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U.Va. honor student talks arrest, future Mr. Johnson was charged with public intoxication and obstruction Martese Johnson still has two of justice — both misdemeanors scars on his forehead and one under — after his violent takedown on his left eye.

March 17. Prosecutors announced The rising fourth-year University on June 12 that they were dropping of Virginia honors student also bears the charges. deep emotional wounds, for which Charlottesville Commonwealth’s he has undergone counseling.

Attorney Dave Chapman said The scars are reminders to Mr. Wednesday that he dropped the Johnson of what can happen to charges after determining Mr. African-American males when they are Johnson “had done nothing wrong” confronted by white law enforcement before ABC agents confronted him officers in what would seem to be even to determine if he was using a fake the most routine of circumstances.

I.D. or was intoxicated.

Three months after he was He said he could have charged Bryan Beaubrun/Associated Press slammed face first onto the pavement Mr. Johnson with resisting detention, during a questionable arrest by three Bloodied University of Virginia student Martese Johnson but decided that trying to slap the white Virginia Alcoholic Beverage is held down by an ABC agent after being slammed to young man with a criminal record Control officers outside a Charlot- the ground March 17 outside a Charlottesville pub. would “not be right.” tesville pub, memories of that night still haunt him.

Mr. Johnson, who turned 21 Wednesday, spoke from Wash“I don’t think I’ll ever fully get past it,” Mr. Johnson told the ington, where he is completing an internship this summer with Free Press on Tuesday. “I think it will last the rest of my life. the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. He “Regardless of what I do, someone will always know me for this incident, personally or professionally,” he added.

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Mr. Johnson

Protests erupt over teacher cuts, reassignments

4th time the charm?

New city finance chief #4 under mayor’s tenure

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Ms. Reid

Rachel Dolezal has become the talk of the nation.

The once obscure NAACP leader in Spokane, Wash., jumped into the spotlight in recent days when her estranged family publicly called into question her claim to be a black woman in newspaper and TV interviews.

The tale of a white woman who insists on being regarded as a black woman touched a nerve and quickly went viral on social media — sparking widespread discussions about racial identity.

officer for finance and administration, or chief financial officer.

Mr. Butts brought an impressive resumé to Richmond after a long tenure as the Town of Leesburg’s finance director.

But when he resigned last week, the city’s annual financial audit still was incomplete for the 2014 fiscal year that ended June 30, 2014.

He also left uncertainty as to whether the city is prepared to begin the audit for fiscal year 2015 that ends in less than two weeks on June 30.

Richmond now ranks with Hopewell and three other local governments as localities that “do not have the internal or systems to support the timely preparation of both their (annual) financial statement and the comparative report information,” Martha S. Mavredes, state auditor of public accounts, reported to the General Assembly.

On Mr. Butts’ watch, Richmond failed to meet the Nov. 30 deadline to submit financial information for inclusion in the state report that Ms. Mavredes produces that compares local spending.

Despite his failure, Mr. Butts is set to receive three months’ severance pay as provided in the contract he signed with the city when he was hired in May 2014.

His starting pay was $165,000 annually.

Ms. Reid’s starting pay will be $160,000 a year, or $5,000 less.

Still, Ms. Reid will be making more

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As the former Suffolk city manager, Selena Cuffee-Glenn went through five people before she found the right person to serve as chief financial officer.

But it only took Ms. Cuffee-Glenn a few weeks as Richmond’s new chief administrative officer to get the person she wanted.

Her choice: Lenora Reid, who served as Ms. Cuffee-Glenn’s financial right arm for

three years in Suffolk and who will have the same position in Richmond.

A certified public accountant, Ms. Reid is to start July 1.

Ms. Reid is at least the fourth person to hold the city’s top financial post since Mayor Dwight C. Jones began his first term in 2009.

Mayor Jones made room for Ms. Reid by getting rid of Norman D. Butts Jr., who resigned with a record of failure after just one year as deputy chief administrative

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By Joey Matthews

Teachers, students, parents and supporters mobilized via social media when they learned Richmond Public Schools officials began instituting cost-cutting changes affecting the jobs of some of their most beloved teachers.

“Please help!” read one urgent Facebook post.

They said they were incensed that RPS officials notified about 24 teachers last Friday — the last day of school — that they would have to either accept reassignments to other schools or teach part time at two schools instead of full time at one.

The community effort galvanized, with people protesting the changes that Superintendent Dana T. Bedden calls “leveling.”

The changes would eliminate many elective courses, such as choir, band, foreign languages, music and the arts, according to Please turn to A4

Special election July 21 for 74th House District

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Voters in the 74th House of Delegates District will be going to the polls twice.

First, there will be a special election to fill the district’s vacant House of Delegates seat Tuesday, July 21.

And then there will be a general election Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the majority-black district that includes big hunks of Central and Eastern Henrico County, a small slice of Richmond and all of Charles City County.

The same candidates are expected to face off in both elections — Lamont Bagby, a Henrico County School Board member who is running under the Democratic banner, and David Lambert, an optometry business owner who is running as an independent.

The election was spawned when former Delegate Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey, who represented the district, moved into Richmond in the spring to challenge Democratic Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance in the 16th Senate District. His new home is located outside the 74th House District. He is now running as Mr. Bagby

an independent to challenge Sen. Dance in November.

Last Friday, Gov. Terry McAuliffe called Mr. Lambert the special election in an apparent effort to ensure the seat in the largely Democratic district is filled in case a special General Assembly session is called to carry out a federal court order to redraw Virginia’s congressional district boundaries.

The special election, in effect, could install Mr. Bagby in the General Assembly months sooner than he might have anticipated.

No Republican candidate has filed to run in the district’s special election or the November general election.

The governor’s action setting the special election took place just days after Mr. Bagby won 80 percent of the vote in the June 9 primary election to claim the Democratic nomination in the 74th. He blew away two other candidates, including former Please turn to A4

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Uplifting last day A smiling Aniyah Rajab, 11, attracts attention as she jumps to wave goodbye to office staff at Linwood Holton Elementary School last Friday — the final day of public school classes in Richmond. All dressed up and ready to go, the fifth-grader, who will head to middle school this fall, was among the more than 23,000 city students who streamed out school doors into summer vacation.

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Company to add 1,173 new employees to Henrico headquarters Good news for area job seekers: A fast growing, Richmond area insurance company plans to add nearly 1,200 new jobs, Gov. Terry McAuliffe has announced.

The company is Elephant Auto Insurance, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Henrico County in 2009 and opened with 40 people.

The company currently employs nearly 400 people to provide sales and service to its rapidly expanding customer base in Virginia and other East Coast states.

Now, the company plans to add 1,173 new employees in the next few years, Gov. McAuliffe stated June 9 during a European trade mission overseas.

He stated that the company will invest $2 million to provide the space at its headquarters to accommodate the new employees. The additional employees would boost the company’s total workforce to 1,600. The growth in jobs is expected to take place over three to five years.

The governor made the announcement after meeting with top officials of Elephant’s parent company, Admiral Group plc, in Cardiff, Wales. Admiral is the third largest insurer in the United Kingdom.

Last year, Elephant had projected growing to 600 employees within three years. The new announcement indicates the company plans to add far more employees than it had projected.

The company sells its policies directly to consumers rather than employing agents. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

David M. Hicks to be sworn in June 30 David M. Hicks will soon don the robes of his new office — a judge of the Richmond General District Court.

After nearly seven years as Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ top policy adviser, Mr. Hicks is to be sworn in as a judge on Tuesday, June 30, it has been announced.

The investiture ceremony, hosted by the city’s Circuit Court judges, is scheduled for 4 p.m. in courtroom 204 on the second floor of the John Marshall Courts Building, a stone’s throw from his City Hall office.

The General Assembly elected Mr. Hicks as a city judge earlier this year. He officially begins his new role Wednesday, July 1, as one of the six general district court judges.

Mr. Hicks is still formally employed by Mr. Hicks the city. However, an official said he is now using vacation time and is unlikely to be in the office before he goes on the bench.

Besides advising the mayor, he led the overhaul of the Juvenile Detention Center and the Department of Social Services during his tenure with the city.

A former Richmond commonwealth’s attorney, Mr. Hicks will replace Judge Phillip L. Hairston, who is moving up to the Richmond Circuit Court bench on July 1. He will join six other sitting judges on that court.

The General Assembly elected Judge Hairston to succeed Melvin R. Hughes, who retired in February after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Ironically, the legislature also voted to raise the mandatory retirement age to 73 during its last session. Judge Hughes has been hearing cases during the spring to fill in until Judge Hairston is seated on the higher court. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

City school system selects new officer for communications Richard Davis III is the new communications officer for Richmond Public Schools.

Mr. Davis, a 39-year-old Mobile, Ala, native, will direct communications efforts for the division’s 43 schools that serve more than 23,000 students.

He comes to Richmond from Minneapolis Public Schools, where he managed external communications for the 36,000-student district. He also led communications strategy development for several initiatives, including the Office of Black Male Student Achievement.

In addition to being the primary media contact at RPS, Mr. Davis is tasked with leading the rollout of the district’s new “Be There” campaign to accentuate the positive achievements of RPS. Mr. Davis earned an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Alabama, a master’s degree in marketing from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a juris doctorate from Florida State University.

Prior to joining the school district in Minneapolis, Mr. Davis held leadership roles in the private sector at several companies, including Best Buy, Thomson Reuters and Supervalu.

Mr. Davis steps into the position more than a year after RPS dismissed its previous communications officer, Felicia Cosby, because of an allegation that she served homemade wine to an underage intern in school offices.

Ms. Cosby is suing seven members of the Richmond School Board and Superintendent Dana T. Bedden for defamation related to her dismissal in March 2014. She is seeking $1 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.

Cletisha Lovelace had served as interim RPS spokesperson since then. — JOEY MATTHEWS

Correction Cornell Moore, the 1961 alumnus and former member of the Board of Trustees of Virginia Union University, was a statistician for VUU’s football and basketball teams during his undergraduate years.

Mr. Moore is being inducted into the VUU Athletic Hall of Fame in September as a supporter of athletics. He never played football for VUU, as incorrect information provided by the university indicated.

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Parents and children enjoy the splash pad area at Battery Park Pool on North Side — one of the city’s seven outdoor pools that opened during the weekend.

The pools are popular places to cool off in the soaring summer heat. The pools are open seven days a week through Labor Day. The other six outdoor pools include Hotchkiss on North Side, Fairmount and Woodville in Church Hill, Powhatan in Fulton, Blackwell on South Side and Randolph in the near West End.

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VSU placed on warning by accrediting agency

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Virginia State University, which has been tussling with the state auditor over its financial reporting, now has taken a slap from the regional group that accredits the historic Petersburg area school.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced last week that VSU has been placed on warning, a sanction imposed for failing to provide evidence it was in compliance with all of the g r o u p ’s s t a n dards.

SACS’ accreditation is needed for VSU students to receive federal Dr. Wheelan grants and loans to help cover tuition. A warning is the lightest sanction and does not affect accreditation or student financial aid.

However, VSU must correct the problems SACS noted to avoid more serious sanctions such as those Norfolk State University is dealing with.

NSU is on a one-year probation and could lose its accreditation if SACS finds that the university continues to fail in meeting standards.

To get rid of the warning, VSU has been directed to report within three months on corrections it has made on issues involving faculty numbers, financial aid and students’ ability to be heard when they have complaints.

If VSU complies, the board would lift the warning at its December meeting.

“We require every institution we accredit to be in compliance with all of our standards at all times,” Dr. Belle Wheelan, president of the SACS Commission on Colleges, said in a telephone interview June 11.

In the case of VSU, the board found the university “was out of compliance with five standards.”

The most notable problem, Dr. Wheelan said, was VSU’s failure to provide evidence that “the number of full-time faculty members is adequate to support the mission of the institution and to ensure the quality and integrity of each of its academic programs.”

“That’s a core standard,” she said, meaning it is critical for VSU to show it is in compliance.

In addition, the board found VSU did not show that it was adequately coordinating academic programs and did not provide evidence that federal financial aid programs had been properly audited and that it was in compliance with its program responsibilities.

VSU also was dinged for failing to show it has “adequate procedures for addressing written student complaints and that it follows those procedures when resolving student complaints.”

The warning was issued after the board of the SACS Commission on Colleges reviewed the detailed fifth-year report on accreditation that VSU interim President Pamela V. Hammond submitted April 1 and found it lacking.

The warning came as a shock to the VSU Board of Visitors. Outgoing board member Terone B. Green said Dr. Hammond never shared the report with the board before it was submitted. He also was irritated that Dr. Hammond issued a statement to media outlets about SACS’ action three hours before she notified board members.

“We’re always treated like an afterthought,” he said, noting that Dr. Hammond is following in the footsteps of past administrations in her dealings with the board. Dr. Hammond is competing to win the job permanently.

Still, there is no question that the SACS warning represents

a significant stumble.

Schools are accredited for 10 years and “halfway through

that cycle, we ask institutions to report that they are in compliance with the 17 standards that

we regard as most important,” Dr. Wheelan said.

However, Dr. Wheelan said

the fact the board set such a short time period for VSU to make corrections indicates

that the board believes “the situation can be resolved fairly quickly.”

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said he focuses on issues pertinent to millennials, such as criminal justice reform, climate change and campus sexual assault.

Mr. Johnson discussed the night of his very public arrest.

“I was not drunk,” Mr. Johnson said.

Images of his bloodied face spread via social media, sparking local and national outrage and demonstrations.

Mr. Johnson said that at the time, he was well aware of the highly publicized deaths of black males by law enforcement officers in locales such as Ferguson, Mo., New York City, Cleveland and North Charleston, S.C. “I look at those situations and feel blessed I’m still alive,” he said in retrospect. “When they took me down, I could have hit the pavement in a different way and things could have turned out much differently.”

Mr. Johnson said his attorney, Daniel Watkins of the Richmond-based Williams Mullen law firm, sent him a text message before they were to meet last week to go to the Charlottesville court.

“At first, I thought something had gone wrong,” Mr. Johnson said. “When he told me the news, I paused for a second. But because I was really excited, I had to scream.”

Mr. Watkins told the Free Press shortly after a press conference outside the courthouse last Friday, “I’m happy with the result. We’re happy that justice was served.”

George Keith Martin, rector of the University of Virginia, concurred.

“Martese is a fine young man with a very

bright future. I wish him well in his fourth year at U.Va., and I am pleased that the cloud of the ABC charges has been lifted,” said Mr. Martin, who also is managing partner of McGuire Woods’ Richmond office.

Mr. Chapman, the Charlottesville commonwealth’s attorney, also said he would not pursue charges against the ABC agents involved. He said after reviewing an investigation by the Virginia State Police that involved interviews with 52 people, including 15 witnesses to the bloody arrest, he found the ABC agents acted properly.

He said the agents had authority to detain Mr. Johnson and that he found no indication they acted with “malice or racial animosity” in their handling of the situation.

Mr. Chapman also noted that Mr. Johnson resisted when they sought to handcuff him.

In response to the incident, Gov. Terry McAuliffe ordered the State Police investigation. He also issued an executive order requiring retraining

by Sept. 1 of all ABC agents in “use of force, cultural diversity, effective interaction with youth and young adults and community policing.”

Perry Hicks, a Richmond security officer and former special court appointed conservator of the peace, said he believes Mr. Chapman’s office cleared the officers to “establish a positive defense against what will be any possible civil litigation” on Mr. Johnson’s behalf.

“Had not social media video of Martese’s arrest gone viral, still another young black male would have been convicted of crimes based on fallacious law enforcement testimony,” he said.

Mr. Watkins would not say if a civil lawsuit on Mr. Johnson’s behalf is being considered.

Mr. Johnson said he did not necessarily want the officers to be charged criminally, but he believes racism played a large role in the way he was treated.

“I think those officers should endure some form of repercussion,” he said. “It’s not my priority for those officers to be charged because, ultimately, the way those officers treated me is a product of larger societal issues.

“Had they not been taught the way their parents taught them, had they not had the interactions that they did throughout their lives, perhaps they would not have treated me the way they did,” he added.

He said the officers became quiet when they saw how badly he was bleeding. He then was shackled, taken to an ambulance and driven to a nearby hospital, where he received 10 stitches in his face, he said.

He said he remained at the police station until about 6:30 the next morning, then he was released.

He said police administered a breathalyzer test, the result of which was undeterminable because of equipment problems.

After a short nap when he arrived home, he awoke to find more than 300 text messages.

Mr. Johnson said he received dozens of interview requests including from national TV and news shows.

“I had always loved attention until this happened,” he said.

Demonstrations, led mostly by AfricanAmericans students, ensued on and around the U.Va. campus, calling for justice for Mr. Johnson. They mirrored “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations around the country that call for

law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, undergo anti-bias training, institute community policing policies and for an end to racism in the criminal justice system.

Mr. Johnson said he wouldn’t wish what happened to him on anyone else, but said he is willing to serve as one of the faces of police brutality if it helps prevent future incidents against African-Americans.

“If there had to be anyone at my university that this happened to, I’m happy that it’s me,” he said. “I fear that there could be a student who is a great person, but might not be as well known as I am, and their story might never have been told or they might not have gotten the support that I did.”

The incident, he said, has further fueled his ambition to help others. He has a double major in Italian and media studies and would like to pursue a career in consulting after he graduates, with a focus on social issues.

He also said he’d like to make enough money “to help others.” The experience with the police has whet his appetite to run for office one day.

He has been a leader on the campus since arriving from his hometown of Chicago.

He has been a member of the U.Va. Honor Committee for the past two years. For the last three, he has served as leadership development chair of the Black Student Alliance and also has been vice polemarch (vice president) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

Most recently, Mr. Johnson was chosen to moderate “Sustained Dialogue,” a group of about 20 students who will interact with students around the world to discuss current issues.

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Race is a touchy subject, but in this country, it’s like religion — in general, you are who you say you are. There are no membership cards to be checked.

Clearly, the fascination with the story was, in part, triggered by the reality that Ms. Dolezal, despite her statements to the contrary, was born to two white parents, has light skin, blue eyes and hair that has gone from blonde to brown.

The intense scrutiny has had consequences for Ms. Dolezal, dimming her star as a civil rights advocate in Spokane where she has lived for about two years after a stint as a human rights advocate in the Idaho community of Coeur d’Alene.

On Monday, she stepped down as president of the Spokane Branch NAACP in seeking to turn down the spotlight, all the while still defending her self-identification as a black person.

“There are questions and assumptions swirling in national and global news about my family, my race, my credibility,” she told an interviewer before she resigned.

An artist and a part-time instructor

in Africana studies at Eastern Washington University until last Friday when her contract ended, Ms. Dolezal also is facing questions from the City of Spokane that could end her other public role as volunteer chairwoman of a police oversight commission.

The multiracial NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group, has largely been supportive of Ms. Dolezal, who began serving as president of the Spokane branch in January.

The NAACP “is not concerned with the racial identity of our leadership,” said Cornell William Brooks, national president of the NAACP, whose founders 109 years ago included white as well as black activists.

Echoing comments from the NAACP in Spokane and in chapters elsewhere, Mr. Brooks said, “We encourage Americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leaders in our organization.”

The concern about Ms. Dolezal “is not about race, it’s about integrity,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, the political commentator and founder and leader of the predominantly black National Action Network. “There are white people in all of our organizations and there are whites in the civil rights movement.”

Similar views were heard in Richmond where people seemed more focused on Ms. Dolezal identifying an unrelated black man as her father, misrepresenting her race on government forms and referring to her curly, darkened hair as “natural” despite growing up with straight blonde hair. She also has told stories about receiving threatening and abusive letters and of being assaulted because of her race.

Those items drew the most attention from callers, said Jack W. Gravely, a talk show host on WLEE News Talk 990 radio in Richmond and interim executive director of the Virginia State NAACP. “Color made no difference. It was about her integrity and character,” Mr. Gravely said of the comments he received, adding that even if she said she was white, the Spokane NAACP likely would have elected her as branch president because of her civil rights work.

“I identify as black,” Ms. Dolezal said Tuesday during an appearance on the “Today Show.”

As a child, she said she “drew self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon.”

She said her identification has deepened as the mother of two black

sons. Her children have shown her “what it means to experience and live black,” she said.

She also grew up with four black children her parents adopted — three American and one Haitian.

Her decision to identify as a black person appears to have flowered after she earned a master’s degree in fine arts at Howard University in 2002.

Before graduating, she sued the university for failing to put her on equal footing with her black peers in terms of gaining a scholarship and teaching assistant post because she was white.

The suit was dismissed in 2004.

Jelani Cobb, a commentator for New Yorker magazine, noted that Ms. Dolezal’s experience at Howard showed her how easy it is to don a black identity.

Also a Howard graduate, Mr. Cobb noted that, at the school, one learns quickly that “the constellation of black identities and appearances is so staggeringly vast as to ridicule the idea that blackness could be, or ever has been any one thing.”

Writing on the Dolezal case, he recalled learning at Howard that people who are black come in all shades, including mostly white, “a direct product of the bloodlines that attest to

institutionalized rape during and after slavery.” That means “nearly all who identify as African-Americans have some white ancestry,” he wrote.

Mr. Cobb is not alone in feeling that Ms. Dolezal went too far.

“She may be connected to black communities and feel an affinity with the styles and cultural innovations of black people,” Alicia Walters, founder and director of Echoing Ida, an Oakland, Calif., leadership program for black women. “But the black identity cannot be put on like a pair of shoes.”

Ms. Dolezal “showed the world that a person can be black without the burden of having lived through it, rendering invisible the experiences that forge a black woman’s identity,” Ms. Walters said.

Ms. Dolezal has her defenders.

“There’s an alternative response to the Rachel Dolezal story, one where we applaud a fellow human being for abandoning unearned racial privilege,” tweeted Thuli Madonsela, who serves as public protector, or ombudsman, for people in South Africa.

Closer to home, James Wilburn, a former Spokane NAACP president, said, “White, black, it didn’t matter.

She had a lot of passion for human rights, and that’s what mattered.”

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Richmond Mayor Leonidas B. Young II, whom Mr. Morrissey backed.

Gov. McAuliffe’s support for Mr. Bagby was demonstrated when he gave political parties and independents just four days to certify candidates for the special election. The 74th House Democratic Committee got a waiver from the state party to nominate without holding a caucus or other formal process, and quickly nominated Mr. Bagby.

Mr. Lambert circulated petitions during the weekend, most notably at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church, and filed more than 500 names supporting his independent run in the special election.

For Mr. Bagby and Mr. Lambert, the special election will represent an early test of their respective levels of support in the district, though getting their backers to turn out in a July election is expected to be a challenge.

The winner would take office immediately and serve until mid-January when the next session of the General Assembly begins. Then the winner of the November election would begin a new two-year term.

As a result of his strong showing in the primary, Mr. Bagby will go in as the favorite in both elections. Should he win in July, he immediately would have to give up his seat on the Henrico School Board.

School Board member Mamie L. Taylor, 5th District.

In addition, some schools would lose full-time teachers in core subjects in language arts, science and math, she said.

Dr. Bedden said the changes are necessary because of “limited resources.”

The school system could save up to $1.7 million if they are implemented.

The changes also would help his administration reach its goal to have an average student-teacher ratio of 22-1 in RPS classrooms.

School Board Vice Chair Kristen N. Larson, 4th District, told the Free Press she supports that goal.

“In some freshmen classes at Huguenot High School, there were classrooms with 30-to-1 or 35-to-1 ratios, and that’s way too much,” she said.

Dr. Bedden’s actions drew the loudest protests from students, staff, parents and alumni at RPS’ two smallest high schools, Richmond Community High and Open High, where students benefit from much smaller class sizes. At one point, there were only six students in a class, a student said.

During the weekend, those outraged

by Dr. Bedden’s actions called for community members to flood him and School

Board members with phone calls and emails to voice their concerns.

Students from Open High organized a rally Monday morning outside City Hall and held signs with messages such as “Stop The Cuts,” “Fight for Funding” and “Don’t Cut the Heart Out of RPS.” Then about 20 people, mostly students and parents, spoke vehemently against the proposed changes at Monday night’s School Board meeting at Huguenot High School.

Micaela Willoughby, a rising sophomore at Richmond Community, asked board members not to cut her music teacher’s position. Micaela said she had never played the harp or knew how to read music before her teacher introduced her to the musical instrument this past school year. She told the board she now loves performing in concerts and has gained a greater appreciation for music and other art disciplines through her teacher’s tutelage.

The grassroots effort paid off when board members voted 6-3 to halt the changes — at least temporarily — until school officials can further explain their plans to the public.

Ms. Taylor told the Free Press she introduced the motion to halt the process so “we can involve teachers, students and staff.”

Board member Shonda Harris-

Muhammed, 6th District, was so displeased by Dr. Bedden’s actions that, prior to the meeting, she called for him to resign.

At the meeting, she stepped before Dr. Bedden and other board members and passionately called for more transparency from his administration and for more compassion to be shown to RPS staff and students.

“To explain to teachers on the last day of school that they may not have a job is just disrespectful. And it describes that this board and administration do not respect them and do not have a level of compassion for those who are closest to the children — our teachers,” she said, her voice rising in anger.

She told the Free Press on Tuesday she has had enough of the “way this current administration has implemented new procedures and processes to our employees. Communication and the lack thereof is hindering our progress as a district.”

On Wednesday night, school officials and board members met with parents and community members at Albert Hill Middle School to further explain the proposed changes.

The board also scheduled a special meeting 6 p.m. Monday, June 22, at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in the East End to further discuss the issue.

Separately, the board voted 8-1 Monday to support an option backed by the administration to begin designing one new middle school and one new high school on South Side. Its aim is to meet the needs of the growing student population south of the James River.

The plan also calls for renovations and additions to begin at Westover Elementary School on South Side to address student growth.

Assistant Superintendent Tommy Kranz said $18.3 million in existing funds in the Capital Improvement Program would pay for the designs and renovation work.

If funding is provided for the new schools to be built, Mr. Kranz said a new middle school likely could be built at the site where the now-closed Elkhardt Middle School sits at 6300 Hull St. Road. Elkhardt was closed in February because of mold issues.

Mr. Kranz said a new elementary school likely would be constructed at the site of E.S.H. Greene Elementary School at 1745 Catalina Drive. He told the board a new school could be built as students continue to attend Greene.

This is the initial phase of a long-term RPS plan to open supersized new schools on South Side, consolidate others and close some to address the burgeoning student population.

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than she did in Suffolk, where she helped Ms. Cuffee-Glenn gain a Triple A bond rating for that city.

Her salary was around $100,000 a year when she started in Suffolk in 2012, according to a database on salaries for local government officials. Her pay had increased to around $135,000 a year when she accepted Richmond’s offer.

“I worked with Ms. Reid for some time,” Ms. CuffeeGlen stated. “I know her work and her ability to get things done, and I trust her to build and lead teams. She will be a great addition” in Richmond, she said.

Councilwoman Kathy C. Graziano, chair of council’s Finance Committee, stated that she looks forward “to working with Ms. Reid to strengthen the city’s finances and reporting.”

Like Ms. Cuffee-Glenn and Mr. Butts, Ms. Reid will receive moving expenses worth at least $16,000, plus a $1,000-a-month housing allowance for six months.

Ms. Reid, like Ms. Cuffee-Glenn, previously worked for Richmond’s government. After spending five years with KPMG in Washington, Ms. Reid came to Richmond in 2003, where she initially worked as a City Council liaison. She then joined the Finance Department staff where she served as a compliance auditor, then as

assistant controller and finally as acting controller in 2007 before she left to start her own company.

In 2008, she folded her company and went to Portsmouth, where she served as controller for four years before joining Suffolk’s government.

As Suffolk’s finance director, she was responsible for keeping track of revenue and expenses, budget preparation, purchasing, bond sales and preparation of Suffolk’s comprehensive yearly financial report.

Ms. Reid earned bachelor’s degrees in accounting and management from the University of the District of Columbia in 1997 and a master’s degree in business administration from Strayer University in 2005.

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Federal appeals court orders Va. congressional district lines redrawn

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

For the second time, a three-judge panel has found the General Assembly illegally packed black voters into a single congressional district — diminishing their influence and ability to elect a candidate of their choice in adjacent districts.

And for the second time, that ruling is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court as the Republican-dominated legislature seeks to maintain GOP control of the state’s congressional delegation.

The decision stems from a lawsuit challenging the ballooning size of the black population in the 3rd Congressional District that 11-term Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott represents. The dean of Virginia’s delegation, Rep. Scott is the state’s first and only African-American congressional representative since 1890.

In a decision written by Judge Allyson K. Duncan of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, the panel found that race was a predominant factor in the redistricting plan created in 2012 for the state’s 11 congressional districts.

The new lines kept the GOP congressional majority intact — eight Republicans and three Democrats. Redistricting is required after each 10-year census of the population.

As a result, “we find that the 2012 plan is unconstitutional and will require the common-

wealth to draw a new congressional district plan” that is legal, Judge Duncan wrote in the 2-1 decision. She was joined in her opinion by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady.

The third judge on the panel, senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne, again disagreed and found the 2012 plan acceptable.

The panel directed that the new plan be adopted by Sept. 1.

However, that deadline is likely Rep. to pass. House Speaker William J. Howell, who leads the 67 Republicans who run the House of Delegates, indicated that the court’s decision would be appealed to the nation’s highest court. He wants to ensure the case is “fully litigated.”

The same federal appeals court panel threw out the plan last fall, only to have the U.S. Supreme Court return it in March for a fresh review based on an Alabama decision regarding whether African-Americans were packed into a few districts in that state.

The fight over Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District is expected to echo through a separate suit set for July that will determine whether the Republican-dominated General Assembly illegally packed too many black people into a few House of Delegates’ districts to create more

Scott

safe seats for white members of their parties.

If the legislature must redraw lines, it might mean fewer safe Republican districts and more competition. Any changes in district lines could impact elections for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, 2018 and 2020.

When Virginia last drew voting district lines, Republicans controlled the entire legislative process with Gov. Bob McDon-

nell in office.

Then Republicans rejected a plan proposed

by Hampton Sen. Mamie E. Locke, chair of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, that would have spread the black population over two congressional districts, the 3rd and the 4th districts. The GOP rejected such a plan.

The 4th Congressional District is represented by Republican Congressman J. Randy Forbes.

Democrats would have more say in drawing new lines because of the election of Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, in 2013. He could use his veto pen to kill a Republican-drawn plan he does not support.

The big question in the Virginia case — and in the similar Alabama case — is whether the

people drawing the lines are using the Voting Rights Act as an excuse to reduce black voter influence.

That 1965 law required states with a history of black voter suppression, including Virginia, to create majority-minority districts where feasible and to ensure such districts survive when redistricting takes place. The 3rd District is a majority black district.

However, the judicial panel determined that lawmakers added more black people to the 3rd District than necessary on the pretense of protecting its majority-minority status.

Rep. Scott cheered the decision in a statement, describing it as being in line with the latest U.S. Supreme Court rulings barring racial packing of election districts.

“While I was not involved in this lawsuit, I was a proponent of the redistricting plan sponsored by Sen. Locke in 2011, which made all congressional districts in the Commonwealth more compact and contiguous.”

The Virginia State NAACP also applauded the appeals court decision.

Jack Gravely, interim state NAACP executive director, told reporters last week that the organization had not been involved in the redistricting suits involving the congressional and General Assembly districts, but planned to be more active in lobbying for greater fairness if and when the legislature redraws district boundaries.

Richmond NAACP to meet at city jail The Richmond Branch NAACP is going to jail.

That’s the unusual venue where the branch is planning to hold its next meeting Tuesday, June 23, according to branch President Lynetta Thompson.

The open-to-the-public meeting at the Richmond Justice Center, as the city jail is now known, will be a first for the branch.

“Our branch wants to be more accessible to the community, including those behind bars,” Ms. Thompson explained. She said the meeting also represents a first step toward creating a NAACP branch at Richmond’s new Justice Center.

Ms. Thompson Attendees must be at the jail by 6 p.m. to be properly signed in, Ms. Thompson said.

The branch will hold a business meeting and hear from Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr. before taking a tour of the facility from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Additional information: Ms. Thompson, (804) 982-8072.

RRHA youth feeding locations announced Children in the city’s public housing communities will have access to a free and nutritious breakfast and lunch this summer.

Any child age 18 and younger can get a meal at no cost in seven of the city’s public housing communities through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority announced Tuesday.

Those sites are the Calhoun Family Investment Center in Gilpin Court, the management buildings in Mosby and Hillside courts, the Boys and Girls Club in Fairfield Court, and in Whitcomb and Creighton courts and in the Fulton community.

Breakfast will be served from 9 to 10 a.m. and lunch from noon to 1 p.m. beginning Monday, June 22. The program will continue through Aug. 28, according to RRHA spokesperson Valena Dixon.

RRHA has approximately 10,000 residents living in nearly 4,100 units, she stated.

For a complete list of participating sites in the Summer Food Service Program in the Greater Richmond area, call (866) 348-6479, ext. 211 or text the word “food” to 877877.

Thompson Middle School on Forest Hill Avenue

What’s in a name?

School Board entertains names for new middle school

By Joey Matthews

Allen Iverson Middle School, after the former NBA player Southside Middle School. from Hampton, Va.; Bon Air Benjamin Banneker Middle Middle School for its geoSchool. Barack Obama Middle graphic location; and Artson School.

Middle, a combination of the Those are just a few of the names Elkhardt and Thompson suggested names for a “new” middle schools. middle school in Richmond.

Alexis Gresham, a seventhBenjamin President James Calvin Richmond Public Schools ofgrader at Elkhardt Middle Banneker Obama Vaughan ficials invited people to propose School, proposed Stratford names for the middle school that will public relations worker and consultants Middle School, “because it’s in the open this fall in the Forest Hill Avenue who live in locales from Richmond to Stratford Hills area.” building that currently houses Thompson California to Massachusetts.

Veronica Pierce told the board that her Middle School.

Sean Conard, a Thompson social stud- son, Isaiah, a sixth-grader at Elkhardt, backs The new school also will hold students ies teacher, said he was representing the the Stratford Hills name. She also said from Elkhardt Middle School, which “voices of my students” who suggested the names Thompson-Elkhardt or Elkson was shut down in February because of Southside Middle School. should be considered. mold problems.

At the board’s meeting last week at An informal survey of some School At separate meetings during the past the Southside Community Service Center Board members by a Free Press reporter few days, several names emerged. at Southside Plaza, Thompson English found: Judy Self, a retired teacher, told School teacher Nathan Johnson said students • Tichi Pinkney-Eppes, 9th District, Board members at a meeting Monday had whittled about 15 suggested names said her 13-year-old grandson, Folando at Huguenot High School that former to a final four.

Keel Jr., a student at Lucille Brown Thompson students asked her to propose At the top of their list, he said, is Middle School, suggested naming the naming the school after former Thompson naming the school after Benjamin Ban- school after President Obama. teacher James Calvin Vaughan. neker, an African-American scientist, • Kimberly B. “Kim” Gray, 2nd District, She said Mr. Vaughan taught English, surveyor, almanac author and farmer said her constituents had suggested Oliver drama and performing arts from 1979 from Baltimore County, Md., who became Hill Middle or Tucker-Hill Middle after through 1989, before he died of a brain renowned for his work in the 1700s. Oliver Hill and Samuel Tucker, two trailtumor. He was a “Richmond African- He worked with the team that laid out blazing Richmond civil rights attorneys.

American role model,” she said, who the initial boundaries of the District of RPS Superintendent Dana T. Bedden inspired so many of his former students Columbia in the 1790s. has asked the School Board to pick a who went on to become teachers, a colIn addition to Banneker Middle new name by its meeting on Monday, lege professor, a newspaper editor, a School, the other suggestions were July 13.

Housing group Board asks to throw out schools lawsuit acquires Church Hill property for project

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

A former church social services center known as Citadel of Hope is to be the centerpiece for a new affordable housing development in Church Hill.

The Richmond Better Housing Coalition last year quietly acquired the building at 2230 Venable St. for $300,000 from the nearby Temple of Judah led by Bishop Melvin Williams Jr. Greta Harris, president and CEO of the housing coalition, said the purchase is part of the group’s plans to buy up and transform the block at Venable and Tulip streets into new homes and apartments.

The nonprofit housing coalition also has purchased a vacant retail store and two other properties within the block as it moves ahead with its plans, city property records show.

Ms. Harris said the group plans to use $3 million it raised in a recent capital campaign to help fuel the project. However, it could take several years for the development to move from the drawing board to fruition.

The Citadel of Hope is the major building in the block. Bishop Williams dubbed the building Citadel of Hope in using it as a social services and outreach center for his church. It has been vacant since a fire damaged much of the interior a few years ago. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

The Richmond School Board is seeking to dispel a legal cloud hanging over the collective heads of its nine members.

That cloud: An AfricanAmerican parent’s claim that the board engaged in resegregation of city schools in 2013 when it overhauled attendance zones for elementary schools and closed Clark Springs Elementary School in the near West End. The parent, Kimberly Johnson Jones, asked the court to overturn the attendance zone changes a few weeks after the board’s final vote. She claimed that a few members of the board held illegal secret meetings to devise the plan.

She alleged the plan was designed to cluster white children in a few schools, notably Mary Munford and William Fox elementary schools, and damaged her child’s opportunity for

a quality education by closing Clark Springs.

The board, which has strongly denied the allegations, now is asking the Richmond Circuit Court to throw out the petition Ms. Jones filed with the court.

Ms. Jones’ petition asks the court to void the board’s vote on the attendance plan as “arbitrary and capricious” and in violation of public policy.

Ms. Jones’ petition, which was backed by the nonprofit Richmond Coalition for Quality Education, has been on hold since October.

The board’s new request claims that Ms. Jones’ petition should be tossed because Ms. Jones’ child no longer attends a city school and that the petition was not filed in a timely manner.

The board also claims there is no evidence that racial animus motivated the board’s vote.

Ms. Jones’ attorney, Charles H. Schmidt Jr., said he and

his client would oppose the board’s effort.

Mr. Schmidt acknowledged Ms. Jones’ child no longer attends a city public school.

However, he said that does not matter. He said the court earlier had found Ms. Jones had standing to submit her petition because her child was attending a city elementary school when the petition was filed.

He said the court previously ruled the petition was submitted before a 30-day deadline expired and argues the board is asking the court to reconsider that decision without “offering any new facts or justifications.”

Mr. Schmidt noted that the board’s new filing also includes an admission that three members of the board, Glen H. Sturtevant Jr., 1st District, Kimberly B. Gray, 2nd District, and Kristen Larson, 4th District, devised the attendance zone changes the board ultimately approved.

“The board is admitting to most of what we claimed in our initial complaint — namely that Mr. Sturtevant and Ms. Gray met in a coffee shop” and called Ms. Larson to consult with her, Mr. Schmidt said. State law defines a public meeting when three members of an elected body gather in some fashion, he said. Such a gathering requires public notice, he said.

“They did most of their business surrounding the rezoning plan over the phone and email without public knowledge or input,” he said. “That is the basis of our claim and why we think the board was acting in bad faith” and in violation of the state’s open meeting law. The failure to follow state law and the board’s own policies, he said, “demonstrate (the board) acted arbitrarily and capriciously.”

The court has not yet set a date to consider the School Board’s request.

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The Dolezal debate The curious story of Rachel Dolezal has transfixed the nation, as though we are passing by a mirror and looking at ourselves.

In a sense, we are. We are peering into the racial reflection of the nation and discovering what truths and lies are beneath the surface.

Is someone black merely because of the color of their skin and their curly hair or braids?

Is someone white simply because their parents say so?

Or is race a mindset, a set of experiences or a particular social and cultural understanding?

And, like Rachel Dolezal, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and rapper Eminem, is someone who appropriates the outward cultural markers of what appears to be a race different from their own a fraud?

What makes Ms. Dolezal’s case so different is that she, a “white” woman, was passing for “black.”

In a society built on white privilege, and the false notion of white racial superiority and its “merit” of opportunity, we are more acclimated to light-complexioned black people passing for white. This nation’s history of racial mixing, dating back to the rapes of slavery, has given rise to a wide range of hues that allows “passing” to happen.

We all know of light-complexioned black people and many dark-complexioned white people, some of whom call themselves part Cherokee or Spanish or Italian. Quietly mixed in that are numerous instances of white people passing for black.

In “The Color of Water,” James McBride poignantly writes about his mother passing for black after growing up in Suffolk and having her first child by a black boyfriend. She later married a black man in 1942, and raised several more children in Harlem, where the couple made their home. She went as “black” to protect her children and to escape from an abusive family.

As Ms. Dolezal said in her interview Tuesday with MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, some of her decisions involving her racial identity were made “for survival reasons or to protect the people I love.”

Clearly, there are many disturbing elements in Ms. Dolezal’s background and history. Among them, allegations of sexual abuse involving her older, white biological brother and her younger adopted black siblings. The case is now in a Colorado court.

While her story, like the complexities of race, will continue to be peeled back like the layers of an onion, we are dismayed that in revelations so far, Ms. Dolezal seems to be a racial chameleon, changing colors when it suits her best.

She talks about coloring pictures of herself with brown crayons as a child, acknowledges suing Howard University for racial discrimination as a white woman and more recently, coiffed in braids or natural hair, is seen leading marches as the Spokane Branch NAACP president and claiming an unrelated black man as her father.

On a city form to serve on a Spokane police oversight commission, she marked that she is black, white and Native American.

If Ms. Dolezal submits a DNA swab and finds even a small percentage of her ancestors are African, does that legitimize her claims of blackness? In the court of public opinion, would that exonerate her of perpetrating a fraud? We believe not.

We are perplexed as to why she felt it imperative to adopt “blackness” in her role with the NAACP. The NAACP never has mandated that one must be of African descent to understand or deeply care about the issues of justice and equality impacting communities of color across the nation — the backbone of its mission.

In fact, the organization’s highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, is named for Joel E. Spingarn, a white man who served in national leadership positions from 1914 until his death in 1939. He then was succeeded as president by his brother, Arthur B. Spingarn, another white man, who served in that role on the national board until 1966.

NAACP officials, in backing Ms. Dolezal, stated early on in this strange saga that race was neither a requirement nor disqualifier for membership and leadership in the NAACP. Now, however, Ms. Dolezal has become a distraction — her lack of credibility a liability in the fight for justice — and we are glad that she stepped down from the organization.

While we are trying hard to understand Ms. Dolezal’s motivations, we are clear on several points.

Race is not something you change when you want like a hairdo, pocketbook or pair of shoes. It’s something you live with every day like a birthmark, or a mole: You — and others — can view it either as a beauty mark or a cancer.

As popular culture has shown us, everybody wants to be black until the police show up. Then the divisions become crystal clear.

And until this country sees race and deals with race differently, what Ms. Dolezal did will be considered offensive.

The boundaries were set long ago by those who established the legal and social demarcations of race — dating to the crazy “one drop” rule that could determine your future, your fate and whether you were in or out.

If America were truly a “colorblind” society, with opportunity or privilege not being reserved largely for folks of the lighter hue, then perhaps the notion of being transracial — or moving seamlessly between races or cultures in your family ancestral line — would work.

If that were the case, then many black people would be checking lots of different boxes under racial profile. And our community would be more tolerant of people like Justice Thomas, Eminem and Ms. Dolezal.

Because many of the nation’s problems are tied up with race — employment discrimination; unequal pay; wealth gaps; educational disparities in funding, discipline, opportunity and achievement; school-to-prison pipelines; disparate sentencing; and curtailed voting rights, to name just a few — we are forced to choose a side, and part of that involves racial identity.

Our fear, however, is that one day, someone like President Obama, who legitimately can claim being biracial by birth, will wake up one morning and decide he is white. Then where will we be? Who will fight the fight?

For America to move forward, we must embrace and celebrate race. But until race becomes a love song played

by America on “repeat,” and is not the nasty-gram of a bill collector whose ugly racial reminder can be more damaging than just a simple buzz kill, then Ms. Dolezal will continue to make people angry.

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Forgive student loan debt By the time you read this, millions of college students will have graduated and be looking for jobs. Many will be going on to grad school and millions suddenly will be faced with paying off college loans or contemplating obtaining a loan for graduate studies. Neither option is attractive.

Even if students are fortunate enough to have a job when they graduate, it will be difficult for them to save money when they are making $300 to $600 in monthly payments for college loans.

At more than $1 trillion, college loan debt is an albatross around the necks of students and graduates.

This is indeed a sad state of affairs for our best and brightest.

It is said that “millennials” are the first generation that will be worse off than their parents.

What can we do?

High on our agenda should

James Clingman be a demand made to Congress and whoever is running for president for student loan debt forgiveness. A strong, independent bloc of voters must go to candidates in both parties and make this demand. Keep in mind, however, a demand without power backing it up is just rhetoric. We must be willing to withhold our votes in order to get what we want.

The banks and other financial entities got their $780 billion bailout. Where is ours? Why not bail out the students?

The bankers were given billions that they used to make even more money from the taxpayers who paid their bills. Contrary to what we were told, lending was curtailed rather than expanded, and hundreds of thousands of folks are still homeless because there was no real bailout program for them.

As of Jan. 1, 2014, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had paid out $816.3 billion in tax benefits, grants, contracts, loans and entitlements. Who got that money? In my neck of the woods, the folks who got the most were those who worked on the roads and expressways.

Of those contractors and workers, few if any were AfricanAmerican.

Georgia recently embarked on a $1 billion-plus road improvement project, and even with 3.2 million AfricanAmericans in that state, black

Black Press

188 years of excellence

In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, it is important to emphasize both the historical and contemporary mission, value and success of the Black Press in America. For the past 188 years black Americans have labored diligently and responsibly to publish and distribute black-owned newspapers in the interests of millions of black Americans and others who cry out for freedom, justice, equality and empowerment.

What the first black American publishers and editors of Freedom’s Journal, Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm, worked hard to accomplish began a vibrant legacy that continues today across the United States by publishers who are members of the NNPA. In the first edition of Freedom’s Journal published on March 16, 1827, in New York City, Mr. Cornish and Mr. Russwurm clearly stated, “We wish to plead our own cause …Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly.”

Freedom’s Journal was widely read in the Northeast and secretly read and admired throughout the South among those who were fighting the oppression and brutality of slavery. Thereafter, wherever black Americans were concentrated across the nation, the emergence of the black-owned newspapers came forward with a firm commitment to excellence in journalism and the

empowerment of the black American community.

From the very beginning of the Black Press in America, publishers and editors asserted their constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, as well as the

Benjamin Chavis Jr. fundamental human right of self-determination. “Pleading our own cause” and speaking for the rights, news, aspirations and dreams of black America continue today as the undergirding foundation of the Black Press.

Frederick Douglass was one of our greatest orators and leaders who exemplified the audacity and genius to challenge all who would seek to oppress and deny freedom and equality. Mr. Douglass also was a freedom-fighting newspaper owner and publisher of The North Star. The first edition of The North Star was published on Dec. 3, 1847, in Rochester, N.Y. Mr. Douglass believed that owning The North Star gave him a strategic advantage to effectively articulate the interests of black American liberation from slavery and poverty.

He stated, “We are now about to assume the management of the editorial department of a newspaper, devoted to the cause of Liberty, Humanity and Progress. The position is one which, with the purest motives, we have long desired to occupy. It has long been our anxious wish to see, in this slave-holding, slave-trading, and Negro-hating land, a printing-press and paper, permanently established, under the complete control and direction of the immediate victims of

slavery and oppression.”

This certainly applies to some of the challenges that black Americans face in 2015.

The mission and purpose of the NNPA states in part: “To promote the interests of the Black Press by securing unity and action in all matters relative to the profession of journalism and the business of publishing …To advance the highest and best interest of all people of African descent.”

Today, in a growing multiracial, multilingual and multicultural society, it remains a critical necessity for all black-owned businesses, in particular blackowned newspapers and other media, to be conscious of how the marketplace is changing and transforming. The point here is that black Americans cannot afford to understate the value and market impact of our businesses, institutions and communities. The fact that we are trillion dollar annual consumers in the American economy should translate more effectively and efficiently into strengthening black-owned businesses.

I am optimistic about the Black Press because I see greater business development opportunities today than ever before. Yet we must all learn the lessons from our history and from the shining examples of excellence and determination of freedom-fighting publishers like Mr. Cornish, Mr. Russwurm and Mr. Douglass. From Selma to Ferguson, our struggle for freedom and empowerment continues.

Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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contractors and workers will not benefit as much as they should.

Department of Transportation inclusion rules are based on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs, in which white female businesses get a significant share of the contracts, and “front” companies rule the day.

So with all of the barriers facing our 2015 graduates, and the bleak outlook for improvement of their lot, the least we could do is bail them out.

Politicians said the banks were “too big to fail,” and I guess the bankers were “too big to jail.” They caught a huge break from President George W. Bush and President Obama.

It’s time for a break for black and poor people now. Forgive student loans.

Jim Clingman is founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce.

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Reflecting on Juneteenth erected to block them from full participation in American life. Even today, we see a nation that has twice elected an African-American president still struggling with economic inequality and challenging disparities in our criminal justice system.

Juneteenth reminds us of how far America has come in its march toward a more equal society. Even though struggles for freedom and equality still exist today, we know from the past that opening doors of opportunity to all Americans will make us a stronger nation going forward.

We need to teach our children

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Re editorial ‘Texas thugs,’ May 21-23 edition: I did not find your editorial that compared bikers to black hoodlums to be a very helpful analysis.

Some bikers do some of the same things as some black hoodlums, such as being violent, pimping and selling drugs.

On the other hand, most bikers do not steal, know how to talk,

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and do not make any sudden movements when confronted by police.

Black hoodlums are treated badly by their peers and police because of how they act, not because of how they look.

My experience with bikers and black hoodlums has convinced me there is no such thing as a bad person.

Both groups come out of cultures that were created by oppression.

It saddens me to see children who are smart enough to become doctors or lawyers, but will never “make it” because of their class or culture.

Countries that take care of their children, such as Costa Rica or Norway, do not have our problems.

We need to come together as a broader community to teach our children how to work, how to talk, how to respect authority and take care of others.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Mo’ne Davis to play Saturday in Henrico Mo’ne Davis, the 14-year-old female pitching sensation selected as the Associated Press 2014 Female Athlete of the Year, will be testing her fastball Saturday against a team of Richmond area standouts.

Davis, along with the touring Anderson Monarchs of Philadelphia, will face a hand-picked squad from the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League at 10 a.m. June 20 at RF&P Park, 3400 Mountain Road, in Glen Allen.

The exhibition game will be held at the park’s Glen Allen Stadium that has seating for 600. It also will be broadcast live over the Internet on the MJBL website, www. mjbl.org, with MJBL alumnus Gary Flowers doing the play-by-play announcing.

Frank J. Thornton, chairman of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, and Supervisor Richard W. “Dick” Glover, will throw Mr. Forrester out the first pitch.

The idea is to promote positive initiatives for youth and baseball in America’s inner cities, where baseball is struggling for popularity.

The Richmond-based MJBL’s executive director is William Forrester Jr. Mo’ne drew national acclaim last summer pitching for the Taney Dragons of Philadelphia in the 2014 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Wearing her hair in long braids, she became the first girl in a Little League World Series to record a pitching victory — and she did it with a flourish, firing a shutout during the U.S. qualifying side of the international event.

Mo’ne, listed at 5-foot-4 and 111 pounds, was the first girl to play in the Little League World Series since 2004.

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With Mo’ne on the mound, Taney advanced to the U.S. semifinals before bowing to Jackie Robinson West of Chicago, 6-5.

The all-black Robinson squad, which lost to a team from South Korea in the championship game, later was disqualified for using ineligible players.

Mo’ne’s star status didn’t end in Williamsport. She was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, appeared in a Chevrolet television commercial, was a guest of Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” and her Taney Dragons jersey was placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Mo’ne’s catchphrase in the commercial was: “I throw a 70 mile an hour fastball. That’s throwing like a girl!”

It was estimated that a 70 mph pitch thrown at the Little League pitching distance of 48 feet is equivalent to a 93 mph pitch on a regular size baseball diamond of 60.5 feet.

Mo’ne’s appearance Saturday in Henrico County is part of a three-week barnstorming tour in which the Monarchs from Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Recreation Center will play exhibition games in 14 states.

The first stop is June 18 in Washington, where the team will be invited to The White House to meet President Obama.

The Monarchs are traveling in an antique bus similar to what was used by the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League prior to baseball’s integration in the late 1940s.

This isn’t the Monarchs’ or Mo’ne’s first trip to Richmond.

In 2012, she was an unheralded 10 year old — and her team’s only female player — in a game of the Monarchs against the MJBL at Hotchkiss Field on Brookland Park Boulevard.

This time, the Monarchs will face a MJBL team composed of 13- and 14-year-old players from Richmond and Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

Mo’ne is a rising ninth-grader at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, a private school in suburban Philadelphia.

During the last school year, she competed as an eighth-grader on the girls’ varsity basketball squad and with the middle school varsity baseball team as the team’s lone female.

Her stated long-term athletic goals are to play basketball at the University of Connecticut and eventually in the WNBA.

Richmond practice schedule announced for Washington NFL team

For a third straight year, Richmond will serve as the preseason training site for Washington’s NFL team.

The Jay Gruden-coached pros will hold public practice sessions at the Bon Secours Training Center, 2401 W. Leigh St., July 30 through Aug. 16.

Gates will open most days at 9:30 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. The viewing sessions

are free.

This year, the Washington team will conduct joint practices with the Houston Texans on Aug. 6, 7 and 8. This will coincide with Houston’s appearance on HBO’s “Hard Knocks.”

Washington is a member of the NFC East, while Houston is aligned with the AFC South. The two teams will not

meet in preseason or regular season play in 2015.

There are two full-size football fields at the Richmond training center, one of which has an overlooking embankment that helps in viewing. There are no bleachers.

Fans are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Food and beverages will be available for sale at the site.

VUU to play 7 N.C. schools this football season

Virginia Union University’s 2015 CIAA. The Eagles replaced Fayetteville football schedule could be billed as the State University from the 2014 slate.

Virginia Union University Panthers versus North Carolina.

VUU will travel to Raleigh a second 2015 football schedule VUU has seven games against teams time Oct. 3 to meet CIAA rival Shaw from North Carolina universities, includUniversity.

Sept. 5 – Brevard College ing its first five opponents.

The Sept. 26 Hovey Field game Sept. 12 – at St. Augustine’s University Both of the Panthers’ non-CIAA against Johnson C. Smith University Sept. 19 – at Gardner-Webb University games are with North Carolina schools, will be a homecoming of sorts for Sept. 26 – Johnson C. Smith University in addition to first-year Golden Bulls Coach Kermit Oct. 3 – at Shaw University the five of the Blount.

Oct. 10 – at Lincoln (Pa.) University 10-game docket The former Armstrong High School against CIAA foes athlete has coached the past four years at Oct. 17 – Chowan (Homecoming) located in North Delaware State University before moving Oct. 24 – at Bowie State University Carolina. to the Carolina coaching job.

Oct. 31 – Elizabeth City State University VUU opens VUU will celebrate its own homecomNov. 7 – at Virginia State University Sept. 5 against ing Oct. 17 against CIAA foe Chowan Note: All home games 1 p.m.; Game at Virginia State 2 p.m.

Brevard College University. of Brevard, N.C., VUU was 7-3 last fall under firstat Hovey Field.

The Panthers travel Sept. year Coach Mark James.

The Panthers were contenders for the Coach James 19 to Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Northern Division title until its final game loss to Virginia State Springs, N.C. University at Hovey Field.

Brevard is a member of the NCAA Division II South AtlanThe Panthers will close the 2015 regular season against the tic Conference. VUU played Brevard once previously, winning VSU Trojans in Ettrick.

31-21 in 2012.

The CIAA championship game is slated to be played Nov. Big South Conference member Gardner-Webb is aligned 14 in Durham, N.C. with the NCAA Division I Football Championship Sub-Division VUU is playing so many North Carolina schools in part (FCS). because the CIAA has lost three Virginia affiliates since the VUU played Gardner-Webb twice before, winning 28-15 in late 1990s.

2001 and losing 22-20 in 2000.

Longtime VUU foes Norfolk State and Hampton universities Sandwiched between Brevard and Gardner-Webb games is a left the CIAA for MEAC and St. Paul’s College in Lawrenceville trip to Raleigh, N.C., to face St. Augustine’s University of the closed.

In 2015: MEAC football champs head to Celebration Bowl, not NCAA playoffs Going to the Celebration Bowl — and not the NCAA playoffs — is now the top postseason goal of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football programs.

The inaugural Celebration Bowl, set for Dec. 19, will pit the MEAC champion against the kingpin from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

The made-for-TV event between the historically black Division I conferences will be televised by ABC, with a noon kickoff at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome.

In return, the MEAC is relinquishing its automatic qualifier status for the NCAA’s Football Championship Sub-Division tournament.

The SWAC long ago gave up its automatic qualifier because of a conflict with its lucrative Bayou Classic — Grambling vs.

Southern — on Thanksgiving weekend at the New Orleans Superdome.

Along with prized national TV exposure, MEAC and SWAC will receive $1 million each as a Celebration Bowl payoff.

Revenue will be distributed to all conference institutions, with bowl game participants getting a larger slice of the pie.

“We are eagerly looking forward to participating in this wonderful opportunity to showcase our student-athletes, coaches, institutions and our conference on this national stage,” said MEAC Commissioner Duane Thomas.

MEAC had participated in the FCS

playoffs, formerly called I-AA, most years since 1978. It has not always had an automatic qualifier.

Florida A&M University won the first FCS title in 1978, but no MEAC school has returned to the final since.

Overall, the MEAC is 6-28 in NCAA postseason play. Last year’s MEAC champion, Morgan State University, was a 46-24, first round loser at the University of Richmond.

MEAC schools are winless in the NCAAs since 1999.

Under former Coach Joe Taylor, who now serves as athletic director at Virginia Union University, Hampton University went to FCS playoffs in 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Each time, the Pirates were first round losers.

Norfolk State University has made the FCS playoffs just once, losing to crosstown rival Old Dominion University in 2011.

Although the MEAC is giving up its automatic qualifier, a MEAC school still could be invited to the playoffs as an at-large entry, likely as a huge underdog on the road.

There were two previous efforts to match MEAC against SWAC teams in postseason bowls. The Pelican Bowl was held 1972, 1974 and 1975. The Heritage Bowl was 1991 to 1999.

In each case, it was a conference “representative,” and not necessarily the champion, that participated.

Also, there wasn’t nearly the TV exposure or financial incentive as to what is being offered by the Celebration Bowl.

Armstrong Wildcats teammates and recent graduates Rhauyan Page-Morton and Shannita Holmes finished their four-year careers never losing to a Richmond opponent.

Armstrong softball team thrives despite lack of field, resources The Armstrong High girls’ softball team didn’t win the official Conference 26 championship. But the Wildcats did claim the unofficial Richmond city title.

In fact, Coach Glenn Anderson’s East Enders have been 16-0 during the past four seasons against Richmond rivals.

This past spring, Armstrong finished second behind Hopewell High School in Conference 26 regular season standings.

The Wildcats were then third at the Conference tournament.

Conference 26 consists of the five comprehensive high schools in Richmond plus Hopewell and Petersburg high schools.

Two recent Armstrong graduates, Shannita Holmes and Rhauyan Page-Morton, finished their four-year careers never losing to a Richmond opponent.

Holmes, the All-Conference third baseman, and PageMorton, the second-team utility selection, are both headed to Virginia Union University.

Richmond’s softball teams play under the unwritten rule of “do the best you can with what you’ve got.”

The Wildcats’ success is a tribute to Coach Anderson and his athletes. Armstrong has no on-campus diamond, meaning all games are on the road.

As for training, Coach Anderson says, “We’ll practice on whatever grass is available.”

Most Armstrong players have no experience upon joining the softball team.

“We have no feeder system. We teach them to play once they get here,” said Coach Anderson.

In fairness to all, Richmond’s other high schools must make do with similar limited resources. Only John Marshall High has an on-campus field and it is less than ideal.

Huguenot, George Wythe and Thomas Jefferson high schools, as well as Armstrong, must rely on city parks.

“It’s hard to build a program that way,” said Coach Anderson.

All-Conference 26 Softball Pitchers: Brystal Gilbert, Hopewell; Beosha Gregory, Petersburg.

Catchers: Dasia Caress-Myrick, Petersburg; Efthimia Fotiou, Thomas Jefferson.

First base: Jada Taylor, Hopewell.

Second base: Kae Kimbrough, Armstrong.

Shortstop: Tamar Coleman, Petersburg.

Third Basemen: Tasijah Vaughan, Hopewell; Shannita Holmes, Armstrong.

Outfield: Jazmen Gary, Thomas Jefferson; DeAzja Jones, Hopewell; Brianna Maryland, Armstrong.

Utility: Taryn Hunter, Hopewell.

DH: Andrea Salter, Hopewell; Tamiesha Lewis, Petersburg.

Second team First base: Eileen Herring, Armstrong.

Second base: Fendi Bea, Thomas Jefferson.

Shortstops: Keyshonna Curry, Thomas Jefferson; Rashaundra Thomas, Armstrong.

Outfield: Delaney Sturm, Hopewell; Tamiesha Lewis, Petersburg; Charmoni Turne, Thomas Jefferson.

Utility: Rhauyan Page-Morton, Armstrong.

Player of the Year: Beosha Gregory, Petersburg.

Coach of the Year: Megan Holder, Hopewell.

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Its goal: To bring diverse singers and audiences together to promote racial unity.

The blueprint for One Voice was laid in 2001 by Barbara Baynham, the late music director at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Jackson Ward, which is predominately black, and her contemporary, Glen McCune of St. Giles Presbyterian Church in Henrico County, which is predominately white.

Seeking to help bridge the racial gap that has long existed in Richmond, they joined forces to have each church’s choir perform a concert in the other’s sanctuary. The collaboration sparked the formation of One Voice Chorus, which now welcomes singers of all ethnicities and promotes racial healing.

Today, One Voice is composed of more than 100 singers who perform stirring concerts each year at various venues.

“Our mission is to sing excellent choral music while providing resources to promote racial reconciliation between persons of European-American and African-American descent,” adds Dr. Atkins, who became One Voice’s artistic director in April 2013.

“It was my first professional appointment as a pro conductor, so I felt as if I had made it to the ‘big leagues,’ ’’ the 33-year-old Dr. Atkins says.

The nonprofit musical organization has two choirs — the full chorus, which is open to all singers, and an ensemble whose members are chosen by audition, he notes. The chorus practices once a week.

Since 2004, the full chorus has performed at least 45 times, Dr. Atkins says. “The ensemble has done at least 100 concerts since I have been artistic director,” he adds. “That’s a lot of performing!”

Dr. Atkins says the racial composition of the chorus is about 65 percent EuropeanAmerican and 35 percent African-American.

“It is important to note that we welcome all persons regardless of race,” he says. “We would love to see these numbers change dramatically.”

Dr. Atkins takes pride in directing the chorus, which he believes is doing its small part to bring people of all ethnicities together.

“I believe, that at some point, if we as a global community want to ensure the survival of our planet, we have to start working together to make it so,” he says.

“I strongly feel that music is a language that can start that conversation, as it requires each person of the choir, as well as the accompanist and the conductor, to become part of the greater unit,” he adds.

“We build a community that transcends race, and if we could focus on that … One Voice Chorus might just start helping to move Richmond toward a more peaceful existence.”

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He just completed his second year teaching grades six through eight in Henrico County Public Schools. “I am excited to say that summer vacation is here,” he says.

Next school year, he will teach grades five through 12 at private Collegiate Schools in Henrico County.

Here’s a look at this week’s Personality, Lynn Gary Atkins Jr.: Date and place of birth: March 4 in Red Bank, N.J. Current place of residence: Henrico County.

Alma maters: The Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Red Bank Regional High School, Performing Arts High School Diploma; Westminster Choir College of Rider University, bachelor’s degree in musicmusic education; James Madison University, master’s degree in music-choral conducting and doctorate in musical arts-choral conducting performance, pedagogy and literature.

Family: I’m a single guy.

What is your musical background: I have sung in choirs since I was 9. I started music lessons when I was 10 with trumpet, then singing and piano lessons at 14. I have done some quirky things within the realm of music as well. While in middle school, I played in our school’s steel band, and in college, I rang English hand bells.

On a scale of 1 to 10, your singing would rate: Um ... maybe an 8. I think that there are so many people out in the world singing, and each of us has a unique sound. I’m just a tenor who loves singing.

Number of chorus members: OVC fluctuates in number per concert, balancing between 120 and 150 singers. So many of our singers come in and out as they need. Since 2001, more than 800 people have sung with OVC. Profile of members: Our members are lifelong musicians, as well as musicians who are just starting out. They are lawyers, doctors, teachers and sales clerks. They are of different walks of faith. We have different political situations. They consider their lives within different social movements like feminism and LGBT, and our members have different economic situations. The diversity in our membership is truly limitless.

Ages of members: Our youngest member currently is 18 and our oldest member is 85 years young.

How does one become a member: Simple. Join us at the start of

a concert cycle. There’s no audition for the full chorus, and anyone can find out more information about the specifics of joining us on our website, www. onevoicechorus.org.

How many levels and short description of chorus: There are two choirs.

The full chorus is huge.

This group sings the three themed concerts per year.

And this is where I focus my work of music education and vocal technique as my guiding goals. With the ensemble, because of its auditioned nature, I focus on high-quality performance, while still providing the same guiding goals that I use with the full chorus.

Types of music included in repertoire: We sing major choral masterworks by celebrated composers, traditional and contemporary spirituals, gospel, jazz and choral art songs. You name it, we do it!

How often does the chorus practice: Mondays starting at 5:45 p.m. for the ensemble, and then the full chorus joins in at 7 p.m.

Upcoming events: The ensemble will be performing June 27 at CultureWorks’ 5th Annual Arts & Culture Xpo at the Science Museum of Virginia, and then we take our summer hiatus.

Where chorus has performed: The chorus and ensemble have performed in many of the major concert venues in Richmond, but also in Colonial Williamsburg and at the Smithsonian in Washington.

The influence of the chorus upon those who hear it: People are so impressed with the high quality that is reached with a community choir. They also love the different genres represented within our concerts.

How do audiences respond to the choir’s racial reconciliation message: It’s so positive. One of our true “gives” to the community is our “Harmony in Living Black and White” conversations that we hold 60 minutes before each of our themed concerts.

These are facilitated and we discuss diversity as it stands in Richmond today. The people who leave this discussion always come away with new and different information, as the conversation is never the same — because the people in the room are never the same.

One Voice’s foremost challenge: We are big. So it becomes a challenge whenever we take the full chorus into a venue to sing.

Sitting, standing, dressing rooms for more than 100 people can be a big hassle. We get through it and the music doesn’t suffer.

What makes me tick: I’m a bit of a renaissance man. I love music and art, poetry and books.

I’m also a bit of a photographer.

I love biking and swimming.

Now that summer is here, I am really excited to get back to these activities.

A perfect day: Any day that I get to enjoy the beach. I’m from a small town on the Jersey Shore, and the beach is a staple in my “summer fun” diet.

A perfect evening: Sitting with my friends playing UNO or enjoying wine and chatting.

How I unwind: I don’t think I have yet. But I do find relaxation in quiet time — naps

and books, enjoying pool time and late-night car rides when I can’t sleep.

I place top value on: Honesty.

Best late-night snack: Chocolate chip cookies and milk. I put ice cubes in my milk so that it stays cold.

My favorite singer is: It’s so hard to pick just one so let me say that I have an “earcrush” on a classical countertenor named Philippe Jaroussky and a popular singer, Sam Smith.

The song I sing in the shower is: Anything classical, operatic — think Luciano Pavarotti singing Verdi’s “La Donna e mobile!”

My favorite choir — other than One Voice Chorus — is: Definitely Chanticleer. They are a San Francisco based men’s group.

Persons who influenced me the most: My teachers and mentors, especially Marj Mottola, Faith Esham, and Jo-Anne van der Vat-Chromy. These ladies truly made me sing and conduct to the best of my abilities.

Book that influenced me the most: I have been shaped by a book called “Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. A really fantastic book dealing with happiness, work and what happens when we find the right balance of challenge and enjoyment in what we do daily.

What I am reading now: I’m getting ready to read “Twelve Days” by Alex Berenson. It’s a political drama, which is a favorite conversation topic of mine.

My next goal: Mastering the art of making sauces. I love to cook when I have the time, but I am not good with creating and getting sauces just right. I have a few weeks this summer where I can experiment and talk with my Mom about it.

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Rolling with the chief Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham, center, offers a double wave Saturday morning before he and about 100 young bike riders took off from Gilpin Court in Jackson Ward for a 5K ride around Richmond. Right, Officer Paul Lewis helps Jessica White choose the right bike for the ride. The city sponsored the event, in which 100 new bicycles and helmets were given to youths ages 8 to 18. The ride was the latest of Chief Durham’s efforts to strengthen law enforcement ties with the community. It was followed by Family Day at the Calhoun Family Investment Center.

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By Joey Matthews

When Hillary Clinton spoke at the Democratic Party of Virginia’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond in February 2008, most of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus supported her opponent — Barack Obama — who also spoke at the event.

Just days later, he went on to easily outdistance Mrs. Clinton in the Virginia presidential primary and then to win a historic election as the nation’s first African-American president that November. President Obama is now more than midway through his second term.

On Friday, June 26, Mrs. Clinton is returning to Virginia to speak at the 2015 JeffersonJackson Dinner.

This year’s event has moved from Richmond

to The Patriot Center at George Mason University in Northern Virginia — where political and financial clout are crucial in this presidential swing state.

This time, Mrs. Clinton, 67, has the lion’s share of support from the area’s Legislative Black Caucus members, judging by an informal survey by the Free Press.

The former U.S. senator and secretary of state hopes to capitalize on President Obama’s success in carrying Virginia in 2008 and 2012 when the election is held in November 2016.

“I am ready for Hillary,” said Sen. A. Donald McEachin of Henrico County, a caucus member who also chairs the Senate Democratic Caucus.

“I think she brings a breadth of experience in domestic policy in her time as a senator, and of course, she was secretary of state and has a

good and solid understanding of foreign policy.

It is rare that we get all that wrapped up in one presidential candidate.”

Delegates Delores L. McQuinn and Jennifer L. McClellan of Richmond both supported Mrs. Clinton in her primary run against President Obama in 2008.

“I’ve always been a Hillary fan,” Delegate McQuinn said. “I have been very appreciative of the work she has done. As First Lady, she tried to navigate a universal health care plan. She is very focused on people’s general welfare.

“I am continuing to support her,” she added, “so we can make her the 45th president of the United States.”

Delegate McClellan stated, “I am endorsing Hillary Clinton because I think she is the best candidate with the best experience to lead our

nation in these complicated times.

“To win Virginia, she will need a strong grassroots campaign that takes full advantage of modern technology without neglecting traditional methods of communicating with voters.

She appears to have a head start in creating that infrastructure through the ‘Ready for Hillary’ efforts of the past few years.”

Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance, who represents a part of Richmond, Chesterfield County and the Tri-Cities area, said, “I am more than ready for Hillary. I am eager to see her continue the good works and legacy of President Obama. I will be working hard to get her elected and to make sure the Democrats carry Virginia.”

In 2008, President Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Virginia in a general election since 1964.

Meatless festival June 20

Making math and science fun

Call it the big, meatless cookout.

That’s the Richmond Vegetarian Festival, set for 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at Bryan Park off Hermitage Road on North Side.

The festival returns for another celebration of fruit, vegetables and other specialty foods that promote healthy eating without the big four — beef, pork, chicken and fish.

The event also will feature music, speakers and fun activities. Admission is free.

Further details: Veggie fest.org.

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Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., talk with youngsters last Saturday before a robotics competition gets underway at the Calhoun Family Investment Center in Gilpin Court. About 40 middle school students from the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s housing communities participated in numerous hands-on activities in S.T.E.M. areas — science, technology, engineering and math. Top right, Cadets Parker Meytrott, left, and Jalen Harris help students, from left, Zaniya Witcher, Alonshay Witcher and Iyona Henderson. Right, Cadet Eric Azaga tinkers with a robot for Zyshawn Witcher.

Va. historical marker dedication at Pocahontas Island

Petersburg’s Pocahontas Island, a thriving free black community before the Civil War, will be commemorated with a state historical marker.

The new marker will be unveiled 1:45 p.m. Sunday, June 21, in a public ceremony that will kick off the city’s Juneteenth Freedom Festival celebrating the end of slavery.

The program to dedicate the marker will take place at the intersection of Sapony and Joseph Jenkins

Roberts streets in Petersburg on the island.

The ceremony will be followed with a Unity Walk to the festival celebrating “fathers, faith, family and friends” at the nearby intersection of Pocahontas and Sapony streets. The upbeat festival will run from 2 to 7 p.m. and feature drumming, music, dance and a host of children’s activities.

Pocahontas Island, where the town of Pocahontas was established in 1752, became part of Petersburg

in 1784. By 1860, more members of the city’s large free black community lived there than in any other neighborhood, according to the historical marker.

Residents of the community found work in nearby tobacco factories and on wharves that fueled the bustling Appomattox River trade, the marker states.

In 1993, a tornado left widespread damage to the area’s historic buildings. Today, the oldest standing structure on the island is the Jarratt House, built around 1819.

Electronic equipment recycling Saturday Need to get rid of broken computers and other electronic equipment in a way that is friendly to the environment?

Richmond will be hosting another E-cycling program for residents to make that happen.

Also, residents will be able to bring up to five boxes of documents to be shredded without charge.

Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, June 20.

Location: Chimborazo Park, 3351 E. Broad St. It will be free to recycle computers, printers, scanners, fax machines, copiers, VCRs and similar equipment, the city Department of Public Works has announced. There is a $10 charge to recycle a TV. Additional information: www.Richmondgov.com or (804) 646-3659.

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Members of the Richmond Chapter of Chums Inc. proudly celebrate five new members after an installation ceremony June 14 at a Henrico County restaurant. The new members are, seated from left, Dr. Yvonne Brandon, Denise Lewis, Oneida Rozier, Cheryl Burke and Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman. The “Hums,” husbands and significant others of the members, joined the celebration for a cocktail hour and dinner following the ceremony.

Urban League group hosting panel discussion The Urban League of Greater Richmond and its Young Professionals auxiliary are hosting a panel discussion on criminal justice reform.

The discussion will be held 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 25, at the Richmond Public Library’s Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin St. in Downtown, according to Victor Rogers, president of the Urban League of Greater Richmond Young Professionals.

“The event will bring awareness to the growing disparities in sentencing, the war on drugs and the effects of mass incarceration,” Mr. Rogers stated in a release announcing the forum.

Among those scheduled to be on the panel: Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham; Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring; Brian Moran, state secretary of public safety; Shannon Taylor, Henrico

County commonwealth’s attorney; Taikein Cooper, president of Second Half Consulting; attorney Alex Taylor; and Justin Fairfax, a former federal prosecutor.

WRIC TV8 news anchor Ava-joye Burnett is scheduled to moderate the event that is free and open to the public.

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Father’s Day

On Sunday, June 21, we celebrate Father’s Day and all the love, lessons and gifts they give to their families and children.

In honor of this special day, the Free Press asked people:

What is your fondest memory of your father?

Photos by Sandra Sellars • Interviews by Joey Matthews

Rosemary Crews of South Side “I am reminded of just how good and strong a father he is. After my mother died, he raised four children by himself.

He showed us how to have courage, be strong and never give up.”

Matt Holmes of Chesterfield County “My dad and I go camping and hiking together. We do backpacking trips together. Last year, we hiked 15 miles on Cold Mountain (in the George Washington National Forest).

It gives us time to talk and fellowship together.”

Jay Sharpe Jr. of Henrico County “Seeing him every week is important to me. We just hang out. I love seeing his mannerisms and characteristics. He was pretty firm and no-nonsense with me growing up. It reminds me of how I’m raising my daughter, trying to guide her. I am firm with her.

Some people tell me I’m old school.”

Angela Weeks of South Side “When I was 6 years old, I gave my dad this ugly little ashtray and he made me feel so special when I gave it to him. He was so proud of it. It was the only one he used. It made me realize just how much he loved me. He passed 25 years ago. Now I have the ashtray, and I tell my grandchildren the story of how I gave my dad the ugly little ashtray that he loved so much.”

Karla McCollum of Henrico County “I was an Army brat. I remember him being in the military, being stationed in Germany. He was in the military for 30 years. I remember watching all the movies and slides with him of our travels all over the world. We did that until the very end (of his life). He was a spiritual leader, a teacher and a mentor. He was very strict and by the book.”

Patrick Robertson of Chesapeake “He taught me how to change the brakes on a car and I used his tools. It helped me realize I was becoming a man. He was an extraordinary man. He came up being a sharecropper and became a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. He earned two master’s degrees.”

Video on life of local sickle cell crusader debuts June 19 It’s called “The Amazing Journey.”

And the video chronicles the selfless life and crusade by Richmonder Florence Neal Cooper Smith to eradicate sickle cell anemia.

Its local debut will be 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 19, in the L. Douglas Wilder Library at Virginia Union University, 1500 N. Lombardy St. Balloons will be released in the library parking lot following the video showing. The event is being organized

by the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Committee at VCU Medical Center. The group seeks to increase awareness about the disease and to raise money for research.

The event at VUU coincides with World Sickle Cell Day, drawing attention to the disease that is a chronic, inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. It causes episodes of intense pain. It affects mostly African-Americans.

Mrs. Smith, now 83, said she first learned of sickle

cell anemia at age 11 while reading a medical journal in a doctor’s office. She said she has been seeking ways ever since to combat the disease.

Mrs. Smith, who does not have sickle cell, retired in 1995 as director of the Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Program at VCU Medical Center. She had served in the position since 1972.

For more information on the event: (804) 321-3117 or email Mrs. Smith at fnealsmith@aol.com.

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Obituary/Faith News/Directory

Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, 85, dies Free Press wire report

Ornette Coleman, a self-taught alto saxophone player who polarized the jazz world with his unconventional “free jazz” before coming to be regarded as an avant garde genius, died Thursday, June 11, 2015, in New York, according to his publicist. He was 85.

Ken Weinstein confirmed the death but said he would not be issuing any further information. Media reports said the cause of death was cardiac arrest.

Mr. Coleman’s motto for his music, often uttered before starting his performances, was “I’d like to go out in space tonight.” He then would launch into music that broke the limits of conventional bars, keys, chord changes and harmony.

Mr. Coleman so divided jazz musicians, critics and fans that, in his early years, some musicians at jam sessions would leave the stage during his solos.

His fans labeled him the greatest jazz innovator since Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker.

But he also was called crude and self-indulgent by skeptics, although many of them reversed their opinions over the years.

“I listened to Coleman high and I listened to him cold sober,” trumpet player Roy Eldridge once told a jazz writer. “I even played with him.

I think he’s jiving, baby.”

Mr. Coleman’s outlaw approach involved what he called “harmolodics” — breaking away from traditional harmonic structure and “removing the caste system from music.”

In 2007, he was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was an award presenter

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Mr. Coleman

at the ceremony. He also won a Pulitzer Prize for Music, as well as a Grammy nomination, for the 2007 album “Sound Grammar.” He released “New Vocabulary” in 2014.

Often working with trumpeter Don Cherry, Mr. Coleman recorded 40-plus albums.

“I wasn’t so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard,” Mr. Coleman said in a 2009 interview with Esquire magazine. “That’s why I’m broke.”

Born in a poor, black neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Coleman said he grew up “so po’ we couldn’t afford the ‘o’ and the ‘r.’”

At 14, he bought a cheap alto saxophone and mimicked radio melodies. He began playing in honky tonks and, at 19, traveled the South playing blues with a minstrel show.

He made his way to Los Angeles, where he began perfecting his free-form style. Mr. Coleman was inspired by the inventive bebop jazz

performers of the time and also wove honky tonk, blues and dance music into his unconventional harmonies.

“I didn’t know I was improvising,” Mr. Coleman said. “I just thought that was the way you played music ... I didn’t think of a structure and what you could and couldn’t do.”

In 1958, Contemporary Records bought some of Mr. Coleman’s compositions but studio musicians could not play them. Mr. Coleman was hired to record them, leading to.his first album, “Something Else!”

He first played in New York a year later at the Five Spot nightclub. Composer Leonard Bernstein and John Lewis, founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet, were among his supporters.

Mr. Coleman was signed by Atlantic Records and made such albums as “The Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959), which Rolling Stone magazine ranked No. 248 on its list of 500 greatest albums, “This Is Our Music” (1960) and “Free Jazz” (1961). Sales were low and he was soon dropped by the label.

Mr. Coleman studied various musical forms and in 1972 released a symphony called “Skies of America.” Another work was a 1977 album called “Dancing in Your Head” that featured a jam session recorded in Morocco with tribal musicians.

In the 1970s, he began working with electric guitarists and formed the band Prime Time, which incorporated rock-funk sounds.

Mr. Coleman married poet Jayne Cortez in 1954. They divorced 10 years later. Their son, Denardo, was a drummer who began performing with his father at age 10 and managed his career in the 1980s.

Catholic bishops call for the root causes of racism to be addressed

By Lilly Fowler Religion News Service

ST. LOUIS The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops kicked off a gathering in St. Louis of approximately 250 of the nation’s bishops by referring to Ferguson, Mo., where an unarmed black teenager was killed last August by a white police officer.

“We mourn those tragic events in which African-Americans and others have lost their lives in altercations with law enforcement,” said a statement prepared

by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., which was read by Bishop Ronny Jenkins, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last week.

“Racism is an evil which endures in our society and in our church.”

The statement said that efforts “must address root causes of these conflicts — violent, sorrowful history of racial injustice, accompanied by a lack of educational, employment and housing opportunities.”

And it quoted Pope Paul VI: “If you want peace, work for justice.”

Archbishop Kurtz then laid out ways Roman Catholics could help end racism.

Among them: Prayer, using scripture and Catholic social teaching to gain a deeper understanding of the dignity of all persons, interacting with those from various racial backgrounds, and getting to know law enforcement officials.

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were in St. Louis for their annual spring assembly to discuss topics important to Catholics.

Francesco C. Cesareo president of Assumption College and chair of the National Review Board, a committee established in 2002 to help prevent the sexual abuse of minors, warned against complacency. Dr. Cesareo noted that although the church had made much progress, six allegations of sexual abuse in 2014 had been substantiated.

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, spoke about immigration reform and called for the end of family detention centers.

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“This jailing of asylum seekers is a violation of international law,” Bishop Seitz said.

Meanwhile, Bishop Eusebio L. Elizondo of Seattle said the church was advocating that the U.S. resettle 65,000 of the most vulnerable Syrians, including persecuted Christians.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco spoke about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. He said his request that Catholic school officials sign a statement affirming their belief that homosexual relations are “gravely evil” prompted protests in California.

Archbishop Cordileone said he feared that “those who continue to advocate for the true definition of marriage will be increasingly marginalized.”

Bishops at the conference also announced a new, free Catholic mobile app that will offer news about Pope Francis, Mass schedules and parish locations, among other features. The app is expected to launch in July.

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ROC changes name, hires new pastor

By Joey Matthews

The announcement came just three days before the church’s former senior pastor, Geronimo Aguilar, once known as “Pastor G,” went on trial June 15 in Fort Worth, Texas.

He is charged with seven felonies, inDr. Rhoden cluding two counts of aggravated sexual assault involving sisters ages 11 and 13 when he was a youth minister in that city in the mid-1990s.

The 45-year-old husband and father of five faces life in prison if convicted. He maintains his innocence.

The church fired Mr. Aguilar in June 2014, after board members said they first learned that he had been having affairs with congregation members. He had been arrested earlier in spring 2014 on the charges he sexually assaulted the sisters.

Dr. Rhoden has been helping to lead services at the former ROC church during the past several months as the church sought to hire a new full-time senior pastor.

The church had hired former Atlanta youth minister Joe Donahue as its new senior pastor in spring 2014, but he was

The Richmond Outreach Center on South Side is undergoing a makeover as it tries to move beyond the scandal-plagued “Pastor G” era.

The church, formerly known as the ROC, announced last Friday it has changed its name and hired a new pastor.

The church at 5501 Midlothian Turnpike is now Celebration Church and Outreach Ministry, according to its board of directors. The Free Press first reported in its June 11-13 edition that the church was considering a name change.

Dr. Rob Rhoden, a longtime pastor and executive in Assemblies of God ministries, has been hired to lead the church’s transition.

“We are thrilled to have Dr. Rhoden serve as the transitional pastor of our church,” said David Lynn, chairman of the church’s board, in a statement posted on the church’s Facebook page.

“Dr. Rhoden has the integrity, experience and faith to lead our church and make a lasting difference in Richmond for generations to come,” he added. “His heart to empower the needy and strengthen the hearts of the membership has touched us deeply. We are honored to have him on board.”

dismissed abruptly less than two months later. Pastor Donahue said at the time he was given no explanation for the firing. He now pastors First Baptist Lavaca Church in Lavaca, Ariz.

Dr. Rhoden has been in the ministry a long time.

Among his first ministerial positions: He founded the West End Assembly of God 45 years ago. He resigned that post to take an executive leadership post with the Assemblies of God, where he has served for 15 years.

In recent years, his passion has been to mentor young ministers and help numerous churches during difficult times of transition in pastoral leadership. Dr. Rhoden authored the book, “Four Faces of a Leader: What it Takes to Move Your Church Forward.”

“In many respects, I feel as though I have come full circle in life,” stated Dr. Rhoden in the release. “During my early years, I ministered in the city with Teen Challenge, and now am returning to my passion of serving the people in the city of Richmond. I am confident that with God’s help, we will reach our city, providing and empowering the people — physically, emotionally and spiritually.”

Erica Campbell, Richard Smallwood in concert at Saint Paul’s Baptist Saint Paul’s Baptist Church will be filled with the music of Grammy Award-winning gospel artists next weekend.

Singer Erica Campbell is headlining a gospel concert 7 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at the church, 4247 Creighton Road.

Then on Sunday, June 28, singersongwriter Richard Smallwood will sing at the church’s 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship services.

The Erica Campbell concert also will feature gospel artists Brian Courtney Wilson, Janice Gaines, Anita Wilson and the

mass choirs of Saint Paul’s and the Cedar Street Baptist Church of God, according to concert organizers.

Ms. Campbell won a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album in February for her debut solo album, “Help,” that featured the hit song, “A Little More Jesus.”

She first gained fame performing with her sister, Tina, in the award-winning gospel duet “Mary, Mary” that had hits such as “Shackles,” “Heaven” and “Go Get It.” The two also have starred in a reality show, “Mary Mary,” on the WE channel.

General admission tickets to the concert are $20.

For more information or to buy tickets: (804) 643-6175.

Mr. Smallwood won his first Grammy and a Dove Award for his production on the Quincy Jones gospel project “Handel’s Messiah: A Soulful Celebration.”

His music also has been recorded by artists such as Destiny’s Child, Yolanda Adams and Karen Clark-Sheard.

For information on his appearance: (804) 643-4000.

Ebenezer Baptist showing movie for Alzheimer’s awareness

Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Jackson Ward is hosting an event to draw awareness to Alzheimer’s disease.

The church will show the movie, “Still Alice,” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, June 22, at the church, 216 W. Leigh St. The film, starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, depicts the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on individuals and their families.

Participants will engage in a discussion about the disease following the movie, according to event organizers. A light lunch will be served and door prizes will be awarded.

Information on Alzheimer’s disease support and resources will be available during the event marking National Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month.

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The event is sponsored by the Ebenezer Baptist Church Temple Maintenance Ministry, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Upsilon Omega Chapter and the Alzheimer’s Association.

For more information on the event: (804) 643-3366 or (804) 321-1506.

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A Detroit Baptist church with a history of civil rights activism has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Michigan officials announced last week that King Solomon Baptist Church — where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad and Thurgood Marshall once spoke — was placed on the list in late May. “Earning a listing in the National Register is truly an honor,” said Brian Conway, state historic preservation officer. “To be considered eligible, a property must be examined for age, integrity and significance.”

The 99-year-old church at 14th Street and Marquette Avenue became an African-American congregation in 1955 and was known in the 1960s as a place where noted civil rights leaders came to deliver important speeches, such as Malcolm X’s 1963 talk “Message to the Grassroots.”

“We’re excited,” said the Rev. Charles Williams II, pastor of King Solomon Baptist and head of the Detroit chapter of the National Action Network. “This is certainly an esteemed honor from the federal government. The history of King Solomon really goes hand in hand with the city of Detroit.

“Whether it’s the labor movement, civil rights, religious activity or soul music, we’ve played a role in so many ways.”

Rev. Williams is trying to raise money to put up a historic marker and to rehabilitate the site, which has fallen into disrepair over the decades.

Today, the church is still known for its activism, often hosting community meetings on a range of issues, from police abuse to racism to poverty. It has about 150 members.

Before King Solomon became a predominantly black congregation, the church was called Temple Baptist Church and led by the Rev. J. Frank Norris, a fundamentalist conservative preacher who railed against Catholics, evolution and Communism.

In the late 1950s, after the church changed hands, it became known as a liberal center. The Progressive National Baptist Convention, the group that Dr. King helped form after breaking away from a conservative black Baptist group, held its second annual conference at the church in the early 1960s.

The Nation of Islam held some of its annual conventions at the church in the 1950s and 1960s. In November 1963, Malcolm X delivered “Message to the Grassroots.” In the 45-minute speech, he contrasted what he called “field Negroes” and “house Negroes,” saying that African-American leaders had compromised themselves to please white people rather than help the majority of African-Americans.

In his talk, Malcolm X blasted the March on Washington led that summer by Dr. King and called for African-Americans to unite against a common enemy, using violence if necessary to defend themselves. The influential talk helped inspire black power movements in the 1960s and 1970s.

King Solomon Baptist also was known as a center for gospel music, featuring singers such as Sam Cooke, who would later became popular in the entertainment industry.

“We hosted Motown singers when they were doing gospel,” Rev. Williams said. “It’s the history of Detroit.”

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Richmond Free Press

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 6, 2015 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 27, 2015 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 ordinance: Ordinance No. 2014-137 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3022 3rd Avenue for the purpose of a twofamily detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. Such a use is permitted in the R-6 district; however the subject property does not meet the minimum lot area or minimum lot width requirements for a two-family detached dwelling in the R-6 district. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property along 3rd Avenue for Single-Family (Medium Density) land use. Typical zoning classifications that may accommodate this land use category are R-5A, R-6 and R-7.

Primary uses in this category are single-family and two-family dwelling units, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre.

The proposed development would establish a residential density of approximately 24 units per acre.

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

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

Jean V. Capel City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 27, 2015 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 ordinance: Ordinance No. 2015-134 To amend Ord. No. 201557-83, adopted May 15, 2015, which adopted the Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Special Fund Budget, and to appropriate funds in the amount of $1,408,034 to the Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Special Fund Budget by increasing the estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Department of Economic and Community Development’s Special Assessment Districts special fund by $1,408,034 for the purpose of providing services in the Downtown Richmond Special Service and Assessment Districts. (Committee: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, June 18, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

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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 MARIA SALGADO CIRILO, Plaintiff v.

VICENTE ALVAREZ ZAVALA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15001190-00 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 22nd day of July, 2015 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 HAROLD ELLIOTT, Plaintiff v.

LUCIA ELLIOTT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15001254-00 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 22nd day of July, 2015 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 LINWOOD COX, Plaintiff v.

TENA COX, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15001191-00 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 22nd day of July, 2015 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 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER AGUSTIN HOLDER FULA, Plaintiff v.

LESLY RIOS SANTOS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000922-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 29th day of July, 2015 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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MICHAEL BODRICK, Plaintiff v.

VERNELLE BODRICK, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000763-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 29th day of July, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CHARLES EDWARD STANLEY, Plaintiff v.

SANDRA MARIE STANLEY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15001158-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony, from the defendant, on the ground that the parties hereto have lived separate and apart, without cohabitation and without interruption for one year.

And it appearing from an affidavit that the defendant is not a resident of Virginia, it is Ordered that the defendant appear before this Court on July 15, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. pursuant to this notice and

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protect her interest herein.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I Ask For This: Donald M. White, Esquire 130 Thompson Street Ashland, Virginia 23005 (804) 798-1661 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER BRIAN FERRELL, SR., Plaintiff v.

DJUANA FERRELL, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000775-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 24th day of July, 2015 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

CUSTODY virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Bryson Allen Ford, JUDY Simmons (-01) WAYNE SIMMONS (-02) v.

SHALANE FORD & KEVIN JONES Case No. JJ085911-01-00, JJ085911-02-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Determine custody of Bryson Allen Ford (DOB 9/13/13), whose mother is Shalane Ford, pursuant to VA Code 16.1-241A3.

It is ordered that the defendant Kevin Jones appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before August 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.

Lindsay G. Dugan, Esq. Friedman Law Firm, P.C. 9620 Iron Bridge Road, Suite 101 Chesterfield, VA 23832 804-717-1969 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Derek R Groves; Erika D. Groves Misty D. Simpson Groves v. Sharon and Chris Dunn Case No. JJ048620-03-01; JJ048621-03-01 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Determine/amend custody of Derek Groves (DOB 2/19/02) and Erika Groves (DOB 2/19/02), whose mother is Misty D. Simpson Groves, pursuant to VA Code 16.1-241A3.

It is ordered that the defendant Rufus Gordon Groves, Jr. appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before August 10, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

Stephen Bloomquest, Esq. 5913 Harbour Park Drive Midlothian, Virginia 23112 804-396-3329 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND iN rE: KEITH O. BROWN, JR., ANGELO S. and Theshawn c. williams and andrew cole OrDEr Of puBLicatiON The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Angela N. Williams (Mother), of Keith O. Brown Jr., child, DOB 12/4/2002, Angelo S., child, DOB 7/16/2009, Theshawn C. Williams, child, DOB 2/24/2011 and Andrew Cole, child, DOB 6/18/2014 and James F. Willis Jr., (Father) of Angelo S. Williams, child, DOB 7/16/2009 and Theodore R. Cole (Father) of Theshawn C. Williams, child, DOB 2/24/2011 and Andrew Cole, child, DOB 6/18/2014, “RPR” means all rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Angela N. Williams, James F. Willis Jr. and Theodore R. Cole appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before June 22, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.

Kate D. O’Leary, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK 12 JT 164; 12 JT 162; 12 JT 163; 12 JT 165 IN THE MATTER OF: F.M.M., juvenile.

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TAKE NOTICE that petitions have been filed for termination of your parental rights to F.M.M., female, born May 9, 2005 in Richmond, Virginia; A.D.M., female, born January 3, 2003; C.R.M. male, born December 19, 2010 in Chesterfield County, Virginia; M.D.M. male, born October 21, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia. You are entitled to attend a hearing affecting your rights. Parents are entitled to have counsel appointed to them if they cannot afford same, provided counsel is requested at or before the hearing of this matter. This is a new case and any previous attorney appointed to you will not represent you in this matter.

You are hereby summoned and notified to answer the petition. You must prepare and file with the Clerk of Superior Court of Brunswick County, 310 Government Center Drive, Unit 1, Bolivia, NC 28422 a written response and make defense to this proceeding within 30 days after the first date of publication.

You must also serve a copy of your response upon the Petitioner. If you fail to file a response, your parental rights may be terminated.

Your failure to respond will result in the Petitioner applying to the Court for the relief sought.

Provisional counsel has been appointed to represent you.

Attorney Alexander Kintner, 3843 Business Highway 17 East, Bolivia, North Carolina 28422, phone: (910) 2538004, has been appointed to represent you. You are entitled to attend a hearing affecting your rights. If you desire counsel, you may contact the Deputy Clerk of Superior Court, Jill Fullwood, at (910) 253-3309 to apply for counsel.

This matter will come on for hearing at the Brunswick County Courthouse, Highway 17, Bolivia, NC on July 29, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. for an adjudication and disposition of termination of your parental rights.

This the 11th day of June 2015.

Elva L. Jess, Attorney for Brunswick County Department of Social Services P.O. Box 219 Bolivia, North Carolina 28422 Telephone: (910) 253-2083 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND iN rE: Parker robbins and elisa gonzales OrDEr Of puBLicatiON The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Immer Gonzales (Putative Father) and Unknown Father (Father) of Parker Robbins child, DOB 4/28/2014 and Unknown Father (Father) of Elisa Gonzales, child, DOB 5/3/2013 “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 Immer Gonzales and Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before September 9, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.

Kate D. O’Leary, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND iN rE: TRISTIAN EDWARD ANDERSON OrDEr Of puBLicatiON The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Jessica Lauren Stephenson (Mother), Stanton M. Douglas (Father) and Unknown Father (Father) of Tristian Edward Anderson child, DOB 5/18/2014, “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 Jessica Lauren Stephenson, Stanton M. Douglas and Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before July 20, 2015 at 9:20 a.m.

Kate D. O’Leary, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

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

Case No.: CL14-3813-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

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described as “1207 North 22nd Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0558/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that PAMELA SILVER, As to part of a $14,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $14,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated July 1, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded July 2, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-022165, whose last known post-office address is 2102 Haviland Drive, Henrico, Virginia 23229, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that WALTER L. HOOKER, TRUSTEE, MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST, which may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388;NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, or his successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ABNER SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388; NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that BEVERLY SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388; NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed

of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that DIANE DUMIGAN, As to $20,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $20,500 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388;NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, PAMELA SILVER, As to part of a $14,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $14,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated July 1, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded July 2, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-022165, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, WALTER L. HOOKER, TRUSTEE, MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST, which may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388;NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, or his successor/s in title, ABNER SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest

in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388; NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, BEVERLY SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388; NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, DIANE DUMIGAN, As to $20,500.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $20,500 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded December 11, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-24487; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICE INC., Recorded January 23 2007 at Instrument Number 0702510; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER SALKIN and BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded January 26, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-03031; NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to ABNER or BEVERLY SALKIN Recorded June 8, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-19388;NOTE: Assignment of $20,500.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to DIANE DUMIGAN Recorded July 5, 2007 at Instrument Number 07-22838;NOTE: Assignment of $15,000.00 Interest in the above Deed of Trust to MARY JANE HOOKER TRUST Recorded February 11, 2009 at Instrument Number 09-2633, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 17, 2015, 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

0615/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that HERBERT CHUTTER, As to part of a $30,000.00 Interest AND DOROTHY CHUTTER, As to part of a $30,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $30,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-0032806, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JOEL FINE, As to part of a $23,500.00 Interest AND LAURA FINE, As to part of a $23,500.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $23,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 040032806, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that HAL GOTTSCHALL a/k/a HAROLD H. GOTTSCHALL, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest AND LINDA GOTTSCHALL a/k/a LINDA GOTTSCALL, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $24,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 040032806, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ROBERT GOLDEN, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest AND CAROL GOLDEN, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $24,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-0032806, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that THE MULLIAN FAMILY, LLC a/k/a MULLIAN FAMLY, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 21, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded August 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-28894, or its successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALLAN M. MULLIAN, As Registered Agent, THE MULLIAN FAMILY, LLC a/k/a MULLIAN FAMLY, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company, or his successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, RICHARD D. KRIDER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, HERBERT CHUTTER, As to part of a $30,000.00 Interest AND DOROTHY CHUTTER, As to part of a $30,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $30,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-0032806, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JOEL FINE, As to part of a $23,500.00 Interest AND LAURA FINE, As to part of a $23,500.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $23,500.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded Septem-

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

Case No.: CL14-2776-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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ber 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-0032806, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, HAL GOTTSCHALL a/k/a HAROLD H. GOTTSCHALL, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest AND LINDA GOTTSCHALL a/k/a LINDA GOTTSCALL, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $24,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-0032806, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ROBERT GOLDEN, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest AND CAROL GOLDEN, As to part of a $24,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $24,000.00 Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded September 30, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-0032806, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, THE MULLIAN FAMILY, LLC a/k/a MULLIAN FAMLY, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated August 21, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded August 21, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-28894, or its successor/s in title, ALLAN M. MULLIAN, As Registered Agent, THE MULLIAN FAMILY, LLC a/k/a MULLIAN FAMLY, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company, or his successor/s in title, ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, RICHARD D. KRIDER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 19, 2015, 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

been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that TOWER BUILDING PROPERTIES, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, JOEL GIURTINO AND PAT GIURTINO, As to $22,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $22,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ROBERT PERKINS AND CINDY PERKINS, As to $26,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $26,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, HERBERT CHUTTER AND DOROTHY CHUTTER As to $23,500.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $23,500.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 0722973, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, RONALD COHEN, As to $28,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $28,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, RICHARD D. KRIDER, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 17, 2015, 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

Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALAN KATZ, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, AND LYNN KATZ, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, have not personally located and have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that MARY L. GENTRY, As to a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARZ, who may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 19, 2005 with respect to said property, recorded October 21, 2005, in Instrument Number 05-36790, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or said holder’s heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, HOOKER/ GRACE INVESTMENTS, As to $50,000.00 Interest, which may be the holder of $50,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, or the entity’s heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JOSEPH FITZGERALD, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, AND GAIL FITZGERALD, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, GORDON BRUCE, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of GORDON BRUCE, who may be the holder/s of part of a $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, ALAN KATZ, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, AND LYNN KATZ, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MARY L. GENTRY, As to a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARZ, who may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 19, 2005 with respect to said property, recorded October 21, 2005, in Instrument Number 05-36790, or said holder’s heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE,

RICHARD D. KRIDER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 17, 2015, 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

LLC, Oliver C. Lawrence, As Former Member/Manager and Trustee in Liquidation for ENERGY, LLC, A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, Oliver C. Lawrence, As Former Member/Manager and Trustee in Liquidation for BAYOU PROPERTIES, LLC, A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, JOHN M. GULATSI, TRUSTEE, of a certain Note secured by a Credit Line Deed of Trust dated May 5, 2005, with respect to said property, recorded May 11, 2005 in Instrument Number 05-015207, or his successor/s in title, SUSAN BOWMAN, TRUSTEE, of a certain Note secured by a Credit Line Deed of Trust dated May 5, 2005, with respect to said property, recorded May 11, 2005 in Instrument Number 05-015207, or her successor/s in title, LUIS FRANCISCO HUERTA, FIDEL FRANCISCO CRUZ ESTRADA, ROSA YESENIA MIRANDA p/k/a ROSA YESENIA ESCOBAR, IVON MODESTA GOMEZ, MAYNOR MAURICIO MUNOZ BONILLA, LUIS MICHEL GOMEZ, RENE MALDONADO, ALVINA E.L. MANUEL, TEODOSIA SAUCEDO, JOSE MORAZAN MIRANDA, RAFAEL ANGEL MALDONADO VARGAS, ROBERTO MORENO CISNEROS, MANUEL MALDONADO, GONZALES AGUILAR, JORGE C. MARTINEZ HERNANDEZ, MARIO ALVAREZ ALVAREZ, SERGIO ARTURO CASTRO SOLIS, DAVID EUGENIO GAMERO ANDORO, ROSA DEL CARMEN SANDOBAL CORTEZ, VICTOR M. ESPINO, JOSE ALEJANDRO JUAREZ, PASTOR ANTONIO ESCOBAR MUNOZ, JOSE FRANCISCO RUIZ, JOSE ATLLANO ARMIOS JAIME, SANTOS EDURIGES ESCOBAR, JUAN VARGAS CO, DAVID VALENCIA ARTEAGA, GERARDO HERNANDEZ FACUNDO a/k/a GERARDO F. HERNANDEZ, CESAR HUERTA DIAZ, ALEX ABIMAEL HERRERA GONZALES, IMELDO DEL CARMEN MUNOZ, KARLA ESPINOZA, JUAN CAROLOS ALVARADO MORALES a/k/a JUAN CARLOS ALVARADO-MORALES, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 17, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

Case No.: CL14-3357-1 TOWER BUILDING PROPERTIES, L. L. C., a Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “2206 Fairmount Avenue,” TaxMap/GPIN# E000-0616/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, TOWER BUILDING PROPERTIES, L. L. C.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, TOWER BUILDING PROPERTIES, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOEL GIURTINO AND PAT GIURTINO, As to $22,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $22,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ROBERT PERKINS AND CINDY PERKINS, As to $26,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $26,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that HERBERT CHUTTER AND DOROTHY CHUTTER As to $23,500.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $23,500.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that RONALD COHEN, As to $28,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $28,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2007, in Instrument No. 07-22973, has not been located and has not file a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, and RICHARD D. KRIDER, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not

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

Case No.: CL14-3358-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “3108 P Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/ GPIN# E000-0723/024, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that HOOKER/ GRACE INVESTMENTS, As to $50,000.00 Interest, which may be the holder of $50,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, which is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action, or the entity’s heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JOSEPH FITZGERALD, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, AND GAIL FITZGERALD, As to part of a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated February 9, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded February 9, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-04973, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that GORDON BRUCE, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of GORDON BRUCE, who may be the holder/s of part of a $10,000.00 Interest in a certain

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

Case No.: CL15-543-1 BAYOU PROPERTIES, LLC., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, Defendants.

AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1913 3rd a/k/a Third Avenue”, Richmond, Virginia Tax Map/GPIN# N0000504/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record BAYOU PROPERTIES, LLC., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, BAYOU PROPERTIES, LLC., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ENERGY, LLC, A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, As Former Member and Trustee in Liquidation for Bayou Properties, LLC, which may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that Oliver C. Lawrence, As Former Member/Manager and Trustee in Liquidation for ENERGY, LLC, A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that Oliver C. Lawrence, As Former Member/Manager and Trustee in Liquidation for BAYOU PROPERTIES, LLC, A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that JOHN M. GULATSI, TRUSTEE, of a certain Note secured by a Credit Line Deed of Trust dated May 5, 2005, with respect to said property, recorded May 11, 2005 in Instrument Number 05-015207, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his successor/s in title; that SUSAN BOWMAN, TRUSTEE, of a certain Note secured by a Credit Line Deed of Trust dated May 5, 2005, with respect to said property, recorded May 11, 2005 in Instrument Number 05-015207, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or her successor/s in title; that LUIS FRANCISCO HUERTA, FIDEL FRANCISCO CRUZ ESTRADA, ROSA YESENIA MIRANDA p/k/a ROSA YESENIA ESCOBAR, IVON MODESTA GOMEZ, MAYNOR MAURICIO MUNOZ BONILLA, LUIS MICHEL GOMEZ, RENE MALDONADO, and ALVINA E.L. MANUEL, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that TEODOSIA SAUCEDO, JOSE MORAZAN MIRANDA, RAFAEL ANGEL MALDONADO VARGAS, ROBERTO MORENO CISNEROS, MANUEL MALDONADO, GONZALES AGUILAR, JORGE C. MARTINEZ HERNANDEZ, MARIO ALVAREZ ALVAREZ, SERGIO ARTURO CASTRO SOLIS, DAVID EUGENIO GAMERO ANDORO, ROSA DEL CARMEN SANDOBAL CORTEZ, VICTOR M. ESPINO, JOSE ALEJANDRO JUAREZ, PASTOR ANTONIO ESCOBAR MUNOZ, JOSE FRANCISCO RUIZ, JOSE ATLLANO ARMIOS JAIME, SANTOS EDURIGES ESCOBAR, JUAN VARGAS CO, DAVID VALENCIA ARTEAGA, GERARDO HERNANDEZ FACUNDO a/k/a GERARDO F. HERNANDEZ, CESAR HUERTA DIAZ, ALEX ABIMAEL HERRERA GONZALES, IMELDO DEL CARMEN MUNOZ, KARLA ESPINOZA, JUAN CAROLOS ALVARADO MORALES a/k/a JUAN CARLOS ALVARADO-MORALES, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest 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 BAYOU PROPERTIES, LLC., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, ENERGY, LLC, A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, As Former Member and Trustee in Liquidation for Bayou Properties,

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

Case No.: CL14-3136-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1517 North 35TH Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-1544/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C.,

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that HAL GOTTSCHALL a/k/a HAROLD H. GOTTSCHALL As to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, and LINDA GOTTSCHALL, As to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $20,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not filed a response to this action; that SEYMOUR PEARSON, Who May Be Deceased and his Successor/s in Title, Trustee for $20,000.00 Interest and HAZEL PEARSON, Who May Be Deceased and her Successor/s in Title, Trustee for $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder/s of $20,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that HERBERT CHUTTER, As to part of $27,900.00 Interest and DOROTHY CHUTTER, As to part of $27,900.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $27,900.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that DEBORAH KLEM, As to $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $22,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October Continued on next column

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13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that PAMELA SILVER, As to part of a $1,600.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $1,600.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, As to $25,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder/s of $25,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded October 20, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-36421, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, HAL GOTTSCHALL a/k/a HAROLD H. GOTTSCHALL As to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, and LINDA GOTTSCHALL, As to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $20,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, SEYMOUR PEARSON, Who May Be Deceased and his Successor/s in Title, Trustee for $20,000.00 Interest and HAZEL PEARSON, Who May Be Deceased and her Successor/s in Title, Trustee for $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder/s of $20,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, HERBERT CHUTTER, As to part of $27,900.00 Interest and DOROTHY CHUTTER, As to part of $27,900.00 Interest, who may be the holders of $27,900.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04-034424, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, DEBORAH KLEM, As to $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of $22,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04034424, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, PAMELA SILVER, As to part of a $1,600.00 Interest, who may be the holder of part of a $1,600.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2004, with respect to said property, recorded October 14, 2004, in Instrument Number 04034424, or her heirs, devisees,

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assignees or successors in title, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, As to $25,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder/s of $25,000.00 interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated October 20, 2006, with respect to said property, recorded October 20, 2006, in Instrument Number 0636421, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 19, 2015, 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

ments, etc., all of which are described more particularly in the Petition in Condemnation and exhibits attached thereto on file in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, to which reference is hereby made for a full and accurate description thereof; and for the appointment of commissioners or the empanelment of a jury to ascertain just compensation to the owners of any estate or interest in the property to be taken or affected as a result of the taking and use thereof by the Petitioner.

For such purposes, the Petitioner will apply to the Court, sitting at the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, on the 6th day of July, 2015, at 9:00 o’clock a.m., or as soon thereafter as Petitioner may be heard, for the appointment of commissioners or the empanelment of a jury to ascertain just compensation as aforesaid.

And it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the following owners are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or their names and addresses are not known and that diligence has been used by and on behalf of the Petitioner to ascertain such names and addresses without effect:

a) The defendant, SHAWN L. TAGGART. It is ORDERED that the aforesaid owners do appear within ten (10) days after due publication of this Order in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia, and do what is necessary to protect their interests; and it is further ORDERED that if any of the above named owners desire to assert any objection or defense to the taking or damaging of his property or to the jurisdiction of the Court to hear the case and to proceed with the appointment of commissioners or the empanelment of a jury he shall file his answer and grounds of defense designating the property in which he claims to be interested, the grounds of any objection or defense to the taking or damaging of his property or to the jurisdiction of the Court to hear the case and to proceed with the appointment of commissioners or the empanelment of a jury for the determination of just compensation. Should any such owner fail to file his answer and grounds of defense as hereinabove provided, such failure shall not preclude the owner from appearing on the date set for the appointment of commissioners or the empanelment of a jury nor from presenting evidence as to valuation and damage nor from sharing in the award of just compensation according to his interest therein or otherwise protecting his rights, but such failure shall preclude such owner from any other defense by way of pleas in bar, abatement or otherwise.

Enter: 6/3/15 An extract, Teste: YVONNE G. SMITH, Clerk I ask for this: Bryan W. Horn (V.S.B. No. 36339) FloranceGordonBrown A Professional Corporation 1900 One James Center 901 East Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 Telephone (804) 697-5100 Facsimile (804) 697-5159 bhorn@fgb.com Counsel for the Petitioner

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS, Petitioner, v.

Case No.: CL14-2576 KEVIN D. MCCRAY, and ROBERT L. MCCRAY, and SHAWN L. TAGGART, and STEVEN TAGGART, and 0.047 acre, more or less, of land in fee simple, together with a certain permanent drainage easement on that certain parcel of real property located on or near Route 5 (New Market Road) in the Varina Magisterial District of Henrico County, Virginia, and commonly referred to as Tax Map/GPIN Numbers 812-690-0221 and 811-690-9725, Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

In this proceeding, the Petitioner seeks to acquire by condemnation title to 0.047 acre, more or less, of land in fee simple, together with a certain permanent drainage easement on that certain parcel of real property located on or near Route 5 (New Market Road) in the Varina Magisterial District of Henrico County, Virginia, including the uses and purposes of the Petitioner in connection with the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance, and repair and for all other purposes incidental thereto, of a public facility involving a section of road embraced in the Public Highways of the Commonwealth known as Route 5, State Primary System, in the County of Henrico, Virginia, and more specifically the improvement of a Section of State Primary System, Route 5 FROM: 0.01 MI WEST OF ALMOND CREEK TO 0.10 MI EAST OF WOOD MILL DRIVE AND FROM 0.16 MI WEST OF FOUR MILE CREEK TO 0.14 MI WEST OF LONG BRIDGE RD. and will include the right to construct, reconstruct, repair, improve, alter and maintain the said Route in accordance with the plans attached as Exhibit B to the Petition in Condemnation filed herein, along with the right to utilize the land in the future (1) for construction, reconstruction, alteration, improvement, repair and maintenance of said Route, (2) for all other Highway purposes and (3) in accordance with all the rights and incidents normally acquired in the property by fee simple and certain easeContinued on next column

NOTICE The BrewCrew LLC Trading as: Brewers Cafe 101 W 12th St., Richmond, Virginia 23224

The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D epartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Wine & Beer On & Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Anthony Brewer Jr, Owner

NOTE: Objections to the issuance of license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

“Notice of NoNdiscrimiNatory Policy as to studeNts” Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.

It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other schooladministered programs.

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The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: RFP – JD150021703 - Insurance Agent/Broker of Record Services Due Date: July 8, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.

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) 646-5989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

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

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Should LeBron James be the MVP?

By Fred Jeter

Perhaps the NBA needs to change the name of its championship Finals MVP award to “MVP of the Winning Team.”

No one is contesting the Golden State Warriors’ 4-2 series victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, with a clinching 105-97 win Tuesday night.

But how, in the name of fair play, was the Warriors’ Andre Iguodala selected as MVP over the Cavs’ LeBron James?

The heavily favored Warriors might have won without Iguodala, a former University of Arizona forward who previously played with Philadelphia and Denver.

But the Cavs wouldn’t have come close

without the omnipresent James, who was carrying a heavier load after the loss of stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love to injury.

James was so dominant that 87 percent of Cleveland’s possessions resulted in a shot, assist or turnover by the 6-foot-8, do-it-all athlete from Akron, Ohio.

Here are the comparative statistics for the six game finals. You make the call.

Minutes per game Points per game Rebounds per game Assists per game Steals per game

James 45.8 35.8 13.3 8.8 1.3

Iguodala 36.8 16.3 5.8 4.0 1.3

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Running with purpose Law enforcement officers embark on the Capitol Leg of the 30th Annual Virginia Law Enforcement Torch Run last Friday to demonstrate support for the Virginia Special Olympics Summer Games. Runners included members of the Richmond Police Department’s 111th Basic Recruit Class and people from the Richmond department and other area law enforcement agencies. The 4.5-mile run began at the State Capitol and concluded at Byrd Park in the city’s West End. On Saturday, more than 1,500 Special Olympians competed in an array of athletic events at the University of Richmond before cheering fans.

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Golden State Warriors guard Andre Iguodala, above, talks about his selection as the NBA Finals MVP as he meets the media after the championship game Tuesday night in Cleveland. Cavaliers forward LeBron James, in white, takes the ball to the hoop against Warriors forward Draymond Green during the first quarter of Game 6 at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena.

In Game 6, Iguodala had 25 points, tying Stephen Curry for team honors. James had 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists in the last game.

Despite lopsided stats, Iguodala defeated James 7-4 for the MVP title in a best-of-11 media vote. Apparently, decent eyesight was not a prerequisite for being bestowed a media vote.

Iguodala was presented the MVP trophy by former Boston Celtics great Bill Russell just minutes after the Warriors’ decisive victory.

Russell was an 11-time NBA champion with the Celtics.

A little background: The MVP Finals award was introduced in 1969.

The first recipient in 1969 was Los Angeles’ Jerry West despite the Lakers losing to Boston in seven games. Incidentally, Game 7 of the 1969

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playoffs was the last career game for Russell and another Celtics Hall of Famer, Sam Jones.

Now after nearly a half century, West remains the only player on a losing team to be named MVP. Michael Jordan is the all-time Finals MVP king with six trophies. Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and Tim Duncan have three each.

James won the award in 2012 and 2013 with Miami.

San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard was MVP last year in the Spurs’ finals victory over the James-led Miami Heat.

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Mortgage Servicing

LegaL / FuLFiLLment SpeciaLiSt VHDA, Virginia’s Housing Finance Agency, is seeking a Legal / Fulfillment Specialist to join its Loss Mitigation Department. VHDA is a self-supporting, notfor-profit organization created by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1972, to help Virginians attain and retain quality, affordable housing. The Legal / Fulfillment Specialist will assist in transacting all approved Loss Mitigation applications, including traditional Loan Modifications, HAMP Modifications, FHA Partial Claims, Short Sales and Deeds in Lieu (DIL) of foreclosure. This position is responsible for accurate and timely execution of all Loss Mitigation Fulfillment activities and reports directly to the Single Family Servicing Loss Mitigation Manager.

The viable candidate must display exemplary organizational, attention to detail, communications and customer service skills. This is a fast paced environment and often deadline driven. General knowledge of Rural Housing and VHDA programs preferred. Understanding and experience in administering HUD claims a must. Finally, the successful candidate should have demonstrated ability to positively interact with peers and management and to work across functional lines in order to effectively transact approved Loss Mitigation applications.

Qualifications: • • • • •

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Mortgage and Default Servicing environment.

Demonstrated experience and extensive understanding of Standard Modification/HAMP and Standard PFS / HAFA guidelines Demonstrated experience and extensive knowledge of FHA, VA, GSE and Rural Housing Default Servicing guidelines Extensive working knowledge of Black Knight/MSP Servicing Platform, Passport and MOD Negotiator Application preferred Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Applications (word, excel, PowerPoint, outlook, explorer, etc.)

VHDA offers an excellent working environment, generous benefit plans and market competitive compensation. If you are interested in joining VHDA and meet the above stated criteria, please submit your cover letter and resume online only at: http://www.vhda.com/about/careers An EOE Hiring Range: $43,637 - $56,726 Credit and background checks will be performed as a condition of employment.

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