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‘Our ballots will stop bullets’

Thousands take to streets in Richmond, D.C. and across the nation to demand gun control and school safety In Richmond

By Irena Schunn and George Copeland Jr. Capital News Service

Chanting “Enough is enough” and “Never again,” more than 5,000 students and other demonstrators marched through Richmond last Saturday as part of a nationwide protest against mass school shootings and gun violence.

Cheering against the chilly breeze, the Richmond march started with a bevy of student speakers alongside prominent local and state leaders on the lawn of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School on Mosby Street in the East End. Throngs of people of all ages then marched across the Martin Luther King Bridge to Capitol Square in Downtown, where they heard from more students speaking at a rally Virginia Commonwealth University Capital News Service

Thousands of people fill the area in front of the South Portico of the state Capitol during Saturday’s March for Our Lives rally and march in Richmond. The event was sponsored by a variety of community groups and organizations, including Richmond Public Schools, the Richmond Branch NAACP, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, the Richmond Peace Education Center, The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence and Liberal Women of Chesterfield County and Beyond.

VUU president seeks dismissal of fraud lawsuit

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Virginia Union University President Hakim J. Lucas is fighting back against an explosive lawsuit from his former employer, BethuneCookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. Dr. Lucas has asked the Vo l u s i a C o u n t y, Fla., Circuit Court to throw out the civil suit BethuneCookman Dr. Lucas officials filed in late January against him and other former school leaders accusing them of fraud and ripping off the university.

A date for a hearing on the motion to dismiss has yet to be set.

Formerly a vice president and chief fundraiser for Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Lucas, through his attorneys, used the court filing last month to describe the suit as a baseless document filled with claims that are “impertinent and scandalous if not defamatory,” but unsupported by any evidence.

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U.S. Census Bureau: City population continues to grow

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond’s population has jumped above 227,000 people for the first time in at least 40 years, and current trends suggest the capital city’s population should easily exceed 230,000 residents when the mandatory 10-year census is taken in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The city’s population growth was noted in new estimates the Census Bureau released last week for cities, counties and towns across the country. The report estimates populations as of July 1, 2017.

The good news report showing that Richmond continues to add people helps explain the ongoing growth in apartment development and the strengthened market for single-family homes, even in areas of the city that were considered less desirable just a few years ago.

The new Census Bureau report estimated that Richmond had

227,032 residents as of July 1, 2017, up nearly 23,000 people or 11.17 percent from the 2010 Census, which reported 204,214 residents.

That ranks Richmond, along with Charlottesville and James City County, among the fastest growing communities outside of Northern Virginia, which continues to add people faster than any other section of the state.

According to the Richmond Planning Commission, the city, which is landlocked at 62.5 square miles, still has plenty of room to accommodate population growth.

In 1950, Richmond reported about 5,800 persons per square mile, but currently has about 3,800 persons per square mile, a lot lower density, the commission noted.

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Central figure in historic 1954 Brown school desegregation case dies TOPEKA, Kan.

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Linda Brown stands outside Sumner School in Topeka, Kan., which had denied her enrollment in 1950 because of her race. This photo was taken in 1964.

Linda Brown, who as a 9-year-old in Kansas was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 75.

Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll the family in an all-white school in Topeka, and the case was sparked when he and several black families were Mr. Brown turned away. The NAACP’s legal arm brought the lawsuit to challenge segregation in public schools, and Mr. Brown became lead plaintiff in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the nation’s highest court that ended school segregation.

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Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.

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WASHINGTON Hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the United States against gun violence last Saturday, vowing to transform fear and grief over student killings in schools into a political movement that would yield stronger gun laws, including restoration of bans on the purchase of military-style weapons and stronger background checks.

Marchers for tougher gun laws took to the streets of the nation’s capital and for sister marches in more than 800 other cities worldwide, including Richmond, Boston, New York, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Oakland, Calif.

The turnout rivaled the kind of numbers seen during the 1960s protests over civil rights and the Vietnam War. The protests swept up activists long frustrated by the stalemate in the gun debate and brought in new, young voices.

Many weren’t old enough to buy a beer or to rent a car.

And thousands of others, who still aren’t old enough to vote, were among the estimated 800,000 people in Washington raising their voices to demand change.

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Holiday closings

In observance of Easter on Sunday, April 1, please note the following: City and county offices: Richmond government offices, including City Hall and community centers, closed Friday, March 30.

Public libraries: Henrico and Chesterfield libraries closed Sunday, April 1. Richmond Public Library branches closed Friday, March 30; open for regular hours Saturday, March 31. Broad Rock Branch closed Sunday, April 1.

Schools: Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield schools closed Monday, April 2; through Friday, April 6.

Banks, credit unions and other financial institutions: Virginia Credit Union branches closed Friday, March 30; branches at Department of Motor Vehicles building, 2300 W. Broad St., and Tower Branch at James Monroe Building, 101 N. 14th St., closed Saturday, March 31.

Trash and recycling: Richmond East Richmond Road Convenience Center closed Friday, March 30.

Animal Control: Richmond Animal Care and Control closed Friday, March 30, and Sunday, April 1; open Saturday March 31.

Virginia ABC stores: Closed Sunday, April 1.

GRTC: Buses operating on regular schedule.

Malls, major retailers, movie theaters: Varies; inquire at specific locations.

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

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New owners are promising major changes for Midlothian Village, a 47-year-old Section 8 housing complex in South Side, where residents have suffered from high rates of crime and decay in the buildings.

Community Preservation Partners, in partnership with The Hampstead Companies, bought the 217-unit complex for $17.5 million, or about $81,000 a unit. The complex last month has been renamed The Belt Atlantic, and $9.7 million is been allocated to refurbish the units, or about $44,700 per unit, to provide new appliances, update kitchens and bathrooms, improve interior lighting and upgrade entry doors. The companies also

plan to install external security systems in the form of cameras, perimeter fencing and gates with access limits.

The Belt Atlantic is one of several large, affordable housing community to be sold recently. In October, a Baltimore firm paid $42.5 million to purchase the problem-plagued 496-unit Essex Village complex in Henrico County. That firm has promised to upgrade that Section 8 community, which Henrico County labeled its “worst” apartment community.

Section 8 community means that the federal government provides subsidies to the owners to maintain the apartment units for people with limited incomes and to keep rents down.

City treasurer seeking volunteers for new board

City Treasurer Nichole Richardson Armstead is taking a first step to carry out her campaign promise to turn her office into a center for financial literacy.

Ms. Armstead has issued a call for volunteers to serve on a new Financial Empowerment Board she is seeking to create.

Ms. Armstead said her aim is for the board to become an information hub where people can secure useful information and education on money matters and find the guidance they need to address financial challenges.

“There are a lot of programs available,” Ms. Armstead she said. “But everyone doesn’t know about them. This board would be one place where all the information would be available.”

Ms. Armstead’s office is not involved in finances for city agencies and departments.

She also wants to board to set up programs to work with people on budgeting “in order to stretch their income” and to help address income disparity.

Information and applications: email treasurer@richmondgov. com or call (804) 646-6474.

Heating repairs still needed on 104 public housing units

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Heat has been restored to more than 300 public housing units, but work still needs to be completed in more than 100 other units.

That was the summation Orlando Artze, interim chief executive officer of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, offered Monday night to members of the RRHA Board of Commissioners.

Mr. Artze said as of Monday, new electric baseboard heat has been installed in 73 units at Creighton Court, where tenant struggles to remain warm amid winter’s cold drew the most public attention.

Installation in all 78 units where radiators had failed or had to be shut off because of water leaks will be completed by Friday, March 30, he said.

That meets the schedule Mr. Artze set when he announced the decision to replace the failing radiator systems with baseboard units. The change required new wiring to be installed in each of the units.

He said that it had been a complex operation in which nine families a week were temporarily relocated. He praised the staff and contractors for accomplishing the hard work with the least disruption possible.

“It has not been easy,” Mr. Artze said.

Separately, RRHA’s workforce completed repairs or improvements in 229 other units that had only partial heat, Mr. Artze said. That represented a big portion of the 333 units outside Creighton Court that had heating problems.

That leaves 104 units that need more substantial repairs.

“Our goal is still to complete those units by mid-April,” Mr. Artze said.

At the same time, a board committee has been working to revamp RRHA’s system for reporting and documenting problems.

Under the plan being developed, tenants would call (804) 780-8700 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., and a separate phone line, (804) 780-4100, after hours to report emergencies.

Staff would be required to maintain a log of the calls and input information online to trigger work orders and decisions on scheduling. After-hours staff would either deal with emergencies or bring in a contractor to begin repairs.

Despite all the changes and the work, board Chairman Robert J. Adams said the continuing problems show the difficulties RRHA is facing to maintain the aging public housing communities.

He pointed to the recent failure of a boiler and the collapse of a staircase as examples of the impact of deferred maintenance.

Mr. Adams said that within the next two months, he expects to schedule a board meeting to review conditions and to consider the options that RRHA might have for improving the properties going forward.

He said the meeting would enable board members to get a full briefing on the options and make decisions.

“This needs to be more than an information session,” he said.

In recent years, the board has set a strategy for replacing the pubic housing communities with mixed-income communities, but the pace of change has been slow. Currently, RRHA is working on getting started on replacing Creighton Court and has yet to make a start on the replacement of the city’s five other large public housing communities.

City Council calls for Washington team to pay its way or end relationship

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Will Washington’s pro football team continue to run a summer training camp in Richmond after 2020?

That question is expected to be decided after Mayor Levar M. Stoney and team representatives hold talks, likely in May, on a potential extension of the current agreement.

That agreement is set to end in two years.

Richmond City Council already is weighing in, though it will not have a part in the decision, which officially will be made by Richmond’s Economic Development Administration. The EDA owns the Leigh Street training camp, which includes the building that houses medical offices of Bon Secours Health System.

The EDA, though nominally independent, is basically part of the city’s Department of Economic Development, and the EDA’s board would follow the mayor’s lead.

By a 9-0 vote Monday night, City Council approved a resolution calling for an end to the relationship with the Washington NFL team unless the new agreement requires the team to pick up “all debt service and operating costs associated with the training camp” located near the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, spearheaded the resolution that was co-patroned by the other eight members of council. Mr. Agelasto said the training camp has become a “white elephant” that has failed to generate enough money to cover its full costs.

Evidence of that came last month when the council agreed to allow the city to refi-

nance the building and practice field to pay off the remaining $8.5 million debt over 15 years to avoid default on a bank loan.

City officials acknowledged that the EDA would not be able to cover that debt from rents and other income from the property. The projected yearly cost to taxpayers from the refinancing: $750,000.

While there was no mention of it, the resolution also is seen as calling for the elimination of the current obligation of the EDA — actually the city — to pay the football team $500,000 a year either in cash or in-kind city services to hold the training camp in Richmond. That payment is one of the most unpopular elements of the current agreement and one that the council never approved after voting to authorize the training camp in 2012.

The team required the payment before it would sign the February 2013 agreement with the EDA to hold summer practice in Richmond for eight seasons. The EDA, which largely relies on city funds, has paid the team about $2.1 million over the past five seasons from earnings from the building and from city supplied-services.

“This sends a message to Mayor Stoney and the EDA to cut ties with the team unless we can get better terms,” Mr. Agelasto said.

He believes the team also is losing interest in Richmond.

“Why keep a marriage together when both parties are unhappy?”

In other business Monday, City Council: • Approved 9-0 ending requirements for businesses to provide off-street parking on a stretch of Hull Street between Cowardin Avenue and East 9th Street. The move is aimed at supporting developers who are seeking to overhaul buildings and attract

new business tenants to this stretch of South Side. However, the council postponed action on a proposal allowing reductions in off-street parking requirements in other business districts.

• Rezoned a former manufacturing property at 1125 Commerce Road to allow for affordable housing. The council split 5-4 on the issue as opponents expressed concern about allowing residential construction into one of Richmond’s few remaining areas earmarked for manufacturing and industrial operations. A trucking company across the street also objected, noting that its tractor-trailers operate 24 hours a day, creating noise that new residents would object to. The council majority, though, sided with the property’s well-known developer, Tom Papa, and his vision for creating a retail-apartment complex on the 3-acre site that has been home to a furniture bank for needy families operated by CARITAS, a nonprofit that houses the homeless, provides treatment for the addicted and aids needy families. At this point, CARITAS is seeking to relocate its furniture bank through which families can equip homes without charge.

• Cleared the way for the installation of the new Emancipation Proclamation and Freedom Monument on Brown’s Island in Downtown. The state’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission is developing the monument.

• Gave GRTC authority to hire “fare enforcement inspectors” to check riders on the future bus rapid transit system to ensure they have paid to ride the Pulse.

• Approved the development of a nightclub and restaurant in the shopping center at Jahnke and Blakemore roads near Lucille Brown Middle School..

Manns named new Henrico schools equality and diversity officer

By Ronald E. Carrington

Monica Manns, a 43-year-old former Henrico County educator and administrator, is Henrico County Public Schools’ first director of the Office of Equity and Diversity.

Ms. Manns, who was introduced at the Henrico School Board meeting March 22, will be paid $99,833 annually to lead the newly created office that is to focus on increasing diversity efforts across the school division. She will report directly to the schools superintendent.

The office and position were created in the aftermath of public outcry and scrutiny following a racially charged and sexually graphic incident in October in the boys’ locker room at Short Pump Middle School that was posted on social media.

The incident pushed the school system to deal more directly with issues of racism, bullying and inclusion.

“I’m really excited,” Ms. Manns stated in a news release. “I want to spend time learning, listening and helping people have collaborative, solution-oriented conversations around issues of equity and diversity.

If we do that, we can all work together and move things forward.”

One of her first efforts will be guiding the creation of the HCPS Equity and Diversity

Advisory Committee. The new group will be comprised of students, parents, staff and community members.

She also will develop, implement and assess Henrico Schools’ short- and Ms. Manns long-range cultural diversity plans and coordinate related professional development for staff members. She also is to serve as a point of contact for parents and school system employees with concerns about diversity issues, help recruit and retain a diverse school workforce and serve as a trainer on diversity issues.

Her initial effort will be to oversee community listening sessions this spring to get public input on issues of diversity and equity.

Ms. Manns began her career in 1996 as a vocational counselor helping people move from incarceration to the workforce.

She worked in the Henrico school system previously, have served as a department chair for special education at the Academy at Virginia Randolph from 2004 to 2007.

From 2009 to 2013, she worked for

the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls, serving as principal of the alternative John G. Wood School and later as director of education and vice president of educational services.

She returned to the Henrico school system from 2013 to 2016, first as a consultant and then a prevention specialist. She helped to remake the student disciplinary policy and helped launch a voluntary reading group for African-American male students at Fairfield Middle School.

Ms. Manns also has served on the board of the Henrico Education Foundation since 2016, focusing on issues of equity and preventive discipline.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Berea College in Kentucky, a master’s in counseling from the University of Kentucky, a master’s in education from Virginia Tech and a certificate in educational administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is working on a doctorate in special education administration at the College of William & Mary.

“Monica will help take our equity and diversity efforts to a new, higher level,” Superintendent Patrick C. Kinlaw stated.

“This being a cabinet-level position means that all of our efforts as a leadership team will be viewed through that lens of equity and diversity.”

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and Educational Fund Inc., said in a statement that Linda Brown is one of a band of heroic young people who, along with her family, courageously fought to end the ultimate symbol of white supremacy — racial segregation in public schools.

“She stands as an example of how ordinary schoolchildren took center stage in transforming this country. It was not easy for her or her family, but her sacrifice broke barriers and changed the meaning of equality in this country,” Ms. Ifill said.

Peaceful Rest Funeral Chapel of Topeka confirmed that Ms. Brown died Sunday, March 25, 2018. No cause of death was released. Funeral arrangements are pending.

Her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, founding president of The Brown Foundation, confirmed the death to The Topeka Capital-Journal. She declined comment from the family.

The lawsuit was joined with cases from Delaware, South Carolina, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

(The Virginia case, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, was sparked by the April 1951 student walkout led by 16-year-old Barbara Johns at the R.R. Moton High School in Farmville over the dilapidated conditions at the school that was underfunded compared with the county’s all-white school.

Richmond lawyers Oliver W. Hill Sr. and Spottswood W. Robinson III, working with the NAACP, filed suit on behalf of the students against the school district. The case was consolidated with the Brown case from Kansas. After the court’s decision in the Brown case, Virginia started a government policy of “Mas-

sive Resistance” by shutting down public schools rather than desegregate.)

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that separating black and white children was unconstitutional because it denied black children the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.

“In the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote. “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

The Brown decision overturned the court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which on May 18, 1896, established a “separate but equal” doctrine for black people in public facilities.

“Sixty-four years ago, a young girl from Topeka, Kansas sparked a case that ended segregation in public schools in America,” Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer said in a statement. “Linda Brown’s life reminds us that by standing up for our principles and serving our communities, we can truly change the world.

Linda’s legacy is a crucial part of the American story and continues to inspire the millions who have realized the American dream because of her.”

Brown v. Board was a historic marker in the Civil Rights Movement, likely the most high-profile case brought by Thurgood Marshall and the lawyers of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in their decade-plus campaign to chip

away at the “separate but equal” doctrine.

“Her legacy is not only here, but nationwide,” Kansas Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis said.

Mr. Brown, a former Golden Gloves champion boxer and railroad worker, became a minister at an A.M.E. church in Springfield, Mo. He died of a heart attack in 1961. Ms. Brown, who later married and worked as a Head Start teacher, founded the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research in 1988 with her sister.

The foundation states on its webpage that it was established as a living tribute to the attorneys, community organizers and plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court decision. Its mission is to build upon their work and keep the ideals of the decision relevant for future generations.

“We are to be grateful for the family that stood up for what is right,” said Democratic state Rep. Annie Kuether of Topeka.

“That made a difference to the rest of the world.”

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The line of marchers snakes for more than a mile across the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge in the East End and into Downtown. Marchers were still in line at the rally’s starting point at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School on Mosby Street.

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Corey Stuckey, left, an Armstrong High School freshman, and Sam Alburger, a junior at Hermitage High School, join in a chant with the crowd of thousands at the state Capitol who turned out in Richmond last Saturday for the March for Our Lives. Corey was one of the student speakers at the rally.

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outside the state Capitol.

The array of signs they carried proclaimed their succinct messages: “We want education without fear of annihilation,” “Books not bullets,” “Arm schools with more counselors, psychologists, nurses,” “Learning not lockdown,” “Protect our children, not guns,” “Disarm hate,” “Thoughts and prayers don’t stop bullets” and “Is my grandson next?

Stop the violence.”

At the start of the rally, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Richmond resident and former Democratic vice presidential candidate, expressed pride in seeing the action taken by students in his home state.

“Congress and the General Assembly — of not just this state but of other states, too — have a hard time finding a way to do anything because of the power of gun manufacturers and NRA leadership. But they’ve never had to come up against high schoolers before,” Sen. Kaine said to the cheering crowd.

The youth-centric nature of the march was present in the speeches and chants heard throughout the day. Once the march reached the Capitol, the younger speakers took the lead as state legislators and Richmond School Board members deferred to their voices. Students repeatedly called on older participants to protect them by doing what they can’t — vote for gun reform.

Maxwell Nardi, a student speaker from Douglas S. Freeman High School in Henrico County, was one of many to call for changes in school safety, universal background checks for firearm purchases and the removal of politicians unwilling to support gun control.

“This isn’t a new issue,” Maxwell said. “It’s been happening for 19 years in school shootings, and gun violence has been plaguing America for a much longer time.”

Speakers also emphasized the greater impact gun violence has on the African-American community, tying it to historical acts of violence against minorities.

“How many more black families will be devastated by gun violence — threatened or killed by the people whose job it is to serve and protect?” Stephanie Younger, an activist with the Richmond Youth Peace Project, asked the crowd.

“How many more times do my parents have to give me that talk explaining to me that I’m 10 times more likely to become a victim of gun violence because I am black?”

Maxwell echoed her sentiments, saying, “We have to look at this both from the perspective of schools and also from the perspective of communities that have been disproportionately impacted by this.”

Speakers also drew attention to Virginia’s history with guns, particularly the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech in which 32 people were killed and 17 others were wounded, as well as the National Rifle Association’s presence in the state politically and geographically (its headquarters is in Fairfax).

The March for Our Lives, with its main rally in Washington, was a student-led call for action with more than 800 sibling marches worldwide. It was planned in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, when a former students armed with a semi-automatic, military-style rifle killed 14 students and three staff members. Since then, surviving students launched the Never Again movement and urged lawmakers to impose stricter gun laws.

Calling the message from Richmond’s youth “powerful,” Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney said, “I am more inspired walking out than ever before. I think there’s a real possibility for change and I leave here today filled with optimism.”

Emma Gonzalez, one of the first students from Stoneman Douglas High School to speak Still, the big question is whether this was a out after the tragedy there, implored those of blip or will translate into votes and the election voting age to vote. of political representatives willing and able to In her speech in Washington, she recited the break the stranglehold that the National Rifle names of the Parkland dead, then held the crowd Association has secured over gun legislation. in rapt, tearful silence for more than 6 minutes, Participants were called to action by a brand- the time it took the gunman to kill them. new corps of leaders: Student survivors of the “We will continue to fight for our dead school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 friends,” Delaney Tarr, another Parkland survipeople dead Feb. 14. vor, declared from the stage. The crowd roared “If you listen real close, you can hear the with approval as she laid down the students’ people in power shaking,” Parkland survivor central demand: A ban on “weapons of war” David Hogg said to roars from the protesters for all but warriors. packing Pennsylvania Avenue from the stage near Student protesters called for a ban on highthe Capitol many blocks back toward the White capacity magazines and assault-type weapons House. “We’re going to take this to every elec- like the one used by the killer in Parkland, tion, to every state and every city. We’re going comprehensive background checks, and a higher to make sure the best people get in our elections minimum age to buy guns. to run, not as politicians, Gun violence was fresh but as Americans. for some who watched the “Because this,” he said, speakers in Washington. pointing behind him to the Ayanne Johnson of Great Capitol dome, “this is not Mills High School in St. cutting it.”

Mary’s County, Md., held Some of the voices were a sign declaring, “I March very young. Yolanda Refor Jaelynn,” honoring nee King, the 9-year-old Jaelynn Willey, who died granddaughter of the late March 22, two days after Dr. Martin Luther King being shot by a classmate Jr., drew from the civil at the school. The gunman rights leader’s most famous also died. words in declaring from the About 30 gun-rights stage: “I have a dream that supporters staged a counterenough is enough. That this demonstration in front of should be a gun-free world.

FBI headquarters, standing Period.” quietly with signs such as The signs were everySandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press “Armed Victims Live Lonwhere: “Prayers are not A young marcher in Richmond ger” and “Stop Violating enough.” “The Second shows off the message on his sign. Civil Rights.” Other gun Amendment needs amending.” control protests around the country were also The NRA went silent on Twitter as the pro- met with small counter-demonstrations. tests unfolded, in contrast to its reaction to the The president’s call to arm certain teachers nationwide school walkouts against gun violence fell flat at the protest, and from critics as young on March 14, when it tweeted a photo of an as Zoe Tate, 11, from Gaithersburg, Md. assault rifle and the message, “I’ll control my “I think guns are dumb. It’s scary enough own guns, thank you.” with the security guards we have in school,” President Trump was in Florida for the week- she said. “We don’t need teachers carrying guns end and did not weigh in on Twitter either. now. I find it amazing that I have to explain White House spokesman Zach Parkinson that idea to adults.” said, “We applaud the many courageous young Parkland itself was home to a rally as more Americans exercising their First Amendment than 20,000 people filled a park near the Florida rights today.” He pointed to President Trump’s school, chanting slogans such as “Enough is efforts to ban bump stocks and his support for enough” and carrying signs that stated: “Why school safety measures and extended background do your guns matter more than our lives?” and checks for gun purchases.

“Our ballots will stop bullets.”

Since the bloodshed at Marjory Stoneman Around the country, protesters complained Douglas High School in Florida, students have that they are scared of getting shot in school tapped into a current of gun control sentiment and tired of inaction by grown-ups after one that has been building for years — yet still mass shooting after another. faces a powerful foe in the NRA, its millions “People have been dying since 1999 in Colof supporters and lawmakers who have resisted umbine (Colorado) and nothing has changed. any encroachment on gun rights.

People are still dying,” said Ben Stewart, a Organizers are hoping the electricity of the 17-year-old senior at Shiloh Hills Christian crowds, their sheer numbers and the under-18 School in Kennesaw, Ga., who took part in a roster of speakers will create a tipping point, march in Atlanta. starting with the midterm congressional elections Callie Cavanaugh, a 14-year-old at a march this fall. To that end, chants of “Vote them out!” in Omaha, Neb., said, “This just needs to stop. rang through the Washington crowd.

It’s been going on my entire life.”

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the 2016 estimate indicated that the strongest growth in population was among the elderly and white and Latino populations.

As of 2016, Richmond was no longer a majority African-American city, though African-Americans remained the largest single population group with about 49 percent of the population.

Richmond’s population peaked at around 250,000 people in 1970, largely due to an annexation, and then began falling as “white flight” accelerated as the last barriers to school integration were dismantled and African-Americans also gained political control of City Hall.

The city’s population finally stabilized in 2000 at around 198,000 people and has been growing ever since, first slowly and then at a faster pace.

In its latest report, the Census Bureau also revised the 2016 estimate for Richmond upward, from 223,170 people to 225,288 people.

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versity accepted bribes and also doled out money to lower level employees as they inveigled the school’s Board of Trustees into approving a 40-year lease on a dormitory that a private company built and opened in 2016 on the Bethune-Cookman campus.

According to BethuneCookman, if the lease is upheld, the school will end up paying $306 million for the 1,600-unit student living quarters, or up to four times the $70 million to $80 million the dorm would have cost if the school built it itself.

In wording similar to other defendants, Dr. Lucas’ request to dismiss the suit hammers the point that Bethune-Cookman failed to provide any facts to show that he took bribes from the private development company, committed fraud or did anything that violated the law in supporting the dormitory project.

“Under Florida law, it is insufficient to allege a crime was committed without supplying evidence that a crime, in fact, was committed,” Dr. Lucas’ filing states, in arguing that Bethune-Cookman has failed to provide such evidence.

“It is noteworthy,” the filing continues, “that many of the allegations are prefaced with the phrase ‘upon information and belief,’ which is legal shorthand for essentially saying that there is no real proof for the allegation and that the allegation is really based on speculation, conjecture and wishful thinking.

“It is a creative-writing tool used by lawyers, and one employed for the sole purpose of creating fear” and a speedy resolution, the filing adds.

“Where is the evidence of payment? Where is the wire transfer? Where is the cancelled check?” Dr. Lucas’ filing states, noting that Bethune-Cookman did not include such evidence “because there is none.”

The court papers also state that a host of people and organizations, ranging from members of Bethune-Cookman’s Board of Trustees to law firms, accounting firms and consulting firms, “had direct roles in either negotiating, evaluating or approving the dorm project.”

“Indeed, Dr. Lucas — either single-handedly or in tandem with any other member of Bethune-Cookman’s then leadership team — could not have moved forward with the project without the consideration, analysis and approval of these other parties,” the filing continues.

“If Dr. Lucas (and others) failed in their duties, these others, by extension, must have failed as well,” the court papers state. But, it continues, Bethune-Cookman is not suing those other essential parties, making its suit deficient and subject to dismissal.

That’s a jump of about 5,000 residents from 2015, when 220,280 people were estimated to live in the city.

The Census Bureau’s estimates are well above those of state demographers at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, whose annual estimates are used by the General Assembly to distribute funds to local governments for roads, public education and other services.

According to the Cooper Center estimate for July 1, 2017, Richmond had a population of 222,883, up about 18,000 people or 9 percent from the 2010 Census. The center uses a different, more conservative approach to estimating population and its estimates often trail those of the Census Bureau.

Richmond is one of the faster growing segments of a metropolitan statistical area that stretches from Sussex County to Caroline County and includes the cities of Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights.

According to the Census Bureau, the Richmond Metropolitan Area had about 1,294,000 people as of July 1, 2017, up about 86,000 people from 2010, with most of the population increase occurring in Richmond and Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

Both counties also continue to add people.

As of July 1, 2017, Chesterfield County was estimated to have 343,599 residents, up 27,000 people or 8.65 percent from 2010, while Henrico County had 327,898 residents, up about 21,000 people or 6.83 percent from 2010.

Statewide, 8.47 million people were estimated to live in Virginia as of July 2017, a 6 percent increase from 2010, but only a 1 percent increase from 2016. Virginia still ranks as the 12th most populous state.

State demography experts indicate that growth has begun to slow overall in Virginia, and new forecasts suggest the population of people 65 and older is expanding faster than the number of children.

The fastest growing Virginia locality: Falls Church, whose population grew by 5.2 percent in the 12-month period between 2016 and 2017, the most for any county or city in the country. By contrast, estimated population growth in Richmond during the same period was less than 1 percent.

The population of two other Northern Virginia localities, Loudoun County and Manassas Park, grew more than 3 percent in that one-year period. The only locality in the Richmond area where population grew by more than 3 percent was New Kent County.

According to the Weldon Cooper Center, outside of Northern Virginia and a few other cities, Virginia’s growth rate has slowed to the lowest level since before the Great Depression.

Population in farm and coal-mining sections of the state continues to decline.

Overall, by 2040, state demographers project up to half the state’s population will live between Fredericksburg and Washington.

Residency requirement could be scrapped for all but key city employees

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Two members of Richmond City Council are seeking to largely scrap a 25-year-old policy of requiring city executives, managers and council appointees and staff to live in the city — ensuring they would be closer to the people they serve and also would contribute to the city through tax payments on their homes, cars and purchases.

Councilmen Andreas D. Addison, 1st District, and Michael J. Jones, 9th District, are spearheading legislation that would eliminate residency requirements for all but elected officials, the city’s chief

administrative officer and the chiefs of the police and fire departments.

The legislation will receive its first test on Monday, April 2, when the full council convenes as the Organizational Development Standing Committee.

At least 50 people, including department heads, deputy CAOs, mayoral staff, the city attorney, the city assessor and a host of others, currently are covered by the policy.

All are among the highest paid city employees.

Mr. Jones said that exemptions are all too common, which he believes undermines equity and fairness.

Among council appointees, he noted the chief of staff, Lou Brown Ali, and the new city auditor, Louis

Lassiter, have received waivers, as did the previous city auditor, Umesh Dalal.

He said he doesn’t know how many people have received waivers on the administrative side.

“I’m a black-and-white kind of guy. If you have this kind of policy, then it has to apply 100 percent to everyone. No exceptions,” Mr. Jones said. “I don’t think it’s fair to apply to some and not to others.”

He said he agrees that the policy should apply to the CAO and police and fire chiefs, three top officials who are key figures.

Mr. Addison was not immediately available for comment.

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Suggestions offered to add ‘context’ to Monument Avenue statues

By Saraya Wintersmith

Richmonders are posing creative ideas for adding context to the Confederate statues along Monument Avenue.

At a meeting hosted by members of First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond last Friday, many of the 60 people attending the event said they would prefer the statues to be removed or relocated.

But there were also suggestions to help create a fuller story about the Confederate men depicted along the thoroughfare and the racist institution of slavery they meant to preserve.

“We talked about adding ‘traitor’ to the statues or ‘Defeated at the battle of’ for more information,” explained one woman after small discussion groups reconvened in the sanctuary to share the ideas generated in the discussions.

The woman’s group also suggested adding a statue of Gabriel, an enslaved man whose planned, large rebellion just outside of Richmond in 1800 was leaked and stopped before it could occur. Gabriel reportedly was executed and buried in the African Burial Ground on the edge of Shockoe Bottom.

“And someone mentioned (a statue of) Mayor Levar Stoney,” the woman continued. “If he decides to take these (Confederate statues) down, there should be a statue of him,” she said to laughter.

Another presenter raised the oft-cited point that the monuments are so large, it would be difficult to add descriptive context without massive billboards. Any additions, then, would need to match the scale of the statues and be visually arresting without language, the presenter said.

Two specific suggestions from the small group: To surround

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each monument with hundreds of stones to represent the souls of the enslaved and a series of scattered vignettes depicting some of the harsh realities of slavery.

Another group suggested removing the statues from their pedestals, allowing the Confederate figures to stand on the same level as passersby, or erecting statues depicting “a line of slaves shackled” down the Monument Avenue median.

Another suggestion was to cover the statues with black drapes like in Charlottesville, which temporarily draped its public statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee following the death last August of 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer, a counterprotester run over by a white supremacist during a bloody and violent clash by neo-Nazis to keep Confederate statues in Charlottesville’s city parks.

“Everyone needs to be able to go down Monument Avenue and feel proud, and we have many citizens who can’t do that,” the presenter said.

Other ideas included using apps and launching a city-run website for people to consult for facts about Monument Avenue and the Confederacy.

Commission members Christy Coleman, Coleen Butler Rodriguez, Ed Ayers and Lauranette Lee attended the meeting, floating between the small groups to listen to the conversations.

Meeting organizer Nathanael Rudney said the format was intended to encourage respectful dialogue.

“We were happy with it,” he said after the meeting. “I think it worked out and I think it was the right call.”

The next event will be hosted by the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at Fifth Baptist Church, 1415 W. Cary St.

Kamras fields questions, concerns at community meeting

By Ronald E. Carrington

Richmond schools Superintendent Jason Kamras met with more than 60 parents, educators and community members from the city’s 3rd District last week in the latest of his community meetings to talk about his vision for Richmond Public Schools and to listen to concerns people have about the school system.

The discussion, held March 22 at the Richmond Police Training Academy on North Side near Virginia Union University, covered topics ranging from school safety, academic performance, teacher training, school maintenance and Mr. Kamras’ newly announced cabinet members.

“As a parent, I think a lot about my boys, who are school age, and what I want for them,” Mr. Kamras said. “As superintendent, I want RPS students to have the same education I want for my children.”

Mr. Kamras, who took the helm of RPS on Feb. 1, told the group about his 100-day plan focusing on engagement, equity and excellence in the schools. He said he has visited all but one of the 44 schools in the city, noting that he found students to be bright and welcoming and saying that he had many frank conversations with teachers and school administrators.

When an audience member asked how Mr. Kamras the superintendent can ensure that dollars earmarked for the schools from the city meals tax hike that goes into effect July 1 won’t be diverted for other city projects such as replacement of the Richmond Coliseum, Mr. Kamras was direct.

“I will chain myself to the Coliseum to make sure that those dollars do not go there,” Mr. Kamras said, as the audience members chuckled and applauded.

“Those of you who have not been able to visit some of our facilities, they are crumbling. There are bathrooms without stall doors, ceilings failing down,” he said. “No child should have to go to a school in those conditions in the one of the richest countries in the world.”

He said he wants to review the line items in the RPS’ budget so he can see where the dollars are going.

“We can probably be using the money we have more effectively,” Mr. Kamras said. “We have 80 vacancies that have not been filled for the last two years, and we can redirect that money to be used in other areas.”

The audience responded with applause.

He continued by noting that the poor condition of the city’s aging school buildings is a moral, ethical, and economic issue that has to be addressed by the city and the School Board. He said people in the community will be able to see the RPS budget on the school system’s website, www.rvaschools.net.

The 1.5 percent hike in the Richmond meals tax will raise $9 million a year that will allow the city to borrow $150 million for the construction of four new school and renovation of several others during the next five years.

Another audience member asked if student achievement is a way to judge teacher performance. Mr. Kamras responded that student achievement is just one element in determining whether teachers are doing a good job. “The administration should look at an appropriate measure of student achievement as part of a larger picture when determining teacher performance,” he said.

He added that schools and teachers should see children growing and that there are appropriate and fair ways of measuring that growth.

An audience member questioned 3rd District School Board member Kenya Gibson, who attended the community meeting, about why she voted against hiring four new cabinet members for Mr. Kamras’ administration.

The vote, taken during the March 19 School Board meeting, resulted in a 5-4 approval of Mr. Kamras’ new hires.

Ms. Gibson said her concern was not about the new hires, but their salaries. Three of the four – the chief academic officer, the chief of schools and the chief of operations—will have annual salaries of $180,547, while the fourth, the chief engagement officer, will be paid $175,250 a year.

“I think that I am incredibly optimistic about what the board and the administration will be able to accomplish,” Ms. Gibson

told the questioner. “And I am not against the cabinet by any visible to motorists. measure, but I do think that the salaries are too high.”

“These are Public Works issues that affect the schools,” Mr. Kamras stated previously that the new cabinet structure Mr. Kamras said, adding that he will get the information to reduces the team from nine to six members, which will save RPS that city department as soon as possible so the issues can $200,000 annually. Those dollars, he said, will be redirected to be fixed. support RPS’ academic curriculum.

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Morrissey found to have violated a State Bar rule

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Attorney Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey moved a step closer this week to being disbarred for the second time in his legal career after a three-judge panel upheld one count of serious misconduct against him.

The panel, led by Chief Judge Paul W. Cella of the 11th Judicial Circuit that includes Petersburg, agreed Wednesday that the Virginia State Bar had presented “clear and convincing evidence” of violating a State Bar rule based on Mr. Morrissey’s 2013 conviction on a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a 17-year-old receptionist at his law office.

Mr. Morrissey, 60, has since married the young woman, Myrna Pride.

The violation involves the State Bar rule that provides sanctions for “committing a criminal or deliberately wrongful act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness to practice law.”

The panel’s finding followed testimony that began Monday from numerous witnesses on charges brought against Mr. Morrissey by the State Bar in the wake of the criminal case.

The panel, which also includes senior Judges Jonathan C. Thacher of Fairfax and Louis R. Lerner of Hampton, had not issued a decision by the Free Press deadline on Wednesday on any punishment they might mete out to Mr. Morrissey.

The panel has a range of options — from a reprimand to disbarment.

The panel is still hearing evidence on issues involving Mr. Morrissey at the John Marshall Courts Building near City Hall.

Mr. Morrissey, a former member of the the legal team that represented him during the House of Delegates and former city comcriminal case, including former state Attorney monwealth’s attorney, lost his license to General Anthony Troy, former Delegate Ward practice law in 2003. But it was reinstated Armstrong and James T. Maloney. six years ago by a divided state Supreme Ms. Corey, for example, had indicated the Court, which overruled objections from the State Bar would show that Mr. Morrissey had State Bar. orchestrated his defense during the criminal In the current proceeding, the bulk of the case and had presented false information in a State Bar’s charges involve Mr. Morrissey’s defense summary of that case when he accepted actions as a lawyer in dealing with the criminal the plea deal. charges that grew out of his relationship with On Tuesday, Mr. Troy, Mr. Armstrong and Ms. Pride that became public after her father Mr. Maloney cast doubt on the State Bar claims. filed a complaint.

In separate testimony, the three attorneys told Mr. Morrissey also is facing State Bar the judges that they ran the defense and develcomplaints concerning his representation of oped the defense summary that was presented two clients, including former Gov. L. Douglas to the court.

Wilder and the National Slavery Museum In his testimony, Mr. Troy made it clear that that Mr. Wilder was seeking to establish in the information included in the defense summary Fredericksburg. was presented to the Henrico court with the plea In her opening statement, State Bar atdeal on “a good-faith basis” and reflected the torney Christine Corey detailed a litany defense that would have been presented if the Mr. Morrissey of alleged lies and false documents Mr. case had gone to trial.

Morrissey presented in Henrico Circuit Court after he was Each of the attorneys also testified that they did not engage charged with felonies stemming from his sexual relationship in misconduct nor did they witness any misconduct on the with a minor. part of their client, Mr. Morrissey, as it involved the securing The case ended in a plea deal under which Mr. Morrissey of documents, the preparation of witnesses or any other facwas convicted of the misdemeanor of contributing to a minor’s ets of the criminal case, including the writing of the defense delinquency and served three months in jail. summary.

But the panel appeared less than impressed with much of That testimony led the panel to throw out other charges the the State Bar’s case after hearing testimony from members of State Bar had brought.

City introduces Living Wage Certification Program

By George Copeland Jr. Capital News Service

Richmond community and business leaders gathered last week at the Washington NFL team’s training center to celebrate and discuss efforts to ensure a living wage for workers.

In a room overlooking snow-covered training fields, the March 22 introduction of the Richmond Living Wage Certification Program was mostly an hour of food and celebration for those present.

Ten businesses and organizations — including Altria, the University of Richmond and the Better Housing Coalition — were recognized for going beyond the $7.25 minimum required by state and federal governments.

“Yes, jobs are important,” Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney told the gathering. “But jobs that are worked full time and still leave those workers below the poverty line may help a corporate bottom line, but it will not help someone up from the bottom.”

T h e Mayor Stoney living w a g e program, a joint project of Richm o n d ’s Office of Community Mr. Gordon We a l t h Building and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, is the first of its kind in the state.

Reggie Gordon, director of the wealth building office, stressed the importance of ensuring that workers are compensated enough to lead a full life with economic stability.

“It’s not an overstatement to say that the people employed by the companies recognized today have a better chance to succeed in this community,” Mr. Gordon said.

The Richmond initiative uses calculations from institutions including M.I.T. and the Economic Policy Institute to create a three-tier structure. The highest tier includes businesses that pay a minimum of at least $16 an hour, or $14.50 hourly with health care coverage.

Six of the honorees met that “Gold Star” standard. Employers who have pledged to pay a living wage but aren’t able to yet also were acknowledged.

Richmond Living Wage also encourages the public to patronize companies that pay a living wage.

While Mayor Stoney praised all involved, he lamented Virginia’s continuing adherence to the federal minimum wage, even as 29 states and the District of Columbia have raised their starting wages.

Mayor Stoney said Virginia’s adherence to the Dillon Rule, which prohibits localities from enacting policies that haven’t been authorized by the state, prevents Richmond from rais-

ing the minimum wage for all businesses and employers.

Citing his childhood in a “working poor” family and past experience in retail work, Mayor Stoney said, “Breaking

the cycle of generational poverty is the moral challenge of our time.”

He also noted his proposed biennial budget comes with measures to raise the living

wage for all city employees from the current $11.66. If adopted, the proposal would take effect in January. Richmond’s city government was certified at the event as a “Silver Star”

employer — $12.50 per hour or $11 with health care.

“Eleven dollars an hour is a good start,” Mayor Stoney said.

“But $16 an hour is an even greater difference maker.”

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From rally to power Who would have thought that in less than 15 days, I would have to coordinate and manage 1,000 young black student leaders from more than 24 cities on 17 buses in the name of gun reform and safety?

The reality is sometimes the work chooses you.

I started my new job one day before the mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. We have more than 650 active and registered NAACP chapters on high school and college campuses across the country. We are the only organization, period, that can reach that many black, young, organized members.

Since the Parkland shooting on Feb. 14, I have followed these students who have built a national discussion on the safety of young people at school in less than a month — a movement that inspires, convicts and recruits people from across the country and the world to an issue that black folks have been talking about for more than a decade.

When gun violence happens in white communities, it’s always reported as a mental issue or because they were racist.

When gun violence happens in the black community, it is because of poverty, underfunded schools, police brutality or gangs. This is necessary to understand because the solution we are fighting for can’t just be regulations against automatic military-style weapons. It has to be a holistic solution to make

Tiffany D. Loftin all communities safe.

The March for Our Lives is only a march for our lives if people meet at the intersection of mass school shootings, community violence, poverty, the War on Drugs, police brutality and white supremacy. From Trayvon Martin to Stephon Clark, this is not the first time we’ve raised the issues of gun violence. But for many reasons, this moment is where we find ourselves with the most leverage of “people power.”

When the opportunity presented itself for us to be involved and bring our NAACP members, I spoke with my boss and told him I would only sign up to help build the “March for Our Lives” if we got to do two things.

First, I wanted to make sure that we weren’t just being used as representation at the march, but that we challenged the mainstream media, march organizers and organizational partners to

think about the intersection of gun violence when it comes to the black community.

Second, it was important that this moment not turn into just another rally, but real opportunity for us to educate and engage future members about the organization.

Because a rally won’t end gun violence, I want my peers and young adults to make the clear connection from this issue to who should be held accountable for systemic and legislative change at the ballot box. That way, we know we showed up in numbers not just for a great rally, but for the start of a great revolution.

It is my belief that if all of the young folks from this march, the Women’s March, the immigration movement and Black Lives Matter joined together for a strategic effort, we could change this country literally overnight.

We must use this as a moment to help young black folks see that if we want real gun reform, if we want better public schools, if we want community policing, then we must show up at the ballot box. For the NAACP Youth and College Division, the demonstration is not a free trip to a rally. It is the moment that we are using to build real power that will impact the political navigation of this country.

Black students have the so-

Obama leadership still matters

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Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama did not go into seclusion and act like the rest of the world did not exist or impact them.

They have made very important appearances on issues and on occasions that really matter.

It was their last message that really shows what they are made of, and they received the kind of praise due real leadership. They’ve been called America’s favorite first couple.

No sensible person could rightly disagree with that.

Just a few days ago, they sent a message of gratitude to the students in Parkland, Fla., as the students, along with many others from across the nation, began their trip to the nation’s capital to express their opinions on gun control and what should be done about it.

They’ve brought on a true revolution on gun control.

They’ve turned around many politicians who were formerly immovable. They’ve been criticized by the usual suspects. But the good part is that the students are immovable in their position to make changes for their protection. They are rightly admired by many.

The Obamas have shown

them what true adult leadership and class look like in the following message: “To the students of Parkland — We wanted to let you know how inspired we have been by the resilience, resolve and solidarity that you have all shown in the

Dr. E. Faye Williams wake of unspeakable tragedy.

Not only have you supported and comforted each other, but you’ve helped awaken the conscience of the nation, and challenged decision-makers to make the safety of our children the country’s top priority.

Throughout our history, young people like you have led the way in making America better. There may be setbacks; you may sometimes feel like progress is too slow in coming. But we have no doubt you are going to make an enormous difference in the days and years to come, and we will be there for you.”

Barack Obama Michelle Obama There is no way the current White House occupants could top that. My good friend, the late Dick Gregory, often reminded us that the only president and first lady young people today have ever known were the Obamas.

They inspired a lot of young people to want to go into politics or public service.

When #45 finally leaves the White House, we are going to need these same young people to show the world what America really looks like. They will have quite a job to do to untangle the sorry state of where #45 has taken us in a few months. But just like the young civil rights workers who braved painful water hoses, vicious dogs and evil bigots, I believe young people today are showing us that they, too, are up to the challenge.

They grew up with eight years of inspiration and they are showing a lot of adults who do or say nothing when they see wrong what it’s like to be a leader. I am proud to say it was someone who looks like me who still is a great inspiration to all of us — especially to our young people.

By the time you read this, more than a half million young people and a lot of sensible adults will have marched on Washington and other locations around the nation to say that time is up for gun advocates who refuse to support sensible gun control.

A lot of individuals and groups will be actively registering new voters, and I have a feeling these young voters will have a lot to do with who represents them in the next city, county, state and national elections.

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

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lutions and the answers. We’re going to stop asking to be included in national movements and just take over.

I am grateful to all of the staff, the partners and our donors who have helped make this vision possible. We can only use this moment to create bigger and better local victories for our people.

Cheers to the strong and fearless students from every community who have ever stood up to violence in their communities. This march is a celebration of your leadership and a call to action for those looking to change the world.

The writer is director of the national NAACP Youth and College Division, which serves more than 700 youth councils, high school chapters and college chapters across the United States.

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RPS problems remain no matter who’s in office In 2008, I ran for the Richmond School Board. I had this crazy idea that I could fix the decades-long problems with Richmond Public Schools.

A plurality of my neighbors voted for another candidate who became part of the long line of School Board members who served for a term or less and then moved on to “more important stuff.” Had I been elected, would RPS have been significantly better today? My ego likes to say, “Yes.” My realistic side is not so sure.

At the time, I had one granddaughter at Linwood Holton Elementary School on North Side. Holton is one of the successful elementary schools in the city. It is successful because of a supportive principal and because the middle class residents of the district decided they would make the school work for their children. A second granddaughter enrolled at Holton three years later.

But no matter how good Holton is, it is only available through fifth grade. After that, if you live where my granddaughters live, you go to Henderson Middle School. Henderson had a bad reputation as a middle school. Further, when my wife volunteered to help a Henderson teacher with her lessons, she found a school with zero discipline and students with no respect for adults or other children. So my daughter and son-in-law decided to go the private school route. They put my older granddaughter in

Orchard House School. I still don’t understand how they found the tuition money.

Move ahead four years. My older granddaughter is about to graduate from Orchard House, and it’s déjà vu all over again.

Now, I am told that John Marshall, the neighborhood high school, will not provide the quality high school education my granddaughter needs.

Richmond has two special high school programs — Open and Richmond Community high schools. They have been noted nationally. But they have a significant problem: The enrollment for each is only about 200 students. Whether or not my granddaughter is admitted to one of those programs, or my family has to leave the city to find the quality education my granddaughter deserves, is still up in the air.

That RPS provides such small arks to save so many students is a symptom of the lack of care for public education that has been demonstrated by most of Richmond’s leaders for a long time.

Most of Richmond’s children are of color and come from families who cannot afford to move outside the city to seek better educational opportunities. They are what I call “captive students.” The high school for these children will most likely be one of Richmond’s five main high schools, none of which is fully accredited by the state Department of Education.

Armstrong, George Wythe, Huguenot, Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall have many of the problems that are experienced by other urban high schools in the nation. I am convinced that a significant number of students forced to enroll in those five schools is not receiving the quality education to which they are entitled.

What is most frustrating is, regardless of who is elected to the School Board, who is hired as superintendent and who is selected as administrators at these schools, the situation seems to stay the same.

What should most upset us are the students who are suffering.

As I wrote in 2013, we must not forget that RPS is not about SOL scores or about accreditation or about graduation rates. RPS is about students. These students are people, not statistics. When our scores drop, we must not forget that individual students are not receiving the quality education that we promised them. When our graduation rates are low, we must remember that individual students are being deprived.

How many students do you think RPS has failed to provide with a quality education since 2008?

BERT BERLIN Henrico County

Pointing Va. can choose better the finger in path on carbon pollution school shootings

Re “Walkout: City students join Wednesday’s national demonstration for tougher gun laws on one-month anniversary of Florida high school massacre,” Free Press March 15-17 edition: The school shooting in Florida is an overwhelming event. Unfortunately, it has become our “normal.”

We, as a society, are looking to push the blame on something or someone. We’re blaming everyone except ourselves.

We say they took prayer out of school, but there’s a moment of silence.

We say they took God out of school, but what about the people who confess to be Christians?

We continue to point the finger at the gun makers. Don’t get me wrong: I think the age should be 21 to buy

At a recent public hearing held by the state Department of Environmental Quality, one concerned citizen said the following about acting on climate: “We have been kicking this can down the road so long that we have run out of road.”

This sentiment accurately reflects the pressing nature of lowering greenhouse gas emissions in Virginia.

Fortunately, the Commonwealth now can be a leader on climate action.

Currently, DEQ is considering regulations that would reduce carbon emissions from power plants. As a part of this regulatory process, the department held a series of public hearings, including ones in Richmond, Roanoke and Abington. These regulations, associated with Executive Directive 11, were first introduced last May by former Gov. Terry McAuliffe. By issuing this directive, Virginia became the first Southern state to address the correlation between carbon emissions and global warming. Furthermore, Virginia took a critical step forward on climate during a time when the federal government continues to dismantle core environmental protections.

an assault rifle.

But there’s life and death in the tongue way before any notion of getting a gun. We have a problem accepting people who are not like ourselves. We’ve stripped men of their history. We’re raised a nation of sociopaths who have no regard for their fellow man.

The unseen world is more powerful than the seen world. We need to teach and apply the fruit of one spirit — love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.

How do we kill an idea? We kill an old idea with a new idea.

CLIFFTON O. WILLIAMS JR. Richmond

DEQ’s regulations would allow Virginia to link with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multistate carbon market that reduces carbon pollution though cap-and-trade. By linking with RGGI, Virginia could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 30 percent by 2030. This figure represents the minimum action required to avoid a devastating level of global warming.

We have reached the end of this road, but Virginia can choose the better path on carbon. The Commonwealth must move forward with state-level solutions to climate change. Virginians should share their support for climate action and ensure these regulations are enacted.

The DEQ is still taking public comments until April 9. People can submit their comments through email to ghg@deq.virginia.gov.

BEKURA W. SHABAZZ BRANCH Chesterfield County The writer is a field organizer with the Virginia Conservation Network.

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Loyola Ramblers like ‘The Little Engine that Could’ in NCAA Final Four

This year’s NCAA Final Four could be billed “Three powerful locomotives and The Little Engine that Could.”

Kansas, Villanova and Michigan are Final Four regulars, while Loyola University -Chicago seems misplaced, like it has arrived at this idyllic destination by accident after somehow taking a fortunate wrong train on the “L.” Kansas, Villanova and Michigan feature big-time recruits, many of whom figure to soon cash in on NBA stardom.

Meanwhile, the face of the Loyola’s Ramblers might be its 98-year-old chaplain, sweetheart and goodwill ambassador, Sister Jean Delores Schmidt, the nun who has become a magnet for TV cameras.

It has been an uphill climb, for sure, for these underdogs from the Windy City.

You could almost hear the 11th-seeded Ramblers repeating, “I think I can, I think I can” en route to upsetting Miami, Tennessee, Nevada and Kansas State.

Along the way, the lovable Chicagoans have captured hearts and busted brackets — even Sister Jean’s — from Lake Superior to distant points in all directions. Even Sister Jean had the Ramblers losing in the Sweet 16.

Kansas and Villanova (their region’s top seeds) and Michigan (No. 3) arrived amid the southern Texas cactus in convincing fashion, living up to their lofty seeding.

Loyola’s emergence comes at an ideal juncture for a wonderful sport that has been smudged with corruption.

In late February, the FBI released an upset-

Final Four facts What: NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Where: Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas Semifinals: Saturday, March 31 — South Region winner Loyola University-Chicago vs.

West Region winner University of Michigan, 6:09 p.m.; Midwest Region winner University of Kansas vs. East Region winner Villanova University, 8:49 p.m.

Final: Monday, April 2, 9:20 p.m.

Broadcast: TBS television; Westwood One radio

ting report implicating 20 noted schools with serious charges, including cash payments and advances to players, illicit entertainment and all forms of recruiting violations.

Last year’s champ, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, while unpunished by the NCAA, admitted offering bogus classes to athletes.

By contrast, the Ramblers seem as pure as a toddler’s first Big Wheel.

That doesn’t mean they can’t run over you, though.

Remember theAlamo: The NCAAis returning to the scene of the 2011 Final Four where two upstarts — Butler and Virginia Commonwealth

University — met in the semifinals. VCU in 2011, George Mason in 2006 and Louisiana State University in 1986 join Loyola as the lone 11th seeds getting this far.

So close, so far: Michigan is in the Final Four while VCU has missed the Big Dance for first time in eight years. However, on Nov. 22 in Maui, Hawaii, VCU led the Wolverines 60-57 with 1:59 to play. Michigan rallied to prevail 68-60.

VCU-Loyola: The Rams and the Ramblers have one common player, the late Charles Chambliss. From New York City, Chambliss played with Loyola in 1965-66 and for VCU in 1969-70.

Conference heavyweights: Michigan (Big 10), Villanova (Big East) and Kansas (Big 12)

represent hoops royalty. Meanwhile, the Missouri Valley Conference (depleted by losses of Wichita and Creighton) has just one NCAA title — that claimed by Loyola in 1963.

Hail Mary: Should Loyola and Villanova meet Monday, it would mark the first all Catholic final since Villanova defeated Georgetown for the title in 1984.

Former Catholic school champions are Holy Cross in 1947, LaSalle (1954), San Francisco (1955-1956), Loyola (1963), Marquette (1977), Georgetown (1984) and Villanova (2016).

Gonzaga, a Catholic school in Seattle, lost to UNC in last year’s NCAA final in Glendale, Ariz.

Local connection: While there are no area players in San Antonio, Michigan coach John Beilein is familiar to Richmonders, having coached the University of Richmond Spiders from 1997 to 2001, posting a 100-53 record.

ACC-you later: The Atlantic Coast Conference received a whopping nine bids to The Big Dance. With Duke’s defeat, all will be sitting this one out in San Antonio.

Burger and fries: The nation’s top high school players congregate each spring for the annual McDonald’s All-American Game. Only players headed to traditional powerhouses typically play in this showcase.

This year, Kansas has three signees invited; Villanova, two; and regional finalist Duke, four.

Loyola, as usual, has none.

“We don’t get McDonald’s All-Americans,” Loyola Coach Porter Moser told the media in Atlanta. “But our guys eat at McDonald’s.”

Monacan’s Walker continues winning ways with UConn

Shontel Linnette

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VUU’s Linnette has game, but looks to call games, too

Shontel Linnette excels at any location on the softball diamond – pitching, catching, infield, outfield, and certainly in the right-handed batter’s box.

And if there was another position called “broadcasting booth,” the Virginia Union University senior would likely be All-CIAA material for that, too.

On the Lombardy Street campus, Linnette is a softball star and mass communications major, and not necessarily in that order as diploma time nears.

In just a few months, the right-hander known as “Tel” and “Telly” hopes to exchange her Easton bat and well-worn glove for a microphone.

“I prefer TV and hope to be a broadcaster for ESPN or CBS news,” she said. “But if a radio opportunity comes along, I’ll be glad to take it.”

First things first, however.

For the time being, Linnette wears No. 14 (because she graduated from Norfolk’s Booker T. Washington High in 2014) for Coach Sharika Joynes’ Panthers.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more eager and versatile athlete than the 5-foot-4 Linnette, who is listed on the roster as “pitcher/utility.”

That’s an understatement.

“Of all the girls I’ve coached starting in 2010, Shontel is the only one who can play all nine positions,” said Coach Joynes.

“And she can play all nine on a 10 (meaning on scale of 1 to 10). In fact she’s more like a 20.”

There’s ample evidence supporting that glowing claim.

Let’s start with offense.

Hitting cleanup (fourth), she was batting a resounding .571 through March 25 for the 6-5 Panthers.

You want power? Outfielders beware. Of her 16 hits, four have cleared the fences for four bases each. She also has 15 runs batted in.

The numbers may actually be higher. No individual statistics are available from VUU’s 11-7

and 8-7 victories at Bluefield State to start the season.

As for pitching, it would seem her arm is made of flesh and bone and perhaps a bit of rubber, considering her durability.

On March 3, in Cary, N.C., Linnette threw three complete games in the same day (facing 91 batters) against West Virginia State, Bluefield State and Mount Olive.

“I iced my arm after each game. I was sore but it was OK,” she said. “I used to pitch two or three games in the same day during travel ball.”

Turns out she was just warming up. On March 17 at Elizabeth City State during the CIAA Roundup, Linnette whiffed 19 batters in 12 innings against Johnson C. Smith and Livingstone.

Mixing a 60-plus mile per hour heater with a change-up and what Coach Joynes calls a “crazy screwball,” she has collected 47 strikeouts in 48 innings with a 4.34 earned run average.

A screwball breaks opposite a normal curve — meaning it curls in on a right-handed hitter.

“Our catchers have had a problem of jamming their thumbs trying to catch it,” said Coach Joynes.

Linnette’s glove can go anywhere, but if she isn’t pitching, she is likely behind the plate wearing catcher’s gear when teammate Breana Miller toes the slab.

The versatile Panther inherited her softball spirit from parents Christina and Demetrius Linnette, who coached her throughout her youth career.

Later, her mom was coach at Booker T. Washington where Shontel earned All-Conference honors.

If Linnette isn’t involved with softball at VUU, you might find her across Lombardy Street, auditioning, of sorts, at the Mass Comm Lab located in the L. Douglas Wilder Library.

It’s one thing to play a great game. It’s something else to call one. “Tel” plans on doing both.

It’s understandable if Megan Walker has forgotten what losing feels like.

The University of Connecticut basketball freshman is riding a personal 89-game winning streak, counting her final two state championship seasons at Monacan High.

The 6-foot-1 guard hopes to extend the good fortune in the upcoming NCAA Women’s Final Four in Columbus, Ohio.

Walker, wearing jersey No. 3, is generally second reserve off the bench for a Huskies outfit that will face Notre Dame on Friday, March 30, in the semifinals at 9 p.m.

Contributing to the nation’s premier program – 11 NCAA titles since 1995 – Walker averages 5.9 points and 3.3 rebounds for the American Athletic Conference powerhouse.

Her 15.5 minutes per game is seventh among the Huskies.

Welcome to Columbus!

What: NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four Where: Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio Semifinals: Friday, March 30 – University of Louisville vs. Mississippi State University, 7 p.m.; University of Connecticut vs. University of Notre Dame, 9 p.m.

Finals: Sunday, April 1, 6 p.m.

Broadcast: ESPN TV

Ve t e r a n c o a c h Geno Auriemma doesn’t dole out playing time easily.

Despite a season-long string of blowout victories, only seven Huskies average as much as 10 minutes per contest.

During UConn’s Megan Walker recent NCAA cakewalk through the Albany Regional, Walker had 19 points in 25 minutes in the 140-52 pasting of St. Francis, Pa. But then she had no points in 10 minutes in a 71-46 win over Quinnipiac and two points in nine minutes in a 72-59 victory against Duke.

In UConn’s 94-65 rout of South Carolina in the region final, Walker got two points and four rebounds in 12 minutes.

On just about any other team in America, she’d be logging 20 minutes plus per night.

The prized freshman showed what she could do when given more opportunity.

On Jan. 22, with All-American Katie Lou Samuelson sidelined with an injury, Walker collected 22 points, six rebounds and five assists in 32 minutes against Temple.

Playing time should open up for Walker next season as starters Kia Nurse and Gabby Williams are graduating seniors.

Walker’s winning streak, spread over three seasons with two schools on two

levels, might be historic.

As a Monacan High School senior last winter, she led the Chiefs to a 30-0 season, concluding with a State 4A championship victory over King Fork at the Siegel Center.

The last time one of Walker’s teams lost was Dec. 23, 2015, to Highland Springs in a holiday tournament, also at the Siegel Center.

Monacan rallied to win its last 23 games during the 2015-16 campaign.

So if you add 23 wins to close 2016 with the 30 straight victories last year and 36 more this go-round, that’s 89 games without suffering the bitter taste of defeat.

Walker was generally considered the No. 1 high school prospect in the nation a year ago, and it was common to see UConn Coach Luigi “Geno” Auriemma, as well as a bevy of other college coaches, scouting her games.

Monacan won the State 4A titles Walker’s sophomore, junior and senior seasons. Prior to that, Walker led Manchester Middle School to an undefeated season in 2013.

Although UConn has dominated women’s hoops in recent years, it is not the defending champion for a change.

The Huskies were upset in stunning overtime fashion by Mississippi State in last year’s NCAA semifinals.

So many of UConn’s women do know what losing feels like as a Huskie, even if Walker doesn’t.

Robinson works to get Armstrong on track As a teenage athlete, Valentino Robinson ranked with top shot put/discus throwers now are involved with offseason weight high hurdlers in Virginia. lifting or 7-on-7 competition and don’t go out for track.

Now as coach, he faces a different type of hurdle.

Basketball players who might be premier jumpers and hurThe first-year Armstrong High track and field head coach dlers are often too focused on AAU travel hoops to make time shares a problem common to inner-city schools. He has a few for track. quality performers, for sure, like seniors Jordin Poindexter and “We’d sure like to get more of the football and basketball Kendra Scott. But he would much prefer quality plus quantity players,” Coach Robinson said. “If they were to run track, they’d on the Wildcats’ roster. find out it helps them get in better “Kids don’t come out like shape for their primary sport. they used to. Our goal is to try “Also, you might take an averand change that by advertising age football player and turn them more, circulating fliers, pushing into a track champion.” the history of the sport,” said The current Wildcats are short Coach Robinson, who succeeded on numbers but long on accoTim Crossin. lades.

Coach Robinson’s outdoor Poindexter won the State 3A squad of just 10 boys and four indoor title at 55-meter hurdles this girls could practically fit inside past winter, was third in the triple a minivan for away meets. jump and fifth in the 300.

“It’s hard to get a kid to Scott was second at states in buy into track,” said Robinson. the 55-meter hurdles.

“They’ll come out for a few days, Also at states, Poindexter, see how hard it is … then they Tye’shawn Steward, Tim Moore disappear.” and Chris Wilkins placed third in Some history is in order. the 4-x-200 relay.

Coach Robinson, known as Kendra Scott’s older sister, “Tino,” won several Central Re- Coach Valentino Robinson, right, with senior Kaitlin, is a former Wildcats’ gion indoor and outdoor hurdling standouts Jordin Poindexter and Kendra Scott. standout now competing at Hamptitles competing for Coach Jim ton University.

Holdren at Thomas Jefferson High (Class of 1978).

“Kaitlin is one we’re trying to use as an example,” Coach He posted TJ record times of 7.1 for the 60-yard high hurdles Robinson said. “Her success in winning a scholarship shows (equivalent now to the 55 meters) indoors and 13.6 for the 120- what track can do for you.” yard highs (equivalent to the 110 meters).

Coach Robinson isn’t on his first coaching rodeo.

Coach Robinson went on to run at Bakersfield College, He served for nine years as a Wildcats assistant before CrosCalif., and helped University of Kansas to a Big 8 Conference sin left to coach at Appomattox High. crown in 1982.

Coach Robinson was never one to let grass grow under his feet At the time he was hurdling for TJ, there were at least 50 ath- as an athlete, and he remains a hard man to keep pace with. letes, male and female combined, competing for the Vikings.

In addition to serving as AHS head coach for cross county, indoor “We had big squads,” Coach Robinson recalled. “Track and outdoor track, he works two jobs as a floor technician. was a more popular sport then … attracted lots of football and As for recruiting track and field candidates, Coach Robinson basketball players.” adds one more selling point: Times have changed.

“In most sports, kids get cut. We don’t cut anyone. No one Many football players who might shine as sprinters, jumpers or sits the bench. Everyone gets to compete.”

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Spotlight on chair of The Charmettes’ annual prayer brunch Cancer does not discriminate. Age, race, ethnicity and economic background don’t matter, Frances K. Scott has learned.

Her mother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that causes cancer cells to accumulate in the bone marrow. Ms. Scott says it was a shock to her family because “we thought she had a cold when we took her to the doctor.”

Her mother lived two years past diagnosis, dying in 1993.

Since then, Ms. Scott has been dedicated to educating herself about cancer so that she can inform others. She joined the Richmond Metropolitan Chapter of The Charmettes, Inc. a women’s organization committed to improving the quality of life within the Richmond community through advocacy, education, service and support for cancer research.

Ms. Scott is chair of the chapter’s annual Women of Faith Praying for a Cure Prayer Brunch slated for Saturday, April 14, at the Fifth Baptist Church Family Life Center.

Proceeds from the fundraising event will be used by the chapter to buy wigs for cancer patients, provide mammograms, host community forums, support cancer research efforts and provide support and activities for children and families fighting cancer.

“Cancer is a disease that we believe, through prayer, financial support and research, will be eradicated in our lifetime,” says Ms. Scott, a recent retiree who also serves as secretary for The Charmettes chapter. “ N a t i o n a l l y, T h e Charmettes have contributed over $600,000 to the Howard University Cancer Center,” she says.

The Charmettes are poised to welcome their 20th chapter this summer at their national convention in Tampa, Fla. The Richmond Metropolitan Chapter, founded in March 1991, is the only Virginia chapter.

Currently, the local chapter has 22 members who work hard to make an impact in the Richmond community. They support and participate in various program sponsored by the American Cancer Society, including the Sisters Network Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk and Community Outreach and the ASK Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic at VCU Medical Center, which provides health care to children with cancer.

The Richmond Metropolitan Chapter also organizes several community health forums, some of which target men.

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Family: I am the proud mother of three children, Crescendo, Gayle Jr., and Kara. I also have eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. scheduled doctors’ exams. If there is anything that is not working correctly and you feel something is not right, go to the doctor. Don’t be afraid.”

To ensure the involvement of the next generation, the Richmond Metropolitan Chapter of The Charmettes established the Junior Charmettes, composed of middle school girls who help distribute pamphlets and other information about the early detection of cancer and preventive measures at shopping centers and various events.

To further their understanding of the mission and goals of the organization, Ms. Scott says, “We take the Junior Charmettes to Howard University to show them the infusion center that was named after one of our founders, Gwendolyn B. Rodgers.”

Meet health advocate and this week’s Personality, Frances K. Scott: No. 1 volunteer position today: Chair, Women of Faith Praying For A Cure Prayer Brunch sponsored by the Richmond Metropolitan Chapter of The Charmettes. Also, I serve as secretary for the chapter.

Occupation: Retired from SunTrust Mortgage in December 2017.

What I do: At this time, I am caring for my youngest greatgranddaughter and continuing my work with Cub Scout Pack 487 at Fifth Baptist Church for more than 40 years.

Date and place of birth: Richmond in 1950.

Current residence: Richmond.

Education: Graduate of Maggie L. Walker High School; associate degree in computer operation, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.

When and why I became involved with Richmond Metropolitan Chapter of The Charmettes: I became involved with The Charmettes in 2004 because cancer had invaded my family.

So I decided to join to become educated about cancer and able to inform others.

Why I am excited about this organization: We have the ability to reach into our communities by informing people about taking care of themselves through good nutrition, exercise, yearly checkups and education.

Brief profile of membership: Must be a high school graduate, at least 21 years old, of good moral character and with community involvement.

How I’ll feel when prayer brunch is over: I will feel great with the accomplishments that my committee and chapter made with bringing hope to someone in attendance who was touched with a prayer for healing.

How I start the day: Thanking the Lord for another day and preparing a cup of coffee.

A perfect day for me is: Every day is a perfect day.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: My kids say I get on their nerves.

A quote that I am inspired by: “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.”

How I unwind: Watching HGTV and Hallmark movies.

Hobbies: Camping and bowling.

Three words that best describe me: Loving, caring and demanding.

The top of my “to-do” list is: Live each day as it comes.

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Richmond Crusade for Voters to honor founders, civil rights lawyers The Richmond Crusade for Voters will salute its founders and two civil rights lawyers as it marks its 52nd year with a “Legend and Leaders” luncheon at noon Saturday, March 31, at Cedar Street Baptist Church of God, 2301 Cedar St., it has been announced.

The Crusade will honor the trio that launched the organization in 1956 — Dr. William Ferguson Reid and the late Dr. William S. Thornton and the late John M. Brooks.

Former State Sen. Henry L. Marsh III and his late law partner, Oliver W. Hill Sr., also will be recognized for the major role they played in knocking down segregation barriers through action in the courts, the Crusade stated.

Speakers will include Dr. John W. Kinney, a professor and former dean of Virginia Union University’s School of Theology, and Sa’ad El-Amin, president of a legal consulting firm and a former member of Richmond City Council.

The Crusade was created to push African-American participation in politics and fight back against the state’s Massive Resistance to school desegregation.

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Happenings MLK Middle School cheerleaders win national competition Winners.

That’s the new title for the cheerleaders at Richmond’s Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

The team captured first place in their division in the National Stomp-NShake Cheer & Dance Championships on March 17 at North Carolina A&T State University.

Led by its captain, Armoni Stokes, and co-captains Moeneja Miller and Toniyah Ross, the team won in the non-stunt division for middle school students, according to Power Spirit, which staged the competition at the campus in Greensboro, N.C. The Richmond school’s cheering squad bested teams from the two other schools that competed.

“I’m so proud of our squad,” said Loretta Watson, a science teacher who doubles as the cheerleading coach. She has been coaching cheerleaders for 23 years, starting first at East End Middle School and continuing at Martin Luther

King Jr. Middle after East End and Mosby middle schools merged to form the school a few years ago.

Ms. Watson said this was the team’s first trip to a competition and credited the support of Principal Inett Dabney with making it happen.

Ms. Watson said the team raised more than $3,500 from hosting dances and selling popcorn, candy bars and other items to cover the entry fees, the cost of a bus and food.

The team has 17 participants, but only 12 went on the trip, Ms. Watson said.

“It was a little tougher for us. We fell short of our fundraising goal so we had to travel there on Saturday rather than being able to stay overnight. But our girls were ready when it came to cheering.”

Along with the captain and cocaptains, the winning team also included Margie Archie, Victoria Bernah, Kanek Booker, Jahnise Goody, Nysia Harris, Shamiyah Miller, Chynna Terry, Nadia Washington and Jayla Watkins.

Photo courtesy of Loretta Watson

Members of the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School cheerleading squad are ready for competition at North Carolina A&T State University, in Greensboro, where their performance won a national title.

Easter festivals ‘Black Panther’ continues to smash box office records this weekend in Richmond

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The box office hit “Black Panther” is now the top grossing superhero film of all time in the United States.

The wildly popular Disney and Marvel release achieved the milestone on Saturday after surpassing fellow Marvel title “The Avengers.”

It finished Sunday with $630.9 million in box office sales, putting it at No. 5 on the all-time list. It is one of only seven films ever to earn $600 million or more domestically.

Director Ryan Coogler’s film has shattered numerous milestones since opening Feb. 16.

Globally, “Black Panther” crossed the $1 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales. It finished Sunday with $1.237 billion in ticket sales, surpassing “Iron Man 3” at $1.214 billion.

The movie, which cost $200 million to make before marketing, was a bold move on the part of Disney and Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige.

“Black Panther” is unprecedented in being a big budget studio film featuring a predominately black cast. Chadwick Boseman stars as T’Challa, the Black Panther, alongside Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan and Angela Bassett.

The story follows T’Challa as he is sworn in as king of Wakanda, a cloistered but technologically advanced African nation that is home to the metal vibranium, the source of the Black Panther’s powers.

Stage play ‘Malcolm, Martin, Medgar’ to be presented Saturday at VUU A production of “Malcolm, X and another assassinated civil Martin, Medgar” will be staged rights leader, Medgar Evers. at Virginia Union University’s The show will feature the three Coburn Hall at 4 p.m. Saturday, key figures from the civil rights era March 31, in recognition of the talking about their struggles, the 50th anniversary of the assasimpact of their work on their famisination of Dr. Martin Luther lies and the challenges they faced, King Jr. according to a news release.

The show, written and proThe VUU Fine Arts DepartMr. Bailey duced by author A. Peter Bailey, ment is joining with the Richwill be a dramatic stage reading involving Dr. mond, Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico King, slain Nation of Islam leader Malcolm branches of the NAACP and the Virginia

Alliance Against Mass Incarceration to present the program.

Dr. King was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., where he had gone to support striking trash collectors seeking better working conditions.

Mr. Bailey, formerly a Free Press columnist, will be on hand for the program and plans to sign copies of his works.

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After a long winter, cherry blossoms are making their seasonal debut as the days slowly get warmer. Easter activities are just a hop away.

Two annual Richmond Easter festivals will take place this weekend — the Dominion Family Easter at Maymont and Easter on Parade on Monument Avenue.

Crafts, games, music and entertainment for all ages will be featured from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 31, on the carriage house lawn at Maymont’s Family Easter celebration, 1700 Hampton St. Youngsters also can enjoy face painting, bonnet making, inflatables and a life-sized “Candyland.” There also will be an egg-on-a-spoon obstacle course, guessing the number of jelly beans on display, storytelling, a golden egg hunt and a variety of performers.

Admission is free, with tickets required for some activities.

Tickets are $2.

Food vendors will be on site and tours of the Dooley Mansion will be available from 11:30 Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Suggested Laniyah Massenburg, 3, wears donation: $5. an ornate Easter bonnet made Details: www.maymont.org from balloons at the 2017 Easter on Parade celebration or (804) 358-7166.

From 1 to 5 p.m. on Easter along Monument Avenue.

Sunday, April 1, people can Balloon art and bonnet making show off their bonnets and Eas- are among the activities ter finery at the annual Easter featured in this year’s event Sunday, April 1. on Parade.

More than 25,000 people annually enjoy the festivities along Monument Avenue between Davis and Allen avenues. The street will be closed to vehicles for people to enjoy music, food, dancers, stilt walkers, balloon artistry, activities and a petting zoo.

The pet bonnet showcase is at 3 p.m., while the hat show for people will be at 4 p.m. at the Zayde R. Dotts Main Stage at Allen Avenue.

The event is free.

Details: www.venturerichmond.com.

1951 Armstrong High time capsule to be opened Saturday The Armstrong High School Alumni Coalition will open a time capsule that was found during the demolition of the former school building on 31st Street in the East End.

According to organizers, the time capsule was placed in the building’s cornerstone in 1951.

The alumni coalition will host a ceremony to open the capsule at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 31,

at the current Armstrong High School building, 2300 Cool Lane.

The public is invited to the ceremony, which also marks the coalition’s initial efforts to keep

alive the memory of the former Armstrong High School.

Details: Dennis Harvey, chair of the coalition board, (804) 232-6897.

Gospel music stars shine at 33rd Stellar Awards ceremony Free Press wire report

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A chain catshark checks out its new home at the Robins Nature & Visitor Center at Maymont. It was one of a pair of catsharks — along with 10 shark embryos still in their egg sacs, left, called “mermaid’s purses” — that were introduced to the public on March 22. The sharks, known for their striking patterned coloration, rarely grow to more than 18 inches. They are native to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean along the Virginia coast. The new additions will be used in Maymont’s lessons by environmental educators on animal adaptations in the James River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

LAS VEGAS Gospel singer, composer and choir director James “JJ” Hairston was the top winner last weekend at the 33rd Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, winning six awards.

Travis Greene won the Artist of the Year award, while Tasha Cobb Leonard won the Albertina Walker Female Vocalist of the Year award. Each won a total of four awards.

The ceremony, held last Saturday at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, included mainstream musical acts Snoop Dogg and Tori Kelly, as well as a reunion by the sister duo Mary Mary. Kirk Franklin hosted the awards show.

The Stellar Awards honor gospel music artists, writers and other industry professionals for their Tasha Cobb Leonard contributions to the field.

JJ Hairston & the Youthful Praise won Song of the Year for “You Deserve It,” and also Praise and Worship CD of the Year for the album of the same name.

WFMI Rejoice 100.9 FM in Virginia Beach won the Gospel Radio Station of the Year award for medium markets.

The station, under Mike Chandler, CEO of the REJOICE! Musical Soul Food Gospel Radio Network, also broadcasts

to North Carolina.

Mr. Chandler won a Stellar Award in 2017 for Gospel Announcer of the Year for his nationally syndicated morning show Mike Chandler & Friends, and the station also was nominated last year for Radio Station of the Year.

Other major awards went to actress-singer-songwriter Tamela Mann, the James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award; the late Bishop Kenneth H. Moales Sr., founder of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bridgeport, Conn., and former president of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, the Thomas A. Dorsey Most Notable Achievement Award; singer-songwriter and producer Milton Biggham, executive director of Savoy Records, the Bobby Jones Legend Award; and the late gospel musician Edwin Hawkins, JJ Hairston one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound, the Icon Award.

Former pro basketball player Ben Tankard, known as the godfather of gospel jazz, and Dr. Marabeth Gentry Kurt Carr, president of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, were inducted into the Stellar Honors Hall of Fame.

The awards are to premiere Friday, March 30, on TV One and will be syndicated on other networks through May.

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Holy Week underway; Passover begins Friday Free Press wire reports

VATICAN CITY Christians around the world are marking Holy Week, the solemn time retracing the story of the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday.

Palm Sunday processions in cities and town around the world on March 25 signified the start of Holy Week, with the faithful clutching simple palm fronds and olive branches to commemorate Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, only to be followed later by his death on a wooden cross.

At the Vatican, Pope Francis and cardinals in red robes led a Palm Sunday procession after Mass through the throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square, followed by the papal blessing of palm fronds and olive branches.

The pope concluded by greeting the faithful in St. Peter’s Square, getting out of the popemobile to shake hands as many cheered and took photographs.

During his message, Pope Francis urged young people not to be silent and let their voices be heard, even in the face of corrupt or silent elders.

Bessie Banks, an usher at Riverview Baptist Church in Richmond’s West His message came on the heels of a meeting of hands Peter Rawlins a palm after the service on Palm Sunday. young Catholics who told the Vatican they want a more transparent and authentic church, and a day after hundreds and make them invisible. …There are many ways to sedate them, of thousands marched in youth-led rallies across the United to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive. ” States to demand gun control.

But he told youths in his homily that “you have it in you to “The temptation to silence young people has always existed,” Pope Francis said. “There are many ways to silence young people shout,” even if “we older people and leaders, very often cor-

rupt, keep quiet.”

Pope Francis urged youths to join those who offer praise and not the masses calling for crucifixion.

“Dear young people, the joy that Jesus awakens in you is a source of anger and irritation to some, since a joyful person is hard to manipulate,” the pontiff said.

Some 300 youths meeting at the Vatican prepared a document for next October’s synod of bishops focusing on ways to help youths better find their way in the church. The document, which was presented to Pope Francis on Sunday, asked church leaders to address the unequal roles of women in the church and how technology is abused.

Before his traditional Sunday prayer at the end of Mass, the pope recalled the importance of World Youth Day, marked this year on Palm Sunday at a diocesan level rather than as a big international gathering.

The pope’s message also resonated with the Saturday protests across the United States for tougher laws to fight gun violence, a movement galvanized Ava Reaves by the school shooting last month in Parkland, Fla., End, that left 17 people dead.

Passover, one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays, begins this year on Friday, March 30. It commemorates the Exodus story in which God delivered the Israelites from slavery to freedom.

The festival is marked by a ritual meal called the seder, where Jews gather around the dinner table to retell the biblical story using a guide with Scripture texts, commentaries and songs.

Passover is celebrated for eight days. This year it lasts until sundown on Saturday, April 7.

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Journalist Les Payne, a founder of NABJ, dies at 76 NEW YORK Les Payne, an intrepid Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who helped pave the way for another generation of African-American journalists as one of the founders and a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, died on Monday, March 19, 2018. He was 76.

His long career as a newspaper reporter took him from the poppy fields of Turkey to the Soweto uprising in South Africa to the streets of American cities.

He worked for nearly four decades at Newsday on Long Island, N.Y., rising through the ranks from reporter to associate managing editor. He oversaw foreign and national coverage, was an editor of New York Newsday, the paper’s Manhattan ediMr. Payne tion, and wrote a column.

Mr. Payne wrote about racial injustices, including illegally segregated schools in the South and redlining by real estate agents in suburban New York.

He also was the first reporter to fully report an account in 1987 by the boyfriend of New York teen Tawana Brawley that her allegation of being raped by four white men in upstate New York was a hoax. The incident in which Ms. Brawley was defended initially by the Rev. Al Sharpton created a national uproar at the time.

Mr. Payne was part of a Newsday reporting team that won journalism’s top prize, the Pulitzer Prize, in 1974 in public service for a 33-part series, “The Heroin Trail,” which traced narcotics from the source in Turkey to U.S. streets.

He retired from Newsday in 2006.

“Les Payne spent almost four decades at Newsday establishing a standard of journalistic excellence that has been a beacon

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As a minister’s daughter, Annie Marie Turner Giles felt driven to help others overcome problems and challenges in the Whitcomb Court public housing community in the city’s East End. In the five decades she lived in Whitcomb Court, Mrs. Giles became the community’s “mother” as she volunteered and advocated to make the public housing community a better place.

The Richmond native pushed to ensure residents registered and voted, had enough to eat, secured the education they needed and worked with others to improve public safety.

When her granddaughter wasn’t accepted into an early childhood development program, she started her own — the ParentTot Program — that served her family and others and ended up being adopted in six other public housing communities before funding problems brought it to an end.

Mrs. Giles’ life and contributions are being remembered following her death Friday, March 23, 2018. She was 81. She had left Whitcomb Court and was living with a daughter at the time of her death.

Family and friends will celebrate her life at noon Saturday, March 31, at Gospel Baptist Church, 2317 Harvie Road in Henrico County, the church her parents founded.

In January 2017, City Hall recognized her service by posting honorary street signs bearing her name in Whitcomb Court. Last May, City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, led a celebration of Mrs. Giles’ life, and City Council also honored her with a community service award.

“I have always been involved in advocacy for children, families and the elderly

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in East End Richmond,” Mrs. Giles stated in a Free Press Personality feature published before the May recognition event.

Mrs. Giles credited her parents’ influence for the role she sought to play in the community. “They served as strong examples of faith, dedication and service,” she stated.

For her, like many others, public housing was a refuge where she could find an affordable apartment for herself and her children. She needed to find such housing after her first marriage ended in the mid-1960s.

The temporary home ended up becoming her permanent residence where, over time, people knew they could find a sympathetic ear and a helping hand.

Educated at Armstrong High School, Mrs. Giles served as president of the Whitcomb Court Tenant Council for more than 20 years and remained active with the council after stepping down. She also was a member of a community advisory board to the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the landlord of public housing.

She also participated in East End Partnerships for Families, was active in the Parent Resource Network and served on

the board of the now defunct East District Family Resource Center.

Mrs. Giles advocated for more job training for mothers to get into the workforce, for after-school programs for children and for GED programs to help dropouts get their education.

She also pushed the election of candidates who supported public housing families. Over time, everyone running for office and needing votes in the East End came knocking on her door because she could get people to the polls.

She not only registered residents, but on Election Day, she led a cadre of volunteers to knock on doors to remind people to go to the polls and arranged for workers to staff polling places for political candidates, including Mrs. Robertson, L. Douglas Wilder and Barack Obama.

Mrs. Giles also worked to improve relations with the police and prevent people from preying on the mostly single mothers living in Whitcomb Court.

“People don’t understand that the criminals coming through here committing crime are not a part of our community.

They don’t live here,” she stated in the Personality feature. “They are just driving through wreaking havoc on the community. It’s up to us to report people who are committing crimes.”

By the time she left, she felt Whitcomb Court had “come a long way from where we were years ago.”

Bruce Giles, her second husband, preceded her in death.

Survivors include two daughters, Sylvia Johnson and Florence J. Smith; two sons, George Johnson and James Johnson; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Mr. Payne was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and educated at the University of Connecticut. He served in the military during the Vietnam War. He also taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In addition to his wife, survivors include two sons, Jamal and Haile Payne; a daughter, Tamara Payne; three brothers, John, Joseph and Raymond Payne; and a sister, Mary Ann Glass.

Annie Giles, community activist, dies at 81

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for all who have come after him,” Newsday Editor Deborah Henley said. “His skill, his passion and his integrity were all elements in a distinguished career that, in his own words, led to ‘journalism that brought attention to problems, and sometimes helped solve those problems.’ ” “He appreciated the people who appreciated him — the readers,” his wife, Violet Payne, said.

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Holy Week Services Friday, March 30, 2018 7:30 p.m.

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, April 9, 2018 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 ordinance: Ordinance No. 2018-112 To amend and reordain City Code § 9-58, which assigns polling places in the city, to relocate and establish a new polling place for Precinct 413.

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

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk 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, April 16, 2018 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, April 23, 2018 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. 2018-113 To rezone the property known as 1 East Cary Street from the B-3 General Business District to the B-5 Central Business District. The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates the future land use category for this property as Downtown MixedUse, which features high-density development with office buildings, apartments, and a mix of complementary uses, including regional destinations.

Ordinance No. 2018-114 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 1303 and 1305 North 29th Street for the purpose of no more than two single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for the property is R-6, Single-Family Attached Residential.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the property for SingleFamily Medium Density land uses which includes single-family and twofamily dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. The proposed special use permit would authorize a density of approximately 9 units per acre.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.

Richmondgov.com; 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 City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, April 9, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances:

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conditions. The property is zoned within the B-3 General Business District.

The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan recommends Downtown Mixed Use land use for the property, which features high-density development with office buildings, apartments, and a mix of complementary uses, including regional destinations (p. xi).

Ordinance No. 2018-023 As Amended To authorize the special use of the property known as 806 Cathedral Place for the purpose of permitting up to five rooms or groups of rooms for short-term rental, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a R-73 Multifamily Residential District. The City’s Downtown Plan recommends the property to be developed with consideration as an Urban Center Area “… characterized by higher d e n s i t y, m i x e d - u s e development, typically arranged on a fine-grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks” (p. 3.29).

Ordinance No. 2018-100 As Amended To amend City Code § 12-16, concerning the provisions of monthly financial synopses to the Council, and City Code § 12-32, concerning the disposition of funds from sale of real estate and certain insurance proceeds, for the purpose of revising the basis for calculating receipts to be credited to a special reserve assigned to support public schools in the city and requiring that monthly financial synopses provided to the City Council include activities with regard both to such special reserve and to another special reserve assigned to support the educational curriculum and programming of public schools in the city.

Ordinance No. 2018-110 To amend City Code § 2-1183, concerning the residency requirement for certain officers and employees, to modify the City’s residency requirement so that it applies only to the Chief Administrative Officer, the Chief of Fire and Emergency Services, and the Chief of Police. (COMMITTEE: Organizational Development, Monday, April 2, 2018, 5:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

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Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER KEONDRA FIELDS, Plaintiff v.

LAMONT FIELDS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000909-00 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 30th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

Ordinance No. 2018-022 As Amended To amend Ord. No. 200217-48, adopted Feb. 11, 2002, which authorized the special use of the properties known as 8 and 10 East Main Street for conversion and use of the ground floor levels of the existing buildings for dwelling purposes, together with off-street parking, to also permit such properties to be used for short-term rental, upon certain terms and

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SHANNON BATSON, Plaintiff v.

KENNETH BATSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000908-00 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 30th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste:

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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 Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

Plaintiff, v.

Miodrag Sibinovic, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL18-196-3 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart without interruption and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since September 6, 2014. And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Miodram Sibinovic, the above-named defendant, is not a resident of this state and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is, without effect.

It is therefore ORDERED that the said Miodrag Sibinovic do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, on or before 27th of April, 2018 and do whatever necessary to protect her interest in this suit.

A Copy, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr. VSB #32825 P.O. Box 4595 Richmond, Virginia 23220 Phone (804) 523-3900 Fax (804) 523-3901

upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ETHEL KNIGHT MANNING, SANGUE KNIGHT GILES, EDITH KNIGHT CRUMP, MARY KNIGHT MICKINS, LELIA KNIGHT LEWIS, JOYCE KNIGHT RANDOLPH, and IRIS ANTIONETTE KNIGHT MORAN, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALVIN E. KNIGHT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that EVELYN H. P ERKINS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ETHEL KNIGHT MANNING, SANGUE KNIGHT GILES, EDITH KNIGHT CRUMP, MARY KNIGHT MICKINS, LELIA KNIGHT LEWIS, JOYCE KNIGHT RANDOLPH, IRIS A N T IO N E T T E K N I G H T MORAN, ALVIN E. KNIGHT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that , MARY THOMAS HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

to subject the property briefly described as 1115 North 27th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000521/031, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Aaron M. Wallace, Aaron B. Whitmore, Kenneth C. Alaedu and Chijioke Ude.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, AARON M. WALLACE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, AARON B. WHITMORE, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owners, KENNETH C. ALAEDU and CHIJIOKE UDE, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known addresses, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that AARON M. WALLACE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, AARON B. WHITMORE, KENNETH C. ALAEDU, CHIJIOKE UDE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

or successors in interest, A N D RE W D . S M I T H , A N D RE W S . S M I T H , M A RIO N D . S M I T H , DENIS TUCKER, MONNIE T U C K ER , and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER TAWANDA GRAHAM, Plaintiff v.

ANTHONY GRAHAM, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000925-00 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 30th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

LONNIE ALLEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000796-00 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 30th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

JARRELL MILLER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000872-00 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 30th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

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

DON GREEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17000901-00 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 30th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM 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 ANGELA JOHNSON, Plaintiff v.

MICHAEL PRATT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000781-00 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 24th day of April, 2018 at 9:00 AM, CC #1, and protect his interests.

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

Custody Virginia: In the County of henrico Shannon Kirsch and Gregory Kirsch, Petitioners, v.

John T. Dugan, Respondent Case No.: CA17-40 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to Terminate the parental rights of John T. Dugan and declare Gregory Kirsch to be the legal father of Ella Mason Dugan and McCrae Jacob Dugan.

It is ordered that John T. Dugan appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before Monday, May 6, 2018 at 9:00 a.m.

A Copy Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk Ryan F. Furgurson Wlliam B. Cave & Associates, LLC 2800 Buford Road, Suite 102 Richmond, Virginia 23235 (804) 327-9222 Virginia: In the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for the County of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, In re: anthony j. johnson, Jr bernita gills, Petitioner, v. nikki jaunita brown & Anthony J. Johnson, Respondents Case No.: JJ010970-04-01 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to amend custody of Anthony J. Johnson, Jr. (DOB: 10/12/01), whose mother is Nikki Jaunita Brown, and whose father is Anthony J. Johnson, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1241A3. Father’s whereabouts are unknown.

It is ordered that Anthony Johnson appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before April 25, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

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

GEORGE SMITH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-984 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3844 Terminal Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0090505/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, George Smith.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GEORGE SMITH, who upon information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ANDREW D. SMITH, ANDREW S. SMITH, MARION D. SMITH, DENIS TUCKER, and MONNIE TUCKER, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that GEORGE SMITH, who upon information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, A N D RE W D . S M I T H , A N D RE W S . S M I T H , MARION D. SMITH, DENIS TUCKER, MONNIE TUCKER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Virginia: In the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond John Marshall Courts Building Mieko Adeline Taliaferro,

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

EVELYN H. PERKINS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1084 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1412 Rogers Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000768/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Evelyn H. Perkins.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EVELYN H. P ERKINS,

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

MARY THOMAS HARRIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1129 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 6341 Daytona Drive, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0070553/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mary Thomas Harris.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MARY THOMAS HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees,

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-353 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3016 Groveland Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000985/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

LILLIE M. BULLOCK, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1131 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3318 N Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0880/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Lillie M. Bullock.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LILLIE M. BULLOCK, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that TUFFY AUTO SERVICE CENTERS, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that LILLIE M. BULLOCK, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, TUFFY AUTO SERVICE CENTERS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before APRIL 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

AARON M. WALLACE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-432 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

GLADYS E. POLLARD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: 18-606 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2402 Carrington Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000517/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Gladys E. Pollard.

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

IT IS ORDERED that GLADYS E. POLLARD and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

GEORGE SMITH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-0985 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2511 Hopkins Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0090505/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, George Smith.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GEORGE SMITH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ANDREW D. SMITH, ANDREW S. SMITH, MARION D. SMITH, DENIS TUCKER, and MONNIE TUCKER, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

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

CHARLES M. TAYLOR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-609 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 525 St. James Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000078/044, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Charles M. Taylor.

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

IT IS ORDERED that CHARLES M. TAYLOR and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

DILCIA T. JACKSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-872 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2105 Redd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000604/027, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dilcia T. Jackson.

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

IT IS ORDERED that DILCIA T. JACKSON and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

DELL D. GRAVES, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-119 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2122 Parkwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W0000940/027, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Dell D. Graves and Estelle L. Graves.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, DELL D. GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and ESTELLE L. GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that SPENCER L. GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, WILLIE EUGENE GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, EDITH MCCRAY, upon information and belief deceased, LIONEL GLASPIE, upon information and belief deceased, FANNIE G. BASKERVILLE, Continued on next page

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upon information and belief deceased, PERNELL GLASPIE, upon information and belief deceased, ALICE WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, MARGARET E. BEARD, upon information and belief deceased, VIRGINIA BRUNSON, upon information and belief deceased, GLADYS M. JONES upon information and belief deceased, CATHERINE E. COLMAN, upon information and belief deceased, ERVINE BASKERVILLE, who upon information and belief died, May 10, 2008, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MAXINE A. GLASPIE and ALLEN GLASSPIE, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that ROBERT GLASSPIE, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PLAZA MOTORS, INC, a corporation no longer listed in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DELL D. GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ESTELLE L. GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, SPENCER L. GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, WILLIE EUGENE GRAVES, upon information and belief deceased, EDITH MCCRAY, upon information and belief deceased, LIONEL GLASPIE, upon information and belief deceased, FANNIE G. BASKERVILLE, upon information and belief deceased, PERNELL GLASPIE, upon information and belief deceased, ALICE WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, MARGARET E. BEARD, upon information and belief deceased, VIRGINIA BRUNSON, upon information and belief deceased, GLADYS M. JONES upon information and belief deceased, CATHERINE E. COLMAN, upon information and belief deceased, ERVINE BASKERVILLE, who upon information and belief died, May 10, 2008, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MAXINE A. GLASPIE, ALLEN GLASSPIE, ROBERT GLASSPIE, PLAZA MOTORS, INC, a corporation no longer listed in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

$626.00 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY, AND REGINALD FIELDS; CASE NO. CL10F-2004-3 $165.00 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY, AND SYLVESTER LACY; CASE NO. CL10F-2012-3 $291.00 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY, AND ABDUL-YASEEN MUHAMMAD; 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 May 1, 2018, 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 Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-352 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 217 East 34th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0002286/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

DELORES ANDERSON HARRIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-960 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1911 Decatur Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000294/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Delores Anderson Harris, Benjamin Brown, Sr., Lizzie Whiting, Ida Anderson and Mary Anderson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, DELORES ANDERSON HARRIS, BENJAMIN BROWN, SR, LIZZIE WHITING, IDA ANDERSON, and MARY ANDERSON, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DELORES ANDERSON HARRIS, BENJAMIN BROWN, SR, LIZZIE WHITING, IDA ANDERSON, MARY ANDERSON and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-355 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2219 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000559/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-298 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 401 Whitcomb Street , Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0120224/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-357 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 103 – 105 East Ladies Mile Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1546/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FAITH LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-354 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2115 2nd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000558/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Linilton Realty Company, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that FA I T H LINTON, Registered Agent for LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, owner of record of said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action

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

LINILTON REALTY COMPANY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-356 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2403 Bainbridge Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000581/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the

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

SAM BROWN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-608 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3012 P Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0628/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Sam Brown and Rosa Brown.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, SAM J. BROWN, who upon information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ROSA BROWN, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that DAVID H. GOUGER, Trustee of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0011336 on May 11, 2000, and a Corporate Assignment of Mortgage/Deed of Trust at Instrument Number 0441209 on December 14, 2004, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that MAP/MAC, LLC, which upon information and belief is a defunct Texas corporation, beneficiary of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 00-11336 on May 11, 2000, and a Corporate Assignment of Mortgage/ Deed of Trust at Instrument Number 04-41209 on December 14, 2004, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SAM J. BROWN, who upon information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ROSA BROWN, DAVID H. GOUGER, Trustee of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 00-11336 on May 11, 2000, and a Corporate Assignment of Mortgage/ Deed of Trust at Instrument Number 04-41209 on December 14, 2004, MAP/ MAC, LLC, which upon information and belief is a defunct Texas corporation, beneficiary of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0011336 on May 11, 2000, and a Corporate Assignment of Mortgage/Deed of Trust at Instrument Number 0441209 on December 14, 2004, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before April 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

BIDS COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION ITB # 18-1607-3CLE – Tuckahoe Creek 27-Inch Trunk Sewer Replacement - This project consists of abandonment of approx.

2,000’ of 27” sewer and replacement with approx.

2 , 1 0 0 ’ o f 8 ” , 1 5 ” , and 42” sewer. Due 3:00 pm, May 2, 2018. Additional information available at: https://henrico.us/finance/ divisions/purchasing/.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

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REQUEST FOR LETTERS OF INTEREST aNd STaTEmENTS OF QUaLIFIcaTIONS The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company invites highly qualified firms to prequalify and submit Letters of Interest and Statement of Qualifications along with background information on Form HECO-16 for construction services related to the:

Ivy Mountain Musculoskeletal Center Project RFP #17-117

Project Overview:

This project includes a +/- 190,000 GSF outpatient Musculoskeletal Center that includes Orthopedic clinics, a multi-disciplinary Sports Medicine Center, a Joint Replacement Center, a Surgery Center with associated support services, an Imaging Center, administrative and conference services, a pharmacy, and a therapy suite. The project will also include a 350 car garage and a central utility plant.

The IMMSKC project is located at 2270 Ivy Road, Charlottesville, VA. The project will take place in phases. The first phase will be the demolition of the former KCRC building. The second phase will include the building of the garage, the utility plant, and major site work.

The final phase will be the construction of the MSKC building itself.

The first phase of construction is expected to start April 2018, with the final phase achieving Substantial Completion June 15, 2021. The project is targeted for LEED Silver.

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company seeks to retain Mechanical, Electrical, and Facade Design-Assist Partnerships to join our team during the design phase to provide constructability review, scheduling and optimal phasing scenarios, cost estimating, value management, early equipment release packages, and construction services for WhitingTurner and the University of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of the University of Virginia Higher Education Capital Outlay Manual. These contracts will be awarded as a competitive negotiation utilizing Whiting-Turner’s standard subcontract form. Remaining subcontractor packages will be awarded via the competitive bidding process.

Interested applicants should reply to the following address and request a prequalification form: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company 9210 Arboretum Parkway, Suite 190 Richmond, VA 23236 Attn: Mike Anderson mike.anderson@whiting-turner.com (804) 330-4700

Amended Public Notice: NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS On March 15, 2018 The City Of Richmond ran a public notice for the “Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds” The notice stated that on or about March 26, 2018 the City of Richmond will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the release of the Lead Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program (LBPHC) is authorized by Section 1011 of the Residential Lead Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (Title X of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, 42 U.S.C. 4852) and funding is provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-31), approved May 5, 2017. The Health Homes Supplemental funding is authorized under Section 502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z-2), Community Development Block Grant funds under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended for the following multi-year program/project March 1, 2018 through February 28, 2021.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS HUD will consider objections to its release of funds and the City Of Richmond certification for a period of fifteen days following either the anticipated submission date March 26, 2018 or HUD’s actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if the objections are on one of the following bases: (a) that the Certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of the City Of Richmond; (b) the City Of Richmond has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) the City of Richmond has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58), and may be addressed to HUD as follows: Karen M. Griego, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, Program Environmental Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 500 Gold Ave SW, 7th Floor, Suite 7301, Albuquerque, NM 871030906. Potential objectors may contact HUD directly to verify the actual last day of the objection/comment period. Objections may also be submitted to in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to HUD at 600 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219-1800, Attention: Mr. Ronnie J. Legette, Sr., Director, Community Planning and Development Division. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

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.

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