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View of the proposed coliseum project area looking northeast from 5th and Broad streets. At left is the Greater Richmond Convention Center, while the tallest building at right is Richmond City Hall. A new coliseum is at top left. Existing buildings are white, proposed buildings have dark shading.

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NH Foundation looks to new coliseum to spur major redevelopment in Downtown By Jeremy M. Lazarus

How do you build a $220 million coliseum for Richmond without putting up any money? Simple. Use other people’s money, including taxpayer contributions. That, in essence, is the way that a private group led by

Dominion Energy’s top executive, Thomas F. “Tom” Farrell II, proposes to get the job done in laying out a vision of the new buildings and the thousands of jobs he contends will be created if City Hall and City Council give it the green light. According to the NH Foundation that Mr. Farrell heads, the plan is to build a new 17,500-seat coliseum and then repay the $220 million debt over 30 years from the new city taxes to be

Veterans group wheels out new gift for single mother By Bonnie Newman Davis

While living in Richmond’s Fairfield Court public housing community for nine years, Kiocia Wilkerson spent much of the time riding buses back and forth to work each day. She also relied on bus transportation to take her two children, one of whom is autistic, to and from school and to doctors’ appointments. “I’d take the 74 to Downtown, the 44 to Fairfield Court, then back Downtown, to take the 10, 44 and 74,” Ms. Wilkerson said, ticking off the various bus numbers with ease. Although the 30-year-old single mother moved from Fairfield Court a year ago to what she considers a safer neighborhood on Richmond’s South Side, her multiple bus rides continued. Some days, Ms. Wilkerson missed the bus by just a few seconds if a bus driver “was having a bad day Please turn to A4

generated by an array of projects that other people would build in the blocks near the coliseum. So far, NH has not disclosed what deals, if any, have been lined up and with whom to build the other projects. Those other projects include a 527-room convention hotel that could cost $200 million, 2,500 to 2,800 new apartments that could cost $400 million to $600 million, a medical office complex that could cost $150 million to $300 million and new restaurants. But the nonprofit NH Foundation will not be involved with any of those projects, according to foundation spokesman Grant Neely. “Those involved will have take the risk and find their own financing,” said Mr. Neely, who was chief of staff to former Mayor Dwight C. Jones and a current Dominion Energy communications staff employee who has been drafted to help NH in its campaign to win public backing. While there might be additional projects to accompany the new coliseum development, at this point, NH’s description of the overall development as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” is more of a vision than a certainty. Please turn to A5

School Board eyeing reallocating $10M for school repairs By Ronald E. Carrington

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Kiocia Wilkerson of South Side is happy and proud about the 2002 Kia Optima that was presented to her by David L. Williams Jr. and the DLW Veterans Outreach and Training Center during the spring.

Settlement to give current, former RRHA tenants refunds or credits By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Cora Hayes is celebrating a big win in a legal case challenging the oversized electricity bills that the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has imposed on its low-income tenants since 2012. “We did it,” said the longtime public housing activist who was among the six current and former RRHA tenants who secured a settlement with RHHA that will mean refunds and lower rates going forward for more than 7,000 tenants whom RRHA overcharged. Under the deal valued at nearly $2.77 million, RRHA will refund about $1.28 million in overcharges and other fees. The authority also will make adjust-

ments to current and future bills worth an estimated $1.3 million. On average, affected tenants could receive bill credits or refund checks averaging about $112, Judge Gibney with some families receiving larger amounts to reimburse for wrongfully applied late fees and for inaccurate billing. The settlement was crafted by lawyers with the Legal Aid Justice Center and Consumer Litigation Associates who represented the tenants. It also represents a significant hit to

RRHA’s revenues at a time when the public housing authority is bemoaning the lack of federal funds to maintain its rental units and has yet to ensure the heat will work in all 4,000 units in the city next winter. The settlement is the largest ever in this type of case in Virginia, but still far smaller than a jury might have awarded if the case had gone to trial. The settlement would result in refunds to tenants of about 22 percent of the wrongful charges RRHA imposed, according to the final settlement order entered July 10 by U.S. District Court Judge John A. Gibney Jr. RRHA agreed to the terms in February

Richmond Public Schools officials want to reallocate $10.1 million to make acute emergency repairs to school buildings across the city. At Monday night’s meeting of the Richmond School Board, Darin Simmons Jr., RPS’ chief operating officer, recommended redirecting toward repairs a little more than $13 million from the school system’s architectural and engineering account that was set up several years ago for the construction of new schools. Under the plan, $10 million would be used to replace roofs, heating and air conditioning systems, windows and broken facades at 17 city schools, the Richmond Technical Center, the Richmond Alternative School and the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center, with $3 million set aside for emergencies. Excluded from the list are George Mason and E.S.H. Greene elementary schools, Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School and George Wythe High School, which school officials said was deliberate because they are slated for replacement. However, as critical as school officials noted the repairs to be, nothing can happen until the School Board votes to move the money and Richmond City Council endorses the plan to reallocate the funds for school maintenance. Despite the nine-member board having a quorum at Monday’s meeting, the board decided to put off a vote until its Aug. 6 meeting. City Council is not scheduled to meet again after its July 23 meeting until September. School Board member Jonathan Young, 4th District, said in a Free Press interview Wednesday that once approval is given to Please turn to A4

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Dr. William E. ‘Bill’ Ward, former mayor of Chesapeake, NSU professor dies at 84 Free Press wire reports

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CHESAPEAKE Dr. William E. “Bill” Ward, the first AfricanAmerican mayor of Chesapeake and the only official to serve the longest in that role, has died. He was 84. Dr. Ward, who was a longtime history professor at Norfolk State University, died Tuesday, July 10, 2018. He had been in the hospital, Chesapeake Mayor Rick West said. Dr. Ward was elected to the Chesapeake City Council

in 1978 and appointed mayor in 1990. He was re-elected three times, serving 14 years until 2004, making him the city’s longest-serving mayor. Many considered his political ascendancy rare for an African-American Democrat in a majority Republican city. Dr. Ward presided over a period of explosive growth in what is now the state’s third largest city with about 240,000 people. Under his leadership, the Please turn to A4

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Celebrating a Richmond icon Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney holds 10-month-old Nasir Jackson while the infant’s dad, Timothy Jackson, and twin brother, Dakari, pause beside the statue of Richmond businesswoman Maggie L. Walker during Saturday’s celebration Downtown honoring her 154th birthday. Please see story, more photos, B2.

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Community centers add weekend hours

Weekend hours have been restored to five Richmond recreation centers, and a sixth center will have weekend hours in a few weeks, City Hall announced Tuesday. The expanded hours also mean that the indoor pool at Bellemeade Community Center in South Side is now open on weekends. It has been operating only on the weekdays since it opened about five years ago. Spending cutbacks on recreation led to the elimination of weekend hours years ago. The extended hours result from additional funding that Mayor Levar M. Stoney and Richmond City Council included in the new city budget that became effective July 1. The centers that are now open from 1 to 9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays are: • Bellemeade Community Center, 1800 Lynhaven Ave. The indoor pool is open from noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. • Hotchkiss Community Center, 701 E. Brookland Park Blvd. • Powhatan Community Center, 5051 Northampton St. • Randolph Community Center, 1415 Grayland Ave. and • Southside Community Center, 6255 Old Warwick Road. The Calhoun Family Investment Center, 436 Calhoun St. in Gilpin Court, also is to start weekend hours for recreation programs, perhaps beginning next month, although a specific date has not been set. The city has not said anything about reopening the long-closed indoor pool at the Calhoun Center. “Expanding the operating hours of city community centers increases recreational and leisure activities and this fall will build on the traditional after-school programs the centers offer,” Mayor Stoney said. With the weekend hours, the centers are expanding their offerings of basketball, volleyball, pickleball and fitness training as well as programs in the cultural arts, fashion, woodworking, digital photography and other subjects, officials said. The Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities plans to monitor center use and could make changes in the hours based on usage and resident requests, officials said.

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It looks like a church or a castle, but it’s actually Richmond’s historic Pump House, built 136 years ago to pump water from the James River into the city. For a time, the building west of Byrd Park also was used for dances and lavish parties.

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Last Saturday, curious Richmond area residents got a look inside the long-abandoned 1882 city building. Joseph Costello, president of Friends of Pump House, spent much of the day offering tours of the building the organization hopes to restore with help from a cadre of volunteers and donors. Location: Pump House Drive, west of the Boulevard Bridge.

Hilbert, Gray slowing roll on bike lanes Hit by a hailstorm of opposition, City Council President Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District, and Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, are no longer in a rush to kill the bike lanes proposed for Brook Road. Mr. Hilbert has promised that he and Ms. Gray would first hold a joint community meeting on the bike lanes in a bid to better gauge public opinion before their proposal to eliminate them is moved to the full council. The two council members have yet to announce a place, date and time for the meeting on the proposal they introduced on June 25. On Tuesday, council’s Land Use, Housing and Transportation Committee continued the Hilbert-Gray proposal to eliminate the bike lanes until the committee’s next meeting in mid-September. The city’s approved bike master plan calls for installing bike lanes in one traffic lane in both directions on Brook Road from Azalea Avenue to West Charity Street, reducing the lanes for motor vehicles to one on each side of the street. Since the Free Press first broke the story on the Hilbert-Gray plan to kill the bike lanes, more than 300 people have posted comments on Mr. Hilbert’s Facebook page, with the majority registering support for the lanes. Supporters see the new lanes as forcing traffic to slow down on Brook Road, which studies indicate carries less traffic than it was built to handle. However, the plan to kill the bike lanes has garnered support from people concerned that reducing motor vehicle lanes on Brook Road would push more traffic onto already busy Chamberlayne Avenue.

Brookland Park Community Celebration The Brookland Park Community Celebration returns this weekend. The fifth edition of the festival will be 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 21, on Brookland Park Boulevard near North Avenue. The family-friendly event serves to showcase the diverse, up-and-coming neighborhood and its commercial strip, which is seeing a revival as new businesses and restaurants move in. The street will be blocked off between North and Fendall avenues to encourage people to stroll the area. Music, dancing, food and other activities will highlight the event. The Brookland Park Area Association is sponsoring the event with support from the city.

City Democratic Committee meeting changed to July 28 The state Democratic Party announced Wednesday a change in the meeting to reorganize and elect officers for the Richmond City Democratic Committee from 6 p.m. Friday, July 20, to noon Saturday, July 28. Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1000 Mosby St. in the East End. James E. “J.J.” Minor III, the former city committee chairman who was removed by the state party last month, said he had filed by Tuesday’s deadline to be a member, but was still mulling whether to run for the leadership post again. He served four terms in the role. Mr. Minor and other officers were removed and the committee suspended after the state party’s Steering Committee upheld a finding of irregularities in the committee’s reorganization and elections last winter.

Corrections The “Souls Grown Deep” special exhibition of newly acquired African-American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be held next year, from June 8, 2019, through Nov. 17, 2019. An article in the Free Press July 12-14 edition contained incorrect dates. Also, in last week’s edition, an article on Hampton University’s move from MEAC to the Big South Conference incorrectly stated that Coach Robert Prunty coached the Pirates during their final football season with MEAC. Coach Connell Maynor was the Pirates football coach during the 2017 season. Coach Prunty comes aboard at HU in 2018, while Coach Maynor will be at Alabama A&M University. The Free Press regrets the errors.

Historic Resources reaches out to Blackwell residents By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Julie Langan and her staff are doing more to notify residents of Blackwell about a proposal to include the neighborhood on the state and federal registers of historic places. But Ms. Langan, director of the state Department of Historic Resources, said that the stepped up effort to reach renters and other residents would not stop the plan. So far, the application to get historic designation for the South Side neighborhood has met with virtually no opposition from property owners in Blackwell, she said. Unless “a majority of owners submit notarized letters of objection,” Ms. Langan said, “staff would likely recommend approval to the two boards that review the nominations. And I expect that the boards would likely approve the district listing.” DHR’s boards are scheduled to vote on the proposal to expand the existing Manchester Historic District to encompass Blackwell and part of Swansboro at a Sept. 20 meeting in Petersburg. The vote was expected in June, but Ms. Langan postponed it after several members of Richmond City Council and some residents raised concern that the agency had not given residents enough time to assess the proposal. The expansion proposal is the brainchild of Laura and Michael Hild, a husbandand-wife team who are developing new businesses on Hull Street. They just opened Hot Diggity Donuts at 1213 Hull St. and are working on opening the Butterbean Market and Café at 1204 Hull St., the Dogtown Brewing Co. at 1209 Hull St. and Manastoh Brewing at 1128 Hull St. They also are in the midst of redeveloping a former grocery store at 20th and Hull streets and have purchased residential properties that they plan to improve for rentals. The main reasons for seeking historic designation is to bring recognition and trigger opportunities for investors to use federal and state tax credits to support redevelopment of buildings that are at least 50 years old. The Hilds initially elicited concern among community advocates when they filed the request to expand the Manchester district without mentioning Blackwell. The community took its name from a respected African-American educator for which the area’s elementary school also is named. The Hilds later agreed to reinstate the Blackwell name after hearing the objection. Mr. Hild issued an angry message to Ms. Langan, claiming that postponing the vote would disrupt the couple’s plans for big investments in the expansion area. However, the Hilds have not requested that

the application be pulled, Ms. Langan said, so it remains on track for approval. The Hilds have not responded to Free Press requests for comment. The DHR map of the area indicates the Hilds’ application calls for taking the existing 75-acre Manchester district, largely located west of Hull Street, and adding 155 acres and 60 city blocks east of Hull and north of U.S. 1, known as Cowardin Avenue and Jefferson Davis Highway in this South Side area. In a recent meeting with the three council representatives for the area, Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District, Ms. Langan promised to do more to inform the community. “In this particular situation, we misunderstood how much had really been done,” Ms. Langan told the council members. “We thought there had been more outreach than there had been. I assume some of the responsibility for that.” She and her staff are holding meetings for residents and property owners and doing more to ensure owners receive mailed information about the proposed historic district designation and about the historic tax credits and other government programs that result from the designation.

She also is having staff members and volunteers walk through the area to hand out fliers to renters and other non-owners. Ms. Langan said the department rarely, if ever, takes such steps, but she said the concern she has heard justifies the effort. The historic listing “is about celebrating a neighborhood’s history. That seems to have gotten lost in early discussions, and yet I think it’s the most important part of the district designation,” she said. The Hilds’ move to gain the historic label for much of Blackwell appears to build on Richmond’s longstanding effort to pump up interest and attract new investment. Since 1998, the city and the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority have poured more than $35 million in local and federal dollars into Blackwell in a bid to improve housing, beautify Hull Street and attract new residents and businesses. In the past 15 years, new investment has moved into the area, bringing construction of new apartments and increased interest in previously decaying buildings. Ms. Langan said DHR has known for years that much of Blackwell would qualify for historic designation, but had to wait

City Council wants to start budget amendments early

City Council is hoping to start work in October on addressing the funding needs of Richmond Public Schools rather than waiting until spring when a amended budget for 2019-20 is presented. A resolution headed to a council vote on Monday, July 23, would direct the city’s chief administrative officer to present recommendations by Oct. 15 on a “potential local funding approach” for the next city budget. The resolution cleared council’s Education and Human Services Committee last week and is expected to easily pass the full council.

“I think this shows we are serious about school funding,” said Councilman Michael J. Jones, 9th District, committee chair. The goal of the resolution is to begin to have the Education Compact that includes Mayor Levar M. Stoney, the Richmond School Board and City Council approve recommendations to be included in the budget plan. Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, introduced the resolution in May. She said she wanted to end the battles that typically break out in April and May as the council wrestles with funding for public education and other priorities.

Meeting on ending mass incarceration July 21

“Ending Mass Incarceration of Women and Girls” will the subject of a public town hall meeting 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at the Richmond Urban Ministry Institute, 3000 Chamberlayne Ave. The program will feature a solutionsoriented discussion of ways to turn around the rise in female incarceration, according to organizers. The new National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

is staging the town hall as way for members to share their stories and to consider ways participants can usher in change. The Richmond event is one of 21 town hall meetings the council is hosting around the country, according to the announcement. Other sponsors of the event include Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged and ALO Community Strategy. Details: Lillie Estes, (804) 502-0468.

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move the money, work could start on the slate of projects in late fall or perhaps during students’ December break. Earlier this year, City Council allocated $1.6 million for school maintenance, which is far less than the $30 million RPS requested. The $10 million for repairs would come from funds set aside to design new schools. But officials said the new Mason, Greene and ElkhardtThompson schools would rely on repurposed designs from existing schools, saving money on design costs and would be paid from the $150 million expected for the project. Officials have said there is no money allocated yet for replacing George Wythe High. School Board Chair Dawn Page, 8th District, and Mr. Young signaled their support for the plan to make critical repairs to the city’s sorely dilapidated schools. “This is a result of years and years of neglected facilities repairs,” Ms. Page told the Free Press. “We need to make sure that our children are educated in an environment that is safe and conducive for learning.” Mr. Young said he endorses the repair plan, but believes the board and school administration need to review whether a new high school is needed before construction starts on a new George Wythe High. He said there are “so many vacant seats at existing high schools,” which he said can increase their enrollment and eliminate plans and the cost of building a new school. “It makes a lot of sense to use the $10 million to address some of the recurring problems we have in our buildings,” Mr. Young said. But board Vice Chairman

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city drew major development projects and international companies, including Volvo and Panasonic. Warren Harris, the city’s former economic development director, said Dr. Ward envisioned Chesapeake as a major economic development powerhouse. Under Dr. Ward, Chesapeake “transformed from being a suburban, residential city to ... being an economic engine for Hampton Roads,” he said. Dr. Ward mentored young African-American leaders and spent roughly 30 years on the NSU faculty, including as chairman of the Department of History and president of the Faculty Senate. He also served as the university’s legislative liaison in Richmond. Born on a farm in Lunenberg County and raised in Keysville, a town in Charlotte County, Dr. Ward earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Virginia State University and a master’s and doctorate from Clark University in Massachusetts. He did additional studies at Hampton University; Carnegie Mellon University; The University of the West Indies, in Kingston, Jamaica; and the University of Ghana in West Africa. He and his wife, Rose, moved to Chesapeake in 1963. He “was the kind of mayor — regardless of what party you are in or political beliefs — you wanted to rally behind him, so he got a lot done,” Mayor West said. Dr. Ward was a loyal member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and a longtime member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity’s Beta Lambda Boulé. A public funeral was held Saturday, July 14, at the Chesapeake Conference Center, followed on Monday, July 16, by a private family service. In addition to his wife, Dr. Ward is survived by a son, Michael Ward; a daughter, Michelle Woodhouse, and a granddaughter, Skylar Rose.

Patrick Sapini, 5th District, expressed concern about using the $10 million for repairs rather than toward replacing George Wythe High. Mr. Simmons told Dr. Sapini that the $150 million for school building replacement isn’t enough to cover George Wythe. “We are looking to identify a long-term funding stream which will enable us to build George Wythe and fund the rest of the facilities plan,” Superintendent Jason Kamras told the board. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense to sit on that money and hope and pray an additional $20 million plus will materialize for the construction of George Wythe,” Mr. Young said in backing the plan. “These dollars should be spent on schools that have a really long shelf life.” “We are in crisis and we have to make tough decisions,” Ms.

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Page said. “The board will continue to collaborate with the city to address the system’s funding needs as we move forward to complete the first phase of our facilities plan.” In other developments, Kiwana Yates, the principal at Carver Elementary School, and three other elementary school principals are being replaced. Mr. Kamras declined to provide further details, citing all as personnel matters. He said Ms. Yates, who has been principal of Carver since 2012 and helped bring the

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school national acclaim with its high student test scores, is still employed by RPS. Officials from the state Department of Education ordered Carver students to retake the Standards of Learning tests after it found irregularities during a preliminary investigation. Students were retested June 22 and 25, officials said. Results will be available by the end of July, he said. Mr. Kamras said an interim Carver principal will be announced this week. New principals already have

been announced for Oak GroveBellemeade, Linwood Holton and Westover Hills elementary schools. They are James Gordon at Oak Grove-Bellemeade, who replaces Mary Townes; Nikea Hurt at Linwood Holton, who replaces Charlene Brooks; and Allison El Koubi at Westover Hills, who replaces Dr. Virginia Loving. Officials also told the School Board that there are 280 vacant positions in RPS as of Monday. There are 47 openings in elementary schools, 81 in secondary schools, 54 in special education, 91 classified and support staff and seven in administration. Chief Academic Officer Dr. Tracy Epp presented an update on the RPS policy affecting student GPAs, which was a point of contention as the school year came to a close because of inaccuracies. Class

ranks and some scholarships were impacted by the problems, which also resulted in two high schools having covaledictorians and one school having co-salutatorians. Dr. Epp recommended that students in dual enrollment programs at area community colleges and in the International Baccalaureate program be given additional points when calculating GPAs. School board policy states, an A in a dual enrollment course is worth 6 points on the 4.0 grading scale, while an A in a regular class is worth 4 points. During the last four years, dual enrollment and IB students were receiving 5 points for As in those courses. The School Board will have to approve the policy. The board suggested that school staff be sufficiently trained on the changes to avoid future problems.

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and would shut the door and drive away.” All of that changed on April 25 after a local veterans group heard about Ms. Wilkerson’s plight. Impressed by her perseverance and efforts to care for her family, the DLW Veterans Outreach and Training Center presented Ms. Wilkerson with a 2002 Kia Optima. David L. Williams Jr., the center’s executive director, heard about Ms. Wilkerson through Sandra “Sandee” Smith, program coordinator for the city Office of Community Wealth Building’s BLISS program. BLISS, Building Lives to Independence & Self Sufficiency, helps families living in Richmond’s public housing communities realize their dream of becoming self-sufficient by building wealth, self-esteem and giving them hope, said Ms. Smith, who has known and worked with Ms. Wilkerson since 2015. “This vehicle was awarded to Kiocia to help her get around town,” said Ms. Smith. “With the help of David Williams, DLW Veterans Outreach and some of his supporters, they saw a need in helping this young lady. So this became a special project for them by reaching outside of their veterans support mission to help someone they saw accomplishing things when the odds were against her.” Mr. Williams agreed, saying that hearing about Ms. Wilkerson’s perseverance led him to launch a quiet campaign to help her with transportation. “I marvel at people who continue to strive and do things for themselves,” Mr. Williams said. “It reminds me of my father who used to say, ‘It ain’t always gonna be that way.’ ” Mr. Williams quickly went to work, securing the assistance of Paul Tumelaire who works at a veterans mobility center on Midlothian Turnpike. The center specializes in handicap-accessible vehicles and sometimes has vehicle giveaways, Mr. Williams said. Although no vehicles were available, Mr. Tumelaire promised Mr. Williams that he would look out for a vehicle suitable for Ms. Wilkerson’s needs.

Meanwhile, Mr. Williams reached out to donors willing to help purchase a car for Ms. Wilkerson. Six months later, he had $6,800 in donations from 15 people, enough to purchase the Kia Optima for $6,500. Ms. Wilkerson is thrilled and thankful for the vehicle and her newfound independence. “I have advantages and opportunities that I didn’t have as a bus rider,” Ms. Wilkerson said in a recent interview. “I am able to go grocery shopping, take or pick up my kids from school and it cuts down on travel time to work. “Instead of having to supply money daily for the bus, I am now able to fill my (gas) tank and be good for the week or so with $50, which is what I spent on bus fare every two weeks. “And if my kids need to go somewhere or visit the doctor immediately, I can take them without the hassle of signing up (72 hours ahead of time) for medical transportation. “Yes, sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s really mine,” Ms. Wilkerson said as she stared at the car from her kitchen window. The car, previously owned by a Richmond couple whose son used it in college, only had 40,000 miles on it. Ms. Wilkerson’s plans to purchase a car of her own never panned out. “Something always came up every time I tried to save,” Ms. Wilkerson said. “It was hard to take steps. I already had my learner’s permit. Sandee told me to study for my road test and my sister’s boyfriend helped me learn. So I held onto my license for a year.” Ms. Smith’s pride in Ms. Wilkerson’s accomplishments is obvious. She met Ms. Wilkerson after the young mother took a parenting class at a Richmond library. One of the librarians called Ms. Smith to say that she was sending Ms. Wilkerson to meet her. “I think she will be a good fit for your program,” Ms. Smith recalled the librarian saying. During their meeting, Ms. Smith said that Ms. Wilkerson barely made eye contact, and later admitted to being depressed mainly because her son, then

4, had autism, a developmental disorder with which she nor anyone around her was familiar. After determining that Ms. Wilkerson qualified for the BLISS program, Ms. Smith directed her toward resources to help her son. “We Googled some things and she connected to some support groups,” Ms. Smith said. Ms. Wilkerson’s son, NayŚean, now 7, eventually was enrolled in Mary Munford Elementary School, which serves autistic children. Her daughter, TaŃarie, 10, also attends the school. Ms. Wilkerson is a 2006 graduate of John Marshall High School. She briefly attended J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College before childcare challenges interrupted her studies for an associate degree in human services. She faced the same childcare dilemma when working for a Kroger grocery store for nearly nine years. For now, her job in the cafeteria at Maymont Elementary School eliminates worries about childcare because the hours are more stable than when she worked at the grocery store. “It’s not a career,” Ms. Wilkerson said about her job. “It’s a stepping stone. I had to find a job where I could work in the day while the kids are in school.” Because NayŚean is autistic, Ms. Wilkerson is extra cautious about whom she allows to care for him. Her father, who died two years ago, was one of the few people she trusted with her children, she said. Although she is close to her grandmother and a few other relatives, Ms. Wilkerson said her relationship with her mother is strained. And while her children’s father is in their life, he does not provide much financial support, she said. Yet, Ms. Wilkerson appears pleased with her new life, one in which she no longer fears letting her children play outside. “Financially, I couldn’t move on until I heard about these apartments through Sandee,” Ms. Wilkerson said about her home, which is located in a development where the Blackwell public housing community once stood. “I applied. Next thing you know, I left Fairfield Court. I wanted more for my kids.”

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to end the litigation and Judge Gibney tentatively approved the settlement in March. However, the final order was held up as RRHA reported needing time to correct errors in tenant utility accounts, according to court documents. When the final settlement went to Judge Gibney, RRHA had boosted the final settlement award by about $220,000, the order states. The total amount could increase by the time settlement payments go out — possibly in late August — because of the interest that is being applied. According to the order, the settlement will go into effect in 45 days if there is no appeal of the terms. There is a 30-day deadline for filing an appeal, which expires Thursday, Aug. 9. No appeal is expected as virtually everyone affected has accepted it, meaning that current and former tenants should begin receiving payments or credits on or about Aug. 24. Under the terms of the agreement, Ms. Hayes and her fellow plaintiffs are to receive $1,000 apiece for their time and trouble pursuing the case. The others plaintiffs are Shanta Miles, Jacqueline Turner, Cenquetta Harris and Kathy Allen and her husband, Joseph Allen, who has since died. RRHA also is to pay $100,000 to the Legal Aid Justice Center for legal fees and court costs. The majority of funds, totaling about $1.17 million, are to be distributed as follows: • $815,602 to the full class of 7,236 current and former tenants whom RRHA identified and overcharged between November 2012 and Oct. 31, 2016. Current tenants would receive credits on their past and future bills, depending on their situation. Former tenants would receive refund checks if their electric bills were fully paid or any remainder if they left a unpaid bill. RRHA officials told the court that it didn’t have current addresses for 546 tenants it could not find. They will have seven years to claim their refunds. Another 28 people who were never notified of the suit will be given an opportunity to receive the same terms.

• $112,876 to current and former tenants to reimburse them for late fees that resulted from unpaid, excessive and unlawful electricity charges that were billed between Feb. 1, 2013, and Nov. 1, 2016. Current tenants would receive credits; former tenants would receive the money as part of their refund checks. • $249,506 in refunds to current and former tenants as reimbursement for RRHA-acknowledged billing errors that resulted in overcharges, with refunds handled as above. RRHA also is taking a bigger charge-off. It is barred from trying to collect $35,834 from current and former tenants it charged too little between October 2014 and November 2016 because of its own mistakes. Also RRHA must reimburse current and former tenants $105,508 who did not receive a higher allowance for electricity use in 2016. Even before Ms. Hayes and her fellow plaintiffs filed the class action suit in February 2017, RRHA had voluntarily begun raising the allowance on electricity usage as the result of a 2016 study that found serious and multiple inaccuracies in the utility billing, according to the settlement order. The increased allowance for electricity usage took effect with the January 2017 bills. The $105,508 in credits or refunds to current and former tenants would reflect the new allowance levels that did not apply to their November and December 2016 bills. Other terms in the settlement also are designed to benefit tenants. For example, RRHA no longer can use nonpayment of electricity bills, unpaid fees for late payment of rent and utilities and other non-rent charges as reasons to evict tenants. Only nonpayment of rent can lead to eviction as a result of the settlement. RRHA also must allow people with verified, pastdue power bills up to $1,200 to be put on at least a one-year payment plan and must provide those with past-due power bills more than $1,200 at least a twoyear payment plan. RRHA also must absorb Dominion Energy’s

customer charge for tenants who use extra power as long as RRHA receives reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at 85 percent of the cost. RRHA also must keep the higher allowances for power use and the resulting lower charge for excess electricity usage in place through at least November 2019. The settlement only allows a change if RRHA notifies the court that HUD has stopped the reimbursement. RRHA also must modify its lease to inform tenants of the allowance for electricity use that is included with the rent and the charge that will apply when power use exceeds the allowed amount. Also, RRHA must provide some kind of relief on power bills for residents who are elderly or disabled or who have special needs for electrical use that are beyond their control and disclose the ability of tenants to seek relief and provide a process for doing so. The authority also must train its staff on handling utility charges, tenant requests for relief and grievances to contest charges. Judge Gibney also deemed that the relief to tenants and former tenants was fair, reasonable, and adequate. He also commended Ms. Hayes and the other plaintiffs for “standing up” to RRHA. “Unfair excess utility charges put so many families in a state of panic and helplessness,” said Ms. Miles, a former public housing resident who was the lead plaintiff in the suit. “Our efforts to get the housing authority to do the right thing was well worth the many years we put into it. This settlement ensures there will be better accountability between RRHA and tenants.” Sylvia Cosby Jones, the lead attorney for the Legal Aid Justice Center, hailed the judge’s ratification of the settlement as “a great day for the tenants and former tenants, who not only will be compensated for past unfair charges, but who will have a clearer and fairer process for bills going forward.” She said the settlement wouldn’t have been possible without RRHA officials coming to the table and agreeing to terms that were acceptable to both sides.

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ing in xenophobia “eventually ... find themselves consumed by civil war.” He noted the “utter loss of shame among political leaders when they’re caught in a lie and they just double down and lie some more,” warning that the denial of facts — such as climate change — could be the undoing of democracy. But he reminded the crowd that “we’ve been through darker times. We’ve been through lower valleys.” He closed with a call to action: “I say if people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.” The crowd gave him a standing ovation in the chilly South African winter. “Just by standing on the stage honoring Nelson Mandela, Obama is delivering an eloquent rebuke to Trump,” said John Stremlau, professor of international relations at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He called the timing of President Obama’s speech auspicious and said the commitments that defined Mr. Mandela’s life are “under assault.” “Yesterday, we had Trump and Putin standing together; now we are seeing the opposing team: Obama and Mandela.” This was President Obama’s first trip to Africa since leaving office in 2017. Earlier this week, he stopped in Kenya, where he visited the rural birthplace of his late father. President Obama’s speech noted how Mr. Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years, kept up his campaign against what appeared to be insurmountable odds to end apartheid, South Africa’s harsh system of white minority rule. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Mr. Mandela, who was released from prison in 1990 and Former President Obama delivers the 16th Annual Nelson became president four years later, died in 2013 at the age of 95. Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg Tuesday during that nation’s He left a powerful legacy of reconciliation and diversity along celebration of the 100th birthday of the late anti-apartheid leader with a resistance to inequality — economic and otherwise. and former South Africa president. Since leaving the White House, President Obama has shied away from public comment on the Trump administration, which we had figured that out by now.” President Obama praised the diversity of the World Cup has reversed or attacked his notable achievements. Under Presichampion French team, and he said that those countries engag- dent Trump, the United States has withdrawn from the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal while trying to undercut the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. President Obama’s speech drew on his great admiration for Mr. Mandela, a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner whom President Obama saw as a mentor. When President Obama was a U.S. senator, he had his picture taken with Mr. Mandela. After he became president, President Obama sent a copy of the photo to Mr. Mandela, who kept it Free Press wire reports decline to prosecute marijuana possession on the long-term health effects of marijuana. in his office. President Obama also made a point of visiting and smoking cases. The district attorney’s Some early research suggests that heavy mari- Mr. Mandela’s prison cell and gave a moving eulogy at Mr. WASHINGTON office said the new policy is expected to juana users are at greater risk of developing Mandela’s memorial service in 2013, saying the South African Members of the Congressional Black reduce marijuana prosecutions from 5,000 Alzheimer’s disease later in life. had inspired him. Caucus are calling for decriminalizing a year to approximately 200. Many South Africans view President Obama as a successor to Further, the organization wants money marijuana use. The group wants the federal New York’s decision follows Seattle’s in spent on the war on drugs allocated instead to Mr. Mandela because of his groundbreaking role and his support government to get out of the prohibition which the district attorney and the mayor rebuild the nation’s black neighborhoods. for racial equality in the United States and around the world. business when it comes to the drug, a posi- announced in early May plans to vacate Dr. Stremlau, who attended the speech, called it “a tough, In 2013, the American Civil Liberties tion it says is supported by an overwhelming convictions and dismiss charges for marijuana Union published “The War on Marijuana majority of the 48-member caucus. possession for men and women prosecuted in Black and White: Billions of Dollars The lawmakers said African-American by law enforcement from 1997 to 2010. Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests,” communities have been disWashington State and Colo- which reported that there 8 million mariproportionately “policed and rado legalized marijuana for juana arrests between 2001 and 2010. The convicted for drug offenses,” recreational use in 2012, while study also reported that a black person is and supports reforms that would in November 2016, Nevada 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for reduce the number of black legalized marijuana for private marijuana possession than a white person, people in prison. recreational use. It is illegal to although black people and white people Among the reforms the CBC smoke marijuana in public, in use marijuana at similar rates. seeks is removal of marijuana a vehicle or on public land in The report concludes that the war on from the class of the most dangerNevada. Violators of the public marijuana, like the larger war on drugs, ous drugs, which lawmakers said consumption law can be fined which is universally regarded as a failure, will allow the needed research to up to $1,000 or put in jail for has had a staggeringly disproportionate Rep. Richmond take place on marijuana use. up to six months or both. impact on African-Americans. Congressman Cedric Richmond of The use, sale and possession of all The CBC reports that 40 percent of Brian Inganga/Associated Press Louisiana, the CBC’s chairman, said the forms of cannabis in the United States is federally convicted drug offenders are Former President Barack Obama, center, poses Monday with war on drugs has been a “war on black illegal under federal law. It was classed as a African-American and 12 percent of drug his step-grandmother, Sarah, center right, and half sister, Auma and brown communities.” Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled offenders in the prison population are there Obama, third from right, along with children and officials during an event in Kogelo, Kisumu, Kenya. President Obama, “Some of the same folks who told Substances Act of 1970. Under former for marijuana offenses. African-Americans ‘three strikes and President Obama, states were given leeway Decriminalization of marijuana is not whose late father was Kenyan, was there to launch a sports you’re out’ when it came to marijuana use in enforcing laws against marijuana. a slam dunk in the black community. In and training center founded by his half-sister. and distribution, are now decriminalizing U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, his book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime strong condemnation of Trump and all that he stands for.” the drug and making a profit off of it,” a CBC member, has introduced legislation and Punishment in Black America,” author “Obama hit out at lying, insecurity and putting down others. Rep. Richmond said. that would remove marijuana from the list James Forman Jr. wrote that some African- Obama said he can’t believe it is necessary to once again speak The CBC announced its position days of controlled substances, making pot legal Americans oppose legalization because up for equality and human rights,” Dr. Stremlau said. “He pulled after Cyrus Vance Jr. of New York, Manhat- at the federal level. they see it as tantamount to giving up on it together in a carefully worded, measured speech, which urged tan’s district attorney, said his office would all to live up to Mandela’s standards and values.” The CBC also supports research conducted black youth.

JOHANNESBURG In his highest profile speech since leaving office, former President Obama on Tuesday denounced the policies of President Trump without mentioning his name, taking aim at the “politics of fear, resentment, retrenchment,” and decrying leaders who are caught lying and “just double down and lie some more.” President Obama was cheered by thousands in Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium as he marked the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth by urging respect for human rights, the free press and other values that he said were under threat. He rallied people to keep alive the ideals that the anti-apartheid activist worked for as the first black president of South Africa, including democracy, diversity, gender equality and tolerance. President Obama opened by calling today’s times “strange and uncertain,” adding that “each day’s news cycle is bringing more head-spinning and disturbing headlines.” “We see much of the world threatening to return to a more dangerous, more brutal, way of doing business,” he said. Mr. Mandela A day after President Trump met in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Obama criticized “strongman politics.” The “politics of fear, resentment, retrenchment” are on the move “at a pace unimaginable just a few years ago,” President Obama added. “Those in power seek to undermine every institution ... that gives democracy meaning,” he said. The first African-American president of the United States spoke up for equality in all forms, adding, “I would have thought

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NH Foundation looks to new coliseum to spur major redevelopment in Downtown Continued from A1

At the center of the plan is a 10-block area of mostly underused city-owned property bounded by 5th and 10th streets between Leigh and Marshall streets. Mr. Neely and another NH staff member visited the Free Press last week to provide more details on the project that is still being negotiated with the city and which Mayor Levar M. Stoney plans to send to City Council for approval in September. Despite all the hype around the NH plan, and the potential $1.3 billion in development, it is unclear why NH is insisting on a new coliseum and why the city is buying into that idea. The city could find people to undertake the hotel, the apartments and the other elements of the development and leave the Richmond Coliseum as is, which would allow the new taxes to go into the general fund rather than to pay debt on a new, expensive coliseum. What is clear is that to NH, the replacement of the Richmond Coliseum is the top priority. According to Mr. Neely, NH would operate and maintain the new arena so that the city would no longer have that responsibility. He said NH is confident of being able to generate enough money to cover upkeep through admissions, skybox rentals and other revenue generators like parking and concessions. While Mayor Stoney has hinted that he still could reject the NH plan if it

does not meet his expectations, he is fully committed to advancing the NH project as his legacy project. He views the project as a potential generator of new taxes the city can pump into schools and other city needs. When the mayor issued a request for proposals during the winter, it essentially was aligned with the NH proposal, almost ensuring that NH would be the only group to respond. By then, NH had been working on the plan for more than a year. The project is considered too tempting for the politically ambitious young mayor to ignore. The group believes it could generate 9,000 permanent new jobs and create a vibrant small town on the land the Navy Hill community once occupied before it was destroyed by the construction of the city’s interstate highways. The foundation adopted the Navy Hill name in recognition of that community, but is using the initials, NH, to avoid contention or objection. Among the details that have received less attention is the actual cost the city might face. NH, for example, wants the city to pay for bringing up to street grade sunken sections of East Clay and East Leigh streets and to restore Clay as a through street. That could cost the city up to $20 million and use a big chunk of state grants the city is seeking for other road projects. City Hall also might have to replace the Richmond Social Services building at 9th and Marshall streets to

provide NH room to install a GRTC bus transit center and other apartments. That could cost the city $15 million to $20 million. To keep bond interest rates down, the city would have to issue revenue bonds that would be repaid from the taxes generated by the NH project. The city would be on the hook if the promised tax revenue failed to materialize. Also, to keep the interest rates on the bonds down, NH wants the city to divert the estimated $5 million in estimated real estate taxes from the two new office buildings that Dominion Energy is building on Cary Street to use to back the bonds. One of the buildings is underway and the other is in the planning stage. The money — potentially more than $150 million over 30 years —would not be spent, but would provide extra reassurance to bond buyers. The city would get the money once the bonds were paid. The taxes being used to pay the coliseum’s debt also would go to the general fund after the coliseum debt was paid. Among the most intriguing elements of the NH plan are the proposals to build new apartment buildings on the Leigh Street side of a new coliseum and also to wrap new apartments around the parking decks at the coliseum and at the Richmond Marriott Hotel. Another intriguing element is a proposal to gut the old Blues Armory and install a small market on the first floor on a par with those in Baltimore, a jazz club on the second floor and to

turn the third floor into a ballroom and event space for the new hotel. In order to accomplish anything, NH Foundation is seeking a 99-year lease on the city-owned property in the 21-acre area that includes the federal building and the city’s John Marshall Courts Building, both of which would remain intact and in operation. The proposal for which the mayor is expected to seek council approval would call for the city to sell the municipal land to the city’s Economic Development Authority, which is not bound by traditional rules and which would then be able to lease the land to NH. Seven members of City Council would have to agree to the sale to the EDA, which is why NH is stumping to try to clear up misconceptions and avoid the kind of rebuff Mayor Jones suffered when he failed to lay the groundwork to support his plan to build a ballpark in Shockoe Bottom. Mr. Neely said the 99-year lease is needed to provide NH and its forprofit business arm, NH Development Corp., headed by retired SunTrust executive C.T. Hill, control of the land and the ability to dictate building design, inclusion of minority contractors and other rules to meet the terms the city sets. As it stands now, NH plans to make the project a model of inclusion, with the largest participation ever for black-owned and minority companies, Mr. Neely said. To help sell the concept, NH has hired top people who have been

involved in arena and mixed-use developments to put together the vision of what could be done in the 21-acre project area. The key consultants are Mark Hallmark, who heads Future Cities and has been involved in crafting more than a dozen major stadiums and arenas, including the Staples Center in Los Angeles and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and Susan Eastridge, president of Concord Eastridge, which specializes in mixed-use developments. Mr. Hallmark and Ms. Eastridge have not only created the plan, but they have created a company called Capital City Development LLC and would carry out the NH plan while reporting to Mr. Hill. If everything goes NH’s way, City Council would vote approval in December and work could begin on the new coliseum by the spring. Joining Mr. Farrell on the NH Foundation board in advancing the concept are five other people, all like Mr. Farrell serving as unpaid volunteers: William H. Goodwin Jr., a top Richmond business investor; Martin J. “Marty” Barrington, retired chairman and CEO of Altria Group; Melody C. Barnes, political consultant and former domestic policy adviser to former President Obama; Dr. Monroe E. Harris Jr., oral surgeon and board chair of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Dr. Pamela J. Royal, dermatologist and former board chair of the United Way of Greater Richmond and The Valentine.

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The enemy within If anyone still believes President Trump isn’t a pawn of Russian government interests, they must have been asleep during Monday’s televised news conference that nearly set the United States on fire. Speaking from Helsinki, Finland, just after a private 2½-hour meeting, President Trump stood just feet from Russian President Vladimir Putin and publicly dissed U.S. intelligence agencies and their findings that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election. “They said they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,” President Trump said at the news conference. “I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia that was responsible for the election hacking, he continued. “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” Mr. Putin stood by and smirked as Mr. Trump went on to call the investigation by special prosecutor Robert S. Mueller “a witch hunt.” And he actually offered up for consideration Mr. Putin’s plan to have Russian authorities question — with Mr. Mueller and other U.S. observers present — the 12 Russian military officers indicted in the U.S. last Friday for cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton presidential campaign and state elections boards. Instead of taking Mr. Putin to the woodshed for the clear assault on American democracy, Mr. Trump blamed the Mueller investigation and what he called Democrats’ bitterness over losing an election they thought they should have won for straining U.S.-Russia relations. “I think that the probe is a disaster for our country,” he said of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, as Mr. Putin looked on. “I think it’s kept us apart; it’s kept us separated. There is no collusion at all.” Mr. Putin, responding to a reporter’s question, said he wanted Mr. Trump to win the election. The chilling event highlighted what we have suspected since the November 2016 election — that President Trump is owned, orange hair and all, by the Russians and Mr. Putin, a former intelligence officer with the Russian KGB. Since the election, Mr. Trump has refused to release his tax returns and claims to have no business ties to Russia. But that, too, is a lie. Congressional and other investigations have turned up evidence of secret meetings between his son and campaign officials with Russian representatives, and that his son-in-law and top campaign officials sought to establish back-channel communications with Russia, including through the National Rifle Association, according to the latest court documents. Clearly, Mr. Putin and the Russians have something on Mr. Trump. He has been compromised. And during the televised Helsinki news conference, the world watched Mr. Trump’s awful descent from the nation’s commander-in-chief to traitor. His actions and remarks betraying America’s formidable national security and intelligence agencies in favor of one of America’s greatest adversaries is nothing short of treason. We are sick of the fake patriots in the United States — including the GOP leadership — who are quick to criticize Colin Kaepernick and NFL athletes for taking a knee and not standing during the national anthem, but who continue to excuse and coddle Mr. Trump as he openly sells American democracy wholesale to the Russians. Where is their outrage and patriotism now? “Trump is the best investment Putin ever made,” one angry observer remarked. “So where do we go next after treason?” This gambit by Mr. Trump also further empowers white nationalists in the United States and across the globe, who share Mr. Trump’s racist xenophobia. Many of them chanted “Russia is our friend” during frightening and violent August rallies in Charlottesville. We are not swayed or impressed by Mr. Trump’s weak attempt Tuesday and Wednesday to try to roll back the nonsense he served up in Helsinki. We believe that he has deeply threatened our nation’s global standing as a sound democracy. Because of him, the United States is now viewed around the world as politically and ethically unreliable. By his threats and taunts at last week’s NATO summit in Brussels, Mr. Trump has stomped yet again on this nation’s closest allies. He insulted German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling Germany a “captive” of Moscow for its support of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia and sought to undermine British Prime Minister Theresa May by telling a British newspaper that one of her political opponents would be a great prime minister. He also called the European Union “a foe” for its trade policies. This is the behavior of someone who is seeking to cause chaos among America’s European allies who have stood firm with the U.S. against the Russian incursion and takeover of Crimea and assisted with airstrikes in Syria in response to suspected chemical weapons attacks by the Russian-backed Syrian government of dictator Bashar al-Assad. Clearly, Mr. Trump is working against the interests of the United States and on behalf of Mr. Putin and Russia. Mr. Trump must go. We call on clear-thinking members of Congress to launch impeachment proceedings immediately. We believe Mr. Trump should be indicted for treason. We also call on Congress to toughen the sanctions imposed beginning in 2014 by the Obama administration following Russia’s takeover of Crimea. Former President Obama added more sanctions in 2016 — and expelled Russian diplomats — after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had interfered with the presidential election. Mr. Trump squashed further sanctions against Russia after they were announced by U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in response to Russia’s support for the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attacks. That is another indication of Mr. Trump being in the pocket of Mr. Putin. Lastly, and importantly, we call on members of Congress, Gov. Ralph S. Northam, the Virginia General Assembly, state and local election officials and civil rights groups to do something we cannot count on Mr. Trump to do — ensure the integrity of our election system so that the Russians can’t hack or interfere with this November’s elections. If ever there was a time for outrage, this is it. Our democracy is under attack from within.

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Audacity and Ida B. Wells Crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Although she made her mark as a journalist, she also was a social worker, advocate, feminist and organization leader. She too often gets short shrift in history, mainly because she did not go along to get along with the men of her era, crossing swords with the likes of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. The same fierceness that pushed her t o o rg a n i z e against lynching was the fierceness that propelled her to confront injustice within African-American organizations and in women’s organizations. Indeed, the historic 1913 Women’s Suffrage March was intended to either exclude black women or to segregate them at the end of the march. But Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell were among the black women who marched with the women of their state, refusing to march at the rear. Ida B. Wells’ pen was so sharp that it got her banned from the state of Tennessee after she besmirched white women’s morality in a treatise about lynching. No matter! She kept writing and kept it moving, constantly speaking truth to power.

Now, several civil rights leaders, including the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., are calling for an anti-lynching law despite several unsuccessful efforts in the past. Even though anti-lynching legislation passed the House of Representatives in 1922, Senate Democrats prevented the passage of the law by filibuster. In any case, Ida B. Wells spent her life championing the cause of

Julianne Malveaux racial justice. Unfortunately, there are too few today who have her passion, her focus and her energy. In these troubled times, investigative journalists like her are far too rare. In an era when there is so much “drive-by” reporting done by anyone with a cell phone and access to the internet, too few are willing to put in the kind of work that Ida B. Wells put in, even though we have more tools than she had. Thus we get momentary internet outrage when out-of-control Caucasians attack black people. Where is the follow-up? Ida B. Wells had nerve, audacity. She was on fire for justice, and it showed in her writing. Her mantra is best summarized in her quote, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” In her book, “Southern Horrors,” she detailed the horrors of lynching and the fact that so many lynchings were the result of rumor,

not fact. Any black man who looked sideways at the wrong white woman was subject to lynching, so much so that even in the rare case where black men were acquitted of rape, rabid crowds lynched them. At least 3,436 people were lynched between 1889 and 1922. In just the four years between 1918 and 1921, 28 people were publicly burned to death. And while black men were the primary victims of lynching, black women, union organizers and others also were lynched. Because of Ida B. Wells, we have more detail than we might have had about these horrors. Few have the audacity of Ida B. Wells, but Bryan Stevenson surely does. His National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., lifts up the name of the more than 4,000 African-Americans who were lynched in the South between 1877 and 1950. Mr. Stevenson, through his work to save AfricanAmericans from death row, makes the connection between historical lynching and modern-day criminal injustice. He is as eloquent as Ida B. Wells and as purposeful. It is shameful that there is no statue of Ida B. Wells anywhere in this nation. There should be one at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., where she once matriculated. There should be one in Chicago, where she lived from 1893 until her death in 1931. There should be one somewhere in Washington, perhaps along the route of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage March. She

Children, caves and cages Around the world, our attention was riveted on the plight of the boys and the coach of the Wild Boars soccer team trapped in a cave in Northern Thailand. All 12 boys and their coach have been saved. Courageous scuba divers volunteered at no small risk to their lives. One was killed when he ran out of oxygen on his way out of the cave. Doctors, hospitals and child psychiatrists stood at the ready to help those who were saved. Our hearts went out to the parents, hoping against hope that a miracle would happen. This global empathy for the young children’s lives in peril is remarkable. It also raises the obvious question: Why is the same human response less intense for the 2,300 children who were separated from their parents and housed in cages across this country? We were fixated on the 12 stranded in a cave on the other side of the world, yet paid less attention to the 2,300 who were locked in cages around the corner. The 2,300 suffer not because of a natural disaster but because of an arbitrary change in policy designed to punish and terrorize. The Trump administration, reflecting the temper of their boss, traumatized these children and their parents with the abrupt and mindless proclamation in May of “zero tolerance” for undocumented immigrants, even those seeking asylum. The forcible separation of

children from their parents followed. The human rights catastrophe keeps getting worse. In late June, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar assured distraught migrant parents that there was “no reason” that they couldn’t find their toddlers. But HHS, in charge of the children’s welfare, apparently doesn’t have a clue about how many

Jesse L. Jackson Sr. children it has under its authority, where the children are, or where and who their parents are. Under court order to unite the children under age 5 with their parents by July 17, and all other children by July 26, Mr. Azar is now pleading for more time from the court. The New York Times reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials deleted records that would enable officials to connect parents with children who had been ripped from them. This is an unspeakable and inexcusable violation of innocent children. Child experts warn that the children may well be scarred for life. How can we not weep with the father distraught that his little boy could have no chance of protecting himself in a mass cage? The Washington Post reported that demonstrators in Louisville, Ky., accosted GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, when he came out of a restaurant after being a no-show at a demonstration about the children. “Where are the babies, Mitch?” they asked. The administration that Sen. McConnell slavishly defends

is now scrambling to figure out the answer to that simple question. President Trump slanders undocumented immigrants as criminals, rapists and gangsters. In fact, even as immigration has increased, the national rate of violent crime today is well below what it was in 1980. Parents don’t risk a perilous journey from their homes lightly. They come out of desperation, leaving villages racked by hunger and threatened by violence. Seeking asylum, they have rights under international law that the United States still nominally respects. The administration’s callous treatment of these children and their parents is not only shameful, but also an indefensible violation of basic human rights. The young boys trapped in a cave on the other side of the world deserved our prayers. The toddlers locked in cages in this country should spark our outrage. Continue to pray for the Wild Boars soccer team and the courageous heroes who rescued them. Let us also keep in our hearts and prayers the 2,300 children ripped from their parents, transported to various parts of the United States and locked in cages. We need heroes to help save them and reunite them with the families. We need judges who will ensure that those who violated their rights are held responsible. And we need citizens to exercise their democratic rights to show that this is a better nation and we are a better people than this. The writer is founder and president of the national Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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should be lifted up to remind us of the power of audacity. Her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster, has been raising money to build a statue in Chicago, but she is still about $100,000 short of her goal. You can donate to the cause through www.idabwellsmonument.org. We need to have more black women, especially women like Ida B. Wells, represented in our nation’s statuary. We need to be reminded of Ida B. Wells and her audacity, especially now, when so many seem to have been silenced by 45’s trickery. Our African-American leaders need to stop with the complicity of going along to get along. We need an Ida B. Wells now. We need unfiltered audacity. The writer is an economist and author.

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Another road hazard Re “Personality: Ron J. Melancon, Spotlight on founder of Dangerous Trailers, a safety advocacy organization,” Free Press July 12-14 edition: That was a nice article on Ron Melancon. Now you should print an article about all the junk vehicles with antique plates that don’t have to have state safety inspection and only pay a one-time fee for license plates but drive on our roads on a regular basis.

MARTIN M. GOODMAN Henrico County

Treasonous president?

Many of us in America suspect the reason President Trump meets by himself with autocrats like North Korean leader Kim Jung-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin is because he is being controlled. The Trump meeting with Kim Jung-un in Singapore delivered a concession to North Korea. President Trump agreed to end military exercises with South Korea. On the world stage, President Trump is dividing America by only sending dog whistles to his base,

combined with insulting allies of the United States. It is my notion that the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, the pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement, ending the Iran nuclear agreement, the decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and now the tariffs against our allies are all on Mr. Putin’s wish list to make trouble for our allies and America. What does Mr. Putin have on President Trump to

have him under his control? Could it be Russian funds were given to President Trump during a bankruptcy, or could it be the suspected pee-pee tapes? If all the above has some truth, we have a treasonous president in open sight under a Republicancontrolled Congress. ALFRED R. WADDELL Marstons Mills, Mass.

Thank you to people who serve and help others Thanks to the doctors, nurses, first responders and volunteers and who serve mankind. Many times, these people are taken for granted and not thanked enough for what they do. Many times, these professionals put their lives on the line in dealing with certain situations. I was at Providence Park Baptist Church in North Side on a recent Sunday when a parishioner became ill. A doctor who was at the service stepped right

in to give the person medical attention until an ambulance arrived. Thanks to the doctor for rendering his medical expertise in this situation. Job well done! I will not mention any names here, but I will say that he is my Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity brother and we are a service-orientated fraternity. A few years ago, I was driving through Jackson Ward and saw a woman laying

on the ground. She was surrounded by a group of men who appeared to be intoxicated. I stopped the car and told my wife I was going to check on this older woman who seemingly was unresponsive. I told my wife to lock all the car doors when I got out because I didn’t know if this was a setup. At the time, I was a CPR instructor for the American Red Cross. I gave

the woman CPR until an ambulance arrived. The motto is protect and serve when and where needed. This is what some people do on a daily basis. So we salute them all for what they do in making this world a better and safer place to live. ERNEST PARKER JR. Richmond

Marijuana laws, money making and double standards America, the legalization of marijuana is not the answer. The effort to legalize marijuana is an absolute cop-out to make more money for the states. It is not a sincere effort to confront the hard core issues of marijuana misuse and substance abuse in New York and states across America. Marijuana is extremely addictive, and it literally destroys both mental and physical health in the lives of misusers and abusers. However, legalizing medical marijuana, where it is clearly

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Most of all, a plan and push for substance abuse prevention and training is needed to transform the deeply wounded soul of America. When someone is totally high on marijuana and is committing horrible acts of physical, verbal, mental and sexual abuse, the laws against marijuana use are needed. REV. ARTHUR L. MACKEY JR. Roosevelt, N.Y. The writer is senior pastor of Mount Sinai Baptist Church Cathedral in New York.

Low-income and working people left out with Pulse GRTC needs to help working people and old people, particularly those who don’t have anyone to help them get back and forth to the store to get food. Transit officials keep talking about using the bus to get to fun places and having more time to have fun. What about the working people? They are the ones who put GRTC on top. Now GRTC buses dump us on the side of the

road and make us have to carry heavy grocery bags for blocks because of the Pulse. We have no choice. I feel if GRTC had some competition, transit officials would treat us low-income and working people better.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER R, BEAR GARDEN GENERATING STATION CASE NO. PUR-2018-00085 •Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider R. •Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $58.682 million for its 2019 Rider R. •A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on January 23, 2019, at 10 a.m. •Further information about this case is available on the State Corporation Commission’s website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. On June 1, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider R (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Bear Garden Generating Station (“Bear Garden Project” or “Project”), a natural gas and oil-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Buckingham County, Virginia. In 2009, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of the Bear Garden Project and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider R, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the Project. The Bear Garden Project became fully operational in 2011. In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider R for the rate year beginning April 1, 2019, and ending March 31, 2020 (“2019 Rate Year”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2019 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $55,408,000 and an Actual Cost True Up Factor revenue requirement of $3,274,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $58,682,000 for service rendered during the 2019 Rate Year. For purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case, Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.2%, which comprises a general ROE of 9.2% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUR-2017-00038, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a combined-cycle generating station as described in Code § 56 585.1 A 6. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 10.6% for the months of January 2017 through March 2017, which comprises the general ROE of 9.6% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2015-00059, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return; an ROE of 10.4% for the period of April 1, 2017, through November 28, 2017, which comprises the general ROE of 9.4% approved by the Commission in its Order in Case No. PUE-2016-00061, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return; and an ROE of 10.2% for the period of November 29, 2017, through December 31, 2017, which comprises the general ROE of 9.2% approved by the Commission in its 2017 ROE Order, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return. If the proposed Rider R for the 2019 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider R on April 1, 2019, would decrease the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.09.

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The Company proposes a change in the methodology for the calculation of a certain allocation factor beginning in 2018 to recognize the output of certain non-utility generators to be used to allocate cost responsibility to the Virginia jurisdiction. In addition, with the exception of the removal of certain Federal and retail choice customers from the Virginia Jurisdiction, the Company indicates it has calculated the proposed Rider R rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider R proceeding, Case No. PUR-2017-00072. Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals. TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents. The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on January 23, 2019, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, 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, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. Copies of the public version of the Application and other 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 January 16, 2019, 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 January 16, 2019, 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-2018-00085. On or before November 2, 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 and Procedure (“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. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00085. On or before November 30, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2018-00085. 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 Hearing 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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Serena ranked 28th in world despite loss Free Press staff, wire report

LONDON Tennis star Serena Williams said the latest chapter in her sports career is “just beginning” after seeing her hopes of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title dashed last Saturday in the Wimbledon final. The 36-year-old Serena lost 6-3, 6-3 to Germany’s Angelique Kerber — putting on hold her bid to match Margaret Court’s Grand Slam haul. It also stopped her joining Court, Evonne Goolagong and Kim Clijsters as the only mothers to win Grand Slam titles in the professional era. Serena gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia 10 months ago, and while she looked close to her best at times throughout the past two weeks of competition, she could not find her A-game against fellow former world No. 1 Kerber. Considering Serena suffered a difficult childbirth and needed several surgeries to remove blood clots after an emergency C-section, it was a huge achievement to contest her 10th Wimbledon final.

Far from being downhearted, though, Serena spoke afterward of her desire to improve in time for the U.S. Open. “I feel like I have a ways to go,” Serena said. “This is literally just the beginning, literally just the beginning. It’s good to just continue that path and just continue to keep going for me. “I didn’t know a couple of months ago where I was, where I would be, how I would do, how I would be able to come back. It was such a long way to see light at the end of the road. I think these two weeks have really showed me that I can compete. Obviously I can compete for the long run in a Grand Slam. I can come out and be a contender to win Grand Slams,” she said. “I took a giant step at Wimbledon. But my journey has just begun. Just have to keep going.” On Monday, Serena was returned to the world’s Top 30 in the WTA rankings. She climbed 153 places to No. 28 despite her loss in the Wimbledon final. Kerber moved up six places to

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Serena Williams, left, congratulates Angelique Kerber of Germany on her win in the women’s singles final Saturday at Wimbledon.

No. 4, with French Open winner Simona Halep of Romania retaining No. 1 despite her third round exit at Wimbledon. Serena arrived at Wimbledon as

the 181st-ranked player in the world. She was bumped up to the 25th seed courtesy of her seven titles at the All England Club — the most recent in 2016.

American tennis great Billie Jean King said Serena’s run to the final so soon into her return showed how special she is. “It was a big day for Serena and it didn’t come true,” said King, a fourtime Wimbledon champion. “But let’s face it, this shows what a wonderful athlete she is. Most people would not even be able to be here. “I think by losing, it will incentivize her even more to do well for the rest of the year, to get really fit and get back. She will want to win it really badly next year.” Watching the match from the Royal Box were Serena’s good friend, Meghan Markle, who became the Duchess of Sussex in May when she wed Prince Harry, and Ms. Markle’s sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge. Serena and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, who also watched the final from the stands, were guests at the royal wedding of Ms. Markle and Prince Harry on May 19 at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.

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MLB All-Star Game features dozens of players of color Twenty-four of the 72 players chosen for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game earlier this week are players of color from the Caribbean and South America. By contrast, seven of the All-Stars are AfricanAmerican. Starting lineups for the game played Tuesday at Nationals Park in Washington were selected by fans, with the manager picking the pitchers and reserves. The American League starting lineup featured Aaron Judge Mookie Betts Mike Brantley George Springer five Latinos —Wilson Ramos, Jose Abreu, Jose Altuve, Manny Machado and Jose Ramirez — and two AfricanPuerto Rico: AL (3) — Francisco Lindor, Jose Berrios, Edwin Americans — Aaron Judge and Mookie Betts. Diaz; NL (2) — Javier Baez and Yadier Molina. Among the National League starters, Willson Contreras and Venezuela: AL (4) — Jose Altuve, Salvador Perez, Gleyber Javier Baez are Latino, and Matt Kemp is the lone African- Torres and Wilson Ramos; NL (4) — Willson Contreras, Eugenio American. Suarez, Jesus Aguilar and Felipe Vazquez. Some history: Cuba: AL (1) — Jose Abreu. The first Latino All-Star was Chicago White Sox Minnie Curacao: NL (2) — Kenley Jansen and Ozzie Albies. Minoso from Cuba in 1951. Brazil: NL (1) — Yan Gomes. The first African-Americans participated in an All-Star game African-Americans: AL (4) — Aaron Judge, Mike Brantley, in 1949. They were Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don George Springer and Mookie Betts; NL (3) — Lorenzo Cain, Newcombe from the Brooklyn Dodgers and Larry Doby from Matt Kemp and Jeremy Jeffress. the Cleveland Indians. The National League manager was Dave Roberts of the Los Here is a list of this year’s All-Stars of color, by nation, and Angeles Dodgers, baseball’s lone African-American skipper. African-Americans selected to compete this week: Representing Asia was Texas Rangers outfielder Shin-soo Dominican Republic: AL (7) — Manny Machado, Jose Choo from South Korea. Ramirez, Nelson Cruz, Luis Severino, Joe Jimenez, Jean Segura Clearly, the game known as “America’s national pastime” and Aroldis Chapman. has gone international.

NBA’s Kyle Kuzma to lead Richmond area basketball camp

One of the NBA’s rising be there the whole weekend.” stars is coming to the RichOther clinicians will be local mond area. standouts Andrew White and Kyle Kuzma will be among Justin Tillman. the instructors at the TMG and A 6-foot-9 native of Flint, Dreems Foundation Basketball Mich., Kuzma averaged 16.1 Camp Aug. 4 and 5 at American points and 6.3 rebounds for the Family Fitness-Short Pump, Los Angeles Lakers this past 11760 W. Broad St. season while making the NBA All-Rookie team. Terence Tarrer of Tarrer Kuzma was a first round Management Group, an alumnus Kyle Kuzma draft pick — 27th overall by the of Marshall-Walker High School and Virginia Commonwealth University, Brooklyn Nets — out of the University of Utah. He was traded to the Lakers soon is camp director. Tarrer lists Kuzma as a “client,” stating after the draft. White averaged 4.6 points and 2.3 that he is “100 percent sure (Kuzma) will

rebounds while shooting 37 percent from beyond the arc as an undrafted free agent this past season for the Atlanta Hawks. The 6-foot-7 shooting guard began his prep career at Thomas Dale High School in Chester. Tillman, a 6-foot-8 power player from Detroit, averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds for VCU this past season while earning All-Atlantic 10 honors. Undrafted, Tillman played earlier this summer for the Miami Heat in the NBA Las Vegas Summer League. He likely will start next season in the NBA G-League. Camp registration: Contact tarrermg@ gmail.com or (804) 591-9846.

Washington NFL team returns to Richmond training camp July 26 The NFL’s Washington team aims to be more fan and family friendly during training camp set for Thursday, July 26, through Tuesday, Aug. 14. This is the sixth summer of an eight-year contract between the Washington team and the City of Richmond to hold preseason workouts at the Bon Secours Training Center at 2401 W. Leigh St. The upcoming schedule is spiced with a lot of added attractions. Here’s a sampling: Saturday, July 28 – Military Appreciation Day: All active military personnel and veterans will have access to a special viewing area. Also, all fans are eligible for gifts by signing up at the team’s website. Sunday, July 29 – Think Pink: Players will wear pink-accented jerseys to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness. The jerseys will be auctioned off in October, with proceeds going to breast cancer charities. Wednesday, Aug. 1 – Celebration in the End Zone (5 to 8 p.m.): Fans are welcomed to the second-floor Events Center to mix and mingle with team front office staff and

player alumni. Hors d’oeuvres, door prizes and cash bar will be featured. Saturday, Aug. 4 – Fan Appreciation Day: This is the team’s traditional special occasion, with fans given access to players and coaches. It usually draws the camp’s largest crowd. Tuesday, Aug. 7 – Kids Day: The first 1,000 youngsters will receive a special give-away keepsake. Sunday, Aug. 12 through Tuesday, Aug. 14 – New York Jets: Washington will hold joint workouts with the New York Jets. Previously, the New England Patriots came to the Richmond training camp in 2014 and the Houston Texans in 2015. The Jets’ rookies include ball carrier Trent Cannon from Virginia State University. Tuesday, Aug. 14 – Youth Football: Youngsters wearing team jerseys will receive give-aways and be able to mingle with player alumni. Additional off-site activities: Tuesday, July 24 – River City Golf Classic at Magnolia Green Golf Club; for more information go to www.rivercityclassic.com.

Thursday, July 26 – Training Camp Kickoff, The Veil Brewing Co., 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9 – Rally at Southern Railway Tap House, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10 – NFL Day with the Richmond Flying Squirrels, at The Diamond, 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 – Breaking Bread, social at Gus’ Bar and Grill, after 3 p.m. Training camp information: Two-a-day: The Washington team will practice 9:45 to 11 a.m., followed by a 4 to 6 p.m. walk-through daily, July 26 through July 29. Cost: Free, but fans are advised to acquire e-tickets at the team website. Parking: Official lots within two blocks of the stadium cost $10, cash only. The fee will allow same day re-entry. Volunteers: The team always looks for help; call (804) 646-6528. Competition: Washington’s first preseason game is Thursday, Aug. 9, at New England. The official regular season opens Sunday, Sept. 9, in Arizona against the Arizona Cardinals.

Note: This information is based on original rosters. Because of injuries and other defections, there was some roster juggling between the time the teams were announced and the actual game.

All-Star Jeremy Jeffress has ties to Virginia Virginia Union University hasn’t had baseball for many decades, but it does have family ties to a current big league star. Jeremy Jeffress, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers and member of the National League All-Stars team, is the brother of former VUU basketball player Racquel Jeffress. Racquel Jeffress started for the Lady Panthers in the early 2000s. Jeffress, 30, made the NL All-Star roster on the strength of a 6-1 record and 1.17 earned-run average and 49 strikeouts in 46.1 innings. He is among Jeremy Jeffress the game’s hardest throwers, with an average fastball of 96 mph during his career. Both Racquel and Jeremey went to Halifax High School near South Boston. He was the leading scorer on the Halifax High basketball team. Jeremy was the Milwaukee Brewers’ first round draft choice —16th pick overall — in 2006. He is among the highest drafted African-Americans ever out of Virginia. Outfielder Justin Upton, from Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, was picked first overall in the 2005 MLB draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Upton’s older brother, outfielder Melvin Upton, from Chesapeake’s Greenbrier Christian Academy, was a second pick overall in 2002 by the Tampa Bay Rays.

VCU’s Williams signs with European team Former Virginia Commonwealth University Rams point guard Johnny Williams is taking his ball-handling skills across the Atlantic. Williams has signed a contract to play professionally during the coming season for Aris Leeuwarden in The Netherlands. Williams, a Richmond native who grew up in New York City, led the Atlantic 10 Conference in assists (5.7 per game) last season while also averaging 9.8 points. In four VCU seasons, Williams played in 133 games, scoring nearly 800 points and passing for 389 assists. Johnny Williams Former Rams Brandon Rozzell and Darius Theus also played for Leeuwarden in recent years. Leeuwarden is a city of more than 100,000 in central Holland.

Usain Bolt poised to sign with Australian soccer team

Former track icon Usain Bolt may be starting a new sports career on the soccer field. The world record holder for the 100- and 200-meter sprints is apparently close to signing a contract with the Central Coast Mariners of Australia’s A League. The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, reported the contract would be for six weeks with a possibility of extensions. Bolt, 31, who played soccer as a youngster Usain Bolt in his native Jamaica, also tried out with Germany’s Bundesliga soccer team. The 6-foot-4 Bolt, who plays soccer striker, won eight Olympic gold medals in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 x 100 relay.

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Personality: Dr. Faith B. Harris

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Dr. Faith B. Harris is a 21st century example of “hands-on earthly faith.” As steering committee chair of Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, she leads the nonprofit organization in its work to grow healthy communities and advance climate justice through education, advocacy and worship. VAIPL works with churches, synagogues, temples and institutions and people from all faith backgrounds to preserve the planet. “We conduct panel discussions, workshops, conversations and provide resources from the Bible and Christian theology speaking to caring for our environment and the gift of creation God has given us,” Dr. Harris says. “In Richmond, we need to get communities and churches to be proactive in order to address some of the issues we know that are coming down the pike regarding the crisis associated with climate change, energy renewal and climate justice.” The Richmond-based group is one of 44 affiliates of the 30-year-old National Interfaith Power & Light. Dr. Harris, an ordained Baptist minister, says from the start, her call to the ministry was “to celebrate life in all the myriad ways life is expressed on Earth.” “I believe the more in sync we are with our world, including all that is in it, the healthier emotionally and physically we will be,” she says. “I make the time to serve VAIPL because it is committed to engaging diverse communities of faith, helping them to live more faithfully as citizens of the Earth.” Born in Fort Dix, N.J., Dr. Harris was the fourth of five daughters born to Franklin A. Harris and Sylvia E. Walker of Pittsburgh. Because her father was career Army, the family moved around. “We lived in France, Thailand, Kentucky, New Jersey and Northern Virginia all before my 14th birthday,” Dr. Harris says. She grew up loving the outdoors. “Nature touches me in places deep down in my soul and in my consciousness in ways that just listening to a sermon or reading and thinking theology can,” she says. She discovered VAIPL after volunteering for its sister organization, the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, a faith community advocacy voice focusing primarily on issues of economic and racial justice. Moving from public policy to environmental issues was a natural fit, she says, because of her belief that the faith community is to lead in protecting God’s gift of the Earth to mankind. “In the Christian faith, a lot of times we think of and talk about light as the metaphor for Christ Jesus and the power of God,” Dr. Harris says. “But power and light is a double entendre. It refers to the fact that they were looking at the issues of energy and power, trying to promote renewables. We know sea levels are rising, storms are going to be much more severe and temperatures are getting warmer. At some point, there will be problems with having enough fresh water for the global population.” That’s why action is critical, both on the individual level and the global level with policy, she says. Churches and other faith institutions “can save a great deal of money by going solar, or they can reduce their energy bill by changing their lighting to LED.” Individuals, she suggests, can get involved by doing little things around the home — “recycling, having rain barrels and using LED lights.” “Don’t cut your grass too short to avoid water run-off,

which immediately flows into the storm drain and goes into waterways instead of saturating the soil.” She also recommended that people stop using commercial pesticides and instead use natural remedies to get rid of weeds and pests.” Once the earth’s waters are contaminated by pollution or all of the fresh water has been depleted or harmed by industrial waste or fracking, she says, there will be no more. “We have a moral responsibility to care about (the earth) and to do our best to mitigate climate injustices and to help people to recover,” Dr. Harris says. “Open your eyes and stop ignoring the changes to the Earth and educate yourself, then take action to get into the struggle to save the Earth.” Meet this week’s Personality and faith-based environment advocate, Dr. Faith B. Harris: Occupation: Ordained Baptist minister and community organizer; assistant professor at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University and director of its Johnson A. Edosomwan Center for Faith, Leadership and Public Life. No. 1 volunteer position: Chair of the steering committee, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light. Date and place of birth: Oct. 13 in Fort Dix, N.J. Current residence: Varina. Alma maters: B.A. in international missions and Bible, Moody Bible Institute, 1991; master’s of divinity and doctor of ministry, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, 1997 and 2012; and master’s of sacred theology, Boston University School of Theology, 2010. Family: Husband, Dr. Ray McKenzie Jr., pastor of Gravel Hill Baptist Church in Varina and instructor of homiletics at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, VUU; five adult stepchildren; and 11 grandchildren. Virginia Interfaith Power & Light’s mission: We are people of faith collaborating to grow healthy communities and advance climate justice through education, advocacy and worship. How VAIPL accomplishes its mission: We work within and among the various faith communities to help them think through their energy usage, environmental impacts and plan for adaptation to the climate crisis. We educate their members on the importance for people of faith to care for our environment and ask them to take action. We do this through climate, energy and social justice workshops, prayer vigils, newsletters, emails and collaboration with other faith and climate organizations on key issues. VAIPL’s No. 1 challenge: Encouraging faith communi-

ties across Virginia to understand what is at stake if we do not join the global community and hold ourselves accountable to act responsibly toward our environment. Of course, like many small nonprofits, we are always seeking volunteers and financial support to build the capacity to do our work more effectively. How VAIPL is funded: We receive donations from individuals in addition to grant funding from our national affiliate and foundations. We welcome gifts from congregations and faith communities as well. Three top issues for VAIPL: Environmental justice, climate crisis and renewable energy. VAIPL’s role on these issues: VAIPL advocates for environmental justice, which aims to achieve equity for poor, black and brown people in distributing environmental benefits and burdens. VAIPL raises awareness about the climate crisis and the means to adapt to its impacts among people of faith. VAIPL advocates for statewide policies that will mitigate pollution and adapt to impacts, such as making solar power accessible to all people. How important is sustainable living in our society today: Sustainability is very important and we should all seek to do our very best to reduce, reuse and recycle. I think the most important of these three Rs is reduce and for more than one reason. I have been on a journey in my own life to live more simply. I am much more mindful and reflective of all my purchases, asking myself whether having one more anything will really enrich and enhance my sojourn on this Earth. My husband and I both drive eco-friendly cars, which I count as a major step to reduce our carbon footprint. Another important part of sustainability is building and strengthening our communities and our democracy. The difference between weather and climate: The simplest difference is explained this way: Climate is the weather over a long period of time and what we have come to expect for a region whereas weather is the actual day-to-day temperatures and events we experience. The difference between climate change and global warming: Global warming is an older somewhat outdated term for climate change, but they have the same definition. They essentially express the reality that human actions releasing dangerous carbon pollution such as burning fossil fuels at high rates and methane from gas fracking and factory farming are causing the global temperatures to increase at such a rapid rate that is does not give species and the planet adequate time to adapt, increases the severity and frequency of hurricanes, flooding events and wildfires and threaten our way of life. How to become a volunteer: Kendyl Crawford, our director, is always happy to talk to persons interested in volunteering. She can be reached at kcrawford@vaipl.org. We encourage readers to visit our website at vaipl.org and register to receive our newsletter and emails. There is also a link to volunteer! How I start the day: My outlook on life is that each day is a page in the mystery story of my life. I seek to not merely be the protagonist in that story but the author shaping the final outcome. Additionally, I always start my day with a good cup of coffee, meditative moments to check on my sense of wellDiamonDs • Watches JeWelry • repairs 19 East Broad strEEt richmond, Va 23219 (804) 648-1044

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Happenings A year later

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Above, Andrea DeKoter, acting superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield Park and the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, welcomes people to the 154th birthday celebration for Mrs. Walker and the ceremony recognizing graduates of the park service’s Maggie L. Walker Summer Youth Leadership Institute. Location: Courtyard of the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site at 2nd and Leigh streets in Jackson Ward. Left, Liza Mickens shares a laugh Saturday at the statue of her great-great-grandmother, Maggie L. Walker, in Downtown with, from left, Mayor Levar M. Stoney, and her parents, Dr. Johnny Mickens III and Faithe Norrell.

Maggie Walker birthday celebrations draw intimate crowds a year after statue dedication By George Copeland Jr.

More than a hundred people took to the cobblestone streets of Jackson Ward last Saturday to celebrate the life and accomplishments of the late Richmond businesswoman and icon Maggie L. Walker. Simultaneous events hosted around her statue at the plaza at Broad and Adams streets Downtown and at her home at 110 ½ E. Leigh St. marked what would have been Mrs. Walker’s 154th birthday following a life of activism and advocacy on behalf of the African-American community. Among her many accomplishments in Richmond and nationally in the areas of economic, educational and political advancement, Mrs. Walker is best known as the first African-American woman to charter and operate a bank in the United States. “Richmond is internationally known now,” said Melvin S. Jones Jr., an alumni of the Maggie L. Walker High School Class of 1965 who worked for more than two decades to ensure the monument’s creation. Mr. Jones was quick to spread the praise around, saying, “This is not only just for me, this is for everybody out here.” An atmosphere of intimacy and casualness replaced last year’s bustle when a crowd of hundreds attended the unveiling of the Walker statue held on her birthday weekend. From people dancing in the plaza to the music of Glennroy & Company, to shuttle van passengers eagerly chatting with the drivers who transported them across the six blocks between this year’s dual celebrations, community members comfortably settled into a new status quo. It was a change in mood Liza Mickens picked up on as she called on those present Saturday to continue her great-greatgrandmother’s work in an area once nicknamed the “Black Wall Street of America.” “This is a gathering place to complete the work that needs to be done in our community,” Ms. Mickens said. She called the Walker statue and plaza “a fertile ground

Sandra Jennings, 54, of Richmond signs a card for Maggie L. Walker during the celebration of Mrs. Walker’s 154th birthday Saturday at the plaza at Broad and Adams streets Downtown where Mrs. Walker’s statue has stood for the last year.

where other seeds have flourished because of the love we have sown into it.” Mayor Levar M. Stoney echoed Ms. Mickens’ remarks, while also addressing how Mrs. Walker’s statue stands in contrast to the Confederate memorials throughout the city. Mayor Stoney acknowledged the contentious debate that has led to the recent Monument Avenue Commission recommendation for removal of the monument of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate states. He urged the crowd to not “focus on monuments that could divide” and, instead, use Mrs. Walker’s monument as a gateway to educate younger generations on Richmond’s history. “We owe them a full story on the contributions of women like Maggie Walker,” Mayor Stoney said.

Some of Richmond’s youths already were ahead of the day’s speakers in continuing Mrs. Walker’s legacy of advocacy and outreach. More than a dozen graduates of the Maggie L. Walker Summer Youth Leadership Institute Class of 2018 were honored earlier that day at Mrs. Walker’s Jackson Ward home, a national historic site run by the National Park Service. Recounting a summer of learning to an assemblage of friends and family at the site’s visitor center, leadership institute participant Kennedy Rhone, 14, a rising freshman at Fenway High School in Boston, said, “Maggie L. Walker will forever be a part of who I am because of what she was. She has made me proud to be a young scholar of color.” The graduates’ experiences were on full display not just in their speeches, but in the final projects they presented to the guests, using statistics and mixed media to explore topics like immigration, gun control and poverty and how they impact Richmond area communities. “It was about them finding their own voice and the issues that resonated with them,” said Ajena Rogers, supervisory park ranger at the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site. “All we did was give them the tools and give them the opportunity to train and work with people they had never known before they came to the program.” The historic site has seen a strong uptick in interest since the statue’s unveiling last year, with a 50 percent increase in visitors, including many from far beyond the East Coast, according to Acting Superintendent Andrea DeKoter. “One visitor said to me, ‘This is the most inspirational story I’ve never heard,’ ” Ms. DeKoter said. “We’re getting the word out.” As the celebration at Maggie Walker’s home began in earnest around noon, Ms. Rogers reminded guests and visitors to take Mrs. Walker’s legacy and apply it beyond the day’s events. “Use your voice to advocate for the types of things that would be important to Maggie Walker and are important to us today.”

Christmas in July: Boat parade Saturday on James A flotilla of lighted boats will parade down the James River this weekend. The 25th Annual James River Parade of Lights was rescheduled to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 21, after inclement weather forced cancellation of the event at Christmastime, when it typically is held. “We couldn’t miss the 25th anniversary of this cherished event, so we decided to make

it a summer party with a ‘Christmas in July’ theme,” said Kimberly Conley, executive director of the James River Advisory Council, which sponsors the event. Boats decorated with lights will parade down the 14-mile route along the James River from the city of Richmond to the Varina-Enon Bridge. Viewers can see the boats at several public viewing areas at the listed approximate times:

Ancarrow’s Landing, 2000 Brander St., Richmond, viewing at 6 p.m. Osborne Park and Boat Landing, 9530 Osborne Turnpike, viewing at 7 to 7:45 p.m., and Henricus Historical Park, 251 Henricus Park Road, Chester, viewing 8 to 8:30 p.m. Children’s games, activities and food vendors also will be set up at Osborne Park and Boat Landing and at Henricus Historical Park. Music by

a DJ also will be featured at Osborne Park. Viewers are asked to bring donations of nonperishable foods to support FeedMore, the area’s food bank. Registration is still open for additional boaters to participate at www.jrac-va.org. Prizes will be awarded for the best decorations. Details: https://jrac-va.org/signatureevents/ annual-parade-of-lights/

‘The Mere Distinction of Colour,’ Montpelier exhibition, honored The historic home of President James Madison is winning national recognition for telling the story of enslaved people who once lived at the Orange County property. Montpelier’s year-old exhibition, “The Mere Distinction of Colour,” was named a winner of an Award of Merit and a History in Progress citation from the American Association

of State and Local History. Montpelier also earned silver MUSE awards from the American Alliance of Museums for its exhibition and for a 10-minute film, “Legacies of Slavery,” that tells the story of the people and the place from the point of view of Ellen Stewart, daughter of Dolley Madison’s enslaved maid. “We share these awards with

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Montpelier’s reconstructed South Yard features cabins that were rebuilt based on archaeological research and insurance maps.

the members of the Montpelier Descendent Community,” said Elizabeth Chew, Montpelier’s vice president of museum programs. “Because of their courage, partnership and the honesty of the members whose ancestors were enslaved here, Montpelier was able to create an exhibition that highlights the humanity of the enslaved, connects the past to the present and acknowledges the legacies of slavery that affect all of us today,” Dr. Chew said. “The Mere Distinction of Colour” opened in June 2017, she said, with the aim of dispelling myths about the people held in slavery and to expose the ideology and economic and political factors that made human bondage a key element in the country and cemented it into the U.S. Constitution. The exhibition is open daily at Montpelier, which is located in the Montpelier Station community, about 75 miles northwest of Richmond. Information and directions: www.Montpelier.org.

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Remembering Sandra Bland Geneva Reed-Veal speaks during a panel discussion July 11 at the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art about her 28-year-old daughter, Sandra Bland, who was arrested on a traffic stop and found hanging three days later in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015. Mrs. Reed-Veal, accompanied by her other daughters and family attorney Cannon Lambert of Chicago, left, were part of the ICA Cinema Series’ showing of the HBO documentary, “Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland.” The film is slated to air on HBO this fall. Members of the Richmond and Petersburg chapters of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, of which Ms. Bland was a member, also attended the event. The ICA’s free movie series is held the second Wednesday of each month. Details: https://icavcu.org or (804) 828-2823.

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AME Church and black banks launch partnership for black wealth By Hazel Trice Edney

The black church, among the most prosperous institutions in America, has long led movements for the spiritual, social and civic uplift of black people. Now, the African Methodist Episcopal Church — with a legacy of leadership in its own right — has announced an innovative economic partnership with black-owned banks across the country. The partnership aims to be a catalyst to spur business development, homeownership and wealth within the black community. “We are now pleased to announce a partnership with the presidents of the 19 black banks in the United States, with the goal of increasing black wealth,” said Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, president of the Council of AME Bishops. “This initiative will strengthen black banks across the United States and increase their capacity to lend to small businesses, to secure mortgages, to provide personal lines of credit and to offer other forms of credit to AME churches and our members. This, of course, includes enabling members and their families to become homeowners.” Bishop Jackson made the announcement at a news conference during the 2018 Council of Bishops and General Board Meeting in Atlanta on June 26. The specific details of a memorandum of understanding are being formulated and will be announced this summer. But the goals are: • To increase deposits and loans with black banks; • To increase black homeownership to more than 50 percent nationwide, which means 2 million more black homeowners than now exist; and • To grow the number of black businesses from 2.6 million to 4 million and total gross receipts from an average of $72,500 to $150,000. “The spirit in which you all have shared the commitment to the community, to the banks and to what we can do together is outstanding,” responded Preston Pinkett III, chairman and chief executive officer of the City National Bank of New Jersey and chairman of the National Bankers Association. “Thank you for your willingness to step outside of the norm to do something that I would say is extraordinary here in America and extraordinary in the world.” Mr. Pinkett said the church-bank partnerships already are beginning around the nation. “It is safe to say that this kind of commitment, this kind of demonstration, will go a long way in supporting our banks and the banks to be able to support the community … With God’s blessings, we will accomplish great things.” At the announcement, Bishop Jackson was surrounded by the 20 bishops of the 231-year-old denomination, as well as supporters of the movement, including principals of the growing economic movement, Black Wealth 2020, that Bishop Jackson credited as inspiration for the idea. Black Wealth 2020, an initiative started in Washington in 2015, “is providing an economic blueprint for black America,” Bishop Jackson said. At the news conference, Michael Grant, one of the founders of Black Wealth 2020, connected the new partnership directly with the movement begun by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The great civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others has now morphed into a full-fledged movement for economic empowerment,” Mr. Grant said. “The offspring of African slaves and their unrewarded labor have catapulted a small colonial outpost into the greatest industrial giant the world has ever known. Now, as a people, we are turning our efforts toward our own enrichment. We must now create those economic opportunities for ourselves.” Mr. Grant underscored the historic nature of the moment. “For those of you who are students of history, you would not “The Church With A Welcome”

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AME Church bishops pose with black bankers and business leaders after the June 26 announcement of the historic partnership.

be surprised that the church of Richard Allen would be leading an effort to close the wealth gap across the United States of America.” Rev. Allen founded the AME church in 1794. It was the first independent black denomination in the United States. “In the next decade in the global church and in the AME church and in black banking, we will see both evolution and revolution,” said Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, chair of the AME General Board. “Banks must reinvent themselves, not just to respond to the pressures of the day, but to be flexible enough to adapt to the world of tomorrow,” she said. “The ecclesia, the church, must also evolve its business knowledge, educational platform, and its missional thrust without losing its stance in the word of God. “Both of our institutions are dealing with increasing assertive governmental intrusion, higher membership and customer demands, along with increasing change in the wider world.” The announcement of the new partnership was met with applause from national civil rights and political leaders. “Thank you and your fellow bishops for making economic development a priority of your denomination,” civil rights icon and Georgia Congressman John Lewis wrote in a letter to Bishop Jackson. “Hopefully, your visionary leadership will inspire other denominations to replicate your efforts nationwide.” Marc H. Morial, president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, also weighed in with a letter: “I want to express the support of the National Urban League for your leadership and initiative in addressing the challenges of black homeownership and the need to increase the support, viability and profitability of our African-American businesses.” Mr. Morial is among economic leaders who have determined that homeownership among African-Americans is disparately low, in part, because of discriminatory lending practices. Mortgage banker Lois Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Salt Lake City-based United Security Financial, said she takes “great pride in our HUD designation as a fair practice lender. We provide loans to all who meet the minimum criteria, especially people of color who have been denied the opportunity to have their own homes.” The company is licensed to operate in 49 states.

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Ms. Johnson said she intends to travel to each of the AME church’s districts to “create hope and opportunities.” The principals agree that the key to the success of the partnership must be mutual respect for black spending power and mutual support of black businesses. “We hear about black folks having a trillion dollars in spending power,” said Ron Busby, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Black Chamber Inc. and co-founder of Black Wealth 2020. “But that’s usually white folk talking about our dollars and how can they get their share of it. We came together to say how can we deal with the black wealth gap and to move our agenda forward inside our own community.” Mr. Busby pointed to the chamber’s new USBC Mobile Directory that lists 109,000 black-owned businesses to help consumers make targeted purchases within the black business community. Robert James, chief executive officer of Carver State Bank in Savannah, Ga., said the movement will be sustained. “There was a time that no church got financed in Savannah unless we financed them at Carver State Bank,” he said to applause. “This program will get us back on the path.” Bishop Jackson underscored the fact that the partnership is only the beginning. He indicated that the movement will also expand abroad. “The possibilities extend throughout the Diaspora. The African Methodist Episcopal Church has over 4,000 churches in Africa, the Caribbean, West Indies and Europe. These churches and members can also benefit from this partnership,” he said. To augment this expansion, Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, ambassador for the African Union, spoke to the bishops the day before the press conference, promising to encourage Africans in America to also put their deposits in black-owned banks. She stressed the need for black-owned institutions to unify and cooperate with one another. “I have already taken the initiative and listed all of the black banks in the country on our website. I’m already encouraging all black people when I do presentations to say we’ve been stupid for too long. We drive past black banks to give our money to people who don’t give a hoot about us,” she said. “And they take our money so they can get rich, not only here, but in Africa. We’ve got to change this.”

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At 91, Carlton T. Brooks still going strong By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Carlton T. Brooks said as a young man he faced the big decision of figuring out how to make a living. “I came from a good family which stressed education, and I knew I wanted to be a professional. I had three choices: Become a doctor, a lawyer or a funeral director,” he recalled. He said he crossed off doctor and lawyer because of the long years of study he would face after high school and chose undertaker. Decades later, the 91-year-old Richmond native is still going strong. He has operated his own funeral home, Carlton T. Brooks Funeral Home, in South Side for 55 years and was earlier involved in another funeral home for seven years. As best as can be determined, Mr. Brooks is perhaps the oldest mortician in the country and his 67 years in the field, including five years as a funeral home employee, also could be a record for longest active service. The National Association of Funeral Directors could not provide information on anyone older or serving longer than Mr. Brooks. An internet search found only one listing for a 91-year-old funeral director, and that was the 2004 obituary for Otis Adams Sr. of Gadsden, Ala. The Guinness Book of World Records does not have a listing for anyone who has been burying people longer than Mr. Brooks. He comes to work every day, impeccably dressed in a suit and tie and prepared to serve grieving families. Accompanying him is his daughter, Carla Brooks, 57, who has been his full-time assistant for 39 years. He also has another daughter, Anita. He has had his ups and downs in the business, but he has always found his choice worthwhile. The best part, he said, is the service he provides to the living. His main role is to be a caregiver to families who are coping with a loss. He handles one or two funerals and cremations a week on average, he said. But he also has long served as a counselor to people in the community who just need a caring person to talk with. “There are a lot of people who need someone they can trust to help them,” he said. He has found it most fulfilling, he said, that he can provide a place where people feel comfortable com-

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Carlton T. Brooks, 91, has been in the funeral business for more than 60 years. He is perhaps the oldest mortician still practicing in the nation.

ing to talk about serious matters. He started his career after graduating from Maggie L. Walker High School and serving in the Marine Corps at the end of World War II. Like many in Richmond, he went off to the now closed Eckels College of Mortuary Science in Philadelphia to learn the art and science of the funeral business, ranging from embalming to management. He returned to Richmond ambitious to start his own funeral home. In 1951, he joined another young man, Oscar F. Howard, to open the Brooks-Howard Funeral Home at 2200 Hull St. But competition was fierce, he said, from two more established funeral homes located a few blocks away and within seven years the partners closed the business. Mr. Brooks went to work for Lightfoot Funeral Home in Church Hill, while Mr. Howard went to work for a West End funeral parlor, which years later he ended up owning and that is now the Joseph Jenkins Jr. Funeral Home. Certain he could make a go of it if he had a second chance, Mr. Brooks bided his time. In 1963, he reopened the building he still owned as the Carlton T. Brooks Funeral Home, and he has been in operation since at the intersection of Hull and Pilkington streets. Along with his daughter, his staff includes embalmer Joe Briscoe, who has been with him for more than 30 years. If he needs other help, he has plenty of contacts to call. His major competition continues to be Mimms Funeral Home, three blocks east, which does the lion’s share of the funeral business in South Richmond. Two years ago, Wilson & Associates Funeral Service Inc., a Eastern Henrico funeral home, opened a satellite operation on Jefferson Davis Highway. Mr. Brooks said that the funeral business has changed, particularly in the community he serves. He said cremation, once frowned upon by African-American families, is now the choice of about half the families he works with. He has outlived many of the people in the business when he began and his wife, Juanita B. Brooks, who died some years ago. Still, he has no immediate plans to retire. “Maybe in a few years, I’ll consider it. But for now, I enjoy what I am doing and I see no reason to stop.”

Myrtle H. Motley, civic, church worker, succumbs at 98 Myrtle Hobson Motley came through at a critical moment when Richmond civil rights attorney Oliver W. Hill Sr. was pursuing an important legal battle against government-enforced segregated schools. Her son, Victor Motley Sr. of Henrico County, recalled that Mr. Hill called her one day and asked to borrow her typewriter. Mr. Hill told her the office typewriter had broken and he needed one to get out a legal brief, Mr. Motley said. “My mother agreed,” and rushed to the law offices of Hill, Martin & Robinson in Jackson Ward to deliver her machine, he said. “We found out years later that the brief had to do with Brown v. Board of Education,” the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that deemed racially segregated public schools to be unconstitutional.

Mrs. Motley’s family also Milwood A. Motley, operated in recalled the longtime NAACP Richmond and participating in member serving as a volunchurch and other civic affairs. teer secretary for Mr. Hill and Mrs. Motley died Monday, other NAACP lawyers, includJuly 9, 2018. She was 98. ing Thurgood Marshall and Family and friends celebrated Spottswood Robinson, during her life Saturday, July 14, at First the landmark legal battle that United Presbyterian Church in included a case from Prince North Side, where she was an Edward County in Virginia. active member. The Rev. Willie In 1960, Mrs. Motley joined Woodson delivered the eulogy. other NAACP members in She was buried in Forest Lawn Mrs. Motley walking a picket line in DownCemetery. town to protest whites-only restaurants and lunch Born into a family of 12 children, Mrs. counters, her family said. Motley worked in Washington at the French Mrs. Motley took on such activities while Embassy and in government service after raising a family, keeping the books for the plumb- graduating from high school and passing the ing, heating and hardware business her husband, Civil Service Exam.

She later attended Virginia State College and North Carolina A&T College and met her husband when he operated his business in Martinsville. The couple moved to Richmond in 1951, three years after they married. Mrs. Motley’s commitment to community included service on the board of the YWCA in Richmond. She also was active in programs involving her children, including serving as a Cub Scout den mother and as a chaperone on school trips. She also was a member of the Richmond Chapter of The Moles Inc., and served as a deacon and sang in the choir at First United Presbyterian Church, as well as in the Harry Savage Chorale. In addition to her husband and son, survivors include two other sons, Milwood A. Motley Jr. of Columbus, Ga., and Bertram Motley of Henrico County, and five grandchildren.

Aubrey D. Flippen, 68, longtime social worker, dies

Aubrey Dean Flippen sought to provide hope to people in crisis. For 32 years as a Richmond social worker, Mr. Flippen listened to people in distress and provided advice and resources to help them cope with their daunting challenges, ranging from finding shelter and dealing with abusive family members and dysfunctional households to finding employment and securing transportation. Described as a kind man,

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he got into the profession to “make a difference” in people’s lives. That remained the most satisfying part of his work, he said when featured as a Personality in the Jan. 13-15, 2005, edition of the Free Press. He was spotlighted following his election at the time as president of the Richmond Association of Black Social Workers.

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His service to Richmond residents is being remembered following his death Monday, July 9, 2018. He was 68. Family and friends celebrated his life Friday, July 13, during a service at Chiles Funeral Home in the East End. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Born in Danville, Mr. Flippen began his career following his graduation from Virginia State University with a degree in social work. He later earned a master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He took on other people’s often complex and intense problems that grew out of “issues of crime, disease, housing, poverty and other social ills that impact family structure,” he told

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the Free Press in 2005. He also taught future social workers as an adjunct professor at VSU and worked with alcoholics and others through the Virginia Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program. He was honored as an elder with the Richmond Association of Black Social Workers in December at its inaugural Enstoolment of the Elders ceremony. Mr. Flippen credited his late mother, Juanita Benson Flippen, with inspiring him to succeed. “As a single parent, she raised five children who are all college graduates,” he stated in the Personality feature. An admirer of Richmond tennis star Arthur Ashe Jr., Mr.

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Flippen grew up playing tennis and was captain of the VSU team. As he grew older, he took up golf as a more relaxing way to take a break from other people’s troubles. Known for being low-key and enjoying a good time, he also was a member of the Alpha Phi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Club 533 and the Thebans Beneficial Club. Survivors include his wife, Judy Diane Flippen; son, Shannin Flippen; two grandchildren; and four siblings, Celia, Evelyn, Terry and William Flippen.

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Legal Notices Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD JOCELYN STRODE, Plaintiff v. ANDRE JA CHIN KING, Defendant. (Address Unknown) Case No.: CL 18-1616 JUNE 29, 2018 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a mensa et thoro from the Defendant on the ground of wilful desertion or abandonement pursuant to Section 20-95 of the Code of Virginia, later to be merged into a final divorce; An Affidavit having been filed that the Plaintiff has been unable to locate the Defendant, it is ORDERED that Andre Ja Chin King appear before this Court on or before August 23rd, 2018, at 8:30 a.m. and do what is necessary to protect his interests herein. An Extract: Teste: Wendy s. hughes, Clerk I ASK FOR THIS: Wm J. Doran, III, J.D. FRANCIS & DORAN 10404 Patterson Avenue, Suite 101 Henrico, Virginia 23239 Phone: (804) 288-4004 Facsimile: (804) 288-4006 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SAMANTHA FISCHBACH, Plaintiff v. CHARLES FISCHBACH, Defendant. Case No.: CL18000798-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 16th day of August, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests. A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

PROPERTY Notice Judicial Sale of Real Property Owner/s of the below listed properties are hereby given Notice that thirty (30) 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: 3119 1st Avenue N0000990021 3216 2nd Avenue N0001070004 1001 North 3rd Street N0000088023 411 North 22nd Street E0000257020 1603 North 22nd Street E0000859015 1605 North 22nd Street E0000859016 315 West 26th Street S0000699020 1311 North 26th Street E0000621023 1919 North 28th Street E0120401002 1417 North 29th Street E0000717026 1810 North 29th Street E0000951011 1110 1/2 North 30th Street E0000568012 1106 1/2 North 32nd Street E0000722013 1401 North 32nd Street E0000800009 1322 North 34th Street E0000875003 3007 Alpine Avenue N0000983019 303 Bates Street N0000088001 305 Bates Street N0000088003 2501 Berwyn Street S0080380025 1404 Bryan Street E0000604012 1406 Bryan Street E0000604010 2311 Carrington Street E0000470006 320 East Fells Street N0000377038 2204 Fairmount Avenue E0000616016 132 Jefferson Davis Hwy S0000293021 256 East Ladies Mile Road N0001658006 258 East Ladies Mile Road N0001658005 1311 West Leigh Street N0000573010 1613 Mechanicsville Tpke E0001234005 2401 Melbourne Street E0120278001 2407 Melbourne Street E0120278004 2024 Newbourne Street E0120285018 2110 Newbourne Street E0120286027 2920 P Street E0000569021 3810 P Street E0001768018 414 1/2 Patrick Avenue N0001554020 2501 Porter Street S0000696012 2509 Porter Street S0000696016 2518 Porter Street S0000695003 3203 ½ Stockton Street S0002132011 3205 Stockton Street S0002132012 Continued on next column

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3807 Terminal Avenue C0090557018 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, Esq. Office of the City Attorney City of Richmond 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, Virginia (804) 646-7940

Plaintiff, v. JAIRUS S. KING, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-2380 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2919 East Marshall Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0576/010, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jarius S. King and Evisson Incorporated,. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAIRUS S. KING, owner per a will filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 14717(1) on September 5, 2014, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/ her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that FRANKLIN D. R. LYONS, SR, who upon information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that JAIRUS S. KING, owner per a will filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 14-717(1) on September 5, 2014, FRANKLIN D. R. LYONS, SR, who upon information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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

CUSTODY Virginia: In the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re AIDAN TYLER CHADICK Case No.: J-094964-04-05 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown (Father) and Melissa Chadick (Mother) of Aidan Tyler Chadick, child DOB 09/20/2017. “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of; visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support. It is ordered that the defendant Unknown (Father) and Melissa Chadick to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 08/28/2018, 9:20 AM COURTROOM #2. Virginia: in the circuit court of the city of richmond Walter Alexander Ventura Veronica Patricia Garcia Orellana In the Matter of the Proposed Adoption of a Child to Be Known as Irma Rebeca Ventura, Birth Certificate Registration No. 67-2007, Vol II. Registered in the Country of El Salvador CA 18-277 order of publication The object of the abovestyled suit is for the petitioner, Walter Alexander Ventura, to adopt Irma Rebeca Castillo, the biological daughter of Veronica Patricia Garcia Orellana and Josias Lemuel Castillo Salazar. It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the Respondent, Josias Lemuel Castillo Salazar, is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that his last known address is unknown, it is therefore ORDERED that Respondent, Josias Lemuel Castillo Salazar, appear before this Court on or before the 3rd day of August, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit. A Copy Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk I ask for this: Jesse Baez, Esq. (VSB #85986) Hairfield Morton, PLC 2800 Buford Road, Suite 201 Richmond, Virginia 23235 (804) 320-6600 Counsel for Petitioners

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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. MASON L. LEWIS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-3211 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1410 Spotsylvania Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0606/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Mason L. Lewis, Madie J. Lewis and Thelma M. Johnson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MASON L. LEWIS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MADIE J. LEWIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and THELMA M. JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, 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 MASON L. LEWIS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MADIE J. LEWIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, THELMA M. JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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,

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. JOHN BOYD, SR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-607 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2607 O Street Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0432/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John Boyd, Sr., and Kate Boyd. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JOHN BOYD, SR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and KATE BOYD, 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 CLIFFORD M. BOYD, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that SHIRLEY BOYD WILLIAMS, CLARENCE B O Y D , a n d C A LV I N FRANKLIN BOYD, JR, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that ROSALEE BOYD SPENCER, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN FERNANDO BOYD, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 JOHN BOYD, SR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, KATE BOYD, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLIFFORD M. BOYD, SHIRLEY BOYD WILLIAMS, CLARENCE BOYD, CALVIN FRANKLIN B O Y D , J R , R O S A L EE BOYD SPENCER, JOHN FERNANDO BOYD, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter. An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. SYDNEY O. LYONS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-3208 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1311 North 32nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000801/017, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Sydney O. Lyons. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, SYDNEY O. LYONS, 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

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v. THOMAS EASLEY, et al. Defendants. Case No.: CL18-2933 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 710 Cheatwood Ave, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N018-0453/017, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, THOMAS EASLEY. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, THOMAS EASLEY, owner per deed filed in the records of the Henrico Circuit Court at Deed Book 212B page 318 on September 13, 1918, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, 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 THOMAS EASLEY, owner per deed filed in the records of the Henrico Circuit Court at Deed Book 212B page 318 on September 13, 1918, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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. VIRGINIA HARRIS, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-3210 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1408 Spotsylvania Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0606/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Virginia Harris. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, VIRGINIA HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, 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 VIRGINIA HARRIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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

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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 SYDNEY O. LYONS, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. CHARLES E. CHAPPELLE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-3236 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3806 Glenwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0001663/028, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Charles Chappelle and Mary M. Chappelle aka Mary M. Richardson. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, CHARLES E. CHAPPELLE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and MARY M. CHAPPELLE aka MARY M. RICHARDSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that CHARLES E. CHAPPELLE, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MARY M. CHAPPELLE aka MARY M. RICHARDSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. MVP HOMES, LLC, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-2222 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 209 East 13th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000147/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record MVP HOMES, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MVP HOMES, LLC, a corporation purged from the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PAMELA L. VANHOUTEN, Beneficiary of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-15158 on July 8, 2009, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” I T I S O R D ERE D that MVP HOMES, LLC, a corporation purged from the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, PAMELA L. VANHOUTEN, Beneficiary of a deed of trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-15158 on July 8, 2009, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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 Continued on next column

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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. THERESA M. JONES, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-2381 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 708 North 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000328/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Theresa M. Jones, Diane Green, Johnnie Green, III, Jerry Donnell Green, and Thomas Eugene Green. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, T HERE S A M . J O N E S , J O H N N IE GREE N , III , JERRY DONNELL GREEN, and THOMAS EUGENE GREEN, 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, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that T HERE S A M . J O N E S , JOHNNIE GREEN, III, JERRY DONNELL GREEN, and THOMAS EUGENE GREEN, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SEPTEMBER 20, 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. STEVEN HINCH, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-1436 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1324 North 32nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0720/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Steven Hinch. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, STEVEN HINCH, 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 despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that STEVEN HINCH, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. WILLIAM T. DANIELS, JR, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-1551 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1506 North 26th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000711/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, William T. Daniels, Jr, Dwayne A. Daniels, and Dawn D. Short aka Dawn Denise Daniels. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WILLIAM T. DANIELS, JR, DWAYNE A. DANIELS, and DAWN D. SHORT aka DAWN DENISE DANIELS, 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, 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 Continued on next column

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WILLIAM T. DANIELS, JR, DWAYNE A. DANIELS, DAWN D. SHORT aka DAWN DENISE DANIELS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. ALFONZA P. GORDON, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-1747 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2021 Ford Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000597/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Alfonza P. Gordon. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ALFONZA P. GORDON, per information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that CLARA G. HILL, upon information and belief deceased, or her devisees, assignees or successors in title, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that ALFONZA P. GORDON, per information and belief is deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLARA G. HILL, upon information and belief deceased, or her devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. JOHN HOWLET, et al. Defendants. Case No.: CL18-1164 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2310 Fairmount Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000617/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John Howlett, Philmore Howlett, Collins Howlett, Jackie H. Thornton, Gladys Johnson, Helen J. Hamlet, Elizabeth J. Graham, Dorothy J. Baugh, Bernard Johnson, Bessie Page, Dorothy Kornegay, Esther J. Anderson, Burnett Thomas, Portia Marie Turner, Brenda M. Melvin, and Eva H. Williams. An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JOHN HOWLET, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, P HI L M O RE H O W L E T T, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, COLLINS HOWLETT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JACKIE H. THORNTON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HELEN J. HAMLET, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ELIZABETH J. GRAHAM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, B E S S IE PA GE , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTHER J. ANDERSON, Continued on next column

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upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BURNETT THOMAS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, BERNARD JOHNSON, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, EVA H. WILLIAMS, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 J O H N H O W L E T, u p o n information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, P HI L M O RE H O W L E T T, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, COLLINS HOWLETT, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, JACKIE H. THORNTON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GLADYS JOHNSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HELEN J. HAMLET, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ELIZABETH J. GRAHAM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, B E S S IE PA GE , u p o n information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, DOROTHY KORNEGAY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ESTHER J. ANDERSON, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, BURNETT THOMAS, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, B ER N A R D J O H N S O N , EVA H. WILLIAMS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. JOHN B. MANN, TRUSTEE, et al, Defendants. Case No.: CL18-2652 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3017 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001593001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, John B. Mann and Carolyn M. Myer, Trustees. An Affidavit having been filed that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before SepTember 20, 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. PEACE ON EARTH MANAGEMENT LAWRENCE ELLIS WILLIAMS ARCHITECT, LLC, et al, Continued on next page

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Defendants. Case No.: CL18-2349 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2113 Ford Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0598/023, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record PEACE ON EARTH MANAGEMENT L AW R E N C E E L L I S WILLIAMS ARCHITECT, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that said any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/ or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.” IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 23, 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

Book 1712, Page 487. And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Any and All Interested Parties, the above-named defendant, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Any and All Interested Parties need to appear on or before September 7, 2018 at 9:30 A.M., before this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests. An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO JOSEPH A. TOWLER and AVON W. TOWLER Plaintiff, v. ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Defendants. Case No.: CL17004845-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to quiet title to the real estate known as Tax Parcel Number 822724-5948, containing .6214 acres, more or less, located on and known as 5 West Nine Mile Road in Henrico County, Virginia, and being the same real estate conveyed to Joseph A. Towler and Avon W. Towler by deed of assumption from D.W. Thomas and Evelyn G. Thomas and C.O. Groome, Jr. and Vivian M. Groome, dated December 30, 1976, recorded January 6, 1977, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, in Deed

1810 Harwood Street City Of Richmond v. Novella W. Cunningham, et al. CL18-297 3334 Hazelhurst Avenue City Of Richmond v. James R. Holmes, et al. CL18-392 2511 Hopkins Road City Of Richmond v. George Smith, et al. CL18-985 2610 Hull Street C i t y O f R i c h m o n d v. Believe&Receive Ministries, Inc., et al. CL17-5825 3207 Hull Street City Of Richmond v. Robert Griffith, et al. CL18-56 2003 Ingram Avenue City Of Richmond v. Miranda Squire, et al. CL17-4077 800 Jessamine Street City Of Richmond v. Ella McCullum, et al. CL18-2114 802 Jessamine Street City Of Richmond v. Ella McCullum, et al. CL18-2113 2106 Kimrod Road City Of Richmond v. William A. Schutte, Jr., et al. CL18-1159 3020 Krouse Street City Of Richmond v. Tower Building Properties, LLC, et al. CL17-5014 103 East Ladies Mile Road City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-357 205 East Ladies Mile Road City Of Richmond v. James R. Holmes, et al. CL17-5574 452 East Ladies Mile Road City Of Richmond v. Florence I. Lundy, et al. CL18-325 454 East Ladies Mile Road City Of Richmond v. Florence I. Lundy, et al. CL18-324 2103 Lamb Avenue City Of Richmond v. Bessie Binford, et al. CL17-5577 1905 Maddox Street City Of Richmond v. William M. Abrams, et al. CL18-55 1603 Magnolia Street City Of Richmond v. Ann M. Morris, et al. CL17-4763 3403 Maryland Avenue City Of Richmond v. Gabby Homes, Inc., et al. CL18-1748 1900 Maury Street City Of Richmond v. John Melvin Walker, et al. CL18-253 2424 North Avenue City Of Richmond v. James H. Smith, Jr., et al. CL18-281 2606 North Avenue City Of Richmond v. Joseph Zimblist Carrington, et al. CL17-2649 3002 P Street City Of Richmond v. Esther K. Blount, et al. CL17-985 3004 P Street City Of Richmond v. Jeff Smith, et al. CL18-831 3012 P Street City Of Richmond v. Sam J. Brown, et al. CL18-608 2122 Parkwood Avenue City Of Richmond v. Dell D. Graves, et al. CL18-119 2105 Redd Street City Of Richmond v. Dilcia T. Jackson, et al. CL18-872 1412 Rogers Street City Of Richmond v. Evelyn H. Perkins, et al. CL18-1084 1718 Rogers Street City Of Richmond v. Larry Anthony Williams, et al. CL17-5837 2122 Royall Avenue City Of Richmond v. Curtis M. Johnson, et al. CL18-190 2919 S Street City Of Richmond v. Nannie Belle Parham, et al. CL18-1269 525 Saint James Street City Of Richmond v. Charles M. Taylor, et al. CL18-609

5313 Salem Street City Of Richmond v. Emerald Land Development, LLC, et al. CL17-5651 3211 Rear Scottdale Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL18-109 1407 Spotsylvania Street City Of Richmond v. Michael Kilday, et al. CL18-271 1517 Spotsylvania Street City Of Richmond v. Clayton Investment Group, LLC, et al. CL17-5012 3612 Stockton Street City Of Richmond v. S. L. Snellings CL18-1270 3613 Stockton Street City Of Richmond v. Alfred B. Dixon, et al. CL18-431 5256 Stratton Road City Of Richmond v. Cheryl L. Reynolds, et al. CL18-274 3813 Terminal Avenue City Of Richmond v. John S. Finn, Jr., et al. CL18-273 3844 Terminal Avenue City Of Richmond v. George Smith, et al. CL18-984 4100 Rear Terminal Avenue City Of Richmond v. A.L. Hendrick, et al. CL17-6054 5221 Tilford Road City Of Richmond v. Miles H. Joyner, III, et al. CL18-326 2322 Venable Street City Of Richmond v. David Thorne, et al. CL17-4995 2402 Venable Street City Of Richmond v. Horace L. Burrell, et al. CL18-186 2402 ½ Venable Street City Of Richmond v. Joseph K. Harris CL18-1518 2402½ Rear Venable Street City Of Richmond v. Columbus R. Dabney, et al. CL18-1580 2816 Wellington Street City Of Richmond v. Mallie Edward Crawford CL18-1846 2401 Whitcomb Street City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-298 2411 Whitcomb Street City Of Richmond v. Michael Kilday, et al. CL18-296 1304 Willis Street City Of Richmond v. Clayton Investment Group, LLC, et al. CL17-5013 TERMS OF SALE: All sales are subject to confirmation by the Richmond Circuit Court. The purchase price will include the winning bid plus 10% of the winning bid. High bidders will pay at the time of the auction a deposit of at least 20% of the purchase price, or $2500.00, whichever is greater. If the purchase price is under $2500.00, high bidders will pay in full at the time of the auction. High bidders will pay the balance of the purchase price to the Special Commissioner, and deed recordation costs, by a date and in a form as stated in a settlement instruction letter. Time is of the essence. If a high bidder defaults by not making these payments in full, on time, and in the required form, the Special Commissioner will retain the deposit, and may seek other remedies to include the cost of resale or any resulting deficiency. Settlement shall occur when the Richmond Circuit Court enters an Order of Confirmation. Conveyance shall be either by a special commissioner’s deed or a special warranty deed. Real estate taxes will be adjusted as of the date of entry for the Order of Confirmation. Properties are sold “as is” without any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, subject to the rights of any person in possession, and to all easements, liens, covenants, defects, encumbrances, adverse claims, conditions and restrictions, whether

filed or inchoate, to include any information a survey or inspection of a property may disclose. It is assumed that bidders will make a visual exterior inspection of a property within the limits of the law, determine the suitability of a property for their purposes, and otherwise perform due diligence prior to the auction. T h e S p e c i a l Commissioner’s acceptance of a bid shall not limit any powers vested in the City of Richmond. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. Individuals owing delinquent taxes to the City of Richmond, and defendants in pending delinquent tax cases, are not qualified to bid at this auction. Bidders must certify by affidavit that they do not own, directly or indirectly, any real estate with outstanding notices of violation for building, zoning or other local ordinances. Questions may be directed to Gregory A. Lukanuski at greg.lukanuski@ richmondgov.com / (804) 646-7949, or to Christie Hamlin at christie.hamlin@ richmondgov.com / (804) 646-6940. Gregory A. Lukanuski Deputy City Attorney Special Commissioner 900 East Broad Street, Room 400 Richmond, VA 23219

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Pursuant to the terms of Orders of Sale entered in the Richmond Circuit Court, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction the following real estate at Motleys Asset Disposition Group, 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road, Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday August 15, 2018 at 3:00pm, or as soon thereafter as may be effected. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions below and any terms and conditions which may be announced on the day of auction. Announcements made on the day of the auction take precedence over any prior written or verbal terms of sale. 2115 2nd Avenue City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-354 2219 2nd Avenue City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-355 3014 4th Avenue City Of Richmond v. Michael Kilday, et al. CL18-272 2521 5th Avenue City Of Richmond v. Ryland E. Jones, et al. CL17-4617 3115 5th Avenue City Of Richmond v. Clayton Investment Group, LLC, et al. CL17-5015 420 East 15th Street City Of Richmond v. Joseph K. Harris, et al. CL18-873 609 North 21st Street City Of Richmond v. Kaerene Darcel George, et al. CL18-191 129 West 22nd Street City Of Richmond v. Tower Building Properties, LLC, et al. CL17-5011 307 West 27th Street City Of Richmond v. Wade Stanley Eatmon

CL18-1435 1115 North 27th Street City Of Richmond v. Aaron M. Wallace, et al. CL18-432 1201 North 31st Street City Of Richmond v. Temecca Green, et al. CL18-871 1201½ North 31st Street City Of Richmond v. James S. Ball, et al. CL18-1470 217 East 34th Street City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-352 606 Akron Street City Of Richmond v. Fannie C. White, et al. CL18-1568 2403 Bainbridge Street City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-356 3100 Barton Avenue City Of Richmond v. Joyce B. Laidler, et al. CL18-1288 3708 Bathgate Road City Of Richmond v. Luke Rogers, Jr., et al. CL18-278 2520 Belt Boulevard City Of Richmond v. George Smith, et al. CL18-464 2640 Belt Boulevard City Of Richmond v. George Smith, et al. CL18-463 1911 Boston Avenue City Of Richmond v. James H. Smith, Jr., et al. CL18-185 2310 Burton Street City Of Richmond v. Fernando Jenkins, et al. CL17-3984 2402 Carrington Street City Of Richmond v. Gladys E. Pollard, et al. CL18-606 2009 Cedar Street City Of Richmond v. Phoebe A. Crump, et al. CL18-54 3017 Chamberlayne Avenue City Of Richmond v. Eric Bland, et al. CL18-1550 1709 Claiborne Street City Of Richmond v. R. B. Chaffin, et al. CL18-188 20 West Clopton Street City Of Richmond v. Barbara Ann Kennedy, et al. CL17-5589 6341 Daytona Drive City Of Richmond v. Mary Thomas Harris, et al. CL18-1129 1911 Decatur Street City Of Richmond v. Delores Anderson Harris, et al. CL18-0960 3100 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5650 3104 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5800 3108 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5649 3112 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5648 3116 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5647 3120 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5646 3124 Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Big Green Mountain, LLC, et al. CL17-5645 3412 Rear Delano Street City Of Richmond v. Shirley E. Dance, et al. CL17-5699 1511 Drewry Street City Of Richmond v. Willie R. Joyner, Jr., et al. CL17-4890 3007 Garland Avenue City Of Richmond v. Epps Investment Corporation, et al. CL17-4680 1521 Greycourt Avenue City Of Richmond v. Jesse G. Gilley, et al. CL18-1548 3016 Groveland Avenue City Of Richmond v. Linilton Realty Company, LLC, et al. CL18-353

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO JOSEPH A. TOWLER and AVON W. TOWLER Plaintiff, v. ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Defendants. Case No.: CL17004844-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to quiet title to the real estate known as Tax Parcel Number 822724-6945, containing .1377 acres, more or less, located on and known as 1-3 West Nine Mile Road in Henrico County, Virginia, and being the same real estate conveyed to Joseph A. Towler and Avon W. Towler by deed from Julian B. Lipscomb and Sue Lipscomb, dated September 6, 1968, recorded September 6, 1968, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, in Deed Book 1377, Page 46. And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Any and All Interested Parties, the above-named defendants, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Any and All Interested Parties need to appear on September 7, 2018 at 9:30 A.M., before this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests. An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HENRICO JOSEPH A. TOWLER and AVON W. TOWLER Plaintiff, v. ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Defendants. Case No.: CL17004846-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to quiet title to the real estate known as Tax Parcel Number 822-7246038, containing .13 acres, more or less, located on and known as 4 South Holly Avenue in Henrico County, Virginia, and being the same real estate conveyed to Joseph A. Towler and Avon W. Towler by deed from Lillian P. Adams dated August 30, 1973, recorded August 30, 1973, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, in Deed Book 1572, Page 124. And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that Any and All Interested Parties, the above-named defendants, cannot be located, it is therefore ORDERED that the said Any and All Interested Parties need to appear on September 7, 2018 at 9:30 A.M., before this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests. An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk

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

Thank you for your interest in applying for opportunities with The City of Richmond. To see what opportunities are available, please refer to our website at www.richmondgov.com. EOE M/F/D/V

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20 hours per week Salary Commensurate with Experience The successful candidate must have a working knowledge of bookkeeping, financial records management, and Microsoft Office Suites. Bachelor’s Degree or minimum of 2-3 years of financial secretary experience required. A Criminal History Background Check and a Credit Background Check are required. Please send resumes to: Mount Olive Baptist Church 8775 Mount Olive Ave. Glen Allen Va. 23060 Attention Billie Winzor, Personnel Ministry Phone 804-262-9614

BIDS COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION ITB # 18-1719-7CLE – Metal Roof Coating Project – Mental Health & Developmental Services Building.Due 3:00 pm, August 7, 2018. Additional information available at: https://henrico.us/finance/ divisions/purchasing/. COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID ITB# 18-1706-6JCK Roof System Recovery Project – Old Dumbarton Library Due 2:30 pm, August 7, 2018 Additional information available at: http://www. henrico.us/purchasing/

License Laguna Nails & Beauty Salon LLC Trading as: Laguna Nails & Beauty Salon, 8703 Shrader Rd Henrico, Virginia 23228-1884 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D epartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Day Spa license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Brad Barzoloski, owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

The Library of Virginia is seeking a State Archivist and Director of Government Records Services. This is a full-time position with benefits including health coverage. For full information, and to apply, please visit https://virginiajobs.peopleadmin.com and search for position #00102. This position is open until filled and first review of applications will begin on August 20, 2018. An EEO/AA/ADA Employer.

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The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: RFQu# G190000525 – Construction Manager at Risk for George Mason Elementary School Project. RFQu# G190000530 – Construction Manager at Risk for ESH Greene Elementary School Project. RFQu# G190000532 – Construction Manager at Risk for ElkhardtThompson Middle School Project. Receipt Date: Friday, August 10, 2018 at 3:30 P.M. Receipt Location: 900 East Broad Street, 11th Floor, Room 1104, Richmond, VA 23219 Information or copies of the above solicitations are available by contacting Procurement Services, at the City of Richmond website (www.RichmondGov. com), or at 11th Floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Phone (804) 646-5716 or faxed (804) 646-5989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process. For reference purposes, documents may be examined at the above location.

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