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Relief efforts begin to help thousands affected

by Hurricane Florence; officials report 37 storm-related deaths, including 2 in Virginia

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Remnants of Hurricane Florence swept Richmond into the national spotlight Monday when the storm’s wide-reaching bands of high winds and heavy rains spawned tornadoes and flash flooding.

Ominous tornado warnings issued around 3:45 p.m. set off cell phones and sirens throughout the metro area, sending people to basements and interior rooms seeking cover from the many funnel clouds spotted from Chesterfield to Hanover.

Schools across the area went on lockdown, keeping students well past their normal dismissal time until the danger passed.

The National Weather Service reported five tornadoes touched down in the area, toppling trees into cars and homes, ripping roofs off buildings and sending debris swirling.

One, a category EF2 twister

Earnest Claxton of Richmond, left, surveys the damage in his former Chesterfield County neighborhood on Tuesday after learning about the destruction in the area caused Monday by tornadoes spawned by remnants of Hurricane Florence.

Above, a 60-year-old man was killed in the Old Dominion Floor Co. building near Hull Street Road and Speeks Drive when the building collapsed during the tornado.

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City Council to hear new Confederate statue resolution

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Virginia Commonwealth University rendering

This is the future look of the adult outpatient center now under construction at 10th and Leigh streets on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Work began in June creating the $349.2 million center, the most expensive single building project in city history. The building is going up on the site of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, which previously moved to new quarters on Sherwood Avenue in North Side, just north of the Children’s Hospital of Richmond campus.

The battle over Richmond’s Confederate statues on Monument Avenue is headed back to City Council.

The three-member Land Use, Housing and Transportation Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to send a new resolution aimed at giving the city control of the statues to the nine-member council for consideration.

The resolution may be considered at City Council’s next meeting Monday, Sept. 24.

Committee Chair Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, Vice Chair Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, and Councilwoman Kristen N.

VCU master plan highlights major new projects for cityscape

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The construction spigot at Virginia Commonwealth University will be flowing for years to come.

The draft of the university’s latest master plan, titled OneVCU and unveiled this week, lays out plans for spending $1.2 billion to $2 billion to add new buildings and to renovate and replace aging ones during the next 12 to 15 years on the school’s academic and medical campuses.

Such spending on 30 buildings would top the more than $1 billion the school has spent in the nine years since Dr. Michael Rao became president in 2009.

That’s good news for area construction companies, including African-American-owned companies, for whom VCU — essentially a small city with more than 33,000 students and thousands of employees from professors to groundskeepers — is a significant employer.

The plan, which is on track to be approved by VCU’s Board of Visitors in December with some tweaks, examines the school’s parking and transportation needs, streetscape improvements and more than 30 different projects, ranging from a new student commons and new student housing to a neuroscience research facility and new space for the Pauley Heart Center.

Some of the projects already are underway, including a $349 million adult outpatient center now going up at 10th and Leigh streets. It is the most expensive single construction project in city history.

One new proposal in the plan is still tentative. It involves developing a new VCU recreation center on the site of the former Please turn to A4

Larson, 4th District, rejected pleas to kill A long-standing state law blocks the city the legislation from at least 10 supporters from altering or removing the statues. The of the Confederate monuments. city would need the General Assembly to The committee voted to send the approve a waiver for anything to change, resolution to the council without a recom- a long shot at best because legislative mendation. control is in the hands of Republican sup“I’m pleased that it made it out of porters of the statues honoring traitors who committee,” said a relieved sought to dismember the Union Councilman Michael J. Jones, to maintain slavery.

9th District, author of the legIf Mr. Jones’ resolution islation. passes, the council would seek The new resolution takes a a member of the Richmond different approach from his eflegislative delegation to patron fort last year that was dumped the bill. last December when he had the Mr. Jones is uncertain of the support of only one other council resolution’s outcome in City Mr. Jones member, Ms. Robertson.

Council this time, but council That first resolution would have had members no longer will have the excuse City Council request that the General As- used last year to reject the measure. sembly grant the city authority to remove At the time, a majority of members the tributes to white supremacy. said they voted against the resolution In the new resolution, Mr. Jones wants because they wanted to hear first from a the council simply to ask for authority to commission Mayor Levar M. Stoney set determine the future of the statues. up to consider the statues.

“This is not about taking down the The Monument Avenue Commission statues,” Mr. Jones said. “This is about issued its report in July, recommending giving the city the right to decide. We Please turn to A4 don’t have that right today.”

RPS seeks public response to new school designs..

By Ronald E. Carrington

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Park and play Two-year-old cousins Khamryn Tyler, left, and Xavier Taylor enjoy the sunshine and running along a brick walkway at Shields Lake in Byrd Park on Wednesday during an outing with their moms, Benneka Tucker and Leesa Taylor, and their grandfather, Emanuel Crawford. Area residents welcomed the nice weather after the string of overcast days and sheets of rain associated with the hurricane.

Richmond Public Schools wants community feedback on proposed designs for two new elementary schools and a new middle school that are to be built by 2020.

The designs, by RRMM Architects, were presented earlier this month to the Richmond School Board for the new George Mason and E.S.H. Greene Elementary schools and the new Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School.

The project is to cost an estimated $110 million.

The first public meeting will be held 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at a special meeting of the Richmond School Board on the 17th floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad St. Additional sessions will be held to discuss interior design 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School, 7825 Forest Hill Ave. and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at Greene Please turn to A4

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This is one of three proposed designs for E.S.H. Greene Elementary School adopted from the expansion at Beulah Elementary School in Chesterfield. Prototype designs for Greene and George Mason Elementary schools and ElkhardtThompson Middle School can be found at www.rvaschools.net.

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City Hall is pitching in to help residents clear away downed trees and other debris left Monday as the remains of Hurricane Florence spilled torrents of rain and spawned a rash of tornadoes through the city, most notably in South Side.

Crews from the city Department of Public Works began to pick up storm debris Tuesday and will continue to do so through Tuesday, Oct. 2, it has been announced.

The cleanup is in addition to the regular pickup of trash and bulk items, according to the department.

Residents who want storm debris taken away are asked to place it at their property line, the department stated.

Details: www.RVA311.com or (804) 646-7000 or 311.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney joins Lacette Cross, co-founder of Black Pride RVA, in celebrating Virginia Pride Week as the rainbow flag flies above them on Brown’s Island.

Wednesday’s ceremony raising the banner of the LGBTQ community took place ahead of the popular VA PrideFest scheduled for 11 a.m. to

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RPS dealing with bumps in student transportation system

By Ronald E. Carrington

Richmond School Board Chairwoman Dawn Page continues to find bumps in the road in the school system’s hub stop system, where students attending certain schools have to walk to their nearest school to catch a bus to their high school or middle school.

In early September, Ms. Page and several others called attention to the problems by setting out from Kenmare Loop and Bathgate Road in South Side to reach the transportation hub at Boushall Middle School. The route was more than 2½ miles and took more than a hour to walk.

Herbert Moses said his children, Kristal and Herbert Jr., would have to walk that distance daily to catch their bus to Lucille Brown Middle School to participate in the International Baccalaureate program.

The family lives in Adams Park near Ironbridge Road on South Side, which is not in the Lucille Brown school zone.

Frustrated by the time and distance his children would have to go to catch a bus, the disabled Vietnam veteran drives them to school and picks them up.

For the last two years, Mr. Moses has written Richmond Public Schools officials Ms. Page and City Council seeking more money for transportation and to re-establish a bus stop in the Adams Park neighborhood.

“RPS needs more buses and drivers because of the major issues about transportation, including the hub system that was not properly thought out,” Ms. Page said following the walk.

“Students can apply to the specialty schools, but the family may not have a means of transportation to get to the hub location. That’s an injustice.”

Students attending the IB program at Thomas Jefferson High School, Franklin Military Academy, Richmond Community High School, the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School and Lucille Brown and Binford middle schools are transported via hub stops.

Damon Richardson, RPS’ director of systems and process improvement, and Floyd Miles, director of pupil transportation, are to address additional transportation concerns at the next School Board meeting.

Currently, because of an insufficient number of bus drivers, high-volume routes require double runs and even triple runs, adversely affecting arrival times at schools..

To stabilize the system, RPS needs 12 additional full-time drivers and 25 substitute drivers to fill 37 driver positions.

Another recruitment challenge is low pay and lack of benefits because the positions are part time. The School Board-approved bus driver pay rates are far lower than the salary a driver with a commercial driver’s license can earn with a national trucking chain.

The metro region’s average bus driver’s pay rate is $14 per hour; national trucking companies pay between $16 and $36 per hour. That disparity results in fewer drivers.

To improve system bus tracking and communication, RPS now uses GPS tracking to know where buses are at all times and to better communicate their location and estimated time of arrival to schools and families.

Parents can now download the “MyStop” mobile app, which allows them to “see” the bus coming to their child’s stop.

School administration and staff use “Arrival Boards,” which allows them to “see” the buses arriving to their schools.

For real-time routing, the RPS transportation team uses “Versatran” for bus positioning, tracking speed of buses, fuel levels and other bus maintenance data.

Inadequate transportation is but one the issue RPS faces, but there was a bright light at the dawn of the new school year.

RPS Shines! was the bright spot that brought out volunteers from businesses, universities and neighbors to improve bathrooms in at least 22 schools.

Superintendent Jason Kamras indicated that more bathrooms will be improved during the coming months.

Fresh and brightly colored painted walls with inspirational murals and messages greeted students as they entered bathrooms that they once shunned and refused to use.

School Board member Cheryl Burke, 7th District, did a walk-through at Armstrong High School before the first day of school to check every door, flush every toilet and turn on each faucet and water fountain.

“I was very pleased with the improvement of the facility.

I am going back at the end of September to make sure these improvements are sustained or we will have to do it again,” Ms. Burke said.

Mr. Kamras visited 10 schools on the first day and expressed his thanks to all volunteers.

9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, on the Downtown riverfront island. Between 15,000 and 30,000 people are expected to take part in the entertainment-filled event that celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals.

First held in 1979, the volunteerled event has become a September attraction for Richmond. This is the third year the festival has been held on Brown’s Island.

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Ball now in Gov. Northam’s court on latest GOP redistricting plan

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Can Virginia’s Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox cut a deal with Democratic Gov. Ralph S. Northam over a new, constitutional map for the 100 districts in the House of Delegates?

That’s the big question that hangs over the release Tuesday of proposed GOP changes to House districts that Republican leaders call “race blind.”

A federal court rejected 11 House districts earlier this year after finding that the GOP majority in the legislature, in drawing the district boundaries, overly packed AfricanAmericans in those districts to make adjacent districts whiter and presumably friendlier to Republicans.

The court has given the General Assembly until Oct. 30 to create and approve changes Gov. Northam in district maps to address what is being described as “racial gerrymandering.” If the General Assembly fails, then the court is poised to undertake the task.

Republicans, who still hold a one-vote majority in the House of Delegates and a two-vote majority in the state Senate, could approve their plan. But they still need the support of Gov. Northam, a Democrat and former state legislator, who wields the veto pen and could reject any unilateral GOP proposal, sending the issue to the court.

Speaker Cox described the GOP proposal as a “good-faith effort” to work with Democrats and “shows what is possible.”

So far, House Democrats have sharply criticized the proposal.

Jockeying over the House map is all about the 2019 elections, when voters will fill the 100 seats in the House of Delegates as well as the 40 in the state Senate and determine which party controls the legislature — and potentially the 2021 redistricting of legislative seats that is to follow the 2020 Census.

The GOP plan released Tuesday would make changes to 30 districts, including the five House districts in Richmond and six in Hampton Roads that the court found to be illegal. A previous minority Democratic proposal called for altering 29 House districts.

So far, the only word is that the governor and his team “are

analyzing the majority’s effort,” according to spokesman Ofirah Yheskel.

One problem that has cropped up in the GOP plan is that it would force two current Democratic delegates in the Newport News area into the same district.

If the GOP plan survives intact, which is considered unlikely, Delegate Marcia Price, a member of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus who represents the 95th District, would be moved into the 93rd District, now represented by Delegate Mike Mullins.

They either would have to run against each other or leave the House, based on their current residences.

At this point, Democrats are as critical of the GOP plan as the Republicans were of the Democratic proposal.

Trevor Southerland, executive director of Speaker Cox the House Democratic Caucus, said the GOP map does not solve the constitutional issues raised by the court.

“We cannot support partisan gerrymandering as a solution to racial gerrymandering,” Mr. Southerland said in a statement.

“As per usual, it would appear this is just more empty rhetoric from the House Republicans as they continue to attempt to delay implementation of new maps that remedy their racial gerrymander.”

For Gov. Northam, titular leader of the state Democratic Party, his own party’s outlook could influence his decision on whether to make a deal.

The governor in recent weeks had expressed skepticism that the legislature could pass a plan, while Attorney General Mark Herring, also a Democrat, has advised the court to prepare to draw new lines that meet constitutional muster.

The court is asking both the plaintiffs and House Republicans, who have intervened, to offer names of people or companies to redraw the lines.

Meanwhile, Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in, overturn the lower court’s decision and keep intact the current districts, which were created in 2011 after the 2010 Census and approved by an overwhelming majority of Republicans and Democrats in the House.

Work to resume on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Free Press wire report

Federal officials will allow construction to resume on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, weeks after work was halted when a Richmond-based federal appeals court threw out two key permits for the 600-mile natural gas pipeline.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced the change in a letter Monday to Dominion Energy, the project’s lead developer.

Last month, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit was “arbitrary and capricious” regarding its effect on five threatened or endangered species.

Last week, the service issued a revised opinion and the National Park Service issued a new permit for crossing the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The pipeline is planned to start in West Virginia and run

through parts of Virginia and North Carolina.

A coalition of environmental groups had asked the federal appeals court to review FERC’s approval of the pipeline.

The Southern Environmental Law Center and Appalachian Mountain Advocates petitioned the appeals court on behalf of 13 conservation and environmental groups.

SELC Senior Attorney Greg Buppert said in a statement at the time that the groups believe that FERC “rushed through its decision to permit a pipeline that we don’t need.”

Pipeline spokesman Aaron Ruby said in a statement Monday that crews would mobilize immediately to resume construction as authorized.

“The Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been the most thoroughly reviewed infrastructure project in the history of our region,” he stated. “The additional scrutiny we’ve recently received from the courts and the agencies are further evidence of the high standard that is being applied to the project.”

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Cars and first floors of homes are submerged Monday in Fayetteville, N.C., in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.

Above, residents in Fayetteville step out of a high-water vehicle that police used to rescue them Sunday as flooding hit their neighborhood.

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with estimated 120 mph winds, touched down off Hull Street Road between Genito and Courthouse roads, tearing the roof off Old Dominion Floor Co. in the 3300 block of Speeks Drive.

Authorities said floor company employee Ronnie Bishop, 60, who was trying to take cover with other workers, was killed when the building collapsed.

It was the first deadly tornado in Metro Richmond since the 1990s.

West of Richmond in Louisa County, Edward Kelih Jr., 59, was killed when his 2003 Toyota Tacoma truck was swept away by rushing water as he tried to cross the flooded Rock Quarry Road. The truck overturned and the cab was submerged in the water, State Police said. The truck, with Mr. Kelih’s body inside, was found about 1:55 a.m. Tuesday.

The James River crested Wednesday morning at 15 feet, about 3 feet above flood stage at the city’s Westham gauge, and officials continued to keep an eye out for any flooding as the waters began receding.

More than a dozen trees were reported down in Richmond, primarily in the Brook Road and Laburnum Avenue area in North Side and the area of South Side around Jahnke Road and Forest Hill Avenue. Chainsaw crews from the city Department of Public Works were making the rounds Wednesday to clear the trees.

Dominion Energy reported 11,000 customers without power in the Richmond and Tri-Cities area at the height of outages on Monday afternoon and evening, with about 600 customers still in the dark Tuesday evening.

Many people gave Mayor Levar M. Stoney and Gov. Ralph S. Northam high marks for the city and state’s early response to Hurricane Florence, which headed toward the East Coast last week, threatening a 500-mile-wide swath from South Carolina up to Virginia. It dropped from a Category 4 storm to a Category 1 threat when it struck landfall late Thursday night around Wilmington, N.C. After it became clear that Virginia largely would be spared Hurricane Florence’s wrath, Gov. Northam’s mandatory evacuation order for

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Left, crew members from the city Department of Public Works use chainsaws and heavy machinery to clean up downed trees and storm debris Tuesday along Lamont Street near Laburnum Avenue in North Side. Right, a crew works to restore power to businesses located near a store in Chesterfield County that was wrecked Monday when a tornado struck. The furniture store on Hull Street Road and Speeks Drive partially collapsed in the storm.

people living in low-lying portions of Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore was lifted last Friday, allowing the more than 245,000 people affected to return home.

Emergency storm shelters set up last Thursday by the City of Richmond in Linwood Holton and Blackwell Elementary schools closed 7 a.m. Saturday.

Residents in many North Carolina communities bared the brunt of the storm, with major flooding forcing people to be rescued from their homes in New Bern, Lumberton and Fayetteville.

At least 37 storm-related deaths have been reported, including 27 in North Carolina and eight in South Carolina, several of whom were killed when trees fell on their homes.

Thousands of people have been displaced and several communities, including Wilmington, N.C., are isolated as Interstate 40 and other roads have been flooded.

In Fayetteville, N.C., the Cape Fear River hit 61.4 feet early Wednesday, more than 25 feet above its flood stage.

President Trump, who toured devastated areas of North and South Carolina on Wednesday, pledged strong federal support for the recovery.

“We’re going to be there 100 percent,” he told officials at a briefing shortly after arriving at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, N.C. “... There will be nothing left undone. You’ll have everything you need.”

He was accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long, U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis of North Carolina and U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina.

President Trump then visited a church in New Bern, a town of 30,000 located at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers that was hit especially hard by flooding, and joined volunteers in distributing boxed meals to residents in a drive-through line. He also walked through a neighborhood lined with discarded wet furniture, hugging residents and posing for pictures.

Multiple organizations have launched relief efforts, and NBA legend Michael Jordan, who played high school basketball in Wilmington, N.C., is donating $2 million to assist residents of North and South Carolina, according to news reports.

The 55-year-old owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets is contributing $1 million each to the American Red Cross and the Foundation For The Carolinas’ Hurricane Florence Response Fund, according to a news release issued Tuesday.

In addition, more than 100 members of the Hornets organization will help pack disaster food boxes Friday at Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina in Charlotte, N.C. The food boxes, which provide individual meals, will be shipped to Wilmington, Fayetteville and Myrtle Beach, S.C., and distributed to those who have been directly impacted by the hurricane. The goal is to deliver 5,000 food boxes.

Fanatics, the NBA’s merchandising partner, is selling “Carolina Strong” T-shirts with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the foundation’s fund for hurricane relief.

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removal of the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the addition of explanatory signs on the other four statues to Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Before Tuesday’s committee vote, G. William Thomas, a

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Elementary School, 1745 Catalina Drive, to receive comments on colors and playground options.

Members of school stakeholders committees set up earlier this year by Superintendent Jason Kamras will review the community comments and public feedback and make recommendations to the Mr. Kamras and Mayor Levar M. Stoney.

The design firm submitted three proposed designs for each school based on existing schools in other locales. The designs are available for review at www.rvaschools.net.

At Friday’s meeting, the School Board also will take up a final draft of RPS’ proposed five-year goals addressing previously ignored policy and academic infractions and errors uncovered by the Virginia Department of Education. The action plan is designed to meet all requirements for 100 percent systemwide accreditation.

The board also is expected to vote on a capital improvement plan to repair or replace heating and air conditioning systems, roofs and bathrooms in schools across the district.

history advocate and former city Election Board member, urged the members to reject the effort to “remove history” and instead focus on adding to it.

Helen Marie Taylor, now 94 and a leader in the fight five decades ago to save a declining Monument Avenue, also reminded the council of the state statue protection law that she said dates to 1904 and would make the resolution a futile gesture that

ultimately would die in the legislature.

In other matters, Ms. Gray postponed for 60 days action on legislation she has sponsored with Council President Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District, to block the city from installing bike lanes on Brook Road and reducing traffic to one lane in each direction.

“I’m still seeking information,” she said in explaining the decision to put off committee consideration until the November meeting.

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Belvidere Medical Center at Belvidere and Leigh streets on the edge of Jackson Ward that once housed several black doctors. As envisioned, the recreation center would serve students and community residents.

Another calls for VCU to create an athletic village off campus for varsity athletes, including practice fields for soccer and lacrosse teams, a tennis center, a baseball stadium and a field house for practice space for other sports.

While the site has not been identified, speculation is focused on land at Hermitage and Robin Hood roads now occupied by the offices and warehouse of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Department.

The ABC Department is in the midst of planning construction for a new suburban operations and warehouse center it expects to occupy in 2021.

Conspicuously absent from the OneVCU plan is any mention of an in-patient children’s hospital to complement the $200

million pediatric outpatient pavilion that VCU opened in March 2016 at 10th and Broad streets.

Talk of a new children’s hospital has been around for more than a decade, and periodically revived since VCU took over the formerly independent Children’s Hospital of Richmond in 2010.

The last big effort to develop a new children’s hospital collapsed in May 2015 when Bon Secours and VCU Health ended talks about joint development of a children’s hospital.

Since then, VCU spokeswoman Pamela D. Lepley repeatedly has told the Free Press that the university still is considering developing an in-patient hospital for children.

In 2016, she wrote in response to a Free Press question, “As I indicated earlier, a master site facility planning process is underway that will include new facilities for in-patient children’s care — as well as women’s health, cancer and other medical surgical areas. The plans are at a conceptual

level right now. More detail is expected in the summer.”

But no such details emerged, and the facility planning she mentioned apparently morphed into the OneVCU project.

When asked this week why there is no mention of a children’s hospital in the OneVCU plan, Ms. Lepley responded, “The in-patient children’s facility is part of the (VCU Health System) master facility plan. The (OneVCU) plan deals with academic and academic-related facilities and infrastructure.”

However, the plan’s list of projects includes several aimed at meeting the clinical needs of the VCU Health System.

For example, the project list includes the proposed renovation of the Nelson Clinic and the Ambulatory Critical Care area to meet “Health System needs,” the OneVCU plan states.

The list of projects also includes future renovation of the West and North hospital buildings, also to meet VCU Health System needs.

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Getting ready for Nov. 6 Elections have consequences.

The chronic drama, turmoil and horrid decisions emanating from the Trump White House prove that the November 2016 election had dire consequences for this nation.

Now nearly two years later, Virginia and the nation will face critical midterm elections on Nov. 6, when all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be up for grabs.

In Virginia, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat and former Virginia governor and former Richmond mayor, is facing a re-election contest against Confederate sympathizer Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors.

In Metro Richmond, Democratic Congressman A. Donald McEachin is being challenged by Republican evangelical Pastor Ryan McAdams in the 4th District, while Republican Congressman Dave Brat is locked in a close election battle with Democratic challenger Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA operations officer.

This is a critical time for our nation. And the outcome of this election will very much determine whether the United States ultimately drowns in the swamp created by President Trump and the Republican Party or will be guided on a more steady and progressive path by a new Democratic majority in Congress.

Why are we bringing this up when the election is roughly 45 days away?

Two reasons.

One, for those who are not registered to vote, the deadline to register is Monday, Oct. 15. To cast a ballot on Nov. 6, your name must be on the voter rolls by Oct. 15.

Two, it gives those who are registered 25 days to check with their local voter registrar’s office to make sure they are still on the rolls.

Shenanigans engineered by conservative forces have put into place in Virginia and 25 other states a voter crosscheck system that has wrongly challenged or dumped mostly people of color from voter rolls. The Free Press and other news outlets have published articles in the past detailing the system that many believe was deliberately installed to purge African-Americans — largely Democratic voters — from the rolls.

By checking with the local voter registrar’s office now, you can make sure that your name is on the voter rolls and that you will be allowed to vote on Nov. 6.

The 45-day window also allows Virginians to make sure they have an acceptable form of photo ID, which is required to vote.

In Virginia, acceptable IDs include a valid Virginia driver’s license, a DMV-issued photo ID, a valid U.S. passport or other governmentissued photo ID, a valid employee photo ID, a valid student photo ID from a Virginia college or university and a tribal ID issued by one of the 11 federally recognized Native American tribes in Virginia.

New voter registrants and voters already on the rolls can get a free Virginia Voter Photo ID Card at their local voter registrar’s office.

For a quick way to register to vote, or to check your registration, go to the Virginia Department of Elections website at www.elections.virginia.gov.

The site also has detailed information on the types of IDs accepted for voting and a way to look up the location of your polling place for Election Day. For help by phone, here are the numbers for area voter registrar’s offices: Richmond – (804) 646-5950 Henrico – (804) 501-4347 Chesterfield – (804) 748-1471 Hanover – (804) 365-6080 Petersburg – (804) 733-8071 Elections have consequences. Make sure your voice is heard on Nov. 6. Vote.

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Russian hackers targeted black community

The right to vote is a precious thing. More than simply permission to cast your ballot, it’s the right to make your voice heard and decide the direction of our country. To deny that right to someone is to silence their voice and deny their dignity as a person and as an American.

T h i s shared conviction has motivated thousands of brave Americans throughout our history to risk and even sacrifice their lives in the struggle for voting rights and AfricanAmerican suffrage. In places like Selma and Danville, they set an example for us to follow today — to fight back, against both historic injustices and new obstacles to the right to vote.

The truth is the right to vote still faces far too many threats here at home. We’re reminded of it when our fellow Americans are turned away at the polls because of discriminatory voter ID laws.

It hit home when our own state’s racially gerrymandered House of Delegates map was struck down earlier this year, like so many others around the country.

And so long as felon disenfranchisement — an ugly legacy of Virginia’s Jim Crow Constitution — remains on the books, we know that the work begun by brave Virginians like Irene Morgan, Richard and Mildred Loving, Barbara Johns and so many others is not yet complete.

During the past two years, we have learned of yet another threat to the American voter, this one from beyond our borders. In 2016, Russia attacked our democracy using cyber attacks and the weapons of information warfare.

They targeted both political parties as well as election systems in at least 21 states, while also waging a massive disinformation

Sen. Mark R. Warner campaign via social media.

As vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I’ve helped lead the investigation into Russian election interference. So with the 2018 midterm elections approaching, I’ve had a number of people ask me: “Will my vote count in November? How can we make sure the election won’t be hacked by the Russians or another copycat nation?”

My answer is simple: Your vote matters now more than ever.

The Russians are neither Republicans nor Democrats. And while they may have favored the Trump campaign in 2016, their true goal is to shake our faith in democracy and divide the American people.

One of the most disturbing details we uncovered in our investigation is that Russians specifically targeted the AfricanAmerican community to sow division and suppress voter turnout.

We learned this from Russianbacked Facebook posts exploiting the Black Lives Matter Movement and pitting Americans against each other on issues

including race, religion and gun violence.

We now know that Russia had an army of paid internet trolls who, among other schemes, masqueraded as African-American and Muslim activists urging minority voters to stay home or vote for third party candidates.

And I believe with all my heart that the best way to stand up to this cynical, disgusting attempt to undermine our democracy and suppress your vote is to come together as Americans and go to the polls in November.

The good news, as we head into November, is that our investigation has found no evidence that any vote totals or voter records were changed by Russian hackers.

Last year, ahead of the statewide elections in Virginia, I led the effort, along with then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe, to make sure every voting machine in Virginia had the latest security and an auditable paper trail.

So I want to be 100 percent clear: Your vote counted in 2016.

It counted in 2017. It will count this year, too.

The bad news is that Russia will be back, and we need to be ready.

While Virginia has made significant progress, state and local election officials must do more to defend our election, registration and voting systems. That means ensuring that voting machines have back-up paper ballots. It also means instituting audits, as well as providing additional federal assistance to those states that request it.

Working with my colleagues from both parties, we passed

Supporting Serena Two very talented AfricanAmerican women — Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka — went out to play a game of tennis in the recent U.S. Open final.

I’m sure each of them looked forward to a great game.

Other than Ve n u s a n d Serena playing each other, we had not had a chance to have two AfricanAmerican women play such a match.

Ms. Osaka is a sister, too, and showed her concern for the way Serena was treated. She may have Japanese blood, but it’s her African-American side that the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos, prevented from enjoying her victory.

Ms. Osaka had won one set, but Serena was winning when the dastardly call and act by the umpire occurred. Mr. Ramos issued Serena a warning for a coaching violation, which Serena challenged very vocally. In the end, Serena busted her racquet, called Mr. Ramos a “thief,” and received three penalties, including the loss of a game, from Mr. Ramos. She later was fined $17,000.

The question is still open as to who eventually would have won had Serena been given a fair chance.

Ms. Osaka knew that what happened to Serena was not right and,

through her own tears, showed that she recognized her victory isn’t the victory she had hoped for in the way it came about.

Serena is definitely our sister, and no matter what, she has proven to be an awesome sister.

She acknowledged Ms. Osaka’s

Dr. E. Faye Williams victory, and though unhappy about how it came about, she hugged her and congratulated her.

Serena is still the queen of tennis for those of us who love and admire her.

We are blessed to have many African-American women making us proud, including Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia, and others.

The haters can do their thing in trying to belittle Serena, but we celebrate her for her entire history of bringing us victories.

Say what you will about her calling out the chair umpire and throwing down her racquet, she’s still the best.

Her male counterparts have done worse and were never punished. I write this message to ask that we not engage in the criticism others are leveling against Serena. What she did was normal.

Sure, she was upset about the call against her. Any one of us would have responded the same way. Let’s protect and defend her legacy and never

allow anyone to destroy it or the legacy of any black woman who is achieving so highly. Serena is, after all, a 23-time Grand Slam champion!

As for that stupid cartoonist who drew the racist image of Serena, put him in the category of #45. He just doesn’t know real beauty when he sees it. He knew what he was doing and no explanation Mark Knight gives is acceptable.

One can assume he thinks because #45 tries to denigrate everybody he doesn’t like, he can do the same. Fortunately, people around the world have condemned him and we should condemn him. Let him know that Serena is talented and beautiful and his opinion does not matter.

Thanks to former tennis champion Billie Jean King and others, the pushback on Mr. Knight’s racist depiction of Serena came immediately, as well as on the matter of the harsh penalty given to her by the umpire.

Certain umpires are considering a boycott of some of Serena’s matches. I don’t think that threat will break Serena. Umpires are expected to be non-partisan.

This threat alone shows their bias against Serena. That’s why I see it as our responsibility to stand up for Serena even as we celebrate another young black woman being the victor from the chaos.

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

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legislation providing $380 million in badly needed election security funding — an important first step toward strengthening and modernizing our election systems.

But that was only a start.

In the Senate, I’m working to pass the bipartisan Secure Elections Act, which will better protect elections through more effective information sharing and election cyber security standards.

But at the end of the day, our election system is not just another government program. It is the foundation of our system of government, which gets its power from the citizens who show up to vote. The day we decide to stay home is the day that power goes away.

The way I see it, the best way to fight back against our adversaries who want to take that power away is to go to the polls on Nov. 6 and exercise your right to vote.

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Re “Shift in city procurement practice hurt black-owned businesses,” Free Press Sept. 1315 edition: Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his administration are committed to ensuring open and fair competition for contracts with small, minority, local and emerging businesses. The city Office of Minority Business Development and the city Department of Procurement Services are working closely in partnership toward this goal.

If a previous procurement director abandoned certain programs authorized and supported under City Code Section 21, articles VI and VII, whether for the sake of expediency or for any other reason, it would not have been an irrevocable decision. Further, the city still

has contracts under the Richmond Supply Schedule.

The Department of Procurement Services currently uses eVA as a vehicle to post formal solicitations for goods and/or services that exceed $50,000. Also, DPS has a Small Purchases Policy that requires departments and agencies to conduct due diligence in soliciting quotes from at least three businesses, one of which must be a Minority Business Enterprise or Emerging Small Business, if available. Therefore, DPS did not replace the Richmond Supply Schedule with eVA. Betty J. Burrell Director of Procurement Services City of Richmond

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NFL starts season with 7 African-American coaches

Virginia native Mike Tomlin is on pace to Hampton University (then Hampton Institute), become the winningest African-American coach was drafted by the Baltimore Colts and later in NFL history. played in the Canadian Football League.

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ 46-year-old coach Coach Tomlin did not have a close relationship started this season with 116 career, regular season with his father. He was raised by his mother and victories against just 60 losses. stepfather, Leslie Copeland, who retired after 37 Among African-American NFL coaches, only years with the U.S. Postal Service.

Tony Dungy has more victories, with 148 wins Coach Tomlin’s older brother, Eddie Tomlin, as head coach with the played football at the UniTampa Bay Buccaneers versity of Maryland. and the Indianapolis Colts Before his arrival in combined.

Pittsburgh, Coach Tomlin Cincinnati Bengals was a collegiate assistant Coach Marvin Lewis is coach at Virginia Military the current leader among Institute, University of African-American NFL Memphis and Arkansas coaches with 123 wins.

State University. That led But Coach Lewis is 59 to assistant NFL coachand perennially on the hot ing jobs with Cincinnati, seat because of an absence Tampa and the Minnesota of postseason success; Vikings. the team is 0-7 in the He impressed on evplayoffs. ery level, leading to his By contrast, Coach becoming head coach of Tomlin has a Super Bowl the Steelers as Coach Bill title, two trips to the AFC Cowher’s successor. championship game, eight A tough act to follow, playoff appearances and Coach Cowher was 149an 8-7 overall postseason 90-1 as the Steelers coach CoachTomlin mark. from 1992 to 2006 and In February 2009, Coach Tomlin became the won the 2005 Super Bowl. youngest coach ever to win a Super Bowl when Only 17 African-Americans have served Pittsburgh defeated the Arizona Cardinals. at least one full season as head coach in the Highly popular among fans and players, NFL. The first was Art Shell, who posted a Coach Tomlin has been the Steelers’ coach since 58-55 record coaching the Los Angeles Raiders 2007 and could easily remain in that capacity 1989 to 1994 and again in 2006 after the team another 20 years-plus. returned to Oakland.

Even Coach Don Shula’s all-time record of The number of African-American coaches 347 wins with the Baltimore Colts and the Miami peaked in 2011 at eight.

The elite group lost a member when veteran NFL minority report Coach Jim Caldwell was NFL’s African-American coaches starting the 2018 season: fired by the Detroit Lions folCoach Team Hired Record lowing 2017, but kept pace when Coach Steve Wilks Marvin Lewis Cincinnati Bengals 2003 123-112-3 was hired by Arizona.

Mike Tomlin Pittsburgh Steelers 2007 116-60-1 Todd Bowles New York Jets 2015 20-28 Coach Caldwell was Anthony Lynn Los Angeles Chargers 2017 9-7 62-50 overall coaching InVance Joseph Denver Broncos 2017 5-11 dianapolis and Detroit, and Hue Jackson Cleveland Browns 2016 1-31 took the Colts to the 2009 Steve Wilks Arizona Cardinals 2018 first year Super Bowl, losing to the *Records prior to 2018 New Orleans Saints.

Other prominentAfricanDolphins eventually could be challenged should American coaches have been Dennis Green (117Coach Tomlin stick around until he is 70-ish.

102, 1992 to 2006), Lovie Smith (92-90, 2004-2015) A native of Hampton, Coach Tomlin was and Herman Edwards (56-78, 2001-2008). a star football wide receiver at Denbigh High All were eventually fired.

School in Newport News and The College of There’s an old saying that coaches are “hired to William & Mary, where he made the second- be fired.” That said, Coach Tomlin’s stock would team, All-Yankee Conference. seem to be rising in a volatile profession. He has Tomlin met his wife, New Jersey native Kiya never had a losing record with the Steelers and Winston, while both were students at W&M. seems to be gathering momentum. His Steelers His father, Ed Tomlin, played football at are 45-19 since 2011, including 13-3 in 2017.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes scrambles away from Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt during the second half of last Sunday’s game in Pittsburgh. The Chiefs won the game 42-37.

Mahomes among 6 African-American quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes II has gone from substitute career as a major league pitcher with several to superstar with the Kansas City Chiefs. organizations.

The latest addition to the NFL’s AfricanAlong with being an All-State quarterback American quarterbacks club has passed for 10 in Texas, the younger Mahomes also played touchdowns in Kansas City’s opening wins over the baseball at Whitehouse High School, once tossLos Angeles Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers. ing a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts.

The 6-foot-3, 23-year-old second-year pro out His godfather is another former big league of Texas Tech threw for four touchdowns against hurler, LaTroy Hawkins. the Chargers and six more At Texas Tech, Maagainst the Steelers. homes set NCAA records African-American That’s the most touchfor most passing yards (734) quarterbacks in the NFL downs in the first two and total offense (819) for Below are the 2018 opening day games of the season in a single game against the starters: NFL history.

University of Oklahoma.

• Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs In those outings, MaHe was the 10th player • Cam Newton, Carolina Panthers homes threw for 582 yards selected overall in the first with zero interceptions. round of the 2017 NFL draft.

• Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys It is also the most He was the second quarter• Tyrod Taylor, Cleveland Browns touchdown passes in NFL back picked in the draft be• DeShaun Watson, Houston Texans annals for a player’s first hind Mitchell Trubisky, who • Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks three starts. was selected second overall Mahomes spent his by the Chicago Bears. rookie season in Kansas City backing up Alex Mahomes becomes the NFL’s sixth AfricanSmith, now with the Washington pro team as American starting quarterback for 2018. an offseason free agent acquisition.

Marlin Briscoe, known as “Marlin the MaIn 2017, Mahomes played in only one game gician,” is considered the NFL’s first African— the regular season finale against the Denver American starting quarterback in the modern Broncos. era. Briscoe broke in with Denver in 1968 and The native Texan is the son of Randi Ma- went on to play 105 NFL games, many as a wide homes and Pat Mahomes Sr., who had an 11-year receiver later in his career.

VUU, VSU games back on schedule this Saturday CIAA football has weathered the storm.

After hitting the pause button last week as Hurricane Florence left a path of destruction through North Carolina, the historically black athletic conference will resume activities Saturday, Sept. 22, with seven games to be played in the Tarheel state.

Virginia Union University Athletic Director Joe Taylor said all systems are go following a conference call of athletic directors on Monday.

VUU, 1-1 under first year Coach Alvin Parker, will travel

to Winston-Salem State University, also 1-1, for a 6 p.m. game this Saturday at Bowman Gray Stadium.

Defending CIAA champion Virginia State University, 0-2, is headed to Charlotte, N.C., to face Johnson C. Smith University, 0-2. That game also will be 6 p.m. Saturday.

VUU’s game at Johnson C. Smith University and VSU’s game against St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, N.C., both of which were slated for last Saturday, are unlikely to be rescheduled.

“We don’t have bye weeks in the CIAA,” Taylor said.

“It would be difficult to squeeze in a makeup.”

The only convenient time for a makeup would be after the regular season, which ends Nov. 3. But the CIAA championship game is Nov. 10 and NCAA playoffs start Nov. 17.

“It would send the wrong message to schedule a game that would conflict with the postseason,” Taylor said.

At this stage, all teams plan on heading to Salem on Nov. 10 for the CIAA title showdown.

Mookie Betts, Lorenzo Cain leading candidates for MLB MVPs

African-Americans are short in numbers but large on impact in Major League Baseball.

Only about 10 percent of big leaguers are African-American, born in the United States, but they are getting noticed.

Heading into the season’s final two weeks, Boston Red Sox rightfielder Mookie Betts is a clear front-runner for the American League’s Most Valuable Player.

A leading MVP candidate in the National League is Milwaukee Brewers centerfielder Lorenzo Cain.

Others making statistical waves are Oakland Athletics outfielder/designated hitter Khris Davis, and Tampa Bay Rays centerfielder Mallex Smith.

In his fifth season with the Eastern Division leading Red Sox, Betts leads the big leagues with a .337 average.

Despite losing about 20 games to injury, Betts has 29 homers, 72 RBIs, 28 stolen bases, a whopping .431 on-base percentage and is brilliant defensively.

Betts’ Wins Against Replacement (WAR) is 10.0, the

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Mookie Betts of the Boston Red Sox hits a sacrifice fly to bring in a run during last Sunday’s game against the New York Mets in Boston.

best in baseball.

To a somewhat lesser extent, Cain has been a catalyst for a Brewers squad contending for the NL Central pennant.

Cain, with a WAR of 6.7, is hitting .311, with 28 stolen bases. He also is a Gold Glove winner in the outfield.

Growing up in Madison, Fla., Cain never played baseball until his sophomore season at Madison County High School. He might not have played baseball if he hadn’t been cut from the basketball team. At the time he went out for baseball, he didn’t own his own fielder’s glove.

Davis has been on a tear since joining Oakland three seasons ago. This year, he leads the AL with 43 homers and 115 RBIs. He has clubbed 128 homers and driven in 327 runs during the past three seasons.

The native Californian goes by the nickname “Khrash Davis.”

That’s a play on words with the character “Crash Davis,” played

by Kevin Costner in the baseball movie “Bull Durham.”

Smith, from Tallahassee, Fla., is bidding for the AL’s “Speed Demon Double.” He leads the league in triples (9) and stolen bases (33) while hitting .300.

Smith stole as many as 88 bases in a minor league season while with the Atlanta chain.

Also in news concerning players of color is a tight battle for NL Rookie of the Year between the Washington National’s Juan Soto and the Atlanta Brave’s Ronald Acuna.

Soto, a 19-year-old outfielder, and Acuna, a 20-year-old second baseman, are both from the Dominican Republic.

Soto is hitting .305 with 20 homers, 64 RBIs and .421 on-base percentage.

Acuna has 25 homers and 55 RBIs, with a .292 average and .368 on-base percentage.

Soto is bidding to become Washington’s first Rookie of the Year since Bryce Harper in 2012.

Atlanta’s last Rookie of the Year was relief pitcher Craig Kimbrell in 2011.

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Personality: Dr. Shantell D. Lewis Spotlight on founder of nonprofit Here2Hear Hearing is one of our most precious gifts, giving us the ability to communicate effectively, which should not be taken for granted.

This is the core belief and driving passion for Dr. Shantell D. Lewis, founder of Here2Hear.

The nonprofit organization, now in its eighth year, offers a host of free services and programs related to hearing health care for children and adults in the Richmond and Tri-Cities areas.

Dr. Lewis, a 41-year-old audiologist dedicated to advocacy and helping others, also leads Here2Hear’s board that is made up a variety of health care professionals who want to boost hearing health in the metro area.

Working for several ear, nose and throat specialists, Dr. Lewis said she noticed people leaving the doctors’ offices needed hearing help but couldn’t cover the cost of hearing aids, and subsequently, would forego additional treatment.

“The nonprofit was founded based on that disparity and the much needed healthier hearing services,” Dr. Lewis says.

“Those underserved communities are not just people living below the poverty line, but everyday working people who simply can’t afford health care.”

Here2Hear provides free hearing tests and healthy ear examinations by licensed audiologists. It also provides free and low-cost hearing aids to people with hearing loss; educational seminars and written materials, including programs to teach young people how to protect their hearing by lowering the volume of their music and reducing the amount of time they are exposed to loud noise; and free kits to help people with hearing loss to communicate effectively in emergency situations.

Proceeds from Here2Hear’s Annual Gala and Art Show, slated for Saturday, Sept. 29, at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, help fund its programs and services.

“I give 10 percent of my earnings each month to Here2Hear,” says Dr. Lewis, who started the fundraising event three years ago.

Dr. Lewis’ interest in audiology was piqued when she participated in a biology project during her freshman year at Virginia Union University in 1995.

“We were to talk to professionals in the field we wanted to pursue and I found Dr. Randall Dalton, an ear, nose and throat specialist,” Dr. Lewis recalls.

Her persistence helped get her past a reluctant receptionist, she says, and she was introduced to an audiologist in Dr. Dalton’s office.

“I did a four-year, unpaid internship and realized my professional passion,” Dr. Lewis recalls. “I discovered audiology was what I wanted to do because it involved the ear, although I still loved all of the senses.”

Her experience led her to earn degrees in biology from VUU in 1999, a master’s in audiology from Howard University in 2002 and a doctorate in audiology from the University of Florida in 2009.

What: 3rd Annual Here2Hear Gala and Art Show, a fundraiser to benefit the nonprofit organization’s programs to promote hearing health, including providing free hearing tests, free or low-cost hearing aids and hearing health seminars and programs.

When: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800 Lakeside Ave. Tickets: $45 to $55.

Details: The event will feature music, entertainment, art and a silent auction.

Information and ticket purchase: www.Here2Hear. org or (804) 774-8311.

“For those who can’t afford hearing health care, please reach out to Here2Hear because we are a wonderful resource.

We are here to help you,” she says.

The free, effective communication emergency kits, which will be distributed Oct. 13 from Richmond Fire Department headquarters, contain a small flashlight to help people who are hard of hearing to see for lip reading; a card people with hearing loss can hand someone, particularly in emergency situations, to say they have a hearing loss or communication issues; and a list of apps to help people with hearing issues communicate with police if they are stopped.

Dr. Lewis’ advice to adults and children is simple: “Make sure you get your ears checked every year and follow up with what is recommended.”

Meet a dedicated advocate for hearing health and this week’s Personality, Dr. Shantell D. Lewis: Occupation: Audiologist.

No. 1 community involvement: Founder of Here2Hear.

Date and place of birth: July 1 in Richmond.

Current residence: Henrico County.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in biology, Virginia Union University; master’s in audiology, Howard University; and doctor of audiology degree, University of Florida.

Family: Son, Kyree Currie.

Reason Here2Hear was founded: There was a lack of options for individuals who could not afford quality hearing health care and hearing aids in the Richmond area. Therefore, Here2Hear was developed to provide programs to assist with closing the disparity of affordable and accessible hearing health care, hearing loss assistive devices such as hearing aids and preventative education in the community.

Foremost mission: Our mission is to prevent poor hearing health care by providing programs for individuals that live in Richmond and the surrounding areas.

Why I am excited about this organization: This unique organization provides a host of hearing health care and preventative programs to children and adults at no cost to individuals

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How to deal with hearing loss diagnosis: It is important for an individual to understand and accept his or her diagnosis. These individuals will have to be advocates for themselves, so it is important for them to learn coping skills.

These individuals should follow the recommendation of their audiologist, who will provide guidance and provide options to assist with hearing. It is equally as important when learning how to deal with hearing loss to talk with others, including their loved ones, local support groups or organization, such as Here2Hear about their hearing and how to deal with hearing loss.

Importance of family support: The family can provide strength and support for an individual with hearing loss. Hearing loss decreases an individual’s ability to communicate effectively. And the more severe the hearing loss, the more difficult it is to communicate with family members on a daily basis. Therefore, family members can be supportive by attending hearing loss related appointments and hearing loss programs, assist loved ones with hearing aids if needed and assist loved ones in difficult to hear situations.

Best advice parents can give their children about protecting their hearing: Turn down the volume on headphones and earbuds and limit the time of listening in noise, including while in a band and while playing video games. Permanent hearing loss can develop, which can cause tinnitus — ringing in the ears — and difficulty with communication with family and friends.

Foremost challenge facing underserved areas: Access to quality hearing health care and preventative hearing loss education.

What needs to be done: First, education regarding hearing health care is a must, as it leads to healthy hearing and information on preventative hearing loss.

Second, there should be more programs to assist underserved population to include going into communities and providing health checkups, such as hearing screenings.

Other organizations Here2Hear partners with: We have developed partnerships with Purple Communications and the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

What motivated me to get involved in community service: I have always felt the need to help people in my community so that I could share the gifts that God has provided me. My motivation comes from the various stories that people in the community have shared, which allows me to figure out where I could make a difference.

How I start the day: With a moment of peace and silence to reflect on the positive things from the day before, then focus on the plan for the day ahead to make it a good day.

A perfect day for me is: A stress-free, peaceful day where I can enjoying the activities I like to do, such as creating artwork, working on my collection and spending time with my loved ones.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I love to collect original African-American artifacts and historical pieces. I enjoy

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How I unwind: Creating artwork while listening to jazz music and Stevie Wonder.

A quote that I am inspired by: “Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” — Helen Keller Best late-night snack: Ritz crackers with whatever I can find to put on them, especially chocolate.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: To work hard and do my best no matter my upbringing and circumstances.

Person who influenced me the most: My sister, Alicia Atkins.

The book that influenced me the most: “Maximize the Moment” by T.D. Jakes.

What I’m reading now: “Colored Pictures” by Michael D. Harris.

The one thing that I’ve learned in life is: That life is short, so be grateful for each day and enjoy the people you love and in your inner circle.

My next goal: To start grant writing for funding for Here2Hear and increase the number of volunteers.

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“The Proposal.” It was a 2009 movie starring Sandra Bullock, but now will forever be the informal title of the 2018 Emmys telecast, thanks to a memorable romantic gesture from Emmy-winning director Glenn Weiss — who summoned the courage during Monday night’s awards show to propose to his girlfriend.

She said yes. The stars in the audience responded with gasps (we saw you, Leslie Jones) and even tears (we saw you too, Queen Elizabeth — er, Claire Foy).

That feel-good moment — along with crowdpleasing speeches by Henry Winkler and Betty White — lightened the mood of an evening that otherwise had a lackluster feel, and disappointed many with the lack of ethnic diversity among its winners.

Some moments we’ll be talking about: ISSUE: NOT SOLVED Nope, they sure didn’t solve it.

The Emmys began with a happy announcement — this was the most ethnically diverse group of Emmy nominees yet — and a cheeky musical nod to the diversity issue in Hollywood, a song aptly called “We Solved It!” Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Sterling K. Brown, Tituss Burgess and Ricky Martin, among others, sang — tongue firmly in cheek — about how far things had progressed, joined by a company of “One of Each” dancers.

But they couldn’t have known how the evening itself would progress — award after award would go to a white winner. Presenter James Corden finally said what everyone was thinking. “Let’s get it trending: #EmmysSoWhite,”

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RuPaul Charles, originator of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is cheered by a bevy of supporters while accepting the Emmy for outstanding reality-competition program. Right, Regina King accepts the Emmy Award during Monday night’s ceremony for outstanding lead actress in a limited series of movie for her role in “Seven Seconds.”

he quipped, a double reference to both Betty White, who preceded him, and the prevailing color of the evening.

The string was finally broken about halfway through when Regina King was awarded outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie for “Seven Seconds.”

DA FONZ! Sometimes it just takes a little patience to achieve your Emmy dreams — like, four decades

and six nominations worth of patience.

But who’s counting? Not Henry Winkler, who bounded to the stage with delight to claim his first Emmy, more than 40 years after he was first nominated for his role as The Fonz in “Happy Days.”

The crowd rose to cheer the 72-year-old Mr. Winkler as he accepted his trophy for best supporting actor in a comedy series for HBO’s dark comedy “Barry,” joking that he was giving

Martha High, backup singer for James Brown, to speak Sept. 22 at Black History Museum

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how much he enjoyed our show. When he left, we were jumping up and down and screaming, Martha High has stories to tell. so excited that Mr. Brown liked us, just like The Victoria, Va., native spent more than 30 normal teenagers would.” years singing with “Godfather of Soul” James The Jewels ended up touring the country as Brown, the “hardest working man in show Mr. Brown’s backup vocalists in 1964 and rebusiness.” corded two singles he produced. When the group Ms. High will tell some of those stories, disbanded after a few years, Ms. High released sing a few songs and sign copies of her book, “High,” a solo disco album in 1979.

“He’s a Funny Cat, Ms. High: My 32 Years Ms. High continued singing for Mr. Brown, Singing with James Brown,” at performing on recordings such as 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the “Summertime,” the album “James Black History Museum & Cultural Brown’s Original Funky Divas” and Center of Virginia, 122 W. Leigh his 1968 live performance of “There St. in Jackson Ward.

Was a Time.” She is known for her The event is part of the museum’s soprano note at the beginning of Mr. Literary Saturday series.

Brown’s song, “The Payback.”

Ms. High grew up in Washington The night after Martin Luther singing at the Trinity A.M.E. Zion King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Ms. Church.

High performed with Mr. Brown at “I started singing at a very the Boston Garden. City officials young age around the house like considered canceling it because of Ms. High I was an opera singer,” she told the violent unrest that erupted in Soul and Jazz and Funk, an independent soul many U.S. cities after Dr. King’s death. Instead, news and reviews website. She was about 6 or officials decided to do a free, live broadcast of 7 at the time. the show, hoping to keep residents home. The “My brothers would tell my mom, ‘Tell her crowd began to get volatile during the show, to stop that noise, she’s making too much noise but Mr. Brown addressed the audience and the around the house.’ My mother said, ‘She’s not police, restoring order. The show continued making noise, she’s singing.’ ” peacefully and no violence broke out in Boston Around 1963, Ms. High began singing with that night.

The Four Jewels, whose members attended the Just a few months later, Ms. High traveled to same church and high school as Ms. High.

Vietnam with Mr. Brown, where they performed The group changed its name to The Jewels for American soldiers. and signed with Dimension Records, their most She also sang with Mr. Brown at the Zaire 74 popular song, “Opportunity,” reaching No. 64 music festival in 1974 promoting the “Rumble on Billboard’s Hot 100. in the Jungle” boxing match between MuhamMs. High met James Brown one night when the mad Ali and George Foreman. group was performing at the Howard Theatre After more than 30 years as Mr. Brown’s “All of a sudden, we heard this ruckus and longest female vocalist and a key member of his we saw that James Brown came in,” Ms. High inner circle, Ms. High stopped performing with told a British newspaper. “After the show, Mr. Mr. Brown in early 2000 and went on tour as Brown came to our dressing room and told us the lead singer for Maceo Parker, a saxophonist

Rally to observe International Day of Peace this Friday

A city group will launch the weekend with a public celebration of diversity and tolerance on Friday, Sept. 21 — officially designated by the United Nations as the International Day of Peace.

The Richmond Peace Education Center announced the event will take place 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Maggie Lena Walker Memorial Plaza at Broad and Adams streets in Downtown.

The event is called “Richmond Stands United: A Call to Solidarity” and will include live performances and speeches from community groups, with the aim of helping area residents connect with people and organizations working toward “liberation and justice,” according to Adria Scharf, the center’s executive director.

Details: Scharf@rpec.org or (804) 232-1002.

Festival celebrating RPS slated Saturday

A new nonprofit, Support Together Area Youth, or STAY, will host a block party this weekend to celebrate Richmond students, teachers and the positives of the public schools.

STAY Fest will be held 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, behind Brewer’s Café, 1125 Bainbridge St. in South Side.

It will be open to the public without charge.

Festival organizers announced the event will feature children’s activities, including face painting, and performances

by Chance Fischer, Cole Hicks, Jam Session and DJ Henry. Remarks will be offered by Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras and Richmond

Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson of the Virgie Binford Education Center.

The event also will showcase

the work of community groups that work with Richmond Public Schools.

Details: Info@STAYRVA.org.

Blandford Reunion Parade canceled for 2018

The Blandford Reunion Parade that had been rescheduled for Saturday, Sept. 22, in Petersburg has been canceled.

Petersburg Sheriff Vanessa R. Crawford, organizer of the event, said changing the dates precluded many people from participating, leading to the event’s cancellation this year.

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who was an integral part of his band.

Ms. High teamed up with the Soulpower organization, performing across Europe and Africa backed by the Soulpower Allstars. In 2016, Ms. High released another solo album, “Singing for the Good Times.”

Her book was published in 2017.

Ms. High’s talk at the museum is free for museum members and $4 for others. Registration is requested.

Details and registration: www.blackhistorymuseum.org or (804) 780-9093.

a speech he wrote 43 years ago.

BETTY WHITE STEALS THE SHOW If that was a feel-good moment, what do you call the sublime appearance of 96-year-old Ms. White, honored for 80 years in television?

The star of “Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” got such a huge ovation from the crowd that she quipped: “I’m just gonna quit while I’m ahead.”

And she showed she wasn’t above — or beyond — a racy joke: “I want to thank Lorne Michaels for everything he’s done with me. I mean, for me,” she said of the “Saturday Night Live” creator and producer of the evening’s telecast.

POLITICS TAKES A BREAK There was surprisingly little politics in the Emmys telecast; the name “Trump” was barely if ever mentioned. But “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee got a few digs in.

Presenting the award for best drama actor with Taraji P. Henson, Ms. Bee was asked what drama she was watching. She was off and running.

“I’ve been watching this shocking dystopian drama called ‘the news,’” Ms. Bee said.

“I’m on approximately season 9,000. Gets darker and darker, but I can’t stop watching. You know, they really need to recast the lead.”

A #METOO MOMENT The #MeToo movement, on the other hand, was addressed right away by hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost.

“It’s an honor being here, sharing this night with the many, many talented and creative people in Hollywood who haven’t been caught yet,” Mr. Che said, to laughs.

Mr. Jost noted that drinks were being served to the audience.

“The one thing Hollywood needs right now is people losing their inhibitions at a work function,” he quipped.

So long, Americans There were two sweet victories for the FX spy drama “The Americans,” which concluded its six-season run in May with an acclaimed finale. The writing award for drama went to Joel Fields and Joseph Weisberg, and the best actor trophy went to Matthew Rhys, who played KGB agent Philip Jennings.

In his speech, Mr. Rhys acknowledged his longtime co-star and partner in life, Keri Russell, who lost out in the acting category to Claire Foy. “I don’t have the words, I don’t have the time — neither of which would do you justice, Keri,” he said. “So thank you. More to come.”

The University of Mary Washington’s Vice President for Enrollment Management, Kimberley Buster-Williams, cordially invites you to attend an upcoming Open House.

Saturday, September 22, 2018 Saturday, October 27, 2018 Saturday, November 10, 2018 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy to host annual awards ceremony Sept. 26 The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy will recognize several people and organizations for their work advocating for Medicaid expansion, criminal justice reform, immigrant rights and higher wages for workers.

The ceremony will take place 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Hippodrome Theater, 528 N. 2nd St. in Jackson Ward.

In addition to the awards ceremony, there will be food, music and Salsa dancing lessons. Tickets are $100.

Honorees at the event: Jill A. Hanken, an attorney with the Virginia Poverty Law Center who led the Health Care for All Virginians Coalition; state Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr., an Augusta County Republican; and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association for their successful efforts to expand the Medicaid program to 400,000

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Virginians without health insurance.

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enfranchised, who successfully advocated for Virginia’s dollar threshold for a felony to be raised from $200 to $500.

Also, Virginia Intercollegiate Immigrant Alliance, a network of student advocates seeking tuition equity for immigrant students under DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Also, Richmond and Alexandria Living Wage committees, which certify companies and employers that pay their workers a living wage. The Richmond committee is a joint project of the City of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. More than 20 companies and organizations in Richmond have been certified.

The Alexandria program began in mid-July.

Details and tickets: Amanda Silcox, Amanda@ virginiainterfaithcenter.org or (804) 643-2474, ext. 105.

Centenary United Methodist Church celebrates 9 years as Reconciling Congregation

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

For the first time, members of historic Centenary United Methodist Church will have a booth at VA PrideFest 2018 to tell the church’s story and encourage the thousands of festival participants to attend.

The festival is set to run from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, on Brown’s Island.

Public participation in the annual festival celebrating the

Richmond area’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents is another sign of the 208-year-old church’s embrace of its role as a Reconciling Congregation, according to the pastor, Dr. Matthew D. “Matt” Bates.

An Oklahoma native who has led the church since 2011, Dr. Bates said the 400-member church will mark its ninth year as a member of the Reconciling Ministries Network at its 8:40 and 11 a.m. services Sunday, Sept. 23. A reception will follow the 11 a.m. service.

Hurricane relief efforts started by SCLC and others

Black Baptist churches and a civil rights organization in the Newport News area are gearing up to send aid to people in and around Wilmington, N.C., who were hard hit by Hurricane Florence, it has been announced.

The Tidewater Peninsula Baptist Association and the Virginia State Unit of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are heading the relief effort for the North Carolina coastal city where

thousands of people have been flooded out of their homes.

According to the TPBA, Dr. Willard G. Maxwell Jr., pastor of New Beech Grove Baptist Church in Newport News and vice president of the association, has been named to lead the effort.

Dr. Maxwell stated Monday that the coalition is securing tractor-trailer loads of “bottled water, food, personal hygiene items and other supplies” to send as soon

as the water recedes and roads into the Wilmington area reopen.

Colossian and Ebenezer Baptist churches also are gathering supplies, Dr. Maxwell said. The Peninsula Chapter of the SCLC and the Andrew Shannon Gospel Music Celebration also are participating, he said.

To help, contact Dr. Maxwell, (757) 877-4114, or Andrew Shannon, (757) 877-0792.

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business is now and where she would like it to be a year from now.

“The month of Elul” — the time on the Jewish calendar where the High Holy Days fall — “makes me stop and think,” Ms. Goodman said. “Have I given enough respect to my clients and others I know? Even if someone doesn’t hire me, I want to know that at the end of our phone conversation there are good feelings between us.”

The thoughtfulness that comes with the season, said Ms. Aharoni, who earns a living coaching others, prompts her to reflect on whether her business is on the right path.

“It’s taking stock of where I am and where I want to be. I want to serve people, but am I as precise as I could be in my vision?”

Ms. Aharoni, who like many of her clients is an Orthodox Jew, offers executive coaching to many more women than men.

“This Elul, I’m asking myself, ‘Is my service as effective for men as it is for women?’

My female clients tell me I push them ahead on the one hand and hug them with the other.

“But because I’m religious, I won’t hug a man either literally or figuratively. Would male clients be better served by a different coach?”

The holidays are not only about probing one’s doubts.

Jonathan Medved, chief execu-

tive officer of OurCrowd, an equity-crowdfunding platform for Israeli and global startups, said the new year is a good time to reflect on his company’s bottom line, but also on the important role startups and their investors can play in building society.

“Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of man’s creation.

Our job is to be partners with God in that creation,” Mr. Medved said.

Ms. Moore feels her High Holy Day insights make her a better businesswoman, and a better mother. “I strive to be transparent, patient, clear and honest with my clients and co-workers,” she said.

“Now,” the mother of eight said, “I need to apply that same level of thoughtfulness and patience I give to my clients to my husband and children.”

Eytan Buchman, vice president of marketing at Freightos, a freight importing startup based in Israel, also checks in this time of year about how his life is going. Working at a startup, he says, “means everything happens quickly.”

“At the same time you’re evaluating the previous quarter, you’re already knee-deep in planning the next one. During the holidays, I like to reflect on my work-life balance and the interplay between the two,” Mr. Buchman said.

The season can be a potent

antidote to the “rough and tumble” of running an organization, said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, president of RespectAbility, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that advocates for the rights of people with disabilities.

“Sometimes there is competition around who gets credit for what work, who raises what money and which plan is the best for moving an agenda forward,” Ms. Mizrahi said.

As Yom Kippur began on Tuesday, Ms. Mizrahi moved to settle her personal accounts to start the new year with a clean slate.

“At this time of year especially I reach out to people,” she said. She connects via Facebook and email to ask for forgiveness. “I also reach out to specific individuals where there may have been some friction in the past.

“People don’t always reach back,” she said, “but sometimes they do and it’s beautiful.”

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JERUSALEM Roughly one-sixth of the 613 commandments in the Torah, the Hebrew Scriptures, touch on business and monetary practices. The Talmud, the commentary on Jewish law, fleshes out these principals with real-life scenarios.

At the High Holy Days, when Jews contemplate their failings and achievements in the year past, these commandments carry special meaning for those in business.

That’s why in late August, two weeks before the beginning of the Jewish New Year, Leah Zakh Aharoni, a business coach in Jerusalem, devoted her monthly meetup for religious businesswomen to business ethics and invited Rabbi Yoel Domb, who teaches Jewish business ethics at Touro College, to speak.

Ne’eelah, the fervent final Yom Kippur prayer service, “is a special time to request from God the opportunity to repay our debts and fulfill our financial obligations,” Rabbi Domb said.

High Holy Day prayer services contain several references to what Rabbi Domb calls “monetary misdemeanors,” like delaying payment, petty theft and unscrupulous financial interactions between people.

Rachel Moore, a public relations professional and the owner of Hub Etzion, a co-working office space in Efrat, south of Jerusalem, said she was mindful of these basic money morals.

“We have petty cash at the Hub — just a few shekels,” said Ms. Moore. “It would be easy not to report Value Added Tax to the tax authority. But making sure to report everything is spiritually important.”

But the Holy Days are about more than being scrupulous about finances.

“Business is part of Judaism, and the chagim, the High Holidays, are all about introspection,” Ms. Aharoni said.

Ilana Goodman, a translator and a member of Ms. Aharoni’s businesswomen’s group, said the High Holy Days inspire her to take stock of where her

Founded in 1810, the church has been at its Downtown location, 411 E. Grace St., since 1843.

The Reconciling Ministries Network is an unofficial movement within the United Methodist denomination. Membership means “means we have made a commitment to extend hospitality and encourage full participation” of everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation Dr. Bates or any other differences, Dr. Bates said.

The Rev. Patricia “Pat” Shipley will lead the service, Dr. Bates said. She led the congregation in 2009 when the agreement was made to join the network.

Centenary was the first Virginia Methodist church to sign up for the network and remains the only Methodist church in the Richmond area listed among the nearly 500 congregations across the country in the network’s directory.

“Centenary has always been an open and welcoming congregation,” Rev. Shipley said. “In becoming a Reconciling Congregation, the people of Centenary have chosen to be up front and out front in declaring that God’s love is for all, no exceptions.

“In a world full of division,” Rev. Shipley continued, “identifying as a Reconciling Congregation is a sign that God’s love can break down barriers that separate us from one another.”

Dr. Bates also credits the congregation for the church striving to be a place where people have “open hearts, open minds and open doors.”

Congregant James Hill said that when he came out as a gay man, he found a supportive church family at Centenary.

“This is a place where people can worship and serve with a congregation committed to full inclusion and acceptance of all people,” he said.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Birmingham’s public library has opened a new resource about the city’s civil rights history: Letters written from prison by one of three Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a deadly church bombing that killed four black girls.

The library obtained the letters written to and by Klansman Robert Chambliss and released them Nov. 14 for use by researchers on the 35th anniversary of his trial.

A jury convicted the defendant in 1977 of setting the bomb that killed four girls as they were getting ready for a Sunday morning service at Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963.

The blast killed Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11. The bombing was the subject of Spike Lee’s 1997 movie, “4 Little Girls.”

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Cynthia Wesley.

Carole Robertson and Cynthia before exchanging about 200 letters with his wife, Flora “Tee” Chambliss, a niece and a lawyer. gave them to the library following the death of the Klansman’s Many of the letters were between the Klansman Chambliss remind us of what Dr. King said that we must subArchives director Jim Baggett said the terrorist never admits wife.The service also honored two young boys killed in separate and “They his wife, whom he referred to as “Mommie.” In one written incidents, Johnny Robinson Jr. and Virgil Ware, shortly after stitute courage for he caution that be smoking concerned any wrongdoing in the letters.

“After his wife died, she called us to see if it was anything that in 1979, he told her made and a vow to we Godmust to quit if the bombing. with not merely about who murdered them but the system, the “He doesn’t talk about the bombing much. He says other could help with the investigation,” Mr. Herren said. “I went through he was released from custody.

Free Press wire report Local There news was outlets reported speakersinatthem.” the service way of life, the which people did it. His focus is clearly on trying to get out of prison,” the letters. really nothingthat spectacular “I Promised Godphilosophy I would if an (sic)produced when I’m their freed murders,” from this urged remembrance and reconciliation and to guard against Sen. Jones said.

Mr. Baggett said.

Juries convicted two other Klansmen, Bobby Frank Cherry place,” Robert Chambliss wrote. “(I) told Him I would step on the Ala. and theTommy hatefulBlanton, beliefs in and rhetoric that led toCherry the bombing. urged attendees to when speakI out rhetoric A retired FBI research specialist, Ben BIRMINGHAM, Herren, said the FBI later trials. Klansman died behind PackHe I was Smoking out of walkagainst out thehateful front door.”

The four girls killed when a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klan “Birmingham is bigger than the angst and the pain of our when it occurs, saying that it was the hateful rhetoric of segobtained the letters from a niece of the white supremacist and bars, while Klansman Blanton remains in prison.

“I found that sort of surprising,” Mr. Herren said. members ripped through a Birmingham church in 1963 were past,” Mayor Randall Woodfin said during the service. “Our regationist politicians in the 1960s that emboldened attacks remembered in a memorial service last Saturday on the 55th true legacy is hope. Our true legacy is reconciliation, unity, on African-Americans. anniversary of the deadly attack. and probably most important, justice.”

There was a fifth little girl in the room that day. Sarah ColAddie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and The viciousness of the bombing shocked a nation and brought lins Rudolph survived but lost her sister, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing national attention to Birmingham, where police dogs and fire in the bombing. Ms. Rudolph lost an eye in the blast. of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The four hoses had been used to turn back civil rights marchers.

“I feel that, when we love, we’re doing what God wants us girls, between the ages of 11 and 14, were getting ready for U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, who prosecuted two of the four men to do, and when we hate, we’re doing what the devil wants Associated of Rev.for Hunter’s quesand has hadthelittle contact with ing ramifications their Sunday servicesPress when dynamite that had been placed under learned responsible the 1963 bombing, gave keynote address us the to do,” she said. of “We should Bethel take offmembers the hatesaid and that just tionable financial transactions, church members since. protest. they were ready to walk out if the church stairs detonated. during the service. continue to love each other.”

SAN FRANCISCO the newspaper stated.

The rejection — virtually Bishop Kirkland later flew Rev. Hunter showed up.

Leaders of San Francisco’s When Rev. Hunter’s transfer unheard of in the AME de- to San Francisco to admonish The church’s presiding elder, Bethel African Methodist Episto the San Francisco church was nomination — pits the small, the Bethel congregation for Rev. W. Bartalette Finney Sr., copal Church have rejected a announced, members worried 650-member congregation making judgments about Rev. urged Bethel members to focus troubled Los Angeles pastor about his past. against the executive orders Hunter. on their spiritual relationship to take the pulpit for the city’s It took Rev. Hunter several of Bishop Kirkland and has But the congregation re- with God and not on the proboldest African-American condays to formally introduce him- many churchgoers question- mains firm in its decision. lems of the church. gregation. self to church officials, fueling The Rev. John J. Hunter Jacqueline Guess “Jackie” Epps, under then-Attorney Gen-the congregation’s concern mid-1830s to connect the one of the three Democratic candidates She also was active with local and was recently transferred from a prominent Richmond attorney eral Gerald L. Baliles, alongabout the pastor. state capital with the na- vying to win the revamped, majoritystate professional organizations. In Theme for 2012: Can GOD? GOD Can! I Can! the First AME Church in whose legal career spanned 45 years, with more than 30 years in So, when he was headed tion’s capital. black 3rd Congressional District seat 1989, she Christ participated a year-long I can do all things through who strengthens in me. Phil.

4:13 We Are Growing Los Angeles to lead the San for Bethel’s pulpit ready to In the The Kingdom including service as former chair of private practice.

With the governor’s that virtually ensured state would state study on the future of Virginia’s NEW MESSAGE SERIES 2604 Idlewood Avenue Francisco church. But, in an preach on Nov. 4, church ofAs We Grow The Kingdom “MAkING A DIffeReNCe” the Virginia Retirement System, has Ms. Epps came to public support, Ms. Epps led the send its first African-American repre- judiciary andMessage was involved in planning Richmond, Va. 23220 #5 with Word, Worship and Witness unprecedented move, leaders ficials confronted him in the Rev. John J. Hunter (804) 353-6135 “Religion That Makes a Difference” died. attention in 1990 in winVRS in investing $380 milsentative to Washington since 1890. for a judicial conference for the Fourth at Bethel AME drafted an foyer and demanded to see the www.riverviewbaptistch.org James 1:19-27 Ms. Epps, who most recently listed ning a key appointment lion to purchase the RF&P However, Ms. Epps, along with U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, whose Sunday, November 25, 2012 Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, emergency resolution barring credit cards for $122,000 assignment declaration from AM Praise & Worship herself as taking an arbitration from then-Gov. L. Douglas Corp. then-Richmond10:40 Delegate Jean W. Cun- jurisdiction runs from the Carolinas Pastor him from control. attorney, in personal expenditures on Bishop T. Larry Kirkland in The deal included Divine Worship Rev.the Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. December 18th, 11:00 a.m. succumbed Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, she helpedLos Angeles. the spin-off of RF&P ningham, lost the 11AM Democratic primary to Maryland.

They said the assignment items Wilder, includingwhom suits, jewelry, Message by Pastor Pastor Emeritus th reportedly to injuries resulting from a elect. tracks between Richmond election to Newport News state Sen. Ms. Epps was a Anniversary former member Church could “impair the legacy, vacations and auto supplies. A Rev. Hunter didn’t have a SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:45 A.M. fall at her residence.

She was removing severalcopy and and otherSERVICE Robert C. “Bobby” Scott. He went on of the executive committee of the Ms.was Epps SUNDAY WORSHIP reputation, relationships and71. year later,After the Internal Revenue blocked and fromAlexandria Speaker: Rev. Stephen Blount 11:00 A.M. Funeral arrangements arethe private, members, tapped railleft assets to rail giant CSX, to win the seat to which he has been Richmond and also Music byBar the sixAssociation choirs of the church goodwill” of the church in Service said he he owed moreMs.the front of the church. He 1:00 Angelo Chatman according to Scott’s Funeral Home.

Epps to chair the taxes. board of the mul- while giving the pension system control re-elected ever since. served onP.M. theRev. American Bar Associacommunity. than $300,000 in back Rev. Dr. Yvonne and Pilgrim Journey Baptist Church Born brought in Buffalo, tibillion dollar Virginia Retirement of RF&P’s valuable real estate and “I’ve lost a dear friend,” said Ms. tion’s Minority Lawyer Task Force as Rev. and Hunter’s eightup years in Rev. Hunter has said he repaid Jones Bibbs, Pastor UNVEILING OF GIRLS AND BOYS N.Y., Ms. Epps came to Virginia to debts.

System, which manages pensions commercial investments, including Cunningham, who currently is vice well asMENTORING the ABA’s Litigation Section.

Los Angeles were sullied by a both GROUP AGES 9-18 Midlothian 400 South Addison Street practice graduating from Howard for state Board.

She also was a fellow of the ABA sexual after harassment lawsuit, a Bethel AME government officials fearemployees as the Dabney Center in Henrico County chair of the Virginia Parole TV BROADCAST Richmond, Va. 23220 (near Byrd Park) 13800 Westfield Dr., Midlothian, VA 23113 University in Washington earning well as public schoolteachers, police near Westwood Avenue and a major “We were friends before we ran Foundation. federal tax investigationand and Saturdays @ 8am (804) 359-1691 or 359-3498 that Rev. Hunter’s blemished 804-794-5583 • www.firstbaptistchurch1846.com Fax (804) 359-3798 “Blessings & Miracles” her degree in use 1972offrom Rutgers officers, firefighters localPernell shareJ.of the sprawling friends Ms. Epps was a member of the Virthelaw questionable church reputation would upend and a otherRev. Johnson, Pastor Crystal City for Congress, and we were www.sixthbaptistchurch.org FOX TV CHANNEL 11 or 35 University in New Jersey. government employees. office complex in Arlington. afterward.” ginia State Bar, the Local Government credit cards, the Los Angeles multimillion-dollar business Service Times She had a myriad of experiences Ms.works.

Epps made in the post Ms. Epps weathered criticism Ms. Epps later spent nearly 30 years Attorneys of Virginia and the Virginia Times reported. deal in the The headlines deal, Sunday Church School 9:45AM about 2800 P Street, Richmond, Va. 23223 2008, Rev. Hunter Worship 11:00AM as aInlawyer, ranging fromacservice Gov. Wilder movedto to orchestrate a the deal and concerns that she and with the Morris & Morris law(804) firm Association of Defense Attorneys, as whichasofficials declined 644-1013 • www.fourthbaptist.com First AME’s asknowledged a military using lawyer with the Judge deal involving Mark Finn, until its merger with a larger Richmond Rev.well as the Dominion Bar and detail,complex would unravel if lendersthe Richmond, Tuesdayanother board Bible member, Study 12:00PM Emory BerryOld Jr., Pastor Advocate General’s Corps in the Air Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, took important actions before firm in 2016. She ultimately opened Virginia Women Attorneys associaWednesday Youth & Adult Bible securing Study 7:00PM Force to representing state agencies of which the state had been a part approval from the board. her own office in which arbitration tions and the Virginia Association of Prayer & full Praise 8:15PM as a senior assistant attorneyIn general owner since the of line was built in theVan Transportation In 1992, stillAvailable, chair, Ms.Call Epps became Defense Attorneys.

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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 1, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, October 8, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2018-242 To close, to public use and travel, the portion of North 40th Street between Crestview Road and M Street and a 16’ alley located in the block bounded by North 39th Street, Crestview Road, North 40th Street, and M Street, together consisting of 61,656± square feet, for the purpose of the construction of a Police Equestrian Center.

Ordinance No. 2018-243 To close, to public use and travel, a portion of Northumberland Avenue located between the south line of West Roberts Street and the southern terminus of Northumberland Avenue, consisting of 16,355± square feet, upon certain terms and conditions.

Ordinance No. 2018-244 To amend and reordain O rd. N o . 2 0 0 5 - 3 4 7 2006-13, adopted Jan. 9, 2006, which conditionally rezoned the property known as 2101 East Franklin Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-5 Central Business District (Conditional), upon certain proffered conditions, to revise the proffered conditions. The Pulse Corridor Plan designates the subject property for neighborhood mixed-use land use. Neighborhood mixed-use areas are cohesive districts that provide a mix of uses, but with a larger amount of residential uses than other mixed-use districts.

Low to medium density is proposed for this land use designation. The proposed density of the development would be approximately 67 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2018-245 To a u t h o r i z e t h e special use of the properties known as 2009 Brook Road, 2011 Northumberland Avenue, and a portion of Northumberland Avenue for the purpose of multifamily dwellings containing up to 224 dwelling units, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in the M-1 Light Industrial District and the R-5 Single- Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Multi-family Medium Density (MF-MD). Primary uses are multi-family dwellings at densities up to 20 units per acre.

The VUU/Chamberlayne Neighborhood Plan also recommends multifamily land use for the subject property. The density of the property if redeveloped as proposed would be approximately 50 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2018-246 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3008 Grayland Avenue for the purpose of a single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a R-5 Single-Family Residential District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as Single Family Residential at low densities. Primary uses for this category are single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. The proposed density of the property is approximately 8 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2018-247 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3028 Grayland Avenue for the purpose of two single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a R-5 Single-Family Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Residential at low densities. Primary uses for this category are single family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre.

The proposed density of the development would be approximately 14 units per acre.

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terms and conditions.

The property is currently zoned R-3 Single-Family Residential. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single-Family Residential at low densities. Primary uses for this category are single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses.

Ordinance No. 2018-249 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4022 Midlothian Turnpike for the purpose of perimeter fencing, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a R-53 Multifamily Residential District. The City of Richmond’s current Land Use Plan designates a land use category for the subject property as Multi-family Medium Density. “Primary uses are multi-family dwellings at densities up to 20 units per acre. Includes day nurseries, adult day care and residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses”.

Ordinance No. 2018-250 To authorize the special use of the property known as 310 West Brookland Park Boulevard for the purpose of a brewery, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a UB Urban Business District and the PE-7 Brookland Park Boulevard/North Avenue Parking Exempt Parking Overlay District.

The City’s Master Plan recommends Community Commercial land uses for the property. Primary uses included office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shopping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the City.

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

Richmondgov.com; the Main City Library located at 101 East Franklin Street; and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, October 8, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2018-220 To amend Ord. No. 2018058, adopted May 14, 2018, which adopted the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Special Fund Budget and made appropriations pursuant thereto, by creating a new special fund for the Department of Police called the Police eTicket Account special fund and by increasing estimated revenues from the electronic summons system provided pursuant to City Code § 12-122 and the amount appropriated to the Department of Police’s Police eTicket Account special fund by $200,000.00 for the purpose of funding software, hardware, and associated equipment costs for the implementation and maintenance of the electronic summons system provided pursuant to City Code § 12-122.

Ordinance No. 2018-239 To amend ch. 12, art.

IV by adding therein new § 12-122; and to amend Appendix A of the City Code by adding therein a new fee for § 12-122, concerning the fee for an electronic summons system for c r i m i n a l a n d t r a ff i c courts, for the purpose of establishing a fee for an electronic summons system. (COMMITTEE: Public Safety, Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-240 To name the improvements located at 1400 Oliver Hill Way and known as the “Conrad Center” as the “Annie Giles Community Resource Center.” (COMMITTEE: Continued on next column

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Governmental Operations, Thursday, September 27, 2018, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2018-241 To amend ch. 16, art. I of the City Code by adding therein a new § 16-2, concerning a requirement for a homeless strategic plan, to require a homeless strategic plan to be presented to the City Council and the Mayor commencing no later than Oct. 1, 2019, and updated homeless strategic plans

by Oct. 1 every two years thereafter. (COMMITTEE: Governmental Operations, Thursday, September 27, 2018, 12:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER GAY L. CAUTHORN (A/K/A GAY L. CAUTHORNE), Plaintiff v.

JOHN L. SAUNDERS, if living, and if he be dead, then the heirs, devisees, and successors in title of JOHN L. SAUNDERS, who are made PARTIES defendant by general description of PARTIES UNKNOWN, Defendants ORDER OF PUBLICATION

TO: JOHN L. SAUNDERS, if living, and if he be dead, then the heirs, devisees, and successors in title of JOHN L. SAUNDERS, who are made PARTIES defendant by general description of PARTIES UNKNOWN; The object of this suit is to quiet title to and establish title by adverse possession in the plaintiff to a certain tract of land described as follows:

ALL that certain piece or parcel of land, lying and being in South Anna District, Hanover County, Virginia, containing 0.6347 acres as shown on the plat of survey prepared by Frederick A. Gibson & Associates, P.C., Professional Land Surveyors, dated March 26, 1999, entitled, “Plat Showing Improvements on a 0.6347 Acre Parcel of Land Situated on the Northern Line of State Route No. 623, in the South Anna District of Hanover County, Virginia,” a copy of which is recorded in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court, Hanover County, Virginia, in Deed Book 1450, page 448.

Being a portion of the land conveyed to John L. Saunders by deed from John R. Taylor, Clerk, dated December 19, 1888, and recorded in Deed Book 24, page 38.

An affidavit having been made and signed that the whereabouts of John L. Saunders are unknown and it is not known whether he is living or dead and that there may be unknown heirs of John L. Saunders whose names and post office addresses are unknown, it is hereby ORDERED that each of said parties appear on or before October 29, 2018 at 9:00am, and do whatever is necessary to protect their interest in said land.

It is further ORDERED that this Order of Publication be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in the Richmond Free Press, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Hanover.

Circuit Court of Hanover County We ask for this: Grayson S. Johnson V.S.B. #12636 Christopher C. Johnson V.S.B. #82255 Johnson & Johnson Attorneys at Law, P.C. P. O. Box 100 Rockville, VA 23146 Phone (804)749-3241 Fax (804)749-3321

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Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER TANYA RIVERA, Plaintiff v.

JEFREY PICA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18000518-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 29th day of October, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

JOSEPH CAMERON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18002679-00 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 15th day of October, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. 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

CUSTODY VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Zachery Levonta Tanner Case No. J-81987-04-05-06 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Joseph Waller Dandridge, Jr. (FATHER), Unknown Father (FATHER) & Ashley Cherelle Tanner (MOTHER) of Zachery Levonta Tann e r . c h i l d , D O B 1/19/2018. “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendants Joseph Waller Dandridge, Jr. (Father), Unknown Father (Father) & Ashley Cherelle Tanner (Mother) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 11/20/2018, at 2:00 PM, Courtroom #2.

PROPERTY

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ROY HARRIS, Plaintiff v.

THEODORA HARRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18002745-00 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 29th day of October, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road

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

Case No.: CL18-1569 HENRY S. CHERRY, et al, Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 912 North 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0420/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Henry S. Cherry, Hazel Walker, Primus Cherry, Jr., Wilbur D. Cherry, Jeremiah Cherry and Johnny N. Cherry.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, HENRY S. CHERRY, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owners, HAZEL WALKER, PRIMUS CHERRY, JR, and JEREMIAH CHERRY, 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 has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, WILBUR D. CHERRY, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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

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despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that HENRY S. CHERRY, HAZEL WALKER, PRIMUS CHERRY, JR, JEREMIAH CHERRY, WILBUR D. CHERRY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMber 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Worship Church, 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 PAT RICI A D A N IE L S , MICHAEL HENDERSON, and JAMES I. JOHNSON, JR., TRUSTEES for the Crusade for Christ Family Wo r s h i p C h u r c h , and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMber 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

HOWARD L. BRANCH, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ALBERT BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EVE L Y N BRANCH CO L E M A N , upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS BRANCH F I T Z G ER A L D , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LORENZO BRANCH, 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 ROSE BRANCH GIBSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, RICHARD W. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JAMES M. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, D ORO T H Y B R A N C H WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ERCE L L BRANCH H E N D ER S O N , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HOWARD L. BRANCH, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ALBERT BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EVE L Y N BRANCH CO L E M A N , upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS BRANCH F I T Z G ER A L D , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LORENZO BRANCH, 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 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS BRANCH F I T Z G ER A L D , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LORENZO BRANCH, 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 ROSE BRANCH GIBSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, RICHARD W. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JAMES M. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, D ORO T H Y B R A N C H WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ERCE L L BRANCH H E N D ER S O N , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HOWARD L. BRANCH, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ALBERT BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EVE L Y N BRANCH CO L E M A N , upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS BRANCH F I T Z G ER A L D , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, LORENZO BRANCH, 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 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Notice Judicial Sale of Real Property Owner/s of the below listed properties are hereby given Notice that thirty days from the date of this notice, proceedings will be commenced under the authority of Section 58.13965 et seq. of the Code of Virginia to sell the following parcels located in the City of Richmond, Virginia for payment of delinquent taxes: 16 West 24th Street S000 0685 014 1803½ North 28th Street E012 0427 011 1115 North 32nd Street E000 0803 028 1117 North 32nd Street E000 0803 029 1121 North 32nd Street E000 0803 031 1127 North 32nd Street E000 0803 034 2509 Afton Avenue S007 1677 016 2511 Afton Avenue S007 1677 015 1801 Alaska Drive C006 0607 086 302 Bancroft Avenue N000 1258 056 2965 Blendwel Road C008 0853 040 4604 Bunn Avenue E011 0143 004 3503 East Clay Street E000 1116 002 3505 East Clay Street E000 1116 003 2319 Gordon Avenue S000 0550 015 3018 Grayland Avenue W000 1354 026 2105 Halifax Avenue S000 0643 013 2520 Hargrove Street S000 0696 001 2907 Hull Street S000 1343 012 2300 Ingram Avenue S000 0865 019 2115 Keswick Avenue S007 1030 029 2508 Lamberts Avenue S008 0814 010 2508½ Lamberts Avenue S008 0814 009 2900 Lawson Street S000 1343 006 2902 Lawson Street S000 1343 020 2904 Lawson Street S000 1343 019 2412 Marion Mashore Street S000 0565 005 2414 Marion Mashore Street S000 0565 004 3324 Maryland Avenue N000 1160 001 1204 Mt. Erin Drive E000 2294 012 3316 P Street E000 0878 012 908½ Parrish Street W020 0061 026 910 Parrish Street W020 0061 025 2601 Q Street E000 0475 001 2603 Q Street E000 0475 002 2605 Q Street E000 0475 003 3008 Q Street E000 0627 025 3316 Q Street E000 0877 011 3318 Q Street E000 0877 010 3410 R Street E000 1104 041 2928 Springview Drive C009 0622 032 1553 Vinton Street E010 0199 004 1555 Vinton Street E010 0199 005 2419 Whitcomb Street E012 0224 007 2419 1/3 Whitcomb Street E012 0224 065 The owner/s of any property listed may redeem it at any time before the date of the sale by paying all accumulated taxes, penalties, interest and cost thereon, including the pro rata cost of publication hereunder.

Gregory A. Lukanuski, Deputy City Attorney Office of the City Attorney for the City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia (804) 646-7940

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

NICOLE G. JONES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3449 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1510 Spotsylvania Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0665/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Nicole G. Jones.

An Affidavit having been filed that said EVERETTE A. FELTS, upon information and belief deceased, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 1012046 on July 1, 2010, for beneficiary Citizens and Farmers Bank on an assignment filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 11-13535 on August 4, 2011, or his successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter, 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 EVERETTE A. FELTS, upon information and belief deceased, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 10-12046 on July 1, 2010, for beneficiary Citizens and Farmers Bank on an assignment filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 11-13535 on August 4, 2011, or his successor/s in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMber 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

PATRICIA DANIELS, TRUSTEE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3453 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 229 Rear Bermuda Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C006-0422/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Patricia Daniels, Michael Henderson and James I. Johnson, Jr., Trustees for the Crusade for Christ Family Worship Church.

An Affidavit having been filed that PATRICIA DANIELS, MICHAEL HENDERSON, and JAMES I. JOHNSON, JR., TRUSTEES for the Crusade for Christ Family

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

ROSE BRANCH GIBSON, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-4187 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 10 East 30th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001345/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Rose Branch Gibson, Richard W. Branch, James M. Branch, Dorothy Branch Williams, Ercell Branch Henderson, Howard L. Branch, Jr., Albert Branch, Evelyn Branch Coleman, Gladys Branch Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Branch.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ROSE BRANCH GIBSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, RICHARD W. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JAMES M. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, D ORO T H Y B R A N C H WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ERCE L L BRANCH H E N D ER S O N , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest,

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

CURTIS L. WILLIAMS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3605 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 28 East 32nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001874/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Curtis L. Williams, Claude W. Williams, Arthur L. Williams and Hampton A. Williams.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CURTIS L. WILLIAMS, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owners, CLAUDE W. WILLIAMS, ARTHUR L. WILLIAMS, and HAMPTON A. WILLIAMS, 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 CURTIS L. WILLIAMS, CLAUDE W. WILLIAMS, ARTHUR L. WILLIAMS, HAMPTON A. WILLIAMS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMber 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

ROSE BRANCH GIBSON, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-4186 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 12 East 30th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0001345/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Rose Branch Gibson, Richard W. Branch, James M. Branch, Dorothy Branch Williams, Ercell Branch Henderson, Howard L. Branch, Jr., Albert Branch, Evelyn Branch Coleman, Gladys Branch Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Branch.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ROSE BRANCH GIBSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, RICHARD W. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JAMES M. BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, D ORO T H Y B R A N C H WILLIAMS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ERCE L L BRANCH H E N D ER S O N , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HOWARD L. BRANCH, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ALBERT BRANCH, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EVE L Y N BRANCH CO L E M A N , upon

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

BRENDA J. TOLLIVER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3626 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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Richmond Free Press

B6 September 20-22, 2018

Sports Plus NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION

BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH VOLUNTARY RATE, DESIGNATED RIDER CRC, PURSUANT TO § 56-234 B OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2018-00133 On August 15, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed an application (“Application”) with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) pursuant to Enactment Clause 11 of Senate Bill 966, passed during the 2018 General Assembly Session (“Enactment Clause 11”), § 56 234 B of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), and Rule 80 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”) for approval to establish a voluntary rate, designated Rider CRC, Manufacturing and Commercial Competitiveness Retention Credit Rider (“Rider CRC”).

The Company states in its Application that Rider CRC is designed to support economic development in Dominion’s service territory by offering a retention credit, in the form of a two percent discount on the total monthly base generation charges, to any eligible retail large general service customers who agree to take Electric Service, including Electricity Supply Service, as those terms are defined in the Company’s Terms and Conditions on file with the Commission, exclusively from the Company for a period of at least three years. The Company further states that Enactment Clause 11 directs the Company to offer a retention credit to large manufacturing and commercial customers who are eligible to participate under the terms and conditions proposed in the Application.

Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

After sprinting through the Brandenburg Gate, Eliud Kipchoge crosses the finish line to break the tape and a world record Sunday at the Berlin Marathon. He is the first person ever to finish a 26.6-mile marathon in less than 2 hours and 2 minutes.

Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge breaks world marathon record Free Press wire reports

BERLIN Kenya’s Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge pulverized the marathon world record with a blistering run last Sunday, slicing a staggering 78 seconds off the previous best to land the one major running crown that had eluded him.

The 33-year-old, widely seen as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era, ran an official time of 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds on a sunny day along the flat innercity course in Berlin, smashing fellow Kenyan Dennis Kimetto’s previous record that had stood since 2014.

Kenyan Gladys Cherono won the women’s race with a course record and best time of the year of 2:18:11, leaving Ethiopians Ruti Aga and pre-race favorite Tirunesh Dibaba in second and third place, respectively.

Kipchoge, who last year took part in the Nike Breaking Two project, where he ran 2 hours and 25 seconds with the aid of “illegal” in and out pacemakers, started off Sunday on the Berlin course at a sizzling pace.

After quickly shaking off his biggest rival, Kenyan and former world record holder Wilson Kipsang, and with virtually no wind, it was clear Kipchoge’s only opponent would be the clock.

His three pacemakers were pushed to the limit to keep the tempo high as Kipchoge dipped well below world record time at the halfway mark.

Yet even after the last pacemaker peeled off after 15.5 miles, Kipchoge showed no sign of slowing down as thousands of Berliners lining the streets egged him on.

Berlin has now been the stage for the last six

men’s world records over the distance.

“It was hard running alone, but I was confident. I ran my own race, I trusted my trainers, my program and my coach. That’s what pushed me in the last kilometers,” Kipchoge said, adding that he could have gone even faster had the pacemakers stayed with him up to the 18.6 mile mark.

Kipchoge kept up the pace to sprint through the Brandenburg Gate and complete a world record race that cements his reputation as one of the greatest runners of all time.

“I lack words to describe this day,” Kipchoge said after becoming the first person to finish a marathon in less than 2 hours and 2 minutes.

“They say you miss two times, but you can’t miss the third time,” he said, referring to his two previous attempts to break the world record in Berlin.

A total of 44,389 runners from 133 countries took part in the marathon, organizers said.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta congratulated Kipchoge minutes after his win as well as second place winner Amos Kipruto and Kipsang, who completed the African nation’s podium sweep.

“Congratulations Eliud Kipchoge for breaking the world record at the Berlin marathon 2018. I also congratulate his compatriots Amos Kipruto & Wilson Kipsang for going out valiantly to bring a 1-2-3 victory for #TeamKenya. You are our heroes. Kenya is proud of you,” President Kenyatta wrote on Twitter.

Kipchoge has won almost every major marathon, including 11 of the 12 marathons he has raced in, including the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

According to the Application, to participate in Rider CRC, large general service customers must currently take service pursuant to, or otherwise qualify to take service under: (1) Rate Schedule GS-3, Large General Service – Secondary Voltage; (2) Rate Schedule GS-4, Large General Service – Primary Voltage; or (3) any special rates or contracts approved pursuant to Code § 56-235.2 (each a “Principal Tariff”), subject to the following limitations. The Company states that large general service customers who wish to subscribe to Rider CRC must not be receiving service from the Company under any experimental or pilot program tariff rate schedule, tariff rate schedule for market-based rates, tariff rate schedule to purchase 100% renewable energy, or companion tariff rate schedule, such as Rate Schedule MBR – GS-3, Large General Service – Secondary Voltage (Experimental), Rate Schedule MBR – GS-4, Large General Service – Primary Voltage (Experimental), or Schedule RF. The Company states that, to qualify for Rider CRC, an eligible large general service customer account (“Qualifying Account”) must have, during the most recent calendar year, established a peak measured average 30-minute demand greater than 500 kilowatts, which did not exceed one percent of the Company’s peak load during the most recent calendar year, unless the customer had a non-coincident peak demand in excess of 90 megawatts in calendar year 2006 or any calendar year thereafter. The Company further states that a large general service customer wishing to participate in Rider CRC would be required to execute an Agreement for Electric Service (“ESA”) with the Company for each Qualifying Account that memorializes the customer’s election to volunteer for Rider CRC. The initial term of each ESA would be separately negotiated with each participating large general service customer; however, the initial term would be for a period of at least three years (“Initial Term”). Following the expiration of the Initial Term, the ESA would automatically renew annually for additional one-year terms (each subsequent term referred to as a “Renewal Term”), unless and until the ESA is cancelled by written notice by either party at least 60 days prior to the expiration of the Initial Term or Renewal Term, as applicable.

Once an ESA has been executed, the Company would make service under Rider CRC effective on the first day of the billing month immediately following the last regular meter reading date for each Qualifying Account. The two percent reduction in the total monthly base generation charges (billed by the Company to the Qualifying Account pursuant to the large general service customer’s existing Principal Tariff) would appear as a separate line item on the participating customer’s billing statement.

The Company proposes to make Rider CRC effective for usage on and after the first day of the month that is at least 60 days following the date of the Commission’s final order in this proceeding. The Company also proposes to make annual reports to the Commission if Rider CRC is approved.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for further details of the Company’s proposals.

The Company’s Application and the Order for Notice and Comment that the Commission entered in this case are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the Application and the public version of all documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On or before October 12, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before October 12, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00133.

On or before October 12, 2018, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00133.

On or before October 12, 2018, any interested person may file a written request for a hearing. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the request for hearing shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Written requests for hearing shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00133 and shall include: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the filing party; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; (iii) a statement of the legal basis for such action; and (iv) a precise statement why a hearing should be conducted in the matter. A copy also shall be served on Dominion at the address set forth above.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Comment in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY

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is to subject the property briefly described as 618 - 620 North 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number 000-0252/005, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Brenda J. Tolliver, Edward M. Jones, IV, Reginald S. Jones and Rickey N. Jones.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, BRENDA J. TOLLIVER, EDWARD M. JONES, IV, and REGINALD S. JONES, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, RICKEY N. JONES, 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 BRENDA J. TOLLIVER, EDWARD M. JONES, IV, REGINALD S. JONES, RICKEY N. JONES, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMber 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Diane Delores Crawley.

An Affidavit having been filed that said prior owners, SAMUEL W. HARGROVE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and HELENA B. CRAWLEY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, CHARLES PHILLIP CRAWLEY, JR, MARCELLUS LEON CRAWLEY, and DIANE DELORES CRAWLEY, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ALONZO LEROY CRAWLEY, 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 SAMUEL W. HARGROVE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HELENA B. CRAWLEY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CHARLES PHILLIP CRAWLEY, JR, MARCELLUS LEON C R A W L E Y, DIANE D E L O R E S C R AW L E Y, ALONZO LEROY CRAWLEY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before OCTOber 25, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

October 10, 2018 A d d i t i o n a l i n fo r m a t i o n available at: http://www. henrico.us/purchasing/

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

SAMUEL W. HARGROVE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-3564 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1009 Nelson Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0100072/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Charles Phillip Crawley, Jr., Alonzo Leroy Crawley, Marcellus Leon Crawley and Continued on next column

BID COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID ITB# 18-1740-9JCK Circuit Court Renovations Due 2:30 pm, Continued on next column

Applications are now being accepted for the following positions.

PCA or CNA needed for 12 hour shift.

House-keeper (Part-time) Please bring a curent TB report when applying.

All references will be checked.

Good pay – Good days off.

Call for appointment. Tel: 222-5133

LICENSE Bateau LLC trading as Bataeu: A Coffee and Wine Experience, 301 Virginia St., Unit 1503, Richmond, Virginia 23219-4189

The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA D E PA R T M E N T OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Wine and Beer On/Off Premises 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 ww.w.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

ATTENTION: Kim Ulyssee Benson, Official 30 Day Legal Notice (09/06/2018 - 10/05/2018) Possible Inheritance, Call: (804) 477-9178

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES CITY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Notice of Intent to Adopt Departmental Rules and Regulations The Director of Public Utilities proposes to adopt departmental rules and regulations pertaining to the following matter, pursuant to Sections 28-26, 28-922, and 28-924 of the Code of the City of Richmond and other authority, and proposed to become effective Monday, October 15, 2018:

Greater Richmond ARC has full-time jobs available with full benefits. Duties include cleaning up roadsides with walking 8 miles a day. Apply online at richmondarc.hyrell.com or in person at 3600 Saunders Ave, Richmond, VA. We are an EO Employer-Veterans/Disabled and other protect categories. Drug-Free Workplace

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On Thursday, October 11, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., the Director will hold a public hearing in the Lower Level Atrium at the Department’s Operations Center, located at 400 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, Virginia, to hear all persons who want to comment on the proposed rules and regulations. Limited parking is available in the rear of the Operations Center (Maury Street entrance). I.D. may be required. All persons wishing to speak during the public hearing must be present and must sign in to speak by no later than 10:05 a.m. The hearing will be adjourned promptly following completion of the public comments.

Copies of the proposed rules and regulations will be available for public inspection during normal business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday) from Monday, September 24, 2018 through Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in the Director’s Office (730 East Broad Street, 6th Floor, Richmond, Virginia 23219). To receive copies by email, please call (804) 646-5200. Written comments concerning the proposed rules and regulations may be submitted in person or by mail to the Director of Public Utilities through October 12, 2018.

Bidding Opportunity!

The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA), a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is soliciting sealed proposals to establish the following contract: RRHA-RFQ-2018-31 Co-Developer/Developer for Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Various Developments All proposals must be received by RRHA no later than 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time on October 4, 2018 at the Division of Procurement and Contract Administration of RRHA, 901 Chamberlayne Parkway, Richmond, VA 23220 (Mailing address: Post Office Box 26887, Richmond, Virginia 23261-6887).

Copies of the Request for Qualifications may be obtained from the Division of Procurement and Contract Administration, on our webpage at www.rrha. com or by contacting Kerry James, Interim Director of Procurement and Contract Administration at (804) 780-4444 or email Kerry.James@rrha.com

Archer Western/Allan Myers, JV is seeking VDOT DBE/SWaM subcontractors and suppliers for the I95 Express Lanes Fredericksburg Extension (Design-Build) project.

This project bids on October 16, 2018

The Project is a 10-mile extension of the 95 Express Lanes in Stafford County, Virginia.

The Project will extend along Interstate 95 (I-95) from the current southern terminus of the 95 Express Lanes near Route 610 (Exit 143 - Garrisonville Road) in the north, to the vicinity of Route 17 (Exit 133 - Warrenton Road) in the south. I-95 currently operates with three general-purpose lanes in each direction along the Project corridor with a wide center median.

All subcontractor/supplier quotes are due by October 9, 2018 Fax/email quotes to: (404) 495-8701, stally@walshgroup.com, reference project name and scope of work.

Thank you for your interest in applying for opportunities with The City of Richmond.

To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com.

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TRANSPORTATION SUPERVISOR Full Time Exempt Closes: Open Until Filled

GRTC seeks a results oriented professional who excels in working in a fast-paced environment.

This position is responsible for supervising and monitoring the activities of the bus operators on a daily basis. The ideal candidate will possess integrity, excellent problem solving skills, proven decision-making skills and excellent communication skills. High School diploma required, with a Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Previous experience in the transit industry highly desirable. Must be able to pass a background check, pre-employment drug test and DOT physical. A CDL Class B or higher with a Passenger endorsement is required. Those interested in the position may apply online at www.ridegrtc.com.

GRTC is an equal opportunity employer with a drug-free work environment.

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