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New housing honcho RRHA’s leader Damon Duncan outlines priorities that will impact city’s 10,000 public housing residents

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The new chief executive officer of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is vowing that the agency will move “expeditiously” to redevelop the city’s decaying public housing.

Damon E. Duncan put that at the top of the list of priorities he outlined in his first public comments Monday.

He said he wants to move quickly to carry out RRHA’s longstanding goal of overhauling, replacing and modernizing the city’s nearly 4,000 deteriorating public housing units, the largest and most essential inventory of affordable housing for the city’s lowest income residents, seniors and disabled people.

At his first news conference since taking the helm March 25, Mr. Duncan also promised to communicate honestly with residents about coming changes, to step up preventive maintenance to ensure residents do not again lose heat in the winter and to work closely with police on a strategy to continue the Please turn to A4

What’s better: A Coliseum replacement or a facelift?

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Here’s the choice: Spend $25 million to $35 million to revitalize the 13,500-seat Richmond Coliseum or spend $220 million to replace it with a brand new 17,500-seat facility and add another $20 million to $30 million to revamp East Clay and East Leigh streets.

That choice has never been presented to the public. Instead, Chris Allerton©SussexRoyal Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his predecessor, former Mayor Dwight C. Jones, have insisted that the only solution is a new arena.

Indeed, the working assumption on the part of city officials New mother Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, holds her son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is that the Coliseum has outlived its useful life. is admired Wednesday by his grandmother, Doria Ragland, and great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. Smiling from the side are the baby’s great-grandfather, Prince Philip, and new father, Prince Harry. The baby, born Monday But both city and internal studies have long indicated that the to Prince Harry and Ms. Markle, is the first grandchild for Ms. Ragland and the eighth great-grandchild for the 93neglected Coliseum, built in 1971, just needs significant work year-old British monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh. Please see story, more photos, A6. to remain usable for years to come.

That was the finding of the most substantial study on the building’s needs that was conducted in 2008.

Richmond-based SMBW of underground pipes that dates service, street paving and a host

By Jeremy M. Lazarus Architects PC undertook the back more than a century. of other city services.

Like a steady drip, drip, drip, the cost of utility In addition, the increase is When council considered the study for the city with help services is continuing to rise in Richmond at a double- needed, the administration stated, Gray-Trammell plan to eliminate from two other expert builddigit pace, outpacing inflation and raising concerns in order for DPU to continue to the proposed rate utility increases, ing consulting firms, WJE of among some about affordability. support the general fund budget the administration swiftly noti- Fairfax and HCYU and AsBeginning July 1 when the new budget year with PILOT payments, or payfied the council that such action sociates of Glen Allen. The begins, the combined increase in rates for water, ments in lieu of taxes. would strip $4 million from three companies had experts sewer and natural gas service once again will rise by Under the City Charter, DPU DPU’s projected PILOT payment, examine the building and come Ms. Gray Ms. Trammell double digits — 11.5 percent — with an additional is required to pay into the city and the administration requested up with recommendations for 4 percent increase in the rate for stormwater service treasury an amount equal to the taxes it would pay from the council information on how that $4 million refurbishing the arena.

The bottom line: The Colifor property owners. if it were a private business. reduction to the general fund would be replaced. The seum needed maintenance, reLike past administrations, the administration of Mayor Stoney’s budget proposal was based on Gray-Trammell proposal quickly died. pair and replacement of gutters Mayor Levar M. Stoney has sought to minimize the securing a DPU PILOT of $20 million to support and other internal and external Please turn to A4 impact of the increase on household budgets, telling the general fund, which goes to pay for police, fire items, but remained “a substanCity Council that the average utility customer would tial and serviceable building pay an extra $5.82 each month. whose original character and According to a statement from the administration, quality are still intact.” the city Department of Public Utilities is proposing The study estimated that on average, per single family residential customer, a more than $11 million in work $1.86 monthly increase for gas and a $3.96 increase was needed to extend the buildfor all three water utilities — water, wastewater and stormwater. with Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney ing’s life for 10 years or longer.

By Jeremy M. Lazarus But that’s just this year, and only for small users.

Michael N. Herring. Mr. Herring required But like other studies on the Richmond City Council set the stage The impact is likely to be larger on businesses and Mr. Agelasto to resign if he did not want condition of city buildings, it this week for a special election on Nov. 5 apartment building owners. to face a court action seeking his removal ended up being shelved for lack And it doesn’t take into account the increases of to replace Councilman Parker C. Agelasto from office for failing to live in the district of money.

As far as can be determined, the past and the coming increases, according to two as the 5th District representative. he serves as state law requires. no similar assessment has been The council voted Monday to petition City Council members, Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, One person known to be weighing a run and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District, who were unsuc- Richmond Circuit Court to set the election to for the 5th District seat is Thad Williamson, authorized or conducted since cessful in seeking to roll back the proposed utility coincide with the November general election a University of Richmond professor who then.

Mr. Agelasto Between 2011 and 2015, the in which voters will select representatives rate increases. led the city’s anti-poverty initiative under city allocated about $4 million to the General Assembly.

Mayor Stoney and the department received a majority former Mayor Dwight C. Jones. Dr. Williamson also Mr. Agelasto, who has been under fire for remain- has served as an adviser to current Mayor Levar M. primarily to replace plumbing of the council’s support with their argument that the so the building could have hot hike in rates was essential to maintain service, meet all ing on City Council after moving to the 1st District Stoney. federal and state regulations and enable the department last year, announced April 23 that he would resign The action on the election came after City Council and cold running water and working mechanical systems. at the end of November. to continue to borrow at low interest for its program Mr. Agelasto made the decision under a deal to upgrade or replace the city’s aging infrastructure Please turn to A4 Please turn to A4

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Council members concerned about latest utility rate hikes

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Maternal mortality: Black women far more likely to die giving birth than Caucasians

By Arianna Coghill and Kaytlin Nickens Capital News Service

Last fall, Tanca McCargo, a Chesterfield native, found out she was expecting her second child. Ms. McCargo, who already had a 3-yearold son, discovered early on that her second pregnancy would be different.

Her complications began when she experienced light bleeding.

“The morning after scheduling an appointment with my OB-GYN, I passed an actual blood clot,” Ms. McCargo said.

She was sent to the emergency room for a transvaginal ultrasound, which allowed doctors to examine her reproductive organs. They found that Ms. McCargo’s pregnancy was ectopic: Her fertilized egg had attached to her fallopian tube instead of to her uterus.

Ms. McCargo, 22, faced a lifeand-death dilemma. If she proceeded with the pregnancy, her fallopian tube likely would rupture, causing internal bleeding and possibly her death.

There was only one other option.

“I couldn’t keep the baby,” Ms. McCargo said. “That was the most heartwrenching and traumatic experience I’ve ever had in my life.”

Three months into the pregnancy, Ms. McCargo decided to have an abor-

tion. But it did not go smoothly. Doctors gave her chemotherapy injections to stop the fetus from growing, but the injections initially didn’t work.

“Those injections made me feel horrible. I was nauseated almost all day every day,” Ms. McCargo said. “I experienced extreme fatigue. I slept less. It was just overall mentally and physically exhausting.”

Eventually, the abortion was performed. Ms. McCargo is still recov-

ering from her ordeal. Currently, she is a stay-at-home mom caring for her son, Zakhai.

Her situation is not uncommon.

For black women, childbirth can be a death sentence.

Nationwide, African-American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, according to Please turn to A4

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VCU to replace old Franklin Street gym with new STEM building The old gymnasium at Virginia Commonwealth University will be replaced with a $121 million, six-story building dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM subjects, it has been announced.

Demolition is to begin next spring on the antiquated Franklin Street Gymnasium at 817 W. Franklin St. to make room for the modern STEM building, according to VCU officials.

The development cleared its final hurdle last week when Gov. Ralph S. Northam approved the new state budget that included authorization and funding for VCU to proceed.

“The new STEM facility will provide learning, research and collaboration space in a location that is in the heart of the student community,” said VCU President Michael Rao. The new building will include the Math Exchange, an innovative facility for math instruction; a science learning center; computer labs; and flexible classrooms.

There also will be instructional wet and dry labs and classrooms for teaching chemistry, biology, physics, math, psychology and kinesiology.

The College of Humanities and Sciences, of which the new building will be a key element, annually awards more than 1,500 degrees in STEM disciplines, according to VCU, while more than 15,000 students take STEM classes yearly.

VCU has needed more lab space as student use has exceeded capacity, particularly in chemistry and physics.

The new building also is seen as helping VCU keep pace with the growing demand for college graduates with STEM degrees.

Richmond Crusade for Voters hosting candidates’ luncheon and voter registration drive The Richmond Crusade for Voters is hosting a candidates’ luncheon and a major voter registration drive this month to help voters get ready for the June primary and November general elections.

The candidates’ luncheon will be held noon to 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 11, at the Cedar Street Baptist Church Banquet Hall, 700 N. 23rd St. Incumbents and challengers for General Assembly districts representing Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Petersburg, Hopewell, Prince George and Dinwiddie have been invited to talk about their platforms and legislative agendas supporting the African-American community, according to organizers.

Tickets are $40.

Details: Richard Williams, (804) 839-3539.

The Crusade also is hosting “Voter Registration Springfest” noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Abner Clay Park in Jackson Ward.

The event is designed to register voters and help felons with restoration of their voting rights.

“You cannot change injustices if you do not vote,” said Bernice Travers, Crusade president.

Music, motivational speakers and a health fair will be featured at the event, which is being supported by several other nonprofit organizations that will distribute information on health care, housing, early childhood education and deterring youth incarceration.

Details: Bernice Travers, (804) 814-4434.

Richmond emergency communications earns accreditation Richmond’s 911 emergency call center has secured national accreditation for the first time.

The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies awarded the Richmond Department of Emergency Communications the accreditation on May 4 in Huntsville, Ala. The award to emergency communications “validates what we already know — that the City of Richmond has dedicated and well-trained public safety professionals to assist our residents when they need us the most,” Mayor Levar M. Stoney stated in announcing the award this week.

The independent department, which employs about 60 dispatchers around the clock and about 40 other employees in support positions, earned accreditation after demonstrating that it meets international best practices on community engagement, policies, procedures and facilities over several years.

“The accreditation process has evolved the department from a good emergency communications center to a great center,” stated Stephen M. Willoughby, department director, who went to Huntsville to accept the award with Kathy Berg, emergency communications manager.

He added that the “benchmarks that must continue to be met will help ensure that we remain a high-performance organization” in order to maintain accreditation.

The DEC award adds to the credits that the city’s public safety agencies have earned. The Richmond Police Department previously earned national accreditation, Richmond Fire and Emergency Services earned a separate ranking as one of the top 1 percent of firefighting agencies in the country and the Richmond Ambulance Authority has earned recognition for being among the top operations in the nation and around the world.

USPS to collect food to help ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Mail carriers in Richmond and across the country will be picking up paper bags with donations of boxed, canned and bottled food and beverages and cooking oils on Saturday, May 11, it has been announced.

For the 26th year, the U.S. Postal Service is conducting its “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive that ranks as one of the top single-day food drives in the nation.

Spokesperson Freda Sauter stated that all non-perishable donations are welcome. She noted that foods high in protein, such as canned tuna, salmon, beans and peanut butter, are most needed, as are canned fruits and vegetables, soups, pasta, cereals and beans.

Last year, USPS employees and supportive groups collected 71.6 million pounds of food items, and the total of donations since 1993 has topped 1.6 billion pounds, the postal service reported.

The collected items in the Richmond area will go to the FeedMore food bank, church pantries and other food distribution sites, USPS stated.

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T. “Silly Genius” Sparks stands in front of However, Silly Genius notes the All City Club the new mural that he and fellow muralist P.T. is focused on bringing large and colorful wall Carroll finished at 2604 Hull St., on the side of art to sections of the city that have not felt the the Atlantis Food Service Equipment building. Slices of life and scenes mural impact, notably the Hull Street corridor The two are among eight artists in the All City and other sections of South Side. in Richmond Art Club that began in 2017 to enliven neglected “Murals help make an area look better, then areas of the city. people feel better and then things will start to happen,” accordClub members admire the RVA Mural Project, Sir James ing to Silly Genius, who has led the club’s efforts to secure Thornhill, Hamilton Glass and the Unity Street Project, and commissions. Another club mural now decorates the Seafarm RVA Street Art Festival for creating an array of murals in Seafood building, 3062 Hull St. The club also was commissioned Downtown, along Broad Street, in Jackson Ward and in other to decorate the exterior of Boogaloos Bar & Grill on Brookland parts of North Side.

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Councilman Hilbert opposes Salvation Army move to North Side

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

“I am firmly against this.”

That’s the not-in-my-backyard response from 3rd District City Councilman Chris A. Hilbert’s to a Free Press report last week that the Salvation Army is applying for a special use permit to move its combination headquarters and homeless shelter from Downtown to a church building in Mr. Hilbert’s North Side district.

Mr. Hilbert told the Free Press that he has pledges from three other City Council members to oppose the Salvation Army’s relocation plan to the former Eternity Church building at 1900 Chamberlayne Ave. That’s just enough votes to kill the permit that would require approval from six of the nine City Council members.

“I’m not all powerful,” said Mr. Hilbert, who declined to name his allies, “but this is my district.”

He said the Salvation Army proposal he has seen would amass too many homeless people in a section of the district that is in transition but also has its share of crime.

At least three new apartment complexes are in the works to bring more than 600 residential units to the area that is seeing positive growth, but also has witnessed a recent murder and struggled with thievery, prostitution, drug dealing and other behavior challenges, Mr. Hilbert said.

He said that along with emergency housing, the Salvation Army’s plan appears to include serving as the city’s winter overflow shelter that was located in the Annie Giles Community Resource Center in Shockoe

Valley from October to April. That shelter served more than 120 people on the coldest nights during the winter.

Mr. Hilbert backs the position of the Chamberlayne Avenue Industrial Association, which represents nearby businesses and fears the impact of having dozens, if not hundreds, of people needing help wandering streets in the area.

Mr. Hilbert said he has told Salvation Army officials as nicely as possible to look elsewhere for a building to replace the longtime facility at 2 W. Grace St. that it has outgrown.

Mr. Hilbert He doesn’t have any suggestions, but said that finding such a replacement is not part of his job description.

The Salvation Army remains undeterred, even after Mr. Hilbert delivered his message to the religious group’s attorney, T. Preston Lloyd Jr. of the Williams Mullen law firm.

“We knew there was a possibility of Councilman Hilbert opposing this project,” Salvation Army spokesman Evanne Armour stated in a response to a Free Press query.

“We’re optimistic that, with further conversation and collaboration, community members could see this move from the perspective of the Salvation Army. This move would give us the opportunity to centralize services, to provide in-residence case management and to offer family ser-

vices, education and employment classes, counseling and fellowship and spiritual support,” she noted.

“The Salvation Army would have an opportunity to resolve present community concerns rather than contribute to them,” Ms. Armour stated.

Now marking its 134th year of service in Richmond, the Salvation Army needs more space than provided in the 1970s building it now occupies on Grace Street, she continued.

The nearly 50,000 square feet of space at 1900 Chamberlayne Ave. would allow the Salvation Army to expand its emergency housing capacity from the current 55 beds to 97 beds to help “continue the overall decline in homelessness” in the city, she stated.

And the new space would provide better access for disabled people because it is a single-story building, she said, unlike 2 W. Grace St., where the shelter is on the second floor.

Ms. Armour confirmed that the special use application did include the possibility of using part of the building for the overflow shelter.

In order to allay concerns about people wandering through the area, she said the Salvation Army has pledged to have housing monitors on duty around the clock to support residents and improve security.

The goal, she stated, would be to use the facility and staff to “reduce the need for an overflow shelter” by using the building as a temporary shelter and working with clients to find more permanent housing.

Fulton bus service to improve with several changes planned by GRTC

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Beginning Sunday, GRTC will usher in faster rush hour service in the Fulton area of the East End, the company has announced.

The bus company also will tweak service to the Randolph community, extend nighttime service on the Bellemeade/ Hopkins route serving McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center and make it easier for West End passengers to access the coming Whole Foods grocery store near Broad and Meadow streets.

The major impact of the changes that the GRTC board approved last month will be in Fulton.

GRTC reduced service from 15 minutes to 30 minutes on the 4A Montrose and 4B Darbytown routes that allow Fulton residents to connect to the Pulse line for access to Downtown, the West End and South Side.

GRTC first broached the change to Fulton service in February, a week before community organizer Omari Al-Qaddafi filed a still-unresolved complaint with the Federal Transit Authority alleging that

GRTC’s big revamp of bus service after the start of the Pulse line reduced service to African-American neighborhoods.

The new schedule restores 15-minute service on the two Fulton routes between 6 and 9 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, the new schedules show.

GRTC also will institute a revised travel pattern on Route 87 Cary/Maymont that serves Randolph, the company stated, while service on Route 87 Bellemeade/Hopkins from Downtown into South Side will be extended on weekdays until at least 10 p.m., with the last stop at 10:30 p.m.

Routes 50 Broad Street, 76 Patterson and 77 Grove will have end-of-the-line stops to serve the Sauer Center, which is under construction on Broad Street near Meadow Street, and its coming anchor tenant, Whole Foods.

GRTC also will usher in bus stop changes on Routes 1A, 1B, 2C and 56; revise the Route 20 Orbital service through Carytown; and offer 30-minute service during weekday rush hour on the Route 75 Three Chopt connector between Pulse

and the University of Richmond.

GRTC also will begin its summer service between the city, Kings Dominion and Ashland.

Additional route changes, particularly creation of a line to serve the new Market @ 25th in the East End, are being prepared to start in the fall after Richmond City Council agreed to boost the subsidy to GRTC by $800,000 to pay for upgrades.

GRTC also is promising to host community meetings in August and September to gather information on changes that might be needed since Pulse bus rapid-transit service launched nearly a year ago.

Complaints about the revamped reduced service for some people who rely on GRTC have been widespread and have been documented in a report that Virginia Commonwealth University released last year.

Garland Williams, GRTC’s director of planning, told the board that more “interaction with the public is needed to get us to where we need to be.” He promised that GRTC would seek information from riders and others on ideas for improving service.

Mayor announces free CPR classes for RPS teachers Mayor Levar M. Stoney marked the first day of Teacher Appreciation Week on Monday by announcing a new partnership between Richmond Public Schools and Richmond Fire and Emergency Services.

Fire officials will offer free cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification classes to RPS teachers, Mayor Stoney announced during a news conference in front of Woodville Elementary School in

Church Hill.

The Virginia Department of Education requires all individuals applying for or renewing teacher licenses to be certified in CPR, which can cost as much as $150 per course.

“Teachers told me the $150 fee was asking a lot of them,” the mayor said. “We found a way, by working with (Richmond Fire Chief Melvin D. Carter) to help teachers

keep these dollars in their pockets.”

The partnership was inspired by the mayor’s Teacher Advisory Council, Mayor Stoney told the Free Press.

RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras said the CPR courses will be offered monthly.

“This is just another example of how we all get smarter when we listen to our teachers,” Mr. Kamras said. — RONALD E. CARRINGTON

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New housing honcho Continued from A1

downturn in crime in the city’s public housing communities.

The 51-year-old housing veteran emphasized the need to push the plan for revamping public housing that his predecessors set in motion.

“We have some aggressive plans underway, and as I’ve been telling the board and some of the residents, it is not going to be pretty, it’s not going to be sexy, it’s not going to be glamorous,” said Mr. Duncan.

But he called the coming changes critical to address the decline in the majority of housing units that date back 40 years or more and that “have outlived their useful life by 10 to 15 years.”

He told reporters, several RRHA board members and staff and City Council President Cynthia I. Newbille, who came to welcome him, that he has visited all of the properties that RRHA operates, including the Big 6 public housing communities — Creighton, Gilpin, Fairfield, Hillside, Mosby and Whitcomb courts.

“I wanted to see the properties in their normal state, to see how the properties operate and to take in all we have to work with,” said Mr. Duncan, who led the housing authority in Elgin, Ill., for seven years before joining RRHA. During his career, he also has worked for public housing agencies in Detroit and Pontiac, Mich., and ran his own housing consulting firm for five years.

He said what he found in Richmond were problems endemic to public housing across the country as he took an inventory of both the physical housing stock and the staff he will be working with.

“The housing stock has been deteriorating for some time,” said Mr. Duncan, who began his career in affordable housing in 1991 after graduating from Eastern Michigan University. He also has master’s degrees from Central Michigan University and Auburn University.

“There are only two reasons that the properties would get to this state — either by commission or omission,” he continued. But whatever the reason, he said he

has already told city leaders that change must come.

Mr. Duncan announced that he has brought on Terese Walton, his former boss when he worked in Detroit more than 20 years ago and an associate in the years since on a variety of public and affordable housing projects. At RRHA, she will serve in the No. 2 position as executive vice president.

Mr. Duncan apparently will use the same model he followed in leading Elgin, Ill., to eliminate its public housing and replace it with remodeled, largely privatized Section 8 properties in which tenant rents are subsidized. Under that model, the housing authority retains a minority share of the ownership and accepts and reviews applications for housing while leaving much of the management to the private owner-operator.

RRHA has used that model in replacing its former 60-unit Dove Court property in Highland Park with modern apartments and is employing it in replacing the Fay Towers senior high rise in Gilpin Court with three developments, including a new development underway at 1st and Duval streets in Jackson Ward.

The RRHA also is engaged in transferring control of 11 smaller properties with 553 units from government ownership to a private company that, as majority owner, will remodel and manage them.

In addition, RRHA is working with a nonprofit partner to create new housing in the Creighton Court area to replace much of that public housing and also has begun transferring some residents to other private, newly built Section 8 apartments in Richmond and Henrico County.

Mr. Duncan said that Gilpin Court is likely to be the next large public housing community to be converted. That would support the private development of apartments in the historic St. Luke Building and the impending private conversion of the former Baker Elementary School building into senior apartments for additional residents of Fay Towers. That work is expected to begin in June.

Since arriving in Richmond, Mr. Duncan also has put maintenance of existing units

high on his to-do list. On Wednesday, two days after his news conference, Mr. Duncan announced that RRHA has hired a pest control company and will be working with public housing residents to prevent rodent infestation.

He noted during the news conference that heat finally had been restored to all units two weeks before the RRHA turned off the heat on May 1. He noted that 40 percent of RRHA’s boilers have been replaced and that 60 percent would be replaced by next October when the heat gets turned on again.

He promised more preventative maintenance, and noted that RRHA has brought in experienced people to support that effort.

That includes former city Public Works Director Emmanuel O. Adediran, who since December has served as RRHA’s director of capital improvement projects and facilities.

On the crime front, Mr. Duncan said that he had breakfast recently with interim Police Chief William C. Smith and plans a more extensive meeting to discuss a strategy to continue reducing crime.

Mr. Duncan said he wants RRHA to allocate $300,000 in unused funds left since the RRHA police force was disbanded five years to help pay for any changes. The city police department now has at least eight officers dedicated to public housing.

While overall reported crime in public housing has dropped more than 20 percent, Mr. Duncan said that there are still challenges, particularly from non-residents.

He cited the example of a shooting last month in Hillside Court that left two dead and one wounded.

While he again expressed condolences to the families, he noted that none of those shot lived in the South Side complex.

He called it a familiar story in which residents are neither the victims nor the perpetrators of the crimes that grab media attention.

“Whereas crime and tragedy are not good any way you look at it,” he said, “it just seems that some people feel that they can go to the public housing communities and commit their atrocities and get away with it.”

Coliseum replacement or a facelift?

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There is no indication that other work recommended by the study was ever done.

In his proposed 2015-16 capital budget, then-Mayor Jones estimated that the Coliseum needed about $30 million in improvements. However, he did not recommend any additional spending on the building.

The Coliseum has not been mentioned in any subsequent capital budget.

Until recently, no one in city government had a good idea about how to pay for improvements to the building given the host of other needs the city has faced.

That issue has been resolved by the Navy Hill group led by Dominion Energy’s top executive, Thomas F. “Tom” Farrell II. That group noticed the vacant and underused public land near the Coliseum and, with the help of consultants, came up with the idea two years ago of transforming the area between City Hall and the Coliseum with new apartments, offices, retail stores and a convention hotel.

The group’s theory was that these new developments, rosily projected to create $1.4 billion in new property value, would enliven the area and also generate tax dollars to pay for the larger, grander arena that was envisioned.

The problem for Mr. Farrell’s group is that their plan did not generate enough tax dollars to pay back the $220 million principal and interest cost of a new 17,500seat arena.

Previously reported documents suggest the annual repayment could run $20 million or more in principal and interest, depending on the actual cost and the interest rate, or more than the new developments would generate.

In order to make the plan work, Mayor Stoney in November backed a proposal to take the increase in property taxes from 70 blocks of Downtown to help repay the Coliseum debt.

As yet, he has not sent that proposal to City Council for approval, but rumors are flying that he might do so in June or July.

The council is promising to undertake a thorough review.

However, a $35 million facelift of the Coliseum could easily be paid for with taxes that would be generated by the proposed apartment, office, retail and hotel developments, most of which could still be done, figures show.

Instead of spending $450 million to $650 million to repay the principal and interest cost on a new, $220 million arena, amortization tables indicate that the total cost for fully renovating the Coliseum

might only be $50 million to $75 million in interest and principal, depending on the interest rate.

And instead of spending $20 million or more a year to repay debt, the cost of repaying for refurbishing the Coliseum would be less than $3 million a year, the tables show.

Thus, the new development, much of which could still be built, could generate more than enough property tax revenue to repay the cost and still leave money to fund city needs.

For example, if $800 million in new development could be undertaken in the land around a refurbished Coliseum, that would generate $9.6 million in new property taxes, with $2 million to $3 million going to repay debt and the rest going to the general fund. If only $600 million in development could be accomplished, that would still generate $7.2 million in new property taxes, still providing extra money for the city’s general fund.

Refurbishing the Coliseum also would eliminate another major cost: Roadwork.

The Farrell group wants the city to spend what has been estimated at $20 million to $30 million to raise the sunken portion of East Leigh and East Clay streets to create a better streetscape. So far, the city has not identified a source for that money.

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Still, the steady rate increases have had an impact on family and business budgets. DPU data on rate increases beginning with the 2007-2008 budget year tell the story.

The data show the gas rate in the upcoming 2019-20 budget year will be 34.5 percent higher than 2007-08, the water rate will be 76 percent higher, the wastewater rate almost 60 percent higher and the stormwater rate 14 percent higher.

The impact is due to the compounding effect. Each earlier increase in the rate remains in place, and the new rate increase is a fresh jump.

Based on the assumptions of no rate declines and that a customer in 2007 was billed $100 monthly each for water and wastewater service or $200 total, the annual rate increases mean the bill for the combined services would be $390.17 in the 2019-20 budget year, a nearly 100 percent increase. (The actual increase is a bit smaller as the base rate for the first 2,992 gallons of residential water use was reduced several years ago.)

The rate increases have had less impact on natural gas. A $100 gas bill in 2007 would be $138.75 in 2019-20 based on the rate increases. That does not include the additional charge for the natural gas the city buys and has piped in.

Stormwater utility rates began rising in the 2017-18 budget year and will have increased 14 percent effective with the new budget year beginning July 1.

Since the 2007-08 budget year, the annual rate increases have been below 10 percent only once. In the 2010-11 fiscal year, the rate increase totaled 8 percent for natural gas, water, sewer and stormwater. In every other year, the total percentage increase has ranged from 11.5 percent to 19.25 percent.

In each of the next four budget years, DPU is projecting an increase in rates of 15.5 percent to 16 percent for the four utilities. Water and sewer utility rates, alone are to rise a combined 7.5 percent to 8 percent each year.

Ms. Gray and Ms. Trammell expressed concern that the continuing rising cost of essential utilities is squeezing seniors living on fixed incomes and others who live paycheck to paycheck.

“We’re going to drive people out of the city,” Ms. Gray argued in warning her City Council colleagues about the impact of the rate increases. As a single mother, she said that she, too, is feeling the pinch. “Every dollar matters. I just can’t afford to have the rates keep going up and up.”

Ms. Trammell, too, expressed concern. “I am getting calls from people who wonder how they are going to pay their utility bills. This is not fair. This is not right.”

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amended 2019-20 budget papers in preparation for a final vote on Monday, May 13. Among other things, the council action ensures a 3 percent pay increase for city workers beginning with the second paycheck in July.

Council also introduced legislation to provide restaurants and other collectors of meals taxes with a 3 percent rebate for collecting and remitting the tax.

Meanwhile, two former council members are continuing to pursue legal action in Richmond Circuit Court to force Mr. Agelasto to leave office before November, but are finding it a slow grind.

On Tuesday, Sa’ad El-Amin, a former 6th District council representative, said that based on new information, he would drop his request for the court to issue a preliminary injunction to immediately end Mr. Agelasto’s service on City Council.

Mr. El-Amin also filed an amended case Wednesday seeking Mr. Agelasto’s removal based on his alleged violation of a court order from the 1970s that ended at-large voting for council seats and his alleged violation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s one-man, one-vote decision.

Mr. El-Amin said he would argue that, based on Mr. Agelasto’s new residence, the 1st District now has two representatives, giving that district an advantage over other council districts when it comes to decisions, while disadvantaging the 5th District that no longer has a resident representative.

Separately, Henry W. “Chuck” Richardson, a former 5th District council representative, said Wednesday his request for the Circuit Court to issue a declaratory judgment requiring Mr. Agelasto to vacate his seat because of his move is scheduled to be heard on Friday, July 12, though he expressed disappointment that he could not get an earlier date.

Mr. Agelasto has asked in court papers that Mr. Richardson’s case be dismissed. On Wednesday, Mr. Agelasto’s attorney, former Virginia Attorney General Anthony Troy, urged the court to dismiss Mr. El-Amin’s filing. Mr. Troy asserted that Mr. El-Amin does not meet the legal requirements to bring the action and also did not properly serve Mr. Agelasto. Mr. Troy requested that the court quash the matter.

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the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That is true in Virginia as well.

Among white women in the commonwealth, there were 11 maternal deaths per 100,000 births last year, the nonprofit United Health Foundation reported. But among the state’s African-American women, there were 36.6 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.

Virginia’s chief medical examiner highlighted the racial disparity in a report released last month.

“Black women in the United States and Virginia are known to suffer the greatest burden of pregnancy-associated death, a perplexing and consistently reported fact. In each of the 15 years of pregnancy-associated deaths reported in Virginia, the mortality ratio for black women exceeded that for white women,” the report stated.

On the national stage, several African-American women have stepped forward with their own experiences of pregnancy-related challenges.

In an HBO series, tennis star Serena Williams, who gave birth to her daughter, Alexis, in 2017, described having complications during

her pregnancy and labor. And in a Netflix special, Beyoncé opened up about the difficulties she faced when pregnant with twins two years ago. She experienced preeclampsia, a sudden, potentially life-threatening increase in blood pressure.

Are black women treated differently?

Throughout her pregnancy, Jazmine Brown felt uneasy, filled with unexplainable emotions and pressure.

She especially resented visiting her doctor.

Ms. Brown said the doctor treated her dismissively — not like the other patients. She said she wasn’t sure whether the reason was because she was “young and black” or her insurance situation.

“I felt like they didn’t want me to be there — like I was inconveniencing them,” said Ms. Brown, who worked and attended Tidewater Community College at the time.

“When I was pregnant, I had Medicaid to pick up what my job insurance wouldn’t,” she said.

Ms. Brown said that she received a lot of backlash at her prenatal visits and that the pressure began to weigh on her. The situation came to a head when “we had an ultrasound

appointment and I was no more than 5 minutes late.”

Ms. Brown said she arrived at the building on time, but was late to the doctor’s office because she had to take the stairs.

“I was only 23 at the time, and she felt like it was OK to yell at us for being late. I had never been late before,” Ms. Brown said.

“I will not settle for that treatment again,” she said. “I know they saw me just as a ‘poor little black girl.’ ” Ms. Brown subsequently gave birth to a daughter, Jamie. Now 24 and living in the Virginia Beach area, Ms. Brown is a student at Norfolk State University.

Research suggests that it wasn’t Ms. Brown’s imagination that she felt mistreated and agitated during her pregnancy. African-Americans sometimes are treated differently by health care providers and experience greater pregnancy-related stress, studies show.

According to a 2016 study by the University of Virginia, black people are systemically undertreated for pain in relation to white people.

Researchers found that a substantial number of white medical professionals and students held false beliefs about

biological differences between black and white people.

Moreover, the nonprofit Seleni Institute found that black and Latina women are at a higher risk for mental health issues after pregnancy. Backing that up, the Icahn School of Medicine found that 44 percent percent of black women — versus 31 percent of white women — reported symptoms of depression after their pregnancy.

Maternal mortality rates have alarmed members of the Virginia General Assembly.

At the start of the 2019 legislative session, Democratic Delegates Lashrecse Aird of Petersburg and Marcia Price of Newport News introduced a resolution “recognizing the maternal and infant mortality crisis in the United States.”

The resolution stated in part: • The United States is the only industrialized country with a rising maternal mortality rate.

• Maternal and infant mortality “is exacerbated by factors such as poverty, gender inequality, age, and multiple forms of discrimination, as well as factors such as lack of access to adequate health facilities and technology and lack of infrastructure.”

• “Considerable racial disparities

in pregnancy-related mortality exist, with deaths per live birth for black women nearly three times higher than such deaths for white women.”

• “The root cause of these disparities is longstanding structural racism, which has contributed to poorer health outcomes among communities of color.”

The House Rules Committee never held a hearing or voted on the resolution. However, the General Assembly passed a bill requiring the Virginia Department of Health to review the rate of pregnancy-related deaths.

Under HB 2546, the department will establish the Maternal Death Review Team, which will include state health officials and outside experts.

The bill was sponsored by Republican Delegate Roxann Robinson of Chesterfield and Democratic Delegate Kaye Kory of Fairfax. It says the team will improve data collection and record keeping regarding maternal deaths and recommend ways “to increase awareness and prevention of and education about maternal deaths.”

On April 3, the General Assembly unanimously approved minor changes that Gov. Ralph S. Northam had recommended concerning HB 2546. It will take effect July 1.

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Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, or Master Archie as he will be known, has his first media moment Wednesday as he is held tightly in the arms of his dad, Prince Harry.

Harry and Meghan have a royal baby Free Press wire, staff report

WINDSOR, England It’s a boy!

And his name is Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex whose fairytale wedding last year garnered international headlines, gave birth to a 7 pound 3 ounce boy at 5:26 a.m. Monday.

The baby, who was presented to the world Wednesday, is seventh in line to the British throne and the eighth greatgrandchild of 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch.

The baby, wrapped in a cream-colored blanket and wearing a knit cap, slept through his first interview as Prince Harry and Ms. Markle appeared with him before a small group of media at St. George’s Hall in Windsor Castle where they held their wedding reception just under a year ago. A smiling Prince Harry tightly cradled his son.

“It’s magic. It’s pretty amazing and I have the two best guys in the world so I am really happy,” said a beaming Ms. Markle, wearing a white sleeveless coat dress, when asked how she was finding being a new mother.

She said the baby was calm, had the sweetest temperament and was sleeping well. He will be known as Master Archie, in line with his father’s wish that he grow up as a private citizen.

As the first multiracial, half-American child born in the top echelons of the royal family, he has come to signify, for many, the monarchy’s progression into a more modern, inclusive era.

On his father’s side, his ancestry can be traced to the German ducal house of Saxe-Coburg, which Anglicized its name during World War I. Some of his ancestors on his mother’s side were born into slavery in the American South, migrating north and west to build new lives as free men and women.

He is also the son of a bona fide Hollywood celebrity, the 37-year-old California-born former actress who has drawn a large and protective American fan base into the press-fueled drama of the British royal family.

“This little thing is absolutely to die for,” the 34-year-old red-haired, bearded proud father said in announcing the birth Monday to waiting television cameras.

“I’m just over the moon.”

Prince Harry, the son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, said he was present for the birth.

“How any woman does what they do is beyond comprehension.” he told reporters Monday in Windsor, west of London, where the couple live. “But we’re both absolutely thrilled and so grateful to all the love and support from everybody out there.

“It was amazing, absolutely incredible. As I say, I am so incredibly proud of my wife and, as every father and parent would ever say, your baby is absolutely amazing, this little thing is absolutely to die for.”

Ms. Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, was with the couple at their home, Frogmore Cottage, on the estate of Windsor Castle, where they married in a lavish ceremony in May 2018.

Photos by Dominic Lipinski/Pool via Associated Press

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle present their new son to the world on Wednesday during a brief photo session in St. George Hall at Windsor Castle, where their wedding reception was held last May. Master Archie was born at 5:26 a.m. Monday, weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces.

Following the brief baby press conference, the couple announced the baby’s name on an Instagram post, along with a photo of the newborn surrounded by his parents, grandmother, Mrs. Ragland, and great-grandparents, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip.

The baby could be entitled to hold joint British and American citizenship, according to nationality rules. However, the child will not automatically be a prince or a princess. Any such title would have to be bestowed by the queen by issuing what is known as a letter patent.

The queen and other members of the royal family, including the sister and brother of Prince Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, were delighted by the news of the birth the palace stated.

Buckingham Palace did not confirm whether Ms. Markle gave birth at home. While the late Princess Diana gave birth

to Prince Harry and his older brother, Prince William, in the hospital, the queen’s four children were all born at Buckingham Palace.

Ms. Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, a former lighting director for television soap operas and sitcoms in Los Angeles, said he was delighted at the news.

“I am proud that my new grandson is born into the British royal family and I am sure that he will grow up to serve the crown and the people of Britain with grace, dignity, and honor,” he said in a statement to the Sun newspaper.

Unlike Prince William and his wife, Kate, who posed for hordes of photographers outside a London hospital just hours after their three children were born, Prince Harry and Ms. Markle are expected to take part in only a limited photo op on the grounds of Windsor Castle in the next couple of days.

Prince Harry has held a special place in the hearts of many Britons since millions around the world watched him, at age 12, walk slowly behind his mother’s coffin as the funeral cortege made its way through the packed streets of London after Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997.

In his youth he found himself in the headlines for underage drinking, wearing a Nazi outfit to a costume party and scuffling with photographers outside London nightclubs.

But after a successful stint in the army, where he served two tours of duty in Afghanistan, his relaxed style and playful antics when on official engagements have seen him become one of the most popular members of the royal family.

“This tops the wedding,” said royal fan John Loughrey, 64, of London, who said he had been sleeping in Windsor for the last three days. “They’ve brought a royal baby into the world.

We’re all excited.”

Prince Harry’s marriage to Ms. Markle, a divorcée hailing from Los Angeles who starred in the American television legal drama “Suits,” has only increased global interest, bringing in a new army of royal fans.

“For Anglo-American relationships, it’s going to be very important because suddenly there’s a child in the House of Windsor that is half-American,” said Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty Magazine. “This is their entry into the royal family.”

African-Americans also are excited because of the baby’s biracial heritage. Queen Elizabeth has acknowledged her African ancestry through Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg, who served as queen of Great Britain and Ireland from her marriage in 1761 to King George III until her death in 1818.

The new baby will be brought up in the couple’s newly-refurbished home in Windsor, where they only recently moved. They have also set up their own office, breaking away from the joint operation they shared with Prince William and wife Kate.

Britain’s media has been rife with speculation about a rift between the brothers and their wives, although there has been no public indication of any disagreements. However, some British newspapers have reported that Prince Harry and Ms. Markle might move abroad, most likely to Africa, after the birth as they seek to forge their own royal role.

Tiger Woods receives Presidential Medal of Freedom WASHINGTON When Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament on April 14, President Trump declared he was going to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ordered his aides to schedule the event as soon as possible.

On Monday, Mr. Woods accepted the award.

At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, President Trump made the 43-year-old Mr. Woods the fourth — and youngest — professional golfer to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, after Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Charlie Sifford.

With 81 PGA Tour victories, Mr. Woods is one victory shy of Sam Snead’s all-time record. And with 15 major tournament victories, he trails only Mr. Nicklaus, who has 18.

But it was Mr. Woods’ dramatic Masters victory at Augusta National Golf Club last month, ending an 11year major championship drought, which capped a years-long comeback from injuries and drama in his personal life, including an arrest two years ago for driving under the influence.

President Trump eagerly leapt onto the Tiger bandwagon. The two have played golf a number of times, most recently with Mr. Nicklaus in February at President Trump’s course in Jupiter, Fla. At a ceremony attended by several members of Congress, President Trump called Mr. Woods “a true legend.”

“He’s a great guy,” President Trump said. “He introduced countless new people to the sport of golf, from every background and walk of life. ... Tiger Woods is a global symbol of American excellence, devotion and drive.”

Mr. Woods, wearing a blue suit (not the Masters green jacket) was joined at the ceremony by his mother, Kultida Woods; his two children, Sam and Charlie; his girlfriend, Erica Herman; and his caddie, Joe LaCava.

“You’ve seen the good and the bad, the highs and the lows, and I wouldn’t be here without your help,” an emotional Mr. Woods said after the president placed the medal around his neck.

Mr. Woods recalled his break-

through triumph at Augusta 22 years ago, which the then-21-year-old celebrated with his father and mentor, Earl Woods, who died in 2006.

“In ’91, yes, I won the Masters and I ended up hugging my dad and my mom,” Mr. Woods said.

“My dad is no longer here, but my mom is here. I love you, mom,” he added, his voice cracking with emotion as he went on to thank his children and his girlfriend.

Speaking directly to his loved ones, he added, “You guys have meant so much to me in my life. I’ve battled and I’ve tried to hang in there and I’ve tried to come back and play a great game of golf again.”

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to people who have Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters/TPX Images of the Day made outstanding contributions to the Golf champion Tiger Woods stands tall as President Trump places the security or national interests of the Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck during a ceremony country, to world peace or to cultural Monday in the White House Rose Garden. or other significant public or private endeavors. as well as posthumously to baseball majors, Mr. Woods left a clue as to his Since taking office, President great Babe Ruth. aspirations, calling his recent Masters Trump has given theBIRTH.BIRTHDAY.AWARD.GRADUATION.HONOR.ENGAGEMENT.WEDDING.ANNIVERSARY.LIFE. award to several With the golf world wondering if experience “certainly one of the highest athletes, including former NFL play- he has enough high-level golf in him that I’ve accomplished so far in my ers Roger Staubach and Alan Page, to match Mr. Nicklaus’ record of 18 life on the golf course.”

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Commencement 2019 It’s graduation season and the commencement ceremonies are starting, first with area colleges and universities and next, with local high schools.

Anxious graduates, along with their excited families, will sit through the formal functions, with the only thing separating them from their degrees and diplomas being the commencement speaker.

Generally, when you ask people who spoke at their graduation, they may recall the name of the person, but rarely do they remember what the person said.

We recollect being thrilled when Buckminster Fuller, a genius Renaissance man of his day who patented the geodesic dome, was announced as the speaker for a close friend’s graduation. But we, along with much of the crowd, were disappointed because Mr. Fuller, who was old at the time, mumbled and rambled on like a mad scientist talking to himself instead of addressing the packed stadium.

Commencement speakers typically will quote a poem or two, like Robert Frost: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled ...”

(From “The Road Not Taken”) Or Dr. Seuss: “Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You’re off to Great Places!

You’re off and away!

You You You any

have brains in your head. have feet in your shoes can steer yourself direction you choose.”

(From “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”)

Or even Pharrell Williams’ “Happy”: “Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I’m happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you ...”

Speakers also will try to infuse their message with humor: “Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”

(Patricia Neal, Northwestern University, 1979) • “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”

(Anonymous) So in this time and place of uncertainty and upheaval in our nation and around the globe, we offer here some clip-and-save advice from great thinkers and great leaders that we hope will inspire, motivate and launch the Class of 2019 toward a brighter and more secure future.

Enjoy!

“If you stay hungry, if you keep hustling, if you keep on your grind and get other folks to do the same — nobody can stop you.”

— President Barack Obama, Morehouse College, 2013 • “Each one of us is born with the seeds of success. Our parents, our environment and colleges and universities ... plant the seeds, till the soil, nurture and nourish each one of us until we develop into that special someone who can compete with anybody, anywhere, at any level. ... If you have a goal, a dream, you must be persistent, remain determined with a laser-like focus on what you want. My father would always say to us, ‘If the front door is closed to you, go around to the back door and see if that is open.

If that is closed, go around to the side of the house to see it they left a window open. If that is closed, jump up on the roof to see if you can get it. Just keep trying! Never give up, never, never give up! Because the only person that can stop you is — you!’ ” — Dr. Yvonne Thornton, Tuskegee University, 2003 • “Cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or be disappointed in us. Cynics always say no ... for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”

— Stephen Colbert, Knox College, 2006 • “I am myself a storyteller, and therefore, an optimist — a firm believer in the ethical bend of the human heart; a believer in the mind’s appetite for truth and its disgust with fraud and selfishness. From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. From my point of view, your life is already artful — waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.”

— Toni Morrison, Rutgers University, 2011 • “Your time is limited. So don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs, Stanford University, 2005 • “Eat a good breakfast. It really pays off. Pay your bills on time. Recycle. Make your bed. Aim high. Say thank you to people and actually really mean it. Ask for help when you need it, and put your phone away at the dinner table. Just sit on it, really.

And know that what you tweet and post and Instagram today might be asked about at a job interview tomorrow, or 20 years from tomorrow. Be nice to little kids, be nice to your elders, be nice to animals, and know that it’s better to be interested than interesting. Invest in a quality mattress. I’m telling you, your back will thank you later. And don’t cheap out on your shoes.

And if you’re fighting with somebody you really love, for god’s sakes find your way back to them because life is short, even on our longest days. And another thing, another thing you already definitely know that definitely bears repeating, don’t ever confuse what is legal with what is moral because they are entirely different animals. You see, in a court of law, there are loopholes and technicalities and bargains to be struck, but in life, you’re either principled or you’re not. So do the right thing, especially when nobody’s looking. And while I’m at it, do not equate money and fame with accomplishment and character, because I can assure you based on the thousands of people I’ve interviewed, one does not automatically follow the other. ... If you’re willing to listen to, be guided by, that still small voice that is the GPS within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive, you will be more than OK. You will be happy, you will be successful and you will make a difference in the world.”

— Oprah Winfrey, University of Southern California, 2018

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National Urban League and ‘State of Black America’

“In the days leading up to the (November 2016 presidential) election, the IRA (Russian Troll Farm) began to deploy voter suppression tactics on the Blackcommunity targeted accounts …

As the election became imminent, themes were tied into several varieties of voter suppression narratives: d o n ’t v o t e , stay at home; this country is not for Black people, these candidates d o n ’t c a re about Black people.” — U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report, “The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency” The U.S. intelligence community announced it was “confident” that it happened.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report confirmed it.

And now the Mueller Report has documented its scope in breathtaking detail.

Russia interfered to disrupt American democracy on a massive scale. An administration official recently falsely downplayed this unprecedented act of sabotage as “a few Facebook ads.”

This year’s “State of Black America” by the National Urban League that was scheduled for release Monday shows how wrong that characterization is.

We’ve taken a close look at the state of the black vote, from racially motivated voter suppression laws, to wrong-headed U.S. Supreme Court decisions that hampered voting rights, to the race-based manipulation

Marc H. Morial of African-American voters by Russian trolls.

What we determined is alarming.

Since the release of the Mueller Report, the Trump administration has careened among wildly contradictory positions, from flatly denying Russian interference as a “hoax,” misrepresenting it as “a few Facebook ads,” to declaring cooperation with hostile foreign agents to be a perfectly legal and natural course of action for a political campaign.

As the “State of Black America” details, we can accept nothing less than a clear-eyed accounting of what really happened and an aggressive, comprehensive plan to combat it.

For African-Americans, the unobstructed right to vote has been an ongoing, centuries-long battle. Russian interference is just the latest chapter in the bloodsoaked saga.

Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, Black Americans who were not enslaved had voting rights in some jurisdictions. In the Dred Scott decision, the court held that the rights and privileges of citizenship afforded by the U.S. Constitution did not apply to black people. This remained the official status of African-Americans until five years after the Civil War when the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted, ensuring the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

The Jim Crow era, from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, made a mockery of the 15th Amendment. Poll taxes, literacy tests, indiscriminate incarceration and violence kept most Black Americans off the voter rolls for nearly a century.

White supremacist terrorists carried out nearly 5,000 documented lynchings to enforce their ideol-

Democracy and voter suppression We all have heard about WikiLeaks and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The report of special counsel Robert Mueller has once more put that on the front pages.

Too often lost in the furor, however, is the far more damaging TrikiLeaks — the tricks and laws used to suppress the vote by partisans, largely Republicans, here at home.

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s right wing gang of five gutted key sections of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby v.

Holder, Republican-controlled states immediately ramped up efforts to create obstacles for voting, particularly for people of color.

In some cases, as in North Carolina, their discriminatory intent was so public that the laws were overturned in federal court. But in most places, the new barriers were in place in 2016. Did it make a difference?

Voting rights expert Ari Berman says, “Absolutely.”

Overall 14 states had new restrictions in place, passed since the Shelby decision. Look at Wisconsin. President Trump won by 22,000 votes. In Wisconsin, 300,000 African-American voters didn’t have the newly required strict photo ID. Black voter turnout in Milwaukee declined by 51,000 votes from 2012, while as Lawyers Com-

mittee President Kristen Clarke noted, voter turnout rates were depressed across the state.

Now we’re headed into 2020.

Republican bastions like Texas, Tennessee and Arizona witnessed surges of Democratic

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. support in 2018. Not surprisingly, they are launching new efforts to suppress the vote. In Texas, the secretary of state announced a plan to purge 95,000 people from the voter rolls because they weren’t citizens.

Independent research then demonstrated that in Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, 60 percent of the 30,000 people on the list had received citizenship long ago. Some of the supposed research was 25 years old. Once more, citizens had to go to court to try to stop the suppression.

In Arizona, Republicans are making it harder to cast an early ballot. In Tennessee, GOP lawmakers are pushing legislation to fine voter registration groups that submit incomplete forms, even by mistake, up to $10,000.

Tequila Johnson, co-founder of the Equity Alliance that focuses on registering people of color, called them out: “We have never seen a bill like this on the floor until we dared to register 86,000 black and brown people to vote. This screams racism.”

Much, much more attention should be paid to this battle.

Happily, the new Democratic

majority in the House of Representatives has made voting rights a priority. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat and chair of the House Oversight Committee, has launched an investigation of voter suppression in Georgia in 2018, where the victor of the gubernatorial race, Brian Kemp, oversaw the election as secretary of state.

As Rep. Cummings detailed, 1.4 million people were purged from the voting rolls from 2012 to 2016; 53,000 — 80 percent of them people of color — had their registrations put on hold; and 214 polling places were shuttered, contributing to lines of more than four hours in heavily black precincts.

Happily, some states are moving to make voting easier and more accessible.

Florida citizens passed a historic referendum restoring the right to vote for felons who have paid their debt to society.

(Now, Republicans in the legislature are trying to undermine that initiative). Automatic voting registration laws have passed in several states.

What’s clear is that interference with our elections and with the right to vote will come far more from the efforts of domestic politicians than it will come from whatever mischief the Russians plan.

The right to vote — the most basic right of a democracy — is still contested in too many states and must be fought, state by state, by citizens of conscience.

The writer is founder and president of the national Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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ogy. Dozens of Americans who were murdered for their voting rights efforts are immortalized as civil rights martyrs. The shocking images of violence helped galvanize the nation in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

But the growing power of the black vote has triggered a devastating backlash. The “State of Black America” documents a resurgence of racially motivated voter suppression over the last decade, including efforts by Russian trolls to stop AfricanAmericans from voting.

We look forward to sharing our findings.

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

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City needs 5- to 7-year budgeting plan Re â&#x20AC;&#x153;Balancing act: Richmond City Council designs a new budget that places a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarettes, increases funding for schools and expands bus service while giving city employees a 3 percent raise,â&#x20AC;? Free Press May 2-4 edition: Richmond City Council was presented with a bold, aggressive budget proposal with the top priorities put up front. We, the council members, all agreed to the priorities, even though we differed in the sources of funding.

The goal of including virtually all of those priorities in a balanced budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year that will begin July 1 has been achieved, but the final product is shortsighted. It is essential that the members of council work together to have at least a five- to seven-year budget plan.

It is not acceptable to fund critical needs for one year without an obligation to future-year funding. Establishing processes to fund infrastructure beyond one year is mandatory. Are we planning to set expectations, fully fund the obligations and evaluate outcomes? Will equity disparity really be addressed? Will schools need an additional $30 million in each of the next five years? Are we obligated to performanceachieving budgets?

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not do enough for deferred maintenance. In many cases, the budget should include a plan for replacement of buildings. The cost of maintenance needs to be critically analyzed to determine when replacement is required. We also must create a funding strategy that dedicates a set percentage of revenues to ensure yearly funding for infrastructure. What should residents expect to see? We should survey and find out what residents expect. The council should require our staff, our administration, our departments and Richmond Public Schools officials to present an outcome-based achievement plan

by July 1 that clearly gives residents information on what they should expect based on this budget.

Our focus needs to be on achieving results. We also need to plan for ways to grow the city. Our successes today have been achieved largely through strategic economic planning and development. We need to focus on growing equitable job opportunities; enhancing our workforce; fair, inclusive housing; and planning for our future growth to meet revenue demands and remain a competitive place to live and work. ELLEN F. ROBERTSON Richmond The writer represents the 6th District on Richmond City Council.

Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealth gap worsens If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like me, every time you hear a news reporter or anchor talk about how great the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is, you wonder what world they are living in. Certainly these journalists are not referring to the ongoing struggle to make ends meet that so much of Black America faces. For every daily report of Wall Street trading or rising corporate profits, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reminded that somebody else is doing just fine financially.

To put it another way, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Will I ever get past my payday being an exchange day â&#x20AC;Ś when I can finally have the chance to keep a portion of what I earn in my own name and see how much it can grow?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; When new research speaks to those who are forgotten on most nightly news shows, I feel obliged to share that news, especially when conclusions find systemic faults suppress our collective ability to strengthen assets enough to make that key transition from paying bills to building wealth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ten Solutions to Close the Racial Wealth Divideâ&#x20AC;? is jointly authored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Ohio State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. This insightful and scholarly work opens with updates on the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nagging and widening racial wealth divide. It then characterizes solutions offered as one of three approaches: programs, power and process.

According to the authors, programs refer to new govern-

ment programs that could have a major impact on improving the financial prospects of lowwealth families. Power refers to changes to the federal tax code that could bring muchneeded balance to the tax burden now borne by middle- and low-income workers. Process refers to changes in the way the government operates in regard to race and wealth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For far too long we have

Charlene Crowell tolerated the injustice of a violent, extractive and racially exploitive history that generated a wealth divide and where the typical black family has only a dime for every dollar held by a typical white family,â&#x20AC;? said Darrick Hamilton, report coauthor and executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University.

From 1983 to 2016, the median black family saw their wealth drop by more than half after adjusting for inflation, compared to a 33 percent increase for the median white households. Keep in mind that these years include the Great Recession that stole nearly $1 trillion of wealth from black and Latinx families, largely via unnecessary foreclosures and lost property values for those who managed to hold on to their homes.

Fast forward to 2018, and the report shares the fact that the median white family had 41 times more wealth than the median black family, and 22 times more wealth than the median Latinx family. Instead of the $147,000 that median white families owned last year, black households had $3,600.

When Congress passed tax cut legislation in December

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With the majority of black households renting today instead of owning their homes, escalating rental prices diminish, if not remove, the ability for many consumers of color to save for a home down payment. As reported by CBS News earlier this year, the national average monthly cost of fair market rent in 2018 was $1,405.

Recent research by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition on housing affordability found that more than 8 million Americans spend half or more of their incomes on housing, including more than 30 percent of black people and 28 percent of Hispanics.

Homeownership, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, remains a solid building block to gain family wealth.

But with an increasing number of households paying more than a third of their income for rent, the ability to save for a home down payment is seriously weakened.

CRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed remedy in recent testimony before the Senate Banking Committee is to strengthen affordable housing in both homeownership and rentals. To increase greater access to mortgages, CRL further advocates low

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Flying Squirrels pitcher hopes 100 mph throws get him to big leagues

Jackie Jackson scores for the Harlem Globetrotters.

VUU’s Jackie Jackson of Harlem Globetrotters fame dies at 79 Jackie Jackson of the Harlem Globetrotters was a legendary fan favorite. It didn’t matter whether the basketball game was inside or out, serious or more for fun.

Mr. Jackson, known to most as “Jumpin’ Jackie Jackson,” died Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 79.

Few athletes are more synonymous with their nickname. Mr. Jackson earned the “Jumpin’ ” tag as a young man when, on a bet, he snatched a quarter off the top of the backboard at Rucker Playground at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. He was a regular at the outdoor Rucker Tournament that drew big-name pro and college talent, along with streetball legends.

Mr. Jackson enjoyed putting on a show on the basketball court, but he could play it straight if need be.

While playing for Coach Tom Harris at Virginia Union University, the 6-foot-5 Mr. Jackson set rebounding records that have survived more than a half century. During the 1960-61 season at VUU, he averaged 24.7 rebounds. Twice he grabbed 30 in a single game.

Mr. Jackson became the 43rd overall pick by the San Francisco Warriors in the 1962 NBA draft, but instead signed with the Harlem Globetrotters. At the time, AfricanAmerican players were a distinct minority in the NBA. He thrilled fans for 20 years with the Globetrotters, often turning sleight-of-hand feeds from Meadowlark Lemon into thunderous dunks. Other teammates on the talented team included Marques Haynes and Fred “Curly” Neal.

Mr. Jackson was born in New Bern, N.C., and moved with his family to Brooklyn at a young age. At Boys High in Brooklyn, his teammates included future NBA stars Lenny Wilkins and Connie Hawkins, and future baseball great Tommy Davis.

Mr. Jackson left his mark on many courts throughout the United States and abroad with the Globetrotters.

He is a member of the Hall of Fames at Boys High, Virginia Union University, the CIAA, Rucker Playground and the Harlem Globetrotters.

A book titled “The Legend of Jumpin’ Jackie Jackson” was released by Adelphi Publishing in 2008. It was penned

by Mr. Jackson, along with author Carl Agard.

Mr. Jackson also was on the list of “25 Greatest Streetball Players of All Time” compiled by Angel Diaz and Justin Block.

A funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Holy House of Prayer, 1768 St. John’s Place in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Walking to the batter’s box to face where handling Adon’s special deliveries Melvin Adon must feel like walking is part of the job assignment. the plank.

“Melvin’s got one of the best fastballs Few pitchers unleash a fastball with I’ve ever caught,” Zambrano said. “It’s more fury and frightening velocity than not just fast, but heavy.” the Richmond Flying Squirrels’ bullpen Adon’s secondary pitches need polace. ish. His two-seam fastball — he calls The 24-year-old right-hander from Santo it a “sinker” — and change-up require Domingo, Dominican Republic, is a fullysome fine tuning. fledged frat brother in the select “Triple Squirrels manager Willie Harris and Digit Society.” That means he has hit or pitching Coach Glenn Dishman are surpassed 100 mph with a pitch often too bringing Adon along cautiously in his hot to handle by rival hitters. first season of AA baseball. Through the In each of the last three seasons, Adon team’s first 34 games this season, he has has been named to Baseball America’s made 10 relief appearances, posting a 1.80 list of confirmed hurlers reaching 100 earned run average with 19 strikeouts in mph on TrackMan Baseball, an evaluat15 innings. ing device used by all major and minor Signed in 2015, this is Adon’s fifth pro league squads. season. He started 62 of his 69 appear“Melvin’s consistently 98 to 100 (mph), ances before joining the Flying Squirrels. and has been as high as 102” mph, said He struck out 277 batters in the lower Trey Wilson, the Flying Squirrels’ director minors, but his 14-22 record and 4.36 Melvin Adon of communications and broadcasting.

ERA were beneath expectations, thus, “You really can’t go by the stadium radar” located in centerfield the move to the bullpen this past fall. at The Diamond, he said. “It’s wildly inconsistent. TrackMan Quickly, his status took on a brighter glow. He was named is the official way pitching speed and other statistics, such as to the Arizona Fall League All-Prospect Team and Fall League spin rate (of pitching) and launch angle (of batted balls)” is Rising Star. He is now the San Francisco Giants’ 15th top determined. overall prospect.

Todd “Parney” Parnell, the Flying Squirrels vice president Adon’s name could be short for “Adonis.” The 6-foot-4, 235and chief operating officer, needs no new-fangled data to assess pound Adon has broad shoulders and narrow hips. He has more the promising Adon. the look of a heavyweight boxer and NFL middle linebacker “He throws flames,” Parney said. than a baseball hurler.

Since being converted from starter to reliever by the San If he’d been born anywhere but Santo Domingo, he might Francisco Giants parent club, Adon has emerged as a full-fledged, have chosen another sport over baseball. But in his Caribbean big league prospect. homeland, baseball rules.

Adon and leftfielder Chris Shaw are the lone Squirrels on “It has always been baseball for me,” Adon said. “Baseball the Giants’ 40-man roster. is the No. 1 sport in the Dominican Republic,” he said.

“My goal is to keep improving, make adjustments and get It shows. There were about 80 Dominicans on big league to San Francisco — hopefully this season,” Adon told the Free rosters starting this season and hundreds more in the minors.

Press through interpreter and coach Eliezer Zambrano.

And there’s plenty room for more.

Known as the “original Squirrel,” Zambrano was a catcher for In Adon’s case, he’s hopeful his fastball is his ticket all the the Squirrels from 2010 to 2017 and now serves as bullpen coach, way to San Francisco.

VSU women track and field competitors win top individual honors Virginia State University women earned top individual honors at the CIAA Track and Field Championships on May 4 and 5 in Bowie, Md. Jeia Gilliam was named the Field Events Most Outstanding Performer, while Kyla Frank won the Track Events Most Outstanding Performer.

Gilliam, who is from Houston, won the shot put and discus throw and was second in the javelin throw.

Frank, who is from Washington, won 1,500- and 3,000-meter runs, took third

place in the 800 and ran a leg on the Trojans’ 4x400 relay team that placed fifth.

VSU Coach Wilbert Johnson’s women’s team finished third overall, while the VSU men finished second in the team standings.

VSU’s Allen Blair won the long jump and Brandon Slade captured the shot put.

Virginia Union University’s Micah Kipruto was the men’s champion in the 5,000 meter competition.

St. Augustine University was the men’s team champion, while Winston-Salem State University took top team honors for the women.

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VUU’s Shamdu Nalls trying out for Buffalo Bills Virginia Union University’s Shamdu Nalls has signed a free agent contract to try out for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.

The 6-foot-4, 330-pound offensive lineman from Baltimore will report to an offseason training session on May 19.

Nalls was a two-time, All-CIAA performer. This past season, his blocking helped the VUU Panthers to 45 points per game and 253 yards rushing.

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VUU has a history of sending offensive linemen to the NFL. Cornelius Johnson played with the Baltimore Colts from 1967 to 1973, and Herb Scott played with the Dallas Cowboys from 1975 to 1984.

More recently, David Mims spent time with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens.

Among the Buffalo Bills’ returning linemen is Petersburg native Quinton Spain, who played collegiately at West Virginia University.

Local players have helped NBA teams make it to the finals If someone dusted the NBA playoff archives for fingerprints, they would discover ample evidence of Richmond area talent.

Local players have played — and even been leading attractions — on NBA championship teams at least seven times. Make that nine times if you fudge the boundaries a tad.

Here are a few highlights: Gerald Henderson (Huguenot High School, Virginia Commonwealth University): The Richmonder helped win NBA titles with the Boston Celtics (1981), Seattle SuperSonics (1984) and Detroit Pistons (1990).

Famously, he stole a James Worthy pass to seal the Celtics’ Game 2 in 1981 finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. In 1990, he made the gamewinning layup with 1.8 seconds left to beat the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 4 of the finals.

Bobby Dandridge (Maggie Walker High School, Norfolk State University): The Milwaukee Bucks and Washington Wizards (formerly the Washington Bullets) have each won just one championship. Dandridge was a leading man in each.

In 1971, Dandridge averaged 19.2

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Bobby Dandridge

points in Milwaukee’s first and only championship series. In 1978, Dandridge averaged 21.2 in Washington’s lone title series.

Moses Malone (Petersburg High School): Few men ever dominated a playoff final like Malone in 1983 with the Philadelphia 76ers against the Lakers.

The 6-foot-10 center, who bypassed college to go straight to the NBA, averaged 26 points and 15 rebounds throughout the playoffs and was named the finals’ MVP. Also in 1983, Malone made his famed “Fo, Fo and Fo” prediction, meaning Philadelphia would win three straight rounds with four-game sweeps.

He wasn’t far off. Philly lost just one game — to Milwaukee in the

Moses Malone

Ben Wallace

Eastern finals.

Ben Wallace (Virginia Union University): Whenever Wallace scored or rebounded in Detroit home games, the public address system played a deep “chime,” an allusion to Big Ben in London.

The chime was working overtime in 2004 when Wallace helped the Pistons to a 4-1 decision over the Lakers.

Wallace averaged 12.4 rebounds and 3.2 blocks and was a tower of strength defensively.

It may be a bit of a stretch to include Jerome Kersey from Longwood University in Farmville, but it’s hard ignoring “The Cobra.”

Kersey helped Portland to the NBA finals in 1990 and 1992 and had a role in the San Antonio Spurs’ 1999

championship over the New York Knicks. Kersey played many times in the area against Randolph-Macon College and VUU. Another champion from the fringe was Hampton University’s Rick Mahorn, who helped Detroit’s “Bad Boys” to the 1989 championship over the Lakers.

There have been other near misses in the NBA finals.

In 1993, Mark West (Petersburg High School, Old Dominion University) was a key man inside for the Phoenix Suns in the team’s loss in the finals to the Chicago Bulls, featuring Michael Jordan.

Charles Oakley (Virginia Union University): 1994 was a banner season for the “Big Oak.” He made the NBA All-Star team and helped the New York Knicks to the playoff finals, losing 4-3 to the Houston Rockets.

The series pitted Hall of Fame centers Hakeem Olajuwon of Houston against Patrick Ewing of the Knicks.

Oakley did his share inside, averaging 13.2 points and 11.7 rebounds.

Among those just missing the NBA finals spotlight was Eric Maynor (Virginia Commonwealth University).

The former first round draft pick was

Russell Westbrook’s backup for the Oklahoma City Thunder before tearing his ACL on Jan. 7, 2012.

The thunder went on to lose to the Miami Heat in the 2012 finals.

Paul Pressey (George Wythe High School, University of Tulsa): Known as the original “point forward,” Pressey and his teams made the playoffs nine seasons without reaching the finals.

Johnny Newman (University of Richmond): The former UR Spider helped teams to playoffs for six seasons but never got to the NBA finals.

But don’t close the book on Richmond’s postseason success.

Among the teams on an uptick are the Brooklyn Nets with Ed Davis (Benedictine College Preparatory, University of North Carolina) and Treveon Graham (VCU).

The Nets improved from 28-54 in 2019 to 42-40 this year before falling to Philadelphia in the NBA playoffs’ opening series.

And don’t forget Frank Mason (Petersburg High School, University of Kansas) with the Sacramento Kings.

There’s plenty of time for the area’s stars to pen another chapter for the NBA record book.

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Natasha Freeman, president of Project Yoga Richmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors, encourages the community to embrace yoga because the practice allows people â&#x20AC;&#x153;to be fully embodied while grounding and mending our body and spirit.â&#x20AC;?

PYR was started nine years ago by yogis Arlene Bjork, Jonathan Miles, Dana Walters, Michelle Martello, Pam Cline and Wendy Warren, with a goal to make yoga accessible and affordable to practitioners of all abilities through the spirit of giving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They knew there was a need for yoga,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Freeman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since yoga has been westernized, it has not been available to everyone because of the high price tag attached to it. It is similar to the fact that fitness is not just for the rich, although it is sometimes not accessible to everyone.â&#x20AC;?

As a nonprofit, PYR is funded through its programming partnerships with local yoga practitioners committed to providing free or â&#x20AC;&#x153;pay-what-you-canâ&#x20AC;? classes and outdoor series classes. The goal is to share the physical, mental, emotional and/ or spiritual benefits of yoga, Ms. Freeman says.

One of the partnership programs is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Salutations,â&#x20AC;? an outdoor yoga series that started last Saturday and runs through early fall on the Virginia Museum of Fine Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Belvedere Deck, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. The Saturday session is family-friendly and open to all levels of yoga practitioners.

Participants are required to arrive by 8:45 a.m. to check in prior to class.

Ms. Freeman says PYR also delivers programming to underserved communities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; autistic children and adults, senior citizens, low-income residents and incarcerated youths, where there can be a lot of misunderstanding and rage, hatred and anger, sadness and hurt, especially in the jail system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yoga is a practice with the power to change lives,â&#x20AC;?

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she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our practices really do have power and can cause massive shifts in our lives. This produces a more tolerant, pleasant, loving and compassionate Richmond.â&#x20AC;?

Ms. Freeman, who was elected president of the board earlier this year, will serve two years at the help of PYR. In March, the board approved a strategic plan, giving the organization a concrete vision for the future, she notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am excited to oversee and move the needle with that action plan,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Freeman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now we are taking actionable steps to parse out what we can do over the next four years.â&#x20AC;?

The biggest goal, she says, is to expand PYRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio and move into the city, where the majority of the community they serve is located. The present location is not accessible by GRTC, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That pending move creates more accessibility all the way around, including handicap accessibility,â&#x20AC;? she notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The disabled are a big part of our community, as well as special needs children and adults.â&#x20AC;?

Ms. Freeman knows yoga brings resilience and awareness through personal experience.

She says she had no exposure or understanding of yoga before taking lessons 10 years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2009, I had a nervous breakdown when I was living in Washington,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Freeman explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I moved back to Richmond and was living with my mother after owning a small financial advising firm for 13 years.â&#x20AC;?

She was having debilitating anxiety attacks. Through a friend, Ms. Freeman found her first yoga teacher, Ellie Burke, who was 8 months pregnant with twins. Ms. Burke, she recalls, did a standing split in the first class.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If she can do this, I can do it. Then I am good,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;?

Ms. Freeman recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yoga saved my life â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 100 percent. Yoga taught me to understand that I can control my breath because it is all about that body-breathe connection.

Yoga became a safe place for me.â&#x20AC;?

PYR wants to help people find their safe place through its programming, creating a curriculum around the programming offered in the community and producing more traumainformed teachers as well as health care providers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.

Truly it is a journey all your own,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Freeman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This means to journey of reconnecting to our truth. That truth is not necessarily what we are living. It gets a little muddy by what we think we should be or what society thinks we should be. When you can reconnect to true self, we are able to hear

that voice that connects us to the voice within and be guided by it.â&#x20AC;?

Meet yoga proponent and this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Personality, Natasha Freeman: Top volunteer position: President of the board of directors, Project Yoga Richmond.

Occupation: Founder and owner of Lucid Living, a holistic healing and wellness space.

Date and place of birth: June 17 in Richmond.

C u r re n t re s i d e n c e : Downtown Richmond.

Education: Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in business management, with a minor in Spanish, from Virginia Tech.

When Project Yoga Richmond was founded: 2010.

Project Yoga Richmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission: We believe that yoga has the power to heal and strengthen individuals and, in turn, transform whole communities. Project Yoga Richmond is a nonprofit that makes yoga accessible and affordable to all, through a pay-what-you-can studio and community partnership programs across Greater Richmond.

Features of PYR programs: Our goal is to share the physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual benefits of yoga to promote community wellness and help communities and participants develop mind-body awareness and self-regulation, cultivate self-acceptance and build resilience.

Some organizations Project Yoga partners with: Brook Road Academy at St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Villa; Crisis Stabilization Unit at Richmond Behavioral Health Authority; Safe Harbor; Chesterfield County Jail; NextUp

RVA; Chesterfield County Public Schools at Falling Creek Middle School; Senior Center East at Peter Paul Development Center.

Age of oldest participant: Older than 80 years old.

Age of youngest participant: There are 4 and 5 year olds who attend Saturday Salutations, our outdoor yoga series held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Yoga is: Deeply healing, and truly has the power to transform the mind, body and spirit.

Benefits of yoga in Richmond: We are better united than divided.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve witnessed yoga in RVA bring together different neighborhoods and communities.

Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 challenge: I imagine PYRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 challenge is similar to most nonprofits. We are always striving to learn ways to connect to the individuals and businesses that have a passion to help us move our mission and vision forward through donating their time, talents and financial treasures.

How I plan to meet it: With a strong strategic plan now in place, a well-rounded board of directors and a fund development plan in the works, we are energized to really focus on building stronger relationships within our existing community of volunteers, ambassadors, donors and partnerships, as well as foster new relationships.

Why practice yoga: To ground and center yourself. To practice true embodiment. To connect with community. To reconnect with self.

How I became interested in yoga: Ten years ago, I lost it!

I had a nervous breakdown and the healing power of yoga singlehandedly saved me from a life of debilitating anxiety attacks.

What is the most fun about yoga: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most fun about

yoga for me is also whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most challenging. Every day, you show up differently on the mat. So every day, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new opportunity to lean into the you that is presently showing up.

Favorite yoga pose: Viparita Karani (legs up the wall pose).

I believe that it has the ability to calm most of what ails us.

What kind of equipment is needed: In my teaching style and for my own personal practice, I love to use lots of props â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mat, blankets, bolsters, wedges, straps, blocks and sandbags.

The beautiful part about yoga is that it can be practiced with the absence of all the props.

A quote that I am inspired by: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Listen to silence. It has much to say.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rumi Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Rest! And play Bingo!

Quality I admire in another person: The ability to move in their own truth.

The best thing my parents ever taught me: That I could do and be anything that I desired.

At the top of my â&#x20AC;&#x153;to-doâ&#x20AC;? list is: Engaging in my self-care practices.

Person who influenced me the most: My mother, a real, live Superwoman who has always supported me, no matter how extravagant the idea or endeavor.

Book that influenced me the most: â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Win Friends and Influence Peopleâ&#x20AC;? by Dale Carnegie. It taught me how to create authentic connections with people, both in business and in life.

What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reading now: Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reading it again, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind and Spiritâ&#x20AC;? by Queen Afua. It details steps to take to reconnect to the Feminine Divine.

My next goal: In life, I flow. In business, Lucid Living is launching a CBD herbal tea! On PYRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to move through presenting and adopting our budget for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

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Happenings Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12. It’s a day for pampering mom with flowers and gifts and taking her to dinner to show her how much we love and appreciate her for all she has done for us.

Mothers often show their love for their children in unique ways, like leaving an encouraging note in your lunchbox on test day or fixing your favorite food on your birthday.

The Free Press asked people on the street:

In what unique way did your mother show you she loved you?

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Casey Thompson, 20, The Fan, Virginia Commonwealth University student: My mom does everything for me. She says there isn’t a single thing she can’t do for me.

She is there for me all of the time. On holidays she would go above and beyond with gifts, like the big Easter baskets that were completely personalized.

Now she fills up boxes of teaching materials for me.

James Butler, 60, Henrico County, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College student: My mother never gave up on me, no matter what. She was the angel God sent to watch over me and was always in my corner. She was a blessing in my life.

Carol Branch, 78, Church Hill, retiree: My mother was a fabulous cook and loved to bake.

She loved to eat, especially sweets. After watching, I learned to eat to live and not live to eat. Through my mother, I learned to do that.

S e re n a R a m i re z , 20, Northern Virginia, VCU student: My mother was a single mom and worked late nights so we could have everything she wanted us to have. My siblings and I appreciated that. She instilled in us to always work hard for what you want because that is fulfilling.

Rev. Carl J. Baskerville, 69, Washington Park, professional barber and hair stylist: My mother was a laundrywoman who worked at Fort Lee. She would make me feel good when I cleaned up the house for her, washed clothes and helped her with the kids.

She made me feel special when she bought special foods I liked and prepared them for me.

Justin Brown, 21, Wo o d b r i d g e , V C U student: My mother drove me to homecoming and prom every year when I was in high school. That was a big deal for me because I had a date for both events but no car.

I was very appreciative of that.

Melvin Henley, 48, North Side, caretaker: My mother took care of me so I could get to this age. Now I’m taking care of her.

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Journalist Yamiche Alcindor, second from left, walks in Norfolk State University’s 104th Commencement procession last Saturday at Dick Price Stadium on the Norfolk campus with NSU Interim President Melvin T. Stith, left. Ms. Alcindor, White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, was the commencement speaker during ceremonies at which nearly 500 students were awarded undergraduate or advanced

degrees. Members of the 50th reunion Class of 1969 were recognized during the ceremony. The Class of 1969 was the first to graduate from Norfolk State College, which became an independent institution of higher education on Feb. 1, 1969. Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston, a senior vice president at Ohio State University, is expected to take over as NSU’s seventh president in June.

Celebrating Asian-American culture Gianna Sa, 7, of Chesterfield County, performs a traditional Cambodian dance with members of the Cambodian Dance Troupe of the Khmer Samacky Monastery in Henrico last Saturday during the 22nd Annual Asian American Celebration. Location: Greater Richmond Convention Center. The event featured food, music, performances, exhibits, games and educational crafts from a variety of Asian nations. Right, Marcus Brown Jr., 4, and his mother, Lesli Brown, work on creating an Indonesian flower offering called a “Ganang Sari” at the Indonesian cultural activity booth during the festival.

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¿Que Pasa? Festival The food, music and art of Virginia’s Latino communities were in the spotlight last Saturday at the 2019 ¿Que Pasa? Festival, sponsored by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce along the Riverfront Canal Walk in Shockoe Slip. Right, couples dance to the rhythms of Latin music, while festivalgoers, below, line up for boat rides along the canal in vessels decorated like the boats in Xochimilco, Mexico.

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Shopping for wearable art Dacia Henry, left, and Pat Smith of Richmond peruse earrings made by artist Shirley Hellms of Bremo Bluff during the 48th Annual Arts in the Park last Saturday.

More than 450 artists from around the country showed off their work, which was for sale, during the event at the Carillon at Byrd Park. The show is sponsored by the Carillon Civic Association, and attracts painters, potters, photographers, jewelers and other craftspeople.

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Shanna Latia of Richmond, standing at right, a trained yoga and Himalayan sound bowl therapist, helps Candace Benn of Chester feel the vibrations from the handcrafted Tibetan bowl during the 3rd Annual Peace Love RVA Yoga Festival last Saturday at Maymont. The free festival highlighted the growing yoga community in Richmond and urged compassion and love for all through a full day of free yoga classes and meditation led by area instructors.

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Widow of Mother Emanuel pastor: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Much prayer is neededâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; four years after attack Religion News Service

Jennifer Pinckney had hoped to be in Bible study on the evening of June 17, 2015.

But her 6-year-old daughter had other plans.

The two were in the senior pastorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., on the night that Dylann Roof opened fire during the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wednesday night Bible study, killing nine people. Among the victims was the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastor, a member of the South Carolina state senate and Jennifer Pinckneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband.

She and her daughter heard the shots, barricaded the door and hid under a desk in a secretaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, according to her testimony during the penalty phase of Mr. Roofâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be quiet. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say anything,â&#x20AC;? she told her daughter.

The two survived.

Mr. Roof eventually was sentenced to death.

In the years since the attack at Mother Emanuel, Mrs. Pinckney has worked hard to pick up the pieces and to give her daughters a sense of a normal life. She was recently in Atlanta, where her daughters were taking part in a dance competition, and sat down for an interview with Religion News Service.

Q: It has been almost four years since the tragic events of the Charleston shooting. Can you take us back to the day it happened and what you experienced?

A: In the beginning, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in denial. You

donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always register when things became real to me. I can remember happen, especially as traumatic as sitting in his car and crying. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Charleston shooting. You just when it became real for me. There kind of think to yourself, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Did this have been other moments, but I can happen to me?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; remember that one vividly.

To be honest, at first, I was a little Q: Are there any other emotions in denial that it really happened at that you had to deal with after your all. I can tell you that I immediately husband was murdered? went into mom mode to protect and A: There are just different little things be there for my two girls, which was I went through, like when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go into and still is my first priority. I can his closet, the bedroom, the bathroom.

Rev. Pinckney remember getting home that night I never moved his pajamas that he and seeing police cars everywhere in our yard had left out. Even when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking at my girls, and allowing my girls to briefly look out the sometimes I can see him in them. window as I tried to explain to them the reality Q: There has been so much said about your of what had happened. husband. Who was he to you?

Q: How are you and the kids doing?

A: There are many people who think they A: We have our good and bad days. We are knew him, but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, which is one of the living in Columat no matter how busy he got, the hardest things that I have to deal with. girls and I came first. He would always take time Clementa was so relatable to whoever he for us. Clementa would hear everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of would meet. He was a tall man, so when he view. Many of his colleagues called him one of would talk to the girls, he would kneel down the most peaceful people that they knew. to their level to speak to them. He was a calm Q: How have you handled the pressure of man. Even when he served in the state Senate, being in the public eye?bia, S.C. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m adjusting his colleagues would say he would hear both to being a single parent, and the girls are do- sides and would remain calm in listening. ing well in school and enjoying participating One of his favorite sayings was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Have you in dance competitions, which they have been thought about it this way?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;He was truly an attentive involved in since they were little girls. man. As busy as he was, Sunday was our time as Q: When did it become real to you that your a family. He would intentionally block that time husband was gone? off for us even after preaching on Sundays.

A: Because he traveled a lot, it was easy for Q: What type of pastor was he? me to think that he would be coming home.

A: I can still remember his sermons. In So at first, it was like he was gone on a trip. It fact, after his death, I went back and listened wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until they brought his car home that it to some of them. Although I was in the room

when he preached them, listening to them again ministered to me. His sermons felt like he was ministering to me from his grave.

His sermons have ministered to me through some tough moments in my life.

Q: A lot has changed in America the last three years. What are your thoughts?

A: Yeah, a lot has changed, which is why I think much prayer is needed.

Q: What is your life like today?

A: After the incident took place, there were lots of people around and the phone was constantly ringing. Then after a while, everything just stops and people move on.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a mom first, and raising my two girls is my first priority in life. I want to make sure that I do that role well.

Q: How do you raise two girls whose father was killed because of a hate crime?

A: You know, I try to teach them just because someone may not like you, you have to go beyond that. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always going to run into difficult situations and different kinds of people, and you have to get beyond that personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ignorance.

Q: What would you like for people to remember about your husband?

A: That he loved God, he loved and respected everyone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also important to note th A: Before the tragedy, most people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even really recognize me. When the tragedy happened and the media started coming around and started coming to my house, I had to go into protection mode to make sure that my girls were cared for.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a mother first.

Burkini to be featured in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is going to feature trailblazer Halima Aden.

Ms. Aden will be the first woman to sport a hijab and burkini in the magazine, which hit newsstands on Wednesday, SI revealed this week.

In a photo shared to the official Instagram page for the issue, Ms. Aden, 21, smiles in the water.

For her shoot, Ms. Aden returned to her home country of Kenya. She was born and remained at the Kakuma Refugee Camp until heading for the United States at the age of 7, SI reports.

In the states, Ms. Aden found success and broke barriers. She

also opting to wear a burkini for the swimsuit round.

On â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Morning Americaâ&#x20AC;? on Monday, Ms. Aden revealed the shoot was emotional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely had a lot of moments where everybody was, like, breaking down crying because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge moment,â&#x20AC;? she recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sports Illustrated is proving that a girl wearModel Halima Aden wears a burkini in Sports Illustrated magazine. ing a bikini can be signed to IMG Models after pageant in 2016. She became right alongside a girl wearing making headlines for competing the first woman to wear her a burkini,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And as in a hijab at her stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Miss USA traditional Muslim headpiece women, we can come alongside for the entire competition, each other and be each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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Mid-Day Bible Study 12 Noon Prayer & Praise 6:30 P.M. Bible Study 7 P.M. (Children/Youth/Adults)

Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Unity Service

3UNDAY -AY AT A M Music rendered by The S.H. Thompson Memorial & The Senior Choirs

CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (NDCA)

SATURDAY

Accepting applications for children 2 yrs. old to 5th Grade

8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

You can now view Sunday Morning Service â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS IT HAPPENSâ&#x20AC;? online!

Also, for your convenience, we now offer â&#x20AC;&#x153;full online giving.â&#x20AC;?

Visit www.ndec.net.

ENROLL NOW!!!

Our NDCA curriculum also consists of a Before and After program.

Now Enrolling for our Nursery Ages 6 weeks - 2yrs. old.

For more information Please call (804) 276-4433 Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

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WEDNESDAY 12:00 p.m. Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Bible Study

During the month of May all Sunday Worship Services will be held at 10 a.m. Church School will be held at 8:30 a.m.

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Worship Opportunities

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SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:45 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 A.M.

UNION BAPTIST CHURCH

St. Peter Baptist Church

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2604 Idlewood Avenue Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Pastor Rev. Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. Pastor Emeritus

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day

Saturday - Sunday May 25 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 26, 2019

ALL ARE WELCOME

Dr. Wallace J. Cook, Pastor Emeritus

Rev. Dr. James E. Leary, Interim Pastor

Remember...

At New Deliverance, You Are Home!

See you there and bring a friend.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Serving Richmond since 1887

Ebenezer Baptist Church 11:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

Every 3rd Sunday 2nd Sunday, 11 a.m.

Mon. 6:30 p.m.

Tues. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Wed. 6:45 p.m.

Wed. 4:30 p.m.

Wed. 6:00 p.m.

Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

Sunday, May 12, 2019 Sunday School â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:30 AM Morning Worship â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 AM Speaker: Rev. Dr. Cheryl Harris

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Honoring God ... and serving people THANKS TO YOU for over 64 years and looking for 64 more years

Sunday Worship Sunday Church School Service of Holy Communion Service of Baptism Life Application Bible Class Mid-Week Senior Adult Fellowship Wednesday Meditation & Bible Study Homework & Tutoring Scouting Program Thursday Bible Study

Celebrating Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gift of Motherhood

USA Today via Religion News Service

Happy Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day

Garland Avenue Baptist Church

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Sunday, May 19, 2019

11:00 a.m. Worship Service Theme:

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remaining Faithful Women in Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Societyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come and be blessedâ&#x20AC;?

Speaker: Sergeant Carol Adams Founder of the Carol Adams Foundation

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Richmond Free Press

May 9-11, 2019

B5

Faith News/Directory

God’s gouda: Nuns in Albemarle County make cheese Photos and story by Erin Edgerton Capital News Service

From left, Sister Maria Gonzalo, Sister Barbara Smickel and Sister Myriam Saint-Vilus take a break from cheese making to practice a song for Palm Sunday Mass.

Sister Myriam Saint-Vilus unwraps and cuts a wheel of gouda in the monastery’s kitchen for a spaghetti dinner.

The nuns use the cheese for almost every meal; it never goes to waste. “How can you get sick of something that you are proud of? We know how it is made and what is in it,” Sister Saint-Vilus said.

Tucked in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, down a lengthy stretch off U.S. 250, over a bridge, through the woods and at the end of a gravel road sits Our Lady of the Angels Monastery perched on a hillside. The 13 nuns who live there believe God has a plan for everyone.

When Sister Barbara Smickel arrived on the newly purchased 507-acre farm in Albemarle County in 1987, she was surprised to find an abandoned cheese barn filled with ready-to-use machinery. Without much hesitation, Sister Smickel and the others realized God’s plan with a self-sustaining lifestyle filled with prayer, devotion and cheese making.

The first rounds of cheese made by the nuns were in 1990. Their semi-soft, mild Dutch-style gouda comes in 2-pound wheels. The sisters use it to make grilled cheese sandwiches and for almost every meal.

The nuns’ day starts around 3 a.m. with a morning prayer. By 7 a.m., Sister Myriam Saint-Vilus leaves Mass early to turn on the autoclave. The windows of the cheese room grow foggy as the room heats up to a proper cheesemixing temperature.

By 9 a.m., Sister Maria Gonzalo forms ovals around steel presses, and by 11 a.m., the machines cut the sheets of cheese mixture into cubes. Sister Jacqueline Melendez takes the cubes and squeezes them into molds.

They work in shifts and wear scrubs and rain boots in the barn — it’s a full-day affair.

“This work is good,” Sister Eve Marie Aragona said.

“It becomes sort of mindless and allows us to work for God in ways similar to prayer and our studies.”

The cheese made by the nuns may be purchased at the monastery or by mail. Information: www.olamonastery.org.

Batch 830 waits in one of the barn’s three chilling rooms to be packaged and sold.

During the holidays, all three chilling rooms are packed with wheels of cheese.

Good Shepherd Baptist Church 1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223-6624 s Office: (804) 644-1402 Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You” Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday) 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

Zion Baptist Church

3HARON "APTIST #HURCH

2006 Decatur Street, Richmond, VA 23224 ZBCOFFICE@VERIZON.NET Dr. Robert L. Pettis, Sr., Pastor (804) 859-1985 Church Office

500 E. Laburnum Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222 www.sharonbaptistchurchrichmond.org (804) 643-3825 Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles, Pastor

SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2019

Sister Maria Gonzalo stirs the cheese on a recent Thursday, cheese-making day at the monastery in Crozet.

The nuns take shifts in helping with the process that takes place in the monastery’s barn. The cheese is stirred in 20-minute intervals. “We always say the secret ingredient is love and prayer. You get out what you put in,” Sister Gonzalo said.

Nuns and guests at Our Lady of the Angels light candles during Easter Vigil Mass at the monastery in Crozet.

“The Church With A Welcome”

Happy Mother’s Day!

Sister Maria Gonzalo opens the curtains to the milk room at the cheese barn.

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“Behold Thy Mother”

8:30 AM - Sunday School K 10:00 AM - Morning Worship Guest Speaker: First Lady Pauline Moore Tenth Memorial Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA

Spring Revival “Revive Us Sunday, May 19, 2019

Morning Worship, 10:00 AM Rev. Dr. Robert L. Pettis, Sr.

Again” Psalm 85:6

Monday, May 20 thru Wednesday, May 22

7:30 PM Nightly Prayer and Praise - 7 PM MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20TH MAY 21ST MAY 22ND Rev. Dr. Jerome Rev. Dr. Alonzo L. Rev. Dr. William E. C. Ross, Pastor, Lawrence, Pastor, Jackson, Sr., Pastor,

Providence Park Baptist Church, Richmond

Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church, Richmond

Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond

For Transportation, call the Church Office

Broad Rock Baptist Church 5106 Walmsley Blvd., Richmond, VA 23224 804-276-2740 • 804-276-6535 (fax) www.BRBCONLINE.org

Early Morning Worship ~ 8 a.m.

Sunday School ~ 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship ~ 11 a.m.

4th Sunday Unified Worship Service ~ 9:30 a.m.

Bible Study: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Sermons Available at BRBCONLINE.org

“MAKE IT HAPPEN” Pastor Kevin Cook

Dr. Rodney D. Waller, Pastor/2700 Hanes Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222 Church Office 804-329-7279/Fax: 804-321-5939 email: firstabc2700@gmail.com/www.firstafricanbaptistchurch.org

Richmond Free Press

B6 May 9-11, 2019

Obituaries/Faith Directory

Shirley J. Logan, former RPS principal, succumbs at 81 Shirley Jefferson Logan was the kind of person who saw the best in everyone, her family said. Her positive approach was important to her work as a principal at the now-closed Clark Springs Elementary School and at Ginter Park Elementary in Richmond.

Mrs. Logan “understood the power of education in the lives of children and in her own. She saw potential in every student and took it upon herself to encourage them beyond the limits they envisioned,” her family stated in a tribute.

A Richmond native who also was active in her church and in an array of community, service and social groups, Mrs. Logan died Sunday, April 28, 2019. She was 81.

Family and friends celebrated her life Monday, May 6, at Riverview Baptist Church, where she was a member for more than 70 years. Interment was in Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Known for her big smile and easy laugh, Mrs. Logan began her 37-year career as a teacher and school administrator after graduating from Maggie Walker High School and Virginia Union University. She later earned a master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and took additional courses at the

College of William & Mary and the University of Virginia.

Before becoming a principal, she served as a curriculum specialist at John B. Cary Elementary School.

She was a member of the Richmond Education Association and was active with the scholarship committee and planning the annual fundraising event for the Mrs. Logan Virginia Chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, an honor society for educators.

In early childhood, her parents “instilled in her the importance of faith, family fellowship and the pursuit of excellence,” her family said. “Those lessons guided and shaped how she lived her life.”

Church was a mainstay in Mrs. Logan’s life. At Riverview Baptist Church, Mrs. Logan served as a deacon and also chaired the Board of Christian Education, the Scholarship Committee and

the Children & Youth Ministries. She also was active in special events, Bible School and other activities and was everyone’s go-to person when help was needed to plan a church event or preside over a program.

Mrs. Logan also found time for other community activities.

She was a former national president of the Delicados Inc. service group and also held other national offices as well as participating in the Richmond chapter. She also was an active member of the Richmond Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and sang with the Delta Pearls and was involved with several committees.

She belonged to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the VUU Alumni Association.

Mrs. Logan traveled widely and enjoyed dancing, gardening, flower arranging, interior design and cooking with her grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband of 58 years, Lawrence L. Logan; three daughters, Monique Logan, Michele Logan and Monica L. Shoulders and three grandchildren.

Minister Abdul Rahman Aquil Rev. Cessar L. Scott Sr., Muhammad, former Southern longtime head of the Baptist Regional Representative for General Convention of the Nation of Islam, dies at 87 Virginia, dies at 74 Free Press staff report

of Islam from 1969 to 1975, died Monday, April 22, 2019, ATLANTA in Atlanta. He was 87.

A janazah prayer service In his leadership capacity, for Minister Abdul Rahman Minister Muhammad “came Aquil Muhammad, a teacher, to Richmond several times to organizer and inspire and upconfidante of lift the people the late Nation in Mosque No. of Islam leader 24 and the genMinister Elijah eral population Muhammad and in the city,” a longtime aide said Halim to his successor, Muhammad, Minister Louis who helped Farrakhan, was organize the held Saturday, Richmond Minister Muhammad April 27, 2019, mosque. at the late Rev. Ralph D. Minister Muhammad was Abernathy’s historic West called the “Rock of the South,” Hunter Street Baptist Church for his work in the region in Atlanta. stretching from Virginia to Minister Muhammad, who Texas. served as the Southern Regional He had an impact on educaRepresentative for the Nation tion and economics in many

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Street Road, Chesterfield, VA 23120 rd 21209 Hull Rev. Larry Thompson, Pastor ! nual Rally of Rememberance

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MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN

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“March In Memory of a loved One” African or Old Fashion Attire featuring “The Bride” Antique Cars, Bikes and Motorcycles welcome! Plus Car Show!

For More Information Contact: Hazel Walker-Hobson at (804) 512-2456

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SUNDAYS Church School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. ❖

WEDNESDAYS Bible Study 7:00 p.m. ❖

THIRD SUNDAY 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Church Higher Achievement 823 North 31st Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 226-0150 Office

communities, leading Muslims in Atlanta to build four restaurants, three fish markets, a bakery, haberdashery, boutique and sewing center.

Born Samuel Saxon Jr. in Atlanta in October 1931, Minister Muhammad first heard the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1955 and joined the Nation of Islam a year later in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Zarifah Rahman Aquil, relocated to Chicago in 1957, where she was an educator at Muhammad University of Islam.

Minister Muhammad helped establish an honor guard for Minister Elijah Muhammad, a Fruit of Islam squad specially trained in the security and personal safety of the Nation of Islam’s leader. Minister Muhammad served on the security team for a decade.

Known in the 1960s as Captain Sam X, Minister Muhammad served as a captain with the Fruit of Islam in Miami and is credited with bringing boxing legend Muhammad Ali into the Nation of Islam. According to the Final Call, he nurtured and advised the young athlete in boxing and faith.

Minister Farrakhan officiated at the janazah prayer service, after which Minister Muhammad’s casket was taken by horse-drawn carriage to Lincoln Cemetery, where he was buried.

Survivors include his wife and several children.

For three decades, the Rev. Cessar L. Scott Sr. ranked among the foremost African-American clerics in Virginia.

When Rev. Scott spoke, people listened as he represented more than 1,000 congregations as executive minister of the Richmond-based Baptist General Convention of Virginia.

Through his leadership from 1978 to 2011, the mild-mannered and soft-spoken minister enabled the BGCV to win recognition as “a strong, leading voice in matters of faith in the state,” U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-3rd, stated in a tribute to Rev. Scott (no relation) at his retirement in June 2011 that was published in Rev. the Congressional Record.

During his tenure, Rev. Scott played a key role in creating or strengthening links between the BGCV and such people-helping, faith-based groups as the Children’s Home of Virginia Baptists, the United Negro College Fund and GraceInside, which supplies chaplains to jails and prisons. He also built up the BGCV’s ties with the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the National Baptist Convention USA. Rev. Scott’s contributions to African-American religious affairs are being remembered following his death Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Falls Church. He was 74.

Family and friends paid final tributes to Rev. Scott on Saturday, May 4, at St. Peter Baptist Church in Glen Allen, before he was entombed in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Chesapeake.

Born in Portsmouth in February 1945, just a few months before the Allied victory in World War II, Rev. Scott came to Richmond to attend Virginia Union University, where he graduated with a degree in history and government.

He went on to earn a master’s in divinity from VUU’s School of Theology and a master’s in educational administration and supervision from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Early in his career, he served as pastor of

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Today, the initiative, which the state Department of Social Services financially supports, is housed at the BGCV headquarters, which also houses the offices of the Virginia State Conference NAACP. Rev. Scott also served on the VUU Board of Trustees and the boards of the Council for America’s First Freedom, the Virginia Council of Churches and the state NAACP. He also served on the Sunday School Publishing board of the National Baptist Convention USA and represented the BGCV on the executive committee of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention.

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Legal Notices 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, May 20, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-120 To a u t h o r i z e t h e Highland Grove Preliminary Community Unit Plan permitting the development of a residential community of up to 155 dwelling units on approximately 40 acres of land located at 2651 Richmond-Henrico Turnpike, 2641 RichmondHenrico Turnpike, 500 Dove Street, 509 Dove Street, and 2300 1st Avenue, upon certain terms and conditions. The underlying zoning of the subject property is R-5 Single-Family Residential, R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential, and R-48 Multifamily Residential. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the property for single‑family (low density) land use.

Primary land use under this recommendation is single‑family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. Also included are residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi‑public uses. The maximum density of the proposed development would be approximately four units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-121 To authorize the special use of the property known as 20 North Belmont Avenue for the purpose of up to two dwelling units as well as the principal and accessory uses permitted in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is located in an R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Residential at medium densities.

Primary uses for this category “are singlefamily and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre.”

The proposed residential density of the project would be approximately 25 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2019-122 To authorize the special use of the property known as 804 North 22nd Street for the purpose of a multifamily dwelling containing up to four dwelling units and a single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The current zoning for this property is R‑63 MultiFamily Urban Residential.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Mixed Use Residential uses. Primary uses in this category include “single-, two-, and multifamily dwellings, live/work units and neighborhood serving commercial uses developed in a traditional urban form.” No residential density is specified for this land use category.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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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, May 13, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2019-041 As Amended To adopt the General Fund Budget for the fiscal year commencing Jul. 1, 2019, and ending Jun. 30, 2020, and to appropriate the estimated revenues Continued on next column

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for such fiscal year for the objects and purposes stated in such budget.

Ordinance No. 2019-043 As Amended To accept a program of proposed Capital Improvement Projects for the fiscal year beginning Jul. 1, 2019, and for the four fiscal years thereafter; to adopt a Capital Budget for the fiscal year beginning Jul. 1, 2019; and to determine the means of financing the same.

Ordinance No. 2019-044 As Amended To appropriate and to provide funds for financing the school budget for the fiscal year commencing Jul. 1, 2019, and ending Jun. 30, 2020.

Ordinance No. 2019-045 As Amended To adopt the Debt Service Fund Budget for the fiscal year commencing Jul. 1, 2019, and ending Jun. 30, 2020, and to appropriate the estimated expenditures from the Debt Service Fund for the said fiscal year.

Ordinance No. 2019-123 To amend and reordain ch. 22, art. VII of the City Code by adding therein a new section numbered 22-206, concerning a voluntary retirement incentive program, to be effective Jul. 1, 2019, for the purposes of providing for (i) the alternate computation of benefits in connection therewith and (ii) a limited period during which qualified members of the Richmond Retirement System’s defined benefit and enhanced defined benefit plans shall be eligible to retire with a one-time incentive payment.

Ordinance No. 2019-124 To amend City Code § 26-2, concerning the commission for the collection, accounting, and remission of meals taxes, for the purpose of increasing the commission percentage from 1.5 percent to three percent of the amount of such tax due and accounted for.

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 PAMELA SMITH, Plaintiff v.

HENRY SMITH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18003808-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 25th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #2 and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The 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 SHAMSU ABDUL-AZIZ, Plaintiff v.

YAMINAH JACKSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001392-00 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 25th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #2 and protect her interests.

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

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PAUL SAMUELS, Plaintiff v.

HANNAH SCHWARTZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000203-00 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 25th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #2 and protect her interests.

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

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An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NATHAN CARTER, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, VICTORIA BROWN, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that DWAYNE BROWN, who may have an ownership 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D that NATHAN CARTER, VIC T ORI A B RO W N , DWAYNE BROWN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUly 11, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Defendants.

Case No. : CL18-6177 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3124 4th Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000997/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Theodora Parham, Carole Allen Parham and Rose Parham-Jordan, the last being upon information and belief deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, THEODORA PARHAM and CAROLE ALLEN PARHAM, 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 said owner, ROSE PARHAM-JORDAN, 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 H. P. RAPP, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-3380 on January 31, 2003, or its successor/s in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF ATLANTA, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission or the FDIC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-3380 on January 31, 2003, 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 T H EO D OR A PA R H A M , CAROLE ALLEN PARHAM, ROSE PARHAM-JORDAN, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, H. P. RAPP, INC, an entity purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 03-3380 on January 31, 2003, or its successor/s in interest, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF ATLANTA, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission or the FDIC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 033380 on January 31, 2003, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUly 11, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

OLIVIA J. GARLAND and LYNDEN P. GARLAND, SR., Plaintiffs, v.

HARVEY KINNEY ESTATE, et al., Defendant.

Case No.: CL19-1605 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the Plaintiff to quiet title to the real property located at 1017 Nash Road, Sandston, Virginia, 23150, in the County of Henrico, Parcel Identification Number 834-709-8523, Lot 24.5 acres (more or less), and for the Court to establish the Eastern boundary line to said subject Property.

It appearing by affidavit that based on Plaintiffs research and the records currently readily available to them each of the heirs to the Harvey Kinney Estate (Respondent) last known address and social security number are not known, the present whereabouts of these individuals are unknown, and diligence has been used by the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city these individuals live in (if any), is without effect, it is ORDERED that the heirs to the Harvey Kinney Estate (Respondent) appear before this Court on or before June 3, 2019 and protect their interests herein.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk (804) 501-4765 Matthew A. Winer, Esquire Pagano & Marks, P.C. 4510 S. Laburnum Avenue Richmond, VA 23231 Tele: (804) 447-1002 Fax: (804) 562-5924

Stephen B. Wood (VSB 26581) The Wood Law Firm, PLC 1503 Santa Rosa Road Suite 109 Richmond, Virginia 23229 Telephone: (804) 288-4007 Facsimile: (804) 288-5973 Cell (804) 873-0088 Steve.wood@woodlawrva.com

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND CAVA CAPITAL-VA BEACH, LLC PLAINTIFF V. ROBERT ST. JOHN HOLDEN ET Al. ORA LEE HOLDEN MCCRAY EARL RUDOLPH BURWELL JACQUELINE DAYE EMMA DAYE TAYLOR CHARLIE MAC DAYE, JR. JIMMY BURWELL DAYE MELISSA DAYE LEANN JONES CALHOUN NICKIE J. FERGUSON JUDY L. JONES FOSTER PATTIE JO JONES JILL ANN JONES BROWN MATTIE B TURNER, ESTATE Mary Louise Lewis a/k/a Mary Catherine Warren Lewis, Executor, ESTATE OF MATTIE B. TURNER JOHN THOMAS BURWELL EDDIE BURWELL DELORES DAYE GILLARD BRENDA SUE DAYE TERESA DAYE MARY DELPHENE DAYE SHIRLEY V. DAYE UNA DAYE KELLY a/k/a UNA MAE KELLEY DAYE RUTH MAY HOLDEN EDDIE JONES, JR. ASHLEY STEWART HAMILTON HEATH OLIVER HEATH VICTORIA J. JONESCOLLICK TAMMIE R POWELL ALONZA POWELL And THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND SUCCESSORS OF: Robert St. John Holden, Charlie Henry Holden, Estille Holden K e l l e y, Tr u d y H o l d e n , Gertrude Elizabeth Holden, Charlie Holden Kelley, Charlie Holden, Delores Holden, Mattie Bell Holden, Elnor Holden Perry, Emma Day Taylor, Henry R. Holden, Mattie B. Holden Turner, Charles Warren Turner, Charles T Warren, Mary Catherine Warren Lewis, John T. Holden, Norman Holden, Lula Jones, Ora Alston, James Arthur Holden, Jonathon Holden, Anna C. Holden, Easter Perry, Harry R. Perry, Harry R Perry, Jr., Lola Cardwell, Emma Lillie Holden Daye, Jacqueline Daye, Seberta N. Holden, Manley L. Perry, Anna C. Holden, Montague Harvey, Montigue Harvey, Bessie Lee Brown Holden, Lula Mae Holden Jones, Eddie Alfonso Jones, Ora Lee Holden Person Alston, Joe Ben Alston, James

Arthur Holden, Joe Nathan Holden, Susie A. Norwood Holden, Susie A Holden, Susie Harvey, Susanna N. Holden, Victoria Person Holden, Harry Roosevelt Perry, Catherine M. Perry, Derrick J. Perry, Janis Perry Cokeman, Frances Perry Jacobs, Harry R. Perry, Jr., Jerry Lane Perry, Morris Ray Perry, Shirley May Chase Perry, Wanda Perry Brown, Cheryl Perry Lewis, Robyn Lynn Brown, Leroy Perry, Chester Arthur Perry, James Thomas Perry, Josephine Riddick, Yvonne Riddick, McDonald Riddick, Jr., Larry R Riddick, Rene Riddick, Michelle Riddick, America Riddick, McDonald Riddick, Michael M. Riddick, Joseph Kelley, Joseph Kelley, II., Nannie McCray, Nannie Webster McCray KelleyDaniels-Barnes, William Alfred Kelley, William Alfred Kelley, Jr., Ruby M. Foxworth Kelley, Garry R Kelley, Ora Lee Holden McCray, Ruth May Holden, Alfonso Daye, Thomas Earl Daye, Lillian Royster Daye, Minnie Bell Daye, Garland Reid Daye, Mary Lizzie Fogg Daye, Bessie Lee Daye Burwell, Earl Rudolph Burwell, Jimmy Burwell Daye, Mary Anne Evans Roger, Linda Daye Evans Alston, Mack Fuller, Alfonsa Daye, Thomas Earl Day, Columbus Wilson, Joann Person, Elroy Turner, Elroy Turner, Jr., Mary Louise Lewis, Clinton Turner, Eddie Burwell Daye, Ralph Tyson Daye Jr., Tammie R Powell, Alonza Powell, Carolyn Lucy Daye, Roslyn Jones Murrill, Joann Person Turner, LaTonya Warren Bedford, Brenda Lewis, Terrence Calloway, Delores Daye Gillard, Brenda Sue Daye, Teresa Daye, Mary Delphene Daye, Shirley V Daye, Eddie Jones, Jr., Ashley Stewart, Hamilton Heath, Oliver Heath, Mattie B.Turner and Marshond Gipper, Tyeshia T. Daye and all of their heirs, successors in interest and/ or assigns if any; and PARTIES UNKNOWN who may have an interest in the property described below who are made parties to this proceeding by the general description as “PARTIES UNKNOWN”, DEFENDANTS AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION CASE No.: CL-19000874-06

The object of this suit is to partition and sell real property in the City of Richmond, Virginia, to wit all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the improvements thereon, lying and being in the City of Richmond, Virginia Known as 415 North 33rd Street, as show on plat by J. K. Timmons, C E &S dated November 5, 1957, attached to and made a part of a certain deed dated November 3, 2014, recorded May 31, 2016 in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Richmond, Virginia, as Instrument Number 16-9968 and described with reference to the said plat as follows:

BEGINNING on the eastern line of 33rd Street 117.83 feet south of Clay Street, running thence southwardly along and fronting 20 feet on the eastern line of 33rd Street, and running back from said front between lines parallel with the southern line of Clay Street 124 fee to a 16-foot alley.

Being the same real estate conveyed to Montique Harvey (A/K/A Montague Harvey and Susie A. Harvey, his wife, as tenants by the entireties with the right of survivorship as at common law, by Deed with special Warranty from First and Merchants National Bank of Richmond, Trustee under the Will of Orion D. King, deceased, dated November 15, 1957, recorded November 15, 1957, in the Clerks of the Chancery Court, in the City of Richmond, Virginia, in Deed Book 582D, Page 517. The said Montique Harvey died, thereby vesting title in the said Property to Susie A. Harvey, his wife, by operation of law.

The said Susie A. Harvey died intestate on January 1, 1989 and according to a List of Heirs recorded in the City of Richmond, Virginia, in Will Book 14, at Page 1440, she was survived by Trudy E. Holden, her daughter.

Gertrude “Trudy” E. Holden died intestate on March 5, 2008 having no offspring and never having married, thereby passing title to her heirs or descendants by law.

Affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the existence of and location of certain parties to be served, and that there are or may be persons whose names are unknown who are interested in the subject matter of this suit;

It is ORDERED that, the Defendants named above and the PARTIES UNKNOWN, if then living or be dead, their heirs, devisees, assigns, or successors in title, and other unknown heirs or parties who have an interest in the subject matter of this suit, who are proceeded against as PARTIES UNKNOWN, appear before Court on or before June 12, 2019 to protect their interests, if any, in this suit and/or the referenced property; and

It is further ORDERED that this Order be published once a week for four consecutive weeks, in The Richmond Free Press, a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Richmond, VA and surrounding areas.

A Copy Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk Counsel for Plaintiff I ask for this:

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER IVY RIBEIRO, Plaintiff v.

DOUGLAS MATTOS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19001393-00 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 25th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 AM, Courtroom #2 and protect his interests.

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

BRIAN MHLONGO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL19000691-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 11th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 2 and protect his interests.

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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re BRANDON SUMMERVILLE File No. J-095264-06-07 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Kyle Gaines (Father) and Unknown (Father), of Brandon Summerville, child, DOB 06/30/2017.

“RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Kyle Gaines (Father) and Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 6/17/2019, at 2:55 PM, Courtroom #4

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

NATHAN CARTER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3099 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.

ETHEL C. SKINNER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-391 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 109 East 17th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000236/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ethel C. Skinner.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ETHEL C. SKINNER, 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 ETHEL C. SKINNER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUly 11, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

NATHAN CARTER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3100 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3406 Delaware Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001265/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Nathan Carter and Victoria Brown.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NATHAN CARTER, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, VICTORIA BROWN, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that DWAYNE BROWN, who may have an ownership 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.”

I T I S OR D ERE D that NATHAN CARTER, VIC T ORI A B RO W N , DWAYNE BROWN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUly 11, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

THEODORA PARHAM, et al.

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

LEWIS C. DOCKERY, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1027 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1207 Rear North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0561/035, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Lewis C. Dockery.

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

IT IS ORDERED that LEWIS C. DOCKERY, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUly 11, 2019 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO EDWARD J. OLIVIS, et al., Plaintiffs, v.

HEIRS OF MITZI DEAN McLAUGHLIN, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL19-1622 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this action is to quiet title in the name of Plaintiffs Edward J. Olivis and Beverly Daniel as to 2804 Sandy Lane, Henrico, Virginia 23223.

It appearing by affidavit that the last addresses of Defendants Heirs of Mitzi Dean McLaughlin andParties Unknown (any other current or former owners, successors in title, heirs, devisees or lien creditors with an interest in this real estate) are unknown, that these Defendants’ present whereabouts are unknown, and diligence has been used by the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city these Defendants are located to no effect, it is ORDERED that these Defendants appear before this Court on or before June 3, 2019, and protect their interests herein.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk W. Mark Dunn, Esquire Shaheen Law Firm, P.C. 8890 Three Chopt Road Richmond, VA 23229 (804) 285-6406

AUCTION NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer the following real estate for sale at public auction at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday May 22, 2019 at 3:00pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any other terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale 2606 North Avenue N0000641006 City of Richmond v. Joseph Carrington, et al.

CL17-2649 2626 Belt Boulevard C0090480034 City of Richmond v. Joseph Mills, et al.

CL18-323 2112 P Street E0000468016 City of Richmond v.

Barbara J. Rucker, et al.

CL18-986 13 West Lancaster Road N0000598003 City of Richmond v. Thelma Green, et al.

CL18-1268 912 North 21st Street E0000420004 City of Richmond v. Henry S. Cherry, et al.

CL18-1569 1316 Nelwood Drive E0002402010 City of Richmond v. Irene Brown, et al.

CL18-2112 504 North 26th Street E0000383011 City of Richmond v. Sallie E. Smith, et al.

CL18-2522 1723 North 21st Street E0000938024 City of Richmond v. Glenn J. Sweeting, et al.

CL18-2896 118 Lipscomb Street S0000150018 City of Richmond v.

Clarence Tucker, et al.

CL18-3207 1220 North 35th Street E0001273030 City of Richmond v. Fred Gorham, Jr., et. al.

CL18-3237 2523 Coles Street S0090104020 City of Richmond v. Donald J. Both, et. al.

CL18-3260 1505 Perry Street S0000202010 City of Richmond v. Joseph W. Dobyns, et. al.

CL18-3447 1510 Spotsylvania Street E0000665025 City of Richmond v. Nicole G. Jones, et. al.

CL18-3449 1237 North 37th Street E0001411018 City of Richmond v. Marvin Doughtie, et. al.

CL18-3497 28 East 32nd Street S0001874022 City of Richmond v. Curtis L. Williams, et. al.

CL18-3605 23 South Morris Street W0000399032 City of Richmond v. Mary S. Smith, et. al.

CL18-3947 2810 Burfoot Street S0001121020 City of Richmond v.

Leonard J. Byrd, et. al.

CL18-3964 2803 Midlothian Turnpike S0000911048 City of Richmond v. Thelma Sor, et. al.

CL18-4098 2101 Redd Street E0000604025 City of Richmond v. Jack Hines, et. al.

CL18-4136 2005 Decatur Street S0000354015 City of Richmond v. Juanita Cousins, et. al.

CL18-4270 2114 P Street E0000468015 City of Richmond v. Pearl Harris, et. al.

CL18-4393 2611 Dale Avenue S0090301028 City of Richmond v. Robert L. Lewis, et. al.

CL18-4868 1610 Spotsylvania Street E0000764012 City of Richmond v. Veora Jane Allen, et al.

CL17-5821 2111 Ford Avenue E0000598022 City of Richmond v. Neal Kennedy, et al.

CL18-351 2304 Creighton Road E0120294003 City of Richmond v. Joan M. Robinson, et al.

CL18-1142 3000 ½ Q Street E0000627031 City of Richmond v. RVA Property 1, LLC, et.al.

CL18-1520 2206 Ford Avenue E0000756007 City of Richmond v. Walter E. Stokes, et al.

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Sports Plus

Gino Marchetti, NFL Hall of Fame defensive end, dies at 93

By Fred Jeter

Gino Marchetti was a strong man on the football field. He also cast a powerful vote against social injustice. Mr. Marchetti, who was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame in 1972, died Monday, April 29, 2019, in Paoli, Pa., at age 93.

The fearless defensive end helped the Baltimore Colts to 1958 and 1959 NFL championships and was named All-Pro 11 of his 14 years in the league. Before earning NFL stardom, Mr. Marchetti was an All-American for the 1951 University of San Francisco squad that went 9-0.

The University of San Francisco Dons were considered for invitations to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., and the Orange Bowl in Miami. But there was a sticky problem. San Francisco was among the first Division I schools to integrate, and that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit well with bowl organizers in the Deep South.

While the Orange Bowl extended an invitation, it was with the stipulation that the Dons leave

their two African-American players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ollie Matson and Burl Toler â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at home.

For sure, the young San Francisco players would have relished the trip to Miami. And the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic program was in dire need of the lucrative payout given to bowl participants.

Gino Marchetti So it was put to a team vote: Go, minus the African-American players, or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go. The vote was unanimous. The Dons told the Orange Bowl, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks, but no thanks.â&#x20AC;? Surely, Mr. Marchettiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commanding presence â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gino the Giantâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may have influenced others to do the right thing.

Before entering college, Mr. Marchetti served in the Army during World War II and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The military motto, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leave no man behind,â&#x20AC;? was just as apparent in this 1951 football decision.  Mr. Marchetti went on to a brilliant NFL career,

as did his Dons teammate Mr. Matson, a dazzling running back/receiver. Mr. Matson scored 63 NFL touchdowns with several teams and was elected to the Hall of Fame the same year as Mr. Marchetti, in 1972.

Also a track sensaOllie Matson tion, Mr. Matson won the bronze medal in the 400 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He also ran a leg on the United States teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silver medal foursome in the 4x400 relay.

Mr. Toler never played in the NFL because of injuries. But he made his mark another way.

He became the first African-American to serve as a game official, a position he held from 1965 to 1989.

African-American players remained in an overwhelming minority in the NFL throughout the 1950s. Mr. Marchettiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baltimore Colts was among the most racially mixed squads at the time and also among the first teams to scout at historically black colleges and universities.

The 1959 championship roster included AfricanAmerican standouts from big-name schools: Lenny Moore (Penn State University), Jim Parker (Ohio State University) and Milt Davis (UCLA). Moore and Parker both made the NFL Hall of Fame.

From less celebrated Burl Toler backgrounds were the Coltsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gene â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Daddyâ&#x20AC;? Lipscomb, who never played college football, and Johnny Sample and Sherman Plunkett from the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, an HBCU. Mr. Marchetti played elbow to elbow with Mr. Lipscomb on an intimidating Colts defensive front. Following his illustrious pro career, Mr. Marchetti started a popular restaurant chain in Baltimore in 1957 called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ginoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hamburgersâ&#x20AC;? that spread to the Midwest before being sold in the early 1980s to Marriott Corp. It was fitting that his best-selling burger was called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ginoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Giant.â&#x20AC;?

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on Earth, etc., et.al.

CL18-2349 1517 Bangle Drive C0090178004 City of Richmond v. Vernon E. Oliver, et al.

CL18-2870 3125 Irvington Street C0090565004 City of Richmond v. Michael Whitlock, et al.

CL18-3206 4024 McKay Avenue C0090398103 City of Richmond v. Derrick McLauren, et. al.

CL18-3209 2319 Halifax Avenue S0000645022 City of Richmond v. Nellie S. Gillespie, et. al.

CL18-3239 1512 West Leigh Street N0000676032 City of Richmond v. Cesar V. Coles, et. al.

CL18-3273 817 Norton Street N0000517030 City of Richmond v. Willie D. Bullock, et. al.

CL18-3448 229 Bermuda Road C0060422006 City of Richmond v. William Elam, Trustee, et.al.

CL18-3452 3108 Q Street E0000722021 City of Richmond v. Florida L. Steward, et. al.

CL18-3507 620 North 21st Street E0000252005 City of Richmond v. Brenda J. Tolliver, et. al.

CL18-3626 2811 Burfoot Street S0001123023 City of Richmond v.

Leonard J. Byrd, et. al.

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may be announced at the time of sale. Individuals owing delinquent taxes to the City of Richmond, and defendants in pending delinquent tax cases, are not qualified to bid at this auction. Bidders must certify by affidavit that they do not own, directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding notices of violation for building, zoning or other local ordinances.

Q u e s t i o n s m ay b e directed to Gregor y A. Lukanuski at greg.lukanuski @richmondgov.com / (804) 646-7949, or to Christie Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ richmondgov.com / (804) 646-6940.

Gregory A. Lukanuski Deputy City Attorney Special Commissioner 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia 23219

TERMS OF SALE: All sales are subject to confirmation by the Richmond Circuit Court. The purchase price will include the winning bid plus 10% of the winning bid. High bidders will pay at the time of the auction a deposit of at least 20% of the purchase price, or $2500.00, whichever is greater. If the purchase price is under $2500.00, high bidders will pay in full at the time of the auction. High bidders will pay the balance of the purchase price to the Special Commissioner, and deed recordation costs, by a date and in a form as stated in a settlement instruction letter. Time is of the essence.

If a high bidder defaults by not making these payments

in full, on time, and in the required form, the Special Commissioner will retain the deposit, and may seek other remedies to include the cost of resale or any resulting deficiency. Settlement shall occur when the Richmond Circuit Court enters an Order of Confirmation. Conveyance shall be either by a special commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deed or a special warranty deed. Real estate taxes will be adjusted as of the date of entry for the Order of Confirmation.

Most properties will be sold with a development agreement requiring high bidders to complete construction, repairs, or renovation necessary to obtain a certificate of occupancy from the City of Richmond within two years of settlement.

Properties are sold â&#x20AC;&#x153;as isâ&#x20AC;? without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction.

T h e S p e c i a l Commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acceptance of a bid shall not limit any powers vested in the City of Richmond. Additional terms

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E0001663003 City of Richmond v. John Carter, et. al.

CL18-4097 3315 Cliff Avenue N0001546033 City of Richmond v. Love Enterprises, et. al.

CL18-4132 320 East Fells Street N0000377038 City of Richmond v.

Abtelaziz Amro, et. al.

CL18-4176 2601 Edgewood Avenue N0000637023 City of Richmond v. Letitia B. Johnson, et. al.

CL18-4308 1009 North 2nd Street N0000086012 City of Richmond v. Bertha C. Fields, et. al.

CL18-4484 2907 Hull Street S0001343012 City of Richmond v. Leroy Hatcher, III, et. al.

CL18-5567

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Interested candidates please contact the Pastoral Search Committee Secretary Mrs. Janis T. Whitehead at

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Director of Community Revitalization County of Henrico, Virginia IRC106325.

Directs the activities of the Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Revitalization program and functions; does related work as required.

For a more specific description of duties and qualifications and to apply, visit our iRecruitment site on the Internet at http:// henrico.us/services/jobs/. Deadline 5/28/2019.

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The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to:

Orthopedic Surgeon in Richmond, VA. Examine, diagnose & treat patients in need of orthopedic surgery. Perform surgical procedures to improve function in patients.

Mail resume to E. Kerr, VCU Health System Authority, 701 East Franklin Street, 9th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219.

Applications are now being accepted for the following positions.

PCA or CNA, Housekeeper, Male Attendant (PCA or CNA) ACTIVITY: Experience working with Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & Dementia Residents.

Please bring a current TB report when applying.

All references will be checked.

GOOD PAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; GOOD DAYS OFF Call (804) 222-5133 for appointment Elephant Insurance seeks Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst to assess technical IT reqs, deďŹ ne strategy, development, delivery & support of BI initiatives & to design/develop/implement BI related infrastructure. REQ: B.S. in Comp Sci, Info Sys, or related IT ďŹ eld & 5 yrs exp (or M.S. in Comp Sci, Info Sys, or related IT ďŹ eld & 3 yrs exp) as BI Analyst using TSQL, SQL Server 2012, BI tools including MicroStrategy, SSIS, Data Modeling, DQ architecture, & Kimball methodology. LOC: Henrico, VA. Send cvr ltr, CV, salary rqmt & refs to: K. Powell, 9950 Mayland Dr., Deep Run I, Ste 400, Henrico, VA 23233.

RFP No. T190020293 Elevator Inspection Services Due Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 2:00 P.M. Receipt Location: 900 East Broad Street, Room 1104, 11th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219 Questions regarding RFP shall be submitted no later than Monday, 25, 2019 Information or copies of the above solicitations are available by contacting Procurement Services, at the City of Richmond website (www.

RichmondGov.com), or at 11th Floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Phone (804) 646-5722 or faxed (804) 6465989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

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

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