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More than gold

Casino gets green light from Richmond City Council

Gymnast Simone Biles stuns the world, her teammates and her competitors by withdrawing from Olympic team and individual all-around competition to focus on her mental health

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond is moving closer to achieving its dream of having a gambling resort in South Side.

The proposed ONE Casino + Resort has leapfrogged two more hurdles and is on track to be on the Nov. 2 ballot seeking the required approval from city voters.

Monday night, City Council cleared one hurdle by unanimously approving agreements between City Hall and the selected operator, RVA Entertainment Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Black media giant Urban One, which is seeking to open its first gambling operation at Walmsley Boulevard and Commerce Road at the Bells Road interchange with Interstate 95.

The agreements authorize the development of the gambling-entertainment-hotel project, call for the city to gain at least $29 million a year in revenue from the operation, promise nearly 1,000 full-time jobs with first preference to Please turn to A4

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Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles was expected to again helped lead the American team to gold medal glory at the Tokyo Olympics just as she had at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Instead, the reigning queen of the sport help draw attention to the stresses that top athletes face Tuesday after she voluntarily withdrew from further competition, citing concerns about her mental fitness to continue.

After the Russian team won the gold and Team USA settled for silver in the team competition, Ms. Biles faced the media to explain why she had pulled out, breaking down in tears as she sought to explain.

She said that the stress got to her.

She withdrew from team competition on Tuesday and from the final individual all-around competition on Wednesday.

“Whenever you get in a high stress situation, you kind of freak out,” the 24-year-old Texas resident told reporters. “I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my Please turn to A4 Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press

Simone Biles waits to compete on the balance beam during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in early June in Fort Worth, Texas.

Racism of rioters takes center stage in Jan. 6 hearing

By Aaron Morrison The Associated Press

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Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, left, and Officer Harry Dunn of the U.S. Capitol Police show support for one another following their emotional testimony Tuesday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

It had only been hinted at in previous public examinations of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection: Scores of rioters attacked police officers not just with makeshift weapons, stun guns and fists, but with racist slurs and accusations of treason.

Four officers, two from the U.S. Capitol Police and two from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, on Tuesday detailed the racism and bigotry they encountered during the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Their direct, harrowing accounts laid out the hours when the pro-police sentiment of supporters of former President Trump was pushed aside, consumed by the fury of wanting to keep him in the White House.

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn told lawmakers about an exchange

RPS will reopen with mask requirement

Richmond Public Schools will reopen Sept. 8 under the inescapable cloud of the COVID-19 delta variant, with officials announcing that students, teachers and staff will be required to wear masks in schools and on buses regardless of their vaccination status.

Superintendent Jason Kamras stated in his daily RPS Direct, “We (RPS) will be maintaining our 100% mask-wearing policy for all students, staff and visitors. We feel this is the safest course of action, particularly with the surging delta variant.”

Mr. Kamras also said getting vaccinated helps to ensure face-toface learning can continue. Right now, there is no vaccine available for children under 12, another factor contributing to the district’s decision to mask up.

The RPS Direct message also strongly encouraged everyone 12 or older to get vaccinated right away if they haven’t already done so. Nearly all new infections of the coronavirus are occurring in unvaccinated individuals, according to state health officials.

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he had with rioters, who disputed that President Biden had defeated Mr. Trump in the November 2020 presidential election. When Officer Dunn, who is Black, argued with the rioters that he voted for President Biden and that his vote should be counted, a crowd began hurling the N-word at him.

“One woman in a pink ‘MAGA’ (Make America Great Again) shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys, this n----- voted for Joe Biden!’ ” said Officer Dunn, who has served more than a dozen years on the Capitol Police force.

“Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in, screaming “Boo! F------ n-----!” he testified. He said no one had ever called him the Nword while he was in uniform. That night, he sat in the Capitol Rotunda and wept.

Ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, House

Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, a member of the panel, said the Capitol and D.C. officers would provide insight into “what it was like to be on the front lines.”

However, Officer Dunn also was speaking to the experience of being an African-American police officer, who make up 29 percent of roughly 2,300 officers and civilians serving on the Capitol Police force.

Officer Dunn said another Black male officer told him that, while confronting the rioters on Jan. 6, he was told to “Put your gun down and we’ll show you what kind of n----you really are!”

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Silk Hair Studio becomes touch point for COVID-19 vaccination effort

By George Copeland Jr.

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Joshua Thompson, 14, gets the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine from nurse Christina Carney in a Richmond Health District mobile clinic van on Tuesday. His mother, a registered nurse, brought him to the pop-up vaccination event at Silk Hair Studio on West Broad Street. The salon provided space for people to be registered and to wait during the 15-minute post-vaccination observation period.

Silk Hair Studio bustled with talk and activity Tuesday afternoon, though not just about hair care and other conversations between patrons in dryer chairs.

The salon, located on West Broad Street near the Science Museum of Virginia, served as a walk-up COVID-19 vaccination site for the Richmond and Henrico health districts.

According to co-owner Renada Harris, the salon is one of a thousand similar businesses providing space to reach people where they are in the continuing battle to protect Americans against COVID-19.

The Richmond salon was part of a nationwide effort spearheaded by the Biden

administration to transition from large vaccination events to smaller sites to better reach the unvaccinated. African-American barber shops and hair salons like Silk Hair Studio were highlighted as a key part of this initiative because of their connections to their communities and their ability to advocate for inoculation.

Ms. Harris said she was very interested in doing what she could to help the effort to shore up the community’s well-being against the virus.

“We’re just trying to do our part with getting the community vaccinated,” said Ms. Harris, whose salon adheres to many safety guidelines to protect its customers

Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines

Fun at RPS Summer Fest

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following location: • Thursday, July 29, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Henrico West Health Department, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, drive-thru event.

Appointments are not necessary, but can be made by calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by registering online at https://bit.ly/RHHDCOVID. Testing will be offered while test supplies last.

A list of area COVID-19 testing sites is online at https://www.vdh. virginia.gov/richmond-city/richmond-and-henrico-area-covid-19testing-sites/

Gerald Brown, 5, outdistances his 4-year-old sister, Gabrielle, during a sack race last Saturday at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School during RPS Summer Fest. The event, sponsored

by Richmond Public Schools, provided information for families on how to enroll students for the upcoming school year, while offering music, entertainment, art stations, books and refreshments. A second event will be held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, July 31, at the Broad Rock Sports Complex, 4825 Old Warwick Road. Rain site: Broad Rock Elementary School, 4615 Ferguson Lane.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walkup COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations: • Thursday, July 29, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Washington Football Team Training Camp, 2401 W. Leigh St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 9 to 11 a.m. – Care Advantage Inc. West End Office, 3201 Hungary Spring Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 1 to 3 p.m. – Care Advantage Inc. South Side Office, 10041 Midlothian Turnpike, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

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Monica L. Jefferson named interim director of HOME

The Richmond-based fair housing watchdog Housing Opportunities Made Equal is undergoing a leadership change.

After nine years, Heather M. Crislip, president and chief executive officer, is leaving July 31 to take charge of The Richmond Forum.

HOME’s board has named Monica L. Jefferson, HOME’s vice president and chief operating officer, as the interim president while the organization conducts a search for its new leader.

Marianne McGhee, board chair, said HOME “is sorry to lose Heather, as her impact on this organization and our comMs. Jefferson munity has been tremendous. But HOME has a very deep bench of talented and committed leaders. Heather will leave behind a strong dynamic organization that is ready to build on what she has accomplished.”

During her tenure, Ms. Crislip worked with City Hall, legal aid, Firms in Service and the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation to create the state’s first eviction diversion initiative. The program has aided hundreds of families to stay in their homes since launching nearly two years ago.

Ms. Crislip also is credited with creating a HOME partnership with Wells Fargo to expand home counseling services and improve the bank’s compliance in lending for home mortgages with fair housing laws that ban discrimination.

On her watch, HOME also successfully sued various property owners for violations. In one notable case, owners of a Chesterfield County complex ended a ban on renting to people with nonviolent criminal charges on their record.

Ms. Crislip also led HOME in instituting new counseling programs for people holding federal housing vouchers that provide rental subsidies and in expanding informational efforts to end housing discrimination.

“HOME is a special and vibrant organization that has taught me so much,” Ms. Crislip stated in the release announcing her pending departure. “HOME will always be a big part of who I am and of the vision of an equitable Richmond that I pursue in the future.”

Ms. Jefferson, who earned a master’s degree in nonprofit studies from the University of Richmond, has 30 years of experience in affordable housing, administration, mortgage lending, community development, human resource planning and organizational development.

She worked for 13 years with Virginia Housing in grants administration, community outreach and nonprofit capacity building before joining HOME in 2018.

VSU to hold free Agriculture Field Day at Randolph Farm Virginia State University is hosting its annual Agriculture Field Day at Randolph Farm, its 416-acre research farm in Petersburg, from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 30.

The free event signals the reopening to the public of the farm, which has been closed since the start of the pandemic.

A range of topics and presentations will be covered during field day, including cultivating vegetables and berries, managing goats and sheep and a new demonstration site showcasing cattle production.

Participants also will tour the farm’s revamped hydroponics and aquaponics production facility, both growing sectors of Virginia’s agriculture industry.

“COVID highlighted the importance of agriculture to the world,” stated Dr. M. Ray McKinnie, dean of VSU’s College of Agriculture. “This field day is an opportunity to showcase how robust the industry is in Virginia.

“Nearly everything we eat and wear begins with agriculture, and while most people only think of farming, there are diverse sectors in the industry that positively impact our daily lives.”

William Crutchfield, director of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Small Farm Outreach Program at VSU, said this will be the first time in nearly 30 years that cattle have been part of the university’s field day.

“As more small farmers and producers are diversifying their farm operations and adding cattle, there’s a need for them to understand best practices for grazing these animals,” he said.

The farm is located at 4415 River Road in Petersburg.

The event is free, but pre-registration is required at www. ext.vsu.edu/calendar. Click on the event and then click on the registration link.

Persons with a disability who may need assistive devices or services may contact Tina Cabrera at tcabrera@vsu.edu or (804) 524-5836 or TTD (800) 828-1120.

Saxophonist James ‘Plunky’ Branch to headline 2nd Street Festival in Oct. Saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch and his progressive jazz group, Plunky & Oneness, will headline this year’s 2nd Street Festival that is set to return Saturday, Oct. 2, and Sunday, Oct. 3, to Jackson Ward, it has been announced.

The choice of Mr. Branch salutes an independent Richmond artist who has been playing, producing and performing an eclectic mix of funk, smooth jazz and R&B for 50 years and gained popularity among jazz fans in England, France, Japan and other countries.

Plunky & Oneness has appeared with Mr. Branch many big names in music, including such icons as Patti Labelle, Ray Charles, Earth Wind & Fire, Frankie Beverly & Maze, LL Cool J and Chuck Brown.

Mr. Branch is best known for the 1981 funk classic “Every Way But Loose” and the ultra-funky “Drop,” which became a hit in 2007.

He also has been an administrator, lecturer and music teacher.

The festival, which celebrates historic Jackson Ward, once the financial, business and social heart of the Black community, was among the events that were canceled last year during the pandemic.

The event is put on by the Downtown booster group Venture Richmond and is known for the variety of musical offerings it presents on three stages.

Correction An article published on the front page of the July 15-17 edition of the Richmond Free Press, “Petersburg jury awards $300,000 to woman injured by officer,” was accompanied by a photograph of a woman who was incorrectly identified as Monica Cromartie, the plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Her attorney, Jonathan M. Arthur, said his client has declined to provide a photo for public release.

The Free Press regrets the error.

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

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With mask restrictions eased, small and large outdoor festivals are back in full swing in Richmond. A prime example: The More Than Art Community Day that took place July 24 in the East End. Left, Talaysha Lewis, 21, and Ta’Dreama McBride, 14, take their pick of free begonias offered by the nonprofit Garden Guerrilla at the event held at the busy corner of Fairmount Avenue and Mosby Street.

Bottom left, Artist Nadd Harvin puts the art into the festival working on his new mural on a storefront. The festival, mingling painting, music and neighborhood outreach, was a production of Crenius, a Richmond-based creative agency led by founder Ra-Twoine “Rosetta” Fields. Her purpose for the event: “To use art and mutual aid as a vehicle for catalytic change in underserved and underrepresented communities.”

City wants to know residents’ wish list for spending $77M “How would you spend $77 million on your city?”

That’s a question City Hall is posing and hoping that Richmond residents will help answer by taking part in an online survey on how to use the money coming directly to the city from the new $2.3 trillion federal American Rescue Plan designed to provide relief from COVID-19.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney announced Tuesday that the survey has been posted on the city’s website at RVA.gov/ARP and will remain open through midnight Monday, Aug. 9.

The $77 million is the first half of the city’s share of direct aid from ARP, with a

second $77 million to arrive next year. The city has until 2026 to spend it, according to the legislation proposed by President Biden and passed by Congress in March.

“This is a transforMayor Stoney mative investment,” said Mayor Stoney. “The American Rescue Plan Act has given us the chance to recover the right way. We need your input to make it happen.”

The mayor said his administration already has some ideas on how to use the

money. That includes spending to boost the compensation of essential city workers, improve public infrastructure and support economic recovery.

He said the administration would continue seeking public input as it prepares a plan to send to City Council for approval.

The money the city is receiving is separate from the $153 million that Richmond Public Schools is to receive. The school system already has issued a proposal to spend all of the money on boosting learning, with $65 million to be spent on a new effort to boost reading and writing proficiency. ­­— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Possible new home for Richmond Police Memorial?

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Police statue

Move it to Capitol Square.

That’s where supporters of the Richmond Police Memorial statue want it to go.

A news conference is to be held 11 a.m. Thursday, July 29, beside the State Capitol to call for the 34-year-old statue to gain state protection.

The statue depicts a uniformed police officer holding a young child.

For advocates, the memorial could be a replacement for the recently removed statue of arch-segregationist Harry Byrd Sr. Glenwood W. Burley, a retired Richmond Police officer, is serving as spokesman for the initiative. He said moving the statue to the Capitol grounds would provide security for the too frequently vandalized piece of art that pays tribute to Richmond officers who have died in the line of duty since 1863.

“It also would be an appropriate site due to the 1870 disaster at the Capitol. Eleven Richmond police officers were among those killed when the second floor of the building collapsed,” Mr. Burly

said. “This would be a fitting tribute to them.”

He said that supporters would pay for the installation if Gov. Ralph S. Northam and the legislature agree to provide space for the statue.

Mr. Burley said the statue currently is stored in a warehouse to prevent further damage. He led the effort to move the statue from the grounds of the Richmond Coliseum to Byrd Park in 2016. But he said the statue was vandalized three times after it was set up and at least 11 times last year during the demonstrations against police abuse and racial injustice.

“It was hit with lacquer, spray paint, chemicals and everything else that could be thrown at it,” Mr. Burley said. “It took a month and $6,000 to clean it. We had to move it to a warehouse when we received intelligence that there were plans to knock off the head.”

Mr. Burley said private donors raised $30,000 to move the statue to the park and install it on a new pedestal. But he said the statue, created by Maria Kirby-Smith and that has been a Richmond fixture since 1987, is too much of a target at its park site and will never go back there.

Annie Giles Center to have grand reopening ceremony July 31

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

It has been a soup kitchen and a shelter for the homeless during the winter.

Now the Annie Giles Community Resource Center at 1400 Oliver Hill Way is reopening as a community resource and training center named for late Whitcomb Court community leader Annie Marie Giles.

After six years of effort on her part, Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson will lead a grand opening ceremony of the refurbished city facility from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 31.

The event is to include music, a job fair, distribution of free school supplies, booths with information on community resources and other activities, Ms. Robertson said.

Ms. Robertson said the plan is for the building and grounds to have multiple uses, including food production, community gardens and job development assistance for teens and young adults.

The building already is home to the nonprofit Underground Kitchen, which uses the center’s commercial kitchen to produces meals distributed in the Richmond area to relieve hunger, Ms. Robertson noted.

She said one element of the plan is for the city to work with

the nonprofit to create more options for providing nutritious food to the neighborhoods on the surrounding hills.

To build on that, she envisions the creation of community gardens on the grounds that would allow the kitchen to get fresh produce on site and for area residents to grow their own produce, Ms. Robertson said.

A computer lab has been installed in the building as part of the refurbishing work to provide access to educational programs and to link users to employment resources and job opportunities, she said. City Hall “has obligations to add additional youth employment services and after-school programs” using the new lab.

A steering committee of 15 residents from the Whitcomb Court and Mosby Court public housing communities and from the Eastview neighborhood are to provide recommendations for additional programming, Ms. Robertson said. She said the steering committee would have support from professional advisors and the assistance of a volunteer in her office.

The center is an outgrowth of promises the city made in 2012 as part of the development of the new Richmond Justice Center across the street, Ms. Robertson noted. As part of

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locating the jail there, the city agreed to beef up services at the Giles Center.

That promise stalled until the Freedom House Conrad Center, as the center was known at the time, became available following the 2013 demise of Freedom House. Freedom House built the center in 2007 to serve as a meal distribution and assistance center for the homeless and low-income people.

Ms. Robertson pushed for City Council approval to buy the foreclosed building from a bank and secured $1.2 million to support the effort. In 2015, the city bought the property for $300,000. A cook training school and a landscaping training program were installed, but the city turned it into a cold weather shelter.

After two years of that operation, a frustrated Ms. Robertson had enough, particularly after adjacent vacant land was transformed into a homeless encampment in 2019. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she pushed the city into disbanding the camp and fencing off the land and also got a resolution through City Council blocking the building’s further use as a cold weather shelter, a hard blow to homeless advocates.

In the past year, the city has welcomed the Underground Kitchen and made improvements using the $900,000 that remained from 2015. As a result, the city was able to avoid reporting on the project’s progress and cost in its quarterly capital budget reports.

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Gymnast Simone Biles stuns the world, her teammates and her competitors by withdrawing from Olympic team and individual all-around competition to focus on her mental health Continued from A1

health and well-being.

“It just sucks when you’re fighting with your own head,” Ms. Biles added.

She later wrote on her Instagram that she was “feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders” before she withdrew.

She said she was shaking before the Olympic team gymnastics final and realized the “mental’s not there.”

Ms. Biles, who has won an unprecedented 27 gold medals in international gymnastic competition, is regarded as the greatest ever in a sport that demands top fitness and requires performance of almost impossible maneuvers.

Her action put the issue of athletes’ mental health front and center.

Ms. Biles said that tennis star Naomi Osaka, who talked openly about her own mental health struggles after withdrawing from the French Open in late May, inspired her decision.

Ms. Osaka, a California resident who was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, is representing Japan in the Olympics.

She was given the high honor to light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony last week. While she was ranked No. 2 in the tennis competition, she lost in the third round

and is out of medal contention.

“We wholeheartedly support Simone’s decision and applaud her bravery in prioritizing her well-being,” USA Gymnastics said in a statement on Wednesday. “Her courage shows, yet again, why she is a role model for so many.”

Initially, Ms. Biles said that the other Team USA members in Tokyo wanted the four-time Olympic gold medalist to continue competing.

But she declined.

“I was like: I think the girls need to do the rest of the competition without me. They were like ‘I promise you’ll be fine; we watched you warm-up.’ But I said, ‘No, I know I am going to be fine, but I can’t risk a medal for the team, and I need to call it.”

Ms. Biles said that she is proud of what the team accomplished without her in winning second place.

Despite her emotional response at the press conference, she was adamant her withdrawal was right for her.

“We have to focus on ourselves, because at the end of the day, we’re human, too,” she said. “So, we have to protect our mind and our body, rather than just go out there and do what the world wants us to do.”

Ms. Biles said her decision followed her poor performance on the dismount from the vault.

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Control and Prevention.

The CDC announced this week that students in kindergarten through 12th grade, teachers and staff should wear a mask indoors, regardless of their vaccination status.

On Tuesday, Henrico County Public Schools officials announced that face coverings will be optional in the fall. They also recommend that middle and high schools require unvaccinated students and staff to wear masks indoors.

In Chesterfield County, public school officials said they will continue to review federal, state and local guidance in anticipation of their next School Board meeting on Aug. 10.

Hanover County schools also are reviewing the CDC guidance and monitoring data.

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• Friday, July 30, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Washington Football Team Training Camp, 2401 W. Leigh St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 9 a.m. to noon – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Dr., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 1 to 3 p.m. – Charm School’s Study Hall –Southside, 4930 Forest Hill Ave., and East End Library, 1200 N. 25th St. • Saturday, July 31, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Washington Football Team Training Camp, 2401 W. Leigh St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Richmond Public Schools Summer Fest, Broad Rock Sports Complex, 4825 Old Warwick Road, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 4 to 7 p.m. – Mosby Summer Night Lights Even, 1400 Spotsylvania St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Tuesday, Aug. 3, noon to 2 p.m. – St. Andrews United Methodist Church, 9801 Fort King Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 2 to 4 p.m. – Deering Manor Apartments, 2720 Hopkins Road; 5 to 7 p.m. – St. Luke Apartments National Night Out, 3901 Pilots Lane, Building 98; 6 to 8 p.m. – Speaking Spirit Ministries Night Out, Hope Givers USA, 10124 Royerton Drive, Glen Allen, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Wednesday, Aug. 4, 9 to 11 a.m. – Aramark, 810 Cathedral Place, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 3 to 6 p.m. – George Wythe High School, 4314 Crutchfield St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Aug. 5, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. – John Marshall High School Health Fair, 4225 Old Brook Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Friday, Aug. 6, 9 a.m. to noon – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Saturday, Aug. 7, Antioch Baptist Church, 1384 New Market Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson Children ages 12 to 15 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Appointments are not required, but individuals can schedule an appointment online at vax.rchd.com or by calling (804) 205-3501.

The number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Virginia and across the nation, with the highly contagious delta variant responsible for many of the cases among the unvaccinated.

In response, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people in localities that are at high risk for community transmission wear masks indoors regardless of whether they are vaccinated.

Those high-risk places include cities and counties that are listed on the CDC’s transmission data tracker website as having “substantial” levels of transmission. In Central Virginia, that includes Chesterfield, Hanover, New Kent, Charles City, Prince George, Dinwiddie, King William, Amelia and Nottoway counties.

Richmond and Henrico are listed as having “moderate” levels of transmission.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week that it will require 115,000 of its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, making it the first agency to do so.

Earlier this week, 60 medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, urged all health care facilities to require workers to get vaccinated.

Virginia’s seven-day positivity rate is 4.7 percent. Last week, it was 3.4 percent.

According to state data, more than 4.58 million people are fully vaccinated in Virginia, or 53.8 percent of the population, while 59.9 percent of the population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Reported COVID-19 data as of Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Cases Hospitalizations Deaths Richmond 17,546 819 280 Henrico County 26,440 1,108 642 Chesterfield County 28,819 1,047 456 Hanover County 8,504 326 168

She sought to do the Amanar maneuver, a backflipping move that is crowned by 2½ twists in the air. Instead, she said she lost focus in the air and ended up doing only a Yuchenko, or a less difficult dismount involving 1½ twists in the air — prompting gasps from onlookers.

Gymnastic insiders later explained that Ms. Biles was feeling what are called “twisties.” The twisties are described as a mysterious phenomenon — suddenly a gymnast is no longer able to do a twisting skill she has done thousands of times in practice.

As one former gymnast described it, “Your brain loses track of where you are in the air. You find out where the ground is when you slam into it.”

That is a serious issue for gymnasts who perform on narrow beams and other apparatus that can harm them and often propel themselves into the air for maneuvers that put them in awkward positions before they land.

Ms. Biles has long been known for her “air sense,” her ability to stay oriented even when doing twists or backward maneuvers, which is why her inability to do a maneuver with 2½ twists was shocking.

“She’s always had incredible air sense, which is what you need in this sport,” Ms. Biles’ former coach, Aimee Boorman, told Houstonia magazine in 2015. “She doesn’t crash very frequently.

Other kids, you’ll just see them splat, or get lost in the air. That doesn’t happen with her.”

But the twisties can hit anyone, even someone as accomplished as Ms. Biles. And when they do, “it’s hard to know when they’ll go away,” another former gymnast said in praising Ms. Biles for putting her mental health first and medals second.

Gymnastics is stressful and risky for everyone, but particularly for those competing at the highest levels. At least in gymnastics, there has been a growing movement for the athletes to recognize when they are physically or mentally unfit to compete and to step back rather than trying to push on at the risk of physical injury.

Ms. Biles said she was not injured, but she said that she was concerned that staying on the floor could lead her to do damage to herself.

“I just don’t trust myself as much as I used to,” she said. “I’m a little bit more nervous when I do gymnastics. I feel like I’m also not having as much fun. And that’s why I took a step back, because I don’t want to do something silly out there and get injured. I think we’re just a little bit too stressed out.

“So I thought it was best if these girls took over and did the rest of the job – which they absolutely did.”

It is unclear if she will compete in next week’s event finals.

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racial slurs in the halls of democracy.

“It’s just so disheartening that people like that will attack you just for the color of your skin,” Officer Dunn replied. “Once I was able to process it, it hurt. My blood is red. I’m an American citizen. I’m a police officer. I’m a peace officer.”

While Black Americans make up roughly 13 percent of the U.S. population, they were roughly 11 percent of all police officers in 2016 across a sampling of 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. More than 71percent of officers were white in 2016.

It’s this kind of treatment endured by Black men and women in law enforcement that policing experts say makes recruitment and diversity among U.S. police forces challenging. The law enforcement profession also has struggled with its origins in America, dating back to the slave patrols in the early 1700s formed to capture people who escaped slavery and terrorize the enslaved into submission.

Although many African-Americans have served valiantly on local and federal police forces since the Civil Rights Movement, data shows Black Americans are still arrested in disproportionate numbers

and are more likely to be fatally shot by police.

Another Capitol Police officer, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, wiped away tears as he recalled the story of his immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic, only to face fellow Americans who considered him a traitor for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“It was very disappointing,” Sgt. Gonell said. “I saw many officers fighting for their lives against people, rioters (and) citizens, turning against us.”

Sgt. Gonell, an Iraq War veteran, also called out the disparate law enforcement response to the overwhelmingly white crowd of rioters and the response to racial justice protests in 2020 that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the police involved deaths of other Black Americans.

“As America and the world watched in horror what was happening to us at the Capitol, we did not receive timely reinforcements and support we needed,” Sgt. Gonell said. “In contrast, during the Black Lives Matter protest last year, U.S. Capitol Police had all the support we needed and more. Why the different response?”

Indeed, law enforcement agencies in dozens of cities last year showed overwhelming force toward BLM demonstra-

tors. Many used chemical dispersants, rubber bullets and hand-to-hand combat with largely peaceful crowds and some unruly vandals and looters. By the end of 2020, police had made more than 14,000 arrests.

In January, as images and video emerged from the attacks on the Capitol, a racist and anti-Semitic element among the rioters became apparent. One man was pictured inside of the Capitol building carrying a Confederate battle flag.

And in the nearly seven months since the attacks, more video investigations revealed several rioters had flashed white supremacist gang signs and “white power” hand signals during the insurrection.

Sgt. Gonell also called out the hypocrisy he perceived from many of the rioters who profess to support law enforcement — “the thin blue line” — but did not agree with those protesting Mr. Floyd’s death last summer.

“There are some who expressed outrage when someone simply kneeled for social justice during the national anthem,” Officer Dunn said. “Where are those same people expressing outrage to condemn the violent attack on law enforcement officers, the U.S. Capitol and our American democracy?

“I’m still waiting for that,” he said.

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city residents and require the gambling to begin by October 2024.

The crucial casino vote came at City Council’s final meeting before the August recess during which the council also passed a symbolic resolution declaring racism a public health crisis in the city, rezoned a stretch of West Broad Street for 12story, mixed-use buildings and awarded a $100,000 grant to Virginia Union University to create a mentoring program in Gilpin Court for young people under age 18.

Separately on the casino front, though not yet announced, the Free Press has been told the Virginia Lottery, the state’s casino regulator, has completed its preliminary review of the casino plan and given City Hall a green light to request that the Richmond Circuit Court put the issue on the ballot.

The request is expected to go to the court in the next several weeks, officials have indicated.

If Richmond voters overwhelmingly endorse the casino as Mayor Levar M. Stoney anticipates, the Lottery would then have a year to do a deep dive before deciding whether to issue the required casino license to operate.

During the meeting, Councilwoman Reva Trammell, whose 8th District includes the planned casino and resort site, touted the benefits expected from the project that would be among the largest ever south of the James River.

“This is a golden opportunity, not just for the South Side and the 8th District,

but for the city as a whole,” Ms. Trammell said.

Others, including dermatologist Dr. Pamela Royal, whose family is listed by Urban One among the investors in RVA Entertainment Holdings, waxed enthusiastic about the project.

Not everyone is excited. Quinton Robbins of the advocacy group Richmond for All told City Council that a survey of people living west of the project found that 45 percent of residents oppose the casino while a substantial percentage are undecided.

Richmond for All is among the groups that oppose any casino development, arguing that it would extract money from lowerincome residents, create mostly low-wage jobs and add little to city growth.

Whether the opposition proves significant, though, remains to be seen. So far, there has been no sign of a well-financed campaign.

If a majority of voters approve the casino during the November referendum, it would trigger the first stages of a project that City Hall is touting as a bonanza for Richmond.

According to the city documents, RVA Entertainment and its parent, Urban One, are projecting a total investment of $560 million, with about $420 million directly associated with the design and construction and the rest involving other costs associated with the project, including an upfront payment to the city. The agreements require the company to pay union wages for construction, incorporate union workers in 40 percent of the project and

also strive to have 40 percent of the construction done by Black, Latino and other minority-owned companies.

Under the agreements, even before gaining a license, RVA Entertainment would have to immediately provide a $26.5 million upfront payment to the city that would be non-refundable. RVA Entertainment also would be required to complete the purchase of its preferred site from the current owner, Henrico County-based tobacco giant Altria and its cigarette arm, Philip Morris USA. The company also must clear Philip Morris USA’s former operating center from the property to prepare for construction of the casino and attached 250-room hotel if the Lottery grants the license.

Assuming Lottery approval, the company is projected to begin construction of the casino in 2023, with an opening after 22 months. The agreement provides an incentive for the company to complete the project in less time. The company also would be required to have the 250-room hotel open for guests by October 2025.

The agreements also require the company to pay the city an extra $1 million to move back the opening date, which initially was set for December 2023. The $1 million adds to the $25.5 million the company had already agreed to pay the city.

In other business, City Council’s support of Mayor Stoney’s resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis lays the groundwork for policy changes and for budgeted investments to improve equity in the city, according to the administration.

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and stylists. The staff also is nearly fully vaccinated, with only two people not getting inoculated because of pre-existing medical conditions, Ms. Harris said.

On Tuesday, a room in the salon building was used to register people who wanted a vaccine. The patients would then be taken to a health department van parked in the alley outside where they were given the shot. They would return to the building to wait during the 15 minute observation period after the vaccine dose.

Those present created a friendly, laid-back atmosphere, with Richmond and Henrico health district staff, volunteers and patients freely conversing during the two-hour event.

While five to 50 people were expected for the clinic, Catherine Long, the health districts’ public information officer, said Wednesday that six people were vaccinated.

“The pop up events are much smaller but are so critical because they bring access to folks who may be experiencing homelessness, language barriers or other forms of inaccess,” Ms. Long stated.

The salon is among many pop-up clinics planned for the “Summer of Vax” initiative by the health district at convenient points in the city to allow for greater access to the vaccine by the underserved community. This method so far has allowed the health district to provide vaccinations to the homeless, the elderly and those who simply walk past the pop-up sites and decide to finally get vaccinated.

“It’s not so much about the numbers,” said Julie Moon, a registered nurse who has been a part of the health districts’ vaccination efforts for months. “We’re

doing places that people normally wouldn’t go to get a vaccine.”

Among those seizing the opportunity Tuesday was Joshua Thompson, a 14-year-old incoming freshman at Highland Springs High School in Henrico County.

He received his first dose of the two-part Pfizer vaccine at the event after his mother, Yolanda Thompson, a registered nurse, learned about the pop-up event at the salon online.

The moment had been a long time in the making, according to Ms. Thompson. She said Joshua had been

eager to be vaccinated, but she had concerns about the vaccine’s possible side effects on younger children. She was vaccinated in January.

Both were pleased that they took advantage of the opportunity on Tuesday.

“I wanted to get the vaccine because I want to be protected,” Joshua said.

“I wish I could get the second dose right now.”

Information about upcoming walkup vaccination clinics is available on the Richmond City Health District’s website at www.rchd.com.

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Hopewell pays homage to the Rev. Curtis Harris

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Hopewell’s post office has a new name. It is now the Rev. Curtis W. Harris Post Office in honor of the late pastor and civil rights leader who became Hopewell’s first Black mayor in 1998.

The renaming and dedication ceremony was hosted July 15 outside the post office at 117 W. Poythress St. by 4th District Congressman A. Donald McEachin, who spearheaded the renaming effort.

Rev. Harris was a top lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King

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Jr. and helped found and lead the Virginia Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for 25 years.

He was an untiring advocate for racial equality, voting rights, education and justice issues. He won election to the Hopewell City Council in 1986 and served for 26 years, with the council electing him mayor in 1998. He left the position in 2012 after suffering a stroke.

He also served as pastor of Union Baptist Church for 45 years until his retirement in 2007. He died Dec. 10, 2017.

State help to fix Richmond’s sewer overflow problems comes up short

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

How about $50 million?

That’s Gov. Ralph S. Northam’s response to an appeal from nine Richm o n d Democrats in the General Assembly for $883 million to enable R i c h Gov. Northam mond to end its discharge of partially treated human waste into the James River during heavy rainfalls, including storms earlier this week.

In Gov. Northam’s response, it is clear that he does not propose to go all in to address the problem. His plan calls for distributing $125 million to Richmond and two other localities, Alexandria and Lynchburg, that also need major fixes to their sewer systems to end discharges into state rivers. Richmond and Alexandria each would get $50 million and Lynchburg would get $25 million.

“That falls far short,” a disappointed Richmond state Sen. Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey stated in an email to the Free Press after reviewing the governor’s statement.

Sen. Morrissey stated that when the legislature reconvenes in special session on Monday, Aug. 2, to vote on how to allocate Virginia’s share from the federal American Rescue Plan, “I will continue to fight for an increased amount that can better aid the City of Richmond and its residents.”

Henrico Delegate Lamont Bagby, chair of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, also pledged Wednesday to push for boosting the funding the city would receive to cut its polluting impact on the river.

The governor’s proposal on sewers is just one item on a list Delegate Bagby is creating with General Assembly leaders on ways to spend the $4.3 billion the state is to receive from the American Rescue Plan, the $2.3 trillion pandemic relief package President Biden proposed after taking office and that Congress passed in March.

The governor has been issuing his ARP spending proposals ahead of the start of the special legislative session, which also was called to fill vacant judgeships.

Instead of pouring money into sewer system fixes, the governor has proposed to earmark far bigger chunks of the ARP money to address other priorities. That includes providing more than $900 million to shore up the state’s depleted unemployment insurance fund and improve Virginia Employment Commission service to the unemployed. Also on the

list is $286.5 million to help smaller communities across the state pay for upgrades to aging drinking water systems and wastewater treatment plants, and $485 million to strengthen mental health services in the state.

The governor also wants to invest $700 million to expand high-speed broadband service to rural communities and sections of cities that have never been connected and spend $250 million to assist public school systems to upgrade ventilation systems in their school buildings.

For Richmond, getting a big influx of state dollars to resolve its sewer system problem could

keep the monthly charge for sewer service from soaring in the next few years.

At a media briefing on Wednesday, Mayor Levar M. Stoney praised the governor for providing the $50 million but called it just a down payment on the commitment Richmond will need in state and federal resources.

Without sustained state and federal aid, Mayor Stoney projected city residents would see the charge for sewer service rise from the current $500 to $700 a year to $2,200 a year to enable the city to cover the cost of ending illegal waste discharges.

Richmond is facing a 2035

deadline to get it done.

The mayor said such an increase would hammer people in the 23 census tracts with the lowest incomes. He said he does not want to see the city forced to improve the water quality of the James River, dubbed “America’s founding river,” at a cost of creating “financial injustice” for people of color who represent a majority of the residents in those census tracts.

The costly problem stems from the fact that Richmond, like Alexandria and Lynchburg, connected a big portion of its stormwater drainage systems to its sewer system. Richmond created the link in the late 1800s

Family, friends and elected officials joined Rep. McEachin at the dedication ceremony, including Hopewell Mayor Jasmine Gore and Traci Miller, manager of post office operations. Rev. Harris’ family members pictured here are, from left, daughter-in-law Renate Harris of Hopewell, and five of his children, R. Michelle Harris Pritchett of Waldorf, Md., Karen Harris Bradford of Hopewell, Curtis Harris Jr. of Fayetteville, Ga., Dr. Joanne Harris Lucas of Virginia Beach and Michael Harris of Hopewell.

and ended the practice in the 1920s, city officials said.

In Richmond, the storm and sewer systems are tied together in one third of the city, primarily Downtown, North Side and Church Hill.

The huge volumes of water that rain creates forces discharges into the river to prevent damage to the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

Discharges into the river worked until state and federal requirements were imposed to end the municipal practice of getting rid of waste by polluting nearby rivers. Richmond started work on ending the combined sewer overflow, or CSO, discharges in 1988 and to date has appropriated more than $350 million.

Mayor Stoney has said that 90 percent of the problem has been fixed, but he said dealing with the final 10 percent

would be the most expensive portion.

The Richmond General Assembly delegation, though, appears to be facing an uphill battle to get more funding to fix the CSO problem given the other priorities and the fact that Prince William Delegate Luke Torian, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has announced that no amendments will be allowed to the ARP plan the governor submits.

Much of the governor’s plan is focused on major constituencies. For example, the investment in the unemployment trust fund would allow businesses that laid off workers during the pandemic last year to avoid large increases in state assessments to replenish the fund.

The bottom line: Richmond is facing having to self-finance its CSO fixes.

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July 29-31, 2021 A7

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Welcoming the burgundy and gold

Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

There’s no doubt that the Washington Football Team has real diehard fans in Richmond. After a year’s hiatus because of COVID-19, the NFL team received a big welcome back to its Richmond training camp on Wednesday by fans who turned out in droves. A long line formed early at the entry gate of the Bon Secours Training Facility on West Leigh Street as people waited eagerly to see their favorite players go through practice. Many wore the team colors of burgundy and gold. Left, Theiss Wooten and his children, Aryanna, 6, left, and Jayden, 3, drove up from Williamsburg to catch a bit of the action before they had to return for Aryanna’s gymnastics class. Above, Dorann Jones-Coleman of Glen Allen dressed in her WFT gear and matching sunglasses to support the team she has been cheering on for more than 20 years.

Far left, another fan records the field action on his cell phone. Officials said that all the free tickets have been distributed for the camp that continues through Saturday, July 31. Please see article, A10.

2 groups step up to manage city’s motel shelter program for homeless

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

those 62 years or older, people with city streets has been rising since Homesubstantial medical and health issues ward gave notice that it would stop More than 300 homeless men, women and managing the motel shelter program and families with children under the children will continue to stay in motels in at the end of this month. age of 12, Ms. Ebert said.

South Side after Saturday, July 31, rather than More than 3,200 individuals without Homeward is the nonprofit organibeing discharged to the streets as some feared zation that coordinates the Richmond housing have been sheltered either by would happen. nonprofits or in motels since March region’s response to homelessness Sharon L. Ebert, the city’s chief development through 30 charities and governmental 2020 when the pandemic began. officer, notified City Council on Monday that two entities.

Currently 390 households are Ms. Ebert nonprofits are stepping in to take over managereceiving shelter services, Ms. Ebert Ms. Ebert said 133 individuals ment of that shelter initiative, Commonwealth and 128 households with children under 12 said, including the individuals and families in Catholic Charities, or CCC, and the Richmond currently are being sheltered in motels. The motels. The average stay for those in shelter is Urban Ministry Institute, or RUMI. Days Inn near Chippenham Parkway has been about 31 days, she said.

Before the announcement, motel staff had a mainstay of the program.

The motel initiative dramatically expanded begun notifying those in the shelter program She said that $2.65 million in federal funds Richmond’s capacity to serve many of those of their impending discharge. However, by would be available collectively to CCC and who lost their homes during the pandemic.

Tuesday, the notices were being rescinded, the RUMI to cover costs of the motel shelter initia- Currently, nine nonprofits, which operate under Free Press was told. the umbrella Greater Richmond Continuum of tive through March 2022.

Concern about a flood of new people hitting Under current rules, the motel initiative serves Care led by Homeward, operate 12 shelters with a total of 351 beds, according to the data Ms. Ebert provided to the council. The motel initiative increases the total number of beds to 609.

WILLINGNESS TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING The figures do not include at least 100 more beds operated by other nonprofits that are not members

of the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care.

A homeless services hotline also enabled the region to divert 1,500 people from homelessness by providing them with other options, including connections to financial assistance through the state’s housing support program.

Ms. Ebert also told the council that she and others are focusing on having a cold weather shelter open by Oct. 1 to comply with a longstanding city policy.

She said the top option is for CCC to provide space for up to 75 people at its housing center at 809 Oliver Hill Way in Shockoe Valley.

She said other options are being explored for temporary shelter space, including the possible use of the city school system’s Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center on Arthur Ashe Boulevard or a vacant portion of the Circle Shopping Center in South Side.

Based on council’s direction, Ms. Ebert said these would be temporary uses as the administration works to develop a one-stop homeless services center and shelter that would operate year-round.

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Black women and the pay gap

Still the G.O.A.T. It took real courage for gymnast Simone Biles to withdraw from team and individual all-around events this week at the Olympics in Tokyo.

But after losing her orientation during a challenging vault dismount, the 24-year-old came to the sensible conclusion that her mental health and physical well-being are much more important than a medal competition.

Ms. Biles is the most decorated gymnast in U.S. history. She has won 27 gold medals in international gymnastic competitions since 2013, when she was just 16. Four are from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Even with her withdrawal, Ms. Biles is still a winner in our book as she brings global attention to the issue of athletes, mental health and performance.

Before the Olympic Games opened last week with tennis star Naomi Osaka lighting the Olympic flame, we could feel through the media coverage and hype the heavy expectations placed on Ms. Biles to bring home the gold again for the United States.

Ms. Osaka, who withdrew from the French Open in May because of such burdens and expectations, shocked the tennis world when she announced that her mental health was more important than any competition, huge trophy or big purse.

Ms. Biles now reinforces that message and the importance of mental health and its impact on performance.

We wish Ms. Biles all the best in the coming days and weeks.

To us and to so many others, she will always be the G.O.A.T., the greatest of all time.

It takes Black women until Aug. 3, or 19 months after the start of the previous year, to earn what a white man earns in a year. Most years, Pay Equity Day happens in March—this year on March 24—when all women finally make as much as white men.

It takes me five months to catch up with white women. Too often, this fact is ignored. But this year, the National Council of Negro Women and others are reminding the nation that Black Women’s Pay Equity Day is as important as any other recognition of pay inequities.

There is a level at which this is acutely personal to me. My mom, Proteone Marie Alexandria Malveaux, made her transition on June 17 and was funeralized on July 24. She was a phenomenal woman, and she was, always, a worker. Although she had studied music and had undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work, she also was a teacher, professor, entrepreneur and legal assistant.

I’ve talked about all these things when I talk about my mother, but I rarely talk about the several years she spent as a

postal clerk and what I learned from that.

My parents had one of those “rocky road” divorces that involved intense disputes about money. We couldn’t live on what Mom earned as a teacher.

Remember, in the early 1960s, teachers, mostly women, had earnings considered “supplemen-

Julianne Malveaux tal income,” especially if they were married. So she got a better paying job at the post office.

Working at the post office stretched her—and me, as her eldest—in all kinds of ways. Her shift required her to leave the house before day in the morning, at 4 or 5. I woke up to lock the door and was “in charge” until all five of us got out of the door.

I didn’t mind. I had quiet time in the house to myself. Occasionally I snooped through Mom’s papers, and I might fry myself up some potatoes before the others got up for their cereal.

Still, I can’t forget how hard Mom struggled to pass the postal exam. Back before computers and scanners, postal clerks had to connect an address with a ZIP code.

Many people didn’t put their ZIP code on their mail, but the clerks had to know it and pass a test to show it. We spent some evenings drilling Mom on addresses and

ZIP codes, over and over again, until she passed with a score high enough to earn a raise.

When I was in my 20s and studying women and work, Proteone told me that she could say a few things about work. She shared about working as a maid with a family with a rather handsy patriarch and how she had to duck and dodge his advances, going so far as to fake passing out when he got too close. And she told me about working as a postal worker. Do you remember, she asked me? And I did. Years later, I asked her how she did it.

“It was hard,” she said. “It would have been harder to see my children go without.” We never missed a meal or an educational opportunity. We might have missed some toys, but you can’t miss what you can’t measure. We had an exceptional childhood because my Mom did her best to support us, running us all over the city on the bus because she didn’t drive, enrolling us in cultural activities and sometimes supporting our political involvement.

Dr. Dorothy I. Height often said, “Black women don’t do what we want to do; we do what we have to do.” I think of my Mom, a Mississippi-raised, middle class, hat and glove-wearing diva working in the post office so that my siblings and I could eat, and I think of the many ways that

The ‘New Normal’ Few events have shaped American history and our national perspective on racial inequity as profoundly as the grief, civil unrest and economic devastation brought about by the COVID19 pandemic.

The pandemic didn’t simply unmask the stark racial inequities in our economic, health care and criminal justice systems and institutions ­— revealing not one but three pandemics.

The National Urban League’s 2021 State of Black America report, “The New Normal: Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive,” — released July 15 — charts a path forward as the nation emerges from these three pandemics.

The United States in 2021 finds itself at crossroads of racial reckoning. One path leads backward toward the “old normal”— a return to the marginalization, discrimination and segregation that left Black and Brown Americans exceptionally vulnerable to a deadly virus and economic desperation. The other path leads toward a “new normal”— a nation where police approach the communities they serve as allies and collaborators, and not hostile combatants; where every citizen has equal access to the ballot box, where fatal complications in pregnancy are just as rare for Black mothers as for as white mothers, where the value of a home is not determined by the race of its owner.

The New Normal: Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive makes the

case that dismantling structural racism—identifying and repairing the cracks in our national foundation—will result in more resilient and dynamic institutions that expand opportunity for everyone. To quote a flippant sentiment frequently shared on social media, “Equal rights for

Marc H. Morial others does not mean less rights for you. It’s not pie.”

Perhaps the most vivid illustration of the tension between the forces competing for the soul of America was the Jan. 6 insurrection, when a violent mob dissatisfied with the results of the 2020 presidential election stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn it.

In the months leading up to the insurrection, peaceful racial justice protesters around the nation had been met with the aggressive tactics of militarized police clad in fatigues and armor, assaulted with tear gas and rubber.

The extremists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 had openly plotted the insurrection on social media, declaring their intentions to “storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents.” Yet they were met with no troops in riot gear. No military helicopters. No tear gas was deployed as the mob shoved its way past barricades. Vastly outnumbered police stepped aside and allowed the mob to storm the Capitol.

The mob was motivated by furious resentment over historic Black and Brown voter turnout that contributed to the loss of their preferred candidate, Donald

Trump. Baseless claims of fraud sought to tarnish the integrity of elections in Black and Brown communities, and lawsuit after lawsuit sought to invalidate votes in those jurisdictions. The “Big Lie”— the myth that the election was “stolen”— succeeded largely because it blamed voters of color for stealing it. It frames the promise of a multicultural, pluralistic democracy as an act of theft from the dominant white majority.

Whether we are to achieve a “New Normal” that is truly diverse, equitable and inclusive will depend in large measure upon our response to the “Big Lie.” A capitulation on voting rights is not only a fast track back to the “old normal,” it would further entrench the white supremacist ideology that has warped our society over centuries.

As the late Vernon Jordan wrote in the very first State of Black America, “It is our hope that this document will pierce the dark veil of neglect that has thus far smothered efforts to right wrongs of the past and the present. It is presented as an alternative to failed public policies. I hope that it will be read closely in the White House and in the Congress, and that it may influence decision makers to open their eyes to the plight of Black Americans.”

Visit www.StateOfBlackAmerica.org to view the full report. Our dynamic Virtual Event, which includes in-depth discussion of the issues raised by the report, can be accessed at https://soba.iamempowered. com/2021-virtual-series.

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

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Black Women’s Pay Equity Day is so meaningful.

Too many Black women have earned too little for working too hard and so much. Too many Black women have experienced not only unequal pay but also unequal and unreasonable working conditions. And we have been forced to work to facilitate other women’s ability to work. For example, 40 percent of the certified nursing assistants, or CNAs, during COVID-19 were Black and Brown. Their work made life easier for others, but it was rarely recognized. Instead, it was insistently expected.

We, Black women, do what we have to do to support our families and the nation. Maybe we can get some recognition for it, especially this Aug. 3.

The writer is an economist, author, founder of Economic Education and dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University at Los Angeles.

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Insurance giant prioritizing profits over patients In the past year, a reckoning has happened across the country. What Black people and other communities of color have known for years, our White brothers and sisters are starting to learn. Our country is plagued with systemic racism that runs through industries across the nation. Most concerning is the deep roots it has within the American health care system. It’s time that we shine a light on this and stop letting insurance companies get away with it.

Health insurance companies have a long-proven pattern of exploiting and discriminating against people of color in this country. As I wrote in an op-ed in The Hill in April 2020, “Minority and low-income Americans suffer from a significant lack of access to quality health care. They also are more likely to not have health insurance and are often hit with surprise medical bills they cannot afford.”

Now, insurance companies are at it again by prioritizing their own profits rather than the health and well-being of all Americans.

One of the most recent acts of insurance company greed happened with UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest insurance provider. Just recently, the insurance giant announced it would no longer cover patients’ non-urgent visits to the emergency room retroactively. Yes,

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you read that correctly. An American insurance company is no longer going to cover American patients who incorrectly self-diagnose and seek emergency treatment.

With a year of one public health crisis after another, UnitedHealthcare is creating an extra barrier to entry for patients accessing care. As pointed out by the American College of Emergency Physicians, there is a fear that “the change will

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. cause patients to avoid using emergency rooms because they will be responsible for their hospital bills when UnitedHealthcare rejects them.”

Because many patients already were fearful of visiting the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a rise in cases of “out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and associated poor health outcomes,” as reported in Health Affairs by researchers from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, and, unsurprisingly, this rise was seen particularly in low-income neighborhoods.

As with most corporate decisions, the effects of this policy will inevitably affect our nation’s most vulnerable populations the most. In fact, according to a 2017 University of Maryland School of Medicine study, Black Americans use the emergency room more often than any other racial group.

To put that simply, UnitedHealthcare’s policy is directed at those who visit emergency rooms, and Black Americans are the most likely demographic group to visit the emergency room. A coincidence?

I doubt it.

Patients should not be expected to correctly self-diagnose their health issue before visiting the emergency room.

Patients look to medical professions to diagnose and treat health problems.

Putting the burden back onto patients is unacceptable.

While the policy was scheduled to take effect on July 1, public backlash led to UnitedHealthcare’s new stance that it should not go into effect until “the end of the national public health emergency period.” The reality is that the Public Health Emergency (PHE) period was set to expire on Tuesday, July 20, if it is not renewed. So, the delay announcement was really just for show, and may not do anything in terms of ending this policy.

UnitedHealthcare should not get away with this. We must speak out and advocate for those who do not have a platform to speak for themselves. Those with chronic conditions, from low-income and minority communities, deserve to seek emergency health care without fear of racial discrimination and indebting themselves or their families.

The writer is president and chief executive officer of the National Newspaper Publishers Association based in Washington.

Coliseum and homelessness Re “Where are people to go?” Free Press July 22-24 edition: Walking around the track of Lucia Bremer Memorial Field in Henrico County to clear my mind of the somber morning news, there was one news feature I couldn’t fully set aside.

That segment reported on the future of the Richmond Coliseum in Downtown. Because the site hasn’t been utilized for the past three years, homelessness inhabits the area around the venue nowadays.

With every lap came the surge of another Coliseum memory— hanging with a compadre watching Ric Flair and “The Macho Man” Randy Savage wrestling matches in the early 1970s; a first date with my now-wife at a Doobie Brothers concert in the mid-1970s; and during the 1990s seeing many other bands there, including ZZ Top and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Of course, those nostalgic flashbacks weren’t really my troubling issue. Because the homeless are now making use of the Coliseum’s outside area, why not embrace the message of Lucia’s epitaph shrouding the field’s fence, “BE THE LIGHT,” and revamp the Coliseum as a refuge-shelter for the homeless?

However, if my suggestion of converting the Coliseum to a homeless sanctuary was actually considered a possible venture, generating any revenue would probably be unlikely. Perhaps Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson, who are attempting to outdo one another spacefaring, could be persuaded to contribute some of their ventured-capitalistic millions.

Nevertheless, a perfect opportunity has just been served those elected officials representing Richmond regarding the referendum in a master plan forecast for the Coliseum: BE THE LIGHT. RICK KNIGHT Henrico

‘From monument desecration to grave robbing’ Re “Wrinkle in removal: City doesn’t own Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill’s statue,” Free Press July 22-24 edition: It looks like the rulers of Richmond have run into a “wrinkle” with the removal of the A.P. Hill monument.

Now, while schools and infrastructure are crumbling and the homeless roam the streets, these philistines have gone from monument desecration to grave robbing— not a far plummet, and certainly not out

of character for them and their minions, by any means.

But as Edmund Burke said of the French Revolutionaries, sans-culottes, Jacobins and others whose character is incapable of rising above the baseness of the mobs, “You are gibbeting the carcass while your house is the haunt of robbers.” It speaks volumes.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER S, VIRGINIA CITY HYBRID ENERGY CENTER CASE NO. PUR-2021-00114 •Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider S. •In this case, Dominion has asked the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) to approve a biennial update procedure for Rider S with two consecutive rate years. The proposed rate years for this proceeding are April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023 (“Rate Year 1”), and April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024 (“Rate Year 2”).

•For Rate Year 1, Dominion requests a revenue requirement of $191,532,000, which would increase the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month by $0.09.

•For Rate Year 2, Dominion requests a revenue requirement of $191,292,000, which would increase the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month by $0.02 as compared to Rate Year 1.

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In Case No. PUE-2007-00066, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of VCHEC and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider S, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Project. VCHEC became fully operational in 2012.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve a biennial update procedure for Rider S with two consecutive rate years. The proposed rate years for this proceeding are April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023 (“Rate Year 1”), and April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024 (“Rate Year 2”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for Rate Year 1 are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True Up Factor. For Rate Year 1, the Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $193,125,000 and an Actual Cost True Up Factor revenue requirement of ($1,593,000). Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $191,532,000 for service rendered during Rate Year 1. The total revenue requirement for Rate Year 2 is comprised only of a Projected Cost Recovery Factor. For Rate Year 2, Dominion seeks approval of a total revenue requirement of $191,292,000.

For purposes of calculating the revenue requirements in this case, Dominion utilized an enhanced rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.2%. This ROE comprises the general ROE of 9.2% approved by the Commission in Case No. PUR-2019-00050, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a conventional coal generating station as described in Code § 56-585.1 A 6.

If the proposed Rider S revenue requirements for Rate Year 1 and Rate Year 2 are approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, for Rate Year 1, implementation of its proposed Rider S on April 1, 2022, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month by approximately $0.09.

The Company states that, for Rate Year 2, implementation of its proposed Rider S on April 1, 2023, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month by approximately $0.02 as compared to Rate Year 1. Dominion indicates it has calculated the proposed Rider S rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider S proceeding, Case No. PUR-2020-00102.

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The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the declarations of emergency issued at both the state and federal levels. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter should be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format RI WKH &RPPLVVLRQ¶V 5XOHV RI 3UDFWLFH DQG 3URFHGXUH ³5XOHV RI 3UDFWLFH´ &RQ¿GHQWLDO DQG ([WUDRUGLQDULO\ 6HQVLWLYH ,QIRUPDWLRQ VKDOO QRW EH VXEPLWWHG HOHFWURQLFDOO\ DQG VKRXOG FRPSO\ with 5 VAC 5-20-170, &RQ¿GHQWLDO LQIRUPDWLRQ RI WKH 5XOHV RI 3UDFWLFH $Q\ SHUVRQ VHHNLQJ WR KDQG GHOLYHU DQG SK\VLFDOO\ ¿OH RU VXEPLW DQ\ SOHDGLQJ RU RWKHU GRFXPHQW VKDOO FRQWDFW WKH &OHUN¶V 2൶FH Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Washington Football Team returns to Richmond training camp Welcome back, burgundy and gold, even if it’s only for a quick pit stop.

Following a one-year hiatus, the Washington Football Team has returned to Richmond while trying to build on the positive vibes it gathered a season ago.

The NFL squad will be blocking and tackling at the Bon Secours Training Facility on West Leigh Street through Saturday, July 31, which will be Fan Appreciation Day starting at 8 a.m.

The camp opened Tuesday.

Catching up: Since the team’s last trip to Richmond in 2019, much has changed.

The D.C. football franchise has a new name—although it will likely change again, a new coach—Ron Rivera, and a new list of headliners, including veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and pass rusher extraordinaire Chase Young, the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.

From 2013 to 2019, the City of Richmond paid the Washington Football Team $500,000 for two-week stints on the North Side, hoping it would be a boon to the economy. Any financial gains turned out to be less than expected and the $500,000 payout was scrapped for this year.

Last year would have been the conclusion of an eight-year deal. Because of the pandemic,

a cost of about $10 million?

The well-manicured, twofield layout has an adjacent building for exercise and meetings, but has no lights and virtually no seating.

With addition of lights and bleachers, the centrally located

facility could be used for a variety of football events—youth, high school regular season and playoff games, summer camps, etc.

Will there be football life at the Bon Secours facility after WFT?

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Steven Sims Jr., a wide receiver for the Washington Football Team, stretches to make the catch during practice Wednesday morning at the team’s Richmond training camp at 2401 W. Leigh St. Fans were on hand for the session.

the WFT conducted all preseason training in 2020 at its franchiseowned facility in Ashburn in Northern Virginia. This year, the WFT is paying Richmond $100,000 to rent the Bon Secours training facility.

Uptick in momentum: Following a dreary 2-7 start in 2020, the WFT finished 7-10 with an NFC East title and two wins each over Division rivals Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. Washington hung tough against eventual Super Bowl champ Tampa Bay Buccaneers, falling 31-23 in the

first round of playoffs.

Numbers game: Firstround and 19th overall draft pick Jamin (JAY-men) Davis posted all the right numbers at the NFL Pre-Draft Combine in Indianapolis.

The former University of Kentucky linebacker measured 6-foot-3½ and 234 pounds. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.48 seconds, did an 11-foot standing broad jump and bench pressed 225 pounds for 21 reps.

Now the WFT is hopeful Davis can put up similarly handsome numbers on the

field. He is viewed as a mobile linebacker who can cover from sideline to sideline.

Tee it up: After leaving Richmond, the WFT will open its three-game preseason schedule Aug. 12 in Foxboro, Mass., against the New England Patriots.

The regular season opens Sept. 12 with the Los Angeles Chargers coming to Washington.

What’s next? There are no guarantees the WFT will ever return to Richmond. So what happens to a 17-acre facility built at

JaVale McGee may follow mother, Pamela McGee, in winning Olympic gold Pamela McGee helped the United States win an Olympic gold medal for basketball. Now her son, JaVale McGee, is in position to earn one himself.

If this happens, it would be the first time a gold-medal winning son had a gold-medal winning mother in the same sport.

Pamela struck gold at the 1984 Summer Olympic in Los Angeles. The U.S. women’s team went 6-0 and defeated South Korea 85-55 in the championship game.

JaVale is a late addition to the current U.S. men’s squad that will seek a fourth straight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The 7-foot, 270-pound forward was added to the team after Kevin Love and Bradley Beal were injured and dropped out.

The mother-son combination has already made another form of hoops history. Pamela is the first woman to play in the WNBA to have a son to play in the NBA.

Height runs in the family. Pamela is 6-foot-3 and JaVale’s father, George Montgomery, is 6-foot-10. Montgomery starred at the University of Illinois and was a second round draft pick by the NBA Portland Trail Blazers in 1985.

Pamela played college ball at the University of Southern California with her twin sister, Paula. Together, they helped the Trojans win NCAA titles in 1983 and 1984.

Pamela played in the WNBA with the Sacramento and Los Angeles Sparks.

JaVale, who grew up in Flint, Mich., played two seasons at the University of Nevada before becoming the Washington Wizards’ first round draft pick in 2008.

Playing for Cleveland and Denver this past season, JaVale averaged 5.5 points and 5.3 rebounds. His career averages, over 747 NBA games, are 7.8 points and 5.2 rebounds.

VUU Panthers anxious to get back to the game The upcoming Virginia Union University football season might be titled unfinished business.

The plan is for the Panthers to achieve in 2021 what they were deprived of in 2020.

Following a lost season because of COVID-19, Coach Alvin Parker has welcomed back 13 athletes who essentially will be playing a second-chance senior season.

The listed seniors of 2020 were granted an extra season of eligibility by the NCAA due to the pandemic. The 2020 seniors had the options to move on or remain in school.

“We had 18 guys who had the opportunity to come back; 13 said ‘yes,’ ” said Coach Parker.

Three of those four were named to the All-CIAAPreseason team. They are tight end Desmond Smith, from Richmond’s Thomas Jefferson High School; kicker Jefferson Souza of Deerfield, Fla.; and wide receiver/ kick returner Jaiden Reavis, from Highland Springs High School in Henrico.

Another second-chance senior is quarterback Khalid Morris from Thomas Dale High School in Chesterfield County. Morris threw for 2,080 yards and 22 touchdowns in 2019.

“We have a few taking extra undergraduate courses and some are in master’s programs,” Coach Parker said of his returning two-time seniors.

The fourth All-CIAA Preseason pick is receiver Charles Hall, a junior from Trenton, N.J. Hall caught 33 passes for 855 yards and 10 touchdowns in 2019, leading Division II with 25.9 yards per grab.

There are other Lombardy Street storylines for 2021.

Desmond Smith

Jefferson Souza

History lesson: In 2019, the Panthers were 7-3 overall, 3-1 in the CIAA, narrowly missing a CIAA Northern Division title and NCAA Division II berth. VUU is 15-5 under Coach Parker overall.

New digs: A major upgrade has turned 113-year-old Hovey Field into Willie Lanier Field at Hovey Stadium. The new playing surface features 86,000 square feet of synthetic surface.

“It’s like a new toy; very eye-catching,” Coach Parker said. “It will be the most beautiful facility in the CIAA, and only the second stadium anywhere that can be seen from I-95.” The other stadium visible from the interstate, Coach Parker said, is M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, home of the NFL Baltimore Ravens.

Also, Hovey Stadium will be getting a Jumbotron, new bleachers for the visitors’ section as well as upgraded concession stands and restrooms.

Better buckle up: There will be no time to dip their toes in the water. The Panthers are jumping into the deep end with an opener on Saturday, Sept. 4, against Hampton University of the FCS at Hampton, and a Saturday, Sept. 11, home game against Valdosta State University of Georgia.

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Valdosta State also sat out the 2020 season, but was 10-1 in 2019 and won the Division II title in 2018 at 14-0.

Doubters: The Panthers have received so-so reviews in the CIAA preseason balloting.

The Panthers were picked to finish fifth overall and fourth in the CIAA Northern Division behind Bowie State, Chowan and Virginia State universities.

Missing something? Gone from the 2019 team are former CIAA Defensive Player of the Year Sterling Hammond and standout running back Tabyus Taylor.

In Taylor’s absence, the lead ball carrier may be another second-chance senior, Rodney McKay. The Florida native ran for 251 yards and two touchdowns in 2019 as Taylor’s backup.

Let’s get started: The Panthers will begin popping pads on Aug. 9. The roster will include essentially three groups of newcomers—the 2019 freshmen who were red-shirted, the 2020 freshman who didn’t play due to the pandemic, and the 12 true freshmen this year.

“The guys are pretty hungry,” Coach Parker said. “We’re so anxious to get back out there.”

Strike up the band.

Following a full football season of inactivity due to the pandemic, Richmond Public Schools are returning to the gridiron.

Many schools from the surrounding counties chose to play an abbreviated spring season in 2021 while RPS sat out the entire school year.

This season, George Wythe and Huguenot will compete in the Virginia High School League Division 4, while Armstrong, John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson are in Division 3.

Here are the 10-game regular season schedules for Richmond’s five comprehensive high schools teams.

Virginia High School League Division 4 George Wythe Bulldogs Sept. 3 - at Caroline, 7 p.m.

Sept. 10 - at Manchester, 7 p.m.

Sept. 17 - at Monacan, 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 - at Powhatan, 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 - at James River, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 - at Clover Hill, 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 - at L.C. Bird, 7 p.m.

Oct. 22 - at Midlothian, 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 - at Cosby, 7 p.m.

Nov. 6 - Huguenot, 1 p.m.

Huguenot Falcons Aug. 27 - Louisa, 7 p.m.

Sept. 10 - Powhatan, 7 p.m.

Sept. 17 - at James River, 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 - Clover Hill, 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 – at L.C. Bird, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 - Midlothian, 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 - at Cosby, 7 p.m.

Oct. 22 - Monacan, 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 - Manchester, 7 p.m.

Nov. 6 - at George Wythe, 1 p.m.

VHSL Division 3 Armstrong Wildcats Aug. 27 - at Thomas Jefferson, 4 p.m.

Sept. 3 - at Petersburg, 7 p.m.

Sept. 10 - John Marshall, 5 p.m.

Sept. 17 - Goochland, 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 - Hanover, 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 - at Park View, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 - at Varina, 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 - at Patrick Henry, 7 p.m.

Oct. 22 - Atlee, 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 - at Mechanicsville, 7 p.m.

John Marshall Justices Aug. 27 – I.C. Norcom, 7 p.m.

Sept. 10 - at Armstrong, 5 p.m.

Sept. 17 - Petersburg, 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 - at Thomas Jefferson, 4 p.m.

Oct. 1 - at Douglas Freeman, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 - at Mills Godwin, 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 - at Glen Allen, 4 p.m.

Oct. 22 - at Charlottesville, 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 - at Hermitage, 7 p.m.

Nov. 5 – at J.R. Tucker, 4 p.m.

Thomas Jefferson Vikings Aug. 27 - Armstrong, 4 p.m.

Sept. 3 - at Meadowbrook, 6 p.m.

Sept. 10 - at Amelia, 7 p.m.

Sept. 17 - at Greensville, 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 - John Marshall, 4 p.m.

Oct. 1 - at Deep Run, 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 - J.R. Tucker, 4 p.m.

Oct. 22 - at Glen Allen 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 - at Colonial Heights, 7 p.m.

Nov. 5 - at Mills Godwin, 7 p.m.

Va. University of Lynchburg announces 2021 football schedule Virginia University of Lynchburg football players will be spending a lot of time on the road this upcoming season.

The HBCU in Lynchburg has announced a nine-game schedule, with all nine away from home. The slate includes trips to schools in six different states, including Virginia, plus Washington, D.C. VUL, formerly known as Virginia Seminary, will play five HBCUs—Virginia Union University of the CIAA; Howard, Delaware State and Norfolk State universities of MEAC; and Tennessee State University of the Ohio Valley Conference.

The Dragons are affiliated with the National Christian Athletic Association. The program was revived in 2011 under Coach Willard Bailey after decades of dormancy.

Coached by Don Lee, the Dragons opted out of their 2020 season because of the pandemic.

The 2021 schedule: Sept. 4 - at University of Virginia-Wise Sept. 11 - at Mars Hill, N.C. Sept. 18 - at Virginia Union (Willard Bailey Classic at VUU) Sept. 25 - at Duquesne, Pa. Oct. 2 - at Erskine, S.C. Oct. 9 - at Delaware State Oct. 16 - at Norfolk State (Homecoming at NSU) Oct. 23 - at Tennessee State Nov. 20 - at Howard

Aqeel Glass named Black College Football Player of the Year

Aqeel Glass

Aqeel Glass has won the top individual prize for Black College Football.

The Alabama A&M University quarterback is the 2021 spring recipient of the Deacon Jones Award that goes to the nation’s top HBCU performer.

The award was presented to Glass on June 19 in Atlanta as part of the Black College

Football Hall of Fame ceremonies.

A native of St. Louis, Glass led Alabama A&M to a 5-0 record and its first SWAC title in 15 years. In the championship game against University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Glass passed for 271 yards and three touchdowns.

Earlier in the season, he threw for 440 yards and six touchdowns in a victory over Jackson State University.

Glass was listed as a senior this past season but will have

another year of college eligibility due to the NCAA’s pandemic rule changes.

Previous Deacon Jones Award winners are North Carolina A&T’s Tarik Cohen in 2016, Bowie State’s Amir Hall in 2017 and 2018, and Tennessee State’s Chris Rowland in 2019.

Deacon Jones played at South Carolina State and Mississippi Valley State universities before embarking on a 14-season Hall of Fame career in the NFL from 1961 to 1974.

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Personality: Betty L. Squire Spotlight on president of Engine Company #9 and Associates For nearly 30 years, Engine Company #9 and Associates has recognized the trailblazing path of the first African-American firefighters and police officers in Richmond.

And now, the organization’s president, Betty L. Squire, is overseeing the group’s latest effort to showcase the pioneers in a new and big way.

Engine Company #9 and Associates is collaborating with Sir James Thornhill and his Global Arts Initiative to produce a mural celebrating the history of the 10 Black men who were hired by the Richmond Fire Department in July 1950 and stationed at Engine Company #9 in Jackson Ward.

The mural will be unveiled at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, at Mocha Temple No. 7 Shrine, 613 N. 2nd St. in Jackson Ward. It will be the kickoff of a weekend of events honoring the historic group of public servants that include a banquet and a church service.

Ms. Squire says that “unforeseen circumstances” prompted the organization to put on hold its mural honoring the first Black police officers that had been started on another side of the Mocha Temple building.

That work, she says, has been covered over and the focus returned to the firefighters.

It is all part of an effort to retain that segment of Richmond’s history in the public memory by what Ms. Squire describes as “one of the most unique organizations in our city.”

Bernard C. Lewis, the last of the initial firefighters, died on Aug. 26, 2020, at age 92.

While the organization was started to “preserve and cherish” a strong heritage, Ms. Squire said its mission includes promoting strong relationships between the city’s first responders and the public, with a goal “to be good citizens (and) helpful in the community.”

To achieve these goals, the organization hosts several special events every year, from an annual Service of Remembrance for fallen first responders to a Christmas luncheon that features awards for outstanding service.

“We have the opportunity to honor our heroes on a yearly basis and to thank them for their sacrifices,” Ms. Squire says. “They lead the way for so many of us to have a better life.”

The North Carolina native’s work with Engine Company #9 and Associates has been an opportunity for her as well, one that was taken “to expand (her) horizon,” as she puts it. She first joined the group in 2010, having attended several of the group’s

events and being supportive of the organization’s work.

As president, Ms. Squire presides over the organization’s meetings and leads the anniversary celebrations. Ms. Squire has been particularly helpful in raising public awareness, using her connections through her short time on Richmond City Council in 2009 and other ventures to bring local figures and legislators to the group’s events. It’s that depth of connection and experience that she says led members to nominate her for president of Engine Company #9 and Associates in the first place.

While her term as president ends this year, Ms. Squire plans to remain part of the group’s efforts, regardless of what title she may hold.

Meet a dedicated leader in recognizing Richmond’s historic past and this week’s Personality, Betty L. Squire: No. 1 volunteer position: President, Engine Company #9 and Associates.

Date and place of birth: Feb. 5 in Gaston, N.C. Where I live now: Richmond’s East End. Education: High school graduate.

Occupation: Retired manager from Bell Atlantic telephone company, 1991.

Family: Son, Tony Squire; and grandson, Anthony; one sister, Beatrice Squire; and one brother, Sidney Squire.

Engine Company #9 and Associates is: One of the most unique organizations in our city. We have the opportunity to honor our heroes on a yearly basis and to thank them for their sacrifices. They lead the way for so many of us to have a better life.

When and why organization was founded: Engine Company #9 and Associates was founded in September 1992 as an organization of pioneer Black former and retired professional firefighters, law enforcement officers and associates. It was started to preserve and cherish our strong heritage as we continue to fellowship and to build everlasting unity, friendship and strong family support.

Organization’s mission: To promote a stronger relationship between retired professional firefighters, retired professional law enforcement personnel, citizens and our associates in the Metropolitan Richmond area.

Why I became involved with Engine Company #9 and Associates: It was an opportunity to expand my horizons. I was a

and Richmond Police Department.

Strategy for achieving goals: Each year, we hold a “Service of Remembrance” for the firefighters and police officers. We invite everyone to come.

All are welcome. We have no original firefighters or police officers living at the present time. We lost the last original firefighter, Bernard C. Lewis, last year.

frequent visitor to functions and a supporter of Engine Company #9 for years prior to becoming a member. Richmond Fire Capt. Harvey S. Hicks II, who was one of the first 10 Black firefighters in Richmond who was with Engine Company #9, lost his life on June 4, 1963, during a mission to rescue a person trapped in a 23-footdeep pit. He was a member of my church, Mosby Memorial Baptist Church. He was such a wonderful man, so I was familiar with Engine Company #9.

When I was asked to become a member, I accepted with gladness. I made one of my wishes come true when, in February 2020, we unveiled a plaque in Capt. Hicks’ memory at Mosby Memorial. Capt. Hicks, who also was studying for the ministry, was preparing to preach his “trial sermon” when he died. At the plaque’s unveiling, the church’s current pastor, Dr. Price L. Davis, preached the sermon Capt. Hicks had prepared when he died.

Engine Company #9 and Associates serves: The Richmond community and beyond.

No. 1 goal or project of Engine Company #9 and Associates: Our chief goal is to be good citizens, helpful in the community and to keep the memory alive of the original Black hires in the Richmond Fire Department

We also host a Christmas luncheon, where we give out the Hicks-Evans Award. These two firefighters lost their lives. We also always give out the Arthur C. St. John Award, named for another of the original firefighters.

Where Engine Company #9 was located and how it is commemorated today: The original Engine Company #9 was located at 5th and Duval streets. It was demolished in 1968. A historical marker was placed on 5th Street, about one-tenth of a mile north of Jackson Street, recognizing the achievements of our unsung heroes.

First Black firefighters hired in Richmond and when: Ten Black firefighters were hired by the City of Richmond on July 1, 1950. They were Charles L. Belle, William E. Brown, Douglas P. Evans, Harvey S. Hicks II, Warren W. Kersey, Bernard C. Lewis, Farrar Lucas, Arthur L. Page, Arthur C. St. John, and Linwood M. Wooldridge.

When Arthur C. St. John was called to the military and Farrar Lucas resigned, two others were hired to replace them — Frederick J. Robinson and Oscar L. Blake.

How to become a member of Engine Company #9 and Associates: One will need to apply and be voted in by the members.

Upcoming events: Unveiling of mural honoring the first Black firefighters at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, at the Mocha Temple Building, 613 N. 2nd St. We are partnering with muralist Sir James Thornhill of the Global Arts Initiative.

71st Anniversary of Black Firefighters and the 75th Anniversary of Black Police Officers Banquet, which will be held 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Trinity Family Life Center, 3601 Dill Road. Donation: $75.

Details and tickets: e9andassociates@gmail.com Anniversary church service 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 8, at Trinity Family Life Center.

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Best late-night snack: Fruit.

How I unwind: I listen to music, play games on my iPhone and watch television.

What I learned about myself during the pandemic: That I am OK. Whatever comes before me, with God’s help, I am OK. Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Watch football and jump up and down and scream during the game. The Dallas

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Best thing my parents ever taught me: Courtesy and to respect all people.

Person who influenced me the most: My grandmother, Lottie M. Webb.

What I’m reading now: Most of my reading is done online — magazines and newspapers, including the Richmond Free Press.

Next goal: To paint a mural for the first Black police officers and to continue holding the “Service of Remembrance” each year. I would like to see us go into the schools when things are settled and talk with our future heroes. Also participate in more community days and community events.

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Happy Birthday, Mrs. Walker!

Richmond area residents took time recently to remember pioneering Richmond businesswoman Maggie L. Walker in honor of what would have been her 157th birthday on July 15. While she is best known as the first Black woman to found and serve as president of a bank in the United States, she also was a civil rights and voting rights advocate, newspaper publisher, store owner and politician and all around community leader.

Mrs. Walker was a founding member of the Richmond Branch NAACP; helped lead a boycott of the racially segregated Richmond trolley system; was the first Black woman to run for statewide office in 1921 in seeking to become state superintendent of public education; and was grand secretary of the Order of St. Luke, leading the fraternal society in opening a department store, producing a newspaper and creating the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank.

Left, Melvin Jones Jr., a graduate of the former Maggie L. Walker High School and president of the Maggie L. Walker Statue Foundation, places flowers July 15 at her statue in Downtown at Adams and Broad streets. The statue serves as a gateway to Jackson Ward where Mrs. Walker lived and did much of her work.

Kanye hosts Atlanta ‘listening party’ for new album ‘Donda’ ahead of Aug. 6 release Free Press wire report

Kanye West barely said a word during his impromptu album listening session on July 22, but the mercurial rapper still had most attendees standing on their feet while hanging on every word of his new project.

Mr. West unveiled his 10th studio album, “Donda” in front of a packed crowd at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. His album was named in honor of his mother, Dr. Donda West, who earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Virginia Union University in Richmond, a doctorate in English education from Auburn University and taught at Chicago State University for 24 years before serving as CEO of West Brands LLC and chair of the Kanye West Foundation. She died in 2007 at age 58 following plastic surgery complications.

The album will officially be released Friday, Aug. 6.

Pulling off the listening session, which was livestreamed on Apple Music, was an impressive feat for Mr. West, who sold out the venue after he announced just two days prior that the first public listen of his highly-anticipated album would take place.

Some of the big names who attended the event were Rick Ross, Khloe Kardashian and his soon-to-be ex-wife Kim Kardashian West, who showed up in a red jumpsuit with their children.

Unlike Mr. West’s typical high-energy concerts, he appeared more mellow than usual.

He let his music do the talking while most attendees listened

to each song in silence and applauded at the end of each track of his album. The album features gospel themes, hip-hop vibes, his Auto-Tune vocals and recorded speeches made by his mother.

While sporting an all-red outfit with orange shoes, Mr. West sometimes walked, fell to his knees and pranced around on white flooring about the size of the football field, where Atlanta’s professional football and soccer teams play home games.

The 22-time Grammy winner revealed in a commercial, featuring U.S. track star Sha’Carri Richardson, during the NBA Finals on July 20 that his highly-anticipated album would be released on July 23.

The commercial, scored and directed by Mr. West, featured “No Child Left Behind,” a song from the album.

Mr. West, 44, is mostly known as being associated with Chicago, but he was born in Atlanta, a Georgia city where there are no restrictions against large gatherings. The rapperproducer gave away 5,000 tickets to faculty, staff and students at several HBCUs in Atlanta, including Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse and Spelman colleges, Morris Brown College and the Interdenominational Theological Center.

Mr. West’s new project is a follow up to his 2019 gospelthemed album “Jesus is King,” which won a Grammy for best contemporary Christian album.

Last year, Mr. West announced on Twitter—with colorful cover art and a track list—that he would release his

Her home at 110 ½ E. Leigh St. is a national historic site run by the National Park Service, which held a public celebration of Mrs. Walker’s birthday July 17 in the courtyard behind her home and the NPS visitors’ center on the site at 600 N. 2nd St. Below left, Samuel L. Houston, 11, of Short Pump enjoys a birthday celebration cupcake in the courtyard, where he joined with his parents, Pamela and Cedric Houston, to learn about Mrs. Walker and her legacy.

About 30 local volunteers, including sisters Keishawna Rowe, 22, left, and Vonjanique Brown, 25, below center, used their Saturday morning on July 17 to give back by volunteering to spruce up Jackson Ward by removing litter from the sidewalks and the street. The service effort was a collaboration coordinated by the City of Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community facilities.

Below, Kaylee Vaughn, 3, adorned with a crown, plays with Legos during a “Kid-Preneur Fair” at St. Luke Legacy Center on East Laburnum Avenue in Henrico. It was the culminating activity of the center’s weeklong celebration highlighting and honoring Mrs. Walker.

3-day women’s business conference begins Aug. 5

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In this Nov. 17, 2019, file photo, Kanye West appears on stage during a service at Lakewood Church in Houston. Mr. West unveiled his 10th studio album, “Donda,” named after his late mother, at a “listening party” July 22 at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The official public release will be Aug. 6.

latest album. At the time, his tweets indicated that his project would release on the same day as his rival Taylor Swift’s project “Folklore,” but his album ended up being postponed.

The two music stars have been in an ongoing beef since Mr. West famously interrupted Ms. Swift’s speech during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when she won for best female video. It appeared both put their differences aside after she introduced him when he won the video vanguard award at the

2015 VMAs, but a leaked video clip between both about his controversial song “Famous” caused more drama.

It’s not the first time Mr. West has hosted a listening event for an upcoming album.

In 2016, he debuted his album “The Life of Pablo” during a massive event and fashion show at Madison Square Garden in New York. Several big names who attended the show included Ms. Kardashian West, 50 Cent, Lil Kim, Caitlyn Jenner, A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz.

A three-day program to encourage women to open or expand a business is to take place Thursday, Aug. 5, through Saturday, Aug. 7, it has been announced.

Titled the “EmpowHer Conference: Celebrating Women in Our History and Building a Brighter Future,” the event is being staged by the Women’s Business Center RVA and two organizations that promote Ms. Crawford female entrepreneurs, CollabHERation and The WinHer’s Circle.

The event will feature facial yoga trainer Koko Hayashi, Wealthy College Kid founder Christianna Hurt and business consultant Rita Ricks among the speakers, according to Shirley E. Crawford, president of the business center and the conference’s lead organizer.

Ms. Crawford, a consultant to small, female-owned businesses in the Richmond area for 30 years, said the conference would focus “on finances, health, leadership and community.”

The conference will open Aug. 5 with a reception at The Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Road, cosponsored by Henrico County and Fulton Bank.

Ms. Crawford said on Aug. 6, the conference will feature workshops at the business center, 1510 Willow Lawn Drive, and a women’s film festival at the Byrd Theater, 2908 W. Cary St. The conference will wrap up Aug. 7 with a job fair, networking opportunities, musical acts and information distribution at the business center, which Ms. Crawford said is currently home to 10 independent women-owned businesses.

She said the programming at the business center is being offered without charge, but advance registration is required.

Details and registration: www.ourempowherment.com or (804) 921-3844.

MJBL to host annual Inner City Classic baseball championship and symposium Aug. 4-8 The Metropolitan Junior Baseball League will host its annual Inner City Classic championship week of activities with a virtual Bobby Bonds Memorial Symposium, an in-person home run derby and nine in-person baseball games at fields around Metro Richmond.

William Forrester Jr., executive director of the MJBL, said 32 teams from Virginia, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the District of Columbia and North Carolina are expected to participate in the event from Wednesday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 8.

The games were postponed last year because of COVID-19.

The symposium, tilted “Getting Re-

cruited,” will be held online from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 4, and will address the issues that plague youths in inner-city communities and how baseball and education can help alleviate some of Mr. Forrester the problems. Panelists include J.D. Elliby, a scout for MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays; Sherman Reed, head coach for Coppin State University; Jimmy Williams, head coach for Prince George’s Community College in Maryland; and Thomas Eaton, a former pro scout who is now head coach at Prolific Post-Grad

Baseball Academy.

The opening ceremony will be held at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at Klehr Field, 8000 Diane Lane in Henrico. It will be preceded by registration and a skills showcase featuring Keith Stubbs at 10 a.m. The home run derby, additional skills event and a throwing competition follow.

Pool play in the five designated age group divisions starts at 5:30 p.m.

The championship game for age division 10 and under will be played Saturday, Aug. 7, while the title games for 12 and under, 14-under, 16-under and 19-under will be held Sunday, Aug. 8.

Details and registration: mjbl.org

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Dr. James Edward Leary, who pastored churches for more than 60 years, dies at 86

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Dr. James Edward Leary, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in civil rights protests in the 1960s and provided pastoral services for 60 years to at least 12 churches in Richmond and other states, died Friday, July 23, 2021.

Dr. Leary, a Georgia native who had lived in Metro Richmond for the past 20 years, was 86.

A private funeral is to be held at the Scott’s Funeral Home Chapel, with interment in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.

Dr. Leary was described by his family as “a liberation theologian who believed in the power of the word to bring about social change.” He was a humble man who sought to be “a problem solver and solution finder” for those he served.

Among the churches he served during his long career were St. Paul’s Baptist, Ebenezer Baptist and First African Baptist, all in Richmond. He pastored congregations in Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Georgia during the first 40 years of his ministry.

Born into a family of 16 children in Ashburn, Ga., Dr. Leary served in the U.S. Air Force and was licensed as a minister after he left the military.

He was ordained in 1960 when he began his pastoral service while also earning his college credentials. He earned his undergraduate degree at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, his master’s

of divinity from Andover Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and his doctorate from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.

As a minister of an Atlanta church, Dr. Leary participated in the Albany Movement’s civil rights protests in Albany, Ga., and met Dr. King during voting rights protests in Selma, Ala. He also took part in the 1968 Poor People’s March on Washington, during the planning for which Dr. King was Dr. Leary assassinated.

While earning his master’s, he also served churches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and organized and led clergy groups.

In Rhode Island, the ministerial alliance he launched was the first to gain support from white churches for summer programs for Black youths in the state capital, Providence.

In 1969, Dr. Leary was called to the pulpit at St. Paul’s Baptist Church, then located in Church Hill, where he served 14 years.

He was a founding member of the Richmond Committee of Black Clergy, and in 1970, as its president, he helped initiate a community worship service to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The worship service later became part of the annual

Community Learning Week celebration of Dr. King’s life that was hosted by Virginia Union University.

While at St. Paul’s, Dr. Leary also served as an assistant to the dean of VUU’s seminary and taught classes as an adjunct professor.

In 1983, Dr. Leary left the Richmond area to become pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Milwaukee.

Before he retired in 2001 after 18 years, Dr. Leary was credited with creating the Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope, or MICAH, which grew to comprise more than 30 churches across denominational and racial lines to promote learning and economic growth in the Black community in that city.

As MICAH’s first president, Dr. Leary reportedly led a lobbying effort that successfully challenged 17 local banks to pledge more than $500 million for the development of housing for Milwaukee’s inner city.

Returning to Richmond, Dr. Leary became a favorite choice to serve as interim pastor for several churches. He served twice as interim pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Jackson Ward and of Jerusalem Baptist Church in Goochland County. He also served as interim pastor at First African Baptist Church and Mosby Memorial Baptist Church.

He received numerous honors for his service to congregations.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Shirley Elaine Fitzpatrick Leary; three daughters, Tamar L. Briley, Teresa L. Handy and Tracy P. Leary; a sister, Edna R. Leary; and four grandchildren.

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Faith leaders and football Virginia Union University football team chaplain, the Rev. Joe Ellison, right, gathers with honorees at the 4th Annual Washington Football Team/RVA Faith Leaders Luncheon on Monday at New Kingdom Christian Ministries on Dill Avenue in Highland Park. The luncheon was co-hosted by Rev. Ellison and the church’s senior pastor, Dr. Christopher Moore, left, to honor four Black College Football Hall of Famers. They are, beginning second from left, Virginia Union University Athletic Director Joe Taylor; former Washington Football Team quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, who is now special adviser to the WFT president; Willie E. Lanier, former NFL Kansas City Chiefs player and Pro Football Hall of Famer whose stellar football career started at Maggie L. Walker High School in Richmond; and Coach Willard Bailey, who coached four Virginia teams during an illustrious career at VUU, Norfolk State University, the former St. Paul’s College and Virginia University of Lynchburg. Coach Bailey is the newest inductee in the Black College Football Hall of Fame; he was inducted in June. Joining the group also is the WFT Senior Team Chaplain Bishop Brett Fuller, second from right.

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, August 16, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, September 13, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2021-204 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 75-309-302, adopted Dec. 15, 1975, as most recently amended

by Ord. No. 2018-304, adopted Jan. 14, 2019, pertaining to the “Stony Point Community Unit Plan,” for the purpose of amending the development standards, as they pertain to Map Section A- 1 of the Northern Portion of the Plan, to allow for an accessory dwelling unit on the property known as 3417 Stony Point Road. The property is situated in an R-2 SingleFamily Residential District and the Stony Point Community Unit Plan.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential. Primary uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space.

Secondary uses: duplexes and small multi-family buildings (3-10 dwelling units), institutional and government. Residential density is typically two to ten housing units per acre. The density of the proposed development is approximately 6 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-205 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1508 Belleville Street for the purpose of a multifamily building containing up to 126 units, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are situated in a B-7 Mixed-Use Business Zoning District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Industrial Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government. The proposed density of the development is approximately 164 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-206 To a u t h o r i z e t h e property known as 1005 Chimborazo Boulevard for the purpose of two single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in an R-5 Single-Family Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), and open space.

Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings (10+units), retail/office/ personal service, institutional, cultural, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 13.5 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-207 To authorize the special use of the properties known at 3114 Groveland Avenue and 3119 Veranda Avenue for the purposes of three single family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-5 SingleFamily Residential District.

The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Residential. Primary uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings, institutional and government. Residential density is typically two to ten housing units per acre. The density of the proposed development is approximately 21 units per acre.

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known as 2400 Afton Avenue and 2420 Afton Avenue from the R-53 Multifamily Residential District to the B-5 Central Business District (Conditional), under certain proffered conditions. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates these parcels as Residential.

Primary Uses: Singlefamily houses, accessory dwelling units, and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), institutional, and cultural. Secondary uses may be found along major streets.

Ordinance No. 2021-210 To rezone the property known as 1003 Commerce Road from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the TOD-1 Transit Oriented Nodal District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use of the subject property as Industrial Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

The meetings will be held through electronic communication means pursuant to and in compliance with Ordinance No. 2020-093, adopted April 9, 2020, as most recently amended by Ordinance No. 2021-181, adopted June 28, 2021.

The meetings will be open to participation through electronic communication means by the public and closed to in-person participation by the public.

Less than a quorum of Richmond City Planning Commission members and Richmond City Council will assemble in City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, and most members and other staff will participate by teleconference/ videoconference via Microsoft Teams.

The meetings will be streamed live online at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. a s p x . To w a t c h a meeting’s live stream at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “In Progress” in the farthest right hand column entitled, “Video”.

The agenda for the Richmond City Council meeting is accessible through the City’s legislative website at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. aspx. To view the agenda at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “Agenda” associated with the September 13, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting listed in the calendar.

Interested citizens who wish to speak at the Richmond City Council meeting will be given an opportunity to do so by following the “Formal Meeting Citizen Participation Instructions” attached to the September 13, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda.

Citizens are encouraged to provide their comments in writing to CityClerksOffice@ r i c h m o n d g o v. c o m i n lieu of calling in. The person responsible for receiving comments in writing is Candice D. Reid, City Clerk. All comments received prior to 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 13, 2021, will be provided to Council members prior to the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https://www.rva.gov/ office-city-clerk.

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Ordinance No. 2021-209 To rezone the properties

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO ODELIZA DEL CARMEN GUZMAN RODRIGUEZ V. JOHN CAQUIAS GARCIA PLAINTIFF DEFENDANT CL21-4173 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the above-styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation and without any interruption, for a period of more than one year, It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Defendant, JOHN CAQUIAS GARCIA, cannot be located within the State of Virginia and that his last known address is unknown, it is therefore ORDERED that Defendant, JOHN CAQUIAS GARCIA appear before this Court on or before the 13th day of September, 2021, and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit.

Entered: July 12, 2021 An Extract Teste Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

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Ordinance No. 2021-208 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3101 East Marshall Street for the purpose of a mixed-use building, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-63 Multi-Family Urban Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units), and open space.

Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings (10+units), retail/office/ personal service, institutional, cultural, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 73 units per acre.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND ROSA H. MARROQUIN LUNA, Plaintiff v.

MARIO DAVILA PAZ Defendant, CL21-2949 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation and without any interruption, for a period of more than one year, It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Defendant, MARIO DAVILA PAZ, is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that his last known address is unknown, it is therefore ORDERED that Defendant, MARIO DAVILA PAZ, appear before this Court on or before the 6th day of October, 2021, and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit.

A Copy Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ask for this: Mary P. Adams, Esq. VSB No. 24551 Hairfield Morton. PLC 2800 Buford Road, Suite 201 Richmond, Virginia 23235 (804) 320-6600 - telephone (804) 320-8040 - facsimile madams@hmalaw.com Counsel for the Plaintiff

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 23rd day of August, 2021 at 9:00 AM 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

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ERNEST E. DAVIS, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, LORENE J. DAVIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ERNEST E. DAVIS, LORENE J. DAVIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that J. EVERETT JOHNSON, JAY G. KAUFFMAN, and GLENN D. GREENWOOD, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, with R. Kirby Smith listed as beneficiary on an Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, or their successor/s in interest, R. KIRBY SMITH, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, per Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, LEONARD RAY BAILEY, DEWEY G. CARTER, GAIL M. CARTER and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

J. EVERETT JOHNSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-241 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 8021 Forest Hill Avenue, Tax Map Number C003-0240/003, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, J. Everett Johnson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, J. EVERETT JOHNSON, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JAY G. KAUFFMAN, and GLENN D. GREENWOOD, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, with R. Kirby Smith listed as beneficiary on an Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, or their successor/s in interest whose names are unknown, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that R. KIRBY SMITH, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, per Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that LEONARD RAY BAILEY, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that DEWEY G. CARTER and GAIL M. CARTER, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that J. EVERETT JOHNSON, JAY G. KAUFFMAN, and GLENN D. GREENWOOD, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, with R. Kirby Smith listed as beneficiary on an Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, or their successor/s in interest, R. KIRBY SMITH, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, per Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, LEONARD RAY BAILEY, DEWEY G. CARTER, GAIL M. CARTER and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING LYNETTE EILEEN STREATER-HENDERSON, Plaintiff v.

JEFFERY HENDERSON, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL21-2608 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties haved lived separate and apart without interruption and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since April 22, 2019.

And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Jeffery Henderson, the above-named defendant, is not a resident of this state and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is, without effect.

It is therefore ORDERED that the said Jeffery Henderson, do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, on or before 8/30/2021 and do whatever necessary to protect their interests in this suit.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER NATHANIEL LEWIS, Plaintiff v.

DEBORAH LEWIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002401-00 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 10th day of September, 2021 at 9:00 AM 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 MICHAEL PROKOPUK, Plaintiff v.

CATHERINE PROKOPUK, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001516-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 10th day of September, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

SHERITA TAYLOR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002247-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ALTOMEEZE HARRIS-HYDE, Plaintiff v.

EMANUEL HYDE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002198-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 19th day of August, 2021 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER In Re: Raelynn Elaine Deutsch, a minor By Bethany Danielle Duke, Mother and Next Friend, Petitioner.

Case No.: CL21002253-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain the entry of a Name Change Order.

It is ORDERED that the Charles Louis Deutsch, whose whereabouts are unknown, and who is the father of Petitioner Raelyn Elaine Deutsch, a minor, appear here on or before the 17th day of August, 2021 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

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

STEVEN C. DAVIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2364 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1528 Floyd Avenue, Tax Map Number W000-0608/035, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Steven C. Davis.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, STEVEN C. DAVIS, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that STEVEN C. DAVIS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

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

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

Case No.: CL21-2198 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2400 Coles Street, Tax Map Number S009-0145/006, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Marvin A. Robinson, Sr, and Goldie L. Robinson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR, and GOLDIE L. ROBINSON, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that DENISE D. MITCHELL, who 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 MARVIN A. ROBINSON, SR, GOLDIE L. ROBINSON, DENISE D. MITCHELL, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

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

ERNEST E. DAVIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2199 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2916 Cherokee Road, Tax Map Number C004-0660/038, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ernest E. Davis and Lorene J. Davis.

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

J. EVERETT JOHNSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-239 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 8001 Forest Hill Avenue, Tax Map Number C003-0240/001, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, J. Everett Johnson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, J. EVERETT JOHNSON, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JAY G. KAUFFMAN, and GLENN D. GREENWOOD, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, with R. Kirby Smith listed as beneficiary on an Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, or their successor/s in interest whose names are unknown, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that R. KIRBY SMITH, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, per Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that LEONARD RAY BAILEY, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that DEWEY G. CARTER and GAIL M. CARTER, who may be

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

J. EVERETT JOHNSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-240 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 8011 Forest Hill Avenue, Tax Map Number C003-0240/002, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, J. Everett Johnson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, J. EVERETT JOHNSON, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JAY G. KAUFFMAN, and GLENN D. GREENWOOD, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, with R. Kirby Smith listed as beneficiary on an Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, or their successor/s in interest whose names are unknown, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that R. KIRBY SMITH, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, per Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that LEONARD RAY BAILEY, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that DEWEY G. CARTER and GAIL M. CARTER, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that J. EVERETT JOHNSON, JAY G. KAUFFMAN, and GLENN D. GREENWOOD, TRUSTEES of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, with R. Kirby Smith listed as beneficiary on an Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, or their successor/s in interest, R. KIRBY SMITH, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 177 page 880 on August 31, 1988, per Assignment of Mortgaged filed at Instrument Number 96-21276 on October 10, 1996, LEONARD RAY BAILEY, DEWEY G. CARTER, GAIL M. CARTER and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING Continued on next column

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

GERMAN G. BUSTILLO, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-1942 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3028 Navarone Avenue, Tax Map Number C009-1059/034, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, German G. Bustillo.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GERMAN G. BUSTILLO, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that SHARON HORSTKAMP, Registered Agent for MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0615529 on May 11, 2006, 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 GERMAN G. BUSTILLO, SHARON HORSTKAMP, Registered Agent for MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 06-15529 on May 11, 2006, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before Continued on next column

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

JOHN B. COLEMAN, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2937 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5015 Rear Snead Road, Tax Map Number C008-0660/064, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, John B. Coleman, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JOHN B. COLEMAN, JR, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JOHN B. COLEMAN, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

INEZ FLEMING, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2640 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3019 Terminal Avenue, Tax Map Number C009-0593/002, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Inez Fleming.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, INEZ FLEMING, 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 INEZ FLEMING, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 12, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

LICENSE The 4 Cyber Café LLC Trading as: The 4 Cyber Café 4 W Broad St. Richmond, VA 23220-4213 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer On and Off Premises & Mixed Beverage Restaurant license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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.

Mi Pueblo Market LLC Trading as: Mi Pueblo Market 7110 Hull Street Rd North Chesterfield VA 23235-5802 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Beer On Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Zeidy Garcia, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID

ITB #21-2196-7KMW Roslyn Hills Drive Water Main Replacement Due: August 19, 2021 at 2:00 p.m.

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