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Delegate Scott

Delegate Don Scott Jr. new Democratic House leader

By Jeremy Lazarus

In just two years, Democratic Delegate Don Scott Jr. has done the extraordinary—leaping from novice legislator to House Minority Leader.

The 52-year-old Portsmouth attorney made history Wednesday when his Democratic colleagues in the House elected him to take charge and take on the challenge of rebuilding a majority.

First elected to the House in 2019 from the 80th District, Delegate Scott led the charge to oust the first female and Jewish House leader, Fairfax Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn, after the Democratic ranks in the House shrank from 55 to 48 members following the 2021 election.

As her replacement, Delegate Scott just became the first Black man to fill the Minority Leader post in the legislature, with a prospect of becoming speaker should Democrats regain their House majority.

Delegate Scott, who grew up in a poor Texas family and served time in prison before becoming an attorney, beat out two others who sought the post, including another Black Democratic leader, Alexandria Delegate Charniele Herring, who will continue as the Democratic Caucus chair, the No. 2 post she has Please turn to A4

Publisher announces new managing editor I am pleased to announce that Bonnie Newman Davis has been appointed managing editor of the Richmond Free Carlos Bernate Press following the resignation of Bonnie Winston, who served in that role for seven years. Ms. Davis began her tenure with Richmonders and members of the U.S. military attended the Commonwealth Memorial Day Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond on Monday. Memorial Day, a federal holiday, typically is observed by mourning U.S. the Free Press on May 16. military personnel who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. The Virginia War Memorial, established in 1955, The Free Press newsroom is in capable was originally dedicated to Virginians killed in World War II and the Korean War. In 1980, the Shrine was enlarged hands. Ms. Davis is a seasoned journalMs. Davis to honor Virginians killed in action in the Vietnam War. For more Memorial Day photographs, see Page B2. ist whose résumé includes experience in print and digital journalism as a reporter, copy editor and editor.

Ms. Davis spent nearly 20 years with The RichmondTimes Dispatch and the former

By Jeremy Lazarus In addition, the audit found overhaul of the program’s processes Richmond News Leader before more than 2,000 students were — including ending individual serving as a journalism profesRichmond Public Schools assigned multiple computers and school involvement in inventory sor at Virginia Commonwealth wasted millions of federal sup- 1,700 students who left the public management and assignment of University, the University port dollars buying 20,000 extra schools system never turned in their computers to students. of North Carolina at Chapel Chromebook laptop computers assigned computers.

Next fall, RPS’ technology Hill and Washington and Lee it didn’t need after going virtual The report is expected to be officials will have sole control University. during the pandemic, an internal presented and discussed at the and directly assign computers to From 2011 to 2015, Ms. audit has found. upcoming School Board meeting students, according to the RPS adDavis was the Greensboro The audit also found that a June 6. ministration led by Superintendent News & Record/Janice Bryant key inventory control system was RPS’ internal audit staff of Jason Kamras.

Howroyd Endowed Professor bypassed so the assignment of Milton Parker and LaTonya HolThe School Board authorized at North Carolina A&T State computers to more than 10,000 loway spent months preparing the University, her alma mater in her students was not recorded. report that already is leading to an Please turn to A4 hometown of Greensboro, N.C. Ms. Davis also is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s master’s degree program in journalism.

An active member of several journalism organizations, along with other civic, social

By Jeremy Lazarus tion that would have made and philanthropic endeavors, it easier for people at the Ms. Davis is the author of the Landlords have always held the upper hand low end of the income scale

By George Copeland Jr. forthcoming book, “African when it comes to evicting people. to appeal their eviction to Gov. Youngkin American Women Journalists: Republican Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin is a higher court.

Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths in Virginia 1960-2020.” keeping it that way, according to advocates Richmond State Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan and nationally, a gap in reported positive cases has continued Please join the Free Press for tenants. and Richmond Delegate Jeffrey M. Bourne called throughout Virginia, one that has persisted as the approach to team in welcoming Ms. To the dismay of area General Assembly it “deeply disappointing” that Gov. Youngkin monitoring the worst of the virus and testing for infection has Davis. ­— JEAN PATTERSON members who sought to give low-income tenants changed and expanded, locally and statewide.

Please turn to A4 BOONE a little more clout, the governor vetoed legislaAccording to Catherine Long, public information officer for the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts, local health officials do believe the current count of positive cases locally and statewide may be an undercount for a number of reasons.

Positive cases are typically detected through tests at local pharmacies, doctor’s offices or local health district events, which are then reported to the Virginia Department of Health. As a result, positive tests outside certain home tests aren’t counted among total numbers reported, unless those using them report positive cases on their own terms. VDH officials noted other

An indelible honor

System failure: RPS loses thousands of laptops

Youngkin snubs lawmakers’ efforts to support tenants

COVID-19 cases going unreported

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Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines

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Pooling their options Xuri Griffn Williams, 2, and her 8-year-old brother Kamari Stone cool off in the Blackwell Community Pool in South Side on Memorial Day weekend. The Blackwell Pool was one of four city pools open for the holiday.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Thursday, June 2, 5 to 7 p.m. - Broad Rock Sports Complex, 4899 Old Warwick Road • Wednesday, June 8, 9 to 11 a.m. - East Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N Laburnum Ave. • Thursday, June 9, 5 to 7 p.m. - Broad Rock Sports Complex, 4899 Old Warwick Road.

Call the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804)

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Probe ends of Richmond Electoral Board members

By Jeremy Lazarus

The two Democratic members of the Richmond Electoral Board are keeping their posts following a lengthy probe into their handling of the 2000 presidential election during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They are James M. Nachman, who chairs the board, and Joyce K. Smith, vice chair, who was re-elected in February.

The probe was launched after the Richmond City Republican Committee filed complaints in 2021 about the handling of the official tabulation of results following the election after the registrar’s operation was shut down as the result of an outbreak of COVID. Mr. Nachman An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found “irregularities” but not substantial enough to file criminal or civil charges, according to the State Board of Elections.

The irregularities, which did not affect the count, included “invading absentee ballot envelopes, tabulating results without a quorum and removing election materials from the registrar’s office,” the state board reported.

Mr. Nachman and Ms. Smith, who both denied any wrongdoing in seeking to get results completed after the shutdown, were required to undergo refresher training, which they reported as completed to the state board earlier this week.

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

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As part of the Phase 1 transformation of the Creighton Court public housing community into a mixed-income community, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority workers prepare to remove storm doors from vacant units on Nine Mile Road.

Tappahannock to remove Confederate figure The need for high-speed internet is on City Council’s agenda Expanding broadband connections across the city.

That is a key goal of City Hall’s new Strategic Plan for Equitable Economic Development or SPEED. Public housing and other low-income areas in Richmond have long lacked connection to high-speed internet service, just like many rural areas in Virginia and across the country.

For the first time, the plan acknowledges the situation that largely affects Black and brown communities and became glaringly evident when public schools in this city and elsewhere went virtual during the pandemic.

The SPEED proposal that is to be approved by City Council this month does not indicate where the funding will come from. The main element of the initiative calls for working with private companies, such as Comcast and Verizon, to come up with ways to ensure that every home and business can connect to the high-speed data highway.

Other goals included in the five-year plan that Mayor Levar M. Stoney introduced last week call for continuing the hot pace of development to create new jobs and generate new revenue and prepare more young people to graduate from college.

Richmond Public Schools announces graduation schedule In the coming weeks, hundreds of Richmond Public Schools seniors will hit a home run as they cross the stage to receive their diplomas at The Diamond baseball stadium. Scheduled graduations will take place between June 13 and 15.

Valedictorians and salutatorians from each high school will be the keynote speakers during the ceremonies.

The list of graduations, valedictorians and salutatorians are: Monday, June 13 9 a.m. – Huguenot High School – Valedictorian, Debora Arteaga Ortega – GPA 4.36; Salutatorian, Sindy Lopez Villatoro 4 p.m. – Open High School – Valedictorian Sanaa Hayes, GPA 5.03; Salutatorian, David Chase 7 p.m. – John Marshall High School – Valedictorian, Angle Shepperson, GPA 4.36; Salutatorian, Tiera Beale Tuesday, June 14 9 a.m. – Armstrong High School – Valedictorian, Damarious Banks, GPA 4.1; Salutatorian, Katherine Jimenez 1 p.m. - Richmond Community High School, Valedictorian, Talya Moss-Melendez, GPA 4.94; Salutatorian, Tahirah Bennett Wednesday June 15 9 a.m. – George Wythe High School – Valedictorian, Anthony Rodrigez-Ortiz, GPA 4.46; Salutatorian, Arianna Rivas 4 p.m. – Franklin Military Academy – Valedictorian, Lindsey Diggs, GPA 4.76; Salutatorian, Carter Guishard 7 p.m. – Thomas Jefferson High School – Valedictorian, Jermesha Artis, GPA 4.79; Salutatorian, Andre Jones Thursday, June 16 – Rain date

Film festival to offer showings at Byrd Theatre and Bowtie Cinemas The Richmond International Film Festival, one of the largest competitive film festivals in the Mid-Atlantic, returns to Richmond June 7 through 12.

The festival is known for showcasing exclusive and groundbreaking films, along with several nightlife specials, questionand-answer panels and live musical performances.

Select film screenings will be at the Byrd Theatre and Bowtie Cinemas. In addition, RIFF will offer more than 70 virtual performances and films.

Several Black-themed films will be featured during RIFF, along with other films portraying various ethnicities and cultures.

“Policing Joy,” is a 20-minute documentary short on Black girls’ experiences with hair bias in schools will premiere June 9 at the Byrd Theatre.

“Wouldn’t Mean Nuthin’” explores a black poet whose writer’s block disappears when a date night turns inspirational with the sudden appearance of his ex, Nicole. “Wouldn’t Mean Nuthin’” will be shown at the Byrd Theatre, 2908 W. Cary St., on June 8.

Tickets may be purchased at RIFF’S official site https://www. rvafilmfestival.com/get-tickets.

Following in Richmond’s footsteps, an Eastern Virginia community is about to remove a Confederate monument that has dominated the courthouse area for more than a century.

Tappahannock, the seat of Essex County, plans to take down the statue of a rebel solider that stands atop a 27-foottall pedestal on Prince Street on Saturday, June 4 — a year after the town council voted to remove the figure that has been

in place since 1909.

Along with the statue, the project also includes removing a portion of the pedestal that includes an etching of crossed Confederate battle flags.

The removal is to be accompanied by the placement of a stone structure featuring language featuring different opinions about the war, including Black residents’ fight for equality.

The plaque including the names of

the 770 Essex men who fought for the Confederacy will remain.

Still, the removal of the statue represents a triumph for hundreds of people who wanted the statue gone.

Among them is Reginald Carter, now of Richmond, who helped lead the fight to remove the statue from his hometown and also to memorialize an Essex County man who was a lynching victim.

“Finally, it is happening,” he said.

Jury indicts Buffalo shooting suspect on terrorism charge

By Carolyn Thompson The Associate Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. A grand jury on Wednesday charged the white 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket with domestic terrorism motivated by hate and 10 counts of first degree murder.

Payton Gendron, who has been in custody since the May 14 shooting, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Erie County Court.

The 25-count indictment also contains charges of murder and attempted murder as a hate crime and weapons possession.

The gunman had previously been charged with first degree murder in the shooting, which also injured three people. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors told a judge May 20 the grand jury had voted to indict Gendron but did not disclose charges, saying proceedings were ongoing.

The domestic terrorism charge accuses him of killing “because of the perceived race and/or color” of his victims.

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Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing May 19 at Erie County Court in Buffalo, N.Y. He faces charges in the May 14 fatal shooting at a Buffalo supermarket.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the domestic terrorism hate crime law in August 2019, in the wake of a mass shooting targeting Mexicans at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. The measure, dubbed the “Josef Neumann Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act” after an attack at a rabbi’s home in Munsey, N.Y., was signed into law on April 3, 2020, and took effect Nov. 1, 2020.

The charge, Domestic Acts of Terrorism Motivated by Hate

in the First Degree, is punishable with a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

Murder charges were filed for each of the victims, who ranged in age from 32 to 86 and included eight shoppers, the store security guard and a church deacon who drove shoppers to and from the store with their groceries.

The gunman, carrying an AR-15-style rifle he had recently purchased, opened fire on Saturday afternoon shop-

pers at the only supermarket in the predominantly Black neighborhood.

The shooting, followed 10 days later by a mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers inside a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, has renewed a national debate about gun control and violent extremism.

Federal authorities also are investigating the possibility of hate crime charges against the Buffalo shooter, who apparently detailed his plans and his racist motivation in hundreds of pages of writings he posted online shortly before the shooting. The attack was livestreamed from a helmet-mounted camera.

He drove about three hours from his home in Conklin, N.Y., intending to kill as many Black people as possible, investigators have said.

His attorney, Brian Parker, said he had not seen the indictment and could not comment, adding that prosecution and defense attorneys have been barred by a judge from discussing the case publicly.

Associated Press writer Michael Sisak contributed from New York.

Pinkett Smith talks hair loss ‘shame,’ outcome of Oscars slap

By Lynn Elber The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person’s sense of identity.

“Considering what I’ve been through with my own health and what happened at the Oscars, thousands have reached out to me with their stories,” Ms. Pinkett Smith said on Wednesday’s episode of “Red Table Talk.”

The actor said she chose to use “this moment to give our alopecia family an opportunity to talk about what it’s like to have this condition” and what it is. Her guests included the mother of a 12-year-old girl, Rio Allred, who was bullied over her hair loss and died by suicide, and a physician who explained the different types of the disorder.

Before tackling the subject, Ms. Pinkett Smith addressed events at the March 27 Academy Awards. She and husband Will Smith, a best actor nominee, were in the audience as presenter Chris Rock cracked a joke at Ms. Pinkett Smith’s expense.

“Jada, I love you. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,” Mr. Rock said. Ms. Pinkett

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Jada Pinkett Smith appears on an episode of her online series “Red Table Talk.” The latest episode, streaming Wednesday, June 1, on Facebook Watch, addresses alopecia areata.

Smith, who has spoken publicly about her alopecia, had a closely shaved head similar to that of Demi Moore in the 1997 movie.

Mr. Smith strode from his front-row seat to the stage and slapped Mr. Rock, shocking the comedian and the audience.

Mr. Smith, who returned to his seat and later accepted the Oscar for “King Richard,” subsequently apologized to Mr. Rock but was banned from the ceremony for 10 years by the film academy.

“Now, about Oscar night, my deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile,” Ms. Pinkett Smith said on “Red Table Talk” in an indirect refer-

ence to Mr. Smith and Mr. Rock. “The state of the world today, we need them both, and we all actually need one another more than ever.

“Until then, Will and I are continuing to do what we have done for the last 28 years, and that’s keep figuring out this thing called life together,” said Ms. Pinkett Smith, who previously had addressed the incident in a brief Instagram post that read ““This is a season for healing and I’m here for it.”

The actor (“Girls Trip,” “Matrix” films), who hosts the Facebook Watch talk show with her daughter, Willow, and Adrienne Banfield Norris, her mother, said that millions of people are living with alopecia and what she called the “shame” that surrounds it. The condition, particularly for Black women, can affect a person’s perception of themselves and force them to frequently confront others’ perceptions about beauty, hair, race and culture.

According to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation, the disorder affects as many as 6.8 million people in the United States of any age, sex and ethnic group, and the symptoms can vary.

“I think the part that makes it most difficult for me is that it comes and goes.

You’re going through a spell of something, and you got to shave your head,” Ms. Pinkett Smith said.

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held since 2019.

Described by supporters as an authentic voice, Delegate Scott told reporters that the goal will be to concentrate on issues important to Virginians.

He quickly drew a distinction with Republicans in laying what appears to be part of his game plan for generating more

support for party members. “I’m not afraid to stand up and say it: (Gov.) Youngkin and his party don’t care one bit about effective governance or how their decisions impact everyday Virginians.

They are happy to sit back and stoke the flames of the culture while our constituents struggle to make ends meet.”

In contrast, Delegate Scott said he and his fellow Democrats “don’t want to fight the culture wars. We want to deal with how do we protect a family’s right to choose whether to have an

abortion or not and how do we make sure that we protect our children in schools.”

Democrats also need to focus on what lies ahead, rather than looking back to have a chance to regain a working majority, he said. “Elections are about the future. So we need to tell a story about what happens next year, what happens in the future.

People want to know what does the future look like for them with Democrats in the majority.”

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the audit based on concern that 7,000 to 9,000 Chromebooks that had been delivered to students might be missing.

The report did not clearly answer that concern. The audit team noted data from RPS’ most significant Chromebook inventory database, Tempest, showed only 10,749 students were assigned a Chromebook.

The other 10,450 students were not listed in Tempest as receiving a laptop, the audit stated.

The Kamras administration insisted in its response that 21,953 Chromebooks had been assigned to students.

The competing numbers remain unreconciled in the report, though the Kamras administration noted that Tempest should be “the sole source of truth for data about Chromebooks” and that “no other spreadsheet should be utilized for recording information.”

The RPS auditors, in the wake of the response, commented that the “lack of a formal inventory process makes it difficult to determine current inventory levels when Tempest is not being used as the sole system of record for Chromebook distributions.”

Other numbers also vary without explanation.

For example, according to the audit team, 44,781 Chromebooks had been logged into Tempest as of March 14, 2022.

But the Kamras administration stated that the current inventory includes only 42,970 Chromebooks, or 1,811 fewer laptops that collectively are worth more than $500,000.

Still, whichever inventory number is used, the total is huge compared to the RPS enrollment of 21,179 students as of Sept.

30, 2021.

The audit team report founded that an extra 20,672 unused laptops are held at schools or in a technology contractor’s warehouse, when only about 2,100 spare machines are needed.

Free COVID-19 vaccines Continued from A1

205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for more information on testing sites, or go online at vax.rchd. com.

The Virginia Department of Health also has a list of COVID19 testing locations around the state at www.vdh.virginia.gov/ coronavirus/covid-19-testing/covid-19-testing-sites.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walk-up COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations: • Saturday, June 4, noon to 5 p.m. - MultiCultural Fest 2022, 4802 Warwick Road, Pfizer and Moderna.

• Tuesday, June 7, 4 to 6 p.m. - Southwood Pool House, Clarkson Road and Southwood Pkwy., Pfizer and Moderna.

• Thursday, June 9, 1 to 4 p.m. - Fairfield Resource Center Anniversary Celebration 2311 N 25th St., Pfizer and Moderna.

• Sunday, June 12, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. - Sacred Heart, 1420 McDonough St., Pfizer and Moderna.

• Wednesday, June 15, 9 a.m. to noon - Henrico West Headquarters, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer and Moderna.

• Thursday, June 16, 1 to 4 p.m. - Richmond Henrico Health District, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer and Moderna.

Children ages 5 to 17 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Vaccinations and booster shots are available for all eligible on a walk-in basis. People still may schedule an appointment online at vaccinate.virginia.gov or vax.rchd.com, or by calling (804) 205-3501 or (877) VAX-IN-VA (1-877-829-4682).

VaccineFinder.org and vaccines.gov also allow people to find nearby pharmacies and clinics that offer the COVID-19 vaccine and booster.

Those who are getting a booster shot should bring their vaccine card to confirm the date and type of vaccine received.

RHHD also offers at-home vaccinations by calling (804) 205-3501 to schedule appointments.

New COVID-19 cases in Virginia rose by two percent last week, according to the Virginia Department of Health, while data from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association showed a 22 percent increase in hospitalizations statewide within the same period.

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began an appeal to reverse an April district court decision that ended mask mandates for public transportation.

A total of 2,970 new cases of COVID-19 were reported statewide Wednesday for the 24-hour period, contributing to an overall state total of 1,790,726 cases in Virginia since the pandemic’s outbreak. As of Wednesday, there have been 451,377 hospitalizations and 20,400 deaths statewide.

The state’s seven-day positivity rate rose to 18.1 percent on Wednesday. Last week, the positivity rate was 17.2 percent.

On Wednesday, state health officials reported that 73.7 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 82.3 percent have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

State data also showed that nearly 3.1 million people in Virginia have received booster shots or third doses of the vaccine.

Among those ages 5 to 11 in Virginia, 319,501 have received their first shots, accounting for 44.1 percent of the age group in the state, while 272,934 children, or 37.7 percent, are fully vaccinated and 8,583 children have received a third vaccine dose or booster. As of Wednesday, fewer than 149,260 cases, 886 hospitalizations and ten deaths have been recorded among children in the state.

State data also shows that African-Americans comprised 22 percent of cases statewide and 23.2 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 11.6 percent of cases and 5.1 percent of deaths.

Reported COVID-19 data as of Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths Richmond 47,784 1,105 515 Henrico County 70,019 1,480 939 Chesterfield County 78,212 1,453 763 Hanover County 23,034 707 286

Those excess laptops cost RPS about $5.2 million. That price tag does not include the additional money spent to configure those laptops to connect with RPS’ computer system, which runs about $70 per machine.

The Kamras administration confirmed that more than 20,000 laptops are not being used by anyone, though its listed number of idle computers is 20,111 or 561 fewer than the audit team reported.

The good news in the audit is that most students have been careful with their laptops, with both the audit team and the Kamras administration reporting that fewer than 800 of the machines have been lost, reported stolen or been damaged.

However, the auditors that Tempest records show that 1,781 students who left the school system between July 1, 2019, and

September 30, 2021, never returned their assigned Chromebooks, including 63 students who received two or more of the laptops.

In other words, students who left school walked away with a total of 1,816 laptops, the audit stated.

“During our meeting with RPS designees, we were informed that there were no formal procedures for retrieval of Chromebooks” from students who had not returned them voluntarily.

The audit team also found that 2,072 active students had two to five Chromebooks assigned to them, with an aggregate value of $585,000 just for the hardware.

The audit team provided recommendations for improvement, with the Kamras administration agreeing to virtually all of them.

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rejected their bills to usher in reform that won majority backing during the regular 2022 session.

The two Democrats’ identical bills would have eliminated any requirement “for indigent Virginians to post bonds” to appeal their eviction cases from General District Court to the Circuit Court.

Most evictions are never appealed as the appeal bond is usually set at the amount of past due back rent along with other costs.

The legislation to allow indigent appeals without a bond passed both the House and Senate with Republican support, the two lawmakers noted.

Gov. Youngkin had sought to amend the legislation to require that indigent tenants filing an appeal establish a payment plan to become current within six months.

Both the House and Senate rejected the amendment that Sen. McClellan and Del. Bourne stated “would have forced indigent tenants to pay their landlords back rent, attorneys fees and court costs in order to have the right to an appeal.”

Sen. McClellan noted that the twin bills “would have ensured every tenant equal access to the court system, regardless of income. This veto will lead to more Virginians being unfairly evicted because they cannot afford a bond.”

Del. Bourne added that the bills simply removed “the financial barrier keeping people from appealing evictions.”

Legal groups that support tenants also criticized the governor.

“Gov. Youngkin is allowing the unequal and unfair treatment of indigent tenants to continue,” Christie Marra, director of housing advocacy for the Virginia Poverty Law Center.

She said that in Virginia, indigent tenants in civil cases are almost always allowed to appeal adverse judgments to a higher court without posting a bond, noting that evictions are the biggest exception.

Ms. Marra stated that the legislature recognized the “logic and fairness of allowing indigent people in eviction cases to appeal without paying an appeal bond.

Gov. Youngkin is signaling that he believes low-income people aren’t entitled to full access to justice in cases that can propel a family into long-term poverty.”

Amy Woolard, director of policy for the Legal Aid Justice Center, also decried the governor’s veto as serving “only to perpetuate structural inequality in both our housing and our court systems. We oppose the governor’s veto, which is emblematic of the ways we codify poverty in Virginia, the way we put a sticker price on justice.”

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possible causes for unreported cases.

“Disease surveillance is not intended to capture every case at this point in the pandemic,” the VDH said in a statement.

“Due to people being asymptomatic, not testing at all or using at-home test kits of which the results are not reported to the health department, we have no way of knowing how many persons would have positive lab results that are never reported to the health department.”

The milder symptoms of the dominant Omicron strain of COVID-19 may also be responsible for a gap in cases reported, said Ms. Long, as those infected may only register a reaction to infection that could be mistaken for a cold or the flu.

It’s not clear what percentage of positive cases in Virginia may be unreported or currently undetected, as no estimates or projected figures are available. This lack of data makes it difficult to determine how many unreported infections aren’t accounted for as daily case counts have increased in recent weeks.

A total of 2,970 daily cases were reported Wednesday in Virginia, while the percent positivity rate had increased to 18.1 percent at the time.

While the potential for a rise in unreported cases has been expected by health officials, they say that it hasn’t had much impact on their current monitoring efforts,

We stand

as health groups are now using other ways to track serious infections.

With vaccines more freely available to the public, health agencies have shifted to monitoring hospitalizations, deaths and outbreaks to gauge the impact of COVID-19 in communities, with particular a focus on patients in intensive care and on ventilators to better track the severity of infection.

This move followed a change in the Center for Disease Control’s mask guidance from measuring and ranking community transmission levels for localities to a combination of cases, hospitalization rate and hospital capacity in a given area.

This change in monitoring also reflects a greater focus on severe symptoms and deaths over mild cases that can potentially lead to less impact on the infected.

“We’re defining the success of mitigation efforts through reduction in hospitalizations and reduction in deaths and not necessarily reduction in cases,” Ms. Long said. “Because of the challenges in case counts, hospitalizations are a metric that’s much easier to record.”

This approach is not flawless, however, as even mild cases can lead to long-term health complications that change the lives of the infected, but may not always lead to hospital care, particularly for those who can’t afford it.

On the state level, wastewater testing is being used as a new way to better track

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community spread, as the VDH and several Virginia communities are working as part of a national wastewater surveillance program with the CDC. VDH is currently working on new guidance for its public health partners when it comes to the COVID-19 data found from wastewater testing, which will include what actions to take when spikes or increasing infection trends appear in samples.

This method of infection monitoring would not only allow health systems to detect COVID-19 infections in their early stages, but could offset some of the gaps in reported cases due to any number of factors and “fill the gap during limited testing or reporting,” officials said.

“If cases are unreported, wastewater surveillance may still have them reflected in the viral load,” VDH officials noted. “We cannot identify the exact number of people contributing but can observe an increase in viral load in that particular area if the catchment area is under surveillance.”

COVID-19 testing events, however, are still a recommended option to maintain some measure of accuracy when it comes to case reports in Virginia, and a foundational part of COVID-19 monitoring strategies.

Mitigation measures also remain a valuable tool in slowing potential spread.

Those who use home tests or who may be infected but not able to get tested are encouraged to alert the public anonymously through the COVIDWise App.

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Virginia’s pandemic benefit program to issue school meals to limited households

By George Copeland Jr.

Virginia students who were absent from school from September to October last year due to COVID-19 can now receive free school meals.

With newly revised eligibility requirements, Virginia’s Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program is now providing free meals to students and schools that qualify. Benefits have been issued retroactively since May 25 and will continue until June 24.

Students are eligible to receive meals if they attend a P-EBTeligible school and qualify for free or reduced-price school meals under the National School Lunch Program. Eligibility can also apply if students attend schools that participate in the Community Eligibility Provision program.

Students must also have either participated in full-time, remote instructions provided by their school division or have been absent due to issues caused by COVID-19 like illnesses, community transmission or quarantining. Students enrolled in full-time, virtual schools are not eligible for the 2021-2022 school year.

Schools eligible for benefits, meanwhile, must have been closed or operating at reduced attendance for five consecutive days due to COVID-19-related issues, and be a participant in the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program. Schools and students must meet all eligibility requirements to receive benefits. The receipt of P-EBT benefits for previous school years does not guarantee eligibility for the 2021-2022 school year.

The amount of meals are based on the number of school absences for each student and whether they meet program requirements each month. Households with students who might qualify should visit www.pebtva.com to learn more about the changed eligibility requirements.

Questions about benefits may go to the P-EBT Call Center at (866) 513-1414 or (804) 294-1633 from Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m, and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Households with students that don’t meet eligibility requirements can visit commonhelp.virginia.gov to check their eligibility for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. They can also text ‘FOOD’ to 304304 to find Summer Meal Sites, or contact 211 Virginia to find local food resources in their area.

City council extends tax deadline, provides winning formula for babies

By Jeremy Lazarus

Richmond residents have gained a 60-day extension on the deadline to pay vehicle taxes and the city license fee on vehicles, and hundreds of Richmond mothers frantically seeking to buy baby formula will gain significant help through a new initiative.

Those are among the key items that City Council approved Tuesday at a special meeting.

The nine-member council backed Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s proposal to extend the payment period for taxes and city licenses from Monday, June 6, until Friday, Aug. 5.

No penalty or interest will be assessed for payments received or postmarked by Aug. 5, officials have said.

City Hall is following the example of Chesterfield and Henrico counties, which previously extended their payment deadlines.

The action came after city officials and council members received a barrage of calls, emails and texts from residents objecting to the short period to pay. Bills went out in mid-May, leaving only about two weeks for taxpayers to get their payments in.

The council in late April approved the mayor’s plan to cut tax bills by 20 percent in recognition of the unusual appreciation in the value of used cars and trucks, essentially leaving bills similar to 2021 payment amounts.

Council also cleared the way for the Stoney administration to work with the nonprofit Urban Baby Beginnings to distribute gift cards worth $125 apiece to Richmond mothers to help them buy formula.

With donations pouring in, Urban Baby Beginnings, created and led by Stephanie Spencer, a registered nurse, will be able to provide 1,440 gift cards that will largely be targeted to lower-income mothers who qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.

Under the plan that council approved, Richmond will contribute $25,000, with the rest coming from the area’s foodbank, Feedmore, and six other charities, the Robins Foundation, The Community Foundation, the Bob and Anna Lou Schaberg Foundation, the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation and the Jackson Foundation.

“I can’t think of anything more important than making sure our babies have the nourishment they need to grow and thrive,” Mayor Stoney said in announcing the funding.

Ms. Spencer called the initiative one way to help mothers with children under the age of one.

The gift cards would enable those receiving the cards to buy formula that the WIC program does not cover, according to the city Office of Children and Families, which is credited with the idea.

Currently, the WIC program only allows purchases of Similac and other formulas that Abbott Pharmaceuticals produces. Those formulas have virtually disappeared from store shelves since Abbott was forced to close its largest formula production plant in the winter after some of the product was found to be contaminated and unsafe.

Abbott announced plans to restart production at the Michigan plant on Saturday, June 4, after receiving clearance from government regulators, but the company has indicated that full production might not be restored for two to three months.

Richmond’s chance of landing a casino still awaits Petersburg report

By Jeremy Lazarus

Richmond could still hold a second vote in November seeking authorization to bring a casino-resort to South Side, but the outcome appears likely to be meaningless even if a majority of those who cast ballots back the proposed $565 million project this time around.

The General Assembly approved language Wednesday in the state budget that would bar the state’s casino regulator, the Virginia Lottery, from acting for a year on any casino application the state’s capital city presented.

Republican Delegate Barry D. Knight of Virginia Beach, chair of the House Appropriations Committee and lead House negotiator on the budget, disclosed that the language makes it clear that Richmond must wait until the legislature receives a report on Petersburg and the likelihood of casino success there.

Language halting Richmond from holding a referendum for a year remains in the state’s spending plan for the 2022-2024 period. The purpose: To allow the legislature’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to produce a report on the Petersburg casino option.

The additional language restricting the Virginia Lottery’s authority was added after Mayor Levar M. Stoney and City Council tried an end run around the original language by obtaining a court order authorizing the second vote on the casino.

City Hall and the governing body are seeking a second vote on the issue after voters narrowly rejected the project last November. In a stinging defeat for casino advocates, the proposal lost by 1,493 votes out of the 78,993 votes cast.

A review of the vote showed the project secured the most yes votes from majority Black and Brown sections of the city, while majority-white areas were more prone to vote against the development.

Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey, who currently represents both Richmond and Petersburg, pushed the Cockade City forward as a potential casino site after the defeat in Richmond.

While his legislation to substitute Petersburg for Richmond as the fifth site for a Virginia casino did not advance, Senate supporters proposed the budget language to enable JLARC to conduct a study, just as it had done for the other cities that have casinos in the works, Bristol, Danville, Norfolk and Portsmouth.

The first JLARC study also included Richmond.

Sen. Morrissey said he supports the new language.

Mayor Stoney, though, has remained mum since the new language in the state budget was disclosed. So have the eight council members who backed a second vote and joined the push to get the issue back on the ballot for another try for approval.

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Much has changed, much remains in newsrooms The news business is consumed by constant disruptors and interruptions.

So much so that non-breaking news often gets tossed aside.

I should know.

Twice in the past two weeks an announcement about me coming aboard as managing editor for the Richmond Free Press was kicked to the curb in favor of major, breaking news.

As it should be.

No one wants to read about journalists when mass shootings, gun violence and a deadly pandemic continue to wreak havoc locally and throughout the country. Add to that soaring gas prices, babies lacking basics, and a trip to the grocery store akin to a five-course dinner or luxury hotel stay.

When such tragedies occur and wallets are hijacked, journalists should be covering them rather than focusing on themselves. This week the news has been a little less jarring, providing time for me to reflect on my new role in a city that I moved to in 1981.

Back then, I accepted an offer to work at Richmond’s afternoon daily newspaper, intrigued that the City Council was predominantly Black, which indicated to me that the city was progressive. While that remains a matter of debate among many, I will say that having left Richmond in 2011 to teach Black college students in my hometown of Greensboro, N.C., I was elated to return here five years later. I missed my favorite haunts, my home in a quiet neighborhood, my fun-loving, quirky friends, my church, my sorority and my museums.

Upon returning, I continued to teach at various universities but experienced profound joy as a substitute teacher in Henrico County. I completed a book about Black women journalists. I also started a nonprofit media organization and spent several years as a freelance reporter and editor for publications that included the Richmond Free Press.

My first few days as the Free Press managing editor were chaotic to say the least. Having just returned from a restful vacation in Hilton Head, S.C. and Savannah, Ga. — you know, the city that Hyundai just chose over Virginia’s Pittsylvania County to spend $5.5 billion and hire more than 8,000 workers — I was tossed into a sea of local, state and national news that I’d not experienced since ...last February.

That was when, for two weeks, I served as the Free Press guest editor in the absence of the newspaper’s former managing editor. That also was when, during Black History Month, Virginia’s newly inaugurated governor caused a furor with his condemnation of critical race theory and had folks fired up about a “tip line” to snitch on classroom teachers who dared to teach the truth about American history and slavery. The furor almost made the Ralph Northam 2019 black face debacle appear quaint.

(Note to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin who made his fortune at one of the world’s most influential private equity firms: Don’t you think that time spent dissing teachers could have been better spent helping Pittsylvania County, decimated for more than a decade by furniture industry losses, secure that $5.5 billion Hyundai deal?)

Before my recent re-entry into the newsroom, it had been nearly 25 years since I was a full time newspaper employee. Although much has changed since then, many aspects of the industry remain. The decline of daily newspapers began with buyouts and mergers in the early 1990s, around the same time that the Richmond Free Press was born. The dissolution of newsrooms continues today in the form of tight budgets, lean staffs, 24/7 hour news cycles and decreased circulation.

Although the Free Press is a weekly newspaper, our mission is similar to that of daily print publications and online outlets. Still in the game, we are deadline driven, truth seekers and zealous about serving Richmond and surrounding communities. We are a Black-owned newspaper and revel in our reputation for providing relevant information for and about Richmond’s Black community. We also delight in knowing that our newspapers, more often than not, are consumed by many non-Black readers, too. Our staff is small, but mighty. A cadre of talented freelance reporters and photographers stand ready to support us when needed and we are proud of their presence.

I remain honored and humbled (and somewhat speechless) by an invitation from Jean P. Boone, Richmond Free Press president and publisher, to lead the Free Press.

In accepting my new role, I am the second editor to do so since the death of Richmond Free Press Founder Raymond H. Boone. Never did I envision being in this position once occupied by a man whose backbone was made of steel, whose mind was sharper than any sword, and whose heart was good as gold.

Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Boone for allowing me — a woman who penned her first newspaper article for a Black newspaper, The Carolina Peacemaker, as a college student in 1977 — to lead your life’s passion and tireless work in its continuing journey. It is my hope and prayer that you, dear readers and new readers, will continue this journey with us.

All aboard!

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Biden puts bans on policing “Our criminal justice system must respect the dignity and rights of all persons and adhere to our fundamental obligation to ensure fair and impartial justice for all. This is imperative — not only to live up to our principles as a Nation, but also to build secure, safe, and healthy communities.

Protecting public safety requires close partnerships between law enforcement and the communities it serves. Public safety therefore depends on public trust, and public trust in turn requires that our criminal justice system as a whole embodies fair and equal treatment, transparency, and accountability.” President Biden, Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.

In the two years since Minneapolis Police murdered George Floyd, Police have killed more than 2,000 people in the United States — even more in 2021 than in 2020. Black Americans remain nearly three times as likely as white people to be killed by police.

Yet many in Congress still refuse to act.

President Biden’s executive order on policing, issued on the anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s mur-

der, incorporates several elements of 21 Pillars for Redefining Public Safety and Restoring Community Trust, the National Urban League’s own plan for enhancing public safety and restoring trust between communities and law enforcement.

The president’s executive order, which directly impacts about 100,000 federal law enforcement officers, sets forth a model for state and local law enforcement agencies and uses carrots and

Marc H. Morial sticks and incentives to encourage those agencies to make the same kind of reforms. It represents a measure of meaningful change and a critical acknowledgment of the pervasive systemic racism that has shattered the trust between police and communities of color.

But it is no substitute for the broad federal legislation we have sought, or for the full implementation of our 21 Pillars in every community across the nation.

On June 9, I’ll join Gwen Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, for the latest stop in our 21 Pillars Tour, which already has included events in Louisville, Ky., Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago.

In each of these cities, trust between the police and the communities they serve was broken.

In Louisville, the officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor

in a botched raid escaped consequences after prosecutors misled a grand jury.

In Columbus, police used physical violence, tear gas and pepper spray against peaceful protesters without provocation in what a federal judge called “the sad tale of officers, clothed with the awesome power of the state, run amok.”

A recent study of Chicago Police found that their misconduct is a group phenomenon, involving more than 1,000 “deviant, even criminal” officers, that inflict outsized harm in communities of color. And in Kansas City, officers are accused of excessive and deadly force against Black and brown Kansas Citians, constitutional violations, and discriminatory patterns and practices.

The 21 Pillars centers on five key themes that are fundamental to the protection and preservation of life, dignity, trust, and safer communities: collaboration, accountability, changing divisive policies, transparency, and elevated standards for hiring and training police. The tour is aimed at familiarizing communities with the plan’s objectives, amplify the issues and concerns relevant in each city, and advocate for policy solutions.

With the incorporation of several elements of the 21 Pillars into President Biden’s executive order, the plan already is having an impact. Key provisions of the order include:

No vacation from education Students everywhere are anticipating, or already experiencing, their summer vacation.

It means freedom from daily classes and the opportunity to break, “chill” and perhaps attend a summer program for many.

We know, however, that there is knowledge erosion over the summer, especially for students who don’t continue to read or learn.

Race matters here. Lower-income parents often can’t afford summer programs. In other cases, they count on older children to be caretakers for their younger siblings, which means they may have to forego opportunities for continued learning.

There are year-round learning or staggered learning opportunities in a few school districts.

However, students are “off” from late May or early June to August or September. Some parents aggressively seek summer programs to keep their children intellectually engaged. Others face significant barriers to keeping their children involved in the learning process.

Parents must be encouraged to find summer-learning experiences for their children.

More importantly, we need to reconsider this notion of summer without learning. Some schools assign summer reading lists, but to the extent that learning is

interactive, reading in a vacuum may not be optimal for enhancing education. It’s better than nothing, but why such a low bar? Why aren’t school districts more forcefully providing summer opportunities?

The achievement gap is real, and it starts before children are enrolled in school and continues through higher education. Upon preschool enrollment, data (sometimes disputed) suggest

Julianne Malveaux that young white children are exposed to 30 million more words than young Black students. Other exposure gaps are cultural (who goes to museums, cultural performances, or libraries), physical (involvement in sports), and social. These gaps show up when students take standardized tests or are measured against prevailing cultural “norms.”

Learning has to be both yearround and lifelong. This isn’t just about students but also about the adults who guide them. When was the last time you read a book, checked out a museum, or expanded your horizons? You can’t encourage your children to be lifelong learners unless you are one yourself.

Still, it is time for us to think about these summer vacations.

The notion of having summer off comes from an agricultural model where young people had the summer off to help their parents harvest crops. With the

number of family farms plummeting, children aren’t needed to work in agriculture. From my perspective, they are needed to be in classrooms, libraries and museums.

Rethinking education means spending money, though, and as our national student body has become more diverse, there seems to be less interest in spending money on education.

Higher-income parents can pay for the supplemental education programs that their children need. Lower-income parents scramble for opportunities and have to balance their economic situation with their children’s learning needs.

There are lots of objections to reconsidering summer vacations.

Parents with several students worry about coordinating schedules if calendars are changed, and different children are off at different times. Teachers, who savor their summers off, wonder about the financial implications of a more extended school year.

And culturally, we are all used to the model of “summer off,” and it will take some adjustment to change that.

The hybrid education introduced by COVID could be a model for summer education. At the very minimum, it provides us with some of the alternatives we need to consider if our nation is to be educationally competitive.

The writer is an economist, author, and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA. Juliannemalveaux.com

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• Bans on chokeholds and carotid restraints by federal law enforcement officers except where deadly force is authorized. (Pillar 10) • New federal standards and training for use of force. (Pillars 4, 9, and 20) • Restrictions on the use of no-knock entries by federal law enforcement officers. (Pillar 10) • Creation of national law enforcement accountability database. (Pillar 14) Social parity, economic empowerment, and civil rights cannot be achieved in a world of unjust policing, President Biden’s Executive Order, guided by the principles outlined in 21 Pillars, can be the basis for safer, more effective, and community-centered law enforcement across the nation.”

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

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Mayor Stoney and city developers missing mark on Diamond District plans

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For the past two decades, I have been outspoken about the Divorce, Separation, Custody, city failing to carry out the wishes of Arthur Ashe to build Support, Home Buy or Sell an African-American museum honoring the legacy AfricanStart with as little as $100 American athletic achievement by way of his well-researched classic book series, “Hard Road to Glory.” In my view, such a facility, with the addition of an indoor sports complex, would be such a major game changer for the city to reap major tourist and revenue benefits for decades to come.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Warriors Klay Thompson, Steph Curry and Draymond Green

Will Kendrick Lamar’s new release net win for Warriors?

Cleveland, 4-0.

If Steph Curry is the Golden And now 2022: Earlier in State Warriors’ good luck charm May, Lamar released “Mr. Morale on the floor, then Kendrick Lamar may be the team’s four-leaf clover & The Big Steppers.” Awaiting off it. results.

Not all basketball fans know of Lamar never played serious basketball himself, but he is the Lamar, but rap-music enthusiasts cousin of Nick Young, who played are keenly aware of the 34-year-old musician from Compton, Calif., Kendrick Lamar in the NBA from 2007 to 2018. who follows his nearly hometown And you guessed it. Young was Warriors with passion. with the Warriors in 2018 when they won For those who believe in karma and/or it all. coincidences, Lamar — aka K-Dot — is u closely linked to the Warriors’ success.

Curry added another trophy to his collection The “Dubs” won the NBA titles in 2015, following the Warriors victory over Dallas in ’17 and ’18. Those years coincided with the Western Finals. Averaging 24 points, Curry Lamar releasing albums. won the inaugural Magic Johnson Award, which 2015: Lamar releases “To Pimp a But- goes to the Western Finals MVP. terfly.” Warriors win NBA Finals, 4-2, over u After leading the Celtics to victory over Cleveland.

2017: Lamar releases “Damn.” Again, Miami, Jayson Tatum captured the inaugural Larry Bird Award as the MVP of the Eastern Warriors defeat Cleveland in Finals, 4-1.

2018: Lamar releases “Black Panther Finals. Tatum had 26 points, 10 rebounds and the Album.” Sound familiar? Dubs defeat six assists in the Game 7 clincher.

Youth baseball league opens 56th season The Metropolitan Junior Baseball League (MJBL) will open its 56th season 9:45 a.m.

Saturday, June 4, at Hotchkiss Field, 701 E. Brookland Park Blvd.

Mayor Levar Stoney, Police Chief Gerald R. Smith and Flying Squirrels COO Todd “Parney” Parnell will share greetings and participate in an around-the-horn throwing out of the first pitch. Admission to the game is free and open to the public.

MJBL was founded and launched in Richmond in 1966, initially to help youths within urban communities. Through MJBL, participants competed in baseball games throughout the country, gaining exposure to other cultures and improving their playing skills.

The nonprofit organization has partnered with the Richmond Police Athletic League, as well as the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, among others, to help combat a national decline in baseball league participation within inner-city and underserved communities. These groups seek to promote the fun of the game of baseball to those at the T-ball level and the coach pitch level, which serves children ages 5 to 9. — Donald J. Adams

John Marshall’s players reveal college courts Last team standing?

NBA Finals between Western Division champion Golden State Warriors and Eastern Division kingpin Boston Celtics.

NBA Finals schedule Game 1, June 2, 9 p.m.

Game 2, June 5, 8 p.m.

Game 3, June 8, 9 p.m.

Game 4, June 10, 9 p.m. *Game 5, June 13, 9 p.m. *Game 6, June 16, 9 p.m. *Game 7, June 19, 9 p.m. *If necessary All games televised on ABC

Three John Marshall High basketball athletes are taking their jump shots to the next level.

Reginald Robertson will continue to play at WashingtonAdventist University in Takoma Park, Md.; KaShawn Cordes is headed to Northwest Kansas Technical College; and Malachi Dark will suit up for Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach.

Also, Justin Brown plans to try out for the Virginia State University team as a walk-on.

Coach Ty White’s Justices went 22-4 this past season, winning the state Class 2 championship game over Radford at the Siegel Center.

On the JM alumni list, Roosevelt Wallace is set to begin his sophomore season at Louisville, and Jason Nelson, after being red-shirted for the 2021-22 season, will be a freshman at the University of Richmond.

Twinning: VCU’s French tennis players named ITA All-Americans

Maxence and Charles Bertimon of VCU became the first doubles pair in program history to make the NCAA semifinals.

The Bertimon twins prove you don’t have to be born in America to become AllAmericans.

The VCU tennis program would like to say merci beaucoup (that’s “thank you very much” in English) to its talented French connection.

Twins Charles and Maxence “Max” Bertimon, from Champagne-sur-Seine, in north central France, shined bright on college tennis’ highest level, the NCAA Nationals.

Competing in Champaign, Ill., as the 33rd seed, the sixfoot right-handers advanced to the semifinals before falling to Texas, 6-4, 6-3, May 27.

To reach the semis, the Bertimons defeated tandems from No. 1 seed Texas Christian, No. 28 University of California and No. 6 Auburn.

Each was awarded ITA All-America status for their determined drive to the doorstep of a national title.

Earlier in the season the Bertimons breezed through the

Atlantic 10 doubles competition in Orlando. The duo finished 23-10 on the season.

The Bertimons aren’t the only Rams with French accents.

Other Frenchmen on VCU’s roster were Tom Leblanc, Matisse Boubichon and Rayane Stable. It is fitting but not surprising that coach Anthony Rossi is also French.

This is no time for aurevoirs (“goodbyes”). Both Bertimons are expected back next season.

Petersburg’s legendary basketball coach Carl Edward Peal dies Moses Malone was among the players he helped shine

Carl Edward Peal, perhaps known best as being Moses Malone’s basketball coach at Petersburg High School, died Thursday, May 16, 2022. He was 94 and living in Richmond.

With Mr. Peal in charge on the sidelines and Mr. Malone dominating on the floor, Petersburg won the 1973 and 1974 State Group AAA titles. The Crimson Wave went 50-0 over the two seasons combined, with few close games.

Mr. Peal retired as coach following the 1974 season but remained at PHS as an administrator.

Born in 1927, Mr. Peal coached various sports at Petersburg’s segregated Peabody High. His squads were 214-59 overall from 1956 to 1970. That included a VIA Group A title in 1960 when Peabody topped Maggie Walker in the finals.

Mr. Peal also coached golf at Peabody, winning the VIA state crowns in 1963, ’64 and ’65.

After integration of Virginia’s public schools in 1970, Mr. Peal became head basketball coach at Petersburg High, where he raised the program to national prominence.

Carl Peal, the former Petersburg High School and Peabody High School In his first season as PHS head coach died May 16 at age 94. This photo, taken in 1974 or 1975, shows Mr. coach, with Mr. Malone a sophomore, Peal and his star player, the late Moses Malone. the Wave went 17-3. His overall mark plus became common. sociation and the National Basketball for Petersburg 67-3.

In both ’73 and ’74, the PHS semifinal Association from 1974 through 1995, Mr. Peal was the epitome of being cool, calm and collected on the bench, and finals games drew overflow crowds led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA but he was regarded as an excellent at the State tournament at the University championship in 1983, winning both the of Virginia. league and Finals MVP. strategist and strict disciplinarian.

As great as Mr. Malone was, he As fate would have it, Mr. Malone Those were exciting times for area wasn’t a one-man team. Even without died before his beloved coach, Mr. Peal, hoops fans.

Mr. Malone was clearly the top col- Mr. Malone, the Wave would have been in 2015.

In his later years, Mr. Peal was a lege prospect in the nation and everyone a contender for top honors with the likes wanted to see him play. PHS games of Michael Howard, Tassels Taylor and familiar figure around Richmond attending Summer League games at Ben were moved from its small gym on Morris Fultz, Mr. Malone’s cousin.

Mr. Malone, who went on play Wallace Gym and also at John Marshall Washington Street to nearby Virginia State University, where crowds of 4,000- in both the American Basketball As- High School.

VSU baseball players to join Tri-City squad Virginia State University will be well represented in this summer’s Tri-City Chili Peppers, a collegiate squad that competes in the Coastal Plain League.

Three Trojans making the roster are shortstop Tahraun Hammond, outfielder Ricky Jones and pitcher Cole Spain.

The Chili Peppers compete in the Coastal’s East Division along with teams from North Carolina, South Carolina and Hampton.

Teams play a 56-game schedule, stretching into mid-August, with wooden bats required.

Among the more famous athletes to play in the league are Justin Verlander and Ryan Zimmerman, who went on to big league stardom, and Russell Wilson, who played in the Coastal while a football and baseball standout at North Carolina State.

For scheduling and ticket information, visit chilipeppersbaseball.com.

Benedictine’s Starlings heads to Chapel Hill Joel Starlings is taking his football talents — as well as his 6-foot-5, 310-pound frame — to Chapel Hill, N.C. The recent Benedictine High graduate has signed with the University of North Carolina and will be suiting up for the ACC Tarheels this coming fall.

In helping Benedictine to the Virginia Independent Schools state title last season, Joel Starlings Starlings made 76 tackles for the Cadets, including eight for losses. He was rated a four-star prospect (on a scale of 1 to 5) by most recruiting services.

Starlings had originally committed to the University of Michigan, but changed his mind following a coaching change in Ann Arbor.

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Happenings Memorial Day activities ignite the city Fireworks at The Diamond last Saturday, after the Richmond Flying Squirrels game against Hartford kick off the Memorial Day weekend in Richmond.

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Carlos Bernate

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… at the Virginia War Memorial Richmonders and various members of the U.S. military attended the Commonwealth Memorial Day Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond on Monday.

Carlos Bernate

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… at Chimborazo Park

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The Richmond Symphony saluted health care employees during a free community performance last Saturday in Chimborazo Park. Under the guide of Richmond Symphony’s Music Director Valentina Peleggi, the concert showcased the VCU Health Orchestra and the Richmond Symphony Chorus on the park’s Big Tent stage. Soloists included April Martin and Rodrick Dixon. Among the musical treats was a grand joint performance of the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony featuring “Ode to Joy.”

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… at Forest Hill Park Cousins Serenity Epps, 7 left, and Amir Sanchez, 6, celebrate their birthdays during a family celebration in Forest Hill Park during the Memorial Day weekend.

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Happenings For Walter Maxwell Dotts III, the preservation and improvement of architecture and design in Virginia’s capital has always been a family affair.

More than a century ago, Mr. Dotts’ great-grandparents laid the foundation for the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design when it was just a family house in what is now Richmond’s Monument Avenue Historic District.

Elected as the museum’s newest board chairman Jan. 1, 2022, Mr. Dotts now wants to use his board leadership position to ensure that the museum’s mission — to elevate “the awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design” — is fulfilled while also ensuring its long-term potential.

Mr. Dotts recalls that, as a child, he understood the significance of The Branch House, a 36,000-square-foot structure that was always “considered to be an asset meant to serve and benefit our city.” He was a toddler when the house, built in 1919, was bequeathed to the city’s Community Chest in 1954.

That mission of benevolence and service has remained a priority for Mr. Dotts, even during times of change and challenge.

As with many organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the Branch Museum, with no exhibitions running, no progress made on plans for the future and no funding generated as the museum effectively closed when the virus first emerged.

Becoming chairman of the board was one way Mr. Dotts believed he could help the museum move forward.

“I felt uniquely positioned to bring The Branch out of the pandemic and help determine the museum’s future course,” he says.

Federal emergency funding was critical to keeping the museum running, says Mr. Dotts. Although some aspects of the museum’s operations are still recovering, he remains optimistic, despite rising levels of COVID-19 in Richmond and other areas.

“The way things have been

Personality: Walter M. Dotts III Spotlight on board chair of Branch Museum of Architecture going, people have seemed to want to get out,” Mr. Dotts says.

“I think that if we have to reinstitute masks or something like that, we will persevere and continue on with whatever condition seems to be appropriate.”

Now in his sixth month as board chair, Mr. Dotts is hard at work with other museum employees to develop a strategic plan that reassesses the museum’s past, examines its current position and explores its future capabilities.

Mr. Dotts sees the museum as a necessary and independent presence for Richmond’s arts and cultural community that addresses needs and raises awareness in ways that differ from art installations tied to larger businesses or organizations. With recent developments in the local art design scene, he believes the Branch Museum will be integral to this growing movement in Richmond.

“It’s incredible, the energy and particularly the design energy and creativity going on in this city,” Mr. Dotts says. He points to The Martin Agency, the Brandcenter at VCU and other smaller-scale entities as contributing to Richmond’s emergence as a place where design thrives.

“I really think that it’s going to be incredibly important to have an institution dedicated to celebrating that sort of design creativity that is happening in Richmond.”

Also, the museum’s new executive director, Sharon Aponte, came aboard last August. She previously was deputy director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs and interim co-director at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami. While at The Wolfsonian, Ms. Aponte guided critically acclaimed programming, and co-led the development of a $16 million capital improvement project to expand the museum’s footprint on Miami

Beach and rehabilitate its two historic structures, according to a Branch Museum news release announcing her arrival.

Mr. Dotts is confident that the museum will continue to be important to design in Richmond, as it has been an important part of his family for generations.

“We are very optimistic,” says Mr. Dotts when asked about the potential impact of his time as board chair. “We think that there’s a need and that there is a void in the cultural landscape that we should and can fill.”

Meet a generational art and design advocate, Walter M. Dotts III: Volunteer position: Board chairman of The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design.

Date and place of birth: May 22 in Richmond.

Where I live now: Church Hill.

Education: Saint Christopher’s School, bachelor’s of arts in experiential psychology Brown University.

Occupation: Owner, Old House Authority, which helps preserve old houses and their stories.

Family: Wife, Jennie; daughter, Karen; granddaughter, Remy; large extended family.

The Branch is: The institution that will next affect the city’s cultural landscape by reinforcing Richmond’s role as a design center.

Location: 2501 Monument Ave. Mission: To celebrate design in ways that inform and educate our community as to its essential role in our lives.

Brief history of The Branch: Built as John Kerr Branch’s family home 1919; Given to the Community Chest by his daughter, Zayde Branch Rennolds, as its headquarters so that it would benefit the city in 1954. The house has come full circle to its present use as a design museum to educate and serve our community.

Its uniqueness: Setting the stage for our exhibits, the sophisticated design and construction, remarkable interior spaces and acoustics, and the exceptional craftmanship all complement our focus on design. In addition, its air of antiquity often serves as a counterpoint that accentuates the modernity of our exhibits.

My special relationship to The Branch: My great-grandparents built the house as a home for art and inspiration, which continues with our stewardship and the programs and exhibits we showcase.

Childhood memories: As a child, The Branch House was always represented as and considered to be an asset meant to serve and benefit our city.

Number one goal or project as the board chair: Lay out a program with unambiguous goals to propel The Branch into the future.

Strategy for achieving goals: Develop a strategic plan and setting out a course of action with definite steps carrying us forward (while) highlighting the inherent importance of design.

Inclusivity and The Branch: Diversity and an openness to new and different ideas and people are some of our most important goals.

Its importance: Only with diversity and inclusivity, allowing us to tap into the broadest possible constituency, will we be able to realize our mission and vision.

The Branch’s biggest challenge: Our biggest asset is also one of our most expensive.

Keeping up an aging 36,000square-foot home has proven to be a real challenge.

What are you most proud of about The Branch: I am most proud of our team’s dedication and professional approach to serving, educating and improving our community through the curation and examination of design in our programs and exhibits.

Least: How long it takes.

What makes The Branch one of a kind: We are the only independent institution in the region dedicated to celebrating design.

Richmond’s history and The Branch: Since the end of the Civil War, the Branches have been integral to the growth and development of the city.

From assisting Maggie Walker with her banking education, to providing the city with public baths, they have been committed to the well-being of our community. The Branch House is an indication of that commitment and success. And, the development of a museum of design in the house carries that commitment to the greater good into the future.

Monument Avenue and The

Branch: In the past, the Branch House set the tone for the quality of design and construction, and now it is the only museum on Monument Avenue.

Upcoming exhibitions: “(Re) Framing Protest”— public opening 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 17; June 8 Webinar: Reshaping Concrete; and Juneteenth Picnic and exhibition tours on June 19 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

How to become involved with The Branch: Become a member, attend our exhibitions and programs.

How I start the day: Our two rescue dogs wake us with tailwagging enthusiasm, setting the tone for the rest of the day!

The three words that best describe me: Perseverance, fortitude and synthesis.

Best late-night snack: We dine much too late to consider a late-night snack.

How I unwind: Walking our dogs.

What I have learned during the pandemic about myself: Nothing I did not know before.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Repairing my vintage sport cars.

A quote that I am inspired by: “While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.”

— James Branch Cabell.

The best thing my parents ever taught me: My parents were forward-thinking people who taught me to seek the greater good.

The person who influenced me the most: My mother, who made me aware that one catches more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Book that influenced me the most: “The Odyssey” by Homer.

What I’m reading now: “The 1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Next goal: To preserve The Branch and its role as a museum of design for coming generations.

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Happenings Sidney DuPont finds a ‘powerful, dynamic and necessary’ role

By Mark Kennedy The Associated Press

NEW YORK Sidney DuPont knew he’d made the right career decision when musical theater icon Chita Rivera not only threw a shoe at him but also slapped his face.

It was in 2019 at a workshop of the Broadway musical “Paradise Square.” Mr. DuPont and A.J. Shively were performing an early number from the show for guests that included Mr. Rivera.

Mr. Rivera was so taken by the performance that she had tears in her eyes and her astonished reaction almost looked like fury. Off came her shoes and out came her hand — all out of love.

“It was one of the best experiences of my life. I don’t think I washed my face for the next two days,” says Mr. DuPont. Rivera asked him his name and said: “I’m so glad to get to know it before the rest of the world does.”

Of course, the rest of the world is catching up with Mr. Rivera. Mr. DuPont, 30, has been nominated for a Chita Rivera Award and a Tony Award this season for his work on “Paradise Square,” with Variety cheering his “earthy, sometimes modern, style that leads from Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/Associated Press the center” and The Wall Street Sidney DuPont attends the Journal saying he made “a strong Tony Awards: Meet The impression.” Mr. DuPont is Nominees media day at the nominated for best performance Sofitel New York on May by an actor in a featured role 12 in New York. DuPont in a musical. is nominated for a Tony “The one thing I can say for best featured actor in about this journey is that hard a musical for his role in “Paradise Square.” work, kindness and dedication — I know everybody says this — but it really pays off,” he says. “When you are prepared for an opportunity and you seize it, then the hard work definitely pays off.”

Mr. DuPont is, appropriately, a Virgo, reflecting his zodiac sign affinity for a practical and systematic approach to life.

He has put in the hard work to get to this point, touring with “Memphis: the Musical,” “A Chorus Line” and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”

“I couldn’t ask for a better dance partner,” says Mr. Shively, also a first-time Tony nominee. “He’s been extremely helpful, just making me feel more confident and just knowing exactly when to give an encouraging word and just giving me tips here and there. I’ve been very lucky to have him.”

Mr. DuPont has been working on “Paradise Square” for five years. It’s a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York in 1863. He plays Washington Henry, an escaped enslaved man traveling to Canada on the Underground Railroad who stops in New York to wait for his

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“Paradise Square” cast members include, from left, Hailee Kaleem Wright, Karen Burthwright and Sidney DuPont.

girlfriend.

“I think he is a romantic, he’s a fighter, but he’s also one of the ancestors whose story often gets left off pages in the history books,” says Mr. DuPont. “I am grateful every single day to be able to tell this story, to tell his story in a way that I think is powerful, dynamic and necessary.”

Mr. DuPont, the middle of three kids, grew up in Philadelphia knowing early on he wanted to be a performer and storyteller.

How early? Perhaps even at 2, when his dad plugged a video camera into the TV and filmed his son.

“I’m looking at the camera. And then I see myself on the TV and I run to the TV and I hug the TV,” says Mr. DuPont, laughing. “Maybe that’s when it happened.”

He would go on to graduate from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia — he had amassed enough credits to leave early to go on tour; he’s a Virgo, remember.

One thing he had to overcome was something key to musical theater — his hearing. At 5, Mr. DuPont was diagnosed with cholesteatoma, a skin-lined cyst that invades the middle ear and eats away at the eardrum. He lost hearing in his left ear.

“It made me feel a little other in a way that was surprising.

I was already dealing with sexuality and that kind of otherness and then also being Black and, more specifically, darker skinned.

So I really had a lot of things that I was really self-conscious

‘Collective Rage’ features 5 Betties

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Richmond Triangle Players will close its 2021-22 season with “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties,” which has been described as “one of Broadway’s wildest and wackiest comedies.”

The eccentric comedy, written by Jen Silverman, focuses on five women colliding at the intersection of rage, love and the “thea-tah.” The storyline provokes each character to look in the mirror and face the person they didn’t know they could be.

The five Betties in the production are portrayed by Kasey Britt, Zoe Cotzias, August Hundley, Nora Ogunleye and Lanaya Van Driesen.

“Collective Rage” opens June 3 and runs until June 25.

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about,” he says.

It’s only recently that Mr. DuPont has begun talking publicly about his partial deafness, saying he didn’t realize he was carrying shame about it from grade school.

“I think I became embarrassed about something that was a part of me. It’s crazy because I’ve dealt with being a gay man. I’ve dealt with being a Black man,” he says. “I am hard of hearing — that’s part of who I am as well. And it’s part of my story.”

It’s part of Mr. Shively’s story, too, which may explain their fast connection. His sister was born deaf and a cousin is deaf. “I think that might be one of the things that bonded the two of us,” he says.

Mr. DuPont relies on his training, a camera on the conductor in the orchestra pit and a finely honed internal meter to compensate. In the show, it is he who starts the song “Turn My Life Around.”

“It’s a lot of pressure, but it’s also really cool because here I am, hard of hearing and I’m the person who gets to start the rhythm of an entire number.”

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Juneteenth Concert is a ‘Celebration of Freedom’ Free Press staff report

Juneteenth (or Freedom Day) will be celebrated in its truest sense at St. James’s Episcopal Church at 5 p.m. June 19 at the church, 1205 W. Franklin St. This event features a spectacular “Freedom Day Organ Recital” performed by renowned organist Dr. Carl Haywood, playing music he composed just for the occasion.

In addition, The Celebration Ensemble, made up of members of Norfolk State University and St. James’s choirs, will be singing spirituals, including “Lift Every Voice” and “We Shall

Overcome.”

“We all know the quote, ‘Where words fail, music speaks.’ So true,” said Dr. Mark Whitmire, St. James’s director of music.

“The music of our Juneteenth Celebration will say plenty about the cause of racial equality and justice. I think we can all agree that 400 years of words haven’t accomplished enough, as we gather a block from Monument Avenue, which until recently, displayed Confederate statues. Juneteenth is a message beyond music.”

St. James’s is known for its pipe organ, a CB Fisk, Opus 112, which is said to be among the finest organs in the nation.

For the past 17 years, St. James’s has hosted a service of music in collaboration with Dr. Haywood and the Norfolk State Choir with readings in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King.

In recent years this tradition has been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“St. James’s Church is delighted to share its gifts, including our impressive music program, to inspire unity and deepen our faith as Christians, not only with our lips but in our lives,” said The Rev. Dr. John McCard, rector.

For more information, please contact: Katie Ricard, St. James’s Church youth@doers.org; 508-309-0128

Episcopal Diocese of Maryland distributes $175,000 in reparations grants

By Adelle M. Banks Religious News Service

The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has made an inaugural grant distribution of $175,000 after church members overwhelmingly approved a reparations fund a year and a half ago.

“The applicant pool was large and filled with worthy

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organizations doing the work of restoring Black communities in the geographical area of the Diocese of Maryland,” said the Rev. Christine L. McCloud, the diocese’s canon for mission, in a statement announcing the grants.

Speaking at an awards ceremony in Baltimore on May 26, Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton said the awards’ distribution represented the triumph of action over debate.

“Many people in the United States wonder, ‘Why reparations? I did not own slaves and maybe my family didn’t own slaves and I love everyone,’” said Bishop Sutton, the Maryland diocese’s first African-American bishop. “Today is part of that answer. The legacy of 350-plus years of discrimination against persons of African descent have taken a toll on this nation and it has affected all of us. All of us.”

Bishop Sutton encouraged others to “return some of the wealth that has been accumulated over 350 years and return it to African American communities.”

In September 2020, a diocesan convention voted, with 82.5 percent of 220 delegates approving, to create a $1 million “seed fund for reparations.”

“It’s more than that now, not because of the stock market, as we all know, but because of continuing contributions to that fund of people from all over the state, Episcopalian or

non-Episcopalian,” said Bishop Sutton at the ceremony, “saying we want to be a part of this; we want to be a part of efforts to address housing inequality, education inequality, poor health care, environmental degradation and the need for micro economic justice.”

In 2019, the diocese’s convention voted to study reparations and urge congregations to “examine how their endowed wealth is tied to the institution of slavery.”

When that measure passed with no dissenting votes, Sutton said that it brought tears to his eyes as he realized the delegates, representing a membership that is 90 percent white, “got it.”

“They get this thing called justice, and when you put it in a frame that there is a basic injustice in this nation of stealing from generations of people and that has a direct effect on today, then people,” Bishop Sutton said in a 2019 interview, “they say, ‘OK, we got to get that fixed.’”

The diocese named six organizations as the inaugural grant recipients. They include: • Anne Arundel Connecting Together, which will use its $30,000 award to gain participants in a new “Turnaround Thursday” program to aid public housing residents and formerly incarcerated individuals in finding jobs that may lead to increased salaries and career development.

• Calvert Concept Charitable Corporation, whose $30,000 grant will be used to address social injustices and enhance

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racial reconciliation by fostering business and home ownership for “people whose family histories are rooted in enslavement.”

• I Believe in Me, whose $30,000 grant will be used to instill self-esteem in at-risk youth, offer math and reading

programs, and pay costs of preconstruction for the organization’s new permanent location.

• Next One Up, whose $30,000 award will provide long-term coaching and mentoring to 12- to 15-year-old African-American boys to

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER NELSON ROQUE, JR., Plaintiff v.

ADRIANA LOPEZ PORTILLO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001268-00 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.

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

DELORIS Y. BAILEY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1789 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 714 West Clay Street, Tax Map Number N000-0307/026, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Deloris Y. Bailey.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DELORIS Y. BAILEY, has not been located and/or has/ 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 DELORIS Y. BAILEY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 14, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER DAVINA ELLIS, Plaintiff v.

WARRENT ELLIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001399-00 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 1st day of July, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER PATRICE EVANS, Plaintiff v.

TERRELL EVANS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000373-00 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 27th day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER BHANU MITTAL, Plaintiff v.

MAHIMA NAGPAL, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001574-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, appear here on or before the 19th day of July, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure,

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MUHAMMAD JUNAID, Plaintiff v.

JASMINE DOUGLAS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000706-00 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 8th day of July, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO JOSE FRANCISCO GONZALEZ, Plaintiff v.

ANGELICA DE FATIMA BOLIVAR CASTRILLON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22-2490 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation and without any interruption, for a period of more than one year.

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Defendant, Angelica De Fatima Bolivar Castrillon, is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that her last known address is at an unknown location in Colombia, South America; it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendant, Angelica De Fatima Bolivar Castrillon, appear before this Court on or before the 18th day of July, 2022, and do what is necessary to protect her interests in this suit.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Jesse Baez, Esq. (VSB #85986) Brooks & Baez 9100 Arboretum Pkwy., Suite 190 Richmond, VA 23236 T: (804) 570-7473 F: (804) 548-4215 Counsel for Plaintiff

LiCENSE SGG Enterprises Inc. Trading as: Fast & Friendly 6249 Jefferson Davis Hwy Richmond, Virginia 23234 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Department of A lcoholic B everage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Convenience Grocery Store license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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Ordinance No. 2022-153 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $30,000.00 from the National League of Cities Institute, Inc., to amend the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Special Fund Budget by creating a new special fund for the Office of Minority Business Development called The National League of Cities Special Fund, and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Office of Minority Business Development’s The National League of Cities Special Fund by $30,000.00 for the purpose of funding technical assistance and consulting services for the City in connection with the National League of Cities Institute, Inc., technical assistance program.

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is to subject the property briefly described as 921 Hull Street, Tax Map Number S000-0059/019, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Lotus Tree Ventures, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LOTUS TREE VENTURES, LLC, Alan David Walker, Registered Agent, which has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to the registered agent’s 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 LOTUS TREE VENTURES, LLC, Alan David Walker, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 14, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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Ordinance No. 2022-149 To amend Ord. No. 2021040, adopted May 24, 2021, which adopted the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 General Fund Budget and made appropriations pursuant thereto, by re-appropriating a $1,173,840.00 portion of the Fiscal Year 20202021 fund balance excess identified as an assignment of “Unspent Building Code Fees” in the City’s 2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, and to appropriate these funds to the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 General Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Planning and Development Review by $1,173,840.00 for the purpose of supporting the local building department functions of the Department of Planning and Development Review’s Division of Permits and Inspections in compliance with Va. Code § 36-105.

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Ordinance No. 2022-127 As Amended To authorize the special use of the property known as 2417 Stuart Avenue for the purpose of a [singlefamily attached dwelling with an accessory] dwelling unit within an accessory building to an existing single-family attached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER TAVONYA WHITING-ELLIS, Plaintiff v.

ROBERT ELLIS, IV, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22-1034 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 27th day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

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

LOTUS TREE VENTURES, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1248 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit

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Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, June 13, 2022 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:

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so by following the instructions referenced in the June 13, 2022 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https:// www.rva.gov/office-cityclerk, 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.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER FRANCISA BAKER, Plaintiff v.

JOSHUA SALLIE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001397-00 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 1st day of July, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO E. MICHAEL HARRIS, GERTRUDE H. MCDONNOUGH and SHERWOOD A HARRIS, Plaintiffs, v.

ALTON B. COLEMAN, DERWIN K. COLEMAN, LACOUNTES D. COLEMAN, RICHARD L. SMITH, JR., WILLIAM WALLER, MARGIE PAGE THOMPSON, if she be living or if she be dead, her heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” MARGIE FRANCES THOMPSON, if she be living or if she be dead, her heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” EMMETT THOMPSON, if he be living or if he be dead, his heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” JOYCE H. SMITH, if she be living or if she be dead, her heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” FRANCELLA H. COLEMAN, if she be living or if she be dead, her heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” LILLIAN PAGE HARRIS, if she be living or if she be dead, her heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” LAKEITA SMITH WALLER, if she be living or if she be dead, her heirs, devisees, creditors, and successors-in-title as “Parties Unknown,” Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-2737 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to approve the partition and/or sale of a parcel of land located in Henrico County, Virginia commonly known as Three (3) acres - Verna Court (ADJ Wingfield), Henrico, Virginia 23228, Parcel ID No. 779761-1821 (the Property”).

It appearing that there may be additional heirs of the Property who are now unknown parties, it is ORDERED that: Those unknown heirs appear before this Court on or before the 18th of July, 2022 after due publication of this Order of Publication (this “Order”) in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court, Henrico County, Virginia and do what it is necessary to protect their interest herein.

A Copy, Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk I ask for this: Gerald W. S. Carter (VSB #29792) HARRELL & CHAMBLISS LLP Eighth & Main Building 707 East Main Street, Suite 1000 Richmond, VA 23219 804.915.3224 (direct dial) 804.915.3244 (direct fax) Email:gcarter@hclawfirm.com

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

WILLIAM H. DUNHAM, IV, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1275 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3612 Patsy Ann Drive, Tax Map Number C008-0985/008, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, William H. Dunham, IV. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, WILLIAM H. DUNHAM, IV, 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 WILLIAM H. DUNHAM, IV, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 14, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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Ordinance No. 2022-164 To authorize the special use permit of the property known as 1504 Park Avenue for the purpose of a single-family attached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Single-family houses,

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Ordinance No. 2022-158 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Family Lifeline Grant Contract between the City of Richmond and Family Lifeline for the purpose of expanding family support services. (COMMITTEE: Education and Human Services, Thursday, June 9, 2022, 2:00 p.m.)

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO MARY LOUISE COOKEPAYNTER, Plaintiff v.

KEITH JEFFREY PAYNTER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22-2516 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony on the ground that the parties have lived separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period of more than one (1) year.

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that diligence has been used b or on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant is, without effect, and that his last known address is 1727 Debbie Lane, Richmond, VA 23223, located in the County of Henrico, Virginia, it is therefore ORDERED, that the defendant, Keith Jeffrey Paynter, appear before this Court on or before the 18th day of July, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit.

A Copy, Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk I ask for this: Richard M. Bing (VSB #18457) RICHARD M. BING, P.C. 7400 Beaufont Springs Drive, Suite 300 Richmond, Virginia 23225 Telephone (804) 272-7900 Facsimile (804) 747-1921 rbing@binglawoffice.com

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown appear here on or before the 27th day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

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Ordinance No. 2022-163 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3001 Commerce Road for the purpose of parking areas and drive aisles illuminated by lighting structures in excess of 35 feet in height, upon certain terms and conditions. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Industrial. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so by following the instructions referenced in the June 27, 2022 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https:// www.rva.gov/office-cityclerk, 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.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KIARA WINBORN, Plaintiff v.

DELISHA ERVIN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001577-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown appear here on or before the 19th day of July, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CESAR MEJIA, Plaintiff v.

GIRLES AVILA MATEO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001398-00 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 1st day of July, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

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Ordinance No. 2022-162 To authorize the special use permit of the property known as 1114 Azalea Avenue for the purpose of an automated teller machine, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Corridor Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space.

Secondary Uses: Singlefamily houses, institutional and government uses.

Ordinance No. 2022-165 To authorize the special use permit of the property known as 2312 Summer Hill Avenue for the purpose of a day nursery for up to 12 children, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

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

Ordinance No. 2022-157 To amend Ord. No. 2021042, adopted May 24, 2021, which (i) accepted a program of proposed Capital Improvement Projects for Fiscal Year 2021-2022 and the four fiscal years thereafter, (ii) adopted a Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2021-2022, and (iii) determined a means of financing the same, to modify the purpose of the Heritage Center / Lumpkin’s Jail (Devil’s Half Acre) project in the Economic and Community Development category to provide that the scope of such project includes the planning, design, and implementation of the memorialization of the property known as 1305 th North 5 Street due to the property’s historical significance associated with its use as the Burial Grounds for Free People of Colour and Slaves, and the relocation, stabilization, renovation, and interpretation of the Winfree Cottage, the home of an enslaved woman.

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Ordinance No. 2022-161 To authorize the special use permit of the property known as 909 North 29th Street for the purpose of five single-family attached dwellings, with off-street parking, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings, and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings, retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 24 units per acre.

Inc. T/A Seibert’s Towing for towing-related services and tow lot operation for the purpose of documenting the exercise of the second renewal option of Contract No. 16000022041.

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Ordinance No. 2022-160 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 88-249-225, adopted Oct. 10, 1988, as previously amended

by Ord. No. 91-283-92-1, adopted Jan. 13, 1992, and Ord. No. 2014-193175, adopted Oct. 13, 2014, which authorized the special use of the property known as High Park School, containing 2.61 acres, more or less, located on the southwest corner of Brookland Park Boulevard and Second Avenue, for an apartment building for the elderly (persons 60 years of age and older), for the purpose of reducing the residency age requirement for at least 80 percent of the occupied units to persons 55 years and older, to authorize additional onsite parking, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Residential.

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

accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings, and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings, retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 29 units per acre.

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Ordinance No. 2022-159 To rezone the property known as 500 Maury Street from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the TOD-1 Transit-Oriented Nodal District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Destination MixedUse. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 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, June 27, 2022 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:

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