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Va. Tech scientist to Richmonders: Use water filters for protection

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Flint is just one city facing threat from the toxic heavy metal that is pervasive in this country, where the water infrastructure is old and often crumbling, he said.

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Attach a $20 filter to each of the water taps you use for drinking or cooking. And regularly change the filter cartridges.

That’s the only to way to ensure you aren’t getting poisonous lead in your water, according to Dr. Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech environmental scientist who has won hero status for proving people in Flint, Mich., were being poisoned by their drinking water.

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Tree axed

Committee votes to remove oak from Walker statue site

Video ban raises concern

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

By Joey Matthews

The African-American members of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors voiced frustration this week after Henrico school leaders apologized for showing a 4-minute video to students Feb. 4 at Glen AlRev. Nelson len High School that portrayed the oppression and systematic racism in the United States that African-Americans have endured for centuries.

“The video was a discussion starter,” the Rev. Tyrone Nelson, the newly elected chairman of the five-member Board of Supervisors, told the Free Press on Tuesday. “Though some of the content was overgeneralized, it was done to evoke conversation.”

He said he was disappointed that Henrico County School Superintendent Patrick Kinlaw and School Board Chairwoman Michelle F. “Micky” Ogburn issued the apology a week after some parents at the predominately white school of about 1,600 students complained that the video made their children feel uncomfortable. Ms. Ogburn promised it would not be shown again at any Henrico public schools.

“It was an opportunity for our kids to have conversations about systematic injustices and hopefully the conversations could help heal our community,” said Rev. Nelson, who represents the Varina District.

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The live oak tree that fills the site of the planned Maggie L. Walker statue and plaza has been the center of debate and controversy. Location: Adams and Broad streets in Downtown.

“I just feel like we cheated our kids from an opportunity to have a dialogue.

Frank J. Thornton, who represents the Fairfield District on the Board of Supervisors, agreed.

“I think that these types of videos do have a purpose,” he said. “Maybe the people who were offended by this should take more of an introspective look at themselves and wonder why it makes them uncomfortable to face these issues.”

Rev. Nelson and Mr. Thornton represent Henrico districts that are predominately AfricanAmerican.

The community will get the opportunity to further discuss the video, “Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race,” during a webinar, or online web discussion, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, under the hashtag #FightForOurHistory: Standing Against Censorship in Henrico County. The African-American Policy Forum, the nonprofit that produced the video in

2010, is organizing the online discussion. People can register to participate at www.aapf.org/ events/multicultural-educationwebinar, organizers said.

The video was shown at Glen Allen during two 30-minute student assemblies led by Dr. Kazi Perry, associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University and president of the National Association for Ethnic Studies.

The presentation focused on issues of racism, inequality and honoring diversity, with the animated video addressing white privilege and affirmative action.

The assemblies also included student volunteers discussing their multi-ethnic backgrounds and thoughts on racism.

Rev. Nelson said he has received more than a dozen complaints from Henrico residents via email since he first publicly complained about the county’s apology. Most of the complaints, he said, “say we should be moving forward and not raising issues from the past.

People said they were disap-

pointed, that I should just kind of let this go, … that race is not really a prevalent issue.”

In light of the school system’s ban on future showings of the video, he said people in the community, “including groups, churches, fraternities and sororities” should “take the opportunity to continue this important community dialogue.”

Dr. Perry said the decision to air the video was initiated after a Glen Allen High School parent, contacted Dr. Kimberly Brown, interim chair of the VCU Department of AfricanAmerican Studies, about her concerns over racial problems at the school.

The parent, he said, told Dr. Brown that students at Glen Allen were “casually using the n-word” in the aftermath of an incident last fall when a student played a profanity-laced, racist song that repeatedly used the n-word over the loudspeaker prior to the school’s homecomPlease turn to A4

A tale of two campaign offices:

Hillary and Bernie in Richmond

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton each have opened campaign offices in Richmond ahead of the upcoming Virginia presidential primary Tuesday, March 1.

And the sharp contrast between the two spaces appears to speak volumes about the campaigns the two contenders are waging for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.

While a new poll this week suggests Sen. Sanders is trailing Mrs. Clinton by as much as 12 percentage points among Democratic voters in Virginia, a trip to the two campaign offices raises questions about her ability to maintain such a lead.

Sen. Sanders appears to have an outreach advantage in the location of his Central Virginia office.

His staff and volunteers are based in a former day care center at 217 W. Grace St. in the heart of Downtown.

The space is easily accessible by bus or car, with plenty of street parking. The office also is easy to find as it sits across

from the Richmond Police Department’s headquarters.

The city Assessor’s Office lists the building’s owners as Theodore and Mary Bullard. Their relationship, if any, with Sen. Sanders or his campaign could not be determined. The Sanders campaign also did not respond to a query about how and why the location was chosen.

The space seems to exude the Sanders message. Along with three “Bernie” campaign signs, a welcoming note is posted on the front door: “Open! Come in and feel the Bern.” On Wednesday morning, three people were inside ready to meet and greet visitors.

There is little welcome to be found at Mrs. Clinton’s office. Indeed, just finding the office can be a challenge, particularly for supporters who are unfamiliar with the city’s Fulton community in Richmond’s East End. Her area campaign center is in the former Robert Fulton School, which now is an art colony. Called Fulton Hill Studios, the building sits on the hilltop

at 1000 Carlisle Ave. The building belongs to a longtime Clinton supporter, Margaret Freund, president and owner of Fulton Hill Properties.

Ms. Freund’s office declined comment on how Mrs. Clinton came to lease it.

The Clinton campaign said the location was chosen because it is “accessible.”

The location is served by only two bus routes, unlike the 20 routes that pass Sen. Sanders’ headquarters.

Reaching the Clinton office requires a winding drive through the city. And one has to know to turn on Union Street by the Powhatan Recreation Center to reach the building.

On Wednesday, no Clinton campaign signs were outside the building, on the grounds or on the building’s fence to signal the Clinton campaign office is inside.

There was no welcoming sign on the main entrance into Fulton Hill Studios.

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The live oak tree will be axed from the site where the Maggie L. Walker statue will stand in Downtown.

The tree’s fate was sealed Saturday when sculptor Antonio T. “Toby” Mendez met with the Richmond Public Art Commission’s Site Selection Team, led by architect Sarah Driggs.

By a 7-0 vote, the team recommended that Mr. Mendez eliminate the tree from designs he is creating for the statue and plaza planned for the gateway to Jackson Ward at Adams and Broad streets — a recommendation he supports.

“The tree does not belong there,” Ms. Driggs said before the vote. She said the tree would obscure the view of the statue, and she cited concerns that had been raised about unwanted connotations.

As the Free Press reported in December, Jackson Ward resident Gary Flowers, who has long been involved with civil rights, led efforts to remove the tree. Joined by retired businessman J. Maurice Hopkins, Mr. Flowers said the tree would conjure up images of lynching if the statue were placed beneath it.

A rarity in Richmond, the live oak tree has been a feature of the intersection since around 1989.

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Scalia’s death sets up showdown over high court Free Press wire reports

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died, setting up a major political showdown between President Obama and the Republican-controlled Senate over who will replace him just months before a presidential election.

President Obama called Justice Scalia, who served on the nation’s highest court for nearly 30 years, a “larger-than-life Justice Scalia presence” and said he intended to nominate someone to fill the vacant seat before leaving the White House next January.

“I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility to appoint a successor in due time and there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the Senate to give that person a fair hearing and timely vote,” President Obama told reporters.

Justice Scalia, 79, was found dead last Saturday at the Cibolo Creek Ranch resort in West Texas. He died of natural causes, according to Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who went to the ranch and saw the body.

Chief Justice John Roberts described his former colleague, who was known for his strident conservative views and theatrical flair in the courtroom, as an “extraordinary individual and jurist.”

President Obama ordered flags at the White House and all federal buildings to be flown at half-staff.

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ChinaFest!

GiGi Williams, 6, creatively ties a bow on a papier-mâché dragon at ChinaFest! Year of the Fire Monkey. The celebration last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts marked the Chinese New Year, which began Feb. 8, by highlighting Chinese art and culture. The festivities included artist demonstrations and performances. Youngsters and the young at heart learned about traditional Chinese art by creating their own opera masks, dragon puppets, decorative scrolls and New Year’s lanterns.

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond This view, looking north toward Brown’s Island, shows the work underway on the 1,600-foot T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge that will allow pedestrians and bicyclists to cross the James River. The bridge, in pieces for years, sits above the former Brown’s Island Dam. The city has set aside more than $5 million since 2013 and has received $2.5 million from the state to develop the bridge. The project is expected to be completed in August and open sections of the river to walkers and cyclists. Howard Shockey & Sons Inc. is undertaking the work to provide the first non-vehicle connection between the south and north banks of the river. A connection between the bridge and the floodwall walk will be created on the south end of the bridge. The bridge is named in honor of a deceased city employee who championed community development.

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Creighton Court residents still dealing with heating issues Tina Shaw and residents of four other apartments in Creighton Court have sufficient heat, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority reports.

RRHA conducted heat tests of the apartment Ms. Shaw occupies and those of other residents in response to complaints Ms. Shaw lodged with the Free Press about radiators in her apartment not functioning.

According to the RRHA tests on Jan. 28, heat in the five units ranged from 66 degrees to 80 degrees or “within standards.”

But that is not because the radiator system in each apartment is working properly.

For example, in Ms. Shaw’s apartment, the test was conducted in her absence and while her kitchen oven was set on warm to contribute to heating the first floor.

“No repair needed,” was the verdict.

Ms. Shaw has complained that unless she keeps the oven on, the first floor is uncomfortably chilly.

The report notes that windows were open in a bedroom on the second floor. Ms. Shaw said

Trailer park on auction block

By Joey Matthews

Rudd’s Trailer Park owner Ronnie Soffee said that he has scheduled an auction in March to sell the 9.2-acre South Side property that members of his family have owned and managed since 1936.

The once bustling community at 2911 Jefferson Davis Highway has long served as a home to many of the city’s most vulnerable and those in poverty.

Many of the residents were forced to leave their mobile homes after city inspectors condemned them during an aggressive code enforcement campaign that began in February 2014. Others fled the park after they were faced with costly repairs to meet code requirements.

City inspectors initially issued about 750 code violations. Since then the park has dwindled from about 100 operational mobile homes to now less than 50, Mr. Soffee said.

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Soffee bleakly described the current Rudd’s property as “a ghost town.”

“We’ve finally reached a point where the math doesn’t work,” he said. He sees no other option but to sell the mobile home park.

The auction will be 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 2, at the Double Tree Hotel by Hilton, 1021 Koger Center Blvd., in Chesterfield County.

According to an auction announcement sent to the Free Press, the property is assessed by the city at $2.46 million, but the property will “sell to the highest bidder at or above $160,000.”

Mr. Soffee said he has been approached by three potential buyers during the last 18 months. He said they offered well in excess of $160,000 for the property. All three wanted to maintain the property as a mobile home park, but city officials, he said, “wouldn’t cooperate with anybody” who sought more information before purchasing the property.

Douglas H. Murrow, the city’s commissioner of buildings, denied that, saying, “we have been working well with Mr. Soffee.”

Mr. Soffee said that he believes the city “just wanted us gone. In fact, I think they want all the trailer parks in the city gone.”

The Richmond native has managed the property in one of the city’s most economically challenged neighborhoods since he and his siblings inherited it after a relative’s death in 1990.

He said he fears many of Rudd’s residents will become homeless if the next park owner

does not keep the property as a mobile home park.

“The city refuses to recognize that these little tin boxes are people’s homes and that’s where they lived and that’s where they were happy. And the city wanted the place to look like Short Pump and it will never be Short Pump.”

Phil Storey, an attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center, told the Free Press the auction will not affect the status

of an ongoing lawsuit filed in August by 32 current and former residents of Rudd’s and Mobile Towne mobile home parks against the city. It alleges the city is waging a deliberate campaign to force them from their homes through its strict code enforcement campaign.

“Right now we’re in mediation to see if we can resolve the case without a trial, but we’ll see if that works out,” Mr. Storey said.

that the radiators make the second floor so hot, she has to open a window. Like other tenants, she does not have a thermostat in her unit and cannot control the temperature.

In the unit occupied by Brittany Green, who also complained to the Free Press, the report stated that “temperatures maintained within standards with existing radiators and kitchen oven.”

Ms. Green told the Free Press previously that she must keep her oven on to maintain heat on the first floor of her apartment.

In three other units, RRHA reported provid-

ing space heaters to the tenants to maintain warmth.

“RRHA appreciates your bringing these matters to our attention and allowing RRHA an opportunity to provide information on how RRHA is working to address these issues,” T.K. Somanath, RRHA’s chief executive officer stated in an email to the Free Press that contained the report.

“RRHAwill continue to monitor the heat in these and all of our 4,046 public housing units as we are committed to providing safe, decent and affordable housing.” — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Concerned Black Men seeking mentors for youths The Richmond Chapter of Concerned Black Men National is holding an orientation session for men interested in mentoring youths.

The session will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Richmond CBM office, 2025 E. Main St., in Downtown.

The Richmond program is part of the CBM Cares National Mentoring Initiative. Mentors commit to dedicate eight hours each month to mentoring.

Currently, the local CBM provides yearround, one-on-one and group mentoring that pairs boys in grades 6 through 8 with AfricanAmerican mentors. The group currently works with 50 boys from Franklin Military Academy in the East End and Henderson Middle School in North Side.

For more information, contact Maurice Robinson at (804) 783-1975 or email mauricerobinson@cbmnational.org. — JOEY MATTHEWS

At every turn he heard, “We can’t help you.”

And then he turned to VCU Health.

“I’m sorry. Nothing can be done.” Raleigh Hedrick heard the same grim words as he traveled to Roanoke, Charlottesville and Durham in search of any possible treatment for his heart condition. Hospice was suggested. But then Raleigh was referred to VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, where we’re bringing new hope to those suffering from the most severe cases of heart valve disease. Raleigh needed a procedure called TAVR— transcatheter aortic heart valve replacement. Our specialists performed the surgery, thought to be the first in Virginia. Now, Raleigh has the energy to get back to the things he loves — working on his two acres and even chopping a little wood. This is one more way that VCU Health is advancing health and improving lives.

To learn if you are a candidate for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, call (804) 828-VALVE (8258) or visit valve.vcu.edu.

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Use water filters to protect yourself Continued from A1

“Every water utility has been cheating about protecting people from lead poisoning and doing so with the approval of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Dr. Edwards said in a recent interview with the Free Press.

What most people do not realize is that they can — and often do — have lead pipes carrying water to their home, he said.

That’s likely true in Richmond for any home built before 1950 and possibly later, according to Robert Steidel, director of the city’s Department of Public Utilities. Lead was commonly used in water mains and service lines prior to World War II. DPU used galvanized iron in its mains and used smaller galvanized and lead pipes to link water meters to street mains, he said. He said DPU has replaced about 7,000 of the smaller lines between the meter and mains, but still has 14,000 more such lines to be replace.

That still leaves untold thousands of homes with buried lead and galvanized iron lines that carry water from the meter into the home, Mr.

Steidel said. That began to change after 1950, when copper and, later, plastic replaced such potentially hazardous metal lines.

Still, DPU has no idea what the service lines that carry water into homes, businesses, office buildings, churches or government offices are made of, he said. “DPU has no data” on the water lines that belong to customers, he said.

He said that DPU makes every effort to prevent lead leaching into the water by treating Richmond’s water supply with zinc orthophosphate and controlling the water’s pH, a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of water.

However, Dr. Edwards said there is no way DPU or any other utility can guarantee safety given the state of the older, buried service lines in use.

“You can do a test one day and, the next day, pieces of rusting pipe can break off and bring lead in through the water,” he said.

That is the risk in older homes where original service lines have never been replaced, he said, but are long past their useful life.

He said he advocates using filters because he has a hard time trusting that government

agencies and scientists will rush to address a lead problem if a problem occurs.

He speaks from experience. He repeatedly has battled government agencies and government scientists who issued reports seeking to rebut his findings of high lead levels in drinking water.

In Flint, for example, he discovered high levels of lead in the water in April 2015 after residents sent samples from their homes. He said he had to fight the Michigan office of the EPA, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Michigan Health Department to get the findings accepted. For months, he said the people “who are supposed to be trying to keep the public safe from this kind of threat” simply refused to accept the findings or rejected his results.

He said he has become used to the response.

He said the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls fought for four years to try to undermine his findings and disparage him after he determined that lead levels in drinking water in Washington, D.C., were as much as 100 times above the levels the EPA recommends as safe.

It took repeated congressional hearings to force the CDC to finally admit that the agency’s

scientists had submitted five false scientific reports denying lead was a threat.

Dr. Edwards said the same thing happened when he discovered high lead levels in water in Durham, N.C. He said just as in Flint, he and others had to fight to get the findings accepted.

Dr. Edwards said such “institutional scientific misconduct is a new phenomenon. All of these instances involved scientists and engineers who were being paid to protect the public and who had no profit motive for poisoning kids, but who allowed it to go on.”

“There are no checks and balances to their power and ability to falsify reports,” he continued. “There is no way to hold them accountable.

It’s indefensible.

“No one ever thought that government scientists would falsify reports or that public agencies would engage in the kind of misconduct that they have been proven to do.”

He said that is why “no one in the public should believe the government when they say your water is safe. Lead is a problem they don’t want you to know about.”

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not gloat.

“While we will be saddened to see the tree go, the point of the plaza is to honor the legacy of Mrs. Walker,” he said. “This decision means that Mrs. Walker’s image will be seen from 360 degrees so that those who come to the plaza will recognize her importance to the nation.”

Meanwhile, Melvin Jones, an advocate for the statue and a member of the site committee, supported the tree’s removal. He said the

tree’s roots would be damaging to the planned plaza.

Mariah Robinson, a Jackson Ward resident who led a petition drive to save the tree, could not be reached for comment.

Mayor Dwight C. Jones, who had signed the petition and promised to save the tree, stated Wednesday through his press office that the site selection team’s “recommendation does not make the decision final as that will be done by the Planning Commission.”

He said he would “continue to monitor this project as it works its way through the

process.”

However, Mr. Mendez already was on board with the committee’s decision, apparently influenced by comments and concerns about the tree that were raised last month during a public meeting on the statue.

Mr. Mendez said after Saturday’s vote that the tree would “not be included” in the preliminary designs for the sculpture and plaza that he and other design team members will present to the public 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Richmond Public Library’s Main Branch in Downtown. The city Public Art Commission,

to which the Site Selection Team reports, is hosting the event.

While the city Planning Commission will have the final say on Mr. Mendez’s design, it appears most likely that the commission will see only a treeless version.

The Public Art Commission will send its recommendation, possibly by April, to the Planning Commission. The commission is expected to take its vote after the design goes through the Urban Design Committee and possibly the Commission of Architectural Review.

Video ban draws disappointment from Henrico Supervisors Continued from A1

ing football game against John Marshall High School, a predominately African-American school in Richmond.

The Free Press was the first to report that the student who played the song was AfricanAmerican. Shortly after the incident, the student publicly apologized to the School Board and others.

Dr. Perry said after the parent contacted Mr. Thornton VCU, he contacted Glen Allen High School Principal Gwen E. Miller, and they agreed to formulate a plan to “build a constructive program to address the issue and comprehensively show the consequences of using the n-word.” He said he showed the video several times to Ms. Miller, other Glen Allen High officials and school parents before they agreed to show it at the assemblies In a statement they jointly released Monday, the AfricanAmerican Policy Forum and National Association for Ethnic Studies blasted Henrico school officials for banning the video.

“This censorship of material that highlights historical and present-day policies constitutes an alarming capitulation to those who would prefer our youth remain blissfully ignorant about the foundations of contemporary racial inequality,” stated Kimberlé Crenshaw, executive director of the African-American Policy Forum.

“With the exception of the extraordinary actions of the Henrico County School District, the video has never been banned before,” the statement reads.

In the apology issued Feb. 11 in a Henrico County Public Schools release, Dr. Kinlaw stated, “While we as educators do not object to difficult and constructive conversations about American history and racial discourse past and present, we understand why many people feel this video in particular was not the best way to deliver such an important lesson.”

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Ms. Ogburn added, “In our community, while we do encourage open and frank discussions, perpetuating a racial divide, stereotypes or exclusion of any kind is not acceptable.

“The Henrico School Board and administration,” she continued, “consider this to be a matter of grave concern. We are making every effort to respond to our community. It is our goal to prevent the recurrence of this type of event. School leaders have been instructed not to use the video in our schools. In addition, steps are being taken to prevent the use of racially divisive materials in the future. We do apologize to those who were offended and for the unintended impact on our community.”

Dr. Perry, a 33-year-old Toledo, Ohio, native, said he has spoken across the country about racism and inequities to a diverse array of groups. He has shown the video numerous times with no threats to censure or ban it over concerns of offending anyone. He said the response among students at Glen Allen High was overwhelmingly positive.

“The students who were coming up to me after the presentation were excited and thanking me,” he said, “and the vast majority said it was a constructive learning endeavor, and entertaining.

It shows how shortsighted the School Board and administration are,” he said.

“They are elected to oversee the comprehensive education of

Hillary and Bernie in Richmond

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Above left, a former day care center in Downtown now houses Bernie Sanders’ area campaign office. Location: 217 W. Grace St. Inset: A note urges visitors to walk in. Above right, nothing outside tells visitors that Hillary Clinton’s area campaign office is inside this old school that now houses the Fulton Hill Studios. Location: 1000 Carlisle Ave. in the East End. Inset: Gov. Terry McAuliffe joins Clinton supporters last Friday to open the campaign office.

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to notify someone inside for entry or are escorted in.

Inside, two “Hillary” campaign signs were posted on the first and second floors.

None of the signs, however, offered directions to the campaign office. People in the Fulton Properties office on the second floor appeared irked when a Free Press visitor asked for directions to the Clinton campaign office.

The campaign office door, which contained no signs, was locked at 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday and the lights were off, raising

questions about how much the office is being used ahead of the primary.

Such differences in the offices may not mean much to most voters. And Mrs. Clinton does have the advantage of being endorsed by many of Virginia’s elected Democratic officials. Many are stumping with her and for her.

And Sen. Sanders’ campaign raised questions when it announced — and then pulled out of — an appearance this week at Virginia State University in Ettrick. No explanation has been offered.

If Sen. Sanders is to overcome Mrs. Clinton’s Virginia advantage, he must

Kasich in RVA Republican John Kasich will seek to rev up his presidential campaign with a stop in Richmond on Monday, Feb. 22. The Ohio governor will hold a town hall meeting 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Location: Egyptian Building Auditorium, 1224 E. Marshall St. recruit a lot of volunteers to help him, and his office location seems ready to make that happen.

the future leaders of the county, state and this nation and, instead of providing an opportunity for learning and having a meaningful dialogue, they have chosen to censor and ban the video.”

Dr. Perry also criticized the Rev. Roscoe Cooper III, the lone African-American on the five-member Henrico School Board, for not publicly speaking out on the issue.

Dr. Cooper has not responded to Free Press queries over the Glen Allen issue.

“I think it’s very unfortunate,” Dr. Perry said, “that a leader of the community who shares the racial experiences that are not being taught in public education in Virginia and sits on the very board that was the first to ever censor a constructive video that was age appropriate to talk about racial inequality has said nothing publicly,” he said.

Scalia’s death sets up showdown Continued from A1

with black wool crepe in accordance with court tradition following a justice’s death.

The court said his body will lie in repose at the Supreme Court building Friday, Feb. 19, before his funeral Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 20.

A number of leading Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, immediately said they would oppose any attempt by President Obama to nominate a new justice.

The political battle lines sharpened later at the Republican presidential debate Saturday night in South Carolina, where frontrunner Donald Trump and several of his rivals said it should be up to President Obama’s successor to replace Justice Scalia.

President Obama said at a news conference Tuesday that he intends to pick an indisputably qualified nominee for the Supreme Court and chided Senate Republicans for threatening to block him from filling the pivotal vacancy.

He told senators he has a constitutional duty to nominate a new justice. He also reminded them of their constitutional obligation to “do their job” and vote to approve or reject his nominee.

“The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now,” President Obama, a former constitutional law professor, said at the close of a two-day meeting with leaders from Southeast Asia.

President Obama could tilt the balance of the nation’s highest court, which now consists of four conservatives and four liberals, if he is successful in pushing his nominee through the confirmation process.

Meanwhile, ultraconservative talk show host Michael Savage, other right-wing pundits and some conspiracy theorists wondered if there might be something sinister behind Justice Scalia’s death after ranch owner John Poindexter said he was found dead with a pillow over his head. Judge Guevara decided no autopsy was needed after federal investigators found no evidence of foul play and Justice Scalia’s doctor confirmed his history of heart trouble and high blood pressure.

Justice Scalia, who grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Harvard Law School, was a leader of the “originalist” ideology that looks at the U.S. Constitution through the lens of its framers’ 18th century intentions.

He was the first Italian-American on the court and a devout Roman Catholic who had nine children.

His replacement would be President Obama’s third appointment to the nine-justice court, which is set to decide its first major abortion case in nearly 10 years, as well as key cases on voting rights, affirmative action and immigration.

Waiting for the next president to make a nomination would leave Justice Scalia’s seat empty for at least 11 months, an unprecedented gap in recent decades. It also leaves up in the air the fate of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose appeal of his conviction and sentence to two years in prison on corruption charges was to be taken up by the high court. He has remained free during the appeals process.

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LEADERSHIP can happen anywhere From all across Virginia and all walks of life, these African-American leaders made a difference wherever they found themselves. Wherever their lives took them — into law offices, schools, the halls of government, football stadiums,

even the mailrooms of the U.S. Postal Service — each honoree has helped make the world a better place for the next generation. Dominion and the Library of Virginia are proud to honor the 2016 Strong Men & Women in Virginia History.

Norfolk, 2009

LEROY ROUNTREE HA SSELL , SR.* CHIEF JUS TICE Hampton, 2000

MAMIE EVELYN LOCKE LEGISL ATOR The first African-American woman elected mayor of her adopted hometown and the third elected to the Senate of Virginia, she works to improve the lives of her constituents.

Richmond, 2009

He mentors future lawyers at Regent University after serving as the Virginia Supreme Court’s first African-American chief justice and advocating for greater access to legal services for all Virginians.

MELODY C. BARNES AT TORNE Y

Richmond, 2010

She is tapped by President Barack Obama to direct national domestic policy, overseeing reforms in education and healthcare that benefit all Americans.

MICHAEL ROBINSON FOOTBALL PL AYER, MENTOR He establishes the Excel to Excellence Foundation in his hometown to help disadvantaged children, after excelling himself in professional sports and media.

Roanoke, 1942

CL ARENCE M. DUNNAVILLE, JR. AT TORNE Y Richmond, 2009

CL AUDE GR ANDFORD PERKINS EDUC ATOR The first African-American superintendent of schools in Clark County, Nevada, Perkins is a longtime educator in Virginia. As president of Virginia Union University, he oversaw $30 million in campus improvements and a nearly 50 percent increase in the school’s endowment.

Lynchburg, 1913

He dedicates himself to the fight for civil rights after the Ku Klux Klan burns a cross at his family’s home when he’s only 9; he goes on to help oppressed populations throughout the South.

ANNE BETHEL SPENCER * POE T She helps establish the local branch of the NAACP in Lynchburg and as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance assists fellow artists in finding their voices.

Richmond, 1972

The Strong Men & Women in Virginia History program is sponsored by Dominion and the Library of Virginia to honor the contributions of influential African-American leaders. The program also helps prepare future leaders by providing student scholarships and grants, as well as resource materials for schools. To learn more about the program, its honorees, and available resource materials, visit lva.virginia.gov/smw.

THOMA S C ANNON, SR.* PHIL ANTHROPIS T Living simply on a postal worker’s salary, he sets an amazing example during his lifetime by giving away more than $156,000 to fellow Virginians experiencing hardship or who demonstrated heroism or generosity.

* honored posthumously

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Bond blocks eviction appeal

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Janice Wiggins was eager to appeal to Richmond Circuit Court when a General District Court judge sided with her landlord and approved her eviction for nonpayment of December’s rent.

Ms. Wiggins believed she could win her case if another judge heard it. She said she had presented a receipt, acknowledged by the landlord, that showed she had paid the rent and late fees before the Jan. 21 court hearing.

She wanted a chance to prove Judge Barbara J. Gaden was in error when she ruled the payment was for January’s rent, rather than for the missing December rent.

“I was trained as an accountant and you pay the oldest bill first,” Ms. Wiggins said.

But like many people before her, Ms. Wiggins hit a major roadblock on her way to the Circuit Court — a requirement that she put up a large amount of money before the District Court would forward her case.

“I was told I would have to post three months’ rent, plus the amount of the judgment,” said Ms. Wiggins, who lives on a government disability check. “If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t have been late in paying the rent.”

State law makes it “virtually impossible to appeal” Ms. Wiggins when a landlord seeks possession based on nonpayment of rent, said Martin D. Wegbreit, director of litigation for Central Virginia Legal Aid. When rents are involved, the law is adamant, he said. “You can’t appeal without (posting) a bond,” he said, which essentially gives the district courts the final say. The only exception, he said, is when the default in rent involves Section 8 or other federal housing subsidies.

Mr. Wegbreit said that he tried and failed to change the appeal bond law. In the early

Henrico School Board to set hearing on Byrd name change

By Joey Matthews

Leaders of a growing campaign to rename Harry F. Byrd Middle School in Henrico County are asking the Henrico School Board to ensure that the county’s growing AfricanAmerican population is provided an equal voice in the community discussion on the issue.

“We think it’s important that the board doesn’t just look at this as a neighborhood issue, but as a Henrico issue,” Robert Voorhis, one of those spearheading the campaign, told the Free Press this week.

With African-Americans making up more than 30 percent of the county’s population, “we think it’s important that the board solicits input from the black community, as well,” he said, noting that everyone in the county pays taxes to support its schools.

Hermitage High School senior Jordan Chapman began organizing the effort last fall to change the school name that honors the late Mr. Byrd. The former Virginia governor and U.S. senator was one of the chief architects of “Massive Resistance,” a state-sanctioned policy that shut down public schools in many Virginia localities rather than adhere to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling ordering public schools to be desegregated to end educational

inequities.

Thousands of African-American children were denied a public education as a result, while state money was provided to all-white private schools in many places where public schools were closed.

“Since the board has made it clear that they want to hear from all sides of the issue,” Jordan said, “we’d like to stress the fact that the voices of the racial minorities whose voices were disregarded at the time of the school’s original naming should not once again be ignored.”

The board also disclosed at its Feb. 11 meeting that it would cost about $138,000 to change the Byrd name.

School Board Chairwoman Michelle F. “Micky” Ogburn told the Free Press on Tuesday that the board would set the location for a public hearing on the Byrd name change at its next work session Thursday, Feb. 25.

Meanwhile, the Free Press continued to seek comment on the name change issue from the Rev. Roscoe Cooper III, the School Board’s lone African-American member, who represents the Fairfield District. He did not reply to several queries.

He told the Free Press last week he would not disclose his stance publicly until he had the opportunity to discuss it with board colleagues.

1980s, “I took the issue to the U.S. District and the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. I basically challenged the constitutionality of Virginia’s appeal bond statute.”

Mr. Wegbreit said he argued that that the “purpose of the appeal bond is to protect the landlord from Mr. Wegbreit any further loss” while a tenant in arrears appeals.

He said that that the “fairer and more reasonable” procedure is one used in most states.

That procedure requires the tenant to pay rent as it comes due into the court during the appeal process.

However, the federal courts upheld the Virginia method. So far as he is aware, there have been no further challenges.

In other kinds of civil actions, defendants with little money can file a petition claiming

indigence and seeking a waiver of an appeal bond and fees, Mr. Wegbreit said. He said he doesn’t have many problems gaining waivers in cases involving debt or garnishment of wages.

He considers it wrong that people who want to appeal decisions involving rent essentially cannot do so because of the amount of money they have to post to file the appeal.

“It was outrageous then when I litigated it, and it’s outrageous now,” he said.

Ms. Wiggins certainly believes so. Without an appeal, she moved in with a friend and put most of her belongings in storage. She moved out to avoid having sheriff’s deputies evict her and put her belongings on the sidewalk.

While she is looking for another apartment, she said having an eviction on her record has made the search more difficult. She said apartment owners share information on tenants. In the weeks since, she has been rejected repeatedly because of the eviction.

“I’ll find something, but this has certainly made it harder,” she said.

Woman raises concern over fees charged by court

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

In the world of local courts that seems to have an endless list of fees and costs, one thing has always been free: Subpoenas and summonses for witnesses in a criminal case.

However, a recent incident has left a Richmond Ms. Massey woman concerned that the policy has changed in Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

Documents provided to the Free Press by LaQuetta Massey show that staff at the court sought to charge her to call witnesses for her defense against a charge of failing to send her son to school.

The charge is a Class 3 misdemeanor, which would subject her to a fine of up to $500 if she was found guilty.

The documents show that Robin Mercer, a staff member at the court, told Ms. Massey on Jan. 13 she would have to pay a $12 sheriff’s fee to cover the cost of serving witnesses with subpoenas to appear at a Feb. 8 court hearing.

Ms. Mercer notified the court’s clerk, Patricia Batley, by email on Jan. 21 of what she had told Ms. Massey. There is no indication that Ms. Batley notified Ms. Mercer that the charge did not apply in criminal matters.

However, in response to a Free Press query,

Ms. Batley said there had been no policy change to charge people for subpoenas.

“This office is not currently charging for witness subpoenas in criminal matters. We are looking into concerns that have been raised regarding charging of such fees in criminal matters,” she stated in her email response Tuesday.

According to Ms. Massey, she asked Ms. Mercer for a copy of the court’s policy that would justify the imposition of a fee for subpoenas in a criminal case like hers.

Ms. Massey stated that Ms. Mercer provided policies pertaining to fees for subpoenas in custody cases and other civil matters.

“There was no fee listed in criminal cases,” Ms. Massey said. “She then said she was not going to provide anything to support the court’s charging me $12 per subpoena,” Ms. Massey stated.

Ms. Massey said, initially, she was not charged to subpoena witnesses when the hearing first was set for Jan. 4. But when she sought new subpoenas when the case was postponed until February, she was told she had to pay.

As it turned out, the case was dismissed at the request of the prosecutor, she said, and she didn’t need the witnesses.

However, Ms. Massey remained concerned that other people might face unexpected costs for trying to secure witnesses in criminal cases in the court.

“What happened was not right,” she said.

Coalition strategizes to end violence

By Joey Matthews

As nearly 400 people met at an East End church last week to discuss solutions to stem the tide of violence in the city, Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham somberly rose to address the audience.

“Three more juveniles were shot during this session,” he said, a look of anger and disgust etching his face.

Police later reported the three teens — two 15-year-olds and one, 16-year-old — were the victims of an apparent drive-by shooting on South Side. They were taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life threatening, according to police.

“When is it enough?” Chief Durham asked people attending the State of the Community Action Summit at Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

His rhetorical question drew groans, sighs and head shaking.

Community activist James E. “J.J.” Minor III organized the summit with the backing of numerous community groups. Local radio personality “Miss Community” Clovia Lawrence moderated the event with Mr. Minor.

The event drew several elected officials, including City Council President Michelle R. Mosby, 9th District; City Council members Cynthia I. Newbille, 7th District, Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District; and School Board Chairman Jeffrey M. Bourne, 3rd District, and School Board members Mamie L. Taylor, 5th District, Tichi L. Pinkney Eppes, 9th District, and Kimberly B. “Kim” Gray, 2nd District.

Community members ranging from toddlers to teens to senior citizens also attended. Among them were 13 youths from the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club in Church Hill.

“A huge population of our kids grew up in this area and many of them are exposed to violence and some have lost family members and friends to it,” said Tyree Walker, teen director at the club. “We wanted to show our support for this cause.”

JaShawn Oliver, a member of the Boys &

designed to remove illegal guns from city streets. It allows individuals who text tips that lead police to recover an illegally possessed gun to earn up to a $250 reward.

Mr. Tyler praised the bevy of groups that have programs to assist ex-offenders, but he said too many ex-offenders don’t take advantage of the programs and soon end up back behind bars.

On the flip side, he said, a friend of his who had been locked up for 23 years now runs a painting business that employs 25 people.

Dominique, the Armstrong High student, vowed to continue to be a student leader and community advocate Photos by Joey Matthews/Richmond Free Press despite the heartbreak he feels since Left, summit organizer James E. “J.J.” Minor III his father was killed in October, then challenged faith leaders to form a coalition to recruit his stepfather a month later. congregation members to serve as youth mentors. Above, He urged community members to hundreds of community members gathered at Mount respect and obey law enforcement.

Olivet Baptist Church to discuss solutions to stem the “Police aren’t the bad guys,” he tide of violence in the city. said. “We have to think where did that Girls Club and a senior at Armstrong High Tyler, founder of Coaches Against Violence line of thinking come from? It has to come School, said, “My mother’s father was shot Everywhere; and Joe’i Chancellor of Have from home.”

Mr. Willis told audience members to aland killed in Church Hill. I never got to a Heart 4 the Homeless. ways walk away from conflict, unless there know him. It was hard on me.”

Dr. Shannon, who led local and state efHe said he hopes young people learn forts to mobilize people to attend the 20th was no way to avoid it.

He also said, “We’ve got to put up or that “you don’t need to solve everything anniversary commemoration of the Million with violence.”

Man March last October and is pastor at shut up,” in reporting criminal behavior in In opening the summit, Bishop Darryl F. Mount Level Baptist Church in Amelia the community to law enforcement.

Mr. Minor challenged the 30 or so faith Husband Sr. of Mount Olivet asked God to County, urged people to get involved to stop leaders at the summit to form a coalition to supply “us with ideas” to “stop the madness the violence. of sending young people and others to their “If you see a brother or a sister with a recruit congregation members to serve as graves way too early.” beef, let them know they don’t need guns, youth mentors.

He also urged community members to The summit kicked off with a panel but love” to solve the conflict, he said. discussion with representatives of many Dr. Shannon said the money used to lock go to the polls to vote out elected officials of the organizing groups, including Dr. up so many African-Americans and others who don’t advocate for their community’s Charles Shannon of Greater Richmond Lo- for minor offenses should be redirected to best interests.

Community members who spoke asked cal Organizing Committee, Minister Tracy “beef up the school system” to provide a schools and community centers to provide Muhammad of Muhammad Mosque #24, more equitable education for all.

Marilyn Olds, president of the Richmond “We know where the guns are and who more sports and other activities for children Tenant Organization; Kim Morgan, secretary has them,” said Ms. Olds, who urged com- and urged parents to get more involved in their of Mothers Against Violence; Dominique munity members to help police get weapons children’s lives and set better examples.

Mr. Minor promised to hold another forum Crutchfield, a senior at Armstrong High off the streets.

School; Charles Willis, executive director of Chief Durham urged community members soon to continue anti-violence efforts.

“This is only the beginning,” he said.

United Communities Against Crime; Maurice to use the department’s new Gun250 initiative

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The ugly truth Sometimes the truth is ugly. And sometimes, the truth hurts.

The greater an ugly truth, the more it hurts.

That’s why scores of Henrico County parents and the overwhelmingly white Henrico County School Board are feeling pain after a 4-minute animated video was shown at Glen Allen High School on Feb. 4 about structural discrimination.

The video, which uses a foot race to illustrate many of the factors contributing to inequities in American culture, became a lightning rod for angry parents who didn’t like the portrayal of white privilege. Their angry calls to the School Board resulted in an apology from Superintendent Patrick Kinlaw and a promise by School Board Chairwoman Micky Ogburn to shelve the video, which she termed “racially divisive.”

This video was important. It exposed the lie that is the dominant narrative in America — that everyone who achieves success deserves it because of their own hard work. This ignores the ugly truths of racism, the good ol’ boy networks, the legacy admissions to universities, the fact that employers favor people who look like them and the advantages generated by inherited wealth. And let’s not forget other hurdles: Racial profiling, schools with inadequate resources, environmental racism, lack of access to affordable health care and the school-to-prison pipeline.

White privilege is real, which is the truth pointed out in the video.

The continued denial of white privilege by Henrico school officials and the public guarantees its continuation in benefiting white people and disadvantaging people of color.

We can see this in the longtime inequities in facilities and resources in Eastern Henrico County schools with largely African-American student populations compared with the largely white schools in Western Henrico County.

We are dismayed that the lone African-American on the School Board, the Rev. Roscoe Cooper III, has remained silent on the video and its content and failed to take a stand publicly for equality. We expect more from those who are elected by a large African-American constituency. We expect him to represent the viewpoint of those constituents on a board that clearly doesn’t get it.

The entire disappointing affair makes it crystal clear that students aren’t the only ones who need to learn about structural discrimination and the impact of white privilege.

These are lessons the Henrico School Board and the Henrico school administration need to learn as well.

Rewriting history It starts small.

But changing the facts to rewrite history is an insidious problem, one that has long-plagued this nation and detrimentally impacted the African-American community.

Rewriting history can steal credit from those to whom credit is due. It can allow perpetrators to shirk responsibility and criminal or civil penalty for misdeeds. It can turn villains in life into heroes at death, all of which lead to the mis-education of the public.

Take for example the death last weekend of Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. In the days since his demise, he has been lauded as the greatest intellect on the nation’s highest court and a true believer/defender of the Constitution.

The truth is this: He was a bully in a black robe who used his position of power to force his conservative values on a changing nation. And when he found himself in the losing minority on a case, he resorted to using sarcasm and insults in the dissenting opinions he wrote.

When the court ruled in June 2015 that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, paving the way for gay weddings nationwide (Obergefell v. Hodges), Justice Scalia wrote that he’d “rather hide my head in a bag” than agree with the majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy.

He called the ruling “a threat to American democracy,” and said his colleagues on the court had “descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”

When he was unsuccessful in shooting down Obamacare (King v. Burwell, June 2015), Justice Scalia called the majority opinion “interpretive jiggery-pokery.”

Less than three years after being nominated to the court by President Ronald Reagan and being confirmed in 1986, Justice Scalia rudely called fellow Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s opinion (Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, July 1989) “irrational.”

During a hearing in December on an affirmative action case (Fisher v. University of Texas) in which the University of Texas was defending its use of race in admissions, he questioned whether African-American students were better suited at “slower-track schools” — lesser schools, he called them — because he said they don’t do well at big, white institutions like the University of Texas.

He has pressed for the approval of prayer in schools, legislatures and courtrooms. He made no secret that he felt Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States in 1973, was wrong, and he consistently voted to push control of abortion back to the states, as a state’s right.

He voted with the court’s majority to let Exxon off the hook for $5 billion in punitive damages in one of the greatest environmental disasters of all time in Alaska (Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 2008). Because of the decision, Exxon’s damages were dropped to $500 million.

He voted with the majority in the infamous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 2010, that opened the floodgates to unlimited personal and corporate donations to super PACs by ruling that political donations are speech protected by the First Amendment.

And don’t forget that Justice Scalia voted with the Supreme Court’s majority to hand the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush (Bush v. Gore, 2000).

It is not our desire or goal to speak ill of the dead. But the truth about Justice Scalia should not be buried with him. He was neither a saint, nor a friend of justice or progress. Now we await President Obama’s announcement of a more suitable jurist to replace him.

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More Flints in our future

For the residents of Flint, Mich., the water crisis continues. Their governor and President Obama have declared states of emergency. Congress is holding hearings. Presidential candidates are doing tours and debates.

Free filters are being handed out.

Residents can pick up bottled water.

The city has gone back to water coming out of Lake Huron rather than the Flint River. But for parents, the fears remain — and almost nothing has been done. They will join in a March on Flint on Friday, Feb. 19, to demand action at the national and state level.

Flint residents don’t know if the filters work. They don’t know if they should bathe in the water or use it to wash clothes.

Almost all the children in Flint under age 6 have been exposed to elevated levels of lead in the water. And the water still isn’t safe.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver estimates it will cost $45 million to replace the lead service lines to 15,000 homes in Flint,

according to the Washington Post. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician who helped expose the lead poisoning in children, estimates it will cost $100 million to combat the potential effects. Overhauling the Flint water distribution system will cost an estimated $1 billion.

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. No one knows where the money will come from. The president’s state of emergency freed up a few million federal dollars in short-term assistance.

State and private donations have added up to $28 million, but a good portion of that has to repay Flint residents for the water bills they are paying when they can’t use the water.

For the residents of Flint, this is a disaster. The damage suffered is like getting hit by a hurricane like Katrina. The federal government should declare it a national disaster and mandate action. Congress should step up and appropriate emergency funds. Flint residents may be disproportionately older, poorer and black — but they are part of this country.

The national disaster has hit

Flint but it is already coming to other communities. Lead pipes were banned 30 years ago, but there are an estimated 3.3 million to 10 million still in service, according to the New York Times. The EPA’s trigger level for action — 15 parts of lead in a billion — is arbitrary, set not on the basis of a health standard, but so 90 percent of homes fall below it. One-third of Americans get drinking water from wetlands and tributaries not yet superintended by the EPA. When the agency sought to issue a rule, reports the Times, the Republican-controlled Congress passed legislation to overturn it and two dozen states sued to stop it, worried that it would hurt business.

The Guardian reports that its inside sources suggest that in “every major U.S. city east of the Mississippi,” water authorities “systematically distort water tests” to downplay the levels of lead in the water.

At $5,000 a pipe, according to the Times, it is estimated that it would cost up to $50 billion to get rid of lead pipes servicing homes with water. That’s on top of the $384 billion EPA estimates it will need in deferred maintenance to keep drinking water safe. Yet conservatives

The shame of it all A few weeks ago, Rep. Sean Duffy took to the House floor to scold black lawmakers like me. Citing high abortion rates among African-American women, the Wisconsin congressman accused abortion providers of preying on minority communities. “ I ’ v e heard many of my liberal friends and a lot of friends from the [Congressional Black Caucus] talk about how there is targeting and unfair treatment of African-Americans in the criminal justice system,” Rep. Duffy said. “But what I don’t hear them talk about is how their communities are targeted in abortion.”

Recently, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson accused Planned Parenthood of building “most of their clinics in black neighborhoods” so they could “control that population.”

At last month’s March for Life, the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, a prominent religious voice on Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, described the targeting of AfricanAmerican and Latino women as “unbridled and unfettered racism.”These comments are

part of a massive disinformation campaign, one that seeks to dismantle the progress made by the pro-choice movement, shaming African-American women and attacking the reproductive health providers they rely on. Their goal is to intimidate and inflict trauma while limiting the health care choices for pregnant women in need.

Rep. Gwen Moore From 2008 to 2010, researchers from the University of California-San Francisco’s Bixby Center on Global Reproductive Health conducted 3,000 interviews with more than 1,000 women across the country who either had abortions or were denied care because of the timing of their pregnancies. The report uncovered that economic security was one of the primary reasons women pursued abortion. Forty-five percent of the women were on public assistance, and two-thirds had household incomes below the federal poverty level.

The inability or outright refusal to recognize the barriers black women encounter in accessing quality prevention services and reproductive care walks the line between sheer blindness and malice. However, what infuriates me, and so

many African-Americans, is the shameless misappropriation of “Black Lives Matter” as a vehicle to demean women of color for exercising their right to make their own private medical decisions. Anti-choice lawmakers are using it as a political tactic to further their own ideological agenda.

Black Lives Matter is a critical component to our shared struggle for reproductive rights.

It extends far beyond the realm of deadly interactions with police and economic inequality.

It is a means to amplify our voices against injustice and to empower our communities.

It provides an opportunity for those to shape a future worthy of their highest aspirations, free of political paternalism and discrimination.

This social justice movement means something to us.

I will not remain silent while Republican lawmakers publicly feign concern for women and children of color, while simultaneously attacking the very social programs that lift them out of poverty. Spewing such divisive rhetoric masked in moral concern exposes a stunning insensitivity for our community’s collective pursuit for dignity and equality.

Congresswoman Moore represents Wisconsin’s 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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keep slashing core budgets in order to keep cutting top-end taxes. The problem with making government so small that you can “drown it in a bathtub” — conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist’s famous quip — is that you’ll end up like Flint, with your children drinking and bathing in poisoned water.

Clean and safe drinking water isn’t a luxury. It shouldn’t require purchasing bottled water. It should be provided and policed by our government.

It should be a basic necessity that we share in providing securely.

Flint shows the horror of violating that basic trust. Only Flint is not alone. If we continue to starve basic functions of government, we will see more and more Flints in our future.

The writer is president of the national Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

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‘People are disgusted’ by candidates’ name calling Soon, the airwaves will be filled with political attack ads as the Republican and Democrat candidates move South for the next round of presidential primaries.

I think most people are disgusted with their nasty, name-calling ads.

It has been my pleasure to observe children playing in the sandbox and they get along far better than the political

candidates running for the nation’s highest office.

The candidates have forgotten the meaning of the word courtesy. Their parents need to forcibly grab them by their ears and remind them they were not raised to act like a bunch of rude, spoiled children.

The worst offender is Donald Trump.

If he wins the election, I think he will be terribly dis-

appointed. He doesn’t want to be president of the United States. He wants to be CEO of the United States.

Contrary to what people think, the president cannot do a lot without Congress.

KIRK HANCOCK Richmond

Evangelical voters snared in a conundrum Evangelical voters have a serious problem with their understanding of the Gospel and how Jesus served the poor. They belong to Christian churches that emphasize the teachings and authority of the Scripture, especially the New Testament.

But the leading Republican presidential nominees are seeking to win the nomination by profiling the works of the flesh. To even consider Donald Trump or Ted Cruz as their nominee exposes the real beliefs of these evangelical voters.

Jesus began his preaching and teaching by saying,

Gerrymandering is a ‘political fix’ Gerrymandering in Virginia has taken away any value my congressional vote may have had otherwise.

This is because election districts have been redrawn by political design by one party or the other to create an overwhelming number of voters of that same party.

This is not Democracy. It is a political fix.

Can we please pressure our politicians, whether Republican or Democrat, to get rid of this undemocratic scam — gerrymandering — whose sole purpose is to manipulate the vote?

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“Repent — for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” His first teachings express how his disciples should treat one another and that love conquers all. The Gospel that evangelicals say they follow identifies certain sins that Jesus rejects. This does not mean you can cuss, create strife and bear false witness against your opponent and still win an election.

Evangelical voters also have a target on their backs.

Does anyone see Jesus’ teachings in any of the evangelicals’ actions and statements?

Even God gives man choices, while the Republican

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To those evangelical voters: Do not bring the creator into your own understanding of bigotry and hatred.

In closing, my evangelical friends should reflect on Matthew 7:24. “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and man.”

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Kory Cooley is VUU’s secret weapon school junior.

Art and arcs are two of Kory Cooley’s favorite He played his senior year at Quality Education things.

Academy in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Virginia Union University sophomore His older brother, Arthur Cooley, played at concentrates academically on art. He also is the Niagara University in New York and profesPanthers’ leading marksman behind the basketball sionally in Mexico. court’s bonus arc.

Cooley came to VUU for its historical basKnown as “Cools,” he is VUU’s most effecketball program — three NCAA Division II tive long-distance weapon and the ideal outside titles — and also to grow in his chosen field in complement to All-CIAA player Ray Anderson, VUU’s Fine Arts Department. who excels attacking the rim.

“I’m concentrating on graphic design, but I love The 6-foot-2, 180-pound transfer from the to draw — lions, people, pretty much anything University of the District of Columbia made 46 you want. I’ve enjoyed studying here. There are of his first 116 three-point attempts (40 percent) some talented artists in our program.” for the Panthers.

Under Coach Butler, who is VUU’s fourth “We needed some more pieces to put around head coach since Coach Dave Robbins’ retireRay to take some of the pressure off him,” said ment in 2008, the Panthers began the week VUU first-year Coach Jay Butler. “He’s definitely 13-13 and contending for second place behind a talent, a big part of our program.”

Virginia State University in the CIAA Northern Entering this week, Cooley was averaging 12.5 Division. points per game. In five games, he collected more VUU concludes its regular season Saturday, than 20 points, most recently a 24-point eruption Feb. 20, at Barco-Stevens Hall with a 4 p.m. with six three-pointers in the Panthers’ home tipoff against visiting Chowan University victory last Saturday over Lincoln University The second place reward is a coveted first of Pennsylvania. He had five three-pointers and round bye in the CIAA tournament beginning 26 points earlier this month against Livingstone Feb. 23 at Time Warner Cable Arena in CharCollege. lotte, N.C. The VUU offense often starts with freshman Ayasha Sledge/Virginia Union University After dominating the CIAA conference for playmaker Ke’Andre Gibson (112 assists) at the Virginia Union University’s Kory Cooley goes for a layup during January’s Freedom decades, VUU has not advanced in the CIAA point, joined by Anderson (20.5 point average) Classic game against Virginia State University at the Richmond Coliseum. tournament in six seasons. None of the playand Cooley on the wings. ers on the Panthers’ current roster has experienced a CIAA Quicksilver Anderson ranks with elite players in beating shots, 39 percent).

Born in Silver Spring, Md., Cooley moved with his family tournament victory. his man off the dribble and streaking to the net for scores Artist/marksman Cooley, for one, would like to redesign into Washington and attended Calvin Coolidge High School, and fouls, or both.

Cooley is more comfortable taking aim from outside the helping the North D.C. Colts to the Inner-City title as a high what has not been a pretty picture.

20-foot-9-inch semicircle.

Coach Butler and Cooley got to know one another at UDC, where Butler coached the women Firebirds.

“I used to watch him (Cooley) all the time. He’s a gym rat,” said Coach Butler. “Also, we got to know each on the (basketball) bus trips.”

Virginia Union University and the University of the District of Columbia rarely compete nowadays, but they had a heated basketball rivalry in the early 1980s with Dave Robbins coaching at VUU and Wil Jones at UDC. Kiana Johnson is rewriting the women’s basketball record VUU won NCAA Division II titles in 1980, 1992 and 2004. UDC won the same crown in 1982 and was runner- book at Virginia Union University.

The senior guard from Chicago eclipsed two standards in up in 1983.

UDC was led by 6-foot-10 Earl Jones, an NBA first-round VUU’s 85-68 win over Lincoln University of Pennsylvania draft pick in 1984, and Michael Britt, a second-round pick last Saturday at Barco-Stevens Hall.

Johnson scored 45 points against the Lincoln Lions to surpass in 1983.

Like VUU and many other HBCUs, UDC sends its men’s the single-game record of 44 points set by Marquietta Randolph in a 1995 game against Winston-Salem State University. and women’s teams on the same bus for road games.

In achieving history, Johnson made 14 field goals, includWhen Coach Butler got the VUU men’s team coaching ing three three-pointers, and was 14 for 14 at the foul line. job last spring after Coach Tony Sheals, he gave Cooley an She also had eight assists. invitation to become a Panther.

Also against Lincoln, Johnson passed Randolph for the “I’d always wanted to play in the CIAA,” said Cooley. most single-season points with 622. Randolph’s single-season “Coach Butler asked me to be part of something special. I record of 587 points also was set in 1995. decided to help him out.

Johnson, who transferred this season from Michigan State “My goal is to win the CIAA championship,” he said.

University, leads the CIAA with an average of 28.3 points “But that’s the goal of all of us.” per game.

Cooley has excelled at VUU despite an ankle injury that Next in line is another VUU player, Lady Walker, averagslowed him early in the season and a troublesome shoulder Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press ing 18.0 points. Walker leads the CIAA in rebounding with that may require postseason surgery.

Powerhouse and record-breaker Kiana Johnson drives a 13.2 average.

Cooley was outstanding as a UDC freshman, leading the to the basket during a practice game at Virginia Union Under first-year Coach AnnMarie Gilbert, the Panthers University. squad in scoring (16.3 points) and three-pointers (43 of 111 began this week 20-2 overall and 12-2 in the CIAA.

Kiana Johnson breaking records for Lady Panthers

Thompson hopes to take Saints to championship Eric Thompson Sr. has left his son, Eric Jr., with a tough act to follow on the basketball court.

The elder Thompson was on two State Group AAA championship teams at MarshallWalker High School, and on two CIAA championship teams for Virginia Union University.

Eric Sr. was all about defense and ball handling and still holds several records for assists for the state high school and CIAA tournaments.

The younger Thompson, a quick-as-a-blink, 5-foot-9 junior guard at St. Christopher’s School, brings the same kind of credentials to the hardwood for the Prep League team.

“Eric is like a jolt of electricity to our team,” said St. Christopher’s Coach Hamill Jones.

Offensively, Thompson Jr. orchestrates an up-tempo attack

showcasing the Saints’All-State senior wing Nick Sherod.

“He’s an exceptional passer.

He sees passes others might not know are available,” Coach Jones said of Thompson.

Defensively, Thompson’s duty is to make life as uncomfortable as possible for opposing guards.

“He’s an excellent on-ball defender,” said Coach Jones.

“It’s no fun trying to bring the ball up court against Eric all night. He wears you down.”

This is Thompson’s second year with the Saints after transferring from Chesterfield County’s Clover Hill High School, where he was a freshman starter.

Last season, St. Christopher’s went 22-7, marking its first 20win season in school history.

The Saints began this week 21-5, with hopes of making noise in the upcoming Prep

Saints’ scoring machine St. Christopher’s School senior Nick Sherod is threatening some of Virginia’s most hallowed scoring marks.

The 6-foot-5 player for the Saints who has committed to the University of Richmond began this week with 2,692 career points. He has averaged 22.4 points per game since his freshman season.

The all-time Virginia High School League record is 2,770 set by Caleb Nick Sherod Tanner of Floyd County.

L.C. Bird High School’s Tyrese Rice has the most points (2,328) among area public school athletes.

Finding information on private schools, with many opening and many others closing during the decades, is much more difficult.

According to St. Christopher researcher Stephen Lewis, the most points scored by an athlete in the Virginia Independent Schools’ Division I was Trinity Episcopal School’s Josh Brown (about 2,700 points), Collegiate’s Jake McGee (2,656 points) and Benedictine’s Reid Augst (2,593 points).

However, Dakotah Jongebloed tallied more than 3,000 points in six varsity seasons at Division III Evangel Christian School in Chester.

Former Springer wins NBA D-League shootout

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Proud father Eric Thompson Sr. and his talented son, Eric Jr., show the basketball gene runs strongly in their family

League and State Independent Schools tournaments.

“My goals are to help us to our first Prep League title since 2007, and our first state tournament ever,” Thompson said.

Here’s how Thompson Jr. describes his role: “I focus on great defense against the best perimeter players on the other team, and making sure our guys get good shots on catch and shoot opportunities.”

He is among team leaders in officials categories, assists and steals, and perhaps first among the Saints in harder to define intangibles.

There’s no column on the stat sheet for “electricity.”

Thompson’s passing targets include Sherod (25.9 average), Alexander Petrie (20.1 average), Justin Jasper (9.3 average) and 6-foot-8 Ameer Bennett on the post.

Thompson received much early tutoring from his father and has studied his dad on old video.

“He has been a great influence,” Thompson said of his father. “There are definitely similarities. He taught me to be unselfish and look to help

other people.”

Eric Sr. was the back-up guard behind Bubba Johnson in 1982 for the state champion MarshallWalker Cavaliers, coached by the late Pierce Callaham.

In 1983, Thompson ran the show as the Cavaliers repeated as Group AAA champs in Charlottesville.

Eric Sr. became a starter for much of his four years at VUU, helping the Panthers to CIAA titles in 1985 and 1987, and to four NCAA Division II berths.

In 1985, he was part of VUU’s 31-1 squad featuring National Player of the Year Charles Oakley. He also was the VUU teammate of future NBA players Terry Davis, Jamie Waller and A.J. English.

Eric Sr., his wife Angela, Eric Jr. and two younger sons reside in Chesterfield County. Eric Sr. is a health and resource manager for the U.S. Postal Service.

Last year Eric Sr. was inducted into the Richmond City Schools Athletic Hall of Fame.

While his credentials will be tough to match, Eric Jr. is described as the Saints’ “jolt of electricity” — and there’s no “off” switch in sight.

Andre Ingram is like fine wine. He seems to keep improving with age.

At 30, the former Highland Springs High School guard rang the victory bell last Saturday at the NBA Development League’s All-Star festivities in Toronto.

D-League All-Star activities are held in conjunction with NBA AllStar events.

Sinking 39 of 50 attempts in two rounds, Ingram won the ThreePoint Shootout over runner-up Jimmer

Fredette.

The final score — counting “money ball” bonus shots — was Ingram 53, Fredette 46.

Ingram, who plays for the Los Angeles D-Fenders, an affiliate of the Los Angeles Lakers, won the same D-League contest in 2010 when he was with the Utah Flash.

Incredibly, this marks the second straight year a former Highland Springs Springer has won a D-League All-Star individual award.

Last year in New York City, Jarvis Threatt captured the Slam-Dunk Contest.

“No wonder I’ve won a few games,” Highland Springs Coach George Lancaster said of the results. “I’ve had some great players come through here. I’m the luckiest man alive.”

Ingram began playing in the D-League with Utah in 2007. He is the league’s all-time three-point marksman with 546 career connections in 1,205 attempts.

Through 33 games this season, he leads the D-League in three-point accuracy — 76 for 151, or .503, while averaging 10 points per game.

Ingram was an All-Central Region star under Coach Lancaster at Highland Springs in 2003. From there, he went to American University, where he tallied 1,655 points (265 three-pointers) between 2003 and 2007 under Coach Jeff Jones.

Undrafted, he has played in the D-League ever since.

In Los Angeles, Ingram’s teammates include Justin Harper, the former Meadowbrook High School and University of Richmond star. Harper was named to the D-League All-Stars.

Also competing as D-League rookies are former VCU stars Treveon Graham and Briante Weber.

Graham, in 31 games for the Idaho Stampede, an affiliate of the Utah Jazz, is averaging 13.7 points and 5.4 rebounds.

In 13 games for the Sioux Falls Skyforce, a Miami Heat affiliate, Weber averages 7.4 points, 2.9 assists and 1.6 steals.

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Happenings Kendrick Lamar wins big at Grammy Awards Reuters

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Hip-hop ruled the stage Monday night at the Grammy Awards in performances that put racial tension back in the national spotlight and where some of music’s biggest stars failed to deliver, or in the case of Rihanna, failed to show up at all.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar went into the awards with 11 nominations and looked to be on course to win album of the year for his critically acclaimed “To Pimp a Butterfly.”

While he led Grammy winners with five wins, he lost album of the year to countryturned-pop artist Taylor Swift, who won with “1989,” the best selling album of 2014.

Mr. Lamar’s passionate, politically charged performance of “The Blacker the Berry” and “Alright,” featuring chained black men in a prison and African tribal dancers, quickly stole the show.

Mario Anzuoni/Reuters “I’m African-American, I’m African, I’m Kendrick Lamar accepts the award for best rap album for “To Pimp a black as the moon, heritage of a small village, Butterfly” Monday night at the 58th Grammy Awards. pardon my residence, came from the bottom of mankind,” rapped Mr. Lamar, 28, who delivered his acceptance speech in rap. hails from Compton, Calif.

R&B singer Bruno Mars and producer Mark Ronson won record His performance ended with a backdrop of a large map of Africa of the year for their upbeat track, “Uptown Funk!” with the name Compton written across it.

Richmond native D’Angelo and his band the Vanguard, won a Eric Deggans of National Public Radio called it “a performance Grammy for best R&B album for “Black Messiah”. D’Angelo and that woke up a sleepy #Grammys” and entertainment website E! Kendra Foster also won best R&B song for “Really Love.”

Online tweeted that “Kendrick Lamar just SHUT. IT. DOWN. at Lady Gaga brought the audience at the Staples Center to its feet the Grammys.” with a psychedelic tribute to David Bowie, who died in January.

Mr. Lamar wasn’t the only rapper making waves.

Rihanna pulled out at the last minute with bronchitis, disappointBroadway’s sold-out musical “Hamilton,” which mixes rap, ing fans watching at home who complained the 2016 Grammys jazz, ballads and casts black and Latino actors as the U.S. founding lacked star power. fathers, performed live from New York. The show won the best Beyonce later made the briefest of appearances to present an musical theater album award and its creator, Lin Manuel-Miranda, award at the end of the 3½-hour show, but did not perform.

Pine Camp to host Virginia Opera program on Marian Anderson

By Malik Russell

In 1939, singer Marian Anderson was denied the opportunity to perform at Constitution Hall in the nation’s capital because of racism and segregation.

H e r experience mobilized public o u t rage and gained the support of the national Marian Anderson NAACP and other national organizations and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

The result: Ms. Anderson performed a free concert for more than 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as millions of others listened by radio.

Nearly eight decades later, Ms. Anderson’s story and voice continue to inspire generations of young people during Black History Month.

This week, the Richmond

Department of Parks, Rec- that “young people seeing this reation and Community Fa- production will be inspired by cilities will host the Virginia Ms. Anderson’s work ethic, Opera’s “Deep River: Marian her total devotion to pursuing Anderson’s Journey.” An opera excellence and the humility created by Dr. Glenn Winters, with which she did so.”

“Deep River” brings Ms. AnThe opera features mezzoderson’s story to life through soprano Taylor Raven as Ms. “spirituals, arias and Anderson, baritone art songs.”

André Peele and piaMore than 100 nist Wei-Li Suen. students from afterAccording to Dischool programs at ane Hayes, director of Carver, Ginter Park, cultural arts at Pine Overby-Sheppard Camp, Ms. Anderand Stuart elementary son’s story represents schools in Richmond a way to utilize art will attend the proto tell the stories of gram 5 p.m. Friday, African-Americans, Taylor Raven Feb. 19, at Pine Camp as well as to expose Arts and Community Center, young people to diverse artistic 4901 Old Brook Road. cultures.

Free tickets are available “Our whole purpose is to to the public by reservation expose children to dance, art and by calling Pine Camp at (804) music, and the Marian Anderson 646-3677. story gives us an opportunity to The 50-minute opera is allow them to experience music designed to provide not only and the creative process,” said a history lesson but also les- Ms. Hayes. sons on utilizing one’s talents She points out that early to overcome prejudice and exposure to various arts and racism. culture plants seeds that evenDr. Winters, community tually could yield the Marian outreach musical director for Andersons of this generaVirginia Opera, said he hopes tion.

Screening Feb. 21 of Jackson Ward docudrama The first public screening of a new Richmond film on historic Jackson Ward will take place this weekend.

“Black Wall Street: The Money, The Music & The People” will be shown 6 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 21, at the Unity of Bon Air Church, 923 Buford Road, in Chesterfield County, it has been announced.

A docudrama that blends fact and fiction, the film is

set in the one-time center of Richmond’s black community that lies north of Broad Street in Downtown.

Produced and directed by Rebekah L. Pierce, a Richmond playwright and author, the movie is based on her 2010 mystery, “Murder on Second Street: The Jackson Ward Murders.”

The film features 15 area actors, with Foree Shalom

playing the hero, Sy Sanford.

Others playing lead roles include Diana Carver, Toney Q. Cobb and Mike Shiflett.

The film is being shown without charge, but donations would support the work, Ms. Pierce said.

Information: LaTika Lee, (804) 873-7363, or www. blackwallstreetthemovie. yolasite.com

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Pi Lambda Theta chapter President Rahmah T. Johnson, center, congratulates scholarship winners, from left, Janae White, Rosa Patterson, Janelle Chavis and Katie Dodson.

Pi Lambda Theta gala honors 4 students Romance and education mingled at the annual Valentine Gala of the Virginia Area Chapter of the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society and Professional Association in Education.

More than 200 people dined and danced at the benefit event Saturday night on the eve of Valentine’s Day at a Henrico County hotel.

The annual gala raises money for activities of the chapter, led by Rahmah T. Johnson.

Highlights included scholarship awards to four future teachers.

Two Richmond students, Rosa Patterson and Janae White, were each awarded $1,500 scholarships named for the late Dr. Dorothy N. Cowling to assist them in earning education degrees.

Miss Patterson, daughter of Melody Patterson and Aaron Gilliam, attends Richmond Community High School, while Ms. White, daughter of Florence Brown White, attends John Marshall High School.

Two other students, Janelle Chavis and Katie Dodson, were awarded $500 book awards named for Dr. Virgie M. Binford.

Miss Chavis, the daughter or Robert and Valerie Chavis, attends Manchester High School in Chesterfield County, and Miss Dodson, daughter of Kenneth and Vickie Dodson, attends Patrick Henry High School in Hanover County.

The Katz Band provided music.

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Honoring Dr. Francis Foster The late Richmond dentist and historian Dr. Francis Foster Sr. was honored Feb. 10 at Virginia Commonwealth University by the School of Dentistry for practicing dentistry in Jackson Ward for 41 years and teaching at the dental school for 16 years. Vinita Acklin, a fourthyear dental student, was the inaugural recipient of the newly endowed Francis Foster Sr. D.D.S. Student National Dental Association Scholarship. From left are Dr. Foster’s children, Dr. Colette Foster Groves, Frank Foster Jr. and Carmen Foster, joined by Dr. David Sarrett, dean of the dental school, Barbara Wright and her husband, Dr. Thomas Wright Jr., who was honored with the “First 100” Trailblazer Award. In 1969, he was the second dentist of color to graduate from the dental school.

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Personality: Enjoli Moon Spotlight on founder of Richmond’s Afrikana Independent Film Festival Enjoli Moon first contemplated the idea of starting the Afrikana Independent Film Festival in 2014.

“I was planning to attend black film festivals in other areas and began to wonder why Richmond didn’t have one,” the Richmond native recalls.

From there, she says, “I started playing around with ideas and initially thought of pitching it to an organization or institution. But a friend encouraged me to do it myself, and said they were willing to support the festival as a sponsor.”

Buoyed by the proposition, Ms. Moon is organizing the first multiday Afrikana Independent Film Festival that tentatively is scheduled for this fall.

She describes the festival as a vehicle to showcase the cinematic works of emerging and established filmmakers throughout the African Diaspora.

“Our platform,” she says, “is designed to celebrate the global black culture through the medium of independent film, created by and about black people.”

Ms. Moon launched the endeavor by creating the Noir Cinema monthly film series “as a way to introduce Afrikana to the city.” It showcases short, independent films on the third Thursday of each month at different Richmond area art galleries.

Ms. Moon says the first Noir Cinema screening was held in Richmond in September 2014 at the Page Bond Gallery in the Fan District, with the filmmaker in attendance.

Next on tap for Noir Cinema is the Richmond premiere of “Black Card” by director Pete Chatom at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb.18, at Browne Studio, 1100 Hull St. in South Side. The film examines how far the boundaries can be pushed for an African-American couple in a culture requiring an ID card and commitment to the codebook, according to a post on the film’s Facebook page.

Then at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Ms. Moon says Afrikana will roll out its new series, “Evening with an Icon,” featuring award-winning poet Sonia Sanchez.

Ms. Sanchez, 81, will participate in an audience discussion about her life and work after a screening of the documentary “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez.”

The event, which had been postponed because of inclement weather, will take place at the Grace Street Theatre, 934 W. Grace St. Ms. Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, raising her voice in the name of black culture, civil rights, women’s liberation and peace as a poet, teacher, activist and early champion of the spoken word.

“We will also host our next ‘Movies & Mimosas’ on Sunday, April 3, with our community partner, Feast RVA,” Ms. Moon said.

More information on the film group and its events is available at www. afrikanafilmfestival.org.

This week’s Personality, Enjoli Moon, is a film visionary: Occupation: Marketing and branding associate.

Date and place of birth: Nov. 23 in Richmond.

What it takes to attract filmmakers to Virginia: It requires a variety of things like incentive programs for production companies and large pools of qualified workers and other talent to help create the films. It also requires people viewing Richmond as a place where people appreciate film. Also, just putting Richmond on the radar, which is happening. That is the importance of film festivals. It creates a platform that expands people’s cinematic acumen while introducing established Alma mater: Majored in and upcoming filmmakers to sociology at Virginia Com- all of the beauty of our city monwealth University. and state.

Family: Son, Jonah.

A perfect day: Sitting on the The Afrikana Film fes- patio of a local coffee shop tival is unique because: digging for films. There is so We work to present stories much content out there and that authentically reflect the I enjoy sifting through it all full spectrum of black culture. to find something I know fits We highlight the beauty and in with Afrikana. uniqueness of Richmond A perfect evening: Chilling through hosting events at with my son. He’s a pretty different arts and culture funny and interesting pervenues throughout the city. son, so an evening with him My vision for the festi- is always a good time. val: To make the Afrikana How I unwind: Watching Film Festival a destination silly YouTube videos. event for the city of Richmond. Multicultural, in- I place top value on: Famdependent filmmaking is ily, especially making sure growing exponentially and my son is able to explore we are certain that Richmond his dreams. and film lovers across the Best late-night snack: Guaregion are eager for an up- camole and chips. beat, creative, intelligent, When I look in the mirror, welcoming space to celebrate I see: A person learning to art. We’re also excited about love and forgive all parts of continuing to grow our year- herself. round events such as Noir Cinema, Evening with an Icon Person who influenced me and Movies & Mimosas.

How the festival is funded: Through the support of our sponsors and generous community contributors. We accept donations at our events as well as on our website.

How I will feel when it’s over: Happy. Relieved.

Tired!

To become a volunteer: We love our volunteers! You can become an Afrikana Ambassador by filling out the info form on our website or emailing info@ afrikanafilmfestival.org.

Favorite independent film and why: “Eve’s Bayou.”

This film was Kasi Lemmons’ directorial debut. She had a $4 million budget — small potatoes in the movie world — and expertly executed every aspect of this film.

She also wrote the script and created complex, welldeveloped characters with an engaging storyline. On top of that, she amassed a top-notch cast and released one of the most financially and critically successful indie films of 1998. In short, she sprinkled her #BlackGirlMagic all over it!

Favorite independent filmmakers and why: That’s tough, but I’m going to have to go with Ava DuVernay and Darius Clark Monroe. While they have distinctly different styles, they both have shown an ability to highlight the beauty of humanity, especially that of black people.

They create films that touch the most honest parts of people.

How I start the day: From a place of gratitude. Being mindful of how blessed I am helps to push me through the “to-do” lists of the day.

the most: In my adult life, I would have to say Neverett Eggleston III, owner of Croaker’s Spot. I was under his tutelage from the ages of 20 to 30 and he really grew my understanding of the importance of black entrepreneurship and creativity. Along with my parents, he has been pivotal in my development as an individual and entrepreneur.

Book that influenced me the most: “Eat That Frog”

by Brian Tracy. The tools he provides have helped to defeat the procrastinator in me.

What I’m reading now: “The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America” by Tamara Winfrey Harris and “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audio book).

My next goal: To launch our annual multiday festival, making it a destination event for our city. Additionally, I look forward to Afrikana continuing to create programs that engage not only the Richmond community but the entire region in the world of black indie film.

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Faith News/Directory

Henrico church sends water filters to Flint

By Joey Matthews

When members of Mountain of Blessings Christian Center in Henrico County learned about the water contamination in Flint, Mich., they decided to pitch in to help residents living through the crisis.

Pastor Dimitri Bradley Mountain of Blessings first reached out to the Victorious Word Church in Flint after he learned the church was in need of assistance. He also wanted to assist other residents of the predominately AfricanAmerican community, 40 percent of whom live in poverty.

“I believe that, as the church, we are called to do good,” Pastor Bradley explained to the Free Press. “That is just what we do. I believe the Lord led me to that find that particular church, so we decided to be a blessing any way that we could.”

Originally, Pastor Bradley urged his con-

gregants in the more than 2,000-member house of worship at 4700 Oakley’s Lane in Eastern Henrico County to donate enough money to purchase a minimum of 250 water filters at a cost of $30 apiece, or to individually donate filters.

“They (Victorious Word Church) stressed that this was their greatest need due to their inability to accomplish common everyday tasks such as washing clothes, bathing, etc.,” said Mountain of Blessings member Terrell Kitrell, one of the people also behind the distribution effort.

“We then contacted Flint’s Department of Public Works, which directed us to the Michigan government website that has documentation on which filters are shown to be effective in the current situation,” he added.

As word of their effort has spread, Mountain of Blessings has exceeded its original goal.

Already, the church sent 250 filters to Flint in early February, Pastor Bradley said. The con-

Area pastors to minister in song at 14th celebration Eight Richmond area faith leaders are scheduled to sing for a good cause at The Old Landmark Gospel Association’s 14th anniversary celebration.

The event, “Pastors in Concert,” will be 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, at Fifth Baptist Church, 1415 W. Cary St., in the West End. Scheduled performers include the Rev. Ricardo L. Brown of Fifth Baptist Church, the Rev. Gina Whitaker of Grayland Baptist Church in North Side, the Rev. Robert L. Pettis Sr. of Zion Baptist Church in South Side, Elder Jean Cunningham of Cornerstone United Holy Church in South Side, the Rev. Angelo Chatmon of Pilgrim Journey Baptist Church in Henrico County, the Rev. Phillip Knight of Rock Hill Baptist Church in Mechanicsville, the Rev. Carolyn Clark of United for Christ Baptist Church in Chesterfield County and the Rev. Stephen Pugh of Mount Poole Baptist Church in Dinwiddie County.

The celebration is free and open to the public, according to organizers.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Safe Harbor, which provides services to victims of sexual abuse and assault.

Minister and radio personality Cavell Phillips is the founder and chairman of The Old Landmark Gospel Association, whose mission is to support Richmond gospel artists and better the community.

For more information: (804) 275-1322 or (804) 321-6254.

Photo by Terrell Kittrell

Mountain of Blessings Pastor Dimitri Bradley hopes to send up to 750 more water filters to a church in Flint, Mich., for distribution to people there.

New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

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

20th NDEC Founders’ & Church Anniversary Banquet

The Omni Richmond Hotel 100 S. 12th St., Richmond, VA 23219

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

Monday February 8, 2016

For more information and to purchase your banquet tickets go to:

Corporate Prayer Attendance - 175

www.ndec.net

Sunday

Women With Mission and Purpose Conference 2016!

8:00 a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Worship Service

Wednesday Services

Noonday Bible Study 12noon-1:00 p.m.

Attendance - 78 Sanctuary - All Are Welcome!

Wednesday Evening Bible Study 7 p.m.

Attendance - 122

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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

� � Saturday, March 12, 2016 - 5 P.M.

Thursday, April 14, 2016 through Saturday, April 16, 2016

Theme:

In His Presence - "Striving for Total Wellness" - Mind, Body & Spirit

Saturday

Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

Saturday, April 16, 2016 9 A.M. - Doubletree Hotel

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

Also, for your convenience.

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gregation wants to distribute up to 750 more as people purchase or donate more.

The Michigan catastrophe began when officials switched Flint’s water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in 2014 as a cost-saving measure amid a financial emergency.

Shortly after the switch, many of Flint’s 99,000 residents complained their water looked, smelled and tasted bad. Since then, children and adults have been sickened by the water, with reports of rashes, hair loss and other illnesses.

The tragic event has caused a national outcry and many have called for the officials responsible to be fired or to resign.

Separately, Mountain of Blessings, which ended its bid to purchase the Richmond Christian Center property on South Side last May, has opened a second location in Chesterfield County at Swift Creek Middle School and is actively looking for more opportunities to expand, according to Pastor Bradley.

For more information and to register visit

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

THURSDAYS 1:30 p.m.

Bible Study

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

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

Service Times Sunday

Church School 9:45AM Worship 11:00AM

Tuesday

Bible Study 12 Noon

Wednesday Youth & Adult Bible Study 7:00PM Prayer & Praise 8:15PM

Van Transportation Available, Call 804-794-5583

Rev. Pernell J. Johnson, Pastor

Missionary

Baptist Church

1408 W. Leigh Street • 358-6403

Dr. Alonza Lawrence Pastor

Sundays

Church School 8:30 A.M. Morning Worship 10:00 A.M.

Tuesdays

Bible Study 12 noon

Wednesdays

New Mercies Ministry 6:00 A.M. Youth Bible Study 6:00 P.M. Adult Bible Study 6:30 P.M.

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Sixth Baptist Church

Richard A. Lambert, Sr., President/CEO

Theme for 2016: Becoming a Five-Star Church of Excellence

Mount Olive Baptist Church Rev. Darryl G. Thompson, Pastor

2016 Theme: The Year of Restoration

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Sundays

8:00 a.m.

Early Morning Worship 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 11:00 a.m.

Morning Worship

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

Tuesdays

Noon Day Bible Study

Wednesdays

6:30 p.m.

Prayer and Praise 7:00 p.m.

Adult Bible Study

Ebenezer Baptist Church 1858

“The People’s Church”

Sunday Church School 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship 11:00 a.m.

Service of Holy Communion Every 3rd Sunday Service of Baptism 2nd Sunday, 11 a.m.

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Baptist Church 2003 Lamb Avenue Richmond, VA 23222 Dr. Arthur M. Jones, Sr., Pastor (804) 321-7622 FAMILY & FRIENDS DAY Sunday February 21, 2016

11:15 a.m. - Worship Service Guest Speaker: Dr. Cavell Phillips 3:00 p.m. - Musical Program Featuring: Dwayne & Cyndee Daniels and others

Dr. Levy M. Armwood, Pastor 

Dr. Wallace J. Cook, Pastor Emeritus

St. Peter Baptist Church

R. Walton, Pastor Dr. Kirkland

Worship Opportunities Sundays: Morning Worship Church School Morning Worship

Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:00 AM Divine Worship Message by: Pastor Bibbs

216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 • Tel: 804-643-3366 Fax: 804-643-3367 • Email: ebcoffice1@comcast.net • web: ebcrichmond.org

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With Mission, Growth, Prayer, Purpose, Vision We Are Growing In The Kingdom As We Grow The Kingdom with Word, Worship and Witness 10:40 AM Worship and Praise

8 A.M. 9:30 A.M. 11 A.M.

Unity Sundays (2nd Sundays) Church School 8:30 A.M. Morning Worship 10 A.M. Thursdays: Mid-Day Bible Study 12 Noon Prayer & Praise 6:30 P.M. Bible Study 7 P.M. (Children/Youth/Adults) 2040 Mountain Road • Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Office 804-262-0230 • Fax 804-262-4651 • www.stpeterbaptist.net

Rev. Dr. Price L. Davis, Pastor

Prayer Power Series Message #7 Organizing A Community Celebration Youth Choir Ages 5-18 Call Wanda West (804) 272-5169 You Don’t Have To Be A Member Of This Church Refuel War Room: Bible Study/Discussions February 17th thru March 23rd 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM Family Dinner 5:45 PM - Family Prayer 6:30 PM

Rev. Dr. Yvonne 400 South Addison Street, Richmond, Va. 23220 (near Byrd Park) (804) 359-3498 • Fax (804) 359-3798 Jones Bibbs, Pastor

Mosby Memorial Baptist Church

“A Community Committed to Loving, Listening and Learning While Launching into our Future.”

February 21, 2016

Join us for Morning Worship then come back for our afternoon of GospelFest!

Gospel Fest 2016

February 21, 2016 @ 3:00 P.M. An afternoon of music and arts in support of our Scholarship Ministry!

Wee��y Wo�s���: Sundays @ 10:30 A.M. ��u��� S��oo�: Sundays @ 9:00 A.M. ����e S�udy: Wednesdays @ Noon & 7:00 P.M. 2901 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 648-2472 ~ www.mosbymemorial.org Rev. Dr. Price L. Davis, Pastor

Richmond Free Press

February 18-20, 2016

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Obituary/Directory

Harold S. Lilly Sr., 71, longtime Richmond organist and choir director “He was a giant among giants in music,” said gospel keyboardist and choir director Larry Bland.

“There will never be another like him,” said gospel music director Johnny J. Branch.

The men were paying tribute to the immeasurable talents of Richmond music maestro Harold S. Lilly Sr. The music and church community is mourning the loss of Mr. Lilly, a gentle man who, for more than 50 years, masterfully wowed audiences at dozens of churches and venues with his organ playing and choir directing known as “The Lilly Touch.”

Mr. Lilly died Friday, Feb.12, 2016, in Richmond.

He was 71.

Family, friends and community members will celebrate his life at his funeral 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at Fifth Baptist Church, 1415 W. Cary St., in the West End. Even in the final months of his life, Mr. Lilly remained true to his unswerving commitment to serve God, the church and the community by performing whenever possible. He earned the respect of his peers and diverse audiences with his ability to flawlessly execute the most difficult of sacred, secular, traditional and contemporary gospel music on the pipe and Hammond organs.

“It is the best instrument that has allowed me to manifest my gift,” Mr. Lilly said in September 2014 when he was featured as a Free Press “Personality.”

He also was proficient in performing an array of other musical genres.

Family and friends responded to the news of his death by affectionately saluting the man known to many as “Professor Lilly.”

“The heavenly choir just added an incredible talent and true public servant to its ensemble,” said Mr. Lilly’s daughter, Allison Lilly of Richmond.

She recalled her father as “charming, debonair, very friendly and very disciplined.”

“He wore suits every day,” she said. “He wanted to always look his best.”

She said her father loved to perform for audiences ranging from church and civic groups to schools and festivals.

She marveled that he memorized the Christian Praise Hymnal and the Baptist Hymnal and would tell audience members, “Please turn to page such and such,” without glancing at the hymnal.

His talent also helped to pave the way for other African-American performers locally.

Mr. Bland, who has led the Volunteer Choir for more than four decades, saluted “the incomparable legacy” of Mr. Lilly.

“He was one of Richmond’s greats that influenced and impacted my life and music ministry,” Mr. Bland said. “I am thankful that in the last few years of

Grace Evangelistic Ministries Church 7643 Hull Street Road (Off Pocoshock Blvd)

North Chesterfield, VA 23236 (804) 833-9493 or (804) 585-9186

Elder Maricia S. Hayes, Pastor WELCOME TO “THE UPPER ROOM” Morning Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

(1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays) Sanctuary Prayer: 9:45 am 3RD SATURDAY EVENING Worship Service: 5:00 pm Ministering Encouragement and Hope WEDNESDAY “HOUR OF POWER” Bible Study: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 2ND & 4TH SATURDAY MORNING Prayer Meeting: 8 am – 9 am

Harold Lilly

his life, we were closely in touch, working together on a couple of projects, during which I was able to let him know just how much he has meant to me. He inspired me to be me. He was my hero and my friend. I will never forget him.”

Mr. Branch said he was friends with Mr. Lilly for more than 60 years. Mr. Branch is vice chair of The Old Landmark Gospel Association that honored Mr. Lilly in 2014 for decades of dedicated service to the

Richmond area.

“Having served with Harold doing concerts, homegoing celebrations, birthdays and just regular worship services, there will never be another like him,” Mr. Branch said.

“We thank God for allowing us to spend time with such a gifted musician,” he added. “We thank him for blessing our spirits, for touching our hearts, for leading us in worship and for reminding us who God is.”

Mr. Lilly was born Dec. 31, 1944, in Richmond. He grew up in the Jackson Ward neighborhood and graduated from Maggie L. Walker High School in 1963.

He then attended Virginia Union University for two years before being drafted into the Army in 1965. During his military service, he served as a chaplain’s assistant and chapel organist at Fort Benning, Ga. Mr. Lilly began to teach himself to play the organ at age 4.

“I was captured by the sound of the piano and versatility of the organ sound,” he recalled in his “Personality” feature. He said his first music coach was Odessa

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D. Randolph when he was in the fifth grade at Baker Elementary School. He also studied under Perzelia Goodwin, Marie Goodman Hunter, Robert J. Jones and Dr. Carl Roberson.

Mr. Lilly recounted his first public performance when “Pastor Clarence Dunlap called me out of the congregation at St. Mark Church of God in Christ on North Side at age 8.”

He had Pentecostal roots as a child, attending Jerusalem Holy Church on South Side.

Mr. Lilly was first introduced to the city in the early 1970s at the historic Mosque (now known as the Altria Theater), performing as guest organist for the Emancipation Day Service for the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Richmond and Vicinity.

He went on to perform at that service for several decades and also performed at the City Wide Revival for 33 years.

Mr. Lilly was the featured instrumental artist in productions of The Ebony Fashion Fair, as well as productions of “Purlie” and “Momma, I Want To Sing” at the

Mosque. He also performed at the 2010 Richmond Folk Festival.

In addition to playing the organ, Mr. Lilly also demonstrated and sold Hammond, Allen and Rodgers organs at Walter D. Moses, Baldwin and Corleys music stores for many years. He also was a postal carrier for more than 10 years, his daughter said.

A 2015 Joint House of Delegates resolution honored Mr. Lilly’s decades of community service by noting that he was “minister of music for schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and numerous churches, among them Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Mosby Memorial Baptist Church, Rising

Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Broomfield C.M.E. Church, Sharon Baptist Church, Morning Star Baptist Church and First African Baptist Church.”

“His legacy, I believe, is that he ensured through his music ministry that people would leave each service spiritually enlightened with a big smile on their face,” said Mr. Lilly’s brother, John W. Lilly.

In addition to his daughter and brother John, Mr. Lilly is survived by his son, Harold Lilly Jr. of Sherman Oaks, Calif.; brother Ralph Watson of Oakland, Calif.; three grandchildren; and numerous other family members.

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SUNDAYS Church School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. ❖

WEDNESDAYS Bible Study 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Riverview

Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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}

14 West Duval Street, Richmond, Va. 23220 Phone: 804.648.7511 Web: www.smzbc.org

“MAKE IT HAPPEN”

Rev. Tyrone E. Nelson, Pastor

Pastor Kevin Cook

Founder’s Day

celebrating the life and legacy of

ev.John

R Jasper Sunday, February 21, 2016 10:45 a.m.

QUIOCCASIN BAPTIST CHURCH 9011 QUIOCCASIN ROAD, HENRICO VA 23229 TELEPHONE: (804) 741 2313 • FAX: (804) 741 1501 WEBSITE: WWW.QUIOCCASIN.ORG • EMAIL: QBC@QUIOCCASIN.ORG

QBC Celebrates 150 Years of Church

Guest Preacher:

Dr. Boykin Sanders

Professor VUU School of Theology

GOSPEL EXTRAVAGANZA PROGRAM Held in New Fellowship Hall Directly Behind Church

GOSPEL EXTRAVAGANZA (Sponsored by Men of Quioccasin)

February 20, 2016 -2:00 P.M.

Donation: $20 adults ($10 Children 7-12)

Dr. Johnny Branch is the Master of Ceremonies

IN CONCERT: Northern Neck Chantey Singers Soldiers of Vision Soul Seekers of Mechanicsville The Quioccasin Baptist Church Men's Choir

2016 John Jasper Trailblazer: Florence Neal Cooper Smith Retired Judge John Charles Thomas Congressman Bobby Scott

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Richmond Free Press

B6 February 18-20, 2016

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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 March 1, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk

3/11/2009),whose mother was Sandgria Banks (Deceased); whose grandfather is Dwayne Hayes; and whose father is unknown, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-241A3.

It is ORDERED that the defendant appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before April 6, 2016 at 9:00 A.M. Paul Spaulding, Esq. 11901 Iron Bridge Road Chester, VA 23831 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re MARILEA HEFLIN, Juvenile Children’s Home Society of Virginia v.

Unknown Birth Father Case No. J-91969-2

The object of this suit is to: Pursuant to VA. Code Section 16.1-277.01, Children’s Home Society of Virginia is requesting that the Court terminate the residual parental rights of the unknown father, whose identity and whereabouts are unknown, and transfer custody of the infant, Marilea Heflin, d/o/b 11/03/2015 to the Children’s Home Society of Virginia with the right to place the infant for adoption.

It is ordered that the defendant, unknown birth father appear at the above-named Court and protect his interests on or before April 11, 2016 at 11:20 a.m.

Sherry A. Fox, Esq. Thompson McMullan, P.C. 100 Shockoe Slip Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-698-6252

Interest, who may be the holder of $15,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, GERALD FINE, AS TRUSTEE, GERALD FINE REVOCABLE TRUST DATED 09/10/1992, As to $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $20,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, TAMARA B. LACEY, As to part of a $5,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $5,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, RICHARD D. KRIDER, 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 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, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 18, 2016, 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

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 FAHAD SYED, Plaintiff v.

TURKESA BEAVER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16000028-00 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 2nd day of March, 2016 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

Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1406 North 1st Street, Richmond, Virginia, TaxMap/GPIN# N0000198/050, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF J. THOMAS HEWIN a/k/a JOHN THOMAS HEWIN, SR., DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that HERMIONE BELL TINSLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF HERMIONE BELL TINSLEY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that PHILLIP TINSLEY, III, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the Complaint to his last known address, 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 HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL, ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF

J. THOMAS HEWIN a/k/a JOHN THOMAS HEWIN, SR., DECEASED, HERMIONE BELL TINSLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF HERMIONE BELL TINSLEY, PHILLIP TINSLEY, III, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 18, 2016, 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 BEAUTIFUL COURAGEOUS YOUNG, Plaintiff v.

DARLO MONTA YOUNG, Defendant.

Chancery No.: CL15-2396-7 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt IN the COunty of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Coleman, Frank; III DWayne hayes v.

Unknown father Case No. JJ087475-01-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Determine custody of Frank Coleman, III, (DOB:

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

Case No.: CL15-1476-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, 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 “1218 North 24thh Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0559/030, 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 DONALD ADLER, As to $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said

property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ISAAC SILVER a/k/a ISSAC SILVER, As to $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, 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 $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not filed a response to this action; that RONALD E. ROBINSON, As to $12,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $12,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that STEVEN WEISS, As to $15,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $15,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that GERALD FINE, AS TRUSTEE, GERALD FINE REVOCABLE TRUST DATED 09/10/1992, As to $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $20,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 0727813, 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 TAMARA B. LACEY, As to part of a $5,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $5,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, has not been personally located and has not filed a response in this matter, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, RICHARD D. KRIDER, 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 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; 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, DONALD ADLER, As to $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ISAAC SILVER a/k/a ISSAC SILVER, As to $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, BEVERLY SALKIN, As to $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, RONALD E. ROBINSON, As to $12,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $12,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded August 15, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-27813, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, STEVEN WEISS, As to $15,000.00

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City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has sceduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, March 7, 2016 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, March 14, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 2016-035 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3410 Cutshaw Avenue for the purpose of single-family and two-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions, and to repeal Ord. No. 79-118-111, adopted Jul. 23, 1979. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Singlefamily (Medium Density) land uses for the property.

The Master Plan defines the primary uses for this category as single-family and two-family detached and attached dwellings at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre, and includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, and neighborhood parks, among others. The proposed special use permit would allow a residential density of approximately 32 units per acre.

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 City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, March 14, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 2016-030 To amend City Code § 4-91, concerning cattle, horses, mules, or goats running at large, for the purpose of making it unlawful to permit any animal or fowl, other than dogs or cats, to run at large and providing for the disposition of any animal or fowl found running at large and seized by the Director of the Office of Animal Care and Control. (Committee: Public Safety, Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 5:00 p.m., Council Chamber) 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

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SHEILA HAWTHORNELOUM, Plaintiff v.

NJAGA LOUM, Defendant.

Case No.: CL150023648-00 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 is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 23rd day of March, 2016 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 EUSEBIO PEREZ SANCHEZ, Plaintiff v.

AILEEN SANCHEZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16000123-00 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 2nd day of March, 2016 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 BARBARA CHALKEY, Plaintiff v.

WILLIAM CHALKEY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15002663-00 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 2nd day of March, 2016 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

CUSTODY virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt IN the COunty of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Lewis, Gabrien Rosi; Stokes, Alexander Sean; Stokes, Amaya Justina, Glenna Daphney Lewis v. antonio Jean stokes Case No. JJ087150-01-00,02-00, JJ087151-01-00,-0200, JJ087149-01-00,-02-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Determine custody of Gabriel Rosi Lewis (DOB: 12/25/02), Alexander Sean Stokes (DOB: 12/22/05), and Amaya Justina Stokes (DOB: 6/15/00), whose mother is Glenna Daphney Lewis, and whose father is Antonio Jean Stokes, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-241A3.

It is ORDERED that the defendant appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before April 20, 2016 at 9:00 A.M. Adrienne Barnes, Esq. 1326 Alverser Plaza Midlothian, VA 23113

virgiNia: iN thE Circuit court for the county of Chesterfield In the matter of the adoption of a child to be known as AUbrey Future wilson (Birth Certificate registration number 145-10-073618, registered in the commonwealth of virginia) Case No. CA15-60 By julia lynn fullerwilson and Richard allen wilson, sr.

OrDEr Of puBLicatiON January 26, 2016 The object of the above-styled suit is the adoption of the minor child, Aubrey Future Wilson.

And it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Shaneka Lynette Dunkley, Respondent and biological mother of the minor child, whose location has not been able to be ascertained despite diligence and reasonable efforts of the Petitioner, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Shaneka Lynette Dunkley appear on or before the 30th day of March, 2016, in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect her interests.

An Extract Teste: Wendy S. Hughes, Clerk Stephen R. Bloomquest, Esq. Quest Law PLLC 5913 Harbour Park Drive Midlothian, VA 23112 804.396.3329 888.780.5945 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Egypt Townes, Juvenile Case No. JJ0888007-10

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown, (Father), of Egypt Townes, child, DOB 5/6/2013, “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 Unknown, (Father,) appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/ her interest on or before June 6, 2016 at 9:20 a.m. Court Room #1.

Matthew Morris, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

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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.: CL15-3963-1 VERNEIDA S. MILES, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF VERNEIDA S. MILES, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1320 North 34th Street, , Richmond, Virginia, TaxMap/GPIN# E0000875/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, VERNEIDA S. MILES.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VERNEIDA S. MILES, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of VERNEIDA S. MILES, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JAMES H. SNIPES, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been 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 VERNEIDA S. MILES, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of VERNEIDA S. MILES, JAMES H. SNIPES and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 18, 2016, 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.: CL15-3507-1 STEPHEN D. FOREHAND, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 8011 Burrundie Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN#C003-0221/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Stephen D. Forehand.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, STEPHEN D. FOREHAND 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 STEPHEN D. FOREHAND and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 18, 2016, and do

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

Case No.: CL15-2346-1 JESSE L. BODRICK, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF JESSE L. BODRICK, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1717 North 21st Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0938/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jesse L. Bodrick, who may be deceased and Geraldine H. Bodrick, who may be deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JESSE L. BODRICK, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of JESSE L. BODRICK, and GERALDINE R. BODRICK, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of GERALDINE R. BODRICK, 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 JESSE L. BODRICK, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of JESSE L. BODRICK, GERALDINE R. BODRICK, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of GERALDINE R. BODRICK, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 18, 2016, 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.: CL15-3425-4 HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF HARRYETTE H. BELL a/k/a HARRYETTE HEWIN BELL, et al., Continued on next column

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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.: CL15-3449-4 EDDIE A. JONES, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1802 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, TaxMap/GPIN# E0001081/009W, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Eddie A. Jones.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EDDIE A. JONES, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 EDDIE A. JONES and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 18, 2016, 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

Commonwealth of Virginia Virginia Department of Transportation Request for Proposals 153296-BLW Set-Aside for DSBSD-Certified Small Business Participation for Term Contract for A/E Services for Central Office Facilities, 1201, 1221 and 1401 East Broad Street Office Buildings, Elko Materials Lab, Fulton Complex, Powhite Parkway Toll Road Support Buildings, and Glen Alden Warehouse which is located in Henrico, Virginia (Statewide at VDOT’s discretion).

Documents are located at www.eva.virginia.gov and available from the individual indicated below.

Inquiries should be directed to: Brenda L. Williams at brenda.williams@vdot.virginia.gov, or (804)786-2777 Proposals will be received in accordance with the information posted at www.eva.virginia.gov until 2:00 P.M. local time on March 11, 2016.

Job Openings Mount Olive Baptist Church in Glen Allen, Virginia has the following part-time job openings: Church Administrator, Church Drummer, and Food Service Director. The church is also seeking a full-time Music Director. Please visit the church’s website at www.mobcva.org to view the complete job announcements for these positions. All positions are opened until filled. A Criminal History Background Check and/or credit history check are required.

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