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IRS filings show Dominion Energy committed $20M over 20 years for naming rights for a new Coliseum By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Dominion Energy is more entwined in the $1.5 billion Coliseum replacement and Downtown redevelopment proposal than previously disclosed. The energy giant, led by Thomas F. Farrell II who also is spearheading the Coliseum replacement plan through the Navy Hill District Corp., has agreed to pay $20 million over two decades for the naming rights to the proposed $235 million, 17,500-seat arena. Under the plan, Navy Hill would build the new Coliseum and Richmond taxpayers, including his company, would pay for it. The discovery of Dominion’s enhanced role emerged as a new poll conducted Jan. 4 through 7 by the American Research Group found that 60 percent of residents in the city’s 3rd District, which is represented by City Council Vice President Chris A. Hilbert, oppose the Coliseum proposal.

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The results of the is taking as it moves poll of 300 residents toward a vote in late mirror those from a February on the massive previous ARG poll of plan for a new arena 5th District residents and private development that found a similar near City Hall. level of opposition. Mayor Levar M. New Councilwoman Stoney is pressing the Stephanie Lynch reprecouncil to approve Mr. Mr. Farrell Mr. Thomas Mr. Griffin sents the 5th District. Farrell’s plan. The discovery came as City Council began public The plan also calls for bringing in more than hearings on the findings of its nine-member Navy Hill 2,000 apartments, a 527-room hotel, office space, a Development Advisory Commission. By a 5-2 vote GRTC transfer station and restaurants and retail to with two abstentions, the commission recommended transform eight blocks of largely city-owned property in late December a rejection of taxpayer involvement located north of Broad Street between the Coliseum in the Coliseum replacement plan, finding the pro- and City Hall, as well as two blocks of city-owned posal would not be “a sound and reasonable public land south of Broad Street. investment.” The public hearings are among the steps City Council Please turn to A4

Want to express your thoughts about the Coliseum replacement and Downtown redevelopment plan? Richmond City Council is holding a series of public hearings on the proposed Navy Hill project. The schedule: Thursday, Jan. 9, 6 p.m., Pine Camp Cultural Arts and Community Center, 4901 Old Brook Road Tuesday, Jan. 14, 6 p.m., Southside Community Services Center, 4100 Hull Street Road Wednesday, Jan. 15, 6 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St. Thursday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m., Richmond City Council Chambers, 2nd floor Richmond City Hall, 900 E. Broad St. Details or questions: Contact Richmond City Clerk Candice D. Reid, (804) 646-7955 or candice.reid@ richmondgov.com.

Va. General Assembly starts on historic note

By George Copeland Jr. and Jeremy M. Lazarus

important watchwords. Mayor Levar M. Stoney issued a tweet applauding the council vote and noting “the ball is now in the GA’s court” on awarding the city authority “to control public spaces.” Dr. Jones acknowledged later that the adopted resolution only asked for control of statues on city property, which would not impact the Robert E. Lee statue at Monument and Allen avenues that is state-owned and was described in 1890 by African-Americans as a symbol of the increasing oppression they were facing.

The General Assembly was gaveled into a potentially history-making session Wednesday with Democrats in control of both houses and eager to usher in changes that will make it easier for Virginians to vote, reduce the barriers they face in renting amd increase the minimum pay they receive for working. Northern Virginia Democrat Eileen Filler-Corn was sworn in as the first woman speaker of the House of Delegates in the legislature’s 401-year history. With a record number of African-American and female legislators filling seats in both the House of Delegates and state Senate, a wave of policy changes is anticipated that also would impact education, gun purchases and the environment, with swift action predicted on a number of high-profile issues that Republicans have blocked for years. Among other things, Democrats are promising to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to give women equal constitutional standing, raise the minimum wage to as much as $15 an hour, decriminalize marijuana possession and

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Volunteers with Monumental Justice Virginia steady a banner before Wednesday afternoon’s rally at the State Capitol, where more than 100 people gathered in support of legislation that would give localities control over Confederate monuments and other statues in public spaces.

City Council takes step to control Confederate statues By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The Richmond City Council took its first step toward control over the statues of the slavery-defending Confederate traitors that line Monument Avenue and have long sat on other public property in the city. On his third try, 9th District City Councilman Michael J. Jones finally won a positive vote from his colleagues on a resolution seeking from the General Assembly local authority to decide the fate of the increasingly controversial statues. The 6-2 vote on Monday to add Richmond’s voice to those of Charlottesville, Norfolk, Alexandria and other communities urging local control over such statues came just before Wednesday’s start of the 2020 General Assembly session where bills to make it happen appear likely to be adopted. Bills to lift a long-standing state ban on tampering with or removing the rebel statues have generated strong support among the Democratic majorities that will control both the House of Delegates and state Senate, along with the backing of Gov. Ralph S. Northam. The pressure on Virginia to take action, or at least allow localities to do so, has been ratcheting up amid the revival of hate groups waving Confederate symbols and moves by other cities, from Baltimore to New Orleans, to remove their Confederate statues. Dr. Jones, who considers the statues a racist promotion of white supremacy that needs to be eliminated, sought to downplay the potential impact, declaring during the City Council meeting that “this is not about tearing down statues” but about gaining decision-making authority over them. “It’s not about erasing or changing history,” he said. “This is about us as legislators doing what we were elected to do — legislate.” But to many, it also is about getting rid of symbols of Richmond’s segregationist and oppressive past in favor of a more modern vision in which inclusion and diversity are

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Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn of Fairfax County is sworn in as speaker of the House of Delegates on Wednesday by Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons. She is the first woman to hold the powerful position in the 401-year history of the Virginia legislature.

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Richmond School Board elects new officers By Ronald E. Carrington

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Racing into 2020 Alani Mason, 6, takes off in a sprint to the finish line during a game Tuesday at the Northside Family YMCA on Old Brook Road. The youngster and her friends in the YMCA after-school program were ready to burn some energy after returning to school this week at the start of a new decade.

The Richmond School Board has two former educators leading the board for 2020. Linda B. Owen, 9th District, a retired teacher and librarian, and Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District, a retired principal of Chimborazo Elementary School, were elected chair and vice chair, respectively, at a meeting Monday night of the board at George Mason Elementary School. The vote: 7-2. The two dissenters were board members Kenya Gibson, 3rd District, and Dr. Patrick Sapini, 5th District. In a call for more board transparency and accountability, Dr. Sapini said, “I cannot support the election of the chair or vice chair.” He did not elaborate. Dr. Sapini is a former vice chair of the School Board. “I accept this position with humility and I hope moving forward that I will do the job … with the best possible outcome for the students and teachers,” Ms. Owen said following the vote. “I know my colleagues are working with the good of children in our hearts.” The change in leadership comes at a time when all nine School Board seats will be up for election in November. Ms. Owen was elected to a four-year term in November 2016, while Ms. Burke initially was appointed to the board in 2017 on an interim basis before winning a special election in November 2018 to represent the district through the remainder of the term in December 2020. Please turn to A4

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Three members of the Women’s Skydiving Network parachute into Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Tuesday morning to the clicks of dozens of cell phone Slices of life and scenes cameras as they helped launch the Women’s Equality Legislative Summit. After safely reaching the ground, the jumpers participated in a news conference — with in Richmond greetings from Virginia First Lady Pam Northam, center — calling for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment guaranteeing equal rights to people regardless of gender. The summit focused on six areas of legislation to further the cause of equality for women — pay equity; pregnancy; sexual and domestic violence; campus life; incarceration; and the Constitution. If ratified in Virginia, the ERA would reach the 38 states required to be added as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is unclear what Virginia’s approval would mean because the deadline for ratification expired in 1982 and has not been extended or revised.

De-concentration of poverty to be topic of public discussion Jan. 16 “What does de-concentration of poverty look like? What impact will disbanding neighborhoods of concentrated poverty have on public safety?” Those and similar questions will be the focus of the second community conversation that three Richmond area commonwealth’s attorneys will lead as part of “Beyond Containment: The Dialogue Series.” The session, which is open to the public without charge, will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, at the Calhoun Family Investment Center, 436 Calhoun St. in Gilpin Court. Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin, Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon L. Taylor and Chesterfield Commonwealth’s Attorney Stacey T. Davenport will lead the discussion. The goal is to bring together residents, government officials and others to focus on public safety and the root causes of crime and to consider policies to address the issues. The series is sponsored by the commonwealth’s attorney’s offices in Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield. The first session took place in September and focused on criminal justice and poverty. Organizers said at least three more sessions are planned. Details: Imam Shabazz, (804) 646-3547 or Imam.Shabazz@ Richmondgov.com or beyondcontainment@gmail.com.

Richmond to lower natural gas prices By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A yearlong sag in the wholesale price of natural gas will finally show up on the bills of residential and business customers in Richmond. As of Feb. 1, Richmond Gas Works will cut the cost customers pay for the fuel by 7.75 cents per 100 cubic feet, which the utility estimates will save the average residential customer about $5.25 a month. “We are heartened that market conditions are allowing us to lower rates and pass on the savings,” Calvin D. Farr Jr., city director of RGW and other public utilities, stated in announcing the reduction. Monday’s announcement followed Free Press inquiries last week about the purchased gas cost, or PGC, and reports showing that wholesale market prices had dropped sharply largely because of a warmer than expected winter and an increase in stored inventory. For the past year, Richmond customers have paid 50 cents for every hundred cubic feet of gas or ccf used. Next month, the purchase gas price will drop to 42.5 cents, Mr. Farr stated. The PGC, the actual cost that Mr. Farr’s department pays to buy and transport the fuel to the city, is one of three main elements of the bill and the only one that will decline, he stated. Mr. Farr stated that the average residential customer using 70 ccf of gas per month will pay a total natural gas bill of $84.92 in February, down from the January bill of $90.17. If the price continues to decline, as government and private reports indicate, Richmond customers might see another cut in the purchased gas cost later this year. According to the reports, the wholesale price of natural gas is well below the average for the past 20 years. Just after Christmas, the wholesale price briefly tumbled to its lowest point since 1998, then recovered to start the new year 36 percent below the price at the same time last year, the reports show.

Rep. McEachin holds student essay contest Congressman A. Donald McEachin of Richmond is sponsoring a Black History Month essay contest for middle and high school students living in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District. The essay topic: “What Black History Month Means to Me.” Rep. McEachin wants young people to think about the contributions by African-American men and women to the nation and what the month means. Essays for middle school students must be between 350 and 500 words, while high school students should submit essays between 500 and 750 words, to VA04.Projects@mail.house.gov. The deadline for submission is Thursday, Feb. 6. Winners will be notified individually, followed by an announcement on Rep. McEachin’s social media in February. The district includes all parts of the cities of Richmond, Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Emporia, Chesapeake and Suffolk and the counties of Henrico, Chesterfield, Charles City, Prince George, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex, Surry and Southampton. Details: www.mceachin.house.gov or (202) 225-6365.

Mayor seeks to change definition of emerging small business By Jeremy M. Lazarus

For more than 15 years, City Hall has sought to use its purchasing power to boost start-up and fledgling companies, often with minority ownership, that generally bring in less than $500,000 a year in revenue and have 10 or fewer employees. In exchange for setting goals to give preference to such “emerging small businesses” in buying goods and services, the city has required such companies to be based in an enterprise zone, have a city business license and pay personal property and other city taxes. Now Mayor Levar M. Stoney is seeking to end those requirements and allow small companies from neighboring counties to qualify for preferential treatment despite having no direct tie to the city. In a proposed ordinance he has sent to City Council, Mayor Stoney also is asking City Council to increase the total revenue such companies can earn to qualify for the preference, allowing more nonresident companies to compete for city contracts. Construction companies, which cur-

rently can have revenues of no more than $500,000 a year to meet the definition of an emerging small business, would be able to earn up to $750,000 a year under the mayor’s Mayor Stoney proposal. Companies in other fields, now limited to $250,000 a year in revenues, would be able to make $500,000 a year before losing the emerging small business label, according to the proposed ordinance. City Councilman Michael J. Jones, who chairs the council’s Finance and Economic Development Committee, said he “plans to have a serious discussion of this proposal” when it comes up for consideration at the next committee meeting at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16. In response to a Free Press query, Patricia R. Foster, director of the Office of Minority Business Development, noted her office has pushed the proposal to change the definition that has been in

place since 2004. Ms. Foster stated that her office “reviewed the city’s definition of ‘emerging small business’ and determined that the requirements … (might) give rise to constitutional challenges for discrimination against nonresidents.” In a follow-up email, she stated that the city is unaware of any lawsuits or any threats of legal action by businesses based outside the city that did not qualify for the preference. A review of the City Code shows that emerging small businesses are the only ones required to have a city address to compete for city contracts. The city’s definition of a minority business, for example, only requires that such a business be 51 percent owned by an African-American, a Latino, an AsianAmerican, a Native American or a member of another qualifying group. There is no requirement that the minority-owned business be located in the city. The city also has a goal for making more purchases from minority-owned companies.

Councilman Chris Hilbert not seeking re-election By Jeremy M. Lazarus

One of the longest serving members on Richmond City Council plans to call it quits and not seek re-election, the Free Press has learned. City Council Vice President Chris A. Hilbert privately has told people that this will be his final year on the governing body. At least four people already have begun organizing to run for the 3rd District seat he has held since 2005. While Mr. Hilbert has not issued any public statement, the Free Press has been told he plans to announce his decision to his council colleagues when he receives his 15-year pin at an upcoming council

meeting, possibly on Monday, Jan. 13. He signaled his likely decision a year ago when he did not seek to continue as president of City Council and stepped aside in favor of 7th Mr. Hilbert District Councilwoman Cynthia I. Newbille. So far, Mr. Hilbert, a senior underwriter for the Virginia Housing Development Authority, is the only council member who does not plan to run for a new four-year term in the November election. The Free Press has been told the list

of potential candidates for the North Side seat includes Dr. Milondra B. Coleman, a teacher and current president of the Richmond Education Association who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Hilbert in 2016, and Elaine Summerfield, executive director of Richmond Opportunities Inc., which works directly with public housing residents on ways to improve their lives. Others who have announced plans to run include Hassan Fountain Sr., founder and chief executive officer of the Fountain for Youth Foundation that gives away books and creates children’s libraries in low-income neighborhoods, and Willie Hilliard, a barber and president of the Brookland Park Area Association.

‘Bunching’ problem plaguing Pulse service By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The Pulse’s reputation for fast, reliable service has begun to take a hit, with the potential to undermine the public transit company’s ability to get more people to skip their cars and take the bus. Instead of the promised 10- to 15-minute service at any stop, riders are reporting waits of 30 to 40 minutes and, sometimes, even more than an hour for the arrival of the next bus on the rapid transit line. The delays are most notably at rush hour. GRTC acknowledges that it is facing a challenge in trying to maintain the highquality service, despite adding extra buses to try to hew to schedules. The main problem is that neither Pulse nor other buses operate along dedicated lanes like a railroad track, GRTC spokeswoman Carrie T. Rose noted. “So long as transit does not operate on lanes completely separated from any interaction with other modes, such as at intersections, bus delays will occur,” Ms. Pace stated. “Items outside of GRTC’s control that impact all of our service include police traffic control, traffic congestion, crashes and construction in the right-of-way,” she added. Wyatt Gordon, a Richmond-based correspondent for Greater Greater Washington’s blog, first identified the problem of “bunching” that is creating slower service on Pulse. In a Dec. 23 article posted on Facebook, he described the phenomenon as having

individual buses that were supposed to be spaced out arrive at the same stop together. The result is multiple buses at one point and delays in service at other points along the route. The problem, as he and others have noted, creates a perception of unreliable service. Adding to the problem is that riders crowd the first bus to arrive, while following buses have fewer riders. The subsequent buses end up waiting because the crowded bus takes longer at stops to unload. “I share this very deep and very real frustration” about bunching and service delays, Julie Timm, chief executive officer of GRTC, noted in response to a Free Press query. “I, too, have waited at night and in the rain for buses that have been late or not showed up due to traffic and detours,” she continued. “While some solutions to traffic congestion are outside of our control, I do not accept that we are helpless,” she stated. “I am committed to working every day to continue to improve and expand our service. “I hope that more people will work with GRTC to make transit a top priority for the region, including providing more dedicated bus lanes and dedicated funding for high-frequency service.” Ms. Pace cited three issues that are contributing to bunching. First, she said, Pulse and other vehicles often are held up on 14th Street during the morning and evening rush hours by Capitol Police trying to help state employees drive in and out of parking decks to ensure

pedestrian safety. Then Pulse can be held up if there are accidents or heavy traffic on the Main Street section of the route. On rare occasions, the Pulse bus misses the Main Street Station stop because of the delays, she said. Construction work on Broad Street also impacts Pulse timing, she said. For example, recent work at Allison and Broad streets required Pulse buses to detour to Leigh Street to get around the construction, she stated. Then work on Broad Street between 1st and 2nd streets led to a lane closure that forced Pulse to detour to Cary Street, slowing service, she said. Ms. Pace stated that bunching often occurs on other routes because of the same issues. “GRTC also is working with partners to identify and recommend solutions,” Ms. Pace stated. “GRTC also is working on better channels to give riders real time communication on service impacts.” Ross Catrow, executive director of RVA Rapid Transit, which advocates for public transit and greater financing, has offered some ideas, including giving buses priority on bus-only lanes and holding up other traffic, using enforcement to keep other vehicles out of those lanes and buying bigger buses. GRTC has begun experimenting with the use of larger 60-foot buses with more seating than the standard 40-foot buses. Still, as Ms. Timm acknowledges, the top solution of dedicated bus lanes has a ways to go to become a reality on the 7.3-mile Pulse route.

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Every two seconds, someone needs blood. Of the 130 million people eligible to donate blood, only 5% do. Of the 5% percent who do donate, only 5% of those donors are African American.

Blood statistics There are various ways to give blood — whole blood, platelet and plasma. However, we aren’t receiving enough blood to meet the growing demand. Below is the daily need to keep up with the supply demand:

Donating your blood

• 36,000 whole blood units • 7,000 platelet units • 10,000 plasma units

Those with Type O negative and AB blood types are universal blood donors — meaning they can donate their blood to anyone. However, universal blood donors only make up 1 out of every 10 people. Things to keep in mind before donating: • You must be at least 17 years old and a minimum of 110 pounds • Be sure to sure you eat and drink plenty of ﬂuids before and after donating • Be in good health

110 Pounds

How often should you donate? • Whole blood: every 56 days • Platelet: once a week, up to 24 times a year • Plasma: every 28 days, up to 13 times per year

Donor deferral A donor deferral means you aren’t eligible to donate due to at least one of the following conditions: • You have used needles to take drugs, steroids or substances not prescribed by a doctor • You have tested positive for HIV/AIDS • You have low iron • You have traveled to a malaria-risk country within the last 3 years Although you may have been denied in the past, it doesn’t prevent you from donating in the future.

To donate blood, visit the American Red Cross at www.redcross.org/give-blood. © 2019 VCU Health. All rights reserved. Sources: VCU Massey Cancer Center, American Association of Blood Banks; American Red Cross; Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative.

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IRS filings show Dominion Energy committed $20M over 20 years for naming rights for a new Coliseum Continued from A1

The council also will hold a public hearing before the vote on the proposal that Council President Cynthia I. Newbille has targeted for Monday, Feb. 24. The council is awaiting a separate consultant’s report, with a preliminary finding due on Friday, Jan. 31, and a final report expected by Monday, Feb. 10. Based on council views, the mayor still appears to lack the seven votes needed to move the project forward, though he told the Free Press he remains “optimistic.” The disclosure of Dominion’s heightened role resulted from political writer Jeff Thomas using government public disclosure laws to obtain documents from the nonprofit Navy Hill District Corp. that Mr. Farrell and other prominent individuals created to handle the giant development. Mr. Thomas, who last year requested that the Internal Revenue Service revoke Navy Hill’s nonprofit status for violation of regulations governing such tax-exempt entities, secured the documents by seeking from Navy Hill a copy of its nonprofit application and related documents, including responses to IRS

questions before the nonprofit status was approved last spring. “The documents reveal (that) the naming rights were sold to Dominion for $1 million a year for 20 years,” Mr. Thomas noted in an email. He stated the documents also show that Navy Hill told the IRS that it had “zero revenue” as of Nov. 28, 2018, even though a previously released financial report from Navy Hill to the IRS showed that Dominion and Union Bank, predecessor of Atlantic Union Bank, jointly contributed $3.5 million prior to June 30, 2018. One reason that the Navy Hill proposal may be falling flat with the public is that the sales pitch is largely unchanged from 50 years ago when City Council was pitched to approve the original Coliseum, which was shut down in January 2019. Justin Griffin, a Richmond attorney who created the NoColiseum.com website, noted in a Facebook post on New Year’s Day that “the same exact talking points and promises were made in (1967) when the current Coliseum was proposed.” He posted quotes and promises from the City Council and a citizen’s commission at the time and from the financial docu-

ments used to justify the development. One example from 1967: “The construction of the Coliseum will be a powerful influence on the overall revitalization of the downtown that city policy has been aiming at.” Another example: “The Coliseum will give employment to people in all walks of life. … It will have advantages for all citizens regardless of what economic status they may be in.” The unrealized promises included assurances that the Coliseum would help Richmond become one of the South’s leading basketball cities, bring in additional revenue to the city, stimulate night life and additional Downtown growth and development and attract more visitors and conventions. None of those promises came true. Mr. Griffin also quoted the opposition at the time to the Coliseum from the Richmond Taxpayers Association: “We are extremely concerned that a large outlay for a luxury project might undermine the ability of the city to provide quality education.” He also quoted the words of then-City Council member Robert C. Throckmorton, who objected to the investment and predicted the Coliseum “will be a total flop.”

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Dr. Jones said his resolution addressed “low-hanging fruit,” the statues the city owns, such as those of J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Matthew Fontaine Maury and A.P. Hill, and that the fight over the Lee statue might have to wait. In the vote, Dr. Jones had the support of two members who supported his previous resolution, City Council President Cynthia I. Newbille, 7th District, and Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District. He also picked up the vote of newcomer Stephanie Lynch, 5th District, and won support from two council members who previously voted against his resolutions, Andreas D. Addison, 1st District, and council Vice President Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District. Mr. Addison said he shifted his vote because, with the state ban in place, “we can’t even have a dialogue” about the statues. He was a member of Mayor Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission that in 2018 recommended removing the statue to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Mr. Hilbert said the likelihood that the legislature would vote to approve local control persuaded him. In his remarks, he quoted the defeated Gen. Lee in 1869 urging that no statues be put up to memorialize the war in response to federal plans to create the Gettysburg battlefield park. Mr. Hilbert said the general’s remarks were even more appropriate for Richmond in indicating his support for removing any statues to the rebels. He also rejected complaints the resolution created division. “What was divisive was these monuments being put up in the first place,” Mr. Hilbert said. Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, who represents Monument Avenue and supports adding statues to the street honoring African-Americans, did not attend the meeting, although she was expected to oppose the resolution. She said later she was at a local hospital with her seriously ill daughter. Ms. Gray has noted previously that she would like a statue added on Monument Avenue honoring the 14 African-American Civil War soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for valor in the September 1864 Battle of New Market Heights in Henrico County. The two votes opposing Dr. Jones’ resolution came from Councilwomen Kristen N. Larson, 4th District, and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District. Ms. Larson said the resolution should have gone through the regular process of consideration through council’s Land Use, Housing and Transportation Committee. The committee canceled

its December meeting, leading Dr. Jones to move the resolution to the Organizational Development Committee for a vote ahead of the General Assembly session. Ms. Larson pointed out that only a few people attended the meeting to address council on the issue, a sign she believes that few people were aware of its consideration.

Ms. Trammell agreed with constituents who texted her with messages such as “the city’s priorities are skewered … wasting energy on superfluous ideas” and “there are many more high-priority and pressing issues than the monuments … what we can simply do is just add monuments to those we have … don’t erase history.”

Crowd urged to work for ‘Monumental Justice’ By George Copeland Jr. More than 100 people gathered at the State Capitol on Wednesday afternoon in support of legislation that would give control of the dozens of Confederate monuments in Virginia to localities. “We are here today to reclaim our power and defeat white supremacy,” said Dr. Wes Bellamy, former Charlottesville City Council member and vice mayor who now heads the political science department at Virginia State University, as cheers cut through the brisk midday wind. Two bills — sponsored in the House of Delegates by Delegates Sally Hudson of Charlottesville and Jerrauld C. “Jay” Jones of Norfolk, and in the Senate by Sens. Mamie E. Locke of Hampton and Creigh Deeds of Bath County — would amend a Virginia law on war memorials to move control over monuments in public spaces from the state government to cities and counties. Gov. Ralph S. Northam already has indicated he will sign such a bill into law if it is approved by the General Assembly. Officials and activists who addressed the crowd emphasized the opportunity for change a Democratic controlled legislature now presents and the need for constituents to show their support for the measures.

“When you’re here face to face, we can’t ignore you,” said Delegate Hudson. “So for the precious eight weeks that we are here in Richmond, please come and share those stories. Don’t let this be the last day we see you.” Joseph Rogers of Richmond reminded rally-goers that resistance to Virginia’s growing diversity is centuries old, recounting the experiences of his ancestor, James Fields of Hanover County, who twice escaped enslavement and later served in the General Assembly from 1879 to 1880 and again from 1889 to 1890. It was a time when legislators worked to assert a narrative that ran counter to growing progress in the state, Mr. Rogers said. Mr. Fields’ name is shared by the man convicted of driving his car through a crowd of counterprotestors in Charlottesville in 2017 and killing 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer during a rally by white supremacists and neo-Confederates protesting the Charlottesville City Council’s vote to remove statues of Confederates Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from city property. Despite the tragedy of that day, Mr. Rogers reminded the crowd of the resistance they and others have long brought against Confederate memorials and their defenders. He pointed to Richmond City Council’s approval of a

resolution requesting local control of Confederate monuments as a choice “to stand up and reflect the same kind of bravery that was happening in Charlottesville, that’s been happening in Tidewater, that’s been happening across the Commonwealth.” The crowd’s enthusiam was reflected in the signs and posters they waved, which decried the “Monumental Lies” the monuments represent. Chants of “Monumental Justice!” and “Local Control Now!” were a constant refrain during the rally. In late October, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring gave his approval to the City of Norfolk to move a Confederate monument to “Johnny Reb” into a city-owned graveyard. A federal lawsuit is pending. Dr. Bellamy told the crowd that he and another former Charlottesville City Council member and their families were harassed following their efforts to remove the “symbols of dominace” honoring slavery from public spaces. But he said they and other advocates remain positive that their work — and that of others — will ensure that the General Assembly will “get us over the finish line.” “When this bill is then subsequently passed, you go back to your locality and tell your local officials to have the courage to stand up for what is right.” Dr. Bellamy said. “Let’s get to work.”

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repeal laws restricting women’s rights to abortion. Also on the Democratic agenda are plans to ban discrimination on the job and in housing on the basis of sexual orientation and reinstate the one-handgun-a-month restriction on purchase and require background checks on all gun sales to end the “gun show” loophole. “This is a new year in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a lot of these things that we’ve been talking about for years are now going to become a reality,” Gov. Ralph S. Northam said Friday in announcing a wave of criminal justice reforms, including proposals to permanently ban the state from taking a driver’s license for unpaid court fines and fees for unrelated matters and to reinstate parole for older inmates and those who are terminally ill or severely disabled. Few groups will do more to usher in change than the 23-member Virginia Legislative Black Caucus. With the most members ever, the group now represents 30 percent of the 76 Democrats elected to the General Assembly’s two chambers. Caucus members also will hold an unprecedented number of leadership posts in the legislature noted Henrico Delegate and VLBC Chair Lamont Bagby at a Capitol news conference Wednesday. VLBC members will lead the Democratic caucuses in both the House and the Senate and also will chair nine of the 26 committees, including seven of the 14 House committees and two of the 12 Senate committees. “We’re excited,” Delegate Bagby said, about entering the session with real clout to fulfill the mission of the caucus to improve the lives and condition of the state’s African-American residents. One indication of the influence came Monday when Gov. Northam announced he is backing proposals by Norfolk Delegate Joseph C. “Joe” Lindsey to make Election Day a holiday and rid Virginia of the Lee-Jackson Day tribute to the Confederacy, and to allow early voting at least 60 days in advance of elections by ending the need for Virginians to cite an excuse to vote absentee. Delegate Lindsey, the new chair of the

House Privileges and Elections Committee, said at the Wednesday news conference his committee will focus on ways to “make it easier to exercise the right to vote.” He said that would include creating a system of automatic voter registration and eliminating potential barriers, and supporting passage of nonparAva Reaves tisan redistricting so legislators could no Delegate Charniele Herring of Alexandria, the new House longer “choose their majority leader, addresses the House chamber on Wednesday. Other delegates, from left, are Hala Ayala of Prince William voters.” County and C.E. “Cliff” Hayes Jr. of Chesapeake. Richmond Delegate Jeff Bourne, vice chair of the Militia, of weapon magazines and the purchase of Police and Public Safety Committee, said military-style, semiautomatic rifles and to the state no longer can leave “issues of reinstate local government authority to pass gun control measures for public places. homelessness and eviction unattended.” The caucus also will support “red-flag” He said he and other caucus members will be at the forefront to boost tenants’ rights, laws to strip firearms from those engaged in including imposing bans that would keep domestic violence or who have violent offense property owners and landlords from refusing records and are considered a serious threat. Gun rights groups have pledged stiff to rent to survivors of domestic violence or people seeking to use government vouchers defiance. The Virginia Citizens Defense League, a prominent pro-gun group, said or other aid to help pay their rent. Such discrimination “is abhorrent,” he it plans to have “enough citizens armed said, in noting that VLBC members also will with handguns to take over a modern, join in prohibiting discrimination against mid-sized country” at its annual lobby members of the LGBTQ community in day on Monday, Jan. 20. The VLBC also will seek to keep a housing and employment. He said the VLBC will back efforts to proposal in Gov. Northam’s budget to shift increase a state investment pool for afford- the entire $83,000 allocated yearly to mainable housing and beef up eviction diversion tain Confederate graves to supporting the upkeep of historic and previously negleted programs in Richmond and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Portsmouth state Sen. L. African-American cemeteries. Richmond state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan Louise Lucas, the dean of the VLBC who will serve as Senate president pro tem and noted that the caucus is celebrating the 35th also chair the Senate Health and Education year of black women serving in the General Committee, said she will push to expand Assembly. But she added that she and others Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and “stand on the shoulders of the first black dental and eye care, seek to scrap work delegates and senators” who took office requirements for Medicaid recipients that a little more than 150 years ago when the Republicans imposed and work to repeal General Assembly, abolished for nearly two years, was restarted under a new constitution restrictions on abortions. Delegate Bourne also will be on the that allowed black men to vote. “We are their legacies,” she said. “As front lines in the high-profile issue of gun safety, with Democrats pledging to they did, we will continue to work to pass “common sense gun laws” such as eliminate the last vestiges of racism and universal background checks on gun sales. white supremacy in Virginia. All of us are Bills also have been filed to limit the size ready to work. It is our time.”

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“I welcome and fully support the change in leadership and (the board members’) commitment to all 24,000 RPS students,” Dawn C. Page, the former board chair, said after the vote. “I know the work done under my leadership will be continued,” she later told the Free Press. “There will be continuity. That’s important.” Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras congratulated Ms. Owen and Ms. Burke, saying, “I am thrilled and delighted and look forward to working with you in the coming year.” The new board leaders will continue implementing the administration’s five-year strategic plan, Dreams4RPS, which includes construction of three new schools that are to open this fall; renaming four schools, including George Mason Elementary; and working with the city on additional funding for Richmond Public Schools. During Monday’s meeting, the board held an initial public hearing on renaming George Mason Elementary School at which several of the 16 speakers offered potential names. Among the suggestions: • Henry L. Marsh III, a noted civil rights attorney and former state senator who was Richmond’s first African-American mayor; • Barbara Johns, who in April 1951 at the age of 16, led a student walkout to protest substandard conditions and resources at the all-black R.R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County; • Oliver W. Hill Sr., the civil rights attorney who took the Prince Edward school case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it became part of the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed the doctrine of “separate but equal” for public schools; • Rosa L. Dixon Bowser, the first black teacher hired in Richmond and president from 1890 to 1892 of what would later become the Virginia Teachers Association. • Ethel Bailey Furman, the earliest known African-American female architect in Virginia, whose former home is at 33rd and Q streets in Church Hill; • Joseph T. Bright, a beloved George Mason principal from 1942 to1968; • Church Hill, the community where George Mason Elementary is located. Mike Werner, a military veteran, was the lone advocate speaking in support of keeping the school’s name, citing George Mason’s accomplishments and contributions to Virginia and the nation. “Although George Mason was a slaveholder, he was the Virginia leader who authored the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the blueprint for the U.S. Bill of Rights,” Mr. Werner said. “We should not erase or forget our history.” He called a name change for the school “extreme political correctness.” The next public hearing on renaming George Mason Elementary will be 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, at George Mason Elementary School, 813 N. 28th St.

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Federal appeals panel halts Dominion pipeline compressor station in Buckingham County By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Dominion Energy has been blocked from building a key element of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in a historic AfricanAmerican community in rural Buckingham County. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board failed to do its job by issuing a permit giving Dominion the green light to build a natural gas compressor or pumping station in the farming community of Union Hill. Freed African-Americans founded Union Hill, located 70 miles west of Richmond, more than 150 years ago after the Civil War. The opinion that Judge Stephanie D. Thacker issued Tuesday for the panel that included Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory and Judge James A. Wynn Jr. found the state board did not determine, as required, that residents of Union Hill would not suffer from pollution from the natural gas-powered compressor that would enable gas to keep flowing through the pipeline. The decision is the latest setback for the controversial and embattled $7.5 billion, 605-mile pipeline project led by Dominion Energy to transport natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The appellate court previously struck down crucial federal permits in a separate case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. This latest decision â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a major victory for pipeline foes and Union Hill supporters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; voids a permit for the key equipment. Judge Thacker wrote that the state Air Pollution Control Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approval of the permit was â&#x20AC;&#x153;arbitrary, capricious and unsupported by substantial evidenceâ&#x20AC;? to prove its staff from the state Department of Environmental Quality performed due diligence on the issue of environmental justice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or the protection of vulnerable minorities. Instead of taking the issue seriously, the board gave environmental justice short shrift, Judge Thacker wrote, by simply finding there would be no health impacts to people living nearby without providing any data to support that judgment. That decision flew in the face of the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice, which had expressed concern about the impact of pollution on Union Hill residents in 2018 and urged the board to reject the permit, Judge Thacker noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Environmental justice is not merely a box to be checked,â&#x20AC;? Judge Thacker wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to consider

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the disproportionate impact on those closest to the compressor station resulted in a flawed analysis.â&#x20AC;? Judge Thacker also wrote that the board wrongly ignored a request to consider having Dominion use electric turbines to power the compressor station, eliminating the pollution

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that natural gas-fueled power equipment would cause. That request came from the Friends of Buckingham and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that brought the legal challenge with support from the state NAACP and a host of environmental groups. She wrote that the board

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had to provide a justification for rejecting the request, which it did not do. Dominion spent four years working to obtain the permit. To move forward, the company must reapply. The board would need to follow the courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance before a new permit could be approved.

Dominion officials have stressed that Union Hill remains the best location for the compressor station. In a statement issued after the court decision, the company stated that its staff would â&#x20AC;&#x153;immediately begin working with the state to resolve the procedural issues identified by the court.

We are confident this can be completed in a timely manner and believe the project will still deliver significant volumes to customers under our existing timeline even as we work to resolve this permit.â&#x20AC;? Dominion said that it can complete the pipeline in 2021 despite the delays.

,EGAL .OTICE NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PETITION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF ITS 2019 DSM UPDATE PURSUANT TO Â§ 56-585.1 A 5 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2019-00201 â&#x20AC;˘Dominion Energy Virginia (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dominionâ&#x20AC;?) has applied for approval to implement new demand-side management (â&#x20AC;&#x153;DSMâ&#x20AC;?) programs, extend one DSM program, and to revise its Riders C1A, C2A and C3A, by which Dominion recovers the costs of its DSM programs. â&#x20AC;˘Dominion requests a total of $59,685,418 for its 2020 Riders C1A, C2A and C3A. According to Dominion, this amount would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.34. â&#x20AC;˘A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on April 29, 2020, at 10 a.m. â&#x20AC;˘Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. 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Opportunity time The 2020 Virginia General Assembly session started on Wednesday with several historic markers of note. First, Democrat Eileen Filler-Corn of Northern Virginia was sworn in as the first woman Speaker of the House in the 401-year history of the Virginia legislature. The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus now has a record number of members — 23. During this session, seven of the 14 House of Delegates committees will be chaired by VLBC members. Another two VLBC members will chair committees in the state Senate. Additionally, VLBC member Sen. L. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth will serve as president pro tempore of the Senate — a historic first — while Hampton Sen. Mamie E. Locke and Alexandria Delegate Charniele Herring are blazing new trails. Sen. Locke is the first African-American majority caucus chair in the Senate. And Delegate Herring is the first woman and first African-American majority leader in the House of Delegates. We also must note that for the first time in 24 years, Democrats control both chambers of the legislature as well as the governor’s office. The House has a 55-45 Democratic majority, while the Democrat-Republican split in the Senate is 21-19. It is opportunity time. While we know that African-American legislators, like AfricanAmerican voters, are not monolithic in their political beliefs, we believe this is one of those harmonic convergences where all factors have lined up for progress. It’s the time for Virginia to move forward with the passage of legislation the public has clamored for but been unable to actualize because of GOP repression. It’s time for Virginians whose voices and needs have been unheeded in the past to finally be reflected in new laws and policies that promote equity, fairness and justice. It’s up to this new and diverse General Assembly to advance legislation that will help Virginians the most. Among the advances we expect to see: gun safety, including universal background checks before all gun purchases; a hike in the minimum wage to help families working yet living in poverty; expanded voting rights and access; more funding for urban public school districts such as Richmond’s, with high needs and high concentrations of students living in poverty; action on climate change, particularly along Virginia’s coastal areas; protection of women’s health and reproductive rights; elimination of racial disparities in maternal health; elimination of the state holiday honoring Confederate traitors, as well as granting local control over such public statues; eliminating laws feeding the school-to-prison pipeline; and addressing eviction, homelessness and joblessness for veterans and others. It’s a long list and, yes, there’s even more. But as the adage goes, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” As Speaker Filler-Corn acknowledged after her swearing in on Wednesday, there is a big responsibility that accompanies this opportunity. “The public expects us to build a safer, more equal, more prosperous and more inclusive Virginia,” she said. “And that is exactly what we will do.” We, who helped vote in this new legislature that better reflects the diversity of Virginia, will be pushing to make sure that happens.

Trump, Iran and answers Now that President Trump has pushed America to the brink of war in the Middle East, we want answers. Unfortunately, at a time when the American public needs to hear the valid evidence leading to last week’s drone strike and the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassim Suleimani, we are least likely to get the truth from the occupant of the White House who is a well-documented liar. With Iran’s retaliatory missile strike Tuesday against U.S. military and coalition forces on bases in Iraq and thousands of American troops being deployed to the region — a tinderbox waiting to be ignited by a miscalculation, misstep or sudden irrational action or reaction — President Trump’s very presence as the U.S. commander in chief offers little to assuage public anxiety. Even the millennials are stewing over the potential global threat right now with the hashtag #wwiii. Sadly, we are left to rely on the sensibility of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to de-escalate the situation rather than rely on our own president, who has proved in office to be impetuous and without deep thought or regard for consequences. President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claim the decision to kill Gen. Suleimani was based on intelligence purportedly showing a threat against American diplomats and service members in Iraq and around the region was “imminent.” Yet, he and his “yes men” have yet to show any evidence, though national security laws and policies designed to check executive warmongering require written findings to legally justify the assassination of such a prominent national leader. We find it ironic that President Trump, who has spent the last three years in office dogging out the U.S. intelligence community by calling them incompetent, unreliable and politically biased, is now suddenly using them to justify his actions. President Trump also has spent the last three years insulting, bullying and intimidating this nation’s closest allies, including NATO. Now he has taken this high-risk maneuver in the Middle East without consulting any of them or lining up their support. So who will have our back as he continues to de-stabilize the region? Perhaps all of this is a Trump move to turn over greater influence in the region to his buddy Vladimir Putin. The Russian president seems unfazed by the turmoil unleashed by the killing of Gen. Suleimani and is in meetings this week with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Mr. Putin also is set to talk with Turkey’s Recep Tayipp Erdogan. Has all of this been part of some grand scheme by Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin to get U.S. troops out of Iraq, as the Iraqi parliament voted after Gen. Suleimani’s death, and to turn over oil and other interests to a bigger Russian federation? Or is this all less about protecting U.S. national security and more about President Trump attempting to deflect attention from his impeachment and the upcoming Senate trial? We laud U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia for introducing a war powers resolution to force a debate and vote in Congress to prevent further escalation of hostilities with Iran. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a similar resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to Sen. Kaine, a member of the Senate armed services and foreign relations committees, the resolution would require that any hostilities with Iran must be explicitly authorized by a declaration of war by Congress or specific authorization for use of military force, but does not prevent the United States from defending itself against imminent attack. What is clear is this: The United States needs a president who is calm, stable, level-headed, intelligent, reflective, well-grounded, firm, reliable, strong, able to think ahead and willing to work with others. If the U.S. Senate is too weak to remove President Trump from office, remember this date: Tuesday, Nov. 3. That’s the day of the next presidential election. Go to the polls and vote — with your eyes open.

The next debate Democrats started this presidential campaign season with more than 20 candidates. Eventually, it dropped to about a dozen, with, so far, only five of those “qualified” to appear on the next debate stage this month. But debate performance doesn’t seem to matter much. Both U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and former Obama cabinet member Julián Castro had excellent debate performances, and yet they have dropped out of the race. It’s a money thing. With just $9 million in the bank, Sen. Harris said she couldn’t see her way clear to the nomination given her extremely limited resources. Mr. Castro, matching Sen. Harris in grace and reflectiveness, said, “It just wasn’t our time.” He, too, felt he did not have enough money in the bank to compete. It almost certainly would have helped these candidates qualify if they

had the resources, say, of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who pumped $100 million into his campaign in just one month. In fairness, though, it is essential to note that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders raised a whopping $34.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 alone. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden raised more than $20

Julianne Malveaux million in that same quarter, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren came close. For some candidates, money isn’t the only issue. Did they meet the thresholds the Democratic Party set for debate qualification? Do they and their advisers think they can win? What are the polls saying? So even though U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand had $14.9 million in the bank when she dropped out of the race last August, she was not polling well and failed to qualify for the September debate. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Cory

Booker did not qualify for the last debate, but he is hanging in the contest. Although Sen. Booker and entrepreneur Andrew Yang are still in the race, the Democratic field is mostly white, and the debate stage on Tuesday, Jan. 14, in Des Moines, Iowa, is likely to be all white. What does that say about progress in this nation? What does it say about the Democratic Party, which presents itself as a big-tent political party that has embraced diversity? For Democrats, there are three keys to winning this election. First, Dems must engage “new voters,” including young people and first-time voters. Next, they must monitor the rules around elections and scrutinize the ways people are removed from the voting rolls. Finally, and most importantly, Democrats must place significant effort on getting out the vote in November — and during the primaries. New voters and communities of color, especially, must be targeted. Election protection organizations have the monitoring issue covered, and there are likely to be

Emancipation Proclamation still under attack Jan. 1 marked the anniversary of a new America. On Jan. 1, 1863, as the Civil War approached the end of its second year, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are and henceforward shall be free.” The proclamation was limited to fit wartime necessities. It applied only to the states that had seceded from and were at war with the United States, leaving slavery untouched in loyal border states. It also exempted the parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. And, of course, the freedom it promised depended on the victory of the North. Yet, the proclamation’s effect was far more expansive than its terms. It transformed the war into a war of freedom. As the U.S. Archives summarizes, “Every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom.” And, of course, it dramatically aided the Union cause, with nearly 200,000 black soldiers and sailors fighting for the Union. The proclamation was the beginning. Upon victory, Congress passed three amendments to the U.S. Constitution — the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — designed to finish the job of transforming the country that was, in the words of President Lincoln, “half slave and half free” to one in which all were guaranteed under the

U.S. Constitution the” blessings of liberty.” The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude. The 14th Amendment began to define the rights of citizens and guaranteed equal protection under the law. The 15th Amendment prohibited discrimination in the right to vote on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” (Ironically, the U.S. Constitution

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. still does not guarantee the right to vote to all.) The amendments, forced upon the defeated Southern states as a condition for re-entry into the Union, launched the Reconstruction that sought for a few short years to bring the country together. Newly empowered African-Americans joined with progressive white people to build coalitions that transformed state constitutions, guaranteeing the right to education and launching programs to provide more equal justice under the law. Sadly, Reconstruction was met with fierce reaction across the South. Segregation masters succeeded the slave masters. The Ku Klux Klan, formed by the elites of Southern communities, terrorized newly freed black people. The right to vote was sabotaged by various tricks and traps, from the poll tax to unequally administered tests on the Constitution, to simple threat and terror. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court to its shame ruled that apartheid — the mythic “separate but equal” standard — was legal in the United States.

By the turn of the century, segregation was the law of the land. It took 100 years and the historic Civil Rights Movement to overturn that reaction and to begin to reclaim the promise of equal justice under the law and revive the right to vote. The civil rights struggle, which united the movement of courageous citizens on the ground with the force of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House, produced, among other legislation, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act that brought America closer to its promise. Today, we once more see reaction against that reconstruction. Racial division, stoked cynically from the highest offices in the land, once more is on the rise. African-Americans, Latinos, Jews, Muslims, gays and women all once more feel the rise of resentment and often of hate. The U.S. Supreme Court has gutted a critical part of the Voting Rights Act. States under reactionary governors are inventing new ways to restrict access to the vote. Will this reaction be as successful as that which undermined the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation? America, I believe, is better than that. Our democracy is stronger than it was then. We can mobilize and vote in large numbers to keep expanding the domain of freedom. During January and beyond, let us remember the Emancipation Proclamation signed by the greatest of our presidents and devote ourselves to redeeming its promise. The writer is founder and president of the national Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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massive get-out-the-vote efforts led by civil society organizations. But what engages new voters? They must feel that the political process reflects them. Already Latino voters are concerned that Democrats aren’t vying for their vote. And AfricanAmerican voters think that the Democratic Party takes them for granted. To engage new voters, perhaps Democrats need to examine their rules to embrace more candidates of color. And they need to fight for legislation that makes it easier to vote. Democrats like to call themselves candidates of the “underdog.” But when billionaires like Tom Steyer and Mr. Bloomberg come sauntering through the door, concern for the underdog seems to go out the window. The writer is an economist, educator and author.

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Readers weigh in on Coliseum and Downtown development proposal ‘There’s no such thing as a “can’t miss” project’

Navy Hill development must restore VCU, and not Richmond residents, the area’s black wealth stands to gain from Navy Hill project

Re: “Thumbs down: City Council-appointed advisory commission rejects $1.5B Coliseum and Downtown redevelopment plan after 3-month review,” Free Press Dec. 26-28 edition: I would like to thank the Navy Hill Development Advisory Commission members for their due diligence and time before deciding that this plan is not a viable option. I know that Mayor Levar M. Stoney, along with some other officials, tried to make it look like a “can’t miss” project at the expense of other agencies. We should have learned from having the Washington professional football team training camp here that there is no such thing as a “can’t miss” project. The projected income from having the Washington team here for summer camp has not materialized. The only thing that has occurred is that Richmond taxpayers are footing a lot of the bill whether they want to or not — and many of us are on a fixed income. I know we have had many public meetings concerning the Navy Hill District Corp.’s Coliseum proposal in order to try to sell this massive project. To me, it did not pass the smell test when I looked deep into how this project would be funded. This is one reason why the advisory commission gave a thumbs down to this project. Why don’t we put a massive amount of money in our public schools so that we can enhance the training of our children who are our future, or deal with the blight of homelessness? They, too, are human beings and many of them need our help. It seems as if we are getting caught up in massive projects and not worrying about social issues such as schools, people, etc. I was told a long time ago if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If half the energy would be exerted to push our school kids forward, we would get a better return for our money. We also can never forget the plight of the people and those who are homeless. They need our help, especially with frigid weather on the horizon. I respectfully ask that things be done for the greater good — the people. ERNEST PARKER JR. Richmond

‘Resolve … to end the violence’ Re “Remembering loved ones,” Free Press Dec. 19-21 edition: Almost every day, it seems another Richmond family is receiving the heartbreaking news that a loved one has been wounded or killed by gunfire. I understand what the family of Markiya Dickson and every other family that has suffered a loss is going through. I feel their pain because I have been dealing with that same pain as the result of the killings of my two sons, Markie Bloomfield and Jerry Bloomfield. I am still grief-stricken that they are gone. Markie was 23 when a man he considered his best friend shot him twice in the back in October 2004. And Jerry was 25 when he was gunned down at his apartment in Whitcomb Court in December 2007 by people who have yet to be identified. I used to be a manager at a Walmart, but the murders of my children have torn me up inside. That is what happens to everyone in my circumstance. Each killing not only results in death, but it also leaves devastated survivors like me. My sons were my life, my family. Their killers took them from me. They have robbed me of the joy of the Christmas season as all I have left are my happy memories rather than my sons being alive and well. In this season when we pray for peace on Earth and good will, I appeal to all to put down your guns and stop this indiscriminate shooting. Think about the terrible impact you are having on the families of those you seek to kill. I also urge people to be careful of those whom they call friends because it only takes one to turn out to be like Judas and turn happiness into tragedy. And for those of you who know something, call the police. Use the tip line to stay nameless, but tell police what you know. The killer or killers of my Jerry are still walking free. His case is a cold file because no one would talk. I, and everyone else who suffers such a loss, need and want to know who did this and why. We remain in limbo until that happens. We need relief and only you who have knowledge can help us find out. All of us need relief from the dread of losing someone to another senseless and unnecessary shooting. This world is hard enough without the misery that comes from such a loss and the hurt that comes from not knowing who did it. As we head into the new year, resolve to do your part to end the violence and to speak up when you know something.

I had a daydream about the Navy Hill project. I imagine walking from my home in Jackson Ward and reaching the Navy Hill development and being in awe of its beauty, but much more so proud that it actually evolved into something awesome because the developers and public officials really listened and took the bold steps to make it a current community of black wealth. I see a revived black-owned bank with its main branch in the Navy Hill District, with a few other branches located throughout Richmond. In my daydreaming, I also see a group of youths with an adult who’s pointing to a 20-story hotel as well as the old Blues Armory and new arena and mentioning that those buildings were designed by black architects who also are involved in the new development in Gilpin Court. I read in the newspaper that the arena has been ranked as one of the top venues in the United States to include black-owned vending. A Virginia Union University hospitality school even has a partnership with the hotel and new arena in providing many of their employees. I also see a mixture of people of various ethnicities and races living, shopping and working in this new Navy Hill development. But what I’m most proud of is that the people involved were actually willing to humble themselves and tone down their ego and do what’s right. The bottom line is this: Real restoration of Navy Hill must be economic restitution in making sure that much of the black wealth destroyed by years of local, state, federal and private development be revived in great measure in this project. STUART M. SPEARS Richmond

‘Tone deaf’ project will burden taxpayers The biggest new Coliseum in Virginia? Hmmmm ... This is possibly the most “tone deaf” proposal in a long list of other Downtown decisions that didn’t go as planned. Find your way off the interstate into Downtown or come to the 260,000-square-foot Coliseum another way, dodging buses and inner-city traffic to find a most likely overpriced parking place. At the end of whatever it was you came to watch, find your car and wait and wait and wait in line to leave your parking spot — if your car wasn’t towed because you parked it somewhere you didn’t think you’d have to pay. And then drive through a city where someone might carjack you at an intersection, or be really daring and wander into an urban space that doesn’t have the best safety record, looking for what? Affordable housing? Or get off the interstate in Henrico County a stoplight away from a 200,000-square-foot Coliseum with no buses or city traffic to dodge on an already existing 24-acre parking lot. Somehow it would seem this contest to have the “biggest” would best be resolved in a locker room with a ruler — a small ruler. The abysmal chance of success of the project for 80 blocks of Downtown by the chief executive officer of Dominion Energy should not burden taxpayers — but it will.

The main beneficiary of the proposed Navy Hill project is Virginia Commonwealth University, not Richmond’s residents. Dominion Energy Chief Executive Officer Tom Farrell II, who also heads the Navy Hill Development Corp., sat on VCU’s Board of Visitors, and his son, Peter Farrell, recently was appointed to the VCU board by Gov. Ralph S. Northam. The newly approved VCU Master Plan quietly includes plans to partner in the Navy Hill development: “VCU and VCU Health System support the project and are exploring potential partnerships.” There exists a tremendous pent-up demand for housing and office space near VCU’s land-locked medical campus. However, the Navy Hill Development Corp. would have us believe that the city-owned land adjacent to the VCU campus is of depressed value and won’t be developed without their help. The city-owned land adjacent to VCU is worth many times the value stated in the Navy Hill proposal. It is unseemly that the city accepted only one bid for the $1.5 billion Navy Hill project from Mr. Farrell’s group. Then, after the bids were closed, the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) zone morphed by 800 percent from 10 blocks to 80 blocks to include Mr. Farrell’s new Dominion tower south of Broad Street. Richmond should not be duped into thinking that the proposed dorm-like studio apartments will help our low-income residents. The project’s ballyhooed 480 new affordable housing units would be occupied largely by students at VCU’s medical campus, which has a large shortage of dorm rooms. Likewise, VCU needs the office and research space that would be built by the growing university, regardless of the Navy Hill project. A new Richmond Coliseum would be a venue for VCU commencements, sporting events and concerts. So why is VCU, which pays no city real estate taxes, putting no “skin in the game” toward building the new Coliseum? It is worth noting that the much-heralded John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville was built by the University of Virginia and not by the City of Charlottesville. The unintended consequence of the Navy Hill District proposal would be to starve city schools of funding while subsidizing a development bonanza for VCU. It would be reckless for Richmond to mortgage all new revenue from 80 prime blocks of its Downtown for the next 30 years for this project. Let’s hope that Richmond City Council votes down this Navy Hill boondoggle. CHARLES POOL Richmond

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Local athletes to share NFL playoff spotlight Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson isn’t the only local athlete making headlines in the NFL playoffs. Another postseason standout is Minnesota Vikings safety Anthony Harris, a fifth-year safety out of Chesterfield’s L.C. Bird High School and the University of Virginia. Harris tied for the NFL lead in interceptions this season, with six, and added another on Sunday in the Vikings’ 26-20 upset over the New Orleans Saints. Wearing No. 41, Harris picked off Saints quarterback Drew Brees in the first half and returned the ball 30 yards, setting up Dalvin Cook’s touchdown run for the Vikings. NFL playoff divisional round

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yards and ran for another 45 yards as Seattle advanced to face the Green Bay Packers. Wilson is joined on the Seattle roster by offensive left tackle Duane Brown from Henrico’s Hermitage High School and Virginia Tech. Brown has been sidelined following a knee injury, but the Seahawks are hopeful he’ll be back for the game against Green Bay on Sunday, Jan. 12. Anthony Harris

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Harris was a brilliant quarterback and defensive back at L.C. Bird while also excelling in basketball. While at U.Va., Harris had 11 career interceptions to go with 289 tackles. Undrafted, he signed with the Vikings in 2015. He currently is working under a one-year contract for $3.095 million. Meanwhile, the beat goes on for the Seahawks’ phenomenal Wilson. Seattle’s motto is “In Russ We Trust” and No. 3 came through again Sunday in the Seahawks’ 17-9 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Wilson, a former Collegiate School standout, passed for 325 Keshon Tabb

Petersburg’s Frank Mason III playing for call up to Bucks’ active roster Frank Mason III is dribbling down the comeback trail with the desired final destination only 88 miles away. The former Petersburg High School and University of Kansas basketball sensation is suiting up for the Wisconsin Herd of the NBA G-League. The Herd is an affiliate of the highflying NBA Milwaukee Bucks, located an 88-mile drive south of the Herd’s home in Oshkosh, Wis. Mason was signed by Milwaukee July 24 after being cut by the NBA’s Sacramento Kings on July 4. “That’s why (the Bucks) got me. They needed another point guard,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. So far, the 25-year-old, 5-foot-11 Mason is tearing up the G-League, averaging 24 points, four rebounds and six assists after 10 outings. He had 22 points, six rebounds and five assists in the Herd’s 111-94 win Jan. 3 over the Windy City Bulls in Chicago. The Herd improved to 16-4. Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Bucks, led by reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, boasted the NBA’s top record, 31-5, through Jan. 4. Mason is operating on a two-way contract with the Bucks, with a guaranteed contract of about $80,000. However, that figure can mushroom with more time spent on the active Milwaukee roster. So far, Mason has dressed only for four

Frank Mason III

games for the Bucks when guards Eric Bledsoe and George Hill were injured. “I love the Bucks’ chances for sure,” Mason told the Journal Sentinel. “They’ll go far.” Mason spent the preseason training with the Bucks in Madison, Wis., and joined several members of the team, including Antetokounmpo, during the Las Vegas Summer League. “I got to play some 1-on-1 with Giannis in Vegas,” Mason said. “He’s a 7-foot bully, unstoppable in transition. He’ll make my job (as point guard) much easier.” Mason, whose nickname “The Phenom” is tattooed on his right forearm, has dazzled everywhere he has laced up his sneakers. He was an All-State guard at Petersburg

High School, twice leading the Wave to the state finals at the Siegel Center. As a senior at the University of Kansas, he was the consensus National Player of the Year and also the winner of the Bob Cousy Award, which goes to the nation’s top point guard. Despite some considerations about his height, he was picked by Sacramento in the second round — 34th overall — of the NBA 2017 draft. In two seasons with the Kings, mostly coming off the bench, he averaged about seven points, three assists and two rebounds. His playing time diminished during his second season. No player wants to be cut. But in Mason’s case, he went from a perennial second division club in Sacramento to a bona fide contender in Milwaukee. The Bucks list five guards on the active roster — Bledsoe, Hill, Sterling Brown, Pat Connaughton and Donte DiVincenzo. As soon as anyone is injured or loses the coach’s confidence, Mason is a quick car ride away. Players with two-way contracts generally are considered the “16th and 17th men.” Mason and Cam Reynolds are the Bucks’ only two-way performers. Oshkosh, famous for its children’s apparel company, OshKosh B’gosh, is a nice place to visit. But in Mason’s case, he hopes to just be passing through while heading for brighter lights.

Ben Stanley steps up for the Hampton Pirates When Jermaine Marrow went down, Hampton University needed a volunteer to step up. Ben Stanley was the first to raise his hand. In Marrow’s absence, the 6-foot-6 Stanley, a red-shirt sophomore from Millwood School in Midlothian, has emerged as an elite player for the Pirates under Coach Buck Joyner. Stanley is the winner of HoopHD.com’s end of year 2019 award as Big South Conference Player of the Year. The accolade is based on performance during the first half of the 2019-20 season. On the season, Stanley, who goes by “Benji,” averages 23 points — hitting 59 percent from the floor — and eight rebounds. Hampton’s fortunes took a terrible setback in November when Marrow, in

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pursuit of Rick Mahorn’s all-time HU scoring record, suffered a broken hand. Marrow was averaging 25 points per game prior to his injury. Since then, Stanley has averaged

29.4 points, including a 40-point burst against Howard University and 33 points against Saint Peter’s University of New Jersey. Stanley, originally from Baltimore, didn’t let off the gas with Marrow’s return last Saturday. In the Big South opener, Stanley had 22 points and 13 rebounds, while Marrow had 14 points and 14 assists in the Pirates’ 92-85 win over visiting Charleston Southern University. Marrow’s 14 assists were one off of the school record of 15 set by Marseilles Brown in 2000. Marrow, a 5-foot-11 guard from Newport News, now has 2,175 career points. Mahorn established the school record of 2,418 from 1976 to 1980. With a healthy Marrow and a surging Stanley, the Pirates threaten to make some noise in their second season in the Big South Conference.

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VUU takes its game on the road Keshon Tabb, a law-abiding citizen by nature, transforms into a pickpocket once he laces up his basketball sneakers. The Virginia Union University sophomore guard from Henrico County’s Hermitage High School is tied for the CIAA lead in steals despite playing less than a half — 19 minutes — per game. Tabb had a whopping 10 steals in the Panthers’ 99-97 win last Saturday over visiting Shaw University. That’s one steal less than the VUU school record of 11 set by Luqman Jaaber in 2004 against St. Paul’s College. “We like to think we have a good defensive team and Keshon is a big part of it,” said Coach Jay Butler. “He puts a lot of pressure on the ball. He’s all over the court.” The Panthers are holding opponents to 40.5 percent shooting from floor. VUU has 125 steals compared to 95 by its opponents. There have been heroes aplenty as VUU has won seven straight games and nine of 10 following a rocky start. Senior guard Terrell Leach leads the CIAA in scoring (21.3 points) and now has scored 1,278 career points in two seasons at Winston-Salem State University and two seasons with VUU. Leach hit a 3-point shot from half court to end the first half of the game against Shaw University. Later, he nailed the deciding 3-pointer at the end of regulation. Leach’s supporting cast includes 6-foot-3 Darian Peterson, who had 13 points against Shaw. Coach Butler prefers athletes from winning backgrounds and Peterson qualifies. He earned All-State honors in helping Chesterfield’s Monacan High School to the 2016 State 4A championship. “Darian’s a big-time talent,” Coach Butler said. “He can score from anywhere and he’s also a solid rebounder. We’re playing him some at the four (strong forward).” A season-long standout has been 6-foot-6 junior Jordan Peebles. He is second to Leach in scoring, while ranking second in the CIAA in field goal percentage (60.4 percent) and fifth in rebounding (8.4). Another player similar to Peebles is 6-foot-7 Raemaad Wright from King Fork High School in Suffolk. Wright averages six points and seven rebounds and leads the Panthers with 23 blocks. More inside help has arrived in 6-foot-8 freshman Micah Campbell from Waldorf, Md. Campbell had eight points, five rebounds and three blocked shots in his first outing against Claflin University. “We planned to red-shirt Micah,” Coach Butler said. “But as the season went on, we felt we needed more help and activated him.” VUU’s success now will be tested on the road. The Panthers began a nine-game road trip Monday at St. Augustine’s University and won’t return to Barco-Stevens Hall on the VUU campus until Feb. 3.

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CIAA Virginia Union University 4-0 Virginia State University 5-1 Bowie State University 1-2 Elizabeth City State University 1-2 Lincoln University of Pennsylvania 0-4

Overall 9-5 10-5 9-6 7-5 2-11

Note: Standings are through Jan. 6. Virginia Union University’s seven game winning streak came to an end Monday with a 79-78 loss at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, N.C. Terrell Leach led the Panthers with 28 points.

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Personality: Dr. Rodney P. Gaines Spotlight on winner of ANBF Mr. Universe bodybuilding and masters competitions Most college professors start their spring semesters re-energized from the holiday break with memories of family gatherings and stories of whirlwind vacations. Dr. Rodney Perry Gaines is heading back to Hampton University with something quite unique under his belt: The titles of Mr. Universe won in December during the American Natural Bodybuilding Federation’s Natural Universe Championship in Key West, Fla. The 52-year-old won the titles in the Male Open Bodybuilding category for all age groups and in the Men’s Bodybuilding masters for his age group of 50 and older. “My body is a lab. I love working out,” says Dr. Gaines, who began competing in bodybuilding events more than 30 years ago. In addition to bodybuilding, he also competes in the sport model, classic physique and physique categories. In 2019 alone, he entered 30 competitions, winning nearly 50 events, including 10 world titles. Those are just the most recent achievements for Dr. Gaines, an assistant professor of kinesiology at Hampton University. In April, he won the ANBF’s Mr. Virginia title, which he’d previously clinched 24 years ago. In May, he also won titles during the One World United Mr./Ms. International USA Championships. His wins are evidence of a renewed commitment to what he calls “my utmost passion at this time in my life,” after a sevenyear hiatus from the sport. Bodybuilding, he says, is “art, science, drama, strength and power, nutrition, cardio, resistance training, flexibility, performing arts, strong optimism and self-esteem all in one. Born in Richmond and raised in Essex County, Dr. Gaines’ interest in the sport began at a young age, spurred by encouragement from his parents. His mother purchased a weight set for him when he was an 85-pound ninth-grader, while his father encouraged him to pursue physical education as a college major after seeing him jog to the bus stop while he was in high school. Although Dr. Gaines first pursued an undergraduate degree in business finance, he later earned a master’s in physical education at Virginia Tech while teaching weight training at the university. He began work on his doctorate in 1998 while working full time in the university’s Department of Recreational Sports. After leaving Virginia Tech in 2002, Dr. Gaines used his knowledge, skills and expertise in a variety of roles and positions at Virginia State and Norfolk State universities. “I enjoyed helping others learn and I enjoyed the authentic approach of demonstrating, modeling and helping others to learn a lifelong skill,” Dr.

Gaines says. While Dr. Gaines continued to earn accolades in a variety of bodybuilding competitions around the globe during this time, he left the sport in 2012, more than a decade after being diagnosed in 2000 with rheumatoid arthritis. He also left Virginia to teach at the University of Rhode Island in 2016. However, substantial weight gain and issues with his arthritis and asthma that he attributed to the colder climate drove Dr. Gaines to return to Virginia in early 2018 and to reassess his choices. He once again committed himself to a healthier lifestyle that was reflected in his bodybuilding. He returned to competition in 2019. Dr. Gaines cites a highly structured schedule as key to how he balances his work and his passtion. He starts with pre-dawn weight training and jogging that flows into full days teaching Hampton University students and nights doing security work or preparing healthy foods. The packed schedule keeps him active and energetic, while setting a good example for those he instructs. “I tell my students, ‘If you can’t do it, you can’t teach it,’ so I feel obligated to be in the best shape for my students,” Dr. Gaines says. Dr. Gaines is preparing now for the AAU World Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships in October. “I know a lot of people are looking and watching to see if I’m going to put all that weight back on,” Dr. Gaines says, “so I’ve got to be Mr. Virginia every day now.” But Dr. Gaines doesn’t seem too worried by those expectations. He says the decades have given him a great amount of “perseverance and discipline” and a philosophy he often imparts to his students: “Stay the course and eventually the fruit of your labor will come forth.” Meet a true champion and this week’s Personality, Dr. Rodney Perry Gaines: Date and place of birth: June 6 in Richmond. Current residence: Norfolk. Occupation: Assistant professor of kinesiology at Hampton University, and part-time armed security officer for Guardus in Virginia Beach. Latest honors: I won the titles of Mr. Universe in the American Natural Bodybuilding Federation’s Natural Universe Championship in December in Key West, Fla. I won in the Male Open Bodybuilding for all age groups and in the Men’s Bodybuilding Masters for my age group of 50 and older. Community involvement: I serve on the bodybuilding and fitness special interest group for the National Strength and Conditioning Association. I also run marathons for charity. Education: Bachelor’s in business finance, 1989; master’s in physical education, 1996; and

Ph.D. in education, curriculum and instruction, all from Virginia Tech. Family: Single, with one brother, Wayne Gaines, and three sisters, Sharon Washington, Glenda Holmes and Darlene Dillard. Why I became a teacher: I decided during my master’s studies at Virginia Tech, where I taught weight training for the school. I enjoyed helping others learn and I enjoyed the authentic approach of demonstrating, modeling and helping others to learn a lifelong skill. Dr. Don Sebolt, my professor at Virginia Tech, influenced me the most, although we were exact opposites. He was a Caucasian who drove a Harley-Davidson, threw darts and was totally personable. He took time with me during the 1990s when I was one of the few African-Americans in the master’s and doctorate program in this field at Virginia Tech. He gave me the confidence to make it through. Teaching philosophy: I believe in starting class with a scripture and devotion. I also believe that you have to incorporate technology at every opportunity possible. I often tell my students, “If you can’t do it, you can’t teach it.” My philosophy stands behind a John Maxwell quote: “Don’t just let your learning lead to knowledge, but let your learning lead to action.” Bodybuilding is: My utmost passion at this time in my life. It’s an art, science, drama, strength and power, nutrition, cardio, resistance training, flexibility, performing arts, strong optimism and self-esteem all in one. It makes me productive in my academic and personal goals. Who or what influenced my interest in bodybuilding: My mother bought me a weight set for Christmas when I was in the ninth grade and only weighed 85 pounds. She must have seen a need. My dad, who moved us a half-mile in the woods in Dunnsville, Va., used to watch me jog to the school bus my junior and senior year at Essex High School in Tappahannock. He told me then that I should

major in physical education. Also at age 17, I saw bodybuilding great Shawn Ray on the cover of a muscle magazine in a convenience store in Center Cross, Va., and that inspired me to want to compete one day. How long have I been competing: Since 1987 — more than three decades. My first show was the AAU Roanoke Valley Bodybuilding Championships held in Roanoke in May 1987. Although I have now won some world championships, my biggest win was in 1995 when I won the AAU Overall Mr. Virginia Bodybuilding Championships in Hampton during my first year as a graduate student at Virginia Tech. It propelled me to who I am today. How many titles won: I have won close to 100 titles in bodybuilding, classic bodybuilding and physique championships. How many competitions in 2019: I set a new world record by competing in 30 competitions in 2019. How many wins in 2019: I won close to 50 first places in 2019 with 10 world titles. I compete in three other categories besides bodybuilding. I also do sport model, classic physique and physique. How long it takes to prepare for competition: If it is someone’s first time, I would encourage them to take a whole year to get ready for their first competition. As long as a veteran stays within 10 to 15 pounds of contest weight, they can get back on stage within 12 to 20 weeks. What does it take to be a bodybuilder: It takes about

four to five hours a day, which includes early morning workouts starting at 4 or 5 a.m. A typical day of a bodybuilder includes the following: • Weight training: 1.5-2 hours • Cardiovascular Training: (running,biking,stepping) 3060 minutes • Posing/Music Routine Preparation: 30-60 minutes a day • Food preparation at night: 2 hours for the next day How I start the day: Reading my one-year Bible and a devotion and a prayer. For the new year, I have started writing in a journal and I try to write down everything I plan to accomplish for the day. I pick two to three things that are essentials and make sure that they get done daily. I think it is substantial to have daily goals that lead to the destination that we are trying to achieve. A perfect day for me is: Getting my devotion in, 1.5 hours in the weight room, two hours of cardio at Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach, teaching and advising my students at Hampton University, reading a book on leadership and providing security services in my community. Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I still play with a game that I created in junior high. I created a baseball, football and basketball by putting outcomes on graphing paper, and I cut the little squares out to make a game for each of the sports. I created teams and even today I will play the solitary games. It’s like a lottery: You draw one of the chips and it dictates the outcomes. It’s pretty unique. It’s a whole other world that I can escape to even 40 years later. A quote that I am inspired by:

“If you work harder on your job than yourself, you will make a living. If you work harder on yourself than the job, you will make a fortune.” — Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. Fortune is not necessarily money, but is good health, peace of mind, wisdom and happiness. My friends describe me as: Kind, serving others and a person who laughs and smiles a lot. At the top of my “to-do” list is: After prayer and devotion, weights and cardio. Best late-night snack: Hot chicken noodle soup and crackers with a Diet Coke. The best thing my parents ever taught me: Love all people and get up and go to work no matter what. The person who influenced me the most: My mother because I watched her work 25 years at the Levi Strauss & Co. plant in Warsaw, Va., at near minimum wage and she still help put me through college. She also was a very confident woman with a middle school education, but she taught me how to survive during tough times even today as I become an old man. Book that influenced me the most: “Your Road Map for Success” by John C. Maxwell. What I’m reading now: “Leadershift” by John C. Maxwell and “Goals: How to Get the Most Out of Your Life” by Zig Ziglar. Next goal: Obtain a grant for a new exercise physiology lab at Hampton University; write a book on the life and lessons of Mr. Virginia; and compete in the AAU World Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships in October.

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Founders Day celebration

Dr. Gwendolyn E. Boyd, an engineer, minister and former president of Alabama State University, delivers the keynote message for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Virginia Statewide 107th Founders Day program last Saturday at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Downtown. More than 1,700 sorority members from across Virginia attended the luncheon to hear Dr. Boyd, a former national president of the sorority from 2000 to 2004. Known as the sorority’s “technology president,” she helped launch Project SEE, Science in Everyday Experiences, an initiative funded by a $1.6 million National Science Foundation grant to promote math and science for African-American middle school girls. The event was hosted by the sorority’s Chesterfield Alumnae Chapter. The sorority was ounded Jan. 13, 1913, by 22 women at Howard University.

Golden Globes so white? Critics blast lack of diversity among winners Free Press wire report

The 2020 Golden Globe Awards, presented Sunday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, drew criticism this week for its lack of winners of color. With the exception of an array of diverse presenters, the awards show was largely white. Even in host Ricky Gervais’ opening monologue at the glitzy event held at the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, the jokes started. “The Hollywood Foreign Press are all very racist,” Mr. Gervais said in explaining why “many talented people of color were snubbed in major categories.” The winners list wasn’t much different. The night started off promising, with Ramy Youssef nabbing best actor in a TV series musical or comedy honors for “Ramy.” But after that, most of the winners were white, spanning film and TV. The nominations included Beyoncé for best original song, “Spirit” from the movie “The Lion King.” She lost to Elton John and Bernie Taupin for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” in the film “Rocketman.” Also nominated were Billy Porter for best actor in a television series for “Pose;” Eddie Murphy for best actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy for “Dolemite Is My Name;” Cynthia

Erivo for best actress in a motion picture, drama for “Harriet,” and “Dolemite Is My Name” for best motion picture, musical or comedy. None won. “So by now we can all agree there’s been a whole lot of white people handing off trophies to other white people, right?” one unhappy

Many believed Ava DuVernay should have received a nod for “When They See Us,” a gutwrenching Netflix series about the five teenage boys of color who were wrongfully convicted of an attack in Central Park in 1989. Awkwafina was the only person of color to win a major film award — for best actress in a musical or comedy for “The Farewell.” She also became the first person of Asian descent ever to win in that Golden Globe category. The parade of winners came in stark contrast to the group of presenters, which offered a more diverse portrait of Hollywood, with Tiffany Haddish, Priyanka Chopra, Kerry Washington and Salma Hayek among a lengthy list of stars to grace the stage. In recent years, Hollywood has made a commitment to foster a more inclusive community in the wake of the nominations anTiffany Haddish Kerry Washington nouncement for the 87th Acadviewer tweeted. emy Awards that launched the #OscarsSoWhite “Golden Globes are so blaringly white and hashtag in 2015. But efforts to put more people male!!! Do better!!!” another person tweeted. of color behind and in front of the camera have There also was flak because no female direc- yet to trickle down in a significant way when it tors were nominated for awards. comes to Hollywood’s top awards.

Johnson Publishing artwork going on auction block Free Press wire report

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One of a series of seven panels produced by Carrie Mae Weems. The collection of framed chromogenic prints, which have text sandblasted into the glass, are estimated to sell for $100,000 to $150,000.

CHICAGO Bankrupt Johnson Publishing Co., the former owner of Ebony and JET magazines, will sell off art that once decorated the company’s Chicago headquarters. Among the art to be auctioned Jan. 30 at a New York gallery will be paintings, sculptures and other works from 75 African-American artists. Among the pieces is an installation by Carrie Mae Weems of seven framed photographs with etched glass that chronicles the migration from the South of thousands of African-Americans seeking to escape Jim Crow laws and anti-black violence. Johnson Publishing filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in April citing debts and unsuccessful attempts to restructure or sell the company. In a July bankruptcy auction, Johnson Publishing sold its Ebony photo archives to a consortium of foundations for $30 million. Its Fashion Fair Cosmetics business was sold in December for $1.85 million. In 2016, Ebony and JET were sold to Clear View Group, a Texas equity firm.

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Activist James Forman walks in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Riverside Church on May 11, 1969. Mr. Forman returned to the church after interrupting a service there earlier that month to deliver The Black Manifesto. Above, members of the congregation file out after Sunday morning worship services at Riverside Church in New York on July 20, 2014. The building is modeled after a 13th century cathedral in Chartres, France.

50 years after â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Black Manifesto,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; religious groups again take up reparations By Matthew J. Cressler and Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

On a Sunday morning in May 1969, as clergy processed into the sanctuary of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s august Riverside Church, civil rights activist James Forman vaulted into the pulpit to demand $500 million in reparations for the mistreatment of African-Americans from white churches and synagogues. At the time, Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interruption represented the high point for the reparations movement. A week before, Mr. Forman had debuted a radical proposal for racial justice known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Black Manifestoâ&#x20AC;? for 500 black activists gathered in Detroit for the National Black Economic Development Conference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know that the churches and synagogues have a tremendous wealth,â&#x20AC;? the manifesto stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and its membership, white America, has profited and still exploits black people.â&#x20AC;? The conference determined, by a 187-63 vote, that it was time for white Christians and Jews to pay reparations and demonstrate a willingness to fight â&#x20AC;&#x153;the white supremacy and racism which has forced us as black people to make these demands.â&#x20AC;? Riverside Church, then a mostly white liberal Protestant congregation whose neo-Gothic landmark building was financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., would be deeply divided over the next few years over Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenge. As the activist brought his manifesto to other congregations and denominations, Riverside established a lecture series and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fund for Social Justiceâ&#x20AC;? that aimed to raise $450,000 over three years to help the poor in the local community. It fell short of the goal by almost $100,000. The Black Manifestoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demands never caught fire in the broader U.S. religious community. The Rev. Gayraud Wilmore, a black Presbyterian leader in New York in 1969, recalled 50 years later how religious institutions responded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw them withering and unable to step forward and say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be the church,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? said Rev. Wilmore, now 98. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw no bold action taken on our side to go along with the bold action Forman was taking.â&#x20AC;? Today, the reparations debate has re-entered the national spotlight, with some religious institutions leading the way.Â Reform Jews, declaring that â&#x20AC;&#x153;racial inequity is present in virtually every aspect of American life,â&#x20AC;? voted overwhelmingly in December to support a U.S. commission to develop proposals for reparations and urged conversations in their congregations to redress systemic racism. In recent months, Virginia Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary and Georgetown University have announced plans to fund initiatives that would benefit the descendants of slaves, while Episcopal dioceses in New York and Long Island made $1 million and $500,000 commitments as reparations committees continued their work. In May, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland votedÂ to study reparations and urge congregations to â&#x20AC;&#x153;examine how their endowed wealth is tied to the institution of slavery.â&#x20AC;? Maryland Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton, who is African-American, said tears came to his eyes when the measure passed at the dioceseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

general convention with no dissenting votes, and he realized that the assembled delegates, representing a membership that is 90 percent white, â&#x20AC;&#x153;got it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They get this thing called justice,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Sutton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And when you put it in a frame that there is a basic injustice in this nation of stealing from generations of people and that has a direct effect on today, then people say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, we got to get that fixed.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Bishop Sutton, who testified before Congress in June with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to advocate for the idea of a U.S. reparations commission, emphasized that reparations can come in many forms. Starting this month, members of his diocese will begin to consider options such as

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providing better access for people of color to home buying, job training and faculty positions at seminaries. It has taken some American religious institutions 50 years to get their heads around reparations. When Mr. Forman hijacked that Sunday morning service, two-thirds of Riverside worshippers, including the minister, stormed out in protest. After activists occupied offices in the Interchurch Center of New York, a court issued restraining orders to bar Mr. Forman from the building. In Missouri, manifesto supporters in St. Louis carried out a series of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Sundayâ&#x20AC;? protests interrupting local services, which led to confrontations with white church members and arrests. The manifesto was quite specific in its demands. Black activists would control the distribution of reparations. The $500 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; soon increased to $3 billion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would be spent on programs designed to ensure black self-determination. These included establishing a Southern land bank, publishing industries, television networks, job training centers, labor unions and a black university. The manifestoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhetoric was just as controversial. Written by Mr. Forman, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the preamble framed reparations in Marxist terms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Time is short,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Forman wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No oppressed people ever gained their liberation until they were ready to fight, to use whatever means necessary, including the use of force and power of the gun to bring down the colonizer.â&#x20AC;? Prominent black and white religious leaders diverged on how to interpret Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call for revolution. The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, who succeeded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Southern Christian Leadership

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Conference, compared Mr. Forman to biblical programs aimed at helping poor black people prophets who spoke truth to power. Writing in The and others. The Presbyterian Committee on the Christian Century, Rev. Abernathy asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Was Self-Development of People, the Evangelical there not even a physical resemblance between Covenant Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fund for Disadvantaged Amos, the dusty-road-weary prophet in his desert Americans of Minority Groups and the Episgarb, and Jim Forman in his dashiki?â&#x20AC;? copal Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s General Convention Special The response from some white denomina- Program all were created around the time of tions was outright rejection. The Southern Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action. Baptist Convention dismissed the manifesto as The Rev. Dominique DuBois Gilliard, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;outrageous.â&#x20AC;? The Roman Catholic Archdiocese current director of the Evangelical Covenant of New York called it un-American and touted Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;racial righteousness and reconciliits own programs for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;needy and disadvan- ationâ&#x20AC;? ministry, recently reflected on how this tagedâ&#x20AC;? instead. kind of response â&#x20AC;&#x153;enacted a very problematic The American Jewish Committee, which as erasure of the black freedom struggle.â&#x20AC;? part of the Interreligious Foundation for ComMet with the manifestoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demands, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the munity Organization had helped organize the Covenant found it more palatable to shift the National Black Economic Deconversation to marginalization velopment Conference, withdrew in general,â&#x20AC;? Rev. Gilliard wrote from the IFCO. Rabbi Marc H. in the May/August edition of Tanenbaum, IFCOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first presiits Covenant Quarterly, which dent, resigned, stating he could focused on the 50th anniversary not â&#x20AC;&#x153;in conscience stand by in of the manifesto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This response silence and appear â&#x20AC;Ś to give ashas strong parallels to proclamasent to the revolutionary ideology tions that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;All Lives Matterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in and racist rhetoric of the Black response to the declaration â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Black Manifesto.â&#x20AC;? Lives Matter.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Other denominations were There has been a shift in remore ambivalent. The Reformed cent years, however, which Rev. Church in America invited Mr. Gilliard has helped encourage. Forman to address its general The ECC Resolution on Racism, Rev. Peabody synod after he occupied the depassed in June, insists that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the nominationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters a time is right for white clergy to month after his action at Riverside Church. attend to the sins of our own community and The Rev. Rand Peabody, a 22-year-old white make a public commitment to prioritize antiraseminarian who had been slated to give the cism work within our ministerium.â&#x20AC;? sermon the next day, revised his sermon after Nell Braxton Gibson, a member and former hearing news of Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;liberationâ&#x20AC;? of chair of the Episcopal Diocese of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the RCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices. Reparations Committee, recalled that in the wake â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember I said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a time for us to of Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s declaration â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which resulted feel either blamed or shamed and certainly not in the Episcopal Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $200,000 donation to a time to feel futile,â&#x20AC;? Rev. Peabody, now 73, the National Committee of Black Churchmen said in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our denomination, in his â&#x20AC;&#x201D; members of her Manhattan church created eye, did indeed have the power to play a part a Black and Brown Caucus. After receiving the and we should accept that as almost a commis- $30,000 they demanded from their St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sioning of the denomination to indeed step up Church-in-the-Bowery, they developed a free to the plate and get involved in more focused breakfast program for children, a summer â&#x20AC;&#x153;liberaand proactive ways.â&#x20AC;? tion schoolâ&#x20AC;? that taught minority children their Like other denominations, the RCA didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ancestorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; history and a prison law library. accede to Mr. Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demand that reparaFifty years on, reparations often are framed tions be handed over freely. Instead, the synod as spiritual tests as much as financial ones. The voted to create a $100,000 fund â&#x20AC;&#x153;to be disbursed year 2019 was designated the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Year of Apolaccording to the decisionsâ&#x20AC;? of a newly formed ogyâ&#x20AC;? by the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Black Council. The council then rejected the and each Sunday Ms. Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s congregation money. has said a prayer that includes this sentence: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just basically wanted to be at the â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the many ways â&#x20AC;&#x201D; social, economic and table where decisions are being made and not political â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that white supremacy has accrued considered an auxiliary or an offshoot or a benefits to some of us at the expense of others, secondhand portion of the denomination,â&#x20AC;? said we repent.â&#x20AC;? the Rev. Dwayne Jackson, a Hackensack, N.J., Soon, the diocesan reparations committee a pastor who was a panelist at an RCA event will consider a number of possible next steps, commemorating the manifesto in October, titled such as a truth and reconciliation commission â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfinished Business.â&#x20AC;?Â or education and health care initiatives. Rev. Jackson, who knew some members of Likewise, Bishop Sutton said the Episcopal the council from his childhood church in the diocese in Maryland is moving methodically Bronx, said the staffer hired to oversee the after years of conversation about reparations to council was the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first black executive. figure out how that will be lived out financially Today, people of color comprise a third of the and otherwise. RCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive leadership team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have all the solutions. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Other denominations acknowledged the griev- know everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to fix the problem ances raised by the manifesto but rejected the and so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be humble in even what solutions it proposed and even the language of we think we can accomplish,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, by â&#x20AC;&#x153;reparations.â&#x20AC;? Instead, they created or continued God, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do something.â&#x20AC;?

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B4 January 9-11, 2020

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Former Richmonder Beatrice O. Scott dies at 77

Celebrating freedom

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The Rev. Darran Brandon, pastor-elect of First Calvary Baptist Church of Norfolk, challenges his audience of more than 300 people to remain positive and trust that God will enable them to weather current challenges in his address Jan. 1 at the annual Emancipation Proclamation Day Worship Celebration as the Rev. Melvin Shearin of Great Hope Baptist Church stands in support. Below, Nellie Crump Thomas prays at the New Year’s Day program at Fifth Baptist Church in the West End. The audience included leaders of Richmond City Council and the School Board, incoming Richmond state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi and other area elected officials. The Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Richmond and Vicinity, led by the Dr. Emanuel C. Harris, hosts the event to remember the day when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Civil War proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, freeing slaves in the South. The Rev. Ricardo Brown, co-pastor of Fifth Baptist Church, served as chair of the program that also raises money for area NAACP branches.

Former Richmonder Beatrice Odom Scott went off to Baltimore where she earned recognition for her roles in education, political and neighborhood affairs. Though she kept an eye on Richmond, where she grew up, through the Maggie L. Walker High School Alumni Association, Mrs. Scott won applause for her efforts to create community betterment in Maryland’s largest city. Mrs. A longtime teacher in the Baltimore school system, Mrs. Scott maintained her passion for education after retiring by advocating for Baltimore City Community College and creating a program to encourage Baltimore students to write called the Storybook Project. Mrs. Scott also served as president of the Ashburton Area Association where she lived, was a founding member of the ForWinAsh Garden Club and taught Sunday School and sang in the choir at Heritage United Church of Christ.

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"APTIST #HURCH 2604 Idlewood Avenue Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Pastor Rev. Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. Pastor Emeritus

SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:45 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 A.M.

Faith leaders call for de-escalation after missile strike kills Iranian general Religion News Service

Concern about the growing tensions between the United States and Iran has been bubbling within the Vatican, as Pope Francis and other faith leaders urge global leaders to employ self-restraint and dialogue. “Dear brothers and sisters, in many parts of the world there is a terrible feeling of tension in the air,” Pope Francis told the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square after his Angelus prayer on Sunday. “War brings only death and destruction,” Pope Francis continued. “I call upon all parties involved to fan the flame of dialogue and self-control, and to banish the shadow of enmity.” Though Pope Francis did not refer directly to Iran or the United States, the timing of his words coincided with the rising hostility between the two countries, which led Vatican observers to view the pope’s words as a direct appeal to the two parties in question. On Dec. 3, President Trump ordered a targeted strike in Iraq against Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who the president said posed an “immediate threat” against American lives. Gen. Soleimani, who kept a low profile for most of his influential military career, was considered a terrorist by the United States, but not by a large part of the international community, including Iran, where he was deemed something of a “national hero.” After the assassination, the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised a “tough revenge” America. Progressive faith leaders, such as the Rev. William J. Barber II, a member of the national board of the NAACP,

decried the missile strike as a rash decision. “Please don’t just blame Trump for where we are now,” tweeted Rev. Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. “Name all those who have lied for him, upheld him, covered for him, put false religion around him, & enabled him. If we end up in war, there must not be selective amnesia. Anyone who didn’t speak up bears the blame.” The Quakers’ advocacy arm in Washington, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, condemned what it called the assassination of Gen. Soleimani and called on Congress to “assert itself as a voice for peace, for the good of people here and abroad.” Others, such as Imam Mohammad Elahi, a Shia interfaith leader in Detroit who was reportedly born in Iran, also stressed the need for peace. “The Quran reminds us that this life is a testing struggle and the patients are promised God’s good news!” he wrote. “Let’s pray no more war escalation between Iran and the US! There was no reason for any of these tensions!” Another Muslim voice, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, suggested in an Arabic language tweet that President Trump may attempt to use the event to “cover his impeachment trial and reelection campaign in 2020.” But several evangelical leaders who have been stalwart supporters of President Trump, defended the assassination. The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and stalwart supporter of Trump, tweeted his affirmation of the strike, broadcasting the White House’s justification for Gen. Soleimani’s death, but

did not specifically discuss the potential for war. “Qassem Soleimani was responsible for countless deaths inside & outside Iran & was actively planning more terrorist attacks,” Rev. Graham tweeted. “We need to pray that God would give (President Trump) wisdom & protect him, his family, & our troops in that region from evil.”

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Her multiple roles are being remembered following her death Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Baltimore. She was 77. Family and friends will celebrate her life at a memorial service on Saturday, Jan. 11, at Heritage United. Born in New York, Mrs. Scott grew up in Richmond. After graduating from Maggie L. Walker High School in 1960 and later Hampton University, Scott she began teaching. She spent a year teaching in Tokyo before moving to Baltimore with her first husband, Edward G. Carroll Jr., an Air Force officer. After their marriage ended, she married Patrick O. Scott, a political strategist in Baltimore. She was involved in political campaigns in supporting his work. Survivors include two sons, Edward “Ted” Carroll III and Scott J. Carroll, and a grandson.

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3HARON "APTIST #HURCH 500 E. Laburnum Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222 www.sharonbaptistchurchrichmond.org (804) 643-3825 Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles, Pastor

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2020 8:30 a.m. ....Sunday School 10:00 a.m. ...Morning Worship

Broad Rock Baptist Church 5106 Walmsley Blvd., Richmond, VA 23224 804-276-2740 • 804-276-6535 (fax) www.BRBCONLINE.org

Early Morning Worship ~ 8 a.m. Sunday School ~ 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship ~ 11 a.m. 4th Sunday Uniﬁed Worship Service ~ 9:30 a.m. Bible Study: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. & 7 p.m. Sermons Available at BRBCONLINE.org

“MAKE IT HAPPEN” Pastor Kevin Cook

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Good Shepherd Baptist Church

“Working For You In This Difficult Hour”

1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223-6624 s Office: (804) 644-1402 Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You” Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday) 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

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Thirty-first Street Baptist Church

THURSDAYS WEDNESDAYS 1:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. ..... Prayer Service Bible Study 6:30 p.m. ..... Bible Study

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Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Founder (Dec. 19, 1938 - Dec. 9, 2006) Joseph Jenkins, III. • Jason K. Jenkins • Maxine T. Jenkins

New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

1701 Turner Road, North Chesterfield, Virginia 23225 (804) 276-0791 office (804)276-5272 fax www.ndec.net

THIRD SUNDAY 10:30 a.m. Children’s Church Higher Achievement

24th Founders’ and Church Anniversary

823 North 31st Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 226-0150 Office

Bishop G. O. Glenn D. Min., Pastor

2300 Cool Lane, Richmond, Virginia 23223 804-795-5784 (Armstrong High School Auditorium)

Upcoming Events Movie at Mosby

Friday, January 10, 2020 @ 12 Noon

Installation of Officers

Saturday, January 12, 2020 Weekly Worship: Sundays @ 10:30 A.M. Church School: Sundays @ 9:00 A.M. Bible Study: Wednesdays @ Noon & 6:30 P.M.

Reverend Dr. Lester D. Frye Pastor and Founder

2901 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 648-2472 ~ www.mmbcrva.org Dr. Price London Davis, Senior Pastor

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war

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Jesus went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people. - Matthew 4:23

Friday, January 24, 2020 7:30 P.M. Sunday, January 26, 2020 9:00 A.M

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Noonday Bible Study 12:00 p.m. (Noon) Sanctuary - All Are Welcome! Wednesday Evening Bible Study 7:00 p.m. (Bible Study)

CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (NDCA)

SATURDAY

Accepting applications for children 2 yrs. old to 5th Grade

8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

You can now view Sunday Morning Service “AS IT HAPPENS” online! Also, for your convenience, we now offer “full online giving.” Visit www.ndec.net.

ENROLL NOW!!! Our NDCA curriculum also consists of a Before and After program. Now Enrolling for our Nursery Ages 6 weeks - 2yrs. old. For more information Please call (804) 276-4433 Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Richmond Free Press

January 9-11, 2020 B5

Legal Notices Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER FABIENNE KEBREAU Plaintiff v. BERNARD DEJEAN, Defendant. Case No.: CL19003925-00 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 24th day of February, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO KRISTY LORAINE JENKINS Plaintiff, v. DAVID LAMON JENKINS, Defendant. Case No.: CL19-6498-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION Came this day the Plaintiff, upon her Complaint for divorce filed in the abovestyled case and her Affidavit for Order of Publication for service of the Complaint on the Defendant. The object of this suit is to put the Defendant on notice of the Plaintiff’s Complaint for divorce in the above-styled case. It appearing from Plaintiff’s Affidavit that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of the Defendant and that the Defendant’s whereabouts are unknown, it is ORDERED that the Defendant is required to appear before this Court on or before March 2, 2020 at 9 a.m. to protect his interests. An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk Benjamin R. Rand, Esquire Blackburn, Conte, Schilling & Click, P.C. 300 West Main Street Richmond, Virginia 23220 (804) 782-1111 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO DIEGO RIVOLLI RODRIGUES Plaintiff, v. GILVANE BATISTA DOS SANTOS, Defendant. Case No.: CL17004976-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation and without any interruption, for a period of more than one year. It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Defendant, GILVANE BATISTA DOS SANTOS, is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that her last known address is not within the United States, it is therefore ORDERED that Defendant, GILVANE BATISTA DOS SANTOS, appear before this Court on or before the 11th day of February, 2020, and do what is necessary to protect her interests in this suit. An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk Mary P. Adams, Esquire Hairfield Morton, P.L.C. 2800 Buford Road, Suite 201 Richmond, Virginia 23235 (804) 320-6600 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MIKHAIL KURYLENAK Plaintiff v. DINA VALEEVA, Defendant. Case No.: CL19003747-00 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, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CHRISTIAN WORKERS COUNCIL, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4509 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 13 East Broad Rock Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-1345/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Christian Workers Council, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHRISTIAN WORKERS COUNCIL, INC, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, 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 CHRISTIAN WORKERS COUNCIL, INC, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before febrUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

described as 5210 Clarence Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0060369/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, L. R. T. Garrett. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, L. R. T. GARRETT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that TYLER GARRETT and JACQUELINE G. MATTHEWS, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that L. R. T. GARRETT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, T Y L ER G A RRE T T , JACQUELINE G. MATTHEWS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ERNEST U. LOGAN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3962 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3519 1st Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001173/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ernest U. Logan and Doris L. Logan. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ERNEST U. LOGAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, DORIS L. LOGAN, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ERNEST U. LOGAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DORIS L. LOGAN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ERNEST U. LOGAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DORIS L. LOGAN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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

JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JAMES RICHARDSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3925 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2120 Selden Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120259/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, James Richardson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAMES RICHARDSON, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that JAMES RICHARDSON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DOORWAY, LLC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4508 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5215 Blue Ridge Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100110/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Doorway, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DOORWAY, LLC, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PAUL S. ELKIN, TRUSTEE of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-7274 on March 3, 2003, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that SILVER CONSTRUCTION CAPITAL, LLC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-7274 on March 3, 2003, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that DOORWAY, LLC, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, PAUL S. ELKIN, TRUSTEE of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-7274 on March 3, 2003, SILVER CONSTRUCTION CAPITAL, LLC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Credit Line Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-7274 on March 3, 2003, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. L. R. T. GARRETT, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4243 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. HENDERSON HOMES, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4513 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4204 Lynhaven Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0090225/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Henderson Homes, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HENDERSON HOMES, INC, 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; that JOHN S. SMART, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 233 page 802 on April 18, 1990, , has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ALEX H. PINCUS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 233 page 802 on April 18, 1990, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that MARGARET A. WHITLOCK, upon information and belief deceased, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 233 page 802 on April 18, 1990, 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 HENDERSON HOMES, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, JOHN S. SMART, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 233 page 802 on April 18, 1990, ALEX H. PINCUS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 233 page 802 on April 18, 1990, MARGARET A. WHITLOCK, upon information and belief deceased, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 233 page 802 on April 18, 1990, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ERNEST U. LOGAN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3961 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3515 1st Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001173/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ernest U. Logan and Doris L. Logan. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ERNEST U. LOGAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, DORIS L. LOGAN, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ERNEST U. LOGAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DORIS L. LOGAN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ED TURNAGE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3861 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3057 Hull Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-1582/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ed Turnage. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ED TURNAGE, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his two last known addresses, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that VICKIE FITTS, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ED TURNAGE, VICKIE FITTS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ERNEST U. LOGAN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3960 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3513 1st Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001173/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ernest U. Logan and Doris L. Logan. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ERNEST U. LOGAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, DORIS L. LOGAN, who has been served by posting

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. RUBY B. SIMPSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4244 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2812 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001123/00, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ruby B. Simpson, Donald W. Anderson, Margaret B. Neville aka Margaret B. Bolling, Lewis M. Bobbitt, Jr. and Rodney Bobbitt. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RUBY B. SIMPSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, DONALD W. ANDERSON and RODNEY BOBBITT, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, LEWIS M. BOBBITT, JR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that RUBY B. SIMPSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DONALD W. ANDERSON, RODNEY BOBBITT, LEWIS M. BOBBITT, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. GLORIA D. SAVAGE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1052 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2807 Barry Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001229/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Gloria D. Savage. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GLORIA D. SAVAGE, 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 GLORIA D. SAVAGE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. GERARD E. HINDS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-642 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2407 East Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia, , Tax Map Number E0000337/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Gerard E. Hinds and Carolyn S. Eyler. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GERARD E. HINDS, 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 GERARD E. HINDS and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CHRISTOPHER ALLEN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-5025 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2016 Carver Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0001237/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Christopher Allen. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that CHRISTOPHER ALLEN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM E. CARRINGTON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4507 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1908 North 29th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120427/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, William E. Carrington and Marian H. Carrington. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WILLIAM E. CARRINGTON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and MARIAN H. CARRINGTON, 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 WILLIAM E. CARRINGTON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MARIAN H. CARRINGTON, upon information and belief

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. PATRICIA MACK, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4527 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2313 Warwick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071629/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Patricia Mack. An Affidavit having been filed that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DORSEY A. WILLIAMS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3391 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1613 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000860/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Dorsey A. Williams and James Brown. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DORSEY A. WILLIAMS, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that, AVCO MORTGAGE AND ACCEPTANCE, INC, an entity withdrawn from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission p k a AVCO F i n a n c i a l Services, Beneficiary per a Notice of Corporate Assignment of Deed of Trust filed at Instrument Number 99-22535 on August 11, 1999has 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 DORSEY A. WILLIAMS, AVCO MORTGAGE AND ACCEPTANCE, INC, an entity withdrawn from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission p k a AVCO F i n a n c i a l Services, Beneficiary per a Notice of Corporate Assignment of Deed of Trust filed at Instrument Number 99-22535 on August 11, 1999, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. LORAINE P. COCKRELL, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4526 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1016 North 2nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000085/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Loraine P. Cockrell, Lena P. McPhatter, Bernard L. Peterson, and Gregory Steptoe. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, LORAINE P. COCKRELL, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LENA P. MCPHATTER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and BERNARD L. PETERSON, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, GREGORY STEPTOE, 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 LORAINE P. COCKRELL, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LENA P. MCPHATTER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BERNARD L. PETERSON, Continued on next page

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JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GREGORY STEPTOE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste:Â Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â City of Richmond,Â Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

on February 5, 1993, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste:Â Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â City of Richmond,Â Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that DELANO FRANCIS KELLUM, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DIANA LYNN MIX, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste:Â Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â City of Richmond,Â 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. KONSTANTINOS TYRAS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-3913 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 120 East 20th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000293/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Konstantinos Tyras. Â An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, KONSTANTINOS TYRAS, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that KONSTANTINOS TYRAS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste:Â Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â City of Richmond,Â 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. SABRINA M. WALTERS, et al, Defendants. Case No.:Â CL19-4510 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5416 Campbell Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, E010-0138/027, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Sabrina M. Walters.Â An Affidavit having been filed that BETTY Z. JENKINS, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 314 page 1209 on 24 August 1992, for beneficiary Statewide Funding Corporation, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, as listed on an assignment and transfer filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 334 page 949 on February 5, 1993, or her successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STATEWIDE FUNDING CORPORATION, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary as listed on an Assignment and Transfer filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 334 page 949 on February 5, 1993, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that BETTY Z. JENKINS, upon information and belief deceased, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 314 page 1209 on 24 August 1992, for beneficiary Statewide Funding Corporation, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, as listed on an assignment and transfer filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 334 page 949 on February 5, 1993, or her successor/s in title, STATEWIDE FUNDING CORPORATION, an entity purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, Beneficiary as listed on an Assignment and Transfer filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 334 page 949 Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. FAITH FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER, et al, Defendants. Case No.:Â CL19-4549 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2114 Warwick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071682/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Faith Family Worship Center aka Faith Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ. Â An Affidavit having been filed that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â 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. MARY L. FERGUSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.:Â CL19-4512 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1817 Keswick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0070982/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mary L. Ferguson. Â An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MARY L. FERGUSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that MARY L. FERGUSON, 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 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste:Â Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â City of Richmond,Â 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. DENA WADELL, et al, Defendants. Case No.:Â CL19-3914 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 712 Hill Top Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0053307/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Dena Wadell aka Dena Ray Lanier Luck, and Lyn Bryant Lanier. Â An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DENA WADELL aka DENA RAY LANIER LUCK, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JOHN R. GOOD, MD, PC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and hasÂ not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;? IT IS ORDERED that DENA WADELL aka DENA RAY LANIER LUCK, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JOHN R. GOOD, MD, PC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before FEBRUARY 13, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste:Â Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.Â City of Richmond,Â Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

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Notice of Funding Availability for

Affordable Housing Trust Fund The City of Richmond is excited to announce a pilot loan program for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF). The Pilot will be a competitive low interest loan. The AHTF will be used to assist and support with housing projects that are aligned with the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s priorities to increase the supply of quality affordable housing units in the City. All Affordable Housing Trust Fund applications must be for projects that have a direct impact on low and moderate income City residents. AHTF funds may not be used to supplant existing commitments of permanent financing. There will be two application workshops held at the Main Street Station located at 1500 E. Main Street, Suite 400 on January 13, 2020. The workshop will begin at 10am until 12pm and 5pm to 6:30pm. Application packages will also be available on January 13th on the City of Richmond websites: http://www.richmondgov.com/index.aspx, and at Main Street Station 1500 E. Main Street. All Project/Program funding requests must be submitted on the current application form. All applicants must submit two (2) hard copies of the application and all attachments to the Department of Housing and Community Development, 1500 E. Main Street, Suite 400 Richmond, VA 23219. All proposals and applications must be received no later than 4:00 PM on Friday, January 31, 2020. Faxes, e-mails and late submissions will not be accepted. Please direct all questions to the Department of Housing and Community Development at 804-646-1766. The City of Richmond does not discriminate on the basis of disability status in the admission or access to its programs. Virginia Relay Center - TDD users dial 711.

Public Notice

Hearings will be held at the: Âˇ MPO Technical Committee Meeting on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Âˇ MPO Policy Board Meeting on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. The Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO will host a public hearing on:

Amendments to the FY 2018-2021 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) VDOT requested the following amendments: Âˇ Add $2,130,713 (NHPP) to Grouping, Maintenance: Preventive Maintenance and System Preservation Âˇ Add $3,076,190 (STP/STBG) & $1,000,000 (NHPP) to Grouping, Maintenance: Preventive Maintenance for Bridges Âˇ Add $6,096,711 (STP/STBG) to Grouping, Maintenance: TrafďŹ c Safety Operations Charlottesville Area Transit requests the following amendment: Âˇ Charlottesville Area is requesting a TIP amendment to replace one FY20 Project, upgrading its On-Board Surveillance System, with the purchase of an Automatic Passenger Counter System (APC) for its ďŹ&#x201A;eet of 36 buses. The amount, $595,000, will stay the same. The TIP document outlines the project schedule and funding breakdown for regional transportation projects that are currently underway. Information for the FY18-FY21 can be found at (http://campo.tjpdc.org/process-documents/tip/). The hearings will be held at the Water Street Center, 407 East Water Street, Charlottesville. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. Comments may also be submitted via telephone, email or letter to the MPO: POB 1505, Charlottesville, VA 22902; phone (434) 979-7310; email: info@tjpdc.org. Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) uses the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) development process of the TJPDC Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to satisfy the public hearing requirements of 49 U.S.C. Section 5307(c). The TIP public notice of public involvement activities and time established for public review and comment on the TIP satisďŹ es the program-of-projects requirements of the Urbanized Area Formula Program.

Friendship Baptist Church in Hopewell, Virginia Seeking a part time Director/Minister of Music Only qualified applicants with a degree or equal in music should apply. Please send resumĂŠ with references to: 1305 Arlington Road Hopewell, VA 23860 or email at fbchopewellva@gmail.com Attention Chairman, Trustee Ministry. Closing date January 17, 2019.

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LICENSE La Cabana NC LLC Trading as: La Cabana 4086 Crockett St. Henrico County, Virginia 23228-4114 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C o n tr o l (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer on Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Natividad Castro and Jose Ramos, member 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.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DELANO FRANCIS KELLUM, et al,Â Defendants. Case No.: CL19-4294 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1418 Enfield Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071228/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Delano Francis Kellum. Â An Affidavit having been filed that said owner DELANO FRANCIS KELLUM, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, @FreePressRVA have not been located and have not filed a response @FreePressRVA @FreePressRVA to this action; that DIANA @FreePressRVA LYNN MIX, who may have an ownership interest in said @RichmondFreePressUSA property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last @FreePressRVA known address, has not been @RichmondFreePressUSA @RichmondFreePressUSA 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 @RichmondFreePressUSA @RichmondFreePressUSA

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Rio Grande LLC Trading as: Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant 7128 Hull Street Road Chesterfield County, Virginia 23235 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C o n tr o l (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer and Mixed Beverages on Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Jose Galo, Managing Member 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.

CONTACT: Lucinda Shannon 434-979-0654 Ishannon@tjpdc.org

Thank you for your interest in applying for opportunities with The City of Richmond. To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com. EOE M/F/D/V

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FULL-TIME SENIOR PASTOR Thirty-first Street Baptist Church of Richmond VA, located in historic Church Hill, seeks a full-time senior pastor. The pastorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education, training, and experience should include seminary degree(s) and a minimum of three years in a ministerial leadership role serving in a Baptist church. The pastor will be responsible for church leadership, both spiritual and biblical, through preaching, teaching, training, counseling and evangelism. Demonstrating godly leadership and keen administrative skill, the pastor will minister to the current needs of the church, while preparing and equipping the fellowship with the tools to assist membership sustainability for the next generation church. The pastor will work collaboratively with the Trustees, Deacons, Deacons Auxiliary Ministry, staff and congregation to uphold and cultivate the church mission and vision while developing disciples. The deadline for accepting applications is January 17, 2020. Candidate should include easily accessible links to videos of two recent sermons. Mail resumes to: THIRTY-FIRST STREET BAPTIST CHURCH 823 N. Thirty-first Street Richmond, Virginia 23223 ATTN: Pastor Search Committee Email resumes to: info@31sbc.org

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