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And they’re off More than 1,200 people race into Rosie’s Richmond Gaming Emporium for the first day of betting

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Spectators enjoy fireworks over the Appomattox River from the beach at Hopewell’s City Park last Saturday. It was the first of several holiday fireworks displays in the area.

Fireworks to light up skies on Fourth of July Looking for a festive way to spend the Fourth of July holiday?

Fireworks and festivities will be featured at area events on Thursday, July 4, to celebrate Independence Day and the 243rd anniversary of the United States declaring independence from British rule.

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Slot machines are illegal in Virginia.

But don’t tell that to Shannon Bratson, 52, or many of the 1,200 others who piled into the new Rosie’s Richmond Gaming Emporium in South Side Monday morning to try out the 700 new machines following speeches and a ribbon cutting.

“They sure look and operate like slots to me,” said the Richmond waitress, who pointed to the screen and spinning wheels after she punched the button on the penny machine she was playing.

“I should know,” Ms. Bratson continued. “I’m at Charles Town and Maryland Live! several times a month,” referring to Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, W.Va., and the Live! Casino in Hanover, Md. The slot flavor of the machines is the key reason so many people came to play. The machines are expected to be the top attraction at the new casino-style operation that has taken over the former Kmart store in the 6800 block of Midlothian Turnpike, just as they are in Rosie’s other operations.

Before the doors opened at 11 a.m. at the Richmond site, the line of people waiting to try their luck was four deep and stretched from the speaker’s podium past the side wall to the tree line at this affiliate of the Rosie’s operations in Virginia that include Colonial Downs horseracing track in New Kent County. The track reopened in April.

A smaller Rosie’s gaming outlet is open in Roanoke County and an outlet in Hampton is opening soon.

That initial turnout represented good news for the Chicago investors who have laid out about $41 million to buy and renovate the Richmond property and for the 225 new employees. The new Rosie’s Richmond represents more than 10 percent of the $300 million investment the group is making in facilities.

The turnout also seemed to be good news for the state and city, each of which will capture

Councilman Agelasto asks for taxpayer money to pay his legal bills

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Parker C. Agelasto has run up a hefty legal tab fending off lawsuits seeking to immediately remove him from his 5th District City Council seat now that he and his family have moved out of the district.

Mr. Agelasto, who is set to step down on Nov. 30, has appealed to his eight City Council colleagues for financial help with the legal bills.

But his appeal has hit a major roadblock — an adverse legal opinion from City Attorney Allen L. Jackson that appears to bar the council from providing him any relief using taxpayer money.

Mr. Agelasto The opinion was issued in response to questions raised during a June 24 closed-door meeting City Council held on the matter.

The Free Press obtained a copy of Mr. Jackson’s June 28 opinion that was issued as the council prepared to meet again behind closed doors Monday night following other business.

That meeting was put off, possibly because at least one council member, Reva M. Trammell, had another commitment.

Mr. Agelasto stated when he announced his plans to resign that the cost of legal representation was a key factor, but he has never provided details.

The Free Press has been told that Mr. Agelasto already has paid about $6,000 to his attorney, former Virginia Attorney General Anthony F. “Tony” Troy, with another $8,000 due.

In the opinion, Mr. Jackson wrote that council has no obligation to pay the legal bills and lacks the authority to do so.

Mr. Jackson wrote that the Colette W. McEachin is sworn in as Richmond’s new two state laws that address commonwealth’s attorney Tuesday morning by Judge Joi payment of legal bills only Jeter Taylor, chief judge of the Richmond Circuit Court, as permit local governing bodies Mrs. McEachin’s proud mother, Gladys Wallace, holds the to do so when the litigation Bible. Mrs. McEachin’s husband, Congressman A. Donald arises “from the performance McEachin of Richmond, Richmond Circuit Court Clerk of some official duty.”

Edward F. Jewett and several of Mrs. McEachin’s deputy In Mr. Jackson’s opinion, commonwealth’s attorneys also attended the ceremony at Mr. Agelasto’s situation does the John Marshall Courts Building in Downtown. Mrs. not meet that test.

McEachin, who has more than 20 years of experience Mr. Jackson noted that the as a city prosecutor, took over the top job after veteran separate lawsuits filed by two Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring left July 1 former council members, Sa’ad to become a partner in the McGuireWoods law firm. Mr. El-Amin and Henry W. “Chuck” Herring, who recommended Mrs. McEachin for the top Richardson, are based on an post, is backing her in the Nov. 5 special election when allegation that Mr. Agelasto voters will formally choose his successor.

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Patrons try their luck Monday at the 700 gambling machines at Rosie’s Richmond Gaming Emporium in the 6800 block of Midlothian Turnpike.

a share of the revenue the operation generates.

Richmond is hoping for $2 million in general revenue from this local site.

Patrons at Rosie’s Richmond found an expansive gaming floor filled with equipment that looks like slot machines.

But looks are deceiving, said David Lermond, executive director of the Virginia Racing Commission, which regulates the machines along with the state’s other horse racing-related operations.

The computer-operated reels in a slot machine are based on random numbers, Mr. Lermond said,

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but that is not the case with these machines.

The machines in Rosie’s generate winners and losers based on the results of historical horse races, he said. Players, he said, can use buttons to change the horses they bet on or the race that will dictate the results, although most players do not.

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FBI joins investigation, offers $20K reward in 9-year-old’s death

By Ronald E. Carrington

The FBI has announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the shooting death of 9-year-old Markiya Dickson, who was shot and killed May 26 as she played at a Memorial Day Weekend community cookout at Carter Jones Park in South Side.

“We had a request from the Richmond Police Department to join the investigation,” David W. Archey, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Richmond field office, said during a news conference Tuesday at Richmond Police headquarters.

Markiya “The two big factors for the FBI supporting the RPD in the Dickson case were the shooting took place in a public park and the victims were juveniles; a violent attack in a public park. Since that day, the Richmond Police Department has worked around the clock

to identify the people responsible for this senseless act and this tragic death,” Special Agent Archey said.

He said the FBI felt this case is important to solve and to convict the person or people responsible, therefore “we came forward with the reward at the request of Richmond Police.”

He stressed the need for solid leads and witnesses in order to find and prosecute the perpetrators in Markiya’s death.

“The department wants to hear from witnesses who took video in the park that day,” Richmond Police Chief Will Smith said. “We need everyone’s support to solve this case.

Dickson However, it will not bring Markiya back. It will provide justice for the family.”

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Council approves City Hall gun ban; tighter security plan in the works

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Fortress City Hall?

Maybe.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration, shaken by the May 31 massacre in which a Virginia Beach city employee killed 12 people and wounded four others at that city’s municipal center, is preparing to roll out a plan that could end the free and unfettered movement of the public inside Richmond City Hall and possibly in recreation areas, libraries and other city property.

Police Chief Will Smith cited the massacre in disclosing Monday to City Council that the administration would present in 30 days or so

a plan for strengthening the now lax security in public spaces where city authority to ban firearms was stripped away years ago by the General Assembly.

“We are somewhat behind the times in that we are an open, easily accessible operation,” Chief Smith said.

He offered few details of what he described as a long-needed security overhaul that potentially could carry a multimillion-dollar price tag.

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Walker wall tribute This dramatic mural graces the back entrance of Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School at Lombardy and Leigh streets. Artist Colleen Hall worked with students, school alumni and community supporters to create this tribute to the noted Richmond businesswoman for whom the school is named. Mrs. Walker created and opened a bank, a newspaper and a deSlices of life and scenes p a r t m e n t in Richmond store during her tenure as leader of the Independent Order of St. Luke, a fraternal insurance group. The building was named for her when it opened in 1938 as the city’s second high school for black students.

The building has been the home of the regional high school that focuses on government and international studies since 2001. The mural faces Elizabeth Street.

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Delegate McQuinn to host gun control rally July 7 Coliseum referendum initiative progressing

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The plan to replace the Richmond Coliseum remains stalled inside City Hall.

But that is not keeping one of its leading critics, Paul Goldman, from continuing his efforts to put the proposal before Richmond voters in the Nov. 5 general election.

Mr. Goldman, leader of the Put Schools First campaign, announced June 26 that his referendum initiative has signatures of 12,479 registered voters, or 2,000 more than the required 10,400 signatures needed to get it on the ballot.

However, Mr. Goldman said he wants to collect 2,000 more signatures by the July 12 deadline. He said submission of more than 14,000 signatures should be enough to overcome the disqualification of some signatures.

His proposal would require the city to put more than half of any new taxes generated by the Coliseum area redevelopment toward new schools construction.

If approved by voters, the ballot proposal would be sent to the General Assembly for approval.

Previously disclosed plans for a new Coliseum indicate that all new taxes to be generated by the ambitious $1.4 billion plan would be used to repay loans to build the proposed 17,500-seat arena.

Current estimates suggest the payments would absorb new tax revenue from the development and the growth in property taxes in a nearby 70-block area of Downtown for 18 years or more.

Mr. Goldman’s plan also would bar Richmond City Council from increasing the meals tax. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Holiday closings for Fourth of July In observance of the Fourth of July holiday on Thursday, July 4, please note the following: State offices: Closed Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5.

Local government offices: • Richmond government offices closed Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5.

• Richmond Animal Care and Control is offering $4 adoptions 1 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 3; closed on Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5.

• Henrico County offices closed Thursday, July 4.

• Chesterfield County offices closed Thursday, July 4.

Richmond and Chesterfield courts: Closed Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5.

Henrico General District Court: Closed Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5.

Henrico Circuit Court: Closed Thursday, July 4.

Federal offices: Closed Thursday, July 4.

Post offices: Closed Thursday, July 4.

Public libraries: Closed Thursday, July 4.

Parking: Downtown meters will not be enforced Thursday, July 4.

Trash pickup: Richmond, Henrico County and Chesterfield collection, transfer stations and landfills will be closed Thursday, July 4. Central Virginia Waste Management Authority pickups will be delayed one day.

East Richmond Road Convenience Center and Hopkins Road Transfer Stations closed Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5.

Department of Motor Vehicles: Customer service centers closed Thursday, July 4.

GRTC: Buses will run on a Sunday schedule on Thursday, July 4. However, more Pulse buses will run around the time fireworks end in order to meet passenger demand.

Banks: Most are closed Thursday, July 4.

Shopping malls: Open Thursday, July 4.

ABC stores: Close at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 4.

Richmond Free Press offices: Closed Thursday, July 4.

Corrections The website detailing the family histories of enslaved people who were sold to keep Georgetown University from going bankrupt in the 1800s is http://gu272.americanancestors.org.

An incorrect website was listed for the genealogical association’s project in an article published in the June 27-29 edition of the Free Press.

A photo caption published in the June 27-29 edition with an article on men of color in Major League Baseball contained a misspelling. The player’s name is Howie Kendrick of the Washington Nationals.

The Free Press regrets the errors.

Gun control supporters are invited to an East End church Sunday, July 7, to rally for legislation aimed at reducing gun violence ahead of a special session of the General Assembly to address the issue.

Gov. Ralph S. Northam, who has called the legislature back into session on Tuesday, July 9, to address proposed bills to help curb gun-related deaths, is expected to take part in Sunday’s public rally.

The rally will be 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Thirty-first Street Baptist Church, 831 N. 31st St. in Church Hill, it has been announced.

Richmond Delegate Delores L. McQuinn, who also is a minister, is organizing the effort to generate support for the governor’s proposed gun legislation as a member of the House Democratic Caucus’ “Safe Virginia Initiative” Task Force.

Created in April, the task force is charged with crafting legislation to curb gun violence to be presented at the

next regular session of the legislature in January.

The list of speakers includes the Rev. Kevin L. Chandler, president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, Delegate McQuinn’s staff noted.

Gun control legislation has proven almost impossible to pass in Virginia with both the House of Delegates and state Senate under the thumb of a RepubDelegate lican majority that McQuinn opposes virtually all limitations on gun possession.

The nine bills Gov. Northam has submitted for consideration during the special session died in the regular session. Little change is expected with the GOP holding a 51-48 margin in the House and a 21-19 margin in the Senate.

The governor called the special session in the wake of the May 31 Virginia Beach massacre in which 12 people were shot to

death at that city’s municipal center and the May 26 fatal shooting of a 9-year-old girl and the wounding of an 11-year-old boy during a community cookout at Carter Jones Park in Richmond’s South Side.

The bills would require background checks on all gun sales, restrict the sale of silencers and military-style assault rifles, restore the state’s one-gun-a-month limit on purchases, limit gun magazines to 10 bullets or less, allow judges in cases where someone is identified as dangerous to order the seizure of their firearms and to stiffen penalties for a gun owner who leaves a loaded weapon where a child could get it.

Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox already has indicated that the measures would be rejected, but noted the Republican Caucus would spearhead bills to stiffen penalties for illegal gun possession and use and tack on mandatory minimum sentences that the governor opposes.

Meanwhile, the Richmond Branch NAACP and the Richmond Peace Education Center will host a vigil 9 to 10 a.m.

Tuesday, July 9, at the Capitol Square Bell Tower for gun control supporters.

Preschool transportation plan may be more extensive, expensive than RPS planned

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The free bus service Richmond Public Schools will offer to get more low-income parents to enroll their 4-year-olds in a statesupported preschool program is likely to have to be more extensive and potentially more expensive than originally envisioned.

According to information provided to the Richmond School Board at the June 17 meeting, the contemplated bus service would involve creation of hub sites around the city where the children can be dropped off and picked up.

However, according to a published state guideline for transportation for the Virginia Preschool Initiative, or VPI program, the kind of hubs Richmond now uses for the transportation of K-12 students would not be permitted.

The guideline appears to require doorto-door service for the young children VPI serves, or as close to door-to-door service as possible. Hubs for kindergarten through 12th-grade students can be more distant, and it is not usual for parents to drive or walk their children to them.

The VPI transportation guideline reads: “VPI programs must have a plan for ensuring that VPI eligible students have

access to a safe method of transportation to and from the home setting and the VPI site.”

RPS also has to offer transportation service. The guideline notes that transportation is mandatory for school divisions offering the VPI program, which is similar to the federal Head Start program in seeking to improve school prospects for at-risk children, “Transportation must never be a barrier for recruiting eligible children … and for providing full VPI services to eligible children and their families,” the guideline states, indicating that Richmond has no choice but to restore the service that previously was provided but later dropped to save money.

According to information obtained by the Free Press, the Virginia Department of Education would approve Richmond using a hub service for VPI students, but only if the hub is located within a block or two of each child’s residence. As a result, Richmond might have to offer far more hubs for VPI than it does for older children.

That prospect could challenge the School Board to find additional funding for transportation, which the guideline

Volunteers sought for city school cleanup blitz RPS Shines 2019 Free Press staff report

Wanted: Volunteers to spruce up city schools.

Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras has issued a call for volunteer help to parents, students, RPS staff and community supporters in launching RPS Shines 2019.

The effort begins shining Saturday, July 13, with volunteers to provide a day of service at nine schools. Similar volunteer efforts will take place almost daily through Saturday, Aug. 17, at RPS’ 44 schools.

More than 1,000 individuals and 75 partner organizations donated time at last year’s successful inaugural RVA Shines effort. Volunteers painted interior walls, planted flower beds, fixed bathrooms and helped with other tasks to beautify and clean buildings.

Along with general volunteers, Mr. Kamras stated he is seeking volunteers to continue fixing up school bathrooms, including plumbers, electricians, painters and deep cleaners and those with expertise in those fields.

He also announced that local artists would be joining with community groups to create murals in some schools.

RPS has tapped the Community Foundation’s volunteer coordinating group, HandsOnRVA, to get a handle on the number

indicates is mandatory.

When VPI transportation was cut, participation in the program sharply dropped, particularly in the most recent school year when nearly 300 fewer students participated than had been projected.

RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras did not reference the guideline during the June 17 School Board meeting, nor did his two cabinet members involved in its restoration, Chief Academic Officer Tracy Epp and Chief Operating Officer Darin Simmons Jr. At the meeting, Mr. Kamras indicated that providing transportation for VPI children should be considered as positive.

School Board member Kenya Gibson, 3rd District, has been the most active board member questioning the proposed hub system. She expressed concern during the meeting that there would not be enough pickup and dropoff points, which she called a key to raising enrollment.

In response to a Free Press query about the guideline, Ms. Gibson stated that the wording of the guideline adds to her concerns about the proposal.

Mr. Kamras, Dr. Epp and Mr. Simmons did not responded to a Free Press request for comment.

RPS Shines Cleanup Lineup Below are the schools and times for the RPS Shines cleanup on Saturday, July 13: • J.L. Francis Elementary, • Albert Hill Middle, 3400 5146 Snead Road, 9 a.m. to Patterson Ave., 9 a.m. to noon noon • Martin Luther King Jr. • Armstrong High, 2300 Middle, 1000 Mosby St., Cool Lane, 1 to 4 p.m.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Barack Obama • Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary, 3101 Fendall Elementary, 2409 Webber Ave., 1 to 4 p.m.

Ave., 9 a.m. to noon • Carver Elementary, 1110 • Southampton W. Leigh St., 1 to 4 p.m.

• George Wythe High, 4314 Elementary, 3333 Cheverly Road, 8 to 11 a.m.

Crutchfield St., 1 to 4 p.m.

of people willing to volunteer at each of the schools. However, volunteers can show up and pitch in on the designated day for a specific school, Mr. Kamras indicated.

Details and advance registration: www.HandsOnRVA.org.

A schedule of the times and days volunteers are needed at the various schools is listed on that website under “RPS Shines” or contact (804) 330-7400.

Information also is available from RPS staff member Grady Hart at (804) 780-7100 or GHart@rvaschools.net.

Monetary contributions toward the beautification and mural effort may be made through the Richmond Public Schools Education Foundation at RPSeducationfoundation.org.

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Take me to the water Attendants perform one of several baptisms last Saturday during the Jehovah’s Witnesses regional convention at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

Thousands of people from Virginia and nearby states attend the denomination’s series of three-day conventions each summer in Downtown. This year’s theme: “Love Never Fails!” Highlights include symposia, song, prayer, films and dramatic Bible readings around the theme. The next gathering in the series will be this Friday through Sunday at the convention center.

White supremacist gets life sentence in Charlottesville rally death Free Press wire report

CHARLOTTESVILLE An avowed white supremacist who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims before being sentenced on June 28 to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.

James Alex F i e l d s J r. o f Maumee, Ohio, pleaded guilty in March to 29 of Heather 30 hate crimes in connection with the Aug. 12, 2017, attack that killed Ms. Heyer and injured more than two dozen others.

Prosecutors and Mr. Fields’ lawyers agreed that federal sentencing guidelines called for a life sentence. But his attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski to consider a sentence of “less than life,” hoping he would take into account Mr. Fields’ troubled childhood and mental health issues.

Just before Judge Urbanski announced his sentence, the 22-year-old Mr. Fields, accompanied by one of his lawyers, walked to a podium in the

courtroom and apologized.

“Every day I think about how things could have gone differently and how I regret my actions,” he said. “I’m sorry.”

His comments came after more than a dozen survivors of and witnesses to the attack delivered emotional testimony about the physical and psychological wounds they received as a result of the events that day. “ Yo u h a d a choice to leave Charlottesville, but you did not,” said Heyer Rosia Parker, a longtime civil rights activist in Charlottesville who said she was standing feet away from Ms. Heyer when she was struck and killed by Mr. Fields.

“You could have done anything else but what you did,” Ms. Parker said, her voice breaking as she stared directly at Mr. Fields. “So, yeah, you deserve everything that you get.”

Mr. Fields appeared stoic and didn’t look at Ms. Parker or any of the victims as they spoke.

Ms. Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said she wanted Mr. Fields to spend his life in prison but also hoped he would get the medication he needed and that

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Susan Bro, left, mother of Heather Heyer who was killed in August 2017 while counterprotesting during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, gets a hug from a supporter after the June 28 federal court sentencing of James A. Fields Jr. in Ms. Heyer’s death.

one day he would change his views and no longer support white supremacy.

“I hope he can heal someday and help others heal,” Ms. Bro said.

After the hearing, Ms. Bro said she did not believe Mr. Fields’ apology was sincere, but instead was a last-ditch attempt to get a lighter sentence.

Mr. Fields drove from his Ohio home to attend the “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017,

which drew hundreds of white nationalists to Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Hundreds of counterprotesters showed up as well.

President Trump sparked controversy when he blamed the violence at the rally on “both sides,” a statement that critics saw as a refusal to condemn racism.

After Mr. Fields was sen-

tenced, a U.S. Department of Justice official condemned his actions.

“Hate crimes violate the most fundamental American values of freedom and human dignity,” Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said at a news conference with federal prosecutors.

“The bigotry and ideology of neo-Nazism, Nazism, white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan are a disgrace to this country and illegal acts based on those James should be eradicated from the United States,” Mr. Dreiband said.

Prosecutors said Mr. Fields had a long history of racist and anti-Semitic behavior and had shown no remorse for his crimes. They said he is an avowed white supremacist, admired Adolf Hitler and kept a picture of the Nazi leader on his bedside table.

During the sentencing hearing last week, FBI Special Agent Wade Douthit said a classmate described Mr. Fields as being “like a kid at Disney World” during a high school trip to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

Mr. Douthit read grand jury

testimony from the classmate, who said Mr. Fields appeared happy and made the remark, “This is where the magic happened.”

The statement provoked audible gasps from the crowd that had packed into the Charlottesville courtroom.

The classmate said when Mr. Fields viewed the camp’s gas chamber, he said, “It’s almost like you can still hear them screaming.”

Mr. Douthit said the classmate was so disgusted by Mr. Fields’ remarks he Fields stopped associating with him.

During Mr. Fields’ state trial, attorneys focused on his history of mental illness and traumatic childhood.

A psychologist testified that Mr. Fields had inexplicable volatile outbursts as a young child, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 6 and was later diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder.

In a sentencing memo, defense attorneys said Mr. Fields was raised by a paraplegic single mother and suffered “trauma” knowing that his Jewish grandfather had slain his grandmother before taking his own life.

Support grows for new hate crime reporting bill Religion News Service

Nearly three years ago, Khalid Jabara, an immigrant from Lebanon, died on his own doorstep in Tulsa, Okla., when his neighbor gunned him down.

One year later on Aug. 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was struck and killed by a white supremacist driving a car into counterprotesters at a rally in Charlottesville.

Ms. Heyer’s killer, who was sentenced to life in prison on June 28, pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crime charges. Mr. Jabara’s murderer, too, was successfully prosecuted under Oklahoma’s hate crime law.

But neither attack made it into either state or federal hate crime reports for 2016 or 2017.

Now, as researchers report a nationwide surge in hate crimes, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is giving law enforcement funding to adopt both stronger hate crime policies and more accurate data collection.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia have joined U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii to introduce the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault and Threats

to Equality Act to improve hate crime reporting and expand support for victims of hate crimes.

The Democrats’ bill goes by the acronym NO HATE. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Rep. Donald Beyer of Virginia and Republican Rep. Pete Olson of Texas introduced a companion bill.

The NO HATE Act originally was introduced in 2017; lawmakers say it was reintroduced last week in the wake of high-profile anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ attacks.

After Mr. Jabara’s death, said his brother Rami, the family assumed the crime would be reflected in government data. Instead, he said in a statement provided by lawmakers, “the circumstances surrounding his death laid bare the need for a better response from law enforcement and the justice system.”

No other family should have to experience what they endured, he added.

Susan Bro, Ms. Heyer’s mother, also urged Congress to pass the bill to streamline and incentivize reporting of hate crime incidents to the FBI. “Everyone knows my daughter’s name,” Ms. Bro said. “Heather is everywhere — in the news, in our minds, in our hearts — but she’s not

in the data. Nor are the 35 people who were injured while marching alongside her in Charlottesville. If such a despicable act of hatred is not reflected in hate crime statistics, think of everything else that might be missing.”

The bill, which has been endorsed by more than a dozen civil rights and minority advocacy groups, would

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address underreporting in hate crime data submitted to the FBI by state and local law enforcement agencies under the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990.

The FBI’s most recent reports showed hate crimes in the United States jumped 17 percent in 2017.

But experts say these numbers are massively undercounting bias-driven violence. Victims inconsistently report hate crimes and law enforcement agencies do not always identify crimes motivated by bias as hate crimes.

In the latest FBI report, 87 percent of law enforcement agencies did not

submit any hate crime information.

At least 92 cities with more than 100,000 residents — including cities like Miami and Las Vegas — either did not report any hate crime data to the FBI or reported zero hate crimes.

One Associated Press report found that, between 2009 and 2014, about 17 percent of all city and county law enforcement agencies did not submit a single hate crime report.

Reporting by state and local law enforcement is voluntary. The proposed bill would not change that but would fund state hate crime hotlines; permit judges to mandate that perpetrators undergo community service or education focused on the targeted communities; and support law enforcement agencies’ expansion of prevention, reporting and training programs.

In particular, the bill would support implementation and training for the National Incident-Based Reporting System for law enforcement agencies that are not yet using it, which would streamline reporting hate crimes to the FBI. The legislation would help observers understand “systemic underpinnings of hate violence and institute more effective ways to mandate hate crime data collection,” said Lakshmi Sridaran, who leads South Asian

Americans Leading Together.

Her organization, which worked with Mr. Jabara’s and Ms. Heyer’s families to advocate for the bill, has documented close to 500 incidents of hate violence against South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Middle Eastern and Arab communities in the United States since November 2015.

“Every level of government must be held accountable for addressing the spike in hate violence aimed at our communities,” Ms. Sridaran said.

“Data drives policy,” Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, said in his statement. “Better data collection and training would help allocate police resources and expand communication with targeted communities. Studies have shown that more comprehensive hate crime reporting can deter hate violence and advance police-community relations.”

The country’s inconsistent hate crime laws have particularly come under fire across the country after the triple murder of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill, N.C., which local police have since apologized for characterizing as a parking dispute, as well as the fatal shooting of a Muslim man in Indiana, one of five states without a hate crimes statute, which police called an act of road rage.

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RRHA issues request for developer interest in public housing transformation

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Damon E. Duncan promised to move “expeditiously” to transform public housing in the city after taking over as chief executive officer of the Richmond Redevelopment Development and Housing Authority two months ago.

In his first effort to keep that promise, he is testing developer interest in partnering with RRHA on the overhaul of five major subsidized apartment complexes that house thousands of residents and on the potential development of other property.

In a Request for Qualifications issued late last week, the housing authority states it seeks to work with one or more developers “to partner and assist in the long-term vision of the re-recreation of public housing” as places that “would serve many different people at once.”

Developers have until July 30 to submit applications of interest to RRHA. If there is interest, RRHA plans to move to a second phase of considering request for proposals from the developers it selects as potential partners.

For residents, the pace of the process could be slow.

RRHA is likely to spend months on the selection process of one or more interested developers, just as it did on past projects.

And given the longstanding challenge of finding financing, actual work on any complex could be years away.

Nonetheless, the RFQ is a sign of movement on the public

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Thursday, July 4 Dogwood Dell in Byrd Park: The Richmond City Jazz Band will open the program at 6 p.m., followed by a reading of the Declaration of Independence at 7 p.m. and the Richmond Concert Band at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks will begin at 9:30 p.m. Admission is free. 600 S. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

Details: www.richmondgov. com/parks or (804) 646-1437 or (804) 646-DELL. The Richmond Flying Squirrels game and Independence Day Dueling Fireworks Celebration at The Diamond: The Richmond Flying Squirrels will face off against the Reading Fightin’ Phils at 6:35 p.m., with fireworks to follow the game’s conclusion. General admission tickets start at $8.

3001 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

Fireworks will also follow the Flying Squirrels game on Saturday, July 6. Details: www. squirrelsbaseball.com or (804) 359-3866.

Rocketts Red Glare at Rocketts Landing: Visitors to the free event will be treated to the Richmond Volleyball Club Sand in the City Pro Beach Volleyball Championship games starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, July 3, and Thursday, July 4, at Rocketts Landing. Fireworks will begin at sunset on Thursday, July 4, with the viewing area opening at 5 p.m. 4400 E. Main St. Sponsored by the City of Richmond, Richmond Region Tourism, Richmond Volleyball Club and 288 Sports Group.

Details: www.rockettsredglare. com or (804) 214-8600.

Red, White and Lights at Dorey Park: Attendees can expect food vendors to welcome them at the free event’s opening at 4 p.m., entertainment with DJ Lonnie B and the Highland Springs High School cheerleading champions at 5 p.m. and a Family Fun Zone of games and entertainment at 6 p.m. The Richmond Symphony begins its concert at 8 p.m., with fireworks starting at 9:15 p.m.

2999 Darbytown Road. Details: www.henrico.us/calendar/redwhite-and-lights-2019/ or (804) 501-7275.

Chesterfield County Fairgrounds: Live music, food trucks and a children’s inflatable area are some of the activities featured when the gates open at 5 p.m. Fireworks start at dark.

The event is free, although $5 wristbands are required for the inflatable area. 10300 Courthouse Road. Details: www. chesterfield.gov/fireworks or (804) 748-1992.

Other activities Virginia Museum of History & Culture: From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 4, visitors to the VMHC can enjoy a scavenger hunt, music, a citizenship naturalization ceremony on the museum’s front terrace and exhibits, including “Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality.” Admission is free.

428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

Details: www.virginiahistory. org or (804) 340-1800.

housing overhaul that RRHA and the city have long talked about.

Mr. Duncan undertook a similar transformation in his last job in Elgin, Ill., which has replaced all of its public housing with mixed-income communities that accept Housing Choice Vouchers.

While he did not mention the RFQ, Mr. Duncan told a City Council committee Mr. Duncan Monday that “public-private partnerships” are the wave of the future if RRHA is to address conditions, including failing heating systems, decaying units and an influx of rats and roaches.

“We cannot raise the resources ourselves,” he said.

The new RFQ comes just two months after RRHA announced a tentative agreement with a developer to take control and overhaul 11 smaller properties that serve seniors and families.

A final agreement that would involve transfer of ownership has yet to be consummated.

As stated by RRHA, the goal is to transform what are now poverty-filled apartment complexes into mixed-income communities based on previous development models that include the still-incomplete Dove Court redevelopment in North Side, where new single-family homes are planned, and the larger redevelopment underway of the 504-unit Creighton Court com-

munity in the East End with the construction of new apartments and homes off-site.

The RFQ’s wording gives RRHA maximum flexibility on how fast or slow this effort moves. The RFQ indicates that sites “may be awarded” after the development partner or partners are selected.

The sites being targeted for developer consideration, according to RRHA, include Gilpin Court, a 783-unit public housing complex located just north of Jackson Ward, and Fay Towers, a separate 200-unit high rise in Gilpin that houses seniors and is now moving residents to other locations.

The sites also are to include three additional public housing communities in the East End — Fairfield Court, 447 public housing units; Mosby Court, 458 units; and Whitcomb Court, 447 units.

In addition, RRHA has included Hillside Court, a 402-unit public housing complex in South Side.

Along with those sites, RRHA noted that it owns and controls other properties in the city and could award those unspecified properties for development to the partner or partners it selects.

However, RRHA also has notified potential partners that it plans to keep a substantial stake in each site if it reaches a deal.

Among other things, RRHA stated it would request 30 percent of the fee a partner developer would build into a project and 50 percent of the net income after expenses. RRHA also wants to keep ownership of the land and would seek to lease its use to a selected partner rather than selling the property, the RFQ notes.

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city buildings and parks. The council’s approval was a largely symbolic vote given the city has no legal authority currently to implement it.

Racing to get it on the books ahead of a special General Assembly session next Tuesday, July 9, to consider gun control legislation, the council voted 7-0, with two members, Kristen N. Larson, 4th District, and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District, abstaining to protest the fast pace that prevented them from hearing from constituents.

Ms. Trammell, who chairs the council’s Public Safety Committee, received support from two other council members in seeking a 60-day delay on the vote.

Irked that the mayor didn’t personally present his proposal because he was attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual convention in Hawaii, Ms. Trammell argued, “I have 26,000 people in my district and they should be able to speak about this.”

She said she has heard from constituents who disagree about the need or want a better explanation of how a gun ban would be enforced.

Ms. Larson also expressed dismay at the swift movement of the legislation and urged more time. So did council member Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, who ultimately joined the majority, despite labeling the legislation “grandstanding” and decrying Mayor Stoney’s description

of the General Assembly as “spineless” for failing to address gun control or restore the ability of Richmond and other localities to craft local laws that meet their communities’ needs.

Picking up an argument that several speakers made, Ms. Gray expressed concern that the legislation and heightened City Hall security mostly would hit those who obey gun laws, not those who don’t.

Most council members, however, agreed with the gun ban. Councilman Michael J. Jones, 9th District, said he is a gun supporter, but noted that urban Richmond is not like rural Virginia and needs to be able to create legislation that serves its residents.

Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, who also backed the legislation, urged the city to be more creative in dealing with gun control. He noted that state law bans firearms on public school property and urged the administration to consider transferring nominal ownership of parks and recreation enters to Richmond Public Schools to take advantage of that option.

Council President Cynthia I. Newbille, 8th District; Council Vice President Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District; Andreas Addison, 1st District; and Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District; also supported the mayor’s ban proposal.

Mayor Stoney, who was preparing to fly back to Richmond as the council met, expressed satisfaction with the

vote, calling it “a strong message to the Virginia General Assembly that Richmond stands ready and willing to immediately implement the kind of common sense gun regulation that will enhance the safety and security of residents, employees and visitors.”

“Now it’s time to take this momentum across the street and hold our commonwealth’s elected representatives accountable for protecting our children and families,” he continued in a statement, adding that Richmond’s leaders “proved they have the spine to act; now the ball is in the General Assembly’s court.”

Republicans, who narrowly control both houses of the state legislature, have indicated they will reject gun control legislation that Gov. Ralph S. Northam has brought them back to Richmond to consider.

Republicans killed the same proposals in the General Assembly’s regular session earlier this year and in the past.

Before Monday’s council vote, Chief Smith, with SheriffAntionette V. Irving and a cadre of deputies in the audience, became the main advocate for the gun ban.

He argued that “people have a right to conduct business without fear of being injured by an illegally carried firearm.”

While the chief acknowledged that such a ban would not halt a determined person, he said making guns less available in public spaces could reduce the prospect of a firearm being used when arguments get out of control.

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forward.

He said Markiya and 11-year-old Jaquez Moses, who was shot and wounded, were caught in the crossfire of a gunfight in the park located in the 2800 block of Bainbridge Street.

“There were two groups fighting and there was more than one gunman,” Richmond Police Lt. Faith Filippo said during the news conferences. “We’re asking for eyewitnesses to come forward and say, ‘I saw that person with a gun.’ This will help

us link all of the pieces together. That is the right thing to do.”

In June, police released descriptions of three young African-American men wanted in connection with the shootings. One was wearing no shirt and a white towel or T-shirt on his head.

He is believed to have shoulder-length braids or dreadlocks. The second suspect, said to have a medium build and short-cropped hair, was wearing a blue shirt and grey or dark pants. The third was wearing all dark clothing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov or (804) 261-1044.

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are actually betting on the outcome of several races on which the winners are known, Mr. Lermond said.

Just as at a track, those bettors whose horses come in first, second or third are the winners, with the big prizes going to people lucky enough to choose the combination of win, place and show in the correct order on the races running behind the scenes.

Most of the time, people are betting on the horses that were the favorites in those already run races, Mr. Lermond said, but they can change the horses they bet on if they choose.

The idea for the slot machine-style racing equipment originated in 2008 at the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs, Ark., Mr. Lermond said, and has quickly spread, generating new interest and money for tracks that have seen a decline in interest and attendance at live horseracing.

Every Rosie’s also offers simulcasts of races at tracks around the country that players also can bet on. That will include the 15 days of live racing to take place at Colonial Downs starting Aug. 8.

But that is not what is drawing hundreds of people daily to Rosie’s. And there are winners.

Overall, about 93 percent of the money bet is being returned to players, according to Virginia Racing Commission data. That is a bit higher than Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos, but not unusual for a slots operation.

Still, the odds of winning a big payout from “historical horse racing” are nearly as high as winning the lottery. In other words, it takes a lot of losers for someone to win.

The money patrons already have spent is eye opening. Rosie’s Colonial Downs historical racing machines generated $58.25 million in May, the VRC reported. There is no data on the number of people who traveled to New Kent to play during May. The Rosie’s Vinton outlet in Roanoke County brought in another $12.6 million, VRC noted.

The monthly gross revenue before the state, localities and investors took their share was $70.85 million, or 51 percent of total revenue collected from Virginia horseracing bettors between Jan.1 and June 1, according to VRC. Rosie’s Richmond is expected to generate revenue at least equal to the Colonial Downs operation.

The state receives 0.075 percent of wagers on the slot-like machines. Richmond is to receive one-half of 1 percent of wagers at Rosie’s Richmond plus a share from the New Kent operation.

The owners of the Rosie’s operation received about 5.5 percent of the May wagers, with the rest going back to players.

The purpose of the historical racing is to generate needed cash to support the horse industry in Virginia and maintain live racing.

But such considerations are far from the minds of most of the players, who like Rosie’s owners, are hoping to become big winners.

if the legislature continues to block a ban on guns in public places like City Hall, it would be “meaningless” to install metal detectors as Mr. Jones has advocated because there would be no way to stop or prevent people with guns from entering the building.

That would be fine with Robert Sadtler and Larry Hodges, opponents of the gun ban. They told council that the real impact would be to prevent lawabiding gun owners from carrying guns into city buildings and public spaces.

“All this is going to do is leave people helpless” when something happens, Mr. Sadtler, a representative of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, said in urging the measure’s rejection.

Glenwood W. Burley, a retired police officer, urged passage of the legislation he called “proactive, not reactive” in seeking to ward off a Virginia Beach type of incident.

Other supporters, including gun control group Moms Demand Action, view the ban as helpful.

“Every child deserves to feel safe in a park, ” said Laura Swanson of Moms Demand Action, in referencing the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Markiya Dickson during the Memorial Day weekend in a city park. Her death was one of nine park shooting incidents this year.

She called children’s safety in parks “really important to me as a mother” in urging the council to keep that in mind when the members voted.

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who left office Monday. That deal required Mr. Agelasto to is no longer a resident of the resign to avoid having Mr. 5th District.

Herring go to court to remove Without taking a side, Mr. him from office.

Jackson noted, “One’s choice Mr. Jackson noted there is of a residence may affect no reference to such a deal in one’s eligibility to seek or Mr. Agelasto’s April 23 letter hold office or be employed in of resignation or in the motion a particular job, but it remains City Council approved asking fundamentally a personal, pri- the Richmond Circuit Court to vate decision” and, set the election for thus, falls outside the 5th District seat the scope of Mr. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Agelasto’s official as part of the general duties as an elected election. council member.

As a result, Mr. Mr. Agelasto has Jackson stated, “No acknowledged that formal agreement he and his family such as described moved last summer (by Mr. Troy) was Mr. Jackson from their 5th Disever approved by trict home into a house he and the council. I am aware of no his wife purchased on West documentary evidence that Franklin Street in the city’s suggests” the council’s May 6 1st District. vote involved anything more A hearing is set for Friday, than compliance with a state July 12, in Richmond Circuit law that details the process Court on Mr. Richardson’s re- localities are to follow after a quest for a declaratory judgment member resigns. that Mr. Agelasto has vacated Mr. Jackson also advised the his seat based on a state law council that Mr. Agelasto and/ that requires state and local or his attorney should not be elected officials to live in the allowed to participate in any districts they represent. future closed-door meetings Mr. El-Amin’s suit is on council holds to discuss payhold. ment of his legal bills.

Mr. Jackson also rebuffed Mr. Jackson stated such Mr. Agelasto’s and Mr. Troy’s participation is barred under the argument that the council’s state’s Conflict of Interest Act, May 6 vote to seek a special and that the exceptions Mr. Ageelection to replace Mr. Agelasto lasto cited do not apply. He said brought the issue into the of- Mr. Agelasto cannot be included ficial duty fold. in the discussion because the Mr. Troy has claimed that only question to be considered the council’s vote showed the is “whether Mr. Agelasto, and governing body had approved only Mr. Agelasto, should be a deal between Mr. Agelasto provided financial support in and former Commonwealth’s (the legal) cases brought solely Attorney Michael N. Herring, against him.”

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Hampton University studying cancer risks, testing for black women

By Matt Jones Daily Press via AP Member Exchange

HAMPTON Luisel Ricks-Santi keeps the medical family tree of one of the participants in her study taped to the door of her office in her lab at Hampton University.

There are four slashes among the women’s siblings, others among her immediate family, and most family members’ symbols are partially colored in.

Each partially filled circle represents a cancer diagnosis.

Each slash indicates a death.

Although white women get breast cancer more frequently, it’s usually diagnosed later and is more severe in African-American women. Breast cancer death rates among black women were about 40 percent higher than among white women between 1999 and 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Dr. Ricks-Santi, director of the Hampton University Cancer Research Center, and another Hampton colleague, John McDonald, recently received a $446,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the genetics behind breast cancer diagnoses in African-American women.

In particular, they’re trying to

refine genetic tests that don’t seem to be as effective for black women as white women.

“I wanted to make sure that there was equity in the way that genetics and genomics was being applied across populations,” Dr. Ricks-Santi said.

She has a long-standing interest in cancer research, dating back to when she was a kid. Her family has a history of cancer; her father has prostate cancer.

That led her to pursue an undergraduate degree at Hampton University and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University.

She worked as a post-doctoral fellow in a joint cancer studies program between Georgetown and Howard University.

There, she saw a trend among genetic tests for breast cancer, particularly the most common ones, BRCA 1 and 2. They are sometimes an indicator for some of the hardest to treat forms, and they’re also correlated with other kinds of cancer in men and women.

At Georgetown’s cancer center, which Dr. Ricks-Santi said served mostly white and affluent patients, BRCA tests often helped doctors decide if women were candidates for preventative treatment or if they needed additional testing.

At Howard’s cancer center, which served more black patients, BRCA tests often came back inconclusive.

This, Dr. Ricks-Santi said, makes it hard for oncologists to come up with specific, informed approaches for patients of color.

“You can’t do that if you’re not identifying the right risk factor, the right gene,” said Melissa Gomes, a mental health nurse practitioner and a co-investigator on the study. “You can’t make that personalized approach if it wasn’t based on a population that included you.”

The study that Dr. Ricks-Santi and Dr. McDonald are leading uses family history and genetic data from 300 breast cancer patients at Howard, along with relatives without cancer diagnoses and other types of cancer.

Dr. Ricks-Santi will conduct statistical research to find candidate genes that could provide a better test.

Dr. McDonald, an assistant professor of physics, then will conduct the laboratory phase of the study, injecting those genes into cancer cells in Petri dishes to determine exactly what kind of effect they have.

They’re also working with Hampton University students on the project, who will be paid with grant money.

“It’s nice to create that pipeline of researchers that look like the population we want to study,” Ms. Gomes said.

This round of funding lasts for three

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Nayla Fair, an intern at the Hampton University Cancer Research Center, examines cancer cells through a microscope as part of the university’s project studying the genetics behind breast cancer diagnoses in African-American women.

years. But they already are looking toward the next phase.

That’s where Ms. Gomes’ experience comes in. Her background is clinical psychiatry. She sees patients four days a week.

In a second study, once they’ve isolated some possible genes, they want to control for those genes and then investigate social circumstances that might contribute to breast and other kinds of cancer.

Ms. Gomes hopes to use her background in psychiatry and patient care to help build connections in Hampton Roads in addition to helping with the social research.

“Nurses are considered one of the

most trusted health professionals,” Ms. Gomes said. “I think that the community trusts us and they value our opinion.”

Dr. Ricks-Santi is hopeful about this holistic approach, citing her father’s own experience.

Because of the small size of his tumor, doctors and the family took a more wait-and-see approach to treatment. He moved to Puerto Rico for six months to relax.

It seemed to work. His prostatespecific antigen levels, an indicator of that kind of cancer, dropped significantly and have stayed stable.

“It’s scary and exciting,” Dr. Ricks-Santi said. “There are so many possibilities.”

Tulsa’s Greenwood District residents fear being pushed out

By Kendrick Marshall Tulsa World

TULSA, Okla.

Standing on the corner of Detroit Avenue and M.B. Brady Street on a warm, spring evening holding a smartphone to his ear, Ricco Wright laments about no longer recognizing the location on the northern leg of the Inner Dispersal Loop.

Mr. Wright takes it all in before rattling off a list of businesses and structures that he perceives are out of place.

“What I’m seeing on the east side of the street has nothing to do with the history of Greenwood,” Mr. Wright said.

Mr. Wright, who owns the Black Wall Street Gallery in the heart of iconic Black Wall Street, believes not enough has been done to protect black culture in the Greenwood District from outsiders who historically haven’t sought to respect it.

He is not alone in expressing that sentiment.

Many residents of the near-downtown district can see neighboring Tulsa Arts and Blue Dome districts flourish around it with upscale restaurants and entertainment venues, while the Greenwood District, particularly Black Wall Street, struggles to regain the prominence it enjoyed before and after the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.

He mentions Living Arts of Tulsa. Next is She Theatre & Lounge. Then Wright pinpoints ONEOK Field, before eventually identifying “a company I don’t even know the name of” near Archer Street.

White businesses, Mr. Wright said, have been encroaching on what were historically blackowned spaces. Greenwood District’s neighbor to the west, the Tulsa Arts District (formerly known as Brady Arts District) is a hub of coffee shops, boutiques, a bodega and even a cycling exercise studio.

These places, Mr. Wright explained, are markers of the gentrification that has infringed upon the Greenwood District over the years and slowly robbed the area of its once proud AfricanAmerican history. City leaders, he said, haven’t prioritized cultural preservation of the cherished blocks that make up the district except for plaques embedded on sidewalks around Greenwood to remember businesses once there.

“I’m not opposed to coffee shops and Whole Foods, but those are signs of gentrification,” he said.

At its zenith, Greenwood featured more than 300 black-owned businesses, including retail and grocery stores, medical centers and movie theaters. Greenwood boasts just 20 businesses owned and operated by African-Americans nearly a century later.

“You can see the gentrification happening,” longtime local activist Kristi Williams said.

Ms. Williams has made it her mission to push for local government accountability and tangible investment in north Tulsa at City Council meetings and public forums.

She fears that old guard businesses of the Greenwood District like popular eatery Wanda J’s and nearby Tee’s Barbershop are being “pushed out” due to financial and legal struggles.

GreenArch, a $9.5 million apartment complex, moved in on the corner of Archer Street and Greenwood Avenue. The recently opened Holiday Inn Express and Suites, also on Archer Street, markets itself as a Tulsa Arts District location on the hotel’s website despite officially residing in Greenwood. A Holiday Inn spokesperson told the Tulsa World that the business was in the process of updating the website.

Wherever the existing businesses along the stretch of Greenwood lie, those properties are part of the capitalistic invasion that fails to enrich the district’s legacy, Ms. Williams said.

“This has been happening for years, and people are starting to notice,” she said. “This city has been masterful at pulling people away from the area.”

Arguably the most successful business in the area today — one that has ignited acrimony among black residents and business owners alike — is the $39.2 million ballpark that protrudes well into Greenwood.

But nine years after the first pitch was thrown at the new home of the Tulsa Drillers, Mechelle Brown, Greenwood Cultural Center program coordinator, said black residents have not reaped its promised benefits from 70 game days and nights a year.

“What we were told years ago is that the ballpark would bring jobs. However, when you go to the ballpark, you rarely see a lot of African-

over the years affected Greenwood’s ability to expand while encouraging — intentionally or not — adjacent districts to thrive.

There has also been concern about Greenwood not being included on the National Register of Historic Places. That designation would have enabled the district to have certain protections and some autonomy over its destiny, said Sherry Gamble-Smith, former executive director of Greenwood District Chamber of Commerce.

“If (original) Greenwood District was there, then you couldn’t build what you wanted to build. You couldn’t tear down things in that district,” Ms. Gamble-Smith said. “We’re the

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This June 13 photo shows newer buildings that have gone up next to the historic Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla.

Americans working there and definitely not in administrative positions,” Ms. Brown said. “It did not bring jobs to our community, and it has not had a huge impact economically.”

Ms. Brown said the resentment over ONEOK Field runs so deep that many black residents refuse to patronize it.

Former City Councilor Jack Henderson, who supported the ONEOK Field project at the time, said the Greenwood District site was “a fit that helps the north Tulsa community.”

These days, Mr. Henderson, despite the criticism, maintains the stadium has helped revitalize the district and inspired commercial development in the area — something he says might not have been possible before the minor league baseball facility existed.

“A lot of people don’t see that as a positive because a lot of people didn’t want the stadium to come,” Mr. Henderson said. “They thought they lost so much with the Greenwood District experience. I don’t see it like that. I see it as a positive. It is going to take time, but I think we are going in the right direction now with other things being added to Greenwood.”

For anyone who has studied the history of Greenwood, or lived it, what’s happening in 2019 is an all-too-familiar story.

After the race massacre all but destroyed Greenwood and its thriving business district, black residents remarkably rebuilt it even stronger than before, until urban renewal projects and construction of Interstate 244 forever changed its economic landscape.

Tulsa author Hannibal B. Johnson explained that gentrification in the district began as early as the 1960s with the creation of the Urban Renewal Authority, which had eminent domain power.

“URAs around the country abused that power by targeting communities of color for property acquisition and highway location,” said Mr. Johnson. “This fractured urban communities nationwide.”

Others theorize that zoning law changes

oldest district in Tulsa, and other districts, even some of the new ones, have been placed on the National Register, but not Greenwood.”

Commercial districts currently on the National Register are Blue Dome, Tulsa Arts, KATY Railroad, North Cheyenne, Oil Capital, Sixth Street, Tulsa Civic Center and Whittier Square, according to the Tulsa Preservation Commission website.

Attempts were made over the years to get Greenwood added to the National Register.

However, the Oklahoma Historical Society and state and local preservation officials determined it would be difficult because nearly all the remaining buildings of historic significance were dismantled.

Thomas Boxley, chairman of the Greater Tulsa African-American Affairs Commission, points at another inflection point: Several more rounds of urban renewal initiatives in the 1970s and 1980s that greatly affected Greenwood District’s economic prospects with the addition of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa and Langston University-Tulsa.

“That was really a turning point then,” said Mr. Boxley, who also mentioned that changing racial demographics and the city’s focus on revitalizing downtown into a tourist destination played a role in the district’s slow regression.

“Development is cyclical. A lot of different dynamics and forces come into play. Greenwood has some work to do.”

Dwain Midget, director of the city’s Working in Neighborhoods department, explained that Black Wall Street — in its current state — will have a difficult time recapturing what it once was decades ago because of a lack of AfricanAmerican-controlled land.

“Black Wall Street is a concept. It will never be Greenwood of the 1920s, 1930s or 1940s,” Mr. Midget said. “For me as an African-American, I’m looking for a new Black Wall Street. Where in my community can I resurrect a new Black Wall Street? Maybe Peoria (Avenue) from Archer (Street) all the way down to 66th Street North.

There are black people who live there, and there is ample opportunity to build.

“Black Wall Street doesn’t have to be on Greenwood. If you think you’re going to reconstitute Black Wall Street on Greenwood, to me you’re not living in reality. It ain’t happening.”

He imagines that Black Wall Street could be repurposed as sort of a tourist attraction. Memorials dedicated to the race massacre along with a planned expansion of the Greenwood Cultural Center to educate the public on the district’s history are already in the works.

The greatest hurdle, though, for regaining any semblance of a Black Wall Street has been gaining access to enough financial capital and resources to get started. Tulsa City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper said that, historically, African-Americans have had to work around discriminatory practices by lenders and financial institutions while applying for small business loans.

“African Americans have a harder time acquiring capital than other groups,” Ms. HallHarper said. “Lenders assume you can’t pay for it. They assume you don’t have the wherewithal to manage and operate businesses.”

Gary Hamer is the capital planning and grants manager for the city. He said the city of Tulsa has not funded any grants in the past five years for prospective black business owners to operate on Greenwood. Only one application has been filed during that time, he said, and it was later withdrawn for an unspecified reason.

Understanding the struggle many black Tulsans face generating business opportunities is why Ms. Hall-Harper, along with others, started the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce last October to cultivate black-centered entrepreneurship through its Power Group initiative.

The goal is to raise money to rebuild Black Wall Street and the surrounding north Tulsa community.

“The funds will be used to buy back land based on the wants and needs of the community,” she said. “If we want better for our community, it is going to have to be done in the spirit of Black Wall Street through cooperative economics to help recruit and train the next crop of black business owners.”

Then there is The BlackupStart, a pop-up school based in the Washington, D.C., area that will host “Black Wall Street: Tulsa Edition.” It will host a business school, starting July 12, called to train individuals with business ideas who need direction. The George Kaiser Family Foundation and Tulsa Economic Development Corp.-backed program is a bootcamp designed to help interested black entrepreneurs acquire the tools to start a successful business.

The state of the Greenwood District and the limited economic opportunities for its black residents has even caught the attention of leaders within the Tulsa Regional Chamber.

Saying it recognizes the denial of economic prosperity to minority communities, the Tulsa Chamber declared it will soon explore how the configuration of Greenwood District in relation to the IDL has affected the area and possible ways to re-imagine it.

“The northeast corner of the IDL cuts through the heart of historic Greenwood. It looms as a reminder that this neighborhood has experienced great trauma, and not only in 1921,” said Kuma Roberts, executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the Tulsa Regional Chamber.

“We’ve met with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the city of Tulsa and other stakeholders. But there is a significant amount of work to be done before we even know what’s possible with that interchange.

“The most prosperous African-American community in our nation was once located on (Greenwood Avenue). We should celebrate that.

We should champion that. And we should see to it that the world knows Greenwood District as America’s Black Wall Street.”

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Independence and freedom As we celebrate the Fourth of July and America’s birth through its declaring independence from the British 243 years ago, we are reminded about the lessons of freedom and the centuries-long efforts by black people in this nation to secure the promise of freedom, liberty and equality.

The struggle for freedom for black people in America is personified by James Armistead Lafayette, an enslaved man born in 1748 in New Kent County who worked as a spy for the colonists during the Revolutionary War. Despite the British forces’ promises of freedom to any black person who helped subdue the colonists’ uprising, Lafayette put his life in danger gathering information from the British that he turned over to the Marquis de Lafayette, a French military officer commanding American troops. His espionage led to the successful victory of the Americans under the marquis and Gen. George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, which paved the way for the British government’s negotiation to end the war.

Even with this black man’s effort to help America gain its independence, James Armistead Lafayette was sent back into slavery. Six years later, in 1787, he gained his freedom from a white owner, William Armistead, when, with the advocacy of the Marquis de Lafayette, the Virginia legislature paid for his freedom.

Black men — and women — have fought for this nation in every war since the nation’s founding, including the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and so on because we believe in the promise penned in the Declaration of Independence — that all people are created equal and that we are all endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The question remains, however: When is America going to honor that promise to African-Americans, Native Americans and other people of color?

This Independence Day, we offer for our readers’ consideration a poem by Langston Hughes.

Beaumont to Detroit: 1943 Looky here, America What you done done — Let things drift Until the riots come.

Now your policemen Let your mobs run free I reckon you don’t care Nothing about me.

You tell me that hitler Is a mighty bad man.

I guess he took lessons From the ku klux klan.

You tell me mussolini’s Got an evil heart.

Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont That he had his start — Cause everything that hitler And mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you.

You jim crowed me Before hitler rose to power — And you’re STILL jim crowing me Right now, this very hour.

Yet you say we’re fighting For democracy.

Then why don’t democracy Include me?

I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight BOTH HITLER — AND JIM CROW.

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Citizenship question contrived “Altogether, the evidence tells a story that does not match the explanation the Secretary gave for his decision. We cannot ignore the disconnect between the decision made and the explanation given. Our review is deferential, but we are ‘not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free.’ Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise. If judicial review is to be more than an empty ritual, it must demand something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case.”— Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in U.S. Department of Commerce v. New York ruling Civil rights groups and advocates for a fair census breathed a sigh of relief last week when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s “contrived” justification for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

However, the high court did not categorically rule out the addition of a question should the administration eventually provide sufficient justification.

We must not let down our guard.

We have known from the beginning that the addition of a citizenship question was a blatant ploy to reduce minority participation in the census and

rob communities of their political power, and that U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ explanation that the question is “critical” to enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act was laughable.

That’s why we joined other civil rights group in filing a “friend of the court” brief opposing the citizenship question.

As we argued in our brief,

Marc H. Morial “There is no factual or legal basis — none — to support the position that collecting citizenship data from the decennial census is needed for VRA enforcement. In fact, modifying the short-form census to ask for the citizenship status of everyone in the country, as Secretary Ross has proposed, would undermine VRA enforcement.”

And we — grassroots, advocacy, labor, legal services, education and faith-based organizations who came together to file the brief — would know. “[We] have been among the most experienced guardians of the VRA and the values it reflects for the past 54 years. In that time, existing citizenship data drawn from sample surveys or the long-form census sent only to small subsets of American housing units have been more than sufficient for robust, effective enforcement of the VRA.” There has never been a Voting Rights Act enforcement case in history that turned on the unavailability of citizenship data from

the decennial census.

We’re relieved the U.S. Supreme Court saw through the administration’s flimsy argument, especially because the real motivation behind the citizenship question emerged just days after the case was argued before the justices.

Computer files revealed that a political consultant who played a crucial role in the decision to add the question had authored a study concluding that adding the question would allow the drafting of extremely gerrymandered congressional maps to drain even more influence away from urban communities and communities of color.

The citizenship question was one of several potential problems that could produce a significant undercount of black Americans, including underfunding, understaffing and the practice of prison-based gerrymandering.

Under current policy, incarcerated persons are counted in jurisdictions where they are imprisoned rather than in the communities where they live.

This represents a massive transfer of political power and federal funding for programs like Head Start, Medicare, lunch programs and transportation infrastructure, from urban districts of color to rural, prison hosting, predominantly white districts.

In the face of last week’s ruling, the National Urban League and the Urban League Movement is recommitted to working for a fair census and urging participation among black

‘Show me the Tubmans’

When President Obama left the White House, he left a very positive image of what a president should be. He set a high standard for his staff, with no swamp creatures running around his administration and no scandals emerging in the eight years he was in office. Even those who might have had a few differences with him look back and wish we could have him back in the White House to clean up what is there now.

I will never forget the day we learned that the people had spoken about which woman should be on the $20 bill. It was a magical day when we heard the news that we would see Harriet Tubman on the bill in 2020. The decision came about when, in 2014, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, introduced the Woman on the Twenty Act, HR 2147. In April 2016, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would be on the $20 bill, suffragists would be on the $10 bill and other historical figures would be on the $5 bill. We were told the redesigns would be unveiled in 2020.

Then at the end of 2016 came that disastrous day when the

Russians helped to deliver the presidency to the most undeserving person our country has seen in modern times. Less than a year later, during an August 2017 television appearance, Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin refused to endorse putting Ms. Tubman on the $20 bill.

Dr. E. Faye Williams Shortly thereafter, Rep. Beatty contacted Mr. Mnuchin asking him to recommit to putting Ms. Tubman on the currency. A few weeks later, he responded that it would be more than 10 years before a new $20 bill would be released. Then 2018 passed by without much being said about the Trump Administration’s mean-spirited decision that Ms. Tubman wouldn’t be on the currency while Mr. Mnuchin is secretary. Not to be defeated, Rep. Beatty renewed the “Woman on the Twenty” Act, HR 3082, in June.

A few days ago, a crowd of men and women showed up at Mr. Mnuchin’s door on the steps of the Treasury Department to tell him he doesn’t have the final word on this issue. In the crowd, there were more than 20 House members and a lot of supporters from diverse backgrounds.

As I walked backed to my office with my “Show Me the Tubmans” sign in my hand,

numerous people enthusiastically gave a thumbs up. Now, I know that the boss man in the White House and his minions want to prevent Ms. Tubman from being on the $20 bill so that women can’t celebrate in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the constitutional right to vote. We already know how little respect this administration has for women, especially black women. But that will not deter us from having Ms. Tubman on the $20 bill.

The disrespect this administration has shown to Black women is not just about us. It’s disrespectful to men and women of all colors and cultures who voted to put Ms. Tubman on the currency and to all who want to have at least one woman on the money. I know it’s hard for racists and misogynists to give up old Andrew Jackson, but it will happen.

Along with Rep. Beatty, I call on all fair-minded people — men and women — to demand that we get Harriet Tubman on the money as scheduled by former Treasury Secretary Lew and President Obama. Until it’s done or #45 is out of office, everywhere #45 and Mr. Mnuchin go, they should hear the words or see the signs, “Show Me the Tubmans” or “Tubman on the Twenty.”

The writer is president of the National Congress of Black Women.

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communities.

An inaccurate census will deprive communities of accurate data for most federally produced statistics and critical social, demographic and economic research. It would deprive communities of more than $675 billion in federal funding and the just enforcement of civil rights laws and constitutional protections like fair housing and voting rights.

Most importantly, an inaccurate census will deprive communities of fair political representation in the U.S. Congress, the Electoral College and state and local legislatures.

Blocking the citizenship question is just one step among many in safeguarding a fair, accurate census.

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

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8th District residents matter

For far too long, the voices of Richmond’s 8th District residents have been ignored.

We are a community of professionals, educators, working class, jobless, homeless, homeowners, renters and, most of all, taxpayers. We are multicultural, multifaceted and large in number. However in parts of our district, we have no banking, no grocery stores and no pharmacies.

The needs of our area have been neglected, including our children, our infrastructure, our corridors and our recreation areas. While other city districts debate issues such as expanding bike lanes, adding density and changing street names, 8th District residents are faced with critical issues such as having a life expectancy that is about 15 years less than residents in the city’s 1st and 2nd districts.

We have a need for comprehensive, after-school programming to keep our youths safe, repairing aging infrastructure to prevent mass drainage and flooding issues and the list goes on. Our district boasts residents who want to be active and engaged, but we feel our concerns are rarely made a priority. Too often South Richmond residents are portrayed as overly needy, distressed and misinformed. As a result, leaders often prey on our vulnerabilities to secure our vote, but frequently fail to deliver on their campaign promises of change. Recently, concerned residents from the 8th District formed a focus group aimed at documenting rampant issues in our district, with the goal of bringing viable solutions to 'LVMWXMER :MPPEKI SJ 'IRXVEP :% % 2SR (IRSQMREXMSREP ,SYWMRK *EGMPMX] 1 bedroom apartments for 62 and older conveniently located in Mechanicsville with handicap accessible units available. Rental assistance available.

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our elected officials. Our first event was held at the Broad Rock Library to share the vision for the 8th District and to discuss the proposed budget amendments for 2020. However, the budget amendments requested were never provided.

This is unacceptable and would not be tolerated in any other district. Several weeks ago, another event was held at Branch’s Baptist Church to allow 8th District voters the opportunity to engage in a “Q&A� with our elected officials and state senate candidates. We received confirmations from candidates and elected officials saying

they would attend. However, all were no-shows except for 8th District School Board representative Dawn Page.

What could possibly be more important than engaging with your voters, especially during an election year? Constituents of the 8th District will not continue to allow this neglect of our district, our needs and our voices. Our leaders will not continue to use our votes and fail to take action. We are worth more and demand better. We matter!

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Every dealer and seller in the city shall have the right to buy such stamps from the Department of Finance and to affix the same to packages of cigarettes. These stamps can be purchased via mail using the distributor or retailer form or can be purchased in person at City Hall — 900 E. Broad Street, Room 102.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER B, BIOMASS CONVERSIONS OF THE ALTAVISTA, HOPEWELL, AND SOUTHAMPTON POWER STATIONS, FOR THE RATE YEAR COMMENCING APRIL 1, 2020 CASE NO. PUR-2019-00085 •Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominionâ€?) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider B. •Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $31.912 million for its 2020 Rider B. •A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on November 21, 2019, at 10 a.m. •Further information about this case is available on the State Corporation Commission’s website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On May 31, 2019, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominionâ€? or “Companyâ€?), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia and 2UGHULQJ 3DUDJUDSK RI WKH )LQDO 2UGHU LVVXHG E\ WKH 6WDWH &RUSRUDWLRQ &RPPLVVLRQ Âł&RPPLVVLRQ´ LQ &DVH 1R 385 ÂżOHG ZLWK WKH &RPPLVVLRQ DQ DQQXDO XSGDWH RI WKH &RPSDQ\ÂśV UDWH DGMXVWPHQW FODXVH 5LGHU % Âł$SSOLFDWLRQ´ 7KURXJK LWV $SSOLFDWLRQ WKH &RPSDQ\ VHHNV WR UHFRYHU FRVWV DVVRFLDWHG ZLWK WKH PDMRU XQLW PRGLÂżcations of the Altavista, Hopewell, and Southampton Power Stations from coal-burning generation facilities into renewable biomass generation facilities (collectively, “Biomass Conversion Projectsâ€? or “Conversionsâ€?). ,Q WKH &RPPLVVLRQ DSSURYHG 'RPLQLRQÂśV SURSRVHG &RQYHUVLRQV DV PDMRU XQLW PRGLÂżFDWLRQV UHLVVXHG DPHQGHG FHUWLÂżFDWHV RI SXEOLF FRQYHQLHQFH DQG QHFHVVLW\ DQG approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider B, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the Conversions. The Biomass Conversion Projects became operational as biomass fueled units as scheduled during 2013.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider B for the rate year beginning April 1, 2020, and ending March 31, 2021 (“2020 Rate Year�). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2020 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a combined Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of approximately $29,149,289, and a combined Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $2,762,366. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $31,911,655 for service rendered during the 2020 Rate Year.

Dominion notes that it calculated this revenue requirement using an updated lead/lag study and requests that the issue be litigated in the Rider GV docket (docketed as Case No. PUR-2019-00086) rather than in the instant Rider B, or Rider R, S, and W dockets.

For purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case, Dominion used a rate of return on common equity (“ROE�) of 10.75%, for which the Company has requested Commission approval in Case No. PUR-2019-00050. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, the Company utilized an enhanced ROE of 11.2%, and a general ROE of 9.2%, according to the timing for when each station reaches the end of the period of the approved enhanced ROE. The 9.2% general ROE was approved by the Commission in its November 29, 2017 Final Order in Case No. PUR-2017-00038.

If the proposed Rider B for the 2020 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider B on April 1, 2020, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.10. The Company indicates it has calculated the proposed Rider B rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider B proceeding, Case No. PUR-2018-00083.

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

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Golf classic July 27 to honor former VUU Coach Dave Robbins The 8th Annual Golf Classic in Honor of Dave Robbins will be held Saturday, July 27, at the Birkdale Golf Club in Chesterfield County.

The event, hosted by Virginia Union University’s Burning Sands Alumni Football Club, honors former VUU basketball Coach Robbins, who won 713 games and three national championships in 30 seasons Coach Robbins with the Panthers.

Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., followed by chipping/putting/long drive contests at 12:30 p.m., a shotgun start at 1 p.m. and the dinner awards ceremony at 4:30 p.m.

Cost is $100 per player or $400 per foursome. Registration deadline is Friday, July 12.

Make checks payable to Burning Sands Alumni Football Club, and send to VUU, P.O. Box 910, 1500 N. Lombardy St., Richmond, Va. 23220.

Go, Coco!

VUU’s Hilliard to join Steelers’ preseason training Virginia Union University assistant football Coach Marcus Hilliard has been chosen to participate in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ preseason training.

Hilliard will join the NFL club as part of the Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship. He will join the Steelers from July 24 through Aug. 10 in Latrobe, Pa. Earlier this year, Hilliard was named Coach Hilliard Division II Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches of America.

The VUU Panthers went 8-2 in 2018-19 in head Coach Alvin Parker’s first season on the sidelines.

NBA’s Ed Davis headed to the Utah Jazz

NBA veteran Ed Davis is on the move again.

After just one season with the Brooklyn Nets, Davis has signed a two-year contract worth $10 million with the Utah Jazz.

Davis averaged 5.8 points and 8.6 rebounds this past season for the Nets in 18 minutes per game.

The Utah Jazz will become his sixth Ed Davis NBA team, after playing previously with the Toronto Raptors, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Nets.

In 640 career games, Davis has averaged 6.5 points and 6.8 rebounds.

The 6-foot-10, 30-year-old starred at Hanover High School and Benedictine College Prep before two standout seasons with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Davis was the 13th overall draft pick by the Toronto Raptors in 2010.

NBA draftee Keldon Johnson has local roots Keldon Johnson qualifies as something of a Richmond area hometown person headed to the NBA, even though his name may be unfamiliar to many.

After one sparkling season at the University of Kentucky, Johnson was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the NBA draft on June 20 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the 29th overall pick in the draft.

And while he grew up in South Hill, Va., there are strong local connections.

Kelson Johnson The son of Christopher and Rochelle Johnson was born Oct. 11, 1999, at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond. His maternal grandparents, Alfred and Cynthia Winston, are longtime residents of Henrico County.

Johnson spent many of his summer vacations with his grandparents and playing travel AAU basketball with Team Loaded and the Virginia Squires.

A 6-foot-6, 215-pound wing forward, Johnson played his freshman and sophomore high school seasons at Park View High in South Hill, his junior season at Huntington Prep in West Virginia and his senior year at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia’s Grayson County.

Among the nation’s most heavily recruited prospects, Johnson signed with Kentucky Coach John Calipari and became an instant starter. He made the Southeastern Conference All-Rookie team, while averaging 14 points, six rebounds and two assists. He hit 38 percent of his shots beyond the arc.

He will start his pro career this summer in the NBA Summer Leagues in Utah and Las Vegas. His rookie salary will be about $1.9 million.

Johnson was one of three Wildcats chosen in the first round.

The others are P.J. Washington, picked 12th overall by the Charlotte Hornets, and Tyler Herro, picked 13th overall by the Miami Heat.

Johnson’s older brothers and younger sister all have athletic credentials.

The eldest, Kyle, starred in basketball at Park View High School, and Kaleb just finished his career at Georgetown University, while 16-year-old Kristyn excels in volleyball and basketball.

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Cori Gauff reacts during her first round match Monday against Venus Williams at Wimbledon.

15-year-old phenom Cori Gauff beats Venus Williams in Wimbledon’s first round You don’t always need a high school diploma to graduate to big-time professional tennis.

Cori Gauff, who answers to the nickname “Coco,” is tennis’ latest phenom at a mere 15 years old.

Born March 13, 2004, Gauff is the age of most teenagers looking forward to getting their learner’s permit to drive. In fact, on June 26, Gauff took an on-line science test for her academic curriculum in Delray Beach, Fla., where she is home schooled by her mother.

Then on June 27, she became the youngest woman ever to make the Wimbledon

main draw post-1968.

The daughter of Corey and Candi Gauff survived three rounds of qualifiers in Roehampton to stamp her name into the 128 Ladies Singles bracket at the All England Club.

Her first test at Wimbledon was to be a tall one. Gauff’s first round opponent on Monday was Venus Williams, 24 years her senior.

It was actually Venus’ younger sister, Serena, that served as Coco’s inspiration to dedicate herself to the courts.

“Serena is the reason why I play tennis and why my dad bought me my first

racket,” Gauff told the media following her historic qualifier.

The 5-foot-9, right-handed native of Atlanta is no stranger to historic “firsts.”

At 13, she became the youngest to make it to the U.S. Open girls (U-17) final. She’s also the fifth youngest winner of the French Open’s girls division at age 14.

Last October, also at age 14, she signed a pro contract with New Balance. She is also has endorsements from Barilla pasta and racket maker Head.

Earlier this year at 15, she became the youngest to win a Grand Slam qualifying match at the French Open.

In March, she scored her first WTA victory in the Miami Open.

“I don’t know about the records I break until after, when someone tells me,” she told the media at Wimbledon. “I just feel blessed I’m able to.”

Gauff comes from an athletic family. Her father, Corey, who serves as her coach, is a former baseball player at Georgia State University. Her mom, Candi, ran track at Florida State University.

The family moved from Atlanta to Florida (ProWorld Tennis Academy) to enable Gauff to better fulfill her vast potential.

“My parents always taught me to shoot as high as I wanted,” she said. “And I’m happy that, not only did they accept my goals, but sacrificed everything to make sure I get there.”

Turning pro while still a teenager is rare, but not unheard of. Both Venus and Serena Williams turned pro at 14.

Among other American stars, Tracy Austin was 16 when she turned pro; Chris Evert went pro at 18.

If a young athlete is talented enough to go pro, there is ample reward. Even first round Wimbledon losers receive $57,000.

The champion pockets $2 million.

Cori Gauff, 15, receives a congratulatory handshake from her 39-year-old opponent Those types of paydays could lead to a Venus Williams after the teen beat the tennis champion 6-4, 6-4 Monday at nice down payment on Gauff’s first car — Wimbledon. Gauff’s next match is Wednesday. that is, when she’s old enough to drive.

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49ers’ Marquise Goodwin wins ‘40 Yards of Gold’ competition Marquise Goodwin’s fast feet have made him $1 million richer.

The 28-year-old San Francisco 49ers receiver won the inaugural “40 Yards of Gold” competition June 29 in Miami.

The event was created to determine NFL’s fastest man.

Goodwin defeated Carolina Panthers defensive back Donte Jackson in the finals.

The winning purse in the Pay-Per-View event was $1 million.

Marquise The 16-man competition included eight offensive and eight defensive players who ran a 40-yard dash to see who was fastest. Both Goodwin and Jackson survived three qualifying rounds to meet in the final.

Goodwin’s winning time of 4.3 seconds nipped Jackson

by less than one-tenth of a second.

Both Goodwin and Jackson have strong track and field backgrounds. Goodwin represented the United States as a long jumper in the 2012 Olympic gold medal competition.

Jackson was part of the Southeastern Conference’s victorious 4x100 relay effort for Louisiana State University.

Richmonder Kevin Snead, who signed a free-agent contract with the New York Giants in 2017 but was released after a hamstring tear, Goodwin was on the ballot, but failed to receive enough votes to qualify for the 16-man competition.

Snead starred in track and field at George Wythe High School and Carson-Newman University in Tennessee and played one season of college football.

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Personality: Dr. Erma L. Freeman

Spotlight on VCU School of Dentistry ‘First 100’ Trailblazer Award winner When she started studying dentistry, Dr. Erma Freeman wanted to be a dentist for fairly simple reasons: good work, good money and time for family.

“I had an interest in the health professions, and I felt dentistry would provide the income I desired, the flexibility of work hours I desired and more time to raise children and have a family,” Dr. Freeman says of her decision to enter the Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry in 1973.

However, fewer restraints and more financial security weren’t why dentistry ultimately proved to be the right choice for her.

Rather, the experience of helping patients in pain, boosting their self-esteem by improving their appearance and helping them become more informed on their dental needs proved to be far more valuable and fulfilling for Dr. Freeman, a Chase City native.

The benefits of that decision have carried over for decades as Dr. Freeman had a private dental practice in Ettrick for 20 years, was appointed by former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder to the Virginia Board of Dentistry in 1993, worked for 13 years as a dentist with the state Department of Corrections before retiring and has spent hours in volunteer service, including providing dental exams from the Colgate Van in towns throughout Southside Virginia.

Dr. Freeman was honored with a Trailblazer Award in late April as the Richmond dental school’s first black female graduate as part of the school’s “First 100 Dentists of Color” initiative.

The initiative seeks to provide schoolarships, mentorships and fellowship for the next 100 dental students of color at Virginia Commonwealth University, formerly known as MCV. “I was sailing high, soaring for a while from the honor,” Dr. Freeman says of the experience.

But it was a long road to reach that point.

Dr. Freeman, who had earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees in the late 1960s, was in her fourth year teaching at Linkhorne Jr. High School in Lynchburg when a professor from her graduate school days at Virginia State College alerted her to an opportunity for minority students at MCV’s dental school. Dr. Freeman reached out, applied, was accepted and started her education in the fall of 1973.

It was not the most welcoming place, Dr. Freeman frankly recalls. She spent her four years with a faculty comprised entirely of white men, faced with unfamiliar and unyielding learning structures and a lack of minority counselors for guidance.

The more than 400 fellow students in the dental school had fewer than 10 black men and fewer than 10 women, she says.

While she managed to make connections with other students that blossomed into long-term friendships, she also faced racist and sexist rhetoric from school staff members that belittled her intelligence and ambition all the way to the day of her graduation.

“I felt like I was constantly in a jar on display for everyone to see,” Dr. Freeman says.

However, for all the trouble she was put through, Dr. Freeman looks back on her time at VCU with a variety of emotions, describing the time as “challenging, lonely, scary, fast-paced, highly visible and also fun!”

Now volunteering with various health groups, Dr. Freeman is hopeful more young people of color join the profession.

“The First 100” initiative is helping with that, she notes, adding that VCU has added minorities to its faculty and

staff and increased minority participation on the school’s admission committee.

Dr. Freeman recognizes the high bar to admission and the exorbitant cost that come with dentistry education likely have turned off many people of color from pursuing a dental career. But she sees engaging students starting in elementary school, alongside increased scholarship and mentorship programs, as key to creating a more equitable and inclusive field in the profession.

Dr. Freeman hopes her work ensures that dentistry becomes as common an aspiration for the today’s youths as doctors, nurses and other medical professions.

“The more they see people of color — especially women — about in the community, the more younger people know that they can do that as well,” Dr. Freeman says about her volunteer dentistry work.

This comprehensive effort is necessary in Dr. Freeman’s view, given just how important dentistry is in general health care, from infections and disorders that can be gleaned from what is found during dental exams to the connection between gum disease and afflictions ranging from heart attacks to strokes.

Asked why young women of color should want to become dentists, Dr. Freeman’s response returns to the reasons that started her own journey down that path: Good work, good money and time for family.

“Dentistry was never in my career plan. It was a shot in the dark that resulted in the most fulfillment and joy I could ever have imagined,” Dr. Freeman says.

“I did not make a fortune, but I was comfortable and have been blessed in many other ways.”

Meet a VCU trailblazer and this week’s Personality, Dr. Erma L. Freeman: Occupation: Retired dentist.

Latest award: VCU School of Dentistry “First 100 Dentists of Color” Trailblazer Award.

Date and place of birth: Jan. 30 in Chase City in Mecklenburg County.

Current residence: South Hill.

Alma maters: Bachelor’s, Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, 1968; master’s in biology, Virginia State College, 1969; and doctor of dental surgery degree, Medical College of Virginia, 1977.

Family: Divorced with one son, W. Warren Hubbard, 37.

My experience at the school as the first African-American female was: Challenging, lonely, scary, fast-paced, highly visible and also fun! Additionally, I had to develop a thick skin.

on the school’s admission committee that screens and selects applicants.

“The First 100” initiative at the school has increased minority involvement in recruiting, providing scholarship funding and encouraging minority students to consider a career in dentistry.

Years I attended dental school: 1973-1977.

Acceptance at school: I felt I was constantly in a glass jar on display for everyone to see. I made friends in my lab, where we were assigned alphabetically and remained four years, as well as with some other students who had come to dental school from various careers and not straight from college.

Some long-term friendships developed from that group.

There were others, however, such as a faculty member from the academic campus, who told me I would never get through dental school because I couldn’t read. On my graduation day, a dental school faculty member came up to congratulate me and said that of all the people in my dental school class, I was the one he least expected to graduate. There was an expectation from some that I would fail, but there was encouragement from others.

Why young women of color should consider dentistry: Because it continues to offer many more practice options, more scheduling flexibility than many other professions and the potential for lucrative incomes.

What more needs to be done: More private funding for scholarships for minority students would allow the school to better compete with other dental schools for minority student talent.

Mentoring as young as elementary school also is a great way to develop interest in the profession.

Dentistry, as a profession, should be on the radar of schoolage children just like medicine, nursing and all the other health care professions.

Importance of dentistry in health care: In addition to the evidence that links certain systemic diseases to periodontal disease, there are other diseases that present with oral manifestations or symptoms that the dentist often detects during routine dental examinations.

Role dentists play in educating people about teeth: In addition to talking to patients when they are present in the office, dentists can speak at churches, school events and organized community activities, as well as in casual conversations when the subject is appropriate.

Dental care recommendations for parents and children: Decrease the amount of processed sugars given to children and substitute with

fruits. Limit soda and practice drinking more water until it becomes a habit. Don’t forget to brush and floss at least as often as you shower!

Many people have bad teeth because: Lack of adequate dental health education; inadequate information on proper diet and the limiting of processed sugars; perpetuation of negative experiences of others; using dental treatment as a negative reinforcement tool in children to promote positive behaviors; not taking full advantage of dental insurance that is available; or lack of ability to pay co-payments or the full cost of dental care.

Children have cavities and tooth problems because: All of the reasons listed in the previous question, in addition to the fact that many parents are unaware of the importance of good dental care of the primary (baby) teeth because they feel they will lose them anyway and grow new ones. The reality is primary teeth are of the utmost importance because they guide the secondary (adult) teeth into the proper positions. Diseased primary teeth can adversely affect the permanent teeth.

What needs to change: Increased knowledge of proper diet; scheduling dental appointments regularly with the dentist, beginning as soon as the child begins to get teeth, so that by the time there is a full dentition, the child is comfortable with the dental office, the staff and routine dental health preventive procedures.

Role schools could play in dental health: Dental disease should be viewed and managed as any other childhood disease

and the schools should be more proactive in the prevention component. In-service courses could be implemented annually to help administrators and classroom teachers understand the direct relationship between dental disease and poor academic performance.

How I unwind: Puzzles, such as Sudoku, Muddled or Hidden Words, either on my electronic devices or in puzzle books. I enjoy game shows, murder mysteries and some situation comedies on television.

A quote that I am inspired by: “Minds are like parachutes.

They only function when they are open.” – Anonymous Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Digging in the dirt.

I love growing and nurturing plants.

At the top of my “to-do” list is: Remembering to consistently thank God for all my blessings.

Best late-night snack: A Fuji apple and roasted almonds.

The best thing my parents ever taught me: To take pride in the quality of my work.

Person who influenced me the most: My mother, Jennie E. Wood Freeman, Dr. Carolyn C.W. Hines, my best friend, and my recently deceased older brother who was like a father to me.

Book that influenced me the most: “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne.

What I’m reading now: “Traveling Light” by Max Lucado.

My next goal: To travel more.

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Why so many do not: Dental school may be too cost prohibitive at this particular time. Also, the entrance requirements are very high and the competition for available slots is tremendous.

What can be done to change that: Begin the recruitment process in elementary schools by increasing dental career information, mentorship programs similar to the one currently established locally by the Peter B. Ramsey Dental Society and increased participation in scholarships to help defray the high costs of dental education.

What VCU Dental School is doing to increase diversity: VCU has increased minority faculty and staff and also has increased minority participation

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“Science On Tap” is going Greco-Roman.

The quarterly, adults-only event at the Science Museum of Virginia is back from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 11, with a night of Italian wine and cheese sampling, making a paper mosaic or gladiator gear or a laurel wreath and enjoying the museum’s activities without youngsters around.

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DJ Khaled and John Legend stand in front of a choir to lead a musical tribute to Nipsey Hussle during the BET Awards on June 23 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES The late rapper Nipsey Hussle was honored with the Humanitarian Award at the 2019 BET Awards in a show that also paid tribute to singer Mary J. Blige and filmmaker Tyler Perry.

The family of Mr. Hussle, a respected and beloved community activist in South Los Angeles, was presented the posthumous award by rapper T.I. Mr. Hussle was shot to death on March 31 outside his South Los Angeles clothing store in what police said was a personal dispute.

His mother, Angelique Smith, took the stage to accept the award on his behalf, along with his father, grandmother, his children and girlfriend, Lauren London.

“I just want to thank you guys for all the love and support, and the marathon continues again,” Ms. London said onstage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Ms. Smith recalled the moment she visited the crime scene where her son was shot. The rapper’s grandmother said she loved him and that he “did his job.”

John Legend, DJ Khaled, YG and Marsha Ambrosius celebrated Mr. Hussle, born

Mary J. Blige accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards.

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Ms. Blige, who earned the Lifetime Achievement Award, ran through her hits during a lengthy performance, which featured Lil Kim and Method Man. The R&B star went from “My Life” to “No More Drama” to “Just Fine,” when audience members turned the aisles into “Soul

Vanderbilt joins in effort to create National Museum of African-American Music NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Vanderbilt University is pledging $2 million for the National Museum of African-American Music, which is scheduled to open a 56,000-square-foot facility in downtown Nashville early next year.

University officials said the gift includes in-kind contributions and direct financial support, and will help expand the museum’s archives, contribute to innovative programming, support the completion of the facility and more.

Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S.

Zeppos said the partnership will help build global awareness of the impact of African-American composers, performers and supporters.

The partnership will include collaboration with the university’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries to offer their collection of books, scores, recordings and other materials for loan, display and study at the museum.

Vanderbilt and the museum also will team up for a speaker series after the facility opens.

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Rihanna presented Ms. Blige with the award, receiving a standing ovation as she walked to the stage.

“Mommy, I love you and I want to thank you for your love and understanding,” Ms. Blige said as her mom teared up in the audience.

The nine-time Grammy winner and two-time Oscar nominee went on to thank her father, saying she was happy their “relationship is healed.” She also thanked her siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends, including longtime collaborator Diddy.

Another standing ovation during the nearly four-hour show came when The Exonerated Five, whose profiles were recently raised with the release of a Netflix series based on their lives, introduced a performance by R&B singer H.E.R. and rapper YBN Cordae.

Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Antron McCray spoke as audience members rose from their seats to cheer them on. Directed

by Ava DuVernay, “When They See Us” tells of the wrongful conviction of the five black and Latino teenagers for the 1989 assault on a white female jogger in Central Park.

The audience also erupted in cheers for media mogul Tyler Perry, who earned the Ultimate Icon Award, presented to him by actress Taraji P. Henson.

‘When I built my studio, I built it in a neighborhood that is one of the poorest black neighborhoods in Atlanta so that young black kids could see that a black man did that, and they could do it, too,” Mr. Perry said.

“The studio was once a Confederate army base ... which meant that there were Confederate soldiers on that base plotting and planning on how to keep 3.9 million Negroes enslaved,” he continued. “Now that land is owned by one Negro.”

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Tapping into history From left, Jonathan Johnson, Eugene Harden and Edward Hamlin, past presidents of the Astoria Beneficial Club, place a wreath at the statue of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson in Jackson Ward last Saturday during the organization’s 46th annual commemoration of the Richmond native and entertainer.

In 1933, Mr. Robinson used his own money to purchase a traffic light for the intersection of Leigh and Adams streets after witnessing the dangers young African-Americans faced in trying to cross the busy street. The Astorians placed the statue in his honor at the intersection 46 years ago.

Viola Davis’ production company is telling the stories of people of color Free Press wire report

NEW YORK When Viola Davis started her production company nearly a decade ago, she was determined to bring about change in Hollywood with a strategic mandate: Normalize people of color on screen.

“We’re not social statements.

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But Ms. Davis said she doesn’t need a piece of paper to do the right thing, and her projects don’t try to replicate diversity simply based on statistics.

“Maybe that’s narcissistic of me, but I don’t want to tell my daughter that because she’s 12 percent of the population, she only deserves 12 percent of the pie,” Ms. Davis said.

She called her JuVee Productions a “walking metaphor”

of inclusion, noting that she has people of color and members of the LGBTQ community on staff at every level.

“Women are at the forefront of just about every project,” she added.

She started JuVee Productions with her Viola husband, Julius Tennon, in 2011 so she could have more of a voice in her own career, as well as provide more diversity on set. Before that, Ms. Davis said, she often felt left out of the conversation.

Ms. Davis spoke to the Associated Press while promoting a documentary on diabetes, “A Touch of Sugar.” The actress,

who has an early form of the disease and has lost family members to it, wants to use her celebrity to help raise awareness.

“That’s what I can do. I’m not a politician. I’m not a senator. I’m not in the House of RepDavis resentatives. I’m not in Congress. What I am is an artist. That’s how I provoke change,” Ms. Davis said.

Earlier this month, she signed on to Netflix’s adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” to be produced by Denzel Washington and co-starring Chadwick Boseman.

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friends and community, and their efforts to heal through faith and forgiveness after the massacre. Dylann Roof was convicted of federal hate crime and obstruction of religion charges and sentenced to death.

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Dr. LaKeesha Walrond is breaking glass ceilings as new seminary president

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NEW YORK Sitting in her office on Manhattan’s far west side, the new president of New York Theological Seminary, Dr. LaKeesha Walrond, recalled how she was reprimanded as a youth for crossing the pulpit area of her church during a choir rehearsal.

Back then, she was taught and believed, that women could not be preachers. After a career as an educator, executive pastor of a Harlem megachurch and, since June 3, the first African-American woman president of the 119-year-old seminary, Dr. Walrond sees her trajectory as a sign that “God had this plan.”

After serving at First Corinthian Baptist Church, where her husband, the Rev. Michael A. Walrond Jr., is senior pastor, she views her leadership of a 300-student multidenominational seminary focused on urban ministry as a reason for hope for other women.

Dr. Walrond, 47, spoke with Religion News Service about her diverse student body, her concerns about child sexual abuse and her support of open-mindedness among her students.

What does it mean to you that you’ve been chosen as the first African-American woman president of New York Theological Seminary?

It is such a blessing. It’s such an honor. When I started my career, I was planning on presidency being part of it, but presidency at Spelman College. As I received my call into ministry and began working full time, I thought that would just be one of those dreams that never really came to fruition. So, for me, this feels like a coming together, a fulfillment of possibility and opportunity to work both in ministry and education in a way that transforms humanity.

What were your connections to Spelman?

I did my undergraduate education (at Spelman) and my president at the time was Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. She changed my life forever. She was the first person I ever heard talk about heroes and “sheroes.” And not just history, but “her-story.” She made me believe that I could do absolutely anything, and not only that I could do it, but I had a responsibility to do it.

So you did pursue academia in some ways?

Absolutely. I did my master’s in school administration and my Ph.D. in special education and literacy. But I got this call into ministry. We relocated from North Carolina to New York, and I said, “God, you got jokes, right?” because now I got to go back to school to get the master’s of divinity so that I can be prepared to preach and teach in our church.

But this kind of merging of the two, it just seems like God had this plan. We talk about how God knows the plans that God has for us, plans to prosper us and not harm us, plans to give us a hope and a future. And so this is that moment for me, where I understand that sometimes in order to receive the dreams or plans that God has for us, we have to be willing to release the dreams and plans we have for ourselves.

There are at least four other African-American women leading theological schools and divinity schools. Does that

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safe environment. There are so many children out there who have experienced this, particularly within the context of faith, whether at a church or by a minister or a deacon or a trustee or a lay leader. We need to have conversations that prevent this from continuing to happen over and over and over again.

So this book is an act of prevention on my part. It helps children understand what to say, what to do, where to go and who to tell if they are ever approached in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable. It’s my way of saying, “Hands off our children. Hands off.”

How can you help your students develop as leaders who are open to those in circumstances like the ones you faced?

The goal, really, at any educational institution ought to be to expand the minds of those who are entering so they can make an informed decision. We’re able also to engage people of other faiths and other traditions so that we can have a better understanding of the belief systems of others as well.

RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks I grew up in a church that did not believe God called New York Theological Seminary President LaKeesha Walrond women into ministry. When I went to Spelman College, I took a class with Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges — “Women say something about the state of theological education or and the Bible.” She began to talk about women preachers. And the growing role of women, including black women, and so I’ve come to understand that my pastor back then was doing its future? the best he could with what he had been given. And we have One, I think it identifies the importance of diversity within a lot of pastors who are out here doing the best that they can leadership and in our institutions. And, two, we now have more with what they’ve been given.

African-American women going to divinity schools or theologiAt NYTS, we hope to give them more so they can grow cal schools than we’ve ever had before. For them to be able to from what they already think they know, to understand that God see a face in leadership that looks like them also opens up the cannot be put in a box. And if we can stop focusing on what different kinds of possibilities. It speaks to possibility for my we think we know absolutely and be open to the spirit and the daughter, for the daughters coming behind her, that there are still movement of God, we’d be surprised by the types of things we these glass ceilings that need to be broken, and it’s possible to can discover. do it in our lifetime.

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Family burial interrupted by lack of death certificate The prayers had ended and Rose M. Stith stood near the open grave in Oakwood Cemetery steeling herself to watch her youngest son’s casket lowered.

But, suddenly, a member of the March Funeral Home staff was telling her that the burial of 44-year-old Byron Monte Stith Jr. was off.

The cemetery could not allow the burial to proceed after learning from the funeral home that a death certificate had not been filed with the state Department of Health’s Office of Vital Records eight days after Mr. Stith succumbed to complications of diabetes and high blood pressure. “It was unbelievable,� said Ms. Stith, a retired city employee and former U.S. Postal Service clerk. “You just don’t expect something like to happen. And March Funeral Home told me this had never happened before.�

Her oldest son, Bobby L. Stith, the City of Richmond’s chief of security, agreed. “We all were surprised,� he said. “Who could have expected this to happen?�

The good news for the family is that the funeral home quickly resolved the issue of the missing death certificate, and Mr. Stith was interred on Thursday, June 20, one day after his scheduled burial.

While extremely rare, the problem has exposed the difficulties that funeral homes can face in meeting the inflexible three-day period allowed under state law for the filing of a death

neral directors, none of whom would allow their names to be published, showed that all face the same litany of problems in meeting the deadline. “We can start a death certificate, but we can’t always complete it in three days. Family members do not always come in within a day or two to make arrangements or cannot provide critical information, such as the Social Security number,� one director said. “Doctors are the worst. They can be out of the office or go on vacation, and we have to try to track them down to get a signature and cause of death. Sometimes, they refuse to sign, and we finally have to get the Health Department involved to force them.�

That’s what happened in the Stith case.

Bobby Stith said he was told the primary physician, who had seen his brother just weeks before his death, was reluctant to sign the death certificate without more consultation with the Medical Examiner’s Office.

He said the Medical Examiner’s Office, in consultation with the police department, had deemed it a natural death.

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Bobby L. Stith and his mother, Rose M. Stith, visit the grave of family member Byron M. Stith Jr. at Oakwood Cemetery on June 27.

certificate and the potential for other families to face a similar disruption.

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fraction of cases where the state medical examiner is involved because of violent, suspicious or unexplained circumstances of a death.

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Brandon Robertson, artist, dies at 36 Tribute messages are posted on a side wall maker of beautiful things� both with his hands of Jade Multicultural Salon in Church Hill in and his computer and as a student of life who remembrance of talented Richmond graphic drew creative inspiration from his surroundings designer and digital artist Brandon Robertson. and the people he met.

Mr. Robertson, who was known for his The messages sit under a mural Mr. Robertson created with Emily Herr on the wall in the 3400 meticulous dress, his love of music and for wearing the word “Hope� on his hand, block of East Marshall Street. The was running his on company, Arts & mural features a seated woman in a Letters Creative Co., at his death. prayerful pose and is dominated by The Danville native previously the words “Love 24 Hours.� worked as a graphic designer at the The messages, as well as the postVirginia Museum of Fine Arts where ings on his Facebook page, reflect the he produced promotional material with outpouring of grief and dismay after a distinctive touch.

Mr. Robertson, 36, took his own life John O’Neill, a VCU alumnus and Thursday, June 27, 2019. former VCU arts instructor, said Mr. “Your light, our conservations, your Robertson was one of the students in kindness and love — these are the Mr. Robertson the first class he ever taught. memories I carry of you,� a friend, “He was kind and well-liked,� the teacher Amelia Nichole, wrote in a Facebook post. “I hope you have found the peace and gentleness continued. “After graduating, Brandon went on to do great things. I watched from afar how he you gave constantly and unequivocally.� “We lost a warm radiating soul,� another was developing his graphic design career. Many friend, Bickyla Ho, posted, describing Mr. fellow artists and designers in Richmond are Robertson as “a successful artist, gifted and heartbroken today.�

Funeral arrangements were unavailable at kind, who genuinely touched all those lives Free Press deadline. around him.�

Friends held a silent candlelight vigil at the A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, Mr. Robertson described himself as “a Jade wall Sunday night in his honor.

As a social worker for 27 years with Rich- Jones said. mond Public Schools, Dr. Sandra Marie Tilly After retiring in 1998, Dr. Mitchell put her Mitchell counseled and worked with hundreds energy into building up the National Association of students to help them overcome personal and of Black Social Workers, which includes her on family challenges that disrupted their lives and its list of “pioneer members.� their education.

Dr. Mitchell commuted to Washington for 11 Dr. Mitchell was best known for managing years to manage the NABSW’s national office.

RPS programs dealing with students with dis- The organization credits her with playing a key cipline and truancy problems. role in the association’s acquisition of its In the 1980s, she ran an RPS interheadquarters building in the Anacostia agency center that worked with stusection of the nation’s capital. dents with chronic behavior problems.

She also was known for her collecThe center teamed with city courts and tion of black dolls and African art and departments to create specific recomfor playing bid whist and volleyball. mendations for meeting the needs of Born in Greensburgh, N.Y., Dr. those students and to address the root Mitchell began her social work cacauses of their problems. reer after earning her bachelor’s and After the program ended, she master’s degrees from the University ran an alternative RPS program for of Illinois-Urbana. She later earned Dr. Mitchell behavior-challenged students known her doctorate in education from Nova as Educare, a precursor to the current Richmond Southeastern University.

Alterative School.

Dr. Mitchell moved to Richmond in 1973 to Dr. Mitchell’s life and contributions were teach social work at Virginia Commonwealth celebrated by family and friends Saturday, June University and served as a liaison between the 29, at a service at Scott’s Funeral Home Chapel university and the city Department of Social in North Side.

Services in providing training and placement Dr. Mitchell died Sunday, June 23, 2019. of students.

She was 75.

Retired city social worker Irene R. Hughes In the final years of her career, she directed met Dr. Mitchell during that time and remained a truancy assessment center that then Richmond lifelong friends. “She was thoughtful, kind, schools Superintendent Lucille M. Brown considerate, funny, just everything you would launched in the early 1990s in a bid to reduce want in a friend,� Ms. Hughes said. chronic absenteeism. Dr. Mitchell led a team that Dr. Mitchell joined the staff of RPS in 1980 included school psychologists, social workers and as director of the new Interagency Diagnostic security officers that visited families and offered & Prescriptive Center and stayed on after the wrap-around services to address the challenges center closed in 1988. She managed the Educare that kept students from attending school. program for three years before being tapped to Dr. Mitchell “was the ideal person to lead run the truancy reduction effort, which folded the program. She was a manager who had after she and several others retired. hands-on experience, knew how to work with “It was hard to find someone with her expeothers and cared deeply about the students we rience and dedication to take on the program,� were trying to help,� said Dr. Renata Jones, a said Dr. Jones. “But we had a great team while former RPS senior social worker who retired the program operated.� as RPS coordinator of Medicaid services and Dr. Mitchell was a member Delta Sigma Theta special programs.

Sorority for more than 50 years and participated During a period when the crack epidemic in the Richmond Alumnae Chapter. and violence peaked in the city, Dr. Jones said She also was a past president and held other Dr. Mitchell would go into communities others offices in the Richmond Association Black Social considered dangerous to meet with parents and Workers, the local affiliate of the NABSW. students in a bid to get them back on track.

Survivors include her son, Marcus S.E. “She was dedicated to the students,� Dr. Mitchell, and a grandson.

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to see a death certificate or keep one on file.

As Tamara Jenkins, spokeswoman for the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities that operates Oakwood and other city cemeteries, put it, “It is not PRCF’s or the cemetery’s responsibility to track down, record or maintain death certificates.�

If March Funeral Home had not inquired about whether the Stith burial could proceed ,although a death certificate was still pending, Oakwood likely would have gone ahead with the burial. Once notified there was no death certificate, Ms. Jenkins stated the cemetery “was unable to continue with the burial as that would be a violation of state law.�

Most funeral homes do not make such an inquiry.

If cemeteries started checking to see if a death certificate is on record before a burial, “it would be extremely disruptive,� a funeral director confirmed. “We do our best, but often three days is not enough time.

If we couldn’t bury without a completed death certificate, we’d face a challenge of what to do with the bodies.�

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Tributes to Brandon Robertson, who died June 27, are left beside Jade Multicultural Salon at 3304 E. Marshall St., where Mr. Robertson and a friend previously created a mural.

Office was involved because Mr. Stith was found dead at his residence.

Still, that all takes time, frequently more than three days, the funeral directors unanimously agreed. The state Health Department has tried to speed up the process by creating a computerized reporting system that allows doctors to sign and post a cause of death so the certificate can be filed by the three-day deadline. “But all doctors are not yet on the system,� a director said. “Then we are back to paper filing.�

As a result, funeral homes and cemeteries generally have adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell system� to keep the process moving, several funeral directors indicated.

While funeral directors need a death certificate to cremate the deceased, they rarely, if ever, have had to show a death certificate to bury someone.

Public and private cemeteries are not responsible for death certificates and are not mentioned in the state law regarding death certificate filing.

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Ordinance No. 2019-167 To amend and reordain City Code § 9-58, which assigns polling places in the city, to relocate and establish a new polling place for Precinct 302.

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, July 22, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-168 To approve the use of the property known as 738 Goodes Street for the storage of sulphurous, sulphuric, nitric, picric, hydrochloric, or other corrosive acid, in accordance with City Code § 30- 454.1(2).

The subject property is zoned M-2 Heavy Industrial. The City’s Master Plan recommends Industrial land uses for the subject property and all surrounding properties. Primary uses include a wide variety of manufacturing, processing, research and development, warehousing, distribution, office warehouse and service uses. Office, retail and other uses that complement industrial areas are often secondary support uses. The mix of industrial uses and character of such areas may vary depending on the location and available highway access. Typical zoning classifications that may accommodate this land use category: OS, M-1, and M-2.

Ordinance No. 2019-169 To amend City Code §§ 30-428.1, 30-428.3, and 30-428.6, concerning permitted principal uses, accessory uses, and yards, respectively, and to amend ch. 30, art.

IV, div. 15 by adding therein new §§ 30-428, concerning the intent of the district, 30-428.10, concerning requirements for areas devoted to parking or circulation of vehicles, and 30-428.11, concerning building façade fenestration, for the purpose of modifying elements of the RO-3 Residential-Office District to promote walkable neighborhoods.

Ordinance No. 2019-170 To amend City Code §§ 30-440.1, 30-440.2, 30440.4:1, 30-440.6, and 30-440.7, concerning permitted principal and accessory uses, principal uses permitted by a conditional use permit, requirements for areas devoted to parking or circulation of vehicles, height, and building façade fenestration in the B-4 Central Business District, and to amend ch. 30, art. IV, div. 22 by adding therein a new § 30-440, concerning the intent of the district, for the purpose of modifying elements of the B-4 Central Business District and promoting dense, transit-oriented development with greater building height than elsewhere in the region.

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overlay districts, and to amend ch. 30, art. IX, div. 6 of the City Code by adding therein a new § 30-950.5, concerning pre-application meetings, for the purpose of creating an Arts District Station/ Monroe Ward Plan of Development Overlay District POD-2 bounded generally by Belvidere Street on the west, Broad Street on the north, the Downtown Expressway on the south, and 9th Street on the east.

Ordinance No. 2019-172 To amend the official zoning map for the purpose of designating certain street blocks as “priority streets” and certain street blocks as “street-oriented commercial streets” in the area bounded generally

by Belvidere Street on the west, Broad Street on the north, the Downtown Expressway on the south, and 9 th Street on the east.

Ordinance No. 2019-173 To rezone properties in the Monroe Ward area bounded by Belvidere Street to the west, the Downtown Expressway to the south, Fourth and First Streets to the east, and to the north by Main Street and the alley between Grace and Franklin Streets. To create a Plan of Development Overlay district in an area bounded

by Belvidere Street to the west, Broad Street to the north, the Downtown Expressway to the south, and Ninth Street to the east. The Pulse Corridor Plan calls for a future land use designation of downtown mixed-use: high-density pedestrianand transit-oriented development that is urban in form and features a mix of office buildings, apartments, and a mix of complimentary uses.

Ordinance No. 2019-174 To rezone properties in the VUU/Chamberlayne Neighborhood Plan area, along both sides of: Lombardy Street between Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue; Graham Road between Lombardy Street and Chamberlayne Avenue; Overbrook Road between Lombardy Street and Chamberlayne Avenue; and Chamberlayne Avenue between the 2300 and 2900 blocks.

The VUU/Chamberlayne Plan envisions a walkable neighborhood center along Lombardy and Chamberlayne with a mix of uses including retail, restaurants, dwellings and offices, with screened parking and a safe pedestrian environment.

Ordinance No. 2019-175 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1101 Oakwood Avenue for the purpose of a two family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for this property is R-5 Single Family Residential. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single Family Low Density land uses which includes, single family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre.

The proposed density of the development is approximately 25 units per acre.

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Density. As stated in the plan, the primary use is single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses.

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

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building CHEVELLE RENAE ALLEN-STEVENSON, Plaintiff, v REGINALD ALDA STEVENSON, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL19-2976 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground that the parties have lived separate and apart in excess of one year.

It appearing from an affidavit filed by the plaintiff that the defendant’s whereabouts are unknown, it is ORDERED that the defendant appear before this Court on or before August 16, 2019, to protect his interests herein.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk Locke & Quinn Shannon S. Otto 4928 West Broad Street P.O. Box 11708 Richmond, VA 23230 Telephone: (804) 285-6253 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ERIN LLOYD, Plaintiff, v.

BRIAN HUNTRESS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001841-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 6th day of August, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 2 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 Law Office of 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

Ordinance No. 2019-177 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3205 P Street for the purpose of up to eight single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The subject property is zoned in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for single‑family (medium density.) Primary uses in this category are single‑family and two‑family dwellings, both detached and attached at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. The proposed development would have a density of 26 units per acre.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO MAJORIE REZVYI, Plaintiff, v.

VIKTOR REZVYI, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19-1108 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from VIKTOR REZVYI on the grounds that the Parties have lived separate and apart continuously and without cohabitation or interruption for a period in excess of one year.

An affidavit having been filed that VIKTOR REZVYI, defendant, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of MARJORIE REZVYI, plaintiff, to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is without effect;

UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, this order of publication is granted and the Defendant, VIKTOR REZVYI is hereby ORDERED to appear before this Court, on the 5th day of August, 2019, at 9 a.m., and protect his interests.

A Copy Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk Scott D. Cardani, VSB# 39976 Bowen Ten Cardani PC 3957 Westerre Parkway, Suite 105 Richmond, Virginia 23233 Telephone: (804) 755-7599

Ordinance No. 2019-178 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4000 Hopkins Road for the purpose of a storage building as a principal use, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for the property is R-3 Single‑Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Low

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RODNEY LEE, Plaintiff v.

MECHETE LEE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000853-00 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

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Ordinance No. 2019-176 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3151 Moody Avenue for the purpose of two twofamily detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property along Moody Avenue for Single‑Family (Low‑Density) land use.

Primary uses in this category are single‑family detached dwellings at up to seven units per acre.

The proposed density of the development is approximately 15 units per acre.

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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 22nd day of July, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

should provide a copy of any response to the attorney for Petitioner at: Bobby D. Mills, 4600 Marriott Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27612, Telephone 919-306-2899.

located and has not filed a response to this action; that ARTHUR B. CARTER, JR, upon information and belief deceased, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 567 page 232 on July 18, 1980, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that EVE LY N C . B RO W N , ARTHUR B. CARTER, JR, upon information and belief deceased, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 567 page 232 on July 18, 1980, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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 BESSIE S. FULTON, MAJOR H. SMITH, III, JEAN S. PATTON, JOYCE T. SMITH, GEORGE A. SMITH, JR, REGINA F. PLUMMER, L AVER N D . E A S T ER , ALFRED SPENCER SMITH, L ORE T TA B E AT RICE SMITH, KENNETH R. SMITH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0311944 on April 4, 2003, per an assignment of beneficiary filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0329558 on August 7, 2003,and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JAIME MENDOZA LOPEZ, Plaintiff v.

CAROLINA SALVADOR REYES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000743-00 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 22nd day of July, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ELIJAH LEE Case No. J-096015-06-07 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Kenneth Wray Lee (Father) and Unknown (Father) of Elijah Lee, child, DOB 03/28/2012, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Father & Kenneth Wray Lee (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 09/09/2019, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #4 VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re DEANTA TAHEEM LEE, JR. Case No. J-095501-08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father) of Deanta Taheem Lee, Jr. child, DOB 09/17/2017, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Father to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 09/09/2019, at 9:20 AM, Courtroom #4 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS DIVISION COUNTY OF DURHAM FILE NO. 19 SP 554, IN RE: I.F.T., A Minor Child.

TO: Any Unknown Parent Take notice that an action has been commenced against you in the above referenced court file to adopt a male child born on May 10, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia to Darla Simone Ely. The child was conceived in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia in approximately July - August 2018. Ms. Ely is a Caucasian female, 23 – 24 years of age, 230 lbs. when not pregnant, 5’9” feet tall, green eyes, long brown hair, fair complexion, and medium build. To participate in this proceeding and receive further notice, including the time and place of any hearing in this matter, you must file a written response with the Clerk of Superior Court within forty (40) days after the first publication of this notice on June 20, 2019 on or before July 30, 2019. If you fail to respond, Petitioners will seek an order that your consent is not required to this adoption and a decree of adoption will be entered that will terminate your parental rights. This the 12th day of June 2019. You Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ETHIE BRENT File No. JJ-095414-08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father) of Ethie Brent, child DOB 01/20/2018, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown (Father) to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before August 5, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #4

Property TRUSTEE’S SALE 3413 2nd Avenue, Richmond 23222 In execution of a Deed of Trust recorded in Clerk’s Office there having been a default under the Deed of Trust, Trustee will offer for sale at public auction on July 9, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., front entrance of Circuit Court, City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 N. 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, the property known as 3413 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23222. For full description of property, see Deed of Trust. Sale made subject to all existing easements, restrictive covenants, liens and/or deeds of trust. TERMS: Cash at settlement within 15 days of sale. Bidder’s deposit 10% of bid price cash or certified check. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Ann Rogers, Trustee, Post Office Box 167, Manakin Sabot, Virginia 23103 (804)784-7182.

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

ROY F. HUMPHREY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6178 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1413 Vinton Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100197/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Roy F. Humphrey, Roy Franklin Humphrey, Jr. and Edna Mae Humphrey.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROY FRANKLIN HUMPHREY, JR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that EDNA MAE HUMPHREY, 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 ROY FRANKLIN HUMPHREY, JR, EDNA MAE HUMPHREY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

HAZEL B. TALBERT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1323 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1813 Cedarhurst Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C005-0298/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Hazel B. Talbert and James E. Talbert, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HAZEL B. TALBERT, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, JAMES E. TALBERT, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; 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 HAZEL B. TALBERT, JAMES E. TALBERT, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

JASON ROANE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6376 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2928 Springview Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C009-0622/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jason Roane and Briana Young-Roane.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JASON ROANE, 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 JASON ROANE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

EVELYN C. BROWN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5258 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2509 Porter Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000696/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Evelyn C. Brown.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EVELYN C. BROWN, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally

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

BESSIE S. FULTON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5417 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 414½ Patrick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1554/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Bessie S. Fulton, Major H. Smith, III, Jean S. Patton, Alfred Spencer Smith, Loretta Beatrice Smith, Joyce T. Smith, George A. Smith, Jr., Regina F. Plummer, Lavern D. Easter and Kenneth R. Smith.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, BESSIE S. FULTON, MAJOR H. SMITH, III, JEAN S. PATTON, JOYCE T. SMITH, GEORGE A. SMITH, JR, REGINA F. PLUMMER, LAVERN D. EASTER, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ALFRED SPENCER SMITH, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, L ORE T TA B E AT RICE SMITH, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, KENNETH R. SMITH, 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,

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

FRANKLIN N. BONNER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1284 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3203 Stockton Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0002132/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Franklin N. Bonner, Patricia B. Lomax, Kenneth Bonner, Monique Bonner, Michellet Bonner, Torie Bonner, Gregory Bonner and Nathan Bonner.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, FRANKLIN N. BONNER, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owners, PATRICIA B. LOMAX, KENNETH B O N N ER , M O N I Q U E B O N N ER , M IC H E L L E T BONNER, TORIE BONNER, GREGORY BONNER, and NATHAN BONNER, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that FIRST NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-11944 on April 4, 2003, per an assignment of beneficiary filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-29558 on August 7, 2003, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FRANKLIN N. BONNER, PAT RICI A B . L O M A X , K E N N E T H B O N N ER , M O N I Q U E B O N N ER , M IC H E L L E T B O N N ER , TORIE BONNER, GREGORY B O N N ER , N A T H A N BONNER, FIRST NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of

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

ELVIN H. JEFFERSON, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6233 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3324 Maryland Avenue s, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001160/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Elvin H. Jefferson, Jr.

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

IT IS ORDERED that ELVIN H. JEFFERSON, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

EDWARD FOUNTAIN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-998 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 19 East 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001002/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ester F. Beverly and Edward Fountain.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, EDWARD FOUNTAIN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ESTER F. BEVERLY, 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 EDWARD FOUNTAIN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTER F. BEVERLY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

JUNE A. MCELROY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-798 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 228 Green Acres Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0060488/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, June A. McElroy.

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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 JUNE A. MCELROY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.�

IT IS ORDERED that JUNE A. MCELROY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

HAMPTON WHITE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-643 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2500 Gravel Hill Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0040826/026, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Hampton White, Edith White Wilson, Irvin White and Leola Tompkins.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, HAMPTON WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EDITH WHITE WILSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, IRVIN WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and LEOLA TOMPKINS, 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 HAMPTON WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EDITH WHITE WILSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, IRVIN WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LEOLA TOMPKINS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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 MYRTLE G. WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

LARRY N. STERLING, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1233 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 605 North 29th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000573/038, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Larry N. Sterling and Louis Voron.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, LARRY N. STERLING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and LOUIS VORON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.�

IT IS ORDERED that LARRY N. STERLING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LOUIS VORON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

ROBERT VALENTINE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5848 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2509 Afton Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071677/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert Valentine.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-27456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s 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 ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0227456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is Continued on next column

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

TIRSIT BEYENE HAILE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-997 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 15 East 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001002/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Tirsit Beyene Haile.

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

IT IS ORDERED that TIRSIT BEYENE HAILE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

MARY A. SMITH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1235 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 17 East 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001002/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mary A. Smith.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MARY A. SMITH, upon information and belief deceased, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 49B page 28 on May 18, 1920, 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 MARY A. SMITH, upon information and belief deceased, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 49B page 28 on May 18, 1920, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

JUNE A. MCELROY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-799 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 314 Green Acres Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C006-0488/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, June A. McElroy.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JUNE A. MCELROY, 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 Continued on next column

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

SANFORD S. SEAY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1001 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1305 Bowen Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071182/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Sanford S. Seay and Ada B. Seay.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, SANFORD S. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ADA B. SEAY, 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 SANFORD S. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ADA B. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

ROBERT P. PAIGE, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-6236 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1500 North 19th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000930/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Robert P. Paige, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT P. PAIGE, JR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN W. ANDERSON, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, has not filed a response to this action; that THOMAS P. COLLINS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ROBERT P. PAIGE, SR, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, 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 ROBERT P. PAIGE, JR, JOHN W. ANDERSON, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, THOMAS P. COLLINS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, ROBERT P. PAIGE, SR, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, Continued on next column

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

CARROLL ALLMOND, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-452 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1718 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000940/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Carroll Allmond.

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

IT IS ORDERED that CARROLL ALLMOND, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

WILLIAM MCGEE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-450 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1816 Blair Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0000840/038, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, William McGee, Catherine Ellerbee, Harold L. Harris, Sr. and Roscoe Harris.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WILLIAM MCGEE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CATHERINE ELLERBEE, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or hers heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HAROLD L. HARRIS, SR, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ROSCOE HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.�

IT IS ORDERED that WILLIAM MCGEE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CATHERINE ELLERBEE, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or hers heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HAROLD L. HARRIS, SR, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ROSCOE HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Continued on next column

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

MYRTLE G. WHITE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-928 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2510 Rear Gravel Hill Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C004-0826/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Myrtle G. White

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MYRTLE G. WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or her

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

ROBERT VALENTINE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-5849 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2511 Afton Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071677/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert Valentine.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-27456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s 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 ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0227456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The Virginia Department of Transportation is requesting proposals to provide Traffic REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Signal Systems Maintenance for Lynchburg District. An Optional Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at 11:00AM on July 11, 2019. A copy of the RFP #155522The Virginia Department of Transportation is VWD may be downloaded from www.eva.virginia.gov Proposals must be received as stated in the solicitation. to provide Traffic Signal requesting proposals Systems Maintenance for Lynchburg District. An Optional Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at 11:00AM on July 11, 2019. A copy of the RFP #155522-VWD may be downloaded from www. eva.virginia.gov Proposals must be received as stated in the solicitation.

Thank you for your interest in applying for opportunities with The City of Richmond.

To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com.

EOE M/F/D/V

Fourth Baptist Church is seeking a part time Minister of Music.

Candidate must have a minimum of 5-7 years of experience. Candidate must have a college degree in music or an equivalent arts degree, must be able to read music, play piano, organ and keyboard, be knowledgeable in the use of related technology and software. Candidate must be able to offer a blended style of music, i.e. Hymns, Anthems, Traditional Gospel, Praise and Worship and Contemporary Praise and Worship. Salary is competitive.

Application deadline is July 13, 2019. Please email all resumes to George Dorman at grgdorm@aol.com.

COUNSELORS (MULTIPLE POSITIONS)

Reynolds Community College, located in the Richmond, Virginia area, is currently seeking applicants for four Counselor positions in the areas of StudentAccommodations and P.A.V.E; Behavioral Intervention; Student Engagement Services; and Student Support Services. The Counselor positions are an exciting opportunity for experienced and forward-thinking higher education professionals to join an award-winning college in a highly collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovation, and is committed to student success and equitable outcomes for all. A Master’s Degree in higher education, student personnel administration, counseling, or a related field from an accredited institution is required.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time, twelvemonth professional faculty-ranked appointment. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $58,308 - $115,624. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $65,000. Application reviews will begin, AUGUST 1, 2019. Additional information is available at the College’s website: www.reynolds.edu.

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

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