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Arthur Ashe Jr.

‘A true champion’

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Streamers fly as the new Arthur Ashe Boulevard street signs are unveiled last Saturday by David O. Harris Jr., nephew of Arthur Ashe, left, City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray and Mayor Levar M. Stoney at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

Thousands celebrate dedication of Arthur Ashe Boulevard By George Copeland Jr.

Local, state and national figures joined a crowd of thousands Saturday at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture to celebrate the official renaming of Arthur Ashe Boulevard. “Today we celebrate a true champion in Richmond, not just a champion on the tennis court, but on the world stage for civil rights and for racial equality,” Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney said. The dedication, which saw the unveiling of new street signs for Arthur Ashe Boulevard, was the culmination of efforts over

two decades to honor the tennis trailblazer and international human rights activist, with City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, proving to be instrumental in the success of the latest effort when City Council approved the renaming in February.

More stories, photos, A4, A5, A8 and B2 Similar efforts failed in 1993 and 2003. Ms. Gray joined Mayor Stoney and Mr. Ashe’s newphew, David O. Harris Jr. of Henrico County, in unveiling the new signs. The tarps were pulled off to loud booms of two cannons

that fired purple streamers into the air. The crowd, on its feet with cellphones and other cameras, cheered and photographed the historic moment. “One should never forget — our efforts together are epic,” Mr. Harris said in his remarks to the huge crowd that stretched from the museum’s lawn to the boulevard itself. Mr. Harris was a leading figure behind the renaming effort, his words Saturday guided by his uncle’s example in advocating for inclusivity and denouncing bigotry. Please turn to A4

New police chief promoted from the ranks By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Richmond’s new police chief, William C. “Will” Smith, addresses the media Wednesday at a news conference announcing his appointment to chief from interim chief.

Six police chiefs have come and gone since William C. “Will” Smith joined the Richmond Police Department as a patrolman in 1995. Now after rising through the ranks, the 51-year-old Richmond native will face the challenge of leading the perennially short-handed department in seeking to prevent and solve the crimes that plague the city and its residents. Mayor Levar M. Stoney Wednesday named Chief Smith the city’s 19th police chief after watching him handle the department for the past six months as interim chief.

The decision drew cheers and applause during an afternoon news conference at the department’s Grace Street headquarters and statements of praise from two former chiefs, including his predecessor, Alfred Durham, who had encouraged Chief Smith’s appointment before he left in December. Considered one of most significant appointments the mayor can make, the decision was announced as the department sought to chase down a suspect in a high-profile hit-and-run case from earlier in the day that left one dead and three injured in Shockoe Bottom in the aftermath of an

Mayor introduces measure to ban guns from city buildings, parks By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Mayor Levar M. Stoney wants to ban guns from city buildings, parks, recreation centers and other community facilities. Joining in the Democratic effort to make gun control an issue in the General Assembly elections in November, Mayor Stoney introduced legislation to City Council on Monday that would make it illegal for anyone to “carry any firearm” into city-

owned spaces, except for police officers, city-hired security guards or military personnel who are on duty. Mayor Stoney made it clear that the ban, if approved by Mayor Stoney City Council, could become effective only if the Republican-

controlled General Assembly agrees to restore local authority to impose such a ban. That authority was stripped away from local governments nearly 20 years ago. The mayor told reporters at a Monday news conference that he wants to get the legislation on the books so the city would be ready if the legislature lifts the ban. That is more likely to happen if Democrats

Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras has quietly undermined a Richmond School Board effort to crack down on the serious problem of chronic absenteeism by students. The board’s current policy eliminates course credits for high school freshmen, sophomores and juniors who had 18 days

or more of unexcused absences. But the superintendent only eliminated course credit for students who missed more than 30 days without having a serious medical condition or other similarly significant issue that kept them from attending school. While administration officials and School Board Chair Dawn C. Page denied any change in the policy, the Free Press obtained a June 19 email from Mr.

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New to the game Darien Threatts, 2, channels his inner Ashe during a tennis skills session for children last Saturday at Battery Park in North Side. Friends of Battery Park collaborated with several other groups to put on the celebration at the park’s Arthur Ashe Tennis Courts.

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Kamras to the School Board that spells out the modification he made without first obtaining board approval. “Though our board policy allows credit removal after 18 absences, we only denied waivers for students who had more than 30 absences,” Mr. Kamras wrote, suggesting the policy provided discretion.

She has been called “First Lady,” “Your honor,” “Madame Secretary” and now “President.” Anne Holton, wife of Virginia’s U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, has been named interim president of George Mason University in Northern Virginia. Ms. Holton The university announced June 20 that Ms. Holton, who has been a visiting professor at George Mason since 2017, will lead the school beginning Aug. 1. She will be the university’s first female president. The 61-year-old Ms. Holton, an attorney by profession, has had a long life in the public eye. She is the daughter of former Gov. Linwood Holton and grew up, in part, in Richmond in the Executive Mansion and attended Richmond Public Schools during the early tumultuous days of school busing in the early 1970s. She attended Mosby Middle School in the East End and

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Waiver expansion undermines RPS absenteeism policy By Jeremy M. Lazarus

argument at a club. Essentially, the mayor chose stability over change in removing the interim label from Chief Smith’s title and handing him the leadership reins instead of hiring someone from outside as previous mayors and City Councils have done. The new chief is to receive a $5,000 raise to start at $160,000. He will be formally sworn in at a ceremony at a later date. Chief Smith indicated that he is not planning any changes in the department’s leadership that he inherited and has installed since taking over from former Chief Durham, who departed to become the National Football League’s chief of security. A soft-spoken man known for his steadiness and responsiveness, Chief Smith is the first Richmond officer who

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City Hall again hit with overtime lawsuit By Jeremy M. Lazarus

City Hall has spent more than $12 million since 2012 to settle lawsuits over its failure to pay required overtime to employees ranging from police officers to social workers, sheriff’s deputies and former mayoral bodyguards. But a new federal lawsuit claims that at least one city department, the Finance Department, has failed to learn from those expensive lessons. Two former department employees, Adrienne Webster and Tyrus Yerby, have filed a class action suit on behalf of themselves and other current and former department employees alleging that Finance Department employees “regularly work or worked more than 40 hours per workweek without receiving overtime compensation as required under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.” Along with instituting a policy to avoid paying overtime, the department also blocked Mr. Yerby and other Finance Department employees from posting their actual time worked in the RAPIDS time entry system and gaining overtime, the suit states. Mr. Yerby’s supervisor “told him, and other similarly situated employees, that they could work longer than 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but they would not be paid for it,” the suit states. Attorneys Nichole B. Vanderslice and Craig J. Curwood filed the suit May 24 on behalf of Ms. Webster, Mr. Yerby and others who might be affected. The new suit does not specify a damage amount, but instead seeks payment for all proven unpaid overtime, with the final amount to be tripled as the FLSA requires. The suit also asks that the city pay the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees and also agree to a declaration in the public court record that the city and its Finance Department violated the FLSA. The city does not publicly comment on pending litigation, and the court record does not yet include any response from the city. The lawsuit points the finger of blame at the current finance director, John B. Wack, a key member of Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s financial team, although he is not mentioned. According to the suit, the department began imposing a general no-overtime policy in late 2016, or just months after Mr. Wack started as the new director on July 1, 2016, under former Mayor Dwight C. Jones. Working extra hours has been routine for employees of a department that has been plagued by double-digit employee turnover, from top positions like the controller and revenue manager to lower-level jobs such as administrative project analysts, tax enforcement officers and customer service representatives. According to data obtained by the Free Press, at least 21 employees, or around 19 percent of the department’s total complement of 110 employees, resigned, retired, were forced out or fired outright in 2018. In the first six months of 2019, at least 13 employees have left voluntarily or involuntarily, or about 12 percent of the department’s staff. Some or all of the vacant positions are to be replaced, but the city’s hiring process moves slowly, often requiring two to three months from advertisement to start for a new employee.

Air conditioning fixed at Broad Rock Elementary The broken air conditioning system finally has been fixed at Broad Rock Elementary School, one of the newest public schools in Richmond. Replacement equipment began cooling teachers and staff Monday after more than three weeks of sweltering conditions in the South Side school building. Darin Simmons Jr., Richmond Public Schools chief operating officer, said last week that the air conditioning was knocked out when two compressors failed in the final weeks before the school year ended on June 14. He said it took time to get replacement equipment shipped in and for enough sunny days to complete installation. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Job fair Saturday

Looking for work? At least 32 public and private employers seeking to hire new employees have signed up to recruit at the Job Fair and Career Resource Event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St. City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, is hosting the job fair to give city residents a chance to meet with prospective employers and potentially secure job offers on the spot. Lunch will be provided to the first 150 participants, Mrs. Robertson announced Tuesday. Details: Kiya Stokes, (804) 646-7964 or kiya.stokes@richmondgov.com.

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On Monday, July 1, the new Rosie’s potentially generate $9 million in new taxes, gambling center in Richmond will welcome including an estimated $2 million for the city. its first customers to the location in the 6800 In April, the company opened its first gambling block of Midlothian Turnpike in South Side. Slices of life and scenes machine-filled Rosie’s in the former Colonial A Chicago investment firm has hired 225 Downs racetrack in New Kent County. The in Richmond people and invested $41 million to transform company also plans to restore live horse racing the former Kmart store into a gaming center filled with 700 at the track to complement machine gambling. The company machines that perform like slot machines. One of the largest also has opened a 150-machine venue in Vinton in Roanoke installments of the Rosie’s gaming investment, the Richmond County and is building a fourth location in Hampton that is site is projected to draw hundreds of gamblers daily and to open later this year.

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Dr. Maria Pitre-Martin selected as new Petersburg schools superintendent Dr. Maria Pitre-Martin will start Monday, July 1, as the new superintendent of the 4,200-student public school division in Petersburg. A top education official in North Carolina, Dr. Pitre-Martin was chosen by the Petersburg School Board earlier this month to take over from Dr. Marcus Newsome, who is retiring after three years in Petersburg and a stint as Chesterfield County’s schools chief. With a starting pay of $230,000 a year, including $60,000 from the state, Dr. Pitre-Martin will rank among the highest paid Virginia school division leaders in taking charge of one of the state’s smallest school systems. By comparison, Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras received a starting pay of $250,000 to lead the capital city’s 24,000-student school division. Dr. Pitre-Martin will oversee more than 400 teachers and other employees for a division that includes four elementary schools, two secondary schools, one alternative school and a preschool.

She brings 29 years of experience in public education to the job, including two years as North Carolina’s deputy state superintendent of public instruction and a year as the state’s chief Dr. Pitre-Martin academic and digital learning officer; as chief academic officer of the Philadelphia school district; and service with school districts in Louisiana and Texas. “The School Board believes that Dr. Pitre-Martin is exactly the right person to lead Petersburg schools to the next level,” School Board Chair Kenneth L. Pritchett stated June 13 in announcing her selection from 40 applicants. “We are confident that Petersburg schools will continue to advance with Dr. Pitre-Martin as our superintendent.” Dr. Pitre-Martin stated that she will work to “bring people together to achieve results. My initial effort will be to get acquainted with the community while

focusing on what is best for students and making good choices with the resources available.” This will be her second stint as superintendent. From 2013 to 2016, she led the Thomasville City Schools in North Carolina that serves 2,500 students. Dr. Pitre-Martin is familiar with the challenges she will face. As in Thomasville, the overwhelming majority of Petersburg students come from low-income families. Dr. Pitre-Martin will take over a school division that ranks with Richmond near the bottom in Virginia for student academic achievement and on-time graduation, with high chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. And just like Mr. Kamras, she will operate under the scrutiny of the Virginia Department of Education, which has signed a memorandum of understanding regarding school division improvements. Dr. Pitre-Martin earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her doctorate from Texas A&M University.

VUU names new business school dean

Robin Renee Davis has the responsibility of molding a new generation of business leaders studying at Virginia Union University. VUU President Hakim J. Lucas recently announced the appointment of Dr. Davis as the new dean of the Sydney Lewis School of Business at the private, historically black private school in North Side. Dr. Davis, who is to start Monday, July 1, is the second new dean Dr. Lucas has named in recent weeks. He promoted Dr. Ted Ritter, a veteran professor, as dean of VUU’s School of Arts and Sciences in May. Dr. Davis most recently served as an associate professor of management and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Claflin University in South Carolina. Dr. Davis will take over from Dr. Delta R. Bowers, a professor of marketing and

management, who has served as interim business school dean since December 2017, when Dr. Brenda J. Ponsford left to become dean of Mercyhurst University’s College of Business, Dr. Davis Dr. Lucas stated. “Dr. Davis is well-positioned to grow VUU’s School of Business by introducing new degree programs and helping our students develop in management and entrepreneurship,” Dr. Lucas stated. He called the new dean an “innovative scholar and thoughtful leader” whose “experience and expertise will benefit our students.” Her 25 years of experience in government and academia includes past service

as economic development manager for the South Carolina Department of Commerce and as executive director of the Rural Crossroads Institute. Dr. Davis also is the president of Delta House, a community-based, non-profit organization and former chair of the South Carolina-based Midlands Community Development organization that built and sold 20 homes in Congaree Pointe. She also is a past president of the Mississippi-based Business Retention and Expansion International, an association for government economic development officials. Dr. Davis earned a bachelor’s in business administration from South Carolina State University, an MBA from Alabama A&M University and a doctorate in organizational management from Capella University.

New laws tax cigarettes in city, raise smoking age statewide By George Copeland Jr. and Jeremy M. Lazarus

Smoke ’em if you got ’em, because the cost of cigarettes and vaping is about to go up in more ways than one. Starting Monday, July 1, Richmond smokers will pay an extra 50 cents for a single pack of cigarettes as part of a new local law, while a statewide measure will bar anyone under the age of 21, except those with a valid military ID, from purchasing tobacco, nicotine vapor and other nicotine products. The current purchase age is 18. The cigarette tax is new for Richmond, and was proposed by Mayor Levar M. Stoney as part of a package of tax increases to raise funds for repairs for schools, street paving and other critical needs in the city. It was approved in May by the Richmond City Council in a unanimous vote as part of the 2019-20 budget that will go into effect on Monday, as well. With Richmond being the original home of cigarette manufacturing, a majority of City Council members had long ignored the authority to tax cigarettes and rejected attempts to impose one, most recently last year when Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, advanced it. Currently, more than 90 localities, including every other city in Virginia, has long levied a local tax as an add-on to the state and federal taxes people already pay. A study funded by Philip Morris USA, the tobacco-focused division of the Altria group that has its biggest cigarette factory in Richmond, and released by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, stated that low-income Richmonders

and small businesses would suffer the most under the new tax, with the city ultimately failing to raise the $3.2 million Mayor Stoney had estimated the new tax would generate in the first year. Strapped for cash to balance the new budget and eager to avoid an increase in the tax on property that Mayor Stoney also sought, the council dropped its opposition and approved the cigarette tax. The vote came despite warnings from a council minority and convenience stores that the tax would result in lost jobs and reduce sales of gas and other items on which the city collects sales tax as people travel to the surrounding counties to buy cheaper smokes. In a compromise to gain the needed votes, the council major-

ity earmarked up to $1.6 million of the money collected from the new tax for a smoking cessation program to be run by the Richmond City Health District. The remainder is to go to the city’s general fund. The bill to raise the smoking age was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly this year by GOP Delegate Christopher P. Stolle of Virginia Beach and was approved with bipartisan support in the House of Delegates and state Senate before being signed into law by Gov. Ralph S. Northam in February. Virginia is now one of seven states to have raised the legal smoking age. Vaping company JUUL Labs came out in support of the higher age limit to smoke, while Altria voiced its interest in a federal law to raise the legal smoking age.

Tax Relief Fund reminder Associated Press

Virginia tax officials are reminding taxpayers that they must file their individual income taxes by Monday, July 1, in order to qualify for the Tax Relief Refund. The refund is the result of state legislation passed by the Virginia

General Assembly earlier this year in response to the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. An individual filer could receive up to $110, while a married couple filing a joint return could receive up to $220. The law requires checks to be mailed out by Oct. 15.

The state Department of Taxation will withhold all or part of the refund and apply it to outstanding tax bills for anyone who owes Virginia state taxes. The department also will withhold refunds to pay debts to local governments, courts, state agencies and the Internal Revenue Service.

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Arther Ashe Boulevard Dedication

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A guest at the official dedication of Arthur Ashe Boulevard holds a water bottle and brochure about Arthur Ashe Jr., who is part of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s current exhibit, “Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality.”

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Richmond City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, pulls down the last curtain to unveil the new Arthur Ashe Boulevard signs as Mr. Ashe’s nephew, David O. Harris Jr., left, and Mayor Levar M. Stoney watch.

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Hundreds of people took photos, including selfies, with the new street signs.

Civil rights icon and Congressman John R. Lewis of Georgia offers a moving keynote address to mark the occasion.

At left, 12-year-old Yaa-Nailah BellBarber and her uncle, Brian Wright, collect some of the purple streamers launched at the unveiling ceremony. Yaa-Nailah wanted to keep some of the streamers as a souvenir of the historic day.

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Members of the Elegba Folklore Society perform during the dedication ceremony, with founder Janine Bell explaining to the crowd how the sound of the drums open the road — the new Arthur Ashe Boulevard — “to let the people come forward.”

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Xavier Foster, 3, gets a lesson on how to grip a tennis racket from instructor Holger Schmitt at the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center on Saturday as part of the community celebration.

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Above, Richmond Department of Public Works employee Malik Mujahid installs one of the many new Arthur Ashe Boulevard signs at the renamed thoroughfare’s intersection with Main Street following the official dedication ceremony. Right, members of the U.S. Armed Forces Color Guard from Fort Lee present the colors during the ceremony.

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“If you find yourself a gatekeeper to discrimination and exclusionary tactics, give up your keys today,” Mr. Harris told the applauding crowd. Dozens of Mr. Ashe’s relatives joined in Saturday’s celebration, seated in a central section of the audience, with many wearing a yellow flower pinned to their lapels. The mention of Mr. Ashe’s ideals was a frequent feature of the day’s speakers, including U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, 4th District Congressman A. Donald McEachin, Gov. Ralph S. Northam and keynote speaker and civil rights icon, U.S. Rep. John R. Lewis of Georgia, and among many people in the crowd. Among the notables introduced at the program were Congressional Reps. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Newport News, Karen R. Bass of California, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax. Sen. Kaine talked about the protests and controversy that erupted in 1996 — when he was serving on City Council — surrounding the council’s decision to place a statue of Mr. Ashe on Monument Avenue, a thoroughfare filled with statues to Confederates. He applauded the current City Council and Ms. Gray for “this act of healing — the naming of the boulevard, a principle gateway into our city, to honor the great Arthur Ashe.” He called it an act of healing in a state and country “that still needs healing to this day.” The choice of the Boulevard to rename in Mr. Ashe’s honor was an apt one. Mr. Ashe was barred in his youth from playing on the Byrd Park tennis courts that sit at the street’s south end. The courts wouldn’t stay closed to him, however. Mr. Ashe would claim victory in the Davis Cup semifinals in Byrd Park in 1968. In 1963, he became the first black member of the U.S. team. To date, Mr. Ashe remains the only African-American man to win singles titles at the U.S. Open, the Australian Open and Wimbledon. The newly renamed street joins the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center on the northern end of the boulevard, the statue on Monument Avenue and the Arthur Ashe Tennis Courts in Battery

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From left, Jamie O. Bosket, president and chief exeuctive officer of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture; Gov. Ralph S. Northam; and the Rev. Grady W. Powell, retired pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church of Petersburg and a member of the museum’s board, applaud during the ceremony.

Park in North Side as landmarks of the tennis great in a city still marked with a long history of racial inequality. Referring to the many Confederate statues along Monument Avenue that intersects Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Mayor Stoney described Mr. Ashe as “the only true champion on that block.” The occasion also was a fitting companion to Virginia’s larger reckoning with its dark history, as part of the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first captive Africans in 1619. That tribute includes a new exhibition at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, “Determined: The 400 Year Struggle for Black Equality,” which opened to the public following the ceremony. “Four hundred years later, it’s good to be here,” Rep. Lewis proclaimed to cheers. He called on the assembled crowd to get in “good trouble, necessary trouble” when defending the marginalized and oppressed.

Like Rep. Lewis, Mr. Ashe was a tireless advocate for social justice. Mr. Ashe was arrested in 1985 for protesting against apartheid in South Africa and, in 1992, for protesting the treatment of Haitian refugees. Mr. Ashe also worked to educate people about HIV and AIDS, and sought to boost funding for AIDs research after publicly announcing his contraction of the disease in 1992. “Think about Arthur Ashe, what he did, the contributions he made, coming out of this city, out of this state, out of this country,” Rep. Lewis told the crowd. While the midday heat led some in the audience to seek shelter and medical attention during the program, spirits remained high throughout, aided by an attentive cadre of volunteers who distributed water bottles and fans. The sheer number of people present was a testament to the power of Mr. Ashe’s legacy in his native city, even for those who knew little about him before the street renaming. “Just renaming the boulevard made me research him more to find out that he was an activist — that he was more than just a great tennis player,” said Alexandra Chambers, a 26-year-old nursing administrator. “It opened my eyes to see more of black culture” and history. It was a day of pride for Jim Schuyler, a New York native who moved to Richmond in 2001. His uncle, the late Dr. Alexander Hersh, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, operated on Mr. Ashe’s foot in the 1970s. “My uncle didn’t talk about his patients, but he was very proud of his (work with Mr. Ashe) and that the surgery was successful and Mr. Ashe came back and played,” Mr. Schuyler said. For Richmond native Billy McMullen, a former wide receiver for the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, the renaming is a potential rallying point for further positive change in the Commonwealth. “I think it gives people a boldness and awareness,” Mr. McMullen said. “And now those voices can rise up and say, ‘Hey, we made it! Look at this!’ and do something different here.” Rep. Lewis’ final words to the crowd mirrored that sentiment: “We’ve come too far and we’re not going back,” Rep. Lewis said. “We’re going forward!”

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Arther Ashe Boulevard Dedication

Forum focuses on how to keep progress going after Ashe street renaming By George Copeland Jr.

“Richmond, stand up!” Those opening words from Dontrese Brown of the Arthur Ashe Boulevard Initiative were the backbone of the Arthur Ashe Social Justice Forum last Thursday as more than a hundred people talked about how to bring the energy generated by the renaming of the new Arthur Ashe Boulevard to other important issues in the Richmond. The forum, a collaboration between the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Afrikana Independent Film Festival, examined the late Richmond native and tennis star’s legacy in social justice and kicked off the city’s three-day celebration surrounding the Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press renaming of the Boulevard to honor Mr. Ashe. Johnnie Ashe, brother of Arthur Ashe, discusses the path forward for the Richmond community at the Arthur Ashe “We really want everyone in this space to be able to walk Social Justice Forum last Thursday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. away with tangible (plans for) action — no matter how big or how small — that we can take to continue the legacy and the ing a better world for our kids.” in poor conditions and having little awareness of their own history, life of Arthur Ashe,” said moderator Marc Cheatham of the While the forum highlighted Arthur Ashe’s past with a showing but parents with a lack of resources unable to fill in the gaps. Cheats Movement. of the short documentaries “Ashe ’68,” about Mr. Ashe’s victory “We as a community need to adopt all of our children,” Ms. The panel included Mr. Ashe’s brother, Johnnie Ashe, a resi- at the U.S. Open in 1968, and “30 for 30: Johnnie & Arthur,” Lawrence said to thunderous applause. dential contractor who lives in Florida; Radio One broadcaster about Mr. Ashe and his brother, the discussion centered on what While panelists and audience members discussed littleClovia Lawrence; Michael Paul Williams, a Richmond Times- the new street name means for Richmond’s future. known civil rights figures from Richmond and the intersection Dispatch columnist; ESPN writer Mr. Williams pointed to the two of sports and activism, the talk often retuned to the importance Justin Tinsley; and Sionne Neely previously unsuccessful attempts in of an involved community working collectively to create lasting of Initiatives of Change and the City Council to rename a street in change. The feeling of communal connection was aided by an Richmond Night Market. Mr. Ashe’s honor as evidence of the enthusiastic audience that brought their own ideas for activism Johnnie Ashe talked about work still needed when it comes to and excitement for what is to come in Richmond. the community of noted Africansocial justice. “This is bringing the whole city of Richmond together under Americans that touched their lives “Symbolism has its place and one cause. We need more of this,” said Jonathan Davis, who — Jonathan Davis growing up, including the late civil symbolism is extremely powerful. noted his daughter grew up playing tennis on the Arthur Ashe rights icon Oliver W. Hill Sr. He talked about the need for people But it feels almost tragic that it took this long for this to hap- Tennis Courts in Battery Park on North Side. of all races and backgrounds to connect with one another. He pen,” Mr. Williams said. Ms. Neely commented on the difficulty and scale of the asked audience members to take a moment and introduce them“The fact that we’re ready to have conversations about things work ahead. selves to the person sitting next to them. we need to talk about doesn’t really mean a whole lot if there “We have to be willing to step outside of our comfort zones “From this day forward, whatever you do, think of that per- are so many disparities, so many issues in Richmond that we and work with other people to make it happen. These things are son sitting next to you or whose hand you shook as your sister, refuse to deal with,” he said. bigger than us,” Ms. Neely said. as your brother. That’s what the Master intended,” Mr. Ashe. Ms. Lawrence touched on problems with Richmond’s education “And it may take several lifetimes for things to change. We “That’s what this is all about. It’s not about us. It’s about mak- system. The problems don’t solely involve students going to school have to be willing to submit to that long-term process.”

“This is bringing the whole city of Richmond together under one cause. We need more of this.”

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Congressman A. Donald McEachin of Richmond, right, makes a point during the State of Black America Town Hall last Saturday following the Ashe Boulevard dedication ceremony. With him are, from left, moderators Dr. Ravi K. Perry and Samantha Willis, and Rep. Karen R. Bass of California, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Newport News.

By George Copeland Jr.

Call it better living through politicking. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus emphasized the importance of political power as the key to positive change locally, statewide and nationally Saturday afternoon at the State of Black America Town Hall. The town hall, which drew hundreds of people, was part of the Arthur Ashe Boulevard renaming celebration and hosted by 4th District Congressman A. Donald McEachin of Richmond. As people flooded the exhibits in the Virginia Museum of History & Culture following the street dedication ceremony, the museum’s auditorium buzzed with questions that covered a wide breadth of the African-American experience and answers that frequently pointed to the ballot box. “What you do in November 2019 will set the stage for 2020,” said Rep. McEachin in talking about the Nov. 5 contest in which all 140 seats of the Virginia General Assembly are up for election. Responding to audience questions with him on the panel were 3rd District Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Newport News and Rep. Karen R. Bass of California, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Rep. Steven Hosford of Nevada attended, but remained in the audience. The panel discussed topics that ranged from mental health to education and criminal justice, and provided ideas and solutions that frequently trended toward matters of policy and motivating people to register and turn out at the ballot box. At times, the nearly two-hour town hall felt like a Democratic campaign event for the November 2020 presidential race, with panel members pointing to the damage they said has been inflicted on the country and state by an unchecked and obstructive Republican Party. Depending on the actions of voters, the damage could stretch past the current “two and a half years of collective trauma,” as Rep. Bass described it, undoing decades of social, economic and cultural progress. “We need to start working on November

Voting is key to change, CBC members say 2020 today,” Rep. Bass said. The need for action was most pronounced when a question was raised about the skepticism young African-American voters feel toward the Democratic Party. Rep. Scott answered by highlighting the results of the 2016 presidential election, the current conservative leaning of the U.S. Supreme Court and rising student loan debt as incentive enough for young voters to show up in greater numbers at the polling booths. Sen. Bass underscored the need for candidates to connect with voters to ensure their understanding of the work being done by the

Democratic Party, while Rep. McEachin said he was certain millenials would vote Democratic regardless. “I think if we get them into the voting booth, they’re gonna vote blue. And we’ll then be able to show them how government should work,” Rep. McEachin said. “They can be as skeptical of the Democratic Party as they want to be. I just want them to vote.” Not all of the topics were dominated by campaign concerns. The treatment of LGBTQ individuals in the African-American community as “others” led to a frank discussion of hatred and

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discrimination, violence against black transgender women and the lack of studies of the effects of HIV on the black community in comparison to those focused on gay white men. “The best that government can do, my brothers and my sisters, is to foster an environment where the heart is allowed to change,” Rep. McEachin said. Rep. Scott shared frustrations addressing environmental justice, including in Charles City County, while dealing with Republican politicians still dismissive of science on climate change. In discussing criminal justice, Rep. McEachin said marijuana should be legalized and the criminal records of those convicted of its use should be expunged. He also talked about the unequal empathy given to some addictions over others by conservative lawmakers. Rep. Bass spotlighted a recent proposal to study reparations to address centuries of racial disparity as something that could benefit all, regardless of race, gender or class. “Dismantling institutional racism doesn’t just help African-Americans, it helps everyone,” Rep. Bass said. The three serve in the U.S. House of Representatives during the first time in nearly a decade that Democrats have control of the chamber. They often referred to bills successfully passed, investigations in progress and hearings set up by representatives as evidence of their commitment, although Rep. McEachin acknowledged that the pace of change hasn’t been as quick as some expected following the Democrats’ gains in 2018. Rep. Scott, who served in the Virginia General Assembly for 15 years before going to Congress in January 1993, talked about the potential of a Democrat-controlled General Assembly. He reminded the audience of the change in attitude among state GOP House members toward Medicaid expansion following the surge of Democrats elected to the House in November 2017. “It was a direct result of those elections that 400,000 people have life-saving health insurance,” Rep. Scott said. “You can’t ignore the power of the election.”

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spent his career within the department to gain the top cop post in the 52 years since Frank S. Duling was named chief in 1967. Since 1989 when Chief Duling retired, only former chiefs Ray Tarasovic and Alfred Durham have had some experience with the city department before their appointment. Chief Smith will oversee a department with a nearly $100 million annual budget and a staff of more than 900 people, including an authorized complement of 754 officers. Like his predecessor, though, he can only deploy about 650 officers, given vacancies, disciplinary, medical and military leave and other reasons that reduce the actual size of the force. Mayor Stoney noted that the city conducted a national search and that he sought community input before naming Chief Smith, to the critical public safety post that has largely been filled by African-Americans since Marty M. Tapscott replaced Chief Duling. The mayor, who heard plenty support for Chief Smith before he made the pick, praised him as “thoughtful, detail-oriented, accountable, compassionate and fair” and committed to the community style of policing that has been in place since 2007 during the tenure of Chief Rodney Monroe, who was among those who interviewed the finalists for the position and who agrees with the mayor’s choice. “Over the last six months as interim chief, I believe he has demonstrated the dedication to duty, willingness to confront challenges head on and commitment to serve the community that our city needs and our residents deserve,” Mayor Stoney continued. “I believe he has what it takes to lead the men and women of the RPD

in a positive direction to protect and serve our community in the spirit of inclusivity and equity that are the foundation of One Richmond.” In his turn, Chief Smith embraced the mayor and thanked him and city Chief Administrative Officer Selena CuffeeGlenn as he described himself as an “emotional guy” who was “humbled by the opportunity to serve this city” and by the support he has received from the city and the community. He pledged to continue the department’s efforts to build relationships with residents that he called a key to public safety and to make the department “even more accountable and available.” Chief Smith told the Free Press that he plans to work with Dr. Liz Coston, a sociology instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University, and other critics with the Richmond Transparency and Accountability Project in considering the design of a new records management system that would make police information and data more accessible to the public. He also said he plans to make internal changes to improve the department’s efficiency and deployment of staff. He noted the department is the one point of public contact that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Much of that contact involves reported crime, but also includes calls for service with other problems, he said. He said the department could do a better job of connecting people with services, adding that he already has assigned staff to determine ways to create closer relationships with partner organizations to be of better service. He cited the effort to combat the opioid epidemic as an example where connections among organizations could be strengthened.

Citing the case of the Shockoe Bottom hit-and-run, Chief Smith also said he plans to consider how the department might better deal with the kind of cases that involve people with anger control issues and an inability to resolve conflicts peacefully. He said finding possible ways to deal with sudden rage would be a focus. Congratulations and well wishes began pouring in following the appointment. City Council President Cynthia I. Newbille stated that Chief Smith has proven “to be committed, collaborative and community-oriented, and I look forward to continuing to work with him going forward.” Melvin Jones, who led the effort for the statue honoring Maggie L. Walker, called the chief “a fair, upstanding man who knows this city. The officers and community members I’ve talked to believe in his ability to lead.” Paul Taylor of the two-year-old RVA League for Safer Streets, also expressed support, noting that “Chief Smith knows our community,” a point that Carver Civic Association President Jerome Legions Jr. also made in stating that “Richmond will have at the helm someone who doesn’t have to learn about the city, but someone who can build on enhancing our communities” Richmond Branch NAACP President James E. “J.J.” Minor III said he looks forward to working Chief Smith on “ways to decrease crime in our community.” Chief Smith, who was born into a Richmond family that later moved to Powhatan County, earned a bachelor’s degree from VCU. He also is a graduate of the Police Executive Leadership School at the University of Richmond and the Senior Management Institute for Police in Boston.

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regain the General Assembly majority in November when all 140 seats of the House of Delegates and state Senate are up for election. Currently, police and building security have no authority to prevent anyone from openly carrying firearms onto city property, with or without a permit, or from preventing those with concealed carry permits from bringing in hidden weapons. The introduction came just ahead of a special legislative session Gov. Ralph S. Northam called for Tuesday, July 9, to enable lawmakers to consider what he describes as “common sense” gun control bills in the wake of the May 31 massacre in Virginia Beach in which a veteran city employee shot to death 11 people in that city’s government center before he was killed by police. The governor also said other recent shootings factored into his call for a special session, including the death of 9-year-old Markiya Dickson of Chesterfield County, who was shot at a community cookout at Carter Jones Playground in South Richmond on Memorial Day Weekend. An 11-year-old boy also was wounded in the shooting. No arrests have been made. Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox has called the special session “a waste of time” as he anticipates virtually all the bills the governor will present will be killed in GOP-led committees just as they were

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during the most recent General Assembly stairs to upper floors. session and the sessions before that. Also at Monday’s City Council meetThe GOP currently has a three-vote ing: majority in the House and a two-vote • Mayor Stoney introduced legislation majority in the Senate, with Democrats to rezone major portions of Downtown and hoping to win enough seats in the Nov. North Side to stimulate new development 5 election to take over one or both of the and usher in upgrades of existing properties. chambers. A major focus of the legislation is to boost Still, the unfettered ability for peo- developer interest in buildings on vacant ple to take their guns into parking lots along Cary and most public spaces, other than Canal streets between Belvidere churches, courthouses, airports and 9th streets and stimulating and state buildings, prompted apartment and retail develop9th District City Councilman ment in the Lombardy Street Michael J. Jones to introduce corridor between Brook Road a measure Monday to restore and Chamberlayne Avenue. metal detectors at City Hall’s • The council cleared the way four entrances. for multiple projects to improve The measure, however, is seen pedestrian street crossings and Dr. Jones as gaining little traction. approved a resolution urging Richmond installed metal detectors the city and Richmond Public Schools during Calvin Jamison’s tenure as city to use a new state-supported financing manager 16 years ago following another system to install solar energy and other shooting spree in a government building. energy efficiencies in schools and public But they were removed under former buildings. Mayor L. Douglas Wilder in 2005 after • The council killed by a 5-3 vote 4th being found to be an expensive waste of District Councilwoman Kristen N. Larson’s money. The city spent around $200,000 effort, over administration opposition, to a year to staff the metal detectors, even earmark $1.53 million in potential surplus though no one could halt anyone with a funds from the 2018-19 fiscal year to four weapon from entering, and the detectors projects that were cut from the capital created entry lines. budget, including one to provide people The City Attorney’s Office has advised in wheelchairs easy access to the James the administration that the city has no River at Huguenot Flatwater. The council, authority to require armed individuals to with support from Mayor Stoney, then check their guns when they enter, require passed a nonbinding resolution calling them to be escorted while in the building for funding of those projects if the city or stop them from taking the elevators or reports a surplus later this year.

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The School Board policy, though, requires denying course credit after a student misses 10 percent of the 180-day school year absent extraordinary circumstances such as a prolonged hospitalization. Mr. Kamras’ change denied course credit only after students missed nearly 17 percent of the school year. Asked about the change, Michelle Hudacsko, chief of staff to Mr. Kamras and his cabinet, told the Free Press the policy had been followed despite Mr. Kamras’ report to the board. “Attendance waivers were required for any child who missed more than 18 days, per board policy,” she stated. “Both school administration and (RPS Chief of Schools) Harry Hughes reviewed them and approved or denied them based on medical hardship or unique circumstances. “There was no modification of board policy Mr. Young Mr. Kamras as the policy includes a waiver provision,” Ms. Hudacsko noted. Ms. Page, 8th District, agreed in a response that was virtually identical to that provided by Ms. Hudacsko. Ms. Page said the superintendent has the authority to issue waivers to the policy that was put in place to meet the goal “that our students are in school on a daily basis to receive high quality instruction.” However, School Board member Jonathan Young, 4th District, who was among the advocates for the new policy that was put in place before the start of the 2018-19 school year, expressed concern. “I understand grace, but what I cannot support is adoption of a ‘paper tiger’ attendance policy that perpetuates students missing up to one-sixth of the school year (30 days),” Mr. Young wrote in a statement to the Free Press. He noted that in a report on the challenges that RPS is facing, the Virginia Department of Education spotlighted chronic absenteeism as a significant reason that RPS has among the poorest results among the 132 school divisions in the state for the number of students passing Standards of Learning tests and for on-time graduation. “We approved that policy to try to address the issue that VDOE had noted, and now we are being told it is not being fully enforced,” Mr. Young said in a follow-up statement. “The waivers were supposed to only apply to exceptional circumstances, not as a routine exception to the policy.” As best as can be determined, the superintendent’s change appears to have sharply reduced the number of students who potentially could have lost course credit. Mr. Kamras reported 128 students were denied waivers from the policy due to excessive absences and lost credit for a combined 184 courses, which they would need to make up in summer school or in a fall credit recovery program. Mr. Hughes earlier indicated that “several hundred” students had missed 18 or more days of class without permission as of April and would be subject to review to determine if they would lose credit. In early June, students who faced loss of credit because of absences were given two days to have their parents or guardians apply for a waiver from the policy. Mr. Kamras’ report did not tell the board how many waiver applications were received and how many were approved.

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later graduated from Open High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Harvard University, where she met fellow student Sen. Kaine, her future husband. Following law school, Ms. Holton clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr., whose controversial decision ordering the desegregation of Richmond schools led to school busing. After working as an attorney for more than a decade with the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, Ms. Holton was named to a judgeship in Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, where she served until 2005. She stepped down when her husband, a former Richmond City Council member and mayor, was elected governor and she became Virginia’s First Lady. Her key focus was in the areas of education and foster care, and in 2014, she was named Virginia secretary of education by then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe. She resigned the position in mid-2016, to help her husband in his vice presidential run with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Since 2017, she has been a visiting professor at George Mason’s School of Public Policy and Management and at the College of Education and Human Development. She also has been a visiting Fellow at George Mason’s Center for Education Policy and Evaluation. Current George Mason President Angel Cabrera is leaving to become the new president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The university’s Board of Visitors plans to begin its search for a permanent president in the coming weeks. Ms. Holton said she won’t be a candidate for the permanent role. George Mason is a four-year, state-supported institution in Fairfax, with an undergraduate enrollment of more than 23,000 students. The university also announced last week that it is naming a science and technology building in honor of one of the NASA mathematicians whose story was told in the motion picture “Hidden Figures.” The building on Mason’s Science and Technology campus in Manassas will now be known as Katherine G. Johnson Hall. Mrs. Johnson, who is now 100, worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton beginning in the 1950s and performed many of the complex mathematical equations that determined flight paths and trajectories of space flights, including the Apollo 11 moon flight 50 years ago. Mrs. Johnson was portrayed by actress Taraji P. Henson in the film. The university also is creating a scholarship in Mrs. Johnson’s name.

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Members of the Ashe family at the dedication ceremony.

Honoring Ashe’s legacy We are still basking in the gloriousness of the Arthur Ashe Boulevard street renaming ceremony and events last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. For the young and the seasoned alike, it was a day both of celebration and reflection. It was a day to think about the obstacles and triumphs in Arthur Ashe’s life on and off the court and to contemplate the future of a city that once erected race-based roadblocks for a young Arthur on his road to glory and that more recently has battled internal conflicts before finally embracing and honoring Mr. Ashe in this way. Speakers at the event offered stories about the perseverance and progress both of Mr. Ashe and of his native Richmond, which struggled mightily 23 years ago with the decision to place a statue honoring Mr. Ashe on Monument Avenue. Richmond struggled again earlier this year before City Council finally approved renaming the 2.5-mile boulevard in this native hero’s honor. This was the third time since 1993 that City Council was asked to consider naming a street for Mr. Ashe. And it took the hard work and collaborative efforts of Mr. Ashe’s nephew, David O. Harris Jr. of Henrico County, and Richmond City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray to make it happen. While Ms. Gray was not among Saturday’s bevy of speakers, all of whom were male, she was acknowledged by four of them with thanks and high praise. Mr. Harris called her a “courageous and gracious leader.” Ms. Gray also was invited by Mayor Levar M. Stoney to come up through the crowd and help him and Mr. Harris unveil the new signs bearing the name Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The crowd loudly cheered as she made her way to the museum portico’s landing for the day’s highlight — the actual unveiling. It was yet another lesson about inclusivity and recognizing someone’s talents and contributions. Several people in the crowd were moved to tears as the purple drape fell from the street signs, cannons blasted purple streamers into the air and the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church Choir sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” We acknowledge that pain often accompanies progress. But our hope is that Richmond will continue to move forward from a hurtful past to embrace Mr. Ashe’s legacy lessons of fairness and equality, with efforts to help those who need assistance and understanding that inclusion makes us all better and stronger. We hope Richmond will continue to make strides to honor those who rightly deserve it and to ensure that progress will be reserved not solely for a few, but for everyone.

Months after Gov. Ralph S. Northam came under fire for the racist images on his 1984 yearbook page from Eastern Virginia Medical School, he remains in office, a battered and chastised public figure. But maybe this isn’t a bad thing. A quick resignation would have elicited rhetorical condemnations, a symbolic “washing of hands,” and sent the wrong message that everything has been resolved. It most certainly has not been. In late May, an investigation by the medical school couldn’t conclusively determine whether it’s the governor in the photo. But the Commonwealth of Virginia and our nation have an even weightier problem: They must address the root cause of racism 35 years ago and today — the belief in a hierarchy of human value that poisons our society. This core belief is the myth that built America. Human value hierarchy fueled unfettered land confiscation from Native Americans and unprecedented human decimation and enslavement of Africans, all of which fueled a young country’s rapid economic growth and emergence as a world power. As long as the foundational myth of unequal human value is allowed to fester consciously and

unconsciously, the idea can, will and, indeed, is being manipulated for political gain and potentially authoritarian power. Hitler perfected this art of fearmongering and emotional manipulation using the idea of a hierarchy of human worth and value. His Nuremberg laws be-

Dr. Gail Christopher came the basis of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. These laws were modeled after racist laws and practices here in the United States. The 2017 book, “Hitler’s American Model” by Yale legal scholar James Whitman, documents how America’s racial oppression helped inspire the Nazis’ anti-Jewish legislation. Clearly, if America only “washes our hands” after every incident of racism, we fail to enact any meaningful change. The action that is long overdue in Virginia and the whole of America is a truth and racial healing process. To heal is to make whole, to set right. A broken bone must be re-set in order to heal without deformity. Setting the United States right requires humanely and sincerely facing and unpacking the truths of our past, and finally burying the myth of a hierarchy of human value and replacing it with awareness and appreciation of the sacred interconnected reality of humanity. We must all realize that we are truly one human family,

ultimately tracing our genomic ancestry to common ancestors on the continent of Africa. Only at this point can we begin to envision a healed and shared future together as one America — not simply as red or blue — but with a shared vision of a truly reconstructed America that values all equally. No more susceptibility to manipulation through “dog whistle politics” and social media tricksters. No more deeply held racial resentments ripe for the picking by domestic and foreign enemies. Together, we can then create a new, more complete narrative. We can construct a new story of America for our children, one honoring and embracing all of them. We can heal our perceived divides, share authentic memories and listen to one another, forging relationships of mutual understanding, trust and respect. We can leverage these new bonds to meld division and separation into the “Beloved Community” envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King. Working together, communities are capable of creating affordable housing, employing equitably, educating and caring for all. Laws and policies need to redress inequities created by centuries of adhering to a human hierarchy. A compassionate, united and thoughtful people can create an authentic and expansive form of democracy that is poised to generate a far more fair and equitable economy rather than

Making mental health no longer stealth We’ve seen Colin Kaepernick, LeBron James and others draw attention to challenges in our community. At the recent hearing on reparations, we heard from Danny Glover. We’ve also just heard from Taraji P. Henson on the subject of mental health. In our community, we’ve often played down the importance of mental health. It was as if we knew it existed, but didn’t want to discuss it. We’ve often looked down on people who shared their need for assistance with mental health issues. Taraji wants to change that. Our communities often have internalized the negative impact of enslavement, segregation and all forms of discrimination. It appears we’re being pushed backward. We see too much high blood pressure and other health challenges to ignore the fact that the inhumanity we’ve suffered through the ages has been brought on deliberately and intentionally by others outside our community. We’ve rarely had the luxury of calling ours “the good life.” There are always unnecessary stresses in our community. We’re always fighting just to keep our heads above water while others

with less education, less compassion and less experience keep on moving ahead of us. And there are always people around us making an effort to take away the progress we’ve been able to make. We elected Barack Obama as our president and that made

Dr. E. Faye Williams us feel some sort of progress. Behind him came No. 45, who has tried to destroy everything President Obama did. We had a Voting Rights Act. The U.S. Supreme Court took portions of that away. We had health care, and some have done everything possible to destroy that. So, it’s important for us to work with Ms. Henson on her efforts. We must be vigilant in working to get proper funding for mental health. A nation’s budget tells us just how seriously it takes our concerns. Let’s do all we can to break the stigma around mental health with her organization, the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation that she named for her dad, who talked about mental health. He didn’t avoid the subject as some do. Let’s keep up with what the foundation is doing, donate when we can and do all we can to alleviate this challenge. Mental health help is not just

for people who are wealthy. It’s for anyone who needs the help. We can encourage people who need help to seek it and not feel they’ll be judged badly for seeking help. Ms. Henson has taken the lead in breaking the stigma associated with mental health by encouraging us to talk about mental health. Let’s vote for those who see the importance of mental health. Put this issue on your list when you’re looking at candidates to represent our community. Let’s not hide from the issue. It’s real, and we need to pay attention to it and act when necessary to get something done about mental health. Ms. Henson has said we don’t talk about mental health in our families as her father did with her. She went on to say, “That’s why there’s a shortage of African-Americans in the field of mental health, because we don’t talk about it at home. Our children don’t even know this is a field they can even flourish in.” Yes, they do talk about becoming a doctor, but they rarely are taught about the different kinds of doctors like the kind that treat mental health. Let’s talk to change that. Thanks to Ms. Henson, it’s now on our agenda. The writer is national president of the National Congress of Black Women.

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continuing to increase wealth and income divides. This change in our core belief and perception, in our way of seeing and willingness to relate to and with one another is America’s unfinished business. The persistence of blackface, Klansmen, racial, anti-Semitic, gender and xenophobic violence are symptoms of the deeper pathology of having embraced human hierarchy as a way of life. Let us take this moment to begin the true journey of healing that our future demands. The writer is a former senior adviser and vice president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and architect of the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation framework and process being implemented in cities, universities and organizations across America.

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Why wont Fairfax’s accusers talk with police? For months now, Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax has asked that police open investigations into allegations that he sexually assaulted two women – one 15 years ago and the other 20 years ago. But for months, both accusers have refused to talk to police. They both, however, want to testify under oath at a public hearing in front of Virginia lawmakers. We have to ask ourselves why. Could it be because lying to law enforcement would likely lead to jail time while lying at a

legislative hearing would not? Mr. Fairfax passed two lie detector tests and has asked for law enforcement investigations since February. Both accusers have been approached by prosecutors in both jurisdictions where the alleged assaults took place, but continue to deny requests to meet with police. If the accusers want to be taken seriously, they should stop pushing for a political show that would lead to a media cir-

cus — but not the truth — and, instead, talk with police. The criminal accusations they’ve made need to be investigated by law enforcement, not politicians trying to secure their own political futures. TERRY ADAMS Alexandria The writer is a criminal defense attorney.

Gov. Northam’s agenda will ‘disarm honest, law-abiding populace’ Re “ ‘Votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers’: Gov. Northam calls for special General Assembly session to deal with gun violence,” Free Press June 6-8 edition: Gov. Ralph S. Northam, in an attempt to divert the public’s attention from his administration’s scandals and incompetency, has called a special session of the General Assembly for July 9. He wants lawmakers to reconsider failed bills that would have given more power to the police and infringe on honest individuals’ liberties and freedom. These bills include unconstitutional red flag laws, mandatory universal background checks, restoring the one-handgun-a-month law and banning bump stocks, assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The governor also wants to make it a criminal offense for someone not to report a lost or stolen firearm. The left, progressives and Democrats want to

implement secret tribunals that will enable the police to remove guns from law-abiding individuals. Red flag laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders or Gun Violence Restraining Orders, are blatantly unconstitutional because they violate an individual’s right to due process. Among other things, the accused is not given the right to face his accuser, an explanation of the charges or the right to representation by an attorney. This is reminiscent of the Jim Crow era and Nazi Germany. Universal background checks are a registration scheme whereby the names and addresses of gun owners are collected. When you study history, registration always leads to gun confiscation. Confiscation means the police will raid your house in the middle of night and steal your guns. There is no need for the General Assembly to address bump stocks. President Trump already has made bump stocks illegal by having the

federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms change the definition of a machine gun. I guess the governor missed this while dealing with his personal scandals. The governor’s proposals probably violate the Second Amendment and therefore must be dismissed out of hand. The governor wants someone to have a criminal record for not reporting that a gun has been stolen or lost. That doesn’t seem like a good way to encourage the community to

cooperate with the police. No sensible person should support this measure. The purpose of the governor’s agenda is to disarm the honest. law-abiding populace. When that happens, only the police, criminals, thugs and gang members will have guns. The only way to avoid that from happening is to stop voting for Democrats. MIKE WILSON Richmond

‘We already have reparations’ Re “Lawmakers hear the case for reparations,” Free Press June 20-22 edition: There are no block grant monies that have or will be solely targeted to the African-American community in an attempt to make amends for the wrong the government and others have done. The wrong done was the peculiar institution of slavery that was allowed to be inserted into the U.S. Constitution and state laws that dehumanized an enslaved people for profit by their free labor. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the vast majority of white people rejected any apology for slavery and the impact on the African-American community. For the community to expect any acknowledgement of 1619 to present is a position that dismisses the remedy in the

form of Community Development Block Grants. Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968 provides funding for economic empowerment for upward mobility in being self-sufficient. Paul Sniderman, a Stanford University political scientist, endorsed this remedy in the 1990s only if black people were not the sole recipients. The rationale was to help all people who are out of work rather than just African-Americans because of the historic injustices African-Americans suffered. Federal assistance and the land on which public housing authority residents reside is that 40 acres that was promised but never granted by law. The struggle for justice continues today because of adopted legislative practices that still deny African-Americans rights

and opportunities. The Commonwealth’s Disparity Study in 2015 shows that 98 percent of government contracts are awarded to white firms, while 2 percent of them are split among five racial and ethnic minority groups. We already have reparations. They are just not identified as solely for African-Americans. However, we have to take control of the block grant awarding process and demand transparency and oversight in order to get reparations. EARL BRADLEY Henrico County

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3 from U.Va. picked in NBA draft Call them The Three Basketeers. The swashbuckling trio of De’Andre Hunter, Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy led the University of Virginia to the NCAA Tournament basketball title. Now, having taken care of business at home, they’re taking their jump shots to the NBA. Here’s what happened on NBA Draft night June 20 in Brooklyn, N.Y.: Hunter was selected fourth overall by the Los Angeles Lakers, but is expected to be traded to the Atlanta Hawks in July. The No. 4 slot is worth about $14 million on the NBA rookie salary scale. The 6-foot-8 forward from Philadelphia becomes U.Va.’s highest draft pick since Ralph Sampson went No. 1 overall in 1983 to the Houston Rockets. Jerome was chosen 24th overall by the Philadelphia 76ers, but is headed to the Phoenix Suns in a proposed trade. De’Andre Hunter of the University of Virginia gets a hug June 20 after being The 24th slot pays about $4.5 million in selected by the Los Angeles Lakers as the No. 4 pick in the NBA Draft in New York. rookie salary. Guy, who was the MVP of the NCAA Final Four, was nabbed in Round Two with the 55th pick by the New York Knicks. Guy is headed to the Sacramento Kings in another trade. Only first round selections receive a guaranteed salary. NBA trades can be agreed upon at any time but can’t become official until July. • Toronto, Canada, keeps popping up in hoops news. The Toronto Raptors won the NBA title and now a Toronto native, former Virginia Tech guard Nickeil AlexanderWalker, is headed to the NBA as a first round pick — 17th overall — of the New Ty Jerome Kyle Guy Orleans Pelicans. In Cajun country, Alexander-Walker will In 2017, Mo Bomba was the sixth overall • join the NBA’s No. 1 overall pick, Zion pick by the Orlando Magic. Jarrett Allen To no surprise, the New Orleans Pelicans Williamson of Duke University. was the 22nd overall selection in 2016 by used the overall No. 1 pick to land Zion This is a family tradition for Al- the Brooklyn Nets. Williamson, the former Duke University exander-Walker. His first cousin, Shai • All-American. Gilgeous-Alexander, was the first round Now you can add Japan to the number Also from Duke, R.J. Barrett was picked pick of the Los Angeles Clippers a year of countries represented in the NBA. third by the New York Knicks and Cam ago. With the ninth pick of the draft, Rui Reddish was plucked 10th by Atlanta. Alexander-Walker and Gilgeous-Alex- Hachimura was chosen by the Washington Reddish is the son of former VCU ander played together for Hamilton Heights Wizards. Hachimura becomes the first player Bobby Reddish. Christian Academy in Toronto. Japanese player drafted since 7-foot-8 • Alexander-Walker is Tech’s first NBA Yusatak Okayama in 1981. Okayama never Having to wait until 59th to pick, the choice since Dell Curry in 1986. played in the NBA, however. NBA champion Toronto Raptors tapped • Hachimura starred at Gonzaga Uni- 6-foot-10 Dewan Hernandez from the Since leaving Virginia Commonwealth versity, averaging 20 points and seven University of Miami. University to coach at the University of rebounds. The 6-foot-8 forward is the Hernandez sat out this past season at Texas, Coach Shaka Smart only gets a “C” son of a Japanese mother, Makiko, and Miami with legal and eligibility issues. for winning (71-61 record), but an “A” for Beninese father, Zakari. • recruiting. Tacko Fall, the 7-foot-7 center from the For the third University of Central Florida, has inked a straight year, Coach University of Virginia’s first round NBA draft picks free agent contract with the Boston CeltSmart’s center has ics. Fall was outstanding in the NCAA Year Player Overall pick Team been chosen in the Tournament, leading UCF to victory over first round of the 1973 Barry Parkhill 15th Portland Trail Blazers VCU and to an impressive near upset (77NBA draft after 1976 Wally Walker 5th Portland 76) of Duke. just one season in 1981 Jeff Lamp 15th Portland • at the university in 1983 Ralph Sampson 1st Houston Rockets Austin. Justin Robinson, Virginia Tech’s all-time 1987 Olden Polynice 8th Chicago Bulls Jaxson Hayes assists leader, has signed a free agent pact 1992 Bryant Stith 13th Denver Nuggets was the eighth overwith the Washington Wizards. 1995 Cory Alexander 29th San Antonio Spurs all pick this year by Shaw University’s Amir Hinton has 2015 Justin Anderson 21st Dallas Mavericks the Atlanta Hawks signed a free agent contract with the New 2019 De’Andre Hunter 4th Los Angeles Lakers and then traded to York Knicks. The 6-foot-3 guard led the Ty Jerome 24th Philadelphia 76ers the New Orleans NCAA Division II in scoring last season Pelicans. with an average of 29.4 points.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Milwaukee’s Antetokounmpo named NBA’s MVP at 24 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has passed the MVP baton to Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks. The 24-year-old Antetokounmpo was named Most Valuable Player on Monday at the annual NBA Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Making the presentation was Abdul-Jabbar, who was the Bucks’ last MVP in 1974. The 6-foot-11 forward known as the “Greek Freak” won over finalists Paul George of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets’ James Harden. Antetokounmpo averaged 28 points, 13 rebounds and six assists this past season, leading the Bucks to the NBA’s best regular season record. MVP is based on regular season performance and voted on by media, fans and players. Also, the Bucks’ Mike Budenholzer was selected as NBA Coach of the Year. A native of Athens, Greece, who never played college hoops, Antetokounmpo becomes the 10th youngest league MVP. The youngest ever was Derrick Rose, who won the award in 2011 at age 22.

Michigan’s Bullock playing in College Baseball World Series

Christan Bullock is a prime example of the talent participating in the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League games. Bullock, currently a left fielder for the College Baseball World Series finalist University of Michigan, starred in the 2014 MJBL Inner City Classic in Richmond. He was representing a Chicago-based team at the time. With the intent of introducing inner-city Christan Bullock athletes to the game, the MJBL Inner City Classic will return to Richmond this summer, July 30 through Aug. 4, at various diamonds around town. Meanwhile, Bullock provides Richmonders with a rooting interest in the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. Wearing jersey No. 5, Bullock is hitting .280 this season for the Wolverines, with 13 stolen bases in 15 tries. Michigan is playing Vanderbilt University in the best-of-three World Series finals. While college baseball is an overwhelmingly white sport, both Michigan’s and Vanderbilt’s teams are well represented by African-American players. Michigan starts four AfricanAmerican players and has seven and hits (93), including 21 on its roster, while Vanderbilt doubles, five triples and 11 has seven African-American players on its roster. homers. According to the NCAA All in the family: The base-paths light is always Demographics Database, 80 green when Adalberto Monde- percent of Division I players si gets aboard for the Kansas are Caucasian and 6 percent are African-American. Division City Royals. The 23-year-old second I coaches are 90 percent CauJorge Palanco baseman and Los Angeles casian, with African-Americans native leads the AL with 27 making up only 4 percent of coaches. stolen bases in just 30 attempts. With a strong second half, Mondesi could challenge the Royals’ all-time records for thefts. Willie Wilson holds the record with 83 in 1979. The name Mondesi may sound familiar. Adalberto is the son of Raul Mondesi, who was NL Rookie of the Year with the Dodgers in 1994. Adalberto went by Raul Jr. from 2015 to 2018, before opting to go by his middle name. The host Richmond Flying No pain: Howie Kendrick tore his Achilles tendon Squirrels will be well reprelast year but you’d hardly know it this season. sented in the Eastern League The 35-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., native was hit- All-Star Game on July 10 at ting .339 through 60 games — well above his career The Diamond. norm of .292. Western Team selections Kendrick is well traveled in terms of teams include pitchers Melvin Adon played for and positions played. He broke in with and Caleb Baragar, outfielder the Los Angeles Angels in 2006 and spent time Jacob Heyward and infielders with the Dodgers and Phillies before joining the Jonah Arenado, Zach Houchins Nats. and Jalen Miller. Also, Flying Squirrels ManKendrick mostly plays first base or left field for Washington, but is adept with the glove anywhere ager Willie Harris will lead the Western Team. on the diamond.

MLB’s men of color are a big hit in big league As big league baseball reaches midseason, here are a few story lines regarding the national pastime’s men of color. Minority matters: You can’t help but notice Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts Gary Sanchez Howie Hendrick Josh Bell Out of 32 franchises, Roberts is one of only three minority managers. Also, his Dodgers have the best record can League catchers for the July 9 All-Star Game in in baseball — 53-25 as of June 23. Cleveland. Since joining the Dodgers in 2016, Roberts has a Splash! The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Josh Bell, a 26340-225 record for the regular season and is 42-23 year-old native Texan, is the hit of the ballfield with in postseason, with trips to the World Series the past his prodigious power. two years. Only four balls have ever been hit into the AlleghBorn in Okinawa, Roberts is the son of African- eny River behind PNP Park, and the switch-hitting American U.S. Marine Waymon Roberts and a Japanese Bell has two of them — the longest measuring 470 mother, Elko. He grew up in San Diego. feet. Baseball’s other minority managers are Alex Cora The 6-foot-4, 240-pounder Bell is a National of the World Series champ Boston Red Sox and the League Triple Crown candidate, with 20 homers, 66 Washington National’s Dave Martinez. Cora and RBI and .315 average. He figures to be a NL All-Star Martinez are of Puerto Rican ancestry. first sacker, perhaps for years to come. Yankee Doodle Dandy: No Aaron Judge. No Sweet 16: Jorge Polanco signed with the MinGiancarlo Stanton. No problem in The Bronx. nesota Twins in 2009, when he was only 16 years The New York Yankees’ Gary Sanchez has stepped and one day old. up mightily in extended absences of injured super Obviously, the Twins scouts displayed a sharp eye sluggers Judge and Stanton. The 26-year-old catcher for teenage talent. Today Polanco is a top-of-the-lineup reason why from the Dominican Republic is among big league leaders with 23 homers and 52 runs batted for the Minnesota is running away with the AL Central, nine games up on Cleveland. AL Eastern Division-leading Yankees. The fleet shortstop leads the AL in hitting (.325) Sanchez is the leading vote getter among Ameri-

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“8-0-FORE!” If you’re familiar with this play on Richmond’s area code, you’ll know it as the nickname of the Richmond chapter of the National Negro Golf Association. The Richmond Chapter is the host of NNGA’s 2019 Summer Tournament. The tourney is set to run from July 24 through 28 at the Club at Viniterra in New Kent County, with an evening party at Champions Brewery on July 26 open to the public. Those who attend will likely get the chance to meet the group’s most prominent and important member, National President George Philip Braxton. Mr. Braxton, who has previously served in the males-only organization as national secretary and national vice president, describes the game of golf as “a lifelong pursuit.” “There are few things more satisfying than a well struck long iron or draining a long putt for birdie,” Mr. Braxton says. “It is the pursuit of one hole, one nine holes, one round, one season where we put it all together,” he adds. NNGA was founded in 1965 by a group of black students in professional schoools to serve as less of a sports-focused club and more of a way to maintain connections across states. The organization has since expanded past its six original chapters in Richmond, New York, Washington, Cleveland, Atlanta and Philadelphia to independent chapters in more than 11 other states, including California and Texas, with nearly 200 members across the United States. The Richmond Chapter was founded in 1987 by several individuals, including former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas “Doug” Wilder. Despite a commitment to the club and its ideals so deep that he has a tattoo of the group’s logo on his leg, Mr. Braxton’s first real experience with golf was in 1993 as part of a friend’s wedding celebration. Despite

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Personality: George P. Braxton

Favorite male golfer: Tiger Woods, the G.O.A.T. Favorite female golfer: Rooting for Mariah Stackhouse, Cheyenne Woods and Ginger Howard. Advice to aspiring golfers: You championships. will probably not make it to the Nickname of the local chap- Tour, or even the Champions ter: The local chapter goes Tour, so just enjoy the game. by the nickname “The 8-0- Outlook at start of the day: FORE!,” marrying the area He woke me up so that means code of the city and the warning He wants me active today. Let’s shout for golf. go get it. Organizations association How I unwind: I am known partners with: We have part- to enjoy a dram of American nered with the PGA of America whiskey and a cigar from time for an event that is now the PGA to time. Works Collegiate Champion- Something I love to do that ships, which is open to golfers most people would never imagat minority-serving institutions. ine: Binge watch superhero Additionally, we currently give shows on streaming services. to Virginia Union and Virginia At the top of my “to-do” list: State Universities golf teams. Finishing what wasn’t done The VSU coach, William Per- yesterday. Bucket list: Visit kins is a member of Richmond Africa. NNGA. Locally, we have played Best late-night snack: Desmixed doubles rounds with the sert: Ice cream; Real food: PLS Top Lady Clubbers, a women’s (pathetic little sandwiches; any golf group. slice, pinch or pull of meat beNumber of African-American tween bread, tortilla, etc.). owned/managed golf courses If I had more time, I would: in the U.S.: I know of 16 – with Play more golf. the most notable being those that Person who influenced me are a part of the Salamander the most: My father, George P. Corp. owned by Sheila John- Braxton Sr., a WWII vet and 35son. Reunion, Hammock Beach year postal worker. He taught me (hosted us in 2013) and Innis to never let anything get in the brook (hosted us in 2009). way of your responsibilities and As a game, golf is: A lifetime to make sure that the people who pursuit. There are few things depended on me were provided more satisfying than a well for. He also taught me the imstruck long iron or a draining portance of friendship, fraternity, a long putt for birdie. It is the camaraderie and seeing a world pursuit of one hole, one nine beyond your own. holes, one round, one season, The best thing my parents ever where we put it all together. taught me was: The harder I My handicap: An embarrassing work, the luckier I get. 17.5 index. I got it down to a 14 The book that influenced me in 2017, but life happened. the most: “Good to Great: Favorite course: Locally, my Why Some Companies Make home course is Willow Oaks, but the Leap ... and Others Don’t” I will always be partial to Inde- by Jim Collins. pendence Golf Club. I rue the What I’m reading now: “What day VSGA sold it. Nationally, Doesn’t Kill You Makes You there is something spiritual about Blacker: A Memoir in Essays” Pebble Beach. Internationally, by Damon Young. Punta Espada Golf Club at Cap My next goal: Life after beCana in the Dominican Republic ing an NNGA national officer! just ekes out Teeth of the Dog Lower my handicap. Grow my in the DR. avocation.

Spotlight on national president of National Negro Golf Association never swinging a golf club before that day, Mr. Braxton quickly took to the sport. “After finally hitting one ‘on the screws,’ something went off in me like a tuning fork and I told my friend that I would play this game for the rest of my life,” Mr. Braxton says. This single moment would grow into an obsession with improving at the game. Laserfocused on sharpening his skills and making a name for himself, Mr. Braxton had inadvertently turned golfing into an experience where success dictated his enjoyment. Eventually, the necessities of family life, work and his own health would lead Mr. Braxton to shift his approach to golf. He now treats it as a vehicle for keeping close with his friends, rather than defeating them on the green. “It’s good exercise, a great reason to travel and ,if you can’t beat them in golf, there’s always the card table,” Mr. Braxton says. This take on the game has greatly informed his two terms as NNGA president. After serving for years under Winfred Kirksey and Charlie Ward as vice president, Mr. Braxton was elected in 2015 and again in 2017. His goal: To reshape the association into something that clearly shows the benefits of membership while not losing the sense of fellowship and intimacy for which NNGA was created. “We didn’t need to be a large organization, but we needed to be a viable one,” Mr. Braxton says. Any men 21 years of age or older who are interested in a potential membership can join the Richmond Chapter for their

Saturday outings to get a feel for the organization. “If you are committed to traveling, like a good laugh and love golf, we may be the group for you,” Mr. Braxton says. In his professional life Mr. Braxton serves as deputy director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Office for the Defense Contract Management Agency. Meet this week’s Personality and a real golf guy, George P. Braxton: Occupation: Deputy director, Equal Employment Opportunity Office, Defense Contract Management Agency. Top volunteer position: National president, NNGA: A Brotherhood of African American Golfers, founded as the National Negro Golf Association. Date and place of birth: March 13 in Richmond. Current home: Richmond’s 4th District. Alma maters: University of

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Maryland-College Park, bachelor of arts, and University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. Family: Wife, Kelly Harris-Braxton, and sons Miles Q. Braxton, 22, and Harris B. Braxton, 10. Why NNGA was founded: The National Negro Golf Association was founded in Lebanon, Penn., in July of 1965. Its birth was not conceived from the love of golf, but the love of camaraderie and fun. A small group of black professional students felt the need to reunite and relive some of those golden college days. Golf provided the vehicle which brought them back together in Lebanon; a midpoint between New York, Washington and Cleveland. It became apparent that a continuation of their camaraderie and their newfound love — golf — had to be perpetuated so NNGA was founded. Since then, along with the original chapters of Cleveland, Washington and New York, Atlanta, Richmond, Philadelphia and independent chapters, four chapters have been added. Ours is a traveling club. Members are required to travel to local, national and international golf outings during their membership tenure. Number of members: 185 nationally. Member profile: We are a male-only organization. The typical member is a black male, though we have non-black members, between the ages of 45 and 65. How many team championships won by Richmond Chapter: The Richmond Chapter has won seven of the last 10 team

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Happenings Rekindling memories of childhood and pal Arthur By Jeremy M. Lazarus

For one group of men, Arthur Ashe Jr. is more than a tennis superstar and internationally recognized crusader for human rights and bringing awareness and resources to the AIDS epidemic. For them, he is also the boyhood pal they went to school with, played baseball with, flew model airplanes with and enjoyed other adventures while growing up in North Side. “Arthur was quiet, but he was considered the smartest of us all. He got all A’s in every class — from elementary school to high school. I don’t think he ever came close to a B,” said Frank W. Turner Jr., one of the dwindling group now in their 80s that gathers monthly at a Henrico hotel to reminisce and enjoy each other’s company. Like Mr. Turner, most of the cadre grew up in the Brookfield Gardens apartment complex that sits east of Chamberlayne Avenue and south of School Street. Most of those who meet monthly were members of the “Dream Boys,” a club the young men from Brookfield Gardens and nearby formed as teenagers and have restarted in the past four years to keep up with each other. Mr. Ashe, who was younger at the time, never belonged, Mr. Turner said, but he was a regular presence in their lives as a classmate and neighbor. Othello Scott, a retired pilot, used to live on Brook Road, a short distance from the Ashe home at 1610 Sledd St. “I could yell out my bedroom window at him,” he recalled. At the time, Mr. Ashe’s dad ran Brookfield Park, the largest city recreation site for AfricanAmericans in segregated Richmond. The Ashe family lived in the caretaker’s residence. The

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Childhood friends of Arthur Ashe Jr. meet monthly at a Henrico hotel to rekinlde memories and for fellowship. They are, from left, Raymond Lee, Carlton Harris, Lawrence Logan, Frank Turner Jr., Henry “Chico” Brown, Karl Jones and Othello Scott.

park and home were wiped out nearly 60 years ago by the construction of the Main Post Office. They were eliminated in the city tumult over integration of public spaces. But before that, the 16-acre city recreation area offered ball fields, tennis courts and a pool, becoming a summer mecca for the Dream Boys and others youngsters in the area. This was the park where Mr. Ashe learned to play tennis and would daily hit 1,000 balls before breakfast to sharpen his skills, a former mentor in the sport recalled in a newspaper interview.

Kehinde Wiley via Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Kehinde Wiley signs his “Rumors of War” sculpture created in response to Confederate statues on Monument Avenue. The Wiley sculpture, which was acquired last week by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, will debut Sept. 27 in New York City’s Times Square before being moved in December to its permanent home outside the Richmond museum on Arthur Ashe Boulevard.

VMFA acquires Kehinde Wiley sculpture ‘Rumors of War’ By George Copeland Jr.

It all started on Monument Avenue. In 2016, world-renowned artist Kehinde Wiley traveled to Richmond for the premiere of his exhibit, “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Making his way to the museum on Arthur Ashe Boulevard, he encountered the statue of Confederate J.E.B. Stuart on horseback at the thoroughfare’s intersection with Monument Avenue. That monument to a defender of slavery would lead Mr. Wiley to reach back, in style and title, to a series of paintings he made in the early 2000s to create a sculpture that, in his own words, would “expose the beautiful and terrible potentiality of art to sculpt the language of domination.” His new work, “Rumors of War,” features a young AfricanAmerican man dressed in urban streetwear sitting astride a massive horse. The sculpture, cast in bronze, is Mr. Wiley’s largest three-dimensional work to date and his first public art work. The VMFA’s board of directors, led by Dr. Monroe Harris of Richmond, voted last week to acquire “Rumors of War,” that will be installed at the VMFA’s entrance on Arthur Ashe Boulevard in December after its initial debut Setp. 27 in busy Times Square in New York City. “The installation of ‘Rumors of War’ at the Virginia

Museum of Fine Arts later this year will be a historic moment for our museum and for the city of Richmond,” VMFA Director Alex Nyerges wrote in a statement announcing the acquisition. “We hope that the sculpture will encourage public engagement and civic discussion about who is memorialized in our nation and the significance of monuments in the context of American history.” While Richmond has made efforts to counteract the Lost Cause narrative upheld and maintained by the Confederate statues that dot Monument Avenue, the city remains restrained by state laws that prevent their removal without approval by the General Assembly. The solutions so far, notably the placement of a statue of Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue, have never been as explicitly anti-Confederate as Mr. Wiley’s work. The sculpture deliberately mirrors the triumphant posture of the Stuart statue with a horse-riding black man dressed in street clothes as part of “an engagement with violence” that Mr. Wiley described as the inspiration behind it. “Art and violence have for an eternity held a strong narrative grip with each other,” Mr. Wiley stated in a VMFA news release. “‘Rumors of War’ attempts to use the language of equestrian portraiture to both embrace and subsume the fetishization of state violence,” he wrote. An award-winning artist, Mr. Wiley has been lauded in the

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Mr. Ashe also loved other sports. He was among the boys who took part in a summer baseball camp run by legendary Armstrong

High School Coach Maxie Robinson, the father of late pioneering national broadcast journalist Max Robinson Jr. and his brother, anti-apartheid activist and lawyer Randall Robinson, founder of TransAfrica. “Mr. Ashe wanted to be a pitcher,” said Henry “Chico” Brown, “but we would always hit his pitches out of the park.” Pernell Taylor, a retired Richmond educator and sports coach and a latecomer to the Dream Boys, said that he’s one of the few that know Mr. Ashe flew airplanes in a model airplane club. “We were in the club together,” he said. Mr. Turner said everyone kept up with Mr. Ashe’s tennis exploits and knew that he had to leave Richmond to push his game to the next level because he was barred by the color of his skin from playing on most public or private courts in the city. Mr. Turner said he followed Mr. Ashe more than most because his brother, Allen Turner, often partnered with Mr. Ashe in doubles play in Richmond. “One time, I called him,” Mr. Turner said. “When I asked him where he was, he said he was at West Point. When I asked him what he was doing there, he said he was a lieutenant in the Army assigned to teach a general’s daughter how to play tennis. ‘It’s a pretty easy assignment,’ he said. He never told anyone about it.

Astoria Beneficial Club to host 46th annual commemoration of Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson The legacy of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson will be honored 10 a.m. Saturday, June 29, in a ceremony sponsored by the Astoria Beneficial Club at the statue of Mr. Robinson the club put in place 46 years ago at Leigh and Adams streets in Jackson Ward. Richmond Public Works Director Bobby Vincent Jr. will speak at the ceremony. This is the 46th commemoration held by the Astoria Beneficial Club, a 117-year-old organization focused on black community outreach. The organization placed the statue at the intersection in 1973 to remember Mr. Robinson, a Richmond native who gained international acclaim as a tap dancer and entertainer, and his impact. In 1933, Mr. Robinson purchased a $1,400 traffic light for the Jackson Ward intersection after witnessing the danger young African-Americans faced in trying to cross the busy street. Beyond his work with child star Shirley Temple on stage and screen, Mr. Robinson also was active in the pursuit of civil rights and racial equality, advocating for more equitable treatment of black soldiers during World War II, integration and more diverse and inclusive police departments. Mr. Robinson’s birthday, May 25, was designated as National Tap Dance Day by Congress in 1989.

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High-intensity workouts end with prayer Religion News Service

APEX, N.C. On a Tuesday evening under the roof of a public picnic shelter, a group of women ages 20 to 55 groaned through a series of high-intensity exercises in the 88-degree heat and humidity. Cheered on by their leader, who yelled, “You’re getting stronger,” and “You’re going to feel like Popeye,” the women press on with jumping jacks, burpee box jumps and a set of other cardio exercises with inventive names: “Dying cockroach,” “Ski moguls” and “Sparky crabs.” But the intensity of the boot camplike drill ended on a quieter, more reflective note 45-minutes later as the women came into a circle, their faces still flush from working out, to close with a prayer: “Lord, thank you for the time we’ve been able to be together and just exercise,” said Julie Swift, one of the women. “Please bless all these ladies and sustain them through their week. In Jesus’ name we pray.” After a unison “Amen,” they roll up their mats, give each other a hug and head home — until the next workout. A host of modern exercise groups have sprung up in the last decade that aim to create fitter bodies, minds and hearts: CrossFit, SoulCycle, Pure Barre, Orangetheory. All promise to empower, strengthen and transform while creating a sense of community. The latest is Females in Action, a Southern-style fitness program designed to make women stronger and develop friendships. The FiA brand is the female equivalent to F3 — its larger male counterpart, which aims to build men up through fitness, fellowship and faith. But unlike the for-profit studios

Stephanie Walton, foreground, leads a Females in Action workout in Apex, N.C.

that cater to urban millennials willing and able to pay $40 a class, Females in Action (like F3) is free. Workout sessions are peer-led. They most often take place outdoors, in public parks or school fields. And they typically end with a spiritual high five. “We are focused on fitness, but it goes beyond that,” explained Catherine Butler, who leads one of three FiA groups in Charlotte, N.C. “We are a community of women that lifts each other up.” Started six years ago, FiA has grown to 53 regional workout groups spread across multiple states but heavily concentrated in North and South Carolina. Many are located in the suburbs and appeal to church-going working women whose husbands oftentimes participate in the male counterpart. FiA estimates 5,700 women work out at its exercise sessions, and many say the biggest draw is the camaraderie and support the women offer

one another. “There’s nothing ever negative here,” said Caroline Uenking, 20, who accompanied her mother, Heather, to a recent workout. “It’s all positive.” Ms. Uenking, who has some problems with her calves, and her mother, who has a hard time touching her toes, are never singled out, they said. Instead, they’re encouraged to do what they can, altering a particular exercise to meet their abilities. Like the F3 male-only version from which it borrows extensively, the workouts have a certain military style that stems from one of its founders, David Redding, a former member of the Green Berets. Although some workouts incorporate yoga and others running, the typical session features aerobic exercise sets in which participants push themselves as hard as they can, rest and repeat. In keeping with military nomenclature, participants are required to have nicknames, too. Stephanie Walton, the

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leader of the Apex, N.C., group, is known as Peachtree; Janice Azeveda, who leads a group that meets in Cary, N.C., is known as Van Gogh. But although the exercises are hard-core, the female-only environment makes it more inviting for some women. Ms. Swift, 55, said she felt overwhelmed attending gym classes alongside men. “I would prefer women who can influence each other,” she said. The gender restriction may be part of FiA’s more traditional appeal. If some of the newer fitness center brands draw millennials with no particular faith, FiA draws people who tend to be more religiously conventional. Though not explicitly Christian, FiA promotes the idea of a belief in a higher being, whatever that might be called. It’s a formula that also echoes the second Alcoholics Anonymous step, “We came to be aware that a Power greater than ourselves could

restore us to sanity.” Ms. Walton, a mom now studying for a degree in health and fitness science, said FiA made her a better person. “Since I’ve been doing FiA I’ve been going to church more,” she said. “I’ve been doing more soul-searching. It’s just part of it. You start caring about people. You see their children being born. You do things for their husbands when their husbands are sick.” Not everyone in F3 is religiously devout, and not all sessions end in prayer. But the group leader, called a “Q,” is expected to end each workout with what’s called a “Circle of Trust,” intended as a short time to reflect. Ms. Azeveda, who leads a 5:30 a.m. workout in Cary, tends to keep things strictly nonsectarian. She concluded a recent session by reading a quote from personal coach Cheryl Richardson about the importance of self care. A 58-year-old preschool teacher, Ms. Azeveda said she nearly fainted the first time she attended a FiA workout. She was never very athletic, she said, and gyms did nothing for her. “If you decide not to go, nobody at the gym is going to say, ‘Hey, I missed you. Where were you?’ ” she said. “With this particular group, if you’re not there, somebody checks in with you and asks, ‘Are you OK?’ That’s a beautiful thing, having relationships of support. That’s really important.” Through FiA, she’s lost weight and gained muscle. Best of all, FiA empowers women and cheers them on. “It’s a life-changing group,” she said. “Physically you change because you’re taking care of your body. Mentally you change because you’re meeting new people and establishing new relationships and spiritually you change because you’re taking time out to reflect on your life. It’s a good thing.”

History of enslaved sold for Georgetown University detailed in new genealogical website By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

A genealogical association has launched a new website detailing the family histories of enslaved people who were sold to keep Catholic-run Georgetown University from going bankrupt in the 1800s. American Ancestors announced the new GU272 Memory Project website on June 19, the anniversary of Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when some American slaves learned they had been freed. Twenty-seven years earlier, a document dated June 19, 1838, showed that Maryland Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to the owners of Louisiana plantations. The Jesuits used the proceeds to benefit then-Georgetown College. But the website, www.georgetownmemoryproject.org, includes a spreadsheet of 314 individuals whom genealogists have identified as being part of the group sold by the Jesuit priests. It also features audio recordings in which descendants Photo courtesy of Georgetown University recall memories, from segregated education to family migration away from the South. “Having descendant voices present alongside historical documents is an essential part of the GU272 narrative,” said Claire Vail, the project’s director for American Ancestors, in an announcement about the website. “Documents provide the factual framework, but people supply the human story.” Descendants are learning new links to their past as a result of the project. “As Black Americans — as descendants of enslaved people — we have always been told ‘you’ll never know who you are. You’ll never know where you came from,’” said Mélisande Short-Colomb, a descendant of the group of slaves, in a statement about the project. “Now that we have this data, my hope is that we can use it to open doors and make connections. We have been here since the founding of this country, and we are a significant part of the American experience.” The website is part of a collaboration between Boston-based American Ancestors, also called the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Georgetown Memory Project, which was founded by Georgetown alumnus Richard Cellini. Through the project, genealogists have discovered 8,425 descendants of enslaved people sold in 1838. Close to half of them remain alive. The site includes a searchable database with genealogies of descendants who have died.

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Most of the 314 enslaved people were sent to Louisiana, but about a third remained in Maryland or were sold to other locations, according to an article on the website. The article details how the sold slaves were transported to three Louisiana plantations, where they faced brutal treatment. “A few priests expressed qualms about the morality of human trafficking to Jesuit authorities, although most were concerned with the threat a heavily Protestant South would undoubtedly present to the slaves’ Catholic faith,” it reads. “In letters written to Jesuit superiors in Maryland, one priest who accidentally crossed paths with the slaves in Louisiana after the sale bemoaned the fact that the slaves couldn’t practice Catholicism.” In 2017, Georgetown University held a day of remembrance during which the president of the Jesuit order apologized to more than 100 descendants attending a “contrition” liturgy. On that same day, the university rededicated two buildings previ-

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ously named for former university presidents who were priests and supporters of the slave trade. One building is now named in honor of Isaac Hawkins, a slave who was 65 years old when he was sold in 1838. The second is now named for Anne Marie Becraft, a free African-American woman who founded a school for Catholic black girls in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. “Since 2015, Georgetown has been working to address its historical relationship to slavery and will continue to do so,” a Georgetown spokesman said in a statement last Friday. “We have committed to finding ways that members of the Georgetown and Descendant communities can be engaged together in efforts that advance racial justice and enable every member of our Georgetown community to confront and engage with Georgetown’s history with slavery.” The GU272 Descendants Association also has a website. It is www.gu272.net. “The Church With A Welcome”

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Martha Brown Wall, educator with the Va. Dept. of Corrections, dies at 54 Martha Augusta Brown Wall counseled and taught hundreds of Virginia prison inmates during her more than 30-year career with the Virginia Department of Corrections. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She enjoyed the work of helping those adults turn their lives around and teaching in the adult education program,â&#x20AC;? said her mother, Barbara S. Brown, a former principal in Petersburg and Goochland and Prince Edward counties. Mrs. Wall had begun working on her masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in educational leadership at the University of Richmond while battling multiple myeloma. She succumbed to the disease Monday, June 17, 2019, at age 54, before

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WASHINGTON A 40-foot-tall cross-shaped war memorial standing on public land in Maryland does not represent an impermissible government endorsement of religion, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a major decision testing the boundaries of the federal Constitutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s separation of church and state. The justices, in a 7-2 decision, overturned a lower court ruling that declared the so-called Peace Cross in Bladensburg unconstitutional in a legal challenge mounted by the American Humanist Association, a group that advocates for secular governance. The giant concrete cross originally was erected in 1925 on private property as a memorial to the 49 soldiers from Prince George County, Md., who died in World War I. The property and the cross were later donated to Maryland, raising the constitutional question of whether such a Christian symbol can be supported with taxpayer dollars.

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 1, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-165 To amend ch. 19, art. VII, div. 2 of the City Code by adding therein a new § 19-334.1 for the purpose of prohibiting the carrying of firearms within certain places effective at such time as the adoption of such a prohibition becomes permitted by l a w. ( CO M M I T T EE : Governmental Operations, Thursday, June 27, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-187 To authorize the owners of certain properties along North 17th Street between East Franklin Street and East Main Street to encroach upon the public right-of-way with outdoor dining areas on a temporary basis, upon certain terms and conditions. Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Candice D. Reid City Clerk

City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 22, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-166 To amend City Code § 9-58, which assigns polling places in the city, for the purpose of reflecting changes to the street name for the polling places for Precinct 204 and Precinct 2 1 5 . ( CO M M I T T EE : Governmental Operations, Thursday, June 27, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2019-167 To amend and reordain City Code § 9-58, which assigns polling places in the city, to relocate and establish a new polling place for Precinct 3 0 2 . ( CO M M I T T EE : Governmental Operations, Thursday, June 27, 2019, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances, including descriptions and maps of proposed boundary and polling place changes, are available for inspection by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ERIN LLOYD, Plaintiff, v. BRIAN HUNTRESS, Defendant. Case No.: CL19001841-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 6th day of August, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 2 and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 Law Office of 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 Continued on next column

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO MAJORIE REZVYI, Plaintiff, v. VIKTOR REZVYI, Defendant. Case No.: CL19-1108 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from VIKTOR REZVYI on the grounds that the Parties have lived separate and apart continuously and without cohabitation or interruption for a period in excess of one year. An affidavit having been filed that VIKTOR REZVYI, defendant, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of MARJORIE REZVYI, plaintiff, to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is without effect; UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, this order of publication is granted and the Defendant, VIKTOR REZVYI is hereby ORDERED to appear before this Court, on the 5th day of August, 2019, at 9 a.m., and protect his interests. A Copy Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk Scott D. Cardani, VSB# 39976 Bowen Ten Cardani PC 3957 Westerre Parkway, Suite 105 Richmond, Virginia 23233 Telephone: (804) 755-7599

the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 17th day of July, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire VSB# 27724 Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

his/her interest on or before August 5, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #4

described as 1413 Vinton Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100197/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Roy F. Humphrey, Roy Franklin Humphrey, Jr. and Edna Mae Humphrey. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROY FRANKLIN HUMPHREY, JR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that EDNA MAE HUMPHREY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ROY FRANKLIN HUMPHREY, JR, EDNA MAE HUMPHREY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that HAZEL B. TALBERT, JAMES E. TALBERT, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. FRANKLIN N. BONNER, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1284 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3203 Stockton Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0002132/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Franklin N. Bonner, Patricia B. Lomax, Kenneth Bonner, Monique Bonner, Michellet Bonner, Torie Bonner, Gregory Bonner and Nathan Bonner. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, FRANKLIN N. BONNER, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owners, PATRICIA B. LOMAX, KENNETH B O N N ER , M O N I Q U E B O N N ER , M IC H E L L E T BONNER, TORIE BONNER, GREGORY BONNER, and NATHAN BONNER, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that FIRST NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-11944 on April 4, 2003, per an assignment of beneficiary filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-29558 on August 7, 2003, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that FRANKLIN N. BONNER, PAT RICI A B . L O M A X , K E N N E T H B O N N ER , M O N I Q U E B O N N ER , M IC H E L L E T B O N N ER , TORIE BONNER, GREGORY B O N N ER , N A T H A N BONNER, FIRST NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0311944 on April 4, 2003, per an assignment of beneficiary filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0329558 on August 7, 2003,and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 19 East 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001002/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ester F. Beverly and Edward Fountain. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, EDWARD FOUNTAIN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ESTER F. BEVERLY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that EDWARD FOUNTAIN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTER F. BEVERLY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER RODNEY LEE, Plaintiff v. MECHETE LEE, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000853-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of July, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JAIME MENDOZA LOPEZ, Plaintiff v. CAROLINA SALVADOR REYES, Defendant. Case No.: CL19000743-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of July, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER LISA CORBETT, Plaintiff v. CHARLES JONES, JR., Defendant. Case No.: CL19001247-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 17th day of July, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire VSB# 27724 Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KENYA GAGE, Plaintiff v. TERRANCE ROBINSON, Defendant. Case No.: CL19001062-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from Continued on next column

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ELIJAH LEE Case No. J-096015-06-07 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Kenneth Wray Lee (Father) and Unknown (Father) of Elijah Lee, child, DOB 03/28/2012, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Father & Kenneth Wray Lee (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 09/09/2019, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #4 VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re DEANTA TAHEEM LEE, JR. Case No. J-095501-08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father) of Deanta Taheem Lee, Jr. child, DOB 09/17/2017, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Father to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 09/09/2019, at 9:20 AM, Courtroom #4 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS DIVISION COUNTY OF DURHAM FILE NO. 19 SP 554, IN RE: I.F.T., A Minor Child. TO: Any Unknown Parent Take notice that an action has been commenced against you in the above referenced court file to adopt a male child born on May 10, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia to Darla Simone Ely. The child was conceived in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia in approximately July - August 2018. Ms. Ely is a Caucasian female, 23 – 24 years of age, 230 lbs. when not pregnant, 5’9” feet tall, green eyes, long brown hair, fair complexion, and medium build. To participate in this proceeding and receive further notice, including the time and place of any hearing in this matter, you must file a written response with the Clerk of Superior Court within forty (40) days after the first publication of this notice on June 20, 2019 on or before July 30, 2019. If you fail to respond, Petitioners will seek an order that your consent is not required to this adoption and a decree of adoption will be entered that will terminate your parental rights. This the 12th day of June 2019. You should provide a copy of any response to the attorney for Petitioner at: Bobby D. Mills, 4600 Marriott Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27612, Telephone 919-306-2899.

LICENSE Native Selections LLC Trading as: Native Selections LLC, 1206 Dinwiddie Ave. STE D, Richmond, Virginia 23224 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wholesale Wine (30,000 Gallons or Less Annually), Wine Importer license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Shawn Eubank, Managing Member NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

Property TRUSTEE’S SALE 3413 2nd Avenue, Richmond 23222 In execution of a Deed of Trust recorded in Clerk’s Office there having been a default under the Deed of Trust, Trustee will offer for sale at public auction on July 9, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., front entrance of Circuit Court, City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 N. 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, the property known as 3413 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23222. For full description of property, see Deed of Trust. Sale made subject to all existing easements, restrictive covenants, liens and/or deeds of trust. TERMS: Cash at settlement within 15 days of sale. Bidder’s deposit 10% of bid price cash or certified check. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Ann Rogers, Trustee, Post Office Box 167, Manakin Sabot, Virginia 23103 (804)784-7182. Notice Judicial Sale of Real Property Owner/s of the below listed properties are hereby given notice that thirty (30) days from the date of this notice, proceedings will be commenced under the authority of Section 58.13965 et seq. of the Code of Virginia to sell the following parcels located in the City of Richmond, Virginia for payment of delinquent taxes: 3513 1st Avenue N000 1173 012 3515 1st Avenue N000 1173 013 3519 1st Avenue N000 1173 014 1800 North 21st Street E000 1078 007 1607 Albany Avenue S000 0231 014 2415 Alexander Avenue S008 0815 051 5216 Beddington Road C008 1182 021 2400 Bells Road S009 0065 027 13 East Broad Rock Road S000 1345 025 5614 Campbell Avenue E010 0198 021 5210 Clarence Street S006 0369 001 2411 Coles Street S009 0065 019 3349 Dill Avenue N005 1182 031 2214 Edwards Avenue S000 0459 003 2720 Haden Avenue S008 0772 019 712 Hill Top Drive S005 3307 006 5769 Hull Street Road C008 0331 066 3611 Jefferson Davis Highway S008 0884 046 1705 Magnolia Street N000 0663 019 2812 Midlothian Turnpike S000 1123 009 2213 Park Avenue W000 1004 008 88 West Pilkington Street S000 0482 017 8 South Plum Street Rear W000 0604 055 625 Pollock Street N000 1261 013 2322 Rosewood Avenue W000 1031 026 2900 Rugby Road W000 1329 010 2116 Selden Street E012 0259 025 2120 Selden Street E012 0259 023 1716 Southampton Avenue W000 0702 018 1509 Winchell Street E010 0138 002 3007 Woodcliff Avenue N000 0987 022 The owner/s of any property listed may redeem it at any time before the date of the sale by paying all accumulated taxes, penalties, interest and cost thereon, including the pro rata costs of publication hereunder. Gregory A. Lukanuski, Deputy City Attorney Office of the City Attorney for the City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia (804) 646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ETHIE BRENT File No. JJ-095414-08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father) of Ethie Brent, child DOB 01/20/2018, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown (Father) to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ROY F. HUMPHREY, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6178 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. EVELYN C. BROWN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5258 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2509 Porter Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000696/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Evelyn C. Brown. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EVELYN C. BROWN, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that ARTHUR B. CARTER, JR, upon information and belief deceased, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 567 page 232 on July 18, 1980, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that EVE LY N C . B RO W N , ARTHUR B. CARTER, JR, upon information and belief deceased, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 567 page 232 on July 18, 1980, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. HAZEL B. TALBERT, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1323 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1813 Cedarhurst Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C005-0298/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Hazel B. Talbert and James E. Talbert, Jr. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HAZEL B. TALBERT, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, JAMES E. TALBERT, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. BESSIE S. FULTON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5417 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 414½ Patrick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1554/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Bessie S. Fulton, Major H. Smith, III, Jean S. Patton, Alfred Spencer Smith, Loretta Beatrice Smith, Joyce T. Smith, George A. Smith, Jr., Regina F. Plummer, Lavern D. Easter and Kenneth R. Smith. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, BESSIE S. FULTON, MAJOR H. SMITH, III, JEAN S. PATTON, JOYCE T. SMITH, GEORGE A. SMITH, JR, REGINA F. PLUMMER, LAVERN D. EASTER, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ALFRED SPENCER SMITH, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, L ORE T TA B E AT RICE SMITH, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, KENNETH R. SMITH, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that BESSIE S. FULTON, MAJOR H. SMITH, III, JEAN S. PATTON, JOYCE T. SMITH, GEORGE A. SMITH, JR, REGINA F. PLUMMER, L AVER N D . E A S T ER , ALFRED SPENCER SMITH, L ORE T TA B E AT RICE SMITH, KENNETH R. SMITH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JASON ROANE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6376 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2928 Springview Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C009-0622/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jason Roane and Briana Young-Roane. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JASON ROANE, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that JASON ROANE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ELVIN H. JEFFERSON, JR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6233 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3324 Maryland Avenue s, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001160/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Elvin H. Jefferson, Jr. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELVIN H. JEFFERSON, JR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ELVIN H. JEFFERSON, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JUNE A. MCELROY, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-798 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 228 Green Acres Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0060488/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, June A. McElroy. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JUNE A. MCELROY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that JUNE A. MCELROY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. EDWARD FOUNTAIN, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-998 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. LARRY N. STERLING, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1233 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 605 North 29th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000573/038, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Larry N. Sterling and Louis Voron. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, LARRY N. STERLING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and LOUIS VORON, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that LARRY N. STERLING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, L O U I S VORO N , u p o n information and belief

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deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

A. SMITH, upon information and belief deceased, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 49B page 28 on May 18, 1920, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that MARY A. SMITH, upon information and belief deceased, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 49B page 28 on May 18, 1920, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ROBERT P. PAIGE, JR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-6236 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1500 North 19th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000930/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Robert P. Paige, Jr. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT P. PAIGE, JR, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN W. ANDERSON, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, has not filed a response to this action; that THOMAS P. COLLINS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ROBERT P. PAIGE, SR, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ROBERT P. PAIGE, JR, JOHN W. ANDERSON, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, THOMAS P. COLLINS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, ROBERT P. PAIGE, SR, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 309 page 801 on July 10, 1992, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, William McGee, Catherine Ellerbee, Harold L. Harris, Sr. and Roscoe Harris. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WILLIAM MCGEE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CATHERINE ELLERBEE, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or hers heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HAROLD L. HARRIS, SR, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ROSCOE HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that WILLIAM MCGEE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CATHERINE ELLERBEE, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or hers heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HAROLD L. HARRIS, SR, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ROSCOE HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EDITH WHITE WILSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, IRVIN WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and LEOLA TOMPKINS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that HAMPTON WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EDITH WHITE WILSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, IRVIN WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LEOLA TOMPKINS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ROBERT VALENTINE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5848 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2509 Afton Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071677/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert Valentine. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-27456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0227456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. TIRSIT BEYENE HAILE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-997 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 15 East 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001002/021, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Tirsit Beyene Haile. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, TIRSIT BEYENE HAILE, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that TIRSIT BEYENE HAILE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. MARY A. SMITH, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1235 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 17 East 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001002/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mary A. Smith. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MARY Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JUNE A. MCELROY, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-799 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 314 Green Acres Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C006-0488/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, June A. McElroy. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JUNE A. MCELROY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that JUNE A. MCELROY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. CARROLL ALLMOND, et al. Defendants. Case No.: CL19-452 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1718 North 23rd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000940/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Carroll Allmond. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CARROLL ALLMOND, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that CARROLL ALLMOND, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. SANFORD S. SEAY, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-1001 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1305 Bowen Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071182/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Sanford S. Seay and Ada B. Seay. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, SANFORD S. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ADA B. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that SANFORD S. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and ADA B. SEAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM MCGEE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-450 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1816 Blair Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0000840/038, to sale in order to

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. HAMPTON WHITE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-643 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2500 Gravel Hill Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0040826/026, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Hampton White, Edith White Wilson, Irvin White and Leola Tompkins. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, HAMPTON WHITE, upon

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. MYRTLE G. WHITE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL19-928 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2510 Rear Gravel Hill Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C004-0826/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Myrtle G. White An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MYRTLE G. WHITE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that MYRTLE G. WHITE, upon information and belief

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. ROBERT VALENTINE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-5849 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2511 Afton Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071677/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert Valentine. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 02-27456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ROBERT VALENTINE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, STEWART L. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0227456 on September 3, 2002, or his successor/s in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before august 15, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The University of Virginia seeks a firm to provide: Chauffeured Ground Transportation Services (Gen 2) RFP-UVA-00015-KC062019 To view a copy of RFP # KC062019 go to Procurement Services Site: https://bids. sciquest.com/apps/Router/ PublicEvent?CustomerOrg=UVa, or email pur-rfp@virginia.edu

The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: IFB No. T190020351

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Virginia Department of Transportation is requesting proposals to provide: Re-solicitation: Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) and Psychological Fitness Evaluation Services. A copy of the RFP # 155503 may be downloaded from the website: www.eva.virginia.gov Proposals must be received as stated in the solicitation.

“Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy As to Students”

Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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

Maintenance Supervisor. Job located in Richmond, VA: Perform maintenance of machines, both preventative and corrective, through plans and service orders, using precision tools and programmable logical computers; Ensure compliance to quality and food safety standards, regulations and legislation. Requires 3 years of exp in job offered or as an electromechanics with confectioner’s manufacturer. Exp must include SQF, GMP, HACCP, and 5S. Send resume to Mavaliero USA, Inc., Attn: Fernando Bettin, 11900 North Lakeridge Pkwy., Ashland, VA 23005. VP, Consultant - Sys Eng sought by Bank of America, N.A. to ensure production stability from an ongoing support standpoint. Reqs: Master’s degree or equiv. & 3 yrs exp. in: Building, configuring, tuning, patching, & administering middleware tech including WebSphere App Server & JBoss App Server on Distributed Linux platforms to provide stable middleware infrastructure. Job Site: Richmond, VA. Ref#2882925 & submit resume to Bank of America, N.A. NY1-050-03-01, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020. No phone calls or emails. EOE.

Fourth Baptist Church is seeking a part time Minister of Music. Candidate must have a minimum of 5-7 years of experience. Candidate must have a college degree in music or an equivalent arts degree, must be able to read music, play piano, organ and keyboard, be knowledgeable in the use of related technology and software. Candidate must be able to offer a blended style of music, i.e. Hymns, Anthems, Traditional Gospel, Praise and Worship and Contemporary Praise and Worship. Salary is competitive. Application deadline is July 13, 2019. Please email all resumes to George Dorman at grgdorm@aol.com.

EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH 216 West Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23220 The People’s Church

Opening for the Position of Pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church, of Richmond, Virginia, seeks a Pastor, called by God, who will lead, direct and guide the ministry of this historic church. The applicant must be a trained, licensed and ordained minister, must have served at least three years as a pastor, assistant or associate pastor and must have earned the Master of Divinity Degree. The applicant must also be a biblical scholar, understand church business principles and be of impeccable character. The closing date for submitting application is July 8, 2019. Contact information and detailed application instructions are found at Ebenezer’s website, www.richmondebenezer.com

29th Street Bike Walk Boulevard (Form Libby Terrace to Kane Street) EN16-127-995, P101, C501, UPC109295

Due Date: Friday, July 19, 2019 10:00 A.M. Receipt Location: 900 East Broad Street, Room 1104, 11th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219

ACADEMIC SUPPORT LIBRARIANS

Questions regarding IFB shall be submitted no later than July 8, 2019

(Positions #FA406, #FA407)

Information or copies of the above solicitations are available by contacting Procurement Services, at the City of Richmond website (www. RichmondGov.com), or at 11th Floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Phone (804) 646-5722 or faxed (804) 6465989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

Reynolds Community College, located in the Richmond, Virginia area, is currently seeking applicants for two Academic Support Librarian positions. The Academic Support Librarians will offer and coordinate library and tutoring services for both on-campus and online students. The positions will coordinate tutoring services at a primary campus location, but will provide services to other campuses as needed. Responsibilities include hiring, training and supervising tutors in various subject areas, participating in the development, review and revision of policies and procedures for tutoring services, reaching out to faculty to identify and recruit tutors, collaborating with academic advising to identify students for tutoring services. The Academic Support Librarians will also provide library support to Campus Libraries through both face-to-face and virtual reference services and information literacy training sessions, and participate in collection development. Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from an American Library Association accredited school is required.

For reference purposes, documents may be examined at the above location.

Virginia Board for People with Disabilities

Requests FFY 2020 Competitive Grant Proposals The Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, the state’s Developmental Disabilities (DD) Council, seeks to support local, regional and/or statewide projects that encourage inclusive communities and result in changes to policies, programs, and systems through the release of its Creating Inclusive Communities – Request for Proposal (RFP). The Board is seeking proposals that will (1) create, improve or expand informal and formal community supports for people with developmental disabilities and/or (2) address the need of underserved and inequitably served individuals within the overall population of people with developmental disabilities. The Board has approximately $750,000 available for multiple projects in Virginia, and funding for individual projects under this RFP may range from $10,000 to $300,000. The 2020 RFP, forms & other important documents needed to complete an application are available at https://www.ddsuite.org/index. The deadline for Letters of Interest is August 1, 2019 for grant projects that will begin January 20, 2020. Grants awarded by the Board are 100% federally funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Questions regarding the RFP submission process should be directed to Jason Withers, at (804) 7869375 or by email at Jason.Withers@vbpd.virginia.gov.

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TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time, twelve-month, professional faculty-ranked appointment. Salary range: $56,610 - $112,256. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $68,493. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Application reviews will begin, AUGUST 8, 2019. Additional information is available at the College’s Website: www.reynolds.edu. AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans/ AmeriCorps/Peace Corps/ Other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.

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