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‘Votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers’

Gov. Northam calls for special General Assembly session to deal with gun violence Free Press wire, staff reports

VIRGINIA BEACH Gov. Ralph S. Northam is summoning lawmakers back to the state Capitol for a special legislative session to consider guncontrol legislation, saying last Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach calls for “votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers.”

Gov. Northam said Tuesday that he wants every state lawmaker go on record for or against his proposals during the special session this summer, rather than let leaders shield them from tough votes by killing measures in subcommittees.

“I ask that the members of the General Assembly engage in an open and transparent debate and that the bills brought before the legislature are put to a vote by the entire General Assembly,” Gov. Northam said at a news conference, where he was accompanied by Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, Attorney General Mark R. Herring and other elected officials, state workers and gun control advocates and given a standing ovation. “The nation will be watching.”

Among the proposals he will seek are universal background checks before gun purchases, limiting purchases to one handgun per month and a so-called red flag bill that would allow authorities to temporarily seize someone’s guns if they are a shown to be threat to themselves or others.

“It is wrong that we now view these mass shootings as the new normal,” Gov. Northam said. “It is past time to change.”

He said he had previously asked the General Assembly for a number of tighter gun restrictions, but lawmakers repeatedly rejected his requests.

The Virginia Beach tragedy “must instill in us a new urgency

to act,” he said. “If we can save one life because we acted now, it is worth it.”

DeWayne Craddock, a 40-year-old civil engineer who worked for the City of Virginia Beach for 15 years, used two semiautomatic handguns to kill 12 people last Friday in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting of the year. The fatal scene unfolded around 4 p.m. when the gunman shot the first victim outside Building 2, a three-story brick structure at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center where he worked with nearly 400 city employees.

Police say the shooter attached a suppressor, also known as a silencer, to the .45-caliber handgun that he fired on three floors of the building where he worked. Authorities found a silencer on one of the weapons and extended ammunition magazines.

Virginia is among 42 states that allow residents to purchase and possess suppressors, though some cities – including Virginia Beach – prohibit them.

After an intense gunbattle with police, Mr. Craddock was mortally wounded.

Four other people remained in critical condition after what authorities said were multiple surgeries since last Friday. Three were at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, a 273-bed acute care facility where Richmond native Elwood B. “Bernie” Boone III is president.

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School Board gives final approval to $418M spending plan

By Jeremy M. Lazarus and Ronald E. Carrington

Top prosecutor stepping down

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Backed by a $25 million boost in contributions from city taxpayers, the Richmond School Board Tuesday approved spending a record $16,814 for each of the 24,800 students projected to be served in the 2019-20 budget year that begins July 1.

Ranking Richmond among the most expensive school districts in the state, the budgeted cost for public education in the new fiscal year represents an 8.5 percent increase over the previous record of $15,423 budgeted this year for 25,300 students.

That level of spending per student appears to undermine the argument that RPS’ poor showing on everything from on-time graduation to reading achievement is due to underfunding and a lack of resources.

Quite the contrary. The spending package narrowly approved by the School Board on a 5-4 vote is the highest ever for public education in the city — $418 million, including about $398 million in city, state and federal dollars for instruction and operations.

The total also includes $19 million — one of the largest sums in decades — that Mayor Levar M. Stoney and City Council earmarked for school maintenance. It will help RPS take a bite out of the estimated $82 million needed to replace old roofs, air conditioning and heating systems and deal with other maintenance needs in the aging inventory of buildings.

Among the highlights, the ap-

Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring has quietly left his mark on the criminal justice system in Richmond.

During his 13½ years in office, he upended the system that kept jail cells crowded with people awaiting trial because they couldn’t afford bond. Instead, he recommended people awaiting trial be released with conditions unless an assessment found they posed a continuing risk to the community.

The recipient of the 2016 Virginia State Bar award for professionalism, Mr. Herring Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press has pushed community service over jail time Marquita Ridley, left, and her daughters, Nyirah Phillips, 10, and Blessyn Evans place balloons Wednesday on a memorial at Carter Jones Park in South Side, for people arrested for marijuana possession where 9-year-old Markiya Dickson was fatally shot on May 26. Markiya’s family is and supported efforts to reduce the jail hosting a vigil at the park on Bainbridge Street at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6. population by creating diversion programs for addicts and the mentally ill.

And along the way, he rebuilt relations Mr. Herring with the Richmond Police Department that had frayed under his predecessor, David M. Hicks, now a judge in Richmond General District Court, and secured closer cooperation between police and his office during

By Ronald E. Carrington Markiya was shot and killed and 11-yearthe investigative phase of cases. old Jaquez Moses was wounded on May As a result, since 2007, Richmond Police, As the family of 9-year-old Markiya 26 during a Memorial Holiday Weekend with community support, has made more Dickson prepares to lay her to rest, Rich- community cookout at Carter Jones Park in arrests in homicide cases than any other mond Police are still searching this week South Side. According to witnesses, gundepartment in the country. And with the Mrs. McEachin for three men wanted in connection with shots rang out just before 7:23 p.m. from help of Mr. Herring’s office, authorities have her shooting death. the area around the basketball court. turned the vast majority of cases into convictions, according to A funeral for the third-grader at ChesterThe park, located on Bainbridge Street, a Washington Post study. field County’s Crestwood Elementary School was crowded with children and families But now, Mr. Herring’s time as the city’s chief prosecutor is will be held at noon Friday, June 7, at the enjoying the event. The children were coming to an end. In a surprise move, Mr. Herring announced Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center, 3001 N. May 31 that he is stepping down July 1 to accept a more lucrative Arthur Ashe Blvd., next to The Diamond.

Please turn to A4 post as a partner at Richmond-based McGuireWoods, one of the Please turn to A4 nation’s Top 100 law firms. At his new post, he said he would 16th District 10th District 11th District 12th District focus on cases involving commercial law, product liability and white collar crime.

As the 53-year-old Richmond native prepared to clean out his office, he endorsed a veteran prosecutor, Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette Wallace McEachin, as his successor.

Sen. Dance Ms. Bedell Ms. Hashmi Mr. Brown Ms. Pohl Mr. Powell Mr. Morrissey Ms. Rodman Ms. Lothe A reluctant politician who won four elections, Mr. Herring sought to give Mrs. McEachin a leg up over potential competitors by tapping her to serve as 11 y, Ju n e interim commonwealth’s attorTU esda ney until the special election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, to fill the balance of his term that will

By Jeremy M. Lazarus watch but not participate. two rivals could not agree end in 2021. y Four of the Senate primary races will take place in the on terms for a debate. The Pri marns Mrs. McEachin is the wife Voters on the east side of Richmond will play a Richmond area. Along with the race in the 16th District, final days of their primary o e lecti of 4th District Congressman big role next week in what has become one of the Democratic primary contests will take place in three campaigns have featured a A. Donald McEachin. She state’s hottest primary contests.

Senate districts with Republican incumbents — the 10th slugfest over which candidate announced her bid Monday That’s the 16th Senate District Democratic primary has the better record on protecting a woman’s right for the Democratic nomina- between incumbent Rosalyn R. Dance of Petersburg to choose an abortion.

More election coverage on A6 tion — tantamount to election and Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey, a former delegate and Endorsed by major pro-abortion groups, Sen. Dance — amid community concerns twice disbarred attorney looking for an upset.

District that includes western portions of Richmond and has used mailers in seeking to paint Mr. Morrissey as about the fatal shooting of a The standout contest is one among 16 state Senate stretches to Powhatan County; the 11th District that is a Republican on this issue, while Mr. Morrissey has 9-year-old girl in a city park primary contests set for Tuesday, June 11, in which primarily in Chesterfield County; and the 12th District charged that Sen. Dance is distorting his record while over the Memorial Holiday voters will choose a major party nominee. Polls will that includes Henrico and Hanover counties. refusing to acknowledge her own anti-abortion votes.

Weekend and rising unease be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the districts. The But those nomination races have not achieved the Please turn to A4 majority of Richmond residents will only be able to drama of the Dance-Morrissey contest in which the Please turn to A4

Funeral service Friday for 9-year-old Markiya

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It took 16 months and $2.8 million to build.

Now Richmond’s new training center for emergency dispatchers is Slices of life and scenes ready for use at 3156 N. Hopkins in Richmond Road.

The new 4,300-square-foot building, above, was dedicated May 30. While primarily a center for training communications officers to field emergency calls, officials said the building will double as a command center during hurricanes and other disasters.

Left, dispatchers try out the new equipment inside the center during an open house. Stephen M. Willoughby, director of emergency communications, called the new center “a welcome addition” that would enable his department “to provide the best training” for those seeking to become dispatchers and offer additional development and update programs for those who currently handle the 400,000 plus emergency calls that pour in each year.

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VCU to turn over its bus service to GRTC

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Students, faculty and employees of Virginia Commonwealth University will continue to ride free on GRTC buses, including Pulse, local and express service for at least three more years.

The Richmond-based transit company and the university on Tuesday announced the deal after months of talks to extend a one-year pilot program through 2022. The extension is effective Aug. 1.

The agreement will allow VCU to end on July 1 its separate transit system, called RamRide or the campus connector. VCU has operated RamRide since 2012, after dropping an eight-year arrangement with GRTC to provide campus transit service. Since January, VCU has sharply reduced its campus connector operations.

The new agreement ends a friction point between VCU and the City of Richmond, which provides the lion’s share of financial support to GRTC. For years, members of City Council have been urging VCU to drop its separate system and return to partnering with GRTC. “VCU’s partnership with GRTC reflects our shared commitment to the Richmond community as a whole,” said Dr. Meredith Weiss, VCU’s vice president for administration.

“Consistent and reliable transit contributes to a healthy and active community by improving accessibility, connectivity and mobility — goals of our One VCU Master Plan.”

In a recent VCU survey, 95.4 percent of students and employees expressed support for a continuation of the latest GRTC agreement that began in August 2018. Since January, VCU riders have accounted for approximately 12 percent of GRTC’s total ridership, averaging 87,400 trips a month and allowing GRTC to buck the national trend of declining transit ridership.

“This longer-term agreement with VCU solidifies the great partnership we have been building over the past year,” said Gary Armstrong, chair of the GRTC Board of Directors.

“The continued investment and partnership between GRTC and VCU is a win for our city, ” said Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney.

Under the new agreement, VCU will pay GRTC $1.42 million for services in the first year, a $220,000 increase over the current $1.2 million contract.

VCU will pay $1.57 million for the second year and $1.65 million for the third year to cover the cost of ridership and to maintain 10-minute headways for the Pulse.

Express fares will continue to be billed separately based on VCU ridership data provided by GRTC. Students and employees of VCU and VCU Health System, including Virginia Premier, will ride without charge.

The only extra transit service VCU will maintain is a shuttle to remote parking, while GRTC will adjust a few bus stops at the school’s request.

GRTC’s Kelsey Calder wins VTA’s 2019 Unsung Hero Award Kelsey Calder, a GRTC instructor who helps disabled people learn to ride buses safely, has won the 2019 Unsung Hero Award from the Virginia Transit Association.

Ms. Calder was announced as the winner May 30 at the association’s annual conference held in Portsmouth.

The VTA is a trade group for the state’s bus and transit companies.

According to GRTC, Ms. Calder specializes in training people in the skills needed to use public transit safely and independently, particularly those with physical and mental challenges.

Ms. Calder “has been particularly helpful Ms. Calder in introducing public transit to people with disabilities, youth or older adults who are hesitant to try transit alone,” stated Sheryl Adams, GRTC’s chief operating officer.

Ms. Adams estimates that Ms. Calder’s efforts have saved GRTC $125,280 through helping customers transition from the more expensive paratransit service to traditional bus service.

Ms. Calder was the first person to earn national certification as a travel-training instructor through a program Easterseals and the University of South Florida offer at the school’s Center for Urban Transportation Research.

The VTA also named GRTC a winner of a VTA marketing award for its “GRTC Pulse: More Time For Life” campaign. GRTC also was awarded an honorable mention in the community program category for the CARE On-Demand service.

GRTC noted the on-demand service has saved the company $382,000 since August 2017, when the program began. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Ground-breaking ceremony Saturday for VCU’s new inpatient children’s hospital Workers are still tearing down the old mirror-faced Marshall Street Pavilion — once an outpatient center for children — on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Still, at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 8, Virginia Commonwealth University will hold a ground-breaking ceremony for a longawaited inpatient children’s hospital that will rise 16 stories on Marshall Street, between 10th and 11th streets, next to Richmond City Hall.

The new building will back up to the 15-story Children’s Pavilion that opened in 2016, largely completing a revamping of the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Essentially, virtually everything pediatric at the hospital will be together when the new building opens in late 2022. The actual start of the new building’s construction is still months away, with an expectation work will begin next spring.

The new hospital is to include 86 beds in private rooms with space to expand to 125 beds; six observation beds; operating rooms; an imaging center; offices and an emergency department, which is to move from the Critical Care Hospital when the new children’s hospital opens, according to VCU. One element that will not be part of the new space is the neonatal intensive care unit for premature babies.

VCU expects to spend $345 million on construction, with a total of $420 million to be invested when equipment, site work and architectural and engineering costs are included. The total is two-thirds the estimated price for an independent children’s hospital that was proposed in 2012 and for the pediatric hospital VCU and Bon Secours contemplated when they briefly considered a joint project.

The new inpatient Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has been more than 13 years in the making and follows VCU’s $90 million investment in hiring more pediatricians and specialists to beef up its pediatric offerings, according to officials.

Rendering of VCU’s Children’s Hospital of Richmond

VCU first considered its own children’s hospital development around 2006 and later when the former Children’s Hospital of Richmond merged with VCU in 2010.

The new building is getting underway as work continues on a $350 million outpatient center for adults at 10th and Leigh streets.

Even after the new inpatient hospital opens, some elements of the Children’s Hospital of Richmond located at Brook Road and Sherwood Avenue will remain, officials noted. That includes a pediatric mental health center that opened last year and the old children’s hospital building that largely serves as a rehabilitation and recovery center for injured children and provides long-term care for children battling chronic diseases and illness. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Questions raised as council shifts money to help departments get through June 30

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond Sheriff Antionette V. Irving has gained the $2.13 million she needs this month to issue paychecks every two weeks to her deputies.

She also will be able to pay for medical care and prescription drugs for inmates at the Richmond Justice Center and buy janitorial supplies, uniforms and possibly some new computers.

That money — an addition to her budget — is now flowing after City Council voted 6-3 on May 28 to shift money from about 30 agencies of city government that appear likely to finish the year with a surplus to 12 departments that are on track to exceed their budgets before the end of the fiscal year on June 30.

The vote also authorized Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration, if needed, to withdraw $1.54 million from a city emergency savings account to prevent a deficit in the current 2018-19 fiscal year.

Council President Cynthia I. Newbille, concerned about the impact of departments running short on money, led the effort to approve $8.5 million in funding shifts proposed by the Stoney administration.

Other departments that received a financial shot in the arm include the Fire Department, which got $200,000 to pay for new equipment, and Public Works, which gained $1.6 million, mostly to pay for an increase in the collection cost for household recycling and to meet contractual obligations to the company that moves trash from city transfer stations to landfills.

Richmond Animal Care and Control, which had run out of money to pay for food and medicine for the animals it shelters, also gained nearly $186,000 to pay those costs in June.

Dr. Newbille, who represents the 7th District, was joined in approving the funding shift by City Council members Andreas D. Addison, 1st District; Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd

District; Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District; Reva M. Trammell, 8th District; and Michael J. Jones, 9th District.

Such rebalancing of budgets is usually routine, but it was not routine to the three opponents, council members Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District; Kim B. Gray, 2nd District; and Kristen N. Larson, 4th District.

They are skeptical that the situation is as critical as portrayed, considering the administration has claimed Mr. Agelasto repeatedly after nine months of a budget year that a deficit might be looming, only to report a surplus after the books close.

Mr. Agelasto said the decision to allow the administration to tap the emergency savings account created to provide funds after a disaster or larger deficit is a problem that a majority of the council is ignoring — mismanagement.

“This is not about revenue. We have plenty of revenue,” Mr. Agelasto said.

He said the city government is spending without adequate controls. He said the council cannot provide adequate oversight with a split government in which there is an executive that is not hired by the governing body.

Instead, as in this case, council finds itself under the gun to act to solve the administration’s problems without any ability to hold the executives responsible because they work for the mayor, he said.

As a result, “I have lost confidence in the ability of this administration and the Chief Administrative Officer Selena Cuffee-Glenn to manage city affairs,” Mr. Agelasto said.

The city appears to be flush with revenue, according to the ordinance that the council passed. According to the document, the 2018-19 budget has grown by more than $10 million since City Council approved

it in May 2018.

The council approved a $719.9 million budget, but before the ordinance passed, the administration reported the actual budget had increased to $727.2 million, a nearly $8 million jump resulting from income from grants and increased tax collections.

After the ordinance passed, the city’s budget for 2018-19 was projected at $735.7 million, or a nearly $16 million increase.

That includes $5.4 million from a surplus in the 2017-18 fiscal year that is being used to fill deficits in accounts in the City Attorney’s Office that have built up over seven years.

Mr. Agelasto noted that the administration had plenty of time to deal with some of the financial issues.

For example, the administration has known since March 2018 that the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority was increasing its charge to Richmond for collection of household recycling as a result of the upheaval caused by China’s decision to stop accepting most recycled materials.

But the administration never notified City Council that the CVWMA bill would increase nearly $600,000, from around $1.9 million in fiscal year 2017-18, to around $2.5 million in the current 2018-19 fiscal year. The only notice came in the budget’s third quarter revision.

The administration also has known that the city Sheriff’s Office was facing higher overtime costs and had previously noted the problem every three months in quarterly reports. But the administration — which controls and must propose any changes to an existing budget —never came forward with a proposal before the current ordinance was introduced.

“They could have done it at any time,” Mr. Agelasto noted, including when council was considering how to deal with the surplus from the 2017-18 fiscal year, much of which the administration used to fatten the city’s savings account.

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response. He also spoke with President Trump and lobbied at a news conference last week for tighter gun controls.

Authorities said Mr. Craddock had legally purchased the handguns in 2016 and 2018, but have not said how he got a suppressor. They are still searching for clues into what triggered his actions. Authorities said he submitted a letter of resignation via email just hours before the shooting, writing that he was giving a two-week notice based on “personal reasons.”

“It has been a pleasure to serve the City, but due to personal reasons I must relieve my position,” he stated in the letter released by city officials.

City Manager Dave Hansen said Mr. Craddock was in “good standing” and had no ongoing discipline issues, nor was he forced to resign.

In an interview with the Associated Press ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, Gov. Northam, a physician and Democrat, said he wants the Republican-controlled legislature to hear from the

Several of Gov. Northam’s propublic about the need for “commonposals directly relate to last Friday’s sense” laws. A top GOP lawmaker shooting, such as a ban on silencsignaled Monday that he’s open to a ers and high capacity ammunition legislative debate, but doesn’t expect magazines, as well as broadening the Gov. Northam’s bills to pass. ability of local governments to limit Speaking to a standing ovation guns in city buildings. But he said at Tuesday’s news conference, the other recent shootings, including the governor said the massacre in Virginia death the Memorial Holiday WeekBeach demands that lawmakers put Mr. Craddock end of 9-year-old Markiya Dickson saving lives before party doctrine.

“Our first responders knew what to do. They of Chesterfield, who was shot at a community rushed to the sound of the gunfire. They responded cookout in Richmond, are also driving his call in less than two minutes to the shooting. Our first for a special session.

“It’s an emergency here in Virginia, and it’s responders acted to save lives, and indeed, they did save lives. Now, I’m calling on the elected time to take action,” Gov. Northam told the officials of this commonwealth to become second AP. “Every one of these pieces of legislation responders. Your duty is clear: Rush to the scene will save lives.”

Most of the legislation already proposed by and put a stop to this violence,” he said.

“Show Virginians that it doesn’t matter what Gov. Northam and other Democrats has failed in party you are in, we all our Virginians first, and Virginia, where Republicans hold slim majoriwe care about the safety and security of every ties in the House and Senate. This is a closely Virginian, no matter who they are or where they watched election year in the state, when all 140 live,” he added. legislative seats are up for grabs.

Virginia law doesn’t give a governor any say in how a special session is conducted. While GOP Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment indicated Monday that there’s some willingness to debate whether to ban large-capacity magazines, according to the Virginia Gazette, he told gun control advocates outside his office on Monday that “nothing would have helped us in Virginia Beach.”

Delegate Kirk Cox, speaker of the House of Delegates, however, deemed Gov. Northam’s call for a special session “hasty and suspect” and “more likely to inflame political tensions than produce substantive public policy changes that will keep people safe.”

He added that although the governor can call a special session, he has no authority to specify what the General Assembly considers or how it does its work. He said the GOP intends to “use that time to take productive steps to address gun violence by holding criminals accountable” with stiffer penalties for those who use firearms to commit crimes, including mandatory minimum sentences.

Tuesday’s primary elections feature Dance-Morrissey contest Continued from A1

The district includes Petersburg, Hopewell, Dinwiddie County and parts of Richmond and Chesterfield and Prince George counties.

A former Petersburg mayor and former delegate, Sen. Dance, 71, is seeking a new four year-term in the district she has represented since 2014, when she won a special election to succeed former Sen. Henry L. Marsh III. About two-thirds of the district’s voters are concentrated in the Richmond and Chesterfield sections, with the final third in Sen. Dance’s strongest area, in and around Petersburg.

Sen. Dance, who has raised more than $260,000 and has the endorsement of significant elected officials such as U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and Gov. Ralph S. Northam, said she is running because she wants “to continue to serve my constituents, to make a difference in our community and to improve the lives of families here.”

A retired nurse and administrator at the Southside Virginia Training Center, Sen. Dance said evidence of her effectiveness includes the expansion of Medicaid health insurance, her success in gaining more funding to improve teacher pay and increase the number of school counselors and the successful effort to gain funding to build a new Central State Hospital.

To Sen. Dance, her opponent flouts the rules and lacks her proven work ethic in fashioning legislation that gets through the legislature.

“My challenger is great at headlines, snappy phrases and catchy slogans. He excels at running for office (his third campaign in four years), but not at doing the difficult day-to-day work to actually get laws passed and to work cooperatively in both the legislature and with local governments,” Sen. Dance stated.

Mr. Morrissey, though, said his rival is minimizing his reputation for fighting for the underdog. “The

same way I fought for my clients in the courtroom, I will fight for my constituents in the State House.”

In Mr. Morrissey’s view, Sen. Dance has not done enough in her nearly 27 years in public office and “the 16th Senate District needs a change.” He argues he can do a better job in securing resources to stem the flight of businesses from Petersburg, halt the flooding from stormwater runoff and boost retention of teachers in innercity schools.

A former commonwealth’s attorney in Richmond, Mr. Morrissey, 61, is now a radio talk show host who is largely self-financing his campaign with $50,000. He has sought to overcome Sen. Dance’s huge fundraising advantage with energetic door knocking that he began in January.

Counting on the personal touch, he hopes voters will overlook him losing his law license for a second time and other past indiscretions. “I believe in second chances. My past should not

define my future,” he said.

Meanwhile, in the other three districts, the rivals are striving to attract attention in what are expected to be low voter turnout affairs.

In the 10th Senate District, three people are vying to win the Democratic nomination and take on first-term incumbent Sen. Glen H. Sturtevant Jr., a former Richmond School Board member and attorney who eked out a 1,400-vote victory in 2015 over developer Dan Gecker in the district that includes Powhatan and portions of Chesterfield County, as well as a big swatch of the city.

Democrats seeking to take him on include attorney Eileen Bedell, who ran for Congress in 2016 and lost to Tea Party conservative David Brat in the 7th District; newcomer Ghazala Hashmi, director of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning; and Zachary Brown, a community organizer.

Meanwhile, in the 11th Senate District, newcomer Amanda Pohl, a nonprofit consultant, educator and former chaplain, and Wayne Powell, an attorney, are vying to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Amanda Chase, a small business owner and radio talk show host, who recently faced criticism for her attacks on a Capitol Police officer who refused to do her bidding. Mr. Powell lost to Sen. Chase in 2012 in the majority Republican district that also includes Colonial Heights and Amelia County as well as a chunk of Chesterfield.

And in the 12th Senate District, Delegate Debra Rodman, an anthropology professor at Randolph-Macon College, is giving up her 73rd House District seat to seek the Democratic nomination. Also vying for the nomination is labor and immigration attorney Veena Lothe. Both want the opportunity to challenge first-term incumbent Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant, a physician.

School Board gives final approval to $418M spending plan Continued from A1

proved 2019-20 budget includes sufficient state and city funding to provide Richmond teachers and other eligible school staff with a promised 3 percent pay raise beginning July 1, and to provide a bigger boost for some, including principals, by moving them up the salary scale.

In addition, City Council provided sufficient funds to cover the full cost of the first two years of Superintendent Jason Kamras’ plan to improve academic achievement. That includes funding to launch new remedial reading and math programs. But Mr. Kamras’ success in keeping funding intact for his plan leaves him on the hook to prove his Dreams4RPS approach will work.

“I am filled with gratitude for the School Board, City Council, Mayor Stoney and, most of all, the community for advocating for Richmond Public Schools” and gaining more funding, Mr. Kamras said after the School Board’s vote.

In all, the city’s contribution to school operations alone soared $18 million, including about $6 million to pay for the salary increases.

The spending package became a reality after the board majority adopted amendments crafted by board members Elizabeth Doerr, 1st District, and Jonathan Young, 4th District. Those amendments cleared up an unexpected $1.7 million budget overrun that developed since the initial school budget was approved in February.

The overrun was largely due to an unanticipated $1 million increase in health insurance costs and a proposal from Mr. Kamras to spend $400,000 to provide severance pay to many of the 60 RPS employees losing their jobs as part of a $13 million reduction in spending on central administration. The severance would provide qualifying departing employees with a week’s pay for every two years of service to RPS, although the specific details have not been released.

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While at least four School Board members opposed some or all of the Doerr-Young approach, ultimately the budget passed with additional support from board Chair Dawn C. Page, 8th District; Cheryl Burke, 7th District; and Linda Owen, 9th District.

Board member J. Scott Barlow, 2nd District, proposed to tap into the $11.7 million that the council earmarked to cover the second-year cost of Mr. Kamras’ Dreams4RPS initiative, a fiveyear plan that ultimately could cost $150 million if it continues to be fully funded.

Joining Mr. Barlow in opposing the Doerr-Young plan were Kenya Gibson, 3rd District; Dr. Patrick Sapini, 5th District; and Felicia Cosby, 6th District.

The majority refused to reverse any of the layoffs that were previously approved and cut one position from the School Board clerk’s office as part of balancing the budget. The initial budget plan called for eliminating 74 positions and adding 25 positions, for a net loss of 49. However, at least 13 of the 74 people being laid off have been placed in other jobs.

The five members in the majority also approved a plan that, among other things, reduced a proposed overpayment to help fully fund an RPS early retirement plan; directed the administration to get rid of $100,000 in unused software programs; cut $10,000 to pay for School Board meals; and agreed to generate at least $50,000 to sell back to publishers thousands of brand

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about violence.

“I am eager to continue Mr. Herring’s dedicated and committed work to keeping Richmond families safe and to continue his criminal justice reform policies,” Mrs. McEachin stated in her announcement.

“Our office will continue to remove violent and repeat offenders from our community and return rehabilitated citizens to our community,” continued Mrs. McEachin, a graduate of Brown University who earned her law degree at the University of Virginia.

“With over 20 years of experience as a prosecutor in this office, including 10 years as a deputy commonwealth’s attorney, I am well-prepared to succeed Mr. Herring and to move this office forward to protect our city and strengthen our community.”

Mr. Herring did not respond to questions about his move to private practice, but friends indicated that he wanted to ensure he could support his children, who are headed to expensive Ivy League colleges.

Neither Mr. Herring nor McGuireWoods indicated whether he would be an equity partner, which means he would invest in the firm along with gaining the title.

According to the 2019 listing of equity partners’ pay at large law firms, the 184 equity partners at McGuireWoods averaged about $1 million a year.

As commonwealth’s attorney, Mr. Herring earned about $195,000 a year from state and city contributions. He has managed an office that currently has about 75 staff, including about 34 attorneys, and a $7.6 million annual budget. He has led one of the largest and busiest commonwealth’s attorney’s offices in the state.

First elected in 2005, Mr. Herring won attention early in his term with the successful prosecution of two killers who murdered two separate families — in a New Year’s crime spree.

Mr. Herring was more involved in management of the office than in actual trials during his tenure, which is how he began looking into the issue of cash bond and its impact on low-income defendants.

He began experimenting with increasing release without bond and at diverting drug offenders in 2010 and began expanding the effort in 2014 after the city’s new jail, the Richmond Justice Center, was completed.

Then Mayor Dwight C. Jones had rejected a recommendation for a 2,000-bed jail, opting instead for a smaller, less ex-

pensive jail with about 1,132 total beds.

A task force the mayor set up earlier began looking for ways to divert inmates from the new jail. Programs to divert mental health prisoners, people awaiting trial and low-level offenders were created and have proven relatively successful in keeping the daily population at around 1,100 or fewer, far below the 1,600 to 1,700 prisoners who were daily sandwiched into the old jail that had half the space Accompanying that effort, Mr. Herring began a new policy of recommending increased release of accused people who would have been hit with a bond of $10,000 or less and worked with the city Department of Justice Services to begin assessing people for release based on risk.

Four years later, without any evidence that the policy of increasing release without a bond created problems for the courts or police, he stopped recommending bond for anyone whom the pretrial assessment found was not a risk to the community.

Mr. Herring also sought to open public conversations and gain more consideration of the root causes of crime and the role that public policy could play in helping to reduce crime through programs to address poverty, improve education and increase outlets for recreation.

new, unused textbooks sitting in school closets and storage.

The budget changes will allow RPS to cover a tuition increase for students attending the Appomattox Governor’s School in Petersburg; fully cover transportation and health insurance expenses; and hire a teacher to replace Rodney Robinson, the national teacher of the year, who will be on leave in the coming school year as he travels the country.

Overall, the school system’s total general operating budget will increase about $11.2 million, from $300 million this year to $311.2 million in 2019-20, fueled by city increases. The city is contributing about $174 million this year to operations, up from $168 million last year, plus the $19 million in capital dollars.

The school system’s general fund budget does not include the capital dollars nor $87 million in federal and state contributions for a host of other programs, ranging from pre-school programs such as Head Start and the Virginia Preschool Initiative to adult education.

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rushed in separate private vehicles to VCU Medical Center in Downtown, where Markiya died. Jaquez was treated and released from the hospital on May 28.

Markiya spent her first years in school at Redd Elementary School in Richmond. RPS officials said 22 of their students have been shot this academic year, with two deaths.

Community groups have held vigils calling for an end to the violence, as people from across the region have donated nearly $17,000 on a GoFundMe page to help with the Dickson family’s funeral expenses. The family also is holding a vigil at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 6, at Carter Jones Park.

During a news conference last Friday, Richmond Police said they need the public’s help in identifying three men wanted in connection with Markiya’s death. All three are described as young black males, one who was wearing no shirt and a white towel or T-shirt on his head. He is believed to have shoulder-length braids or dreadlocks. The second suspect, said to have a medium build and short-cropped hair, was wearing a blue shirt and grey or dark pants. The third was wearing all dark clothing, police said.

Sgt. Michael Mocello, of the Major Crimes Division, said his team has received numerous tips. “But the information we’re getting right now is all hearsay,” he said. “I’m a little surprised that an eyewitness hasn’t come forward.

“I need the people that know about this case, the people that saw what happened, the people that know these offenders’ names — and I know you’re out there — to do the right thing now and come forward to help me, to help the family,” he said.

Police also said that Markiya was driven by her father, Mark Whitfield, to the hospital, where footage from video surveillance cameras show he began yelling at an unidentified man who approached him in the ambulance bay. Several police officers appear to step in to keep the two apart.

At least four Richmond Police officers and three VCU Police officers can be seen in the footage. Two of the Richmond officers placed Mr. Whitfield in handcuffs, while the other man appeared to walk away.

Police officials would not comment on the video, but noted that city officers, and not VCU Police as the Free Press reported last week, briefly handcuffed both men until tempers cooled.

Sgt. Mocello asks that anyone with photos, video or information about the shooting suspects are asked to contact Detective Benjamin Neifeld at benjamin.neifeld@richmondgov.com or (804) 646-3246. People also may contact Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000 or www.7801000.com and remain anonymous.

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Former teacher claims he is banned from RPS without official explanation

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A former third-grade teacher who sought to volunteer at Chimborazo Elementary School where he taught has been banned from all Richmond Public Schools property.

There’s just one problem: RPS officials have been unwilling to provide an explanation for the ban to 30-year-old Malcolm Solomon or others.

The ban raises questions about RPS’ commitment to encouraging participation of positive African-American male role models as teachers and volunteers.

Mr. Solomon earned a stellar reputation for helping his students succeed in the classroom based on results of state Standards of Learning tests, and there is nothing on his record that would lead to such a ban.

Last Friday, two high-ranking RPS officials met with Mr. Solomon. But Chief of Schools Harry Hughes and Chief Engagement Officer Shadae Thomas Harris offered no new information, he said.

Mr. Solomon said both acknowledged

that they had not reviewed the complaint that led to the ban or any information about him before the meeting. They also had not checked out posts on his social media accounts that allegedly were the basis for the complaint, he said.

“They were not very prepared,” Mr. Solomon said. “They appeared to just want to listen to me. I want the ban lifted and my reputation restored. Nothing was resolved. All I got was a promise from them to continue to investigate.”

Community organizer Omari Al-Qadaffi, who along with Kinfolk Community leader Arthur Burton accompanied Mr. Solomon to the meeting, confirmed Mr. Solomon’s statements.

RPS policy is not to comment on such matters.

Mr. Solomon said one issue that came up at the meeting was RPS’ commitment to hiring and retaining black male teachers, particularly in elementary grades. He said he explained the hostile atmosphere he encountered at Chimborazo that led him to quit in 2018 and offered to provide insight to RPS’ African-American male recruits

about what they could expect.

“Before hiring, what is needed is a thorough evaluation of the types of environments they are sending black male teachers into,” Mr. Solomon said after the meeting. “Too often, administrators view black male teachers as threats because they challenge the thinking about students and the decisions being made and do not demonstrate submissive behavior.”

Chimborazo students still remember Mr. Solomon and wish he were still at the school. Now working as a substitute teacher outside Richmond, Mr. Solomon taught with RPS for five years.

“He was the best third-grade teacher,” said Naiim Byrd, 11, now a fifth-grader.

Naiim greeted Mr. Solomon on May 24 as he stood outside the school with several supporters urging the ban be lifted.

According to Mr. Solomon, he returned to the school last fall as a volunteer “lunch buddy” to keep up with the students he had taught. He said the ban was imposed in February.

While he has not received any official document spelling out the situation, he said

he was told the ban resulted from videos he posted on his Instagram account, Mr. Solomon88, that supposedly contained disparaging information about the school system.

A Free Press review of the posted videos turned up nothing negative.

The videos show him pumping the importance of learning to young listeners and urging children to do their best in school.

“What you see on my page, the Jeremy M. Lazarus/Richmond Free Press encouragement and Mr. Solomon positivity, is all I have to offer, “ said Mr. Solomon, who earned his undergraduate degree at Virginia State University and earned certification to be a school principal in graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Prior to the last week’s meeting, Mr. Solomon had gone to the central office several times to get an explanation, but he said no one would tell him anything or meet with him. After a Free Press query, Michelle Hudacsko, chief of staff to Superintendent Jason Kamras, set up the meeting between Mr. Solomon, Mr. Hughes and Ms. Harris.

Teacher alleges her ouster tied to blowing whistle on students’ failing grades being changed

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Afirst-year Spanish teacher who blew the whistle on a grade cheating scandal at Lucille Brown Middle School is to be fired.

The teacher, who does not want her name published, was notified May 24 in a letter from Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras that her contract to teach would not be renewed, though the School Board has yet to receive his recommendation that she be terminated.

While RPS does not comment on personnel matters, the letter raises questions about whether the firing is in retaliation for the teacher exposing the scandal.

Documents recently obtained by the Free Press show that, by late January, Mr. Kamras had been informed that staff at the middle school had changed the teacher’s Fs to Cs for some students after the first grading period in November. To date,

nothing has changed for those implicated in the grade changes.

The documents include copies of an email on the grade changes that Mr. Kamras acknowledged receiving, as well as RPS grade documents showing the grade that the teacher submitted and the improved grade that was listed on a failing student’s report card.

The teacher, who previously taught in Miami, was notified she could appeal her termination, but elected not to begin the process.

The Free Press was alerted to the grade-change allegation on Jan. 18 and initiated an inquiry to the middle school’s principal, Dr. Stacy Gibbs Gaines.

According to information the Free Press received, Dr. Gaines allegedly authorized the grade changes, although there was no evidence to support that allegation.

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investigation concludes that these allegations are inaccurate. The principal has confirmed that she did not have any involvement in a situation of this nature nor does she engage in the practice of changing grades.”

In the statement, Ms. Bowers also said “there is zero tolerance for the practice of unethically changing grades in Richmond Public Schools.”

The allegation was revived after the Free Press received documents in mid-May that show student grades in the teacher’s Spanish classes were changed between the time the teacher submitted the grades and the time report cards were issued to students Nov. 12.

An updated statement from the teacher provided to the Free Press this month also points the finger at an assistant principal. According to the statement, the assistant principal directed the teacher to change the Fs earned by the students to Cs. The statement also notes that another staff member who works with

the school’s counselors also told the teacher that the grades would be changed and, when the teacher disagreed, warned her not to do anything.

According to emails sent to Mr. Kamras Jan. 25 and Jan. 26, the initial January inquiry from the Free Press had repercussions.

The emails show that the teacher had been assigned a mentor at the beginning of the year to assist the teacher with creating lesson plans, developing class projects and becoming more successful in classroom management.

Soon after the Free Press inquiry, the teacher was told she was ineligible for a mentor and the logs of the assigned mentor’s work allegedly were erased.

The teacher also reported being harassed by the middle school’s administration beginning in late January and expressed concern then that a paper trail was being created to justify her firing at the end of the year.

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Election Coverage

2 area primaries for House of Delegates will be among races to watch

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The battle for control of the 100member Virginia House of Delegates will start to heat up next week as voters go to the polls in 19 party primaries to choose nominees to run in November.

Across the state, there will 12 Democratic and seven Republican contests on Tuesday, June 11, but only two will take place in the Richmond area, where most House incumbents avoided intraparty rivalry heading into the Nov. 5 general election.

Outside the city in the 62nd House District, insurance agent Tavorise K. Marks of Henrico County is trying again to become the Democratic nominee in the revamped majority-Republican dis-

62nd House District Democrat

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trict after a failed bid in 2017.

He will face off against Lindsey M. Dougherty, a Chesterfield County budget and management analyst making her first bid for public office.

The winner will have an opportunity

to flip the seat Democratic blue with the retirement of six-term veteran Republican Delegate Riley Ingram of Hopewell.

Republicans have nominated attorney Carrie Coyner, a member of the Chesterfield School Board, to defend the largely suburban district that now includes all of Hopewell and parts of Chesterfield, Henrico and Prince George counties.

The 62nd House District is one of more the 20 whose boundaries a federal court redrew earlier this year to end GOP efforts to illegally reduce the influence of African-American voters.

Meanwhile two Republicans are vying in a primary for the opportunity to take on first-term Richmond Democratic Delegate Dawn Adams,

68th House District GOP

Mr. Coward

Ms. Losi

one of the 15 Democratic newcomers who swept out GOP delegates in 2017 and gave the party hope for taking control in November.

Voters in the 68th House District, which includes parts of western

Richmond and Henrico and Chesterfield counties, will decide the GOP nomination contest between Garrison R. Coward, chief operating officer for a data analytics firm, and Lori A. Losi, who is a certified public accountant.

The winner will take on Delegate Adams in November. Delegate Adams won the seat by a narrow 336 votes over then-GOP incumbent Delegate Manoli Loupassi two years ago.

Flipping the seat back to GOP red would be considered a big plus for Republican partisans.

The House of Delegates currently is divided between 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats, and after the primary, the 68th House District race will be closely watched to determine if the GOP can hold its majority.

Incumbent Thornton facing 2 challengers in Fairfield District primary in Henrico

By Ronald E. Carrington

All five seats on the Henrico County Board of Supervisors are up for election in November.

The Free Press’ focus has been on the Fairfield District Democratic primary where six-term incumbent Frank J. Thornton is seeking election to what he said would be his last four-year term Frank J. Thornton currently serves on the Richmond Regional Transportation Planning Organization, the Capital Region Collaborative Organizing Council, the Maymont Foundation’s board of directors along with serving on the county’s governing body.

Q: Is this really the last time you will run for the Board of Supervisors?

A: That’s what I said and that’s what I plan to do. I look back over where I started with the challenges, especially the Eastern versus Western Henrico. I want to make sure I finish Mr. Thornton the course.

Q: Why is the planned $8 million Henrico Aquatics Center on Laburnum Avenue important to the Fairfield District?

A: That is one of the projects I have been working on for a very long time. The new center’s swimming program will “drown proof” Eastern Henrico. If we save one child from drowning, it will pay for itself.

Q: What economic justice goals you have achieved during your tenure on the board?

A: If you look at the Fire Department and the county workforce, you will see more African-Americans hired by Henrico County than any other of the surrounding counties. My philosophy is that you have to include people within your governmental services to make sure they can reap some rewards. Henrico also provides real estate tax relief to citizens who are 65 or older or are permanently and totally disabled.

This is economic inclusion.

Q: What is “Project Pride and Joy”?

A: When I visit the community, I ask residents if they have a project they want to accomplish. I then ask them to give it a name and make a sign to put up. That identifies where the community project should be located, and when it happens, residents can see their tax dollars going back to their neighborhood.

Q: What does your concept of “possibility governance” mean?

A: You do the best you can while you can.

in office. Mr. Thornton, 76, was first elected in 1995.

The retired Virginia Union University French professor is being challenged in the Tuesday, June 11, primary by Joseph W. Brown, a retired Henrico Transportation Department employee and founder of the Community of Hope Ministry, and Maurice Tyler, a businessman, veteran coach and founder of C.A.V.E., Coaches Against Violence Everywhere.

Maurice Tyler is chief operating officer of a cleaning company and coached in Henrico County for three decades. He started Coaches Against Violence Everywhere in 2016 after a 12-year-old girl was killed in the crossfire of two men in Richmond.

Q: Why are you running for the Board of Supervisors?

A: I don’t think the community has been represented in the right way. Because I am a product of the Fairfield community and understand the issues, it is my duty to step up.

Mr. Tyler Q: How would you serve the community in a way that has not happened?

A: I don’t feel public safety has been addressed properly in the Fairfield District. The district has the most low-income housing of any part of the county. County supervisors have not held owners of these properties accountable for letting their properties deteriorate. If elected, I am going to bring awareness to such housing issues.

Q: What other issue are you targeting?

A: We have the Math Science Center not being funded. The community didn’t know until the last minute. There is gap in communications between the county and residents.

Q: What are the positives and negatives you see in the Fairfield District?

A: I am happy about the new library, recreation and aquatic center on East Laburnum Avenue. However, we have to look at the beautification of our community. Eastern Henrico neighborhoods have potholes and trash everywhere.

Q: How has C.A.V.E. helped you to understand issues in your community?

A: I organized area coaches to make an effort to stop the violence in the community, especially stopping our children from being shot.

That was three years ago. In the last few months, a 5-year-old girl on Byron Street was shot in the head and has to wear a helmet for the rest of her life. I am going to be the one, as a Henrico County supervisor, to do something about this ongoing violence.

Joseph W. Brown is the founder of Community of Hope Ministry, which offers support to people experiencing homelessness. He also is president of the Hechler Village Neighborhood Watch, participates in Henrico County’s Heroes as a mentor to youths and serves on the board of the anti-drug youth-focused Henrico Too Smart 2 Start Coalition.

Q: Why are you running for the Board of Supervisors?

A: I have lived in Henrico for 45-plus years.

The Fairfield District was much better at that Mr. Brown time than it is now. The community has become stagnant. I decided to run because we have not grown any. I am in this race to make a difference.

Q: How was the county better 40 years ago?

A: When I moved into Hechler Village, there was a shopping center named Eastgate Mall with quite a few quality stores. Now there is only a Walmart. This is an older community, and I think we deserve better.

Q: What needs to be done?

A: I want to revitalize the Fairfield District, starting with the infrastructure — paving streets, making public transportation more available and creating opportunities for small businesses to be successful. I will work with the School Board to help better our school system and provide summer jobs for students. We need to bring back family values — neighbors helping neighbors — and have more family recreation.

3 Democrats seeking the party’s nod for open Henrico County sheriff’s position

By Ronald E. Carrington

Three Democrats will face off in the Tuesday, June 11, primary.

All three are seeking the party’s nomination in the race to succeed Henrico County Sheriff Mike Wade, who announced in February that he will not seek re-election.

Vying for their party’s nomination are Henrico Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Alisa A. Gregory; Harold L. Ford, a Richmond Police

Ms. Gregory

Alisa Anderson Gregory, a Richmond native, grew up Henrico County. She started with the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office in 1998 as a deputy. During a 21-year career, she has risen through the ranks and currently is the highestranking female in the Sheriff’s Office.

Q: What is your platform for sheriff?

A: I see the county moving and growing, and I think we can be even better. I want to make more progress in recruitment, retention and succession management.

Q: How would you increase the numbers of women and minorities in the Sheriff’s

Office?

A: The Sheriff’s Office has the highest numbers of women and minorities in the county as well as women in leadership roles. There are two female majors and seven captains in the department. The key factor drawing them is equal opportunity.

Q: How will you reduce inmate recidivism?

A: The key is to evaluate inmates at intake, address medical and mental health issues as well as behavioral issues. We would then continue our present inmate programs to help them develop a life strategy and plan for education and employment as well as correcting any medical issues once they are no longer incarcerated.

Q: How would you strengthen the bond with surrounding law enforcement agencies?

A: By forming a coalition to discuss law enforcement issues and collaborative efforts to address multi-jurisdictional offenders and mutual efforts to reduce crime. The coalition, with the help of communitybased organizations, also could assist inmates to become successful in the community, particularly women inmates. I plan to help expand services for them, especially in housing.

Q: How would you strengthen the relationship between the Sheriff’s Office and the community, particularly African-American males?

A: The Sheriff’s Office needs to do a better job of informing the community about our role and responsibilities and focus on the positive efforts law enforcement makes to help people. Our job is not about locking people up and warehousing them. We are here to have a positive impact on people’s lives.

officer; and James Layne, a retired lieutenant with the Virginia Capitol Police.

Although he is a Republican, Sheriff Wade is backing Ms. Gregory in the primary. Mr. Layne ran against Sheriff Wade in the 2015 general election and lost by a 29-point margin.

The winner of the Democratic primary will take on Republican Bob Matson, a Henrico police detective, in the Nov. 5 general election.

James Layne, a retired Capitol Police officer and National Guard reservist, has 33 years of experience in law enforcement, Mr. Layne relocated to Henrico County in 1987, two years after started with the Virginia Capitol Police. He retired in January.

Q: Why are you running for Henrico sheriff?

A: This is always something I wanted to do.

I want to make sure the Sheriff’s Office starts a community engagement program. This will include free crime prevention classes at the Sheriff’s Mr. Layne Office and a program for our youths. I want our officers to be role models and mentors for our young residents.

Q: What has prepared you for this position?

A: In the Virginia Capitol Police, my responsibilities included developing and executing operational as well as action plans for large rallies and protests as well as special events. I have worked with regional law enforcement agencies, which provided me the opportunity to manage a large cross-section of police professionals and budgets associated with the operations.

Q: How would you work with the Henrico Board of Supervisors to ensure safety while maintaining a positive relationship with the community?

A: I plan to meet with them as well as attend their meetings and discuss law enforcement situations in the county. I will listen and partner with them so we can collectively make decisions that affect county residents and the department.

Q: How would you increase the numbers of women and minorities in the Sheriff’s Office?

A: I would start a sheriff’s advisory board with members of the community. At monthly meeting, we will discuss ways to increase women and minorities in the Sheriff’s Office. I also will have a diverse recruitment team going to colleges, especially historically black colleges and universities, and military bases to tell them what the Henrico sheriff’s department has to offer. At this time, women and minorities are well represented in the department.

Q: How will you reduce inmate recidivism?

A: I would partner with Henrico County Public Schools and use their vocational centers to provide training for inmates in air conditioning and heating repair, cosmetology, food preparation and other skills to have them ready for work when they return to society.

Harold Ford is a former Marine who joined the Richmond Police Department in 1997. He has received numerous awards during his 20 years plus tenure with Richmond Police.

Q: Why are you running for Henrico sheriff?

A: I made the decision to run for sheriff three years ago. I believe we need to have more leadership in the Henrico Sheriff’s Office that is willing to stand up for what is right and work hard for all departmental staff, detainees and all of our fellow citizens. As a police officer, I found myself dealing Mr. Ford with the same people. I found they were arrested multiple times for the same offenses — directly or indirectly tied to substance abuse and mental health issues. My goal is to change this by impacting, engaging and encouraging people in their everyday lives.

Q: What would you do differently as Henrico sheriff?

A: I want to restore the trust in the community, which I think is gone right now. A lot of people are afraid to talk to law enforcement officers for a variety of reasons. As a community and environmental officer for the last 15 years, I focused on community engagement every day, not just for special events. I plan to start a cadet program for middle and high school students, teaching the law, their rights, as well as teaching them to write résumés, job interview skills and other life skills.

Q: What would you teach young black men as it relates to unjust police treatment across the country?

A: I was born and raised in Mosby Court, in the projects. I saw police mistreatment first hand. I understand that perspective as well.

The trust side of the equation is gone. I regularly go into the community to talk to African-American teens and ask them what they don’t like about the police and why.

Q: How would you strengthen the relationship with surrounding law enforcement agencies?

A: I would continue to build partnerships with surrounding law enforcement agencies as I did as a community officer. I want the Henrico Sheriff’s Office to be a model.

Q: How will you reduce inmate recidivism?

A: I want to form a partnership with mental health and social services, as well as other agencies, to screen individuals before they are released, which will give us an opportunity to address issues they may have when returning to society, such as housing and employment, medical and mental health support.

Q: How would you increase the number of women and minorities in the Sheriff’s Office?

A: I have heard about some racist and unfair treatment to women and minorities in the Henrico Sheriff’s Office. I would partner with the Police Department to work together as a team to hire qualified people.

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We must do more What does it take to tighten gun laws in Virginia?

How many people have to die before the Virginia General Assembly takes action to curb the violence in our communities?

The tragic shooting death of 9-year-old Markiya Dickson at a cookout on Memorial Day Weekend at Richmond’s Carter Jones Park upset people throughout the metro area. That was followed by the horrific massacre of 12 people last Friday at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, which rocked communities across the state and nation.

People are doing their best to come to terms with these senseless acts of violence. Yet, year after year and tragedy after tragedy, the same questions are raised by people seeking laws to stop the needless proliferation of weapons and the desire to return a sense of safety to our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces and houses of worship.

But because of the deep pockets and insidious influence of the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers, Virginians are still waiting for change. Even the most rudimentary efforts to strengthen Virginia’s gun laws are stonewalled in the General Assembly or killed by conservative Republican forces that seem more wedded to the rights of gun ownership than to the need to protect human life. We are left to ponder who is the more wicked — those who pull the trigger or those who have the power to help stop the atrocities but don’t?

We believe Gov. Ralph S. Northam is right when he says, “We must do more than give our thoughts and prayers. We must give Virginians the action they deserve.”

We endorse Gov. Northam’s call for a special session of the General Assembly to specifically address gun control. We are tired of the GOP thwarting basic efforts that we believe will help protect our communities. Those include universal background checks for gun purchases; banning assault weapons and bump stocks, such as the type used in the Las Vegas massacre in October 2017; banning silencers and high-capacity magazines, such as those used by the Virginia Beach shooter; and taking guns out of the hands of those deemed a risk to the public because of mental illness or past violence.

In a special session, Republicans won’t be able to hide in committees and subcommittees as they torture logic and oppose common sense gun control legislation. The voters of Virginia need to see just who is for gun safety and who remains inert after these gun tragedies.

We find GOP arguments to be ludicrous as the party whips up conservative blowback against holding a special legislative session and strengthening Virginia’s gun laws.

House Speaker Kirk Cox, a Republican from Colonial Heights, bristled at the governor’s call, noting a special session is unlikely to produce any substantive change. Instead, he said the GOP would introduce its own measures aimed at tougher penalties for those who use guns to commit crimes, including mandatory minimum sentences, which Gov. Northam opposes.

Additionally, the Republican Party of Virginia issued a statement accusing the governor of trying to politically capitalize on the Virginia Beach tragedy and deflect public attention from his blackface scandal.

Until he leaves office, Gov. Northam will have to bear the scrutiny of Virginians questioning his motives in light of his past. But while he remains in office, we believe he is taking needed critical steps to move Virginia forward, particularly when it comes to gun violence.

The vigils and memorials for Markiya Dickson and the victims in Virginia Beach cannot bring back the dead.

But they can help change the hearts and minds of the unmoved and hopefully spur the legislature to action.

It has been 12 years since the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in which a gunman killed 33. More than 1,000 Virginians perished from gun violence in 2017.

Virginia communities logged 391 homicides in 2018, with 19 of them occurring in Virginia Beach. Richmond has had 25 homicides so far this year, including many by gun violence. The slaughter on college campuses, at municipal centers, schools and movie theaters and on the streets and playgrounds of our communities should not become our new normal.

On Monday, nearly 100 people stood outside the Williamsburg office of Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment holding signs demanding tougher gun laws. Sen. Norment, a Republican, has helped the GOP sandbag gun control efforts led by Democrats.

Many in the crowd were women and members of Moms Demand Action, a group seeking “gun sense in America.” Jeanette Richardson, who saw her son die in the street in Newport News about 15 years ago, was with the protesters, many of whom also have lost loved ones to gun violence.

“I’m asking for (Sen. Norment) to hear the voices of these people who are locked into a perpetual scream for the rest of their life,” she told The Virginia Gazette.

“When you lose someone to this type of random violence, there’s never going to be peace of mind.”

She said while she knows Sen. Norment has never listened before, “I just want him to hear and feel — this is a life sentence for this community.”

It’s long past time for our state lawmakers to take action.

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Black bodies creating white power Almost every high school student in America knows about the compromise reached during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution resulting in enslaved people being counted as three-fifths of a person during the national census held every 10 years.

Even while white Southerners denied enslaved people in those states the rights guaranteed to citizens, they still demanded that the enslaved people’s bodies be counted in the census.

The Southerners made this demand because the size of a state’s population determined how many representatives those states would be granted in Congress. The more representatives a state had, the greater the state’s power in the federal government.

The Northern states, seeing this ploy for what it was, resisted Southerners’demand but, eventually, a compromise was reached where each enslaved body would be counted only as three-fifths of a person.

This is just another example of how white supremacists benefited from the use of black bodies while not providing one drop of benefit to the souls inhabiting those bodies. It also helps us to understand how black bodies currently are being used to enhance white supremacy in America.

Today, significant numbers

of prisons – where brown and black inmates from urban areas are incarcerated – are located in rural, predominantly white census tracts. And for years, these brown and black bodies have been used to inflate the census figures in order to enhance the political power of those rural white areas.

The practice of counting prisoners in the census tracts where they are incarcerated decreases

Oscar H. Blayton the political power of the home communities of those prisoners and transfers that power to an alien community with diametrically opposed interests. This is what happens when an individual is removed from his urban home in a liberal Democratic district and incarcerated in a district that voted for a white supremacist like Donald Trump. The body of that inmate, who by incarceration is ineligible to vote, has now increased the population count in the conservative district while the count of his liberal home district has been reduced.

The body of the inmate of color, like the body of his or her enslaved ancestor, has been stolen in order to enhance the political power of his or her oppressor.

There are approximately 2.3 million Americans in prisons and jails today. It also has been reported that between 1970 and 2000, more than 1,100 prisons were built in the United States, with roughly 70 percent of those

prisons being located in rural communities, mostly in conservative Southern states such as Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas.

Data collected by the Vera Institute of Justice shows that largely rural counties that voted for Donald Trump had a 53 percent higher jail admissions rate than those that voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

The national NAACP has reported that while AfricanAmericans and Hispanics make up approximately 32 percent of the U.S. population, they made up 56 percent of all incarcerated people in 2015.

A slide rule is not necessary to figure out that when you have large numbers of people victimized by the mass incarceration policies of this country, and a significant number of those inmates are used to further empower white supremacists in rural areas, there is little incentive for conservative politicians to correct this injustice that has been dubbed “prison gerrymandering.”

In addition to stealing bodies to gain political power, these rural areas receive increased federal funding based on their inflated population figures. This takes money from inner cities where many of the inmates had lived and redeposits those funds into the rural, predominantly white areas where the prisons are located. This is a win-win for white supremacy and a significant handicap for urban areas victimized by a lack of services, overpolicing and courts that hand

Ignorance, racism and a good book Ignorance breeds racism.

By ignorance, I don’t mean the lack of college or other educational degrees. I’m really talking about how some families teach their children to hate certain people based upon lies.

In order to really drive home the point, I recommend a book, “Confessions of a Recovering Racist,” by the late George O’Hare, in cooperation with Emma Young of Chicago.

Mr. O’Hare demonstrates how ignorance breeds racism as he talks about his upbringing and how he discovered the truth about the lies he was taught as a child about black people. Some of the book is humorous, but it is the best lesson for people to get to know each other before judging them. I know there are a lot of people who would prefer not to know the truth about those they already hate without cause, but truth can change others.

Mr. O’Hare speaks about how he became a changed person once he met, listened to, talked and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dick Gregory, Jesse Jackson, Father

George Clements, Willie Barrow and many others.

He writes of the time he attended a meeting of black people when a woman asked what he was doing there. He thought he’d explain to her how he believed in equality of all people and wanted to do what he could to help. The woman

Dr. E. Faye Williams told him he didn’t belong there and should go back to his own community and talk with his own people.

When he told Dick Gregory about the encounter, Mr. Gregory agreed with the woman and said there were many people talking to the black community, but raised the question of who was talking to the racists in the white community.

Mr. O’Hare saw his opening.

Because he had so much respect for Mr. Gregory, he began quizzing white people about things he had learned about the value of black people to our world. Once when a white man was telling him about his mother’s open heart surgery and she was doing well, he said to his friend, “So a black man saved your mother’s life.” The man could not believe it was a black man, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who made medical history by performing the first

successful open heart surgery and all heart surgeons use his techniques today.

Mr. O’Hare went on to enlighten his friend about Garrett Morgan, inventor of the traffic light and gas mask; Dr. Percy Julian, who discovered the value of Cortisone and invented foam used to put out fires; Dr. Shirley Jackson, who invented the touch-tone telephone, the portable fax, caller ID, call waiting and fiber optic cable; and Marie Van Brittan Brown, who developed a patent for closedcircuit television security.

Mr. O’Hare was so impressed with his newfound knowledge and appreciation of black people that totally discredited the stories he’d learned growing up. He now knew better than the lies about black people that he’d been taught and felt compelled to teach others. That’s why he decided to form the “National Association of Recovering Racists.” Naturally, he made his friend, Dick Gregory, chairman of the advisory board and Father Clements a member of the board.

White people, if you really want to learn how to deal with your racism, a good place to begin is by reading Mr. O’Hare’s book.

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

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down harsh sentences.

The practice of prison gerrymandering is slowly attracting attention. Six states – Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, California, New York and Washington – have outlawed prison gerrymandering and others have started taking steps to reduce or eliminate it.

The year 2020 is coming. It is not only an election year, but a year when the next census will be taken. Battles will be fought over racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. Ending prison gerrymandering is a battle that also must be fought. If prison gerrymandering is taking place in your state, organize and act.

The year 2020 is coming and we must fight against all attempts to foster white supremacy, including prison gerrymandering.

The writer is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia.

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All GRTC bus stops need benches Re “GRTC ridership up 17%” Free Press May 23-25 edition: It’s all well and fine that GRTC ridership is up 17 percent.

But I noticed that many of the bus stops have nowhere for the riders to sit while waiting for the bus. Many of the riders are elderly and have to stand up until the bus arrives. This should not be for people of any age, but especially the elderly.

If GRTC has a bus stop at a particular location, there should

be benches available for the riders to sit and wait for the bus.

My question is why are some locations equipped with benches while many others are not?

If you ride around the city, you see potential riders leaning against poles, fences, etc., until their bus arrives.

GRTC might try to counteract this by saying everyone should know the bus schedule. I would respond by saying some people

Slavery, history and distortions

Re Column, “Distortions of our history,” Free Press May 30-June 1 edition: In her column, Julianne Malveaux herself distorts the history of slavery when she said: “Let’s make it plain: Europeans went to the African continents (sic), kidnapped people (sometimes with African acquiescence), brought them to the Western Hemisphere and sold us.”

The noted African-American anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, does not bear out Ms. Malveaux’s assertion that Europeans kidnapped Africans, even with African acquiescence.

Ms. Hurston asserts that it was the Africans themselves that kidnapped African slaves and sold them to European and New England slave traders on the coast, who then transported them to the Americas for re-sale to both white and black slave owners.

Ms. Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, who was brought to the United States on the slave ship Clotilda in 1860. In a 1927 interview, he told her his harrowing story of capture by slavers from the Kingdom of Dahomey and which Ms. Hurston relates in her 1942 autobiography, “Dust Tracks on a Road.”

After hearing Mr. Lewis’ story, Ms. Hurston wrote that in spite of the fact that white people had purchased and exploited her people, the “inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me.” She said it did away with the folklore she had been brought up on — that white people had gone to Africa, lured Africans aboard of the slave ships and then sailed away with them.

Slavery in Africa is as old as Egypt, and according to anthropologist E. Adamson Hoebel in his 1966 text, “Anthropology: The Study of Man,” is still practiced in more than two-thirds of sub-Saharan cultures.

As for Virginia, Ms. Malveaux is correct in that the first African slaves arrived here in 1619.

They were originally sold as indentured servants, but the first slave owner in Virginia was a freed African named Anthony Johnson who had worked out his indenture and owned a tobacco plantation

and slaves on the Eastern Shore.

His was not an unusual circumstance, even after the Colonial period, although black people were prohibited by law from owning white — or “Christian” — slaves.

According to “Colored Freeman as Slave Owners in Virginia” in the June 1916 edition of The Journal of Negro History, “(S)lave-owning by free Negroes was so common in the period of the Commonwealth as to pass unnoticed and without criticism by those who consciously recorded events of the times.”

like to arrive a little early so they will not miss their bus.

There is no excuse for this negligence. The situation needs to be rectified. I hope GRTC will move expeditiously to solve this problem.

ERNEST PARKER JR. Richmond

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End male shaming “Boy.” This isn’t a term regarding male minors. It’s the offensive and derogatory word used when shaming a male.

As someone soon turning 66, I often have heard this word used: “I can get a monkey to do your job, boy.” “Who you talking to, boy?”

The people who are misusing this term may not recognize how it brands someone. I have attempted to explain on numerous occasions how belittling it makes one feel. However, it doesn’t seem to matter. The response: “Oh, don’t be so sensitive,” or “Are you a man or a woman?”

Honestly, I thought this departed along with Jim Crow. But it still exists, perhaps not always in utterance, but in body language for sure.

Personally, when attending college later in life, I not only went to obtain knowledge, skills and a piece of paper, but to prove I was evolving beyond “boy.”

This was penned with those adolescent males in mind who have the opportunity to create a civilization representing personhood – not boyism.

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As Sheriff, James will: H Implement Outreach and educational programs in the community to prevent crime H Support the use of body cameras for police officers and sheriff’s deputies H Lower the recidivism rate within our criminal justice system by providing vocational training to inmates

AS OUR STATE SENATOR, ROSALYN DANCE HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT FOR US. SHE: Fought to expand Medicaid in Virginia, bringing coverage to almost half a million working people.

Is a champion for public education. In the last State Senate session, voted to increase teacher salaries, hire more school counselors, and increase financial aid for Virginia community colleges and public universities.

Introduced legislation to raise Virginia’s minimum wage from the federally mandated minimum of $7.25 to $15.00.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Golden State Warriors’ ‘strength in numbers’ more than a slogan The Golden State Warriors’ motto during their historic glory run has been “Strength in Numbers.”

Yellow and black promotional T-shirts with different designs are frequent giveaways at their home court, the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Ca., and sold at retail stores throughout the Bay Area.

It’s not just a saying. The catch phrase rang true Sunday, June 2, as the Warriors, in pursuit of a fourth NBA title in five years, relied on its full roster to even the best-of-seven games in the NBA finals against the Toronto Raptors.

Despite injuries that might doom others, the “Dubs” defeated Toronto 109-104 before a crowd of 20,014, including former President Obama, at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.

The Raptors won the first game in Canada 118-109 on Thursday, May 30, with Pascal Siakam scoring 32 points.

Coach Steve Kerr’s Warriors have a deep well of talent that doesn’t shrink when the bright lights shine. NBA All-Stars Klay Thompson (25 points), Steph Curry (23 points) and Draymond Green (17 points) did their part,

5.9 seconds to go, and showcased his usual lockdown defense.

Quinn Cook came off the bench to nail three 3-pointers.

Sean Livingstone tossed in another six points in a reserve roll.

Regarding “Strength in Numbers,” Curry said this in the postgame news conference: “That’s not just something you throw out there for marketing.

When you get to this stage, our DNA shows up. That’s part of who we are.”

In all, 13 Warriors contributed to the Game 2 victory. Not included in that mix is Kevin Durant, NBA Finals Schedule who is still ailing with a All games will be televised on ABC. leg injury.

Game 4: Durant did not play Friday, June 7 in Golden State’s 4-0 Toronto at Golden State, 9 p.m. romp of the Portland Trail Game 5: Blazers in the Western Monday, June 10 Conference finals and Golden State at Toronto, 9 p.m. hasn’t taken the court * Game 6: during the finals’ first Thursday, June 13, Toronto at two games. Durant, the Golden State, 9 p.m.

MVP of the last two NBA * Game 7: Finals, remains a question Monday, June 16 Golden State at Toronto, 8 p.m. for the remainder of the *If necessary series.

Also, Thompson

but numerous others came to the rescue.

You don’t have to be a star to shine at the Oracle Arena.

The Warriors’ DeMarcus Cousins, having missed most of the playoffs with a leg injury, had 11 points and 10 rebounds. Andre Iguodala had eight points, including the Warriors’ Game 2 victory clinching 3-pointer with

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Kawhi Leonard of the Toronto Raptors, wearing the No. 2 jersey, is surrounded by Golden State Warriors’ defenders Shaun Livingston, No. 34; Steph Curry, No. 30; Quinn Cook, No. 4; and Draymond Green, No. 23, during the second half of Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals.

limped off the court in the fourth quarter in Toronto with an apparent hamstring injury.

The Warriors have won the NBA championship with Durant in 2017 and 2018 and without him in 2015. They finished second to Cleveland, without Durant, in 2016.

Golden State is the first team

At 45, the Kingsmen softball team still on top In its 45th year of operation, Kingsmen softball is still knocking it out of the park.

Befitting its name, the Kingsmen now wear the shiny crown as champion of the Black American division of the SoftballNation’s Beast of the East Tournament.

The team, under manager George Jones who founded the Kingsmen in 1974, defeated the Woodlawn Black Sox of Baltimore in the Beast of the East finals May 26 at Iron Bridge Park in Chesterfield.

“We got behind in a bunch of games, but we kept pecking away. We hung in there,” said Jones, a Petersburg High School graduate.

The Kingsmen also answer to the nickname “Hot Lava.”

The Kingsmen, who got their name from Kingston, Jamaica, posted a 6-2 overall record to best a 13-team field from multiple states.

Centerfielder Devin Smith earned MVP honors. Smith was joined on the All-Tournament squad by Rob Whitfield, Dwayne McGowan, Aaron Hall and Brandon Williams.

The Kingsmen are long on both victories and nicknames. The team’s 19-year-old left-fielder is Chris Markins who answers to “Grasshopper.”

Jones himself says not all his players know his full name. “They just call me ‘Pops,’ ” he said.

The Kingsmen’s schedule will include entry into SoftballNation’s Black American Nationals Aug. 17 in the Richmond area.

Jones estimates his teams have won at last 300 tournaments overall. During a threeyear stretch in the 1990s, the Kingsmen won 303 games and 33 tournaments.

to reach the finals in five straight seasons since the famed Boston Celtics of the 1950s and 1960s.

Boston won 11 crowns in 13 seasons from 1957 to 1969.

But different-era comparisons may be unfair. Golden State must navigate through 30 NBA franchises to attain the summit. Today, NBA teams are spread coast to coast, and even into Canada.

There are four grueling rounds of best-of-seven eliminations.

When the Boston Celtics first won the NBA crown in 1957, there were only eight teams and one round of playoffs in a compact league centered in the

Northeast. During the Celtics’ final title win in 1969, there were only 14 teams.

When Boston defeated St. Louis for the 1957 title, the playoffs ended April 13. Now the season ends in mid-June.

The season has become a fall to nearly summer marathon. That’s why “Strength in Numbers” is so essential. *** In other news, Coach Kerr showed support for the shooting victims in Virginia Beach by wearing a “Vote for Our Lives” T-shirt at a pregame media function.

VUU football team ranked 25th nationally in preseason poll Kingsmen softball team

Jones, who is white, enters his team in both the Black American and all-comers events. The Black American division rules permit four non-black players.

Jones doesn’t manage the team alone.

His co-general manager is Vince Carey.

Another longtime pillar of Kingsmen softball has been Rick Norris, “The Slickster.”

Jones was among the first managers of an open team to fully integrate. Among his first African-American sluggers were NFL star-to-be Ricky Hunley and his brother, Lamont, when both were teenagers at Petersburg High School in the late 1970s.

Then there was Joe Ellis, the “Gentlemanly Giant,” who swatted balls into and over trees all over Virginia. Many knew Ellis as the basketball coach at Surry High School. In 2005, Ellis, who was in final year of life, coached Surry to the state Class A

title at the Siegel Center in Richmond.

Another deceased Kingsmen known for his power was Charles “Mudcake” Jackson, who also threw a blistering fastball for the Dinwiddie County Giants in a weekend baseball league.

With longevity comes the inevitable.

At the Kingsmen’s recent 45th reunion celebration at Post 284 in Colonial Heights, T-shirts were handed out with names of some 15 Kingsmen who are no longer with us.

Softball teams tend to come and go, all except for the Kingsmen. To weather nearly a half century, a man must accept the highs with the lows. That’s the MO of George Jones. His famous forlorn expression rarely changes, regardless of the score.

But it’s certain he’s smiling on the inside these days while planning a Kingsmen future as bright as the past.

Virginia Union University’s football team is ranked 25th in the nation in Lindy’s Sports Magazine’s preseason poll for NCAA Division II. The Panthers won seven of their last eight games and finished 8-2 a year ago in Coach Alvin Parker’s first season as head coach.

VUU opens the 2019-20 football season Sept. 7 with a 6 p.m. game against Hampton University at Armstrong Stadium on the Pirates’ campus.

Sneak peek at next year’s high school basketball season High school basketball fans have an opportunity to preview the 2019-20 season.

The Armstrong High School Wildcats Summer Camp will feature games between five Richmond high schools and several schools in Henrico and Chesterfield counties, including Varina, Highland Springs, Meadowbrook and L.C. Bird.

The games, which will be played at the Armstrong High School gymnasium, 2300 Cool Lane, will be starting at 5 p.m.

Thursday, June 6, and Friday, June 7, and at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 8.

The Heyward brothers are making their mark in baseball

Chicago’s Wrigley Field and The Diamond in Richmond have something in common this season.

Both feature a swift, powerful outfielder named Heyward.

Jason Heyward is the Cubs veteran right fielder while his younger brother, Jacob, 23, patrols left field for the Richmond Flying Squirrels.

“People ask what it’s like to have a famous older brother,” Jacob said.

“It’s no big deal to me. I’ve never known any different. I’ve been aware of that since I was 6 years old.”

Jacob, often batting leadoff, is among this season’s Flying Squirrels with clear upward mobility.

The 18th round draft pick in 2016 out of the University of Miami has advanced each season in the chain of affiliates of the parent club San Francisco Giants.

Jacob graduated from the Rookie League Arizona Giants in 2016 to Class AAugusta, Ga., GreenJackets in 2017. Last season, he advanced further to the San Jose Giants in California, and now is with the Richmond Flying Squirrels, where he has impressed with bat and glove.

“I have no timetable” for moving up,” he said. “My goal is just to get better.”

Helping with that is big brother, Jason, in Chicago.

“We text back and forth all the time,” Jacob said. “It’s a hard game. Jason helps me get through the slumps.”

Jacob watches many of Jason’s games via the

Parents Eugene and Laura the Chicago Cubs worth $184 Heyward, who reside in million.

McDonough, Ga., keep up Jacob, too, is hoping a with their talented sons. The lucrative contract will be in couple met as undergraduates his future in the sport. Through at Dartmouth College in New last week’s home stand, Jacob Hampshire. Eugene was a was hitting .277 with six homfour-year basketball regular ers and 18 runs batted in. He for the Ivy League school was the Eastern League Player from 1977 to 1981. He is now of the Week for the period an engineer consultant for the that ended May 5.

Jason Heyward Air Force, while Laura serves Rarely does Jacob chase as a quality analyst for Georgia Power. a bat pitch. He’s among Eastern League leaders Baseball was the sport that always came first in walks with 28, helping him to a .400 on-base in the Heyward household. percentage.

“I’ve never played any sport but baseball,” Jason already has made his mark on the Jacob said. “Same with Jason.” national pastime and has more years to add to Neither brother took up basketball even his credentials at venerable Wrigley Field on though their father played at Dartmouth and Chicago’s North Side. their great uncle, Kenny Washington, was a Playing catch-up to big brother, Jacob has his star with the 1964 and 1965 NCAA basketball long-term sites set on an outfield post at Oracle champion UCLA. Park in San Francisco. He’s hoping one shining The Heywards don’t regret their focus on season at The Diamond will provide the boost baseball. Jason is in an eight-year contract with he needs to get to the West Coast.

The Heyward Brothers Report Jason

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Jacob Heyward

MLB Extra Innings package he has on his phone and in the Flying Squirrels’ locker room.

Jason follows his younger brother, practically bat by bat, through MILB.com.

If the brothers aren’t playing themselves, they’re likely tracking each other’s progress.

Age: 30 Size: 6-foot-5, 245 pounds Born: Ridgewood, N.J. Postition: Right field, Chicago Cubs Bats: Left Throws: Right Draft: 14th overall pick by the Atlanta Braves in 2007 out of high school in Georgia Highlights: National League All-Star with Atlanta in 2010; five-time Gold Glove recipient; member of the World Series champion Cubs in 2016.

Jacob

Age: 23 Size: 6-foot-3, 210 pounds Born: McDonough, Ga. Position: Left field, Richmond Flying Squirrels Bats: Right Throws: Right Draft: 18th round pick by the San Francisco Giants in 2016 out of the University of Miami Highlights: Helped the University of Miami Hurricanes to the 2015 and 2016 College World Series; named to the 2015 College World Series All-Tournament team

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Spotlight on 2019 Peacemaker of the Year Dr. M. Alex Wagaman, an assistant professor in Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Social Work, is Richmond’s 2019 Peacemaker of the Year.

In late May, the Richmond Peace Education Center bestowed the honor on Dr. Wagaman, a founding member of Advocates for Richmond Youth, or ARY, an organization working to end youth homelessness in the Greater Richmond community.

ARY was founded in 2014 with an initial group of 10 young people who had personal experience with homelessness and housing instability, Dr. Wagaman recounts. The team found a lack of resources in Richmond to deal with the issues of homelessness and decided to raise visibility and awareness about youth homelessness as well as develop a body of research knowledge to motivate the community to take action.

Based on recommendations from ARY’s research, the organization has undertaken several projects, including a “Drop-In Center,” hosted 4 to 7 p.m. every second and fourth Thursday of the month at Commonwealth Catholic Charities, 511 W. Grace St.; “Know Your Rights in Housing,” a seminar designed to educate young tenants of their housing rights; “Youth Count,” to understand the needs of homeless youths; and “Advocates,” to address affordable housing barriers.

“We know that, nationally, in any given year, 1 in 10 young people ages 18 to 25 and 1 in 30 youths ages 13 to 17 experience a period of homelessness,” Dr. Wagaman says.

“Given Richmond’s high rate of poverty, limited affordable housing stock and high eviction rate, it is likely that our rates (in Richmond) mirror or surpass these numbers.”

Dr. Wagaman says she never experienced housing instability.

Her family moved several times because of her father’s work with the Coca-Cola Company. Dr. Wagaman was born in Mobile, Ala., and grew up in Orlando, Atlanta and New Orleans with the moves.

“I was raised to be connected to my community and care about what was happening, care about other folks and have a strong family bond,” Dr. Wagaman says.

Her first job as a social worker was working with families experiencing homelessness.

“I remember my first families,” she says. “They knew a lot more than I did and they were very gracious in supporting me as I helped them with the issue.

That has stuck with me because rarely am I the expert in all things. These people bring a lot to the table and understand how to navigate the world. We just need to make spaces for them to make decisions for their lives.

Society needs to provide access to resources instead of believing their homelessness is a result of bad choices.”

Dr. Wagaman says she sees justice and peace inextricably linked.

“When I work with young people who begin to see and believe in their capacity for social change, I have no doubt that it shifts the way that they interact with one another and their communities,” she says.

“And I see it, in turn, shift the way that their communities view and interact with them.”

Meet this week’s Personality, community advocate and peacemaker, Dr. M. Alex Wagaman: Date and place of birth: May 14 in Mobile, Ala. Current residence: Richmond.

Alma maters: Bachelor’s in social work, Winthrop University, and a master’s and doctorate in social work from Arizona State University.

Family: My wife and I have two children.

Latest honor: Named 2019 Peacemaker of the Year by the Richmond Peace Education

Center.

Why the recognition is significant: One of the most significant parts of this recognition for me is who nominated me — the Advocates for Richmond Youth.

ARY is a powerful group of young people with whom I have been working for nearly five years as a co-researcher and advocate working to end youth homelessness and housing instability. I feel so honored to be working alongside them. I am grateful to have the opportunity, through this recognition, to raise awareness about our work.

Reason for ARY’s founding: At the time, there was a general belief that youth homelessness did not exist in Richmond. It was important to raise visibility about youth homelessness and to develop a body of research knowledge that could spur folks to take action and that could inform that action. There were key stakeholders in the community, like St. Joseph’s Villa, that wanted to develop programs and services but weren’t sure what youths needed and wanted.

They supported us in launching the team and believing in our vision.

Main mission: To use research and advocacy to hold stakeholders in Richmond accountable to working to end youth homelessness and housing instability. Our work is led by those who know the issue best — young people who have been directly impacted by housing instability — and aims to put the voices of youth at the forefront of decision-making about solutions.

Causes of youth and young adult homelessness: The causes are complex and varied. There is no single experience. However, given the fact that youths of color and LGBTQ+ youths are disproportionately represented among this population, we can say that the impact of structural racism, transphobia and homophobia have created systemic barriers to housing stability for many young people.

In addition, youths of color and LGBTQ+ youths are disproportionately represented in systems, including the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, that inadequately prepare youths to live independently upon leaving these systems.

What communities can do: Begin by acknowledging that young people are an important investment today. We can take collective responsibility for dismantling racist policies and institutions and building the

infrastructure necessary to ensure that all young people have what they need to be safely and stably housed.

What schools can do: Schools can work to reduce the stigma that students experiencing homelessness face and to identify students who may need unique supports to stay in school while being unstably housed.

They can also examine policies that may result in pushing students out of school or involving them in the justice system due to truancy or behaviors that are a result of their housing instability. And schools can invest in hiring more social workers.

What businesses can do: Businesses can invest in infrastructure, like affordable housing, in the communities where they are located. Businesses also can reconsider policies that may limit the capacity of young people to get and maintain stable employment, which is essential for maintaining housing. For example, if a young person has a criminal record, is that really something that should immediately disqualify them from potential employment?

Businesses also can invest in the things that will build loyalty among their employees, like transportation assistance, flexibility for employees who are parents, etc.

What government can do: We know what we need to do! Fully fund our schools. Pay people a living wage. Pass employment and housing nondiscrimination policies. Build truly affordable housing for those who have the lowest incomes among us. Make safe and accessible emergency shelter available year round.

Give communities that have historically been the target of racist housing and zoning policies the resources they need to build wealth and assets. The question is when we will decide to do these things.

Importance of peacemaking: In many ways, peacemaking is creating spaces for folks who have experienced oppression and marginalization to understand their experiences in a broader systemic context and to begin to believe in their own inherent worth and dignity. This often makes folks very angry or sad or frustrated. These feelings are valid and important because they are a reflection of a person’s understanding of the ways that society has been structured to limit their access and opportunities. This is a part of the journey toward peace.

When I knew social work was for me: The first time I took a social work class in undergrad and read the professional values and principles, I felt like I had found a home.

Impact of racial and economic conditions on social problems: I continue to learn about the ways in which white supremacy has shaped the infrastructure of our society. I see it as being intricately interwoven in all of the social problems that we tackle as a social work profession and broader society.

Advice to aspiring social workers: There is a lot more that you can do with a social work degree than you might think. Explore the possibilities!

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How I see the world: I am generally pretty critical of systems and pretty optimistic about people. I have a lot of faith in what people can do together.

Outlook at start of day: I am usually thinking about what is on my to-do list. I am an eternal optimist.

I generally believe in possibilities rather than impossibilities, which is a driving force in shaping my approach to each new day.

A quote that I am inspired by: “Hopelessness is the enemy of justice” — Bryan Stevenson If I had more time, I would: Spend more time sitting and talking with the people in my life.

Favorite recreational activity: I love to be in the mountains hiking and canoeing.

Best late-night snack: Key lime pie and ice cream.

The best thing my parents ever taught me: My experience in the world is not the same as everyone else’s experience.

Next goal: ARY and I are going to keep striving to get young people off the streets and out of homelessness.

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Happenings VMFA opens new exhibit, hosts free family day Saturday

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Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver leads a discussion and preview Wednesday for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s new exhibition, “Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South,” which opens Saturday.

A new exhibit focusing on African-American art from the American South will open Saturday, June 8, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 Arthur Ashe Blvd., it has been announced.

“Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South,” will feature paintings, sculptures, drawings, quilts and other artwork spanning the 400 years since the arrival of the first Africans in America in 1619.

VMFA is partnering with Virginia’s 2019 Commemoration and American Evolution to showcase items from its collection and recent acquisitions from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.

Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver noted that the artists created “visually compelling works” with little or no formal training and often with the use of cast-off objects and unconventional materials.

“These works address some of the most profound and persistent issues in American society, including race, class, gender and religion,” she stated.

This exhibit, which will run through mid-November, will spotlight the state

and nation’s diversity and complexity, she stated, both central themes of the 2019 commemoration.

Ahead of the opening, Ms. Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at VMFA, will deliver a lecture on the works at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6, at the museum.

The museum has announced that admission to the exhibition will be without charge.

Additionally, the VMFA will have a free family day 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8, celebrating the art and culture of Mali.

Storytelling, dancing, performances by musician Cheick Hamala Diabate and DJ Mikemetic & the Afro Beta Drummers will be featured, along with quilting demonstrations by the Sisters of the Yam African-American Quilters Guild, mudcloth demonstrations by the Virginia Friends of Mali, clay vessel demonstrations by Carren Clarke and woodcut print demonstrations by Dennis Winston.

Details: vmfa.museum or (804) 340-1405.

Jennifer Hudson channels Aretha’s spirit in Pulitzer Prize honor for the Queen of Soul Free Press wire report

NEW YORK With bad weather in Chicago on Memo- Davis and longtime publicist Gwendolyn rial Day and her flight canceled, Jennifer Quinn accepted the honor on behalf of Hudson worried at the thought of miss- Ms. Franklin’s family. ing her performance at the Pulitzer Prize South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel won the awards ceremony May 28 to pay tribute prize in public service for its coverage to honoree Aretha Franklin. of the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at But then Ms. Hudson said she felt the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spirit of the Queen of Soul, who refused in Parkland, Fla., where 17 students and to fly but traveled by tour bus to concerts staff were killed. Pulitzer Prizes also were and events. And then Ms. Hudson drove awarded to the staff of the Pittsburgh nearly 13 hours to New York to make Post-Gazette for breaking news reporting, the luncheon. the Los Angeles Times for investigative “I looked up and I thought, ‘You know reporting, while Reuters and The Associated what, it’s like Aretha’s spirit is in me. She Press were both honored for international didn’t believe in flying, reporting. she would drive,’ ” Dana Canedy, adMs. Hudson said in ministrator of the Puan interview with The litzer Prizes, said her Associated Press. “I favorite submission was got here in time, five from student journalminutes early to sing, ists from the Parkland because I wasn’t going school for their own to miss it. Honey I said, coverage of the tragic ‘If I got to walk, if I shooting and powerful got to crawl, I’m going obituaries of those who to get there.’ And here died.

I am — so it’s in my Ms. Hudson posed heart.” for photos with the Ms. Hudson emstudents at the luncheon Aretha Franklin bodied Ms. Franklin’s held at Columbia Unispirit and vocal prowess as she brought the versity, which also featured performances ceremony to church with a rousing, fiery by Damien Sneed and Brandie Inez Sutperformance of “Amazing Grace,” bringing ton. the audience of journalists to its feet.

She also spoke to the students backstage “She’s always with me, I feel,” Ms. about the effects of gun violence. One of the Hudson said of Ms. Franklin. “I always students told the singer that experiencing keep her in my mind and in my heart, and a mass shooting is a club no one wanted try to lead in a way that I know that she to be a part of. would want me to.”

“Exactly. And you have no choice,” Ms. Franklin, who died last August said Ms. Hudson, whose mother, brother at age 76, was posthumously awarded and 7-year-old nephew were shot to death the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor in 2008. “No one knows when it’s gonna at the May 28 event, becoming the first happen or who it’s gonna happen to, and individual woman to earn a special you never know how life-changing it is citation prize since the honor was first until it happens. But the only way we awarded in 1930. can ever make a difference is for those The Pulitzer board said the award was who have not experienced it, to look given to Ms. Franklin for “her indelible from the perspective of those who have. contribution to American music and culture And that’s when the change will happen, for more than five decades.” you know?”

Collaborator and close friend Clive Ms. Hudson, an Oscar and Grammy

Jennifer Hudson sings “Amazing Grace” in a tribute to Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who received a special music citation during the 2019 Pulitzer Prize awards luncheon May 28 in New York.

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winner, will play Ms. Franklin in an upcoming biopic. She said she always felt connected to Ms. Franklin.

“Even when I auditioned for ‘American Idol,’ I sang ‘Share Your Love with Me’

by Aretha Franklin. ... I’m like, ‘Wow! It’s like her presence was always there,’” Ms. Hudson said. “Even when I did ‘Dream Girls,’ they were like, ‘What’s going to be the next big role that you would play, or that you feel could measure up to this?’ Fifteen years later, it has manifested.”

She said Ms. Franklin called her when Ms. Hudson was on Broadway.

“She was like, ‘And I’ve made my decision, and it is you.’ I was like, ‘Yes, ma’am, I’m ready. I will give it every bit of my all,” Ms. Hudson continued.

“That’s why I had to get on that road trip last night to get here, because if I said I’m in, I’m in.”

10th Annual Richmond Jazz and Music Festival at Maymont slated for Aug. 8-11 Jill Scott. Stanley Clarke. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly. Big Boi. Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective.

Cameo. Ledisi.

Those are just a few of the performers scheduled for the 10th Annual Richmond Jazz and Music Festival at Maymont.

The event, produced by JMI and renamed and expanded to feature blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and funk, will take place Thursday, Aug. 8, through Sunday, Aug. 11, with the main events taking place Saturday and Sunday at Maymont, the outdoor park at 1700 Hampton St. in Richmond’s West End. Single day passes for Saturday and Sunday are $72, not including fees, through June 14. Beginning June 15, single day Ledisi passes are $85. Passes for both days are $140.

A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Maymont Foundation and Blue Stone Education Foundation.

The festival kicks off with free music at the Dominion Energy Jazz Café at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd., and at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, 2408 Ownby Lane, where a food truck court will be set up.

“Homegrown at the Hipp” will feature a special performance

by PJ Morton at the Hippodrome Theater, 528 N. 2nd St. Tickets start at $35.

A new addition to the festival will be “An Evening with Gregory Porter,” Friday, Aug. 9, at Dominion Energy Center’s Carpenter Theater, 600 E. Grace St. Tickets start at $48.

Details, including information about the lineup and ticket prices: www.richmondjazzandmusicfestival.com or (804) 625-3454.

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Happenings

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Broad Appétit dishes out food, fun Thousands turned out to sample the offerings of 60 plus Richmond area chefs at the 12th edition of Broad Appétit, a food festival like no other. Top right, the Clarke family from Chester share a plate of “butterfly chips” while, bottom right, Beverly and Gary Claiborne of Glen Allen feast.

Sunday’s event once again created a palate-tickling

paradise in four blocks of Broad Street between Adams and Henry streets in Downtown.

Participants ponied up $4 for each sample they tastetested, with proceeds from the festive event benefiting FeedMore and the Central Virginia Food Bank.

Along with mouth-watering treats, the event also featured live music and an art project for children.

‘I Have a Dream’ Festival Music and camaraderie were on display at the “I Have a Dream” Festival near Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. The event had a purpose: To promote creation of a public park on unused city property that sits at O and 18th streets behind the school and underneath the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge. Left, the rollicking No BS! Brass Band leads a Unity Parade beneath the bridge to showcase the potential park area. Marchers included Mayor Levar M. Stoney, Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras, 6th District City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 7th District School Board member Cheryl Burke and state Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance. Below left, Nutzy and his friend, Nutasha, of the Richmond Squirrels, VCU’s Rodney Ram and McGruff the Crime Dog chill with children at the event. Two mounted police officers, Amanda Acuff on Scooter and Gene Carter on Toby, also took part in the festivities.

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Evergreen Cemetery receives international recognition

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Comment on future of Evergreen cemetery Want to have a say in the future of Evergreen Cemetery?

The opportunity will come at three community conversations hosted this month by Enrichmond Foundation and its Evergreen Cemetery Advisory Team.

The first conversation is scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 18, at the Main Branch, Richmond Public Library, 101 E. Franklin St. in Downtown.

The second is scheduled for 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, 122 W. Leigh St. in Jackson Ward; and the third is 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at Fourth Baptist Church, 2800 P St. in Church Hill.

Details: (804) 234-3905.

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For those working to restore the cemetery, including volunteers led by Marvin Harris of the independent Evergreen Restoration Foundation, the UNESCO recognition represents a huge boost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evergreen is not only a Richmond treasure, but stands as an outdoor monument and museum of national â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and international â&#x20AC;&#x201D; significance,â&#x20AC;? stated Viola O. Baskerville, chair of the Evergreen community and family restoration advisory team that is working with Enrichmond Foundation and consulting firm Pond LLC of Atlanta to develop a restoration plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here rest thousands of individuals who secured their freedom and went on to create universities, establish churches and form civic organizations that forever redefined the idea of America,â&#x20AC;? she added. Ms. Baskerville, a former state delegate and former state secretary of administration, credited the cemeteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caretaker, Ted Maris-Wolf, with creating the connection with the UNESCO

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Slave Route Project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;UNESCOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recognition of Evergreen is further proof that we are part of a profound, long-awaited moment, in which descendants, scholars and stewards of historic sites are coming together to repair the past,â&#x20AC;? stated Dr. Maris-Wolf, a historian and former Colonial Williamsburg executive who works with the advisory team to develop the restoration process for the Enrichmond Foundation. While others see the recognition as deserved, they hope equally deserving parts of Richmond will be linked to the UNESCO project and fault the city for failing to act as Evergreen did.

City Councilman Parker C. Agelasto cheered the Evergreen designation, but noted that the city has ignored a council resolution he spearheaded in 2013 that called for efforts to gain UNESCO recognition for the Richmond Slave Trail, Lumpkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jail and the African Burial Ground.

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The Slave Route Project is a UNESCO initiative launched in 1994 in the African nation of Benin, with which Richmond also shares a link through the slave trade.

The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to enhance understanding of the historic trade that uprooted millions of Africans over 400 years and of the impact that trade had and continues to have on the cultures and politics of countries around the world.

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arrived on the one-year anniversary of the creation of Evergreenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restoration advisory team, whose members, along with Ms. Baskerville, include Dr. Johnny Mickens III, great-grandson of Maggie L. Walker, and John Mitchell, great-great-nephew of his famed namesake.

The team, which meets monthly at Virginia Union University, is guiding the creation of a blueprint for the restoration of the memorials and five miles

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The city has done nothing to secure recognition of sacred ground,â&#x20AC;? agreed Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, a group that has spent years fighting to gain recognition for slavery sites in Downtown and helped win a state donation to the city of the historic 18th century burial ground at 15th and Broad streets.

Mr. Wilayto noted that the city has neither changed the zoning to protect a potential slavery memorial park site in Shockoe Bottom from development nor even properly marked the historic cemetery as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;African Burial Ground.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evergreen is deserving of recognition, but so are other places in this community,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a center of the slave trade and the largest outside of New Orleans, Shockoe Bottom is a site of national and international importance, and the city has failed miserably to secure any kind of recognition for that area. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disgraceful.â&#x20AC;?

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Evergreen Cemetery, the historic burial ground of such Richmond greats as businesswoman Maggie L. Walker and crusading newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. as well as thousands of other African-Americans, has just garnered international recognition.

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has named the 60-acre East End cemetery off Stony Run Parkway â&#x20AC;&#x153;a site of memory associated with the Slave Route Project,â&#x20AC;?

John Sydnor, executive director of Enrichmond Foundation that owns the cemetery, said Monday.

Evergreen Cemetery, which sits on the border with Henrico County, is the first Richmond area site linked to the UNESCO Slave Route Project. The designation comes as advocates for a Shockoe Bottom slave memorial park continue to struggle with City Hall over its failure to take action to gain a similar UNESCO designation for that area, which was a national center of the slave trade before the U.S. abolished slavery.

While Evergreen Cemetery was opened in the 1890s, at least 30 years after the Union victory during the Civil War led to abolition, the site was accepted because it fits with the UNESCO projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recognition both of the enslaved and their accomplishments after freedom.

As Ali Moussa Iye, director of the 25-year-old, Paris-based UNESCO project, put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historic Evergreen Cemetery, the final resting place for thousands of African-Americans born during or shortly after the end of slavery, has great potential to encourage reflection on their many contributions to Virginia and United States history.â&#x20AC;?

In a letter announcing the inclusion, Mr. Iye wrote that he and others with the Slave Route Project are impressed with the work that is being done by â&#x20AC;&#x153;volunteers, families, community leaders and the nonprofit organization Enrichmond Foundation to restore the cemetery

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Benjamin J. Lambert IV, financial advisor and civic leader, dies at 52 Benjamin J. Lambert IV, a member the promiwith clients and why so many people, particularly nent Lambert family whose many members have senior citizens, relied on him.â&#x20AC;? long contributed to the civic, social and political Hundreds of people in the Richmond area fabric of the Richmond area, died Monday, June counted on him for financial advice and money 3, 2019, at his residence in the Midlothian section management during his more than 23-year career of Chesterfield County. with a series of companies, including First Union Mr. Lambert, the oldest son of the late former Brokerage Services Banc of America Investment state Sen. Benjamin J. Lambert III and Carolyn Services and SunTrust Investment Services.

M. Lambert, was a well-known financial advisor Seeking to follow in his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political footsteps, who held leadership posts in the Richmond Public Mr. Lambert announced a run for the Richmond Schools Foundation and other nonprofits.

School Board at one point, but gave it up after Banc He died from complications of prostate cancer, of America refused to allow him to seek public office, which he had battled for years. He was 52. calling it a potential conflict of interest.

Mr. Lambert A graduate of Benedictine High School in However, he found other ways to provide comRichmond and Morehouse College in Atlanta, Mr. Lambert spent munity service. his career as an investment advisor.

Mr. Lambert was a former chairman, vice chairman and â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a fun-loving, congenial man,â&#x20AC;? said his mother. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like treasurer of the RPS Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board, a former chairman his father, everyone was his friend. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how he acted and treasurer of the Richmond Public Library Foundation and

served seven years as a City Council appointee on the Richmond Public Library Board.

Mr. Lambert also served on the boards of St. Bridget Catholic School, the Richmond Boys Choir, Theatre IV, Team Up Richmond and the Virginia United Methodist Homes.

He also was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and St. Paul Catholic Church.

A visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at Bliley Funeral Homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chippenham location, 6900 Hull Street Road. A funeral Mass will be held at noon Monday, June 10, at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 823 Cathedral Place. A memorial service also will be held Sunday, June 23, but details were not available.

In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife, Mary Lambert; two children, Benjamin J. Lambert V and Melania Lambert, all of Midlothian; two brothers, Charles Lambert and David Lambert, both of Richmond, and a sister, Ann-Frances Lambert of Los Angeles.

Legendary queen of Creole cuisine, Leah Chase, dies at 96 NEW ORLEANS New Orleans chef and civil rights icon Leah Chase, who created New Orleansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first white-tablecloth restaurant for black patrons, broke the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s segregation laws by seating white and black customers together and introduced countless tourists to Southern Louisiana Creole cooking, died Saturday, June 1, 2019.

She was 96.

Mrs. Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family released a statement to news outlets Saturday night saying the â&#x20AC;&#x153;unwavering advocate for civil libertiesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;believer in the Spirit of New Orleansâ&#x20AC;? died surrounded by family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her daily joy was not simply cooking, but preparing meals to bring people together,â&#x20AC;? the statement read. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of her most prized contributions was advocating for the Civil Rights Movement through feeding those on the front lines of the struggle for human dignity.â&#x20AC;?

Mrs. Chase transformed the Dooky Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant from a sandwich shop where black patrons bought lottery tickets to a refined restaurant where tourists, athletes, musicians and even presidents of all races dined on fare such as jambalaya and shrimp Clemenceau. The restaurant and Mrs. Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband were both named after her father-in-law.

Mrs. Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s determination propelled her from a small-town Louisiana upbringing to a celebrated chef who authored cookbooks, appeared on cooking shows and fed civil rights greats such as Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Well into her 90s, Mrs. Chase could be found daily at the restaurant, using a walker while greeting customers and supervising the kitchen. The power of food to transform a day and the desire to better her

city drove her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love people and I love serving people. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun for me to serve people. Because sometimes people will come in and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tired. And just a little plate of food will make people happy,â&#x20AC;? she said during a 2015 interview with The Associated Press.

At a time when other black Creole women were working in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garment industry, Mrs. Chase worked as a waitress in the French Quarter, which exposed her to the segregated cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pricey restaurants frequented by white people.

When she married Dooky Chase in 1946, his family restaurant had been open for five years, largely under the guidance of his mother. But Mrs. Chase wanted to make it a fine dining experience for black patrons along the lines of what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen in the French Quarter. Gradually, she introduced silverware on the table, tablecloths and Creole dishes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, why we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that for our people? Why we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a nice space?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I started trying to do different things.â&#x20AC;?

During the Civil Rights Movement, Dooky Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s became known as a place where white and black activists could meet and strategize about voter registration drives or legal cases.

Although Mrs. Chase and her husband were breaking the law by allowing black people and white people to eat together, the police never raided the restaurant.

Mrs. Chase also would send food to civil rights leaders when they were in jail, sniffing her nose at the idea of them eating prison food.

Sybil Morial, a longtime friend of Mrs. Chase, said she has eaten hundreds of meals at Dooky Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where she was courted by her

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In this March 2007 photo, Leah Chase stands outside of her famous New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, that was started by her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family in the early 1940s.

late husband, Ernest â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dutchâ&#x20AC;? Morial, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first black mayor. On visits to New Orleans, Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers would work with Mrs. Morialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband and NAACP lawyer A.P. Tureaud, and then head to Dooky Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for a meal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a haven for them to refresh themselves with wonderful gumbo and it was a place where they could strategize after a hard dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work,â&#x20AC;?

Mrs. Morial said.

Mrs. Chase never boasted about it, saying simply that she did what she thought she had to do.

Hurricane Katrina devastated her restaurant in 2005, leaving 5 feet of water in the dining room for weeks. When the waters receded, mold was everywhere.

Mrs. Chase was already into her 80s, but there was little question regarding the restau-

rantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fate. She and her husband evacuated to Birmingham, Ala., but returned and lived in a FEMA trailer next to the restaurant for months while they rebuilt. Her husband died in 2016; they had been married for seven decades.

Mrs. Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food always reflected her city, a Creole mixture of Spanish, French, African and other cultures that have influenced New Orleans. She enjoyed the new culinary influences in the city such as the growth of Vietnamese and Jamaican restaurants. But she pushed back against the notion that hers was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul foodâ&#x20AC;? restaurant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people come and ask about soul food, I ask them where is their soul. If your soul is in China, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help you,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If your soul is in New Orleans, I know what to give you.â&#x20AC;?

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Baptist Church 2003 Lamb Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222

Dr. Arthur M. Jones, Sr., Pastor (804) 321-7622

TH (OMECOMING #ELEBRATION Sunday, June 9, 2019 11:15 am Dr. Arthur M. Jones, Sr. Music: Triumphant Mass Choir 3:00 pm Rev. Dr. Theodore T. Brown Quioccasin Baptist Church

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Evangelist: Dr. Emanuel Harris, Pastor Jerusalem Baptist Church, Manakin-Sabot, VA

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groups using the same name or a slight variation of it.

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Willie Lee Ford Jr., one of the founders of the soul group, The Dramatics, whose bass voice anchored their best known hits in the 1970s, died Tuesday, May 28, 2019. He was 68.

Born July 10, 1950, in LaGrange, Ga., Mr. Ford grew up in Detroit in the same neighborhood as future Motown legend Smokey Robinson.

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Richmond Free Press

B6 June 6-8, 2019

Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, June 17, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, June 24, 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. 2019-140 To authorize the special use of the property known as 319½ South Pine Street for the purpose of a dwelling unit within an accessory building, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in the R 7 Single and Two Family Urban Residential District.

The City of Richmond’s Downtown Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Downtown General Urban Area which is “… characterized by mediumd e n s i t y, m i x e d - u s e development, distributed along medium-sized blocks.” No residential density is specified for this land use category.

The density of the parcel if developed would be approximately 20 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-141 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2009‑224‑224, adopted December 14, 2009, which authorized the special use of the property known as 410 Hancock Street for the purpose of converting the existing building for commercial uses or residential uses or both, for the purpose of removing the off‑street parking requirement, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in an R-7 Single- and TwoFamily Urban Residential Zoning District. The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed Use. Neighborhood Mixed use areas are cohesive districts that provide a mix of uses, but with a larger amount of residential uses than other mixed use districts. No residential density is specified for this land use category.

The proposed residential density of the site would remain at approximately 33 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-142 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2009‑225‑225, adopted December 14, 2009, which authorized the special use of the property known as 703 North Harrison Street for the purpose of converting the existing building for commercial uses or residential uses or both, for the purpose of removing the off‑street parking requirement, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is currently zoned M-1, Light Industrial. The City of Richmond’s adopted Pulse Corridor Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as NMU (Neighborhood Mixed Use). “Neighborhood Mixed use areas are cohesive districts that provide a mix of uses, but with a larger amount of residential uses than other mixed use districts. (City of Richmond, Pulse Corridor Plan, p. 29). No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

Ordinance No. 2019-143 To rezone properties known as 10, 14, and 18 East Canal Street; and 108½, 110, 112, 112½, 114, 114½, 116, 118, and 120 South 1st Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the TOD‑1 Transit Oriented Nodal District, and 108 South 1st Street from the B-3 General Business District to the TOD‑1 Transit Oriented Nodal District.

The Pulse Corridor Plan calls for a future land use designation of downtown mixed‑use, in which the central business district of the Richmond region features high‑density development with office buildings, apartments, and a mix of complementary uses, including regional destinations. No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

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; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; 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 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 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 HENRICO DULCE CELESTE JOLON YAT Plaintiff, v.

WILLIAM ALFREDO RAMIREZ PAZ Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-2351 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation and without any interruption, for a period of more than one year.

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Defendant, WILLIAM ALFREDO RAMIREZ PAZ, is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that his last known address is unknown, it is therefore ORDERED that Defendant, WILLIAM ALFREDO RAMIREZ PAZ, appear before this Court on or before the 8th day of July, 2019, at 9:00 a.m., and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

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

JOCELYN HAMPTON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000090-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 8th day of July, 2019 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 2, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson (VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson (VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

(VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 19, 2019, at 9:00 am in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson (VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

Joe’s Italian Grill II, LLC Trading as: Joe’s Italian Grill 6329-6331 Jahnke Road Richmond, Virginia 23225 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D epartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Wine and Beer On Premises and Mixed Beverages On Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Dolores Ferman Reyes, 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.

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Jayla & Jamal Andrews Case No. J-096170-08-09, J-096171-07,08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father) and Sara Andrews (Mother) of Jayla Andrews, child, DOB 06/23/2018 & Jamal Andrews, child DOB 06/23/2018. “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 & Sara Andrews (Mother) to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before July 29, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Courtroom #4

CURRENCY

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KEVIN BROWN, Plaintiff v.

NICOLE ROSS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001651-00 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 17th day of July, 2019 at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #2 and protect her interests.

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

CRICKET WILLIAMS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001583-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of July, 2019 at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #2 and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste:

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

CL18-0776-1 $ 235.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND IREEF BOYD; CL18-4679-1 $699.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND LAMON COLEMAN; CL17-3771-1 $429.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND RUQUAN DOCTOR; CL18-2705-1 $803.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND CHAUNCEY DUCRE; CL16-182-1 $1,210.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND CORDERO HINES; CL12-3599-1 $1,931.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JAMES JACKSON; CL18-2438-1 $342.10 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND IRA JONES; CL18-2405-1 $280.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DONNELL JOYNER; CL11-5795-1 $1,575 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TRAVIS MARROW; CL17-5231-1 $270.02 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ZYEJUAN REDD; CL17-5513-1 $2,952.10 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DEZMONIQUE TOWNES; CL18-1026-1 $641.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DOMINIQUE WALKER; CL10-3803-1 $1,626.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TIMOTHY WARD; CL10-1986-1 $656.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND CLEON WARE; CL17-3915-1 $439.00 UNITED STAES CURRENCY AND KHALICK WHITAKER; CL14-2531-1 $327.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DERRICK YOUNG; CL11-2510-1 $7,166.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JORGE ZAMARRIPA-MUNOZ; Defendants.

ORDER

The object of the above captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain

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

CL18-2984-2 $909.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DAVON BAILEY; CL14-5081-2 $762.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND CURTIS CUTHBERTSON; CL18-2706-2 $334.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND EDWARD HARRIS; CL18-3728-2 $338.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ISIS HAYES; CL18-2302-2 $481.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND WILLIAM JEFFERSON; CL17-3567-2 $302.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JACQUAN JOHNSON; CL18-1027-2 $286.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TRAVIS JOHNSON; CL18-4221-2 $650.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JOHNATHAN MCKENZIE; CL17-4512-2 $443.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TRAVIS MILES; CL16-3987-2 $715.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TUSHAWN WALTERS; CL17-5232-2 $644.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND MARQUISE WILLIAMS, Defendants.

ORDER

The object of the above captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 9, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson (VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

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

CL18-1008-4 $766.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND CURTIS BASSETT; CL18-2992-4 $2,915.32 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DARLISHA DAVIS; CL13-2794-4 $679.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ALEXIS DOUGLAS; CL16-3443 $419.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TOMAR HARRIS; CL15-1798-4 $5,700.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND MARK HENRY; CL18-2707-4 $492.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ADAM JOHNSON; CL18-4674-4 $2,130.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND BILLY KING; CL17-2282-4 $588.67 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TONY MASSENBURG; CL17-4545-4 $751.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JOHN ORTIZ; CL19-541 $263.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TOBIAS SMITH; CL18-4222-4 $780.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND RAMON THOMAS; CL17-5515-4 $9,996.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TUSHAWN WALTERS; CL17-2819-4 $338.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND SHAUMAS WYCHE, Defendants.

ORDER

The object of the above captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 13, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson (VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

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

CL18-2710-7 $8,210.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND RICO ALBERT; CL18-2703-7 $1,655.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JOEL ALICEA; CL17-2293-7 $4,089.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND KENNETH BANKS; CL15-2001-7 $281.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND COREY BROWN; CL13-1587-7 $1,827.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TREVON BROWN; CL14-2346-7 Bank Account AND CAMERON CRAWFORD; CL18-1993-7 $400.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DAQUAN TERRY; CL16-4907-7 $628.20 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND MARIO DAY; CL15-16-7 $1,885.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND COREY GARDNER; CL13-2250-7 $258.94 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JONTAE HASKINS; CL11-2203-7 $850.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DONTE MASSENBURG; CL12-1062-7 $224.25 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND SHAYE ROBINSON; CL18-1024-7 $332.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND BOBI TAYLOR; CL10-3808-7 $5,615.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND LATANYA THOMAS; CL14F-2989-7 $1,224.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND BRIANNA VANCE; CL18-3732-7 $4,730.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND KYLE WEBB, Defendants.

ORDER

The object of the above captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 19, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson (VSB #41587) Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

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

CL18-0767-6 $528.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND AESHA ARCHER; CL18-2709-6 $213.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND WINSTON CHAY; CL18-1958-6 $330.00 UNITED STATES CURENCY AND CHARLES DELK; CL17-4224-6 $218.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ALFONSO GREENE; CL17-1009-6 $744.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND MATTHEW LAWSON; CL18-2987-6 $289.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ANGELO LONG; CL18-3731-6 $280.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND LATIF MACK; CL18-5601-6 $400.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND GILMER PUPU; CL18-1350-6 $1,416.01 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND LAMAR SMITH; CL11-2018-6 $353.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ESTEE WASHINGTON; CL14-1848-6 $14,680.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND RICKY WOOD, Defendants.

ORDER The object of the above captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 9, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect

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

CL17-2283-5 $301.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DOMINQUE ADAMS; CL17-1959-5 $1,335.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND NORMAN BOSWELL; CL18-2708-5 $1,272.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND WILLIE GREENE; CL10-2011-5 $7,000.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND GEORGE HARRIS; CL17-2820-5 $767.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ANTHONY LYNCH; CL18-1991 $731.21 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ERNEST MOORE; CL17-1480-5 $922.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ELIJAH SAMUELS; CL18-1022-5 $957.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND TRE’VON SHRIVER; CL10-5345-5 $1,017.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND RAWLE STANTON; CL18-2986-5 $2,428.61 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ERIC WELLS; CL17-5107-5 $840.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND BRANDON WEST, Defendants.

ORDER

The object of the above captioned suits is to forfeit to the Commonwealth the described property or currency pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-386 et. seq. (which includes former Section 18.2249) (Michie 1999).

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Commonwealth to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendants and effect service of process, without success, it is therefore ORDERED that the Defendants do appear on or before August 8, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North Ninth Street, and do what is necessary to protect his or her interests.

I ask for this: J. Andrew Johnson

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

CL18-0501-8 $2,650.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND RAMEL ARMSTRONG; CL10-2305-8 $2,796.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND KEVIN BROWN; CL19-538 $1,626.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND KIP DICKENS; CL17-3226-8 $1,002.85 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JAMAL HILL; CL16-181-8 $994.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND XAVIER HINTON; CL17-0395 $2,056.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND BRANDEN JONES; CL18-1352-8 $494.89 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND WILLIE REVISH; CL17-3770-8 $3,998.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND OLIVIA RICHARDSON; CL18-87-8 $11,281.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND DUSTIN SHOENBAUM; CL12-2305-8 $459.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND CHARLES TALLEY; CL10-3809-8 $135.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND JAMES THOMAS; CL10-1993-8 $1,765.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND MELVIN THORNE; CL17-5786-8 $662.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ANTWANNETTE USANGA; CL18-2704-8 $572.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND SHAWN WASHINGTON; CL13-1581-8 $400.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY AND ERICA YARBOROUGH, Defendants.

ORDER

The object of the above

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS 155447-TW Term Contract for Architect/Engineering Services for the Central Office Locations Predominately, (Statewide at VDOT’s discretion).

Documents are located at www.eva.virginia. gov and available from the individual indicated below.

Inquiries should be directed to: Tamerra D. Webb at tamerra.webb@vdot.virginia.gov , or (804) 786-5325.

Proposals will be received in accordance with the information posted at www.eva.virginia.gov until 2:00 P.M. local time on June 26, 2019.

REQUEST FOR BIDS For Certain Easements Upon, Over, Under and Across 3502 North Hopkins Road and 3516 North Hopkins Road In the City of Richmond The City of Richmond is seeking bids for certain easements upon, over, under, and across certain properties located at 3502 North Hopkins Road and 3516 North Hopkins Road for the construction, installation, operation, maintenance, inspection, repair, replacement, and removal of communication lines and associated appurtenances in accordance with a certain Deed of Easement, for a duration of 40 years, subject to certain responsibilities to be imposed by the Deed of Easement and subject further to all retained rights of the City of Richmond.

All bids for the easements hereby offered to be granted must be submitted in writing to the City Clerk’s office by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 10, 2019. Bids will be presented to the presiding officer of the Council of the City of Richmond on Monday, June 10, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. in open session and then will be presented by the presiding officer to the Council and be dealt with and acted upon in the mode prescribed by law.

The City of Richmond expressly reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The successful bidder shall reimburse the City for all costs incurred in connection with the advertisement of this ordinance in accordance with section 15.2-2101 of the Code of Virginia and shall post the bond required by the ordinance.

A copy of the full text of the ordinance is on file in the City Clerk’s office, and the full text of the ordinance and Deed of Easement to be executed is available at: https://richmondva.legistar.com/LegislationDetail. aspx?ID=3947219&GUID=FF615E6B-542B-4912-9CD68629D0225F72&Options=ID|Text|&Search=2019-130 Please address any questions or bids to: Candice D. Reid, City Clerk City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200 Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-7955

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

Applications are now being accepted for the following positions: PCA or CNA – Licensed Medication Tech Experience working with Alzheimer’s & Dementia Residents Please bring a current TB report when applying All references will be checked.

Good pay – Good days off.

Call for appointment (804) 222-5133

MINISTER OF MUSIC 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. 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 EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, Richmond, Virginia, seeks full-time Financial Secretary. Responsibilities include confidential receipt, maintenance, accounting and disbursement of Church funds; to include the accounting for all investments/endowments, accounting for all Church property – list of all physical assets- accounting for payroll, providing Financial Statements for individual funds, as well as, consolidated Financial Statements for all funds. The Financial Secretary prepares records for annual review by outside auditors. Applicants must have minimum two-year Associate degree in accounting. A four-year degree in Accounting preferred. Minimum 3-5 years work experience in Accounting. Call Church office/see Church website for complete job description and application (www. richmondebenezer.com). Send completed application and resume to ebcoffice1@yahoo.com. Deadline June 25, 2019.