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Doubling down Alfred C. Liggins III and Urban One go all in to win voter approval of the $565M casino project proposed for South Side. The referendum is Nov. 2, with early voting going on now.

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Do you want a gambling casino built on a 100-acre commercial property in the South Side?

On top of filling elective offices, that is the big question Richmond voters are now facing if they vote early or will face on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 2.

There’s plenty of buzz — both positive and negative —

about the projected ONE Casino+Resort, a new venture for the Baltimore-based Black media conglomerate Urban One and its majority stock owners, Cathy Hughes, who chairs the board, and her son, Alfred C. Liggins III. Mr. Liggins has made sure of that as he pushes for the “yes” vote needed in order to seek a state license to operate.

If Richmond voters approve the casino, it likely would be the biggest project a Black-owned business has ever undertaken

in Virginia, a project involving an investment of $565 million that would bring the city its first full-service casino with 2,000 slot machines, 110 table games and sports betting.

Along with the gambling, the project is to include a 250-room luxury hotel, 15 restaurants, 55 acres of public parkland, a sound stage to create films and other programming and a 3,000-seat events center that is projected to have at least 200 shows a year featuring big name entertainers.

Aware of a strong undercurrent of opposition , Mr. Liggins has saturated Richmond television and radio air waves with commercials in a bid to motivate voters to check the “yes” box on the referendum to allow his company to build.

The ads tout 1,500 permanent jobs that would be created and the $30 million to $50 million a year that the casino would generate in tax revenue

By Nichole M. Christian that could be used by the city He survived. to pay for services.

This is the detail that Charlene Warner Coleman wants RichThe ads also celebrate the mond — and the world, really — to know about her husband, Ed casino as a product of private Coleman, and his near-death battle with COVID-19 during the enterprise that would not require pandemic’s early stages in 2020 when the hope of a vaccine was a dime of taxpayer subsidy or moving into a national reality. support.

Nearly a year later, Mr. Coleman is not only among the living, he The casino and resort will be is the central figure in a new book, “Surviving COVID,” about his located at 2001 Walmsley Blvd., six-month ordeal as a patient on a special COVID-19 wing at the just off the Bells Road exchange Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center. of Interstate 95, in a relatively While Mr. Coleman currently is dependent on oxygen “24/7,” isolated industrial and commersaid his wife, he is still teaching Shotokan karate, a Japanese style cial area with little connection to of martial arts he began studying at age 14, as much as his health residential neighborhoods, the will allow. city’s Downtown or museums “This is a survivor’s tale about a virus that’s a death threat. It’s and other attractions. uplifting in the end,” she said. “But people need to know just how Armed with a marketing bad it can get.” budget of $3 million to $5 The book is especially close to Mrs. Warner Coleman. She wrote

‘Surviving COVID’ Local author details battle her husband endured and she waged against the virus

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Charlene Warner Coleman believes faith, prayer and the healing power of music brought her husband, Ed Coleman, through a near-fatal battle with the coronavirus.

Cold meals another hot topic at School Board meeting; new vendor sought

By Jeremy M. Lazarus and Ronald E. Carrington

Most students in Richmond elementary schools started receiving hot meals on Monday, just hours before the Richmond School Board met and voted unanimously to rescind the $12.9 million food contract awarded during the summer to Illinois-based Preferred Meals to provide breakfast and lunch.

While the board’s decision appeared to be a response to parental anger over the poor quality

of the meals their children have been served, the decision was forced largely after the board was notified that the contract issued by Richmond Public Schools was so badly botched that the school system could lose millions of dollars in federal reimbursement for the meals it provides.

The School Board first learned about the contract issue a few days before the meeting through a memo from Superintendent Jason Kamras that was obtained by the Free Press.

In it, he disclosed the contract “did not articulate the correct sodium levels and did not include standard legal classes” that the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires in order for school districts to be reimbursed through the National School Lunch Program.

“As a result, our application for reimbursement has not yet been approved,” Mr. Kamras stated in the memo.

He urged the board to rescind the contract and allow the administration to “reissue the request for proposals,” which it did. That would not bar Preferred Meals, a major institutional Please turn to A4

Free COVID-19 testing and vaccines

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Riding along with Dad Tre Powell of Richmond grew up attending the annual 2nd Street Festival in Jackson Ward. Last Saturday, he was passing along the tradition to his children, Levi Powell, 4, left, and Olivia Powell, 5, who were enjoying the treats as much as the music. Please see more photos from the 33rd Annual 2nd Street Festival, B3.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Tuesday, Oct. 12, 9 to 11 a.m., Second Baptist Church of South Richmond, 3300 Broad Rock Blvd., drive-thru testing.

• Wednesday, Oct. 13, 9 to 11 a.m., Eastern Henrico Recreation Center Pavilion, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. Appointments are not necessary, but can be made by calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 2053501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by registering online at https://bit.ly/ RHHDCOVID. Testing will be offered while test supplies last.

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Ashley S. Bland reacts with utter surprise Monday as Gov. Ralph S. Northam announces that she is Virginia’s Region 1 Teacher of the Year 2021 during a program at Richmond’s John B. Cary Elementary School, where Ms. Bland thought she would be leading a tour of the school’s outdoor environmental learning center.

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Surprised again, Richmond’s Ashley Bland named state Region 1 Teacher of the Year

By Ronald E. Carrington

Ashley S. Bland thought she was giving a simple tour Monday of the outdoor environmental learning center she helped create at John B. Cary Elementary to Gov. Ralph S. Northam and his wife, First Lady Pamela Northam, Mayor Levar M. Stoney, Richmond schools Superintendent Jason Kamras and Richmond School Board Chairwoman Cheryl L. Burke.

But after speaking in glowing terms about Ms. Bland’s work establishing the eco-lab and her efforts encouraging students interested in science, technology, engineering and math, Gov. Northam asked Ms. Bland to join him at a podium set up outside the near West End school and revealed the real

reason for the gathering.

“We are all huge fans of yours and you are a superstar rock star,” the governor told Ms. Bland.

“I have a letter that announces that you have been chosen as the 2021 Virginia Teacher of the Year for Region 1.”

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Ms. Bland’s stunned facial expression said it all. She stood in utter disbelief as thunderous applause and cheers rang out from an audience of teachers and students.

“I am beyond shocked and overwhelmed,” said the 30year-old Ms. Bland, who has been teaching since 2015.

“It is an extreme privilege to service Richmond Public Schools. The award is such an awesome experience.

“I also hope people will find out what RPS is all about, as

well as witness firsthand what we are doing while providing awesome opportunities for our student scholars,” she said.

In May, Ms. Bland was surprised by Mayor Stoney, Mr. Kamras and other school officials when she was named Richmond Public Schools 2021 Teacher of the Year during Teacher Appreciation Week.

With her latest selection, she is one of eight regional winners who will be vying for Virginia Teacher of the Year. She will have an interview with a panel put together by the Virginia Department of Education of classroom teachers, representatives of education and professional associations and members of the business community, with the new Virginia Teacher of the Please turn to A4

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Crusade for Voters to celebrate 65th anniversary with banquet Oct. 14 The Richmond Crusade for Voters, the area’s oldest Black political group, will mark its 65th anniversary with a scholarship banquet 6 p.m. next Thursday, Oct. 14, it has been announced.

Location: Cedar Street Baptist Church of God, 2301 Cedar St. in Church Hill.

Radio talk show host Gary Flowers will emcee the event, and the James “Saxmo” Gates Group, featuring Michael Hawkins, Weldon Hill and Billy Williams, will provide entertainment, according to the program.

The Crusade was started in 1956 as an offshoot of the Richmond Branch NAACP during the tumult over public school integration following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision two years earlier striking down the “separate but equal” doctrine that allowed for separation of the races.

The organization was the brainchild of late podiatrist William S. Thornton, who was joined by the late NAACP organizer John M. Brooks and Dr. William Ferguson Reid, a physician who was elected in November 1967 to the House of Delegates, becoming the first African-American to serve in the General Assembly since 1890.

The idea was to create a group that would educate voters on the need to participate in elections and to create a bloc of supporters to back candidates that looked out for Black interests.

Years of effort paid off with the election of Dr. Reid and later other candidates.

Tickets are $50 and available on Eventbrite, an online ticket provider.

Details: (804) 839-3539.

DMV reopens for walk-in service without appointments Free Press wire report

Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles offices are reopening for walk-in service three days a week.

Virginians now can visit all 75 DMV offices without an appointment each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, department officials announced Monday. Appointment-only service will be offered each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hours vary by location.

The department closed its offices at the beginning of the pandemic and reopened in May 2020 on an appointment-only basis.

The General Assembly adopted a budget during this summer’s special session that required the department to reopen customer service centers for walk-ins within two months. Sen. Chap Petersen, a Democrat representing Fairfax City, has called the DMV’s hybrid plan “not satisfactory,” because it isn’t providing walk-in service every day.

The hybrid plan is popular with customers, according to the department, which said 77 percent of customers said in a survey that they want appointments to continue. More than 50 services are available online and others can be completed by mail, officials said.

Registrar issues reminder about witness signature for mail-in ballots Richmond Voter Registrar Keith G. Balmer on Wednesday warned that voters using mail-in ballots to vote in the Nov. 2 election must have the return envelope countersigned by a witness — a requirement that was suspended before the governor ended the pandemic emergency during the summer.

“So far, more than 100 voters have returned ballots that were not witnessed,” Mr. Balmer said in a text to the Free Press.

“We’re reaching out to voters to try to get them to ‘cure’ the ballots by getting them witnessed. Otherwise, those ballots will be Mr. Balmer rejected.”

The requirement to have a witness sign an absentee ballot envelope was suspended by court orders in the 2020 November election and the June 2021 primary due to the pandemic. But no such court orders have been sought or issued ahead of the upcoming election, resulting in the state law governing a witness for mail-in ballots being back in full force.

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City Council signals support for plans for American Rescue Plan money

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

As Mayor Levar M. Stoney proposed, four community recreation centers will get a major chunk of the $155 million flowing into Richmond’s treasury from the federal American Rescue Plan Act. In a work session Monday, a sevenmember majority of City Council signaled support for making the full $64 million investment in the four sites, overruling two members who supported shifting $40 million to other purposes by delaying work on two centers, T.B. Smith Community Center in South Side and Lucks Field in Church Hill.

The action came as the Stoney administration agreed to use ARP money to set up a $1 million cash assistance fund to provide emergency aid to people struggling to get by and to earmark $3 million in ARP money for a revolving loan fund to support small businesses hard hit by the pandemic.

But the development of buildings took center stage. The Smith Center, located on Ruffin Road, is earmarked for a $20 million overhaul and expansion, while Lucks Field, an outdoor sports and recreation site on North 20th Street, would receive its first indoor center at a cost of $20 million, according to the mayor’s plan.

The plan also includes a $20 million expansion and improvement of the Southside Community Center on Old Warwick Road in South Side, and an $8 million investment in the 50-year-old Calhoun Center in Gilpin Court to address major maintenance issues and to repair and reopen an indoor pool that has been unusable for at least nine years.

Christopher Frelke, director of the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities, appealed to City Council to keep the full proposal intact.

He said the centers would create important community hubs that would offer a wide variety of people-helping services along

By George Copeland Jr.

Want to go to Virginia State University’s homecoming football game on Oct. 23? What about the “Take a Kid to the Game” day this Saturday, Oct. 9, at Rogers Stadium on the Ettrick campus?

If so, make sure you take your COVID-19 vaccination card with you.

VSU officials announced last week that, effective immediately, all guests at Rogers Stadium and other campus athletic events are required to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination before entry.

The new requirement is part of an effort to ensure the health and wellness of the VSU community and campus visitors.

“Right now, our campus has an infection rate below 1 percent,” stated Peggy Davis, VSU’s associate vice president for intercollegiate athletics. “Our goal is to maintain or even reduce our already low positivity rate in an effort to eradicate the virus on campus all together. At all times, the safety of our students comes first and this step further demonstrates that as our priority.”

Anyone 18 and older will need to provide proof of vaccination, along with a photo I.D. Masks also are required to be worn outdoors at VSU, except when eating or drinking.

University officials stated that the requirements will be enforced, including at the homecoming game against Lincoln University.

with recreation.

The council embraced the construction of the new centers despite falling far short, according to city figures, in providing maintenance funds to keep up current city buildings and despite failing, as several members noted, to provide enough money to appropriately staff existing parks and recreation centers.

In addition, the council also endorsed investing another $15 million or so into improvements of James River Park, trail development, green space purchases and city beautification, which the mayor also proposed.

The action at the work session took place as the Stoney administration is poised to introduce to the council next Monday, Oct. 11, the final version of its plan for using ARP funds. The council is scheduled to hold a special meeting on Monday, Oct. 25, to address passage.

The vote would be perfunctory as the administration would not accept any further amendments after the final plan is introduced, Lincoln Saunders, the city’s acting chief administrative officer, noted and to which council members acquiesced.

Among other things, the plan includes $5 million to provide a $3,000 bonus per person for firefighters, police officers, emergency dispatchers and ambulance personnel who were on the front lines during the pandemic.

Mr. Saunders promised to present a plan to provide similar bonuses to trash collectors, social workers and other city employees who have kept operations going during the spread of COVID-19.

The administration secured the council’s backing for investing $20 million into the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to assist developers to create apartments and homes with lower price tags. Also on the list are investments in improved lighting and cameras to bolster public safety and new investments in health.

Council members offered a host of

amendments, from expanding broadband service to investing in transportation.

Most never got a hearing. But two made it through, with Mr. Saunders agreeing to cut $4 million earmarked for helping homeowners replace lead water lines to fund them.

One is the emergency fund that 5th District Councilwoman Stephanie A. Lynch promoted. She sought $5 million but had to settle for $1 million.

“This will be a pot of money that could be used to help people who are in dire need,” said Ms. Lynch, whose background is in social work. “We’re talking about providing small amounts of emergency funds to people who are living paycheck to paycheck and barely have enough to scrape by at the end of the month.”

Having a fund that could provide “$50, $100 or $200, we can keep people from spiraling down to a place where it takes even more money to assist them,” Ms. Lynch said. “The funds might be used to cover the last few dollars needed to make rent, pay a medical bill, keep a cell phone on, fix a car or address other needs.

“Far more people are struggling than is realized,” said Ms. Lynch, who said she gets calls daily appealing for assistance.

“They just need a little help to stay afloat.

One example is a cancer patient who is struggling to care for a younger sibling now that the parents are gone and just needs a few dollars at the end of the month just to buy toilet paper and other essentials. There is currently no other assistance available.

This kind of fund would allow us to have a real impact on poverty.”

Separately, 1st District Councilman Andreas D. Addison successfully advocated to secure $3 million to restart a revolving business loan fund. He said the allocation would allow the city to tap into a state pool and create a $10 million to $20 million fund, with borrowers repayments being returned to the fund to be available for new loans.

RPS graduation rate improves; no longer the lowest in state

By Ronald E. Carrington

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Richmond muralist Hamilton Glass created this new tribute to legendary Richmond journalist John Mitchell Jr. and the spirited Richmond Planet newspaper through which he battled lynching, segregation and Black oppression and promoted racial pride from 1884 Slices of life and scenes until his death in 1929. Born enslaved, the “fighting editor” also started and ran a bank in in Richmond Richmond and represented the Black community at City Hall as an elected member of the government. Significantly, this artistic homage is located miles from the historically Black Jackson Ward neighborhood in which Mr. Mitchell lived and worked. Location: The 1200 block of Myers Street, a short connector between Leigh Street and Arthur Ashe Boulevard on the doorstep of Scott’s Addition. The building is home to Tilt Creative + Production Studios, whose front door faces the boulevard.

Richmond Public Schools no longer has the lowest on-time graduation rate in Virginia.

According to a presentation Monday night to the Richmond School Board by RPS Chief Academic Officer Tracy R. Epp, RPS increased its 2021 graduation rate from 71.5 percent in 2019-2021 to 78.8 percent in 2020-21.

That’s an increase of 7.3 percentage points.

Richmond no longer has the lowest ontime graduation rate in the Commonwealth, the board learned. Hopewell and Prince Edward County schools had lower rates at 77.3 percent and 74.2 percent, respectively, according to the state Department of Education data.

Ms. Epp told the board that the graduation rate also increased by 24.8 percentage points for Latino students, 57 percent of whom graduated within four years. According to the state data, that’s the highest jump of any subgroup in the state.

“RPS saw the highest growth of any district in the Commonwealth when it came to its Latino students’ graduation rate,” Superintendent Jason Kamras told the board.

The on-time graduation rate for AfricanAmerican students remained flat, with 80.7 percent graduating on time in 2019-20 compared with 80.6 percent in 2020-21.

Ms. Epp informed the board that the overall bump was below what RPS had projected

at 85.7 percent. The difference was attributed to students not completing necessary work over the summer and other factors.

“A win is a win is a win,” Ms. Epp told the board regarding Ms. Epp the projections and the actual numbers. She added that the school district should honor the work of students, principals, counselors who made the gains possible.

“We should focus on that. We credit work done at Huguenot and George Wythe high schools with helping support Latino students across the graduation finish line,” Ms. Epp said.

According to VDOE data, George Wythe’s student population is nearly 50 percent Latino.

The school saw its graduation rate rise from 50 percent to 61.2 percent.

The credit for the increase goes to Wythe’s former principal, Joe Pisani, and its current principal, Riddick Parker, as well as teachers and staff who have stepped up to meet the academic needs of the students, she said.

Statewide, 93 percent of seniors graduate on time.

Additionally, RPS’ Class of 2021 overall dropout rate is down to 15 percent, with about 40 dropouts in the previous academic year re-enrolling in school.

For African-American students, the 2021 dropout rate went from 12.4 percent

to 11.5 percent, while the dropout rate for Latino students went from 65 percent to 40 percent.

In another well-debated matter, the board voted 5-4 Monday night to approve Mr. Kamras’ recommendation to change the role of police officers in schools rather than eliminate them.

The board approved the plan to modify the uniforms of school resource officers, or SROs as they are known, to a softer design; to develop a diversion program to end arrests on school grounds for any nonviolent offenses; and to provide officers with additional training in restorative and trauma-informed practices.

Administrators at schools with SROs also would receive additional training on when and how it is appropriate to engage an SRO in a student matter.

RPS will meet with the Richmond Police Department to adjust their Memorandum of Understanding covering police officers in schools.

The school administration also recommended immediately establishing a 10person SRO Committee composed of two representatives from the School Board, two representatives from the administration, two students, two teachers and two parents/caregivers to collaborate with police representatives on updating the MOU for implementation no later than the start of the 2022-23 school year.

Additionally, RPS expects to revisit the MOU when it sunsets in 2023 for any further adjustments.

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Marching to beat the bans Hundreds of women and their advocates, including Kristin Rodriguez, 40, took to the streets last Saturday for the Bans Off Our Bodies RVA rally and march to show their support for a woman’s right to make her own decisions when it comes to abortion. The Richmond rally was one of scores held across the country last weekend in advance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new session that began Monday in which a case challenging abortion rights will be heard. That case, out of Mississippi, is expected to be argued Dec. 1, and has the potential to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that guaranteed women the constitutional protection of being able to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. Texas recently passed a law that also would ban abortion after six weeks, a timeframe when many women don’t know whether they are pregnant. In Richmond, speakers urged people to work to protect women’s reproductive freedom. The rally was held at Diversity Richmond, followed by a march down Sherwood Avenue to Hermitage Road. Ida Allen, who led chants with the bullhorn during the march, was a lead coordinator of the event.

Fewer Black youths in Richmond getting vaccinated, officials find

By George Copeland Jr.

Richmond health officials are working to address the latest disparity in COVID-19 vaccinations, a racial difference among children.

According to Richmond Health District officials, African-American children ages 12 to 17 are being vaccinated against COVID-19 at a much lower rate than Caucasian and Latino children. Officials estimated that white children are two to three times more likely to get the vaccine as Black children.

Data show that while roughly 80 percent of white children and 70 percent of Latinx teens in Richmond are vaccinated, only 30 percent of African-American youths have been inoculated against the virus.

Community outreach efforts are underway to change that, according to health officials.

“We anticipate factors such as lack of access to resources that allow parents to get their kids vaccinated and distrust of health care and governmental systems play a role,” stated Jackie Lawrence, director of health equity with the Richmond and Henrico health districts. “Low vaccination rates are one of many ways that racism in the medical community has a long standing impact on how

folks access lifesaving health care services.”

As of Wednesday, the state health department data show that 18.4 percent of cases statewide have hit people ages 19 and under since the pandemic began. That amounts to 158,332 total cases, with 1,090 hospitalizations and 13 deaths.

In Richmond, the total case count among those ages 19 and under is 3,556, with 30 hospitalizations and one death.

“While children tend to recover well from COVID-19, the potential to spread it to more vulnerable individuals in their family is high,”

stated Dr. Melissa Viray, deputy director of the Richmond and Henrico health districts.

She said the racial disparity in vaccinations among youths “is deeply concerning to us, especially as we move into the fall and winter months when there is higher community transmission. Black communities were already disproportionately impacted last year before we had vaccinations.”

Officials said they are working with advocates and others, including youth sports leagues, to encourage youths to get vaccinated.

The Richmond and Henrico health districts

also are expanding their partnerships with after-school programs and employers who hire young people to increase vaccinations, as well as offering a 3 to 6 p.m. timeframe at community vaccination hubs in the city for families to come in and get inoculated.

Officials also said they plan greater promotion of pharmacies that have after-school and weekend hours for people to get the vaccine.

For information on vaccinations and sites to get the vaccine, contact the Richmond City Health District at (804) 205-3501 or go to vaxrchd.com.

RPS students testing positive for COVID-19 told to quarantine for 21 days

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond students who have tested positive for COVID-19 are being kept away from in-person learning for up to 21 days – at least a week longer than the 14 days that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends, the Free Press has been told.

Richmond Public Schools, though, has denied that any students exposed

to the virus are kept out of school for three weeks and insists that any students that do go to quarantine receive instructional support.

“My child tested positive Sept.

20, and I was told not to bring him back until Oct. 11,” said one parent, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. “This was completely unexpected and is proving to be the longest three weeks of our lives. He’s already testing negative, but we’re

still on hold.”

In a statement relayed by Sara Abubaker of the RPS media relations office, the school system reported that RPS is adhering to the following protocol: “Students who are positive are out for 10 days of isolation, and students who are exposed are out for 14 days of quarantine, following Virginia Department of Health and CDC guidelines.

“Both of these timeframes include

weekends so no one is missing three weeks of school,” the statement continued. “RPS maintains an instructional continuity model, as well, that ensures students receive instruction virtually every day they are out.”

There is pressure for the RPS administration to consider shortening the quarantine period to seven to 10 days for those testing negative, options the CDC has spelled out.

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million, Mr. Liggins also has used print media advertising to plug the casino, employed 50 to 60 canvassers to knock on the doors of potential voters and posted messages on billboards to motive people to vote for the casino.

While residents of four other Virginia cities – Norfolk, Portsmouth, Danville and Bristol – have overwhelmingly approved a casino in each of those communities, Mr. Liggins is taking nothing for granted on his plan for creating a diverse business that expects to contract up to half of the construction and up to half of its purchases with Black- and minorityowned businesses.

He has plenty of official support. The project has garnered the unanimous backing of the city’s elected leadership, including Mayor Levar M. Stoney and memMr. LIggins bers of City Council, who have been highly supportive of the effort they view as creating a gusher of new revenue.

That includes 8th District Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell, who represents the area in which the casino will be located.

If Richmond voters approve the casino, Mr. Liggins would then be able to apply to the Virginia Lottery, the state regulator of gambling for the required license. If he passes that hurdle, and it could take a year, Urban One would be able to open the only Black-owned casino in the country at this time, though not the first. That honor belongs to the late Don H. Barden of Detroit, was the first Black person to own and operate a gambling establishment, first in Gary, Ind., in 1996, and later in Las Vegas.

Despite being outspent 100 to 1, opponents have organized to fight against the casino, using social media and their own door-knocking campaign. They are trying to make the case that a casino would induce people to spend money they cannot afford to lose to create the revenue ONE Casino+Resort would need to ensure the city, state and federal governments get their tax shares and that there is money to operate, repay debt and generate a profit.

Casinos are heavily taxed. Richmond, by itself, is projecting the casino would generate at least $300 million a year in revenue alone from gambling. The city expects to receive between 9 percent and 10 percent of that as its share, on top of revenue from real estate taxes, personal property taxes and taxes on utilities, concert admissions, hotel rooms and restaurants.

Though they seem to gush cash, casinos are still risky. Mr. Barden entered into the Las Vegas casino world by buying a bankrupt casino company.

Before his death in 2011, he saw the companies liquidated in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Opponents hammer away at casinos as being exploitive of low-income residents who gamble away their rent money in seeking a big score.

Opponents received a boost after U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Richmond resident, made local headlines in confirming that he had voted “no” on

the casino referendum when he cast his ballot on Sept. 20.

Sen. Kaine “voted against the casino proposal.

He believes there are better ways to enhance economic development in Richmond,” according to a statement from his office.

Paul Goldman, a former state Democratic Party chairman and a well-known political strategist who created the Vote NO on RVA Casino Committee, sought to make the most of the senator’s vote.

In an online post, Mr. Goldman wrote: “The Casino forces have been saying some ugly things about those who dare to publicly oppose their Casino or point out this truth: The proposal on the ballot is based on those going to the Casino LOSING 300,000,000 a year, every year, at this exploitative Casino, the overwhelming bulk of that money coming Mr. Goldman from Richmond residents or those in the local area.”

Richmond state Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey disagrees with the views of Mr. Goldman.

He calls supporting the casino “a no-brainer.”

Along with other supporters, he points to casino projections that more than 2,000 people will be involved in construction, with future employees to be paid an average wage of $55,000 a year along with benefits and profit sharing, according to the city and Mr. Liggins.

“I think it is a game changer that can transform South Richmond,” Sen. Morrissey said, adding that it would create the first significant destination south of the James River and with a prospect of attracting 2 million or more visitors annually.

Mr. Goldman points to studies indicating that most players are likely to come from a radius of 30 miles.

Sen. Morrissey points to the city’s study that suggests 80 percent of casino visitors would come from outside the city limits.

Aside from Mr. Goldman and his committee, the other major opposition is coming from a group called Richmond For All. Quinton Robbins, the group’s political director, said that a survey of residents who live near the site found little enthusiasm.

Like Mr. Goldman, he believes that “casinos are an extractive industry that will rob our community just to make a few folks wealthy.

My neighbors are worried about his casino will hurt the place we call home.”

Except for a few thousand people who are listed as members, neither Mr. Goldman nor Richmond For All appears to be generating the kind of public support that could halt the project.

Still, based on a poll Mr. Goldman commissioned in June, he believes the referendum results will be far closer than imagined.

Many Richmonders opposed sites that were proposed earlier, including a North Side location that is now home to the only movie theater complex in the city and a South Side location next to a retail complex on Forest Hill Avenue.

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and self-published the 110-page survivor’s tale as witness to what she labels a miracle.

“When the doctors looked at him,” she recalled, “they told me to get his papers ready.

He had every precursor to die — 14 major operations, a stomach aneurysm, two brain aneurysms, a previous smoker, and he was 76.”

Yet while doctors were preparing her for the worst, Mrs. Warner Coleman turned her attention to prayer, faith, the healing power of music and the support of relatives with deep medical knowledge.

It was only by accident that Mr. Coleman, a disabled veteran who had served in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a paratrooper during the Vietnam era, even learned he’d contracted COVID19 in the early spring of 2020.

“When I got sick,” Mr. Coleman explained, “I didn’t believe I was sick.”

During a routine visit to the VA for treatment of ailing knees, he was asked to take a COVID-19 test. The test came back positive although he showed no immediate signs of the virus.

However, within days, a trio of symptoms emerged, starting with a cough, then a struggle to breathe, joined by intense fatigue to the point of being unable to stand. Mrs. Warner Coleman, herself an asthmatic, convinced her husband of 25 years to return to the hospital only after a call to two cousins who are doctors in Washington, D.C, who were helping to battle the virus there. She also got help from a falsehood.

“I basically had to lie,” said Mrs. Warner Coleman, a 75year-old Henrico County. “I told him, ‘All you need is some oxygen. I’ll wait outside.’I knew they were going to keep him. He had that look of death.”

Doctors believed the same and told her so. Repeatedly, she said.

Yet with every prayer, Mrs. Warner Coleman became emboldened, somehow convinced that faith would free her husband — “the love of my life” —from COVID-19’s fatal grip.

“I argued with those doctors, I mean I argued. For months, I’d

Cold meals another hot topic at School Board meeting Continued from A1

meals provider that has contracts with other school districts, from competing for the new contract.

As Mr. Kamras noted, the company was the only “qualified” company to respond to the original solicitation.

At this point, the administration indicated that Preferred Meals has been paid about $100,000 for the meals it has served.

As RPS gears up to begin delivering hot meals at all middle schools and high schools on Monday, Oct. 25, Mr. Kamras issued a mea culpa to the board, noting “there were several missteps in both the Procurement Department and the School Nutrition Services Department.”

He promised “corrective action” after undertaking a “more thorough assessment.”

Mr. Kamras did not mention the role the school system’s legal counsel, Jonnell P. Lilly of the Harrell and Chambliss law firm, might have played. Standard practice in most government operations is for procurement documents and contracts to receive a legal review before being issued.

It is not clear how the contract with Preferred Meals could have failed to include the language USDA requires or the standards for sodium that are in the federal

Mr. Kamras

Ms. White

regulations governing student meals.

Mr. Kamras also did not mention that the Virginia Department of Education, which, among other things, monitors school districts to ensure they are meeting USDA standards to qualify for reimbursement, repeatedly had warned RPS to take action regarding the meals it was serving.

In a story first reported by NBC12, VDOE sent repeated emails, including one notifying RPS that cereals with sugar content in excess of USDA standards were being served for breakfast.

The VDOE emails show that RPS was notified that the lunches did not include enough vegetables and that impermissible juice was being used to replace actual vegetables.

While all nine School Board members supported the new direction, including the RFP reissuance, the vote came three weeks after five board members shot down an

effort by board member Mariah White, 2nd District, to rescind the Preferred Meals contract and start over.

The opponents included Liz B. Doerr, 1st District, who had championed creation of an advisory panel to ensure that students were getting proper nutrition in their school meals.

As the Free Press reported in its Sept.

30-Oct. 2 edition, Mr. Kamras also allowed the RPS personnel office to put the hiring of part-time employees to fill vacant cafeteria slots on the back burner.

Since schools reopened on Sept. 8, parents have been loudly critical of RPS for failing to provide appropriate school meals. School Board members have heard plenty about the poor nutritional quality and the huge amount of food that students just threw away.

Mr. Kamras told the board that the new solicitation would require the winning bidder to meet USDA standards for school meals.

Ms. White is hopeful that change is coming, but she is remorseful that it has taken so long.

“My heart goes out to our children because this is a basic need for them to be fed, to be fed to help with learning,” she said at Monday’s meeting. “And it was not met, and it’s still not met.”

Ashley Bland named state Region 1 Teacher of the Year Continued from A1

Year to be announced on Oct. 14.

“This is humbling,” Ms. Bland told the Free Press.

Gov. Northam announced that Ms. Bland will attend the 2021 Virginia Teacher of the Year selection event at the Governor’s Mansion, where all regional winners will be present.

“I’ve never been to the mansion,” Ms. Bland told the Free Press. “That represents a lot of opportunities, which are limitless.”

Mrs. Northam, a former elementary educator, believes it is about time female educators, especially African-American women, are recognized for their tremendous dedication and service to young people.

“I love seeing Ms. Bland, a young woman, embracing all of this and passing it on to the next generation,” Mrs. Northam said after Monday’s program. “I am so excited about the work she does engaging children

in their early years, sparking their love for learning, which will have a positive effect and trajectory for the rest of their lives.”

A Westmoreland County native, Ms. Bland earned bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and physics from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. During college, she served as the pre-college initiative chair for VCU’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.

It got her interested in teaching. During a master’s program at VCU’s School of Education, she participated in the RTR, formerly Richmond Teacher Residency, program at VCU. The program is a partnership between VCU and Richmond Public Schools to recruit, prepare, support and retain highly effective teachers and teacher leaders who are committed to the RPS students for the long term.

She is an instructional technology resource teacher working with students at three

different schools, John B. Cary Elementary, Mary Scott Preschool and Binford Middle School, to enhance their learning and skills through exposure to technology.

Ms. Bland is a celebrity in her hometown. She remembers Matthew Loring, her sixth-grade math teacher.

“Mr. Loring took an extreme interest in all of us,” she told the Free Press. “He knew a lot about math and encouraged me by making me feel like I could do anything. I hope I can leave the same legacy that he left. I hope I can inspire the next generation and come full circle.”

Mr. Kamras and other school officials were beaming after Monday’s surprise announcement.

“Ashley represents everything RPS stands for and what it means to teach with love,” Mr. Kamras said. “I am so thrilled for her. She is just an incredible person, teacher and colleague. I want to make sure we keep her at RPS for a long, long time.”

tell the staff, ‘You know who you have in that bed? He’s a vibrant man, a celebrity.’ They got sick of me.”

Added Mr. Coleman: “Doctors kept telling her to gather the family. She went crazy – in a good way. They told me later, she just wouldn’t believe it.”

Mrs. Warner Coleman said she never contracted the virus.

She credits the Moderna vaccine, which she signed up for as soon as she was eligible, and a lifelong discipline of taking “intense” vitamins daily.

She said her husband has since been vaccinated, as well.

As she details in the book through excerpts of daily texts with hospital staff and photos of Mr. Coleman’s decline, Mrs. Warner Coleman became a fixture at the hospital but virtually.

Because of COVID-19, she couldn’t visit her husband.

With an iPad placed in his hospital room and daily phone calls to the staff, she watched him endure two bouts of double pneumonia and six weeks of intubation. When doctors opted to place Mr. Coleman in a medically induced coma in order to treat his erratic blood pressure and other signs of instability, Mrs. Warner Coleman set up a virtual vigil at his bedside, talking to him by phone and insisting that he have access to music—salsa, reggae, African beats and other music from their history as producers of Tropical Beat, a globally distributed cable television show.

The pair met in 1997 in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. They were each waiting to board the same flight to Benin, West Africa.

“We talked all the way across the Atlantic Ocean,” Ms. Warner Coleman said.

Mr. Coleman’s cable company later hired Mrs. Warner Coleman’s camera crew to shoot a tourism package. The couple soon married.

Now with the couple battling against COVID-19, her fierce belief that her husband would live to be an example of healing

Charlene Warner Coleman

Ed Coleman, who is permanently tethered to an oxygen tank after his bout with COVID-19, watches his martial arts students perform in the parking lot of First Union Baptist Church in Mechanicsville.

instead of death was forged in part by the magical way they met but also by a deep sense of spirituality.

“I’m not the most religious person, but I’ve always known there was a power out there and I called on it. I asked God for a miracle, and I’ve lived to see it come true.”

Though she made a daily diary of the experience, Mrs. Warner Coleman did not fully entertain the idea of writing a book until well after Mr. Coleman came home in late summer. The decision to document what they’d lived through was spurred by growing news reports of people doubting COVID-19’s toll. She said she also had a debt to repay.

“I promised God, ‘If you let him live, I’ll sing your praises,’” she said.

In the book’s opening pages, she speaks somewhat openly to COVID-19 disbelievers: “I have fulfilled my promise and hope you will heed my advice.

There is a vaccine and I suggest you take it.”

“Surviving COVID” can be ordered online at https:// charlenecoleman.com.

Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines Continued from A1 COVID-19 testing also is available at various drugstores, clinics and urgent care centers throughout the area for people with and without health insurance. Several offer tests with no out-of-pocket costs.

A list of area COVID-19 testing sites is online at https://www. vdh.virginia.gov/richmond-city/richmond-and-henrico-areacovid-19-testing-sites/ The Virginia Department of Health also has a list of COVID19 testing locations around the state at www.vdh.virginia.gov/ coronavirus/covid-19-testing/covid-19-testing-sites/.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walk-up COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations: • Thursday, Oct. 7, 1 to 4:30 p.m. – Richmond Health District Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Friday, Oct. 8, 9 a.m. to noon – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Tuesday, Oct. 12, 3 to 6 p.m. – Second Baptist Church of South Richmond, 3300 Broad Rock Blvd., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1 to 4:30 p.m. – Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Oct. 14, 1 to 4:30 p.m. – Richmond Health District Cary Street Clinic, 400 E. Cary St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 2 to 4:30 p.m. – Anna Julia Cooper School, 2124 N. 29th St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Friday, Oct. 15, 9 a.m. to noon – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

Children ages 12 to 17 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Appointments are required for booster shots by scheduling one online at vax.rchd.com or by calling (804) 205-3501.

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

The Chesterfield County Health District is offering vaccines and booster shots at its Rockwood Vaccination Center, 10161 Hull Street Road in Midlothian. The center is open 3 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.

Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are encouraged by going to www.vaccines.gov.

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

The Virginia Department of Health reported on Wednesday 3,919 new positive cases of COVID-19 around the state during a 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative total to 882,437 cases statewide. There have been a total of 37,084 hospitalizations and 12,999 deaths. The state’s seven-day positivity rate was 8.3 percent. Last week, it was 9 percent.

Last Friday, the United States reached the grim milestone of more than 700,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

On Wednesday, state health officials reported that 60.7 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 68.1 percent of the people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

State data also show that African-Americans comprised 22.7 percent of cases statewide and 25 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 14.2 percent of cases and 6.1 percent of deaths.

Reported COVID-19 data as of Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021

Cases Hospitalizations Deaths Richmond 23,032 915 320 Henrico County 33,054 1,230 698 Chesterfield County 37,778 1,131 510 Hanover County 11,175 360 188

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Pharrell Williams says ‘toxic energy’ tanked 2nd ‘Something in the Water’ in Va. Beach Free Press wire, staff report

Hometown or no hometown, music superstar Pharrell Williams is pulling his hugely successful “Something in the Water” music festival out of Virginia Beach.

In a letter Tuesday to Virginia Beach City Manager Patrick Duhaney, Mr. Williams said the city is run by a “toxic energy” and hasn’t valued his proposed solutions.

He wrote that the festival, which drew thousands of people to the oceanfront city in 2019, was successful in easing racial tensions, unifying the region and bringing about economic development opportunities. But he said that energy has not been reciprocated.

“I wish the same energy I’ve felt from Virginia Beach leadership upon losing the festival would have been similarly channeled following the loss of my relative’s life,” the 48-year-old Mr. Williams Mr. Williams wrote.

Mr. Williams’ cousin, 25-year-old Donovon Lynch, was shot and killed by a Virginia Beach police officer on March 26 at the oceanfront. Police said at the time that Mr. Lynch brandished a weapon before he was shot. Mr. Lynch’s family disputes that and has said that he was legally allowed to carry a gun.

The fatal shooting raised questions and concerns among the public, particularly because the officer did not have his body camera turned on at the time.

After his cousin’s death, Mr. Williams called on Virginia Beach officials to “talk about your issues, talk about your struggles, so we can get past them.”

He also proposed that the city hold a public forum to discuss “who we were, who we are and who we’d like to be.”

But no forum ever took place.

Mr. Williams wrote to the city manager: “I love my city, but for far too long it has been run by — and with toxic energy. The toxic energy that changed the narrative several times around the homicide of my cousin, Donovon Lynch, a citizen of Virginia, is the same toxic energy that changed the narrative around the mass murder and senseless loss of life at Building Number 2.”

His letter was in response to correspondence from Mr. Du-

A$AP Ferg performs onstage at “Something in the Water” festival in April 2019 in Virginia Beach.

haney, who said in his Sept. 26 letter that he felt “immense disappointment” after learning that Something in the Water may not be held in 2022.

He asked Mr. Williams for an opportunity to meet with him and the festival’s leadership team before any final decision is made to see if they could “explore a path forward.”

Mr. Duhaney wrote that the 2019 festival was a “recordbreaking economic success” for Virginia Beach, with “an immediate total economic impact of over $24 million on both Virginia Beach and the surrounding region.” He said media coverage of the event had an additional estimated value of approximately $41 million.

“As impressive as those figures are, they are just that —

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numbers. We have not lost sight of the intangible, unquantifiable impact the festival has had on the social fabric of our community,” Mr. Duhaney wrote.

The festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mayor Bobby Dyer told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper Tuesday night that he wants the festival to return to Virginia Beach.

“We’re hoping we can have a face-to-face meeting with Pharrell and go over his concerns and see what we can do to get things back on track,” the mayor told the newspaper. “By meeting in person and communicating, I am confident we can move in a better direction. That would be best to build those positive bridges.”

Henrietta Lacks estate sues company using her ‘stolen’ cells Free Press wire report

order Thermo Fisher Scientific to “disgorge the full amount COLLEGE PARK, Md. of its net profits obtained by The estate of Henrietta Lacks commercializing the HeLa cell sued a biotechnology company line to the Estate of Henrietta on Monday, accusing it of sell- Lacks.” It also wants Thermo ing cells that doctors at Johns Fisher Scientific to be permaHopkins Hospital took from the nently enjoined from using Black woman in 1951 without HeLa cells without the estate’s her knowledge or consent as permission. part of “a racially unjust mediOn its website, the company cal system.” says it generates approximately Tissue taken from Mrs. $35 billion in annual revenue.

Lacks’ tumor before she died A company spokesman reached of cervical cancer by telephone didn’t became the first immediately comhuman cells to ment on the lawbe successfully suit. cloned. ReproHeLa cells were duced infinitely discovered to have ever since, HeLa unique propercells have become ties. While most a cornerstone of cell samples died modern medicine, shortly after being enabling countremoved from the Steve Ruark/Associated Press Mrs. Lacks less scientific and body, Mrs. Lacks’ Attorney Ben Crump, center, holds Zayden Joseph, 6, the great-grandson of the late medical innovations, including cells survived and thrived in Henrietta Lacks, during a news conference Monday outside of the federal courthouse the development of the polio laboratories. This exceptional in Baltimore with Mrs. Lacks’ family members and other attorneys. The Lacks estate is vaccine, genetic mapping and quality made it possible to filing suit against a Massachusetts company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, for using Mrs. even COVID-19 vaccines. cultivate her cells indefinitely Lacks’ cells, known as HeLa cells, without the estate’s permission.

Mrs. Lacks’ cells were — they became known as the cervical cancer, cutting away harvested and developed long first immortalized human cell experienced by Black people audience for their claims.

“We are at a moment, not tissue samples from their pabefore the advent of consent line — making it possible for throughout history,” the suit procedures used in medicine scientists anywhere to repro- states. “Indeed, Black suffer- just after the murder of George tients’ cervixes without their and scientific research today, duce studies using identical ing has fueled innumerable Floyd but also the pandemic, patients’ knowledge or consent, medical progress and profit, where we have seen structural the lawsuit says. but lawyers for her family cells.

Johns Hopkins Medicine say Thermo Fisher Scientific The remarkable science without just compensation or racism in action in all sorts of Inc., of Waltham, Mass., has involved — and the impact on recognition. Various studies, places,” she said. “We keep says it reviewed its interactions continued to commercialize the the Lacks family, some of whom both documented and un- talking about a racial reckon- with Mrs. Lacks and her family results well after the origins suffered from chronic illnesses documented, have thrived off ing, and that racial reckoning over more than 50 years after of the HeLa cell line became without health insurance — were the dehumanization of Black is happening in science and the 2010 publication of Rebecca medicine as well.”

Skloot’s book. It says it “has well known. documented in a 2010 bestsell- people.”

Shobita Parthasarathy, a A group of white doctors never sold or profited from “It is outrageous that this ing book, “The Immortal Life company would think that of Henrietta Lacks.” Oprah University of Michigan profes- at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s the discovery or distribution they have intellectual rights Winfrey portrayed Mrs. Lacks’ sor of public policy who has preyed on Black women with of HeLa cells and does not property to their grandmother’s daughter in an HBO movie about researched issues around intellectual property in biotechnolcells. Why is it they have intel- the story. lectual rights to her cells and “The exploitation of Hen- ogy, said the lawsuit comes at can benefit billions of dollars rietta Lacks represents the a time when the Lacks family when her family, her flesh and unfortunately common struggle is likely to have a sympathetic blood, her Black children, get nothing?” one of the family’s attorneys, Benjamin Crump, said Monday at a news conference outside the federal courthouse would like to ask you in Baltimore. to donate BLOOD to help The lawsuit was filed exactly 70 years after the day Mrs. Lacks sickle cell patients who need died, on Oct. 4, 1951. regular transfusions.

Johns Hopkins said it never They need specific blood types sold or profited from the cell that match their own lines, but many companies have to minimize the risks patented ways of using them. of repeated transfusions.

Mr. Crump said these distribuAfrican American tors have made billions from blood donations are best the genetic material “stolen” for these patients. from Mrs. Lacks’ body.

Another family attorney, Christopher Seeger, hinted at related claims against other companies.

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Mr. Crump, a Florida-based civil rights attorney, has risen to national prominence representing the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd—Black people whose deaths at the hands of police and vigilantes helped revitalize a national movement toward police reform and racial justice.

Mr. Seeger, a New Jerseybased corporate litigator, has represented thousands of former NFL players in a class action settlement over concussions and was a lead negotiator of Volkswagen’s $21 billion diesel emissions settlement with car owners.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s website says the company generates revenue from four business segments—life sciences, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics and laboratory products and services.

One of Mrs. Lacks’ grandsons, Lawrence Lacks Jr., said at Monday’s news conference that the family is “united” behind the case.

“It’s about time,” said another grandson, Ron Lacks.

“Seventy years later, we mourn Henrietta Lacks, and we will celebrate taking back control of Henrietta Lacks’ legacy. This will not be passed on to another generation of Lackses.”

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30 years after testimony, Anita Hill still waits for change

By Jocelyn Noveck AP National Writer

America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an allmale U.S. Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court anyway, but Ms. Hill’s work was just beginning.

Now, three decades later, what does 65-year-old Ms. Hill wish she could have told 35-year-old Ms. Hill, the young professor in the bright blue suit who testified calmly and deliberately that day but had utterly no idea what lay ahead?

“I wish I had known then that the work would take a long time,” she says now. “That I should be patient—diligent, but patient.”

As a lawyer, she had thought institutions would do their job, she said. “What I wasn’t understanding was our culture of denial.”

It’s safe to say the soft-spoken Ms. Hill, an exceedingly private person who has spent her entire adult life in the classroom, didn’t grow up planning to become an activist. But the Thomas hearings set her on a different path, and when the #MeToo reckoning exploded in 2017, she was automatically a potent symbol. She still teaches gender, race and law at Brandeis University and also chairs the Hollywood Commission, which fights harassment in the entertainment industry, along with other advocacy work.

So it seems appropriate that Ms. Hill’s latest project is one that combines her paths of academia and activism. Her new book, “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence,” is a heavily researched look at gender violence—tracing its roots, measuring its impact and suggesting ways to fight it.

Sitting down with The Associated Press to discuss the book—her third—Ms. Hill said the project gained urgency in early 2020 as the pandemic took hold. She was disturbed to hear that intimate partner violence had surged in the early days of the pandemic.

Through a mix of academic studies, legal analysis, anecdotes and interviews, Ms. Hill looks at different spheres of society and finds that although there’s surely a better understanding of sexual harassment and gender violence now than three decades ago—when U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming referred at the hearing to “that sexual harassment crap” — there’s a lack of comprehension of how deeply rooted the problems are.

She also says it’s unrealistic to expect a younger generation’s more evolved values will be enough to eradicate gender violence, an idea she calls “the myth of the woke generation.” First of all, beliefs in any generation are mixed, but also, it’s the institutions and systems that need to change, she says.

“It’s really dangerous for us to think that gender violence is not a huge problem, that it is not a problem that’s affecting (all of us),” Ms. Hill says. “There’s probably not anyone who doesn’t have a story about something that happened to them or to someone they know.”

And, she says, despite the power of millions of #MeToo tweets sharing such experiences that launched the movement in 2017, a year later at Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing, “Christine Blasey Ford testified about her own experience with sexual assault ... and the Senate seemed to refuse to even do a thorough investigation. So, it is endemic and it’s systemic.”

And men can experience gender violence as well, she points out—often when they don’t conform to conventional notions of masculinity or gender expression.

Her reference to Ms. Ford’s testimony in the book is especially poignant. On the day Ms. Ford, a fellow academic, testified, Ms. Hill was watching from far off at the University of Utah, where she was speaking to a women’s studies class. But they met a year later. Ms. Hill says they share a unique bond.

“She and I are the two people in the world who have gone through it,” she said. “I knew this was going to change her life forever, and wanted to hear from her just on a personal basis—how things were going, how she was handling it—and to reassure her things would get better.”

Ms. Ford recently participated in a new podcast with Ms. Hill, “Because of Anita.”

One thing Ms. Hill can identify with only too well: The condemnation and threats that Ms. Ford received.

“Certainly there were years that I felt threatened,” Ms. Hill said. “I felt fortunate that I didn’t have children ... I did have elderly parents that I feared for and felt very protective of.”

She got through it, she says, “by just being out in the world, not hiding from it, going out and doing public speaking, being engaged.” And by listening to victims’ stories – “knowing that there was something bigger and something more important, and that I could make a difference in the lives of the people who were suffering.”

What Ms. Hill has learned, she says, is that attitudes may have evolved, but systems and institutions haven’t kept pace.

“It’s not enough for us as a society to change,” she said. “If we keep the same systems in place, the problem’s going to keep repeating itself.”

She is, though, buoyed by what she calls the thorough investigation conducted by New York Attorney General Letitia James into accusations of harassment against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which led to his resignation. That probe, she said, should serve as “a model” for future such cases.

Ms. Hill also is concerned about the dual impact of racism and sexism, and the intersection of two struggles that she, like #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, feels need to be addressed together.

She points out that statistics show “the risk of being a victim of gender violence is enhanced depending on your race. How can you resolve that problem without looking at both? You cannot resolve the problems that women of color face unless you’re attending to the problem of racism in this country.”

Another point Ms. Hill addresses in her book: The long-awaited

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This cover image released by Viking shows “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence” by Anita Hill.

apology offered her in 2019 by Joe Biden, who had chaired a skeptical Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 when she testified that Justice Thomas had harassed her when she worked for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Hill has said the committee refused to seriously examine her accusations and, crucially, did not allow testimony from other potential witnesses.

Ms. Hill jokes in the book that she and her husband used to say, when their doorbell would ring unexpectedly in Massachusetts, that it was Mr. Biden coming to apologize. When he finally called just before entering the presidential campaign, she writes that she asked him to take on, as a calling, ending gender-based violence.

“I’m not sure he heard me,” she writes.

But Ms. Hill has hopes that President Biden, now that he holds the highest office in the land, can make good on her request. “I believe that President Biden has a special role in the history of these issues that gives him an opportunity to make good on his responsibilities,” she says now.

Asked whether she actually expects it to happen, Ms. Hill replies, “I’m always a very hopeful person.” But, she adds, “I will continue to advocate whether it’s this president or the next president. That is something that I imagine I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.”

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Voting is taking place now Voting is critical.

And the Nov. 2 election to determine who will lead Virginia during the next four years is of urgent importance.

Already, early voting is underway to choose the next governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and representatives in the House of Delegates, along with constitutional officers in localities.

Richmond voters also will decide on whether they want a $565 million casino built in South Side.

This election is too important for anyone 18 and older to sit out. The results will determine whether Virginia moves forward during the next four years or goes back to a place we struggled for decades to get beyond.

Tuesday, Oct. 12, is the last day to register to vote in this election. If you have moved recently, it also is the last day to update your address to vote in this election.

Don’t let the deadlines prevent you from participating in this crucial election, particularly now that early voting in Virginia allows in-person or mail-in ballots.

Here is other important information to help you vote: Tuesday, Nov. 2: Election Day. Polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

If you want to vote early by mail: Friday, Oct. 22, by 5 p.m. is the deadline to request that an absentee ballot be mailed to you. If you return your marked ballot by mail, it must be postmarked on or before Tuesday, Nov. 2 and received by noon Friday, Nov. 5. Or it can be dropped off at your local Voter Registrar’s Office or your city’s or county’s secure drop-off location, or taken to your polling place on Election Day. Make sure a witness countersigns the ballot return envelope to prevent its rejection, a requirement that is now back in force.

If you want to vote early in person: Local Voter Registrar’s Offices have set up early voting locations. Check with your locality to find the locations, dates and times early voting is taking place. Saturday, Oct. 30, is the last day to vote early in person.

Voting in person: You will need to show your I.D. to vote or you can sign an I.D. confirmation statement to vote. According to the Virginia Department of Elections website, acceptable forms of I.D. include a Virginia DMVissued driver’s license or I.D. card; a valid U.S. passport, employer-issued I.D. or U.S. or Virginia government-issued I.D.; any current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document with your name and address received within the last 12 months; any valid student I.D. issued by a Virginia college, university or high school; and any valid student I.D. with a photo issued by a U.S. college or university.

For more information, contact your local Voter Registrar’s Office: • Richmond: (804) 646-5950; www.rva.gov/elections/registrar-home • Henrico: (804) 501-4347; https://henrico.us/registrar/ • Chesterfield: (804) 748-1471; www.chesterfield.gov/689/Registrar • Hanover: (804) 365-6080; www.hanovercounty.gov/365/Voting

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Don’t let up There is good news from the COVID-19 battlefront.

The Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield health districts are now taking appointments for COVID-19 booster shots.

The boosters shots are for people at high-risk for the coronavirus who took their second shot of the Pfizer vaccine at least six months ago.

That includes people age 65 and older; anyone 18 and older living in a nursing home or long-term care facility; people with underlying health conditions, such as cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and those who are immunocompromised and at greater risk for COVID-19; as well as people whose jobs put them at high risk for exposure to the potentially fatal virus.

Other good news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider authorizing a booster dose for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, as well as examining the possibility of mixing and matching brands for booster doses.

Taking a booster shot is one more way to protect yourself and your loved ones from the devastating impact of COVID-19 and from becoming one more patient needing specialty care from already overburdened hospitals and their staffs.

We urge people who are eligible for the booster to get it.

And we urge anyone 12 and older who has not yet been vaccinated to get inoculated now.

Already, four weeks into the start of school for Richmond and Henrico students, we have seen an increase in cases. As of this week, Richmond Public Schools has reported 271 cases of students and staff testing positive, while Henrico County Public Schools has reported 688 cases.

Our Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover community grieves the loss of more than 1,700 people since the pandemic swept in in 2020. That’s like the enrollment of any one of the area’s high schools.

Thousands more have been stricken and hospitalized with the virus, with many suffering from long-term effects of COVID-19.

Despite all the efforts and incentives for vaccination, only 55 percent of eligible people age 12 and older in the city of Richmond alone have been fully vaccinated, according to state Health Department data. Broken down by race, only 39.8 percent of Black people in Richmond have been fully vaccinated. That is disheartening, especially because the African-American community continues to be disproportionately impacted by the virus.

The coronavirus hasn’t let up, and neither should we.

Please roll up your sleeve and get vaccinated.

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U.S. asylum policy needs to be clear Today, the makeshift migrant border camp in Del Rio, Texas, is virtually empty, cleared of thousands of Haitian refugees who went there seeking asylum in America. State troopers now line the border area to discourage others from gathering.

The horrifying images of the crisis — immigration agents on horseback using reins as whips on the helpless; women and children huddled in the heat; distraught Haitians deported back to the Haiti that they had left years ago — will not be so easily erased. And more Haitians and Central Americans are on their way north from Central America as I write.

President Biden denounced the treatment of the Haitians, admitting, “We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.” Yet, the deportations will continue.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reported that of the 30,000 Haitians that had gathered at

the border, 12,000 were given a chance to make their case for asylum, 8,000 returned to Mexico and some 2,000 were deported to Haiti.

The deportations were carried out under the special order issued by former President Trump, using the pandemic as an excuse to deport refugees

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. seeking asylum.

The contrast of the treatment of Haitians with that of Afghans is stark. There is bipartisan support for resettling in the United States thousands of Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

In polls, both Republicans and Democrats support welcoming the Afghani migrants. At the same time, most Americans favor even stricter policies on our southern border, a reflection of Mr. Trump’s success in turning immigration into a racial symbol.

Yet, the kind of peril that Afghans face in their home country is paralleled by that faced by those arriving from Haiti or from Central America. Desperate, they leave their homes fleeing brutal gang violence, extortion, climate catastrophes and desperate poverty, all made

worse by corrupt, repressive governments.

Reprimand for the agents on horseback is not sufficient.

The United States needs a deep reassessment of its immigration policies and its policies toward its neighbors to the south. Congressional hearings and bipartisan public commissions should probe the reality we face — and what a humane, forward-looking policy should include.

Any reassessment must start with the United States dramatically changing its foreign policy priorities. We spent more than $3 trillion on the failed war in Afghanistan. We spend billions of dollars a year to keep troops in Europe 76 years after World War II and in Korea nearly 70 years after the fighting stopped. We spend billions in a misbegotten effort to police the world, with troops engaged in anti-terror operations in an unimaginable 85 countries during the last three years alone.

At the same time, we have short-changed assistance to our neighbors, have limited capacity to aid them in times of calamity and too often have supported dictators and corrupt elites that have preyed upon their own people.

We need to augment our own

Police policing themselves I wish Cariol Horne had been on the scene when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than 9 minutes.

If she had, George Floyd may be alive today.

There is a very high possibility that an effort would have been made on her part to stop Mr. Chauvin.

There are times it is necessary for the police to police themselves.

Ms. Horne, an AfricanAmerican and former police officer in Buffalo, N.Y., was in a very similar situation in 2006. She intervened to break up a confrontation involving a chokehold between fellow Officer Greg Kwiatkowski, who is white, and Neal Mack, a Black suspect.

“Neal Mack looked like he was about to die,” she stated in 2020. “So had I not stepped in, he possibly could have.

He was handcuffed and being choked.”

While Mr. Mack contends Ms. Horne saved his life, she was terminated when it was determined that her use of force was unjustified. She was fired from the Buffalo Police Department two months before being eligible to receive her full pension.

Waterloo, Iowa, is a city of 67,000 residents and has a long history of tensions between the police and the city’s Black community, which makes up 17 percent of the city’s population.

On June 1, 2020, Joel Fitzgerald became the first Black police

chief in Waterloo.

Soon after being sworn in, the reform-minded Chief Fitzgerald supported numerous changes to transform the department, including the banning of chokeholds, outlawing racial profiling, requiring officers to intervene if they see excessive force and

David W. Marshall investigating all complaints of misconduct. Along with the efforts to improve policing came the expected backlash. Current and former officers are not only opposing the reforms, but fighting the removal of the police insignia which resembles a Ku Klux Klan dragon.

Waterloo is no different than most other police departments.

The clash between an entrenched Blue Culture versus the changes needed to hold officers accountable is a main reason many reform-minded officers are leaving. Blue Culture shows how the law enforcement community has a tendency to band together in face of scrutiny and calls for systemic change.

Many officers have the integrity, character and ethics to fully serve the public according to their sworn oath. Ms. Horne reminds us of that fact. But the Blue Culture can be deadly.

Derek Chauvin has proven that fact.

When people claim to support the police, what type of officers are they supporting? When police reforms are implemented, thereby empowering the Cariol Horne- type officer, we are more likely to have Neal Mack-type suspects with lives saved. With

those who promote the police status quo, thereby empowering the Derek Chauvin-type officer, we are more likely to have the George Floyd-type suspects with lives taken.

Many of those who support the police status quo believe that incidents of police misconduct are isolated and not part of a wider problem. Those who believe that misconception tend to overlook the fact that police departments nationwide have their share of officers of low character with no integrity.

Usually, incidents of wrongdoing by an individual officer are not isolated. After his encounter with Ms. Horne, Officer Kwiatkowski later was sentenced to four months in federal prison in 2018 for using unlawful and unreasonable force against four Black teenagers.

In October 2020, the mayor of Buffalo signed the “Duty to Intervene” law that requires police to step in if a fellow officer uses excessive force. This shows that the heart of police reform really comes down to good police officers protecting citizens from bad police officers.

During that same month, Ms. Horne filed a lawsuit to overturn her 2008 termination. A New York State judge ultimately ruled in her favor. Ms. Horne’s pension of approximately $800,000 was reinstated. In an 11-page opinion, the judge quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., saying, “The time is always right to do what is right.”

The writer is founder of the faith-based organization, TRB: The Reconciled Body, and author of the book “God Bless Our Divided America.”

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ability to help our neighbors in time of calamity and we need to invest in our neighbors to build their own capacity to react to what surely will be growing climate catastrophes.

Haiti deserves debt relief and reparations from France and the United States, repaying the debt exacted by slave-owning societies for the Haitian revolt that freed the slaves.

Haitians are human, too. In a time of extreme distress, they deserve a helping hand, not the lash of a rein. And for our own sake, we should be working with our neighbors to build prosperity, not building walls to protect ourselves from the misery around us.

The Congress should have hearings on Haitian and immigration policies and Haiti should be included in our budget.

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

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Republicans and the Santa Claus strategy Re: Editorial “Playing politics,” Free Press Sept. 30-Oct. 2 edition: U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has declared that no Republican lawmakers will vote to raise the debt ceiling, which prevents default on loans for money already spent, much of it from the previous administration.

Why are Republicans doing this?

The explanation is the two Santa Clauses strategy published by Jude Wanniski, a conservative economic strategist, in 1976. He

stated that Democrats had been viewed as the Santa Claus party for passing legislation like Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits, etc., that helped the working class and won elections for Democrats. He said the Republican Party must become viewed as the Santa Claus party, but because the GOP didn’t like helping working people, the strategy had to be different.

So, the Republican Party decided on tax cuts to mostly benefit the rich, paired with advertis-

Dissatisfied voter calls for write-in support I am very dissatisfied at the choice of candidates we have for governor this fall. There are many Virginians who don’t trust Republican Glenn Youngkin for governor and believe he is a RINO, a Republican in Name Only.

I am one of those people. Therefore, I am imploring the help of as many people as possible to write in state Sen. Amanda Chase’s name for governor this fall.

Sen. Chase, who represents Amelia County, Colonial Heights and part of Chesterfield County, was censured by the Richmond elites simply for attending the Jan. 6 rally at the U.S. Capitol, supporting Donald Trump and the America First agenda and speaking out about election fraud, which others are afraid to or refuse to address.

Without correcting the fraudulent election of 2020, there will never be another fair election.

I am working to spread the word everywhere I can. We need the patriotic leadership of Amanda Chase.

There are those who disagree with me because they think that splitting the Republican vote will give the election to Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

However, there are so many Democrats who are tired of party politics as well that they will not be voting for former Gov. McAuliffe either, as he is an extension of the O’Biden party.

The Richmond Republican establishment played their party politics game, canceled our primary and left us with no other choice.

I believe with all my heart that we can get Republicans and Democrats both on board to write in Amanda Chase’s name. We need to show the Richmond elites that they don’t control us.

They work for us. We are the ones who decide who our next governor will be, not they.

Please write in Amanda Chase for governor this fall. She is not afraid of the establishment.

She stands up to them!

KATHRYN BRAVO Chesapeake

PUBLIC HEARING ON REAPPORTIONING HENRICO’S ELECTION DISTRICTS The Henrico County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing at its regular meeting on October 12, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. to receive public comments on the 2021 process of reapportioning Henrico’s election districts. The hearing will be held in the Board Room of the Administration Building in the Government Center at 4301 E. Parham Road.

Anyone may attend the meeting in person. In addition, anyone may be heard remotely during the meeting by phone or through the internet by completing and submitting the signup form in advance of the meeting.

The signup form is available at https://henrico.us/services/citizenparticipation-registration/. Alternatively, anyone may submit written comments in advance of the meeting by email to bra151@henrico.us, through the County’s webpage listed above, or by regular mail to Clerk, Henrico County Board of Supervisors, P.O. Box 90775, Henrico, VA 23273-0775. Any written comments received in advance of the meeting will be provided to the Board of Supervisors before the hearing and included in the record of the hearing.

Given under my hand this 30th day of September 2021.

Tanya Brackett, Clerk Henrico Board of Supervisors

ing that falsely gave the impression that the tax cuts were really helping workers.

Sound familiar? The result was a burgeoning national debt during Republican presidencies, with Republicans willingly raising the debt ceiling time and again during those administrations.

Now, every time a Democrat assumes the office of the president, the Republican Party screams with newfound concern for the national debt, “Oh, our children and grandchildren will have to pay for this!” and they threaten to shut down the government to stop Democrats from spending money that would actually help Americans.

The Republican Party achieves its goal of

preventing Democrats from being the Santa Claus party and draws misled working people into the Republican Party with the false narrative that they are the ones that care about them.

The Santa Claus strategy has worked for the Republican Party during the Clinton and Obama administrations and is again being employed during Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency.

I urge everyone to recognize this Republican scam and vote in every election — local to national — so that Democrats can make this country a better place for all Americans.

CAROL BUCKINGHAM Richmond

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FY 2023 CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA Programs and FY 2022 Affordable Housing Trust Fund Program The City of Richmond receives an annual entitlement allocation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) fund and the City’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) Program. The CDBG, HOME ESG and HOPWA funds are directed for neighborhood development and supportive services. The AHTF are to assist with housing production, which are intended for projects and programs that align with regional, state, and federal plans.

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Bubba Wallace claims victory, history as first Black to win NASCAR Cup Series since 1963 Free Press wire report

TALLADEGA, Ala. The hard part wasn’t dodging his way around a crash and then driving to the front of the field at Talladega Superspeedway. That was just instinct for Bubba Wallace.

The challenge was the 45 minutes after Wallace took the lead, when the sky opened and he anxiously sat in the rain — hoping, wishing, praying — that NASCAR would call off Monday’s rescheduled race and declare him the winner.

With a crowd gathered behind his pit stand chanting its support — one man told his 6-year-old son, clad in a Wallace shirt and jumping up and down along the fence, that he was “witnessing history” — NASCAR pulled the plug and Wallace became just the second Black driver to win a race at the NASCAR Cup Series level.

“Got some credibility to my name now,” said Wallace, a firsttime Cup winner in his 143 starts. “I’m just like, ‘Finally, I’m a winner and I’m a winner in the Cup level,’ and it’s just like ‘Hell yeah!’ It was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.”

This was so much more than just a first win.

Wallace is the first Black driver to win at the top level of the elite stock car series since Wendell Scott in 1963, a race where he wasn’t declared the victor until long after Buck Baker had already been rewarded the trophy. NASCAR at last presented Scott’s family with his trophy from that race two months ago.

“You can’t swim standing on the Bank!!,” tweeted Warrick Scott Sr., who is Scott’s grandson. “RIP Wendell Scott. Congratulations @bubbawallace!!” A second post showed his grandfather leaning against a car and read: “PaPa was there the whole time chilling in the rain.”

The Wallace victory earned praise from rapper Big Sean, the University of Tennessee football team and Bill Lester, a Black driver who raced intermittently in NASCAR from 1999 through a Trucks Series start this season, among others.

“Finally, it’s official, you’ve done it!” Lester posted. “So proud of you and what you’ve accomplished. Your win moves the @NASCAR needle forward on so many fronts. Glad I was a witness.”

The race was spotlighted on NBC’s “Nightly News” at the top of Monday’s broadcast, illustrating how culturally important Wallace’s win was for NASCAR, a predominately white sport with deep Southern roots and a longtime embrace of Confederate symbols.

As much as Wallace wanted the moment to be solely about his

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Bubba Wallace celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series auto race Monday in Talladega, Ala., where he led the pack before a rain delay.

first career win, he couldn’t ignore the significance.

“It’s definitely been tough going to some of the tracks this year.

We get some of the most boos now,” Wallace said. “Everybody says as long as they’re making noise, that’s fine. But you know, I get booed for different reasons and that’s the tough thing to swallow.

I appreciate all those who were there doing the rain dance with us, pulling for us, supporting me my whole career, but especially those who have supported me with everything that’s gone on the last 15-16 months.”

In June 2020 at Talladega, NASCAR discovered a noose in the garage stall assigned to Wallace. The finding came just a week after NASCAR had banned the Confederate flag at its events at Wallace’s urging.

The FBI investigated and found that the noose was tied at the end of the garage door pull and had been there for months, meaning Wallace was not a victim of a hate crime. Still, the series rallied

around him and stood in solidarity with Wallace at the front of the grid before the race.

The Confederate flag ban continues to be an issue at Talladega, where a convoy of vehicles has paraded up and down Speedway Boulevard outside the main entrance of the speedway during all four race weekends since NASCAR announced the ban. The convoy was back this weekend and included one car pulling a trailer that contained a Civil War-era cannon.

Wallace has called the noose incident a low point and he’s been subjected to online harassment that last year even included a tweet from then-President Donald Trump that falsely accused Wallace of making up the noose. Although Wallace never saw the noose and was only told about it by NASCAR President Steve Phelps after the FBI had been summoned to investigate, he has been accused by many in the public of orchestrating a hoax.

When Monday’s race was halted with Wallace as the leader, social media was ablaze with comments attacking the 27-year-old Alabama native whose birthday is Oct. 8.

“They just are haters. That’s all you can really say about it,” said Denny Hamlin, Wallace’s team co-owner and a fellow driver.

“I try to say to him, ‘Don’t get your motivation trying to prove haters wrong. Instead, get your motivation from trying to do the people that support you proud.’

“That’s where the motivation is going to come from — the people who are going to support you through the good times and the bad times,” Hamlin said.

Wallace had driven through a crash and to the front of the field five laps before the second rain stoppage of the race. When he surged to the front, and with the entire field realizing that rain could halt the race at any time, runner-up Brad Keselowski recognized Wallace had likely just won the race with his pass.

“I was thinking, ‘Oh, geez. I wish I would have made that move,’” Keselowski said. Wallace’s “was the right move at the right time.”

NASCAR tried to dry the track for nearly 45 minutes, but called things off as sunset approached and the rain showed no sign of ceasing.

Wallace had been waiting atop his pit stand and celebrated wildly with his crew when the decision came. Wallace is in his first season driving for 23X1 Racing, a team owned by both Hamlin and Michael Jordan.

Stories by Fred Jeter

Dejected Panthers hoping for homecoming win Saturday against Lincoln Virginia Union University’s road to football riches has grown long and bumpy, but there is still a lane to the top.

They figure to begin the uphill climb Saturday, Oct. 9, with the Panthers celebrating homecoming against CIAA doormat Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.

Kickoff at Willie Lanier Field at Hovey Stadium is 1 p.m.

The Panthers stubbed their toe badly last Saturday with a 27-7 home loss to CIAA rival Shaw University. The loss drops VUU to 1-3 overall and 1-1 in the conference. Shaw is 3-2 overall and 2-0 in the CIAA Southern Division.

After scoring a combined 92 points in the team’s previous wins over Virginia University of Lynchburg and Johnson C. Smith University, the Panthers and its offense never got their groove on against the visiting Shaw University Bears.

Shaw outgained VUU 393 yards to 166. The Panthers’ Jada Byers rushed for 67 yards and the Panthers’ lone touchdown. James Jackson, a junior from Highland Springs High School, had three receptions for 58 yards.

Defensively, Domantay Rhem, a transfer from North Carolina State University, had 11 tackles plus an interception he returned for 44 yards.

Here’s where Coach Alvin Parker’s team stands heading into the second half of the

season: To have any chance of winning the CIAA Northern Division, the Panthers likely will need to win five straight games and hope other contenders knock each other off.

It’s a difficult situation to be in, but not impossible.

Lincoln University has been the get-well tonic for a lot of CIAA schools in recent years. The Lions will come to Richmond with a 0-5 record, with the most recent setback being a 46-9 loss last week at Fayetteville State University.

Lincoln was 0-10 in 2019 with a 62-0 loss to VUU. Lincoln was 1-9 in 2018 with a 90-0 loss to VUU. Lincoln is famous for other things besides football. Alumni include the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and poet Langston Northern Division standings

CIAA Overall

Chowan University

2-0

5-0

Bowie State University

2-0

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With a gaggle of players clinging to him, Virginia Union University’s Jada Byers pushes his way across the goal line last Saturday for a touchdown. It was the Panthers sole touchdown against Shaw University.

Hughes. Both are honored with commemorative stamps by the U.S. Postal Service.

Fritz Pollard coached at Lincoln from 1918 to 1920 before becoming the NFL’s first Black coach with the Akron Pros.

Richmond Public Schools football scoreboard Friday, Oct. 1, scores Thomas Jefferson 14, Deep Run 12 Douglas Freeman 54, John Marshall 0 James River 51, George Wythe 7 Friday, Oct. 8, games Armstrong at Varina, 7 p.m.

Midlothian at Huguenot, 7 p.m.

George Wythe at Clover Hill, 7 p.m.

NOTE: John Marshall has canceled the rest of its season because of low participation numbers.

Waller glides into QB role for VSU; next up, battle of the coaches, both former NFL players

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Virginia State University quarterback D’Vonte Waller runs with the ball to gain yardage last Saturday in the Trojans’ 33-9 win over St. Augustine’s University at Rogers Stadium in Ettrick.

D’Vonte Waller led Highland Springs High School to two state championships.

Now it seems he may be the quarterback to lead Virginia State University out of a rough patch.

The 6-foot-3 sophomore passed for 232 yards last Saturday as the VSU Trojans defeated St. Augustine’s University 33-9 for its first victory after three punchless defeats.

The Trojans hope to keep their foot firmly on the pedal this Saturday, Oct. 9, as CIAA opponent Elizabeth City State University comes to Rogers Stadium for a 6 p.m. kickoff.

Waller came to VSU with a résumé so bright that welder’s glasses were needed to read it. As a high school junior and senior, he paced the Springers to an overall 31-1 record and back-to-back State 5A crowns.

Jordan Davis and Mark Wright did most of the quarterbacking in VSU’s first three games, producing a total of four touchdowns.

Waller got his first start against St. Augustine’s and maximized the opportunity, generating an attack that rolled up 371 total yards.

There were highlights aplenty. Toure Wallace, a graduate student from Chicago, scored on a 66-yard touchdown dash and Jevon LaPierre, from L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield County, hauled in a 77-yard Waller pass.

Nick Woolfolk, aka “Nick the Kick” out of Richmond’s Thomas Jefferson High School, booted two field goals.

Kolby Hunter and Javon Burks led the defense with a combined 13 tackles and four stops behind the line of scrimmage.

Invading Elizabeth City State University has begun to flex its muscles under third-year Coach Anthony Jones. Following a 0-3 start, the Vikings have defeated Winston-Salem State University (19-14) and Livingstone College (19-3) last Saturday.

The game will pit two coaches with NFL Super Bowl rings. The Vikings’ Coach Jones played tight end with Washington and San Diego and was part of Washington’s 1987 Super Bowl team.

VSU Coach Reggie Barlow starred as a receiver and punt returner and was a member of Tampa Bay’s 2002 Super Bowl squad.

The Trojans travel to Bowie State University on Saturday, Oct. 16, before returning to Ettrick for homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 23, against Lincoln University.

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Personality: Omari Kijana Al-Qadaffi During a time where millions of people remain at risk of eviction in a pandemic, in a city that gained notice nationally for the second highest eviction rate in the country before COVID-19, Omari Kijana Al-Qadaffi has been a constant presence as a community organizer and housing advocate.

Recent weeks have seen Mr. Al-Qadaffi receive further attention for his efforts, for better and worse.

Last month, the Richmond native was awarded a special Housing and Racial Justice Commendation from the National Housing Law Project, with the organization noting “his courageous and sustained work on behalf of tenants and communities of color and for his unflagging advocacy for housing and racial justice.”

For Mr. Al-Qadaffi, it’s a tremendous honor.

“I’m still in awe,” Mr. AlQadaffi says. “I have respected this organization long before I was acknowledged by any institution for my work. It’s like performing on the corner and doing free shows for years and then winning a BET Award.”

Mr. Al-Qadaffi cites his past experience living in an East End apartment as a key part of his development as a housing organizer. The combination of unsafe and unhealthy conditions, an exploitative landlord and elderly residents who didn’t know their rights as tenants left him angered. The situation also inspired him to make a difference in his community’s fortunes.

Mr. Al-Qadaffi’s approach to community organizing balances investigative, interpersonal and emotional skills and intelligence.

In addition to his work with the Legal Aid Justice Center, Mr. Al-Qadaffi founded the Richmond Food Justice Alliance and Leaders of the New South, which allow him to focus on

Spotlight on recipient of Housing and Racial Justice Commendation from the National Housing Law Project and address a wide range of societal issues.

His advocacy has led him to the chambers of the Virginia General Assembly to testify in support of tenant protection bills and taken him to communities facing food inequity to kick-start urban farming. Across Richmond, he has provided tenants with housing rights education, helped foster participation in Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority meetings and assisted in protections from eviction and housing discrimination on a daily basis.

It’s this breadth of advocacy and aid, particularly in the midst of COVID-19, that earned Mr. Al-Qadaffi special recognition by the national organization.

Mr. Al-Qadaffi’s work has not been without controversy, however. On Monday, Mr. Al-Qadaffi pleaded guilty to trespassing and obstruction of justice in connection with an anti-eviction protest on July 1, 2020, at the John Marshall Courts Building in Downtown that drew many people and ended with a scuffle and a plate glass window being shattered.

Sentencing is scheduled for December.

For his part, Mr. Al-Qadaffi sees the commendation awarded in part because of the consequences he sometimes has incurred as an organizer. The award serves as both an honor and vindication of his work in the city.

“I have definitely been putting in the work for years,” Mr. Al-Qadaffi says, “and I think that NHLP also recognized the personal costs that I have paid along with the trials and tribulations that I face locally, while trying to simply help people maintain dignity and a decent quality of life.”

that I have played a key role in involving housing, transportation and food justice. They also mentioned my 24/7 work of helping tenants.

My reaction to award: I’m still in awe. I have respected this organization long before I was acknowledged by any institution for my work.

It’s like performing on the corner and doing free shows for years and then winning a BET Award.

Meet a community organizer and housing advocate and this week’s Personality, Omari K. Al-Qadaffi: Latest honor: Housing and Racial Justice Commendation from the National Housing Law Project.

Date and place of birth: New Year’s Day 1981 in Richmond.

Where I live now: Richmond.

Education: Bachelor’s in computer science.

Occupation: Which one? I wear many hats. Most of the time, I’m a community organizer.

Family: I grew up with two brothers and a sister. But I also have another brother and sister here in Richmond.

Reason for special commendation by National Housing Law Project: They noted a series of successful campaigns

How I became a competitor: I have definitely been putting in the work for years, and I think that NHLP also recognized the personal costs that I have paid along with the trials and tribulations that I face locally, while trying to simply help people maintain dignity and a decent quality of life.

A community organizer is: Someone who identifies community-based problems and aligns community members and resources to implement community-based solutions.

Skills needed: Effective and diverse communication, compassion, patience and research skills.

How I developed my passion for housing justice: I lived in the apartments of a great Richmond slumlord in the East End. I loved the community. It was small and tight knit, but we had an oppressive landlord. Many of my neighbors didn’t know their rights, and it angered me to see elderly Black women dealing with the unsafe and unhealthy conditions.

Racial equity and housing injustice: The real estate industry’s profits are largely driven by the displacement of Black populations. It has been that way since colonizers arrived here. On so many levels you cannot have housing justice without addressing the racial capitalism that’s inherent to the housing market.

My involvement in fighting other injustices in Richmond: There are so many, but I am mainly fascinated by the dependencies between housing access, food access and transportation access. I led a campaign that saved several bus routes in Black neighborhoods from being discontinued and led to increased amenities and the creation of a brand new bus route in the East End. I am part of the local food justice movement as the founder and director of Richmond Food Justice Alliance. We are active in food policy advocacy whole collaborating with partners to address community violence, poor nutrition and economic inequality through urban farming.

If I could reimagine Richmond I would: Align the Black business community with the public housing community to realize the true intention of the public housing program in being an economic engine for low-wealth communities.

How others can join the fight: Consistently pay attention to the decision-makers while they are making the decisions.

How I start the day: Listening to NPR. A perfect day for me is: Staying in bed all day watching

streaming apps and ignoring my phone.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Sing karaoke ’90s-era alternative rock songs.

Quote that I am inspired by: “All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts…

A man’s weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man’s; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man’s. His sufferings and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.” — James L. Allen Friends describe me as: Helpful, sarcastic and smart.

At the top of my “to-do” list: Do some traveling to see friends.

Best late-night snack: Anytime is a good time for spaghetti.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: No matter what you do, somebody is always watching you.

Person who influenced me the most: That’s so hard to say. I generally try to learn something from everyone I meet in life … but have often said that I’m just like my Dad. Book that influenced me the most: “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” by Don Miguel Ruiz.

What I’m reading now: I don’t have time for books. I mostly read nerdy housing reports and case law.

Next goal: To be exonerated from current charges that I am facing.

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VCUarts building now named for late dean Dr. Murry N. DePillars

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“I think that the commemoration is an absolutely wonderful thing to do,” said his widow, Mary The sound of jazz broke through the commo- DePillars, during a news conference held earlier tion of traffic and people on West Broad Street on Sept. 30 before the dedication ceremony. as the sun set on the city last Thursday. Bands “For so long, people who knew Murry and played outside and within the former Virginia knew about his work wanted to see some public Commonwealth University Fine Arts Building celebration of his legacy,” Mrs. DePillars conat 1000 W. Broad St. as guests gathered for a tinued. “So today is just a phenomenal day in ceremony officially renaming our lives. I just wish he could the building after Dr. Murry have been here to see many of N. DePillars, the late dean of the accolades that are coming VCUarts. his way. And Lord knows, he The jazz accompaniment deserved every one of them was just one of several tributes and earned every one.” to Dr. DePillars, an artist and Dr. DePillars died in May jazz and blues aficionado who 2008 at age 70. was the first African-American The choice to rename the dean of the school from 1976 building for Dr. DePillars was to 1995. approved by the VCU Board Dr. DePillars was a key of Visitors in September force in developing VCUarts 2020 during a time when the into one of the largest art university was examining the Dr. DePillars schools in the nation. Under Confederate memorials on his guidance, enrollment nearly doubled to 2,400, VCU property. At the time, Dr. DePillars’ name the endowment grew and he led the expansion already adorned VCU Institute for Contemporary of the school’s performing arts facilities.

Art’s new Learning Lab. Dr. DePillars, who was a member of the The arts building that now bears his name is Richmond Jazz Society’s advisory board, also the home to students from a variety of disciplines helped organize jazz festivals and high-profile and houses the painting and printmaking, craft/ fashion shows on campus and in the city, giving material studies, kinetic imaging and sculpture art students showcases for their work. and extended media departments.

He was a major influence on the arts within A native of Chicago, Dr. DePillars’ importance the university and within Richmond. to the university is clear. His tenure as dean isAlongside the 114,000-square-foot build- sued in a focus on recruiting students, faculty ing’s new signage displaying its new name, the and staff of color, bringing greater diversity and lobby now includes a plaque of Dr. DePillars inclusivity both to the school and the artistic viwith some of his artwork. An exhibit featuring sions it nurtured and spotlighted. some of his works is open weekdays 10 a.m.

Dr. DePillars’ legacy extended beyond VCU. to 5 p.m. to the public through Oct. 14 in the He was a true arts advocate, appearing before a building’s gallery.

House Appropriations subcommittee of Congress The exhibition was curated by Richard to defend funding for the National Endowment Woodward, founding curator of African Art at for the Arts. He also was founding member of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and includes the AfriCOBRA artists’ collective in Chicago pieces chosen by Mr. Woodward and Mrs. in 1968. Throughout his life, his work also DePillars reflecting her husband’s 40 years of scrutinized harmful cultural biases, societal iscreative efforts. sues, institutional failings and more, that pushed

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Mary DePillars, widow of VCUarts dean Dr. Murry N. DePillars, speaks at the dedication ceremony Sept. 30 renaming the arts building at 1000 W. Broad St. in honor of her late husband. A plaque honoring Dr. DePillars, along with copies of two of his art pieces, are behind her in the building’s lobby.

against the status quo.

“It was very important to him, increasing representation within our community of the arts in an era before diversity and inclusion efforts were mainstream or even things that folks thought to pursue,” Dr. Carmenita Higginbotham, the current dean of VCUarts, said during remarks at the event.

“For those of you who are in the audience who had him as a professor, as a mentor, you know about how his commitment to you, to your education, to how to thrive within your academic, personal careers is so important.”

That impact was very clear for VCUarts sophomore Koi McAfee. The event held particular meaning for her family. She said Dr. DePillars was

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Blessing of the Animals The Rev. Marlene E. Forest blesses Chico, a miniature schnauzer, during a Blessing of the Animals ceremony last Saturday at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church on Hanes Avenue in North Side. Several families brought their dogs to the outdoor ceremony. With Chico is Jordan Williams, while Jay Greene brought his 13-yearold yellow Labrador retriever, Oscar. In addition to the blessing, each pet received a gift. People also brought offerings of pet food and cat litter to be donated to Richmond Animal Care & Control.

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a key part in her mother Elba Anderson’s time at VCU, writing a recommendation that helped further her mother’s academic studies and paving the way for a career in art therapy.

“He had a great impact on her getting her doctorate,” Ms. McAfee said. “He was a really great mentor to her, so I think it’s cool that they’re renaming the school building for him.”

Other speakers at the ceremony included Mrs. DePillars and VCU President Michael Rao. “While art was his passion, education was his vocation and excellence was the only acceptable goal and outcome,” Mrs. DePillars said of her husband. “His legacy lives vibrantly, quietly, forcefully, always challenging the status quo.

His legacy lives through you.”

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Folk Festival returns to city this weekend Following an all-virtual event last year, the Richmond Folk Festival is set to return in person to the Downtown riverfront Friday, Oct. 8, to Sunday, Oct. 10.

The eclectic free festival will showcase music and dance performances by 30 artists from across the country and around the globe, along with traditional crafts, storytelling and food.

Music and dance will take place on five stages and will cover a wide range of genres, from African-American a cappella gospel, blues, bluegrass and Lakota hoop dance to Northern Plains drumming, traditional Sicilian music, Persian santour and more.

Additionally, the Virginia Folklife Traditional Crafts Area will present MASK, featuring the Mongolian masks and ceremonial costumes and dance of artist Gankhuyag “Ganna” Natsag of Arlington, Mongolia’s cultural ambassador to the United States. The artist is known for recreating masks associated with the Mongolian Buddhist tsam, a secret ritual that had been banned by Mongolia’s Communist government in the 1930s.

The folk festival will feature a variety of international food and art by vendors. Families also can participate in scavenger hunts on Brown’s Island and in Jackson Ward.

The event will run from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, 1 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday along the riverfront between 2nd and 5th Streets and on Brown’s Island.

Because of COVID-19, the family area with children’s activities has been suspended, as have free shuttles to and from the site.

All festivalgoers are asked to wear masks and maintain social distancing. Face masks and hand sanitizer will be available at the festival, and free COVID-19 vaccinations will be available from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Pets that aren’t service animals, coolers, large backpacks, bikes, skateboards, alcohol and glass bottles and containers, kites, drones, Frisbees and other flying objects are not allowed on the festival grounds.

Parking is available for a fee at garages around Downtown. And GRTC bus routes 3A, 3B, 3C and 87 are free and stop at Belvidere and Holly or Belvidere and the Virginia War Memorial. The first three routes operate every 30 minutes, while the #87 bus runs every hour. Call GRTC for details: (804) 358-4782.

The festival is produced by Venture Richmond in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, the Center for Cultural Vibrancy, the Children’s Museum and the City of Richmond.

Festival details: www.richmondfolkfestival.org

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Elegba Folklore Society to host cultural history tour Oct. 9

Hundreds of people old and young came out last Saturday and Sunday for the 33rd Annual 2nd Street Festival, where music and entertainment flowed from three stages and vendors offered food, arts and other wares to festival-goers.

It was the first time since the pandemic struck in 2020 that the festival returned to Jackson Ward, where streets were blocked off to traffic for the festivities.

Richmond saxophonist J. Plunky Branch, above, takes the stage as Saturday’s headliner with Plunky & Oneness, a local favorite.

At the Waverly R. Crawley Main Stage, above left, Dontrae Booker of Richmond, left, and Alice Brown of Henrico groove to the sounds of DJ Drake and MC Choco.

Below, Alfred C. Liggins III, chief executive officer of the Silver Spring-based Urban One, and his mother, Cathy Hughes, founder and chairperson of Urban One, talk from the main stage about public support for their company’s planned $565 million ONE Casino + Resort project in South Richmond that is up for city voter approval on the Nov. 2 ballot. Urban One was one of the many partner organizations sponsoring the festival, which was presented by Venture Richmond, a Downtown booster nonprofit.

Debra Dean & The Key West Band, bottom photo, drew an appreciative crowd of adults and youngsters, including Lola-Ruth Faniel, 4, and Henry Tidwell, 2, who moved close to the Joe Kennedy Jr. Jazz Stage to enjoy the sounds

The Elegba Folklore Society is hosting a cultural history tour exposing some of the city’s and state’s hidden history at noon Saturday, Oct. 9, beginning at the society’s Cultural Center, 101 E. Broad St. The tour, called “In the Beginning …Virginia, Along the Trail of Enslaved Africans,” is interactive and will share the historical words and viewpoint of enslaved people to facilitate an understanding of the institution of human bondage and its legacies.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $7.50 for children under 12.

Participants are asked to wear walking shoes and bring a bottle of water.

Details: efsinc.org or (804) 644-3900.

‘Gabriel Gathering’ scheduled for Oct. 10 The 19th annual event paying tribute to Gabriel, the leader of a Richmond slave rebellion, will take from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at the Richmond African Burial Ground, 15th and Broad streets, it has been announced.

Dubbed the “Gabriel Gathering” in recognition of the leader of the failed 1800 uprising, the event’s theme is “Reclaiming Sacred Spaces” and will offer updates on developments in the arena of Black history, organizers said. That includes plans for creating a 9-acre history park in Shockoe Bottom as a memorial to victims of the slave trade that was centered in Shockoe Bottom, as well developments involving the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground and the East End and Evergreen cemeteries.

The event is open to the public.

The Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality and its Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project created the annual program to raise awareness of Richmond’s past. The groups launched the event in 2004 on Oct. 10, the date in 1800 when Gabriel was hanged for fomenting the rebellion.

Captain Kirk of ‘Star Trek’ fame to rocket into space next week Free Press wire report

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Actor William Shatner, who is known for his longtime role as Captain Kirk on “Star Trek,” is rocketing into space this month — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone.

Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that the 90-year-old Mr. Shatner will

blast off from West Texas on Tuesday, Oct. 12.

Mr. Shatner will become the oldest person in space.

He’ll join three others — two of them paying customers — aboard a Blue Origin capsule. It will be the company’s second launch with a crew.

Mr. Bezos was on the debut flight in July, along with his brother and the youngest and oldest to fly in space. Mr. Shatner will break that upper threshold by six years.

“I’ve heard about space for a long time now. I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle,” Mr. Shatner said in a statement.

Also flying with Mr. Shatner: A former NASA engineer who founded a nanosatellite company; the co-founder of a software company specializing in clinical research; and a Blue Origin employee.

The up-and-down space hop will last 10 minutes and reach no higher than about 66 miles.

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Pat Robertson retiring at 91 from ‘The 700 Club’ Free Press wire report

Pat Robertson, who turned Christian TV into political power — and blew it up with wacky prophecy — announced last week his intention to retire as daily host of “The 700 Club.”

The 91-year-old Mr. Robertson, who transformed televangelism from hot, pulpit-pounding sermons to a cool format and used his platform to launch a run for president, said his son, Gordon Robertson, 63, a Yaleeducated former real estate lawyer who is chief executive officer of CBN and has served as executive producer of “The 700 Club” for 20 years and even longer as a co-host, will take over the show.

For many Mr. Robertson will always be remembered for his wacky pronouncements made at inflection points of American history.

“I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you,” he warned Orlando, Fla., city leaders in 1998 when they flew rainbow flags downtown in honor of Gay Days at

Disney World. could also surprise his viewers. Once, “This is not a message of hate — he invited the Rev. Al Sharpton to the this is a message of redemption. But couch on “The 700 Club” to discuss a condition like this will bring about climate change, agreeing that the issue the destruction of your nation. It’ll is one that might bring the right and left bring about terrorist bombs; together. In 2012, Mr. Robit’ll bring earthquakes, ertson said that marijuana tornadoes and possibly a should be legalized. meteor,” he said.

But any recollection of After the Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Robertson, who anattacks on the twin towers nounced Oct. 1 his intenin New York, Mr. Roberttion to retire as daily host son said he agreed with of “The 700 Club,” must the Rev. Jerry Falwell, his include his transformation guest on his signature talk of televangelism into a Mr. Robertson show, “The 700 Club,” format like the “Tonight that responsibility for the attacks Show,” featuring conversational talk on the United States fell to pagans, and couch interviews, interspersed abortionists, feminists, gays and the with entertainment. lesbians.

The model was later adopted by Moments like these embarrassed Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on their his fellow Christians and marginalized PTL (“Praise the Lord”) network and the once-estimable political power Paul and Jan Crouch on their Trinity Mr. Robertson wielded, consigning Broadcasting Network.

Mr. Robertson to the role of what one Over the years, five presidents, both megachurch pastor called “the crazy Democrats and Republicans, appeared uncle in the evangelical attic.” on the show, along with numerous But the right wing conservative world leaders and musical artists.

“After, I think, 54 years of hosting the program, I thank God for everyone that’s been involved and I want to thank all of you,” Mr. Robertson told viewers, adding, “It’s been a great run.”

But his CBN platform was much more than good television. Founding the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1961, the first Christian network in the United States, he shepherded his flock of white evangelicals to a position of unprecedented political influence within the Republican Party.

In 1987, Mr. Robertson, a Yaleeducated lawyer, a Marine officer veteran and the son of a U.S. senator from Virginia, leveraged his fame into direct political action, something earlier Christian fundamentalists had shunned.

That year he formed the Christian Coalition, later joined by Ralph Reed, the telegenic political strategist. Soon, other evangelical leaders, like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, jumped on their own electoral bandwagons.

Mr. Robertson’s personal political high point came in 1988 when he

ran for the Republican nomination for president, finishing third in the Iowa primary, behind Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush. In the campaign he claimed, without proof, that the Soviets were hiding missiles in Cuba.

He also wrote 20 books and founded Regent University, located across the street from CBN studios and headquarters in Virginia Beach, and the American Center for Law and Justice, a Christian activist organization led by sometime Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow.

Mr. Robertson’s firm support of former President Trump may well be the last memorable moment of his on-air career. After insisting for weeks that former President Trump had won the 2020 election, only to be cheated out of office by fraud, Mr. Robertson endorsed the Jan. 6 pro-Trump gathering at the U.S. Capitol in the run-up to the rally. After it proved to be a riotous insurrection, Mr. Robertson stayed off “The 700 Club” for a week.

When he returned, he acknowledged President Biden’s victory.

Religious groups call for commission on Indian boarding school policy Religion News Service

A number of Catholic groups and Protestant denominations are calling for the United States to establish a Truth and Healing Commission to reckon with the country’s history of boarding schools that separated thousands of Indigenous children from their families and cultures during the 19th and

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Their support comes as the Catholic Church and a number of Protestant denominations are beginning to investigate their own roles in those boarding schools, as many were sponsored or operated by religious organizations.

“We ask you to bring the U.S. government into this process by establishing a Commission to look truthfully and fully at the U.S. boarding school policy,” reads a letter signed Sept. 30 by seven different Protestant denominations, denominational agencies and Catholic groups.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and the co-chairs of the Congressional Native American Caucus, U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Tom Cole of Oklahoma, reintroduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act earlier that day, which many observed as a National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Boarding Schools.

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The commemoration, encouraged by the National Boarding School Healing Coalition and supported by several mainline Protestant denominations, coincided with Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and the Indigenous-led Orange Shirt Day. Sen. Warren originally had introduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act last year with then-U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico. Ms. Haaland — now secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversaw the country’s

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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, October 18, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, November 8, 2021 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. 2021-273 To authorize the special use of the property known as 419 Brook Road for the purpose of a (i) mixeduse building containing uses permitted in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District on the ground floor and one dwelling unit on the second floor or (ii) two-family dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in both the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District and the B-1 Neighborhood Business District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family homes, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multi-family buildings (typically 3-10 units) and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+ units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural and government.

The density of the proposed development is approximately 49 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-274 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1108 North 28th Street for the purpose of up to three single-family attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Neighborhood MixedUse. Primary Uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings (10+units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural, and government.

The density of the proposed development is approximately 16 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-275 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1301 North 32nd Street for the purpose of a mixeduse building containing up to two dwelling units and commercial space, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for this property is R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multifamily buildings (10+units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural, and government.

The density of the proposed development is approximately 26 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-276 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3026 North Avenue for the purpose of a twofamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in the R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District.

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

Primary Uses: Singlefamily homes, accessory dwelling units and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multifamily buildings (3-10 units), institutional and cultural uses. Secondary uses may be found along major streets and the portion of North Avenue that the property abuts is designated as a major street. The density of the proposed development is approximately 15 units per acre.

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adopted May 14, 1990.

The current zoning for the subject property is R-48 Multifamily Residential. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates this property as Neighborhood Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Single-family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+units), retail/ office/personal service, institutional, cultural, and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-278 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 6900 Patterson Avenue and 6904 Patterson Avenue for the purpose of (i) up to seven single-family attached dwellings; (ii) either one single family detached dwelling or offices, including business, professional and administrative offices, medical and dental offices and clinics, and studios of writers, designers and artists engaged in the graphic arts; and (iii) one common area, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for the subject property is R-4 SingleFamily Residential.

The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates this property as Community MixedUse. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Single-family houses, institutional, and government. The density of the proposed development is approximately 17 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-279 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3422 R Street for the purpose of two single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in an R-5 Single-Family Zoning District. The City’s Richmond 300 Master Plan designates a future land use for the subject property as Neighborhood Mixed Use. Primary Uses: Single family houses, accessory dwelling units, duplexes, small multifamily buildings (typically 3-10 units), and open space. Secondary Uses: Large multi-family buildings (10+units), r e t a i l / o ff i c e / p e r s o n a l service, institutional, cultural, and government.

The density of the proposed development is approximately 15 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-280 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3310 RichmondHenrico Turnpike for the purpose of a singlefamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R-5 SingleFamily Zoning District.

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

Primary Uses: Singlefamily homes, accessory dwelling units and open space. Secondary Uses: Duplexes and small multi-family buildings (3-10 units), institutional and cultural uses. The density of the proposed development is approximately 19 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2021-281 To rezone the properties known as 1903 Chamberlayne Parkway and 1900 Roane Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-7 Mixed-Use Business District. The property is situated in the M-1 Light Industrial District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property as Industrial Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-282 To rezone the property known as 925 East 4th Street from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the B-7 Mixed-Use Business District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use of the subject property as Destination Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space. Secondary Uses: Institutional and government.

Ordinance No. 2021-277 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3401 Patterson Avenue for the purpose of a restaurant, tea room, café, delicatessen, ice cream parlor, or similar food service establishment, upon certain terms and conditions, and to repeal of Ord. No. 90-142-117,

Ordinance No. 2021-283 To rezone the property known as 2723 East Cary Street from the M-2 Heavy Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District. The property is situated in the M-2 Heavy Industrial District. The Richmond 300 Master Plan designates the future land use category for the subject property

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as Corridor Mixed-Use. Primary Uses: Retail/ office/personal service, multi-family residential, cultural, and open space.

Secondary Uses: Singlefamily houses, institutional and government uses.

Ordinance No. 2021-284 To close, to public use and travel, an alley bounded

by West Leigh Street, North Belvidere Street, West Duval Street, and Brook Road, consisting of 2,370± square feet, upon certain terms and conditions.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so by following the instructions referenced in the November 8, 2021 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda.

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

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

THOMAS BROWN, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002307-00 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 19th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, 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 ALICIA STYLES, Plaintiff v.

DJIGUIBA BAH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003216-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 19th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

CHALEI DAVIS-ODUFOYE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002556-00 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 19th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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

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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 5th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

TYRONE HARRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003129-00 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 5th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

CANTINA WOLFE Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003112-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

TIFFANY BARBER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002284-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 KEITH ROBINSON, Plaintiff v.

ROBERTA ROBINSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002197-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CHARLES YEATMAN, Plaintiff v.

WHITNEY SINCLAIR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002217-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure,

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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 CHRISTOPHER GREEN, Plaintiff v.

CHARITY GREEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002299-00 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 8th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 SHAUN LANGHORNE, Plaintiff v.

DANIELLE SMITHERS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002096-00 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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 COREY COLEMAN, SR., Plaintiff v.

DREAMA BAKER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21001662-00 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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her 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 ANDREA BRAMMER, Plaintiff v.

JEFFREY BRAMMER, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002983-00 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 28th day of October, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

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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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

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

is to: terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Shaquille Bailey (Father), Unknown (Father),& Raven Carter (Mother) of Alijah Devon Carter, child DOB: 8/16/2012, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with Parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: Visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support and that:

It is ORDERED that the defendants, Shaquille Bailey (Father), Unknown Father (Father),& Raven Carter (Mother), to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 12/10/2021, at 10:20 AM, Courtroom #1 (BEL)

William H. Vaughan, Jr.

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

IT IS ORDERED that WILLIAM H. VAUGHAN, JR, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JUSTIN MARTIN, Plaintiff v.

JESSICA SCHOOLCRAFT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21003047-00 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 4th day of November, 2021 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

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

LISA A. JACKSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20-2378-4 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit includes, inter alia, the divorce of the parties. It appearing by affidavit that Lisa A. Jackson’s last known address is Picture Lake Camp Ground, 7818 Boydton Plank Road, Petersburg, Virginia 23803; it also appearing that Lisa A. Jackson is no longer residing at her last known address and her current whereabouts are unknown to the Plaintiff; that Plaintiff’s counsel attempted to locate Lisa A. Jackson’s current address via a public records software search, which did not yield results.

It is therefore ORDERED that LISA A. JACKSON appear before this Court on or before October 28, 2021 and protect her interests herein.

A Copy, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ask for this: Erik D. Baines, Esquire (BSB # 83618) BARNES & DIEHL, P.C. Boulders VI - Suite A 7401 Beaufont Springs Drive Richmond, VA 23225 ebaines@barnesfamilylaw.com (804) 796-1000 (telephone) (804) 796-1730 (facsimile) Counsel for Plaintiff

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re AR’RYANNA LASHAE CARTER RDSS v.

MARCUS SHELTON, UNKNOWN FATHER & RAVEN CARTER Case No. J-97927-06,07 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Marcus Shelton (Father), Unknown (Father),& Raven Carter (Mother) of Ar’ryanna Lashae Carter, child DOB: 6/15/2015, “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 and that:

It is ORDERED that the defendants, Marcus Shelton (Father), Unknown Father (Father),& Raven Carter (Mother), to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 12/10/2021, at 10:20 AM, Courtroom #1 (BEL)

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re DOMINIQUE RASHAD ALLEN & KA’SHAWN JOYNN PLEASANTS RDSS v.

UNKNOWN FATHER Case No. J-93391-11-00, J-94683-10-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown (Father), of Dominique Rashad Allen, child DOB: 1/21/2015 & Ka’shawn Joynn Pleasants, child DOB: 1/16/2017 “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 and that:

It is ORDERED that the defendants Unknown Father (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 12/7/2021, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #2 MCG

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

THOMAS L. GALBERTH, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3371 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 701 Belt Boulevard, Tax Map Number C006-0158/002, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Thomas L. Galberth and Tammy D. Gunn Galberth.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, THOMAS L. GALBERTH, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, TAMMY D. GUNN GALBERTH, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that WILLIAMS AND FOGG HEATING & AIR, c/o Ronald I. Fogg, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, for which the agent, Ronald I. Fogg, has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that LUCY SWANN, who may be a creditor with an interest in said property, as 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 THOMAS L. GALBERTH, TA M M Y D. GUNN GALBERTH, WILLIAMS AND FOGG HEATING & AIR, c/o Ronald I. Fogg, LUCY SWANN and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER NAOMI QUARTERMAN, Plaintiff v.

EUGENE QUARTERMAN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21002722-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from

VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ALIJAH DEVON CARTER RDSS v.

SHAQUILLE BAILEY, UNKNOWN FATHER & RAVEN CARTER Case No. J-98485-05,06,08 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit

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

WILLIAM H. VAUGHAN, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3370 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1419 Ashley Street, Tax Map Number E010-0166/011, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record,

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

BRUNSON CONTRACTORS, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3077 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1510 North 24th Street, Tax Map Number E000-0780/006, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Brunson Contractors, LLC.

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

IT IS ORDERED that D AW O U D A D E Y O L A , Registered Agent for BRUNSON CONTRACTORS, LLC, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

LYNN VANESIA BROOKS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3055 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2306 Creighton Road, Tax Map Number E012-0294/004, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Lynn Vanesia Brooks.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, LYNN VANESIA BROOKS, 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 LYNN VANESIA BROOKS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, CUSTODIAN, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3341 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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to subject the property briefly described as 2401 Alexander Avenue, Tax Map Number S008-0815/058, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Equity Trust Company, Custodian FBO Daniel F. Craney, IRA.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Custodian FBO Daniel F. Craney, IRA, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN J. WILKINSON, upon information and belief decease, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0739639 on December 6, 2007, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and MYRTLE GIBSON WILKINSON, upon information and belief deceased, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0739639 on December 6, 2007, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Custodian FBO Daniel F. Craney, IRA, JOHN J. WILKINSON, upon information and belief decease, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0739639 on December 6, 2007, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MYRTLE GIBSON WILKINSON, upon information and belief deceased, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 07-39639 on December 6, 2007, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, CUSTODIAN, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3342 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2403 Alexander Avenue, Tax Map Number S008-0815/057, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Equity Trust Company, Custodian FBO Daniel F. Craney, IRA.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EQUITY TRUST COMPANY, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Custodian FBO Daniel F. Craney, IRA, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN J. WILKINSON, upon information and belief decease, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0739638 on December 6, 2007, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and MYRTLE GIBSON WILKINSON, upon information and belief deceased, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0739638 on December 6, 2007, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

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of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0739638 on December 6, 2007, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MYRTLE GIBSON WILKINSON, upon information and belief deceased, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 07-39638 on December 6, 2007, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

CLEMENTINA CRUZ QUINTERO, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3340 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1830 Keswick Avenue, Tax Map Number S007-1032/003, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Clementina Cruz Quintero.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLEMENTINA CRUZ QUINTERO, 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 CLEMENTINA CRUZ QUINTERO, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DOMINION STAFFING, INC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2667 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2005 Chamberlayne Parkway, Tax Map Number N0000532/009, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dominion Staffing, Inc.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DOMINION STAFFING, INC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, 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 DOMINION STAFFING, INC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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Rosetta A. Green.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, David O. Green and Rosetta A. Green, both upon information and belief deceased, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 729 page 96 on 3 November 1977 has 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 David O. Green and Rosetta A. Green, both upon information and belief deceased, per a deed filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 729 page 96 on 3 November 1977 and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

PROJECT ACE, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3344 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2301 Maury Street, Tax Map Number S000-0403/001, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Project Ace, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed 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 Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

PROJECT ACE, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3345 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2401 Maury Street, Tax Map Number S000-1220/015, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Project Ace, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed 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 Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DAVID O. GREEN, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3906 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2006 Parkwood Avenue, Tax Map Number W0000896019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, David O. Green and

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

PROJECT ACE, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3343 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2416 Everett Street, Tax Map Number S000-1220/016, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Project Ace, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed 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

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and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

LARRY W. INGE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3079 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2505 Coles Street, Tax Map Number S009-0104/029 Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Larry W. Inge and Cindy E. Inge.

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

IT IS ORDERED that LARRY W. INGE, CINDY E. INGE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

WILLIE C. WEST, III, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-3992 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3601 Carolina Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-1270/010, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Willie C. West, III.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, WILLIE C. WEST, III, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, that CITIZENS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION fka CHARTER ONE BANK, NA, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 04-9695 on March 29, 2004, 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 WILLIE C. WEST, III, CITIZENS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION fka CHARTER ONE BANK, NA, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 04-9695 on March 29, 2004, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MAX ARGUETA, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-3355 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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Blanca Argueta.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MAX ARGUETA and BLANCA ARGUETA 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, 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 MAX ARGUETA, BLANCA ARGUETA and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

record, Mary M. Thompson, Bernadett Thompson, upon information and belief deceased, Eva S. Fountain, Stephanie C. Thompson and Tommy F. Thompson.

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

IT IS ORDERED that BERNADETT THOMPSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

PATRICK J. DOLAN, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-1941 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4713 Patterson Avenue, Tax Map Number W019-0215/005, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Patrick J. Dolan.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, PATRICK J. DOLAN, 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 PATRICK J. DOLAN, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 18, 2021 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MARY M. THOMPSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-2393 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5006 Burtwood Lane, Tax Map Number C008-0462/014, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of

Notice of Intent to Acquire Property: The Valentine Museum hereby notifies intent to acquire title to the object listed below. There is no last known owner on record & these objects will become the property of the museum after 65 days if no person can prove ownership of the property, pursuant to Code of VA § § 55.1-2606.

FIC.007727: WW1 Shell/fuse FIC.002389: Two vials of suspected gunpowder FIC.007781: Artillery Shell FIC.007782: Artillery Shell Please visit website or contact museum for information on how to make a claim: The Valentine Museum Alicia Starliper, Collections Project Manager/Registrar 804-649-0711 ext. 205 Registrar@thevalentine.org http://www.thevalentine.org/ collections/undocumentedproperty

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Full-time restricted nine-month teaching faculty-ranked appointment. Salary range: $45,965 - $74,000. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Additional information is available at the College’s web site: www.reynolds.edu/jobs.

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LICENSE Paint Wine and Good Times LLC Trading as: Paint Wine and Good Times 1731 Wall St Ste 629 Richmond, VA 23224 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Art Instruction Studio license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

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NOTICE OF PROPOSED REAL PROPERTY TAX INCREASE (Ref: Virginia Code § 58.1-3321)

The City of Richmond proposes to increase property tax levies: Assessment Increase: Total 2022 assessed value of real property, excluding additional assessments due to new construction or improvements to property, exceeds last year’s total assessed value of real property by 13.0 percent.

Lowered Rate Necessary to Offset Increased Assessment: The tax rate which would levy the same amount of real estate tax as last year, when multiplied by the new total assessed value of real estate with the exclusions mentioned above, would be $1.071 per $100 of assessed value.

This rate will be known as the “lowered tax rate.”

Effective Rate Increase: The City of Richmond proposes to adopt one of the following tax rates per $100 of assessed value: Tax Rate

Difference from “Lowered tax rate”

$1.135/$100 $1.20/$100

$0.064/$100 or 5.97% $0.129/$100 or 12.0%

This difference from the “lowered tax rate” will be known as the “effective tax rate increase.”

Individual property taxes may, however, increase at a percentage greater than or less than the above percentage.

Proposed Total Budget Increase: Based on the following proposed real property tax rates $1.20 and changes in other revenues, the total budget of the City of Richmond will exceed last year’s as follows: Tax Rate

Amount of Increase from Last Year

$1.135 $1.20

0.11% 3.87%

A public hearing on the increase will be held and be open to in-person participation on Monday, November 8, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, located at 900 East Broad Street, and for participation through electronic communication means. Individuals who wish to participate through electronic communication means must register in advance, and do so prior to 10:00 a.m., on Monday, November 8, 2021, by contacting the Office of the City Clerk at 804-646-7955 or CityClerksOffice@RVA.Gov.

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