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Hopes High As New Q House Ribbon Cut by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

Hundreds celebrated the reopening of Dixwell’s newly restored Community “Q” House Saturday with hope for the future and a nod to history. The revived community center brought hundreds out to a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday. The project leaders promised the center will be a second home to all of the community as it once was to many attendees decades ago. The community celebrated the reopened safe haven for youth and deemed it a “beacon of light” for the city’s future. The Saturday ceremony opened with an introduction from the Southern Connecticut State University Blue Steel Drumline and a performance by Hillhouse High School cheerleaders. Rev Frederick Streets of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church offered a prayer as well.. The new center is home to a recording studio, senior center, game room, fitness room, gym, entrepreneurship kitchen, and several programming rooms. The center was celebrated as a new home of recreation, learning, resources, and fellowship by the ceremony’s dozens of speakers. Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, who spearheaded the reopening project over the last 10 years, hosted the nearly threehour ceremony leading up to the center’s ribbon cutting. The center was referred to as a “beacon for youth” by leaders like U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, State Sens. Gary Winfield and Martin Looney, State Rep. Toni Walker, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, Gov. Ned Lamont, Mayor Justin Elicker, and Board of Alders President Tyisha WalkerMyers. “If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s to be self sufficient. That’s what this building is going to do,” Morrison said during Saturday’s ceremony. “The Dixwell Q House was our foundation,” said Walker. “Thank you for making sure we can all come to the table and eat the bread.” The Q House advisory board recently released a survey for the community to gather feedback about what New Haveners would like to see happen at the center.“There’s never going to be another ribbon cutting for the Q House, because this building will live forever,” Elicker predicted. Former Mayor Toni Harp thanked the Dixwell community for keeping the Q House spirit alive and bringing its reopening to reality. LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez recalled the original rendering of the buildinge made by his close friend and renowned architect Regina Winters. Winters’ ideas for a Q House design made up of African motifs came to life during the reconstruction process that oc-

Q House Advisory board members Malcolm Welfare with daughter, Harp, and Margo Taylor.

curred after her death in 2016. Winters and Fernandez founded LEAP together. “I see much of her here,” he said. “This is a testament to who she was.”

Q House Advisory board member Sean Reeves and Tracey Massey.

Fernandez added that LEAP‘s after school program hosted at the Q House has 50 available spots for 7-12 year old New Haven youth.

As tours led by LEAP counselors went on throughout the building, guests got a first look at the Toni Nathaniel and Wendell Carl Harp Historical Museum. Project leaders named the museum after former Mayor Toni Harp and her husband, a leading local architect and developer, because of their longtime dedication to the city, and because Harp’s work over the past decade to secure the Q House reconstruction funding from as mayor. (The state committed $14.5 million toward the project in 2016.) Harp Saturday paid a visit to the museum honoring her legacy as the first woman and the second African American to serve as mayor of New Haven. She posed for photos with New Haveners who thanked her for supporting the center’s revival. “You put your blood, sweat, and tears into this. You deserve this space,” advisory board member and educator Malcolm Welfare told Harp. The museum’s first exhibit was created by artist Frank Mitchellm who put New Haven’s history in perspective with national moments in history. “I want the community to come here to be closer to history,” Harp said. “I’m proud that it’s a place that can show that hopes and dreams can come to fruition.” Harp said she looks forward to the museum displaying historical artifacts that show the leaders who paved the way for

her. In addition to Mitchell’s exhibit, the Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church set up a display highlighting key leaders in the Q House history and Dixwell community. The church’s history committee chair, Charles Warner Jr., talked with museum visitors about the history of the first iteration of Q House, which was originally on land donated by the church. Achieved documents were put on display of the formal agreements made by the church. Photos of past Q House employees who moved on to be nationally recognized politicians, activists, and historical leaders included Myra Adele Logan, a Q House secretary in 1928 who later became the first black woman to perform open heart surgery; and Laura Belle McCoy, who founded the first black girl scout troop in the nation at the Q House in the 1920s. “It’s nice to see folks I haven’t see in years at something that’s not a funeral,” said Newhallville organizer Shirley Lawrence. Hill Central School educator Dee Marshall described the former Q House as a safe haven that sheltered Dixwell residents from racism and segregation in the ‘50’s and ‘60s. “We had everything we needed right here. We could get education, history, family, jobs while being safe at the same time all right here.” Marshall recalled volunteering at the former Q House in the 1990s, teaching youth about history. At the Saturday ceremony Marshall picked up multiple free books for her classroom. Artist Tracey Massey recalled living across the street from what use to be Winchester School, now known as Wexler Grant School, as a child and attending programs at the school and the former Q House. She learned her first African dance at school, then learned about Black history and healthful eating after school at the Q House. Dixwell’s former Q House and neighborhood school instilled a love for theater, art, ice skating, track, and drill in Massey at 9 years old. “All my skills to this day I learned here,” she said. Massey worked an overnight shift but refused to miss the reopening of her childhood “safe haven and village.” She got “lifesaving” help from the Q House as a young mom at 17 years old, she said. “Learning all that wisdom from the older people that came here too taught me discipline and structure — it saved my life as a teenager.” She recalled rap battles in the hallways, teaching herself to ice skate on small frozen puddles outside, and hearing her first Nina Simone song at the Q House as a child. “I have hope for my kids and grandkids now that this is back,” she said. “

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by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent

Seniors in the morning. Kids in the afternoon. Other adults at night. That’s one way of looking at the planned rhythm of the newly rebuilt Dixwell Community “Q” House, which opens Saturday with a festive ribbon-cutting celebration of a decade of community working. New Haveners from Dixwell and beyond have long awaited the revival of the Q House at 197 Dixwell Ave. since the original building closed in 2003. More than 1,000 RSVPs are in place for Saturday’s event. This reporter was given a tour of the newly renovated 5,000 square-foot center Wednesday by LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez, whose organization will run the programming there, and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, the project’s champion. As of this past Wednesday 352 bricks were laid at the center’s Dixwell Avenue entrance, each personalized with community names and messages of support. Each brick was purchased at $100 for the center’s first fundraiser. “This is Dixwell’s safe place. Place to learn to navigate. And almost everything on Dixwell in one place,” Morrison said and Fernandez narrated the intended uses of each room. “This is our Schomburg Center in New Haven.” The community space is made up of four separate units throughout building: the Stetson Library, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, the DixwellNewhallville Senior Center, and the Q House proper. The Q House proper refers to the buildings programming areas for all users such as a gym, fitness room, dance studio, teaching kitchen, recording studio, and several conference rooms and community lounges. The on-site Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center currently remains under construction. The four separate units all plan to operate separately while offering joint programming at times, Fernandez said. For the past three weeks LEAP has been using the center’s programming spaces for its Afterschool Children’s Program and Leaders in Training Program. Its after-school program hosts 42 students and places them throughout the building for daily literacy activities and homework tutoring sessions, in conference rooms and in the gym. Its group of leaders in training include 25 15-year-olds who intern with the program to become junior counselors at age 16. The Q House will be open daily from 9

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a.m to 9 p.m., Morrison said. The senior center hours will run daily from around 9 a.m to 2 p.m. LEAP’s Dixwell site and additional partners will operate from 2-6 p.m for youth. And programs for other adults will run from 6 p.m to 9 p.m. “We can’t mix everyone all the time,

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but we will have intergenerational gatherings at times,” Morrison said. The Q will offer a permanent home to the Dixwell/Newhallville senior center, which has in the past had its programming travel among local churches when available.

The center’s commercial kitchen will host classes teaching community members how to run food businesses and get the necessary licenses. The goal is to begin offering courses in about two months or sooner, once the kitchen space is properly permitted by the city.

The center is looking to partner with food business nonprofit CitySeed, said Fernandez. “This entire thing will be focused on building economic power in Dixwell.” The kitchen is equipped with multiple teaching tables, a fryer, grill, ovens, griddle, and ample refrigerator storage. Morrison said she plans to explore the possibility of bringing the neighboring food pantry that operates out of the 26 Charles St. police substation to the Q House kitchen. “We can serve food right out the back door because it leads to the parking lot,” Morrison said. The center has a recording studio that allows for advanced community musicmaking in its engineering space. The studio can fit about 20 people in it. Community and staff offices, conference rooms, and lounges are built throughout the center. It also has a lounge, which Morrison promised to equip with a Playstation game system. “I’ll be using it for SAT prep,” Fernandez quipped. The community fitness room will be equipped with bikes, treadmills, leg machines, and weights. When Morrison was elected alder in 2011, she organized a community meeting a month into her first term. She worked with community leaders to create a steering community to look into reopening the shuttered Q House. She received support from then-Mayor Toni Harp and then-Gov. Dannel Malloy to demolish and rebuild the center. Architect duo Regina Winters and Kenneth Boroson designed the center, and building began in 2019. At Saturday’s ribbon-cutting the center’s first exhibit will be on display in the Q’s Toni Nathaniel and Wendell Carl Harp Historical Museum. On Wednesday artist and exhibit curator Frank Mitchell put up this exhibit. Called “Keeping the Faith,” it highlights a timeline of historical moments of “promises and persistence in Dixwell.” On several display curtains Mitchell tells the story of “the neighborhood’s commitment to having a Q House” and “Connecticut’s significant activist and ministry presence that has been maintained throughout history.” An art and game room is also included. The idea for a game room came to Morrison in a dream in the middle of the night. “I emailed [City Engineer] Giovanni [Zinn] at 12 a.m. saying, ‘Call me we have to have a game room,’” she recalled. Morrison said the center needed a game

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Empath Vintage Opens Its Doors Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org

Each piece of clothing tells a story. There is the beaded dress that a New Haven activist wore through the 1980s, heavy and sparkling as it sweeps the floor. There is a bright, cream-colored romper from an estate sale in Cheshire, patterned with dainty red flowers with thin green stems. There’s the leather jacket that the shop’s owner begged her father for at 12, and is ready to part with two decades later. Welcome to Empath Vintage, the brickand-mortar brainchild of artist, organizer, fashionista and lifelong New Havener Ashleigh Huckabey. This month, she is opening the doors to her State Street shop after years of vintage pop-ups and online sales. Customers can visit her at 1399 State St. during weekend pop-ups, or by appointment. She is currently running a GoFundMe to get the store solidly off the ground. The first-floor storefront is part of a new collaborative spot for Black women run by Urban Collective Co-Founder Randi McCray, who left her Willow Street coworking space for Cedar Hill during the pandemic. For Huckabey, who quit a corporate job and moved into the State Street location in August, it’s been a long time coming. Barber Rachel Graziano also runs the small business Roqkndy, dedicated to her craft, out of the space. “It’s been amazing,” Huckabey said on a recent walkthrough of the space, surrounded by racks of clothing, boxes of gently used shoes and a fabric dress form in the center of the room. “It doesn’t feel like work being able to tell the stories [of these clothes], to listen to these stories. It’s a breath of fresh air to go from the corporate world to this.” The origin story of Empath Vintage begins three decades ago, when Huckabey was a little girl growing up in New Haven. As a kid, she was surrounded by fashion— most notably in the adoring graces of her great aunt, the late Rev. Elnora Bess. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bess owned and operated Elnora’s Fashion House, nestled on Orchard Street and Edgewood Avenue. She adored her great niece, Huckabey recalled. And she let her become part of the magic. “She was just a fashion icon,” Huckabey said, her eyes wide and bright as she stood in the store on a recent Friday. By the time she was six or seven, she was talking to fellow women in New Haven about modeling and design. Around her, the world buzzed with craftswomanship and couture. Her great-grandmother turned out intricate quilts that Huckabey still remembers in vivid detail. Bess, whose fashion house also included a “charm school” for Black girls, drafted designs for hats and outfits that looked like nothing Huckabey had ever seen before. It ran in the family. Her aunt, who now lives in Los Angeles, “used to make the

craziest designs” and then urge Huckabey to model them—which she did, excitedly. For years, she also watched members of her extended family run Unique Boutique, New Haven’s first Black-owned beauty supply store on Dixwell Avenue and later on Chapel Street. The bent toward entrepreneurship was in her before she even knew what it was. By the time Huckabey went to Hill Career Regional High School, fashion was a rhythm that pumped through her veins. Her budding inspirations, many of which she still looks to today, were eclectic: Diana Ross, Dapper Dan, June Ambrose. She loved color and texture, with a soft spot for items that came with a story. There, surrounded by hundreds of different styles in the hallways of the school, “just being able to see people in clothes that made them feel good made me happy,” she said. The artist knew she was inching towards something. When she studied journalism at Southern Connecticut State University, she co-coordinated the school’s annual face model fashion show with her cousin, New Havener and Elm City Lit Fest coordinator Julius Lavaughn Stone. As a fashion merchandiser for H&M after college, she spent almost a decade designing the look and feel of displays. After a stint in New York and then five years in Dallas, she decided it was time to come home. “As an empath, as someone who feels the needs of others, I knew that I had a deeper connection and a deeper gift than being someone’s personal shopper,” she said. “I wanted to come back to New Haven to be with my family and my community.” In New Haven, the success of Empath Vintage took time and planning, she said. After moving back, Huckabey stepped up as an organizer in Black Lives Matter New Haven, where she is now one of the

group’s five core members. She worked jobs in customer care, service and medical device sales, running clothing swaps and then pop-ups on the side. By 2019, she was exhausted. She realized she had to take a break to reinvent the brand. Then Covid-19 hit. “The pandemic pushed to say, ‘Ashleigh, you can do this,’” she recalled. “I want to bring back creativity to getting dressed.” She quit her job at Comcast earlier this year, as a leap of faith around her 35th birthday. McCray, who has known Huckabey and her partner for years, had just moved to the State Street location. She offered up the space over the summer. In a phone call Tuesday, she said the business aligns with her mission to be a collaborative and creative space for community members, particularly Black women. “I think I share an affinity with Ash around vintage wear,” she said. “She wants to give people the flexibility to embody their own style. I also just like to support folks who do what I did. I started working for myself seven years ago after working at Yale for 18 years. I was happy to support her in that work.” In the shop, Huckabey has summoned some of the fashion magic with which she was raised. Inside an unassuming office building, racks of shiny, fragrant leather, polyester, corduroy and cotton greet visitors against mint-green walls. There is a bundle of burned sage on a table, with which Huckabey cleansed the space earlier this year. Large rhinestone jewelry glints from beside a mirror. Yellow, lowheeled sandals with perfect bows sit on top of an old vanity license plate. Huckabey’s take on vintage is storyoriented—all pieces have a history, and their new wearers continue the narrative. Sourcing from consignment shops, estate

sales, and personal collections around the city, the state, and often Brooklyn, she works to stock clothes for body shapes and sizes, exploding the myth that vintage wear is only for those who can shimmy into a 25-inch waist. On a recent Friday, she floated around the store, picking out shirts, jackets and dresses that shone brightly between the white floor and ceiling. One, a blue-andsilver beaded evening gown with broad shoulders, comes from an activist friend’s glamorous days in the 1980s. When she left New Haven a few years ago, she offered several of her clothes to Huckabey. Huckabey beamed examining its deep, glimmering V-neck and floor-swishing length, debating how high a pair of heels would need to be to pull it off. She is drawn to sequins and beads and pieces of clothing that have panache, she said, showing off her own sequined jacket over a plunging black v-neck as she spoke. On another rack, she picked out a wellloved leather jacket that has been in her own closet for over 20 years. When Huckabey was 12, she begged her father to buy it for her. It fits her as perfectly now as it did then, she said—but she’s ready to let it become part of someone else’s New Haven story. “We can be in these beautiful threads and it doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars,” she said. She added that as Empath Vintage grows, she wants to make space for local designers, including fellow New Haven Public Schools alum Tea Montgomery. Stacey Anderson, a longtime friend of Huckabey and her partner’s, tried on a pair of sneakers that looked as though they’d barely been worn. The first time she and Huckabey ever met, she remembered, the two had spoken about vintage clothing. Now she was back as an afternoon shopper, haloed as sunlight poured through the window. She kept one eye on a seethrough purse designed with faux-leather sunglasses and puckered, bright red lips. “I like unique pieces, because you’re not going to find that anywhere else,” she said, picking it up carefully, as if it might break. “That’s like a treasure.” Huckabey said she has one more reason for launching the shop: to honor her family, and continue that creative tradition that so nurtured her as a child. When she opens the door to the State Street storefront, she’s holding a history that has included Elnora’s Fashion House, her aunt’s modeling career, and Unique Boutique. “It’s my turn to keep telling that story,” she said as sunlight streamed through the window and made patterns on the floor. “Being that those are my ancestors, I want to keep the Huckabey name alive. We really can heal the community in different ways by creating safe spaces. That’s what I envision.” For Empath Vintage’s hours or make a shopping appointment, follow the store on Facebook or Instagram.

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Cicarella Slate Set For Teacher Union Vote by MAYA MCFADDEN

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOSMembers of Cicarella/DeLucia slate at Goodfellas campaign kick-off.

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at the two hour kick-off event. Cicarella argued that his string of election victories show “I’m effective at what I do. and the voters agree.” Over his past three-year terms, Cicarella has negotiated five contracts. He said his experience will be beneficial for upcoming contract negotiations that require “knowledge about the issues Covid continues to cause for all members.” If re-elected, Cicarella plans to negoti-

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first term during his 15 years in office. The slate’s seven new faces for this year’s election include: Jennifer WellsJackson, Kari Martin, Simone Minichino, David Minnella, Brian Grindrod, Delores Marshall, and Anthony Latella. Cicarella is running alongside current Vice President Pat DeLucia, who is uncontested for re-election. The slate members enjoyed an evening of conversation and a penne pasta dinner

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Dave Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, is looking to get re-elected next month with a slate of educators promising strength in continuity and experience to accomplish unfinished goals. Elections for the teachers union, Local 933, are upcoming. On Dec. 7, Cicarella will face yet another challenge for his sixth term in office. The Cicarella/DeLucia slate for the next three year-term gathered at State Street’s Goodfellas Restaurant Thursday afternoon to launch the campaign. Cicarella’s latest presidential challenger is Metropolitan Business Academy social studies teacher Leslie Blatteau who is running alongside a “Fighting For Our Future” slate focusing on democratic process, clear communication, and coalitionbuilding. The slate previously had its coming-out event at Bear’s Smokehouse. The Cicarella/DeLucia slate is made up of 24 educators whose nominations are scheduled to be approved by the current union e-board at its coming Tuesday monthly meeting. About one-third of the slate is made up of “fresh faces” who are not members of the current executive board. One-third of the candidates have run beside Cicarella since his first run in 2007. And one-third joined Cicarella at some point after his

ate to get teachers’ “working conditions settled,” he said. Cicarella recalled being elected president in 2007 and going through a huge learning curve. “Now is not the time for no experience. The relationships I’ve established will get things done, and that’s my plan,” he said. Cicarella has built relationships with the superintendent, the New Haven Public Schools central office, school principals,

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New App Allows Parents To Track Those Late School Buses by COURTNEY LUCIANA

As parents and students have adjusted getting back into the routine of in-person learning this year, bus driver shortages and delays have been causing confusion and disruption. A new app unveiled Friday can help. School officials gathered outside of Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School on Friday morning to introduce the launch of the app, called FirstView. The FirstView App allows parents to track the real-time arrival of their child’s school bus and gives parents direct access to the school bus route. The tool allows them to track their child’s bus 15 minutes out from arriving at the stop and five minutes after the bus leaves. Think of Uber’s GPS tracking system —but for school. There are currently 278 bus drivers working for the New Haven School District. According to the Director of Transportation Carl Jackson, the school system needs 301 drivers. Jackson said that the expectation is for all routes to be covered on the app; but with the lack of bus drivers, some routes might have to be combined. Jackson, who has been in the transportation business for 40 years, said he learned about the app from other school districts across the state and is hoping that it will

New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Iline P. Tracey and Director of Transportation Carl Jackson.

give parents some security about their child arriving to school on time. The app is free to both parents and the city. Jackson has slowly introduced the app to parents so that he can receive feedback. About 500 parents on average are now downloading the app everyday

as part of a pilot rollout. Jackson tested the app himself, he said, sitting at some of the bus stop locations. He said he has received mixed reviews; that has helped him to troubleshoot issues directly with the bus drivers . “So far, a lot of [parents] think it’s great,

and some of them had some problems tracking,” Jackson said. “Some of them have let me know when the bus has arrived too early.” The official rollout of the FirstView app for New Haven Public Schools will be this upcoming Monday.

Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey encouraged parents of New Haven’s 18,000 daily bus-riding children to download the app from the Apple app store or Google Play. “FirstView helps parents to manage the hectic time before and after school. Parents can use the app through their smartphone devices or a desktop,” Tracey said. “Of course, the app doesn’t solve all of our communication problems. Serious bus delays that are 45 minutes or longer will be reported to parents by the child’s school using email or text. Not the app.” Betsy Ross Magnet School has also piloted the FirstView app. Principal Jennifer Jenkins said that transportation is a key factor for parents deciding where their children attend school. Mayor Justin Elicker and his wife, Natalie, who are public school parents, have participated in the app rollout. With so much unpredictability in the system, the mayor said, they were struck by how a small tool made such a difference in their morning routine. “You have a ballpark idea of when the bus is coming. It’s accurate, and you can even show your kids the bus on the map and say, ‘The bus is almost here! We have to get your shoes on and get out the door right away.’ You’re not waiting out in the cold as long, and you’re way less likely to miss the bus.

Ribbon Cut At Kaiyden’s Coffee, As Wooster Square Gets Its Caffeine Fix Back by LISA REISMAN

Chidi Onukwugha, owner of Kaiyden’s Coffee, wanted to set the record straight. “The first thing I need to do is answer the question: ‘Are you Kaiyden?’” he told a spirited group of 25 neighbors, family members, and elected officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting Thursday outside Kaiyden’s Coffee, the Wooster Square shop he has opened at 595 Chapel St. “I am not Kaiyden,” said Onukwugha, 59, looking over at his 5-year-old grandniece, who was standing beside a giant pair of scissors, a sly grin on her face. That’s Kaiyden. “She is everything I am not,” he said. “She is beautiful, and she has a coffee shop named after her where she can get whatever she wants without having to pay for it.” Kaiyden’s offers traditional and specialty coffee with a focus on premium beans, which are sourced and roasted by Newington’s Saccuzzo Coffee Company, as well as an assortment of locally produced desserts. By all indications, it’s a welcome addition to the neighborhood — and not just because the area has been caffeinedeprived since Wooster Square Coffee

closed down last year. “It’s great for me,” said upstairs neighbor Blythe Bynum, who was ordering a dark roast coffee amid lively music in the mellow light of the space. “It’s convenient, obviously, and everything is local, and the coffee is amazing.” Onukwugha said he arrived in New Haven from Nigeria in the 1980s as a college student at Southern Connecticut State College. “I was intent on getting a degree and then traveling and moving on, and I’ve never left,” he said. Having worked in social services, he said, he started to consider opening a business a few years ago. “I’ve been here for over 35 years, which made New Haven my home. So naturally I wanted to give back to a city that has meant a lot to me, so it made the most sense to do it here,” he said. From the time he put up a “Coming Soon” sign, he said, “we have felt at home in this neighborhood, and everyone that I’ve met in the Wooster Square community has been warm and welcoming.” His plans include adding more local products (he currently gets his baked goods from Bread & Chocolate in Hamden); finding a local farm for the shop’s dairy products; and showcasing the work of local artists on the walls of his shop.

LISA REISMAN PHOTOSOwner Chidi Onukwugha, grandniece Ke’lani, mother-in-law Elsie D. Dixon, and grandniece Kaiyden make it official.

At Thursday’s ribbon-cutting, city economic development chief Michael Piscitelli (pictured) congratulated Onukwugha for creating “one of 50 new businesses that have opened in New Haven” in 2021. He contrasted the resurgence of local businesses with the slower recovery of the downtown office market. “What we’ve learned is that it’s the passion

behind these businesses, the craft, the personal connection, that makes them special places for people to go,” he said. “I’ve been at ribbon cutting after ribbon cutting over the past 22 months, and that’s an indication that New Haven has a very active entrepreneurial community with people that are willing not only to take a risk opening a shop but people who are willing to support local busi-

nesses,” Mayor Justin Elicker said. About the coffee, he said, “I’m a believer.” Pronouncing herself a “frequent flier,” Wooster Square Alder Ellen Cupo (pictured) expressed excitement about Kaiyden’s as “a place for people to come together, to have a cup of coffee, to get a scone or a muffin, and to get to know their neighbors.” State Rep. Roland Lemar, a neighbor of the shop, praised barista Maissie Musick for concocting “wonderful drinks” for his family to enjoy, particularly his son, who doesn’t drink coffee. He then turned to Onukwugha. “It takes incredible courage to open up, to spend your time, your money, your effort, incredible dedication and passion, to take a risk in this economy right now,” he said. Whether his early popularity index might be explained from the relief that comes after an 18-month-long absence of a local coffee shop is open to debate. “It’s about time,” someone said. “I was in severe withdrawal.” “I’d love for this to be a place for the community to gather. I’d love to be able to offer more employment to more people, and I’d love to be around for a nice, long time,” Onukwugha said, as little Kaiyden gazed up at him.

What, Ned Worry?

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Many Democrats nationwide woke up fretting Wednesday about their prospects in next year’s elections. But not Connecticut’s top Democrat expected to seek reelection, Gov. Ned Lamont. At least not based on Lamont’s answers at a press conference held in New Haven. Reporters asked Lamont about the impact of Tuesday’s night’s victory by a Republican challenger in Virginia’s governor’s race and a too-close-to-call governor’s race in an other blue state, New Jersey. Democrats nationwide interpreted those races — in states Joe Biden won comfortably in the 2020 presidential election — as warning signs for Democrats running next year. Republicans had the same interpretation. Here’s state GOP Chairman Ben Proto quoted in a release issued Wednesday: “The

election bodes well for a strong 2022 for Republicans. Last night’s election speaks to the overwhelming buyer’s remorse that is being felt nationally and right here in Connecticut. Fiscally and socially, Democrats are jamming their failing policies down people’s throats and Connecticut is waking up and pushing back. Democrats are shutting parents out of the decision-making process with their children’s health and education. Democrats are trying to levy a new gas tax on top of skyrocketing prices at the pump. Worst yet, Democrats are denying any increase to crime in Connecticut even though their own members are responsible for watering down the state criminal justice system and handcuffing law enforcement.” Proto also cited 20 municipal races in Connecticut where Republicans won previously-held Democratic offices. Lamont hasn’t officially announced yet that he’s running for reelection. But it’s taken as

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a given in political circles that he will, and no other Democrats have emerged to seek the gubernatorial nomination. At a a separate press conference held after the completion of this unrelated event held on Scranton Street, Lamont offered a shrug when asked if Democrats should be worried in Connecticut based on Tuesday night’s elections. “I don’t think so,” he responded. “I just think we had an election. I think probably Virginia and New Jersey were a little bit of a wake-up call.” He called Connecticut’s municipal results, which included wins by Democrats as well, “very local what is going on town by town. I think we’re fine. I think Connecticut thinks we’re in a pretty good place” with jobs and Covid. He was pressed specifically about the issue that most motivated Virginia voters: a rising conservative parents’ movement angry about mask requirements and the

teaching of “critical race studies” (shorthand for courses touching on slavery or racial discrimination, since that critical race studies doesn’t actually get taught in K-12 schools). Lamont noted that in the town where that issue sprang up most prominently in Connecticut — Guilford — a coalition of Democrats and independents beat back a Republican slate’s challenge for control of the Board of Education by a 2-1 margin. He called it “a good win” by people “defending their schools, defending their teachers, defending parental involvement and standing up for their schools.” “We have one of the best school systems in the country,” he added. As for New Jersey, “I think taxes were a big issue there. We’re a little different here in Connecticut. I’m the first governor in 30 years who didn’t raise taxes income taxes.”

PAUL BASS PHOTOLamont fields questions Wednesday on Scranton Street.

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Montessori Clinic Vaccinates 150 5-11 Year-Olds by LILLIAN PRICE & WINTER SZARABAJKA New Haven Independent

This story was submitted by Elm City Montessori seventh-graders Lillian Price & Winter Szarabajka. Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) Friday hosted one of the first Covid-19 vaccine clinics for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Many families with young children showed up from around New Haven, particularly Westville, hoping to receive their first dose of the vaccine. “I think it’s a great offering to families at Elm City Montessori and also to the broader community,” said Mira Debs, a member of the school’s board. Getting this vaccine will open more opportunities for families, such as traveling, hanging out with friends more, missing fewer days of school, and possibly getting your nails done. Zora, who is 5 years old, was shy when her turn came. Her mom said that they would love to play at more places after she gets vaccinated. The vaccines are a safe and effective way of preventing Covid-19 disease, especially severe illness, hospitalizations, and death. Vaccines also reduce the risk of spreading the virus that causes Covid-19. Because ECMS is one of the first schools in New Haven to promote the kids’ vaccine, we can spread the word and encourage other families to get vaccinated, and other schools might feel more motivated to host their own clinic.

LILLIAN PRICE PHOTOS Sixth-grader Samantha Braren getting her Covid-19 vaccine.

As ECMS magnet resource teacher David Weinreb, the organizer of this event put it, “It’s not just a personal health choice; it’s a public health one. ECMS will continue to offer grace, understanding, and patience as each family figures out their plan; we will continue to provide our children and their families with a clear message that vaccines are safe, effective, and best for our school community.” ECMS was first invited by the New Haven Health Department to hold the clinic. The department safely provides the vaccine for kids ages 5-11 by giving them the smaller dosage, approved by Pfizer, and using smaller needles. Though some kids were nervous, most present were excited to receive the vaccine, so they could feel safe. “I just feel like I’ll just be safer in general,” said sixth-grade student Haviland Hawthorne. Families and students inside and outside the school community were notified of the event by teachers, friends, and the school’s faculty and staff. Parents spread the word by corresponding with each other, and in the end, over 150 children were vaccinated. Every day families entrust schools to keep their children safe, and to help them learn and grow. This children’s Covid-19 vaccine clinic is just the beginning. We are asking families to seriously consider how they can take action and protect their children’s health, and the community they are involved in.

Elicker Picks Dominguez For Permanent Police Chief by PAUL BASS & TOM BREEN Mayor Justin Elicker has decided he wants Renee Dominguez to serve as the city’s first-ever female permanent police chief. And he tapped an ex-marine and state trooper to serve as a top City Hall aide overseeing public safety. The mayor announced those choices at an 11 a.m. City Hall press conference Wednesday. Elicker tapped Dominguez earlier this year to serve as interim chief upon the retirement of Chief Otoniel Reyes. He will now forward Dominguez’s name to to the Board of Alders, who would have to confirm her appointment for a full fouryear term starting in January. Based on her performance in the interim role, the mayor chose not to heed suggestions to conduct a search process for a new permanent chief. Elicker also named a new pick for chief administrative officer, one of the top “coordinator” positions in City Hall, overseeing line departments like police, fire, and public works: Regina Rush-Kittle. A military veteran, Rush-Kittle has served

Police and firefighters cheer on the new appointments at City Hall.

as deputy commissioner of the state Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. She served for 30 years in the state police department before retiring, and she served in Iraq. Her appointment also requires approval from the Board of Alders. The CAO position has been vacant since Scott Jackson re-

signed from the role in January. At the press conference, the mayor called both picks “extraordinary women” and “incredibly experienced leaders” in public safety. “We are going to be a powerhouse of females,” Dominguez said of her and Rush-Kittle’s appointments.

As interim chief, Dominguez has worked with Elicker to hold weekly press conferences updating the public on efforts to stem gun violence amid an uptick in shootings. Dominguez has run the department “with passion and determination ... through some very tough times” this year, Elicker said. “Chief Dominguez has proved herself as a strong leader and the right person for the job.” Dominguez has risen through the ranks since joining the force in 2002. Since her appointment as interim chief, the department lost a series of cops of colors to retirements in top posts. For the first time since 1994, the department has no Black cops in any of the top ranks of chief, assistant chief, or captain. The department undertook an aggressive recruiting campaign for its new training class for new officers, and reported receiving a majority of applications from people of color. If confirmed by the alders, Dominguez will become the city’s first female permanent chief, as well as the first of any

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room because the former Q House also did. “They say the Q House is the Q House because of the cue sticks for the pool table,” she said. “It’s not a Q House without the pool table,” The game room also has an arcade game machine, ping pong table, and foosball table, per Fernandez’s special request. “We used to get out of school and go to the arcade,” Morrison. “We want to pay homage to our roots.” Also rooted in the Dixwell community is dance. Morrison recalled several dance academies and studios throughout Dixwell when the former Q House was operating. This led to the creation of a dance studio in the new building. “To have dance in this building you’re supposed to, because we had dance on Dixwell,” Morrison said. Dance lessons of all types will be taught to the community, including capoeira. The dance studio overlooks the center’s grassy courtyard and paved space known as the Daniel Stewart Plaza, which will host farmers markets and local vendor pop-up shops. “We can even provide the space in our kitchen for businesses to prepare their food,” Fernandez said. Fernandez and Morrison have an upcoming meeting with the family of the late Daniel Stewart to discuss how to continue commemorating his legacy. The youth educational organization Sportsometry made use of the courtyard Wednesday. A net was set up for a lesson in which youth learned fractions while playing volleyball. The senior center is equipped with a kitchen space and outdoor balcony overlooking East Rock. Fernandez plans to look into selling seats for the outdoor space during the Fourth of July for viewing of the holiday fireworks. “We want to be able to take less and less from the city and make our own revenue,” Morrison said. The center also plans to partner with local Dixwell churches and its neighbor Wexler Grant School for rental space and community programming. “The goal is to create something bigger than any of our entities can do on our own,” Fernandez said. The final wing of the new Q includes a two-floor library equipped with an innovation studio, teen discovery lounge, reading lounge, computer area, and maker space. The relocated Stetson Library will be housed within the Q House after becoming the Dixwell community space for all types of programming when the Q House closed in 2003, Morrison said. “They took on almost everything that the Q House had so the community wouldn’t go without,” Morrison said. “Now we’re extending our arms wide open to them.” The library, although not yet completely furnished Wednesday, includes a tutoring room and projectors for movie nights.

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Neighbors: Would Playground Be Safe? by LAURA GLESBY

New Haven Independent

An overgrown Newhallville lot might become a playground, with springing bumblebee seats, a log-shaped tunnel, and mushroom stepping stones. But when the city presented these plans to the neighbors, parents and grandparents balked. The park looks well-designed, they said, but would their children be safe? The park would be located at a vacant city-owned lot at 506 Winchester Ave., currently filled with tall grass, spots of litter, and a fallen wire. At the moment, the lot is bounded by a building on either side, one of which sports a fading mural of various athletes, and a set of concrete barricades beside a do-not-trespass sign. Cathy Schroeter, deputy director of the city’s anti-blight Livable City Initiative (LCI), packed environment-themed ideas into a presentation about the playground during the most recent virtual monthly meeting of the Newhallville Community Management Team. Her proposal included a playscape with monkey bars, a two to three-bay swing set including infant and Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant swings, tree-stump and mushroom stepping stones, a log-shaped “crawlspace,” bumblebee rocking chairs, and a rock wall. She also suggested two sets of benches, a time-locked metal gate at the front of the park, and a fence in the back with a mural painted by a local artist. Amid a rise in gun violence that has deeply affected Newhallville in the wake of the pandemic, neighbors shared anxiety over how they could prioritize their kids’ safety while providing opportunities for fun. Both at the management team meeting and in interviews near the park, residents expressed particular concern that the playground would be right next to the Taurus B Cafe, a bar known to neighbors as a site of rowdy activity, along with a nearby liquor store. At the management team meeting, Newhallville resident and educator Claudine Wilkins-Chambers told Schroeter, “I have a little boy, and I wouldn’t bring him to that park. … It is just too close to the bar. It will be a beautiful park, but how many people will be comfortable enough to use it?” “There’s always a group of people drinking liquor and hanging out there. Hopefully they won’t move into this park where kids should be. I just hope they don’t take over the park,” WilkinsChambers added/ Community activist Shirley Lawrence connected safety concerns about the bar to the continuous trauma from violence in the neighborhood. “We don’t want our kids going to the park if someone just got murdered in the wee hours of the morning,” she said. “You don’t want them

Raegan Ferrell, pictured, has ideas for a possible new playground.

playing where there’s a bloodstained sidewalk.” Elizabeth Knight, the management team’s secretary, agreed: “Our kids are already subject to enough in Newhallville. And to put them next to a bar, we don’t have more value on their life than that?” Schroeter said she had worked with Alders Steve Winter and Kim Edwards to source community input for the project’s early sketches. Winter, whose ward includes the lot in question, said that families on the streets bordering the park had expressed excitement about the possibility of a playground there: “Talking to people who live near what’s supposed to be the park, they’re very excited about it, particularly the ones with kids. They want a place for the kids to play.” He said he spoke to kids themselves to get feedback on the park proposal and design. “In talking to kids about it in the neighborhood, they were also really excited and really pushed for the monkey bars.” Winter suggested that the bar’s owner might be receptive to feedback about how to keep the block safe for children. He noted that the complaints he has received about the bar have mostly involved noise in the middle of the night, whereas the playground would close at sunset. Kim Harris, the management team’s chair and the co-director of local preschool Harris and Tucker, supported reaching out to the bar’s owner. She said that Harris and Tucker is also located right by a bar. Because of her relationship with the establishment’s owner, the bar doesn’t open until her preschool’s activities are done for the day. That kind of collaboration should be a prerequisite for having any kind of play space on the lot, Harris stressed, urging the city to take neighbors’ concerns seriously. “It’s not about what’s in the park — it’s

beautiful. This is a beautiful park,” she said. But the safety concerns aren’t minor. “It’s not just the bar, it’s the liquor store, it’s the park right next to the liquor store. It’s a day thing, it’s a night thing. We need to … have conversations around how we can make this a safe place for our kids.” Responding to neighbors’ concerns, Schroeter suggested that Newhallville residents with pre-existing relationships with the bar’s owner initiate a conversation about the block’s safety. She also said she would be in touch with the police department about the issue. “I can only think we can all live in the same community and do positive things,” Schroeter said. “I would hate to not do a positive thing” because of the lot’s location. Several days after the meeting, Larry Livingston, who owns the Taurus bar and also lives right next to the proposed park, said he hadn’t heard about plans to build a playground at the lot. He said he had tried to purchase the lot years ago, hoping to use it for parking for both customers and community members. He said that parking is sometimes difficult to find in the area, especially on snowy days and during street sweeping hours. “I’m with the neighbors on this one,” Livingston said. “There shouldn’t be no playground here.” He expressed concern that the playground would become a “hangout spot” attracting more negative activity to the block. On Friday afternoon, Newhallvillebased parent Christopher Grady and his 4-year-old, Amariah Moye, strolled by the Winchester Avenue lot on their way to Con’t on page 17

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Gazebo Government Delivers An Answer by PAUL BASS

The people who run Brenda Olmedo’s government came to a park near her home to hear how to do better. Olmedo was ready with a four-year-old complaint. The occasion was a “Meet the Mayor” event held after sundown Tuesday in the Edgewood Park gazebo. Some mobile lighting, courtesy of the NHFD, illuminated the premises like a 1950s sci-fi movie set as the first officials gathered and prepared for the crowd. Mayor Justin Elicker brought with him to the event top officials and neighborhood representatives from his parks and public works, economic development, police, engineering, and anti-blight agencies to meet one on one with Edgewood, Beaver Hills, and Westville neighbors at different tables. He told the crowd he hopes to connect government more with people at the grassroots and make it more responsive in his upcoming second two-year term. The mayor is pictured above hearing from one neighbor about tree roots buckling and cracking sidewalks along Edgewood Avenue by Edgewood School. Brenda Olmedo headed first to the table captained by Livable City Initiative (LCI) Acting Director Arlevia Samuel, Deputy Director Mark Wilson, and new LCI neighborhood rep Raymond Jackson. “People keep crossing the street,” Olmedo reported, “and I can’t see them.” Olmedo lives on Whittlesey Street, off Whalley Avenue. She works in the financial department for Achievement First schools. Since moving here from California four years ago, she has had trouble getting used to the lack of street lighting in her neighborhood. She finds it hard to drive after dark. “I can’t even go to the corner store. It doesn’t feel safe.” Does the city have any plans to improve lighting? she asked. The LCI team heard her out, took down information — then directed her to the

PAUL BASS PHOTOLCI’s Arlevia Samuel, Mark WIlson, and Raymond Jackson hear Brenda Olmedo’s concerns Tuesday evening in the Edgewood Park gazebo.

head of public works, Jeff Pescosolido, at a nearby table. Meanwhile, Lakiya Nichols was telling Deputy Economic Development Administrator Carlos Eyzaguirre about cracked sidewalks on her block of Davis Street. Eyzaguirre took down her contact information and promised to come take a look. “I’m your neighbor!” Eyzaguirre, who lives in Westville, told her as she moved on. Nichols said she found the city official “very approachable, very friendly.” “I wasn’t looking for guarantees,” she said. “I felt heard.” Over at Table Pescosolido, Brenda Olmedo, now joined by Sergio Olmedo Ramirez, waited patiently while another neighbor pressed the public works chief for 10 minutes on a street-safety issue. Finally, her turn came. “I’m driving anywhere after 5, and peo-

ple are crossing the street — I can’t see them,” she said. “There seems to be no safety.” Pescosolido listened, then informed Olmedo that she had again come to the wrong table: City Engineer Giovanni Zinn is working on street lighting. But the stop wasn’t in vain. Ramirez told Pescosolido about pothole problems in their neighborhood. Pescosolido said this season’s permanent pothole patching program is coming to an end because of cold weather. But he took the information and said he’d see about a temporary patch to carry over into the spring. Another Davis Street neighbor, Dessara Bryant, was looking to speak to both officials and other citizens about the issue on her mind: easements. She noted that property owners are often confused about who’s responsible for maintaining commonly used spits of land adjoining multiple homes. Some easements have been

handed down for a century, and some property owners don’t live in the neighborhood. So on her block, for instance, a commonly used piece of turf has become “raggedy.” But no one’s sure who’s responsible for paving it. “It would make sense to have everyone pave it together,” she said. LCI said it lacks jurisdiction to handle the matter, so she should take the initiative, she said. She plans to follow up with her neighbors — and would like to see the issue discussed more broadly citywide. Over at Giovanni Zinn’s table, Brenda Olmedo again waited her turn. She was third in line. This line moved faster. “I’m driving around. I can’t see people crossing the street. I want to hear what the plans are” to improve lighting, she told Zinn. He’s working on several plans, Zinn responded.

For starters, the city is replacing LED streetlights it put up some years ago. So that should bring some quick improvement, he said. He’s also overseeing a $5.5 million Whalley Avenue corridor improvement plan focused on pedestrian and cyclist safety. Lighting’s a big part of that, he said. The plan is progressing, and the city plans to install 12-foot-tall “pedestrian lights” along the avenue, along with raised intersections and improved crossings. However, it’s doing so only on the stretch of Whalley it controls — from the Boulevard to downtown. Whittlesey, Olmedo’s corner, is two blocks in the other direction, right past another treacherous intersection, with Blake. The state controls that stretch. Zinn said he does have a meeting scheduled with the state Department of Transportation in a few months to discuss improving safety on that stretch. He’ll then report to the neighborhood on next steps. So plans are in the works. But they could take a few years. Olmedo spoke about how in California, the government inserted reflective pieces in the road to help illuminate the night. She said she’d been told that New Haven can’t do that because snowplows break them. Zinn said that’s true, but the city’s traffic and parking department is using reflective signs and fresh road markings with glass beads. Zinn took her contact information and promised to follow up. Afterwards, Olmedo said she felt she did receive “good answers.” “It’s still a short-term fix. The project seems to be a long time. The lighting has been horrible for years,” she said. On the other hand, the replacement of the LED streetlights should help. And she enjoyed learning who’s who in her local government. “At least I know,” she said, “who to bug now.”

GCC Foundation Honors Rosa L. DeLauro with Inaugural Gateway Lion Award The Gateway Community College Foundation recently inaugurated a new “Gateway Lion Award for Outstanding Activism on Behalf of Students,” which was presented to Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro, for her unwavering dedication to Gateway students, for community colleges, and for residents throughout her Congressional District and beyond. The new award has been established as Gateway marks 30 years in the New Haven community and 10 years in downtown New Haven this year. The Congresswoman was celebrated during an October 29 reception in her honor as part of the Gateway Community College Annual Hall of Fame event, which honors local heroes for their community service. “As we thought about the criteria, and

those who have been relentless advocates for our students, Rosa’s name immediately came to mind,” said GCC Foundation Board Chair Helene A. Augustine. “She is someone who year in and year out, for the entirety of her career, has been an effective ally and advocate for our students, for our College, and for higher education.” Rosa L. DeLauro, who represents Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes New Haven and the surrounding area, was touted for her support of college students through increased Pell Grants and childcare initiatives that support parents seeking to complete a college degree to improve their lives and the lives of their families. “It is entirely fitting that the “Lion” Award

is inaugurated in her honor,” said Gateway CEO, William “Terry” Brown. “She is the leader of the pack when it comes to her constituents, and I can say with full confidence that we are proud to be in her pride!” The Gateway Community College Foundation’s annual Hall of Fame event is the largest source of academic and technology scholarship dollars raised each year to support Gateway students. Many Gateway students, in addition to pursuing academic credentials, are frontline workers who have been directly impacted by the past year and a half. Co-Chaired by Ruby H. Melton and LaKisha Jordan, the 2021 Hall of Fame continues with virtual activities through mid-November. Details at www. gatewayfdn.org/hall-of-fame-2021.

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American Cancer Society and Four Historically Black Colleges and Universities Announce

Groundbreaking Diversity in Cancer Research Program to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion NNPA Newswire

The American Cancer Society (ACS), along with four historically black medical schools including Charles Drew Medical School, Howard University, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine, announced a groundbreaking Diversity in Cancer Research (DICR) Program to help improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the cancer research field. The inaugural initiatives of the overarching program include DICR Institutional Development Grants. The four HBCUs have received DICR grants in a pilot program for 2021-2022. The awards provided through the DICR program are unique in cancer research. They provide a large amount of salary support for the four colleges to select clinical faculty who need more dedicated time for their cancer research and scholarly activities. They also fund other student and postdoctoral programs and underpin the awards with career development funds and mentorship by established American Cancer Society Professors. The grants will build sustainability for both clinical and scientific cancerfocused careers, launching or sustaining the careers of 104 individuals by 2025. The impactful program will create a more inclusive research environment to address health disparities more effectively and could lead to targeted recruitment efforts focused on bringing people of color into clinical research protocols. Establishing a research community that is made up of a diverse group of people is vital to ensuring scientific excellence. “The American Cancer Society is com-

mitted to launching the brightest minds into cancer research and to reducing health disparities,” said Dr. William Cance, American Cancer Society Chief Medical and Scientific Officer. “To accomplish this, we believe it is essential to invest in the minority workforce and their dedicated efforts to solve disparities and establish equity in cancer care.” “There are many reasons the Black community continues to experience disparities in cancer care outcomes. But one of the most critical factors behind the imbalance, and one of the most promising paths to closing the gap, is diversity in cancer care research. We must improve diversity and representation in our laboratories if we expect different outcomes in our hospitals,” said Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, president of Howard University. “As a cancer surgeon and as the president of an HBCU, I believe the Diversity in Cancer Research Program will prove to be pivotal in altering the field of cancer care research and improving cancer care outcomes for Black Americans. I am deeply appreciative of the American Cancer Society’s efforts behind this initiative.” Data show that African Americans and Black people, Hispanics and Latinos, indigenous people and native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders are underrepresented in grant funding. Fewer than 2% of applicants for the National Institute of Health’s principal grant program come from Black/African Americans, and fewer than 4% from Hispanic/Latino populations. “We are incredibly excited about this new program with the American Cancer Society,” said Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., MD, President and CEO of Meharry Medical College.

“There is a significant imbalance in the representation of minority populations in clinical research which has led to poorer outcomes for specific racial and ethnic minority groups. To eradicate the varying health disparities that affect these populations, we must prioritize diversifying clinical trials and those who conduct trials to ensure treatment is safe and effective.” This is a fantastic step to ensuring minority populations receive effective treatment and provides great opportunities for our students and faculty to engage in cancer research,” Dr. Hildreth stated.

“The development of diverse, highly competitive, and independent research faculty has been a goal at CDU since its inception 55 years ago,” shared Dr. David M. Carlisle, President and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, located in South Los Angeles. “This generous grant from the American Cancer Society will directly support a range of programs towards that goal, including the Center to Eliminate Cancer Health Disparities as well as our Clinical Research and Career Development Program, which provides training and

mentoring in health disparities and community-partnered participatory research to minority scholars and junior faculty at CDU. This funding will undeniably help CDU in forming a solid foundation in social justice for future cancer research leaders.” With the DICR program, ACS has committed to a $12 million investment to support four HBCU medical schools with DICR institutional development grants to fund a four-year program that aims to increase the pool of minority cancer researchers by identifying talented students and faculty from HBCUs. This program will inform efforts to develop a national program to boost cancer research and career development at minority-serving institutions (MSIs). These grants are designed to build capacity and enhance the competitiveness of faculty at MSIs when applying for nationally competitive grant support and aid in faculty development and retention. “Here in Georgia, cancer health disparities exist by age, gender, race, income, education, and access to care, among other factors, with Georgia residents in rural communities experiencing worse cancer health outcomes than their urban counterparts,” said Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, president and CEO at Morehouse School of Medicine. “The DICR program will be a muchneeded and welcome contribution to our work at the Morehouse School of Medicine Cancer Health Equity Institute, forever changing the field of cancer research. The program will not only ensure diversity and inclusion in research, but address health disparities in diverse communities, and assist in our mission in leading the creation and advancement of health equity.”

Senate Republicans Again Shoot Down John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Pouring salt on wounded Democrats, Senate Republicans on Wednesday, November 3, again blocked the latest efforts to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill aims to quash voter suppression and the repression laws enacted in GOPled states like Texas and Georgia. Named after the late Congressman John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat who spent his life fighting for civil and equal rights, the bill has overwhelming public support. Because of the Jim Crow-inspired filibuster rule, Democrats need the party’s 50 Senators and at least 10 Republicans to pass the measure. “I will be among those who vote to begin debate on this measure when we have this vote,” Republican Sen. Lisa Markowski

of Alaska said. “I will do so because I strongly support and I believe that Congress should enact a bipartisan, re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act.” But her GOP colleagues differ. “This is a Trojan horse to carry a lot of other provisions that the Democrats had wanted to enact through the earlier voting rights bill that we’ve already considered and rejected,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) stated. “Clearly they want to change the subject away from how the American people feel about this administration, about the reckless tax and spending bill onto a non-existent problem with this marching out of the John Lewis voting rights act,” McConnell related, failing to acknowledge that Democrats had attempted to pass the vot-

ing rights act since before President Joe Biden won the 2020 election over Donald Trump. The measure’s defeat came as Democrats attempted to regroup after the party’s catastrophic loss in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Upstart Glenn Youngkin trounced Democratic incumbent Terry McAuliffe in that race. Also, in New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy continues to hope he holds onto his razor-thin lead against Republican Jack Ciattarelli. As of 3 p.m. Wednesday, Murphy held a 49.9 percent to 49.3 percent lead, with 86 percent of the vote counted. Unless Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona soften their stand against altering or ridding the filibuster rule, there’s virtually no chance any bill would pass that aims to curb voter suppression.

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced the latest Senate version of the legislation. In addition, Sen. Leahy, Sens. Manchin, Murkowski, and Dick Durbin of Illinois released a compromise version of the John Lewis Voting Rights bill that appeared to gain momentum in the chamber. However, after the GOP’s Election Night victories, Republicans have little appetite to go through with the bill. The measure’s defeat came as Democrats attempted to regroup after the party’s catastrophic loss in the Virginia gubernatorial race. (Photo: Rep. John Lewis, Supreme Court news conference to call for the reversal of President Trump’s travel ban on refugees and immigrants from several Middle East countries. / Laurie Shaull / Wikimedia Commons)

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HBO Documentary Series BLACK AND MISSING, Spotlights the Black and Missing Foundation’s Commitment to Locating Missing Persons of Color By NNPA Newswire The four-part documentary series BLACK AND MISSING, by multiple Emmy winner Geeta Gandbhir and award-winning documentarian, journalist, author, and activist Soledad O’Brien, follows sisters-in-law and Black and Missing Foundation founders Derrica and Natalie Wilson as they fight an uphill battle to bring awareness to the Black missing persons cases that are marginalized by law enforcement and national media. The series, which was three years in the making, takes on new urgency given the renewed national conversation on “missing White woman syndrome.” BLACK AND MISSING debuts back-to-

back episodes TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 (8:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with the final two episodes airing back-to-back on Wednesday, November 24 at the same time. All four episodes of the series will debut on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. Haunted by these stories of vanished loved ones and driven by the need for attention and assistance for these forgotten women, former law enforcement officer Derrica and public relations expert Natalie operate a grassroots organization that raises awareness in communities, alerts media outlets to the plight of thousands of women and children and urges police departments to allocate more resources to this scourge. Cases of missing Black people remain unresolved four times longer than those of White people. BLACK AND MISSING pulls back the curtain to explore how systemic behaviors and attitudes stem from centuries of deeply rooted racism. The series also exposes the stark disparity in the media coverage of White and Black missing persons. This intimate look at Derrica and Natalie’s personal crusade to locate missing

Black people also highlights stories of hope and closure as the Black and Missing Foundation contributes to the resolution of several high-profile missing persons cases. The Black and Missing Foundation works in several ways to change the narrative surrounding missing Black people, providing volunteers for work on the ground, and serving as an important advocacy platform to help bring these stories to light.

By keeping these stories and the missing in the news media, Derrica and Natalie put increased pressure on police departments to keep cases open and active. BLACK AND MISSING includes wrenching testimony from the families and loved ones of missing women, from activists and volunteers with their own stories of loss to law officers and historians with first-hand experience in this field. Participants include John Walsh, Founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Dr. Renee Murrell, FBI victim specialist; Glenn Kirschner, former Assistant D.A.; Debra Sines, former Assistant U.S. Attorney; Thomas Stack, Baltimore Head of Trafficking; T.J. Smith, Baltimore Chief of Police. HBO Documentary Films’ presents a SO’B Production BLACK AND MISSING, directed by Geeta Gandbhir, Nadia Hallgren, Samantha Knowles and Yoruba Richen; supervising producer, Julie Anderson; executive producers, Soledad O’Brien, Geeta Gandbhir, Jo Honig and Patrick Conway. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller and Sara Rodriguez.

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you. God Bless You. This is more than deserved. Let us continue to celebrate all of your accomplishments and your influence forever. We love you so much, Missy. Congratulations.” The “Work It” hitmaker acknowledged that she’s had to overcome “many obstacles” in her career, and admitted she is “humbly grateful” to be bestowed with the highest honor in Hollywood. Missy wrote on Instagram: “I am so Humbly Grateful #hollywoodwalkoffame.” “I’ve had to climb over many obstacles & I have been through a lot…but through the grace of God I never gave up even when times have been tough I have FOUGHT!” Missy was also joined by her “1,2 Step” and “Lose Control” collaborator Ciara at the induction. Hollywood Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez said: “Missy Elliott has broken through the barriers of the male-dominated Hip-Hop world, and the music industry as a whole, as she has led the way for many women who have followed in her footsteps. She continues to break barriers year after year and we’re thrilled to be able to honor her on the Walk of Fame.” This article originally appeared in RollingOut.com.

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Defendants in Ahmaud Arbery Case Say Slavery-Era Law Enabled Them to Arrest, Shoot Black Man By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent In Georgia, defense attorneys are making the case that the three white men involved in killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, were justified by a Civil War-era law instituted to catch runaway slaves. Travis McMichael, 35, his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, plans to defend their actions by claiming they were making a citizens’ arrest that went awry only after Arbery resisted. When the trio killed Arbery on February 23, 2020, Georgia law allowed almost anyone to arrest another citizen if “they had reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion” that a suspect had committed a felony. The state overturned the statute after Arbery’s murder. Lawmakers introduced and passed the original code in 1863 to capture slaves who had escaped from plantations in the South. “They are going to use this law because it wasn’t repealed until after Ahmaud Arbery was killed by the McMichael family, and I am not sure we’re going to have the justice that we should,” said Shirley James, publisher of the Savannah Tribune in Georgia. James said Georgia also employs the

Stand-Your-Ground law that allows citizens to use deadly force when confronted with life-or-death situations. “The thing that happens a lot, even with George Floyd and a lot of our African Americans who have been unjustly murdered, the victim becomes the criminal,” James remarked. “They are looking at Arbery’s life and he’s deceased and can’t defend himself.” She added that very few people of color

are among the 1,000 prospective jurors, and Glynn County, where the trial will occur, counts as a mostly white area. “I don’t think in that county that you will find the kind of objectivity that you need,” James demurred. “When you think of the mindset of the things going on now with people so free to speak out in reference to their discriminatory attitudes, they have about us …” Recent reports suggest that many U.S.

states still have laws that allow for citizens to make arrests. Chris Slobogin, a law professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, told Reuters News Service that citizen’s arrest laws put dangerous powers in untrained hands. “Things can get out of control quickly,” he said. Roddy Bryan’s lawyer, Kevin Gough, told reporters earlier this month that the “Citi-

zen’s arrest is a big part of our case, a big part.” Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington, wrote in an academic paper that many states’ citizen’s arrest laws are broad. In California, for example, someone can arrest an individual for a felony if the person has probable cause to believe it was committed. “While recruiting citizens to aid in eradicating crime is a noble idea,” Robbins wrote, according to Reuters, “strict safeguards are needed to prevent the law being abused.” New York state has the strictest law, holding residents liable for false arrest if no crime was committed, even if they had a reasonable belief, “leaving no room for mistakes,” Robbins continued. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp repealed the law, he said Arbery was “the victim of vigilante-style violence that has no place in Georgia” and that the statute was “ripe for abuse.” The ACLU’s Georgia chapter said, “the old law was an example of systemic racism and empowered mobs that lynched Black people in more than 500 recorded cases in Georgia between 1882 and 1968.” The trial of the McMichael family and Bryan is scheduled to begin on February 7, 2022.

Fighting the Cycle of Violence with Stipends and Mentorships By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

More than 117,000 people are shot in America annually, and gun homicides disproportionately are concentrated in urban areas, particularly in impoverished and underserved communities of color. According to officials at Advance Peace, a program that provides mentoring, job training, and a $1,000 per month stipend to participants, such neighborhoods often are plagued by homicide rates on par with warzones. “Frequently, both public and communitybased systems of care fall short in their efforts to provide responsive opportunities and resources to those most involved with and affected by urban gun violence,” officials at the program wrote. “Because those who are suspected of gun crimes in urban communities have often already been failed by the available systems of care, those who need the services most are least likely to trust the systems that provide them.” A recent example of how the program works centered on 17-year-old Devrick Hill, arrested for allegedly firing multiple weapons out of a car in a fight with gang members. Advance Peace change agents recruited Hill for the program to help to turn his life around. The program seeks to steer vulnerable individuals like Hill away from violence. It provides participants as much as $1,000

each month to meet anti-violence goals like completing classes or acquiring a job. The Wall Street Journal reported that Advance Peace’s fellowship program is now running or set to launch soon in nine cities, including Rochester, N.Y.; Fort Worth, Texas; and Fresno and Sacramento, Calif. Another 18 cities are using elements of the program, according to Advance Peace and law-enforcement officials. “I know a lot of people who got allowances growing up. I know a lot of people who got a little extra dough when they did well in school,” DeVone Boggan, chief executive of Advance Peace, told the newspaper.

“These guys haven’t had a childhood.” The publication reported that Boggan founded the program more than a decade ago in the Bay Area city of Richmond, Calif., to address a growing murder rate. “He hired former gang members and excons to identify and mentor young men who had spent time behind bars for shootings, had been shot themselves, or suspected in recent shootings,” the report’s author wrote. In the first five years of the program, 94 percent of the 68 fellows were alive, 79 percent hadn’t been arrested or on gun-related charges, and 60 percent had received

monetary incentives, according to an evaluation by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a nonprofit research group. Jason Corburn, a University of California, Berkeley professor who has evaluated the group’s work in Sacramento and Stockton, Calif., noted in the article that throughout an 18-month Advance Peace fellowship, less than $20,000 is typically spent on a cohort of 30 to 50 individuals and an average of 20 to 50 shootings are prevented. “If you were an economist, you’d say that’s a great return on investment,” he said. Advance Peace officials noted that its program interrupts gun violence in “American urban neighborhoods by providing transformational opportunities to young men involved in lethal firearm offenses and placing them in a high-touch, personalized fellowship – the Peacemaker Fellowship.” Officials wrote that Advance Peace bridges the gap between anti-violence programming by working with and supporting a targeted group of individuals at the core of gun hostilities. They also work with a hard-to-reach population at the center of violence in urban areas, thus breaking the cycle of gun hostilities and altering the trajectory of these men’s lives. Advance Peace works with public and community-based stakeholders to establish responsive community-driven strategies that achieve high-impact outcomes for those caught in the cycle of urban gun violence. Julius Thibodeaux, program manager of

Advance Peace Sacramento, and his team of neighborhood change agents co-authored a blog detailing the importance of Advance Peace. “What we used to hear, and our young boys today hear too often, is: ‘Be a man, you little punk. Quit crying and be a man. Wipe those tears and shut up before I give you something to cry for,” Thibodeaux asserted. “Yet he’s only four years old. Even if he can afford to go to the doctor when he gets older, he probably won’t. We’ve been conditioned to be tough. To suppress our pain and hide our emotions. All this combines to damage our immune system and our brain’s ability to make healthy choices. It’s no wonder we are suffering from dual epidemics: gun violence and coronavirus,” he explained. The group of change agents led by Thibodeaux insisted that the goal remains to offer “real nutrition” to the community, which they define as daily doses of love, caring, and support. “We work to boost the immune systems of those traumatized and at the center of gun violence through healthy food and housing, but also through stable mentorship,” the agents declared. “We are breaking the cycle of a response to trauma that says, ‘I don’t give a [damn]’ to a healing approach that treats our most vulnerable to get to a place where they say, ‘Maybe I do.’” No juvenile has lost life because of gun violence in Sacramento over the past two

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Police Overhaul Ballot Measure Fails in Minneapolis; Residents in Other Cities Also Explore Reforms By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Voters in Minneapolis narrowly defeated a ballot measure to replace their police department. If passed, the measure would have reformed how policing is done in the city where George Floyd was murdered in 2020. Needing 51 percent of the vote, Question 2 – as it was known – failed by a 57 percent to 44 percent vote. An affirmative vote would have created a Department of Public Safety with violence interrupters, social service workers, and mental health professionals accompanying law enforcement on certain calls. The mayor and the 13-person city council would have oversight of the department. “I think the vote had more to do with city council than it did police reform,” said Michelle Gross, the president of Citizens United Against Police Brutality. “Several city council members were voted out [Tuesday], and there wasn’t much clarity on what this would actually mean,” Gross stated. Al McFarlane, publisher of Insight News, said voters turned out in record numbers. “This is still a response to the murder of George Floyd,” McFarlane stated. The most prominent supporter of the measure were groups like Yes 4 Minne-

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pick up Grady’s other kids from school. “You definitely gotta move that bar,” Grady said immediately when asked about the park. “Other than that, I’d use it,” he said. “If you put something positive there, that’s more positive in the area.” Grady, who lives near Lincoln Bassett School, said his kids usually play at the playground adjacent to the elementary school — although, he added, “if anything, it needs to be done over.” Grady and Amariah both suggested including a seesaw if the park goes through. “What else do you want in the park?” Grady asked Amariah. “Everything,” Amariah said with a confident nod. Later that afternoon, 8-year-old Raegan Ferrell bubbled with excitement when she learned about the possibility of a playground at the Winchester Avenue lot. She rattled off a list of ideas for the city to include in the playground. “Can I have swings, and slides?” she asked. Raegan listed other ideas, with the help of her family — monkey bars, rock climbing, a seesaw, a sandbox — before continuing to skip down the rest of the block.

apolis, a coalition of more than 100 organizations and businesses including the ACLU of Minnesota, Take Action MN, Showing Up For Racial Justice, and Reclaim The Block. Organizers for Yes 4 Minneapolis have said the overall goal is to reduce police officers’ role in calls involving homeless individuals, mental health issues, and substance abuse. “This amendment would create a Department of Public Safety combining public safety functions through a comprehensive public health approach to be determined by the Mayor and Council,” JaNaé Bates, a spokeswoman for Yes 4 Minneapolis, wrote in a statement. “The department would be led by a commissioner nominated by the mayor and appointed by the Council. The Police Department, and its chief, would be removed from the City Charter. The Public Safety Department could include police officers, but the minimum funding requirement would be eliminated.” Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and Attorney General Keith Ellison, who successfully prosecuted Chauvin, expressed support for the ballot measure. However, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. Tim Walz, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, all Democrats, publicly opposed the

sonalities or people,” Yes 4 Minneapolis officials wrote in a fact sheet. “By voting Yes, you are voting for a funded, accountable, and expanded Department of Public Safety. This means police are working with qualified professionals, like mental health responders and social workers, to make all our communities safer.” Minneapolis wasn’t the only city with police reform on the ballot. Voters in Austin, Texas rejected Proposition A, a measure to establish minimum police staffing and increased the number of police officers on duty. measure. “Do you want to let go of what you know is not great, but you know it? Or reach for something that’s uncertain because it’s in the future, and we haven’t done it yet? I’m saying: Let’s have some hope that we can figure this out together as a community. Let’s try something different,” Ellison stated. The Attorney General pointed to police departments like Newark and Camden, New Jersey, which achieved similar changes to great success. In his commentary, Ellison noted how the police department in Camden, where

more than 90 percent of residents are Black or Hispanic, was disbanded in 2013 and rebuilt despite opposition from police unions and some residents. “Those communities have said, ‘You know what, let’s reform,’” Ellison told the network. “But the thing about Newark is, Newark did its changes under a federal consent decree. So, I’m saying to the people of Minneapolis, let’s not have the federal government make us reform. Let’s just choose it.” The goal centered on making long-term policies to reflect “our values of safety, humanity, and dignity, not individual per-

The measure required the city to employ two officers per 1,000 residents. In Cleveland, Ohio, 94 percent of voters cast their ballot to implement an amendment that will create a civilian-led board and Community Police Commission. The commission will have the final say on police policies and discipline and require some of the members of the board to be lawyers who have had experience representing victims of police brutality. In Albany, New York, residents approved a measure to increase the authority of a civilian-led committee to provide oversight of police investigations and complaints.

FEMA Changing Rules That Have Historically Deprived African Americans of Crucial Aid By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent In the past, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – relied on deeds to prove that land belonged to disaster victims before sending relief funds. However, those guidelines proved to deny aid to many African American applicants whose homes or land were inherited informally without written wills. But, as first reported by NBC News, the rules quietly have changed. As floodwaters and the after-effects of Hurricane Ida ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi, and eventually wreaked havoc in the northeast, FEMA officials announced that there will be significant changes in how they verify the ownership status of disaster relief applicants, noting that the objective in making the changes is to better assist applicants whose property was inherited without a will. “What we’re trying to do is make sure that we understand each individual situation is unique and that we need not have a one-size-fits-all approach,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told the news outlet. “We’re going to continue to try to improve our program and make additional changes. Some of them we can do right away, like this. Some of them will require some regulatory change,” she said. “But we are really driving hard to make these

changes.” African Americans, particularly those in southern states, have routinely had difficulty proving property ownership. Even without a damaging natural disaster, the Gullah Geechee community of St. Helena Island told the Black Press last year that they were fighting to protect their lands and the legacy left by their ancestors, who toiled for lifetimes under the brutal oppression of slavery. Local tax officials held an auction of some of the property on the island belonging to families, citing delinquent tax payments that have accumulated over the years. The descendants who have lived in the Gullah Geechee community, which extends the coastal areas of North Carolina,

South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, possessed deeds but lacked titles to their properties. Many in the community discovered that their ancestors left no wills and never possessed a title. That was primarily because of oppressive laws. The freed slaves were deprived of an education and were at the mercy of White men who sold the land for as little as $1.25 per acre and never provided appropriate sale documentation. “The heirs don’t have a title in their names,” said Sará Reynolds Green, an activist, and farmer who raises produce on the St. Helena plot of land passed down throughout her family’s generations.

While FEMA’s new rules don’t necessarily apply to St. Helena, they should provide a more level playing field for African Americans affected by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other disasters. “Updated guidelines will also expand the options for paperwork renters can submit to prove that they live at affected properties,” the NBC News team reported. According to the report, “in addition to a written lease or rent receipts, renters will now be able to submit documents such as their car registration and letters from local schools or nonprofits. People in mobile homes will also have the flexibility to submit a letter from the property’s owner.”

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Feeling SAD? 5 Ways to Combat Seasonal Depression routine and get going. You can find a variety of light therapy lamps on Amazon, BestBuy, or Bed Bath & Beyond.

by Maia Thornton, BlackDoctor.org

As the sun sets earlier and the temperature continues to drop, some of us may be fearing for the season that lies ahead. While fall and winter bring joyful holidays, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, it can also be a time of lethargy and low moods. Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a mood disorder characterized by the change in seasons. People typically suffer from it at the same time every year; the majority suffer during late fall and winter. While the change of seasons is inevitable, one thing you can control is how you prepare for the season. Just as bears prepare to hibernate for the winter, you can combat seasonal depression by preparing your body and spirit to deal with the cold months. Try these tips to fend off the winter blues and get the most out of the changing seasons: 1.Beat SAD with Supplements Vitamin D is an essential supplement for bone, teeth, brain, and immune health. Vitamin D is often suggested as one of the number one suggestions for those suffering from SAD disorder, especially for Black people.

Our bodies typically get this vitamin from sun exposure, however, we get less exposure during late fall and winter. If you are unsure if your vitamin D is low, ask your doctor to test your levels and they will be able to recommend if a supplement is right for you. In cooperation with your healthcare provider, research your options on what form and where you should get your vitamins.

2. Create Your Own Sun While the natural sun will not come out as much, there are still ways to brighten your day. Light therapy lamps have proven to be helpful when used throughout the day to simulate sunlight. This can be especially helpful when waking up in the morning in the winter darkness. Gradually more ‘sunlight’ in your day can make it easier to start your

3. Stick To a Self-Care Routine Proactive self-care is the best self-care. Think about what brings you peace or sparks joy in your life. Now, make it part of your routine. Is coffee your guilty pleasure? Make yourself a DIY coffee station in your kitchen with your favorite coffee, syrups, and toppings. Does yoga help you practice mindfulness and feel present? Incorporate it into your workout routine with a special focus on strengthening both your mind and body. However, remember that self-care can also mean doing things you do not necessarily feel like doing. Encourage yourself to stay connected with friends even when you feel like isolating. Extend invitations or accept those from friends for social events. Seasonal depression can make us feel slow, moody, and disconnected from ourselves. Maintaining good relationships in your life can anchor you to yourself. 4. Celebrate the Little Things

There are small things to smile about every day. Life throws us obstacles and challenges, but going back to the small things can help make you smile. Cherish a good day at work. Rejoice in the sound of your kids laughing. Get excited over trying a new recipe and absolutely nailing it. Give yourself things to look forward to and mundane into something special. If you watch a particular show every week, make it a special night! Get cozy on the couch, get all of your favorite snacks, and make it fun for yourself. Small activities like these can give you something to look forward to as the winter drags on. Seasonal affective disorder affects around five percent of the U.S. population every year, and four out of five of those cases are women. Know that if you are struggling, you are never alone. Reach out to family, friends, and loved ones. Consider seeing a therapist to find coping mechanisms. Even a few sessions can give you valuable tools to deal with your emotions and moods. The best plans are usually created in advance. Take action and be proactive about how you want to spend the changing seasons.

Pﬁzer Set to Ask FDA to OK Booster for Those 18 and Older by Jason Henderson, BlackDoctor.org

Pfizer may soon seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency authorization of its COVID-19 booster shot for anyone aged 18 and older. Officials familiar with the situation told the Washington Post that the request could be filed as soon as this week and is likely to be supported by the FDA, according to the three insiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue. If approval is given, it would fulfill the Biden administration’s plan to provide boosters for all adults and could increase Con’t from page 05

booster rates at a critical point in the pandemic, the Post reports. Health officials have also said Americans can “mix-and-match” booster shots to increase antibodies to fight the coronavirus. People can get any one of the three booster doses, regardless of which shot they received first. Under the recommendations, at least 179 million people, or 69 percent of the adult population, are eligible for boosters, according to administration officials. Other estimates put the number even higher. “Biologically, it makes sense” to need additional shots to get the greatest protection from the vaccines, Peter Chin-Hong,

an infectious-disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco, tells the Post. Why should young people get the booster shot? He adds that there is “some value” in young people getting a booster to protect older relatives as the holidays approach. That’s especially true, he says, if the older person has an illness, such as some cancers, that makes it harder for the body to fight COVID-19 even with a vaccine. Meanwhile, the country is still seeing more than 70,000 coronavirus cases a day and more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths a day, according to the newspaper’s COVID-19 tracker.

In addition, federal health officials are concerned about the increased spread of the virus during the holiday season as large numbers of people travel and gather indoors. State and federal health officials are worried about the states of Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona and Vermont, where cases have been rising. What to know about getting booster shots If you are interested in or plan on getting a booster shot, here is what you should know according to AARP: • Just like with the initial COVID-19 vaccines, there are no out-of-pocket costs

to get a booster shot; no insurance or ID is required. • You can find booster shots where you find the COVID-19 vaccines — pharmacies, doctor’s offices, community health clinics, etc. You may need an appointment, so check in on the details. • It’s a good idea to call ahead of time to confirm the location has the booster brand you want to receive. • Bring your COVID-19 vaccine card so it can be updated to include your booster. Lost it? Here’s some advice on what to do. https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/lost-vaccinecard.html • You may experience some mild to

Cicarella Slate Set For Teacher Union Vote

If elected to the role of high school representative, Augustine said, he hopes to shed light on student problems that school staff subsequently later deal with, like bullying and increasing gang violence. “I grew up here and never had a problem walking in any neighborhood,” Augustine said. “These kids don’t feel safe wherever they go. Not even school.” Augustine also hopes to encourage the union to support abolishing Connecticut’s windfall policy for social security for retiring educators. Special education teacher J. Peter Wil-

son is running with the slate for his first executive board position as vice president for special services. He joined Local 933 in 1999. If elected, Wilson promised to advocate for special education staff in a union contract that currently lacks “language to protect those members in special education departments from heavy caseloads.” Ross Woodward School social worker Kari Martin is running for pre-K-8 representative after bring encouraged by the current e-board and school staff. “I’m outspoken for my students and to help

the teachers,” she said. Martin said one of the major concerns she’d like to address if elected is working with the district to negotiate increased teacher benefits and wages to tackle teacher and substitute shortages. “A lot of teachers are having to give up their prep time to make up for the shortage,” Martin said. “Teachers’ morales are strained. I can feel it in the school.” She also suggested the board do a needs assessment with union members to learn “what’s pressing them and what they need from us.”

“I want to add to the knowledge of the board and be there for the teachers,” she said. “Seeing so many members staying on the board tells me that this is a fight worth joining.” Ballots will be mailed out this coming Wednesday or Thursday to about 1,700 members, Cicarella said. King-Robinson Magnet School Literacy Instructional Coach Jennifer Wells-Jackson has worked in NHPS for 26 years. She is a New Haven native and is running for one of the eight pre-k-8 representative seats.

If elected, Wells-Jackson promised to advocate for extra supports to new teachers during contract negotiations. Wells-Jackson previously served as the e-board’s vice president for middle schools. After a term off from the eboard, she decided to run again for a new role. “This is an amazing team. They care about ensuring teachers are first and foremost,” Wells-Jackson said. “When I think of Dave and Pat, I know that any teacher can depend on them,” she said.

INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,10 2016 - August 02, 2016 THE INNER-CITY NEWS - November , 2021 - November 16, 2021

Construction NOTICE

Portland

Youth Services Administrator

Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster a heavyPREoutside work statewide. ReliVALENTINA MACRItrades RENTALfor HOUSING APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE able personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To HOMEplease INC, oncall behalf of Columbus House the resume New Haven Authority, apply (860) 621-1720 orand send to:Housing Personnel Deis accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develpartment, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

full-time position. Go to www.portlandct. org for details.

THE GLENDOWER GROUP

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opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y Affiand rmative M/F/V 25, 2016 endingAction/Equal when sufficient Opportunity pre-applicationsEmployer (approximately 100) have been received at the officesDrug of HOME Applications will be mailied upon reFreeINC. Workforce quest 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.

RequestNOTICIA for Qualifications

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

Project Architect for the Repositioning of Elm City Communities Scattered Sites Properties

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos The Glendower Group is currently seeking Proposals for ap.m. project architectMartes for the25 remáximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 comenzando positioning Elmcuando City Communities properties. (aproximadamente A complete copy of the julio, 2016of hasta se han recibidoscattered suficientessites pre-solicitudes 100) requirement maydebeHOME obtained Collaboration Portal https:// en las oficinas INC.from Las Glendower’s pre-solicitudesVendor serán enviadas por correo a petición newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on deberán remitirse llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

Monday, September 27, 2021 at 3:00PM.

DPW Truck Driver Full-time position

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The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport Request for Proposal (RFP) A & E Services for Harborview Towers Solicitation Number: 198-PD-21-S

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is currently seeking proposals from qualified consultants to provide architectural, engineering and construction administration related to the rehabilitation of the public housing property known as Harborview Towers. The property is participating in the HUD Rental Assistance Demonstration program (RAD) and is proposed for LIHTC financing. Solicitation package will be available on November 08, 2021. To obtain an electronic copy of the RFP you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org., please reference the solicitation number and title on the subject line. A Pre-proposal conference will be held on November 23, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m. at 376 East Washington Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06608. Although attendance is not mandatory, submitting a proposal without attending the pre-proposal conference may not be in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities. org no later than December 02, 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 hand delivered by December 16, 2021 @ 3:00 p.m., to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Chief Procurement Officer, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604. Late proposals will not be accepted.

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Town of Bloomﬁeld

Construction Project Manager

LaRosa Building Group is looking for a Project Manager with experience working on projects between $10MM and $30MM in commercial, industrial, military, large multifamily residential, healthcare, public works, and mill conversions. Individuals must have Assessor – Full Time strong management and leadership skills and be highly motivated. Applicant must be able to effectively lead a team for fast-track projects in New England and be able to manPre-employment drug testing. For age multiple and diverse projects, work independently and meet project deadlines and more details, visit our budgets. Applicants must be able to maintain and report on project budgets and schedule website – www.bloomfieldct.org to the team leadership. InvitationApplicants to Bid: must have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and nd 10 years construction project management experience. Expertise in Procore and MiDeadline: Applications will be 2 Notice crosoft Project are desired. Salary is based on experience; salary range is $90,000 to accepted until position is filled. $130,000 plus benefit package. Fax resumes to LaRosa Building Group, HR Dept. at 203-630-1998 or e-mail to HR@LaRosaBG.com. We are an EOE/AA Employer. MiOld Saybrook, CT norities are encouraged to apply.

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New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, CastTown of EastSiding, Haven seeks a qualified candidate to serve in the position of Tax Asin-place Concrete, AsphaltThe Shingles, Vinyl Pre-employment drug testing. sessor. Qualified candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited colPainting, visit Division 10 webSpecialties, Residential Casework, legeAppliances, or university in economics, finance, real estate or a related field plus five (5) years of ForFlooring, more details, our Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. progressively responsible assessment appraisal experience including supervisory experisite – www.bloomfieldct.org or an equivalent combination of education and qualifying experience substituting This contract is subject to state set-aside ence, and contract compliance requirements. on a year-for-year basis. The salary for this position is $109,000 per year, 37.5 hours Deadline: Applications will be per week and the Town offers an excellent benefit package. Please visit https://www. accepted until position is filled. Due Date: Bid Extended, August 5, 2016 townofeasthavenct.org/civil-service-commission/pages/job-notices-and-tests to obtain

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour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Anticipated Start: an August 15, 2016 application which must be submitted along with resume to: Michelle Benivegna, Assistant of Administration & Management, 250 Main Street, East Haven, CT Project documents available viaDirector ftp link below: 06512 or email mbenivegna@townofeasthavenct.org<mailto:mbenivegna@townofeasthttp://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage Town of Bloomﬁeld havenct.org>. The Town of East Haven is committed to building a work force of diverse

individuals. Minorities, females, handicapped and veterans are encouraged to apply. The Librarian I – Part Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Time Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Town of East Haven is an equal opportunity employer. HCC encourages the participation Salary $38.45 hourlyof all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Deadline to apply 12/8/21 AA/EEO EMPLOYER Pre-employment drug Experience in repair of sewer services, pipe laying and installation & repair of water testing. AA/EOE. mains, service lines experience, CDL license Must be able to pass pre-employment drug screen, driving record verification For Details go to www. Legal working status, OSHA 10, 30 & OSHA 40 a plus

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Apply at: Butterworth & Scheck, Inc., 10Thompson St., Stratford, CT 06615

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - November , 2021 - November 16, 2021 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,10 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

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

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V

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

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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

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR

THE ELM CITYCOMMUNITIES, HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEWHAVEN

(ECC/HANH) PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE LIPH ADMISSION AND CONTINUED OCCUPANCY PLAN (ACOP) AND HCV ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN (ADMIN PLAN) Elm City Communities, the Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (ECC/ HANH) is proposing to amend sections of its Low-Income Public Housing Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) and the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Administrative Plan (Admin Plan). Copies of the amendment to the ACOP and the Administrative Plan will be made available on Monday, November 1, 2021 on the agency website www.elmcitycommunities. org or via Twitter, www.twitter.com/ECCommunities or via Facebook www.facebook. com/ElmCityCommunities. You are invited to provide written comments addressed to: ECC/HANH, ACOP & Admin Plan Revisions; Attn: Evelise Ribeiro, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 or via email to: eribeiro@elmcitycommunities.org. A public hearing where public comments will be accepted and recorded is scheduled for Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 3:00pm via RingCentral: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/5274955065. Or dial:(773) 231-9226, Meeting ID: 527 495 5065. Any individual requiring a Reasonable Accommodation to participate in the hearing may call the Reasonable Accommodation Manager (203) 498-8800, ext. 1507 or at the TDD Number (203) 497-8434. AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA PARA LAS COMUNIDADES DE ELM CITY, AUTORIDAD DE VIVIENDA DE NEWHAVEN (ECC / HANH) PROPUESTA DE ENMIENDA AL PLAN DE ADMISIÓN Y OCUPACIÓN COMTINUADA (ACOP) DE LA LIPH Y AL PLAN ADMINISTRATIVO DE AVC (PLAN ADMIN)

City Communities, la Autoridad de Vivienda de la Ciudad de New Haven (ECC / InvitationElm to Bid: HANH) está proponiendo revisar secciones de su Política de Admisiones de Vivienda nd State of Connecticut 2 Notice Pública de Bajos Ingresos y Ocupación Continuada (ACOP) y el Plan Administrativo

Office of Policy and Management

de Vales de Elección de Vivienda (HCV) (Admin. Plan). SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Old Saybrook, CT de la enmienda al ACOP y el Plan Administrativo estarán disponibles el Las copias

(4 Buildings,lunes 17 Units) The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy 1 de Noviembre de 2021 en el sitio web de la agencia www.elmcitycommunities. and Management is recruiting for an org oWage vía Twitter, www.twitter.com/ECCommunities o vía Facebook www.facebook. Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Rate Project Undersecretary - Office of Policy And com /ElmCityCommunities. Management for Finance, Strategic Decisions and Accountability. New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast-

Se le invita a proporcionar comentarios por escrito dirigidos a: ECC / HANH, ACOP Further information regarding the duties, in-place Concrete, Asphalt&Shingles, VinylRevisions; Siding, Attn: Evelise Ribeiro, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT Admin Plan eligibility requirements and application instructions are available at: 10 Specialties, 06511 o por correo electrónico a: eribeiro@elmcitycommunities.org. Flooring, Painting, Division Appliances, Residential Casework, https://www.jobapscloud.com/ Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= Una audiencia pública en la que se aceptarán y grabarán los comentarios públicos está This210921&R2=0450EX&R3=001 contract is subject to state set-asideprogramada and contractpara compliance el martesrequirements. 30 de Noviembre de 2021 a las 3:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. a través

de RingCentral: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/5274955065https://meetings. ringThe State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer central.com/j/5274955065. O marque: (773) 231-9226 (773) 231-9226, ID de reunión: Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 and strongly encourages the applications 527495 5065. of women, minorities, andAnticipated persons Start: 5065. August 15, 2016 with disabilities.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR

NOTICE THE ELM CITYCOMMUNITIES, HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEWHAVEN (ECC/HANH)

VALENTINATO MACRI RENTAL HOUSINGFY2021 PRE- APPLICATIONS MOVING WORK (MTW) ANNUALAVAILABLE REPORT HOMEVINC, on the behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Authority, Section (B) of Authority’s Moving to Work Agreement {theHousing “Agreement”) reis accepting pre-applications for studio one-bedroom this develquires that before the Agency can file itsand Approved Annualapartments Moving to at Work Plan & Report to the U.S. at Department Housing Urban Development (the “HUD”)apthat opment located 108 Frank of Street, Newand Haven. Maximum income limitations it must conduct a publicwill hearing, consider comments public onMonday the proposed ply. Pre-applications be available from 9AM TOfrom 5PMthe beginning Ju;y amendments, obtain approval from the pre-applications Board Of Commissioners, and 100) submit the 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient (approximately have amendments to HUD. been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reCopies Moving To INC Work FY2021 Report, will be made available questof bythe calling HOME at (MTW) 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed pre-on Monday, November 1, 2021 on the agencyINC’s website www.elmcitycommunities.org applications must be returned to HOME offices at 171 Orange Street, Thirdor viaFloor, Twitter, Newwww.twitter.com/ECCommunities Haven, CT 06510. or via Facebook www.facebook.com/ElmCityCommunities.

NOTICIA

You are invited to provide written comments addressed to: ECC/HANH, Moving To Work FY2021 Annual Report, Attn: Evelise Ribeiro, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 or viaMACRI email to: eribeiro@elmcitycommunities.org. VALENTINA VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Pursuant to said Section V (B), a public hearing where public comments will be acHOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está cepted and recorded is scheduled for Monday, November 29, 2021 at 3:00pm via aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo RingCentral: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/5274955065. Or dial:(773) 231-9226, ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos Meeting ID: 527 495 5065.

máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25

julio, 2016 hastarequiring cuando seahan recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) Any individual Reasonable Accommodation to participate in the hearing en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición may call the Reasonable Accommodation Manager (203) 498-8800, ext. 1507 or at the llamando a HOME al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse TDD Number (203)INC 497-8434. a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA PARA LAS COMUNIDADES DE ELM CITY, AUTORIDAD DE

VIVIENDA DE NEWHAVEN (ECC / HANH) MOVERSE AL TRABAJO (MTW) INFORME ANUAL DEL AF2021

NEW HAVEN

La Sección V (B) del Acuerdo de Mudanza al Trabajo de la Autoridad (el “Acuerdo”) requiere que antes de que la Agencia pueda presentar su Plan e Informe Anual Apro242-258 Fairmont Ave bado de Mudanza al Trabajo al Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de EE. UU. (El “HUD”) debe llevar a cabo audiencia considerar 2BR que Townhouse, 1.5unaBA, 3BR,pública, 1 level , 1BAlos comentarios del sobre las enmiendas propuestas, aprobación Junta de All público new apartments, new appliances, newobtener carpet,laclose to I-91de&laI-95 Comisionados y presentar las enmiendas al HUD. highways, near bus stop & shopping center Las copias del Informe Moving To Work (MTW) FY2021 estarán disponibles el lunes Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 1 de noviembre de 2021 en el sitio web departies la agencia www.elmcitycommunities.org o vía Twitter, www.twitter.com/ECCommunities oa través de Facebook www.facebook. com/ElmCityCommunities. CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s SeCertificate le invitaProgram. a proporcionar comentarios por escrito dirigidos a: ECC / HANH, Moving This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start 20, 2016 ToinWork FY2021 Annual Report, Attn: Evelise Ribeiro, 360Saturday, OrangeAugust Street, New1:30Ha3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. ven, CT 06511 o por correo electrónico a: eribeiro@elmcitycommunities.org. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster De conformidad con dicha Sección V (B), una audiencia pública donde se aceptarán St. New Haven, CT y grabarán los comentarios públicos está programada para el lunes 29 de noviembre de 2021 a las 3:00 pm a través de RingCentral: https://meetings.ringcentral. com/j/5274955065. O marque: (773) 231-9226, ID de reunión: 527495 5065.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Cualquier individuo que requiera una Adaptación Razonable para participar en la audiencia puede Gerente de Adaptación Razonable ext. Sealed bids are llamar invitedalby the Housing Authority of the(203) Town498-8800, of Seymour 1507 o alAugust número TDD (203) until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, 2, 2016 at 497-8434. its office at 28 Smith Street,

Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Listing: Commercial Driver

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street CT atfor 10:00 on petroleum Wednesday, July 20, Full TimeSeymour, Class B driver a fastam, paced company for2016. days and weekends. Previous experience required. Competitive wage, 401(k) and benefits. Send resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box are 388,available Guilford,from CT 06437. Bidding documents the Seymour Housing Authority Of-

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Skilled tradesman in all facets of alterations/renovations, maintenance and repair of electrical equipment for the Wallingford Public Schools. Applicants must be a High School or Trade School graduate plus seven years’ experience in the electrical trade $69,017 - $83,893/yr. equivalent to Journeyman Electrician. Must have a Class E-2 and/or possession of Required testing, a Master Electrician License Class E-1. Wages: $30.01 - $36.71 hourly. Application Forms: May be obtained at the Department of Human Resources, 45 S. Main Street, registration info, and apply Room 301, Wallingford CT 06492. Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human online: www.bristolct.gov Invitation Resources to Bid: Web Page. Fax: (203)-294-2084 Phone: (203)-294-2080. The closing date will be the date the 50th application or resume is received or November 3, 2021, whichDEADLINE: 10-29-21 2nd Notice ever occurs first. EOE.

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

MECHANIC Old Saybrook, CT (4 Buildings, 17 Units) State of Connecticut TRACTORTaxTRAILER Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Office of Policy and Management

Full Time, Beneﬁts, Top Pay New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, CastApply:Pace, 1425 Honeyspot in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, VinylofSiding, Rd. Ext., Stratford, CT EOE The State Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for two Planning Analyst positions, a Chief Administrative Officer position Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, and a Policy Counsel (Legislative and Administrative Officer 2) position. Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. DRIVER CLASS A and contract Further compliance information requirements. regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and appliThis contractCDL is subject to state set-aside cation instructions are available at: Full Time – All Shifts Top Pay-FullBid Beneﬁ ts Due Date: August https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= Extended, 5, 2016 211012&R2=6297AR&R3=002; EOE Please apply in person: Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 1425 Honeyspot Rd. Ext. https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= Project documents available via ftp link below: 211012&R2=6297AR&R3=001; Stratford, CT 06615 http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

Town of Bloomfield

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Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses 211015&R2=7108MP&R3=001 Part Time - Foster Care Family Support Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Worker (non-beneﬁted) AA/EEO EMPLOYER The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

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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

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

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360 MANAGEMENT GROUP COMPANY

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

NOTICE VALENTINAOFMACRI RENTAL HOUSING APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOTICE PROPOSED UTILITYPREALLOWANCE REVISION Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of the New Haven (ECC/HANH) has HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House andCity theof New Haven Housing Authority, conducted a 2022 utility allowance gas, oil and electricityatusage in sevis accepting pre-applications for study studiofor andnatural one-bedroom apartments this develeral ECC/HANH The developments McConaughy Terrace, Westville opment locateddevelopments. at 108 Frank Street, New Haven.are Maximum income limitations apManor and all Scattered Site properties. updated utility allowance willMonday be effective ply. Pre-applications will be availableThe from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Ju;yat your annual 25,next 2016 and recertification. ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have This notice is to advise you that the new utility allowance will take effect January 1, 2022. been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reElm City Communities/HANH maintains records that document the basis on which the quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preutility allowance has been established and revised. Copies of the proposed utility schedapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 at Orange Street,St. Third ules are available at elmcitycommunities.org or may be obtained 360 Orange New Floor, New Haven, CT 06510. Haven, CT 06511. All residents have the right to submit comments on the utility allowance change. Written comments should be directed to the attention of the SVP Operations and must be submitted no later than November 30, 2021 close of business. All comments should be mailed to the attention of Latweeta Smyers, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511or emailed VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES to lsmyers@elmcitycommunitites.org

NOTICIA

HOMEDE INC, nombre dePROPUESTA la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está AVISO LAen REVISIÓN DEL PERMITIDO DE SERVICIOS PÚBLICOS aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo

ubicado en ladecalle Street, New Haven. de Se la aplican de ingresos Comunidades Elm 109 CityFrank / Autoridad de Vivienda ciudadlimitaciones de New Haven (ECC / máximos. Las pre-solicitudes disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes HANH ha realizado un estudio estarán de asignación de servicios públicos en 2022 para el uso25de gasjulio, natural, y electricidad en varios desarrollos de ECC / (aproximadamente HANH. Los desarrollos 2016petróleo hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes 100) sonenMcConaughy Manor y todosserán los sitios dispersos. La aasignación las oficinas deTerrace, HOME Westville INC. Las pre-solicitudes enviadas por correo petición de llamando serviciosapúblicos actualizada entrarádurante en vigencia en su próxima recertificación anual. HOME INC al 203-562-4663 esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Este aviso es para informarle que nueva Street, asignación servicios públicos a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171la Orange tercerde piso, New Haven , CT entrará 06510 . en vigencia el 1 de Enero de 2022. Elm City Communities-HANH mantiene registros que documentan la base sobre la cual se estableció y revisó la asignación de servicios públicos. Las copias de los horarios de servicios públicos de la propuesta están disponibles en elmcitycommunities.org o se pueden obtener en 360 Orange St. New Haven, CT 06511 Todos los residentes tienen derecho a enviar comentarios sobre el cambio de asignación de servicios públicos. Los comentarios escritos deben dirigirse a la atención del Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de Operaciones y deben enviarse no más tardar el 30 de Noviembre de Fairmont 2021. Todos los comentarios242-258 deben enviarse por correo aAve la atención de Latweeta Smyers, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 o por correo electrónico a lsmyers@elmcity2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA communitites.org

NEW HAVEN

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

Full Time Construction Position: -

Experience in repair of sewer services, pipe laying and installation & repair of water mains, service lines experience, CDL license CT.Must Unifiedbe Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer adrug Deacon’s able to pass pre-employment screen, driving record verification Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates Legal working status, OSHA 10, 30 & OSHA 40 a plus in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Deacon & JoeScheck, J. Davis, M.S., Apply at:Chairman, Butterworth Inc.,B.S. 10Thompson St., Stratford, CT 06615 (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster

Control Room Operations/Dispatching

St. New Haven, CT

The Town of Wallingford Electric Division is seeking qualified candidates for the position of System Operator/Dispatcher for a municipal electric utility serving 25,000 customers. Coordinates electric system switching and places equipment in and out of serSealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour vice during routine and emergency operations. Requires HS diploma/GED with 2 years until 3:00in pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 equipment at its office at 28 Smith Street, experience the operation of Distribution SCADA and/or switchboards used inSeymour, the distribution of electricity or otherSidewalk qualifyingRepairs experience a related field.atExpeCT 06483 for Concrete andinReplacement the rience and training may be substituted on a year for year basis. Must maintain valid Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. system operation certification from Connecticut Valley Exchange (CONVEX) or other approved agency or be able to obtain the same within 90 days of hire. Must posses and A pre-bid conference will be heldLicense. at the $34.63 Housing Authority Office 28excellent Smith maintain a valid State of CT Driver’s - $41.15 hourly plus an fringe package includeam, a defined benefit pension plan.2016. Apply to: DepartStreetbenefits Seymour, CT to at 10:00 on Wednesday, July 20, ment of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Application materials can be emailed to wlfdhr@wallingfordct.gov. Application Bidding documents are available fromthetheDepartment SeymourofHousing Authority (203) Offorms will be mailed upon request by calling Human Resources, 294-2080 or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. Closing date will be November 30, 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

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Invitation for Bid Snow Removal Services 360 Management Group Co. is currently seeking bids for snow removal services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from 360 Management’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on

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$23.40/hourly (benefited)

Monday, October 25, 2021 at 3:00PM.

CLERK TYPIST Performs a wide variety of routine clerical duties requiring excellent computer and interpersonal skills. This position requires 1 year of office work experience of a responsible nature and a H.S., GED, or business diploma. Wages: $21.83 to $26.43 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Forms will be mailed upon request form the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone: (203) 294-2080 Fax: (203) 294-2084. The closing date will be that date the 50th application form/resume is received or November 10, 2021 whichever occurs first. EOE

LEGAL NOTICE RFQ 22-02: ON-CALL ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES

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

The South Central Regional Council of Governments (“SCRCOG”) will be accepting sealed Qualifications for On-Call Architectural Services. SCRCOG is seeking architectural firms to provide “On-Call” services to all fifteen municipalities in the region. Invitation to Bid: Specializations include, but are not limited to, preliminary studies, public outreach, renderings, drawings, specifications, estimates, scopes of work and other nd 2 Notice Seeking qualified condidates to fill professional services. Firms are invited to submit only on those types of projects they specialize in. Disadvantaged, minority, small, and women-owned business ennumerous vacancies to include, terprises Old Saybrook, CT are encouraged to respond. Deputy Assessor, Mechanic Buildings,The 17 Units) Sewer Line, Public Health (4 Nurse complete request for qualification (“RFQ”) document can be obtained on the Exempt & Not Wage Rate Project and more. For Tax information andPrevailing SCRCOG website, www.scrcog.org/purchasing/. detailed application instructions, shallDemolition, be submitted in the manner New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing,RFQs Selective Site-work, Cast- specified to the SCRCOG Regional Purchasvisit www.ci.milford.ct.us ing Consortium, 127 Washington Avenue, 4th Floor West, North Haven, CT 06473 Click on SERVICES, JOBS and in-place Concrete, Asphaltuntil 12:00 Shingles, Vinyl Siding, P.M. local, eastern standard time on Tuesday, November 23, 2021. TITLE. Flooring,JOB Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. For questions concerning this RFQ, contact Andy Cirioli, Municipal Services Managercontract at purchasing@scrcog.org.SCRCOG is an Affirmative Action/Equal OpportuThis contract is subject to state set-aside and compliance requirements. nity Employer.

CITY OF MILFORD

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

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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. Warehouse Associate has a CT Class A CDL License, a license to operate forklifts,

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org for details. lulls, excavators, and an up-to-date OSHA-10 Certification. Knowledge of electrical construction tools and materials is helpful. The successful candidate will deliver Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com and tools to Businesses various jobsite locations as required, and perform general HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,equipment S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 warehouse functions (unloading common carrier trucks, UPS, checking in freight, tool repair, inventory control, and general housekeeping of the warehouse facility and AA/EEO EMPLOYER yard.) Hours: M-F 7am-4pm. Competitive compensation and benefits package. Send resume to Ducci Electrical Contractors, Inc. 74 Scott Swamp Rd. Farmington, CT Go to www.portlandct. 06032 or via email at humanresources@duccielectrical.com.

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