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‘Best gift ever’ Henrico mother receives the gift of life — a liver transplant — from 21-year-old son By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Thanks to receiving from her oldest son what she calls “the best gift ever,” Tashawn D. Jones, 41, is enjoying an especially bright holiday season. Just a few months ago, her prospects for celebrating Christmas were dim. Her liver was failing and her doctors told her she needed a transplant. That’s when her son, Au’Qwon M. Turner, stepped up and gave her part of his liver after tests showed he fit the profile of an ideal donor. A health care worker himself, the slender, soft-spoken 21-year-old called the donation a no-brainer. “Honestly, it was my mother,” said Mr. Turner, who provides in-home personal care for patients and also works at the McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center in South Side. “If I could help her out in her sickness, I definitely wanted to do it.” For Ms. Jones, a former employee at VCU Medical Center where she had the life-saving transplant operation in late September, her son’s generosity has given her a new lease on life. Her liver failure left her disabled and unable to work for more than two years as her health declined. She and her youngest son, a freshPlease turn to A4

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Tashawn D. Jones continues to recuperate at her mother’s home in Henrico County after transplant surgery in which she received part of a liver donated by her son, Au’Qwon M. Turner.

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Tracey Avery-Geter, a nurse practitioner supervisor, gets a dose of the new Moderna vaccine Wednesday morning from Sara Noble, a clinical nurse manager, at the Richmond Health District office in Downtown.

Latest COVID-19 vaccine ‘a great opportunity’ By George Copeland Jr.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine has come to Virginia, with Richmond and Henrico officials marking the arrival with a news conference Wednesday morning following the first vaccinations. Shirley Bakka, a public health nurse with the Henrico County Health District who specializes in immunizations, was one of the first to receive the Moderna vaccine dose. She had no trepidation in receiving the vaccine. In fact, state health officials sent out a photograph published in 1962 of Ms. Bakka as a 2-year-old in Please turn to A4

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Biden taps diverse slate for top jobs By Reginald Stuart

Backed by repeated state and U.S. Supreme Court affirmations that a majority of voters in America legally elected Democrat Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States, President-elect Biden and his teammate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, have been steadily building a unique White House leadership team that dramatically reflects the nation’s diversity. With hundreds of appointments to go in the coming weeks, 12 of 42 Biden’s leadership designees are African-American, including retired Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III as secretary of defense and U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio as secretary of housing and urban development. Both are cabinet level positions. President-elect Biden also picked Michael S. Regan, a North Carolinian known for pursuing the cleanup of toxic

waste dumps and pollution-ridden landfills in poor and minority neighborhoods, to serve as the new director of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Regan currently heads North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality. In addition, President-elect Biden has selected noted economist Cecilia E. Rouse

to chair the president’s Council of Economic Advisers; named veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; and appointed former National Security Adviser Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Please turn to A4

Free COVID-19 testing Free community testing for COVID19 continues. The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following location: Tuesday, Dec. 29, noon to 2 p.m., The Diamond parking lot, 3001 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. Drive-thru testing. Appointments are encouraged by calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Testing will be offered while test supplies last. The Chesterfield County Health Department also is offering free COVID-19 testing at the following locations: Second Baptist Church, 5100 W. Hundred Road, Chester, 1 to 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28. Walmsley Boulevard United Methodist Church, 2950 Walmsley Blvd., 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Dec. 29; and 10 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Dec. 31. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church,

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Rei Alvarez picks out a tree at Frank Pichel’s tree lot on Dec. 6. Mr. Pichel cut Charlie Brown-style Christmas trees from his land and sold them for whatever people wanted to pay to benefit the Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School in Richmond’s East End.

‘Charlie Brown’ Christmas trees lift school, spirits By Denise Lavoie The Associated Press

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Quality time Clarence Thornton and his 5-year-old son, Chauncey, spend quality time together Tuesday at Hotchkiss Field in North Side. The youngster, a kindergartener at Richmond Prep, is close to his father and loves spending time outdoors with him. When the two are together, Mr. Thornton says he offers his son lessons on manners and how to play with other youngsters. The proud dad said young Chauncey received straight As on his first report card.

Frank Pichel’s Christmas trees will probably never be chosen to light up New York’s Rockefeller Center. They look more like the droopy, pitiful tree made famous in the 1965 children’s animated classic, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” But Mr. Pichel and his customers don’t seem to mind in a year when little seems normal. His trees have been flying off a tiny neighborhood lot since he started selling them last month to raise money for a private middle school that provides scholarships for students from an impoverished area of Richmond. Customer Camm Tyler, a 36-year-old digital consultant, looked over his uneven tree as he propped it up against a fence and prepared to carry it home. “This is the perfect 2020 tree,” he said. Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School in Richmond’s East End was started Please turn to A4

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond These two signs depict the old and the new when it comes to the name of this North Side street whose residents include U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne B. Holton. Left, the aging street sign still reads Confederate Avenue, while the sign in the median, right, displays the new name City Council officially approved last month for the street — Laburnum Park Boulevard. The city Department of Public Works has not announced when the replacement signs bearing the new name will be put in place.

Holiday schedule

In observance of Christmas, Friday, Dec. 25, please note the following: Government State and federal offices: Closed Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25. City of Richmond offices: Closed Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25. County offices in Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover: Closed Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25. Public schools Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover public schools will be closed through Friday, Jan. 1. Public libraries Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover public libraries will be closed Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25. Garbage and recycling collection No trash or recycling collection on Friday, Dec. 25. The collection schedule will be delayed by one day for the remainder of the week. U.S. Postal Service Post offices closed and no

regular mail delivery on Friday, Dec. 25. Regular service and delivery resume on Saturday, Dec. 26. Some post office locations may close early on Thursday, Dec. 24. DMV service centers Closed Friday, Dec. 25. GRTC Buses operate on a normal weekday schedule on Thursday Dec. 24, with Express routes remaining on COVID-reduced schedules. Buses operate on a holiday schedule on Friday, Dec. 25. Banks and financial institutions Closed Friday, Dec. 25. ABC stores Retail stores close 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24, and reopen at noon Saturday, Dec. 26. Malls, major retailers, movie theaters Varies. Inquire at specific locations. Richmond Free Press office Closed Friday, Dec. 25.

Applications being accepted for new Dominion Energy Educational Equity Scholarship Program Applications currently are being accepted for the Dominion Energy Educational Equity Scholarship Program, a new $10 million scholarship fund announced by the energy giant in July to aid AfricanAmerican, Latino and other young people from under-represented groups seeking a college education or vocational training. Applicants must be a high school senior or graduate, or a current college undergraduate who lives in Virginia or one of nine other states served by Dominion Energy. Students must have at least a 3.0 GPA and plan to enroll full time in an accredited two-year or four-year institution or a vocational-technical school. Applicants also must identify as a member of a historically underserved group, including African-American, Latino, American Indian, Asian or Pacific Islander. The company is awarding 20 $5,000 scholarships for students in two-year programs and 40 $10,000 scholarships for students pursuing four-year degrees. The scholarships are renewable for up to three additional years, contingent on maintaining a cumulative 2.5 GPA. Winners will be selected based on their academic record, demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community activities, work experience, a statement of goals and aspirations, unusual personal or family circumstances and an online recommendation. According to the company, 80 percent of the scholarships will be awarded based on a combination of need and merit, with the remaining 20 percent given based on merit. The application deadline is 4 p.m. Jan. 25. Winners will be notified in May. The program, which is being administered by Scholarship America, was announced during the summer during the national protests calling for racial justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police. Dominion officials said at the time the initiative was in recognition of the role played by HBCUs in African-American advancement and the importance of education as an equalizer in society. Details and to apply: www.dominionenergy.com/EquityScholarships

Record mail volume and worker shortage lead to USPS delays The U.S. Postal Service is struggling to deliver gifts, medications and other mail in a timely fashion. Several clerks and retired members of the Postal Service, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, have said that deliveries in the Greater Richmond area are backlogged at the mail processing center in Sandston. “I paid for priority delivery of a package my mother needs in New York, and it still had not arrived a week later, though it should take no more than three days,” said one retiree. “I found out it had yet to be processed. There’s a lot of mail like that, I was told.” USPS spokeswoman Freda Sauter confirmed that the mail is moving slower and attributed it to the impact of the pandemic on the workforce as large amounts of holiday mail has poured in. She noted the Postal Service has logged a record volume of letters and packages needing to be moved at the same time the Postal Service is experiencing a “temporary employee shortage due to the COVID-19 surge.” Ms. Sauter also noted that the USPS is facing transportation constraints as airlines reduce flights that carry mail and trucking firms face cutbacks due to the impact of the virus on the supply chain in numerous industries. – JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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Gov. Northam takes action to help unemployed Tens of thousands of Virginians who lost their jobs, but whose applications for unemployment benefits remain in limbo, are about to get their money. Gov. Ralph S. Northam on Tuesday ordered the Virginia Employment Commission to distribute unemployment checks to the 40,000 to 50,000 people whose cases are still being adjudicated. Many are still waiting for the VEC to hear and make a determination of their eligibility or to eliminate inaccurate information from their file. The governor’s action means those individuals will get paid, with VEC able to later seek to recover the money if the benefits turned out to be improperly paid. About 1.4 million people in Virginia have filed for unemployment since March, according to the governor’s office, or more than 10 times the approximately 140,000 claims filed in 2019. While the governor praised the VEC for distributing “more than $9.7 billion in federal and state benefits since the start

of the pandemic, which has helped hundreds of thousands of Virginians get through these hard times,” he noted that the new order will put such benefits in the hands of workers who have been left out and desperately need assistance. In addition, the governor’s order allows businesses to escape an increase in the unemployment rating tax due to layoffs resulting from the pandemic between April and June 30, when the state’s 2019-20 fiscal year ended. Private employers pay the tax to support unemployment insurance. Collectively, they were to pay an additional $200 million next year as a result of the increase in unemployment during that threemonth period in 2020 to help the state’s trust fund recover. The governor and General Assembly put an additional $200 million into the trust fund to help mitigate the impact. Companies that have laid off workers since July 1 likely will be looking for similar help next year when the tax is adjusted for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

Money available for one-time help with overdue city utility bills Behind on your utility bill? For city residents, there is help. The Richmond Department of Public Utilities is accepting applications from customers to pay off the backlog. The assistance is coming from DPU’s share of $60 million that Gov. Ralph S. Northam allocated from the federal CARES Act to aid municipal utilities and their customers. According to DPU, the program allows for a one-time payment per household or business that applies by mail or online by Sunday, Jan. 17. Qualifying applicants must be behind on city utility bills because of job loss or

other hardship caused by the pandemic and have not previously received DPU assistance this year with utility bills, DPU stated. The program applies to past due bills from March 1 to Dec. 30. Applications are available online at wwww.rva.gov/publicutilities. Application forms also are available at City Hall in Downtown, the East District Center at 701 N. 25th St. in Church Hill and the Southside Community Services Center at 4100 Hull Street Road in South Side, the department stated, or by calling customer assistance at (804) 646-4646. “This assistance is in addition to the suspension of disconnections that began in

early March and remains in effect,” DPU Director Calvin Farr stated. The revamped state budget approved in November also includes language barring all utilities from disconnecting service until 60 days after the state of emergency is lifted unless the losses from customers’ failure to pay creates financial instability. That language applies to electric service, as well as water, sewer and natural gas service. Still, the new program aims to assist by allowing customers to pay off a backlog of utility debt so that would be behind them once the moratorium on disconnections is lifted. – JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Lee statue leaves U.S. Capitol; injunction keeps statue on Monument Avenue By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed with ease Monday from the U.S. Capitol, but the towering statue of the slavery-defending general will remain on Monument Avenue for now, courtesy of a Virginia Supreme Court ruling. The state’s highest court refused to give Gov. Ralph S. Northam what he had hoped for—the legal right to remove the six-story Lee figure that stands over Richmond. The Virginia Supreme Court rejected the state’s legal request to dissolve a lower court’s order that blocks the governor from taking down the state-owned, white supremacist image still in place on Monument Avenue. The court also rejected state Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s companion request for the seven justices to put a rush on hearing a case involving three Monument Avenue property owners who want to keep the statue in place and believe they have a property right that makes their request viable, Mr. Herring’s office stated in response to a Free Press inquiry. Two months ago, Richmond Circuit Court Judge W. Reilly Marchant dismissed the property owners’lawsuit against the governor, but barred the state from taking any steps to remove the Lee statue to allow the property owners to appeal to the high court. Offering no public explanation, the state Supreme Court on Dec. 18 kept Judge Marchant’s injunction against removing the statue intact and decided to allow the case to proceed normally. The court directed its clerk’s office to put the case involving the Lee statue in the court’s inactive file until all the documents and briefs are in place, according to court records. No hearing date has been scheduled. Legal experts suggested that the court’s action indicates that at least a majority of justices want to consider the merits of the issues regarding the governor’s authority to remove the statue, which were raised by the property owners. Meanwhile, on Monday, a state-hired company collected the Lee statue from the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, where it has stood for the past 111 years as one of two statues representing Virginia. The other is a statue of George Washington, the nation’s first president. Gov. Northam announced on Dec. 16 that a commission he set up recommended as a replacement a new statue of the late Barbara R. Johns, whose teenage protest

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against deplorable school conditions in Prince Edward County helped bring an end to government-enforced racial segregation. The General Assembly still must approve the choice of Ms. Johns, which has gained widespread support. The legislature already has endorsed Gov. Northam’s request for $500,000 to sculpt and set up the new statue in the U.S. Capitol. The selection drew praise from U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, who, while governor, commissioned a Civil Rights Monument for Richmond’s Capitol Square that prominently features Ms. Johns, who died in 1991. “Barbara Johns bravely led a protest that defied segregation and challenged the barriers that she and her African-American peers faced,” Sen. Warner stated. “She will represent the best of our Commonwealth in the U.S. Capitol.” The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus lauded the removal of the Lee statue in a statement Monday that said visitors to the U.S. Capitol have been greeted far too long by “imposing symbols of hate, treason and white supremacy.” By contrast, Ms. Johns “symbolizes tenacity, courage, justice, positive change and the future.” “It’s time for us to start singing the songs of some of the Virginians who have done great things that have gone unnoticed,”

Workers delicately remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol following a recommendation last week by a state commission that it be replaced with a statue of the late teen civil rights activist Barbara R. Johns. The Lee statue was one of two representing Virginia in the U.S. Capitol and among 13 located in the Crypt of the Capitol, representing the 13 original colonies. At the request of the commission, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond has accepted ownership of the statue.

stated Delegate Jeion Ward of Hampton, who sponsored the legislation creating the commission that made the replacement recommendation. “This is a proud moment for our Commonwealth, and I am humbled to have been a part of it,” Delegate Ward said. “If we are going to continue building a more inclusive and just Commonwealth and country, we must acknowledge and denounce the darkest parts of our nation’s history, not celebrate them,” the VLBC previously stated. As a 16-year-old in 1951, Ms. Johns led a student walkout at the Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville to protest the dilapidated and decaying condition of the high school for Black students that starkly contrasted with a new county high school for white students. The protest brought in NAACP lawyers Oliver W. Hill Sr. and Spottswood W. Robinson III, whose lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of government-imposed segregation of public school students by race. That Virginia suit became part of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that overturned the longstanding “separate-but-equal” doctrine of racial discrimination and ultimately resulted in the dismantling of mandated segregation in all areas.

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Don’t spend your stimulus check just yet Free Press staff, wire report

On hold. That’s the status of the $600 government checks and a host of other aid contained in the $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package Congress overwhelmingly approved Monday. On the surface, it looked like the deal was complete on the legislation that also provides an extension of an eviction moratorium until Jan. 31 and a continuation of the current additional $300 monthly federal unemployment benefit. Then, President Trump created chaos by suggesting he won’t sign the legislation into law until changes are made. The result is an uncertain status for the stimulus package that also would prevent a shutdown of the government next Tuesday, Dec. 29. “I am asking Congress to amend this bill

and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” President Trump said in a 4-minute video posted Tuesday night on Twitter. He left the White House on Wednesday afternoon to spend the holidays in Florida at Mar-a-Lago. While the president did not outright threaten a veto of the COVID-19 relief bill, he labeled a “disgrace” the bill that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had negotiated on the president’s behalf and that passed by wide margins. President Trump called on Congress to immediately get rid of what he described as “wasteful and unnecessary items … and to send me a suitable bill, or else the next administration will have to deliver a Covid relief package, and maybe that administration will be me, and we will get it done.” Under the U.S. Constitution, the presi-

dent has 10 days to sign a bill or it goes into effect. In this case, the president can effectively kill the legislation by holding it until the current 116th Congress officially ends Sunday, Jan. 3. That is when the 117th Congress, which was elected Nov. 3, will officially convene, which would require the legislation to be taken up again and repassed. At this point, uncertainty reigns about the bill’s fate. Democrats, who wanted bigger stimulus checks, are pushing for a fast vote to do that, but it is unclear whether the Republican majority in the Senate, which previously balked, would go along. Both the House and Senate are to return next week to deal with the president’s veto of a separate defense spending bill, but as of Wednesday night, no one on Capitol Hill knew what would happen. “It’s a train wreck,” one staffer said.

Latest COVID-19 vaccine ‘a great opportunity’ Continued from A1

Minnesota receiving the polio vaccine sugar cube. While she recalled the oral polio vaccine “tasted good” when she was a toddler, her reaction to the Moderna injection was more rooted in the promise it holds for the future. “It feels good because it does give us hope this vaccine will help us end the pandemic,” Ms. Bakka said. “I encourage everyone to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when you can.” Tracey Avery-Geter, a nurse practitioner supervisor with the Richmond City Health District who administers COVID-19 tests at the health department’s community testing events, also took the Moderna vaccine yesterday. She encouraged people to take advantage of the health department’s free weekly COVID19 testing events and to heed safety guidelines. She called the COVID-19 vaccine a “great opportunity.” “There will be a time for everyone” to take the vaccine, Ms. Avery-Geter said. “We still have a hard road ahead, but we’re moving forward.” Currently, Virginia is in Phase 1a of its plan prioritizing who will get the COVID-19 vaccine. Those with top priority are health care workers and residents and employees of long-term care facilities. CVS and Walgreens announced Monday that they’ve begun administering vaccines to people in assisted living facilities in accord with an agreement with federal officials. Virginia’s priority plan is based on recommendations from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls for front line essential workers, including teachers, and those age 65 and older and those with underlying medical conditions to be vaccinated next. Younger people and the general public would be in the largest group to receive the vaccine perhaps in the spring or summer. So far, it has been smooth sailing for those who have received the Moderna vaccine or the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that was delivered to hospitals across the nation last week, including in Richmond. Both vaccines require a second shot three weeks later to be fully

Shirley Bakka, public health nurse with the Henrico County Health District, speaks Wednesday after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at the Richmond Health District office in Downtown. Above, a newspaper article published in 1962 shows her receiving the oral polio vaccine in Minnesota.

effective. The side effects that have been reported — temporary fevers, aches and sore muscles — are being explained by medical officials as expected, yet subsiding within a few days based on experience from clinical trials. The first supply of the Moderna vaccine arrived in Virginia on Tuesday, according to the Virginia Department of Health, following an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. M. Norman Oliver, Virginia’s health commissioner, said the state plans to distribute the initial 140,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine to 96 health care systems around the state. Virginia also was allocated about 50,000 more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that were to be delivered this week. “This arrival simultaneously gave our staff an enormous sense of hope and responsibility,” said Dr. Melissa Viray, deputy director of the Richmond and Henrico health districts, noted the impact the coronavirus has had on the region’s elderly and its African-American and Latino communities. “We mourn those hardships our communities have experienced and we celebrate the hope that lies ahead.” Last Friday, the Virginia Department of Health reported that the state’s expected shipment of vaccine in December had been cut from a total of 480,000 doses to 370,650. Dr. Oliver said the reduction is a consequence of

the production of the vaccine and not something unique to Virginia. Other states are handling similar reductions, he said. While Dr. Oliver said he

expects “ups and downs” in the manufacturing level of the vaccine, he remained confident that there will be “sufficient vaccine over the course of this vaccination campaign” for all.

Free COVID-19 testing Continued from A1 4400 Beulah Road, 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Dec. 30. Faith and Family Center, 7900 Walmsley Blvd., 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31. Testing is encouraged for those who have COVID-19 symptoms. The testing is free, and no reservations are necessary. Details: Chesterfield County Health Department at (804) 318-8207. Even with the roll out in the last 10 days of the PfizerBioNTech and Moderna vaccines for the coronavirus, the number of cases and deaths continue to grow in the United States and across Virginia. The United States passed the 18.3 million mark in cases on Wednesday, with 323,000 deaths. Records also were set Tuesday for the number of people hospitalized with COVID19 in the country. The Harvard Global Health Institute and the Brown School of Public Health said Virginia and 47 other states are at a “tipping point” when it comes to the potential risk of the virus, with stay-at-home orders considered not just advisable, but necessary to stem the spread. The Virginia Department of Health reported on Wednesday 4,652 new cases in the last 24 hours, raising the cumulative total to 319,133 positive cases of COVID-19 statewide, along with 17,271 hospitalizations and 4,760 deaths. According to Virginia data, African-Americans comprised 21.6 percent of cases and 25 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 21.7 percent of the cases and 8.2 percent of deaths. Locally, as of Wednesday, 8,525 cases, 544 hospitalizations and 91 deaths were reported in Richmond; 11,257 cases, 188 hospitalizations and 285 deaths were reported in Henrico; and 12,702 cases, 584 hospitalizations and 161 deaths were reported in Chesterfield. Henrico County officials reported that 20 Henrico firefighters in six fire houses have been affected. Seven firefighters have tested positive for the coronavirus and are isolated at their homes. Another 13 are in quarantine after close contact but testing negative. Henrico Fire Chief Alec Oughton said service in the county shouldn’t be impacted.

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Policy Council. “It’s an exciting time,” said Dr. Makola M. Abdullah, president of Virginia State University, echoing the sentiment of others about the post-election atmosphere. “I think they (the Biden-Harris team) are listening to the community,” said Dr. Abdullah, referring to President-elect Biden’s choices for White House jobs. “I feel really good about what’s happening.” President-elect Biden, a former U.S. senator from Delaware who served as vice president for two terms under former President Obama, is pushing forward in combining a seasoned White House staff with a mix of skilled government veterans and political rookies anxious to help the incoming administration. Urging an oft-times uneasy general public to embrace his sense of respect, patience and civility, Mr. Biden has made it clear that his appointments will include everybody at the discussion and decisionmaking table, especially people from

historically marginalized groups. The White House team starts with the president, vice president and the heads of the 15 executive departments of the federal government. Mr. Biden’s designees so far have been sweeping in their breadth of diversity and experience. In addition to Rep. Fudge of Cleveland, a veteran lawmaker and previous chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Gen. Austin brings more than 40 years of military service to his Pentagon post. Ms. Rice, a South Carolina native, is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a foreign policy expert. The post, Domestic Policy Council director, will be restored to Cabinet level by Mr. Biden. Dr. Rouse, dean of the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, previously worked on the economic councils of former Presidents Obama and Clinton. President-elect Biden also nominated Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, an attorney and senior international economic adviser

in the Obama administration, to serve as deputy treasury secretary. If confirmed, a Biden statement said, Mr. Adeyemo would be the first Black person to hold that top treasury role. Congressman Cedric Richmond of Louisiana was appointed senior adviser to the president and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Vice President-elect Harris named Hartina M. “Tina” Flournoy, an attorney, veteran Democratic strategist and aide to the Clintons, as her chief of staff. Mr. Biden also announced his White House communications office will be run by six women, a first in the history of the office. That team will include two Black women – political strategist Symone D. Sanders of Omaha, who was national press secretary for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential campaign, and Ashley Etienne, a senior adviser on the Biden campaign and former aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who will serve as communications director for the vice president.

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man at Highland Springs High School, live with her mother, Angela Jones. Though still in recovery, the Richmond native said the operation is allowing her to focus on fulfilling her ambition to open her own catering business. “I love cooking, and I used to do that on the side,” she said. For Mr. Turner, the donation meant a seven-day hospital stay and two months of recovery, including a month’s bed rest. “I just started back to work” two weeks ago, said Mr. Turner, adding that at this point, “I feel great.” For Ms. Jones, the operation’s aftermath has been more complicated despite its success. She said she spent 35 days in the Downtown hospital and survived life-threatening pneumonia and blood clots before her release. Along with taking medicine daily to prevent rejection of her new organ, she also had to wear a colostomy bag for the first two weeks. Because of the extended hospital stay, “I had to learn to walk again and build up my strength” with help from a visiting physical therapist, she said. Still, Ms. Jones can say that what she has gone through since the operation is better than what she endured when she needed a liver. She said the symptoms began nearly six years ago. She said she would experience sudden sweating and chills. “I had a lot of pain in my back and stomach,” she said, and a few years later, the whites of her eyes began turning yellow. For the first few years, she said her treating physicians could not pinpoint the problem. She took a variety of medicines, but she said nothing seemed to work. After being transferred to VCU Health more than two years ago, she said physicians diagnosed the problem and initially used medication. In June, after everything else had failed, her name was added to the transplant list. Two months later in August, a liver became available, but when she went for the scheduled operation, there was disappointment. She said she was told the liver proved unusable. That’s when her son, who was celebrating his 21st birthday at the time, got involved. “There are really no words to express what I am feeling,” said Ms. Jones, whose bond with her son has only been strengthened. “When you give birth to someone, you don’t think that one day that child might save your life,” she said. “But that is what happened. “What more could one ask for.”

‘Charlie Brown’ Christmas trees lift school, spirits Continued from A1

in 2009 by a group of local Episcopal parishioners and priests who wanted to help children from low-income families change the trajectory of their lives. The faith-based school is funded entirely by donors and local foundations. All of its 118 students receive full scholarships. Mr. Pichel, a commercial animator and part-time professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, doesn’t have children or any other connection to the school. But after donating some athletic equipment to the school a few years ago, he decided he wanted to do something more this year. He thought of the gangly Virginia pine trees that grow wild on a 66-acre plot of land he owns about two hours west of Richmond. Would people want them for their Christmas trees, he wondered? His trees are not like the full-branched, perfectly shaped trees many people buy for Christmas. Instead, most are scrawny and uneven-looking. But Mr. Pichel decided to give it a try. At first, he picked out the best-looking trees on his land, thinking they would appeal to more buyers. But then he thought of the sad-looking tree in the Charlie Brown Christmas special. His trees are taller than Charlie Brown’s but just as scraggly. “When people want a Charlie Brown tree, they want the uniqueness and the weirdness. The ones with the fewest branches sold the quickest because they’re even more like Charlie Brown’s,” Mr. Pichel said. Mr. Pichel cut down 70 trees, loaded them into the back of his pickup truck and started selling them right after Thanksgiving from a small grassy lot he rented for $1 from two generous owners who wanted to help. He was stunned by the response. He sold 180 trees in three weekends, raising a total of $5,554 for the school. He let people set their own prices; most paid $20 to $50 for a tree. “Some people just stopped by and said, ‘I don’t want a tree. I just want to make a donation,’ ” he said. Rei Alvarez, an illustrator and musician, said he and his wife loved the nostalgia and “Charlie Brown aesthetic” of Mr. Pichel’s trees. “I totally grew up with it, totally,” Mr. Alvarez said. He said buying a less-than-perfect tree fits with his desire to avoid the commercialism of Christmas and to teach his 2-yearold son to appreciate the simpler things in life. “As an artist, I know it’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it,” he said. “You give the few branches you have a little love.” As Mr. Alvarez picked out a tree, Mary Jane D’Arville played the theme song from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and traditional Christmas carols on a harp on the sidewalk next to Mr. Pichel’s lot. Ms. D’Arville, who met Mr. Pichel at a local dog park, offered to provide Christmas music as soon as she heard what he was doing for the school. “Those trees, they represent that whole spirit of the Charlie Brown Christmas,” she said. Head of School Mike Maruca said the community enthusiasm for Mr. Pichel’s trees is attributable to “people wanting to help their neighbor,” in this case, the school. He said it’s a sentiment that may be stronger this year because of the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “Maybe all of us are feeling a little bit like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, given 2020,” Mr. Maruca said. “I don’t think we’re all feeling like robust, well-proportioned trees. We’re all kind of bruised.”

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Resolutions for the Biden-Harris administration Electing a new president and vice president was a gift that 81 million Americans gave to ourselves and to one another. Every court rejection of Trump’s bogus stolen election claims was one more stocking stuffer. Now the only thing left on my Christmas wish list is a victory in Georgia’s U.S. Senate races and an end to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s power-abusing, progressobstructing reign as Senate Majority Leader. Actually, that’s not quite true. I also want a Biden-Harris administration whose vision and boldness are worthy of the hard work and sacrifices that so many people made to put them in office. The Democratic Party is a diverse coalition and we shouldn’t expect everyone to agree on the best way to approach every issue. It’s natural that we’ll have disagreements and debates. But we can unite enthusiastically behind a broad set of values that we want our leaders to advance: Equality, fairness, opportunity and justice for all. And we can agree on the need to move quickly to reverse many of the Trump administration execu-

tive orders and initiatives that undermined those values. That’s why leaders from across the progressive movement are thrilled to look forward to the day very soon when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn in. We are prepared to support them and fight alongside them

Ben Jealous and, when necessary, to push them toward boldness in advancing policies that reflect our highest ideals and the urgent needs of millions of Americans. Here are some resolutions that leaders of the Biden administration should make right now to make 2021 a much happier new year than the one we are leaving behind: 1. Make it a priority to start fixing the federal courts by nominating fair-minded judges and justices who are committed to protecting civil and human rights. 2. Restore integrity to the 2020 Census by reversing illegal efforts by the Trump administration to restrict who gets counted. 3. Revive the U.S. Department of Justice as the nation’s primary protector of voting rights and civil rights and move aggressively against state and local efforts to restrict voting rights. 4. Do everything in our power to reunite children and families

separated by the immoral actions of the Trump administration. 5. Empower the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department to investigate abuses by state and local law enforcement, use consent decrees to get commitments for reform and ensure accountability and more just policing through steady oversight. 6. Give stability to millions of immigrant families by fully resuming the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, reversing President Trump’s Muslim ban orders and policies, reopening the door to settling refugees and eliminating the public charge rule that discriminates against poor people. 7. Recognize that religious liberty is meant to be a shield to protect everyone’s ability to exercise their religion. 8. Reverse a Trump executive order that prevented federal agencies, contractors and grantees from discussing the impact of racism in the workplace or embracing policies to advance diversity and equal opportunity. 9. Issue guidance establishing a necessary use of force standard that allows police use of force only as a last resort. 10. Direct the Justice Department to explore legal options for limiting or ending the qualified immunity doctrine that insulates police officials from liability for serious misconduct.

Celebrate this holiday with care After almost eight months of quarantine, face masks and hand sanitizer, we are now in the middle of two unprecedented events: The COVID-19 pandemic and the first holiday season under measures that have changed how we carry out our family traditions. The reality is clear. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll, twothirds of the public are worried they or their family will get sick from the coronavirus. These disruptions have brought with them some very difficult emotional and mental challenges. Think about how it is affecting each of us on a personal level: Illness or fear of illness, social isolation, economic insecurity, disruption of routine and loss of loved ones. The impact is real and we can’t kid ourselves: Many of us living with some degree of depression and/or anxiety. On top of that, we have a generation or two of children and young people who are looking to us to guide them through. Our lives have been turned upside-down, but we must remember that our children and young people are impacted by the stress of their parents and other adults around them. So, if we are struggling with our own mental health during the holidays, you can believe that our young people are impacted as well. Throughout the history of Black people in this coun-

try, family and community have sustained us even in the darkest moments of the racial inequities that have always existed. What’s being asked of us now is to do something that is unlike anything we’ve ever thought possible – celebrate the holidays and honor family traditions without being together. Let’s not make the mistake of

Glenn Ellis thinking that because the holidays are here, we can just immerse ourselves into them, oblivious to the wear and tear of having spent the entire past year in the grips of one of the deadliest pandemics in history. This is especially true if you had a pre-existing mental health issue, are a low-income individual, a person of color or close to someone who suffered or died from COVID-19. Enough time has passed for researchers to look at just how bad this pandemic has affected our mental and emotional health. A Boston University study found that the rates were higher than what we saw after 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina. Yet, unlike 9/11 or Katrina, COVID-19 isn’t something bad that happens, and then we get back to “normal.” It’s not going to work like that. Things can never be like they were before. The consequences for mental and behavioral health are clear: Spikes in interpersonal violence, suicide and substance abuse. Homicide rates are already up 50 percent than the previous year in some places. Hospitals

aren’t seeing a measurable rise in domestic child abuse, but the severity of the injuries that children coming to the emergency room have are far worse and more violent than anything seen in the past. The economic impact on many families has led to feelings of frustration and uncertainty in relation to the inadequate basic supplies of food, water and clothes, etc. It’s tough, but we are all going to have to try our best to manage the stress and anxiety of this very different holiday season under these unimaginable circumstances. The federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention reminds us that the safest way to celebrate the winter holidays is to celebrate at home with people who live with you. Gatherings with family and friends who do not live with you can increase the chances of getting or spreading COVID-19 or the flu. We must remain vigilant in our understanding and respect for the deadly nature of COVID-19, and keep in mind the things that contribute to the risk of getting and spreading the virus at small, in-person gatherings. As we all do our best to go through this unusual holiday season, I may not be able to spend this holiday with my loved ones this year, but I’m willing to spend this time apart so we can be with them next year and the year after that. The writer is a visiting scholar at the National Bioethics Center at Tuskegee University and a Harvard Medical School Fellow in Research Bioethics and Writing.

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Of course, there is much more work ahead for the Biden administration and for those of us who want it to succeed, particularly around COVID-19 recovery and access to health care. But these steps will get us off to a good start. What a joy it is in this holiday season to know that so many policies grounded in bigotry and cruelty soon will be reversed. What a blessing it will be not to be on the defensive at every moment — and to use our collective expertise, creativity and heart to imagine, design, debate, perfect and implement policies that will bring more fairness, more justice and more opportunity to all the people in these United States. The writer, a former president and chief executive officer of the national NAACP, is president of People for the American Way and People for the American Way Foundation.

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Letter to the Editor Serving MLKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dreamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was Dr. Willie Woodsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion On Dec. 4, Richmond lost a good, decent and caring citizen, Dr. Willie Woodson, longtime pastor of First United Presbyterian Church in North Side who came out of retirement to pastor Trinity Ghanaian Presbyterian Church. Dr. Woodson was both absorbed and engaged at many levels to advance the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was kindhearted and contagiously gentle. He was keenly aware of the needs and hurts of his fellow man. He often served in the role of mediator, helping competing persons and diverse verses to become blended and committed to work for the common cause. Dr. Woodson was a minister, teacher-mentor, educator, community organizer and a beloved servant. There was no issue with himself and need to be the center, always singled out for applause. He served his fellow man with an air of distinction and devotion. Dr. Woodson was a good pastor and preacher, a very able and humble servant. We shared a common bond: We both left our Pentecostal roots and joined the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Woodson also followed me as executive director of Community Learning Week/ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living the Dream.â&#x20AC;? There are three things I know Dr. Woodson cared about deeply â&#x20AC;&#x201D; race relations, serving and helping â&#x20AC;&#x201D; assessing any way he could to meet the needs of others â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a good theological discussion. Serving the cause of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreamâ&#x20AC;? was his passion. Being deeply religious compelled him to always do the right thing. He autographed a spirit of caring, enabling, when necessary, a spirit of forgiveness. Dr. King, giving a summary of his own life during what would be his final sermon in 1968, could well have been giving the sum and meaning of Dr. Woodsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life when he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every now and then I wonder what I want them to say ... Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving others. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to love somebody. â&#x20AC;Ś I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungryâ&#x20AC;Ś I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.â&#x20AC;? Yes, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Dr. Woodson tried to do, too. For Dr. Woodsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and service, let us all double our efforts to live the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dream.â&#x20AC;? REV. TYLER C. MILLNER SR. Axton The writer is pastor of Morning Star Holy Church in Martinsville and founder of Community Learning Week, the annual Richmond community celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that is now known as Living the Dream.

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Major Rehabilitations of Multiple Bridges Over Interstate 95 City of Richmond Find out about proposed plans for the major rehabilitation of five (5) structurally deficient bridges crossing over I-95 in the City of Richmond. Proposed work includes superstructure replacements and substructure rehabilitation/repairs, and will require temporary construction easements and permanent easements. Proposed work would take place on the following overpasses: North 1st Street, North 4th Street, North 5th Street, North 7th Street, East Broad Street During construction, traffic over the 1st Street bridge will be reduced to a shared single lane with the use of temporary traffic signals at both ends of the bridge. A temporary detour is proposed for northbound trucks and buses using the 1st Street bridge, due to anticipated tight turning movements during construction. The 4th Street bridge will have one lane open in both directions during construction. The 5th Street bridge will have one southbound lane open during construction. The 7th Street bridge will have two northbound lanes open during construction, and southbound traffic will utilize a circular detour with 7th Street and 4th Street. The East Broad Street bridge will be closed to traffic on the weekends during construction. Bike and pedestrian access will be maintained over all the bridges except for 5th Street throughout construction. Additional project information with exhibits can be found at http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/richmond/i-95-bridges-in-richmond.asp. Project information and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation are available by calling 804-524-6000, TTY/TDD 711. If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by emailing a written request to Anthony Haverly, Virginia Department of Transportation, Anthony.Haverly@VDOT.Virginia.gov on or prior to January 5, 2021. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted. In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the effects of the proposed project on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is provided in the environmental documentation. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information in regard to your civil rights on this project or need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above.

Route 703 (Carson Road) Bridge Superstructure Rehabilitation Dinwiddie County Find out about the proposed Carson Road (Route 703) bridge superstructure rehabilitation project over CSX rail. The purpose of this project is to rehabilitate the bridge deck, bridge railings and bridge overhang. Substructure repairs are being accomplished through a separate project. This project will be accomplished using phased construction, meaning temporary signals will allow the continued maintenance of traffic. A two-day detour will be necessary to mill and pave the bridge deck prior to project completion. The detour will be coordinated to limit the impact to school operations. Project information and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation are available at VDOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive, South Chesterfield VA 238349002, 804-609-5281, 1-800-663-4188, TTY/TTD 711. Please call ahead to make arrangements for personnel to share more information or answer your questions. If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Mr. Thomas Kendrick, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, South Chesterfield, VA 23834-9002 or by email to thomas.kendrick@vdot.virginia.gov on or prior to December 29, 2020. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above.

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Negro League players may alter MLB record books Slugging catcher Josh Gibson always had the talent to be a Major League Baseball player. That was never in question. But it wasn’t until last week that the man known as the “Black Babe Ruth” officially became a major leaguer. In what Major League Baseball called a “long overdue oversight in the game’s history,” seven Negro Leagues that operated between 1920 and 1948 have been granted Major League status. That means some 3,400 players for those Negro League teams are now Major Leaguers and that their statistics will be integrated into MLB records. Gibson may become the “new” single season batting average champ, having hit .441 for the Homestead Grays in 1943. The current leader is Hugh Duffy, who hit .440 in 1894. Other Negro League players who could have their Major League statistics adjusted include Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Roy Campanella, Ernie Banks, Don Newcombe, Monte Irvin and Satchel Paige. All played in the Negro Leagues prior to becoming official big leaguers after Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. MLB, along with the Elias Sports Bureau, will research Negro League statistics and records before officially altering any numbers. There are problems.

While few question the talent of the Negro League stars, the Negro Leagues were operated much different from the traditional MLB teams. Gibson’s .441 in 1943 came in just 80 games. Major League teams at the time were playing 154 games. The Negro League teams played much shorter league schedules, enabling them to book potentially more lucrative games on the barnstorming circuit. In those settings, often the competition was not Major League quality. The barnstorming was evident in the 1976 movie “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings,” starring Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones. Playing the shorter league seasons enabled the players to pick up additional salaries by joining fall and winter leagues in Mexico and the Caribbean. Barry Bonds holds the Major League record for home runs with 762. Gibson, who died in 1947 at age 35, is said to have hit more than 800 homers, but that’s counting games in the Negro Leagues and barnstorming, as well as stints in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Integration of Negro Leagues’ stats into MLB called ‘marketing genius’ by former player Don’t be surprised if there’s a spike in sales of old Negro League baseball gear—and just in time for the holidays. Former Negro Leaguer Ken Free suggests finances may be a motivating factor behind Major League Baseball’s decision to give the Negro Leagues Major League status. “A show of marketing genius,” Free, now 81, told the Free Press from his home in Greensboro, N.C. What better presKen ent than a throwback jersey of the Birmingham Black Barons, the Kansas City Monarchs, the Detroit Stars, the Homestead Grays or others? It could be especially attractive if the jersey has a name like Josh Gibson, Ray Dandridge, Satchel Paige or Cool Papa Bell—all Negro League legends—on the back. “But then, it was a marketing tool that led to Brooklyn signing Jackie Robinson in 1947,” Free added. Instead of being loyal to the Negro Leagues, Black people began attending MLB games in greater numbers. There also is hope by everyone associated with baseball that by getting the Negro Leagues back in the headlines, it might help encourage young Black children to pick up the game. Following a stint in the military, Free played several seasons in the 1950s with a Negro League minor league affiliate, the barnstorming Greensboro Redbirds. “Our goal was to play and be seen” by Major League scouts, Free said. “No clowning around.

No gimmicks.” Free suited up with the touring Raleigh Tigers in 1959 and was selected for the final Negro League All-Star Game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. In 1960, he joined another barnstorming squad, the Brooklyn Cuban Giants, where he was a teammate of the legendary Paige. Then in his 50s, “Satchel pitched at least two innings every game,” Free said. “That was in Free his contract.” The Cuban Giants traveled in the same bus with the WinstonSalem Giants, and sometimes the rosters were mixed and matched to fit the occasion. That earned Free, a third baseman, a contract with the New York Mets. He played in the Mets’ farm system from 1960 to 1964, posting a career average of .289 in 528 games. Free went on to become the first full-time commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in 1978 and helped navigate the cluster of HBCU schools into NCAA Division I. Free remained MEAC commissioner until 1996 and was instrumental in luring Norfolk State and Hampton University from the CIAA to the MEAC. In 1987, Free became the first Black man to serve on the NCAA Division I Basketball selection committee. Free refers to the old Negro Leagues as “a minor league system on wheels.” “You drive all night on a bus and play a game the next

day,” he recalled. “I remember one bus ride where we went from Greensboro to Newark overnight. And sure enough, the bus broke down. We were so tired. But then someone told us there were three (Major League) scouts in the stadium, and we perked right up.” With all the travel involved, often on rickety buses, it wasn’t

easy being a Negro League ballplayer. “But if you haven’t ever known any different, you don’t complain,” Free said. Now with Major League status, it is reasonable that Negro League gear and memorabilia might be on the uptick now that the dust has been shaken off the shelves. Have you gotten your Josh Gibson replica jersey yet?

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According to the MacMillan “Baseball Encyclopedia,” Gibson hit .362 in 16 Negro League seasons, but that’s covering just 510 games. In games against true Negro League opponents, MacMillan credits Gibson with 146 homers. So what do you count, and what don’t you count? Satchel Paige was 42 before getting a chance to pitch in the Majors with Cleveland. His Major League record is 28-31, as a middle-aged man, but his Negro League record is 146-64. But none of that does justice to Paige, who may have won 200 more games barnstorming and playing outside the United States. An appearance by Paige assured a sellout and he treated the customers well. Among his fan-friendly gimmicks was to ask all his defensive players to sit down. Then Paige would strike out the side all by himself. Paige finally got a chance to play in the Majors and was part of Cleveland’s 1948 World Series championship. Gibson wasn’t so fortunate. Along with other such Negro League icons as Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Buck Leonard and so many others, he came along too soon. These players had the talent but, because of the color of their skin, were not able to compete on what was considered the highest level. That said, amends are being made. It’s never too late to do the right thing.

West End crew takes Seattle Seahawks to victory over Washington The Seattle Seahawks are a West Coast team with a strong West End of Richmond influence. With quarterback Russell Wilson (Collegiate School) and offensive left tackle Duane Brown (Hermitage High School) as leading lights, Seattle has navigated its way to the NFL playoffs for an eighth straight year. Seattle (10-4) clinched a postseason berth last Sunday with a tense 20-15 victory over the Washington Football Team at FedEx Field. Washington is now 6-8. To escape D.C. with a victory, Wilson did what he had to do without his usual glitzy passing statistics. Seattle Coach Pete Carroll referred to Wilson’s performance as a “Bart Starr-type game.” Starr, who guided the Green Bay Packers to numerous championships in the 1960s, was known for winning without eye-popping passing numbers. Wilson was a modest 18-for-27 in the air against Washington for 121 yards, with one touchdown and one interception. He also ran for 52 yards on six carries, including a 38-yard scamper. Wilson was never sacked, and only on three occasions did the Washington pass rush reach him for any contact. At the end of the day, Wilson’s No.

3 jersey was nearly as fresh as during pregame warmups. “The offensive line — it was great,” Wilson said afterward. “And it all starts with Duane Brown at left tackle. He’s the best in the business.” Wilson, 32, was Seattle’s third round draft choice out of Wisconsin in 2012. The 35-year-old Brown, a former Virginia Tech standout, was obtained by Seattle in 2017 from the Houston Texans. Seattle will play host to the Los Angeles Rams this Sunday, Dec. 27, in a match that could decide the NFC West. Despite the loss, Washington remains in the pole position for the NFC East title. Washington closes the regular season against a pair of lightweights — the Carolina Panthers (4-10) on Sunday, Dec. 27, and the Philadelphia Eagles (4-9-1) on Sunday, Jan. 3. If Washington wins both games, it is the NFC champ and will host a playoff game. It could still win the division with one remaining loss or even none. The New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys are both 5-9 and trailing Washington in the NFC East standings. Washington would hold the tie-breaker edge over Dallas but New York would have the tiebreaker advantage over Washington. Rejuvenated Washington quarterback

Thomas ‘Tiny’ Lister, an athlete who rose to fame as a bully on the silver screen, dies at 62

Thomas “Tiny” Lister, a track and Los Angeles. field champion, professional wrestler and In 1982, Mr. Lister won the NCAA actor, died Thursday, Dec. 10, Division II shot put title with a 2020, at his home in Marina heave of 61 feet, 8 inches. del Ray, Calif. On the WWF and WCW wresThe cause of death was listed tling circuits, he was known as as “natural causes,” but Mr. “Zeus” and “Z-Gangsta.” Lister had been diagnosed earHe also appeared in dozens lier this year with COVID-19. of movies, most notably as the He was 62. neighborhood bully “Deebo” in Mr. Lister, who was blind in the series of “Friday” films. Mr. Lister his right eye, was a mountain of His other films included “The a man at 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds and he Fifth Element,” “The Dark Knight,” “No put that brawn to good use as a student- Holds Barred,” “Universal Soldier” and athlete at California State University at “Jackie Brown.”

In “Jackie Brown,” he played the role of bail agent Winston who “finds people who don’t want to be found.” Mr. Lister was a close friend of entertainer Ice Cube, who he starred with in “Friday” and “Next Friday.” Ice Cube paid this tribute to Mr. Lister on Twitter: “RIP Tiny ‘Deebo’ Lister. America’s favorite bully was a born entertainer who would pop into character at the drop of a hat terrifying people on and off camera. Followed by a big smile and laugh. Thank you for being a good dude at heart. I miss you already.”

Russell Wilson

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Dwayne Haskins showed why he was Washington’s first-round draft pick — and 15th selection overall — in 2019. Haskins hit 38 of 55 passes for 295 yards in the comeback effort. Tight end Logan Thomas, a former Virginia Tech quarterback, made 13 receptions for 101 yards. Haskins began the season as the starter but was benched after some sub-par performances. He was even dropped to third on the depth chart. He was only playing against Seattle because of an injury to Alex Smith. Washington collected 26 first downs compared to the Seahawks’ 16, and outgained the visitors 353 yards to 302. For the most part, Washington controlled the game during the second half after falling behind 20-3. This Sunday’s Washington game against Carolina will have added drama. Washington Coach Ron Rivera was fired by Carolina on Dec. 3, 2019, after posting a 76-63 record with the Panthers since 2011. He wasn’t unemployed for long. Rivera was hired by Washington on Jan. 1, 2020.

College football losing Black coaches

Lovie Smith

Kevin Sumlin

The ranks of Black coaches in the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision continue to shrink. Lovie Smith at the University of Illinois and Kevin Sumlin at the University of Arizona both were terminated after recent games. Smith was let go after a 17-39 overall record and 10-33 Big 10 mark with the Illini. Sumlin lost his job after going 9-20 overall and 6-17 in the Pac-12 with the Wildcats. Earlier this month, Vanderbilt University fired Derek Mason following a 27-55 mark in six seasons. That leaves just 11 Black head coaches among the 130 FBS schools.

Richmond Free Press

December 24-26, 2020

Cherished Holiday Memories 2020 T

he holidays bring their own flood of memories — the joyful and the bittersweet. Whether we spend the holidays with family, in the company of strangers or in a land of different faith traditions, love — its strength and bonds — carries us. And love’s memory remains with us through the years. We hope the reflections shared by five Richmond area residents of their most cherished holiday memories will elicit warm memories of your own. Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Welcomed abroad One of my most cherished holiday memories was an international one. In my 20s, I lived and worked in Thailand serving as a Peace Corps volunteer for close to 2½ years. That meant I missed spending Christmas in Richmond with my family twice. As a Christian living in a predominately Buddhist country, I was excited to find a Catholic church in a Thai village that was a 45-minute bike ride away. It was not quite the Baptist church I was used to, but I felt at home and found a place to worship and celebrate Christian religious holidays while in Thailand. During my second Christmas there, I took a trip with three fellow Peace Corps volunteers to the Philippines. One of the volunteers had roots in the Philippines, so she had many family members who lived there in the province of Ilocos Norte, and they graciously hosted our stay. As one of the predominately Catholic countries in Asia, the Philippines celebrates Christmas in a monumental way. It is extremely special and brimming with family traditions. We went to Christmas Mass with her family and enjoyed all the other Christmas Eve traditions of delicious food, fellowship, laughter and music. Her family even made sure we had a gift to open. I absolutely loved spending time with this large, vibrant family and being enriched in the culture. I especially enjoyed observing the dynamic of strong Filipino women as equals in the household – much different than what I had witnessed in Thailand. Also, I don’t know if it was because I was feeling sad missing my own family, the warmth and kindness extended by this welcoming Filipino family, or a combination of the two, but I remember being completely

Mary K. Brown

overwhelmed with the Christmas spirit. I truly had all the feelings of Christmas, its true meaning and the real reason for this wonderful season. Pure joy is the best way I can describe it. Though it was 27 years ago, I’ll always remember that very special and blessed Christmas abroad. Ms. Brown is a member of the board of directors of Rebuilding Together Richmond.

d Time with grandmother Christmastime is normally the busiest time of the shadow because of how attached to her hip I am. year for me because of the number of rehearsals and Wherever she goes, I’m not too far behind. We used performances of “The Nutcracker,” but I still try my to treat this quality Christmas time like a scavenger best to create traditions and memories outside of the hunt, going from store to store to find the perfect gift ones created onstage. for everyone. We would spend hours upon hours, day Although the majority of my holiday time is spent in after day, driving around town trying to find everyone’s the studio and theater, present while racking I make the most of our minds thinking the time I have with of what each person my family. Christmas would want — what is a very special time color towel set to get for us because my for this cousin; what father’s birthday is soap basket to get on Christmas Day and this aunt. we always have a big I always look forparty for him. ward to this time with When I was my grandmother and younger, we’d first am a bit upset that have a small family we can’t carry out gathering with my our tradition this year mother’s side of the with the pandemic family and then we’d happening. Ira White go over to my dad’s With that being for his birthday dinner and party. It was a lot of fun said, I’m just glad to still have her in my life and am and full of memorable moments with family and close holding out hope that we can pick up the tradition friends, but my favorite memories are spending time next Christmas and spread holiday joy to all those with my grandmother shopping and buying gifts for we love. family and friends. Mr. White is a company dancer with the Richmond People have always joked that I’m my grandmother’s Ballet.

Bertha W. Fleming

Love abounds Christmas has always been my favorite holiday and brings out an aura that I can’t explain. I absolutely love all the anticipation that leads up to this special day. My parents, Charles and Gertrude Wilson, were blessed with four healthy children — one son and three daughters. There was something different about our home during the Christmas season. Christmas Eve was like Grand Central Station – busy, busy, busy. Breakfast would be served early because Mom and Dad had some last-minute details to finalize before the big day. They wanted to ensure that their four children would have a Christmas better than the previous one. Dad was busy doing whatever Mom needed him to do and he loved every minute of it. Mom was hustling and bustling in the kitchen preparing the most scrumptious Christmas dishes you could imagine. The aromas coming from the kitchen made you want to sample everything immediately. By evening, my parents were doing the last of their gift-wrapping in their secret place — their bedroom with the door locked. We could hear the wrapping paper being cut and the whispering of our names. As the night wore on, Dad would check the “Santa” forecast and update us. The cookies and milk were put on a plate. Oh, the fun of it all. What an imagination! In spite of everything leading up to this day, my parents reiterated that Christmas was not about the presents — it was about Jesus. I thank God for my wonderful parents, who showered us with their love each and every day, not just at Christmas. The memories that were made will forever be etched in my heart. The holidays are a little different now, but I can still feel the love, hugs and kisses that are streaming down from heaven. Mrs. Fleming is a funeral director and office manager at Scott’s Funeral Home.

Hanukkah in Athens Last December, thanks to a friend who’s a whiz with credit card points and to my mother who was willing to watch the kids for a week, my wife and I went to Greece for a much-needed vacation. The trip happened to coincide with Hanukkah, a holiday that commemorates a Jewish uprising against Greek rule two millennia ago. We chuckled at the irony of choosing to celebrate Jewish liberation from Greece in Greece. We arrived in Athens on the eve of Hanukkah. And though the timing was such that we could have gone straight to the hotel to light the candles, we were anxious to begin exploring, so we dropped off our bags and hopped on the hotel shuttle to the city center. As dusk turned to night, we were wandering down Ermou Street, a bustling thoroughfare lined with high-end stores. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw what looked like a few people frantically waving at me and my wife from the window of one of the chic hotels above the strip. At first, we weren’t sure the wild gesticulations were for us. Then, thanks to generations of internalized anti-Semitism, we became nervous that, perhaps, they had seen my skullcap and were making fun of us, or worse. But as we looked closer, we realized that they were pointing to something on their windowsill. We squinted, and then we saw it: A small, tin menorah — the special candelabra used to light the Hanukkah candles! They were waving and pointing at us, and pointing to the menorah. They had indeed seen my skullcap. But they weren’t calling us out. They were inviting us in. We deliberated for a moment, decided “YOLO,” and went up. It turned out that it was a Jewish family from Israel finishing up a vacation, also aware of the irony of celebrating Hanukkah in Greece. They asked us to join them in reciting the blessings and lighting the

d Importance of family

Taylor Maloney

In a time where so much is about material and capitalistic gain, it’s hard to see value in the holidays anymore. Christmas isn’t my favorite holiday by a long shot, but it does hold some special meaning about resilience and the true meaning of family for me. In 2004, I was a 4-year-old child visiting my grandparents in Charleston, S.C. My mother, aunt and grandmother all left to go to the movie theater to see “Meet the Fockers,” while my uncle and grandfather stayed at home to watch me and finish wrapping presents. As far as I know, a candle was unattended and caught a curtain on fire, causing the house to go up in flames. I was fast asleep and woke up to the choking smoke enveloping my room. But I was soon swept up by my uncle, who ran through the fire to get me. As a kid, seeing the tree and all of the presents burn along with my childhood home was probably one of the most heartbreaking moments of my life. I remember sitting in the yard wrapped in a blanket dewy-eyed, watching everything my grandparents worked for destroyed. But they weren’t angry. There was no blame, only overwhelming joy and relief that we were safe. To them, the safety of the family was far more important than the sanctity of material items. And I never forgot that. Ms. Maloney, a senior and political science major, is president of the Student Government Association at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Rabbi Michael Knopf candles, and we happily accepted. We spent a short while getting to know our new friends. Then we exchanged information and went our separate ways. This story charms me because it reminds me of the truth of the cliché, “It’s a small world,” and because it testifies to the familial bonds between Jewish people the world over, even those who are otherwise strangers to each other. But it has become one of my most cherished holiday memories because it challenges me to consider what I would do if the roles were reversed, if I was the one inside with the menorah and saw someone on the street who might be in need. And as I consider that question, I immediately become mindful of the fact that I routinely see lonely or needy people on the streets of my own city — all of them, according to scripture, my siblings. I have the means to help at least some of them, at least a little. Will I, metaphorically speaking, invite them in and provide them whatever warmth and light I have to give? Or will I leave them out in the cold darkness? What about the rest of us? These are precisely the questions Hanukkah — a holiday about sharing light with each other and the world — invites us to ask ourselves and each other. Whatever your faith or tradition, I pray that this story and this season might inspire us all to open our doors, our arms and our hearts. Happy holidays! Rabbi Knopf leads Temple Beth-El in Richmond.

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Happenings Capital City Kwanzaa Festival to go virtual beginning Dec. 26 include Nigeria’s Toby Foyeh and Orchestra Africa, Cheick Hamala Diabate, Maimouna Youssef and North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, she stated, with Elegba’s African dance troupe appearing in each broadcast. Ms. Bell stated that the African Market also will be open daily. Nationally, the celebration of Kwanzaa was introduced by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966 with the aim of strengthening and uniting the African-American community. Dr. Karenga laid out seven principles that Kwanzaa promotes one day at a time: Umoja or unity; Kujichagulia or self-determination; Ujima or collective work and responsibility; Ujamaa or cooperative economics; Nia or purpose; Kuumba or creativity; and Imani or faith. Ms. Bell stated that an estimated 28 million people worldwide now celebrate Kwanzaa, “a time of thanksgiving for the accomplishments of the past year, a time for reflection on the year ahead, a time for reaffirming values, a time for paying homage to ancestors and elders and a time for enjoying the blessing of children while preparing them for the future.”

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Like many other holiday events, the Richmond area’s largest Kwanzaa festival is going virtual and also will provide evening shows online during the full seven days of the holiday that begins Saturday, Dec. 26, it has been announced. Instead of a one-day gathering, the Capital City Kwanzaa Festival will offer activities and programming each day that seek to “capture the spirit and significance” of the yearly celebration and its guiding principles, according to Janine Y. Bell, founder and artistic director of the Elegba Folklore Society, which has staged the event annually since 1990. “We’ll offer music, dance and messages and activities to strengthen families and galvanize the community,” Ms. Bell stated in announcing that the festival’s broadcasts would be available through Elegba’s website, www.efsinc.org, at 7 p.m. each day through the holiday’s end on Friday, Jan. 1. Theme for the 31st annual event: “Love and endurance.” Performers who will make appearances on different days

Rashida Jones named first African-American to lead cable news network NNPA wire report

MSNBC has named Rashida Jones the first Black person and Black woman president of the network. Ms. Jones, who easily becomes the most prominent woman in cable news, is to step into the top role on Feb. 1, the start of Black History Month, replacing Phil Griffin, who has been at the cable news channel for more than 25 years. “Rashida knows and understands MSNBC, in part, because it’s where she started when she first joined NBCU seven years

ago,” the company reportedly wrote in an email to NBC News employees. “She knows that it is the people who work here that make it great, and she understands its culture. She also appreciates the impact and potential of the brand.” Currently serving as senior vice president for NBC News and MSNBC, Ms. Jones oversees MSNBC’s daytime and weekend programming. The company noted that during the past year, Ms. Jones has helped guide MSNBC’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest and social justice protests that broke out over the

Area historian awarded $10,000 grant for documentary on educator Virginia Randolph By Ronald E. Carrington

Historian Elvatrice Belsches’ 20-year dream to make a documentary about noted educator Virginia E. Randolph is getting an initial boost with a $10,000 grant from Virginia Humanities to support the research and development of a script. “This is a three-fold project,” Ms. Belsches told the Free Press. “It will include a publication, the documentary and an oral history archive.” The grant will help with researching photographs and manuscripts from across the country, as well as shooting about 10 core interviews and production of a 2- to 3-minute trailer, Ms. Belsches said. David Bearinger, senior director of the grants program at Virginia Humanities, stated that the nonprofit is funding the documentary because of “our desire to see an important story told” and its potential use in classrooms. “Ms. Randolph’s impact on the history of education in Virginia — and on the lives of her students — was profound. Her influence extends nationally and even internationally, but her story is not well known today,” Mr. Bearinger said. Contrary to previous accounts, Ms. Randolph was born in Richmond in 1870 and lived in the Jackson Ward and Carver neighborhoods all of her life, according to Ms. Belsches. As an educator, Ms. Randolph integrated vocational and industrial education with the academic curriculum. Her approach to education, which was observed in her one-room schoolhouse on Old Mountain Road in Henrico County, led to her appointment as the first Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher in 1908. Her innovative teaching methods then were replicated by Jeanes teachers throughout the South. Thousands of students throughout Virginia, the South and later in parts of colonial Africa and Southeast Asia were taught using Ms. Randolph’s teaching philosophies and techniques. The school on Mountain Road in Henrico was named for Ms. Randolph in 1915. The documentary also will highlight Ms. Randolph’s contributions to public health initiatives, juvenile justice advocacy and interracial coalition building, Ms. Belsches said. “Her contributions in these areas were astounding,” Ms. Belsches said. “And they can serve as a blueprint for address-

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Elvatrice Belsches at the Virginia Randolph Museum in Henrico.

ing some of our most challenging issues of today.” Ms. Belsches started her journey to produce a documentary on Ms. Randolph and her life and work 20 years ago when she accompanied her father, the late Ernest Parker Sr., to a presentation by Warner M. Jones Sr. a historian, retired educator and former principal of Virginia Randolph Elementary

School. In his presentation, “Mr. Jones brought Virginia Randolph to life for me,” Ms. Belsches said. “And that’s when I told my father and made a commitment to produce a documentary on her.” Mr. Parker, a mathematics teacher, taught at Virginia Randolph High School from 1955 to 1969, and interacted with

Ms. Randolph on her occasional visits to the school before her death in 1958. “My Dad told my siblings and me stories about the importance and impact of Virginia Randolph, as well as about the high school students’ scholastic excellence during segregation,” Ms. Belsches said. “My father, like all of the Virginia Randolph teachers, was very devoted to his students. Teachers there knew that their students had to be twice as good as their counterparts anywhere in America or the world.” Many of the young AfricanAmerica students who attended Virginia Randolph during segregation went on to Ivy League colleges as well as historically Black colleges and universities. These are the stories the documentary will tell, Ms. Belsches said. Ms. Belsches has written biographical entries about Ms. Randolph that are published in the “Encyclopedia Virginia” and the “African American National Biography,” a joint project of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center and Oxford University Press. She also served as an in-studio researcher on Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film, “Lincoln,” and as an archival researcher and author of the narration for the documentary, “The Life and Times of Elizabeth Keckly,” which was directed by Tim Reid in 2014.

killings of Black Americans and the 2020 election. She also helped with two influential series at the network, “Justice for All” and “Climate in Crisis.” Her promotion is seen as part of a mandate by NBC News to ultimately roll out a staff comprised of Ms. Jones 50 percent women and 50 percent people of color. According to a news release, Ms. Jones was part of the team that helped NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker prepare for her role as moderator in the final presidential debate of 2020. While Ms. Jones did not release a statement, many of her journalism peers saluted her on social media. “Congratulations to a wonderful person and Broadcast titan,” wrote April Ryan, Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks. “Rashida Jones is everything! We will be watching with pride as she becomes President of MSNBC.” Georgia Dawkins, a producer at the Fox magazine show, “Central Ave,” offered a fond memory. “I got my first job in Atlanta because #RashidaJones spoke my name. Three years later, I finally got the chance to say thank you. Congratulations, Queen,” Ms. Dawkins tweeted. A graduate of Hampton University, where she earned induction into the Scripps Howard Journalism Hall of Fame, Ms. Jones previously served as news director for an NBC affiliate in Columbia, S.C., where she rebuilt and rebranded the news team to focus on in-depth investigative reporting. According to Ms. Jones’ biography, the station was No. 1 in the market. Ms. Jones also served as director of live programming at The Weather Channel, leading coverage and programming for some of the network’s most historic weather events, including Hurricane Katrina, mass tornado outbreaks and paralyzing snowstorms. She serves as co-chair of Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications Advisory Board, a board member of the Carole Kneeland Project for Responsible Journalism and as a non-resident senior fellow with the University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership Program. “Her promotion is bigger than our industry,” wrote NABJ President Dorothy Tucker. “It’s the kind of story Black and Brown children everywhere need to see, so they can know what’s possible.”

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They have 2 children, 2 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great grandchildren

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Personality: Kenda Sutton-EL Spotlight on co-founder and board president of Birth in Color RVA Kenda Sutton-EL knows that all births aren’t equal in Virginia. As a birth worker and student midwife, she has seen firsthand how “the most joyous occasion has turned into fear” with what she calls “horrifying” mortality rates for African-American mothers and infants. As a result, the childbirth narrative for Black women is far removed from other racial groups, she says. This problem led Ms. SuttonEL to found Birth in Color with Nikiya Ellis in November 2018 to provide support and education to expectant Black mothers, their families, health care workers and the community at large. Two years later, Ms. SuttonEL, who leads the nonprofit as its first board president, says the outlook has changed for the better. “I think we’ve definitely conquered everything that we wanted to do,” Ms. Sutton-EL says. “It’s great to see the work actually being done, and seeing how quickly things can change within two years if you’re actually really doing the work.” Working throughout the Commonwealth, Birth in Color strives to change the conditions and narrative of Black maternal health through a focus on aid, awareness and collaboration. It has created partnerships with organizations such the Richmond City Health District, Planned Parenthood and the Virginia Department of Health. With services ranging from providing birth and child care experts for expectant mothers, to prenatal classes and educational material for expectVR Downtown Ad FreePress ing families and reproductive health care workers, Birth in

Color’s roughly 40 members have helped more than 700 women through the birthing process—before, during and after delivery. As board president, Ms. Sutton-EL works as an advocate and as Birth in Color’s policy director, creating the group’s agenda and outlining laws and policies they want to see proposed and approved. She has focused her term on creating strategies that lead to change in the maternal and infant mortality rates. The major strategy for achieving these goals has been influencing policy and decisions within the Virginia General Assembly. During the 2020 legislative session, Ms. Sutton-EL says, Birth in Color advocated for establishment of doula certification and for Med- mortality review board and an icaid payments for doulas. inmate pregnancy protection Ms. Sutton-EL also worked to work group. directly inform and educate legMeet a childbirth champion islators on the matter and related and this week’s Personality, topics to ensure those writing the Kenda Sutton-EL: laws wouldn’t fall for stereotypes and misconceptions. No. 1 volunteer position: Ma“A lot of the public doesn’t ternal and birth justice advocate even realize that the numbers are and board president, Birth in so high,” Ms. Sutton-EL says. Color RVA. “It’s time for a real change and Date and place of birth: Oct. for them not to keep saying that 8 in Richmond, but I grew up it’s because of a lack of access in Northumberland County. or lack of prenatal care.” Where I live now: Richmond. Ms. Sutton-EL also continues Occupation: Holistic nutritionto conduct racial bias training ist, clinical herbalist, lactation for hospitals and health care counselor, birth worker and providers. And while she says student midwife. those within the maternity care system often don’t admit how Education: Old Dominion deeply racism goes, those that do University and Reynolds Commake the effort to correct their munity College. work when she shines a spotlight Family: Husband, Bobby Sutton-EL, and children, Karin on inherent bias issues. Looking ahead, Birth in and King. Color is preparing for the Birth in Color RVA is: Birth in upcoming 2021 General As- Color RVA is a birth, policy and 03 sembly BARKY 1214 HIGHREZ.pdf 1 12/14/20advocacy 4:23 PM nonprofit focused on session and working alongside patrons for an infant raising awareness and providing

services for Black women giving birth. We want to change the narrative of Black maternal health, not only in Richmond, but around the world. Birth in Color RVA provides culturally centered support to pregnant women, their families and birthing communities to ensure a safe delivery and make better decisions for children. Our services range from providing expert birth workers, doulas and lactation consultants for expectant mothers, to prenatal classes and educational material for reproductive health care workers. When and why founded: Birth in Color RVA was founded November 2018 because of the high rate Black women and infants were dying during childbirth. Founders: Kenda Sutton-EL and Nikiya Ellis. Number one goal or project as board president: To create a safe space for Black women, as well as families, during childbirth and early education. To implement strategies to create change in the maternal and infant mortality rates. Strategy for achieving goals: Creating policies within the General Assembly. The first step was in the 2020 General Assembly session helping to establish doula certification and Medicaid payments for doulas. For the upcoming legislative session, we currently are working for creation of an infant mortality review board and an inmate pregnancy protection work group. Why I accepted position: I am super-passionate about

ensuring that Black women are well taken care of before, during and after the birth process. The Black maternal and infant mortality rates are horrifying. The most joyous occasion has turned into fear. Prenatal care in RVA is: Dependent on your provider. Prenatal care should be about education and ensuring you are properly nourishing your body enough to carry over to your unborn child. Racial disparities in our maternity care system are: Although some won’t admit it, racism is a key factor within the maternity care system. I have done racial bias training with providers and the answers to some of the questions still baffle me. A birth worker is: Birth workers and doulas are the same thing. A birth worker is a trained companion who is not a health care professional and who supports another individual through a significant health-related experience, such as childbirth, miscarriage, induced abortion or stillbirth, or non-reproductive experiences such as dying. How a pregnant mother can access services: They can reach out via Facebook, Instagram, email or our website, www. birthincolorrva.org. What a mother or family can expect when working with Birth in Color RVA: They can expect someone who will empower, uplift and educate families before, during and after the childbirth process. We pride ourselves in teaching how important prenatal care is and also how to start your journey to parenthood. How COVID-19 is impacting families Birth in Color RVA works with: Initially, it was

tough when hospitals weren’t allowing birth workers in. We were able to effectively advocate to have that changed. Switching gears to offer everything virtually, including childbirth education and prenatal visits, was challenging for clients without internet access, but we were able to overcome some obstacles. Advice to expectant mothers during pandemic: Breathe. Implement self-care during this time and don’t overthink the process. Create boundaries and stay within those boundaries. How Birth in Color RVA assists fathers: By providing childbirth education one on one with each father. We encourage the father to remain a part of the bonding process and focus on key items the father can do to support. Upcoming special projects: Training birth workers from the community to help them serve their community. How I start the day: I start my day with meditation and a cup of tea. Best late-night snack: Apples and peanut butter. How I unwind: Reading. Quote that I am most inspired by: “The thought is the cause of it all”— Johnny X. Williamson At the top of my “to-do” list: Create a birth/wellness center. Best thing my parents ever taught me: The power of saying “No.” Person who influenced me the most: My grandmother. Book that influenced me the most: “Strength to Love” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. What I’m reading now: “PowerNomics” by Claud Anderson.

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Tuskegee Airman dies days before his 100th birthday and ceremony honoring military service Free Press wire report

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LYNCHBURG Tuskegee Airman Alfred Thomas Farrar died on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Lynchburg only days before a ceremony planned to honor his service in the program that famously trained Black military pilots during World War II. He was 99. Mr. Farrar would have turned 100 on Dec. 26. Mr. Farrar left his Lynchburg hometown for Tuskegee, Ala., after graduating from high school, to begin his aviation training in 1941. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the next best thing to do,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Farrar told The News &

Advance in an article that ran last week. Mr. Farrar learned to be a pilot during his time in the U.S. Army Air Corps program but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fly any combat missions overseas, according to his son, Roy Farrar. Roy Farrar said he was proud of his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember him having much to say about his time as a Tuskegee Airman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just something that he did at the time, that was needed at the time,â&#x20AC;? Roy Farrar said. After his discharge in 1943, Mr. Farrar studied to be an aerospace engineer and worked as an engineer with

the Federal Aviation Administration for four decades. A Lynchburg area television station reported that the Lynchburg Area Veterans Council plans to honor Mr. Farrar and his service during the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;troop rallyâ&#x20AC;? on Christmas Day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In spite of tremendous discrimination, these young American men and women served their nation with distinction and opened the door of opportunity for many other Americans,â&#x20AC;? the council said in a statement. Roy Farrar said several planes are expected to fly over during a separate memorial ceremony for his father on his birthday.

Work at historic cemeteries continues during pandemic

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Drive into historic Evergreen and East End cemeteries, and it is immediately evident that the 12 years of restoration work is paying off. The vines, weeds and other overgrowth is gone from large areas of the neighboring African-American cemeteries that date to the 1890s. Instead of the mowed lawn look of modern cemeteries, these are more naturalistic places, with the headstones and marked graves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some elaborate and others modest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clearly visible and large, open pathways. Of course, it helps that it is winter, and vegetation that grows quickly in the summer is no longer active. Nearly half of Evergreenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 60 acres appears to have been cleared as does most of East Endâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16 or so acres. Located off Stony Run Parkway, the private Evergreen and East End cemeteries straddle the border between Richmond and Henrico County, just north of the city-owned and operated Oakwood Cemetery that dates

to the late 1870s. The most active effort to reclaim the two cemeteries dates to around 2008 when John Shuck, a retired bank performance analyst, took on the mission of restoring these cemeteries. Mr. Shuck, along with a number of regular volunteers, is now involved with other neglected Black cemeteries in Metropolitan Richmond. The restoration work continues despite the pandemic, said John Sydnor, executive director of Enrichmond Foundation, owner of both burial grounds that are the resting places for many celebrated individuals such as businesswoman and community organizer Maggie L. Walker, fiery newspaper editor and banker John Mitchell Jr., school leaders and church founders. One example of the ongoing effort involves a team of nine young people from the National Civilian Community Corps, an arm of the federal AmeriCorps program. Since Thanksgiving, the team led by Julia Bina of Minnesota has cleared large amounts of vegetation in Evergreen and also documented the

graves found in the cemeteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital database that is available to families and the public. The team completed its stint at the cemeteries last week, but more may come. Mr. Sydnor said Enrichmond has applied to secure more crews through AmeriCorps next year. Then there is the Chainsaw Crew, a group of about nine people who regularly work to remove trees and other large vegetation growing up around gravesites. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot has been accomplished,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Sydnor said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but this is a long process. Onward and upward.â&#x20AC;?

Julia Bina of Minnesota uses a machete to cut a large vine wrapped around a tree in Evergreen Cemetery. Ms. Bina leads a group of nine young people with the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps who have been working since Thanksgiving to help clear vegetation and overgrowth from the historic cemetery.

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December 24-26, 2020 B5

Legal Notices Continued from previous column

City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, January 4, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2020-261 To amend and reordain City Code §§ 30-420.1, 30-420.1:1, and 30-420.2, concerning permitted uses in the R-73 Multifamily Residential District; 30426.1, 30-426.1:1, and 30-426.2, concerning permitted uses in the RO-2 Residential-Office District; 30-432.1, concerning permitted uses in the I Institutional District; 30-434.1 concerning permitted uses in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District; 30436.1, concerning permitted uses in the B-2 Community Business District; 30-438.1 and 30-438.2, concerning permitted uses in the B-3 General Business District; 30-440.1 and 30-440.2, concerning permitted uses in the B-4 Central Business District; 30-450.1, concerning permitted uses in the OS Office-Service District; 30-452.1, concerning permitted principal and accessory uses in the M-1 Light Industrial District; 30-1045.6, concerning specific conditions applicable to particular uses, and 301220, concerning certain definitions; to amend ch. 30. art. VI of the City Code by adding therein a new div. 15 (§§ 30-698—30.698.3), concerning specific conditions applicable to particular uses; and to amend ch. 30, art. XII of the City Code by adding therein new sections 301220.32:1, 30-1220.84:1, 30-1220.84:2, 301220.95:1, 30-1220.95:2, 30-1220.120:1, and 301220.122:1. Ordinance No. 2020-263 To amend Ord. No. 2019203, adopted Sept. 9, 2019, which authorized the special use of the property known as 3111 Q Street for the purpose of a twofamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential zoning district. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single-Family (Medium Density) uses. Primary uses in this category are “single-family detached dwellings at densities between 8 and 20 units per acre.” The density of the parcel if developed as proposed would be approximately 23 units per acre. Ordinance No. 2020-264 To authorize the special use of the property known as 111 Spring Street for the purpose of a parking deck, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in a RO-3 ResidentialOffice District and an M-1 Light Industrial District. The City of Richmond’s Downtown Plan designates the subject property as Downtown Civic Area which “refers to both buildings and open spaces. Civic Buildings are public sites dedicated for publicly used buildings dedicated to culture, government, and public gatherings. Civic Spaces are outdoor areas dedicated for public use. Ordinance No. 2020-265 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2515 Rear Hanover Avenue for the purpose of a singlefamily detached dwelling, storage, a parking area, and a community garden, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Residential at Medium densities. Primary uses for this category are single family and two family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. The density of the proposed development is approximately 8 units per acre. Ordinance No. 2020-266 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3419 2nd Avenue for the purpose of two singlefamily detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single‑Family (Medium Density) uses. Primary Continued on next column

uses in this category are “single‑family detached dwellings at densities between 8 and 20 units per acre.” The density of the parcel if developed as proposed would be a ratio of approximately 12 units per acre. Ordinance No. 2020-267 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4016 Newport Drive for the purpose of an existing detached storage shed accessory to an existing single-family dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-5 Single-Family Residential District. The Master Plan designates this parcel as Single Family Low Density. The primary use is single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. Ordinance No. 2020-268 To authorize the special use of the property known as 406 Rear West Franklin Street for the purpose of a twounit tourist home within an existing structure, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a RO-3 Residential-Office District. The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates the subject property for Downtown Mixed-Use land use, which is described as central business district of the Richmond region features high-density development with office buildings, apartments, and a mix of complementary uses, including regional destinations. Ordinance No. 2020-269 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 502, 504, 506, 508, 512, and 514 Westview Avenue for the purpose of up to 12 singlefamily detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are situated in a R-4 Single-Family Residential District. The City’s Master Plan recommends SingleFamily (Low Density) land use for the subject properties. Primary uses include single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. The density of the proposed project, if approved, would be approximately 9.2 units per acre. Ordinance No. 2020-270 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 509 Libbie Avenue and 511 Libbie Avenue for the purpose of up to 14 single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are situated in a R-4 Single-Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates this property for Mixed-Use land use. Primary uses include combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial and service uses and, in some cases, multifamily residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial. The density of the project, if approved, would be approximately 20 units per acre. Ordinance No. 2020-271 To authorize the special use of the property known as 7048 Forest Hill Avenue for the purpose of a freestanding sign, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a B-2 Community Business District. The Master Plan designates the area in which the subject property is located as Community Commercial. The Master Plan states that primary uses include office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shopping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the City. The meetings will be held through electronic communication means pursuant to and in compliance with Ordinance No. 2020-093, adopted April 9, 2020, as most recently amended by Ordinance No. 2020-232, adopted December 14, 2020. The meetings will be open to participation through electronic communication means by the public and closed to in-person participation by the public. Less than a quorum of Richmond City Planning Commission members and Richmond City Council will assemble in City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, and most members and other staff will participate by teleconference/ videoconference via Microsoft Teams. The meetings will be streamed live online at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. a s p x . To w a t c h a meeting’s live stream at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “In Progress” in the farthest right hand column entitled, “Video”. Continued on next column

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The agenda for the Richmond City Council meeting is accessible through the City’s legislative website at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. aspx. To view the agenda at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “Agenda” associated with the January 11, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting listed in the calendar. Interested citizens who wish to speak at the Richmond City Council meeting will be given an opportunity to do so by following the “Formal Meeting Access and Public Participation Instructions” attached to the January 11, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda. Citizens are encouraged to provide their comments in writing to CityClerksOffice@ richmondgov.com in lieu of calling in. The person responsible for receiving comments in writing is Candice D. Reid, City Clerk. All comments received prior to 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 11, 2021, will be provided to Council members prior to the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at http:// www.richmondgov.com/ CityClerk/index.aspx. Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER EDWARD GHEE Plaintiff v. ALTINA GHEE, Defendant. Case No.: CL20005255-00 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 5th day of February, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interest. 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 MICHAEL WALKER, Plaintiff v. MELISSA WALKER Defendant. Case No.: CL20005084-00 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 5th day of February, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SEAN CURRY, Plaintiff v. TONYA HASKELL CURRY Defendant. Case No.: CL20005088-00 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 5th day of February, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interest. 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 Continued on next column

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Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO NORMA JEAN DORSETT, Plaintiff v. TREVOR JEFFREY DORSETT, Defendant. Case No.: CL20-8605-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart without interruption and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since December 27, 2015. And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Trevor Jeffrey Dorsett, the above-named defendant, is not a resident of this state and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is, without effect. It is therefore ORDERED that the said Trevor Jeffrey Dorsett do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Henrico County, 4301 East Parham Road, Henrico, Virginia 23272, on or before January, 19, 2021 and do whatever necessary to protect her interest in this suit. An Extract Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RAMANIE GARRETT, Plaintiff v. MAURICE JENKINS, Defendant. Case No.: CL20004902-00 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 21st day of January, 2021 at 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 NINA WILLIAMS Plaintiff v. NUSHAWN WILLIAMS Defendant. Case No.: CL20004888-00 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 21st day of January, 2021 at 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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VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re KEMEKA GRAY RDSS v. UNKNOWN FATHER Case No. JJ095344-13-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“TPR”) of the Unknown Father of Kemeka Gray, DOB 12/02/2017, child. “TPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Father to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 02/08/2021, at 10:20 AM, Courtroom #4. VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re audra brooks, RDSS Continued on next column

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v. KENric young Case No. J-96880-08-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) KENRIC YOUNG (FATHER), of audra brooks, child, DOB 9/4/2017, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ORDERED that the defendants, Kenric Young (Father) , to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before March 17, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #5

OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ANTOINETTE L. BLAND, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4741 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3605 North Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1350/036, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Antoinette L. Bland. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ANTOINETTE L. BLAND, 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 CITIBANK, NA, an entity not found in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ANTOINETTE L. BLAND, CITIBANK, NA, an entity not found in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

described as 2701 Grayland Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0001198/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dorothy Patrice Henderson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, D O R O T H Y PAT R I C E HENDERSON, 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 JAMES LEWIS HASKELL, Registered Agent for SERMET CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that D O R O T H Y PAT R I C E HENDERSON, JAMES LEWIS HASKELL, Registered Agent for SERMET CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 398 page 18 on May 17, 1994, THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CSFB HOME EQUITY MORTGAGE TRUST 2005HFI C/O BAC, M/C: CA6914-01-43, BENEFICIARIES of a Notice of Assignment of Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 13-26575 on December 3, 2013,and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re KEON MARTECE LITTLE, RDSS v. TRON LITTLE, KYMBYLA MCCLAIN Case No. J96704-05-06 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for TRON LITTLE (FATHER) & KYMBYLA MCCLAIN ( M O T H E R ) , of K E O N MARTECE LITTLE, child, DOB 6/5/2004, “TPR” 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, Tron Little (Father) & Kymbyla McClain, to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before February 12, 2021, at 9:20 AM, Courtroom #1

PROPERTY VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JACQUELINE LEWIS LUCAS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4155 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 201 Minor Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0375/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jacqueline Lewis Lucas, Charles David Fowler Lewis, Joel A. Lucas, Jr., Brian Lucas, William Lucas, Michelle L. Meritte, Beverly D, Lewis and Bruce H. Lewis. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CHARLES DAVID FOWLER LEWIS and JOEL A. LUCAS, JR, are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, BRIAN LUCAS and WILLIAM LUCAS, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, MICHELLE L. MERITTE and BEVERLY D. LEWIS, 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 FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that LINDA KATHLEEN LEWIS FORD, a creditor per Instrument Number 02-12498 filed on September 26, 2002, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, as 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 CHARLES DAVID FOWLER LEWIS, JOEL A. LUCAS, JR, BRIAN LUCAS, WILLIAM L U C A S , MICHELLE L. M E R I T T E , B E V E R LY D . L E W I S , FA R M E R S INSURANCE EXCHANGE, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, LINDA KATHLEEN LEWIS FORD, a creditor per Instrument Number 0212498 filed on September 26, 2002, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DOROTHY R. SNYDOR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-3962 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3101 1st Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-0990/014, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Dorothy R. Snydor, Shirley R. Hawkins, Linda R. Cobb, Douglas Ross, Sr, Michael Ross, Michael Everett Ross, Marletta Thompson, Donald Thompson, Joseph Thompson, Jr, and Walter V. Miller, IV. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, DOROTHY R. SNYDOR, SHIRLEY R. HAWKINS, LINDA R. COBB, DOUGLAS ROSS, SR, MICHAEL ROSS, MICHAEL EVERETT ROSS, MARLETTA THOMPSON, DONALD THOMPSON, JOSEPH THOMPSON, JR, and WALTER V. MILLER, IV, are to be proceed against by Order of Publication pursuant to Section 8.01-316(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia; that WILLIAM J. DORAN, III, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that DOROTHY R. SNYDOR, SHIRLEY R. HAWKINS, LINDA R. COBB, DOUGLAS ROSS, SR, MICHAEL ROSS, MICHAEL EVERETT ROSS, MARLETTA THOMPSON, DONALD THOMPSON, JOSEPH THOMPSON, JR, and WALTER V. MILLER, IV, WILLIAM J. DORAN, III, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2020 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 804-646-7949

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DOROTHY PATRICE HENDERSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4109 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. TESSIE M. ROBINSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-2964 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3518 Florida Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001371/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Tessie M. Robinson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, TESSIE M. ROBINSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that D. SAM PERRY, JR, upon information and belief deceased, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 69 page 563 on February 4, 1986, said Deed of Trust per its terms maturing on January 1, 2009, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that HIGHLAND PA R K R E S T O R AT I O N A N D P R E S E R VAT I O N PROGRAM, INC, an entity not listed in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE and BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 398 page 18 on May 17, 1994, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CSFB HOME EQUITY MORTGAGE TRUST 2005HFI C/O BAC, M/C: CA6914-01-43, BENEFICIARIES of a Notice of Assignment of Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 13-26575 on December 3, 2013, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 TESSIE M. ROBINSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, D. SAM PERRY, JR, upon information and belief deceased, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 69 page 563 on February 4, 1986, said Deed of Trust per its terms maturing on January 1, 2009, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, HIGHLAND PA R K R E S T O R AT I O N A N D P R E S E R VAT I O N PROGRAM, INC, an entity not listed in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE and BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. BENITA S. COLBERT, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4368 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3433 Keighly Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0080851/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Benita S. Colbert. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, BENITA S. COLBERT, 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; that ONEMAIN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC fka AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICE (DE), Inc, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 05-37918 on October 31, 2005, 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 B E N I TA S . C O L B E R T, ONEMAIN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC fka AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICE (DE), Inc, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0537918 on October 31, 2005, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. LARRY REED, SR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-3786 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2934 Northumberland Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0860/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Larry Reed, Sr. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LARRY REED, SR, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 LARRY REED, SR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL Continued on next page

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COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF MINISTRIES, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-5070 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 316 German School Road, Tax Map Number C005-0963/034, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Know Him For Yourself Ministries, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that JEANETTE JOHNSON, Registered Agent for KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF MINISTRIES, INC, has not been located and has 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 JEANETTE JOHNSON, Registered Agent for KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF MINISTRIES, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

03-10549 on March 27, 2003, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

name of the owners of record, RICHMOND COMMUNITY D E V E L O P M E N T CORPORATION. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RICHMOND COMMUNITY D E V E L O P M E N T CORPORATION, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/ or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that RICHMOND COMMUNITY D E V E L O P M E N T CORPORATION, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

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 CHERYL L. CHRISTIAN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. GLORIA J. TANNER, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4612 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5513 Chesterfield Drive, Tax Map Number C008-0252/034, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Gloria J. Tanner. An Affidavit having been filed 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 Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JOAN MARIE MARTIN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4778 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4706 Lindlaw Avenue, Tax Map Number S009-0502/008, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Joan Marie Martin. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JOAN MARIE MARTIN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that SHARON HORSTKAMP, Registered Agent for MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-10549 on March 27, 2003, 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 JOAN MARIE MARTIN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, SHARON HORSTKAMP, Registered Agent for MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. IMANI INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4736 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1606 Hull Street, Tax Map Number S000-0196/005 Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Imani Intergenerational Community Development Corporation, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that GLORY, LLC, cograntor of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 9621924 on October 18, 1996, 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 GLORY, LLC, co-grantor of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 9621924 on October 18, 1996, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF MINISTRIES, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-5071 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 320 German School Road, Tax Map Number C005-0963/032, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Know Him For Yourself Ministries, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that JEANETTE JOHNSON, Registered Agent for KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF MINISTRIES, INC, has not been located and has 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 JEANETTE JOHNSON, Registered Agent for KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF MINISTRIES, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. RICHMOND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-5486 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the properties briefly described as 2613 Lincoln Alley, Tax Map Number E000-0475/040, 2621 Lincoln Alley, Tax Map Number E0000475/041, and 2621A Lincoln Alley, Tax Map Number E000-0475/042, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the Continued on next column

V I R G I N I A: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND RICHMOND REDEVELOPMENT & HOUSING AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF MATTHEW JAMES HAMMOND, and PARTIES UNKNOWN, Defendants. Case No. CL20-5661-4 ORDER OF PUBLICATION TO: U N K N O W N H E I R S O F M AT T H E W JAMES HAMMOND & PARTIES UNKNOWN WHEREAS the Plaintiff, Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority has filed a Complaint asserting claims in ejectment and for quiet title seeking to establish that it holds fee simple title to a 0.121 acre parcel of real property lying in the City of Richmond and fronting 50 feet on the southwesterly line of Selden Street, being a portion of the property now occupied by the Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School located at 2124 N. 29th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23223 (the “Disputed Property”), and being the same property conveyed to Matthew James Hammond and Signora Hammond, by Deed dated March 10, 1947 from Board of County Supervisors of Henrico County recorded in Deed Book 493-A, page 277, and that it has acquired by adverse possession the 1/3 undivided interest in the Disputed Property that may be claimed by the Unknown Heirs of Matthew James Hammond or Parties Unknown. WHEREAS the Complaint filed in this action states that the Defendants, the Unknown Heirs of Matthew J. Hammond and Parties Unknown, described generally in the Complaint as Parties Unknown, may have a one-third undivided interest in the Disputed Property as the heirs at law of Matthew James Hammond. IT IS HEREBY: ORDERED that the Unknown Heirs of Matthew J. Hammond and Parties Unknown come forward and appear in this Court on or before January 28, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. and take such steps as may be necessary to protect their interests in this matter and the Disputed Property. Edward E. Bagnell, Jr. (VSB No. 74647) Email: ebagnell@spottsfain. com Clay S. Hester (VSB No. 93051) Email: chester@spottsfain.com Spotts Fain P.C. 411 East Franklin Street, Ste. 600 Richmond, VA 23219 Telephone: (804) 697-2000 Facsimile: (804) 697-2100 Counsel for Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. RED HILL INVESTMENTS, LC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-3857 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2803 Rear West Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W000-1291/061, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Red Hill Investments, LC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RED HILL INVESTMENTS, LC an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that RIVER CITY RENAISSANCE, LC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ALBORZ FATHEDDIN and THOMAS D. SALLER, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, 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 RED HILL INVESTMENTS, LC an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, RIVER CITY RENAISSANCE, LC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, A L B O R Z FAT H E D D I N , THOMAS D. SALLER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. LARRY W. INGE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4111 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4442 Angus Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0090950/040, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Larry W. Inge. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LARRY W. INGE, 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 LARRY W. INGE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CHERYL L. CHRISTIAN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-3788 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 113 West Lancaster Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0597/005, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Cheryl L. Christian. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHERYL L. CHRISTIAN, 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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CYNTHIA LEAR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-3961 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2016 Fairfield Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0001237/017 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Cynthia Lear, Edward Miller, Jr, Anthony Miller, Eurlyne Golden, William Antonio Bridy and James Miller. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, EDWARD MILLER, JR, ANTHONY MILLER, EURLYNE GOLDEN, and WILLIAM ANTONIO BRIDY, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and has/have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, JAMES MILLER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that EDWARD MILLER, JR, ANTHONY MILLER, E U R LY N E G O L D E N , WILLIAM ANTONIO BRIDY, JAMES MILLER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. RONNELLE JACKSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-3990 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1618 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0859/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ronnelle Jackson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RONNELLE JACKSON, 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 PROSPERITY PROPERTIES, INC, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE and BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 01-12870 on May 23, 2001, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that P-ROCK INVESTMENTS, INC, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0112870 on May 23, 2001, or its successor/s 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 RONNELLE JACKSON, PROSPERITY PROPERTIES, INC, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE and BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 01-12870 on May 23, 2001, P-ROCK INVESTMENTS, INC, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0112870 on May 23, 2001, or its successor/s in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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

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Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. LUCRETIA BROWN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4360 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2900 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001226/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Lucretia Brown, Artina L. Taylor, Hazel Dowden and Donald Dowden. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, LUCRETIA BROWN, ARTINA L. TAYLOR, HAZEL DOWDEN, and DONALD DOWDEN, 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 DAVID M. FINE, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 41 page 107 on May 22, 1985, for beneficiary Barry Whetstine care of David M. Fine, per a certificate of assignment filed at Deed Book 44 page 423 on June 21, 1985, said Deed of Trust being dated May 17, 1985, 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 LUCRETIA BROWN, A R T I N A L . TAY L O R , HAZEL DOWDEN, DONALD DOWDEN, DAVID M. FINE, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 41 page 107 on May 22, 1985, for beneficiary Barry Whetstine care of David M. Fine, per a certificate of assignment filed at Deed Book 44 page 423 on June 21, 1985, said Deed of Trust being dated May 17, 1985, or his successor/s in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ROSA JORDAN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4110 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1608 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E012-0334/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Rosa Jordan. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROSA JORDAN, 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 ROSA JORDAN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CALVIN H. WRIGHT, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4355 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1609 Rogers Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000Continued on next column

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1235/005, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ola Green, Clytie Chase, Gladys Brown, Sylvester Wright, Louise Conway, and Calvin H. Wright. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CALVIN H. WRIGHT, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that OLA GREEN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLYTIE CHASE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS BROWN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, SYLVESTER WRIGHT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and LOUISE CONWAY, 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 CALVIN H. WRIGHT, OLA GREEN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLYTIE CHASE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS BROWN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, SYLVESTER WRIGHT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LOUISE CONWAY, 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 FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0001607/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Juanita A. Fulghum, Richard Massey Fulghum and Richard Garland Fulghum. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JUANITA A. FULGHUM, RICHARD MASSEY FULGHUM, RICHARD GARLAND FULGHUM, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and has/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 JUANITA A. FULGHUM, RICHARD MASSEY FULGHUM, RICHARD GARLAND FULGHUM, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 11, 2021 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 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JUANITA A. FULGHUM, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL20-4078 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 324 Roseneath Continued on next column

LiCENSE La Reina Mexican Grill LLC Trading as: La Reina Mexican Grill 12441 Redwater Creek Rd Chester, VA 23831-2343 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine & Beer On Premises/Mixed Beverage Restaurant license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Babita Rani NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

BIDS COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID ITB #20-2041-8JOK Azalea Avenue Pedestrian and Signal Improvements Due: January 26, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. For additional information visit: https://henrico.us/ finance/divisions/purchasing/ solicitations/ COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID ITB #20-2096-12JOK SCADA Systems Replacement Project – Water Reclamation Facility Due: January 26, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. For additional information visit: https://henrico.us/ finance/divisions/purchasing/ solicitations/

Employment IT Data Systems Developer Lead, Richmond, VA. Design, development, testing, maintenance of enterprise data warehouse & integration services. 'HYHORS QHZ GDWD HQJ·J SURFHVV WKDW OHYHUDJHV new cloud architecture. Extend/migrate existing data pipelines to this architecture. Mail resume to A. Haley, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1221 East Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219.

Thank you for your interest in applying for opportunities with The City of Richmond. To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com. EOE M/F/D/V AGA Service Co. T/A Allianz Partners seeks Sr. Machine Learning Engineer to gather/analyze data, identify key prediction problems, devise solutions & build prototypes & formulate machine learning approaches. REQ: Master’s in Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, or clsly related, or foreign equiv, & 2 yrs exp as Machine Learning Engineer or clsly related w/ 2 yrs concurrent exp using machine learning programming incl. Python & w/ using SQL databases to extract data from source systems. Position also reqs 1 yr concurrent exp w/ Bayesian Statistics, machine learning algorithms, & Multi-Armed Bandits Algorithms. LOC: Richmond, VA. Send cvr ltr, CV, slry rqmt & refs to: C. Lawton, HR, 9950 Mayland Dr, Richmond, VA 23233.

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