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‘We are The Wilsons!’

Singer Ciara has one-two stepped down the aisle with NFL player Russell Wilson.

The couple both posted the same photo Wednesday on Twitter and Instagram showing Ciara in a wedding gown and the Richmond native in a tuxedo with the caption, “We are The Wilsons!”

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President Barack Obama waves with Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, at a campaign event Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C. Neither the president or Mrs. Clinton were told ahead of time about the FBI announcement or conclusion.

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The FBI recommended Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed over Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers while she was secretary of state, but rebuked the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate for “extremely careless” handling of classified information.

While FBI Director James B. Comey’s announcement lifted a cloud of uncertainty that had loomed over Mrs. Clinton’s White House campaign, his strong criticism of her judgment ignited a new attack on her over the email issue by Donald Trump, her likely Republican opponent in the Nov. 8 election.

Mr. Comey’s comments could reinforce what polls show are widespread public concerns about Mrs. Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness. Republicans have pointed to the controversy as evidence that she considered herself above the law.

House of FBI Director James Representatives Comey takes no Speaker Paul questions from Ryan, the highestreporters after issuing his statement ranking elected Tuesday on the Republican, said bureau’s yearlong in a statement probe into former that Mr. Comey’s Secretary of State announcement Hillary Clinton’s “defies explanaCliff Owen/Associated Press private email server. tion.”

Speaker Ryan called on the FBI to release all of its findings in the case and said Mr. Comey would be called to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

“We need to know more,” Speaker Ryan told Fox News.

Mr. Comey was appointed FBI director in 2013 by President Obama. He previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and was the lead federal prosecutor in Richmond from 1996 to 2001. In a lengthy statement on the FBI’s conclusions from its yearlong investigation, Mr. Comey directly contradicted statements Mrs. Clinton has Please turn to A4

Property Number of candidates certified to run for mayor, City Council and School Board values up in city

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond voters will have plenty of choices for mayor, City Council and the School Board in the November election, when they also will be helping to elect a president, vice president and member of Congress.

The three-member Richmond Electoral Board last week certified 58 candidates to run for city offices.

The list would have been longer, but 15 potential candidates were disqualified for failure to meet filing requirements, the city Voter Registrar’s Office reported.

The main focus for voters will be on replacing twoterm Mayor Dwight C. Jones, who is barred by the city’s charter from a seeking a third consecutive, four-year term. Mayor Jones will leave office Dec. 31.

Mayor Eight candidates qualified to run for the city’s

mayor. At this point, expectations are high that with so many candidates, the city will have its first runoff election for mayor following the Nov. 8 balloting.

Under the rules, if one of the candidates does not win five of the city’s nine districts, the requirement for outright victory, the two candidates who receive the most votes in the Nov. 8 balloting would then face off in an election in December.

Six of the eight chief executive candidates are considered the most viable, having reported raising campaign funds and already having significant name recognition.

They are: • Jon T. Baliles, outgoing 1st District City Council representative and real estate broker.

• John F. “Jack” Berry, retired executive director of the Downtown booster group Venture Richmond.

• Joseph D. Morrissey, criminal attorney and former General Assembly member.

• Michelle R. Mosby, outgoing 9th District City Council representative, the current council president and a small business owner.

• Levar M. Stoney, former Virginia secretary of the commonwealth.

• Bruce W. Tyler, architect and former member of City Council.

Also on the ballot, but not yet reporting raising any money are: • Bobby A. “BJ” Junes, a retired real estate consultant and political newcomer.

• Lawrence E. Williams Sr., an architect and perennial candidate.

City Council City voters also will fill the nine seats on City Council and elect nine School Board members.

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Judge Roger Gregory makes history again

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

American chief judge,” he told the Free Press.

The son of humble tobacco In his new role, Judge factory workers is about to Gregory will take on more reach a new pinnacle in his administrative duties in the cirlegal career. cuit that includes Virginia and On July 9, Judge Roger four other states — Maryland, L. Gregory will become the North Carolina, South Carolina chief judge of the powerful 4th and West Virginia. He said his U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals goal is “to help the court run in Richmond. as smoothly as possible for my As he modestly describes good, dear colleagues.” his new role among the Along with the new title, court’s 15 judges and two Judge Gregory will chair the senior judges, he will be circuit’s judicial council and “first among equals.” oversee the 160 judges in the Known as easygoing and five states who serve in the lower personable, Judge Gregory courts, including the districts will make history again when courts and bankruptcy courts.

Judge Gregory he ascends to the appellate He also will represent the court’s top post — which he will hold for 4th Circuit on the Judicial Conference of seven years — just a week before he celebrates the United States, which the U.S. Supreme his 63rd birthday July 17.

Court’s chief justice heads and sets policies Just as he was the first African-American and rules for the federal judiciary. to join the once all-white court in 2000, he He will get an extra law clerk to assist will be the first African-American to be the him, but he said the title does not include chief judge since the court’s founding 125 additional salary, now $213,300 a year for years ago in 1891. an appeals court.

“I feel humble and privileged that I was He also wants to do more to educate the the first African-American to serve on this Please turn to A5 court, and now I will be the first African-

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

For the third year in a row, rising property values in Richmond will put Richmond City Council on the spot when it comes to collecting property taxes from owners of real estate.

Before retiring July 1, City Assessor James Hester issued a preliminary report noting that the current value of real estate in the city — homes, apartments, commercial and industrial space — is up 3 percent compared with last year.

The increase means the city’s nine-member governing body again will have to decide whether to maintain the current tax rate of $1.20 per $100 of assessed value — equal to $1,200 for a home valued at $100,000 — or reduce it.

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Free Press wins national award

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Waterworks Promise Clarke, 3, enjoys the crisp spray of water on a hot and humid Wednesday at the Fairmount Pool on U Street in Richmond’s East End. City pools, the James River and other recreation spots are likely to see lots of visitors during the weekend as temperatures are to soar to nearly 100 degrees for the next few days.

For the second consecutive year, the Richmond Free Press has been recognized with a national award for editorial writing.

The Free Press received the Robert S. Abbott Best Editorial Award at the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s annual convention in Houston.

The NNPA represents more than 200 newspapers owned by African-Americans across the United States.

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A new traffic circle is taking shape at the Six Points intersection in Highland Park in North Side. The $1.2 million project to improve traffic control has been underway since early January. When complete, it will be one of the biggest roundabouts in the city. It will serve motorists heading east and west on Brookland Park Boulevard, and north and south on Meadowbridge Road. The other streets that meet at this central point are Dill Avenue, which runs northeast, and 2nd Avenue, which is south of the

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intersection. Pedestrian crosswalks, handicap ramps and landscaping also are to be installed. Traffic lights that have long controlled the flow of cars and trucks have been removed from the intersection. City officials believe the new traffic circle could help eliminate crashes. Traffic accidents at the intersection were rare, however, with only five in the previous three years. Weather delays from snow and heavy rain have delayed the project’s completion. The city is using federal and state funds and its own contribution to cover the project’s cost.

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Former governor GRTC route cuts scheduled for Aug. 21 eligible to receive state pension Former Gov. Bob McDonnell is once again eligible to receive his state pension and practice law now that he is no longer a felon.

Those are some of the benefits flowing out of the U.S. Supreme Court decision June 27 that threw out Mr. McDonnell’s conviction on 11 federal felony corruption charges.

Nearly a year after his September 2014 conviction by a federal jury, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring stated in a formal opinion in August 2015 that Mr. McDonnell was required to relinquish his $3,700 a month state pension under legislation the former governor had signed into law in 2012.

In the wake of that opinion, Gov. Terry McAuliffe began proceedings to strip Mr. McDonnell of his pension.

The General Assembly had passed the law after former Newport News Del. Phil Hamilton was indicted in 2011, and then Gov. McDonnell signed it.

The law “requires the forfeiture of all (state) benefits ... including spousal benefits and benefits accrued from service in multiple offices or positions,” according Mr. Herring’s opinion.

The ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. McDonnell though, eliminates the felony charge and makes Mr. McDonnell eligible to receive the pension, based on his nearly 24 years of state service, as well as any back payments he did not receive.

He could lose the state pension again if he is retried on any of the charges and convicted — a prospect that legal experts consider remote given the high court’s decision. Until then, Mr. McDonnell, a former state attorney general and former General Assembly member, would be due his payments from the Virginia Retirement System.

In addition, the Supreme Court ruling opens the door for Mr. McDonnell to be restored to good standing with the Virginia State Bar, which licenses attorneys and handles discipline.

The bar has continued disciplinary hearings in Mr. McDonnell’s case and has not removed his license during the appeal process according to the state agency’s website. However, the website states that Mr. McDonnell is listed as an attorney “not in good standing and not eligible to practice law.”

Under state law, a felony conviction automatically leads to loss of a law license. Now that Mr. McDonnell is no longer a felon, he could seek to have the bar reinstate him to good standing. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

GRTC plans to eliminate two bus routes in Richmond and shrink service on a third city route later this summer to cut costs.

The cuts come amid the transit company’s preparations for the start of construction of the $63 million Bus Rapid Transit service that is expected to be in operation within 16 months.

While officials are promising speedier service on BRT’s planned 7.6-mile route between Rockett’s Landing to the east and The Shops at Willow Lawn to the west, BRT’s impact is still a question mark. The Greater Richmond Transit Co. is acting to avoid red ink during the 201617 budget year that will end next year on June 30.

The company, which eliminated two other routes in 2014 to save money, is proposing the following service cuts effective Aug. 21: • Eliminating Route 11, which provides service to the Richmond Justice Center, the Oliver Hill Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court and the Mosby Court public housing community.

• Eliminating Route 66 express service between Downtown and The Shops at Spring Rock Green at Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway in Chesterfield County, near the city line.

• Reducing service on Route 16 Grove between Downtown and Carytown. Runs would be eliminated between 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Route 11 averages 725 riders a week, Route 66 Express carries about 360 people a week, while Route 16 serves about 1,700 people weekly, according to GRTC statistics.

The reductions are expected to save GRTC $360,000 a year, according to company spokeswoman Carrie Rose Pace.

When the changes are complete, GRTC will have 29 regular routes and one express route within Richmond, Ms. Pace said. The company also will have five additional routes that serve both the city and Henrico

County along with other express runs, including six to Henrico, one to Chesterfield County, one to Petersburg and one to King’s Dominion.

“GRTC does not expect to see a significant decrease in ridership,” Ms. Pace stated in response to a Free Press query.

She noted that riders served by the three routes “will be able to use other routes.”

For example, she said Route 43 Whitcomb-Fairfield is being adjusted to provide riders with access to the city’s jail, juvenile court and detention center.

Meanwhile, the Route 4 Rollins-Belmont route was “extended to Carytown in January” and will provide “riders who rode the Route 16 bus the opportunity to still access the Carytown service areas,” she stated.

Riders using the Route 66 Express will have to catch the Route 64 Express that links Stony Point and Downtown, she added.

While GRTC is a regional transit system, its main patron, the city government, has declined to increase its $12.3 million subsidy to the company since 2014. At the same time, income from fares is not going up, nor have federal and state subsidies increased much.

While the company has been able to save money because of the lower cost of diesel fuel, the savings have been offset by small annual wage increases for drivers and by the rising cost of health insurance.

Prospects for future boosts in city subsidies for regular bus service remain dim.

When the BRT service begins, the city is projected to have to provide an additional $700,000 a year to subsidize that service.

The BRT subsidy would need to be even larger if the mayor and Richmond City Council carry through on promises to improve East End links to the BRT service.

— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Riders slow to take advantage of discounted bus passes GRTC has been offering regular riders discounts of up to 42 percent on the cost of bus fares.

Surprisingly, most regular users of the regional transit system have been slow to take advantage of the new system of passes that are less expensive and also offer a big bonus — unlimited rides for a day, week or month, depending on the pass.

For example, riders who buy a weekly unlimited pass can save at least 28 percent if they take just two, one-way trips a day. But only about 7 percent of GRTC’s riders are buying the weekly passes, according to bus company data.

A monthly pass can save a rider at least 42 percent on fares, but only about 7 percent of riders buy monthly passes, the same data show.

Instead, most riders who purchase unlimited passes stick with the daily pass, which costs the same as regular roundtrip tickets, according to GRTC.

The daily unlimited pass costs $3.50, which is equal to the cost of two, one-way rides with a regular ticket and a transfer.

A regular ticket costs $1.50 one way and a transfer adds 25 cents, for a total of $1.75 one way.

The cost of a weekly unlimited pass is $17.50 for a Richmond resident who does not qualify for the half-price discount for the elderly and disabled. That’s $7 less than the $24.50 a person would pay buying a $3.50 ticket each day for seven days. The discount is even larger for people who use the bus service more often during the week.

Monthly unlimited passes provide even bigger savings for frequent riders.

A monthly pass costs $60. That’s a $45 savings from the $105 a person spending $3.50 a day would pay over a 30-day period for two rides per day.

The monthly pass is less expensive for the elderly and disabled, who can buy it for $35. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Foundation approves funds to preserve 2 historic cemeteries

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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A flag marks a veteran’s grave in private Evergreen Cemetery, located off Nine Mile Road in Eastern Henrico County. The Virginia Outdoors Foundation has launched an effort to preserve and protect the cemetery that dates to 1891.

Volunteers working to restore two overgrown and neglected African-American cemeteries on the border between Richmond and Henrico County are getting significant state support.

Last Thursday, as anticipated, the board of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) unanimously approved setting aside $400,000 to pay for untangling the title of the private cemeteries and creating a conservation easement to protect the area where more than 10,000 African-Americans have been laid to rest, including pioneering banker Maggie L. Walker, crusading journalist John R. Mitchell Jr. and educator and minister J. Andrew Bowler.

The foundation’s focus is on conserving and restoring the private East End and Evergreen cemeteries that encompass 76 acres. The foundation’s plan is to team up with the City of Richmond’s charity arm, Enrichmond Foundation, and other partners.

Created in 1897, East End Cemetery has long been considered abandoned, according to Henrico County records. Evergreen, which dates to 1891 and includes the graves of Mrs. Walker and Mr. Mitchell, is partly untended and partly still an active cemetery.

So far, Richmond City Hall has yet to include in the preservation effort its two cemeteries, the Oakwood Colored and the Colored Paupers, which adjoin the private cemeteries and are equally neglected.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe went to the East End Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon to call attention to the action of the foundation that was established 50 years ago to protect natural, historic and scenic areas.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a former governor and a Democratic vice presidential prospect, applauded the foundation’s intervention in a statement, calling the funding “vital support” for the volunteers who have “diligently worked to clear these cemeteries of brush, ivy vines, trees, weeds and years of accumulated, illegally dumped trash.”

The two are the first cemeteries to attract the foundation’s notice.

The graveyards became overgrown because families who originally bought plots did not have to include money for perpetual care, now a requirement for newer cemeteries. As time passed, families either died out or lost interest in caring for the graves.

Brent Glymph, VOF’s executive director who pushed the effort to use the foundation’s

resources to rescue the cemeteries, called it a moral imperative to save such historical sites.

The state foundation’s involvement represents a boost for people like John Shuck, an Iowa transplant who has spent the past eight years mustering volunteers and hacking away at the vegetation that has engulfed the two graveyards.

It’s also a boost for Marvin Harris, who is leading an effort by the Maggie Walker Class of 1967 to clean up the cemeteries before the class marks its 50th reunion next year.

Mr. Harris has been recruiting volunteers and partners from area landscaping and construction firms that have the equipment and know-how with herbicides to make the project progress more quickly.

“It’s going to be easier to approach people about pitching in with this kind of support,” he said.

Mr. Shuck said that volunteers are still needed to keep down the vegetation. Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts and a host of other groups have helped, but every year he has to find additional volunteers.

Even with all the efforts, less than 10 percent of the overgrown section of the cemeteries has been cleared, Mr. Harris said. “We have a ways to go.”

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New physics lab, majors at VUU A new physics laboratory, and new majors in physics and cyber security at Virginia Union University, are expected to boost the number of students who want to pursue careers in cyber security.

“The cyber security industry is growing faster than the average for all occupations in any field,” says Dr. LaTrelle Green, dean of VUU’s School of Mathematics, Science and Technology. “It’s a crucial need for our world economy.”

In order to meet the demand, VUU will offer new majors in physics and cyber security this fall. Cyber security majors may choose from four concentrations, including accounting, digital forensics, finance and banking, and mathematics. So far 26 students have signed up for the new majors, said Dr. Green.

VUU’s new physics major was created, in part, from a National Science Foundation $100,000 grant awarded to Dr. Shaheen Islam, a professor in the Department of Natural Sciences. “Many more career opportunities will be available to our students as a result of this program, including jobs in high-tech industries, national labs, sales and marketing, medical facilities and teaching,” she said.

VUU officials also said negotiations are underway to offer a “3 Plus2” engineering program that will allow students to study three years at VUU, then two additional years at a partner university to earn dual undergraduate degrees in physics and engineering. Howard University is one of the possible partners, officials said.

Chavis to lead initiative at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Duron Chavis is leaving Virginia State University to join Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden as its first community engagement coordinator.

At Lewis Ginter, Mr. Chavis will be responsible for outreach to diverse communities and fostering collaborative, green initiatives in urban neighborhoods.

He will assume his new position July 12.

For the past two years, Mr. Chavis has been director of VSU’s Harding Street UrMr. Chavis ban Ag Center, an indoor farming incubator Photo by Ayasha Sledge funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He and the VSU program were featured in an article “Future of food,” in the May Virginia Union University President Dr. Claude G. Perkins, center, takes part in the recent 19-21 edition of the Free Press. ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new physics lab in Ellison Hall. He is joined by, from left, “Duron was selected from a field of over 30 applicants, and Dr. Gerard McShepard, chair of the Department of Natural Sciences; Dr. LaTrelle Green, emerged as the strongest candidate with his combination of dean of the School of Mathematics, Science and Technology; and Dr. Shaheen Islam and Dr. Francis Mensah, both of the Department of Natural Sciences. professional achievements and passion for community building through urban greening,” said Shane Tippett, executive director of the botanical garden in Henrico County. “We know that Duron’s natural ability to build, nurture and maintain relationships that connect people and plants to improve our community will be a great asset and help us achieve our goal of making Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden everyone’s garden.”

A Richmond native and VSU graduate, Mr. Chavis is known nationally for his leadership in urban agriculture and is an advocate for community-designed solutions to local challenges. He is a 2015 graduate of Hope in the Cities’ Community Trustbuilding Fellowship program and the 2011 Leadership Metro Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot Richmond class.

Mr. Chavis has served on numerous public advisory Kenneth C. Alexander, a former state senator and member of the House of Delegates who previously served councils and task forces, and is as chairman of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, takes the oath of office as Norfolk’s new mayor during a the founder of the McDonough ceremony last Friday outside Norfolk City Hall. Mr. Alexander’s May 3 election makes him the first African-American Community Garden. He also has mayor of the Hampton Roads city. His wife, Donna Alexander, holds the Bible as he is sworn in by Judge John R. served as a project coordinator Doyle III, chief judge of Norfolk Circuit Court. The Alexanders were joined by their sons, David, left, and Kenneth II. for Renew Richmond’s comMayor Alexander is president of the family-owned Metropolitan Funeral Service. munity gardens.

Norfolk’s new mayor

National commission to commemorate arrival of Africans in America approved by House

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A federal commission to recognize the trials, tribulations and contributions of African-Americans since 1619 is one step closer to becoming a reality.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved Tuesday the legislation proposed by Virginia Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-3rd, to establish the commission to plan programs and activities for 2019, the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans.

The vote drew applause from Rep. Scott and Virginia’s two senators, Democrats Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, who introduced companion legislation in their chamber that is still to be voted on.

“I applaud my colleagues in the House for passing this bill,” said Rep. Scott, Virginia’s lone African-American congressman and the dean of the state’s Washington delegation.

“The history of Virginia and our nation Rep. Scott cannot be fully understood or appreciated without knowing about the first Africans who arrived at Point Comfort, Virginia, in August 1619,” he stated.

“The commission established by this bill will be charged with the important task of planning, developing and implementing a series of events throughout 2019 that fully tell the story of African-Americans, their contributions to the fabric of our nation and their resilience over the last 400 years.”

“This bill is so connected to our country’s history and heritage, and we are excited that it is one step closer to final passage,” Sen. Kaine said. “Every dimension of American life, across generations, has been influenced by African-Americans.

“We need to tell that story — in its tragedy and triumph — and we will continue to work to advance this bill in the Senate in the coming months,” he said.

“We cannot move forward as a country unless we recognize the injustices that occurred in our past,” said Sen. Warner. “The creation of this commission is an opportunity to institutionalize the contributions made by African-Americans. It is my hope that this legislation paves the way for future efforts to honor the important role African-Americans have played as we work together to forge a path toward a better future.”

Rep. Scott had bipartisan support from Republican and Democratic members of the Virginia delegation who co-patroned the bill, as well as from Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Passage of the bill comes as the Smithsonian prepares for the Sept. 24 opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington.

Africans first arrived in Virginia in August 1619, 13 years after the colony was established. Described as “20 and odd Negroes,” the new arrivals were brought ashore apparently in trade for food.

It would be another 40 years before the legal framework for slavery was approved by the colony’s legislature, although aspects of it were in place within 10 years, according to historians. Still some of the new arrivals or their progeny and those of other Africans to follow would go on to own property and create a town in Charles City County.

They were not the first Africans in what is now the United States. Enslaved Africans began arriving in Spanish-controlled St. Augustine, Fla., in 1570.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER W, WARREN COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUE-2016-00063 On June 1, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” 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 with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider W (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Warren County Power Station, a 1,342 megawatt nominal natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating plant and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Warren County, Virginia (“Warren County Project” or “Project”).

In Case No. PUE-2011-00042, the Commission approved the development of the Warren County Project. In conjunction with its approval of the Project, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider W, which allowed Dominion Virginia Power to recover costs associated with the development of the Project, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction. According to Dominion Virginia Power, the Warren County Project commenced commercial operation on December 10, 2014.

In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power has asked the Commission to approve Rider W for the rate year beginning April 1, 2017, and ending March 31, 2018 (“2017 Rate Year”). The two key components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2017 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 $119,744,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $6,719,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $126,463,000 for service rendered during the 2017 Rate Year.

Dominion Virginia Power utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 10.5%, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a combined cycle generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, including an accompanying correction to the 2014 calendar year Actual Cost True-up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 11%, which comprises the general ROE of 10% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

If the proposed Rider W for the 2017 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion Virginia Power, implementation of its proposed Rider W on April 1, 2017, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.40.

The Company has calculated the proposed Rider W rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider W proceeding, Case No. PUE-2015-00061.

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, bifurcated ROE issues from the remainder of the case and scheduled a public hearing on November 8, 2016, 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 on the Company’s Application. At this public hearing evidence related to non-ROE aspects of the Application will also be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

A public hearing on ROE issues in this case and in Case Nos. PUE-2016-00059, PUE-2016-00060, PUE-2016-00061, and PUE-2016-00062 shall be convened by the Commission on January 18, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. At this public hearing evidence and testimony related to ROE aspects of the Application will be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

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 Resources 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 November 1, 2016, 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 November 1, 2016, 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. PUE-2016-00063.

On or before August 30, 2016, 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. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-201600063. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before September 27, 2016, 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. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00063.

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.

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Mr. Baliles

Mr. Berry

Mr. Morrissey

Ms. Mosby

Mr. Stoney

Mr. Tyler

Mr. Junes

Mr. Williams

Candidates certified to run for mayor, City Council, School Board Continued from A1

However, voters in the city’s nine districts will be able to cast a ballot for a representative for the district in which they live.

At least four new people will fill seats on the council, as two incumbents, Mr. Baliles and Ms. Mosby, are running for mayor and two others, Charles R. Samuels, 2nd District, and Kathy C. Graziano, 4th District, are not seeking re-election.

In the remaining five districts, council incumbents will be seeking new four-year terms against challengers, mostly political newcomers.

Here are the certified candidates running for Richmond City

Council: 1st District: Andreas D. Addison, Jonathan M. Cruise and Harry H. Warner Jr. 2nd District: A.S. “Charlie” Diradour, Kimberly B. Gray and Rebecca K.W. Keel.

3rd District: Incumbent Chris A. Hilbert will face Milondra B. Coleman, Dorian O. Daniels and Hassan J. Fountain.

4th District: Timothy E. Grimes, Kristen Nye Larson, Larry A. Olanrewaju, Jeff B. Thomas Jr. and Johnny S. Walker.

5th District: Incumbent Parker C. Agelasto will face Montigue T. Magruder and Garrett L. Sawyer.

6th District: Incumbent Ellen F. Robertson will face

Slew of candidates translated into flood of work The 73 candidates who filed to run for Richmond office submitted 1,835 pages of petitions with 25,060 signatures of purportedly registered voters, according to city Voter Registrar Kirk Showalter.

Every one of the signatures had to be checked against the state database of registered voters to ensure they were valid, Ms. Showalter said.

Ultimately, 14 candidates, including five seeking to run for mayor, were disqualified for having too few signatures.

Another candidate was disqualified for failing to file other required forms.

Ms. Showalter said her office faced a time crunch to get the signatures checked because 50 of the 73 candidates who filed for mayor, City Council and the School Board submitted their petitions close to the June 14 deadline.

Ms. Showalter said that was just one assignment undertaken by her and

the six staff members who checked the signatures. They also were continuing to register voters and prepare for the June 14 congressional primary election.

The flood of signatures is the result of the requirements candidates must meet. Those running for mayor needed to have petitions with a minimum of 500 signatures of registered voters, with at least 50 from each of the city’s nine voting districts.

Candidates for City Council and the School Board each needed 125 signatures of registered voters from the district in which they are running.

The petition checks found that 10,507 signatures, or 42 percent, could not be identified.

A signature check is simple, Ms. Showalter said, when the signer includes a legible printed name and address and a partial Social Security number that matches information on the state’s

computer list.

The work is more difficult and time consuming when the name is hard to read or the listed address is not on the state list and no partial Social Security number is included, she said.

Ms. Showalter said she, as well as her staff, double- and triple-checked 3,089 of the signatures before ruling them out, either due to illegibility or because they did not match a voter on the state list.

The signatures that got the extra scrutiny were on the petitions submitted by the candidates who were ultimately disqualified.

The multiple checks did save one mayoral candidate who initially was one signature short. Ms. Showalter said that she reviewed signatures for that candidate at least five times before she found the 500th qualifying signature. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Donald L. Moss III. 7th District: Incumbent Cynthia I. Newbille will face Josh M. Williams.

8th District: Incumbent Reva M. Trammell will face Amelia Lightner.

9th District: Leon Benjamin Sr., Michael J. Jones, Germika T. Pegram and Marcus Omar Squires.

School Board

Voters in five School Board districts also will be selecting new representatives. Two current members, Ms. Gray, 2nd District, and Ms. Larson, 4th District are seeking to move to City Council. Two other members, the Rev. Donald L. Coleman, 7th District, and Dr. Derik E. Jones, 8th District, chose not to seek re-election. A fifth incumbent, Tichi Pinkney Eppes, 9th District, failed to qualify for the ballot, and Linda Baker Owen, the only person who filed to challenge Ms. Pinkney Eppes, is now running unopposed.

In the four other districts, incumbents seeking new, four-year terms are facing challengers.

Here are the candidates in the races for Richmond School Board: 1st District: Incumbent J.E. Dawson Boyer, who earlier this year was appointed to replace now state Sen. Glen H. Sturtevant Jr., will face Liz B. Doerr.

2nd District: J. Scott Barlow and Mariah L. White.

3rd District: Incumbent Jeff M. Bourne will face Jessee M. Perry and Kevin A. Starlings.

4th District: M. Barrett Hardiman, Irvine Lee Reaves Jr., Sean M. Smith and Jonathan M. Young.

5th District: Incumbent Mamie L. Taylor will face Patrick M. Sapini.

6th District: Incumbent Shonda M. Harris-Muhammed will face Felicia D. Cosby.

7th District: Kirsten Y. Gray, Nadine D. Marsh-Carter and Richard S. “Rick” Tatnall.

8th District: Dawn C. Page, Tia S. Redd and Christopher J. Woody Sr. 9th District: Linda Baker Owen.

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made while defending her use of the private email setup.

He said, for example, that the FBI found at least 110 emails that contained classified information when they were sent, although Mrs. Clinton repeatedly has said she never sent or received classified information on her private servers.

“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of the classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Mr. Comey said.

But he said the FBI concluded “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges.

“Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case,” Mr. Comey told reporters in Washington.

His recommendation will likely stand.

The country’s top prosecutor, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, said Wednesday that she accepted the recommendation of the FBI director and would not charge Mrs. Clinton for mishandling emails.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign was anxious to move on after Mr. Comey’s announcement, saying in a statement it was pleased with the FBI recommendations.

“As the secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email, and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved,” spokesman Brian Fallon said.

He did not respond to questions about Mr. Comey’s rebuttal of the main arguments Mrs. Clinton has offered in defense of her use of private email.

At a rally in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday night, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, said the controversy should disqualify Mrs. Clinton from being president and that her email system may well have been hacked by U.S. enemies.

“Our enemies may have a blackmail file on crooked Hillary and this alone means that she should not be allowed to serve as president of the United States,” Mr. Trump said. “We now know that she lied to the country when she said that she did not send classified information on her server. She lied!”

The FBI director’s announcement came hours before Mrs. Clinton’s first campaign appearance with President Obama in Charlotte, N.C., where neither President Obama nor Mrs. Clinton mentioned the email probe. It also came less than three weeks before the Democratic National Convention July 25 through 28 in Philadelphia at which Mrs. Clinton is to be nominated as the party’s candidate for the November election.

After months on the sidelines, President Obama told voters he was ready to “pass the baton” to his former secretary of state.

The president took the microphone in Charlotte, chanting “Hillary!” and told the crowd there had never been a candidate as prepared to be president as Mrs. Clinton, his rival in 2008 for the Democratic nomination.

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1870 to pay for its new system of public schools. City records show the original tax was $1.25 per $100 of assessed value.

When property values are increasing, state law requires local governments automatically to roll back the tax rate to ensure taxpayers pay no more than a 1 percent increase over the previous year.

The law requires that the governing body vote if they want a higher tax rate.

In each of the past two years, council has voted to keep the $1.20 tax rate, essentially raising the tax bills for those whose property values increased.

This year, the tax rate would roll back to about $1.17 per $100 of assessed value.

For a property valued at $100,000, the rate would bring a tax of $1,170 — a $30 savings from the current rate.

Given that Mayor Dwight C. Jones and City Council built the new budget that went into effect July 1 on projections of higher property values, rolling back the tax rate could require spending cuts.

Every penny of the property tax yields about $2 million in revenue for the city — critical for a government that is struggling to balance its budget and is looking for more money to pay for improvements to schools and city property.

The 3 percent increase in overall values is based on the new assessments that were issued last month to the owners of the 70,236 homes , condominiums, apartment buildings and commercial and industrial properties in Richmond. The property assessments will be used to generate real estate tax bills in January 2017.

According to the preliminary report, the total value of taxable property now exceeds $21.5 billion. This is the first year that property values have surpassed the

previous peak of $21.1 million in 2010 — a signal that much of the city’s real estate market has almost fully recovered from the Great Recession.

The value of property is largely based on comparative sales prices in the previous 12 months.

However, a closer review of the assessor’s report shows that the rise in property values is very uneven across the city, with property values still flat or declining in a third of the city.

For example, the new property values in the Shockoe area of Downtown collectively jumped $33 million, or nearly 17 percent, compared with last year, the largest single increase in values.

At the same time, the value of property around Virginia Commonwealth University’s academic campus in the near West End fell a collective $728,000, or 1.51 percent from last year.

Double-digit gains in value were reported in a few other neighborhoods.

Portions of Church Hill were among the hottest housing markets, with an increase of 15.9 percent in value reported around Franklin Military Academy, a 14.2 percent increase reported in the East End neighborhood and a 13.96 percent increase reported in the Oakwood area.

Monument Avenue property values also surged 14.8 percent, while values in the historic Battery Court neighborhood in North Side increased 11.4 percent.

However, South Side had no neighborhoods in which double-digit increases were reported. The closest was a neighborhood labeled Manchester/Bainbridge/ Blackwell North, where values increased 9.7 percent.

Overall, property value increases of 1 percent or more were reported in 60 of the 97 neighborhoods into which the assessor

divides the city. Property values also barely budged — and even declined — in the remaining 37 neighborhoods.

The fact that much of the city has yet to experience growth in property values is important to the city. Fully 54 percent of the total value of taxable property in the city is tied up in residential property.

If there was one big surprise in the report, it was the assessor’s finding of a zero increase in property values in Scott’s Addition, despite the explosion in apartment development and the arrival of a host of businesses that reportedly have created one of the hottest real estate markets in the city. Scott’s Addition is the commercial and residential area that lies northwest of the Boulevard and Broad Street.

Areas that get far less mention, such as Providence Park and Sherwood Park in North Side, experienced value increases of 4.6 percent and 8.3 percent, respectively.

In some areas, there were significant declines in values. One example: Homes around George Wythe High School in South Side fell 6.5 percent in value compared with last year. However, nearby residential property bordering Forest Hill Park increased 6.5 percent in value.

Sometimes adjacent neighborhoods had far different results. For example, the neighborhood around Ann Hardy Park in the Highland Park community had a 6.7 percent increase in value, while property in the Highland Park-North neighborhood that is closer to the Henrico County line increased in value by a negligible one-tenth of 1 percent.

The report also noted that the assessed value of apartment buildings was generally up in the city, while the assessed value of condominiums remained relatively flat.

“I’ve run my last campaign, and I couldn’t be prouder of the things we’ve done together, but I’m ready to pass the baton,” he said in what was likely to be the first of many trips this year on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf.

“I know Hillary Clinton is going to take it, and I know she can run that race,” he said.

President Obama was returning the favor after Mrs. Clinton backed him in 2008’s general election. This year, he waited while she battled U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the Democratic nomination before endorsing Mrs. Clinton last month once she became the party’s presumptive nominee.

In Charlotte, Mrs. Clinton preceded President Obama, saying, “We’re going to build on the vision for America that President Obama has always championed, a vision for a future where we do great things together.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the president did not get advance notice of Mr. Comey’s announcement and said the president would not discuss the FBI’s investigation with Mrs. Clinton.

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23 at the NNPA Foundation Merit Awards Dinner. The Free Press won the first place award for the editorial, “Day of Reckoning, published in the Jan. 8-10, 2015, edition, regarding embarrassments to the state of Virginia by the convictions of former Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell on federal corruption charges and former Democratic Delegate Joseph D. Morrissey on a state charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Since the editorials were published, the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Mr. McDonnell’s felony conviction on 11 counts of corruptions and returned the case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Legal scholars and the current governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, believe Mr. McDonnell will not be retried in the case. And Mr. Morrissey, 58, in early June married the young woman, now 20, with whom he allegedly had sexual relations when she was underage. They now have two children.

Commenting on the prestigious award, Richmond Free Press Publisher Jean Patterson Boone said: “The Free Press team joins me in proudly Ms. Winston congratulating our managing editor, Bonnie Winston, for her compelling and award-winning editorial.

We strive for excellence every week and this award from our peers affirms that the Free Press continues to be recognized in the tradition of our founder’s pursuit of excellence under Ms. Winston’s editorial leadership.”

Top honors at this year’s ceremony went to the St. Louis American, which received the John B. Russwurm and John A. Sengstacke Trophy for General Excellence. Its publisher, Dr. Donald Suggs, also received the 2016 Samuel E. Cornish Award for Publisher of the Year.

Other newspapers winning awards were The Washington Informer, the Winston-Salem Chronicle, the Carolina Peace Maker, The Philadelphia Tribune, the Pittsburgh Courier, The Final Call, the New York Amsterdam News, Houston Forward Times, the Seattle Medium, the Indianapolis Recorder, The Chicago Crusader, the Los Angeles Wave, the Houston Defender, Windy City Word, Insight News, the Dallas Weekly, The Michigan Chronicle and The Skanner News.

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Voting rights rally July 19 to coincide with hearing on Va. restoration of rights case A Stand Up for Voting Rights rally will take place 8 a.m.

July 19 at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square at 9th and Franklin streets.

The rally will be followed by voter registration, redistricting and election protection workshops from 9 a.m. to noon.

The rally, sponsored by a coalition of more than 20 organizations including the NAACP, the ACLU of Virginia, Latino Justice and the Virginia AFL-CIO, is designed to show public support as the Virginia Supreme Court holds a special session

to hear arguments on Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s use of executive power to restore voting and other political rights to more than 200,000 felons.

The Supreme Court session begins 9 a.m. July 19, at the Supreme Court Building, 100 N. 9th St., across from the Bell Tower and Capitol Square.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has urged the court to reject the Republican-led legal challenge to the governor’s power to restore voting rights en masse.

Among Mr. Herring’s arguments to dismiss the lawsuit is the Virginia Constitution’s language that the governor’s authority to restore rights to a group of people “may not be controlled or restricted by either the legislative branch or the judicial branch.”

Mr. Herring wrote that authority has been in place since at least the 1870 Virginia Constitution, even if every other governor has ignored the authority and restored rights on a case-by-case basis.

The GOP litigants believe rights restoration must be done on a case-by-case basis.

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public about the history and role of the court and the importance of the role played by courts, perhaps the element of government “the public knows the least about.”

He envisions creating space in the court’s home base in the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Courthouse at 10th and Main streets in Downtown where people can come and learn about the court, its judges and the important cases it has dealt with.

Judge Gregory views courts as a bulwark of protection for people and the Constitution that “guarantees you the right to pursue your dreams and build a positive life in a constructive way.”

He also wants to do more to call attention to the court’s annual ceremony at which immigrants become American citizens.

His rise to chief judge is part of the change to the court that hears appeals from the nine federal district courts within the 4th Circuit.

Once considered the nation’s most conservative court, the 4th Circuit has long since shed the label since the arrival of Judge Gregory and 10 other judges in the years since 2000, seven of whom are appointees of President Obama. The newer members include the court’s first Latino, Judge Albert Diaz, and the first African-American woman to serve on the court, Judge Allyson K. Duncan.

The court now includes four African-Americans including Judge Gregory: Judge Duncan of North Carolina, Judge James A. Wynn Jr. of North Carolina and senior Judge Andre M. Davis of Maryland.

Judge Gregory, who will succeed Judge William B. Traxler Jr. of South Carolina as chief judge, has helped brake the conservative drift of the court, which divides the members into three-judge panels to hear appeals from lower courts.

His influence on the court’s direction has been felt in the hundreds of opinions that he has written or joined in the nearly 16 years he has served.

Just this week, he breathed new life into a Muslim woman’s lawsuit alleging that she was wrongfully discharged based on discrimination because of her faith and circumstances. He did so by reversing a lower court’s ruling that threw out the case.

Judge Gregory wrote the opinion for a unanimous appeals court panel finding the district judge got it wrong.

In opinions he authored or joined, he has checked police unbridled use of traffic stops as an excuse to search for drugs and contraband, and restricted lower court judges from imposing long, but not fully justified prison terms.

He was part of the panel that overturned bans on same-sex marriage in Virginia and the four other states in the circuit, an opinion that went into effect in October 2014 when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

In one of his most influential opinions, Judge Gregory wrote the panel opinion that upheld Obamacare, by finding crucial tax subsidies in the Affordable Care Act are legal, a position later upheld by the nation’s highest court.

Judge Gregory did not have to lobby or seek the votes of his colleagues to become chief. He was in line based on his seniority and the fact that he is younger than 64 years, six months.

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A representative for Ciara confirmed the marriage and said the wedding took place at the Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, England.

TMZ reported that all cell phones were collected before family and friends entered the castle outside Liverpool to ensure privacy. Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Rowland were among the guests.

TMZ also reported that Ciara and about a dozen of her BFFs, including tennis star Serena Williams, met in Las Vegas two weeks ago at the swanky Wynn Las Vegas hotel on The Strip.

The weekend bash — apparently Ciara’s bachelorette party — included dancing at Intrigue nightclub, hanging out by the pool and attending the Cirque du Soleil’s aquatic show, “Le Rêve – The Dream” at the Wynn.

Ciara, 30, and Mr. Wilson, 27, announced their engagement in March.

Mr. Wilson, the son of the late Richmond attorney Harrison Wilson III and Tammy T. Wilson, is the Super Bowl-winning quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. Grammy-winning Ciara’s hits include “1, 2 Step,” “Goodies” and “Lose Control” with Missy Elliott.

This is Mr. Wilson’s second marriage. Ciara’s son, Future Zahir, from a previous relationship turned 2 in May.

While unique for the 4th Circuit, African-American chief judges of federal appellate courts are no longer unusual. Of the 13 U.S. circuit courts of appeal, three — the 3rd, 5th and 6th circuits based in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Cincinnati, respectively — currently have African-American chief judges.

He also is not the first Richmond area resident to be a chief judge. The first was the late Spottswood W. Robinson III, a pioneering federal judge who became chief judge of the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals in 1981.

Judge Gregory doesn’t mind that he will be nearly 70 when his term as chief judge ends in 2023.

He loves being a judge.

“It’s wonderful work. It’s intellectually stimulating and sometimes has national consequences,” said the jurist, who was born in Philadelphia and grew in Petersburg.

His hope is that as chief judge he will “not become bogged down in the administrative work” so that he can fully participate in hearing cases. The court receives about 5,000 new cases a year and hears arguments in about 450.

The judges all know that their opinions count as the U.S. Supreme Court considers appeals in fewer than 100 cases a year from across the country.

One thing about Judge Gregory is that he never forgets where he came from. As he prepares to become chief judge, “I think about my parents. They worked in a tobacco factory and had very little formal education. They got up early and worked more time to earn wages so I could earn letters.”

He remains a bit awed “that a little kid from segregated Pe-

tersburg could be in the 4th Circuit Court. It’s humbling.”

Judge Gregory laid the groundwork for his future at Virginia State University. After graduating summa cum laude, he went on to earn his law degree at the University of Michigan.

He first joined a corporate law firm in Michigan and then returned to the Richmond area to become an associate at Hunton & Williams, the area’s largest firm at the time.

In 1982, he teamed with a future governor, L. Douglas Wilder, to form the law firm Wilder & Gregory.

When Mr. Wilder was elected lieutenant governor in 1985, Judge Gregory led the firm until 2000, when President Bill Clinton nominated him for the court. When Republican senators blocked the nomination, President Clinton defied them by naming Judge Gregory to the 4th Circuit with a recess appointment in December 2000.

In early 2001, Judge Gregory became the first jurist to be nominated by two presidents, when new President George W. Bush also nominated him to the court. This time, the U.S. Senate confirmed him to a lifetime appointment. Again, his confirmation came in his birthday month of July.

Judge Gregory is the father of three daughters. Last November, he married Velda Edwards. His first wife of 29 years, Carla L. Gregory, died in 2009.

He also is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, also known as The Boulé.

He has received varied awards for his public service and also serves on the boards of the University of Richmond and the John Marshall Foundation.

Louisiana man killed by police Reuters

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it will investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by two white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. Captured on at least two videos, graphic images of the shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, early Tuesday stirred protests and social media outcry over the latest case of alleged police brutality against an AfricanAmerican in cities from Ferguson, Mo., to Baltimore and New York.

One of the two officers shot Mr. Sterling five times at close range, and the other removed something from Mr. Sterling’s pants pocket as he was dying, according to images on a video recorded by Abdullah Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food Mart where Mr. Sterling was killed in the

parking lot.

“I’m heartbroken. It’s outrageous. It’s crazy,” said Mr. Muflahi, who considered Mr. Sterling a friend and allowed him to sell CDs outside his store. He provided a copy of the video to Reuters and said police took a gun from Mr. Sterling’s pocket.

Overnight, about 200 protesters gathered outside the store chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “Black lives matter.”

More protests were planned for Wednesday evening.

Local officials rushed to defuse tensions on Wednesday, saying there would be an independent investigation after media showed a separate graphic video of the shooting recorded by a bystander.

“I have very serious concerns. The video is disturbing, to say the least,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told reporters.

Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden and local police said they welcome

the probe launched by the Justice Department, the FBI and federal prosecutors.

The video recorded on the bystander’s cell phone shows an officer confronting Mr. Sterling in the parking lot of the store and ordering him to get on the ground. The two officers then tackle Mr. Sterling to the pavement, with one pulling a gun from his holster and pointing it at his chest.

Mr. Muflahi’s video shows the officers on top of Mr. Sterling. One of them yells, “He’s got a gun.” The video jerks away from the scene after the first two shots are fired. Three more shots are heard, then the camera shows one of the officers leaning over Mr. Sterling and taking something out of his pocket.

Police did not say how many shots were fired and declined to say whether a stun gun was used on Mr. Sterling. Mr. Muflahi said police tasered Mr. Sterling before he was tackled.

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Exhaling Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton must be exhaling today after learning she’s off the hook criminally for her imprudent way of handling emails containing classified materials.

The FBI’s yearlong probe into the personal home server she used as secretary of state — eschewing the more protected server of the U.S. State Department — found that 110 emails were sent or received containing classified information and secrets, and that it was possible people hostile to U.S. interests may have gained access to her personal email account.

FBI Director James Comey, a tough former federal prosecutor in Richmond who had no problem locking people up and boosting the prison rolls with his programs like “Weed and Seed,” called Mrs. Clinton’s actions “extremely careless” but said no charges were appropriate.

Careless, without intention to harm, nets some people manslaughter charges in drunk driving cases.

Careless, without intention to harm, results in others, like the van driver in Freddie Gray’s case, being slapped with a criminal indictment.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement late Wednesday that Mrs. Clinton will not face any type of sanction or indictment. She said the case is now closed.

The questions are these: Did Mrs. Clinton’s actions result in any harm? And what is the administration doing to ensure that nobody currently is working from home using their own RadioShack equipment or will be in the future?

We don’t know the answer to either of these questions.

Certainly, the world of computer technology, hacking and cyber security has become more complex since Mrs. Clinton served in her cabinet post from January 2009 to February 2013. Universally, we are now more attuned to cyber crimes and the havoc hackers can wreak by not only stealing personal information and credit card numbers, but by bringing down power grids and shutting down economic systems.

What is to stop a hacker with terrorist ties from getting the codes to nuclear weapon systems and striking a worldwide disaster?

With the increase even in recent weeks of mass deaths at the hands of terrorists, we all must be more cautious with the materials we handle.

We, along with Mrs. Clinton, have learned from her mistake. If that’s the worst she has, then it should not cripple her candidacy to become president.

Just think about the alternative.

Stop the violence The deadly violence by police against African-Americans and other people of color continues unabated.

The latest victim, 37-year-old Alton Sterling, was killed Tuesday outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. As the graphic video shows, he had been wrestled to the ground and restrained by one police officer when another shot him five times at point blank range in his chest and back.

According to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will be the lead investigative agency in this case, with the FBI, Louisiana state police and the U.S. attorney’s office in Baton Rouge assisting.

While the governor and others continue the usual post-police shooting pleas for calm and unity, we ask how many more of these police killings must take place before significant action is taken to stop the violence perpetrated by officers of the law?

The UK Guardian newspaper, on its website “The Counted,” is keeping a list of all the police killings in the United States. They are doing it because perhaps we are too chicken in this nation to maintain and report such statistics that clearly demonstrate this is a national emergency and disaster that exceeds even Zika virus proportions. These shootings show that the threat is not an imported bug, but an insidious enemy that lives within our communities and, ironically, is sworn to protect us.

The Guardian’s statistics show that Mr. Sterling is the 558th person murdered by police in 2016. His death is the 13th since the start of July — just seven days ago.

This epidemic has got to stop.

We applaud our local constable, Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham, for continually working to build bridges and trust with the community. He is out there meeting people where they are — in barbershops and through walks in city neighborhoods. His latest community walk was Tuesday, when he led his command staff on a 5:30 p.m. stroll through the largely Latino neighborhood of Southwood off Hull Street Road in South Side, talking with residents.

Hopefully, through leadership such as Chief Durham’s, Richmonders won’t have to face the Louisiana kind of brutality here.

But we need to put tough questions to our candidates for mayor and City Council who want to lead this city.

Ask them what they will do not only to stop the violence in our neighborhoods, but how they will keep the police from perpetrating violence on the people.

Those same questions need to be posed over and over and over again to our elected officials on all levels, including this nation’s presidential candidates. They need to provide solutions rather than being a part of the problem.

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Affirmative action upheld In many instances, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action ruling upholding the University of Texas’ affirmative action program was overshadowed by a same-day order overturning President Obama’s executive order to ease illegal immigrants’ path to U.S. citizenship.

Affirming the university’s admission plan was notable because it squelched an ongoing challenge to affirmative action by well-financed conservative groups. Even more remarkable, the conservativeleaning court rendered the decision shy of its full nine-member participation, with no successor confirmed following the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and liberal Justice Elena Kagan recusing herself from deliberation because of her previous involvement in the case as U.S. solicitor general.

The biggest surprise was that Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, joined the other liberals on the court — Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor — to form the 4-3 majority that said race may be used as one factor among many in building a diverse student body. Dissenting were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and

Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas.

“A university is in large part defined by those intangible ‘qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness,’” Justice Kennedy wrote, quoting from Sweatt v. Painter, a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court

George E. Curry ruling outlawing the University of Texas’ exclusion of AfricanAmericans from its law school.

“Considerable deference is owed to a university in defining those intangible characteristics, like student body diversity, that are central to its identity and educational mission.”

To conform to earlier high court rulings, the Texas legislature passed a new plan in 1997 for the University of Texas to admit all high school seniors who ranked in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. But the plan failed to sufficiently diversify the main campus at Austin.

Texas is about 38 percent Latino and 12 percent AfricanAmerican. Under the 10 Percent Plan, 26 percent of the students admitted were Latino and 6 percent were African-American.

Under challenge was the part of the program that allowed race and ethnicity to be considered along with other factors to fill the slots not taken by the top 10 percent, which usually came to

about 25 percent of each incoming class. No specific points were given for race.

Abigail Fisher, a white female from Sugar Land, Texas, applied for admission to UT in 2008. She did not rank in the top 10 percent of her class and university officials said even if no affirmative action program had been in place, she still would not have been accepted. Still, she sued, saying that race should never be used under any circumstances.

A lower court ruled against her, a ruling that was affirmed upon reaching the appeals court.

Her case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, remanded to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and accepted a second time, with the court’s recently ruling against her.

Justice Thomas, a staunch opponent of affirmative action, declared, “I write separately to reaffirm that ‘a State’s use of race in higher education admissions decisions is categorically prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause.’ The Constitution abhors classifications based on race because every time the government places citizens on racial registers and makes race relevant to the provision of burdens or benefits, it demeans us all.”

He added, “That constitutional imperative does not change in the face of a ‘faddish theor[y]’ that racial discrimination may produce educational benefits.’ “ This is not likely to be the final word on affirmative from

Airbnb working to correct discrimination You learn a lot about the character of an organization when things go wrong.

For the team at Airbnb, hearing the outcry from African-American travelers who were denied lodging because of discrimination was one of these moments. I know, because I met with them in San Francisco in early June to discuss this challenge.

Everyone I spoke with, including CEO Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s legal, engineering and policy team, and the leadership of the black employees group, made clear that they are willing to do all they can to tackle this problem. What they said to me in private matches what they’ve said in public: Airbnb has zero tolerance for bias or racial discrimination.

After spending more than four decades fighting for equality at the ACLU and in other organizations, I’ve seen companies pay lip service to these issues before.

But Airbnb leaders have shown a willingness to be transparent and have expressed a sincere desire to ensure that its policies, technology and platform are not facilitating discrimination.

Toward that end, Airbnb has hired me to help them lead a 90-day review process to address discrimination issues. In working with them, I plan to hold them

accountable.

I will begin that process by spending the summer meeting with technology experts, civil rights leaders, housing advocates and members of the Airbnb community to solicit their ideas.

Those conversations will be

Laura W. Murphy guided by three principles and objectives.

The first is identifying and fixing structural problems with the platform. Airbnb should be less focused on fixing examples of individual discrimination than on understanding how the platform and underlying technology itself may contribute to possible systemic problems.

Airbnb has already tapped its best engineers and product team members to lead this effort, and I’m excited to work with them to make real improvements.

The second step is to improve its processes so it can rapidly identify racial discrimination and deal with these matters quickly and decisively. That includes putting in policies and processes that will set the model for the industry and reflect the company’s commitment to fighting discrimination and acting quickly if something goes wrong.

It will be important for Airbnb, like any company committed to taking on this issue, to continually educate staff and the community so that the everyone understands these rules and processes so that responses are quick and appropriate.

Finally, Airbnb must build broader and enduring relationships with diverse travel, civil rights, grassroots, small business, social science and educational institutions. The staff at Airbnb cannot make its way in this increasingly diverse world unless they are a more diverse company and active in communities that will support them in this effort. One meeting in the middle of a crisis won’t do it. They need relationships with experts that last.

Discrimination in the sharing economy is not going away anytime soon, and if Airbnb wants to be in the forefront of tackling this problem, it will be mutually beneficial to be a part of a sustained dialogue with individuals and organizations.

These steps are just the beginning. Airbnb understands that there’s no single solution to the problem of deeply entrenched biases and discrimination in the travel industry or in our society as a whole. It will need to engage in an enduring effort to ensure that every single member of its community is treated equally.

At its core, Airbnb is about helping people feel like they can belong anywhere, no matter who they are, what they look like, or where they’re from. They take that mission very seriously, and I will do whatever I can to help them get it right.

The writer recently retired as director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office after 17 years.

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Lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, each prepared by Project on Fair Representation, the same conservative outfit that represented Ms. Fisher in the UT suit, , are making their way through lower courts and could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

If those cases reach the high court, they could well be decided by the results of the November presidential election.

Writing on Scotusblog.com, Lyle Denniston observed: “Depending upon who wins the presidential election in November, a Scalia successor could hold the balance of power on affirmative action in the future, even if Kennedy were to return to his prior skepticism about such uses of race in public policy decisions. Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor might well have Justice Kagan with them in the future and might form a definite majority when a ninth Justice is on board — depending on presidential politics.”

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Death penalty for Roof won’t stop the hatred Re “Federal authorities seek death penalty in S.C. church massacre,” May 26-28 edition: Killing Dylann Roof, the Charleston church shooter and racist who wrapped himself in the Confederate flag, with the death penalty will not end the layer of white supremacy in the nation.

Who do you think the major supporters of Donald Trump are?

Mr. Trump’s campaign is defined by name-calling, lying, hatred, lack of substance, racial and ethnic slurs, offensive sexual references and racist comments/statements. Mr. Trump and his Republican supporters and staffers, who are white, think they know more about the African-American community than black people. A perfect example is Bill O’Reilly of Fox News.

Republicans are known to “eat their own,” and Mr. Trump

demonstrated that throughout the primary.

The GOP wants black Republicans around them who will not speak their mind regarding race issues. Many black Republicans have absolutely no connection to the black community, nor do they have a leadership position in any state or the national Republican Party that can be used as a platform. Remember what happened to former RNC Chair Michael Steele when he attempted to do outreach to black people.

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Richmonder Jackie Bradley selected to MLB All-Star team Richmond native Jackie Bradley Jr. is officially a Major League Baseball All-Star.

The 26-year-old outfielder for the Boston Red Sox will be an American League starter at the 87th annual MLB All-Star Game on July 12 at San Diego’s Petco Park.

Starters were determined by an internet vote of fans. Balloting closed June 30. Results were released Tuesday on the ESPN Selection Show.

Bradley, who bats left-handed but throws right-handed, received the second highest number of votes among outfielders, trailing only the Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout, the All-Star MVP the past two years.

Another Red Sox player, Mookie Betts, will be the third

starting outfielder.

As of Tuesday, Bradley was hitting .294, with 13 homers, 20 doubles, six triples, 53 runs batted in (RBI) and a .381 onbase percentage.

Defensively he is fielding .990, with eight outfield assists.

He drew national attention earlier this season with a 29-game hitting streak.

Bradley was born in Richmond and lived in the city until middle school, when he moved with his mother to Prince George County. Some of his early tutoring in the game came from the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League.

He gained fame at Prince George High School and the University of South Carolina before signing with Boston in 2011.

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Inaugural VIA Hall of Fame class

Numerous athletes and coaches, including several with Richmond area ties, were among those inducted into the Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) Hall of Fame’s inaugural class.

Under the leadership of VIA Heritage Association Chairman Jimmy Hollins, the ceremony, held June 20, drew a full house at a Charlottesville hotel.

The VIA served as the organizing body for Virginia’s public schools serving black students during segregation, from 1954 to 1969.

Pictured here are Hall of Fame inductees or their rep-

resentatives. They are, front row, left to right: Thaddeus Madden Jr., Lauren Puryear, Dennis Harvey, Louvenia Johnson, Loucious Edwards, the Rev. Jean R. Casey, Suzette Quarles, Kim Lennon, Betty Jones, Dr. Vivian Pinn and Fannie Harris.

Middle row, left to right: James Hayes, Ernest Shaw, Milton Jacox, Walter Bowser, Donald Ross, Roger Hailstork, George Lancaster and Ian Jefferson.

Back row, left to right: Joseph Buggs, Raymond Pollard, Bryant Stith, Arthur Gardener Jr., Earl Lloyd Jr., William Lawson III and Charles Stukes.

His baseball address has been Boston’s Fenway Park since 2013. This will be his first AllStar appearance.

The American League lineup brims with players of color.

Jackie Bradley Top vote getters at their positions are Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez, Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts, Baltimore third baseman Manny Machado, Houston second baseman Jose Altuve, Boston designated hitter David Ortiz and Boston outfielders Bradley and Betts.

No African-American players competed in All-Star games until the 1949 contest at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.

Suiting up for the National League in 1949 were Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, all from host Brooklyn, while Cleveland’s Larry Doby represented the American League.

Bradley isn’t the first player with local ties to be named to the Mid-Summer Classic.

Others include: Justin Verlander (Goochland), pitcher, six-time American League pick with the Xavier Bogaerts David Ortiz Detroit Tigers, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Also the 2011 AL Most Valuable Player.

Sean Casey (University of Richmond), first base, three-time National League pick with the Cincinnati Reds, 1999, 2001 and 2004.

Granny Hamner (Benedictine), infielder, three-time NL pick with the Philadelphia Phillies, 1952, 1953 and 1954.

Gene Alley (Hermitage High School), shortstop, two-time NL pick with the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1967 and 1968.

Brandon Inge (Virginia Commonwealth University), third base with the Detroit Tigers, 2009.

Brian Jordan (University of Richmond), outfield, 1999 NL pick with the Atlanta Braves.

Al Bumbry (Virginia State University), outfield, 1980 AL pick with the Baltimore Orioles.

Johnny Grubb (Meadowbrook High School), 1974 NL pick with the San Diego Padres.

If you count minor leaguers passing through Richmond, the list mushrooms. To mention a few: From the Virginians: Joe Pepitone, Luis Arroyo and Mel Stottlemyre.

The Richmond Braves: Dale Murphy, Bob Horner, Dusty Baker, John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, Javy Lopez, Chipper Jones, Ron Gant, Glenn Hubbard, Andruw Jones and Ralph Garr.

The Flying Squirrels: Joe Panik and Brandon Crawford.

Orozco beats odds to earn second Olympic trip “My name is John Orozco; “I’m an Olympic gymnast; “I’m from Bronx, New York; “And I’m a fighter.”

— John Orozco’s intro to Ryan Tedder’s musical video, “Gym Class Heroes: The Fighter”

While John Orozco flexes his muscles in a music video, his words recently poured from the heart.

Few have fought greater odds to become a repeat Olympian than Orozco, who has known both tears and triumph in his 23-year-old life.

To represent Team USA at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, the chiseled 5-foot-5 New Yorker has overcome two torn Achilles tendons and, worse yet, the grief of his mother’s death.

Orozco, a gymnast and aspiring actor who

has been in three episodes of “Law & Order,” earned a ticket to Rio de Janeiro with an inspirational true-life performance at the recent Olympic Trials in St. Louis.

He has made the five-man lineup that will compete for the United States Aug. 6 through 21 at Arena Olimpica do Rio. “The job is not over, I know,” Orozco told NBC reporter Andrea Joyce after his selection.

Brimming with emotion, he continued: “And I’m proud to represent the USA and I’m going to give it all I’ve got.”

It hasn’t been a smooth ride.

Twice Orozco has torn his right Achilles tendon — a devastating injury for any athlete, much less a world-class gymnast.

The first injury was in 2010; the second, June 2015.

Far worse, on Feb. 14, 2015, his mother,

VSU’s Pittman receives NCAA Degree Completion Award Virginia State University scholarIn addition to her athletic and athlete Wynterra Pittman has received academic achievements, she was a the 2016 NCAA Division II Degree leader in helping the VSU Athletic Completion Award.

Department reach its goal of more The grant enables students with than 1,700 hours of campus and comno more athletic eligibility to retain munity volunteer service. scholarship funding from the NCAA A native of Florida who transferred while completing their degree. to VSU from Chattahoochee Valley A standout basketball player, PittCommunity College in Alabama, man helped VSU win the 2015 CIAA Pittman is working to complete her Wynterra championship while earning Dean’s bachelor’s degree in health, physical Pittman List grades for two years. During the last season, education and recreation with an eye toward she led the Trojans in scoring (12.9 points per a possible master’s degree in sports managegame) and rebounding (8.5 per game). ment.

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Damaris Orozco, who he called “my best friend,” died.

Mrs. Orozco used to drive her son to practice each day, about 30 miles one way, from the Bronx to World Cup Gymnastics in Chappaqua, N.Y. Often she and Orozco, the youngest of her five children, slept in the car on gymnastics road trips, unable to pay for a hotel room.

Despite the family’s modest means in a sport that leans toward the privileged, Orozco made

the U.S. roster for the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo and was all-around leader at the 2012 Olympic Trials in St. Louis.

Orozco, then 19, was among the most hyped gymnasts heading to the London Olympics when misfortune reared its ugly head. Dipping far below expectations on the brightest of stages, he faltered on the pommel horse and stumbled on his vault landing.

After high hopes, he left England medal-less.

Gamely, he battled back.

He was training full speed and seemed recharged entering 2015 when he lost his mother and re-tore his Achilles tendon in a four-month period.

To regain lost ground, he rehabbed in double time and returned much sooner than doctors predicted.

Orozco’s 2016 hopes for Rio rested on his performances in the Procter & Gamble National Championships and Olympic Trials on June 25 at St. Louis’ Chaifetz Arena.

The trials started poorly for Orozco. He appeared a distant long shot following the P&G Championships, but posted an overall, secondbest score on the horizontal bars over four routines and was sixth overall on the pommel.

That earned the comeback kid a second Olympic berth — just barely, after a lengthy deliberation by the selection committee.

Afterward, clutching a bouquet of roses, Orozco couldn’t restrain his elation — and emotion. In front of the NBC cameras, he said, “My mom was there (in spirit) for me the whole time. I know she was looking down. If you can hear me, Mom, I love you.”

Unashamedly, tears of joy rolled down his cheeks.

Even a “fighter” sometimes can’t help but cry.

Hanover standout Cayman Richardson to play ball at U.Va. Cayman Richardson is going from one of the top high school baseball programs in Virginia to one of the top college programs in America.

After helping Hanover High School to three state titles, the 6-foot-2, 180-pound all-around talent will play baseball on scholarship at perennial NCAA powerhouse University of Virginia.

U.Va.’s baseball team won the College World Series in 2015, was runner-up in 2014, has made the NCAA playoffs each year since 2004, sells out most home games and has eight alumni active in Major League Baseball.

“I’ve been following Virginia closely ever since I was in high school,” said Richardson. “I’ve been to many games there and I love the atmosphere. It’s a perfect fit for me.”

In earning All-State 4A honors as a shortstop, Richardson did it all this past spring for Hanover High Coach Charlie Dragum.

Hitting in the cleanup spot and fielding brilliantly, Richardson batted .470, with 11 doubles, 24 runs batted in and 25 runs scored.

A four-year starter, Richardson enjoyed team success at Hanover High that matched his individual accolades.

The Hawks clinched their third state crown in four seasons on June 14, with a 13-12 win over Liberty Christian Academy of Lynchburg in the 4A state finals at Liberty University in Lynchburg.

Hanover High also won the 4A state title in 2014 and the Group AAA title in 2013.

“Cayman can really hit and, defensively, he is so versatile you can put him at any position on the field,” said Coach Dragum.

“Virginia can plug him in wherever they Cayman Richardson need him.”

Richardson grew up playing baseball in the Mechanicsville Little League and has competed on numerous travel squads, most recently with the Virginia Cardinals.

He dabbled in football and basketball before choosing to focus on baseball at Hanover High.

“Baseball became my main priority,” he said. “People ask me about what I do off the field. Well, just about everything I do off the field, like weight training, is designed to help me

on the field.”

His father, Don Richardson, who grew up in the Martinsville area, is a former football quarterback at Virginia State University. He now works as a warehouse supervisor. His mother, Keri Richardson, is a Henrico County schoolteacher.

Richardson was the lone African-American to make this season’s Richmond All-Metro squad and one of only two AfricanAmerican players this year for the Hanover Hawks.

U.Va. has had very few African-American baseball players.

One, standout E.J. Anderson, went to U.Va. from Atlee High School in Hanover County. He played for the Wahoos in the late 1990s and is the program’s fifth all-time, home run slugger with a career total of 15.

Right now, the University of Virginia has a vacancy for shortstop. Standout shortstop Daniel Pinero, who started 194 games during the past three seasons, has signed a pro contract with the Detroit Tigers.

“I’ll play wherever Coach (Brian) O’Connor wants me to play,” Richardson said. “We’ll see what I’m made of. But if I hit well, I believe I’ll be in (the lineup) somewhere.”

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Personality: Jeree M. Thomas Spotlight on inaugural winner of the youth justice Emerging Leader Award Jeree Thomas believes in doing whatever she can to help her clients live more successful lives.

The attorney with the JustChildren program of the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond provides counsel for children and represents them at special education and public benefits hearings.

The program also works to increase parental involvement and student success by offering workshops across the state to parents, social services departments, foster care providers and other organizations working with children.

“I have done everything from going to court and making creative legal arguments to get kids home to their families, to testifying in front of legislators and boards,” said Mrs. Thomas, whose clients range from age 4 to 21.

In one case, Mrs. Thomas made an eight-hour, round-trip drive to a correctional facility to take home a released youth who otherwise would have spent additional time locked up because he lacked transportation home.

Mrs. Thomas’ work has not gone unnoticed. The 29-yearold attorney recently was named the inaugural recipient of the Youth Justice Emerging Leader Award, which honors an advocate for youth justice who embodies passion, boldness and perseverance.

The award, created by the National Juvenile Justice Network, also honors persons who are committed to lifting the voices, experiences and expertise of youths and people of color to ensure that those most directly impacted by injustice are at the forefront of the youth justice movement. Mrs. Thomas will receive the award July 26 during the NJJN’s Youth Justice Leadership Institute in Memphis, Tenn.

“Jeree’s the embodiment of an emerging leader in youth justice reform,” said Sarah Bryer, director of the NJJN. “In addition to her work representing individual youths caught up in the justice system, she helped create Performing Statistics, an innovative advocacy-through-art project, the first of its kind in Virginia, in which incarcerated youths create art in support of reform.”

Emerging Leader award nominees must have been engaged with youth justice advocacy for five years or less.

Mrs. Thomas began her work with JustChildren in 2011 with a two-year award from the Skadden Fellowship Foundation.

The foundation is also known as the “legal Peace Corps” because it attracts some of the brightest young lawyers in the country who begin their careers in public interest work.

Mrs. Thomas said she became interested in law as an undergraduate student at The College of William & Mary.

Her intentions to become a screenwriter were abandoned after she took a course, “Blacks in American Society,” which required a service-learning component.

Mrs. Thomas worked with youths in an alternative school program and observed how situations of trauma affected some of the students. She decided then that child advocacy was her calling. From that point on, she directed her education and work experience toward meeting her goal.

Angela Ciolfi, JustChildren’s legal director, says Mrs. Thomas’“calm and polite demeanor” shouldn’t be misinterpreted.

“She is a true force to be reckoned with,” said Ms. Ciolfi.

“When Jeree identifies an injustice impacting JustChildren’s young clients, she moves swiftly and steadily toward resolving it, and you can count on her to succeed in doing so. Jeree’s commitment to her individual clients, as well as to systemic reform as a whole, is powerful

and inspiring.”

Mrs. Thomas considers herself “very, very blessed” to have obtained work with a nonprofit legal organization when she graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 2011.

Her work with JustChildren will end in two weeks when she becomes the Campaign for Youth Justice policy director in Washington. She expects to travel throughout the nation in her new role focusing on keeping young people out of adult courts and adult prisons and jails.

Meet this week’s Personality, child advocate Jeree Thomas.

Date and place of birth: Nov. 4 in Fort Jackson, S.C. Current residence: Chesterfield County.

Family: Husband, Benjamin Thomas.

Alma maters: The College of William & Mary, bachelor’s degree in social justice and community advocacy. University of Virginia School of Law, juris doctorate.

My principal work as a lawyer: I directly represent youth and families experiencing issues in the education and juvenile justice systems. I spend a lot of time providing technical assistance to attorneys and organizers who are trying to support their clients and communities.

Greatest challenge: As a lawyer, I am limited by the letter of the law. There are times when treatment is clearly unjust, but not illegal. That is, in part, why I enjoy doing policy work in addition to direct representation of clients. I can advocate for better policies for my clients.

Greatest satisfaction: When my clients tell me, no matter the outcome, that they are satisfied that someone fought for them. Also, the random great moments, like a client asking me to attend his high school graduation or getting to take two former clients, who are now budding advocates, to the White House for Youth Justice Awareness Month last year.

JustChildren is: A program of the Legal Aid Justice Center that serves youths and families experiencing issues in the education and juvenile justice systems through direct representation, policy advocacy and community organizing.

Services provided: JustChildren attorneys represent clients who have special education or school discipline-related needs.

We also represent youths who are incarcerated in their serious offender review hearings, and with their education, treatment and re-entry.

How I got news about the award: I was on a train coming back to Richmond, and the email about the award actually went to my junk folder because my email account didn’t recognize the sender. I received a number of emails congratulating me, and I didn’t know what for until one of my colleagues said, “Jeree check your email, check your junk folder!”

Reaction: I was really overwhelmed by the news. It is truly an honor to be recognized in this way.

Meaning of award to me: I recently participated in a Youth Justice Leadership Institute with nine other incredible advocates from across the country. I’ve been so blessed to get to know them. I know the talent, drive and passion that is out there to change things for the better for kids. To be recognized as an emerging leader in youth justice is truly an honor.

When I knew law was for me: About 10 years ago, I decided while volunteering at an alternative program for youths who were suspended and expelled from their traditional schools that I wanted to be a child advocate. I remember coming to that revelation while crying in my car over a traumatic event that one of the students was experiencing.

Status of justice for youths in Virginia: There is a lot of movement around juvenile justice reform in Virginia. The 2015 the Center for Public Integrity report identifying Virginia as No.1 in referring students from school to the police really amplified the need for reform. To the credit of the governor, the director of the state Department of Juvenile Justice, and members of the General Assembly, there is now more of an interest and funding to support more youths in their communities. A greater investment in building capacity to serve justice-involved youths in their homes and communities will result in better outcomes for kids and their families.

Advice to young people considering a law career: Going to law school is an important decision and investment in your future. I went into law school knowing what type of law I wanted to practice, and I think that made the experience more gratifying. It also allowed me to be strategic about where I attended law school, what classes I took, and how I spent my summers.

What makes a good leader: A good leader grows leaders.

In my experience, the most important thing that I can do as an advocate is help others learn how to advocate for themselves and their communities. There aren’t enough legal aid attorneys to go around, but if I can help grow leadership in volunteers, students, younger colleagues, my clients, and community members, then together we can make things more just.

Three words that best describe me: Organized, outgoing and open.

How I start the day: Optimistic. Every day is a new opportunity to start fresh.

A perfect evening: Relaxing with my husband, preferably at the beach. But any time to relax with him is perfect.

I place top value on: Relationships.

Hobby: When I have the opportunity, I love to sing — not well, but just for fun. I try to sing karaoke whenever I get the chance.

Best late-night snack: Pie — any and all types of fruit pies.

Prized possession: I recently bought a house. As a child of an Army officer, I grew up in many, many homes, but I never got to paint the walls or decorate them. So buying a home and getting to make it my own has been exciting.

Nobody knows I’m: A goofball. I do pretty serious work, but whenever I have the opportunity, I want to find a way to laugh.

The best thing my parents ever taught me was: To serve.

Do what you can to help other people.

The one thing I can’t stand: Indifference to how one’s actions impact other people.

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Book that influenced me the most: I believe I was in middle school when I read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. It was the first adult non-fiction book that I had ever read, and I remember being drawn to her story and really being hungry to read more after it.

What I’m reading now: “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools” by Monique W. Morris.

Next goal: I am transitioning to the policy director position with the Campaign for Youth Justice. I am looking forward to remaining connected to advocacy in my community, while also working with advocates all across the country on youth justice issues.

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New members to join Academy after 2nd all-white Oscars draws criticism Free Press wire report

LOS ANGELES After suffering severe criticism for having a second straight year of all-white acting nominees for the Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization.

The academy says its invitees are 46 percent female, 41 percent minority and represent 59 countries.

Should all of the invitees accept, the new class would make the academy’s overall membership 27 percent female and 11 percent non-white, up from 25 percent and 8 percent respectively.

Idris Elba, Anthony Anderson, John Boyega, Morris Chestnut, Cliff Curtis, Loretta Devine, Carmen Ejogo, Vivica A. Fox, O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson, Michael B. Jordan, Regina King and Nia Long are among the actors

invited to membership. Also, Chadwick Boseman, Eva Mendes, America Ferrera and Anika Noni Rose.

Other potential new members helping to increase the academy’s diversity include Chinese cinematographer Zhao Fei, Japanese production designer Yohei Taneda, Mexican director Patricia Riggen and musicians such as Fitzgerald Diggs, who is better known as RZA from Wu Tang Clan.

Six months ago, the organization announced, following blistering criticism, its intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020. The 2016 group of invitees is the academy’s largest ever and more than doubles last year’s class, said President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

She said the academy has worked for several years to diversify its largely white, male membership. Last year’s #OscarsSoWhite movement

amplified that conversation.

The academy announced sweeping changes to its recruitment and voting practices in January after a second straight year of all-white acting nominees for the Academy Awards.

In March, the organization added three new members to its board of governors and appointed six minority members to other leadership positions.

“I think because the conversation has truly exploded that we were able to have the size and the diversity of talent increase even more for 2016,” Ms. Boone Isaacs said.

“We have recognized diverse talent throughout our history,” she said. “What is of-the-now is how expansive and diverse our industry has become.”

She said academy members have been energized by the mandate to bring emerging or overlooked talents into their ranks.

“It has been like a charge of electricity,” she said.

Two-time Oscar nominee Laura Dern has felt that energy in the actors branch.

“It is the membership saying we want to support fellow artists,” Ms. Dern said last week.

“And we want to really feel that the academy is a true representation of art at this time on this planet.”

Just as moviegoers and Oscar watchers are demanding more diversity on screen, Ms. Dern said the academy is seeking to be more inclusive and expansive in its search for excellence.

“As history continues to prove to us, we always seem to benefit when you question,” she said. “It’s an artist’s job to question, to consider and to figure out how to expand and grow. So we have to take that to heart and ask ourselves and each other how we can continue to grow and represent art in the best possible way.”

Officials hope President Obama’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ program will remain under next administration

By James Wright Trice Edney News Wire

President Obama has seven months left in office. One of the leaders of one of his key initiatives is hard at work ensuring the president’s legacy will continue after he leaves the White House.

President Obama founded “My Brother’s Keeper” in February 2014 to focus the federal government and the private and nonprofit sectors on improving the lives of African-American boys and young men. James Cole, the general counsel and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, said the initiative has expanded its mandate over its two years of existence. In January, Mr. Cole began overseeing the My Brother’s Keeper program.

“We have had an exciting two years,” Mr. Cole told the AFRO on June 14 during the School without Walls graduation ceremony at the Lerner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington.

“We are working hard to address opportunity gaps for young males of color and we have reached into such programs as English as a Second Language and those who have been diagnosed with disabilities.

“We are working hard to see that young men of color reach their full potential,” he continued.

My Brother’s Keeper has programs in nearly 250 communities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The initiative has more than $600 million in private sector and philanthropic grants and in-kind resources, and $1 billion in low-interest financing, according to the report,

and his father had Alzheimer’s disease.

“I was the oldest child, so I became responsible for the family,” Mr. Cole said. “Just a few weeks after my Mom passed, I was robbed at gunpoint. At times, we lived on food stamps and worried when Pete Souza/White House they’d next turn President Obama announcing the My Brother’s Keeper initiative on the lights off.”

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Urbana-Champaign, and the more than 80 percent of the “These problems need to be University of Chicago School initiatives the task force sent dealt with on the ground, in the of Law. After graduating from to President Obama two years communities,” he said. “We law school, he clerked for ago have gone into effect or are dealing with the mayors U.S. Appeals Court Judge are on track. in every state, and where the Stephanie K. Seymour of the One of the activities relates programs are utilized, we have to opportunities in the summer. seen gains. When the president Tired of that Mr. Cole said boys of color leaves office, this is how the twist out? who are eligible for free and work will continue.”

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“James has been at the department for two years and I know he is committed to increasing more and better educational opportunities for young people,” Mr. Haynes said. “As the general counsel, he has his eye on the disadvantaged, and it is good to have a person with that type of commitment in that position.”

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C.A.V.E. to hold march, community day at Essex Village After the shooting death of 12-yearold Amiyah Moses last year six days before Christmas, several Richmond area youth sports league coaches pledged to help curb violence in the city and surrounding areas by leading awareness marches.

On Saturday, July 9, Coaches Against Violence Everywhere will join with the Henrico County Police Department to lead an Essex VilCoach lage Community Day and March for residents of the Essex Village Apartments off Laburnum Avenue.

The march will start 11 a.m. at Richmond International Raceway and end at Essex Village’s recreation center, where food, music and activities will be featured until 3 p.m., said Coach Maurice Tyler, a founder of C.A.V.E. Representatives from organizations will be on hand with information about financial health and mental health awareness, Coach Tyler said.

Several youth athletic league representatives also will be present.

“Our mission is to help youths to have

productive lives and become productive citizens,” said Coach Tyler, who coaches the midget division of the Laurel Athletic Association in Henrico.

He started C.A.V.E. with Coach Rodney Leeper of the Glen Allen Athletic Association after Amiyah was killed at an Old Brook Road apartment complex while visiting friends. Police reported that the Tyler shooting was part of an ongoing neighborhood dispute and that Amiyah was hit by a stray bullet.

Turning their outrage into action, C.A.V.E. protested the violence by staging a march down Chamberlayne Avenue in January that drew about 200 people. Since then, C.A.V.E. has led marches in the Creighton Court and Gilpin Court public housing communities against violence.

“We’re geared to do our best in the community,” said Coach Tyler. “We want to help kids think before they act. We want to bring awareness and put a smile on their faces.”

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Celebration at The Diamond Overcast evening skies didn’t dampen the color and spectacle of Fourth of July fireworks at The Diamond on Monday, where a sellout crowd of more than 9,500 people enjoyed the sky show following the Richmond Flying Squirrels’ game. All around, it was a night of fun, with the Squirrels beating the Reading Fightin’ Phils 181. The Squirrels blasted three home runs, followed by the fireworks display that was a home run with the crowd.

Free oral history workshop at Black History Museum

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Historian Lauranett L. Lee has devoted her life to uncovering the lost stories of AfricanAmerican women and men to help spotlight their contributions both locally and nationally.

Now Dr. Lee wants to inspire people to preserve their own family histories to expand appreciation and knowledge of where they come from.

That’s why she is conducting a free public workshop to assist people in developing the skills to create oral histories.

The workshop, titled “Preserving History,” will be held 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, July 15, at the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, 122 W. Leigh St., in Jackson Ward.

Dr. Lee is leading the program for the Virginia Africana Association, a volunteerdriven nonprofit that seeks to promote interest in history. She is collaborating for the event with Benjamin C. Ross, historian for Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Jackson Ward, who maintains the church’s 90-year-old museum on its founder, the Rev. John Jasper.

The goal of the program is to encourage “younger people to help their elders to remember and talk about their experiences,” Dr. Lee said.

“Life is fleeting. Once a person is gone, so is their storehouse of memories and information,” she continued. “With the technology Dr. Lee available today, we just need to get our young people involved in conversations with family members who often are willing to share if someone is willing to listen.”

Mr. Ross will discuss the significance and importance of church artifacts and records, and ways to preserve, protect and pass them on to future generations, she said.

A native of Chesterfield County, Dr. Lee is best known as the founding curator of AfricanAmerican history at the Virginia Historical Society, a post she took in 2001. Before she recently stepped down, she had become a powerful influence on African-American historical

research, including leading the society’s development of an online database of the names and records of slaves titled “Unknown No More.”

She also played a key role in getting the state Department of Historical Resources to install historical markers around Virginia highlighting many of the Mr. Ross contributions of AfricanAmericans. She conducted pioneering research on 20th-century, African-American female

reformers in Richmond and on teachers in Charlottesville who taught newly freed people after the Civil War. Dr. Lee has curated African-American exhibits at several Virginia museums, written numerous articles and wrote a 2008 cultural history of African-Americans in Hopewell, “Making the American Dream Work.”

A graduate of Loyola University, she earned a master’s degree in history from Virginia State University and her doctorate in history from the University of Virginia.

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Muralists coming to town for latest project

Richmond is about to get more murals.

Beginning next week, at least 10 muralists from across the world will paint distinctive works on the exterior walls of now bare buildings — with the permission of the owners, of course.

The artists are expected to start work Wednesday, July 13, and wrap up 11 days later, on Sunday, July 24, it has been announced.

Between 14 and 20 buildings are to be painted through the Richmond Mural Project, according Art Whino, a Washington-based gallery that seeks to bring together art pioneers and new talent.

This is the fifth year for the project, which already has created 86 murals in Richmond and will reach its short-term goal of 100 murals when the artist put up their brushes this year.

That’s just from this initiative, and doesn’t count the dozens of other murals that individuals and other projects have created in the city in recent years.

The long-term goal of the Richmond Mural Project, according to Art Whino, is to turn Richmond into an outdoor gallery of murals that receives wide recognition and lures additional tourists.

Although murals completed under the Richmond Mural Project have their critics, the artwork has definitely given the city a new look.

Among the crop of artists who will be letting their creative juices flow in this latest effort will be Jacob Eveland of Richmond, Pat Perry of Detroit, Lawrence “Naturel” Atoigue of Maryland, Jason Woodside and Marka27 of New York, Handiedan of Amsterdam, Vladimir “Waone” Manzhos of Kiev, Ukraine, and Jade of Lima, Peru, according to Art Whino.

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History makers celebrate Fourth Judge Damon J. Keith’s annual Independence Day picnic in Hanover County turned into a celebration of history Monday.

The senior judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who lives in Detroit returns each year to his late wife’s family home in Virginia to celebrate his July 4 birthday.

Turning 94, Judge Keith used his holiday birthday to honor Richmond’s own history maker, Judge Roger Gregory of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Gregory, who became the first African-American on the Richmond-based appeals court in December 2000, becomes the court’s first AfricanAmerican chief judge July 9.

“The court used to be the most segregated court in the country,” Judge Keith said during remarks at the picnic where a photo of Judge Gregory

graced the top of a large sheet cake decorated in colors of the patriotic holiday — red, white and blue.

“This is a momentous occasion,” said Elaine Jones, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who was asked by Judge Keith to speak about the significance of Judge Gregory’s historic selection to the court and his new role.

“It’s not easy to get nominated to a segregated court. But when the (U.S.) senators are looking for that ‘first,’ they go to the best and the brightest. They go to the stars,” she said.

And during his tenure on the bench, Judge Gregory “has served well, honorably, impartially, objectively,” she said, to rise to the position of chief judge.

Judge Keith noted that Ms. Jones, a Norfolk native, was the first African-American woman

to graduate from the University of Virginia Law School.

He also asked former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the first African-American elected governor in the nation, to introduce Judge Gregory, who, as an undergraduate, had taken a constitutional law class taught by the former governor at Virginia State University, and later, as an attorney, practiced law with Gov. Wilder in Church Hill.

Gov. Wilder talked about Judge Gregory excelling, “not just by training, but by dedication.”

Judge Gregory, who was visibly touched by Judge Keith’s honor and the words of Ms. Jones and Gov. Wilder, said each of them have inspired him through the years.

“These are tears of joy and gratitude,” he said. “This is the image I will take in my heart always.”

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Senior Judge Damon J. Keith, seated left, of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Detroit hosts his annual Independence Day picnic in Hanover County, where he honored Judge Roger Gregory, seated second from right, named the new chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. With them, standing from left, are U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson of Norfolk and Senior U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of New York, and, seated from left, Elaine Jones, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder.

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Rev. Marshall H. Garrett, 73, Christian education minister at Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church The Rev. Marshall Henderson Garrett, minister of Christian education at Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church, was widely known for his loving and caring spirit.

“He was always willing to give counsel, a kind word and an easy smile filled with class and style,” according to his family.

Rev. Garrett, 73, died Saturday, June 18, 2016. He was remembered by family and friends at a funeral a week later, June 25, at Moore Street, where Rev. Garrett also served as an associate minister and taught an adult Sunday school class.

Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

“ R e v. G a r r e t t Class of 1960. He was faithful beyond earned a bachany expectations to elor ’s degree in Moore Street Mismathematics from sionary Baptist Hampton Institute, Church,” said Dr. now Hampton UniAlonza L. Lawrence, versity, where he pastor of the church was active in Alpha and officiant at Rev. Phi Alpha FraterGarrett’s funeral. nity and served as “He was faithan organist for the Rev. Garrett ful before he was university. licensed and faithful even He later earned a master’s more so after he became a in business from Virginia cleric and took on staff roles Commonwealth University in the church. He will surely and a master’s of divinity be missed among the church degree with an emphasis in family.”

Christian education from the Rev. Garrett was the vale- Samuel DeWitt Proctor School dictorian of Charlottesville’s of Theology at Virginia Union Jackson P. Burley High School University.

A pianist since age 6, Rev. Garrett also played the organ at Moore Street and at Richmond’s Eastminster Presbyterian Church, where he previously served as minister of music.

During his 36 years with the Internal Revenue Service, Rev. Garrett worked in various roles, including information technology specialist, facilities management specialist and data security specialist.

He also was active in the community and involved with several organizations, including the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Richmond and Vicinity, the Jackson Ward Ministers Association, the Center for Con-

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, ‘conscience of the world,’ dies at 87

Union.

— especially the murders of children — that He used his mor- he witnessed during the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and al authority to call “I rarely speak about God. To God yes.

Nobel Peace Prize winner whose memories attention to perse- I protest against Him. I shout at Him,” he of persecution and teachings on tolerance cuted peoples the told the Paris Review in 1984. “But open made him one of the world’s most revered world over, includ- discourse about the qualities of God, about moral voices, has died at 87. ing the victims of the problems that God imposes, theodicy, “My husband was a fighter,” Marion apartheid in South no. And yet He is there, in silence, in Wiesel said in a statement. “He fought Africa, the war in filigree.” for the memory of the 6 million Jews who former Yugoslavia, Mr. Wiesel moved to New York in perished in the Holocaust, and he fought the Kurds, victims 1956 and became an American citizen in Mr. Wiesel for Israel. He waged countless battles for of famine in Africa, 1963. In 1976, Boston University appointed innocent victims regardless of ethnicity Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Cambodian Mr. Wiesel the Andrew W. Mellon Profesor creed.” refugees and Argentina’s “disappeared.” sor in the Humanities, and he taught in Mr. Wiesel died Saturday, July 2, 2016, “Sometimes we must interfere. When the university’s religion and philosophy at his home in New York City. human lives are endangered, when human departments.

His wife was among mourners who dignity is in jeopardy, national borders Shortly after he received the Peace attended a private funeral service Sunday and sensitivities become irrelevant,” Mr. Prize in 1986, Mr. Wiesel and his wife at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue on Manhat- Wiesel once said. established the Elie Wiesel Foundation tan’s Upper East Side. A public memorial “Whenever men or women are per- for Humanity. In 2008, Mr. Wiesel diswill follow at a later date, the Elie Wiesel secuted because of their race, religion, covered that he and the foundation had Foundation for Humanity stated. or political views, that place must — at both been victims of the Ponzi scheme Condolences from leaders around the that moment — become the center of the run by Bernie Madoff, who made off with world filled social media with memories of universe.” $15 million from the nonprofit.

Mr. Wiesel demonstrating the triumph of He did not mince words whenever he Mr. Wiesel told Oprah Winfrey that he goodness over inconceivable horrors. thought evil was being accommodated. and his wife, also a Holocaust survivor, His advocacy on behalf of Holocaust While at the White House in 1985 to consoled each other about the loss, revictims earned him the Nobel Peace Prize receive the Congressional Gold Medal, marking that they “had seen worse.” Then in 1986. He told their story in his landmark he rebuked then-President Ronald Reagan donations poured into the foundation from book “Night,” maintaining that “to forget for planning to lay a wreath at a German those who had heard of its misfortune. the dead would be akin to killing them a cemetery where some of Hitler’s notorious “All of a sudden, we began receiving second time.”

Waffen SS troops were buried. hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of “Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral “Don’t go to Bitburg,” Mr. Wiesel said. letters and donations, small donations, from voices of our time, and in many ways, the “That place is not your place. Your place all over America, Jews and non-Jews,” Mr. conscience of the world,” President Obama is with the victims of the SS.” Wiesel told Ms. Winfrey. “The American said in a statement.

At the dedication of the United States people are so generous … We received “Elie was not just the world’s most Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993, Mr. hundreds of them, and that helped us.” prominent Holocaust survivor, he was a Wiesel told then-President Bill Clinton: Though Mr. Wiesel took heart in the living memorial. After we walked together “Mr. President, I must tell you something. proliferation in past decades of Holocaust among the barbed wire and guard towers I have been in the former Yugoslavia last museums and programs to teach tolerance, he of Buchenwald where he was held as a fall. I cannot sleep since what I have seen. mourned the persistence of bigotry and conteenager and where his father perished, As a Jew I am saying that we must do tinued to speak out, well into his 80s, against Elie spoke words I’ve never forgotten – something to stop the bloodshed in that indifference as “the epitome of evil.”

‘Memory has become a sacred duty of all country.”

“Wiesel’s life was an inspiring, indeed people of goodwill.’ ” Mr. Wiesel’s persecution at the hands towering, example of an individual’s As an author, playwright, professor and of the Nazis began when he was 15, and willpower to overcome the worst of speaker, Mr. Wiesel dedicated his life to he and his family were deported from their human evil, keep alive the memory of the remembrance of the 6 million Jews and home in Sighet, Transylvania, to Auschwitz, 6 million murdered Jews, and stand guard millions of gays, Roma and others who where his mother and younger sister throughout against the dangers of extremperished in the Nazi death camps. died. His two older sisters survived. ism, indifference and historical amnesia,” He survived two of those camps — Toward the end of the war, Mr. Wiesel said David Harris, CEO of the American Buchenwald and Auschwitz — and retold and his father were transferred to another Jewish Committee. the horrors of that experience in service labor camp, Buchenwald, where his father Mr. Wiesel received more than 100 of the idea that remembering Hitler’s was killed. honorary doctorates and scores of other planned extermination of the Jews will After the war, Mr. Wiesel studied at honors during his life, including the Presimake genocide a less likely fate for his the Sorbonne and, by 19, had become a dential Medal of Freedom, the National or any other people. journalist. He considered suicide and never Humanities Medal, the Medal of Liberty In awarding ■ Mr.End Wiesel the Peace wrote of or discussed his Holocaust experi- boxes, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French the inconvenience of empty newspaper fighting Prize, the Nobel Committee praised him ence until 10 years after the war, after the Legion of Honor. as a “messenger to mankind” and “one ofand French author down Francois back Mauriac, whom “His passing leaves the world bereft of the weather hunting copies. the most important spiritual leaders and Mr. Wiesel had interviewed, encouraged a profound moral conscience,” B’nai B’rith ■ Also, support We’re always working for the you. guides in an age when violence, repres- the himFree to writePress. of his experience.

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60 memoirs, novels and plays, including In addition to his wife, Mr. Wiesel is surA deeply religious Jew, Mr. Wiesel a Haggadah, the book used to guide Jews vived by a son, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel. spoke out against anti-Semitism and in through the Passover seder. support of Israel, and for the release of Often he was asked how he retained his the millions of Jews trapped in the Soviet faith in God despite the cruelty and death Free Press wire reports

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Youths learning to turn faith into action

By Jesse James DeConto Religion News Service

DURHAM, N.C. Twenty kids marched around a multipurpose room at Duke Memorial United Methodist Church on a recent Thursday, following the path of a cardboard highway that a day earlier they discovered had divided the city’s neighborhoods and altered their vision for the community.

“Ain’t gonna let the freeway turn me around,” they sang, hearkening back to civil rights activism of the 1960s.

Instead of the traditional vacation Bible school, this downtown church partnered with seven other congregations — black, white, Baptist, Jewish, Episcopal, Pentecostal and nondenominational — to put on a community organizing camp for youngsters ages 4 to 12.

“We Have the Power,” as the weeklong camp was dubbed, represents a recent movement within activist networks to invite children and youths into political action, and a renewed movement within religious communities to live out biblical teaching with good works.

Across the United States, churches are joining with social change organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee, the Children’s Defense Fund and Kids4Peace to use summer breaks to teach children and youths about the Civil Rights Movement and how they might be part of its renewal.

It reflects a wider trend in secular summer camping, as almost half of the American Camp Association’s accredited camps focus on civic engagement or service learning.

“We’re all God’s children, and we all should look out for one another,” said Sabrina McCall, whose two daughters are attending a CDF Freedom School in Rocky Mount, N.C., this summer.

The CDF Freedom Schools are the most common of the faith-related justice camps, serving thousands of kids and proliferating at some 180 sites across 30 different states, from California to Massachusetts.

Although the program is secular, more than 50 of the CDF Freedom Schools are hosted by Methodist, Baptist and other churches and some Jewish congregations. Every morning, the kids gather for “Harambee,” a kind of pep rally based on a Swahili word meaning, “Working together in unity.” During Harambee, the kids sing a Quincy Jones arrangement of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” and the Freedom School theme song, “Something Inside So Strong,” which references the biblical city of Jericho.

The CDF schools emphasize literacy to move impoverished kids toward a more secure future. But the content of the books they read is civil rights history, and the Freedom Schools invite the young scholars into issue-based political advocacy and community service.

The Freedom School tradition grows out of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when civil rights organizations such as the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worked to register black voters in Mississippi. Since then, Freedom Schools have trained new activists. CDF Freedom Schools across the nation celebrate a “National Day of Social Action” each summer, focusing on issues including voting rights, health care access, gun violence and education funding.

“They will definitely get some practice in engaging in social change,” said Reginald Blount, an assistant professor of youth formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, which is hosting its first CDF Freedom School this summer in Evanston, Ill., through the first week in August. “It very much is a children-and-youth empowerment curriculum.”

Pastor Heber Brown, whose Pleasant Hope Baptist Church hosts an AFSC Freedom School called Orita’s Cross in Baltimore, said the summer camp program is among his congregation’s citywide partnerships with urban farms and criminal justice reform activists.

“It’s an important time for us to really have courage in how to think about how we ‘be’ the church,” said Pastor Brown.

“Conventional ideas around evangelism and missions, they’re losing momentum.”

He said training young activists is a way “to be a beacon of light and love to our community, whether or not people join our church.

“Dr. King didn’t just fall out of the sky. Rosa Parks didn’t just fall out of the sky. Somebody groomed them,” he said. “We’re trying to groom the next generation of Freedom Fighters.”

Melissa Florer-Bixler, associate minister at Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, said the camp aims to empower kids to cooperate to solve their community’s problems.

“We’re not using this camp as an evangelistic tool,” she said, adding, “We all bring values, and some of those values

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come out of our religious communities.”

For example, the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt framed the curriculum as a liberation story that Christians, Jews and youngsters of no faith could embrace.

Monday through Wednesday, the children built cardboard neighborhoods with the houses as close together as possible and amenities like a public pool located as centrally and equitably as possible. Overnight on Wednesday, the staff rearranged the city with wealthier residents’ homes and new skyscrapers in the center of town and poorer neighborhoods cut off by the beltway.

The children discovered the rearranged city and found the new power structures “really frustrating,” Ms. Florer-Bixler said.

After dining together on chicken cutlets, peas, macaroni and watermelon, the children gathered with musician-activist Clayton Wright to sing songs such as, “We Shall Not Be Moved” and “I Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Freedom.”

Later that evening, in the neighborhood they had named “Chuck E. Cheese,” the youngsters had to decide what they wanted from the city council to mitigate the impact of the highway.

“We can sing the Freedom Songs!” said 6-year-old Chloe Powell.

“But what are we going to ask for?” asked Duke Memorial member Rick Larson, playing the role of community organizer.

The youths eventually agreed to build a rainbow-colored tunnel to connect the neighborhoods torn asunder by the highway.

Chloe’s grandmother, Danita Stephens, said her Pentecostal church, Monument of Faith, normally hosts a regular vacation Bible school, but she’s glad the youngsters are learning how to make a difference in their communities.

“When you put everybody together and get them working toward a common goal,” she said, “you can get a lot more accomplished.”

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

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Jean V. Capel City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2016-191 To authorize the special use of the property known as 701 East Cary Street for the purpose of allowing a building to exceed the applicable height restrictions, upon certain terms and conditions. The proposal is for an office building and does not include any residential uses. The property is located in the B-4 Central Business zoning district, which does not restrict residential densities. The Downtown Master Plan designates this area as an Urban Core Area, for which there are no residential density ranges established.

Ordinance No. 2016-192 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2723 East Cary Street for the purpose of a multifamily dwelling with up to 15 dwelling units and accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is zoned M-2 Heavy Industrial, which does not permit residential uses.

The proposed special use would authorize a residential density of 50 units per acre. The Downtown Master Plan designates the property as part of the Urban Center Area, for which there are no established residential density ranges.

Ordinance No. 2016-193 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 5702 and 5706 Grove Avenue for the purpose of allowing the construction of buildings with features that do not meet all requirements of the applicable underlying zoning regulations, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Community Commercial land use for the subject property. Primary uses in this category “include office, retail, personal service and other commercial and service uses, intended to provide the shopping and service needs of residents of a number of nearby neighborhoods or a section of the City” (p. 134).

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Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF KING AND QUEEN MOSES GOLDEN, JR., Plaintiff v.

VONDA GOLDEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16-29-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from Vonda Golden on the ground that the parties have lived separate and apart for a period exceeding one year.

It appearing by affidavit that the Defendant’s last known address is not known, the Defendant’s present whereabouts are unknown, and diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the Defendant is without effect, it is ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before the 17th day of August, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. and protect her interest herein.

A Copy, Teste: VANESSA D. PORTER, Clerk Linda Y. Lambert, Esquire Leonard W Lambert & Assoc.

321 North 23rd Street Richmond, VA 23223 (804) 648-3325 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ASHLEY JIMENEZ, Plaintiff v.

ABRAHAM JIMENEZMANUEL, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001718-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of August, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 2 and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JASON NICELY, SR., Plaintiff v.

AGNES SMALL-NICELY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001059-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 8th day of August, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 2 and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SARAH M. O’ROURKE, Plaintiff v.

THOMAS J. O’ROURKE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16-1180 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the petitioner to obtain a divorce from defendant.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Thomas J. O’Rourke, whose last known address was 308 North Snead Street, Ashland, Virginia 23005, and whose whereabouts are now unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of August, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. Courtroom 2 to protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Susan Gerber Counsel for Plaintiff 206 DeSota Drive Richmond, Virginia 23229 (804) 741-3438 Fax: (804) 754-7298 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JESSIE WILSON, Plaintiff v.

GILVIA WILSON, Defendant.

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 26th day of July, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

in re Baby girl taylor, Juvenile Tammy Mills v.

Unknown Birth Father OrDEr Of puBLicatiON The object of this suit is to: Pursuant to Va Code § 16.1-277.01, Tammy Mills is requesting that the Court terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown Birth Father, whose identify and whereabouts are unknown, and transfer custody of infant, Baby Girl Taylor, d/o/b 10/16/15 to Tammy Mills.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown Birth Father appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his or her interests on or before 8/24/2016, at 10:00 AM, Court Room #4.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MARINA PAZ, Plaintiff v.

ALAN PAZ-CONDE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001690-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of August, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom 2 and protect his interests.

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

ELWIN PILLSBURY, JR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001623-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 26th day of July, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

JERRI WILLIAMS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001432-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 15th day of July, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom 2 and protect her interests.

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

CUSTODY virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Terrell Rainey, Juvenile Children’s Home Society of Virginia v.

Unknown Birth Father OrDEr Of puBLicatiON The object of this suit is to: Pursuant to Va. Code §§ 62.3-1205 and 63.2-1250, Children’s Home Society of Virginia is requesting that the Court terminate the residual parental rights of any possible unknown birth father and transfer custody of the infant; Terrell Rainey, d/o/b 02/3/16 to the Children’s Home Society of Virginia with the right to place the infant for adoption.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Unknown Birth Father, appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his interests on or before 8/23/2016, at 10:00 AM. virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the COUNty of HENRICO Commonwealth of Virginia, Continued on next column

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re CHEYENNE LANE, Juvenile Case No. JJ092167-03-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown, (Father), of CHEYENNE LANE, child, DOB 02/24/2016, “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), appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 10/31/2016, at 2:00 PM, Court Room #4.

Diane Abato, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

PROPERTY VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER Estate of Charles Lewis Carter, Sr. by Charlotte Braxton, Alice Hicks and Ida Mae Hill Co-executors of the Estate, Petitioners v.

Platinum Financial Services, Inc., Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001678-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to have a judgment released where the judgment creditor can not be found.

It appearing from an affidavit that due diligence has been used on behalf of Petitioners to ascertain in what county or city the Defendant is, without effect, it is Ordered that Defendant appear before this Court on August 8th, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. Courtroom 2 and do what is necessary to protect it’s interest herein.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Donald M. White, Esquire 130 Thompson Street Ashland, Virginia 23005

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(804) 798-1661 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL16-2394-4 MARY N. NADDER, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF MARY N. NADDER, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1501 Mechanicsville Turnpike”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0928/026, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Mary N. Nader.

An Affidavit having been filed that that MARY N. NADDER, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of MARY N. NADDER, 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 MARY N. NADDER, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of MARY N. NADDER, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 18, 2016, 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

Community outreaCh Program Coordinator VHDA, Virginia’s Housing Finance Agency is looking for a detail-oriented individual to serve in the role of Community Outreach Program Coordinator.

The Program Coordinator will be charged with primary duties related to program and data entry that enable the Housing Education Team to administer inperson and on-line education. The incumbent will coordinate internal/external meetings, housing education initiatives, and partner/stakeholder trainings. The Program Coordinator will perform various office management tasks to include administrative, organizational, technical, and coordinative assignments. Will oversee records management, document flow, and business continuity for the division. The incumbent will provide professional customer service and technical assistance to applicable business areas of VHDA, our partners, stakeholders and consumers. Will serve as the initial contact for incoming calls and e-mail correspondence for the division.

Associate’s degree or equivalent vocational/technical training and several years of experience are required. Incumbent will possess extensive experience in customer service, planning and organizing events. Knowledge of low-and-moderate income housing programs and experience in project management is highly preferred.

Individual must have demonstrated skills in problem solving, written and oral communications, process development, and financial responsibility. Experience with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point required.

We offer a competitive salary with generous benefits package. Submit resume with cover letter stating salary requirements online only at: http://www.vhda.com/about/careers An EOE This position closes at midnight on Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

Hiring Range: $40,257 – 52,332 Background and credit checks will be performed as a condition of employment.

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St. Peter Baptist Church A progressive suburban church is seeking grant writers and a video media technician. Interested persons please forward resumes to spbcoffice@verizon.net. Salaries are negotiable.

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following position: Code Enforcement Inspector I – Building Inspector 05M00000027 Planning and Development Review Apply by 7/17/16 Code Enforcement Inspector I – Electrical 05M00000031 Planning and Development Review Apply by 7/24/16 Code Enforcement Inspector I – Mechanical 05M00000149 Planning and Development Review Apply by 7/17/16 Communications Officer 87M00000028 Emergency Communications Apply by 8/7/16 Human Services Coordinator II – Multicultural Affairs Human Services 14M00000006 Apply by 7/17/16

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Assistant Vice President, Workforce Development (Position #FA002)

The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: IFB -K160021767 – Bellemeade Park Pedestrian Trail and Bridge – Project EN15-127-952, PE101, C501 UPC 107531 Receipt Date: July 28, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Opening Date: July 29, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Pre-Bid Date/Time/Location: July 13, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. located at City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, 11th floor, Room 1104, Richmond, VA 23219 Information or copies of the above solicitation is 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) 6465989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

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

(John Tyler and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges - Chester, VA and Richmond, VA) Master’s degree in human resources, management, business, technology, educational leadership, marketing, or related field. Completion of the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest and pre-employment security screening is required. A fingerprint-based criminal history check will be required of the finalist candidate.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time twelve-month administrative faculty-ranked appointment. Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $65,953-$132,265.

Approximate maximum hiring salary: $80,000.

Additional information is available at the College’s website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Application reviews will begin SEPTEMBER 1, 2016, and will be accepted until the position is filled.

AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans/ AmeriCorps/Peace Corps/ Other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.

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The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: IFB -WR160025904 – 17th Street Market – Plaza Renovations Receipt Date: July 27, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Opening Date: July 28, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Pre-Bid Date/Time/Location: July 15, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. EST. located at 1500 East Main Street – Second Floor, Richmond, VA 23219 Information or copies of the above solicitation is 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) 6465989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

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

Employment opportunities

GENERAL UTILITY Starting Rate: $16.30 per hour Closing Date: July12, 2016

GRTC Transit System seeks a detailed oriented individual, 21 years of age or older, who can work independently and in a team environment to perform various vehicle service duties.

This position requires weekend and weekday availability. The hours will vary depending on shift. High school education required. Must have, at a minimum, a valid Virginia Class B CDL Learners Permit with P Endorsement required.

Candidates must have a good driving record with a point balance of five (5) or better and must be able to pass a background check along with a pre-employment drug test and a DOT physical.

Candidates may apply online at www.ridegrtc. com. No paper applications accepted.

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

Freelance Writers: The Richmond Free Press has immediate opportunities for freelance writers. Newspaper experience is a requirement.

To be considered, please send 5 samples of your writing, along with a cover letter to newsrichmondfreepress.com or mail to: Richmond Free Press, P. O. Box 27709, Richmond, VA 23261 No phone calls.