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City officials point to inflation, other factors as drivers in high cost of new schools By Jeremy M. Lazarus
The administration of Mayor Levar M. Stoney insists that the contracts awarded to build three new city schools “are reflective of the best possible prices given the scope of the work and the current market conditions.” The administration is mounting that defense in response to questions from four Richmond School Board members who are shocked at the $30 million hike in price for two new elementary schools, George Mason and Greene, and a new middle school to replace Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School. The Free Press first brought the projected 27 percent price hike to public attention in the March 21-23 edition, sparking Please turn to A4
Va. NAACP to be run by Tenn. official By Jeremy M. Lazarus
The longtime president of the Tennessee NAACP has been handed control of the Virginia State Conference NAACP. Gloria Jean Sweet-Love, who has earned credit for turning around NAACP operations in her state during her 24-year tenure at the helm, was named administrator for the Virginia operations and given sweeping powers over state NAACP policies, programs and expenditures. Ending weeks of silence, national NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson notified the current Virginia NAACP president, the Rev. Kevin Chandler of South Boston, of Ms. Sweet-Love’s appointment in a certified letter dated March 15. Ms. Sweet-Love The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Free Press, confirms a report the newspaper published in the Feb. 21-23 edition that the national office of the civil rights organization was poised to take over state operations in the wake of complaints from board members of NAACP policy violations. Rev. Chandler did not respond to a request for comment. Other officers were not immediately available for comment on the takeover. “This is the result of issues that have been building up for years,” said one NAACP official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Please turn to A4
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Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax discusses the results of his two polygraph tests during a news conference on Wednesday at his office in Capitol Square. He did not take questions from reporters.
Fairfax releases polygraph results as accusers hit airwaves By Kal Weinstein Capital News Service
After two women appeared on national television this week accusing him of sexual assault, Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax released results of polygraph examinations that he says exonerate him. At a news conference Wednesday in his office in Capitol Square in Downtown, Lt. Gov. Fairfax asked prosecutors to investigate the allegations. He also pledged his full cooperation. “These allegations, if true, would be incredibly serious,” the 40-year-old lieutenant governor said. “Because they are not true, however, they are incredibly hurtful to me and my family and my reputation, which I have spent a lifetime building.” In February, Dr. Vanessa Tyson, a professor at Scripps College in California, went public with an allegation against Lt. Gov. Fairfax, saying he forced her to have oral sex in a Boston hotel room while the two were attending the Democratic National Convention in 2004. The lieutenant governor was a law student at Columbia University at the time. Then a second woman, Meredith Watson of Maryland, accused Lt. Gov. Fairfax of raping her in 2000 while the two were undergraduate students at Duke University. Since the women went public with their accusations, Lt. Gov. Fairfax has maintained that he is innocent, saying both encounters were consensual. He said he is the victim of a “vicious and coordinated smear campaign,” and in a speech in late February on the floor of the state Senate,
he compared himself to lynching victims during the Jim Crow era. In separate interviews with Gayle King on “CBS This Morning” airing Monday and Tuesday, Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson shared their stories with a national television audience. At the news conference, Lt. Gov. Fairfax said he does not believe television interviews are the right vehicle to get at the truth. “Sensationalizing allegations does not make them true,” he said. “Yet airing salacious allegations without evidence does enormous damage.”
Lt. Gov. Fairfax then spoke about each of the allegations, reiterating that both sexual encounters were consensual. He was single when he met Ms. Watson and Dr. Tyson. He is now the married father for two young children. “I have heard Dr. Tyson say that I held her neck and physically forced her to engage in sexual contact,” Lt. Gov. Fairfax said. “That is simply not true.” In addressing Ms. Watson’s allegation, Lt. Gov. Fairfax stated that the two “were Please turn to A4
What’s in a kiss?
Wilder accused of sexual impropriety by VCU student
Ms. Black detailed her allegations in an interview with The Aging political lion L. DougWashington Post that was publas Wilder allegedly proposilished March 28. Since then, her tioned a Virginia Commonwealth allegations have drawn national University student who was attention as media outlets have young enough to be his greatpicked up the story involving the granddaughter and has ended up celebrated political figure. receiving what amounts to an In the interview, Ms. Black embarrassing and highly public claimed that Mr. Wilder gave slap from the young woman. her the unwanted kiss when she Mr. Wilder The student, Sydney Black, went with him to his Richmond now 22, has filed complaints with authori- condo February 2017 after he took her to ties alleging that, in 2017, the nation’s first a riverfront restaurant for dinner and plied elected African-American governor and her with liquor on her 20th birthday. former Richmond mayor, then 86, gave She further alleged that Mr. Wilder, her an unwanted kiss and asked her to become his mistress. Please turn to A4 Free Press staff, wire report
Chicago makes history in mayoral race Free Press wire report
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Tango togetherness D’andre Morris, left, and Aaliya Thornhill showcase their tango moves to impress judges at a ballroom dance competition March 28 at Huguenot High School. The two fifth-graders from Overby-Sheppard Elementary were among the young people who participated in the event that Dancing Classrooms of Greater Richmond hosted. The nonprofit organization, which promotes ballroom dancing in city schools as a way to instill discipline, courtesy, teamwork and other values, provided the schoolchildren with 10 weeks of instruction before the event.
CHICAGO Lori Lightfoot’s victory in the Chicago mayor’s race signaled hope among voters that the nation’s third-largest city may someday move beyond long-entrenched divides, racial and otherwise, that have left large parts of the metropolis feeling ignored by people in power. Mayor-elect Lightfoot became the city’s first black female and first openly gay mayor when she defeated another black woman, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, in Tuesday’s election. She joins Chicago’s top prosecutor and police chief as black leaders in a city that continues to struggle with race relations. But the significance of her win also transcended race or gender. Ms. Lightfoot was the outsider, a little-known former federal prosecutor who grew up in Ohio and had never been elected to public office, much less climbed through the ranks of Chicago’s Democratic machine. Yet she toppled some of the biggest political names and most powerful leaders in the city with a promise to end political corruption and be a voice for low-income and minority people and neighborhoods. Please turn to A4
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Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot, left, kisses her wife, Amy Eshlemen, during her victory celebration Tuesday night after defeating challenger Toni Preckwinkle to become the first African-American woman and openly gay mayor of the city.
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A Petersburg court on Monday dismissed a 15-month-old charge of marijuana possession against Petersburg School Board member Atiba H. Muse. Mr. Muse was required to pay court costs of $169 and accept a six-month suspension of his driver’s license. Mr. Muse’s arrest in January 2018 drew attention given the School Board’s zeroMr. Muse tolerance policy for students caught with illegal drugs in Petersburg Public Schools. According to court records, Mr. Muse’s case had been on deferred status since April 2018, and the dismissal reflected that he had met the court’s condition of not having any further difficulty with the law in the 12 months since. Mr. Muse has represented Ward 2 on the board since 2014. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS
Slices of life and scenes in Richmond
Sir James Thornhill, left, and assistant Michael Rezek put the finishing touches on his “Dream Big” mural that now decorates the Ann Hardy Plaza Community Center in Highland Park in North Side. Best known for the murals he has created in Jackson Ward, Mr. Thornhill was commissioned by the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to create the mural. It adds a bright touch to the park and building which the city has paid more than $1.5 million to renovate and upgrade. The center, named for the late children’s advocate who ran tutoring and preschool programs for years, includes a meeting room, computer lab and a multipurpose space for indoor recreation.
RRHA still working to resolve heating problems The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is moving closer to having working heat in every apartment. As of March 29, the heat wasn’t working in one apartment and partially out in seven others, RRHA officials reported Monday. The authority supplied space heaters to residents to help them stay warm during the current cold snap.
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Morrissey announces primary challenge to Sen. Rosalyn Dance By Jeremy M. Lazarus
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Drill ready Army Col. Alexander Taylor observes as Cadet 2nd Lt. Taire Hubbard leads Huguenot High School’s Junior ROTC team in a practice Saturday before the Richmond team faced judges in the U.S. Army Junior ROTC Drill Championship. Location: Greater Richmond Convention Center in Downtown. The team that Col. Taylor instructs was one of 103 high school units that came from as far away as Hawaii and Oregon to take part in the daylong event in Richmond. More than 2,500 teens showcased their military abilities at the event. Richmond beat out six other cities to host the championship for the first time. Army officials said they hope to return next year.
State Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance of Petersburg is facing a fight to keep her legislative seat for a second four-year term. Former Delegate Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey of Richmond announced Wednesday that he is challenging Sen. Dance in the June 11 Democratic primary for the 16th Senate District seat. The rooster-shaped district of about 220,000 people runs from Richmond’s East End to Dinwiddie County and includes Petersburg and Hopewell. Mr. Morrissey, who twice has been stripped of his license to practice law, announced his candidacy at a gathering in South Side. Ahead of the announcement, he told the Free Press he is running to serve as an advocate for the state to come up with funding to address “the deplorable condition” of school buildings in Richmond and Petersburg. He said he also would campaign on decriminalizing marijuana, raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour and ending the suspension of driver’s licenses of people who owe court costs and fines. Mr. Morrissey also pledged not to accept any campaign money from Dominion Energy, which he said would contrast with Sen. Dance’s acceptance of such support. Mr. Morrissey, 61, has spent time and money preparing for his second run against Sen. Dance. Earlier this year, he bought a home in Church Hill to become a resident
of the district, and he has been knocking on doors and collecting signatures to get on the ballot for several months. He filed his candidate paperwork on March 11. He first challenged Sen. Dance four years ago, but dropped out of the race before the November 2015 election because of health reasons. Sen. Dance, 71, was elected to the Senate in 2014, after former state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III resigned to become a state Alcoholic Beverage Control commissioner. A registered nurse and health care adMr. Morrissey ministrator who retired from Southside Virginia Training Center, Sen. Dance has served in the General Assembly since 2005, after winning a special election for the House of Delegates’ 63rd District seat that includes Petersburg. She previously served 12 years as the mayor of Petersburg. A former Richmond commonwealth’s attorney, Mr. Morrissey was disbarred by a federal court in 2001 and his law license was revoked by the State Bar for the first time in 2003, when he allegedly failed to notify his clients and the courts of an earlier suspension of his law license. A divided Virginia Supreme Court overruled the State Bar and reinstated his license to practice law in 2012. During his seven years representing the
74th District in the House of Delegates, Mr. Morrissey was indicted on felony charges stemming from his alleged sexual relationship in 2013 with an underage receptionist working in his law office. Under a plea deal, he was convicted in December 2014 of a misdemeanor of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and served three months of a six-month sentence in the Henrico County Jail. He became the first legislator to commute from jail to the General Assembly. His law license was revoked a second time in April 2018 by a three-judge panel that Sen. Dance heard issues related to his law practice and his relationship with the 17-year-old. He is appealing the panel’s disbarment decision, with the state Supreme Court scheduled to hear the appeal later his month. The young woman in question is now Mr. Morrissey’s wife; they have three children together. Mr. Morrissey, a former Henrico County resident, gave up his House seat in 2015 after moving into a Shockoe Bottom apartment in Sen. Dance’s district to challenge her during her first run for a full, four-year term. After dropping out of that race, he bought a home in North Side to run for Richmond’s mayor in 2016. He came in third in that election, which was won by Mayor Levar M. Stoney.
St. Luke Building to begin leasing in June By Jeremy M. Lazarus
Two years after it was first announced, the renovation of the historic, but long-vacant St. Luke Building in Gilpin Court into upscale apartments is coming together. Attorney and lead developer Charles E. Ayers Jr. said he expects the work to be substantially complete and leasing to begin by mid-June in the four-story building and an adjacent house. He is a partner with the building’s owners, Margaret and Wanda Stallings, who have spearheaded the $3.6 million effort to modernize and reuse the national historic landmark at 900 St. James St. first developed in 1902-03 by iconic Richmond businesswoman Maggie L. Walker. The building served as the headquarters of the United Order of St. Luke that Mrs. Walker led for 35 years. Inside the
building, she famously launched the order’s bank, published a newspaper and operated the fraternal order’s insurance and membership programs. As the current project heads toward the finish line, another new Gilpin Court development is gearing up to begin: The renovation of the former Baker School at nearby 100 W. Baker St. That vacant building is to be transformed into more than 50 modern senior apartments. The work is expected to begin within 60 to 90 days, with groundbreaking expected in June. That project represents the final phase in replacing the 200 apartments in nearby Fay Towers and is a companion to the Jackson Place development now underway at 1st and Duval streets in Jackson Ward. Mr. Ayers said that work on St. Luke has been underway since December 2017 and has taken a bit longer than expected
because of some unique problems. For example, he said that the covering on the original wood floors had to be removed, along with a thick gummy adhesive that required extra work to eliminate. Wanda Stallings said the development also has faced problems getting city approvals. In 2017, the city’s Department of Planning and Development misplaced the development plans for at least 90 days, holding up consideration. The department then kept piling on additional requirements and forced rezoning before issuing permits, she said. Ms. Stallings said city officials have continued to add new requirements and also refused to release the $100,000 grant that City Council approved to support the installation of new sidewalks and landscaping. “But we are still moving ahead,” she said. “We are not going to allow anyone to stop us.”
Reynolds inaugurates new president Dr. Paula P. Pando is all smiles after her inauguration last Friday as J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s fourth president. The ceremony, held at the Dewey Gottwald Center at the Science Museum of Virginia, carried the theme “Equity Through Action.” Dr. Pando, who immigrated with her family to the United States from Chile when she was young, was the first in her family to earn a college degree. She has worked in higher education for more than 20 years, beginning as director of campus activities and programs at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, N.J. She later joined Hudson County Community College in Jersey City and rose through the ranks, holding three different vice president positions. She was senior vice president for student and educational services there when she was chosen from among 102 applicants in a national search to lead J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. The college serves more than 15,000 students annually on campuses in Richmond, Henrico and Goochland. Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press
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MathScience Innovation Center to be hampered by cuts By Ronald E. Carrington
No matter how you do the math, one MathScience Innovation Center, minus four school systems, equals downsizing. The regional innovative math and science collaborative, located in Henrico just east of Mechanicsville Turnpike, is losing two-thirds of its budget as the public school systems in Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield plan to transfer math-science instruction to their districts. The public school systems are cutting funding as they look for budgetary savings in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. In addition, Hanover County announced plans last week to pull $491,000 from the center because of state funding changes. The MSIC financial problems began with Chesterfield two budget cycles ago. The district reduced its contribution from $1.2 million to $200,000 for this school year. In mid-March, the remaining dollars were cut by the county School Board. At the same time, Henrico County Public Schools, which spends about $1.1 million as part of the regional consortium, decided to
cut its funding and move the dollars to other happened so quickly with little notice and no warning, we did not get adequate lead time activities next year. Richmond Public Schools will cut about to implement an alternative strategy,� said $700,000 “due to tight budgets and wanting Dr. Hollee Freeman, executive director of the to replicate rich science experiences in our MathScience Innovation Center. The center, with a staff that now includes 21 schools so that students don’t have to hop on full-time and 16 part-time employees, a bus and go to Henrico,� said RPS will continue to provide services in Superintendent Jason Kamras. the future with reduced staffing to “We have already reached out to the the seven remaining school districts Science Museum of Virginia to figure — Petersburg, Colonial Heights, out some ways to enhance and replicate Hopewell and Prince George, Dinsome of the experiences students were widdie, Goochland and King William having at MSIC for free.� counties — and using next year to Timshel Purdum, director of explore public-private partnerships. playful learning and inquiry at the “Next year will not be a thriving museum on West Broad Street near Dr. Freeman year, but one maintaining what we are Downtown, has been working with RPS administrators since her arrival last fall to doing while making a plan to move forward,� support and supplement the city school district’s Dr. Freeman said. “This is also an opportunity for corporate partners to step up and come to STEM education. “We want all fifth- to eighth-graders to par- the rescue.� She also said the center will investigate posticipate in the museum’s informal offerings in STEM fields,� said Jennifer Guild, the museum’s sible federal funding. Established in 1966 with federal grant money manager of communications and curiosity. “Because the de-funding announcements from six local school districts, the center houses nine uniquely designed rooms, including the only Challenger Learning Center in Virginia, a simulated Weather Emergency Operations Center, a 20,000-gallon series of aquariums
Regional recycling program at risk with Chesterfield, others pulling out By Jeremy M. Lazarus
Chesterfield County is poised to pull out of a regional curbside recycling program, which could require Richmond and Henrico County to boost their subsidies to maintain the program. The decision could come as early as Wednesday, April 10, when the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on a new 2019-20 budget that includes no money to support the county’s share of the recycling program’s cost, beginning July 1. County officials estimated in information to the board that Chesterfield would need to spend about $767,000, or more than triple the $231,000 budgeted this year, in addition to the $1.87 million being collected from about 75,000 participating households that pay $25 yearly for the service. Chesterfield pays a share of the cost based on the total of 95,000 households that could participate in the recycling program, although 20,000 have opted out. At this point, there is no indication that the board is prepared to add funds to continue participation in the 29-year-old Central Virginia Waste Management Authority. Already, six smaller localities have dropped out during the past year as charges increased. The loss of Chesterfield County would be a huge blow, Kimberly Hymes, CVWMA executive director, acknowledged. “The county makes up more than one-third of the total regional curbside recycling program. So if Chesterfield were to completely pull out of curbside recycling, it could trigger a re-negotiation of our contract� with Chester-based Tidewater Fibre Corp., or TFC Recycling, the private company that collects, sorts and markets most of the area’s recycled materials. The surge in recycling collection costs has been fueled by a sea change in the business. After years of warnings, China, previously the world’s biggest market for used paper, metals and plastics, last year essentially stopped accepting such items because of high contamination and a desire to promote more recycling of domestic waste. Most U.S. recycling firms, including TFC, could not meet China’s new standard of 5 percent contamination or less by other waste in their shipments. The ripple effects already are being felt in this area, although CVWMA has largely been mum. The company’s main focus has been on pressing households to stop dumping garbage and dirty materials that cannot be recycled into recycling bins. This week, CVWMA made its first public disclosure that it had re-negotiated its contract with TFC last year as the firm began losing money. The loss of China caused domestic and other foreign markets to become saturated, forcing prices of materials to drop. The backlog of unusable recyclables grew as countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and India that began accepting products quickly found themselves overwhelmed
and began reducing or cutting back scrap imports. India, for example, will shut off scrap plastic imports in August. Beginning in March 2018, CVWMA allowed TFC to end the $20 per ton rebate it was reimbursing localities for recycled materials. The regional group also allowed TFC to impose a $30 per ton surcharge. Overall, the seven localities now in CVWMA — Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Ashland, Hanover County and Goochland County — have seen costs triple, from a collective total of $536,888 in fiscal year 2017-18 to $1.76 million in fiscal year 2018-19. Petersburg, Hopewell and the counties of Prince George, New Kent, Charles City and Powhatan dropped out of CVWMA. In its proposed 2019-20 budget, Richmond reported its costs for curbside recycling grew from $1.6 million in 2017-18 to $2.2 million in 2018-19. Last year, the City of
Richmond, with City Council approval, quietly raised the recycling charge to 61,558 households with recycling bins from $2.50 a month to $2.99 a month, or from $30 a year to $35.88 a year, to handle the increase. The city Department of Public Works estimates the cost for curbside recycling will rise to $2.7 million in fiscal year 2019-20, but apparently plans to absorb that increase as no request appears to have been made for an increase in the recycling fee. Henrico County, which subsidizes the recycling expense for its approximately 85,000 households to participate, absorbed a $594,000 increase in its recycling program costs. Still, the proposed budget for 2019-20 indicates that residents will continue to receive free service. Ms. Hymes of CVWMA did not estimate how much more localities might have to pay once Chesterfield drops out and removes 10,000 tons of recyclable material from the stream that TFC picks up and processes.
and a touch tank, along with several outdoor learning spaces, including a pond. In addition, MSIC designs specialized lessons and engages students and their teachers in SOLbased content ranging from ecology, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, space and computer science and more. Currently, more than 100,000 students and nearly 8,000 teachers from 11 districts in the region are being trained by the center’s professional staff with an extensive science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, curriculum. “When you have a resource that has been operating for more than 50 years — closing the education equity gap for children of color while providing an environment for diversity, providing advanced professional development, designing curricula for specific needs of each collaborating district, as well as going out into the community interacting with neighborhoods — reducing their budget by two-thirds appears to be shortsighted,� Dr. Freeman said. “It is a huge disservice to students, especially students of color, to not have MSIC as a resource and not have an alternative in its place,� she continued. “We are going to keep pushing. Although folks have made different decisions about how they want to spend their money, we are going to keep going until we can’t go anymore.�
GRTC Transit System will host the quarterly Transit Advisory Group (TAG) meeting on Thursday, April 18, 2019 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the 5th Floor Conference Room at Richmond City Hall, 900 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. Please enter City Hall at the 9th St. doors and check in with the Security desk. The GRTC Transit System Advisory Group is a diverse group of volunteers interested in the advancement and improvement of public transit. Group members collaborate with GRTC leadership to identify problems and recommend solutions. Meeting locations are accessible to persons with disabilities. GRTC strives to provide reasonable accommodations and services for persons who require assistance to participate. For special assistance, call Carrie Rose Pace at 804-474-9354 or email carrie.rosepace@ridegrtc.com at least 72 hours prior to the public meeting. Si usted necesita servicios de tradución para participar, por favor mande un correo electrónico a: carrie.rosepace@ridegrtc.com. GRTC Transit System’s CARE and CARE Plus services provide origin-to-destination Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit services to residents of the Richmond Region. To schedule a reservation, please call (804) 782-CARE (2273), email webcarecvan@ridegrtc.com, or fax (804) 474-9993.
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Inaugural Richmond Night Market kicks off April 13 at 17th Street Farmers’ Market By Ronald E. Carrington
The Richmond Night Market, a new monthly gathering celebrating the city’s food, art and culture, will be held 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market in Shockoe Bottom and will take place the second Saturday of each month through December. The free event, located at one America’s oldest public markets, will feature an open-air platform for independent artists to exhibit and sell a variety of crafts and foods to shoppers. It also will feature music, dancing and activities for youngsters and adults. “The Richmond Night Market will bring an international cultural experience to RVA and give people another reason to visit and fall in love with our beloved city,” said event co-founder Adrienne Cole Johnson. “Our goal is to create a monthly space for
locals and tourists to shop with independent artisans and small business owners, as well as have cool interactive activities for youth to express themselves.” More than 30 artists, craftspeople and vendors are expected for the inaugural event with wares ranging from ceramics and plants to jewelry, textiles, T-shirts, beauty products and fresh-pressed juices. Music and entertainment will include the Drew Miles Trio, Drums No Guns and DJ Prolific. Children will have a distinct space, called the Creative Kids Hangout, to explore guided and non-guided activities, while the Makerspace will offer art projects for adults. Artist Hamilton Glass is to lead the Paint Jam session on April 13. Details: #richmondnightmarketva, #rnm2019 or go to Facebook and look for @richmondnightmarket.
Tenn. official to run Va. NAACP Continued from A1
Ms. Sweet-Love, a resident of rural Brownsville, Tenn., has earned a reputation as a high-energy leader. Along with her leadership of the Tennessee NAACP since 1995, she also served on the Haywood County School Board for 18 years and was the first African-American woman to serve as president of the Tennessee School Boards Association in 2005. Mr. Johnson did not indicate when Ms. Sweet-Love, who will continue as Tennessee state president and also as chair of the national NAACP board’s Committee on Membership and Units, would arrive to assume her duties. She is expected to work out of the state NAACP office that rents space in the Baptist General Convention of Virginia building on the campus of Virginia Union University. However, when Ms. Sweet-
Fairfax releases polygraph results Continued from A1
both willing participants.” “At no time before, during or after our encounter did she ever say or do anything that suggested to me in any way that she believed that she thought anything that happened between us was something she had not wanted or that she was uncomfortable with,” he said. The lieutenant governor then announced he was happy to release the results of polygraph examinations that he said show he passed with respect to the allegations. “Today, I am providing the full report of my polygraph examinations to the media so that all Virginians can read the report themselves,” he said. The examinations, conducted by Hanafin Polygraph Services of Arlington, included questions such as “Did you engage in any non-consensual activity with Vanessa?” and “Did Meredith give you any physical or verbal indication she did not want to have sexual contact with you?” The report concludes with a statement from Alan J. Jennerich of the American Polygraph Association. Mr. Jennerich stated that in his professional opinion, “Fairfax’s responses to the above relevant questions are not indicative of deception.” Lt. Gov. Fairfax repeated his request for investigations by law enforcement professionals. He noted that his attorney
has contacted the district attorney’s offices in Boston, and Durham, N.C., where the encounters took place. “My attorney has made clear to both offices that I will cooperate fully in these investigations and has told each office that I will make myself available to them to answer any and all questions they might have, including under oath and penalty of perjury,” Lt. Gov. Fairfax said. He said he looks forward to clearing his name and returning to work for the people of Virginia. He left the podium promptly and did not respond to reporters’ questions as he exited the room. The allegations against Lt. Gov. Fairfax have become a political issue at the Capitol. On Tuesday, House Speaker Kirk Cox, a Republican from Colonial Heights, said attorneys for Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson indicated that the women “are prepared to share their accounts at a legislative hearing, but only if there is bipartisan cooperation to conduct the hearing.” Delegate Rob Bell, a Republican from Albemarle County who chairs the House Courts of Justice Committee, sent a letter to the House Democratic leader, Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn of Fairfax County, proposing that the panel invite Dr. Tyson, Ms. Watson and Lt. Gov. Fairfax to testify. “Unfortunately, despite the compelling accounts we have heard from Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson on television in recent
days, Del. Filler-Corn has made clear that she will not agree to a bipartisan General Assembly hearing of any nature,” Delegate Cox said. In a letter to Delegate Bell, Delegate Filler-Corn called the allegations “extremely serious” and noted that the House Democratic Caucus has called on the lieutenant governor to resign. “Law enforcement officials are best equipped to investigate these matters, and we certainly would not want to harm their inquiries or deny due process to either the complainants or the Lieutenant Governor by conducting a hearing that could easily be exploited for political purposes,” Delegate Filler-Corn’s letter stated. She added, “We do not believe that the House of Delegates, or any selection of legislators, is the appropriate body to hear these serious allegations.” In a statement Wednesday, Delegate Filler-Corn said the allegations against Lt. Gov. Fairfax “transcend party.” “And while our Republican colleagues claim to have worked for a bipartisan path forward, time and again they have proven that the media headlines are more important to them than due process or justice,” she stated. “Each of the Republicans’ supposed attempts at bipartisanship have been nothing more than a gimmick to generate partisan fodder in the news and on social media.”
Wilder accused of sexual impropriety Continued from A1
now 88, offered to pay her way through law school and take her on trips overseas if she would become his companion and move into his home in Charles City County when she went there in March 2017 for what she had been told would be a brunch to apologize for the kiss. According to the report, Ms. Black stated that she refused Mr. Wilder’s advances and acknowledged that she had stewed about reporting the incidents, particularly after Mr. Wilder told her three months later that the money had run out for her work-study position. Ms. Black worked as an office assistant in VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Ms. Black stated she had to drop out after losing the work-study position to build up her bank account. She returned to VCU last fall. She has been unavailable for comment. Mr. Wilder, whom The Washington Post stated did not respond to repeated requests for comment and who has since remained mum, has long had a reputation as a ladies’ man and also for not publicly discussing his relationships. He never remarried following his highly publicized divorce in the late 1970s from Eunice Wilder, who
went on to serve six terms as Richmond city treasurer. Since leaving the mayor’s office in 2007, Mr. Wilder, a retired attorney, has been a high-paid distinguished professor at VCU in the school the university named for him. His most recent salary was listed at $150,000 a year. The Washington Post noted that Ms. Black filed a Title IX complaint with the university in December 2018 and a separate sexual assault complaint with Richmond Police. The university reportedly notified her that an outside expert was called in to deal with her concerns. The university has issued no comment on the matter, citing privacy concerns. The police department also is investigating, the newspaper reported, though no charges have been filed in the two-year-old case involving a potential misdemeanor. The allegation comes as Mr. Wilder remains embroiled in a lawsuit involving the former dean of the Wilder school, Dr. John Accordino, who was forced out last year after Mr. Wilder alleged Dr. Accordino had been verbally abusive to Mr. Wilder’s secretary. Ms. Black said that Mr. Wilder took her to dinner on her 20th birthday, bought her alcoholic beverages and invited her back
to his Richmond condo, where she said he kissed her like a potential boyfriend might as they sat on his sofa, according to The Post report. She stated she jerked away and he apologized and took her back to her car. She told the newspaper that before the incident, Mr. Wilder told her he could help her get accepted at Howard University School of Law, where he is an alumnus and a board member. When she asked what he wanted in return, he said, “As long as you stick with me, you should be fine.” She told the newspaper she also was shocked when she went to his home for a brunch in March and he offered to let her live in a room there rent free, pay her way through law school and have her travel with him in return for her companionship. “I was deceived,” Ms. Black told the newspaper. “I thought he was a different sort of person.” Ms. Black’s mother, Margo Stokes, and grandmother, Pauline Carver of Wytheville, said she called them independently in the days after the alleged kissing incident and told them about it. “He just took a lot from Sydney when he did this because she really admired him, and so did I,” Ms. Carver was quoted as saying.
Chicago makes history in mayoral race Continued from A1
“Today is April 3, a new day for all of Chicago,” Ms. Lightfoot said Wednesday at a news conference called by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. to promote post-election unity. Ms. Preckwinkle stood beside her. Chicago has long struggled with issues of segregation, housing discrimination mostly targeting black people and Hispanics and a generationally engrained mistrust of the city’s mostly white police department. The tension between police and residents exploded in protests following the 2014 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a white police officer. The officer, Jason Van Dyke, was sentenced earlier this year to fewer than seven years in prison for second-degree murder. Chicago also has seen its population drop, due largely to thousands of black residents leaving neighborhoods on the South and West sides — areas South Side resident and
political consultant Delmarie Cobb describes as “gutted.” At the same time, downtown and predominantly white neighborhoods on Chicago’s North Side have been growing and glistening with new investment. For black residents, “you can’t help but feel that the city and the city leaders have turned their backs on you,” Ms. Cobb said. “When you see hundreds of thousands of black people leaving” a city that once had a reputation as being the land of opportunity for black people, “people want to know that somebody is going to speak for them,” Ms. Cobb added. Finley Campbell, a spokesman for the Chicago-based Unitarian Universalist Multiracial Racial Unity Action Council, said part of what makes Ms. Lightfoot’s win historic is that she reached out successfully to white voters. She earned broad support, receiving about three-fourths of the total vote and winning all 50 Chicago wards. Her margins
of victory ranged from about 8 percentage points in a largely black South Side ward to as high as 75 percentage points in predominantly white wards on the North and southwest sides. “It is historic because a black, openly gay sister is out there,” Mr. Campbell said. “What’s also historic for me is she reached out very successfully to the white ethnic community, where you have traditional Polish, German, Irish-type people. There’s also a connection to the firefighters and police department, and working-class people. Her ability to say ‘I will represent you, too,’ accounts for it being successful.” Ms. Lightfoot said she took Tuesday’s results as a mandate for change, and that she plans to “take full advantage of it.” But she noted there is much difficult work ahead. “Honeymoons come and go, and I want to make sure we’re doing all we can to really breathe life into the historic nature of this election,” she said.
Love does arrive, the letter states that she would have “overall responsibility for the operation of the (Virginia) State Conference, its committees and staff, if any.” She also will have veto power over any policy actions of the state executive committee that includes the president, other officers and board members and will control the release of any information to the media and the public about the state’s activities and programs. Mr. Johnson also informed Rev. Chandler that Ms. SweetLove must approve all expenditures. He added that any checks for payment issued by the state NAACP must bear Ms. Sweet-Love’s signature, as well as those of the president and state treasurer. Among other duties, Ms. Sweet-Love will have authority to ensure that “the state conference has a plan for the purpose of paying off debts to the national office.” The takeover is a huge
embarrassment for the state NAACP, which has stepped up its lobbying of state legislators during Rev. Chandler’s tenure and sought to raise its profile on major issues, ranging from Gov. Ralph S. Northam’s use of blackface in 1984 to a state decision to allow a natural gas compressor station to be located in the historic AfricanAmerican community of Union Hill in Buckingham County. The state NAACP has been a vocal leader in calling on Gov. Northam to resign, challenging the environmental threat to Union Hill, seeking to create more equitable political districts, pushing for voting rights for felons and trying to end barriers to voting. “Hopefully, Ms. SweetLove can help us overcome our challenges,” one source said, “so we can get back to dealing with the issues that affect our members and the people who look to us to lead the civil rights agenda in this state.”
ABC’s of costs Continued from A1
questions from board members Felicia Cosby, Kenya Gibson, Dr. Patrick Sapini and Jonathan Young. Despite offering a detailed defense, the administration has yet to explain why other school divisions, most notably neighboring Chesterfield County, can build schools for significantly less than Richmond is spending. In a five-page response to the School Board members, city Procurement Director Betty J. Burrell and interim Chief Capital Projects Manager Robert Stone stated that construction costs for schools has far outpaced the general increase in inflation. Ms. Burrell and Mr. Stone stated that state data on school construction show that building costs are 80 percent higher than in 2009-2010. That 80 percent increase compares to the 15 percent increase since 2010 in the consumer price index, the measure the government uses to determine the pace of inflation. That spike in cost, along with other factors, such as a School Board demand that the schools be built and opened by the fall of 2020, explains why the projected cost to build the three schools has grown to $140 million, up from the $110 million estimate the School Board received, according to the letter. Former interim Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Thomas E. “Tommy” Kranz finds that explanation credible. He produced the original estimate. While irked that city and school officials have been pointing the finger of blame at him for supposedly botching the estimates, Mr. Kranz said there is no question that costs are surging. An expert in the field, Mr. Kranz said a Mr. Kranz top contractor he consulted told him that the cost of school construction has risen 15 percent since 2016 and is projected to climb another 4 percent to 6 percent this year and next year — far faster than could have been anticipated. Mr. Kranz said the driving forces include President Trump’s trade wars and tariffs that have led to a spike in the cost of steel and a construction boom that has made it harder to find available subcontractors and workers. Still Mr. Kranz said that Mr. Young is right that there should be concern when a neighboring school district like Chesterfield is spending less money for a similar school. Take for example Chesterfield’s new Enon Elementary School that opened in January. According to the county, the total cost for the school to serve 794 students was $28.6 million, or $313.33 a square foot, when all costs — from design to demolition of the old building — are included. That’s about $6 million less than Richmond is planning to spend for the new 750-student George Mason Elementary, which is projected to cost $35.7 million, or $357 per square foot. One key reason is that Chesterfield appears to more closely monitor the square footage in a bid to stretch its money. At Enon, the building provides 115 square feet per student. That compares with the more generous 133.29 square feet that Richmond plans to provide per student at George Mason. Another example involves Richmond’s proposed new middle school, which is designed to have 187,200 square feet. That would provide nearly 125 square feet for each of the 1,500 students who are to attend. Limiting the space per student to 115 square feet — a change that largely would go unnoticed by occupants — would shave nearly $5 million from the cost. The design cost for the three schools also is up. While Ms. Burrell and Mr. Stone noted that the total design cost had been cut by $2.8 million from the original estimate of $8.9 million to $5.91 million, that is still $1.1 million more than the $14.8 million Richmond spent on architects when it built two new elementary schools and one new middle school a few years ago. And those schools were custom designed; these new schools are recycled designs of schools that Suffolk previously built. Richmond also has boosted the cost of construction by insisting on having the three schools built to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), even though the council, itself, has acknowledged that those using its models often do not reap the projected savings in energy and operating costs that the extra work is supposed to produce. In their letter, Ms. Burrell and Mr. Stone noted that the cost increase had caught everyone’s attention. Ms. Burrell and Mr. Stone claimed that the School Board rejected the city’s plan to spend $200,000 to engage a third party to evaluate the costs of the schools. Ms. Gibson said that claim does not correspond with the facts. “Their letter notes the board declined to proceed with a third-party estimate, when in fact, (the board) approved the project in September,” she stated. Three months later, according to the record of the Dec. 4 School Board meeting, Superintendent Jason Kamras told the board he had dropped the idea of bringing in a outside party because the cost had increased to $200,000. The board accepted the explanation, but did not take a vote.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, left, listens as a community member speaks at Monday’s town hall-style meeting about food deserts in Richmond and the impact a lack of fresh and healthy foods has in low-income neighborhoods.
Officials want to attract grocery stores to Virginia’s ‘food deserts’ By Caitlin Morris Capital News Service
Reflecting national concerns over “food deserts,” federal and state lawmakers Monday called for legislation to help people in low-income neighborhoods get better access to fresh vegetables and other healthy foods. The officials discussed food insecurity at a town hall-style meeting at the Peter Paul Development Center in Richmond’s East End, where poverty is high and full-fledged grocery stores are scarce. In 2019 in America, “nobody should go to bed hungry at night,” said U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, who co-hosted the meeting with Rep. A. Donald McEachin of Henrico County. “Too often, what we have are communities — urban and rural — where there may be a corner store, but you walk in to that corner store and you may have large volumes of food, but it’s not healthy food.” Sen. Warner was joined by Rep. McEachin’s deputy chief of staff, Tara Rountree, Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney, members of the Virginia General Assembly, as well as about 60 area residents. Sen. Warner and Rep. McEachin, both Democrats, are co-sponsoring federal legislation called the Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act that would provide tax credits and grants to grocery stores, food banks and other organizations that provide healthy foods in underserved communities. Entities would undergo a certification process to qualify for financial assistance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 25 million Americans live in food deserts, while nearly 18 percent of Virginians, or roughly 3 million people, live in food deserts. In urban areas, individuals are considered to be living in a food desert if they must travel more than one mile to buy affordable, healthy food. In rural areas, it is considered a food desert if access is 10 miles away. Under the proposed HFAAA, businesses would apply for certification as Special Access Food Providers. A certified store that opens in a food desert could receive a one-time, 15 percent tax credit. Businesses that have been remodeled or rehabilitated to qualify as grocery stores would receive a one-time tax credit of 10 percent. To meet these qualifications, at least 35 percent of a store’s products must be fresh produce, poultry, dairy and deli items. Under the HFAAA, grants would be awarded to food banks to cover 15 percent of the costs of building a perma-
nent structure in a food desert. “Temporary access merchants,” such as nonprofit farmers’ markets and some food banks, could receive grants for up to 10 percent of their annual operating costs. State legislators in Virginia also have been pushing to address food insecurity. During this year’s legislative session, a bill to provide funding for the construction, rehabilitation and expansion of grocery stores won unanimous approval in the state Senate but died in the House of Delegates. SB 999, sponsored by Republican Sen. Bill Stanley of Franklin and Democratic Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance of Petersburg, would have established the Virginia Grocery Investment Fund and provided $5 million to help approved food providers in underserved communities. Sen. Warner complimented Democratic Delegates Delores L. McQuinn of Richmond and Lamont Bagby of Henrico for their efforts as well. “Delores and Lamont and others have been trying to move this issue forward with a series of Virginia-based initiatives,” Sen. Warner said. “What Donald (McEachin) and I have tried to do at the federal level is to say, ‘How can we as a federal government provide some additional assistance?’ ” Like SB 999, the HFAAA before Congress has bipartisan support. Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas is also a sponsor. Richmond residents at Monday’s discussion agreed that work must be done to address food insecurity in Virginia, but many expressed concerns about how the HFAAA would affect
the community. Individuals said they fear that offering incentives to open grocery stores in underserved neighborhoods would lead to gentrification as wealthier people move in and poorer residents are pushed out. Development in disadvantaged communities could lead to higher rents and the loss of small businesses. Sen. Warner said he wants to make sure residents are protected from negative impacts. He said he hopes to “see if there’s a way in my legislation to give recipients an extra benefit if they PUR224-1718 RICHMOND live in the community.”
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The ghosts of truth The allegations of sexual assault lodged against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax seem to follow him like unwelcomed ghosts. The latest appearance of these apparitions arose earlier this week in television interviews with Oprah’s bestie, Gayle King, that were broadcast over three days by CBS News. In interviews shown on Sunday and Monday, Dr. Vanessa Tyson tearfully told Ms. King about her sexual encounter in 2004 with Lt. Gov. Fairfax that she said began with consensual kissing in a hotel room in Boston, where they were both attending the Democratic National Convention. He was a law student at Columbia University, and she, an incest survivor and current university professor in California, was working at a rape crisis center at the time. She told Ms. King that events took a turn when he forced her to perform oral sex. Then, in a separate interview that was broadcast on Tuesday, Ms. King talked with a tearful Meredith Watson of Maryland, who alleged that Lt. Gov. Fairfax raped her in 2000 when they were both undergraduate students at Duke University. Since the allegations surfaced in February, Lt. Gov. Fairfax has denied forcing himself on or assaulting either woman, saying both encounters were consensual. He stated this week that he took and passed two polygraph exams he claimed proved the truth of his accounts of both events. While we believe survivors of sexual assault and harassment should come forward without fear of retribution or being silenced, we admit we were a bit flummoxed by the interviews, which provided no new information beyond what Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson released through their lawyers and spokespersons in February. We are no closer to the truth or a resolution of these matters now than we were at the time they made their allegations public. We continue our call for an impartial special investigation to be conducted into the matter, with Lt. Gov. Fairfax, Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson to be heard in an appropriate and nonpolitical forum. We believe that Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson, like all women who bring forward allegations, deserve our respect and attention. While the public can review the facts, it is imperative that trained investigators get at the heart of each situation. We also believe that Lt. Gov. Fairfax, like all who are accused, is innocent until proven guilty. And because his reputation and the public trust are both at stake in this matter, it is essential that an investigation by professionals — devoid of the political circus — be conducted. We hope Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson are not allowing themselves to be used by Virginia Republicans, who continue to use their allegations to churn chaos and division. The GOP has used the women’s interviews this week to claim that Democrats have rebuffed their efforts to hold a bipartisan hearing featuring the public testimony of Lt. Gov. Fairfax, Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson. We believe a panel of Republican and Democratic members of the Virginia House of Delegates would simply be a political show, turning the matter into partisan fodder and achieving no good end for any of the people involved. We reject the notion that such a panel could bring any truth or light to this situation or to anyone involved. What is required is a full, fair and impartial investigation of the allegations. And until that happens, the ghosts will continue to hover.
17th Street Farmers’ Market Who should Richmond residents see about a partial refund of the $3.6 million in taxpayers’ dollars spent on what was supposed to be a rehab of the 17th Street Farmers’ Market? The plan, which took years to come up with and now even longer to complete, was supposed to turn the pergolacovered marketplace in Shockoe Bottom into a year-round public market of food, crafts and other items, complete with benches and a promenade along 17th Street to stretch from Main Street to Broad Street. But right now, it just looks like a big concrete slab with a string of lights draped across it from poles. And the longtime produce vendors who have kept the market, started in 1779, an actual market are sparse and have been neglected by city agencies and others, including Enrichmond, that have a bigger vision for the area, but a clear inability to make it happen. Because of that, we believe the taxpayers are owed a refund, and another entity should be brought in to turn the marketplace into a vibrant reality. With the promise of better weather, we hope the inaugural Richmond Night Market on Saturday, April 13, will be a success. While only a monthly event, we believe it can be broadened. The original “Richmond Night Market,” started in 2000 in Richmond, British Columbia, in Canada draws crowds of more than 30,000 on weekend evenings throughout the summer, with people enjoying food from all over the world. It is a showcase of art, culture and shopping, which our Richmond could also use. We believe RVA can start out small and do likewise with the confluence of food, art and music brought here by a variety of people from various cultures. We give props to Adrienne Cole Johnson and Melody Short for coming up with the local concept. We hope the City of Richmond and its people will give them the support they need to turn the 17th Street Farmers’ Market into the vibrant place everyone wants.
Raising the minimum wage
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It is unfathomable that the federal minimum wage has not been increased in more than a decade, since 2007. It is also unfathomable that the minimum wage, at $7.25 per hour, has remained flat through recession and recovery, through extremely high unemployment rates and much lower ones. Republicans have absolutely refused to consider a minimum wage increase, and in early March, rejected a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024. Still, with the Democratic majority in Congress, the bill came out of committee on a 28-20 party line vote. While the federal government drags its feet, six states, the District of Columbia and several cities now have a minimum wage that will rise to $15 in the next few years. In late March, Maryland joined California, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Illinois in increasing the minimum wage, even though Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan, vetoed the legislation. Both houses of the Maryland legislature overrode his veto, even though he melo-
dramatically noted that a higher minimum wage would “devastate” the Maryland economy. Unions, McDonald’s workers and the Fight for Fifteen have fueled the national push to raise the minimum wage, especially as people have noted that wage stagnation has resulted in an extremely uneven economic
Julianne Malveaux recovery. While those at the top are celebrating economic growth, those at the bottom have barely experienced it. The current minimum wage of $7.25 produces annual pay of $15,080, assuming that someone works a full, 40 hours a week all 52 weeks of the year. However, that often is unlikely because many minimum wage jobs are only part time. The poverty line for a family of three, such as a working mom and two children, is $16,910. A woman working full time at minimum wage is living below the federal poverty line. She qualifies for SNAP, or food stamps, and possibly for federal housing aid if she can get it. All too often, the list for housing subsidies is full, as is public housing, so assistance is not an option. What is a woman earning such a low wage to do, living at the
economic periphery? She houseshares with family or endures homelessness. She lines up to get food at food banks or from other charities. She struggles to make ends meet, while her congressional representative earns $174,000 a year regardless of whether they produce. I would suspend congressional pay when they choose to shut down the government. Too many of the people who earn minimum wage, mostly women, are caretakers. They mind our children and our elders as nannies and home health workers. While we say that our children and elders are precious, we don’t pay the folks who care for them as if they are. Parking lot attendants, who care for our automobiles, often earn more than the people who care for our children, mothers, and grandmothers. And yet the economy depends on them. How many working women would be hard-pressed to work if their nannies or home health workers stayed home? How would the economy adjust to the absence of nearly half of the labor force? Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, recently spoke about how poorly workers in the care industry are paid and how essential they are. Eighty-eight percent of these workers are women, mostly women of color, and while demand for their services is increasing, pay
Another Trump lie: Health care Donald Trump’s madcap presidency is now seeking to strip 20 million Americans of their health care coverage. He has instructed the U.S. Justice Department to join the lawsuit seeking to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. He then proclaimed that Republicans would offer a far better alternative, tweeting they’ll become the “Party of Great Health Care.” Only there is no plan. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, wants nothing to do with trying to develop one. Confusion reigns. This grotesque misrule might be funny were it not putting millions of people at risk. President Trump has taken his animus against all things Obama to new heights in his obsessive drive to repeal or disembowel the Affordable Care Act. After the Republican Senate rejected repeal of the ACA — feeding President Trump’s disdain for the late U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who cast the determining vote — President Trump’s administration has sought to undermine the act administratively. Seven million fewer people now have health care coverage since President Trump was elected. Now he hopes to have the courts repeal the act. That would end the expansion of Medicaid, which covers more than 10 million low-wage workers and their families. (About 400,000 Virginians became eligible for Medicaid on Jan. 1, when the health care program finally was expanded in the Commonwealth.) Eliminating the ACA would repeal the requirement that insurance companies cover people with
pre-existing conditions — putting anyone who is ill now and covered under the ACA at risk. It would repeal the provision allowing young people to be covered under their parents’ health insurance plans to age 26. Once more, insurance companies would be free to enforce lifetime limits on coverage, putting the most vulnerable at risk. President Trump adds insult to this injury by proclaiming the
Jesse L. Jackson Sr. big lie — that Republicans have or will have a plan that will cover more and be less expensive. But there is no plan. Trump aides say it will be developed in the Senate. Sen. McConnell, who rules Senate Republicans with a tight fist, says, “I look forward to seeing what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker.” When asked if the two committees tasked with overseeing health care would come up with a plan, Sen. Charles Grassley responded tersely with a “no.” Scrambling to put a cover on his barefaced lie, President Trump announced that Sen. Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, would join with a couple of other senators to come up with a “spectacular” plan. This is like naming Al Capone to design the tax code. In the 1990s, Sen. Scott was the chief executive officer of Columbia/ HCA. He resigned in 1997, the same year the FBI announced an investigation of the company for massive Medicare fraud. In the end, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to systematic fraud — featuring false billing of Medicare on a breathtaking scale. The company pleaded guilty to 14 corporate felonies and paid some $1.7 billion in criminal fines and penalties in what the U.S. Justice
Department called the “largest health care fraud case in U.S. history.” No doubt, if Sen. Scott were to come up with a plan, it would be “spectacular” for the money guys and savage for those in need of care. On health care, President Trump’s lies are dangerous to life. The United States is the only advanced industrial country that does not provide universal health care as a right. We are paying almost twice per capita as other countries with worse health care results. Meanwhile, the insurance companies, the drug companies and the private hospital complexes rake in fortunes. What should be done is clear. The U.S. government should negotiate with drug companies to force lower prices for prescription drugs. Medicare should be strengthened and then extended to cover more people in stages. Cover those up to 30 and those 55 and older in the first stage. And then over the years, perfect and extend the program to cover all. Pay for it by requiring the rich and the corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. We’d end up paying less and getting better coverage. President Trump believes that if you tell a big lie over and over and over again, pretty soon people will begin to believe it. His political debut was the big lie about former President Obama’s birth certificate. He has done the same with his racist rants on immigrants and the border wall. Now he plans the same big lie technique on health care — posturing as a champion of the people when he’s defending big money interests. The real deal is clear: The rich get a tax cut; the poor get a health care cut. The writer is founder and president of the national Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
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is not. All don’t make the minimum wage, but far too many do, and their efforts, though essential, are all too often invisible. Ms. Poo and her organization are working to raise the visibility of these workers, not just so we can see them, but so we can ensure they are adequately paid. Most Americans will have to interact with the care industry at some point in their life, arranging help for elderly relatives or for children. The movement toward a living wage must include these workers. Kudos to Maryland for taking a step in the right direction. Shame on House Republicans who are enjoying economic recovery, but denying its benefits to those at the bottom. The Fight for Fifteen has momentum now. This is a great time to keep up the pressure on the states and on the federal government. Increasing the minimum wage lifts people out of poverty. Shouldn’t we all be able to support that? The writer is an economist and author.
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Letters to the Editor
Taxation not solution for Richmond Public Schools Re Column “We must invest in ourselves,” Free Press March 28-30 edition: While I can agree with Dr. Ravi K. Perry’s assertion that the state of Richmond Public Schools reflects years of racist policies, I do
not agree with his solution. I would be willing to contribute more tax dollars if I could be assured that my money would be well spent. But I have no reason to believe that it will.
Gov. Wilder as mentor
I believe God places particular persons in my life to help me navigate through my journey. One of those persons is former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. I met Gov. Wilder a few months before I attended Virginia Union University. He did not know me. I was a volunteer campaign aide. Gov. Wilder became my mentor. He took time to talk to me about my aspirations. Evidently, I expressed hesitation, but he had a theory. It was “pull yourself up by your own
boot straps.” I debated about how difficult his theory was. He simply said, “Johnnie, you can do it!” He spent long hours mentoring me. I was always safe. Governor, thank you for being one of the “gentlemen” in my life. And, by the way, I graduated.
When I read about the cost overruns for new school construction and the accounting errors at City Hall, I am left to wonder if anyone Downtown can add or subtract. Moreover, a school system that awards diplomas to children who fail to meet attendance or credit requirements and encourages cheating on SOLs (Carver Elementary School) does not inspire confidence in their stewardship. I will offer two suggestions: First, that the African-American population leverage its voting strength and insist that the Democratic Party address in its platform the state’s formula for distribution of education dollars. Secondly, insist that the state allow the city to tax the state properties for the millions of
dollars of real estate that the city cannot collect on. If ever there was a time to influence an election, it would be the impending state contests in 2019. Let the Democrats know you will stay home or vote Republican if they do not agree to support these changes. The Democrats cannot win without the black vote, and this would be the time to flex that muscle. If the minstrel in the Governor’s Mansion wants to atone for past transgressions, this would be the opportunity to prove it. NELSON CALISCH Richmond
YVONNE ARCHER JOHNSON Richmond
W. Broad Street and Brook Road Pedestrian Accommodations Henrico County Willingness to Hold a Public Hearing
Find out about proposed pedestrian accommodations on W. Broad Street (Route 250) and Brook Road (Route 1) in Henrico County. Work will include the installation of crosswalks, pedestrian signals and crossing buttons at eight locations along W. Broad Street (Towne Center West Boulevard, West Mall Entrance, Lauderdale Drive, Spring Oak Drive, Pouncey Tract Road, John Rolfe Parkway, Brownstone Boulevard and Tom Leonard Drive) and five locations along Brook Road (Virginia Center Parkway, Technology Parkway, Jeb Stuart Parkway, Main Mall Entrance and Magnolia Ridge). Review the project information and National Environmental Policy Act documentation at VDOT’s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive in Colonial Heights, 23834-9002 804-524-6000, 1-800-367-7623,TTY/TDD 711. Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions. If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Phillip Frazer, Project Manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, Colonial Heights, VA 23834-9002 or by email to Phillip.Frazer@VDOT.Virginia.gov on or prior to April 11, 2019. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above. State Project: 9999-964-455, P101, C501 Federal Project: HSIP-964-4(122) UPC: 108669
Fairground Road (Route 632) Intersection Improvements Goochland County Design Public Hearing Thursday, April 18, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m. Goochland County Administration Building 1800 Sandy Hook Road Goochland, VA 23063 Find out about the proposed intersection improvements project on Fairground Road (Route 632) at Sandy Hook Road (Route 522) in Goochland County. The project includes construction of a single-lane roundabout, added turn lanes and sidewalks. The meeting will be held in an open forum style from 5 – 7 p.m. This format will provide the flexibility to allow participants to meet and discuss the proposed project directly with project staff members. Review the project information and National Environmental Policy Act documentation at VDOT’s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive in Colonial Heights, 23834-9002, 804-524-6000, 1-800-367-7623 or TTY/TDD 711. Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions. Property impact information, relocation assistance policies and tentative construction schedules are available for your review at the above addresses and will be available at the public hearing. Give your written or oral comments at the meeting or submit them no later than April 28, 2019 to Anthony Haverly, project manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, Colonial Heights, VA 23834-9002. You may also email your comments to anthony.haverly@vdot.virginia.gov. Please reference “Fairground Road Improvements in Goochland” in the subject line. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above. *In the event of inclement weather on April 18, this meeting will be held on Monday, April 25 at the same time and location above. State Project: 0632-037-750, P101, R201, C501 Federal Project: STP-037-4(015), UPC: 105734
I-95/Belvidere St. Interchange Safety Improvement City of Richmond Design Public Hearing Thursday, April 11, 5:30 – 7 p.m. VDOT Central Office Auditorium 1401 E Broad St. Richmond, VA 23219 Find out about the proposed project to reconfigure the interchange from Belvidere St. to I-95 south/I-64 east. This project will realign and improve the merge condition for the on-ramps to I-95 southbound. The meeting will be held in an open forum style from 5:30-7 p.m. This format will provide the flexibility to allow participants to meet and discuss the proposed project directly with project staff members. Parking is available in the rear of the building. This project will involve a change and/or break in limited access control. Review the project information and National Environmental Policy Act documentation at VDOT’s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive in Colonial Heights, 23834-9002, 804-524-6000, 1-800-367-7623 or TTY/TDD 711. Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions. Give your written or oral comments at the meeting or submit them no later than April 21, 2019 to Scott Chapman, project manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, Colonial Heights, VA 23834-9002. You may also email your comments to scott.chapman@vdot.virginia.gov. Please reference “I-95/Belvidere St. Interchange Improvements” in the subject line. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above. *In the event of inclement weather on April 11, this meeting will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at the same time and location above. State Project: 0095-127-970,P101, R201, C501 Federal Number: NHPP-0951(361); UPC: 109320
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Sports
Wahoo fever! Stories by Fred Jeter
U.Va. reaches NCAA Final Four for first time since 1984 The University of Virginia has one of the nation’s best allround athletic programs, but there is something missing: A national basketball title. The Cavaliers, with 25 NCAA crowns to their credit in a wide variety of sports, will try and check the elusive hoops box in the next few days when the team heads to the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four in Minneapolis. Coach Tony Bennett’s efficient, defensive-minded squad is 33-3, with losses only to Duke University twice during the regular season and to Florida State University in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. The starting unit generally consists of freshman Kihei Clark and juniors Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome on the perimeter, with junior Mamadi Diakite and sophomore DeAndre Hunter inside.
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The Final Four NCAA semifinals: Saturday, April 6 University of Virginia vs. Auburn University, 6:09 p.m. Michigan State University vs. Texas Tech University, 8:49 p.m. NCAA championship game: Monday April 8, 8:30 p.m. Games to be televised on CBS.
Diakite, from Conakry, Guinea, and Jack Salt, from Auckland, New Zealand, give the squad some international flavor. Junior Jay Huff offers 7-foot-1 height off the bench.
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All the principle players are expected to return to U.Va. next season, although Hunter would be a likely NBA first round draft choice, should he decide to leave college early for the pros. Virginia reached the NCAA Final Four in 1981, when 7-foot-4 Ralph Sampson was the headliner. The Cavaliers returned to the Final Four in 1984 with another NBA-bound center, Olden Polynice, leading the charge. Through many decades, U.Va. has ruled the NCAA in such team sports as baseball, soccer, lacrosse and tennis, while also capturing numerous individual championships in track and field and swimming. About all that’s missing is the sight of Coach Bennett atop a step ladder cutting down the nets in Minneapolis.
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Location: Charlottesville, Va. Conference: ACC Nickname: Cavaliers; Wahoos Record: 33-3 Coach: Tony Bennett, 252-89, since 2009 Road to Minneapolis: Defeated GardnerWebb University 71-56; University of Oklahoma 63-51; University of Oregon 53-49; and Purdue University 80-75 in overtime Leading scorer: Kyle Guy, 15.2 points per game NCAA championships: None Final Fours: 1981, 1984 and 2019 NCAA appearances: 23 All-time scorer: Bryant Stith, 2,516 points, 1989-1992 Greatest NBA Player: Ralph Sampson Local connection: Associate head Coach Jason Williford hails from Richmond’s John Marshall High School.
Location: Lubbock, Texas Conference: Big 12 Nickname: Red Raiders Record: 30-6 Coach: Chris Beard, 75-30, since 2016 Road to Minneapolis: Defeated Northern Kentucky University 72-57; University at Buffalo 78-58; University of Michigan 63-44; and Gonzaga University 75-69 Leading scorer: Jarrett Culver, 18.9 points NCAA championships: None Final Fours: 2019 NCAA appearances: 17 All-time scorer: Andre Emmett, 2,256 points, 2001-2004 Greatest NBA player: Tony Battie Local connection: Front line forward Deshawn Corprew is from Norfolk.
Location: Auburn, Ala. Nickname: Tigers, War Eagles Record: 30-9 Coach: Bruce Pearl, 99-71, fifth season Road to Minneapolis: Defeated New Mexico State University 78-77; University of Kansas 89-75; University of North Carolina 97-80; and University of Kentucky 77-71 in overtime Leading scorer: Bryce Brown, 15.8 points NCAA championships: None Final Fours: 2019 NCAA appearances: 10 All-time scorer: Chuck Person, 2,311 points Greatest NBA player: Charles Barkley Local connection: Guard Samir Doughty is a transfer from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Location: East Lansing, Mich. Nickname: Spartans Coach: Tom Izzo, 606-231, since 1995 Road to Minneapolis: Defeated Bradley University 76-65; University of Minnesota 7050; Louisiana State University 80-63; and Duke University 68-67 Leading scorer: Cassius Winston, 18.8 points NCAA championships: 1979, 2000 Final Fours: 10 NCAA appearances: 33 All-time scorer: Shawn Respert, 2,531 points Greatest NBA player: Earvin “Magic” Johnson Local connection: In December 1975, the Spartans lost to Virginia Commonwealth University in a holiday tournament at the Richmond Coliseum. MSU was among the first schools to come to Richmond to face the VCU Rams.
Richmond Flying S quirrels ready for Thursday night opener One needs to look no further than the Richmond Flying Squirrels’ roster to discover baseball is a global sport. To celebrate the franchise’s 10th anniversary, players have gathered from places as close as Henrico and Hanover counties and from as far as South Africa, Taiwan, South America and the Caribbean. “Home Boys”: Squirrels team members Melvin Adon this season include catcher Matt Winn from J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico County and Virginia Military Institute, and pitcher Connor Overton from Atlee High School in Hanover County and Old Dominion University. Across the sea: Competing with Winn for catcher’s mask and shin guards duty is Jin-De Jhang from Taiwan. Fastballs and fast feet: Dominican relief Johneshwy pitcher Melvin Adon has consistenly hit 100 Fargas mph with his heater. Outfielder Johneshwy Fargas of Puerto Rico stole 48 bases in just 98 games a year ago with the San Jose Giants. Runs in the family: Outfielder Jacob Heyward is the younger brother of Jason Heyward of the Chicago Cubs. Infielder Jonah Arenado’s older brother is perennial all-star third baseman Nolan Arenado of the Colorado Rockies. It’s Miller time: Infielder Jalen Miller, a native of Atlanta, brings some pop to Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The 22-year-old former third round draft pick slugged 14 homers and 35 RBI
Play ball The Richmond Flying Squirrels will open their 10th season in Richmond with a seven-game home stand: Date Time Thursday, April 4 6:35 p.m. Friday, April 5 7 p.m. Saturday, April 6 6:05 p.m. Sunday, April 7 1:05 p.m. Monday, April 8 6:35 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 10:35 a.m.
vs. Team Hartford Yard Goats of Connecticut Hartford Hartford Hartford Bowie Baysox of Maryland Bowie Bowie
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Note: The Flying Squirrels are Class AA Eastern League affiliate of the San Francisco Giants; Hartford is an affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, while the Bowie Baysox are an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.
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last year at San Jose. Old folks: While most AA division players are in their early to mid-20s, the team graybeard is 33-year-old Fernando Abad, a veteran relief pitcher from the Dominican Republic. The deep, deep South: While players from South Carolina and even South America aren’t too rare, pitcher Kieran Lovegrove is from several time zones farther — Johannesburg, South Africa. The skipper: Returning for his second season as manager
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is Willie Harris from Cairo, S.C., the same hometown as baseball icon Jackie Robinson. Harris played 11 seasons in the big leagues and helped win a World Series in 2005 with the Chicago White Sox. Spinning the turnstiles: While the Flying Squirrels finished last in the Eastern League standings (66-76) in 2018, the Squirrels were first in attendance with an average of 6,198 fans per game. This is a tribute to nightly promotions and a family friendly atmosphere orchestrated by Todd “Parney” Parnell, the club’s vice president and chief operating officer since the inception of the franchise. Opening night will feature an appearance by former Richmond Braves slugger Ryan Klesko and postgame fireworks. History lesson: The Flying Squirrels are the fourth minor league baseball team to play in Richmond. Previous teams were: • Richmond Colts, 1942-1953: played at Mooers Field; affiliate of the Philadelphia A’s and the New York Giants. • Richmond Virginians, 1954 to 1964: played at Parker Field; affiliate of the New York Yankees. • Richmond Braves: 1966 to 2008; played at Parker Field and, starting in 1985, at The Diamond; affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.
HU’s Jermaine Marrow winning eye-popping stats Basketball players like Rick Mahorn and Jermaine Marrow don’t come along very often. Mahorn was undeniably Hampton University’s premier talent of the 20th century. Now it’s Marrow’s turn to take a shot at HU “man of the century” accolades, albeit with many decades to go. Known as “Mayno,” the sophomore guard from Heritage High School in Newport News is having a spectacular season statistically, while also spurring the Pirates to their longest postseason ever. In its first season of competition in the Big South Conference, Hampton has won three games in the
CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, or CIT, advancing to the semifinals. Coach Buck Joyner’s squad defeated St. Francis College of Brooklyn, N.Y., 81-72; Charleston Southern University 73-67; and New Jersey Institute of Technology 82-70, to improve Jermaine Marrow to 18-16 overall. Marrow’s solo numbers are eye-popping. He averages 24.7 points while adding 168 assists, 139 rebounds and 55 steals. Adept at attacking the rim
VUU golf team swinging for victory Winning championships has become par for the course for the Virginia Union University golf team. Coach E. Lee Coble’s Panthers traveled to North Carolina twice last month and both times returned to Richmond with the tallest trophy. The VUU team, led by freshman Alkin Barkley, bested an eight-team field to capture the CIAA MidMajor title March 18 and 19 in Fayetteville, N.C. Barkley, a business accounting major from Johannesburg, South Africa, won medalist honors with scores of 76 and 75 for a 151 total. Right behind Barkley at 152 were senior Allan Day from Midlothian and freshman Travon Willis from Mebane, N.C. The Panthers were just warming up. On March 25 and 26, VUU won the CIAA Southern Division crown in Charlotte, N.C., with Day
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and Willis leading the charge at 147 for 36 holes. Barkley shot 148. The Panthers will travel to Petersburg for the CIAA Northern Division event April 8 and 9. The overall CIAA championships will be conducted April 18 and 19 in New Kent, with VUU as the host school. VUU is building for the PGA National Minority Tournament in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on May 10 through 12.
and drawing fouls, Marrow is 215-for-265 at the line for 83 percent. Heading into the CIT semifinal game against Marshall University on Tuesday, Marrow had 839 points this season and 1,972 for three seasons covering 99 games. He’d already surpassed Mahorn’s one season record of 855 points that was set in 1980, and has a target on Mahorn’s career mark of 2,418 established 1976 through 1980. While Mahorn and Marrow have similarities in terms of production, they couldn’t be more different in other areas. Mahorn, at 6-foot-9, 250-pounds from Hartford, Conn., went to star 18 seasons in the NBA. By contrast, Marrow stands 6 feet and is, a slender 182 pounds. He can practically jog home for mom’s home cooking. “Mayno is cocky, with a little man’s syndrome,” Coach Joyner told The Undefeated. “If I told him he was going up against the best guard in the country, he’d respond, ‘Oh, I didn’t know I was playing myself.’ ” The Hampton Pirates won the CIAA Tournament in Mahorn’s senior season of 1980. As a member of the NCAA Division I MEAC, the No. 15 seed Pirates stunned the nation in 2000 by upsetting No. 2 Iowa State University in the NCAA Tournament’s first round. “Mayno has a legacy to chase,” Coach Joyner said. “He’s following in the steps of Mahorn and Tarvis Williams,” star of the 2000 team. Marrow wears HU blue and white jersey No. 2, but he’s clearly the No. 1 Pirate, at least for this century.
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Chesterfield’s Jaaber named to All-State team Mikael “Mick” Jaaber, who led Carver College and Career Academy in Chesterfield County to a 21-6 basketball record and the state quarterfinals, has been named to the Class I All-State team. The 6-foot guard averaged more than 20 points per game for the high school that is part of Chesterfield County Public Schools.
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Spotlight on volunteer chair of The Compassionate Friends RVA’s ‘Walk to Remember’ The loss of a child is one of the most horrific times for parents and their families who suffer grief, sorrow and, sometimes, guilt. The Compassionate Friends of RVA, a nonprofit organization of people trying to help others heal, offers comfort, understanding and hope. Its 3rd Annual “Walk to Remember” on April 13 gives families “the opportunity to share and support others through their grieving process,” says Shelly Ann McKee-Sutton, chair of this year’s walk. The event and mile-long walk, which is started with an inspirational speaker and the release of doves, “is a symbolic way to show the love we carry for those we grieve and miss,” she says. “Participants walk, surrounded by the support of others, meditating on a much different time in their lives. Some go the full distance, while others only walk a short way, knowing that in participating, they are remembering.” Up to 100 walkers are expected, Ms. McKee-Sutton says, noting that Anne Moss Rogers, president of The Beacon Tree Foundation that advocates for families of children struggling with mental illness, will be the guest speaker. Ms. Rogers lost a child to suicide. The Compassionate Friends was stared in England more than 40 years ago when a chaplain brought together two families working through the grief for their children. The organization moved to the United States in 1978, and now has more than 600 chapters serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Chapters also are located in more than 30 countries around the globe. The Richmond chapter started in 1981, Ms. McKee-Sutton says. It provides monthly support group meetings, a newsletter,
resources and special events. Ms. McKee-Sutton became a member in 2016, following the death of her older son, Andrew, who was killed when he lost control of the family minivan and ran off the road. He was 16. “That was the day I began my relationship with grief,” she recalls. She says she and her family needed help and support to deal with the pain and sorrow. Her younger son, Joshua, now a senior in high school, turned 14 a few months after Andrew’s accident, “and to this day, doesn’t talk about his brother’s death,” Ms. McKee-Sutton says. “Men, in general, don’t talk about their feelings.” Andrew’s death took a toll on her immediate and extended family. She says she was happy to discover Compassionate Friends RVA during an online search. She says she has friends now she can lean on. “They know exactly how you feel,” she says, which is both heartwarming and powerful. The organization helps families locate available resources and digest the emotions associated with a sudden death. Through the organization’s social media links, members “can share their thoughts, or not, in private,” Ms. McKee-Sutton says.“It is a huge benefit to other people’s healing because that can be the core for their grieving process.” Her message to grieving parents and families is direct: “Don’t be afraid to ask for help. There are people out in the world, regardless of how you think or feel, that are going through the same thing, and they are willing to help you.” “Where I am today, I never thought I could be here,” she says of her first Compassionate Friends of RVA meeting where
Want to go? What: The Compassionate Friends RVA 2019 “Walk to Remember,” a mile-long walk honoring children and other young loved ones who have died. When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 13. Where: Church of the Epiphany, 11000 Smoketree Drive. Cost: $25 for those ages 13 and older. Details: Guest speaker, Anne Moss Rogers, president of The Beacon Tree Foundation, will speak before the mile walk begins. Participants are asked to bring a photo of their loved one to share in the memory booth. Lunch will be provided. Info and registration: www.compassionatefriendsrva. org or (804) 458-9000.
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people didnt know her. “They give me hope and the ability to laugh again, to be able to find joy in a time when I thought I could never feel that again.” Meet an advocate for families who need healing and this week’s Personality, Shelly McKee-Sutton: Occupation: Human resources information systems analyst No. 1 community involvement: Volunteer chair of The Compassionate Friends RVA’s “Walk to Remember.” I helped with the walk in 2016 through various tasks. In 2017, I was the co-coordinator with another TCF member. Length of term: The walk leader term is only a couple of months. Considering that it is a recurring event, it helps with a lot of the planning. We have built relationships with the vendors and others who are essential in helping make this event a success. Date and place of birth: Oct.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration. Family: Husband, Donald, and sons, Andrew and Joshua McKee. Andrew was killed in a car accident in 2016 at the age of 16. Joshua is a senior at Powhatan High School and will turn 18 in a few weeks. When I became involved with The Compassionate Friends RVA: I attended my first meeting in May 2016, the month after Andrew’s accident. How an individual chooses to respond to grief can be one of the most important decisions they ever make. I knew I needed to surround myself with other people that I could talk with, people that could honestly look at me and say, “I know how you feel, and everything is going to be okay; you will make it.” The Compassionate Friends is a lifeline for those who feel there is no hope. After Andrew’s accident not only was my hope gone, but all my dreams and plans for the future were turned upside down. The pain I felt could not be compared to
any other pain I had ever felt before. Compassionate Friends embraced me, understood my pain and promised me that I did not have to walk through my grief alone. Mission of Compassionate Friends RVA: Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family. Membership requirements: Unfortunately, this is a membership no one wants to pay dues to. In order to be a member, your child, grandchild or sibling has died. We are one of the only organizations that wishes our membership never got bigger. Why “Walk to Remember” is important: It is a way to honor and remember those we love. It’s the one time of a year that we as a group set aside a time to remember. The volunteers are doing something to help others in their grief. Some want to find a purpose in their grief and helping others does that. But regardless of the reason, whether you are a volunteer or a participant, one thing is true, doing something is part of the
healing process. How I start the day: I start my day with a Power of Positivity quote. Then I verbally say good morning to Andrew. Quality I most admire in others: Kindness. Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Sit quietly in nature. Andrew has a memory plaque at Bear Creek Lake State Park in Cumberland County in an area with a picnic table. I wish it were closer so I could visit more often. I love the park and the area where the memorial is located. A quote that I am inspired by: “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.” How I unwind: Meditating, reading or listening to music. Best late-night snack: Popcorn or ice cream. At the top of my “to-do” list is: Preparing myself for Joshua’s graduation from high school. It’s something I never got to experience with Andrew, so it comes with so many emotions. The best thing my parents ever taught me: Manners and gratitude. The person who influenced me the most: My grandmother. The book that influenced me the most: “As It Is in Heaven: How Eternity Brings Focus to What Really Matters” by Greg Laurie. What I’m reading now: “The Magic Mala: A Story That Changes Lives” by Bob Olson. My next goal: To obtain my certification in bereavement and grief counseling.
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Beyoncé, Jay-Z and ‘Black Panther’ win big at 50th Annual NAACP Image Awards Free Press wire report
LOS ANGELES Queen Bey still reigns supreme. Beyoncé was named Entertainer of the Year at the 50th Annual NAACP Image Awards that highlighted works by entertainers and writers of color. After Beyoncé accepted the award Saturday night, the superstar paid homage to the people who were nominated with her in the category. She beat out Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, actors Regina King and Chadwick Boseman and director Ryan Coogler. “Regina King, I love you so much. You taught us patience, persistence and how to be masterful in your craft,” the superstar said. “Chadwick Boseman is teaching children to dream and to be seen as kings. LeBron James has taught us the strength of all forms, leading by example and providing education to our kids. Ryan Coogler tells our stories in a way that celebrates our history and proves we do have power.” Beyoncé added, “I’m honored to be included among all of you, and to be a part of a vital and thriving community. Thank you to the NAACP.” Beyoncé released a joint album last year with her husband, Jay-Z, called “Everything is Love.” The prolific singer also paid tribute to historically black colleges and universities, as well as to the dance troupes and step teams that were part of her groundbreaking, two-hour Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival performance last year. She also performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the black national anthem, at the festival and donated $100,000 to four HBCUs shortly after her performance. The NAACP Image Awards ceremony aired live on TV One from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, the same venue that hosts the Academy Awards. Jay-Z received the NAACP President’s Award for the rapper’s public service achievements. He was recognized for his efforts through his Shawn Carter Foundation and serving as co-founder of the REFORM Alliance. Jay-Z was executive producer of the documentaries “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” and “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” along with an animated documentary short, “The War on Drugs is an Epic Fail.” That documentary highlighted the unfavorable treatment of African-American and Latino people when it comes to drug-related crimes. Jay-Z quoted President Abraham Lincoln after he accepted his award and dedicated his trophy to his 93-year-old grandmother, Hattie White, saying: “She’s so full of life.” He also paid homage to the women in his life, including his wife, Beyoncé, who smiled while her husband made his speech.
the microphone to Marcus Scribner and ducked into her crowd of castmates that included Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross. Mr. Anderson returned for a second year as host of the awards show and won best actor in a comedy series. He opened the awards speaking about “black excellence” in film, hoping his behavior wouldn’t get him removed as host and made several jokes, including one about Kanye West not being invited to cookouts. Mr. Anderson brought his mother onstage and dedicated his Image Award to “the woman who raised me in Watts (California) and pushed me to become an actor.” “Everything I do on screen is for you, Mama,” Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Mr. Anderson said to his mother, who clutched Beyoncé gives an emotional acceptance speech his award. He also gave a shoutout to U.S. Rep. after winning the entertainer of the year award, Maxine Waters of California. while Letitia Wright, above, accepts the award Congresswoman Waters received the NAACP for outstanding breakthrough performance in a motion picture for her role in “Black Panther” at the Chairman’s Award for Public Service. She spoke NAACP Image Awards last Saturday in Los Angeles. about young voters taking a stance at the polls, her thoughts on getting rid of the Electoral College “It’s not the amount of years in your life. and President Trump’s presidency. It’s the amount of life in your years,” he “I still think he needs to be impeached,” Rep. Waters said of said. “That quote embodies my beautiful President Trump. “This president has defined himself as a liar.” grandmother.” Donald Glover, who won four Grammys this year, received The blockbuster film “Black Panther” was an NAACP Image Award for his directing on “Atlanta.” On the awarded best motion picture. The Marvel music side, his alter-ego, Childish Gambino, won best music hit beat out “BlacKkKlansman,” “Crazy video for “This Is America.” Rich Asians,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “The Hate U Give.” Mr. & Mrs. John T. Jones and Mr. & Mrs. Lincoln Johnson The superhero film was a cultural pheare pleased to announce the engagement of their children nomenon. It earned $700 million domestically during it theatrical run beginning in 2018. Kimberly Elizabeth and Lamont Danté “Black Panther” won in several other categories. Mr. Boseman, who portrayed the iconic figure in the film’s mythical nation of Wakanda, won the award for best actor Kimberly in a motion picture, Michael B. Jordan won is a teacher with best supporting actor in a motion picture Richmond Public Schools and Mr. Coogler won for best directing in Mario Anzuoni/Reuters and a motion picture. Lamont Jussie Smollett, who lost to “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jessie is with the Chesterfield Williams in the supporting actor in a drama series category, Fire Department. did not attend the awards ceremony. It had been a tumultuous week for the “Empire” star after a felony case against him was dropped in Chicago. A Fall 2020 Wedding Actor-comedian Chris Rock took verbal jabs at Mr. Smollett before Is Planned. he presented outstanding comedy series to ABC’s “black-ish.” “They said no Jussie Smollett jokes,” Mr. Rock said. “Yeah, I know, but what a waste of light skin. Do you know what I could do with that light skin? That curly hair, my career would be out of here. I would be running Hollywood. What the hell was he thinking? You are known as ‘Jessie’ from now on. You don’t even get the ‘u’ anymore. That ‘u’ was for respect. You ain’t getting no respect from me.” In response to Mr. Rock’s jokes, “black-ish” star Yara Shahidi made her stance in the Smollett controversy obvious. “I stand with Jussie,” Ms. Shahidi said before she handed
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VUU Legacy Awards this Friday, April 5
Virginia Union University’s 7th Annual Legacy Awards and Scholarship Gala will be held Friday, April 5, at The Shed at Main Street Station, 1500 E. Main St. in Shockoe Bottom. It opens with a VIP reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. and dancing to the music of the VUU Jazz Ensemble and
the Legacy Band. Mayor Levar M. Stoney and 2008 VUU graduate Brittany Garth will host the event to raise money for student scholarships. Ms. Garth, a writer for the Huffington Post and a TEDx speaker, has two Richmond-based businesses, Pinq Inc.,
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UR and Armstrong High students present ‘Civil Rights Richmond: Then and Now’
University of Richmond students will team with students from Armstrong High School’s Leadership Program in a performance next week to highlight the university’s exhibition, “Growing Up in Civil Rights Richmond.” The students’ docudrama, “Civil Rights Richmond: Then and Now,” will be presented 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art in the Modlin Center for the Arts on the UR campus. The program is free and open to the public. The theatrical event is based on archival material and interviews with people featured in the exhibition that highlights Richmond’s unsung heroes from the civil rights era. The theater project involves UR students who took courses on choreography and on the Civil Rights Movement in Richmond and Armstrong students who take part in the leadership mentoring program that is a joint effort of the school and Richmond Hill retreat in Church Hill.
‘Once On This Island’ to be performed April 17 and 18
Students from Armstrong and Richmond Community High Schools are putting on a play, “Once On This Island,” about a peasant girl who uses the power of love to bring together people from different social classes. The performances will be presented 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, and Thursday, April 18, at Armstrong High School, 2300 Cool Lane in the East End. Doors open at 6 p.m. “This story takes place in Haiti after the slavery rebellion,” Armstrong teacher Topaz Wise stated. The girl, Ti Moune, a darkcomplexioned peasant living on one side of a tropical island, falls in love with Daniel Beauxhomme, who is from
the lighter-complexioned upper class living on the island’s other side. Daniel is to marry a woman befitting his place in this island society. And although he loves Ti Moune, he feels he cannot go against the wishes of his family. “Once On This Island” is based on the 1985 novel, “My Love, My Love: Or The Peasant Girl” by Rosa Guy. Details and tickets: Cristian Koshock, CKoshock@ rvaschools.net or (804) 7804449.
Lindsey Campbell, a UR spokeswoman, said the event is aimed at sparking conversations about Richmond’s youth activists, past and present, a focus of the civil rights exhibit that is on display through Friday, May 10. Details: https://museums.richmond.edu/exhibitions/
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Richmond barber helping rebuild lives, homes in Haiti By Jeremy M. Lazarus
Kenneth Barney makes his living cutting hair. But in his spare time, the longtime Richmond barber is on a mission to build solid, safe houses in a community in Haiti where thousands make their homes in tiny ramshackle spaces. Mr. Barney has built three homes there already and has organized a nonprofit, Grace and Mercy Foundation, with his daughter, Devine, to raise additional funds to continue the construction of cinderblock homes that cost $4,000 to $5,000 to build in the impoverished Caribbean nation. He also has collected used laptop computers, repaired and upgraded them and shipped them to the Haitian community to improve educational access for schoolchildren. He wants to expand the effort beyond the 30 laptops he has provided to create a computer center as part of the foundation’s work. His foundation is helping residents of Pignon, a 320-year-old settlement of about 30,000 people located about two hours north of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. “My goal is to build at least four houses a year. I am hoping that others will join me to improve the lives of these wonderful people,” said the 66-year-old Louisa County native who has been cutting hair in the city for 42 years. Mr. Barney is the owner-operator of Genesis Barbershop on East Grace Street in Downtown. Mr. Barney said he learned about the need when he joined a mission trip to Haiti in 2016 sponsored by his church, Mount Olive Baptist Church in Glen
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Above, youths celebrate a new home that Kenneth Barney and his Grace and Mercy Foundation built in Pignon, Haiti. Right, Mr. Barney cuts a customer’s hair in his barbershop in Richmond. Below left, Mr. Barney watches as Haitian youths use the laptops he took to Pignon. Jeremy M. Lazarus/Richmond Free Press
Allen. The trip was led by the Rev. Janice Corbett, an associate doing more. He said the teen, Marcelene Woodson, introduced pastor at the church who has a long track record with global him to an uncle who is a skilled builder. Since then, Mr. Barney missions. has built a house a year. “She’s been asking me and other congregants for years to go on “These are four-room homes,” he said. “But they are very simple. a mission trip. This time, I decided it was time to go,” Mr. Barney They provide basic shelter. There are no furnishings, kitchens or said. bathrooms. I’m just trying to provide Mount Olive previously had a safe place. People there are used built a Baptist sanctuary for a sister to cooking outdoors and using church in Pignon. The purpose of latrines they set up. But quality the mission trip was to provide shelter is hard to come by.” volunteer support at the church He said he also was moved and in the community. by seeing so many children not Mr. Barney said the trip opened attending grade school because his eyes to the resilience of Haitheir families were too poor to tians and their shelter challenges pay to send them. that are far greater than anything Mr. Barney said contributions he has seen in this country. He said to the foundation would be used to people were living in tiny spaces “send children to grade school and made of discarded metal and crumbuild more homes in Pignon.” Grace and Mercy Foundation bling concrete or in clay buildings To Mr. Barney, this is one way The Grace and Mercy logo decorates another new home. with branches for roofs. for people in the United States to “Most families had one-room houses, and everyone slept in give back to others who have so much less. that one room,” he said. “We may not be able to solve the world’s problems, but I He said he got involved in home building in Pignon after a think we can try to make a difference one family at a time.” teen told him the sad story of his family’s eviction. He said he Details and donations: www.graceandmercyfoundation. felt he had to do something to relieve their homelessness. com or Grace and Mercy Foundation, 13587 Ashland Road, Mr. Barney paid to build a home for them and thought about Ashland, Va. 23005.
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Retired educator, florist Sylvia Richardson dies at 76 Sylvia D. Richardson loved the color purple. And the bubbly woman who brimmed with enthusiasm infused that color into her dual roles as an educator and a florist. During her tenure as principal of Bellevue Elementary School, Mrs. Richardson turned the historic building in Church Hill into a purple palace. She had the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entry door, hallways, classroom walls and building floors painted her favorite color. Purple also was the color of the house on the corner of Brookland Park Boulevard and Edgewood Avenue from which she operated a floral business, Bouquets by Sylvia, for nearly 25 years.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Purple was her chosen Born Sylvia Juanita Duncan color because the color signiin Cheraw, S.C., she came to fies royalty, and that was how Richmond to teach after graduSylvia carried herself and also ating from Bennett College. In how she treated everyone with a career that spanned 37 years, whom she came into contact,â&#x20AC;? she rose through the ranks to Adeline Clarke, a longtime curriculum specialist and then friend, wrote in a tribute. principal, first at Bellevue Mrs. Richardson died Elementary, until an uproar Monday, March 18, 2019, over the alleged clustering of of complications from a fall white students arose, and then at her residence, her family at Maymont Elementary. She said. She was 76. retired from Maymont ElemenMrs. Richardson tary in 2001. Family and friends celHer passion for flowers and decorating led ebrated her life at Wesley Memorial United her to open her florist shop around 1990, where Methodist Church on Tuesday, March 26.
she earned customer gratitude for creating â&#x20AC;&#x153;stunning, whimsical flower arrangements,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Clarke said. The shop allowed Mrs. Richardson to â&#x20AC;&#x153;display her talent for arranging flowers and creating bouquets, centerpieces, door wreaths and wall decorations. She was so gifted,â&#x20AC;? Mrs. Clarke continued. During the Christmas season, Ms. Richardson was â&#x20AC;&#x153;renowned for her talent for her holiday creations,â&#x20AC;? Mrs. Clarke said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She could turn an ordinary room into an ornate, breathtaking space.â&#x20AC;? Mrs. Richardson closed the shop following the 2014 death of her husband, attorney Willie J. Richardson Jr. Survivors include her son, Timothy A. Richardson, and her sister, Essie Horton.
Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle remembered for his music, community efforts Free Press wire report
LOS ANGELES Tributes continue to pour in for Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was fatally shot outside his clothing store in South Los Angeles on Sunday, March 31. Mr. Hussle, 33, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Two other people were wounded in the shooting outside Marathon Clothing, according to law enforcement sources. Police have arrested the suspected killer, Eric Holder, 29, of Los Angeles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My spirit is shaken by this,â&#x20AC;? singer Rihanna wrote on Twitter. Virginia Beach native, performer and producer Pharrell Williams tweeted that Mr. Hussle was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a positiveâ&#x20AC;? force who â&#x20AC;&#x153;inspired millions.â&#x20AC;? Musician Drake said he and Mr. Hussle had talked about recording a song later this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You were having the best run and I was so happy watching from distance,â&#x20AC;? Drake wrote in an Instagram message. The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that a shooting was reported about 3:20 p.m. Sunday in the area of Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard. Investigators said following Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release of the autopsy findings by the Los An-
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McReynolds wins eight trophies at Stellar Gospel Music Awards
Jonathan McReynolds was the top winner at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, taking home eight trophies during a ceremony March 29 in Las Vegas that included a posthumous tribute to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Queen of Soul,â&#x20AC;? Aretha Franklin. With his album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make Room,â&#x20AC;? Mr. McReynolds, a Chicago gospel artist, was crowned artist of the year and his song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not Lucky,â&#x20AC;? was named song of the year. He also took home honors for best contemporary male vocalist, contemporary CD and producer of the year. Jekalyn Carr was named female vocalist of the year and The Walls Group won the award for duo/chorus group of the year. The best new artist trophy went to Jabari Johnson.amc. The tribute to Ms. Franklin was performed by Kelly Price, Regina Belle and Erica Campbell. Members of Ms. Franklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family were presented with the inaugural Aretha
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Franklin ICON Award. Gospel legend Delores Washington Green of The Caravans was given the Legend Award. James Robinson Jr., Jackie Patillo and Phil Thornton were inducted into the Stellar Honors Hall of Fame. Richmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WREJ, Rejoice Radio, was nominated for the second consecutive year for best medium market radio station of the year award. WCGL AM 1360/FM 94.7 in Jacksonville, Fla., won the honor. Randy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brother Randyâ&#x20AC;? Johnson, WREJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program director and afternoon host, worked the red carpet, taking celebrity selfies while representing Richmond at the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even being nominated, and to be there competing with radio stations around the country, is an honor,â&#x20AC;? he said. Kirk Franklin hosted the awards show, which was taped for broadcast on BET on Sunday, April 21.
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geles County coroner that Mr. Hussle died of gunshot wounds to his head and torso. Mr. Hussle, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, grew up in south Los Angeles and often talked about being in a street gang during his teenage years. He had since become a community organizer, according to media reports, and opened the clothing store in the impoverished Crenshaw community where he grew up as a seed for development. Hundreds of people gathered in front of the store this week to pay their respects. A memorial of candles, flowers
and paintings took shape, and some of Mr. Hussleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs blared through speakers. His debut studio album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Victory Lap,â&#x20AC;? was nominated for best rap album at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grammy Awards. Politicians including U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California, a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti are among those who paid tribute to him for his efforts to improve the community.
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Richmond Free Press
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Legal Notices 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, April 22, 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 ordinance: Ordinance No. 2017-242 As Amended To amend Ord. No. 2000-410-2001-10, adopted Jan. 8, 2001, as previously amended by Ord. No. 2001-220231, adopted Jul. 23, 2001, which approved the “Shops at Stratford Hills Community Unit Plan,” for the purpose of [increasing the area subject to the community unit plan by 3.4 acres to 67.9± acres and] modifying the development standards, under certain terms and conditions. The property consists of 6945, 6933, 6965, 7017, and 7101 Forest Hill Avenue. The property is zoned R‑2 Single‑Family residential and B‑2 Community Business. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for General Commercial Land Use, which includes a broad range of office, retail, general commercial, wholesale, and service uses, typically located along major transportation corridors and serving large portions of the City. 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 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, April 15, 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, April 22, 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. 2019-085 To amend ch. 30, art. I of the City Code by adding therein a new section 30-101, concerning the duties of the Department of Planning and Development Review with regard to the mailing of notices, and to amend City Code §§ 30-456.6, 30-1045.4, 30-1050.3, 30-1050.4, 30-1120, and 30-1130, concerning actions, notices, and public hearings by the City Council and the City Planning Commission, for the purpose of making the Department of Planning and Development Review, instead of the Office of the City Clerk, responsible for mailing all notices of public hearings required by ch. 30 of the City Code and general law. Ordinance No. 2019-086 To close, to public use and travel, an alley in the block bounded by T Street, North 26th Street, Nine Mile Road, and North 27th Street consisting of 3,034± square feet, upon certain terms and conditions. Ordinance No. 2019-087 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 84-309-31, adopted Feb. 25, 1985, as previously amended by Ord. No. 2001-310283, adopted Oct. 8, 2001, which authorized a special use of the property known as 5612 Grove Avenue for the purpose of non-medical office use, to authorize personal services and modify parking requirements, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R-4 Single-family Residential District. The City’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Office Transitional. Primary uses for this category include “… low-to-medium intensity professional, business and administrative offices, and medical and dental clinics that are compatible with adjacent residential uses and serve as separation between residential areas and nearby commercial or other higher intensity land uses or features.” Ordinance No. 2019-088 To authorize the special Continued on next column
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use of the properties known as 2202 West Cary Street, 2206 West Cary Street, 2208 West Cary Street, and 10 South Shields Avenue for the purpose of up to 17 single-family attached dwellings and two single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are located in an R-63 Multifamily Urban Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single Family Medium Density land use. “Primary uses are single family and two family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses.” The proposed density of the dwelling is approximately 32 units per acre. Ordinance No. 2019-089 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 5400 Hull Street Road, 5336 Hull Street Road, and 5348 Hull Street Road for the purpose of self-storage facilities and multifamily dwellings containing up to 245 dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the B-3 General Business District and the R-4 Single-Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as General Commercial. Primary uses include a broad range of office, retail, general commercial, wholesale and service uses, typically located along major transportation corridors and serving large portions of the City, the region or the traveling public. No residential density is specified for this land use designation. The residential density of the proposed development would be approximately 20 units per acre. Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www. Richmondgov.com; 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
Divorce 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SAMANTHA ASHWORTH, Plaintiff v. JODY ASHWORTH, Defendant. Case No.: CL18003605-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 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 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 ANDRE DORMAN, Continued on next column
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Plaintiff v. WENDY DORMAN, Defendant. Case No.: CL18001483-00 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 her 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
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whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 30th day of April, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his 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
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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 WILLIAM A. ORNDOFF, Registered Agent for PROGRESSIVE MORTGAGE OF VIRGINIA, I N C O R P O R AT E D fka PROGRESSIVE MORTGAGE, INC, 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
and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that TERRY K. COUSINS, 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 FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JOHN SMITH, JR., Plaintiff v. VIOLA SMITH, Defendant. Case No.: CL18003238-00 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 her 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RASHANE BROWN, Plaintiff v. JAMES SEABRON, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000634-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 9th 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 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 ROBYN ROBERTS, Plaintiff v. JEREMIAH ROBERTS, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000856-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 9th 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 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 TERESA POAGE, Plaintiff v. ROBERT POAGE, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000284-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 16th day of April, 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 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 OF THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG CONSTANCE DIANE COOPER TAYLOR, Plaintiff v. JAMES EARL TAYLOR, JR., Defendant. File No.: CL16000519-01 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is for the plaintiff to be divorced from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have been living separate and apart for more than 12 months, the defendant’s whereabouts being unknown. It is therefore ORDERED that JAMES EARL TAYLOR, JR., appear on or before the 26th day of April, 2019 at the Lynchburg Circuit Court and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: EUGENE C. WINGFIELD, Clerk I Ask For This: Debora Cress Embrey, Esq. VSB# 025299 147 Mill Ridge Rd., Ste 213 Lynchburg, VA 24502 (434) 528-3996 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KARLI JOHANSEN, Plaintiff v. TIFFANY REYNOLDS, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000137-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 17th day of April, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire 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 DANIEL EDWARDS, Plaintiff v. DIANNA EDWARDS, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000742-00 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 30th day of April, 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 SHANEKA ANDERSON, Plaintiff v. DELVIN WASHINGTON, Defendant. Case No.: CL18002643-00 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 30th day of April, 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 VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER PATRICIA PARIS, Plaintiff v. MARIO PARIS, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000744-00 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 30th day of April, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his 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
CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re RASHAWN MARTIN Case No. J-095527-07 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Sammy Lee Martin, Jr. (Father) of Rashawn Martin, child, DOB 07/06/2006. “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ORDERED that the defendant Sammy Lee Martin, Jr. (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 05/06/2019, at 2:50 PM, Courtroom #4 VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ROYALTY JOHNSONMORMON File No. J-096279-03-01 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The purpose of this hearing is to: Provide notice to Maircale Thompson (Mother), of Royalty Johnson-Mormon, child DOB 07/02/2018, custody status. It is ORDERED that the defendant Maircale Thompson (Mother) to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 07/09/2019, at 9:40 AM, Courtroom #2
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ALEASE LANGFORD, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-84 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3310 Richmond Henrico Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1258/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Alease Langford, Gertrude Jackson, Howard Walker, Nelson Walker, Allie Walker, Billy Jones, Estella Boyd, Doris Evans, Cynthia Parker and Laura Ann Kerney An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ALEASE LANGFORD, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GERTRUDE JACKSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HOWARD WALKER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, NELSON WALKER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ALLIE WALKER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and BILLY JONES, 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, ESTELLA BOYD, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owners, DORIS EVANS, CYNTHIA PARKER, and LAURA ANN KERNEY, 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 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 ALEASE LANGFORD, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GERTRUDE JACKSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HOWARD WALKER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, NELSON WALKER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ALLIE WALKER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BILLY JONES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTELLA BOYD, DORIS EVANS, CYNTHIA PARKER, LAURA ANN KERNEY, 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 FOR the cIty of RiCHMOND EMMIL BRADLEY Plaintiff v. LETITIA R. BRADLEY, Defendant. Case No. CL19-618-5 order of publication The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo martrimonii. WHEREFORE, an affidavit having been filed by the Plaintiff, Emmil Bradley, that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant, Letitia R. Bradley, it is ordered that Letitia R. Bradley, appear before this Court on May 9, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., to protect her interests herein. An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ASK FOR THIS: Wyatt J. Taylor, Esquire (VSB #79754) Friedman Law Firm, P.C.
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SIMONE GORDON, Plaintiff v. MARLON GORDON, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000773-00 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
VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re KEVON YSELAH LEONARD BELL v. PHAROAH RA-G HORUS KEVON ROBINSON Case No. CL18-4455-8 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Change name of minor. It is ORDERED that the defendants Kevin Nathaniel Bell appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before April 30, 2019.
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. PROGRESSIVE MORTGAGE OF VIRGINIA, INCORPORATED, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-151 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1339 Minefee Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071134/028, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Progressive Mortgage of Virginia, Incorporated fka Progressive Mortgage, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that WILLIAM A. ORNDOFF, Registered Agent for PROGRESSIVE MORTGAGE OF VIRGINIA, I N C O R P O R AT E D fka PROGRESSIVE MORTGAGE, INC, 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
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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. HENRY A. STAPLES, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-183 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2208 Terminal Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0080562/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Henry A. Staples and Vivian A. Staples. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, HENRY A. STAPLES and VIVIAN A. STAPLES, 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 HENRY A. STAPLES, VIVIAN A. STAPLES, 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. RIDGE POINT REAL ESTATE, LLC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-46 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2320 East Marshall Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0296/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ridge Point Real Estate, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that 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 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. TERRY K. COUSINS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-86 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3413 Cliff Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001351/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Terry K. Cousins. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, TERRY K. COUSINS, 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 Continued on next column
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CAUDILL & LEWIS HOLDINGS, LLC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6265 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1127 North 32nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000803/034, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Caudill & Lewis Holdings, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CAUDILL & LEWIS HOLDINGS, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 CAUDILL & LEWIS HOLDINGS, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. JAMES L. ROSSER, JR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-169 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1312 Overlook Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071180/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, James L. Rosser, Jr. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAMES L. ROSSER, JR, 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 JAMES L. ROSSER, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. MACHINE & CONVEYOR MANUFACTURING, LTD, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-149 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2211 Decatur Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000410/026, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Machine & Conveyor Manufacturing, Ltd. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MACHINE & CONVEYOR MANUFACTURING, LTD, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 Continued on next page
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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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that MACHINE & CONVEYOR MANUFACTURING, LTD, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, AND TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 9834297 on December 21, 1998, APRIL M. MASHORE, Registered Agent for THREEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMPANY, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, OTIS SIMS, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JOAN PRIDE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5841 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1803½ North 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E012-0427/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joan Pride. An Affidavit having been filed that WILLIAM B. BRAY, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-36823 on November 21, 2002, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that D. SAM PERRY, JR, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-36823 on November 21, 2002, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/ her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that THOMAS J. DOBSON, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that WILLIAM B. BRAY, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-36823 on November 21, 2002, D. SAM PERRY, JR, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-36823 on November 21, 2002, THOMAS J. DOBSON, ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
in the name of the owner of record, Albatross, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, A L B AT R O S S , I N C , a n entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that A L B AT R O S S , I N C , a n entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that THOMAS J. DOBSON, ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CLIFF EUGENE TAYLOR, et al. Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6264 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3000 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001345/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Cliff Eugene Taylor. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLIFF EUGENE TAYLOR, 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; that IRENE T. EDWARDS, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-13346 on June 22, 2009, 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; that LYON FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC,
an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that CLIFF EUGENE TAYLOR, I R E N E T. E D WA R D S , Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0913346 on June 22, 2009, LYON FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. GEORGE L. MORRIS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5672 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2319 Gordon Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000550/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, George L. Morris. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GEORGE L. MORRIS, 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; that JO ANN KISTNER, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 392 page 1578 on April 7, 1994, or her successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STATEWIDE FUNDING CORPORATION, an entity purged 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 Deed Book 392 page 1578 on April 7, 1994, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that WALTER L. HOOKER, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, AND TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34297 on December 21, 1998, or his successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JUDSON W. COLLIER, JR., TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, AND TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34297 on December 21, 1998, 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; APRIL M. MASHORE, Registered Agent for THREEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMPANY, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, 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; OTIS SIMS, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that GEORGE L. MORRIS, JO ANN KISTNER, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 392 page 1578 on April 7, 1994, or her successor/s in title, STATEWIDE FUNDING CORPORATION, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 392 page 1578 on April 7, 1994, WALTER L. HOOKER, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34296 on December 21, 1998, AND TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 98-34297 on December 21, 1998, or his successor/s in title, JUDSON W. COLLIER, JR., TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records Continued on next column
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CLARENCE O. JENKINS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-644 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3106 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001587/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Clarence O. Jenkins and Dorothy T. Jenkins. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CLARENCE O. JENKINS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and DOROTHY T. JENKINS, 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, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that CLARENCE O. JENKINS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY T. JENKINS, upon information and belief deceased, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 2019. 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. JOAN C. R. PRIDE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5568 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2904 Lawson Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001343/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joan C. R. Pride. An Affidavit having been filed that THOMAS J. DOBSON, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that THOMAS J. DOBSON, ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. JAMES STEELE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-64 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1608 North 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000864027 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, James Steele. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAMES STEELE, 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, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that JAMES STEELE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. IVORY MASHORE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5977 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2414 Marion Mashore Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-0565/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ivory Mashore, Elvira Mashore, Joyce MashoreMoody, Sara Bailey Mashore and Jeffrey Mashore. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, IVORY MASHORE and JEFFREY MASHORE, 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 ELVIRA MASHORE, upon information and belief decease, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that CLARK COGAN, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located, and has not filed a response to this action; that FIA CARD SERVICES NA, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located, and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that IVORY MASHORE, JEFFREY MASHORE, ELVIRA MASHORE, upon information and belief decease, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLARK COGAN, FIA CARD SERVICES NA, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ALBATROSS, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-85 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2404 Marion Mashore Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-0565/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. GARLAND T. JOHNSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-63 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2501 Dana Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0090064/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Garland T. Johnson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GARLAND T. JOHNSON, 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, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that GARLAND T. JOHNSON,
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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JOHN H. HICKS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6266 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2626 Lancelot Avenue,, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0090301/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John H. Hicks and Maria Hicks. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JOHN H. HICKS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and MARIA HICKS, 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, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that JOHN H. HICKS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MARIA HICKS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. TAVIA M. JOHNSTON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-47 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2710 Haden Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0080772/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Tavia M. Johnston and Anthony T. Johnston. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ANTHONY T. JOHNSTON, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that ANTHONY T. JOHNSTON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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. JOAN C. R. PRIDE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5514 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2900 Lawson Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001343/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joan C. R. Pride. An Affidavit having been filed that THOMAS J. DOBSON, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been Continued on next column
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JOAN C. R. PRIDE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5515 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2902 Lawson Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001343/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joan C. R. Pride. An Affidavit having been filed that WILLIAM M. MYERS, JR, and THOMAS J. DOBSON, Beneficiaries of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 10-12345 on June 1, 2010, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that WILLIAM M. MYERS, JR, and THOMAS J. DOBSON, Beneficiaries of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 10-12345 on June 1, 2010, ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JOAN C. PRIDE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5593 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2965 Blendwell Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C008-0853/040, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joan C. Pride. An Affidavit having been filed that THOMAS J. DOBSON, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that THOMAS J. DOBSON, ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, an entity cancelled in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MAY 2, 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
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