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More bad news As consultant points out flaws, City Council majority gives Mayor Stoney a choice to withdraw the $1.5B Coliseum and Downtown development plan or have it stricken

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The bad news just keeps coming for the doomed $1.5 billion proposal to replace the Richmond Coliseum and develop an area of Downtown around it.

First, despite a series of snafus, the House of Delegates on Monday halted a last-ditch plan to steer state sales tax revenue to help pay for the development, a move Mayor Levar M. Stoney and other advocates considered essential to persuading the required s e v e n Mayor Stoney R i c h m o n d C i t y Council members to back the deal.

Then later on Monday, Mr. Johnson a fed-up, five-member majority of City Council used a committee meeting to issue a choice to the mayor: Withdraw the ordinances for the proposal or prepare to see them stricken from the council’s agenda at its meeting on Monday, Feb. 10.

By a vote of 5-4 at the Organizational Development Com-

mittee, the council majority voted to recommend striking the papers from the council docket and also passed a resolution 5-3 to urge the mayor to pull the ordinances to avoid the rebuff.

Councilman Michael J. Jones, 9th District, abstained from the

second vote.

The vote to strike the ordinances is expected to come during the portion of the Feb. 10 meeting in which the council formally establishes its agenda, usually without a public hearing.

The five members leading the charge to kill the plan developed by the Navy Hill District Corp. led by Dominion Energy top executive Thomas F. Farrell II are council Vice President Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District; Kim B. Gray, 2nd

District; Kristen N. Larson, 4th District; Stephanie A. Lynch, 5th District; and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District.

Council members who want to keep the ordinances alive at Please turn to A4

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rips up President Trump’s State of the Union address after his speech in the House chamber on Tuesday, the eve of the U.S. Senate vote on whether to remove him from office.

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Play day Spring-like weather this week led many people outside to enjoy the days before rain and chilly winter temperatures return. Shaya Scott, 5, perches on a bench at Swan Lake in Richmond’s Byrd Park where she was enjoying the weather, the ducks and Canada geese Tuesday with her parents, Shalaya and Larry McEachin Jr., and her sisters.

Meeting on homeless issue turns tense

By George Copeland Jr.

A discussion meant to address and ease concerns for Richmond’s homeless residents quickly turned tense Wednesday afternoon.

Instead of a discussion of city strategies, the hourlong meeting at the Annie E. Giles Community Resource Center saw homeless residents, advocates, supporters and others criticize how the city has handled homelessness.

Yelling and loud comments from advocates and the homeless marked the meeting and, at one point, a participant grabbed a microphone from the meeting’s leader, City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, though the microphone was quickly returned to her.

Still, the uproar appeared symptomatic of a lack of faith that the city is committed to finding solutions.

The location for this session appeared ideal. A former soup kitchen, the center sits on Oliver Hill Way, just a few feet away from the Camp Cathy tent city where about 100 people unable to afford housing in the city have pitched tents and are now living.

The Giles Center also serves as the city’s emergency overflow shelter to keep people from freezing when temperatures are forecast to hit or drop below 40 degrees.

But despite the location, the meeting did little to assure concerned participants, who interjected and often loudly voiced their views despite attempts from Ms. Robertson to keep the discusssion civil and “respectable.”

“This has got to be a balanced conversation,” Ms. Roberston said.

“We believe housing is a right, not a privilege,” Mayor Levar M. Stoney stated in a release issued after the meeting. “We are working with nonprofit, faith-based, homelessness and social service providers to support this community and to work with each resident individually to address their unique challenges and circumstances.”

He promised that service providers will have a presence at the Annie Giles Center to connect people at Camp Cathy with services and more stable housing.

Many who attended the meeting, though, were suspicious, given the city’s most recent response to Camp Cathy. That suspicion is based on a city letter dated Dec. 30 and sent to Rhonda L. Sneed, the co-founder of the homeless service group Blessing Warriors RVA who started the encampment with the

late Cathy Davis.

The letter from Reginald E. “Reggie” Gordon, Richmond’s deputy chief administrative officer for human services, told Ms. Sneed that the tent city needed to “be removed immediately,” citing unverified crime and health issues.

Mr. Gordon said Wednesday the city currently does not have any plans to close the camp or evict Camp Cathy residents. However, he did not respond to questions about whether he planned to rescind the letter or whether the city would take any action in the months to come to remove the rows of tents.

The volatile meeting followed the release of a Point-In-Time count survey from Homeward, a regional homeless coordinating agency, that showed a 10 percent increase in the number of single adults who are homeless in Richmond. The reported increase from 497 adults to 549 was the first such increase

since 2011.

Pointing to the Richmond Justice Center across the street, Ms. Sneed questioned before the meeting the city’s priorities in aiding homeless residents, as she and volunteers prepared for an influx of more homeless people.

“Those people in the jail, they got a bed, they get meals and they built it because they said they needed air conditioning,” Ms. Sneed said. “What about here?”

“They don’t even care about these people,” she said, “and tonight we’re probably going to get 10 more people.”

As it turned out, some of those who work at the jail expressed their own concerns at the meeting.

Alisha Banks, a case manager at the Justice Center, Please turn to A4

RPS launches program to help dropouts get diploma or GED

By Ronald E. Carrington

in and hold their hands throughout the process.”

RPS has suffered for several years with one of the Battling one of the highest dropout rates in Virginia, highest dropout rates in the state. According to the Richmond Public Schools is launching a Secondary latest 2019 state Department of Education statistics, Success Center to help students who have dropped 24.4 per of city students, or nearly 1 in 4, drop out out return to earn their high school diploma before completing high school. or a GED. Officials said the center was fashioned afThe new program, located at Hickory ter conversations with students who dropped Hill Community Center at 3000 E. Belt out because the traditional school day and Blvd., will employ a blend of small group setting doesn’t work. When they tried to and computer-based instruction to assist go back to school, the same environment any city resident age 17 to 21 who has didn’t work, Ms. Harrison said. dropped out of high school.

The effort is “just the beginning of the Applications will be taken on a rolling creative solutions we can find when we Ms. Harrison basis for the sessions, the first of which starts listen to our young people, partner with 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, at the center. The the community and join hands to ensure success for second round of classes begins April 15. all our students,” said Dr. Tracy Epp, RPS’ chief Officials said the program is tailored to meet the academic officer. unique needs of each individual and make participation About 30 people attended Monday’s announceas convenient as possible through flexible academic ment, including about six former students interested programming and scheduling. in returning for a diploma, two parents and people “We want to make their course of study very per- from a range of support organizations such as worksonal,” said Tyra Harrison, RPS’ manager of student support and intervention. “We want to bring students Please turn to A4

President Trump won acquittal Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.

The votes split the country, tested civic norms and fed the tumultuous 2020 race for the White House.

A majority of senators expressed unease with President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment. But the final tallies — 52-48 acquitting him of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of obstruction of Congress’ investigation — fell far short. Two-thirds of the 100-member Senate, or 67 votes, were needed to convict and remove President Trump from office.

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Mayor withdraws proposal to name city park plaza for Dominion Energy A new plaza proposed for the city-owned Low Line Green that runs along the Capital Trail on the riverfront will not bear the name of Dominion Energy.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney on Tuesday withdrew legislation to make that happen.

Last week, City Council’s Land Use, Housing and Transportation Committee balked at the proposal.

According to a city document accompanying the proposed ordinance, Dominion Energy proposed to provide about $740,000 to a nonprofit called Capital Trees to pay for landscaping and future maintenance to develop the plaza in the 1700 block of Dock Street.

The proposal called for the plaza to be named “Dominion Energy Garden at the Low Line Green.”

The Low Line runs from the Canal Walk to Great Shiplock Park beside and beneath the CSX railroad tracks. The Low Line used to be a scraggly area of weeds on the land untouched by the Capital Trail, a cycling and walking trail linking Richmond and Williamsburg.

In 2014, City Council authorized the Three Chopt Garden Club and Capital Trees to replace the weeds with flowers and other landscaping. The city contributed $200,000 to the beautification effort that was valued at nearly $1.3 million.

Capital Trees first proposed in 2018 to improve the area in the 1700 block of Dock Street and won support from City Council.

Capital Trees found Dominion Energy willing to support the plan and requested Mayor Stoney to introduce the paper.

It is not clear whether Dominion Energy will pull its support for the project as a result of the rejection of the naming rights.

Capital Trees appears committed to moving forward with its plans and to seek other partners if needed. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Delegate Luke E. Torian of Northern Virginia to speak Friday at VUU’s Founders Day Delegate Luke E. Torian of Prince William County will be the keynote speaker at Virginia Union University’s Founders Day Convocation at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at the Allix B. James Chapel in Coburn Hall on campus.

The convocation celebrates the university’s 155th anniversary.

Delegate Torian, who earned a master’s in divinity in 1984 from VUU’s School of Theology, is pastor of First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries. He is the first African-American to serve as chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

“Virginia Union University has much to celebrate and we are thankful that our alumnus, Delegate Torian, will be with us,” VUU President Hakim J. Lucas stated in a news release about the event. “He is a shining example of the type of leader, both locally and nationally, that has graduated from VUU.” Dr. Lucas said that even after 155 years, VUU continues “to empower students while providing a nurturing, intellectually challenging and spiritually enriching environment for learning.”

Goldman drops appeal in plan for Coliseum referendum Paul Goldman, leader of the Put Schools First campaign, is dropping his appeal of a Richmond Circuit Court ruling that blocked his efforts to put an advisory referendum on the ballot last November for Richmond voters to weigh in on the $1.5 billion Coliseum replacement plan.

“City Council is expected to vote on the plan long before the appeal could be heard by the Virginia Supreme Court,” Mr. Goldman told the Free Press. “I don’t think an appeal would be useful at this point.”

Late last year, Mr. Goldman filed the required notice of his intent to appeal the September ruling by Judge Joi Jeter Taylor, chief judge of Richmond Circuit Court. Judge Taylor ruled that Mr. Goldman had fallen short of submitting the more than 10,000 valid signatures of registered voters to put the referendum on the ballot.

Mr. Goldman said he is dropping the appeal and now focusing on developing a radio program, Richmond Politics, he launched on WCLM 1450AM and 101.7FM. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Correction Dr. Kelli Williams Gary, president-elect of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia, is an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling in Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Health Professions.

She joined the Brain Injury Association of Virginia in 2005 and has served on the board since 2013.

The VCU department where Dr. Gary teaches and the year she joined the board were incorrect in the Personality published in the Jan. 30-Feb. 1 edition.

The Free Press regrets the errors.

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

The intersection of 12th and Bainbridge streets in South Side is artistically decorated with a colorful splash, telltale of the boom the Manchester sector of the city is undergoing in construction of new homes and multistory apartments. Seen here is Manchester Green, a 78-unit complex of townhouses, duplexes and apartments that has been underway for two years in the block bounded by 12th, 13th, Bainbridge and Porter streets. The 2-acre, low-rise development is one of the latest from Urban Development Associates led by Robin Miller and Dan Gecker and is a larger version of the eight townhomes they built several years ago one block north between Porter and Perry streets.

After-school programs now in all RPS middle and elementary schools

By Ronald E. Carrington

Students at Richmond’s Albert H. Hill Middle School now can sign up for free after-school programs, thanks to a partnership with Richmond Public Schools and the nonprofit NextUp RVA. RPS officials announced at a Jan. 30 news conference that, with the addition of the middle school at 3400 Patterson Ave., all seven middle schools and 25 elementary schools in Richmond now offer after-school programs at least twice a week in arts, science, technology, sports, life skills, self-expression and problem solving.

“It’s so much fun,” said Richmond School Board Chairwoman Linda B. Owen, a retired librarian who has visited many of the after-school programs and described students engaged in a variety of activities.

“Students are dancing, making music, cooking. That is the amazing thing to me, Ms. Owen said. “This is not after-school study hall. Students are learning, and to them it is fun.”

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Rich-

mond will manage the site, while students will be provided snacks, dinner and RPS transportation home, with the cost of the programs funded in large part by corporate and private donations, officials said.

“We announced this vision (for afterschool programs to be in all schools) back in the summer of 2018,” Mayor Levar M. Stoney said at the news conference. “Here we are less than two years later and every elementary and middle school student has access to a full-service after-school program either on site or nearby. That’s real progress.

“We have created a foundation for our students not just in the classroom, but we have invested in our children outside of the classroom because we know children spend 80 percent of their time outside of school,” he said. “Out-of-school time is important for our students to continue to learn and grow. These programs are a safe place for students to be educated while their parents are still working.”

RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras said the expanded after-school programs accomplish that part of the school system’s

five-year strategic plan, Dreams4RPS. “This is really an example of the community coming together, including city agencies, nonprofits and corporations,” Mr. Kamras said.

“As a parent and superintendent, this is an incredible selling point for families to come to Richmond to live.”

Since NextUp’s pilot program in 2014, more than 1,600 middle students have taken advantage of the after-school programs, officials said.

“Students participating in the Next-Up’s system learn better, feel better and ultimately do better,” said Barbara Couto Sipe, NextUp’s chief executive officer and president.

“Year after year we found an impact on student attendance and improvement in their behavior, as well as how they feel about their peers and their school.”

Also attending the news conference were School Board member Elizabeth “Liz” Doerr, 1st District, Albert H. Hill Middle School Principal Tashiana Ivy and Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin, a member of NextUp’s board of directors.

School Board starts process for VCU to take over historic Moore Street School

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Virginia Commonwealth University has gained a boost for its plan to take over the historic and vacant Moore Street School to expand the day care operation that its School of Education operates on the Monroe Park Campus.

The Richmond School Board voted 8-1 Monday night to start the process of enabling VCU to obtain the building.

VCU wants to convert the 1887 building into a day care for 148 children, with 100 spaces reserved for pre-school children of faculty, students and staff and up to 48 subsidized spaces available for youngsters from Gilpin Court and the Carver neighborhood.

Without mentioning VCU, the School Board endorsed procedural steps that are required if VCU is to obtain the building, a rear annex to the more modern Carver Elementary School in the 1100 block of West Leigh Street.

Among other things, the board reaffirmed its decision to give up its rights to the building and directed schools Superintendent Jason Kamras to file paperwork

with the Richmond Circuit Court that would transfer the property to city control.

When Moore Street School was constructed in the post-Reconstruction era, the building was the first public school the city built for the education of black children, according to historical documents.

The board closed the building in 2000 and voted to make it surplus property 10 years ago, but kept control of the property by never filing the required paperwork with the court.

Meanwhile, Carver Elementary continued until recently to use some rooms in the deteriorating structure for offices and for indoor play space for students.

Under a memorandum of agreement between VCU and Richmond Public Schools, the hand over of the building to City Hall would allow the city to transfer the building to VCU for $1. That would clear the way for the university to begin renovations.

However, the School Board, having giving up all control of the building, could not offer assurances that the city would do that.

The city, instead, could issue a request

for proposals to see whether other parties would be interested in the building and be willing to pay more. Any funds the city might derive from a sale or lease of the building would have to be returned to the school system.

The lone vote in opposition came from School Board member Kenya Gibson, 3rd District, who expressed concern that the board would not receive any payment for the building.

She also expressed concern that the school system’s memorandum with VCU was too imprecise in its details. For example, she said it was not clear that VCU would be required to undertake construction work in a way that would avoid interference with Carver’s educational programs.

She also said there was no detail on Carver’s parking needs to ensure that spaces earmarked for the day care are not needed for staff, faculty and visitors to the public school.

VCU plans to spend millions of dollars to renovate the building and has estimated that the subsidies it would provide to enroll children from the community could run $500,000 or more per year.

Herring, other AGs sue to force U.S. to adopt ERA Free Press wire report

Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring and two other Democratic state attorneys general sued a U.S. government official last week, seeking to force him to recognize Virginia’s recent vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and adopt the measure in the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit filed Jan. 30 against the archivist of the United States comes after the National Archives and Records Administration said last week that David Ferriero would “take no action to certify the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment.”

On Jan. 27, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the measure that supporters said will guarantee women equal rights under the law. Constitutional amendments must be ratified by threequarters of the states, or 38. But the ERA’s future is uncertain, in part because of a ratification deadline enacted by Congress that passed decades ago.

Many legal observers have long expected the issue to make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawsuit brought by Mr. Herring, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul argued that the deadline, which was first set for 1979 and later extended to 1982, is not binding.

“After generations of effort, the women of this country are entitled to their rightful place in the Constitution. This Court should compel the Archivist to carry out his statutory duty of recognizing the complete and final adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment,” the lawsuit said.

The press office of the National Archives and Records Administration referred a request for comment to the Department of Justice, which declined comment.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argued that U.S. laws do not give the archivist the power to decide whether to certify an amendment. They contend the archivist’s duty to certify the amendment is “mandatory and purely ministerial.”

In declining to certify the ERA, the archives said it was following advice from the U.S. Department of Justice, which issued an opinion in January saying it was too late for states to sign off because of the deadline. The department said the amendment process must begin anew.

In the lawsuit, the attorneys general argued that the deadline instituted by Congress is not binding because the time limitation was in a resolution preamble, not in the text of the article that was sent to the states for consideration. Additionally, the attorneys

general said, the U.S. Constitution doesn’t explicitly give Congress the power to set a timeline for states to ratify an amendment.

They noted that the last amendment to be added in 1992 — the 27th Amendment limiting the ability of members of Congress to raise their own pay — took more than 200 years to be ratified by 38 states.

The ERA states, in part, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Supporters say it would offer stronger protections in sex discrimination cases and give Congress firmer ground to pass anti-discrimination laws.

Opponents warn it would erode common sense protections for women, such as workplace accommodations during pregnancy.

They also worry it could be used by abortion rights supporters to quash abortion restrictions on the grounds they discriminate against women.

Some opponents also say the fact that five states that initially approved the ERA later moved to rescind their ratifications means it can’t be adopted in the Constitution. The lawsuit argues that those states’ efforts are “constitutionally unauthorized and without legal effect.”

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More bad news for Navy Hill plan Continued from A1

least until Monday, Feb. 24, when a final vote is scheduled are council President Cynthia I. Newbille, 7th District; Andreas D. Addison, 1st District; Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, and Dr. Jones.

So far, Mayor Stoney has not withdrawn the ordinances.

The hope for state help collapsed when the House Finance Committee tabled for a year a bill that would authorize Richmond to use state sales taxes to be generated by the development to help pay for a new Coliseum and other parts of the development, which includes a new hotel, new offices, more than 2,000 apartments and new retail stores and restaurants in a 10-block area in Downtown around the Coliseum.

The committee’s action reflected the decision of the legislation’s sponsor, Richmond Delegate Jeff M. Bourne, the lone member of the city’s delegation to be involved. He announced last week that because of division on City Council about the project, he was withdrawing his support for action on the measure this year and wanted the bill deferred.

The mayor’s options were issued after the nine council members heard an extended briefing from a council-hired consultant,

who offered a mixed review of the proposed development.

While Charles H. Johnson and his team from Johnson Consulting of Chicago generally gave a thumbs up to what he called a potential “world-class project,” he also suggested that projections for the arena’s use were inflated. He also criticized the city for failing get an appraisal on city-owned property that would be sold to private interests for the project, and noted that Richmond still could attract major development to the area without building a new Coliseum.

Mr. Johnson projected that a new arena and the associated development could generate at least $700 million in new taxes through 2048, a nearly 30-year period.

But he also estimated that Navy Hill would need the city to contribute at least $385 million in real estate taxes from outside the 22-acre development area in order to repay the borrowing costs to build a new Coliseum.

He projected that, including the city contribution, the total tax revenue the proposed development could generate might top $1.15 billion between 2021 and 2048.

However, he estimated that 53 percent, or more than $600 million, would need to go to repay the loans to build the Coliseum

City Council member’s employer getting emails to pressure her to change vote One member of City Council is of government affairs, business developseeing her employer dragged into her ment and organizational strategy. opposition to the $1.5 billion Coliseum Still, she is concerned about the replacement and Downtown tactics to get her to change redevelopment plan. her mind and considers them Councilwoman StephanieA. inappropriate.

Lynch, 5th District, reported that She noted in a statement executives at Good Neighbor, that she and other members where she works, are getting of City Council “continue to emails from people in a bid get bombarded by countless to pressure her to change her emails from Navy Hill partners position. and business leaders who are Ms. Lynch Ms. Lynch told the Free tied to the project, all of whom Press about the situation Wednesday, live outside the city. but acknowledged that no one from the “They have even begun reaching out company, which provides housing and to my employer, sending emails to my mental health services to the people with CEO in an effort to apply pressure,” Ms. mental health challenges, has mentioned Lynch stated. the emails to her.

Despite that effort, she stated she will She is a senior executive at Good not reverse her decision and is buoyed Neighbor, where she serves as director by the emails, calls and notes of support

from constituents for her stand against “a risky, publicly subsidized development.”

She noted that Johnson Consulting, a firm hired by City Council, found that the proposed 80-block tax incrementfinancing district from which property taxes would be taken to finance the proposed arena, “posed a significant risk” and that the development would not deliver “a significant return on investment until year 16.”

Ms. Lynch also cited the consultant’s finding that the proposed average rent for the “affordable housing” included in the development would run $1,600 a month.

“This could lead to rapid and accelerated gentrification above and beyond what is happening now,” she stated. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

— with the city having to wait 16 years to see any substantial flow of new tax dollars to the general fund that pays for schools, police, fire, trash collection and other key services.

His report also undermined a key talking point used by Mayor Stoney and Navy Hill proponents. In Mr. Johnson’s view, if the Coliseum replacement plan lives up to its billing, the city might earn about $500 million in new revenue through 2048 after the arena is paid off, or well short of the $1 billion the mayor and Navy Hill backers have stated.

Mr. Johnson’s report also refuted Mayor Stoney’s claims and those of Navy Hill officials that no development would take place in that Downtown area if a new Coliseum is not included.

If a new arena were eliminated from the plan, Mr. Johnson and his team estimated that the 10 blocks of Downtown are so ripe for development that the city could attract a hotel, new office buildings, new apartments, restaurants and retail that would generate a return to the general fund almost immediately after being built.

In his view, an arena-less project might generate up to $600 million in new taxes over the same 2021-2048 period. He did not estimate the amount the city might have to contribute for such a development; the city has estimated about $40 million.

Without the arena, “there would be less vitality,” Mr. Johnson said, and the development would take place more slowly, but it could be done.

Evidence of the development potential of the area bounded 5th and 10th streets between Leigh and Marshall streets, and in two blocks south of Broad Street, came from Virginia Commonwealth University, which has long wanted to obtain the former city Public Safety Building located on 9th Street, a block north of City Hall.

The university, which is willing to keep it as taxable property, rolled out more details of its plan to have a third party developer to create office space for at least 250 physicians and to include the Ronald McDonald House and The Doorways hotel for VCU patients and families on the site.

Such information only has provided more ammunition for the City Council majority, which sees the project as sopping up essential funds needed for public education and other services.

Mr. Hilbert also is adamant that he wants to see efforts to get Richmond’s neighboring counties involved with a new arena project, just as they are partners in Richmond International Airport, the Greater Richmond Convention Center and other initiatives with regional impact and implications.

Like other council members, Ms. Lynch believes the Navy Hill plan was created without the transparency and public inclusion needed. She said her decision to oppose the project “is not about saying ‘no’ to development; it’s about saying ‘yes’ to smart investment growth and a new way of doing business. It’s time to shake the shadow deals of the past and allow for new growth in the sunshine.”

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impeachment proceedings — in the U.S. House of Representatives, followed by the U.S. Senate — reflecting the nation’s unrelenting partisan divide three years into the Trump presidency.

What started as President Trump’s request for Ukraine to “do us a favor” spun into a farreaching, 28,000-page report compiled by House investigators accusing the president of engaging in shadow diplomacy that threatened U.S. foreign relations for personal political gain as he pressured the ally to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

No president has ever been removed by the Senate.

A politically emboldened President Trump has eagerly predicted vindication, deploying the verdict as a political anthem in his re-election bid. The president claims he did nothing wrong, decrying the “witch hunt” and “hoax” as exten-

sions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian campaign interference in the 2016 presidential election by those out to get him from the start of his presidency.

The Wednesday afternoon vote was swift.

With Chief Justice John Roberts presiding over the trial, senators sworn to do “impartial justice” stood at their desks for the roll call and stated their votes — “guilty” or “not guilty.”

On the first article of impeachment, President Trump was charged with abuse of power. He was found not guilty. The second, obstruction of Congress, also produced a not guilty verdict.

Only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the party’s defeated 2012 presidential nominee, broke with the GOP. Sen. Romney choked up as he said he drew on his faith and “oath before God” to announce his vote of “guilty” on the first charge, abuse of power. He would vote to acquit on the second charge.

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force agencies, area community colleges and Virginia Commonwealth University and Centura College.

“We have partners to assist students in networking so they can realize their life’s goals,” Sydney Gunter, RPS’ academic response to intervention coordinator, said in a Free Press interview.

Six teachers, including a special education teacher and an English as a second language teacher, will be involved initially with the program, officials said. A bilingual counselor also will be part of the team.

Students will be supported by counseling services, post-secondary education and career exploration and other measures, officials said.

Students working toward a diploma can take online courses to earn credits toward graduation

and to prepare for the state’s required Standards of Learning testing. Exceptional education students may qualify for SOL waivers, officials said, while accommodations also can be made for students for whom English is a second language.

“Our team wants to set the students on a path to do whatever they want to do next,” she said.

“When students have the diploma or GED in one hand, they will have a life’s plan in the other.”

Superintendent Jason Kamras said the center is a way of “re-imagining alternative education and eliminating barriers that prevent our students from reaching their full potential.”

He said, “It’s imperative that we meet students where they are and create different pathways for success.”

Interested in the program? Contact the RPS Office of Academic Programs and Support at (804) 780-7797 or by emailing rpssecondarysuccess@rvaschools.net.

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U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is solemn Wednesday as he announces that he will break with his fellow Republicans and vote to convict President Trump on one of the two articles of impeachment.

Virginia’s senators, Democrats Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, voted “guilty” on both charges.

Both President Bill Clinton in 1999 and President Andrew Johnson in 1868 drew crossparty support when they were left in office after an impeachment trial. Facing impeachment, President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 rather than face revolt from his own party.

Ahead of voting, some of the most closely watched senators took to the Senate floor to tell their constituents, and the nation, what they had decided. The Senate chaplain opened the trial with daily prayers for the senators, including one Wednesday seeking “integrity.”

Influential GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who is retiring, worried that a guilty verdict would “pour gasoline on the fire” of the nation’s culture wars over President Trump.

He said the House proved its case, but it just didn’t rise to the level of removing the president from office.

“It would rip the country apart,” Sen. Alexander said before his vote.

Other Republicans siding with President Trump said it was time to end what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky

called the “circus” and move on. Trump ally GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said it was a “sham” designed to destroy a presidency.

Most Democrats, however, echoed the House managers’ warnings that President Trump, if left unchecked, would continue to abuse the power of his office for personal political gain and try to “cheat” again ahead of the 2020 election.

During the nearly three-week trial, House Democrats prosecuting the case detailed an extraordinary shadow diplomacy run by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that set off alarms at the highest levels of government. After President Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president, Mr. Trump temporarily halted U.S. aid to the struggling ally battling hostile Russia at its border. The money was eventually released in September as Congress intervened.

When the House probed President Trump’s actions, the president instructed White House aides to defy congressional subpoenas, leading to the obstruction charge.

One key Democrat, Alabama Sen. Doug Jones — perhaps the most endangered politically for reelection in a state where President Trump is popular — announced he would vote to convict. “Senators are elected to make tough choices,” Sen. Jones said.

Questions from the Ukraine matter continue to swirl. House Democrats may yet summon former national security adviser John Bolton to testify about revelations from his forthcoming book that offer a fresh account of President Trump’s actions. Other eyewitnesses and documents are almost sure to surface.

In closing arguments for the trial, the lead prosecutor, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, appealed to senators’ sense of decency, that “right matters” and “truth matters” and that President Trump “is not who you are. ″ “The president’s basic lack of character, his willingness to cheat in the election — he’s not going to stop,” Rep. Schiff told The Associated Press on Wednesday, predicting more revelations would become public. “It’s not going to change, which means that we are going to have to remain eternally vigilant.”

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was critical of how the city’s homeless crisis line operates.

She said the hotline takes messages and requires those seeking help to have a cellphone to receive callbacks. She said undue responsibility is being placed on those seeking help, including many inmates who leave the jail after serving their time and wind up homeless and on the street.

A key part of the meeting was supposed to be a review of a draft strategic plan on homelessness that the city departments of Housing and Community Development and Social Services prepared.

The plan, which City Council requested Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration to develop, calls for the city to work with nonprofit providers

to increase emergency shelter beds that provide overnight stays.

The two departments also want the city to increase its partnership with nonprofit and local outreach groups to develop more transitional beds that allow for longer stays. The report also spells out five other strategies that urge the city to beef up funding for homeless services and for the education for Richmond residents about the issue.

Michael Smith of Blessing Warriors RVA said the current draft shows that the city has done little to implement key elements of a 10-year plan released in 2008 to address homelessness and to increase housing options.

Others expressed concern that the city Department of Social Services relies too heavily on local nonprofits and private groups to handle homeless matters and should devote more of its

own resources to the problem.

The city also was called neglectful of the homeless and only willing to get involved when homelessness hits a certain threshold. For many at the meeting, the city is doing too little to help those facing a housing crisis — certainly nothing on the scale of Atlanta, which raised $50 million last year to create 550 new housing units for the homeless.

One problem is a lack of easy communications that leaves those needing shelter without even basic information on availability.

“We have to be more humane,” said Bob Hummer, founder and executive director of Moments of Hope Outreach. “It is not right to expect somebody who is homeless to wonder ‘Is this building going to be open tonight or not?’ ” One aspect of the plan that service providers

and advocates seemed to agree with is the need for a homeless shelter that would be accessible all the time. People suggested using the Giles Center, the vacant Richmond Coliseum and vacant houses owned by the city.

“What we have outside is a fantastic opportunity for social services, mental health, physical health, employment agencies and organizations, because they’re pooled up in one location,” Mr. Hummer said. “We can serve them, we can process them out of homelessness right now.”

Seventy minutes into the discussion, Ms. Robertson and other city officials called it quits and departed as rain began falling.

That left supporters and residents of Camp Cathy to figure out their next steps as they headed out into a downpour. The homeless individuals scrambled to get inside their tents or sought cover under the entry of the locked building.

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Vigil Saturday for toddler fatally shot in Hillside Court Free Press staff report

A candlelight vigil in memory of 3-yearold Sharmar L. Hill Jr., who was fatally shot while playing last Saturday afternoon outside his family’s home in the Hillside Court public housing community, will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in the 1700 block of Southlawn Avenue.

Charles D. Willis, executive director of United Communities Against Crime, asked that people bring red, blue and green balloons, as well as candles, to the vigil which will be held in the block where the toddler was found.

A funeral service for Shamar will be held 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, at New Life Deliverance Tabernacle, 900 Decatur St. in South Side, with Dr. Robert A. Winfree officiating.

About 4:09 p.m. last Sharmar Saturday, Richmond Police were called to the 1700 block of Southlawn Avenue for reports of random gunfire and a youngster shot. Officers arrived and found the toddler with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

The toddler’s father, Sharmar L. Hill Sr., told a local television station that the toddler’s older siblings were looking after him Feb. 1 when the shooting occurred. He said their mother, Shaniqua Allen, was at work and he was away in Farmville taking care of his mother, when he got a call that the child had been shot.

He said the youngster’s 14-year-old sister rushed the wounded child inside to safety as other siblings called 911.

He said they rushed to VCU Medical Center, where he died.

Mr. Hill expressed appreciation for the community’s outpouring of prayers and support and said he hopes to move his family away from Hillside Court and into a different environment.

Damon Duncan, chief executive officer of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority that manages Hillside Court, called the toddler’s death an “unimaginable tragedy.”

“As you can imagine, we are devastated by this news,” Mr. Duncan said in a statement. “Our deepest condolences go out to the family of the young victim.

“Our director of public safety is currently working with local law enforcement to determine the events that led to this tragedy,” he stated.

Police are investigating the homicide and several incidents that occurred nearby during the weekend, including a robbery and carjacking about 9:58 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 31, in the 2600 block of Berwyn Street, in which a woman ride-share driver reported that two L. Hill Jr. male customers brandished a firearm and robbed her and drove off in her newer model white Kia. Police said just before midnight on Friday, and again early on Saturday, Feb. 1, officers were called to the 1600 block of Rosecrest Avenue for reports of random gunfire.

Detectives responding to the homicide investigation also received information that a white vehicle sped away from the scene after the shooting, authorities said.

Early Sunday, Feb. 2, police arrested Antonio L. Harris, 21, of the 1300 block of Evergreen Avenue and charged him with carjacking and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.

Police asked that anyone with information about the toddler’s death contact Detective J. Fultz with the Richmond Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit, at (804) 646-3929, or contact Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000 or www.7801000.com. The P3 Tips Crime Stoppers app for smart phones also may be used. All tips are anonymous.

Richmond’s housing issues have long history

By George Copeland Jr.

Richmond must do a lot of work to solve its eviction problem that gives it the second highest eviction rate per capita in the nation.

That was the takeaway as housing advocates, city officials and Richmond area residents gathered Tuesday evening at The Valentine in Downtown to discuss the state of housing in the city.

The two-hour panel and discussion, “Who’s Putting Our House in Order?” was part of The Valentine’s Controversy/History series. The audience of about 80 people included Kelly King Horne, executive director of Homeward, a coordinating agency for homeless services in Metro Richmond, and Robert J. Adams, a member of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s board of commissioners.

RRHA manages nearly 4,000 apartment units and serves more than 10,000 residents in public housing in the city.

Richmond, with a poverty rate of 21.9 percent, remains second in evictions in the United States, with an eviction rate double the state average and quadruple the national average, according to data provided by the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society.

RRHA recently froze all evictions from public housing until May 1 following a recent public outcry from housing justice advocates and residents over the large number of people being taken to court and evicted for not making timely rent payments.

The root causes of Richmond’s housing issues were a great concern for many attending the panel discussion. Willie Hilliard, president of the Brookland Park Area Business Association, noted that the city’s high rents make it impossible for families to afford to move into Richmond in 2020.

He criticized how developers who promise a number of affordable housing units in their plans are getting tax breaks “on the backs” of residents even if the resulting units aren’t really affordable.

“The city is using poor people as prey,” Mr. Hilliard said. “We need to find another way.”

William J. “Bill” Martin, director of The Valentine, and Kelli S. Lemon, host of Coffee With Strangers, guided the audience through a century of Richmond housing history marked by conflict and racial animus, from the influence of segregation in urban planning in the early 20th century, the flight of the city’s white residents to the suburbs to efforts to create a public housing authority.

“This has been a crisis for the city since the very beginning,” Mr. Martin said.

When Gilpin Court was built in 1943 as the newly created RRHA’s first housing project, only 25 applicants from 576 former Jackson Ward residents were accepted.

Problems have persisted and metastasized into new forms of injustice over the decades, including redlining to keep African-Americans out of certain neighborhoods and predatory lending practices, said Jovan Burton, director of implementation with the Partnership for Housing Affordability.

The number of African-American homeowners in Richmond has dropped by 3,600 since 2000, he said, as rising utility bills and increasing housing prices compared to the rest of the region contribute to housing instability.

Mr. Burton and other speakers pointed to potential solutions in the rising public interest in housing issues, the growing number of advocates and legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.

However, speakers also stressed the need for advocates to support and educate the affected communities and to hold state and city officials accountable when it comes to housing policy and priorities.

“We can solve these problems,” said Monica L. Jefferson, vice president and chief operating officer for Housing Opportunities Made Equal.

“Richmond has all of the resources. We have all of the tools. We have the activists. We have the developers. We’ve got the funding and we’ve got the philanthropists. But it’s about us trying to get together and figuring out how you can truly deal with this crisis,” she said.

Another housing panel is set for 6 p.m. Feb. 19 at Gallery5, 200 W. Marshall St.

N.C. woman files $15M lawsuit against the national NAACP Free Press wire report

RALEIGH A woman who said she repeatedly told the national NAACP that her supervisor in the North Carolina conference had sexually harassed her is suing the national group and her former boss.

Jazmyne Childs is seeking at least $15 million for her emotional and mental distress that she says the civil rights organization condoned through its inaction.

In the lawsuit filed Monday in Durham County, N.C., court, attorneys for Ms. Childs said she was sexually harassed by the Rev. Curtis Gatewood when she was youth and college field secretary for the North Carolina State Conference NAACP in 2017. She suffers from depression, anxiety, nervousness and insomnia, the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit seeks more than $5 million in compensatory damages and more than $25,000 in punitive damages on each of three claims: battery, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

NAACP officials and Rev. Gatewood did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.

The national NAACP knew about the harassment when it received a report from an outside investigator in October 2017 that concluded that Rev. Gatewood harassed Ms. Childs, yet took no action, the lawsuit stated.

The NAACP “is liable for the misconduct for Gatewood because the National NAACP ratified Gatewood’s conduct,” according to the suit.

Rev. Gatewood, who was interim field director and managed the state conference NAACP staff, “suddenly resigned” in June 2017, the lawsuit said. However, he continued to show up at events attended by Ms. Childs, even after receiving a cease-and-desist letter in December 2017, the lawsuit said, leading to her resignation.

Ms. Childs, who was hired in January 2017, resigned in August 2018 because she feared Rev. Gatewood “would continue to stalk and intimidate her,” the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit stated that Ms. Childs, now 27, first became fearful of the now 60-year-old Rev. Gatewood on Feb. 6, 2017, when he closed an office door as they met to discuss a rally. “While talking to her, he kept looking her up and down in a sexual and intimidating manner,” the lawsuit says. “Ms. Childs was afraid.”

Similar harassment continued over the next few months, the lawsuit said.

On May 2, 2017, Ms. Childs was in a conference room with the lights off as she prepared for a co-worker’s farewell party, according to the suit.

“Suddenly, she felt someone’s breath on the back of her neck” and then felt someone press against her from behind, the lawsuit said, adding that Rev. Gatewood was behind her.

“Why are you hovering over me?

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Jazmyne Childs, center, cries during a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., in September as she describes the sexual harassment she said she endured while working for the North Carolina State Conference NAACP. She filed a $15 million lawsuit Monday against the national NAACP, which she alleges condoned the behavior.

That’s gross. Move,” Ms. Childs yelled, according to the lawsuit. Rev. Gatewood said he was looking for a receipt and left the room, it said.

Ms. Childs described the harassment at a news conference in September after she had written several letters to national NAACP President and Chief Executive Officer Derrick Johnson. She wrote him in June and twice in September and sought a disciplinary hearing for Rev. Gatewood in her second letter.

The NAACP responded to none of the letters, she said.

Mr. Johnson suspended Rev. Gatewood from membership the day after Ms. Childs’ news conference, pending a hearing on her allegations.

Mr. Johnson also postponed the

North Carolina state conference elections, scheduled for October, which included a race for president between Rev. Gatewood and Rev. Anthony Spearman, the incumbent.

At the state conference convention that was held Oct. 5, Mr. Johnson told the delegates that he didn’t know about Ms. Childs’ accusations against Rev. Gatewood until he received her letter on Sept. 11, even though email records showed he received the outside investigator’s report almost two years earlier.

“He publicly scolded and rebuked Ms. Childs for going to the press and not handling the matter within the organization,” the lawsuit said. “Ms. Childs was present and heard President Johnson’s remarks.”

In October, Rev. Gatewood said in an email that while he never intentionally harassed anyone, he realized his actions “may have been received as sexual.”

He was less conciliatory in January, when he emailed several people, including some NAACP officials, asking that Ms. Childs and others be removed from NAACP membership.

“Therefore, I would respectfully and strongly suggest on one hand, you use the list of individuals I have provided, and graciously remove each of these members per the NAACP Constitution & Bylaws,” he wrote in the Jan. 14 email. He also asked that the NAACP restore his membership.

Attorneys for Ms. Childs declined comment on the lawsuit.

Trump expands immigration ban to 4 African nations, 2 others Free Press wire report

WASHINGTON The Trump administration announced last Friday that it is curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an electionyear push to further restrict immigration.

Officials said immigrants from Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar will face new restrictions in obtaining certain visas to come to the United States. But it is not a total travel ban, unlike President Trump’s earlier effort that generated outrage around the world for unfairly targeting Muslims.

President Trump was expected to sign a proclamation on the restrictions, which will take effect on Feb. 22.

The announcement comes as President Trump

tries to promote his administration’s crackdown on immigration, highlighting a signature issue that motivated his supporters in 2016 and hoping it has the same affect this November when he is facing re-election.

The administration recently announced a crackdown on birth tourism and is noting the sharp decline in crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border and citing progress on building the border wall.

Immigrant visas were restricted for Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea and Nigeria, the most populous nation on the African continent. That type of visa is given to people seeking to live in the U.S. permanently. They include visas for people sponsored by family members or employers, as well as the diversity visa program that made up to 55,000 visas available in the most recent lottery. In December, for example, 40,666

immigrant visas were granted worldwide.

Sudan and Tanzania have diversity visas suspended. The State Department uses a computer drawing to select people from around the world for up to 55,000 diversity visas. Nigeria is already excluded from the lottery, along with other countries that had more than 50,000 natives immigrate to the United States in the previous five years.

Non-immigrant visas were not affected. Those are given to people traveling to the United States for a temporary stay. They include visas for tourists, those doing business or people seeking medical treatment. During December, for example, about 650,760 non-immigrant visas were granted worldwide.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Homeland Security officials would work with the countries on bolstering their

security requirements to help them work to get off the list.

“These countries for the most part want to be helpful, they want to do the right thing, they have relationships with the U.S., but for a variety of different reasons failed to meet those minimum requirements,” Mr. Wolf said.

The current restrictions follow President Trump’s travel ban, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld as lawful in 2018. They are significantly softer than President Trump’s initial ban, which had suspended travel from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen for 90 days, blocked refugee admissions for 120 days and suspended travel from Syria. The government suspended most immigrant and non-immigrant visas to applicants from those countries. Exceptions are available for students and those with “significant contacts” in the United States.

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A real sickness Forget the coronavirus.

Would somebody please quarantine President Trump before he makes the nation sicker?

Already, GOP members of the U.S. Senate have been infected by him, refusing on Wednesday to remove him from office despite his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

And hearing Republicans members of Congress break into a chant of “Four more years!” during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address shows the malady is spreading, giving the president the belief that he now has carte blanche to carry out any assortment of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Like the con man he is, President Trump pulled out all the stops during his address Tuesday, using an array of black people in the House gallery as props for his re-election campaign — from the reformed drug abuser (Yeah, he had to showcase a brother even though more white people than black people have used illicit drugs during their lifetimes, according to the 2018 national survey on Drug Use and Health.) to the mother and daughter to whom he promised a school scholarship to a 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman from Bethesda, Md., and his 13-year-old great-grandson from Arizona who is studying at an aviation academy and is a potential recruit for the U.S. Air Force Academy and, ultimately, the president’s new Space Force.

President Trump didn’t pledge to reverse the chronic underfunding of public schools. He had Janiyah Davis, the fourth-grader from Philadelphia, to stand so he could tout a $5 billion private school voucher program that would funnel money away from public schools and give tax breaks to corporations and the richest Americans.

Knowing President Trump’s track record, we question whether Janiyah will ever receive the opportunity scholarship he promised her. In November, a New York judge ordered him to pay $2 million in damages for misusing money raised by the Trump Foundation during a televised charity event that never reached the veterans organizations it was supposed to benefit.

There is no doubt President Trump is a master manipulator.

He claimed the economy and the stock market are booming, key accomplishments of his administration. Yet he failed to address the fact that millions of people continue to struggle daily, facing the dilemma of how to put food on the table if they pay their rent, pay for medicine or car loan. Student loan debt also threatens the economic well-being of hundreds of thousands of young people just starting out.

He claimed to have reduced poverty and unemployment for African-Americans and pledged to protect Medicare, Social Security and health care for all Americans. Yet, at every turn, his administration has battled to repeal the Affordable Care Act enacted under former President Obama that ensures health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. His 2020 budget proposal would cut Medicaid spending by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.

His administration also has pushed for and instituted rules and policy changes that would boot tens of thousands of people off food stamps and other critical government assistance programs.

And he is trying to capitalize on the misery of black people and buy their votes by sending his African-American surrogates to communities that are largely black and economically depressed to hand out envelopes of $300 in cash to people who stick around long enough after a pro-Trump message for a drawing. Such an event in Richmond, billed as an “economic development” message, was shut down at Virginia Union University just days before it was to take place on campus on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

President Trump is insulting. So is his attempt to use black people as camouflage during his State of the Union address so he won’t look like a racist to his hard-core base of supporters.

But during the past three years or more, we have come to see and understand the kind of anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-women, anti-immigrant white supremacist that he is. He had his wife present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who has helped spread President Trump’s disease of hate and division. He degrades the medal that has been awarded to people dedicated to justice and uplifting people, including the late noted Richmond civil rights attorney Oliver W. Hill Sr.; Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed one of the first successful vaccines for polio; and the saint herself, Mother Teresa.

President Trump falsely wraps himself in patriotism and support for the military (Don’t forget the made-for-reality TV moment during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address when he welcomed to the House chamber an Army sergeant from Afghanistan for a surprise reunion with his wife and two young children.) while he has diverted money for the military to help build a border wall between the United States and Mexico as he continues to denounce immigrants of color, alienates our allies and threatens to embroil our country into wars of his provocation.

He also threatened our national security by holding up U.S. aid to Ukraine, our ally, in exchange for the Ukrainian government digging up dirt on his potential 2020 Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden.

On Dec. 18, President Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for his actions involving Ukraine, but that doesn’t matter to the Senate, whose Republican majority voted Wednesday against kicking him out of office.

All of this is disturbing and, like the Trump presidency itself, is sickening America. As President Abraham Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

Earlier this week, a rodent in Pennsylvania didn’t see his shadow on Groundhog Day, predicting an early spring.

Here, we will make another prediction: If people of conscience don’t turn out to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 3, America will be stuck another four years in this sickhouse afflicted

by President Trump.

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Toppling the Trump kingdom So now with the Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate’s rush to acquit President Trump in this rigged impeachment trial, he will soon be free to continue using foreign countries or committing any other illegal acts to ensure his re-election in 2020.

What the Republicans have done is to coronate President Trump a king who now has the green light to operate above the laws of our democracy without any consequences.

So without any checks and balances, t h e Tr u m p one-party rule is free to continue as the most criminal white supremacist enterprise in our nation’s history.

President Trump once declared that if he shot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue, nothing would happen. Unfortunately, he was correct. In fact, this expected Senate acquittal without witnesses is like declaring all crimes are legal as long as the king and his Republican court are the perpetrators. And of course, somehow, these antics usually benefit his Russian benefactors.

For openers, as a result of this sham trial and acquittal, foreign countries and as U.S. businesses can be cajoled, intimi-

dated, extorted and/or bribed to force compliance with President Trump’s all-out scorched earth plan to retain the throne. In our new system of one-party rule, there are no enforceable laws to stop him. He will continue raiding public funds to cut Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance while he sprinkles money like fairy dust over the heads of his billionaire compatriots.

If it were not for a brave whistleblower, House Speaker

Dr. Barbara Reynolds Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Adam Schiff, the independent U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Democrats who valiantly exposed President Trump’s crimes, his wrongdoing would have remained known only to the underground shadow government operated by President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and their cronies to enrich themselves and keep their boss in power.

“They were all in the loop, Trump knew everything,” according to Lev Parnas, a Giuliani aide who has been speaking to news sources. He, of course, was among the many witnesses the Senate did not allow to testify, an unheard of practice.

But the worst infraction by the Senate was not allowing former National Security Adviser John Bolton to speak, a firsthand witness with a soon-to-be-published

book that President Trump reportedly told he was illegally holding up U.S. taxpayer funds to Ukraine to force Ukrainian officials to help the president dig up dirt on a possible 2020 presidential opponent, Joe Biden.

It should not be forgotten that the Ukraine mess also had a pro-Russia benefit. Witnesses testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives committees testified that Russia was the chief beneficiary of President Trump’s decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine. “Our holding up of security systems that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from Russia for no good policy reason, no good substantive reason, no good national security reason is wrong,” said former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine William Taylor.

Aside from President Trump acting as if he is more of an agent of Russian leader Vladimir Putin than president of his own citizens, there is so much a king can do that a president who is accountable cannot do.

First of all, President Trump can and will use any means to stay in office and fuel his private agenda. That could mean starting wars, draining tax funds from states trying to correct voting irregularities, diverting funds from the military to build his wall, cutting off Obamacare that helps the non-rich afford health coverage, raiding budgets for the homeless, the hungry and the sick

Prison gerrymandering hurts black political power “When districts with prisons receive enhanced representation, every other district in the state without a prison sees its votes diluted. And this vote dilution is even larger in the districts with the highest incarceration rates.

Thus, the communities that bear the most direct costs of crime are therefore the communities that are the biggest victims of prisonbased gerrymandering.

The Census Bureau’s decision to count incarcerated people in the wrong place interferes with equal representation in virtually every state.” — Prison Policy Initiative, The Prison Gerrymandering Project The census is one of the most powerful tools the AfricanAmerican community has to claim our rightful voice in the political, legislative and social institutions of our nation.

Unfortunately, it also is one of the most abused.

One of the ways the census is abused is prison gerrymandering.

Our mass incarceration crisis has thrust 2.3 million Americans into correctional facilities — nearly one in 100 people.

Black people are incarcerated at five times the rate of white people, so more than half of the incarcerated are AfricanAmerican, most from urban communities. Most of these prisons are located in overwhelmingly

white, rural communities.

And when it comes to the census, black, urban Americans who are incarcerated — and who can’t vote — are counted as residents of those white rural communities rather than the diverse urban communities where they live.

Hundreds of prison communities around the country counties have a 10-to-1 ratio of racial over-representation — in

Marc H. Morial other words, the portion of the prison population that is AfricanAmerican and can’t vote is at least 10 times larger than the African-American portion of the surrounding county.

This siphoning of black urban political power into white, rural communities is the modern-day version of the Three-Fifths Compromise, and violates the principle of one person, one vote.

Some states are rejecting this relic of the racist past, and I’m pleased to congratulate New Jersey for becoming the latest state to reject prison gerrymandering.

Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill requiring incarcerated persons to be counted in their home districts when legislative boundaries are redrawn.

Congratulations also to the bill’s co-sponsors, state Sens.

Sandra Cunningham and Nilsa Cruz-Perez and Assembly members Shavonda Sumter, Raj Mukherji and Annette Quijano.

According to the Newark Star-Ledger, more New Jersey

inmates come from Essex County than any other county, but most of the state’s correctional facilities are located in counties to the south. That means more than 1,600 incarcerated Camden, N.J., residents were counted as residents of other counties.

The problem is even worse in other states. According to the Prison Gerrymandering Project, 60 percent of Illinois’prisoners are from Cook County, the Chicago area, yet 99 percent of them are counted outside the county.

In Texas, one rural district’s population is almost 12 percent prisoners. Eighty-eight residents from that district, then, are represented in the State House as if they were 100 residents from urban Houston or Dallas.

New Jersey is the seventh state to end prison gerrymandering.

The other states are New York, California, Maryland, Delaware, Nevada and Washington. More than one in four Americans now live in a jurisdiction that has ended prison gerrymandering.

State action, while vitally important, won’t solve the problem at the federal level or affect the unfair allocation of federal resources that results from unfair census practices. But it is a step closer to the ideal of one person, one vote.

Every state should follow New Jersey’s lead and end prison gerrymandering to ensure equal representation for every American.

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

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In addition, he can continue purging from the Executive Branch, the U.S. diplomatic corps and the military people who dare not kowtow to his demands. Recent tapes released

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Commitment needed to solutions for homelessness and recidivism With the Democratic primary season kicking into gear and the general election right around the corner, the stage is set for an impassioned battle of ideas and policy initiatives that could shape our country for the next decade.

Fortunately, lawmakers and candidates from both sides of the aisle have shown a willingness to take on some of the greatest challenges of our time — from health care and the economy to education and foreign policy.

But too often missing from this of menu of priorities have been the issues at the margins that make for uncomfortable conversations, such as rising rates of adult and youth homelessness and the persistent obstacles faced by individuals transitioning back into society after periods of incarceration. It goes without saying that these problems intersect with those that receive the most attention, but a failure to address them head on is a deficit of courage that we can ill afford.

Now, more than ever, we need our political leaders to be unafraid in naming these challenges, bold in forging solutions and committed to making lasting progress. And every one of us has a moral responsibility to do our part.

As the chief executive officer of CORE Services, a nonprofit human services and community development organization operating programs in Washington, D.C., and New York, I know firsthand that extending unconditional compassion and providing

support for those who need it can transform lives.

Every day at emergency housing shelters we operate in both cities, people with nowhere else to turn show up at our doors.

It’s the single mother who has fled an abusive situation with her young daughter, the young man struggling with the onset of a disorienting and destabilizing mental health condition and the LGBTQ teenager who was tormented with relentless bullying and threats of violence.

These are some of the most courageous and resilient people you’ll ever meet. And when they are given the gift of a safe and stable support system — a hand to help them get back on their feet — they can become thriving members of the local workforce and community.

The financial investment in helping someone find the right path, compared to the costs of other public-private programs, is minimal. With the support of government agencies, we provide these individuals a comfortable bed to sleep in, nutritional meals to eat, access to health services and a pathway to employment. The benefits are enormous.

B oth N ew York Ci t y and Washington, D.C., have taken significant steps to curb rates of homelessness. Other cities should follow suit.

Another key initiative at CORE is providing re-entry services for individuals returning home from being incarcerated, disproportionately black and Hispanic men. It’s hard enough that these men — our sons, brothers and fathers —

have had to spend long periods of time away from their families and communities. But making matters worse is the fact that these individuals are too often forced to make the transition back into society without any support at all. Too often that approach leads to isolation and failure.

At our re-entry centers, former inmates have access to skills training, job-placement services and transportation, among other critical resources.

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on everything from résumé writing and interviewing to how to knot a tie and use the internet. Our work amounts to a rejection of the insidious belief that a person can be a lost cause. We believe in a bold model of human services founded on compassion and honesty.

These are some of the challenges that we don’t hear about enough on the debate stage or

on the campaign trail. And they are the challenges that too often get short shrift by Congress and state lawmakers because they don’t lend themselves to easy solutions. They require difficult conversations, showing up and staying the course.

At the dawn of this decade, we need lawmakers to devote more attention to solving problems like rising rates of homelessness and persistently

high rates of recidivism.

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Mahomes leads Kansas City to come-from-behind win at Super Bowl LIV The New England Patriots’ combo of quarterback Tom Brady and Coach Bill Belichick dominated the past two decades of NFL football.

Might the Kansas City Chiefs’ tandem of quarterback Patrick Mahomes II and sideline guru Andy Reid become the team to beat in the coming decade?

After defeating the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 last Sunday in Super Bowl LIV in Miami, the Kansas City Chiefs — overcoming a 10-point, fourth-period

“We wanted to get him the win because he deserved it,” Mahomes told the media after Sunday’s victory. “The work he puts in day in and day out ... I don’t think he sleeps. He’s someone who works harder than anyone I’ve ever known.”

After a ragged start including two interceptions, Mahomes, always cool and confident, finished 26-for-42 for 286 yards.

The rattle-proof former Texas Tech star ran for one touchdown and passed to Travis

“Take it to the house, kid!”

While Patrick Mahomes II was the official MVP of Super Bowl LIV, Maxwell “Bunchie” Young was arguably the top crowd pleaser of the pre-game and TV commercials.

Young was front, center and rapidly on the move for the NFL’s “Next 100” commercial that led into the coin toss at the game in Miami.

Maxwell To the music of Ray Charles’ “Here We Go Again (One More Time),” and chants ‘Bunchie’ Young of “Take it to the house, kid,” the 13-year-old from suburban Los Angeles raced through a variety of cities and past numerous NFL luminaries, overcoming all obstacles. As the film ended, Young ran onto the field in Miami and presented the game official with the football to start the game.

Young was chosen for the commercial as the winner of the Sports Illustrated SportsKid of the Year Award.

A football and track standout, Young already has been offered a football scholarship by University of Illinois Coach Lovie Smith.

deficit — are not only today’s NFL champions, but a good bet to keep it going.

Mahomes, who doesn’t turn 25 until Sept. 17, becomes the first quarterback to win a regular season MVP (2018) and Super Bowl MVP in his first three seasons.

Coach Reid, now with 222 career victories, including 16 postseason wins, had been the NFL’s winningest coach not to clinch a Super Bowl.

Kelce and Damien Williams for two more. Kansas City’s clinching score was on a 38-yard Williams run with 1:12 left.

Mahomes’ preferred target was Tyreek Hill, with nine receptions for 105 yards. Hill was involved in what Mahomes called “the play of the game” with 7:13 remaining and the Chiefs behind by 10 points.

At that critical juncture, a 44-yard Mahomes-to-Hill connection on third and 15 flipped

the momentum upside down.

Hill shows you don’t need to be tall or come from a marquee school to make it big — that is if you have elite speed. The 5-foot-10 former University of West Alabama phenom ranks with the NFL’s fastest. Hill ran the 100-meters in 9.98 seconds while in college and was timed at 4.28 in the 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine. No wonder his nickname is “Cheetah.”

Other take-aways from Hard Rock Stadium: • The Chiefs’African-American offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy now has another feather in his cap when being interviewed for future head coaching jobs.

Bieniemy, despite presiding over one of the NFL’s top attacks, is 0-for-7 in interviews during the past two seasons.

• This Super Bowl had been hard for the NFL Washington franchise to swallow. San Francisco Coach Kyle Shanahan, along with his father Mike, were fired by Washington in 2012. Mike was head coach; Kyle, an assistant.

Also, defensive back Kendall Fuller was traded from Washington to Kansas City in 2018 for quarterback Alex Smith, who is now on the injured list.

Fuller, out of Virginia Tech, had one of two Kansas City interceptions — Bashaud Breeland had the other — against San Francisco quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Fuller also broke up two other passes, leading to Garoppolo’s poor 69.2 quarterback rating.

• This marked Kansas City’s first Super Bowl title since 1970, when Richmonder Willie Lanier was leading the Chiefs’ defense.

San Francisco has not won a

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, center, and safety Tyrann Mathieu, right, celebrate the team’s 31-20 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in last Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV.

Super Bowl since 1995.

• Super Bowl LV is set for Feb. 7, 2021, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

Don’t be surprised if the Chiefs are in attendance. Patrick Lavon Mahomes II writes his name with a roman numeral

rather than a “Junior” tag.

It makes sense. He’s likely to be associated with Super Bowls for years to come.

History-filled coin toss honor He was inducted into the National Aviation Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Charles E. McGee, a 100-year-old fighter pilot who is Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, in 2011, and one of the last living members of the noted received an honorary promotion to brigadier Tuskegee Airmen and served during World general in December.

He turned 100 on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day. War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, On Tuesday night, Mr. McGee flipped the coin during Sunday’s was honored by President Trump Super Bowl LIV. in Washington during the State of He was joined on the field by the Union address, where he and three other World War II veterans, his great-grandson, Iain Lanphier of Staff Sgt. Odón Sanchez Cardenas, Scottsdale, Ariz., were recognized Lt. Col. Samuel Lombardo and Cpl. in the House chamber in the U.S. Sidney Walton.

Capitol.

The NFL, now celebrating its Iain hopes to follow in his great100th season, asked the four 100Col. McGee grandfather’s footsteps, aiming year-old veterans to join in the to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy and festivities.

Mr. McGee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, eventually going into space. Last summer, and enlisted in the Army in 1942, earning his he was the top graduate of the Aerospace pilot’s wings in 1943. He flew tactical missions Career Education program sponsored by the attacking enemy airfields and top secret Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals and supported by the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. rescue missions during his career.

Spartans’ Jermaine 4 TJ players named to All-State football team Bishop leads NSU in scoring Jermaine Bishop seems to have a rustproof jump shot and a crossover dribble that collects no cobwebs.

After being sidelined for the better part of three seasons, Bishop’s jumper is smack dab on target for Norfolk State University.

The New York City native quickly has evolved as a guiding light as NSU pursues consecutive MEAC titles.

The 6-foot-1, red-shirt senior leads Coach Robert Jones’ squad in scoring (14.0 points) and 3-pointers (62) and has been a catalyst in an otherwise rebuilding season.

Heavily recruited out of Holy Cross High School in Queens, N.Y., Bishop signed with St. Louis University and made the Atlantic-10 All-Rookie team in 2015-16.

Then came problems. He was injured in November 2016 and missed the rest of the 2016-17 season, plus all of 2017-18, while still at St. Louis.

Bishop then transferred to NSU and sat out the 2018-19 season under the NCAA residency rule.

The NSU Spartans have grown accustomed to success under Coach Jones and this season is no exception.

The Spartans won their first six MEAC games before losing at North Carolina A&T Jermaine State University 74-68 on Saturday, Feb. 1.

Bishop NSU has reached the postseason six times since 2013 (four CITs, two NITs) and is 78-25 under Coach Jones against MEAC opponents.

Roster renovation: NSU’s lineup bares little resemblance to a year ago. The Spartans lost five players to graduation and four others transferred. Bishop is one of 10 newcomers.

“Greek Freak”: Sorry, NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo hasn’t joined the Spartans. However, NSU has its version of “Freak” in 6-foot-10 junior Efstratios Kalogerias from Piraeus, Greece. He comes to NSU after two seasons at Hillsborough Community College in Florida. The squad’s tallest man has started five games, averaging four points and three boards.

804 connection now: Chris Ford, a 6-foot-8 sophomore from L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield County, and 6-foot-6 freshman Tyrese Jenkins from Varina High School have earned their way into Coach Jones’ rotation.

Ford, with 12 starts, averages five points and four rebounds and leads the team with 26 blocked shots. Jenkins is the most recent MEAC Rookie of the Week.

804 connection then: Old-timers still rave about the late 1960s Spartans team featuring Richmonders Bobby Dandridge from Richmond’s Maggie L. Walker High School and Charles Bonaparte from Richmond’s Armstrong High School.

NSU averaged nearly 107 points per game 1967 to 1970, with 60 games of at least 100. The Spartans posted a three-season record of 64-13.

Nearly automatic: Joe Bryant, a 6-foot-1 sophomore from Norfolk’s Lake Taylor High School, is among the NCAA’s most accurate free throw shooters. Bryant has hit 48 of 50 free throws while averaging 12.7 points per game.

Coming soon: NSU will play host to Delaware State University at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. The Spartans are 7-1 at Joe Echols Hall on the NSU campus.

Honors continue to roll in for the highly successful Thomas Jefferson High School football squad.

Four members of the Vikings team have been named to the Virginia 2A All-State team. They are wide receiver Jaylen Jones, linebacker Shamar Graham, defensive back Jacobi Harrison and defensive lineman Zion Dean.

Under Coach P.J. Adams, the Vikings posted an 11-3

record, with playoff wins over Brunswick, Greensville and King William high schools. The Vikings were eliminated by Stuarts Draft High School of Augusta County in the state semifinals.

It was arguably the best season by a Richmond Public Schools team since Huguenot High School lost to E.C. Glass High School of Lynchburg in the 1988 Group AAA/Division 5 championship game.

Gone too soon Arthur Ashe Jr.

Manute Bol

Reggie Lewis

Jose Fernandez

Sports world has been rocked through the years by loss of young athletes The tragic death of basketball icon Kobe Bryant stirs painful memories of other athletes who died much too young.

Here are a few to remember: • ArthurAshe Jr. (1943-1989): Native Richmonder was the only black man to win singles titles at Wimbledon and the Australian and U.S. opens. He was also the first African-American chosen for the U.S. Davis Cup team. He died at 49 of AIDS-related pneumonia.

• Gene Lipscomb, aka “Big Daddy” (1931-1963): Among the NFL’s first big African-American players at 290 pounds.

He was a tackle on Baltimore’s 1958 and 1959 NFL championship teams. He died of an overdose at 31.

• Florence Griffith Joyner, “FloJo” (1959-1998): Considered one of the fastest women of all time; won three sprint medals at the 1988 Olympics. She died of an epileptic seizure at 38.

• Ernie Davis, “Elmira Express” (1939-1963): The brilliant Syracuse running back won the Heisman Trophy in 1961 and was the No. 1 NFL draft pick.

He died of leukemia at 23.

• Reggie White (1961-2004): The 13-time NFL Pro Bowl tackle collected 198 career sacks (then an NFL record) and forced 33 fumbles. He died of cardiac arrhythmia at 43.

• Reggie Roby (1961-2005): One of a handful of black punters, he averaged 43 yards for 992 career kicks and was a three-time All-Pro. He died of a heart attack at 43.

• Manute Bol, “Dinka Dunker” (1962-

2010): The 7-foot-7 native of South Sudan blocked 2,086 shots during his NBAcareer.

He died of acute kidney failure.

• Len Bias (1963-1986): Consensus All-America basketball star at the University of Maryland; second overall pick in the NBA by the Boston Celtics. He died of cardiac arrhythmia at 22.

• Hank Gathers (1967-1990): Loyola Marymount forward was one of only two men to ever lead the NCAA in scoring and rebounding. He died of a heart ailment at 23.

• Pete Maravich, “Pistol Pete” (19471988): An all-time NCAA basketball scorer (3,667 points) and five-time NBA All-Star (24.2 average). He died of heart failure at 40.

• Bob Hayes, “Bullet Bob” (19422002): Only man to win an Olympic individual medal (100 meters) and play on a Super Bowl championship team (Dallas Cowboys). He died of kidney failure at 59.

• Roberto Clemente, “The Great One” (1934-1972): This Hall of Famer was a 15-time All-Star with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He died at 38 in a plane crash while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

• Reggie Lewis (1965-1993): This NBA All-Star averaged 18 points for the Boston Celtics during his career. During an offseason training session, he suffered a cardio death at 27.

• Sean Taylor (1993-2007): A twotime All-Pro safety for Washington after an All-America career for Miami.

He was shot and killed during a home

invasion at 24.

• Tiaina Seau, “Junior” (1969-2012): The linebacker was a 12-time All-Pro for San Diego and considered the greatest Charger ever. He took his own life at 43.

• Jose Fernandez, “Nino” (19922016): A Cuban defector, the pitcher won National League Rookie of the Year in 2013. He died in a pre-dawn boat crash off Miami.

• Steve McNair, “Air McNair” (19732009): The Tennessee Titans’ quarterback was the NFL’s passing leader and MVP in 2003; Heisman finalist. He died in a shooting at 36.

• Andre Roussimoff, “Andre the Giant” (1946-1993): At 7-foot-4, 520 pounds, the Frenchman was a top draw on the pro wrestling circuit. He died of congestive heart failure at 46.

• Marshall Thundering Herd: The Marshall University team, returning from a football game at East Carolina University earlier in the day, crashed Nov. 14, 1970 A total of 75 people were killed, including 37 players, coaches, doctors, administrators and flight crew, along with 25 team boosters.

• Benny Paret, “The Kid” (19371962): World welterweight boxing champ from Cuba died at 25 from injuries sustained in a bout with Emile Griffith on ABC’s Fight of the Week at Madison Square Garden.

• Corey Smith (1979-2009): Richmond native part of 2003 Super Bowl winniung Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He died at 29 in a boat crash.

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Personality: Kay Tyler Spotlight on board president of Greater Richmond SCAN It has been more than a decade since Kay Tyler started volunteering with Greater Richmond Stop Child Abuse Now, and she is still finding new ways to contribute to its mission of a safer future for Richmond youths.

The Knoxville, Tenn., native balances teaching music to preschoolers at the St. James’s Children’s Center and real estate staging with her responsibilities with SCAN. She is now getting acclimated to her new role as president of SCAN’s board of directors after taking the helm in July.

“After almost five years serving on the board, I felt I had gained the knowledge to help direct the board,” Ms. Tyler says.

SCAN was founded in 1991 to address a rising trend of child abuse and neglect in Richmond and the neighboring counties.

Through a variety of programs like Families are Magic and Court Appointed Special Advocates, and partnerships with civic and government organizations, the organization seeks to treat and prevent abuse and neglect by protecting youngsters and strengthening families.

Ms. Tyler first connected with SCAN when a friend invited her to tour SCAN’s Child Advocacy Center. From there, she volunteered with one of SCAN’s annual fundraising events and the rest, as they say, is history.

She joined the board of directors in 2015.

Faced with the task of meeting SCAN’s goal of ending child abuse and neglect in the region, Ms. Tyler wants to continue to expand public awareness of the group’s many programs. Among the major obstacles, she says, is the denial that child abuse persists in the region and the stigma that abuse creates. The two issues compound each other, she says, “keeping the issue from being fully dealt with.”

When not properly addressed, child abuse and neglect can contribute to physical, psychological and behavioral consequences that can negatively impact a child’s future development as well as the larger community with which the child interacts.

“In order to succeed in life and be healthy, active members of the metropolitan community, the next generation of adults in the Greater Richmond area must grow up in safe and nurturing homes,” Ms. Tyler says.

“Child abuse and neglect affects all economic, racial, social, ethnic and religious groups,” Ms. Tyler says.

She offers statistics from the Virginia Department of Social Services from 2017 to 2018 about the victims: 32.8 percent were younger than 4; 42.2 percent were ages 4 through 11; 22 percent were ages 12 to 17, while the ages of 2.8 percent were unknown.

A majority of children who

are sexually abused, she says, are victimized by someone they know.

The public can help, she says, by reporting suspected abuse to a state hotline at (800) 552-7096. People also can help by volunteering with SCAN, she adds.

“The best way to positively impact abused/neglected children is to provide support and education to parents and caregivers,” she says, “and to work on other issues related to child well-being, such as housing, economic stability, education and health care access.”

While Ms. Tyler’s tenure as board president ends in July, she intends to continue her volunteer efforts with SCAN as the organization approaches its 30th anniversary.

“Servant leadership is important to me and I hope to continue working with SCAN after my term,” Ms. Tyler says.

“I will always be involved if I can, God willing.”

Meet an advocate for children and this week’s Personality, Kay Tyler: No. 1 volunteer position: President of the board of directors, Greater Richmond SCAN, Stop Child Abuse Now. Occupation: Music Together teacher, St. James’s Children’s Center and owner-founder of Staging consulting company for the real estate industry.

What I do: Teach preschool 2- to 5-year-olds music using the Music Together curriculum.

I also have been staging homes for the real estate market for the last 15 years.

Date and place of birth: April 1 in Knoxville, Tenn.

Current residence: Richmond.

Education: Bachelor’s in business administration, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1986; and MBA, University of Richmond, 1992.

Family: Married 27 years with three children ages, 18, 20 and 22.

Greater Richmond SCAN’s mission: SCAN’s mission is to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect throughout the Greater Richmond area by protecting children, promoting positive parenting, strengthening families and creating a community that values and cares for its children.

Great Richmond SCAN’s No. 1 goal: To prevent and eradicate child abuse and neglect in our community.

How I plan to meet it: By continuing to introduce people to SCAN’s programs, which are the Children’s Advocacy Center, FAM (Families are Magic), CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), Community Programs and the Circle Preschool located at St. James’s Episcopal Church, and to advocate for policies and resources that support

and protect children from child abuse and neglect.

Greater Richmond SCAN’s biggest challenge: One big challenge is the denial that abuse happens in our community and the stigma associated with abuse and neglect. This stigma makes it more difficult for victims to come forward and get help. The denial that abuse and neglect happens in our community allows it to continue. By not fully acknowledging the issue, abuse and neglect remains in the shadows, seems less prevalent than it actually is and keeps the issue from being fully dealt with.

Why I wanted to serve: To help children who have been abused and/or neglected and to teach parents and educators to prevent it from happening in our society. After almost five years serving on the board, I felt I had gained the knowledge to help direct the board. Servant leadership is important to me and I hope to continue working with SCAN after my term.

When and how I got involved with Greater Richmond SCAN: I’ve been involved in one way or another for about 15 years. A friend invited me to tour the Child Advocacy Center Downtown at Old City Hall and that did it for me. It helped to know that the executive director was Jeanine Harper, who I admire very much for her commitment and leadership. I began helping with the Progressive Dinner Committee, the annual fundraising event for SCAN, and eventually chaired the committee. I was asked to serve on the board not long after and was trained as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and served four years.

How Greater Richmond SCAN is funded: SCAN implements an annual development plan to secure support from diverse revenue sources. Each year, SCAN receives volunteer support, inkind services and funding from area corporations, civic groups, congregations, government sources and foundations. Special events and annual individual

giving also are significant sources for program and project funding.

Organizations Greater Richmond SCAN partners with: SCAN operates under the belief that we can serve children and families better when the community comes together. Therefore, SCAN operates in a way that is inherently collaborative. SCAN has seen great success and progress in the community at the organizational level through our leadership starting the Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network, or TICN, which now has more than 450 members from 160 area organizations, agencies and businesses.

Since its establishment in 2012 as the first network of its kind in Virginia, Richmond’s TICN has convened multidisciplinary stakeholders devoted to developing a common agenda and implements plans of action related to preventing, reducing and treating trauma at the individual, familial and community levels. TICN works at the community level in a cross-section of different systems. This work is done through TICN’s various committees. SCAN also has longstanding partnerships with the Richmond Police Department, the Richmond Department of Social Services, Family Lifeline, St. James’s Children’s Center and so many more.

Extent of known child abuse in area: According to the Virginia Department of Social Services, 901 children in Central Virginia were victims of child abuse and/or neglect in 2019, and an additional 5,278 were placed in the Family Assessment Track at

high risk for abuse. Statewide in 2017-18, there were 6,485 founded cases of child abuse and/ or neglect and 39,047 placed in the Family Assessment Track, according to the Virginia Department of Social Services.

How child abuse impacts society: Children who are abused and/or neglected often have social, cognitive and economic difficulties in adulthood. Studies have shown that they are more likely to have low rates of academic achievement, poor coping and decision-making skills, while they also fail to develop adequate and positive social support networks. In addition to suffering from the immediate physical injuries, victims of child abuse and neglect are more likely to develop behaviors that lead to obesity, diabetes, depression, post traumatic stress disorder and other chronic diseases.

How I start the day: My phone alarm is set to music, typically from the musical “Hamilton.”

My bedside alarm is set to VPM news for that perspective. I actually start my day the night before with a master list so I can stay focused. It’s amazing how once I’ve written my list, it gets done. I often use a meditation app to get my day off to a calm start.

How I unwind: At the end of the day, an episode or two of “Modern Family” puts me in a happy place, along with a good book or finding a good British mystery or “Masterpiece” on PBS. Yoga and/or meditation is always a nice way to unwind.

At the top of my “to-do list”: Reducing clutter is always on my long-term list. It’s hard for me to throw things away I might want to use in the future.

Something I love to do that most

people would never imagine: I was a coxswain in college and continued that when I came to Richmond. I’m still a member of Virginia Boat Club and began training to be a coach before I was married. Although I have not been able to row for some time now, I do love it!

Best late-night snack: A great homemade dessert is hard to resist.

Favorite recreational activity: Tennis and walking.

A quote that I am inspired by: “To forget and forgive is a good way to live.” I’ve enjoyed that quote since about fourth grade.

The best thing kindergarten taught me: Sharing … also from my three sisters.

Person who influenced me the most: My father’s mother raised her five children after her husband’s death in 1945. Her independent spirit and strength set a strong example for me.

Book that influenced me the most: “To Kill a Mockingbird”

by Harper Lee. What I’m reading now: “The Beauty of Humanity Movement”

by Camilla Gibb and “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is: That “Love Heals,” to quote a song title by Levi Hummon, and inspired by Thistle Farm residents in Nashville, Tenn.

My next goal: To develop my new mid-life career teaching children through the Music Together program. Maybe further my education with early childhood classes, especially those with special needs or affected by trauma.

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Happenings Marking time and history Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture selected 20 women to re-create a 1915 photograph of suffragists taken at the State Capitol in Downtown. Like the women in the old photograph, the contemporary group is made up of individuals â&#x20AC;&#x153;fighting to break barriers for women, to improve their communities and to make Virginia a more equitable and just society,â&#x20AC;? according to museum officials.

Photographed Monday, they include: Richmond Free Press photographer Regina H. Boone; Chief Lynette Lewis Allston of the Nottoway Indian Tribe; Viola O. Baskerville, former Richmond delegate to the General Assembly and former state secretary of administration; Diane Marrow Beirne, executive director of The Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club and the Bolling Haxall House Foundation; former Congresswoman Leslie Byrne, the first woman to represent Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives; muralists and painter Nico Cathcart; Constance Chamberlin, former chief executive officer of Housing Opportunities Made Equal; attorney Sylvia Clue, founder of The Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bank; Christy S. Coleman, executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; Doris Crouse-Mays, president of the Virginia AFL-CIO; Dr. Andrea N. Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center; Rachel Scott Everett,

one of the lead organizers of the Richmond Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s March; Aurora A. Higgs, LGBTQ rights activist; Kati Hornung, campaign coordinator for VAratifyERA; Dr. Tiffany Jana, chief executive officer of TMI Consulting Inc.; Katie Koestner, executive director of Take Back the Night Foundation; Emily McCoy, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights activist; Claudette Monroy, educator and immigrant rights advocate; Angela Patton, chief executive officer of Girls for a Change; Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell, founder of Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers; Keri Treadway, Richmond Public Schools teacher and founder of Virginia Educators United; Sandra Gioia Treadway, librarian and State Archivist of Virginia; Deb Wake, president of the League of Women Voters in Virginia, the successor to the Equal Suffrage League; Dr. Janice B. Underwood, state director of diversity, equity and inclusion; Bessida Cauthorne White, civil rights and feminist activist and leader of the Middle Peninsula African-American Historical and Genealogical Society; Shayy Winn, American Idol contestant and supporter of Live Art, The Richmond Youth Peace Summit and Generation Dreams; and Chelsea Higgs Wise, social worker and social justice advocate.

The photograph, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agents of Change,â&#x20AC;? will be unveiled Mary 8 in the exhibition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Agents of Change: Female Activism in Virginia from Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Suffrage to Today,â&#x20AC;? at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, 428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

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Above is the 2020 recreation.

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Draper exhibit opens at VMFA

Shawn Walker, left, who was a member of the Kamoinge collective established by the late Henrico County native Louis Draper in New York City in 1963, stands in front of a historic photo of tge group during the preview of the new exhibit showcasing the Kamoinge Workshop at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop,â&#x20AC;? opened last Saturday and includes more than 180 photographs by 15 early members of the collective. Right, another photographer, Adger Cowans attends the exhibit press conference.

Below left, Nell Draper-Winston, the younger sister of Mr. Draper, speaks about her brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts and the collection of photographs, which the museum acquired in 2015. The exhibit, portion of which is shown below right, will be on view through June 14 at the museum, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

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Happenings Soulidifly to launch free TV streaming service Feb. 14 Richmond-based Soulidifly Productions is jumping into TV streaming.

Already turning out movies, children’s books and a monthly magazine, the black-owned company will launch an array of largely original programming on its own service, SoulVision.

The new online service will be offered without charge beginning Friday, Feb. 14, the company announced.

“We’ll have nearly 300 hours of programming when we launch, and we’ll be constantly adding,” said B.K. Fulton, president of the production company.

Among the offerings will be the archive of shows and movies actor and SoulVision Vice Chairman Tim Reid appeared in, Mr. Fulton said.

The lineup also will include “Eat.Sip.Social,” a cooking show featuring celebrity Chef Jacoby “J.” Ponder, he said.

Other items on the menu of

small business, he said.

He said SoulVision also has agreements to present offerings from the annual Hollywood Weekly and the Henrico County-based Poe film festivals.

The streaming service will be accessible to cell phones, tablets and computers through the Apple Store and Google Play, he said, and will be downloadable to smart TVS through AppleTV, Roku Mr. Fulton Mr. Reid and Amazon Fire. offerings: “The Story of Ed,” a “Our service will be availseven-part series about a pastor able 24/7 just like Netflix,” fighting ALS, a disease that Mr. Fulton said. “Our goal is destroys the nervous system; for our content to be available “Being 98,” the story of an worldwide. It will all be free to elderly friend helping another; viewers, except for a few ads.

“Biorhythms,” a biographical This new service aligns with talk show; and “Small Biz our mission to visually share Chat,” an advice show on start- positive stories that cross racial ing, operating and managing a and generational lines.”

‘Virginians You Need to Know’ lectures Feb. 8, March 21 at Main Library Researcher, author and lecturer Elvatrice Belsches will speak about “Virginians You Need to Know” at a two-part lecture series at the Main Branch of the Richmond Public Library, 101 E. Franklin St. The first lecture, at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, will focus on the late John Mitchell Jr., a noted newspaperman, businessman, politician and activist.

Born enslaved in 1863, Mr. Mitchell was an outspoken voice for African-Americans as editor of the Richmond Planet newspaper, leading to a boycott of Richmond’s segregated streetcars in 1904 and anti-lynching and racial justice efforts.

He helped secure funds for the construction of African-American schools and helped persuade city officials to provide money to construct an armory in Jackson Ward for the First Battalion Virginia Volunteers, an

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African-American militia regiment.

The armory is now the home of the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia on Leigh Street.

He also ran unsuccessfully for governor on the Lily Black ticket in 1921.

The second lecture, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21, will highlight Rosa L. Dixon Bowser, born in 1855, who was the first AfricanAmerican teacher hired by the city. She called for education reforms and higher salaries for teachers as president of the Virginia State Teachers Association, which she helped establish.

Richmond’s first library branch for African-Americans, at 00 Clay St., was named in her honor and later was the first home of the Black History Museum.

The lectures are free and open to the public in the Main Library’s auditorium.

Details: rvalibrary.org or (804) 646-7223.

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Irene A. Morgan’s niece, Cleo Warren, center left, and daughter, Brenda M. Bacquie, unveil the historic marker last Saturday in Hayes. With them are from left, Ben Borden, a longtime Hayes resident, and Jim Hare, director of the survey and register division of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

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350th anniversary celebration, Dr. Dorothy C. Cooke told the Free Press on Monday. She More than 100 people were present last said many people didn’t know much about Ms. Saturday for the dedication of a state historical Morgan and her role in history. marker in Gloucester County’s Hayes comDr. Cooke and Friends of the Gloucester munity honoring the late Irene A. Museum sponsored the marker, Morgan and her actions to battle racial which was unveiled to a gathering segregation. that included Ms. Morgan’s daughter, In July 1944, Ms. Morgan boarded Brenda M. Bacquie, her granddaugha Greyhound bus in Hayes and later ter, Shoshanna Bacquie Walden, and was ordered by the driver to give up other extended family members. her seat for a white passenger. Ms. “We didn’t have a Martin Luther Morgan refused and was arrested by King in 1944,” Dr. Cooke said. the Middlesex County sheriff and “She took a stand not to stand, all jailed in Saluda. for the cause of justice. And we Her resulting lawsuit, brought with appreciate her and recognize her Ms. Morgan the aid of NAACP lawyers Spottswood for doing that.”

W. Robinson III, Thurgood Marshall and WilDr. Cooke wrote the initial script for the liam H. Hastie, led to the 1946 landmark U.S. marker and served as master of ceremonies for Supreme Court decision striking down Virginia’s last Saturday’s program. law requiring racial segregation on commercial While Ms. Morgan died in 2007, her actions interstate buses as violating the U.S. Constitu- impacting millions of African-Americans are tion’s commerce clause. remembered and honored with the historic sign Ms. Morgan’s stand came 11 years before at 2425 Hayes Road, the site of the Greyhound Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her pickup station at the former Hayes Store Post seat on a public transit bus in Montgomery, Office where Ms. Morgan borded the bus.

Ala., in December 1955.

During her lifetime, Ms. Morgan was awarded The seed of the marker’s creation was planted the Presidential Citizens Medal by President in 2001 when a special program to honor Ms. Clinton in 2001, and was featured in a four-part Morgan was held during Gloucester County’s PBS series, “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,”

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Remembering Kobe Dozens of people, many wearing Los Angeles Lakers T-shirts and paraphernalia, came out last Friday to remember Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the seven others who were killed in a helicopter crash Jan. 26 in Southern California.

The remembrance ceremony was led by Charles D. Willis, right, executive director of United Communities Against Crime, at the Black Top Kings & Queens Sports Academy in South Side. Participants prayed during the ceremony and were reminded to tell family and others every day that they are loved because tomorrow is never guaranteed.

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Obituaries/Faith Directory

Frank Tunstall III, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1220, dies at 70 Frank Tunstall III, the veteran president and business agent for GRTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unionized bus drivers, has died.

Mr. Tunstall, considered a straight shooter and hard bargainer with the bus company but who also sought to avoid strikes, succumbed to illness Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. He was 70.

His life will be celebrated at noon Friday, Feb. 7, in the Manning Funeral Home Chapel, 700 N. 25th St. in Church Hill, with burial to follow in Cedar Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Providence Forge.

Ahead of the funeral, a viewing will take place from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at the funeral home.

GRTC officials joined in paying tribute to the nine-year president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1220, who died as the union and company began preparing for talks on a new three-year contract.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frank was a dedicated leader finally winning the post. who went the extra mile to adThe Henrico County resident vocate for his union employees,â&#x20AC;? served as president and business GRTC Chief Executive Officer agent until 2009 when Alcoa, Julie Timm stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His dedication which purchased Reynolds in was reflected in his willingness 2000, closed the plant and laid off to work with management to the 500 employees, his son said. resolve issues.â&#x20AC;?

Mr. Tunstall then turned to the Born in New York, Mr. Tunstall ATU local, where he was elected came to Richmond to take classes to the localâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top posts in 2011 at Virginia Commonwealth Unibased on his experience with versity and worked for the Bank union work and as a bus driver. of Virginia before finding his He became the key union repreMr. Tunstall niche as a union man. sentative in contract talks with He started working full time at the now closed GRTC and in ensuring drivers facing discipline Reynolds Metals plant on Hull Street while also were treated fairly. working part-time as a GRTC driver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frank drove the 95 Petersburg Express for His son, Frank Tunstall IV, said his father got a number of years, and his customers loved him involved in the union at the plant and ran several dearly,â&#x20AC;? GRTC Chief of Staff Sheryl Adams times for president of the plantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local before stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When he stepped back from driving and

became president of Local 1220, his customers still contacted him whenever they had an issue with the route. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frank never wavered from his core obligation of serving the people,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Adams continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He will be greatly missed by his GRTC family.â&#x20AC;?

His son said Mr. Tunstall â&#x20AC;&#x153;lived and breathed the union. He believed all people should be treated with equal dignity and had a right to earn enough money to support a family.â&#x20AC;?

Mr. Tunstall also was a role model as a husband, father and grandfather, which â&#x20AC;&#x153;is his most important legacy,â&#x20AC;? said his son, who now lives in Pittsburgh.

Survivors also include his wife of 50 years, Gail R. Tunstall; two other sons, Demond Tunstall and Harold Tunstall; a daughter, April Tunstall, all of Henrico County; and six grandchildren.

Willie H. Gillenwater, one Anthony â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rogers, retired educator, principal of cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first certified special education teachers, dies at 91 with RPS, dies at 92 Anthony Warren â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peteâ&#x20AC;?

Rogers was an advocate for teaching Richmond students how to work with their hands during his 35-year career with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public schools.

The Army veteran helped students learn how to use tools as an industrial arts teacher. He also encouraged students to consider careers in the construction trades and other vocations as a guidance counselor before he entered the principal ranks.

Mr. Rogers got his administrative start as an assistant principal at George Wythe High School before being tapped to run the former Benjamin Graves Junior High and East End Junior High schools.

He also served as principal of the Career Exploratory Middle School that became Chandler Middle School. The building in North Side is now home to Richmond Community High School.

Mr. Rogers died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Richmond.

He was 92.

Family and friends celebrated his life during a funeral Monday, Feb. 3, at First Baptist

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Church of South Richmond, where he was a member most of his life.

A Richmond native, Mr. Rogers graduated from Maggie L. Walker High School in 1946 and served in the military, most notably in Japan during the postWorld War II occupation.

Returning from service, he used the G.I. bill to study at West Virginia State University, where he earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in 1952. He later earned a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in vocational education from Ohio State University and took post-graduate courses at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Mr. Rogers remained involved in the school system

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Outside of school, he served as a member of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Human Relations Commission and as an elections officer and precinct captain at the polling place at the Calhoun Center.

He also was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and its Phi Phi Chapter in Richmond and was a past president of the Richmond/Central Virginia Chapter of the West Virginia State University Alumni Association.

He also belonged to the DelGents, the Ectezus Investment Club, The Associates Friday Morning Breakfast Club and The Friendship CafĂŠ with the Capital Area Partnership Uplifting Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senior Program.

Mr. Rogers was predeceased by his wives, Alfreda Green Rogers and Effie Eure Rogers.

Survivors include his daughter, Dr. Antoinette M. Rogers of Richmond; his sister, Rosalind R. Jones, also of Richmond; and his brother, Clinton D. Rogers Sr. of Accomack County.

Willie Harris Gillenwater was a pioneer in educating children with mental challenges in Richmond Public Schools.

Mrs. Gillenwater was among the first 10 teachers in Richmond and Virginia to earn state certification to teach children with special learning disabilities, according to her family.

During her nearly 36-year career in education, the Alabama native rose to become an administrator in RPSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Exceptional Education Department before she retired in the early 1990s.

Mrs. Gillenwater died Monday, Jan. 20, 2019. She was 91.

Family and friends celebrated her life during a service Monday, Jan. 27, at Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home Chapel in North Side, with the Rev. Brint Pratt Keyes officiating.

Mrs. Gillenwater came to Richmond in 1958 to complete her degree in education at Virginia Union University.

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Adelle M. Banks

People applaud and take photos during the unveiling ceremony Jan. 30 for the new U.S. Postal Service Black Heritage series stamp honoring the late journalist Gwen Ifill. The ceremony took place at the church she was a member of, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington.

Journalist Gwen Ifill remembered with new postage stamp launched at her Washington church Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

WASHINGTON In the historic African-American church where she worshipped, late journalist Gwen Ifill was remembered with a new Black Heritage postage stamp in a ceremony featuring dignitaries of the church, politics and journalism.

Speakers at the event on Jan. 30 at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church took turns describing Ms. Ifill’s courage in defying expectations and praised her faith-fueled ability to serve as a mentor to young journalists who followed in her footsteps.

“The founders of imperial America never intended for Gwen to be Gwen,” the Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan AME Church, told the hundreds gathered for the Forever stamp ceremony. “But the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church did intend for Gwen to be Gwen and for a million Gwens to follow Gwen Ifill.”

Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman said the U.S. Postal Service considered many settings for the ceremony for the 43rd stamp in its Black Heritage series, but determined the Washington church was the appropriate venue.

“Her faith grounded her,” Mr. Stroman said just before unveiling a supersized version of the stamp before the large cross at the front of the sanctuary. “It gave her strength and informed the values that guided her life.”

Ms. Ifill, the first African-American and first woman to moderate a major television news-analysis show, died at age 61 in 2016 after a cancer diagnosis. She was the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” and senior political correspondent for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”

Ms. Ifill became co-anchor of the “PBS NewsHour,” part of the first all-women team to anchor a national nightly news program.

Earlier in her career, she worked for newspapers, including The

Washington Post and The New York Times.

The ceremony featured remembrances from friends and colleagues, including Washington Post contributing columnist Michele Norris, who served as mistress of ceremonies, and Ms. Ifill’s NewsHour co-host Judy Woodruff, who noted the stamp dedication occurred during the same week when the life of their mentor, Jim Lehrer, will be remembered after his death on Jan. 23.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a proclamation declaring it Gwen Ifill Day in the city. Former President Clinton sent a video with remarks welcoming the journalist’s recognition, and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder read a congratulatory statement from former President Obama.

Ms. Ifill’s brother, the Rev. Earle Ifill, said it was significant to have his sister’s memory honored at an African Methodist Episcopal church affiliated with a denomination in which she was an active part and her relatives held prominent roles.

“It is delightful and meaningful in the fact that not only is it an honor for her and for us as a family but for the AME Church as a whole as she has spent her life in service to the church,” Rev. Ifill, who retired in 2019 as the presiding elder of the denomination’s Atlanta East District, said in a phone interview earlier last week.

Known for her broadcast and print journalism and moderating of election season debates, Ms. Ifill was the daughter of parents who were natives of the Caribbean and who became deeply involved in the AME Church. Her father, a minister, eventually became its general secretary, a post he still held when he died in 1991, and her mother was active in the denomination’s Women’s Missionary Society.

Ms. Ifill had sung in choirs from the time of her youth and found local AME churches to join as her career took her to the Boston area, Baltimore and Washington, her brother said.

She joined Metropolitan in 1989 and, among other activities,

narrated special programs such as a presentation of Handel’s “Messiah.”

Patricia Ann Morris DeVeaux, the wife of Bishop William DeVeaux, a former pastor at Metropolitan, wrote of recruiting Ms. Ifill for the congregation’s “Voices of Inspiration.”

“Gwen joined the choir and sang in the alto section (known as ‘the toes’), wearing the royal blue and gold robe and marching down the aisle with us, illuminating the sanctuary with her smile,” she recalled in a statement printed in The Christian Recorder, the AME Church’s newspaper, shortly after the journalist’s death.

“The altos were our largest section of the choir and Gwen helped them rock the house.”

Ms. Ifill, who also is cited with a plaque on a pew at Metropolitan, connected her roles in the press and the pew on at least one occasion.

“I would actually get a pass from my own pastor not to go to church on Sundays if I was going to be on ‘Meet the Press,’” she said during a special tribute to her colleague Tim Russert on NBC days after his death in 2008.

Ms. Ifill is not the first member of her denomination to be pictured on a U.S. stamp. Among others are Richard Allen, the AME Church’s first bishop, who was honored in the same sanctuary with a Black Heritage stamp in 2016 to mark the denomination’s 200-year anniversary.

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the addition of her cousin to the list of stamp honorees — who range from Harriet Tubman to Marvin Gaye — has elevated her from the days as a preacher’s daughter when faith and excellence in school were the priorities and not parties or fashionable clothes.

“The expectation was clearly defined and being cool was not on the agenda,” Sherrilyn Ifill said. “But today Gwen is the coolest.”

Justice Clarence Thomas talks about his faith in new documentary Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is known for his reticence, speaks for much of a new two-hour documentary about his life.

Part of the story he tells in “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” centers on his longtime Catholic faith — nurtured by his grandfather who raised him in his Georgia home, nuns who taught him in school and people who prayed with him during his confirmation process to serve on the nation’s highest court.

Producer-director Michael Pack interviewed Justice Thomas and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, for 30 hours for the film that was released Jan. 31 in theaters in 20 cities, including Washington, New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Mr. Pack recently served as president of Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, but has produced documentaries for PBS about George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and “God and the Inner City.”

Mr. Pack talked to Religion News Service about what he learned about Justice Thomas’ religious life as he filmed the documentary. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What struck you most about Justice Clarence Thomas’ faith?

I’m struck by the depth of Clarence Thomas’ faith. It was strong when he first had it. But when you have a faith, lose your faith and come back to your faith, in some ways it’s stronger then. I’m also impressed at how Justice Thomas relies on his faith to get him through the difficult and dark moments of his life, especially his contentious confirmation hearing.

Could you talk about the role of his grandfather and how

the Bible shaped his philosophy and the lessons he passed on to Justice Thomas?

Justice Thomas’ grandfather was functionally illiterate. So what he would do with the Bible is he would try to get a few words by heart and rely on those. The values he gave to Clarence Thomas he felt were rooted in the Bible — working from sun to sun, never quitting, being true to yourself.

In addition to his grandfather, Justice Thomas cites the influence of nuns at a segregated Catholic school he attended.

As he says in the documentary, he felt that they loved him and he worked hard to live up to that. And even though it was segregated Savannah, he felt they were on his side. They believed in these young boys and girls.

And he adopted the faith they instilled in him. He continued to visit those nuns until several of them passed away.

He has spoken in the past about wanting to be a priest at a young age, and he attended seminary before he went to college. What drew him to seminary life?

That’s right. He went first to a minor seminary for his last year of high school and then he went to a seminary for his first year of college. So he went to two different seminaries. He loved the ritual. He loved the prayers.

He loved the Gregorian chant. I think he loved the entire religious environment that he lived in. He found it appealing. It spoke to something deep in his soul.

He ended up leaving that second seminary. Why? It was racist incidents. We tell a story in which he was in one class where some kid passed him a folded note, and on the front of the folded note, it said, “I like Martin Luther King Jr.” You open it up, and it said, “dead.”

This sort of mockery of somebody he thought was important and of the Civil Rights Movement was upsetting to Justice Thomas.

But it confirmed his feeling that the Catholic Church wasn’t doing enough for civil rights. And don’t

that the affirmative action or intellectual skills, they were forget this is the late ’60s and that was under discussion relying a lot on their faith to get he’s swept up in the mood in the Grutter opinion was them through. of the times as well. It’s not doing that — that there the time of Black Power, of There is a brief mention of were two sets of criteria for the “prayer partners” who were rebellion, of urban riot and, different kinds of people and important to them at that time.

I’d say, that as a young man, he felt that was unjust in the Did he say more about that?

Justice Thomas got caught sense that the declaration up in those ideas, too.

They needed to pray with other points to justice.

How does that fit with people to sort of be in touch with What role did faith their faith during that second his attendance at College play in his life as he was part of the hearing. He needed of the Holy Cross? being considered for the to be sustained by prayer and by I think he felt he had Supreme Court amid prayer with other people as well. no alternative but to go to allegations that he sexu- And because the media camped Holy Cross. His grandfather ally harassed one-time out in front of his house, it was had kicked him out of his colleague Anita Hill? home. He had no job. He easier for people to come to his His confirmation battle house than for him to go out to happened to have applied to had two parts and the a church.

Holy Cross and had a full Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press first part was closer to a scholarship. So he went. But Is there anything else about he, as soon as he got there, he U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence traditional confirmation his faith that ended up on the hung around with Marxist Thomas smiles during an event in February battle. After that, the Anita cutting room floor?

Hill allegations of sexual students, black radicals that 2018 at the Library of Congress.

He’s always coming back to harassment were leaked the nuns. We portray his going to didn’t take religion all that seriously — even if they were at “endowed by their Creator with and that leak caused the Senate parochial school at the time that Holy Cross. So he went through certain unalienable rights,” that Judiciary Committee to reconvene it happens in his biography. But a period of time where he wasn’t these truths pointed to a deep basis and hold several more days of in my talking to him, he’s always going to church and he wasn’t of American life and of the Consti- hearings. And that second time, talking about what his grandfather tution. And I think that underpins he and Ginni felt it was a spiritual and the nuns taught him at many thinking about religion. battle and they felt, rather than points in his life. It’s a touchstone After Dr. King’s assassina- his jurisprudence today.

How has he applied that to relying on their political skills that he goes back to. tion, Justice Thomas said that race was his religion. But he had court decisions?

His sense of what equality a turnabout in his faith again.

That’s right. He participated means underlies his jurisprudence in an anti-war demonstration that in the Grutter decision on affirmagot violent in Cambridge, Mass., tive action. Justice Thomas was and he got swept up in the mob saying, I believe, that every man violence of the moment and he has that right to life, liberty and watched himself being swept up the pursuit of happiness, to succeed and did not like what he saw. By or fail on their own. And he felt the time that was over and he returned to Holy Cross, it was well past midnight and everything was closed. But he went to the chapel where he had not prayed  in a long time. He knelt in front  of the chapel and prayed for God   to take anger out of his heart. And Broad Rock Baptist Church that was the beginning of his return 5106 Walmsley Blvd., Richmond, VA 23224  to his faith.

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Legal Notices 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 Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, February 24, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2020-029 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1301 North Hamilton Street for the purpose of a retail use accessory to an existing office use, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is located in the R-73 Multifamily Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Transitional.

Ordinance No. 2020-030 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 1600 West Broad Street and 1606 West Broad Street, for the purpose of a mixeduse building containing up to 168 dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in an M-1 Light Industrial Zoning District.

The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as Nodal Mixed Use, which is described as transit-oriented areas located immediately adjacent to the Pulse BRT or other frequent transit service at key gateways and prominent places in the city in order to provide for significant, urban-form development in appropriate locations.

Higher-density pedestrian- and transitoriented development is encouraged on vacant and underutilized sites.

The density of the proposed project would be approximately 290 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2020-031 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3114 Grayland Avenue for the purpose of a single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is located in the R-5 Single-Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Low Density.

Primary uses for this category include “…single family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. The density of the proposed project would be approximately 20 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2020-032 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2006-130-115, adopted May 22, 2006, which authorized the special use of the property known as 3011 Meadow Bridge Road for the purpose of authorizing commercial uses, which may be operated on a social service delivery basis, and an accessory parking area, to modify the permitted uses, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned in the UB‑PE8 - Urban Business (Parking Exempt) D i s t r i c t . T h e C i t y ’s Master Plan recommends N e i g h b o r h o o d Commercial land use for the property.

N e i g h b o r h o o d Commercial uses consist of office, personal service and retail uses, intended to provide the daily convenience shopping and service needs of adjacent neighborhood residents.

Ordinance No. 2020-033 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2007 Cedar Street for the purpose of a multifamily dwelling containing up to five dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a R-63 Multifamily Urban Residential District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Mixed-Use Residential uses. No residential land use is specified for this land use recommendation.

The proposed density of the development would be approximately 55 units per acre.

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Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District. The Master Plan calls for industrial uses for the property.

Ordinance No. 2020-036 To rezone the properties known as 1601 Overbrook Road and 1611 Overbrook Road from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District. The City’s Master Plan calls for industrial uses for the property.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER STEWART YOUNG, JR. Plaintiff v.

LINDA YOUNG, Defendant.

Case No.: CL120000395-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 19th day of March, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

ARTURO SOBRINO ORTIZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL120000212-00 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 9th day of March, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

ONASSIS ADDO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL120000214-00 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 9th day of March, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY

Ordinance No. 2020-035 To rezone the property known as 2413 Ownby Lane from the M-2 Heavy

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re AMAYA RAMIREZ, YESLI MELISSA Case No. JJ-096881-01-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Grant sole custody of Yesli Melissa, Amaya Ramirez pursuant to Code 16.1-241A3

It is ORDERED that the defendant Santos Julio Amaya appear at the above-

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Ordinance No. 2020-034 To rezone the property known as 2408 Ownby Lane from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District. The Master Plan calls for industrial uses for the property.

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named Court and protect his or her interests on or before April 7, 2020, at 2:15 PM.

Isadora R. Humbles, Martin K. Funn, Trustees of the M a r i a n W. R o b i n s o n Revocable Trust, Inez C. Robinson, Johnny Mickens, III, Johnny Mickens, IV, and Faith Elizabeth Walker Mickens, Mamie R. Scott, Evelyn R. Latham, Mamie W. Crawford, Isadora R. Humbles, Martin K. Funn, Trustees of the Marian W. Robinson Revocable Trust, Inez C. Robinson, Johnny Mickens, III, Johnny Mickens, IV, and Faith Elizabeth Walker Mickens.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, Mamie R. Scott, Evelyn R. Latham, Mamie W. Crawford, Isadora R. Humbles, Martin K. Funn, Trustees of the Marian W. Robinson Revocable Trust, Inez C. Robinson, Johnny Mickens, III, Johnny Mickens, IV, and Faith Elizabeth Walker Mickens, Mamie R. Scott, Evelyn R. Latham, Mamie W. Crawford, Isadora R. Humbles, Martin K. Funn, Trustees of the Marian W. Robinson Revocable Trust, Inez C. Robinson, Johnny Mickens, III, Johnny Mickens, IV, and Faith Elizabeth Walker Mickens are to be proceed against by Order of Publication pursuant to Section 8.01-316(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia, 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 MAMIE R. SCOTT, EVELYN R. LATHAM, MAMIE W. CRAWFORD, ISADORA R. HUMBLES, MARTIN K. FUNN, TRUSTEES OF THE MARIAN W. ROBINSON REVOCABLE TRUST, INEZ C. ROBINSON, JOHNNY MICKENS, III, JOHNNY MICKENS, IV, and FAITH E L I Z A B E T H WA L K E R MICKENS and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before December 5, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

and have not filed a response to this action; that SAMUEL LINWOOD RANDOL P H and ESTELLE RANDOLPH, Beneficiaries of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 237 page 1923 on June 5, 1990, 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 MIRANDA L. EBERHARDT, STEVEN M. EDMONDS and HARRISON BRUCE, JR, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 237 page 1923 on June 5, 1990, SAMUEL LINWOOD RANDOL P H and ESTELLE RANDOLPH, Beneficiaries of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 237 page 1923 on June 5, 1990, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940

is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

been filed that said owners, DOROTHY ROBINSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and JAMES WILLIAMS, 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 DOROTHY ROBINSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JAMES WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940

Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re AMAYA RAMIREZ, LUIS FERNANDO Case No. JJ096882-01-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Grant sole custody of Luis Fernando Amaya Ramirez pursuant to Code 16.1-241A3

It is ORDERED that the defendant Santos Julio Amaya appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his or her interests on or before April 7, 2020, at 2:15 PM.

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

JUNIUS M. CHARITY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5775 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1120 North 34th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000877/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Junius M. Charity.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JUNIUS M. CHARITY, 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 JUNIUS M. CHARITY, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

HOT VOLT ELECTRIC, INCORPORATE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-253 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2108 Sale Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000665/046, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Hot Volt Electric, Incorporated.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HOT VOLT ELECTRIC, I N C O R P O R AT E , a terminated Virginia corporation, 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 HOT VOLT ELECTRIC, I N C O R P O R AT E , a terminated Virginia corporation, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MAMIE R. SCOTT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5585 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 208 West 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000418/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Mamie R. Scott, Evelyn R. Latham, Mamie W. Crawford, Continued on next column

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

NANCY D. ANDERSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5187 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 308 Overbrook Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0596/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Nancy D. Anderson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NANCY D. ANDERSON, 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 NANCY D. ANDERSON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MIRANDA L. EBERHARDT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5447 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 401 Hazelhurst Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001258068, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Miranda L. Eberhard.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MIRANDA L. EBERHARDT 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 STEVEN M. EDMONDS and HARRISON BRUCE, JR, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 237 page 1923 on June 5, 1990, have not been located

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

IDA JEANETTE LAYTON FORRESTER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5448 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 917 Saint James Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000083/038, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ida Jeanette Layton Forrester aka Jeanette Layton Forrester, Lonada Layton Ramsey and Joseph L. B. Forrester, III.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, IDA JEANETTE LAYTON FORRESTER aka JEANETTE LAYTON FORRESTER, 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 LONADA LAYTON RAMSEY and JOSEPH L. B. FORRESTER, III, 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 IDA JEANETTE LAYTON FORRESTER aka JEANETTE LAYTON FORRESTER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LONADA L AY T O N RAMSEY and JOSEPH L. B. FORRESTER, III, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MICHAEL B. BEY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4988 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1112 West Marshall Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0466/028, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Michael B. Bey.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MICHAEL B. BEY, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, 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 MICHAEL B. BEY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 2020 and do what Continued on next column

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

ANTHONY P. HICKS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4921 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1409 Nelson Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100106/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Anthony P. Hicks.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ANTHONY P. HICKS, 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 ANTHONY P. HICKS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4919 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1604 North 22nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000858/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Marvin A. Robinson Sr, and Goldie Robinson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR, and GOLDIE ROBINSON, 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 NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-31325 on December 17, 2008, 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 MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR, GOLDIE ROBINSON, NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-31325 on December 17, 2008, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DOROTHY ROBINSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5652 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the properties briefly described as 1628 North 31st Street, Tax Map Number E000-0795/018, and 1668 North 31st Street, Tax Map Number E000-0795/017, Richmond, Virginia to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Dorothy Robinson and James Williams.

An Affidavit having Continued on next column

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

LOUISE T. BLAKE, et al, Defendants.

Case No. : CL20-251 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2006 Newman Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0110126/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Louise T. Blake.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LOUISE T. BLAKE, 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 LOUISE T. BLAKE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940

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

TRUSTEES OF ANTIOCH CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5655 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2715 Terminal Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0080521/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Trustees of Antioch Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, TRUSTEES OF ANTIOCH CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, 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 TRUSTEES OF ANTIOCH CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

CHARLES M. TAYLOR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4920 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3011 Hanes Ave, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0973/031, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Charles M. Taylor.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHARLES M. TAYLOR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, 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 M. TAYLOR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 804-646-7940

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

JEANIE MAE WALTON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4945 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2607 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000716/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Jeanie Mae Walton.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JEANIE MAE WALTON, 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 LILLIE RUTH BALDWIN, HOLDER of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 257 page 2048 on January 28, 1991, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JEANIE MAE WALTON, LILLIE RUTH BALDWIN, HOLDER of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 257 page 2048 on January 28, 1991, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND MARIAN C. DIXON, Complainant, v.

ORMOND W. DIXON, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL19005919-7 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to partition the property briefly described as 3613 Stockton Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0060059004.

As there are more than ten defendants in this matter; and

As it is apparent that the defendants in this lawsuit represent like interests, and

As the parties have not been served with process, then

IT IS ORDERED that O R M O N D W. D I X O N , AUDREY BALLINGER, FAY MOSER, JANICE PARRISH, NORMA MOSER, CURTIS DIXON, ORMOND E. DIXON, REVERIA DIXON, LESLIE DIXON, DAVID DIXON, MARVIN DIXON, HOLLY DIXON, HANNA DIXON, HANNA DIXON, and HAMILTON DIXON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before February 20, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interest in this matter.

The Court in its discretion hereby dispenses with the requirements of Rule 1:13 of the Virginia Supreme Court.

A Copy, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk

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I ASK FOR THIS: Benjamin M. Andrews, Esquire (VSB No. 77824) AndrewsBrown PLC 5711 Greendale Road, Suite 2 Henrico, Virginia 23228 804-918-2091 benjamin@andrewsbrownlaw .com VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

KATHY D. BOOKER-FUQUA, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4772 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3054 Forest Hill Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001350/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Kathy D. Booker-Fuqua and Karen Booker.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, KATHY D. BOOKER-FUQUA and KAREN BOOKER, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;?

IT IS ORDERED that K AT H Y D . B O O K E R FUQUA, KAREN BOOKER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MORRIS J. HOLDEN, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5444 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1702 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000940/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Morris J. Holden, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MORRIS J. HOLDEN, JR, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;?

IT IS ORDERED that MORRIS J. HOLDEN, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ANDY ROOMY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-4729 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4114 Lynhaven Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0090185/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Andy Roomy and Claudine Chalhaub.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ANDY ROOMY and CLAUDINE CHALHAUB who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;?

IT IS ORDERED that ANDY ROOMY, CLAUDINE CHALHAUB, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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CL19-61 3521 Florida Avenue N0001266022 City of Richmond v. Lucy N. Dark, et. al.

CL19-4511 2705 Garland Avenue N0000703019 City of Richmond v. Valorie P. Watkins, et. al.

CL19-801 2715 Garland Avenue N0000703022 City of Richmond v. Valorie P. Watkins, et. al.

CL19-802 2319 Gordon Avenue S0000550015 City of Richmond v. George L. Morris, et. al.

CL18-5672 2500 Gravel Hill Road C0040826026 City of Richmond v.

Hampton White, et. al.

CL19-643 2510 Gravel Hill Road Rear C0040826024 City of Richmond v. Myrtle G. White, et. al.

CL19-928 1006 Halsey Lane C0050685016 City of Richmond v. Robert Santiago, et. al.

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CL19-4237 2904 Krouse Street S0080527055 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4237 2906 Krouse Street S0080527056 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4237 2908 Krouse Street S0080527057 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4237 2910 Krouse Street S0080527058 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4237 2912 Krouse Street S0080527059 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4237 2914 Krouse Street S0080527060 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4237 2916 Krouse Street S0080527061 City of Richmond v. Krouse, LLC, et. al.

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CL19-4237 3017 Krouse Street S0080562030 City of Richmond v. Lillian I. Lewis, et. al.

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CL18-5670 3704 Lawson Street S0002905010 City of Richmond v.

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CL19-3275 2312 Lumkin Avenue S0080525010 City of Richmond v.

Newstart Properties, LLC, et. al.

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CL19-46 414 Marx Street S0000320001 City of Richmond v. Edgar A. Talbott, et. al.

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CL19-3890 3000 Midlothian Turnpike S0001345008

City of Richmond v. Cliff Eugene Taylor, et. al.

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Thomas M. Jackson, III, et. al.

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CL19-3924 625 Pollock Street N0001261013 City of Richmond v.

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CL19-3915 2501 Porter Street S0000696012 City of Richmond v.

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CL19-1729 2112 Rosewood Avenue W0000937024 City of Richmond v.

Barbara Williams Coney, et. al.

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Raymond B. Bentley, Jr., et. al.

CL19-1970 5601 Wainwright Drive C0050719002 City of Richmond v. John J. Riemann, et. al.

CL19-170 205 Wickham Street N0000446019 City of Richmond v. Lelia Scott, et. al.

CL18-5834

commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deed or a special warranty deed. Real estate taxes will be adjusted as of the date of entry for the Order of Confirmation.

Properties are sold â&#x20AC;&#x153;as isâ&#x20AC;? without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction.

T h e S p e c i a l Commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acceptance of a bid shall not limit any powers vested in the City of Richmond. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. Individuals owing delinquent taxes to the City of Richmond, and defendants in pending delinquent tax cases, are not qualified to bid at this auction. Bidders must certify by affidavit that they do not own, directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding notices of violation for building, zoning or other local ordinances.

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

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

3118 4th Avenue N0000997017 City of Richmond v.

Anthony Johnson, et. al.

CL18-6024 119 East 15th Street S0000193015 City of Richmond v. Howard A. Harris, et. al.

CL19-317 1130 East 15th Street S0000636016 City of Richmond v. Donnell Seward, et. al CL19-3392 127 East 20th Street S0000353024 City of Richmond v. Lula P. Hudson, LLC, et. al.

CL19-4293 120 East 21st Street S0000353029 City of Richmond v.

Vernelle Cheatham, et. al.

CL19-574 1800 North 21st Street E0001078007 City of Richmond v. George Sutton, et. al CL19-3776 1312 North 22nd Street E0000615006 City of Richmond v. Leroy Brown, et. al.

CL19-3889 1205 North 25th Street E0000561021 City of Richmond v. Thelma Crawley, et. al.

CL19-576 1207 North 25th Street E0000561022 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et. al.

CL19-656 1207 North 25th Street Rear E0000561035 City of Richmond v. Lewis C. Dockery, Jr., et. al.

CL19-1027 1209 North 25th Street E0000561023 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-814 1211 North 25th Street E0000561024 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-657 1215 North 25th Street E0000561026 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-815 1217 North 25th Street E0000561027 City of Richmond v. Parties Unknown CL19-1322 1219 ½ North 25th Street E0000561028 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-800 1112 North 26th Street E0000519007 City of Richmond v.

Douglas E. Plymouth, et.al.

CL18-5838 1200 North 26th Street E0000561015 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-603 1202 North 26th Street E0000561014 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-604 1206 North 26th Street E0000561012 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-605 1208 North 26th Street E0000561011 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-606 1210 North 26th Street E0000561010 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-630 1212 North 26th Street E0000561008 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-607 1220 North 26th Street E0000561006 City of Richmond v. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, et.al.

CL19-608 1220 North 27th Street E0000562003 City of Richmond v. Robert Santiago, et.al.

CL19-996 1616 North 28th Street E0000864021 City of Richmond v.

Gwendolyn Plymouth, et. al.

CL18-6110 1816 North 30th Street E0000952012 City of Richmond v. Seklaw Enterprises, LLC, et. al.

CL19-3195 1115 North 32nd Street E0000803028 City of Richmond v. Gabby Homes, LLC, et. al.

CL18-5709 1607 Albany Avenue S0000231014 City of Richmond v. Carl E. Burnett, et. al.

CL19-3862 2001 Albany Avenue S0000349008 City of Richmond v. Booker T. Ellis, et. al.

CL19-579 5216 Beddington Rod C0081182021 City of Richmond v. James Edward Sheffield, et. al.

CL19-3863 1601 Boston Avenue S0000286010 City of Richmond v. Ruth B. Wright, et. al.

CL19-348 1412 Bowen Street S0071233009 City of Richmond v.

Advanta E. Johnson, et. al.

CL19-184 4509 West Broad Street W0002034002 City of Richmond v. W. Broad St. Bankruptcy Bldg. et. al.

CL19-1263 1411 Brookland Parkway N0001222006 City of Richmond v. Terry L. Parrott, et. al.

CL19-1002 3216 Carolina Avenue N0001157005 City of Richmond v.

Maureen Morales, Trustee, et. al.

CL19-2584 3212 Cliff Avenue N0001140023 City of Richmond v. Richard E. Souels, et. al.

CL18-962 2411 Coles Street S0090065019 City of Richmond v. Rosa Westry, et. al CL19-3992 4025 Crutchfield Street S0002917030 City of Richmond v. Edwin Maurice Beane, et. al.

CL19-3480 1917 Decatur Street S0000294025 City of Richmond v. Genesis Capital Corporation, et. al.

CL19-148 2401 Decatur Street S0000681018 City of Richmond v. Dawn G. Johnson, et. al.

CL19-575 2663 Decatur Street S0000905016 City of Richmond v.

Thomas T. Bailey, et. al.

CL19-1004 306 Deter Road C0050885002 City of Richmond v. Paul Harding, et. al.

CL19-4687 3349 Dill Avenue N0051182031 City of Richmond v.

Constance M. Vowell, et. al.

CL19-3921 1507 Drewry Street S0071282008 City of Richmond v. Daniel Harris, Jr., et. al.

CL19-461 3700 Dunston Avenue S0002468012 City of Richmond v. Aaliyah T. Kilpatrick, et. al.

CL18-6029 2016 Edwards Avenue S0000457001 City of Richmond v. Charlie A. Anderson, Jr., et. al.

CL19-1760 2111 Edwards Avenue S0000398016 City of Richmond v. Ruth M. Pinkston, et. al.

CL18-6027 3211 Enslow Avenue N0001061015 City of Richmond v. Rosa Bell Worsham, et. al.

CL19-4295 3521 Enslow Avenue N0001172023 City of Richmond v. Ernest Miles, et. al.

CL19-48 1709 Everett Street S0000235018 City of Richmond v. Cheryl T. Carter, et. al.

CL19-2585 2204 Fairmount Avenue E0000616016 City of Richmond v.

Matthew J. Davis, et. al.

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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.

JOSEPH JOHNSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-5188 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4408 Corbin Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0180401/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joseph Johnson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JOSEPH JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;?

IT IS ORDERED that JOSEPH JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before MARCH 12, 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 NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer the following real estate for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday February 19, 2020 at 2:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any other terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale.

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

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

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

LICENSE Bateau LLC Trading as: Bateau A Coffee and Wine Experience 301 Virginia St Unit AL1 Richmond, Virginia 23219-4189 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Mixed Beverage (Seating Capacity - 1 to 100 seats) license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Harold L. Watkins, Owner 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.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The University of Virginia seeks a firm to provide: Lacrosse Equipment and Sponsorship RFP-UVA-00028-KC012020, https://bit.ly/38GHpkj To view a copy of RFP # KC012020 go to Procurement Services Site: https://bids. sciquest.com/apps/Router/ PublicEvent?CustomerOrg=UVa or email pur-rfp@virginia.edu

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

Janitorial Peninsula Cleaning Service is recruiting for part-time Team Leaders in Richmond. Previous experience in leadership and cleaning medical facilities. Valid DL and background are required.

Apply @www.peninsulacleaning.com or call

757-833-1603

for additional information EOE AA M/F Vet Disability

Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity is currently seeking an Accounting Manager.

The Accounting Manager is responsible for the daily oversight of the Accounting Department.

This position will focus on managing and recording all accounting expenditures for RMHFH, to include but not limited to: budgeting, reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll functions. To apply, send resume and cover letter to lmulligan@richmondhabitat.org.

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS (Position: #FA308) (Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) The Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and forward-thinking higher education professional to join an award-winning college in a highly collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovation, and is committed to student success and equitable outcomes for all. Reynolds is seeking applicants who share in its commitment to student success by striving to eliminate barriers to college access and achievement. The College champions a culture of inclusivity and diversity by recruiting and retaining a dynamic workforce who share in the value of respecting and celebrating a deeply diverse community of students, faculty, and staff. This position will be located on the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parham Road Campus, 1651 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA 23228.

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

Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $67,932$140,320. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $110,000-$115,000. Application reviews will begin, MARCH 5, 2020. Additional information is available at the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website: www.reynolds.edu.

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

Follow the Free Press on @FreePressRVA @RichmondFreePressUSA

AZZIE MANOR HOME FOR ADULTS DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VIRGINIA ADVERTISMENT FOR BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A URANIUM TREATMENT FACILITY AND WELL SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS The Azzie Manor Home for Adults is currently seeking bids from qualiďŹ ed Contractors licensed to do business in the Commonwealth of Virginia to construct improvements to the water system.

The project is generally described as the installation of a Uranium Treatment System, replacement of existing 2â&#x20AC;? Black Iron pipe with new PVC pipe and brass valves, a new well pump and controls with a new ďŹ berglass well enclosure, new well transmission piping, and new well head piping and valves.

All proposals are to be received no later than 2:00 pm on March 10, 2020 at Bowman Consulting Group, Ltd. ofďŹ ce at 460 McLaws Circle, Suite 120, Williamsburg, VA 23185, Attn: Jessica Kwiatkowski.

Copies of the full Advertisement can be requested by contacting Bowmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OfďŹ ce at 757-229-1776.

MBE/WBE ďŹ rms are encouraged to submit bids. Bidders must comply with the following: the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Order # 11246 prohibiting discrimination in employment regarding race, color, creed, sex, or national origin; the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Orders # 12138 and 11625 regarding utilization of MBE/WBE ďŹ rms, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bidders must certify that they do not or will not maintain or provide for their employees any facilities that are segregated on the basis of race, color, creed, or national origin.

AVAILABLE Downtown Richmond first floor office suite 5th and Franklin Streets 422 East Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23219

804.358.5543 Bedros Bandazian

Associate Broker, Chairman

Raffi Bandazian

Principal Broker, GRI

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