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GOP HQ Launches Democracy Quest THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 13, 2021 - October 19, 2021

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

Steve Orosco welcomed Anthony Acri at New Haven Republicans’ 2021 campaign headquarters by locking his fellow candidate in a rear naked choke hold.

Acri added the punchline: Orosco was repaying him for “getting him involved in this: I said, ‘Why don’t you run for alder?’”

Orosco perfected the choke hold as a professional mixed-martial arts fighter.

He still operates an MMA outfit called SMASH Global Sports and Entertainment.

Now Orosco is working on a new competitive skill: Chatting up voters in an effort to win elected office.

Orosco is one of eight Republicans who have agreed to hit the streets seeking votes this fall in order to bring two-party democracy to one-party-ruled Democratic New Haven — by offering voters a choice in the Nov. 2 general election.

(Democrats hold all contested municipal and state offices in New Haven. Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 14-1.)

The Republican candidates and their supporters regrouped Thursday evening for an official opening of the party’s campaign headquarters at the southeast corner of Elm and Orange streets.

John Carlson, a schoolteacher who lives in City Point, heads the ticket as the party’s mayoral candidate. (Click here, here and here to read previous stories about his campaign.) He’s the party’s first New Haven mayoral candidate since Rick Elser ran in 2007.

Pins on a wall-mounted ward map at Republican HQ indicated the streets Carlson has hit so far on the campaign trail.

He said that when he knocks on doors, he hears most often about voters’ concerns about the spike in crime.

His response: “More cops. More patrols.

More accountability.”

On that third score, he speaks of citizens being held accountable for breaking the law, including nuisance offenses like

drag-racing and illegal dumping; officers being held accountable for doing their job; supervisors being held accountable for officers doing their job.

“We don’t want cops at Dunkin Donuts or behind the school,” Carlson said. “We want them visible on patrol.”

He argued that in addition to pandemicera trends fueling nationwide increases in violent crime, New Haven is plagued by a shortage of officers and lack of support for the police.

Acri is the other citywide candidate. He vows to use his skills as a business owner to improve systems to enable more people to vote more easily. Schoolteacher James O’Connell, a veteran of Republican campaigns, is challenging incumbent Democrat Edward Joyner for one of the city’s two elected Board of Education seats.

Four of the five Republican alder candidates are running in east-side wards bordering East Haven. Gail Roundtree (pictured above), for instance, is focusing on quality-of-life concerns like potholes in Quinnipiac Meadows’ Ward 11. (You can

PAUL BASS PHOTO Cove candidate and mixed-martial arts master watch Acri, O’Connell, and Roundtree discuss their campaigns with fellow Republicans on this episode of WNHH

FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”)

Deborah Reyes, who works for the state Department of Social Services, is one of

three candidates in Fair Haven Heights’ Ward 13. She, too, hears about crime while speaking with voters, she said. She said she switched from the Democratic Party to the Republicans out of concern over homeowners’ tax burdens and the state of public education. She said she has seen the system up close as a social worker, as a city health worker, as a substitute teacher. She faces Green candidate Patricia Kane and incumbent Democrat Rosa Santana. “I’m staying away from the negative,” Reyes said Thursday night.

“My goal is to build relationships. I’m a people person.”

AnneMarie Rivera-Berrios, a member of the Civilian Review Board, is the Republicans’ candidate in Ward 17 in the Annex. She has been an advocate against neighborhood dumping and for restoration of parks and playgrounds for kids in the past. Last year, as a member of the East Shore CMT, she pushed to get $1,000 from the CMT to restore the children’s playground at Peat Meadow Park.

The Ward 17 seat is open; Rivera-Berrios faces Democrat Salvatore Punzo, a retired New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal and teacher.

At the opposite end of town, Joshua Van Hoesen is taking on incumbent Democrat Darryl Brackeen in Upper Westville/Amity/Beverly Hills’ Ward 26.

Orosco has so far focused on contacting Republican and Independent voters in his quest for Morris Cove’s Ward 18 seat. “Embrace the struggle, man,” he responded when asked what lessons he can apply to his political campaign from his mixed martial arts training. “It’s the grind. It’s hard work. I love it!”

He said he is campaigning first and foremost on the recent decision to expand Tweed New Haven Airport. His opponent, incumbent Democrat Sal DeCola, voted for the expansion. Orosco opposes it. DeCola stated that a majority of his constituents support the deal to expand the airport. Orosco argued Thursday night that the voters of Morris Cove support his position, not DeCola’s. The

Love Train Leads “Black Beethoven” To Lay Down Local Roots

by PAUL BASS

Back in the day, Dunn Pearson Jr. played “Love Train” on the keyboard with the O’Jays before 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden.

This past Sunday, he was at the keyboards at Hamden Plains United Methodist Church playing “Cry Me a River” at worship services.

The venues, the gigs differed. Pearson saw a link.

“It’s the same,” he suggested during an appearance Wednesday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven”: “You’re still try-

PAUL BASS PHOTO Dunn Pearson Jr. at WNHH FM.

ing to make a connection with your audience.”

The classically-trained Pearson, who is 66, has been connecting with audiences for five decades, since he toured as a back-up musician with a teen-sensation group called The Ponderosa Twins. He started touring as a keyboardist and arranger for the smash-hit O’Jays at 20 years old. He went on to earn 26 gold and platinum awards as a composer, producer and arranger for artists ranging from Mary J. Blige and Melba Moore to Teddy Pendergrass. He released 14 albums of his own. He segued to a scoring

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on Broadway and in movies, then producing commercials for McDonald’s, United Airlines, Wendy’s. He launched his own marketing firm, All Dunn Advertising.

Along the way, he earned the nickname “The Black Beethoven.”

This past year, the love train brought Pearson to Hamden. He entered a relationship with Central Connecticut State University Professor Shelly M. Jones (author of Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians) and moved here to live with her. He joined the Hamden Plains church band; this past Sunday he played his first ser-

vice. And he made local connections for his marketing work — including an event planned for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Sunday in New Haven’s DeGale Field Park aimed at introducing Black kids to horse-riding and “horses to humans” trauma healing.

Dunn spoke all about that — the past, the future — during his appearance on “Dateline.” Click on the video to watch him recall touring the world, jamming with Sting in a Memphis hotel, how he earned his nickname, and why it’s so challenging to sing along with the chorus of “Love Train” (when the C chord shifts to D).

Students Roll With Return To Remote THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 13, 2021 - October 19, 2021

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

During her second week of her first year of high school, Lana Al Mallak was pulled out of her history class and sent home for 10 days. No live classroom instruction. No after-school club meetings.

Lana left the school in tears.

“I understood why, but I just didn’t want to miss my second week of school,” she said.

The “why”: New Haven has begun its first complete academic year with in-person learning since the Covid-19 pandemic began. But the pandemic is not done yet: The Delta virus has kept it spreading.

So schools are hustling to avoid a repeat of the previous year’s extended all-remote learning by regularly sending home students like Lana whose classmates may have been exposed to the coronavirus.

New Haven Public School students who have been required to quarantine within the first month of the school year told the Independent in interviews this week that their 10-day return-home journeys didn’t quite feel like “real school.” After just getting back to full in-person learning, they and their parents have had to learn to roll with a temporary short-term return to remote.

As of Thursday, 290 individuals have quarantined as a result of Covid cases or potential exposures in NHPS so far this academic year. Thirty-eight are currently quarantining.

Lana spent much of her seventh and eighth-grade years learning remotely while at East Rock School. This caused her to miss out on her seventh and eighthgrade fields trips and school dances. She described feeling excited but nervous to return in-person for her first year of high school now that the school system resolved to make in-school learning the norm again.

On Sept. 3 around noon, Lana was in her history class. She noticed a school administrator calling her classmates out into the hallway one by one to ask them questions. When she was called into the hallway, she was asked if she was vaccinated.

She nervously responded that she was still considering if she wanted to get the shot. Her parents, who are vaccinated, are worried about letting her and her 13-yearold brother get the vaccine because of their ages, she said.

She was told she would have to quarantine for 10 days out of safety precautions because a classmate had Covid-like symptoms but tested negative. She waited in the school office until her mom picked her up.

“I was just getting used to not having to be home anymore,” she said. “I wanted to be with my friends.”

She said she is now used to having to mask up, doing less group work, and having to sit in the same seat all school year.

“You’re not as isolated as you are when remote,” she said.

Throughout the 10-day quarantine Lana received no live instruction, she said.

Each day remote work was posted online with directions to complete by the end of the day. She said the work was similar to the work she was doing in person. Although her teachers encouraged her to email them if she had any questions, Lana didn’t. “It just wasn’t as easy to explain my questions in writing. I usually can point to my paper and show them what I mean,” she said.

While quarantining, Lana missed out on attending the Sound School’s Dive Club’s first gathering. The second week was when after-school activities started.

For her first day of remote learning, Lana’s English teacher hosted a virtual meeting with the students quarantined and explained what they were expected to do for the next week.

“It was pretty scary. and I was pretty nervous of how things would work. But after that meeting, I felt a little better,” she said.

Lana described most of her work during quarantine as easy. In English she just had to read her independent book, The Baby-Sitters Club, and the class book Make Your Bed: Small Things That Can Change Your Life … and Maybe the World. She had to miss a math quiz that week and make it up when she returned.

School = Friends Davis Street Magnet School third-grader Rielynn, 8, said she felt like crying when her mom came to pick her up from school to quarantine this past week.

“I didn’t want to be separated from my friends,” she said.

Rielynn’s entire third-grade class had to quarantine for 10 days starting last Tuesday due to a student’s exposure to Covid.

As Rielynn neared her final days of quarantine at 4 p.m. Wednesday, she sat in her dining room finishing up her daily work.

She completed a digital math worksheet on rounding and multiplication, her favorite assignment.

“I was a little distracted today. Some of the kids in class were putting music on while the teacher was talking,” Rielynn said.

During quarantine, Rielynn would get up every day a little after her mom, Monica Johnson, left for work. She’d eat breakfast with her grandmother, then start school around 9 a.m.

Rielynn easily remembered how to log in to her Google Classroom account as she did last year. Around noon, Johnson would check in with her daughter for about an hour. By the time she returned home for work, Rielynn’s school day was over, and she’d help her daughter with any remaining work she struggled to complete during the school day.

Johnson, who is an administrative assis-

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTO Back home: Monica Johnson helps Rielynn with math worksheet.

tant for NHPS, got a call about the need to quarantine from the Davis school nurse Sept. 20.

Since the pandemic, Johnson has been getting help from her mother, who lives with her. “I don’t know what I would I do if I had nobody to help me,” she said.

During last year’s all-remote learning, Johnson had to bring Rielynn to work with her when her mother and husband were busy. She suggested that the district consider offering learning hubs to quarantined students who have working parents.

When schools shut down last year, Johnson worried most about the impact on Rielynn socially. “She’s an only child and loves being around people,” Johnson said.

To keep Rielynn busy, her parents did science projects, baking, learned to hula hoop, played family games, and took dozens of walks with her. “We got closer as family,” Johnson said.

To help keep Rielynn from getting burnt out while using the computer all school day, Johnson would print hard copies of the digital class work for her to do off screen. During reading times, rather than downloading digital books on the computer, Johnson encouraged Rielynn to read a book from her home library.

To keep Rielynn engaged with her peers and busy, she had had her join softball this school year. Last year Rielynn participated in a New Haven Reads program at Science Park, a youth church program, and a Saturday coding program offered at Davis.

While quarantining, Rielynn said, she sometimes got distracted by her neigh-

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bors’ music and other activities outside her dining room window.

Steve & His Parents Were Ready Davis third-grader Steven, 8, is in the same class as Rielynn. He was more upbeat about the temporary remote learning stretch.

Christina Dickerson-Cousin received the call from the school just before the end of the school day and was asked to pick up her son at the front of the building on Monday, Sept. 20. The school informed her that her son’s entire thirdgrade class would need to quarantine for the next 10 days out of safety precautions due to potential exposure.

Steve’s 10-day quarantine began the next day. He was excited about it.

Being home in quarantine and back in class virtually is like a vacation from school, Steve said.

His dad, Steve Cousin Jr., said he was concerned but not surprised when told him the news. “We were getting phone calls at least once a week about other students in the school having to quarantine, so I expected it was going to happen for us eventually,” he said.

Steve was able to easily make the adjustment to remote learning during quarantine, his parents said.

Because Steve’s entire class is in quarantine, his teacher conducted live instruction for the 10-day quarantine period.

Each day, the teacher provided the students and parents with a daily schedule to follow, including break times. Steve’s day usually started at 9 a.m. and finished around 3 p.m.

This time around, unlike during the previous remote learning year, Steve’s

parents are able to be less hands/on during his school day because he is more familiar with using his Chromebook.

His parents occasionally check on him throughout the day to be sure that he is focused in class.

When Steve began his virtual class in quarantine, Christina recalled him telling her: “I’m a big boy now. Big boys don’t need help logging in.”

Steve said he likes in-person school because he gets to play outside and be with his friends. He likes remote learning because he gets easy access to his TV, games, and juice.

Christina, who is a college professor, worried about how effective remote learning would be for her son’s education. “If you do nothing else,” she told herself, “just keep them reading.”

“I’m glad he’s getting to socialize more, because that’s the one thing Steve’s father said he felt like he was playing Russian roulette by sending his kids back to school in person this year.

“But we realized that last year was very hard, even when he was at the learning hub,” Cousin said. “He’s gained our trust: he does what he needs to and is doing his best given the situation.”

Had Steve’s parents been given the option for keeping him home for remote learning rather than in-person, Cousin said, they would have done virtual school until Steve is old enough to get vaccinated.

“We would have been more comfortable had we been given the option,” Cousin said. “Because he’s able to adapt.”

“It heightens our stress by 100 percent every day,” Cousin said. “You can always get socialization, but you can’t get back health.”

Christina arranged her teaching schedule this year to Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings so she could be back home by 1 p.m. This allows for her husband to focus on work in the afternoons.

“I changed my schedule in case this [quarantine] happened,” she said.

The 10-day quarantine did interrupt Christina’s and Cousin’s plans to see the new movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, they joked.

Steve said he sometimes struggles with wearing his mask, because it makes him hot in school.

“I’m excited, because I get to stay home and play video games,” Steve said. “And I don’t have to wear my mask at home.”

Cousin said his son also often prefers to socialize through virtual formats like FaceTime and Zoom, especially while gaming.

Steve did get a Covid test while quarantined. It came back negative. Steve and Rielynn were cleared to return to school Friday.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 13, 2021 - October 19, 2021

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Marked On Green

a former boarding school in Saskatchewan.

“I’m wearing orange right now [because] orange is the color that we commemorate our residential school survivors and those children that never made it home,” she said. “We need to bring our children home. There’s a great trauma that happened to the Indigenous people under the name of genocide in this country. A stain on this country.”

With that, as Clement held a microphone to her lips and she beat halfnotes on a hand drum, Heart of the Hawk sang a “survivor song” all about the residential school her mom was forced to attend.

They took me to a residential school When I was six years old, Forced me from my family And all I’ve ever known.

I cried out for my momma, But she could not hear me.

I was 200 miles away, in Shubenacadie.

They tried to break my spirit.

I wouldn’t let them see me cry.

They held me underwater Until I almost died.

I can still hear screaming Deep inside of me And I will always bear the scars of Shubenacadie.

After Heart of the Hawk finished singing, Clement argued that many more children than presently accounted for likely died due to the residential school system. That’s because kids were often sent to boarding schools hundreds of miles away from their homes.

“Many, many children will never be found” on the site of a former residential school, he said, “because they did try to get home, and didn’t make it. There’s thousands and thousands more.”

Rachel Massaro, a New Havener and member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, said her great-grandmother was also forced to attend a boarding school.

She showed up to Monday’s event on the Green with her family in order “to celebrate the people who are here” and “to bring awareness to residential school survivors.”

This history needs to be brought out of the shadows, she said, and become a part of every school’s curriculum.

“I want people in New Haven to recognize us,” added Clement, who is a member of the Penobscot and Quinnipiac tribes. “To recognize that we’re still here.”

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

Dressed in orange to commemorate the victims and survivors of Indigenous boarding schools, Sadé Heart of the Hawk beat a turtle-decorated hand drum as she sang about a child — much like her mother — who was ripped from her family, home, and culture, and sent away to Shubenacadie.

Sadé sang that story Monday afternoon during an Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration on the Green.

Roughly 50 people turned out for the annual downtown event, which was organized by Norm Momowetu Clement, Ricky Looking Crow, and others.

People of Native American lineage and others gathered to smudge sage, sing, dance, tell family stories, and celebrate a diversity of Indigenous cultures.

One such attendee was Heart of the Hawk.

Wearing an orange-and-white ribbon skirt and an orange t-shirt bearing the words “Bring Them Home,” Heart of the Hawk said she came to Monday’s event from her current home in North Haven to keep alive a tragic history that dates back to her childhood, and her mother’s childhood, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

That involved her mother’s forced attendance at a so-called residential school — part of a network of government-supported, largely Catholic Church-run boarding schools across Canada and the United States that saw Indigenous children taken from their families and compelled to assimilate.

An estimated 150,000 children over the past century-plus were forced to attend Canadian boarding schools, where they were severed from their native languages and cultures and families and often physically and emotionally abused.

A Canadian National Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that at least 4,100 students died while attending these schools.

Heart of the Hawk, who is a member of the Mi�kmaq nation, said that her mother never quite recovered after spending a decade of her youth trapped at the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia.

“She learned to hate herself” while there, Heart of the Hawk said. She said she wore orange on Monday not just in honor of her mom, but also to draw attention to the hundreds of children’s bodies found earlier this year at the Kamloops school in British Columbia and in unmarked graves on the site of

THOMAS BREEN PHOTOS Sadé Heart of the Hawk at Monday’s ceremony on the Green.

Massaro (second from right) with her family on the Green.

Ricky Looking Crow and Norm Momowetu Clement smudging sage.

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ConnCAT Place Flag Raised Above Dixwell Plaza

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven Independent

Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers raised a flag above the fraying mid-century shopping complex to celebrate gaining site control of the neighborhood-anchoring block—and to point ahead towards the strip’s pending transformation into ConnCAT Place.

Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT) President and CEO Genevive Walker joined roughly a dozen ConnCAT staffers, board members and neighborhood supporters Thursday afternoon for that flag raising ceremony at the Plaza, outside of the Stetson Branch Library on Dixwell Avenue.

That’s where ConnCORP—a for-profit subsidiary of the Science Park-based nonprofit ConnCAT—plans to build an estimated $200 million mixed-use project that is slated to include a grocery store, 150-plus apartments, an office tower, a performing arts venue, and more.

All of that remains in the future.

On Thursday, the project’s backers celebrated a different milestone for the pendCelebrating Thursday’s flag raising. ing redevelopment: The gaining of site control of the Dixwell Avenue block be- to move ahead with the project. tween Webster Street and Charles Street.

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Thursday’s small gathering and flag raising was less about ConnCORP’s purchase of Mid-K, and more about Dixwell Plaza’s history as an anchor of a historically Black neighborhood—and about the site’s pending transformation by a local, Black-led redevelopment team.

The newly hoisted ConnCAT flag represents “our love and care for the community,” Walker said.

It represents a partnership between Stetson and ConnCORP, a celebration of the many cultural events that have taken place in and around the Dixwell library

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of the years, and a marker of the “revitalization” ConnCORP plans to bring to the site.

“It’s a dream come true,” said Stetson Branch Library Diane Brown.

She said that the local, Black redevelopment team working to build up a part of the city that has long been an epicenter of the Black community but has suffered from disinvestment for decades represents the best of “for us, by us.”

Stetson, meanwhile, will soon be moving across the street to the new Q House community center.

“It’s a dawn of a new era,” said ConnCAT Director of Youth Programs Steve Driffin.

This type of focused attention and investment in Dixwell Plaza has been “a long time coming. I know what this means to so many people.”

And to ConnCAT Director of Adult Programs Pierre Goubourn, the flag raising was “something ceremonial, to make a dedication to this space” that he remembered as a place to get candy after church when he was growing up, and that is now slated to become a new economic hub for Dixwell and Newhallville.

“Even as a child, I realized it didn’t look like the nicer places in the city,” Goubourn said about Dixwell Plaza. He said he hopes that ConnCAT becomes “a fixture in this predominantly Black community.”

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A New “Voice” Lifts A Congregation THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 13, 2021 - October 19, 2021

by NORA GRACE-FLOOD New Haven Independent

After winning the second season of NBC’s The Voice and touring for a decade with Alicia Keys, Jeremiah Jermaine Paul realized his true life — singing about “building your church from the ground up” from his own pulpit at Sunday worship services.

Paul was conducting services as pastor of Hamden Plains United Methodist Church.

The 43-year-old is settling in as the southern Hamden church’s new pastor, a post he assumed three months ago.

After ascending to the heights of commercial musical fame, Paul is pursuing what he called his ultimate life goal of serving as a pastor.

Of course, music still plays a central role.

Since Paul was “sent by God” (more directly, by his Methodist district superintendent) to town in July, Sunday services have looked, felt, and sounded different to loyal church-goers who turn out each weekends.

At 10 a.m. on Oct. 10, Pastor Paul, or “Pastor J,” as he’s better known, was running 10 minutes behind schedule. As people settled into the Hamden Plains pews, Paul was coaching 14-year-old Perjah Delgado on a new song arrangement, scanning keyboard scores with O’Jays alum (and new Hamden Plains keyboardist) Dunn Pearson, and tweaking sound equipment levels.

“Services are longer now,” noted Perjah and her younger sister, Reneejah, choir members and Sunday regulars who were baptized at Hamden Plains United Methodist Church as infants.

The pair said they don’t mind spending extra time each week at church now that services are also much more “engaging, accessible, and inspiring.”

Before Pastor J showed up, “you’d sit down, go by the bulletin, and then be done,” according to the teens. “It’s never been flowing.”

“This church has been around for 200plus years,” Perjah said. She said it can be “intimidating” as a child to confront so much living history and try to understand ancient texts without modern contextualization.

By alternating conversational sermons with both contemporary and traditional song and music, Paul clarifies the emotional meaning of the moment and draws the past into the present.

“He’s so open and can relate. He’s great at hearing feedback,” the Delgados agreed. “We call him our ‘bestie.’”

“Responsive worship is so huge,” Paul said of his work. He said his goal for the new job is not only to “reach a lot of folks spiritually,” but to encourage them to reach out in return, creating a reciprocal relationship in which a maximally

“inclusive congregation is communing together.”

“Doesn’t it feel good to be in the house of the Lord?” Paul asked around 20 congregants on Sunday. “It’s getting cold outside,” he noticed.

Then he launched into song: “I’ll never be more loved than I am right now,” he sang. “It doesn’t take a trophy to make You proud.”

Perjah came in: “Going through a storm, but I won’t go down. I hear Your voice, carried in the rhythm of the wind, to call me out.”

Paul let Perjah and her sister take the lead, then brought his son in on drums.

The three-part harmony preceded Paul’s lesson of the day, a meditation on the meaning of leadership.

Between songs, he referenced and riffed off the Parable of the Lost Sheep, discussing the relationship between shepherd and flock. “As a flock we come together, we unite. We do the work that Jesus has called us to do,” he said. “As a flock, our faith builds.

“The voice of Jesus Christ was something incredible, something phenomena A good sheep is attracted to the voice of the shepherd ... and a good shepherd is always keeping the flock in mind … A good shepherd is being led, led by the importance of the life of the flock.”

“We’re all sheep, but we’re also shepherds,” Paul concluded. “We all come from different walks of life, we have different things that have happened to us … and we all teach one another. We’re all examples for one another.”

For Paul, the intersection of music and spirituality has always been about following one’s intuition to develop a voice that is strong, truthful, and in turn of service to a given community.

He recalled playing Marco Polo in the pool as a young boy. “If there was a girl I liked, I’d follow her around, follow her voice,” he said. That gut phenomenon of inexplicable attraction has always been a primary force in his life, voice being the most compelling tool with which to foster and follow that force.

Music and faith have always governed Paul’s life. He spent the first decade of his life in Spring Valley, N.Y., a village in Rockland County. During the ‘80s and late ‘90s, Paul said, the suburb in which he grew up, known as “The Hill,” was heavily impacted by the crack epidemic, given its proximity to New York City.

His father, a professional bassist, taught Paul and his nine siblings to sing and play various instruments. He also took his ten kids to a Pentecostal church four times a week. Paul said playing music and praying kept him busy and made him feel like he was a part of something bigger than himself. While he watched friends struggle with and die from addictions, he said, he felt protected by his strong sense

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Pastor Jeremiah Jermaine Paul at his new pulpit.

of community.

When Paul was 14, a house fire prompted his family to relocate. They moved to Monroe, N.Y, to a whiter and wealthier neighborhood, and joined the Newburgh United Methodist Church. There, Paul said, he began to see spirituality as a celebration, which contrasted with the fear and “fire” associated with the Pentecostal preachings recalled from his early childhood.

Being the “new Black family in town” meant facing significant racial prejudice and emotional hardship. But, he added, that experience gave him a new sense of self-confidence and expanded his understanding of leadership and community: Through conversation and confrontation, he was able to understand and connect with even those who acted with the most intolerance towards him.

“There are people who called me the Nword freshman year that my children now call ‘uncle,’” he said.

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Paul’s dream of becoming a pastor also took on more specificity: he wanted to become the leader of that church in Newburgh in order to create unity in a divided small town. He took on the role of worship leader while still a teenager.

At the same time, his music career was rapidly unfolding. At 14, he formed a four person R&B group named 1 Accord. The band was signed by famed producer Rodney Jerkins. During Paul’s freshman year at Utica College, he and his group landed a deal with Shaquille O’Neal’s record label, TWIsM. At 20, he also married his wife, whom he met in school. That same year, they had their first child, then three more in each of the following years.

TWIsM ultimately dissipated. Shortly after dropping out of college to focus on music, Paul got a call from Jeff Robinson, who was Alicia Keys’ manager, asking him to try out for a spot as her backup vocalist.

He went to his pastor, Matthew Adams, and told him about the call.

“I don’t know where it might lead,” he said, but asked him to pray for his success. Turns out, Jeff Robinson was the father of the pastor’s daughter’s baby.

Paul got the job. For the first ten years of his kids’ life, he toured with Keys, earning a Grammy nomination and performing around the world with artists such as David Bowie and Mary J. Blige. (In the above video, Paul sings with Alicia Keys on the title song of her first album, Diary.)

As his kids got older, Paul knew he needed to be home more. He ended the tour “on a high note,” but his family took a financial hit in exchange for having the full family at home more often.

One day, Paul stumbled across his daughter Arealyah watching a new show called The Voice, in which “undiscovered talent” compete against each other on teams led by musical icons like Jennifer Hudson, Usher, and Shakira.

“You should audition, Dad!” she urged.

Paul followed his daughter’s guidance.

He made it onto the show, with Blake Shelton as his coach, and ended up spending another year away from his family “I was an emotional wreck,” he said.

He passed his first televised audition while battling pneumonia after his home was flooded in Hurricane Irene. While he was in California, his mother was across the country going through open heart surgery.

While working directly to attain commercial popularity, Paul was also picking songs that communicated what he was going through, even as he declined to talk about it publicly on the show itself. He rose to the top of the competition on songs like “Living on a Prayer,” “I Believe I Can Fly,” and, his favorite, “Against All Odds.” (In the above video, Paul performs “Against All Odds” on the show. He said he still hasn’t watched the season.)

Winning the show did position Paul to meet what he calls the happy medium between struggling artists and Beyoncelevel fame: He now makes a solid living playing wedding and special venue gigs and recording albums, while he is able to use the voice the way he really wants — to bring communities and audiences together through common faith. Above: Paul’s first single after winning The Voice, “I Believe In This Life.”

In 2018, he became a certified pastor.

In 2020, he was appointed for the first time to a church, serving people in East Berlin and Southern Meriden. One year later, his district supervisor asked him to transfer to another community, in which he thought Paul’s “gifts and graces would be well received.” Hamden.

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Newhall Blasts Affordable Housing Plan

by NORA GRACE-FLOOD New Haven Independent

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

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

The community forum was led by Hamden Acting Town Planner Erik Johnson. It was held both in-person at the Keefe Community Center and over Zoom.

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

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

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

An unexpectedly lengthy remediation process (read about that here and here) stalled the project. The council granted the nonprofit an extension to redevelop their site plan in accordance with new environmental constraints discovered through the remediation. Read about that current site plan here, which remained largely unchanged even after the soil inspection.

It involves building 87 apartments on site, demolishing the old gymnasium and building a small “community facility” that would be operated by Mutual Housing, and using the unbuildable extra acreage behind the old middle school for athletic fields.

To date the project has not gotten off the ground.

Neighbors at Monday night’s meeting argued that Mutual Housing’s proposal would inadvertently harm those living around the property. They argued the Council and nonprofit had failed to properly reach out to long-time residents at an appropriate place and time, both this summer and six years ago. If the council and developers had successfully facilitated community conversation, the audience said, they’d know that few people want affordable housing on the site.

With only two weeks before the vote on whether to renew the contract, many residents at the event expressed a belief that

NORA GRACE-FLOOD PHOTO Newberry residents Cleveland Bromell, Earnestine Bromell, and Keither Butler, all of whom have lived next to the Newhall property for decades, raise their hands to critique Mutual Housing’s site proposal.

the property’s pathway had already been determined and that the public forum was a mere formality.

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

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

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

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

The options boil down to: compromise or begin again.

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

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

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

Newhall Street is on the southern end of

town. Its surrounding neighborhood is composed primarily of Black and brown people.

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

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

“Sometimes they’re the same people that look just like us,” he added, motioning towards himself.

The audience raised their voices in response to that statement.

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

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

“A grocery store,” Jones suggested. Senior housing, others said. Gloria Faber pushed for single-family homes.

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

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

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

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

NeighborWorks President and CEO Tom Cruess joined the meeting on Zoom. Mutual Housing said they might consider lowering the total number of apartments, that they plan to perform traffic and flooding studies during site development, and that it was to be determined whether or not they would charge a fee for space rentals

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by local nonprofits within the potential gymnasium-turned-community center.

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

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

Attendees said that they do not trust the developers to become those good neighbors. George said water management has been promised by the town in the past in similar situations, such as during the remediation of the nearby Villano Park — but nothing came of it. Hamden youth center founders Yvonne Jones and Melissa Atterberry-Jones expressed concern that Mutual Housing would invite their separate partner nonprofits into the new “community facility,” rather than supporting the extant programs that make up the town.

“We should just scrap the whole thing and start over,” Jones suggested with a sigh towards the conclusion of the meeting. Disgruntled “yeahs” echoed in agreement throughout the room.

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

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

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“but part of the work is to follow” the direction of those who are deemed closer to God, he said. “I feel like it was the right choice.”

Over the past three months, Paul has started to see his new job in Hamden as the position his varied path has been leading him to all along. Hamden reminds him of Newburgh: He finds familiarity in the small-town sense of community, and recognizes similar issues of classism and segregation that he is working to address through church organizing.

Even the crumbling corners of the church walls remind him of the rough edges of that Newburgh church, which was ultimately closed down before he could return as pastor.

Paul is applying for grants to renovate Hamden Plains Methodist, in plans to improve one of the most significant spaces open to residents of the southern end of town. “We have so much room,” he said.

He wants to fill it with youth services. H has spent the past few months working with local nonprofits and organizations to establish new partnerships and provide them with the ample resources he now governs.

A couple of weeks ago, Paul’s pianist had to leave work. Paul told his sister, who is also a pastor. She informed him that her old music minister, Dunn Pearson, was an arranger and keyboardist for the O’Jays and a producer of Broadway scores. He had recently relocated to Hamden.

“He lives in Hamden?” Paul exclaimed.

“What are the chances? What are the odds?”

Last week, the pair performed for the first time together at Sunday service. The partnership affirmed what Paul already believed: “I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”

“If I became a pastor when I was 23, I’d just be saying what I heard, what someone taught me,” Paul said. Instead, he spent years discovering, developing, and refining a voice that is ready to set a new tone for an entire town.

Looking back, Paul laughed at how “weird” his compilation of memories are upon recollection, like singing backup on the film soundtrack to Jamie Foxx’s film Booty Call.

“Experiences are what they are. It’s the light we project that matters,” he said.

At 11:30 on Sunday, Paul wrapped up group worship.

“You may be seated to enjoy the music or make your way home,” he told his audience.

No one moved as Pearson poured his soul into the piano keys. As listeners swayed and savored the song with eyes closed, it was clear that they were enjoying the music — and that they had already found a shared way home.

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by LISA REISMAN

New Haven Independent

Paula Mann-Agnew looked across the waters of New Haven Harbor at the 78foot Baltimore Clipper replica of the Spanish schooner, La Amistad, docked, in all its majesty, at Long Wharf Pier.

“Sankofa,” Mann-Agnew, executive director of Discovering Amistad, told a gathering Saturday of 50 people in the cool autumn air. “It’s a West African concept that focuses on the fact that in order for us to move forward in a positive way, we need to look back on our history.

The event, which took place on the pier, was a celebration of The Amistad’s return to its home port in New Haven. It opened with an African drum call, followed with speeches by dignitaries and civic leaders, and concluded with musical entertainment.

It was the third and final stop on the two-month Amistad Journey to Freedom, which included stops in Hartford and Middletown. The ship is being docked on the Amistad Pier. It will be open for ship tours and dockside education this Thursday and Friday.

“That’s the story of The Amistad,” Mann-Agnew said, referring to the 1839 revolt by 53 Mende captives against their Spanish captors aboard La Amistad while being ferried to Puerto Principe, Cuba, to be sold into slavery.

Mann-Agnew said the rest of the story offers a lesson.

“These 53 Mendes who were captured in Sierra Leone and enslaved, they fought for their lives on this ship and then were imprisoned in New Haven, and they fought for their freedom through the courts,” she said. “It reminds us that we can stand up for ourselves but also that the journey for freedom and dismantling racism continues.”

New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker recalled the efforts waged in the State Senate to keep the replica of The Amistad, which was recreated in 2000, in New Haven.

“Every year someone else was trying to take the ship to their port, and Mayor [Toni] Harp, when she was a senator up in Hartford, she and I would say, This is our story. This happened here. Let’s share this story with our children so they understand we are going through the same struggles over and over,” she said.

“The positive side of the story is that these individuals gained their freedom, and with the support of many New Haven residents,” he said, of the local abolitionists who took up their mantle in the courts.

“The ship being in our harbor is first a welcome home, and also an opportunity for us to educate each other, to reflect on our history, and to think about how far

Bruce Trammell, Amistad dockside interpreter/ captain.

New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker .

LISA REISMAN PHOTO Discovering Amistad leader Paula Mann-Agnew at return event. In background, CT Freedom Trail Chair Charles Warner, Jr.

Former Mayor Toni Harp addresses the crowd..

we have come since those days but much more importantly how far we need to go,” he said.

“When you see in neighborhood after neighborhood the inequality that is close-

ly tied to race — whether it’s in housing, in our education system, in the impact that we’re all experiencing around violence — it’s clear we need to do more work to ensure that everyone truly has an

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opportunity to thrive,” he said.

For Charles Warner, Jr., a New Haven Public Schools educator and chairman of the Connecticut Freedom Trail, the ship “is a symbol of man’s inhumanity to man,” he said. “It’s also the story of what

can happen when people come together in the spirit of justice and freedom.

“We have work to do, but with The Amistad, we have the symbol of what can be achieved,” he said.

Former Mayor Harp was among those paying tribute to outgoing Amistad Committee President Al Marder, the 99-yearold activist who led the crusade to build the replica of the Amistad during his 33year tenure in the post.

“Those 53 were brought here to New Haven to be jailed, but there were young radicals — abolitionists — here, people who held strongly and fiercely to their faith and came together to free the enslaved,” Harp said.

“Today as we celebrate the return of The Amistad, let this story inspire us to fight for freedom as these abolitionists did, and let us remember today Al Marder and all he’s done, to keep the message of brotherhood, of friendship, alive.”

Marder himself recalled the day in 1987 that the Rev. Edwin Edmonds of Dixwell Avenue Church of Christ and the Rev. Peter Ives of the First Church of Christ on the Green asked him to take on a project to organize the 150th anniversary of the Amistad affair.

“Little did I realize when I said yes that 33 years later, I would be here welcoming the return to New Haven of the The Amistad,” he said. “Little did I realize that today The Amistad would reverberate throughout our country, that it would become a feature movie, an opera, and would grow and grow, telling its story.”

Marder said he was pleased with the widespread impact of The Amistad.

“It’s a story that has become integrated with our understanding of our struggle for equality, for racial justice,” he said.

“And for the first time in our country, black and white came together for freedom in an organized sense.”

That’s the lesson for 2021, he said. “If you saw the marches for Black Lives Matter, you saw black and white people marching together. That gives me hope.

“The vessel,” he said, “will play an important part in educating our people, and all of us in New Haven should be so very proud.”

Over at The Amistad across the harbor, Bruce Trammell, Sr., Discovering Amistad’s dockside interpreter, or “the captain of the story,” as he prefers, was reflective.

“The ship coming back, it means an awful lot for us,” he said, as a seagull swooped overhead. “It’s a story of New Haven, of resilience. The idea that the people of New Haven helped the Africans get free, that’s a story that we need to get out there, that’s a story that gives me hope.”

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Horses Roam Park, On A Healing Mission

by MAYA MCFADDEN

On her fifth birthday, Ariana Akani made a new friend named Strawberry.

If all goes well, Strawberry will return to New Haven and Ariana again in the spring — and perhaps offer her a ride.

Strawberry was one of four horses that roamed Goffe Street Park Sunday afternoon. New Haveners gathered together to learn about the animals and the possibility of bringing an Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) program to New Haven.

A free demo introduced dozens of New Haveners to the Hartford-based nonprofit Ebony Horsewomen, (EHI), which offers equine assisted psychotherapy seven days a week since 1984.

The goal of the event was to pitch New Haven on bringing the program here.

New Haveners gathered in the light rain Sunday afternoon to hear from the Ebony Horsewomen team and New Haven leaders partnering with the organization to bring EAT to New Haven.

The demo for youth included learning to groom and walk the horses inside a fenced-in pen set up in the Dixwell park Sunday. The youth learned to groom the horses by brushing them and cleaning their hoofs.

Before stepping into the pen the kids were briefed on some safety rules, like watching their feet in order not to step on or be stepped on by the horse; not running up behind the horses; not yelling.

After dozens of children got to know the horses for an hour, the adults then lined up for their turns with learning about the big but gentle creature.

Ariana was one of the visitors to the event. Counting her birthday crown, she was almost the height of the Shetland Pony named Strawberry.

Ariana’s hands were sprayed with disinfectant before meeting Strawberry.

She then climbed into the pen and introduced herself to her new friend with a gentle caress of Strawberry’s head.

Sisters Evelyn and Alicia Walker brought their kids to the Sunday demo after hearing from their mom, who lives across the street from the park, that “there were horses at Goffe Street Park!”

Ariana was joined by her sister and her cousins in the horse pen Sunday. The group learned how to brush the hose and made laps around the pen learning to walk the pony. Sunday was the first time the children had seen a horse in person.

Ariana took Strawberry’s lead rope and called out, “Walk, Strawberry.” The duo began trotting slowly around the pen.

“Mom, look it likes me,” Ariana called from across the pen while leading Strawberry.

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Ariana Akani meets Strawberry Sunday in Goffe Street Park.

“I’m hoping something like this could cut the violence,” said Alicia Walker.

Ebony Horsewomen founder and CEO Patricia E. Kelly and Certified Equine Aassisted Physiotherapist Melita Arms discussed how EAT works, its benefits, and whom it impacts the most.

EAT can help young people improve confidence, self-esteem, courage, and pride, Arms said.

Arms described EAT as “a form of nurturing” for those who have experienced trauma. Participants can range from ages 9 to 60. Many Ebony Horsewomen clients include individuals returning from the military and/or prison.

“We’re pouring hope into individuals,” she said.

The EAT process begins with getting the client comfortable with the horse, with tasks like grooming and saddling.

Engaging in talk with a physiotherapist, clients later learn how to go on therapeutic rides with the horses.

Arms asked the group about the benefits of EAT. Responses from the crowd called out that horses are “nonjudgmental” and help build self confidence, pride of self, empathy, and coping skills “When these young women and men go back to their homes, their homes haven’t changed, but they’re changing.

And they’re learning how to deal with things that don’t feel that well,” Kelly said.

As in Hartford, an EAT program in New Haven would need “urban horses” conformable with city noises.

Kelly, 74, has spent the last 40 years expanding Ebony Horsewomen in Hartford and beyond. “We’re not a program.

We’re a herd,” she said.

Kelly founded the program to help youth in Hartford heal from traumas of

State Rep. Robyn Porter leads Rocky.

community violence, family struggles, and societal pressures. EAT was a form of healing Kelly used as a teenager growing up in the Hartford area.

For young men, “these horses become their father,” Kelly said.

Riding a horse and staying on that horse have nothing to do with strength, Kelly recalled telling clients. “Horses are willing to work with you if you got the right energy. Them big animals, they can teach it better than I do.”

Kelly said she grew up in Jewish neighborhood; her family was second black family on street. She became close with a Jewish neighbor name Mr. Fisher who had a horse and wagon in his backyard. He taught Kelly how to ride his horse (named “Horse”).

“It was therapy for me. Us being the second black family on the street, there were a lot of people that didn’t want us there,” Kelly said. Working with Horse gave her confidence and a purpose, she

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said.

EAT also helps to build clients confidence through giving them the “unique ability to connect with horses.”

“It’s a growing into manhood. Let him speak. You gon’ hear it it when he speaks,” Kelly said pointing to the pen of horses Sunday. “You got 1,200 pounds at least underneath you. When he speaks, you are going to pay attention, and that begins that growth process.”

The organizing team for the Sunday demo and push to bring EAT to New Haven included Kelly, New Haven equestrian Rebecca Cohen, Beaver Hills alder candidate Shafiq Abdussabur, Yale Economist Malcolm Ashley, and musician Dunn Pearson. Abdussabur gifted each of the organizing team members with a bolo tie at the Sunday event.

The team plans to host three more demos throughout the city in the coming spring, summer and fall to continue

to get support for bringing the programming to New Haven.

“The goal is to bring this to New Haven. I think this could be really something amazing. Imagine a New Haven where every other week this is happening in a park around the city,” Abdussabur said.

To bring Ebony Horsewomen programming to New Haven, the team would need to recruit New Haven physiotherapists and clinicians, NS find land with enough space for structures to house horses.

Ebony Horsewomen currently recruits from the University of Saint Joseph, University of Connecticut, and Central Connecticut State University. Kelly is working on partnering with SCSU to get students certified as EAT clinicians.

On Sunday the team used a small portion of Goffe Street Park. Kelly said for a EAT program in New Haven, enough land the size of the entire park is needed.

“That’s what these horses do for you.

When the world is telling you that you’re nothing that horse is like ‘man don’t even listen to that.’ That’s what we bring to our children,” Kelly said.

Certified Equine clinician Rebecca Cohen is a third-generation Beaver Hills residentwho grew up riding in Westville as a teenager. Cohen has the goal to “bring horses back to New Haven.”

She is the founder of an EAT private practice called Stable Ground LLC “New Haven has land and needs the remediation. We just need help with getting people on board the power of the work,” Cohen said.

Cohen reached out to Ebony Horsewomen and the other organizers initially with the goal to bring EAT to New Haven and to introduce EAT certification to black and brown New Haveners.

“There are alternative ways to heal,” she said.

Kelly placed the lead rope of the Tennessee Walking named Rocky in the hands of State Rep. Robyn Porter.

Porter held the rope tight and close to Rocky’s head.

“Stay ahead of him,” Kelly instructed.

“Keep your arm out.”

“Keep your feet away from his.”

“Look where you want the horse to go.”

“Push his head away from your body.”

After a lap around the pen Porter called out “hold” to Rocky to get him to stop walking with her. While lightly tugging on the lead rope, Porter called out “back” to Rocky while learning to lead him backwards.

“When the whole world secretly tells you you’re nobody, that horse is like, ‘Dude, can’t nobody do what you do,’” Kelly said.

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Help Find Daniel Robinson: Search continues for Missing Geologist, 24

By Dee Ford Byas, The Arizona Informant Newspaper

A $10,000 reward is offered for any information on the whereabouts of Daniel Robinson, 24, who went missing more than two months ago from a remote Buckeye, Arizona, worksite.

The Arizona Informant received exclusive details regarding the status of search efforts to locate the young geologist who was last seen leaving his job site near Sun Valley and Cactus Road on June 23.

From having allegedly walked off the job and not showing up to having “walked off naked into the desert and joined a monastery to become a monk,” the family is steadfast in efforts to find their loved one and get the truth about what happened, causing Daniel Robinson’s prolonged disappearance.

As of September 30, there were no further updates available from the Buckeye Police Department, according to Zachary Astrup, a sergeant and patrol/bike squad member. The organization issued a second press release on July 21, after the department was notified of Daniel’s jeep discovered by a rancher on his property about four miles southwest of the job site where he was last seen.

His jeep, reportedly discovered in a ravine, had rolled, and landed on its side with its airbags deployed. Reports indicated that he was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident. His personal effects including clothes, cell phone, wallet, and keys were recovered at the scene, according to the report.

Detectives allegedly conducted a ground search by foot with help from the Department of Public Safety’s Ranger helicopter, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the search and rescue dogs.

However, the search was said to have come up “empty.”

Detectives reportedly continue to analyze evidence from his vehicle and reevaluate further searches but as of this point, “no foul play is suspected,” the report noted.

“Once the police department received the initial report, the case was investigated as a missing person immediately. At this time, no facts or evidence have been presented that indicate any foul play.

The Buckeye Police Department used all available resources to include off-road vehicles, police helicopters, searches on foot, and the civil air patrol to help search a large area,” Astrup said.

Unsurprised that there was no updated information from the Buckeye police about the case, the family has sought its own private investigator to proceed with exhausting all efforts and resources to search for the missing geologist.

The father, David Robinson II, has taken the helms of locating his son. He recounts receiving a call from his daughter, who lives in Phoenix, on June 23, alerting him in South Carolina that Daniel was missing; she was informed by one

Help Find Daniel Robinson: Search continues for Missing Geologist, 24 of Daniel’s coworkers.

“Naturally, Davisha was very worried, and so was I about his whereabouts.

However, since Daniel usually calls his family when he decides to take a trip, I was not too alarmed until I found that it was more than six hours since anyone has heard from him,” said the father, noting how “perturbed” he became with no word from his son.

Unable to search for him from South Carolina, he called Daniel’s job for information with no success in finding him.

Then, he called the Tempe Arizona Police Department to file a missing person report but was directed to the Buckeye Police Department since that would be the right precinct for the area where Daniel was last seen.

“After contacting the Buckeye Police Department, the next two days of trying to pull their teeth to go out and look for my son proved to me that I had to leave immediately from my home and search for Daniel myself. The Buckeye Police Department showed no interest in searching for my son,” he said.

“Instead, they quickly adopted a theory that my son decided to abandon his family and friends. On a couple of occasions, the Buckeye Police suggested that my son may [has] joined a monastery and became a monk. It was offensive to me, and it motivated me even more than I was; all ready to do whatever I had to do to find my son.”

He constantly contacted the Buckeye Police Department and Daniel’s job, Matrix for all the information he could get as he traveled.

“I did everything that I could to put pressure on the police department to go out and search for him. Unfortunately, it took pressure from my auntie in Philadelphia to get them to get a helicopter almost a week later. It was another sign that the Buckeye Police Department didn’t take

my son’s disappearance seriously,” he said.

The father added how he was even told

by Buckeye police that they “couldn’t do much because my son is a grown man,” so he took matters in his own hands, he said, interviewing the last person who saw his son.

“I needed to look that person in the eyes who said that my son got into his jeep and drove off into the desert and vanished. I had to find a way to get into that desert, find that worksite and see for myself,” said the father.

He described how he kept going to the gate with binoculars on Sun Valley Parkway in Buckeye and decided to “get in there one way or another because something, everything that was being told to me about my son’s disappearance, was not adding up.”

“The Buckeye Police Department had started searching over a week after my son went missing and said nothing was found each time. I became frustrated and tired with the police department’s lack of enthusiasm, so I created my search. Finally, I started a search with hard work and meeting the right people,” he said.

During that search, he said, about five “remains of other people in the desert” were recovered. “The remains of people were found in areas where the Buckeye Police Department told me they searched for my son but have not found these themselves. I have deep doubt that Buckeye did one thorough search for my son.

If so, why didn’t they find the remains?

Because of my lack of trust in the Buckeye Police Department, I decided to need my investigator on the search,” he said.

“After checking with detectives, I am aware of one set or partial human remains that has been recovered. If there were any additional remains recovered, it may not have been within the jurisdiction of the Buckeye Police Department. The re-

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mains that were discovered are pending identification by the Office of the Medical Examiner,” said Astrup when asked about the discovered remains.

An investigator came onboard and uncovered evidence the Buckeye Police Department did not, said David Robinson II, adding some evidence came from the Buckeye Police Department’s report, but “unfortunately, they either didn’t know how to read their data or didn’t care to read it correctly.”

“The Buckeye Police Department refuses to look at any possibility other than their initial theory that my son decided to abandon his family,” he said, recalling his interaction with police from viewing pictures of the scene to seeing the vehicle.”

“The detective once again suggested that my son most likely walked off naked into the desert and joined a monastery to become a monk. I was angry inside and already emotional about seeing my son’s jeep for the first time wrecked,” he stated.

The concerned father detailed how the police kept insisting that he touch the vehicle when he went to see it, but he was too emotional to do so, he said, noting that the officer “opened the back door and pointed out things that were still in it,” took a bag with his son’s items and dumped it on a seat.

“I still didn’t touch that vehicle even though they kept suggesting that I do. Finally, I told him that I was ready to leave.

He then said that I needed to make arrangements to have the vehicle removed from their impound because they will have it towed away to a towing company, and I would have to pay for storage. I didn’t have a chance to breathe before I had to worry about finding some place for it. I explained that I needed time, and he agreed to give me a few more days,” said the father.

With more questions looming, he vividly recalled sitting in his hotel room,

thinking about what transpired and “realized that they didn’t do any forensics work.” He requested a meeting with the Buckeye chief of police, Larry Hall and his detectives, noting the lack of forensics work at the scene where his son’s vehicle was found.

“Their explanation was they didn’t do any because there was no blood in the vehicle and no sign of foul play. I asked how they know that my son was even driving the vehicle. The detective said that ‘he was obviously driving because it’s his vehicle.’ I asked again how they knew that it was my son driving or someone else was also in the vehicle. They didn’t have a response,” he stated.

Two days later, the father said a detective called to state they were doing forensics, dusting for fingerprints, which is something he said should have been done at the scene before removing the vehicle and releasing personal effects that were all in evidence bags “but marked as safekeeping.”

“The items were never considered evidence to the Buckeye Police Department because their theory that my son walked away naked and probably became a monk was clear to them. Unfortunately, they refuse to change position until now that my investigator shared his findings with them. They so far have asked me one question; and I have not heard from them again,” he added.

“We were originally supposed to be working along with Buckeye P.D., but that fell through, and we have been gathering all of our information on our own,” said Phoenix-based vehicular crimes investigator and expert, Jeff McGrath.

Referred by an attorney friend, who the Robinson family initially contacted for assistance, McGrath was unaware of the missing Robinson saga until he got involved per the father’s request.

“When I was told that they found Daniel’s vehicle wrecked in the desert, then I started to understand why my friend was asking me to help,” he said, calling the case unique.

While he said his team is “slowly answering some of the many questions that were left unanswered,” the biggest question remains, which is the whereabouts of Daniel Robinson.

“This case started with a short investigation and final determination where Mr. Robinson was still left with confusion and a lot of questions. When we were brought onboard, a month had passed, and time was critical. As soon as we began our investigation, a month after Daniel went missing, we were able to uncover some issues with the initial investigation,” McGrath said.

“It appeared to us that the original detectives did not know there were some problems with how Daniel’s car was damaged. They had the information that they downloaded from the car’s Airbag Con’t on page 18

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Stolen Bruce’s Beach Property Returned to Black Family Betti Halsell, Contributing Writer, Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper

The story behind Bruce’s Beach tells a narrative of Black ownership in America.

The original property owners of the resort, Charles and Willa Bruce, had their land seized by the City of Manhattan Beach. The local government managed the rights to the land for almost 100 years.

However, on Thursday, September 30, the authority of Bruce’s Beach has been given back to the descendants of the original landowners.

The waves from the Pacific Ocean crashed onto the sandy shores owned

by Willa and Charles Bruce. In 1912, as the first Black landowners in Manhattan Beach, the Bruce’s became a family that owned multiple beach plots.

According to documents and records, through corrupt means, the City of Manhattan took ownership of their property, representing the racial imbalance of that time. Looking through a lens of equality today, public officials of Los Angeles County decided to revisit the possibility of returning power of the beachfront back to the descendants of the Bruce family.

Located on 2600 Highland Avenue in Manhattan Beach, California, Bruce’s Beach served as an oasis-like resort for people of color looking to enjoy the scenic coast during times of segregation.

Noted previously, Willa and Charles Bruce purchased this piece of paradise for $1,225 ($33,034) and followed suit in buying more land after that.

Other families of color bought beach estates alongside them, forming a Black community of coastal property owners developed during the Jim Crow era. There was a shared notion that only certain races should be allowed selected properties; this agenda was carried out through policies to seize privately- owned land for the betterment of the community.

The distaste in Black-ownership was not hidden; racially charged vandalism and sabotage were found routinely at Bruces’ Beach and similar places. During the Jim Crow era, Manhattan Beach City officials obtained the rights to Bruce’s beach, and other Black-owned coastal plots, through an ordinance known as eminent domain.

Through the eminent domain procedure, certain members of the Manhattan community empowered City officials to acquire privately-owned properties and reinvent the lots for public use. The urgent takeover of the Bruce’s land was to fill the need for a public park.

The Bruce family fought for years in litigation; they asked for $120,000 ($3,203,044) for loss of property and damages. After a strenuous battle, the Bruces received $14,000, which is $300,000 in present-day, and the other families received far less than that.

On April 8, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn announced steps towards returning the waterfront landscape

Under the leadership of Supv. Janice Hahn and with the support of Supv. Holly Mitchell, Senator Steve Bradford and Governor Gavin Newsom worked collectively to RIGHT a 100-year-old WRONG. (E. Mesiyah McGinnis/L.A. Sentinel)

(L) California Governor and Calif. State Senator Steven Bradford (E. Mesiyah McGinnis/L.A. Sentinel)

Governor Gavin Newsom (right) praises the efforts of Kavon Ward, who spearhead- ed the Bruce’s Beach movement. (E. Mesiyah McGinnis/ L.A. Sentinel)

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known as Bruce’s Beach back to the decedents of Charles and Willa Bruce.

On the day of the announcement, Janice Hahn stated, “The property that was once Bruce’s, is now owned by the County and I want L.A. County to be part of righting this wrong.” She continued, “I am looking at everything from repurposing the property in a way that tells the history of Bruce’s Beach to actually giving the property back to the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce.”

California State Governor Gavin Newsom announced through a press release, “Moving to Right Historical Wrong.” He signed legislation to return Bruce’s Beach back to descendants of the original owners.

According to the information released by the California state governor’s office, the directive, SB-796, allows Los Angeles County Supervisors to transfer the land immediately to the Bruce family. Soaking up the historical moment at Bruce’s Beach, Newsom was joined by Senator Steven Bradford, Bruce’s family members, and other civic public servants.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors sponsored the urgent measure and authorized the county to immediately begin the process of transferring sources of ownership from Manhattan Beach back over to the Bruce family.

“As we move to remedy this nearly century-old injustice, California takes

another step furthering our commitment to making the California Dream a reality for communities that were shamefully shut out by a history of racist exclusion,” said Governor Newsom. “We know our work is just beginning to make amends for our past, and California will not shy from confronting the structural racism and bias that people of color face to this day. I thank the Bruce family, Senator Bradford, the Los Angeles County Supervisors and all those who fought to keep the legacy of this place alive and deliver this long-overdue justice.”

Governor Gavin Newsom (right) praises the efforts of Kavon Ward, who spearhead- ed the Bruce’s Beach movement.

(E. Mesiyah McGinnis/ L.A. Sentinel) “SB-796 shows us that it is never too late to address the injustices of the past,” said Senator Bradford, a steadfast supporter of the Bruce family and who initially introduced the bill in April with other prominent local leaders. “If you can inherit generational wealth in this country, then you can inherit generational debt too. The City of Manhattan Beach, County of Los Angeles, and the State of California owe a debt to the Bruce family.”He continued, “This bill passed the Legislature unanimously and with overwhelming community support, making it clear that our state is committed to tackling systemic racism head-on. As a member of the California Reparations Task Force, this is an example of what real reparations can look like.

I applaud Governor Newsom for helping us pay a century’s-old debt by allowing Los Angeles County to move forward and return Bruce’s Beach to its rightful owners— the Bruce family.”

Supervisor Hahn released the news through her office by clarifying the power of the legislation by stating, “The legislation does not transfer the land. Instead, it removes restrictions on the land and gives LA County the authority to transfer the property.”

Hahn was joined by Kavon Ward, the Bruce family member who founded Justice for Bruce’s Beach, Senator Bradford, former Manhattan Beach Mayor Mitch Ward, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, and current Manhattan Beach Mayor Hildy Stern.

“This is a milestone for us, and I want to thank, not only Governor Newsom for signing this bill into law, but Senator Bradford for his leadership and the entire state Legislature for their unanimous support,” said LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn. “The work is far from done. Now that LA County officially has the authority to transfer this property, my goal over the next several months will be to transfer this property in a way that not only works for the Bruce family but is a model that other local governments can follow. Returning Bruce’s Beach can and should set a precedent for this nation and I know that all eyes will be on Los Angeles County as this work gets underway,” Hahn stated.

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Bubba Wallace Becomes 1st Black Driver to Win NASCAR Cup Since 1963 always got to stick true to your path and not let the nonsense get to you.”

Wallace is the 2nd Black driver to win at NASCAR’s elite Cup level, next to Wendell Scott in 1963, wherein Scott wasn’t recognized as the winner for several months mainly because of the racist culture at that time. It was also only two months ago that NASCAR finally presented a trophy to Scott’s family.

Wallace’s recent win comes after a terrible year for him last year. In June 2020, a noose was discovered in the garage stall assigned to him. It happened a week after NASCAR had banned the use of the Confederate flag at its events since Wallace actively called it out.

These events, including his historic win, all happened in his native Alabama and he was grateful for it.

“When you say it like that, it obviously brings a lot of emotion, a lot of joy to my family, fans, my friends. It’s pretty cool,” he said.

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Bubba Wallace has once again made history after winning at the recent NASCAR’s top Cup Series, making him the 1st Black driver to take home the championship since 1963.

Wallace sped to victory despite the heavy rain that occurred during the YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

He was ahead for 5 of the 117 laps until the heavy rains caused the race to stop.

When the official announcement of the winner was made, Wallace can be seen celebrating excitedly with his 23XI Racing team, which is owned by Denny Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

“This is for all the kids out there that want to have an opportunity and whatever they want to achieve, and be the best at what they want to do,” Wallace tearfully said in an interview after the race, according to The Associated Press. “You’re going to go through a lot of (BS). But you

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Poetry Foundation Announces 2021 Pegasus Awards and Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships Winners

Celebrating contemporary poets in living lineage with one another

CHICAGO, September 29, 2021 — The Poetry Foundation announces Patricia Smith as the winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Susan Briante as winner of the 2021 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, and Bryan Byrdlong, Steven Espada Dawson, Noor Hindi, Natasha Rao, and Simon Shieh as the 2021 Ruth stered by the Poetry Foundation, an independent literary organization and publisher of Poetry magazine, and will be presented at a virtual awards ceremony on October 21, open to all. This is the first time in many years that the recipients of these annually awarded prizes will be honored together at one ceremony.

“Every one of these extraordinary writers is a credit to the art form, each bringing their own unique experiences and approaches to enrich the literary landscape,” said Michelle T. Boone, president of the Poetry Foundation. “It is a joyous occasion to be able to celebrate artists in poetic lineage with one another, what they’ve created thus far, and what is yet to come.”

Chicago’s Own Patricia Smith Receives High Honor Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows. The awards are sponsored and admini The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize annually honors a living US poet with an award of $100,000 in recognition of their outstanding lifetime achievement. It is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the nation’s largest literary prizes.

Patricia Smith (she/her) is a Chicago poet, one whose love for the city and its people is palpable in her poems, especially her collections Life According to Motown and Big Towns, Big Talks. Smith has inspired countless poets over the course of her career, and she continues to serve as a role model and mentor for poets in Chicago and beyond. Her formal dexterity and the array of voices, narratives, and histories covered in her work—from exuberant lyrical poems and lively crowns of sonnets to persona poems through which she inhabits a diverse cast of characters— set Smith apart as a leader in her craft.

In addition to her many other accolades, Smith ​​is a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.

Her work across the page-stage divide in poetry marks an important contribution towards dismantling false dichotomies and paving the way for new generations of poets to explore the full range of poetic possibilities available to them.

Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and an NAACP Image Award, and a finalist for both the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, which won a Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler, a

photo: Poet Patricia Smith, recipient of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement(Rachel Eliza Griffiths). chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina, which was nominated for a National Book Award.

Her next poetry collection, upcoming in 2022, will combine dramatic monologues with 19th century photos of AfricanAmericans from her extensive private collection.

Founded in 1986, past Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipients include W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, and most recently Marilyn Chin.

Susan Briante Wins for Hybrid Work of Criticism The $7,500 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism prize annually honors the best book-length works of criticism published in the prior calendar year; the award recognizes biographies, essay collections, and critical editions that consider the subject of poetry or poets.

Susan Briante (she/her) receives the award for Defacing the Monument, a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics, and the state. Examining migration and the fraught bureaucracies of the US-Mexico border, Briante delivers a provocative meditation on what official records reveal or obscure. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls the collection “a superb examination of the ethical issues facing artists who tell others’ stories” and a “dazzlingly inventive and searching text.”

Briante is also the author of poetry collections: Pioneers in the Study of Motion, Utopia Minus, and The Market Wonders, all published by Ahsahta Press.

Her awards include honors from the Mac-

Dowell Colony, the Academy of American Poets, and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as co-coordinator of the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program. The program brings MFA students to the US-Mexico border to engage in reciprocal research projects with community-based environmental and social justice groups.

The 2021 Criticism finalists were editor Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro for Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe, and Rosanna Warren for Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters; the most recent prior recipient was Saskia Hamilton in 2020.

An Exceptional Cohort of Young Poets The Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships recognize outstanding young poets, providing support early in their careers to encourage the further study and writing of poetry in the form of their choosing. Each poet receives a $25,800 prize, making the fellowships among the largest and most prestigious awards available for young poets in the United States.

The 2021 Fellows cohort: Bryan Byrdlong (he/him) is a Black writer from Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Byrdlong’s honors include First Place in Boulevard Magazine’s 2020 Poetry Contest For Emerging Poets, and a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar-

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ship from The Adroit Journal.

Winner of a Barriss and Iola Mills Award and a Kneale Award, Steven Espada Dawson (he/him) is a writer from East Los Angeles, currently located in Austin, Texas. The son of a Mexican immigrant, he received his MFA from Purdue University, and has served as a poetry editor for Sycamore Review and a senior poetry editor for Copper Nickel. Espada Dawson teaches community-based poetry workshops for the Austin Library Foundation and provides mentorships for young poets at Ellipsis Writing.

Noor Hindi (she/her) is a PalestinianAmerican poet and reporter. Hindi received her BA and MFA from the University of Akron, and is a 2020/2021 Reveal Investigative Fellow through the Reveal Center for Investigative Reporting. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry, Hobart, Jubilat, and Literary Hub, and among others. Her debut collection of poems, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. is forthcoming from Haymarket Books.

Winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for her debut collection Latitude, Natasha Rao (she/her) is a poet and educator from New Jersey. Rao holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. Named a 2021 Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal, her work appears or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Nation, Poetry Northwest, and Narrative, among others. She is a managing editor of American Chordata, and lives in Brook-

lyn.

Simon Shieh (he/him) is the founder of the teen creative arts platform InkBeat Arts, and a cofounder of the Spittoon Literary Magazine. Shieh has taught American Literature and Society at China Foreign Affairs University and served as Writer in Residence at the International School of Beijing. His honors include second place in Narrative Magazine‘s 2020 30 Below contest and inclusion in Best New Poets 2020.

The 2021 Fellowship finalists were Diannely Antigua, Alexis V. Jackson, Aurielle Marie, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Kelan Nee, Tamara Panici, and Julian Randall.

About the Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in American culture.

It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs.

Follow the Poetry Foundation and Poetry on Facebook at Facebook.com/PoetryFoundation, Facebook.com/PoetryFoundationChildren, Twitter @PoetryFound and @PoetryMagazine, and Instagram @ PoetryFoundation.

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10 Breast Cancer Myths You Need To Clear Up Right Now

by Karen Heslop, BlackDoctor.org Even though breast cancer w people handle their health and think about their risks of developing breast cancer. Fortunately, when you know the facts it’s easier to make the right decisions about your health.

Breast cancer myths: has been around for years and has affected millions of women, there’s still a lot of misinformation going around about the disease. Some of these myths have significantly affected ho Myth # 1: You Don’t Have To Worry If No-One In Your Family Has Had It It’s true that having a genetic predisposition for breast cancer can raise your risk of developing the disease. However, that doesn’t mean people without a family history of breast cancer can’t get it. In fact, several people with no known risk for cancer have been diagnosed with it.

On the same note, being at risk doesn’t mean that you will develop the disease either. Even if you’ve tested positive for the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes, it doesn’t mean it will happen.

Myth # 2: Breast Cancer Is Caused By Deodorants And Anti-Perspirants

There is no scientific evidence that antiperspirants and deodorants can cause breast cancer. For some time, people have claimed that the aluminum-based ingredients in these products are linked to cancer. However, this has not been proven.

There may be other issues involved with caffeine consumption though so make sure you have all the information.

Myth # 6: Keeping Mobile Phones In Your Bra Cause Breast Cancer Some people have said that the radio waves or radiation from a mobile phone can cause breast cancer if the phone is stored in the front pocket for too long.

However, there is no evidence that this is the case.

Myth # 3: All You Need To Do Is Eat Well And Exercise While a healthy diet and exercise certainly play a role in remaining healthy, it’s not enough to ensure that you never develop breast cancer. Even as you eat healthily, avoid cigarettes, reduce your alcohol consumption, and exercise regularly, don’t forget your annual mammograms.

Myth # 7: Injuries To The Breast Can Cause Breast Cancer If your breasts are squeezed or injured in some way, there could be bruising.

In some cases, you may develop scar tissue from the injury that can feel like lumps. These aren’t cancerous though.

Some people are also concerned about nipple piercings but there’s no evidence that these piercings are linked to breast cancer.

RELATED: 7 Things You Can Do To Prevent Breast Cancer Myth # 4: If You Detected The Cancer Early, There’s Nothing To Worry About Of course, early detection means you can get treated quickly, which drastically reduces the risk of your cancer progressing. However, that doesn’t mean your cancer can’t recur. It’s important to remain vigilant so you can catch the signs early all the time.

Myth # 5: Too Much Caffeine Can Cause Breast Cancer On the contrary, research has shown that caffeine in moderation can reduce your risk of developing breast cancer.

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Myth # 8: All Breast Cancer Is The Same According to health experts, breast cancer can be very different for everyone depending on their genetic make-up. That’s why the same treatment program doesn’t work for everyone. Your genes can also determine how quickly your cancer pro-

gresses.

Myth # 9: An Annual Mammogram Is All You Need To Know You’re CancerFree While it’s true that a mammogram can detect suspicious breast tissue, data suggests that the tests can miss up to 20% of breast cancer cases.

Myth # 10: All Lumps Are A Sign Of Trouble It’s possible to have lumpy breast tissue that isn’t cancerous. That’s why self-exams are doctor visits are important. You and your doctor need to know what your normal breast tissue feels like. It will make it easier to tell when something is out of the ordinary.

Another thing to bear in mind is that not all concerning lumps will be hard, hard to move, and rough in texture. To be safe, bring all lumps to your doctor’s attention.

There’s still a lot of research being done to determine breast cancer risks and treatments. While new information can become available at any time, it’s a good idea to make sure that you’re getting your data from reputable sources. Additionally, don’t be afraid to talk to your doctor about your concerns.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Breast Cancer: Underrepresentation in Clinical Trials is Leaving Black Women Behind

by Maia Thompson, BlackDoctor.org In the realm of chronic or severe conditions, clinical trials can be a sign of hope for patients. However, what happens when a certain group or groups are underrepresented in them? This is the case for Black women who are severely underrepresented in these studies.

While Black Americans represent 13% of the total US population, they only make up 5% of clinical trials. Although this may seem innocent at first, it has tremendous implications for Black women patients. Leaving Black women out not only blocks a possibility of treatment, but stunts research into why certain diseases vary in how they affect different populations.

For breast cancer, underrepresentation prevents us from answering the question of why Black women are less likely to to develop the disease but also more likely to die from it. If you are a Black woman living with advanced breast cancer, consider doing your research on available clinical trials and talk to your doctor about exploring them.

While every trial and medical team is different, there are common causes as to why Black women are often left out of clinical trials. The first reason may be the feelings of the patient. A cancer diagnosis can lead to feelings of isolation, anxiety,

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fear, and shame.

This can lead to decision paralysis on what the patient should do and what treatments they can seek. While the traditional course of treatment may be well explained, clinical trials may not be fully discussed by your healthcare provider.

Leverage support groups as not only a way to find community, but also a resource to talk to others about their experience with clinical trials.

Ask them what factors they considered and any benefits or risks that were presented to them. Accompany this with

your own research in order to be prepared to have a discussion with your doctor and make an informed decision.

Another barrier is just lack of knowledge and accessibility. A common obstacle of clinical trials is making them accessible to everyone. Trials typically happen during work hours and in hospitals or clinics. This can make it hard for those who are low-income or work full-time as they cannot come in the middle of the day to participate in the trial.

While some clinical trials offer a financial incentive, this may not outweigh what they would be missing out on.

Consequently, those in clinical trials are typically white and wealthier. If you are interested in a clinical trial, talk with your healthcare provider. If your HCP does not have full knowledge, do some independent research on what hospitals and clinics are offering around you.

The first step to doing research about clinical trials is finding resources that share these opportunities. If your HCP is not a good resource, start your research with advocacy websites for breast cancer.

Some websites include Cancer.org or the Dr. Susan Love Foundation.

If no trials are currently running, you may be able to add your name to a list to be notified. Identifying a platform with cancer trials is the first step, but this is just the foundation of your research.

Once you are connected with a trial, find out if you’re eligible. Trial eligibility requirements vary based on the goals of the research and the condition. The most important step of the research is looking into actual study.

How long is the study? What is the preliminary research backing it? Where is the trial located and is this feasible for you? These are important factors to consider before taking the next step. Finally, take this information to your treatment team.

They will need this information to give you a recommendation on whether to pursue it or not. While the final decision is yours, the perspective of your HCP can be an essential one. Once you’ve made a decision, get in contact with the clinical trial team.

You can also request that your doctor calls for you. Ask them any questions or concerns you have. If you, your doctor, and trial team decide that it is a good fit; then make any necessary arrangements to get it started.

Although your healthcare providers and treatment team are essential in your journey to healing, you are the ultimate owner of your body and its health. If you would like to be considered for a clinical trial, talk with your doctor and do some independent research on what opportunities are out there for you.

U.S. government and expecting to find homes in America, and at the same time we have over 3 million DACA residents also seeking to be recognized and given citizenship, all adds up to numbers that frighten Americans with the question of when do we close the door? The big question is, are we going to treat everyone

fairly and, if so, what constitutes “fair”?

The same rules must apply to all without the appearance of favoritism. There has to be a limit on the number of people permitted in the boat or the boat itself will sink.

The problems in all the countries in this hemisphere are closely related to corruption in the governments of those countries along with their crime problems. The storms and earthquakes that have hit Haiti compound a problem that already existed, not to mention the recent assassination of the Haitian president.

We can control the humanity with which people are being expelled. No more images of border agents on horseback riding people down because they are still coming across the river. There has to be a better way. But to the Haitians and others gathering to illegally enter this country, that cannot be permitted. You create your own humanitarian crisis by making the choice to follow the rumor that all you have to do is show up and come in.

To Americans of all colors, the issue has to be one of more than race. Let’s deal with this issue as we can and should.

The Haitian Dilemma

By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint

This is a painful commentary. Humanity demands that we all be treated with fairness. This country has boasted the guarantee to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Those who live in a world without such assurances hear what we say and see the quality of life that even our poorest of citizens appear to enjoy.

So, we don’t blame the Haitians for doing what each of us would do if we were in their shoes.

This matter is made even more painful when we consider that the politics of color appears to have entered this picture.

The recent surge of migrants from South America was not met with exportation but detentions. It appears that, for now, only single individuals are being deported and not families or children. They are allegedly being processed.

Then we have the history of how we have dealt with Haitians and the matter of political asylum. Let’s not forget that in 1992 when the U.S. Coast Guard was intercepting Haitian refugees at sea, some on inner tubes and small life rafts;

these people were quickly returned to Haiti even though they claimed political asylum while, during the same period, refugees from Cuba also claiming political asylum were taken in and placed in detention camps in Florida.

The massive number of more than 100,000 Afghans recently airlifted by the

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Help Find Daniel Robinson:

Control Module (black box) and they did not see or understand that it did not match with the vehicle’s damage and location.

It was brushed off as, Daniel crashed and walked away from his vehicle, never to be seen again and that was it. As we began to unravel those questions, we would come across more new questions,” he stated.

Since he began investigating, although the focus has narrowed, with help from many volunteers and the many hours devoted to the case, answers are slowly revealed, but “the big answer” to where Daniel is “keeps eluding us,” said McGrath.

He explained how families regularly seek outside professionals to investigate crimes against them or crimes they are accused of and many other non-criminal incidents.

“A lot of times our local, county, state, and federal law enforcement do a great job, but there are a handful of times where they get it wrong, or it’s just rushed. This is not because they don’t care, but a lot of times because they not properly or adequately trained. It’s like going to the wrong doctor for a heart condition and that doctor thinking they can treat you just fine. Well maybe they will, but if they’re wrong because they don’t know what they’re doing, the result(s) could be devastating. There are outside professionals —Private Investigators—that specialize in all types of matters and that’s where we come in,” McGrath said.

In the five years, McGrath has been involved in private investigation work, he boasts a 99% success rate, noting how he “can count on one hand how many cases we’ve lost,” but the disappearance of Daniel Robinson is presenting challenges as time passes by.

“At this point, two months have passed since Daniel went missing. I don’t want to say the chances are ‘grim,’ but we have to be realistic in that if he is out in that desert, with temps reaching as high as 115 degrees, it’s not ideal for survival,” he said, adding the next step in this process is to conduct more interviews and continue working with his team and many volunteers to “help find Daniel.”

Meanwhile, the Robinson patriarch described feelings of worry and fear as he wonders if his son is hurt, in danger.

“I am afraid to hear that something has happened to him. Not having answers to where Daniel is or what happened to him keeps me up at night; it makes me anxious. I feel like a big part of myself is missing,” said the United States Army veteran, who is an entrepreneur and businessman.

Tips and information can remain anonymous as the family awaits calls or texts to 803-200-7994.

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Coventry Housing Authority

is accepting applications for low income State Elderly/Disabled housing. Annual income limit is $55,950 (one person) & $63,950 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application at the Coventry Housing Authority, 1630 Main St., Coventry, CT, or have one mailed. Completed applications must be postmarked or hand delivered no later than November 12, 2021

NOTICE

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

For more information call 860-742-5518.

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 apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by of calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours.

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

ANIMAL CONTROL NOTICIA

Full Time Construction Position: -

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

NEW HAVEN

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

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

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

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

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

Request for Proposal

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

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST

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

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

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

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$41.82 hourly

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Town of Bloomfield

THE GLENDOWER GROUP

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

Proposals

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

$15.71 hourly

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

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

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

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October , 2021 - October 19, 2021 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,13 2016 - August 02, 2016

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

Listing: HVAC Technician

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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PVC FENCE PRODUCTION

NOTICIA

Union Company seeks:

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

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

NEW HAVEN

Construction

HELP WANTED:

Large CT guardrail company looking for Laborer/Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to get a medical card. Must be able to pass a drug test and physical. OSHA 10 Certification required. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F

Fence Installers:

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for Fence Installation Crews. Crews must have at least 5 years of experience installing chain link, wood, PVC and ornamental iron fencing. Work available 10-12 months per year, highest labor rates paid. All necessary equipment provided. Medical, holiday, vacation & other benefits included. Must be able to pass required physical and drug test. An OSHA 10 Certification is required. A valid CT driver's license is required and must get DOT Medical Card. Foreman rate starts at $29.50 / hour plus benefits. Helper rate starts $19.10 / hour plus benefits. Bonuses paid weekly for jobs completed under budgeted labor hours. Potential to double hourly rate. We are an AA/EOE company.

Send resumes/inquiries to: rhauer@atlasoutdoor.com.

Yard Worker:

Large CT Fence Company is looking for individuals for our stock yard. We are looking for individuals with previous warehouse shipping, receiving and forklift experience. Must have a minimum of 3 years of material handling experience. Duties include: Loading and unloading trucks, Fulfilling orders for installation and retail counter sales, Maintaining a clean and organized environment, Managing inventory control and Delivering fence panels and products. Qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent, Must be able to read/write English, demonstrate good time management skills, able to read a tape measure, have the ability to lift 70 pounds and have forklift experience. Must have a valid CT Driver’s License, Obtain DOT Medical Card, and pass company physical and drug test. Class A CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) and Class B CDL a plus. We are an AA/EOE company. Send resumes/inquiries to: pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com

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

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95

We allhighways, have near bus stop & shopping center

DREAMS.

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

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

Let Job Corps help you achieve yours.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

St. New Haven, CT

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drug Free Workforce

Invitation to Bid:

nd State of Connecticut 2 Notice Office of Policy and Management

POLICE OFFICER

Competitive examinations will be held for the position of SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE Police Officer in the Guilford,

Old Saybrook, CT Orange, Wallingford and West Haven Police Departments.

Madison,

(4 Buildings, 17 Units) The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for an Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project may register for the testing process Candidates Undersecretary - Office of Policy And Management for Finance, Strategic www.policeapp.com/southcentral.

Decisions and Accountability.

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CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= The and oral board This210921&R2=0450EX&R3=001 contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

exams will be administered by the South Central Criminal Justice The State of Connecticut is an equal Administration. All candidates must possess a valid opportunity/affirmative action employer Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 CHIP card dated after April 15, 2021. and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, andAnticipated persons Start: August 15, 2016 with disabilities.

PARTICIPATING IN THIS RECRUITMENT DRIVE Project documents availableTHE via ftpDEPARTMENTS link below: ARE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERS. http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Listing: HVAC Technician

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Fast paced Petroleum Company is hiring for a full time, CT HVAC Technician. LiSteel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders AA/EEO EMPLOYER cense required – S-10,S-2 or S-1. Applicant must have experience in oil, propane, natuTop pay for top performers. Health ral gas and A/C. Competitive wage, 401(k), sign on bonus and benefits. Send resume Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. to: Attn: HR Manager, Confidential, PO Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

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

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**An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**

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Town of Greenwich, NOTICE Connecticut

Police Officer

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE 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 apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by 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.

NOTICIA VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

Do You Want A Job That Makes A Difference?

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de unPolice dormitorio en este desarrollo Become A Town of Greenwich Offi cer.

ubicado en la callemust 109 Frank New basic Haven. requirements Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos Candidates fulfillStreet, several including: 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) Be U.S. Citizen en las oficinas de HOME • INC. Lasapre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME• INC al 203-562-4663 horas.Pre-solicitudes Be at leastdurante 20 esas years of age deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven 06510 .

• Possess 45 college credits, or 2 years of, CT active

military service or equivalent

Current Salary: $69,701 plus benefits.

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

NEW HAVEN

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

The Town of Greenwich is dedicated to Diversity & Equal Opportunity Employment

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 The Housing Authority City center of Bridgeport highways, near bus of stopthe & shopping Request for Proposal (RFP) Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

Green Physical Needs Assessment Solicitation Number: 190-MD-21-S 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 1:30-

The Authority ofJoe the CityM.S., of B.S. Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities 3:30Housing Contact: Chairman, Deacon J. Davis, (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D.qualifi Pastor of Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster (PCC) is currently seeking proposals from edPitts consultants to conduct a Green St. New Haven, CT Assessment (GPNA), an Energy Audit and UPCS/REAC inspecPhysical Needs tions of PCC’s development portfolio, in accordance with applicable regulations issued by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD’s regulations require that the GPNA incorporate the recommended Energy Conservation Measures from the Energy Audit. All of the information must be provided in a format as bids prescribed

by HUD using the Authority HUD GPNA Solicitation packSealed are invited by (i.e., the Housing of Tool). the Town of Seymour age will be available on October 04, 2021, to obtain an electronic copy of the RFP until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org., please reference Seymour, CTnumber 06483 for Concrete Repairs and Replacement at the the solicitation and title on theSidewalk subject line.

A Pre-proposal conference will Gardens call Assisted Living19,Facility, Smith Street Seymour. beSmithfield held via conference on October 2021 @26 10:00 a.m.

Although attendance is not mandatory, submitting a proposal without attending the pre-proposal conference may not be in the will best be interest of the theHousing Offeror. Authority AdditionalOffice questions should A pre-bid conference held at 28 Smith be emailed only to Caroline Sanchez at bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. than October 26, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be emailed, or Bidding documents are available thep.m., Seymour Ofhand delivered

by November 8, 2021 from @ 3:00 to Ms.Housing CarolineAuthority Sanchez, Chief Procurement Offi cer, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604.

Late proposals fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. will not be accepted.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

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

DELIVERY PERSON

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Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

(203) 435-1387 QSR STEEL CORPORATION

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

POLICE OFFICER

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

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

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

Required testing,

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

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

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

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

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

DRIVER CLASS A and Motor Vehicle Operator’srequirements.

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

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

Heavy/Highway general contractor

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

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

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Looking for holiday work in Connecticut?

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

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

NOTICE

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 apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by 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 October 30, 2021 Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

HARTFORD HIRING EVENT:

Hartford Post Office 141 Weston St., NOTICIA Hartford, CT 06101 a.m. – 4 p.m.

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER8PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está STARTING PAY: Scan this aceptando pre-solicitudes para QR estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo Mail handler assistant: $16.87 /hr code to get ubicado en la callestarted 109 Frank Street, NewCity Haven.

Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos or visit carrier assistant: 18.51 /hr máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. clerk: comenzando Martes usps.com/careers Mail processing $18.67 /hr25 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 .

ELECTRIC UTILITY

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

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

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

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

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

NEW HAVEN

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

WATER TREATMENT

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

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

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

Fax#: (203) 294-2084.

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

October 21, 2021. EOE

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

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

APPLY NOW!

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

Listing: Dispatcher

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

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT

DELIVERY PERSON

is requesting proposals for

NEEDED

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT SERVICE.

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

Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

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

(203) 435-1387

Town of Bloomfield Custodian

Large CT Fence Company

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

$23.40/hourly (benefited)

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

Invitation to Bid: CITY OF MILFORD 2 Notice nd

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

Portland

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

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

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

org for details.

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

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

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Access Health CT extends Special Enrollment Period deadline to October 31 Connecticut residents have more time to shop, compare, and enroll in health insurance – and they may qualify for plans for $0. This is made possible by the new Covered Connecticut Program created by the State of Connecticut.

James Michel CEO of Access Health CT

“Typically, you have to wait until a certain time of year to sign up for health insurance, known as ‘Open Enrollment,’” said James Michel, CEO of Access Health CT. “But the pandemic is a threat to public health, making it more important than ever for the people of Connecticut to have access to quality, affordable health insurance plans. That’s why we’ve made it possible to enroll in health insurance outside of the annual Open Enrollment period. If you or someone you know needs health insurance, please look into your options through Access Health CT.”

Access Health CT – Connecticut’s official health insurance exchange – has extended the deadline to enroll in health insurance plans to October 31. This Special Enrollment Period started May 1, after the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law, making health insurance coverage more affordable and accessible for many residents. The law virtually eliminates or vastly reduces monthly payments (premiums) for many people with low and moderate incomes. It also provides new financial help for people with somewhat higher incomes who can face high premiums.

Visit AccessHealthCT.com to learn more and to enroll online, or visit Project Access New Haven or the Community Renewal Team in Hartford to enroll in person.

Eligible Connecticut residents who qualify for the Covered Connecticut Program have until December 31, or the end of Open Enrollment, to enroll.

As of July 1, some Connecticut residents who meet specific eligibility requirements are paying zero dollars a month for their health insurance coverage through Access Health CT, thanks to the new Covered Connecticut Program created by the State of Connecticut.

To qualify for the program, you must be a parent or caretaker relative, and you and your tax dependents must meet all of the following eligibility requirements.

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be enrolled in an eligible Silver Level Plan If you think you might be eligible for the Covered Connecticut Program, call the Access Health CT call center at 1-855-805-4325, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you are deaf or hearing impaired, you may use TTY at 1-855-789-2428 or call with a relay operator.

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