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Monument Avenue Commission report delayed Commission will delay issuing its report until at least Monday, July 2, it has been announced.

In a post on the commission’s website dated May 29,

co-chairs Christy Coleman and Gregg Kimball announced that Mayor Levar M. Stoney, who set up the commission, had granted the group’s request for a

one-month extension on issuing its report and recommendations concerning what to do with the controversial statues.

There was no explanation

for the delay other than the commission needed more time to provide “a thoughtful and comprehensive review of the issues.”

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Marching for change More than 300 people join the family of Marcus-David Peters in calling for city police reform

By Saraya Wintersmith

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Hip-hop musician J. Roddy Rod joins the crowd of more than 300 people at Saturday’s rally and march protesting the May 14 shooting death of Marcus-David Peters by a Richmond Police officer.

Carver Elementary students to retake SOLs

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Students at Carver Elementary School will be retaking state Standards of Learning tests after “irregularities” in testing procedures turned up, Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras announced Tuesday.

Mr. Kamras stated that the decision to retest was made after information was reported to the state Department of Education, which confirmed in an initial review that, “in some instances, standardized procedures were not followed.”

The superintendent’s statement indicated a lack of confidence in the initial SOL test results.

School officials are hoping the retest will uphold Carver’s reputation and show that students are well prepared for the testing.

In recent years, Carver, which serves children from Gilpin Court and other low-income communities, has been considered a shining example of educational success, particularly in reading and math.

More than 90 percent of Carver fifth-graders passed SOL reading and math tests. In 2015, 100 percent of fifth-graders passed the SOL reading test, and there was only a slight decrease in 2016 and 2017.

Carver Elementary was designated a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School, a citation awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to academically superior schools. It was one of seven in Virginia to receive the award.

Carver also has been recognized by the Virginia Department of Education as a Title I Distinguished School.

Mr. Kamras stated the retesting will be conducted under proper procedures to ensure “accurate student performance data” that will “allow us to better support our students.”

“I take testing integrity extremely seriously,” continued Mr. Kamras, who as a public school official in Washington, created a system that used test results to determine whether teachers would fired or given raises and promotions.

“We have extraordinary students, and they deserve the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities without question,” he added.

Dr. Amy E. Cashwell has been named Henrico County’s new superintendent of public schools.

When she takes office July 1, Dr. Cashwell will be the first woman to lead the county school system.

The Henrico County School Board made the announcement Tuesday, introducing Dr. Cashwell at a special board work session at the New Bridge

Learning C e n t e r.

She will have a four-year contract with an annual salary of Dr. Cashwell $211,384, plus a $1,200 monthly car allowance.

Dr. Patrick C. Kinlaw, the division’s present superintendent since 2014, will retire on

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New day rolls in with Virginia Medicaid expansion Free Press staff, wire reports

Hilda Johnson is looking forward to finally being able to see a doctor.

The 35-year-old Richmond hotel maid and mother of two said she has not been able to afford health insurance on her $10-per-hour salary and hasn’t had a regular checkup in years.

“I can get coverage for my children, but not for me. I do everything I can to avoid getting sick. It just costs too much. I’m always afraid of something happening to me and what that would do to our family,” she said.

But a new day has just been ushered in for Ms. Johnson and about 400,000 working adults in Virginia who finally can get health coverage and access to prescription medicines at low cost through the expansion of Medicaid.

After a five-year fight, the General Assembly last week approved a new state budget that includes an expansion of the government-funded health care program for the poor.

Add-ons for vision and dental services are not expected to be included when enrollment begins Jan. 1.

Republican opponents tried

and failed to halt officials are geara bipartisan coing up for the alition from massive effort putting the exto enroll tens pansion in place of thousands of to benefit lowpeople like Ms. income people Johnson in the who make too state’s Medicaid little to pay for program in wake Sen. Hanger Sen. Wagner Gov. Northam health insurof the vote. ance.

Hospitals, advocates for change a huge Passage in the state Senate victory. health clinics and other care came on a 23-17 vote on May The approved plan calls for providers also are preparing for 30 as four Republicans joined providing Medicaid coverage to a swell of patients as the state Democrats to ensure Medic- adults with incomes below 138 moves to beef up health care aid expansion after a daylong percent of the poverty line. for the poor under the Afforddebate and rejection of GOP A family of three like Ms. able Care Act, also known as amendments aimed at killing Johnson’s could have an annual Obamacare. the legislation.

Along with helping peohousehold income up to $28,674 The House of Delegates to qualify. That’s well above ple get health insurance, the quickly followed about an hour the nearly $21,000 in pre-tax expanded program also is later with a 67-31 final endorse- wages she supports her family expected to give health care ment to give Democratic Gov. on today.

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City School Board approves $390M budget

By Ronald E. Carrington and Jeremy M. Lazarus

June 30.

Since 2013, Dr. Cashwell has served as chief academic officer for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, overseeing departments dealing with instruction, instructional technology, student support services, exceptional education and opportunity and achievement.

The Virginia Beach native joined that city’s school district in 1998 as a teacher before

The Richmond School Board voted 6-3 Monday night to approve a new budget that calls for spending a record $16,250 per student for each of the nearly 24,000 students served.

The new spending package ensures that the city’s school system will continue to rank among Virginia’s top five spenders on education based on per-pupil spending.

The $390 million total spending package the board approved for the 2018Ms. Page 19 fiscal year that begins July 1 pumps up spending by an estimated $400 per student compared with the current 2017-18 fiscal year and by $1,100 per student compared with the revenue and expenditures reported for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

The per-student spending is based on expenditures for children in pre-kindergarten classes through 12th grade.

Led by School Board Chairwoman Dawn Page, 8th District, the majority followed the guidance of Superintendent Jason Kamras in allocating revenues that are projected to total $390 million, including about $171 million from city taxpayers and the rest from state and federal contributions.

The total represents a $10 million increase from the $380 million allocated for this year and the $364 million allocated for the 2017 fiscal year.

The city funding includes $12.5 million in savings that Richmond Public Schools accumulated and did not spend in the 2017 fiscal year and which City Council rolled into the new budget.

Key initiatives in the new budget include a 2 percent raise for teachers and staff that is projected to cost about $7.6 million in city and state funding.

The board also agreed to beef up its English as a Second Language Program that largely serves

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Va. Beach administrator named superintendent of Henrico schools

By Ronald E. Carrington

In an emotionally charged rally and march, the family of Marcus-David Peters called for the immediate firing of Richmond Police Officer Michael Nyantakyi, who shot and killed the naked and unarmed Mr. Peters last month as he was in the middle of what his family calls a mental health crisis.

Princess Blanding, sister of the 24-year-old high school science teacher, was joined at the rally last Saturday at the Siegel Center by half a dozen grassroots groups and more than 300 supporters seeking accountability from Chief Alfred Durham and the Richmond Police Department.

In addition to firing Officer Nyantakyi, Ms. Blanding called on Chief Durham to surrender the department’s internal investigation into the May 14 fatal shooting to the Richmond commonwealth’s attorney for criminal charges, and to release to the public the department’s policy and

officer training practices on crisis intervention.

She also called for an independent assessment of the policy and practices by crisis experts and for creation of a “Marcus Alert” system that would quickly alert and have mental health professionals respond to the scene of someone experiencing a mental health emergency.

The New Virginia Majority, one of the groups supporting the Peters family, also has called for creation of a citizen review panel to investigate and judge such incidents in the future.

Chief Durham said during a May 25 news conference that officers receive 40 hours of mental health training.

“Well, Chief Durham,” Ms. Blanding said at the rally, “yes, we absolutely expect you all to get it right when your officers have the power to take a person’s life.”

The crowd responded with loud applause.

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Area residents can text 911 for emergency help Need an ambulance? Is your house on fire? Is someone breaking in?

Emergency help is now just a text message away.

Instead of having to call 911, people can now send an electronic message with their location and information about their situation to dispatchers in Richmond, Chesterfield and Henrico.

First envisioned four years ago, the text messaging service was launched Monday as part of a regional upgrade of emergency communications. It is designed largely to help people with speech and hearing impairments, but it also can help people to send a call for help without fear of being overheard.

The update stems from a joint effort of the four major cell phone providers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, in 2014 to enable 911 call centers to receive texts. It took time for the providers to work out the kinks, but to date at least 1,000 call centers have that capacity.

Richmond area emergency dispatch centers have been working to add that capacity since receiving a grant last year from the Virginia Information Technologies Agency.

The text messaging add-on has emerged as the city, the two counties and several other law enforcement agencies continue to work on a $130 million regional overhaul of emergency communications.

Richmond alone is investing nearly $50 million in the improvements that are expected to be completed by 2020 and improve communications between public safety departments in the cooperating jurisdictions. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS ­

VSU to hold aquaculture workshop June 14 Virginia State University College of Agriculture, in conjunction with the Virginia Cooperative Extension, is holding a fish cagebuilding workshop 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at Randolph Farm Pavilion, 4415 River Road in Petersburg.

The workshop is designed to help people with a pond who are interested in raising fish for profit or personal consumption.

While cage materials will be provided, participants are asked to bring leather gloves, tin snips, a tape measure, cutting pliers and protective goggles.

The workshop is free and open to the public.

Information and registration: Dr. David Crosby, (804) 7123771 or dcrosby@vsu.edu, or go to www.ext.vsu.edu/calendar.

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GRTC posts new bus routes, schedules

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

GRTC riders can review schedules for overhauled bus routes that will begin operating on Sunday, June 24, with the Pulse bus rapid transit system.

The transit company released the new schedules for regular and express routes Tuesday to prepare passengers for the changes.

The new schedules are posted on the GRTC website, www.RideGRTC.com. The company also has installed a planning tool to help riders understand how the route changes will affect them.

One of the biggest changes is the proposed bus stop in the 800 block of North Davis Street, next to the William Byrd Senior Apartments.

Instead of making the apartment building the final stop for three routes, 50, 76, and 77, the company announced this week that the buses traveling east on Broad Street will turn left onto DMV Drive and make their final stop in the parking lot of a vacant state office building.

The change came after Richmond City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, 2nd District, led a campaign to move the stop after hearing overwhelming opposition from William Byrd residents, business owners at the building and residents of a historic block of West Grace Street who feared the impact of the buses on their street.

David Green, GRTC’s chief executive officer, promised last month to move the bus stop, but Ms. Gray made sure that it happened by June 24. She met with Richmond members of the GRTC board to make the case to move the bus stop.

Ms. Gray also made sure that William Byrd and Grace Street residents showed up in force at the GRTC board meeting to urge them to move the bus stop before it went into operation.

The board then overruled Mr. Green when he sought to delay the temporary move of the bus stop until July 24, directing him to get it done immediately.

“This is good news for everyone involved, particularly the elderly and disabled residents of the William Byrd who no longer have to be concerned about the impact these buses could have on their health and well-being,” Ms. Gray said.

GRTC is promising a more permanent fix, and has scheduled a session to get public feedback on several proposals for 6 p.m. Monday, June 18, at the cafeteria of the Department of Motor Vehicles Building, 2300 W. Broad St. According to Ms. Gray, the top idea calls for the buses on all three routes to travel to Hermitage Road and then return via Leigh Street to DMV Drive to reach the end of the line. That also would ensure improved service to the Bon Secours Washington NFL team’s training camp, she said.

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Here’s the new look for Franklin Street in Downtown with the protected bike lanes complete. Cars now can park in the former travel lane and on the south curb lane, leaving just one lane open for traffic. Other Richmond streets are expected to get the same treatment within the next year or two, including Brook Road between Azalea Avenue and Charity Street, and long stretches of Patterson and Malvern avenues.

Author Richard Rothstein to speak June 13 at VCU The author of a hard-edged book that documents the role governments at all levels have played in creating and maintaining racially divided communities is coming to Richmond next week to speak about his findings.

Richard Rothstein, who wrote “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” will speak 6 pm. Wednesday, June 13, at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Location: T. Edward Temple Building, 901 W. Main St., Room 1160.

His talk is open to the public.

Mr. Rothstein is a leading scholar on housing and racial bias. He is a research fellow at the nonprofit Economic Policy

Institute in Washington and a retired fellow with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and the University of CaliforniaBerkeley’s Haas Institute.

According to reviews of the book, Mr. Rothstein Mr. Rothstein shows how governments promoted segregation through highway construction, loan policies and support for bankers, Realtors and insurance companies who helped keep communities separated by race.

One key point of his book is that most of the conditions that 20th century federal policies, state laws and local zoning rules created still endure, leaving in place powder kegs like the ones that recently exploded in communities ranging from Baltimore to Ferguson, Mo., and Chicago.

As one reviewer put it, “ ‘The Color of Law’ is not a tale of Red versus Blue states. It is sadly the story of America in all of its municipalities, large and small, liberal and reactionary.”

VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs has joined with the fair housing watchdog, Housing Opportunities Made Equal, to sponsor Mr. Rothstein’s talk.

Richmonder receives $1,750 credit for city trash fee charges

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Mark C. Spick, a homeowner in South Side, has received a credit of $1,750.69 on his city utilities bill after City Hall confirmed he had been incorrectly charged for trash collection and recycling service for at least six years.

The credit was noted on Mr. Spick’s May bill and stems from a Free Press report in April that spotlighted the city’s failure to exempt him from fees for trash collection and recycling service. The current monthly total is $23.79, including $20.80 for trash pickup and $2.99 for recycling collection.

As the Free Press reported, Mr. Spick was supposed to automatically qualify for the exemption from those fees because he

also qualified for relief from real estate taxes because of his age, 76, low income and permanent and total disability.

The credit will not be applied to other parts of his bill to offset other charges, such as for water and wastewater service.

“I was told the city will be sending me a check, but I haven’t seen it yet,” Mr. Spick said Wednesday.

City Hall, meanwhile, has wasted no time in ensuring that elderly and disabled renters can apply for exemption from the trash collection and recycling pickup fees.

On Monday, the city departments of Finance and Public Works announced that applications are now available online for city residents.

The applications can be found at www. richmondgov.com on the forms sections for Public Works or for Finance, it was announced.

According to the information accompanying the application, the exemption is for renters with a 12-month lease who receive a utility bill. They must be at least 65 years old or permanently and totally disabled. Also, eligibility is limited to those with an annual income of $50,000 or less and a net worth of $200,000 or less.

“We also will be promoting this information on Twitter and Facebook and on Neighborhood blogs and on the Nextdoor platform,” Angela Fountain, spokeswoman for Public Utilities and Public Works, stated.

Boulevard redevelopment plan back on the table

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Passage of the state budget has cleared the way for City Hall to dust off its plans for the redevelopment of 60 acres of city land on the Boulevard where The Diamond baseball stadium now stands.

The new, two-year budget approved May 30 by the General Assembly and which the governor is expected to sign this week authorized the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to move ahead on building a new headquarters and warehouse in Hanover County.

That move — expected to be completed within three years — means the current ABC site at 2901 Hermitage Road behind The Diamond could be cleared for a new stadium for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the San Francisco Giants’ Double A affiliate.

The team and Virginia Commonwealth University previously targeted the ABC site for a replacement stadium, but have been awaiting General Assembly approval of the ABC plan to spend more than $100 million for a new headquarters.

Removing the stadium has been a key element of Richmond’s plan to offer 60 acres of land to private developers for a potential $300 million project involving retail, offices, commercial space and apartments.

Lee Downey, Richmond’s chief development officer, said Monday that the city is considering its next move for the property.

Two years ago, the city sent out a national call for developers, but then got stymied when the General Assembly halted the

ABC move for further study.

According to budget documents and information sent to City Council, City Hall has invested $19 million relocating city and school operations from the property, clearing the land and eliminating toxic hazards.

Still, according to the city, The Diamond has stood as a roadblock to development, given the major acreage the parking and the sports arena occupy.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his administration have yet to address the future of another potential roadblock, the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center, Richmond Public Schools’ center where sporting and other events are held.

The building is used largely during cooler periods because its broken air-conditioning system has never been fixed. The center sits at the corner of North Boulevard and Robin Hood Road, one of the most visible and valuable parts of the 60-acre property.

Given the city’s inability to find money to replace most of its worn-out school buildings, replacing the Ashe Center has not been a priority.

Whether that changes when the city revs up its efforts to market the Boulevard land and move the development to a more concrete phase remains to be seen.

The Boulevard property has been advertised as a major East Coast opportunity and also has been portrayed by city officials as an essential effort to generate new revenue for public education and other city needs.

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“As chief of police, it is your responsibility to ensure that your officers know their limitations and are prepared to call upon others with better training and skills to address people experiencing a mental health crisis,” Ms. Blanding continued. “Neither you nor your officers should be allowed to use the excuse of a lack training to justify the decision to end someone’s life.”

Chief Durham declined to comment on the Peters family’s demands. He said previously that the department’s Force Investigation Team is reviewing the incident, with their report to include toxicology and autopsy results, as well as DNA analysis from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

While he didn’t offer a timeline for the internal investigation, Chief Durham said he would review the findings and turn them over to Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring.

He also said the FBI’s Richmond field office is reviewing the situation for any civil rights violations.

Ms. Blanding, who also called for an opportunity for the family to meet privately with Chief Durham, has been critical of the chief, saying his efforts at transparency, including publicly releasing surveillance and police body camera footage from May 14, have left a picture that vilifies her brother and his actions on that fateful day.

But on Saturday, hundreds of people withstood sweltering heat and pouring rain to march about a mile with Ms. Blanding and the Peters family from the Siegel Center rally at Virginia Commonwealth University to police headquarters on West Grace Street.

Mr. Peters was a VCU honors graduate in 2016. The Henrico resident was teaching biology in Essex County and held a parttime job in security at The Jefferson Hotel in Downtown.

The video released May 25 showed Mr. Peters drive up to the hotel and remove his shirt in the hotel lobby. When he returned to his car a short time later, he was naked.

Police said Mr. Peters hit a vehicle on Belvidere after leaving the hotel, prompting Officer Nyantakyi to follow him onto the entry ramp for Interstate 95 off Chamberlayne Avenue. Mr. Peters crashed his car into some bushes after hitting two more cars on the ramp.

The video showed Mr. Peters getting out of the window of his car feet first, running naked onto the interstate and being struck by a car before bounding up and charging the officer, a 10-year veteran of the department who also is African-American.

Officer Nyantakyi first fired his Taser to stop Mr. Peters, but

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The marchers’ mile-long route from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center to Richmond Police Headquarters takes them down Franklin Street and past The Jefferson Hotel, where Marcus-David Peters worked part time in security.

only one of the prongs made contact. When Mr. Peters, who threatened to kill the officer, continued charging, Officer Nyantakyi then fired his service weapon, hitting Mr. Peters’ twice in the abdomen. Mr. Peters died later at a hospital.

Dr. James Henry Harris, pastor of Second Baptist Church on Idlewood Avenue, gave a fiery speech noting that Mr. Peters’ death is the latest in Richmond’s long and sordid history as a major location for the purchase, sale, abuse and criminalization of black people.

“We must understand today that we have witnessed this story before,” Dr. Harris said. “From Emmett Till’s gruesome, mangled body in 1955 to the phalanx of black bodies eviscerated by violence and hateful and irrational acts of injustice and evil — we must stand and tell our people that enough is enough. The time for freedom, the time for hope, the time for reform is now.

“We have to march until the colonialist mentality is replaced with a sense of justice,” he continued. “We have to march

because we’re fighting for justice that manifests itself as fairness — where no other black man or woman has to be killed in this age, in this day, in this democracy. We demand the same restraint by police that is shown every day when it comes to confronting white men who overwhelmingly walk away from encounters with the police, often far more egregious and far more confrontational.”

Many of the marchers wore shirts and carried signs reading, “Justice and Reformation,” “Help Not Death” and “Who Are You Trained To Help RPD?” Some also carried memorial flowers with photos and names of other people of color killed in police shootings around the nation, including Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and Philando Castile.

Led by a police escort, the marchers stopped briefly outside The Jefferson Hotel, where Mr. Peters was last seen before the shooting. They chanted “Shame on you, Jefferson” before moving on to police headquarters.

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the fast-growing population of Spanish-speaking students. The board agreed to hire five additional teachers for the program, plus nine additional bilingual staff and three bilingual counselors.

In addition, the board agreed to buy new athletic equipment and to start pilot programs to try out new approaches in student discipline, particularly for children and youths who come to school with post-traumatic stress syndrome from experiencing violence and trauma in their homes and neighborhoods.

However, the board did not address the shortage of school nurses that has left some schools without a crucial person to guide student health care and assist children who are ill or must take medication.

The majority also declined to add extra money to the maintenance fund. Instead, the majority accepted the decision of Mayor Levar M. Stoney and City Council to provide only $1.6 million in new funding, far short of the $31 million the board had originally requested of the city during the winter.

Mr. Kamras had expressed disappointment at the allocation from the city, but did not recommend the board put extra funds into that line item in its capital budget.

Along with Ms. Page, the majority voting to approve the budget plan included board members Elizabeth Doerr, 1st District; James “Scott” Barlow, 2nd District; Felicia Cosby, 6th District; Cheryl Burke, 7th District; and Linda Owen, 9th District.

Voting to reject the spending plan were Vice Chairman Patrick Sapini, 5th District; Kenya Gibson, 3rd District; and Jonathan Young, 4th District.

Ms. Gibson expressed concern that Mr. Kamras had flouted board policy and presented his final recommendation for the budget just before the vote. She said that the action meant she had too little time to go through the recommendations.

“The budget process is my passion,” she said, noting she was not elected to rubber-stamp a budget plan, but with ensuring that the adopted plan would serve the needs of students, teachers, parents and others engaged in education.

Ms. Gibson described the failure of Mr. Kamras to provide timely budget information to the board as just another example of how the superintendent is making secrecy, rather than transparency, his operating motif. She cited the Kamras administration’s decision to post four director positions without giving the board a chance to approve the spending that could top $500,000 a year.

Mr. Young could not accept the budget that he argued failed to make significant cuts in spending on administrators at the central office.

“We need significant change, including cutting and consolidating positions, curtailing travel and eliminating district funds for board members to use in order to direct more money to the classroom,” he said.

Ahead of the vote on the budget, the board heard from parents and education supporters alarmed that student bathrooms in some schools did not have toilet tissue, hand towels or soap for students’ everyday use.

Several board members joined speakers in calling the situation unacceptable and applauding the social media campaign that led to donations from the community to at least 10 schools.

“The toiletries shortage has been resolved and funding has been allotted to ensure that all schools have the supplies needed,” Dr. Kamras stated in an email to the Free Press.

“While public assistance was not necessary, we appreciate knowing that the community is eager to rally around RPS,” Mr. Kamras stated.

jobs a huge boost. Demand for doctors, nurses, medical office staff, technicians and caretakers is projected to skyrocket.

Gov. Northam, a physician, joined many in cheering the General Assembly’s decision to make Virginia the 33rd state to expand Medicaid. But he is fully aware that his administration will need to ensure a smooth rollout.

“Now we need to execute,” Gov. Northam said after the vote.

“We’ll show the rest of the country the Virginia way, and we’ll do it right,” the governor vowed.

Virginia is among the states that balked at expanding Medicaid after the U.S. Supreme Court made it optional. The state’s decision spurned nearly $2 billion a year in federal payments to help cover the cost, money that now will become available.

Gov. Northam still needs to sign the budget bill, which he was scheduled to do on Thursday, June 7. Once he does, the state is expected to quickly submit amendments to its current plan to the federal government to clear the way to receive the money.

The state application will be submitted “within weeks, if not days” after the budget is signed, said Dr. Jennifer Lee, director of the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services.

Virginia officials previously estimated that only about

300,000 people out of the 400,000 eligible would actually sign up for the coverage.

Additionally, the state has to craft a waiver request to allow the state to impose work requirements and co-pays on certain Medicaid recipients.

The budget approved by lawmakers Wednesday includes $3.5 million for the state to hire a consultant to help with the waiver, which must be submitted to the federal government for review within 150 days of the budget becoming law.

The Trump administration’s support of conservative changes to Medicaid, especially work requirements, is a key reason why several Republican lawmakers said they backed expansion this year after years of opposition.

Gov. Northam accepted the wording to get Medicaid expansion passed, but he said he views the provision as a “work search” incentive.

“I would much rather have it as a carrot than a stick,” Gov. Northam said. “I don’t want to penalize people.”

His administration is planning town hall meetings and online applications to help people enroll and to help private health providers manage the transition.

Under the approved expansion plan, hospitals and clinics are expected to receive higher reimbursement rates from providing service to Medicaid recipients.

However, the state legislation did not include any funding to raise reimbursement rates for doctors, now below 70 percent of a bill, and many physicians may not accept patients like Ms. Johnson because of the low payments.

Republican Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr. of Augusta County, whose decision to break ranks and support Medicaid expansion led to its passage, has confirmed that the issue of provider reimbursement remains to be addressed.

Virginia Democrats championed the expansion, arguing the state should not turn its back on working people who lack health insurance, nor could the state afford to turn away the billions of dollars in federal funding the program would bring in.

The Northam administration also argued that the additional federal funding for Medicaid was essential to maintain Virginia’s top credit rating.

Republicans in control of the House and Senate previously were unified in arguing that the long-term costs of expansion would be unsustainable. Those arguments were again replayed before last week’s vote.

There were plenty of explanations for the victory. Some pointed to the 2107 election in which 15 Democrats promoting health care swept out Republican naysayers from the House of Delegates, leading the Republican leadership in that body to change its position.

Another key was the decision of two GOP members, Sen. Hanger and Sen. Frank W. Wagner of Virginia Beach, to join the 19 Democrats to support Medicaid expansion, although they required some compromises over work requirements and other issues to ensure their support.

The majority also included Sen. Ben Chafin, a Republican lawmaker from Virginia’s economically depressed Southwest coal country. He said his rural area needed expansion to help bolster hospitals and provide care for constituents in need.

“I came to the conclusion that ‘No’ just wasn’t the answer anymore,” Sen. Chafin said.

Republican Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel of Fauquier also switched sides.

Other Republican senators remained strongly opposed, arguing Medicaid costs would eventually overwhelm funding for public education and public safety.

“It is a ticking time bomb,” said GOP Sen. Bill Stanley of Franklin, who has indicated he is considering a run in 2021 either for governor or attorney general.

Medicaid is a federal-state collaboration originally meant for poor families, low-income elderly needing nursing home care and severely disabled people. Since the 1960s, the program has grown to become the largest government health insurance program, now covering 1 in 5 people.

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becoming an assistant principal and later a principal.

She holds a bachelor’s in liberal studies and education from Longwood University, and a master’s in education administration and supervision and a doctorate in education administration and policy studies from George Washington University.

“It is an honor to have been selected to serve the Henrico County community as superintendent,” Dr. Cashwell stated in a release issued by Henrico County Public Schools.

“I am committed to maintaining the legacy of excellence within Henrico County Public Schools and to working collaboratively with the Henrico community to build upon the division’s reputation

for academic excellence and innovation.”

School Board Chair Michelle “Micky” Ogburn, who represents the Three Chopt District, expressed the board’s unanimous support. Dr. Cashwell’s “experience as a classroom teacher and extensive leadership across many facets of Virginia Beach Public Schools as their chief academic officer bode well for her success in

guiding HCPS to even greater achievement.”

Taking an approach similar to that of Richmond’s new Superintendent Jason Kamras, Dr. Cashwell will hold several forums across Henrico in coming months to talk with families, students, staff members and community members.

Information about the forums will be announced as it becomes available.

Richmond Free Press

June 7-9, 2018

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Stock up on non-perishable food, water, medicine, baby and pet supplies Buy a battery-operated radio, flashlights, fans and extra batteries Have extra cash on hand — ATMs might be down and banks might be closed Keep your gas tank full Help family and friends with a plan if they rely on electronic medical equipment Know how to safely use your generator Sign in to your online account at DominionEnergy.com and update your phone number

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State finds historic significance in riverfront warehouse

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Getting rid of a vacant East End warehouse where Stone Brewing wants to build a modern bistro and beer garden is proving to be harder than Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his administration first believed.

Rather than being a nondescript building with little historical value, the Intermediate Terminal Warehouse has been found to be a valuable landmark to Richmond’s past as a commercial shipping center and its efforts to create jobs for African-American workers.

City Hall is starting to shift gears and change the narrative after receiving notification from the state Department of Historic Resources that confirms the views of advocates seeking to save the building — that preliminary research shows the enormous 79-year-old structure at 3101 E. Main St. and also straddles Water Street is historical and would be eligible for inclusion on the Virginia and federal historic registers.

The finding comes as City Council prepares to consider Mayor Stoney’s proposal to permit Stone Brewing to demolish the building that it once agreed to renovate, but now claims is too expensive to outfit for its planned destination restaurant on the James River.

Council members were to introduce amendments to the proposal Monday, June 11, and then bring up the proposal for a vote at the following meeting on Monday, June 25.

That pace of action could be slowed with the state’s current finding about the concrete and steel building dubbed Warehouse 3 that dates to 1937.

Two other nearby warehouses previously were demolished.

The state finding has triggered a federal preservation law, known as Section 106, requiring the city to come up with a plan either to preserve the building or to memorialize it if it is demolished. The federal law does not bar demolition.

Lee Downey, the city’s chief development officer, indicated Monday that the Section 106 process is underway, informing the city’s revamped view of the building.

Political strategist and lawyer Paul Goldman had challenged the claims that the building was not historical.

Preservation groups such as Historic Richmond had largely written off the warehouse.

That information shows the 30,000-square-foot structure is a monument to the city’s efforts prior to World War II to revive Richmond as a bustling port, according to Bryan Green of Commonwealth Architects, a firm that specializes in the renovation and reuse of buildings such as the warehouse that qualify for historic tax credits.

The building for 20 years served as the import center for Cuban sugar that Hershey Co. purchased for its candy manufacturing operations, creating jobs for African-American workers living in nearby Fulton and other parts of the city, Mr. Green said his initial research has found.

Stone Brewing officials had agreed to renovate the building for its bistro after choosing Richmond for its East Coast operations in 2014.

Under the company’s deal with the city, Richmond agreed to provide a $23 million loan

to enable Stone Brewing to build its brewery that opened two years ago.

Stone Brewing also accepted a performance agreement requiring it to renovate the warehouse and create 200 new jobs in exchange for an additional $8 million loan that would be repaid over 25 years from restaurant proceeds.

City Council ratified the performance agreement and transferred the building and valuable land close to the James

River to the city’s Economic Development Authority to work with Stone Brewing on the project.

The deal also included a 2015 provision Councilman Parker C. Agelasto crafted that required Stone Brewing to complete the bistro development within several years or the city would have the right to reclaim the property.

Earlier this year, after several months of talks with the city, Stone Brewing officials

and Mayor Stoney disclosed that the company no longer wanted to renovate, but instead wanted to demolish the warehouse and replace it with a modern 12,000-square-foot restaurant.

If the building is demolished, it is not clear whether the $8 million loan would be needed. The replacement building Stone Brewing wants to create is considered likely to cost no more than $2 million to build and possibly less, based

on current construction costs provided by local architectural firms.

Stone Brewing officials believe the warehouse is not usable for its restaurant, based on experts who have claim the building’s concrete was not reinforced with steel.

Mr. Goldman has found the building’s original specifications that show otherwise.

Stone Brewing officials have not responded to Free Press requests for comment.

Historical marker celebrating the Lovings unveiled in Bowling Green Free Press wire report

BOWLING GREEN A historical marker commemorating a Virginia couple’s successful challenge to laws banning interracial marriage in the United States has been placed near the jail where the couple was once held.

Caroline County officials and descendants of Mildred and Richard Loving attended ceremonies last Saturday in Bowling Green to unveil the marker.

The marker sits just south of the jail where the Lovings were taken after their July 1958 arrest in their home in Caroline County’s Central Point for violating Virginia’s law banning interracial marriage.

The couple was sentenced to a year in jail, with the sentence suspended on the condition that they leave the state for 25 years.

In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Lovings’ favor and struck down laws banning interracial marriage as unconstitutional.

Their story was featured in a 2016 Hollywood film, “Loving.”

Mr. Loving was killed in a car accident in 1975, while Mrs. Loving died in 2008. The couple had three children.

A similar marker was erected last year in Richmond outside the former Virginia Supreme Court, now the Patrick Henry Building at 11th and Broad streets, where the Lovings’ case was heard before it was appealed to the nation’s highest court.

Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP

Peggy Loving Fortune, left, daughter of Richard and Mildred Loving, and her grandson, Mark Loving II, look at the new Loving highway marker at the intersection of U.S. 301 and Sparta Road in Caroline County. With them is Nancy Long, chair of the Caroline County Board of Supervisors.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION

BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH A VIRGINIA COMMUNITY SOLAR PILOT PROGRAM PURSUANT TO § 56-585.1:3 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2018-00009 On January 19, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed an application (“Application”) with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) pursuant to § 56-585.1:3 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and Rule 80 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Commission (“Rules of Practice”) for approval to establish a Virginia Community Solar Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”), including a new voluntary companion tariff, designated Rider VCS – Virginia Community Solar Pilot Program (“Rider VCS”). On May 4, 2018, Dominion filed an amended Application (“Amended Application”) that updated and corrected pricing information submitted in its initial Application.

Code § 56-585.1:3 requires each investor-owned utility, including Dominion, to design and conduct a community solar pilot program, and to make subscriptions for participation in its pilot program available to retail customers on a voluntary basis within six months of receiving Commission approval. The Application states that pursuant to such a community solar pilot program, “participating retail customers may voluntarily elect to purchase the ‘net electrical output’ of new solar generating facilities located in communities throughout the Company’s Virginia service territory…under Rider VCS.” Code § 56-585.1:3 provides that the Commission shall approve the recovery of the Pilot Program costs that the Commission deems to be reasonable and prudent. This Code section also requires Commission approval of the Pilot Program design, the voluntary companion rate schedule (i.e., Rider VCS), and the portfolio of participating generating facilities (referred to herein as the “Community Solar Portfolio” or “Portfolio”), pursuant to specific requirements in Code § 56-585.1:3 regarding the Request for Proposal (“RFP”) criteria and selection process, the minimum and maximum generating capacities of the Community Solar Portfolio, and Pilot Program duration.

Dominion states in the Application that, using the RFP process prescribed by Code § 56-585.1:3, “the Company solicited power purchase agreements (‘PPAs’) to be executed with eligible solar generating facilities that provide the Company the exclusive right to 100% of the net electrical output that these facilities dedicate to the Pilot Program.” The Company selected five winning proposals and four alternate proposals from facilities that qualify as “eligible generation facilities,” as defined in Code § 56 585.1:3 A, and which total ten megawatts (“MW”) of new solar photovoltaic capacity, consistent with Code § 56-585.1:3. Dominion states that the selected PPA projects, which constitute the Company’s Community Solar Portfolio, are located within the Company’s service territory and will be interconnected to the Company’s distribution system. Dominion further states that it expects to execute final PPAs with these developers in the near future.

According to the Company, “the spirit and intent of the community solar legislation” is to include, to the extent possible, small eligible generating facilities with a generating capacity of less than 0.5 MW. The smallest project bidder in response to the Company’s RFP was 625 kilowatts (“kW”). Accordingly, on January 19, 2018, the Company issued a second RFP tailored specifically to seek small projects less than 500 kW in size. The Company states that based on the responses, the Company may select one or more projects that qualify as small eligible generating facilities for inclusion in its Community Solar Portfolio, which the Commission is being asked to approve.

According to the Application, the proposed pricing for the three-year subscription-based Pilot Program is designed “to be attractive to qualifying customers looking for voluntary options to promote, support, and purchase community solar.” The Pilot Program is available to all retail customers – those customers taking service on the Company’s Rate Schedules 1, 1P, 1S, 1T, DP-R, 1EV, 5, 5C, 5P, 6, 6TS, 10, 25, 27, 28, 29, GS-1, DP-1, GS-2, GS-2T, DP-2, GS-3, SCR-GS-3, MBR-GS-3, GS-4, SCR-GS-4, and MBR-GS-4, as well as Special Contracts approved by the Commission pursuant to Code § 56-235.2 – in two subscription options. Participants may subscribe by purchasing 100 kilowatt-hours (“kWh”) blocks (each constituting one “VCS Block”) of community solar on a monthly (or billing period) basis, for an annually-updated fixed price. Alternatively, participants, with the exception of “Large Non-residential Customers,” may subscribe by purchasing community solar to match 100% of their monthly (or billing period) usage in kWh for an annually-updated fixed price per kWh. In order to allow for broader community participation in the Pilot Program, the Company proposes the following maximum subscription allotments for eligible customers who subscribe by purchasing VCS blocks: (1) residential customers will be limited to five whole VCS Blocks per billing cycle, and (2) non-residential customers will be limited to ten whole VCS Blocks per billing cycle. If the 100% match option is not selected, participating customers must subscribe to a minimum of one whole VCS Block per billing cycle, and customers may change their subscription level once per year, subject to availability.

The Company states that it will make every effort to ensure the subscribed amount of community solar does not exceed the projected output of the Portfolio. If the Portfolio’s net electrical output is not sufficient to meet participating customers’ subscriptions on an annual basis, the Company will supplement the Portfolio with solar Renewable Energy Certificates (“RECs”).

There is no application fee to subscribe to Rider VCS. The Company states that because Rider VCS is designed as a voluntary companion tariff to the participating customer’s Principal Tariff (i.e. the rate schedule on which the customer takes service from the Company), the customer’s billing statement will be largely unchanged, with the exception of a new line item – the “VCS Net Rate.” The VCS Net Rate (in cents per kWh) will be calculated based on the participating customer’s actual billed usage during each billing period, capped at the customer’s subscription level. A participating customer’s energy usage that exceeds the amount subscribed for under Rider VCS will be billed under the Principal Tariff for the customer’s account.

The VCS Net Rate includes the cost of the Pilot Program (“VCS Charge”) and a proportional credit for the market value of power equal to the net electrical output generated, as well as the capacity provided, by the Community Solar Portfolio (“VCS Adjustment”). The Company states that the proposed VCS Charge includes (i) purchased power costs, which are based on PPA prices for solar energy, capacity, and Environmental Attributes; (ii) RFP costs; (iii) marketing charges; (iv) customer service costs; and (v) a reasonable margin based on purchased power costs. The VCS Adjustment will include a forecasted energy credit and a credit based on the market value of the capacity provided by the Community Solar Portfolio. The Company proposes to reset the VCS Adjustment annually, with 90 days’ advance notice to existing and prospective Pilot Program customers, using forecasting methods for PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) energy and capacity prices consistent with those used in the Company’s annual fuel filing. Accordingly, Rider VCS customers will be able to lock in to the VCS Net Rate annually.

Through its Amended Application, the Company now proposes a fixed price of 6.42¢ per kWh for the VCS Charge. The VCS Adjustment may fluctuate annually, but the Amended Application states that based on current energy credit forecasts, the Company believes the VCS Net Rate will be approximately 2.01¢ per kWh in the first year of the Pilot Program, if approved.

The Company states that the generating resources in the Portfolio will act as load reducers in PJM and, accordingly, all generation from those resources will lower purchased power costs recovered through the Company’s fuel factor. To ensure that Rider VCS customers receive the benefit and non-participating customers remain neutral to Rider VCS, the Company plans to make a Rider VCS energy adjustment to the Company’s fuel factor. For the same reason, a capacity adjustment will be made in the Company’s future cost-of-service studies because the generation from the Portfolio’s resources will reduce the amount of capacity that the Company must purchase in PJM. As required by Code § 56-585.1:3 B 7, the Company will retire the RECs and other environmental attributes associated with the resources used to serve customers on Rider VCS. The Company will make Rider VCS subscriptions available within six months of Commission approval of the Pilot Program; however, the Company states that participating customer subscriptions will not become effective until one or more Community Solar Portfolio sites begin to generate renewable energy. Subscribing customers will be subject to a minimum one year term. After the initial one-year term, Rider VCS customers may terminate service under Rider VCS with 30 days’ notice to the Company.

Dominion asserts that its Community Solar Pilot Program, including Rider VCS, is in the public interest, as the Pilot Program is consistent with the requirements of Code § 56-585.1:3, which states: The participation of retail customers in a [community solar pilot program] administered by a participating utility in the Commonwealth is in the public interest.

Voluntary companion rate schedules approved by the Commission pursuant to this section are necessary in order to acquire information which is in the furtherance of the public interest.

The Company asserts, among other things, that the Pilot Program is also in the public interest because it will (i) enhance fuel diversification across the Company’s generation portfolio; (ii) provide environmental benefits; (iii) provide economic benefits; (iv) further the General Assembly’s stated goals of promoting solar energy through distributed energy generation; and (v) support the objectives of the Commonwealth Energy Policy set forth at Code §§ 67-101, et seq.

The Company further asserts that Rider VCS and its cost recovery method are reasonable and prudent because (i) the Rider VCS Charge will be designed to recover the Company’s expected actual costs to serve each participating customer under the Pilot Program; (ii) the VCS Adjustment will be market-based and reset annually to maintain consistency with then-current market conditions; (iii) non-participating customers will not be required to pay for, or subsidize, the costs to serve participating customers with community solar; and (iv) Rider VCS is voluntary.

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

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

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

On or before July 10, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Amended 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 July 10, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00009.

On or before July 10, 2018, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00009.

On or before July 10, 2018, any interested person may file a written request for a hearing. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the hearing request shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above, and the interested person simultaneously shall serve a copy of the hearing request on counsel to the Company at the address set forth above. All requests for a hearing shall refer to Case No. PUR 2018-00009.

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

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

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1,126 RPS students to graduate Congratulations will be heard around Richmond as high school seniors don their caps and gowns to receive their diplomas in ceremonies that start next week.

Richmond Public Schools high schools and the career education center will award diplomas to 1,126 students.

Valedictorians and salutatorians will speak at several of the ceremonies, while others scheduled to address graduates include the Rev. Paige Lanier Chargois, a Baptist minister and consultant in Richmond, and Micah “BamBamm” White, a comedian and business owner.

The 2018 graduation schedule by date, location and school follows: Monday, June 11, at the Downtown YMCA, 2 W. Franklin St. School, graduates

Time

Top students, commencement speakers

Richmond Career Education and Employment Academy, 6 10:30 a.m. No valedictorian or salutatorian.

Keynote speaker: Liza Bruce, training

specialist at VCU Health System Tuesday, June 12, at Altria Theater, Laurel and Main streets School, graduates

Time

Top students, commencement speakers

Huguenot High School, 284 1 p.m.

Valedictorians Itzel Jimenez and Irene Andrade, and salutatorian Myles Manuel

Armstrong High School, 212 4 p.m.

Valedictorian Shakira Blackwell, salutatorian Tai-tonia Asontae Marie Owens and class president Asia Jefferson

John Marshall High School, 150 7:30 p.m. Valedictorian Deshon Turner,

salutatorian William Smyre III and

scholastic standout Jordan Woods Wednesday, June 13, at Altria Theater, Laurel and Main streets School, graduates

Time

Top students, commencement speakers

Richmond Community High School, 54 1 p.m.

Valedictorian, Taylor Hendrick; salutatorian, Tykeira Johnson.

Keynote speaker: Rev. Paige Lanier Chargois

George Wythe High School, 203 4 p.m.

Valedictorian Rocio Aquino and salutatorians Dorcas Williams and Shani Walker

Thomas Jefferson High School, 145 7:30 p.m.

Valedictorian, Kasey Chapman; salutatorian, Cameron Watson.

Keynote speaker: Micah “Bam-Bamm” White, former executive director of the Central Virginia African American Chamber of Commerce

Thursday, June 14, at Virginia Union University, Allix B. James Chapel at Coburn Hall, 1500 Lombardy St. School, graduates

Time

Top students, commencement speakers

Franklin Military Academy, 35 1:30 p.m. Valedictorian, D’Jarnae Clark;

salutatorian, Devontae Allen.

No keynote speaker.

Open High School, 35 5:30 p.m. Valedictorians, Shavaé Ward and

Natalie Duke; salutatorian, Abby

Wood. No keynote speaker.

June 7-9, 2018 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY’S REQUEST TO REVISE ITS FUEL FACTOR CASE NO. PUR-2018-00067

On May 4, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Company” or “Dominion Energy Virginia”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) its application (“Application”) pursuant to § 56-249.6 of the Code of Virginia seeking an increase in its fuel factor from 2.383 cents per kilowatt-hour (“¢/kWh”) to 2.719¢/kWh, effective for usage on and after July 1, 2018.

The Company’s proposed fuel factor, reflected in Fuel Charge Rider A, consists of both a current and prior period factor. The Company’s proposed current period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of 2.266¢/ kWh is designed to recover the Company’s estimated Virginia jurisdictional fuel expenses, including purchased power expenses, of approximately $1.50 billion for the period July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019. The Company’s proposed prior period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of 0.453¢/kWh is designed to recover approximately $299.4 million, which represents the net of two projected June 30, 2018 fuel deferral balances.

In total, Dominion Energy Virginia’s proposed fuel factor represents a 0.336¢/kWh increase from the fuel factor rate presently in effect of 2.383¢/kWh, which was approved in Case No. PUR-2017-00058.

According to the Company, this proposal would result in an annual fuel revenue increase of approximately $221.8 million between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. The total proposed fuel factor would increase the average weighted monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kWh of electricity by $3.36, or by approximately 2.9%.

The Commission entered an Order Establishing 2018-2019 Fuel Factor Proceeding (“Order”) that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing to be held on July 25, 2018, 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 15 minutes before the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. Individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in the hearing should contact the Commission at least seven (7) days before the scheduled hearing at 1-800-552-7945.

In its Order, the Commission also allowed the Company to place its proposed fuel factor of 2.719¢/kWh into effect on an interim basis for usage on or after July 1, 2018.

Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case 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.

The public version of the Company’s Application, pre-filed testimony, and exhibits are available for public inspection during regular business hours at all of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A copy of the public version of the Company’s Application also may be obtained, at no cost, by written request to counsel for Dominion Energy Virginia, Horace P. Payne, Jr., Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

On or before July 18, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments 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 July 18, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR2018-00067.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before June 14, 2018. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be filed with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at counsel’s 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-2018-00067. Interested persons should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for further details on participation as a respondent.

On or before June 14, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case. 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 set forth above. In all filings, respondents 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-2018-00067.

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

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

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Terraforming Downtown We have watched with interest the recent months of construction and changes to the Downtown landscape.

We point particularly to the new Pulse bus rapid transit stops dotting Broad Street and the skinny white waisthigh posts delineating a new bike lane along Franklin Street, with the “floating” parking that make driving down Franklin Street more like a hazards lesson from an old driver training video.

We admit to having a healthy measure of skepticism and hesitation over these new additions, in part because of the inconvenience and lost business 20 months of Pulse construction has heaped on small shops and restaurants along its route, and the resulting traffic headaches because of the Broad Street work zones.

Thank goodness those problems are coming to an end, and we hope merchants can make up for the losses with the new Pulse service bringing more customers into Downtown and through additional marketing being considered by City Hall.

The new Pulse stations, which look like something out of “The Jetsons,” are attractive, especially at night with their neon lights aglow.

But we question whether it was worth spending $64 million to add Pulse service from Rocketts Landing to The Shops at Willow Lawn when a regular, GRTC express bus could have served the same purpose.

Drivers also will have to learn the new patterns along Broad Street, with narrower lanes that switch back and forth.

As for the new bike lane on Franklin Street, we haven’t seen a surge of bicyclists rolling through Downtown to justify taking away a travel lane from cars to accommodate the two-wheelers. But perhaps like in the movie “Field of Dreams,” if you build it, they will come.

Change, we know, can be good. And, yes, change takes some getting used to.

But as the Downtown and the city as a whole continue to gentrify and evolve, we want to make sure the efforts are not simply to terraform Downtown for the monied newcomers looking to leave the suburbs for a taste of urban living. Our efforts must be to ensure that Richmond is a vibrant, accessible and meaningful place that works for and serves the needs of all, including the long-timers, old-timers and not so economically well off.

No one should be left behind when the bus — and the latest dream for Downtown — leaves the station.

Election Day, Tuesday, June 12 We want to remind voters that next Tuesday, June 12, is primary Election Day. Primary elections are being held across the state to select candidates who will carry the Democratic or Republican banner to the November general election contests.

Voters in the city of Richmond and portions of Henrico and Chesterfield counties have the opportunity to cast a ballot in Tuesday’s Republican Party primary for U.S. Senate and for the 4th Congressional District.

Republicans Nick Freitas of Richmond, E.W. Jackson of Chesapeake and Corey A. Stewart of Woodbridge are vying for the GOP nomination to run against U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, in the fall.

In the 4th District GOP contest for the U.S. House of Representatives, Shion Fenty of Richmond and Ryan McAdams of Charles City are seeking their party’s nomination to run against Congressman A. Donald McEachin, a Democrat, in November.

Henrico and Chesterfield voters who live in the 7th Congressional District will have the option to request a ballot for the GOP primary or the Democratic primary, but not both.

Voters in the 7th District who request a Republican primary ballot will be able to select a GOP candidate to run for U.S. Senate in November. Those who request a ballot for the Democratic primary will be able to choose between Democrats Abigail Spanberger of Henrico and Dan Ward of Orange County to challenge Republican Congressman Dave Brat in November.

We stress here the importance of voting, and the importance of strategically choosing a candidate who ultimately has the backbone to take on the job in Washington and help deliver us from the chaos of President Trump.

In reviewing the candidates, we believe Democrat Dan Ward most closely aligns with our vision of what will take Virginia and the nation forward, including a ban on military-style assault rifles; tougher gun control measures; universal health care with a plan to move toward a single-payer system; greater support for public education for the future of our young people and the nation; and funding critical infrastructure measures, including access to broadband, that will help create jobs opportunities. ​This week, we observed the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. His untimely death came on the heels of the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Their deaths dealt a devastating blow to the nation and, later, to the push to end poverty and economic and social injustice for millions of Americans.

We hope the candidates who are chosen in this primary, and in the November general election, can recommit themselves to that push and will work to get the nation back on a track toward justice, opportunity and equality for all.

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Police serve punitive system of justice There were two marches in Richmond last Saturday to address the city’s brokenness. One march was to protest the police shooting of Marcus-David Peters. The other was a prayer march aimed at bathing our city in prayer and light.

I attended the prayer march, but it was not an easy decision.

I sympathize with the Peters family, I pray for them at this time of their deep loss and I stand in support of African-Americans and others who want police shootings to stop.

Ultimately, I chose the prayer march because I was concerned that the march to police headquarters might blame police for the shootings instead of the real problem — the punitive system of justice that our police are required to serve. We have ample evidence that the best of people in a bad system do bad things.

If I were a police officer in this system, I can easily imagine making a split-second decision that, in hindsight, was wrong. If punishment was the consequence for admitting I was wrong, I think I would adamantly defend my mistake as legal. I am not surprised when this happens.

Police shootings, youth gangs, racism and even rampant drug addiction are symptoms of a deep systemic problem. When

we understand justice as taking an eye for an eye, as punishment that fits the crime, and as getting even, we feel justified in harming others. We stand by as our government harms others. We teach our children to harm those who harm them: “Don’t start the fight, but if they hit you first, hit them back even harder.”

Sylvia Clute Retributive justice is based on the moral principle of proportional revenge — harm is moral so long as the harm done is proportional (equal in measure) to the harm being reacted to. The symbol for this model of justice is a set of scales — the eyes gouged out are to equal the teeth bashed in.

We need a new system, a new understanding of justice. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that an eye for an eye was the old law. His new law is this: Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way you will be acting as true sons of your father in heaven. For He gives His sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too. Sadly, over 2,000 years later, we are still doing an eye-foran-eye justice system.

There is another way. We can teach our children justice, not as retribution and revenge, but justice as love. This is system change! What does justice as love look like in practice? We find it in many places when we know what to look for.

Justice as love is grounded in

strong community values more than written rules. We don’t just teach our children to obey the law.

We teach our children values like respect, honesty, integrity, kindness and generosity by modeling these values in our lives. We don’t need to abolish written laws, but we do need to see that our written laws are consistent with our values.

This means some laws need to be changed, like legalized usury that especially harms poor people and has been deemed immoral for millennia by all major faith traditions.

Justice as love embodies equality — not my-car-is-as-big-as-yours equality, but equality as inclusion, respect and dignity without exception. That’s the Golden Rule: Do unto others —not some others, not the others who look like you — do unto all others as you would have them do unto you.

Justice as love sees a harm done as a cry for love. It gets at the root cause of that cry —the unhealed wounds, the unmet needs and the system that has us all trapped in justice as retribution and revenge.

Justice as love does something about the root causes without answering harm with more harm.

It does not condone harm — by anyone — as moral.

At the South Side prayer march, there was a moment toward the end when a group of men laid hands on Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham and prayed for him to have the strength and wisdom to lead this city out of its pain. He can’t do that if we keep doing what we keep doing.

BET head pried open unwieldy doors Debra L. Lee is a member of an exclusive club — AfricanAmerican CEOs. While the Oscars struggle to be less white and dashes of color are increasingly becoming a mainstay on our movie and television screens, black representation in leadership and executive office suites remains abysmally poor at media companies and otherwise.

Despite the long odds and doubly fortified barriers to entry for African-American woman in corporate America, Ms. Lee sat at the helm of Black Entertainment Television for two decades, and for 17 of those years, BET Networks remained the No. 1 cable network among African-American viewers, broadening the media landscape for creatives of color and audiences in search of their experiences and stories on screen.

Ms. Lee was born in 1954, the year of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision that outlawed public school segregation. In 1972, she graduated from North Carolina’s Greensboro-Dudley High School in a school system still divided by racial segregation. As she recalls, what was lacking in resources was compensated for by “teachers who really cared.” She attended Brown University, graduating with a bachelor’s in political science with an emphasis in Asian politics. She went on to earn her law degree from Harvard University and a master’s in public policy in 1980.

After serving as both a law clerk and an attorney at a corporate law firm, in 1986, Ms. Lee joined BET

as its first vice president and general counsel. Ten years later, she was elevated to network president and chief operating officer. By 2005, she became BET’s chairman and CEO. Her commitment to reinvigorating a brand once synonymous with

Marc H. Morial the excesses of ’90s hip-hop came with a new direction for BET and a series of cable television network successes.

Under her leadership, the series premiere of “The Game” debuted as the most-watched in cable television history. In 2017, “The New Edition Story” mini-series became the highest-rated television biopic of all times.

After doubling BET’s production budget, Ms. Lee introduced new talent and original programming to the channel, including fan favorites “Being Mary Jane” and “The Real Husbands of Hollywood.” The push for original, authentic programming brought with it high ratings, growing popularity, soaring profit and a determination to assert BET’s reach beyond the edges of our television screens.

BET’s evolution also included the launch of its website, BET.com, and the launch of the network’s sister channel, BET Her, the first network designed to target AfricanAmerican women.

Ms. Lee acquired the television rights to the annual award show “Black Girls Rock!” and continued to elevate the prominence and prestige of the BET Awards. She recently launched Leading Women Defined, an annual gathering of thought leaders that convenes notable African-American women, including former First Lady Mi-

chelle Obama, Venus Williams and Issa Rae, to discuss issues that have a direct impact on the black community.

Her decades-long commitment and dedication to the success of BET has not gone unnoticed. Ms. Lee’s litany of honors includes being named one of Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. She also earned a spot on Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list and Black Enterprise’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America.

She also has been honored with the Distinguished Leadership Vanguard Award by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association — a first for an African-American female executive — and was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. In 2017, the Grammy organization recognized her with the Salute to Industry Icons Award, making her the first and only woman to receive the honor.

In the beginning, Ms. Lee’s journey to BET may have appeared far from promising. In her early school career, she suffered from some of the very same inequities too many students of color continue to face today in our public schools. But despite the obstacles and the odds, she went on to successfully run a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

This year, Ms. Lee steps down as the chairman and CEO of BET, but her story, her era and her legacy does not end here. Her lasting influence will be felt every time another man or woman of color advances through the unwieldy doors she pried opened, takes the helm of a corporation and increases the membership roll of the exclusive African-American CEO club.

The writer is president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League.

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Virginia is for lovers. Let’s make Richmond the City for Justice as Love. We can begin by implementing a model of restorative justice in our schools that models justice as love. A pilot program a few years ago did this on a small scale at Armstrong High School.

This is a link to a 2-minute video of four Armstrong students who were in my Restorative Justice class explaining what they learned: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=JQDR2Ex_hdI&t=39s Our churches, temples and mosques can teach justice as love with commitment and passion. It means we have to give up justice as vengeance, but every major spiritual tradition has scripture that guides us on the path to justice as love.

Then we can have one march, a march to declare Richmond as the City for Justice as Love. We can do this.

The writer is a former Richmond area trial attorney who is president of the nonprofit Alliance for Unitive Justice.

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Marcus-David Peters and how racism drives policy, funding Re “Senseless? Fatal shooting of unarmed and naked Marcus-David Peters by Richmond Police generates questions, protests,” Free Press May 31-June 2 edition: Marcus-David Peters, the unarmed high school teacher shot and killed May 14 by a Richmond Police officer, worked a second job to make ends meet as a lot of our teachers are forced to do.

A television report about the shooting showed a student of his, an African-American teenager, remembering the last words Mr. Peters spoke to her class as they prepared for SOLs: “Keep your head up. Never look down. I will never leave y’all. I will stay with y’all until you finish graduating.”

Unfortunately for his students, Mr. Peters won’t be able to be there. He is the latest in a long line of black men who have been killed by police in a manner that simply cannot be justified.

Richmond City Council has remained silent.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney tweeted “thoughts &

prayers.”

Watching the video released by the Richmond Police Department, it was clear that Mr. Peters was in mental distress. He had no weapon. He needed help. I hope one thing that comes of this is that we learn how RPD goes about training its officers on what their options are. It is possible to deal with challenging situations without killing someone, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the video.

If we need to put RPD protocol, training procedures and policy on trial to take Mr. Peters’ sister’s call for justice and reformation seriously, then that’s precisely what we must do.

In Richmond, the city has honored the police department’s request for body cameras for all officers. But we are finishing a budget cycle that will leave our schools without. It will leave students without counselors and social workers and after-school programs they need. It will leave staff without a raise generated from recurring revenue that they can be secure in and ensures students can rely on the stability of seeing the

same teachers year after year. A $31 million dollar maintenance request was met with $1.5 million dollars, and so the stories of rats and wiring that could electrocute students and staff will likely continue.

It is hard to get funding for an institution that educates black people. It is so easy to get funding for an institution that kills black people. It makes no sense. And so we are forced to reckon with the fact that, as a society, we are either insane or we have allowed racism to organize our society’s priorities.

In understanding structural racism, we see that teachers endure the challenge of working conditions politically produced by anti-black racism. The absolute starvation of Richmond Public Schools is only possible because of how powerful racism and racists remain.

Corporate elites would find it harder to defend their low tax rates that leave public coffers empty if they could not so easily — vis-à-vis the elected officials they put in office — divide us by race and operationalize anti-black racism

to question whether black people are deserving of education — or of life.

If you care about public education, then the fight against racism is your fight. There is no way to win the funding we need and transform RPS without winning the fight against racism.

And if you believe in building a just Richmond, then the fight against police violence, which is driven by racism, is also your fight. You could lose a student, your student could lose a parent and, as we saw in Mr. Peters’ devastating case, we could lose a teacher.

I was proud to see members of Richmond Teachers for Social Justice and Support Richmond Public Schools at the May 26 event supporting Mr. Peters and the Peters family. We are building a public education movement in Richmond that is going to take racial injustice head on.

Let’s show up for Marcus. Let’s show up for justice and reformation.

GARY BRODERICK Richmond

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John Marshall High’s trophy case sparkles despite poor track condition What John Marshall High School lacks in track and field facilities, it compensates for with athleticism and determination.

The high school in North Side has one of the worst tracks, but one of the best track teams in Central Virginia.

John Marshall is one of just two public schools in Richmond, Henrico, Hanover and Chesterfield without an all-weather track. Thomas Jefferson High School in the West End is the other.

“Dirt and rock,” is how 12-year Coach Kelvin Aiken describes John Marshall’s gravely oval with no marked lanes and plenty of ruts. The jumping runways and pits and throwing circles seem more likely to cause injuries than breed champions.

“Because we can’t really practice on campus, we kind of use our meets to learn the events,” Coach Aiken said.

Despite the headwinds, the Justices wear the champion’s crown for the 12-school Region 3B and had high hopes for the State 3A meet last Friday and Saturday at Harrisonburg High School. But John Marshall withdrew from the state meet when inclement weather forced last Saturday’s events to be postponed to Sunday, June 3, according to the Justices’ Activities Director Lamont Davis. John Marshall’s only scoring was sixth in the discus last Friday by Robert Norris.

At the regionals held at Huguenot High School, two seniors with plenty of bounce in their step, but just two years of experience, led the way for John Marshall.

Fraquel Williams and Ke’Shawn Brooks both commute to John Marshall from Franklin Military Academy. Both plan to

continue track at Norfolk State University.

Williams was second in the long jump (20 feet 11¼ inches), second in the triple jump (42 feet 4 inches) and third in the high jump (5 feet 10 inches).

“The sand is like my home,” Williams said of the landing areas.

On the racing ovals, Williams sparkles as well, taking second in the 400 meters (51.87 seconds) and seventh in the 200 meters (23.73).

Asked about how well he performed with limited experience and practice, Williams smiled and said, “All natural. Born with it.”

Williams’ best friend, Brooks, was equally dazzling and versatile in the regionals. In addition to taking third place in the 200 meters(23.5), Brooks found rhythm with the hurdles, taking second in the 300-meter hurdles (39.76) and third in the 110-meter hurdles (15.79).

It’s a wonder Brooks is such an efficient hurdler considering John Marshall has just five hurdles to practice.

In the past, John Marshall has tried traveling to Sports Backers Stadium, Henrico High School and George Wythe High School for workouts.

“But we keep getting run off and transportation is always an issue,” Coach Aiken said. “One place we do go is Bryan Park, where we run a 400-meter course, all uphill.”

Bryan Park is 1.4 miles from John Marshall.

Once optimistic change was coming, Coach Aiken said he has “given up” on waiting for an upgrade in facilities.

“Plans are dead and stinking,” he said. “It ended with money Richmond is giving Washington (pro football team) to train here,” Coach Aiken said.

Because of the limitations, John Marshall hasn’t hosted a track meet in many years. All the team’s meets are on the road. For every meet, the team piles into a bus and hits the highway.

But say this for the Justices: Rarely do they return home empty handed. While the track facilities may be bare, the trophy case is dazzling.

Justices prevail These athletes led John Marshall High School to the Region 3B Boys Championship on May 22 at Huguenot High School: • Fraquel Williams: Second in long jump and triple jump; third in high jump; second in 400; seventh in 200.

• Ke’Shawn Brooks: Second in 300 hurdles and open 200; third in 110 hurdles.

• Robert Norris: Third in 100; second in discus; third in shot put.

• Justin Carter: Second in shot put.

• Darrian Underwood: Fourth in 110 hurdles; sixth in 300 hurdles.

• Eric Talley-Thomas: Fourth in 1,600.

• Josh Cotman: Sixth in 400.

• Dominic Ross: Seventh in triple jump.

Huguenot Falcons end baseball season on a high note A league of their own?

Huguenot High School Coach Rex Carpenter dreams of baseball on a level playing field.

At least for baseball, Coach Carpenter proposes a conference involving five Richmond high schools — Huguenot, George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall andArmstrong — along with Petersburg and Charles City.

“We could play each other twice, have playoffs and have our own championship. It wouldn’t have to go any further than that,” he said.

But for the foreseeable future, the Division 3-4 city schools will continue playing unrealistic schedules, including numerous Division 5-6 schools. The divisions are based on school enrollment.

“It’s more than just enrollment,” said Coach Carpenter.

“The county kids have played all their lives and swing $400 bats. We’ve got kids who’ve never played and pick up the $39.95 model.”

Huguenot High and other city programs operate with no junior varsity teams, meaning city freshmen and sophomores may face juniors and seniors from county schools.

Despite structural changes in the Virginia High School League in recent years, smaller city schools can’t seem to shake free from long-standing relationships with larger county programs.

Former Highland Springs standout now winning honors in Sweden Brandon Rozzell is from Highland Springs, but he adapts well to any location with a basketball hoop.

After pro stints in the Netherlands and Denmark, the former guard with Highland Springs High School and Virginia Commonwealth University has found the baskets in Sweden much to his liking.

Rozzell, 29, earned Player of the Year, Import of the Year and Guard of the Year honors Brandon Rozzell this past season for BC Lulea of Basketligan, a conference of nine Swedish franchises affiliated with the International Basketball Federation, or FIBA. Awards were voted on by Eurobasket.com.

Lulea is a harbor city of about 75,000 in northeast Sweden on the Gulf of Bothnia.

Wearing No. 32, the same number he wore at VCU, Rozzell averaged 16.6 points, 3.9 assists and 3.3 rebounds this past season in leading Lulea to the regular-season title and to playoff finals. Known for his confident long-range marksmanship, he hit 41.6 percent this season behind the 3-point arc.

This was Rozzell’s second season in Lulea. In 2016-17, he was the Most Valuable Player in the playoffs, leading Lulea to the championship.

Coincidentally, the only other American playing with Lulea is also a Virginian, Quinton Upshur, from Norfolk’s Booker T. Washington High School. Upshur played collegiately at Northern Arizona University.

Rozzell has a track record of individual and team success playing for former Highland Spring High Coach George Lancaster and former VCU Coach Shaka Smart.

Rozzell was All-Metro Player of the Year, an honor he shared with Ed Davis in 2007 pacing Highland Springs to the State Group AAA title.

In 2011, he came off the bench for VCU, averaging 12 points and hitting 78 3-pointers in the Rams’ drive to the NCAA Final Four. He finished with 972 career points.

Prior to his arrival in Sweden, Rozzell was the Danish League MVP in 2016 with the Svendborg Rabbits.

For the past two seasons, Rozzell has represented VCU Ram Nation in The Basketball Tournament. VCU will host TBT South Regional on July 14 and 15 at the Siegel Center. Rozzell is expected to play again, along with the likes of VCU alumni Eric Maynor and Bradford Burgess.

Rozzell is at least the second former VCU standout to gain fame in a Scandinavian nation. After playing the 1974-75 season with the NBA Buffalo Braves, former Ram Bernard Harris has enjoyed decades of success as a player and coach in Finland. Harris remains a Finnish resident.

Two of many pluses for Huguenot High School baseball this spring were Coach Rex Carpenter and player Joewie Rodriguez.

First-year Coach Carpenter is a bundle of enthusiasm.

Rodriguez, a precocious freshman pitcher and shortstop from Puerto Rico, is a bundle of talent.

Baseball has made a bit of a comeback at the Forest Hill Avenue school after decades of dreariness with the Falcons’ 7-8 record and earning a 4A playoff berth.

Seven victories might not seem too exciting, until you scan the history book.

“I’ve Googled it and talked to a lot of people, and from what I’ve learned, this is our most wins in 40 years,” said Coach Carpenter.

Nailing down exact statistics would be next to impossible, but there is no doubt the program is on the upswing with a young lineup and room to grow.

Coach Carpenter took the position with no previous baseball coaching experience. He had been the Falcons’ junior varsity football coach for the last five seasons.

“I just went to a lot of conferences and read coaching manuals,” he explained.

“I did play baseball here when it was Jefferson-Huguenot-Wythe in the 1980s

and remember getting smeared.”

Out of nowhere, Coach Carpenter, who calls himself “rookie coach,” caught a huge break when Rodriguez strolled into his office and announced in Spanish he wanted to try out.

Rodriguez, 15, arrived from Puerto Rico last December to live with his father, Gustavo. He studies in Huguenot’s English as a Second Language program.

“I had no clue who Joewie was. He just showed up,” said Coach Carpenter. “But he’s turned out to be one heck of a player.

He pitches, plays short stop, hits third in our lineup, batted around .500, struck out 52 batters. He’s got everyone talking.”

Through interpreter-teammate Mauricio Sosa, Rodriguez said, “I want to go big,” when asked of his baseball ambitions.

Rodriguez noted that a close friend of the family from Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, was Luis Pintor, now with the Florida Marlins organization.

It’s not like Huguenot’s spring victories came over juggernauts, but you’ve got to start somewhere.

The Falcons defeated George Wythe High twice, Thomas Jefferson High, Armstrong High, Petersburg High, Charles City County High and Chesterfield’s Meadowbrook High.

Coach Carpenter may be more proud of

close losses to Division 6 foes Manchester High and Clover Hill High in Chesterfield County.

“We had Manchester tied 0-0 after five, and we lost to Clover Hill in extra innings,” he said.

One senior Coach Carpenter hates losing is rangy centerfielder Mike Roland, who has signed up for the Army following graduation.

“He’s runs like a deer and throws like a cannon,” Coach Carpenter said of Roland.

Among the underclassmen expected back are third baseman Keyshawn Arthur, first baseman Deshawn Miles and catcher Jalen Tyler, who may be the Falcons’ starting football quarterback this fall.

Huguenot High has an advantage over other city schools because it has the best ball field by far — a fully fenced, wellmanicured layout with a grass infield and irrigation.

It’s at a disadvantage, however, because of its larger enrollment that has the Falcons competing in the more highly competitive Division 4.

Coach Carpenter, an optimist by nature, will accept the pluses with the minuses.

“I’m proud of what we’ve done,” he said, “and already looking forward to next season. I can’t wait.”

Who’s the best?

LeBron James

‘King James’ or ‘Air Jordan’?

Michael Jordan

There are two basketball arguments nowadays you just can’t win. No matter how loud you raise your voice, you can’t convince a Michael Jordan loyalist that LeBron James is the better baller.

And regardless of how much you twist your face, you’re not going to convince a James admirer that Jordan was the superior player.

So rather than get all hot and bothered, let’s examine some facts and figures, courtesy of Basketball Reference.com.

Hometowns Jordan: Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up in Wilmington, N.C. James: A native of Akron, Ohio College Jordan: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill James: He went from high school to the 2003 NBA draft Personal stats Jordan: 6-foot-6, 216 pounds James: 6-foot-8, 250 pounds NBA careers Jordan: Played 1984 through 2003 with the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards. He sat out in 1993-94 to play baseball and retired for three seasons from 1999 through 2001.

James: From 2003 with the NBA, he has played consecutively with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat and now, again, with Cleveland.

Nicknames Jordan: “Air Jordan” James: “King James” Number of regular season games Jordan: 1,072 James: 1,143 Scoring average Jordan: 30.1 points James: 27.2 points Rebound average Jordan: 6.2 per game James: 7.4 per game Assists average Jordan: 5.3 per game James: 7.2 per game Shooting percentage Jordan: 49.7 James: 54.2 Three-point shooting percentage Jordan: 32.7 James: 36.7 Free throw percentage Jordan: 83.5 James: 73.1 Number of MVP Awards Jordan: Five James: Four For playoffs

Number of Finals games Jordan: 179 James: 237 Scoring Finals average Jordan: 33.4 points James: 28.9 points Rebound Finals average Jordan: 6.4 per game James: 8.9 per game Assists Finals average Jordan: 5.7 per game James: 7.0 per game Shooting Finals percentage Jordan: 48.7 James: 49.1 Three-point Finals shooting percentage Jordan: 33.2 James: 33.3 Free throw shooting Finals percentage Jordan: 82.8 James: 74.2 Defense Jordan: Nine-time NBA AllDefensive pick and 1988 Defensive Player of the Year James: NBA All-Defensive pick in 2014 and a five-time NBA Defensive second-team pick

Championships Jordan: Won six NBA titles in six trips to the finals, all with Chicago James: Won three NBA titles — two with Miami, one with Cleveland — in eight previous trips. His spokesperson makes it clear the book is far from closed.

So that’s the evidence. Now what’s the verdict?

At last check, the jury remains hopelessly deadlocked.

NBA Finals It’s the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors led 2-0 entering Game 3 on Wednesday, June 6.

Game 4 will be played Saturday, June 9, at Cleveland, 9 p.m. Games 5, 6 and 7, if necessary, will be Monday, June 11, Thursday, June 14, and Sunday, June 17.

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Personality: Veronica B. Nugent Spotlight on founder of Richmond Parkinson’s Dance Project Veronica B. Nugent uses dance to help people with Parkinson’s disease.

The dance instructor and owner of Simply Ballroom Dance Studio in Chesterfield County provides specialized, free weekly classes that help people with the debilitating disease with balance and movement while offering an opportunity to socialize.

Through the nonprofit Richmond Parkinson’s Dance Project, Ms. Nugent’s program is part of a national network of dance instructors using the power of dance to help transform the lives of people with Parkinson’s and help alleviate their pain.

“The class addresses such Parkinson’s specific concerns as balance, flexibility and coordination,” Ms. Nugent says.

“The classes engage participants’ minds and bodies and creates an enjoyable social environment that emphasizes dancing rather than therapy.

“One of the other issues with Parkinson’s is depression and isolation,” she continues.

“People become homebound and lose touch with friends and regular social activity. Our class is not only about dancing and movement, but also as much about giving people a place to socialize with others.”

Ms. Nugent, an Iowa native who grew up in Texas, has been a dance instructor since 1991, shortly after the movie “Dirty Dancing” came out with Patrick Swayze and she was working in Washington with the American Council of the Blind. Her part-time evening job at the Washington studio turned into a full-time job in Richmond.

During a visit home to Texas at the time, she learned that her father, Gustav Braun, a physician and immigrant from Hungary, had developed Parkinson’s, a disease that impacts the central nervous system that affects movement. It is often marked by a progressive loss of muscle control, leaving those affected with tremors, a shuffling gait and impaired balance that slowly worsens. As the disease progresses, it becomes more difficult to walk, talk, dress and complete simple tasks.

“At first, it didn’t seem like a big deal,” Ms. Nugent says of her father’s condition. “But every time I would go home, it looked like it had gotten worse.”

But hope sprang from a dance magazine article Ms. Nugent happened upon about retired ballet dancers and their activities at the end of their careers.

“One of the ladies from the Houston Ballet was running a Dance for Parkinson’s program,” Ms. Nugent says. “I contacted her and arranged for my stepmom and I to take him there during my next visit.

“At the time, he was in a wheelchair, could not walk and was not really speaking much,” she recalls. “Parkinson’s affects

the vocal chords as well as body movement.

“The class was pretty amazing. By the end of class, he was up out of his wheelchair, striding across the floor to the song, ‘New York, New York.’

While it is not a miracle cure, music is helpful to people with Parkinson’s to facilitate movement. Dancing uses imagery and connects mind to body to also create and facilitate movement.”

When Ms. Nugent returned to Virginia, she researched the program and found the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., which runs a training program. She went to New York to train and brought the program to Richmond.

“I’m excited to be able to offer this in Richmond,” she says. “Even though I found out about it too late to help my dad — he died in 2010 — I am happy to do something in his memory that I know he would have enjoyed.

“Because of him, I felt like if I could help other people, it would make a difference in some people’s lives.”

Meet this week’s Personality and inspiring dance instructor, Veronica B. Nugent: Date and place of birth: Jan. 30 in Iowa City, Iowa.

Current residence: Colonial Heights.

Occupation: Owner of Simply Ballroom Dance Studio in Chesterfield.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in government, University of Texas at Austin.

Family: Husband, Lee Nugent, and two fur babies, cats Fluffy and Buddy.

Richmond Parkinson’s Dance Project is: A free weekly dance class for people with Parkinson’s disease. Our program integrates movement from modern and theater dance, ballet, folk dance, tap, improvisation and ballroom dance. The class addresses such PD-specific concerns as balance, flexibility, coordination, isolation and depression.

How dancing helps people who have Parkinson’s: The Richmond Parkinson’s Dance

Project is based on the premise that professionally trained dancers are movement experts whose knowledge is useful to persons with Parkinson’s disease. Dancers know all about stretching and strengthening muscles and about balance and rhythm. Dancers know about the power of dance to concentrate mind, body and emotion on movement because they use their thoughts, imagination, eyes, ears and touch to control their bodies every day.

Ty p e s o f d a n c e s taught: We start with everyone seated in a circle and do several “chair” dances to get everyone warmed up. Then those who wish to stand behind their chairs using the chairs like a ballet barre do ballet-type barre exercises. We progress to line dances, ballroom dances, jazz, tap or modern-inspired movements. Not everyone wants to or is able to do the standing portion, but we are able to adapt all of the standing movements for those who wish to remain seated.

Oldest student taught: Our oldest was a gentleman named “Jigs” who was in his 90s. He has since passed away, but he was an enthusiastic participant for several years.

Yo u n g e s t student taught: There is a variation of Parkinson’s that affects younger people, like actor Michael J. Fox, called Young Onset Parkinson’s. But the majority of people are diagnosed in their 60s or 70s or older. Most of our participants are in that older age group.

Favorite dancer and why: Patrick Swayze!!! As they say, “Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”

I enjoy teaching dance because: I love to share the joy of dancing with others. In addition to Parkinson’s dance, I teach ballroom, Latin, swing and line dance to adults and teens. I especially love working with newcomers and people with “two left feet.” I work with younger wedding couples and empty nesters. Students come to us after kids are grown to do something fun together or sometimes after divorce or death of a spouse. It’s very rewarding to give someone a skill that will bring joy into their lives. I’ve seen very shy wallflower-type people blossom into wonderful dancers with a new circle of dance friends.

I’ve seen people come in with depression or stress in their lives and, through dance, they find happiness and joy.

What the Richmond project teaches: Balance, posture and stamina. Dance is good for the mind as well as the body. Studies have shown dance is helpful for memory issues as well. People also build friendships and it’s

a great social outlet.

Importance of family support: We welcome spouses and caregivers to our class.

It’s great to see couples dancing together, and even with Parkinson’s, it’s something they can enjoy together.

Biggest challenge: Many people think they can’t dance, especially if they are older, have never danced and now have Parkinson’s. However, if you can breathe and move, even if seated, you can dance. Once people come in and try the first class, the initial fears and reluctance fade away. Most people love coming and look forward to the weekly class. The class is more about having fun and moving to music. Previous dance skill or experience is not required.

How community can get involved: Help spread the word. If you know someone with Parkinson’s, please let them know about this free class. Also, we are looking for volunteers who have skills like social media marketing. We are growing our board, so we also are looking for new board members who have experience in nonprofits or other skills like legal skills and accounting.

How I start the day: With coffee and feeding the starving kitties. I also do yoga and take a cycling class. It helps with stress and the yoga helps get my mind centered.

A perfect day for me is: No phone calls from telemarketers and not having to deal with paying bills or other necessary but boring office work like taxes.

A day I can dance and teach is always a good day!

A quote that I am inspired by: “All the ills of mankind,

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Richmond Parkinson’s Dance Project Free dance classes for people with Parkinson’s disease are held 12:30 p.m. Mondays at Simply Ballroom Dance Studio, 3549 Courthouse Road in Chesterfield, and 11 a.m. Wednesdays at West End Academy of Dance, 10620 Patterson Ave, Suite C, in Henrico.

The Richmond project is part of a global network, Dance for PD, that offers such classes in more than 250 communities in 24 countries. For a complete list of classes and other resources, go to www.danceforpd.org.

For details on Ms. Nugent’s Richmond project, go to www.richmondparkinsonsdanceproject.com. all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” – Molière Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I am learning to play the accordion. I am a complete nerd who loves polka and Lawrence Welk reruns. My dad was Hungarian and I grew up in South Texas, so I also love the Tex-Mex “Norteño” music.

Best late-night snack: I usually get home from work around 10:30 or 11 p.m., so I eat dinner really late and usually not a late-night snack.

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That is always relaxing.

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love to travel and see more of the world.

Person who influenced me the most: My dad.

The book that influenced me the most: “The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan That Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds” by Rip Esselstyn.

What I’m reading now: “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace and Ultimate Freedom” by B.K.S. Iyengar.

Best time of my life: When I married my husband, who is my best friend. I got married finally at age 46 for the first time, which was a huge relief to my family that thought I was becoming a crazy cat lady.

My next goal: I would like to make the Richmond Parkinson’s Dance Project sustainable beyond me.

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Happenings Juneteenth events next weekend Educator and author Kaba Hiawatha Kamene will be the keynote speaker for Juneteenth 2018, A Freedom Celebration, sponsored June 15 through 17 by the Elegba Folklore Society.

This year’s theme: “399 … On the Eve of Great Substance.”

Mr. Kamene will speak at a symposium at 7:15 p.m. Friday, June 15, at Pine Camp Cultural Arts and Community Center, 4901 Old Brook Road.

Other highlights include performances by dancers from the Elegba Folklore Society and vendors in The Freedom Market.

Advance tickets are $12 and $22 for two people; at the door, $13 and $24 for two; students ages 12 to 18, $5; children under Mr. Kamene 12 are free.

Juneteenth began on June 19, 1865, in Texas when a Union general issued a proclamation announcing freedom to people still held in slavery two and a half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. The freedom celebration has since become a tradition in communities across the nation.

Richmond’s three-day family event pays homage to enslaved Africans and the impact of the trade of enslaved Africans in Virginia.

“This event is about acknowledgment,” stated Janine Bell, president and artistic director of the Elegba Folklore Society. “Now

Africa’s children, with the children of European captors, can reclaim and understand hidden history. An enhanced level of understanding can bring needed clarity to our lives today.

On Saturday, June 16, the celebration moves to Manchester Dock, 1308 Brander St., along the James River in South Side, for Independence Day Our Way. The free events, which get underway at 3 p.m., will feature a Get Woke Youth Summit led by Mr. Kamene; music spiced with social justice commentary by Danja Mowf; comedian Micah “Bam-Bamm” White; heritage crafts and jump rope and hula hoop contests for children; African dance and drum workshops; The Freedom Market; and the Freedom and Independence Community Textile started earlier in the day at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that attendees can view and add to.

The day ends with the annual torch lit night walk on the Trail of Enslaved Africans.

Shuttle buses will be available to return people to Manchester Dock.

Juneteenth 2018 concludes Sunday, June 17, with a Homage to the Ancestors at 3 p.m. at the African Burial Ground, 16th and Broad streets, in Shockoe Bottom.

The West African spirit ritual and ceremony honoring the ancestors will be led by Virginia Ile O.D.I.S.A., and will include drumming and songs.

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Festival of the River this weekend at Brown’s Island Art, music and the environment will highlight a three-day Festival of the River this weekend on Brown’s Island.

Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens and Tony Award winning tap dancer Savion Glover will be showcased during the event, which is being staged by a collaboration of organizations, including the City of Richmond, Venture Richmond, the Richmond Symphony, Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art, 1708 Gallery, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the James River Association.

From Friday, June 8, through Sunday, June 10, the festival will feature contemporary art installations, performances under the Richmond Symphony’s “Big Tent,” cleanups along and around the James River and environmental education activities, including “Back to the Bay” in celebration of Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week.

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WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory on narrow grounds to a Colorado baker who refused based on his Christian beliefs to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, stopping short of setting a major precedent allowing people to claim religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws.

The justices, in a 7-2 decision, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed an impermissible hostility toward religion Mr. Phillips when it found that baker Jack Phillips violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by rebuffing gay couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012. The state law bars businesses from refusing service based on race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.

The court concluded that the commission violated Mr. Phillips’ religious rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

But the justices did not issue a definitive ruling on the circumstances under which people can seek exemptions from anti-discrimination laws based on religion. The decision also did not address important claims raised in the case, including whether baking a cake is a kind of expressive act protected by the Constitution’s free speech guarantee.

Two of the court’s four liberals, Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, joined the five conservative justices in the ruling authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who also wrote the landmark 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide.

The baker case became a cultural flashpoint, underscoring tensions between gay rights proponents and conservative Christians.

Both sides claimed a measure of victory. The couple’s supporters noted that the ruling embraced the importance of gay rights and made it clear that businesses open to the public must serve everyone. The baker’s lawyers said the ruling emphasized that the government must respect religious beliefs.

“It’s hard to believe that the government punished me for operating my business consistent with my beliefs about marriage. That isn’t freedom or tolerance,” Mr. Phillips said in a statement.

“Today’s decision means our fight against discrimination and unfair treatment will continue,” Mr. Mullins and Mr. Craig said in a statement. “We have always believed that in America, you should not be turned away from a business open to the public

because of who you are.”

Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults believe that businesses should not have the right on religious grounds to deny services to customers based on their sexual orientation, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday showed.

In Virginia, the advocacy organization Equality Virginia vowed to continue its efforts to secure rights for LGBT community members.

“Today’s ruling did not change the long-standing rule that businesses open to the public must be open to all,” James Parrish, executive director of Equality Virginia, said in a statement.

“We know that no one — including LGBT people — should be refused service just because of who they are. That’s why we’re happy knowing that Virginia’s vibrant LGBT community has the support of hundreds of local business who have joined Equality Means Business proclaiming that All Are Welcome.”

In writing for the court’s majority, Justice Kennedy stated, “Our society has come to the recognition that gay persons and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.”

But, he wrote, the state commission’s hostility toward religion “was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion.”

In one exchange at a 2014 hearing before the commission cited by Justice Kennedy, former commissioner Diann Rice said that “freedom of religion, and religion, has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust.”

Justice Kennedy said the commission ruled the opposite way in three cases brought against bakers in which the business owners refused to bake cakes containing messages that demeaned gay people or same-sex marriage.

President Trump’s administration, which intervened in the case in support of Mr. Phillips, welcomed the ruling.

“The First Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against citizens on the basis of religious beliefs,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.

The decision made it clear that even if the court ultimately rules in a future case that bakers or other businesses that sell creative products such as florists and wedding photographers can avoid punishment under anti-discrimination laws, most businesses open to the public would have no such defense.

Of the 50 states, 21 including Colorado have anti-discrimination laws protecting gay people.

In a written dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said what mattered was that Mr. Phillips would not provide a good or service to a same-sex couple that he would provide to a heterosexual couple.

The litigation, along with similar cases around the country, was part of a conservative Christian backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling.

Mr. Mullins and Mr. Craig were planning their wedding in Massachusetts in 2012 and wanted the cake for a reception in Colorado, where gay Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo marriage was not yet legal.

During a brief encounter at Mr. Craig and Mr. Mullins Mr. Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, the baker politely but firmly refused, leaving the couple distraught.

They filed a successful complaint with the state commission and state courts sided with the couple, prompting Mr. Phillips to appeal to the nation’s highest court.

Mr. Mullins and Mr. Craig said Mr. Phillips was using his Christian faith as pretext for unlawful discrimination based on sexual orientation. Mr. Phillips, and others like him who believe that gay marriage is inconsistent with their Christian beliefs, have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the practice.

“Government hostility toward people of faith has no place in our society, yet the state of Colorado was openly antagonistic toward Jack’s religious beliefs about marriage. The court was right to condemn that,” said lawyer Kristen Waggoner of the conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented Mr. Phillips.

The court will have the opportunity to signal its approach to handling similar cases. The justices on Thursday, June 7, will consider whether to hear an appeal by a Washington state flower shop owner who refused to create a floral arrangement to celebrate a gay wedding, based on her Christian beliefs.

A major legal fight similar to the blockbuster Christian baker case also is brewing in several states over laws allowing private agencies to block gay couples from adoptions or taking in foster children.

Nine states have laws allowing state-funded, religiously affiliated adoption agencies to refuse to place children with gay people based on religious beliefs. Republican-governed Kansas and Oklahoma passed such laws this year. Alabama, Mississippi, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia all have similar laws.

Legal challenges to those laws, some pending in lower courts, eventually could come to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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SALT LAKE CITY The Mormon Church will celebrate the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on black people serving in the lay priesthood, going on missions or getting married in temples, rekindling debate about one of the faith’s most sensitive topics.

The church officially marked the anniversary with a starstudded gala on June 1 that was broadcast and live-streamed from the LDS Church’s 21,000-seat conference center in Salt Lake City and headlined by the world’s most famous black Mormon, Gladys Knight.

The theme: “Be One,” a reference to a Mormon scripture.

Leading up to the event, the church rolled out a multistage campaign intended to highlight the distance between Mormonism of the pre-1978 past and Mormonism of today, at least when it comes to race. The campaign also included a joint news conference in May between the LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson and national NAACP President Derrick Johnson. The two leaders announced that the church and the NAACP would partner on a series of initiatives intended to “demonstrate greater civility, racial and ethnic harmony, and mutual respect.”

The number of black Mormons has grown but still only accounts for an estimated 6 percent of 16 million worldwide members. In the United States, African-Americans account for about 1 percent to 3 percent of 6.6 million Mormons, according to Pew Research Center surveys done in the last two decades.

Not one black person serves in the highest levels of global leadership.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has worked to improve race relations, including calling out white supremacy and launching a new formal alliance with the NAACP. But some black Mormons and scholars say discriminatory opinions linger in some congregations from a ban rooted in a belief that black skin was a curse.

In a 2013 essay, the church disavowed the reasons behind the ban and condemned all racism, saying the prohibition came during an era of great racial divide that influenced early church

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members of her congregation in Orem, Utah, and she tries to talk about race issues regularly with the teenagers she teaches in Sunday school.

Ms. Williams, an assistant professor in social work at Utah Valley University, would like an apology.

“If we preach repentance, we should definitely embody it,” she said.

The anniversary event, said Ahmad Corbitt, a church employee who led the organizing effort, “is a call to the entire church, and by extension, the entire world, to let go of prejudices and come together as one unified family.”

Darius Gray, co-founder of the Genesis Group that supports black Mormons, said the church and its doctrine aren’t racist but racism lingers in the faith as it does in society.

He said he has been plagued by calls from Mormons concerned about how they’re being treated, which he attributes to a rise in racism in the United States since President Trump was elected.

He said he wouldn’t be opposed to an apology for the ban, but that he’s more interested in helping the faith make progress in rooting out racism. Mr. Gray, who helped plan Friday’s event, said it’s a step toward healing.

“An apology is here today and gone tomorrow,” Mr. Gray said. “More significant is what an organization does long term.

The LDS church has been moving forward and changed its paradigm in massive ways.”

Mormons probably shouldn’t wait for a rare apology from church leaders, said W. Paul Reeve, a Mormon studies professor at the University of Utah. The church seems to be trying to walk a tight rope by disavowing past beliefs while not apologizing for the ban to avoid members questioning other doctrine they think should be changed, he said.

“What else are they wrong about? Are they wrong about gay marriage? Are they wrong about female ordination?” Dr. Reeve said. “If they got race and the priesthood wrong, what else could they be wrong about? I think that’s part of the fear.”

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teachings. Black people were always allowed to be members, but the nearly century-long ban kept them from participating in many important rituals.

Scholars said the essay included the church’s most comprehensive explanation for the ban and its June 8, 1978, reversal, “Revelation on the Priesthood.” Church leaders say the reversal came from a revelation from God. But it didn’t include an apology, leaving some unsatisfied.

“A lot of members are waiting for the church just to say, ‘We were wrong,’ ” Rachel Molenda/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP said Phylicia Norris-Jimenez, a 30-year-old black Mormon Gladys Knight directs the and member of the grass-roots Be One Choir at the Mormon Black LDS Legacy ComChurch’s celebration June 1 in Salt Lake City. mittee, a group of women organizing a conference for Saturday, June 9, in Utah to honor the legacy of black Mormon pioneers.

Ms. Norris-Jimenez said non-black church members still struggle with how to talk about the ban or understand the pain it causes. She said the anniversary celebration honors something that should have never existed but that it’s a good gesture and hopefully leads to more discussions about race.

A fellow group member, LaShawn Williams, said she finds comfort in her belief that the ban was a “policy of people, not a policy of God,” made during a racist time.

Ms. Williams and her three children are the only black

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Richmond Free Press

June 7-9, 2018

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Obituaries/Faith Directory

Altamese R. Johnson, former teacher and longtime lobbyist, dies at 87 Altamese Rush Johnson moved from teaching school to lobbying the government on behalf of Virginia’s senior citizens and pushing to raise the profile of women in politics.

After teaching fourth-graders in Richmond for 31 years, Mrs. Johnson found a new calling as a volunteer advocate on behalf of the Virginia Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons.

For nearly 25 years, she would buttonhole legislators and testify before committees at the Virginia General Assembly on issues important to retirees. She often was quoted in newspaper reports in providing AARP positions on legislation.

Mrs. Johnson also would frequently travel to Washington to meet with members of Congress as the Virginia AARP advocate, said her daughter, attorney Zenobia J. Peoples of Richmond.

“She loved teaching and advocating for the less fortunate,” Ms. Peoples said. “But most of all, she was a doer. She did not squander time.

She loved people and she loved life, and she lived it to the fullest.”

Mrs. Johnson succumbed to illdaughter said. ness on Friday, May 25, 2018. She In the 1980s, Mrs. Johnson joined was 87. with other Richmond women activists Family and friends celebrated her to form the now defunct Women’s life Friday, June 1, at St. Philip’s Political Network. She served as Episcopal Church, where she was a president of the group that sought to longtime member. get women involved in the political She was interred in Forest Lawn process, increase the number of voters Cemetery. and to back candidates supportive of Born in Cairo, Ga., Mrs. Johnson issues important to women and their graduated from historically black families, such as education, day care, Mrs. Johnson Albany State University in Georgia jobs and health care. and married fellow student Oscar A. Johnson.

As a Free Press Personality in DecemThe couple and their two daughters later moved ber 2015, Mrs. Johnson recounted becoming an to Richmond, where the late Mr. Johnson also AARP advocate after meeting Elvira B. Shaw taught elementary students in Richmond Public at an AARP event in the early 1990s featuring Schools. newly elected Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” As a teacher, Mrs. Johnson sought to follow Scott. in the footsteps of her schoolteacher mother who Early in her work, Mrs. Johnson took part was known for her ability to motivate students in the AARP VOTE program, going door to to learn. She began teaching in RPS in1960 and door to register people, particularly in public retired in 1991. housing communities and other low-income Mrs. Johnson got a taste for politics working neighborhoods. in political campaigns and serving as an elecShe also spoke out about protecting voting tion official at the polls on Election Day, her rights, recalling a childhood incident that helped

shape her interest. In an AARP video posted on Facebook, she recalled seeing a pickup truck full of armed white men drive down her street the day before a presidential election shouting, “There will be no voting by any of you tomorrow!”

In 2015, Mrs. Johnson was honored with the Virginia AARP’s Shaw Advocacy Award, named for the late Ms. Shaw, for her long service as an AARP advocate on the local, state and national level.

Mrs. Johnson’s “dedication to AARP is second to none at both the state and federal levels,” the AARP stated in presenting the award. “Because she lives in Richmond, she is often called upon for extra duty at the State Capitol and she is always ready to be there even at short notice.”

In the Personality article, she stated that she became active because she wanted to help fulfill the AARP vision of creating a “society in which all people live with dignity and purpose and fulfill their goals and dreams.”

Mrs. Johnson is survived by two daughters, Ms. Peoples and Tara Johnson “T.J.” Plummer, a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

Civic leader Yvonne E. Spain dies at 77

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216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 Tel: 804-643-3366 • Fax: 804-643-3367 Email: ebcoffice1@yahoo.com • web: www.richmondebenezer.com Sunday Worship Sunday Church School Service of Holy Communion Service of Baptism Life Application Bible Class Mid-Week Senior Adult Fellowship Wednesday Meditation & Bible Study Homework & Tutoring Scouting Program Thursday Bible Study

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Ms. Spain rarely tooted her own horn and usually went unrecognized when awards were handed out. But she never seemed to be bothered about that.

When people asked her why she got involved, her favorite response, acquaintances recalled, was, “Somebody has to do it.

Why not me?”

Ms. Spain has no immediate survivors.

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to ride buses or carpools, but community service consumed her.

“The expressway construction that forced her to move fired her commitment to become a neighborhood advocate,” Ms. Zimmerman said.

She served four years on the boards of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and the Richmond Metropolitan Authority.

She also was a member of

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“She pressed the issue for more than three years,” said Ms. Zimmerman, who worked closely with Ms. Spain. She said the city installed the first paved sidewalks on East 37th Street that made it easier for Ms. Spain and her elderly neighbors to walk from Hull Street to Midlothian Turnpike to catch the bus.

She also credits Ms. Spain with helping organize the South Side Unity Center to provide programs for Blackwell youths.

Born in Richmond, Ms. Spain grew up in the Randolph community, then moved to the Swansboro community after being displaced by the development of the Downtown Expressway.

Ms. Spain was a longtime office manager for dentist Dr. Ford T. Johnson and also worked at City Hall on an initiative to encourage city employees

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disabled residents in Swansboro, Blackwell and other South Side neighborhoods.

Ms. Spain also worked with Carolyn Lambert, wife of the late Richmond state Sen. Benjamin J. Lambert III, in creating an advisory board that helped bring the Southside Community Health Center of Greater Richmond to the Southside Plaza area.

Ms. Spain also had ties to the Local Initiative Support Corp., the Better Housing Coalition, Homeward, the Daily Planet and other groups that benefited the neighborhoods that she championed.

“She was a walking clearinghouse of information,” Ms. Zimmerman said. Armed with patience and persistence, Ms. Spain would pursue her objectives tirelessly even in small matters such as getting sidewalks for her street in Swansboro.

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Yvonne Elizabeth worked with civic Spain volunteered representatives of the her time and energy Bellemeade, Blackto the cause of revitalwell, Oak Grove, izing South Side.

Manchester, Forest Plugged into City Hill and Woodland Hall and numerous Heights neighborcivic and social hoods to generate service nonprofit and push initiatives groups, Ms. Spain to benefit that broad quietly served on Ms. Spain swath of South the front lines in Side. lobbying for increased city “City officials depended on attention to distressed areas her for accurate and honest of the community, such as the information, while reluctant old commercial district on Hull citizens trusted her to bring Street as well as the Blackwell, people together to brainstorm Manchester and Swansboro and develop approaches to dealneighborhoods. ing with pressing community Relatives and friends will issues,” said her longtime friend, celebrate Ms. Spain’s life at Theresa Zimmerman. noon Friday, June 8, at Fifth As a civic leader, Ms. Spain Baptist Church, 1415 W. Cary played a role in rallying comSt., according to the Joseph munity support for the massive Jenkins Jr. Funeral Home.

HOPE VI project of replacing Ms. Spain succumbed to public housing in Blackwell illness on Monday, May 28, with new homes and apartments, 2018. She was 77. and pushed for the creation of She was best known for new city master plans for Hull chairing the Old South Neigh- Street and Manchester that over borhood Teams for more than time helped spark developer 15 years — one of the now interest and new growth. dissolved groups that former She also helped plan and City Manager Robert C. Bobb organize Rebuilding Together created in the 1990s to enable volunteer programs to paint and civic associations in different fix up the homes of elderly and parts of the city to come together to provide feedback on policies and influence budget choices.

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New Deliverance Evangelistic Church

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Richmond Free Press

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, June 25, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2018-157 To amend City Code §§ 30-692.1 through 30-692.7, concerning requirements for the location and design of wireless communications facilities, microwave relay facilities, and radio and television broadcast antennas, and 30-1030.1, concerning when a plan of development is required, and to amend ch. 30, art. VI, div. 11 of the City Code by adding therein new sections 30-692.1:1, concerning definitions, and 30-692.1:2, concerning applications for the installation or construction of projects, fo r t h e p u r p o s e o f reflecting amendments to state law.

Ordinance No. 2018-158 To conditionally rezone a portion of the property known as 5800 Patterson Avenue and the properties known as 5800, 5802, 5804, 5806, 5808, 5810, and 5812 Park Avenue; and 5801, 5803, and 5805 Pratt Street from the R-4 Single-Family Residential District to the B-7C MixedUse Business District (Conditional). The City’s Master Plan recommends mixed-use land use and public & open space land use for 5800 Patterson Avenue. Primary uses for the mixed use land use category include combinations of office, retail, personal service, general commercial and ser vice uses and, in some cases, multifamily residential and dwelling units above ground floor commercial. Primary uses for the public & open space land use category include publicly owned and operated parks, recreation areas, open spaces, schools, libraries, cemeteries, and other government and public service facilities. The Master Plan recommends single-family (low density) land use for the remaining parcels. Primary uses for this category include single family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre. Includes residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses.

Ordinance No. 2018-159 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1637 Williamsburg Road for the purpose of a day nursery within a n ex i s t i n g c h u r c h , upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for this property is R-5, Single Family Residential. The City of Richmond’s current Master Plan designates the subject proper ty for Single-Family Low Density land uses which includes single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre as well as residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses.

Ordinance No. 2018-160 To authorize the special use of the property known as 2825 M Street for the purpose of two singlefamily attached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions.The property is located in the R-63 MultiFamily Urban Residential Zoning District.The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Mixed Use Residential land uses which include, single-, two-, and multi-family d w e l l i n g s, l i ve / w o r k units and neighborhood serving commercial uses developed in a traditional urban form.

These commercial uses are limited in location, type and scale and are intended to provide for the convenience of urban neighborhood residents within walking distance, to respect the primary residential character of the neighborhood and to avoid traffic, parking, noise and other impacts that typically result from uses that draw patrons from outside the neighborhood. Typical zoning classification that may accommodate this land use category: R-63 and R-8. No residential density is specified for this land use category.

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the purpose of a singlefamily attached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for this property is R-5 Single-Family Residential. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the property for Single-Family Low Density land use which includes, single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre, and residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses. The density of the development is approximately 25 units per acre.

and apart without cohabitation for a period of more than one year.

An affidavit having been filed that the present residence of the Defendant is out of state and we do not anticipate Defendant will accept service, it is ORDERED that the Defendant appear before the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico on the 25th day of June, 2018, at 9 AM and protect his interests.

An Extract Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk

SR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL18001658-00 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 t h e d e fe n d a n t , w h o s e whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 9th day of July, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests in Circuit Court #1.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 Virginia: in the circuit court for the county of hanover tyquan lewis, Plaintiff, v.

Rachelle Price, Defendant.

Case N. CL17002814-00 order of publication

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months. It is Ordered that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 16th day of July, 2018 and protect her interests.

A Copy Teste Frank D. Hargrove, J. Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure VSB #27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

successors in title, 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 KAERENE DARCEL GEORGE, SARAH MAY GEORGE-JAMEEL aka SARAH MAY GEORGE aka SARAH MAY JONES, who upon information and belief is deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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 ELLA MCCULLUM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MONTELL GRAVES and MAXIE MCCULLUM, both upon information and belief deceased, heirs of Ella McCullum according to a list of heirs recorded in the Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 640D, page 568 on September 14, 1966, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Tax Map Number E0000864/050, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Robert Lee McCray and Annie Mae McCray.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, ROBERT LEE MCCRAY, upon information and belief deceased and ANNNIE MAE MCCRAY, upon information and belief deceased, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ROBERT LEE MCCRAY, upon information and belief deceased and ANNNIE MAE MCCRAY, upon information and belief deceased, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

successors in interest, CELIA C. WOOLDRIDGE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MANNIE C. BANKS, HELEN NEWKIRK, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Ordinance No. 2018-162 To authorize the special use of the property known as 526 North Boulevard for the purpose of office uses, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is currently zoned R-48 ( M u l t i - fa m i l y U r b a n Residential). The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Multi-Family Medium Density land use, which is characterized by primary uses such as multi-family dwellings at densities up to 20 units per acre. Includes day nurseries, adult day care and residential support uses such as schools, p l a c e s o f w o r s h i p, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semipublic uses.

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

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, June 25, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 2018-168 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 2003-323-282, adopted Oct. 13, 2003, which authorized the special use of the property known as 700 Dinwiddie Avenue for the purpose of a shelter and social service delivery use, to authorize the addition of a modular classroom within an existing parking lot, under certain terms and conditions. The current zoning for the subject property is M-2, Heavy Industrial. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject proper ty as Industrial. Primary uses for this category include a wide variety of manufactur ing, processing, research and development, warehousing, distribution, office-ware- house and ser vice uses. Office, retail and other uses that complement industrial areas are often secondary support uses.

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

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

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce

Ordinance No. 2018-161 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3413 S Street for

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO HEATHER LYNN ROBINSON, Plaintiff v.

KEVIN ALTON ROBINSON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18-2203-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the Plaintiff to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the ground that the parties have continuously lived separate

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND DEBORAH ANN (THOMAS) CLAYTON, Plaintiff v.

ANTONIO TERRELL CLAYTON, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18-1896-7 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vincullo matrimonii or from the bonds of matrimony.

It appearing from an affidavit that diligence has been used without effect, by or on behalf of the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is.

It is ordered that Antonio Terrell Clayton appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before the 15th of June, 2018 at 9:00 AM. A Copy, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND Christopher mark atkinson, Plaintiff v. roula Aldiyab, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18-2087-7 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the Defendant on the ground that the parties have lived separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period of more than one year. The Plaintiff seeks dissolution of marriage only.

It appearing from an affidavit that diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Plaintiff to ascertain in what County or City the Defendant is, without effect, it is ordered that the Defendant appear before this court on the 29th day of June, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests herein.

An Extract: Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Freeborn & Peters LLP 411 East Franklin Street Richmond, VA 23218-0470 (804) 644-1300 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO MALAYEE MAC CHEYARD, Plaintiff v.

NELLIE LARGHA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18-2130 ORDER

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

AN AFFIDAVIT having been filed that due diligence has been used by the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county, city or country Defendant resides, without effect, it is HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on the 25th day of June, 2018 at 10:00 AM, at Henrico Circuit Court 4301 East Parham Rd., Henrico, VA 23273.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Rodney L. Jefferson, Esq. P.O. Box 1259 Richmond, VA 23218 Tel: (804) 672-2003 Fax: (804) 672-2009 VSB#: 40652

Virginia: in the circuit court for the county of hanover israel velazquez, jr., Plaintiff, v. eveling lopez velazquez, Defendant.

Case N. CL18001798-00 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 20th day of July, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

A Copy Teste Frank D. Hargrove, J. Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure VSB #27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ericka bradley, Plaintiff v. melvin bradley, Defendant.

Case No.: CL18001886-00 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 t h e d e fe n d a n t , w h o s e whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 31st day of July, 2018 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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

ELLA MCCULLUM, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2114 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 800 Jessamine Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000330/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ella McCullum.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELLA MCCULLUM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MONTELL GRAVES and MAXIE MCCULLUM, both upon information and belief deceased, heirs of Ella McCullum according to a list of heirs recorded in the Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 640D, page 568 on September 14, 1966, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, 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 ELLA MCCULLUM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, MONTELL GRAVES and MAXIE MCCULLUM, both upon information and belief deceased, heirs of Ella McCullum according to a list of heirs recorded in the Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 640D, page 568 on September 14, 1966, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER YAMILIA BRITTINGHAM, Plaintiff v.

JOSEPH BRITTINGHAM,

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

KAERENE DARCEL GEORGE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-191 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 609 North 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000290/025, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Kaerene Darcel George.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, KAERENE DARCEL GEORGE, who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has not filed a response to this action; that SARAH MAY GEORGEJAMEEL aka SARAH MAY GEORGE aka SARAH MAY JONES, who upon information and belief is deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or

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

ELLA MCCULLUM, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2113 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 802 Jessamine Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000330/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Ella McCullum.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ELLA MCCULLUM, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MONTELL GRAVES and MAXIE MCCULLUM, both upon information and belief deceased, heirs of Ella McCullum according to a list of heirs recorded in the Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 640D, page 568 on September 14, 1966, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, 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

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

IZETTA HARRIS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL17002590-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who is a nonresident, appear here on or before the 9th day of July, 2018 at 9:00 AM in Circuit Court #1 and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

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

DOROTHY JEFFERSON, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2047 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1508 North 27th Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000713/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dorothy Jefferson, Joseph Jefferson, Julia Jefferson, and Robert H. Jefferson.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, DOROTHY JEFFERSON, JOSEPH JEFFERSON, JULIA JEFFERSON, and ROBERT H. JEFFERSON, 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 DOROTHY JEFFERSON, JOSEPH JEFFERSON, JULIA JEFFERSON, ROBERT H. JEFFERSON, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

JESSE G. GILLEY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1548 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1521 Greycourt Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0001891/001, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jesse G. Gilley and Anna H. Gilley.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner JESSE G. GILLEY, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ANNA H. GILLEY who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JESSE G. GILLEY, ANNA H. GILLEY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

ROBERT LEE MCCRAY, et al, Defendants.

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EMMETT CARLTON COOK, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2115 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1806 Albany Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-0288/004, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Emmett Carlton Cook.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, EMMETT CARLTON COOK, 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 EMMETT CARLTON COOK, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

MARY BOOKER, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2183 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1906 Wood Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000910/033, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Mary Booker.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MARY BOOKER, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that RUSSELL BOOKER aka CALVIN BOOKER, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and CELIA C. WOOLDRIDGE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MANNIE C. BANKS and HELEN NEWKIRK, 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.”

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

JAMES H. SMITH, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-185 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1911 Boston Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0000289/015, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, James H. Smith, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAMES H. SMITH, JR, has not filed a response to this action; that STUART L. WILLIAMS, who upon information and belief is deceased, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 07-37790 on November 16, 2007, or his successor/s in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JAMES H. SMITH, JR, STUART L. WILLIAMS, who upon information and belief is deceased, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0737790 on November 16, 2007, or his successor/s in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

NEAL KENNEDY, et al, Defendants.

Case No. : CL18-351 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2111 Ford Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000598/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Neal Kennedy.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NEAL KENNEDY, 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 NEAL KENNEDY and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

TASHMAHAL, LTD, et al Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-870 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2400 - 2402 North Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-0539/020, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, TASHMAHAL, LTD.

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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 TASHMAHAL, LTD, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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 H. SMITH, JR, that APRIL M. MASHORE aka APRIL MASHORE WILLIAMS, Registered Agent for TRIPLE A’S PROPERTIES, INC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 04-5952 on February 27, 2004, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

C O R P O R AT I O N , a terminated Virginia corporation, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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 BONIFACIO R. FRANCISCO, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Road, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C0060643/018, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Alice C. Cook.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ALICE C. COOK, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that MARION J. COOK HAGUE HARVEY aka MARIAN J. COOK HAGUE HARVEY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, 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 ALICE C. COOK, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, MARION J. COOK HAGUE HARVEY aka MARIAN J.

COOK HAGUE HARVEY, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

Virginia, 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 N E A L K E N N E DY , a n d Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 29, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

JOSEPH K. HARRIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1518 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2402½ Venable Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000470/029, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Joseph K. Harris.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JOSEPH K. HARRIS, 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 JOSEPH K. HARRIS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

ERIC BLAND, et al.

Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1550 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3017 Chamberlayne Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N000-1030/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Eric Bland.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ERIC BLAND, 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 ERIC BLAND and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 28, 2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

JAMES H. SMITH, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-281 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2424 North Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number N0000539/009, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, James H. Smith, Jr.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, JAMES H. SMITH, JR, has not filed a response to this action; that APRIL M. MASHORE aka APRIL MASHORE WILLIAMS, R e g i s t e r e d A g e n t fo r TRIPLE A’S PROPERTIES, INC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 04-5952 on February 27, 2004, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not

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

NORTH AMERICAN ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1847 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3111 Q Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000723/006, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, North American Acceptance Corporation.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NORTH AMERICAN ACCEPTANCE C O R P O R AT I O N , a terminated Virginia corporation, 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 NORTH AMERICAN A C C E P T A N C E

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

BIG GREEN MOUNTAIN, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-109 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3211 Rear Scottdale Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C009-0699/060, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Big Green Mountain, LLC.

An Affidavit having been filed that MARK REMPE, Registered Agent for BIG GREEN MOUNTAIN, LLC, the last owner of record of 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; that MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 1311229 on May 24, 2013, 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 MARK REMPE, Registered Agent for BIG GREEN MOUNTAIN, LLC, MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS, Trustee of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 13-11229 on May 24, 2013, and Parties Unknown,

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

BONIFACIO R. FRANCISCO, et al Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-1485 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3509 East Marshall Street, Tax Map Number E000-1118/004 and 3509 Rear East Marshall Street, Tax Map Number E000-1118/030, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Bonifacio R. Francisco.

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

ALICE C. COOK, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL18-2008 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4751 Lovells Continued on next column

VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 1401 EAST BROAD STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23219 Request for Qualifications Contract ID #: C0097555DB102 0081-086-818; 0081-086-742 I-81 Bridge Replacement over Rte. 11, Norfolk Southern Railway & Middle Fork Holston River Design-Build Project The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is seeking Statements of Qualifications for the I-81 Bridge Replacement over Rte. 11, Norfolk Southern Railway & Middle Fork Holston River Design-Build Project from qualified and experienced respondents with design and construction experience of highway facilities. The project is located along Interstate 81 from 1.96 miles North of Exit 50 to 2.86 miles North of Exit 50 in the City of Atkins and Smyth County. The project would replace the existing I-81 NB and SB bridges over Rte. 11, Norfolk Southern Railroad and Middle Fork Holston River in the City of Atkins. The primary scope of work includes but is not limited to: Replacing the existing structures along with its approaches; Meeting minimum vertical and horizontal clearances for Norfolk Southern Railway and Rte. 11; Asphalt milling and resurfacing of existing pavement; Utility relocations; Storm drain pipes; and Stormwater management facilities.

Questions/clarifications regarding the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) should be submitted to Suril R. Shah (Suril.Shah@vdot.virginia.gov).

Copies of the RFQ and additional submittal requirements can be found at http:// www.virginiadot.org/business/request-for-qualifications.asp The Department assures compliance with Title VI requirements of non-discrimination in all activities pursuant to this advertisement.

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

Case No.: CL18-111 NEAL KENNEDY, et al, Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2320 T Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E000-0709/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Neal Kennedy.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, NEAL KENNEDY, is not a resident of the Commonwealth of

COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION ITB # 18-1687-5CLE – Williamsburg Park and West Broad Park (SH-15, PART 1) Sewer Rehabilitation - This Work consists of replacing approx. 875 feet of 10-inch and 12-inch diameter gravity sewer pipe and rehabilitating approx. 7,650 feet of 8-inch diameter gravity sewer pipe.

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AMENDED PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF RICHMOND FY 2016-2020 CONSOLIDATED PLAN AMENDMENT & FY 2017-2018 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN AMENDMENT In accordance with HUD citizen participation requirements, a 30-day public comment period to amend the 2016-2020 Consolidated Plan and 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan which began on April 13, 2018, has been extended until June 11, 2018.

Notice is given that public hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. has been rescheduled for Monday, June 11, 2018 in City Council Chambers. The Richmond City Council will hold a public hearing on the Mayor’s proposed amended 2016-2020 Consolidated Plan and 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan amended budget for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), Ordinance 2018-156.

The Plan will serve as a comprehensive planning document discussing Richmond’s community development and housing needs with particular emphasis on the provision of decent housing, a suitable living environment, assisting and preventing homelessness, assisting special needs community, and the expansion of economic opportunities, particularly for low and moderate income persons.

Copies of the proposed amended 2016-2020 Consolidated Plan and amended 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan are available for public review in the City Department of Economic & Community Development, 1500 E Main St, Suite 400, or at the Main Richmond Public Library at 101 E. Franklin Street, and at www.yesrichmondva.com. The City of Richmond does not discriminate on the basis of disability status in the admission of, or access to, or treatment in its federally assisted programs or activities. Virginia Relay Center - TDD Users - 1-800-828-1120.

Citizens and interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing and give their views regarding the use of CDBG and HOME funds for the five Year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan. The City will arrange for reasonable accommodations for non-English speaking persons or those persons with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments when notified within five (5) business days of a meeting. Those unable to attend the meetings may send their comments and views in writing to: Mr. Yong Hong Guo, Project Development Manager of Economic and Community Development, 1500 E. Main Street, Suite 400, Richmond, VA 23219 or by e-mail to Yong.Guo@richmondgov.com. Comments may also be sent by facsimile (804) 646-6713.

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Injury forces Serena out of French Open Free Press wire report

After an extended maternity leave, new mom Serena Williams is experiencing the one step forward, two steps back aspect to mounting a comeback.

At the French Open on Monday, the 36-year-old was abruptly forced to unlace her sneakers because of a chest muscle injury that prevented her from stepping on court.

Ranked 451st in the world, Serena was on tap to renew her rivalry with Maria Sharapova for the first time since their 2016 Australian Open quarterfinal.

Instead of showing up for that fourth round outing with the hopes of improving her 19-2 record against the Russian, Serena arrived at a news conference to explain that a painful pectoral muscle strain would prevent her from continuing her French Open quest this year.

“It’s very difficult because I love playing Maria,” Serena told the media in Paris. “It’s just a match I always get up for. It’s just her game matches so well against mine.”

Serena won’t win her 24th Grand Slam title, which would tie Margaret Court’s record

for most Grand Slam singles titles won, at the French Open this weekend. But with proper treatment, and barring any further issue, the injury should likely heal in time for Wimbledon, which begins July 2.

Bill Norris, who is known as a pioneer in sports physiotherapy and worked at the ATP for 35 years before setting up a private practice in Boca Raton, Fla., offered encouragement that Serena could recover quickly.

“It’s a common injury and, sometimes in an awkward moment, an athlete will stretch out too fast and that’s how you get those strains,” said Dr. Norris, who authored the book “Pain, Set and Match” about his years with the ATP and as a guide to common tennis injuries. “With Serena’s work ethic — she works very hard — I can’t see that this will be a big problem.

But not knowing the situation, and not being there and testing the muscle where she is feeling pain, I don’t really know for sure.

“The fact is that she’s being smart about it. Taking some time off in getting ready for Wimbledon is probably a wise decision,” Dr. Norris added.

Mehdi Taamallah/Sipa USA via AP

Serena Williams talks about her injury and future plans during a news conference Monday at the French Open.

Dr. Norris said that a pectoral injury typically is not caused by a lack of play and often occurs when balls get really heavy, especially when the weather is damp and rainy. Common treatment is ice to reduce the swelling of the tissue, then a switch to some heat and electrical stimulation.

Thinking back to his years treating players, Dr. Norris recalled Andre Agassi having a pec injury and healing very quickly, but also made note that three-time French Open cham-

pion Gustavo Kuerten struggled with the injury because he “wouldn’t let it rest enough to give it time to heal.”

Patrick Mouratoglou, Serena’s coach, said during a Tennis Channel interview that not playing against Sharapova was imperative if Serena wanted to bolster her chances of being ready for Wimbledon.

“I feel there’s no way she can play (today),” Coach Mouratoglou said. “But I also feel an extra match would’ve really made it worse and then put her

Armstrong’s Poindexter adds to wins at state meet

By Fred Jeter

Jordin Poindexter has added two more crowns to his collection of track championships.

The Armstrong High School senior won the 100-meter title (10.91 seconds) and the 400-meter title (50.60 seconds) at the State 3A meet last Sunday at Harrisonburg High School.

He finished second in the 200 meters in 22.17.

The Wildcat is accustomed to busy schedules. On

Jordin Poindexter

May 22, Poindexter won the 100, 200 and 400 meters at the Region 3B meet at Huguenot High School.

This past winter, Poindexter captured the state 55-meter indoor title.

Poindexter has signed a National Letter of Intent to continue his education and running at Virginia Military Institute.

Also at the state meet in Harrisonburg, George Wythe High School’s Carl Brown took third in the long jump at 21 feet 5¼ inches.

in danger for Wimbledon. I feel like she stopped at exactly the right point.”

The disappointment of having to withdraw was magnified for Serena because the French Open was an integral element to her comeback from maternity leave. Her daughter, Alexis Olympia, was born last September. It was also her first major since she won her 23rd Grand Slam title at the 2017 Australian Open, where she played being eight weeks pregnant.

This year, Serena only played four official matches for a 2-2 record prior to arriving at the French Open. The good and bad news was she was showing excellent form in winning her first three matches in Paris prior to the injury.

She said she started to feel the problem, which prevented her from serving effectively, during her third-round win over 11thseeded Julia Goerges.

Despite her untimely exit from the French Open, Serena insisted she was leaving with a positive frame of mind and hope for the future.

“I’m beyond disappointed,” said the former world No. 1.

“You know, I gave up so much, from time with my daughter to time with my family. I put everything on the court, all for this moment.

“So it’s really difficult to be in this situation. But I always, for now in my life, I just always try to think positive and just think of the bigger picture and, hopefully, the next events and the rest of the year.”

It is no secret that most important on her list of future achievements is winning two more Grand Slams to become the only player in history with 25 singles trophies from the majors.

Coach Mouratoglou is convinced that everything she displayed while preparing for the French Open indicates she has winning on her mind.

“To be completely honest, a few months ago I was doubting” her motivation, Coach Mouratoglou said in a Tennis Channel interview. “Now I don’t doubt it at all, that her motivation level is at the maximum I have seen.”

rs United of Richmond, Virginia e t s i S AwArds Two scholArships Sisters United of Richmond, Virginia is a non-profit, community service, outreach organization with over 30 years of service – dedicated to the principles of Serving and Sharing as Sisters throughout the greater Richmond, tri-city areas and surrounding counties – caring about and assisting those who are less fortunate.

A one-time, $1,000.00 scholarship, is being awarded to two former contestants who participated in our Miss Unity Pageant and will be pursuing a college degree. The scholarships will be awarded to Tamia Jevon Futrell (2015), Varina High School, daughter of Ms. Jessica Futrell and Mr. Talmadge Richardson, who will be attending Norfolk State University; and Taylor Monae Hayes (2017), Hermitage High School, daughter of Ms. Ebonee Ausberry and Mr. James K. Hayes, Sr., who will be attending Christopher Newport University.

Young ladies between the ages of 14-17 and interested are invited to participate in our annual pageant. For additional information please call (804) 328-0843.

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