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Mayor Stoney submits to City Council $1.5B Coliseum replacement and Downtown development plan

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Five months ago, Mayor Levar M. Stoney was singing the revenue blues as he introduced his latest budget.

He told city residents that revenue was growing too slowly to keep up with the overwhelming demand for resources, and without a major increase in the property tax, the city couldn’t adequately address major challenges ranging from fixing city streets to funding public education and replacing worn-out police cars and fire trucks.

Mayor Stoney now has changed his tune as he introduces his long-awaited grand development plan for Downtown.

Taking the leap last Thursday, he essentially told city residents that the government is so wealthy that it can afford to divert millions of dollars a year in property taxes to pay for his current No. 1 priority — development of a huge 17,500-seat

Related story on A2 arena costing at least $235 million to replace the now closed Richmond Coliseum.

After nine months of virtual silence, the mayor fully unveiled the $1.5 billion plan to replace the Coliseum and construct an array of other private developments around it, including more

than 2,500 new apartments, 20 to 25 new restaurants, at least two office buildings, a modern bus terminal for GRTC and a 541room convention hotel.

Mayor Stoney Mayor Stoney called the plan, which was modified somewhat from the proposal he embraced last November, a “transformational” project that would generate thousands of new jobs, create a river of new tax revenue for the city and create “a thriving city center.”

He delivered the ordinances that would make it happen to Please turn to A7

Protesters call for tougher gun laws; blame Trump for deaths of 31 in latest mass shootings Free Press wire reports

Protesters greeted President Trump’s arrival in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday, blaming his incendiary rhetoric for inflaming political and racial tensions in the country, as he visited survivors of last

weekend’s mass shootings and saluted first responders.

He was expected to be greeted by similar protests on his visit later Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman opened fired Saturday in a crowded Walmart in this usually peaceful city on the

Mexico border.

His visits follow a shattering weekend in which mass shootings just hours apart left 31 dead and injured dozens. It also put President Trump at the center of a storm of outrage over racism and the failure to tighten the nation’s gun laws.

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Jeremiah Jackson, 2, gives a high five to McGruff the Crime Dog from the arms of his mom, Kahdijah Overstreet, during the National Night Out event hosted Tuesday evening by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Jackson Ward.

Even as the president said Monday that “hate has no place in our country” and blamed the shootings on mental illness, investigators in El Paso confirmed that the massacre Saturday morning at the Walmart that left 22 people dead and 25 others wounded had been preceded by the 21-year-old gunman publishing an anti-immigrant screed on the internet.

Just 13 hours later in the early hours of Sunday, a 24-year-old gunman in Dayton, wearing body armor and carrying 100bullet magazines to arm his high-powered rifle, killed nine and wounded 14 people outside a club in Dayton’s popular Oregon District.

Police warned that he could have killed dozens more people if he had not been shot by police within 30 seconds of opening fire.

The shootings come on the heels of the July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, in which a 19-year-old gunman armed with a high-caliber rifle, opened fire, killing three Please turn to A4

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People gather at a memorial for the victims of last Saturday’s massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman shot and killed 22 people and wounded 25 others.

Some Richmonders on edge following national tragedies

By Ronald E. Carrington and George Copeland

Like many Americans, people around the Richmond area are dazed and distracted, saddened and angered after two mass shootings last weekend in Texas and Ohio left 31 dead and dozens of other wounded.

Some Richmonders, including members of the Latino community, also questioned their safety and security at large, public events in the metro area, including the annual National Night Out events held Tuesday night by law enforcement agencies across the country to foster safety and build relationships with the diverse populations in cities and counties nationwide.

Many people wondered if Richmond area residents are vulnerable to such horrific mass attacks as they attend summer sporting and outdoor cultural events.

A Richmond Police spokesman sought to assure residents this week, saying the law enforcement community is gearing up for all events, not only this week but at any time.

“The RPD is staffed, trained and equipped to handle events involving large crowds and large incidents involving crime,” James Mercante, Richmond Police public information officer, stated in an email response to a Free Press query.

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School Board member Jonathan Young springs open enrollment attendance plan on colleagues

By Ronald E. Carrington

Richmond School Board members were blindsided Monday night when board member Jonathan Young, who represents the 4th District, proposed that Richmond Public Schools allow students to choose which school they want to attend, with a lottery ultimately deciding where students would enroll.

Mr. Young called his open-enrollment plan

a “big, bold transformative plan that changes everything.”

“My plan allows for open enrollment K-12 across the city, no longer prioritizing ZIP codes.

Students would identify their preferred school(s) and be selected by lottery.

“If we are serious about equity, then let’s do something about it. Eliminate ZIP codes as Please turn to A4

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Dragon boat racing marked its 10th year in Richmond with a festive event Saturday highlighted by the paddle-powered competition on the James River.

Location: Rocketts Landing in the East End. Creative’s DonaSharon Dragons team celebrates after living up to the No. 1 on the boat and finishing first in one of the races in the Richmond International Dragon Boat Festival. Based on a 2,500-yearold Chinese boating tradition, the races feature teams of 22 people, including a drummer, a steerer and 20 synchronized oar wielders, propelling the 600-pound

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

boats over a 500-meter course to vie for prizes. Richmond Sports Backers has staged the river races since 2010 in making the city a stop on the Major League Dragon Boat circuit. The Richmond event is one of eight preliminaries leading to the annual MLDB championships in Orlando in October. MLDB bills itself as the premier league, but notes that dragon boat racing has grown far bigger than its nine events. An estimated 250,000 people now participate in the sport nationally, according to MLDB, with a majority being women.

Local organization part of federal suit challenging EPA’s new lead standards

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Coliseum referendum hearing slated for Aug. 15

A Richmond woman who has fought to end lead contamination in homes and drinking water in the metro area is taking on the Trump administration for allegedly undermining the regulation of the healthdamaging metal.

Queen Zakia Shabazz, a former Richmond teacher and founder of United Parents Against Lead, joined eight other environmental organizations in filing the suit Aug. 1 in federal district court in San Francisco against the Environmental Protection Agency.

“Lead is hazardous to all of us, but particularly to small children, and we cannot stand by and let the current leadership of the EPA set standards that do not reduce the threat,” said Ms. Shabazz.

She currently is coordinator of the Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative, a Richmond-based coalition of more than 20 groups, including UPAL. The federal suit alleges that the EPA under President Trump has failed to carry out a 2017 court order requiring the agency to update the standard on lead dust in older homes, schools and day care centers where lead-based paint has not been removed or properly covered or where lead dust has

Richmond Circuit Court Judge Joi Jeter Taylor will determine next week if Richmond voters will have a say on the proposed $1.5 billion Coliseum project that Mayor Levar M. Stoney is asking Richmond City Council to approve.

Judge Taylor has scheduled a hearing for 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, to determine if sufficient signatures were collected from registered voters to put the Coliseum issue on the Nov. 5 ballot in Richmond.

City Voter Registrar Kirk Showalter and her staff are reviewing hundreds of signed petitions submitted by Paul Goldman, leader of the Put Schools First campaign.

Ms. Showalter has said she would tell the court if the required 10,341 signatures were collected to put the referendum on the ballot.

The nonbinding referendum, created by Mr. Goldman and titled “Choosing Children over Costly Coliseums,” is aimed at undermining the financial foundation of the Coliseum replacement plan, which largely calls for using the increase in real estate taxes from 80 blocks of Downtown to repay loans to build the proposed $235 million arena.

Under the proposal, the city is planning to use TIF or tax increment financing, or the growth in revenues above the current level in an 80-block district of Downtown, to finance

By Jeremy M. Lazarus the new Coliseum. Any money collected would be used for Richmond apparently will spend at that purpose. least $6 million more on building two The referendum Mr. Gold- new elementary schools than Chesterman wants to put on the ballot field County is having to pay, according would require the city to put 51 an update report the Joint Construction percent of any money collected Team provided to the city School Board in a TIF District into a fund Monday night. for building new schools or According to the data provided by the renovating the city’s decrepit JCT, a group of city and school officials school buildings. overseeing the construction, Richmond During next week’s hearing, is paying substantially more per square Judge Taylor also could hear foot than Chesterfield in building new from 7th District School Board elementary schools and potentially less member Cheryl L. Burke of for a new middle school.

Church Hill and the Rev. Orrin That caught some Richmond School K. Pullings Sr., pastor of the Board members by surprise. Third DisUnited Nations Church Inter- trict representative Kenya Gibson, who national in South Side, who are previously questioned the cost of the new seeking to intervene and block schools, said the report left her “with the November referendum. more questions than answers.”

The two are represented by One big reason for the difference, the Sands Anderson law firm, JCT stated, is that the city is spending 6 which filed Aug. 1 in seeking percent more on energy efficiency than to present opposition.

Chesterfield, although no justification They are the only objectors. was provided to support that claim.

On Monday, a majority of City The JCT submitted the data to defend Council members declined to the projected expenditures for building support a request to authorize three new schools that are projected City Attorney Allen L. Jackson to use almost the entire $150 million to take legal action to block the provided by city taxpayers. referendum.

Closer scrutiny of the figures appears Mayor Stoney previously to undermine the JCT’s claim that the was advised that he was not expenditures are reasonable when it legally able to block the refer- comes to the elementary schools. endum, which he has publicly While the JCT figures did not include called “a political stunt.” all expenses for the new city schools and Mr. Goldman said Monday did not explain an item labeled “other he believes Ms. Burke and Rev. costs” attributed to Chesterfield County Pullings do not meet the legal schools, the figures that were included requirements to take part in offer best evidence that Richmond’s the legal proceeding and will costs will be higher. oppose their participation. — For example, Chesterfield received in JEREMY M. LAZARUS January 2018 an average construction bid

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contaminated the soil.

The lawsuit charges that the lead hazard standards EPA put in place in June are too lax to protect at least half the children who are most exposed to led.

“President Trump’s EPA had a chance to follow mainstream science and correctly update these standards for children’s sake,” Eve Gartner, the Earthjustice attorney who filed the suit on behalf of that organization, UPAL and others. “Instead, it botched the opportunity and issued a rule that falls far short of safeguarding children.”

According to Earthjustice, “The new standards result in inspections that fail to identify homes or schools with dangerous levels of lead. When that happens, the owners are not on notice to reduce lead.

That is intolerable.”

There is no safe level of lead exposure for children, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. About half a million children in the United States have levels of lead in their blood high enough to qualify as lead poisoning, according to the centers’ data.

Even small amounts of lead can irreversibly damage a child’s development, diminish I.Q., create earning disabilities and impair hearing, studies show.

Lead paint contamination remains a huge problem. The federal Governmental Accountability Office reported in July that 15.2 million students were enrolled during 2016 and 2017 in school systems with lead-based paint in their buildings.

Earthjustice noted in the suit that a common cause of lead poisoning in children is the ingestion of household dust containing lead from deteriorating paint. The suit alleges that 50 percent of children living in homes that meet the agency’s new standards could still develop health-threatening levels of lead in their blood.

EPA’s updated standards stem from a lawsuit Earthjustice litigated that resulted in the 2017 order issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That order required the EPA to update the lead dust standards for housing and child-occupied facilities built before 1978 when the paint was banned.

Along with Earthjustice and UPAL, the groups challenging the updated standards include A Community Voice, California Communities Against Toxics, Healthy Homes Collaborative, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning, WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Sierra Club.

Richmond spending much more than Chesterfield on new schools of $25 million, or $256 per square foot, to build the Old Hundred Elementary School, the JCT reported.

At 99,271 square feet, Old Hundred Elementary is about the same size as Richmond’s new George Mason Elementary in Church Hill, one of the three new city schools that include a replacement for E.S.H. Greene Elementary and a replacement for Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School.

According to the JCT, when inflation, energy efficiency and “other costs” are added, the price tag for Old Hundred Elementary should be around $30.76 million, or about $310 per square foot.

However, Richmond is projected to spend $33.5 million on site work and construction of George Mason Elementary, or $335 per square foot. The $25 per square foot difference means Richmond will spend $2.5 million more for George Mason than Chesterfield is paying for Old Hundred.

That’s also the case with the new 1,000-student Greene, which, at 116,000 square feet, will be larger than each of the three new elementary schools in Chesterfield that the JCT report used for comparison.

Construction bids for Chesterfield’s new 96,000-square-foot Harrowgate Elementary, on which bids were opened in January 2019, came in at about $24 million, JCT stated, or about $247 per square foot.

The JCT estimated that after inflation, energy efficiency and “other costs” are added, the price for Harrowgate should run $26.8 million, or about $279 a square foot.

The JCT projected cost for site work and construction of Greene at $36.6 million, or $315 per square foot, not including design, engineering, inspec-

tions and other costs.

The difference is $36 a square foot, meaning the city will spend an extra $4.18 million to build Greene compared with Chesterfield’s cost for Harrowgate.

The JCT’s figures for inflation, energy efficiency and “add ons” are apparently internally generated. There is no citation that any of those numbers came from Chesterfield County.

That calls into question the JCT report’s finding that the new ElkhardtThompson Middle School could end up being less expensive than the new Midlothian Middle School in Chesterfield.

The comparison is more difficult because Midlothian Middle is far smaller at 140,000 square feet than Richmond’s new middle school at 187,200 square feet. According to the JCT, construction bids for Midlothian came in at $40.3 million, or $288 per square foot.

The JCT estimates the final cost should increase to $348 per square foot when inflation, energy efficiency and “add ons” or included. If the figures are correct, the city’s new middle school would be less expensive. It is projected to cost $57.3 million for site work and construction, or $306 per square foot.

One problem is that the JCT did not include all of the costs associated with the development of the city’s three new schools. Unpriced items include installation of computer network and wireless equipment; purchases of furniture and other equipment; and demolition of the old buildings. Those costs would increase the ultimate per square foot cost.

The report from the JCT restates the ambitious construction schedule and

plan to open the new Richmond schools in September 2020. Richmond schools Superintendent Jason Kamras promised in April that a third-party review would be conducted of the costs, which was called for by the School Board. Mr. Kamras and Mayor Levar M. Stoney endorsed undertaking a review after the Free Press reported in March that the cost of the three schools had skyrocketed $30 million above 2018 estimates.

However, the JCT, the mayor and superintendent have not advanced a proposal for the cost review, and the city’s procurement office has not issued any request for proposals.

On the energy front, the JCT said it is worth spending an extra 6 percent to register Richmond’s new school buildings with the national LEED energy standards, or Leadership in Engineering and Environmental Design.

But as the Free Press reported previously, the LEED registration for four school buildings constructed between 2011 and 2014 has not produced significant energy savings.

Despite Richmond City Council insistence that public buildings, including the new schools, be registered with LEED, officials involved with the JCT told the School Board that LEED standards on insulation and energy-efficient doors and windows already are incorporated into modern design and construction practices and would be done with or without LEED certification.

The JCT also acknowledged that much of the projected energy savings are likely to come from installation of solar panels on the roofs of the three new buildings. The solar panels are to be paid for with grants or other money that is separate from the fund used to pay for school construction.

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people and wounding 15 others. He had posted neo-Nazi ideas on social media.

Critics around the country, including Democrats running to become the party’s presidential nominee to take on President Trump in November 2020, pointed to the president’s increasingly racist attacks on migrants at the border and on members of color in Congress as fanning the flames of violence perpetrated by white nationalists, members of hate groups and racist individuals in the United States.

The president and First Lady Melania Trump began their visit to Dayton on Wednesday at Miami Valley Hospital, where many of the victims of Sunday’s attack were treated. At least 200 protesters gathered outside the hospital, where they set up a “baby Trump” blimp balloon and held signs stating, “Do something,” “Save our city” and “You are why.” Many hoped to send a message to the president that they want action on gun control. Some said he was not welcome in their city.

There were Trump supporters, as well.

Reporters traveling with the president were kept out of view as he talked with survivors, first responders and staff at the hospital. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham tweeted that the couple had “been stopping between rooms to thank the hardworking medical staff. Very powerful moments for all!”

Speaking after the president’s visit, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, called for action on gun reform. Calling for bipartisan support for change, Sen. Brown said the president and the GOP are “in bed with the gun lobby.”

Mayor Whaley said earlier Wednesday that she was disappointed with the president’s scripted remarks Monday responding to the shootings. His speech included a denunciation of “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” and a declaration that “hate has no place in America.” But he didn’t mention in those remarks any new efforts to limit sales of certain guns or support for universal background checks before all gun purchases.

However, on Wednesday, the president said he was “all in favor” of universal background checks, a statement he reneiged on following the Valentine’s Day massacre at a Parkland, Fla., high school in February 2018.

In a blistering speech in Iowa on Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Biden, accused President Trump of having “fanned the flames of white supremacy,” while U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, speaking at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, S.C., where an avowed white supremacist shot and killed nine people during Bible study in 2015, blamed the president for sowing similar hatred.

Both Mr. Biden and Sen. Booker are seeking the Democratic

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Trump supporters are not welcome on Wednesday near the site of the weekend mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio’s Oregon District where nine people were killed and 14 wounded. Hundreds of people protested the president’s visit to the city Wednesday.

nod for president in 2020.

But in El Paso, where more protests were expected with the president’s visit late Wednesday afternoon, Raul Melendez, whose father-in-law, David Johnson, was killed in Saturday’s shooting, said the most appropriate thing President Trump could do was to meet with relatives of the victims.

“It shows that he actually cares if he talks to individual families,” said Mr. Melendez, who credits Mr. Johnson with helping his 9-year-old daughter survive the attack by pushing her under a counter. Mr. Melendez, an Army veteran and the son of Mexican immigrants, said he holds only the shooter responsible for the attack.

“That person had the intent to hurt people, he already had it,”

he said. “No one’s words would have triggered that.”

Former President Barack Obama took to social media on Monday to criticize racist rhetoric spouted by public officials.

Without calling President Trump by name, he wrote, “We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.”

President Trump isn’t the only one in the spotlight following the shootings. Public outcry is growing against Walmart’s continued sale of firearms in its stores. The retail giant, one of the largest outlet for gun sales in the nation, previously removed militarystyle, semiautomatic assault rifles from their stores in 2015 and raised the age for gun purchases from 18 to 21 in 2018.

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Chiquita Compton gives Richmond Police Chief Will Smith a big hug during his visit to the National Night Out festivities at Jackson Ward’s Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church on Tuesday.

setting, participants should stay observant for any suspicious persons or behavior. Call 911 if suspicious activity or persons or vehicles are present. Keep an eye out in your neighborhood,” he said.

Similarly, officials presenting the multi-day Richmond Jazz and Music Festival at Maymont this weekend, said the thousands of people expected will be safe in the spacious open park in the city’s West End as they enjoy an array of musical talent.

“The safety and security of our patrons, volunteers, crews, artists and staff has been and will always be the No. 1 priority,” Frances C. Burruss,

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a variable and start prioritizing kids,” he told the board.

Mr. Young, who is not a member of the special school rezoning committee, stunned the board with his proposal, which was introduced in the midst of months of work by a rezoning committee that was appointed by the board and a special consultant who has presented four options for the public and RPS officials to consider in dealing with growing school overcrowding in South Side.

While none of the consultant’s four options calls for closing any of the city’s 44 public schools, Mr. Young’s plan advocates closing five buildings — John Marshall High School and Henderson Middle School, both on the North Side; Bellevue Elementary School in Church Hill; and Swansboro and Southampton elementary schools on the South Side.

Students across the city would submit a prioritized list of which schools they’d like to attend, with students ultimately assigned by lottery — and not based on where a family lives, a student’s academic achievement or demographics, Mr. Young said.

His plan was met by collective resistance and strong opposition from his board colleagues.

“You should have come to me or someone else on the committee to have a discussion before making your proposal,” said School Board member Linda B.

Owen, who represents the 9th District in South Side, and a member of the rezoning committee.

“We cannot close schools in my district and absorb those children in other schools in South Side. We don’t have that capacity,” she told the board.

“I wish we could make this (rezoning) perfect. I wish every student could go to exactly the school they wanted to go to and every parent could have the perfect neighborhood school they desired.”

Board member Cheryl L. Burke, 2nd District, who retired as principal of Chimborazo Elementary School in the East End, impressed upon the board that there are differences in each district that must be taken into account during student assignment to schools “Each area has its own special community,” she told the board. “We need to consider diversity beyond race. Let’s talk about diversity and freedom of choice in terms of socioeconomics.

“We need to take our time and have flexibility in our plan and not repeat what I experienced with busing as a child. This is not a quick fix.”

Mr. Young acknowledged that his plan would be costly, particularly with transportation costs to get students to various schools. He said its estimated $12 million price tag could be covered by the closure of the five schools and outsourcing high school students’ transportation to GRTC. “This plan will more than double our (current) annual $6.4 million transportation

budget,” he said, adding that “savings will amount to more than $2.5 million a year to invest in open enrollment.”

The board took no action on Mr. Young’s proposal.

Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras reaffirmed the fact that “rezoning is a complicated issue.”

“We should continue to push forward,” he said. “The rezoning committee has some momentum and we should continue down that path. Come September, if the board feels whatever solutions they have around diversity need more time, so be it.”

Mr. Kamras also noted that the board could decide on a rezoning plan in November or December, but it would not have to take effect in the fall of 2020.

“The timeline of implementation, which can be extended, is an important discussion,” he said.

The School Board wants community input on the rezoning proposals and has set up more public meetings for feedback.

Meetings scheduled for this month are: • Tuesday, Aug. 20, 6 to 8 p.m., John Marshall High School, 4225 Old Brook Road; • Wednesday, Aug. 21, 6 to 8 p.m., Southside Community Services Center, 4100 Hull Street Road; • Thursday, Aug. 22, 6 to 8 p.m.; Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St.; and • Friday, Aug. 23, 6 to 8 p.m. John B. Cary Elementary School, 3021 Maplewood Ave.

senior account manager for festival sponsor JMI, stated in an email.

“Each year we work with the Richmond Police Department and our security teams to evaluate security needs and implement all measures necessary to ensure the safety of everyone at the festival, as well as outside festival gates.”

Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday night for the National Night Out event sponsored by the Bellevue Merchants Association along two blocks of MacArthur Avenue in North Side. People, some who brought their pets, enjoyed free food and games and picked up information from local police and products from local vendors.

Corina Martinez and Mat Powell, who have lived in Bellevue for at least seven years, said they felt lucky to reside in a community where people and businesses support their neighbors.

“I feel pretty safe because, in Bellevue, everyone knows each other and we are friends.

It’s pretty safe here,” Mr. Powell said.

“I think the Richmond Police will keep us safe,” Ms. Martinez said.

Germarys Torrealba, a native of Venezula who now lives in Chester, works to register voters through the nonprofit organization, New Virginia Majority.

She said many Latinos she has interacted with since the mass shootings are “scared every single time someone tries to talk to them.”

“I have noticed that every single time that we try to get

closer to them, to talk to them or to give them some information about what we do, they always feel like they don’t want to know about anything,” Ms. Torrealba said.

This hesitation extends beyond elections, according to Ms. Torrealba, potentially affecting their choice to participate in public events like the National Night Out out of worry of recent history repeating itself.

Midlothian resident Doris Valencia, whose Doritas Company sells empanadas crafted from recipes from her native Colombia, expressed in Spanish her sadness “for the families that are victims of this violence.”

She moved to the United States with her husband six years ago and to Virginia four years later. She, too, expressed hesitation about attending public events, citing the difficulty in spotting potential dangers contributing to an atmosphere where “you don’t feel safe being a part of them.”

Ms. Torrealba said some Latino parents have concerns about their children possibly facing harassment or attack as school opens and during outings with their friends.

A possible solution, she said, is to continue to push for greater unity and empathy within the larger Richmond community to lend comfort to those who are anxious and afraid and to ensure marginalized groups they aren’t alone in dealing with the uneasiness.

“No matter where you’re from, no matter what you do,” Ms. Torrealba said, “the important thing is to be together and fight against this fear.”

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Gov. Northam praises removal of Confederate honor at Fort Monroe Free Press wire reports

HAMPTON Gov. Ralph S. Northam praised the state’s removal of Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ name from an archway at the site where the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia 400 years ago.

Gov. Northam said at a news conference Tuesday that removing the letters from a 1950sera archway reading “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” at Fort Monroe will make the state more “welcoming and reflective of our values.”

Instead of the arch honoring the Confederate and the “Lost Cause,” interpretive signs have been installed on the ramparts at the foot of the hill that contextualize the arch, the park and the full history of Fort Monroe.

The state is hosting commemorative events later this month at Fort Monroe to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans. The fort sits on what was called Port Comfort, the site used beginning in 1609 as an arrival point for ships headed up the James River to Jamestown.

In August 1619, the White Lion sailed into Port Comfort bearing “20 and odd” African prisoners, ushering in slavery in the English colonies of what was to become the United States.

Later, in 1865, Jefferson Davis was captured

by Union forces and imprisoned at Fort Monroe after the Civil War. “To have a memorial glorifying the president of the Confederacy, a person who worked to maintain slavery, on the same site on which enslaved Africans both first arrived here and

were later freed, is not just inappropriate, it is offensive,” Gov. Northam said.

Gov. Northam said the original 50-foot Jefferson Davis Memorial Arch was part of an effort to paint a “revisionist” version of history.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy paid the U.S. Army in 1956 to erect the arch to commemorate Jefferson Davis’ imprisonment at the fort. The arch was re-dedicated in 1986.

“Many Virginians, including me, still have much to learn and re-learn about the true and painful history of our Commonwealth,” said the governor, alluding to the race-related scandal that has plagued his tenure in office since February when a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook page became public.

Many people called for Gov. Northam’s resignation. He first apologized for appearing in the photo, which showed a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, and then said it wasn’t him, while admitting wearing blackface to portray Michael Jackson in a dance contest later in 1984 when he was a medical resident.

Since then, the governor has undertaken efforts to overcome the scandal, vowing to stay in office and work for racial equity. His office said he wrote in April to the Fort Monroe Authority, which oversees the site, requesting that the arch be removed. After public hearings and a review, the authority’s trustees decided to leave the decorative arch, but remove the letters, which came down last Friday. The letters will be placed in the Casement Museum at the former military base, which overlooks Chesapeake Bay.

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Gov. Ralph S. Northam speaks at a news conference Tuesday in front of the 50-foot memorial arch at Fort Monroe, showing that the letters honoring Confederate president Jefferson Davis have been removed. With the governor are, from left, state Sen. Mamie Locke of Hampton; Glenn Oder, executive director of the Fort Monroe Authority; and Molly J. Ward, former state secretary of natural resources and a former trustee of the authority.

Dr. Rex M. Ellis, associate director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington and a trustee with the Fort Monroe Authority, told The Washington Post that the arch was significant because of the importance of the site. Not only did the first Africans arrive there, but their enslaved descendants built the fort itself.

Then during the early days of the Civil War in May 1861, Frank Baker, Sheppard Mallory and James Townsend escaped from slavery and sought sanctuary from the Union troops at Fort Monroe. The Union commander, Gen. Benjamin

Butler, refused to return them to their slave owners, calling them “contraband of war.”

After that, thousands of African-Americans made their way to Fort Monroe to escape bondage.

“That makes this a significant space and site to discuss African-American history in a way that few historic sites can,” Dr. Ellis told The Washington Post. Honoring Jefferson Davis in that setting, he said, was “anathema to the history that should be taught here. I think it was a great, great service that (Gov. Northam) did” in having the letters removed.

Historian works to humanize the enslaved who built Monroe

By Lisa Vernon Sparks Daily Press via Associated Press

HAMPTON A trove of historical records tells that Fort Monroe in Hampton was built on the backs of thousands of enslaved Africans.

But little was known about their identities or who they were — until now.

Meet Amos Henley, 23.

Skilled, but unpaid for his efforts, Mr. Henley was among hundreds of enslaved people leased out to the Army by their owners, who fetched a tidy sum for their work. The enslaved labored between 1820 and 1824 during the days when the foundation of the stone fortress was laid.

Mr. Henley, who worked on a barge crew daily from sunrise to sunset, died in 1821 during an accident while hauling stone with a windlass crank at Old

entries recorded by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1819 and 1917.

It highlights research about the full names of the enslaved and their work, letters sent to chief engineers and copies of reports at Fort Calhoun/Wool and Fort Monroe, among other entries.

For Mr. Kelly, discovering a manifest of enslaved laborers not only weaves in another layer about the fort’s history, it humanizes the African-Americans who built the country’s largest stone fort.

“It’s a well-known fact that slave labor was used to construct Fort Monroe. What makes this so significant is we know actually what tasks they were doing and we are beginning to learn who they were. That’s important,” Mr. Kelly said. “It’s groundbreaking research that we intend to continue … to make accessible

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This June 11, 2008, file photo shows some of the fortifications inside the moat at Fort Monroe in Hampton. Casemate Museum historian W. Robert Kelly is working to 'humanize those enslaved' at Fort Monroe — one name at a time.

Point Comfort.

Notably, there is a primary record of his story and other enslaved laborers that includes first and last names — significant because it was created in a register some 50 years before the first African-Americans, except for free black people, were counted in a U.S. Census.

The register, handwritten entries in two books, is the subject of a recently published paper, “Humanizing the Enslaved of Fort Monroe’s Arc of Freedom,” written by Casemate Museum historian W. Robert Kelly.

Mr. Kelly was the featured speaker and presented his paper recently during a spring meeting of the Afro-American Historical Genealogy Society of Hampton Roads at the Hampton Public Library.

The three-section paper, published in the “Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies,” is work-in-progress research that explores several

to the public, to make searchable, to make usable.”

Meticulous entries, one called “Register of Work Done

by Slave Labor at Fort Monroe,” lists first and last names of the enslaved, owners, rates of pay the enslaved earned for their owners monthly, the number of days worked and daily routines.

Less frequently, details about the enslaved, such as who was “absent, sick, discharged, deserted or died,” also were recorded, Mr. Kelly wrote.

The register, with some 300 names of enslaved people and 50 owners during the 1820s, offers a view into those lives.

Adding a name to a face of those contributions begins to pave “the way for future generations of enslaved people to experience Fort Monroe not as a labor camp, but as Freedom’s Fortress,” Mr. Kelly wrote, alluding to decades later when thousands of enslaved people sought refuge at the fort.

Ultimately, Mr. Kelly and volunteers who are transcribing the register into an Excel database, want to make the data accessible to the Hampton Roads area for families engaged in genealogy projects, he said.

The Hampton Roads chapter of the AAHGS is an affiliate of the national organization, which fosters and encourages historical and genealogical studies of all ethnic groups, with special emphasis upon Afro-Americans, according to its website.

Stephanie Thomas, president of the local chapter, welcomes the timeliness of Mr. Kelly’s work to provide another tool for the community.

Mr. Kelly said he learned about the registry by chance during a trip the National Archives at Philadelphia several years ago. The research trip in 2014, paid for by the Fort Monroe Authority, was to gather more data about the history of the fort, which was decommissioned in 2011.

After spending hundreds of hours pouring over documents, discovering the registry was an eye-opener, Mr. Kelly said. The earliest recorded listings of African- Americans did not happen before the 1870 Census.

Prior to that, enslaved Africans were only listed as a number, said archivist Patrick Connelly, who works at the Philadelphia field office.

The 300-page register inside two thickly bound books has been there for decades among 105,000 cubic feet of materials housed at the field office, he said.

In his 20 years working at the archive, Mr. Connelly said the register had not had much traction among researchers — if any. Mr. Connelly added he was happy to tip Mr. Kelly to it.

It was rare to see any federal registry listing enslaved persons, let alone both first and last names, Mr. Connelly said.

“That’s the incredible part,” Mr. Connelly said. “You could think of them as individuals and not as property, which is what they were. With that last name, it makes them more human.”

Mr. Kelly’s three-part paper notes the names of the enslaved, many of which are surnames associated with the Tidewater region. The paper also describes the rates of pay slaves earned for their owners — on average $9 per month, per enslaved person.

Other parts of the register contained documented evidence of the existence of skilled slave

labor, including “bricklaying and masonry,” with information about engineers contracting a land owner who owned “black laborers” to provide services, Mr. Kelly wrote.

The second section of Mr. Kelly’s paper focuses on the fort’s Civil War era and the

formerly enslaved who were accepted to the fort under Union Gen. Benjamin Butler as contraband of war and began working there.

The third section reviews the preliminary findings and how this primary source information may be incorporated into exhib-

its at the Fort Monroe Visitors and Education Center, possibly with an interactive display and computer archival access for the community.

“It give us all kinds of opportunity,” Mr. Kelly said. “It’s important we tell the whole story.”

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Chesterfield apartment complex to change rental policy under discrimination settlement

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

An apartment complex in Chesterfield County has agreed to change its blanket ban on renting to people with criminal records after being hit on June 4 with a federal lawsuit challenging the policy as a violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. Sterling Glen Apartments and its management agreed to overhaul the policy as part of a settlement agreement with fair housing watchdog Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Richmond, it was announced Tuesday.

The new policy could become an industry model for how landlords can screen applicants fairly and avoid discrimination, according to HOME and its attorneys, the ACLU of Virginia and Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC of Washington.

Instead of a policy providing blanket denial, Sterling Glen and its management, Wisely Properties and Multifamily Management Services, agreed to limit the rental barrier to people convicted of specific categories of felonies, such as sexually based offenses,

Sterling Glen Apartments

according to the attorneys.

The complex also will lift its ban on applicants with misdemeanor charges or convictions and will no longer automatically exclude people on

probation or parole, the attorneys stated.

The policy also ensures that applicants with records will be given an opportunity to present information to put their criminal conviction in

context and provide evidence about their work history and history as a good tenant before and after a conviction, according to the settlement.

“By adopting this new policy, (Sterling Glen) has become an example for all housing providers in Virginia who do not conduct an individualized criminal background screening,” stated Heather Mullins Crislip, president and chief executive officer of HOME. “A policy that first screens applicants on their income and credit, then allows for a limited and relevant criminal background screening creates a more diverse community and helps many people who are trying to get their lives back on track be members of their community of choice,” she stated, in praising the company’s policy change for rental applicants.

Also, as part of the settlement, Sterling Glen and its management agreed to train its employees in fair housing and make a $15,000 donation to HOME to continue its work of uncovering and addressing housing discrimination and also pay damages and attorney fees related to the matter.

Trump seeks to roll back federal Fair Housing Act provision Free Press wire reports

The Trump administration is working to dilute the federal Fair Housing Act in an effort to make it more difficult to bring housing discrimination lawsuits, according to housing advocates.

But conservative groups, who support the proposed changes, claim the proposed rules would curtail frivolous lawsuits.

A draft of the Department of Housing and Urban Development rule, would eliminate “disparate impact” regulations. Under the concept of disparate impact, actions can amount to discrimination if they have an uneven effect, even if that was not the intent.

For example, in a discrimination lawsuit, a plaintiff wouldn’t have to prove that a bank is refusing to make loans to people of color. The

plaintiff merely would have to show that a company’s business practice has a discriminatory effect.

“It’s important because it allows us to really get at discrimination that’s not intentional,” said Nikitra Bailey, a lawyer with the nonprofit Center for Responsible Lending.

She said the Trump administration’s new rule would restrict the tool for fighting housing discrimination.

The change would strike a blow, she said, because “disparate impact” allows fair housing lawsuits to obtain remedies for large numbers of people “without having to demonstrate each individual action of discrimination.”

The proposal is expected to be released this month by the administration.

In one current case, a fair housing group is suing Bank of America, al-

leging that when the bank foreclosed on homes in recent years, it treated the vacant houses very differently in white neighborhoods than it did in minority neighborhoods.

The suit was filed by the National Fair Housing Alliance. Lisa Rice, the alliance’s president, said foreclosed properties in more than 70 communities across the country were examined. The communities had comparable levels of owner-occupied homes and other similarities.

“In the white communities that we looked at, the story was completely different,” she said. “The grass was mowed, the doors were secure, the windows were not broken, we didn’t see trash and debris.”

Bank of America denied the claims in the lawsuit.

“Our commitment to sustainable homeownership for low- to moderateincome and multicultural clients

and communities has always been a hallmark of Bank of America,” Bank of America officials said in a statement.

In a disparate impact lawsuit, the plaintiff wouldn’t have to show that a company meant to discriminate. The company might have had the best of intentions but still have adopted a policy that has an unequal outcome with a discriminatory effect.

In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of disparate impact while imposing some limitations. But many corporations and conservatives are pushing for change.

Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative think tank that focuses on civil rights issues, said the disparate impact cases often are unfair to defendants.

“You may have a landlord who

says, ‘I’m not going to rent to people with a history of violent crime,’ ” said Mr. Clegg, who worked in the Justice Department during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

“The fact that that has a racially disproportionate result does not make it discrimination.”

He said the Trump administration’s new rule would provide clarity about the limits under the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

But Ms. Bailey said the proposed rule goes beyond that.

“It really makes it more difficult to bring disparate impact cases, and then it limits the damages for discrimination,” she said.

With African-American homeownership rates at their lowest level in 50 years, she said, the rule change could set up more roadblocks.

400 years ago, the first Africans landed in English North America and helped form

a multicultural nation.

Come to Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia August 23–25 to commemorate 400 years of African American impact.

Learn more at HamptonVA2019.com

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Mayor submits $1.5B Downtown plan to City Council Continued from A1

Richmond City Council at a brief special meeting Monday.

The mayor and his staff crafted the deal with the Navy Hill District Corp., a group led by Dominion Energy’s top executive, Thomas F. Farrell II. If the plan is approved by City Council, Navy Hill District is to manage the entire deal, including operating and maintaining the new Coliseum and spearheading the other developments.

The target area for the development includes eight blocks in the area bounded by Leigh, Marshall, 5th and 10th streets, and portions of two blocks south of Broad Street in which the city owns surface parking lots at 4th and Broad streets and 6th and Grace streets.

While most of the plan involves private development that must find its own financing, the city must provide the money — subject to annual appropriation by the City Council — to repay the principal and interest on the $330 million that the mayor said would be borrowed to build the new Coliseum.

However, that amount that could top $600 million over 30 years, depending on the interest rate. The bond money, essentially a loan, also might include funding to pay for raising Clay and Leigh streets, which dip below grade on one side of the Coliseum, but that expense has gone unmentioned.

A financial analysis also indicates the city would need to spend $6 million to $10 million to cover additional costs, including construction of a new fire station. Under the plan sent to City Council, the Richmond Department of Social Services building would remain at 9th and Marshall streets until Navy Hill District finds another Downtown location for it. City officials have said the state would pick up the lion’s share of relocation costs for the social services department.

At this point, the John Marshall Courts Building is to remain at its current location at 9th and Clay streets.

The city has not included a projected cost to replace the courts building if the circuit court judges do not accept the loss of the large parking lot that serves the building and order the city to build a new courthouse.

Critics already are calling the Navy Hill development a boondoggle rife with “sweetheart deals” for favored supporters and that it is built — like the Washington NFL team’s Richmond training camp — on exaggerated claims of job creation and revenues for the city.

Residents and City Council members still have months to go before the project comes up for a vote. Sometime in September, the council is expected to finish setting up a commission it has established to review the more than 1,000 pages of ordinances and other documents that the mayor presented.

The commission would then have 90 days to undertake its review, meaning it could be January or February before City Council actually puts the plan on the agenda for a vote.

As presented in the plan, at least seven of the nine City Council members would have to approve the measure as spelled out in the state Constitution because the proposal calls for selling city property to either Navy Hill District or the city’s Economic Development Authority.

Residents also could have a chance to weigh in before a council vote if a referendum on the project developed

by Paul Goldman, leader of the Put Schools First campaign, makes the Nov. 5 ballot.

“There’s a lot to consider,” said Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, who along with Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell, 8th District, pushed for the outside commission to review the plan.

“What do we need to spend and what will the benefit be? Are the numbers we are being given realistic or exaggerated?” Ms. Gray asked.

Among the key issues is the financing mechanism for the proposed new Coliseum. The mayor is calling for creation of a Tax Increment Financing District, or TIF, to pay for the Coliseum.

The TIF would include the 10-block target area around the Coliseum and 70 other blocks of Downtown, bounded by 1st Street, Interstate 95, 10th Street and the Downtown Expressway.

Under the plan, a baseline would be established on the amount of taxes currently being collected, with any increase in real estate property taxes being directed into a special fund to

Hunden Strategic Partners

This map shows the 80-block section of Downtown to be included in a proposed Tax Increment Financing District, or TIF. Increased earnings from real estate taxes within the district would be used to pay off $330 million in borrowing for a new Coliseum and other public projects. The proposed boundaries for the TIF district are the Downtown Expressway, 1st Street, Interstate 95 and 10th Street. The blue-color blocks represent sites where the new Coliseum, a new convention hotel, restaurants, office buildings and new apartments would be built.

repay the $330 million in revenue bonds that the Economic Development Authority would issue.

The fund also would receive from the smaller targeted development area increases in other city taxes, including admissions, business license and sales taxes, to be used to pay the debt on the new arena.

Virtually all of the growth in tax revenue that ordinarily would go to the general fund would be used for at least 15 years — and possibly up to 30 years — to pay off the debt for the new Coliseum. Any excess would go to the general fund, the mayor stated.

Among the proposal’s assumptions is that without the new Coliseum, there would be little to no growth in the Downtown district, even though City Council just rezoned most of that area to encourage new development. Some new projects already have been announced, while development in the Jackson Ward portion of the TIF has been advancing by leaps and bounds.

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However, no documents have been provided to support that claim, nor were any proposed documents concerning any future bonds provided to City Council in the documents submitted by the mayor.

What is known is that on every previous deal involving revenue bonds, the city has been obliged to either guarantee that it would repay the money in order to get lenders to buy the bonds or pledge public property as collateral. Examples include the SunTrust Mortgage building in South Side and the now forgotten, but failed Broad Street Community Development Authority.

Restaurant owners in Downtown and around the city privately are expressing concern about the competition the Navy Hill District hopes to create by installing 23 to 25 restaurants as part of the development.

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for the private developments.

Under the proposal delivered to the council, the Farrell group is to pay the city $15.8 million to buy the land where the hotel, apartments and other developments are to go. The property includes the Public Safety Building on 9th Street that currently is earmarked for a new office building for Virginia Commonwealth University, and a portion of the property where the Coliseum now sits.

That triggered concern among some council members as being too much of a give-away, noting that the City Assessor’s Office values the property at around $60 million, even though it currently is not taxable.

Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, also noted he and his council colleagues have passed a law requiring the city to seek bids on any public property to be sold. Unless that law is waived as the mayor has proposed in the ordinances, the city would have to comply by seeking other offers.

Meanwhile, others are combing through the details of the proposal and raising concerns.

One critic, attorney and small business expert Justin Griffin who runs the “No Coliseum” website, calls the project “a house of cards.”

He points, as one example, to a projection that 792,000 people a year would buy tickets to events at the new arena that came from Chicago-based Hunden Strategic Partners, which reviewed the project for the city and its financial advisor.

“That would put Richmond among the top 10 in the world for arena attendance,” Mr. Griffin stated. “It also would be greater than the annual combined paid attendance at arenas in Baltimore, Raleigh, Charlotte and Charlottesville.”

Others are calling into question the mayor’s claims, based on estimates from Virginia Commonwealth University, that the project would create 12,500 new construction jobs and 9,000 new permanent jobs.

Even the Hunden study that painted a rosy picture of the impact indicated far smaller numbers.

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Nearly 1,000 good reasons Some people claim there is no reason to enact tougher gun laws in the United States.

We wholeheartedly disagree.

Here are 838 reasons — the dead and wounded from mass shootings in the last 23 months — for our nation’s elected officials to “do something,” as the people of Ohio have chanted: • Dayton, Ohio: 9 killed, 14 wounded. Sunday, Aug. 4 A gunman opened fire in the early hours of Sunday, Aug. 4, outside a club in the Oregon District. The gunman, Connor Betts, 24, was armed with an AR 15-style assault rifle fitted with a 100round magazine. Among the dead is the gunman’s sister. Police, who killed the gunman, are still trying to determine the motive.

• El Paso, Texas: 22 killed, 25 wounded. Saturday, Aug. 3 Gunman Patrick Crusius, 21, opened fire with an AK 47style rifle at an El Paso Walmart, killing 22 and wounding dozens of others before being taken into custody by police. Police, who found a hate-filled manifesto talking about stopping the “invasion” of immigrants into the U.S., are calling the massacre domestic terrorism.

• Gilroy, Calif.: 3 dead, 15 wounded. July 28 Gunman Santino William Legan, 19, cut a fence to enter the Gilroy Garlic Festival and unloaded his AK 47-style assault rifle on festivalgoers before shooting and killing himself. The shooter had posted neo-Nazi views on social media. Police are investigating it as possible domestic terrorism. He was wearing a bulletresistant vest and carrying multiple magazines of ammunition.

• Abbeville, S.C.: 3 killed, 1 wounded. June 23 Elijah Tyrez Head, 19, charged with three counts of murder after fatally shooting three people with a handgun and wounding a fourth person inside an apartment.

Police said the violent encounter began in the apartment complex parking lot. Police later took him in custody.

• Virginia Beach: 12 killed, 4 wounded. May 31 DeWayne Craddock, 40, a civil engineer with the Virginia Beach Public Utilities Department, emailed his resignation earlier in the day and then went to the city municipal building and opened fire with two .45-caliber pistols, extended ammunition magazines and a silencer, killing and wounding many of his colleagues. He was shot and killed by police.

• Aurora, Ill.: 5 killed, 6 wounded. Feb. 15 Gary Martin, 45, had been fired from his job as a factory worker at the Henry Pratt Co. manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago. He pulled out a .40-caliber handgun and killed five other employees.

• State College, Penn.: 3 killed, 1 wounded. Jan. 24 Gunman Jordan Witmer, 21, opened fire in a hotel restaurant then left and broke into a home and killed another person before fatally shooting himself.

• Sebring, Fla.: 5 killed. Jan. 23 Gunman Zephen Xaver, 21, shot and killed five people at a SunTrust Bank before barricading himself inside with a 9mm handgun. The former prison guard trainee later surrendered to a SWAT team.

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Richmond’s next commonwealth’s attorney On Thursday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 10, Richmond Democrats will vote to decide who will be the Democrats’ nominee for Richmond commonwealth’s attorney.

Unlike an open primary, this nominating election, called a “firehouse primary,” provokes little notoriety and almost no excitement. In fact, it is specifically designed to make it easier for those favored by the leadership of the party to win.

It is the least democratic process to select a party’s nominee and makes a mockery of the boast of the Democratic Party that it is “the party of the people.”

The commonwealth’s attorney in any city or county is an extremely important office, not only because it is a constitutional office but because it is the only elective office in the so-called criminal justice system. This system has three separate components: judicial, prosecutorial and defense, with only the prosecutor being directly selected by voters.

Judges are selected by legislative

Sa’ad El-Amin in the selection of the Richmond commonwealth’s attorney. Unfortunately, this has never been the case. Therefore, the extreme importance of this position is lost to an oppressed community and decisions are made which directly affect our quality of life issues.

Yet, we have little or no input.

We have seen the importance of this position in the cases of Freddie Gray in Baltimore; Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y.; and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; as well as other cities and states where the prosecutor’s office declined to fully and vigorously prosecute police officers who used excessive force and ultimately escaped punishment because they said they “feared for their life” and, in so doing, received an automatic pass from prosecution.

The questions for the candidates seeking to become Richmond’s next commonwealth’s attorney are these: If elected, will they support and lobby for the creation of a police community review board to investigate and decide on allegations of police misconduct from members of the public? Will they agree to vigorously prosecute police officers who the review board determines are guilty of the claims made against them?

Additionally, should the Richmond City Council, rather than the mayor, appoint the heads of Richmond’s safety departments, including the police chief and the fire chief?

It is easily said that whoever is elected as Richmond’s commonwealth’s attorney should not succumb to the power and the persuasion of the police when the cops are the criminals as they are when they violate the rights of the people. It is even sadder when it will surely come to pass that we will be the ones who are most likely abused and victimized by police misconduct.

We add insult to our injuries when we have little or no interest in the commonwealth’s attorney’s election because we are never the “squeaky wheel” so we never get

the “grease.”

But, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was often quoted as saying, “It is never too late to do the right thing!” So even if it is too late to fully weigh in on this upcoming nominating election, there is still the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 5. While the Democratic candidate for commonwealth’s attorney is unlikely to have any significant opposition by a Republican or independent candidate, we can and should get in the ear — and hopefully in the heart — of the Democratic nominee before the upcoming November general election and make sure that he or she understands what some of our parents used to say to us: “I bought you here and I will take you out if you don’t act right.”

The writer is a former member of Richmond City Council and president of Strategic and Litigation Consultants.

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Righting old wrongs

“The U.S. ‘war on drugs’ — a decades-long policy of racial and • Thousand Oaks, Calif.: 12 killed, 18 wounded. Nov. 7, 2018 class suppression hidden behind cannabis criminality — has Gunman Ian David Long, 28, a former Marine, burst resulted in the arrest, interdicinto the Borderline Bar and Grill packed with dancing tion and incarceration of a high college students, tossed a smoke bomb and began fir- percentage of Americans of color. ing a .45-caliber handgun before fatally shooting himself. The legal cannabis industry represents a great opportunity to • Pittsburgh: 11 killed, 6 wounded. Oct. 27, 2018 help balance Gunman Robert Bowers, 46, a truck driver with a history the detrimenof posting anti-Semitic material on social media, walked tal effects of into the Tree of Life Synagogue in the city’s Squirrel Hill the war on neighborhood and opened fire. He had an assault rifle drugs by creand three handguns. He was shot and killed by police. ating an equal playing field • Annapolis, Md.: 5 killed, 2 wounded. June 28, 2018 for all people to benefit from Gunman Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, who had harassed jourthe changing legal landscape.” nalists at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis — Minority Cannabis Business for publishing a story about him that he didn’t like, Association burst into the publication’s offices and opened fire It’s difficult to overstate how with a 12-gauge shotgun. Police took him into custody. devastating America’s racist “War on Drugs” has been for communi• Santa Fe, Texas: 10 killed, 13 wounded. May 18, 2018 ties of color. Although black and Gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old junior, walked white people use marijuana at into the high school in this Houston suburb and opened similar rates, African-Americans fire on students with a shotgun and .38-caliber revolver have been four times more likely he’d taken from his father. He surrendered to police. to be arrested for marijuana possession.

In Michigan, which has al• Parkland, Fla.: 17 killed, at least 12 wounded. Feb. 14, 2018 ready legalized marijuana for Gunman Nikolas Cruz, 19, had been expelled from Marjory recreational use, a 68-year-old Stoneman Douglas High School, but returned to the campus man named Michael Thompson with a semiautomatic rifle and began a rampage killing is 25 years into a 40- to 60-year students and staff. He was taken into custody by police. sentence stemming from the sale of three pounds of marijuana to • Sutherland Springs, Texas: 26 killed, 20 wounded. an undercover officer.

In recent days, the state of IlNov. 5, 2017 linois made history when it passed Gunman Patrick Kelley, 26, an Air Force veteran with a history of domestic violence, killed 26 worshippers at First a marijuana legalization law that Baptist Church in the rural suburb of San Antonio. He was seeks to atone for the injustice of the War on Drugs. armed with an AR 15-style assault rifle. After being shot in Illinois’law gives low-income the leg by one of the church members, he fled and later turned communities of color — the the gun on himself and died. His military court martial for very communities ripped apart domestic abuse was never put in the FBI database by the mili- by decades of racist drug politary, allowing him to pass a background check and buy guns. cies — a fair shot at dispensary and grow-shop licenses. A por• Las Vegas: 58 killed, more than 500 wounded. tion of tax revenue generated by cannabis sales will be directed to Oct. 1, 2017 Gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, a real estate investor who once investment in those communities

worked for the IRS, took aim from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas strip and opened fire on a concert crowd below at the Route 91 Harvest music festival. He was found dead in the hotel room by a SWAT team. Investigators found a cache of 23 weapons in his hotel room, including 14 firearms that had been modified with bump stocks to allow him to shoot more rounds in less time.

appointment for a definite term of years. There is no public input in the selection of defense lawyers.

In these days of mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline where black people lead both lists, we should be wide awake and very much involved

through the Restore, Reinvest and Renew Program.

Under the new law, arrest records for possession of small amounts of marijuana will be expunged automatically, and the board that makes clemency recommendations to the governor will receive a list of everyone convicted of minor possession offenses.

Marc H. Morial Nearly 800,000 criminal histories could be erased under the law.

We applaud Illinois’ historic achievement. We stand ready to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the law. We urge other states to follow Illinois’ lead when crafting legislation to legalize marijuana by looking at comprehensive redress for past wrongs and creating economic opportunities for communities that bore, and continue to bear, the negative effects of the War on Drugs.

The history of cannabis in the United States, which became known as marijuana in the early 1900s, is fraught with racist hysteria. Following the Mexican Revolution, more than 890,000 Mexican people legally immigrated into the United States between 1910 and 1920. Even though cannabis long had been used in the United States as an ingredient in unregulated “patent medicines,” the Spanish term marijuana became associated with fear and prejudice against new immigrants. By 1930, 16 states had outlawed or prohibited marijuana as a way to target the growing Mexican community.

In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon launched the “War on Drugs,” which was exposed in

2016 by White House Counsel John Ehrlichman as a political ploy to target African-Americans and anti-war protesters.

Two years after President Nixon proclaimed drugs “public enemy No. 1,” presidential hopeful Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York, signed the most draconian drug statutes in the nation, setting the sentence for selling two ounces of certain drugs, including cannabis, or possession of four ounces, at a minimum of 15 years to life in prison. The laws have been blamed for tripling New York’s prison population.

Even now, as states have begun legalizing recreational marijuana use, a recent investigation by The New York Times found that black people were nearly 15 times more likely than white people to be arrested in New York City for low-level cannabis crimes.

It’s going to take much more than simple legalization to level the playing field — and Illinois’ new law recognizes the challenges.

Illinois will waive half of the application fee for license-seekers who are either long-term residents of a “disproportionately impacted area” or who have been incarcerated for a minor pot crime that is eligible for expungement under the bill.

As Illinois state Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth said, “What we are doing here is about reparations.

After 40 years of treating entire communities like criminals, here comes this multibillion-dollar industry, and guess what? Black and brown people have been put at the very center of this policy in a way that no other state has ever done.”

The writer is president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League.

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Say it ain’t so football team. She stressed the city has no role in vendor recruitment.

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Henrico Stars win MJBL Inner City Classic’s U-14 division championship

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John Jimenez of the Baltimore Rattlers slides into third base as Stevie Ricketts of the Bowie Elite Black Sox tries to tag him out during the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League’s Inner City Classic U-16 championship game on Sunday at RF&P Park in Glen Allen.

The U-14 Henrico Stars are the undefeated and undisputed champions of the annual Metropolitan Junior Baseball League’s Inner City Classic.

Coach Darryl “Bishop” Husband’s squad prevailed with a thrilling 14-13 championship game win over the New Orleans Monarchs at RF&P Park in Glen Allen last Saturday.

The victory capped a 6-0 week for the Henrico Stars. The winning run was scored in the bottom of seventh and final inning on a bases-loaded walk by Dominant Turner.

The Stars dazzled with their bats and fast feet. Terrence Rhodes, Jorden Olivera, Turner, P.J. Chandler and Darryl Husband Jr. all had multiple hits.

Turner had three of the team’s 11 stolen bases. Rhodes was the winning pitcher with six strikeouts in three innings.  Overall, teams from eight cities from Detroit to New Orleans and the Bahamas competed in the tournament. In the tournament’s other divisions, the Greensboro Bison won the U-19 division with a 14-8 win over Monte Irvin Giants of New Jersey in that division’s final last Sunday at the Henrico County park.

There were three area entries in the U-19

division. The Richmond Blue Sox went 3-2-1; MJBL Henrico, 2-3; and the Warriors, 1-4.

The Baltimore Rattlers defeated the Bowie Elite Black Sox 13-4 to claim the U-16 division championship. Alex McCoy’s grand slam highlighted Baltimore’s win.

Richmond Riverside went 2-3 in the U-16 division.

A team from Nassau, Bahamas, dominated the U-10 division with a 4-0 record, defeating teams from Richmond and Washington twice each.  Tournament director William Forrester Jr. of Richmond said “a lot of hard work and planning” went into an overall successful event.

His regret is lack of entries in two divisions.

The U-10 division had only three teams, while no teams entered the U-12 division.

“The young kids just aren’t playing baseball like they used to,” Forrester said. “And if the younger ones aren’t playing, eventually you won’t have any older ones.”

The location for next year’s MJBL Inner City Classic has not been chosen. Forrester said he will make a pitch to bring it back to Richmond for what would be the event’s 30th anniversary.

Jaaber to hold free training session for youths Leadersport, under the direction of former Virginia Union University basketball standout and later Panthers head Coach Luqman Jaaber, is holding a free training session 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at Meadowbrook High School in Chesterfield County.

Skills will be taught in basketball, football, soccer and volleyball.

Youngsters can register at www.leadersport.org or on site, and should report to the football field at the school.

Jaaber, who was a key player for Richmond’s George Wythe High School, is Coach Jaaber among the Top 10 basketball players to come out of Richmond. He went on to lead VUU to the 2005 NCAA Division II championship.

He also played for ABA league teams in Richmond and coaches the ABA’s Woodbridge Wolves.

Right, Huguenot High School alumnus Olajuwan Johnson goes up to the rim to score against Thomas Jefferson High School alumni during the championship game in last Saturday’s Richmond Public Schools Alumni Basketball Showdown at the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center. Mr. Johnson was named tournament MVP. Above, Huguenot’s alumni cheerleaders show off some moves during the cheering competition, which they won.

Huguenot wins RPS Alumni Basketball Showdown

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Hopewell baseball is No. 1.

A team of spirited and talented athletes from Hopewell, the Hopewell Majors All-Stars, won the Dixie Youth Baseball Major Division (U-12) World Series July 31 in Lumberton, N.C. Hopewell, the District 9 and Virginia state champions, defeated Mississippi for the title.

Players include Anthony Clark, Camden Hunt, Ryder Hazlett, Christian Edwards, Colsen McComber, Tavin Tucker, Demetrius Simms, Ethan McComber, Jake Irby, Xavier Taylor, Brian Moore and Luke Kuhns.

Dixie Youth Baseball, founded in 1955, is geared to “small town” competition throughout the southeast.

Daniel ‘Sonny Strong’ Gordon Jr., karate instructor at YMCA, dies at 79 Karate Grandmaster Daniel Gordon Jr., nicknamed “Sonny Strong,” died Thursday, July 11, in Richmond.

Mr. Gordon was 79 and had taught martial arts at the Downtown YMCA for more than 40 years. His pupils over the decades ranged in age from toddlers to senior citizens.

A native of Detroit, Mr. Gordon was a ninth degree black belt, one step beneath the highest rank attainable. He took up Mr. Gordon karate at the Downtown YMCA and made it his passion. He received his first black belt in 1976.

His specialty was Chinese Kenpo, a combination of Chinese and Japanese techniques. Grandmaster is an honorary title bestowed on individuals highly revered in their school, system or style.

He was featured as a Richmond Free Press Personality in February 2016.

A funeral service was held Monday, July 15, with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.

Mr. Gordon was preceded in death by one son, Daniel Gordon III. Survivors include his daughter, Cheryleen Hawley; four sons, Terry Hawley, Eugene Jackson, Frank Gordon and John Gordon; two sisters, Patsy Gordon-Stewart and Carolyn Gordon, and grandchildren and stepchildren.

There’s still plenty of twinkle left in Huguenot High School’s former basketball stars.

The Falcons rule the roost today as champion of the inaugural Richmond Public Schools Alumni Basketball Showdown.

Led by MVP Olajuwon Johnson, the alumni Falcons defeated the alumni team from Thomas Jefferson High School 70-44 in the final last Saturday at the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center.

To be eligible, players must have finished their high school eligibility prior to 2010.

Alumni teams were entered from Huguenot, Thomas Jefferson, George Wythe, Armstrong, John Marshall and John F. Kennedy high schools.

To reach the final, Huguenot won close games over Kennedy in the quarterfinal and Wythe in the semifinal.

Huguenot’s nine-man roster included Johnson, Bo Jones, Chris Jones, Juan Wilson, Dave Brown, John Crawley, Marlin Porter, Marcus Woolridge and Cory Sheppard.

Jones, the oldest man on the Falcons roster, was an AllMetro selection for Huguenot in 1996 and went on to play for Virginia Commonwealth University, where he scored 1,334 points in just three seasons.

“We practiced some at CarMax and worked on a few sets, a few isolations,” Jones said about the alumni team. “Everything fell into place.”

The Falcons coaches were Fonnie

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Mason and Damion Pleasants.

After three grueling games on the full-sized court at the Ashe Center, where the air conditioning wasn’t working, the team saved little energy for celebration after winning the alumni title.

“To tell the truth,” Jones said, “it was so hot and we were so tired, we just went and laid down in front of the (electric) fans, took our shirts off and talked about old times.”

Among the other former All-Metro players involved in the alumni showdown were Kendrick Warren and Thomas Meredith for Thomas Jefferson, Luqman Jaaber and Tyree Evans for George Wythe and Milton Bell for John Marshall.

Before the championship game, cheerleaders from all the schools put on a spirited exhibition, which Huguenot also won.

Preseason poll has NSU Spartans football team finishing in middle of MEAC

Norfolk State University ing Coach Scott’s four seasons football seems to be stuck in the in Norfolk. middle of the MEAC pack.

Spartans senior linebacker The Spartans are picked Nigel Chavis was selected to to finish seventh this season the second team preseason Allamong teams in the athletic MEAC squad. conference, based on voting An alumnus of Richmond’s by coaches and the media at Armstrong High School, Chavis the recent MEAC Preseason had 71 tackles in 2018, includBanquet in Norfolk. ing 5.5 sacks and 13 tackles for Defending champion North losses. He also recovered two Carolina A&T State University fumbles and forced two more is picked to be No. 1 again this loose balls. season and earn its third consecuNSU opens its season on Randy Singleton tive trip to the Celebration Bowl Aug. 31 at Old Dominion From left, Norfolk State University Coach Latrell Scott in Atlanta on Dec. 21. The Ag- takes the stage at the recent MEAC banquet with University. Its home opener gies won the Celebration Bowl linebacker Nigel Chavis and quarterback Juwan Carter. is Saturday, Sept. 7, against in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Virginia State University.

NSU was 4-7 overall and 2-5 in the MEAC last season under The MEAC Preseason Offensive Player of the Year is Howard Coach Latrell Scott.

University quarterback Caylin Newton, brother of NFL star Cam The Spartans are 16-28 overall and 13-19 in the MEAC dur- Newton of the Carolina Panthers.

Cliff Branch, former NFL receiver, dies at 71

Cliff Branch

Cliff Branch, one of the premier deep receiver threats in NFL history, died Saturday, Aug. 3, at age 71.

Mr. Branch was found dead in a hotel room in Bullhead City, Ariz. Police said he died of natural causes.

Playing with the Oakland and

Los Angeles Raiders from 1972 to 1985, Mr. Branch caught 501 passes for 8,685 yards and 67 touchdowns.

He averaged a whopping 17.3 yards per reception.

While helping the Raiders to titles in Super Bowls XI, XV and XVII,

Mr. Branch added 73 postseason receptions and five touchdowns.

A native of Houston, Mr. Branch also starred in track at the University of Colorado, recording personal bests of 10 seconds in the 100 meters and 20.5 seconds in the 200 meters.

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Spotlight on co-host of Le Diner en Blanc-Richmond The city’s diversity and elegance will shine again with the third annual Le Diner en Blanc-Richmond, a chic, popup dinner where diners wear all white, bring their own white tables, chairs, tablecloths and dishes — no plastic or paper allowed — and nosh on picnic fare they bring or pre-purchase and then pack up and go home, taking everything, including all leftovers and trash, with them.

Ayana Obika, along with Christine Wansleben and Enjoli Moon, set Le Diner en BlancRichmond in motion in the River City two years ago.

More than 1,000 people attended last year, with participants learning the dinner’s secret location only a short time before its start.

Ms. Obika, a 1981 graduate of Hampton University and professional event planner, learned about Le Diner en Blanc from an industry publication about 10 years ago.

“I was smitten,” she says.

She reached out to the Diner en Blanc organization, which started the affairs in Paris in 1988, and was told to put together a three-person host team and submit a proposal for consideration.

“The three of us came together in 2016,” Ms. Obika said of the team with Ms. Wansleben and Ms. Moon. “They saw the vision. Our personalities clicked and we gelled.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

During the inaugural Le Diner en Blanc-Richmond in 2017, diners converged on the grounds of the Science Museum of Virginia, former home of Union Station complete with train tracks, for the elegant affair. Last year, participants

flooded the front lawn of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The sea of participants clad in white brought arrangements of summer flowers to grace their tables, which were set in white, with dishes and glasses of wine and champagne. There was food, music and fun.

The affair requires diners to embrace the event’s tradition and strict rules “to make the magic happen,” Ms. Obika says.

The evening, she says, starts with the waving of a cloth napkin signaling the start of dinner and, later, the lighting of sparklers to indicate it’s time to mix and mingle, dance and celebrate.

The uncommon evening ends with the blast of a trumpet.

Le Diner en Blanc events now take place in more than 70 cities around the world, Ms. Obika says. Some fans even travel to different cities to take part in events.

Le Diner en Blanc’s mission is simple, Ms. Obika says: To bring people together to celebrate friendship, the city and great cuisine.

“You cannot forget the food,” she says.

“People like to dress up, celebrate and connect in unique ways,” says Ms. Obika, who worked at a local costume shop for several years. “If you can get people of different backgrounds together to eat and party together, then maybe we can start to eliminate the fences that separate us,” she says.

While this year’s event on Saturday, Aug. 17, is sold out, people can start watching the group’s social media, which will put out a call for volunteers and for people to sign up for next year, Ms. Obika says.

But as in the past, great food and conversation is expected.

“Come prepared to enjoy yourself,” Ms. Obika says. “Be patient. Meet and make a new friend.

Celebrate life with us.”

Meet an organizer and “hostess with the mostest,” this week’s P e r s o n a l i t y, A y a n a Obika:

“The concept of dressing in all white makes everyone the same,” she says. “However, it is always elegant. Ladies pull out all of the stops with big hats and fancy dresses. Everyone looks marvelous. Everyone looks like they belong together.”

Spectators also have the same reaction of amazement when they see the hundreds of people assembled.

“Last year when we hosted on Arthur Ashe Boulevard,” she recalls, “we were delighted to see a resident (who saw the group from the upstairs of her home across the street) “put on a white dress and come out on her balcony to dance and enjoy the festivities. That was an ‘everything’ moment!”

Richmond’s event “is unique from other cities because of the city itself, as we highlight our unique history and culture,” Ms. Obika says. “We put our spin on it as we also involve local vendors and artists.”

No. 1 volunteer position: Co-host of Le Diner en Blanc-Richmond.

Date and place of birth: Feb. 3 in Richmond.

Current residence: Richmond’s Bellevue.

Education: Bachelor’s in political science, Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.

Family: Four wonderful and grown children, Ebun (Miguel), Omari, Amir and Nia, and six beautiful grand-dears, with one more on the way.

When and how I got involved with the Le Diner en Blanc-Richmond: I have been planning and producing events for more than 20 years. I love themed, costumed and pop-up events. One day while checking out an industry publication, I came across an article about a Le Diner en Blanc event taking place in New York City and I was smitten. That was about 10 years ago.

My duties: I am one of three co-hosts of the Richmond event.

My role is handling administrative tasks and recruiting and training volunteers. However, all three co-hosts touch every part of the production of the event and we make decisions as a team.

Why it’s important for Richmond to be a part of this? Le Diner en Blanc is an event that was created to celebrate friendship and the city where it takes place. Having worked at a local costume shop for several years, I learned that Richmonders love to dress up and love a reason to celebrate. Even with the issues that we acknowledge happening within our city, we want an opportunity to come together and celebrate our city and friendship.

We, the co-hosts, also saw an opportunity to bring people of different races together for an awesome night of dining and finding commonalities. If you can get people of different backgrounds together to eat and party together, then maybe we can start to eliminate the fences that separate us.

When founded: The event was launched in Paris 31 years ago

by François Pasquier with just a handful of friends. Last year, Le Diner en Blanc-Paris celebrated its 30th anniversary with 30,000 guests in attendance.

Top challenge in Richmond: Our biggest challenge as we grow the event — we have a waiting list of more than 7,000 — is finding locations that are large enough and meet all of the other specific requirements of the international office. We are always on the lookout for unique locations and usually start talking about the next year’s location as we are planning the current event.

Dream for the event: To have each edition deliver joy to everyone who attends or witnesses the event.

Outlook at start of day: Excited and praying for no rain.

A quote that I am inspired by:

“The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” — Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch in “The Last Lecture.”

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Camping. I love being outdoors.

Best late-night snack: Plain Lay’s potato chips.

Quality I most admire in others: Loyalty and I love a dreamer-visionary.

Greatest source of inspiration: My parents and my teachers — all of them.

Favorite recreational activity: Taking long hikes with my dog.

Biggest chance I ever took: Risk taking is part of my DNA. So I’m not sure how to quantify this.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: My parents died when I was young, but they both stressed the importance of education.

At the top of my “to-do” list: To take the train from coast to coast.

The person who influenced me the most: It would be either my parents or my children. I have learned so much about life and love from all of them.

Book that influenced me the most: “Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison. And I have to include “The Power of Intention” by Wayne Dyer.

What I’m reading now: “Parable of the Sower” and “Kindred,” both by Octavia E. Butler.

Next goal: To take a beach vacation with my whole family.

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3-day Valuing Black Lives Global Summit slated for Aug. 20-22 at VUU The 2019 Valuing Black Lives Global Summit, a three-day event designed to provide psychological and emotional healing for African-Americans because of the legacy of slavery, will be held Tuesday, Aug. 20, through Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center at Virginia Union University, 1500 N. Lombardy St. The event is a project of the Community Healing Network, a Connecticutbased nonprofit, in collaboration with the Association Ms. Bell of Black Psychologists.

It is part of the network’s Global Truth Campaign and Tour and will help mark the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of Africans in this country.

The summit will feature a variety of local, national and international speakers and use Emotional Emancipation Circles developed by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists to help undo the trauma caused by anti-black racism.

The summit will open at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, with the theme, “We Are – Remem-

brance,” recalling the narratives of Africans before the trans-Atlantic slave trade, during the Middle Passage and during enslavement.

Janine Bell, founder of the Elegba Folklore Society in Richmond, will lead the group on the Richmond Slave Trail, tracing the route of the enslaved Africans from Ancarrow’s Landing on the James River to the sites of holding pens, auction blocks and the African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom.

“We Are – Revelation” is the theme for the summit’s Dr. Grills second day starting at 9 a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 21. Speakers include Midodji Gaglo, founder of the African Lisbon Tour in Portugal, and Christy Coleman, chief executive officer of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond.

Formal training in Emotional Emancipation Circles will begin, and 2019 Community Healer Awards will be presented in a celebration from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

“We Are – Forever” is the theme for the third day that begins at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. Author and filmmaker Ytasha Womack will

talk about AfroFuturism and creating a new future for people of African descent.

Other presenters include Dr. Tawede Cheryl Grills, past president of the Association of Black Psychologists and leader of the Community Health Network’s Global Emotional Emancipation Circle Training Team.

New Virginia Majority to host People’s Congress 2019 on Saturday The New Virginia Majority is hosting its fifth annual People’s Congress to discuss issues and strategize for progressive policies in 2019 and 2020.

The free event will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd

St. in Downtown.

The event will include a panel of elected leaders and sessions on a range of issues, including those considered priorities for the organization.

Those include voter registration, affordable housing, economic justice, environmental justice and immigration.

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Toni Morrison , who transformed American literature to win Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, dies at 88 Free Press wire report

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88.

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Ms. Morrison died Monday night, Aug. 5, 2019, at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Ms. Morrison’s family issued a statement Tuesday through Knopf stating she died after a brief illness.

“Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,” the family announced. “The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing.”

Few authors rose in such rapid, spectacular style. She was 39 when her first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” was published in 1970. By her early 60s and after just six novels, she became the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, praised in 1993 by the Swedish academy for her “visionary force” and for her delving into “language itself, a language she wants to liberate” from categories of black and white.

In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningful — a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy,” President Obama wrote Tuesday on his Facebook page.

“She was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page.”

In her novels, black history was a trove of poetry, tragedy, love, adventure and good old gossip, whether in small-town Ohio in “Sula” or big-city Harlem in “Jazz.” She regarded race as a social construct and through language founded the better world her characters suffered to attain. Ms. Morrison wove everything from African literature and slave folklore to the Bible and Gabriel Garcia Marquez into the most diverse, yet harmonious, of literary communities.

“Narrative has never been merely entertainment for me,” she said in her Nobel lecture.

“It is, I believe, one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge.”

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for “Beloved,” she was one of the book world’s most regal presences, with her expanse of graying dreadlocks; her dark, discerning eyes; and warm, theatrical voice, able to lower itself to a mysterious growl or rise to a humorous falsetto.

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ceptive lady,” James Baldwin called her.

Her admirers were countless — from fellow authors, college students and working people to President Obama and former President Bill Clinton; to Oprah Winfrey, who idolized Ms. Morrison and helped to greatly expand her readership.

“Maya Angelou helped me without her knowing it,” Ms. Morrison told The Associated Press during a 1998 interview.

“When she was writing her first book, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ I was an editor at Random House. She was having such a good time, and she never said, ‘Who me?

My little book?’

“I decided that ... winning the (Nobel) prize was fabulous,” Ms. Morrison added. “Nobody was going to take that and make it into something else. I felt representational. I felt American. I felt Ohioan. I felt blacker than ever. I felt more woman than ever. I felt all of that, and put all of that together and went out and had a good time.”

The second of four children of a welder and a domestic worker, Ms. Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on Feb. 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a steel town outside of Cleveland. She was encouraged by her parents to read and to think, and was unimpressed by the white children in her community. Recalling how she felt like an “aristocrat,” Ms. Morrison believed she was smarter and took it for granted she was wiser. She was an honors student in high school and attended Howard University because she dreamed of life spent among black intellectuals.

At Howard, she spent much of her free time in the theater (she had a laugh that could easily reach the back row), later taught there and also met and married a Jamaican architect, Harold Morrison, whom she divorced in 1964. They had two children, Harold and Slade.

But although she went on to teach there, Howard disappointed her. Campus life seemed closer to a finishing school than to an institution of learning. Protesters, among them former Morrison student Stokely Carmichael, were demanding equality. Ms. Morrison wanted that, too, but wondered what kind.

“I thought they wanted to integrate for nefarious purposes,” she said. “I thought they should demand money in those black schools. That was the problem — the resources, the better equipment, the better teachers, the buildings that were falling apart — not being in some high school next to some white kids.”

In 1964, she answered an ad to work in the textbook division of Random House.

During the next 15 years, she would have an impact as a book editor and as one of the few African-American women

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In 2012, President Obama awards a Presidential Medal of Freedom to prize-winning author Toni Morrison at the White House. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor.

in publishing. She championed emerging fiction authors such as Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara, helped introduce U.S. readers to such African writers as Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, worked on a memoir

by Muhammad Ali and topical books by such activists as Angela Davis and Black Panther Huey Newton.

By the late 1960s, she was a single mother and a determined writer who had been pushed by her future editor, Robert Gottlieb of Alfred A. Knopf, into deciding whether she’d write or edit. Seated at her kitchen table, she fleshed out a story based on a childhood memory of a black girl in Lorain — raped by her father — who desired blue eyes. She called the novel “The Bluest Eye.” Ms. Morrison prided herself on the gift of applying “invisible ink,” making a point and leaving it to the reader to discover it, such as her decision to withhold the skin color of her characters in “Paradise.” Her debut as an author came at the height of the Black Arts Movement and calls for literature as political and social protest.

“The writers who affected me the most were novelists who were writing in Africa. Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart,’ was a major education for me,” Ms. Morrison, who had studied William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf as a graduate student at Cornell University where she earned her master’s degree, told the AP in 1998.

“They took their black world for granted. No black writer (in America) had done that except for Jean Toomer with ‘Cane.’ Everybody else had

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some confrontation with white people, which was not to say that Africans didn’t, but there was linguistically an assumption. The language was the language of the center of the world, which was them.

“So that made it possible for me to write ‘The Bluest Eye’ and not explain anything. That was wholly new! It was like a step into an absolutely brand new world. It was liberating in a way nothing had been before!”

She had no agent and was rejected by several publishers before reaching a deal with Holt, Rhinehart and Winston (now Henry Holt and Company), which released the novel in 1970. Sales were modest, but her book made a deep impression on The New York Times’ John Leonard, an early and ongoing champion of her writing, which he called “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”

Setting her stories in segregated communities, where incest and suicide were no more outrageous than a sign which reads “COLORED ONLY,” Ms. Morrison wrote of dreamers for whom the price was often

death, whether the mother’s tragic choice to murder her baby girl — and save it from slavery — in “Beloved,” or the black community that implodes in “Paradise.”

Like Mr. Faulkner, her characters are burdened by the legacy and ongoing tragedy of slavery and separation. For Mr. Faulkner’s white Southerners, losers of the Civil War, the price is guilt, rage and madness; for Ms. Morrison’s slaves and their descendants, supposedly liberated, history follows like the most unrelenting posse.

“The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind,” Ms. Morrison wrote in “Beloved,” in which the ghost of the slain daughter returns to haunt and obsess her mother.

“And if it didn’t stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life — every day was a test and a trial.

Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem.”

Ms. Morrison’s breakthrough came in 1977 with “Song of Solomon,” her third novel and the story of young Milkman Dead’s sexual, social and ancestral education. It was the first work by a black writer since Richard Wright’s “Native Son” to be a full Book-of-theMonth selection. It also won the National Book Critics Circle award. It was also Ms. Morrison’s first book to center on a male character, a novel that enabled her “get out of the house, to de-domesticate the landscape.”

When “Beloved” was overlooked for a National Book Award, a letter of protest from 48 African-American writers, including Ms. Angelou and Amiri Baraka, was published in The New York Times Book Review, noting that Ms. Morrison had never won a major literary prize.

“Beloved” went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and Ms. Morrison soon ascended to the very top of the literary world, winning the Nobel Prize and presiding as unofficial laureate of Ms. Winfrey’s book club, founded in 1996. Ms. Winfrey featured four of Ms. Morrison’s books in her influential book club. Ms. Winfrey also co-produced and starred in the 1998 film version of “Beloved” with actor Danny Glover.

As with so many other laureates, Ms. Morrison’s post-Nobel fiction was viewed less favorably than her earlier work. She

received no major competitive awards after the Nobel Prize and was criticized for awkward plotting and pretentious language in “Love” and “Paradise.” But a novel published in 2008, “A Mercy,” was highly praised.

“Home,” a brief novel about a young Korean War veteran, came out in 2012 and was followed three years later by a contemporary drama, “God Help the Child.”

Ms. Morrison herself was the subject of an acclaimed documentary, “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” which came out this year.

Ms. Morrison’s other works included “Playing in the Dark,” a collection of essays; “Dreaming Emmett,” a play about teenager Emmett Till, whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 was a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement; and several children’s books co-authored with her son, Slade Morrison, who died of cancer in 2010.

In November 2016, she wrote a highly cited essay about the election of Donald Trump, calling his ascension to the presidency a mark of what white people would settle for to hold on to their status.

“So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans have flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength. These people are not so much angry as terrified, with the kind of terror that makes knees tremble,” she wrote.

Ms. Morrison taught for years at Princeton University, from which she retired in 2006, but also had an apartment in downtown Manhattan and a riverfront house in New York’s Rockland County that burned down in 1993, destroying manuscripts, first editions of Faulkner and other writers and numerous family mementoes. She had the house rebuilt and continued to live and work there.

“When I’m not thinking about a novel, or not actually writing it, it’s not very good; the 21st century is not a very nice place. I need (writing) to just stay steady, emotionally,” she told the AP in 2012.

“I can think of few writers in American letters who wrote with more humanity or with more love for language than Toni,” Knopf Editor in Chief Sonny Mehta said. “... Her novels command and demand our attention. They are canonical works.”

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Jamestown interpreter tells the story of ‘Angela,’ one of the first Africans in Virginia; her faith is a mystery

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Interpreter Valarie Holmes portrays Angela, one of the first enslaved Africans to arrive in Virginia, at Historic Jamestowne.

to fill in the gaps even as she and scholars of this time in history say the specifics of Angela’s faith — and that of many other enslaved Africans brought to the United States — remain a mystery.

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Few priests questioned the validity of such conversions, said Mr. Summers. Bishops in Africa and beyond were noted by others for not condemning the slave trade.

Another scholar of Jamestown’s history, ChardĂŠ Reid, said there is not enough information to pinpoint Angela’s faith. “Everybody had their different spiritual beliefs that they held on to,â€? said the College of William and Mary graduate student, including Catholicism and Bakongo, a local religion that included ancestor veneration and is still practiced in Angola today, or a mixture of those faiths. “I haven’t come across anything that describes her as being Christian or as holding a version of Bakongo religion.â€?

Even as archaeologists continue to explore whether artifacts of Angela’s life might be hidden beneath the grounds of Historic Jamestowne, Dr. Lee, a Richmond-based public historian, said they may well be found beyond the material culture of books and house foundations.

Their history may show up, for instance, in vestiges of the “ring shout,� a worshipful dance used by slaves when they met in secret, or other religious expressions that contrast with traditional Anglican church practices “where you sit and you listen.� “I think what’s more timely, relevant, essential to look at are the traditions that the people could hold on to and the ways that they expressed their faith,� Dr. Lee said, “and how that faith continues and evolves in this new landscape despite the adversity and the cruel lives that they had to endure.�

JAMESTOWN Wearing a yellow head wrap, gray skirt and soiled apron, a woman who says she is “called by the name of Angela� stood by the James River and told her story, one of faith and courage, darkness and hope. “Every day, I rise,� said interpreter Valarie Holmes in late March on her first day portraying an enslaved woman forcibly brought to Virginia 400 years ago. “And then I ask: ‘Great Spirit, speak to me and give order to my thoughts, my words, my hands, my feet this day.’ �

A group of dozens of visitors to Historic Jamestowne, the preserved site of the first permanent English settlement in the United States, listened on the windswept banks of the river as Ms. Holmes spoke, including snippets of faith in her story.

The presentation is just one of many ways Americans are commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of “taken people,� as Ms. Holmes calls the first documented Africans who arrived against their will in Virginia.

About 12.5 million Africans were transported and sold during the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th centuries. More than 300,000 were shipped to the United States, historians estimate. The 1860 U.S. Census recorded a U.S. slave population of close to 4 million. The Emancipation Proclamation officially freed some Southern slaves in 1863, but many black people remained enslaved until 1865.

Archaeologists continue to work to find out more about the places where Angela and other enslaved people were brought and details of the lives they led.

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and marched some 100 miles to a pen in the Portuguese slave port of Luanda. Later, she was taken to a ship where she was chained to other captured Africans. “All I kept hearing was ‘Bautista!

Bautista!’ � she said. “And I thought, ‘John the Baptist! That cannot be good to go on a ship called John the Baptist!’ �

The ship, the San Juan Bautista, was attacked in the Gulf of Mexico before it reached its original destination on the Mexican coast.

About 60 Africans were robbed from the slave ship and transferred to two British pirate ships, according to Historic Jamestowne officials. The Treasurer, the ship that records show carried Angela, arrived a few days after the White Lion, in August 1619 in what is now known as Hampton.

Ms. Holmes’ first-person account of Angela’s life followed a First Africans Tour led by public historian Mark Summers across the green grass and brick foundations on the property. He noted that the first General Assembly and the arrival of the first Africans occurred within weeks of each other four centuries ago.

During the tour, he distributed a 1625 document that lists Angela as “Angelo� and as “a Negro woman� in the household of Capt. William Pierce. “I think it’s a very spiritual thing to do, to recognize that you are where people were before, that something important happened there,� Mr. Summers said. “You get the point of view of people who didn’t always write down the story.�

The lack of a written story means interpreters have to use “a lot of deduction� to describe how they think Angela may have lived or believed, said Mr. Summers. “I would argue if Angela’s name is Angela, that tells us something: You have a Christian name,� he said

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Legal Notices Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ALYSIA VENABLE, Plaintiff v.

CHRISTOPHER VENABLE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19002208-00 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 19th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KIMBERLY CHRISPIN, Plaintiff v.

HARRY CHRISPIN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19002210-00 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 19th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MUSTAFA DARDEN, Plaintiff v.

ANGELA DARDEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001520-00 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 16th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The 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 LEE ANN GIBBS, Plaintiff v.

AUBREY GIBBS, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL19002209-00 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 19th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, 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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19th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, 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

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 16th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

Clerk We ask for this: Richard D. Harris, Jr., Esquire Chesterfield Meadows Park 10305 Memory Lane, Suite 201 Chesterfield, VA 23832 (804) 748-7573

COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

2108, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-641 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2225-A East Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0257/030, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, 2108, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that TOM BRICKMAN, Registered Agent for 2108, LLC, 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 TOM BRICKMAN, Registered Agent for 2108, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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

OCTOBER 10, 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 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 SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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.

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-607 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1212 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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 JASMINE JOHNSON, Plaintiff v.

DEION BRANDON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001581-00 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 September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RACHAEL MILLER, Plaintiff v.

CODY DAVIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19-1895-00 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 16th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: The 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 DOUGLAS BRANCH, Plaintiff v.

ROXANNE BRANCH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001967-00 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 16th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: The 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 CITY OF RICHMOND FRANCIS WYNN, Plaintiff v.

WAYNE J. WYNN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19002282-00-8 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit, brought by Francis Wynn, is a complaint for divorce. It appearing from an affidavit that the Defendant, Wayne J. Wynn cannot be found, and that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant;

It is hereby ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before October 1, 2019 at 9:00 AM, to protect his interest herein.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Cravens & Noll, P.C. 9011 Arboretum Pkwy, Suite 200 Richmond, VA 23236 (804) 330-9220

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MARVIN MOJICA LOPEZ, Plaintiff v.

SANDRA CANO MENJIVAR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001998-00 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 4th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., CR#1 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 SUSAN SAWYER, Plaintiff v.

MICHAEL SAWYER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001929-00 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 4th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., CR#1 and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ZHA’MAR BARRICK MCLEMORE Case No. J-95590-06, 07, 08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Barrick L. Mclemore, Jr. (FATHER) & Unknown (Father) & Dynesha Cross (Mother), of Zha’mar Barrick Mclemore, child, DOB 10/24/2016, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendants Barrick L. Mclemore, Jr. (Father), Unknown (Father), & Dynesha Cross (Mother) to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 10/15/2019, at 12:00 PM, Courtroom #2.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER REGINA PEREZ, Plaintiff v.

WALTER PEREZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19002207-00 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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KATINA DYERALEXANDER, Plaintiff v.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17003420-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HENRICO COUNTY In the matter of the adoption of a child To be known as Ashlyn Elizabeth Skai Beckwith, (Birth Certificate Registration Number, 851594, Registered in West Virginia) by Imani Marcus Jesse Beckwith Case No.: CA19-36 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for Imani Marcus Jesse Beckwith to adopt the infant/child by the name of Ashlyn Elizabeth Martin and to change the infant/child’s name to Ashlyn Elizabeth Skai Beckwith.

It appearing by the affidavit that diligence has been used by or on behalf of Jessica Yvonne Beckwith to ascertain in what county or city Jonathan Wayne Robinson is without effect, it is ORDERED that Jonathan Wayne Robinson appear before this court on or before September 3, 2019, at 9 AM and protect his interests herein.

An Extract Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER,

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Property Notice Judicial Sale of Real Property Owner/s of the below listed properties are hereby given notice that thirty (30) days from the date of this notice, proceedings will be commenced under the authority of Section 58.13965 et seq. of the Code of Virginia to sell the following parcels located in the City of Richmond, Virginia for payment of delinquent taxes: 2nd Avenue 2607 N0000716011 22nd Street 1604 North E0000858011 28th Street 307 West S0000916013 31st Street 1628 North E0000795018 31st Street 1668 North E0000795017 37th Street 107 East S0042768011 37th Street 803 North E0001413008 49th Street 725 West S0053301012 Boscobel Avenue 5101 S0060265028 Campbell Avenue 5618 E0100198023 Deter Road 306 C0050885002 Fernbrook Drive 2340 C0080337032 Forest Hill Avenue 3054 S0001350007 Forest Hill Avenue 7523 C0030177084 Hanes Avenue 2916 N0000887003 Hanes Avenue 3011 N0000973031 Harwood Street 2417 S0000865035 Hazelhurst Avenue 401 N0001258068 Holly Spring Avenue 1010 S0071016011 Hopkins Road 1741 C0090249004 Hull Street 903 S0000059011 Hull Street 3052 S0001581006 Hull Street Road 5739 C0080331074 Ingram Avenue 2211 S0000764020 Ingram Avenue 2213 S0000764019 Lamb Avenue 2303 N0000545014 Madison Street 410 North N0000181013 Marshall Street 1112 West N0000466028 Nelson Street 1409 E0100106020 North Avenue 3209 N0001134016 Northumberland Avenue 2921 N0000862013 Overbrook Road 308 N0000596012 P Street 3018 E0000628022 Parkwood Avenue 2617 W0001157006 Pine Street 427 South W0000120027 Pine Street 429 South W0000120026 Rosewood Avenue 2117 W0000936008 St. James Street 917 N0000083038 The owner/s of any property listed may redeem it at any time before the date of the sale by paying all accumulated taxes, penalties, interest and cost thereon, including the pro rata costs of publication hereunder.

Gregory A. Lukanuski, Deputy City Attorney Office of the City Attorney for the City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia (804) 646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

2108, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-640 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2225 East Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000257/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, 2108, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that TOM BRICKMAN, Registered Agent for 2108, LLC, 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 TOM BRICKMAN, Registered Agent for 2108, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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 Continued on next column

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

R. HUGH RUDD, TRUSTEE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1264 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4704 King William Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S006-0246/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of R. Hugh Rudd, Trustee.

An Affidavit having been filed that R. HUGH RUDD, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE, per deed showing no designation of beneficiary filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 93A page 472 on June 15, 1944, or his successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that R. HUGH RUDD, upon information and belief d e c e a s e d , T R U S T EE , per deed showing no designation of beneficiary filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 93A page 472 on June 15, 1944, or his successor/s in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

CALVIN ARTIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-61 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3515 Florida Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1266/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Calvin Artis, Wanda Wright, Janet Wright, Tonya Williams and Trevon Williams.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CALVIN ARTIS, JANET WRIGHT, WANDA WRIGHT, TONYA WILLIAMS, and TREVON WILLIAMS, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action, 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.”

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

EVELYN C. CHRISTIAN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6030 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3718 Cary Street Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0001767/027, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Evelyn C. Christian.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EVELYN C. CHRISTIAN, 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 “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that EVELYN C. CHRISTIAN, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

HENRY ROBERT JACOBS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1771 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1 East 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000682/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Henry Robert Jacobs.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HENRY ROBERT JACOBS, upon information and belief deceased, or her/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 “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that HENRY ROBERT JACOBS, upon information and belief deceased, or her/his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-605 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1206 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest Continued on next column

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

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-606 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1208 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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.

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-630 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1210 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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 Continued on next column

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

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-608 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1220 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/0006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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.

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-609 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2406 R Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0561/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. Continued on next page

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RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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

THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

VALORIE P. WATKINS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-801 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2705 Garland Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000703/019 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Valorie P. Watkins, E. Dianne Watkins and The Willie S. Watkins, III Revocable Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VALORIE P. WATKINS and E. DIANNE WATKINS, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, 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 VALORIE P. WATKINS, E. DIANNE WATKINS, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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

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 VALORIE P. WATKINS, E. DIANNE WATKINS, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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

parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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

MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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

N0000377038 City of Richmond v.

Abtelaziz Amro, et. al.

CL18-4176 1401 North 32nd Street E0000800009 City of Richmond v. Manuel Anderson, et. al.

CL18-4178 2501 Berwyn Street S0080380025 City of Richmond v. Sarah A. Mayo, et. al.

CL18-4180 10 East 30th Street S0001345009 City of Richmond v. Rose B. Gibson, et. al.

CL18-4187 3300 Utah Place N0001075038 City of Richmond v. Pamela Jo Lester, et. al.

CL18-4189 2014 Carver Street E0001237022 City of Richmond v. George Hill, et. al.

CL18-4269 3216 2nd Avenue N0001070004 City of Richmond v. The Fndt. For Sr. Devp., et. al.

CL18-4328 1406 Bryan Street E0000604010 City of Richmond v. Juanita Burns, et. al.

CL18-4330 3408 Delaware Avenue N0001265009 City of Richmond v. Nathan Carter, et al.

CL18-3099 2021 Chicago Avenue S0000347023 City of Richmond v.

Nathaniel Winston, et al.

CL18-3144 3012 Groveland Avenue N0000985006 City of Richmond v. Terry L. McGirt, et al.

CL18-3213 3011 Veranda Avenue N0000985013 City of Richmond v. Terry L. McGirt et.al.

CL18-3215 2523 Coles Street S0090104020 City of Richmond v. Donald J. Both, et. al.

CL18-3260 7 West 20th Street S0000295030 City of Richmond v.

Orlander Burke, et al.

CL18-3571 2100 Redd Street E0000665041 City of Richmond v. Charles B. Kiser, et. al.

CL18-3936 32 East 28th Street S0001121002 City of Richmond v.

Leonard J. Byrd, et. al.

CL18-3965 713 Mitchell Street N0000280003 City of Richmond v. Ida F. Dandridge, et. al.

CL18-3995 704 Webster Street N0000280010 City of Richmond v. Mandel D. Sutton, et. al.

CL18-4001 3210 Richmond Henrico Tpk. N0001258042 City of Richmond v.

Clarence Jones, et.al.

CL18-4134 1831 Thomas Street N0000946014 City of Richmond v. Richard Harris, Jr., et. al.

CL18-4155 1831 1/3 Thomas Street N0000946013 City of Richmond v. Richard Harris, Jr., et. al.

CL18-4175 1417 North 29th Street E0000717026 City of Richmond v.

Samover, Inc., et. al.

CL18-4177 1106 ½ North 32nd Street E0000722013 City of Richmond v. Bruce Robinson, et. al.

CL18-4179 12 East 30th Street S0001345010 City of Richmond v. Rose B. Gibson, et. al.

CL18-4186 1322 North 34th Street E0000875003 City of Richmond v. Goldie B. Terry, et. al.

CL18-4188 2617 Wise Street S0000793021 City of Richmond v. Irving B. Taylor, et. al.

CL18-4191 3713 Lawson Street S0042906030 City of Richmond v. George E. Branch, et. al.

CL18-4327 1404 Bryan Street E0000604012 City of Richmond v. Juanita Burns, et. al.

CL18-4329 3205 Stockton Street S0002132012 City of Richmond v. Got, LLC, et. al.

CL18-4356 1321 North 31st Street

E0000720027 City of Richmond v.

Courtney R. Carter, et. al.

CL18-4359 2701 Selden Street E0120319001 City of Richmond v. James E. Branch et. al.

CL18-4361 1720 North 28th Street E0000864004 City of Richmond v. Isabelle T. Lasane et. al.

CL18-4372 1715 North 29th Street E0000952034 City of Richmond v. Isabelle T. Lasane et. al.

CL18-4373 2512 Porter Street S0000695005 City of Richmond v. James E. Moore et. al.

CL18-4374 2514 Porter Street S0000695004 City of Richmond v. James E. Moore et. al.

CL18-4375 1603 North 22nd Street E0000859015 City of Richmond v.

Raymond Thornton et. al.

CL18-4406 411 North 22nd Street E0000257020 City of Richmond v. Robert Ferguson, et. al.

CL18-4437 1009 Garber Street E0100071007 City of Richmond v. Helena B. Bell, et. al.

CL18-4438 2518 aka 2516 Porter Street S0000695003 City of Richmond v. Lewis Gist, Sr., et. al.

CL18-4452 1605 North 22nd Street E0000859016 City of Richmond v. George Taylor, et. al.

CL18-4453 2216 Carrington Street E0000469017 City of Richmond v. Joyce Shepherd, et. al CL18-4454 3122 1st Avenue N0001060001 City of Richmond v.

Natasher Huckaby, et. al.

CL18-4485 1209 North 31st Street E0000721023 City of Richmond v. George L. Stanley, et. al.

CL18-4564 1800 Bath Street N0000946022 City of Richmond v.

American Home Mort. et. al.

CL18-4728 405 Catherine Street N0000208007 City of Richmond v. James Lenard, et. al.

CL18-4752 1813 ½ North 28th Street E0120427006 City of Richmond v. William T. Pitts, et. al.

CL18-4805 5304 Parker Street E0100139003 City of Richmond v. Mack W. Austin, et. al.

CL18-4866 617 Northside Avenue N0001150010 City of Richmond v. CY Enterprises, Inc. et. al.

CL18-4867 1902 Maury Street S0000290008 City of Richmond v. Richard L. Taylor, et. al.

CL18-4880 1436 Rogers Street E0000768003 City of Richmond v. Willie S. Taylor, et. al.

CL18-5020 1831 2/3 Thomas Street N0000946012 City of Richmond v. Albert Cook, Sr., et. al.

CL18-5058 1919 North 28th Street E0120401002 City of Richmond v. Rachel Harris, et. al.

CL18-5059 2024 Newbourne Street E0120285018 City of Richmond v. Harry Ransom, et. al.

CL18-5119 3810 P Street E0001768018 City of Richmond v. Thelma Earl Peay, et. al.

CL18-5237 907 North 24th Street E0000429018 City of Richmond v. Chris Howell, et. al.

CL18-5277 5512 Walmsley Boulevard C0080815036 City of Richmond v. Hiram C. Smith, et. al.

CL18-5281 1022 Kinney Street N0000619094 City of Richmond v. Mary Pauline Page, et. al.

CL18-6175 30 East 28th Street S0001121001 City of Richmond v. Jessie Hilton, et. al.

CL19-610 2401 Melbourne Street

E0120278001 City of Richmond v. Clarke, et. al.

CL18-5254 2407 Melbourne Street E0120278004 City of Richmond v.

Jackson, et. al.

CL18-5255 3007 Alpine Avenue N0000983019 City of Richmond v.

Thompson, et. al CL18-5256 2110 Newbourne Street E0120286027 City of Richmond v. Nelson, et. al.

CL18-5260 1810 North 29th Street E0000951011 City of Richmond v. Minor, et. al.

CL18-5279 1110 ½ North 30th Street E0000568012 City of Richmond v. Simms, et. al.

CL18-5280 1311 West Leigh Street N0000573010 City of Richmond v. Smith, et. al.

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

ROBERT W. MOORE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-449 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2620 Newbourne Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120318/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert W. Moore.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT W. MOORE, 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, HATTIE MAY MOORE, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ROBERT. W. MOORE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HATTIE MAY MOORE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

VALORIE P. WATKINS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-803 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2700 North Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0703/010 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Valorie P. Watkins, E. Dianne Watkins and The Willie S. Watkins, III Revocable Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VALORIE P. WATKINS and E. DIANNE WATKINS, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, 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 VALORIE P. WATKINS, E. DIANNE WATKINS, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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 Continued on next column

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

VALORIE P. WATKINS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-804 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2706 North Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0703/009 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Valorie P. Watkins, E. Dianne Watkins and The Willie S. Watkins, III Revocable Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VALORIE P. WATKINS and E. DIANNE WATKINS, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, 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 VALORIE P. WATKINS, E. DIANNE WATKINS, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

VALORIE P. WATKINS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-802 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2715 Garland Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000703/022 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Valorie P. Watkins, E. Dianne Watkins and The Willie S. Watkins, III Revocable Trust.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VALORIE P. WATKINS and E. DIANNE WATKINS, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, THE WILLIE S. WATKINS, III REVOCABLE TRUST, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in Continued on next column

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

THOMAS M. JACKSON, III, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-60 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3709 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0002466/036, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Thomas M. Jackson, III, Shawn Jackson, Kiarri Jackson and Rosalind Morris.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, THOMAS M. JACKSON, III, SHAWN JACKSON, KIARRI JACKSON, and ROSALIND MORRIS, 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 THOMAS M. JACKSON, III, SHAWN JACKSON, KIARRI JACKSON, ROSALIND MORRIS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

JOHN J. RIEMANN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-170 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5601 Wainwright Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C005-0719/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, .

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JOHN J. RIEMANN, 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 JOHN J. RIEMANN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-603 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1200 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said Continued on next column

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

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-604 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1202 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 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.

ADVANTA E. JOHNSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-184 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1412 Bowen Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071233/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Advanta E. Johnson and Edward L. Johnson, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ADVANTA E. JOHNSON, and EDWARD L. JOHNSON, JR, 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 ADVANTA E. JOHNSON, and EDWARD L. JOHNSON, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOBER 10, 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.

MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-656 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1207 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, 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 IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer the following real estate for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday August 21, 2019 at 2:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any other terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale.

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

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

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

Properties are sold “as is” without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction.

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

Questions may be directed to Gregory A. Lukanuski at greg.lukanuski @richmondgov.com / (804) 646-7949, or to Christie Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ richmondgov.com / (804) 646-6940.

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

BID COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION ITB # 19-1891-7EAR – Bloomingdale Avenue and Dumbarton Road Sewer Rehabilitation – Rehabilitate approx. 1,300 linear feet of 8-inch sanitary sewer main and associated laterals and manholes. Due 2:00 pm, August 28, 2019. Additional information available at: https://henrico.us/finance/ divisions/purchasing/.

The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: IFB No. 190023643 Road Diet – Improve Bicycle Accommodations Project UPC108888 Due Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 @ 2:30 P.M. Receipt Location: 900 East Broad Street, Room 1104, 11th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219 Questions regarding IFB shall be submitted no later than Friday, August 16, 2019 Information or copies of the above solicitations are available by contacting Procurement Services, at the City of Richmond website (www.

RichmondGov.com), or at 11th Floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Phone (804) 646-5722 or faxed (804) 6465989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

For reference purposes, documents may be examined at the above location.

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