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Enough is enough Freddie Gray’s spine nearly severed, larynx crushed while in police custody

The Rev. Westly West leads demonstrators to the Baltimore Police Department’s Western District police station Wednesday to protest the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.

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What happened to Freddie Gray?

People across the nation are demanding to know after the 25-year-old black man suffered a fatal spinal cord injury under mysterious circumstances after being arrested by Baltimore police and put into the back of a police van.

Mr. Gray died April 19, a week after police handcuffed him, forced him into the van and transported him to a hospital.

Officers said they apprehended him after he fled on foot after making eye contact with approaching police officers in an area of West Baltimore they said is known for drug dealing and other criminal activities.

Baltimore Police Department officials said they have no evidence that their officers used excessive force. A lawyer for Mr. Gray’s family accuses the department of a cover-up.

As the U.S. Justice Department opened a civil rights inquiry Tuesday into Mr. Gray’s death, police officials announced that six officers involved with Mr. Gray’s arrest were suspended.

They were identified as Lt. Brian Rice, 41, who has been with the department since 1997; Sgt. Alicia White, 30, with the department since 2010; Officer Caesar Goodson, 45, who has been there since 1999; and Officers Garrett Miller, William Porter and Edward Nero, who joined the force in 2012.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts called for calm to allow police to

Free Press wins 21 awards

The Richmond Free Press continues its 23-year tradition of award-winning excellence.

The newspaper was recognized with 21 awards — including seven first place awards and a Best in Show Award — at the annual Virginia Press Association competition in writing, photography, news presentation and advertising.

The contest for work published in 2014 was judged by members of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Winners were announced April 18 at the VPA’s awards Please turn to A4

complete their investigation into Mr. Gray’s death. Authorities said they expect to conclude it by Friday, May 1. From there, the case will go to the state’s attorney’s office, which will decide whether any criminal charges will be filed.

“Mr. Gray’s family deserves justice, and our community deserves an opportunity to heal, to get better and to make sure that something like this doesn’t happen again,” Ms. RawlingsBlake said.

She said she intends to find out why police stopped Mr. Gray in the first place.

Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets since Please turn to A4

Education battle cry: Put kids first!

By Joey Matthews

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More than 1,000 advocates at last Saturday’s Put Kids First Rally at Capitol Square in Downtown call for a greater financial, social and policy investment in children by state and local officials.

“Put kids first!”

A diverse gathering of educators, parents and students made that impassioned plea at a rally Saturday organized by the Virginia Education Association and the Virginia PTA. They called for increased education funding, an end to the reliance on standardized testing as a sole measurement of student and teacher achievement, and to stop disparate disciplinary treatment of students in communities of color that unnecessarily ejects them from classrooms into the judicial system, creating a “school to prison pipeline.”

The rally attracted an estimated 1,000 people from across the state. They converged at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Downtown, then marched to the State Capitol where they rallied again at the Bell Tower.

Demonstrators chanted pro-education slogans and carried signs that read, “Lack of Funding, High Stakes Testing, Grade: F,” “Invest in Kids,” “Education Matters in RPS” and “Retirees for Public Education.”

“We’re here to let our legislators know we need to have public education fully funded,” Meg Gruber, president of the Virginia Education Association, told the Free Press.

“As classroom sizes increase, we have been underfunded,” she added.

“We’re still being funded at the (year) 2000 per pupil level; that’s a decrease of 16 percent.”

State Secretary of Education Anne Holton attended the event with her husband, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.

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NASCAR’s big bucks stop at raceway

By Joey Matthews

Twice a year, Melvin Crawley Jr., owner of Crawley’s Funeral Home on Meadowbridge Road on North Side, opens his business parking lot and an adjoining property to NASCAR fans, where they park their vehicles for race weekends at Richmond

International Raceway.

He’s among dozens of African-American property owners who will cash in by allowing NASCAR fans to park at their homes, businesses and churches this weekend when Richmond International Raceway hosts its annual spring races at the Laburnum Avenue racetrack in Henrico County.

Richmonder Aleem rising up national boxing ranks

By Mark Hostutler

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Earth Day fun Brothers Jamon, 9, and Justin Jones, 2, enjoy a kayak ride as their grandfather, Wayne Samuels, provides paddle power. The family fun took place last Saturday on the James River at Great Shiplock Park in Shockoe Bottom during activities at the city’s annual Earth Day celebration. The actual worldwide Earth Day was April 22 and is designed to foster environmental protection.

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. Immanuwel Aleem may have been barely old enough to play a hand of poker — his favorite card game — at the Valley Forge Casino Resort in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday night. But the 21-year-old boxer’s fists had enough experience to floor his opponent in an eight-round bout

by King’s Promotions.

Aleem, the 5-foot-10 pugilist and graduate of Richmond’s Thomas Jefferson High School, knocked down Emmanuel Sanchez of Laredo, Texas, three times in the second round before the referee mercifully ended the fight.

Aleem’s ascension throughout the middleweight ranks continues. He remains undefeated with a 12-0 record with eight knockouts.

“He came at me with a few shots that I just ate, so I could counter with my left hook,” Aleem said of the first knockdown.

“His punches weren’t fazing me, but mine had more effect.”

Less than a minute later, Aleem sent Sanchez (6-3) to the canvas with a thunderous overhand right. When Sanchez staggered to his feet to remain competitive, Aleem greeted him with another power punch that turned his legs into linguine. Sanchez wobbled into the arms of the referee, who stopped the bout with 46 seconds left in the second round.

“He had nothing left, so it was time to take the cake,” Aleem said.

Eight months removed from making his national television debut on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, Aleem is on the prowl for Please turn to A4

The Toyota Care 250 is scheduled to get a green flag start 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the Infinity Series. The Toyota Owners 400 is scheduled to start 7 p.m. Saturday, April 25, in the Sprint Cup Series, which is NASCAR’s highest level of racing.

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Immanuwel Aleem of Richmond was introduced to boxing by his parents, Omar and Deidre Aleem, owners of Ninth Dimension Sports Circle at 25th and Hull streets.

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Short-term fix restores power to Fay Towers residents power to units in Fay Tower and some nearby RRHA apartments went out, she said.

Power was restored to all of the affected units within five hours, but then went out again in Fay Towers, she said.

An internal generator kept the elevators working and kept the lights on in the first floor space

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond and hallways, she said, but that’s about all.

She said RRHA made sure residents with medical apparatus that require power could hook their machines up to outlets in the community day room on the first floor, one of the areas the internal generator powered.

Ms. Jones-Gilbert said she and other staff, including interim CEO T.K. Somanath, repeatedly have visited with residents to keep them abreast of the situation and to provide reassurance. RRHA also has worked with partners to provide needed assistance, she said.

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Sheila Hill-Christian, who held numerous executive posts in Richmond and at the state level, was the first woman to serve as the city’s chief administrative officer on a permanent basis.

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The Free Press incorrectly reported in the April 16-18 edition that Richmond’s incoming chief administrative officer, Selena Cuffee-Glenn, would be the first woman to hold the post on a permanent basis. She currently is completing her tenure in Suffolk, where she has served as city manager since 2008.

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Grace Street changing to two-way in Downtown Traffic alert: Expect disruption on East Grace Street from 4th Street to 9th Street in Downtown for two months.

The reason: Five blocks of Grace Street are being transformed from a one-way street to two-way, the Department of Public Works announced this week.

The cost: $376,000, mostly to change traffic lights, but also to pay for re-marking the pavement and other associated costs, department spokeswoman Sharon North said Monday. The city and state are splitting the cost, she said.

Grace Street between 4th and Belvidere streets is to be converted from one-way to two-way when “funding becomes available,” she said.

The move represents the first step in implementing the city’s 2013 strategic transportation plan — an update to the approved 2008 Downtown Master Plan that called for changing the one-way street patterns in Downtown to two-way to make the city more walkable and to make it easier for drivers to get around.

In addition to Grace Street, the 2013 plan called for conversion of Marshall Street to two-way between Belvidere Street and 9th Street; of Clay Street between Belvidere and 3rd streets; of 1st Street between Canal and Duval streets; and of 2nd Street between Main and Duval streets. Duval Street borders Interstate 95.

Other major streets in Downtown, such as Franklin, Main and Cary, are to remain one way, according to the transportation plan.

Previously, the only conversion to two-way has been on Marshall Street between 7th and 9th streets. That change, though, resulted from the opening of the temporary GRTC bus transfer center and the closure of a portion of 7th Street rather than the Downtown plan. — jeremy M. Lazarus

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Democrat Sheila Bynum-Coleman is hoping that people in the 62nd House of Delegates District want a change.

The founder and CEO of a construction company, Ms. BynumColeman, 43, is now running to unseat incumbent Republican Delegate Riley Ingram, 73, of Hopewell.

A real estate broker, Mr. Ingram has represented the district for 23 years.

The district includes parts of Henrico, Chesterfield and Prince George counties, and the city of Hopewell.

“I am excited to meet with the people of the 62nd District, hear their concerns, and work toward viable solutions to the problems we face,” said Ms. BynumColeman, the first major party candidate to challenge Delegate Ingram in at least Ms. Bynum-Coleman 20 years.

She acknowledges she is facing long odds in taking on Delegate Ingram, who is chair of the powerful House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns and helps write the state budget as a member of the House Appropriations Committee.

Ms. Bynum-Coleman said she is up for the challenge.

“I know he will outspend me,” she said. “But he is disconnected from the community. The more I meet with people from the district, the better I feel about this contest.”

She said she is running “to improve our education system to provide our children with opportunities to compete in the job market, to improve our workforce by promoting economic development and to ensure that women continue to have the right to make decisions about their health care.”

Ms. Bynum-Coleman is the founder and chief executive officer of J.C. Bynum LLC., which maintains foreclosed properties for banks. A native of Chesterfield County and a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, she also is an active community volunteer.

Separately, Marcia Price, a dental office administrator and daughter of Newport News Mayor McKinley Price and niece of Congressman Robert C. “Bobby’ Scott, is unopposed in her bid to replace retiring Delegate Mamye BaCote in the 95th House District. Delegate BaCote, 76, is completing her fifth term. She has represented the district that includes parts of Hampton and Newport News since 2004.

Ms. Price, who earned an undergraduate degree from Spelman College and a master’s in religious studies from Howard University, was the only Democrat to file for the seat. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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A big generator is temporarily providing electricity to the 200 units in the 11-story high rise in Gilpin Court while permanent repairs are made.

Squirrels are being blamed for knocking out power to most of the building Sunday. The pesky rodents chewed up a main line into the building, according to Carol Jones-Gilbert, acting chief operating officer for the building’s landlord, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

“This was something unforeseen that we could not control,” she said. Management and staff “have been giving our best efforts” to ease residents’ concerns during the emergency, she said.

The temporary fix was installed Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to the 48-hour outage, Ms. Jones-Gilbert said. Permanent repairs are expected to be completed by Friday, she said.

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with concerned citizens, she told the Free Press she hoped the rally would inspire community members “to re-engage” in the legislative process and to advocate for more education funding.

She said it underscored the importance of citizens voting for public officials who would support additional funding for education.

Secretary Holton said she’s confident gains are being made in Virginia to measure student achievement in ways other than standardized testing.

About a dozen speakers addressed the enthusiastic audience.

Among them, Elijah Coles-Brown, a fifthgrader at Twin Hickory Elementary School in Henrico County. His story of mistreatment and being threatened with arrest by a police officer

for an incident at Three Chopt Elementary School that officials determined was mutual “horseplay” was featured in TIME magazine earlier this month about the “school to prison pipeline” for African-American youths.

In the article, the Center for Public Integrity ranked Virginia first among states in sending students to police.

Elijah’s mother, Brenda Coles, transferred him to Twin Hickory after the incident.

At the rally, the 11-year-old Glen Allen resident drew loud cheers with his rousing remarks.

He was thankful for the first-class facilities that he and other students enjoy at Twin Hickory that include an art studio, music room, library, playground and greenhouse.

“Every school in this commonwealth needs to be provided with the same needed resources, so

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banquet in Roanoke.

April A. Coleman, Free Press vice president for production, received the Best in Show Award for large, non-daily newspapers in Virginia for a color advertisement, “Academic Excellence,” designed for Virginia Union University. The same ad also garnered Ms. Coleman a first place award in the advertising contest’s education and churches category for color ads.

Ms. Coleman also won first place in the entertainment category for black and white ads.

Free Press staff writer Joey Matthews won first place for his feature writing portfolio.

His entry included a trio of articles on the death last year of 8-year-old Marty Cobb who was killed trying to protect his older sister; an Albert Hill Middle School coach returning to her team after suffering a stroke; and a mother and son incarcerated at the Richmond City Jail trying to break what had become a family cycle.

Staff photographer Sandra Sellars received first place awards in two categories — breaking news and general news.

Her photo, “Kiss,” caught two women locked in embrace moments after they wed in an impromptu ceremony on the courthouse steps in Downtown when same-sex marriage was declared legal in Virginia last year.

Ms. Sellars’ photo was called “excellent” by the judges.

“Captures the joy and chaos of this breaking news story.”

Her photo, “Vigil,” of three young children attending a neighborhood memorial vigil for their slain friend Marty Cobb, was described by the judges as “poignant,” capturing the pain and grief of a difficult event to cover.

“The photographer demonstrated remarkable eye for the story and skill to get the shot,” the judges wrote. The photo won Ms. Sellars top honors in the general news photo category.

Former Free Press production team member Brittany Hughes also won two first place awards in the advertising contest’s fashion and personal care and professional/technology services categories for black and white ads.

Combined, all the awards propelled the Free Press to second place in the Grand Sweepstakes among large, non-daily newspapers in Virginia. The Grand Sweepstakes winner was The Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg.

Other Free Press winners: Second place • Bonnie V. Winston, Free Press managing editor, editorial writing • April A. Coleman, Sandra Sellars, Paulette Singleton and James Haskins, combination picture and story • Brittany Hughes, black and white ads in the education and churches, professional/technology services, fashion and personal care and entertainment categories Third place • Sandra Sellars, personality or portrait photo • Paulette Singleton, breaking news photo • April A. Coleman, lifestyle or entertainment pages, and black and white ads in the education and churches and entertainment categories • Brittany Hughes, education and churches category for color ads and professional/technology services category for black and white ads

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bigger matches, yet understanding that a boxer’s development is a slow process.

And having trainer George Peterson in his corner, as well as manager Al Haymon, the adviser to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the biggest broker in the sport, has given Aleem the belief that he will soon contend for a belt.

“Regardless of what you do in life, you need someone who can teach you the business — someone you can trust,” Aleem said of Peterson, who trained former world champion Paul Williams.

“George isn’t rushing me. He’s schooling me, bringing me along slowly.

“I’m blessed to be able to work with him because there are a lot of crooked people in boxing,” he said.

“We’re carefully watching his progress,” Peterson said of Aleem, who now has boxed 44 rounds as a professional. “Al has 12 champions in his stable, and Immanuwel is on the fast track because he follows instructions so well. He’s got heart, hunger and the will to win. Very soon, we’re going to be seeing big things from him. Showtime and HBO — he’s a prospect for all that.”

Peterson credits Aleem’s upbringing in Richmond as the reason for his early success in the sport.

Immanuwel’s parents, Deidre and Omar Aleem, introduced him and his older brother, Moshea, to the sport.

Moshea, a pro with a 4-0 record, is on the mend from Tommy John surgery and hasn’t fought in a year.

Mrs. Aleem, a native of Long Island, grew up with Howard Davis, a lightweight who captured gold in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Mr. Aleem, who hails from Jamaica, was a correctional officer who trained amateurs on the island.

The couple, who cheered ringside for Immanuwel on Saturday night, settled in Richmond in 1997. Ten years later, their love for the sweet science prompted them to buy a vacant building at the corner of 25th and Hull streets and convert it into the Ninth Dimension Sports Circle. There, city youths now learn the basics of the sport at a facility sanctioned by USA Boxing.

It’s where Immanuwel became known as “The Chosen One,” a nickname he gives credence to every time he steps into the ring.

that every child will have the same opportunity that I have at Twin Hickory,” he said.

“As I close out my speech,” he added, “I would like to give a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ‘This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off, or take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.’ Now is the time to make real the promises of our education.”

Antonio Guilford, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Richmond’s East End, passionately spoke on behalf of students and teachers at the school that serves the impoverished community.

“As teachers, we should have all of the resources we need to help our kids, but we do not,” he said.

“I am tired of hearing that we can’t get the things we need because the budget has been cut.”

“Our school is barely accredited,” he added.

“Virginia considers us nearly failing. … But when we are making progress, we should be celebrated, not punished.”

Three students from the school, wearing coats and ties, accompanied Mr. Guilford. They presented a three-prong message designed to rally support for students in schools facing accreditation challenges.

“I am more than a test score,” Charleston Freeman, president of the school’s Student Government Association, told the applauding audience.

“Don’t judge my school as failing because there are many success stories at MLK,” said Corvell Poag, vice president of the SGA. “I am one of them.”

“My safety and learning environment should matter,” added Muhammad Brothers, SGA treasurer. “I am asking everyone to put kids first.”

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Monday, demanding answers, justice and a stop to the police killings. The protests have been peaceful and protesters show no signs of letting up.

Chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice for Freddie,” demonstrators marched Tuesday evening on the block where Mr. Gray was arrested. The Rev. Jamal Bryant of the Empowerment Temple in Baltimore asked for a moment of silence. Mr. Gray’s relatives, including his mother, Gloria Darden — her head shrouded in the hood of a sweatshirt — paused quietly.

She later collapsed in tears and was led away by family and friends.

“This is a grieving family that deserves answers,” Rev. Bryant said. “It’s a sign of strength, of one unity and one commitment that we will not rest until we get justice for Freddie Gray.

“The world is watching, and the world needs to see that black Baltimore is unified,” he added.

More demonstrators assembled in front of the Western District police station

Wednesday afternoon and also planned to rally Thursday in front of City Hall.

Last Saturday, demonstrators from a separate group called “March2Justice” rallied in Baltimore to support those calling for justice for Mr. Gray.

They made the special stop during a more than 200-mile trek that began April 13 in New York City and concluded April 21 in Washington to demonstrate the increasing incidents of police brutality against African-American males — from Eric Garner in New York City to Walter Scott in Charleston, S.C., to Rumain Brisbon in Phoenix.

Actor and human rights activist Danny Glover backed their efforts.

“The time is now for action-based initiatives to supersede wishful thinking, ” he said in a statement.

Police said they found a knife clipped to the inside of Mr. Gray’s front pants pocket when he was apprehended on the morning of April 12, authorities said.

Officers requested a van to take him to the police station. A citizen videotaped a portion of the encounter on a cell phone,

which showed police dragging Mr. Gray into the van. He was handcuffed and hollering about pain.

While it’s unclear what happened in the van, the Baltimore Sun reported that Mr. Gray, who suffered from asthma, asked for an inhaler.

At some point during his roughly 30-minute ride, the van was stopped and Mr. Gray’s legs were shackled when an officer felt he was becoming “irate,” police said.

Mr. Gray lapsed into a coma, was resuscitated, had surgery on April 13 and then “clung to life for seven days” before dying April 19 in the hospital, said William H. Murphy Jr., the family’s attorney.

His relatives said he suffered fractured vertebrae and a crushed larynx. Mr. Murphy said Mr. Gray’s spine had been nearly severed at the neck while he was in custody.

According to arrest papers filed by Officer Miller, Mr. Gray was charged with carrying a knife.

“If we stay calm at a time like this, there is something wrong with us,” one man told reporters.

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Last year’s spring events drew tens of thousands of people to the racetrack that has a current capacity of roughly 71,000.

“It’s a great twice-a-year economic boost,” Mr. Crawley told the Free Press on Wednesday morning. He declined to provide details on how much he makes during the weekend race fans.

“I’ve been welcoming the same people here for the past 25 years,” he said. “We even had children of people who used to come here coming to us now. We have two or three generations of customers.”

He said he expects 60 to 70 vehicles to be parked on his properties this weekend.

“I’ve had up to 100 vehicles here at one time,” Mr. Crawley said. “They love it here because we have a lot of space where they can cook out and socialize. We have bathrooms inside they can use and we have security cameras on the property.”

In that time, Mr. Crawley said, “we haven’t had any problems, fights or misunderstandings. They’re some of the nicest people you’d want to meet.”

The Free Press spoke this week with Mr. Crawley and other African-American property and business owners in the largely black community surrounding RIR to assess what economic rewards they reap when NASCAR comes to town.

While track officials claim they want to draw a more diverse fan base to the largely white sport, it appearsAfrican-Americans are engaging most from outside the gates.

Corey Holeman, an African-American who owns the McDonald’s franchise across from RIR on Laburnum Ave., declined to discuss the economic spike his business gets on race weekends. A vendor setting up to sell race merchandise in the McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday said he pays to use the space through race weekend.

Campers, RVs and other vehicles were parked early this week at Faith Life Tabernacle International, an African-American church behind Essex Village.

Kenny Dail said he and his wife and other fans have parked on the church property for the past 10 years. “I pay $150,” he said late Monday afternoon.

On average, community members said they charge NASCAR fans about $20 per car per day and from $150 to $175 for campers for the weekend.

“The most I ever made was $300 in one weekend,” said Shirley Burgess, who lives near an entrance to the raceway on Richmond-Henrico Turnpike.

She estimates that she will have about eight vehicles in her front and back yards this weekend.

Ms. Burgess said the only rules she sets for the fans is “no fighting, no loud profanity and to clean up after yourselves.”

Bobby Dunn, who lives about a quarter mile from the track on Delmont Road, said he expects to make about $600 this

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Kenny Dail of Greenville, N.C., right, and Ben Johnson of Aberdeen, Md., relax with their pets before the NASCAR races in Richmond. Their families have been parking in the lot of Faith Life Tabernacle International near Richmond International Raceway for at least 10 years.

weekend from fan parking.

“I just tell them, ‘Come, enjoy yourselves,’ ’’ he said. “You couldn’t find nicer people. When they come here, it’s like they’ve been living here all their lives.”

His next-door neighbor, George Moore, said he has welcomed fans onto his property for the past four years.

“As long as they treat me with manners and respect, I’m going to treat them with manners and respect,” he said.

“I’ve never had any problems with any of the people who come here,” added Illean Byrd, who lives nearby on Crawford Street and has allowed fans to park on her lot for the past nine years. “We don’t look at color here.”

Richmond International Raceway hasn’t produced a report since 2008 on the economic benefits its two race weekends generate in the greater Richmond area, according to track spokesperson Aimee Turner. However, estimates are that $400 million is generated in Virginia by the two RIR race weekends, as well as separate annual races in Martinsville and Bristol, she said.

How much of the economic pie RIR shares with theAfrican-American community is unclear, but it appears to be miniscule compared to RIR’s generous financial investments within the white community.

RIR has been hosting NASCAR Sprint Cup races since 1953. However, unlike with white-owned media outlets, RIR never has advertised its race weekend activities in African-American-owned print media in Richmond.

John Moreland, vice president of sales and marketing at RIR, said since the recession

in 2008, RIR has concentrated its outreach efforts on fan retention and creating a more fan-friendly experience at the track.

While again snubbing Richmond blackowned print media for this weekend’s races, he said RIR would spend most of its advertising budget on TV, radio, digital and billboard ads.

“We try to reach a wide range of constituents and fans,” Mr. Moreland said.

A Free Press reporter pressed Mr. Moreland to provide specific examples of how RIR reaches out to the African-American community.

He said RIR supports NASCAR’s “Drive for Diversity” program that seeks to identify and provide support for upand-coming minority drivers.

In Friday’s Toyota Care 250, fans can watch Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr., a diversity program participant who has excelled in the Truck Series and now competes in the Infinity Series driving the No. 6 Ford Mustang.

Mr. Moreland said RIR provides 500 Henrico County students with two tickets to the Infinity Series race.

He said officials meet monthly with a neighborhood committee to discuss their concerns, but he could not say how many are African-American.

Mr. Moreland also said RIR has sent representatives for the past two years to a leadership forum at Virginia State University to provide a better understanding of NASCAR to staff and students.

And RIR hosts a “National Night Out” event each summer to promote better relationships between the community and the police, he said.

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Richmond is close to resolving its voting machine problem.

Less than two weeks after the state banned the touch-screen machines Richmond and 29 other localities have used for 10 years, the city’s Electoral Board has selected replacement equipment.

The only question is whether Richmond City Council will come up with the $1.2 million needed to pay for the new equipment and the related costs — the amount that Voter RegisMs. Showalter trar Kirk Showalter estimates will be needed in the new fiscal year beginning July 1.

In a vote on Monday night, the three-member Electoral Board led by C. Starlet Stevens voted to replace the old equipment with optical-scan machines from Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Neb. With the new equipment, each voter will receive a stiff paper ballot printed with the names of the candidates for each office and will use a black pen to make a choice for each office. The voter will then put the completed ballot into the machine to be scanned and counted.

According to Ms. Showalter, the board “considered all the options” before selecting the winning company. State law exempts voting equipment from the open bid requirements in Virginia’s procurement law.

The decision means that Richmond will not have to borrow machines from Fairfax County for use in the June 9 primary.

Instead, under the boardapproved agreement, the Registrar’s Office is to lease machines from ES&S to use in the primary elections when Richmond voters will choose Democratic nominees in two state Senate districts and two House of Delegate districts.

Ms. Showalter said she has leased 56 optical scan machines and 55 specialty machines for the disabled to meet the city’s needs for the primary.

She estimated the cost at $222,000 for the lease and associated costs, but believes she can handle that expense within her current budget, particularly by redirecting $200,000 previously earmarked to pay for new electronic poll books.

Ms. Showalter said she and the city Electoral Board “had just 10 days to make this shift” to new equipment to be ready for the June primary. After the state banned the old machines on April 14, she said the board, her staff and ES&S “worked miracles” to ensure acceptable machines would be in place for the start of absentee voting on Friday, April 24. “This has been the challenge of my career,” said Ms. Showalter, who has been Richmond’s voter registrar for 20 years.

For the 2016 fiscal year beginning July 1, the board authorized Ms. Showalter to purchase machines from ES&S based on the company’s agreement to apply the lease payment for the equipment used in the primary to the cost of the purchase, which she said would save $142,000.

“That made it a very good deal,” she said.

However, the purchase will require approval from the council, which is now preparing the budget for the 2016 fiscal year.

Ms. Showalter said she has given council a request for $1.2 million to cover all costs related to the new machines, or about $100,000 more than she initially anticipated.

That includes purchasing 80 optical scan machines and 80 machines for the disabled for the city’s 66 precincts, she said, including the central absentee

precinct. The machines used in the primary would be included in that purchase.

Most of the $1.2 million involves the one-time cost for the machines, she said.

She said the good news is that the shift to the optical scan machines will cost at least

$1 million less than she had expected.

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Tough problem What are we going to do about our public school buildings?

This is the biggest single infrastructure problem on our plate — the elephant in the room, so to speak. The sad shape of our streets, our sidewalks and even our Coliseum pales in comparison.

Yes, we have built four new schools since 2012 and have closed five old ones.

Yes, the Richmond School Board could close four to six more buildings and fill empty seats in other buildings with students, a new report on the state of our school facilities has acknowledged.

The board has closed 17 buildings in the past 10 years, but could go further, the report indicates.

However, closing a few more buildings will not solve the real problem, the problem our mayor and our City Council have yet to address and wish would go away.

The problem: Most of our school buildings are worn out, but must be kept open to provide space to educate our children.

Do the math.

Currently, we have 47 school buildings — 25 elementary schools, seven middle schools, five comprehensive high schools and 10 specialty schools, ranging from pre-K centers to Franklin Military Academy, Open High and the Richmond Technical Center.

Close six and we still have 41. Subtract our four newest schools as well as the four that were built 15 years ago, and that still leaves 33 buildings that need serious work.

Most of those buildings are more than 50 years old. Most have outdated heating and cooling systems, outdated lighting and plumbing and inadequate wiring for computers and other technology, just to name a few problems.

The new report on facilities suggests that the bill to bring all of our school buildings up to modern standards could top $600 million.

Call that a Cadillac plan and cut it by $400 million or two-thirds. That still leaves $200 million needed to upgrade old schoolhouses.

Ask Mayor Dwight C. Jones and he will tell you the city can’t afford to spend that kind of money on school buildings.

It would require the city to increase its debt limit too much and ruin any chance of earning a Triple A bond rating.

Ask Richmond City Council members, and they just shrug.

This year, they are thinking about investing $13 million into buildings to take care of the most urgent needs and allowing the school system to try using energy savings to fund the cost of repairing some buildings.

But such small bites mean it could take 15 to 20 years to get all the buildings in better shape. And by that time, it would be time to start over.

That also does not factor in any new buildings that may be needed to address growing student enrollment, particularly on South Side.

We are not financial gurus. We don’t have a magic answer.

What is evident is that it is time for a serious discussion on ameliorating the situation.

Wishing that this problem would solve itself, wishing that buildings would repair themselves, will not make it happen.

Help from high court News this week of the traumatic death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray of Baltimore at the hands of police is both dismal and emotionally bruising.

Mr. Gray, whose biggest crime in life was perhaps being a “joker,” as close friends reported, was nabbed by police after he looked them in the eye and ran. Sometime between being wrestled to the sidewalk, handcuffed and dragged into a police van and being taken unconscious by ambulance to a hospital 30 minutes later, his spinal column was nearly severed and his larynx crushed.

Even with surgery, he languished in a hospital for seven days before he died.

For his family’s sake, we hope he had a morphine drip.

It is difficult to decide how to deal with this — whether another march will change the chain of violence perpetrated upon citizens by the very people who are sworn to protect them.

What will it take to stop the abuse and end the killing?

How can the steadily eroding trust in police be restored?

The U.S. Supreme Court offered a sliver of hope Tuesday in its ruling that serves to return a bit of power to the people.

The ruling, Rodriguez v. United States, blocks police from turning a routine traffic stop into an unreasonable and unlawful search and seizure.

The person at the heart of the case is Dennys Rodriguez, who was stopped by police after he swerved his SUV on a Nebraska road. He told police he swerved to avoid a pothole.

After checking Mr. Rodriguez’s license, registration and proof of insurance, the officer started writing a warning citation. However, he also walked his drug-sniffing dog around the vehicle despite Mr. Rodriguez’s refusal to the officer’s initial request.

The dog signaled the presence of drugs. Police searched the SUV and found a bag of methamphetamine.

Mr. Rodriguez eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of possession, but later appealed on the grounds that the evidence was gathered illegally.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the U.S. Constitution’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure prevent police from extending an otherwise completed traffic stop to allow for a drug-sniffing dog to arrive.

“We hold that a police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote.

Traffic stops and other routine interactions with police can turn violent and deadly, as we have witnessed time and again. But the high court’s ruling helps us to take heart and to take control back.

We must understand the law, understand our rights and stand tall in the Constitution that was designed to protect us.

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Stand up to corporate polluters As Earth Day is upon us, we have a perfect opportunity to reflect on the important issue of climate change and what it means to the faith community. As people of faith and as people sharing this planet, it is clearly our moral obligation to address this growing and potentially catastrophic problem. Climate change affects all of us, including our children, our children’s children, and especially those in the poorest and most vulnerable communities among us. If we are truly our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, we cannot ignore and leave them helpless to this public health threat.

In creating humans in the divine image, God calls us to life-giving responsibility. We are made in God’s image and commanded to be fruitful and multiply. To be fruitful is to be like God and to give of self to bring forth life in all creation, in all of its expressions.

In this manner, humans become partners in creation. We are pro-creative. With the blessing of life comes the responsibility of guarding and cultivating the garden called earth. To guard the garden is to value, protect

and care for the life given; to cultivate the garden is to work, invest and give oneself in such a way that life continues to come forth. The destruction of the earth begins when we start cultivating earth and only use the earth for possessions, privilege, power and position.

Evidence shows that people with lower incomes face higher

Dr. John W. Kinney risks from air pollution. More than 20 million people with incomes that meet the federal poverty definition live in counties that received a failing grade for at least one pollutant. And more than 4 million people living in poverty are in counties that fail all three tests.

This is a testament to the environmental injustice of basic market forces. Lower income families are often forced by land costs and housing market dynamics to live the closest to the biggest sources of carbon pollution that fuel climate change, including power plants and busy roadways. Additionally, companies frequently choose to build their factories in areas where property values are lower, which are in lower income communities more often than not.

The NAACP found that almost 40 percent of the 6

million Americans living in close proximity to a coal plant are people of color. Increased exposure to carbon pollution from these plants is particularly hazardous to children of color, who already have increased rates of asthma on average and are therefore more susceptible to air pollution.

The easy part is acknowledging these unfortunate truths. It is not enough, however, to simply recognize that climate change disproportionately affects lower income families and communities of color. We need to work together to address the problem head on. Thankfully, we have a president who has prioritized taking action to combat climate change and the dangerous carbon pollution that contributes significantly to it.

The Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan proposal sets the first ever federal limits on currently unrestricted carbon pollution from existing power plants. It will cut carbon pollution 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The Environmental Protection Agency projects that the plan could help prevent up to 150,000 asthma attacks in children and 6,600 premature deaths.

Our country needs the public health protections set forth in the Clean Power Plan, and it is my hope that we will have them and more.

Lynch pawn in GOP game Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said that a vote will finally come April 23 on Attorney General-nominee Loretta Lynch.

It probably will happen this time.

The GOP has been pounded, lambasted and pulverized for weeks

by President Obama, Democrats and every civil rights group around for shamefully stalling Ms. Lynch’s confirmation. She has the distinction, courtesy of the GOP, of having her nomination held hostage to anti-Obama, hard-core partisan politics longer than any attorney general nominee since the Reagan administration.

The issue has never been Ms. Lynch’s legal and administrative credentials. They are impeccable. The issue is not really the trumped up issue that Sen. McConnell and GOP leaders claimed was the reason for the unconscionable foot-dragging on her confirmation. The issue is their die-hard, take-no-prisoners assault on President Obama.

Even when Ms. Lynch is confirmed, that won’t change.

The first long and loud warning that Ms. Lynch would be held as a hostage to the GOP’s assault on President Obama’s policies came virtually the moment he announced that he had chosen her to replace Attorney General

Eric Holder. GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, publicly made it

Earl O. Hutchinson clear that they are ticked off that President Obama would tap Ms. Lynch when many Democrats are lame ducks, thus not giving the incoming wave of GOP Senate members a chance to have their say on her confirmation. This was in December.

They then snatched at yet another ploy. They harped that she was supposedly close to Al Sharpton and met with him during the protests around the chokehold death of Eric Garner by New York police. This quickly morphed into the wild, irresponsible and politically loaded question, “Did Sharpton pick the next attorney general?”

That ploy quickly went by the wayside when no one could produce a shred of proof that Rev. Sharpton had had any backroom dealings with Ms. Lynch or President Obama.

Then again that wasn’t really the issue anyway. It was that Ms. Lynch was President Obama’s pick. The GOP could latch on to this in its relentless drive to tar President Obama as an imperial president who thumbs his nose at Congress at every turn and chooses partisan handmaidens to do his bidding.

The GOP had yet another reason to try and figure out a

way to brush aside Ms. Lynch’s sterling credentials and make her a target. She almost certainly would carry on the fight Mr. Holder waged against voter registration discrimination through aggressive enforcement of the voting rights laws. This poses a major threat to the GOP’s push to undermine the Voting Rights Act with a rash of voter ID laws and restrictions, topped by the lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court to scrub the act.

This is even more important with the opening gun of the 2016 presidential elections. The GOP’s trounce of Democrats in the midterm elections ultimately would be wiped out if there is an upsurge in black and Latino voters to the polls in 2016.

They made a huge difference in President Obama’s election and re-election victories, and in ensuring Democrat gains in many state elections in 2008 and 2012. The full enforcement of the Voting Rights Act is a strong safeguard that those gains could be made again in 2016. This is the last thing the GOP wants.

President Obama called the GOP’s disgraceful delay on Ms. Lynch’s confirmation, “embarrassing.” It is that and much more.

Yet, President Obama is well aware that Ms. Lynch was simply a pawn in the GOP’s high-stakes game not just to embarrass him, but to hamstring his presidency in its final stretch to the end of his White House tenure.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same moral imperative to act on climate change and harmful carbon pollution. Corporate polluters are often more concerned with their company profits than with protecting public health. And they help fund allies in our Congress to carry out their dirty work by blocking these public health and environmental safeguards.

We have the voices and the power to stand up to the polluters and their congressional allies and we need to use them. We must call on them to stop their dirty work and start acting on climate change and the carbon pollution that worsens it.

Together, we can affect change and help protect everyone who lives and breathes our planet’s air.

Dr. John W. Kinney is dean and professor of theology of the Virginia Union University Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. He also pastors Ebenezer Baptist Church in Beaverdam.

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Indifference, injustice and neglect harm mental health services for children Since 2011, we carefully have analyzed and documented the abuse of Medicaid-funded mental health services for poor children in Richmond Public Schools.

The disheartening aspect is the wanton willingness of public officials, in cahoots with their public and private sector cohorts, to blatantly ignore and disregard the widespread negative impact of program abuse and inefficiency on poor children and their parents who are desperately in need of mental health interventions.

We naively assumed that once empirical facts were presented, corrective action would be forthcoming. Yet in the past three years, from 2011 to 2014, countless attempts to prompt governmental intervention were ignored and rebuffed. To this day, the

problem persists unabated.

From the outset, we acknowledged the apparent Medicaid billing fraud among some private mental health service providers and recommended that they be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We conveyed this to the appropriate state and federal authorities. However, nothing of substance has been done other than minor, rather benign public relations charades that amount to pennies compared to the multimillion-dollar fraudulent enterprise.

Therefore, it is no wonder that far too many of our at-risk children end up in jail, prison and the cemetery because their psychosocial and economic problems are systematically and

intentionally ignored. The children are labeled educationally challenged when, in fact, they are sentenced to death at an early age due to bureaucratic indifference, injustice and neglect.

Everyone involved in this system, except those most in need, continue to benefit and profit while the suffering of children and parents festers.

KING SALIM KHALFANI The writer owns Commonwealth Consultation LLC. DR. GERALD A. FOSTER The writer is a children’s mental health advocate.

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Outrage over Dems Party rejection Re “Morrissey strikes out in court,” April 16-18 edition: I am a single, AfricanAmerican mother who never has been actively engaged in Democratic politics — until now. I also am an avid reader of the Richmond Free Press and give kudos to Jeremy Lazarus for his well-written

story regarding the Democratic Party rejecting Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey’s petitions and not allowing him on the ballot for the June 9 primary.

I am highly offended that the Democratic Party that champions inclusivity and expanding voters’ rights would reject Mr. Morrissey’s petitions to get on

the ballot.

I don’t know exactly what happened, but something smells. Mr. Morrissey only needed 250 signatures and he filed 972 signatures. Why did the Democratic Party reject 750 of his signatures and why are they trying to keep Mr. Morrissey off the ballot? Why is the Democratic Party that Mr. Morrissey has served faithfully for more than seven years so afraid of him?

Every person with whom I have spoken, both at work and in my neighborhood, are as outraged as I am. I hope Mr. Morrissey runs as an independent, and I, for one, will not only work for him, but I already have sent a letter to his office and plan on campaigning for him as well!

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Paper applications will not be distributed or accepted. No mailed, faxed or hand delivered applications will be accepted. Pre-applications will not be accepted at RRHA’s headquarters or any property owned or operated by RRHA. You must have a valid email address to complete the pre-application and to receive the Housing Authority Notifications. You will receive an email receipt after submission of your preliminary application. Free email accounts are available on Yahoo; Gmail; or Hotmail.

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All Registrants who meet the requirements listed above in submitting their pre-applications will have an equal chance of being selected for the Wait List regardless of the date and time that they submit their pre-applications between April 20, 2015 and April 24, 2015.

RRHA’s Administrative Plan dictates applicant selection by a computerized, random selection (lottery process). RRHA will use the lottery process to establish a waitlist of 10,000 applicants from the total number of pre-applications received.

Once the random selection (lottery) process is completed, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) will send an email to ALL Registrants to notify them if they have or have not been selected for the final HCVP Wait List.

Pre-applications of Registrants who are not one of the 10,000 Registrants selected for the Wait List shall be discarded and shall not have any further right to or entitlement to be listed on the Wait List nor shall they have any further right or entitlement to participate in future selections from the Wait List created under this Notice.

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Applicants who receive a Housing Choice Voucher must live in the City of Richmond and the surrounding counties in RRHA’s jurisdiction for one year before they are eligible to transfer their voucher to another city.

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VUU names Gilbert Lady Panthers coach Throughout her married life, AnnMarie Gilbert has heard Michigan State Spartans were 120-44 in her five years in East stories about basketball success at Virginia Union University.

Lansing, Mich., and advanced to the 2005 NCAA finals before Now she is in position to create fond VUU memories of bowing to Baylor University. her own — as VUU’s eighth women’s basketball coach.

From Michigan State, she became head coach at Eastern Coach Gilbert succeeds Barvenia Wooten-Cherry, who resigned Michigan University, where she posted a 94-64 record that following a 48-85 record over five seasons. included a trip to the 2012 NCAA Tournament.

Coach Gilbert, a native of Elyria, Ohio, and lifelong MidHer Eastern Michigan tenure, while outstanding on the floor, westerner, considers herself part of was tarnished by self-reported NCAA VUU’s extended inner circle. rules violations that resulted in various Lady Panthers’ coaching tree “I don’t think a day or a week has program restrictions.

Coaches beginning with the inception of ever gone by during the past 13 years More recently, she has coached the women’s basketball at Virginia Union University: in which Jonathan didn’t bring up VirU-16 Michigan Cross-Over girls AAU Nathan “Red” Cannady, 1976-80 ginia Union,” she said during Tuesday’s team. Coincidentally, Cross-Over is Tom Harris, 1980-82 announcement made at the L. Douglas playing in a tournament in Hampton Louis Hearn, 1982-89 Wilder Library & Learning Resource this weekend.

Moses Golatt, 1989-99 Center on VUU’s campus.

“With Cross-Over, we’ve had Barbara Burgess, 1999-2001 “Even though I’m not a Union graduhundreds of Division I players,” said Moses Golatt, 2001-05 ate, I feel I’m a part of this family …

Coach Gilbert. “It’s one of the top Brian Underwood, 2005-10 like I belong here.”

AAU programs in the nation — right Barvenia Wooten-Cherry, 2010-15 Coach Gilbert was talking about up there with Boo Williams from this AnnMarie Gilbert, current her husband, Jonathan Walker, a 1990 area.”

VUU alumnus and former Panthers’ At VUU, Coach Gilbert must All-CIAA guard. replace Ashle Freeman, a graduating senior and all-time scorer VUU won CIAA titles in 1987 and 1989 with Walker as the for the team. primary ball handler, and advanced to four NCAA Tournament’s The team was 9-18 this past winter. with Walker in the lineup.

The top returnee is 6-foot-2 Lady Walker of Ohio, an AllA jersey with Walker’s retired number dangles from the VUU CIAA tournament pick. rafters at Barco-Stevens Hall.

“I’ll promise you,” Coach Gilbert told Walker at the press Coach Gilbert, 46, arrives on Lombardy Street with glossy conference, “we’ll get you ball.” credentials as a player and coach.

Her promise was met with loud applause by a row of VUU In two years at Oberlin College in Ohio, the 5-foot-5 guard team members in attendance. tallied 1,527 points and led the NCAA Division III as a junior VUU last won the CIAA title in 1982 under the late Coach with 31.1 points per game.

Tom Harris. The Lady Panthers went on to win the NCAA DiviIn 1991, her 61 points against Allegheny College established sion II national title in 1983 under Coach Louis Hearn. the all-time, Division III one-game record.

VUU finished second in the NCAA Tournament in 1984, After eight years as head coach at Oberlin from 1994 to 2002, before falling on harder times. she became assistant coach at Michigan State University. The “I’m here to help restore the glory,” Coach Gilbert said.

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AnnMarie Gilbert, the new coach for the Lady Panthers, holds the all-time, Division III record for the most points scored in a single game during her days as a player for Oberlin College.

Although details remain incomplete, Coach Gilbert indicated Coach Jasmine Young will become her assistant coach.

Young, a former Monacan High School and East Carolina University star, served as interim coach between Coach WootenCherry’s departure and Coach Gilbert’s arrival.

Coach Gilbert and Walker have two children, 13-year-old Jada and 10-year-old Jaden.

Her husband and children had front-row seats for the news conference.

Coach Gilbert and Walker met while she was coaching at Oberlin and he was coaching at a nearby community college.

“On our first date, Jonathan took me to the gym for a free-throw shooting contest,” Coach Gilbert recalled with a wide smile.

“Jonathan won the first game, but I was determined to beat him. I bet we shot in that gym for seven hours. We stayed until I won.”

Goin’ Nutz Here is the latest home game lineup for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, with the opponent, game time and promotion: Thursday, April 23, New Britain Rock Cats, 6:35 p.m. — fireworks Friday, April 24, New Britain, 7:05 p.m. — T-shirt give-away Saturday, April 25, New Britain, 6:05 p.m.

— fireworks Sunday, April 26, New Britain, 1:35 p.m. — light-switch plate give-away Monday, April 27, Reading Fightin’ Phils, 6:35 p.m.

Tuesday, April 28, Reading, 6:35 p.m. — World Series replica rings to first 2,000 fans Wednesday, April 29, Reading, 10:35 a.m.

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Carbonell brings the spice

New Britain is the Eastern League affiliate of the Colorado Rockies; Reading is the Philadelphia Phillies affiliate.

Richmond drew a sellout crowd of 9,560 on the April 9 opening night at The Diamond.

Attendance averaged 5,285 through six dates.

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Flying Squirrels switch-hitting left-fielder Daniel Carbonell is a prized prospect by the parent club San Francisco Giants.

Peanuts, popcorn, Cracker Jacks … and “mixto,” a Cuban sandwich.

Flying Squirrels vendors might consider expanding the fare at The Diamond for prized prospect Daniel Carbonell and the fans.

The switch-hitting left fielder/lead-off hails from Camaguey, Cuba, and is among the latest to join U.S. pro ball from that Caribbean island’s fertile baseball turf.

Carbonell, 23, is a lithe, 6-foot-3, 196-pound package of speed and potential power who figures heavily into the long-range plans of the Flying Squirrel’s parent organization, the San Francisco Giants.

“He has the tools to play at the big league level,” San Francisco Assistant General Manager Bobby Evans told the Associated Press.

“He’s been timed in 4.0 (seconds) from home to first, which is about as fast as it gets.”

Carbonell, who played during the final month

of the 2014 season in Richmond, is the lone Squirrel on the Giants’ 40-man roster.

The Giants inked Carbonell to a lucrative, incentive-laden five-year contract last year after he left Cuba and established residence in Mexico.

Carbonell signed for a guaranteed $1.4 million, with a $1 million bonus.

He will earn $100,000 a year while in the minors, with his salary escalating to $500,000 to $600,000 if and when he is promoted to the Giants.

His pay was more impressive than his play in early going under the Squirrels’ rookie manager José Alguacil.

While dazzling at times defensively, Carbonell started the season 8 for 50 (.160) at the plate, with a double and a team-high four stolen bases.

His frustrations mirror the team’s. Richmond

was 3-8 overall and suffering a six-game losing streak starting play Monday at Bowie.

For decades, there were few Cubans in American baseball because of the United States’ embargo against the Communist-led nation.

Momentum has changed, however.

Cuban ballplayers have begun popping up around the major leagues and the minors.

There were 18 Cubans on big league rosters starting this season.

Last year, five Cubans were selected for the big league all-star game. They were Los Angeles’ Yasiel Puig, Chicago White Sox’s José Abreu and Alexei Ramirez, Cincinnati’s Aroldis Chapman and Oakland’s Yoenis Cespedes, who is now with Detroit.

Many more are likely en route as ballplayers discover new ways to exit the island in search of U.S. baseball wealth.

Richmond’s baseball history includes

several Cubans.

The manager for the Richmond Virginians in 1963 and 1964 was Cuban Preston Gomez.

The Richmond Virginians were a Triple A farm club of the New York Yankees. Gomez went on to manage San Diego, Houston and the Chicago Cubs in the big leagues.

The most famous Cuban to suit up for Richmond was pitcher Luis Tiant, “El Tiante,” for the 1971 Richmond Braves.

Tiant was 3-4 in nine starts for Richmond, then an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, before being sent to Boston. He went on to pitch in the majors until 1981, recording 229 victories.

With several Cuban restaurants around town, including Kuba-Kuba, Cuba Tropical and Havana ’59, a spicy “mixto” — a blend of pork, ham, cheese, butter, mustard and dill pickle on a hot bun — might be a welcome flavor to The Diamond’s menu.

VCU adjusting after Shaka Smart exit Virginia Commonwealth University has a new basketball coaching staff and, so far, the roster of returning Rams has remained intact, albeit a scare.

Here’s what has transpired since Coach Shaka Smart left VCU to become coach at the University of Texas, and Coach Will Wade, a former Smart assistant, was named his successor.

Promising 6-foot-8 freshman Justin Tillman asked to be released for the purpose of transferring to another university, but has since changed his mind and remains a Ram. All three of Coach Smart’s high school recruits to VCU have asked for and been granted releases

by VCU Athletic Director Ed McLaughlin.

They are Kenny Williams from L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Jordan Murphy from San Antonio, Texas, and Tevin Mack from Columbia, S.C. It is unclear where they may enroll. And it remains a possibility they could reconsider and still enter VCU in the fall.

With Tillman, Coach Wade has 10 returning players — nine of whom are on full scholarships, plus walk-on Torey Burston from Trinity Episcopal School in South Richmond.

Returning Rams are senior-to-be Melvin Johnson, upcoming juniors Mo Shaka Smart Alie-Cox, JeQuan Lewis, Doug Brooks and Jordan Burgess, and rising sophomores Tillman, Terry Larrier, Jonathan Williams and Michael Gilmore.

Johnson is a bona fide All-Atlantic 10 guard candidate. Alie-Cox made the Atlantic-10 Conference All-Defensive team this past season.

NCAA Division I allows 13 basketball scholarships, meaning VCU is presently four under the limit.

With an eye on filling the vacancies, Coach

Wade has hit the recruiting trail hard.

Prospects include 6-foot-3 guard Korey Billbury, who is leaving Oral Roberts University after three years. Billbury, who averaged 14.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game for the university in Tulsa, Okla., also lists Virginia Tech among his suitors.

Billbury would be a graduate student and will not have to sit out a year at his new school.

VCU also is talking with 6-foot-9 Kyle Washington, who has announced he is transferring from North Carolina State University.

This is a very fluid period for college basketball, with many college players transferring and some high school prospects backing out of committing to their original choice and reopening their recruitment.

Coach Wade, whose win-loss record was 40-25 as head coach at the University of TennesseeChattanooga during the past two years, has brought assistant Wes Long and Casey Long, director of basketball operations, with him to

VCU from UT-C. Also joining Coach Wade’s staff is Rasheen Davis, a former assistant at Manhattan College, and Jamill Jones, an assistant from Florida Gulf Coast University.

Former VCU assistant Mike Morrell has gone with Coach Smart to Texas, while another exRams aide, Jeremy Ballard, has left to become an assistant at Illinois State University.

VCU was 26-10 in Coach Smart’s final season.

The Rams won the Atlantic-10 Tournament in Brooklyn before losing to Ohio State University in the NCAA Tournament opener.

The Rams lose three graduating seniors from the 2014-15 team — All-Atlantic 10 forward Treveon Graham, Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year Briante Weber and back-up center Jarred Guest.

Graham recently was named Most Valuable Player at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament and is a possible second round selection in the upcoming NBA draft.

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Personality: Monica Brinkley Davis Spotlight on first African-American president of Junior League of Richmond Monica Brinkley Davis does not take lightly her role as a trailblazing officer of the Junior League of Richmond.

The Henrico County resident is the first African-American president of the 89-year-old organization, whose mission is to train strong female leaders through community service and to strengthen communities.

“I am honored and blessed to serve as the first black president of the Junior League of Richmond,” Mrs. Davis proudly says.

She stepped into the post in June 2014. Her yearlong term will end next month.

She said the Junior League welcomes “women of all races, religions and national origins who wish to join and share their interest in and commitment to voluntarism to come be a part of this amazing legacy,” she said. “We value the differences and experiences of our membership, as that is what enables the Junior League of Richmond to reach and impact the community we serve.”

Mrs. Davis, 40, joined the League in 2003, shortly after moving to Richmond.

“I was invited to become a member by a friend,” she recalls.

“I was looking for volunteer opportunities in the area. I also wanted to learn about the needs of the community that had become my home. The Junior League provided the opportunity to meet both of my needs.”

Mrs. Davis worked her way up the ladder to become the president of the organization that is comprised of nearly 1,000 members.

She says she chose to serve as president “because I wanted to put my League training to the test.

“I have had the opportunity to serve with 11 women (presidents) who I watched blossom as leaders and nurture the spirit of the League in this role,” she adds. “I’m hopeful my service to the organization in this role will make our past presidents and members proud.”

One of her last acts as president will be to lead the league’s annual fundraiser — the 70th annual Book & Author Event at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd St. in Downtown. Five authors are scheduled to discuss and sign their books of hope, humor and inspiration.

Last year’s event raised more than $53,000 to assist the league in its community service efforts.

Details on the event: www.jlrichmond.org or (804) 643-4886.

In her professional capacity, Mrs. Davis is talent development manager for MeadWestvaco Corp., a global packaging company based in Richmond.

Here’s a look at this week’s Personality, Monica Brinkley Davis: Date and place of birth: Jan. 8 in Baltimore.

Current home: Henrico County.

Alma maters with degrees: The University of Virginia, bachelor of arts in English language and literature, 1997; Averett University, MBA, 2005.

Family: Husband, Damon L. Davis, an agent with State Farm Insurance, and daughter, Brinkley Simone Davis, a fourth-grader at Chamberlayne Elementary School.

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Requirements for membership: Must be a woman at least 21 years old, with a love of voluntarism, improving the Richmond community and developing your personal potential.

League’s top four projects: (1) Community programs, such as Good Sports and Families First.

(2) Training opportunities, particularly training courses designed by and for Junior League members that arm our members to lead within and outside of the League community.

(3) The Clothes Rack: Two shops that sell gently used clothes, owned and operated by the Junior League of Richmond, located in Carytown and Stratford Hills. The proceeds from the stores support League operations. Donations are welcome at either location during business hours.

(4) Annual fundraising efforts: Annual Book & Author Event and 10th Annual Touch a Truck – Saturday, October 3, at Richmond International Raceway.

Connections with other community-spirited organizations: Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School, Communities in Schools via Woodville Elementary School and Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, Hospital Hospitality House, Leadership Metro Richmond, Peter Paul Development Center/ Richmond Promise Neighborhood, Reinhart Guest House, Southside Child Development Center, and Virginia Mentoring Partnership.

How League is perceived: As we prepare for our 90th anniversary in 2015, the JLR will celebrate decades of continuous service to our members and the Richmond community. The legacy of the Junior League of Richmond is strong and the work of League members has created, supported and sustained some of Richmond’s most beloved organizations. I’m proud to say I’m a small part of what moves this organization forward. I invite other women in the Richmond metropolitan area to join our ranks and see what I’ve loved for 12 years.

How I want it to be perceived: As the premiere organization for female volunteers in Richmond.

Number of members: 962; 115 new members, 325 active members and 522 sustaining members.

What League does to promote diversity: Through JLR’s Training Institute for Leadership Impact (TILI), training is provided to support members in leading

with inclusion and to flourish in our organization through leadership development and volunteer opportunities.

Junior League of Richmond’s No. 1 challenge: To sustain and grow membership.

How I plan to meet it: I plan to meet it by differentiating what the League offers its volunteers versus other organizations. We offer women the opportunity to develop themselves and build the community in parallel.

What makes me tick: Seeing results.

How I relax: Spending time with my family and friends.

Three words that best describe me: Tall, extrovert and consistent.

People who influenced me the most: My mother, Georgianna Hamlin, and my grandmother, Lucille Hammond Hill.

What I’m reading now: A book by my high school classmate, Jess Row, titled “Your Face in Mine.”

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is: Treat every individual with dignity and respect.

Next goal: Developing my culinary skills in order to pinch hit for my husband a couple of nights a week.

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From R&B to gospel, Barky’s has changed with the times

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When Barksdale “Barky” Higgins opened Barky’s Record Shop in 1956 in Downtown, some people were determined to see he didn’t stay in business for long.

“White record distributors in Richmond wouldn’t sell me records to stock the store,” the affable entrepreneur recalls.

Undeterred, Mr. Higgins traveled by car to Washington or New York City once a month with about $400 and purchased as many records as possible to sell in his store, located at the time at 407 N. 1st St. “Records cost about 59 cents back then and albums ranged from $1.98 to $3.98 for the most popular ones,” Mr. Higgins said.

But two years later, one distributor realized he could make more money by selling to Mr. Higgins. But he “told me I’d have to come by his business early in the morning” so that white record store owners wouldn’t see the transactions, Mr. Higgins recalled.

Nearly six decades later, Mr. Higgins, Barksdale “Barky” Higgins has maintained his record affectionately known as “Barky,” still owns and operates his iconic music store. It is now lives in Henrico County with his wife of now named Barky’s Spiritual Stores and located 57 years, Joyce.

Mr. Higgins said he opened the store — with at 18 E. Broad St in Downtown.

As Barky’s and about 1,400 other indepen- a focus on gospel and R&B — with money dent record shops across the nation celebrated he saved in the Army, where he served from World Record Store Day on April 18, the Free 1954 to 1956.

“The day I got home from the Army, my Press visited Mr. Higgins to discuss his recipe father, who had a radio and TV store in Downfor success through the years.

While many of the record stores with which town, asked me what I was going to do next?”

Mr. Higgins once competed have long since Mr. Higgins said.

He said he opened the store to cater to the faded away, Barky’s remains a testament to how a company can evolve through changing fast-rising popularity of African-American music times, tastes and technology to meet the needs being played on radios and elsewhere.

In 1968, he opened a second store at 109 W. of customers and grow a loyal customer base.

Broad St. that catered to gospel music fans. When At the event designed to laud the steadfast independents in the business, Barky’s offered the store was destroyed in a fire, Mr. Higgins sales on hard-to-find CDs, DVDs and vinyl moved the business to its current location in 1993.

He also decided to forego more contemporary records.

Mr. Higgins was born and raised in the genres and exclusively sell gospel music and Carver neighborhood in Richmond and gradu- church merchandise at the new store.

Many members of African-American churches ated from Armstrong High School in 1950. He

get anything here for yourself or your church that you want.”

Miranda Lewis said she’s drawn to the store by its down-home feeling.

“Mr. Higgins and his employees are so warm and inviting,” she said.

While many larger music stores and chains are no longer around, Barky’s has persevered and remains a mainstay in the community.

“I have so much gratitude to the people who have kept me here,“ Mr. Higgins said. “If it wasn’t for our customers, we wouldn’t be here. We try to pay them back by honoring God and serving the public.”

Mr. Higgins also praised his friends in the community who have helped him forge through tough economic times.

He praised one silent partner — Charles L. Belle, owner of Belle Auto Rental in Richmond — who “was kind enough to contribute when things were going bad.”

Mr. Higgins good-naturedly renamed the business “Barky’s and Belle Stores” Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press temporarily to thank Mr. Belle for his store business in Downtown for nearly six decades. assistance.

In his typical humble fashion, Mr. in the city and surrounding counties have found Higgins credits others with his store’s againsta home away from home at Barky’s. all-odds success.

“We’re a ministry,” Mr. Higgins said. “People He calls his employees “the heart of our come in here and it can turn into a church at business.” any time. We have one man who comes here He points to Frances Berry, the quick-withevery day and we serve him communion. a-smile sales associate behind the counter. “She Some days, people come in here just to give has been with me 40 years,” he said. “I wouldn’t testimonies.” be here without her.”

Most days, Mr. Higgins can be found workHe then reels off the names of other longtime ing at Barky’s, which is nestled on Broad Street employees, who are no longer at Barky’s. They among a section of barbershops, hair salons, include Josephine Harris, who baby-sat him as convenience stores and pawn shops. The shop a child, and Victor Herbert, who both worked at serves not only as a place where people go to Barky’s for nearly two decades. He also praised buy spiritual materials, but also as a hub for sisters Mary and Shirley Miller, sales associates people of faith to congregate. there for 14 years.

“It’s like an extension of home,” said VinHumility aside, Mr. Higgins’ customers and cent Mapp, 62, who said he has frequented the sale associates point to him as the glue that store since his mother first took him there as holds the store together. a child in 1965.

“He’s a blessed man,” said Ms. Berry. “He “They specialize in one thing and that’s the knows how to get along so well with the cusGospel of Jesus,” Mr. Mapp added. “You can tomers.”

VUU 150th celebration continues with speakers, gala Virginia Union University is concluding its 150th anniversary celebration with noted speakers and a scholarship gala highlighting events during the next two weeks.

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For more information, visit http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/syp-default.asp The Office of the Secretary of Transportation ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need further information on these policies or special assistance with persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, please contact VDOT’s Title VI Specialist at 804-786-2730 or DRPT’s Compliance Officer at 804-786-4440 (TTY users call 711).

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The Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) are committed to ensuring that no person is excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits

Richmond Free Press

April 23-25, 2015

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Faith News/Directory

Nation of Islam moves mosque to Downtown

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The Nation of Islam has quietly settled its Richmond mosque into a new home in Downtown.

Forced to give up its large, steepled space on South Side, Muhammad Mosque No. 24 currently is operating out of leased space at 408 E. Main St. The two-story building has been the mosque’s home since January, said Tracy Muhammad, student minister of the mosque, the local affiliate of the Chicago-based NOI led by Minister Louis Farrakhan.

The only indication of the NOI’s presence is a small sign in a first-floor window for Respect for Life Academy, the name of the mosque’s day care and school.

The mosque had to find a new home after filing for bankruptcy two years ago and ultimately turning over its former

home at 104 Cowardin Ave. to SunTrust, which held the mortgage.

The Cowardin Avenue structure, originally St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, is now home to a Latino congregation, the Church of the Living God, which purchased it from the bank for $230,000, according to court records. The official name of the new owner is Iglesia Del Dios Vivo Columna y Apoyo del la Verdad La Luz. Founded around 1960 as the Civil Rights Movement was in full flower, Muhammad Mosque No. 24 long filled two retail buildings on Brookland Park Boulevard on North Side.

In 2005, Mr. Muhammad and other followers of Mr. Farrakhan moved the mosque into the far larger space at the corner of Cowardin Avenue and Bainbridge Street.

The mosque obtained a $380,000

mortgage from SunTrust and nearly $20,000 from the national NOI to make the purchase from the nearby Richmond Christian Center, which is now in bankruptcy itself. RCC had owned the church building since 1997.

However, by 2012, the mosque was struggling to pay its bills. That forced the mosque to file for bankruptcy to stave off foreclosure.

According to documents filed in the case, the mosque owed SunTrust only $180,000, but was unable to refinance. The mosque lost the building after its Chapter 11 filing for reorganization was converted into a Chapter 7 filing for dissolution of its assets. A trustee appointed to the case found the mosque had no assets.

The bank foreclosed last September and sold the building to the Latino congregation around Thanksgiving.

NAACP branches to host forums at area churches Concerned about the ever widening racial divide? Troubled about discrimination or other problems of social equity?

Here’s your opportunity to sound off.

Area churches are teaming up with area NAACP chapters to host a series of public forums on social justice.

This series is aimed at fostering public discussions about incidents related to law enforcement, poverty and other crucial issues involving equal treatment.

All of the forums are open to the public.

Here is the confirmed list by date, time and location: Monday, April 27, 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., Chicago Avenue Baptist Church, 2331 Broad Rock Blvd., Richmond, Rev. Marlon Haskell, (804) 231-4455.

Good Shepherd Baptist Church 1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223-6624 • Office: (804) 644-1402 Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You” Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday) 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

FirstM iBaptist Church dlothian

11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

Monday, May 4, 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., Fourth Baptist Church, 2800 P St., Richmond, Rev. Emory Berry Jr., (804) 644-1013.

Tuesday, May 5, 6 to 8:15 p.m., Quioccasin Baptist Church, 9011 Quioccasin Road, Henrico County, Rev. Andrew M. Mosley Jr., (804) 741-2313.

Thursday, May 7, 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., Good Shepherd Baptist Church, 1200 N. 28th St., Richmond, Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, (804) 644-1402; Sixth Baptist Church, 400 S. Addison St., Richmond, Dr. Yvonne J. Bibbs, (804) 359-1619; Tuesday, May 12, 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., Mount Zion Baptist Church, 2371 Piping Tree Ferry Road, Mechanicsville, Rev. Paul D. Flowers Sr., (804) 779-7812.

St. Peter Baptist Church Dr. Kirkland R. Walton, Pastor

2015 Women’s Retreat “Faithful Women: Inspiring Change through Intercessory Prayer” James 5:13-16

Thursday, April 30, 2015

6:30 p.m. - Prayer & Praise 7:00 p.m. - Women’s Bible Study Special Guest: Rev. Pamela Lyons

Saturday, May 2, 2015

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Pedestrians walk by the new home of Muhammad Mosque No. 24 at 408 E. Main St. in Downtown. No signs adorn the building to call attention to its new use as a place of worship.

Mission Statement: People of God developing Disciples for Jesus Christ through Preaching and Teaching of God’s Holy Word reaching the people of the Church and the Community.

“The Church With A Welcome”

Sharon Baptist Church 22 E. Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23219 • 643-3825 thesharonbaptistchurch.com Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles, Pastor

SUNDAYS 8:00 a.m. .... Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. .... Church School 11:15 a.m. ...Morning Worship

WEDNESDAYS 6:00 p.m. ..... Prayer Service 6:30 p.m. ..... Bible Study

THURSDAYS 1:30 p.m.

Bible Study

Broad Rock Baptist Church 5106 Walmsley Blvd., Richmond, VA 23224 804-276-2740 • 804-276-6535 (fax) www.BRBCONLINE.org

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Early Morning Worship ~ 8 a.m.

Sunday School ~ 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship ~ 11 a.m.

4th Sunday Unified Worship Service ~ 9:30 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Radio Ministry: Sunday: 9:30 a.m. {1540 AM}

“MAKE IT HAPPEN”

11:30 a.m. - Luncheon Theme: “Lord, Hear Our Prayer” *Free to the public.

Pastor Kevin Cook

Sunday, May 3, 2015 13800 Westfield Dr., Midlothian,VA 23113 804-794-5583 • www.fbcm1846.com

Color scheme for this event will be shades of blue with accents of silver.

Service Times Sunday

Church School 9:45AM Worship 11:00AM

Tuesday

Bible Study 12 Noon

2040 Mountain Road • Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Office 804-262-0230 • Fax 804-262-4651 • www.stpeterbaptist.net

Grayland Baptist ChurCh

Wednesday Youth & Adult Bible Study

The Church Where “Everybody is Somebody and Jesus is Lord.”

7:00PM Prayer & Praise 8:15PM

Van Transportation Available, Call 804-794-5583

10:00 a.m. - Unity Worship Service Special Guest: Rev. Danielle Bridgeforth

Rev. Pernell J. Johnson, Pastor

Lady

live

Tramaine Hawkins In Concert

with your host Sheilah “The Belle” Belle Sunday, April 26, 2015 3 pm (doors open 2pm) Ticket $25

“Goin’ Up Yonder” “Changed”

2301 Third Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23222 • Phone: (804) 329-7313 • Fax: (804) 329-6420 www.graylandbaptistchurch.org • Rev. Dr. Clifton Whitaker Jr., Senior Pastor

Come Worship with Us and Receive a Spiritual Blessing!

Sunday, apRIl 26, 2015 Sermon by Rev. O. R. Ball, III Music by The Mass Choir Sundays 8:30 a.m. Church School/ New Members Class 9:45 a.m. Praise & Worship 10:00 a.m. Divine Worship Wednesdays 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Service & Bible Study

2920 Kingsdale Road N. Chesterfield, VA 23237 • 804.275.0407

Dr. Wilson E. B. Shannon, Pastor www.firstbaptistchurchcentralia.org

Proceeds to benefit Haven for Hope 45,000 sq. ft expansion of the Family Life Center dedicated to providing Christian programs to build stronger families, to include roller skate rink, indoor swimming pool, banquet space capacity for 750, daycare facility for 150.

Riverview

Baptist Church 2604 Idlewood Avenue Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Pastor Rev. Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. Pastor Emeritus

SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:45 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 A.M.

Moore Street Missionary

Baptist Church

1408 W. Leigh Street • 358-6403

Dr. Alonza Lawrence Pastor

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Holy Communion & Unity Day Church School 8:30 A.M. Morning Worship 10:00 A.M.

Church School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. ❖

Children & Youth Anti-Drug Awareness Night

Workshops Food & Fellowship

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C e l e b r at i o n 3:00 p.m.

Featured guests: St. Paul’s Baptist Church Male Chorus The Gospel Voices of Glen Allen Richard D’Abreu, Jr. Richard D’Abreu III, Elijah Allen

Sponsored by the Music Ministry Male Chorus

First Baptist Church Centralia

everence e with e evanc R ing Dr. Morris Henderson, Senior Pastor bin m o ❖ C SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2015

Wednesday, April 29th, 7 p.m.

We invite you to our

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Thirty-first Street Baptist Church

MONDAY-FRIDAY Nutrition Center and Clothes Closet 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

823 North 31st Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 226-0150 Office www.31sbc.org

Richmond Free Press

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Faith News/Directory

Methodists to sell lemonade to combat malaria United Methodists will set up lemonade stands in Richmond and other locations across the state Saturday, April 25.

The reason: To raise money to help prevent malaria, a potentially fatal disease found mostly in Africa. Malaria is caused by a parasite and spread by mosquitoes. The event is being held on World Malaria Day.

“We want to connect our neighbors with our churches and help save the lives of thousands in Africa suffering from malaria,” said Bishop Young Jin Cho, who leads the state’s estimated 335,000 members of the United Methodist Church.

The aim is to get more than 1,000 lemonade stands set up across the state, he said.

At least 18 churches in the Richmond area

have signed up.

The event is part of a yearlong initiative approved at the 2014 Virginia Annual Conference session last June. The goal is to raise $1 million or more before the next state conference, scheduled for June 19 through 21 in Roanoke. That would save at least 100,000 lives, according to officials.

Proceeds will go to “Imagine No Malaria,” an

initiative of the United Methodist Church and other foundations, for prevention efforts, including bed nets; treatment, including medication and trained workers; grassroots education; and communication efforts to prevent the spread of malaria.

For a list of lemonade stands, go to www. vaumc.org/pages/ministries/mission/nomalaria/ inm-lemonadestandsites.

Rev. Cook-Posley to speak at Women’s Day program The Rev. Cheryl Cook-Posley will Church in Jackson Ward, and the Rev. be the guest preacher at the Women’s Martha Charles Cook, former minister Day service Sunday, April 26, at Secof church growth and membership ond Baptist Church in the West End, development at Ebenezer. the church has announced.

Dr. Cook-Posley received her The service is 10 a.m. at the church master’s of divinity from Howard at 1400 Idlewood Ave. led by the Rev. University, where she was awarded James Henry Harris. the Vernon Johns Preaching Prize.

Rev. Cook-Posley is the founder The award is bestowed upon the Rev. Cook-Posley of Hamlets of Hope Ministries, an student whose preaching exempliAshburn, Va.-based nonprofit for ministerial fies the passion of the late Rev. Johns and his practitioners and faith communities focused on commitment to social justice. transformational ministry.

She earned a doctorate in ministry from Wesley She is the daughter of the Rev. Wallace Theological Seminary in Washington.

J. Cook, pastor emeritus at Ebenezer Baptist Details: (804) 353-7682.

Fourth Baptist to host special Mother’s Day service A guest minister will keynote Fourth Baptist Church’s annual Mother’s Day program Sunday, May 10, the church has announced.

Deaconess Eugertha Turner Minnicks of Sharon Baptist Church in Jackson Ward will preach at the special 8:30 a.m. service at Fourth Baptist, 2800 P St. in Church Hill. The church is led by the Rev. Emory Berry Jr.

Singer, songwriter and composer Yolanda Westinghouse of Fourth Baptist will sing at the service. She has recorded two CDs and performed on the recordings of several other artists.

She directs the J-Unity community outreach choir at Fourth Baptist.

Details on the special Mother’s Day service: www.fourthbaptist.com or (804) 644-1013.

JAZZ LUNCH at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sixth Baptist Church Theme for 2015: Becoming a Five-Star Church of Excellence

It’s A Family Affair

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13

Sunday, April 26, 2015 From Easter To Pentecost (Pre-14th Anniversary Message of Pastor and People)

Wednesday, April 29, 12-1 p.m.

Lani Bass: vocal jazz standards

Spread the Word

$10 for music & lunch

815 E. Grace Street

643-3589 www.stpaulsvra.org/jazz

Zion Baptist Church

To advertise your church: Worship Service Gospel Concert Vacation Bible School Homecoming Revival call

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Dr. Robert L. Pettis, Sr., Pastor Sunday Service 10 a.m.

Church School 8:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 7p.m.

Transportation Services 232-2867

Richmond Free Press

“Reclaiming the Lost by Proclaiming the Gospel”

The People's Paper.

Rev. Darryl G. Thompson, Pastor

2015 Theme: The Year of Moving Forward

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8775 Mount Olive Avenue Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 (804) 262-9614 Phone (804) 262-2397 Fax www.mobcva.org

April 29, 2015

6:45 PM Prayer & Praise 7:00 PM Worship Service Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Sylvester Smith, Pastor Good Shepherd Baptist Church Richmond, VA

Join The Family Sixth Baptist Church: A Church for the Entire Family Twitter sixthbaptistrva

Facebook sixthbaptistrva

Sunday, May 3, 2015 11:00 a.m.

Pastor’s 14th Anniversary Guest Speaker: Rev. David L. Chapman Interim Executive Minister Baptist General Convention of Virginia Rev. Dr. Yvonne Jones Bibbs, Pastor 400 South Addison Street Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 359-1691 or 359-3498 Fax (804) 359-3798 www.sixthbaptistchurch.org

2006 Decatur Street Richmond, VA 23224

804-644-0496

Revival Mount Olive SpringMonday, April 27, 2015 Baptist Church thru Wednesday,

9:30 a.m. Church School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship Message by: Pastor The Church’s Responsibility To A Pastor Hebrews 10:23-24 1st Corinthians 11:1, etc....

P ILGRIM J OURNEY B APTIST C HURCH R EV. ANGELO V. C HATMON, P ASTOR 7204 Bethlehem Road • Henrico, VA 23228 • (804) 672-9319 UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

PASTOR’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATING 16 YEARS

“Pastor & People: Staying Connected to the Source” - John 15:5 Sunday, May 3, 2015: 10:00 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Apostle Steven Banks, Newport News, VA

WOMEN’S DAY

Ebenezer Baptist Church 1858

“The People’s Church”

216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 • Tel: 804-643-3366 Fax: 804-643-3367 • Email: ebcoffice1@comcast.net • web: ebcrichmond.org Sunday Worship Sunday Church School Service of Holy Communion Service of Baptism Life Application Bible Class Mid-Week Senior Adult Fellowship Wednesday Meditation & Bible Study Homework & Tutoring Scouting Program Thursday Bible Study

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11:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

Every 3rd Sunday 2nd Sunday, 11 a.m.

Mon. 6:30 p.m.

Tues. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Wed. 7:45 p.m.

Wed. 4:30 p.m.

Wed. 6:00 p.m.

Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

“Women Sowing Seeds for Christ” Hosea 10:12 Sunday, May 17, 2014: 10:00 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Michelle McQueen-Williams, First Baptist Church Southside http://ustream.tv/channel/pjbc-tv

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Come Join Us! Reverend Dr. Lester D. Frye Pastor and Founder

To empower people of God spiritually, mentally and emotionally for successful living.

… and Listen to our Radio Broadcast Sundays at 10:15 a.m. on WCLM 1450 AM

Jesus went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

- Matthew 4:23

Sunday: Church School: 8:45 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Children’s Church: 10:00 a.m.

(2nd, 3rd, 5th ) Wednesday: Prayer & Praise 6:30 p.m.

Bible Study 7:15 p.m.

(Men’s Bible Study -3rd Wednesday) Thursday: Women’s Bible Study 7:00 p.m. www.pjbcrichmond.org

New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

1701 Turner Road, North Chesterfield, Virginia 23225 (804) 276-0791 office (804)276-5272 fax www.ndec.net

Remember...

At New Deliverance, You Are Home!

See you there and bring a friend.

Dr. Levy M. Armwood, Pastor  Dr. Wallace J. Cook, Pastor Emeritus

2300 Cool Lane, Richmond, Virginia 23223 804-795-5784 (Armstrong High School Auditorium)

WEEKLY SERVICES

Bishop G. O. Glenn D. Min., Founder Mother Marcietia S. Glenn First Lady

Sunday 8 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service

Wednesday Services Senior Citizens Noonday Bible Study Every Wed. 12noon -1 p.m.

Bible Study Count: noonday Wednesday night 7 p.m. Prayer 7:15 p.m. Bible Teaching Sanctuary - All Are Welcome!

Saturday

8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

You can now view Sunday Morning Service “AS IT HAPPENS” online!

Also, for your convenience, we now offer “full online giving.”

Visit www.ndec.net.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Hebrew 12:14 (KJV) Tune in on Sunday Morning to WTVR - Channel 6 - 8:30 a.m.

Sunday TV Broadcast WTVZ 9 a.m. Norfolk/Tidewater Thursday & Friday Radio Broadcast WREJ 1540 AM Radio - 8:15 a.m.- 8:30 a.m.

THE NEW DELIVERANCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (NDCA)

ENROLL NOW!!!

Accepting applications for children 2 yrs. old to 3rd Grade Our NDCA curriculum also consists of a Before and After program.

Now Enrolling for our Nursery Ages 6 weeks - 2yrs. old.

For more information Please call (804) 276-4433 Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Richmond Free Press

April 23-25, 2015

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Richmond Free Press

call 644-0496 City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, May 4, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, May 11, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2015-80 To amend and reordain City Code §§ 114-692.3, 11 4 - 6 9 2 . 4 a n d 11 4 1030.1, concerning the review criteria for installations utilizing alternative support structures and when a plan of development shall be required, respectively; and to amend and reordain the fees set forth in Appendix A for section 114-1020.4(a), both for the purpose of authorizing the installation of certain wireless communications facilities on alternative support structures with a building permit.

Ordinance No. 2015-90 To rezone the property known as 1031 Fourqurean Lane from the R-53 Multifamily Residential District to the R-5 SingleFamily Residential District. The property owner has requested the rezoning in order to remove the existing proffers and develop the former school building for multi-family uses under a special use permit. Of the type of development proposed for the site, the Richmond Master Plan states that additional multi-family development should be limited to managed senior housing along major transportation corridors, except Chamberlayne Avenue, where access cannot impact single family residential areas.

Ordinance No. 2015-91 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1031 Fourqurean Lane for the purpose of permitting one or more multifamily dwellings with a total of up to 92 dwelling units for elderly and disabled persons, together with accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions. In 2012, City Council authorized a conditional rezoning of the subject property (Ord. No. 201213-24), which zoned the property R-53 Multifamily Residential District Conditional. The applicant does not intend to develop the property according to the approved proffer statement, and thus, has requested to rezone the property from the current R-53 zoning back to the R-5 Single Family Residential district. The R-5 District does not permit multi-family dwellings and thus requires a special use permit. Of the type of development proposed for the site, the Richmond Master Plan states that additional multi-family development should be limited to managed senior housing along major transportation corridors, except Chamberlayne Avenue, where access cannot impact single family residential areas.

Ordinance No. 2015-92 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1817 East Main Street for the purpose of permitting up to 78 multifamily dwelling units, accessory parking and uses permitted in the B-5 Central Business District, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned M-1 Light Industrial District.

The applicant proposes up to seventy-eight (78) multi-family dwelling units and uses permitted in the B-5 Central Business District. Dwelling units are not permitted principal uses in the M-1 district.

Therefore, a special use permit is required. The Richmond Downtown Plan designates this area as Urban Center Area. The Urban Center Area is characterized by higher density, mixed-use development, typically arranged on a fine-grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

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est in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2003, with respect to said property, recorded December 23, 2003, in Instrument Number 03049039, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, DEBORAH KLEM, As to a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $20,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, SEYMOUR PEARSON, who may be deceased, As Trustee, $20,000.00 Interest and his Successor/s in Title, and HAZEL PEARSON, who may be deceased, As Trustee, $20,000.00 Interest and her Successor/s in Title, who may be the holder/s of a $20,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, JONAH SLIPOW who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of JONAH SLIPOW, As to part of an $8,300.00 Interest, who may be the holder/s of a part of a $8,300.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, RONALD W. ADOLF, As to a $12,700.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $12,700.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, BEVERLY SALKIN, As to a $12,250.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $12,250.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response in this matter, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ABNER SALKIN, As to a $12,250.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $12,250.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MARC A. DENNING, who be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated January 12, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded January 16, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-01641, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 19, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

dated who may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated March 11, 1998, with respect to said property, recorded June 8, 1998, in Instrument Number 98-14543, or his successor/s in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 19, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MYRASHELL MCMORRIS, Plaintiff v.

KEITH MCMORRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000784-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 27th day of May, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff

recorded April 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-12931, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response in this matter, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JOHN PAUL GRAYBEAL, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of JOHN PAUL GRAYBEAL, who may be the holder/s of a $25,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded April 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-12931, have not been located and have not filed a response in this matter; that OLD DOMINION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, which may be the holder of a $7,500.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded April 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-12931, or said holder’s heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and have not filed a response to this action; that SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, TRUSTEE FOR THE EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE and RICHARD KRIDER, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that PREMIER INVESTMENT PROPERTIES, L.L.C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, DAVID P. SEFCHOCK and GERALYN M. SEFCHOK, who may be the holders of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated November 2, 2005, with respect to said property, recorded November 4, 2005, in Instrument Number 05-38853, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JACK GRAYBEAL, As to part of a $33,000.00 Interest, and CAROLE GRAYBEAL As to part of a $33,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $33,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded April 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-12931, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JOHN PAUL GRAYBEAL, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of JOHN PAUL GRAYBEAL, who may be the holder/s of a $25,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded April 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-12931, OLD DOMINION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, which may be the holder of a $7,500.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded April 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-12931, or said holder’s heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, TRUSTEE FOR THE EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD KRIDER, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 19, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ELMER BAKER a/k/a ELMER BAKER, SR., et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1007 North 33rd Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0878/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Elmer Baker a/k/a Elmer Baker, Sr., who may be deceased, and Josephine R. Baker, who may be deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELMER BAKER a/k/a ELMER BAKER, SR., who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest ELMER BAKER a/k/a ELMER BAKER, SR., have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, the Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Assignees, or Successors in interest of JOSHEPHINE R. BAKER, Deceased, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ELMER BAKER, JR., who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELMER BAKER, JR., have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that CURTISTEEN BAKER, JOSETTE D. BAKER, and SHERRY M. BAKER, who may have an ownership interest in said property, are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ELMER BAKER a/k/a ELMER BAKER, SR., who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest ELMER BAKER a/k/a ELMER BAKER, SR., the Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Assignees, or Successors in interest of JOSHEPHINE R. BAKER, Deceased, ELMER BAKER, JR., who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELMER BAKER, JR., CURTISTEEN BAKER, JOSETTE D. BAKER, SHERRY M. BAKER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 19, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL14-3005-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

SECOND AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1526 North 22nd Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0776/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that RONALD W. ADOLF, As to a $17,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $17,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2003, with respect to said property, recorded December 23, 2003, in Instrument Number 03-049039, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that PAMELA T. SILVER, As to part of a $17,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $17,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2003, with respect to said property, recorded December 23, 2003, in Instrument Number 03049039, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that HAL GOTTSCHALL a/k/a HAROLD H. GOTTSCHALL, and LINDA GOTTSCHALL As to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $20,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2003, with respect to said property, recorded December 23, 2003, in Instrument Number 03-049039, who are not residents of the Com-

monwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response in this matter, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that DEBORAH KLEM, As to a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $20,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that SEYMOUR PEARSON, who may be deceased, As Trustee, $20,000.00 Interest and his Successor/s in Title, and HAZEL PEARSON, who may be deceased, As Trustee, $20,000.00 Interest and her Successor/s in Title, who may be the holder/s of a $20,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JONAH SLIPOW who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of JONAH SLIPOW, As to part of an $8,300.00 Interest, who may be the holder/s of a part of a $8,300.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that RONALD W. ADOLF, As to a $12,700.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $12,700.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that BEVERLY SALKIN, As to a $12,250.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $12,250.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response in this matter, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ABNER SALKIN, As to a $12,250.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $12,250.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-34420, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response in this matter, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that MARC A. DENNING, who be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated January 12, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded January 16, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-01641, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response in this matter, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, RONALD W. ADOLF, As to a $17,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $17,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2003, with respect to said property, recorded December 23, 2003, in Instrument Number 03049039, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, PAMELA T. SILVER, As to part of a $17,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $17,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2003, with respect to said property, recorded December 23, 2003, in Instrument Number 03049039, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, HAL GOTTSCHALL a/k/a HAROLD H. GOTTSCHALL, and LINDA GOTTSCHALL As to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $20,000.00 Inter-

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Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD JAIME ROCHA ROJAS, Plaintiff v.

ARACELI HERNANDEZ ALVERADO ROJAS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL14002523-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is for the granting of a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, pursuant to §20-91(9)(a) of the Code of Virginia, more than one year separation.

And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Araceli Hernandez Alverado Rojas, the abovenames defendant, is not a resident of this state, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Araceli Hernandez Alverado Rojas do appear on or before the 19th day of May, 2015, at 9:45 a.m., in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect her interest.

A Copy, Teste: WENDY S. HUGHES, Clerk I ASK FOR THIS: James F. Sumpter, Esq. VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MICHELLE UNDERWOOD, Plaintiff v.

RANDY UNDERWOOD, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000830-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 28th day of May, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RANDY FAISON, Plaintiff v.

JOHNETTE FAISON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000899-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 3rd day of June, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JUSTIN WOLZ, Plaintiff v.

REBECCA WOLZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000445-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 3rd day of June, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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CUSTODY FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY In the Matter of the Adoption of a child whose first name is Jordan File No. 22471 Docket No. AS-01114-13 NOTICE OF PROPOSED ADOPTION To: AARON HAMMIE 626 YORKSHIRE DRIVE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition requesting an order approving and allowing the adoption of an adoptive child whose first name is JORDAN, who is alleged to be your Son, and whose full name and date and place of birth is set forth in a Schedule annexed to the petition for adoption herein, together with an agreement to adopt and consents to the adoption pursuant to the Domestic Relations Law, has been filed with the Family Court of the State of New York, Schenectady County. A hearing on the petition will be held at the Court, located at 620 State Street, 5th Floor, Schenectady, New York on June 10, 2015 at 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, at which time and place all persons having any interest therein will be heard.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that your failure to appear may constitute a denial of your interest in the child, which may result, without further notice to you, in the adoption or other disposition of the custody of the child.

JENNIFER M. BARNES, ESQ. DEPUTY COUNTY ATTORNEY SCHENECTADY CO. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE 106 ERIE BLVD. SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK 12305 PHONE: (518) 388-4275 virgiNia: iN thE Richmond JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Commonwealth of Virginia, in re DESHAWN K. HENRY OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Jacquel Lamar Parker (Father) of Deshawn K. Henry, child, DOB 12/14/2010, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Jacquel Lamar Parker appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/ her interest on or before June 2, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.

Kate D. O’Leary, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

PROPERTY

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL14-3996-1 PREMIER INVESTMENT PROPERTIES, L.L.C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “3000 Q Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/ GPIN# E000-0627/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Premier Investment Properties, L.L.C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, PREMIER INVESTMENT PROPERTIES, L.L.C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that DAVID P. SEFCHOCK and GERALYN M. SEFCHOK, who may be the holders of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated November 2, 2005, with respect to said property, recorded November 4, 2005, in Instrument Number 05-38853, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response in this matter, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JACK GRAYBEAL, As to part of a $33,000.00 Interest, and CAROLE GRAYBEAL As to part of a $33,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $33,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2006, with respect to said property,

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL14-1273-1 ELMER BAKER a/k/a ELMER BAKER, SR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL15-559-1 RICHARD POOLE a/k/a RICHARD A. POOLE, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “3300 Tuxedo Boulevard”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E0003313/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Richard Poole.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RICHARD POOLE a/k/a RICHARD A. POOLE, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that FIRSTPLUS FINANCIAL INC., Assignee of American Liberty Mortgage, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated March 11, 1998, with respect to said property, recorded June 8, 1998, in Instrument Number 98-14543, or its successor/s in title, have not filed a response to this action; that EDWARD K. PARKER, Trustee of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated who may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated March 11, 1998, with respect to said property, recorded June 8, 1998, in Instrument Number 98-14543,has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or his successor/s in title; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that RICHARD POOLE a/k/a RICHARD A. POOLE, FIRSTPLUS FINANCIAL INC., Assignee of American Liberty Mortgage, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated March 11, 1998, with respect to said property, recorded June 8, 1998, in Instrument Number 98-14543; Assigned to FIRSTPLUS FINANCIAL INC., recorded June 18, 1998 in Instrument Number 98-14544, or its successor/s in title, EDWARD K. PARKER, Trustee of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL13-4447-1 WILBERT J. BELLAMY a/k/a WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF WILBERT J. BELLAMY a/k/a WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “3070 Nine Mile Road”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# NE0000991/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., who may be deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, WILBERT J. BELLAMY a/k/a WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of WILBERT J. BELLAMY a/k/a WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that BEVERLY PATTERSON a/k/a BEVERLY ROSE BELLAMY-PATTERSON a/k/a BEVERLY ROSE BELLAMY, SHARON SHEPARD a/k/a SHARON DANITA BELLAMY SHEPARD p/k/a SHARON DANITA BELLAMY, and VALERIE HASH a/k/a VALERIE KIM HASH a/k/a VALERIE KIM BELLAMYBROWN p/k/a VALERIE KIM BELLAMY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that JMC OF VIRGINIA, A Virginia Corporation, An Entity Not Listed in the Records of the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporate Commission, which may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JMC OF LOUISIANA, INC., A Purged Virginia Corporation, which may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that STACY L. CARRIER, THERESA C. CARRIER, and JOHN M. CARRIER, As Former Directors and Trustees in Liquidation, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action; that JAMES ODELL BARNES AT 1324 DOVER STREET, COLUMBIA, SC 29201, who may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated July 14, 1999, with respect to said property, recorded July 16, 1999, in Instrument Number 99-19870, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest, whose names are unknown; that PAUL D. STOTTS a/k/a PAUL D. STOTTS, SR., and MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS, Trustees of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated July 14, 1999, with respect to said property, recorded July 16, 1999, in Instrument Number 99-19870, or their successor/s in title, that DONALD C. BURRIESCI, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that WILBERT J. BELLAMY a/k/a WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of WILBERT J. BELLAMY a/k/a WILBERT J. BELLAMY, SR., BEVERLY PATTERSON a/k/a BEVERLY ROSE BELLAMY-PATTERSON a/k/a BEVERLY ROSE BELLAMY, SHARON SHEPARD a/k/a SHARON DANITA BELLAMY SHEPARD p/k/a SHARON DANITA BELLAMY, VALERIE HASH a/k/a VALERIE KIM HASH a/k/a VALERIE KIM BELLAMYBROWN p/k/a VALERIE KIM BELLAMY, JMC OF VIRGINIA, A Virginia Corporation, An Entity Not Listed in the Records of the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporate Commission, JMC OF LOUISIANA, INC., A Purged Virginia Corporation, STACY L. CARRIER, THERESA C. CARRIER, and JOHN M. CARRIER, Continued on next page

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Butler expected to be named VUU men’s basketball coach

Namozine Road (Route 708) Bridge Replacement Amelia County & Dinwiddie County Citizen Information Meeting

By Fred Jeter

star Ben Wallace, who is expected to Lester L. “Jay” be named as an asButler Jr. helped sistant. Wallace and Virginia Union UniButler were teamversity win 107 mates in 1996 when basketball games VUU advanced to as a play-making the NCAA Division guard for the PanII Final Four. thers from 1992 to VUU was 1071996.

14 in Butler’s four Now he’ll try seasons playing to add to that vicunder Coach Dave tory total as head Robbins. coach.

Butler served two The Washingyears as a volunteer ton native and assistant coach for VUU alumnus of VUU men’s team. the Class of 1996 He spent two seais expected to be sons coaching boys named head coach at Bladensburg High of the Panthers’ School in Maryland men’s basketball before heading to team, succeeding UDC. Mr. Butler Tony Sheals, who He was a UDC was reassigned after one season. women’s assistant coach for two years before A press conference is set for Tuesday, April being named head coach in 2003.

28, at the L. Douglas Wilder Library & Learning He becomes the third former Panthers guard Resource Center on the VUU campus. to become VUU men’s coach since Robbins’ Butler has served for the past 11 seasons as retirement in 2008. women’s coach at the University of District of Others were Willard Coker, 2008 to 2011, Columbia (UDC), where he compiled a record and Luqman Jaaber, 2011 to 2014. of 177-125.

VUU was 9-18 this past year under Sheals.

His Firebirds were 25-5 this past season Also interviewed for the VUU job this goand received a bid to the NCAA Division II round was Vance Harmon, a former Panther playoffs. and current coach of State Group 5A champion Butler drew strong support from former VUU Henrico High School.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.

Mannboro Fire Station 8641 Namozine Road Amelia, VA 23002 Find out about the proposed bridge replacement project over Namozine Creek between Amelia County and Dinwiddie County. The project will replace the seventy-five year old structure on Namozine Road (Route 708). The bridge will be closed to through traffic during construction.

The meeting will be held in an open house format from 5 - 7 pm. This format will provide the flexibility to allow participants to meet and discuss the proposed project directly with project staff members.

Review the project information and National Environmental Policy Act documentation at VDOT’s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive in Colonial Heights, 23834-9002, 804-524-6000, 1-800-367-7623 or TTY/TDD 711. Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions.

Give your written comments at the meeting or submit them no later than May 9, 2015 to Sid Pawar, P.E., project manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, Colonial Heights, VA 23834-9002 or Sid.Pawar@VDOT.Virginia.gov VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you have questions or concerns about your civil rights in regards to this project or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above.

State Project: 0708-026-577, P101, R201, C501, B662 Federal Project: BR-5A27 (183)

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As Former Directors and Trustees in Liquidation, JAMES ODELL BARNES AT 1324 DOVER STREET, COLUMBIA, SC 29201, who may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated July 14, 1999, with respect to said property, recorded July 16, 1999, in Instrument Number 99-19870, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest, PAUL D. STOTTS a/k/a PAUL D. STOTTS, SR., and MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS, Trustees of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated July 14, 1999, with respect to said property, recorded July 16, 1999, in Instrument Number 99-19870, or their successor/s in title, DONALD C. BURRIESCI, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 15, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

NETTIE NICHOLS, CONNIE NICHOLS WILLIAMS a/k/a THERESA WILLIAMS p/k/a TERESA NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CONNIE NICHOLS WILLIAMS a/k/a TERESA WILLIAMS p/k/a TERESA NICHOLS, SARAH V. WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of SARAH V. WILLIAMS, LOUISE WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LOUISE WILLIAMS, FLEETTWOOD WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of FLEETTWOOD WILLIAMS, VIVIAN WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of VIVIAN WILLIAMS, SERENA a/k/a CERENA WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of SERENA a/k/a CERENA WILLIAMS, ANN M. WALKER, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ANN M. WALKER, LYNWOOD NICHOLS a/k/a LINWOOD NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LYNWOOD NICHOLS a/k/a LINWOOD NICHOLS, LUTHER NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LUTHER NICHOLS, NATHAN NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of NATHAN NICHOLS, PERCY NICHOLS a/k/a PERCY NICHOLS, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of PERCY NICHOLS a/k/a PERCY NICHOLS, JR., ANNIE B. NICHOLS a/k/a ANNIE M. NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ANNIE B. NICHOLS a/k/a ANNIE M. NICHOLS, ARTHUR NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ARTHUR NICHOLS, MARION a/k/a MARIAN NICHOLS FRANKLIN p/k/a MARION NICHOLS TURNAGE p/k/a MARION NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of MARION a/k/a MARIAN NICHOLS FRANKLIN p/k/a MARION NICHOLS TURNAGE p/k/a MARION NICHOLS, CLARENCE F. NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CLARENCE F. NICHOLS, NETTIE NICHOLS, daughter of the owner of record, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of NETTIE NICHOLS, daughter of the owner of record, WILBERT HODGE, MELVIN NICHOLS, LAVERNE NICHOLS, REGINALD FRANKLIN, JOYCE FRANKLIN, ROSE JOHNSON, THELMA TURNER,CLARENCE FRANKLIN, JR., a/k/a CLARENCE J. FRANKLIN, JR., or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DISCOVER BANK, Issuer of the

Discover Card, A Delaware Corporation Not Authorized to Transact Business in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 15, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL-14-5330-1 NETTIE NICHOLS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF NETTIE NICHOLS, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1418 North 27th Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E0000714/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Nettie Nichols.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NETTIE NICHOLS, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of NETTIE NICHOLS, have not been located and haves not filed a response to this action; that CONNIE NICHOLS WILLIAMS a/k/a THERESA WILLIAMS p/k/a TERESA NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CONNIE NICHOLS WILLIAMS a/k/a TERESA WILLIAMS p/k/a TERESA NICHOLS, SARAH V. WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of SARAH V. WILLIAMS, LOUISE WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LOUISE WILLIAMS, FLEETTWOOD WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of FLEETTWOOD WILLIAMS, VIVIAN WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of VIVIAN WILLIAMS, SERENA a/k/a CERENA WILLIAMS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of SERENA a/k/a CERENA WILLIAMS, ANN M. WALKER, who may be deceased and

the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ANN M. WALKER, LYNWOOD NICHOLS a/k/a LINWOOD NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LYNWOOD NICHOLS a/k/a LINWOOD NICHOLS, LUTHER NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of LUTHER NICHOLS, NATHAN NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of NATHAN NICHOLS, PERCY NICHOLS a/k/a PERCY NICHOLS, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of PERCY NICHOLS a/k/a PERCY NICHOLS, JR., ANNIE B. NICHOLS a/k/a ANNIE M. NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ANNIE B. NICHOLS a/k/a ANNIE M. NICHOLS, ARTHUR NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ARTHUR NICHOLS, MARION a/k/a MARIAN NICHOLS FRANKLIN p/k/a MARION NICHOLS TURNAGE p/k/a MARION NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of MARION a/k/a MARIAN NICHOLS FRANKLIN p/k/a MARION NICHOLS TURNAGE p/k/a MARION NICHOLS, CLARENCE F. NICHOLS, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of CLARENCE F. NICHOLS, and NETTIE NICHOLS, daughter of the owner of record, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of NETTIE NICHOLS, daughter of the owner of record, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that WILBERT HODGE, MELVIN NICHOLS, LAVERNE NICHOLS, REGINALD FRANKLIN, JOYCE FRANKLIN, ROSE JOHNSON, and THELMA TURNER, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that CLARENCE FRANKLIN, JR., a/k/a CLARENCE J. FRANKLIN, JR., who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, whose names are not known; that DISCOVER BANK, Issuer of the Discover Card, A Delaware Corporation Not Authorized to Transact Business in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that NETTIE NICHOLS, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of

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