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‘In need of prayer’ Hanover NAACP turns to faith protest to counter KKK

City Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell registered her protest against new restrictions on City Council members directly contacting city administrative staff by publicly announcing the cell phone numbers of Mayor Levar M. Stoney and other top officials. Her protest came at the end of

faith and Hanover communities, to attend the protest outside the county administration building at 7516 County Complex Road. A note sent by Mr. Barnette to NAACP members asked that they “come with church hymns instead of signs and protest chants” to avoid distracting “from the spirit of the protest.” The plan also called for protesters to move inside the county building for the Hanover Board of Supervisors meeting at 7 p.m. It asked that anyone signed up to speak during the board’s public comment period offer a prayer. Mr. Barnette, however, stated in a later email that protesters were free to follow their own ideas. But, he added, “I feel that this is an effective method of calling attention to the actions of the KKK and the timid response from the chair of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors,” Mr. Barnette stated. “In my opinion, these leaders in Hanover County are in need of prayer to make better decisions and seek the wisdom on how to respond to hate speech.” The Rev. Kevin L. Chandler, president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, issued a news release earlier this week calling for the Hanover County Board of Supervisors and its chairman, W. Canova A. Peterson, Hanover Sheriff David R. Hines, County Administrator Cecil R. Harris Jr. and other top officials to denounce the Klan’s “displays of hatred and make public announcements that Hanover County will not tolerate these behaviors.” Rev. Chandler and Mr. Barnette expressed concern about the KKK recruitment rally that took place at Hanover Courthouse on the Fourth of July weekend. According to reports, about a dozen members of the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the KKK paraded on public property outside the courthouse, some wearing full KKK regalia of robes and hoods. Rev. Chandler said it was the second time the KKK group had

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The Hanover County Branch NAACP planned to protest the county’s tepid response to a Ku Klux Klan rally held at the county courthouse earlier this month by praying and singing hymns at a Hanover County Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday night. The NAACP rally was scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, after the deadline for this week’s edition of the Richmond Free Press. Robert N. Barnette Jr., president of the Hanover NAACP, stated in an email Tuesday that he expected members of the civil rights organization, as well as members of the

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Shawn Brooks, 13, of Henrico takes a boxer’s stance during a recent weeklong boxing camp for young people at Cherry Pick’d Boxing & Fitness on North Side. The camp was sponsored by two nonprofits, Breaking Barriers and First Contractors Inc.

Cherry Pick’d yields crops of good fighters, people By Fred Jeter

Cherry Pick’d Boxing & Fitness is where young people go to work up a sweat, release frustrations and get a handle on life. It’s official address is 2300 N. Lombardy St. in the city’s North Side. But considering the gym’s mission, a more apropos address might be at the intersection of High Hopes and Second Chances. “We’re all about betterment,” said Tony Cherry, the head coach and financier of the project. “We deal with many at-risk kids, some even with ankle bracelets. But we’re into producing good fighters and good people.” Results are encouraging on both fronts.

For those interested in signing up, Cherry Pick’d is directly across the street from Virginia Union University’s Barco-Stevens Hall. Mr. Cherry said he’ll keep the light on for you, but come prepared. Training takes place in a no-frills building with two garage doors left wide open to assist with ventilation. Before it was a boxing gym, it was a small factory for manufacturing picnic tables. All of the tangible essentials are available to become a pugilist — weight-lifting apparatus, treadmills, elliptical machines, heavy bags, speed bags and maize bags. There’s a rubbery, bouncy floor, which is easier on young legs. That gear doesn’t exercise itself, however. It’s the Please turn to A4

Conservative school rezoning calls for no closures in city

The work of the committee — made up of two community members from each City Council North of the James River, Richmond appears district along with several administration and to have too many school buildings and could School Board members — essentially is the easily close one high school, a middle school and first phase of the process that is to culminate at least one elementary school in Church Hill. with board approval of the zones that would Meanwhile, in South Side, Richmond Public go into effect in the fall of 2020, when a new Schools will be short at least one elementary school middle school and two new elementary schools even after a new 1,000-student E.S.H. Greene are to open. Mr. Kamras Elementary School opens in September 2020. The committee is to meet again 6 to 8 p.m. That’s the picture emerging from the data on school capac- Tuesday, July 30, at Thomas Jefferson High School. ity and enrollment now posted on the RPS website. The data Committee members are mulling over the data that, for was issued last month to the 24-member schools’ Rezoning example, show that the three high schools north of the Advisory Committee that is charged with recommending to river, Armstrong, Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall, can the Richmond School Board changes in attendance zones accommodate a combined total of 3,773 students, but are for the city’s 25 elementary schools, eight middle schools Please turn to A4 and five comprehensive high schools. By Jeremy M. Lazarus

City Council appoints leaders of Coliseum advisory commission By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Two Richmond residents with extensive experience in development have been named to lead an advisory commission to review the $1.4 billion proposal to replace the Richmond Coliseum. City Council voted to appoint Pierce R. Homer, a former state secretary of transMr. Homer portation for two Virginia governors with a track record of involvement in public and private development projects, and John Gerner, a leisure industry consultant who has worked on international projects, to lead the future nine-member Navy Hill Development Advisory Commission. City Council named Mr. Homer, who lives in North Side, as chairman, and Mr. Gerner, who lives in Church Hill, as vice chair.

The appointments came Monday, during the council’s meeting at which the governing body also approved sweeping changes to zoning in Downtown and North Side and also honored former Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring, outgoing Richmond International Airport President and CEO John Mathiasen and volunteers engaged in restoring historic Evergreen Mr. Gerner Cemetery in the East End. Mr. Homer and Mr. Gerner, who were not present for the vote, still need to be sworn in to begin their work. Once sworn in, the two would then nominate and send for approval to the council the names of the seven other people to serve on the Please turn to A4

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Former Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring looks over the certificate of appreciation he received from City Council on Monday as Council President Cynthia I. Newbille lauds his work as the city’s top prosecutor for 13 years. Mr. Herring, who was first elected in 2005, stepped down July 1.

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Carangelo named city building commissioner Architect and government veteran Jason Carangelo has been handed a big role in Richmond’s building boom. Mayor Levar M. Stoney on Monday announced that Mr. Carangelo is the city’s new commissioner of buildings to oversee a staff that ensures new construction meets state building codes and older homes and commercial buildings are maintained. Mr. Carangelo Mr. Carangelo began work Monday with an annual salary of $125,000, according to the city. He succeeds Douglas Murrow, who left last year and now works for Virginia Commonwealth University, and the interim commissioner, Ahmad “Ray” Abbasi, who is returning to his post as the city’s operations manager for permits and inspections. Mayor Stoney stated that Mr. Carangelo brings 20 years of professional experience to Richmond along with his credentials as an architect and a registered professional in the field of energy efficient building design. He most recently served as building inspections administrator for the City of Savannah’s Development Services Department, where he was responsible for a portfolio of projects valued at $4 billion. Mayor Stoney noted that Mr. Carangelo will report directly to Sharon Ebert, the city’s deputy chief administrative officer for economic and community development, as part of an effort to raise his profile.

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O’Berry named interim Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond chief of VCU Police

Howard “Mike” O’Berry has been named interim police chief at Virginia Commonwealth University. Chief O’Berry, who has served with VCU Police since 1994, will talke over Aug. 1, from John Venuti, who was promoted last fall to associate vice president of public safety for VCU and VCU Health. Chief O’Berry will be joined in managing the daily operations of VCU Police by Lt. Nicole Dailey, who will become interim assistant chief. VCU Police currently has 97 full-time sworn police officers, while R.M.C. Events provides 87 additional security personnel for Chief O’Berry VCU’s academic and residential buildings, said Corey Byers, public information officer for VCU Police. “VCU is fortunate to have the talent and experience internally to fill these critical roles on an interim basis as we evaluate our next steps to fill these positions permanently,” Meredith Weiss, VCU’s vice president for administration, said in a statement announcing Chief O’Berry’s new role. “As long-time, dedicated leaders in the department, they understand the policing needs for an urban university and 21st century academic health system.” A graduate of VCU’s Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute and the FBI National Academy, Chief O’Berry has managed a variety of departments with VCU Police during his 25-year career. He has been assistant chief since 2017. A Marine Corps veteran, he serves on the board of the Virginia Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. In January, Richmond City Council nearly doubled the area of VCU Police’s jurisdiction in Downtown, from the university’s main campus to its medical campus a mile away.

Equifax settles in security breach that affected more than 4M Virginians By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Consumer credit information giant Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million for allowing hackers to breach its computers and grab the personal information of nearly 150 million people. It was the largest breach in U.S. history, exposing the name, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers and addresses of consumers, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The deal is designed to settle federal and state probes into the September 2017 information breach, but will not affect private lawsuits that are still active. The FTC announced the settlement with Equifax on Monday. One key item in the settlement: Equifax will create a fund of up to $425 million to reimburse people up to $20,000 each if they suffered losses from identity theft because of the breach or for expenses dealing with it. That includes the cost of purchasing credit monitoring or identity theft insurance. Before claims can be filed, the FTC stated the settlement first must receive court approval. After that, people will have options to file online or mail a claim, the FTC stated. Equifax also has agreed to take several steps to assist consumers facing identity theft issues. That includes providing up to seven years of assistance to those dealing with identity theft and $1 million in identity theft insurance. The company also agreed to provide up to 10 years of free credit monitoring for those hit by identity theft and up to 18 years for minors whose information was breached. The company also agreed to provide six additional free credit reports a year to all Americans and to simplify the process consumers face to dispute information in their credit report. Equifax also is to pay $275 million in civil penalties to 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that were jointly probing the matter. Virginia is to receive $4.3 million from the penalty payment, according to state Attorney General Mark R. Herring, whose office participated in what he called the largest enforcement action involving a data breach. “More than 4 million Virginians had their personal information compromised by Equifax’s negligence and failure to implement adequate security programs,” Mr. Herring stated. “I hope this settlement sends a message to companies nationwide that my colleagues and I will not tolerate their failure to keep consumers’ information protected and private.” The deal also will require Equifax to upgrade its software to ensure heightened security, undergo annual assessments of security risks and receive a certification from the FTC that it is complying with the settlement. “Companies that profit from personal information have an extra responsibility to protect and secure that data,” said FTC Chairman Joe Simons in a statement. “Equifax failed to take basic steps that may have prevented the breach.” Hackers leveraged a security flaw in a tool designed to build web applications to steal customer data. Equifax admitted it was aware of the security flaw two months before hackers first accessed its data, but took no action to address it.

Protected by netting, a cornucopia of greens and other vegetables grow in this garden at Brook Road and Wilmington Avenue in North Side. This is just one of many such gardens that are yielding a fresh bounty for those who participate in planting, watering and weed fighting. City Hall began promoting community gardening as one element of boosting healthy eating during the tenure of former Mayor Dwight C. Jones. The city’s support for community groups and volunteers willing to work together and manage a garden has continued under Mayor Levar M. Stoney. The city’s program makes vacant public property available to groups and organizations willing to take on the organizing task.

Va. Supreme Court upholds revocation of Morrissey’s law license By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey is just one election away from returning to the General Assembly as a state senator. But the Democratic Party nominee still won’t have a Virginia law license if he wins the Nov. 5 election over independent Waylin K. Ross, a Petersburg businessman and Mr. Morrissey’s former legislative aide. The Virginia Supreme Court decided that a three-judge panel got it right last year in stripping Mr. Morrissey of his license to practice law in Virginia for the second time since 2003. In a 13-page opinion issued July 18, the state’s highest court rejected Mr. Morrissey’s appeal that revocation was too harsh and unwarranted, noting the “sanction was justified” based on the “long notorious book” of discipline imposed against him. That history of repeated contempt citations, public and private reprimands and license suspension and disbarment shows

Mr. Morrissey’s “unwillingness to practice law in conformity with the rules that govern our profession,” according to the state Supreme Court’s unanimous decision. The court noted Mr. Morrissey that the new offenses on which Mr. Morrissey was tried date from 2014, or barely a year after a divided state Supreme Court reinstated his law license in 2013 in a 4-3 decision overruling objections from the State Bar. Mr. Morrissey’s legal team, led by Republican state Sen. William M. “Bill” Stanley Jr., filed a litany of objections to the panel’s findings, but the high court rejected them all. Along with his record, the Virginia Supreme Court noted Mr. Morrissey’s 2014 conviction in Henrico Circuit Court of contributing to the delinquency of a minor

regarding his sexual relationship with his 17-year-old receptionist, who is now his wife, and his attempt to shift blame to others after being caught bear on “his honesty and trustworthiness” as a lawyer. Mr. Morrissey commuted from the Henrico jail in 2015 to the House of Delegates, the first legislator ever to do so. The court also upheld a finding that he allowed a young licensed attorney who had not taken an oath before starting practice to appear in court in his stead in 2014 to handle the dismissal of charges against a client. In response to the decision, Mr. Morrissey’s legal team stated, “Both our client and we are extremely disappointed that the Supreme Court did not reverse the three-judge panel’s ruling.” The legal team stated that they will seek to have Mr. Morrissey’s law license reinstated “at the earliest opportunity,” although the State Bar and the Virginia Supreme Court do not have to consider his application for at least five years.

Wilder contests student’s claim of sexual impropriety By Jeremy M. Lazarus

L. Douglas Wilder is fighting back against a reputation-tarnishing finding that he kissed an unwilling 20-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student when she worked in the university building named for him and where he has his office. On Tuesday, the nation’s first elected African-American governor released on his “Wilder Vision” blog his formal contest of the finding by VCU’s external investigator that he engaged in “nonconsensual sexual conduct” with Sydney Black. Mr. Wilder also included a statement flatly denying the allegations raised by Ms. Black. “Wilder did not touch or attempt to touch the leg of the complainant, neither did Wilder kiss or attempt to kiss the complainant at any time,” the 88-year-old Richmonder wrote, talking about himself in the third person. Along with the denial, Mr. Wilder used his experience as an attorney to pick apart the evidence in investigator Jody Shipper’s report, citing phone records he provided and shifts in Ms. Black’s story in seeking to show that Ms. Black is not credible and that the investigator reached a conclusion despite lacking evidence to support it. The bottom line: “The external investigator’s reasoning is unsound, biased and violates due process,” Mr. Wilder wrote in notifying the university he rejected Ms. Shipper’s finding. His July 16 filing contesting the investigator’s finding requires VCU to undertake further investigation or to conduct a further review and determine whether the investigator’s report should be upheld. The university has not issued any statement or released the investigator’s report in the case that began last winter. Ms. Black could not be reached for comment. Ms. Black filed a complaint last December alleging that Mr. Wilder took her to a celebratory dinner on her 20th birthday on Feb. 16, 2017, plied her with liquor and then kissed her without her consent during a visit to his riverfront condo in Downtown. However, Mr. Wilder stated that the

findings that Ms. Shipper included in her report show Ms. Black’s story cannot be accepted. “The investigator stated that the inconsistencies between what Sydney Black alleged and what she told her mother and roommate weaken her credibility,” he stated. For example, according to the investigator, Ms. Black only told her mother that Mr. Wilder tried to touch her on her leg, but never mentioned “an attempted kiss,” he wrote. Ms. Black also claimed to have told her roommate, but her roommate stated she only learned there might have been a problem between Ms. Black and Mr. Wilder after Ms. Black filed her complaint nearly two years after the alleged incident. Mr. Wilder also noted that Ms. Black veered in her statements, first claming it was a “swift kiss,” but Mr. Wilder then claiming it lasted seven seconds and even 30 seconds. Mr. Wilder noted that Ms. Black told the investigator that Mr. Wilder called her to arrange the dinner, but he stated her claim is belied by phone records he provided to Ms. Shipper that do not show any such call in the days leading up to the dinner. Ms. Black also told the investigator that Mr. Wilder called her daily in February, another claim that he stated that his phone records show is not true. The investigator concluded “it was more probable than not” that the kiss story was founded, even though Ms. Shipper dismissed Ms. Black’s three other claims based on her finding that Ms. Black was not credible on those. Ms. Shipper justified the finding by noting that Mr. Wilder made three calls to Ms. Black after the alleged incident that he did not explain. However, Mr. Wilder stated that Ms. Shipper never “brought up those calls” or asked for his explanation, making her finding “factually and legally untenable.” He said he made those calls to Ms. Black in response to calls she made to him.

Indeed, he wrote, Ms. Shipper’s failure to seek an explanation from him represents a “deliberate and calculated omission” that is “indicative of bias and constitutes a gross violation of due process,” he noted. He also noted that without the “unexplained” phone calls, Ms. Shipper “is left with only the complainant’s allegations and Wilder’s denial.” He stated that the report shows “at least 10 material inconsistencies in complainant’s statements” to Ms. Shipper that make it impossible to accept Ms. Black’s word. “How could the investigator conclude that ‘Wilder probably kissed Black?’ ” Mr. Wilder wrote. “The investigator has shown no reason from the evidence to consider what Sydney Black said to be any more credible” on the kissing allegation than she was on three other allegations that Ms. Shipper threw out. For example, Mr. Wilder noted that Ms. Black claimed that Mr. Wilder gave her a note at work the day after the dinner, but “work records establish that Ms. Black did not work the day after the dinner.” According to the report that Mr. Wilder quoted, Ms. Shipper found that Ms. Black fabricated the story that Mr. Wilder later invited her to his Charles City County home in March and also made up the story that Mr. Wilder had taken her to lunch June 1 to tell her the money for her work-study position had run out. Ms. Shipper discovered that Ms. Black was forced to drop out of school not because of anything Mr. Wilder did, but because “she had used the maximum allowable amount of her financial aid and work study funds” and was out of money. Even after Ms. Black dropped out, “she continued to call Mr. Wilder and his assistant and continued to email them,” Mr. Wilder wrote. For example, he printed a copy of her Aug. 21, 2017, email in which she requested a meeting with Mr. Wilder “to discuss my employment options at the Wilder School since I was not granted federal work study for the fall semester.” “I have stated that the allegations were proven to be untrue and that ‘truth will out (sic),’ Mr. Wilder stated.

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been in the county. He said they had canvassed the county with recruitment fliers in February. He noted that he was equally disturbed by reports that they were reported to be from the same KKK Klavern that protested with other white supremacists in Charlottesville in August 2017, when bloody violence broke out. One white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others. “The last thing anyone wants is to give this group sanction to

use our neighborhoods, streets and sidewalks as avenues to spew their hate and venom,” Rev. Chandler stated. He also called on Gov. Ralph S. Northam and state Attorney General Mark R. Herring to speak out against the KKK protesting in Virginia “as acts of intimidation, racism and terrorist threats toward all Virginians.” “We cannot afford to have another incident like Charlottesville,” Rev. Chandler said. “And one of the ways to do so is to speak loudly and speak immediately to these protests.” When reached for comment on Tuesday, Mr. Harris, the

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Monday night’s City Council meeting during which council members make routine announcements about events and other items occurring in their districts. The 8th District representative has chafed under restrictions Mayor Stoney and Selena Cuffee-Glenn, the city’s chief administrative officer, have placed on council members’ ability to talk with city officials outside of meetings. Council members have been directed to post all requests they receive from constituents for city services on RVA311 or to filter those and other requests for information through Ms. CuffeeGlenn’s office. Directors and departmental staff have been barred from having direct communications with council members, which is typically done by phone, email or text messages. However, some officials, including Police Chief Will Smith, continue to receive and respond to messages from council members. Neither Mayor Stoney nor Ms. Cuffee-Glenn has responded to requests for comment about the protocol change. After talking about the protocol change at Monday night’s publicly televised meeting and holding up 55 pages of service requests from her constituents, Ms. Trammell urged city residents to call the mayor and other officials directly when they have a problem. She then read out their names and cell phone numbers: Mayor Stoney, (804) 426-8899; Ms. Cuffee-Glenn, (804) 221-2627; Department of Public Utilities Director Calvin Farr, (804) 2217160; Department of Public Works Director Bobby Vincent, (804) 339-0850; and Department of Planning and Development Review Director Mark Olinger, (804) 317-0442. She also announced her cell phone number for people to call her if they needed to hear the numbers again. Ms. Trammell publicly announces her cell phone number at the end of every council meeting, saying constituents can call her if they need help or have questions or problems. Ms. Trammell said Tuesday that Lincoln Saunders, Mayor Stoney’s chief of staff and the only top official left in the council chambers when she made her announcement, scolded her after the meeting for giving out the mayor’s personal cell phone number. Ms. Trammell said she is not apologizing. “I thought these were city phones, but these are people who work for residents,” she said. “I give out my personal cell phone number. Kim Gray (the 2nd District council representative) posts hers on her Facebook page. They work for the people, and people should be able to call them.” Ms. Trammell also said she is miffed that Mayor Stoney held his summer meeting for residents of the 8th District at a public school in the 6th District. And she is more miffed that “nothing is getting done” when it comes to service requests in her district, including a broken air conditioning system at a community center. At the same time, she said, she sees other council members swarmed by public officials eager to address street, sidewalk, drainage and other issues in their districts. During her remarks, Ms. Trammell said the requests were filled out by constituents on July 18 during her monthly district meeting. In a follow-up Tuesday, she said many of the people who filled out the forms are reluctant to call the city’s 311 service line because the city records the calls. She said others are hesitant to put their information on RVA311 because they feel their request or problem will not be held anonymous. “You want me to enter all of these into the 311 system? I don’t think so,” Ms. Trammell said, holding up the pages of requests. “I don’t think so,” Ms. Trammell repeated. “I don’t have time.” Instead, the 17-year council veteran said she would follow her previous practice of transmitting the items directly to the specific departments. “We are responsible to the people,” she said later in lamenting that the mayor and his administration are breaking their promise for an open government and are “shutting the door in people’s faces.” “Why is the mayor doing this to people he was elected to represent? I don’t send in service requests for myself. I do it for the people I represent. They want to see something happen.” Ms. Trammell noted Tuesday that she contacted Mr. Farr directly last week after she was called to Ferapont Drive off Walmsley Boulevard in South Side to listen to residents’ concerns about a buckling street and the possibility the pavement problems could result in a dangerous break in underground natural gas lines. “I texted him and sent him photos. He responded that he got the information,” she said. “I did my job. “How could you put something like that in the 311 system when it is 7 p.m. and everyone has gone home? This was dangerous, and it needed to be addressed.” That appears to be a rare concession, she said Tuesday. “I have had code enforcement staff come to my district meetings and hand out business cards for people to call, and now we can’t get them through 311.” Ms. Gray, the lone member of council to endorse Ms. Trammell’s comments on Monday night, said Tuesday that she is concerned the new protocol is leaving “emergency situations sitting out there. These are things that need immediate attention.” One example, she said at the meeting, is a potentially dangerous dead limb on a city tree that is poised to crash onto a sidewalk, Ms. Gray said, showing a cell phone photo of the tree limb. She noted that a request to remove the limb was posted on RVA311 on June 1, but nothing has been done. She questioned what the city’s liability would be if someone or their property is hurt. “We want to get things done for our constituents. That is our obligation and responsibility,” Ms. Gray said. “It is counter-intuitive to have to have a process that creates a bottleneck to the smooth flow of information — particularly emergency situations — by requiring everything to be sent to one person in one office.”

Hanover County administrator, denounced the actions and ideology of the KKK, but added no official approval was needed for the Klan members to “walk down the sidewalk.” He also sought to defer to statements other county officials made previously to the media. Calls to his office later were referred to the county sheriff. “Hanover County does not welcome the KKK here and we condemn the message that they espouse in their visit,” Mr. Harris told the Free Press. Why a KKK group based in North Carolina chose Hanover as a potential recruitment site remains unanswered, although Mr. Barnette has a theory. “I think the KKK sees that they have more like-minded people in Hanover County to recruit from,” Mr. Barnette mused. Rev. Chandler shared a similar conclusion, speculating that the two visits by KKK members may have been “a probe to test the tenacity of Hanover County officials.” “If this recent incident and the February distribution of fliers are tests, public officials in Hanover County failed miserably,” Rev. Chandler said.

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young men and, yes, young women, too, who supply the energy, with Mr. Cherry the astute supervisor. This isn’t for everyone. If you don’t want to work and buy into the program, it would be best to travel elsewhere. Prepare to perspire. If your shirt isn’t wet when you arrive, it surely will be when you depart. Air conditioning comes in the form of fans and open garage doors. The single ring is 16 feet by 16 feet, significantly smaller than the typical 20-by-20 rings. There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. It’s a offensive-minded ring that rewards plowing forward aggressively, rather than back pedaling defensively. “It’s toe-to-toe,” Mr. Cherry said of the smallish ring. “When you get in there, you’d better be ready to fight.” Two who have thrived from Mr. Cherry’s program, both in and out of the ring, are Djion Bowles, 23, and Jovon James, 17. Without revealing any details, both admit to having had troubles on the street. Now, they’re channeling a rambunctious attitude and plenty of muscle into more promising directions. “I always liked to fight,” Mr. Bowles said. “This is the place to do it. No distractions here. We don’t play games.” Mr. Bowles, a broad-shouldered 5-foot-10 and 154 pounds, has posted a 52-5 amateur record and hopes to turn pro later this summer. He has accumulated an impressive list of championships in Golden Gloves and Silver Gloves boxing and Junior Olympics.

Jovon, who will be a senior this fall at Manchester High School in Chesterfield County, lacks polish and experience but shows much promise. “In sparring sessions, Jovon knocks out grown me,” said Mr. Cherry. Jovon is 6-foot-2 and 165 pounds, with a rippling frame and long muscular arms. “I’ve definitely learned discipline. It’s taken me to a new level,” Jovon said. “Coming here keeps me busy,” he continued. “You don’t have time for anything else.” Mr. Cherry and Assistant Coach Eddie Cook are former boxers with impressive résumés. Mr. Cherry also is involved with a similar gym, East End Boxing Club on Charles City Circle near the Richmond International Airport. “We go back and forth. It’s a bridge,” Mr. Cherry said of the two gyms. Cherry Pick’d is for young folks who aren’t afraid to suffer a split lip or black eye. But you don’t have to be that adventurous to participate. Mr. Cherry charges $80 per month for serious fighters and $50 a month for anyone just wanting to come in and get a good sweat on the equipment. Earlier in July, Mr. Cherry ran a youth camp with emphasis on citizenship, exercise and learning job skills. He also plans an after-school program this fall and has a van to pick up children lacking transportation. Cherry Pick’d likely will continue to produce a few champions. The larger goal is to turn young lives around and churn out solid citizens. Whatever the wish, come prepared to sweat.

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only serving 2,256 students, leaving 1,517 empty seats. Any combination of two of the high schools would have a total capacity larger than the current enrollment. That’s a contrast with South Side, where Huguenot and George Wythe high schools have enrollments just slightly below capacity, with both projected to experience enrollment growth. The four middle schools north of the river, Albert H. Hill, Binford, Henderson and Martin Luther King Jr., also have more space than students. Their combined enrollment is listed at 2,012 students, or 1,321 below the total capacity of 3,333 students. Again, any combination of three of the four schools could handle the total number of students whose numbers are not projected to grow. Meanwhile in South Side, even with a new 1,500-student middle school, the projected enrollment of 3,345 students would exceed capacity if the current Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School is closed. Current plans suggest only Boushall, Lucille Brown and the new school would remain; their combined capacity is listed at 3,164 students. On the elementary school front, while principals in South Side and parts of the West End and North Side scramble to find enough space to handle overcrowding — with some adding trailers — schools in Church Hill and the East End have too few students. The data show five elementaries, Bellevue, Chimborazo, Fairfield Court, George Mason and Woodville, have a combined capacity for 2,713 students but only an expected enrollment in 2020 of 1,889 students. That comes out to 829 more seats than students. Such data has gotten the attention of

School Board member Jonathan Young, 4th District, who expressed concern at a recent board meeting that the rezoning options are falling short of the grand overhaul that had been advertised. He noted that committee members’ comments suggest they are more attuned to making bigger changes than the consultant RPS hired to collect data and provide recommendations. Mr. Young also has expressed concern that the consultant has failed to provide the committee with a complete inventory of capacity. He noted the data does not include the capacity of Richmond’s public charter school, Patrick Henry School of Arts and Sciences, which enrolls 330 students, or that of the Richmond Technical Center, where students train for careers in the building trades, automotive field, computer operations, horticulture and the like. He also noted that the capacity information fails to include other programs that absorb students, including the Amelia Street School for the physically disabled, the Richmond Alternative School for the behaviorally challenged and a host of other programs. At this point, the Rezoning Advisory Committee is being encouraged by the consultant to make only modest changes to existing attendance zones, apparently the first revision of all attendance zones since 2011. Consultant Matthew Cropper, founder and president of Cropper GIS, issued two options for attendance zone changes. Both keep all current school buildings open. At the June 28 Rezoning Committee meeting at which he issued the proposals, he appeared to speak for the school administration in telling the committee not to recommend consolidation or closures of buildings, even if warranted by the data,

claiming that was not part of the committee’s charge. In keeping with his message, his plans call for no buildings to be closed. But there would be some relief for a few overcrowded schools such as Linwood Holton Elementary in North Side and Broad Rock Elementary in South Side through changing zones for about 10 percent of elementary school students. His most dramatic proposal in Option 2 calls for pairing four elementary schools, Fox and Cary in the West End and Fairfield Court and Woodville in the East End — with one of the paired schools becoming a kindergarten through secondgrade program and the other for grades three through five. So far, the biggest controversy has surrounded the idea of having majority-white Fox Elementary serve as the K-2 building and the overwhelming African-American Cary Elementary serving grades three through five. Both schools are accredited, with Cary showing a significant increase in the past two years in student pass rates on state Standards of Learning tests for English, math and science. Some white parents at Fox have publicly vented their opposition, with RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras suggesting their opposition is based on race. But Cary parents are not fully sold on the plan, either. At Cary, the percentage of black students passing SOL tests in English, math and science is 7 to 15 percentage points higher than the pass rate for black students at Fox. For example, at Fox, 72 percent of black students passed the reading SOL in 2018, while 79 percent of African-American students passed at Cary.

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review panel. After being seated, the commission would have 90 days to review a new Coliseum proposal after it is submitted to the governing body, though when that is to happen is anyone’s guess. The council, which usually recesses in August, has scheduled a brief special meeting for Monday, Aug. 5, to allow for introduction of papers. The agenda has not been released, but, at this point, there is no indication that the meeting has been called to allow the mayor to present ordinances on the project. City Chief Administrative Officer Selena Cuffee-Glenn told the council the massive proposal that Dominion Energy’s chief executive, Thomas F. Farrell II, is pushing remains in negotiations. She said the proposal would not be presented to the council until Mayor Levar M. Stoney is convinced the deal would be “in the best interests of the city.” Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, noted when she and 8th District Councilwoman Reva Trammell first introduced the commission proposal last November, the main argument against it was that it could delay a quick start to the Coliseum development that supposedly was on a fast track. Ms. Gray is enthused about the first two appointments to the commission. “My colleagues deserve praise for selecting two people who have been involved with various projects of similar size and scope, have no known ties to the proposed develop-

ers or the development, have not publicly expressed an opinion about the proposal and are willing to delve into the details and provide us with the insight we would need to make an informed decision,” Ms. Gray told the Free Press after the meeting. Ms. Gray added that she has every expectation that Mr. Homer and Mr. Gerner will select panel members who are “equally independent, knowledgeable and capable of undertaking an objective review.” Council tentatively selected the two men on July 1 from 24 applicants from diverse backgrounds. Some council members initially proposed appointing attorney Michael J. Schewel, board chair of the nonprofit Better Housing Coalition and a frequent appointee to city boards and commissions involving workforce development and transportation. However, concern was raised about Mr. Schewel’s neutrality, given that the Coliseum development group is supporting the Better Housing Coalition’s controversial plan to develop new apartments in Jackson Ward. As outlined by Mayor Stoney last November, the Coliseum replacement plan calls for building a new, larger arena to replace the closed Coliseum and for constructing nearly 3,000 new apartments, two hotels, up to three new office buildings and more than 25 new restaurants and retail stores. Under the plan, the development would rise largely on city-owned property near City Hall in Downtown, including three parcels south of Broad Street and eight blocks of property between 5th, 10th, Leigh and Marshall streets.

The main target area was once a majorityblack neighborhood called Navy Hill that decades ago the city bought for construction of an interstate highway and government buildings, including City Hall, the John Marshall Courts Building, the Public Safety Building and the federal building. Meanwhile, voters may weigh in on whether they want the project on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. A citizen’s initiative to put an advisory referendum on the ballot is now pending in Richmond Circuit Court. In other business, the council approved rezoning the Monroe Ward area of Downtown with the aim of promoting construction of taller office and apartment buildings on land now used for surface parking and the Lombardy Street corridor near Virginia Union University to promote more apartment, restaurant and retail development. The council also passed 4th District Councilwoman Kristen N. Larson’s ordinance directing the Stoney administration to provide an annual report on the condition of the city’s streets, roads and bridges by Feb. 1 of each year. Also approved was a separate resolution from 9th District Councilman Michael J. Jones requesting the administration provide a plan and the projected cost for reinstalling metal detectors at the entrances to City Hall. He initiated the proposal in the wake of the May 31 massacre in Virginia Beach in which a city employee there killed 12 people in the Virginia Beach municipal center. Metal detectors were in place for several years at Richmond City Hall before being removed during the tenure of former Mayor L. Douglas Wilder.

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Virginia lawmakers are sparring after an as yet unconfirmed report that President Trump will attend the 400th anniversary celebration on Tuesday, July 30, of the first meeting of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislative body in Jamestown. Democratic Party leaders in the state House and Senate have threatened to boycott the event because they said President Trump â&#x20AC;&#x153;does not represent the values we would celebrateâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a reaction the Republican Senate majority leader, as expected, was quick to criticize. The event will commemorate the 400th anniversary of representative government inAmerica with the 1619 founding of the House of Burgesses, which was the first representative legislative assembly in America. It is part of a weeklong observance of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colonial past â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the former British colonies. The report that President Trump might participate had Democrats quipping, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Send him back,â&#x20AC;? playing off a chant by a crowd in North Carolina at a Trump rally where the president again targeted four congresswomen of color â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all Democrats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as being un-American for their political views. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will not be attending any part of the commemorative session where Donald Trump is in attendance,â&#x20AC;? said a statement by the leadership of the Virginia House and Senate Democratic caucuses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The current president does not represent the values that we would celebrate at the 400th anniversary of the oldest democratic body in the western world.â&#x20AC;? The heads of both caucuses are African-American. Sen. Mamie E. Locke of Hampton is chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus,

while Delegate Charniele L. Herring of Alexandria is chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment, a Republican from James City County who has long been noted for his partisan statements and actions, called it dismaying that elected leaders â&#x20AC;&#x153;make partisan concerns paramount in their decisions.â&#x20AC;? He described the decision by leading Democrats in the state to boycott the event as â&#x20AC;&#x153;disappointing and embarrassing.â&#x20AC;? However, Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, the second AfricanAmerican to hold statewide office in Virginia, announced this week

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that he would attend the special legislative session in Jamestown regardless of whether President Trump attends. His undeclared rival for statewide influence, Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney, countered by reportedly resigning from the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steering committee to protest the invitation to President Trump. Mayor Stoney also resigned from a second committee planning events in August to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia. The controversy comes at a time of heightened partisanship this year in Virginia, where Democrats have a chance of gaining control of the statehouse

in the Nov. 5 general elections in which all 140 seats in the state Senate and House will be on the ballot. Earlier this month, Republicans, in a highly partisan action in which Sen. Norment was front-and-center, adjourned a special session in less than two hours that was called by Gov. Ralph S. Northam, a Democrat, to consider gun control measures in response to a May massacre in Virginia Beach that left a dozen people dead. In February, Gov. Northam faced intense pressure to resign after a racist picture surfaced from his 1984 medical school yearbook page. He denied being in the picture but admitted to wearing blackface as a young man. The scandal intensified when Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring admitted dressing in blackface as a college student and Lt. Gov. Fairfax was accused by two women of sexual assault in 2000 while he was a college student and in 2004 while he was a law school student. He challenged both womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories and fought back by taking two lie detector tests and daring them to take their allegations to court, which has not happened. In regards to the potential Trump visit, American Evolution, the organization that is putting the Jamestown commemoration together, released a statement July 20 that noted that President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had received invitations to participate from Gov. Northam, Sen. Norment and Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Speaker Pelosiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office declined the invitation within the last two weeks,â&#x20AC;? the organization noted in the statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The White House has made no announcement regarding the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans.â&#x20AC;?

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Students fight the ‘summer slide’ with YMCA’s Power Scholars Academy By Ronald E. Carrington

The excitement was tangible as more than 40 students from Richmond’s Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School, all wearing identical gray T-shirts, entered the Science Museum of Virginia’s cavernous lobby with its shiny marble floor and 50-foot ceilings as sunlight from big windows bathed the space. The youngsters craned their necks to see the gigantic Foucault pendulum hanging from the ornate ceiling of the building that was once Richmond’s Union Station, a train station built in 1917. The pendulum, which demonstrates the rotation of the Earth, swung slowly back and forth while rhythmically knocking down dominoes. The delighted Power Scholars Academy students knew their field trip last Friday would

Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School students are among the crowd of enthusiastic young people playing technology games and investigating exhibits at the Science Museum of Virginia during the YMCA Power Scholars Academy’s field trip day on July 19.

be a day to remember. Every child, with bright faces and wide-eyed anticipation, was eager to start examining the museum’s exhibits. From the basement to the second floor, they would inspect and play with exhibits that amazed and inspired them and engaged with hands-on exhibits that challenged their imaginations and ability to beat robots. The Power Scholars Academy is a summer enrichment program for elementary and middle school students conducted by the YMCA of Greater Richmond in public school buildings. It is designed to combat the “summer slide,” the summer learning loss more pronounced in high-risk students from low-income families, and to advance physical and social-emotional growth, organizers said. The program is in its fourth year, said Pam Smith, operations director for expanded learning for the YMCA of Greater Richmond. But this is the first year students from across the city have been able to attend. Four days a week, more than 1,000 RPS students attend academic sessions, including reading, mathematics and science classes, at one of seven city schools. The morning classes are taught by RPS teachers. In the afternoons, YMCA instructors provide personal enrichment sessions, including yoga, arts, performing arts and the humanities. Fridays are enrichment days when students participate in team and confidence building exercises, visit museums, state parks, zoos and area colleges and universities. Last Friday’s visit to the Science Museum of Virginia was an enrichment field trip and the students were excited. Kendreeanalyn Cartwright, a first-grader, sat on a bench in the museum’s lobby watching the pendulum swing back and forth while the enthusiastic chaos of her classmates and more than 60 other school-age children echoed in the space. She said she likes PSA’s Fridays because she has gone to Pocahontas State Park and the Metro Richmond Zoo in Chesterfield County. She said she reads books and solves math problems Monday through Thursday, adding, “I want to be a math teacher.” PSA, which started June 24, ends on Friday, July 26. It is free for youngsters, with RPS teachers recommending students to attend. The program also wants to help foster confidence and academic achievement, particularly in youngsters who may be struggling academically. “Our goal is for these students to feel more

confident as learners when they return to school in the fall as they make up some ground preparing for the next grade level,” Ms. Smith said. The program also gives teachers an opportunity to teach subjects they are interested in outside of their normal instructional assignments during the school year. For instance, if a teacher teaches history during the school year and has an interest and proficiency in astronomy, he or she can teach astronomy in PSA’s afternoon program. According to PSA annual surveys, teachers say the program empowers them with 21st century instructional skills and strategies that they can take into the classroom during the school year. Oak Grove-Bellemeade student Shawn Clark, 8, was not doing well in reading last year. He said during the visit to the Science Museum that “I get to do fun things – reading and math” in the PSA program. For the balance of the summer and in preparation for the second grade, he said, “I am going to read more books, keep my grades up when I go back to school and help other students with their reading and doing school chores.” “For our young students, we can instill values, thoughts and ideas about college, careers and things that they like by doing basic kinds of things,” said Ebony Patterson, a 2009 Virginia Commonwealth University graduate who is the PSA site director for Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary. “When elementary students get their feet on a college campus, they can begin to envision themselves there.”

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Power Scholar Shawn Clark, 8, challenges the museum’s air hockey robot to a fast and exciting game. Below, Power Scholars Academy students and a YMCA instructor look at a security camera’s view of the lobby at one of the Science Museum’s technology exhibits.

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Bell the cat It was clear from the first 60 minutes of testimony by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller on Wednesday morning before the House Judiciary Committee that he was not going to give the Democrats what they were seeking: A dramatic recitation of the evidence against President Trump for a clear and quick takedown. Mr. Mueller indicated in late May his reluctance to testify before Congress. “The report is my testimony,” he said at the time. On Wednesday, his clipped, one-word answers showed he didn’t intend to go beyond what was in his two volume, 448-page report released in April. Mr. Mueller did, however, confirm that his investigation did not exonerate President Trump of obstruction of justice for attempting to influence the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The report from his 22-month probe showed that President Trump attempted to fire Mr. Mueller, limit the scope of the investigation and influence witness testimony, among other things, that could constitute obstruction of justice. But Mr. Mueller’s report declined to reach any legal conclusion on whether President Trump committed any crimes. Instead, his report cited a U.S. Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted. For months, we have called for weak, lemming-like Democrats under the spell of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to grow a backbone and start impeachment proceedings against President Trump, who has long believed and acted like he is above the law. Earlier this week, delegates at the NAACP’s 110th annual national convention in Detroit unanimously voted for President Trump’s impeachment. “The pattern of Trump’s misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement. Mr. Johnson said the reasons for demanding President Trump’s impeachment are numerous. “From his attempts to curtail the scope of Robert Mueller’s investigation to calling out minority congresswomen and telling them to go back to their countries, to caging immigrant children without food or water to his numerous attempts to avert the Supreme Court’s decision to not add in the citizenship question to the 2020 Census,” Mr. Johnson said, “this president has led one of the most racist and xenophobic administrations since the Jim Crow era. Trump needs to know that he is not above the law … and he must be prosecuted. We will make sure that the NAACP is at the forefront of pushing Congress to proceed with the impeachment process.” Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted down articles of impeachment introduced by Congressman Al Green of Texas, a Democrat and African-American who is in tune with what the American people see and want in this situation. But a majority of Democrats voted with Republicans to siderail Rep. Green’s effort by referring the articles to a committee. If nothing else, Mr. Mueller’s testimony proves that the task of impeaching possibly the worst president in U.S. history rests squarely with the weak-willed Democrats with a weak-willed leader and no one else. They must grow the courage to bell the cat — rather than attempting to leave it to Mr. Mueller or someone else — or voters should send them packing in the next election. Mr. Mueller’s report, while not a quick summer beach read or a likely blockbuster movie, offers a clear road map of the crimes President Trump committed. We urge our readers to call, write, email and text their representatives in Congress and tell them to get moving to impeach President Trump. To reach your representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, call (202) 225-3121 or go to www.house. gov or www.senate.gov.

Hunger games Nearly every week we get a new indicator of the cruelty of the current White House administration and its lopsided favoritism for the nation’s greedy corporate and individual 1 percenters at the expense of the 99 percent of us at the bottom. The latest: The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the food stamp program that would boot more than 3 million people off the rolls. Currently, individuals and families must have a gross income at or below 130 percent of the federal poverty level to qualify for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. For a mother with two children, for example, her yearly income cannot exceed $27,024 to qualify. However, about 43 states allow food stamps for people with incomes as high as 200 percent of the poverty level through what’s known as broad-based categorical assistance. This allows mostly the working poor and others who receive other federal welfare assistance, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, to get food stamps as long as they have child care, housing and other expenses that cut their net incomes below a certain level, still leaving them with insufficient money for food. Trump administration officials said the changes would close this “loophole,” eliminating 3.1 million people from the hunger-fighting program and saving $1.9 billion annually for the next five years. About 9 percent of all U.S. households now receiving food stamps would be cut, along with 13.2 percent of participating households with at least one elderly member. According to advocates, the proposed cut was triggered by the loss of federal revenue brought about by the 2017 Tax Act that gave tax break windfalls to the very wealthy and corporations. Bipartisan efforts in Washington beat back President Trump’s attempt in 2018 to cut the food stamp program and radically restructure SNAP, including imposing additional work requirements on able-bodied adults seeking assistance. We are unsure how the Trump administration proposal will play out in Virginia, where 704,973 men, women and children receive food stamps, according to March figures reported by the state Department of Social Services. The average monthly food stamp benefit in the Commonwealth in March was $118.43 per person. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 12 percent of U.S. households already are “food insecure,” meaning they lack consistent access to enough food because they lack adequate financial resources. FeedMore, the Richmond area’s anti-hunger program, reports that one person out of every seven in Central Virginia struggles with food insecurity. More than 53,000 of them are children. Through its network of food pantries, soup kitchens and community feeding programs, FeedMore provides more than 52,000 meals each day to people in need in 34 counties and cities across Central Virginia. Advocates say those numbers would grow if the Trump administration kicks millions of seniors, disabled and children from the federal food stamp program. Hunger already is a major problem in America, with 36 million people nationwide receiving food stamps. President Trump cares nothing about people who have fallen into the social safety net. Instead, he continues to press for tax breaks and programs that will benefit the rich. The public has until Sept. 23 to comment and oppose the regulations. Go to: www.regulations.gov/document?D=FNS-2018-0037-0001 Our readers know what to do.

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No justice for Eric Garner “It was Eric and my family five years ago, but it could be you and yours today or tomorrow. They want all of us to believe that we didn’t see what we saw on that video, but our eyes do not deceive us … Eric is no longer able to speak, so I will be his voice and you will hear me.” – Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner Eric Garner died pleading for his life on a New York City sidewalk. The chokehold that triggered his fatal asthma attack was illegal. Eleven times, Eric Garner said he couldn’t breathe, and Officer Daniel Pantaleo did not loosen his strangling, illegal grip on Mr. Garner’s neck. The world saw Officer Pantaleo’s deadly assault. The world heard Mr. Garner’s pleas. But there will be no justice for Eric Garner. When U.S. Attorney General William Barr abandoned the civil rights case against Officer Pantaleo last week, it sent a devastating message from an

administration whose hostility toward civil rights protections is unprecedented in the last 50 years. Astonishingly, Officer Pantaleo remains a member of the New York City Police Department, pending a decision by an administrative judge who is expected to rule within a few weeks. His continued employ-

Marc H. Morial ment by the NYPD diminishes the institution and he should be terminated. It is difficult to imagine the grief of Mr. Garner’s family. To lose a father, a son, a brother to an untimely death is painful enough. To have been dragged through five years of injustice after injustice, to see the person responsible for that death escape accountability, seems almost too much to bear. Not only has Officer Pantaleo escaped accountability, he has received a substantial raise in his pay since Mr. Garner’s death. Sadly, police officers rarely are held accountable when unjustified brutality takes place. Local prosecutors predictably

are reluctant to bring charges. That’s precisely why the federal government has a special responsibility to seek justice in such cases and why Mr. Barr’s failure to do so in Mr. Garner’s case cuts so deeply. In the wake of the death of Mr. Garner and other unarmed people of color who died violently at the hands of police officers, the National Urban League promulgated a 10-Point Plan for Police Reform and Accountability, elements of which were incorporated into the final report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. One of the key recommendations is “external and independent investigations and prosecutions of officer-involved shootings and other use of force situations and in-custody deaths.” In the Garner case, as in many others, the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights inquiry was arguably the only hope for an external and independent investigation. But this is an administration that is intent on weakening enforcement of civil rights laws. Under Mr. Barr’s predecessor, former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department

Standing up for mouthy women Mary Turner was lynched on May 19, 1918, because she dared to raise her voice. Her husband, Hayes Turner, was among 13 people lynched in two weeks in and around Valdosta, Ga. The lynchings took place because a brutal white man, who was known to abuse workers so severely that he was only able to attract workers by getting them through the convict labor system, beat the wrong black man too many times. Sidney Johnson shot and killed the brutal Hampton Smith and, in response, the white people of the area started apprehending, beating and lynching black men believed to be associated with Sidney Johnson, even though many of those lynched were not. Mrs. Turner was 19 years old and eight months pregnant when her husband was lynched. She openly denounced the lynchings and threatened to have the men who killed her husband arrested. After her lynching, an investigative reporter stated that she was lynched because she made “unwise remarks.” The mob, it was reported, “took exception to her remarks as well as her attitude.” Her “defiant voice” was the impetus for mob retaliation. The mob action was particularly brutal. Mrs. Turner was hung by her ankles and lowered face down from a tree. Her clothing was set afire while she was alive. When she was dead, one of the mobsters slit her belly open and her fetus came out, landing in a pool of blood. Then the sick

and brutal white men crushed the infant’s skull. Too often, black women have been cautioned to be silent, to be demure, not to rock the boat. Mrs. Turner’s lynching reminds us that mouthy black women often suffer the consequence of their speaking out.

Julianne Malveaux The 45th president of the United States stands in the shadow of the men who silenced Mrs. Turner with his vicious and vile attacks on black women. From Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Frederica Wilson to journalists April Ryan, Abby Phillip and Yamiche Alcindor, this man neither has the grace nor the gravitas to interact with these brilliant and amazing black women. Now here he goes again spewing his filth. He suggested that four new members of Congress, the self-described “Squad” of Democratic Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, “go back to where they came from.” He amplified and attacked the women so vociferously and inaccurately that one of the mobs, I mean crowds, that attended one of his rallies began to chant, “Send her back.” Three of the four members of The Squad were born in the United States. Congresswoman Omar, whose family came to the United States as refugees from Somalia when she was a child, is a naturalized citizen. The president is out of line and out of order, but that’s nothing new. What is new is that he’s stopped dog-whistling his racism and now just shouts it out. Five days after his offensive tweets,

he claims he did not incite his crowd and instead tried to shut the racist chants down. Films of the mob at his rally show otherwise. Congresswoman Omar and the other members of the Squad have had their lives threatened, sometimes by identifiable Trump supporters. We can’t expect No. 45 to repudiate the threats. After all, he thought there were “good people on both sides” in Charlottesville when Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist in 2017. So we aren’t surprised that he let the vitriolic chants of “send her back” to go on for more than 13 seconds before they died down naturally. If something happens to Congresswoman Omar, our 45th president will be responsible. If something happens to any of The Squad, it will be the result of our putrid president and the silent Republicans who are reluctant to tell this man he is wrong. It took a full day after his offensive “go back” tweet for a handful of Republicans to speak up and say something. Like the white men who lynched Mrs. Turner, our president “takes exception to her remarks as well as her attitude.” Without accusing President Trump of lynching, one can accuse President Trump of being a racist and hostile to black women. Congresswoman Omar isn’t the first he has gone after, and she won’t be the last. Mary Turner chafed at her husband’s lynching and she paid the ultimate price. But the story of her lynching should strengthen us all. We must surround The Squad with support. We need more mouthy women to challenge patriarchal, predatory white supremacy. There must not be another Mary Turner. The writer is an economist and author.

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Dwayne Haskins

All eyes will be on Dwayne Haskins as Washington’s training camp opens Doug Williams was the first African-American quarterback to make an impression with the NFL’s Washington franchise. Dwayne Haskins figures to be the most current. Haskins is Washington’s first round draft pick — and the 15th pick overall. He will be a focal point of the team’s upcoming workouts at the Bon Secours Training Center in Richmond. Practice sessions begin Thursday, July 25. The newcomer from Ohio State University will challenge veteran quarterbacks Case Keenum and Colt McCoy for the right to succeed Alex Smith as Washington’s No. 1 signal caller. Keenum, obtained in an offseason trade, and McCoy, a Washington reserve since 2014, are both journeymen backup quarterbacks. The vacancy at football’s most vital position occurred last November when Smith suffered a compound fracture of his right leg in a game against the Houston Texans. Smith, 35, remains under contract but faces a cloudy future. Haskins’ résumé is brilliant albeit brief. In his lone season as Ohio State’s regular quarterback, he set Buckeyes and Big 10 passing records with 4,831 yards and 50 touchdowns. He was third in Heisman voting behind two other quarterbacks, Kyler Murray of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa. Haskins left OSU with two years of eligibility remaining. The 22-year-old native of Highland Park, N.J., was redshirted

NFL team returns to Richmond For the seventh straight year, the Washington NFL team will conduct preseason workouts at the Bon Secours Training Center, 2401 W. Leigh St. in Richmond. The team will practice here Thursday, July 25, through Sunday, Aug. 11. Admission is free. The team’s largely two-a-day sessions will include practice at 9:45 a.m. and a less formal 4:40 p.m. walk-through. Coach Jay Gruden’s squad will take off Aug. 2, and also Aug. 7 through 9 to play its first exhibition game. That will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, in Cleveland against the Cleveland Browns. Fan Appreciation Day at the Richmond training camp will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. Washington opens its regular season Sunday, Sept. 8, against the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia.

as an OSU freshman and backed up J.T. Barrett, who is now with the New Orleans Saints, in 2017. Haskins is built more like a linebacker. At the NFL Combine, he measured 6-foot-3⅜, weighed 231 pounds and raced 40 yards in 5.04 seconds. The rookie will be wearing a familiar number for Washington

— No. 7. That is the same number worn, and later retired, by franchise icon Joe Theismann. Haskins requested Theismann’s permission, which was granted, to wear No. 7, the same number Haskins wore at OSU. Any African-American quarterback in Washington will live under the lengthy shadow of Williams, now the team’s senior vice president for player personnel. On Jan. 31, 1988, Williams passed for 340 yards and four touchdowns against the Denver Broncos, becoming the first black NFL quarterback to win the Super Bowl MVP. While Haskins works to make a rookie impression, here’s a look at Washington’s past African-American quarterbacks. Doug Williams: Signed by Washington after a stint in the USFL; played in D.C. 1986 to 1989. Tony Banks: A journeyman who was released by Washington after playing only the 2001 season. Jason Campbell: First round draft choice out of Auburn University; was Washington quarterback 2007 to 2009. Donavan McNabb: Played the 2010 season in D.C. after an All-Pro career in Philadelphia. Robert Griffin III: First round draft choice out of Baylor University; derailed by injury following a standout rookie campaign in 2012. Josh Johnson: Released after playing the last four games with Washington a year ago.

Virginians showing up all around the NBA VUU Panthers football team predicted to finish 2nd in CIAA division There are six good reasons why Virginia Union University figures to be a contender for its first CIAA football championship since 2001. Six of VUU’s players were named for the Pre-Season AllCIAA team that was announced July 18 at CIAA Media Day in Salem. From a team standpoint, Coach Alvin Parker’s Panthers were picked to finish second in the CIAA Northern Division behind defending champion Bowie State University of Maryland. The Panthers selected for the All-CIAA pre-season team are running back Tabyus Taylor, defensive backs Sterling Hammond and Quantaye Battle, linebacker Taj Conway, kicker Jefferson Souza and offensive lineman Justin Smith. Taylor, in particular, figures to gain national attention. The junior from Hopewell rushed for 1,546 yards and 21 touchdowns last season while earning All-American accolades from BOXTOROW and Lindy’s Sports magazine. Coming off an 8-2 season, VUU will open the 2019-20 season on Saturday, Sept. 7, at Hampton University. Kickoff: 6 p.m. CIAA Northern Division predictions for order of finish for the coming season: Bowie State, Virginia Union, Chowan, Virginia State, Elizabeth City and Lincoln universities. CIAA Southern Division order of finish predictions: Fayetteville State, Winston-Salem State, Shaw, St. Augustine’s, Livingstone and Johnson C. Smith universities.

The NBA’s Indiana Pacers will have something of a Virginia look for the 2019-20 season. Recent roster additions include former University of Virginia All-American Malcolm Brogdon and Jeremy Lamb, who has local ties. Brogdon inked a four-year deal worth $85 million; Lamb signed for three years and $31.5 million. After three seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, Brogdon is headed to Indianapolis as a “sign and trade” acquisition. The Bucks get one first round and two second round draft picks in future years in exchange. Brogdon averaged 16 points, five rebounds and three assists this past season, helping Milwaukee to the NBA’s best regular season record. The son of Rolando and Angela Lamb, Jeremy Lamb was born May 30, 1992, in Henrico County. His dad was a star guard for Virginia Commonwealth University from 1980 to 1985 and is now a pastor with Faith & Family Church in Chesterfield County. Signing with the Pacers as a restricted free agent, Lamb averaged 13 points, four rebounds and two assists this past season for the Charlotte Hornets. The Pacers are losing another athlete with Virginia links. After one season with Indiana, Kyle O’Quinn, a former Norfolk State University center, has signed a free agent deal with the Philadelphia 76ers. Other offseason news:

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Three-dom fighter: Former VCU standout Troy Daniels is taking one of the NBA’s most accurate 3-point shots to the Los Angeles Lakers. The 6-foot-4 guard played the past two seasons in Phoenix after previous stops in Houston, Minnesota, Charlotte and Memphis. In seven NBA seasons, Daniels, a Roanoke native, shot 40 percent beyond the arc and 82 percent at the foul line. Daniels has hit 509 of 1,272 3-pointers and 133 of 163 foul shots. Man on the move: In the space of about two days, Treveon Graham was a member of the Brooklyn Nets, the Golden State Warriors and the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Nets traded him to the Warriors who traded him to the Timberwolves. The NBA pays well but isn’t long on security, especially for an undrafted player such as Graham, a former VCU standout who worked his way up to the NBA from the G-League. Job hunt: Former Petersburg High star Frank Mason is auditioning for a roster spot this summer after being cut from the Sacramento Kings after two seasons. Mason, a second round draft pick out of the University of Kansas in 2017, is continuing to play for the Kings’ Summer League team as a free agent. The 5-foot-11 guard averaged 5.1 points and 21.9 minutes per game this past season. Like father, like son: Free agent Ed Davis, having moved from the Brooklyn Nets to the Utah Jazz, has eerily similar stats to his father, Terry Davis. In 640 NBA games from 2010 to the present, Ed Davis has averaged 6.5 points and 6.8 rebounds in 20.2 minutes per game. His dad, a former Virginia Union University standout, averaged 6.4 points and 6.0 rebounds in 21.6 minutes in 480 NBA games from 1989 to 2001. Hoops hopefuls: Former All-Atlantic 10 VCU forward Justin Tillman and center Jack Salt of the NCAA champions University of Virginia were on the Phoenix Suns’ Summer League roster. The summer league ran through July 15.

Leonard and George may boost Clippers to first NBA crown If the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers are looking for a catch phrase for next season, “Home Sweet Home” might do. Native Angelenos Kawhi Leonard and Paul George make the Clippers’ NBA forecast as warm as the Southern California sun. Leonard, acquired as a free agent from the Toronto Raptors, and George, obtained in a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder, represent some 55 points per game. They crash the boards with the best, distribute the ball unselfishly and are tenacious defenders. Also it helps that both can negotiate L.A.’s vastness with nary a road map or GPS. The talented twosome would seem ample reinforcement for lifting a franchise that already is at the doorstep of contention inside to the living room lounge chair. Coach Doc Rivers’ squad was 48-34 this past season and nearly clipped the wings of the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs, losing just 4-2. This marks a gold rush style homecoming for both megastars who are in their physical prime. Leonard, 28, was born in Los Angeles; George, 29, was born in Palmdale in Los Angeles County. Both played in college in California — Leonard at San Diego State and George at Fresno State — before embarking on NBA stardom. Leonard, 6-foot-7 and known as “The Klaw,” has been an NBA playoffs MVP for both the San Antonio

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Spurs and, this year, the Toronto Raptors. The 6-foot-9 George is a six-time All-Star and five-time All-NBA pick. This past season, he was among three finalists for league MVP. Both players are capable of doing the heavy lifting. George averaged 28 points and 8.2 rebounds this past season. Leonard collected 27 points and 7.3 rebounds per contest. This is no bargain basement deal. Leonard signed a four-year pact with the L.A. Clippers for $142 million. George’s salary with the Oklahoma City Thunder was for $30.6 million per season. The “home boys” have a close relationship off the

court that was a critical factor in them landing in the same destination. It also helped that Coach Rivers is among the league’s most respected sideline bosses. Founded in 1970 as an expansion outfit, the Clippers are past due for a title. The franchise, initially called the Braves, moved from Buffalo to San Diego in 1978, changing the name to the Clippers. The team then moved to Los Angeles in 1984. The team has never won an NBA title nor been to the finals. It’s best-ever showings were divisional crowns in 2013 and 2014. u As powerful as the Clippers may be, they’ll be tested to prove they’re the top team in their own building. The Clippers share the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles with another emerging kingpin, the Los Angeles Lakers. The more historically successful L.A. franchise features LeBron James and the latest All-Star additions, Anthony Davis from New Orleans and DeMarcus Cousins from Golden State. The Minneapolis/L.A. Lakers combined have won 16 NBA crowns, the last coming in 2010. The Clippers are among six franchises to never have won the NBA crown. But in 2019-20, California dreaming could be more than just a dream.

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Personality: Monica L. Ball Spotlight on founder of RVA Community Fun Day Monica Ball saw a community that was underserved. She worked for years to offer a solution. That’s the origin behind her founding RVA Community Fun Day, a free festival that seeks to mix entertainment and education while fostering a sense of community in a multicultural metropolitan area. Saturday, July 27, will be the second year for the free event, and Ms. Ball, an Emporia native, is busy balancing the behind the scenes work for the event with her radio show, “Real Talk with Monica,” and her nonprofit, Rising Towards Success, both sponsors of the event. “Excitement is in the air for this,” Ms. Ball says. Her positivity is wellfounded. The first RVA Community Fun Day was held in a Henrico County event hall last year with the intention of creating the kind of multicultural festival in Henrico that typically only existed in the city of Richmond. The initial event attracted more than 350 people and featured a suite of performances and vendors, from dance demonstrations to anti-bullying speeches. The only real complaint from guests? There wasn’t enough

space for the people who gathered to join the celebration, forcing Ms. Ball and other organizers to move part of the festival outdoors. The success of the first event has ensured Ms. Ball won’t face a similar issue this year. RVA Community Fun Day has been moved outdoors to Henrico’s Dorey Park and various sponsors and community leaders have contributed their services, all thanks to the work of Ms. Ball and other organizers. Taking in the scope of the festival she has built in such a short time, Ms. Ball is understandably emotional. “I had always wanted to do something like this, but I didn’t get the support,” Ms. Ball says, tearing up. “And now people are supporting me. I mean, I had a phone call from CNN. This is just crazy. “I go places and people say, ‘Monica, you’re starting a movement. Thank you for doing this,’ ” she says. Community is key for Ms. Ball and she wants to share it with others through the event. “It’s almost like I’m living out my childhood life and creating something that didn’t exist by creating all these fun activities that we’re going to have,” she says. “I

A quote that I am inspired by: “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour and some style.” — Maya Angelou

Want to go? What: 2nd Annual RVA Community Fun Day, a free event with activities to engage the community. When: Noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 27. Where: Dorey Park, 2999 Darbytown Road in Henrico County.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Just walking in the park.

Highlights: Entertainment, dance-off contests, pet adoptions, children’s activities, health screenings, blood donation, voter registration, food vendors and artists.

At the top of my “to-do” list is: To get a scholarship under my grandmothers’ names, Corrine Ivory Taylor and Louise M. Davis.

Sponsors: Real Talk with Monica, Rising Towards Success and Dominion Energy. Details: www.realtalkwithmonica.com or (804) 608-6407.

Current residence: Henrico County. Education: Bachelor’s and master’s in business administration, know the community is going Strayer University; studying for my Ph.D. at Grand to enjoy it.” Meet this week’s Person- Canyon University. ality and a woman with true Family: Father, Lincoln C. community spirit, Monica Ball; mother, Janice C. Ball; L. Ball: and sister, Rachelle. Occupation: Media person- Reason for RVA Commuality and community activist. nity Fun Day: I wanted to I operate an entertainment blend communities together. marketing consulting busi- I have good relationships ness. I am the founder and with law enforcement, poCEO of “Real Talk With litical officials, local comMonica.” I’m also executive munity leaders, as well as director of a nonprofit called vendors and corporate sponsors, and wanted to create a Rising Towards Success. family-fun educational day No. 1 volunteer position: about the various communiFounder and organizer of ties that exist in Virginia. RVA Community Fun Day. What community means Date and place of birth: to me: Community is in B:11.625” Sept. 21 in Emporia. T:11”my DNA and everything

that I do. Without having community support, I’m nothing. Community is one of the things that really drove a lot of things that I do and support. Community is a key to not only my life, but I think it needs to be key focus to a lot of people. Whether you’re in business, whether you’re a teacher, you’ve got to have community involvement in a lot of the things that you’re doing. Message I hope festival will send: Understanding the various cultures that exist within our community. Outlook at start of the day: I always say a positive affirmation every morning on Facebook. Every day I wake up is a positive day. How I unwind: Lay down on my bed and watch reality TV.

Best late-night snack: A Pepsi. If I had more time, I would: Do these events a lot more. The best thing my parents ever taught me: Work hard and God will provide. Treat people right. Person who influenced me the most: My grandmother, Corrine Ivory Taylor. Book that influenced me the most: “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. What I’m reading now: “Becoming” by Michelle Obama. My next goal: To get a brick and mortar studio so I can do video production, radio and sound classrooms. My next big goal is to get that for children and young adults. I also want to give jobs to people who’ve been incarcerated.

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Happenings Beating the heat When temperatures settled in the 90s around Richmond and no relief was in sight, Richmonders turned to all kinds of activities to beat the heat. Some folks opened umbrellas to take shelter from the blazing sun, like the pedestrian, below, walking along 19th and U streets in the East End last Saturday. At right, James Thornton and Deja Shabazz cooled off with a treat from Sweet Frog at the Stonebridge Shopping Center in Chesterfield County. Left, Angela Jackson was ready to head to the Fairmount Pool in the East End, while, below right, Kiana Robinson and Dashon Roberts Sr. enjoyed a family outing at the city’s Blackwell Pool in South Side. As Ms. Robinson holds her 5-month-old son, Dashon Jr., her 7-year-old daughter, Kayoloni, clings to her back. So far this month, temperatures have reached or exceeded the 90s for 18 days. After a short break in the mid- to upper 80s on Friday and Saturday, temperatures are expected to climb next week and hover again in the 90s.

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Elvatrice Belsches to speak on the free African-American experience before end of Civil War

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Public historian Elvatrice Belsches will talk about the experience of free African-Americans in Richmond and Petersburg before the end of the Civil War at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Richmond Public Library’s Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin St. The event, which is free and open to the public in the library’s Gellman Room, is titled “Making a Place for Themselves: A Survey

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of the Free Black Experience in Richmond and Petersburg from 1800 to 1865.” Ms. Belsches’ multimedia presentation will include rare photos, primary documents and narratives chronicling the experience of several area families. Details and registration: https:// rvalibrary.libcal.com/event/5584209 or (804) 646-7223.

Black Pride RVA Sam Patterson, 62, left, handles the grill last Saturday for the Pride in the Park Tailgate Party, the final event of the 2nd Annual Black Pride RVA. The four-day festival was designed to promote the health and wellness of the black LGBTQ community through celebration, education and empowerment. Despite the heat, many people turned out for the cookout at Bryan Park, where attendees slowed down with a game of Spades. Above, playing from left, are Crystal Suber, Anthony Johnson, Dante Payton and Sierra Brown.

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Art Neville, one of the legendary musical Neville Brothers, dies at 81 Free Press wire report

NEW ORLEANS Art Neville, a member of a storied New Orleans musical family who performed with his siblings in The Neville Brothers band and founded the groundbreaking funk group The Meters, died Monday, July 22, 2019, at his home. Nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poppa Funk,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Neville was 81. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Poppa Funkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Neville passed away peacefully this morning at home with his adoring wife, Lorraine, by his side,â&#x20AC;? his manager, Kent Sorrell, stated in an email. The cause of death was not immediately available but Mr. Neville had battled a number of health issues, including complications from back surgery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Louisiana lost an icon today,â&#x20AC;? Gov. John Bel Edwards stated in a news release. The Neville Brothers spent some of their childhood in the now demolished Calliope housing project in New Orleans and some at a family home in uptown New Orleans. In a 2003 interview with Offbeat magazine, Mr. Neville described going to a Methodist church as a child where he had his first encounter with a keyboard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My grandmother used to clean the pulpit. She was in there cleaning it one day and I guess she was babysitting me â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause I was in there with her. She went to one side and all of a sudden I was on the side where the organ was,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Something told me to turn it on. I reached up and pressed a bass note and it scared the daylights out of me!â&#x20AC;? That experience kicked off a lifelong career as a keyboardist and vocalist. The Neville Brothers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Art, Charles, Cyril and Aaron â&#x20AC;&#x201D; started singing as kids but then went their separate ways in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1954, Art Neville was in high school when he sang lead on the Hawkettsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; remake of a country

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song called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mardi Gras Mambo.â&#x20AC;? He told the public radio show â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Routesâ&#x20AC;? how he was recruited by the Hawketts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how they found out where I lived,â&#x20AC;? he said in the interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But they needed a piano player. And they came up to the house and they asked my mother and father could I go.â&#x20AC;? More than 60 years later, the song remains a staple of the Carnival season, but that longevity never translated into financial success for Mr. Neville, who received no money for it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It made me a big shot around school,â&#x20AC;? Mr.

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Neville said with a laugh during a 1993 interview with The Associated Press. In the late 1960s, Mr. Neville was a founding member of The Meters, a pioneering American funk band that also included Cyril Neville, Leo Nocentelli (guitar), George Porter Jr. (bass) and Joseph â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zigabooâ&#x20AC;? Modeliste (drums). The Meters played as the house band for Allen Toussaintâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Orleans soul classics and opened for the Rolling Stonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tour of the Americas in 1975 and of Europe in 1976. They also became known for their session work with

Paul McCartney, Robert Palmer and Patti LaBelle and recordings with Dr. John. The Meters broke up in 1977, but members of the band have played together in groups such as the Funky Meters and the Meter Men. In more recent years, The Meters have reunited for various performances and often have been cited as an inspiration for other groups. Flea, the bass player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, paid homage to The Meters when he invited members of the group onstage to perform with the Chili Peppers during a 2016 performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are their students,â&#x20AC;? Flea said. As The Meters were breaking up, The Neville Brothers were coming back together. In 1978 they recorded their first Neville Brothers album. Charles died in 2018. For years, The Neville Brothers were the closing act at Jazz Fest. After Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the four brothers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like many New Orleanians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were scattered across the country while the city struggled to recover. They returned to anchor the festival in 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is how it should be,â&#x20AC;? Art Neville said during a news conference with festival organizers announcing their return to the annual event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a part of Jazz Fest.â&#x20AC;? He shared in three Grammy awards: With The Neville Brothers for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Healing Chantâ&#x20AC;? in 1989; with a group of musicians on the Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute â&#x20AC;&#x153;SRV Shuffleâ&#x20AC;? in 1996; and with The Meters when they got a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2018. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art will be deeply missed by many, but remembered for imaginatively bringing New Orleans funk to life,â&#x20AC;? the Recording Academy, which awards the Grammys, stated in a news release. Mr. Neville announced his retirement in December.

Dr. Edith Irby Jones, first female president of the National Medical Association, dies at 91 Free Press wire report

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Dr. Edith Irby Jones, one of the first African-American students to enroll at an all-white medical school in the South and later the first female president of the National Medical Association, has died. She was 91. Dr. Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daughter, Myra Jones Romain, said her mother died Monday, July 22, 2019, in Houston of natural causes. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, which Dr. Jones integrated in 1948, also announced her death in a post on its website Tuesday. In addition to being the first black student at UAMS, Dr. Jones also was the first black female resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston after receiving her medical degree from Arkansas in 1952. Dr. Jones was born on Dec. 23, 1927, in Mayflower, Ark., to Robert and Mattie Jones, a sharecropper and a domestic worker. In a transcribed interview with the University of Houston Center for Public History, Dr. Jones said that after her older sister died in the 1930s from typhoid fever, Dr. Jones decided to pursue medicine. She enrolled in Knoxville College at 16 and graduated in 1948. After scoring exceptionally well on aptitude tests, she was accepted to multiple medical schools. She chose the University of Arkansasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; medical school, Ms. Romain said, because tuition was low and because it was close to her mother. The

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decision wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t out of a desire to integrate In Arkansas, Dr. Jones was also a promia previously all-white institution, her nent activist as a member of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom daughter said. Four,â&#x20AC;? encouraging people to join the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so proud. I was so proud that I was Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Romain said in medical school that absolutely nothing else her parents encouraged and often paid for mattered,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Jones said in the interview studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tuition at Knoxville College, Dr. with the University of Houston. Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; alma mater and a historically black According to UAMS, the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board liberal arts college. of trustees voted to increase the class size In the 1990s, Dr. Jones sponsored and coby one that year so no one could claim founded a clinic in Haiti. When her mother Dr. Jones had taken a spot from a white would travel to the island, Ms. Romain applicant. remembered, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d bring pharmaceutical In 1950, she married Dr. James B. Jones, samples and other important drugs in large a psychology professor at a nearby universuitcases, sneaking them into the country sity; they were together until his death in past customs. 1989. The couple had three children, Gary, In 1988, Dr. Jones lost one of her eyes Myra and Keith. after developing glaucoma. Ms. Romain said Dr. Jones established medical practices she continued working using a prosthetic, a in Hot Springs, Ark., and Houston and solution that worked until she began losing completed her residency at Baylor, where her eyesight in her remaining eye. she also later taught. In 1985, Dr. Jones Ms. Romain said her mother practiced Dr. Jones was elected the first female president of and taught medicine until she reluctantly the National Medical Association, a medical organization retired in 2013, telling her daughter, â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever wanted to representing African-American doctors and their patients. do was practice medicine.â&#x20AC;? She was also a founding member of the Association of Black A funeral will be held Saturday, July 27, at Antioch MissionCardiologists. ary Baptist Church in Houston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Church With A Welcomeâ&#x20AC;?

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Looking toward Mount Olivet Church from 26th and R streets, the expansive lawn encompasses the tax-delinquent properties for which more than $72,000 is owed.

City demands East End church pay delinquent taxes By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Nearly 30 years ago, Mount Olivet Church went on a buying spree and acquired 12 properties adjacent to the church in the 1200 block of North 25th Street in the East End. Now those parcels plus one more that the church acquired later and cleared of decaying buildings could wind up on the auction block, enabling City Hall to collect $72,420 in property taxes that have gone unpaid for at least 12 years. The idea that the city can collect taxes from a religious body seems to flout the constitutional barrier between church and state. However, it turns out that all church property is not exempt from real estate and personal property taxes under Virginia law, and this property represents a prime example of religiously owned land that can be taxed, according City Attorney

Allen L. Jackson. Mr. Jackson noted that the state Constitution spells out what is exempt from taxation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; real estate and personal property owned by religious bodies that is â&#x20AC;&#x153;exclusively occupied or used â&#x20AC;Ś for religious worship or for the residences of their ministers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this case,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Jackson continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the City Assessor treats the property at 1223 N. 25th St., where the church (sanctuary) is located, as exempt.â&#x20AC;? That also includes the parking area behind the church. However, Mr. Jackson stated that even though â&#x20AC;&#x153;the adjoining vacant land may in fact be used in whole or in part for church purposes, it is not used â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;for religious worshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and so is not treated as exempt.â&#x20AC;? Bishop Darryl F. Husband, who reorganized the church so that it is now nondenominational

and no longer Baptist affiliated, has not responded to a request for comment. According to a legal notice the City Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office published in the July 18-20 edition of the Richmond Free Press, the church has until Sept. 12 to respond with payment of the overdue taxes. Otherwise, the Richmond Circuit Court could allow the city to move ahead with the sale of the property. The taxes on 12 properties held in the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name have been unpaid since 2007 and also include $5,112.50 in real estate taxes due for the years 1999 to 2005 before Mount Olivet Baptist acquired the parcel at 2506 R St., the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s filings in Richmond Circuit Court state.

The filings, first submitted in February, spell out the addresses and taxes due for each parcel held in the name of Mount Olivet Baptist or a trustee of the church: 1207 N. 25th St., $3,041.32; 1209 N. 25th St., $5,756.57; 1211 N. 25th St., $5,810.72; 1215 N. 25th St., $6,277.39; and 1219Â˝ N. 25th St., $8,068.01. Also, 1200 N. 26th St., $3,927.91; 1202 N. 26th St., $4,020.44; 1206 N. 26th St., $4,020.44; 1208 N. 26th St., $4,034.15; 1210 N. 26th St., $5,992.36; 1212 N. 26th St., $8,370.48; 1220 N. 26th St., $7,987.80; and the property on R Street. The list does not include 1217 N. 25th St., which also is tax delinquent. A city filing on that property lists the ownership as â&#x20AC;&#x153;parties unknown.â&#x20AC;?

Roundtable this Saturday to keep faith communities safe

Delegate Schuyler VanValkenburg of Henrico County is convening a roundtable of faith leaders to discuss how to keep places of worship and faith communities safe. Representatives of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu faith communities in

Metro Richmond are expected to participate in the discussion from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the Tuckahoe Library, 1901 Starling Drive in Henrico County. The event is open to the public. Delegate VanValkenburg, a

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New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

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

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11:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Every 3rd Sunday 2nd Sunday, 11 a.m. Mon. 6:30 p.m. Tues. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Wed. 6:45 p.m. Wed. 4:30 p.m. Wed. 6:00 p.m. Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

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SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2019 11:00 AM Worship Celebration Message by: Pastor Bibbs New Sermon Series: Breaking News

Remember... At New Deliverance, You Are Home! See you there and bring a friend.

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Mother Marcietia S. Glenn First Lady

SUNDAY 8:00 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service

WEDNESDAY SERVICES

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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

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Hosted by: SBC Young Adults

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Worship Opportunities During the month of July, all Sunday Worship Services will be held at 10 a.m. Church School will be held at 8:30 a.m.

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that the parties have lived separate and apart in excess of one year. It appearing from an affidavit filed by the plaintiff that the defendant’s whereabouts are unknown, it is ORDERED that the defendant appear before this Court on or before August 16, 2019, to protect his interests herein. An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk Locke & Quinn Shannon S. Otto 4928 West Broad Street P.O. Box 11708 Richmond, VA 23230 Telephone: (804) 285-6253

E0100139003 City of Richmond v. Mack W. Austin, et. al. CL18-4866 617 Northside Avenue N0001150010 City of Richmond v. CY Enterprises, Inc. et. al. CL18-4867 1902 Maury Street S0000290008 City of Richmond v. Richard L. Taylor, et. al. CL18-4880 1436 Rogers Street E0000768003 City of Richmond v. Willie S. Taylor, et. al. CL18-5020 1831 2/3 Thomas Street N0000946012 City of Richmond v. Albert Cook, Sr., et. al. CL18-5058 1919 North 28th Street E0120401002 City of Richmond v. Rachel Harris, et. al. CL18-5059 2024 Newbourne Street E0120285018 City of Richmond v. Harry Ransom, et. al. CL18-5119 3810 P Street E0001768018 City of Richmond v. Thelma Earl Peay, et. al. CL18-5237 907 North 24th Street E0000429018 City of Richmond v. Chris Howell, et. al. CL18-5277 5512 Walmsley Boulevard C0080815036 City of Richmond v. Hiram C. Smith, et. al. CL18-5281 1022 Kinney Street N0000619094 City of Richmond v. Mary Pauline Page, et. al. CL18-6175 30 East 28th Street S0001121001 City of Richmond v. Jessie Hilton, et. al. CL19-610 2401 Melbourne Street E0120278001 City of Richmond v. Clarke, et. al. CL18-5254 2407 Melbourne Street E0120278004 City of Richmond v. Jackson, et. al. CL18-5255 3007 Alpine Avenue N0000983019 City of Richmond v. Thompson, et. al CL18-5256 2110 Newbourne Street E0120286027 City of Richmond v. Nelson, et. al. CL18-5260 1810 North 29th Street E0000951011 City of Richmond v. Minor, et. al. CL18-5279 1110 ½ North 30th Street E0000568012 City of Richmond v. Simms, et. al. CL18-5280 1311 West Leigh Street N0000573010 City of Richmond v. Smith, et. al. CL18-5378

Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ richmondgov.com / (804) 646-6940. Gregory A. Lukanuski Deputy City Attorney Special Commissioner 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia 23219

copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

TERMS OF SALE: All sales are subject to confirmation by the Richmond Circuit Court. The purchase price will include the winning bid plus 10% of the winning bid. High bidders will pay at the time of the auction a deposit of at least 20% of the purchase price, or $2500.00, whichever is greater. If the purchase price is under $2500.00, high bidders will pay in full at the time of the auction. High bidders will pay the balance of the purchase price to the Special Commissioner, and deed recordation costs, by a date and in a form as stated in a settlement instruction letter. Time is of the essence. If a high bidder defaults by not making these payments in full, on time, and in the required form, the Special Commissioner will retain the deposit, and may seek other remedies to include the cost of resale or any resulting deficiency. Settlement shall occur when the Richmond Circuit Court enters an Order of Confirmation. Conveyance shall be either by a special commissioner’s deed or a special warranty deed. Real estate taxes will be adjusted as of the date of entry for the Order of Confirmation. Properties are sold “as is” without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction. T h e S p e c i a l Commissioner’s acceptance of a bid shall not limit any powers vested in the City of Richmond. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. Individuals owing delinquent taxes to the City of Richmond, and defendants in pending delinquent tax cases, are not qualified to bid at this auction. Bidders must certify by affidavit that they do not own, directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding notices of violation for building, zoning or other local ordinances. Questions may be directed to Gregory A. Lukanuski at greg.lukanuski @richmondgov.com / (804) 646-7949, or to Christie

has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 05333307 on September 27, 2005, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that FREDERICK A. JONES, Registered Agent for REALTY INDUSTRIAL LOAN CORPORATION, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 05-333307 on September 27, 2005, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that FAMILY FINANCIAL CORP, a voluntarily terminated Virginia entity, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 06-8302 on March 15, 2006, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that MARTIN WILLIAMS, Registered A g e n t f o r F L AT H E A D PROPERTIES, LLC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that DELMAR VENTURES, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 05-333307 on September 27, 2005, FREDERICK A. JONES, Registered Agent for REALTY INDUSTRIAL LOAN CORPORATION, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 05-333307 on September 27, 2005, FAMILY FINANCIAL COR P, a v o l u n t a r i l y terminated Virginia entity, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 06-8302 on March 15, 2006, MARTIN WILLIAMS, Registered Agent for FLATHEAD PROPERTIES, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building CHEVELLE RENAE ALLEN-STEVENSON, Plaintiff, v REGINALD ALDA STEVENSON, JR., Defendant. Case No.: CL19-2976 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer the following real estate for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday August 21, 2019 at 2:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any other terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale. 1610 Spotsylvania Street E0000764012 City of Richmond v. Veora Jane Allen, et al. CL17-5821 2304 Creighton Road E0120294003 City of Richmond v. Joan M. Robinson, et al. CL18-1142 3506 Woodson Avenue N0001552011 City of Richmond v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. CL18-3084 3406 Delaware Avenue N0001265010 City of Richmond v. Nathan Carter, et al. CL18-3100 3010 Groveland Avenue N0000985007 City of Richmond v. Terry L. McGirt, et al. CL18-3212 3009 Veranda Avenue N0000985012 City of Richmond v. Terry L. McGirt et.al. CL18-3214 1913 Decatur Street S0000294023 City of Richmond v. Arthur Webb., Sr., et al. CL18-3238 229 Bermuda Road C0060422006 City of Richmond v. William Elam, Trustee, et.al. CL18-3452 2101 Phaup Street E0120259001 City of Richmond v. Daniel Bates, et. al. CL18-3828 2810 Burfoot Street S0001121020 City of Richmond v. Leonard J. Byrd, et. al. CL18-3964 711 Mitchell Street N0000280004 City of Richmond v. Ida F. Dandridge, et. al. CL18-3994 715 Mitchell Street N0000280002 City of Richmond v. Ida F. Dandridge, et. al. CL18-3996 2803 Midlothian Turnpike S0000911048 City of Richmond v. Thelma Sor, et. al. CL18-4098 3218 Richmond Henrico Tpk. N0001258039 City of Richmond v. Mary C. Jones, et.al. CL18-4135 2014 Newbourne Street E0120285020 City of Richmond v. Mary W. Clayton, et. al. CL18-4156 320 East Fells Street N0000377038 City of Richmond v. Abtelaziz Amro, et. al. CL18-4176 1401 North 32nd Street E0000800009 City of Richmond v. Manuel Anderson, et. al. CL18-4178 2501 Berwyn Street S0080380025 City of Richmond v. Sarah A. Mayo, et. al. CL18-4180 10 East 30th Street S0001345009 City of Richmond v. Rose B. Gibson, et. al. CL18-4187 3300 Utah Place N0001075038 City of Richmond v. Pamela Jo Lester, et. al. CL18-4189 2014 Carver Street E0001237022 City of Richmond v. George Hill, et. al. CL18-4269 3216 2nd Avenue N0001070004 City of Richmond v. The Fndt. For Sr. Devp., et. al. CL18-4328 1406 Bryan Street E0000604010 City of Richmond v. Juanita Burns, et. al. CL18-4330 3408 Delaware Avenue N0001265009 City of Richmond v. Nathan Carter, et al. CL18-3099 2021 Chicago Avenue S0000347023 City of Richmond v. Nathaniel Winston, et al. CL18-3144 3012 Groveland Avenue N0000985006

City of Richmond v. Terry L. McGirt, et al. CL18-3213 3011 Veranda Avenue N0000985013 City of Richmond v. Terry L. McGirt et.al. CL18-3215 2523 Coles Street S0090104020 City of Richmond v. Donald J. Both, et. al. CL18-3260 7 West 20th Street S0000295030 City of Richmond v. Orlander Burke, et al. CL18-3571 2100 Redd Street E0000665041 City of Richmond v. Charles B. Kiser, et. al. CL18-3936 32 East 28th Street S0001121002 City of Richmond v. Leonard J. Byrd, et. al. CL18-3965 713 Mitchell Street N0000280003 City of Richmond v. Ida F. Dandridge, et. al. CL18-3995 704 Webster Street N0000280010 City of Richmond v. Mandel D. Sutton, et. al. CL18-4001 3210 Richmond Henrico Tpk. N0001258042 City of Richmond v. Clarence Jones, et.al. CL18-4134 1831 Thomas Street N0000946014 City of Richmond v. Richard Harris, Jr., et. al. CL18-4155 1831 1/3 Thomas Street N0000946013 City of Richmond v. Richard Harris, Jr., et. al. CL18-4175 1417 North 29th Street E0000717026 City of Richmond v. Samover, Inc., et. al. CL18-4177 1106 ½ North 32nd Street E0000722013 City of Richmond v. Bruce Robinson, et. al. CL18-4179 12 East 30th Street S0001345010 City of Richmond v. Rose B. Gibson, et. al. CL18-4186 1322 North 34th Street E0000875003 City of Richmond v. Goldie B. Terry, et. al. CL18-4188 2617 Wise Street S0000793021 City of Richmond v. Irving B. Taylor, et. al. CL18-4191 3713 Lawson Street S0042906030 City of Richmond v. George E. Branch, et. al. CL18-4327 1404 Bryan Street E0000604012 City of Richmond v. Juanita Burns, et. al. CL18-4329 3205 Stockton Street S0002132012 City of Richmond v. Got, LLC, et. al. CL18-4356 1321 North 31st Street E0000720027 City of Richmond v. Courtney R. Carter, et. al. CL18-4359 2701 Selden Street E0120319001 City of Richmond v. James E. Branch et. al. CL18-4361 1720 North 28th Street E0000864004 City of Richmond v. Isabelle T. Lasane et. al. CL18-4372 1715 North 29th Street E0000952034 City of Richmond v. Isabelle T. Lasane et. al. CL18-4373 2512 Porter Street S0000695005 City of Richmond v. James E. Moore et. al. CL18-4374 2514 Porter Street S0000695004 City of Richmond v. James E. Moore et. al. CL18-4375 1603 North 22nd Street E0000859015 City of Richmond v. Raymond Thornton et. al. CL18-4406 411 North 22nd Street E0000257020 City of Richmond v. Robert Ferguson, et. al. CL18-4437 1009 Garber Street E0100071007 City of Richmond v. Helena B. Bell, et. al. CL18-4438 2518 aka 2516 Porter Street S0000695003 City of Richmond v. Lewis Gist, Sr., et. al. CL18-4452 1605 North 22nd Street E0000859016 City of Richmond v. George Taylor, et. al. CL18-4453 2216 Carrington Street E0000469017 City of Richmond v. Joyce Shepherd, et. al CL18-4454 3122 1st Avenue N0001060001 City of Richmond v. Natasher Huckaby, et. al. CL18-4485 1209 North 31st Street E0000721023 City of Richmond v. George L. Stanley, et. al. CL18-4564 1800 Bath Street N0000946022 City of Richmond v. American Home Mort. et. al. CL18-4728 405 Catherine Street N0000208007 City of Richmond v. James Lenard, et. al. CL18-4752 1813 ½ North 28th Street E0120427006 City of Richmond v. William T. Pitts, et. al. CL18-4805 5304 Parker Street

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City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, September 9, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-195 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Grant Contract between the City of Richmond and Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc., for the purpose of making a $485,140 grant to Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc., from the funds appropriated to the Non-Departmental – Human Services line item to support the implementation of the Eviction Diversion Program. (COMMITTEE: Education and Human Services, Thursday, July 25, 2019, 2:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-196 To amend City Code §§ 2-894, 2-895, and 2-896, concerning the functions, duties, and administration of the Maggie L. Walker Initiative Citizens Advisory Board, for the purpose of modifying the member qualifications, duties, and administration of the Board. (COMMITTEE: Education and Human Services, Thursday, July 25, 2019, 2:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MARVIN MOJICA LOPEZ, Plaintiff v. SANDRA CANO MENJIVAR, Defendant. Case No.: CL19001998-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 4th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., CR#1 and protect her interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SUSAN SAWYER, Plaintiff v. MICHAEL SAWYER, Defendant. Case No.: CL19001929-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 4th day of September, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., CR#1 and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DANIEL HARRIS, JR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-461 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1507 Drewry Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071282/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Daniel Harris, Jr. and Frances W. Harris. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, DANIEL HARRIS, JR, and FRANCES W. HARRIS, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that ARCHIE C. BERKELEY, JR, Trustee of a Deed Substituting Trustee filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0915829 on July 16, 2009, 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 D A N IE L H A RRI S , J R , FRANCES W. HARRIS, ARCHIE C. BERKELEY, JR, Trustee of a Deed Substituting Trustee filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0915829 on July 16, 2009, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DAWN G. JOHNSON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-575 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2401 Decatur St, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-0681/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dawn G. Johnson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DAWN G. JOHNSON, 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 DAWN G. JOHNSON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-657 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1211 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church. An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-815 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1215 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/026, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church. An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-814 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1209 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mount Olivet Baptist Church. An Affidavit having been filed that said SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, owner of record of said parcel, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that SANDRA A. JOHNSON, Executive Administrator for MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, IAN T. RICKS, Registered Agent for MAUCK & COMPANY, INC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. PARTIES UNKNOWN, any heirs, devisees or successors in title, collectively made Respondents, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1322 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1217 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/027, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, PARTIES UNKNOWN, any heirs, devisees or successors in title, collectively made Respondents. 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 SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. DELMAR VENTURES, INC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6263 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2105 Selden Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120286/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Delmar Ventures, Inc. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DELMAR VENTURES, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. THELMA CRAWLEY, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-576 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1205 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000561/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Thelma Crawley. An Affidavit having been filed that said 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 SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

LICENSES Laith Enterprises Inc Trading as: Commerce Market N Deli 1641 Commerce Road, Richmond, Virginia 23224 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine & Beer Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Fayad Kaiwan 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. Continued on next page

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MJBL end-of-season tournament this weekend By Fred Jeter

The Metropolitan Junior Baseball League is warming up for two end-of-season tournaments on area diamonds. The 19-and-under division, made up mostly of high school and college players, will conduct its local playoffs July 27 and 28.

Then selected players from those teams will compete starting Tuesday, July 30, in the National MJBL Inner-City Classic on fields in Richmond and Henrico County. First the five-team local playoffs: Saturday, July 27: Riverside vs. Royals, 10 a.m., Klehr Field, 8000 Diane Lane in Henrico; and Mudcats vs. Warriors, 10 a.m.,

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parham Road campus. The winner of the Mudcats-Warriors game will meet the regular season winner, the Blue Sox, at 12:30 p.m. at Reynolds. Sunday, July 28: Championship game. Survivors of Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games will meet at 2 p.m. at Dorey Park, 2999 Darbytown Road in Henrico.

Elijah â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pumpsieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Green, first black player for the Boston Red Sox, dies at 85 Free Press staff report

Elijah â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pumpsieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Green

Elijah â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pumpsieâ&#x20AC;? Green, who became the first African-American player for the Boston Red Sox in 1959, died Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in El Cerrito, Calif. Mr. Green, a switch-hitting infielder who batted .246 in four seasons in the big leagues, was 85. Mr. Green debuted with Boston on July 21, 1959, after starting the same season with Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AAA farm club in Minneapolis. In Mr. Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first home game at Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fenway Park, he tripled off the Green Monster in left field. The Boston Red Sox was the last big

league team to integrate 12 seasons after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. Mr. Green was joined on the Red Sox roster later in the 1959 season by another AfricanAmerican player, pitcher Earl Wilson. Mr. Green played three seasons with Boston and, in 1963, played his final season with the New York Mets. Following his baseball career, Mr. Green served as a truant officer and coach at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif. Mr. Green was born Oct. 27, 1933, in the historically black and native American town of Boley, Okla., that was established in 1903.

He grew up in Richmond, Calif., and was a three-sport athlete in high school at El Cerrito High School. Mr. Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother, Cornell Green, played many seasons as a defensive back with the Dallas Cowboys. Mr. Green often was asked about the origin of his catchy nickname. He said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know other than his mother began calling him that at early age. On April 17, 2009, Mr. Green was honored at Fenway Park on the 50th anniversary of becoming the franchiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first black player. In April 2012, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway as part of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jackie Robinson Day festivities.

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