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Head of the class!

Richmond Public Schools teacher Rodney A. Robinson, who mentors and inspires students at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center, wins 2019 National Teacher of the Year

By Ronald E. Carrington and Jeremy M. Lazarus

Rodney A. Robinson, the 40-year-old history and social studies teacher who inspires students each and every day inside the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center, where he has worked at the Virgie Binford Education Center since 2015, has been named 2019 National Teacher of the Year.

The announcement was made to a national television audience Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” where Mr. Robinson was interviewed on the show’s New York set by Gayle King.

He was chosen from a field of four finalists for the award presented by the Council of Chief State School Officers and is the first Richmond Public Schools teacher — and the third in Virginia history — to receive the national title.

In the announcement, the council lauded him for creating a positive school culture by empowering his students, many of whom have experienced trauma, to become civically minded social advocates who use their skills and voices to affect physical and policy changes at their school and in their communities.

He uses a whole child approach to help his students gain the academic, social and emotional skills they need to move beyond their past mistakes and pursue

Mayor Stoney

Budget blowup splits mayor, City Council

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Relations between Mayor Levar M. Stoney and City Council disintegrated Wednesday as council poised to make a modest cut in departmental spending and reject his proposed 9-cent increase in the property tax rate.

In a stunning move, the mayor responded by eliminating $11 million in revenue that the city is poised to collect and that council was counting on to help balance its version of the budget.

Then, his No. 2, Chief Administrative Officer Selena Cuffee-Glenn led a walkout of administration officials, to punctuate the point that the mayor has junked his campaign promise to build better relations with the governing body and instead is no longer willing to work with the council on the 2019-20 budget plan that is

to go into effect July 1.

In the wake of the walkout, at least six members of City Council voted to hire outside counsel as they consider suing Mayor Stoney to force him to certify the $11 million in funds.

The walkout came after a nearly eight-hour budget session during which council members began looking at changes to the mayor’s budget plan.

Among other things, the council jettisoned the mayor’s proposal to provide nearly $1 million to GRTC to beef up service in the East End and South Side and $3 million to provide incentives to long-serving, higher paid employees to retire so they could be replaced by lower-salaried employees.

In other discussions, the council appeared to clear most of the $18 million in new funding that

their dreams for a better future, the council stated.

“Every student in this country deserves access to a teacher who is committed to their success,” said Carissa Moffat Miller, executive director of the council that identifies exceptional teachers across the country and seeks to recognize and amplify their work.

“I congratulate Rodney Robinson on this outstanding recognition and look forward to him engaging in conversations across the country about ways to address the school-to-prison pipeline and improve educational equity for all students.”

Mr. Robinson’s characteristic vibrant smile and humble attitude shined through during the interview with Ms. King, that also included video of Virgie Binford principal Ta’Neshia Ford recounting how she convinced him to come and work with the unique population of students in juvenile detention. Two of his former students — he has been teaching since 2000 — also were interviewed. Both are now teachers themselves.

In a telephone interview later Wednesday morning with the Free Press, an excited Mr. Robinson said he learned about six weeks ago that he had won the nation’s top teaching award, but had to keep it a secret until the formal announcement.

“I wanted to scream from the top of City Hall!” he said, but he shared the news only with his wife, Summer Joy Robinson, who teaches in the elementary school program for gifted students.

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Richmond Public Schools had sought, although a portion is to be placed in a special fund with requirements that RPS submit separate requests to use the money.

The blowup over revenue came five hours into the session after at least five City Council members voted to hold the property tax rate at its current level of $1.20 per $100 of assessed value.

The final straw for Mayor Stoney came after five members, council members Andreas Addison, Kim Gray, Chris Hilbert, Kristen Larson and Reva Trammell, voted for a 1.5 percent across-the-board cut in spending for all city departments, except police, fire, social services and public schools to save about $2.9 million.

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The Market @ 25th opens Monday with fanfare and high expectations

By Ronald E. Carrington

A new grocery store reflecting Church Hill’s history and contribution to Richmond is set to open next week in the East End’s food desert.

The Market @ 25th will have its highly anticipated grand opening 9 a.m. Monday, April 29, with fanfare that includes a ribbon-cutting, remarks from elected officials and others, including the store’s developer and operator, Norm Gold.

The Armstrong High School Marching Band and a Franklin Military Academy color guard will lead the celebrants into the new 25,000-square-foot store at the intersection of 25th Street and Fairmount Avenue in Church Hill.

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The highly anticipated 25,000-square-foot grocery store, The Market @ 25th, will open Monday, April 29, at 25th Street and Fairmount Avenue in Church Hill.

Agelasto out, but not soon enough for critics

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Parker C. Agelasto is ready to leave his seat on Richmond City Council nine months after he and his family moved their residence outside the 5th District he was first elected to serve in 2012.

Bowing to a demand from Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring and facing the prospect of mounting legal bills, Mr. Agelasto reluctantly issued written notice Tuesday that he would resign his seat effective Nov. 30 in a bid to avoid the “prospect of expenMr. Agelasto sive legal action.”

His action came as he took part in City Council deliberations to prepare a balanced budget and deal with the mayor’s proposal to impose a cigarette tax and increase the tax on real estate to raise new revenue.

Giving up his effort to serve through the end of his second term in December 2020, Mr. Agelasto said his action, announced in an email sent to constituents and his colleagues, enables his council colleagues to request that the Richmond Circuit Court set a special election to fill the seat. It also opens the door for potential candidates to consider entering the race to succeed him.

Mr. Agelasto, who also serves as executive director of a Richmond area land conservation group, urged his colleagues to request that the special election coincide with the Nov. 5 general election.

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Ora Lomax, longtime NAACP leader, civil rights advocate, dies at 86

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Easter on Parade Six-month-old Maryiah Tims looks over the shoulder of her aunt, Zaire Tims, during Sunday’s Easter on Parade event along Monument Avenue. Like Maryiah, hundreds of people dressed in holiday finery and bonnets for the annual free event. The future of Easter on Parade is up in the air as sponsor Venture Richmond backs out. Story, more photos, B2.

For decades, black women could only work behind the scenes at white-owned retail stores in Richmond during the harsh era of segregation.

Ora Mae Perry Lomax helped change all that.

In 1960, as sit-in protests mounted over whites-only lunch counters in Downtown and the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, Raylass Department Store chose her to be the first African-American clerk to wait on customers on the floor.

Mrs. Lomax trained for the opportunity working for more than five years at a nearby African-American-owned boutique in Jackson Ward, where the owner took her under

her wing.

In a public radio interview last year, she recalled the owner, a Mrs. James, saying, “I want to train you. So she went to work on me, and we talked about fashions and materials and colors, you know. She said, ‘If you are going into fashion, you’ve got to know about colors and what’s going to look good on you and somebody else.’ ” Mrs. Lomax recalled shrugging off being called the “n” word as she began changing the complexion of the Raylass sales force. And then she moved on to other stores, including Lerner’s, LaVogue and Miller & Rhoads department store, one of the Please turn to A6

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Sources name 10th RPS principal targeted for replacement Regina Farr has been identified as the 10th Richmond Public Schools principal being replaced when the school year ends in the latest leadership shake-up.

Sources confirmed that Ms. Farr, principal at Bellevue Elementary School in Church Hill, is on the list of principals being replaced.

Sources said Ms. Farr already has told her staff that she will retire at the end of the school year.

Other principals to be replaced that previously were identified include Reva Green at George Wythe High School, Tamera Mines at Thomas Jefferson High School and Dr. William Royal, principal at John Marshall Ms. Farr High School.

According to sources, the list also includes Cynthia Heckstall, principal at Henderson Middle School, and principals at five other elementary schools: Kate Outten at Blackwell, Ellena Banks at Fairfield, Linda Simms at E.S.H. Greene, Kara Lancaster-Gay at Overby-Sheppard and Dr. Sherry Wharton-Carey at Elizabeth D. Redd.

Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras has not publicly identified any of the principals to be replaced. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday Looking for a place to dispose of unused or expired prescription medications?

Places throughout Metro Richmond are participating as dropoff points 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Law enforcement agencies, community partners and members of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s office will be stationed at various locations to accept medications for disposal.

Mr. Herring views the collection as a safe way for people to get rid of potentially dangerous unused prescriptions, including opioids, that sometime fall into the hands of people who could misuse or abuse them.

A partial list of drop-off locations follows. For others, please call (800) 882-9539 or www.oag.state.va.us.

Richmond • Richmond Sheriff’s Office, 1701 Fairfield Way • McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center, 1201 Broad Rock Blvd.

Henrico County • Walmart, 5001 Nine Mile Road • Varina Public Library, 1875 New Market Road • Henrico Police Department, Henrico Training Center (entrance on Shrader Road), 7721 E. Parham Road • Virginia State Police, Division I Headquarters, 9300 Brook Road, Glen Allen Hanover County • Mechanicsville Convenience Center, 7427 Verdi Lane, Mechanicsville • Ashland Police Department, Visitor parking lot, 601 England St. Chesterfield County • Eanes-Pittman Public Safety Training Center, 6610 Public Safety Way Petersburg • CVS Pharmacy, 2100 S. Crater Road • Walmart, 3500 S. Crater Road

FasMart agrees to comply with ADA under settlement

FasMart, a Richmond-based convenience store chain, no longer will bar disabled people accompanied by a service animal.

G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced Tuesday that the owner of the 1,400-store chain, GPM Investments Inc., agreed to allow blind and other disabled people who rely on service animals to shop with their animals.

Mr. Terwilliger stated that his office was pursuing a complaint against the company regarding the issue and welcomed the settlement that is based on the Americans With Disabilities Act. Under the ADA, “people with disabilities who are accompanied by a service animal are entitled to participate on an equal basis with others, including visiting retail establishments,” Mr. Terwilliger stated. “We are pleased that GPM has agreed to take steps to ensure that these individuals are welcome in all of its stores.”

The investigation began with a complaint from an individual that Mr. Terwilliger stated was ushered out of a FasMart store because his service animal was with him. The complainant’s name and where the incident happened were not released.

Under the settlement agreement, GPM has agreed to display signs in its stores welcoming service animals and to train all its employees on the policy.

The company also has agreed to pay $1,000 in compensation to the complainant, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Gordon, coordinator for civil rights enforcement, who handled the matter for Mr. Terwilliger. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

This sleek, 20-story glass tower rises 413 feet into the sky in the block bounded by Cary, Canal, 6th and 7th streets in Downtown. When completed, this latest addition to the city’s skyline, now dubbed Canal Place, will house employees of Dominion Energy. The building has been two years and more than $250 million in the making and is the first of two towers the company plans to construct. A similar, 17-story tower is proposed next door on the property that now houses Dominion Energy’s One James Center building.

City Council committee again closes door on private ambulance service

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond City Council’s Public Safety Committee voted to kill legislation that would give Fire Chief Melvin Carter greater decision-making authority over permits for the operation of private ambulance service within the city.

The vote, which is expected to be supported by the full council at its meeting on Monday, April 29, is the latest rebuff to administrative efforts to open the door to potential private competition to the Richmond Ambulance Authority.

The Public Safety Committee’s members include 8th District Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell, 2nd District Councilwoman Kim B. Gray and 3rd District Councilman Chris A. Hilbert.

Since 1990, RAA has provided both emergency and non-emergency transports within Richmond. The non-emergency transports provide about $1.67 million to RRA, which the authority uses to support its emergency service and reduce the city subsidy for that service, which runs about

$5 million a year.

The long-standing policy of the city has been to allow RAA to maintain a monopoly on ambulance service unless a private provider offers a service that the authority could not or would not provide.

So far, that has not happened.

In December, City Council, at the recommendation of the committee, killed a request to award a franchise to Western Star Hospital Authority, an Atlanta-based company that operates under the name Metro Health EMS. The franchise award essentially represented the city’s attempt to settle a lawsuit that Metro Health and Western Star had filed against the city in federal district court. The suit attacked RAA’s monopoly as blocking the private company from providing non-emergency transport for patients going to and from McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center in South Side.

The case is still active, and in the most recent filing, Assistant City Attorney Wirt P. Marks urged the court to throw out

the suit in challenging the company’s assertions.

In the seven-page filing, Mr. Marks wrote: The company “has not pled any facts and relies on baseless conclusory allegations…” while also noting that “City Council has broad discretion and authority to award franchises and permits” and that such authority existed well before the company filed its application for a franchise.

The committee’s action involved a separate piece of legislation that Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his administration proposed to reform the existing franchise legislation on the city’s books.

Currently, the chief administrative officer is the only city official authorized to suspend any franchise or operating permit.

The reform would put the fire chief in charge initially of taking such action, with the city’s chief administrative officer able to hold a review hearing.

The committee, by its vote, essentially sought to avoid inserting the fire chief into the process.

Richmond sheriff’s deputies lost?

Richmond Sheriff Antionette V. Irving has declined to explain why deputies serving legal papers in a lawsuit naming the City of Richmond as a defendant could not locate the City Attorney’s Office at City Hall.

Her only comment Monday in response to a Free Press query: “Process is served in accordance to the code.”

Among her duties, Sheriff Irving is charged with serving legal documents in civil suits, and has a staff of deputies to carry out the important operation, including ensuring a defendant is served and that witnesses receive summonses. The City Attorney’s Office accepts service on behalf of the City of Richmond.

However, deputies returned the paperwork to the court with a claim they could not find the office of City Attorney Allen L. Jackson, located in Suite 400 in City Hall, just a stone’s throw from the John Marshall Courts Building where deputies pick up the legal paperwork to be delivered.

The complaint was sent out twice on April 15 from the Richmond Circuit Court Clerk’s Office at the courts building and twice returned with the notation “not found.”

It was sent out a third time, but as of Wednesday, there was no notation on the court record for the case that the papers had been served.

Despite that, the court’s docket shows that the case has been set to be heard 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, before Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo.

The case involves a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed against the city by Paul Goldman, a political consultant and former chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party.

The suit seeks documents the city declined to release regarding Navy Hill District Corp. with whom the city is negotiating to develop a new coliseum in Downtown.

Judge Cavedo was assigned the case after two other judges recused themselves.

— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Honoring Barbara Johns Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, second from left, speaks during a civil rights panel discussion last Saturday honoring the legacy of Barbara Johns, the 16-year-old who led a student walkout to protest the dilapidated conditions at allblack Moton High School in Prince Edward County in 1951.

The walkout calling for equal education and funding during segregation led to a lawsuit, Davis v. Prince Edward County, which became part of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision determining that separate and unequal schools were unconstitutional.

Joining Mr. Holder on the panel, sponsored by the Democratic Party of Virginia at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in Jackson Ward, are, from left, state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan of Richmond, moderator; Joan Johns Cobbs, sister of the late Barbara Johns; Ken Woodley, a Farmville journalist and author of a book detailing the creation of a state-funded scholarship program to redress the casualties of Massive Resistance when Virginia officials shut down public schools in Prince Edward County and other localities rather than integrate schools; and James E. Ghee, a civil rights attorney in Farmville.

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RPS teacher Rodney A. Robinson, wins 2019 National Teacher of the Year Continued from A1

Mr. Robinson will receive the award May 2 in Washington as he and other state teachers of the year gather for a gala and presentation that will include a meeting with President Trump.

He will spend the next 12 months speaking at schools and educational events around the country and internationally “advocating for kids and for cultural and economic equity,” he said.

“That means ensuring (students) have the resources they need to be successful and that more resources are provided to students that need them and, on the cultural front, that they have teachers that appreciate them and, if possible, look like them.”

The main message he also plans to share?

“I want to talk about how to work with all students — that you have to love them, appreciate them and value them.

“I teach from love, empathy and compassion,” he continued, “and always try to treat each student as the most important person in my life.”

RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras, who was National Teacher of the Year in 2005 when he was working in the District of

Columbia, was joyful about Mr. Robinson’s award.

“There is no one more honorable or more deserving of this extraordinary award than Mr. Robinson,” Mr. Kamras texted to the Free Press. “Mr. Robinson stands for everything we stand for at RPS.” A native of King William County, Mr. Robinson was inspired to become an educator by his mother, Sylvia Robinson, who had an in-home day care center and taught GED classes at Richmond’s Armstrong High School when he was growing up in Church Hill.

He graduated from Virginia State University in 2000 and later earned a master’s in educational administration and supervision from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011.

His first job was teaching civics and economics at Richmond’s Lucille M. Brown Middle School in 2000, followed by teaching world geography, history and government at George Wythe and Armstrong high schools before teaching at Virgie Binford Education Center.

He was chosen 2018 RPS Teacher of the year in November 2017, and was recognized as the 2019 Virginia Teacher of the

Year in October during a ceremony where he was brought to tears.

He talked at the time about how he has his students at Virgie Binford engage in volunteer work to help them understand the need and importance of giving back to the community.

Among their volunteer work: Voter registration drives, work with Boys and Girls Clubs, cleanup efforts at historical AfricanAmerican cemeteries and at the former Lumpkin’s Jail site in Shockoe Bottom, a former slave pen that in 1865 became a school and the origins of Virginia Union University. He considers the experiences a part of the life experiences that students can learn from.

“You always have to walk what you preach,” Mr. Robinson told the Free Press on Wednesday. “I always try to model the best example for my students, co-workers and colleagues,” he said.

“This year, I hope to be the voice for my students and all students who feel unseen, unheard, unappreciated and undervalued in America.”

The three other finalists for 2019 National Teacher of the Year were Donna Gradell of Oklahoma, Kelly Harper of Washington, D.C., and Danielle Riha of Alaska.

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people to be assured that The Market @ 25th is truly a community store, featuring more than 70 local vendors and a staff of which more than half live in the area.

In addition to carrying locally sourced produce, meat and seafood, The Market @ 25th will have a hot food bar and salad bar, a sushi station, coffee bar, florist and pharmacy.

“Quality is extremely important to our shoppers,” said Mr. Gold, a California native and former chief operations officer with FeedMore, which runs area anti-hunger programs, including the Central Virginia Food Bank. “They will find experienced staff, with 10 to 15 years of expertise in their respective areas. Our patrons will get an exceptional grocery experience from the time they walk in until they ring out.”

The interior of The Market @ 25th is adorned with photographs and a timeline of the community from the 1600s to present day. It reflects the breadth and depth of the research and curatorial efforts of Elvatrice Belsches, a Richmond-based historical researcher and author.

The various food sections and aisles are named after important community institutions.

For example, the store’s George Mason Fresh Produce section is named for the century-old elementary school on North 28th Street. It will feature locally grown produce from Shalom Farms, Cornerstone Farms and Browntown Farms, a 100-year-old family farm previously run by Linwood Brown Jr., one of the founders of the National Black Farmers Association.

The Kennedy Kitchen, named for the East End high school, will sell hot chicken and sides from Mama J’s, the hugely popular Jackson Ward restaurant that was a recent finalist for the James Beard Award in customer service.

Also featured will be items from Summa Dis –N– Summa Dat, a local catering and personal

chef company.

Fairfield Bakery, named for a community and school in the East End, will feature fresh pastries, breads and cakes made by a team of local companies.

Prepared foods, vegan and gluten-free items, as well as fresh seafood, will be stocked daily.

Mr. Gold said residents requested that the market have a pharmacy. Hope Pharmacy, which is independently owned and operated

by Richmond native Dr. Shantelle L. Brown, will be located within the store. Dr. Brown, who worked at the former Edloe’s Professional Pharmacy on 25th Street, is believed to be the second African-American woman to own a pharmacy in the East End — the first being Clara H. Smyth, a Howard College of Pharmacy graduate who owned a pharmacy from 1905 to 1909, according to Ms. Belsches.

Mr. Gold said he approached several area banks to establish a presence in the East End

market but they declined, citing little interest in the location.

However, Richmond Heritage Federal Credit Union, founded in 1936 by 10 African-American educators, stepped up to begin a relationship with The Market @ 25th.

“We are going to start with an ATM at a special place to promote their credit union,” Mr. Gold said. “The goal, maybe nine months from now, is to have a full branch in the store.”

Randy Cooper, Heritage’s president and chief executive officer, is excited about the opportunity to expand and build the credit union’s membership through serving customers at the new store.

Heritage and the READ Center, an adult literacy nonprofit, will partner to teach financial literacy and money management in the market’s community room, Mr. Cooper said.

Additionally, The Market @ 25th has partnered with Lyft transportation network to give

roundtrip rides to the store for shoppers within a 3-mile radius for $3. Van Go Inc., a more specialized transportation service, also will offer free roundtrip transportation to the store from the five senior apartment buildings in the area from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. initially during the first two weeks of each month.

“We know our shoppers’ expectations,” Mr. Gold said.

The store is part of a growing East End complex that will include apartments, a VCU Health center and The Kitchens at Reynolds, a 25,000-square-foot culinary campus run by J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College that is scheduled to open in October.

“We are here to serve the people living here by providing them with the best service and product they can’t get anywhere else,” Mr. Gold said with confidence. “We are designing a model that can be used across the state, as well as the country.”

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Aisles and food sections at the new store are named after significant landmarks in the East End community. Historic photos also adorn the walls. The Franklin Frozen Food section is named for Franklin Military Academy on North 37th Street in the East End.

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have Mr. Agelasto removed from office based on his failure to comply with a requirement in the Virginia Constitution and a state statute that local and state elected officials live in and be eligible to vote in the district they serve.

However, any hope Mr. Agelasto might have harbored that his delayed resignation would satisfy two former council members who have filed separate legal actions seeking his removal in the same court were quickly dashed. Both lawsuits remain in process. No trial date has been set for either one.

“This is preposterous,” Sa’ad El-Amin, a former 6th District councilman, said of the announcement. “How can you resign a seat you have already abandoned? There is no way he can be allowed to continue to serve when he does not live in the district,” Mr. El-Amin said, vowing also to continue his legal action.

Upset that Mr. Herring has been willing to allow Mr. Agelasto to remain in office through the end of the year, Mr. El-Amin earlier this month filed for a special writ in Richmond Circuit Court to have Mr. Agelasto removed. Judge W. Reilly Marchant has been assigned to the case, he said.

In his email, Mr. Agelasto bemoaned the cost and disruption he would face in having to defend himself against the action, calling it “senseless litigation” that amounts to “a vendetta being pursued by a self-interested, former city councilman who resigned when sentenced to serve time in federal prison in

Budget blowup splits mayor, City Council Continued from A1

As the council began discussing an additional cut to funded but vacant positions, Ms. Cuffee-Glenn strode to the microphone to announce that the administration would refuse to certify the extra revenue.

The package of revenue includes about $6.6 million in additional real estate taxes the city is now projected to collect because of increased property values but which was not reflected in the mayor’s budget, and at least $2.5 million in sales of taxdelinquent property.

Mayor Stoney had advised City Council in recent weeks that he would certify that revenue, but had not officially done so.

What happens now is unclear. The council is to meet again Monday, April 29, to continue its budget work. But deadlines are looming. The council must vote on a schools budget and property tax rate by May 15 and must have a completed budget

by May 31 or see the mayor’s proposal go into effect.

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2003 after misrepresenting a legal client and defrauding the government.”

Mr. El-Amin’s filing came on the heels of a separate case brought by former 5th District Councilman Henry W. “Chuck” Richardson in January and updated in February asking the court to issue a declaratory judgment that Mr. Agelasto has vacated the seat. A judge has yet to be assigned, Mr. Richardson said, while Mr. Agelasto has asked the court to throw the case out.

Mr. Richardson, who also said he has no intention of dropping his lawsuit, called Mr. Agelasto’s refusal to leave office immediately “unacceptable.”

“It is unconscionable to have a person who has acknowledged he has violated the law decide when he is to accept his punishment,” Mr. Richardson said. “That is the very essence of privilege.”

Mr. Richardson called it improper for the city to have paid — and continue to pay — Mr. Agelasto’s $25,000 annual City Council salary while knowing he is not a legitimate council member. Mr. Richardson also raised concerns about the legality of the votes Mr. Agelasto has cast and will cast since moving out of the district last July.

In his email to constituents, Mr. Agelasto described Mr. Richardson’s lawsuit “as grandstanding,” in complaining that Mr. Richardson had declined to compromise.

Both Mr. Richardson and Mr. El-Amin dismissed Mr. Agelasto’s criticisms as the sour grapes of a scofflaw.

The issue of Mr. Agelasto’s residence burst into public view in November, just before it was made public by his campaign consultant, Michael G. Brown, a 5th District resident who served as head of the state Department of Elections in the early 1990s.

Mr. Agelasto acknowledged then that he and his family had moved during the summer into a larger home in the city’s 1st District and he said he would not seek re-election after completing his term in office in December 2020.

Mr. Brown also has campaigned to get Mr. Agelasto removed from office, but was halted initially when city Voter Registrar Kirk Showalter determined she had been stripped by the state legislature of authority to consider the voting eligibility of Mr. Agelasto so long as he lived within the city’s boundaries.

After several City Council members sought to bring up the issue, the council ducked the issued based on advice from City Attorney Allen L. Jackson that the residency of members was not a matter for the governing body to consider.

“I appreciate Mr. Herring’s efforts. He has gotten Mr. Agelasto to acknowledge he does not live in the district,” Mr. Brown said Mr. Jackson on Wednesday. However, Mr. Brown said he and others concerned about Mr. Agelasto’s residency would continue efforts to force him to step down or be removed before November.

“We cannot allow him to stay for another seven months now that he has admitted that he does not live in the district,” said Mr. Brown, who has acknowledged that Mr. Agelasto has broad support in the district and that only a handful of people have openly considered his lack of residency in the district a problem.

As Mr. Agelasto noted, other council members have maintained sham district residences while living elsewhere, although none have faced lawsuits to remove them from office.

A few years ago, former 9th District Councilman Douglas Conner lost his bid for re-election after it was found that he maintained his home in Chesterfield County while listing a separate Richmond address.

In his message, Mr. Agelasto insisted that his intent had been to maintain his legal residence for political purposes at his former home on Floyd Avenue in the 5th District. He said he had “zero intent to flout the law” in moving to a home on West Franklin Street in the 1st District.

He blamed bad legal advice from Mr. Jackson, who never issued a formal legal opinion. Based on what he was told, Mr. Agelasto shaped his narrative for keeping his seat on a 2014 attorney general’s opinion regarding an elected county official who took a temporary job for a few months outside his district but never gave up his residence or leased it to others, unlike Mr. Agelasto, who has rented out his Floyd Avenue property.

In his emailed statement, Mr. Agelasto told constituents he has “faithfully tried to serve your interests and the city’s broader interests” since first taking office in 2013.

He cited legislative achievements, including his efforts to start a welding program for ex-offenders to gain employment and his work to help “vulnerable populations … receive the care and attention they deserved.”

He noted his support for removing from city applications the box asking if the applicant had ever been convicted of a felony.

He also noted his support to provide equal benefits to married same-sex couples, calling those examples of the “socially progressive causes” he has sought to advance while at the same time promoting fiscal prudence.

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Richmond man acquitted in Henrico rental car threat

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Arthur H. Majola has his life back.

The Richmond man walked out of Henrico County Circuit Court April 16 a free man after a jury acquitted him of making a bomb threat against Enterprise Car Rental nine months ago.

Mr. Majola, who faced up to 10 years in prison, made the threat after he was turned down because he could not provide a required $50 deposit on a credit card, staff from the rental firm testified. The company, like others major car rental firms, does not accept cash, checks or other types of deposits to cover potential incidentals.

Arrested on July 3 after the staff complained, Mr. Majola, who is African-American, spent 54 days in jail after his arrest.

He drew attention after he began a hunger strike in protest immediately after he was put behind bars and not allowed to post bond because of the charge.

After the county spent $45,000 on his care at the jail and in the hospital, where he was repeatedly sent to prevent his death

during the hunger strike, Mr. Majola was released without posting bond.

In court, the case appears to have turned on whether Mr. Majola intended to carry out his threat or was just using volatile words to vent frustration at his inability to rent a car.

His insurance company had arranged with Enterprise to provide the car as a temporary replacement for his personal vehicle while Mr. Majola it was being repaired.

Mr. Majola could not be reached for comment.

Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor acknowledged that the lack of evidence that Mr. Majola actually intended to “blow up” Enterprise likely made a difference in the outcome of the case.

He was charged with violating state law that makes it a felony for a person over age 15 to make a threat to bomb or blow up something or to make a false threat.

While intent “is not expressly in the statute,” Ms. Taylor stated that the jury was instructed that it must “find that Mr. Majola had an ‘unlawful intent.’ ” She noted that the jury appears to have been bothered enough about the issue to ask the court if there “was a judicial difference between threatening with the intent to cause fear and threatening with the intent to actually carry the threat out.”

The jury was told to follow the instruction.

Based on that instruction, it appears that the prosecution had to show some intention to carry out the threat, which Ms. Taylor stated was “obviously confusing to the jury.”

The bottom line: “The jurors reviewed the evidence and weighed it along with the instructions given to them and reached a unanimous decision that the Commonwealth had not proven the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Ms. Taylor stated.

She added that she plans to request that the General Assembly provide some clarifying language to the statute in the 2020 session.

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top stores at the time, where she also was the first African-American saleswoman.

As the result of her success, she paved the way for other African-American women to gain jobs as cashiers and sales staff.

But this was only part of the way this determined and fearless woman, who would go on to operate her own beauty salon, sought to bring change to Richmond.

For more than 40 years, she helped mold youth members of the Richmond Branch NAACP in serving as their volunteer adviser.

Da’Quan Marcell Love noted in a Facebook post that Mrs. Lomax “taught young people how to stand up for what’s right and become leaders in their communities. She insisted that we all know Robert’s Rules of Order and the Constitution for ourselves, never depending on anyone else for interpretation.”

Mrs. Lomax, a North Carolina native who spent her life keeping her promise to her father that she would fight racism and segregation, died Friday, April 19, 2019, at a Henrico County hospital from complications of a stroke. She was 86.

Her death comes just four months after that of her husband and foremost supporter, Richmond barber William Lomax, to whom she was married for 63 years.

Relatives and friends will celebrate her life at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, at March Funeral Home, 2110 E. Laburnum Ave., followed by burial beside her husband in the Virginia Veterans Cemetery in Amelia County.

Mrs. Lomax, like many, migrated to Richmond from North Carolina to find new opportunities.

Outside work, she sought to register voters and do what she could to advance the cause of the NAACP. She was long involved in pushing people to

become NAACP life members and courageous when it came to speaking out against what she perceived as injustice.

A few years ago, she led the fight to halt the Richmond Public Library Board from continuing to charge a $25 fee to community groups seeking to hold meetings in the Main Library.

She refused to pay to hold meetings of the Richmond NAACP Youth Council at the library, but also rallied others to fight the fee that was rolled back within two months. She insisted that Richmond taxpayers should not have to pay to hold meetings in a public building.

James E. “J.J.” Minor III, president of the Richmond Branch NAACP, said Mrs. Lomax was known “for her passion and dedication.”

She “paved the way for many Richmond youth leaders and inspired youths throughout the state when she served as the volunteer adviser, as well to the Virginia NAACP’s college and

youth division.”

Umar Kenyatta recalled how she helped him and other students start a NAACP chapter at Virginia Commonwealth University and attend an independent political convention in Cincinnati.

Mrs. Lomax also was a founding member of the Richmond Chapter of Women in the NAACP. Largely sidelined in recent years after her kidneys failed and she spent three days a week in dialysis, Mrs. Lomax was constantly on the phone with others in an effort to stay current.

In one of her last battles, she fought a dialysis center that she felt was mistreating patients.

When the center tried to cut off service to her, she used her contacts to fight back, ultimately forcing the center to transfer her to another location that she said had better service.

There are no immediate survivors.

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A brighter future for you and the environment.

At Dominion Energy, we’ve increased the number of solar panels in Virginia from 5,250 to over 2 million since 2015. And we’re now the 4th largest solar producer in the nation. But we’re not stopping there.

We’ll continue adding new renewable resources to our energy mix.

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Congratulations, Mr. Robinson Congratulations to Richmond’s own Rodney A. Robinson, who was named 2019 National Teacher of the Year!

We believe Mr. Robinson, who successfully teaches students at the Virgie Binford Education Center in the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center, has a story to tell and tips to share with teachers across this nation.

His respect for the humanity of all people, particularly children who are struggling to learn in the face of circumstances that largely are not of their own making, comes across in the classroom. He has the kind of heart and dedication we wish could be replicated in classrooms throughout Richmond Public Schools and the nation.

He has shown the impact and power an effective teacher can have on the lives and future of his or her students.

With all the criticism of Richmond Public Schools, Mr. Robinson illuminates a bright path of hope for all of us to follow.

Congratulations on a job well done!

Thank you and goodbye City Councilman Parker C. Agelasto has done the right thing by announcing he is stepping down from his seat representing the 5th District.

Our only question now is why he is waiting until Nov. 30 to step aside. For the sake of the city and to avoid continued expensive litigation — two reasons Mr. Agelasto proffered in submitting his resignation — we believe Mr. Agelasto should resign from office immediately.

In announcing his resignation Tuesday, Mr. Agelasto wrote a long and petulant letter sent in an email blast to 5th District residents and others in which he clearly clings to the belief that his legal domicile is the Floyd Avenue house in the 5th District he left in July and is now renting to others.

He blames City Attorney Allen Jackson for giving him poor legal advice about whether buying a house and moving his family to the city’s 1st District would impact his ability to remain in office.

He takes swipes at former City Councilmen Henry W. “Chuck” Richardson and Sa’ad El-Amin, who have mounted legal challenges to Mr. Agelasto remaining in office.

Mr. Agelasto also throws shade on Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael Herring, whose involvement essentially forced Mr. Agelasto to resign, as well as on some of his City Council colleagues who he said “could easily continue to make decisions on behalf of their constituents while renting houses in a particular district and living outside of that district, or even outside of the municipality that they represent” if the “vagaries of state and municipal law regarding domiciliary intent are not addressed.”

Mr. Agelasto has done a lot of good for the 5th District and for the city as a whole during his six years on City Council. But Mr. Agelasto fails to understand the history of how and why Richmond went to a nine-district system of representation after extensive legal battles in the 1970s.

And he is blind to how his belief that he can continue to represent the 5th District without living there is sowing the seeds for reverting to the old ways of at-large representation, when City Council was controlled by a few people who all lived in one or two districts.

At the time, those few wealthy white men had little understanding of, or consideration for, the vast numbers of Richmond residents who didn’t live in their neighborhoods — the majority of whom were African-American.

A huge measure of Mr. Agelasto’s success as a member of City Council can be attributed to his living within the 5th District, getting to know the residents and concerns of people within the district and helping to address those issues through action, intervention and changes in policy, practices and law.

Mr. Agelasto has taken his job on council seriously and worked hard for the people in the district.

He typically is thoughtful and well reasoned when it comes to his council business, so we have difficulty understanding why he hasn’t recognized before that now is the time to let go and let someone who actually lives in the district represent it.

We hate to see him sully his reputation and his record on council by failing to correct this blind spot.

If Mr. Agelasto wants to remain on City Council — and it is clear he does in the way he is dragging his feet about leaving — then the easy solution is for him to find a larger home within the 5th District and really live there.

Until that happens, we thank Mr. Agelasto for his service, wish him the best and ask him to step down immediately so the people of the 5th District and the city can move on.

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Barr, truth and the Mueller report The much-anticipated and long-awaited Mueller report has been handled in an unbelievable way.

We first received four pages about a 22-month study that told us nothing truthfully. U.S. Attorney General William Barr led us to believe everybody had been “picking on the poor innocent presid e n t . ” M r.

Barr ’s four pages gave President Trump the opportunity to continue his mantra that the report totally exonerated him, when it clearly did not. Just days before, President Trump was throwing flames at the Mueller team.

There’s no doubt the U.S. Department of Justice and the White House are doing everything they can to discredit the Mueller report. Mr. Barr

produced his four-page report to try to confuse Americans.

Before releasing a redacted version of the Mueller report on April 18, Mr. Barr held a press conference that proved Rep. Maxine Waters’ characterizations of Mr. Barr as a lackey and a sycophant. All laws, precedents and common courtesies were broken denying lawmakers and

Dr. E. Faye Williams the public what we have the right to know — the truth. I wondered why we couldn’t get Mr. Mueller’s findings rather than having Mr. Barr tell us what the report said.

Before activist Dick Gregory died in 2017, he warned us about this chaos. I didn’t see clearly what he meant until Mr. Barr delivered his interpretation of what the Mueller report actually said.

Mr. Barr’s version compared with the redacted report released to the public is mind-boggling.

What Mr. Barr reported has no relationship to what the Mueller report actually said.

We now know and understand why some on the Mueller team were concerned — even offended — by Mr. Barr’s version of the report. The Mueller report does not exonerate President Trump.

It specifically says he did many things that would endeavor to obstruct justice, such as trying to get his staff to commit illegal acts, but they refused. In essence, Mr. Mueller has turned the matter over to Congress to act on the findings in the report.

Mr. Barr has shown himself to be a puppet of President Trump, with no concern for the American people. He leaves me, as well as many others, with no confidence in the Justice Department. We have a sick person leading our nation who knows nothing but name-calling, exclusion of nonwhite people and punishment of all who disagree with him.

The report presented by Mr. Barr is reason to understand

Trump and death of democracy Democracy is defined as government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Who are the people who support our contemporary status quo?

And how, in marginalizing the will of the people, is democracy destroyed?

The longanticipated Mueller report is a scathing exposé of at least 10 ways the man who calls himself the president of the United States bent or broke the rules and actively interfered in an investigation of his wrongdoings. The U.S. attorney general who auditioned for his role by sending a memo that indicated that a sitting president could not be charged by the Injustice Department edited, obfuscated and then prevaricated about the many ways No. 45 simply did the wrong thing. His wrongdoings ranged from perjury, which he often couched as “I don’t remember,” to intimidation, to near, if not outright collusion.

After the release of the Mueller report, many Democrats have called for investigation or impeachment, but few Republicans have raised their voices to censure the rogue they selected as their leader.

As of this writing, U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, has been the most vocal detractor of No. 45, but he was that before the Mueller report was issued. George Conway, the bold husband of the equally fearless Kellyanne Conway, has called for No. 45’s impeachment even as his spouse maintains her position as his handmaiden. I don’t even want to wonder what their pillow talk sounds like, but George Conway gets mad props for speaking his truth even as he

sleeps with the devil.

Why are so many so silent, though? These are people who say they love democracy, but their truth is that they love it only when it works for them.

While they cringe privately, they cower publicly, understanding full well that they work for a racist crook and tyrant who

Julianne Malveaux will suppress democracy at any cost. What do they gain?

Most importantly, they gain the courts. While Senate Majority Leader, the Tennessee Turtle Mitch McConnell, built a wall between former President Obama’s constitutional right to appoint judges by blocking appointments whenever he could, most notably a U.S. Supreme Court appointment that should have gone to Judge Merrick Garland, he has never met an inexperienced Republican ideologue that he would not rush to confirm.

Lifetime appointments to 39year-olds — consider Florida’s Robert J. Luck — who have practiced law less than a decade but proven their worth with harsh partisan positions will have an impact on public policy for decades. If Sen. McConnell rules the Senate and No. 45 stays in office, so many of our rights will be eroded, including voting rights, the right to choose, labor rights and more.

Those who support No. 45 gain profit maximization opportunities; he is the triumph of predatory capitalism. From a tax cut that disproportionately advantages the wealthy, to a massive corporate tax cut that places a tax burden on the rest of the economy, No. 45’s economic policies have been an unapologetic transfer of income from people at the bottom to people at

the top. While he talked populist trash to white folks who had racial issues, he offered public policy that contributed nothing to his core constituency.

Meanwhile, through his appointments to, as an example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, No. 45 eroded consumer rights. Instead of draining the swamp, he fed his personal alligators the raw meat of consumer protection, shredding the many ways CFPB protected the little people.

Supporting No. 45 also supports the triumph of white supremacy. After Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville by a now-convicted white supremacist, our nation’s leader opined that there are “good people on both sides.” His rhetoric is a signal to racists that it’s OK to attack those who have been historically marginalized in our nation.

While we are in the middle of a cultural realignment, with pointed questions being raised about the corrosiveness of Confederate culture, we have a national leader who disgustingly cleaves to the past and elevates white supremacy. Republicans who fail to censure an out-ofcontrol president often do so because while they abhor his behavior, they embrace his white supremacist enthusiasm.

Democracy dies when tyrants prevail, and when we have seen a prevaricator, a provocateur, a philistine and a panderer occupy the Oval Office. Why? Because predatory capitalists gain from the elevation of a braggadocious tyrant who, while feeding their bottom line, is behaviorally uncontrollable. We have attempted to impose democracy all over the world. Why are we willing to support its demise in these United States.

The writer is an economist and author.

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that it is up to us to deal with the systematic process of being wounded by circumstance. A brilliant group I know has developed a program that focuses on healing and prevention. Our whole society is wounded when the system on which we’re expected to depend favors certain people over others.

This country cannot seem to overcome its horrible history of unequal treatment of people of color and the underserved. We must take heed when a talented group of people who look like us come up with a system for healing our wounds.

By request, tscott@strategiclifesolutionsgroup.com will provide you with more information on the program.

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Northam, appeasement, atonement and black voters In recent days, some Democrats in Virginia have seemingly adopted the principal that electoral expediency trumps zero tolerance for racism.

Unfortunately, they received an eye-opening reminder that this strategy will be met by resistance from many of the very people whose votes will be essential for any Democratic victory in November.

On April 14, Mark Marsden, a prominent Fairfax County Democratic state senator, held a fundraiser in which he invited Gov. Ralph S. Northam as an honored guest. In response, the Fairfax County Branch NAACP led a protest that caused Gov. Northam to cancel his appearance at Sen. Marsden’s event.

For many of us who have voted, campaigned and raised money for Democratic candidates, including Sen. Marsden and Gov. Northam, we found Sen. Marsden’s action inviting Gov. Northam to this event to be a slap in the face. What was equally disturbing was that Sen. Marsden, in what many black Virginians took as a fit of white privilege, seemed to be telling us to get over Gov. Northam’s incidents of racial insensitivity.

Let’s be clear: The pictures of a person wearing blackface standing next to another in a Ku Klux Klan outfit on the governor’s medical school yearbook page, combined with his admission and then mystifying and sudden retraction of culpability; along with his non-explanation for his VMI nickname of “Coonman;” his dressing as a former antebellum slave-owning governor for Halloween 2018; and, lastly, his confusing and seemingly tone-deaf CBS interview (not slaves but indentured servants) have all been a major disappointment for many citizens in Virginia.

Phillip E. Thompson Instead of belaboring the issue of whether Gov. Northam should or should not have resigned, the fact is that this governor received 87 percent of the black vote compared to only 42 percent of the white vote in his last election. Thus, Gov. Northam not only owes black voters and the citizens of Virginia a genuine and complete apology, but he also owes all of us explanations as to his actions relating to the above listed events.

Only with truthful explanations can we, as citizens, fully grant him any forgiveness and reconciliation. Until these actions occur, it will be impossible for this governor to normalize his position within the body politic in Virginia.

As to the Democrats in this state who want to whitewash this situation, the Fairfax County Branch NAACP and its supporters’ actions on April 14 should be a siren to those who believe that loyal Democratic voters will just forget what Gov. Northam has done all in the face of the next election.

There will continue to be pushback from the black community and others who believe that Gov. Northam’s actions are inexcusable. Time alone will not heal these wounds.

Of course, there will be leaders and politicians, black and white, who will in good faith say and believe that the need to win the next election is far more important to the black community than ultimately holding Gov. Northam accountable for

his actions. We disagree with this zero-sum analysis. Either you have principals and standards, or you don’t.

Thus, in response, we say “caveat emptor” to that assumption. We ask that before anyone accepts this dogma, they go to places that black voters in Virginia may frequent — barbershops, beauty salons, gyms, shopping centers, HBCUs, churches, social clubs, libraries and the like, and ask them what they think of Gov. Northam’s actions and the actions of some Virginia Democrats seemingly seeking to give him a pass. This is what they will tell you: There is no normalization of racism. There is no excuse for wearing blackface. There is no forgiving any politician who can’t explain his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan. To black people, the name “Coonman” is and always will be offensive. And as to becoming “woke” to racism at age 59 after you have been caught in a scandal, that is not an apology or an explanation for past transgressions.

Democrats need to understand that they are playing with a ticking time bomb that represents the black vote in November. The risk is that this time bomb may not go off in November in that Black people and other disappointed voters will not show up to the polls.

We have all seen the results of low black voter turnout.

Gov. Northam and his allies need to start moving in the right direction and address these issues with sincerity, clarity and honesty. To those who seek appeasement without atonement, we say tick, tick, tick, tick — November is coming.

The writer is a former president of the Loudoun County Branch NAACP and president of Diverse Engagement.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Flying Squirrels second baseman Jalen Miller, 22, already in Baseball Hall of Fame

Jalen Miller achieved one of baseball’s rarest feats a season ago when he hit for the cycle — a single, double, triple and homer in the same game. It was a shining neon sign of coming attractions for the now 22-year-old second baseman with the Richmond Flying Squirrels.

Miller’s historic cycle came April 11, 2018, while playing for the Class A San Jose Giants in a California League game against the Lancaster JetHawks of Lancaster, Calif.

The chiseled 5-foot-11, 190-pound Miller shifted into a higher gear at San Jose (51 extrabase hits, 61 runs batted in) and he has kept his foot firmly on the pedal for the Class AA Eastern League Richmond Flying Squirrels.

Through 14 games under Flying Squirrels Manager Willie Harris, Miller was hitting for power and average while showing off an exceptional glove defensively.

Miller wears the No. 1 jersey, which is fitting because he is No. 1 among the Squirrels in homers (3) and stolen bases (3) while hitting .289.

He also has displayed maturity beyond his years on and off the diamond.

“The first time I saw Jalen, he walked right up to me, shook my hand ... looked me right in the eye and called me by name,” said Squirrels Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Todd “Parney” Parnell. “He’s a very impressive young man.”

Coming out of high school in the Atlanta suburbs, Miller turned down a scholarship offer from NCAA power Clemson University to sign with the San Francisco Giants.

A third round pick, Miller became a millionaire at age 18. His signing bonus was $1.1 million.

“The money had something to do with it,” Miller said of his decision. “But I’ve always wanted to be a pro baseball player. It helped me get an earlier start on my career.

Miller turns 23 in December; this marks his fifth pro season in the Giants’ franchise.

“It took me a while to adjust to 140 games a season and I had my struggles,” he said. “But I feel like I’ve learned from my mistakes. I don’t

Jalen Miller

regret my decision” to turn pro.

Unlike a majority of young African-American athletes nowadays, Miller passed on football and basketball to concentrate on baseball. It helped that his family had season tickets to Atlanta

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Braves games.

“My father (Donnie) took me to a lot of games. We sat about two rows behind the tarp on the first base side,” Miller recalled.

“Growing up, my favorite players were Chip-

per (Jones) and Andruw Jones,” both of whom played in Richmond en route to Atlanta.

If Miller had opted for a sport besides baseball, it likely would have been golf.

“I went to summer golf camp four years in a row,” Miller said.

Miller played baseball for Riverside International Charter High School and also the potent East Cobb travel team.

His skills were obvious. Heading into his senior year at age 17, he was timed in the 60yard dash at 6.9 seconds and his infield throw was clocked at 84 mph at Perfect Game Camp.

He’s certain both his speed and arm have been seriously upgraded since then.

On the pro level, he is often compared to Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips from Stone Mountain, Ga. Miller and Phillips have more in common that being African-American and from Georgia.

“Brandon’s father (James Phillips) was my workout coach in high school,” Miller said.

“And sometimes Brandon would come by and work out with us. That was pretty cool.”

James Phillips runs the Phillips Baseball Center in Pine Lakes, Ga. Brandon Phillips, like Miller, signed a pro contract straight out of high school.

Miller hopes someday in the not too distant future to become a fixture at second base in San Francisco, just like Phillips is in Cincinnati.

The Giants’ current second baseman is former Flying Squirrels player Joe Panik.

In recording his cycle a year ago in San Jose, Miller tripled in his final at bat off Lancaster, side-arming right-hander Justin Lawrence.

“I hit a line drive that the centerfield dove for and missed. It went by him and that’s how I got a stand-up triple,” Miller explained.

The jaw-dropping performance made waves all the way to Cooperstown, N.Y., site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Cooperstown officials requested a photo of Miller and a photo of the scoresheet as proof.

So the Flying Squirrels second baseman was a millionaire at 18 and part of the Baseball Hall of Fame at 21. It could be said that Miller rode his cycle all the way to Cooperstown.

VUU golf team NFL draft may hold some surprises clinches CIAA title

After a lengthy snooze, the Virginia Union University golf team has emerged from hibernation.

The Panthers displayed considerable talent and depth April 18 and 19 in winning its first CIAA golf championship since 1971. That was four years before Tiger Woods was born and at a time when African-Americans were barred from playing on many private courses.

“This was a very special season,” said VUU Coach E. Lee Coble. “Forty-eight years is a long time between championships. I promise it won’t be another 48 years.”

In runaway fashion, “Coble’s Clubbers” captured the eight-school event at The Club at Viniterra in New Kent County with a 607 score. That was 15 strokes better than runner-up Livingstone College of North Carolina.

Individually, members of the VUU team finished fourth (Paul Meints), fifth (Alkin Barkley), sixth (Allan Day), eighth (Sergio Escalante) and Coach Coble 11th (Travon Willis.)

The Panthers posted an overall average score of 75.8 for the two rounds on Viniterra’s Par 72 layout. Meints was the team medalist with a six-over 150 for 36 holes.

Meints, a senior from Texas, and Barkley, a freshman from Johannesburg, South Africa, made the All-CIAA Tournament team and were also selected co-Rookies of the Year.

Meints and Barkley were joined on the All-Conference team by Day and Willis.

Prior to winning the overall CIAA Tournament hosted

by VUU, the Panthers had won three CIAA events — the Mid-Major, CIAA South and CIAA North.

And they’re not through. Next up is the NCAA Division II Regional May 8 through 11 in Greensburg, Pa. The NCAA Division II Championships will be May 20 through 24 at The Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, W.Va. No historically black college or university has ever made a serious run at the crown in the event going back to 1963.

Fayetteville State University’s Sean Burke won medalist honors at Viniterra with a one-hole playoff victory over DeJuan Powell of Johnson C. Smith University. Both shot 147 for 36 holes.

Coach Coble, a native of Mebane, N.C., came to VUU four years ago after serving as the first African-American president of the Virginia State Golf Association. The coach will need to hit the recruiting trail. Meints, Day and Escalante are all seniors.

Tiger left mark While historically black colleges and universities have never made their mark in NCAA golf, there was one player of color who left an indelible impression.

In 1996, Stanford University’s 20-year-old Tiger Woods was the NCAA Division I medalist at Tiger Woods The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn., shooting a three-under par 285 for four rounds.

Tiger joined the PGA circuit the next year and claimed the Masters Tournament in April 1997 by a record margin of 12 strokes.

Golf talent runs in the Woods family. Tiger’s niece, Cheyenne Woods, won the 2011 ACC title competing for Wake Forest University of North Carolina.

Kyler Murray was barely a blip on the draft radar starting the 2018 season. Now he’s a favorite to be picked No. 1 overall by the Arizona Cardinals.

Few athletes have shifted gears so dramatically as the multitalented Oklahoma Sooners quarterback.

It appeared Murray was headed to a pro baseball career until this past season. He was drafted by the Oakland A’s as the eighth overall pick in 2018 as an outfielder.

His thinking — and the thinking of NFL scouts — changed quickly this past fall when Murray led the University of Oklahoma to the Big 12 title and a berth in the College Football Playoff.

As a junior, he tossed for 4,361 yards and 42 touchdowns this past season and, out of nowhere, won the Heisman Trophy. He further impressed the scouts by passing for 308 yards in Oklahoma’s loss to the University of Alabama in the Orange Bowl.

A threat running or throwing, Murray rushed for 1,001 yards and another 12 touchdowns in 2018.

In 2017, he backed up Baker Mayfield at quarterback for the Sooners. Mayfield also won the Heisman Trophy and was the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns.

Murray is short in height — 5-foot-10 — and experience with only one year as a college starter. But he obviously has what NFL teams are looking for. His stock didn’t fall even after declining to participate in individual drills at the Scouting Combine in March.

A native Texan, Murray hails from an athletic family. His father, Kevin Murray, was quarterback at Texas A&M University from 1983 to 1986. An uncle, Calvin Murray, played Major League Baseball with San Francisco, Texas and the Chicago Cubs.

Murray is a second-generation KoreanAmerican. His maternal grandmother is from South Korea.

The decision to switch from baseball to football comes at a short-term cost.

Murray signed with the Oakland Athletics for $4.66 million, a tidy sum he won’t be able to cash.

The money would have been his if he’d gone ahead and joined the A’s farm system this spring as initially planned. Oakland retains rights to Murray should he return to the baseball diamond.

There’s plenty of money in the NFL, too. Mayfield’s rookie contract with Cleveland last year was good for $32.9 million, including a $22.1 million signing bonus.

Murray didn’t submit his name for the NFL draft until January, and didn’t announce he was focusing on the NFL until Feb. 11. While many “experts” believe he will be the first person chosen during the NFL draft that starts Thursday, April 25, there are always surprises.

Cream of the crop: Others expected

on the college gridiron.

A tight end, Alie-Cox caught two touchdown passes from Colts quarterback Andrew Luck in 2018 and emerged as a strong blocker.

Local kid makes good: Defensive end Clelin Ferrell from national champion Clemson University is likely to hear his name called midway into the NFL’s first round.

Ferrell of Richmond starred at Benedictine College Preparatory School before signing with Clemson.

Leaving so soon? A record 111 underclassmen are entered in the 2019 draft.

Most are juniors or redshirt sophomores.

To be eligible for the draft, a candidate must be at least three years removed from high school.

Disappearing HBCUs: Fewer and fewer athletes from historically black colleges and universities are selected in the draft, but there are exceptions.

Hopefuls this go-round include offenKyler Murray sive linemen Tytus Howard from Alabama to be among the first picks are defensive State University, Josh Miles from Morgan end Nick Bosa from Ohio State University, State University and defensive end Darryl defensive tackle Quinnen Williams from Johnson from North Carolina A&T State the University of Alabama, linebacker University.

Also on the “maybe” list is Bowie State Josh Allen from the University of Kentucky, defensive tackle Ed Oliver from University quarterback Amir Hall, who the University of Houston and defensive passed for 10,198 yards and 94 touchdowns end Rahan Gary from the University of for the Bulldogs.

The last quarterback from an HBCU to Michigan.

Schools like Ohio State and Alabama be drafted was Alabama State’s Tarvaris are used to having their athletes selected Jackson in 2006. He was picked by the near the top. By contrast, the University Minnesota Vikings with the 64th overall of Kentucky is much more likely to have choice.

D.C. impact? The Washington NFL team is in need of quarterback help and 2019 NFL Draft the Arizona Cardinals might have one available in Josh Rosen, the Cardinal’s What: NFL’s 84th Incoming Player Draft. top pick a year ago and 10th overall.

When: Thursday, April 25, through Rosen was Arizona’s starter in 2018 with Saturday, April 27. The first round is so-so results. on April 25, rounds two and three on Washington’s quarterback situation was April 26 and rounds four through seven thrown into a tizzy last season when Alex on April 27.

Smith suffered a serious leg injury in the Where: Nashville, Tenn.

11th week against the Houston Texans.

Time: 8 p.m.

Don’t be surprised if Washington seeks Televised: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and Rosen in exchange for a draft pick or the NFL Network. picks and/or players.

First pick: Arizona Cardinals; the Washington NFL team picks 15th.

Other college quarterbacks figuring to go in Round One of the draft are the University of Missouri’s Drew Lock, Dwayne a basketball player drafted than a football Haskins of Ohio State University and Duke University’s Daniel Jones. star.

Quarterbacks rule: Since 1998, when A second first round possibility for Kentucky is cornerback Lonnie Johnson. Peyton Manning was tapped first overall Eenie, meenie, miney, Mo Alie-Cox: in the NFL draft by the Indianapolis Colts, The draft, despite a “look under every the top pick has been a quarterback 15 rock” concept by scouts, isn’t an exact times.

The last running back drafted as the science.

Some of the premier college players first pick was Penn State University’s Kinever make it in the NFL. Then there are Jana Carter by the Cincinnati Bengals in those like former Virginia Commonwealth 1995. Before Carter, the last ball carrier University basketball center Mo Alie-Cox, chosen first was Auburn University’s Bo who landed with the Indianapolis Colts as Jackson by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a free agent after never playing a down in 1986.

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Personality: Brian Palmer

Spotlight on 2019 Peabody Award-winning journalist Richmond-based journalist Brian Palmer, whose career has taken him around the globe, has won a prestigious Peabody Award, which recognizes and honors the most enlightening and powerful stories, documentaries, radio and television shows and podcasts about pressing social issues of the day.

The announcement was made Tuesday, with the awards slated to be presented at a $1,500-a-person red-carpet dinner ceremony May 18 in New York City.

Mr. Palmer, who has completed several freelance assignments in recent years for the Richmond Free Press, won the Peabody Award for “Monumental Lies,” on the podcast Reveal produced

by Type Investigations for The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. The investigative piece focuses on public funding used to erect and maintain Confederate monuments across the South and the ideology of some groups involved with them.

Mr. Palmer and co-writer Seth Freed Wessler also authored the story for Smithsonian Magazine. Mr. Palmer’s research on taxpayer funds used in Virginia to support Confederate monuments was published in his front page article, “Still funding Confederacy,” in the March 21-23 edition of the Richmond Free Press.

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journalists he discovered that spoke truth to power — from Ida B. Wells to Chuck Stone.

“Their search for justice and honestly has driven me and compelled me to become a journalist,” Mr. Palmer says.

He says his mother, Edith Palmer, instilled in him at an early age to “accept responsibility for my actions and don’t blame other people.” Supporting that advice, Edward Palmer, his father, believed that people are to be held accountable for their actions, especially for historical and systemic racial discrimination and Jim Crow suppression.

“In one sense, I see that as one of the main keys to a satisfied life,” Mr. Palmer says.

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“Taxpayer funding is portraying the Confederate cause as noble and slavery as a benign institution,” Mr. Palmer says in an interview Wednesday with the Free Press. “These particular Confederate burial sites, not the historically accurate battlefield plaques, are cemeteries and monuments that perpetuate an ideology of a Lost Cause.”

Mr. Palmer and Mr. Wessler joined forces to create “Monumental Lies” by coming from similar directions.

“Seth had done a story on a neglected African-American cemetery in St. Louis County, Missouri, and I had started to do work on neglected cemeteries in Richmond and Henrico County,” Mr. Palmer says. “We both were wondering why these hundreds of African-American burial sites are in such terrible condition and, in the same towns and just blocks away, as with the case of Oakwood and Evergreen cemeteries here, we have these pristine Confederate cemeteries.”

Their work, the result of dozens of interviews, scores of Freedom of Information Act requests, painstaking investigation and visits to Civil War-related historic sites, is a riveting story about notions of the Confederacy that persist to this day.

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“I hear these two people talking about the power of hunting for and unearthing evidence, facts in service of justice and the greater good. I thought that was absolutely amazing.”

Later, as he worked his way to earn a master’s in photography from the School of Arts in New York City, Mr. Palmer got a job as a fact checker at the Village Voice.

“I really wanted to be a photographer at the Village Voice,” he recalls. “I showed my portfolio to the photo editor. He looked at it for all of 45 seconds. I felt lower than a bug.”

Later, the young novice had a conversation with an assistant photo editor who pointed out how to beef up his work.

Consequently, he focused on writing and became a writer and photographer for

the Village Voice. “I had an amazing editor who I am still in touch with.”

The process in journalism, he says, is “the relentless looking and humility, knowing you will never know the whole story, even if you get a treasure trove of information and the best interviews. To think you have nailed the story is a kind of hubris that is an occupational hazard.

“I think you have to be humble and be hungry,” he continues. “The best journalists continue to research and uncover information throughout their careers.”

Meet Peabody Award-winning journalist and this week’s Personality, Brian Palmer: Occupation: Journalist, photographer and filmmaker.

Latest accomplishment: Winning a Peabody Award in the radio/podcasts category for an investigative piece, “Monumental Lies,” exploring the contested history surrounding monuments in the South to Confederates.

Born: 1964 in Queens, N.Y. Current residence: Richmond’s Church Hill.

Family: Wife, Erin, and Teacake, the wonder dog.

Alma maters: Bachelor’s in East Asian Studies from Brown University, 1986; master’s of fine arts in photography from the School of Visual Arts, 1990 How I got news about winning the Peabody Award: When I found out we won, I was walking my dog, Teacake, with my wife, Erin, in Church Hill.

I got a text and just shouted, “Yes!” The dog didn’t react but I scared my wife.

My reaction: Absolute surprise and shock. To be nominated was surprising, and to win — I was not allowing myself to anticipate what winning would be like.

How I start the day: I get up when I am being good, meditate when I am being lazy. Then I put the coffee on and listen to public radio.

I place top value on: Integrity.

VUU hosts ‘Jazz on the Lawn Concert’ April 27 Virginia Union University is hosting a “Jazz on the Lawn Concert” at 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 27, on the lawn by the Belgian Building on the campus, 1500 N. Lombardy St.

The 1st Thursday Jazz Band and Singers will be featured at the free event.

Organizers suggest that people bring lawn chairs and picnic baskets.

Donations will be accepted.

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By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Tim Reid to debut new clothing line

By Ronald E. Carrington

Actor, director and film producer Tim Reid is expanding into fashion design.

The talented Norfolk native and Richmond resident will feature a limited look at his men’s clothing collection at the 4th Annual Legacy Media Institute Spring Fashion Showcase 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at RVA Event Space, 1 E. 4th St. in Manchester in South Side.

“The collection is for men who have decided that they are not going to sit home, retire and wait to die,” Mr. Reid said in Mr. a Free Press interview this week. “My designs have my style, swag and mojo. I want men to awaken their mojo and live their lives.”

Founder of Tim Reid Productions and the Legacy Media Institute, Mr. Reid has made extensive trips to African nations and has been inspired by designers from the black diaspora. His men’s line, which he will be working on this year, infuses some of his personal style and feeling about fashion and puts it in a small collection.

Saturday’s fashion showcase also will feature the work of international and regional designers who will fill the runway with an eclectic mix of colorful styles and fashions. Mr. Reid’s wife, actress and designer Daphne Maxwell Reid, will show clothes from her newest collection as well.

Among the designers confirmed for Saturday’s show are Ethiopia’s Letwa Linnetta Gooden and Salome, who has emceed the event for the past three years, and Panama’s Jean Quijano and Elizabeth Techane of Toronto.

“This is cultural fashion show, a reflection of the African diaspora that has a certain spirit and passion unlike anything else in the world,” Mr. Reid said. People of African descent “have been involved with the style and origins of art and fashion in other parts of the world from the beginning.”

Mr. Reid knows the impact Ethiopia has on the fashion world.

“Ethiopia is the fastest growing economy on the African continent … and their culture and fashion industry is affecting the world with their styles, colors, music, clothes and food,” Mr. Reid said.

Reid Regional designers from New York, Washington and Virginia also will be showcased, including Malcolm Staples, Bernard L. Moore, Victor Hou, Helen Asrat and Lenny White.

The event is a fundraiser for Mr. Reid’s nonprofit Legacy Media Institute that brings together film and television professionals, actors and men and women pursuing a career in the entertainment industry to produce documentaries and films.

“We are working with talented filmmakers from around the world — Nigeria, Cuba, Trinidad, England and Panama,” Mr. Reid said.

The institute, which is now 12 years old, has expanded to include master classes in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cuba and in England, where Mr. Reid works with black British filmmakers at the British Film Institute.

“We are working with emerging filmmakers who are beginning to change the culture and view of their respective countries and environment,” Mr. Reid said.

Tickets are $40 and available on www.eventbrite.com.

Sunday might have been the final edition of Easter on Parade — at least as an organized event.

Thousands of people turned out to stroll along four blocks of Monument Avenue on Easter afternoon, some in holiday finery and others with costumed pets. It’s a tradition that dates back at least 50 years and has been under the aegis of city-supported groups for at least 30 years.

Musicians playing on porches, a juggler, stilt walker and other street performers, arts and crafts stations and vendors added to the lively, friendly holiday atmosphere that attracted a diverse crowd during the four-hour event. Barricades blocked off traffic, creating a temporary pedestrian mall.

But the longtime wellspring of funding for this Richmond tradition has gone dry.

Venture Richmond, the Down-

town booster group that has long backed the event, notified the city two years ago that it would end its support, with 2019 being the last year it would contribute.

The group laid the groundwork for pulling out by turning over the operation of Easter on Parade to a private group, Echelon Event Management, which produced the event this year and in 2018. Venture Richmond came up with $20,000 each year.

Earlier this week, 2nd District City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray noted during a council budget session that no funding for Easter on Parade was included in Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s budget proposal for the 2019-20 fiscal year that will start July 1.

Ms. Gray, who missed the April 18 deadline to submit a budget amendment to add funding, expressed frustration Monday afternoon when Council President Cynthia I. New-

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Thousands of people, including the Easter Bunny, stroll along Monument Avenue for what may be the final edition of Easter on Parade. Below left, Ogechi Mbagwu, 21, and her sister, Nasreen Mbagwu, 11, of Damascus, Md., show off the rabbit ears they donned for the Monument Avenue event. Below right, Yorkshire terriers Lucy, 9, left, and Desi, 5, happily pause for photos in their carriage decorated by their owner, Robin Weil of Henrico County.

bille declined to allow her to submit a late amendment.

Ms. Gray scolded her colleagues for accepting a ruling that she said could mean the end of Easter on Parade, which she described as a major attraction for the city that should not be abandoned. But she found no backing for changing the procedure adopted by the council.

Ms. Newbille told Ms. Gray that the issue might be revisited after the council deals with previously submitted amendments and the overall budget.

Officials from Venture Richmond said the group provided members of City Council and the city administration with at least 15 months’ notice so the group’s decision would not leave anyone in the government unaware.

“This is the only event we have sponsored that is outside our boundaries,” said Lisa Sims, executive director of Venture Richmond, now best known for managing the riverfront canals and Brown’s Island, operating canal boat rides, promoting real estate development and visitation to Downtown and hosting the Friday Cheers concert series, the annual 2nd Street Festival and the Richmond Folk Festival.

Ms. Sims said Venture Richmond’s board decided in 2017 that it needed to be more laser-focused on its work within Downtown, which is loosely bounded by Belvidere Street, 18th Street, the James River and Interstate 95.

Ms. Sims said Venture Richmond used leftover funds to support Easter on Parade in 2018 and then dug deep to provide the subsidy to hold the event this year.

Lucy Meade, Venture Richmond’s director of economic development and community relations, said despite attracting large numbers of people, the free event “is not a moneymaker.

It was never designed to be.”

Venture Richmond, created from past mergers with several groups that hosted city-promoting events and Downtown growth, inherited Easter on Parade from CityCelebrations.

Easter on Parade began as a neighborhood event in which people took a walk along the street. It later morphed into a bigger public event in the 1980s after CityCelebrations adopted it with support from residents.

Ms. Sims said the event could continue if a private sponsor or several religious denominations emerge to fund it. For example, Lidl, a new grocery chain that has opened in Richmond, was a sponsor of this year’s event, but the company has not said whether it would take on the full cost to host tge event.

Ezibu Muntu to host 4th annual fundraising gala May 4 Richmond’s longest running African dance company is shortening its name as it prepares to mark its 46th year with its fourth annual fundraising dinner-dance on Saturday, May 4, it has been announced.

In advance of the black-tie fundraiser, the Ezibu Muntu African Dance Company that was born in 1973 on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth now plans to call itself just Ezibu Muntu.

Tanya Dennis, founder and current general manager of the group, said the shorter name better reflects the company’s expanded mission that includes offering theater, music and education along with dance.

“We are no longer just a dance company,” Ms.

Dennis said. “So we’ve simplified the name and adopted a tagline that better reflects the expanded mission: ‘Dance, Education and Culture.’ ” The mission expansion is happening, she said, as the company seeks to find a new home in Downtown. After years in the 400 block of East Main Street, the company relocated to South Side in the past two years.

Ms. Dennis said the goal is to raise the money to buy a property, hopefully in the Arts District, to offer the varied programs of the company. She said fundraising is moving closer to the goal.

Once it opens, the Ezibu Muntu center would provide African-centered education and experiences to young people and the larger community,

with additional programming for seniors and health advocates, she said.

Ms. Dennis took over as general manager of the company since returning to Richmond in September. She credits four people with maintaining the dance company after she left in 1975.

Two, Renee Knight and Faye Walker, are VCU alumnae who got their start in African dance while studying with Ms. Dennis and took on the task of turning Ezibu Muntu into a continuing community organization after they graduated.

The two others are Roderick Davis and Babdunjo Olgunké, protégés of Ms. Knight and Ms. Walker. Ms. Dennis said the two men have kept “the group viable and artistically solvent for 30 years” as dance teachers committed to

Fitness Warriors application deadline May 4

Applications are being accepted through May 4 for the eighth class of Fitness Warriors, a program designed to train group fitness instructors who will then lead free weekly fitness courses in the community.

The program is sponsored by Sports Backers, the Richmond City Health District, Fit to Go and other community groups with the aim to keep Richmonders healthy and active.

Fitness Warriors will go through nine free training sessions from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays from July 13 through Dec. 7. After the training, the Fitness Warriors will start teaching a free group fitness class each week at a host site in the community set up by Sport Backers.

Currently, Fitness Warriors are leading free classes at 50 sites throughout the Richmond region in community centers, libraries, churches, senior living facilities and other locations.

Details and applications: www.sportsbackers. org, (804) 721-2843 or (804) 878-0121.

maintaining the artistic integrity.

The fundraising dinner-dance will be held 7 to 11 p.m. at the Dewey Gottwald Center at the Science Museum of Virginia, 2301 W. Leigh St. Tickets are $70.

“We are asking the public to support our growth and our mission as we seek to assist our youths to become better, more productive citizens by teaching them their culture, showing them their power and supporting their potential,” Ms. Dennis said. “The public’s generous donations and participation at our gala will help us achieve the creation of our center where we can assist even more young people.”

Details and tickets: (804) 592-0086 or www. ezibumuntu.org.

48th Annual Arts in the Park next weekend

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Joyful sounds Members of the Linwood Holton Elementary School Band, led by Kendra Whindleton, perform for family, friends and supporters last Saturday at the 5th Annual Rosedale Cherry Blossom Festival at the Park at Christ Ascension Church on Laburnum Avenue in North Side. The event was a fundraiser for arts in Richmond Public Schools. Participants enjoyed food trucks, music, arts and crafts and a silent auction.

Richmond’s 48th Annual “Arts in the Park” arts and craft show will be held next weekend at the Carillon in Byrd Park.

More than 450 artists will feature their work at the event from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 4, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 5.

Since 1972, the Carillon Civic Association has sponsored the juried show that offers the opportunity to purchase works produced by artists and craftspeople from around the United States. The show features everything from traditional artwork to furniture, clothing and accessories, home décor and woodworking, glass and metal work, ceramics and sculpture, photography, wearable art and jewelry.

Free parking, including handicap access, is available at Byrd Park, with parking and shuttles available from City Stadium, 3201 Maplewood Ave. No pets are allowed.

Details: www.richmondartsinthepark.com or (804) 358-2711.

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April 25-27, 2019 B3

Faith News/Directory

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

Interfaith Passover â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Justice Sederâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

People from many different faiths and backgrounds participate in an interfaith Passover â&#x20AC;&#x153;Justice Sederâ&#x20AC;? Monday evening, using the Exodus story and Passover rituals to shine a light on modern-day oppression of racism, sexism, militarism and materialism. The event was held at Temple Beth-El on Grove Avenue and featured a combined choir, above, from Temple Beth-El, First African Baptist Church and Richmond Hill. Above right, Miriam Aniel of Richmond Jews for Justice conducts the candle lighting as other faith leaders look on. Below, Giselle Johnson and Tony Lamb break a piece of matzah during the Seder. A ritual meal, displayed below right, was shared at each table during the Passover celebration.

Baltimore cemetery offers Easter Barkyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sunrise dramatization of the resurrection Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. Just before he started practicing his exit from a replica of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tomb, Andre Roberson admitted that, at first, playing the key role in a cemeteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dramatization of the resurrection was just â&#x20AC;&#x153;something to do.â&#x20AC;?

Now, as he prepared to don an Afro wig and play Jesus for the fourth time at King Memorial Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Easter Sunday Sunrise Service, the annual observance has taken on more meaning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you do it and you actually start to see the expression on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faces, see how they really get into it, it brings delight to it,â&#x20AC;? said the grave digger at the African-Americanowned cemetery northeast of Baltimore.

For the fifth year, a crowd of hundreds was expected to wind through the hairpin-turn country road leading to the cemetery named for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Each year, a different predominantly black Baltimore church is invited to host the service, said Erich March, president of the cemetery that was founded in 1973. Once they arrive before dawn, worshippers are seated in folding chairs in view of the replica of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tomb that Mr. March constructed with grave diggers on his staff in 2012.

Mr. March said that the service and the replica of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tomb fit the needs of his cemeteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cater to Christians predominantly,â&#x20AC;? Mr. March said of the cemetery that primarily serves Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AfricanAmerican community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just appropriate to have icons or features within a cemetery that represent the faith of those that are interred there.â&#x20AC;?

The cemetery also serves the local Muslim community and has a staff from diverse backgrounds.

Mr. March, a Catholic, said he researched what an ancient tomb looked like in Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; day.

Then he called on some of the same people who helped him create the replica â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a polyurethane structure covered in concrete â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to find their inner thespians once a year.

On Wednesday, April 17, the groundskeepers took their places for a rehearsal. They had rolled the stone to close the tomb containing Mr. Roberson so they could roll it away before he practiced his exit.

Mr. March, dressed in jeans and a blue outdoor vest, took on the role of director, a can of orange spray paint in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other. He used the paint to mark the spots where the two members of his crew posing as centurions guarding the tomb were to stand holding shields and spears. He warned them that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be standing for quite a while as the crowd gathered before the big moment.

Mr. March called out orders to the cast dressed in their brown work uniforms about slowing their steps to extend the dramatic atmosphere. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything half time,â&#x20AC;? he said as they prepared for yet another run-through. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus, you too. The more suspense the better.â&#x20AC;?

The two angels, the two guards and Jesus have no speaking parts. The only sounds are produced by a hired engineer who plays recorded music evoking thunder and lightning as Jesus appears after the angels roll the stone away.

A smoke machine pumps out white smoke from the tomb, and special lights flash behind him as he emerges.

Before Mr. Roberson got his turn to practice, Mr. March reviewed how the two cast members playing guards for the first time are supposed to drop to one knee as the staffers portraying angels touch

them on their shoulders. The four had to coordinate their movements before the angels shifted to their task of opening the tomb, gently stepping over blooming daffodils to reach the large round stone.

One segment of the drama that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rehearsed was the release of some 20 doves after the character playing Jesus steps out and raises his arms. Also not seen in the broad daylight were little LED lights traditionally strapped to the palms of that actor to illustrate spots where nails had pierced Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hands.

Unlike the cast of cemetery workers, the crowd has no instructions to remain silent as Jesus appears in the dawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hear people praising,â&#x20AC;? said Mr. Roberson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard people shouting the name of Jesus.â&#x20AC;?

In real life, the groundskeepers at the 155-acre cemetery come from different faith perspectives, including Christian, Hebrew and Muslim.

Lou â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luftyâ&#x20AC;? Mandhiry, a Muslim, said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the dramatization conflicts with his faith. He instead considers being an angel for a day â&#x20AC;&#x153;something nice to do.â&#x20AC;?

Leon Johnson, a Christian, said his first-time role as a centurion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dubbed a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rookie Romanâ&#x20AC;? by a more experienced cast member â&#x20AC;&#x201D; gives him a small chance to live out his faith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rewarding,â&#x20AC;? said Mr. Johnson, who has dabbled in the past in plays and puppet shows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives you insight of what your spirituality is about.â&#x20AC;?

Each year, Mr. March tries to add a new twist to the plot of the short performance. A few years ago, he added the centurions.

This year, he directed Jesus to come and tap the shoulders of the supposedly dazed centurions to wake them up so they could follow him.

At the end, Jesus leads the angels and soldiers up a hill

and lifts his left arm one more time before disappearing out of sight. Then, the pastor of the host church is scheduled to preach an Easter sermon as daylight arrives.

Robert Fells, general counsel of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, said Easter sunrise services at cemeteries â&#x20AC;&#x153;are not uncommon but are typically found at religious cemeteries rather than non-sectarian ones.â&#x20AC;?

He said he thinks the King Memorial Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s display of a replica of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tomb is unique.

Mr. March said he just attended the associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual convention in Charlotte, N.C., and opted not to share his cemeteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual aspects with his competitors.

But he said he anticipates that the tomb replica, whose stone usually remains in a rolled-away position throughout the year, can be a source of inspiration not only on Easter but year-round. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People come to the cemetery with some hope that this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end of it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So what better reminder than the open tomb?â&#x20AC;?

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Obituary/Faith News/Directory

Barbara McDaniel Wolfe-Harris, longtime educator, dies at 90 L. Barbara McDaniel Wolfe-Harris was used her middle name to avoid confusion a creative force in the classroom during with her mother, Lillian Ward McDaniel, her 29 years as a Richmond elementary an educator in Richmond who inspired schoolteacher. her daughter to follow in her footsteps, Her son, Troy G. Wolfe, said his mother her son said. used photography, art, dance and visual Known for always wearing her tradeaids to boost learning among mark white gloves and her the second- and third-graders Sunday best whenever she she taught. left her house in the near She would go all out, he West End, Mrs. Wolfe-Harris said, recalling how one time she began her education career in induced Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dominion to Plainfield, N.J., after graduating bring a caged lion to her classfrom Armstrong High School room. She also built a camera and Virginia Union Univerin one room, he said, to allow sity and earning a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in children to take selfies. psychology from Columbia Her approach to teaching University. led her to be named Richmond Mr. Wolfe said a school ofMrs. Wolfe-Harris Teacher of the Year in 1986, ficial in Plainfield encouraged he said. her to become a teacher after observing â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mother was a kind, loving person her participation in his schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parentwho always tried to make everything Teacher Association and telling her she and everyone she met a little better,â&#x20AC;? Mr. could do more for the children by joining Wolfe said. the faculty.

She also was involved in social, civic and Returning to Richmond after her first church endeavors outside the classroom. marriage ended, Mrs. Wolfe-Harris joined Mrs. Wolfe-Harris died Sunday, April Richmond Public Schools. She taught 14, 2019, in Hackensack, N.J., where she elementary grades at Woodville, Westhad moved to be closer to her son. She hampton, Bellevue, Albert V. Norrell and was 90.

Ginter Park and its annex, Mary Scott, Family and friends will celebrate her before retiring in 1998. life at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at Active in politics and the city DemoEbenezer Baptist Church, 216 W. Leigh St. cratic Committee, Mrs. Wolfe-Harris, in Jackson Ward, to which she belonged sister-in-law to the late City Councilwoman most of her life. Burial will follow in Claudette Black McDaniel, made her lone Riverview Cemetery. foray for public office in 1994 when she Ahead of the funeral, the family will unsuccessfully challenged incumbent greet friends from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Fri- 5th District City Councilman Henry W. day, April 26, at Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chuckâ&#x20AC;? Richardson.

Chapel, 116 E. Brookland Park Blvd. in In contributing to her college alma North Side. mater, she partnered with the late C. DeBorn Lillian Barbara McDaniel in lores Tucker to establish the now defunct Richmond, Mrs. Wolfe-Harris always College for Kids at VUU.

In retirement, Mrs. Wolfe-Harris stepped up her activity and leadership roles in other organizations, her family said. She was a past president of the Upsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Delver Junior Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club and Pi Lambda Theta educational honor society, the family noted.

Mrs. Wolfe-Harris also served on the boards of the Richmond Education Association, the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League and the Richmond Metropolitan Area Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

She also belonged to the Urban League of Greater Richmond and the National Association of University Women.

Mrs. Wolfe-Harris also contributed articles to the Richmond Afro-American and served on the now defunct newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Council.

At Ebenezer Baptist Church, she launched a gala called â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Evening with Saints and Starsâ&#x20AC;? to raise money for the building fund.

In 2012, she moved to Harrisonburg, Pa., to be near her daughter, and a few years later, moved to Hackensack, closer to her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence.

Though twice divorced, Mrs. WolfeHarris retained the names of her former husbands, Uncas Wolfe and William Harris.

Survivors include her children, Mr. Wolfe of West New York, N.J., and Traci Wolfe-Hood of Allentown, Pa., and three grandchildren.

The family requests, in place of flowers, that memorial contributions in Mrs. Wolfe-Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; name be sent to the Special Projects Scholarship Fund and Shoe Bank of the Upsilon Omega Chapter of AKA, P.O. Box 25306, Richmond, Va. 23260.

Fund drive for 3 burned African-American churches tops goal Free Press wire report

NEW ORLEANS A crowdfunding drive to help rebuild three African-American churches gutted by arsons in Louisiana has surpassed its original $1.8 million goal.

A spokeswoman for GoFundMe stated in an email on April 18 that people in all 50 states and around the world have made more than 35,000 donations totaling more than $1.97 million.

The money is to be distributed equally among the three centuryold St. Landry Parish churches: St. Mary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.

Fundraising surged after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire in Paris on April 15 as social media commenters urged people not to forget the plight of the black churches.

A 21-year-old white man, Holden Matthews, the son of a St. Landry Parish sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy, was arrested in connection with the fires.

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Eliza B. Williams Eliza B. Williams, 99, of Fredericksburg, departed this life on Saturday, April 20th.

She was preceded in death by her husband Perry Williams. She leaves to cherish her memory daughters, Mary Delores Keyes (Richmond) and Joyce Williams Gray (Ft. Washington, MD); grandchildren Rodney (Vicki) and Kirk (Chimi) Keyes, Todd and Marcie Gray; greatgrandchildren Jonathan Keyes (deceased), Nia Keyes-Myers, Todd Gray, Jr., Ashley Keyes, and Camden Keyes, and a host of loving family and friends. Mrs. Williams served in a number of church, community, education, political, and non-profit volunteer, appointed, and elected positions. Remains rest at A.L. Bennett and Son Funeral Home, 200 Butternut Drive, Fredericksburg where viewing will be held on Friday, April 26th, from 6:00pm8:00pm. Celebration of Life service is 11:00am, Saturday, April 27th, Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site), 801 Sophia Street, Fredericksburg, VA. Internment Glen Haven Memory Gardens, 1392 Warrenton Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22406.

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City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, May 6, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, May 13, 2019 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 ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-108 To rezone the properties known as 500 Hull Street and 512 Hull Street from the B-7 Mixed-Use Business District to the B-4 Central Business District. The subject property falls within a Downtown Urban Center Area of the Manchester District, as established by the Richmond Downtown Plan. Such areas are “characterized by higher d e n s i t y, m i x e d u s e development, typically arranged on a fine grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks.”

Ordinance No. 2019-109 To rezone the property known as 1403 Roseneath Road from the B-7 MixedUse Business District to the TOD-1 TransitOriented Nodal District.

The Pulse Corridor Plan designates the subject property for Industrial Mixed-Use land use.

“Industrial Mixed-use areas are traditionally industrial areas that are transitioning to mixed-use due to their proximity to growing neighborhoods, but still retain industrial uses…Primary Uses [include] industrial, multi-family residential, office, retail, and personal service [uses].

Ordinance No. 2019-110 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1206 Jahnke Road for the purpose of a singlefamily detached dwelling without frontage on an improved public street as required by City Code § 30-610.1, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a R-5 Single-Family Residential District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single-Family (Low Density) uses. Primary uses in this category are “single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre.

(See page 133, Richmond Master Plan.) The density of the parcel if developed as proposed would be a ratio of approximately 3 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-111 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1501 Jefferson Davis Highway for the purpose of accessory parking and outdoor storage, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated partially in a M-1 Light Industrial District and partially in a R-5 Single-Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject properties as Single Family Low Density. Primary uses for this category include “…single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses.

Ordinance No. 2019-112 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2219 Cedar Street for the purpose of two single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a R-63 Multifamily Urban Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Mixed Use Residential.

Primary uses for this category include “… single, two, and multifamily dwellings, live/work units and neighborhood serving commercial uses developed in a traditional urban form. (And), Typical zoning classifications that may accommodate this land use category: R-63, R-8.” (City of Richmond Master Plan, p. 304) No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

Ordinance No. 2019-113 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2915 West Leigh Street for the purpose of an outdoor dining area, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for this property is TOD-1 District. The Pulse Corridor Plan designates the subject property for Industrial Mixed Use land use. “Industrial Mixed use Continued on next column

areas are traditionally industrial areas that are transitioning to mixed use due to their proximity to growing neighborhoods, but still retain industrial uses…Primary Uses [include] industrial, multi-family residential, office, retail, and personal service [uses] (p. XII).

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; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; 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.

Candice D. Reid 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, May 13, 2019 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 ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-107 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $49,999.00 from the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, and to appropriate the grant funds received to the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Police’s OAG Asset Forfeiture Transfer Program special fund by $49,999.00 for the purpose of funding the acquisition of police equipment including a mobile video system, pole cameras, safety shields, and emergency medical equipment bags.

Ordinance No. 2019-114 To amend Ord. No. 2018057, adopted May 14, 2018, which adopted the Fiscal Year 20182019 General Fund Budget and made appropriations pursuant thereto, by transferring and re-appropriating $1,175,000.00 from the Richmond Sheriff’s Office Sheriff-Jail Operations program to the Richmond Sheriff’s Office Sheriff-Jail Administration & Human Services program for the purpose of funding projected personnel costs.

Ordinance No. 2019-115 To amend ch. 2, art. III of the City Code by adding therein a new section 2-58, concerning restrictions on activities of former officers and employees, for the purpose of reflecting amendments to state l a w. ( CO M M I T T EE : Governmental Operations, Thursday, April 25, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-116 To make grants from the Love Your Block Grant special fund to Boaz and Ruth, Inc., Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond, Enrichmond Foundation, S a v i n g O u r Yo u t h , Virginia, and The Salvation Army. (COMMITTEE: Education and Human Services, Thursday, May 2, 2019, 2:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-117 To close, to public use and travel, a portion of West Marshall Street located between the west line of Hermitage Road and the eastern boundary of the property known as 2220 West Broad Street consisting of 41,468± square feet, but retaining portions as utility easements and access easements, upon certain terms and conditions, and to authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept the dedication of a public access easement, consisting of 60,011± square feet, over certain parcels adjacent to the closed portion of West Marshall Street, in connection with vehicular and pedestrian access to a proposed mixeduse development in the area.

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.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

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Tucker-Shelton, child, DOB 04/6/2017. “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 defendants Unknown Father (Father) and Shamika Shelton (Mother) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 7/9/2019, at 2:20 PM, Courtroom #2

then living or be dead, their heirs, devisees, assigns, or successors in title, and other unknown heirs or parties who have an interest in the subject matter of this suit, who are proceeded against as PARTIES UNKNOWN, appear before Court on or before June 12, 2019 to protect their interests, if any, in this suit and/or the referenced property; and

It is further ORDERED that this Order be published once a week for four consecutive weeks, in The Richmond Free Press, a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Richmond, VA and surrounding areas.

A Copy Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk Counsel for Plaintiff I ask for this: Stephen B. Wood (VSB 26581) The Wood Law Firm, PLC 1503 Santa Rosa Road Suite 109 Richmond, Virginia 23229 Telephone: (804) 288-4007 Facsimile: (804) 288-5973 Cell (804) 873-0088 Steve.wood@woodlawrva.com

to subject the property briefly described as 3935 Patsy Ann Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0081028/065, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Andrea P. Anthony and Anthony L. Edwards.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ANDREA P. ANTHONY and ANTHONY L. EDWARDS, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally 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 ANDREA P. ANTHONY, ANTHONY L. EDWARDS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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

despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DORIS W. ASHTON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, H O U S E H O L D RE A LT Y COR P OR A T IO N O F VIRGINIA, an entity listed as withdrawn from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 97-15804 on July 22, 1997, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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 JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re KING JACKIE TUCKERSHELTON File No. J-94226-13-00, J-94226-14-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Unknown Father (Father), and Shamika Shelton (Mother) of King Jackie

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND CAVA CAPITAL-VA BEACH, LLC PLAINTIFF V. ROBERT ST. JOHN HOLDEN ET Al. ORA LEE HOLDEN MCCRAY EARL RUDOLPH BURWELL JACQUELINE DAYE EMMA DAYE TAYLOR CHARLIE MAC DAYE, JR. JIMMY BURWELL DAYE MELISSA DAYE LEANN JONES CALHOUN NICKIE J. FERGUSON JUDY L. JONES FOSTER PATTIE JO JONES JILL ANN JONES BROWN MATTIE B TURNER, ESTATE Mary Louise Lewis a/k/a Mary Catherine Warren Lewis, Executor, ESTATE OF MATTIE B. TURNER JOHN THOMAS BURWELL EDDIE BURWELL DELORES DAYE GILLARD BRENDA SUE DAYE TERESA DAYE MARY DELPHENE DAYE SHIRLEY V. DAYE UNA DAYE KELLY a/k/a UNA MAE KELLEY DAYE RUTH MAY HOLDEN EDDIE JONES, JR. ASHLEY STEWART HAMILTON HEATH OLIVER HEATH VICTORIA J. JONESCOLLICK TAMMIE R POWELL ALONZA POWELL And THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND SUCCESSORS OF: Robert St. John Holden, Charlie Henry Holden, Estille Holden K e l l e y, Tr u d y H o l d e n ,

Gertrude Elizabeth Holden, Charlie Holden Kelley, Charlie Holden, Delores Holden, Mattie Bell Holden, Elnor Holden Perry, Emma Day Taylor, Henry R. Holden, Mattie B. Holden Turner, Charles Warren Turner, Charles T Warren, Mary Catherine Warren Lewis, John T. Holden, Norman Holden, Lula Jones, Ora Alston, James Arthur Holden, Jonathon Holden, Anna C. Holden, Easter Perry, Harry R. Perry, Harry R Perry, Jr., Lola Cardwell, Emma Lillie Holden Daye, Jacqueline Daye, Seberta N. Holden, Manley L. Perry, Anna C. Holden, Montague Harvey, Montigue Harvey, Bessie Lee Brown Holden, Lula Mae Holden Jones, Eddie Alfonso Jones, Ora Lee Holden Person Alston, Joe Ben Alston, James Arthur Holden, Joe Nathan Holden, Susie A. Norwood Holden, Susie A Holden, Susie Harvey, Susanna N. Holden, Victoria Person Holden, Harry Roosevelt Perry, Catherine M. Perry, Derrick J. Perry, Janis Perry Cokeman, Frances Perry Jacobs, Harry R. Perry, Jr., Jerry Lane Perry, Morris Ray Perry, Shirley May Chase Perry, Wanda Perry Brown, Cheryl Perry Lewis, Robyn Lynn Brown, Leroy Perry, Chester Arthur Perry, James Thomas Perry, Josephine Riddick, Yvonne Riddick, McDonald Riddick, Jr., Larry R Riddick, Rene Riddick, Michelle Riddick, America Riddick, McDonald Riddick, Michael M. Riddick, Joseph Kelley, Joseph Kelley, II., Nannie McCray, Nannie Webster McCray KelleyDaniels-Barnes, William Alfred Kelley, William Alfred Kelley, Jr., Ruby M. Foxworth Kelley, Garry R Kelley, Ora Lee Holden McCray, Ruth May Holden, Alfonso Daye, Thomas Earl Daye, Lillian Royster Daye, Minnie Bell Daye, Garland Reid Daye, Mary Lizzie Fogg Daye, Bessie Lee Daye Burwell, Earl Rudolph Burwell, Jimmy Burwell Daye, Mary Anne Evans Roger, Linda Daye Evans Alston, Mack Fuller, Alfonsa Daye, Thomas Earl Day, Columbus Wilson, Joann Person, Elroy Turner, Elroy Turner, Jr., Mary Louise Lewis, Clinton Turner, Eddie Burwell Daye, Ralph Tyson Daye Jr., Tammie R Powell, Alonza Powell, Carolyn Lucy Daye, Roslyn Jones Murrill, Joann Person Turner, LaTonya Warren Bedford, Brenda Lewis, Terrence Calloway, Delores Daye Gillard, Brenda Sue Daye, Teresa Daye, Mary Delphene Daye, Shirley V Daye, Eddie Jones, Jr., Ashley Stewart, Hamilton Heath, Oliver Heath, Mattie B.Turner and Marshond Gipper, Tyeshia T. Daye and all of their heirs, successors in interest and/ or assigns if any; and PARTIES UNKNOWN who may have an interest in the property described below who are made parties to this proceeding by the general description as “PARTIES UNKNOWN”, DEFENDANTS AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION CASE No.: CL-19000874-06

The object of this suit is to partition and sell real property in the City of Richmond, Virginia, to wit all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the improvements thereon, lying and being in the City of Richmond, Virginia Known as 415 North 33rd Street, as show on plat by J. K. Timmons, C E &S dated November 5, 1957, attached to and made a part of a certain deed dated November 3, 2014, recorded May 31, 2016 in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Richmond, Virginia, as Instrument Number 16-9968 and described with reference to the said plat as follows:

BEGINNING on the eastern line of 33rd Street 117.83 feet south of Clay Street, running thence southwardly along and fronting 20 feet on the eastern line of 33rd Street, and running back from said front between lines parallel with the southern line of Clay Street 124 fee to a 16-foot alley.

Being the same real estate conveyed to Montique Harvey (A/K/A Montague Harvey and Susie A. Harvey, his wife, as tenants by the entireties with the right of survivorship as at common law, by Deed with special Warranty from First and Merchants National Bank of Richmond, Trustee under the Will of Orion D. King, deceased, dated November 15, 1957, recorded November 15, 1957, in the Clerks of the Chancery Court, in the City of Richmond, Virginia, in Deed Book 582D, Page 517. The said Montique Harvey died, thereby vesting title in the said Property to Susie A. Harvey, his wife, by operation of law.

The said Susie A. Harvey died intestate on January 1, 1989 and according to a List of Heirs recorded in the City of Richmond, Virginia, in Will Book 14, at Page 1440, she was survived by Trudy E. Holden, her daughter.

Gertrude “Trudy” E. Holden died intestate on March 5, 2008 having no offspring and never having married, thereby passing title to her heirs or descendants by law.

Affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the existence of and location of certain parties to be served, and that there are or may be persons whose names are unknown who are interested in the subject matter of this suit;

It is ORDERED that, the Defendants named above and the PARTIES UNKNOWN, if

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Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER DORIS ACKIMU, Plaintiff v.

BRIAN MHLONGO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000691-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 11th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 2 and protect his interests.

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

WANDA SMITH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001112-00 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 29th day of May, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ERIC SMITH, Plaintiff v.

TRACY BANKS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001113-00 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 29th day of May, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ALICIA ALLEN, Plaintiff v.

DONTE ALLEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001322-00 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 20th day of May, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY

PROPERTY VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO OLIVIA J. GARLAND and LYNDEN P. GARLAND, SR., Plaintiffs, v.

HARVEY KINNEY ESTATE, et al., Defendant.

Case No.: CL19-1605 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the Plaintiff to quiet title to the real property located at 1017 Nash Road, Sandston, Virginia, 23150, in the County of Henrico, Parcel Identification Number 834-709-8523, Lot 24.5 acres (more or less), and for the Court to establish the Eastern boundary line to said subject Property.

It appearing by affidavit that based on Plaintiffs research and the records currently readily available to them each of the heirs to the Harvey Kinney Estate (Respondent) last known address and social security number are not known, the present whereabouts of these individuals are unknown, and diligence has been used by the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city these individuals live in (if any), is without effect, it is ORDERED that the heirs to the Harvey Kinney Estate (Respondent) appear before this Court on or before June 3, 2019 and protect their interests herein.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk (804) 501-4765 Matthew A. Winer, Esquire Pagano & Marks, P.C. 4510 S. Laburnum Avenue Richmond, VA 23231 Tele: (804) 447-1002 Fax: (804) 562-5924 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER EDWARD J. OLIVIS, et al., Plaintiffs, v.

HEIRS OF MITZI DEAN McLAUGHLIN, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1622 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this action is to quiet title in the name of Plaintiffs Edward J. Olivis and Beverly Daniel as to 2804 Sandy Lane, Henrico, Virginia 23223.

It appearing by affidavit that the last addresses of Defendants Heirs of Mitzi Dean McLaughlin andParties Unknown (any other current or former owners, successors in title, heirs, devisees or lien creditors with an interest in this real estate) are unknown, that these Defendants’ present whereabouts are unknown, and diligence has been used by the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city these Defendants are located to no effect, it is ORDERED that these Defendants appear before this Court on or before June 3, 2019, and protect their interests herein.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk W. Mark Dunn, Esquire Shaheen Law Firm, P.C. 8890 Three Chopt Road Richmond, VA 23229 (804) 501-4765

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

ANGUS ELLERBE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-316 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1602 North 22nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000858/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Angus Ellerbe, and Annie Ruth Ellerbe.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ANGUS ELLERBE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ANNIE RUTH ELLERBE, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her 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 ANGUS ELLERBE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ANNIE RUTH ELLERBE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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.

ERNEST MILES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-48 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3521 Enslow Avenue,, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001172/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ernest Miles and Keith Miles.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ERNEST MILES and KEITH MILES, 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 ERNEST MILES, KEITH MILES, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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.

ANDREA P. ANTHONY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-152 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

CHRIS HOWELL, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5277 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 907 North 24th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000429/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Chris Howell, Keith Green, Kevin Horne, Frank Ware, Jr., Cheryl Rollins, Carla Marshall, and Brooke Smith.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, KEITH GREEN, FRANK WARE, JR, and CHERYL ROLLINS, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, KEVIN HORNE, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, CARLA MARSHALL, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, BROOKE SMITH, 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 KEITH GREEN, FRANK WA RE , J R , C H ER Y L ROLLINS, KEVIN HORNE, CARLA MARSHALL, BROOKE SMITH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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.

KEITH H. WILKERSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-147 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1706 Catalina Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0060505/022 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Keith H. Wilkerson, Ira T. Wilkerson, Jr., Warren L. Wilkerson and Joseph B. Wilkerson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, KEITH H. WILKERSON, IRA T. WILKERSON, and WARREN L. WILKERSON, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, JOSEPH B. WILKERSON, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that PARMJIT SIGNH, Registered Agent for RVA FINANCIAL, LLC, fka VACAP FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Beneficiary of Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 96-12820 on June 24, 1996, 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 KEITH H. WILKERSON, IRA T. WILKERSON, WARREN L. WILKERSON, JOSEPH B. WILKERSON, PARMJIT SIGNH, Registered Agent for RVA FINANCIAL, LLC, fka VACAP FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Beneficiary of Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 96-12820 on June 24, 1996, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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.

DORIS W. ASHTON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6235 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1209 North 20th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000556/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Doris W. Ashton.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DORIS W. ASHTON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that HOUSEHOLD REALTY CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, an entity listed as withdrawn from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 9715804 on July 22, 1997, 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

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

IRVING B. TAYLOR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-4191 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2617 Wise Street,, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000793/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Irving B. Taylor, Clifton R. Taylor, Doriane T. Mills, Wendell Taylor, Weldon Taylor, Wayne Taylor, and Warren Taylor, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, IRVING B. TAYLOR and WENDELL TAYLOR, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, DORIANE T. MILLS, WELDON TAYLOR, WAY N E TAY L OR , a n d WARREN TAYLOR, JR, 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

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Richmond Free Press

B6 April 25-27, 2019

Sports Plus

Tribute to Al Drummond, first African-American basketball player at University of Virginia

By Fred Jeter

There was something missing from the University of Virginia’s recent basketball celebration. Sadly, Al Drummond wasn’t present to enjoy the Cavaliers’ first NCAA basketball championship.

He died Aug. 12, 2018, of neurosarcoidosis.

Mr. Drummond was 65 and living in Doylestown, Pa., with his wife of 24 years, Michelle Wertz Drummond.

The trailblazing 6-foot-3 guard certainly had the right to be front and center as Wahoos of all ages kicked up their heels throughout the Old Dominion and beyond.

Mr. Drummond deserves special recognition in Wahoos’ lore. He became U.Va’s first African-American varsity basketball player in 1971 under Coach Bill Gibson.

“I think what I remember most about Al was how fast he was,” recalled former U.Va. teammate Tim Rash of Chesterfield County.

“He was also a good ball handler, shooter and all-round nice guy. And at 6-foot-3, he was tall for a guard of that era.”

The University of Virginia was the last school in the Atlantic Coast Conference to integrate.

The University of Maryland’s Billy Jones broke the conference color line in 1965.

There were no ugly racial incidents that Mr. Rash could remember regarding Mr. Drummond.

“It was a little uncomfortable, I’m sure, to be the first black at a Southern school,” Mr. Rash said. “I can’t remember anything said (in poor taste), but then I wasn’t around to see everything, and it has been nearly 50 years.”

Mr. Rash’s senior year was Mr. Drummond’s sophomore season and the first on varsity after playing for the U.Va. freshman team in 1970-71.

For his career spanning 74 varsity games, Mr. Drummond scored 411 points, grabbed 138 rebounds and passed for 93 assists. His best season statistically was 1973-74, when he averaged seven points and three rebounds as a senior. He hit 49 percent from the field and 73 percent from the University of Virginia foul line during his time in orange and blue.

In 1971-72, his sophomore season, U.Va. went 21-7 and was ranked in the Top 10 in the country much of the season. He was the lone African-American player for the U.Va. team throughout his career.

Mr. Drummond grew up in Waverly, N.Y., and once scored 41 points in a game for Waverly High School. Coach Gibson was familiar with the area, having come to Charlottesville from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, just south of Waverly.

Al Drummond

The Cavaliers’ first African-American basketball team captain was Bobby Stokes in 1978-79.

Ralph Sampson was its first African-American All-ACC player in 1981.

The university’s first African-American head coach was Dave Leitao, who posted a 63-60 record from 2005 to 2009.

Craig Littlepage became U.Va.’s first AfricanAmerican athletic director, serving 2001 to 2017. He was succeeded by the school’s first African-American female athletic director, Carla

Williams, who remains in that role.

Virginia basketball was one year behind U.Va. football in signing black talent.

In 1969, Stanley Land, John Rainey, Harrison Davis and Kent Merritt joined U.Va.’s football program as the first African-American players.

They played one year on the freshmen team before joining varsity in 1970.

Mr. Merritt was the state’s 100-yard dash champion out of Charlottesville’s Lane High School.

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by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that I R V I N G B . TAY L O R , W E N D E L L T AY L O R , D O R I A N E T. M I L L S , W E L D O N TAY L O R , WAYNE TAYLOR, WARREN TAYLOR, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2019 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

FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I Ask For This: Donald M. White, Esquire 130 Thompson Street Ashland, Virginia 23005 (804) 798-1661

CL18-3237 2523 Coles Street S0090104020 City of Richmond v. Donald J. Both, et. al.

CL18-3260 1505 Perry Street S0000202010 City of Richmond v. Joseph W. Dobyns, et. al.

CL18-3447 1510 Spotsylvania Street E0000665025 City of Richmond v. Nicole G. Jones, et. al.

CL18-3449 1237 North 37th Street E0001411018 City of Richmond v. Marvin Doughtie, et. al.

CL18-3497 28 East 32nd Street S0001874022 City of Richmond v. Curtis L. Williams, et. al.

CL18-3605 23 South Morris Street W0000399032 City of Richmond v. Mary S. Smith, et. al.

CL18-3947 2810 Burfoot Street S0001121020 City of Richmond v.

Leonard J. Byrd, et. al.

CL18-3964 2803 Midlothian Turnpike S0000911048 City of Richmond v. Thelma Sor, et. al.

CL18-4098 2101 Redd Street E0000604025 City of Richmond v. Jack Hines, et. al.

CL18-4136 2005 Decatur Street S0000354015 City of Richmond v. Juanita Cousins, et. al.

CL18-4270 2114 P Street E0000468015 City of Richmond v. Pearl Harris, et. al.

CL18-4393 2611 Dale Avenue S0090301028 City of Richmond v. Robert L. Lewis, et. al.

CL18-4868 1610 Spotsylvania Street E0000764012 City of Richmond v. Veora Jane Allen, et al.

CL17-5821 2111 Ford Avenue E0000598022 City of Richmond v. Neal Kennedy, et al.

CL18-351 2304 Creighton Road E0120294003 City of Richmond v. Joan M. Robinson, et al.

CL18-1142 3000 ½ Q Street E0000627031 City of Richmond v. RVA Property 1, LLC, et.al.

CL18-1520 2206 Ford Avenue E0000756007 City of Richmond v. Walter E. Stokes, et al.

CL18-2053 2113 Ford Avenue E0000598023 City of Richmond v. Peace

on Earth, etc., et.al.

CL18-2349 1517 Bangle Drive C0090178004 City of Richmond v. Vernon E. Oliver, et al.

CL18-2870 3125 Irvington Street C0090565004 City of Richmond v. Michael Whitlock, et al.

CL18-3206 4024 McKay Avenue C0090398103 City of Richmond v. Derrick McLauren, et. al.

CL18-3209 2319 Halifax Avenue S0000645022 City of Richmond v. Nellie S. Gillespie, et. al.

CL18-3239 1512 West Leigh Street N0000676032 City of Richmond v. Cesar V. Coles, et. al.

CL18-3273 817 Norton Street N0000517030 City of Richmond v. Willie D. Bullock, et. al.

CL18-3448 229 Bermuda Road C0060422006 City of Richmond v. William Elam, Trustee, et.al.

CL18-3452 3108 Q Street E0000722021 City of Richmond v. Florida L. Steward, et. al.

CL18-3507 620 North 21st Street E0000252005 City of Richmond v. Brenda J. Tolliver, et. al.

CL18-3626 2811 Burfoot Street S0001123023 City of Richmond v.

Leonard J. Byrd, et. al.

CL18-3963 3712 Glenwood Avenue E0001663003 City of Richmond v. John Carter, et. al.

CL18-4097 3315 Cliff Avenue N0001546033 City of Richmond v. Love Enterprises, et. al.

CL18-4132 320 East Fells Street N0000377038 City of Richmond v.

Abtelaziz Amro, et. al.

CL18-4176 2601 Edgewood Avenue N0000637023 City of Richmond v. Letitia B. Johnson, et. al.

CL18-4308 1009 North 2nd Street N0000086012 City of Richmond v. Bertha C. Fields, et. al.

CL18-4484 2907 Hull Street S0001343012 City of Richmond v. Leroy Hatcher, III, et. al.

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bidders will pay at the time of the auction a deposit of at least 20% of the purchase price, or $2500.00, whichever is greater. If the purchase price is under $2500.00, high bidders will pay in full at the time of the auction. High bidders will pay the balance of the purchase price to the Special Commissioner, and deed recordation costs, by a date and in a form as stated in a settlement instruction letter. Time is of the essence.

If a high bidder defaults by not making these payments in full, on time, and in the required form, the Special Commissioner will retain the deposit, and may seek other remedies to include the cost of resale or any resulting deficiency. Settlement shall occur when the Richmond Circuit Court enters an Order of Confirmation. Conveyance shall be either by a special commissioner’s deed or a special warranty deed. Real estate taxes will be adjusted as of the date of entry for the Order of Confirmation.

Most properties will be sold with a development agreement requiring high bidders to complete construction, repairs, or renovation necessary to obtain a certificate of occupancy from the City of Richmond within two years of settlement.

Properties are sold “as is” without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person

in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction.

T h e S p e c i a l Commissioner’s acceptance of a bid shall not limit any powers vested in the City of Richmond. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. Individuals owing delinquent taxes to the City of Richmond, and defendants in pending delinquent tax cases, are not qualified to bid at this auction. Bidders must certify by affidavit that they do not own, directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding notices of violation for building, zoning or other local ordinances.

Q u e s t i o n s m ay b e directed to Gregor y A. Lukanuski at greg.lukanuski @richmondgov.com / (804) 646-7949, or to Christie Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ richmondgov.com / (804) 646-6940.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Deputy City Attorney Special Commissioner 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia 23219

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AUCTION

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JASPER LEWIS, JR., Plaintiff v.

MARY FRANCES WILDER, et. als. and Any predecessors and successors in title and any unknown heirs of the defendants, if any there be, who are made parties defendants by the general description of “Parties Unknown”, and all persons, unknown, claiming any legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff’s title, or any cloud on plaintiff’s title thereto, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19001000-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to partition and remove the cloud from two parcels of real estate located in Hanover County. Virginia that is the subject matter of this suit and it appearing from an affidavit that due diligence has been used on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendants James E. Price, Elnora Alfred, Gladys Smith, Pamela G. Mosby Bronson, Henry Lewis, Jr., Frank Lewis, Matilda Lewis, Marcella Burke, Joanndra Jackson, Cassandra Smith, Angelia Cooper, Joseph Lewis, Alberta Josephine Lewis Russell, Shirley Lewis, Charles Brown and Floyd Davis Brown are without effect, it is Ordered that defendants appear before this Court on May 20, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. and do what is necessary to protect their interest herein.

A Copy, Teste:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer the following real estate for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday May 22, 2019 at 3:00pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any other terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale 2606 North Avenue N0000641006 City of Richmond v. Joseph Carrington, et al.

CL17-2649 2626 Belt Boulevard C0090480034 City of Richmond v. Joseph Mills, et al.

CL18-323 2112 P Street E0000468016 City of Richmond v.

Barbara J. Rucker, et al.

CL18-986 13 West Lancaster Road N0000598003 City of Richmond v. Thelma Green, et al.

CL18-1268 912 North 21st Street E0000420004 City of Richmond v. Henry S. Cherry, et al.

CL18-1569 1316 Nelwood Drive E0002402010 City of Richmond v. Irene Brown, et al.

CL18-2112 504 North 26th Street E0000383011 City of Richmond v. Sallie E. Smith, et al.

CL18-2522 1723 North 21st Street E0000938024 City of Richmond v. Glenn J. Sweeting, et al.

CL18-2896 118 Lipscomb Street S0000150018 City of Richmond v.

Clarence Tucker, et al.

CL18-3207 1220 North 35th Street E0001273030 City of Richmond v. Fred Gorham, Jr., et. al.

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TERMS OF SALE: All sales are subject to confirmation by the Richmond Circuit Court. The purchase price will include the winning bid plus 10% of the winning bid. High

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Minister of Music

Abner Baptist Church of Glen Allen VA is accepting applications for Minister of Music. We are seeking a God loving spirit-led Christian to serve as minister of music for our church congregation. The candidate selected will be responsible for administering and enhancing the music ministry for all worship services.

The individual must be able to direct choirs and have superior skills in playing piano/keyboard and organ.

If you are passionate about praise and worship through instrumental and vocal music, possess great communication and interpersonal social skills and are exceptional with selecting appropriate songs for different style choirs then we want to hear from you.

All applicants will be required to submit to drug screening and a criminal background check.

Submit a detailed confidential resume by April 29th: Email to jgordonjr@comcast.net or mail to Music Search Committee, Abner Baptist Church, 15143 Abner Church Road Glen Allen VA 23059.

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Applications are now being accepted for the following positions.

PCA or CNA, Housekeeper, Male Attendant (PCA or CNA) ACTIVITY: Experience working with Alzheimer’s & Dementia Residents.

Please bring a current TB report when applying.

All references will be checked.

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To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com.

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Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Technician II Facility Services For application and full job description, access www.rvaschools.net. Richmond Public Schools will conduct a background investigation, tuberculosis screening and drug/alcohol testing as a condition of employment. EOE

ASSISTANT DEAN SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

(Position: #FA319) J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Richmond, VA The Assistant Dean provides administrative and operational support to the Dean to ensure the smooth operation of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences by providing academic leadership, management, supervision, strategic planning, and overall coordination to ensure consistency in the delivery of academic services. The Assistant Dean is responsible for managing all student-related issues and activities. The Assistant Dean plans, organizes, and directs the day-to-day operations of the school under administrative direction and serves as a resource and referral source for students seeking various types of assistance. Master’s degree from an DFFUHGLWHG LQVWLWXWLRQ LQ D ¿HOG RI VWXG\ UHODWHG WR or offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is required.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time, twelvemonth administrative faculty-ranked appointment.

Salary range: $67,932-$140,320. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $95,000. Application reviews will begin JUNE 13, 2019. Additional information is available at the College’s website: www.reynolds.edu.

AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans/ AmeriCorps/Peace Corps/ Other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.