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plagiarized the Motown artist in the creation of their hit single “Blurred Lines.”

The U.S. District Court jury in Los Angeles sided with Mr. Gaye’s estate, finding that parts of his 1977 hit “Got to Give it Up” were lifted

by Mr. Thicke and Mr. Williams for their 2013

R&B chart-topper.

The jury awarded Mr. Gaye’s heirs $4 million in actual damages, plus $3.4 million in profits that Mr. Thicke and Mr. Williams were found to have derived from their copyright infringement.

Several other parties sued by Mr. Gaye’s

estate, the rapper T.I. and various music companies, were cleared of infringement.

Mr. Gaye’s daughter, Nona Gaye, hugged her attorney and wept as the verdict was read, capping the trial that explored the boundaries between artistic inspiration and theft.

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Dreams deferred

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

At first, the story seems all too familiar.

Two Hopewell teenagers rob two pedestrians at gunpoint near a private school, but are quickly caught when responding police officers scour the area and arrest them a few minutes later as they are buying sodas and pastries at a nearby convenience store.

With police boasting about having strong evidence, the teenage brothers are kept in jail for two and a half months — twice refused bond because they are charged with a crime of violence involving a weapon.

But just as suddenly, the case evaporates. The evidence does not stand Tabyus Taylor embraces his mother, Vannette Taylor, after his ordeal. He and his younger brother, TeAndrey, are trying to get their lives back to normal after the nightmare of arrest and incarceration in Riverside Regional Jail before the charges were dismissed.

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up, and the brothers are freed to resume their lives.

Welcome to the world of Tabyus Taylor, 19, and TeAndrey Taylor, 18, of Hopewell — popular high school athletes who had earned their share of cheers and, tellingly, had never been in trouble with the law before.

Their case raises troubling questions about police relations with young black males — a critical topic searing communities across the country.

The Taylor brothers are fortunate. On Feb. 23, as their case was about to go before a judge, a special prosecutor backed off. Nothing seemed to add up after she talked with the arresting officers and the victims, who reported that the robbers took from them $50 and a pack of cigarettes.

So instead of going forward, Petersburg Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Cheryl Wilson dropped the robbery and firearm charges lodged against the Taylors in Hopewell General District Court.

It has been a bewildering experience for the two young men who still cannot understand why they would be in the crosshairs of police.

“Why would we have to rob anyone?”

Tabyus said in an interview. TeAndrey did not participate in the interview.

Tabyus noted that both he and his brother had jobs, bank accounts and strong family

support. Both worked as tutors at Prince George County-based Believe-N-U Academic Development Center, which is owned and operated by their godmother, Demetria R. Jennings.

The brothers’ arrests were high profile in this city that straddles the James and Appomattox rivers 22 miles south of Richmond.

Their mother, Vanette Taylor, is well known for her campaign work for candidates, including Hopewell Commonwealth’s Attorney Richard Newman, who asked for a special prosecutor to handle the case to avoid a conflict.

Just as important, both teens are hometown sports heroes, with TeAndrey playing for a homeschool team, the Disciples, and Tabyus winning acclaim for his athletic prowess at Hopewell High School in football and basketball before graduating in 2013.

Hopewell police officials claims the teens’ arrests were solid, insisting that officers charged them based on the victims’ description of the distinctive clothing the robbers were wearing.

The day after the arrest, Hopewell Police Chief John Keohane publicly called the case “very, very strong.”

When asked to comment after the dismissal, Chief Keohane, who initially agreed to talk, later assigned Capt. G.D. Gardner to respond.

Capt. Gardner said the case collapsed when “the two victims did not want to testify. They did not want to cooperate.”

However, among family and friends, suspicion remains that the brothers were tagged because they were the only young, black males out and about when police looked for suspects after getting the robbery report around 11 p.m. Dec. 8.

Hopewell brothers jailed 72 days until charges dropped

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Preston to challenge Dance for Senate seat

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

In a surprise move, Joseph E. Preston announced this week he would give up the seat he recently won in the House of Delegates and challenge freshman Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance in the16th Senate District that stretches from Richmond’s East End to the Petersburg area.

Delegate Preston’s decision comes barely two months after he replaced Sen. Dance as the representative for the 63rd House District. It also appears fueled, in part, by a dispute he and Sen. Dance have over the choice of the first African-American judge for the Petersburg Circuit Court.

Sen. Dance said she tried to work with Delegate

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Diversity in the judiciary is an issue in Petersburg, a majorityblack city that currently has only white males on the bench. The first and only African-American judge, James E. Hume, retired from the Petersburg Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court in 2009.

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Prospects dim on third city charter school

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson

President Obama leads the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge last Saturday in Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march. Also pictured, from left, are the president’s daughter, Malia; Marian Robinson, the president’s mother-in-law; his daughter, Sasha; First Lady Michelle Obama; and Rep. John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson, 103, who both marched on “Bloody Sunday.”

Selma march inspires Richmonder

By Joey Matthews

Rita Willis said she was overcome with emotion when she reached the top of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., late Sunday afternoon.

“I just broke down and cried,” the 65-year-old Henrico County resident said.

Ms. Willis was among the tens of thousands of people from across the nation — including President Obama, his family, dignitaries and foot soldiers from the time — who assembled in Selma last weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody

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“There were black and white people, young and old, and children of all colors,” Ms. Willis told the Free Press on Tuesday after her return to Richmond. “It was an incredible experience that I’ll never forget.”

The weekend’s events honored the roughly 600 demonstrators who, on March 7, 1965, were viciously beaten with batons and sprayed with tear gas and high-powered water hoses by dozens of white police officers and state troopers as they sought to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a march for voting rights.

The bloody violence shocked the nation and helped

Plenty of words are expected to be spilled next week when supporters and foes of a proposed boys-only charter school appear before the Richmond School Board to speak about the combination middle-high school.

But the public hearing that the Richmond School Board has scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, March 16, could be an exercise in futility for charter school organizers such as Tunya Bingham, Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press a corporate tax expert who has spent three years trying to get Rita Willis of Henrico County displays the poster she the Metropolitan Preparatory Academy open. brought back to Richmond after marching across The School Board already has stripped from the budget proposal the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday to it sent Mayor Dwight C. Jones a $1 million request that would alPlease turn to A4 commemorate the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” low the public, tuition-free, open-enrollment school to enroll its first 100-student sixth-grade class.

Plans call for the school to enroll 700 students when the first class reaches 12th grade.

Free Press wire reports The video has been viewed by mil- elsewhere, school President David Boren Tuesday. “It was wrong and reckless.”

In addition, a Free Press lions of people. In it, white students are moved swiftly to extinguish the hate. He The parents of Mr. Pettit also issued survey of School Board memNORMAN, Okla. clapping, pumping their fists and laugh- expelled Levi Pettit, 20, and Parker Rice, a statement and apology. bers shows that at least five The University of Oklahoma contin- ing as they chant, “There will never be 19, who were leading the song.

“We are sad for our son, but more of the board’s nine members ued its quest for healing Wednesday after a n***** SAE. You can hang him from The president also ordered the fraimportantly, we apologize to the complan to give the charter school proposal a thumbs-down when being rocked by a shocking, 10-second a tree, but he can never sign with me. ternity house shut down by midnight on munity he has hurt,” said Brody and video showing party-bound students from There will never be a n***** SAE.” Tuesday, saying the university would Susan Pettit. “We would also like to it comes up for a vote. the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter on a While the fraternity’s national office have zero tolerance for racism. apologize to the entire African-American Typical was the response bus singing a racist chant filled with a was working to determine if such racist “I am deeply sorry for what I did,” Mr. community, University of Oklahoma Please turn to A4 racial slur and eluding to lynching. chants are pervasive at university chapters Rice said in an apology issued earlier on student body and administration.”

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Morrissey to endorse ex-mayor for delegate

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Delegate Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey is once again a free man, and he’s busy with political plans.

The first Virginia legislator to serve while in jail, he turned in his ankle bracelet and ended his term at the Henrico County Jail-East in New Kent County at 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to Sheriff Michael Wade.

He had been serving a six-month sentence on his misdemeanor conviction of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but jail rules cut that to 90 days. He spent his nights in jails, but was able to serve at the General Assembly and practice law during the day while on work release.

“I feel great,” he said Monday as he prepared to leave jail.

“This hasn’t hurt me. This hasn’t bothered me. It has just made me stronger.”

While Delegate Morrissey declined comment, there is speculation that he plans to challenge Petersburg Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance in the 16th Senate District that stretches from Richmond’s East End to Petersburg and Hopewell.

First, however, he must be cleared of new felony charges involving perjury and forgery on which he is scheduled to be tried April 28 in Henrico Circuit Court. A felony conviction would bar him from public office.

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Morrissey will be giving up his House seat and will back the Rev. Leonidas B. “Lee” Young II, a former Richmond mayor who served time in federal prison 15 years ago and who is seeking to make a comeback in politics after having his rights restored.

Sources said that Rev. Young, founder and pastor of New Kingdom Christian Ministries on North Side, is to formally announce his bid for the 74th House District seat at Delegate Morrissey’s law office in Highland Springs next Tuesday, March 17.

The district includes Charles City County, the Fairfield and Varina districts in Henrico County and one precinct in Richmond’s North Side where Rev. Young’s church is located.

Asked about it this week, Delegate Morrissey only would say he has received calls from Rev. Young and two others who are expected to run for the 74th House seat. One, Lamont Bagby, a member of the Henrico School Board, announced his bid for election last week. The other is David Lambert, son of the late former Richmond Sen. Benjamin J. Lambert III. Mr. Lambert earlier said he would run, but has yet to announce.

That’s also the case with farmer and retired labor leader Kevin J. Sullivan, who lost to Delegate Morrissey in a January special election. Mr. Sullivan also indicated he would try again this year, but has yet to publicly announce.

Rev. Young confirmed that he plans to run in the June primary for the Democratic nomination, but would not say when he would formally announce his candidacy.

The 60-year-old pastor said he is older and wiser than the man who went to prison in 1999 after pleading guilty to federal charges involving influence peddling, mail fraud and defrauding a parishioner. He served his sentence in federal prison until 2001.

He said he is entering the race to show that people who have made mistakes can overcome their pasts and fill positions of trust.

“Somebody needs to blaze the trail” for former felons who have had their rights restored, he said. “This is the right time.”

He said there are plenty of people who are seeking to make a new life after incarceration, including about half the members of his congregation.

If elected, the Henrico resident said he would advocate for increasing the minimum wage and for automatic restoration of rights for felons who have served their time, among other issues.

Rev. Young is able to run because he is among the thousands of people who had their rights restored during the administration of former Gov. Bob McDonnnell, who now is seeking to overturn his own recent conviction on federal corruption charges.

A graduate of Virginia Union University, Rev. Young also holds a master’s degree from Drew University. The University of Richmond presented him with an honorary doctorate in 1998.

A former pastor of Fourth Baptist Church in Richmond, Rev. Young was considered a rising Democratic star, having won election to Richmond City Council four times and served as mayor from 1994 to 1996.

He founded New Kingdom Christian Ministries before he went to prison in 1999. He later returned to lead the 400-member congregation with his wife, Sanya.

Separately, the Rev. Roscoe D. Cooper III, pastor of Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church in Henrico, is said to be considering a run for the Fairfield District seat on the Henrico School Board that Mr. Bagby plans to give up to run for the House of Delegates.

Also, Frank J. Thornton, a retired French professor at Virginia Union University, has announced he will be seeking re-election to his sixth term on the Henrico Board of Supervisors. The first African-American member of the board when he was elected in 1995, Mr. Thornton is now the board’s chairman. He represents the Fairfield District.

The Rev. Tyrone E. Nelson, the second African-American member of the five-member governing board, also is expected to seek re-election to a second term representing the Varina District.

Pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond, Rev. Nelson won his first term in 2011 and is now vice chairman.

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Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

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Rising condominiums and tall bank buildings reach high into the bright, sunny sky in the financial district in Downtown. This mesmerizing view was captured last Friday in the 900 block of East Main Street.

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With plans to deliver natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina, the pipeline will play an essential role in enabling us to meet the region’s growing energy demands in an environmentally responsive manner. New environmental regulations and abundant supplies of low-priced, domestic natural gas mean natural gas plants are replacing many coal-fired power plants in Virginia and North Carolina. And unlike coal, natural gas is remarkably flexible and burns cleaner—in fact, it emits half the carbon of coal. ICF International, a leading energy and economic forecasting firm, projects that power companies’ demand for natural gas in Virginia and North Carolina will grow by 6.3 percent annually between now and 2035. That’s more than 22,000 megawatts of new gas-fired generation. We’re working hard to meet this demand. And so far, six utility companies serving Virginia and North Carolina have signed up to use more than 90 percent of the pipeline’s capacity. Natural gas is a cost-effective, abundant fuel found throughout the U.S., and we are working toward delivering it more effectively to North Carolina and Virginia.

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It’s also important that we develop new energy sources to help ensure every home, business and school is served, especially in hard-to-reach rural areas. And it’s critical to the development of our region that we continue this work. In Virginia alone, “access to natural gas can mean the difference between a growing and vibrant economic base and one of stagnation,” according to the 2014 Virginia Energy Plan.

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Will Bedden’s Boston job search impact budget?

By Joey Matthews

Has Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Dana T. Bedden — fresh off his public flirtation with the superintendent’s job in Boston — lost the trust and confidence of Mayor Dwight C. Jones and City Council as he seeks an additional $26 million in city funding for operational costs for fiscal year 2016?

Or has Dr. Bedden’s job hunt jolted the mayor and council into deciding now is the time to fully fund his academic turnaround plan to convince him they are serious about supporting him and his highly touted leadership team?

The answer to those questions will become more evident this week and in coming months as Dr. Bedden, the School Board, Mayor Jones and City Council seek common ground in what could be a very contentious budget battle.

The School Board got the ball rolling in the annual budget process when it voted 6-1 at a special meeting March 3 to approve Dr. Bedden’s $286 million budget request. The budget includes his request for an additional $26 million from the city for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.

City budget officials had informed the School Board to expect a 1.1 percent increase in the city’s contribution for the 2016 fiscal year, for a total of $136 million. However, the board’s budget request would boost that to $162 million.

The School Board also approved a plan tendered by Jeffrey M. Bourne, 3rd District, that shaved more than $3 million from the nearly $30 million Dr. Bedden originally sought.

The lion’s share of the additional funding

would go to hire 125 new school personnel to carry out Dr. Bedden’s academic improvement plan, provide a 1.7 percent cost-of-living increase for teachers and other employees and pay teachers for working five additional days.

The mayor is up next. His proposed budget is to be presented to City Council this Friday, March 13.

He did not respond to a Free Press query regarding his support for the School Board’s request for additional funding.

City Council must by city charter then adopt its budget by May 31, after which Mayor Jones will have 14 calendar days to veto items.

School Board Chairman Donald Coleman said it’s time for the city to unite behind Dr. Bedden’s school turnaround efforts by fully funding them.

“Now, we have an opportunity to implement the plan, and the designer of the plan (Dr. Bedden) is here to make sure he can be held accountable for that plan,” Mr. Coleman told the Free Press on March 3, less than an hour after Dr. Bedden announced he would withdraw as one of four finalists for the Boston job.

School Board Vice Chair Kristen Larson, 4th District, echoed Mr. Coleman’s call for the city to rally behind Dr. Bedden’s schools transformation plan.

“We need the city officials and the entire community to get behind the schools, because this is it,” Kristen Larson, 4th District, said. “We’re at a moment. This is a great plan. It could really move our school system in the right direction.”

Three City Council members who responded to a Free Press request for additional funds were

mostly positive about the School Board’s $26 million request.

Council member Charles R. Samuels, 2nd District, emailed, “I am leaning toward supporting this increase under certain conditions.”

Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, stated, “I am supporting increasing the school budget,”

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from Dr. Derik Jones, 8th District: “I am not inclined to vote for the charter school at this time. Lack of an identified facility as well as the necessary financial standing give me pause,” he replied in an email.

“Perhaps we can revisit during the next budget cycle as I do believe that the intent and approach of the proposed charter school provides added value to the district.”

Shonda Harris-Muhammed, 6th District, also stated that she could not support funding for a new school largely because “a building has not been identified.”

Kimberly B. Gray, 2nd District, Mamie Taylor, 5th District, and Tichi Pinkney Eppes, 9th District, raised similar concerns.

Kristen Larson, 4th District, responded that she is still mulling the question, and the other three members did not respond to the survey.

Richmond currently has two charter schools — the elementary grade Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts that opened in 2010, and the Richmond Career Education and Employment

Local coalition seeks proactive measures from police A coalition of Richmond area human rights groups is calling on law enforcement and elected officials in Richmond and surrounding counties to implement proactive measures to prevent incidents of police brutality and to correct disparate treatment of citizens by the criminal justice system in communities of color.

The groups will outline their call to action at a press conference 2 p.m. Friday, March 13, at Thirty-first Street Baptist Church,

823 N. 31st St., in the East End. “We want our police officers to be accountable,” said Lynetta Thompson, president of the Richmond Branch NAACP, one of the coalition’s organizing groups. “It’s about being proactive instead of reactive.”

Coalition organizers said they are responding to the U.S. Justice Department’s report released last week that found sweeping patterns of racial

but need “to review the request fully.”

She said the council and other governing bodies should find “sustainable” ways to adequately fund present and future schools needs.

Parker C. Agelasto, 5th District, said, “I am inclined to work with them on funding the needs of RPS.”

bias within the Ferguson, Mo., police department.

Other groups in the coalition include the Virginia State Conference NAACP, the Chesterfield and Hanover branches of the NAACP, the Richmond Crusade for Voters, the Virginia Alliance Against Mass Incarceration, the African-American Family Initiative and Partners 4 Positive Change in Virginia.

Details: (804) 982-8072.

Academy that opened in 2013 for middle and high school students with cognitive disabilities.

For the School Board, there is a question as to whether the public school system can afford a third charter school no matter how meritorious.

The existing charter schools require more than $3 million in annual funding. The proposed Metropolitan School would require up to $7 million a year in public support at full capacity — or at least $10,000 per student.

In addition, the proposed school would add capacity at the middle and high school levels at a time when Superintendent Dana T. Bedden has noted there are 1,500 empty seats in Richmond’s existing secondary schools.

Ms. Bingham believes the academy could be a game-changer for the city.

She notes parents fret about having to send their children to the city’s middle and high schools out of concern about the quality of education. Some leave the city or enroll their students in private schools.

Ms. Bingham said that proposed school would provide the quality education that parents are looking for.

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build congressional support and momentum for passage of the Voting Rights Act months later. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in August 1965.

“There are places, and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.

“Selma is such a place,” President Obama told a sea of people gathered at the foot of the bridge for Saturday’s tribute before the nation’s first African-American president led a crowd estimated at 40,000 across the bridge.

The president was introduced by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who at age 25, helped lead the march 50 years ago Continued from A1 In his senior year, “It was very stress- when he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinathe helped lead the ful,” he said, recalling ing Committee. He was nearly beaten to death by police, his how he would con- skull fractured and bloodied.

That suspicion is fueled by the lack of Hopewell Blue Devils “There’s still work to be done,” Rep. Lewis reminded those stantly pace the floor. evidence and the way the brothers were into the state football playoffs and won nu“It felt real good at the rally. “Get out there and push and pull until we redeem treated by authorities. getting out,” he said, the soul of America.”

Tabyus said an officer put a gun to his merous conference Their stirring remarks reflected on the major progress made smiling about the enhead at the arrest, saying, “Get on the floor, honors for his play as a quarterback, receiver thusiastic reception in the last 50 years while spotlighting the massive work toward n*****,” before pushing him down. he and his brother equal justice that remains.

When the brothers were searched at and rusher. He also Tabyus Taylor TeAndrey Taylor Many people drew comparisons of the brutal police actions received from a crowd the store, nothing was found related to was ranked by ESPN Recruiting Nation among the top 30 high of 40 relatives and friends who greeted in Selma 50 years to the incidents today across the nation the robbery. involving the slayings of unarmed black men by white police them upon their release Feb. 23.

The only money found on the brothers school players in Virginia.

For the past six months, he has been “It was just a waste of 72 days. It was officers, including the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in was change from the $10 TeAndrey had Ferguson, Mo. given the cashier to pay for the sodas and working on improving his scores on the ACT a real waste of 72 days.”

On Wednesday, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson college admission test in a bid to qualify The brothers now are working to oversnacks, Tabyus said. come the disruption that the arrests have resigned following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report Neither had a gun or anything resembling for a college football scholarship.

TeAndrey, meanwhile, had won his caused. Their family is trying to get the that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city’s police a gun. Neither owns a gun. department and municipal court. own share of acclaim with the Disciples. charges expunged from their records.

And neither had a pack of cigarettes.

“What happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it’s no longer TeAndrey has missed so much school “We’re athletes,” Tabyus said. “We He had enrolled in Hopewell High School endemic, or sanctioned by law and custom,” President Obama said. for his senior year, but still played with the that he has dropped out. don’t smoke.”

He did not take any classes while at “And before the Civil Rights Movement, it most surely was.”

The next day, police found a toy air home-school team. Just before the arrest, However, he noted, “50 years from ‘Bloody Sunday,’ our march pistol in the alley behind the store, but he had gone with the team to Florida to Riverside Regional Jail. He still lives in Hopewell and is trying to find a way to (toward justice) is not yet finished, but we’re getting closer.” no forensic evidence linked the toy gun play in a tournament.

After a stirring worship service at historic Brown Chapel Tabyus said that being locked up in finish his final high school year. to the brothers.

Tabyus, meanwhile, stays out of A.M.E. Church in Selma, Ms. Willis and about 70,000 people Police also found a ski mask and red Riverside Regional Jail for 72 days was an bandana in the area, but the brothers’ DNA experience “I wouldn’t wish on anyone.” Hopewell. For now, he is living with his walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday in comHe had to adjust to being told what to godmother and her son, Jarius Richardson, memoration of the marchers 50 years ago. was not found on them. Tests of the cloth“When I got to the top of the bridge, I could just feel what ing the brothers were wearing also had no do every minute of every day. He and his in Prince George County. brother were separated in different areas He is preparing still to take the ACT they went through, the fear I’m sure they felt, seeing the dogs link to the victims. and hopes he can score high enough to be and water hoses on the other side,” Ms. Willis said. “It was a And why were they at the store? The broth- of the jail.

“The food was so nasty I never ate it,” admitted to a university such as Winston- powerful and incredibly moving feeling. ers said they went to Golden Express, a store “This is a reminder for all of us that people got killed for two blocks from their sister’s home where Tabyus said. He gave his food away and Salem State that would offer him a full the gains we’ve made.” survived on Honey Buns and other snacks athletic scholarship. they were staying, to get some snacks.

Ms. Willis said she drove 14 hours from Richmond to Selma He had planned to take the test Dec. 13, but Their unblemished records, however, did he bought at the canteen. His godmother with her nephew, Vance Hayes Jr., and his wife, Tia. “We arrived not matter. Their achievement in athletics said she spent $70 a week to ensure he his Dec. 8 arrest made that impossible. had money to pay for the snacks.

“I’m blessed to get a second chance about 7:20 Sunday morning and stayed all day,” she said. also did not impress police.

She said she decided to go to Selma “at the spur of the He said the jail was cold. He said he had from something I didn’t do,” he said. “It Tabyus’ success in sports led him to be recruited by three NCAA Division I a hard time sleeping on the thin cot with will make me go harder. It makes me a moment,” as she sat in her office last Thursday at the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Chesterfield County, where just one blanket to ward off the chill. lot more grateful.” universities, including Virginia Tech. she works as a consultant.

She got tickets to sit inside Brown Chapel AME because of last-minute ticket cancellations by others. the state Constitution from appointing for Petersburg was elected without one former players.

Continued from A1 Ms. Willis said she was a serving delegate or senator to a judge- Democratic vote” in the House.

She said she backed Mr. Martin — retired Petersburg Circuit Court Judge ship during the member’s term, Delegate Delegate Preston refused to discuss and helped secure support from the “on cloud nine,” as luminaries James F. D’Alton Sr. — particularly Spruill said Delegate Preston hoped that whether he had interviewed Mr. Martin Senate’s Republican majority — after entered nearby. They included after Delegate Preston made the lack Gov. Terry McAuliffe would appoint during the session and signaled he could Delegate Preston rejected a proposal U.S. Attorney General Eric of African-American judges an issue him to that circuit court judgeship if the support him, as Sen. Dance said. of the Petersburg Bar Association. She Holder, Martin Luther King III, in his campaign. legislature left the seat vacant.

What is evident is that Delegate said the bar proposed elevating veteran and the Revs. Jesse Jackson Sr. But the 67-year-old retired nurse Delegate Spruill said he felt “awk- Preston sought to scuttle Mr. Martin’s Petersburg General District Court Judge and Al Sharpton, who preached stopped working with Delegate Preston ward” when Delegate Preston sought his appointment when his name came Ray P. Lupold III to the Circuit Court the sermon. when she said she learned he wanted support for the judgeship. Delegate Spruill before the House of Delegates. The and replacing him in General District Ms. Willis said Rev. Sharpton the job. said he had no intention of backing the Senate already had approved him for Court with Petersburg Deputy Com- urged those attending the Selma Sen. Dance said she was told that delegate, having introduced legislation the judgeship on a 39-0 vote. monwealth’s Attorney Cheryl Wilson, commemoration to re-engage in Delegate Preston was offering to drop to bar General Assembly members from their communities and push for Delegate Preston, with support from an African-American. his plans to challenge her for her new judicial positions until they have been Republican Delegate Riley Ingram Both Sen. Dance and Delegate Pres- Congress to restore Section 4 of Senate seat if she would leave the out of office for at least two years. and other members, got the House to ton are new to their positions, having the Voting Rights Act, which judgeship vacant.

“That’s a lie. It’s just not true,” separate the election of Mr. Martin from won special elections. Sen. Dance gained requires states with histories “I refused,” she said, and continued Delegate Preston told the Free Press on that of other judges in a maneuver to her seat in November when she was of minority voter suppression, to back Dennis M. Martin, a partner in Tuesday when asked if he fought Sen. prevent the vote. elected to replace former Sen. Henry including Virginia, to get perthe law firm of Harrell & Chambliss.

Dance’s choice because he was seeking When the House voted on Mr. Martin, L. Marsh III; Delegate Preston won his mission from the U.S. Justice Mr. Martin ultimately was elected the appointment for himself.

Department before changing Delegate Preston, 32 other Democrats and seat in January. to the judiciary by both the House and He dismissed Delegate Spruill’s ac- seven Republicans, sat out the vote. The In announcing his challenge to Sen. voting laws. The U.S. Supreme Senate and will make history when he count as that of an ally of Sen. Dance. Del- remaining Republican delegates voted Dance, Delegate Preston stated that he Court eliminated that portion of takes the bench July 1. egate Preston said he could never make 60-0 to seat Mr. Martin on the court. is running as a “true” Democrat. He has the federal law in 2013.

Chesapeake Delegate Lionell Spruill such an offer because “you cannot be a “We’ve got to leave here Sen. Dance defended her choice, say- argued that Sen. Dance too often has Sr. confirmed Tuesday that he had re- judge if you’re a sitting delegate.” today not talking about what we ing Mr. Martin, who lives in Petersburg, voted with Republicans. layed that offer from Delegate Preston The 58-year-old attorney said he has a superb track record as a lawyer Sen. Dance is entering the race with did, but what we must do now,” to Sen. Dance. was upset with Sen. Dance’s choice and has been a role model and mentor the endorsement of Gov. Terry McAu- Rev. Sharpton said. “We’re “He did want to be a judge,” Delegate for the bench because “I didn’t have to Petersburg youths as a football coach liffe and other top Democrats, including going to Washington … [to] Spruill said. any input. The result is that the first and tutor. She noted that he also has Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney force this Congress to deal with While the legislature is barred by African-American Circuit Court judge provided a home for three current and General Mark Herring. the Voting Rights Act.”

Brothers jailed; charges dropped

Preston to challenge Dance for Senate seat

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Excerpts from President Obama’s speech at the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.

Selma is such a place. In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history — the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham; and the dream of a Baptist preacher — all that history met on this bridge.

It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills; a contest to determine the true meaning of America. And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and so many others, the idea of a just America and a fair America, an inclusive America, and a generous America — that idea ultimately triumphed.

We gather here to celebrate them. We gather here to honor the courage of ordinary Americans willing to endure billy clubs and the chastening rod; tear gas and the trampling hoof; men and women who despite the gush of blood and splintered bone would stay true to their North Star and keep marching towards justice.

What they did here will reverberate through the ages … because they proved that nonviolent change is possible, that love and hope can conquer hate.

Selma is not some outlier in the American experience. It is instead the manifestation of a creed written into our founding documents: “We the People…in order to form a more perfect union.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

These are not just words. They’re a call to action, a roadmap for citizenship and an insistence in the capacity of free men and women to shape our own destiny.

It’s the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths.

Because of campaigns like this, a Voting Rights Act was passed. Political and economic and social barriers came down.

And the change these men and women wrought is visible here today in the presence of African Americans who run boardrooms, who sit on the bench, who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities; from the Congressional Black Caucus all the way to the Oval Office.

Because of what they did, the doors of opportunity swung open not just for black folks, but for every American. Women marched through those doors. Latinos marched through those doors. Asian Americans, gay Americans, Americans with disabilities — they all came through those doors.

What a glorious thing, Dr. King might say. And what a solemn debt we owe. Which leads us to ask, just how might we repay that debt?

First and foremost, we have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough. If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done … that action requires that we shed our cynicism. For when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair.

We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, that racial division is inherent to America. If you think nothing’s changed in the past 50 years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma or Chicago or Los Angeles of the 1950s. Ask the female CEO who once might have been assigned to the secretarial pool if nothing’s changed. Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was thirty years ago.

Of course, a more common mistake is to suggest that … racism is banished. We don’t need the Ferguson report to know that’s not true. We just need to open our eyes, our ears and our hearts to know that this nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us.

If we want to honor the courage of those who marched that day, then all of us … need to recognize as they did that change depends on our actions, on our attitudes, the things we teach our children. And if we make such an effort, no matter how hard it may sometimes seem, laws can be passed, and consciences can be stirred and consensus can be built.

With such an effort, we can make sure our criminal justice system serves all and not just some. Together, we can raise the level of mutual trust that policing is built on. Together, we can address unfair sentencing and overcrowded prisons, and the stunted circumstances that rob too many boys of the chance to become men.

With effort, we can roll back poverty and the roadblocks to opportunity. Yes, we can make sure every child gets an education suitable to this new century. We can make sure every person willing to work has the dignity of a job and a fair wage.

And with effort, we can protect the foundation stone of our democracy for which so many marched across this bridge — the right to vote. In 2015, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice … stands weakened, its future subject to political rancor.

One hundred members of Congress have come here today to honor people who were willing to die for the right to protect it. If we want to honor this day, let that hundred go back to Washington and gather four hundred more, and together, pledge to make it their mission to restore that law this year.

That’s how we honor those on this bridge.

If every new voter-suppression law was struck down today, we would still have, here in America, one of the lowest voting rates among free peoples. Fifty years ago, registering to vote here in Selma and much of the South meant guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar, the number of bubbles on a bar of soap.

It meant risking your dignity, and sometimes, your life.

What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future?

Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, our march is not yet finished, but we’re getting closer. Our job’s easier because somebody already got us through that first mile. Somebody already got us over that bridge. When it feels the road is too hard, when the torch we’ve been passed feels too heavy, we will remember these early travelers, and draw strength from their example.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary. For we believe in the power of an awesome God, and we believe in this country’s sacred promise.

May He bless those warriors of justice no longer with us, and bless the United States of America.

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High court’s war on President Obama U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was lambasted as a turncoat, traitor and betrayer by conservatives when he cast the deciding fifth vote in 2012 upholding the constitutional soundness of the Affordable Care Act. This allowed states and the federal government to put in an array of measures to fully implement the act. That didn’t end the matter.

Conservatives dug deep and found a provision buried in the law that purports that only states and not the federal government can set up insurance exchanges.

The case is King vs. Burwell. If the court upholds the challenge, it would nullify the subsidies in the form of IRS approved tax credits that the millions of people who signed up for coverage in those states receive.

The case is far more than just another of the never-ending challenges to the act. It’s a politically loaded challenge to President Obama. The GOP and conservatives bank on its four trump cards on the court — Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and yes, Chief Justice Roberts, to gut the act.

They may get their wish this time with the chief justice.

Despite his momentary defec-

tion in upholding the law three years ago, he and the other three justices, along with Justice Anthony Kennedy, have turned the number 5 to 4 into a fine art. That’s their reflexive vote

Earl O. Hutchinson against any and every Obama administration position, initiative or piece of legislation that’s challenged and winds up before the court.

In the Hobby Lobby ruling they, and Justice Kennedy, ruled that privately held corporations can refuse on religious grounds to cover the cost of contraceptives for its employees. It was a blow to the Act. The ruling, though, was the standard template for the war on President Obama.

In a majority of cases, Chief Justice Roberts and the other conservatives have ruled against the Obama administration’s position on the big ticket issues of voting rights, affirmative action, corporate and property rights and union and environmental protections. Their assault has had little to do with the law, and everything to do with politics and ideology. Their decisions against him are blatant partisan political pandering.

On the campaign trail in 2000, George W. Bush was asked what kind of judge he’d look for and nominate if he were to be elected president. He didn’t hesitate.

He pledged to appoint “strict constructionists” to the court and specifically named Justices Thomas, Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist as the judges that perfectly fit that description.

By then, the three had already carved out a hard-line niche as three of the most reflexive, knee-jerk, reactionary jurists to grace the court in decades.

In the King vs. Burwell case, the ultra-conservative American Enterprise Institute and the litigious Competitive Enterprise Institute are running the point on the case. They bank on two things to get the court to hack saw the act. One is the inherent partisan political bias of Chief Justice Roberts and the other three judges. The other is that they will adhere unbendingly to the narrow of narrowest, strict constructionist reading of the law. They will hold that the four words “established by the states,” which is in the wording of the act, makes no mention of the federal government establishing buyer exchanges complete with subsidies. The Obama administration correctly argues that the court should follow the plain sense text of the law and prior precedents, which clearly permit tax credits to individuals whether the exchanges are state established or established by the federal government.

If the judges, joined by Justice Kennedy, indeed act according to the expected script, it will be another notch in the

Ferguson’s double message U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Ferguson investigation offers plenty for both sides of this dispute to hate.

Seven months after the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown by former white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson sparked national protests and a #BlackLivesMatter movement, U.S. Justice Department sleuths found enough evidence to let the cop off the hook but indicted the criminal justice system in which he worked.

That’s enraging to Michael Brown’s family and many protesters nationwide who wanted to see Mr. Wilson prosecuted.

But the evidence kept pointing the other way, said Mr. Holder, who would hardly be called an apologist for police abuse or racial profilers.

Of the 40 witnesses who were interviewed, evidence only supported those who agreed with Mr. Wilson’s claim that he was defending himself against Mr. Brown’s attacks.

As much as the problem of racial profiling has disproportionately victimized African-Americans and Hispanics, we should not presume Mr. Wilson is guilty just because he’s Caucasian.

But sometimes while you’re investigating one problem, you discover a much bigger one. In a separate “patterns or practices”

report, the Justice Department slammed Ferguson’s police, courts and lawmakers as a system of egregious injustices that revealed the roots of the rage that brought protesters to the streets.

Besides a disproportionate

Clarence Page percentage of black people being stopped and locked up by police for “driving while black,” as the old saying goes, the report found black people were given 95 percent of all citations for “manner of walking,” whatever that means.

When police used force, it was almost always — in 88 percent of cases — against a black person, as was every incident of a police dog bite for which racial information is available.

More sweeping, the report broke new ground in confirming a long-claimed system that acted “essentially as a collection agency,” squeezing African-American wallets and purses to fund 20 percent of Ferguson’s revenue through selective arrests.

Defensive “Yes, but ...” arguments that African-Americans cause more crimes fell flat as investigators found black drivers in Ferguson were more than twice as likely as white drivers to be stopped and searched, yet 26 percent less likely — that’s less likely — to be found in possession of contraband.

Claims that racism has not infected the Ferguson police

department collapsed after the report revealed racist emails sent by unidentified but reportedly high ranking officers. After the release of the report, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles announced that one police department employee was fired and two others were placed on administrative leave over racist emails. The two officers resigned March 5, a day after the Justice Department report was released.

Most disturbing about Ferguson’s abuses is how much they reflect systemic problems with the justice systems in small municipalities across America.

Ferguson officials need to do what other cities have done after similar disturbing findings: End the use of arrest warrants to collect fines and fees, develop reliable ability-to-pay assessments and increase civilian involvement in all aspects of policing, including the review of use of force and misconduct allegations. As the Justice Department report says, towns like Ferguson should “shift from policing to raise revenue to policing in partnership with the entire Ferguson community.”

Fifty years after the historic Selma, Ala., civil rights protests led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Movement is finding its last big battles in small Selma-sized municipalities. The message is to demand better accountability, training and community relations, not only to reduce abuses, but also to fight real crimes more serious than one’s “manner of walking.”

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GOP’s hit plan on Obamacare.

Beyond that, it will stand as yet another in the long train of crude, cynical political ploys to inflame millions of Americans and stoke hostility toward President Obama and the Democrats.

This could sharpen the already considerable political edge the GOP got when it grabbed the Senate and tightened its grip on the House in the 2014 midterm elections. A court victory on Obamacare could give it even more momentum in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections.

The big loser in this cynical knock at President Obama will be the millions of people who potentially could lose their coverage in the 34 states with federally established exchanges.

That’s of little importance to the GOP and their reliable four justices who have waged ruthless war against President Obama.

The issue for both in this case, as always, is not Obamacare, but President Obama.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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Little similarity seen in today’s immigrants The executive action President Obama was pressured into last fall was nothing short of a third amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ordinarily, it wouldn’t be a sound policy, but it was politically savvy for advocates to compare the unjust treatment against black Americans to help elevate public interest.

I am not real keen on these groups manipulating African-Americans into carrying their banners until they generate enough sympathy to be tolerated by mainstream America. Then we are dropped and the superior attitudes emerge that are generally thought necessary for acceptance.

The persistent discrimi-

nation aimed toward black people is simply because of who we are, and not what we do. But if laws are broken and we become separated from family, equal empathy is not there.

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VCU opens March 12 in Atlantic 10 Tournament

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Virginia Commonwealth University’s Treveon Graham catapults toward the basket as the Rams defeated George Mason University 71-60 last Saturday at the Siegel Center.

VUU women’s coach resigns; men’s coach under evaluation

The chase is on as Virginia Comings Percentage Index (RPI), a key Atlantic 10 Basketball component in determining selections monwealth University heads to Brooklyn, N.Y. and seeds.

Tournament VCU is trying to run down its The Rams’ schedule is ranked as Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. first Atlantic 10 basketball title, while the nation’s sixth toughest.

Rams senior Treveon Graham remains Davidson College (29th), Univerin pursuit of the university’s all-time sity of Dayton (33rd), University of Friday, March 13 Thursday, March 12 scoring record. The more the Rams Richmond (54th) and University of Quarterfinals on NBC-SN Preliminaries win, the greater Graham’s chances.

Rhode Island (69th) are the next highest Noon on NBC-SN Davidson vs. UMass/ VCU, 22-9, opens A-10 tournament Atlantic 10 schools on the RPI chart.

Noon LaSalle Massachusetts play 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, VCU’s signature “Havoc” was full 2:30 p.m. vs. LaSalle against the play-in survivor between throttle against George Mason in the Richmond vs.

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A Rams victory would advance just 22 field goals.

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Rhode Island vs.

George Washington vs. of Richmond Spiders outfit that has It was the seventh time a VCU foe GW/Duquesne/St. Louis Duquesne/St. Louis defeated them twice this season. has had more turnovers than baskets Brooklyn’s Barclays Center has this season.

Sunday, March 15 Saturday, March 14 been bittersweet for the Rams. They’re George Mason Coach Paul Hewitt Championship Semifinals 4-2 overall in conference tournaments 1:30 and 4 p.m. NBC-SN is clearly on the hot seat following his 1 p.m., CBS but have been denied the top prize. team’s 11-20 record last year and 9-19 VCU lost in the final — to St. Louis Graham would need four productive standing this season.

University in 2013 and St. Joseph’s Uni- games in New York, plus at least a couple In 2004, Coach Hewitt guided Georgia versity last year — in each of its first two of NCAA dates, to catch Maynor, who now Tech to the NCAA final and was considered seasons in the conference. among the nations’ elite African-American plays pro ball in Varese, Italy.

Graham, who missed three games with VCU’s win over George Mason before coaches. a sprained ankle in February, had 23 points a 66th straight sellout at the Siegel Center Coach Hewitt was 190-162 at Georgia — 17 in the first half — as VCU closed broke a three-game losing streak, the longest Tech before succeeding Jim Larranaga in its regular season with a 71-60 win over in Coach Shaka Smart’s six seasons.

Fairfax.

George Mason on March 7.

The NCAA Selection Show will be broadThe Rams are assured a fifth straight The 6-foot-6 forward travels to Brooklyn NCAA bid. cast 6 p.m. Sunday, March 15, on CBS. with 1,803 career points in 135 games.

Possible sub-regional (March 19VCU went to the “Big Dance” four Ahead of him are Kendrick Warren times under Coach J.D. Barnett, twice under 22) destinations for VCU are Charlotte, (1,858 points in 106 games from 2005 to Coach Anthony Grant and once each with N.C.; Pittsburgh, Louisville; Columbus, 2009) and Eric Maynor (1,929 points in Jeff Capel and Sonny Smith as coach.

Ohio; Seattle, Portland; Jacksonville, Fla.; 130 games from 1990 to 1994).

The Rams reached the Final Four in and Omaha.

The record of Warren, who now coaches Coach Smart’s second season, in 2011.

Fifth seeded a year ago, the Rams were sent at Thomas Jefferson High School in RichDespite recent troubles, VCU is ranked to San Diego, where they dropped the opener mond, is within reasonable range.

No. 19 out of 350 in the NCAA’s Rat- to Stephen F. Austin State University.

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Coach Barvenia Wooten-Cherry during the VUU Lady Panthers’ game at the CIAA tournament in Chlarotte, N.C. Rudolph Powell/Richmond Free Press

Barvenia Wooten-Cherry has resigned after five seasons as Virginia Union University women’s basketball coach.

Her Lady Panthers were 9-18 overall this past season, 4-12 in the CIAA and advanced to the second round of the recent conference tournament in Charlotte, N.C. In accepting Coach Wooten-Cherry’s resignation, VUU Athletic Director Joe Taylor applauded her for her efforts, but noted that college coaching is a bottom-line occupation.

“Off the court, Coach Wooten-Cherry did a lot to assure it was a good experience for her players,” said Taylor. “But at this level, it’s about wins and losses.”

Free Press efforts to reach Coach WootenCherry at the school were unsuccessful.

In an interview with the Free Press, Taylor failed to offer a ringing endorsement for VUU men’s basketball Coach Tony Sheals.

In Coach Sheals’ first season, the Panthers were 10-17 overall, 5-11 in the CIAA and lost their first game in the conference tournament in Charlotte.

This is the sixth straight year that VUU has failed to advance in the CIAA tournament.

At one point this season, VUU’s men’s team lost 11 straight games before rallying near the season’s end to win four of five

games at one stretch.

“At the end of every season, we evaluate our coaches and our programs,” said Taylor.

“In Coach Sheals’ case, we’re still evaluating,” he said.

A native Floridian, Coach Sheals came aboard when Luqman Jaaber’s contract was not renewed after three seasons.

Coach Sheals cleaned house. Only two players from Jaaber’s roster were retained.

Since becoming VUU’s athletic director less than two years ago, Taylor has had to hire a new football coach, men’s basketball coach and now faces the task of bringing in a new women’s basketball coach.

“Never a dull moment around here,” said Taylor.

Despite an overall record of 48-85, Coach Wooten-Cherry’s coaching career at the Lombardy Street University featured several high points.

She was chosen CIAA Coach of the Year after her team’s record significantly improved from 3-23 during her first season in 2010-2011, to 12-14 and winning the CIAA Northern Division title in 2011-2012.

In January 2012, Coach Wooten-Cherry was recognized at the NCAA coaching convention in San Diego for being named to the 40th anniversary Tribute Team for all-round achievement.

Her VUU stars included her daughter, Vicki Collier, who was All-CIAA in 2013, and Ashle Freeman, who this year set the school’s all-time scoring mark.

Still, she was unable to attain the same success as a coach that she did as a VUU player. A three-time, All-CIAA pick, the Cincinnati native led VUU to the 1983 NCAA Division II title, earning tournament MVP honors.

She scored 25 points and collected 15 rebounds in VUU’s win over Cal Poly-Pomona in the finals in Springfield, Mass.

In 1984, Coach Wooten-Cherry’s senior year, VUU returned to the NCAA championship game, only to lose to Central Missouri State.

Playing under coaches Tom Harris and Louis Hearn, Coach Wooten-Cherry’s career totals included 1,534 points and 724 rebounds.

Prior to returning to her alma mater, Coach Wooten-Cherry coached 10 years at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland.

Three times she was named Maryland Junior College Coach of the Year.

Coach Wooten-Cherry is a member of the VUU, CIAA and Cincinnati Public Schools Halls of Fame.

Her VUU number has been retired and her jersey hangs from the rafters at BarcoStevens Hall.

The CIAA men’s and women’s basketball champions have drawn daunting assignments for their NCAA Division II first round games in the Atlantic Region.

Virginia State University’s women’s basketball team is seeded eighth — and last — and will play at first seed California University of Pennsylvania on Friday, March 13.

Livingstone College’s men’s basketball team, also seeded eighth, will play Saturday, March 14, at top seed West Liberty University in Wheeling, W.Va. California University of Pennsylvania is 26-4 and 13-2 at home.

West Liberty University is 26-3 overall, 15-1 at home, and averages 102.1 points per game.

The CIAA men’s teams have fared poorly in NCAA tournament play in recent years.

No men’s team has advanced past the regionals since 2006. Between 2007 and 2014, CIAA entries are a combined 5-13.

There are eight regions in the 64-team field. Regional winners advance to the Elite Eight.

The women’s final three rounds will be March 24-27 in Sioux Falls, S.D., while the men’s tournament wraps up March 26-28 in Evansville, Ind.

George Wythe High driving toward state championship In 1975, Willard Coker was an up-tempo, high-energy guard who led Winston-Salem’s R.J. Reynolds High School to the state championship in North Carolina.

Now, 40 years later, Coach Coker — still brimming with energy — is close to winning another high school state title state, this time as coach.

Coach Coker’s fast-breaking George Wythe High School Bulldogs were playing unbeaten Spotswood High School of Rockingham County in the State 3A finals at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center at press time for the Free Press on Wednesday, March 11.

The Wythe Bulldogs improved to 25-4 on Tuesday, March 10, by cruising past Northside High School near Roanoke, 78-57.

Coach Coker “let the Dogs out” at just James Haskins/Richmond Free Press the right time for peak perfection.

During conference, region and state George Wythe High School’s Maliek White stretches play, George Wythe was 7-0 with an toward the hoop in a January basketball game average victory margin of 26 points against Chesterfield’s James River High School. going into the state final.

That team, however, lost to J.J. Redick-paced Double trouble: Wythe junior Maliek White Cave Spring High School of Roanoke. and senior Brandon Holley are the Bulldogs’ White had 25 points and Holley, 22 points, best set of stars since Tyree Evans and Jesse in Tuesday’s romp over Northside. Both are Pellot-Rosa led the South Side school to the All-Conference/All-Region picks.

2002 state finals.

Holley, a long distance marksman, says he

Henrico High plays in state semifinals Willard Coker, Virginia Union University Class of 1980, isn’t the only former Panthers playerturned-coach who might win a state title this week.

Coach Vance Harmon’s 26-1 Henrico High School Warriors play Freedom High School of Woodbridge at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in the State 5A semifinals at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center.

The 5A final will be played 2 p.m. Saturday, March 14.

Coach Harmon was a member of VUU’s 1992 NCAA Division II championship team.

Since becoming Henrico High School’s coach in 2003, Coach Harmon is 286-74. His Warriors won the State Group AAA title in 2013, and the team was the state 5A runner-up a year ago.

is leaning toward Delaware State University for his college jump shooting.

White is a 6-foot-1 dynamo who dazzles in all areas, most notably with slashing, quicksilver drives through traffic, to the rack. He seems a lock for All-State honors for a second straight year.

Among the Bulldogs’ old-timers, consensus is that the All-Time George Wythe team consists of Marvin Lively, Jack Epps, Paul Pressey, Evans and Pellot-Rosa.

With another full season to go, White might take someone’s place on the All-Time first five.

Secret recipe: Herbs and spices made Colonel Sanders famous. Rebounds and blocked shots make 6-foot-7½ junior Richard Sanders a mouthwatering prospect.

Sanders, who became eligible in late January, gives Wythe a dominant presence at each

end of the floor.

While Sanders plays inside for Wythe, he has ball-handling, backcourt skills. Sanders played guard last year on Wythe’s junior varsity team.

Waiting in the wings is Kabir Shabazz-Allah, a 6-foot-6 sophomore who Coach Coker calls “maybe the best post player in our program.”

From pauper to prince: In the seven years prior to Coach Coker’s arrival, George Wythe was 25-107 and among the most downtrodden programs in the state. The enthusiasm meter was sitting on empty.

Once energized, the Bulldogs improved to 8-14 in 2013 during Coach Coker’s first season, then to 24-5 last year en route to a state final loss to Richmond’s John Marshall High School.

This year, barking even louder, Coach Coker’s “Dogs” have returned to Title Town’s doorstep.

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Happenings B Personality: Samantha Thompson Spotlight on founder and president of Esteem Teens Samantha Thompson tries to pass along to youngsters one of the most valuable lessons she learned growing up in the Fairfield Court public housing community in Richmond’s East End. That lesson: “It doesn’t matter where you come from.

Anyone can overcome those obstacles to succeed.”

She founded Esteem Teens, a nonprofit mentoring group, in 2008 to impart that uplifting message to youths living in disadvantaged communities in the city.

“We share our stories with the kids to do and be more than their physical address,” says Ms. Thompson, who serves as president of the organization.

About 30 teens ages 14 to 18 meet weekly at St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Henrico County to discuss topics ranging from building self-esteem to finance and economics to political awareness.

The teens also are required to perform community service, Ms. Thompson says.

When she speaks to youths, Ms. Thompson seeks to implant some of the life lessons she learned growing up as one of 13 children raised by a single mother.

She said her mother worked as a mechanic, waitress and security specialist at different times to provide for the family.

But despite her mother’s best efforts, she said, the family was evicted from Fairfield Court when she was 15.

Ms. Thompson, 46, said the family was evicted several more times during her teenage and early adult years and had its water and electricity disconnected several times in that span.

Undeterred, Ms. Thompson showed amazing resiliency by doing well at JeffersonHuguenot-Wythe High School, graduating in 1986. She was tapped for membership in the National Honor Society, which “allowed me the opportunity to attend Hampton University,” she says. She finished in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems.

Today, Ms. Thompson lives in Henrico County and is a project manager at the Federal Reserve Bank in Downtown.

When she’s not at work, she spends much of her time paying it forward by mentoring at-risk young people.

In addition to leading Esteem Teens, she mentors at Huguenot High School twice a month.

Ms. Thompson says Esteem Teens is an offshoot of a mentoring program she started at her church, St. Paul’s Baptist, in 2000 at the suggestion of the church’s pastor, Dr. Lance Watson. “He wanted a program where youths could receive education and mentoring,” she says. “The name of that program is Kisura — Swahili for gorgeously beautiful lady.”

Ms. Thompson says her goals for Esteem Teens are to secure more funding, more male volunteers and a permanent location from which to operate.

She says it is imperative more community members step forward to mentor youths from poor communities to help them realize their potential.

“The kids need the adults to show they care and to be consistent with their caring,” she says. “Consistent care equals trust and respect for one another.”

Ms. Thompson likes to start her day reading and posting daily messages from the Bible.

“It has become a daily practice to make sure my day starts and ends with God,” she says.

“He’s the center of my life and being.”

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Esteem Teens’ foremost mission: To prepare youths to become productive citizens by equipping them with the skills necessary for their transition into adulthood.

Esteem Teens’ No. 1 objective: To provide a forum where teens can openly share ideas and concerns that affect their daily lives, while also receiving practical life skills.

Strategy for achieving it: Our goal is to partner with other established agencies to make a bigger impact on the youths of the Metro Richmond community. To date, we have worked with City of Richmond and the Boys and Girls Clubs.

We’re working to coordinate with Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

What Esteem Teens does for young people: Esteem Teens allows teens to be heard. It provides them with a place where they can learn life skills and partner with an adult mentor for guidance. Esteem Teens also seeks to give them exposure to people and places the youngsters may not otherwise experience. For example, we took kids from Gilpin Court to the first inauguration of President Obama. Although it was freezing cold, I think it was an experience they will never forget.

Esteem Teens’ foremost success: Success is a journey.

The fact that Esteem Teens exists is success in itself. But the foremost success is seeing the number of kids who have come through the program and are now productive members of society.We always say that if we affect the lives of one teen, then our job is done. We have affected the lives of hundreds of kids since the program’s beginning.We also have a couple of teens who have started their own version of the program in the communities where they now live.

Vision for Esteem Teens in the next five years: To reactivate the board of directors and work to obtain grants so that we can be even more effective in reaching and securing more adult mentors. We also want to form partnerships with other youth-focused organizations.

Hosting annual youth forums also will become a part of the program.

How Esteem Teens is financed: Through fundraising and personal funds.

How volunteers can become involved: Through Virginia Mentoring Partnership or via email at samthompson68@ yahoo.com. We always are seeking adults who have a passion for working with youths.

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Rites of Passage program is: A process the youths go through for completion of the program. It starts with deliberate preparation and ends with a confirmation ceremony, where the youths are presented to the community as having been adequately prepared to enter the next phase of their lives, which is adulthood.

Leadership is: Empowering others to become leaders. The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, said it best, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

A perfect day: Any day I am able to wake up. I am an optimist by nature, so I try to make the most out of each day given to me. But if I had to choose one day, it would be one where I am able to wake up and walk my dog, go to my kickboxing class followed by special girlfriend time.

How I unwind: Unwinding for me is, spending time alone with my Yorkie, Sheba, or dinner with my girlfriends.

I place top value on: People.

I feel that everyone has a story and I am intrigued by each person’s individual story — their journey to where they are today.

When I look in the mirror, I see: Wow…when I look in the mirror, I see a woman who has overcome many obstacles and stereotypes to become who she is today — a person who didn’t let someone else’s impression of me define me.

Quality I most admire in another person: Their ability to tell you the truth, even though it may sting, but in a loving way. I have girlfriends that I consider true friends, who have the ability to tell me that I’m wrong in a way that makes me want to reconsider my actions.

I also admire a person who is able to disagree without being disagreeable.

Greatest source of inspiration: My greatest source of inspiration is drawn from people I choose to surround myself with. Each person has a different quality that I draw inspiration from.

Favorite recreational activity: My favorite recreational activity is kickboxing. It’s a full-body workout that allows you to release the frustration from a long day’s work.

Best late-night snack: Cheese Nips and a glass of Moscato.

Biggest chance I ever took: The biggest chance I ever took was to become the mother to my then 4-year-old nephew. It was a scary undertaking because there is no book that can adequately prepare you for parenthood. But becoming a parent to a child that you did not conceive is a chance worth taking.

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If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is: You can’t change people, but you can change how you deal with them. Accept them for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Also, life is indeed what you make it.

Ultimate goal: To have Esteem Teens fully functional, complete with dedicated board and staff in its own facility. I want to have the ability to reach as many youths as possible and having a place to run the program would facilitate reaching that goal.

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Virginia Commonwealth University is hosting a screening of the movie “The Good Lie” 4 p.m.

Saturday, March 21, at the VCU Commons Theater.

The goal is to raise money to aid Sudanese refugees living in camps across the Sudan border in Gambela, Ethiopia, according to Manyang Reath Kher, founder and CEO of the Henrico County-based Humanity Helping Sudan Project.

The group is organizing the fundraiser.

An estimated 200,000 Sudanese now live in such refugee camps, Mr. Kher said.

For each dollar raised at the screening, he said, a fishing net would be purchased and provided to a refugee through Humanity Helping Sudan.

“We teach them to be selfsufficient by doing things like fishing for a living,” Mr. Kher

told the Free Press.

The event is part of the organization’s “Feed50KCampaign” that began in October to raise $50,000 to buy the fishing nets, Mr. Kher said.

He said about $2,000 has been raised so far and the group hopes to meet its goal largely through movie screenings in Richmond, Bridgeport, Conn.; Pasadena, Calif.; and other locations in coming months.

Admission to the movie screening at VCU is free. Event organizers hope to raise funds through the sale of wristbands and art at the theater. VCU area restaurants Panera Bread, 810 W. Grace St., and Postbellum, 1323 W. Main St., also have dedicated 10 percent of sales following the movie to the fundraising effort.

“The Good Lie” tells the story of Sudanese refugees who

Activist to speak on faith, politics Activist and author the Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou will share his experience protesting in Ferguson, Mo., and the role of faith in political activism 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at Good Shepherd Baptist Church, 1127 N. 28th St. in Richmond.

Rev. Sekou, a 2014 visiting scholar at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, is the author of “urbansouls,” a collection of essays about at-risk youths in St. Louis, and “God, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the Future of Democracy.”

Rev. Sekou was arrested twice during last year’s protests over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.

Local organizers and activists will join him in the discussion, “We Have Already Won: Ferguson, Faith and the Future of Democracy.”

The free event is organized by Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of African American Studies.

Details: Email Evandra Catherine, director of community engagement at VCU’s Department of African American Studies, at ecatherine@vcu.edu.

are given the chance to resettle in the United States. Their encounter with an employment agency worker, played by star Reese Witherspoon, forever changes their lives, according to a promotional website for the movie.

One of the film’s actors, Ger Duany, a former Sudanese refugee, is scheduled to appear at the event at VCU and answer questions from audience members, Mr. Kher said.

Mr. Kher was separated from his family during the civil war in Sudan and lived in refugee camps in Ethiopia for 13 years before relocating to the United States in 2005 with the aid of Commonwealth Catholic Charities.

Now living in Henrico County, Mr. Kher is nearing completion of a bachelor’s degree in international relations at VCU. He launched Humanity Helping Sudan five years ago.

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Horace Fisher III, 66, longtime music teacher Horace Fisher III was raised with an abiding love of music.

“He told me his mother, Gertrude Anderson Fisher, would play music as she cleaned the house on Saturdays and they would sing to the music,” said his wife, Brenda C. Fisher. “And his father, Horace Fisher Jr., liked classical music.”

Her husband, Mrs. Fisher said, also loved old musicals.

Drawing from his deep affection for music, Mr. Fisher taught band and chorus in Richmond Public Schools for 35 years.

He also acted locally and nationally in theater productions for three decades.

Mr. Fisher is being remembered following his death Friday, March 6, 2015, in Richmond.

He was 66.

A visitation for family and friends will be held 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at Scott’s Funeral

Home, 115 E. Brookland Park Blvd., graduated with a bachelor’s degree on North Side. His fraternity, Kappa in public school music in 1974.

Alpha Psi, will follow with a memorial He married his wife on Dec. 18, service at 7 p.m. at Scott’s.

1976. They raised two children, Mr. Fisher’s life will be celebrated daughter, Robin A. Fisher, and son, at his funeral 11:30 a.m. Friday, March Horace R. Fisher IV. 13, at Second Baptist Church, 1400 Mr. Fisher began his teaching Idlewood Ave., in the West End. career at the old Benjamin Graves He was born Dec. 31, 1948, in Middle School in Jackson Ward, Richmond, an only child. and later taught choir at Henderson He met his future wife when they Middle School and choir and band attended Second Baptist as children. at John Marshall High School.

“I was on the youth usher board and “He loved the choir and he loved he was in the youth choir,” Mrs. teaching middle school and high Mr. Fisher Fisher recalled. school children,” his wife said. “His Mr. Fisher attended Richmond Public Schools motto was, ‘There’s no such thing as a bad kid, and graduated from Maggie Walker High School only those that have been misled.’ in 1966.

“A lot of them saw him as a father figure and He attended Norfolk State University and mentor,” she added.

In his spare time, Mr. Fisher loved acting in theater productions here and abroad.

He was known for his role as jazz pianist Fats Waller in the production, “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” that toured in Richmond, New York City, Atlantic City and other cities.

He also played the plant Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors” at Swift Creek Mill Playhouse in Chesterfield County.

Mr. Fisher was a lifelong member at Second Baptist Church, where he served on the Diaconate Board. He also directed the youth and sanctuary choirs and founded the Summer Youth Academy at the church.

He also sang with the legendary Larry Bland and the Volunteer Choir for many years.

Mr. Fisher is survived by his wife, children and a host of cousins, nephews, nieces and other family and friends.

Churches battling Selma’s ongoing problem — poverty Free Press wire reports

SELMA, Ala. The world’s eyes were again on this small Alabama city, the epicenter of the voting rights battle 50 years ago.

However, the crippling poverty that faith and community leaders grapple with daily was largely overlooked amid the commemoration of the long ago fight to end the exclusion of black people from the ballot box.

For those who live here, the big march and the powerful words of President Obama were a passing moment with little impact on conditions.

As Pastor Reginald Wells put it in considering the spotlight that Selma has been in, “We’re not benefiting. Oprah (Winfrey) was just here. They just filmed the movie ‘Selma’ here and the world is enjoying Selma” this weekend.

“What are we getting from it?

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing,” the leader of the Holiness Temple Church of Christ in Prayer in Selma said. “We barely have a movie theater to show the movie in.”

In many ways, time has stood still in this community of 20,000 that was at the center of the push that culminated with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Ranked among Alabama’s poorest localities when the battle for voting rights was in full

gear, Dallas County, of which Selma is the county seat, is still the poorest county in Alabama, with an unemployment rate of 12 percent, double the national average.

More than 40 percent of families and 67 percent of the children in Dallas County live below the poverty line. The median income of $22,000 is half the state’s average of $43,000, the violent crime rate is five times the state average and the high school dropout rate is nearly two times higher than the state average of 20 percent.

“Selma sowed, but it did not reap,” says James Perkins Jr., who became the first AfricanAmerican mayor in 2000 of a city with an 80 percent AfricanAmerican population.

“So many of the benefits that went to other places in the South, and around the world

since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, did not come to Selma,” said Mr. Perkins, who served as mayor until 2008.

There are efforts to address this situation. Circles of Transformation is a new collaboration of churches and civic groups in Selma that is seeking to fight poverty by connecting families and working with the Chamber of Commerce to promote new enterprises.

“Our goal is to offer hope and uplift to help people change their condition,” said Donna Long, executive director of the Dallas County Family Resource Center, which oversees Circles of Transformation.

The area also is relatively rich in educational resources. Concordia College, Selma University and a state community college are located in the Black Belt city designated as the “Butterfly Capital of Alabama.”

However, the area’s economy has never really recovered from the closure of Craig Air Force Base in 1977. The base housed about 2,500 people and pumped tens of millions of dollars annually into the local economy.

The evidence of the impact can be seen in the city’s downtown, which sits along the Alabama River. From afar, the city center has a bucolic charm.

But up close, this area is pocked with as many vacant buildings as occupied ones.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who took part in the commemoration of the Selma marches, considered as symbolic the old home of Amelia Boynton Robinson, who played a key role in the 1965 marches.

The home where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders gathered to strategize for the marches, now sits boarded up, indistinguishable

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Thank you to the following bereaved families for allowing us to serve you during the month of February 2015. You are still in our prayers and thoughts.

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Monthly Obituary Column • February 2015

Charlie L. Hines Thomas E. Sydenstriker, Sr. Nancy G. Drummond Willie Randall, Jr. Edward L. Barnes Amos K. Campbell Hampton Dillard Jerry R. Garten, Sr. James R. Adams Tinkey Lester IV

James L. Warren, Jr. Sharon E. Clanton Theresa L. Anderson Ulysses O. Taylor Joseph A. Archie III Diane D. Brown Howard J. Fleming Mable T. Duncan Sherwood T. White Martin L. Brown

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Barbara J. Harris George Risien Jr. Reginald N. Douglas Priscilla S. Smith Henry L. Spruill Minnie R. Weatherford Mary Stokes Susie Johnson Andrew M. Maryland Delores E. Williams

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Garland Avenue Baptist Church celebrates

Hood Temple Male Chorus Celebrates

Years of Music Ministry

Sunday, March 15, 2015 4:00 p.m.

Also Featuring

31st Street Baptist Church Male Chorus Richmond, VA

Mistress of Ceremony Ms. Clovia Lawrence of Radio One

Hood Temple A.M.E.Z. Church 16 W. Clay St., Richmond, VA 23220 For more info call 804.644.7586

Rev. Tony D. Henderson, Pastor

Union Wesley A.M.E. Zion Male Chorus Washington, D.C.

Celestrial Echoes Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church Arlington, VA

All are Invited! Free Admission

Men’s Day Sunday, March 15, 2015 • 11:00 a. m.

Speaker: The Honorable Donald McEachin Senator of the Virginia General Assembly

The theme: Men of Purpose: Celebrating the Past, Present and Future Dr. Jeffery O. Smith, Pastor 2700 Garland Avenue, Richmond, Va. 23222 (804)321-1372 “Pastor and People United in Greater Ministry”

Richmond Free Press

March 12-14, 2015

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Faith News/Directory

Sen. McEachin to speak at Garland Ave. Men’s Day

Varina church hosts men’s conference

A Virginia state senator, a former field director for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition and a former executive director at the Virginia State Conference NAACP are among a diverse array of speakers slated for Antioch Baptist Church’s men’s conference this weekend.

The conference is free. Sessions will be held from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, March 13; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 14; and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 15.

Among those scheduled to appear at the church, led by the Rev. James L. Sailes, at 1384 New Market Road: Democratic state Sen. A. Donald McEachin of Henrico County; Richmond-based consultant Gary L. Flowers, who served as a special assistant to former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and as field director for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition; and former state NAACP Executive Director King Salim Khalfani, who now heads a Richmondbased consulting business.

Others scheduled to participate include Ministers James Harris and Lee Robinson of Antioch Baptist Church; Paul Manning, the City of Richmond’s Chief Service Officer; Eddie B. Ellis Jr. of the Washington-based youth mentoring nonprofit organization One by 1 Inc.; retired Deputy Aubrey Hopson of the Hanover County Sheriff’s Office; Jamaal Kelly of the Phi Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.; and Youth Minister Kurt Wilson of Brown Grove Baptist Church in Midlothian.

Music will be provided by Larry Bland and Promise.

The theme: “I Am a Man: Breaking the Chains of Spiritual Oppression in Ourselves, Our Families and Our Communities.”

Topics to be discussed include “What is the difference between a man and a male” and “No more biting and devouring one another: Turning from a path of destruction.”

Details: (804) 222-8835.

Male choruses perform this weekend Soul-stirring gospel music will fill the air at Hood Temple A.M.E. Zion Church in Jackson Ward this weekend.

The church, led by the Rev. Tony D. Henderson, will celebrate the 57th anniversary of the Hood Temple Male Chorus 4 p.m.

Sunday, March 15, with performances by the church’s and other visiting choruses.

Others scheduled to perform at the church at 16 W. Clay St. are the Male Chorus from Thirty-first Street Baptist Church in the East End, the Male Chorus from Union Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church in Washington and the Celestial Echoes of Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church in Arlington.

Local radio personality “Miss Community” Clovia Lawrence will serve as mistress of ceremonies at the free tribute concert.

A souvenir journal with a commemorative CD of songs performed by the Hood Temple Male Chorus during the past 57 years will be sold as well.

Details: (804) 644-7586 or (804) 869-5381.

FirstM iBaptist Church dlothian

Fresh from serving as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus in the recently adjourned Virginia General Assembly’s 2015 legislative session, Sen. A. Donald Sen. McEachin McEachin, D-Henrico County, will wear his ministerial hat at a North Side church’s Men’s Day celebration this weekend.

Sen. McEachin, who earned a master’s of divinity from the

Concert kicks off church’s centennial

Founded in 1915, Thirty-first Street Baptist Church is kicking off its centennial celebration with a “Living Legends Concert.”

The evening of music is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the church at 823 N. 31st St. in the East End, the church’s pastor, Dr. Morris Henderson, has announced.

Those scheduled to perform include theA.Alexander Singers, Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes and Larry Bland and Promise.

The suggested donation is $10.

Details on the concert: (804) 226-0150 or go to www.31sbc.org.

2003 Lamb Avenue Dr. Arthur M. Jones, Sr., Pastor (804) 321-7622 Sunday, March 22, 2015 11:15 a.m.

Annual Women’s Day

Tuesday

Bible Study 12 Noon

Van Transportation Available, Call 804-794-5583

Sundays: Morning Worship Church School Morning Worship

Speaker: Dr. David Goatley Executive Director of Lott Carey

Music by: Mt. Tabor Mass Choir

19th Anniversary of

Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles, First Lady Rebecca Coles and People

Sunday, March 15, 2015 Theme:

“The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me”

 Guest Speakers:

St. James Baptist Church, Goochland

11 AM Rev. Dr. Michael Felton

Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles

“The Church With A Welcome”

Rev. Pernell J. Johnson, Pastor

Sharon Baptist Church

22 E. Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23219 • 643-3825 thesharonbaptistchurch.com • Rev. Dr. Paul A. Coles, Pastor

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

Thursdays: Mid-Day Bible Study 12 Noon Prayer & Praise 6:30 P.M. Bible Study 7 P.M. (Children/Youth/Adults) 2040 Mountain Road • Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Office 804-262-0230 • Fax 804-262-4651 • www.stpeterbaptist.net

Ebenezer Baptist Church 1858

“The People’s Church”

216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 • Tel: 804-643-3366 Fax: 804-643-3367 • Email: ebcoffice1@comcast.net • web: ebcrichmond.org 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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Sixth Baptist Church Theme for 2015: Becoming a Five-Star Church of Excellence I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13

Senior Choir Anniversary Sunday, March 15, 2015

Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Guest Preacher and Psalmist: Rev. Almeta Ingram, Associate Minister

Metropolitan African American Baptist Church Member: Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes

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… and Listen to our Radio Broadcast Sundays at 10:15 a.m. on WCLM 1450 AM

Jesus went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

- Matthew 4:23

To empower people of God spiritually, mentally and emotionally for successful living.

Wednesdays - 7:00 p.m.

March 4th thru April 1st BIBLE ACADEMY COURSE The Last 24 Hour of Jesus Christ on Earth Teacher: Rev. Joe Young,

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Minister of Educations Rev. Dr. Yvonne Jones Bibbs, Pastor 400 South Addison Street Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 359-1691 or 359-3498 Fax (804) 359-3798 www.sixthbaptistchurch.org

Mount Olive Baptist Church Rev. Darryl G. Thompson, Pastor

2015 Theme: The Year of Moving Forward

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Reverend Dr. Lester D. Frye

8775 Mount Olive Avenue Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 (804) 262-9614 Phone (804) 262-2397 Fax www.mobcva.org

Sundays

8:00 a.m.

Early Morning Worship 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 11:00 a.m.

Morning Worship

Tuesdays

Noon Day Bible Study

Wednesdays

6:30 p.m.

Prayer and Praise 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study

“Working For You In This Difficult Hour”

k Joseph Jenkins, Jr. Funeral Home, Inc. 2011-2049 Grayland Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23220 (804) 358-9177

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Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Founder (Dec. 19, 1938 - Dec. 9, 2006) Joseph Jenkins, III. • Jason K. Jenkins • Maxine T. Jenkins

Saturday, March 21, 2015 • 5-7PM

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Join The Family

Dr. Levy M. Armwood, Pastor  Dr. Wallace J. Cook, Pastor Emeritus

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Sermon by the Pastor Music by the PJBC “Journey Mass Choir”

Sixth Baptist Church: A Church for the Entire Family

11:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

Every 3rd Sunday 2nd Sunday, 11 a.m.

Mon. 6:30 p.m.

Tues. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Wed. 7:45 p.m.

Wed. 4:30 p.m.

Wed. 6:00 p.m.

Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

2300 Cool Lane, Richmond, Virginia 23223 804-795-5784 (Armstrong High School Auditorium)

Sunday, March 15, 2015 Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

It’s A Family Affair

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

Unity Sundays (2nd Sundays) Church School 8:30 A.M. Morning Worship 10 A.M.

P ILGRIM J OURNEY B APTIST C HURCH R EV. ANGELO V. C HATMON, P ASTOR

7204 Bethlehem Road • Henrico, VA 23228 • (804) 672-9319

11:00 AM Mid-day Meditation

Worship Opportunities

4:00 p.m. Lott Carey Rally Day

WEDNESDAY 12:00 PM Noon Day Service 6:00 PM Prayer service 6:30 PM Bible Study

7:00PM Prayer & Praise 8:15PM

1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223-6624 • Office: (804) 644-1402

Dr. Kirkland R. Walton, Pastor

Mt. Olive Baptist Church Petersburg, VA

Wednesday Youth & Adult Bible Study

Good Shepherd Baptist Church

St. Peter Baptist Church

Guest Speaker: Evangelist Arlene Copeland

St. John Baptist Church, Richmond

Church School 9:45AM Worship 11:00AM

The family of Pearl E. Banian wishes to express sincere thanks and appreciation for the loving acts of sympathy. The prayers, cards, monetary gifts, visits, phone calls, heartwarming stories and other deeds of kindness have helped to comfort us. Special thanks to the staff at the Envoy of Westover Hills and Chiles Funeral Home.

6:30 PM Prayer Meeting

8 AM Rev. Samuel Barnes

Sunday

hank You

Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday)

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Pearl E. Banian

Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You”

Triumphant

13800 Westfield Dr., Midlothian,VA 23113 804-794-5583 • www.fbcm1846.com

Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in 2008, will speak at Garland Avenue Baptist Church’s 11 a.m. worship service Sunday, March 15, the church’s pastor, Dr. Jeffrey O. Smith, has announced.

Sen. McEachin will preach at the church at 2700 Garland Ave. on the theme: “Men of Purpose: Celebrating the Past, Present and Future.”

Details: (804) 321-1372.

“Cruising in the Name of the Lord”

with the fabulous

James “Saxsmo” Gates Quintet

Great Christian Jazz, uplifting spiritual entertainment, fellowship Please make checks payable to: Providence Park Baptist Church and mail payment to: Mrs. Sandra Ausberry, Event Chair Providence Park Baptist Church 468 E. Ladies Mile Road Richmond, VA 23222-2102

Boarding PaSSeS available;

$20 per person

donation, appreciated

Providence Park Baptist Church 468 E. Ladies Mile Road, Richmond, VA 23222 ~ 804-329-1963

Dr. Jerome Clayton Ross, Pastor Sponsored by the PPBC Women’s Time Leadership Team with the support from the Richmond Jazz Society.

Richmond Free Press

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Legal Notices City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, March 23, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2015-31 To erect all-way stop signs at the intersection of South Sheppard Street and Maplewood Avenue.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-39 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $5,000 from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 General Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Non-Departmental General Fund Budget by $5,000 for the purpose of providing a grant to the Cadence Theatre Company. (COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, March 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-40 To amend City Code § 98-403, concerning exemptions from admission taxes, for the purpose of exempting from admission taxes certain house and garden tours that benefit nonprofit organizations beginning Jul. 1, 2015. (COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, March 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-41 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Facility Use Agreement between the City of Richmond and Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership for the purpose of renting a swimming pool facility for the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities’ competitive swim team practice sessions. (COMMITTEE: Education and Human Services, Thursday, March 12, 2015, 5:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-42 To amend Ord. No. 201462-99, adopted May 27, 2014, which adopted a General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 and made appropriations pursuant thereto, to transfer $200,000 from the Department of Economic and Community Development agency and to appropriate $200,000 to a new line item in the NonDepartmental agency for the purpose of providing a grant to Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation to complete the construction of six houses under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 1.

(COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, March 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-43 To amend Ord. No. 201462-99, adopted May 27, 2014, which adopted a General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 20142015 and made appropriations pursuant thereto, to transfer funds in the amount of $25,000 from the Non-Departmental agency, Partnership for Smarter Growth Match line item and to appropriate $25,000 to Groundwork RVA, Inc., for the purpose of making a grant pursuant to Va. Code § 15.2-953(B) to an organization furnishing services to beautify and maintain communities or to prevent neighborhood deterioration. (COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, March 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-44 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept funds in the amount of $197,658 from the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia and to appropriate the increase to the Fiscal Year 20142015 Special Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the Sheriff’s Office by $197,658 for the purpose using asset forfeiture funds to provide tactical, safety and protective equipment for sworn Sheriff’s Office personnel.

(COMMITTEE: Finance and Economic Development, Thursday, March 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-45 To amend and reordain ch.

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City Commission, for the purposes of complying with City Code § 2-1084 and to modify the composition of the Commission to allow any person who lives or works in the city to fill seats designated for voters in particular Council districts under certain circumstances.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Ordinance No. 2015-48 To declare that a public necessity exists and to authorize the Chief Administrative Officer or the designee thereof, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to acquire, at a tax delinquent judicial sale, the property located at 1800 Krouse Street and to authorize the Chief Administrative Officer or the designee thereof to accept title to such property for the purpose of maintaining such property as public green space and for recreational uses.

Ordinance No. 2015-49 To amend City Code §§ 50-401, 50-404, 50-406 and 50-408, concerning the City’s stormwater management program, and to amend and reordain Appendix A of the City Code by adding therein new fees for City Code § 50-415(a), both for the purpose of ensuring compliance with state law.

(COMMITTEE: Land Use, Housing and Transportation, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m., Council Chamber) Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

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

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

Notices Native Selections LLC Trading as: Native Selections LLC, 3811 Castlewood Rd Unit 1, Richmond, VA 23234-2611 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia D e p a r tm e n t of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a Wholesale Wine (30,000 Gallons or Less Annually), Wine Importer license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Shawn Eubank, Managing Member

Divorce COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO STEFFANIE ANN MARQUEZ, Plaintiff v.

TIM OLIVER MARQUEZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL13-866 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from TIM OLIVER MARQUEZ on the grounds that the Parties have lived separate and apart continuously and without cohabitation or interruption for a period in excess of one year.

A n a ff i d a v i t h a v i n g been filed that TIM OLIVER M AR Q U E Z , d e f e n d a n t , is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that due diligence has been used by or on behalf of STEFFANIE ANN MARQUEZ, plaintiff, to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is without effect;

UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, this order of publication is granted and the Defendant, TIM OLIVER MARQUEZ is hereby ORDERED to appear before this Court on the 4th day of May, 2015, at 9:00 a.m., and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: YVONNE G. SMITH, Clerk The undersigned respectfully requests this: Jacqueline W. Sharman, Esquire (VSB#: 71569) bowen ten cardani pC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 3957 Westerre Parkway, Suite 105, Richmond, Virginia 23230 (804) 755-7599 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER STEPHANIE COOKE, Plaintiff v.

MARKO CEKIC, Defendant.

Case No.: CL14002861-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

abouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

cOurt Commonwealth of Virginia, in re JADIUS WINFREE OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Lakeisha Suntrese Banks (Mother) and Unknown Father (Father) of Jadius Winfree, child, DOB 8/29/2007, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: vistation; adoption consent; determination of religious affliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Lakeisha Suntrese Banks and Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before May 13, 2015 at 9:20 a.m.

Shunda T. Giles, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust, Assignment and Security Agreement dated April 27, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded April 27, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-14270, or its heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER,SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before APRIL 10, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

and recorded December 1, 2007, in Instrument Number 04-039740, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that RONALD ADOLF, As to a $56,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $56,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2006, and recorded June 9, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-19401, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ROBERT GOLDEN, as to part of a $20,000.00 Interest and CAROL GOLDEN, as to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $20,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2006, and recorded June 9, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-19401, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that DEBBIE COHEN, As to a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2006, and recorded June 9, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-19401, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, WILLIAM K. PEMBER, As to a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $45,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated November 29, 2004, and recorded December 1, 2007, in Instrument Number 04-039740, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, RONALD ADOLF, As to a $56,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $56,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2006, and recorded June 9, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-19401, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ROBERT GOLDEN, as to part of a $20,000.00 Interest and CAROL GOLDEN, as to part of a $20,000.00 Interest, who may be the holders of a $20,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2006, and recorded June 9, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-19401, or their heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, DEBBIE COHEN, As to a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $10,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2006, and recorded June 9, 2006, in Instrument Number 06-19401, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before APRIL 10, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

Case No.: CL14-3839-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “2015 Venable Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0328/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that CAPITAL FUNDING AND CONSULTING, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust, Assignment and Security Agreement dated May 20, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-13878, or its heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that BARRY WEISS, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, has not been personally located, and has not filed a response to this action, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that ELIZABETH PULLY, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, has not been personally, and has not filed a response in this matter, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title; that WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, Trustee of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, or its successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that WALTER L. HOOKER, who may be deceased, or his Successor/s in Title, As Former Director and Trustee in Liquidation for WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that WALTER L. HOOKER, who may be deceased, or his Successor/s in Title, As Registered Agent for OMICRON GROUP, LLC., which may be the holder of an Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 0916617; NOTE: Assignment

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER NATOSHA MIDKIFF, Plaintiff v.

KYLE MIDKIFF, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000496-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

OSCAR GREGORY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000494-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

JAMES HOUSE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000487-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

JOSE HERNANDEZ, SR., Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000490-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

GINA GREEN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000442-00 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.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CHARLENE PITTMAN, Plaintiff v.

RUFUS PITTMAN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL14001573-00 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 wherebabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 3rd day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

JAMIE WRIGHT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000367-00 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 wherebabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 8th day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect her interests.

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

virgiNia: iN thE Richmond JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Commonwealth of Virginia, in re ALLISON CHAZIR COLLINS OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Andrea Shawn Collins (Mother) and Unknown Father (Father) of Allison Chazir Collins, child, DOB 7/21/2014, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: vistation; adoption consent; determination of religious affliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Andrea Shawn Collins and Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before June 17, 2015 at 9:20 a.m.

Shunda T. Giles, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

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

Case No.: CL14-3767-1 WILLIE B. BROWN, Who May Be Deceased, and THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF WILLIE B. BROWN, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “2610 Houston Avenue”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# N000-0710/017, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Willie E. Brown, who may be deceased and Frances E. Brown, who may be deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, WILLIE E. BROWN, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of WILLIE E. BROWN and FRANCES E. BROWN, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of FRANCES E. BROWN, have not been located and have not file a response to this action; that SADIE DAVIS and ELDRIDGE F. COLES, who may have an ownership interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not file 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 WILLIE E. BROWN, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of WILLIE E. BROWN, FRANCES E. BROWN, who may be deceased, and the heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest of FRANCES E. BROWN, SADIE DAVIS, ELDRIDGE F. COLES, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before APRIL 10, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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

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

Case No.: CL14-3740-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “205 Minor Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# N000-0375/003, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that CAPITAL FUNDING AND CONSULTING, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust, Assignment and Security Agreement dated April 27, 2007, with respect to said property, recorded April 27, 2007, in Instrument Number 07-14270, or its heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, CAPITAL FUNDING AND CONSULTING,

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

Case No.: CL14-3936-1 CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, et al., Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as “1406 Spotsylvania Street (formerly Stewart Street”, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map/GPIN# E000-0606/008, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; that WILLIAM K. PEMBER, As to a $10,000.00 Interest, who may be the holder of a $45,000.00 Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated November 29, 2004,

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO CHINAE FRANCINE FIERROS, Plaintiff v.

JOSE MANUEL FIERROS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15-174 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this action is to obtain a Divorce. It appearing by affidavit that the Defendant is Jose Manuel Fierros; that the Defendant’s address is unknown, the Defendant’s present whereabouts are unknown, the last known location of the Defendant was in Henrico County, Virginia; that diligence has been used by or on behalf of the Plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the Defendant resides in is without effect, it is ORDERED that the Defendant, Jose Manuel Fierros appear before this Court on or before April 13, 2015, at 9:00 a.m., and protect his interests herein.

A Copy, Teste: YVONNE G. SMITH, Clerk I ask for this: Susan A. Kessler, Esq. (VSB#: 21783) Law Office of Susan A. Kessler 311 South Boulevard, Third Floor Richmond, VA 23220 suekessler@sueesq.com (804) 622-0313 (804) 622-0319 (fax) VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER CAROLINA AYALA REYES, Plaintiff v.

JESUS FARIAS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15000156-00 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 25th day of March, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

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

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of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, or its successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER, SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, have not been personally located and have not filed a response to this action; that THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, who may be creditor/s with an interest in said property, have not been located and have not filed a response to this matter; that DAVID F. KATZ and SHELLY A. KATZ, who may be creditors with an interest in said property, who are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have not filed a response to this matter; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CLAYTON INVESTMENT GROUP, L. L. C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, CAPITAL FUNDING AND CONSULTING, L.L.C., A Cancelled Virginia Limited Liability Company, which may be the holder of a certain Note secured by a Deed of Trust, Assignment and Security Agreement dated May 20, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded May 21, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-13878, or its heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, BARRY WEISS, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, ELIZABETH PULLY, who may be the holder of an Interest in certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 0916617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in title, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., A Terminated Virginia Corporation, Trustee of a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 0916617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, or its successor/s in title, WALTER L. HOOKER, who may be deceased, or his Successor/s in Title, As Former Director and Trustee in Liquidation for WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., WALTER L. HOOKER, who may be deceased, or his Successor/s in Title, As

Registered Agent for OMICRON GROUP, LLC, which may be the holder of an Interest in a certain Note secured by a Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2008, with respect to said property, recorded April 29, 2008, in Instrument Number 08-11508, WALTER L. HOOKER, P.C., as Trustee; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS and ELIZABETH PULLY as to a $57,500.00 Interest recorded May 21, 2008 at Instrument Number 08-13815; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to OMICRON GROUP, LLC, A Virginia Limited Liability Company as to a $40,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16617; NOTE: Assignment of Deed of Trust to BARRY WEISS as to a $57,000.00 Interest recorded July 24, 2009, at Instrument Number 09-16618, or its successor/s in title, ALAN KATZ, LYNN KATZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Agent

for BERNICE SCHWARTZ, GREG WOOLWINE, HOPE WOOLWINE, RICHARD D. KRIDER,SHERRIE BECKER, PATRICK BECKER, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the JAY SCHWARTZ TRUST U/A 11/6/1992, JAY S. SCHWARTZ, As Trustee for the EDWARD J. BECKER MARITAL TRUST, THEODORE SELLMAN, Who May Be Deceased, and the Heirs, Devisees, Assignees or Successors in Interest of THEODORE SELLMAN, DAVID F. KATZ, SHELLY A. KATZ, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before __APRIL 10, 2015, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7940

BIDS COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION BID IFB# 15-9742-2JK Hungary Creek Stream Restoration Due 2:30 pm, April 1, 2015 Additional information available at: http://henrico. us/departments/purchasing/ bids-and-proposals/ COUNTY OF HENRICO, VIRGINIA CONSTRUCTION ITB # 15-9751-3CE Digester Waste Gas Pipe Relocation - This project shall include select demolition of the existing digester waste gas piping, and furnishing and installing a new digester waste gas piping and accessories to connect with the existing flare. Due 3:00 pm, March 31, 2015. Additional information available at: http://henrico.us/ purchasing/.

In accordance with HUD citizen participation requirements, a 30-day public comment period for the 2013-2015 Consolidated Plan and the proposed 2015-2016 Annual Action Plan will begin on March 13, 2015, and will expire on April 13, 2015. By this notice the City of Richmond announces the availability of the third year of the three year 2013-2015 Consolidated Plan also known as the proposed 2015-2016 Annual Action Plan is ready for public review and comment.

Notice is also hereby given that the Department of Economic and Community Development will hold a public hearing, as provided by the federal regulations and the citizen participation requirements of the Three-Year Consolidated Plan, will be held on March 31, 2015, 6:00 P.M. at 1500 E. Main Street, Suite 400, for the purpose of considering the proposed Three-Year Consolidated and Annual Action Plans.

Further notice is also given that on Monday, April 27, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers, the Richmond City Council will hold a public hearing on the Mayor’s 2013-2015 Consolidated Plan and proposed 2015-2016 Annual Action Plan budget for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) programs. The HOPWA funds are allocated to the City to administer for the Richmond-Petersburg MSA. 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.

The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to:

The funds below are federal entitlement dollars allocated to the City through the U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to implement the housing and community development priorities and activities identified in the three year Consolidated Plan, which is consistent with City’s Focus Area Priorities.

IFB K150016620 – Stormwater Annual Services Contract Receipt Date: March 31, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Opening Date: April, 1, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

CDBG Entitlement Grant: HOME Entitlement Grant: ESG Entitlement Grant: HOPWA Regional Entitlement Grant (includes prior year surplus): Total Funds Available for FY 2015-2016

Information or copies of the above solicitations are available by contacting Procurement Services, at the City of Richmond website (www.RichmondGov.com), or at 11th Floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Phone (804) 646-5716 or faxed (804) 646-5989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

$ 4,171,274 $1,082,299 $374,421 $994,953 $ 6,622,947

The following projects have been recommended for CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA allocations to undertake the following activities to preserve and revitalize the City’s neighborhoods and further the City’s economic growth for FY 15-16:

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

CDBG Projects Housing & Neighborhood Preservation 25th Street/Nine Mile Road Redev. Area Bellemeade Owner Occupied Home Repair Blackwell NiB Brookland Park Plaza Carver Affordable Homeownership Carver Newtowne-West NiB Citywide Critical Home Repair Column on Grove Eastview Revitalization Keystone Program City-wide DPA Matthews At Chestnut Hill Mimosa Creek New Clay House II Rebuilding Together Year Round Revitalizing the 2000 Block Church Hill Critical Home Repair Section 108 2012 Loan Repayment Southern Barton Heights Sub-Total - Housing & Neigh Pres.

The City of Richmond announces the following project(s) available for services relating to: RFP F150011207 – Group Dental Insurance Benefits and Plan Administration Services Due Date: April 3, 2015 at 3:30 p.m.

Non-Mandatory Pre-Proposal Meeting: Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 11:00 am - Noon Information or copies of the above solicitations are available by contacting Procurement Services, at the City of Richmond website (www.RichmondGov.com), or at 11th Floor of City Hall, 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Phone (804) 646-5716 or faxed (804) 646-5989. The City of Richmond encourages all contractors to participate in the procurement process.

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

CONSOLIDATED PLAN PUBLIC NOTICE On Thursday, April 9, 2015, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will hold a public hearing on items relating to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s administration of the Consolidated Action Plan 2015-2016 Action Plan.

The public hearing will be held at 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM in the 12th Floor South Conference Room of the Main Street Centre, 600 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. DHCD will be taking comments on the proposed 2015-2016 Action Plan including goals and objectives for housing and community development; the projected use of funding; the method for distributing an anticipated $6,638,882 in HOME Investment Partnership funds; $2,752,294 in Emergency Solution Grant (ESG) funds; $731,898 in Housing for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) funds, and $16,444,780 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.

Copies of the plan document may be requested by calling (804) 371-7100, (804) 371-7122, or (804) 371-7084 TDD. Persons requiring special accommodations should call (804) 371-7122. The Plans will appear on the agency’s web site at http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov under “What’s New.” The Department will receive written comments and testimony on the proposed 2015-2016 Action Plan through the close of business on May 14, 2015 at the following address: Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development Attention: Lyndsi Austin Main Street Centre 600 East Main Street, Suite 300 Richmond, Virginia 23219

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF RICHMOND FY 2013-2015 CONSOLIDATED PLAN & FY 2015-2016 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

Project Description

Amount

Acquisition Homeowner Repair

$ $

200,000 100,000

Single Family Const./Rehab Multifamily Rehab Single Family Construction Single Family Construction/Infrastructure Homeowner Repair Multifamily Rehab Acquisition Homeowner Assistance Single Family Construction Single Family Construction Multifamily Rehab/New Construction Homeowner Repair Homeowner Repair

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

40,000 50,000 200,000 35,000 300,274 200,000 100,000 100,000 488,000 200,000 400,000 80,000 85,000

Loan Repayment Disposition

$ 48,000 $ 10,000 $ 2,636,274

Economic Development Neighborhood Economic Development Sub-Total - Economic Dev.

ED Technical Assistance

$ $

225,000 225,000

Planning & Administration Block Grant Administration and Housing Fair Housing Finance/Monitoring Historic Review Neighborhood Planning Sub-Total - Planning & Admin.

Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration

$ $ $ $ $ $

248,000 20,000 133,000 52,000 288,000 741,000

Code Counseling Housing Counseling Health Services Homeless Services Workforce Development

$ 95,000 $ 175,000 $ 100,000 $ 100,000 $ 99,000 $ 569,000 $ 4,171,274

Public Services Housing Code Enforcement Counseling Housing Counseling & Information Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Residential Support for Homeless Families Metal Trades Job Training Sub-Total - Public Services TOTAL CDBG BUDGET HOME Projects 2000 Moore Street Affordable Homeownership Citywide Owner Occupied Home Repair Community Housing Empowerment NiB DPA HOME Program Administration Mimosa Creek Model Block Affordable Homes Revitalizing the 2000 Block of Moore Street Richmond Habitat 35th St & 29th St TOTAL HOME BUDGET

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Single Family Const./Rehab

$

AMOUNT 85,000

Homeowner Repair Homeowner Assistance

$ $

240,480 200,000

Administration Single Family Construction Single Family Const./Rehab Single Family Construction

$ $ $ $

100,000 141,819 135,000 135,000

Single Family Const./Rehab

$ 45,000 $ 1,082,299

Emergency Solutions Grant Family Focus Program Single Adult Shelter Program Short Term Shelter and Rapid Re-housing YWCA Domestic Violence Program Emergency Financial Assistance Program Flagler Housing and Homeless ServicesRichmond Rapid Rehousing Homeward Community Information System ESG Program Administration TOTAL ESG BUDGET

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Homeless Services Homeless Services Homeless Services Homeless Services Homeless Prevention

$ $ $ $ $

AMOUNT 20,000 35,000 170,000 50,000 26,000

Homeless Services

$

50,000

Data Collection

$

7,000

Administration

$ $

16,421 374,421

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS AIDS Housing Project Housing Assistance Program HOPWA Data Management HOPWA Finance Monitoring HOPWA Program Administration Stratford House TOTAL HOPWA BUDGET

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Short/Long Term Financial Assistance Short Term Financial Assistance Data Collection Administration Administration Residential Facility

$ $ $ $ $ $ $

AMOUNT 675,000 80,000 22,000 5,000 12,953 200,000 994,953

Copies of the 2013-2015 Consolidated Plan and proposed 2015-2016 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, HOME, ESG and HOPWA funds for the Three-Year Consolidated Plan and proposed 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. Daniel Mouer, Project Development Manager of Economic and Community Development, 1500 E. Main Street, Suite 400, Richmond, VA 23219 or by e-mail to Daniel.Mouer@ richmondgov.com. Comments may also be sent by facsimile (804) 646-6358.

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NCCU favored in MEAC tourney

NCCU won the regular season North Carolina Central Unicrown with a 16-0 league mark. versity is the heavy favorite to Bracket busters Coach LeVelle Moton’s Eagles repeat as the MEAC basketball MEAC schools have have dropped just one game to champion Saturday at the Normade their mark on the NCAA Division I tournament MEAC conference foes during folk Scope. with these head-turning the past two seasons.

The final game of the 13-school upset victories: MEAC’s bid to the NCAADivievent is set for 1 p.m., with live 1997: No. 15 seed Coppin sion I tournament goes automatiESPN2 coverage.

State University defeats cally to the tournament champ. Last The women’s championship No. 2 University of South Carolina year, as a No. 14 seed, NCCU lost game will start 30 minutes after the 2001: No. 15 Hampton 93-75 during a first round game to completion of the men’s game.

University defeats No. 2 No. 3 Iowa State University.

MEAC men’s semifinals are set Iowa State University It was NCCU’s first trip to for 6 and 8 p.m. Friday, March 2015: No. 15 Norfolk State the Division I playoffs. How13 at the Scope. Quarterfinals University defeats No. 2 ever, the university participated began Wednesday, March 11, University of Missouri seven times in the Division II with NCCU and hometown favorite Norfolk State University in action. Two tournament when NCCU was part of the CIAA. more quarterfinals are 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday, The university was NCAA Division II national champion in 1989.

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Employment Opportunities Assistant to Minister of Music and Business Administrator

Administrative & Office Specialist III Position #WE-004 Richmond, VA Hiring Range: up to $25.00/hour based on experience

The Virginia Board for People with Disabilities is recruiting for a part time (approx. 25 hrs./wk) position to support their 39 member board and staff.

Considerable administrative experience is required with exceptional software skills needed. Wage position not to exceed 1500 hours per year and no benefits included.

For a complete job description visit www.vaboard.org To apply visit https://jobs.agencies.virginia.gov/ applicants/Central?quickFind=204177; applications will be accepted until 5:00pm March 16, 2015.

Minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EEO/AA/TTY

The positions of Assistant to Minister of Music and Business Administrator are available to qualified applicants at the First Baptist Church of South Richmond, 1501 Decatur Street, Richmond, Virginia 23224. Applicants must be Christian. For detailed job requirements and descriptions visit www.fbctoday.org.

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COUNSELOR FOR STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS (Position #FA118) (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Master’s degree in counseling, higher education/student affairs, college and personnel services, rehabilitation counseling or a related field from an accredited institution.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time, twelvemonth professional faculty-ranked appointment.

Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $53,883– $63,984. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $62,236. Additional information is available at the College's website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Application reviews will begin MAY 14, 2015 and will be accepted until the position is filled.

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The Compliance and Asset Management Department is seeking a qualified individual to evaluate overall compliance of multifamily apartment communities.

Oversight includes monitoring for compliance with federal and state housing programs, including VHDA’s loan and tax credit programs, for owner/mortgagor compliance with eligibility and regulatory requirements. The individual will oversee a regionally-based loan portfolio for the Northern Virginia Team and will report to departmental management on compliance related matters. This portfolio will consist primarily of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania region, including surrounding counties. This is a regional position located in the Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, and Prince William County areas that will work remotely.

Position requires Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience; minimum of 2 years experience with in depth knowledge of Section 42 compliance & HUD 4350.3, Chapter 5; computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office, internet functionality, as well as general knowledge of databases and systems development from a user perspective; a current driver’s license in good standing and be able to travel, occasionally overnight; ability to inspect properties by navigating the buildings, stairways, and grounds; organization and prioritization skills and proven attention to detail; possess written & oral communication skills; ability to work independently or in a team environment.

Preferred Candidate will have experience with VHDA loan products; possess HCCP designation or equivalent Low Income Housing Tax Credit professional designation.

Mortgage Finance Underwriting Manager Unique opportunity for experienced mortgage loan underwriting manager to utilize skills and knowledge supporting our affordable housing mission.

Responsibilities include management of loan underwriting department activities to provide quality customer service and ensure compliance with all aspects of applicable agency, insurer, investor and regulatory guidelines and perform underwriting duties. Provide internal and external training and support related to underwriting requirements.

Candidates must possess extensive residential mortgage underwriting experience (preferably 10 years or greater) with FHA/VA/RD/Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loans and have FHA Direct Endorsement authority and VA automatic and Staff Appraisal Reviewer (SAR) approval. Experience underwriting VHDA and other affordable housing programs loans preferred. Ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint and extensive knowledge in current mortgage standards and practices with experience and knowledge using industry automated underwriting systems and loan origination systems. Candidates must have detailed knowledge of Secondary Market/Agency underwriting requirements and a minimum of 2 years supervisory or management experience, specifically in loan underwriting or related area in the mortgage lending industry. Associates degree or equivalent preferred. Candidates should be able to work independently and in a team environment.

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(Position #FA398) (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Master’s degree in any discipline from an accredited institution. Completion of the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest and pre-employment security screening required.

A fingerprint-based criminal history check will be required of the finalist candidate.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time twelvemonth administrative faculty-ranked appointment.

Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $64,660$129,672. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $75,000. Additional information is available at the College's website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Application reviews will begin MAY 14, 2015 and will be accepted until the position is filled.

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