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School advocate Paul Goldman fumes over mayor’s school funding resolution that he claims does not meet City Charter requirement

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Mayor Levar M. Stoney appears to be backpedaling on his pledge to meet a new City Charter requirement to provide “a fully funded plan to modernize” Richmond’s decaying school buildings.

He did not “formally present” his full-blown plan to City Council Monday night as the charter provision requires, nor has he met another requirement to “provide an opportunity for public participation” in the development of the plan.

Instead, Mayor Stoney quietly submitted to City Council a three-paragraph resolution that calls on the council to endorse his idea of using the city’s borrowing capacity over 20 years to fully pay for $800 million in school renovation and construction

projects by 2048.

The mayor was not available for comment.

But his chief of staff, Lincoln Saunders, and press spokesman, Jim Nolan, separately told the Free Press the mayor had not considered speaking to the council and that he regarded the resolution drafted by the City Attorney’s Office as meeting his obligation for a financing plan.

Mayor Stoney While members of City Council have remained mum on the resolution, advocates for modernizing the city’s schools disagree.

“Pathetic,” said Paul Goldman, leader of the Put Schools First campaign and the creator of the charter provision that

won 85 percent voter support in 2017 and overwhelming approval from the General Assembly last year.

Mr. Goldman has spent 13 years championing the idea that Richmond students need and deserve modern schools as a matter of justice and fairness. He is dismayed that the mayor believes he has met the charter requirements by “presenting a piece of paper Mr. Goldman that, if passed, would not be binding on him, future mayors or future councils. This is not a plan — just another empty promise,” Mr. Goldman fumed.

“No one who reads the charter provision would believe that this kind of flimsy resolution would meet his obligation to offer a fully funded plan.”

Mr. Goldman, a former chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, helped create Richmond’s at-large mayor position first won by former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder in the November 2004 election. He also helped the former governor become the first Please turn to A4

Failure to deliver

Residents describe litany of problems hampering basic mail service

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Happy 90th Birthday, Dr. King!

Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras, right, speaks at the dedication Tuesday of a new mural honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that is located on the entryway to the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge and adjacent to the Martin Luther King Jr. Pre-School Learning Center at 900 Mosby St. in the East End. The dedication was held on what would have been Dr. King’s 90th birthday. It is the second King mural on the site done by U.N.I.T.Y. Street Project; the first was completed in July. Muralists Sir James Thornhill and Hamilton Glass joined in the dedication ceremony, along with students from Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School who worked on the project.

Richmond native Corey Blount hits world music at No.1

By Michele Canty

Richmond native Corey Blount is a good musician — so good, in fact, that a song he co-wrote, produced and performs on is No. 1 in New Zealand, Australia and Kurdistan.

It also hit the Top 10 on the charts in The Netherlands. And on Anghami, a streaming service big in the Middle East and Northern Africa, it soared to No. 1 in Tunisia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates.

“It shot to No. 1 on Anghami in the first couple of days. It even topped Ariana Grande on Anghami, and I thought, ‘This is so crazy!’ ” Mr. Blount, 27, said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Los Angeles.

The hit, “Where Do We Go From Here,”

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Groups using Super Bowl spotlight to push against Confederate statues ATLANTA A coalition of civil rights groups in Atlanta is using this year’s Super Bowl to help kick off a renewed “war on the Confederacy,” in a fight to remove Confederate monuments around the nation.

Last week, the groups announced a

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the world, the Super Bowl,” said Gerald Griggs of the Georgia NAACP. “We are calling for the removal of all monuments to the Confederacy and we are prepared to bring our message directly to the world as the world descends upon Atlanta, Ga., for the purpose of celebrat-

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Corey Blount works on his latest projects in a small studio set up in the Henrico County home of his mother, Taryn Blount, during his recent visit during the holidays.

planned Feb. 2 rally on the eve of the championship football game being hosted in the city.

The coalition intends to bring its message to fans who will pour into Atlanta for Super Bowl LIII on Feb. 3.

“There’s no better time to have this conversation — social justice conversation — than right before the largest event in

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Former 5th District City Councilman Henry W. “Chuck” Richardson said Tuesday he has hired an attorney to continue pursuing legal action to remove the district’s current representative, Councilman Parker C. Agelasto.

Mr. Richardson declined to name the lawyer at a news conference he held at City Hall in which he sought to clarify his strategy for removing Mr. Agelasto from office because Mr. Agelasto has moved from the 5th District into a home in the 1st District.

Mr. Agelasto In a legal petition Mr. Richardson he previously filed in Richmond Circuit Court, Mr. Richardson argued that Mr. Agelasto has vacated the council seat with his move, citing a section of state law.

Mr. Agelasto, who maintains his voter registration in the 5th District, disagrees and is seeking to serve out his term, which ends in 2020.

Now 70, Mr. Richardson is disappointed that the other eight current members of City Council have not acted on the matter.

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By Jeff Martin Associated Press

Jean Morris is tired of having the Forest Hill Post Office refusing to deliver packages to her South Side residence.

Donna Royster is fed up with not receiving any of the letters her grandchildren keep sending her from Hawaii at her East End apartment.

And Christina McGuire is annoyed that she keeps getting letters intended for someone else at her home on East Grace Street, including at least two that were supposed to be delivered to an address in Sandston in eastern Henrico County.

They were among L.L. Christian/f7photoz at least 18 people who spelled out problems Donna Royster nearly wept at the they are having with postal town hall last Saturday mail delivery at a when she described the pain of not town hall meeting 4th receiving letters and photos from her grandchildren.

District Congressman A. Donald McEachin hosted Saturday at the Robinson Theater Community Arts Center in Church Hill with representatives of the U.S. Postal Service.

After the 90-minute session, Rep. McEachin told reporters that he wants to see improvement and will be having his staff follow up with the Postal Service and constituents to see if the issues have been resolved.

With tens of thousands of addresses, he knows there can be mistakes, “but not at this level or this voluminous.”

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Workers are moving forward former convent that is to be renovated into to create a $33 million apartment eight additional apartments, bringing the total complex on a 2½-acre block in number of units in the project to 154. The Jackson Ward, despite recent weather Slices of life and scenes in Richmond convent is all that remains of the complex that challenges. This view from 2nd and once included St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Duval streets shows the wooden framework of the 146 new apart- the denomination’s first Southern church for black worshippers, and ments under construction on the site. Snead Construction and other Van de Vyver parochial trade school. When complete later this year, African-American contractors are participating in the development the development is to include 72 apartments for current residents of that the nonprofit Community Preservation and Development Corp. nearby Fay Towers, which RRHA is vacating, plus 82 that will be is undertaking in a partnership with the Richmond Redevelopment rented to others in the community. The project is to include three and Housing Authority. The brick building in the background is a new, four-story buildings, along with parking and retail space.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday In observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 21, please note the following: City and county public schools: Closed.

U.S. Postal Service: No delivery.

Government Federal offices: Closed.

State offices: Closed, as well as Friday, Jan. 18.

Richmond City offices: Closed.

Chesterfield County offices: Closed.

Henrico County offices: Closed.

Trash and recycling: No pickups; all are pushed back one day.

Courts State courts: Closed.

Federal courts: Closed.

Vi r g i n i a A B C s t o r e s : Normal hours.

Libraries Richmond City: Closed.

Chesterfield County: Closed.

Henrico County: Closed.

Banks, credit unions and other financial institutions: Closed.

Department of Motor Ve h i c l e s c u s t o m e r service centers: Closed F r i d a y, J a n . 1 8 , a n d Monday, Jan. 21.

Malls, major retailers, movie theaters: Varies; inquire at specific locations.

GRTC: Buses operate on a Saturday schedule.

Richmond Free Press offices: Closed.

VCU to hold spring commencement at Convention Center Virginia Commonwealth University announced Wednesday that it will hold its spring graduation at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, the replacement site for the now closed Richmond Coliseum.

The ceremony will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, May 11, in the convention center’s first-floor exhibit hall at 403 N. 3rd St., the university disclosed. About 12,000 seats are expected to be available.

Tickets will not be required, and overflow seating will be provided in other areas of the center for those unable to be seated on the first floor, VCU stated. Details are still being worked out, the school added, promising further updates.

“We are excited for this opportunity to bring all members of our community together to celebrate VCU’s Class of 2019 and grateful for our partnership with the convention center,” VCU President Michael Rao stated in the announcement.

Dr. Rao initially canceled the ceremony after the 13,500-seat Coliseum notified the university that its space would not be available and university officials couldn’t find alternative space.

But he reconsidered after an outcry from students, parents and alumni.

Local man refunded stormwater fees Are property owners in Richmond getting billed for stormwater fees they do not owe?

Ronald Sizemore thinks it could be happening.

The Richmond resident just received a $172 refund for fees he paid after he sought a justification for the billing.

The fees were imposed on a vacant lot he and two relatives own on the edge of Church Hill. They inherited the property, which once had a family home on it. The home was removed in 2015 because of decay.

Mr. Sizemore kept thinking there was something wrong, and as it turns out, he was right to question the bill.

After a Free Press inquiry, the city Department of Public Utilities confirmed that the property at 220 N. 20th St. does not have anything built on it and agreed that Mr. Sizemore was due a refund of the stormwater fees he previously paid.

“One of our inspectors went to the property and determined that the structure no longer exists and that there is no impervious area on the lot that he owns,” DPU spokeswoman Angela Fountain stated in an email in response to the inquiry.

Ms. Fountain stated that owners of properties that do not have any pavement or structures on them are not supposed to be charged.

The stormwater fee is based on the size of the roof and paved areas on a property, she noted. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Frank J. Thornton to seek 7th term on Henrico County Board of Supervisors Frank J. Thornton plans to seek another four-year term on the Henrico County Board of Supervisors.

The retired Virginia Union University French professor announced on Tuesday his bid for his seventh four-year term representing the Fairfield District, adding that it would be his “final term.”

He is the longest serving member of the board, having first taken office in 1996.

Mr. Thornton made the announcement that he would again seek the Democratic nomination at a gathering of supporters at a Fairfield District restaurant.

“The 2019 election for supervisor will have a profound impact on the Fairfield District as well as the future of the county,” the 76-year-old supervisor stated in a release issued ahead of his formal announcement.

“Accordingly, the citizens of the district must have a supervisor who possesses a vision for the future, workable ideas, the

ability to represent all citizens and the commitment to diligent civic service.”

The four other members of the board also are considered likely to seek reelection, including Mr. Thornton the Rev. Tyrone E. Nelson, the current board chairman, who represents the Varina District.

As yet, no challenger publicly has announced a run against Mr. Thornton, who fended off Realtor John Dantzler in 2015 to win his current term. Mr. Thornton hinted then that his sixth term might be his last.

But he made it clear in his current announcement statement that this would be his run “for a final term” and, if he wins, he pledged to “serve with integrity,

sensitivity and civility.”

The father of the embattled president of the Henrico Branch NAACP, Mr. Thornton stated that he would campaign on addressing such challenges as affordable housing, quality education, crime and improved public transit and roads.

He also wants Henrico County to upgrade its diversity initiatives to ensure minority inclusion in development projects and in job creation, to put sports tourism on par with Chesterfield County and add heritage tours, improve programs for seniors and youths and boost regional cooperation.

In the current term, he helped create a partnership between the county and the YMCA of Greater Richmond to develop an $8 million indoor swimming center by the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center on Laburnum Avenue that is expected to open in 2020. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Official: City has fallen short on lead abatement efforts, contractor training

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

City Hall has confirmed a Free Press report that it has failed to hire a qualified trainer to offer mandatory classes for small contractors seeking to compete to remove poisonous lead paint from Richmond residences.

The confirmation came from Douglas Dunlap, interim deputy chief administrative officer for economic development and planning.

He provided the confirmation in a Jan. 10 response to a Free Press query concerning the lack of the free training classes for contractors that the city is required to offer as part of a federal grant it has received.

He stated that the city “is committed” to holding the classes, but has held off, in part, because it has too few homes where owners and tenants qualify for help or are willing to participate.

The Free Press reported in the Dec. 27-29 edition that owners of small construction companies owned by African-Americans alleged the lack of certification is shutting them out of work to remove and contain lead paint in homes and apartments built before 1978 when lead paint was banned.

These are homes that the Richmond City Health District has verified as occupied by pregnant women or children whom testing has shown to have elevated levels of the toxic, potentially brain-damaging metal in their blood due to dust and peeling paint.

The city was awarded a $2.7 million federal grant that became active in March 2018 to contain and remove lead paint from at least 150 homes by March 2020. The city promised to do at least 50 homes a year, but is falling far short, Mr. Dunlap said.

In his response, Mr. Dunlap noted that the city is planning to advertise for a training company to enable up to 40 Richmond area contractors to gain state certification and compete for contracts.

“The administration is committed to offering the training classes and anticipates that they may be scheduled for late February or soon after,” he stated.

However, Mr. Dunlap and Daniel Mouer, the city’s lead official on the lead grant, wouldn’t offer any information on when the city would issue a request for qualifications to start the process.

To date, project:Homes, the project manager the city has hired to manage the remediation work and issue contracts, has awarded just eight contracts for lead abatement in the first 10 months of the grant. Project:Homes also has limited contract awards to three companies that already have state certification for lead paint removal.

To date, project:Homes “has chosen not to add” other companies because it has such a small volume of requests for the work, Mr. Dunlap stated.

He acknowledged that the city and its project manager are struggling to find owners and tenants who will allow re-

quired lead inspections and go through the process to authorize the city to undertake the needed work.

“This is a voluntary remediation program,” Mr. Dunlap stated, adding that tenants who meet income eligibility still need permission from their landlords to allow grant-funded work to take place.

He stated that tenants often will not provide required income information or contact their landlord, possibly out of concern for landlord retaliation. In some households, residents earn too much money and exceed income limits for having grant work done, Mr. Dunlap continued, while some property owners reject grant funding because it could block them from raising rents for three years.

As a result, the city and its grant partners “are challenged” in trying to get the word out above the availability of grant funds for lead remediation, Mr. Dunlap continued.

“The city, the Health District and project:Homes have all been creative and active (in seeking) to drum up awareness of the program and to recruit participants.

But so far, our efforts have not generated sufficient responses and participation to meet the benchmark of remediating 50 homes per year,” he stated.

Mr. Dunlap urged Richmond residents to call Mr. Mouer at the city, (804) 6467025; the City Health District, (804) 2053726; or project:Homes, (804) 233-2827, to begin the process of getting lead paint removed.

Natural gas price to rise in Richmond

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Cook or heat with natural gas?

Beginning with the February bill, Richmond customers will pay a bit extra for the fuel.

Richmond Gas Works, the city’s gas utility, has announced customers will be charged an extra penny for every 10 cubic feet of natural gas used. Ten cubic feet is the equivalent of 75 gallons of gasoline.

According to Gas Works, the average customer uses about 7,000 cubic feet of natural gas per month and can expect to pay an extra $7 in February for that amount of gas compared with January’s price.

Angela Fountain, spokeswoman for the city’s gas utility, stated that the impending increase involves the purchase gas charge, or PGC. That charge is going up

to enable Richmond Gas Works to recover the higher cost the utility paid for the fuel in the months before winter began, she continued.

The utility had to pay more after the price spiked by 78 percent between September and mid-November as stored inventories across the country fell to their lowest levels in years and early forecasts suggested winter would begin colder than normal. Like other companies, Richmond Gas Works sought to prepare for possible higher demand.

In spite of the price spike nationally, Richmond’s utility during the fall also “made a critical decision to keep the PGC where it was in deference to the ratepayer,” Ms. Fountain stated.

That kept in place the April price cut, she stated, which dropped the utility’s PGC

charge to customers by 24 percent from 5.2 cents per 10 cubic feet to 4 cents per 10 cubic feet.

So even though the price of the fuel has collapsed and is now down more than 30 percent from the November peak, Ms. Fountain stated the utility still must recover the higher cost it paid for the fuel in October and November.

The increase will boost the PGC charge from 4 cents per 10 cubic feet to 5 cents per 10 cubic feet next month.

She said the department would work with customers who may face a hardship as a result of the increase. She urged customers to contact customer service at (804) 6464646 to learn about payment options.

Ms. Fountain said the utility would continue to monitor the fuel’s price and would reduce the PGC when feasible.

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African-American to win statewide office in Virginia as lieutenant governor in 1985.

Mr. Goldman called it “unconscionable” that the mayor, who campaigned on modernizing schools and criticized his predecessor for failing to get the job done, would present a resolution that Mr. Goldman said “would essentially guarantee that in 10 years, the majority of kids will be attending schools that are even more decrepit than they are now. This is not what the people voted for.

“This shows his real priority,” Mr. Goldman continued. “When it comes to the Coliseum, the mayor is trying to put together a binding, 30-year commitment. But when it comes to schools, he says that kind of commitment is not needed.

“Would he say that to Tom Farrell (leader of the effort to replace the Coliseum)? Of course not. But when it comes to poor, mostly African-American kids whom Virginia Tech studies show are being deprived of a quality education due to the condition of the city’s school buildings, he’s more than willing.”

According to the City Charter, “the ball is now in City Council’s court,” Mr. Goldman said. “The members now have 90 days to take such action as they deem appropriate. And they can scuttle this resolution and create a real plan if they choose to.”

Mr. Saunders said the mayor did not provide a full listing

of how the money is to be spent because he is leaving it to the School Board to make such decisions, which he said is one of the board’s duties under the state Constitution.

Mr. Saunders added that the mayor drew the $800 million figure from a proposed Plan A that was presented to the School Board in late 2017 and cited that figure.

The School Board has yet to approve the entire Plan A, according to the board’s minutes, even though some members, including board Chairwoman Dawn Page, 8th District, insist otherwise.

Plan A and an alternative, Plan B, were the creations of then-interim Superintendent Thomas E. “Tommy” Kranz and provided projected estimates of the work to be done on 40 school buildings.

Both options were incomplete; a number of significant buildings were left off both lists, including the Technical Center’s two deteriorating structures that are key to career training and the aging Amelia Street School that serves physically disabled students.

At the time, Mr. Kranz presented the two options, which were not released publicly, both he and the board believed that the city was unlikely to fund most of the work. The plans were developed before the mayor pushed through a 1.5 percent increase in the city’s meals tax last February to provide up to $150 million for school construction.

In December 2017, a split School Board adopted the first phase of the 20-year Plan A, a $225 million package that called for development of five new schools and renovations to two others.

At this time, City Hall and the School Board have agreed to spend about $110 million from the increased funding provided by the meals tax to develop only three schools, including two replacement elementary schools, George Mason and Greene, and a replacement middle school, Elkhardt-Thompson.

The School Board has yet to revisit Plan A or B, reconsider a separate Option 5 building plan that was approved by the board in 2015 or consider how any future dollars would be spent.

Mr. Goldman said that means the School Board does not have a plan, either.

“If the mayor’s resolution passes and nothing more gets done, this matter will have to be settled in the 2020 election,” he said.

“Voters will then have to decide whether modernizing schools should be the top priority or not.”

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Ms. Royster was almost in tears as she told the USPS representatives, “My grandchildren live in Hawaii — they’ve been there six months now — I haven’t gotten one piece of mail from my grandchildren; not one.

“They call me and say things like, ‘Grammy, did you get my picture? Did you get the pictures I sent? Did you get the handmade birthday cards we sent? The birthday cake?’

“No cards, no birthday cake, no nothing,” she said. “I live by myself and it’s sad.”

Concerns also included monthlong delays in the delivery of summonses for jury duty, missing checks and prescription medicines and cutoffs of health coverage due to the failure to receive earlier notices.

One person complained that a letter from the Internal Revenue Service was found lying in the street, while others talked about finding bank statements and other important mail in street trash bins or discarded on lawns or in nearby alleys.

Since taking office more than a year ago, Rep. McEachin said his office has received more than 100 complaints about missing mail and poor service in Richmond.

Despite passing the complaints to USPS, the congressman said Richmond Postmaster Joseph Thekkekara insisted he was completely unaware of the problems when they met last month, even though many complaints had been posted for the public on the Church Hill People’s News blog on Facebook.

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He said he is asking the court to issue a declaratory judgment to settle the dispute.

“When you have a disagreement between two parties, and the disagreement is a matter of law, you can have a declaratory judgment,” Mr. Richardson asserted.

His goal is to have a judge issue such a judgment and then, if the ruling comes down in his favor, to use it to force City Council to begin a removal action.

Mr. Richardson said he wants to uphold the district system in Richmond that enabled African-Americans to play a major role in shaping local policy. He labeled as false rumors that he is doing this to clear the way for another run for the office or to oust an opponent of the proposed Coliseum replacement development plan.

However, former Virginia Attorney General Anthony F. Troy, who is representing Mr. Agelasto, said the court could issue such a judgment only if both sides agree that the evidence and facts are undisputed.

And that is not the case, Mr. Troy told the Free Press.

He said Mr. Agelasto disputes that the section of the state code cited by Mr. Richardson in his petition is applicable to the issue of residency.

Mr. Agelasto also disputes the assertion that he has permanently moved from the 5th District and would require an evidentiary hearing at which Mr. Richardson would have to provide proof of that claim, Mr. Troy said.

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Ben Farmer, Richmond USPS marketing manager, responds to a concern as two colleagues listen. From left, they are Fran Kipper, Richmond USPS communications coordinator, and Janice Atherly, Richmond USPS district manager.

Several people, including Ms. McGuire, said they have hit a wall in Richmond in trying to file complaints. She said she gave up after spending four hours waiting at the Main Post Office at Brook Road, only to have the office shut down for the day.

Rep. McEachin said the town hall allowed the concerns to be heard directly by postal officials, who included Janice Atherly, Richmond USPS district manager; Ben Farmer, Richmond USPS marketing manager; and Fran Kipper, Richmond USPS communications coordinator.

“This is not how we want to do business,” Ms. Atherly said after the meeting in expressing disappointment and promising change.

Ms. Atherly was particularly upset with the problems Ms. Royster has experienced with delivery at Oliver Crossing Apartments on Coalter Street near Mosby Court.

“A grandmother shouldn’t have to worry about receiving letters from her grandchildren,” Ms. Atherly said.

Ms. Royster also detailed the loss and theft of checks and other important mail that she said she and her neighbors are experiencing. She said postal carriers give mail to con artists pretending to be residents without making sure they have a key to a box.

“I don’t care if (the postal worker) sees the address on your license. You should not be able to get that mail without the key,” Ms. Royster said. “I really feel that way, I mean, it’s identity theft — it’s so scary.”

She said a $6,000 check her Navy officer daughter mailed to her ended up in the hands of someone else who cashed it. She said the check was later replaced.

Ms. Royster also noted that she has pulled from the trash a thick stack of mail that included letters from Social Security and a bank statement that was supposed to be delivered to an elderly neighbor.

Ms. Atherly said she plans to address the issues, such as the one from Ms. Morris, who is disabled and recovering from surgery. Ms. Morris spent four months trying to get an explanation for not receiving packages and instead being forced to go to the post office for them.

“You’ll start getting your packages next week,” Ms. Atherly promised, perplexed that managers and carriers would block delivery.

“We need our post office to be the best post office it can be,” Rep. McEachin said.

While he praised the USPS for being responsive, he said, “What we need is for this to be resolved.”

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ing the Super Bowl,” Mr. Griggs added.

“We cannot have a united country until we remove the symbols that divide this country.”

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are 1,747 Confederate symbols and 722 monuments in the United States. Virginia, Texas and Georgia lead the nation in having the most Confederate symbols.

Those symbols and monuments do not depict a balanced view of history, said the Rev. Tim McDonald, pastor of Atlanta’s First Iconium Baptist Church.

“History is always determined by who writes it — the one who won or the one who lost,” Rev. McDonald said at Jan. 10 news conference. “When it comes to these symbols, we’ve allowed the ones who lost the war to write the narrative.

And they’ve written a narrative of hate,

of divisiveness.”

The group also is pushing for legislation in Georgia that would allow local communities to determine the fate of their Confederate monuments, and not the state.

(A similar bill is before the Virginia General Assembly. It is sponsored by Delegate David Toscano, a Democrat who represents Albemarle County and Charlottesville, where a rally in August 2017 by neo-Nazis and white nationalists to protect that city’s Confederate statues from removal turned violent and deadly when a neo-Confederate sympathizer drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer.)

In the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, city leaders in 2017 voted to move a 30-foottall monument to the Confederacy from the town square to another site. The monument describes Confederate soldiers as “a covenant keeping race.” But a Georgia law

prohibits such statues from being relocated, removed or altered in any way.

Civil rights leaders at the news conference also took aim at Stone Mountain, which features a giant carving of three Confederate leaders on horseback: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The speakers did not suggest specifically what might be done about the mammoth symbol of the Old South.

As part of the initiative, advertising agency 22squared has created an app that’s scheduled to launch next month.

When people aim their cellphone cameras at a Confederate statue, the app provides quotes and history about the monument and allows them to share those descriptions on social media.

“It is time to stop honoring the leaders of the failed insurrection against America, the leaders of the failed insurrection to maintain slavery,” said Richard Rose, president of the Atlanta NAACP.

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Rallying for prison reform Hampton residents Wyheem Vessels, left, and Thurston White join more than 200 people who turned out to protest against solitary confinement and other prisoner-related issues at the 2nd Annual Prison Reform Rally at Capitol Square last Saturday.

A coalition of advocates, former prisoners and relatives held the event to promote legislation to abolish solitary confinement, cut lengthy sentences and restore parole or the system of early release for model prisoners that was abolished in 1995.

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was recorded by Mr. Blount in his home studio with the artist NOURI, a 25-year-old singer-songwriter who was born in a Syrian refugee camp after her parents escaped following the bombing of their home in Kurdistan.

When NOURI was 3, the family was resettled in New Zealand, where she grew up before coming to the United States and gaining a strong social media presence with her singing talent, Mr. Blount said.

Traveling in the same circle of musicians, the two connected at a small get-together early last year, when he suggested they work together on a song.

Their collaboration started in earnest in July, and the song was released in early November. In less than three months, it has become a hit — largely on the other side of the world.

“I’m excited about it,” Mr. Blount said. “I knew we had something special when we wrote it.”

While the project is not yet lucrative, Mr. Blount said, he has hopes, particularly as it gains momentum in the United States.

So far, it has more than 500,000 streams on Spotify and has been played on radio stations in Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix, he said.

Already, two brothers in Nigeria who play the guitar have covered the song in an instrumental version they put out on Instagram.

“What’s really cool about all this,” Mr. Blount said, “is that every day women in the Middle East see NOURI and, (understanding her background), they post about how she is showing what women in the Middle East can do.

“I’m happy to be a part of something that is inspiring change, something that is not only enjoyed, but making a positive social impact.”

The grandson of Dr. Randy Adams, a pediatric dentist in Richmond, Mr. Blount comes from musical roots. His father, Carlton Blount, was a member of the R&B group, The Main Ingredient, and also had success as a solo artist. His smooth, full voice still can be heard at gigs on the Richmond music scene.

The younger Mr. Blount, who uses the name Corey Michael for his music, graduated from The Steward School before earning a degree in international studies from Old Dominion University.

After graduation, he went to Los Angeles to make his way in the music industry.

“I’m really lucky to have a great family who supports me so I can do only this (his music),” Mr. Blount said. “I couldn’t have done this — had the experiences I’ve had — without their love and unconditional support. I’m so grateful.”

His work, done independent of a label, has been successful.

Since moving to Los Angeles two years ago, he also has met and worked with some of Richmond’s own, including rapper Mad Skillz, who has become a friend and mentor.

He also has jammed with noted singer-songwriter Jon Batiste, the musical director and bandleader with “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

Mr. Blount is looking forward to continued success in 2019 and urged budding artists to follow their hearts.

“If it means something to you, find a way to do it,” Mr. Blount said. “Surround yourself with people who push you and support your dreams.”

“Where Do We Go From Here” is available on YouTube and can be purchased on Spotify, iTunes and other streaming services.

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Hundreds of participants calling for equal rights walk the 2-mile loop from the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center on the Boulevard to Broad Street during last Saturday’s Women’s March RVA.

Hundreds turn out for equal rights

By Saffeya Ahmed and Corrine Fizer Capital News Service

Hundreds of social justice advocates, community members and students marched for women’s rights last Saturday in Richmond.

The march, a 2-mile reprise of last year’s event, began at the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center, with participants displaying brightly decorated signs as they walked the route to Broad Street and the Boulevard and returned to the Ashe Center.

“What do we want? Equal rights! When do we want them?

Now!” demonstrators chanted in support of women’s rights and minority rights.

Demonstrators made their way back to the Ashe Center for an expo, where speakers urged reform, marchers danced to empowering music and dozens of vendors sold handmade products and spread awareness about various social justice issues.

“I often get asked, ‘Where is

this surge of energy from women coming from?’ ” said Delegate.

Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William County, who spoke at the expo. “I like to tell them, it’s always been in us.”

Delegate Carroll Foy sponsored legislation to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would prohibit genderbased discrimination, in efforts to make Virginia the 38th and final state necessary to include the amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

The state Senate approved an ERA resolution Tuesday on a 26-14 vote; however the House of Delegates has yet to take up the resolution.

There is some debate, however, whether Virginia’s ratification of the ERA would make a difference because the amendment was passed by only 35 of the necessary 38 states by the 1982 deadline imposed by Congress.

“We now know we must have a seat at the table,” Delegate Carroll Foy said. “We have to

be where the decisions are being made and where the laws are being written.”

Other speakers included state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, DRichmond, and Virginia’s new 7th District Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger of Henrico County.

“Every issue is a woman’s issue,” Sen. McClellan said.

“We’ve had a long, complicated history. And now we fight and we march today to make sure our voices are heard.”

Rep. Spanberger thanked the work of “strong women” who helped send a total of 126 women to Congress as a result of the 2018 midterm elections.

“For anyone who needs something to show their daughters or young people or anyone else,” Rep. Spanberger said, “look at who’s in Congress. Look at what we have happening in Congress.”

Rep. Spanberger, a Democrat, beat incumbent Republican Dave Brat in one of Virginia’s most hotly contested races in

Southside Hardware closing doors for last time Saturday

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Southside Hardware was long a place to find the unusual, from replacement wicks for kerosene heaters to the special keys needed to operate radiators, antique radios and baby buggies.

Owner and operator William Leeper Jr. kept the independent store going at 1433 Hull St. for years, defying the impact of big box hardware operators such as Home Depot and Lowe’s.

But that era is over.

Now 86, Mr. Leeper has retired, and the remaining inventory is being cleared out in preparation for the sale of the three-story building, which possibly may become a restaurant and events center.

The sale will bring to a close Mr. Leeper’s 67 years with the store, according to his daughter, Ingrid Leeper Christian, who has taken on the task of selling and/or discarding all of the “stuff” accumulated over the decades.

Mr. Leeper started out as an employee in 1950, and 30 years later became the owner, Ms. Leeper Christian said. He later purchased the building,

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William Leeper Jr. is shutting down Southside Hardware on Hull Street, where he started working in 1950 and purchased the business 30 years later.

where he spent six days a week serving customers.

Ms. Leeper Christian said her father used the first floor and kept the second and third floors for storage. She said she found items dating back to the 1920s when the hardware operation first opened on what was then the main commercial district for the Manchester and Blackwell neighborhoods.

Ms. Leeper Christian said that she’ll return Saturday, Jan. 19, for a final open house for people who might like to buy the last items before the business is locked up for the last time. The property’s sale, she said, is set to take place next week.

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“We have women from all over the country,” Rep. Spanberger said of what is historically the most diverse Congress in history. Nearly a quarter are women.

“I love seeing women in power because I know that when my grandma was growing up, it wasn’t like that,” said 11-yearold Natalie Rodriguez, who participated in the march.

Several speakers also addressed immigrant rights, while others expressed frustration with the partial government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history. The shutdown began Dec. 22, and stems from President Trump’s stalemate with Congress over his request for $5.7 billion to build a U.S.Mexico border wall.

This is the second year for the Women’s March RVA. This year, the National Women’s March will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in Washington.

Electric scooters are headed to Richmond, but this time legally.

After two months of talks and review, Richmond City Council appears poised to approve legislation that would authorize scooter companies such as Bird and Lime to begin offering rental service.

The council approved Monday night a series of amendments to an ordinance Mayor Levar M. Stoney introduced in November authorizing operations and put the legislation on track for passage at the next meeting in two weeks.

The preliminary vote came on a night when the council also overhauled the city’s pay system for the first time in 25 years and raised the minimum wage for City of Richmond employees from $11.66 an hour to $12.07 an hour, retroactive to Saturday, Jan. 5.

The scooter legislation grew out of controversy last year when Bird began putting scooters out for rental without first getting permission, with city workers scooping them up.

The mayor endorsed the concept of allowing rental scooters to operate in Richmond, as they do in other large cities around the country, and his staff then spent time crafting regulations.

Assuming passage, the new regulatory scheme would be delayed for 45 days before becoming effective, giving City Hall time to prepare and train staff.

Bobby Vincent, director of the Department of Public Works, would take charge of reviewing applications and regulating operations of participating companies.

Under the current plan, Richmond would allow a maximum of 1,500 electric scooters to operate at any one time, with each applicant limited to fielding no more than 500 scooters, which the ordinance calls “shared mobility devices.”

The scooters could be parked on sidewalks, but owners of the scooters would have the burden of ensuring customers park scooters upright like bicycles after their ride and not leave them leaning against bus benches or sprawled in a way that creates a hazard for pedestrians or vehicles, on pain of revocation of the operating license.

Any approved scooter would have to have equipment that would limit the operating speed to no more than 15 mph. The scooters also must be equipped with brakes, reflectors, a bell and front and rear lights.

The legislation also would allow scooter operations only between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily.

Under the ordinance, applicants must submit a $1,500 application fee, and if approved, pay an annual fee of $200 per scooter to offer up to 100 scooters; $150 per scooter to offer up to 200 scooters; and $90 per scooter to deploy up to 500 scooters.

On the employment front, the council approved without debate the pay plan changes that also include awarding a 1 percent pay increase to most city workers with at least a year of service.

Police officers and firefighters were excluded because they have received other pay upgrades.

The legislation sets minimum and maximum pay rates for each position and is aimed at giving management more flexibility to decide promotions and raises for employees.

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True hero We hope our readers will pause within the coming days to reflect on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an authentic advocate for human rights, justice and peace. His work on behalf of African-Americans, the poor, everyday workers, the neglected and the ignored pricked the conscience of the nation and helped America to start to live up to the ideals of freedom and equality as written in the U.S. Constitution.

Dr. King would have been 90 on Jan. 15, which is difficult to envision because of the elements of hate that struck him down in an effort to kill the dream.

But Dr. King’s words are immortal and continue to guide us today as we grapple with the latest onslaught of forces that are antithetical to the messages of truth he brought to the world.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” Dr. King said.

We hope that our lawmakers in Washington will heed Dr. King’s words in an effort to resolve the perilous and hurtful government shutdown that is now heading into week five.

There needs to be a quick end to this shutdown brought on by an erratic president hell-bent on building a $5.7 billion border wall between the United States and Mexico.

In all, about 420,000 federal employees deemed essential are working without pay, while another 380,000 are furloughed, including tens of thousands in Virginia. No one knows when they will receive a paycheck. The shutdown is destabilizing their lives and those of their children and families, threatening the health and safety of the American people and harming our economy. We doubt President Trump understands that this is not making America great again.

What would Dr. King do to bring justice and peace to this situation?

We remind Free Press readers that Dr. King was a young man when he began his human rights work on a platform of civil disobedience. He was only 29 when he was given charge of the Montgomery Improvement Association that was started by a group of African-American ministers and community leaders. Under Dr. King’s leadership, the association was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott that was launched after Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus for a white passenger in segregated Montgomery, Ala. The boycott focused national attention on the racial inequalities in the segregated South and brought Dr. King into the national limelight.

But Dr. King didn’t stay in Alabama. When he was asked to help people facing similar injustices in other parts of the South, he answered the call. He was 34 when he led the seminal March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963. He was 39 when he was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tenn., where he was supporting striking sanitation workers protesting poor pay and dangerous working conditions highlighted after a worker was crushed to death by a garbage truck compactor.

We believe hope, energy, ideas and solutions often are generated by the young, like Dr. King, who was unafraid and unburdened by the “no”s of the past. That’s why we are encouraged by the vision and effervescence of today’s young leaders, such as Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez of New York, who is 29, and Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, 39. They are driven to tackle problems head on, bringing their unique style and recommendations to the table. We applaud them for not standing back and waiting on older people, who often fail to take action because they are mired in useless process and false protocol.

We need our leaders to push for progress in the critical areas advanced by Dr. King — voting rights, equity in education, a living wage and human rights, including equal justice.

As we celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday on Monday, Jan. 21, with a day of action and service, we urge our readers to view the mural honoring Dr. King located by Martin Luther King Middle School in the East End. The mural, completed by local artists Sir James Thornhill and Hamilton Glass with the help of schoolchildren, provides uplift for youngsters as they travel to and from school daily. It also presents a bright gateway to the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge that connects the East End to the city’s core in Downtown.

We ask our readers to take note of the ways we honor Dr. King in Richmond by naming a school and a bridge for him. Then note how many public memorials — statues, plaques, streets, bridges, schools and other monuments — there are to Confederates.

Dr. King was a true hero and a man of peace, while the Confederates were traitors to this nation, waging a bloody war against the United States in order to keep black people in human bondage. They are not the people we want our children to venerate or the lessons we want them to learn.

As we think about Dr. King, we renew our call for the statues of these Confederates to be removed from Monument Avenue. And we call on Virginians to contact Gov. Ralph S. Northam, Lt. Gov. Fairfax and members of the Virginia General Assembly to urge elimination of the Lee-Jackson state holiday honoring the Confederates.

Honor belongs to true heroes like Dr. King.

27 years young The Richmond Free Press turned 27 this week. We are proud to highlight this accomplishment as we remain one of the few independent newspapers still publishing in Virginia.

We remember and honor our spirited and intrepid founder, the late Raymond H. Boone Sr., who launched the first edition of the Richmond Free Press on Jan. 16, 1992.

We remain committed to the vision and mission that spurred Mr. Boone to establish a newspaper in Virginia’s capital dedicated to promoting fairness and justice, providing a platform for the free expression of ideas based on the First Amendment, standing against racism and holding politicians accountable, along with working for the revitalization of Downtown. We still stand on our belief in those principles.

As we celebrate this milestone, we thank each and every one of our many readers, advertisers and supporters who contribute to our continued success. We salute you and look forward to the years to come.

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Trump civil rights assault continues When new U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked on “60 Minutes” whether she thinks President Trump is a racist, she responded with the candor that makes her a compelling force in Washington: “Yeah, yeah, no question.”

This, of course, lit up social media, with Trump supporters denouncing Rep. OcasioCortez and progressives praising her.

One would think after his dogwhistle, race-bait politics — from slurring immigrants to slandering a Latino judge to embracing the racist marchers in Charlottesville to denigrating Haiti and African nations as “s—hole countries” — that the question had been answered long ago.

What is clear is that the Trump administration is intent on weakening enforcement of civil rights laws across the board. The same week that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez spoke, two widely respected reporters from The Washington Post, Laura Meckler and Devlin Barrett, reported that the Trump administration is taking the first steps toward rolling back a cen-

terpiece of civil rights enforcement: The doctrine that starkly disparate impact can provide evidence of discrimination even without proof of intent.

If a government contractor announces that it won’t hire anyone who is living with someone of the same sex, the victims may not be able to provide direct evidence

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. that the employer intended to discriminate, but the disparate impact of the announcement would provide the basis for finding discrimination. Disparate impact isn’t dispositive. Those accused can demonstrate that they have a rational reason for the regulation or action and that there are no less discriminatory alternatives.

In some areas, like election law, disparate impact is written in the legislation itself. In most areas, however, it derives from regulations on enforcing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, particularly Title VI, which bars discrimination based on race, color or national origin by entities, including schools that receive federal funding.

In 2014, as The Post reporters noted, the Obama administra-

tion formally put public school systems on notice that they could be found guilty of racial discrimination if students of color were punished at dramatically higher rates than white students.

President Trump’s Education Department issued a report criticizing the regulation and has begun discussions about rescinding it.

This assault on a centerpiece of civil rights enforcement comes on top of President Trump’s stunning reversal of civil rights enforcement across the government. Under former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Trump Justice Department essentially abandoned the Obama effort to work with police departments to address systemic racially discriminatory police practices.

Mr. Sessions directed the Justice Department to stop defending affirmative action programs and start enforcement actions against them. The administration rolled back protections for transgender students, while banning transgender people from the military.

The Justice Department chose to defend a discriminatory Texas voter ID law, which a district court later ruled was passed with discriminatory intent. In department after department, the administration has sought

Shame, shade in Birmingham If anyone deserves a civil rights award, Angela Davis certainly does.

The activist and scholar has been on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement all of her life. She has been especially active in prison reform matters and other civil and human rights issues.

When I learned in October that Dr. Davis would get the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, I was absolutely delighted. I imagined the wide smile the daughter of Birmingham must have flashed when she learned that she would be honored.

Everyone in Birmingham wasn’t thrilled, though. Some people in the conservative Southern town seemed disturbed that she had been a member of both the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party. Others were concerned about her support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement) against the Israeli occupation. She has said that she stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and advocates for their fair treatment in Israel.

Some ill-informed people consider the BDS movement “anti-Semitic.” They suggest that any questions that one raises about Israel shows a bias against Jewish people.

But Dr. Davis, a lifelong human rights activist, is concerned about the humanity of Palestinian people, as well as other people. And she is rightfully concerned, as many of us are, about the spate of laws

recently passed that outlaw the BDS movement.

According to the Middle East Monitor, a teacher in Texas, Bahia Amawl, refused to sign an oath that required her to pledge that she “does not currently boycott Israel,” that she will not boycott Israel and that she will “refrain from any action that is intended

Julianne Malveaux to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel.”

Texas is among 25 states that have passed laws forbidding the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. It also will not invest pension funds in companies that support BDS. Thirteen additional states and the District of Columbia have laws pending that are similar to Texas, pitting people’s First Amendment rights of free speech against support for Israel. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, in the middle of a government shutdown, had the nerve to introduce national legislation that mirrors the Texas law.

Lots of people in Birmingham aren’t having it. Although the Civil Rights Institute has rescinded its award to Dr. Davis, there has been significant protest about the decision.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, who is a non-voting member of the museum board and did not participate in the decision to rescind the award, has expressed dismay about the decision. Three board members have resigned.

Who rescinds an award after it has been granted for statements that were not recently made, but are a matter of record?

Dr. Davis has long been an

outspoken activist, just like Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was. Nothing had been changed from the time Dr. Davis was notified of the award and Jan. 4, when it was rescinded. The institute did not have to honor Dr. Davis, but their canceling the award is a special kind of insult.

Fortunately, Dr. Davis has a thick skin. She knows exactly who she is. She didn’t cringe when then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan had her fired from UCLA for her membership in the Communist Party. She didn’t flinch when she was incarcerated for a crime she did not commit.

And she will not tremble because the Civil Rights Institute rescinded the award.

Indeed, Dr. Davis will travel to Birmingham in February for an alternative event.

Unfortunately, I’m not surprised by the action. One of the founders of the Women’s March has demanded the resignations of Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour because they attended one of Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Saviours’ Day events. Marc Lamont Hill lost his CNN commentary gig because he spoke up for Palestinian rights. Alice Walker has been criticized because she supports BDS. Now Dr. Davis is being denied an award.

I support Palestinian rights. And I support Israel’s right to exist. Are the two incompatible? I think not.

The one-state solution, with a right to return, and full citizenship rights for Palestinians makes sense. But Israel is not about to budge, and BDS as an attempt to influence it. States passing laws to outlaw free speech erodes the first principle of our U.S. Constitution and undercuts the actions at the very foundation of our nation.

The writer is an author and economist.

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to weaken civil rights divisions and cut their budgets.

As head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Trump’s acting chief of staff Mike Mulvaney gutted the unit responsible for enforcing anti-discriminatory lending laws.

This list can go on.

This administration is the most hostile to civil rights and to equal justice under the law than any since the passage of the civil rights laws. President Trump’s defenders insist that he objects to being called a racist, that he signed the recent legislation rolling back some of the discriminatory sentencing practices, and that he happily has his picture taken with AfricanAmerican children.

But the record of his administration is clear, and the disparate impact of the measures it has taken provides compelling evidence of its intent.

The writer is founder and president of the national Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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Support for NAACP 1st Thursday Town Hall series The modern-day NAACP is to be applauded for its creativity in developing the NAACP 1st Thursday Town Hall Meeting Series which began in October.

The events are scheduled on the first Thursday of every month throughout 2019 and are held at 6:30 p.m. at Third Street Bethel AME Church in Downtown.

In conducting regular town hall meetings on the first Thursday of each month, citizens in Central Virginia and other areas are able to get in-depth information and details about the latest news in an unfiltered way. Attendees are also able to express their ideas and opinions about the topics that are being presented.

As an example of topics offered, January’s town hall was the introduction of the Energy From God Bill, HB 1902, that is being discussed in the 2019 Virginia General Assembly. Greatly a creation of NAACP leaders and joined by many others, HB 1902 represents a true win-win for everyone in allowing the use of existing funds derived from overcharging customers of Virginia’s largest utility companies to help propel the widespread use of renewable energy — solar energy — all across Virginia.

If the bill is approved, churches, other religious institutions and public schools, along with certain local governments — particularly in economically hard-hit areas that need help the most — will be

able to get grant funding, no repayment needed, to install solar energy systems that will help reduce their monthly power bills.

I urge every pastor, faith leader, congregation member, PTA members, school board members and superintendent across Virginia to call their legislators and tell them to make sure the Energy from God Bill, HB 1902, gets their yes vote when it comes up for consideration.

In continuing the NAACP’s efforts to be on the cutting edge of public discourse, the Feb. 7 town hall topic will be “How Corporate Money Influences Politics in Virginia.”

Given all that is going on right now, it promises to be a very hot topic and of great interest to all citizens and voters in our area.

As a longtime NAACP member and past president of the Richmond Branch NAACP, I applaud today’s younger, more progressive NAACP leaders for being forward thinking and truly purposeful in their approach in advocating for the rights of citizens all across Virginia.

Everyone should mark their calendars and plan to attend.

LYNETTA THOMPSON Richmond The writer is the state adviser to the Virginia State Conference NAACP’s Youth and College Division.

Suggestion for King license plate Re “Proposed King license plate shelved until next year,” Free Press Jan. 10-12 edition: I read where the commemorative license plate plan honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was postponed until next year because only 100 signatures were collected.

For the next time around, I would like to sug-

gest to Delegate Dawn Adams and her committee that they make the petition available online. The results probably would have been different this time if it had been available online.

JAMES COOPER JR. Glen Allen

Kudos to Va. Congress members for protecting the environment When we drill, we spill. And when we spill off our shores, it can spell disaster for the whales, dolphins and coral that live in our oceans.

That’s why it was great to see Rep. A. Donald McEachin and Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia stand up for our coasts last week when they introduced the Defend Our Coast Act that will protect Virginia’s coastline by banning offshore drilling in the Mid-Atlantic.

In the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that impacted coastlines from Florida to Texas, sea turtles and seabirds were covered in thick, brown oil and struggled just to move, breathe and fly. Smaller spills also have a lasting impact on marine ecosystems and the coastal communities that depend on them.

Not only is drilling dangerous for our ecosystem, it’s also increasingly unnecessary.

Here in Virginia, we are working hard to build a cleaner, brighter future. That means powering our lives with energy from renewable sources, not dirty oil. As we move toward

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General Assembly A message from Senator Jennifer McClellan The Virginia General Assembly convened for its 400th session this week. For 45 days, we will address the Governor's proposed amendments to the biennial budget and a number of major policy issues. One of the first issues we must address is taxes.

Virginia typically conforms to the federal definition of adjusted gross income ("AGI"), and each year the General Assembly passes legislation to conform in time for tax season.

Usually, this bill passes with very little debate on an emergency basis—which requires at least 80 votes—to allow Virginians to take advantage of the changes when they file their tax returns.

Conformity is more complicated this year because of the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”). Last Session, the General Assembly passed emergency conformity legislation, but only for the changes affecting 2017 returns.

This year, we must decide whether to conform in whole or in part to the TCJA’s provisions that affect taxable years 2018 and beyond, but there are many unknowns that complicate those efforts.

TCJA is the most significant change in federal tax law since 1986. Due to its complexity, the TCJA introduces significant uncertainty. Lack of guidance from the IRS—and the Government shutdown—has made assessing the impact of the TCJA even more difficult. But states that conform to federal law, such as Virginia, are expected to gain additional revenue. At the same time, TCJA is expected to add to the federal deficit, which may result in reductions in other amounts received by Virginia from the federal government.

The General Assembly will also address the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, which overturned a rule that states could not require an out-ofstate seller that lacked physical presence in-state to collect sales tax from the purchaser. Virginia law currently requires buyers to report purchases from these sellers on their state income tax return and pay a use tax, but very few do. While it is unclear whether affirmative action is necessary for the Department of Taxation to start collecting revenue, Secretary of Finance Aubrey Lane has stated publicly that the Department of Taxation will not initiate collection without the General Assembly's authorization.

A debate is brewing on how to spend the increased revenue resulting from the TCJA and Wayfair decision, how much—if any—to return to taxpayers, and whether to engage in comprehensive tax reform. Because we are only in the first year of the biennial budget, it may be best to defer any comprehensive tax reform to the next budget cycle and the 2020 Session, when the effects of TCJA are better known and all stakeholders have the opportunity to participate in the discussion.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PETITION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER E, FOR RECOVERY OF COSTS INCURRED TO COMPLY WITH STATE AND FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS CASE NO. PUR-2018-00195 •Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval of a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider E, for recovery of costs incurred to comply with state and federal environmental regulations.

•Dominion requests approval of a total revenue requirement of approximately $113,650,000 for its 2019 Rider E. According to Dominion, this amount would increase the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $2.15.

•The Commission will hear the case on June 11, 2019.

•Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On December 14, 2018, pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 5 e of the Code of Virginia and the State Corporation Commission’s (“Commission”) Rules Governing Utility Rate Applications and Annual Informational Filings, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the Commission a petition (“Petition”) for approval of a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider E, for the recovery of costs incurred to comply with state and federal environmental regulations.

According to the Petition, the Company seeks cost recovery for certain environmental projects (collectively, “Environmental Projects”) located at the Company’s Chesterfield Power Station, Clover Power Station and Mt. Storm Power Station (collectively, “Power Stations”). According to the Company, the Environmental Projects are required for the Company to comply with the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) “Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System; Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; Final Rule” (“CCR Rule”). The Company states that to comply with the CCR Rule, it is required to close or retrofit certain coal ash ponds and certain water treatment basins and flue gas desulfurization sludge ponds that contain coal ash at its coal-fired power stations. In addition, the Company asserts that compliance with the EPA’s Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines is also a driver of certain of the Environmental Projects.

The Company seeks recovery of three general categories of costs: (i) actual costs associated with closure of existing assets (such as a coal ash pond) at the Power Stations; (ii) actual and projected costs associated with newly constructed assets necessary to allow the Power Stations to continue to operate in compliance with environmental laws and regulations; and (iii) actual and projected costs associated with Asset Retirement Obligations for the newly constructed assets.

In this proceeding, Dominion asks the Commission to approve Rider E for the rate year beginning November 1, 2019, and ending October 31, 2020 (“2019 Rate Year”). The Company states that the three components of the revenue requirement are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor, the Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (“AFUDC”) Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company requests a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $94,612,000, an AFUDC Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $19,038,000, and an Actual Cost True Up Factor revenue requirement of $0. Thus, the Company proposes a total revenue requirement of $113,650,000 for service rendered during the 2019 Rate Year. The Company indicates that included in this revenue requirement is the amortization over the 2019 Rate Year of certain deferred costs (including financing costs) (“Deferral Balance”) incurred prior to the beginning of the 2019 Rate Year. The Company states that the 2019 Rate Year revenue requirement assuming a three-year or five-year amortization of the Deferral Balance would be $62,628,000 and $52,424,000, respectively. For purposes of calculating the revenue requirement in this case, Dominion states that it utilized a rate of return on common equity of 9.2%, which was approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUR-2017-00038.

Dominion proposes that Rider E be effective for usage on and after November 1, 2019. If the proposed Rider E for the 2019 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider E on November 1, 2019, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $2.15. The Company states that, alternatively, the lower revenue requirements assuming a three-year or five-year amortization of the Deferral Balance would result in a monthly bill increase for a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month of approximately $1.18 or $0.99, respectively.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Petition and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Petition and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Petition and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on June 11, 2019, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Petition from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s Petition, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

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Copies of the public version of the Petition and other documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On or before June 4, 2019, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Petition shall file written comments on the Petition with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before June 4, 2019, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00195.

On or before March 12, 2019, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR2018-00195.

On or before April 23, 2019, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00195.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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VUU, VSU revving up for Freedom Classic matchup Saturday Virginia Union University’s basketball season has been given a jumpstart.

When the Panthers trek to Ettrick on Saturday to play Virginia State University in the Freedom Classic, VUU will have new vroom under the hood.

Terrell Leach, who didn’t figure into the preseason analysis, figures to have much to say about how the campaign will finish.

Leach is a 24-year-old native of High Point, N.C., who most recently played the 2015-16 season at Winston-Salem State University. The 6-foot shooting guard is a jaw-dropping talent with a glossy résumé — albeit one with a layer of dust.

In his first three games since becoming eligible, Leach, wearing the No. 0 jersey, has averaged 19.3 points in about 31 minutes per game, with a high of 31 points in VUU’s game on the road against Shaw University in North Carolina. A threat

from distance, Leach has hit 10 of 22 3-pointers and 14 of 19 free throws, with three steals and three assists.

Leach is far from just a shooter. He’s also a phenomenal leaper, capable of a full menu of theatrical dunks.

As a senior at Southwest Guilford High School in High Point, N.C., in 2013, Leach averaged 30 points per game while being selected North Carolina Player of the Year for his classification.

He scored 54 points in one game against Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, N.C. In 28 games as a freshman and sophomore at Winston-Salem State, Leach averaged 13.5 points.

He was suspended from the university and took a job assembling bus seats at a factory in Thomasville, N.C. VUU Coach Jay Butler contacted Leach via Facebook prior to last semester and convinced him to enroll at the Richmond

Sophomore Roosevelt Wheeler is John Marshall High’s tall secret weapon Young basketball players “What I like best about and teams generally are taught basketball is blocking shots and to work the ball inside for a dunking,” he said. higher percentage of shots close A well-drilled Douglas Freeto the basket. man outfit from Henrico County That strategy is likely to found out when John Marshall backfire against Richmond’s beat them in 74-57 on Jan. 8.

John Marshall High School.

Entering the game late in the Facing the Justices, the closer first quarter, Wheeler sent about to the basket the opponents five Freeman shots into reverse as get, the higher the degree of the Justices pulled away. Several difficulty becomes. of the blocks led directly to John It’s in the painted area that Marshall transition scores.

Roosevelt Wheeler looms like In only about 16 minutes, Mount Everest, towering and Wheeler finished with 10 points intimidating. (four dunks), 10 rebounds and “He’s a crazy shot blocker,” seven blocks. said John Marshall Coach Ty Some background is in White. order.

“Big Rose,” as Wheeler is Wheeler grew up in Atlanta known, stands 6-foot-10 and has before moving to Hampton. He a 7-foot wing span. He wears later moved with his mother, size 15 lime green sneakers and Deborah Davis, from Hampseems to cover the length of the ton to Richmond’s North Side court in about four strides. prior to last school year. He And here’s some more bad went directly from Hampton’s news for future John Marshall Lindsey Middle School to John opponents. Wheeler, who plays Marshall High’s state championJames Haskins/Richmond Free Press in dark-rimmed glasses, is only Sophomore Roosevelt Wheeler, left, is John Marshall’s ship varsity a year ago. a sophomore. He turned 16 on 6-foot-10 shot blocker working under the basket.

Last summer, Wheeler was a Jan. 15. dominant force on Team Loaded “And he’ll probably grow another two inches,” Coach AAU that posted a 40-0 record while claiming a national title.

White said with a smile.

There has been a bump in the road, however. In SeptemWheeler has some serious coordination to go with all that ber, Wheeler suffered an injury to his left patella tendon and height. Among his favorite things is showing off his fancy required surgery. footwork with a dance called the “woah.”

This season, he sat out the first seven games before returning “I like doing it for the guys,” he said of his teammates. to action in late December at a tournament at, coincidentally, Asked about his goals, the congenial Wheeler said, “I’d Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., near his hometown like to help win the state championship — and keep winning of Atlanta. them four straight.”

While Wheeler seems nearly fully healed, Coach White is As a freshman, Wheeler came off the bench a year ago to still limiting his minutes, knowing the most significant games help John Marshall win the State 3A title. Since then, All- of the season are to come.

State Isaiah Todd, also 6-foot-10, has transferred to Trinity This John Marshall squad has firepower galore. Fourth-year Academy in Raleigh, N.C. starting guards Levar Allen and DeMarr McRae are a gifted That leaves Wheeler as the only regular member of the tandem. Jairus Ashlock, Elijah Seward and Aubrey Merrit team taller than 6-foot-4. each would be the leading scorer on many other teams.

A Todd-Wheeler comparison is inevitable.

And then there’s “Big Rose” putting up a human stop “They’re entirely different players,” Coach White said. sign near the hoop.

“Isaiah is more of a perimeter player on offense. Rose is a If the Justices are to go all the way again, you might see traditional low-post center.” his famous “whoa” dance displayed at Virginia Commonwealth Defensively, Wheeler may even have the edge with gas- University’s Siegel Center at the state tournament. If so, all pump arms and timing. of North Side might want to dance with him.

institution on Lombardy Street. He will have one more season of eligibility following this campaign.

Demarius Pitts, a pacesetter for CIAA Rookie of the Year, averages 16 points while 6-foot-7 junior Will Jenkins averages 15 points and nine rebounds.

Quicksilver point guard Jemal Smith averages seven points and leads with 83 assists and 35 steals.

VUU is hopeful of peaking again at the CIAA Tournament in Charlotte, N.C., which starts Feb. 25. Last year, Coach Butler guided the Panthers to their first CIAA title since 2006.

• VSU Coach Lonnie Blow’s surging Trojans are 13-3, but only four points from being 15-0.

The losses, all in November, were by 59-58 to the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; 69-67 to Terrell Leach Cyonte Melvin Indiana University of Pennsylvania; and 87-86 to King University in Tennessee.

The balanced Trojans are led by Jahmere Howze with 13.5 points and 6.5 rebounds. Cyonte Melvin collects 12 points and four rebounds per game and is a stellar defensive player on the perimeter.

Both Howze and Melvin would be candidates for CIAA Player of the Year if VSU repeats as CIAA Northern Division champion.

Brandon Holley, a VSU senior out of Richmond’s George Wythe High School, averages 9.4 points and ranks with the CIAA’s most dangerous 3-point shooters at 42 percent.

Senior Walter Williams from Henrico High School will sit out the remainder of this season as a medical redshirt. He suffered a foot injury in November and is expected to be granted another full season of eligibility.

Defensive-minded Coach Blow continues to shine on the Trojans’ sidelines. The Tidewater native is 116-41 in his sixth season, including 38-8 the past two years.

Ifunanya Chrissana • Okoye Green For first time, the Freedom Classic will include the women’s teams as part of a doubleheader format. It was an all-men’s event during the tournament’s previous 23 years at the Richmond Coliseum.

Ifunanya Okoye is VUU’s “local girl from far away.” The 5-foot-10 freshman is a native of Lagos, Nigeria, but went to high school at Banner Christian School in Chesterfield County.

Okoye averages 10 points and six rebounds 24th Annual Freedom while hitting 57 percent Classic Festival from floor.

Rejoice Spivey has When: Saturday, Jan. 19 become VUU’s all-time Where: Virginia State University assists leader. The senior Multi-Purpose Center in Ettrick from Alexandria had 10 Time: 4 p.m., doors open 6 p.m., Women’s game — assists in a Jan. 10 victory Virginia State University (8-6 at Shaw to raise her career overall, 2-3 CIAA) vs. Virginia total to 438.

Union University (13-1 overall, The previous mark of 4-1 CIAA) 435 assists was set by Pria 8 p.m., Men’s game — VSU Stellmacher from 2001 (13-3 overall, 4-0 CIAA) vs. VUU to 2005.

(7-7 overall, 4-1 CIAA) VSU boasts one of • Records through games of the CIAA’s top low-post Jan. 14 operators in 5-foot-11 Chrissana Green from Jamestown, N.Y. Green averages 17 points and 12 rebounds with 13 blocked shots. Frequently fouled on the inside, she is 63 for 108 at the line for 58 percent.

Another inside force is 6-foot Shalyn Washington, averaging seven points and five rebounds. Washington starred at Highland Springs High School and transferred to VSU from Frederick Community College in Maryland.

MJBL players headed to Bahamas

Some local teenagers won’t have to wait until warm weather to play baseball.

The Metropolitan Junior Baseball League is sending a team to Nassau, Bahamas, for games next week.

The U17 team, officially called MJBL East, will fly out of Richmond on Saturday, Jan. 19, under the supervision of MJBL Executive Director William M.T. Forrester Jr. They will play two games against Bahamian squads, called West, on Sunday, Jan. 20, and Monday, Jan. 21.

“It’s not just baseball. We’ll also tour the island and take in the sights,” Mr. Forrester said.

Mr. Forrester said the “East-West” concept dates back to the Negro Leagues when the East and West Divisions met for the World Series.

MJBL East’s 11-player roster consists of eight players from the Richmond area and one each from Delaware, North Carolina and Florida.

In turn, a Bahamian team will come to Richmond for the MJBL’s annual InnerCity Classic July 30 through Aug. 4.

The MJBL was founded in Richmond in 1966 by Mr. Forrester’s father, Dr. William M.T. Forrester Sr., a local physician, when his son was banned from playing with area Little League baseball teams because of the color of his skin. Since then, the MJBL has offered African-American youngsters and others the opportunity to play baseball, travel and experience other cultures.

The Bahamas trip isn’t the locally based organization’s first mid-winter venture.

MJBL has taken teams in the past to such locations as Las Vegas, Dallas, Daytona Beach and Miami for competition.

The trip is being financed by team fundraising efforts and family donations, Mr. Forrester said, noting that community contributions are appreciated.

Details: Mr. Forrester, (804) 539-2227.

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Members of the MJBL East practicing for their upcoming games in Nassau, Bahamas, are, standing from left, M.T. Forrester, Caleb Causey, Louis Raffenot, Coach Hunt Whitehead, Dashawn Smith, Ethan Whitehead and Jesse Walker. Kneeling, Davionne Anderson, left, and Marshall Trout. Team members scheduled to make the trip but not pictured: Joey Trout, John Moore, Marquise Nevillus and Coaches Thomas Eaton and Larry Trout.

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Personality: Dr. Michael L.W. Moore

Spotlight on chair of Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Educational Foundation Legendary civil rights leader Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker wanted his legacy to center on educational opportunities for generations to come. The Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Educational Foundation is the vehicle to perpetuate his lasting dream and provides scholarships for underserved youths to attend college.

Dr. Michael L.W. Moore is the chair of the Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Educational Foundation.

“The foundation founded in 2015,” says the 31-year-old pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, “is about working and helping to make people‘s lives a lot better. The organization’s mission, message and calling is to make sure young people have the opportunities to prove themselves and advance into higher education, which is what Dr. Walker wanted.”

Dr. Moore was part of the small team that created the foundation.

“Our executive director, Ryan Bell, the visionary, came to me with the idea because we were very touched by Dr. Walker’s life and work in the Civil Rights Movement,” he explains. “I was just one of the cheerleaders.

“We are all members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity along with Dr. Walker. We formed a relationship, which was part of the reason we came up with the idea.”

A native of Brockton, Mass., who earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics from Virginia Union University along with a master’s in divinity, Dr. Walker served as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and chief of staff to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.

He was a pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg from 1953 to 1959 and led many demonstrations and actions to protest segregation. In Petersburg, he founded the Petersburg Improvement Association, which was patterned after the Montgomery Improvement Association that was formed in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., by black ministers and community leaders.

At the SCLC, Dr. Walker was a chief strategist and organizer for Dr. King, helping to organize the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

He left the SCLC in 1964 to become pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church and later Canaan Baptist Church, both in Harlem, before retiring in 2004 and moving to the Richmond area, where he died in January 2018 at age 88. His personal papers are now housed at the University of Richmond.

“Dr. Walker was a strategist,” Dr. Moore says. “He knew how to make things work together and bring people and groups together to create a sense of synergy,” Dr. Moore said.

The foundation is in the process of addressing social justice issues in the community, as well as planning an advocacy and financial education summit for young women.

“Because of the nature of our scholarship program, we reach out to high school seniors,” Dr. Moore says. “However, in some of the community engagement programming, we try to encompass the entire family. We have to make sure that what is done goes back to the families.

We are trying to address the myriad of needs families. The better the family, the better the

Want to go?

What: 4th Annual Legacy of a Legend Scholarship Luncheon benefiting the Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Educational Foundation’s scholarship program for Richmond area high school seniors.

When: 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2.

Where: Jepson Alumni Hall at the University of Richmond.

Honorees: Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn and the late Richmond businessman and civic leader Clarence L. Townes Jr. Keynote speaker: Dr. Roslyn M. Brock, chairwoman emeritus of the NAACP national board of directors and a graduate of Virginia Union University.

Tickets: $75; purchase online at https://delmcq.eventbrite.com Info: Ryan Bell, (804) 928-2135, or wtwedufoundation@gmail.com

work,” Mr. Moore says.

Meet this week’s Personality and a keeper of the flame of Dr. Walker’s legacy, Dr. Michael L.W. Moore: student.”

Two major events are coming up. The foundation’s scholarship fundraiser, Legacy of a Legend Scholarship Luncheon, will honor Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn of Richmond and the late Clarence L. Townes Jr., a longtime business and civic leader and early board member of the Richmond Free Press’ parent company. It will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the University of Richmond.

“Most people are celebrated for their work when they die,” says Dr. Moore. “We hear all of the deceased’s accolades and expressions of love, but now they are in the ground and unable to hear all of the praises.”

Later in the month, the foundation will provide free haircuts and services to Petersburg residents.

“Our hope is that people will continue to see the value of WTWEF and invest in it and our

Community involvement: Chairman, Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Educational Foundation.

Place of birth: Pittsburgh.

Current residence: Henrico County.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in religious studies and philosophy, master’s of divinity and doctor of ministry degree, Virginia Union University.

Family: Wife, Dr. Christy Moore; son, Michael L.W. Moore II. Reason for starting the WTWEF: The foundation was birthed out the idea to honor the many contributions and sacrifices of Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker. Originally, the plan was just to host a small breakfast in his honor. In conversations between Dr. Walker, Ryan Bell, now the foundation’s executive director, and myself, the plan was set to establish a foundation to continue his legacy for generations to come.

Foremost mission: The pressing mission is to improve the quality of life for those who are consistently and purposely oppressed by providing resources to increase their capacity to live full, healthy and happy lives.

Why I am excited about this organization: The organization has the opportunity to really make a direct impact on lives.

This organizations is not seeking surface-level solutions. We are planning and working on ways to carve out systemic issues we face in society today. That is the work of Dr. Walker. That is the work that excites me.

Services the foundation provides: Currently, scholarships for disadvantaged youths seeking post-secondary education.

We also hold an annual Martin Luther King Day of Service, where we feed the community, offer free haircuts for kids and health screenings.

Social justice is important because: It is the most pressing issue of our time. It is imperative that we fight for those who have been stripped of all ability to fight for themselves. This world needs many more people who are committed to helping the dream of Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr. come to fruition. Not only do we need more initiatives for social justice, we need more of a collaborative effort where people are willing to work together for the common good.

What Dr. Walker’s accomplishments mean to me: Dr. Walker committed his life to developing people. He committed himself to removing barriers that have kept people from becoming all that they can be. The foundation desires to remove obstacles that keep people from being able to better themselves. It is because of his work that I have been able to become who I am today.

How I start the day: With a determination to accept my mistakes, a commitment to walk in my purpose, a resolve to cherish my family and a sensitivity to not abuse my time.

A perfect day for me is: Filled with movies, family, friends and good food.

How I unwind: Going to the movie theater.

A quote that I am inspired by: “If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Best late-night snack: Baked chocolate chip cookies.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: How to love through sacrifice.

Person who influenced me the most: My mother.

What I’m reading now: “The Cross and the Lynching Tree”

by James H. Cone.

My next goal: Continue to advance the mission of the foundation and the memory of Dr. Walker.

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Area commemorations honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A host of speeches and events will take place starting this week honoring the legacy and memory of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King would have turned 90 on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The state and nation will honor him with a holiday on Monday, Jan. 21, in which schools and government offices are closed. But for many, it will be a “day on,” and not a day off, as volunteers undertake a variety of community service activities.

Here is a partial list of commemorations taking place in Metro Richmond: Friday, Jan. 18, 7:30 a.m. 41st Annual Gov. Northam Community Leaders Breakfast with keynote speaker Gov. Ralph S. Northam, sponsored by Virginia Union University. Richmond Marriott, 500 E. Broad St. Tickets and details: www.vuu.edu or (804) 342-3938.

Saturday, Jan. 19, 4 p.m. Star Fellowship Baptist Church birthday celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaker the Rev. Jamal Hayes of Abner Baptist Church in Glen Allen, at Star Fellowship Baptist Church, 2223 Keswick Ave., free. Details: Juanita Davis, (804) 441-1937.

Monday, Jan. 21, 10 a.m. Living the Dream Inc., formally Community LearnRev. Hayes ing Week, holds its annual Mass Meeting, Sixth Baptist Church, 400 S. Addison St. Keynote speaker: Dr. Rodney Berry, superintendent of Nottoway County Public Schools. Details: Rev. Ricardo L. Brown, (804) 355-1044.

Monday, Jan. 21, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “In Pursuit of the Dream: Inspiring Patriotic, Purposeful and Service-Driven Lives,” sponsored by the City of Richmond’s Office on Volunteerism and the AmeriCorps program. Light refreshments, 8:30 a.m., followed by 9 a.m. remembrance ceremony Dr. Berry with speaker, Mayor Levar M. Stoney, St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, 2712 2nd Ave.; community service projects, 10:30 a.m., including cleanup projects at Oak GroveBellemeade Elementary School, Franklin Military Academy, Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School, Church Hill Academy, James River Park system, Bryan Park and with the Richmond Guardian Angels. Details: (804) 646-6528.

Monday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cleanup and community celebration at Evergreen Cemetery, 50 Evergreen Road off Stony Run Parkway, sponsored by Enrichmond Foundation and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. Kickoff at 9 a.m. with two hours of cleanup at the historic cemetery, followed by a community celebration at 11 a.m., featuring speakers and a performance by the Virginia Union University Choir.

Free parking and shuttle bus rides provided from the Eastern

Henrico Government Center, 3820 Nine Mile Road. Details: Jason McGarvey, (804) 314-9557; or Ted Maris-Wolf, (804) 234-3905, ext. 105.

Monday, Jan. 21, 11:30 a.m. 33rd annual Henrico celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored by the Henrico County Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Association, Henrico High School, 302 Azalea Ave. Keynote speaker: the Rev. Tyrone Nelson, pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and chairman of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors. Presentations of various awards.

Monday, Jan. 21, 6 p.m. 16th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and Weekend of Service in Highland Park, sponsored by Boaz & Ruth. Volunteer community service projects Saturday, Jan. Rev. Nelson 19, through Monday, Jan. 21, leading up to ceremony at 6 p.m. Monday at Fifth Street Baptist Church, 2800 Third Ave. A candlelight walk will follow to The GRACE Center, 1302 Victor St., for refreshments. Details: Nikki Fiveash, (804) 329-4900, or nfiveash@boazandruth.com.

Virginia Commonwealth University will host several events for the 2019 MLK Celebration Week. All events are free and open to the public. This year’s theme: “We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident.”

Sunday, Jan. 20, 5 p.m. The Rev. Tyrone E. Nelson of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church will discuss “Access and Opportunity in Higher Education,” at VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art, 601 W. Broad Street. Reception, followed by the keynote address at 6 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 21, 6 p.m. MLK Silent Candlelight Vigil March, starting at the VCU Arts Depot, 814 W. Broad St., ending at James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., sponsored

by Theta Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and VCU’s Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2 p.m. Jason Kamras, superintendent of Richmond Public Schools, will discuss public schooling as a right, VCU James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., Lecture Hall 303.

Friday, Jan. 25, 1 p.m. Congressman A. Donald McEachin will discuss fair housing as a right, VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, 601 W. Broad St. Details: www.mlkday.vcu.edu The University of Richmond will host several events around this year’s theme, “Infinite Hope.”

Monday, Jan. 21, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Commemoration ceremony with keynote speaker, Christy Coleman, chief executive officer of the American Civil War Museum, Modlin Center for the Arts, Camp Concert Hall. A reception will follow in Booth Lobby.

Sunday, Jan. 27, 2 p.m. Civil rights Richmond panel discussion, Modlin Center for the Arts, featuring photographer Brian Palmer; Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Michael Paul Williams; Elvatrice Belsches, public historian and author; Laura

24th Annual Freedom Classic Festival this weekend

The 24th Annual Freedom Classic Festival gets underway this week with family-friendly activities celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many activities in the festival, sponsored

by JMI, have been moved this year to the Petersburg area because of the closure of the Richmond Coliseum.

The festival culminates Saturday, Jan. 19, in a double-header game between Virginia State and Virginia Union universities’ men’s and women’s basketball teams at the VSU Multi-Purpose Center, 20809 2nd Ave, in Petersburg.

Doors open at 4 p.m. Saturday, with special performances by the VSU Trojan Explosion Marching Band, the VSU Gospel Chorale and the VUU Choir. Tipoff is 6 p.m. for the women’s

game and 8 p.m. for the men’s game.

Earlier in the week, professionals in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, design and entrepreneurship offered career advice to students at middle schools in Richmond through STEM-ED Connects.

A financial education workshop will be held 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Pathways Works Financial Opportunity Center, 1200 W. Washington St. in Petersburg.

At 7 p.m. Friday, the festival continues with the MEGA Mentors Fine Art Benefit and Sale at the Hippodrome Theater, 528 N. 2nd St. In addition to the art sale, music, dancing and a silent auction will be featured.

For information and tickets, go to www. freedomclassicfestival.com.

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An opening reception will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19.

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Browder, oral historian and UR American studies professor; and Ashley Kistler, curator. Discussion is in conjunction with the new UR exhibit, “Growing Up in Civil Rights Richmond: A Community Remembers,” oral histories with photographic portraits of 30 Richmond residents whose lives were altered by their experiences as children and youth during the Civil Rights Movement.

The exhibit, which will be on view through May 10 at the Harnett Museum of Art at the Modlin Center for the Arts, will be open at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

The College of William & Mary in WilMs. Coleman liamsburg will host a moderated conversation with journalist Roland S. Martin on “Fulfilling the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the W&M Center for Student Diversity and the Student Assembly, is free and open to the public.

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Annual mass meeting Monday, January 21, 2019 10:00 am Sixth Baptist Church

400 S. Addison Street, Richmond, Virginia

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rodney Berry, Superintendent of Nottoway County Public Schools

All are encouraged to come out on this national holiday in remembrance of men, women, boys and girls who risked their lives in order that all Americans especially those of African decent be free in all facets of life.

There will be uplifting music as well as recognition of young people who will make the “world a better place” to live.

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Tenn. inmate granted clemency credits church-affiliated program with changing her life

By Bobby Ross Jr. Religion News Service via Christian Chronicle

Each semester, the LIFE program at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., which is associated with Churches of Christ, pairs traditional students with inmates serving time in the Tennessee Prison for Women.

The most high-profile graduate of the academic program offered behind the prison’s locked steel doors and razorwire perimeter made national headlines recently when Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted her full clemency on Jan. 7.

Cyntoia Brown, 30, will be released Aug. 7 after serving 15 years in the 2004 murder of Johnny Allen, 43, whom Ms. Brown shot to death when she was 16.

“This decision comes after careful consideration of what is a tragic and complex case,” Gov. Haslam said in a news release.

“Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16.

“Yet, imposing a life sentence on a juvenile that would require her to serve at least 51 years before being eligible for parole consideration is too harsh, especially in light of the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life,” added the governor, a Republican in his final days in office. “Transformation should be accompanied by hope.”

In pushing for commutation of Ms. Brown’s sentence, supporters, including celebrities such as Rihanna, Kim Kardashian and Ashley Judd, depicted her as a victim of sex trafficking. A 2011 film, “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s story,” details her life as a teenage runaway forced into prostitution by an abusive boyfriend.

“I am thankful for all of the support, prayers and encouragement I have received,” Ms. Brown said in a written statement after the governor’s decision. “We truly serve a God of second chances and

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Cyntoia Brown smiles at family members during a May 2018 clemency hearing at Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville. She was serving a life sentence for killing a man in 2004 when she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim.

new beginnings. The Lord has held my hand this whole time, and I would never have made it without him. Let today be a testament to his saving grace.”

Ms. Brown stated the Lipscomb Initiative for Education, known by the acronym LIFE, changed her life.

“Thank you to Dr. Richard Goode and to Dr. Kate Watkins and all of you at Lipscomb University for opening up a whole new world to me,” said Ms. Brown, who in prison has earned not only her GED certificate but also an associate degree from Lipscomb. “I have one course left to finish my bachelor’s degree, which I will complete in May 2019.”

In a testimonial on Lipscomb’s website, a student identified as “Cyntoia” wrote: “You don’t truly realize how amazing of an opportunity

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education is until you’ve experienced LIFE. The power of education to come in and completely overhaul your sense of self and view of the world is incredible. Watching the LIFE program transform my life and the lives of those around me has been a highlight of my life.

The Lipscomb Initiative for Education is truly a life-altering experience and you haven’t experienced education until you’ve experienced LIFE.” Dr. Goode, a Lipscomb professor and the LIFE program’s founder, said the classes Lipscomb offers behind prison walls breathe freedom and opportunity into students’ lives.

“If we’re going to take the story of the Gospel seriously, grace means second chances,” he told the Christian Chronicle in 2014.

In his statement, Gov. Haslam also cited Ms. Brown’s academic work through Lipscomb and added, “Numerous Department of Corrections employees and volunteers attest to her extraordinary personal transformation while incarcer-

ated, which will allow her to be a positive influence on the community upon release.”

Gov. Haslam’s decision thrilled Audra Barton Hensley, 26, a Lipscomb graduate who got to know Ms. Brown in 2010 while taking an introduction to psychology class with her and other inmates.

“I’m overwhelmed with joy,” said Ms. Hensley, who recalled how much work Ms. Brown and other inmates put into their studies compared to the regular Lipscomb students, who sometimes finished assignments while carpooling to the prison.

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for us all to just come from different places but to have something we could talk about together,” added Ms. Hensley, now a programmer analyst for Genesco Inc., a Nashville-based specialty retailer. “We could all share. We could all talk about God together.”

Charles Robinson, a detective who investigated Mr. Allen’s murder in August 2004, wrote Gov. Haslam in 2017, arguing against clemency. A Facebook group supporting Mr. Allen also objected to Ms. Brown receiving clemency.

They said Mr. Allen took Ms. Brown home out of compassion because she had no place to stay

and was killed in a robbery.

Under the commutation granted by the governor, Ms. Brown will be on supervised parole for 10 years. She will be subject to a release plan that includes conditions such as employment, education, counseling and community engagement.

Bishop Joseph W. Walker III, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Nashville, said his church will walk alongside Ms. Brown in her journey after prison.

“We thank God for her and how she has lived a righteous life after being incarcerated and for being the voice of the voiceless,” Bishop Walker said after the governor’s announcement.

“Today we know that justice has been served,” the pastor added. “Cyntoia has paid for her crime, committed when she was a child enslaved to prostitution and sex trafficking.

She has learned many hard-won lessons in the 15 years since, and with God’s grace and mercy manifested in a forgiving society, she will do much to make the world a better place in the days to come.”

Ms. Brown “lit up with a joy like I’ve never seen before” when informed of Gov. Haslam’s clemency decision, said Kathy Sinback, a juvenile court administrator who acted as Ms. Brown’s first public defender.

“I’ve known Cyntoia since the day after she was arrested, and I’ve never seen the peace and joy that I saw today,” Ms. Sinback said. “There was overwhelming gratitude toward her attorneys and mostly a lot of talk about her faith and how people who have believed in her and supported her and encouraged her in her faith were instrumental in getting her to this day.”

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Thomas ‘T.C.’ Harrell, co-founder and former owner of Carolina Bar-B-Que, dies at 86 Thomas Christopher Harrell was the barbecue man of Church Hill for 44 years.

Known to customers and friends as “T.C.,” the no-nonsense, though kindly Army veteran served up his own creations and family recipes for tangy, vinegar-based pork barbecue, ribs, cole slaw and greens at Carolina Bar-B-Que, the restaurant he started with his brother, Paul, in 1970 at 3015 Nine Mile Road near the Creighton Court public housing community in the East End. “That business was his baby,” said his daughter, Marilyn Harrell. “He made it the success it was. He cared so much for the people in the community. He always tried to make sure they had a good product, that the food was always properly prepared and that the place was spotless.

“He was best known for his breads and barbecue.”

Mr. Harrell is being remembered following his death on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. He was 86.

Family, friends and former employees and others celebrated his life on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Rock Hill Baptist Church in Mechanicsville,

where he was an active member handled the payroll,” she said. and served on the Male Usher While Mr. Harrell earned a Board since moving to the Hareputation as a stickler for food nover County community. quality and cleanliness, longtime Mr. Harrell started the takeemployees said their boss was a out business with his brother, soft touch who would give away but quickly bought him out. He food to mothers and children who owned and operated the business came in begging for something until August 2014 with his wife to eat. They also said he was a of 64 years, Mildred C. Harrell, mentor and father figure to his who died in 2017. workers, who mostly came from His restaurant was among the Creighton Court. constants in a section of the city “For employees, it wasn’t Mr. Harrell that has seen its share of ups and just work. It was like being part downs. He beefed up security after two robber- of a family,” Ms. Harrell said. She noted that ies, but for the most part, employees said he Carolyn Brown served as manager during most was an admired figure whom the community of the four decades that Mr. Harrell owned the as well as local police looked out for. business.

While he was a significant employer in the Mr. Harrell sought to make sure the busiarea with eight to 10 workers at the restaurant, he ness continued when he retired. He sold the also relied on family help, his daughter said. restaurant to a married couple he recruited, “My mother worked with him and also handled Alicia and Lamont Hankins, who now operate the bookkeeping,” Ms. Harrell said.

Carolina Bar-B-Que as part of their Inner City “My brother and I worked in the shop when Blues company. we were younger. And for about 20 years, I Born into a family of six in Oak City, N.C.,

in 1932 during the Great Depression, Mr. Harrell dropped out of school in the eighth grade to work on nearby farms to help support the family after his parents divorced. He was 13 when the family relocated to Richmond’s Church Hill.

As a teen, he worked odd jobs before being hired at 19 to drive trucks for Standard Paper Co. He was drafted into the Army in 1952 during the Korean War and was assigned to a unit that recovered American bodies from battlefields. He earned the Bronze Star for braving enemy fire to do that difficult job.

After his discharge from the military, he returned to Richmond where he drove trucks for the paper company for another 16 years.

He also gained business experience operating a lawn care service.

He was 47 when he quit driving to open the barbecue restaurant in the small building that became was known for its distinctive mural of a man chasing a pig with an axe.

In addition to his daughter, survivors include his son, Linwood Lancaster Sr.; a brother, Robert Harrell; and three grandchildren.

Dr. Clara S. McCreary, longtime math professor at VUU, dies at 99

Dr. Clara Novella Sutton McCreary loved mathematics, and for nearly 42 years she shared that love with students at Virginia Union University.

“My mother taught all the upper level math courses and also coordinated the pre-engineering courses.” said her daughter, Edwina Richmond, who followed in her mother’s footsteps in teaching math at VUU. “She was regarded as a stellar teacher and had an enormous impact, as many of the students whom she trained went on to successful careers as computer scientists, engineers, mathematics teachers, educational administrators, engineers and computer scientists,” Ms. Richmond said.

“She was studious and organized, but she also was outgoing,” her daughter said. “As the wife of a pastor, she was first lady of numerous churches and had to be welcoming to everyone.”

Dr. McCreary’s contributions to education and to area churches are being remembered following her death on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. The longtime Richmond resident, who lived just a few blocks from the VUU campus, was 99.

Family and friends will celebrate her life during a service at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 216 W. Leigh St. Dr. James E. Leary, the interim pastor, is to deliver the eulogy.

The family will receive friends 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 17, at Scott’s Funeral Home Chapel, 115 E. Brookland Park Blvd., with the AKA Memo-

rial Service starting at 6 p.m.

Born in Caroline County, Dr. McCreary grew up in Richmond and won early recognition as a math whiz.

She was valedictorian of the Armstrong High School Class of 1937 and then pursued her math interest at VUU, graduating summa cum Dr. McCreary laude in 1941.

While at VUU, she met her future husband, the late Dr. Edward Daniel McCreary Jr., who served as pastor and interim pastor of 14 area Baptist churches, most notably Westwood and Mount Carmel. He also taught undergraduate and graduate seminary courses for 39 years at VUU. The couple wed in 1946, a year after she completed her master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and were together for 68 years until his death in 2014.

Dr. McCreary joined the VUU faculty in 1948 and later added a doctoral degree to her résumé in 1975 from the University of Virginia.

She served as coordinator for VUU’s pre-engineering program and also was promoted to chair

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of the VUU Mathematics Department in 1975 after earning her doctorate, a position she held until her retirement in 1990.

During her career, Dr. McCreary received National Science Foundation fellowships that allowed her to study at Columbia University, Vanderbilt University, Rutgers University and the University of North Carolina.

She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for 78 years and belonged to the Upsilon Omega Chapter. She also was a member of the Ministers’ Wives and Widows Fellowship of Richmond and Vicinity for 72 years.

She was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church since 1989 and participated in Ebenezer’s Seasoned Spices Forever Young Seniors’ Ministry and in the Shining Stars Seniors’ Ministry at Star Fellowship Baptist Church.

Dr. McCreary also belonged for 64 years to the Treble Clef and Book Lovers’Club that was founded at VUU and to the Chamberlayne Chapter 390 of the American Association of Retired Persons.

Her daughter is Dr. McCreary’s only immediate survivor.

VUU has endowed a scholarship in the name of Dr. McCreary and her husband for students majoring in math, physics, computer information systems or religious studies. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the McCreary Scholarship Fund at VUU.

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, January 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-009 To amend and reordain City Code §§ 9-58, which assigns polling places in the city, 9-68, which establishes boundary descriptions for Precinct 203, and 9-124, which assigns precincts to City Council and School Board Districts; and to amend ch.

9, art. III of the City Code by adding therein a new § 9-73.2, concerning the precinct boundaries for a new Precinct 215, for the purpose of establishing a new polling place and new precinct boundaries within the Second Council District. (COMMITTEE: Governmental Operations, Thursday, January 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-010 To amend and reordain City Code §§ 9-58, which assigns polling places in the city, 9-86, which establishes boundary descriptions for Precinct 409, and 9-124, which assigns precincts to City Council and School Board Districts; and to amend ch.

9, art. III of the City Code by adding therein a new § 9-90.1, concerning the precinct boundaries for a new Precinct 415, for the purpose of establishing a new polling place and new precinct boundaries within the Fourth Council District. (COMMITTEE: Governmental Operations, Thursday, January 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, January 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2018-288 As Amended To amend ch. 24, art. II of the City Code by adding therein a new div. 4.1 [(§§ 24-125—24-132)] (§§ 24-125—24-133), to amend City Code § 27197, concerning parking prohibited in specified places, and to amend Appendix A of the City Code by adding therein new fees for §§ 24128, concerning permit applications for the parking of certain vehicles, [and] 24-129, concerning the reinstatement of revoked permits, and 24-133, concerning increasing the number of permitted shared mobility devices, for the purpose of establishing a permit program for parking certain vehicles on sidewalks.

Ordinance No. 2018-311 To erect stop signs on the northwest and southeast corners at the intersection of Juniper Street and 3 rd Avenue and to install a curb ramp on the northeast corner at the intersection of Juniper Street and 3rd Avenue. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-312 To erect all-way stop signs at the intersection of Idlewood Avenue and South Harrison Street.

(COMMITTEE: Public Safety, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-330 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the upgrading of the City’s traffic signal system by integrating it Continued on next column

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with regional automated vehicle location systems to control the timing of traffic signals for transit, emergency, and other City-operated vehicles equipped with automated vehicle location systems for the purpose of maintaining transit schedules, improving emergency vehicle response, enhancing multimodal operations, and lowering vehicle emissions.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-331 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the installation of pedestrian access and safety improvements including crosswalks and traffic speed controls, and street enhancements including decorative paving, public art, landscaping, signage, and lighting on that portion of U.S. 360 known as Hull Street, between its intersection with West 9th Street and the southern terminus of the Mayo Bridge. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-332 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the installation of pedestrian access and safety improvements including crosswalks, refuge areas, continuous routes, and traffic channelization on the streets surrounding the park at Kanawha Plaza. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-333 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Standard Project Administration Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the design and construction of the fully accessible pedestrian infrastructure necessary to improve access to Greater Richmond Transit Company transit stops. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-334 To amend City Code § 24-63, concerning permit fees, and to amend the fees set forth in Appendix A of the City Code for City Code § 24-63, for the purpose of revising the fees for permits for certain activities in the public rightof-way. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-335 To designate the Cannon Creek Greenway bicycle and pedestrian trail located between its intersection with Henrico Drive and its intersection with Richmond Henrico Tu r n p i k e i n h o n o r of Dr. Charles Price.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-336 To authorize the City Attorney to file an appropriate petition pursuant to Va. Code § 23.1-815(B)(iv) for concurrent jurisdiction by the City’s Department of Police and the campus police force of Virginia Commonwealth University in certain designated areas.

(COMMITTEE: Public Safety, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-337 To amend and reordain City Code §§ 2-161, concerning employee disclosure of misconduct and protection from retaliation, and 2-163, concerning determinations regarding complaints, for the purpose of replacing references to “City Auditor” with “Inspector General.” (COMMITTEE: Governmental Operations, Thursday, January 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-001 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to Continued on next column

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accept funds in the amount of $1,050,000.00 from the State Compensation Board and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 General Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Richmond Sheriff’s O ff i c e ’s S h e r i ff - J a i l Operations program by $1,050,000.00 for the purpose of funding salaries and benefits for Richmond Sheriff’s Office personnel.

Ordinance No. 2019-002 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $65,000.00 from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Fire and Emergency Services by $65,000.00 for the purpose of supporting the City’s emergency preparedness program.

Ordinance No. 2019-003 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept grant funds in the amount of $42,000.00 from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Fire and Emergency Services by $42,000.00 for the purpose of providing first responder training and exercise initiatives to enhance mass care capabilities in the event of an active threat attack.

Ordinance No. 2019-004 To amend City Code § 1211, concerning the form of the budget submitted to the Council, for the purpose of providing for the Mayor’s provision of an annual budget that either includes or does not include a plan for the second following fiscal year. (COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, January 17, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-005 To amend Ord. No. 2018297, adopted Dec. 17, 2018, which authorized the creation of the Navy Hill Development Advisory Commission and announced the Council’s intent to hold public hearings, all for the purpose of providing for the Council’s consideration of a development proposal in the area generally bounded on the west by N. 5th St., on the north by E. Leigh St., on the east

by N. 10th St., and on the south by E. Marshall St, to authorize the appointment of individuals who do not live or work in the city to the Navy Hill Development Advisory Commission.

(COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, January 17, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-006 To amend Ord. No. 2018059, adopted May 14, 2018, which adopted the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Capital Budget and made appropriations pursuant thereto, by transferring and re-appropriating $4,469,000.00 from the School Planning and Construction program to the School Capital Maintenance program for the purpose of funding capital maintenance needs of public schools in the city.

Ordinance No. 2019-007 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute an Agreement between the City of Richmond and Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Transportation for Adjustment of Water and Sanitary Sewer Facilities for the purpose of establishing the terms and conditions for funding the relocation and adjustment of water and sanitary sewer facilities as part of the Virginia Department o f Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n ’ s I-95, Exit 74B, Franklin Street Off Ramp project. (COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-008 To amend ch. 27, art. VIII of the City Code by adding therein new §§ 27-358, concerning weight limits for vehicles or combination of vehicles, and 27-359, concerning liquidated damages for the violation of weight limits for any vehicle or combination of vehicles, for the purpose of imposing weight limits on any vehicle and combination of vehicles, and pr escribin g the liquidated damages for overweight vehicles.

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

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, February 4, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-011 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2001-262-248, adopted Sept. 10, 2001, as previously amended

by Ord. No. 2015-250244, adopted Dec. 14, 2015, which authorized the special use of the property known as 3101 Kensington Avenue for the conversion of the existing building for either 40 or 42 multifamily dwelling units and accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions, to reflect the subdivision of the property into two parcels, now known as 3101 Kensington Avenue and 3131 Kensington Avenue, and to remove the condition that all dwelling units shall be converted to condominiums within five years of the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, to remove from the ordinance the provisions pertaining to 3131 Kensington Avenue, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R‑6 Residential (Single Family Attached) district. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates the subject property for Single Family Medium Density. Primary uses are single-family and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-012 To authorize the special use of the property known as 602 Libbie Avenue for the purpose of an office use, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is located in an R-4 Single-Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Mixed Use (MU).

Primary uses include combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial and service uses and, in some cases, multi‑ family residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial.

Ordinance No. 2019-013 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1802 Semmes Avenue for the purpose of up to 111 single-family attached dwellings as well as the principal and accessory uses permitted in the B-6 Mixed-Use Business District, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is zoned in the M-1 Light Industrial District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for industrial land use. Primary uses in this category are “manufacturing, processing, research and development, warehousing, distribution, office warehouse and service uses.” No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

Ordinance No. 2019-014 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2919 Griffin Avenue for the purpose of authorizing a singlefamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned in the UB Urban Business District and the PE-7 Brookland Park Boulevard/North Avenue Parking Exempt Parking Overlay District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property as community commercial. Primary uses include office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shipping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the city.

No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

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Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.

Richmondgov.com; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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

GILDA ROBERTSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18003293-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

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

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

KAREN STALLINGS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18003786-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 6th day of March, 2019 at 9:00 A.M. and protect her interests.

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

WILBERT JEFFRIES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000063-00 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 6th day of March, 2019 at 9:00 A.M. and protect his interests.

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

LAURENCE CARTER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18003821-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 5th day of February, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD CYNTHIA A. ROBINSON-CARNEY, Plaintiff v.

RAYMOND A. CARNEY, IV, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18-2618 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart for a period greater than one (1) year; WHEREFORE, an affidavit having been filed by the Plaintiff, Cynthia A. Robinson-Carney, that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant, Raymond A. Carney, IV, it is ORDERED that Raymond A. Carney, IV appear before this Court on January 24, 2019, at 8:30 a.m. to protect his interests herein.

It appearing from a affidavit that diligence has been used without effect, by or on the behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city defendant is.

An Extract Teste: WENDY S. HUGHES, Clerk I ASK FOR THIS: Courtney A. Anderson, Esquire (VSB #92078) Friedman Law Firm, P.C. 9401 Courthouse Road, Suite A Chesterfield, Virginia 23832 (804) 717-1969 (telephone) (804) 748-4161 (telecopier) canderson@friedmanlawva.com Counsel for Plaintiff/Wife

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re LAKENRIC MARQUEST YOUNG, JR. Case No. J-94945-07-00, 08-00, 09-00, ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) JANAY DANIELLE CARTER (MOTHER), TYSHAWN WHITE (FATHER), & UNKNOWN FATHER (FATHER) OF Lakenric Marquest Young, Jr., child, DOB 10/7/2017.

“RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendants Janay Danielle Carter (Mother), Tyshawn White (Father), & Unknown Father (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 4/10/2019, at 10:20 AM, Courtroom #5.

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

WISE IN-HOME INVESTMENT CORP, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6232 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2006 Carver Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0001237/026 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Wise In-Home Investment Corp.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, WISE IN-HOME INVESTMENT CORP., an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or 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 WISE IN-HOME INVESTMENT CORP., an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 21, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

WISE IN-HOME INVESTMENT CORP, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6231 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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Street, Tax Map Number N005-1182/003 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Wise In-Home Investment Corp.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, WISE IN-HOME INVESTMENT CORP., an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or 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 WISE IN-HOME INVESTMENT CORP., an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 21, 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

Stockton Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-2132/011, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Franklin N. Bonner, Patricia B. Lomax, Kenneth Bonner, Monique Bonner, Michellet Bonner, Torie Bonner, Gregory Bonner and Nathan Bonner.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, FRANKLIN N. BONNER, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PATRICIA B. LOMAX, KENNETH BONNER, MONIQUE BONNER, MICHELLET BONNER, TORIE BONNER, GREGORY BONNER, and NATHAN BONNER, 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 FIRST NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FRANKLIN N. BONNER, PAT R I C I A B . L O M A X , KENNETH BONNER, MONIQUE BONNER, MICHELLET BONNER, TORIE BONNER, GREGORY B O N N E R , N AT H A N BONNER, FIRST NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 21, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

LEROY HATCHER, III, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5566 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2300 Ingram Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000865/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Leroy Hatcher, III.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LEROY HATCHER, III, 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 LEROY HATCHER, III, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 21, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

LEROY HATCHER, III, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5567 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2907 Hull Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001343/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Leroy Hatcher, III.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LEROY HATCHER, III, 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 LEROY HATCHER, III, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 21, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

FRANKLIN N. BONNER, et al, Defendants.

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

ELSIE P. NELSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5260 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2110 Newbourne Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120286/027, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Elsie P. Nelson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELSIE P. NELSON, 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 ELSIE P. NELSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 21, 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

LICENSE 258 Granby LLC Trading as: Circuit Social, 258 Granby St., Norfolk, Virginia 23510 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Beer and Wine on Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Robert LuPica 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: Research and Development Goods and Services Generation 4 To view a copy of RFP # UVA-00003-KF012019 go to Procurement Services Site: http://www.procurement. virginia.edu/main/ publicpostings/RFP.html, or email pur-rfp@virginia.edu

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Sports Plus Stories by Fred Jeter

John E. Wilson, oldest living Harlem Globetrotter, dies in Chester John E. Wilson, who was the oldest living Harlem Globetrotter, has died at age 91.

Known as “Jumpin’ Johnny” for his uncanny leaping ability, Mr. Wilson died Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, at his home in Chester, where he was living with his son, John Wilson Jr., an assistant athletic director at Virginia State University.

Mr. Wilson starred at Anderson High School in Anderson, Ind., where he became the first African-American chosen as Indiana Mr. Basketball after leading his team to the state championship.

He went on to Anderson University, also located in his hometown, where he starred on the college team and later

Mr. Wilson

went on to entertain with the Harlem Globetrotters from 1949 to 1954 after being turned down by the NBA. Mr. Wilson later coached at Malcolm X College in Chicago, garnering a 378-135 record. As recently as 2011, Mr. Wilson served as an assistant coach at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania, where his son was head coach.

A statue of Mr. Wilson now stands in front of Anderson High School.

A memorial service for Mr. Wilson will be held Saturday, Jan 19, in Anderson, Ind. In addition to his son, Mr. Wilson is survived by a brother, Gene Wilson.

NFL Conference finals players always have had flair For Sunday’s NFL Conference finals, expect a steady diet of orchestrated end zone celebrations and other zany sideshows, minus the fear of penalty.

It wasn’t always that way.

Back in the day, players were wary of rocking the boat and stuck to a more conventional style of etiquette and attire, on and off the field. Some dared to be different, however. Here are a few trendsetters from the archives.

Fashion was their passion Lennie Moore: Football cleats were traditionally black high tops, that is, until Moore joined the Baltimore Colts in 1956. Moore white-taped the tops of his cleats to look like snazzier low tops, earning him the nickname “Spats.”

Billy Johnson: Like Moore before him, Johnson wasn’t into dreary black cleats. But instead of adding tape to alter the look, he shocked many by wearing all-white cleats. He came to be known as Billy “White Shoes” Johnson.

John “Frenchy” Fuqua: The flashy halfback came to the games during the

Otis Sistrunk

Pittsburgh Steelers’ glory run in the 1970s wearing platform shoes with see-through heels containing water and live fish inside them. He matched the fish color with the rest of his attire.

Lester Hayes: Neatness didn’t count with the Oakland Raiders’ defensive back in the 1980s. Known as “Lester the Molester,” he used excessive adhesive Stickum not only

on his hands, but on his arms and uniform. The NFL later banned the grimy substance.

Heads up Otis Sistrunk: The shaved head look, while routine today, was anything but when the huge defensive lineman joined Oakland in the 1970s. He was a cameraman’s dream. On cold days, steam would rise from his bare noggin.

NFL’s final four Games: Sunday, Jan. 20 NFC Final: Los Angeles Rams (14-3) play the New Orleans Saints (14-3) in New Orleans.

Kickoff: 3:05 p.m.; broadcast on FOX television.

AFC Final: New England Patriots (12-5) play the Kansas City Chiefs (13-4) in Kansas City. Kickoff: 6:40 p.m.; broadcast on CBS television.

Super Bowl: Sunday, Feb. 3, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Kickoff: 6:30 p.m.; broadcast on CBS.

Al Harris

to invite passes when fully covered.

He out-jumped defenders, like it was a jump ball, earning the nickname “Alley Oop” with the San Francisco 49ers. Just as notably, in 1961 Owens sprung above the cross bar to block a field goal, goal-tending style. It resulted in the NFL passing a rule to eliminate such a tactic.

Elbert “Ickey” Woods: He was star running back at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He then brought Vegas-style entertainment to the NFL with his signature touchdown dance, “The Ickey Shuffle.” It became all

the rage in 1988 when his team, the Cincinnati Bengals, reached the Super Bowl.

Fun Bunch: In Washington in 1982, a cluster of receivers collaborated following touchdowns with a collective, airborne high-five that fully irritated foes. The Fun Bunch consisted of Art Monk, Virgil Seay, Charlie Brown and Alvin Garrett.

Chad Johnson: In October 2006, the Cincinnati Bengals star who wore the No. 85 jersey turned heads by changing the name on the back of his jersey. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, he wore “Ocho Cinco,” which is 85 in Spanish.

Terrell Owens: While with the Philadelphia Eagles, the receiver capped off his touchdowns with such dances as the “Dirty Bird” and “Wing Flap.”

With Dallas in 2006, Owens caught a touchdown pass and dropped the football in a Salvation Army Red Kettle, saying, “That’s my donation.”

Joe Horn: In a 2003 Sunday night

Elbert “Ickey” Woods

Billy “White Socks” Johnson

Al Harris: Old-time fans couldn’t believe their eyes when Harris showed up in the Green Bay Packers’ defensive backfield in the early 2000s. Harris is considered the first player to have long dreadlocks dangling from under his helmet.

Look at me Elmo Wright: As a rookie in 1971 with the Kansas City Chiefs, the wide receiver did something no one had seen. Instead of politely tossing the ball to the referee after a touchdown, he aggressively threw it down. Thus, he is credited with introducing the “spike.” Wright is also believed to be the first player to perform end-zone celebration dances.

R.C. Owens: A spectacular leaper, the 1956 NCAA rebounding champ at the College of Idaho was the first

game, the New Orleans Saints receiver caught his second of what would be four touchdowns. He celebrated by pulling a planted cell phone from the goal post padding and pretended to make a call.

Showman supreme Deion Sanders: Few put on a show like the defensive back-kick returner known as “Prime Time.” On long touchdowns, he’d place one hand on his helmet, glam style, cocking his head to one side, while styling and profiling into the end zone.

Sanders liked to wear colorful “do-rags” that easily were spotted from the back of his helmet. At his NFL Hall of Fame induction in 2007, he broke up the audience by placing a “do-rag” on his bronzed bust. Now that’s being different.

Elmo Wright

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RFP No. CE20190111 - Engineering and Construction Support for the I-64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion due January 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm. http://www.virginiadot.org/business/rfps. asp#MegaProjects

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Request for Qualification 504-TW Multiple Central Office Renovation, Improvement and Roofing Projects Documents are located at www.eva.virginia.gov and available from the individual indicated below.

Inquiries should be directed to: Tamerra D. Webb at tamerra.webb@vdot.virginia.gov, or (804) 786-5325.

Proposals will be received in accordance with the information posted at www.eva.virginia.gov until 2:00 P.M. local time on February 12, 2019.

Virginia Department of Transportation

Request for Qualification 503-TW Fiscal Year 2020 Projects Documents are located at www.eva.virginia.gov and available from the individual indicated below.

Inquiries should be directed to: Tamerra D. Webb at tamerra.webb@vdot.virginia.gov, or (804) 786-5325.

Proposals will be received in accordance with the information posted at www.eva.virginia.gov until 2:00 P.M. local time on February 12, 2019.

First Union Baptist Church, Derwent Road ChurCh SeCretary (Pt) requirements: Spiritually Mature, People Loving, Efficient in Microsoft Applications email resumes to fubcsecretary@gmail.com Deadline Monday, January 21 No calls or in person applications received.

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.

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Union Baptist ChUrCh, Charles City, Va, is seeking a Pastor. interested parties should submit their resume and salary requirements, post-marked nLt February 1, 2019, to UBC, po Box 683, sandston Va 23150.

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