’s Administrative Offices at 150 Highland Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604 on October 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. All interested parties are strongly encouraged icuthomecare.org to view open positions and apply. to attend the conference. Although not mandatory, all applicants are encouraged to attend VNA Community Healthcare and Hospice is an Affirto better understand the PCC’s requirements under this RFP. Additional questions should The Town of be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than October 18, 2018 @ 3:00 mative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Wallingford Electric Division is seeking a highly technical manp.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycomager with strong administrative skills to manage the construction, munities.org. Proposals shall be mailed or hand delivered by November 5, 2018 at 3:00 maintenance and operation of the utility’s electric transmission and p.m. to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT distribution systems. The utility serves 24,700 customers in a 50+ 06604.

Invitation to Bid: Late proposals will not be accepted. square mile distribution area with a peak demand of 130 MW. The Full Time Deputy Finance Director/Town Account nd Notice 2 position requires a B.S. degree in electrical engineering plus 8 years $82,023 - $126,603 Listing: Retail Assistant of responsible experience in electric utility distribution, construction Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE For details and how maintenance and operations which must include 4 years of superto apply go to www.bloomfieldct.org All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 experience, & I-95 visory or an equivalent combination of education Petroleum Oldand Saybrook, CT Company has an immediate full time opening. Previous experience helpful in answering multiple telephone lines and in dealing with customers. Personable customer highways, near bus stop & shopping centerexperience substituting on a year-for year basis. Salary: $91,742 Buildings,service 17 Units) $117,382 plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply to: (4 Human skills a must. Previous petroleum experience a plus. Applicant to also perform Pet under 40lb allowed.

Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, Tax 45 South Main Street, Full Time Fleet Services Manager administrative tasks such as typing proposals, scheduling appointments and ordering parts Wallingford, CT 06492. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. Closing date will $70,904 - $109,445 and materials. Please send resume to: H.R. Manager, Confidential, P O Box 388, Guilford be November 6, 2018 or the date the 50th application is received, Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE CT 06437.

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Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders are available in person and on the MHA website at http://manchesterha.org and will Do You Want A Job That Makes A Difference? Become A Town Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. be accepted by mail or in person at 24 Bluefield Drive Manchester, CT 06040. Applications of Greenwich Police Officer. To view detailed information and will be accepted October 1st 8AM – October 31st, 2018 4PM. Applicants must meet the Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 apply online visitwww.governmentjobs.com/careers/greenwichct income limits and the definition of an “elderly person”. An “elderly person” is 62 years of Candidates must fulfill several basic requirements including: Anticipated Start: age August 15, 2016 or older, or a person who has been certified by the Social Security board as being totally ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER SealedAFFIRMATIVE bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town · Beofa Seymour U.S. Citizen Project documents available via ftp link below: at least 20 years of age until 3:00 pm onConstruction Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Needed at its office at ·28 Be Smith Street, Experienced Workforce · Possess 45 college credits,http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage or 2 years of active military Seymour, 06483 Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Site Laborers -CT Min 3yrs Exp - for Hvy Equipment Operator - 5+yrs Exp & Versatile service or equivalent

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ATTENTION GENERAL CONTRACTORS NOTICE ***INVITATION TO BID***

FIRE ALARM SYSTEM UPGRADES AT VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE KENNEDY, RIBICOFF & GRAHAM APARTMENTS HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations ap1. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY of the CITY OF NEW BRITAIN (Housing Authority) Pre-applications be availablefor from 5PM beginning Monday willply. receive sealed bids, inwill TRIPLICATE, the 9AM aboveTO referenced construction projectJu;y at its 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient (approximately 100) have development, known as Kennedy, Ribicoff &pre-applications Graham APARTMENTS, New Britain, CT. been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon re2. quest The work generally consists of at removal and replacement existing fire alarm system.preby calling HOME INC 203-562-4663 duringofthose hours.

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Graham Apartments”, delivered to the Authority Offices by mail or courier, and time and date stamped upon receipt. Bids will be received until December 6th, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at the office of the Housing Authority, 16 Armistice Street, New Britain, CT 06053, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud.

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VALENTINA DE November ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES 4. There will be MACRI a pre-bidVIVIENDAS walk thru on 8th, 2018 at 10:00 A.M. at Kennedy Apartments 300 East Main Street, New Britain, CT 06051. Interested bidders should attend thisHOME meeting to understand the scope of ywork intent of bid documents.

Anyestá bidINC, en nombreand de laclarify Columbus House de laand New Haven Housing Authority, der,aceptando who is notpre-solicitudes in attendance at thisestudios meeting,y will be held responsible for the en understanding and para apartamentos de un dormitorio este desarrollo extent of the scope of work and the contract. ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos estarán a.m.-5 p.m.

5. máximos.

Bid forms Las and pre-solicitudes contract documents are disponibles on file as of09 November 1st,comenzando 2018 at 1:00Martes P.M at 25 the julio, 2016 hasta Offi cuando se han recibido (aproximadamente 100) Housing Authority ce. Copies of these suficientes documents pre-solicitudes may be obtained by depositing a $50.00 check (CHECK NO INC. CASH) payable toserán The Housing the City en las oficinasONLY, de HOME Lasmade pre-solicitudes enviadas Authority por correo of a petición of llamando New Britain for each documents so obtained.

Such deposit will be deberán non-refundable. a HOME INCsetal of 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

6. Each bidder is required to submit with their bid, a bid guarantee of not less than 5% of the amount of the bid in the form of a certified check or bank draft, U.S. Government Bonds at par value, an irrevocable letter of credit or a bid bond secured by a surety company.

7. The successful bidder will be required to furnish a performance and payment bond for 100% of the contract price; or a 100% cash escrow; or a 25% irrevocable letter of credit. The surety must be a guarantee or surety company acceptable to the Housing Authority and licensed to provide sureties in the State of Connecticut. Individual sureties will not be considered.

NEW HAVEN

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

8. The Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any informality in the bidding. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of 90 days subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent of the Housing Authority.

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95

highways, neartobus stop the & shopping 9. It is the responsibility of the Bidder monitor nbhact.org center website for any notices and Addendum(s) that may be issued pertinent to the information being viewed.

Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

The Housing Authority of the City of New Britain is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative AcCT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s tion Employer and conducts business indesigned accordance with all intellectual Federal, State andofLocal laws, Certificate Program.

This is a 10 its month program to assist in the formation Candidates regulations guidelines.

Small, Minority, Business and 20, Disabled are in responseand to the Church’s Ministry needs.

The costWomen is $125. Classes startEnterprises Saturday, August 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. encouraged toChairman, participate in this process.

(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 HOUSING AUTHORITY of

the CITY OF NEW BRITAIN

_______________________________ John T. Hamilton, Executive Director

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Listing: Assistant - Immediate Sealed bidsTransportation are invited by the Housing Authority of the TownOpening of Seymour until 3:00 petroleum pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 its Transportation office at 28 Smith Street, High Volume oil company is seeking a fullat time Assistant.

Work time begins atCT 6:00AM. petroleum oil, retail or commercial dispatching experiSeymour, 06483 Previous for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the ence a plus. MUST possess excellent attention to detail, manage multiple projSmithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 ability Smith toStreet Seymour. ects, excel proficiency and good computer skills required. Send resume to: Human Resource Dept., PO Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith ********An Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** Street Seymour,Affi CTrmative at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Scale House Operator, Data Entry, Print, Copy & Scan Documents. Working knowl-

edge of Haz.documents Waste Regs.,are & Manifests.

OSHA certification a +. Forward resumes Bidding availableDOT from&the Seymour Housing Authority Ofto fice, RED28 Technologies, LLC Fax 860-218-2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com RED Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

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

Field Engineer

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for an Information Technology Analyst 1 position, a Municipal Assessment Professional position and a Research Analyst position.

BA/BS in Civil Engineering or Construction Management.

2-5 yrs. experience. OSHA Certified.

Proficient in reading contract plans and specifications.

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

Project Manager Environmental Remediation Division

For information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions, please visit https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT and click on:

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

Information Technology Analyst 1 (40 Hour) Recruitment #180815-7603FD-001

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Municipal Assessment Professional Recruitment #180817-5864AR-001 Research Analyst Recruitment #180822-6855AR-001 The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Administrative Assistant

10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002;

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Dan Peterson Phone: 860- 243-2300 email: dpeterson@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Must have DOT Construction Exp. Involves traveling to Job Site for record keeping.

Reliable transportation a must. NO PHONE CALLS EMAIL RESUME TO michelle@occllc.com EOE/AA Females and Minorities are encouraged to apply

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

seeks: Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com

Bridge Repair Crew Openings Invitation to Bid:

Operators, Foreman M/F. Drivers 2nd Notice CDL,Laborers,Excavation, Welders, Concrete Work SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE 860-664-8042, Fax 860-664-9175 michelle@occllc.com EOE CT Old Saybrook, Females and Minorities(4encouraged apply Buildings, 17toUnits)

Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

Firefighter/ParamediC

Union Company seeks:

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition,Tractor Site-work,Trailer Cast- Driver for Heavy & Highway ConThe Town of Wallingford currently Asphalt acceptingShingles, applications in-placeis Concrete, Vinylfor Siding, struction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, Firefighter/Paramedic. Applicants must have: a valid CPAT card, clean driving record, capable of operating heavy Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, HS diploma/GED, valid driver’s license and hold a valid Paramedic equipment; be willing to travel throughout the Electrical, Plumbing Fire Protection.

License that meetsMechanical, CT State Regulations.

Copies ofand licenses and certifi cations must be submitted with application materials.

The This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. Northeast & NY.

Town of Wallingford offers a competitive pay rate of $55,145.48 We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits to $71,095.44 annually. In addition, there is a $4,500 annual paraContact Dana at 860-243-2300.

Bid Extended, Duet package.

Date: August 5, 2016 medic bonus plus an excellent fringe benefi Application Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com deadline is November 13, 2018 or the date theAugust 75th application Anticipated Start: 15, 2016 is Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply received, whichever occurs first. Apply: Human Resources DepartProject documents available via ftp link below: Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer ment, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT. phone:http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage (203) 294-2080; fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE.

FENCE ERECTING SUBCONTRACTORS

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Town of Bloomfi eld S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking AA/EEO EMPLOYER for experienced, responsible commercial and resi-

Full Time Custodian $22.87 hourly

Pre-employment drug testing.

AA/EOE For details and how to apply go to www.bloomfieldct.org

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dential fence erectors and installers on a subcontractor basis. Earn from $750 to $2,000 per day. Email resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE

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NFL Week 6: Impressive and Disappointing

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Full-Time Technician Wanted:

Must have mechanical ability, NOTICEtools along with electrical knowledge. Welding a Plus. Will train the knowledge of power right person. Must be able to lift 100 lbs. and work in some adverse weather conditions VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING APPLICATIONS AVAILABLEConnecticut driver’s license and be able to obtain a mediwhen needed.

MustPRE-have a valid cal card. Must pass a physical exam and drug test. Compensation starts at $16.00 per hour HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, plus benefits for advancement.

Please send resume to mcomo@atlasoutdoor. is accepting pre-applications forwith studio androom one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apcom AA/EOE/MF 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 preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

HazWaste Central NOTICIA

Last Collection of the Year

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

October 27, 2018 Working with Communities to Protect Our Water Sources

NEWSAFE HAVEN & FREE DISPOSAL OF Invitation to Bid:

HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

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

2nd Notice

SATURDAYS ONLY, 9 AM–NOON

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Old Saybrook, CT highways, near bus stop & shopping center (4 Buildings, 17 Units) is for residents of theseTaxparticipating Pet underHazWaste 40lb allowed. InterestedCentral parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 Exempt & Not Prevailing Wagetowns: Rate Project Bethany, Branford,

East Haven, Fairfield, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Milford, New Haven, New Construction,Wallingford, Wood Framed, Housing, SelWest ective DemolHaven, ition, Site-work, CastNorth Branford, North Haven, Orange, Woodbridge.

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

in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding,

Flooring, PaintinWaste g, Division 10 Specialties, Appl iances, Residential Casework, Residential Only Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

St. New Haven, CT

This contract is subject to stateTO set-aside and contract compliance requirements. CENTRAL PARTIAL LIST OF WHAT TO BRING HAZWASTE

Visit www.rwater.com/hazwaste for a complete list.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016

KITCHEN & BATHROOM Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour Project documents available via ftp link below: until 3:00 Aerosols pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Floor Care Products Nail Polish Remover http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Bathroom Cleaners Metal & Furniture Polish Oven, Drain, Tile Cleaners Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com GARAGE & WORKSHOP HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses

Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Antifreeze Brake & Transmission Fluid Paint Thinner & Stripper AA/EEO EMPLOYER Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Auto Batteries

Gasoline

Bidding documents availableRepair from the Seymour Housing AuthorityLatex Of- & Oil-Based Paints* Auto are Body Products fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Used Motor Oil* Varnish

GARDEN & MISCELLANEOUS

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids,Herbicides, to Batteries* Fungicides reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any Chemical Fertilizer Insecticides, Pesticides informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Fluorescent Bulbs Mercury & MercuryHousing Authority.

(Including CFL type)*

Containing Items

Photographic Chemicals Propane Cylinders (Small 1 lb.)

Swimming Pool Chemicals

POLICE NOOFFICER ELECTRONICS OR GAS GRILL-SIZE PROPANE TANKS

The Wallingford Police Department is seeking qualified applicants for PoDo not mix items or remove from their original package. lice Officer. $1137.20 weekly plus an excellent fringe benefit package.

The physical performance, written and oral board exams willmay be adminis* Local disposal options be available. Please check with your public works tered by the South Central Criminal Justice Administration.

Candidates must or the following resources: department, local transfer station register at: www.PoliceApp.com/WallingfordCT. Registration/ApplicaBatteries: call 1-800-8-BATTERY or log on to www.call2recycle.org (excluding tion deadline is Friday, August 19, 2016. The registration requires a fee alkaline and auto batteries). of $85.00. EOE

Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulbs: call 1-800-CLEANUP or log on to www.earth911.com.

25 Paint: log on to www.paintcare.org and visit the Connecticut portion of the site to find a drop-off location for household paint.

Small Businesses: Call 203-401-2712 for Disposal Information For more information and to sign in early, visit:

www.rwater.com/hazwaste or call 203-401-2712.

Located at the Regional Water Authority, 90 Sargent Drive, New Haven, I-95 exit 46.

by Anthony Scott, ICN Sports Correspondent

Many teams impressed this week, but some teams didn’t show up. The Titans, Browns, Jaguars, and Giants were all extremely disappointing. Tennessee was held to 106 total yards, and allowed Marcus Mariota to be sacked 11 times.

Baker Mayfield had his mobility limited, and the Browns’ offense could not adjust. Jacksonville looked totally unprepared to play Dallas. And the Giants proved they should have drafted a QB, since Saquon Barkley has a stellar game, and the team was still trounced.

The scores this week were: Eagles over Giants 34-13, Dolphins over Bears 31-28 (OT), Texans over Bills 20-13, Falcons over Bucs 34-29, Vikings over Cardinals 27-17, Chargers over Browns 38-14, Jets over Colts 4234, Redskins over Panthers 23-17, Seahawks over Raiders 27-3, Steelers over Bengals 28-21, Rams over Broncos 23-20, Cowboys over Jags 40-7, Ravens over Titans 21-0, Patriots over Chief 4340, Packers over 49ers 33-30.

Fortunately for the football gods, the top teams looked as advertised this weekend. The Rams are now the only undefeated team in the league with the Chiefs losing, and they showed they can win ugly. The passing game was held in check, largely due to Cooper Kupp being injured. Jared Goff was sacked five times, led by a breakout three sack performance by Denver’s Bradley Chubb. Like good teams do, the Rams adapted and rode the ground game. Todd Gurley finished with a whopping 208 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries. He was the first Ram to rush for 200 yards since Marshall Faulk did it in 2001. Denver had chances, but settling for field goals instead of touchdowns ultimately did them in. The Rams got off to a slow start, but they are so good it doesn’t matter. Great teams know how to win regardless of circumstance.

The Patriots-Chiefs game may have been an AFC championship preview, and it lived up to the billing. 83 total points were scored, KC made a thrilling comeback, and the game came down to who had the ball last. The Pats continued to roll on offense, and the emergence of the running game is a big reason why. The duo of Sony Michel and James White carried the load, combining for 145 yards. (Michel has 316 yards in his last three games) The offense now looks complete for the first time this year, aided by Julian Edelman’s return and the acquisition of Josh Gordon.

Although teams are taking Gronk out of the mix, New England is moving the ball in other ways.

The Chiefs played well, but their slow start dug them into an early hole. The Pats did a good job of limiting Travis Kelce early, constantly shadowing and bumping him at the line. The Chiefs only had 9 points at halftime, but they took off after that. They trailed by 15 at halftime, but they outscored the Pats 17-3 in the third quarter. Due to Mahomes’ bazooka arm, and the athleticism of Tyreek Hill and Kareem Hunt, the offense can score in bunches most of the time. As well as the Chiefs played in the second half, the Patriots are too good to spot them a lead.

Pittsburgh has owned Cincinnati in their rivalry for years, making this loss even more crushing for the Bengals. They almost came back to win, but lost on the final drive. Pittsburgh took control early, and played an extremely physical game. James Connor had 111 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Several Bengals’ defenders left the game with bumps and bruises. Pittsburgh had a balanced passing attack as well, with Antonio Brown and Juju Smith-Schuster each finishing with 100 yards. Cincinnati played much better down the stretch, but they showed why they never seem to be able to get over the hump. Despite rattling off three big plays, Joe Mixon only finished with 64 yards. His talent is undeniable, but Cincy underused him for some reason. He should be a bell cow for this offense. It seems like they want to be an elite passing attack like Pittsburgh, but

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they should go with what’s working. I’ve said for years that the Bengals should consider moving on from Marvin Lewis as their coach. Maybe a young innovative coach could take then to the next level.

The Jets had a great win against the Colts, and the actually were constant two weeks in a row.

They had some great fortune early, with Morris Claiborne getting a pick six off a bobbled screen on the second play of the game. Andrew Luck came close to throwing another one on the next possession, but then proceeded to string together a stellar touchdown drive. Sam Darnold looked mediocre for the Jets early, and he threw yet another careless pick when he severely under threw his target on a deep throw. However, this turned out to be his best game of the year. He completed 80% of his passes, and he’s getting better at spreading the ball around. Jermaine Kearse 94 yards on a career-high nine catches. He had been a non-factor all season, so his emergence was a pleasant surprise.

The Jets had a huge goal line stand to start the second quarter. Had Indy scored and taken the lead, they would have likely seized all the momentum. This is an example of the Colts continuing trend of shooting themselves in the foot early in games. Luck almost made a comeback late, but the hole they dug for themselves was too big. This is mostly due to their lack of talent on offense. Andrew Luck looks like the star he was supposed to be since being drafted #1 overall, but he team is not helping much. Marlon Mack’s 72 rushing yards in the second half give signs for optimism, but this team has a long way to go.

The Cowboys were on the verge of total implosion coming into this week, but boy did they respond. Their 40-7 drubbing of the Jags may have been the biggest surprise of the week. They got off to a fast start, piling up 251 yards and 17 first downs in the first half. They scored on their first four drives of the game. They were leading 24-0 at halftime, and the game was effectively over. Dak Prescott looked more comfortable than he has all year, and he actually ran the ball like he did his rookie year. He finished with 82 rushing yards on 11 carries. Dallas showed great balance, keeping Ezekiel Elliott and Cole Beasley involved all game.

The Jags looked like a legit Super Bowl contender a few weeks back, but now their issues are coming to light. Their o-line is mediocre, and Blake Bortles struggles when pressured. The defense was understandably torched by KC last week, but they followed it up with a worse performance against Dallas offense which has been atrocious. Leonard Fournette’s injury has been a

problem, but I’m not sure his return will fix all of their recent issues. I cannot say Dallas fixed all their problems either. Not having center Travis Frederick is evident in the pass blocking department. The center is the most important lineman when it comes to identifying where the pressure is coming from, and the backup is clearly struggling. Also, teams will start preparing for Prescott like he’s a real quarterback again. Time will tell if he can play like this in consecutive weeks.

The Eagles had gotten off to a slow start after winning the Super Bowl last year, but they seem to have found their stride now. Carson Wentz was clearly shaking off his post-injury cobwebs, and he’s looking more and more like himself every week. On Thursday, he finished 26 of 36 with 278 yards, 3 touchdowns and no interceptions. More impressively, they scored touchdowns on four of six red zone trips. They had 24 points at halftime, more than they had scored in a game all year. Surprisingly, the backfield tandem of Wendell Smallwood and Corey Clement admirably filled in for the injured Jay Ajayi. Coupled with the way they assaulted Eli Manning, it was a great team win for Philly. With that said, the New York Giants really can’t get out of their own way. Many pundits said they should have drafted a quarterback instead of Saquon Barkley, and this game showed why. Barkley had a wonderful game (130 rushing yards, 99 receiving yards), yet his team was still blown out. Eli Manning threw a pick in his second pass of the game. Philly started the drive in their own red zone, and got an easy touchdown.

They scored again quickly, jumping ahead 14-3 in the blink of an eye. The Giants looked explosive at times, courtesy of the aforementioned Barkley. But they were 4 of 14 on third down, and started the game 0 for 8. When you are already playing from behind, and drives stall early, coming back becomes futile. Odell Beckham Jr, who is supposed to carry this offense, was held to only 44 yards. Philly did a good job of blanketing him all night. Outside of Barkley, the Giants have no big play ability whatsoever. Poor o-line has made many excuse Eli’s play, but Carson Wentz played very well under similar pressure.

Eli is immobile, which makes him a dinosaur in today’s high octane game. Almost every QB in the NFL can escape the pocket and make plays with their legs. He needs to get the ball out of his hand quickly, like he did his first year with Coach McAdoo. Screens and swing routes are not going to cut it. Unfortunately, all teams need to do is blitz him heavily and it’s over.

The Browns came out against the Chargers with the same level of energy they’ve had lately, but things changed after Baker Mayfield hurt his ankle running out of bounds. He was visibly limping afterward, and his play struggled. He was far less mobile, and looked inaccurate on medium and deep passes. He did look like himself later on, but his receivers dropped passes in big spots.

Their receiving group has not stepped up in general, and Jarvis Landry’s lack of big play ability doesn’t help either. Antonio Callaway was supposed to be their deep threat after cutting the troubled Josh Gordon, but his rookie inexperience is showing. Cleveland is vastly improved, but they have not yet learned how to win consistently. Unsurprising considering their recent history.

The Chargers did not play the greatest game early on, but big plays by Tyrell Williams allowed them to take control. In the second quarter, he had receptions for 44, 45, and 29 yards. He is becoming a superstar, yet the average fan doesn’t know his name. Coupled with their dominant day rushing the ball as well, led by Melvin Gordon’s 132 yards and 3 touchdowns, they left the Browns with no answers.

I hate to end on a somber note, but two teams lost their owners in the past few days. Chargers owner Alex Spanos died of dementia complications at age 95, and Seahawks owner Paul Allen died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 65.

R.I.P.

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