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New Coliseum in the works?

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Where would the money come from?

That was the unanswered question in 2011 when former Mayor Dwight C. Jones unveiled a $147 million proposal that went nowhere to replace the aging Richmond Coliseum — still the area’s largest single site for major concerts, religious gatherings and other events.

And it is still the question today, according to members of City Council and others after public disclosure this week that a study group led by Dominion Energy’s Executive Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Farrell II is working behind the scenes on a new proposal.

The onMr. Farrell line business news site, Richmond BizSense, broke the story on Tuesday.

According to reports, Dominion, Altria and other corporate entities consider replacement of the Richmond Coliseum a major priority for the Richmond area.

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney has expressed interest, noting in a statement through spokesman Jim Nolan that “the Coliseum is a public asset that has become a public liability, costing taxpayers $1.6 million a year.”

The subsidy has gone up as the operators, SMG/Johnson Inc., struggle to find bookings.

Between now and December, only 20 dates are filled, according to the Coliseum’s published schedule.

Fifteen of the dates involve regional gatherings of Jehovah’s Witnesses this summer.

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‘Tear those statues down’

Richmonders decry mayor’s plan to put Confederate statues ‘in context’

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Charlene Harris holds her great-granddaughter, 14-month-old Kayla Love, outside her home, right, on Colorado Avenue in Randolph, where her family has lived since 1968. Despite surrounding properties being vacant and boarded up, Ms. Harris wanted to buy her home, but she’ll be moving in a few days.

Prospect of home ownership escapes 70-year-old Randolph resident

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

“It’s just not fair that I cannot live out my days here.”

tions of my family have lived here. My mother moved here in 1968, and her Charlene C. Harris hoped to buy children have stayed here at various the home in Randolph that she and her times, including me, my brother and family have rented for nearly 50 years three sisters. from the Richmond Redevelopment “My son and my daughter have lived and Housing Authority. here, and now my great-granddaughter — Charlene C. Harris Instead, the retired state employee is staying with me. It’s just not fair is packing up and preparing to move from the two-bedroom, that I cannot live out my days here,” she said. brick home at 1600 Colorado Ave. to an apartment complex Ms. Harris, who plans to move in two weeks, is among the in South Side. last of seven families living in RRHA’s scattered site homes.

“It won’t be the same,” said Ms. Harris, 70, who admits All will be out soon, RRHA said. being anxious about the move.

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By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Ora Lomax is still fuming over Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s plans for dealing with the stone and bronze figures that have been defining symbols of Richmond for generations — the statues of Confederate defenders of slavery that punctuate Monument Avenue.

A civil rights activist and NAACP stalwart for 60 years, Ms. Lomax is irked about the direction the mayor is taking when it comes to handling the statues she regards as symbols of hate, discrimination and bigotry.

Unlike mayors in cities across the South who are pushing to have Confederate statues removed from public spaces, Mayor Stoney last week announced the creation of a commission to “put the statues in context,” while also rejecting any effort to remove the century-old figures.

“For some reason,” Ms. Lomax said, “he thinks those statues aren’t bothering anyone.

“Well they bother me, and they bother anyone who knows their history,” said Ms. Lomax, who can remember being forced to ride in the back of GRTC buses because of her skin color and who was on the front lines of the 1960s battles to desegregate Richmond lunch counters and clothing stores.

To her, the mayor is trying to straddle a fence, rather than doing what’s right. And that would be “to tear those statues down,” she said.

“We need to get rid of them, not tolerate them.”

A longtime adviser and leader of NAACP youth programs, Ms. Lomax said every time she sees those statues, she is reminded of the battles she and others fought to break down barriers and pave the way for younger people like the 36-year-old mayor.

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Richmond Police to revive Midnight Basketball

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The once popular Midnight Basketball League is about to be revived in Richmond.

The city police department is bringing back the program as a softer element of its crime-fighting strategy.

The department plans to launch a six-week program to begin in about three weeks and continue through the end of August, with play several nights a week, beginning about 8 p.m. and ending around midnight.

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Lucy Maceyka, left, and Azaria Wilkins-Newton, both 8, confer in a web-building class on Tuesday at CodeVA’s summer camp in Downtown.

Children crack CodeVA

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Ready to roll Shy’Tia Henry, 5, takes off with the help of Corey “Cool” Brown of Petersburg as she tries out her new bike last Saturday at the Fairfield Court Community Day. She won one of several bicycles that were raffled off during the neighborhood event. Mr. Brown is a member of one of the motorcycle clubs that sponsored the bike giveaway. Location: 2300 block of North 25th Street.

A diverse group of 281 youngsters ages 6 to 14 will spend part of their summer vacation learning the basics of computer science in a Downtown storefront.

Divided into groups of six to 10, they’ll each spend three hours a day for a week or two in the unique summer camps of CodeVA, a Richmond-based group led by husband-wife team Chris and Rebecca Dovi that seeks to spread computer knowledge to students and teachers.

The summer camps are held at CodeVA’s headquarters at 300 E. Broad St., a renovated building that also includes a basement theater and

second-floor apartments.

“We use an arts-integrated curriculum to introduce kids to the concepts and vocabulary of computer science,” said Margaret M. “Maggie” Smith, a veteran community arts educator who has run the camps since 2014 as CodeVA’s director of children’s programming.

She oversees 12 instructors who handle the classes using age-appropriate computer language for participants who range from rising first-graders to rising eighth-graders.

“We encourage our students to think it is fun,” Ms. Smith said, and to “make them feel comfortable” using a computer language.

Instead of talking about STEM,

the acronym for science, technology, engineering and math, that she said has become a turnoff for kids, she talks programming.

“Kids ears perk up when they hear that,” she said.

Even though the classes are described as play, the students without realizing it are absorbing “important concepts of serious software development,” she said.

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Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Ribbon-cutting for seniors’ new home It took an extra five months, but the Highland Park Senior Apartments are finally finished and all 77 units are filled. The completion of the $11.4 million project was celebrated Tuesday with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the former elementary school building at 1221 E. Brookland Park Blvd. Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney and other dignitaries attended.

From left, residents Richard Cheatham,

Cityscape

Wilbert Curry and Jerome next two phases to raze the Hewlett watch the program aging towers. from the balcony. “It’s like Shelynda Burneyliving in heaven,” Mr. Hewl- Slices of life and scenes Brown, vice president for in Richmond ett said of his new home. real estate development Mr. Hewlett and other residents were for CPDC, said Tuesday that CPDC has relocated from Fay Towers in Gilpin Court. the financing and is now seeking federal Washington-based Community Preserva- approval to proceed with the next phases, tion and Development Corp. undertook a renovation of the former Baker School in this redevelopment and is working on the Gilpin Court into 51 units for Fay Towers

Fourth of July closing schedule Richmond metro area City and county offices: Closed Monday, July 3, and Tuesday, July 4.

residents and the creation of a 194-unit, mixed-income apartment complex at Duval and 1st streets that is to include 72 units for Fay Towers residents.

CPDC could face a stumbling block. It has requested that the city provide $1 million to pay for installation of utility lines and other infrastructure for the 1st and Duval project, but the city has responded that no money currently is available.

Next Tuesday, July 4, people across the United States will celebrate Independence Day. The Free Press asked people in Downtown:

City and state courts: Closed Monday, July 3, and Tuesday, July 4.

What freedom are you most thankful for and why?

DMV: Customer service centers closed Tuesday, July 4.

Interviews by Julexus Cappell and photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

Public libraries: Closed Tuesday, July 4.

Parking: Meters will not be enforced Tuesday, July 4.

Trash: Richmond and Henrico County collection, transfer stations and landfills will be closed Tuesday, July 4. Central Virginia Waste Management Authority pickups will be delayed one day.

GRTC: Buses will operate on a Sunday schedule on Tuesday, July 4.

Banks: Most are closed Tuesday, July 4.

ABC stores: Close at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 4.

Shopping malls: Open.

State of Virginia State offices: Closed Tuesday, July 4.

Federal Government Federal offices: Closed Tuesday, July 4.

Post offices: Closed Tuesday, July 4.

Tasha Williams, 35, of Chesterfield, a Capital One employee: “I would have to say my freedom of speech.

I love that I can say what I want. No one can take that away.”

Rod Terry, 47, of Highland Springs, a carpenter: “To come and go as I please.”

Shirley Chambliss, 73, of South Side, retired Richmond Public Schools worker: “The freedom to have your religion. (There are) so many religions to choose from that can suit you best, and that’s what I’ve done.”

Mariam Elsayed, of Chesterfield, restaurant owner: “Personal freedom.

No one can intervene in your business. I can wear what I want, do what I want here.”

Kelvin Hanson, 56, of Manchester, real estate developer: “I’m thankful for the freedom to earn a living for my family.We didn’t have that when we were slaves.”

Gary Pegease, 60, of Jackson Ward, retired mental health counselor: “To be free.

I’ve had a lot of health problems recently.”

Mayor calls for ‘all hands on deck’ to fix RPS problems

By Holly Rodriguez

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney denied his effort to forge an education compact between his office, Richmond City Council and the Richmond School Board is a move toward charter schools, as his critics allege.

“It is not about privatization and private schools,” Mayor Stoney said at the start of a joint meeting he called Monday between the three entities. “We understand that the power and authority of Richmond Public Schools lies with the School Board.”

But, he added, “We need an all-handson-deck approach” to fix the myriad of problems facing the city’s public schools.

Three weeks ago, a coalition of public education advocates held a news conference at City Hall saying the mayor’s education compact should be held up until a new schools superintendent is chosen and can be part of the discussions.

The group, which included members of Richmond Teachers for Social Justice, New Virginia Majority and Support Richmond Public Schools, Mayor also questioned whether the compact was a step toward privatization of city schools or a voucher system that could further drain resources from an already cash-strapped public school system.

The compact, released in February, outlines a “shared commitment to developing a resource strategy allowing the City and RPS to achieve … shared goals.”

School Board Chairwoman Dawn Page said the board is enthusiastic about the joint effort on a compact and stands ready to “roll up our sleeves and get to work.”

City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, Stoney 2nd District, voiced at Monday’s meeting the need for input from a permanent superintendent, as well as input from parents and the public.

“The superintendent at the table is key

to moving forward with the compact,” she said. “And you talk about parental participation, but you’re having a meeting at 3 p.m. in the afternoon when many parents have to work.”

School Board member Jonathan Young, 4th District, countered, saying the school system’s problems are too grave to wait for the superintendent search to conclude.

Mayor Stoney said Monday’s meeting was just the first of many.

“Our success depends upon a formalized framework,” he said. “We get to make a statement not just to the residents of our city, but to the state, that we are going to put the success of our children first.”

City hits roadblocks on land lease, other projects

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his administration are hitting roadblocks because of snafus in meeting deadlines and provisions of the City Code.

One example involves an administration proposal to provide a $111,840 real estate grant to the new Stone Brewing Co. operation in Fulton.

The payment apparently is required as a result of the brewery meeting performance targets for job creation and other elements of that deal that resulted in the company opening its new plant in the East End. The proposal initially was included on Monday’s list of new ordinances, but was pulled back before it could be read into the record at the end of the City Council meeting.

The problem: The administration wanted to use money from the current 2017 fiscal year, but filed the proposal too late to get it passed before Friday, June 30, when the budget year expires.

“The mayor will have to find another way if he wants council to consider this proposal,” said Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District.

Another example is the city’s plan to lease about an acre of a South Side park to Chesterfield County, which

wants to build a water pumping station on the city-owned land. The lease is part of deal in which Chesterfield County would buy millions of gallons of additional city water to use in the county.

According to members of City Council, an opinion from City Attorney Allen L. Jackson indicates that the council would need to amend a 2001 law that bars development of any part of Larus Park, a 106-acre tree-filled, bird and wildlife haven off Huguenot Road.

Mr. Jackson indicated in his opinion that the council could approve the Chesterfield deal and retroactively pass the ordinance change, council members said.

Mr. Jackson declined to release the opinion because City Council has not yet agreed to make it public. But the finding is a clear embarrassment for the administration.

The 2001 development ban never was mentioned in information the administration sent to the council. And that roadblock also apparently was not disclosed to Chesterfield County officials that had been in talks with the city for at least a year.

The Free Press was the first to report on the ban in its June 1-3 edition.

Councilman Agelasto said he is

disappointed that the council is being called on “to clean up a problem” of the administration’s own making.

“This is a matter that should have been included” with the proposal that was sent to the council, he said.

The administration also has sought to promote the project as a big money maker for the city, but the figures overstate the income the water sale would produce.

According to the administration’s documents, the project would enable Richmond to increase the amount of water its sells to Chesterfield County from 27 million gallons a day to 32 million gallons a day, or an extra 5 million gallons day.

The sale of an additional 5 million gallons a day should generate $1.3 million a year in new revenue for the city in the first five years once the change starts in 2020.

However, Robert Steidel, director of the city Department Public Utilities, acknowledged that the revenue figure represents gross revenue, or the total amount the city would receive for the water.

He confirmed that the sale of additional water would generate about $87,000 a year in net new income to the city, based on the wholesale price Chesterfield would pay.

The city spends about 70.5 cents to produce 748 gallons, or 100 cubic feet, and Chesterfield would be charged a wholesale price of 74 cents per 100 cubic feet.

In addition, Chesterfield’s share of the cost of the water plant would rise from about $4 million to about $4.4 million a year, or an additional $400,000, Mr. Steidel disclosed.

Thus, the net new income to the city would be about $487,000 a year, or about one-third of the $1.3 million a year that the administration has advertised. The proposal is currently in a council committee.

During Monday’s meeting, City Council: • Voted 7-2 to kill a plan to give the council more control over any potential surplus that might develop from fiscal 2017 that ends Friday.

The administration has notified the council that all the signs point to the city breaking even when the final numbers are compiled.

However, if there were to be a surplus, Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson proposed creation of a new fund to prevent Mayor Stoney from putting it all into an untouchable savings account.

Her goal was to create a path to raise the pay of most city employees

whose wages have largely been static for the past six years.

While Ms. Robertson said the mayor and council would have a final say on how the money would be used, most of her council colleagues did not like her idea.

In the 2018 budget, effective July 1, council has included higher pay for police and firefighters and promised to continue to make additional funds available in the next two budgets to do even more.

• Agreed to contribute $200,000 to enable the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority to buy an aging 5-acre strip mall at 1815 N. 30th St. RRHA is putting up about $800,000 to purchase the strip mall that includes a Food Circus grocery store. The goal is to keep the current stores open, but to eventually demolish the mall and replace it with a community service center that would be part of the redevelopment of Creighton Court.

• Amended and continued 2nd District Councilwoman Kim B. Gray’s proposal to overhaul the payment of severance to city employees who are let go from any city job. Council was poised to enact the proposal, but was forced to delay the vote until the next meeting, Monday, July 24, in order to amend the plan to correct a wording error.

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African-American men are 70% more likely to develop prostate cancer.

It’s Men’s Health Month, and we’re dedicated to helping men live healthy today and year round. At VCU Massey Cancer Center our experts work collaboratively to solve issues like prostate cancer. Here are a few tips to help you live a healthier life.

Risk factors Age: After age 50 the risk increases rapidly.

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5. Continuing pain in the lower back, hips and upper thigh.

To find a doctor or make an appointment, call 804-828-5116. © 2017 VCU Health. All rights reserved. Source: American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans 2016-2018.

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School Board selects firm for superintendent search The Richmond School Board voted on Monday to finish its search process for a new superintendent by Sept. 1.

After a closed session, the board also voted to select Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates of Schaumburg, Ill., to conduct the national search to replace Superintendent Dana T. Bedden.

Dr. Bedden’s last day leading RPS is Friday.

Thomas E. Kranz, the school district’s chief operating officer, will serve as interim superintendent beginning July 1.

The board, however, has not released details on his salary or terms of his new contract in the interim job.

The search firm is to provide candidates’ names to a search committee that will be se-

New Coliseum in the works?

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cialty event for cheerleaders and their fans.

Otherwise, there are only three events offered for the broader public — a pro wrestling contest this summer, a fall rock concert and a winter comedy tour.

It gets no better in 2018. So far, the only scheduled event through March is a four-day entertainment event featuring comic book heroes and villains.

Despite the challenge, Richmond taxpayers could face an even bigger bill to cover the debt service on a new arena costing $150 million or more.

That’s the price tag for such buildings these days. The John Paul Arena in Charlottesville, now the state’s largest arena, cost $131 million in 2006.

To finance $150 million over 30 years, taxpayers would need to pony up $6 million to $8 million a year to repay that debt with interest. That’s four to five times what is now being spent to keep the Coliseum’s doors open.

That kind of expense would be a big, if not impossible, swallow for a city that has largely maxed out its credit card for the next five years, according to the city administration.

Taking on a new Coliseum could prove a tough sell for the mayor and City Council, who so far have largely given up on finding money to replace some of the 36 or more aged and increasingly decrepit school buildings.

There also is no certainty that Richmond’s suburban neighbors would be eager to share the cost of a new Coliseum.

Chesterfield and Henrico counties both declined to participate in replacing The Diamond, home to the minor league baseball Richmond Flying Squirrels, with a $50 million stadium, a far smaller project.

In other localities taking on a big project like this, one option has been to create a TIF, or tax incremental financing district.

Essentially, that consists of using the increase in property values and resulting property taxes on surrounding properties as a revenue stream to subsidize the cost of a new stadium or arena.

The only problem: The Coliseum is located in an enclave of largely tax-exempt government buildings and nonprofit operations.

Even if the surrounding property were taxable, it would take a huge increase in values to generate enough money. In Richmond, it takes a $100 million increase in property values to generate $1.2 million in new real estate tax revenue, and it takes $100 million in sales to generate $1 million in new sales tax revenue.

Mr. Farrell’s planning group has yet to release to City Council an actual proposal or provide any details on the potential cost.

According to reports, the proposal is expected to call for tearing down the 46-year-old building and building anew on the current site, bounded by 5th, 7th, Marshall and Leigh streets.

The project also could include a new hotel on the site, reports suggest.

The Coliseum, which opened in 1971, cost $12 million to construct at the time, according to the Coliseum’s website.

The total cost of the building is listed at $24 million. The additional $12 million was spent on streets, utilities, architecture, engineering and other related costs.

In typical fashion, the city created but never funded a reserve to cover maintenance and future replacement of the Coliseum.

In 2003, the city invested $7 million to replace seats, improve the sound system and the air conditioning and replace some worn-out piping. Another $5 million has been spent on plaza improvements.

But that is a far cry from the estimated $30 million that the city estimates would be needed for a major renovation of the current building, according to city budget documents.

For now, a new arena in Richmond could remain just talk until there is an answer to the big question of how to pay for it.

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paid through grants.

For example, grants from Capital One and the Richmond Ambulance Authority will enable CodeVA to enroll 78 students who live in Richmond’s public housing communities and 60 more from other places.

Mr. Dovi said CodeVA seeks to keep its doors open to young people of all income levels.

The summer camps began Monday and will continue into August, with up to five classes a day.

Ms. Smith said she hopes the lessons learned will stick with the students as computer science becomes a more common subject in area schools.

As the result of lobbying by Mr. Dovi and others, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a bill in 2016 that made Virginia the first state to add computer science to its core subjects, putting it on a par with English, math, history, science and social studies.

Still, computer science remains a fledgling program in most school divisions, Mr. Dovi said.

To help build momentum, CodeVA has been on the front lines providing training for Central Virginia teachers on the ins and outs of computer science instruction. The organization has trained more than 1,500 teachers in weeklong, intensive courses. The teachers then become trainers for others who want to incorporate computer science in their classrooms.

By getting students started and enabling teachers to get involved in the education process, CodeVA believes that a subject it sees as crucial to education is gaining ground slowly but surely.

lected by the School Board and composed of parents, teachers and education advocates in the community. The committee will be responsible for interviewing candidates, according to the board’s plan.

In addition, an ad hoc committee, composed of School Board members Felicia Cosby, 6th District; Jonathan Young, 4th District; Scott

Barlow, 2nd District; and Cindy Menz-Erb, 3rd District, will serve as a liaison between the search committee and the School Board.

The ad hoc committee also is responsible for gathering community input to make recommendations to the board on which candidate should be chosen to lead RPS. — HOLLY RODRIGUEZ

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She said that if Mayor Stoney wants to do something useful, he should revive the city’s Youth Services Commission and the Richmond Human Relations Commission — both now defunct — to empower citizens to do more to improve the city.

When Mayor Stoney announced on June 22 the Monument Avenue Commission and the names of its 10 members, he sought to preempt Ms. Lomax and other critics.

In the announcement, he described the statues as “equal parts myth and deception … the ‘alternative facts’ of their time.”

He said they were “a false narrative etched in stone and bronze to lionize the architects and defenders of slavery” and were designed “to perpetuate the tyranny and terror of Jim Crow and re-assert a new era of white supremacy.”

“These monuments have become a default endorsement of that shameful period,” he stated in establishing the commission to find ways to debunk the mystique of the statues and to explore the possibility of adding new statues that would add diversity.

“Right now, Arthur Ashe stands alone,” Mayor Stoney stated. “He is the only true champion on that street.”

The commission includes two co-chairs, Christy Coleman, chief executive officer of the American Civil War Museum, who is African-American, and Gregg Kimball, director of education and outreach for the Library of Virginia, who is Caucasian.

In a surprise move that ignored Virginia Commonwealth and Virginia Union universities, he also named three University of Richmond professors to the panel, Dr. Edward L. Ayres, the university’s former president; Dr. Julian Hayter; and Dr. Lauranett L. Lee.

Ms. Coleman

Mr. Kimball

The commission members also include Stacy L. Burrs, a board member and former chairman and executive director of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia; Coleen A. B. Rodriguez, a Monument Avenue resident who is active in preservation groups; and two members of City Council, Andreas Addison, 1st District, and Kim B. Gray, 2nd District.

While the mayor has received applause, with news of the commission distributed nationally by the Associated Press, many Richmonders view the move as a way for Mayor Stoney to avoid confrontation over the statues, and consider that he and the commission are on a Quixotic mission.

King Salim Khalfani, former executive director of the Virginia NAACP, was dismissive of the commission approach.

There is “nothing that can be done to put those statues into ‘context.’ It’s ridiculous,” he said.

A founding managing director of a new national advocacy group, Americans Resisting Minority and Ethnic Discrimination Inc., or ARMED, Mr. Khalfani has spent years advocating for Richmond to remove the statues.

He said the mayor’s decision to roll out the commission is a ploy to divert attention from the city’s more serious challenges, including teen violence in the city

and multiple problems within the city’s public schools.

“New Orleans is taking down these symbols of slavery and racism,” Mr. Khalfani said. “That’s what Richmond needs to do.

I have been saying that for years.”

Former City Councilman Sa’ad El-Amin was equally acerbic in his criticism. He said no other country would tolerate statues to losers and traitors.

He said the first thing people did after American troops took Baghdad in 2003 during the Iraq war was to pull down the statues of overthrown dictator Saddam Hussein.

In Germany after World War II, pictures, statues and other symbols of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis were eradicated, he said, and “it is still illegal to put any Nazi iconography in a public space.

“That’s what should happen in this city,” he said. “But we have these statues here without any change. We’re in the 21st century, and there is still no statement by the city to disavow these statues and their clear intent to glorify the Confederacy and the people who fought to maintain slavery.”

He agreed with Mr. Khalfani that Richmond needs the kind of leadership that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has shown in removing four Confederate monuments in that city.

During his tenure on the council, Mr. El-Amin said he proposed that the statues be taken down, but could not win the support of then-Mayor Tim Kaine and other colleagues.

That’s why Mr. El-Amin said he founded the Richmond Slave Trail Commission. He said he “wanted to raise attention to the level of our victimization and in so doing, reduce the level of glorification of those who victimized us.”

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The tenants are among several generations of Richmonders who were part of RRHA’s efforts to place public housing residents throughout city neighborhoods rather than pack them into apartment complexes like Gilpin and Hillside courts.

The Colorado Avenue house is one of about 60 that RRHA rescued in the 1960s during the development of the Downtown Expressway and moved to other sites, mostly in Randolph.

Since 2007, RRHA has been trying to get rid of the 119 scattered homes in its inventory, with permission from the actual owner, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. More than half were boarded up at the time and left to molder.

However, only 11 tenants ended up buying the homes.

In 2015, new RRHA CEO T.K. Somanath decided to get rid of the properties that RRHA could not afford to maintain with its shrinking allowance of maintenance money from HUD. With HUD approval, he reopened efforts to sell the homes to the remaining tenants and asked local nonprofits to bid for 64 of the vacant houses.

Only two nonprofits, project:HOMES and Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity stepped up. Collectively, they agreed to take 38 of the houses for $1 apiece, with a requirement that the buildings be improved and resold with 18 to 24 months.

On Thursday, June 29, the remaining 26 houses were to be auctioned one by one to the highest bidder at an auction at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

Meanwhile, Ms. Harris and other tenants who occupied a few of the remaining homes in RRHA’s inventory were offered generous terms to purchase. They also were referred to Housing Opportunities Made Equal’s Center for Housing Counseling and Education for assistance in applying for a mortgage.

However, RRHA apparently never offered tenants of its public housing complexes who are paying more than $500 a month in rent an opportunity to buy any of the houses. The offer appears to have gone only to those like Ms. Harris still occupying a scattered site house.

Ms. Harris said she signed up after learning that RRHA was ready to reduce the price of her house from around $88,000 to around $58,000, and that she might need only $100 for a down payment.

Ms. Harris currently pays $540 a month in rent, or about a third of her monthly pension and Social Security income.

Still, the house price would be a bargain.

At the discounted price of $58,000, the total monthly cost of principal, interest, taxes and insurance on a 30-year mortgage would have been less than $500 a month, an analysis of available data shows.

The deal was an even better one for her as RRHA in 2013 had spent about $85,000 on major interior improvements to the house.

“That’s what I wanted,” Ms. Harris said of her desire to buy her home. But after spending months going to classes, she said she was rejected for a mortgage when her credit report showed she had about $3,500 in judgments owed to a local hospital on old medical bills.

“I haven’t been able to pay them,” she said. Like many people, she has little money in savings.

She wasn’t aware that it was potentially possible for the judgments to be paid off through the mortgage, which would have increased her monthly payment about $19 a month.

Ms. Harris said she was never offered that kind of deal, and the counselor at HOME never mentioned such a prospect.

Brenda Hicks, director of HOME’s center, did not respond to requests for comment.

Nor did Christy Smith, president and CEO of Neighborhood Housing Services, which offers a similar program and previously offered to work with RRHA tenants to straighten out credit issues.

The bottom line: When a bank rejected her mortgage application, Ms. Harris ended up signing an agreement to accept a Section 8 voucher that will cover virtually all her rent on her new apartment.

“I think I was pressured into signing this,” she said. “I shouldn’t have done it. I should have kept trying. But it’s too late now. I have three months to use the voucher or otherwise it expires, and I still would have to leave.”

City police to revive Midnight Basketball Continued from A1

The program will initially serve 60 or more youths between the ages of 17 and 21 from Gilpin Court, Highland Park and other crime-challenged parts of North Side, according to Deputy Chief Eric English, who is in charge.

He told a City Council committee the goal is to address “the current peak crime” in these areas and “provide a safe and productive outlet” for participants.

Deputy Chief English said the police department got involved after receiving requests from community advocates who believe that such a program could have an impact.

The department is moving ahead after receiving a $13,000 grant from a national affordable housing lender, the Local Initiatives Support Corp., to cover the cost of

referees and other equipment.

The grant was awarded at the end of April, but it took the department two months to gain official backing from Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration and secure approval from City Council to use the grant.

Deputy Chief English said that before playing, participants would take part in workshops featuring speakers discussing topics ranging from budgeting to job searches. “This program will be about more than just playing ball,” he said.

Midnight Basketball programs got their start in the 1980s in Maryland and then spread across the country after the early programs showed impressive results in cutting crime.

Later studies indicated that crime rates fell as much as 30 percent and that participants

were less likely to get into trouble.

Back in 2006, Richmond jumped on the bandwagon after a nonprofit was organized to run the programs with support from the city and the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

But the program collapsed a few years later after financial support dried up.

Deputy Chief English said the department will be seeking additional grants to continue the program and potentially expand it to other areas of the city.

That would be good news to Councilman Michael J. Jones, who represents the 9th District. While supportive of the program, he griped that these kinds of programs always start out in North Side, with areas south of the James River being left out.

“We need this kind of program on our side of town,” he said.

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RPS decision upheld to move student to Huguenot

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Richmond student Stephanie Priddy’s fight for reinstatement at Thomas Jefferson High School has suffered a major setback.

Robert Hartsoe, a state administrative law judge, has found that Richmond Public Schools did not violate any laws or regulations in removing Stephanie from the school for missing classes and requiring her to attend her zoned school, Huguenot High School in South Side.

The decision represents the final step in the internal appeal process that began at the school level and proceeded to the state level.

Stephanie’s advocate at the hearing, Sa’ad El-Amin, said the next step would be to appeal her case to federal district court in a bid to overturn the decision that Mr. Hartsoe issued May 30.

The decision “ignores the facts and the evidence,” said Mr. El-Amin, a former Richmond city councilman who is president of SLC Associates, a litigation and strategy firm that represents people in administrative hearings.

Stephanie, a student with autism and other disabilities, has been battling her removal from Thomas Jefferson High since December.

As the Free Press previously reported, she was arrested for trespassing when she entered the school Dec. 9 after her enrollment was revoked and she was banned from the property, though the criminal charge was dismissed.

She has been home-schooled since as she continues to fight the transfer to Huguenot.

Stephanie was admitted to Thomas Jefferson as part of the open school program that allows transfers to other schools. The school terminated the admission as a result of numerous absences.

Stephanie and her mother, Michelle Priddy, argued the Thomas Jefferson teachers and officials failed to keep accurate attendance records and wrongly claimed absences that did not happen.

At the hearing before Mr. Hartsoe, Stephanie testified that she never skipped classes and was always somewhere she had permission to be, such as in the restroom or a counselor’s office, when she was not in class.

She also testified that Thomas Jefferson was the only school she had attended and where she has trusted adults, unlike Huguenot, a much larger school where she knows no one.

Expert testimony also was introduced about her autism and the impact of her transfer, including testimony by her psychiatrist, Dr. Marla Crawford, who strongly recommended against the transfer to Huguenot, stating that it could put Stephanie at high risk of engaging in self-harm.

However, in his decision, Mr. Hartsoe dismissed claims that Stephanie is autistic and thus not competent, stating that the evidence presented

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Take them down There’s a heaping measure of ridiculousness in Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s appointment of a Monument Avenue Commission to put the statues along the street in context.

We ask Mayor Stoney, the commission and our readers: What context can possibly change the statues’ meaning and message from what was meant when they were erected following a bloody Civil War fought to keep black people in bondage? And what can possibly change their present context as tributes glorifying racist, un-American traitors who chose to break off from the United States of America and start a war of secession rather than acknowledge the freedom and humanity of people of color?

Richmond and the mayor should be ashamed.

No statues of black heroes and freedom fighters in Virginia — such as Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, Henry “Box” Brown or Harriet Tubman, who worked after the Civil War as a matron at the Freedman’s Hospital at Fort Monroe in Hampton — can be put up in the shadows of Confederate traitors Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart and Matthew Fontaine Maury to make Monument Avenue less offensive to residents and visitors of Richmond.

Simply placing signs, historic markers or additional statues at the feet of the towering racists on horseback would be an affront to the memory and contributions of those who are being used to counterbalance a racist narrative. It would be like trying to put lipstick on a pig. It doesn’t work and it isn’t pretty.

Mayor Stoney, members of Richmond City Council and other elected officials need to grow the political courage and will that others across the country have shown and simply decide to take the statues down.

The Charlottesville City Council took the bold and rightminded action of voting to remove its statues of Lee and Jackson from its city parks. Now, it must face current day Confederates in court who are seeking to block the removal of those they still venerate.

As we know, the Ku Klux Klan is marching in Charlottesville in early July to show support for the statues. Such a demonstration clearly indicates that these statues hold a meaning of white supremacy today for their supporters, many of whom are hooded cowards who despise African-Americans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants and other people of color.

Following the June 2015 massacre of nine African-Americans at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., the Southern Poverty Law Center launched an effort to catalog and map Confederate place names and other symbols in public spaces, both in the South and across the nation. The study, while far from comprehensive, identified a total of 1,503 such Confederate symbols. They include:

• 718 monuments and statues, nearly 300 of which are in Georgia, Virginia and North Carolina; • 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or other Confederates; • 80 counties and cities named for Confederates; • Nine official Confederate holidays in six states; and • 10 U.S. military bases named for Confederates.

Since then, at least 60 such publicly funded symbols of the Confederacy have been removed or renamed. New Orleans, St. Louis, Louisville and Baltimore have removed or soon will remove their monuments to the Confederacy.

The SPLC undertook its review, in part, because the 22-year-old convicted shooter, an avowed white supremacist, said he launched the attack to spark a race war. Shortly after the mass shooting, photos surfaced of the perpetrator with the Confederate flag. Communities then began to re-evaluate the public display of Confederate symbols.

Debates are raging in Southern cities, including Memphis, about removing Confederate statues even as state lawmakers followed Virginia and other states in passing legislation to protect them.

In late May, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the Memorial Preservation Act, which provides sweeping protections for Confederate and other historic monuments. Supporters say they want to protect history — the good and the bad.

That’s like putting up a monument to the KKK and saying it deserves to be there because it is merely history.

Monuments symbolize what we choose to value. Do we, in Richmond, really want the world to think we value people and a skewed way of life that had little value for black lives?

Richmond is better than that.

We renew our calls for Mayor Stoney and the City Council to simply remove the statues. Let those who want them pay to move them to a museum, or use federal dollars to move them to a National Park battlefield site where they can be placed in true context.

And we call again for Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the General Assembly to remove or rename the state holiday named after the Confederate traitors Lee and Jackson.

It’s time for Richmond and Virginia to heal and move on.

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Delays in Chemical Disaster Rule hurt minority communities Pam Nixon lives in an area of West Virginia called “Chemical Valley,” where she is surrounded by facilities that handle dangerous toxic and flammable chemicals.

Many times during her 65 years there, she has had to shelter in place, tape up windows and huddle in her home after being alerted about a chemical leak nearby.

For years, Ms. Nixon, who is African-American, has advocated for better protections against toxic chemicals. She thought all her hard work had paid off in January when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, still under President Obama, finalized its Chemical Disaster Rule — an overhaul of chemical plant standards that would help prevent accidental chemical release emergencies.

But last week, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided to delay implementation of the rule for two years, putting people’s lives at risk while the agency reconsiders the very existence of these protections.

This safety issue particularly threatens African-Americans and Latinos, who are more likely to

live in close proximity to chemical facilities. In fact, AfricanAmericans are 75 percent more likely to live near industrial chemical facilities, such as oil refineries, than the average citizen, according to a national report by the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform. The percentage of Latinos living in proximity to dangerous chemical

Keith Rushing plants also is shockingly high, at 60 percent, more than the national average.

Ms. Nixon is not alone in living under the shadow of chemical accidents. According to the EPA, more than 1,500 chemical accidents occurred between 2004 and 2013 that caused property damage, injuries and even death.

In 2008, an explosion at a pesticide plant in West Virginia killed two people and injured eight. In 2012, 15,000 people sought medical treatment following a fire and explosion at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. And an explosion at a West Texas fertilizer plant in 2014 killed 15 people, including firefighters, and injured 160.

According to Ms. Nixon, this disparity makes the voices of communities of color and low-

income communities particularly relevant.

“These chemical plants, like other polluting facilities, tend to be disproportionately located near low-income and minority communities,” Ms. Nixon said. “Perhaps that’s because the companies that run them don’t think our voices will be heeded by the government.

We can’t let that happen.”

The Chemical Disaster Rule would require 12,500 oil, gas and chemical facilities to apply accident prevention and emergency response measures to their facilities, and it would ensure that the facilities with the most serious accident records consider establishing stronger safeguards to prevent death, injury and chemical exposure to workers and community members.

The rule also would require improved emergency preparedness and information sharing to protect first responders and ensure that vulnerable communities are not left in the dark about ways to prevent and reduce harm from chemical accidents.

The rule was finalized after years of careful consideration and significant public input. Mr. Pruitt’s delay undermines years of hard work by coalitions and advocates like Ms. Nixon, and it prevents communities of color that live near dangerous facilities from getting the protections they need.

On June 22, Earthjustice

Price of incarceration

Hip-hop legend Jay Z celebrated Father’s Day this year by allowing incarcerated fathers to spend the day with their families.

Pick any day of the week in America and an estimated 700,000 people are populating our nation’s local city and county jails. Of those behind bars, 60 percent — nearly half a million people, many of whom are AfricanAmerican and Hispanic — will remain in jail, not because they have been convicted of any crime, but because they are guilty of the unpardonable crime of poverty and cannot afford the court-stipulated price tag placed on their freedom.

Pretrial incarceration can look very different based on race and socioeconomic status. A federal Bureau of Justice study found that African-Americans are 66 percent more likely to remain incarcerated before trial, and Hispanic defendants were 91 percent more likely to remain trapped behind bars, in comparison to white defendants.

If a defendant cannot afford bail — nationally, 61 percent of defendants are required to post bail for pretrial release — he or she will stay behind bars until trial.

It is in that purgatory of being presumed legally innocent but locked away from your family, your job and support networks that African-American and Hispanic communities are further traumatized and shattered.

For decades, activists and social justice groups have fought against this destructive facet of

mass criminalization and incarceration. This year, the movement to reform our criminal justice system’s current application of pretrial incarceration added the platform, power and philanthropy of a high-profile ally to its unceasing work — Jay Z. The rapper, entrepreneur and now

Marc H. Morial proud father of three donated to Southerners on New Ground and Color of Change to free and reunite incarcerated fathers with their families on Father’s Day. It was a continuation of an earlier campaign to bail out mothers of color for Mother’s Day. To put the impact of incarceration on communities of color in context, it is important to note that today, one in nine African-American children has a parent in jail.

In a Father’s Day essay for Time magazine explaining why he was taking on the “exploitative” bail industry, Jay Z was personal and poignant: “If you’re from neighborhoods like the Brooklyn one I grew up in, if you’re unable to afford a private attorney, then you can be disappeared into our jail system simply because you can’t afford bail.

Millions of people are separated from their families for months at a time — not because they are convicted of committing a crime, but because they are accused of committing a crime.”

When black and brown people are over-policed and arrested and accused of crimes at higher rates than others, and then forced to pay for their freedom before they ever see trial, big bail companies prosper. This pre-incarceration conundrum is devastating to

families.

The cost of being imprisoned as if you are guilty while you are legally innocent is high and the damage extends well beyond jailhouse bars. From the separation of family members to jeopardizing current and future housing, benefits and work, studies also have consistently found that in comparison to defendants who were released before trial, defendants who remained incarcerated were three times more likely to be sentenced to prison, tended to receive longer sentences, and were more likely to re-offend the longer they were incarcerated.

Because the inability to pay bail is both an impediment to freedom and a major cause of pretrial incarceration, people essentially are being punished for being poor. Like so many other misguided criminal justice actions, pretrial incarceration makes us less safe and poorer.

As a nation, we are collectively footing a monstrous $9 billion annual bill to incarcerate people who have not been convicted of a crime, while the ballooning bail bond industry continues to profit from the poverty and desperation of vulnerable communities.

Many solutions have been proposed, from limiting the use of pretrial incarceration to individuals who pose a threat to society to implementing alternative forms of bail besides cash bail — or forcing defendants to use bail bond companies that put profits before people and engage in predatory lending practices.

We must reform this two-tiered system of injustice to save lives, families, communities and restore our faith in our badly damaged criminal justice system.

The writer is president of the National Urban League.

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filed litigation on behalf of 13 local and national environmental groups, as well as threatened community groups across the country to stop the EPA from delaying needed updates to the Chemical Disaster Rule.

The United Steelworkers Union also has moved to intervene in support of the rule to protect workers from danger and stand in solidarity with first responders and threatened community groups.

While the court battle moves forward, Ms. Nixon continues to fight.

The rule “to prevent chemical disasters and save lives should not be delayed any further,” Ms. Nixon stated recently in an op-ed for The Hill. “We need this essential protection for our health and safety in place now.

It’s long overdue.”

The writer is lead advocacy press secretary for Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization.

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Letters to the Editor

Perpetuating Ashe myth Re “Battery Park art project on tennis great Arthur Ashe to educate, elevate,” June 8-10 edition: The City of Richmond continues to perpetuate the myth that the late tennis star Arthur Ashe learned to play tennis at Battery Park.

I could not find the year that the tennis courts at Battery Park were built, but I know they didn’t exist when Arthur Ashe learned to play tennis.

He learned at Brookfield Park, a large park for African-Americans on North Side where the Main Post Office is now located on Brook Road.

Brookfield Park had tennis courts and a swimming pool. The pool closed around 1957 because Shields Lake, the swimming pool located in Byrd Park for white people, was damaged and could not be repaired. The thinking was if white people couldn’t swim, neither should black people!

The tennis courts were in existence until the Main Post Office was built.

I hope the City of Richmond will change its website and the Free Press will check anything that comes from that site.

KATHRYN L. REID Richmond

City facing crisis with violence We are in a crisis!

The murder rate in Richmond has surpassed that of last year. Never before have I heard of so many multiple shootings taking place. Many of our young kids and children are dying or injured by the crossfire that’s taking place in neighborhoods.

Holding vigils for the deceased is fine, but we have to get a handle on this type of violence. It seems as if the culture in Richmond has begun to change and violence is accepted by some residents.

I stand with many other citizens that think one violent death is way too many. Do our young children need to grow up in this type of fear?

Elderly people are worried about being victimized in their own homes by robbers and thieves.

This type of nonsense needs to stop.

The Richmond Police Department cannot do it all by themselves. They need help. Some people will observe a crime taking place but will

not get involved. This type of negative behavior needs to cease if we are going to make progress in this area. The same people who will not get involved and tell what they saw want others to talk if it is their family member or friend who is a victim of violent crime.

Prayer never hurts, but people speaking to police about what they see also will aid in this crisis.

Richmond has become like Chicago, where murders are a common occurrence, even though we have a smaller population. That shows violence cannot always be defined by population.

Let’s stand shoulder to shoulder with the police and help them get more criminals off the streets and put away where they belong.

‘When is enough going to be enough?’

Re “What really happened? New details change initial police report of Mosby Court events surrounding special agent’s death,” June 8-10 edition: I wish someone from your staff had taken the time to interview those of us who live in the area surrounded by the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority projects.

For months — years — we’ve heard shooting after shooting, killing after killing, some of which were right at our front door.

This ongoing problem of the “gang” wars from Whitcomb Court to Mosby Court to Fairfield Court has really, really been hard on our community of Eastview and the other surrounding homes in this area. No one ever comes to our community to ask how are we doing or ask what do we think.

It’s amazing, though, how from all the shootings of black people in these courts for such a long time, it took the shooting and killing of Special Agent Michael T. Walter, a man not even from our area, to send a message. Or has it?

Since March, we in Eastview have had to duck and dodge bullets flying all around us because of the thugs, drug dealers, etc., who run rampant shooting at each other. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear gunshots from Accommodation Street in Mosby Court and/or Raven Street in Mosby Court.

When is enough going to be enough?

We’ve had meeting after meeting, some coordinated by Richmond Police Lt. Michael Alston. The residents of the courts are not interested. None of them seem interested in changing their lifestyles, much less, trying to get the violence out of their neighborhoods.

I pray that Special Agent Walter did not die in vain. He gave his life through his service and going into a neighborhood that he truly didn’t even have to go into. It’s just a shame that RRHA is not doing something to get rid of those who bring violence, drugs and destruction to our community.

DEBORAH DRIVER Richmond

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER W, WARREN COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUR-2017-00074

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• Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider W.

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• A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on November 8, 2017, at 10 a.m.

I really enjoyed attending the fifth commencement exercise for Dream Academy adult high school in Richmond.

To hear the history of this school and how it got started, how far it has come, to where it is now, was just amazing.

I too graduated from an adult high school in South Carolina in 1992 with an Honor Society award and high school diploma. So I know just how all of the students feel.

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• Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $125.791 million for its 2018 Rider W.

• Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On June 1, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider W (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Warren County Power Station (“Warren County Project” or “Project”), a 1,342 megawatt nominal natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Warren County, Virginia.

In 2012, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of the Warren County Project and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider W, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the Project. The Warren County Project became fully operational in 2014.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider W for the rate year beginning April 1, 2018, and ending March 31, 2019 (“2018 Rate Year”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2018 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $115,108,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $10,683,000.

Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $125,791,000 for service rendered during the 2018 Rate Year.

Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 10.5%, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a combined-cycle generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 11% for the months of January 2016 through March 2016, which comprises the general ROE of 10% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return, and an ROE of 10.6% for the months of April 2016 through December 2016, which comprises the general ROE of 9.6% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2015-00061, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

If the proposed Rider W for the 2018 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider W on April 1, 2018, would decrease the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.12.

The Company indicates that it has calculated the proposed Rider W rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider W proceeding, Case No. PUE-2016-00063.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on November 8, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

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

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

On or before November 1, 2017, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before November 1, 2017, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00074.

On or before August 30, 2017, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00074. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before September 27, 2017, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00074.

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

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Frank Mason III drafted in second round by Sacramento Kings You’ve heard the cliché “Easier said than done.”

Well, some things are better shown than said — like Frank Mason III’s extraordinary ability to pass and shoot a basketball and spark his team to victory.

No chitchat necessary.

Selected by the Sacramento Kings in round two of the NBA draft on June 22, Mason was the 34th overall pick. He will get his first chance to show his worth on the elite professional level in the NBA Summer League from July 7 through 17 in Las Vegas.

About 90 minutes after hearing his name called in the draft, Mason tweeted: “Thanks for believing in me Sacramento Kings. I promise you won’t regret it.”

On paper, Mason resides on the NBA fringe because of his modest 5-foot-11 stature. Even when he was coming out of Petersburg High School, he wasn’t heavily recruited by top tier college programs.

Give him the ball, however, and wonderful things happen. On the hardwood, he has dominated, first at Petersburg High, then at Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock as a post high school graduate and during the past four years at the University of Kansas — wearing the No. 0 jersey — where he evolved as the consensus National Player of the Year.

Kansas Coach Bill Self told the Kansas City Star after the draft, “I’m so excited that now Frank is going to have a chance to provide for himself and his family in ways he never dreamed possible five years ago.”

Sacramento opens Summer League play against the Phoenix Suns on Friday, July 7.

Frank Mason III

The game will be broadcast at 10:30 p.m. on ESPN. Teams play at least five games, giving Mason a chance to show he deserves a spot on the Kings’ regular season roster.

The dreaded alternative would be if Mason was assigned to the Kings’ Gatorade League (G-

League) affiliate, the Reno Bighorns, far under the NBA rookie minimum salary for 2017-18 of $563,493.

Only first round draft picks are guaranteed first-year contracts. Mason was the fourth player taken in round two, following an abnormally high three first round choices by the Kings.

Most alarming to Mason’s fans is Sacramento’s first choice, and fifth overall pick — point guard De’Aaron Fox from Kentucky.

Fox had 39 points in the NCAA semifinals against UCLA, easily outplaying the Bruins’ Lonzo Ball, who was the No. 2 overall draftee by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Other first round picks by Kings General Manager Vlade Divac were No. 15 Justin Jackson (6-foot-8) from NCAA champion University of North Carolina and 6-foot-11 Harry Giles from Duke University. Fox, Jackson and Giles were all freshmen this past season.

Further clouding Mason’s status, Sacramento has two veteran point guards — former first round picks Ty Lawson and Darren Collison.

But on the plus side, the Kings were 32-50 last year and probably don’t want to go 32-50 again, so change is in order.

Also, there are multiple reports Lawson will be traded.

Twice, Sacramento flew Mason to the West Coast for individual workouts, affirming its decision to draft the former Petersburg High Crimson Wave star.

Previously, Mason had sparkled — no surprise — in front of the scouts at the NBA Combine in Chicago.

Some background:

The much-traveled Kings franchise was the Rochester Royals from 1948 to 1957; the Cincinnati Royals from 1957 to 1972; and the Kansas City/Omaha Kings 1975 to 1985, before moving to the capital of California.

In Cincinnati, the team featured arguably the game’s all-time lead guard, Naismith Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson. In Kansas City/Omaha, the team’s headliner was smallish guard Nate Archibald, another NBA Hall of Famer and among the few to top the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.

Mason becomes just the second Petersburg High player drafted by an NBA team. The other was 6-foot-10 Mark West, who was chosen by the Dallas Mavericks as the 30th overall pick in 1983 following a stellar career at Old Dominion University.

Moses Malone of the Petersburg High School Class of 1974 was picked in the third round of the old ABA draft by the Utah Stars prior to the ABA/NBA merger. Malone is considered the first player of the modern era to jump directly from high school to the pro ranks.

At the time, rules did not permit NBA teams to draft athletes straight out of high school.

Malone was a novelty. Many considered it unthinkable a high schooler could match up with seasoned pros. He went on to become a three-time NBA Most Valuable Player and Hall of Fame inductee.

Like Malone, the more you see of Mason, the more you’re convinced he is for real. Forget the height chart. Mason gets straight As on the eye test.

3 former local players hoping to be picked up on NBA’s regular season roster Three undrafted pro basketball prospects with local ties are hoping to get lucky in Las Vegas. They will be among free agents shooting for high stakes in the desert.

They are: • Devin Robinson of Manchester High School in Chesterfield County and the University of Florida has hooked up with the Washington Wizards for the NBA Summer League from July 7 through 17 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

The 6-foot-8 Robinson, who is the nephew of former Henrico High and Virginia Commonwealth University basketball player Bruce Robinson, is

leaving Florida following his junior season. Robinson helped the Gators to the NCAA East Region finals before the team fell to the University of South Carolina.

• Andrew White III of Thomas Dale High School in Chesterfield County and Syracuse University will join the Cleveland Cavaliers in Las Vegas. The 6-foot-6 White hit 112 3-pointers this past season for the Orange, breaking Gerry McNamara’s university record.

• And native Tennessean JeQuan Lewis of Virginia Commonwealth University will suit up with the Milwaukee

Corey Douglas commits to Rams

Virginia Commonwealth University has a new basketball player waiting in the wings, but Rams fans will have to wait another season to see him.

Corey Douglas, a 6-foot-8 native of Louisville, Ky., is expected to join VCU’s program in 2018-19 after spending the upcoming season at Tallahassee Community College in Florida.

As a freshman, Douglas played this past Corey Douglas season at Rice University in Houston under Coach Mike Rhoades, who is now the head coach at VCU. Douglas averaged 4.4 points and 3.8 rebounds in 17.2 minutes for nine games before being sidelined by an injury.

Known as a powerful leaper, Douglas set the all-time shot block record at perennial powerhouse Ballard High School in Kentucky.

He also played one postgraduate season at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia before enrolling at Rice.

A second former Rice player, guard Marcus Evans, has transferred to VCU and becomes eligible to play in 2018-19 after sitting out this season in Richmond. Evans hails from Cape Henry Collegiate in Virginia Beach.

N.C. A&T’s Chris Belcher to represent U.S. at World Championships Chris Belcher won NCAA Division I AllAmerican recognition with A&T scripted across his chest.

That’s short for North Carolina A&T State University, where Belcher is a rising senior.

For his next race, his running jersey — in red, white and blue — will read “USA.” Belcher will represent the United States at the World Championships Aug. 4 through Chris Belcher 13 in London.

The Aggie qualified for London by taking third place in the 100 meters in 10.06 seconds at the U.S. Championships on June 24. Belcher finished behind Justin Gatlin (9.95) and Chris Coleman (9.98).

The three Americans will challenge Usain Bolt in London in what figures to be a dramatic showdown of the globe’s elite sprinters.

Bolt, 30, has announced the World Championships will be his final meet.

The Jamaican megastar is the world record holder in the 100 meters (9.58) and 200 meters(19.19). He also has won eight Olympic gold medals in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100 relay.

Belcher, a native of Long Island, N.Y., is passing up his final season of eligibility at North Carolina A&T to turn pro under NIKE sponsorship.

Bucks in Las Vegas. The 6-foot guard averaged 15 points for the Rams while hitting 37 percent behind the Devin Robinson arc.

White, having played previously at Kansas and Nebraska, and the Rams’ speedy Lewis were seniors this past season.

Most Vegas games will be televised on NBA-TV and the various ESPN channels.

A mixture of drafted and undrafted rookies, as well as some second-year NBA and international players, generally tangle in Las Vegas with the hopes of being signed for the regular season. There are no guarantees for second-round picks or free agents.

More realistically, free agents are assigned to the Gatorade League (G-League), formerly know as the NBA’s Developmental League (DLeague). Another more lucrative option is signing a pro contract overseas.

A glowing success story is undrafted, former VCU star Troy Daniels, who parlayed the Summer League and a stint in the D-League into becoming an NBA veteran. Daniels has now played six seasons in the NBA, this past year with the

The Atlantic 10 Conference, with VCU and the University of Richmond as members, was shut out. St. Joseph’s DeAndre Bembry was taken 21st overall last year by Atlanta.

• Andrew White JeQuan Lewis NBA scouts are Memphis Grizzlies. clearly intrigued by the Mega • Leks professional team in Freshmen and the ACC were Belgrade, Serbia. the marquee attractions in the There have been nine playNBA talent grab in Brooklyn. ers drafted from that Adriatic The first five players chosen League club since 2014, includ— starting with Markelle Fultz ing three this year. by the Philadelphia 76ers — had Vlatko Cancar was taken just completed their freshmen 49th by the Denver Nuggets; collegiate seasons.

Ognjen Jaramaz, 58th by the There were 16 freshmen cho- New York Knicks; and French sen among the 30 first round picks. native Alpha Kaba, 60th by the That snaps the previous record of Atlanta Hawks.

13 freshmen chosen in the 2015 • NBA draft’s first round.

The famed Philly cheesThe lone non-freshmen esteak sandwich has at least among the first 10 picks was temporarily lost some status to 18-year-old Frank Ntilikina, a another tasty treat in the City Belgium native plucked from of Brotherly Love. the French Pro A League, who When Washington, D.C., was chosen No. 8 overall by the native Fultz discovered rights New York Knicks. Ntilikina’s to the No. 1 pick were traded parents are Rwandan. from the Boston Celtics to From a conference standout, the Philadelphia 76ers, he cel14 ACC players were selected ebrated for a reason you might in the draft, including 10 in the not suspect. first round. The first ACC player It seems Fultz is enamored chosen was Duke University’s with the crispy chicken sandJayson Tatum, third overall, by wich at Chick-fil-A, calling it the Boston Celtics. “kind of like my good luck The Pac-12 also had 14 draft- charm.” He prefers the sandees, with six in the first round. wich for breakfast.

Fultz told Dunk Wire about how his dietary habits might be affected by his NBA destination: “I Googled it (Chick-filA) immediately. Philly does have Chick-fil-A. It has six, actually. Seven if you count the one at the airport. Boston has zero Chick-fil-As, for what it’s worth.”

Prior to the draft, Fultz was late for a meeting with 76ers officials. Upon arrival, he was carrying a bag of food from Chick-fil-A. • If the NBA’s freshman infatuation continues in 2018, look for the first draft picks to include 6-foot-10 Michael Porter Jr. and 7-foot DeAndre Ayton.

Porter is an incoming freshman at the University of Missouri.

Ayton is a soon-to-be freshman at the University of Arizona.

Another with much acclaim is Harlem native Mohamed Bamba, set to enroll at the University of Texas this fall to play under Coach Shaka Smart.

Bamba is 7 feet tall, with a 7-foot-9 wing span. He played this past season at Westtown School in West Chester, Pa. VCU will play host to Coach Smart’s Longhorns in November at the Siegel Center in Richmond. On the downside, Texas lost 6-foot-11 freshman Jarrett Allen when he was picked 22nd overall by the Brooklyn Nets.

Rising stars win Queen Classic events Queen Harrison is believed to be the first female from an area high school to become an Olympic track and field athlete.

Will Titiana Marsh become another?

Marsh, a rising senior at Thomas Dale High School in Chesterfield County, was a double winner at the inaugural all-girls Queen Classic on June 10 at Sports Backers Stadium.

The track and field competition was organized by Harrison, who laid down fast tracks as a student at Henrico County’s Hermitage High School and Virginia Tech en route to winning a berth on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team as a 400-meter hurdler in Beijing.

Facing a strong field at the inaugural event, Marsh easily won the long jump — 20 feet, ¼ inches — while also dominating her specialty, the triple jump with 42-6½.

Marsh ranks among the nation’s premier high school triple jumpers. She proved that by taking second in the New Balance National Championships on June 17 and 18 in Greensboro, N.C. Marsh also prevailed in both the long jump — 20¾ — and the triple jump — 43-5 — at the state Group 6A Championship in Newport News on June 2 and 3.

After Harrison’s success in the Olympics, Kellie Wells of James River High School in Chesterfield County and Hampton University shined in the international competition. Wells won the bronze medal

in the 100 hurdles at the 2012 annual event.

Olympic Games in London.

Britton Wilson was another A near miss was Dawn Sowell jewel in the crown at the Queen out of Jefferson-Huguenot-Wythe Classic. The rising junior at High School and Louisiana State Henrico County’s Mills Godwin University. Sowell ran the fastest High School won the 400 meters 100 and 200 meters in the world in in 54.34.

1989, but never made the Olympic The previous week, Wilson, team because of injuries. who is the daughter of former Harrison remains active on Virginia Commonwealth Unithe pro track circuit. versity basketball player Vince Titiana Marsh The Queen Classic is designed Wilson, won the 200 meters and to provide opportunities for future Olympic was second in the 400 meters at the state hopefuls. Harrison says it will become an 5A Championship.

Queen Classic Winners

EVENT 100 meters 200 meters 400 meters 800 meters 1,600 meters 100 hurdles 300 hurdles Shot put Discus Pole vault Triple jump Long jump 4x100 relay 4x400 relay 4x800 relay

Participant / School Results Dajah Parker-Love / Western Branch High School, Chesapeake 11.92 Kayla Hugg / Broad Run High School, Ashburn 25.46 Britton Wilson / Mills Godwin High School, Henrico County 54.34 Shardonnay Nichols / Western Branch High, Chesapeake 2:17.13 Ryann Helmers / Albemarle High School 5:08.66 Taylor Robinson / Louisa County High School 14.68 Adriana Shockley / Western Branch High, Chesapeake 43.86 Taylor Gorum / Grassfield High School, Chesapeake 45-4 ¼ Taylor Gorum / Grassfield High, Chesapeake 146-5 ¼ Autumn White / Jefferson Forest High School, Bedford County 12-6 Titiana Marsh / Thomas Dale High School, Chesterfield County 42-6 ½ Titiana Marsh / Thomas Dale High, Chesterfield County 20¼ Cosby High School / Chesterfield County 55:58 Springbrook High School, Silver Spring, Md. 4:04.22 Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn 9:34

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After graduating from West Point in 1989 and serving as a military supply officer in Desert Storm, she did tours of duty in Germany, Colorado, New York and Alabama. As part of her last assignment before leaving the Army, she helped integrate women into the formerly allmale Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

Today, along with a nursing career that started in 2004, she seeks to inspire women through her love of a male-dominated sport — cycling. It’s a way she maintains her health while enjoying a sport.

Mrs. Broadnax is the volunteer event coordinator for Black Girls Do Bike: Richmond, the local branch of a national organization that is focused on growing and supporting a community of women of color who share a passion for cycling.

“We are establishing a comfortable place where female cyclists can support, advise, organize meet-ups/rides and promote skill-sharing,” she says. “We rejoice when women choose cycling as a tool for alternative transportation, self-care and, ultimately, empowerment.”

Today, more African-Americans than ever are using bikes both for sport and as a preferred mode of transportation. According to bikeleague.org, bike use

by African-Americans doubled between 2001 and 2009, growing five times faster than cycling among white Americans.

In the four years since its start in 2013, Black Girls Do Bike has grown to 65 chapters and 14,000 members across the nation. The Richmond chapter started last year, in the spring of 2016, and now has more than 130 members.

Membership is free, Ms. Broadnax says. Interested women should ask to join the Black Girls Do Bike: Richmond Facebook group, where it organizes and announces its rides.

“We look to share positive images of ladies and their bikes to affirm the truth that black girls do indeed bike,” Ms. Broadnax says. “We encourage bike advocacy, education, volunteerism and safety in all communities and corners of the world.”

She says Richmond is becoming more bike friendly,

and the Virginia Capital Trail, which runs from Richmond to Williamsburg, is a great trail to ride because cyclists don’t have to worry about or deal with vehicular traffic.

“There are some cycling rules, (such as) staying to the right and passing on your left, things like that,” she says.

“BGDB is a way to start so that you can partner with someone with experience. We don’t want anyone to ride alone.”

As with any other sport, keeping cyclists safe is a priority for BGDB as well, but there is safety in numbers.

“I would not recommend riding the streets at night, as it is risky with distracted drivers,” she says. “But the Anthem Moonlight Ride is a great ride if you want to ride at night. The event blocks the traffic so you don’t have to worry about cars.”

Meet this week’s Free Press Personality and cycling enthusiast, Tamara Broadnax: Occupation: Telemedicine nursing director, VCU Medical Center.

Top volunteer position: Black Girls Do Bike: Richmond chapter event coordinator.

Date and place of birth: July 1967 in Monterey, Calif. I’m an “Army brat.”

Current residence: Chester.

Education: Master’s in nursing; working on doctorate at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing.

Family: Husband, Tony, and two children, Tony Jr. and Tori.

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was founded: National chapter, spring 2013; Richmond chapter, spring 2016.

Founder of the National chapter BGDB: Monica Garrison.

Mission of BGDB: We champion efforts to introduce the joy of cycling to all women, but especially black women and girls.

Why I am excited about BGDB:Richmond: Our local membership has grown to more than 130 members and it is a great way to introduce cycling to our communities.

Next group cycling activity: It varies. Members post rides throughout the week.

Top goal: To introduce more women to cycling and to have fun.

My first bike riding lessons: Were a long time ago. My first bike was named “Spirit of ’76.”

Who taught me to ride: I learned with my friends.

When I ride: Every weekend.

Longest cycling excursion I have completed: From Richmond to Williamsburg and back in the “Bike MS: Colonial Crossroads 2017.”

How you should dress for cycling: Don’t overdress. Wear comfortable clothing that allows sweat to evaporate, along with cycling shorts, helmet and gloves.

What gear is needed for cycling at night: Same gear as during the day, but you need extra lights and reflectors for your bike, and to wear additional reflective material to boost your visibility.

Benefits of cycling: Great health and psychological benefits — cardiovascular and muscle conditioning and stress relief/endorphins.

Why I enjoy cycling: I enjoy the health benefits and spending quality time with my family and friends while I am cycling.

What bikes are recommended for novice cyclists: Anything with two wheels. You should start with something that you are comfortable with.

Where is a good place to ride when you are starting out: If you have a quiet neighborhood or park, start there with getting adjusted to your gears and brakes.

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Hundreds of people gather at Capitol Square in Downtown last Saturday for the groundbreaking for the Native American monument. Speakers included Alan Michelson, a Mohawk, whose design, “Mantle,” was chosen for the monument, and Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills, below left, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe. The ceremony included a blessing of the grounds with the Virginia Indian Dancers and the Turtle Clan Drummers.

Dr. Denise Walters, left, of Henrico County, a member of the Nottoway Tribe, participates in the blessing, while other members of the tribe, below right, Rufus Kelly of Columbia, Md., left, and Archie Elliott Jr., a retired Portsmouth General District Court judge, converse after the ceremony.

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Happenings Fourth of July fireworks in city, area Fireworks shows will occur over Richmond skies and those in the counties in celebration of the Fourth of July holiday and the United States declaring independence from Great Britain 241 years ago.

Locations for the programs on Tuesday, July 4, include: Dogwood Dell in Byrd Park: The program begins at 6:15 p.m. and will include a reading of the Declaration of Independence and performances by the Richmond Concert Band and the City Dance Theatre. Fireworks will begin after dark at Dogwood Dell, 600 S. Boulevard. Free parking and shuttle service from nearby City Stadium at Douglasdale Road and Maplewood Avenue. Details: www. richmondgov.com/parks or (804) 646-3355.

The Diamond: The Richmond Flying Squirrels will play the Erie SeaWolves. The game begins at 6:35 p.m., with fireworks after the game around 9:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $8 in advance; $9 the day of the game. 3001 N. Boulevard. Details: www. squirrelsbaseball.com or (804) 359-3866.

Red, White and Lights at Meadow Farm Museum/ Crump Park: Gates for the free event in Henrico County open at 4 p.m. and will include food trucks, multiple family friendly activities, a performance by the Richmond Symphony and a laser light show. Fireworks close the show. 3400 Mountain Road, Glen Allen. Details: (804) 652-1455.

Chesterfield County: Chesterfield County will host a Fourth of July Celebration including live entertainment and food vendors. The free event starts at 5 p.m., with fireworks after dark. Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road. Details: www.chesterfield.gov or (804) 748-1992.

Other July Fourth activities: Virginia Historical Society: The VHS will host a day full of patriotic festivities, including a naturalization ceremony for 100 citizenship candidates at 10:30 a.m. on the front terrace of the museum, 428 N. Boulevard. Exhibit opening on George Washington, “Washington: The Myths and the Man,” that includes a diary he kept during his presidency.

The John Marshall High School Alumni Band will play as food and other concessions will be available on the VHS front lawn.

Details: www.vahistorical.org or (804) 358-4901.

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Left, teachers at Oak GroveBellemeade Elementary School load books onto the school’s R.E.A.D. Bus for its initial run Wednesday in neighborhoods in which the school’s students live. R.E.A.D. Buses from 20 of the city’s 24 elementary schools are part of the Reading Riders program to encourage students to read during the summer. Above, fifth-grade teacher Mackenzie Sanders, right, hands a crate of books to Sebrina Davis, a Title I math teacher.

‘Reading Riders’ starts summer routes

By Holly Rodriguez

In 2015, Reading Riders, Richmond Public Schools’ mobile library program promoting literacy among youngsters in kindergarten through fifth grade, started with a bus full of books, five scheduled stops in students’ Richmond neighborhoods and about 10 to 15 teacher volunteers at Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School.

The program was so successful that in 2016, RPS replicated the program at 17 schools.

This year, 20 of the city’s 24 elementary schools will participate in the program. Buses loaded with summer reading materials will stop in several neighborhoods within that school’s district.

The Reading Riders Summer Book Buses started their routes this week and the R.E.A.D. Buses, Read Everyday to Achieve Dreams, will run from 3 to 7 p.m. each Wednesday through Aug. 2.

Each school is responsible for developing its mobile library’s route. Information about routes and stops are available by contacting the elementary schools, while some routes have been posted on www.rvaschools.net.

Mary Townes, principal at Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School, said the idea for a mobile library arose from an educators’ convention in Dallas in 2014.

“We met Dr. Richard Allington, who is well known

for reading and summer slide prevention,” she said.

“He has done lots of research on language arts and reading.”

Summer slide refers to students not retaining during the summer what they learned during the school year, resulting in teachers having to get students up to speed when they return to school in the fall.

While some parents alleviate the problem by enrolling their children in summer enrichment programs, the price tag is often high, leaving an unmet need for students and parents in lower-income brackets who may not be able to afford such programs.

Dr. Allington’s research indicates that reading three to four books over the summer is almost comparable to attending summer school, Ms. Townes said.

“One of our reading specialists found out about a school in Norfolk that was providing books for elementary schools over the summer,” Ms. Townes said. “In their model, parents visited their specific schools weekly, which had tables set up for students to check out books.”

Ms. Townes and her team at the South Side school liked the idea and took it one step further.

They developed the idea of a bus making stops to deliver books in communities where the students live, eliminating the issue of transportation that may have prevented many RPS families from participating.

Under Ms. Townes’ leadership, the Oak Grove-

Las Amigas hosts national conclave in Richmond

“Celebrating the past, embracing the future.”

That’s the theme for Las Amigas Inc.’s annual convention in Richmond.

The conclave, which opened Wednesday and will run through Sunday, marks the 60th anniversary of the organization, a public service and charitable sisterhood launched by 12 women in 1957 in Charlotte, N.C. About 200 members from Las Amigas’ 22 chapters are expected to take part in the events that will include dinnerdances on Friday and Saturday nights, according to Frances Robinson, a Richmond chapter member and immediate past national president.

Along with workshops and other sessions, the conclave will collect books for donation to Dr. Richard L. Bennett Jr., a pediatrician in Richmond’s East End who gives books to his young patients.

Las Amigas will honor Richmond Police Sgt. Carol Adams with its Humanitarian Award for her foundation’s efforts to assist victims of domestic violence.

The group will present Dr. Joann Henry with its Community Service Award for founding and directing the Richmond-based Dream Academy, which provides adults a second chance to earn a high school diploma.

Las Amigas also will award $1,000 scholarships to Arayana Harris of Varina High School and A’zure Latimer of Hampton High School.

National president Deni Antionette Mazingo hosted a reception Wednesday night to open the conclave, the first to be held in the Richmond area since 1988.

Richmond chapter members Keisha Shelton and Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press Debby Yancey-Dennis led the organizing committee on behalf of the chapter and its LaTeese Moore of Richmond sips a refreshing fruity drink Mid-Atlantic region partners, from Jem’s Catering at the RVA Street Food Festival last which include chapters in Saturday at Brown’s Island. The festival, which drew Chesterfield, Henrico, Newhundreds of people to the city’s waterfront, offered port News-Hampton, Portscuisine from a variety of cultures and countries in a mouth and Suffolk. unique, outdoor experience.

Tasting culture

Bellemeade team developed a proposal in the fall of 2014, and by the last day of school in June 2015, they had teacher volunteers, a generous donation of books, a bus from RPS and a schedule of five stops.

“We surpassed expectations for the first year,” Ms. Townes said. “A car went into the area prior to the bus, and a passenger in the car with a megaphone would announce the bookmobile was coming.”

Popsicles, water and fruit purchased with money from sponsors were given to youngsters who came to the mobile library.

During the stops, books are distributed to students and exchanged the following week for a new read.

Teachers bring a familiar face to the process, serving as “librarians,” Ms. Townes said, noting that student interest has been high from the beginning.

“Last year, we were seeing 200 students per week on our route,” Ms. Townes said. “Some of them were older than fifth-graders, but we factored that into our plan, and have books for older students, too.”

The four schools not participating are Ginter Park, Mary Munford, Southhampton and Elizabeth Redd elementary schools.

This year, Ms. Townes said, a new bonus will be added to Oak Grove-Bellemeade’s R.E.A.D. Bus. When a youngster checks out a book, a teacher or parent will read the first page to the student “to help get them started,” she said.

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

Meatless, but hardy There is no meat, but everything is tasty at the Richmond Vegetarian Festival last Saturday at Bryan Park. The annual event showcases an array of vegan and vegetarian dishes by local vendors. Top left, Imani Seay, 4, plays in a box of corn rather than a traditional sandbox, while Beverly McFarland of In the Raw with Soul hands vegan macaroni and cheese to a patron.

Pad Thai fries, left, also were on the menu.

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Art inspiring positivity Melody C. Barnes, a Richmond native and former director of the Domestic Policy Council for the Obama administration, takes center stage at the TEDxRVA event, “Change,” last Friday at the Carpenter Theatre at the Dominion Arts Center in Downtown. Ms. Barnes, co-founder of MB2 Solutions, a public affairs firm, was among nearly two dozen speakers at the event. She spoke about her passion for the arts and civic engagement and how people can take advantage of art as a catalyst for positive change.

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Faith News

Obstacles, inspiration detailed in new book about Maggie Ingram by her granddaughter

By Kesha Williams

Joy Harris doesn’t remember a time when gospel music didn’t play an important role in the lives of her family.

She grew up hearing her grandmother, mother, aunts and uncles sing some of the most familiar songs in traditional gospel music — “Jesus Cares,” “Without God I Could Do Nothing” and “Don’t Give Up.” Those songs were tucked within a soulstirring collection that led her grandmother, the late Evangelist Maggie Ingram, to perform at countless churches, festivals and concert halls.

The unmistakable music and message of Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes forged a decades-long kinship with thousands of gospel music fans in Virginia and beyond.

Ms. Harris, who recalls scenes in her youth of audiMaggie ences swaying to her grandmother’s vibrant music and singing along, has preserved her memories and the group’s accomplishments in her recently released book, “Singing Ain’t Enough: The Inspiring Story of Maggie Ingram.”

“I am so proud of the music they created and the people they touched,” Ms. Harris said in a recent Free Press interview. “As you read the book, you will see inspiring things that happened to her and the things she overcame.”

As a child, Ms. Ingram began singing in the 1930s in a church choir in her hometown of Coffee County, Ga. She

continued singing into adulthood, moved to Miami and later to Richmond, where she raised five children — three boys and two girls — as a single parent.

Initially, her children accompanied the evangelist, and they were known as Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes. For more than 50 years, she shared her gifts with wide audiences, from local churches and nursing homes to the National Folk Festival and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

She received accolades from many, including the Gospel Music Workshop of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dorothy Love Coates Living Legend Award from the American Gospel Quartet Association and the Woman of the Year Award from Greyhound Corp.

Ms. Ingram died on June 23, 2015, at age 84, but the Ingramettes continue today, with four Ingram vocalists and three musicians, including her oldest daughter, the Rev. Almeta Ingram-Miller, and her granddaughter, Cheryl Marcia Maroney, Ms. Harris’ sister.

Ms. Harris said her grandmother’s personality and tenacity helped her reach the hearts of listeners who soon became great fans.

“People had a special taking to my grandmother,” Ms. Harris said. “She sang with such conviction,” she noted, adding that fans could see that Ms. Ingram deeply believed in God, the Bible and its promises.

“She wasn’t just about the music.

Music was the top layer of the cake. My

Photos by Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press

Joy Harris shows off her 10-year labor of love — the book she wrote about her grandmother, gospel music icon and evangelist Maggie Ingram.

grandmother was seen in the community helping people. She also went to prisons to sing to inmates. She was one of the greatest storytellers. She had a way of painting a picture. People connected with her,” Ms. Harris said.

During the interviews with her grandmother for the book, Ms. Harris said she learned some unsettling details about Ms. Ingram’s life journey and the obstacles to becoming a recording artist.

“The circles she had to move in weren’t always open,” Ms. Harris explained. “This was a time when women didn’t have a place in society. There weren’t many open doors for women or black people.”

But Ms. Ingram worked hard, her granddaughter said.

“She led her group, booked her group, promoted her group. She bought her own home, opened a day care in her home. She went on to become a radio DJ. She was making strides. She recorded an independent album,” Ms. Harris noted.

Through it all, Ms. Ingram was always ready to share a message with her audience that was uplifting and inspiring. She was called “Richmond’s Gospel Queen.”

“Gospel music is a pick-me-up, a great way of encouraging people,” Ms. Harris said. “I knew people would be inspired by her story, so I had to write this book.”

It took 10 years, Ms. Harris said, and the assistance of a good editor. In addition to the interviews with her grandmother, she spent hours pouring over numerous resources, learning from other sources and checking facts and stories she heard.

The book is self-published and available through Amazon.

“This story will be liberating, especially for women,” Ms. Harris said. “I wanted people to see themselves in it.”

Jehovah’s Witnesses to focus on Bible, resilience

During a time when people around the world are struggling with feelings of hopelessness, the Jehovah’s Witnesses plan to address those difficulties during its annual series of conventions in Richmond during upcoming weekends.

The theme: “Don’t Give Up!” More than 30,000 delegates, followers and visitors from Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, Maryland and Delaware are expected to attend the three-day conventions that began last weekend and will continue through Aug. 6 at the Richmond Coliseum.

The conventions are free and open to the public. They will be held: • Friday, June 30, through Sunday, July 2; • Friday, July 7, through Sunday, July 9; • Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 23; • Friday, July 28, through Sunday, July 30, in Spanish; and • Friday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 6, in Spanish.

A convention in American Sign Language also will be held Friday, Aug. 4,through Sunday, Aug. 6, at the Virginia Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 5607 Midlothian Turnpike.

Each of the conventions will feature music, videos, dramatic readings of Bible verses and dozens of speakers during the three days. Top-

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Alajah Johnson, front, holds her nose while she is baptized by David Lowe, and Kijah Powers gets ready for her baptism with Spencer Spinner. The two were among 29 people baptized last Saturday during the Jehovah’s Witnesses convention at the Richmond Coliseum in Downtown. It was the first of a series of three-day weekend conventions by the denomination. The series concludes Aug. 4 through 6.

ics to be covered include “Cultivate Qualities that Promote Endurance,” “Don’t Give into Fear” and “Run with Endurance.”

A keynote address will be held each Sunday with an exploration of the topic “Keep in Expectation … It Will Not Be Late!” (Habakkuk 2:3).

A different speaker is featured each week.

Baptisms will be performed on Saturdays.

Twenty-nine people were baptized in a pool inside the Coliseum during the convention on Saturday, June 24.

Clyde Arrington, a spokesman for the

conventions, said Richmond has always been very welcoming to the people of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, and “successfully filled (our) needs for the past 25 years.”

Details: www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/conventions/

Sacred Heart’s RVA Latino Festival Music, food and entertainment highlight festivities at the 9th Annual RVA Latino Festival at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Perry Street in South Side. The daylong event supports the church, which has focused its outreach on the region’s Latino community. Right,Virginia Garcia of Richmond makes pupusas, a traditional dish from her native El Salvador consisting of a thick tortilla stuffed with a savory filling. Below, from left, sisters Chynna and Krystle Harrell enjoy a tropical fruit cup with their cousin, Shakeema Edwards, at the festival.

Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

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Faith News/Directory

Ramadan ends with celebrations in area, around the globe Free Press wire report

Saturday, June 24, marked the end of the monthlong fasting that began in late May for Ramadan, a sacred observance for Muslims.

Ramadan is believed to be the month when the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed. The purpose of fasting is to focus people’s attention on spiritual reflection and their relationship with God. The end of Ramadan is called Eid alFitr, which translates as “the festival of the breaking of the fast.”

One of the two major holidays of Islam, it is determined by observation of the crescent moon or calculations of when the moon is supposed to be visible.

The day typically begins with Eid prayers, followed by breakfast and brunch or lunch with family or friends.

Hundreds of Muslims and others from Central Virginia attended an Eid al-Fitr community celebration held Sunday, June 25, at the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center in Richmond. People greeted family and friends, prayed, hugged and enjoyed the day.

Ramadan always occurs in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, which means it occurs two weeks earlier with each new year. Because its daily fasting Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press ends after sunset, people are able to eat earlier in the day when Ramadan is dur- Nahla El Zubair of Richmond waits for her mother outside the festivities. ing the winter.

The Jondot family of Midlothian joins the celebration at the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center.

Henry Jondot and his wife, Fanta Jondot, are with their children, from left, Charles, 11, Emma, 7, and Jenna, 2.

Muslim women greet one another last Sunday at festivities celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.

The event was held at Richmond’s Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center.

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Unitarian Universalists elect first woman president AnArizona pastor and immigrant advocate has been elected as the first woman president of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

The election of the Rev. Susan FrederickGray on Saturday, June 24, follows the resignation of the Rev. Peter Morales, who left office three months short of the end of his second term in April amid controversy about diversity in the UUA. The Rev. Sofía Betancourt was appointed as one of three co-presidents to complete Rev. Morales’ term.

Rev. Frederick-Gray, 41, has served as lead minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix since 2008.

All three of the candidates for president

were women; Rev. Betancourt was not on the ballot.

Rev. Morales, the first Latino president of the liberal and mostly white association, said someone else needed to Rev. Frederick-Gray address the religious movement’s diversity problems after criticism mounted over hiring practices.

Delegates to the General Assembly in New Orleans, attended by 4,100 people from some of the UUA’s more than 1,000 congregations, adopted a statement on “Escalating Inequality,” citing racism, poor health and low literacy among major factors.

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Mission Statement: People of God developing Disciples for Jesus Christ through Preaching and Teaching of God’s Holy Word reaching the people of the Church and the Community.

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Sunday, July 2, 2017 10:45 AM - Worship Service Christ Kids And Christ Teens Worship Every Sunday Nursery During Church School and Worship

Good Shepherd Baptist Church 1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223-6624 • Office: (804) 644-1402 Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You”

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11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

Summer Worship Schedule & Casual Dressing

400 South Addison Street Richmond, Va. 23220

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Worship Opportunities Sundays:

Morning Worship Church School Morning Worship

8 A.M. 9:30 A.M. 11 A.M.

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1701 Turner Road, North Chesterfield, Virginia 23225 (804) 276-0791 fax (804)276-5272 www.ndec.net

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invites us to counter fear with courage and manifest a collective vision of a more just, equitable and compassionate society,’’ the statement concludes.

Two days after her election, Rev. Frederick-Gray, who led the Unitarian Universalist opposition to Arizona’s strict immigration law that passed in 2010, issued a statement expressing disappointment in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow portions of President Trump’s travel ban to be enforced while the legal battle over it continues.

“We believe that these restrictions are examples of religious discrimination because they target travelers from Muslimmajority countries,” she said. “Our country should welcome people regardless of their religious affiliation or lack thereof.”

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8:30 a.m. Intercessory Prayer

You can now view Sunday Morning Service “AS IT HAPPENS” online!

Also, for your convenience, we now offer “full online giving.”

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Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Hebrew 12:14 (KJV) Tune in on Sunday Morning to WTVR - Channel 6 - 8:30 a.m.

Sunday TV Broadcast WTVZ 9 a.m. Norfolk/Tidewater Thursday & Friday Radio Broadcast WREJ 1540 AM Radio - 8:15 a.m.- 8:30 a.m.

THE NEW DELIVERANCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (NDCA)

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Accepting applications for children 2 yrs. old to 3rd Grade Our NDCA curriculum also consists of a Before and After program.

Now Enrolling for our Nursery Ages 6 weeks - 2yrs. old.

For more information Please call (804) 276-4433 Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL Public Notice Notice is hereby given that City Council’s Land Use, Housing and Transportation Standing Committee has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, July 24, 2017 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. 2017-127 To adopt an amendment to the Master Plan for the City of Richmond, adopted by the City Planning Commission on Nov. 6, 2000, and by the City Council by Ord. No. 2000-371-200111, adopted Jan. 8, 2001, as previously amended, to incorporate the Pulse Corridor Plan, applicable to certain areas from the City’s corporate boundary on East Main Street to the intersection of East Main Street and North 14th Street and along East Broad Street to the City’s corporate boundary along Staples Mill Road, as part of the Master Plan.

To amend the City of Richmond’s Master Plan for the purpose of adopting the Pulse Corridor Plan to guide future land use and public infrastructure for transit-oriented development along the route of the Pulse BRT corridor.

The amendments concern the neighborhoods stretching from the border with Henrico County on E Main Street, along E Main Street, up N 14th Street, and along Broad Street until the western border with Henrico County at Staples Mill Road.

A copy of the proposed plan, known as “Pulse Corridor Plan” may be viewed in the office of Land Use Administration, Room 511, City Hall (646-5207) during regular business hours or accessed online at http://www.richmond gov.com/PlanningAnd DevelopmentReview/ PulseCorridorPlan.aspx.

K a t h l e e n O n u f e r, Department of Planning & Development Review Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.

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

Monday through Friday.

Jean V. Capel City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL Public Notice Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, July 17, 2017 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 24, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2017-125 To conditionally rezone the property known as 2213 East Franklin Street from the M-1 Light Industrial District to the B-5C Central Business District, upon certain proffered conditions. The subject property falls within an Urban Center Area of the Shockoe District, as established by the Richmond Downtown Plan. Such areas are characterized by higher d e n s i t y, m i x e d - u s e development, typically arranged on a fine-grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks. No residential density is specified for the Urban Center Area.

Ordinance No. 2017-126 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1717 East Cary Street for the purpose of allowing a building to exceed the applicable height restrictions, upon certain terms and conditions.

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Ordinance No. 2017-129 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1704 Arlington Road for the purpose of an illuminated canopy with canopy signage, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for General Commercial land use. Primary uses for this category include a broad range of office, retail, general commercial, wholesale and service uses, typically located along major transportation corridors and serving large portions of the City, the region or the traveling public.

Ordinance No. 2017-130 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2515 East Main Street for the purpose of allowing a building to exceed the applicable height restrictions, upon certain terms and conditions. The subject property falls within an Urban Center Area of the Shockoe district, as established by the Richmond Downtown Plan. Such areas are characterized by higher density, mixed use development, typically arranged on a fine grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks. No residential density is specified for the Urban Center Area.

Ordinance No. 2017-131 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2901 Monument Avenue for the purpose of three singlefamily attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan recommends Multi-Family Medium Density land uses for the property. This designation calls for primarily multi-family dwellings at densities up to 20 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2017-132 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3200 West Broad Street for the purpose of a mixed-use development with up to 210 dwelling units, commercial space, and up to 325 structured parking spaces, upon certain terms and conditions.

The City of Richmond’s 2001 Master Plan recommends General Commercial land uses for the property. This designation calls for a broad range of office, retail, general commercial, wholesale and service uses, typically located along major transportation corridors and serving large portions of the City, the region, or the traveling public.

No residential density is specified for this land use designation.

Ordinance No. 2017-133 To repeal Ord. No. 96148-137, adopted Jun. 10, 1996, and to authorize the special use of the property known as 932 West Franklin Street for the purpose of a dwelling unit to be constructed within a proposed accessory building, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Downtown Plan designates the subject property within a Downtown Urban Center Area characterized by higher density, mixed-use development, typically arranged on a fine-grained street network, with wide sidewalks, regular tree planting, and minimal setbacks. No residential density is specified for the Downtown Urban Center Area.

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

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

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

Divorce Virginia: in the Circuit CourT for the City of Richmond Ibrahima Thiam, Plaintiff, v.

Shakira L. Townsend, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001848-00 AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from Defendant, SHAKIRA L. TOWNSEND, on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart continuously and without cohabitation or interruption for a period in excess of one year.

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Circuit Court at 400 North Ninth Street, John Marshall Courts Building, Richmond, VA 23219) on the 9th day of August, 2017, at 9 a.m. and protect her interests herein.

A Copy Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, CLERK Defazio Bal, P.C. 4050 Innslake Drive, Suite 190 Glen Allen, VA 23060 (804) 585-3100 (804) 968-7907 (fax) dottie@defaziobal.com

Jose Moris Rodas Galves, Respondent.

SUMMONS Without Real Estate THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: WARNING: YOUR SPOUSE (HUSBAND OR WIFE) HAS FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST YOU FOR DISSOLUTION OF YOUR MARRIAGE. THIS SUMMONS IS AN OFFICIAL D OCUMEN T FROM THE COURT THAT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS. READ THIS SUMMONS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, CONTACT AN ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ADVICE. 1. The Petitioner (your spouse) has filed a lawsuit again you asking for dissolution of your marriage (divorce).

2. You must serve upon Petitioner and file with the court a written Answer to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, and you must pay the required filing fee.

Answer forms are available from the court administrator’s office. You must serve your Answer upon Petitioner within thirty (30) days of the date you were served with this Summons, not counting the day of service. If you do not serve and file your Answer, the court may give your spouse everything he or she is asking for in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage.

3. This proceeding does not involve real property.

NOTICE OF TEMPORARY RESTRAINING PROVISIONS Under Minnesota law, service of this summons makes the following requirements apply to both parties to the action, unless they are modified by the court or the proceeding is dismissed:

(1) Neither party may dispose of any assets except (a) for the necessities of life or for the necessary generation of income or preservation of assets, (b) by an agreement of the parties in writing, or (c) for retaining counsel to carry on or to contest this proceeding.

(2) Neither party may harass the other party.

(3) All currently available insurance coverage must be maintained and continued without change in coverage or beneficiary designation.

(4) Parties to a marriage dissolution proceeding are encouraged to attempt alternative dispute resolution pursuant to Minnesota law.

Alternative dispute resolution includes mediation, arbitration, and other processes as set forth in the district court rules. You may contact the court administrator about resources in your area. If you cannot pay for mediation or alternative dispute resolution, in some counties, assistance may be available to you through a nonprofit provider or a court program. If you are a victim of domestic abuse or threats as defined in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 518B, you are not required to try mediation and you will not be penalized by the court in later proceedings.

IF YOU VIOLATE ANY OF THESE PROVISIONS, YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO SANCTIONS BY THE COURT. Dated: 6/9/2017 /s/ Aaron M. Kinser Aaron M. Kinser Ahlquist & Wiltrout PC 419 Ninth Street, P.O. Box 475 Worthington, MN 56187-0475 Telephone: 507-372-2322

July, 2017 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

Case No. JJ0942030100 The object of this suit is to: Request sole custody and a Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Predicate Order for Milton Omar Ayala Claros.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Marta Elizabeth Ayala Pineda appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before August 17, 2017 at 10:10Am

Tax Map Number E0000622/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert L. Hill, who may be deceased, and Elnora N. Hill, who may be deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ROBERT L. HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ROBERT L. HILL, and ELNORA H. HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELNORA H. HILL, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MARGARET HILL BLACK a/k/a MARGARET H. TAYLOR, RUTH HILL WATKINS, GLORIA PERRY HASKINS p/k/a GLORIA D. PERRY, PATRICIA P. BIBBS, and MARIA P. HOGAN a/k/a MARIA LAWAND PERRY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that DOROTHY HILL HUDGINS p/k/a DOROTHY H. PERRY, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of DOROTHY HILL HUDGINS p/k/a DOROTHY H. PERRY, ROLAND B. HILL a/k/a ROLAND BRADFORD HILL, SR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ROLAND B. HILL a/k/a ROLAND BRADFORD HILL, SR., GERALDINE HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of GERALDINE HILL, and ROBERT HILL, JR., a/k/a ROBERT LEWIS HILL, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ROBERT HILL, JR., a/k/a ROBERT LEWIS HILL, JR., have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MARK PERRY a/k/a MARK E. PERRY, SR., ROLAND BRANDORD HILL, JR., and JENNIFER HILL, who may have an ownership interest in said property, are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and have not filed a response to this action; that MRC RECEIVALBES CORP, A Foreign corporation Tr a n s a c t i n g B u s i n e s s Without a Certificate of Authority, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ROBERT L. HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest o f RO B ERT L . HI L L , and ELNORA H. HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ELNORA H. HILL, MARGARET HILL BLACK a/k/a MARGARET H. TAYLOR, RUTH HILL WATKINS, GLORIA PERRY HASKINS p/k/a GLORIA D. PERRY, PATRICIA P. BIBBS, MARIA P. HOGAN a/k/a MARIA LAWAND PERRY, DOROTHY HILL HUDGINS p/k/a DOROTHY H. PERRY, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of DOROTHY HILL HUDGINS p/k/a DOROTHY H. PERRY, ROLAND B. HILL a/k/a ROLAND BRADFORD HILL, SR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ROLAND B. HILL a/k/a ROLAND BRADFORD HILL, SR., GERALDINE HILL, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of GERALDINE HILL, ROBERT HILL, JR., a/k/a ROBERT LEWIS HILL, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of ROBERT HILL, JR., a/k/a ROBERT LEWIS HILL, JR., MARK PERRY a/k/a MARK E. PERRY, SR., ROLAND BRANDORD HILL, JR., JENNIFER HILL, MRC RECEIVALBES CORP, A Foreign corporation Transacting Business Without a Certificate of Authority, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, 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

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3307 Garland Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001355/016, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Hampton White, Jr., and Ida M. White.

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

IT IS ORDERED that HAMPTON WHITE, JR., DECEASED, IDA M. WHITE, DECEASED, HAMPTON WHITE, III, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CYNTHIA GAYE, Plaintiff v.

CHRISTOPHER GAYE, SR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001258-00 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 11th day of August, 2017 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 ALICE HUMPHREY, Plaintiff v.

WILLIAM HUMPHREY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001496-00 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 11th day of August, 2017 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 AMIELIA FASSBACH, Plaintiff v.

KONRAD ZUREK, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001499-00 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 of Virginia, appear here on or before the 11th day of August, 2017 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 YU SHI, Plaintiff v.

FEIJIA LIANG, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001495-00 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 11th day of August, 2017 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 OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO VICKIE LYNN SHUPE, Plaintiff v.

RICHARD ALAN SHUPE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17-1263 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the Plaintiff, Vickie Lynn Shupe, by counsel, to obtain a divorce from Richard Alan Shupe.

It appearing by affidavit that the Defendant’s last known address is no longer valid and the Defendant’s present whereabouts are unknown.

It is therefore ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before July 10, 2017, and protect his interests herein.

A Copy, Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk I ASK FOR THIS: Erik D. Baines, Esquire (VSB # 83618) BARNES 7 DIEHL, P.C. Boulders VI – Suite A 7401 Beaufont Springs Drive Richmond, VA 23225 (804) 796-1000 (telephone) (804) 796-1730 (facsimile) ebaines@barnesfamilylaw.com Counsel for Plaintiff

STATE OF MINNESOTA IN DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF NOBLES FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FAMILY COURT DIVISION Case Type 5: Dissolution Without Children In the Matter of the Marriage of: Maria Luisa Arias Franco, Petitioner, and

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER MELISSA RUSSELL-EPPS, Plaintiff v.

DANTE EPPS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001014-00 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 18th day of

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JOHANNA SANTOS, Plaintiff v.

MAGDALENO FLORES-RADILLA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17001391-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 26th day of July, 2017 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

CUSTODY commonwealth of virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt FOR thE county Of hanover in re Jose said monroy Varela dob: 03/17/2004 Case No. jj031704-01-00 order of publication

The object of this suit is to grant sole legal and physical custody of Jose Said Monroy Varela, whose mother is Karen Alicia Varela Mena, the Petitioner, and whose father is Jose Walter Monroy Chavez, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-241A. Father’s whereabouts are unknown.

WHEREFORE, an affidavit having been filed that due diligence has been used without effect to ascertain the location of Jose Walter Monroy Chavez, it is hereby ORDERED that Jose Walter Monroy Chavez appear before the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for the County of Hanover on July 10, 2017 at 9:00 AM in order to protect his interest herein.

An Extract Teste: Soulmaz Taghavi, Esquire (VSB #88036) Novo Taghavi, Ltd. 1500 Forest Ave., STE. 124 Richmond, VA 23229 P: 804-614-6920 F: 804-528-4142 info@novotaghavi.com Counsel for the Petitioner virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ZEWINA WIlliams The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Edwina Ellis (Mother), Zohnelle Williams (Father) & Unknown (Father) of Zewina Williams, child DOB 06/19/2009. “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 Edwina Ellis (Mother), Zohnelle Wiliams (Father) and Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before July 31, 2017 at 11:00Am, courtroom #4 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Tony Lewis The object of this suit is to: Terminate; the residual parental rights (“RPR”) Edwina Ellis (Mother), Tony Lewis (Father) & Unknown (Father) of Tony Lewis child DOB 06/29/2010. “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 Edwina Ellis ( M o t h e r ) , To n y L e w i s (Father) and Unknown (Father) to appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before July 31, 2017 at 11:00Am, courtroom #4

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

MOLLIE K. BARBEE, DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-927 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1309 North 22nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000616/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Mollie K. Barbee.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MOLLIE K. BARBEE, DECEASED, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that ELANIE A. BARBEE, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that ERNEST GREGORY and LORRAINE KEARNEY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MOLLIE K. BARBEE, DECEASED, ELAINE A. BARBEE, ERNEST GREGORY, LORRAINE KEARNEY and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

JAMES N. BLUNT aka JAMES N. BLOUNT, DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-957 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1522 North 27th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000713/002, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Esther Blunt and James N. Blunt, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JAMES N. BLUNT aka JAMES N. BLOUNT, DECEASED, and ESTHER BLUNT aka ESTHER K. BLOUNT aka QUEEN ESTHER BLOUNT, DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JAMES BLOUNT, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; 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 JAMES N. BLUNT aka JAMES N. BLOUNT, DECEASED, E S THER B L U N T a k a ESTHER K. BLOUNT aka QUEEN ESTHER BLOUNT, D ECEA S E D , J AME S B L OU N T , and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of thE city Of richmOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Milton omar claros ayala jose evaristo claros ayala v. Marta Elizabeth Ayala Pineda

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

ROBERT L. HILL, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ROBERT L. HILL, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL16-5591 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1319 North 27th Street, Richmond, Virginia,

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

HAMPTON WHITE, JR., DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-2373 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

JESSE J. JENKINS a/k/a JESSIE J. JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF JESSE J. JENKINS a/k/a JESSIE J. JENKINS, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-270 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1402 Bryan Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000604/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Jessie J. Jenkins, who may be deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JESSE J. JENKINS a/k/a JESSIE J. JENKINS, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of JESSE J. JENKINS a/k/a JESSIE J. JENKINS, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that CARRIE B. TURNER, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF CARRIE B . TUR N ER , J AME S JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF JAMES JENKINS, JIMMIE LEE JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF JIMMIE LEE JENKINS, ALBERTA JENKINS HARRIS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIR S , DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF ALBERTA JENKINS HARRIS, EDDIE JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N I N TERE S T OF E D D IE J E N KI N S , S A L LY GLASCO, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N I N TERE S T OF S A L LY G L A S CO , N ATHA N IE L GLASCO, JR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF NATHANIEL G L A S CO , J R . , MARY DURHAM, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N I N TERE S T OF MARY D URHAM , MARY C .

JOHNSON, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N I N TERE S T OF MARY C. JOHNSON, THOMAS JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF THOMAS JENKINS, WILLIAM H. JENKINS, SR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF WILLIAM H. JENKINS, SR., SALLY B. JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR S UCCE S S OR S I N INTEREST OF SALLY B. JENKINS, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that JOSEPH JENKINS, SARAH JANE JENKINS THORPE,

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Richmond Free Press

B6 June 29-July 1, 2017

Sports Plus

VSU names new softball coach

By Fred Jeter

Coach Gilbert

Veteran softball Coach Jennifer Lynn Gilbert has achieved much success at the high school level. Now she hopes to continue winning at Virginia State University.

Coach Gilbert, who posted 270 victories in 25 years at Manchester and L.C. Bird high schools in Chesterfield County, has been named the Trojans’ new

softball coach.

She succeeds LaTasha Branch, who guided VSU to a 12-23 overall record and a 7-11 CIAA mark this past spring in Ettrick.

Coach Gilbert is a graduate of Longwood University, where she played softball. She received her master’s in education from Virginia Commonwealth University.

She has served as an assistant professor at VCU’s School of Education the past five years.

At Manchester High School, Coach Gilbert led the Lancers to seven Dominion District titles and a state Group AAA crown in 1996. Her star player for Manchester’s state champions was Natasha Johnson, arguably the top pitcher in Richmond area history.

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JOYCE ANN WILLIAMS, MICHELLE DURHAM WILKINS, REUBEN B. JEFFERS, BERTHA JENKINS SMITH, HELEN C. JENKINS, CAROLYN JENKINS DEVEAU a/k/a C A R O LY N D E V E A U X , VIRGINIA L. JENKINS, MARY E. JENKINS, and DOROTHY E. JENKINS, who may have an ownership interest in said property, are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and have not filed a response to this action; that BOBBY ANN JENKINS FERNANDERS, GEORGE JENKINS, JAMES DURHAM, JR., MARTHA LEE DURHAM, ANTHONY A. JEFFERS, ARMENIOS JEFFERS, III, CHARLES R. JEFFERS, and ANGELA R. MARTIN, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known addresses, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that MARY LEE GLASCO LONNY and JOHN J. JENKINS, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that STATE RESOURCES CORP, A Foreign Corporation Transacting Business in Virginia without a Certificate of Authority, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, is a foreign corporation, and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JESSE J. JENKINS a/k/a JESSIE J. JENKINS, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of JESSE J. JENKINS a/k/a JESSIE J. JENKINS,CARRIE B. TURNER, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF CARRIE B. TURNER, JAMES JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF JAMES JENKINS, JIMMIE LEE JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF JIMMIE LEE JENKINS, ALBERTA JENKINS HARRIS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ALBERTA JENKINS HARRIS, EDDIE JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF EDDIE JENKINS, S A L LY GLASCO, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN I N T E R E S T O F S A L LY G L A S C O , N AT H A N I E L GLASCO, JR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF NATHANIEL G L A S C O , J R . , M A RY DURHAM, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN I N T E R E S T O F M A RY DURHAM, MARY C. JOHNSON, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN I N T E R E S T O F M A RY C. JOHNSON, THOMAS JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THOMAS JENKINS, WILLIAM H. JENKINS, SR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF WILLIAM H. JENKINS, SR., SALLY B. JENKINS, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN I N T E R E S T O F S A L LY B. JENKINS, JOSEPH JENKINS, SARAH JANE JENKINS THORPE, JOYCE ANN WILLIAMS, MICHELLE DURHAM WILKINS, REUBEN B. JEFFERS, BERTHA JENKINS SMITH, HELEN C. JENKINS, C A R O LY N J E N K I N S DEVEAU a/k/a CAROLYN DEVEAUX, VIRGINIA L. JENKINS, MARY E. JENKINS, DOROTHY E. JENKINS, BOBBY ANN JENKINS FERNANDERS, GEORGE JENKINS, JAMES

DURHAM, JR., MARTHA LEE DURHAM, ANTHONY A. JEFFERS, ARMENIOS JEFFERS, III, CHARLES R. JEFFERS, ANGELA R. MARTIN, MARY LEE GLASCO LONNY, JOHN J . J E N K I N S , S TAT E R E S O U R C E S C O R P, A Foreign Corporation Transacting Business in Virginia without a Certificate of Authority, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 20, 2017, 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

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 EARNESTINE H. CLARK, DECEASED, ROSALIE HAMER CLARK, DECEASED, LOUISE H. THOMAS, DECEASED, H E N R I E T TA S U M T E R , D E C E A S E D , H AT T I E E AT O N , D E C E A S E D , JACQUELINE T. SNOW, GREGORY HENDERSON, DOROTHY H. DENNISTON, NORELL H. JACKSON, MIKKI H. WYNDER, ELMER HAMER, JAMES HAMER, JR., and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, 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

WILLIAM CRAWLEY a/k/a WILLIAM MURCHISON CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF WILLIAM CRAWLEY a/k/a WILLIAM MURCHISON CRAWLEY, FRANK EDWARD “HAWK” CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF FRANK EDWARD “HAWK” C R A W L E Y, J E R O M E BROWN a/k/ JEROME ROSS BROWN, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF JEROME BROWN a/k/ JEROME ROSS BROWN, D O U G L A S C R AW L E Y a/k/a DOUGLAS EVERETT CRAWLEY, SR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF DOUGLAS CRAWLEY a/k/a DOUGLAS EVERETT CRAWLEY, SR., RANDY CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF RANDY CRAWLEY, B R E N D A C R A W L E Y, ANGELA WINSTON n/k/a ANGELA PORTER, FRANK E D W A R D C R A W L E Y, JR., THELMA CRAWLEY, LORETTA RICHARDSON a/k/a LORETTA BROWN RICHARDSON, MELVIN CRAWLEY a/k/a MELVIN N. CRAWLEY, MONTESE FRANCIS, SHERONDA C R A W L E Y, W I L L I A M HASTY, CHRIS CRAWLEY, JR., CAROLYN CRAWLEY, FAYE NICHOLSON a/k/a FAYE C. HINTON p/k/a FAYE R. CRAWLEY and TANGELA CRAWLEY-HARDY, C. B. GAY, Trustee, and W. F. BOWERS, JR., Trustee, Trustees of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated May 1, 1991, with respect to said property, recorded May 2, 1991, in Deed Book 266, Page 197, D AV I D G R I P S H O V E R , Registered Agent, CAPITAL & QUALITY PRODUCTS INC., ENGINEERED SYSTEM, P.C., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, NATIONAL LOAN RECOVERIES, LLC, A Connecticut Limited Liability Company Not Authorized to Transact Business in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, 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

to subject the property briefly described as 3013 Hiden Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0090202/014, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, GARRETT O. HARLOW, DECEASED, and MARY A. HARLOW, DECEASED.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, GARRETT O. HARLOW, DECEASED, and MARY A. HARLOW, DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that GARRETT O. HARLOW, DECEASED, MARY A. HARLOW, DECEASED, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

ROSALIE HAMER CLARK, DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-1612 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1414 North 31st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000718/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, ROSALIE HAMER CLARK ESTATE.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EARNESTINE H. CLARK, DECEASED has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ROSALIE HAMER CLARK, DECEASED, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that LOUISE H. THOMAS, DECEASED, H E N R I E T TA S U M T E R , DECEASED, and HATTIE EATON, DECEASED, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; JACQUELINE T. SNOW and GREGORY HENDERSON, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to this/her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that DOROTHY H. DENNISTON, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that NORELL H. JACKSON, MIKKI H. WYNDER, ELMER HAMER, and JAMES HAMER, JR., who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees,

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

FRANK CRAWLEY a/k/a FRANK CRAWLY, JR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF FRANK CRAWLEY a/k/a FRANK CRAWLY, JR., et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL16-4301 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2705 5th Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000719/019, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Frank Crawly Estate and Mary C. Crawley Estate.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, FRANK CRAWLEY a/k/a FRANK CRAWLY, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of FRANK CRAWLEY a/k/a FRANK CRAWLY, JR., have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MARY E. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY B. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY BROWN CRAWLEY, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of MARY E. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY B. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY BROWN CRAWLEY, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MAXINE LY N C H p / k / a M A X I N E

CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF MAXINE LYNCH p/k/a M A X I N E C R A W L E Y, WILLIAM CRAWLEY a/k/a WILLIAM MURCHISON CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF WILLIAM CRAWLEY a/k/a WILLIAM MURCHISON CRAWLEY, FRANK EDWARD “HAWK” CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF FRANK EDWARD “HAWK” C R A W L E Y, J E R O M E BROWN a/k/a JEROME ROSS BROWN, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF JEROME BROWN a/k/a JEROME ROSS BROWN, D O U G L A S C R AW L E Y a/k/a DOUGLAS EVERETT CRAWLEY, SR., Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF DOUGLAS CRAWLEY a/k/a DOUGLAS EVERETT CRAWLEY, SR., RANDY CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF RANDY CRAWLEY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that BRENDA CRAWLEY, ANGELA WINSTON n/k/a ANGELA PORTER, FRANK E D W A R D C R A W L E Y, JR., THELMA CRAWLEY, LORETTA RICHARDSON a/k/a LORETTA BROWN RICHARDSON, MELVIN CRAWLEY a/k/a MELVIN N. CRAWLEY, MONTESE FR A N C IS, S H E R ON D A C R A W L E Y, W I L L I A M HASTY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that CHRIS CRAWLEY, JR., and CAROLYN CRAWLEY, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that FAYE NICHOLSON a/k/a FAYE C. HINTON p/k/a FAYE R. CRAWLEY and TANGELA CRAWLEY-HARDY, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that C. B. GAY, Trustee, and W. F. BOWERS, JR., Trustee, Trustees of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust dated May 1, 1991, with respect to said property, recorded May 2, 1991, in Deed Book 266, Page 197, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that DAVID GRIPSHOVER, Registered Agent, CAPITAL & QUALITY PRODUCTS INC., which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his/her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that ENGINEERED SYSTEM, P.C., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that NATIONAL LOAN RECOVERIES, LLC, A Connecticut Limited Liability Company Not Authorized to Transact Business in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that FRANK CRAWLEY a/k/a FRANK CRAWLY, JR., who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of FRANK CRAWLEY a/k/a FRANK CRAWLY, JR., MARY E. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY B. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY BROWN CRAWLEY, who may be deceased and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successor/s in interest of MARY E. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY B. CRAWLEY a/k/a MARY BROWN CRAWLEY, MAXINE LY N C H p / k / a M A X I N E CRAWLEY, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF MAXINE LYNCH p/k/a M A X I N E C R A W L E Y,

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

WILLIAM S. LIPSCOMB, JR., DECEASED, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-2257 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2315 Broad Rock Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C009-0472/012, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, W. S. LIPSCOMB.

An Affidavit having been filed that WILLIAM S. LIPSCOMB, JR., DECEASED, who may have an ownership interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that WILLIAM S. LIPSCOMB, JR., DECEASED and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

JAMES LEWIS, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-1851 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3312 Belmont Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0080939/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, JAMES LEWIS and VIRGINIA JENNINGS LEWIS.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JAMES LEWIS, DECEASED, and VIRGINIA JENNINGS LEWIS, DECEASED, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JAMES LEWIS, DECEASED, VIRGINIA JENNINGS LEWIS, DECEASED, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before AUGUST 24, 2017, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

GARRETT O. HARLOW, DECEASED, et al., Defendants.

Case No.: CL17-2650 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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LICENSE Robert Lupica/ Urban Innovations LLC Trading as: The Circuit 3121 W. Leigh St. #A Richmond, VA 23230 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D epartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Beer and Wine On Premises and Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The University of Virginia seeks a firm to provide: University Leased Aircraft Maintenance and Repair To view a copy of RFP # HH062317 go to Procurement Services Site: http://www.procurement. virginia.edu/main/ publicpostings/RFP.html, or email pur-rfp@virginia.edu

The following needed to work at Assisted Living Facility.

Activity Person (part-time) PCA or CNA (full-time) PCA or CNA to work PRN Please bring a current TB report when applying.

All references will be checked.

Good pay. Good days off.

Call for appointment (804) 222-5133

Request foR PRoPosals Thirty First Street Baptist Church, in Richmond, Virginia, seeks proposals for contracted tax services.

All applicants must have relevant religious nonprofit experience. Questions and completed proposals shall be submitted via email to Church Treasurer at treasurer@31sbc.org. Complete proposals are due by 5:00 pm EST on Tuesday, July 11, 2017.

Selected bidder will be notified by July 28, 2017.

Work will begin on August 11, 2017. To view the RFP please visit www.31sbc.org WNRN Charlottesville is looking for an Underwriting Sales Associate for its growing AAA/Americana/good music station. This job is a radio sales job with Richmond as its primary territory. The ability to network and develop good interpersonal relationships along with strong writing skills and a familiarity with non-commercial underwriting regulations is preferred. A bachelor’s degree or its equivalent is a must, knowledge of our format and a passion for some of what we play is required. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@wnrn.org.

Deadline for materials is July 7th . Visit www.wnrn. org for more information about WNRN.

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News producer NBC12, Richmond’s No. 1 news organization has immediate opening for creative, dynamic news producer. Successful candidate must be strong writer, energetic, self motivated and strong leader.

No show stackers … just experienced leader with vision and skills to develop content. Apply on line at https://careers-raycommedia.icims.com.

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part time master control operator WWBT in Richmond, VA seeks part time Master Control Operator responsible for operation of all systems within a multi station master control.

Duties include, but are not limited to, operation of station broadcast automation systems, editing onair playlists, setup and record satellite and other electronic delivery feeds, ingest and prepare video content onto servers, live on-air switching and quality control of all programming and transmission systems.

Must have ability to understand and adhere to basic FCC rules including EAS systems and logs. Must work well in a high pressure, fast paced, live news environment and possess superior level computer skills in Windows 7 and software applications. Good communication/people skills required. 2 years previous master control experience desired. Apply on line at https://careers-raycommedia.icims.com.

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Claims Consultant Full Time Closes: July 10, 2017

GRTC Transit System in Richmond, Virginia seeks a full-time qualified candidate, at least 21 years of age, to be responsible for handling the investigation and settlement of workers’ compensation and transit liability claims. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and/or equivalent experience. Successful completion of a background check and drug test is required.

This individual’s main responsibilities include processing the investigation and settlement of bus liability claims presented against the company under the supervision of the Director of Risk Management. For a more complete job description and the ability to apply online, please visit www.ridegrtc.com.

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

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following positions: Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Heating Mechanic 29M00000271 Department of Public Works Apply by 07/09/17 Contract Supervisor 84M00000011 Department of Procurement Apply by 07/09/17 Controller 25M00000029 Department of Finance Apply by 07/09/17 Family Services Worker – Family Preservation 27M00000613 Department of Social Services Apply by 07/09/17 License & Tax Auditor 25M00000091 Department of Finance Apply by 07/09/17 System Developer 20M00000027 Department of Information Technology Apply by 07/09/17 ****************** For an exciting career with the City of Richmond, visit our website for additional information and apply today! www.richmondgov.com EOE M/F/D/V